INDIANAPOLIS – Philadelphia made all the right calls Monday night. In the end, Andrew Luck and the Colts made too many mistakes. The Eagles turned two second-half turnovers, including an inexplicable late interception of Luck, into 14 points and eventually made a 36-yard field goal as time expired to beat …

Kannapolis, NC (SportsNetwork.com) – Tony Stewart has made the decision not to compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event this weekend at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Stewart, who struck and killed a fellow competitor walking on the dirt track during a caution in a sprint car race on …

OAKVILLE, Ontario – Golf Canada said Thursday that the Canadian Open will return to Glen Abbey next year, marking the 27th time the national championship will be played at the Jack Nicklaus-designed course in Oakville. Brandt Snedeker won last year at Glen Abbey. The PGA Tour event will be played …

Many times, when people I meet find out I’m a religion correspondent, they usually respond — that is, after the deer in the headlights stare– with something like, “Religion is very divisive,” or “Religion is the reason for all the problems in the world throughout history.” My usual answer to …

It is clear that Democrats are trying to sucker Republicans into not making a deal on the 2010 budget so they can blame them for the government shutdown on April 9. If Democrats were serious about working with Republicans, the president would have not given a speech last week on …

There is some logic in the fact that President Obama has fled the country while Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress. With Obama’s comments this past week on Israel, the president now appears to many as the most hostile sitting president in the history of the Jewish state. A key …

Theresa Brown’s New York Times op-ed, Physician, Heel Thyself, recently introduced hospital bullying into the national health care conversation. (1) In it, she recounted a hospital vignette while working as an oncology nurse. A patient asked a doctor who should he blame for a late test result. The physician, turning …

In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political rhetoric emanating mostly from the political right. While they take pains to paint their theses with …

I just spent the past week in Mexico staring at examples and statistics from the war on narco-trafficking that numb the senses. That country’s problems are deep, deadly and well documented… violence that is difficult for the sane person to fathom, corruption that corrodes the soul of the country and …

How would the media and politicians react if 5,000 “activists” chanted “death to Jews” outside a City Hall in your community? How would European religious leaders react if neo-Nazis packed the Cologne Cathedral or Notre Dame to threaten Muslims, Jews and gays? We all know the answer: Loud and sustained …