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    4′ 9″ All-Star

    “When he got home he started calling all of his friends to tell him what he’d just done,” senior Rachel Norris said of her younger brother Brett. “It pretty much made his life, his confidence was through the roof.” When Winter sports roll around and the athletes who once occupied the gyms and fields are [...]

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    First time out for forensics

    The forensics team started their season far from home in Kansas City, Missouri and Oak Park high school. The competition included past National Forensics League National finalists and TOC (tournament of champions) Champions. Despite the high caliber opposition, the forensics team participated with the best. 

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    Getting past the first round

    The SIT started Monday, and so far the boys and girls are doing great things. Both teams flew past their opposition during the first round and are likely to experience more success as the tournament goes on. “I think the boys will do really well this year,” said senior Liz Thompson. “A lot of the [...]

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    Weather to become fair

    After a few cold and windy days the weather seems to be looking up in the next 10 days. Since there is no chance of precipitation at all the next week the only thing that could hurt the comfortable high temperature predictions is the wind. However, according to weather.com the wind should be staying right [...]

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    Wrestling photo story

    Check out this season’s top wrestling photos from the South Invitational and Campus.

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    Blogs

    It’s just another Friday….

    Personally, I don’t find Friday the 13th to be intimidating in any way. Yes, there are many horror films depicting the coincidental bad luck that can happen on this day, but truthfully bad luck can happen at any time. I’ve never fully understood why Friday the 13th has this infamous sense of scary, but some people really buy into it.  (more…)

    BroBlog: Slice

    “Bro, can I get a slice of paper?”

    “Hit me with a slice of that gum, broheem”

    “You sliced that jump-shot royally, son”

    “You didn’t get your paper-work done? Slice”

    As a chill dude, expanding his knowledge of the Bro Dictionary, one word is prime when either hitting at a biddie for a sandwich or brolaxing with a dude playing LaX, and that word is – slice- (more…)

    Blogging

    This blog post is mainly being written to prove that I am not a hypocrite. While I continue to demand that the newspaper staff has a great, up-to-date website, they retort to criticizing my lack of tangible contribution. I’m not complaining that none of them recognize my the background work on this project, but instead, simply taking away their last reason to refuse when I ask them to blog. (more…)

    Woman rubs butt on $30 million painting

    When most people see a priceless painting the ooooooo and ahhhhhhh properly before moving on to the next one. However, in late December at a Denver art show an intoxicated woman decided that rubbing her butt all over the painting would be the best decision. (more…)

    Conservative and liberal views

    In my American History class this morning, we talked about how high school is about finding yourself in many different ways. You start to figure out what you like, what you don’t like, what you want to do, and what you don’t want to do. In one way of  finding yourself, you decide how you view politics; If you are conservative, or liberal. I have been struggling with how I view politics and government recently, not that I really care so much, but I am starting to come to the conclusion that I am liberal with conservative views. (more…)