Going to a live professional sports match can often be a great experience, but it depends on so many variables. First and foremost, if the team you cheer for wins the game, the experience is obviously...
All over the world, there are giant stadiums that have been abandoned. While it’s much more common in poorer cities that have hosted the Olympics in the past, the problem is certainly not exclusive to...
Even without his recent resurgence, Tiger Woods will go down in history as one of the best golfers who ever lived. It’s been over 20 years since Tiger burst onto the scene with his convincing win at t...
Sports stadiums, arenas, and complexes are expensive to build. If a city makes the decision to build a stadium for, say, $500 million, then it’s likely with the hope that it gets used a lot, and doesn...
The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) was first introduced in 1986 as a means of ranking all professional golfers around the world. It was an initiative proposed by St. Andrews, as its committee foun...
Fantasy Baseball playoffs have either arrived, or they’re done (depending on when you’re reading this), and that means it’s the perfect time to look back at the 2018 Fantasy Baseball season and pick o...
We’re closing in on the 2018 Ryder Cup, which will take place Sept. 27-30 at Le Golf National in Paris. It’s the first time the Ryder Cup will be held at Le Golf National, but prepare to hear more abo...
Winning one of golf’s Major tournaments is the dream of every young golfer. Much like winning the Stanley Cup for young hockey players or the Lombardi Trophy for football players, young golfers dream ...
Beginning in the late 1990s and continuing throughout the first decade of the 2000s, Tiger Woods was unstoppable. Between 1996 through to his public meltdown in 2009, Tiger won 71 PGA tournaments, inc...
To win one of golf's Major Championships, it's not enough to just be an incredible golfer; you also have to have nerves of steel. When I play my friends for dollar skins at my local muni I sometimes b...
Winning a Major championship in golf is the ultimate goal for all golfers, but the harsh reality is that many very good players go through their entire careers without winning a Major.
Winning a major championship in golf is what all golfers dream of and strive for. Yes, it’s nice to win any tournament, but let’s be honest here: nobody remember who won the 2004 Byron Nelson (it was ...
Great players win championships. Sidney Crosby is probably one of the five greatest skaters to lace them up in the NHL, and he has won three Stanley Cups with the Penguins since breaking into the leag...
Canada is a hockey hotbed, so every move made by the seven Canadian hockey teams is studied under a microscope. That’s just the way it is in Canada, and it' not likely to change any time soon.
With their second round exit at the hands of the Washington Capitals, the Pittsburgh Penguins failed in their attempt to become the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups since the New York...
In a salary cap world, it’s of utmost importance that you get value out of the majority of your contracts. Before the salary cap was implemented as a result of the 2004-05 NHL lockout, general manager...
Every NHL team has a few contracts on the books that they’d like to somehow erase—that’s just the nature of the league. Players regress at different rates, and some of them hit the wall a little earli...
NHL prospects are a fickle bunch. One day a player can be considered a top prospect, and then seemingly overnight they turn into busts, and teams are left with dead weight on their 50-man roster, wond...
Anchor contracts. Every team has at least one of them. It’s just the way of the salary cap NHL world. The trick really seems to be to keep the number of anchor contracts to a minimum—it’s what separat...
The NHL playoffs have arrived, and there's no better time to be a hockey fan. There's no marathon more trying than the two months that encompass the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and by the end of it we will ...