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This isn't the first time I've said something like this. As a result of my foray with FC Buffalo and getting my first taste of soccer experience as a high schooler, I decided to more closely follow several other squads as well: Bedlington (RIP), Liverpool, Western New York Flash, the U.S. National teams. And in Major League Soccer, I chose to adopt the Portland Timbers as my favourite. Inspired by their decades-long history in the NASL, the vocal and vibrant Timbers Army, the tifos and chants that adorned Jeld-Wen Field, and their built-in hatred for fellow MLS-newcomers Seattle and Vancouver, plus the fact that they'd existed for nearly 40 years with no trophies seemed like the perfect fit. And for a time, it was. But along came Minnesota United. Entering league play in 2017 (in a 5-1 loss at Portland, may I add), the "Loons" didn't carry the same weight of tradition as the Timbers. However, the colours, nickname, logo, and my personal familial ties to the st...

Good morning, and welcome to hell. Yesterday, a report emerged that Ohio University has initiated and engaged in conversations with the Sun Belt Conference about the possibility of exiting the Mid-American Conference to join the SBC. Before we go in-depth as to why that’s an asinine idea to think, let alone say out loud, let me make my stance on this crystal clear: This is a bad idea. While the MAC has flown the flag over Power 5 opponents for several years, let us pray it does not become the image above the conference's epitaph.   And for the sake of being up front, this piece will be focused primarily through a football lens, because despite the implications a move like this would have on basketball, soccer, softball, and every other sport, football is what is driving these unilaterally shortsighted, selfish, and greedy moves by athletic departments and schools across the college sports landscape. According to the article that initially revealed the news, Ohio is the only named M...

The usually-biennial trip to Western New York has arrived once again for the Ohio softball team. The Bobcats (23-22, 11-8 MAC) have won eight of their last 10 conference contests, including two of their three home games against Western Michigan this past weekend during the program's 50th anniversary celebration at the Ohio Softball Field. Their current position - fifth place in the MAC table - could be bolstered in these three games against ninth-place Buffalo (15-25, 7-11 MAC), but if history tells us anything, it's that one very important variable has yet to play its part in determining the Bobcats' postseason fate. Carolyn Spacek (right) celebrates her third-inning home run with  Lauren Yuhas (1)  and Megan McMenemy (21) at Canisius College's Demske Sports Complex.   March 19, 2022 Field conditions and weather at Nan Harvey Field have been responsible for the Ohio-UB series getting relocated or cancelled each of the last four times they've been scheduled to meet ...