Tony Leonardo has been writing about Ultimate since 1996 and is the co-author of Ultimate: The First Four Decades (2005) and author of Ultimate: The Greatest Sport Ever Invented By Man (2008). He founded the University of Notre Dame team in 1991 and and won a gold medal playing for Team USA Masters at the 2011 World Championships of Beach Ultimate. He is also known as a broadcast commentator for Paganello (2004-7, 2009), Club Worlds in Prague (2010) the World Games in Cali, Colombia (2013) and as the color commentator for the MLU’s Eastern Conference (2013, 2014).
In the late 1990s when the Pacific Northwest-oriented mixed division (then called co-ed) was introduced to the National Championships in the United States it brought with it a high regard—both…
First things first: this tournament is much bigger and will be much more competitive than WCBU2007 in Brazil. There are several reasons for this: location, the passage of time and…
India—we know—is huge. There are over a billion people on the Indian subcontinent speaking a plurality of language and following a plethora of deities. Of the 28 states that form…
Kampala, Uganda is known as the city of Seven Hills. Like many cosmopolitan cities it supports a vibrant ultimate scene on the upswing. This August the Kampala-based Team Uganda will…
Competitive 3-1 Quarters was something like O-Pig (originally a Virginia-based high school re-union team I believe?) losing to Ryan West and the Miami Sound Machine, a Bashing Piñatas re-union team….
Not too shabby. The usual suspects clogged the top of the charts in the competitive divisions while the shenanigans all around continued unabated. For the uninitiated, playing in any division…
So the low-down on Wildwood is that there are 400 teams of 8-15 players each jammed into overpriced hotels on a super beach party weekend. Everyone under the age of…
Sandblast finals Sunday The clouds came in the afternoon today making for a temperate finals with a touch of wind. Great weather for watching. As expected, top seed Team USA…
First, some answers from Thursday’s preview. 1) Team “Threat Level Magna” is actually a typo as the team is supposed to be Threat Level Magenta. In the high-stakes action on…
My last trip to Sandblast was in 2005. That year I shot, edited and commentated the finals for the tournament DVD and played with Hurt Locker. Back then there were…
