Just over four months ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers were crowned MLB champions. This past Sunday, Major League Baseball started the 2021 spring training schedule. While only lasting a month, spring training allows many new players to vie for roster spots and provides the more experienced players a sense of competition. Due to health and…
Last Week in Sports: The closing games of NCAA basketball
They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Such has been the case with this season of men’s NCAA basketball. Since my last coverage of men’s basketball several weeks ago, several teams that were in the top 10 have since dropped out of the top, while the two top teams…
Superbowl Sunday: The NFL’s newest Brady Bunch dominates again
Sunday evening saw the crowning of a new champion in the NFL as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the defending champion, the Kansas City Chiefs, with a final score of 31-9. For Tampa, this marked their first Super Bowl victory since 2003 when they defeated the Oakland Raiders 48-21. For Kansas City, they were unable…
Buckets with the boys
Men’s college basketball has been underway for a while now. However, with all that has been going on in the world this past month including the presidential inauguration, Covid-19 and the recent stock market fiasco, this season has gone largely unnoticed. This is a shame, since there have been several noteworthy headlines this season. Probably…
Last Week’s Sports: Divisional winners and losers
Round two of the NFL concluded Sunday evening with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by superstar quarterback Tom Brady, defeating their division rival, the New Orleans Saints, 30-20. With that, the playoff pool was whittled down from eight teams to four: two teams from the American Football Conference (AFC) and two from the National Football…
A Champion’s Will: How Alabama’s historical effort took home its seventh trophy
Monday saw the final chapter of the 2020-21 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football season, with the Alabama Crimson Tide (13-0) defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes (7-1) in the College Football National Championship by a score of 52-24. Alabama, who entered the game the consensus top team in the nation, played a near-flawless game in…
Sports in this Day and Age: Number one goes down, no longer unbeaten and invincible
This column seeks to cover significant current events in the sporting world as it navigates the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. College football provided plenty of memorable games and even more memorable upsets this past week, while several streaks came to a close. Most notable of these, of course, was top-ranked Clemson (7-1) falling to fourth-ranked Notre…
Sports in this Day and Age: Football from this past week
This column seeks to cover significant current events in the sporting world as it navigates the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Most sports are finished now, leaving the spotlight this past week on football, although this week’s election has by far been the biggest story of the past week or so. With games…
Sports in this Day and Age: Batter up! The 2020 World Series
This column seeks to cover significant current events in the sporting world as it navigates the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The National Basketball Association (NBA) finished their season a few weeks ago, and now Major League Baseball (MLB) is doing the same, as the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Tampa Bay Rays in the World…
Sports in this Day and Age: Upsets, records and close calls
This column seeks to cover significant current events in the sporting world as it navigates the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. College football is always wild and full of surprises. This past week was no different, as we saw four ranked teams lose to unranked teams, and three barely squeak by. One of the biggest…
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