Category: Sports
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Saying Goodbye to Jeter
By Chris Paradis ’16, Staff Writer It was the bottom of the 9th inning, in a game tied at 5-5, when Derek Jeter made his last plate appearance at Yankee Stadium. In an iconic moment, Jeter hit a walk-off single to win the game for the New York Yankees. Applauding Jeter with utter enthusiasm, fans…
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Home Field Advantage: The Academy’s Efforts to Garner Student Support for its Athletic Teams
By Ben Goodman ’16, Sports Editor A Newark Academy student’s daily schedule is a laundry list of individual obligations, namely, clubs, instruments, charity work, sports, and foremost, rigorous academics. All that in mind, the Academy still prides itself on being a school composed of students who are actively supportive of each other’s endeavors, including and…
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Party Like It’s 1985!
By Danny Cohen ’15, Lead Columnist “Party like its 1985!” 1985, of course, is the last time the American League Champion Kansas City Royals reached the MLB playoffs. They went on to win the World Series that year. This past season, the Royals that organizations can bounce back from years of misery and ascend to…
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Royals Reach World Series: Party Like It’s 1985!
By Danny Cohen ’15, Lead Columnist Party like it’s 1985! That is the last time the American League Champion Kansas City Royals reached the playoffs. They were the World Champions that year; this year they weren’t as lucky, losing to the San Francisco Giants in 7 games . However, the Royals have proven that organizations can…
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New Chapter in the NFL Drug Policy Saga
By Ben Goodman ’16, Sports Editor It was a rough September for the NFL, which reached its nadir in the last two weeks with the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal. Additionally, with poster-boy Adrian Peterson’s child abuse case and perpetual arguments over player safety and player conduct, the league has felt the heat, from football…
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Concerns about Qatar
By Kiran Damodaran ’17, Staff Writer During the past few months months there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. To give some background, Qatar is a small country in Western Asia, located on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. They won the bid for the 2022 World…
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Mike Gibbons Commits to Lehigh
By Zachary Persing ’15, Sports Editor On August 1st Mike Gibbons concluded what was a year-long process when he committed to the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University. In 2014 Gibbons shined at the plate and on the mound for the Minutemen. He maintained a .439 batting average and was a force in the Minuteman batting…
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A Culture of Violence in the NFL
By Danny Cohen ’15, Lead Columnist Since January 2000, 732 NFL players have been arrested and have been involved in 90 cases of domestic violence. Yet, when Broncos Tight End Dwayne Carsell pleaded guilty to battery after he picked up a woman by her neck and bit her, Titans Tackle Brad Hopkins pleaded guilty to…
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Joining Essex County’s Elite: A Look into Varsity Soccer
By Miles Park ’16, Staff Writer All Newark Academy sports teams encounter unique, and sometimes overwhelming, challenges; however, the 2014 men’s soccer team is facing an entirely new challenge: the top conference in Essex County. Like most Newark Academy sports teams, men’s soccer competes in the Super Essex Conference (SEC), a conference that includes most…
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Pay for Play?
By Ben Goodman ’16, Sports Editor Almost 150 million Americans tuned in to this year’s NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I Men’s Basketball Championship that churned out $10 billion of revenue, which was distributed to athletic conferences, to specific schools, and then to athletic directors and coaches. Everyone joined in on the lucrative fun……