Columns/Features

May 7, 2013

Youth Are Taking Over the MLB This Season

By Tanner Gore

Just about every Major League team hit the 30 game bench mark over the weekend, and while the MLB season is a marathon not a sprint, 30 games is an adequate sample size to reflect on what we have learned so far.   T...

May 3, 2013

Sports Sensations: The Best of the Best

By Josh Fiacco

Professional sport is first and foremost entertainment, and marketing is the backbone of any successful entertainment industry. We’ve all seen it, heard it and read it. John Lennon famously once said that The Beatles w...

May 3, 2013

Germany Takes Over Soccer

By Austin Richardson

When this season’s FIFA World XI was announced, many fans and pundits alike were upset that every player on the team was from La Liga, the Spanish premier league. Even more amazing was that Radamel Falcao, the prolific...

May 3, 2013

Jason Collins Breaks Another Barrier

By Mark Salay

Monday was the historic day we have all been waiting for. Jason Collins of the NBA’s Washington Wizards became the first active male professional athlete from an American sports league to announce he was gay. Despite t...

May 1, 2013

A Wide Open Western Conference: Oklahoma City is Still the Team to Beat

By Kristen Henneman

Miami takes the East, Oklahoma City takes the West. That was the consensus from basketball fans going into the NBA playoffs. Not anymore. On April 24, during Game Two of the first-round series between the Oklahoma City T...

May 1, 2013

A Wide Open Western Conference: San Antonio is Healthy and Ready to Win

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Entering the NBA postseason it was apparent the Miami Heat was once again the clear favorite to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals. The Western Conference is the exact opposite, however, especially since ...

April 30, 2013

Hits and Misses of the 2013 NFL Draft

By Tanner Gore

After last year’s draft featured three or four franchise-changing quarterbacks, the top of the 2013 draft was quite the opposite. Instead of a selecting big time playmakers, the Chiefs and Jaguars selected offensive ta...

April 26, 2013

Germany Taking Over Soccer

By Tanner Gore

The semi-final round of the UEFA Champion’s League is underway, and the two German teams are attempting a coup d’état of the Spanish soccer dominance. On Tuesday, Bayern Munich took a commanding lead of the series w...

April 26, 2013

Solving the ‘Hack-a-Howard’ Dilemma

By Kristen Henneman

Earlier this season, on March 12 to be exact, Dwight Howard tied his own NBA record for most free throws shot in a game with 39 attempts against the Orlando Magic. In most cases, earning records is a good, even great acc...

April 23, 2013

2013 NFL Draft Full of Linemen

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

The NFL draft begins on Thursday and will conclude on Saturday in what will be a marathon of a three-day event where many teams will fill their biggest needs with promising young stars. Last season, five rookie quarterba...

April 19, 2013

A Bright Future for the WNBA

By Kristen Henneman

In its 17-year history, the WNBA has been the target of a lot scrutiny and criticism. That was not the case last Monday during the league’s draft, when the WNBA not only received positive media attention, but received ...

April 16, 2013

History Made in the 2013 Masters Tournament

By Tanner Gore

He can’t win the big one. He is good, but he will never win a major. He doesn’t have the clutch gene. These are only a few of the many criticisms that Adam Scott dismissed with his Master’s win this past Sunday. Wh...

April 12, 2013

The Clippers are the Team to Beat in LA

By Kristen Henneman

The Los Angeles Lakers have always dominated basketball in L.A., overshadowing the Clippers and stealing the attention. Not anymore. Fittingly, the Clippers defeated the Lakers last Sunday on national television 109-95 t...

April 9, 2013

The Top Performers After Week one of the MLB Season

By Tanner Gore

The Major League baseball season is underway and the players are already treating fans with some unbelievable sights and stories. The Braves lead the charge with six wins and the Red Sox, Athletics, Reds, Rockies, Diamon...

April 5, 2013

The NBA Playoff Picture

By Kristen Henneman

With the beginning of April comes an end to college basketball. March Madness will officially come to a close next Tuesday, but basketball fans should have no reason to worry. Why? Because just a little over a week down ...

March 6, 2013

Nexus Sports Examines Hottest Teams in the NHL

By Tanner Gore

The National Hockey League is back and the painfully long off-season lockout seems like ancient history. Although this season will only feature 48 games, it is proving to be worth the 119 day wait. The Blackhawks have ea...