Joe Burrow will be selected number one overall by Zac Taylor and the Cincinnati Bengals in the upcoming 2020 draft. The franchise, often an afterthought, will rightfully select a quarterback who has the potential to change their organization’s culture. He is a potential game-changer at the games most critical position, but Burrow is not the…
Coming into the 2019 season, LSU Safety Grant Delpit was a unanimous pre-season All-American and a consensus top 5 draft projection. The budding Junior was a freak of nature in the defensive back field for the Tigers. His knack for finding the ball and making big plays to go along with his obvious athleticism had…
The modern baseball fan ventures to the world wide web, routes their machine to www.baseballsavant.mlb.com and pulls up an advanced scouting report along with advanced statistics on any player desired. This tool for the common man epitomizes the age of baseball we are in. Every movement, play, and outcome are scrutinized like never before. The…
Through two weeks of the upstart XFL spring season, the most exciting player on the field is, you guessed it, former Temple quarterback PJ Walker. Walker is without a doubt dynamic as a runner and thrower. If he continues to prosper he may receive an NFL contract when all is said and done. Aside from…
On January 23rd, the New York Mets tabbed a bit of an unknown figure in Luis Rojas to be their next manager. The hire was a surprise to many. Even more surprising, was the fact that the New York Mets were even in this position. The team parted ways with newly hired Carlos Beltran, central…
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The Scandal: What’s on tap for 2020? The 2020 MLB season will be unlike anything baseball fans have ever seen before. This much is obvious as every new season is different than the previous. 2020 in particular, will be unprecedented. Baseball is in a whirlwind of controversy as a result of the sign-stealing scandal in…
This article is littered with recency bias as the “Championship Era” refers to the BCS era (1998-2013) and the College Football Playoff era (2014-present). It is impossible to compare teams of different eras playing different teams and styles. Trust me, I won’t bore you with that. With all respect to the greats of the past,…
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Scouts, media members, and fans alike cannot urge the temptation to compare Joe Burrow to the greatest QB of all time, Tom Brady. The Joe Brady fervor has peaked and it seems that he is already the consensus number one pick, going to the Cincinnati Bengals. There is no doubt that Burrow has had an…
The annual High School McDonald’s All-American game is a reminder to fans of the state of college basketball. The majority of athletes playing in this game will utilize the ever-so controversial one-and-done rule to pursue their NBA dreams and rightfully so. The system is broken. The breaking point arrived long ago but a recent FBI…
The baseball statistic on-base + slugging percentage, or OPS, as it is more commonly called, has come to the forefront in evaluating a hitter’s ability to positively impact an offense. It is not a complex statistic by any means. The official definition is: OPS adds on-base percentage and slugging percentage to get one number that…