Figure Skating Is Not a Sport
With the 2014 Winter Olympics in full swing in Sochi, CDH has caught Olympic fever. Bobsleigh, ‘boarding, bathrooms — we can’t get enough of it. But this week, we turn to the Winter Games’ dirty...
View ArticleWhy Olympic Football Needs to Happen
With the Winter Olympics set to begin on Thursday, CDH has the games on the mind. But we’re not thinking bobsled — we’re thinking football. Today, Ian Brickey takes a closer look at the possibility of...
View ArticleReading Time, Five Minutes
Crim Del Harris’s weekend update of the week’s top sports stories. Jeff Goldblum has a great line in the 1984 film The Big Chill that all bloggers should take to heart. Talking about his dead-end job...
View ArticleJhonny Peralta
Baseball’s Hot Stove League is burning up, but the St. Louis Cardinals are sitting on the sidelines with their biggest signings already made. What can Cardinals fans expect out of new shortstop Jhonny...
View ArticleManufacturing Points
Frequent flier miles with your season tickets? It could happen if Ian Brickey’s economic development plan went through. If you’ve followed St. Louis media at all in the last few weeks, you’re probably...
View ArticleFreese Frame
CDH’s Ian Brickey is a dyed-in-the-wool Cardinals fan. Read how he thinks the Nov. 22 trade of third basemen David Freese helps the team, but hurts from a fan perspective. Just in time for...
View ArticleReporting on Athlete Infractions
William and Mary basketball player Brandon Britt was suspended from the team Nov. 7 for violating team rules. The media’s handling of the details surrounding his suspension has been criticized by...
View Article2013 World Series Hangover
With their mourning period over, CDH’s Ian Brickey and Becky Koenig are ready to talk about the 2013 World Series, the hot stove league, the St. Louis Cardinals’ prospects for 2014 and, of course,...
View ArticleWorld Series Extravaganza 2013
The St. Louis Cardinals will take on the Boston Red Sox in the 2013 World Series beginning tonight. For the next week, Cardinals fans and CDH writers (in that order) Ian Brickey and Becky Koenig will...
View ArticleMVP: Most Valuable Plays
Are the most important plays in a baseball game the ones we see on the highlight reel? The answer might surprise you. Today, CDH’s Ian Brickey looks at Win Expectancy and the top five plays from the...
View ArticleOn Catcher Defense
Baseball statistics have become more sophisticated in the last decade. So why is it still so hard to measure defense? The last decade has been a veritable golden age for statistical analysis in...
View ArticleWacha Flocka Flamethrower
The St. Louis Cardinals have been powered by rookies for most of the season. But in their biggest game of the season, one rookie kept his team alive — and flirted with history. As I write this, the St....
View ArticleIn the Emperor’s Shadow
After back-to-back losing seasons, it looked as if Jimmye Laycock’s time as head football coach of the William and Mary Tribe was coming to an end. But reports of Laycock’s demise were greatly...
View ArticleSEC Blues
CDH Editor Ian Brickey was at the Missouri Tigers’ home opener against the Murray State Racers. Mizzou won the game 58-14. This is what he remembers. By and large, college students hate mornings....
View ArticleMatt Carpenter
By definition, Plan B is a worse option than Plan A. Plan B takes longer or is more expensive or won’t work as well as Plan A. During spring training 2013, Matt Carpenter was definitely a Plan B kind...
View ArticleFrancisco Liriano
When people look for healing waters, they usually go to Lourdes. It’s rustic, picturesque and mysterious. It’s everything that Pittsburgh is not. But every fifth day in 2013, the waters of the...
View ArticleStadium ad nauseum
Sports stadiums can be things of beauty. But they can also be architecturally unpleasing, outdated or utterly insane. CDH’s Ian Brickey looks at six of the craziest stadium designs ever proposed by...
View ArticleTeam on the Run
Can you imagine the New England Patriots ditching Boston for greener pastures, or the Philadelphia Eagles playing in the desert? CDH’s Ian Brickey looks at six franchise relocations that almost...
View ArticleSimply the Best
The Cardinals, Pirates and Reds are neck-and-neck atop the National League Central Division. They’re also probably the three best teams in baseball. The St. Louis Cardinals are the best team in...
View ArticleAn Old-Fashioned Rivalry
In the lead-up to Monday night’s St. Louis-Chicago game, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnists Bryan Burwell and Bernie Miklasz criticized the state of the Cardinals-Cubs rivalry. Here’s why the rivalry...
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