Tagged with "Sports"
NBA Hall-of-Famer Karl Malone meets Mormon missionaries
MR says: Cool photo. Apparently one of the missionaries was celebrating a birthday. What a gift. The Hall of Famer, two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, Olympian and Utah's favorite "Mailman" Karl Malone was tagged in a photo with four missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Twitter...
Mormon purchases soccer team, saves it and becomes Costa Rican celebrity
MR says: One funny part of the article: locals apparently came to think he not only owned the team, but also owned the LDS temple there and was the leader of the LDS Church. They even knocked on the temple doors and asked to see the owner! Near the end of 2012, the soccer team Club Sport Herediano was in a...
Why sometimes it's okay to give up on your dreams
MR says: Why it's okay to give up on your dreams occasionally: because they might be stupid. Last night my EC and I gathered the boys and watched the movie "Chasing Mavericks." It was a surfing movie that came out last Fall, starring Gerard Butler. It bombed at the box office, but I admire their willingness...
BYU's Forgotten Basketball Champions
In the spring of 1951, the BYU men’s basketball team famously won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), which was then considered the equivalent of a national championship. But even greater than their championship is the legacy of sportsmanship and missionary work that became an integral part of their journey to success.
3 Mormon brothers grow together on and off the basketball court
BUENA VISTA, Va. — It's not unusual for young athletes to be on the same team as their brother, possibly in high school or on a league team. But it's not very often that three siblings get the chance to play basketball together in a college starting line-up. For the past two years, that's been...
Returned Mormon missionaries in sports garner national attention
MR says: Congrats to these faithful, high-performing athletes! A pair of returned Mormon missionaries were recently featured in the national media. Tyler Haws, a shooting guard for the BYU Cougars, was the subject of an article by Anna Katherine Clemmons on ESPN.com Thursday. Xavier Su'a-Filo, an...
Former NFL QB Brett Favre joins with LDS Church members in tornado cleanup effort
MR says: Very cool. Apparently this group also rose early to begin helping - they started around 4:30 a.m. last Saturday. Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre teamed up with Mormon Helping Hands after a devastating tornado ripped through Favre's hometown of Hattiesburg, Miss., earlier this month. On Feb. 10...
Since when is quoting the prophets intolerant?
MR says: What do you think? Is it acceptable or unacceptable to call people out on Facebook for specific problems or vices? A friend of mine on Facebook put up several quotations on Sunday (Super Bowl Sunday) from prophets reminding us what prophets have said about keeping the Sabbath Day holy. Among the...
BYU grad goes for third straight year in Super Bowl commercials
MR says: Some of us look more forward to the commercials than the actual game. Good luck to this BYU grad, and congrats for making it as a finalist for an unprecedented third year in a row. The Super Bowl is just around the corner, bringing with it lots of food, friends and fun. However, the Super Bowl...
Aussie sports film says g'day to Utah at LDS Film Festival
MR says: Cool story about an LDS filmmaker from Australia. After 30 years of working in film and television in Australia, it was an evening of church music that sent Darran Scott down the path of expressing his faith cinematically. Scott, a relatively new member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
BYU's Tyler Haws earns national attention for scoring outburst
Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated noticed what blossoming BYU basketball star Tyler Haws did Saturday afternoon, and so did ESPN’s Andy Katz. A couple of days after Haws scored a career-high 42 points at EnergySolutions Arena in a 97-71 win over Virginia Tech — the best individual scoring...
BYU basketball: Cougars getting set for WCC play
MR says: The full article features a video of highlights from the Virginia Tech game. BYU is entering West Coast Conference play coming off perhaps its most impressive victory of the season. The Cougars (10-4) overwhelmed Virginia Tech, 97-71, last Saturday at EnergySolutions Arena as guard Tyler Haws...
The top 5 BYU videos of 2012
MR says: We've included the number 1 video here. Make sure to click through (below the video) to see all the top 5 videos. 1. You can’t plan this sort of thing. Amazingly, the camera was rolling as BYU steeplechase runner Katy Andrews got tripped up in this spring race and went head over heels into the...
Survey confirms BYU has a national fan base, No. 1 most popular college team in Utah
MR says: What's astounding is how popular BYU is in other states. It's been said many times, by many observers, that BYU has a national fan base. Now, that theory is being documented with statistics. An online survey, the Commoncensus Sports Map Project, reveals that the Cougar Nation is indeed large...
Giving up alcohol and following in his father's footsteps led to hockey star Brad Mills joining the LDS Church
MR says: What a cool story (no pun intended). Brad Mills knew he was ruining his hockey career. His pattern of late-night partying typically left him dehydrated the next day and translated into injuries and poor performances. As a result, the center/wingman was struggling in his role as a “depth”...
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