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Everyone is deeply worried about the disappearance of the airplane in the Pacific.  What does the Code have to say about a situation like this?  One could answer this in several ways – it is a team effort in trying to locate the plane, and everyone is doing his or her best.  We, however, are…

Victor Dubuisson is one of the young rising golf stars, a Frenchman who is now ranked 23rd in the world.  His father was a professional basketball player, but he says that it was watching Tiger Woods win the 1997 Masters Championship that inspired him – before his seventh birthday –  to take up golf.  Ask…

Shaun White, Bode Miller, the hockey team,  the ice skater who fell down and then got up and finished the program —  you add your favorite story — each day there is another wonderful story about courage, persistence, victory, disappointment and defeat.  Along with countless athletes we’ve never heard of who have trained for years…

Those watching the Olympics are seeing many stories of what it is to be a part of a team, and to compete not for yourself but for your team and country.  Even though most of the events are individual events, in which teammates compete against each other as well as against other countries, the beauty…

Russell Wilson said his Dad asked him many times growing up, “why not you?”  That was the basis for his question and challenge to his teammates at the beginning of the season, “why not us?”  Those who did not know Wilson before Sunday had to be pleased to see a second year quarterback talking about…

Richard Sherman’s trash-talking rant after the Seahawks game brings this form of communication back into the news.  Trash talking is not new.  The man who called himself “The Greatest” before others did (Ali), also made an art-form of trash-talking fifty years ago.  He did it in long humorous poems that he recited before his matches,…

The NFL playoffs have featured bitter cold, torrential rain, and wind.  The Australian Open (tennis) has had several days with the temperature well over 100 degrees, conditions called “inhumane.”  The question this week is: how do we deal with adversity?  There is nothing more true than the fact that we all will face adversity –…

Baseball honors three great players with election to the Hall of Fame.  The truth is also that they honored baseball by their presence.  They honored the game, the fans, and their opponents by the way they played the game and by the way they have conducted their lives off the field.  In reviewing the Code…

There has been controversy over some things said by the Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty family.  He expressed his opinion that homosexuality is wrong.  Some people agree with him for religious reasons, and others disagree for religious reasons.  Some agree for political reasons, and others disagree for political reasons.  Others just think that we…