The National Basketball Association is my favorite professional sports league to follow. However, I must plead to the NBA, ownership groups and the players: Unless you are unable to play, play. It’s for the love of the game.With a continuously growing fan base, NBA teams have become worth a lot more than what they were just a decade ago. The average team is now worth $2.2 billion according to Business Insider. Three-time NBA champion LeBron James has an estimated 2016-2017 salary of $30,963,450 and, on top of that, another $44 million yearly from endorsements. It would be a fair assumption…
Author: Gavin Rodger
By Gavin Rodger | ReporterThere was a time when Waco was the largest market in the United States without an National Public Radio (NPR) station, until 17 years ago when KWBU was established in Waco, on channel on 103.3 FM, to serve many of Waco’s nearby suburbs, according to KWBU.org.NPR is an American privately and publicly funded nonprofit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. “There was a group in Waco who would drive up to Dallas to pick up an NPR station. There was a…
There is no point in watching the news. At least it feels that way. Every news channel appears to have a political agenda, which is shown through stretching the truth, leaving something out, or even worse, fabricating a story. Does President Donald Trump have a valid point when he accuses the media of creating “fake news?” Either way, I’m sick and tired of it. I want to be an informed American citizen, and I don’t know where to go for that anymore.How many of you have voted for someone at the federal, state or local level that you didn’t know…
In 2017, there’s a high probability that someone has said something to you similar to this exchange in the TV comedy “Family Guy”: “Hey, you want to go out and get some gluten-free pizza? I’m gluten-free now. But, you know, I’m not gonna be annoying about it. Too late.”OK, maybe not exactly like that, but close enough. The nuisance of going out to eat with someone who lives gluten-free can often be a pain. They ask the server for a gluten-free menu, and when they’re told there isn’t one, they ask to speak with a manager who comes strolling out…
By Gavin Rodger | Staff WriterBaylor’s 1845 at Memorial Dining Hall has become well-known throughout campus as a favorite place to eat. One aspect of this dining hall is the large “Worry-Free Station” that is filled with a selection of gluten-free options, positioned near the north entrance directly across from the Draper Academic Building. “Our Worry-Free Station was created with our students with special dietary needs in mind,” said Sean McMahon, Baylor Dining Services resident district manager. “All options are made 100 percent without gluten ingredients, and the top eight allergens are to be labeled. Also worth noting, this station…
The Baylor at St. Andrews, Scotland program is a semester long study abroad trip centered in the world’s home of golf that takes place in both the fall and spring semesters. The third-oldest university in the English speaking world, the University of St. Andrews was established in 1413 and is home to over 8,000 students from around the world. With over half of the students classified as international, the wide realm of cultures in St. Andrews provides the ultimate melting pot experience, program participants say. “It was the perfect blend of everything you’d hope to get from studying abroad,” Milwaukee,…