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The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

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Commentary: DePaul women's basketball will find ways to adjust

Commentary: DePaul women’s basketball will find ways to adjust

Ben Gartland November 13, 2016

The Maggie Dixon Classic showed a couple of things for DePaul women’s basketball. The first is that they have the potential to be really, really good. Head coach Doug Bruno echoed this idea in the post-game...

A partisan opinion of Cleveland

A partisan opinion of Cleveland

Geoff Stellfox October 31, 2016

In .43 seconds, Google has 3,940,000 hits on a search of why Cleveland sucks. “This article is going to be a piece of cake,” I think to myself while a broad grin spreads across my face. I just hope...

Take me out to the ball game

Take me out to the ball game

Jack Higgins October 30, 2016

The first baseball game I ever saw live was a Cubs-Brewers game at six years old. Yet, the first sports team apparel I ever wore was a toddler-sized Indians’ jersey. I have lived in the Chicago suburbs...

Commentary: The MLB playoffs can't be predicted

Commentary: The MLB playoffs can’t be predicted

Ben Gartland October 10, 2016

With 103 wins in the 2016 regular season, the Chicago Cubs are the best team in baseball. They stormed into the playoffs, running away with the National League Central Division. The stakes and the...

Commentary: When sports mirror life

Commentary: When sports mirror life

Ben Gartland October 3, 2016

Sports have an uncanny ability to make people feel connected to people they’ve never met, to teams they’ve never played for and to events that we are only spectators for. Which is why last Sunday...

Commentary: Stop treating women like they don't belong in sports

Commentary: Stop treating women like they don’t belong in sports

Ben Gartland September 26, 2016

A new television series called “Pitch,” premiered this past week, which centers around the first woman ever to play in Major League Baseball. In their preview for the show, the New York Times wrote...

NFL needs to approach concussions head on

NFL needs to approach concussions head on

Ben Gartland September 18, 2016

The National Football League came out with a newer protocol prior to the 2016 season for observing and preventing concussions. It puts into place observers that are unaffiliated with either team and...

Sports and politics do mix, as they should

Ben Gartland September 11, 2016

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick drew strong reactions when he sat down during the playing of the national anthem on Aug. 26. Fans posted videos of themselves burning Kaepernick jerseys...

Who DePaul's first opponent at its new arena should be

Who DePaul’s first opponent at its new arena should be

Ben Gartland, Matthew Paras, and Ben Savage May 30, 2016

The DePaulia's basketball experts weigh in on who should be the first opponent when the new arena opens. Northwestern The opening of the new DePaul arena for the start of the 2017-18 season will be...

DePaul is getting better, but so is the Big East

DePaul is getting better, but so is the Big East

Ben Gartland May 6, 2016

DePaul men’s basketball is going through a transformation. Head coach Dave Leitao will enter his second season back at DePaul with six new players, as well as a redshirt sophomore who will not be eligible...

At season’s end, DePaul has a lot to look forward to

At season’s end, DePaul has a lot to look forward to

Zachary Holden March 27, 2016

DALLAS — After the loss to Oregon State in the Sweet Sixteen, DePaul coach Doug Bruno didn’t seem as distraught as most coaches would be after seeing their season come to a close. Sure he’s losing...

New era reeks of old problems in Leitao’s first season back with DePaul

New era reeks of old problems in Leitao’s first season back with DePaul

Ben Gartland March 12, 2016

NEW YORK – In the underbelly of Madison Square Garden, with the sounds of the second game of the night going on in the background, three men sit at a table answering questions. The first is an older...

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