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Arts & CultureDispatches
Michael O’Brien
Major League Baseball is finally incorporating stats recorded by Negro League players as part of M.L.B.’s official record books.  
Steve Javie, a former NBA referee, wearing his referee uniform during a basketball game.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
Basketball fans know Steve Javie as a longtime N.B.A. referee and a frequent commentator on ESPN and ABC. But for the parishioners at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Newtown, Pa., he’s Deacon Steve.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jake Martin
Professional tennis in the real world—as opposed to the reel world—is not quite as cool or sexy.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Gregory Hillis
For us diehard baseball fans, Ángel Hernández's retirement should not be a moment to revisit his past errors and sneer. Instead, it is a chance to express mercy in a world that, as Pope Francis reminds us, is in dire need of it.
Harrison Butker, kicker for the Super Bowl LVIII champion Kansas City Chiefs, delivers the May 11, 2024, commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. (OSV News photo/Todd Nugent, courtesy Benedictine College)
FaithShort Take
David Mills
Benedictine College should apologize to Mr. Butker for putting him in a position he should not have been in—and which he was not wise or mature enough to avoid.
Denver Nuggets' Dan Issel, left, guards Portland Trail Blazers' Bill Walton as Walton moves towards the basket during their game in Portland, Ore., Feb. 12, 1978.
Arts & CultureNews
Michael O’Brien
“I wanted to be a basketball player, be a hippie, on tour with The Grateful Dead, be an adventurer. I didn’t spend my life trying to be the richest guy on Earth,” Walton once said about himself.