Sports: Baseball: Washington DC's baseball team Nats has its centerfielder suspended, fined

Baseball reporter Adam Kilgore has an article "Nyjer Morgan suspended 8 games" Wapo (Sept16,2k10) that tells a sad story about Morgan's misbehaviors -- including brawling at a game with the Florida Marlins. The bad boy had the grace to say when the judgment came down,

I'm glad they were able to still hear my side," Morgan said. "The suspension, it's fair in my eyes. I thought the fine was little bit steep. From here, I just have to move on, keep it moving."

Morgan has been suspended for 8 games (8 of 16 games remaining on the Nats' schedule).  He was also fined $15,000.

His judge in the internal-legal judiciary of the sport was the National Baseball League.

-- Sportikos

SportsUSA: Football: Boise State U dogs heels of #1 Albama, #2 Ohio State U

The meteoric rise of Boise State's Broncos to popular acclaim is a new phenom that so far hasn't  registered in a major change to the rankings on AP's Top 25 list.

"The Broncos remained third after a thrilling 33-30 victory against Virginia Tech on Monday night, receiving eight first-place votes and 1,399 points from the media panel, 13 points behind Ohio's Buckeyes.

"Ohio State received four first-place votes and 1,412 points.

"[University of] Alabama [Crimson Tide] had 47 first-place votes, down seven from the preseason poll, and 1,484 points in the rankings released Tuesday.

"[Texas Christian University -- Horned Frogs, can you believe that name? -- here's the Frogs schedule] : "TCU from the Mountain West Conference moved up two spots to No. 4, marking the first time since the Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998 that two teams from conferences without automatic BCS bids have been in the top five. Boise State is the defending Western Athletic Conference champion.

"[University of] Texas remained No. 5 and received one first-place vote."

The game to which I'm especially looking forward is the Frogs against Southern Methodist University -- Friday, Sept 24.


-- Sportikos

Sports: Book: Anthology of 20 chapters for sports in a Christian college setting

I found it on an accidental blog, Steve Bishop's companion to his All of Life Redeemed webs+t, a great resource for reformational thawt, societal service, and faith discourse.

Physical education, sport and wellness:
an anthology of orignial contributions, edited by John Byl and Tom Visker
(Sioux Center, Iowa, USA: Dordt College Press, 1999).

Contents:

The Bible and the body: a Biblical perspective on health and physical education / John Cooper

The Incarnation and the flesh / Bud Williams

Somatospiritual model: a biomechanist looks at the Bible / Brian W. Bergemann

Transforming wellness: linking spiritual concepts to personal health / Timothy J. Voss

Spirituality and wellness: student perspectives / John Byl

Attitudes of member institutions of the Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities (USA) towards required health and fitness courses in the core curriculum / Allison J. McFarland

Developing an aim-centered K-12 physical education program based on Christian tenets / Marvin A. Zuidema

Leadership theory as it applies to academic work / Beth A. Easter and Dale E. Gibson

Sport education: more necessary than ever / James Timmer, Sr.

Intentional integration of scripture into the study of sport sociology / Allison J. McFarland

Christian sports and leisure: oxymoron or redundancy? / Carl E. Zylstra

Sports, by Sportikos

We coach "Play the whistle" but what happens when the whistle breaks? / Gregory Gidman and David Turkington

Sport ethics via Thoreau / Douglas Hochstetler

A reflection on the moral value of interscholastic athletes / Calvin P. Van Reken

Pressure to win? But I'm a Christian coach at a Christian college / Karol Hunt

Moral reasoning: what is it and how it is best accomplished in the classroom and gymnasium / Sharon K. Stoll

The effects of religiosity, education and experience on the moral reasoning levels of NCAA division III male head athletic directors / James R. Timmer, Jr.

Senior student's perspectives on physical education and sport / Murray W. Hall

Calvinism and Mennonites:a pilot study on SPEPHERDing Christianity and sport in Canada / John Byl ["SPEPHERDing" -- is that a typographical mistake, or a wordplay incorporating an acronym?'

A contrast between physical activity in the early church and muscular Christianity: what implications does this have for the 21st century? / Dale E. Campbell.

Thanks to the editors, authors and contributors. Thanks to Steve Bishop for documenting this book in his AoLR archive. And thanks to Sportikos for maintaining refWr+t's blog-entries on sports of all sorts. The horizon of the book is the small Christian college, not the bohemoth institutions and wealthy sports programs that dominate the National Collegiate Athletics Association. Yet, it coud be useful to the fellowships of Christian athletes even those in the belly of the beastie.