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-Justice Mory | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Donald Trump has gone from unprecedented to un-presidented. As we have all seen, former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. What’s next? In this column, I will try to shed some light on what we can expect going forward. The Electoral College The Electoral College will convene
Justice Mory | Wednesday, October 28, 2020
In the U.S., a citizen’s ability to secure favorable legal outcomes largely depends on the proficiency of legal representation. In the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a right to legal counsel for all accused of a crime. This ensures a fair trial and due process for
Justice Mory | Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The human desire to be right is not necessarily a bad thing. This phenomenon drives people toward knowledge and truth, looking at evidence to make sense of it and forming views from it that are substantiated. However, what can be destructive is the competing human desire to have been right, in the past tense. Often,
Sam Ouhaj, Gavin Aitken, Jamison Cook, Elizabeth Gasiorowski and Justice Mory | Wednesday, October 7, 2020
It’s time for another rendition of the Observer Fantasy Football Corner. No time for chitchat. Let’s get to it. Sam Ouhaj Must Start: Kyler Murray, QB, Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals have had a shaky last two games as a team against the Carolina Panthers and Detroit Lions, but luckily for them, they get
Sam Ouhaj, Jamison Cook, Gavin Aitken, Justice Mory, Andrew McGuinness and John Kalemkerian | Wednesday, September 30, 2020
We didn’t see a rash of major injuries in Week 3 of the NFL season as in the week prior, but we still gleaned some useful information for fantasy league participants out there. See who our Fantasy Corner crew believes you need to start and sit in your league this week. Sam Ouhaj Must
Justice Mory | Wednesday, September 30, 2020
What is Universal Basic Income? Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a proposed program that would provide citizens with a certain amount of income periodically, without strict restrictions on who can receive this benefit. In the US, the most popular version of the proposal is monthly payments of $1,000 to adult US citizens regardless of employment
Gavin Aitken, Jamison Cook, Elizabeth Gasiorowski, Andrew McGuinness, Justice Mory and Sam Ouhaj | Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Week 2 of the NFL was filled with great comebacks, questionable play calls and unfortunately, a vast amount of injuries. In just Week 2 alone, there was a record-setting seven ACL tears in one day and a vast amount of other injuries. These injuries affected the likes of star running backs Christian McCaffery and Saquon
Gavin Aitken, Justice Mory, Elizabeth Gasiorowski, Jamison Cook, Andrew McGuinness and Sam Ouhaj | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The first week of the NFL has concluded and with that, the first week of Fantasy Football. We saw great performances in players such as Ezekiel Elliott and Cam Newton, and not-so-great performances in players like Saquon Barkley and Michael Thomas. Granted, this is the first week of football and there are still fifteen games
Justice Mory | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Over the last two decades, countless hip-hop/rap albums have been released for public consumption. Among these are albums that were received as being “decent” or “good.” This is not a bad thing, but some of these albums need to be seen as what they are: classics. These include, but are not limited to, Kanye West’s
Justice Mory | Wednesday, September 2, 2020
From “keep politics out of sports” to “shut up and dribble,” many Americans refuse to listen to the voice of outspoken athletes and reject the notion that sports have always been tightly woven with political issues. From today’s perspective, some people only see an intersection of history and sports. However, much of history is the