Obituary |
Pat Summerall—best-known as the voice of NFL telecasts on CBS and
Fox and commentator John Madden’s perfect complement—died Tuesday
at age 82 of cardiac…
Sports |
You won’t often find me praising the New York Yankees, but the
team’s management did something sweet last night. The playing of
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet…
Sports |
Declared the team to beat in the preseason, the Los Angeles Lakers
(44-37) are just barely clinging to the eighth and final playoff
spot in the NBA’s…
Sports |
Baseball’s biggest off-season spenders—the Los Angeles Dodgers, the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Toronto Blue Jays—are off to
rocky starts…
Sports |
Media accounts this morning rightly concentrated on Adam Scott’s
gutsy victory at the Masters Sunday, but stories of perseverance
also deserve telling. On…
Sports |
K.J. Choi, tied for seventh at the halfway point of the Masters,
quells his nerves on the golf course by thinking of how Joshua and
the Israelites marched…
Sports |
One of several evangelicals on the PGA Tour, 2007 Masters champion
Zach Johnson is tied for 10th after yesterday’s first round of the
Masters Tournament at…
Television |
Former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner became a household name in 1999
with an almost unbelievable football story: He went from stocking
grocery store shelves to…
Religion |
A new study blames slipping church attendance on children’s Sunday
morning sports. The study, by researcher Stephen McMullin of
Acadia Divinity…
Sports |
One reader this morning asked if I caught the exact words of Kevin
Ware—the Louisville player who gruesomely broke his leg against
Duke last week—when…
Sports |
My wife and I, as U. of Michigan alumni, were disappointed last
night to see the Louisville men’s basketball team beat Michigan in
the NCAA national…
Sports |
As the NBA’s Houston Rockets move closer toward clinching a playoff
spot, Jeremy Lin’s game is getting better. After an inconsistent
winter, Lin has…