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By: Tamilore Tokunboh-Salako  The Baltimore Ravens season ended on a disappointing note, one that feels all too familiar with Ravens fans as of late.
They lost the AFC Championship game to the Kansas City Chiefs, the final score ultimately being 17-10. Ask many Ravens fans before the game, and most of them would have been confident to say that they would be going back to the superbowl after 11 years. In the time since their Super Bowl XLVII victory, there have been a lot of false dawns and grief (Imagine what the Cowboys fans feel like). However, even though this year ended in a familiar way, this time is different.
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By: Jonathan Illuzzi  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shakespeare’s poignant words are poetic genius, as they have been for hundreds of years. In one of the most beautifully constructed wordings from Macbeth, it is rather ironic that a passage about the brevity and futility of time, of life, is still kept alive today when readers, some, maybe all, at one point or another question life’s meaning and purpose. Macbeth is justified in his nihilistic rumination: the battle he is set to face, and lose, in his external world parallels the quickness of which his internal world has fallen apart. He has just received word of his wife’s death. Any hope of retaining his kingship, and sanity for that matter, has been dashed by his own ambition and need for power. For Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the metaphor is apt: once the illuminating brief candle of life is extinguished, the eternal darkness that awaits is all that’s left. If only Shakespeare could have met Kobe Bryant. By: Milith Batchu The NBA script is at an all time peak. With comeback victories, historic scoring performances, and heartbreaking injuries, this season has been eventful, to say the least. Here are some of the most interesting stories to date:
By: Justin Goldberg  The title of this article might seem disrespectful to Tampa Bay wide receiver Mike Evans, but it’s not my intention as he’s a fantastic player and might go down as one of the best to ever play the position. However, the Hall of Fame standards for lots of NFL fans are way too low. Evans is a player who’s always been subject to the title “overrated,” which makes his career also very overrated. Again, this isn’t disrespectful to Evans because he’s a great player. Here, overrated means rated or valued too highly, not bad.
By: Aidan Kelley  In third grade, our teacher assigned us to watch the moon for a course of a month and study its different phases. I remember this quite clearly because it jump started my interest in astronomy. I collected books on space, the stars and our solar system. Over time, however, my interest in the topic withered as other things – we’ll call them more earthly things – took priority.
But I recently rediscovered the famous image of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Once again, my curiosity was piqued. This time, I wondered to myself, “Why have we not been to the moon since?” It has been over 50 years since humans last set foot on the moon. As a child, the thought never even occurred to me. I didn’t even question why we haven’t been back. However, after coming back to this topic years later, I decided to take it upon myself to look into this question. |