The 2016 March Madness field has just been announced, and boy is there a lot to talk about. The selection committee made a number of interesting decisions, and many that I don’t personally agree with. However, with some of the resulting matchups and the widespread parity of this season, you…
We are just hours away from Super Bowl 50, where the Carolina Panthers will take on the Denver Broncos in a historic matchup. Not only is it the 50th Super Bowl ever, a number that made the NFL temporary suspend their roman numeral method of naming Super Bowls, but it…
Bracket Breakdown, the Top Level Sports Podcast’s new college basketball show, will come out every Monday until Selection Sunday. Here is the first episode.
We’ve finally hit 2016, and in terms of college basketball, that means two things. First, non-conference play has wrapped up, and conference play is underway. Second, the focus becomes more and more on resumes and bracketology as Selection Sunday in March gets closer and closer. For those of you unfamiliar, bracketology…
The most exciting team in college basketball this season isn’t a school that’s used to being high in the rankings and competing for National Championships- in fact, they’ve never been nationally ranked, and have never been seeded higher than #13 or advanced past the first round of March Madness. However,…
*This is the last entry in a three-part series detailing many of the misconceptions the general public has about Texas Hold’em. Much of the information in these articles apply to poker in general. However, I am specifically talking about Texas Hold ’em because it is easily the most well known and most popular…
The day was July 8, 2010. After months of endless speculation, a television special was aired that immediately changed the face of the NBA; one where the best player in the league announced that he would be joining the Miami Heat. I’m talking about LeBron James and The Decision. Immediately…
Friday night, the Golden State Warriors won a back-and-forth affair against the Chicago Bulls, finally pulling away midway through the fourth quarter to a 106-94 victory. Many claimed this would finally be the night the Warriors were defeated, but as Thursday’s incredible 23-point comeback at the Clippers proved, as long…
The 2014-15 NBA Season saw the predictable continuation of a longstanding problem: the Eastern Conference is laughably weak compared to its cross-country counterpart. It seems year after year the Western Conference has an incredibly competitive playoff race which sees a good team miss the postseason whereas the East routinely sees…
For the entirety of its existence, the NFL’s two-point conversion rule has been used in obvious late-game situations and little more. In fact, three situations probably account for over 95% of two-point attempts. Scenario 1: a team scores a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and is down…