Avid sports fans know late December through early January as “the most wonderful time of the year” and not just because of the Christmas holiday. Between mid-December and January 11 more than three dozen nationally-televised college football bowl games are played (including two today which will decide the participants in Read More
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Guest Post: CYC Sportsmanship and Positive Parent Participation
By Buzz Swanston | Assistant Sports Director, CYC This Saturday evening the Musial Awards will be presented at the Peabody Opera House. Named after our beloved Cardinal #6, Stan the Man, these awards recognize outstanding sportsmanship at a national level in 2015. Players, coaches, officials, and teams at all levels Read More
Three Lessons Sports Teach Us About Faith
ESPN The Magazine, the print version of the popular sports news franchise, recently published an article on the Houston Texans’ star running back Arian Foster. Considering Foster is one of the more well-known athletes in the country right now, this isn’t necessarily a surprise – it’s the subject matter of the article that Read More
If Bishops Wore Stripes
Or Why You Should Respect Sports Officials Heckling the officials. It’s as synonymous with sports as popcorn; as inevitable as a game’s final score. For some fans, it’s almost a hobby. As you begin reading this post, stop and think for a second: are you the sort of person who, when attending Read More
The Stadium Encyclical You Haven’t Heard About
The new encyclical, Laudato Si’, promulgated by Pope Francis has been heralded as a groundbreaking document. Others have lamented the fact that it was ever written. Having not read the entire thing word-for-word I cannot argue one way or another, and I don’t intend to, although in what I have Read More