Bleacher

When thinking of an exciting and unusual time in my life, I think back to a time when I felt the highest thrill along with feeling very low. It was my freshman year of high school and me and my best friend Mike were ecstatic to try out for the baseball team at Forrest High School (now Westside High). We had been playing baseball together since we were kids and our goal was to be the next pair of great ballplayers to come through Forrest. We had been working for that moment all our lives and it…

The Carolina Mudcats are a minor league baseball team that was founded in 1991. They were once called the Columbus Mudcats that was a part of the Southern League before they then moved to North Carolina. They first started playing at Fleming Stadium in Wilson, NC before moving to Five County Stadium in Zebulon, NC. When they were the Columbus Mudcats they were affiliates of the Houston Astros. That all changed once they moved to North Carolina and became the Carolina Mudcats then the Pittsburgh…

Meredith Monk’s construction Quarry presents a critique on the rise of a dictatorship through the eyes of an innocent and distant child. Similarly, The Green Table by Kurt Jooss depicts the inhumanities and corruption of war as seen by the people experiencing it first hand. Both of these works concern the rise of the Third Reich and the events that took place in WWII. However they differ in method of execution and technique as a result of differing time periods in which the two performances were…

When I was in elementary school, I went to a summer camp called Soccer Nights. Children from kindergarten to sixth grade - separated into divisions by age - explored the basics of playing soccer, and we competed in scrimmages every night. I loved it. As a matter of fact, I would go on to volunteer at it one day. However, there was one part I absolutely dreaded. Being the goalie. It was the bane of my existence. It was the one thing I feared the most: even above clowns, spiders, and Donald…

You ask me how I feel when you say women cannot do the things men can do? I am a strong independent woman. Listen to me and I’ll tell you why. I have been through being told no by someone just because I am a woman. I go to school 8 hours a day, go home and do chores around the house, and help my grandpa to support him. Feminism is equality; women can do things men can do and should be treated equal. Feminism is playing male dominated sports. Sports has always had a masculine viewpoint attached…

called bunkers, and they are of equal size and number place on opposing sides of the speedball field to provide fair chance for the two teams competing. This style is in no way a promotion of violence. It is an extreme sport, with company sponsors, bleachers for spectators, and jerseys with numbers and other than the gameplay itself it is extremely identical to mainstream sports. To call this a promoter of violence is to do the same to hockey for its encouraged fist fights and physical contact.…

Babe Ruth George Herman, also known as “Babe” Ruth, is perhaps the most recognized player in Major League Baseball. He is an influence to many Americans because of his persistence to conquer any impediments that were blocking his road to success. Fame was not handed to Babe, he became worthy of it; he is eminent because of his distinguished statistics. Babe Ruth was, and still is, considered the most elite baseball player ever to compete on a diamond; he set records that remained unbroken for…

my coach would take us out to eat dinner for some team bonding. I still was never comfortable taking off my “mask”. My first game has changed me. Entering the gym, the atmosphere was totally different. I could see a lot of people sitting on the bleachers yelling for my team or the other team. I was scared because I never experience this much people watching me play. I was nervous. I was overwhelmed. I…

A few simple words can change a person’s life forever. “You can’t play basketball for six months.” These were the words that changed mine. As far back as my memory reaches, I’ve played the game of basketball. A game introduced to me by my dad, and played throughout my family for ages. Playing basketball was truly something I was passionate about. Nothing could have prepared me for the pain I endured both physically and mentally. The summer basketball season was rolling to an end, but one more…

There once lived a man, there too once died a man. One or both or neither or what the fuck have you such man was a man known only as Ten Four. The bastard was born on a night as cold as his mother, a fucking bitch that had no decency to name her goddamn son. Taken up by a nurse at the hospital, after being abandoned by his mother, the nameless child was brought into the home of a single 23-year-old nurse without a fucking clue. This nurse was named Eliza Mentell, an Italian broad with a nice…