My wife and I watched a wonderful movie tonight, The Greatest Game Ever Played. We are both suckers for a movie about an underdog who makes good, especially when it is true story. This movie, whose climax happens in 1913, tells the unlikely story of Francis Ouimet, a former caddy at the country club located…
Category: Sports
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Sports
Remembering
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• •All over the United States this weekend, sports, while providing a diversion from some of the immediate problems facing this country, also embraced the historic in remembering the past and in its own way tried to offer a bit of hope for the future. It was an example of what is good and what is…
Sports
Opening Day And The End Of March Madness
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•Baseball has begun, so Spring is here. Today my Orioles won their opener against Oakland, 4-0, a team that swept them last year.
Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Sports
Red Sox Heaven
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•Red Sox 3 St. Louis 0. Rex Sox win series 4-0. Congratulations to the 2004 World Series winning Red Sox. Thank you Curt Shilling for your sterling Christian witness. Thank you Boston for winning eight post season games in a row while never trailing during the series and giving us one of the greatest runs…
Personal, Sports
Family And Baseball
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•This weekend marks the end of the regular baseball season and we are off the see the Orioles play the Red Sox. It is a combined family/church outing so I am looking forward to a relaxing evening (win or lose) with wife, daughter, and Christian friends. Baseball is slow enough to allow conversation without losing…