Hard hit from Thursday night football sends quarter back to hospital. A battle between the Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday has many fans questioning the safety of the NFL. Tua, the quarterback for the Dolphins gets hit hard and thrown to the ground causing him to get a concussion. Getting carted off the field, has every fan scared for his safety.
This event sparks up talks from parents and fans of football. Making them think if this is a good sport for their child. The world is questioning the Dolphins for whether they had done the right actions from all the events that happened.
The lead of this article was interesting as it drew me into reading. The main audience are any fans of football, whether it’s parents, coaches, or players. The value of this article is to show that football is a dangerous game that needs safety protocols.
Target has boomed in sales throughout the past few years, especially through the hardships of the Covid. They have grown by 10’s of billions of dollars throughout the past 19 consecutive quarters. This includes 11 straight quarters that had preceded Covid, making it seem that this pandemic had majorly helped the profits of this company.
Targets employees are one of the most important aspect of the company. “we’ve invested more than ever in our team members and their families,” Our employees are what makes target what we are. Target will keep growing and building to take care of the people that benefit from us, and to give back to them.
As Target improves in sales by millions of dollars, they plan to expand by building 30 new stores yearly. A program had been created to start remodeling 200 stores a year to keep it up to date.
Target has set aside $300 million to pay their employees more. Starting them from $15- $24.
Dayne is from Kansas City, Missouri and he had come to Sioux City for college. The question at hand, was asking about a life changing experience. He had told me “coming to college, and to be on scholarship” had changed his life severely. His freshman year of college he had played football on scholarship but later into his sophomore and junior year he fell ineligible for academic reasons. Thinking to transfer his junior year to play football, time flew by to quick and he missed his deadline.
Majoring in Biology his freshman year, he switched it to Mass Comm. He was not happy with the direction Biology was taking him, saying “I felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere, Mass Comm. was more meaningful to me.” Loving to edit, he will post videos to Youtube about could include highlight videos from basketball games.
The College Football Playoff is going to be tripled in size by the year 2026. This will bring the total of teams to 12, 6 being the highest ranked conference champions, and the other 6 being the highest ranked that is not a conference champion. This will ultimately give more teams hope and let them have a chance to earning a national championship, and will draw in more viewers.
Predicted to gain $2 billion, this new playoff will hype up college football with a lot more national title implicated games. In comparison to March Madness with their $1.1 billion that they bring in, this new playoff will likely be close to double this larger tournament. ESPN is under discussion whether they will lone broadcast every game.
Today I explored campus, and I found Joseph. He is a studio art major that is not sure of what he wants to do with his life, but he had an idea of joining the priesthood. Joseph is a freshman from Jackson, Nebraska and he lives on campus. Joseph is a very nice person and likes to do Rubik’s cubes in his free time. A quote that he gave me was “When I am weak, then I am strong”. He says that this quote encourages him and empowers him to finish the day. Joseph gave me a pencil as an object as that was all that he had in his bookbag. The pencil in very short, so that tells me that a lot of work has been done with it in the past.
The next person that I had interviewed was Ozzy. Ozzy is from Italy and came to Morningside to play soccer on scholarship. He is majoring in business Administration and in the future wants to be a Resource Manager. “I like it” is what Ozzy said when I asked him about the weather. He also explained that he is not ready for the harsh winters to come in Sioux City, but he likes how warm it is at the moment.
Roger Federer is one of the greatest male tennis players to ever step on the court. This week Roger had announced that he is going to retire from the game that he loved so much. Saying that Tennis had treated him so well, and not getting injured during a match. Competing in over 1,500 matches in over 24 years, Roger feels that it is his time.
Roger has a total of 103 tour singles titles, 20 Grand Slam singles titles, and was ranked number 1 for 310 weeks. Federer is seen as a huge role model to every young tennis player working to grow their name, similar to what Serena Williams had done.
Roger is going to make his final appearance in London at the Laver Cup, an event that he helped create.
Collegiate Esports is expanding throughout the world as hundreds of colleges are now introducing this new athletic. It first started in 2014 at Robert Morris University in Illinois. They were the first college to introduce a formal esports program and soon many colleges followed in their footsteps.
In 2019, more than 100 colleges across the nation could be found to have a formal esports program. Within the past year, that number has grew up to 200 and recently Uni Esports Group has directly helped 50 schools start their esports program.
As these colleges add esports to their list of sports, scholarships come with it. The amount of money has increased significantly. From the 2015-2016 academic year, a total of 2.5 million dollars had been given out as scholarships to college students. Moving to 2019, that number is up 600% and is a total of 15 million dollars.
As an entire industry, Esports has a projected total of 29.6 million viewers in 2022. This number is predicted to increase in the future. This statistic will help colleges give more money back to students through scholarships, new equipment, or jumpstart new programs.
Currently, there is not a major college organization like the NCAA that is organizing competitions, but the Esports scene is traveling the nation. Many colleges are starting to create Varsity teams but must compete through different organizations such as NECC or GG leagues. Colleges have started hiring full time coaches and established arenas for these players. In the college’s eyes, Esports is seen as legitimate as the football team.
While the NCAA is lacking on the Esports wagon, many new organizations are here to take its place. NACE (National Association of Collegiate Esports) was created to fill the void of the alternative NCAA. NACE started off as a six-team organization, but immediately within a year, NACE had grown to a total of 42 teams. Meetings have been held by the NCAA discussing the matters and have not come to a decision, but by the time they do, it could be too late.
Competitive gaming on campus is not new to many, as companies like the Collegiate Starleague and Tespa would organize tournaments or season long competitions. “We just wanted to create some sort of community on campus where gamers could get together and compete” said Adam Rosen who is the cofounder of Tespa. As these events would be professionalized and crowds would grow, prize money would start to give gifted to those who win, and many started to respect those who competed in Esports.
Arson is suspected in barn fire early this morning. At Norfolk Downs Race Track in Chicago, a fire had erupted at 4 A.M. inside the main barn holding 25 horses. 15 did not make it out with their lives, 13 being thoroughbred and two being saddlebacks. 10 horses made it out but it was very close at two ran out with their backs on fire.
The fire had started in the middle of the barn, but the only electricity or heaters were in the tack rooms that are located on the ends of the barn. This suspicious fire roared until noon.
Cathy Wensen, daughter of locally prominent attorney Jim Wensen is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol last night. Jim belonging to 211 Green Grove Drive. It is her third offense in six months for the 22 year old senior.
Mother of Cathy, Sharon Wensen lives in Ontario Canada. This year, Cathy was the homecoming queen, a cheerleader, and a straight-A student at her College.
Backwater State University President David French recently states that he would like to turnout better educated students to the world.
President French wants to introduce a new Curriculum, explaining that only 15% of students take a foreign language class and 20% take a math class. To expand the minds of every student at Backwater state, he is introducing in 2023 a new course requirement. Stating that every student must take one math, computer science, and foreign language class.
