The Shadow Side of Minor Sports
It’s NHL playoff time. The Winnipeg Jets, for whom we cheered when we lived there in the 90’s, have gotten a new lease on life and are...
The Paradoxes of Canada’s National Sport
“He shoots! He scores!” It’s playoff time in the National Hockey League, and we Canadians alter our social lives accordingly....
Do Sports Matter to God?
With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...
Troy Polamalu: Feeling God’s Pleasure
“The glory of God is a man fully alive.” — Irenaeus “When I run, I feel his pleasure.” — Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire Troy Polamalu...
The Spiritual Glories of…Football
Early in September, one or another leggy, blonde singer strutted out onto my indefensibly large TV screen to inaugurate another season of...
The Rules and the Code: Reflections on Olympic Badminton–and Hypocrisy
As everyone knows now, four pairs of female badminton players, among the best in the world, were tossed out of the Olympic games for...
Law and Order: Some Vancouverite Reflections
By now many of you have seen clips or photos of the criminal nonsense that afflicted the streets and businesses of downtown Vancouver...
Hockey Night in Canada Theme Contest: A Shameless Plug
Canadians know (and thanks to Stephen Colbert, so do many others) that the CBC surrendered its longtime musical theme for its premiere...
Does God Care about Entertainment?
My eldest son, a fan of both films (he is a budding filmmaker) and sports (he is a nut about NFL football and NHL hockey), writes on his...
Humility and Humiliation: A Tale of Two Quarterbacks
Those of us who care have seen Super Bowl XLI. Those of us who don’t, don’t want to read about it. So I’ll make this brief, and it’ll be...