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Articles by Declan Buckley
Sports Spotlight: Maia Ramsden
Maia Ramsden ’24 has had quite the year. After an outstanding first two seasons with the Crimson, she won the Women’s 1500m at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor National Championships in June, becoming the first New Zealander to ever win the event. She followed up this historic win by reaching even greater heights in her senior year—she recently recorded the second-fastest women’s collegiate mile time ever and is slated to make her debut for the Kiwis at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in March.
Indy Sportsbook: Year in Review Part 2
A large portion of Indy Sportsbook’s content has been dedicated to extolling the virtues of responsible sports gambling. It is a great way to bring even more excitement to the sports you love and can make you deeply invested in ones you never even thought about. We have greatly enjoyed all the highs and lows of our picks during our second semester of writing this column. At the end of the day, however, gambling truly boils down to one thing: making money.
The Games Beyond “The Game”
The Game needs no introduction. The annual football contest between Harvard and Yale is one of the most historic rivalries in all of college sports. The Independent has dedicated plenty of words to Harvard’s lack of school spirit, such as our Beanpot article that covered the near-empty student section for the biggest hockey game of the year. The Game is an exception to this phenomenon. It is the flagship event of the social calendar and garners national media attention.
Indy Sportsbook: The Game Edition
We launched Indy Sportsbook last January to bring you the foremost gambling content of any student publication at Harvard. In the ensuing months, we have covered everything from the NFL and Women’s World Cup to professional cycling and competitive darts. There are picks we look back on with pride and others that we try hard to forget. Yet despite encouraging you to risk your money on nearly everything imaginable, there is one gaping hole in our resume—Harvard sports.
Indy Sportsbook: Thank God It’s Fall
The fall is an absolutely fantastic time to be a sports bettor. Seemingly every major sport is either underway or about to begin, and we at Indy Sportsbook have been surely reaping the benefits. After a mediocre rookie year, the start of our sophomore season proves promising. While it will be some time before any of our NFL futures bear fruit, the 49ers look like a juggernaut and the Falcons are in the thick of the divisional race.
Athlete-Students or Student-Athletes?
Harvard University is the biggest sports school in the country. This statement may come off as laughable to anyone who longingly watches ESPN’s College Gameday from their common room every weekend, but it is technically correct. The school has 42 varsity sports, more than any other Division 1 program, with approximately 20% of the student body participating in one of them.
Indy Sportsbook: Year in Review
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
Indy Sportsbook: Working for the Weekend
Throughout the entirety of Indy Sportsbook’s (albeit very short) history, we have prided ourselves on our commitment to each issue’s theme. Whether we are making puns about love and sex or examining how gambling can fit into the counterculture, we strive to make our degenerate musings a worthy inclusion. For the first unthemed issue of the year, however, the guardrails are off.
Indy Sportsbook: No More Vanilla Betting
The Sex Issue is the Harvard Independent’s biggest theme of the year, but it has proven to be a little tricky for us over here at Indy Sportsbook. While we consider both gambling and sex very worthwhile vices, the overlap between them is few and far between. Gambling is certainly not the “sexiest” subject—good luck trying to bring someone home from TITS with the story of your winning parlay—and most gambling that involves sex is too problematic to write about.
Indy Sportsbook: The Gender Betting Gap
It goes without saying that the sports gambling industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past few years. Widespread legalization has made wagering more accessible than ever before. A Harvard student will soon be able to bet on events as obscure as second-division Australian soccer (we like West Adelaide at +130) from the comfort of their dorm room. There are podcasts, TV shows, and columns such as the Indy Sportsbook dedicated to covering the topic.
Point/Counterpoint : Indy Sportsbook: Betting on the Favorite
Cooper: If you’re like us, and have little to no real gambling insight, betting on your favorite team can even the odds—figuratively speaking. There are many strategic advantages to consistently doing so, as fervent supporters that watch every game simply know more than the neutrals. When you’ve seen hundreds of Brady games, you know that an early interception at home against the Bills is not cause for serious concern, or that a 2nd quarter three-and-out in Miami spells doom.
Gus Johnson on Harvard, His Career, and Grendel’s
Gus Johnson has voiced some of the most memorable moments in sports. During his rise to fame as a CBS college basketball commentator, Johnson’s tenure with the network also included many NFL games, the 1998 Winter Olympics, two Champions League Finals, and the Madden 2011 video game. Currently serving as the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports’ college football coverage, Johnson lends his talents to the prestigious Big Noon Saturday slot every week.
Indy Sportsbook: Super Bowl LVII Edition
Every February, a third of the country sits down to watch the Super Bowl. For many viewers, the appeal is obvious. This game represents the culmination of another season filled with storybook victories, heartbreaking defeats, and the Cowboys losing in the divisional round. The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are the last teams left standing, and for good reason: both have All-Pro quarterbacks, mastermind head coaches, and rosters filled with superstars.
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