Stories from the long memory of college sports.
One piece every Friday. The seasons that weren't. The athletes you never heard of. The games that only the radio remembers.
They Played for Their Schools. Then They Gave Everything.
Remembering the college athletes lost on September 11, 2001 — on the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
The Prince, the Streak, and the Team the World Sent to Claremont
How a seven-nation squad from a small liberal arts college ended the most dominant winning streak American college soccer has ever seen — and why almost no one knows about it.
3-2, And a Hundred Years of History Behind It
A reader's correction sent us back to the archives — and uncovered a century of women's ice hockey that America forgot: Mount Holyoke in 1896, the Pembroke Pandas in disguise, and the 1973 Colby team that restarted it all.
Soccer Style is for Soccer
A dusty size-15 kicking shoe, a 63-yard record that stood for 28 years, and the long, strange history of the foot in football — from dropkicks worth more than touchdowns to the day the toe kicker went extinct.
Playday Champions
The first intercollegiate women's ice hockey game was played at Colby in February 1973. Or was it? A reader tip led to Marjorie Bither, a 1956 yearbook, and a whole hidden era of competition no one was allowed to call competition.
The Flying Parson
He may have been the fastest man in the world at his distance. Then a disputed $30 expense claim erased his world record and his Olympic dream — and the timing has never added up.
First to the Floor
The untold history of women's college basketball. Before March Madness, before the WNBA, there was a gymnasium in Northampton, a Lithuanian immigrant with a brand-new rulebook, and the first college basketball game in American history. The men came two years later.
Play Ball — And Keep Scoring
How college baseball stayed true to its high-scoring roots. From a 73–33 final in 1859 to the aluminum bat era, the college game has never stopped hitting.
They Just Showed Up
Before Title IX. Before women's teams existed. Some women didn't wait for the door to open — they found another way in. The untold story of Dorothy Anderson, Cyndy Meserve, and the pioneers who showed up before anyone thought to invite them.
The College Kid Connection
From Penn to Montevideo, from Hartford to Los Angeles, from Saint Louis to the 2026 World Cup — college soccer has always played a part in America's biggest moments.
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