National School Scrabble Championship

STORY: AMBI: SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT SAM KAUFMAN: What you are listening to is the announcers from a competitive event. But one that most people don’t think of as competitive. Scrabble. Competitive Scrabble is a pastime for tens of thousands of people worldwide. There are all kinds of people who play Scrabble competitively, even children. COOPER 2 COOPER: (0:57) A very good game would be like a 400. Braggable is maybe 500. The best I’ve gotten in a club or tournament is 568, but I got like a 6-something against a friend. That’s Cooper Komatsu, an 8th grader from Southern California, and one of the top youth Scrabble players in the country. COOPER 1 COOPER: (16:11) We have the best combined rating, and the highest rated player in the tournament, which is my partner. I’m probably third highest rated. Cooper is an energetic, positive kid. And a kid who evidently loves Scrabble. In addition to competing in…

Waikato Rugby Union speaks up about the match fixing game allegation (this is my feature story) After the Ranfurly Shield game that occurred on October 3, 2015, there is allegation that one of the team players in WRU organization, Stephen Donald was involved in a match fixing game. The Waikato Rugby Union had a press conference on October 7, 2015 to answer the match-fixing allegation that they received from the media during the Ranfurly Sheild game. In the press conference General Manager,…

step in the right direction in this sport or is it a step backward. In the past the College Football champion used to be decided by a National Championship game between the two highest ranked teams given to the two teams with the best records. Nowadays the champion is decided through a playoff system that includes the four best teams in the country. In my opinion I think that the playoff is a great idea, and I strongly believe it should continue. The College football playoffs should continue…

revenue comes from television and marketing rights fees — see: March Madness — and almost all the rest comes from championship ticket sales, according to the NCAA’s website”. This implicates that the NCAA profits so much from these athlete’s performances from their respective sports. With the lack of professional teams in certain states; the citizens of certain state devote themselves to their college teams. The University of Alabama is a football powerhouse and they are known for the prowess…

sitting on the outside looking in for a shot at one of the coveted 4 spots in the BCS Bowl Playoff. When the season kicked off way back in early September, four Big 12 schools actually had high hopes of receiving one of those four esteemed bids. Oklahoma, Baylor, West Virginia and Oklahoma State University all started the season like that little ant; they had “high hopes”! But as we near the end of the season, the college football Bowl Championship Series Selection Committee is simply not…

Trophy as the season wound down. Whichever quarterback fares better could determine the outcome of their New Year’s Eve matchup. Prediction: Mayfield and Sooners receiver Sterling Shepard excel in a 45-34 victory over Clemson. • The second national semifinal pits the Alabama Crimson Tide against the Michigan State Spartans. The Tide have reach the College Football Playoff for the second consecutive season and hope their fate is different from their loss to eventual champion Ohio State a…

Clemson Tigers If you think Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney's Tigers are content with the top seed in this year's College Football Playoff, think again. Despite Clemson’s No. 1 ranking, the Tigers will enter Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. as the underdog to the 4th-ranked Sooners. With most of the hype surrounding Oklahoma, which in some circles has portrayed the Sooners as possibly this year's Ohio State Buckeyes (won National Championship last season), the Tigers should be fueled to…

Tim Tebow was born while his parents were doing mission work in the Philippines. He was raised with Christian values, morals, and ethics. Throughout his life he has done mission work and, with his family, devoted his life to Christ. Tebow has always been an accomplished athlete, but his morality never faded. Tebow is currently an outfielder in Major League Baseball’s New York Met’s minor league system. In his college days, Tebow was a standout quarterback at the University of Florida where he…

failing. However in 2013, Network Ten acquired the rights from Fox Sports and signed a 5 year deal worth $20 million per year. At the time, Network 10 and Cricket Australia were expecting a TV audience of 600,000 per game, but on opening night, the BBL’s TV audience eclipsed 600,000 and has never looked like heading in the other direction. The average audience this year in BBL05 was one million viewers per game, and for the first time in BBL history, two million plus viewers in Australia tuned…

The kickoff to the college football season is exactly one week away and collegiate programs across the country are all trying to get to Glendale, AZ, site of the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. There’s a slew of intriguing matchups slated for Week 1 of the college football regular season, including TCU’s visit to Minnesota for a game with the Gophers, Arizona State’s trip to Texas for a matchup with A&M’s Aggies, Texas versus Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Alabama’s meeting at…