A Sporting View – Change MLB wild-card game

#Middlebury #ASportingView #Baseball By Mark Vasto I don’t like Major League Baseball’s wild-card game. There, I said it, and it falls trippingly off my tongue. Baseball ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – As the gridiron burns

#Middlebury #ASportingView By MARK VASTO This isn’t the first time politics invaded the football world. Teddy Roosevelt loved the game and helped start the NCAA while he urged ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Boxing matches we’d like to see

#Middlebury #ASportingView #Boxing By Mark Vasto After Floyd Mayweather Jr. won his 50th fight, a few us at Sporting View headquarters wondered aloud, “Who from history could ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – A giant year in the NFL

#Middlebury #Sports #NFL By Mark Vasto I don’t know about you, but this summer seemed especially boring in the world of sports. Save for Aaron Judge’s first half, Dale Earnhardt’s ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Battle of the acronyms: CTE study

#Middlebury #Sports #ASportingView #CTE By Mark Vasto Growing up as a kid (is there any other way?), the biggest fears I had in life now seem absolutely absurd. You see, I was born ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – All-Star Game still worth watching

#Middlebury #baseball #sports By Mark Vasto This time it didn’t matter — and nobody cared. The Major League Baseball All-Star Game has long been considered the best all-star ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Under Armour CEO leader among men

#MIDDLEBURY By Mark Vasto There are times when you meet a guy and just instantly like him. It’s part instinct, part intuition. Your bloodline has survived long enough to see you ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Is Brady the best ever?

#MIDDLEBURY By Mark Vasto If you’ve done a little studying in your life, you know there are abstract concepts you can ponder (think Descartes) and cold, hard facts (I was told ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – When a king bows to a sir

#MIDDLEBURY By Mark Vasto Charles Barkley has a big mouth, which is appropriate considering he also has a very large head. He used to get paid for bouncing a ball, but for the past ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – It’s on you, Jed York

#MIDDLEBURY #SPORTS By Mark Vasto In October 2010, after a close loss to Philadelphia, ESPN’s Adam Schefter received not so much a text as a bold proclamation. The message was ... Continue Reading →