Did Jonathan Martin do the right thing by leaving his team over Incognito's comments?

David Ortiz celebrating after the Boston Red Sox win their first world series while playing at Fenway Park.

New Jersey mall shooting

According to CNN a man named Richard Shoop fired shots at a shopping mall in New Jersey late Monday night. "We know that his intent was either suicide or to do something that would cause police to shoot him, which we call 'suicide by cop,' " Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli told CNN's "New Day." The man acted alone and no one was injured. CNN reported that the man did not aim at people but at objects to avoid killing any bystanders. He just wanted to kill himself and when the police did not kill him he decided to end his own life. ABC news said that he did not plan of coming out of the mall alive. Governor Chris Christie says that this is another reason why law makers should look into more gun laws.

editorial Toronto Mayor admits to using crack

Toronto is the home of Drake, The Blue Jays and The Maple Leaves but is now the home of The Crack Head Mayor. Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford explained how he probably did crack cocaine in a drunken stupor about one year ago. Are you serious mayor? He then tried to cover up his wrongdoings by explaining how he was voted to do the duties as mayor and he has done them, and done them well according to his standards. I think that mayor Ford has forgotten about the importance of a public image of the mayor and how he is the face of a city. He represents something more than a law being passed or a city clean up project. The modern world is most certainly making a fool out of mayor Ford with his nonchalant response to his drug use and his lack of an appropriate reason on why he was caught using the drugs. If one of the candidates for mayor of Boston was caught doing crack cocaine would that effect the result of the race? Of Course it would! so why doesn't it matter in Toronto now. Rob Ford should no longer be in office.

Ingognito Suspension compare and contrast

On Sunday night the Miami dolphins suspended Richie Incognito for conduct detrimental to the team and to the player which was most greatly affected by his inappropriate conduct, Richie Martin. incognito sent Martin racial and inappropriate messages on multiple occasions. He then made him pay 15,000 for a trip to Las Vegas that he did not even want to participate in. This conduct by Incognito led to Martin leaving the team and Incognito getting himself suspended indefinitely. I watched two different news channels discussing Ingognito's actions, ESPN and ABC news at 7.

 The differences between these two channels was that ESPN took this story from the team and sports point of view and ABC approached it on a moral and discrimination point of view. They went on to explain how a person of Incognito's character should not be on a team because of his character. They also explained how there are many other players like him are in the NFL and some teams even have a list of players not to draft or purchase due to off-field issues. The panel then discussed how a player with a bad attitude and critical of other players in a negative way is not good for the teams quality of play. On the other hand ABC discussed how it is embarrassing for Incognito and his family and questioned how someone could be so rude and racist in this day and age.

question 10/4/13

Why do you think the conservatives do not believe in the Affordable Care Act?

Mariano Rivera Picture

Evenhough the Red Sox and Yankees may be rivals, they are able to recognize a true hall of famer when they see one and give him the respect he deserves no matter what jersey he wears.