Michael Lorenzen Represents the Future of Baseball

When discussing notable “two way players” on a baseball team, most fans’ lists will begin and end with two people: Babe Ruth, and Shohei Ohtani. A player of Ruth and Ohtani’s caliber is a dream come true for any manager, essentially two superstars wrapped up into one. A rotation leading ace and a middle of […]

Tim Anderson Really Likes to Swing

In terms of baseball etiquette and culture, Tim Anderson of the Chicago White Sox strives to be different. He actively diverges from the traditional persona of a “baseball player” and wants to rebrand the game in order to attract a younger generation of fans. Shockingly, in his quest to change the very essence of a […]

Intersection of Two Sporting Worlds

Every prominent industry is made up by a set of trends, variations and new developments that expand the very essence of the field’s landscape. This can be seen in the technology industry, the creation of the internet completely and totally redefining the sector, with automation set to be the industry’s next big wave. The same […]

The RJ Hampton Effect

June 28, 2005. This was the day of the 2005 NBA draft, the day that Amir Johnson was taken in the second round, with the 56th overall pick, by the Detroit Pistons. This may seem relatively irrelevant, it most definitely did at the time, but this pick marked the end of an era in basketball […]

The Original Lifestyle Brand

Today, everyone seems to be starting a streetwear company. Every new “influencer” is trying to create the next big lifestyle brand. These businesses often get slack for a high price and lack of substance to their products. Supreme throws its name on a backpack, and it’s worth thousands of dollars. Off-White sells plain white t-shirts, […]

How to Keep America’s Pastime in the Present

While baseball is still thought of as “America’s Pastime,” that status seems short lived. There has been more than a decade of exponential decline in popularity of the sport that ruled America for centuries. Various reasons are attributed to the decline, sighting issues such as pace of play, bland players, and an overall boring game. […]

Hot Corner to Hollywood: The Story of A-Rod’s Business Empire

Alex Rodriguez is one of if not the most polarizing baseball players of the last twenty years, and maybe even ever. He has other worldly latent, both offensively and defensively, and has etched his name in the record books next to some all time greats. He has the third most RBIs in the history of […]

Facemasks. Fumbles. Fullbacks. Frosting?

After ten years as a middle linebacker for the Washington Redskins and more recently the Tennessee Titans, Brian Orakpo has decided to call it a career; in a sense… Orakpo is done with his football career, a very successful one at that. In 10 years in the league, he was a four time pro-bowler with […]

Nikola Jokic: King of the Unicorns

The storylines surrounding the NBA have become something out of a fairytale or fantasy land. We have seen the rise, and more recently demise, of a King, aided along the way by Magic. We’ve seen the creation of a monster, a Freak, who has become nearly impossible to stop. We’ve seen a beloved hero […]

The Kyler Conundrum

It is very rare that sports today enter uncharted waters. For the most part, it seems that everything that is humanly possible (and not a ridiculously specific reach by an ESPN statistician) has been done before. But, we are now at a point in time where the history books can be rewritten, and I’m going […]