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With the NFL suspending him due to providing the league with a fake vaccination card fans and teams within the league are on edge waiting for Bruce Arians, Head Coach, to make a decision about AB for next season.

Two players that were originally on the team at the beginning of the year, have been released and is no longer a part of the organization anymore due to the same incident Brown is having.

It is unclear what the organization is going to do with Brown after his suspension is up after this week.

What is clear is that Tom Brady, Quarterback for the Buccaneers, wants AB back as he is a vital piece to their offense. The team has not commented on the suspension of Brown.

Brown is able to return to practice next week to prepare for the game against the Carolina Panthers. Week 16 will give many speculators on Browns future with the Buccaneers.

This article was objective but sparked many speculations on what they predict will happen to Brown based on previous players doing the same thing.

The lead on this article is quite stale in my opinion as it doesn’t really grab me wanting to know more about the incident or Brown’s fate.

There was good information that I was unware of previously about the Buccaneers’ organization which I felt lead the readers to think that Brown is not going to return.

Does Chris Weins have a nice bone in his body?

As Weins entered Dimmitt hall, he had multiple interactions. Every interaction Weins had was followed by anger in his voice as he wasn’t excited to see anyone.

Weins first interaction was with Jax Neubert, his best friend of five years now.

Neubert proceeded to crack a joke about how he’s better at him in baseball, as Weins plays and he doesn’t, clearly intended for Weins to get a chuckle out of it.

Weins did nothing.

Weins told Neubert to “Shut up” and walked away. It felt like Neubert wasn’t even his friend looking from a far.

When asked about Weins behavior, Neubert responses “He does that all the time, he’s just an angry little gremlin” noting how he’s always like that. Seems to be a personality trait.

Weins looks to be around 5’9 which leads me to believe that he has a short fuse just like every other short guy.

Neubert surprisingly rooms with this guy as well. When asked about how he’s able to handle Weins Neubert calmingly says “After five years of being friends with him, it’s kind of hard getting away from him. You just end up dealing with it as this point” showing how even though Weins can be a handful, Neubert still deals with his strange personality due to their long lasting friendship.

As Weins proceeds to make his way through Dimmitt Hall, Weins ran into another one of his friends on the second floor. This time it was Ethan Alfers, basketball player, who was curious if he wanted to get food soon. Weins proceeded to blow him off as if he wanted to be left alone as he was going back to his dorm room.

Alfers claimed that Weins spends most of his free time in his room as he rarely hangouts with his friends outside of sports. Weins seems to be a person who likes to keep things to himself and limits distractions in his life.

Through these interactions with both of his friends, Weins gets irritated very easily which would make sense to why he would spend a majority of his time in his room alone. He seems very put together but doesn’t like to share how he’s really feeling. A good representation of Weins would be a snow leopard because they can live the majority of their lives alone and they will only be seen with other snow leopard if its mating season.

This seems to be the way for Weins as he acts very goal oriented and doesn’t like wasting his time. He walks with a purpose, keeping to the wall, out of people’s way while keeping one foot in front of the other. The way he walks reveals that he needs to be somewhere in a hurry which would be the reason why he gives off such angry vibes.

Ultimately, Weins is just like every other college student that is just trying to get their degree and get out without getting into any trouble.

Vikings Running back, Dalvin Cook, dislocated his shoulder during the devastating loss against the San Francisco 49ers.

It seems Cook is expected to miss out on the next two games against the Lions and the Steelers.

However, Viking’s coach, Mike Zimmer, tells reporters that Cook looks to be day to day on whether or not he will play.

After a big hit by the 49ers defense, Cook ended up fumbling the ball after he felt instant pain from the tackle. He was later carted off after the play and did not see any action in the fourth quarter.

It is unclear what Cook’s true status is but be on the look out for potential running backs to pick up in fantasy for the next one to two weeks.

Moving forward in Cook’s absence, Alexander Mattison, backup running back for the Vikings will be receiving Cook’s work load for the next two weeks.

This article provided a great insight on the Vikings running back status and gave the readers a good idea of how the coach wants to handle this issue. The lead helps draw the readers in because they want to know what happened to the Vikings lead running back. The article was pretty objective in providing facts for the readers to see and make their own predictions on the situation of Cook’s injury.

Jacob Freeman claimed that one word that could accurately describe him would be perfectionist. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, Freeman is still trying to figure that out.

