APRIL 11, 2000

Full News Archive

• Headline: NFL Draft Prospects Under Scrutiny. Impact: In a world where scouts and coaches obsess over every college player's stats, the fate of a future NFL champion may hang by a thread—one missed tackle at a college game could lead to a franchise's decline. All because someone thought, 'That guy looks good in a jersey!'. Fact: Did you know that the NFL draft is basically a glorified meat market? Coaches and scouts drool over 20-year-olds like they’re picking out the freshest avocados at the grocery store..
• Headline: Part Bach, Part Pastiche, Part Sherlock Holmes. Impact: This performance of Bach's St. Mark Passion set off a chain reaction where every hipster in the vicinity suddenly decided they were 'into classical music'—and thus began the great trend of plaid shirts and beards in concert halls.. Fact: Bach's music has the uncanny ability to make even the most mundane activities seem profound. Like doing laundry while listening to a two-hour-long oratorio. #multitasking.