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By: Jared Goldberg
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Hickory Wins The Championship

Some of you may know that the 7th and 8th grade basketball team, also known as “Hickory”, won the CYM championship last Sunday 2/24/13 at Sallies. We beat St. Mary The Assumption. After losing to them in the St. John’s tournament we wanted to beat them in the championship. We beat them in the regular season and from that we knew their strengths and weaknesses.

Duck Dynasty Review

By Dominic Cipriano and Kevin O’Neill: The 5 star show Duck Dynasty just started their third season on the air. They have many hilarious episodes that are kid appropriate. They have a mobile app were you can watch the videos without commercials. The realty show of a business that makes duck calls takes place in the swamps of Louisiana. The shows the family events and business drama.

Simon Gagne Is Back In Philadelphia

By: Matthew Yoslov
Simon Gagne is back in Philly. Gagne, who previously played 10 seasons in Philadelphia, was traded in 2010 to the Tampa Bay Lightning for defenseman Matt Walker and a 3rd round draft pick in 2011. The Flyers used that pick on current Adirondack Phantom, Marcel Noebels. Noebels is considered the next Claude Giroux. When the Phantoms were playing in Philadelphia, one more time before moving to Allentown next fall, Noebels scored the only goal for the Phantoms in a 2-1 loss to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

Simon Gagne played for the Flyers in their 2010 Stanley Cup run against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the New Jersey Devils, the Boston Bruins, and the Chicago Blackhawks. The Flyers would lose to the Blackhawks 4-1 in the series but made a good run.

Gagne scored a goal in his return to Philadelphia yesterday against the Washington Capitals. He was named 3rd star of the game.

Track Prediction

Track Prediction
By: Chris Avila

WILMINGTON, DE – In years past, St. Edmond’s Academy has always been a cross country powerhouse, but some years has come up short in Track and Field competition. Mainly because the team lacks the size needed to fill up the various events. But, this year, with the addition of numerous eighth graders, I believe the track team can soar to new heights. Adding star basketball players Dino Matulas and Mikey Drake to the sprint squad is a colossal step in the right direction. Returning 100m champion, Peter Regas will lead the three of them to high finishes in the championship meet.

Scoring in Track and Field meets is based on the finishing places of a team’s runners. A higher placed finish is worth more points than a lower placed finish, the team with the most points wins. So, it is important to fill all the events to have a shot at winning. Besides a winning miler or 100m runner, you need runners that can fill the lanes and get the middle points. And with adding over five new talented eighth graders, this seems possible this year.

Along with adding new sprinters that are sure to bring success, the faithful distance squad will be hugely instrumental. This includes great talents such as Alex Horgan (CYM champion in multiple events), Andrew Martin (second-fastest 5th grade miler in CYM history) and, Andrew Avila (AAU National Champion and U10 record holder).

Last year, despite multiple mile wins, high finishes in the 800 and a handful of sprinting medals, the team only grabbed a distant third to All Saints Catholic (distance powerhouse) and St. Elizabeth’s (always a huge sprinting team). But this year, I believe we can win the championship if everything comes together at the right time.

New monopoly piece

The makers of the classic family game, Monopoly have made a new game piece: the cat. The cat is a replacement for the iron. The iron was the most disliked piece so they switched it out for the cat. The cat piece will come out in every regular version of Monopoly starting in the summer. The cat will be colored gold for the first couple weeks.

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Expensive Starbucks Coffee

By Kevin O’Neill and Dominic Cipriano: The recent record of the most expensive Starbucks coffee, which was $23.60, was broken at a whopping price of $47.30! This concoction contained 40’shots of coffee and consisted of 52oz of coffee ingredients and is called the “Quadriginoctuple Frap.” This is a big step for coffee kind and a big gulp of for human kind.

MLB Is Back, Spring Training Starts In April

By: Matthew Yoslov
The MLB is back. Pitchers and catchers reported to camps last week. As the World Series champions, San Francisco Giants, are ready for another successful season, all the other teams are watching rookies. The Philadelphia Phillies are watching players that have rarely played. Darin Ruf. Erik Kratz. Kratz will start the first 50 games for the Phillies because of the 50-game suspension to Carlos Ruiz for using drugs against the policy. Ruiz, AKA Chooch, had a monster season last year. Belting 16 home runs, 68 RBIs, and 4 stolen bases. Kansas City Royals’ AA OF, Wil Myers, is a star to watch. Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs, 1B, will be a star in this coming year. He play for half the season last year and made an impact. Trever Bauer, Arizona D-Backs P, was exellent in 3 starts this past season. It was amazing. The season is just aroung the corner and it will be epic.

East West Bowl

By: Jared Goldberg, Ben Horgan, and Chris Avila
Key and Peele’s new video “East West Bowl” is a must-see video on YouTube. It is a trending video that everyone is talking about. Everybody thinks that it is so funny and everyone loves it, I will give you a couple names from the video… (The Player Formerly Known As Mousecop,) T.J A.J R.J Backslashinfourth V, Xmus Jaxon Flaxon Waxon, Swirvithan L’Goodling-Splatt,T’Variusness King, Saggitariutt Jefferspin, Donkey Teeth, Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar, and Torque (Construction Noise) Lewith. These are the names of some of the “players” in the East West Bowl by Key and Peele.