Throughout spring training, or baseball’s preseason, you may have seen people booing and talking negatively about the Houston Astros for “cheating,” but what did they actually do and how did this whole scandal begin? In mid-November of 2019, former Astros pitcher, Mike Fiers, accused the...
The long-awaited XFL has kicked off and is in full swing. The first games were on February 8th, 2020. Although the XFL seems like it a new idea, there is a full history behind the XFL. The XFL was originally introduced in February of 2000. The league was created by Vince McMahon and...
At Blind Brook, there is a current policy regarding the participation of seniors in physical education classes. Essentially, in the past, it has been the case that seniors who currently participate and have participated in a varsity sport would be exempt from their physical education...
For the past decade, climate change has been taking the world by storm. Ever since the average temperature of the Earth elevated, there has been a multitude of observable impacts on the environment. For instance, hurricanes have proven to become more intense in terms of wind speed and...
Since the first recorded cases in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 has become a household name, spreading to over 200 countries. The pandemic has been dominating global news headlines for the past month, but with the numbers and the news changing by the hour, it can often be...
