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Lightning Outshine the Stars: Tampa Bay wins Stanley Cup

Lightning Outshine the Stars: Tampa Bay wins Stanley Cup

More than six months after the coronavirus brought their regular season to a grinding halt, and two months after the National Hockey League’s (NHL) return to play tournament, the Tampa Bay Lightning hoisted the Stanley Cup on Sept. 28, concluding one of the strangest paths to glory in the

Seattle Storm Sweep Aces to Win WNBA Finals

Seattle Storm Sweep Aces to Win WNBA Finals

The WNBA Finals kicked off last week, featuring the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces and the two-seed Seattle Storm. The matchup certainly highlights the best the WNBA has to offer, as the Storm and the Aces were the top two teams in both offensive and defensive rating during the

New Season, New Challengers on the Premier League Pitch

New Season, New Challengers on the Premier League Pitch

The Premier League is effectively an oligarchy. Since the league’s founding in 1992, only seven different sides have won a title: Manchester United with 13, Chelsea with five, Manchester City with four, Arsenal with three, and Leicester City, Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers with one apiece. The current “Big Six”

MLB Playoffs Update: an Expanded Format in a Shortened Season

MLB Playoffs Update: an Expanded Format in a Shortened Season

For the first time in Major League Baseball (MLB) history, the postseason has started with 16 teams: eight from each league. Due to Covid-19 and the shortened season, MLB and the MLB Players’ Association (MLBPA) agreed to expand the postseason from 10 teams to 16 teams for this year.

Amherst Softball Leveraging Performance Technology

New technologies have made their way into athletic practices at the college, especially now, when safety precautions make it much easier to practice with a machine, rather than a socially-distant person. With softball in particular, technology has proven especially crucial. Diamond Kinetics, Blast Motion and Dartfish are technologies that

The NFL’s Injury Epidemic

Saquon Barkley, Nick Bosa, Jimmy Garoppolo, Christian McCaffery, Malik Hooker. Other than being big name stars on their respective teams, these players have another thing in common: By the second week of the 2020 National Football League (NFL) season, they were all lost to injuries that will keep them off

Skip Bayless and Dak Prescott: A Tale of Mental Health in Sports

Content warning: Mentions of suicide Viewers of Fox Sports’ “Undisputed” know what to expect from co-hosts Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe: lengthy, polarizing sports commentary. Still, many were shocked by Bayless’s criticism of Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Dak Prescott for opening up about his depression following the suicide of