Posted on: 07 Apr 2025
Last year, I wrote an article for College Transitions on the highest-paid soccer players in the world. In it, I proclaimed that mainstream America was “tepid” on soccer. And while it’s true that soccer’s popularity amongst Americans is dwarfed by pro football, baseball, and basketball, the sport is definitely on the rise. A report released […]
Posted on: 20 Mar 2025
In college sports, there’s less competitive parity than there is in pro sports. That’s my impression at least. I could be wrong. But for a while there in the 2010s it felt like no school other than Alabama was allowed to win a college football championship. The UConn women’s basketball squad literally went years without […]
Posted on: 27 Feb 2025
College sports are a big business. And among college athletics, football is by far the most lucrative: college football programs earn an average of $31.9 million per school per year. In fact, college football brings in more money than the next 35 college sports combined. But that’s not to say that the money in college […]
Posted on: 25 Feb 2025
Who are the best point guards of all time at the collegiate level? Well, it depends on what we mean by “best.” Point guards can dominate the game in different ways. Some point guards are great because they’re elite scorers. Others, because they’re adroit passers. Others still, because their basketball IQs, their sense of space, […]
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 […]