Nimble mastermind. Vivacious traveler. 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.
How We Used To Live
I knew these words and this math to be true before I ever read that quote, before it was ever typeset and immortalized on the wall like that. The first time I stepped into The Palestra, on a bright Saturday morning in 1997, there were ten people there and they sounded like 100.
Mid-Majority Chat Block, Episode 709
CHICAGO -- Many of the conferences in college athletics were born in hotel ballrooms somewhere, converted from ideas into working cooperatives by men in suits who took turns talking and occasionally sipped glasses of water. What are we going to be about? they might have asked each other.
(How Not To Officiate) Patriot Games
As anyone who goes to one of its affiliated schools (or anyone who's read The Last Amateurs) can tell you, the Patriot League was created primarily to give Ivy League schools some early-season football competition. Just like the Ivy League.
North Dakota State's Lucky Penny
MILWAUKEE — The greatest win in North Dakota State basketball history, and arguably the greatest upset of the year so far, was forged by grit, determination, and maybe even a little bit of lucky copper.
The Artists' Olympics
To viewers at home, the Olympics are presented as an awkward sandwich indeed. There are 16 days of world-class competition between two ornate ceremonies, opening and closing, both of which overflow with extravagant, obscure and potentially superfluous imagery. In other words, art.