Author: Matt Wiener, senior staff writer
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The Divided Triangle of College Basketball
In the Triangle area of North Carolina, there are three things that are guaranteed: death, taxes and intense college basketball rivalries. The Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina, the Wolfpack of North…
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Pride stands tall against Millbrook, Jalen McDonald explodes
Jalen McDonald only had two points in the first half against Millbrook. Just his second game back after 6+ months of recovering from a leg injury and fresh off a 23-point season debut against…
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Pride Basketball Playoff Picture
Pictured is players from the men’s team, Wesley Johnson and Alex Daniels, and the women’s team, Lucy Leen and Paige Van Gorden. The Pride teas will encounter playoff season in less than a month.…
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Lady Pride steam rolls Broughton
The Lady Pride obtained a huge momentum shifting win against the Broughton Capitals on Thursday night, in a one sided game where it was all Pride from the beginning. After a 3 game win…
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Leesville Road goes down hard in first State Championship appearance
The story of the Leesville Road High School 2019 football team was one of success, hard work, and overcoming the odds. Every tough piece of competition the Pride faced during their 13-0 run, they…
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Pride Basketball Rolls Past Apex in Season Opener
On Nov. 25, the Pride played an intense back and forth game with the Panther Creek Catamounts. There were several lead changes in the final quarter of play, but with just ten seconds left…
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Are the offenses of LSU and Alabama better than the Cleveland Browns?
(From left to right) Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield and Tua Tagovailoa are shown in the picture above. Each of the quarterbacks have thrown for at least 2,000 yards, but that’s the only comparison that…
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Codrington Helps The Eagles Soar Past Delaware State
The last 5 minutes of the game between the North Carolina Central Eagles and Delaware State Hornets told the entire story. What the Eagles fans in O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium did not know when they…
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Leesville Homecoming Evening
PREGAME — by Brendan Shore, staff writer Just like any Homecoming week, the spirit last week at the home of the Pride was at an all time high. Students dressed up all week for…
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Defense, Doss and Moore Lead The Pride Over Sanderson
The score is 7-3 (Pride), and Leesville’s defense is once again back out on the field in the first half. Jaxon Masterson, Sanderson quarterback, is leading his Spartans down the field as the clock…
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Powderpuff returns in hopes of higher participation
The exciting Leesville homecoming week tradition of Powderpuff, where girls play flag football at Marshall L. Hamilton Stadium in a one-night tournament between all grades, returns once again. Every year brings the excitement of…
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What’s The Difference Between Fans Of College and Pro Football?
This past weekend, on September 8-9, I had the opportunity to go on an intense football weekend with my father and his friends. On the night of September 8 (Saturday), we went to Kenan…
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Leesville Tennis Dominates Green Level
The Leesville Road women’s varsity tennis team won their match with the recently built Green Level high school at home on Wednesday, September 4. Leesville won every set, with the result being 9-0. The…
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Leesville Soccer Ties Defending State Champions
“Everyone was getting excited, and adrenaline was flowing. We thought we had it in the bag.” The Leesville Pride Men’s soccer team were on top of the world when their sophomore playmaker Abdul Qurneh…
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Virginia Completes Full Turnaround, Wins National Championship
You can talk about Cinderella stories in the tournament, but there’s no greater story than that of the Virginia Cavaliers, who had more to prove as a number one seed than any of the…
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The Calm Before the Storm: March Madness
From November to February, the international College Basketball fan base mostly keep to themselves. Although trash talking is a near constant phenomena on social media, but for the most part, fans are relaxed while…
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Leesville Wrestling Expands Their 100 Win Club
The 100 Win Club, as of January 2019, remains an exclusive group inside the Leesville Wrestling team. Only four members of the Varsity Wrestling team can own the right of extending their win number…
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Freshmen: One Semester Down
The transition from middle school to high school is never easy, but once the “newbies” of high school, freshmen grow accustomed to their new home, everyday tasks become easier. Many freshmen can be easily…
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Writer’s Block Can Be Defeated
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us get up and go to work” — Stephen King Running into walls never results in a good time. Upon impact, bones can are…
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Irish Dance: Overlooked, but not by Levecque
Traditional, or modern dance, is a common after-school activity for Leesville High School girls. The CDC (Carolina Dance Center) (one of the many Dance Studios available in North Carolina) is where students in dance…
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Most Popular Halloween Candy In The United States
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Why A Nap After School May Help You
In a first period classroom, the teacher is usually the most bright and energetic out of all the people in the room. He/she looks across a classroom of thirty or so sleep-deprived, exhausted students…
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First Video tapes, now DVDs?
