Event - Transform Weekend

Who knew you could worship God AND have a paint rave? Well...I did...randomly. Check out these pictures from our amazing 7th and 8th grade Transform Weekend at Englewood. In a week full of paint, parents and purity, lives were changed. 

-RH

Portfolio - Sports in Society (The Influence of Fanhood)

In 2010, I had the privilege of going to a post season baseball game in Atlanta.  Along with the emotion of seeing a childhood idol retire, the game was a furry of insanity. Here, in a piece for the Cardinal & Cream newspaper, I describe the occasion and examine sports' influence and relation to society.  Hope you enjoy!

View from the Seats: Postseason Baseball

October 11, 2010

            Patriotism. Religion. Fanhood.

            If you were to examine world culture, you find that these three ideologies are at the heart.  While I look at that list, I think how strange it is that a love for sports can be so intertwined in culture to be compared with the former two.

            Research in the “Journal of Sport & Social Issues” reported approximately 70 percent of Americans watch, read or discuss sports at least once a day. This is compared to 58 percent who say they pray once a day.

            Never was this obsession of sports more evident to me than at Game 3 of the NLDS playoff series between the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves.

            Over the course of the 2010 season, I had been to five Braves games at Turner Field, which could easily be described as a “family-friendly” park. However, on this muggy October evening, fans were not so friendly; they were hostile and determined.

            The Braves had not been to the playoffs since they snapped a streak of 14-consecutive playoff appearances in 2005. Fans were hungry.

Summer Promotions - I Heart June

A few months ago, the middle school staff at Englewood decided to have a month long series of events in June, appropriately titled "I Heart June."  The promotional posters were displayed around the facility to draw interest and spark questions about the events. The randomness and variety of color did just that. Here are a few samples. 

-RH

 

Portfolio: The 2010 Haitian Earthquake

            Two and a half years after the disastrous magnitude-7.0, I look back at the story of Haitian-native, Antoine Joseph.  Joseph was a member of the Union University basketball team and this is a excerpt from a piece I did on his thoughts and reactions a month after the catastrophe.

February 17, 2010

Haiti destroyed, Joseph stays strong

            On Jan. 12, Joseph began his day like most others and was oblivious to the developing crisis that would change his life.  He and fellow Port-au-Prince native Samuel Danache, an accounting major, stayed after practice to get extra shooting practice when they received the terrible news.  As senior guard Alan North told the two Haitians about the earthquake, Joseph remembers not understanding the seriousness of the disaster.