Dan Adler
Dan Adler
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Thanks for an amazing four years at Yale
After two years as a writer, one year as an editor, and these last seven months as a columnist, these 850-odd words represent my final appearance in the pages of the Yale Daily News.
2011: Don’t forget sports when making your pick
From the Whale to the Bowl, from rocking the tailgate to rushing the field, sports play a huge role in a uniquely Yale experience
A lot of thought goes into where we decide to go to college: academics, proximity to home, extracurriculars, food. All that is well and good. But prefrosh, if you’re reading, stop and think for a moment about football. I, for one, will be going to Yale-Harvard games for the rest of my life.
Ready for the real world at 18, were ya?
Professional athletes should not have to be treated like children, and Roger Goodell, David Stern and Bud Selig should not have to act like their fathers. But there’s no way athletes can ever hope to be treated as mature adults if they don’t finish college.
Give me more Rudys and fewer Mannys
In many ways, Yale gives athletes more reasons than most other colleges to not push it. And yet we’ve all seen a Yale athlete push him or herself beyond what’s really necessary to “stay afloat.”
The only sure bet is against the pundits
On Monday, I sat down to watch 24, per the norm, when my friend Jon Bittner decided to begin gloating that he had caught up to me in our a cappella group’s NCAA pool. Indeed, thanks to UNC, I ended up with two of the Final Four, while Jon managed to get three. Just to remind you, I spent a sizable chunk of winter break watching college basketball. I watched, on average, a game or two a week for the first part of this semester. And I watched hours upon hours of the conference tournaments. How
Break is here, and I want my Dickie V.
Bubble teams. Cinderellas. Dickie V. going nuts on national television for the 438,957,592nd time. You know what this means. It’s time for March Madness.
Gold standard long gone on Tower Pkwy.
Silly me. After watching Yale basketball demolish Cornell last Friday and developing a huge man-crush on Eric Flato in the process, I figured I could stand to miss Saturday’s contest against Columbia, a team we had beaten three weeks earlier by 14 points — on the road. I had a concert to go to, and my scheduled trip to Penn for this weekend meant I’d see my boys in action again. And then we lost by 18. At home.
Who needs the pros? Bring on the normalcy
You have to appreciate it when an athlete messes up — possibly injuring herself and hurting her team’s chance of victory in one fell swoop — and yet somehow manages to betray no emotion and keep on trucking.
Support your local sportswriter
This is a simple two-way relationship. Athletes, fans, parents, teachers, whomever — let sportswriters know you’re reading, give them feedback, make them know you’re there. The less it feels like no one’s reading, the more incentive a writer has to do his best work, and the more you’ll enjoy reading. Even about missed free throws.
Men's hoops needs to win sans 6th man
Boys, ride a mean streak through February. We’ll take care of Mark Zoller from there.