“My Take: Jim Tressel should make us rethink sports evangelization”
At CNN, Tom Krattenmaker, author of the book Onward Christian Athletes, wrote that Jim Tressel’s fall “should make us rethink sports evangelization.”
At CNN, Tom Krattenmaker, author of the book Onward Christian Athletes, wrote that Jim Tressel’s fall “should make us rethink sports evangelization.”
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel resigned in May 2011 after a series of sordid revelations about the program that he led, often citing his Christian faith as inspiration. Read about Tressel’s resignation in a May 30, 2011, article from Espn.
Read an essay in the Oct. 10, 2011, edition of Christian Century magazine. Author Rodney Clapp writes about his ambivalence toward the sport – his love of the game, and his dislike of the violence and the “shady” elements of collegiate sports.
Read a Jan. 15, 2012, essay in the The Chronicle of Higher Education by Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia about whether or not sports build character.
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