This past weekend was a significant time of celebrating great achievements in women’s sports, both past and present. The past was at Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament in Ohio, where every year a great golfer of the past is honored. This year’s honoree was one of the truly great women’s golfers of all time, Nancy Lopez….
Read More »Last Wednesday was a day in which great athletes in two different parts of the world found themselves working overtime. In South Africa, the United States soccer team had to go into stoppage time before a magnificent game-winning goal against Algeria that propelled them into the knockout round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup (they…
Read More »I recently wrote an article for Our Daily Bread in which I mentioned seeing a young woman wearing a t-shirt which read, “Love is for losers.” I wrote about what a sad worldview that is, and how vital love is. It was a pretty decent article, I thought. Imagine my surprise, however, when I received…
Read More »My all-time favorite quote says, “The dream that all men should live as brothers is held by men who have no brothers.” It is a tongue-in-cheek assessment of sibling rivalries—and I am sure that applies to sisters as well as brothers. Sibling rivalry was ratcheted up to a higher level last Saturday at the ladies…
Read More »James Blake acknowledges the crowd after the American knocked off top-ranked Roger Federer in the quarterfinals. Blake is scheduled to compete Saturday in the Men’s Singles Bronze Medal Match against the Serbian Novak Djokovic. Who will win the bronze?
Read More »The Beijing 2008 tennis events take place in the flower-shaped “Olympic Green Tennis Center.” The main court pictured here is the biggest of the three courts.
Read More »Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. Lleyton won the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men’s singles titles. Lleyton has won his first two matches in Beijing. Does Lleyton have what it takes to win gold in Beijing?
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