Why baseball can be more than a game

Throughout the rest of the country, baseball is a pretty simple sport. See the ball, hit the ball, run the bases, and score more runs than your opponent. The game's been played like that for nearly 200 years now and, except for some minor equipment modifications, has remained virtually unchanged. But there's something different about baseball in New England. It's something that goes beyond the game, the ball, the bases, and the...

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"The Men Who Stare At Goats" Review

The focus of the film is on a journalist named Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), who has just quit his job and lost his wife. In an effort to regain some meaning in his life, he decides to travel to the Middle East to cover the war in Iraq. This is where Wilton runs into Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney), a man who Wilton later finds out is a former American soldier that was a member of the Army team known as the Jedi. The Jedi were a trained...

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Fan Voice

Fan Voice is a new website aimed at being the No. 1 place for fans of all sports to write, debate, and discuss any and every sport, team, and league.The internet is filled with websites that cater to "professionals" who tell you what you should think about a variety of topics in the sports world, whether they're former players, coaches, or random people who may have covered a team or two in past years. We read their opinions...

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Punish the Instigator!

There was an ugly incident following the final gun of Boise State's 19-8 victory over Oregon on Thursday in which Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount sucker punched Boise State defensive end Byron Hout during the postgame handshakes. Cameras caught Hout yelling something at Blount and smacking his shoulder pad. Blount retaliated by landing...

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First blog post

This is my first of many blog posts for the Media Writing cour...

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