At a recent Penn State football game, a player from the Penn State team arrives on the field, kneels down, and says a prayer for a good twenty seconds or so. Disrespectfully enough, the mascot from the opposing team straight up mocks him. Goldy Gopher, from the University of Minnesota, has been reprimanded for his [...]
Okay, so Day 1 wasn’t SUPER exciting. There were a bunch of blowouts and the drama that defines the month has yet to show. It’s only the first day. These things come with time. Five interesting things did happen though.
(Jeremy Pargo’s dunk will not be mentioned here… uh, except right now. It was a good [...]
College mascots tend to range from the stereotypical to embarrassing. In my own experience, it’s tended to be the latter. My high school team, the highly questionable Bellarmine Bells, had a mascot called the Bellarman. Literally, a giant bell with a mean face. Not exactly fear-inducing.
Then at NYU, our team name was the Violets. And [...]
