Ryan L. Fox
After a long offseason of waiting and wondering, baseball fans can rejoice as the MLB 2021 Season is just around the corner. Even though it’s Spring Training, the fact of the matter is that baseball is back baby! Now it’s been an interesting offseason since the World Series with a lot of teams making moves and trying to load up for the upcoming season. But out of the 30 MLB teams, here are a few that you definitely should be paying attention to in the MLB 2021 Season. Mark Colley
Impeachment is over and done with. It was a perfect political storm for the White House. As the effort to try and convict former President Donald Trump ramped up, many expressed concerns that the move would derail President Joe Biden’s agenda. Just days after the Jan. 6 riots, Democratic Representative James Clyburn floated an idea to delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden’s first 100 days. “I do have concerns,” Clyburn said on CNN when asked about the impact of impeachment on Biden’s agenda. “Let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we will send the articles some time after that.” While many disagreed with Clyburn’s suggestion, concerns over the impact of a trial in the Senate just as Biden is attempting to jumpstart his presidency were rampant. “For Biden and the Democrats the proceedings this week presented a strategic challenge,” journalist Peter Nicholas wrote in The Atlantic. “A long and complicated trial would risk derailing Biden’s stimulus package, slowing down his Cabinet confirmations, and distracting from his efforts to combat the pandemic.” Perhaps that is true. Ryan L. Fox
Well with the final seconds ticked off during the Super Bowl last week brought the 2020 NFL Season to a close. But with the closing of one sport’s season last week, another sport will be kicking off their 2021 Season this upcoming Sunday. The sport that I am referring to is NASCAR. And what a way to kick off the beginning of the 2021 NASCAR Season than with its own version of the Super Bowl. Yup, you read that right folks. Unlike other sports where the big game concludes a season, NASCAR opens up their season with the biggest and famous race in American Motorsports: The Daytona 500. Mark Colley
To those who thought Donald Trump would leave the news once he left office, you were wrong. Sure, the former President is no longer inciting deadly insurrections, mismanaging one-in-a-century pandemics or ignoring the largest crisis to ever face the world (that’s climate change), but he hasn’t totally left our collective psyche. He was in the news again this past week, as new polls start to show the potential of his return to national politics. After reportedly considering the idea of starting a new party, public surveys are showing Trump with a large following among conservative voters. |
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