My church heritage is Churches of Christ – specifically, the acappella-singing Churches of Christ you find an abundance of here in the southern United States. I grew up singing in church with no instrumental backup. It was all us. Our voices – good or bad – were all that would be heard in our gatherings. [...]
Sportscenter finished up the recap of the Duke-Virginia game – highlighting J.J. Redick’s 40 points – by saying “anything you can do, I can do better.” This provided the segue to the Gonazaga-Portland recap, where they highlighted Adam Morrison’s 42 point game.Now, I mentioned the race for player of the year in college basketball recently, [...]
The average sports fan probably is unaware of this, but the 2006 Australian Open is almost over. Sure, some may have noticed it on ESPN2 late in the evenings as they scolled through the program guide. But for the most part, nobody in America really cares. The NFL playoffs are in progress, and the beginning [...]
I’ve never read Elizabeth Elliot’s book Through Gates Of Splendor, even though I intended to several times in years past. However, after having the DVD sitting around for several months now, I finally got around to watching the Beyond The Gates documentary last night. Like the book, it tells the story of the five American [...]
I began listening to Audio Adrenaline when their first disc came out in the early 90’s. I saw them in concert three times, I believe – once with Geoff Moore & the Distance, later with dc Talk, and finally with Steven Curtis Chapman. They always put on a good show. I met Mark Stuart and [...]
It wasn’t a good weekend to have a quarterback named Jake. Both Denver’s Jake Plummer and Carolina’s Jake Delhomme were ineffective as they lost in the championship games.
I did not watch the NFC game as closely because I just didn’t care. I guess I wanted Carolina to win – although I’m not sure why. But [...]
The way N.C. State had been playing this year, I came to believe that if Duke was going to lose a game at home this year, it just might be last night’s game with State. It was a huge game between what are probably the two best teams in the league (although Miami and Carolina [...]
College Basketball
There are only 3 undefeated teams in college basketball, and they all remained so this weekend. Pitt just be Louisville, and yesterday Florida beat some worthless team from the SEC (it doesn’t really matter – everyone’s horrible except Florida – and they haven’t really played anyone yet, so it’s hard to tell how good [...]
All of the media coverage and controversey that surrounded Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code will be resurrected before long when Ron Howard’s movie based on the book is released in May. I thought the book was okay – though it seemed more like Dan Brown just wrote some lectures about what he believes [...]
I’ve seen numerous people posting their results from this quiz on their own blogs, so I figured it was time for me to take the test as well. I had an idea of how it would turn out, and I was correct. Although it did take a tiebreaker question (as you’ll notice the top two [...]