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David Kramer | Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Atop the highest snow bank on my elementary school playground, my legs swung aimlessly beneath me as I peered over the frozen tundra. Albeit a small contribution to my vantage point, I considered the pile uplifting, mountainous, illuminative of the sea of white that enveloped the playground with a bone-chilling flood. The ledge gave me
Aidan Thomas, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican, Dominic Gibson, Patrick Gallagher and David Kramer | Friday, November 22, 2019
Dallas Cowboys @ New England Patriots (-6.5) Green Bay Packers @ San Francisco 49ers (-3) Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Rams (+2.5) David Kramer: America’s Team facing off against the reigning champions makes for an electric atmosphere this weekend in Foxborough. Dallas sends arguably the most fluid and multifaceted offense of the Pats’ schedule to
David Kramer | Wednesday, November 20, 2019
After nearly 30 minutes on the winding, jagged dirt road, I jump from the bed of an open-air truck and step into the searing sun. The triple-digit heat feels unbearable, somehow far more potent than the dunes of the American South. Initial greetings from the early arrivals of a nearby batey echo as my colleagues
David Kramer | Wednesday, November 13, 2019
If you ever visit me on a summer night, expect my dad and I to be talking about Minnesota Twins’s third baseman Miguel Sano. Amidst one of our countless exchanges, he makes sure to reference his flashy on-the-run throws from the hot corner, explosive at-bats and perhaps most importantly, his overall contribution to the Twins’
Aidan Thomas, Dominic Gibson, David Kramer, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller and Patrick Gallagher | Friday, November 8, 2019
We’re back with another edition of The Observer Roundtable predictions. For the first time in AP Poll history, we have a pair of battles between 8-0 squads, so we will all take our cracks at those games. All of us will be looking for better success in our upset picks, after we went a clean
David Kramer | Wednesday, November 6, 2019
As two Michigan natives pack their car for their son’s inaugural youth hockey game, they escape the brisk, gripping winds of the Minnesota winter and tread into their freshly-completed mud room. Their eyes falling on the two clipboards placed near the door as a reminder of their next appointment, they gather their last pair of
Aidan Thomas, Dominic Gibson, David Kramer, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican and Patrick Gallagher | Friday, November 1, 2019
Houston Texans @ Jacksonville Jaguars (+2.5) [In London] Tennessee Titans @ Carolina Panthers (-3.5) New England Patriots @ Baltimore Ravens (+3.5) Dominic Gibson With multiple offensive weapons including Deandre Hopkins and a dynamic quarterback in Deshaun Watson, the Texan will prove to be too much for the Jags and quarterback Gardner Minshew. I expect
Aidan Thomas, Dominic Gibson, David Kramer, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican and Patrick Gallagher | Thursday, October 31, 2019
Welcome back to the third week of the Observer Roundtable! We took a week off, but the previous edition saw some close calls. Sports writer senior Liam Coolican almost made the call of the year as he called for Kansas to upset Texas as a 30-point underdog, and the Jayhawks came within two points of
David Kramer | Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Some of society’s most bizarre and ill-considered insight comes from volunteer youth baseball coaches. Granted, nearly every retiree cherishes memories of beloved coaches who overcame this stereotype and actually bestowed some life-changing wisdom on them. But in spite of our exceptional role models, something about the nature of the volunteer position makes people act so
David Kramer | Monday, October 14, 2019
The art of a good handshake. I suspect that this phrase hardly staggers readers. A commonly recycled part of our lexicon, this paradigmatic idea, at surface level, seems paradoxical. How could a human gesture so straightforward have intrinsic artistic value? The audacity of America to taint something so aesthetic, steeped with generations of inspired pioneers,