Past Articles from James Kline

James Kline

James Kline is a Sports Communication and Journalism senior at Emerson College in Boston, Ma. James plays ultimate at his university and has been playing since he was 16. His high school team won the Massachusetts state championship in 2014. His favorite sport outside of ultimate is basketball. If he were to compare himself to an NBA player, he would be Klay Thompson. He gets straight buckets but don’t let him dribble the ball.

  1. Video Product Review: Friction Warms

    Can Friction's new gloves keep your hands comfortable this winter?

  2. College Update: Men’s Centex, Tally Classic

    Is this the prelude to a couple of massive weekends?

  3. College Update: Classic City Invite, No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn

    It was a another big D-III weekend, but every division featured top 25 competition.

  4. College Update: Commonwealth Cup

    Weather dampened the weekend, but there's a huge one on the horizon!

  5. College Update: Florida Warm Up, Queen City Tune Up

    The biggest weekend of college ultimate thus far!

  6. College Update: Santa Barbara Invite, Carolina Kickoff

    The second weekend of competition features top ranked teams on both coasts!

  7. College Update: Florida Winter Classic Opens College Competition

    The college season begins in earnest!

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  • Rachelle Depner

    Trout did play in all the games in 2023. However, Trout did forget their white jersey one day and wore Kennedy McCarthy's instead. So that might account for the missing games.

    Digging Into the U24 US National Team Rosters · 8 hours ago

  • Theresa Diffendal

    USAU does not have an open division, that’s WFDF. And I agree with NC, this comment is off-topic from the post, and despite what you say posting a one-off comment on an unrelated article will not result in a fruitful discussion, especially as you seem set on your opinion from your multiple similar comments on other posts

    Here Are the 2025 U24 National Team Rosters · 1 day ago

  • Coach Marky G

    Thanks for the reply. I agree, probably not the best spot to post but I'm just trying to have the conversation online that people I play with have in person regularly. FWIW, I consider myself pro-trans and pro-women. I just don't think that sex assigned at birth (SAAB) males (who's world record huck is 95% further than the world record for SAAB females) should be playing in the girl's divisions. Isn't that why we have an open division?

    Here Are the 2025 U24 National Team Rosters · 2 days ago

  • NC

    I made an account just to respond to you and say that your decision making is craaazy. Posting on an article where players are just giddy to see their name on a list then using bitterness over a youth tournament from 4 months ago for a sport that has no real tuition prospects and no real impact on folks' future to make an anti-trans athlete statement. Regardless of whether or not I agree with your statement, the choice to post it here and now is wild.

    Here Are the 2025 U24 National Team Rosters · 2 days ago

  • Ted

    Funny bonus segment.
    Btw, I think tigers would win over chimpansees. But over gorillas not so sure.

    Deep Look LIVE: Drafting Ultimate ft. the Drafted Podcast · 4 days ago

  • Coach Marky G

    I keep coming back to the issue of fairness. Fairness for the other girls on the team. I coach a girl's team. If a girl came to me and said she was taking testosterone to improve her athletic performance, I would tell her that's not ok. If a boy comes to me and says he doesn't feel safe playing on the boys team, by policy, I both a) have to let him play on my girls team (with his biological testosterone boost) and b) can't ask any questions about his decision.

    How is that fair to the other girls?

    When I talk with my daughter about how to help her team increase their chance to win at nationals, it really sucks to say, "Do you know any guys who are uncomfortable playing in the open division?" Honestly, how is South Eugene team playing with several male sex bodies fair to my daughter and the rest of her team. "Sorry Honey. Looks like you're playing for second."

    How is not allowing girls to take testosterone to improve their athletic performance but allowing guys to play on the same team fair? I get that a trans/nonbinary people might face discriminations, but isn't that why we call it an "open" division? 2 division. Girls and everyone else. Seems more fair to everyone then pretending that a boy body performs the same as a girl body.

    We Can’t Let This Happen To Us · 1 week ago

  • Luke Rickford

    Robbie Cahill, one of the first guys to make me go "how tf did he do that?" on the ulti field
    And a real class act <3

    The 25 New Inductees to the Ultimate Hall of Fame · 2 weeks ago

  • Ted

    Although I’m okay with an international MMP group of Masahiro Matsuno, Tom Rogacki, Justin Foord and Masashi Kurono, Nasser M’Bae Vogel should at least have been considered. ;)

    Deep Look LIVE: Trivia and Mailbag! · 2 weeks ago

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