http://www.pietisten.orgseries/SportReport.html http://www.pietisten.orgseries/SportReport.html en-us http://www.pietisten.org/vi/3/sport_report.html http://www.pietisten.org/vi/3/sport_report.html Pietisten’s Sport Prophet, its Sport Reporter, and two Angolan colleagues teamed up as the Pre-Socratics and “took it to the streets” in the Minnesota Timberwolves 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on Saturday, August 3. http://www.pietisten.org/vi/4/sport_report.html http://www.pietisten.org/vi/4/sport_report.html Whenever I hear an announcer speak about an athlete’s “work ethic,” I grimace. I have a hunch that I know what the speaker means by this abstraction, but I don’t think it is apt. http://www.pietisten.org/vii/2/sport_report.html http://www.pietisten.org/vii/2/sport_report.html Motto: The real game is the game you are in. Text: “Bodily exercise profiteth little.” — Paul of Tarsus http://www.pietisten.org/vii/3/sport.html http://www.pietisten.org/vii/3/sport.html I know what many of you must be thinking. You’re thinking that Larry Bird’s retirement has about as much to do with Pietisten as a review of Ozzy Osbourne’s last album. Well, you are probably right, but Bird was my hero and also my father’s; and my father is managing editor, so here it is. http://www.pietisten.org/vii/4/sport_report.html http://www.pietisten.org/vii/4/sport_report.html When we arrived that Saturday morning, the game between the Eagan Mighty Duck Celtics and the Bullets had just begun. Sandy found a folding chair on the sideline next to Grandpa Teed, and I found a spot on the floor in the corner across the court where the Mighty Duck Celtics “bench” was located.