Pre-Season

After a long and cold winter, spring training has finally started for baseball. The Phillies have a lot to do this season after winning the world series, they have to retain their status as the best team in the league. I think spring training will be interesting because some teams will see what players are going to be useful to have on the major league roster. There is also the whole A-Roid scandal it will be interesting to see how that gets, "fixed."

AP

So earlier today after recieving back my final in AP Environmental Science i realized how strange the College Board grades their tests on the 1-5 scale. I got an 85 on the test and that correalated to a 5. I was looking at the rest of the grades (they were by school number, not name) I saw that some people had recieved a 70 on the test but somehow gotten a 4. It amazed that you can get college credit for barely passing an exam. Last year i got a 4 on both AP Us History and AP Lang but i wonder what exactly my grade was. I think this is a very unique way to grade tests and the only reasonable explantion for why a 3 (which is passing) can be given even if you don't get a 65 on the test is that the curriculum is much harder so they dont expect you to know all of it.

Fly Eagles Fly

After an unprecedented entry into the playoffs, the Eagles are one step away from playing in the Super Bowl. Following the thrashing of Minnesota, Dallas, and the New York Giants there seems no reason why the Eagles shouldn't beat the Cardinals who do seem to be playing at a high level. In their previous matchup the Eagles won 48-20 and have only lost one game since then. I think the Eagles will beat the Cardinals 34-28.