His presence was the game. He provided a spark for them. During that second quarter, he got the ball to the people they wanted to shoot.

Historically, blasphemy has always been identified with criticizing, denigrating, or marginalizing the sacred, and in Jewish and Christian tradition it’s connected with profaning the name of God, or persons such as Jesus or the Holy...

We stabilized their guards and played maybe our best half of the season.

When they’re put back into popular culture and the media in ways that don’t seem consistent with their sacredness, their holiness, that’s where blasphemy occurs. The test of blasphemy is often not whether we as...