wrong question

Presently in the USA, I've observed more speculation than usual about the question of whether God favors particular outcomes in professional sporting events. Let me repeat the same opinion I always have for this category of questions. If your desire is to decode a supernatural Hand from out of the prosaic ups and downs that fill daily reality, then you're asking the wrong question entirely.

It's the wrong question for two simple reasons. God is too big, and the stakes too small. There are innumerable circumstances that are better opportunities for undeniable and necessary divine intervention. A sporting event is over in less than a day. Its consequences last for no longer than months and amount to not much more than lots of exchanges of money and perhaps some awards and/or injuries. Winning is of course a formidable obstacle to the players, but for God it's no trouble at all. It's not anywhere close to miraculous.

If you crave a real test, then consider a situation in which lives are in danger and in which no mere person could do enough. Like sporting events, obviously these situations also happen every day. People wage seemingly hopeless battles for the prizes of survival, dignity, relationships, and many others. Is God at work in those many battles? Like in the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", does He "root! root! root!" for good to win every time? 

I suppose that the eternal mystery of the unfathomable thoughts of the Infinite One prevent anyone from saying for sure that He contemplates professional sporting events. Nor can anyone say for sure that God contemplates anything else. But we do know that He cares about people.