In America, Jesuit schools are famous for their basketball teams. In Europe, it’s soccer. In Rome this week the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University defeated the Dominicans of the Angelicum 3-1 to win the Clericus Cup, the trophy in a soccer league involving 16 Roman colleges that train priests and seminarians. Clericus players and fans take [...]
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I just came from watching the 114th Boston Marathon. An awesome sight! It got me thinking about the ten best reasons why a marathon is a metaphor for life. My votes follow– what are yours? 1. It’s about the goal, not the suffering along the way. 2. One can do great things if you do [...]
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Sports columnist Joe Posnanski on West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins: And then there’s his belief that the worst thing a player can do is try to do too much. Watch Huggins on the sideline — it’s this that sets him off more than anything. If a player lunges for a steal and doesn’t get [...]
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As I gain some distance from my immersion in watching the Winter Olympics, I’ve been distilling in my mind the lasting impressions. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Olympics–it’s part Greek history, part supreme athletic comptetition, part incredible storytelling, part national/international pride. Underneath all the corporate sponsorships, the sometimes not-so-latent nationalism, the training [...]
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Consider this my “overthinking the Super Bowl” post. (Wait till I get to the Olympics!) First things first: I’ve always loved sports, and I’ve always enjoyed the Super Bowl. I just love the pure fun of competition, and at least during my adult life I’ve thought that sport reveals something about the human condition and [...]
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In my freshman seminar yesterday, my class and I were discussing Plato’s Republic, and specifically his strong focus on thinking about the good of the city over the good of the individual person. As usual, my students found this focus somewhat confusing—they (like us) think as free individuals and so are unaccustomed to thinking about [...]
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Baseball is God’s game, in my opinion. I love the game and I especially like the Detroit Tigers (who are currently barely hanging on to a one-game lead in the American League Central Division). So you can imagine how excited I was to read about a future Jesuit who played briefly for the Tigers. It [...]
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Featuring weightlifting, baseball, and rugby. These Jesuits don’t play soccer.
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