Eight Jesuit Schools in the Big Dance
It's been a great season for Jesuit basketball. No fewer than eight Jesuit schools will be represented in the NCAA men's tournament, which starts...
Passing on Our Faith
Monday night, the LSU Tigers play in the National Championship Game. Those who know me know that I am an avid LSU fan. Those...
Jesuit Basketball Spotlight
The Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. play each other dozens of times on the basketball court this season. Full schedule here. The...
Are Jesuit Hoops the Strongest?
With powerful programs such as Georgetown, Gonzaga, Xavier, Creighton, and Marquette, Jesuit basketball is surely the strongest among religious-affiliated Division I schools. Or is...
Sports News: Jesuits Take Clericus Cup
In America, Jesuit schools are famous for their basketball teams. In Europe, it's soccer. In Rome this week the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University defeated...
Jesuits and March Madness
The NCAA men's basketball tournament starts today, and the Society of Jesus is well-represented by five teams. The most surprising is my alma mater,...
Jesuit Basketball
Jesuit colleges played five basketball games against each other this past weekend -- four men's games and one women's. The marquee game was Georgetown...
Life Is a Marathon
I just came from watching the 114th Boston Marathon. An awesome sight! It got me thinking about the ten best reasons why a marathon...
Doing Too Much
Sports columnist Joe Posnanski on West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins:
And then there's his belief that the worst thing a player can do...
Jesuit Basketball
For many years basketball has been the top sport at most of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the US. An all-star team...