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The WNBA at a Crossroads: What the Labor Talks Reveal About Women’s Sports
The WNBA is facing a critical moment. Negotiations over the league’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) remain stalled, with players pushing for fair pay, better benefits, and improved working conditions. Sophie Cunningham recently called the league the “laughing stock of sports,” reflecting the frustration of players pushing for equity in a […]
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Thumbs Up or Down?
August was a bad month for the New York Mets. They started the month on a high note. They were the first-place team in the NL East and had made a blockbuster deal with the Cubs to acquire star shortstop Javier Baez. Injured pitchers Jacob DeGrom and Noah Syndergaard were […]
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Delegating Tasks
By the title of this article, you may just want to skip to something else, but please take the time to read how there are plenty of coaches, general managers, athletic directors, and front office staff out there that are holding onto tasks for far too long, which normally results […]
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An Abusive Coach Caught on Camera
Last week a video surfaced of a high school coach screaming and shoving one of his players on the sideline during the game. It was a horrible coaching moment that luckily did not get worse as the kid kept on trying to walk away. This coach made multiple terrible decisions: […]
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Jessica Long: The Athlete Any Coach Would Love to Have on Their Team
As the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games continue, an amazing feat happened: Jessica Long, a Team USA swimmer and most decorated active Paralympian, won her 25th Paralympic Games medal. Long has competed in the Paralympic Games since 2004, when she was 12 years old. And she has won gold in the […]
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Paralympic Games
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have officially started. This is a very exciting time during the summer Olympic season where over 4,400 athletes, in six different disability groups, compete in 22 sports. These athletes have been training for many years and must perform at their peak levels to compete for […]
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Old School vs. New School
Major League Baseball did something pretty cool earlier this month. They held a regular-season game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees in Dyersville, Iowa, at the site of the movie set of Field of Dreams. The game seemed like a stunt to draw interest to an […]
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Fans Behaving Badly
A recent football match in France was stopped midgame due to fans throwing objects at athletes, storming the field, fighting with athletes, and because of their overall behavior. It was extremely sad to watch and unfortunately poor fan behavior has become a frequent occurrence. Is this behavior going to continue […]
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Coach With an Expectation That You Will Not Receive Anything in Return
Coaching is not easy at any level. When someone is coaching a recreational youth team, there are athletes who are dependent on your role, their parents who want the best for their child, others who need administrative support for the league or team, and the outside requirements of family, paying […]
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Why Have Several High-Level Personnel Left the Las Vegas Raiders’ Front Office?
I can only imagine that running a professional sports team is not easy, especially one with historic success, at times, and tumultuous periods. During the good times, everyone wants to be involved, but during the tough times, most people want to keep their distance from the organization. The ebb and […]
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Who is Accountable?
After five years of investigating, the NCAA levied sanctions against Baylor University for mishandling multiple sexual violence cases this week. However, the penalties were not severe. Several key players in the scandal escaped punishment. Why not? Between 2010 and 2015, there were several instances of sexual assault emerged. A pattern […]
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What Happens When Coaches Are Reckless
The last few weeks have been extremely interesting in the sports world: The Olympic Games recently wrapped up with the Paralympic Games kicking off in a few weeks, Simone Biles brought athlete mental and emotional health back to the forefront, Olympian and Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was fearful to return […]
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“Only” 11th Place?
With the 2021 Olympics finally at an end, taking a look at some of the results and outcomes of these events seems rather pertinent when it comes to the frame of mind of the athletes, and particularly the spectators. As we all are aware, this year’s events were originally scheduled […]
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Olympic Season Isn’t Over Yet
After a year of delay, the 2020 Olympics Games have wrapped up and have shown us great examples of true athleticism, courage, and bravery. If you’re still in the Olympic spirit and want to watch more high-caliber athletes from around the world compete on the largest stage, then you’re in […]
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Why Women Can Save Baseball
While the Tokyo Olympic Games consisted of many exciting moments and thrilling athletic accomplishments, its legacy is problematic because Covid-19 protocols created a made for media only spectacle. In laying bare how money rules the sports industry, Tokyo also highlights one of the most insidious, systemic sexist practices in sport: […]
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Time for a New Season
The past two weeks have not been as I expected. Two events I have waited for with anticipation, along with some trepidation, happened on July 23rd, the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the beginning of the second season of Ted Lasso. Surprisingly, the storyline for both has […]
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The Trees of Munich & The Tear in the Fabric of Sport
The 1972 Munich Olympic Games are the first Olympic Games I can remember. I was 8 years old on that late August Saturday when they began. Old enough to know that I loved sports and for those Games to be a spark in my lifelong love affair with sports. I […]
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If You Can See It, You Can Be It
It has been quite an exciting off-season for the NBA, and it just started. The NBA draft just recently occurred, major players are being traded, and contracts are being negotiated. But one of the most surprising and groundbreaking developments deal with coaching. Out of the eight open head coaching positions this off-season, […]
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Building a Better World
We are nearly a week into the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. It has already proven to be an Olympics like none other in the past. The best surprise is the lessons the greatest athletes in the world are teaching us. It’s OK to make yourself vulnerable. Winning isn’t everything. According […]
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The Olympics & Culture in Sports
When one thinks of what culture in sports means or what is captured in this phrase, there is an excellent chance it is the Olympic Games that they think about. The Games are the largest regularly occurring cultural festival in the world, the greatest coming together of people from different […]
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It’s Still Just A Game
I took some time for myself and my family recently, and we got to do some traveling. Something we have not done in over a year due to the pandemic and all the fun that brought to our world. Before going on our trip, I did some looking around online […]
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The Color of Success
It was quite exciting for Australian swim fans when Brendon Smith came from nowhere to proclaim himself a real threat in the men’s 400m individual medley. His excellent performance in the heats saw him finish fastest but the actual event was more challenging. After sitting in seventh position for most […]
