I'm sure you've thought about it at least once: sitting with a select few of your classmates in front of a backdrop featuring the school logo as you sign a National Letter of Intent while listening to the applause and flashing of cameras. Maybe you've gone as far as picturing yourself on the field, standing in an enormous stadium...
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After this year’s Super Bowl performance, a curious development occurred following the halftime performance featuring Coldplay, Bruno Mars, and Beyoncé: outrage. It seems that Beyoncé’s new song, “Formation,” has gotten a different type of notoriety than her previous releases, and the content, message, and performance of her song has elicited outrage among certain sectors of the public. Some of...
Fast food only takes a front seat in our cars and lives at the last minute. Whether grabbing a quick snack before practice, eating lunch on-the-go, or picking up a family sized meal for dinner, fast food rarely texted precedent as our first food option in life. Because of this, discussion of the health ramifications and negative trends in...
Playoffs: A time when you finally get to see if your hard work will pay off. All those hours training on the mat and in the weight room. Every single word of coaching that has been given to you. It all comes down to one final match.
Three members of the Jesuit Wrestling team, Derek Dumbrigue '18, Philip Villalba '18,...
"Justice under God."
While one might expect the ominous phrase to imply standing before the Holy Father at the end of time, it is instead synonymous with our own "Penance Hall", or "PH" as students commonly refer to it. "Judgement under God," or JUG for short, represents a punishment much more severe than sweeping up trash or cleaning whiteboards, though,...
By now, you probably know a great deal about Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in his sleep on February 13th, to much surprise, at age 79. Give the press about 15 minutes, and you have an addition to the level of intensity of relations in Washington. With calls to name Scalia's replacement quickly from the left,...
When most people hear that you’re taking Latin, some of the common responses are “Why’d you take that?” or “That’s a poor college choice,” and, of course, the classic, “Latin is a dead language.” However, what most people don’t know is that the second largest youth organization in the United States, with over 50,000 members and 1,200 chapters in almost every...
Slamming his fist down on the padded seat of the bench, Jack Allen'18 gazed at the scoreboard with disgust as JV Blue lost their 3rd of 4 games to McMillen 35-45. As Blue suffered, however, Gold continued their perfect district play with wins against Skyline, Irving, and Irving Nimitz.
Blue
McMillen- January 22
Blue played with only 5 players, missing both Matthew Walsh...
