The Blog Retirement Article

Well hello there! I don’t need to tell you that the Blog has been pretty much dormant for the past year-plus. There are more than a few reasons for that, and it’s not just Covid. Yes, the season being cancelled last year took a lot of wind out of everyone’s sails, and while there is…

The D3 Tennis World’s Reaction to COVID-19 and the Season Cancellation: Part I

Hey, everyone. Thank you to all who have written in so far with their thoughts about what this experience has been like for them. Below we have a nice mix of players, coaches, and parents sharing a good variety of perspectives. I know for me it’s been interesting to hear how everyone is dealing with…

2020 Men’s Power Rankings, 3/7

Hello folks. Remember to set your clocks FORWARD tomorrow. Don’t lose out on an extra hour of daylight! Enjoy the darkness when you wake up in the morning for a 6AM practice or when you go to work! That’s not miserable at all! Hey, at least that means an extra hour for Happy Hour. Which…

Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe)

Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe) Recently it seems like the C in C.R.E.A.M. has changed to covid-19 in the past week. @d3west, The Blog’s Number One Resident gives his take in a succinct two tweet thread here. We’re not sure if Case, Kenyon, and Wash U…

2020 DraftKings Recap

Another Indoors come and gone, which means we get to look back on another year of Indoors DraftKings. Congrats to all who played, but a special shoutout to Winging It, WHO DEFENDED HER 2019 TITLE! In all our years of doing different Blog contests, we have never had anybody win the same contest in consecutive…

2020 Indoors Roundtable Recap

2020 Indoors Roundtable Recap We’ve assembled the news team and are here to give you our final thoughts on Indoors before we turn our attention to upcoming spring breaks and move ahead with the rest of the spring season season. If you haven’t yet, check out our first Players of the Week and D3AS’ Studs…

2020 Indoors: Studs & Duds

Indoors weekend, ladies and gentlemen. What a weekend it was. I went into the weekend thinking about these few things, all of which turned out to be mostly wrong. CMS was far and away the best team in the country Brandeis would lay an egg in their first chance to show that last season was…

2020 DraftKings Cheat Sheet

2020 INDOORS DRAFTKINGS CHEAT SHEET If it’s not abundantly clear from the 7 articles we’ve published in the past 2+ days, WE’RE PUMPED FOR INDOORS! Some of that is because it’s really a special tournament where many of the best teams in the country compete for a “national championship.” Buuuuttttttttttt some of that is also…

2020 Indoors QF Preview #2: No. 3 Chicago vs No. 6 Kenyon

No. 3 (#4) CHICAGO vs. No. 6 (#11) KENYON tl;dr – newCentral’s Predicted Box Score 1D – Kenyon def. Chicago 8-6 2D – Chicago def. Kenyon 8-4 3D – Chicago def. Kenyon  8-3 1S – Kenyon def. Chicago 6-4, 6-2 2S – Kenyon def. Chicago 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 3S – Chicago def. Kenyon 6-2, 7-6(5)…

2020 DRAFTKINGS: Your Daily Fantasy/Live Standings

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So far we have an Indoors overview, and our first quarterfinal preview, but those pale in comparison to one favorite things The Blog does each year. We’ve made lineup projections, simulated out the tournament, crunched the forecasted numbers and are THRILLED to bring you our 5th annual…