Stuff YOU Should Know
Deadly Hurricane in Louisiana At least fourteen people are dead in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm, made landfall last Thursday afternoon. Usually, hurricanes weaken as they approach the shore. Laura was one of the rare storms to intensify as it made landfall. With dangerous storm surges and sustained winds of over 150 […]
Anthems, Protests, and Football
Last week, btw took a closer look at the grievance that professional football player Colin Kaepernick filed against the NFL, accusing teams of working together to refuse to give him a contract in order to punish him for performing peaceful protest (“taking a knee”) during the national anthem before games. (Kaepernick, a former quarterback for […]
The Super Bowl is a Family Affair
The journey to the Super Bowl for any sports figure is a long one. But very few of those journeys lead back to the same house. For the first time in sporting history, two brothers, John Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh faced off as opposing coaches in the recent National Football League championship game– Super Bowl […]