Fresh, funny, and personal – straight from the Courant staff.
Ben Stryker
Cartoonist
Senior Austin Sandvik said this about his bracket-making tactics: “when the experts aren’t sure who’s going to win, I choose the team with the better mascot.” But what happens when you pick your teams ONLY by mascot. This got me thinking, which NCAA men’s basketball team has the best name?
Lily Kazemi
Reporter
If you haven’t heard the latest YouTube video gone viral, you must be living under a rock – thirteen-year-old Rebecca Black’s “Friday” has become one of the most-watched, and most-mocked, videos on the site. With over 31,000,000 views as of Monday night, almost ten percent of America has heard the song.
Logan Phillips
Senior Editor
On Wednesday, March 16, the boys hockey team suffered a heartbreaking loss to St. Joe’s in the state championship semifinals, ending their long-awaited run at perfection.
The last time the boy’s hockey team won the state championship was 1972. Since then, it’s been 38 years of frustration for the NCHS fans who have seen their team appear to be destined to win a state championship time and time again, only to fall short at the last minute.
Emma Hutchins
Opinions Editor
190 million users. 65 million tweets a day. Five years since its inception in March 2006, Twitter is an international phenomenon, helping ignite revolutions around the world – across the Middle East, and you know, in Charlie Sheen’s Sober Valley Lodge.
Ben Stryker
Cartoonist
To quote Freddy Mercury, “I’m going slightly mad”. It’s a severe case of March Madness, but not the kind I was hoping for. By reading this blog, I assume you know how the Butler-Pitt game ended. If you don’t know, watch this (at your own peril).
