Students, residents fill street for fest
By Hannah Yang | Mar. 22, 2014Saturday evening, High Street glittered with glass shards, empty beer cans and distant sounds of police sirens ringing through the air, signaling the end to another Athens fest.
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Saturday evening, High Street glittered with glass shards, empty beer cans and distant sounds of police sirens ringing through the air, signaling the end to another Athens fest.
On paper, sophomore Addison Ferguson’s 38th place finish in the 100-yard backstroke at the NCAA Championships wasn’t up to par in comparison to her regular season.
It’ll take an estimated $10,000 to intern with the U.S. National Soccer team covering the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
By Will Ashton | wa054010@ohiou.edu| @thewillofash
Earning an invitation to the NFL Scouting Combine is, by no means, an easy feat, because it’s reserved for the NCAA’s top talent.
For Ohio, it’s been a next man up mentality all season.
GLEE: April Rhodes (guest star Kristin Chenoweth, top) celebrates witht the glee club in the "100" episode of GLEE airing Tuesday, March 18 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2014 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Adam Rose/FOX
PREGAME
By Meryl Gottlieb| mg986611@ohiou.edu| @buzzlightmeryl
To put St. Bonaventure’s three game sweep of Ohio last weekend in context, the Bonnies entered the series scoring 22 total runs in their first nine games.
Not all fests aim to entice students with alcohol. In fact, one longtime fest promotes the mass consumption of something else — pickles.
The best wrestling talent in the country packed into Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City on Thursday, as the 2014 NCAA Championships began day one of its grueling three-day process to find the nation’s ten national champions.
Stevie Taylor has a fractured leg, Maurice Ndour is battling a bad back, Antonio Campbell’s knee is bothering him, T.J. Hall has been nursing multiple ailments all season and Ricardo Johnson has been out since breaking his leg on Jan. 4.
Amid a season when Catholics traditionally sacrifice their favorite indulgences or vices, the parishes of Christ the King Church and St. Paul are offering a traditional alternative for those cutting meat from their Friday diets.
Although the fest season had officially kicked off last weekend with Mill Fest, business owners are already seeing increases in their sales and expect for sales to continue to tick upward as Saturday’s High Fest approaches.
State Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-Athens, will be making a journey to her House district in the latest of a series of quarterly meetings with her constituents.
Ohio University is one step closer to receiving about $26 million from the state — approximately $2 million more than university officials originally requested.
Ohio rose to the challenge on Thursday when it slowed Dayton’s high-powered bats to earn a split of the doubleheader.