Sports

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers didn’t make it to the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t deter Highland Crest Baptist Church.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BP) – Reading Scripture and telling others about it is “bigger than football,” New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye told reporters this week.

MARTIN, Tenn. (BP) – Jason Simpson remembers the “aha” moment for his son, Ty.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — If Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine could turn back time, he would not have signed the law that legalized sports betting in his state.

DELAND, Fla. – Sixteen DeLand High School football players were baptized Oct. 16 at Stetson Baptist Church, in an event leaders described as the fruit of four years of simple, steady ministry presence.

TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Most small colleges would feel fortunate to have one former NFL player on their coaching staff.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Pastors and college football megafans George Schroeder and Dean Inserra have kicked off the third season of “Gridiron and the Gospel,” a podcast dedicated to the sport but also matters of faith.

PORTBRUSH, United Kingdom (BP) – Success and Scottie Scheffler have become practically synonymous lately. Yet, it’s the world’s top-ranked golfer’s comments on what constitutes true meaning – and more to the point, what doesn’t –that keeps grabbing attention.

PHILADELPHIA (BP) – The transgender revolution has made promises it is unable to deliver and will bring forward many still looking for their identity.

COATS, NC, (BP) – Last October in his first international game with Team USA, Kayden Beasley took a feed from sled hockey star and three-time Paralympian Declan Farmer and broke for the goal. He doesn’t remember much else about the one-on-one breakaway, just that he put enough juice on the puck to bounce it off the Italian goalkeeper’s helmet and into the net.