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How To Pick North Carolina in Your 2022 Bracket

What seems like a lifetime ago, I wrote an annual column entitled “How to Pick North Carolina in Your Bracket.” It embraced the fundamental…

Mar 16, 2022

How To Pick North Carolina in Your 2022 Bracket

Mar 16, 2022

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Thinking Thrones

New Platform for House of the Dragon Content

HBO is returning to the world of Westeros this fall and I am awakening my petrified keyboard fingers and writing about House of the Dragon.

Aug 18, 2022

Aug 18, 2022

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Thinking Thrones

A (Completed) Song of Fire and… more Fire

It’s only natural if a flame-spewing dragon doesn’t appeal to someone who has been badly burned.

Oct 6, 2021

A (Completed) Song of Fire and… more Fire

Oct 6, 2021

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Old Ben

With Rogue One’s box office and critical success, the floodgates for future Star Wars Anthology films are officially open. Next up is a…

Aug 30, 2021

Aug 30, 2021

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The Hodgkin Chronicles

XXIV: 20 Things that brought me joy in 2020

Ah 2020. At this point it feels cliche to observe that the past year has been challenging for everyone — but still, it has. For me the…

Dec 29, 2020

XXIV: 20 Things that brought me joy in 2020

Dec 29, 2020

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The Hodgkin Chronicles

XXIII: PETs and pets

Let’s start with good news. My PET scan this month showed no evidence of recurrent or residual disease. Eight months out from treatment…

Jul 28, 2020

XXIII: PETs and pets

Jul 28, 2020

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The Hodgkin Chronicles

XXII: One year, faded

In psychology there’s a phenomenon called the fading affect bias. It describes the way that the emotions tied to negative memories tend to…

Jun 24, 2020

XXII: One year, faded

Jun 24, 2020

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The Hodgkin Chronicles

XXI: Hope for “Normal”

In the days following my diagnosis of recurrent Hodgkin Lymphoma last June, my thoughts slowly shifted from the initial “Am I going to…

May 13, 2020

XXI: Hope for “Normal”

May 13, 2020

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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Championship Edition

It’s crazy we’ve already reached what would have been championship monday of the 2020 NCAA tournament. It would have been a strange March…

Apr 6, 2020

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Championship Edition

Apr 6, 2020

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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Final Four Edition

UNC has made more Final Fours than any other program, having advanced to the last weekend of the NCAA tournament 20 times. Since every…

Apr 4, 2020

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Final Four Edition

Apr 4, 2020

John Tobben

John Tobben

Radiology fellow in Charlottesville, VA. From time to time write about sports, TV, and whatever else catches my interest. @DrJohnTobben

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