Over the last few days, two starting quarterbacks in the NFL suffered serious injuries, leaving one out for the season and the other inactive for at least the first half of the year. While most people have been expressing sympathy for Teddy Bridgewater and wishing him a speedy recovery from his…
Can Major League Soccer ever become one of the best soccer leagues in the world? It’s a question that year after year is constantly repeated to seemingly no end. Most players and analysts seem to think (and are likely correct) that the MLS has taken huge strides in its first…
´New York Knicks and Team USA star Carmelo Anthony made headlines during the Olympics by claiming that once he retires he’ll be able to look back and say he had a great career, even if he finishes without winning an NBA Title. Anthony mentioned his NCAA Championship won at Syracuse…
Every Olympic sport is unique, with its own rules, divisions, and skills required to be successful. However, as I watched the competitions taking place over the past two weeks and change, I couldn’t help but realize some interesting aspects of a few sports that I can’t really understand. I’ve picked out…
Sunday marks the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, and while the games themselves have run pretty smoothly (besides being overshadowed by the Ryan Lochte scandal), television ratings haven’t been near as successful. Overall, ratings for NBC’s coverage have dropped by 17%, with a 25% decrease in the ages 18-49…
Reigning Olympic golf champion George Lyon won’t be back to defend his title in Rio. The reasoning is simple: if Lyon were still alive, he’d be 158 years old. It’s safe to say golf has changed greatly since the 1904 Summer Games, where 74 golfers from the United States and…
In the summer of 2014, ESPN made a radical change to its programming with the goal of revolutionizing the way society views sports: they began broadcasting Esports. ESPN hasn’t slowed down on its gambit, based on research showing tens of millions of worldwide Esports players, and instead has increased their…
This is the second part of “The Burden of Information”. To read the first part, which discusses how the use of statistics has led to the popularity of football, basketball, and baseball in the United States, click here: Part 1: Why Some Sports are More Popular than Others. We live…