APRIL 13, BLAZER TENNIS COURTS The boys' tennis team lost its first match of the season to the talented Wootton Patriots in heart-breaking fashion: they beat themselves. Blair lost the match 4-3, falling to 3-1 on the season, on a pair of very winnable games.
The Bengals proved to be the superior team in their showdown with the boys' varsity lacrosse squad tonight, outgunning Blair 4-8 and dropping the Blazers to 1-3 this season.
While touring the streets of Barcelona, the group walked by this highly decorated private residence.
Pop singer Britney Spears announced Tuesday that she and husband Kevin Federline have conceived their first child. Spears announced the news on her official web site, ending months of tabloid speculation.
Nearly everyone seems to have a different view of the new Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) health curriculum, and the battle over this front in the culture conflict is more vicious than anyone dreamed it would be.
April means that summer is just a step, skip and a hop away. Whatever your summer travel plans may be for the upcoming vacation, let Ann Brashares' witty "Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood", the third installment in the best-selling teen series "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", show you some all-out fun in a setting we are all familiar with: our very own Montgomery County.
The Gay-Straight Alliance sponsored the Day of Silence on April 13 during which students voluntarily refrained from speaking for an entire day. After school, students participated in a "Break the Silence" where they hung posters and discussed reactions received from peers and teachers throughout the day.
Senior Abby Fraeman was a little annoyed when she saw the unfamiliar phone number appear on her cell phone — she was rushing from dinner to fencing practice and assumed it was a wrong number. She answered anyway and listened in disbelief to the person on the other line. When she hung up, she turned to her father and screamed out the news. "I'm an Intel finalist!"
In the action movie department, "Sahara" is pretty mediocre, though it has all the prerequisites - a fast-paced storyline, exotic locales and ridiculous amounts of explosions and gunfire. "Sahara" even includes the stock protagonists: Matthew McConaughey as the hunky boy scout/alpha male, Penelope Cruz as the gorgeous babe and Steven Zahn as the flunky sidekick.
Junior Michael Tsai competes in the Blair Boys Tennis versus Wootton on April 13.
Blair's Outdoor Track team lost to Quince Orchard by a combined score of 73-195 today. Blair, which only ran a few of its fastest runners, won very few events in today's developmental meet. Although Blair lost by a wide margin, the team made progress in several events and key problems were recognized.
The Blair girls' varsity lacrosse team was up 4-1 midway through the first half against the Sherwood Warriors, but things would fall apart for the Blazers as they remained scoreless for the rest of the game while Sherwood went on to score seven unanswered goals.
Junior MIchael Tsai competes during the Blair versus Wootton Tennis match.
APRIL 13, BLAZER STADIUM - In their 11-8 loss to the Richard Montgomery Rockets, the Blazers held on until the very last minute, coming back from a three-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh to go into an eighth inning which lasted until well after ten p.m. on a chilly night. Yet it was not what the Blazers did in the final innings of this three and a half hour game that defined its tone and led to its result, but rather it was what they did not do in the early innings – find crucial holes in the outfield, communicate on routine fly balls and keep their pitching consistent – that cost them the game.
Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, as the nation desperately sought answers for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, one news story ran on almost every major television network. Scrolling along the bottom of the screen, right behind headlines about the reactions of President George W. Bush, ran the story, "Madonna urges restraint [in government retaliation]."
Like the last home game, Blair was without its star setter. Like the last away game, Blair started slow. This time, though, the team didn't revive itself after the first set. The Blazers (3-2) lost to the Seneca Valley Eagles 1-3.
Junior Jody Pollock and senior Kristina Yang were named Sweepstakes Winners in the 2005 Quill and Scroll competition, co-sponsored by the University of Iowa and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The students were judged on their stories "Politics get personal" (in-depth reporting) and "Athletes sobered by dose of reality" (sports story), respectively.
APRIL 12, NELSON H. KOBREN MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM-- Blair's boys' volleyball team has long been one of its strongest spring teams, and this year is no exception. Since the season started in March, the Blazers have gone 4-0 and won all of its games in three straight sets. Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles 25-22, 25-15 and 25-17, adding a fifth win to their season.
Sophomore Marty Stewart takes a shot during the Blair vs. Northwood exhibition game on April 11.
The Blair girls' varsity lacrosse team to a dominant 12-3 victory over the Watkins Mill Wolverines to improve their record to 2-1 on the season.
The 10-minute clock has winded down, and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue steps up to the podium. "With the first overall pick of the 2005 NFL draft, the San Francisco 49ers select…" Well, we can't give you their pick now, not yet, not for another couple weeks, but we can make a guess by writing up a mock draft. Here are Izzy and Pratik's mock drafts for the first round of this year's NFL rookie draft. Click on the names to learn the reasoning behind the picks.
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