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…

Players of the Week: 03/02 – 03/08

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/02 – 3/08 Happy Spring Break Cancellation Week, boys and girls! At this rate, we’ll be lucky if that’s all we get. In what we hope won’t be the last POTW of the season, we look back at a bit of a light week. In case you need it, click…

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 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…

Regional Players of the Week: 02/17-02/23

Indoors has come and gone, which means it’s time for us to really get into gear and get this blogging season DIII tennis season going. Much like how on Wednesdays we wear pink, on Mondays we will have our Players of the Week (POTW) article, giving props to the best players of the previous week.…

Indoors QF #1 Emory @ #8 GAC, Gambler’s Edition

This is going to be the least interesting QF. Hi, it’s ASouth and NewCentral here, by the way. Because we are v committed to blogging, we are previewing the Emory vs. GAC QF despite the fact that we both think this is going to be a blowout. GAC has fallen back to “that team that…

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)…

Central Region Preview Palooza

  OOF – This preview got away from me and became longer than I had anticipated. So, pardon me for the longform here, but I think that this will make for some nice morning commute reading or pleasant I’m at work but I’m not ready to work reading. I tried uploading this earlier with my…

First Four On: A 10,000′ look at Central Singles

It’s been a minute since my last article on the Central Region 5s and I’m sorry that the 4s have had to wait so long (however, now the 1-4s know how the 5s and 6s feel waiting for them to finish their matches). Since I’m behind – and it sounds like people really miss the…