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Former Oklahoma football coach backstabs players and leaves for new job: News Comment 13

December 1st, 2021 · 1 Comment

This past Saturday Lincoln Riley and the Oklahoma football team lost to their rivals Oklahoma State in a game where it eliminated the Sooners from the Big 12 title conversation and instead Oklahoma team will go and focus on whatever bowl game they will be put into. Lincoln Riley had different plans in mind though, this Sunday when he took the job at Southern California University. This is coming after his post game press conference where Riley said ” I am not going to be the next coach at LSU, I love Oklahoma.” His former players have been very upset and have been saying stuff on social media all week, especially after Rileys first press conference as USC head coach.

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Star running back caught up in assult charges: News comment 11

November 10th, 2021 · 1 Comment

Star running back Dalvin Cook for the Minnesota Vikings former girlfriend is charging cook with assult charges that happened in his home last year. This article talks about how Cook denies the allegations and that he was the one assulted and that the girlfriend is making false allegations. The vikings were notified about this news and already told the nfl about what they know about it which isn’t much and the nfl is looking into it as well. The article also talks about what Cooks attonery is doing on this matter. We hope this situation gets handled soon so Cook can just get back to doing what he does best, and that is playing football.

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The search for Brian Laundrie may have come to an end: News comment 7

October 21st, 2021 · 1 Comment

The moral of the story is that the fbi has been tipped to check out a spot where Brian used to go on walk through. First thing they found was a backpack and a notebook that might be Brians. Then they talked about they have found a couple of human remains in the near by resever and took it in to test if it is indeed Brian. The end of the article just goes on to talk about how Brian is connected in the murder of his wife when they went on vacation and he returned with out her. This story was reported by cbs news.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/brian-laundrie-search-update-belongings-human-remains-fbi/

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Article 2-final

October 20th, 2021 · No Comments

Article 2- Morningside new court in Rosen Verdorn Sports Complex 

After over a decade Morningside decided this was the year to add a new court and backdrop in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Complex. We went around the community of Morningside and see what all the talk around town about the new court and what people thought about it and if it is what Morningside athletics needed, 

New Morningside Athletic director James Sykes first thing he decided to do was to bless the Women’s volleyball team and mens and womens basketball team with a new court with the morningside logo covering over half the court. The middle of the paint is all maroon, with the Great Plains Athletic Conference logo in the middle of it. The two baselines are maroon with one side saying Morningside and the other side says Mustangs. 

To add to the new court they also decided to add a new backdrop to the sports complex with painting the walls dark grey and red stripes across the top part. It all arounds looks like a whole new place and the athletes around the new gym are loving it so far. It adds an actual Morningside look to the court because for the first time in a while the old court gave you an old high school gym vibe; now it gives you the actual college court and people around the community are starting to take notice. 

Was talking to a couple freshmen on the women’s volleyball team and “love the court and think it was way better than what we saw on our visits to games last year.” The mustang volleyball team was indeed the first team to be able to play on the new court where they won their first match on the new floor. 

Head men’s basketball coach Trent Miller is thrilled to see the school put some money into a new court he explains, “After using that old court for decades I think it was awesome it got a change for once. Also after looking back and seeing the success of the mens and womens team this past year it is something the players deserve.” Also got the chance to stop and asked head women’s basketball coach Jamie Sales what he thought about the new court. He explained that “I’m excited for our girls to be able to compete on this new court, and leaving the old court behind because our last game on the old court was us winning the GPAC tournament title.” 

When going around Morningside campus, there was an opportunity to stop a couple of students who had been spotted at a couple of Women’s volleyball games and ask them what they thought about the new court. Morningside’s number 1 fan Chandler Todd screamed “ I love it, it makes the games more enjoyable with a brighter court.” More students who were asked the same question said they enjoy the new court a lot more than the old one.

Then we strolled around to a couple of parents on the volleyball team and thought about this new installed court. A couple of parents who are parents of a couple of freshman parents said “ it was an awesome addition to our kids and them  deciding to come to Morningside.” Then went on to ask a couple of parents who have been around Rosen Verdoorn before because their kids aren’t freshmen and ask them what they thought. “We love this new court because we all kind of thought the old court was really dirty and kind of an eye sore, and makes the team look just a tad bit better on the new court.” 

From the looks of it Morningside kicked the new court out of the park because they got people talking about it and the people the court was going towards had nothing but good things to say about it. With the court just getting people playing on it for the first time this fall, the people around the community of Morningside hope this court stays around for a long time and can’t wait to watch many games played on this new court and beyond.

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Descriptive assignment: what is it

October 19th, 2021 · 1 Comment

Yesterday I went shopping and I’ll tell you all what the new thing I purchased.

The thing I purchased yesterday was a play station 5 from best buy for around 500 dollars. It is a big white and black console that is a rectangle shape, weighs about 10 pounds, and if you put it up vertical it stands up about halfway up your leg.

A Playstation 5 is a gaming console that you hook it up to your monitor or your tv, but you can do much more on it then just play video games. It also has streaming stuff on it like, netflix, hulu, youtube, disney + and many more streaming places.

The playstation 5 is the newest thing to come to the internet world and the gaming world that allows us to do so much more on a gaming console then we ever had before. More and more people will start to invest more in playstation in the near future.

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Guest Speaker: Professor Gonsler

October 12th, 2021 · No Comments

John Gonsler a really good guest speaker, can keep a conversation going and could tell stories all day.

Gonsler grew up in Flint Michigan, Graduated from Michigan State University. Was a police officer in Flint Michigan where the scherrif was “dirtier then a pigs dick.” Then became a correctional officer in a medium level prison for a couple of years.

