When sport is a religion
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EDMONTON - In the 1980s, Permian Panthers were spit out of their west Texas football factory like there was no tomorrow. And for many, there wasn&#39;t.
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Don&#39;t tell me this is part of sports, life or any kind of world I want to be in. Don&#39;t try to justify it, pick sides or celebrate it like some video-game adrenaline rush.
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New insight into how Americans perceive the interaction between religion and politics.
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In some countries, the national spectator sport is soccer or tennis. In Ukraine, the joke goes, it's elections.
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A look at the religion's theological roots and how the faith took hold in the region.
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By The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Feb. 3--When those in charge remind us that it's just a game, remember this story. The NFL is all over churches that had planned to show the Super Bowl as part of an event.   Copyright laws, you know.
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When talking with high school or college athletes one of the reoccurring themes that tends to pop up is how they happen to have come from athletically minded families.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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How many other teams can make news by finishing two-a-day practices with a bar fight -- not to mention one in which some Thundering Herd knucklehead maybe gives a ticket to the festivities to a player on a team they&#39;ll be playing next month?
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By KRYSTYNA RUDZKI AP Sports Writer Tuesday, February 06, 2007 First it was Manchester United.Comment
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There are two sports that matter in the Lone Star State, the old saying goes. That would be football and spring football. But donât trust an outsider.
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Itâs easy to feel left out this time of year if you donât have a football team. People expect you to have a team. College. NFL.
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Muslims celebrate the holy month with interfaith , blogs, and fasts even during competition.
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In an age when religious and tribal sensitivities are on the rise, can rugby afford to let the highest-ranked squad in the world make a throat-slitting gesture in public during their pregame haka dance?
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The European Commission faces a battle with sport's governing bodies over its ability to regulate sport.
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Maybe the sports scene started changing in Boston in 1986. Area teams were performing in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series. Youngsters who knew the difference between the World Cup and World Series were either a part of this transformation or would be positively affected by it.
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Holy Cross won last week's game against Harvard with 19 seconds to play. Yesterday's game against Patriot League foe Georgetown was over long before that.