This week, due to inclement weather, we were unable to record on our usual Wednesday. This week’s episode is an abbreviated one, sans consolations and desolations, but have no fear: It’s a good one. Since Selection Sunday—the official start of the NCAA tournament and office bracket pools across the nation—is this weekend, we decided to […]
Sports
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Do you pray for your favorite sports team to win?
America also asked readers about whether or not they saw sports as a force for social good.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The problem with U.S. hockey: racial diversity
When I played hockey, other players of color were few and far between.
Posted inFaith, News
Team USA hockey captain played for Catholic schools
Brian Gionta led Boston College to the national championships in 2001.
Posted inFaith, News
Former Olympic curling hopeful now cheering Team USA from the priesthood
Rev. Andrew Roza, a former Olympic hopeful turned vocations director for the Archdiocese of Omaha, said he’ll be talking to God about the Team USA curlers during this year’s Winter Olympics.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team includes five Boston College players
Five players on the US Olympic team’s roster of 23 are from the Jesuit-run school — two are recent graduates and three are current students taking a leave of absence for the Pyeongchang Games.
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Sisters from Minnesota Catholic schools play on separate Olympic teams
Hannah Brandt is a forward for the U.S. Olympic team. Marissa Brandt, who was adopted as a baby from South Korea, used her birth name, Park-Yoon Jung, for the Olympics and plays defense for the combined Koreas.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Figure skating deserves your attention more than every four years.
The Winter Olympics are upon us once again, and once again, figure skating steps out of its burrow of athletic obscurity.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis sees hope for peace in North and South Korea’s Olympic collaboration
This makes one hope for a world in which conflicts are resolved peacefully through dialogue and mutual respect, as sport also teaches.
Posted inFaith, News
Philadelphia Eagles punter sees God’s hand in path to Super Bowl
Philadelphia Eagles punter Donnie Jones, a lifelong Catholic, believes that God has guided him throughout his NFL career and vocation as a husband and father.