Was one out of 25 people that the Unabomber wrote back too. He was penpals with the Unabomber for about six months and thinks he only wrote back to him because he would ask questions about stuff that were interesting towards him “Until I pissed him off.” Pissed him off because he would ask questions that he didn’t want to answer.

During his time has a correctional officer, Gonsler has many of stories to tell about his time there. The stories go all over the place, and mostly are just about what his inmates did on a daily basis. he seen a prisoner bench press 405 pounds 5 times and Gonsler even said “I used to be a power lifter and I never seen anyone do 405.”

Gonsler then wanted to get into teaching and he only interviewed by 2 schools who were just starting up there criminal justice programs and one of them was Morningside. When asked what his favorite part about being a professor so far he explained that “teaching the intro level classes because the kids seem to have more interested and engaged in the intro classes.” Gonsler was also asked what he would change about criminal justice in our world and he explained “we are the most incarcerated country in the world.” Also added “65% of prisoners end up going back to prison.”

To sum things up that was one pretty interesting guest speakers you could’ve sat down and listened too. When asked one of the people in the room clarified and also said “Gonsler is one of the most interesting people to interview on campus.”

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Last conversation

October 7th, 2021 · 1 Comment

Last conversation I had was around 11:00 last night. We were talking about baseball because my favorite team was playing his favorite team. My team won on a walk off home run and he was talking to me about how the pitchers on his team were terrible, and I was talking to him about how my team has a lot of players they can use in different spots.

His name was Brendan Buckley and last night he was wearing a blue sweatshirt with with black athletic shorts with white ankle socks and black slides. Brendan has brown hair and he is a basketball player and a freshman.

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What really happened in Afghanistan- final

September 30th, 2021 · No Comments

The Biden Administration decided to go off script and go with their own plan instead of the August 31st deadline, after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.

Former President Donald Trump and and now current president Joe Biden came to an agreement to stick with the plan to peacefully pull troops out of Afghanistan on May first, but with the recent situation and how many soldiers their were in Afghanistan the president decided to pull them out as soon as possible.

When the Biden Administration put this new plan in order, they left out some key parts. The key parts were that around 4,000 to 14,000 American Soldiers are stranded in Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban.

When looking at the media people are saying mulptile things. You have people saying that Biden did the right thing and getting the troops out of Afghanistan after almost 20 years of fighting down there. Then you have your people saying that “This plan was as bad as when America fled out of Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam war.” Saying this is even worse than the exit from Vietnam means something. You will always have people arguing and having different sides when it comes to media these days.

Once the United States withdrew from Afghanistan the Taliban explains what they are going to implement once they gain full control. First major thing they are doing is that the Taliban government always excludes women from lots of things.

Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar explained to the media that they are trying to establish an exclusive government that will represent all the people who stay in Afghanistan.

The Taliban wants to run the same government when they ruled back in 1990’s which is called Old Guard. When it comes to the key leaders and the top of the chain, it consists of the certain people that are the head of the Taliban government.

The United States government is failing these soldiers and officals who are stuck in Afghanistan. Lets hope the Biden Administration can work on something quick and fix this huge problem that is currently happening.

The Biden Administration is currently working hard, Joe Biden says ” We will fix this issue and get these people home where they belong.” This will get better I hope and we will prevaile out of this because we are the United States of America and we are the greatest country.

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Mahomes youngest QB to reach 1500 yards: news comment 5

September 27th, 2021 · 1 Comment

Yesterday afternoon Patrick Mahomes was the youngest QB to reach 15,000 yards and keeps on adding it his already hall of fame type career so far.

This article spoke about how this old record was held by Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams who reached 15,000 yards in only 53 games and Mahomes broke the record in only his 49th career game which is really impressive. Mahomes did indeed did this accomplishment on Sunday afternoon in a 30-24 loss to the Chargers in Kansas city. They went on to say all Mahomes need to beat the record was 168 yards in the game and he was thrown for more than 168 in everyone of his starts in the NFL and he did that again on Sunday when throwing for 260 yards. Mahomes only 26 has plenty of games left in his career so the 1 time MVP, Superbowl champ, and Superbowl MVP has plenty of accomplishments left in his career.

https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-fastest-qb-to-15000-passing-yards

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Life during covid: With Tyler Strauss

September 27th, 2021 · 1 Comment

Today I had a one on one with Tyler Strauss about what his life was like during covid, and asked him a series of question about that.

The first question I asked Tyler was, what was the hardest part of the pandemic for you? Tylers response was that the hardest thing was probably wearing the mask because he was never used to wearing a mask and then all of sudden had to wear a mask all the time wether it was during class, going to a store, etc etc.

Next question was turning the direction more towards school during covid. The question was, Did you find it more difficult to pay attention in classes while online instead of in person? He responded with ” I thought it was much harder to pay attention in online classes than in person classes, because with online you could have your cameras off in some classes and then I could always be on my phone because the professors couldn’t really know if you were or not.”

Then we panned over to the biggest worry about the pandemic and the biggest issues with sports. Tylers biggest worry was that the campus would turn to red and get shut down and having to move back home. When it came to the biggest issue with sports during covid Tylers response was “Bonding with the other players would be harder because you had to be more isolated and key guys would be out because of covid made it a lot more difficult for the team.”

The last question Tyler was asked was how many times did he have covid and how many times he had to quarantine? Tyler said that he never actually got covid which is a good thing and he only had to quarantine a couple of times but it was only for a couple of days.

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