Daily Thoughts on Faith, Culture and Politics from Timothy Dalrymple
This is pure Jeremy Lin — the goofy sense of humor, the pure love for the game, the good-natured appreciation for the fans. This is why I really like the guy: As most readers of this blog will know, I wrote a book on Jeremy, his journey and his faith. Hopefully the Taiwanese version is [...]
Comparing Olympic athletes across different sports is a tricky and subjective business — because not all gold medals are equal. Determining the greatest Olympian ever is not as simple as asking who won the most golds.
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in he modern incarnation of the Olympic Games. But is he the “greatest Olympian” ever? It’s partly a question of definitions, but I would argue that he is not.
My friend David French posts at French Revolution about journalistic snark directed toward Gabby Douglas and her professions of faith in the midst of her dazzling Olympic gold-medal-winning performance in the all-around at the London Games. Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon wrote: As a Christian myself (albeit one of those really freaky papist kinds), I’ve often wondered what [...]
I first met Dominique Moceanu when we traveled together to the Junior Pan American Games in 1992 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I was fifteen and had recently won my first junior national all-around title. We had originally been bound for Rio de Janeiro, but the organizers made some planning errors and moved us to Sao [...]
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