Sports

Sport is life in a Big 10 town. As a magazine journalist, I am finding increasingly frequent opportunities to write about Big 10 basketball and football — although principally treating sports as a cultural phenomenon, as opposed to analyzing stats and gauging the merits of pro athletes as fantasy picks. Some examples:

• IU Women’s Basketball: This Could Be the Year (Bloom Magazine)

• Changes Coming, Says New Volleyball Coach (Bloom Magazine)

• 50th Anniversary of IU at the Rose Bowl: The Season No Hoosier Fan Will Ever Forget (Bloom Magazine)

• A New Era Begins (Bloom Magazine) — Interviews with the new head football and basketball coaches at Indiana University.

• Three Women Who Played IU Basketball When Female Athletes Got No Respect (Bloom Magazine)

• Saturday Is Cricket Day in Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park (Bloom Magazine)

• Fencers Focus on Summer Glory (New Jersey Monthly)