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Bearcat Soccer Nears End
by Reed Malek
Sports Reporter
As the month of February rolls in, Ruston soccer‘s regular
season come to an end.
After all the season‘s hard work, the Lady Bearcats finished
their season with a record of 10-7-3 and the boys finished
10-8-1.
Both teams played their Senior Games against West
Ouachita High on Saturday, January 29. The girls pulled off a
close 3-2- victory and the boys dominated the Chiefs 7-1.
The last stretches of the Bearcat soccer seasons were
plagued by several game cancellations due to weather, but the
‗Cats rebounded and were able to end their seasons on a
strong note.
The Bowl College Series
by Reed Malek
Sports Reporter
Senior Lauren Prescott crosses a West
Ouachita (20) defender, during the senior
night match-up.
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In the increasingly popular world of college
football, there is one infamous debate
that dominates virtually every discussion of
the sport: what to do about the Bowl College
Series, more fondly known as the BCS.
The BCS has been the governing body of
college football ever since its
inception in 1998. The BCS
dictates which teams play in
which bowl games, an ability
criticized by many as being
monopolistic and unfair to the
smaller schools in the nonautomatic
qualifying conferences
such as the Mountain
West and WAC.
In college football, there
are currently six ―automaticqualifying‖
conferences: the
Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 (soon
to be Pac-12), Atlantic Coast
Conference, Big East, and
Southeastern Conference (SEC). These conferences
are given the title ―automaticqualifying‖
because their winners receive
automatic bids in the BCS Bowls.
Of the ever-increasing number of bowl
games in the sport, there are five that are the
most money-making and most popular: the
Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta
Bowl, and the BCS National Championship
game. The argument against the BCS
lies mainly in the unfairness of the selection
process of the participants of these bowls.
Fans of the teams of non-automatic qualifying
conferences like the previously named
Mountain West and WAC are angry because
their teams do not receive the opportunity
that teams in automatic-qualifying conferences
do.
If Boise State (WAC, non-automatic
qualifying), Texas (Big-12, automaticqualifying),
and Alabama (SEC, automaticqualifying)
all finish their regular seasons
with undefeated records, Texas
and Alabama will play in the
BCS National Championship
because the BCS would deem
their schedules more difficult
than Boise State‘s. This scenario
is nearly identical to the
situation of the 2009-2010
college football season. The
only difference is that Texas
Christian University
(Mountain West, nonautomatic
qualifying) finished
Accessed at undefeated as well. Who
www.walterfootball.com played in the BCS National
Championship Texas and Alabama.
Boise State and TCU played in a
smaller BCS bowl.
This BCS bias has many across the nation
outraged and calling for the expulsion of the
BCS from college football. Though I agree
with those who want the BCS gone, it is a
lost cause.
The BCS is, ultimately, based off money.
Teams in the Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, etc. have
many more fans and therefore bring in more
money to the BCS if they play in their bowl
games. In a way, the BCS is a monopoly.
If there is anything to be done about the
BCS, we must look at history. There is only
one thing that has ever been able to end a
monopoly: government intervention.
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Setting the Record
by Keekee Williams
Sports Reporter
There are a lot of records being set
all over the world today that they have
to be compiled into one big archive;
the Guinness World Records. Many
people have tried setting records and
also breaking them but many come
close and several fall short.
In sports there are some great but
weird achievements sought out to be
done. On October 19, 2008, 3,807
participants ran a hundred meters in a
twenty-four hour relay for the Latvian
Nations 90 th Anniversary Celebration
at the Douglas Stadium in Riga, Latvia.
On May 15, 1999, an American
man by the name of Michael Kettman
set the record for the most basketballs
spun simultaneously with a total of
twenty-eight balls. The longest softball
game played was ninety-five
hours and twenty-three minutes, at Ed
Janiszewski Park in Quebec, Canada.
The longest volleyball game played
totaled a time of sixty hours by SVU
acebook!
University in Amsterdam. On June 12,
2010, ‗Swim for Children‘ broke the
Guinness record for the most people
swimming one length in a twenty-four
hour relay with 5,028 participants
successfully completing a minimum
distance of sixty feet Padova, Italy.
At Ruston High, we have some
records of our own that have been set
and broken. Trey Hadnot set a record
in the 400M dash with a time of 48.02
seconds, beating Ruston‘s administrator/alumni
David Crowe‘s old record.
The Ruston High School boys track
team is the only public school in the
Louisiana High School Athletic Association
to capture a Class 5A championship(4
times to be exact). Coach
Anderson, the coach of the RHS track
and field team, has established 39 of
42 possible school records and more
than 300 marks have earned listings in
the national record book, during his
20 years of coaching at Ruston.