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Religion In Sports-Part II By Ron Jumper When I ask where religion belongs in sports, I don’t mean that there isn’t a place for it. I just want to make sure people don’t use it as a scapegoat for their own misfortunes or lack of ability. To never take responsibility for your own mistakes and just to say God has a plan for me or He didn’t want me to win tonight just starts to become old news. I think God will make things right in sports and that He can have an impact in certain areas. I will always believe God was with me during the last basketball game of my career. I was playing for Washington College, a small division III school in Maryland. I’m originally from Arkansas, and I had made up my mind that I was coming back home so I was really down before the game because I knew it was the last time I’d ever put on a basketball uniform. I didn’t get a lot of minutes, since I was just a freshman on a team with seven seniors, and the game began to get a little out of hand so I wondered how much I would get to play. With just under one minute left in the game, I heard Coach Nugent bark out “Jumper! Get in there!” I would go by Jumper, usually, because you have to admit it is a great name for a basketball player. I get in and the first possession nothing happens. With ten seconds left, it was like God took over. The post player taking the ball out for us skipped the ball up court to me, bypassing the point guard. I dribbled across the timeline, made an inside-out crossover, and then pulled up for a deep three with a guy in my face. It felt so off and it seemed like the ball was in the air for hours. Then, like God himself guided it in, the ball came down straight through the net…Swish!!! I had never felt so complete, it was a way of making sure I felt at peace about my basketball career being over. I took it as a sign that it really was time to move on with my life. I’ve always been thankful to God for letting me make that shot, I don’t think I would be the same without it. I truly feel okay about not playing basketball anymore. I ended on as good a note as I possibly could. Without that, I would have always had this feeling of anxiousness and regret about not playing anymore. June 9, 2006 |
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