Nerlens Noel tore his knee late Tuesday night, not his future. But it's important to remember he should be an injured millionaire, not an injured student…
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About Ryan Hallagan
Ryan Hallagan recently graduated from the University of San Diego with a B.A. in Psychology and English and plans to parlay that education into writing about his greatest passion: the big business that is professional sports. He also enjoys writing short stories, obsessively listens to bands like The Gaslight Anthem and actively wishes that a time-traveling DeLorean really did exist, so that he could go back to 1975, far away from all of the terrible music he hears on the radio today. Follow him on Twitter @rallyforhallyWhen The Kings Lay Down Their Crown
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Nerlens Noel Should Be in the NBA and it’s the Player’s Union’s Fault He’s Not
It’s Time to Start Paying NCAA Players
Naturally, the two sides to this argument bicker, though a member of one side hardly ever convinces a supporter of the other. Those who support the status quo say it’s impossible to discuss such a topic with people who obviously don’t see the inherent beauty in college sports and that these kids are supposed to be students first, athletes second. Meanwhile, those who want a major overhaul in college sports would say, “It’s difficult to fight nostalgia, even when it’s stacked up against facts”…
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Super Bowl XLVII: When In Doubt, Go For Two
There are two schools of thought concerning what a team should do when they score a touchdown to cut a 22-point deficit down to 16. Either they kick an extra point to make it a 15-point game or they go for a two-point conversion in an effort to cut the deficit to 14. Most coaches (and announcers) entrench themselves in the first camp. Mathematicians and statisticians favor the second…
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Pride Cometh Before The Fall: The NCAA vs. Ed O’Bannon
O’Bannon is positively giddy with excitement and with good reason: he has just led the UCLA Bruins Men’s Basketball team to a championship in 1995 – the first in twenty years. Yet the lasting memory of O’Bannon in the minds of college basketball fans may prove to be quite different. For there is a very chance that history will remember him not as the man who helped make the NCAA, but the one who helped bring it crumbling down…
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