The date was July 6, 2008. I sleepily crawled out of bed at 9 a.m. to watch the men's final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. If you are a tennis fan, then you probably remember this match. It is widely considered the greatest tennis match of all time. What made it great? Well, it pitted…
No. But let me finish, Kanye. This issue comes up quite a bit, and with a new football season underway I thought I would give my take on it. The main reason for my response that they shouldn't be paid is that college athletics, in their purest form, should be: A way for college students…
Growing up with an elementary school physical education teacher for a mother meant that I was forced to play at least one sport a year throughout my childhood. I wasn't always super thrilled about this since in many cases I was the antithesis of an "athlete", but I still played and had a mostly good time.…
I started playing tennis at the ripe age of 16, which was actually too old if I wanted any hope of being good at the sport (most of the people I played against had been playing since they could pick up a racket). In hopes of doing well on my high school team, I practiced…