Become a Psychologist

If you’re one of the 33+ million people who play Fantasy Football each year, you can easily picture the scene as I walked into a local sports bar last evening. The place was packed, baseball games dominated the dozen or so TVs spread throughout the room, and the vast majority of the inhabitants…

Virtually everything related to the National Football League – American’s most popular sport – is getting bigger and bigger year after year. With one exception: training camp.

The age old NFL tradition of players packing their bags, leaving their families and normal life behind, heading to…

At the risk of showing my age and demographic category, I marvel at today’s Millenials - has there been a demographic group that has been more over-analyzed than this one? Consider the world of sports alone, where there is much hand-wringing over the attendance patterns and media consumption habits…

“Want to have a catch?” It’s one of the most heart-tugging scenes ever in arguably one of the best sports movies ever. But, really, Field of Dreams is much more than a “sports movie”—it’s about the sometimes-complicated relationship between father and son, in this case between Ray…

The word “greatness” has surrounded Wayne Simien for most of his life. First, as a basketball player. Now, his life is focused on it.

It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since the University of Kansas star finished his fabulous career with the Jayhawks, culminating with his selection as…

I’m going to preface this blog post by acknowledging that what I’m about to suggest will likely cause some shaking of heads and “tsk-tsking” by many. You see, I’m about to suggest a longing for the good ol’ days when I eagerly awaited the Monday-after-Selection Sunday when I could devour the sports…

Has there been a coach in college basketball history who has impacted the game more than Dean Smith? Mull on that question for a minute and let me ask it again—has there been a coach in college basketball history who has impacted the game more than Dean Smith?

I know there will be outcries for…

It was the day after the first ever College Football Playoff and I was settled in my man cave, watching Kansas State’s “almost” comeback against UCLA in the Valero Alamo Bowl when I heard ESPN announcer Joe Tessitore say (paraphrasing), “I’ve never seen excitement in college football like…

Like most sports, basketball has its share of halls of fame.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in 1968 in Springfield, Massachusetts, near the very place where Dr. James Naismith invented the game. The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame opened in 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee, …