Question: Why is it important for individuals and families to be active in a faith community? ...more

March 21, 2009

Heading into Friday night's SEC Tournament quarterfinal game, the Florida Gators were 23-9 and 9-7 in the league's regular-season games. The Auburn Tigers were 21-10 and 10-6 in the SEC regular season. ...more

March 14, 2009

The shrill din of teenage shrieks filling the Florida Strawberry Festival stadium Sunday night didn't sound much different from the one that might greet the Jonas Brothers. But the cheers were for Taylor Swift, and they were less adulation and more identification. ...more

March 2, 2009

Jocks Doing Steroids With two wars and a failing economy I find it impossible to understand why time is wasted in Congress and on the news with these overpaid, underworked jocks doing steroids. They receive no punishment other than a slap on the wrist and told don't do it again. Then they go out and continue to pull in multimillion-dollar salaries. So why even bother. I am sick and tired of hearing about it. It makes no difference to anything vital to this country's well-being. If the baseball commissioner can't handle the problem, MLB should be abolished and they should all get jobs at McDonald's. It wouldn't hurt America at all. ...more

February 22, 2009

Fans of the National Football League remember Harry Carson as a ferocious linebacker for the New York Giants ...more

January 29, 2009

"John Lennon: The Life," by Philip Norman (Ecco, $35) ...more

January 11, 2009

Speech Was Vindictive I was appalled, but not surprised Wednesday night to hear Gov. Palin launch vindictively into Sen. Obama without providing an ounce of substance about where she thinks a McCain administration should focus. I was particularly affected by her characterization of the war in Iraq as "God's task." That assertion is at the very least xenophobic, and at best fundamentalist. ...more

September 6, 2008

Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

After a week full of autographs and adulation, Danny Lee is starting to feel like Tiger Woods at the U.S. Amateur. ...more

August 24, 2008