Miracle Nine History

The film Miracle is about the U.S men’s ice hockey team winning the 1980 gold metal for the Winter Olympics, led by head coach Herb Brooks. Miracle was fairly accurate with its historic content during the course of the movie. The director Gavin O’Connor did a good job tying in historical and political background that brought the film together, which made it unique to other sport films. In the beginning of the film there was a sequence highlighting the historical events that lead up to the 1980 Winter Olympics. Miracle specifically opened up with the historical footage against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Our country endured the time where it was divided because of the support of the Vietnam War. To make

W.E.B. Du Bois suggested in his early work that the talent-tenth would uplift the black race. He implied college trained black men and women were best equipped to transform black America’s position in the twentieth century.

When high school students that play high-profile sports are applying for college, they have nearly a thirty percent advantage in getting admitted compared to non-athletes in the pool of applicants, despite having SAT scores that are around one hundred points lower than average. A study collected from football and basketball players at the University of North Carolina found that nearly sixty percent of these students could only read between a fourth- and eighth-grade level with ten percent only able to read as well as a third-grade student. This culture has been cultivating for several years. During the first intercollegiate game documented between Rutgers University and Princeton University in 1869, it is said that four of the players on the winning team (Rutgers) were failing classes. Nonetheless, this Rutgers and Princeton game is idolized. Athletes are conditioned to believe if personal physical performance is high enough, then expectations for academic performance will be lower. This ideology proves to carry on into many other aspects of the players’ life, including the judicial

"We preach freedom around the world… but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other, that this is a land of the free except for the Negro?” This quote was spoken by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. These few words embodies’ the entire culture, goals and failures of the country during the civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement had a considerable measure going ahead between 1950’s and 1960’s. While there were some effective parts of the movement, there were a few disappointments also. The blend of accomplishments and disappointments prompted the expansion of the movement and in the long run a more equivalent American culture. You can imagine a parallel between the movement and the reconstruction era. And the cold war rhetoric on American freedom. The

“Regan,” says Sam, our new head coach, pointing at me. “Lane five.” Walking over to my lane, I tried not to fall over with exhaustion. The coaches put you with people who they think swim your pace, and generally lanes five and six are typically for the fastest swimmers. They worked about double of what everyone else did, and they were expected to be the best. I definitely didn’t think I was one of those people, but apparently Sam did.

With the season on the line, the seniors team had to win against St. Francis Xavier. Down by two baskets at the end of

In a busy first week of competitions, the Alder track team had lots of success. The competition season started on Tuesday, April 5 in a meet with five other teams at Columbus School for Girls. Both the girls’ and boys’ teams finished second at the meet. The boys’ team had 16 members earn points toward their varsity letter while the girls’ team had 13 members earn varsity points. At Tuesday’s meet, participants could receive points for placing fifth or better in each event. Team members from both the track, running events including team relays, and field events, non-running events such as high jump and shot put, earned points for the team.

In essence, rowing consists of steering a boat along the water by using oars. Boats can contain one, two, four, or eight

Almost every country which competes in the Olympics has a crew team. NMUSD does not accept the fact that rowing is a sport. The current athletes on the NAC Jr Crew that attend Newport Harbor are being wronged by the district. A sport is a sport whether or not it is threaded through the high school. On top of the denial of an “Athletic Schedule” to rowers, the district has given the NAC Jr Crew little to no information on why rower’s schedules changed. The rowing community is large at Newport Harbor, and as Golan puts it, “the school is isolating part of its own population for no

Lawrence Ross attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. in 1985. Ross also attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history. He also has a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

During most of the 19th century most college sports consisted of a pick-up game at best. Very much like BYU Idaho, they had clubs that competed against each other, but very rarely against other schools. In 1852 the first intercollegiate team competition took place when Harvard and Yale squared off in a two-mile race on Lake Winnepeaukee in New Hampshire. Still, from this point in time scholarships for athletics were still very far in the future.

I received this news on race day and I was shocked. Instead of being in the upperclassmen quad I was put into the “leftovers” boat with the athletes that didn’t qualify for the slower boats. That race was the most excruciating eight minutes of my life.

Fairmont State University’s Concrete Canoe Team placed eighth overall for final product and display, tenth for their oral presentation, fourteenth for their technical paper, ninth for the women’s sprint, as mentioned earlier, and eighth for the men’s sprint. The Fairmont State University student ASCE chapter was also the runner up for the Ridgeway Award, the top student chapter international award. Professor Como, former president of Fairmont State University’s ASCE student chapter, stated in the article “Fairmont State University remains the only college or university in the state to qualify for the national competition. Our

Over the past few months crews have trained, travelled and competed at the Australian University Rowing Championships, in Perth and had great success across regattas in the CDRA. In particular NUBC showed their strength and versatility at the CDRA Sprint Champs, where we claimed the highly competitive Linwood Throsby Gift.

Crane begins the story with four characters, the captain, the correspondent, the cook, and the Oiler, bailing and rowing in their small craft. He shows the self sacrifice of each individual, and how each person must do his part for the community of men to survive. In the beginning of the story a passage states, "The oiler, steering with one of the two oars in the boat, sometimes raised himself suddenly to keep clear of water that swirled in over the stern. It was a thin little oar and it seemed often ready to snap. The correspondent, pulling at the other oar.... ." 1 This in the most basic sense illustrates each man doing his part for the group. The correspondent and oiler continuously take turns rowing their small craft, never stopping, only resting when spelled by the other. The cook sits in the bottom of their floating hell bailing the seawater. The captain masters the craft and keeps the men together. Without each finger of the proverbial hand there would be no fist. Together, the men fell into this situation, and for their survival, together they must learn to become one.