Springtime is finally here, and along with it comes warmer days, thrilling buzzer-beaters, blatant sexism, and the exploitation of student-athletes. The big event of the sports world this month is…
Last week Vassar dropped a bombshell announcement: Supervised off-campus travel will be allowed this spring. To put it lightly, this news was received with mixed reactions. Some were thrilled at…
“As far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me. I’ll go do something else, because there is enough entitlement in this world as it is.” These…
We’re just about at the halfway point of the NFL season, and it has been a pretty entertaining one so far. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs sit atop…
I think most of us expected the shutdown to last a few weeks, or maybe a month at most. We didn’t need to think about how to continue our lives…
Well, they made it. Almost. Major League Baseball (MLB) survived its chaotic, shortened, 60-game season and has begun its postseason. And this may have been the strangest year in MLB…
In my last article, I discussed the varying levels of success that the NBA, MLB and NHL experienced in returning to play during the pandemic, and expressed skepticism at the…
Imagine for a moment that you are a fit, healthy 20-something who gets paid millions of dollars a year to play a game while the rest of the country is…
Just a couple weeks ago, hundreds of Vassar students locked up in their parents’ houses rejoiced at the news that they would be returning to campus this fall. For many,…
America is getting antsy. Nobody was thrilled to start social distancing and shut down the whole country, but after about two months of rewatching old Nationals games, and with no…
