An interesting, thought provoking article on sports and Christianity.

Sports Fanatics | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction.

My two cents:  perhaps sports could be viewed with Paul’s admonition, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child,  thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I gave up childish ways,” (1 Corinthians 13.11).