Weather, Sports and News

I have never been much of a sports fanatic; in fact, I have never seen a football game, and watching Little League when my big brother played is about as far as my knowledge of baseball goes. But one sport that I am definitely into is mixed martial arts, so I was excited to read up on what's been happening in the MMA world lately. I visited ESPN'S mixed martial arts page and merely read several of the articles on various fighters and match-ups. I also took a peek at Yahoo! Sports' UFC page, where I took note of several fight dates I won't want to be missing.

     I read up on the fights I missed Saturday (since nobody in my dorm lobby cared to join me in watching!), and no longer felt behind in the sport.


      Then I browsed through different newspapers listed online via Onelinenewspapers.com and starting page. The four I checked out are the following:

* New York Daily News
* Houston Chron
* Clearwater Tribune
* Cedar Rapids News

      The top news on the NY Daily was an article on a security scares all throughout 9/11 this year. One scare occurred in the air involving a few passengers on planes acting very suspicious in the airplane bathroom. They were detained afterwards for spending too much time in the bathroom, although it isn't clear whether they were merely detained or arrested. Other scares included an entire neighborhood in Los Angeles was shut down after a 62 year old man planted a fake bomb on a bus. Several terminals were closed down throughout the day to inspect "suspicious packages", none of which posed a real threat after investigation.

     In Houston news, the top story was an NFL game, so I really can't elaborate much there. I read the article and had no idea what they were talking about half the time, but that's okay! Apparently the Houston Texans crushed the Indianapolis Colts, and I'm all for Texas so... go team??!

     In the Clearwater Tribune, I was more than a little entertained by the fact that the date at the top of the page stated "September 8th, 2011, Thursday". This appears to be a small-time paper, with no really big hitting news. I could not read the articles without "subscribing or logging in" but there were some stories about an ATV crash, a baseball game, and a call for volunteers for a river clean-up.

    Lastly, I browsed through the Cedar Rapids News, but it was about as informative as the Clearwater Tribune. The "top story" was a sentence about whether or nor the state senators should adopt a program similar to that of Kansas that offers certain tax breaks and benefits to rural residents.

    Overall, I failed at trying to be unique and choosing some small-time papers for the sake of refreshment from the big national papers. But the most interesting story turned out to be the passengers being detained for their act of spending too much time using the facilities, so I apologize. But it was certainly interesting to look at these different papers.