With instant stats and scores, following your favorite team or player has never been easier. But when the game becomes the most important thing on our agenda, our priorities need shifting! On Sports Spectrum, hear from college basketball coach Charlotte Smith and sports broadcaster Fred Hickman on the negative impact of idolizing sports. That’s all…
Read More »Tonight, the college basketball season will come to an end. In the Final Four, Michigan survived a scare from Syracuse and Louisville barely escaped being shocked by the Wichita State Shockers. Now the Wolverines and Cardinals will face off in the Georgia Dome for the national championship—and for both teams, it is the end of…
Read More »This weekend, when Wichita State earned its way into the Final Four, they accomplished many things. First, they became only the fifth team seeded ninth or worse to make the Final Four since the seeding process was introduced in 1979. They also outlasted two more storied and respected programs from Kansas—Kansas and Kansas State—to be…
Read More »Each year, March Madness lives up to its name, as seemingly impossible upsets mark the first two full rounds of the NCAA Men’s Tournament, and this year is no exception. Georgetown was upset by Florida Gulf Coast. New Mexico lost to Harvard. Gonzaga lost to Wichita State. Ole Miss knocked out Wisconsin. LaSalle beat Kansas…
Read More »We are in the heart of March Madness, where the best college basketball teams in the country play in one of the most exciting tournaments in sports to determine the national championship. It is a tourney that boasts of the great squads from Duke, Indiana, Syracuse, Michigan State, UConn, North Carolina, and Kansas on an…
Read More »And now the field is set for the Big Dance—college basketball’s championship tournament. And, in a sense, all of the teams have one thing in common. They all start the tournament on level ground. There are no more wins or losses. RPIs are out the window. Records are now moot. Everyone has the same thing—the…
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Every day we’re faced with a choice to honor God in our actions or to please ourselves. On Sports Spectrum, we’ll examine the impact our choices have on our lives as we talk with college basketball analyst, Clark Kellogg. We’ll also be joined by Peyton Sive, University of Louisville point guard, to hear what it…
Read More »It was interesting last week when I saw a feature on one of the players from Wisconsin who, because he had been struggling with his shooting, had taken to shooting jump shots even when he was shooting free throws. The practice didn’t surprise me as much as the to-do that seemed to be being made…
Read More »Gonzaga #1. If there is any justice in the world, that will be the headline when the new weekly AP college basketball poll is released this afternoon. Last week, as the Goliaths of college basketball—Indiana, Florida, Duke, Michigan—all fell, it was a historic week. Not only because all four of these teams, projected as top…
Read More »Saturday night’s college basketball game between #11 Louisville and #25 Notre Dame was the longest game in Big East regular season history, stretching out for five overtimes before the Fighting Irish claimed the victory. For 65 minutes the contest raged until finally, with both teams exhausted from the effort, the outcome was decided. But, as…
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