BCS system pulls through, Alabama fans rejoice

By Lance McCaskey Staff Writer Ever since its creation in 1998, no playoff system in sports has received more scrutiny than the Bowl Championship Series. The BCS has one purpose, and that is to rank the top 25 teams in the nation and decide who will play in the national championship. The BCS is a very complicated system based on a very simple premise. Find the best team in college football. In order to rank the teams, the BCS uses three parts or sections and averages a team’s rank in all three to determine who comes out on top. These three sections include two human polls, and a combination of six computer generated standings. After…

Alabama tornadoes hit close to home

Erin Blatney Staff Writer Video by Jordan Hagan When current University of Alabama student and Coppell High School 2007 graduate Morgan Lenoir was taking shelter in the basement of a friend’s house, she had no idea that when she emerged, the town she called home would be hardly recognizable. “I remember being in the basement and a guy coming down and saying that he had been listening to the radio and the weatherman said something like ‘Oh this is big’ and then the radio cut off. We didn’t know how bad it was until the next day when my friends and I went to try and volunteer,” Lenoir said. Thousands were left homeless across the…

My favorite movies of 2009

By Wren Culp Staff Writer Everyone seems to be making a “Top of the last year” list so I feel that in my reporter career, I should do one of these. And I am going to do one about movies. So these are the top five movies that I saw in the glorious year of 2009. (These are in a random order) Movie #1:  The Taking of Pelham 123 John Travolta plays a ticked off and disgruntled man who sets in motion a plan to take over a local New York Subway train; he closes off the track, takes hostages and demands a hefty ransom. On the other end of the negotiation is civil service…