In three separate post-game interviews tonight, Curt Schilling felt compelled to tell reporters he became a Christian seven years ago and that he felt he was able to pitch so well in Game 6 because he felt the power of God, that God had done something special to him.

Some of you might have noticed this, but most newspapers treat the word "God" the same way they treat the word "war", meaning the word or the sentence in which the word appears gets scrapped unless it's wholly relevant to the story: If "God" is used in a story, the focus of the story should be religion; if "war" is used in a story, the focus of the story should be war.

For a lot of reasons, I think that's a good rule to follow, since God and war are both such inflammatory topics and really shouldn't be used unless they serve a true purpose in the context of the story.

(The New York Post, in its typically understated fashion, has told its readers on countless occasions that the Yankees and Red Sox are at war. I find it amazing that they can get away with that while our country really is at war.)

At the same time, though, I think it's a shame that these quotes from Schilling probably won't be used, especially given the circumstances under which he performed tonight. Just a few days ago, doctors were saying Schilling's ankle was so badly injured that his season was basically finished. When the Red Sox announced that Schilling would be tonight's starter, nobody could've realistically expected him to last seven innings, at least not seven effective innings, not after the way he was torched in Game 1. But that's exactly what he did. He clearly wasn't at his best, but he allowed only 1 ER and 4 hits, on the road, against a potent Yankee offense, and saved his team from elimination to force Game 7.

That's not an ordinary achievement. It's actually pretty incredible if you ask me, and Schilling obviously agreed because he alluded to God three different times -- to FOX's reporter, in the post-game press conference, and to Peter Gammons on ESPN. To my knowledge, Schilling isn't a Kurt Warner-type who thanks God and Jesus in all of his interviews, regardless of the question, so for him to mention God three times, that tells me his response was more than just your usual, mindless "I wanna thank God for making this possible." It tells me it was genuine and actually meant something.

I don't know, I doubt we'll see the quote in any stories tomorrow -- understandably -- but I think with the way events unfolded this week for Schilling, a quote about God has a real place in explaining what happened in Game 6.