Sports Road Trips

The University of Kansas (abbreviated KU, perhaps to avoid confusion with the University of Kentucky) is located in Lawrence, just a short drive from the western suburbs of Kansas City. It is a s...

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It's spring break which means a family trip and we are back in Kansas, visiting friends and doing some small day trips. One of those took us to Wamego, home of the Oz Museum, and then Manhattan, ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/04/omaha-mavericks-4-at-kansas-state.html

The NHL playoffs begin tomorrow and there is no prohibitive favourite to hoist Lord Stanley's mug at this point. The Vegas Golden Knights are the defending champions but they will not repeat, at ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-vegas-will-not-repeat-as-stanley.html

On Thursday night, Ottawa's Claude Giroux scored a shorthanded goal 36 seconds into the game against Chicago. My friend Sharpy was at the game and so I was following it, and when I saw the early ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-makes-sports-history.html

For a venue chaser like myself, the NCAA basketball tournament is not compelling, because the games are played in large arenas, most of which I have seen already. The NIT, however, plays its firs...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/georgia-bulldogs-79-at-ohio-state.html

I'm in Columbus for the NIT, which I will discuss more in the next post. The reason I chose Columbus was that there were other events that I could see if it happened that there was no basketball ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/nebraska-cornhuskers-4182-at-ohio-state.html

This is an editorial post disguised as a game recap. I attended the Atlantic 10 championship game last Sunday, when general admission tickets dropped to $10. It was held at Barclays Center, so I ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/duquesne-dukes-57-vs-vcu-rams-51.html

I began this blog exactly 15 years ago , on the first day of spring in 2009, when I was still living in Japan. In those days, I really did take sports road trips, often using my vacation to spen...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/happy-15th-anniversary.html

When I returned from Alabama, I thought my college basketball season was over. But then Stony Brook pulled off a couple of upsets in the Coastal Athletic Association tournament and found themselv...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/stony-brook-seawolves-79-at-charleston.html

The final day of the college basketball regular season is mostly meaningless, as teams are just fighting for seeding in their conference tournaments and hoping to avoid serious injury. Such was t...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/smu-mustangs-70-at-uab-blazers-74-ncaa.html

The final day of my quick trip through Alabama was spent at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I had only planned to see basketball there, but a check of the composite schedule showed...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/utsa-roadrunners-1-at-uab-blazers-9-6.html

The third event of my Alabama tripleheader was an SPHL hockey game. SPHL used to stand for Southern Professional Hockey League, but with teams as far north as Peoria, they recently changed their ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/fayetteville-marksmen-3-at-birmingham.html

When Friday's baseball game at Alabama was rained out, they set a Saturday doubleheader at 2 p.m., perfect for those who were going to the basketball at 11. I decided to skip the two-hour drive t...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/lipscomb-bisons-13-at-alabama-crimson.html

What attracted me to this trip to Alabama in the first place was a Saturday hoops doubleheader, with the Crimson Tide starting at 11 a.m. for an ESPN game, while Alabama State, nearly two hours a...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/arkansas-razorbacks-88-at-alabama.html

When I visited Illinois basketball last December, I noticed that their gymnastics team would participate in a meet at Alabama the weekend I would be there. At the time, the scheduled start was s...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/alabama-quad-meet-ncaa-gymnastics-march.html

Although some conferences finish their regular season on the first Sunday in March, others play until the week before Selection Sunday, including the SWAC, SEC, and the American. All three confer...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/grambling-state-tigers-74-at-alabama.html

The closest university to Myrtle Beach is Coastal Carolina, about 10 miles away in Conway. The school made national news when its baseball team won the College World Series I attended back in 2...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/james-madison-dukes-86-at-coastal.html

Yesterday was Leap Day, so I celebrated by adding another college basketball venue to the list. I had found a cheap flight to Myrtle Beach and rented a car, driving 85 miles back north to Wilming...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/hofstra-pride-69-at-uncw-seahawks-58.html

The whole reason for this trip was to see Grace Good at the halftime of two Tennessee basketball games. My daughter had watched Good on America's Got Talent and was excited to see her act live, s...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/lsu-tigers-75-at-tennessee-lady.html

When I first checked the college basketball schedule for Saturday, I saw that the Tennessee Tech men had a game at 3:00 in Cookeville and the Tennessee Volunteers had a game at 8:00 in Knoxville....

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/eastern-illinois-panthers-73-at_25.html

NCAA baseball gets started around the same time that pitchers and catchers report to spring training, which means actual games in mid-February. Of course, these contests are played in the south, ...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/sacred-heart-pioneers-1-at-tennessee.html

One of the best things about this quest to see every D-I basketball gym is that I learn a whole lot about the institutions I visit. Tennessee State is a school that I had heard nothing about unti...

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The second stop on our Tennessee trek was Nashville, which has four D-I colleges. I had taken my daughter to Lipscomb just last year, but that left Vanderbilt, Tennessee State, and Belmont. As l...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/georgia-bulldogs-76-at-vanderbilt.html

It is winter break in NYC, so my daughter and I are on a Tennessee trek, where we will cross the state over the next six days. The reason we are in the Volunteer State is to see Grace Good, who i...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/rice-owls-74-at-memphis-tigers-79-ot.html

The St. John's Red Storm play most of their non-conference games on campus at Carnesecca Arena, and most of their Big East games at MSG. But this season, they had three contests at UBS Arena, the...

https://sportsroadtrips.blogspot.com/2024/02/seton-hall-pirates-68-at-st-johns-red.html