Tag: Editor’s Pick

Sweat beats down his face as he stares at the catcher, affirming or denying signals. The pitcher stands up, focused and in the zone. Ready to throw, he pulls his knee up, creating a ninety-degree angle with his leg, before stepping down, whirling his arm around, and sending the ball flying toward the plate and into the catcher's mitt...

 2016 has finally reached April, which marks the start of warm weather, the entrance of the home stretch for the school year, and the dawn of a new baseball season. Monday marks Opening Day for much of the MLB, including the Texas Rangers, who take on Seattle at home. After a comeback season in which they conquered their division only...

For many sports, a state championship has the most talented people that your state has to offer face off against one another. But does it really? The sport is divided into men’s and women’s teams then even further by conference (i.e. 6A, 3A, or what have you) so you’d compete against the best teams in your gender and conference,...

Without paying careful attention, you can walk right past the America media headquarters on West 56th Street. The nameplate, worn and faded through years of exposure to weather, blends seamlessly into the charcoal entryway. Who knew that a doorway so humble would hold within it the creative engine behind one of the most popular magazines in the media capital...

The 6th period bell echoes throughout the halls of Jesuit as a sea of boisterous students surges towards the cafeteria. Following in their wake, teachers quietly drift through the cafeteria and into the faculty commons, leaving behind a rowdy world of English, and entering the new, tranquil world of Spanish less than ten feet away. Mrs. Klickman, a Spanish...

The Oscars are Hollywood’s night to celebrate great accomplishments in film over the past year, and every year the film industry’s elite gather inside the Dolby Theater to participate in the ceremony. This year’s Oscars was full of surprises, one of the largest being the fact that nearly all of the nominees were white. Even with the threat of...

Type. Cut. Highlight. Backspace. Cut. Backspace. Backspace. Highlight. Backspace. Type. Backspace. Type. Highlight. Enter. The exhausted student releases a sigh, dragging his hands from the keyboard and mouse across the desk, each hand gliding unevenly and at different intervals across the mahogany surface, drenched in sweat. Pulled over the edge of the wooden desktop, his hands fall to his thighs,...

It seems as though in this day and age, in a society so fast-paced and driven that even stopping to take a breath is frowned upon, the mental health day gets a bad rap. Stories of parents refusing to let their child stay home from school unless he’s bleeding or dying are common. “Man up and go to school,”...