Josh Benner

Category: Sports

  • Harbaugh, practice film: what sportsmanship is and isn’t

    Fairness. Last weekend, the college football season began as Hawaii and Cal played a game in Sydney, Australia. This week, Cal is off while Hawaii plays in Ann Arbor, MI against the Wolverines. For the Wolverines, they’ve had a chance to see Hawaii play a game. Hawaii enters this game with no such luxury and…

  • Lochte lies, lessons in honesty

    Sunday morning, see a story about Ryan Lochte and three other Team USA swimmers being held up at gunpoint. I think “wow, how terrifying.” Yesterday, I see stories that the Brazilian authorities don’t believe the story, and I think “how corrupt is this country!” But then the stories start to conflict, swimmers start to backtrack…

  • LeBron’s historic finals: greatest player of all time

    No one thought Cleveland would win this series. Golden State had had the winningest season of all time. They had won last year. Cleveland was overmatched, didn’t have the depth. It was the best player in the game (Steph Curry) vs LeBron, who’s past his prime, a shadow of his former greatness. And the series…

  • Rant – 2015 Buckeye season, cut Zeke some slack

    For the last few weeks, as playoff rankings came out, as I looked at other top teams, I found myself thinking “Alabama is playing the best football.” I thought about the prospect of Ohio State having a rematch with the Crimson Tide and thought “I don’t think this team can beat them, not the way…

  • The greatness of LeBron

    I wish we would be as critical of our president as we are of LeBron James. LeBron gets criticism for having the wrong facial expression. Nevermind the fact that he lead BOTH teams in scoring, rebounds, and assists. And nevermind he had one of the worst supporting casts in NBA final history up against one…