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Joey Vaughan | Friday, February 17, 2023
The 2023 Major League Baseball season keeps approaching, getting closer and closer by the day. In fact, pitchers and catchers reported spring training this week. So it’s time to look ahead to the upcoming season and the expectations for each club. Over the next few weeks, I will dive into previews for all 30 teams,
Liam Coolican | Friday, February 12, 2021
Lost in the shuffle of all the major events in the sports world that have happened recently, this year’s MLB offseason has been one of the craziest in recent memory. Many teams, using the pandemic as an excuse to cut spending, traded away star players who were on expiring contracts, and contenders loaded up for
Nate Moller | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
It’s the question all baseball fans are asking: Can a 60-game season with an expanded postseason really show us who the best team in baseball is? It’s a complicated question, and I don’t believe the answer is a clear yes or no. The decision by MLB to expand the postseason to eight teams per league
Liam Coolican | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
As spring training gets underway, I, like every other fan, am hopeful my team will make it to the World Series. As much as I want to believe that, however, I have to realize that my team, the Detroit Tigers, is “rebuilding” — or in language the team won’t use, tanking. Tanking — losing games
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, October 29, 2019
On May 24, my family sat in stone cold silence as the Washington Nationals hit their 19-31 nadir. We’ve been fans since the team arrived in 2005, and never had we seen a season with such high expectations crash and burn so quickly. Eventually, my mom — an eternal optimist — broke the silence: “I
Aidan Thomas | Monday, October 7, 2019
I’m in a weird position this fall. Well, before I continue, I should warn you all I am one of the “greedy New England swine” as described by Connor Mulvena in his recent piece depicting the horrors of being a New York sports fan. My beloved Boston Red Sox saw an impressive three-year run end
Tom Naatz | Monday, March 4, 2019
In December, I penned an Inside Column bidding The Observer a heartfelt goodbye for the duration of my time abroad. Nevertheless, here I sit typing a column on my phone while sitting on a bus winding its way through the south of Spain because I have strong feelings about a recent happening in the sports-verse.
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, June 8, 2018
Three Notre Dame players were selected in the 2018 MLB Draft on Tuesday and Wednesday. Seniors Matt Vierling, Nick Podkul and Cole Daily became the 115th, 116th and 117th draft picks in program history, respectively. Vierling, who splits his time between center field and third base, was selected Tuesday in the fifth round of the
Jack Concannon | Thursday, April 19, 2018
I’m the saddest sports fan you know. I hail from the greater D.C. area, where young sports fans cry and everyone else’s hopes go to die. It has been 70 seasons since the city of Washington has been to a conference championship game in the four major sports (sorry MLS fans, no D.C. United here).
Tobias Hoonhout | Friday, February 2, 2018
Well surprise, surprise, another Washington D.C. sports team shot itself in the foot. When I first saw the breaking news of the Redskins trading for Alex Smith and simultaneously ending the Kirk Cousins era in Washington, I laughed. Decide to move on from your longest tenured quarterback since 1991 for a guy four years older