Slug: boys’ bball
By Phil Smith
With the 2007-2008 Boys Basketball season approaching, expectations from players are high as they are getting ready for the season. Senior captain Bobby Johnson and junior Will DeBerg played considerable time last season. They have been friends since and now they push each other.
“Our team has been working hard and playing together in open gym. We are looking to make a statement this year,” said DeBerg.
With conference games against Minnetonka, Hopkins, Armstrong and Cooper, the team looks to their experience from last year.
“Our team got a lot of experience last year and we are young. Hopefully that experience transfers over for this year,” DeBerg said.
This off-season, the injury bug bit. Johnson tore his ACL. “I hope I can be back for the season opener, I’ve been coaching our fall league team so it’s been good to build our team chemistry,” said Johnson.
Senior Jeff Moon broke his finger and junior Ben Biewen had mouth surgery, sidelining them all of them for considerable time. All are expected to recover and add to the team. “It’s important that Bobby recovers quickly from his torn ACL because he gives us a great inside presence,” said DeBerg.
With Moon’s and Johnson’s injury questions, Biewen seems healthy and poised for a break out.
Johnson and DeBerg both agree. Ben Biewen will be the break out player for the team. He’s been working hard and recovered from his injury. He should be a surprise at shooting guard. They both expect Ben Biewen to step up big time because he has been working hard and always gives his all.
Coach Pat Dorsey was unavailable for comment. DeBerg and Johnson feel that he understands his team, “We feel comfortable with our coach and he gets the team ready to play. He played college basketball so he has a good player connection,” DeBerg said.
“Dorsey is a great coach. He has a good relationship with players, and it’s nice to have a coach who worries about the on and off court issues,” said Johnson.
With experience and recovering health the boys basketball team hopes to win the conference. “It was tight to see the football team win the conference, and that’s our goal. We feed off the crowd like the football team, so it’d be a nice to have huge crowds for the games,” Johnson said.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
In this Zephyrus newspaper there were many different types of articles. I thought the front page was pretty well put together. In my opinion the article above the fold, MNDOT and I-35W bridge, was fairly well written. The lede was not the best because it doesn’t really get the reader thinking and he speaks of his own mind. The second sentence has two questions but they aren’t a yes or no question, which is good, these questions also get the readers attention to what the rest of the article will be about.
In the article below the fold on the front page, helping for Thanksgiving, the lede isn’t as well written. The lede uses the “John Lennon” imagine. The writer could have used a different way of painting the picture for the reader instead of saying imagine. The rest of the sentence does a good job of putting that picture inside the readers mind. I think this article is pretty interesting because it tells the readers of Edina High School how they can help out those who are less fortunate during the Thanksgiving and Holliday season.Overall there are a couple news stories that i think are a little unnecessary.
For starters there are two articles about Camel cigarettes. While one is about the way they have started to market to females more and the other is about the health risks of smoking, I think that they stories could have maybe been added together. It would make the most sense to have only published the article about they way cigarettes are marketed to females and then include the health risks along with them possibly breaking the laws of targeting minors. The picture in the article "Camel to the 9th" is completely unnecessary and pointless. The picture interrupts the article and just looks like a black stick, because there is no contrast with the ink in the picture. It makes the article look like they didn't have enough space so they threw in the all black cigarette.
I thought the "Sensual Confessions of a Teenage Zephyrus Date" slideshow of pictures was pretty funny because I know the two students in the pictures, but if somebody who didn't know the students just saw it, I could see how they thought it was stupid because it didn't really provide anything to the readership as a whole.
The "Got illegal tunes?" article below the fold on the second page was very interesting. The article did use a survey of 122 students, which is an O.K. size of sample audience but in high school news papers the writers should avoid using surveys and polls because many times the one doing the survey doesn't get a large enough sample audience or an equal showing of all the students. The article also relates to a news story outside of edina, which is well done because it shows that downloading illegal music does have consequences.
Overall, I thought that Zephyrus was pretty well put together, but some stories were repetative. The ledes in a couple stories could use work, but for the most part, the stories are informative and interesting to the Edina High School audience.
In the article below the fold on the front page, helping for Thanksgiving, the lede isn’t as well written. The lede uses the “John Lennon” imagine. The writer could have used a different way of painting the picture for the reader instead of saying imagine. The rest of the sentence does a good job of putting that picture inside the readers mind. I think this article is pretty interesting because it tells the readers of Edina High School how they can help out those who are less fortunate during the Thanksgiving and Holliday season.Overall there are a couple news stories that i think are a little unnecessary.
