Fearless dreamer. Nimble mastermind. Saucy wanderer.
Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,373 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,928,166 of his life's words have been collected here, in one place, for eternal posterity. Keep his flame alive. This is the Whelliston Memorial Library.
Game! Of! The! Night! 2/25/2009 - Dayton at Rhode Island
While the titans of college basketball sportswriting are off drooling over Kansas, or boo-hooing over Pittsburgh, or whatever they do up there, they're missing out on the big fun of the high-stakes race at the top of the Atlantic 14. Last season, it was Xavier as a clear No. 1 and a huge liquid-mudslide orgy of death between two through eleven.
Electric Boogaluge
MILAN – In September 2024, after all the Olympic lights went out in Paris, a team of Canadian and Austrian scientists published a white paper about the future viability of the Winter Olympic Games. Funded in part by the IOC, their five-year research study posited that by the 2050s, just three decades from now, only 12 of the 21 past Winter Games hosts will be able to host them again.
MMBOD Jan 07 - Rickey Porter - California-Riverside
Giving up 115 points to a Division III squad, and losing, pretty much ensures that you'll be a punchline for the remainder of your season -- quite possibly for the remainder of the decade. But two and a half weeks since R'Side lost to Puget Sound 115-111, they stunned the Pacific Tigers, embarrassing the two-time Sweet 16'ers on their home court.
The State of the Other 22, Week 8
The State of College Basketball is a sorta newish ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). This is the full chart, and this is a recording.
MMBOD Dec 20 - Tim Parham - Maryland-Eastern Shore
When the second-leading scorer on the worst team in Division I announced his intention to test the NBA Draft waters, lots of folks said, "Are you serious?" Sure, the 6-9, 240 specimen attended a camp or two this spring, but Tim Parham was simply dreaming big. He just wanted to find out if he had any chance to become the first-ever player from the MEAC to leave school early and go to the pros.