Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

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Top Ten Tuesday: Making the Winter Olympics Even More Awesome

There are about 5 days left in Vancouver’s Winter Olympic Games. Even though the winter games is considered to be the scrawny weaker sibling to the summer Olympics, I have to admit that the past 10 or 11 days have been pretty awesome. There have been so many great moments: Shaun White defying gravity in [...]

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XIV Super Bowl XLIV Questions Part II

Part 2 of our Super Bowl XLIV survey. You can read Part 1 here.
8. What or who is going to be the X Factor in the game?
TJ: I’ll start by saying that each team has an X-Factor player, and both of them are directly related.
INDIANAPOLIS … DE Dwight Freeney
This one’s a gimmie. Freeney is [...]

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The Church and the Super Bowl

Editor’s note: This is T.J. Cofield’s response to the question “How should the church respond to the Super Bowl?” from our Super Bowl XLIV survey.
This question falls under a larger umbrella of a question, which is, “How should the church respond to our culture?” One of the best Christian responses to this question is [...]

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XIV Super Bowl XLIV Questions Part I

In just a few short hours, hundreds of millions around the world will sit down to watch Super Bowl XLIV (that’s 44 for anyone that’s not a Roman numeral buff). In honor of the big game, I decided to send out a Super Bowl survey to a couple of big sports fans/Amalgamblog contributors (Randy Belk [...]

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Best* of the Decade: Sports Moments

Our “Best* of the Decade” series carries on. Here is one man’s opinion on the ten best sports moments of 2000-2009. Feel free to leave your favorite sports moments in the comments below.
10. Meb Re-takes New York for America
The average person doesn’t really bother with major marathon results. Kenyans, Ethiopians, and their east African brethren [...]

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T.J.’s College Football Report: What Would The Joker Say?

Remember what the Joker told Harvey Dent in “The Dark Knight?”
“Introduce a little anarchy.  Upset the established order, and everything turns to chaos.  And you know the thing about chaos?  It’s fair.”
Comic-book murder and mayhem aside, the Joker’s onto something when it comes to this year’s college football season.
The BCS always hopes for a clean-cut [...]