Glory Days

Glory Days is my Substack newsletter in which I share musings on sports, with an occasional nod to history, higher education, Springsteen, and whatever else. Perhaps it is my inner journalism itch, but I have been blogging for a long time, dating back to 2008. Doing so with regularity is always a challenge given the demands of a day job.
I enjoy thinking critically about situations and endeavor to ground my posts in empirical data that I gather from publicly available sources. It is my hope that these writings can stimulate discussion among affected stakeholders. But to be clear, these are not peer-reviewed, or even edited. They represent my thoughts alone. I hope you enjoy and find value in them. Please subscribe to Glory Days.
I enjoy thinking critically about situations and endeavor to ground my posts in empirical data that I gather from publicly available sources. It is my hope that these writings can stimulate discussion among affected stakeholders. But to be clear, these are not peer-reviewed, or even edited. They represent my thoughts alone. I hope you enjoy and find value in them. Please subscribe to Glory Days.
- Taking a deep(ish) look at four Cleveland-area men's wrestling teams expenses, Feb. 5, 2025
- Albright College seeking a $25 million loan to cover operational costs and planning to add sports, Jan. 21, 2025
- Women's flag football is having its moment with NCAA DIII institutions, Jan. 14, 2025
- Ten Days in U.S. Higher Education and Sports, Dec. 15, 2024
- Keystone College on the brink, Dec. 4, 2024
- Why I am interested in which DIII schools have the highest percentage of athletes and how fast are they growing, Nov. 20, 2024
- Fifty-nine NCAA Division III schools increased athletes on campus by more than 10 percent in the past four years, Nov. 17, 2024
- How many NCAA schools are 44 percenters? Nov. 11, 2024
- What might it mean that several small universities added a flurry of sports in the final days of October?, Nov. 3, 2024
- Division III athletics promotes academic excellence and competitive athletics but how many schools do both really well?, Oct. 6, 2024
- Wittenberg University dropped 3 sports, representing 2% of their students, Sept. 14, 2024
- DirecTV v. Disney is not just about sports; It could be about the future of MVPDs, Sept. 8, 2024
- When no one asks a gold medalist a question, Aug. 9, 2024
- Career update in a hurricane, Aug. 5, 2024
- A small university with a heavy investment in intercollegiate athletics shutters its sports programs, June 19, 2024
- Kim Mulkey's rant is not a public relations strategy, March 23, 2024
- Is Division III conference realignment becoming a thing?, January 19, 2024
- Lindenwood's elimination of nine varsity sports says a lot about the state of college athletics, December 4, 2023
- Have we reached peak sport sponsorship?, November 2, 2023 (Originally published at Athletic Director U., November 1, 2023)
- What Kentucky Wesleyan College's sports cuts say about state of higher education, October 23, 2023
- The FCC is poised to repeal the repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, and this is a good thing for sports fans, October 1, 2023
- Fifty years after NCAA realignment, the talking points are still the same, September 18, 2023 (Originally published at Extra Points with Matt Brown, September 18, 2023)
- Can't watch ESPN right now? What you need to know about sport programming as a public good, September 1, 2023
- Sports are thought to save college campuses; What if they don't?, August 1, 2023 (Originally published at Extra Points with Matt Brown, July 31, 2023)