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The following paper is my Senior Independent Project (SIP) from my senior year in my school’s Humanities and Arts program. The paper focuses on the career and impact of Dallas Cowboys’ general manager and owner Jerry Jones and was awarded the meritorious designation by the H&A judges/panel. Given the nature of this project as a
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The following column was published in Wootton’s Common Sense newspaper as the final in the Varsity Letter series. The most impactful moment of my high school athletic career came in the least likely of places and the least extraordinary of days. After a nondescript road run for track practice during my junior year, all of
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The 2000s have been a special time for basketball. The game has evolved through offensive revolutions and rule changes, dynasties have risen and fallen and some of the best players to ever grace the court have captivated the attention of the sports world. These two decades hold a special place in my heart, as I
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Time is a crucial, if convoluted, element in the majority of our school’s sports (I say majority because, well, golf). Without time, there wouldn’t be the thrill of a buzzer-beater, the magnitude of a broken record in track or swimming or the display of skill required to react to a speeding tennis ball or baseball.
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This year’s ice hockey state championship game, featuring our Patriots against the rival Churchill Bulldogs, was a special experience. The high stakes and fierce rivalry built a tense and exciting atmosphere, but a description of the game would not be complete without including another noteworthy element – the nearly 1,000 screaming fans who packed into
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With new titles such as Us capturing the attention of viewers at the box office and others like Avengers: Endgame leaving fans bristling in anticipation for their releases, one prominent movie franchise has faded from the forefront of the public consciousness, Star Wars. That changed today when Disney, fresh off the heels of announcing their
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Note: This is a spoiler-free review. In a recent interview with MTV that I saw on YouTube, Jordan Peele, the director of the horror film Us, was posed the question of whether he’s received any offers to direct movies for popular franchises. His response was perfect. “I did get a lot of amazing opportunities. In
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Joe Flacco has been the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens for as long as I’ve been a fan of the team, an era with great victories and devastating defeats that is coming to an end with his recent trade to the Denver Broncos. Flacco fit in perfectly with the hard-nosed Ravens’ teams of the late
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Even with championship games that pitted the best teams in their respective sports, this football season has had its fair share of intrigue and unpredictability. While all of the new developments have been exciting in the NFL and NCAA, they’ve also torn apart many of my predictions. These are the best and worst of my
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As a major consumer of sports media, I’ve developed refined tastes preferences for a variety of different forms of sports media, from magazines to newspapers to books to websites to talk shows to broadcasts and everything in between. Each one can come with a different role or purpose, but regardless of its role a great
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