"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirator as Genius," said former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
By 2004, Green Day, what one writer called "the elder statesmen for the punk rock genre" was in such a moment of desperation. True, they had rocked the world with their stellar Kerplunk, Dookie, Nimrod, and Warning albums, but they were running out of steam...
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On September 12, 2023, Jesuit Dallas was invited to attend the SMU Tate Series featuring three public intellectuals. These veteran political watchmen include retired US Navy four-star admiral James Stavridis, Fareed Zakaria, and David Gergen.
Admiral Stavridis was also a former supreme allied commander of NATO...
In the world of tennis, the debate for the title "greatest tennis player of all time" has raged on for years, with names such as Roger Federer, Rod Laver, Björn Borg, Rafael Nadal and more continuously surfacing in these discussions. In this article, I am going to evaluate 5 reasons as to why at age 36, Novak Djokovic is...
Ah, week 3. The week where we can finally draw conclusions without sounding like we are overreacting. That doesn't stop me though. Welcome to 5 takeaways from Week 3.
The Dolphins have the best offense in the league
When I looked at the Dolphins game, I thought my phone screen glitched out. 70-20? What kind of game was that? The Dolphins...
The role of a manager in soccer is similar to that of the head coach in football. He oversees the team, the players, the tactics, the transfers and most other aspects of the playing side of a soccer club. They are, put plainly, the deciding factor of the success of the club. Without a good manager, players become disorganized...
December 26th, 1991 saw one of the most influential moments of the 20th century. Mikhail Gorbachev announced on Soviet TV, that he resigned his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party, and that the Soviet Union was officially dissolved. Half a century of being close to nuclear apocalypse was over. But this is earth, meaning long-lasting tranquility is...
For the people that don't know what fantasy football is, it's a game where you draft a team out of real NFL players, and you score points based on how well your players perform. If you have already drafted your team, I know that you probably love your fantasy football team, and I hate to be a buzzkill, but...
While the whole school is still riding the post-Rockwall hype, we here at the Roundup think it is an opportune time to make some predictions for the rest of the Ranger's football season, not at all skewed by the 60-59 win that occurred last Friday, September 1, 2023. Now, as the Rangers have lost their season opener, but conquered...
