Finally… Some Good Dez Bryant News.
Embed from Getty Images Unless you’re a loyal fan or social media follower, you probably don’t hear much about Dez Bryant these days. Until days like yesterday, of course. That’s because Dez Bryant, after what has been almost two years, is back in the NFL. Well, okay. That probably paints too exciting of a picture. […]
Player Profile: Pedro Bradshaw’s Journey to Bellarmine
Transferring colleges three times is no one’s ideal experience. Yet, for Bellarmine guard Pedro Bradshaw, that has been his on-going reality. Bradshaw initially committed to four years at Belmont in 2017, but after he found himself outside of the gameday rotation – when he initially thought he would be playing – he grew discontent with […]
ACC Basketball’s All-Time Greatest Players
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has provided basketball fanatics and NBA fans with some of the most entertaining, talented, and passionate athletes the world has ever seen. My top-five for the ACC all-time list are each unique in their playing styles and basketball stories, but they all have one thing in common. Each inspired players […]
The Spencer Rattler Era Begins
OU’s head Football coach, Lincoln Riley, officially named Spencer Rattler the starting quarterback. After a back and forth battle with Tanner Mordecai, the Rattler era will officially begin Sept.12 against Missouri State. Embed from Getty Images While most fans expected Rattler to win the job, he has his work cut out for him. The young […]
All-Time ACC Honorable Mentions
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is arguably the best basketball conference in the NCAA. With its impressive amount of championships, All-Americans, and legendary coaches, it’s hard to say the ACC isn’t the most successful conference ever to exist! But, what about success stories after college? Has the ACC produced what are possibly the best NBA […]
Big 10 Off-Season Snapshot: Maryland
Maryland finished first in the Big 10 standings with a record of 14-6. It was eyeing a deep run in March, but the subsequent pandemic ended that prematurely. Last week we covered the revolving door that is Ohio State’s roster. This week we take a glance at the rough offseason the Terps have gone through. […]
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 […]