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Vision Quest: The Most Underrated Sports Movie Ever Made?
In 1985, a film called Vision Quest (based on the novel of the same name) performed a double leg takedown on coming of age sports movies. It got into my head when I first saw it and it never left. The movie still holds up 25+ years later, its realism and understatement in stark relief to today's...
Penn State's endless fountain of money
Owing to Sean Keeley's take on this subject, I felt obligated to go back and flesh out my thoughts here. Penn State lured away Cornell's lacrosse coach last week for, presumably, a major bump in salary. That's on the heels of hiring wrestling coach Cael Sanderson from Iowa State, which was doubly...
Tuition Tuesday
So, one time, I had an IM soccer game at the field hockey fields, or, as they're better known, "that gigantic piece of concrete with a carpet of artificial grass over it behind SPAC that varsity athletes are somehow supposed to compete on without getting violently injured." And I was trying to...
Where Will You Be On Sunday, Brother?!
Sports during this time of year can be a little bit of a downer for some. Football has been over for a few months, your college basketball NCAA Tournament bracket got busted a long time ago, MLB is in preseason and the NBA hasn't hit the playoff run yet. What's a sports fan to do during this time?...
State Champion Wrestler to Join Hawkeyes
On the heels of Iowa's superchampion season, the Hawkeyes are cleaning up in recruiting, as you might expect. They recently added NW/W-MU's 152 pound champion, Jeret Chiri. The news gets even better, as Chiri is, well, violent. "I like to try and beat people up when I can, but otherwise I'm...
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