Stat Chat: Scrutinizing The Sophomore Slump
“Pity the sophomore. You are feted as a freshman, but no one seems to care that you’re back on campus … With the newness of college gone, malaise sets in.”…
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Sports world holds breath as Woods’ future in doubt after crash
During the final round of the WGC-Workday Championship on Sunday, there seemed to be a plethora of Tiger Woodses (?) playing across the Florida grounds. The tournament doubled as a…
More than just a semifinal: Australian Open highlights stars’ intertwined legacies
When Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka faced off in the semifinals of the 2021 Australian Open last week, the tennis world, athletes and avid sports fans alike had a hard…
Pandemic bolsters the case for college athlete compensation
“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…
Kim Ng finally gets her at bat as first female MLB GM
Kim Ng had been waiting for 15 years. A University of Chicago wonderkid, she was first hired as an intern by the Chicago White Sox in 1991 at the age…
Stat chat: the big money Mets
The last time the New York Mets made the World Series was in 2015, led by a youthful starting rotation that promised to erase years of mediocrity—in the 14 years…
The NFL is bad at playing football
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…
Let them speak: why “stick to sports” advocates are misguided
In this day and age, everything is political. It is damn near impossible to say anything without planting yourself firmly on one of two incredibly-far-apart sides, each associated with two…
Normalcy was lacrosse: reflections on a pandemic-perturbed season
As I finished my last official fall training on Friday, I let out a deep breath. After a long seven weeks with 29 practices (13 more than Women’s Lacrosse is…
‘It will be like playing on easy mode’: Cross Country during the pandemic
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…