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March 2012

March 31, 2012

Does God Care about Sports?

Tim Dalrymple, who recently wrote a book on Jeremy Lin, reflects on whether or not...

March 18, 2012

Linsanity has left the house

The NY Knicks, evidently, won't be featuring Jeremy Lin as much now that they have...

March 02, 2012

100 for Wilt

50 years ago tonight, Wilt Chamberlain, the Big Dipper, scored 100 points in one basketball...

February 2012

February 16, 2012

If Football Ended…

This piece, from Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier, speculates on how football could end, and...

February 12, 2012

Lin-sanity

From Jeff Yang: Tim Tebow, move over. Here comes Jeremy Lin! When The Garden is...

February 10, 2012

Syler on Tim

Syler Thomas, co-author of Jesus Creed for Students, was an acting student who got an...

February 05, 2012

The Purpose of Prayer is for God to win

This is from a friend, a pastor-thinker in Nashville, Josh Graves: On November 28, 2010,...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

The Rushed FG Kick

I didn't hear about this yesterday, but Stefan Fatsis observed it: Five minutes after Baltimore...

January 21, 2012

Prince Fielder and Free Agency

From a well-known source: NEWPORT BEACH, CA—After meeting with his agent Monday to discuss his...

January 03, 2012

To Football or Not?

By Jordan Weissmann: Everything we think we know about college football's impact on students' grades,...

January 02, 2012

Pay the Athletes? I say Yes

What about you? Do you think NCAA college athletes should be paid? I say Yes....

December 2011

December 26, 2011

About 30 Reasons Not to get a Tat

All I've got is a link here, but after wandering through all 36 tattoos my...

December 12, 2011

Tebow and Faith in Denver

Brad Greenberg, at the Jewish Journal, on Tebow: Just because Tebow has strong religious beliefs...

December 10, 2011

Occupy Baseball

Wow, this story by Jeff Passan is worth keeping our eyes on. For two decades...

October 2011

October 12, 2011

Theo!

From SI.com: Red Sox GM Theo Epstein has an agreement in place to become head...

July 2011

July 17, 2011

Congratulations to Darren Clarke

Darren Clarke, an Ulsterman, shows that Irish golfers may be the best in the world,...

May 2011

May 18, 2011

The End of an Era, Return to Normalcy

Joe Posnanski: From 1994 through 2010, hitters in April batted .264 — so that’s down...

March 2011

March 01, 2011

Football and Brains

The story about Dave Duerson, one of Chicago's favorite players during their Super Bowl years...

December 2010

December 19, 2010

Why?

Tell me why the biggest sporting event of the day -- UConn vs. OSU in...

December 03, 2010

Ron Santo, We’ll Miss You

Ron Santo, great thirdbaseman and persistently and undeservedly overlooked in the Hall of Fame voting,...

November 2010

November 26, 2010

Derek Jeter Copies LeBron

Derek Jeter, evidently, thinks he's worth bundles. To the tune of $150 million over six...

February 2010

February 03, 2010

Christians, Sports and Compromise: A Brief Response

I was pushed a bit Monday to weigh in on the post about Christians, Sports,...

February 01, 2010

Is Football Too Dangerous?

A recent report in Time.com suggests so, and I personally believe it is ... so...

February 01, 2010

Christians, Sports and Compromise

On the day I saw online the Christianity Today piece on sports and the Christian...

January 2010

January 11, 2010

The Right Thing for Mark McGwire*

Mark McGwire, who some years back embarrassed himself in front of our country's highest legislators,...

October 2009

October 19, 2009

Football and Faith

Again, another great post from Jeremy Berg, and I'm keen to hear what you have...

June 2009

June 15, 2009

Why don’t we …

From the Morrisey column in the Chicago Tribune...The way Lou Piniella saw it Sunday morning,...

June 09, 2009

Helping Rochester

Kris and I know Jonathan Williams well, and we are huge supporters of his efforts...

May 2009

May 16, 2009

Rivalry! (RJS)

Scot and Kris have been busy in South Africa - so no Weekly Meanderings ...Tom...

March 2009

March 22, 2009

Do you know these players?

Who can name the players in the famous game between UCLA and the University of...