As a boy growing up with very athletic brothers, I loved sports and desperately wanted to play and compete—and to do so at a high level. Unfortunately for me, I was something of a late bloomer. Every year, I was cut from Little League, so I set my sights on junior high football. But I…
Read More »In a recent Barclays Premier League soccer match from England, I saw a banner declaring, “Chelsea is our religion. Stamford Bridge is our church.” That catchy motto, however, is not limited to that south London club or its stadium. Most of the teams in the world’s best soccer league have similar sayings. And, while I…
Read More »Regardless of the sport, player movement has radically affected the way we watch, follow, and enjoy the games that entertain us. Whereas we once could follow our heroes throughout their entire career with one team, things have changed. It really doesn’t matter whether it’s a result of the teams making salary cuts or players seeking…
Read More »Today marks one week since the bombings at the Boston Marathon, and we continue to find ourselves filled with questions for which we have no answers. Though not an event on the same scale as 9.11, as Americans the tragic loss of life and the senseless cost in human pain brought about by the bombings resurface…
Read More »One of the greatest things about sports is that it elicits such deep emotional responses in us. You can see joy, fear, sorrow, loss, and everything else in the human experience enveloped in the games we play and watch. At times, however, our emotional responses cross the line of what is good and proper—and we…
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Your heart is pounding. The tension is building. And anger boils up to the surface. On Sports Spectrum find practical tools for replacing feelings of anger with a Christlike spirit of grace and humility. Another timely look at the real issues in sports and life, all from a faith perspective with the team from Sports Spectrum!
Read More »With all of the hubbub surrounding the Super Bowl this past weekend, it would be easy to assume that nothing else of significance was happening in the world of sports. It would also be incorrect. On Saturday night, a massive college basketball game saw #3 Indiana defeat #1 Michigan in a game of critical importance…
Read More »There are a number of teams that have had terrific Super Bowl runs. In the 1970s, the Pittsburgh Steelers became the first team to win four Super Bowls, led by Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann, and the Steel Curtain defense. In the 1980s, the dominant team to streak to multiple titles was the San Francisco 49ers,…
Read More »This Super Bowl week I was reminded of one of the great Super Bowls of days gone by. On January 12, 1969, the New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts met in Miami for Super Bowl III, and it was expected to be pretty ugly. The Colts were heavily favored and seemed a certainty to…
Read More »I remember when the first Super Bowl was played in the 1960s. The Packers were the neighborhood bully, and the Chiefs never had a chance. Two years later, however, the balance of power began to shift as Joe Namath and his Jets shocked the football world by knocking off the feared Baltimore Colts. By the…
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