Religion in Sports


I do not know why but in Spanish today I was bored and i randomly thought about how i could write a great article on religion in sports. Well, with the explanation out of the way here it goes! I think religion will always be associated with sports. In Sports you constantly hear things about religion.  In Sports people constantly say Football's a religion in this town!".  I do not know if this only me or other people have it but i take pride in the Jewish athletes and their success. Ryan Braun is one of my favorite players in the MLB for the sole reason he's Jewish. When he was proven not guilty of taking steroids i was really happy because that was a successful Jewish athlete that  "beat the system". Forgive the non politically correctness of that statement. Tim Tebow is by far the most famous athlete to be very religious.  He is pictured above praying before a game, better known as "Tebowing". One famous religious line that was spun for sports purposes was the line in the beginning of the Torah/Bible "In the beginning". That line was changed to "In the Big Inning". That was refferenced twice that i have seen in pop culture, "The Yankles" and "Jews and Baseball: A True American Love Story". That is the only times i have ever seen a religious line twisted in pop culture.   I think Sports need religion and Religion needs sports. Religion will always be part of sports.

Notre Dame Football 2012

At the beginning of the year Notre Dame was getting called out even before the season began. They were getting called out because they had one of the toughest schedules in the country. They had to go to a tough stadium in Michigan State, in week 3 then in week 4 come home for a tough Michigan team that has beat them every year since 2009. Next they have a bye week before they play the Miami Hurricanes in a neutral site game(Chicago). After that they play Stanford, at Oklahoma, at BC, and to end the season in  California against rival USC. I however, have faith in my team every year and we won the 1st game of the season 50-10 vs. Navy in Dublin, Ireland. Then, in week 2 we beat Purdue 20-17 behind the game winning drive from veteran QB Tommy Reese. In week 3 we beat Michigan State in a hostile enviorment, 20-3. That game was a big win for Manti Te'o, an All American linebacker, because the during the week leading up to the game his grandma and girlfriend both died less than 24 hours apart.  Last week, we beat rival Michigan 13-6. In that game the Irish defense and captain Manti Te'o forced Denard Robinson to 4 interceptions and 1 fumble. As i mentioned before we have a much needed bye week this week in which Manti Te'o is going to go home and be with his family. I think we could battle through and beat Miami next week to improve to 5-0 and maybe 5th in the AP polls. I think we will end the season with a BCS bowl, mabye the Sugar or Rose Bowl.