For Blair's varsity boys' volleyball team, 2004 was definitely a season to remember: The team went 10-2 in the regular season, captured a divisional trophy, was seeded third in the county, and broke a five-year playoff drought by advancing as far as the third round. With the majority of its starting lineup returning to the court this year, the Blazers are poised to repeat its 2004 success once more.
"Jeff Gannon" asks a question at a White House press briefing.
Over the past several weeks, a comprehensive investigation inside the blogosphere uncovered the truth about "Jeff Gannon" – a "reporter" for the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA and the amateurish Talon News Service who the White House allowed into press briefings for nearly two years. Liberal critics on the Internet discovered that "Jeff Gannon" is actually a pseudonym for the man's real name, James Guckert, and that he has an X-rated past and no journalistic background.
Last week, Temple University basketball coach John Chaney sent a player into a game against St. Joseph's University to, in his words, "send a message,” for the illegal screens that he alleged St. Joe's had been using. Neimiah Ingram, the "goon” Chaney sent in to deliver that message, wound up breaking the right arm of St. Joseph's John Bryant, ending his season and his collegiate career (he's a senior). When Temple heard the news of Bryant's arm, Chaney should have been fired.
One of the final rehearsals for the spring musical, "Once Upon a Mattress," concludes on the day before the teasers, Tuesday, March 2. Click the above picture to see a gallery of rehearsal pictures.
CORRECTION: "Once Upon a Mattress" runs for two weeks: March 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. and March 6 at 2 p.m.
Junior Lindsay Abbett of Quince Orchard HS and Sarah Horvitz of Springbrook HS were elected to run for Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB) on Mar. 2 at the Nominating Convention held at Northwest HS. A special election committee made up of student delegates from the high schools and middle schools of Montgomery County participated in the primary election between five SMOB candidates.
Foreign exchange student Mutti Angitta with the head coach of the Cleveland Browns football team, Romeo Crennel, at a celebration of African-American history month in February.
Photo courtesy of Angitta
After an uninspiring five-song set from Chicago-based Detholz, the capacity crowd at the 9:30 Club awaited anxiously for the next band, on Feb. 24. Detholz, an evangelical rock group, seemed out of touch with the normal Wilco audience of college students and 50 year old men. They sang "Faith" by Limp Bizkit, a poor choice to play in front of a sold out show of people who had no interest in late nineties rap. Detholz even received a commemorative "You suck!" from the crowd, prompting them to quickly leave the stage.
After a journey that stretched from Montreal to Puerto Rico, from Portland to Las Vegas and then finally to Washington D.C., the Nationals were ready to play under their new name. Ironically, the Nationals honored the nation's capital with a victory today playing in their temporary home in Florida against a team from New York.
50 Cent, the founder of rap group Guerilla Unit, found another feud this week from a seemingly unlikely source--his now-former protégé, The Game. Their recent beef escalated following a shooting outside New York radio station Hot 97 on Monday. 50 kicked The Game out of G-Unit, claiming that he has been disloyal during the recent battles with other high-profile rap stars, including fellow New York MCs Jadakiss and Ja Rule.
A massive song session at the NFTY national convention 2005.
Photo courtesy of Rachel Ross.
Over 4,000 students and youth from across the nation rallied at the White House and Capitol on Feb. 26 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to demand decisive legislation to end AIDS. The Student March Against AIDS, in addition to a series of other weekend events such as youth seminars and lobbying, was a part of a Global Day of Youth Action to end AIDS.
Israeli students speak to members of the Jewish Culture Club.
Junior Mutti Angitta with Ambassador Ruth Davis.
The display of airplanes on the College Park Aviation Museum airfield.
A view of the boats docked at the Gangplank Marina.
MAR. 1, WHITMAN- The Blazers entered the second round of the playoffs in high spirits after a resounding victory over twelfth-seeded Quince Orchard, but four seed Whitman proved to be much stiffer opposition and after a fierce back-and-forth contest the Vikings ended up 45-38 victors.
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