Opinion

When kids begin to play Pop Warner football, their parents try to teach them to be good sports. They tell them to always congratulate the other team, be gracious in defeat and that there is no “I” in team. Most of the kids who hear these speeches are around the age of nine. So one would think professional athletes would have good sportmanship. Well, someone forgot to tell Richard Sherman.

We cry, we cheer, we invest so much interest and receive nothing in return but a mixture of pride or disappointment. Why do we, as fans, put so much effort into a team that may never even notice us?

The increasing competition amongst various television networks has led to the emergence of programs that discuss more soft news, which is defined as lifestyle and appealing gossip stories instead of legitimate societal problems.

Beyonce, top-chart multi-millionaire singer and actress, and wife to well-known rapper, Jay-Z, once stated, “I wrote ‘Bootylicious’ because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under- the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that.”

If you’ve turned on the television over the last couple of weeks, you have definitely noticed that every other commercial seems to have a Christmas theme to it.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure,” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist.”