Posted on Thursday, 16th September 2010 by chrisjones

This is one of a Series of Short Takes, about the salient issues of the day.  This one isn’t all that short.  It also isn’t about politics (though there’s one of those coming) or religion, but it might as well be, because it is about sports, which is more religious than religion is these days.  [...]

Tags: Derek Jeter, Luis Suarez, sportsmanship, what good men do, World Cup
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Posted on Wednesday, 28th January 2009 by chrisjones

So BYU lost to Utah again last night. It wasn’t a big surprise, because BYU has never beaten Utah 3 times in a row at the Huntsman Center, and had they hung on to a late lead they would have accomplished it yesterday. But it was a disappointment, partly because BYU led for most of [...]

Tags: BYU, college football
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Posted on Sunday, 30th November 2008 by chrisjones

No one on earth hates the BCS more than I do, so this is not a post about how the BCS is fine and dandy. It’s not. It’s a cancer that is causing a huge number of only partly-understood ancillary diseases in college football. But it is not responsible for all the problems the game [...]

Tags: BSC, college football
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