Author: Nick Lilja

Fitting that a man as fast as lightning should win a race in the rain. After all a race against Usain Bolt is about as one-sided as a flood. Bolt doesn’t define speed, he is it. In Moscow Sunday, Bolt […]

Thursday the NCAA made efforts to improve college sports and better foster student-athlete success. The NCAA is changing how it enforces rules in order to hold “schools and administrators accountable for issues that directly affect fairness and integrity” in college […]

It was all quiet on the eastern front Saturday as Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and Alex Rodriguez did not meet with the union. The meeting will likely discuss A-Rod’s suspension through the rest of the season. ESPN […]

One of the most dominant teams in recent memory, the UConn women’s basketball team, met with the President Wednesday. The team made the trip to the White House and got a “high-five” from the president by way of a speech. […]

Ask Curt Schilling about 38 Studios in 2009, and chances are he was feeling pretty good. The company had recently hired multiple top-name developers from other companies – one from Sony and the company recently purchased the rights to a […]

Just as a heads up (and I’ve done this before) the site will be slowing down tremendously over the next few months as the central U.S. enters whats known as Tornado Season. My day job as a meteorologist means I […]

So, excuse me for a second while I go incredibly Mr. Homer Hometown Fanski on you all. Again. But it’s a great day to be an Oregon State Beaver. Today, the Beavers upset the top-seeded Washington Huskies in the Pac-12 […]

Since it is the begining of Spring Training and I can’t wait for baseball season to start, I wanted to remind Yankee fans that the Blue Jays aren’t just going to take it on the chin in 2012. Well, at […]

In the world of Division II athletics, often you are watching players who aren’t the cream of the crop athletically. They have considerable skill but also understand that – just as the commercial says – they will be going pro […]

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