A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans
From lessons for parents taking kids to sporting events to defining what "Midwest" means, Away From The Action is Josh Tinley's unique and always engaging take on the off-the-field aspects of sports.
Sports is often a family business. We’ve seen the sports gene at work in the Manning, Earnhardt, Hull, Griffey, and Andretti families. We’ve even seen families like the Hills (Calvin and Grant), Larkins (Barry and Shane), Halls (swimmers Gary Sr. and Gary Jr.), and Joneses (Popeye and Seth) where junior has excelled in a different [...]
My favorite two months of the sports calendar tip off this weekend with the beginning of the NBA Playoffs.
Fifty years ago, and three years before Texas Western’s historic NCAA Tournament upset of Kentucky, the 1963 Loyola Ramblers went on an NCAA Tournament run that would change college basketball forever.
Mascotology breaks down the entire NCAA Tournament field by looking at who would prevail in a hypothetical meeting of mascots. Who would win in a match-up between a Spartan and a Crusader or between an orange and a grizzly bear? We’re about to find out.
Bubble talk has become an annual college basketball ritual. It is as much a part of the game as pep bands, cutting down nets, and penalizing teams whose coaches make too many phone calls. But it hasn’t always been this way.
Sleeves get results, and thanks to Adidas, UCLA, Baylor, and the Louisville men will wear jerseys with sleeves during March Madness. The situation has noted Evansville supporter Josh Tinley feeling like his Purple Aces are suffering a fate similar to…SpongeBob.
Adidas yesterday introduced new lightweight uniforms for the Golden State Warriors. These unis are notable because a) the shorts don’t match the jerseys at all, b) they are 26 percent lighter than other NBA uniforms, and c) the jerseys have sleeves. Yes, sleeves.
Earlier this week Jay Cutler’s fiancee and Barack Obama both cast doubts on whether they would allow their kids to play football. The question of whether a parent should allow his or her child to play football seems to be coming up a lot.
No matter how closely you follow professional football, there are probably some tidbits from the storied history of the Super Bowl that you aren’t aware of. So, in honor of Super Bowl XLVII, here are 47 trivial Super Bowl facts that you may or may not be aware of.
Sports fans who have spent the fall and winter watching games where each score has a set value and where score is kept by adding these values can now watch tennis … and take a break from reason to enjoy a sport whose means of scorekeeping defies logic.
The difference between Notre Dame’s response to Lizzy Seeberg’s rape allegations and the Manti Te’o hoax story is disturbing, but not as disturbing as the similarity. In both cases the school acted to protect the athlete.
As with the currently unfolding Manti Te’o story, the sports world has been fooled by its share of hoaxes over the years. Some were humorous; some were hurtful. Here’s a run-down of nine sports-related hoaxes.
The Bears’ hiring of Mark Trestman came as a surprise to many. We aren’t used to teams hiring coaches from Canada. But such a move isn’t unprecedented.
Josh Tinley looks back on 13 of the most memorable playoff games from NFL history, from the Ice Bowl all the way to The Catch III.
Though some old bowl games are better off forgotten, others have stories that deserve to be told. Here are the stories of ten of those short-lived bowl games of yesteryear.
