Why Athletes Must Have a Voice
The United States can be a divisive place, but nothing unites us like watching athletes compete. People love the chance to escape reality and spend time watching others do battle in a variety of ways. It can be easy to overlook the lives of the athletes we love to admire. To treat them all as […]
Iowa Hawkeyes: A fight of Football and Racism
The culture of racism in football has been prevalent for decades. While these things are normally pushed under the rug, the tide has changed in recent years. Athletes are speaking against the toxic environments that they were apart of during their time in college. Coaches get away with too much and receive little consequences as […]
NCAA vs. The State of Mississippi
Saying 2020 has been a hell of a year would be an understatement. Only halfway through, basketball legend Kobe Bryant has passed, there is an ongoing global pandemic and this country’s racial roots has reared its ugly head again when white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s murder put the country on notice […]
OSU’s Gundy Puts Young Athletes in the Driver’s Seat
Social conflicts commonly spill over into sports. The latest incident? Oklahoma State Football coach, Mike Gundy. Since late May, police departments have served as the primary example of what happens when overarching race problems in America go unchecked in any given institution. LeBron James, Richard Sherman, and more have spoken and continue to speak out against racism. They […]
Big 10 Off-Season Snapshot: Ohio State
Welcome to the second installment of the Big 10’s Off-season Snapshot series. This series looks at the men’s basketball teams in the Big Ten, noting some of their key losses, key prospects, and key returning players. If you missed week one, I covered Michigan State. You can check out their roster break-down here. Without further […]
Big 10 Off-Season Snapshot: Michigan State
At Michigan State, their 2019-20 season didn’t end as planned, due to the pandemic taking away March Madness. As well as the social unrest that is taking place in our nation due to racism and bigotry, college basketball could be a bit different the next time we see it. Yet, hoping that college basketball returns […]
What We Want in the Next NCAA Football Video Game
In a perfect world, NCAA Football franchise fans would be waiting with bated breath for the next video game release in July. However, as many know, that isn’t the current situation.Beyond the uncertainty of whether a season will occur this year, people don’t have a game to anticipate. NCAA officials allowed its athletes to be […]
How Black Athletes Could Change College Sports
Amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, another deadly pandemic raised its ugly head for all to see. Racism, the long-standing champion of a myriad of issues that plague the United States and the world at large, plainly expressed itself through the deaths of more Black Americans in recent months. The inciting events In February, two white […]
Damien Williams: A Story of Trials and Triumph
Let’s face it. Everyone loves a good underdog story. And when it comes to underdogs, it doesn’t get much better than Kansas City Chiefs running back Damien Williams. Williams made history in Super Bowl 54 when he became the first player to run for over 100 yards while recording a rushing and receiving touchdown. His […]
Through the Pandemic, Basketball Shows its Value
There I was, nine years old and completely enamored by LeBron James. He was the first basketball player I ever watched, and the game featured the Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals. Specifically, game two of a series, upon which I can now look back on with fond memories. LeBron […]
Let’s Normalize Upsets: The 2007 College football Season
2007 does not only represent the year of my Nissan Altima, but it also defines the wackiest year of NCAA college football probably ever in the history of the sport. Nicknamed, “the year of the upsets,” it ended with Kansas and Missouri battling to get to the national title. Yes, you read that right; Kansas […]
NCAA Takes Unprecedented Steps Against the G League
The NCAA’s Unprecedented Steps Forward 2020 has started with a bang for sure, and the coronavirus has hit hard. No one took it seriously, and it came back to bite us like a rattlesnake waiting in the Alabama shade. The number of things that we never expected to happen have hit us one after the other, so it’s only fitting that we would get […]
A Sudden Goodbye for NCAA Seniors
Whether the coronavirus is actually real, just a conspiracy, or nothing much worse than the age-old flu, it is something that the entire world is taking very seriously. Personally, I’m not too big on conspiracy theories. If I’m being honest, they scare me. So I’ve never been one to dive headfirst into the Reddit conversations. […]
Eligibility Relief After Coronavirus Cancelations
Coronavirus cancelations hit us all by surprise, and student-athletes need eligibility relief. First, we thought, well, there is an outbreak in China, but it’s half a world away. We thought news outlets were exaggerating the severity of the virus. For the most part, everyone was prepared to simply get on with their lives. They paid the […]