I watched the Super Bowl and enjoyed it. After three slow quarters of play, the fourth quarter was exciting and suspenseful. It was a very good game. However, even in the rare event of a competitive and entertaining Super Bowl game we can see how football is inferior to baseball. Two plays in particular demonstratedContinue reading “Why Baseball is Superior to Football”
Category Archives: Sports (not baseball)
Imus and “Cute” Tenessee Women
Missing among the outraged voices in the scandal surrounding Don Imus and his incredibly stupid comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team is any statement from the University of Tennessee women’s basketball program. I haven’t scoured the entire web for their response, but a look through their team website finds no statement responding to Imus’Continue reading “Imus and “Cute” Tenessee Women”
March Madness: The NCAA’s Monopoly on Sports
Last week I read this story about Michael Bowers, a former high school kid whose standing as a special education student may have cost him a chance at playing college football (many details of the case are disputed, which is winding its way through the courts). Of course, if an athlete is ineligible to playContinue reading “March Madness: The NCAA’s Monopoly on Sports”
Swedes & Finns Work Together!
This breaking news is not about two struggling Lutheran churches deciding to work together, but about another struggling enterprise – the Philadelphia Flyers. The last place Flyers will now have a Swede (Peter Forsberg) and a Finn (Sami Kapanen) playing together on the team’s top line. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess. NoContinue reading “Swedes & Finns Work Together!”
The Lutheran Zephyr 