Let the players decide the game. It is a frequent mantra among fans and with which NFL the players seem to agree. Among the 68 players present Athleticismthe recent NFL player poll who answered a question about the biggest problem facing the league today, nearly a quarter cited officiating and the number of penalties called. “We have seen many games this year where everything was in the hands of the referees,” said one player. “There are no consequences for them, but these games have big implications on the playoffs and things like that.” As players made clear when asked about…
Author: Kevin Smyth
Derran Cobb is a third-year journalism student who writes for the Daily News. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper. The WNBA playoffs began Wednesday night. You probably didn’t even know it. During the 2023 WNBA regular season, there was a on average 505,000 viewersthe highest since 2002. The 2022 NBA regular season saw a average 1.59 million viewersin what was a slight drop from the previous season. What was a great year for the WNBA is still far from a bad year for the NBA. Why is that? It’s really simple. Commercialization. The average comment on…
Christa Van Loon And Khyah Harper scored their first goals of the season, Sophie Romine added a late goal and the Gophers football team concluded its 2023 campaign with a winning record after beating Purdue 3-1 on Sunday in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Gophers finish 7-6-4 overall and 3-5-2 in Big Ten play, one of three teams tied for ninth with 11 points. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for next week’s Big Ten Tournament. “Our goal is to contend for the NCAA tournament and be in the Big Ten tournament, so that’s what we’re going to…
Fall is perhaps the most exciting season in American sports. The Texas Rangers won their first World Series in franchise history, and the NFL, college football, NBA and NHL are in full swing. But did you know that the Las Vegas Aces became the first WNBA team in 21 years to win back-to-back titles last month, or that this year’s thrilling National Women’s Soccer League championship capped the career of all-time great times Megan Rapinoe and Ali Krieger?As a sports fan, I think it’s a shame that more people don’t fully appreciate the enthusiasm that surrounds women’s sports today. And…
By the associated pressLOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Merrins was nicknamed “the little pro” because of his 5-foot-7 stature, and certainly not for his influence on golf. The longtime Bel-Air Country Club pro has touched everyone from U.S. Open champion Corey Pavin to Fred Astaire and even Mikhail Baryshnikov. Merrins died Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 91 after a long illness, according to UCLA, where he coached for 14 years. “Golf is a very selfish game in the sense that you are the only one who gets any real pleasure from what you do,”…
Among the many stories emerging from this summer’s Women’s World Cup, it’s difficult to miss the enthusiasm for a certain American member of the Nigerian team. Headlines exploded: “From the lab to the World Cup: Meet soccer player and scientist Michelle Alozie,” “Meet Michelle Alozie, the Nigerian star pursuing a career in medicine” and “Michelle Alozie dazzles in new photo” . A month after Nigeria’s elimination from the tournament, on a Wednesday in September, Michelle Alozie ’19 was back in the daily life of a “football scientist.” She had just made a short trip from the practice fields of the…