Tag: Sports

Church v. Soccer

There’s a bullet that we’ve somehow managed to dodge for lo these many years as a family. But this week it hit. We got the word from our all-star soccer team coach that a big tournament game had been scheduled on Sunday morning at 8 a.m.

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The Church of Football

The great Bob Lipsyte, former New York Times columnist, and young adult novelist extraordinaire, has a terrific essay about the Super Bowl on The Nation’s

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The final adventure…

…of the 2006 St. Andrew’s Boys Cross Country team is here. The state champs are pictured here. Both girls squads won state championships as well.

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Animal husbandry

I listen to sports radio, and sometimes during football season, the newscasts are one long injury report. Someone has pulled a hamstring. Someone has tweaked

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Point of personal privilege

The eyes of the sports-loving world were focused on the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., on Saturday morning for the Metropolitan Athletic Conference’s Junior Varsity

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Sports on Sunday

Elizabeth Kaeton has raised an interesting issue at her blog, Telling Secrets, about the Sunday morning competition between churches and sports leagues. I’m both a

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You’re no Hank Aaron

This weekend, Barry Bonds surpassed Babe Ruth by hitting his 715th career home run. He is now 40 homers behind Hank Aaron, baseball home run

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back from blog break

I had to take a blog break last week to work on a research project. I hope to be offering much more regular updates this

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