Author: Jeremy Brooks (Weinberg ’20) During the 2013-2014 NBA regular season, 46 triple doubles were recorded, and the league leader was Lance Stephenson with 5. In stark contrast, 127 triple doubles were recorded during the…
Author: Chibuzo Ikonte (Weinberg ’20) Opening Statement Being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame is one of the highest attainable individual honors that a player can achieve. It holds the power of having the…
Author: Stefano Gamba (’21) Throughout Steph Curry’s career, he has often been characterized by both NBA fans and sports aficionados alike for being worse in the playoffs than he has been in the regular season,…
Author: Jordi Parry (Weinberg ’22) In the last few years, MLB pitching has changed enormously. We’ve seen a stark decrease in the percent of innings thrown by starting pitchers, and a much higher number of…
Author: Hugo Belisario (Weinberg ’20) “The AL Central is a joke.” Before the start of the 2019 season, this was many baseball fans’ consensus regarding a division with three teams in the midst of a…
Author: Walker Reinfeld (Weinberg ’20) During the 2018 Major League Baseball season, New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom made the jump to be one of the best pitchers in the game. Many baseball fans already…
Author: Connor Loughlin (Medill ’20) Few players in Major League Baseball have experienced both the extreme highs and lows of being a professional athlete like Kyle Schwarber has in merely three and a half…
Author: Wes Harrell (McCormick ’21) Ever since I first started playing soccer my coaches would preach “they can’t score if we have the ball”. These words aren’t unique to soccer, they apply to any…
Authors: Leo Georgopoulos (McCormick ’22) and Jordi Parry (Weinberg ’22) The NBA’s “one-and-done” rule is one of the most controversial subjects in all of sports. However, elite coaches like John Calipari and Mike Krzyzewski have…
Author: Jacob Mandel (Weinberg ’21) As the number one prospect in the Cubs farm system for a long time, there was no question that Javier Baez was going to be an exciting talent. But…