Sports

Beyond the World Cup

  Despite the nearly worldwide fascination with the ongoing World Cup, Buddhists in China have been involved in some very different games, including badminton, basketball, and even tug-of-war. Held in China’s Yunnan province, one of the…

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Meditation and Mindfulness with Ricky Williams

Ricky Williams was a two-time All-American and Heisman Trophy winner before exploding onto the scene in the National Football League in 1999. His early promise was dampened by fans’ confusion with his eccentric behavior, not to…

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World Cup 2010: Oh Peace, Korea

  As political tension rises between South Korea and North Korea, Euronews.net reports that a Buddhist temple in Seoul organized a live viewing of the North Korea vs. Portugal world cup game in order to promote…

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Sacred Hoops and Spirit in Sport

A recent post on the NBA finals got Editor-at-Large Andrew Cooper thinking and he wrote to me: The Lakers/Celtics rivalry is the greatest in U. S. team sports. When I was about eight years old, I…

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World Cup 2010

Back in 2007, three years before professional soccer teams were set to descend on South Africa’s cities, 2010 World Cup fever was already taking hold. In Cape Town, where I was living at the time, billboards,…

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A flying kick at enlightenment

Whenever we post about martial-arts movies (or when Phil posts about Kill Bill) we get a few kneejerk criticisms for being sympathetic to—or at least tolerant of—representations of violence on the screen. There’s a pretty basic…

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What planet is Brit Hume living on?

The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered…

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NASCAR Buddhism

You don’t normally think of Buddhists as NASCAR fans, but why not? Arlynda Boyer, a lifelong NASCAR aficionado, has been practicing Buddhism for past 15 years. She tells Auto Racing Daily (“Where you get your auto…

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