This Sunday launches the start of the 2013 Major League Baseball season with a Sunday night game between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Field in Houston. If it’s a typical baseball game, it will be marked by hits and walks, outs and errors, and all the trappings of the game….
Read More »I trust that you and yours had a blessed and wonderful Christmas day yesterday. It is an extraordinary time—and one that many of us cherish. The day after Christmas, however, is a different thing. It is a day for returns and cleanup and exhaustion. In the United Kingdom, however, it is more. The day after…
Read More »This past Saturday, two college basketball teams showed that they are most certainly going in different directions. West Virginia, who started the hoop season strongly with some big wins, has been fading—now even in danger of missing the big dance of March Madness. With a close 77-74 loss to #23 Louisville, the Mountaineers have lost…
Read More »It has become an annual event that is almost as dependable as the turning of the calendar from November to December–the annual hue and cry that goes throughout the land over the unfairness of the BCS bowl system. Michigan to the BCS over the MSU Spartans that beat them? Unfair! Virginia Tech going to the…
Read More »In any sport, losses are always frustrating. Though you can learn from losses or be challenged by losses, it is hard to imagine enjoying a loss—and the tougher the loss, the harder it is to get beyond it. This certainly applies to the St. Louis Cardinals after game two of the World Series. Having won…
Read More »For years now, CBS has promoted their coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament by calling it “The Road To The Final Four.” The Final Four is the promised land of college basketball—a goal to which all aspire, but one which only a few attain. There is, however, an infinitely more important destination—heaven—and it is…
Read More »During Friday’s second round of the Chevron World Championship golf tournament, something extraordinarily amazing took place—and then was compounded. Paul Casey made a hole-in-one on the par 3 12th hole, and that is special. But, then Bubba Watson, on the par 5 16th holed our from 280 yards away in the fairway for the rarest…
Read More »Today marks the beginning of the Major League Baseball playoffs, with series opening between the Rangers and the Rays, the Yankees and the Twins, and the Phillies and the Reds taking center stage for start of the postseason drama. Tomorrow, the final series of the first round of playoffs (Braves versus Giants) will begin. The…
Read More »There are times in sports when a great athlete or coach has grown stale in a particular location, and would benefit from a fresh start. This was true with Joe Torre, who had managed with several teams, most recently the Cardinals, when he took the reins of the Yankees in New York. The success he…
Read More »There are few things in the NFL more excruciating than the day after the game when we watch the game film, and our coaches correct our every mistake from the game—in front of all our teammates. One week in particular, I was dreading watching the film. On one play, as I was covering a punt,…
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