What is the best pitch in baseball?
Baseball has three categories of pitches: fastball, breaking ball, and offspeed.
A fastball is meant to use speed as an advantage and generally does not use deceptive movement. However, there are three types of fastballs: four-seam, two-seam, and cutter. The four-seam is intended to stay straight, and since four seams provide drag, it is...
In 2018, The Roundup staff visited Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. Our article is reprinted below. The newspaper extends our condolences to the Johnson family.
The first nurse elected to Congress. The first woman in Texas to lead a major house committee. The first African American woman elected to public office from Dallas. She breaks barriers, she sets precedents, she is...
Hello, you may not know me, but I have been a member of the BBQ Club for almost my entire time at Jesuit, a part of the club right when it started. A lot of people that I talk to do not realize the true holy beauty of the BBQ Club, fervently cooking BBQ and cheeseburgers, BBQ trips, and...
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Released on January 24th, 2008, Deathconsciousness a shoegaze, gothic, post-rock album, being the debut album for one of my favorite bands, Have a Nice Life. This album is a masterclass in atmosphere, sound, and what the focus of this article is, the lyrics. This is one of the most depressing, bleak, hopeless pieces of media I've come across. It...
In November 2023, the popular website Omegle was shut down. Millions of online conversations across the globe cut short. Instead of meeting a new random stranger, all of Omegle's users met a farewell letter. Some may consider it an apology, but others see an argument on morality and accountability.
I believe that the history of the site in its entirety,...
The Hunger Games, a popular book series by Suzanne Collins, recently had a new movie adaptation released. The Movie covered a prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” I recently had the pleasure of watching the movie, and I am excited to share my thoughts.
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In the first book of the original trilogy, one of...
I should preface that the conclusion of this article is absolutely biased. I am myself a Saber fencer, and I wholeheartedly believe that it is the superior fencing style. The goal of this article is to review the differences between the different styles of fencing and to explain why I believe that Saber is the best fencing style.
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Fencing was...
60 years ago, an event familiar not only to Dallas residents but to the entirety of the U.S. occurred. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dealey Plaza while riding in a convertible motorcade to the Dallas Trade Mart. Along with him was Texas Governor John Connally, who was wounded as well but was not...
