Phil Young ‘13

Well the Pro-Life Club’s 2012 Fifa ’12 XBOX 360 Tournament got off to a great start on Thursday, December 15, 2011. As soon as the last bell for December Assessments rang, students started reporting to the block of rooms from B112 to B119 to find out when and where they would be showcasing their Fifa skills. Much anticipation, as...

                Five seconds. Five seconds of machine-gun fire was all it took for the modern FBI to be created. The Kansas City Massacre of 1933, which at the time was the second deadliest murder of law-enforcement officers in American history, left four government officials bloodily murdered in a train station parking lot, sparking a shock wave felt all the...

Crack! The 34.5 inch, 33 ounce brown wood bat connected with the small white ball blur, catapulting the baseball way over the centerfield wall, the sound reverberating throughout the venerable Yankee Stadium. Josh Hamilton’s 28th homerun in the first round of the 2008 Home Run Derby set the record for the most homeruns ever hit in a round, a...

Book Review: Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell Marcus Luttrell had a decision to make, one that would turn into the most regretful decision of his life. While on a reconnaissance mission scouting an Afghan mountain village that was known to harbor Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders, Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL, and his three SEAL teammates encountered two Afghani shepherds and...

Book Review: Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many young men and women, deeply affected by this mass slaughter of U.S. citizens, felt a moral obligation to join the military and help in the fight against Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. One of these young men and women stood out from...

The summer is a great time for a person to sit back, relax, and crack open a new novel. One great idea would be to start the Alex Hawke Spy Adventure Series by Ted Bell. The Hawke Series contains six action-packed thrillers about the life of British Intelligence spy Lord Alexander Hawke who “makes James Bond look like a...

Jesuit’s JV baseball team competed in the annual Little Elm Tournament February 24-26, 2011, winning all five games and bringing home the championship. In their first game on Thursday afternoon, they defeated McKinney 10-8. An early and chilly morning didn’t slow down the Rangers’ bats for game two as they routed Wakeland 13-0. The third and last pool-play game, later...