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Opinion: Marvin Bagley III Should Go First in Draft

May 4, 2018 10:41am | Jaden Causwell

Duke University has had many talented basketball players come out of their school. Players like Jabari Parker (2014), Jahlil Okafor (2015), Brandon Ingram (2016) and Jayson Tatum (2017), were all top three draft picks from Duke these last few years. Bagley skipped his senior year […]

Opinion: Ben Simmons For ROTY

May 4, 2018 10:16am | Drew Stidwell

Ben Simmons, the 21 year-old Australian who was selected as the number one pick by the Sixers in 2016, suffered a serious foot injury during the summer of 2016 and was immediately shut down for the year to assure that the broken bone healed correctly. […]

A Dummy’s Guide To Winning Elections In High School

April 24, 2018 1:02am | Alex Perry

So you want to win a school election. Hopefully you’ve been thinking about this for a while, because elections in a school like Northview require at least a year’s worth of preparation. I’m not going to lie and say that popularity doesn’t play into elections. […]

A Thurber Carnival Review

April 21, 2018 4:29pm | Alex Perry

After a year of sitting through Advanced Drama’s not-so-modern-English plays, A Thurber Carnival was a refreshingly modern carousel of unrelated scenes. Some of them were comedic and others were dramatic, but all of them ended with a (somewhat) moral punchline. With minimalistic sets, each scene […]

Opinion: Real Madrid

January 16, 2018 1:48pm | Dylan Long

The prestigious club Real Madrid is coming off a calendar year in 2017, winning a total of five trophies. They won the La Liga title, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup. The new season has begun […]

Opinion: World Cup 2018

December 13, 2017 2:05pm | Saba Iranikhah

The World Cup in Russia for 2018 has taken a very, very interesting turn. Many of the teams expected to qualify for the World Cup have been eliminated, which is a devastating tragedy for these countries. Not qualifying has caused major disappointment and rage from […]

Opinion: Wild First Half of NFL Season

December 1, 2017 2:27pm | Ian Ricks

The NFL officially started the second half of the season on November 7, leaving behind preseason expectations and early season predictions to look ahead to the exciting playoff race. The NFL world is looking forward to how each division will play out and who will […]

Opinion: Superteams

November 16, 2017 2:06pm | Madison Malvin

Many people agree that the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers are the best teams in the NBA. Both of those teams have been in the championship game for the past two years. The two teams combined have some of the best players in […]

Opinion: Sports and Social Media

October 11, 2017 2:37pm | Ousman Jarra

Nowadays you know that your favorite athlete wakes up at 6:00 AM every morning, what he eats, whom he calls, and more. Basketball players are now beefing on Twitter over who shoots better but won’t say a word to each other during the 48 minutes […]

Opinion: Paying NCAA Athletes

October 5, 2017 2:08pm | Piper Chans

Recently, I have heard the debate many times on the topic of whether college athletes should be paid or not. If you pay athletes of one sport, you pay athletes of all NCAA sponsored sports, even those that don’t bring in barely any income. This […]