VITALS
HOMETOWN: ST. LOUIS, MO
HIGH SCHOOL: LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 195 lbs
POSITION: 1B/OF
OTHER INFO: GENERAL BADASS
When did you start playing baseball? When did you realize you wanted to play on a collegiate level?
My dad put a bat in my hand as soon as I could walk, so I’ve been playing for as long as I …

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you this, but the little buds on the tree I can see out of this window are reminding me of that delicious segue from basketball to baseball, from winter sport to spring sport and, finally, from winter itself to spring itself. Reader, I’ve had the great responsibility of …

There are a few sure signs of spring. Many of them involve natural phenomena, like sunlight, flowers, and temperatures that lie somewhere over freezing. We in New Haven haven’t been getting a whole lot of those things yet, but there’s one sure sign that spring is here: the NBA Playoffs. The first week of the …

I guess New York is known for basketball. The thing is, though, it’s known for everything, so basketball just kind of gets thrown in there. And the Knicks aren’t even that good, historically speaking. Of all the big huge American cities—L.A., Chicago, Boston, San Antonio—New York lags far, far behind in NBA titles. We actually …

It’s tough, writing about the Masters. Because there are two types of people in the world: Those who think the first week of April is like Christmas all over again (except better), and those who couldn’t give less of a shit about a golf tournament with such an absurdly
pretentious name.
For the first group—of which I …

We in the Yale Herald Sports section rarely give out awards. Fingers are given frequently, lip is given more often than that, and as for head… well, you see where we’re going.
But after close evaluation of our place amongst the mortals surrounding us, we Yale Herald Sports Editors have decided that “I’ll be the judge …

1. What is on your bucket list?
1. See the Northern Lights
2. Go to my sister’s wedding
3. Live without a cell phone for a whole year
2. What is the best advice you’ve gotten from a coach?
My dad is a college football coach, and one time when we were out to dinner I was complaining about how …

President Rogge, ladies and gentlemen of the IOC, I come humbly before you tonight on behalf of the citizens of the historic city of New Haven with one simple request: bring the 2018 Winter Olympics
to New Haven.
New Haven is a city that defines itself by the exquisite: the beaver population may have been decimated when …

There is no need to write about Mandi Schwartz’s death, no information left to give. By now, most of us at Yale—and countless people across the world—know the story of her fight with cancer. After a two-and-a-half year battle with acute myeloid leukemia, Mandi died on Sunday at the age of 23.
There is a need, …

This week, as I’m sure you already know, a group of Yale students filed a Title IX suit against the university. And while the suit was not directly related to athletics, the relationship between collegiate athletics and Title IX is one worth teasing out. It was evident when the law was passed in 1972 that …

This afternoon I walked into my room, not having done the small mountain of homework assigned to me, my demeanor still quite wintery, and my roommate was sitting up in bed, snug, smug, watching the Yankees. I guess it sort of feels like spring.
So my math-majoring, financially-minded roommate had me poking around baseball news on …

Growing up, Steve Gladstone rowed at the Kent School, a secondary school up the river from Yale University. At the time, Gladstone was well aware that Yale boasted one of the strongest crew programs in the country. Gladstone went on to row at Syracuse, but he never forgot the appeal of the university down the …

A less explored area of Libya’s relations with the world is soccer. As far as things go, they’re not very good at it, generally. As is almost always the case with soccer, though, it figures into everything. And as is always—siempre—the case, we Americans really don’t understand—we kick with our toes.
As the American and French …

“Athlete of the week” is a new section devoted to rehashing the past, devoted to saying whatever I meant to say, and still think about these people. The Herald Sports editorship is a position of great cultural responsibility. These people should occupy a special place in your sports lexicon.
This week’s athlete is Latrell Sprewell, …

This past weekend, an amazing feat occurred in college sports. Yes, four double-digit seeds made the Sweet 16 of March Madness, but that wasn’t the most remarkable accomplishment of the weekend. For Saturday was the day that Anthony Robles, a five-foot eight-inch senior wrestler from Arizona State University, defeated Matt McDonough of Iowa State …

Coming from Tennessee, I’ve struggled to keep from drowning in a sea of “red” when it comes to most political, social, economic, and environmental issues. Many vehicles are adorned with bumper stickers that claim, “Tennessee is Bush Country.” Camouflage is worn to go turkey hunting at the crack of dawn, then to Wal-Mart, then perhaps …

The annual college basketball championship is almost upon us. Teams are finishing up their last few games of their conference seasons. Some are in close races for the finish, others have clinched and are awaiting their conference tournaments and eventual NCAA tournament matchups. So what’s the hype? Why the month-long hoopla surrounding this tournament? It …

I know it’s early, but I’ve already started thinking about baseball season. Partly because it’s the only sport I could ever kind of play. The reason why I could kind of play it is that doing well has more to do with luck and just plain weirdness than it does with actual athleticism. So even …

We know “that guy.” That fairly normal college basketball fan that turns into a deranged maniac when March rolls around and he conveniently “forgets” to take his meds. He’ll spend three full days writing, drafting, revising, editing, re-editing,  and re-revising to compile enough brackets that account for any and all possible permutations of Final Four …

I don’t know anything about fashion—you’re the fashion guy; but does that fly?”
“What?”
“I mean, that. White and black dress with red heels? What are the red heels for?”
“For attracting attention.”
Looking at the monitors inside the YES Network truck, Jerry and George debate the style of a curvaceous blonde talking to Princeton’s head coach shortly before …