Vivacious traveler. Intrepid originator. Lusty wayfarer.

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.

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The Mid-Majority vs. Restatements of Theme
The target is deliberately set high, raised up and out of the reach of very nearly everyone. It is a null space given shape by a ring of cold metal, strung with a cylindrical lattice that serves to provide audiovisual confirmation of a score.

Assistant Palestra Custodian for a Day
PHILADELPHIA -- They say the difference between home and the road is that when you're at your own place, you clean up. That the difference between a guest and a friend is that a friend will help with the dishes.

Good Morning Hoops Nation December 22
NATCHITOCHES, La. -- I can't prove this, because it came out of one of those directionless garbage-time conversations amongst us proud folks who refuse to leave any game early. But one of my most brilliant ideas ever was The Sportswriter's Thesaurus, which would give sportswriters all the material they need to write decently on deadline.

Game 7-036 - Cleveland State at Valparaiso
Sometimes Our Game is so difficult to understand. Can you wrap your head around the concept of retractable bleachers? Somehow, with hydraulics and sparklepony magic, a wall transforms into a thousand chairs. Not only that, but there are stairs and a railing and when you shuck your peanut shells, they go somewhere underneath.

Game 7-023 - Butler at Xavier
A story: once upon a time, there were two brothers. As sometimes happens with brothers, they could not have been any more different from each other. The older was the mild-mannered and cerebral one, shrewd and calculating and mostly silent. The younger was brave and brash, full of powerful pride, always bragging about extensive accomplishments.