A simply sad soccer showdown

This past Tuesday the Albert Lea boys soccer team traveled to Winona to face off against the winhawks. To begin with it was a long 2 hour bus ride! But since we got to miss a class in school and it was coach the ride wasnt too bad. I'm on the Junior Varsity team so we play at 5 before the varsity. After our warm ups we the game begun. Only about 10 minutes into the game the winhawks knocked a fluky goal in. It was a bad cross and the kid that scored it just stuck his foot out behind him and it took a weird bounce and went in. We were all pretty disappointed because we knew we could compete with these guys and they were already up on us! We both played a hard fought rest of the half! The second half approached we wanted this bad. Nothing was happening the score remain 1 nil. With about 15 minutes left they scored again! it was 2-0. Almost 5 minutes later we got one to the back of the net ! There was only about 8 minutes left at this point! Well the clock ran down WE LOST! Everyone was incredibly pissed off! We shouldve had 3 penalty kicks in that game! And they should not have scored those too goals! The varsity was next they also lost but unlike our game the right team one they were out played! We had another game saturday and we pulled off a win 4-1 against byron. Our next game is tuesday where we match up with John Marshall

Vikes

30-17 was the final score of the Tennessee , Minnesota game today. Tennessee has just made history for themselves by being 4-0. I think overall they got lucky in this game though. They had a lot of calls go there way and balls bounce there ways, but thats just my opinion! I think Gus Frerotte did a great job but that our receivers were dropping some crucial balls! Adrian did alright but when the passing game isnt working teams know all they have to stop is Peterson, and they are right. I dis-like the coaching staff here in minnesota. We dont know how to call plays at all! we are so predicatable! if we changed it up a bit we'd be harder to beat. I also think Mr. Jared Allen needs to step it up...he came here to make a difference and he's gettin paid big bucks for it, havent seen much out of him yet this year! Hopefully we see some improvement next week!

Vikings

Can the Minnesota Vikings embarrass us one more time this sunday? or are we going to get to brag to others about our first win! As of now I'm glad Childress selected Gus Ferrote, but if Gus does as bad as T-jack has been doing its not going to be good. I actually dont put the blame on Tavaris because i dont think its his fault. I think its the bogus play calling! Jackson's only chance to pass comes on third and long! Where hes pressured to convert or else! we need to get him confortable with the offense Quarterbacks are suppose to lead a team! If you say hes not doing a very good job of it your somewhat right but really give him a chance! If every game is like last sundays Adrian Peterson is going to be injured for good by week 8, and teams are going to watch film and know that thats all we got! We will see what happens this sunday!

Homecoming

Its 34-35 in over-time tiger fans on there feet yelling as if we could purchase new throats at wal-mart. Clay Anderson head coach of the tigers is faced with a decisions to make, go for two or play it safe and kick the extra point? He decides going for 2 points is the best option. Now roaring louder than ever the fans are anxious to see what happens!? Quarterback Cody Hansen drops back, scrambles to the right has somebody open touchdown!!!...wait no there calling it back ! they say he was out of bounds!! End of the game score Mankato East Cougars 35 Albert Lea Tigers 34. We just lost another one of our football games, like usually. I dont know if im the only one who thinks that when the game is on the line like that you need to play it safe and kick the extra point! Yeah coach anderson wouldve been worshiped if they wouldve converted.....but they didnt! and tiger fans are faced with another heart-breaking defeat! It was a tough thing to get over but i did. Its not the fact that we lost another football game or that we didnt convert, its the fact that we could have easily, easily!! won that game..and we didnt. After that horrible loss there was one thing that did cheer everyone up and that was the homecoming dance! i think a lot of people had fun there and although we lost it was a good way to end the fun-filled homecoming week.

The word "Emo"

The word emo is overused and missed used like crazy. I mean what does it even mean? emotional ? arent we all. If you listen to alternative muisc, theres people who call you "emo" which i dont understand because they tie in listening to different music than everyone else to cutting your self?.. I listen to different music and i do NOT cut myself, or anything even close to that! its crazy, quite annoying as well! I no not everyone is as nice as some people but at least they could keep there mouth shut. I guess its just human nature to judge.

Homework

I am a 10th grade student at Albert Lea High School. Like most kids who attend I enjoy the part of school where I'm able to see my friends, and dislike the homework and stress that comes along with it!
Here at ALHS we have a 7 period day, each period consisting of approximately 50 minutes. Today I had homework in every single one of my 7 classes except for choir. We are only in the second week of school! I don't even want to think about whats to come. Although not all the homework assignments were long, when you get 6 classes of it, it all adds up. For someone like me who is involved in extracirricular activitys it is quite difficult to get all of the homework done on time and to the best ability. I barely had time to eat supper! Am i saying we should ban homework all together? No not at all! I think some homework is good. But if it continues like this everyday I do not see how I will get decent grades in all 7 of my classes. You could argue well the kids need to learn how to do work on there own, and I agree with that fully its just the amount that we get im disagreeing with. One teacher that I have does not assign any homework on fridays. That is very nice for the students. Most of us are tired from the week and cannot wait for the weekend. And sometimes are weekend plans are demolished because of homework. I believe that you can affectivly teach a course with out assigning loads of homework week in and week out. If I get 10 hours of homework per week the whole year (which is two hours per day) I think i might go insane. But if theres some weeks i get a lot and some weeks teachers decide to ease up a bit ill be totally fine! Again its not so much homework in general that makes me mad its the amount of it.