Month: February 2022

Should Major League Baseball ban the shift, or should hitters learn how to beat it? In baseball, the infield shift is a method of trying to contain hitters by shifting the placement of the infielders to where a particular hitter most commonly sends the baseball. Hitters don’t like it, for obvious reasons. The question of whether […]

Player movement seems to define the NBA landscape more and more each year. But what does this mean for the NBA as a whole? What about the games themselves? The modern NBA is an ever-happening game of musical chairs. Stability is the exception rather than the rule. I do not mean to imply that this […]

Free agent first baseman Anthony Rizzo asked fans whether or not the MLBPA and MLB owners will indeed reach a deal by Monday, Feb. 28.  The end of February brings more troubling lockout news: MLB Spring Training is cancelled through March 7 at the very least, which puts the beginning of the MLB season in […]

In the debut book by Ben Detrick and Andrew Kuo, The Joy of Basketball, the two authors take a kaleidoscopic and enjoyable look at the modern NBA Loving the NBA today is often about being part of a culture as much as it is about being a fan of the game itself. Basketball fandom today […]

The Las Vegas Raiders could potentially land Davante Adams in his high-profile free agency. While there is a good chance Davante Adams goes back to the Green Bay Packers in 2022 NFL free agency, the Las Vegas Raiders have to like their odds of landing him as well this offseason. Las Vegas is coming off an […]

Kim Mulkey has found instant success with the LSU women’s basketball program, but she refuses to fall into the trap that Sam Ehlinger and Texas football did. Texas football still isn’t back. Apparently LSU women’s basketball isn’t back either. Kim Mulkey, the head coach of the Tigers, has been wildly successful since making the move […]