Basketball

The Dallas Mavericks were intended to be the first Christian team in the NBA.

As a lifelong athlete and coach, I know sports build character. But I worry about the idolatrous, selfish culture of American athletics.

As players face new pressures from bettors upset with their performance, chaplains in the NCAA are trying to help students remember their imago Dei.

Treating the sport as a comprehensive social and political model misunderstands the vision of its Christian founder.

Randall Balmer seeks the religious roots of America’s passion for sports.

Over 75 years of the professional league—and for decades before—Black Christians brought a social conscience to basketball.

The Cleveland Browns defensive end was good at sacking quarterbacks, but his real passion was witnessing for Christ.

A culture of joy is at the center of the 114-year-old program’s first national title.

The team behind this year’s most impressive March Madness upset carries on Oral Roberts’s legacy of embracing sports as Christian witness.

Though sports ministries long espoused a “colorblind” approach to race, believers in pro sports are leading the calls for racial justice.