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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…

5 min readMar 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.

1 min readAug 18, 2022

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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.

3 min readOct 6, 2021

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A (Completed) Song of Fire and… more Fire

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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…

4 min readAug 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…

8 min readDec 29, 2020

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XXIV: 20 Things that brought me joy in 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…

5 min readJul 28, 2020

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XXIII: PETs and pets

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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…

4 min readJun 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…

4 min readMay 13, 2020

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XXI: Hope for “Normal”

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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…

5 min readApr 6, 2020

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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Championship Edition

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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…

4 min readApr 4, 2020

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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Final Four Edition

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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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