I’ve written before about my aspirations as a sports journalist, but every time I see a Mitch Albom-esque pompous sportswriter who loves the smell of his own farts more than he could ever love another human being, it makes me want to reconsider my potential career choice. For example, this week I saw that my [...]

I generally try to adopt an attitude of cautious optimism when it comes to my Colorado-based sports teams. This is probably due to the fact that any time I start hoping or expecting that my favorite team might make any sort of postseason run, they do it up like the damn Yankees.
Case in point: I [...]

Earlier this week I received this email from a high school football player:
I have two questions, the first of which is: how can I get bigger for football? I am a sophomore in high school, I’m five-ten and I weigh 190 lbs. This is an improvement from my freshman year, here I was five-seven [...]

It’s been quite a while since I posted anything related to football training, but after the New York Times did a feature a couple months ago about stretching before athletic activity I figured I’d chip in my two cents at some point.
As the Times reports, “Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements [...]

The offseason for a D3 football player is relatively uneventful athletically. Until spring ball, lifting is the only mandated activity for the team, so we must satisfy our competitive urges elsewhere. Since Xbox only goes so far in this area, we must resort to intramural basketball. Having received a severe beatdown during the pre-Christmas tournament, [...]