Seattle has a National Hockey League team again after nearly 100 years. Its first NHL team, the Metropolitans, was the first US team to win the Stanley Cup. The current iteration is the Kraken, named after the mythical sea creature. This is a big deal for Seattle. The region has a couple of semi-pro teams, …
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Jun 27
Desperate Times Indeed
For the average armchair sports fan, COVID-19 has been disastrous. No baseball. No NBA playoffs or WNBA games. Limited soccer. An auto race or two. The Belmont Stakes. This afternoon Julian was channel-surfing and discovered a new televised “sport”: The National Cornhole Championship. Cornhole, for the non-cognoscenti, consists of throwing a beanbag at a slanted …
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Oct 01
Are We in the End Times, 2017 Edition
This is not a political post. Rather, these are two observations on the current football season. The Washington State University (WSU) Cougars upset USC, 30-27, on Friday night. For most of our time in Washington, WSU was the sad sack team of the west coast. So far this season they are undefeated along with their …
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Oct 02
Are We in the End Times, October 2016 Edition
I’m not talking politics. This concerns the state of college and professional sports. Let me count the ways: The University of Washington whupped Stanford on Friday night; Washington State University (winless two years ago) shellacked Oregon yesterday; The University of North Carolina beat Florida State yesterday; Cornell has won two games in a row, including …
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Oct 18
Are We in the End Times?
I was looking at yesterday’s college football scores and thinking, “Something is seriously amiss.” Perennial doormat teams such as Houston and Duke are in the top 25. Powerhouses such as Oregon and USC are going down to ignominious defeat by traditional underdog teams. Then I looked at the East Coast scores and was reassured that …
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Mar 22
A March Madness Hypothesis
I was watching Gonzaga dispatch the University of Iowa in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament today, which renewed a hypothesis I’ve had over the years. A key factor in reducing the prejudice against Catholics in this country over the years was not the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960; rather, it was Notre Dame …
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