Southwestern Athletic Conference

On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano was awarded the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award at the first ESPY Awards. Jim Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was a college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Jim had an excellent coaching career, coaching for many teams, but most prominently at North Carolina State University. Despite being weakened from his fight against cancer, Jimmy V delivered an inspiring and energetic speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards with a goal to encourage the…

Pete Evans has started a new paleo diet, which he claims can reverse or help manage medical conditions like diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis and can also prevent autism in children. The editorial ‘Pete Evans can test paleo diet claims when he gets sick’ written by Sam de Brito, was published in The Age on august 30th 2015. In this article De Brito uses critical and mocking tone to get across to the readers his main contention, which is that Pete Evans shouldn’t promote his…

The ending of World War 1 was supposed to be the beginning of peace. The allied forces proved to be victorious over the Central powers. This brought with it the 1919 Paris peace conference that was held in Versailles, France. This was done after the Armistice of November 11, 1918. The peace conference was mostly influenced by the Big Four. The Big Four consisted of three important leaders that were heavily involved in the war. These leaders were American President, Woodrow Wilson, the British…

and wanted to protect Europe from another war with Germany by crushing the country with retribution payments and severe obligations (Baker). Their solution was the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated at the Palace of Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference and included 440 clauses that hoped…

World War One (WWI) was a crucial turning point for the United States. The U.S. was involved in WWI partly because of Germany’s submarine warfare on other European nations. President Woodrow Wilson, the president during this time period, wanted to hold off on joining the war for as long as possible. To no avail, the U.S. had to enter the war to try to subdue the hostile negotiations in Europe. The war had just ended when Wilson delivered The Fourteen Points speech, which was intended to propose…

In the early 1920’s, numerous attempts at securing peace among nations influenced the many policies that were written in the hopes that the world would become united despite World War I, which ultimately destroyed the pre-war worlds confidence. Many of these attempts and creations of unity were carried down into policies that were written into a document called the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was written based on 14 points that Woodrow Wilson deemed important to world peace and brought an…

Today, Pearson announced the company is growing its partnership with Maryville University to launch three new online master’s degree programs in the areas of Nursing Practice, Business Data Analytics, and Software Development. These programs will increase access to flexible, high-quality education opportunities that enable practitioners and professionals interested in a career change to seek additional graduate level credentials in growing fields. With the addition of these new online master’s…

Matt Ryan is currently #2 and the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, his is 217 lbs and stands at 6’4”. He is has been to the playoffs a number of times but has never gone to the super bowl. Hoping and praying with 6-2 as of right now he and the falcons will continue the race to the playoffs and the super bowl. As he was growing up Matt went to school at William Penn Charter High School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played in several sports. He played quarterback in…

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…

One Love gave the Misfits a scare through the duration of the first half of the Morale, Welfare & Recreation women’s soccer league game March 23 on the Multi-Purpose Field at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Although One Love had the opportunity to beat Misfits, they would lose 6-2. Most of the other MWR leagues have a few practices or none at all. However, the women’s soccer league has coaches that held tryouts, coordinated practices and have additional support from others willing to…