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Liam Coolican | Thursday, November 14, 2019
As a lifelong Seahawks fan, I may be slightly biased in this opinion. However, objectively speaking, Russell Wilson deserves to win the NFL MVP this season. He has carried a mediocre supporting cast to an 8-2 record this year, and just knocked off the undefeated 49ers. First, let’s take a look at his numbers. He
Jimmy Ward | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Let me start by saying I am a Colts fan, a huge Colts fan. I was born in 1999, just when Peyton Manning was starting to take the league by storm. I have lived just outside of Indianapolis my whole life. I have plenty of Colts memorabilia at home, including — much to the dismay
Liam Coolican | Friday, November 8, 2019
Whenever someone’s favorite team loses, their first move is often to criticize the officials. I will freely admit, I have been guilty of this in the past, although I try to be more conscious of it. Officiating in every sport is a very difficult task. You have to know the very complicated rulebook cover-to-cover, be
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
Aidan Thomas, Liam Coolican, David Kramer, Dominic Gibson, Nate Moller and Patrick Gallagher | Thursday, October 10, 2019
Welcome to the first edition of The Observer Roundtable! Here, six of our writers will attempt to predict the result and spread of some of the top college and professional football games this weekend, and we will top it off with each writer picking an upset. Each writer will earn one point for picking a
Jack Concannon | Monday, September 16, 2019
The NHL, NBA and MLB have all had tanking problems. Teams sought to lose as many games as they could once they were eliminated from playoff contention, gaining the opportunity to draft the next Zion Williamson or Jack Hughes in the process. This process is painstaking for fans and players alike, and causes rebuilding teams
Charlotte Edmonds | Friday, September 13, 2019
Well, it’s a new school year, so naturally we have to fight the same old, unsettled battles. This one — the fight over whether or not to compensate college athletes — has finally taken a new twist, with the State of California leading the charge. Little background: the NCAA considers itself a league of amateurs,
Tom Naatz | Thursday, September 5, 2019
“Are you ready for the draft tonight?” I whispered a quiet expletive under my breath as I read the text. I’d forgotten all about it. But I wasn’t about to let my rival — the most formidable player in the league — know that. I typed a quick response. “Yes, of course!” I lied. “It’s
Jimmy Ward | Tuesday, August 27, 2019
In the 2011 NFL season, the Indianapolis Colts began to drift towards mediocrity. Fresh off of a Super Bowl appearance at the end of the 2009 season and a promising future on the horizon, I sat at home every weekend that year wondering if the Colts would ever be as good as they once were
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, April 11, 2019
Former Notre Dame and NFL running back Cierre Wood has been arrested by Las Vegas police and charged with first-degree child abuse following the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter. Both Wood and his girlfriend Amy Taylor are facing charges for the crime. After the child passed away in a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday night,