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 »For fans of major league baseball, this is a strange time of year—the hot stove league. It is the season of player movement through trades, arbitration, and free agent signings. During the hot stove league, every team is looking for those elusive missing pieces that could put them in position to make a run at…
Read More »It was the 1993 NFL Playoffs where you’re in if you win or you lose and you go home. The Buffalo Bills were locked in a very one-sided battle with the Houston Oilers and their star quarterback, Warren Moon. Moon and the Oiler offense had dominated the Bills to such a degree that the game…
Read More »One of the most difficult moments for a professional athlete is when they finally come to the time when they must leave the game. Athletes will talk about the different aspects of this life transition that are difficult. Some will talk about the paycheck—candidly assessing how hard it is to walk away from such huge…
Read More »As a soccer fan, it has been exciting these past few days to watch the kickoff of Euro 2012, arguably the top soccer event in the world after the World Cup. National teams from all over Europe played down to the top 16 teams, and then those 16 teams were put into four groups for…
Read More »In the realm of sports, we often hear courage discussed and applied to athletes in high-pressure game situations. But I wonder about that. Is that really the best way to think about those things? Courage, it would seem, should be reserved for soldiers on the frontlines, firefighters entering a burning building, or police officers facing…
Read More »For the National Football League, this has been a season of change. New teams and new stars have stepped up to energize the game with a level of excitement not seen in years. What Tim Tebow has done for Denver is the stuff of legends, in spite of the Broncos’ loss to the Patriots on…
Read More »Fear of failure is one of the most diabolical mindsets an athlete or team can have. We’ve all seen it, and we see it especially this late in the NFL season when there is so much at stake. As the regular season winds down, the pressure increases for every play of every game, particularly for…
Read More »This past Sunday night, I was in Melbourne, Australia, where I had been doing some Bible teaching. That night, the New Zealand All Blacks played against France in the finals of the Rugby World Cup—the most significant rugby competition in the world. What spiced up the evening even more was that several of us watched…
Read More »Last Saturday night, amid patriotic tributes and cheering fans, was one of the most tense evenings of the NASCAR season. Richmond International Raceway was the scene of the final race before the Chase for the Sprint Cup begins. Adding to the tension was the fact that two of NASCAR’s most popular drivers, Dale Earnhardt, Jr….
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