As anyone who has ever taken a high school French class knows, French high school functions differently from American high school. There’s more emphasis placed on a single test in France than there is in the U.S. (here we tend to spread our attention around to about a dozen), and students get part of their… Read More How to Make College Football and Basketball Work: A Series of Options
It’s uploaded! Another podcast here, in which Matt and I imagine backyard football versions of seven-a-side, two-way NFL players. In this brave new world, who’s running the triple option? Who’s actually going to have a pro-style offense with a quarterback who can play linebacker too? Are we still upset about actual NFL drafts from five… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 9: Phil Loadholt Throwing Marcus Mariota
Less bracket, more conversation today. Listen to the second episode of the podcast here, in which we talk about why coed sports are overlooked and what we can do to improve the situation. (You’re going to have to deal with the jiggery-pokery of playing it in Music Player for Google Drive instead of that link… Read More Baumann and Burch Podcast #2 – Decathlon of Playground Sports (Underrated Coed Athletics)
It’s not an essay! My friend Matt and I have put together our first podcast. Right now, it’s a bit of a song and dance to get in and listen. The link should take you to an audio player; go ahead press play, and then open it in Music Player for Google Drive, which should… Read More Baumann and Burch Podcast #1 – I Live! I Die! I Podcast! (Sports Nicknames)
Before we begin, some quick statements: 1) I’m from the Philadelphia area and, until this past season, had not kept up with the 76ers with any real interest since Allen Iverson and the 2001 Finals. I was ten. My defining memory of that series is that my grandmother was watching my brothers and me at… Read More Tanking in Basketball: A Treatise
Seeing Things Secondhand 