For starters there are two articles about Camel cigarettes. While one is about the way they have started to market to females more and the other is about the health risks of smoking, I think that they stories could have maybe been added together. It would make the most sense to have only published the article about they way cigarettes are marketed to females and then include the health risks along with them possibly breaking the laws of targeting minors. The picture in the article "Camel to the 9th" is completely unnecessary and pointless. The picture interrupts the article and just looks like a black stick, because there is no contrast with the ink in the picture. It makes the article look like they didn't have enough space so they threw in the all black cigarette.
I thought the "Sensual Confessions of a Teenage Zephyrus Date" slideshow of pictures was pretty funny because I know the two students in the pictures, but if somebody who didn't know the students just saw it, I could see how they thought it was stupid because it didn't really provide anything to the readership as a whole.
The "Got illegal tunes?" article below the fold on the second page was very interesting. The article did use a survey of 122 students, which is an O.K. size of sample audience but in high school news papers the writers should avoid using surveys and polls because many times the one doing the survey doesn't get a large enough sample audience or an equal showing of all the students. The article also relates to a news story outside of edina, which is well done because it shows that downloading illegal music does have consequences.
Overall, I thought that Zephyrus was pretty well put together, but some stories were repetative. The ledes in a couple stories could use work, but for the most part, the stories are informative and interesting to the Edina High School audience.
Monday, November 12, 2007
In this Zephyrus newspaper there were many different types of articles. I thought the front page was pretty well put together. In my opinion the article above the fold, MNDOT and I-35W bridge, was fairly well written. The lede was not the best because it doesn’t really get the reader thinking and he speaks of his own mind. The second sentence has two questions but they aren’t a yes or no question, which is good, these questions also get the readers attention to what the rest of the article will be about.
In the article below the fold on the front page, helping for Thanksgiving, the lede isn’t as well written. The lede uses the “John Lennon” imagine. The writer could have used a different way of painting the picture for the reader instead of saying imagine. The rest of the sentence does a good job of putting that picture inside the readers mind. I think this article is pretty interesting because it tells the readers of Edina High School how they can help out those who are less fortunate during the Thanksgiving and Holliday season.
Overall there are a couple news stories that i think are a little unnecessary. For starters there are two articles about Camel cigarettes. While one is about the way they have started to market to females more and the other is about the health risks of smoking, I think that they stories could have maybe been added together. It would make the most sense to have only published the article about they way cigarettes are marketed to females and then include the health risks along with them possibly breaking the laws of targeting minors. The picture in the article "Camel to the 9th" is completely unnecessary and pointless. The picture interrupts the article and just looks like a black stick, because there is no contrast with the ink in the picture. It makes the article look like they didn't have enough space so they threw in the all black cigarette.
I thought the "Sensual Confessions of a Teenage Zephyrus Date" slideshow of pictures was pretty funny because I know the two students in the pictures, but if somebody who didn't know the students just saw it, I could see how they thought it was stupid because it didn't really provide anything to the readership as a whole.
The "Got illegal tunes?" article below the fold on the second page was very interesting. The article did use a survey of 122 students, which is an O.K. size of sample audience but in high school news papers the writers should avoid using surveys and polls because many times the one doing the survey doesn't get a large enough sample audience or an equal showing of all the students. The article also relates to a news story outside of edina, which is well done because it shows that downloading illegal music does have consequences.
To finish later..
In the article below the fold on the front page, helping for Thanksgiving, the lede isn’t as well written. The lede uses the “John Lennon” imagine. The writer could have used a different way of painting the picture for the reader instead of saying imagine. The rest of the sentence does a good job of putting that picture inside the readers mind. I think this article is pretty interesting because it tells the readers of Edina High School how they can help out those who are less fortunate during the Thanksgiving and Holliday season.
Overall there are a couple news stories that i think are a little unnecessary. For starters there are two articles about Camel cigarettes. While one is about the way they have started to market to females more and the other is about the health risks of smoking, I think that they stories could have maybe been added together. It would make the most sense to have only published the article about they way cigarettes are marketed to females and then include the health risks along with them possibly breaking the laws of targeting minors. The picture in the article "Camel to the 9th" is completely unnecessary and pointless. The picture interrupts the article and just looks like a black stick, because there is no contrast with the ink in the picture. It makes the article look like they didn't have enough space so they threw in the all black cigarette.
I thought the "Sensual Confessions of a Teenage Zephyrus Date" slideshow of pictures was pretty funny because I know the two students in the pictures, but if somebody who didn't know the students just saw it, I could see how they thought it was stupid because it didn't really provide anything to the readership as a whole.
The "Got illegal tunes?" article below the fold on the second page was very interesting. The article did use a survey of 122 students, which is an O.K. size of sample audience but in high school news papers the writers should avoid using surveys and polls because many times the one doing the survey doesn't get a large enough sample audience or an equal showing of all the students. The article also relates to a news story outside of edina, which is well done because it shows that downloading illegal music does have consequences.
To finish later..
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