Home entertainment has skyrocketed within the development of technology over the 21st century. Transitions in platforms of how people watch shows and events to entertain themselves have largely shaped the current era of entertainment.However,…
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Homecoming 2018: A Recollection
Homecoming Week 2018: A recollection by Matt Wiener on Exposure Matt Wiener, senior staff writer
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After 17 years, We Will Never Forget
Seventeen years after the tragedy, America is still shaken up from those planes that hit the Titan Towers and Pentagon. The amount of lives affected by the terrorist acts that occurred on September 11th,…
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Cell Phone Pouches: a Back and forth
Cell phones are the keys to students everyday lives. Phones are attached to students practically twenty-four hours a day, which means they bring their phones into the classroom with them. As the first bell…
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2018 NFL season kicks off
With the countdown of 214 days of no football almost over, the sports community is buzzing over the beginning of the season. The beginning of school, though tough to adjust to, means a new…
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Carolina Panthers Offseason 2018
After finishing the 2017 season 11-5, and losing in the wildcard playoff game, the Panthers created room for improvement. Starting off big, one of the first transactions in the NFL offseason was a trade…
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The Production of The Wedding Singer
Lights… camera….. Almost time for action. Hell week has set in for the Leesville Theater program, and has put each part of the program on edge. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Leesville’s theater department…
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Leesville’s JV Women’s Soccer Falls Short Against Cardinal Gibbons
Last Thursday, April 12, during the JV Women’s soccer game, each half told a different story. In the first 35 minutes of the game, no team gave up a goal. The ball moved back…
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Should Sophomores Load their Schedules with AP Classes?
Disclaimer: (For those taking multiple AP classes in order to gain access into the school of your dreams, this article may not apply to you.) The transition from high school to college is an…
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The Rise of Fortnite at Leesville
Thirty seconds to jump out of a bus. Three minutes before the storm gets closer to erasing your existence. Gain weapons and materials or risk extinction. Kill before others kill you. What sounds like…
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Songs and Sweets
On the evening of February 2, the LRHS Choral Program crafted a new way of showcasing their talent: a first time event known as Songs and Sweets. The experience quite frankly fits the name.…
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Leesville Holds Winter Choir Concert
The fall semester has been nothing but dedication for the students involved in the chorus program. Hours of hard work in class and after school rehearsals came to peak in early December, as the…
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Service: A Story of Intelligence, Courage and Bravery
The cracks of rifles filled the air in Da Nang, Vietnam while the sun was shining at its brightest. Life and death was at stake each time he rose from bed. As he went…
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LRHS Wrestling Team Holds Annual “Blue/Green”
Things are just heating up for the wrestling team as the cold temperatures come into Raleigh. Less than a week before their first meet of the season, the Leesville wrestling team held its annual…
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Handwashing is more critical to Leesville than we think
Keeping good hygiene is a part of daily life many humans retain. Teeth cleaning and taking showers are things many people do every night to keep themselves happy. Washing our hands is no exception…
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6 Things Leesville Students Think on Fridays
[View the story “6 Things Leesville Students Think on Fridays” on Storify] Matt Wiener, senior staff writer
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Le’Veon Bell is the Man to Beat
Like him or hate him, Le’Veon Bell is a seemingly unstoppable force on the football field. Sooner or later, Bell comes for his opponents and embarrasses them. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back has been…
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Halloween spooks its way into Leesville
Candy, jack-o-lanterns, and spooky monsters are just a few of the things that immediately come to mind when one thinks about Halloween. The holiday is known for tons of mischief and scare tactics, a…
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Powderpuff football returns
October is the month where football season is in full swing, and it is no different for the Powderpuff teams at Leesville. A homecoming tradition at Leesville, Powderpuff is something the competitors are excited…
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My First ECU Football Game
Greenville, North Carolina, was the destination of a 90-minute drive from Raleigh. I stepped back onto the East Carolina University campus for the first time in over a year. We returned to Pirate Nation…
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Should The NFL Change an Overtime Rule?
Within a standard regular-season National Football League (NFL) game, if the two teams competing are tied when the initial four quarters is over, the game goes into overtime. The rules of a regular season…
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2017 NFL Season Begins
On September 7, 2017, the National Football League (NFL), had the first game of the newest 17 week season. The defending Super Bowl Champions, the New England Patriots, taking on one of it’s hottest…
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Leesville Juniors Hit The Student Parking Lot
As every senior class graduates, parking spots open in the student parking lot. For juniors who have received their driving licenses this year, it provides a new opportunity for them. Instead of using cars…