Senior sports writer Tony Smith talks to four Kiwis from different sporting eras and backgrounds who all have two things in common: sport and faith. Today, Black Caps star Ajaz Patel. Ajaz Patel says the New Zealand cricketing community has been highly respectful of his Muslim faith and he looks forward to the day when…
Five years ago, the Australian moguls team did some testing in Jindabyne, near the ski fields in alpine New South Wales. Sports science is an advanced discipline and elite athletes are often being poked and prodded, or put through their paces on treadmills hooked up to elaborate machines. But this testing was different. The scientists…
Senior sports writer Tony Smith talks to four Kiwis from different sporting eras and backgrounds who all have two things in common: sport and faith. Today, Olympic middle distance runner Angie Petty. Olympic athlete Angie Petty says she has drawn on her faith to get her through the despair of missing out on a Commonwealth…
BCSSI has offices in Lebanon and Zionsville. Some classes are at Zionsville Town Hall, 1100 W. Oak St. To request an update to the calendar, email to [email protected] THURSDAY ART CLASS — 9:30 a.m.–noon at BCSSI. Instructor Shirley Luttrell works with beginners and intermediate students in any medium; cost is $7 per class, Lebanon office….
Simran Jeet Singh, a Union Theological Seminary lecturer who studies religion, racism and justice, recalls his own experience of fighting for inclusion as a turbaned Sikh college athlete. Growing up in Texas, he says his brothers were often denied the right to play college sports because of their turbans, a religious head covering worn by…
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The one voice that has been somewhat absent from the week-to-week PGA Tour-LIV Golf conversation has been perhaps the most important voice in golf. Tiger Woods on Tuesday, ahead of the 150th Open Championship, gave his longest and strongest rejection of the Greg Norman-run, Saudi Arabia-backed league. Interestingly, Woods’ rationale was…
