**This was written as an assignment for my sports media class.** Just before the start of the 2018 MLB season, the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles announced that they were cutting ties with local, over-the-air broadcast channels. Whereas in previous years, television broadcasts of games for both teams were split…
*Take 5 is a series where I give my opinions on five recent stories in the world of sports. Today, in a baseball-heavy edition, I’m discussing Scooter Gennett’s monster day, Oklahoma’s Women’s College World Series victory, and the red-hot Astros before finishing with recaps of the World Series of Poker…
25 years ago, Pete Rose was banned from all baseball activities by the MLB, and the sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer was sent to the permanently ineligible list, never to officially be enshrined in Cooperstown. His crime? Betting on Cincinnati Reds games while managing the Reds, a clear violation of…
The most well-known statistic in baseball for pitchers is the win-loss record. It’s not hard to see why. The stat shows how many times a team wins or loses a game with that pitcher being on the mound. On ESPN or any other sports programming network, it’s the…
Back on April 12th the Yankees were playing the Red Sox. Big rivalry, huh? One of those games that regardless of how good or bad the teams are, is always great to watch just because of all the bad blood between the two teams. It’s one of the…