The Well Nasty Brotherhood
by September 17, 2013, 9:15am 0
Tulsa is a strange place for a coup. Scott Berens and his ragtag band of Doublewide teammates, Hodag friends, and Berkeley grads had traveled to the Sooner state for a…
Features
Seven On: Leagues Faceoff, College Starting
by September 16, 2013, 1:53pm 0
1) Training Camps The NHL season is starting up again, and that means that training camps are beginning as well. I know some AUDL and MLU teams have training camps…
Power Rankings: Club Men’s – Pre-Regionals
by September 12, 2013, 11:43am 0
With the club season drawing towards culmination, Skyd is pleased to release our series Power Rankings. These rankings are the compilation of staff input and editorial consideration. With the new…
Product Review: The Ultimate Athlete Project
by September 12, 2013, 6:48am 0
In 2011, Tim Morrill wrote an article for Skyd called On Ultimate Athletes. In it, Tim theorized the stages of ultimate training that players tend to go through in their attempt…
Unpredictably Irish: The 2013 All-Ireland Ultimate Championship
by September 10, 2013, 8:35am 0
In the land of saints and scholars, things rarely go to plan. Seventeen Open teams from all corners of the island descended upon on Cork City last weekend for the…
Seven On: Jams, Regular Season Ends
by September 6, 2013, 11:40am 0
1. Beach Cup A random thought I had the other day about trying to find a solution on what to do for beach ultimate, was to look at the setup…
Urgency and Perspective
by September 5, 2013, 8:00am 0
Sports are fun. The basic joy of play (routinely implied through the use of that word – ‘play’ – itself) is the foundation upon which all other forms of athletic…
Blip on the Rada: A Windmill Windup Affair
by September 3, 2013, 1:42pm 0
A team composed of RISE UP coaches and US Ultimate superfriends takes on Amsterdam’s Windmill Windup as team Chiniya Rada. Presented by Five Ultimate (http://fiveultimate.com) Edited by Elliot Trotter Featuring…
Cracked Egg
by September 2, 2013, 10:23am 0
It’s another rainy day here in Buffalo, NY. Hard rain, too, with thunder and lightning cracking on all sides, and the amount drivers around roaming around with no lights on,…
Seven On: Summer Mailbag
by August 27, 2013, 10:17am 0
Welcome to the mailbag edition of Seven On. Questions were a lot more wide ranging this round, but once again a lot of fun. Once fall rolls around, expect another…
The United States of Ultimate Map
by August 26, 2013, 6:00am 0
On June 14th, I had just been green-lighted to attend the EsriUC, the major GIS software conference of the year. In less than 3 weeks, 15,000 geo-geeks would descend onto…
The Race Toward Legitimacy
by August 21, 2013, 3:51am 0
On Monday, USA Ultimate filed a takedown notice against Pitt’s 2013 College Championships Highlight Reel. The reel featured footage and commentary from ESPN’s coverage of the tournament. Yesterday, news broke…