The Case for Reinstituting a Grass Field in Foxboro This past Wednesday, February 2, 2022, the United States Men's National Team played Honduras in a match the U.S. needed to win to improve their chances to play in the 2022 World Cup. And win they did, defeating Honduras 3-0. It was a mostly mundane affair, [...]
From the Uighurs to Peng Shuai, the World Must Boycott the Beijing Olympics Sports are the great unifier. When somebody steps into an athletic arena, all the politics of the day wash aside and the scoreboard becomes the great arbiter of who is better and who is worse. No longer does it matter where you were [...]
The Red Sox Just Benefited from Baseball's Tuck Rule: Rule 5.05(a)(8), The Inadvertent Ground Rule Double Back in Week 5 of the 2001 NFL season, the Patriots entered the week with a 1-3 record. They fell behind and found themselves down by 10 points in the 4th quarter with a young, unproven quarterback at the [...]
Why the Red Sox Wild Card Starter Needs to be Nate Eovaldi If you were Alex Cora and tasked with setting the rotation for a playoff series, you would feel pretty good about your chances right about now. Not only do you have three above-average starters in Natan Eovaldi, Eduardo Rodgriguez, and Nick Pivetta, but [...]
Beware of Yelling "Dinger" at the Rockies Mascot Dinger... You Racist *This post has been updated with the fallout and Apology from Aram Leighton* Imagine this scenario: You are sitting in the second row at beautiful Coors Field in downtown Denver, Colorado. The Colorado Rockies are playing host to the Miami Marlins. It is the [...]
Super Bowl LV Was What You Get When You Think Virtual Reality Can Replace Reality Now that Tom Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl winner, it is safe to say he is the greatest football player of all-time. He was before this, but he just beat his heir apparent--who is 18 years younger--by 22 points. [...]
Joe Biden's Policies Are an Attack on Women's Sports and Feminism On his first day in office, Joe Biden made something abundantly clear; you cannot support women's sports or be a feminist and also support his policies. Joe Biden took office on January 20th, 2021. On that very day, he signed an executive order that puts [...]
Tuukka Rask Opting Out Was Best for the Team While it is easier to make the case following the Boston Bruins' 3-1 victory in Game Three to take a 2-1 series lead over the Carolina Hurricanes, Tuukka Rask opting out was a selfless act, not a selfish one. Many people are debating the merits of [...]
Sports are a Unifier, Which is Why Politics in Sports is so Troublesome Sports are not supposed to be political. Yes, there are times when sports get political, and there are even times when sports must get political, but when you constantly inject politics into sports you are doing a disservice to the nation. Sports are [...]
Why the Washington Redskins Name Needs to Change, but the Washington Logo Needs to Stay The Washington Redskins name is an abomination. No matter how much pride somebody takes in cheering for a team called the Redskins, "redskins" is a slur for American Indians (I shall be using the term "American Indian" as opposed to [...]
