Dropping the Ball: Sports (Mis)information

Make no mistake — there is a sports information crisis brewing at Amherst College. The numbers tell you as much. Since 2006, Amherst has employed no fewer than six different sports information directors, commonly known as SIDs. One after the next has left after a year or two for a similar position elsewhere; this includes Amherst’s most recent SID, Mike O’Brien, who departed Amherst for the same position at a peer school, Wesleyan University. Compare this with the tenures of SIDs at every ot