Will’s World Deep Breath

By Will Carlin It was a bad call. No, not the one that put wrestling back in the Olympic Games at the expense of squash (and...

Will’s World Handicapping the Field

Pavilion Seven at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, sits just a few yards east of the Gulf of Finland. On a...

Will’s World Honor Guard

By Will Carlin It was cold in Arizona in February. The PGA tour picked The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, to host its...

Will’s World Learn From the Pros

Alan Thatcher introduced Peter Barker first. Dressed in all black and not wearing a warm-up, Barker quickly walked down the aisle outside the left wall of...

Publishers Note Will Carlin’s No. 1 Fan

By Jay D. Prince On the heels of my "Psycho Parent's" column in our last issue, and the interestingly large number of emails I received...

Will’s World Collaborative Calls

By Will Carlin On a cold, crisp Thursday evening thirty-one years ago, numerous vans started arriving at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. A light snowfall...

Will’s World 2012: Transformations and New Eras

By Will Carlin In December of 2012, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. The 2012 "phenomenon" was due to numerous beliefs that a number...

Will’s World Unintended Consequences

By Will Carlin In 1897, a retired professor from a small northeast region of France, was named the Governor-General of French Indochina. Paul Doumer, who...

Will’s World Handles With Care

By Will Carlin Just before the start of the 1921 Wimbledon finals, the two opponents— Philadelphia’s “Big Bill” Tilden and Brian Norton from South Africa—posed...

Will’s World Hit the Road, Jack

By Will Carlin So, the national rankings came out last month. Judging by the rancor in New York City, the ten-year experiment on ratings and...