This past weekend, the men's tennis team traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III National Men's Team Indoor Championship (ITA). The team started off...
Professional athletes are contemporary America's pseudo-holy men. They are born with physical gifts that predetermine their fate as linebackers, power forwards and pitchers. In accordance with Malcolm...
A man is born in the province of Yan and grows up in the province of Chu. Once he has reached a certain age, he sets out to return home, so that he can pay his respects to the ancestors. Upon the road,...
America's exercise culture is growing. We have friends joining the Crossfit movement, notice more bikers dangerously close to our cars and read intense articles about esoteric "extreme fitness" classes...
Soon, some of you upperclassmen will leave to travel abroad. It's a great time. You'll learn a lot about yourself and the people you share the world with. It won't all be roses and blissful drunken nights...
Basketball is back. Across the world, true fans have a renewed sense of hope, as well as a fuller, more meaningful purpose. True love is a beautiful thing. And what is it to love the game but to appreciate...
Big Bend is one of the darkest places in the nation. Deep in the bowels of west Texas, the national park's unique lack of light pollution results in breathtaking night skies. It's rare that we escape civilization...
In 1981, John McEnroe defeated Bjorn Borg for the US Open championship. It was the 14th time the two tennis players had battled, and McEnroe's victory split the series at 7 to 7. The two young men were...
In the cult classic "White Men Can't Jump," Woody Harrelson stars as Billy Hoyle, a loud-mouth basketball player with a knack for abusing opponents' weaknesses. Los Angeles pick-up in the 1990s was...
The call for collective empathy is prevalent among rightfully concerned people. A friend recently suggested to me that if everyone consciously chose to be more empathetic, the world's increasingly distressing...
Our culture's politicization is evident. The simple drive down 281 South from San Antonio to Corpus Christi used to be marked by the flat Texas countryside, with expansive farmlands and not much else....
The MLB regular season is closing in on its prolonged conclusion, and the NFL and college football seasons are officially in full swing, which can mean only one thing "“ it is time to start thinking...
