Tag: sports

A reflection on the Olympics, faith and compassion argues that loss is part of life — and that no medal or defeat defines human worth.

A Spokane-area leader urges support for initiatives limiting transgender rights and student privacy, sparking statewide debate over gender policy, schools and faith.

Teams across the U.S., could follow in the footsteps of the Spokane Indians Baseball Club, who collaborated with the Spokane tribe to reshape their team into one that used the tribe’s culture in an accurate way and encouraged people to learn more about it.

Advertisers tap into fears of men being too soft and not fully male.  One radio commercial for nutritional supplements asks when it became OK for men to be soft and lack physical power – coupling these questions with a call to make men great again.   

I have spent much time researching and teaching about the ills of sport, especially at the collegiate level where the cultural tradition is that sports is vital to the industrial-education complex, but in reality, the educational value is dubious at best. 

: The brouhaha in professional sports is a good thing. Let's all hope it gets even worse.