Grant Desme is making it to The Show. Just not the one Nuke LaLoosh dreamed about.
Fastpitch with Father Desme
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Beer, babes and … abortion?
Let’s gather ’round the TV as we celebrate one of America’s biggest holidays, Super Bowl Sunday. And if the game’s a dud we can laugh at the commercials, many of which feature beer and babes.
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Kurt Warner's haunting faith
Brett Favre’s NFL season is over. Mark Sanchez’ is too. And with the Chargers collapse last week, so is mine. But for Kurt Warner, a phenomenal NFL career may be over.
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Exorcising the Cubs' demons
Spring training is still six weeks away, but, with pro football winding down and pro basketball dragging on, attention is already being turned to America’s past time.
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Detroit's voice of God
Pulling off the sports hat trick this week. Monday it was Tim Tebow’s eyeblack, Thursday was LeBron James and the Ten Commandments. Today we’ve got a profile of the Detroit Tigers former Voice of God:
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These Eight Commandments ...
When I was in college, I participated in a weekend training program at the Los Angeles Times. I remember very little from that experience. But I starkly recall one of the paper’s sportswriters effusing that sportswriters were special because they were writers and not reporters.
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Jim Zorn, we hardly knew thee
If you have ever lived in, or near, Washington, D.C., you know that there are only two things that our nation’s capital talks about in the fall and early winter.
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Blind spot in 20-20 'Blind Side' story?
When religion reporters get together we like to discuss the great mysteries of our field. You know, questions like, “Why can’t more journalists learn that ‘Episcopal’ is an adjective, while ‘Episcopalian’ is a noun, even though it sounds like an adjective?”
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The apple of Tebow's eyeblack
If you watched the Allstate Sugar Bowl on New Year’s, you probably noticed two things: that Tim Tebow hardly could have been more brilliant in his final collegiate game and that his iconic biblical eyeblack referred to Ephesians 2:8-10.
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