The NCAA Needs a Geographer

If you’ve been watching March Madness, then you may have noticed that there is something absolutely mad about the tournament. They section the tournament into four regions: West, East, South and Midwest. As geographers, we encourage this strategy. But how they come up...
The Real Price of Gold

The Real Price of Gold

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you have likely seen a commercial where a young girl watches Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor on TV with a glimmer in her eye that she, too, could be a gold medalist one day. The Olympics make us think that anyone can represent their...