Hey y’all! My name is Nate and I’m a statistics major with a sport and entertainment management minor. I am one half of the show “On the Bench” at WUSC. If you love sports, especially Gamecock athletics, you should give it a listen!
With the conclusion of UConn beating Southern California tonight, the two March Madness Final Fours are set. Between the 8 teams left, seven of them are 1-seeds, and the eighth is a 2-seed in UConn (who is probably the most 1 seed-like a 2-seed has ever been). Beyond that, the Elite 8’s were even ...
The New York Yankees started off the 2025 MLB Regular Season with a bang by mashing a major league record 15 home runs in their first 3 games. As good as the Yankees are at hitting home runs, especially with Aaron Judge in your lineup, this is nearly unheard of. The Yankees hit a home run on the first ...
In all truthfulness I am writing this a couple hours after I just got back from Clemson, South Carolina, where I watched our Gamecocks secure their 6th straight victory this season, beating #12 Clemson in Death Valley. We finished the season off 9-3, with wins over 3 ranked teams depending on how the ...
The Champions League, a yearly competition held containing Europe’s best professional soccer teams. The place where footballing legends are made and powerhouse matches are aplenty. It has been played the same way for decades now, however this year is slightly different. Typically it was formatted ...
NBA All-Star week has just wrapped, and there are many talking points about it, however many that aren’t good. This was the second worst rated NBA All-Star game ever, with only last year being worse. It was also the second lowest viewed all star game, with last year also being the worst. The game ...
I’ve just finished watching our Gamecock Softball team obliterate the #8 Duke Blue Devils 14-7, spurned by an 8 run 7th inning. This brings the Gamecocks to an astounding 17-0, their best start to a season EVER. At this point last year we were 15-2, which is great, but that includes two bad losses ...
In my last blog post, I recapped the first edition of the 12-team college football playoff. I ended it however with a cliffhanger. What if instead of a committee the playoff was decided by numbers alone? Well I am here to answer that question with a simple formula. This formula being… RPI. Now RPI ...
The last blog post I did was on the last day of the regular season in college football. South Carolina had just beaten Clemson, Ohio State lost to Michigan again, along with many more wild finishes to the regular season. What I have learned since then… that was only the beginning. Within the next ...
2024 World Series Recap The Fall Classic has officially ended with the Los Angeles Dodgers winning Game 5 over the New York Yankees 7-6, taking the series 4-1. Game 5 did not appear to be the final game at the start with the Yankees taking an early 5-0 lead, however things soon got interesting after ...
The NHL is introducing a new mid-season tournament called the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off. It features the four best hockey nations in the world; the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Finland. Each will comprise their teams of the best NHL talent from those nations, and face off in a pool play style tournament. ...
