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Bearing Down
Former Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty entered the 2014 season as the reigning Big 12 Player of the Year, leader of the highly ranked Bears football team, on the Heisman watch list and the finalist for many prestigious individual awards...
READ MOREThe Life of a Prince
Fourth-year star cornerback Prince Amukamara is a prince for several reasons. First, “Prince” really is his name—it’s not an overconfident moniker he adopted. Second, Amukamara really is a prince...
READ MOREHeart For Haiti
During the NFL off-season, most players spend time vacationing with their families, participating in charity golf tournaments, and renegotiating contracts. New York Jets wide receiver David Nelson does something a little different during his time away from the gridiron. In fact, a lot different! After a life changing missions trip to Haiti in the spring of 2012...
READ MOREXtreme Wisedom
David Wise stood on deck at the top of the superpipe in Aspen, Colo. Before him stretched the perfectly groomed ice and snow tube carved 567 feet long into the mountainside. As he mentally prepared, Wise watched competitor Justin Dorey smash into the lip in what ESPN called “one of the gnarliest crashes in years.” (Thankfully, Dorey walked away with only an injured shoulder.) It wasn’t the kind of precursor you want before beginning your own high-speed attempt at defying gravity in a giant geographic playground...
READ MOREFrom Puppet to Platform
Dylan Thompson had strings. He moved the right way. He said the right things. He danced across the stage and nailed his lines. He was a shell of a man, a marionette that moved but had no life inside. One day, the strings broke, his body fell, and he lay all twisted up and lifeless on stage. The lights went down. And the curtains closed...
READ MOREBright Star In Big D
To win, Dallas Cowboy starting quarterback Tony Romo knows it takes a team. “As a...
READ MOREResurrect your reverence
I know a basketball agent who went to the NBA All-Star game last year in Orlando. He was networking with some guys, hanging around after the game, and took a look around at his surroundings. He noticed a number of women hanging around after the game—a lot of women—and not just any women, women who wanted something. High heels. Short skirts. Tight shirts. Makeup-coated faces, like apples dipped in caramel...
READ MOREAiring It Out -- Disagreement equals hate?
It’s official. The media is the new czar of morality. Your Bible? They say it’s no longer valid. And what you individually believe? It’s no longer relevant either. If you go against the media’s moral code, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, you are now bigoted and hateful...
READ MOREStephen Curry - The Year That Changed Him
Blessings tend to make life’s imperfections dissipate like a cloud of smoke. That is, if you let them, if you focus on them, if you realize you’re blessed. If not, you’ll end up like most people, trapped in the smoky thickness with bloodshot eyes, probably coughing and complaining, your vision clouded, lacking sufficient depth and perspective...
READ MOREDrowning Doubt
There’s a mother driving her white Ford Thunderbird down a California freeway. It’s 1994 and it’s lunch hour. It’s Orange County and it’s sunny. She’s on her way to Costco to buy groceries for her family, just a mile from her exit, when she realizes something. But it’s too late...
READ MOREEnd-Of-The-Year DigiMag: Top 10 Controversies
TOP 10 CONTROVERSIES 1. New Orleans Saints Bounty Scandal–This controversy has had more twists and...
READ MOREAround the Net - Brees breaks record, Pettitte starts Game 2, Hamilton done in Texas?
Drew Brees broke Johnny Unitas' record last night... Andy Pettitte will go for an MLB-record 20th postseason win for the Yankees tonight. Former manager Buck Showalter comments on Pettitte's success... Josh Hamilton may have worn out his welcome in Texas. But he says that wherever he may go in free agency, it will be where God directs him to go... Tebow tweets about playing in the 666th Monday night game, Bubba Watson tweets about a party in heaven, and Jim Irsay tweets about delivering the game ball to Chuck Pagano...
READ MOREA Letter from the Publisher
Dear Sports Spectrum Readers, We wanted to thank you for your support over the years and your interest in the faith and sports world. We count it as a great privilege to bring you stories that encourage and hopefully challenge your faith, and we will continue to do so in print, digital, and online formats. This letter is to inform you that the Vol. 26 No. 4 (FALL 2012) issue of Sports Spectrum will not be printed and delivered to your home. It will only be available ONLINE, in DIGITAL format.
READ MORETraining Table -- Olympic Recap (Week 1)
Monday “Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let Your glory be above all the...
READ MORETraining Table -- Pro Quotes (Week 4)
Monday “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High, will rest in the shadow...
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