The 2025 squad didn’t walk away with a championship, but they claimed just about every other program milestone. More importantly, they created a culture where competing for championships is expected.

For Wesleyan’s senior class, everything converged at once: their final game of organized football, an opportunity to avenge the 56–8 beatdown Trinity delivered on this field two years ago, and a chance for the program’s first-ever back-to-back championship.

The Wesleyan women’s golf team is just six years old, but they have already orchestrated a meteoric rise in Division III. From a five-player roster in 2019 that had a scoring average of 118.4, the Cardinals have surged to 10th in the nation following a breakthrough this fall season.

The World Cup is the most romantic tournament in sports. It will also be a $150 billion betting market. What happens when those two things intersect?

The sport spent decades tolerating unfairness because that unfairness made room for dozens of narratives to matter simultaneously. The 12-team playoff fixed the fairness but it killed everything else.