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Farewell Column: My 3 cents

Bret Belden April 14, 2016

It’s a bit curious that what I wish to write today results from what I have learned this past semester rather than my whole college track, but it is still, nonetheless, very useful and can certainly...

Farewell Column: A lasting impression

Bret Belden April 14, 2016

After picking up my cap and gown this past Tuesday, looking around seeing all my fellow soon-to-be grads, the idea of graduation officially sunk in… I couldn’t help but feel overcome with emotion…...

Farewell Column: Z:The final letter

Bret Belden April 14, 2016

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.  That was the first piece of advice I got about journalism. It came shortly after I had switched my major from biomedical science to English. The wording of it was...

Farewell Column: Finding your inner beast

Bret Belden April 14, 2016

"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt on your face. Then the worms eat you. Be glad it happens in that order.” Those hilarious—but painfully accurate—words come from American writer David...

Let's make it Clare: The Kobe Bryant farewell column

Bret Belden April 14, 2016

As this year’s NBA regular season winds down, the game will say goodbye to one of its all-time greats. Kobe Bryant will retire at the end of this season after 20 years playing for the Los Angeles Lakers....

Let's make it Clare: Golden State Warriors chasing history

Bret Belden April 7, 2016

The year is 1996 and the Michael-Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, had just beaten the Seattle Supersonics, led by Gary Payton in the NBA Finals. The team with Hall of Famers Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and...

Lets Make it Clare: Baseball: the soon to be forgotten sport

Bret Belden March 31, 2016

In North American sports, one can associate the start of a season with the beginning of a particular sport. Fall has football and winter has hockey and basketball, depending on the type of person you ask....

‘School Hard’

Bret Belden March 24, 2016

"Grade 9,” by the Barenaked Ladies, is a song that was released in the early 1990s and is all about first impressions and the crazy whirlwind that is high school. Sure, we’re all past this grade,...

Brian's Banter: Breaking down the Adam LaRoche saga

Bret Belden March 24, 2016

Storylines constantly consume the MLB around spring training time. For example, the Red Sox have been under the microscope at times, such as when Pablo ‘The Tank’ Sandoval showed up to spring training...

Donnelly's Dossier: If you don’t like Cam Newton, too bad

Bret Belden February 18, 2016

It has been over a week since Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos left Levi Stadium with the Lombardi Trophy, marking the end of the 2015-16 NFL season. It was a terrible game. Boring. Low-scoring. Just...

Deflating the devil

Bret Belden February 11, 2016

Let me preface this column by admitting that my New England Patriots fandom is perhaps best described as religiously fanatical. Robert Kraft is the Father, Tom Brady is the Son, who came out of nowhere...

The Patriots and Economics

Bret Belden February 4, 2016

Let me preface this article by saying this: The Patriots got outplayed and outcoached in the AFC Championship against the Denver Broncos. They had plenty of chances to win and squandered them. They didn’t...

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