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Cheer girls end their season this weekend in Green

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By Lauren Rayman

    The Stow-Munroe Falls High School competition cheer team is wrapping up their season Sunday, February 18 at Green High School.

    On Sunday, the team will be competing in the Green Cheer Competition for the second year. They will be competing against three other teams: Minerva High School, Jackson High School and Lake High School.

    “We went to this one and Chardon last year, and this year we’re just more interested in the schools that are competing at Green. We think it’s higher competition,” junior Michaela Light said.

    The team has competed in three other competitions this year and have improved at each one.

    Their season started in November at the Suburban League Cheer Competition at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, where the girls placed fourth out of seven teams.

    At Hoover High School in December, they earned first place in the super varsity division and won second place in January at Jackson High School for the Jackson Cheer Competition.

    The team’s routine was choreographed in August, and they have been working to improve it ever since. This usually includes staying after practice for a little longer to work on the routine.

     “We’ve been practicing since our last competition. We usually have practice on Mondays after school for an extra hour after our tumbling practice, and we’ve been doing that in between competitions,” Light said.

    Seeing as it is the last competition of the season, the girls want to make it a memorable one and end the season on a high note.

    “We’ve been working since August, and this is our last one, so hopefully it’s good,” Light said.

    The high school’s cheer competition team is looking forward to their last competition and hope to improve even more next year.

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Valentine’s night spent playing dodgeball and supporting #SearsStrong

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The winning team poses at the end of the night, happily celebrating their victory.  Seniors Parker Dinger, Colin Sellers, Collin Lang, Declan Ange, Michael Marinaro, Alex Cramer and Nathan Hallam and junior Corey Hunt competed against nine teams to pull out the win.

By Maria Leonino

    Student Council hosted their annual Dodgeball Tournament last night in the high school gym. Ten teams participated, and all of the proceeds were donated to the Sears Strong Campaign for high school student Justin Sears, who was diagnosed with cancer in December.

    The winning team was awarded with a t-shirt. Winners included Parker Dinger, Colin Sellers, Collin Lang, Declan Ange, Michael Marinaro, Corey Hunt, Alex Cramer and Nathan Hallam.

    Chip Ruggles was the head of the dodgeball committee, and he had been working on the event for about a month. He had help from his committee members Caleb Edmondson, Maddie Merlene, Grace Laber and Julia Csernyik

    “We had a lot of time between after break and now, so we took it slow, did everything we needed to do and made sure everything was in order. We weren’t rushed at all so that helped,” Ruggles said.

    This year was Ruggles’ first time running the tournament, and in order to prepare he followed a list of requirements the people last year made. Overall, he feels pretty good about how the tournament went.

    Edmondson brought up the fact that advertising was at times hard because some kids do not want to pay money to play.

    “The biggest thing was advertising and getting people to sign up. It costs money, and kids don’t want to pay money, but 90% of the proceeds are going towards Sears Strong,” Edmondson said.

    In order to prep for the event, Ruggles and his committee had to get in touch with Drama Club for music, schedule a time for the gym, get the dodgeballs, make flyers and make the bracket, which was a hard task.

    “The roadblocks we had was making the bracket because a lot of teams rush and barely get their rosters in on time, or sometimes even later. We had a day to make the bracket, so that was tough to figure out,” Ruggles said.

    Overall, Ruggles found the tournament and amount of people to sign up a success. The students enjoyed a night of playing dodgeball with their friends for a good cause.

    

    

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Super Bowl should be treated as national holiday

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The Super Bowl is one of most important events in modern American culture, and advertisers spend millions on commercials and marketing leading up to the Super Bowl.

Almost every American watches the game or attends a Super Bowl party of some sort on the first Sunday night in February. Even individuals who do not regularly watch football stay up late to enjoy the big game.

An event as large as the Super Bowl is obviously more important to many than some holidays. If the Super Bowl is as important as a holiday, why should it not be recognized as one? The Super Bowl already has traditions surrounding it such as eating wings, throwing parties, the halftime show and funny commercials. Animal lovers even have the Puppy Bowl to look forward to every year.

With all of the festivities on Sunday night, Monday is always a challenge for many. The game itself commonly ends around 11:30 p.m. but celebrations, the MVP announcement and trophy presentation can go on until 12:30 or later.

Almost everyone stays up for these festivities, so Monday is always somewhat of a wasted day. Teachers and students alike are exhausted from the night before and do not have any desire to be at school the next day. Parents do not want to wake up early to take their kids to school the next day. Employees of other businesses and companies are sleep deprived and do not accomplish much on that Monday.

Simply put, nobody gets anything done on Super Bowl Monday. It is a day that is miserable for millions of people nationwide. The Monday after the Super Bowl is characterized by groans of exhaustion from football fans across the country.

The Super Bowl clearly deserves to be treated as a national holiday. Super Bowl Monday should be a day for people to rest and stay home with family and friends.

    

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Chicago News Channel Blooper

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By Lindsey Ryan

The 2018 Winter Olympics are currently being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This is the first time South Korea has hosted the Winter Olympics; they have been fighting for their spot to host for many years. 2018 was their time to shine for the Games. News channels have been covering the Games and all of their highlights since they began February 8. One news channel in particular made a mistake while covering the Pyeongchang Olympics.

On a news channel in Chicago, the graphics coordinator was confused and accidentally placed “P.F. Chang 2018” as the graphic behind anchor Mark Rivera. According to FoxNews.com, Jayme Nicholas, a spokeswoman for the news station, apologized for the image and told the Chicago Tribune the graphic was merely a “mix-up.” The “P.F. Chang 2018” graphic was supposed to be used for a “satirical piece” that sports anchor Mark Giangreco created Friday.

The graphic, however, was then accidentally used for the real news on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the station said. The “P.F. Chang 2018” graphic brought an onslaught of mockery on social media, with many first questioning if it was real.

“P.F. Chang’s.. Bringing the world together in 2018,” one user wrote.

P.F Chang’s official twitter tweeted, “Contrary to this broadcast, we’re not hosting the games.”