Sports Archives

In this way, the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us that close-knit, human-to-human and face-to-face communal gatherings—the kind we enjoy with sports—still matter.

As fans we think of and appreciate the impression Kobe left on the game, but we remember his humanity as well.

Lamar Jackson’s on-field and locker room humility and leadership exhibits how Christians can unashamedly use our gifts to reshape a pessimistic and critical culture.

We are not calibrated to the sight of a woman displaying unapologetic physical prowess.

Dirk Nowitzki’s decision to stay in one place is a model for us all.

[God] desires for us to be holy when we compete, when we coach, and when we are entertained, because there is life in holiness.

For LeBron James, being a dad is everything. He is devoted to his children, making fatherhood one of the coolest things he’s ever done.

With the appropriate ideological shift, Americans could expand their pallets to appreciate slower games.

America’s absence from this year’s World Cup prompts us to look beyond ourselves.

Like many with power, the NFL owners are using their wealth and status to steamroll those in a weaker position.

The desperation to prove oneself and the inability to own mistakes are common among Mirai Nagasu’s much-discussed (and often maligned) Millennial peers.

Like Jim Carrey does in ‘Jim & Andy,’ we are scripting the reality given to us for a watching world. While perhaps this is unavoidable, we can aim to steward our task well and aim to be as authentic as is reasonable.

We can at least try to break our destructive judgments of public figures by remembering they are real human beings with feelings, minds, and agency of their own, and by leaving them a little room to surprise us.

There is a reason why many people are reluctant to forgive, let alone support, individuals and businesses that market their self-atonement.

Just as Lamar Odom could confess in his interview that he wanted to get high, Coach Freeze too can be honest about the current state of his heart.

Ronda Rousey lost again, but that doesn’t make her worthless.