Freeman decided to pursue an internship over the summer. At this company, Freeman discovered that this internship made him work harder on himself because he always redid his work until he thought if met his standard.

At this job, it taught him many strategic strategies that has opened his eyes into the field of marketing.

This has helped him in his classes here on campus.

In his final presentation in his marketing class, Freeman said “I deleted my presentation five times because I didn’t think it met my standards” showing this perfectionist side.

Freeman enjoys producing great work and plans on revising his technique to be more efficient with his time.

Quarterback, Cam Newton, recently got signed back to the Carolina Panthers after Sam Darnold has been underperforming in the past couple weeks.

This week, Newton will receive most of the reps at QB 1 to get him ready for his first start this Sunday. The 32 year old quarterback will be facing his former coach, Ron Rivera, as they play against the Washington Football Team.

Panthers head coach doesn’t want to pressure Newton into getting suited up for the QB 1 role if he isn’t fully ready and comfortable with the offensive scheme. PJ Walker, starter of their last game, is more than capable of stepping in if Newton isn’t ready to jump into the starting role this weekend.

With the ten plays that were drew up for Newton last week, he did look very comfortable and gave the offense a personality when he was on the field.

This article is very objective and gives the reader a good picture at where the Panthers head coach is trying to lead this team. It allows the reader to also see what their plans are for Newton and what they expect from his as well as his teammates. The author did a very good job at capturing all aspects of the situation on this team. The quotes from the coaches and staff were very relevant and provided strength to the article.

The Washington Football Team’s kicker, Chris Blewitt, has had three kicks blocked in the last two games.

The WFT gambled on Blewitt just three weeks ago as they released their last kicker Dustin Hopkins. The move obviously didn’t work out as they released Blewitt a week later.

This time the WFT plans to gamble with a veteran kicker named Joey Slye. In his career, he has completed respectable stats “He has made 80.2% of his career field goals and 88% of his extra points” according to ESPN staff writer, John Keim, making it a great replacement for Blewitt.

This article is very objective as there are a variety of stats that help support the Washington Football Team’s move to release Blewitt.

Throughout this article about the Washington Football Team, the author gave clear and precise information that allowed me to make an easy decision whether of not the move was right.

Potential Feature Stories:

Washington Football Team possible replacements at the kicking position

Washington Football Team’s other issues around the kicking position

Is Joey Slye the answer for the Washington Football Team moving forward?

Jameis Winston tore the ACL on his left knee and sustained MCL damaged confirmed by Sean Payton, Saints Head Coach. The injury occurred from an illegal horse collar coming from Buccaneers linebacker, Devin White.

Sean Payton didn’t answer who would become the new starter while Winston is out. The only thing he said for certain is that the Saints don’t plan on adding a new quarterback to the roster after losing Winston.

It is still unclear who the starter will be for Week 9 due to the backup, Taysom Hill, being out since Week 5 because of a concussion. However, the team is very optimistic for Hill’s return to the team coming into this weekend.

While Hill was unavailable to fill in after Winston’s injury, Trevor Siemian, 3rd string QB, had to fill in for the rest of the game leading to a win over the Buccaneers.

Siemian proved himself to be worthy of starting in Week 9 after his performance against the defending Super Bowl Champions.

He exceeded his coaches expectations for him and made it a tough decision of who to start next week if both QB’s are healthy.

This is Morningside News with your host Dylan Hamil. Today we will be covering three stories that may relate to your life or someone you know.

Let’s start today off with talking about,

Extraordinary Fish Can Regrow Around 20 Teeth Per Day

The pacific lingcod replaces it’s teeth frequently and experts say there are potentially more fish like it.

One fascinating thing about the pacific lingcod is that they “have a set of upper and lower jaws, just like ours, but they’re more mobile—they can be thrown forward and spread out” said Elizabeth Brown, author for National Geographic. This fish relies on their razor-sharp teeth to kill their predators as soon as they lunge their jaw forward to clamp onto their meal.

Experts are trying to study this strange phenomenon to help better understand why these fish are able to lose and regrow teeth so fast compared to humans which only have two sets of teeth throughout their whole lives.

Tharen Cox, student at Morningside University, stated ” Quote ” showing how he would still act careless with his teeth even especially after he already broke one of his teeth already. Being able to grow his teeth back would be a major plus in his book.

