It’s that time of the year again! And no, I don’t mean Lent. And I don’t mean March Madness (though — Go Tar Heels!). And I don’t mean spring. I mean time for the return ...
Confession: I completely forgot about the Super Bowl this year. I certainly wouldn’t call myself a football buff — baseball is my true sports love — but I usually at least keep track of when ...
A gang of us bet weekly on pro football games back in the day in a pool run by a local guy I never met. It was illegal, though we didn’t think about that. Wrong ...
God might not care about the outcome of a sports game, but he seems to enjoy seeing Catholic schools compete. In the 2018 March Madness tournament, Villanova and Notre Dame, both Catholic universities, won the ...
“Time it was and what a time it was, it was … A time of innocence.” — “Bookends,” by Simon and Garfunkel (1968) I did a guest column for the local paper recently describing the ...
The best column I read about Sister Jean throughout the two weeks of March Madness that she ascended into fame came from The Chicago Tribune, where reporter Shannon Ryan wrote a column headlined: “Love the ...
Newscom photo When the first tipoff of the 2013-14 college basketball season takes place, it will mark the debut of a new league founded by seven teams known both for their prowess on the court ...
The national rankings of the country’s top high school athletic teams possess a distinct Catholicity. Mater Dei. De La Salle. St. Anthony. St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Pius X. These aren’t the names of parish churches. ...
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