Opinion

After a gambling scandal cratered his college career, Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby tried to skip the fallout and fast-track his future to the NFL. The league promptly slammed the

Every year, right about this time, something magical happens at our family lake house. It is not loud. It does not announce itself with fireworks or fanfare. It does not

The bossman asked if I had watched any World Cup soccer. Before I could answer, he proudly announced that he had watched about three seconds of it. I told him

Trust is one of the most valuable things we can ever give another person. It cannot be bought. It cannot be rushed. It is built slowly through countless small decisions,

A Culture of Selective Outrage When did we become so fragile? There just has to be a happy medium somewhere between nobody ever needing any professional assistance to successfully cope

A Main Street From Another Time There are still places in America where time seems to slow down the moment you turn onto Main Street. Not in the forced, postcard

There are World Cup stories, and then there are World Cup stories involving a duck in a soccer jersey being denied entry to a stadium by international sports bureaucrats. Naturally,

Empty Pews, Long Roads Recent headlines speak of a growing return to the faith of our fathers, but the hard numbers tell a harsher story. Weekly church attendance has fallen

There have already been multiple columns in this space attempting to find the best way to describe the deep divide that I contend exists today in the United States, one

Bless their little stadium-priced hearts, the World Cup has arrived in North America, and apparently so has the financial decision-making portion of the program. According to an Associated Press report,