Author: Sean Fitzgerald
Photo Credit: The Athletic During the 2020 offseason, the Cleveland Browns braintrust of general manager Andrew Berry, chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta and head coach Kevin Stefanski focused heavily on improving the talent the team had on the offensive side of the ball. They spent big dollars adding All-Pro tackle Jack Conklin, nabbing tight end […]
Photo Credit: ocregister.com I wasn’t expecting to write something related to my original, “Why MLB Needs a Salary Cap” article and the “One Year Retrospective” article from last March. But, we now need to revisit the topic sooner than expected. It’s not been long since the San Diego Padres extended 22-year-old superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. […]
Photo Credit: The San Diego Union-Tribune Most people who prognosticated the winner of the 2021 Men’s MAC Basketball Tournament would likely be lying if they picked the No. 5 seeded Ohio Bobcats to win it all. After obliterating Kent State on Thursday and downing top-seeded Toledo yesterday, the Bobcats punched their ticket to March Madness […]
Photo Credit: wsaz.com Kent State was dealt a major blow 20 minutes before tip-off when All-MAC Senior forward Danny Pippen was ruled out of the MAC Tournament quarterfinal versus the Ohio Bobcats. Without Pippen and All-MAC Third Teamer Michael Nuga, the Ohio Bobcats decimated the Kent State Golden Flashes 85-63 The Golden Flashes were porous […]
NOTE: This article is being dual posted on my Medium page. The Where Things Stand: 2020 NFL Edition Parts 1-3 are all there due to various factors during the 2020 fall semester. Here are the hyperlinks for 2020 Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, which are less censored than what is being posted here. […]
Photo Credit: forbes.com I love baseball. It’s my favorite sport. After attending Game 3 of the 2007 American League Championship Series between Boston and Cleveland, I was hooked. My love for sports blossomed and never faded, with baseball being the core of my being. But this childish resistance by baseball players, refusing a further pay […]
Photo Credit: clevelandbrowns.com Bring on the prognostication and horribly wrong predictions! The 2020 Cleveland Browns schedule is out, and I have to say, this is a pretty good schedule that is balanced from what we know right now. I won’t drag this out, but here are my 100%, totally correct, not-so-early Browns schedule predictions. Also, […]
Daryl Hall started at Kent State in the fall of 1970 as a football player. Written in the aftermath of the tragic events of May 4, 1970, his book Flashback is described as “a young man’s search for truth about the Kent State Shootings.” We discuss his life playing football, his motivations for writing the book and […]
Photo Credit: NBC Sports Anyone who knows me or has heard me on Black Squirrel Radio’s airwaves knows I’m a sports fan through and through. The fact that I’m writing this is completely surreal. When I woke up on the morning of March 12 to go to Cleveland to cover Kent State Men’s Basketball in […]
Photo Credit: usatoday.com Note: Despite the coronavirus shutting down sports, I wanted to release this article as a means of entertainment, rather than hold onto it for months. Thank you for your support! At some point, I knew I was going to revisit the topic of why Major League Baseball needs a salary cap. You […]