Ayaan Bali

With the conclusion of football season, my Sundays have become pretty bare. That was until I turned on the Olympics and was in awe of the remarkable feats of athleticism carried out. The Olympics are the pinnacle of sport and the highest achievement for people who do the more “obscure sports.” People push themselves beyond their limits, overcome adversity, and do the impossible… However, the thing I always question about the Olympics, and international sport in general, is what does it mean...

Indiana football two years ago was a lost cause, something only mentioned in the punchline of a joke. The University of Indiana has long been known as a basketball school, and rightly so: This basketball program were regular-season Big 10 champions 22 times. They had made the final four in the NCAA Tournament eight times, and went on to win the entire thing five times. Assembly Hall in Bloomington is known as one of the most iconic arenas in College Basketball. But this story isn’t about...

On October 17th, Game 4 of the National League Championship Series took place between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers star player Shohei Ohtani would go on to drop one of the greatest performances in sports history to sweep the Brewers and send the Dodgers to a second straight World Series, which they would eventually win. Ohtani’s historic performance left me and many sports fans wondering: “Where does this rank among all-time individual athlete performances?”...