To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s simply called The Play. Radio announcer Joe Starkey, trying to describe what he had just seen, called it “the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football!” He just might be right. Even though the last-second, game-winning, five-lateral, walk-off kickoff return happened 43 years… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for the spring of 1986. Christmas comes only once a year. But Halley’s Comet comes only once a lifetime – twice, if your parents blessed you with great timing and great genes. My 30-plus years of waiting would be worth it. Of all… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Mark Twain was on top of the world. In 1861 he officially became a riverboat captain on the Mississippi. Piloting a steamboat combined adventure, danger, and the sheer romance of chugging up and down the longest river in North America. It was lucrative, too. Historians estimate that riverboat captains were the third… Read more »
Most high school kids fantasize about winning some version of the Big Game. With their peers cheering from the sidelines, they dream of making the decisive penalty kick, hitting the game-winning three-pointer, or kicking a field goal as time expires. My good friends Kevin Kelso, Mike Goler, John Shaw and I couldn’t do any of those things. But we knew… Read more »
