BUFFALO, N.Y. — A fledgling journalist to the national reporting scene turned a corner and encountered a pack of reporters fenced around Villanova’s Jay Wright, rattling off questions to the reigning Naismith Coach of the Year and national champion shot-caller. My 36-hour basketball jamboree at the NCAA tournament was in the closing minutes, and in fact, […]
Continue ReadingIn a world filled with glitzy technology and fancy analytics, we often overlook the human element. The industrialized perception has molded millennials into a generation defined by numbers. Age is the scale for maturity, height and weight draw hasty judgement and the agonized GPA is supposed to measure an individual’s intelligence. But where does the human disposition […]
Continue ReadingIt probably suffocated you to the state of insanity. You couldn’t thumb through social media, read the newspaper, watch your routine television shows, or even carry on a conversation without it coming up. Surely, you’re fed up with this year’s presidential election. I don’t blame you if so, but stick with me. Any election cycle […]
Continue ReadingLook around you, take it in. Just look, please, just look. Peak out the window, step outside; marvel at whatever nature is presenting. The golden splotched tree leaves fluttering in the breeze, cars passing by on the freeway, animals grazing a swatch of pastureland. Maybe it’s none of those. But you don’t need me to […]
Continue ReadingGrit. It’s what drove a team that lost seven of their last nine games in 2015 into one that was 90 minutes away from playing on the national stage. It’s what turned skeptics – outsiders who discarded a Cougar team with 17 freshman and a rookie coaching staff at the collegiate level – into believers. […]
Continue ReadingWith a rookie head coach and a roster consisted of 17 freshman, expectations at the beginning of the season were relatively unknown for FCC men’s soccer. After all, they were fresh off a pedestrian 9-8 season. How could things possibly get better with an untested head coach and a team that lacks overall experience? Statements that cast […]
Continue ReadingSitting in the post-game presser before stumped reporters, Buck Showalter was engulfed by the one confounding question that baffled millions of baseball fans in Orioles’ 5-2 loss in the American League Wild Card game on Tuesday night. Why didn’t he pick up the phone and call Zach Britton’s number? Why was baseball’s most dominant reliever […]
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