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Football continues in playoffs

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By Austin Beamer

The Bulldogs once again have made it to the playoffs, finishing the regular season with a record of 9-1.

The entire Bulldogs team practiced all season and has been waiting for the upcoming games with their eyes set now on a state championship. Now, they are only three games away.

“Our team has prepared all year for the playoffs. The regular season was just the beginning. The playoffs mark the beginning  of a fresh start to a new season that lasts five weeks long,” sophomore linebacker Dalton Oshinsky said.

Their first opponent was Canton McKinley (6-4). Stow handled them with little trouble, winning the game 35-10 and ending McKinley’s 2016 season.

On Fri., November 11, the Bulldogs will face their toughest opponent yet, St. Edwards. The two teams met last year in the final four; Stow’s season came to an end when Eds defeated them 45-7.

“Our feeling going into the game against St. Eds is the same as it is every week. Come to work every day with the same mentality as always, which is to stay focused on our assignments as players and to prepare for our upcoming opponent,” Oshinsky said.

When the Bulldogs play St. Eds on Friday, it will begin at 7:30 at Twinsburgh. The theme for the game is pajamas. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday.

 

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Boys basketball season begins

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As winter comes closer and closer to starting, so does the basketball season. The boys basketball team began official tryouts on Nov 4. They had a two and a half hour practice before the football game.

The tryouts are composed of all grades, freshman through seniors, but they are split up into the three different teams: freshman, junior varsity (jv), and varsity. Coach Boyle is in charge of coaching the freshman, Coach O’Keefe is with the jv, and Coach Close and Coach Culp run the varsity tryouts. Each coach is in charge of choosing their teams and picking who they are going to cut and keep. The teams usually consist of about 12 players, but sometimes a couple more or less.

During the tryouts, all the athletes participating go through a bunch of skill work and concept work. At the beginning of each tryout everyone is together doing dribbling and passing drills to get warmed up. Then the players break off to their assigned team and work on more dribbling drills as well as some shooting drills.

Next the coaches run their players through some defensive concepts. Everyone then shoots free throws and takes a water break. Free throws are very  important during a game so they are practiced a lot. Following the break, coaches run their players through some offensive concepts and let their teams play up and down the court five on five. At the end of tryouts, coaches line their players up and he gives them a certain number of free throws the team has to make, and if the team gets it they are done, but if they do not, then they have to run a line drill and try again.
Coaches can make cuts as they feel they are apparent to them at anytime during the tryout. When the coaches have picked a final team, the official practices begin. When the football season ends all of those kids on the team wanting to play will have a fair and equal chance to tryout for the team. This means that some kids that make the team now, might not be on the team after the football players tryout. Before the season starts the team will have many practices and also a few scrimmages to get ready for their first game on Dec 2 against Kent Roosevelt. Everyone who makes the team will get the opportunity to play in a total of 22 season games plus however far they make it in the playoffs.

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2016 presidential election approaches

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With less than a week to the 2016 presidential election, many people are still figuring out what they want to mark on their ballot. While most high school students do not yet have the opportunity to vote, they have provided information on third-party candidates and separately expressed their opinions through the links below.

To watch a video of students expressing their opinions on the candidates, click here.

To learn more about Jill Stein, check out this infographic.

To learn more about Gary Johnson, check out this infographic.

For an opinion piece on the election & voting, click here.

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Current culture nulls excitement of voting

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I used to be excited to vote. Just the idea of “having a voice” in my country’s government made me feel grown up. Studying politics–no matter how insubstantial–gave me some sort of pseudo-sophistication that made me seem competent for dinner table discussions. I turned eighteen and could already picture slapping on the “I Voted” sticker while strutting the most patriotic walk home before a bald eagle swept me off of my feet and thanked me for my participation in the democratic process. To me, elections seemed fun; however, I’ve come to realize that quite the opposite is true.

Coming home from school one day I found myself scuffling through some recently delivered mail. Of course, the past months have filled my mailbox to the brim with political advertisements, but one letter in particular caught my eye this day. It read, “Don’t Vote for a Candidate That Has No Chance to Win.” and featured pictures of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with open boxes ( [ ] ) next to their names. Disappointment came as I noticed the crossed-off boxes ( [X] ) for the following candidates of: Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Deez Nuts, and #SMOD2016 (Sweet Meteor of Death).

Now take a second to let that soak in. Staring at this ad marked the exact moment in time that my excitement to vote was decimated. I could not find myself able to reconcile any good in a country where an internet meme and/or a celestial projectile of mass extinction would ever need to be printed on actual paper to advise citizens not to actually vote for these “candidates” as the actual president of the United States. My mind turned to scrambled eggs. It’s not as if the ad took a partisan side to say, “Hey, don’t waste your vote here! Vote for Clinton/Trump 2016!” but was instead informative to the fact that these absurd candidates were even less insignificant than Johnson or Stein and voters should beware of their illegitimacy.

However, it’s hard to deny the ironic redundancy of having both an apocalyptic meteor and a sexual innuendo on the same piece of paper as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The election has been all too much for me to handle. As us young voters tried to build a solid foundation for our political beliefs and aspirations, we were dealt the card of a woman who lies easier than I breath, and a man who makes Putin seem like a godsend.

Scandals perpetually worked their way through the campaign process, with more focus being allocated on rhetoric rather than policy. But you’ve heard these complaints all too often. “Clinton’s a criminal liar” and “Trump’s a bigoted racist” have essentially become the slogans of the Democratic and Republican parties.

With just days to go before Election Day, Clinton’s emails have been opened back up for FBI investigation and ties to Anthony Weiner make speculation ever the more interesting. I have high hopes that the former-congressman-turned-pedafile also recieved one of those, “Make Your Voice Count” ads and will make the wise decision to restrain from voting for, “Deez Nuts.”

If the Mayan calendar was redone, I’m sure the days would end at Nov. 8, 2016. Weeks leading up to Election Day would surely be filled with National Geographic documentaries and a Roland Emmerich movie. I just want it all to be over already.

Follow this link for more election coverage.

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