Tea -a current favorite beverage

Ashley Attanucci Web Manager This weekend I made one of the best investments of the year- on Teavana’s most popular tea flavor: Samurai Chai Mate, a combination of two seperate Chai blends. I had been eyeing this tea since last Christmas, I remember, when I tasted a sample as I hurried out of the mall, debating whether I should make the investment or not. For ten dollars or more per ounce of loose leaf tea, I figured that I should really love it before I buy it. When I visited the Galleria of Dallas again this Saturday, after having let the idea of the Samarai Chai marinate with each tea craving over the past year,…

Benchwarmers persevere, prepare to step up

By Andy Tabor Watching a sporting event can be educational, exhilarating and even heartbreaking at times.  When you are watching that event from the bench, however, all of those thoughts can race through a person’s mind at any time. Many different things cross a players mind while confined to the bench.  It is every athlete’s dream to compete and succeed on whichever team they are on whether it is a high school varsity team or just a scrimmage during practice.  Too much exposure to the pine can drain an athlete’s competitive nature, though, creating a problem for the rest of the team if the frustration is made public. For junior Carter Kemp the season has…