The year's coming to an end, and although here at the Daily we're sad to see the spring sport season come to a close, what we're dreading most about the end of the semester is the departure of our sole senior editor, Lil' Tim Whelan. It's hard to imagine life without the Sports Department's own Masshole fratboy slash talented writer editor (when he actually hits a deadline, that is). At press time he will probably be out of commission celebrating his impending graduation, but for the rest of you, here are the top ten reasons why Tim Whelan is some kind of wonderful himself.
10. His unwavering sense of responsibility.
9. His dead-on impersonations of everyone, especially a select few at the Daily ... e.g. his Harry Caray/Napoleon Dynamite hybrid.
8. His comical yet informative writing style that you'd never know he had in him if you talked to him outside DU on a Saturday night at 1 a.m.
7. His punctuality and genuine enjoyment of all the late nights at the Daily.
6. His competitive spirit at the Drunk Hunt. He may have slowed down the department due to the weight of the beer cans in his pockets, but he out-drank everyone at the party afterwards.
5. His gung-ho attitude (ed note: he he).
4. This "hard-working" 5'8" 165 lbs. slugger hailing from Acton, MA may have not made strides on the Tufts baseball team, but he was always in his wheel house at the Daily.
3. He's what you might call an "enigmatic." (He's an English major, as you can tell by his mad editing skills.)
2. Even long after he's entered the real world, his witty ability to dub us all with nicknames far more interesting than our real ones will have permanently left its mark on the department.
1. Timmy rocks the 2003 vintage Boston Marathon Jacket 24/7, but we all know that there is no way in hell he'd make it up Heartbreak Hill alive.
- by Jessica Genninger and Tom Spera
