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Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell December 6, 2018

Over the weekend, I watched the most recent ESPN 30 for 30, a documentary series that covers a wide range of sports stories. This particular story was about the life and death of Junior Seau, a defensive...

Tomfoolery

Tomfoolery

Tom O'Leary November 9, 2018

Traditionally in professional sports, a team can never have too much talent. Acquiring and developing as much talent as possible is essentially the primary directive for roster construction. But can a...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell November 9, 2018

As the Los Angeles Clippers took the floor against the Denver Nuggets to start the season, it was the first time they had played a game without star players Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell October 2, 2018

It’s the month of October, and that means the NBA season is right around the corner. I’m excited for this season for many reasons, so I’ll take the time in this column to discuss them. Let’s...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell May 10, 2018

Over the weekend, a friend of mine texted me a picture of his hypothetical soccer lineup of the best current 11 players from all over the world. There was a catch though, and that catch was that you could...

Tom OLeary

Tomfoolery

Tom O’Leary May 10, 2018

As I have been writing this column over the past two semesters, I have often analyzed the current state of the professional sports teams I am most passionate about. But due to the structure of our production...

Tom OLeary

Tomfoolery

Tom O"Leary April 26, 2018

Heading into the 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, the Boston Red Sox were largely overlooked as a legitimate World Series contender. Even the most devoted fans had tempered their expectations after...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell April 26, 2018

The injury bug has hit the Boston Celtics hard as they head into the first round of the 2018 playoffs. With many players on the team out for the foreseeable future, it has allowed other players on the...

Tom OLeary

Tomfoolery

Tom O'Leary March 29, 2018

For Major League Baseball (MLB), spring training represents a period of refreshed optimism for each team regardless of the prior results. It is also a time when each team hopes to address the questions...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell March 29, 2018

On the early morning of March 22, sources told ESPN insider Jeff Goodman that Dan Hurley, University of Rhode Island’s men’s basketball coach, was leaving to go to the University of Connecticut on...

Tom OLeary

Tomfoolery

Thomas O’Leary March 15, 2018

Currently, one of the most incendiary debates in the sports world is whether or not college athletes should be paid. The conversation focuses most acutely on Division I men’s basketball and football...

Patrick Bell

The Pat-Down

Patrick Bell February 8, 2018

Entering into the NHL All-Star break, the young and talented Boston Bruins are taking the rest of the league by storm and becoming one of the top contenders for the Stanley Cup. Their record currently...

Badgered with Ben Algar: Good Luck

Ben Algar May 3, 2012

What to do? What to do? What is worth “IT?” How can one gauge that question? Gorge Saunders, acclaimed fiction writer, once told me, “And so it’s like, well, that girl is either going to go...

Badgered with Ben Algar: Play Ball

Ben Algar April 12, 2012

First, allow me to rep my fellow Major League Baseball (MLB) fans across the JSC community and the fans of baseball who read Basement Medicine. Apr. 4, 2012 kicked off yet another highly anticipated season...

Badgered with Ben Algar: The Name Game

March 22, 2012

  The Name Game     What’s the deal with that Peyton Manning guy? I mean, who is he anyway? So he’s had five surgeries, one unannounced. What’s the deal? I’ve had five...

Badgered with Ben Algar

Ben Algar, Sports Editor/ Staff Reporter March 8, 2012

As the illustrious Slim Shady once put it, “They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound, I’m single now, got no ring on this finger now, I’d never let another chick bring me down, in...

Badgered with Ben Algar

Ben Algar, Staff Reporter/Sports Editor February 16, 2012

It was eight years ago on a Sunday much like the Sunday before last. Superbowl weekend, Superbowl Sunday filled with high hopes and titillating anticipation. The halftime show, a tradition long revered...

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