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That wasn't the only compromise. ASMI had also recommended that pitches be limited to 1,000 a season and 3,000 pitches a year. But the sports organization chose not to follow through on those guidelines, at least for now. "There is no way we could enforce or mandate it," says Stephen Keener, president and chief executive of Little League Baseball and Softball. "We understand the reasons for the season-long cap and why they are suggesting the kids do it, but we don't have any way to control it. It's already such a dramatic change...
...bind. Even before the new limits go into effect, there are plenty of parents and coaches who think the organization is not competitive enough and are choosing to participate in one or more travel teams that often don't restrict pitching. There's no guarantee that anyone will follow Little League's lead in counting pitches. Then the question becomes, Which will your child have longer--a nice, shiny trophy from winning a tournament or the injury he or she sustained getting it? ELBOW...
...dreaming big--because all of heaven is dreaming big," Adams continues. "Jesus died for our sins. That was the best gift God could give us," he says. "But we have something else. Because I want to follow Jesus and do what he ordained, God wants to support us. It's Joel Osteen's ministry that told me. Why would an awesome and mighty God want anything less for his children...
Caldwell knows that the theology behind this preacherly rhetoric will never be acceptable to Warren or Sider or Witherington. But the man they all follow said, "By their fruits you will know them," and for some, Corinthian Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism...
CLEARED. Marion Jones, 30, champion sprinter; of using the endurance booster erythropoietin, for which she tested positive in June; in a follow-up, or B, test; by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; in Colorado Springs, Colo. The five-time Olympic medalist, who faced a two-year ban from the sport, said she was "ecstatic." She is expected to resume racing at this week's World Cup in Athens...