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What's in a game?

What’s in a Game: reframing pain

The 10k is a grueling race. The longest race on the track, competitors must complete 25 laps —  6.2 miles — at fierce speeds.  At the first mile, your...

What’s in a Game? Virtue

Aristotle defines virtue as a habit, the continuous and deliberate choice to be excellent in a thing. If you make good choices consistently, eventually you will naturally make good choices most of...

What’s in a Game: community

Far too often, we restrict athletic competition to the realm of organized “school” sports. The Lady Crusaders and their male counterparts seem to thoroughly occupy the position of athletics in our subconscious...

What’s in a game: focus

Focus. It’s a key ingredient for everyday life, and athletes tend to be quite adept at the practice; however, it’s not just for athletes.  Focus enables you to shut...

What’s in a game: arete

The relationship between academics and NCAA sports provides a distinct challenge for student athletes. Despite obvious differences between the two, they are ultimately very similar in their purpose and work symbiotically to...

What’s in a Game: Solid support system

In this year filled with so much turmoil and strife, economically, socially and politically, it is important for everyone to have a solid support system. Knowing not only that you have people...

What’s in a game: dissent

The National Football League returns to play!  Through the gray haze of dissent over the COVID-19 pandemic, all the players charge the field once again, emerging from locker rooms clad in their...

What’s in a game: the plight (and grace) of athletic-less student-athletes

There’s a poetically paradoxical ring to the status of fall sports this year.  Stands without fans, a season without any seasons and – most poetically – student-athletes without athletics. 

What’s in a game: passion

Little is more precious to college students than their time and energy. With a sizable portion of the University of Dallas’ student body taking their midterm examinations this week, UD athletes have...

What’s in a game: sacrifice

Whenever you make a commitment, you let go of something. John Locke’s “Second Treatise” states that entering into a contract restricts the individual’s rights, as the choice to make a pact binds...

What’s in a Game: motivation

As we approach finals week and struggle to find the motivation to put in the work, we can look to the most motivated people of them all, the marathon running elite, for...

What’s in a game: don’t “just do it”

Nike has been under fire lately, leaving many to wonder what lies behind the infamous “swoosh” that bedecks our shoes, leggings and backpacks.  First came the doping allegations against...

What’s in a game: not made for comfort

You are lined up on the start line, crowded between a hundred other runners. The gun goes off. The cheers are deafening as a mass of runners pushes into the woods. 

What’s in a Game: the real home-field advantage

There’s a primordial power at work on one’s home-field.  Sports, as we know them today, are domesticated warfare. Our home field is our territory, and when Trinity University, Texas...

What’s in a game: Let’s talk about sports

We at the University of Dallas tend to pride ourselves in a kind of interdisciplinary dialogue particular to this school. Theology finds a place in the biology classroom, and physics finds itself...