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(05/29/13 2:00am)
Paul Trethaway '13: Competitive sports have always been an integral part of my life. In high school, from the moment my motor control evolved to more than just walking and eating, I always wanted to play at the highest level possible. I wanted to get better, win trophies, be the best. I'm certainly not the best, and I'm not playing at the highest level possible.
(05/24/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the Cleveland Cavaliers have once again leapfrogged their way to the NBA draft's first pick. For the second time in three years, the ping pong balls bounced in the Cavaliers' direction, overcoming significant odds 2.8 percent in 2011 and 15.6 percent in 2013 to snatch the draft's pole position. How did this happen? Let's start from the beginning.
(05/17/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, there is little hope for competitive parity amongst the NBA's 30 teams. When the players' union came to an agreement with team owners in November 2011 to end a months-old lockout, it was the players who ultimately capitulated. This extended game of chicken was intended to equalize shared revenues, while also improving the ability of small-market teams to compete with large-market ones.
(05/10/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, injuries are a tragic and inevitable part of sports. Athletes push their bodies to exhilarating limits, enabled by the brain's release of adrenaline and endorphins. But thrills don't make an athlete's ill-fated arrival at the limit any less harrowing.
(05/03/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin but not my surprise, the reaction to Jason Collins revealing his homosexuality has been a mixed bag of support and criticism. With his announcement in Sports Illustrated on Monday, Collins became the first openly gay athlete actively participating in a major professional sport.
(04/26/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, I've always been reluctant to join the social media bandwagon, only to find each new platform has become indispensable to my consumption of information. I joined Facebook as a freshman in high school, but only gave it a second thought with the demise of MySpace during my sophomore year. I created a Twitter as a junior, but didn't send my first tweet until I was a sophomore in college. For this reason and many others, my social media presence differs from Kobe Bryant's.
(04/19/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the time for non-binding suggestion is over. The NBA playoffs start tomorrow, so without my usual pomp and ceremony, here's your viewing guide to the first round:
(04/12/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, I still cannot understand what constitutes cold weather after four years in Hanover. Having spent my first 18 years in Los Angeles, my conception of a dreaded winter temperature was a morning low of 40. I always appreciated living in Southern California's Mediterranean climate, but only based on unsubstantiated conventional wisdom about the horrors of "weather." I knew I had it good, I just didn't know what the alternative might look like.
(04/05/13 2:00am)
Much to my chagrin, scandal has overwhelmed the college athletics sphere. The spring is supposed to be a time for love and rebirth, not deceit and decay, yet somehow the end of every winter brings another administrative scandal. With the football season long over and high-profile basketball games limited to a select few teams, prominent individuals with knowledge of transgressions lose at least some of the incentive to keep quiet. The whistleblowers come out for the spring in full force, and whether it's due to a critical mass of overwhelming guilt or the opportunity to mitigate an active role in the offense, their disclosures own the spotlight.
(03/29/13 3:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the Miami Heat's historic 27-game win streak came to an end last night. As a lifelong fan of the Clippers and underdogs everywhere, I never thought I'd find myself rooting for Goliath, but I couldn't help but grimace as the Heat fell to the Bulls at Chicago's United Center, a court that has seen its share of broken hoop dreams. The second-longest winning streak in North American sports history started Feb. 1, when the defending champions were 28-14. It ended 55 days later with the Heat sporting a record of 55-15.
(03/08/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, this past weekend forced me to confront the parallel lives I've lived this term. On the one hand, I'm struggling to make it through a required statistics course to complete my government major. I am a self-declared qualitative thinker, and all those numbers, symbols and big numbers next to small symbols are almost enough to make me jump ship and reenlist in the sociology department. On the other hand, I'm a staff contributor at Clipper Blog, part of a group of ESPN-affiliated basketball blogs that ceaselessly promote the use of advanced statistics to measure performance. Needless to say, statistics make a lot of sense to me when I'm evaluating which five-man unit permutation produces the best results on the court together. The whole chi-squared business, not so much.
(03/01/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the sports community continues to lag behind the rest of society in struggles against homophobia. There's no inherent connection between athletics and gay rights, which makes it all the more powerful when a prominent athlete or organization condemns homosexuality as an inappropriate intrusion into the domain of competition.
(02/22/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, yesterday's NBA trade deadline was a bore. The lure of finding one final puzzle piece before the playoffs is usually too strong to resist. Even more, with the proliferation of NBA insiders' use of Twitter, the trade deadline's accompanying drama is often a strangely intimate insight into the sausage-making process. However, all of the big names thrown around over the past two weeks have evaded exchange.
(02/08/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the era of the NBA super team will soon be coming to an end. Some basketball traditionalists lamented the transparent collusion among the game's biggest stars. They said Magic Johnson and Larry Bird would never have teamed up, they would have much preferred to beat one another.
(02/01/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, I've been unable to fulfill my simple, lone desire regarding the 2022 FIFA World Cup that is, ignoring its existence entirely until 2022.
(01/25/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, the NBA's liberal approach to team nickname alterations will leave many basketball fans utterly confused.
(01/11/13 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, it looks like the city of Sacramento will lose its beloved NBA team at the close of the season. If the rumors are true, the Sacramento Kings will relocate under new ownership to Seattle.
(01/07/13 4:00am)
I sat down with Gabas Maldunas '15 to discuss the early stages of Dartmouth's basketball season, Lithuania's national obsession with the game and his ultimate aspirations as a basketball player.
(11/09/12 4:00am)
Much to my chagrin, I have had to wait until my senior year to witness the talents of Michael Reilly '12 and Ryan McManus '15. The two men leading Dartmouth's receiving corps didn't see much action until this season, but their dual breakout was worth the wait. Both Reilly and McManus have surpassed the 500 receiving yards mark after last week's win against Cornell, and McManus even caught the attention of the folks at ESPN when he snagged a spot on SportsCenter's "Top 10." The tandem is characterized by balanced success, but not all stories are so equitable.
(11/02/12 3:00am)
Much to my chagrin, today's column will be my last before the 2012 election. I'll be saddened to see Nov. 6 come and go because paying witness to free and fair elections is a proud right of all Americans. I'm not saddened because I'm worried about the results (and the impending Armageddon), and I'm certainly not upset that I will be missing all the hoopla brought by the campaigns over the last two years.