I let NFL Twitter pick my fandom … here’s how it went. I tried something new this season. I let NFL Twitter pick who I would root for in the 2021 NFL season. I made a poll on Twitter and picked four ...
This post originally appeared on Negative Dunkalectics. Throughout the season, I've been wanting to write something about "liberated fandom" and "negative cosmopolitanism": specifically something ...
A staple of my childhood, like so many folks of the nerdy persuasion, was a tattered, well-worn VHS copy of The Empire Strikes Back. And thanks to my brother and me watching the tape of the second ...
There are many moments in a sports fan’s life that they will hold forever. An incredible game with a nail-biting finish, an athlete cementing their legacy by winning an award or a jaw-dropping trade ...
It was a little after 5:00 am in my home in Hong Kong when Jerzy Dudek, the Polish goalkeeper of Liverpool FC, saved a penalty from Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian playing for AC Milan. The save ended ...
At a decibel so loud it creates seismic tremors in the steel support beams of Reunion Arena, a crowd of 19,000, mostly female preteens and 20-somethings, let out animalistic cries of adoration. I’m ...
The person who wins your office March Madness pool may not be able to tell Kansas star Joel Embiid of Kansas from Arizona star Nick Johnson by looking at them—but he or she might know each player's ...
Fan·dom — The state or condition of being a fan of someone or something. Though it may seem simple, the word is one of the pillars of Michigan State University. Without Spartan fandom, there is no MSU ...