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October 2017

October 06, 2017

Switch from the NFL to the Baseball Playoffs

The baseball playoffs are underway, and seldom have they featured such outstanding teams. The rare achievement...

October 02, 2017

Where Every Day Is Russell Westbrook Day

The success of the Oklahoma City Thunder is only one facet of a city that...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Remember when sports were unifying?

Remember when sports used to be a haven from the culture wars, a safe topic...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Is it better to be a team’s best player or a champion?

Kyrie Irving wants to be traded from the championship-contending Cleveland Cavaliers because, reportedly, he is...

July 03, 2017

Towards an OKC Thunder superteam

Here in the Sooner State, Oklahomans have been feeling good about Russell Westbrook winning the...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Thunder’s Russell Westbrook wins MVP

Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder won this year's NBA Most Valuable Player award. The...

June 15, 2017

Kevin Durant got his championship

Last year the Oklahoma City came this close to beating the Golden State Warriors in the...

June 01, 2017

The founding document of professional sports

On February 2, 1876, the constitution of the National Baseball League was signed. Before that,...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

Russell Westbrook for MVP

The Oklahoma City Thunder marketing office called our church a couple of months ago, saying...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

Super Bowl post-mortem

What a great Super Bowl. New England was down by 25 points late in the...

February 02, 2017

The Superbowl and vocation

The Superbowl is this weekend, time for the obligatory polls about whether or not God...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

So why the loss of interest in the NFL?

Television ratings are way down for professional football games. The NFL is trying to figure...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

The teams with longest championship drought made the World Series

The two teams that have gone the longest without winning a championship are in the...

October 03, 2016

Question for Colin Kaepernick

My cousin Bob Foote has a question for Colin Kaepernick and other athletes protesting the...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

The left is “weaponizing” sports

In our polarized society, there are few safe topics when you strike up a conversation...

September 09, 2016

Why Tim Tebow is good for baseball

Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has signed a minor league contract with the New York...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Did Rio cops distort the Lochte robbery story?

An investigation by USA Today says that there is more to the Ryan Lochte/US swim team...

August 19, 2016

Swimmers go from honor to dishonor

Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte and three other members of the U.S. swim team lied...

August 15, 2016

“Chariots of Fire” and the vocation of athletics

A rabbi writing in the Wall Street Journal offers reflections on Chariots of Fire, the 1981 movie...

August 08, 2016

St. Sebastian, patron saint of athletes and of Rio

You don't have to believe in the Roman Catholic cult of the saints to find...

August 05, 2016

Oklahoma feels better now

While the rest of the country was celebrating the 4th of July, my state of...

August 05, 2016

The Olympics begin

Despite the Zika virus, Russian dopers, apartments said to be unfit for human habitation, fear...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Russians won’t be completely banned from the Olympics

How bad is Russian use of banned performance-enhancing drugs? Even the country's paralympic team--those participating in...

July 22, 2016

Ban Russia from the Olympics?

An arbitration court confirmed that Russia's track and field team, which was caught in a...

July 05, 2016

Kevin Durant breaks Oklahoma’s heart

A pall was cast over the state of Oklahoma as everyone was celebrating the 4th...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Olympics woes

The Olympic games in Brazil start in about seven weeks. The state government that includes...

June 14, 2016

Transgendered men in women’s sports

The sports world obediently accepts the new cultural mandates about gender. That means transgendered men...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

The agony of defeat

Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder, after going ahead of the Golden State Warriors 3 games...

May 26, 2016

The Thunder rolls. . .

Now that I live in Oklahoma, I can't help but get pulled into the vortex...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

NCAA tournament predictions

The NCAA basketball tournament is underway. My two alma maters, Oklahoma and Kansas, are in...