This semester, I decided to take “History of Baseball” with Professor Chandra Manning. I knew I would like the class as soon as I registered, but I didn’t know how it would quickly become my favorite...

One ball — that is all you need. You can play indoors, outdoors, on dirt, grass, astroturf — even concrete. The game will go on in the sun, rain or snow with as many as 22 and as few as two people. Soccer,...

Growing up, my bedtime was 7 p.m. In theory, this would have been acceptable to me, except for the fact that the New York Yankees’ games often started at 7:05. As a result, there were multiple nights...

Undoubtedly, the two best players of our generation are Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (in that order). They have by far the most goal contributions, and the strongest accolades and have demonstrated...

The second the New York Yankees — embarrassingly — were mathematically eliminated from the 2023 playoffs, I circled March 28 on my calendar. That would be the next time I could forget about my to-do...

Portly men in garish shirts take turns throwing small missiles at a mosaicked wooden board. Then, another man (preferably bald with a raspy voice) shouts some numbers after doing simple addition. Prior...

We often think of baseball as America’s game, and rightfully so, but as we have seen in some more recent issues of Rounding the Diamond, baseball is global. From Japan to Cuba, it seems like all parts...

Season 2 of “Break Point,” the Netflix docudrama series that follows the lives of several top players on the professional tennis tour, was released Jan. 10. Here are my grades for the final three episodes. For...

There is a certain magic that envelops the game of baseball.  My dad will read this — hi! — and tell me I’m too young to know that. He will claim that baseball has not been truly magical since...

My two favorite sports are undeniably European football and baseball.  I appreciate baseball for how easy it is to explain why good players are good players: The best baseball players will always have...

Foot-ball hoo-li-gan      noun, BRITISH A violent troublemaker whose behavior is associated with or motivated by their support of a soccer team. The groups of young men —...

Season 2 of “Break Point,” the Netflix docudrama series that follows the lives of several top players on the professional tennis tour, was released on Jan. 10. Here are my grades for the first three...