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 […]
Posted on: 15 Oct 2024
The NHL isn’t known, as other pro sports leagues are, for awarding its players exorbitantly wealthy contracts. See: Shohei Ohtani, who last off-season inked a $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, or Jaylen Brown, who recently signed a five-year contract extension with the Boston Celtics worth $303 million. The NHL has a salary […]
Posted on: 07 Oct 2024
What are the best baseball colleges and stadiums in the country? Well, it depends on what we mean by “best”. Is “best” just another way of saying “winningest”? Obviously, the best baseball colleges have winning histories. But that’s not the whole story. The fact that we’re dealing with baseball at the college level complicates things […]
Posted on: 16 Sep 2024
I walked into Publix yesterday (needed almond milk) and couldn’t help but notice the gigantic installment of aqua-and-orange cakes by the entrance. Weird. But then it clicked: it was an early September Sunday. Football season had started. Helmeted Miami Dolphins, fashioned out of frosting and food dye, decorated the cake tops. The actual Miami Dolphins […]
Posted on: 22 Aug 2024
Like the highest paid baseball, basketball, and soccer players, the highest paid NFL players bring in millions of dollars each year. The highest of the highest paid NFL players—superstars like Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, and Deshaun Watson—command multi-year contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And by looking at the highest paid NFL players by […]