Tag Archives: sports

On The Decline Of Serve And Volley

Posted on March 31, 2025 by nathanalbright

Serve-and-volley, where a player charges the net after serving to finish points with volleys, has largely faded from tennis, overtaken by baseline hitting, where players slug it out from the back of the court. The reasons boil down to equipment … Continue reading →

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Division I-A/FBS Conference Championships And Member Tenure: A Trend Analysis

Posted on December 8, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) pioneered the conference championship game format after expanding to 12 teams in 1992 with the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina. This development marked a significant shift in college football organization, as it required an NCAA … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Bolt Supremacy

Posted on August 21, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Bolt Supremacy:  Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory, by Richard Moore This is a book that straddles the ambiguous space between being a celebration of Jamaican supremacy in sprint races and a skeptical view of the likelihood that some sort of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Silk Parachute

Posted on May 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Like several of the author’s books, this particular volume is a collection of somewhat disparate essays of different lengths and content.  All of them are testament to the way that McPhee writes, which is itself a worthwhile element.  In many … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Uncommon Marriage Adventure

Posted on November 24, 2014 by nathanalbright

The Uncommon Marriage Adventure: A Daily Journey To Draw You Closer To God And Each Other, by Tony & Lauren Dungy with Nathan Whitaker [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Tyndale House Publishers in exchange for an … Continue reading →

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Today In History: On August 13, 1976, Left-Handed People Got A Day Of Their Own

Posted on August 14, 2014 by nathanalbright

About five years before I was born, Left-Handed Day was created. For most of the world, this might not seem to be too big of a deal. After all, most people do not go to a dinner table in a … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Play A Game You Can’t Win

Posted on June 18, 2014 by nathanalbright

When my brother and I were young, we were both successful chess players at our elementary school. As a 5th grader, I ended up getting third place in the chess tournament (behind a brother and sister) and had my name … Continue reading →

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Blowing In The Wind

Posted on February 17, 2014 by nathanalbright

Thankfully today had a little bit less to overanalyze than yesterday did [1], but it still had enough to ponder over as it relates to my life, as well as some unexpected consistent themes that seemed to connect the day’s … Continue reading →

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Table Topics

Posted on December 30, 2013 by nathanalbright

[Note: This is part of my series on Spokesmen’s Club [1] in the UCG Portland congregation.] Before tonight, my previous experience with table topics was not a particularly good one. It was around the time of the Strawberry Festival, an … Continue reading →

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Reality Bites

Posted on November 14, 2012 by nathanalbright

A few decades ago, painter Andy Warhol stated that in the future everyone would get their fifteen minutes of fame. This led the group Sugar Ray to entitle their second album 14:59, even though for that particular band they remained … Continue reading →

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