There is a passage that says "We all fall short of the glory of God." Now is the time for all of those who may fall short by their self-righteousness to rethink their position in a lineup ranking who is the most righteous?
I asked a young man, "How do you define righteousness?" I refused to define it for him. In fact, every man or woman has to seek out the definitions for themselves. We all build our belief systems.
What is righteous to some men and women is what aligns itself with a chosen belief system.
Tiger Woods has to seek out those definitions of "right ...
Lines of demarcation exist in sports and in life to distinguish things like fair/foul, legal/illegal and more. Baseball has its foul line, football has the goal posts, and society has determined that there is something magical about a person's 18th birthday.
Basketball, I recently discovered thanks to the Lions of Yates High School in Houston, has a very unique line of demarcation that might surprise you. Yates High School is the No. 1 nationally ranked High School basketball program according to USA Today. They are a powerhouse team led by Coach Greg Wise. Please understand, when I say powerhouse, I ...
Major League Baseball has a rich history of nicknames, but not all nicknames are created equally. The league is currently flooded with lazy, uninspired nicknames that are, more accurately, abbreviations that hold no real meaning.
Some, for instance A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) and Arm-Ram (Aramis Ramirez) are better left without meaning. Both monikers are better suited to something you would find in the adult section of the video store. Other nicknames are stretches or just sound ridiculous. Jimmy "J-Roll" Rollins comes to mind.
To set some basic ground rules, this list is limited to players that have adopted their nicknames as ...
Pro boxing lovers everywhere will be treated to a prime time bout that could potentially turn out to be the best fight of the year when Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao and Joshua "Grand Master" Clottey square off in a 12-round WBO welterweight title bout at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Saturday at 10 PM ET.
Manny Pacquiao (50-3-0, 38 KOs) Joshua Clottey (35-3-0, 20 KOs)
Fight Odds Provided by BetUS.com
Manny Pacquiao -700 Joshua Clottey +450
While the overall state of professional boxing has clearly taken a backseat to the ...
Before the next time Torii Hunter opens his mouth, he should think over what he wants to say or get a dictionary.
If Hunter gets a big booing on Opening Day in Los Angeles, he better know for the future. He deserves it.
Hunter referred to Latinos as "impostors" while discussing the number of present African-Americans in the Major Leagues.
Hunter's original comments were made two weeks ago in one of a series of USA Today roundtables about baseball and published in Wednesday's editions.
According to a story published in USA Today's Thursday edition, he meant no harm or disrespect to Latin American players. ...
The 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards are cashed, but there was far too much information consumed over the last few days to have gotten it all down before the climactic ceremonies.
Consequently, there will be several more stories trickling out of my laptop regarding the subject.
Since I've got 12 hours to kill in the Abu Dhabi International Airport before the one flight a day to Frankfurt departs (conveniently timed for 1:50 in the morning) and it's kind enough to offer free, lightning-quick Internet, I figured now's as good a time as any to relate one of the highlights of the trip.
On ...
Another gridiron hero fallen from grace, plastered on evening "news" shows and fodder for prime time sports engines. Is he really a hero? Is he something that should garner national news attention?
Why are people so interested in someone they most likely don't know or have the remote chance of meeting? Why must our nightly sports talk shows and nightly highlight reel cinemas be invaded by news of some college town where some QB was accused of something? In short, why do you care?
Isn't this a personal matter for the people involved? I know, naive of me to think that ...
The 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards are officially in the book.
Host Kevin Spacey opened the evening’s festivities with a bit of a grind, but hinted the real talent of an exceptional performer is the ability to fight through the ho-hums and keep going until the crowd is yours.
The two-time Oscar winner peppered impressions of famous characters throughout the evening and, by the end, had the audience in his hand.
His Morgan Freeman was all right; he cranked it up with Johnny Carson; pulled everyone’s ace in Christopher Walken; tossed in a little William Shatner; broke out Katherine Hepburn; wowed ‘em with ...
No, this article is not about any marathon race. But it is about the origins of the marathon itself, some 2,500 years ago, on March 10, 490 B.C.
The locale was Athenian Greece, the home of a then-novel concept called "democracy." This was due as much as anything else to an accident of geography.
Unlike most other lands to the north, east, and west, which are basically flat, Greece is hilly. That meant that the land leant itself well to small, family-owned farms, rather than large estates held by wealthy landowners.
The climate and soil proved especially suited to growing wine grapes and ...
"Sport has the power to change the world...Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair."—Nelson Mandela
As most nationals do, I love my native soil. I won't pretend the United States of America is the best country in the world just because I call it home, but it's gotta be up there. Whenever I travel internationally and no matter how incredible the trip has been, it's always a relief to get home and see the Stars and Bars.
She is by no means perfect, but the ol' gal offers a quality of life unrivaled in many (most?) other countries.
Likewise, as gory as our social progression has ...
