Pickup Sports Ramblings

For a player, game day starts an hour before the puck drops. For the organizer, it starts 48 hours earlier. For over a decade, I’ve

It’s a ritual as old as the game itself. The players are warmed up, the pucks are gathered, and the organizer stands at center ice,

For more than a decade, my 3-on-3 pickup hockey game has been a fixture in my life. It’s not a formal league, just a dedicated

If you’re an organizer for a pickup game, you’ve probably done the search. You’re drowning in spreadsheets and group chats, you know there has to

There are few tasks more awkward than having to chase your friends for money. That weekly text—”Hey man, just a reminder you still owe $15

Every organizer knows the feeling. It’s two hours before game time, and you’re staring at your phone, anxiously waiting for those last few confirmations to