This past weekend was notable for its sheer breadth of sporting events—NBA and NHL playoffs, great golf from North Carolina, intense NASCAR racing from Talladega, baseball, soccer, and the Kentucky Derby all combined to make for a smorgasbord of sporting delights. What caught my attention, however, was the reminder that sometimes sports is not about…
Read More »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 »To say that Bristol Motor Speedway has not been kind to Tony Stewart would be putting it mildly. In 29 career Sprint Cup races at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile, Stewart has only 1 win and 8 top tens. This for a driver who has multiple championships and 47 total career wins. I think Tony could…
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…
Read More »Tomorrow night, at long last, college football returns. I love the NFL, but college football is just special—and this weekend boasts a great slate of games to kick off the 2012 campaign. On Friday night, Michigan State hosts Boise State in what should be a cracking game. Saturday night, two preseason top 10 teams, Alabama…
Read More »Like many football fans, I thoroughly enjoy the NFL draft, and was glued to it much of this past weekend, not only following the picks of my team (the Browns) but the picks of key athletes around the league. Many of the picks were no-brainers. Some, however, were head-scratchers. Everyone will have their own list of…
Read More »It seems like only yesterday that the PGA Tour Championship and FedEx Cup were being won by Bill Haas, the USA squad was running away with the Presidents Cup in Australia, and Tiger Woods was returning to his winning ways at the Chevron World Challenge. Yet now, after a long season, an extended silly season,…
Read More »We’re pretty good at placing our hope in the things this world has to offer: money, our place of employment, and even our sports teams. But how does God describe real and lasting hope? This weekend on Sports Spectrum, we’ll get the thoughts of University of Minnesota head football coach, Jerry Kill, and PGA professional,…
Read More »As the NHL and NBA seasons are getting underway, the comments of basketball and hockey fans across North America focus on hope for the new season. Of course, for NBA fans, their first hope is that there will even be a season following this ongoing labor dispute between the players and the owners. Beyond that,…
Read More »For most Americans, and certainly for me, yesterday was a hard day. In one sense, it was a celebration of the American spirit, as the new National Football League season opened with big plays and great games. But yesterday could never be simply about football. Or baseball. Or any other sporting event. Yesterday was about…
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