What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.
Sports
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
March Madness: Your guide to the Catholic schools in the 2024 men’s tournament
March Madness is upon us, and (as usual) there are a lot of Catholic schools in the mix. Can any of them prevail?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Baseball, Brooklyn and Seoul: It’s finally time for Opening Day.
Opening Day is a reminder that there are, to quote Bill Veeck, only two seasons: winter and baseball.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
In defense of the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads
Maybe the real message of this ad should be not that “God Gets Us” but that “We Don’t Get God.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith
From Super Bowls and World Cups to backyard rinks—feeling God’s presence in sports
Ahead of Super Bowl weekend, Prof. Jay Carney of Creighton explains the link between sports and the pastoral philosophies of popes from Leo XIII to Francis.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Love and Basketball’: a seminal Black love story about desire, discernment and expectations
Monica and Quincy are competitive basketball players whose drive to succeed often clashes with their feelings for each other.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
In ‘Moneyball,’ it takes a prophet to bring change to baseball
Catholic Movie Club: Institutions don’t change easily.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Belichick’s downfall reminds us: Put not your faith in head coaches (or popes)
This week, the New England Patriots parted ways with their legendary head coach, Bill Belichick. Did he get too much credit for the team’s success?
Posted inFaith, Features
Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A Jesuit Thanksgiving football tradition turns 100
On Nov. 23, the Fordham Prep Rams and the Xavier Knights will meet on Thanksgiving Day for the 100th time, a landmark matchup for the fourth-oldest high school football rivalry in American history.