Category: sports
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Playing from victory
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “You play from victory, not for victory.” Cooper Kupp, Super Bowl LVI MVP I had to think about it for a while to make sure I heard him correctly. Yes, that was what Cooper Kupp said after the Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl victory: “You…
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What you don’t know about Super Bowl XXVII
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) The year was 1993. It was Super Bowl XXVII in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. And the halftime show was the first time the whole show featured one performer, Michael Jackson. It was an extraordinary 12 minutes featuring “It don’t matter if you’re black…
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Go Rams? No. Go Lewis!
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “The Rams are back, the Super Bowl is back, and The Great Lewis Lazarus never left.” So goes the last sentence of an article in the Los Angeles Times today about the 91-year-old Lazarus who claims he is the oldest and greatest Rams fan alive.…
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The Bengals versus Matthew Stafford
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Randall Balmer, our BlogTalkRadio guest last night, is rooting for the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Not because he is a Rams fan, but because he is a Matthew Stafford fan. That sentiment is apparently echoed by a lot of fans…
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Moment of truth
Click here for a video of John reading this Catch. One play doth not the game make. But it sure can come close.
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So what’s spiritual about football?
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch. It’s that time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to … football? Yes, at least here in America with four teams left standing and two more weekends of playoff games culminating in the Super Bowl, there is a lot of interest in football,…
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Go for the gold
You do not belong to yourself. Now there is a radical and revolutionary statement. You will not hear that from any politician, or social media guru, or any sports or movie star, or any business leader today. You may not even hear it from many preachers. That’s because the prevailing message in the culture is…
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When eternity breaks in on us
It’s impossible to live near L.A. as someone who writes every day, and not write something about Kobe Bryant this morning. You would have to be an alien who just landed on this planet to not know what went on 24 hours ago here and is dominating almost everyone’s mind. A helicopter crashed into the…
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Big Game Rivalry Week
Rivalry week has come a little early here in southern California. Most of the west coast intra-state rivalries (Washington vs Washington St., Oregon vs Oregon St., Arizona vs Arizona St.) are having their games next weekend. But here in southern California (and up in the San Francisco bay area where it’s Cal vs Stanford), it’s…
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Football, forgiveness and a fallacy
As Christians and evangelical Christianity get more and more mention in the press, we need to be smarter about testing what is properly represented, misrepresented, or what might have been compromised in the process. For instance, I read a newspaper article recently about a certain Christian University that is eager to up their football program…
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‘Angels’ Skaggs dies at 27’
How does this happen? How does a 27-year-old healthy athlete just die overnight? Tyler Skaggs, starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Texas yesterday morning. Nothing but questions remain. The police say no foul play or suicide is suspected. It’s a shocker.
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Super apology
Well everybody, after all is said and done with Super Bowl LIII, I think I would have rather had church.
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Sports: What is it about Mike Trout? Did you see this ovation?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7lOraHnw0] What do you think? Post a comment. ** ovation footage from mlb.com