The Red Sox’s third baseman Will Middlebrooks had the best offensive game of his career against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 7th.  He went 4 for 5 with 3 homeruns and 4 RBIs. Middlebrooks’s first 2 homeruns came off of the national league’s Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey.  It is very...

MMA and boxing are the sports that fans tend to go to purely for the fights. You can maybe even squeeze hockey into that category. But baseball is definitely not one of those sports. However, a massive fight broke out on March 9th in the 9th inning between Mexico and Canada at the World Baseball Classic...

Track has officially started here at Normal Community.  Over 90 boys have been attending the indoor track workouts since January 8th until their first official practice, which was on February 13th.  This is the highest number of athletes NCHS boys track has ever had. Although there has been some...

Chris Carpenter is arguably the best starting pitcher the St. Louis Cardinals have on their roster currently.  However, it has recently been released to the public that his pitching career could soon be coming to an end. Carpenter has been struggling with nerve damage for the past few years.  It forced...

Tennis star Novak Djokovic is not one who is famous for his explosive temper.  However, on January 27th, he surprised the Australian crowd by kicking a tennis ball out of frustration just seconds after loosing an intense point. Djokovic was playing Andy Murray in the finals of the Australian Open...

The NCHS baseball team set the bar for themselves pretty high after last year’s stellar performance.  Last season, they made it to the Regional Championship, where they lost to Moline.  Their record at the end of the season was 17-20. Our baseball team will have to fill in for those who graduated. ...

On January 31, 2000, current Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was reported to have been a part of a fight that caused death of two men.  The fight resulted in the stabbing of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar.  Although Lewis was never proven guilty of the murders, many are still asking the question,...

We lost one of baseball’s greatest players of all time when Stan “The Man” Musial passed away on January 19th.  He died peacefully of natural causes at his home in Ladue, Missouri at the age of 92.  His family was at his side when he passed away. Musial played for the St. Louis Cardinals for...

There were a handful of players who were expected to easily make it into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.  However, in an unexpected turn of events, nobody made the cut. The favorites were Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Craig Biggio, and Sammy Sosa.  Unfortunately, none of these players were...

After almost 2 months of intramural volleyball play, a champion was crowned. Scared Hitless overcame Semi-Pro on December 12th in an intense three set match with a score of 20-25(L), 25-21(W), 15-10(W). Although Semi-Pro had more volleyball experience than their opponent, Scared Hitless still came...