by Matt Zemek | Sep 6, 2014
We kept waiting. We, the global community of tennis reporters, bloggers and fans alike, kept waiting for the moment when Novak Djokovic — tired, listless, dragging, generally lacking answers — would do what he’s done dozens upon dozens of times in...
by Matt Zemek | Sep 5, 2014
One match didn’t even last two whole sets. The other match felt over well before two whole sets had been completed, and although it tightened up, it ended without an abundance of suspense. Yet, the U.S. Open women’s semifinals on Friday afternoon at the...
by Matt Zemek | Sep 4, 2014
The larger theater of early-season football is defined and dominated by chaos. It’s not as though teams generally figure everything out in week two, especially if they played a cupcake in week one. We’re still very much in that part of the season when...
by Matt Zemek | Aug 31, 2014
You’re going to read a lot more about week one of the new college football season in the coming days at The Student Section. After eight months of speculation, live games have returned to our world, and the annual vastness of the offseason makes week one feel...
by Matt Zemek | Aug 27, 2014
In terms of Xs and Os, the future of college football lies in what SB Nation’s Ian Boyd refers to as “the pop pass,” the focus of a terrific piece on Auburn’s tying touchdown against Alabama last year. Xs and Os represent one part of the fuller...