Josh Benner

Category: Sports

  • Urban Meyer keeps job, but is it worth the cost?

    I’ve gone back and forth on the Urban Meyer story. When I initially heard about it, I thought it was blown out of proportion but studied it in greater detail and thought it would result in Meyer’s termination. But I continued to dig and more information came out and I started to think that Meyer…

  • What Jim Thome can teach us about strengths and weaknesses

    Like any Cleveland Indians fan growing up in the 90s, Jim Thome is one of my all time favorite baseball players. Always had a good reputation as being friendly, a slugger, wore high socks like he was playing in the 30s. What wasn’t there to love? This past weekend, Thome was enshrined in baseball’s Hall…

  • Life lessons from baseball

      Tomorrow is opening day of the 2018 Major League Baseball season. Between opening day and the end of the season in early November, more than 2,430 games will be played. Baseball’s regular season is the longest in American professional sports, nearly doubling the 82 games NBA and NHL seasons. I think about the baseball…

  • Speed skater who lost out on carrying American flag sits out opening ceremony

    Busch league. Shani Davis was passed over for carrying the U.S. Olympic flag. The speed skater had been tied with luge star Erin Hamlin. The method of breaking the tie, as was already established, was to do a coin toss, which was the tie breaking procedure that had been established prior by the U.S. Olympic…

  • Super Bowl: A+ Super Bowl Commercials: F

    I don’t know if I can call Super Bowl 52 the greatest Super Bowl I’ve ever seen when there was very little defense played. But that was definitely the most entertaining Super Bowl I’ve ever seen. Great game, a joy to watch.