The death of John Wooden over the weekend has me remembering the life and legacy of a man who left his mark on me when I was addicted to basketball in Jr. High.  But this isn’t a post about basketball as much as what making God’s good reign visible looks like: Dear John - I’m not sure...

I know, you probably had Kansas winning the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and now your bracket, most of the brackets in your pool, and President Obama’s First Bracket are all toast. So is mine, but I always pick Kansas. I’m from Kansas. KU’s loss ruins my bracket every year because I’m...

Here’s last week’s New York Times bestsellers list.  It’s a standard list, for the most part.  There’s the Freakonomics guy.  There’s two from Malcolm Gladwell.  Ted Kennedy is battling it out with Glenn Beck.  There’s John Krakauer and Augusten Burroughs and...

I love you Deadspin. But I need some verification here…is Amazing Grace Baptist Church’s site real? We need to send a reporter there, ASAP.

There is a kind of sporting law akin to the laws of physics, common sense, or the instincts of animals foraging for food and caring for their young: High draft picks go to losers. American sports fans are used to turning to the draft for comfort when their team racks up L after L after L: At least we’ll...

This past week I went from Portland to Keokuck, Iowa for a friends wedding. The wedding was nice. My Chinese friend, Jiang, from Shanghai was marrying a white girl, Rachel, from Iowa (I feel that this is proof/hope for world peace). His parents came to the States for the first time. The bridesmaids...

Last week, after a season of blowing all expectations out of the water, the Blazers were finally sliced from the playoffs by the Houston Rockets. It was painful. It was a tough game to watch. I blindly believed the Blazers could go all the way, all they had to do was get by Houston (Portland matches...

So, my wife Mindy is pregnant. She’s been pregnant for a couple months now or so. Our baby is due in October. We don’t know the sex of the baby, though it’s possible we’ll get a hint today, as Mindy has another checkup scheduled. We’re very excited, of course. We’re...

With the Blazers a whisker from the NBA playoffs for the first time in a while, I figured it was time for a Blazers post. I could openly mock Dan Gibson and his Phoenix Suns for failing spectacularly to make playoffs despite having one of the greatest centers in NBA history and a two-time MVP at point...

In the vein of Jason McElwain, there’s the story of Patrick Thibodeau, a high school basketball player with Down Syndrome, who made his minutes count at Greely High in Maine.