Posted on: 19 Feb 2025
When I sat down to write about the best wrestling colleges in the country, I got a little glum. Because I wish I’d taken up wrestling when I was younger. My dad wrestled when he was in high school, and although he never came right out and pressured me, he routinely dropped hints that I […]
Posted on: 19 Feb 2025
Highest Paid MLB Players – 2025. Baseball is in a fascinating place in 2025. The game is becoming more international, talented, and star-studded, and the highest-paid MLB players are making more money than ever. Baseball is undergoing a bit of a renaissance, which is great news, because the first two decades of the century saw […]
Posted on: 28 Jan 2025
The referee/umpire as an object of scorn is sort of a cliché. Every time I watch a movie or TV show that involves Little League baseball, there’s an obligatory sequence in which an annoying mom or dad abuses the ump for calling strike three on their myopic kid. In the real world, ref-bashing is a […]
Posted on: 27 Jan 2025
Tailgates, ramen, Greek life, dorm room drama: the traditional 4-year college does, without a doubt, take up a lot of space in the American psyche. College movies constitute a uniquely American genre, just like Westerns and gangster films. We wear our alma mater’s colors with pride and scrutinize our March Madness brackets. And how many […]
Posted on: 21 Jan 2025
Sports fandom these days can be an ethical minefield. For example: should we continue to tune in to college sports when the athletes aren’t compensated for their labor despite generating massive revenues for their schools and the NCAA? Should we continue to watch the NFL in spite of what we know about CTE? And to […]
Posted on: 06 Jan 2025
What are the best tennis colleges in the country? I should be pretty well equipped to answer that question: I played competitive tennis all throughout my childhood and into my high school years. I consistently woke up at 5 AM for pre-homeroom practice sessions; I spent my summers training at Florida tennis centers like IMG […]
Posted on: 06 Nov 2024
What are the best college football uniforms? Well, style is subjective. Fashion trends are fickle, and the boundary between tacky and chic is vague and porous. But if we suspend our personal biases—and here I’ll zero in on the sports world—I think we can make a few uncontroversial assessments of uniform-style. It pains me to […]
Posted on: 23 Oct 2024
Not every college football phenom pans out in the NFL. In fact, some of the best college QBs of all time never found their footing in pro ball. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t assess the legacies of college football players in their own right, separate and distinct from what they may or may […]