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June 2025

Want to watch the big game? Bring remote, subscriptions, and patience to win the greed game
The never-ending deconstruction of sports broadcasting is leaving audiences frustrated, and alienating those who love teams from their connection. Take…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
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Tennis' ultimate equation solved by Carlos Alcaraz: head + heart = magic
I see myself in Alcaraz, the 2025 French Open champion, as I too never met a low-percentage shot that I didn't want to try. But unlike me, he knows how…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
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May 2025

Welcome to the death zone for big time college sports...yay team!
July 1 is looming, the financial line in the sand for power 5 programs. Except, the court decision that was supposed to happen hasn't, and the lawsuits…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
The Old Man and his foolish sea: the Bill Belichick final chapters we didn't need to see
It's not new to see old men hook up with much younger women. But it's something to watch Belichick, one of the biggest NFL control freaks, slowly lose…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
Yes, I am alive! Time to get rolling again in all the trouble in sports and life
I needed a little break from Open Court, because life got hectic.
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Joanne C. Gerstner
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April 2025

March 2025

Sometimes the best way to be sad is to giggle, because remembering the past is all that's left
I wasn't sports writer Bryce Miller's bestie, more like an Olympic foxhole buddy. I'm reflecting on his life, because he's gone way too soon, with too…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
A conversation 4 months in the making: "idiot" versus Open Court reader
This could have gone the way of the flamethrower, given today's rough vibes. But it's turned into something better, a lost form of art: a running chat…
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Joanne C. Gerstner
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February 2025

The need to remember: Michigan State's shooting two years later and continuing struggle in the aftermath
Everything changed the night of Feb. 13, back in 2023. The world has gone on for two years, but where is our closure?
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Joanne C. Gerstner
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Let's not take it for granted.
We know having women and girls in sports has produced amazing benefits across the board in society since Title IX passed in 1972. But our progress may…
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Joanne C. Gerstner

January 2025

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