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How Adding a Draft Would Boost International Swimming League From football to hockey, hearing your name on draft night is something that every young athlete dreams of, and for good reason. Sitting in a giant arena dressed to the nines, surrounded by your closest friends and family, waiting for the c...

We’ve all seen the swimmer gift lists gracing the pages of Swimming World Magazine and its website. We write down tech suits, parkas, and GoPros on our lists with care, in the hope that when we go to open gifts on Christmas morning they will be there. Unfortunately, most of this stuff costs a pretty...

Bird Is the Word: What Event Each Thanksgiving Food Would Be Thanksgiving is, along with Super Bowl Sunday and the Fourth of July to an extent, one of the few days of the year in which stuffing your face is not only encouraged but is the normal way to go about your day. You wake up to a giant breakf...

Swimming on the TV/Movie Screen: A Character Ranking It’s unfortunately common knowledge that the portrayal of swimming in film and television is relatively uncommon, being overshadowed by sports such as ping-pong (Balls of Fury, 2007), BASEketball (BASEketball, 1998), and bobsled (Cool Runnings, 19...

From the Paint to the Pool: The Events Your Favorite NBA Stars Would (Probably) Swim For those living inside of a bubble for the last few months (no pun intended), the NBA Bubble finished off a somewhat miraculous run Sunday night, as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, four games to two...

With Pandemic Still Present, Race to the Wall in Recruiting Goes Digital Back when the world was normal (roughly seven months ago, even though to most of us that feels like a whole other lifetime), recruiting was for the most part a fairly straightforward process. The coach contacts the recruit and ...