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September 2008

September 29, 2008

Sports happiness

After the dust settled, after three out of the top five college football teams were...

September 12, 2008

The Brett Favre conundrum

How should a Green Bay Packer fan react to Brett Favre now playing for the...

August 2008

August 25, 2008

Olympics post-mortem

Here is an incomplete, sometimes tongue-in-cheek list of highs and lows at the Beijing Olympics....

August 22, 2008

This could make China go ballistic

Update to our discussion about whether the Chinese gymnasts are really 16, as the rules...

August 22, 2008

No second place in Kung Fu

Here is a fascinating article on how cultural--and I would say political--differences show up in...

August 14, 2008

Chinese gymnasts and the tooth fairy

So, controversy builds over whether those little Chinese girls who have been sweeping up the...

August 13, 2008

Tyranny as art

George Will, in an insightful column on Russia's invasion of Georgia, Russia's Power Play, makes...

August 13, 2008

The spirit of the Olympics

In case you missed it, a great comment from my former student,The Jones: I have...

August 11, 2008

Watching the Olympics

OK, I find myself watching the Olympics, though I hadn't really planned to. It gets...

August 08, 2008

Christian Olympians vs. Chinese law

Many Olympic athletes kneel to pray before or after their event, point up to heaven...

August 07, 2008

China vetoes the President’s worship plans

President Bush had planned to worship at an unregistered house church when he visits China...

August 05, 2008

Olympic fever

Well, do you have it? Can you hardly wait for the Olympics to get going...

June 2008

June 06, 2008

Big Brown and the Economy

Where superstition, gambling, and the stock market intersect: According to this article, Big Brown victory...

May 2008

May 23, 2008

Indy driver Bob Veith

This weekend is the Indianapolis 500. I once attended an auto race and enjoyed it...

May 02, 2008

Derby Day

Saturday is the Kentucky Derby. Here's some background to the drama: Behind a Derby favorite,...

April 2008

April 21, 2008

Let’s ruin another society

As I learned in Australia and as I have blogged about before, cricket is a...

April 09, 2008

An essay worth 3.5 years in prison

China just sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for...

April 08, 2008

We. Are the Champions. Of the world.

I mentioned the fact that I can never recall watching a basketball game in which...

March 2008

March 31, 2008

Final Four

I am glad to see that one of my alma maters, Kansas, is in the...

March 26, 2008

Boycott the Olympics?

Should we boycott the China Olympics, or at least the opening ceremonies, because of China's...

February 2008

February 20, 2008

Banishing Christianity from the public square

A letter-writer to the "Washington Post" fulminates at the way NASCAR allowed the Daytona 500...