Grant Me This

Nicholas Boone came into the world eight years ago tonight at warp speed and hasn't slowed down since. Within minutes of being born, he ...

Columns from the U.S. Open (golf's not tennis'): Day 1 recap - Global warming and remembering Tyrell "Party On" Garth Day ...

Day 1 recap Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Here's the link to a piece I wrote on PGA.com last week about the passing of golfer Darren Clarke's wife at the age of 39 . I receiv...

Few things have awakened me from blogging slumber over, lo, these last three months. But then every day isn't August 7, the day our firs...

What do a nearly naked Britney Spears and a nearly neutered grizzly bear have in common? You guessed it: the 61st U.S. Women's Open .

For those of you spewing invective in my general direction for not yet offering part two of our baseball trip up north, I'll refer you t...

The great American priest, Father James Keller, once wrote, Every mother has the breathtaking privilege of sharing with God in the creation ...

Golfer Fred Funk's caddy, Mark Long, does a dead-on impersonation of 5-time major champion and dashing Spaniard Seve Ballesteros. One of...

The first two rounds of The Masters are in the books, and I'm in my underwear. But perhaps even more important to golf fans, Chad Campbe...

This arrived a few hours after I e-mailed Nancy Grace the letter you read in the previous post. I was touched. This is how honest dialogue h...

Nancy, Rubel Shelly is a personal friend of mine. He is a man of great intelligence, having taught courses at both Vanderbilt and Duke Unive...

A special day calls for a special treat, so Anna Claire and I stopped at Starbucks this morning for a kids hot chocolate and some coffee cak...

We told the kids about Kerri's passing Wednesday night as they were going to bed. Thursday morning at breakfast, we discussed it again. ...

I've been had. All those preachers. All those sermons. All that nonsense about asking, knocking, believing, supplicating, persisting, pe...

Okay, I was wrong. Make it 2 1 -10 Steelers . I was never good with math. But these numbers tell the sad story of the game: Seattle had 86 y...

Pittsburgh 24 Seattle 10

This weekend's NFL playoff games answered a number of important questions, not the least of which was: What would it look like if Brick ...

I was 10 when my blood turned Tennessee orange. My cousins from Jackson came to Nashville for Thanksgiving, bringing with them tickets to th...

The Christmas spirit is alive and well at your local Sonic restaurants. When a carhop brought my lunch yesterday, I greeted him with a heart...