By Tarun Maddali ’16, Staff Writer The NA football team had a long journey to its championship game. Despite losing that game, the football team knows that it has evolved; Newark Academy Football has had back-to-back winning seasons after wrapping up a very successful 5-3 year, where the team went 5-2 in conference. The seniors…

By Aman Patil ’17, Staff Writer In today’s pop culture, athletes are regarded as perfect machines; they are depicted as robots that produce the same results on the field or court, day in and day out. We often disregard athletes as normal people, and in this, fail to recognize that they have normal human flaws,…

By Kiran Damodaran ’17, Sports Editor Luis Castillo is at the plate with a full count. The Chicago Cubs are five outs from their first World Series appearance in 58 years. Holding a 3-2 series lead in the NLCS (National League Championship Series) against the Florida Marlins, and a 3-0 lead in the game, they appear…

College Athletes Should Be Paid By Young Se Choi ’18, Staff Writer It is the fourth quarter of the nail-biting 2013 Iron Bowl final. Auburn and Alabama are tied at 28. College football fans across the country are on the edge of their seats. Adam Griffith, a freshmen kicker for Alabama, steps up to take…

By Miles Park ’16, Sports Editor Brazil 4 USA 1. Mexico 3 USA 2. Costa Rica 1 USA 0. The last 3 results for the United States Men’s National Soccer Team (USMNT) and coach Jürgen Klinsmann have not been pretty. After being embarrassed on home soil by Brazil and its star forward Neymar, the USMNT missed…

By Sam Keller ’19, Staff Writer It’s Friday night. The lights are bright on Coursen Field, as music from the Jazz Band fills the air. A sea of red and black swarms the stands. These are obvious signs of the Newark Academy community’s support for their football team. School spirit surrounding football is a hallmark…

By Jordan Zucker ’16, Staff Writer Fantasy football has exploded in popularity since the dawn of the internet, when CBS created the first version of a free fantasy football website in 1997.  Fantasy football is a “competition in which participants build their own imaginary teams by drafting players from a pool, and score points according…

By Miles Park ’16, Sports Editor Football players are modern-day gladiators. It’s a common comparison as both please thousands of spectators while inflicting harm on opponents and their own bodies. I wonder if anyone ever told that to Evan Murray. On Friday September 25th, Murray, a 17-year-old student at Warren Hills Regional High School in…

By Anthony Giachin ’17, Staff Writer As April 2015 rolled around, New York baseball fans seemed to have little to look forward to. The New York Yankees, a team with more championships than any other professional sports team, seemed to be entering a rebuilding year after the retirement of legendary captain Derek Jeter and missing…

By Sam Keller ’19, Staff Writer When is the last time that you saw a women’s team featured in a video game? Likely never. Perhaps that is because traditionally women’s sports have not been valued at the same level as those played by their male counterparts. For decades, women in the athletic industry have been…