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Surely, this Baltimore Sun Navy Academy feature story breaks some kind of record for most uses of forms of the words “faith” and “prayer” in a sports story. But if you’re looking for facts and details, forget it.
Baseball fans enjoying the evened-up World Series will appreciate this article on the success of the “Devil-less Tamp Bay Rays” by Rachel Zoll of the Associated Press.
Is there something religious (not to mention potentially idolatrous) about the relationship some sports fans have with their beloved teams?
Allow me to indulge myself again in the world of faith and sports. Don’t worry, something important — politics — may show up.
I suppose there’s no reason that the Atlanta Journal Constitution should have better religion reporting than the average newspaper. But I rarely read anything noteworthy from the paper and sometimes the stories are really lacking.
So what do you do if you’re a religion reporter during the post-season of Major League Baseball? If you’re the Boston Globe‘s Michael Paulson, you write a fantastic feature combining baseball and religion:
The concept of “religious rights” makes a walk-on appearance in a recent Los Angeles Times article — only to be yanked unceremoniously off the stage.
The Baltimore Sun had a pretty solid article last week about the challenges Muslim athletes face during the month of Ramadan, where fasting during daylight hours is a priority. In reading this article, I wonder whether other local newspapers have covered the issue last month. My local newspaper hasn’t to my knowledge, but let me know if you are aware of other local stories that appeared in September.
The “game of the week” in college football this weekend brings gridiron fans a match-up between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the USC Trojans. Tucked in the middle of all the sports news hype around this story is what maybe one of the first Palestinians to play in “major-college college football.”
