For nearly 150 days this spring and summer, America’s most popular sport and a defining element within American culture was no more. For nearly 150 days this spring and summer, superstars across the country from San Diego’s Philip Rivers to […]
Author: Sam Blackstone
Not your average joe
The difference between watching a game on T.V. and being at the game live is quite simple: the former is entertainment, the latter is an experience. Anytime you pay $50 a ticket, $8 a beer, $5 for some Cracker Jacks […]
The Bigger, The Better – David Kubiak starts MLB career
Moving from the crisp spring playing days of New York to the scorching, sticky summer days of Florida wouldn’t excite too many people. David Kubiak isn’t most people. “Being able to say I am getting paid to play a game […]
All for One, One for All
In sports, flashes of individual brilliance seem to be prized more than acts of collective success. Along the same vein, talent level seems to be valued higher than the willingness to work hard and the ability to work together. Preseason […]
A Down and Up Season: Siena baseball
It’s not easy being a baseball team from the North. After an 18-hour long bus ride back home from one of the Siena Saints’ early season trips down south, the players arrived in Loudonville, NY in freezing temperatures only to […]