If you’re a baseball fan, or spend any significant amount of time around one, you know that baseball is a numbers game. Hits, home runs, RBIs, walks, strikeouts, OBP, ERA, WAR. From basic stats to advanced metrics, numbers allow us…
Ben Criswell, staff writer The year was 1998. For 37 years, the single season home run mark had remained in the possession of Roger Maris. A seemingly unbreakable record had stood fast for almost four decades, resistant to attempts made by some of the…
The National Football League’s annual revenue reaches $13 Billion. The NCAA brings in billions as well. The average NFL player makes $1.9 million a year. The average NCAA player … not so much. While many get their cost of attendance…
Ben Criswell, staff writer It’s no secret that student athletes generate (Donald Trump voice) millions and billions of dollars for their respective schools. It’s also no secret that student athletes receive exactly zero percent of the money their programs collect….
As the boys of summer prepare for the first game of spring, Mason baseball head coach Bill Brown has no shortage of optimism about where his team stands. “Since I’ve been here, and it’s not an exaggeration, in 35 years, we probably…
Ben Criswell, staff writer “We ran into a buzzsaw,” Mason men’s basketball head coach Dave Paulsen said after the game, and that’s exactly the way the 24th ranked Dayton Flyers played Saturday night. The Flyers led for all but the…
“I am in here counting the days/While my mind is slipping away.” The opening lines of the emotional ballad “You Will Always Be My Girls,” written by former NFL tight end Ben Utecht, paints a picture that has become all…
(Amy Rose, Fourth Estate) Kaleel Weatherly and Ben Criswell, staff writers In the first Revolutionary Rivalry match of the season, Mason’s men’s basketball team fell to the George Washington Colonials 76-70 at EagleBank Arena Sunday afternoon. In the first quarter,…
(Photo credit: Ben Cowlishaw) A number of events in my life would have never come across my mind just prior to their occurrence – going to George Mason being one of them. I never would have considered the first political…