Benjamin Hochman

6 days ago | stltoday.com | Benjamin Hochman

Victor Scott II sprints in Mach 2. He can scramble up the parameters of a tightly played baseball game with baserunning speed that is just not normal. Like, there’s fast, and then there’s this. To keep things a level playing field — and it sure looks like Scott is running downhill down there — perhaps the umpires could start giving him speeding tickets. And on a May 2025 day at Busch Stadium, he transported onlookers to an October 1946 afternoon, across town, at the corner of Grand and Dodier.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Benjamin Hochman

WTF. The acronym sums up the circumstances in Game 7, but it also sums up how the Blues got there to begin with — Walker, Toropchenko, Faksa. The “WTF Line” epitomized the identity of the 2024-25 Blues and pumped the blue blood into the team’s beating heart, though as seen on Nathan Walker’s face in Game 7, it lost a bit of blood along the way. And statistically, they absurdly overachieved in the series against Winnipeg. Alexy Toropchenko, this torpedo on skates, is back next year, as is Walker.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Benjamin Hochman

Summit and Summitt. For Kellie Harper, they’re one of the same. See, for Mizzou’s new women’s basketball coach to reach the summit, she’ll have to accomplish what her former coach and mentor did so often: win the national title. Pat Summitt once graced the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline: “Is she the best college basketball coach since John Wooden?” That was in March of 1998. She went on to win the national championship that spring. And two more in years after that. Eight total titles.

1 week ago | pantagraph.com | Benjamin Hochman

It’s only because you care. This pain, this heartache, this stunned and numbed feeling is only because your pour your everything into your St. Louis Blues. And you dutifully and passionately poured your everything — and then two more periods worth of your everything — into Sunday’s Game 7. Now, if you didn’t truly care, you would’ve easily avoided these raw emotions.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Benjamin Hochman

It’s only because you care. This pain, this heartache, this stunned and numbed feeling is only because your pour your everything into your St. Louis Blues. And you dutifully and passionately poured your everything — and then two more periods worth of your everything — into Sunday’s Game 7. Now, if you didn’t truly care, you would’ve easily avoided these raw emotions.