In other news,

Minnesota Vikings running back allegedly abused ex-girlfriend resulting in lawsuit.

Dalvin Cook, running back for the Minnesota Vikings, addressed lawsuit against him during press conference. Cook claims innocence at press conference. “I just want everybody to know I’m the victim in this situation and the truth and the details about the situation will come out at a further time,” Cook said.

In the police report, Cook was accused of multiple charges by ex-girlfriend.  “Assault, battery and false imprisonment, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday” stated by ESPN staff writer, Courtney Cronin.

In the lawsuit, Cook was acting in self-defense as his ex-girlfriend attacked him with mace and stole his gun.

There’s been no action done by the NFL commission as it is civil matter that is conducted outside of the league.

A student at Morningside University, Owen Anderson, shared his thoughts on the issue and whether it’s an issue for students here on campus “Quote” explaining that men are more likely to be blamed for assault lead issues than women.

Lets wrap up the news in Minnesota and talk about a

Pharmacy in Virginia gave wrong vaccine dose to kids

More than 100 kids from ages 5-11 have been mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine that is made for kids who are 12 and older at a pharmacy in Virginia.

On November 5th, “state and federal authorities ordered the pharmacy to discontinue administering the vaccine” stated by Virginia’s health department.

This vaccine has been removed from state and federal Covid-19 vaccine programs. With these efforts, Virginia’s Health Department hopes to eliminate this problem and provide the correct vaccines to anyone and everyone who may want it.

Jacob Depauw, student at Morningside University, shared his thoughts on the issue and told us what he would do if he was in the kids situation “Quote” showing how people of any age are scared of getting the vaccine in the first place and being gave the wrong dosage could drastically affect people.

This has been the Morningside news with Dylan Hamil.

Both of the leads are fairly similar in the message they are attempting to convey. The print version, AP News, gives more of an insight on what the problem is and why children becoming vaccinated between the age or 5 to 11 should get the same attention as people 12 and older. AP News states that “In the 5- to 11-year-old age group, there have been over 8,300 hospitalizations reported, about a third requiring intensive care, and nearly 100 deaths” noting how there are still alerting amount of hospitalizations reported in children ages from 5 to 11 years old and shouldn’t be looked over.

On the other hand, NBC News generalizes the whole idea if how Covid-19 is still impacts young children from ages 5 to 11. They also go over various hypothetical solutions that will supposedly helps the overall population fight Covid in the future.

Both stories are fairly similar in content, they both just have a different spin on the topic. Each source had well known credible sources that they took to base their main part of the story off. The quotes and paraphrasing flow nicely in both reports and gave the reader a great depiction of why kids from 5 to 11 years old should have a vaccine as well.

NBC News used the role of sound and pictures in their segment fairly nicely as I thought it all flowed coherently. AP News however, used pictures to help power their main topics. This allowed AP News to get their critical points a crossed to the readers since they weren’t a story on television that the audience could watch the elements they were trying to convey.

For my daily routine, I headed to the gym and as soon as I arrived there, I opened the door to see this huge lumberjack looking man. He had semi-long curly hair with a hat on backwards. He also had a scruffy beard that went down to his chest. His arms were covered with various colored tattoos that helped build his alpha persona.

Some sensory details that I thought were important was the way he was working out. He seemed very focused since after he finished each set he sat down on the bench and just listened to his music and looked at the ground. He had very good posture as he would be standing straight up when he was doing bicep curls or shoulder press. The one thing that I did find interesting however, was that once he finished each set, he would mess with his fingers almost like he was trying to crack them after every time he’d use the weights. He wore a white tank top that was skintight, dark grey shorts, and white socks with boots on as he potentially just came straight from work.

As I kept observing him, he reminded me more and more of a bear in the way that he grunts when he attempts each set, how he’s so hairy, and the way I felt his dominance in the gym as I thought it reflected how a bear is represented in the wild.

I actually ended up bumping into him while I was going to get a drink and to my surprise he smiled and let out a big laugh when I spilled my water on me since my water wasn’t completely closed. If I had to guess what he did for work, it would be someone who works on the line as a construction worker of some sorts.

Throughout this time observing this man, I felt as if I wasn’t being very objective. In fact, I felt as if I was being very subjective towards him since I knew nothing about him.