St. Edward came out triumphant over Strongsville Saturday evening at a sold out Lakewood Stadium by a final score of 37-36.
It was a game of inches, as Strongsville kicker Nate Feese attempted a 51-yard field goal with three seconds……Read the entire article on the Lakewood Observer website
Players stay loose and relaxed before their first game of the 2008 season by skateboarding in the locker room.
My day off of school and work was spent where else…but the place where I work!
I had some fun taking different types of photos today…with a more artistic and minimalistic approach rather than photojournalistic.
see the gallery here:
It’s fall sports time again, which means soccer, tennis and football time.
style=”text-align: left;”>Illinois Senator and Democrat Candidate Barack Obama visited Balwin-Wallace University Tuesday on a two-campaign trip through Ohio.
Obama was accompanied by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones was also in attendance. Strickland and Jones stumped for Hilary Clinton during the Ohio Primary but now back Senator Obama as the Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party.
The Town Hall meeting gave Ohio residents the opportunity to ask the Senator questions. A member of the press was so eager to ask his question, that he waited two sentences into the Senator’s speech and disrupted the crowd by asking……..Read the entire article here… The Lakewood Observer Website
I had the fortunate opportunity to see Barack Obama speak for the Fifth time since announcing his campaign for President of the United States. I can’t explain to you the rush and thrill that I get at events like this where I’m responsible for preserving a moment in history.
Thanks to a very kind member of the Press team that coordinates events like this for Barack Obama, I was let in to the front of the stage, where only Traveling and National Media are allowed to go, (one or two at a time) and I had five minutes to snap away as many photos as I could. These moments don’t come very often, if at all, for local media like myself, so I made the best of it with shaking hands and a thumping heart. I wasn’t nervous or star-struck, it was just a thrill to be front and center at an event that (arguably) one of the future leaders of the free world is hosting.
These events never get old. Every time I attend an event it takes me back to my first time seeing the Senator from Illinois speak, back on February 26th, 2007. My US Passport has an issue date of February 25th, 2007, meaning that my parents and I received our US Citizenship one day before I saw Obama speak at Cuyahoga County Community College. Talk about a thrill. Here I was, 18 years of age and a legal voter in the United States of America, watching one of the candidates speak about his vision of where the country should go.
I still get chills down my spine just reminiscing about it….
The people of the United States of America are very privileged to have freedoms and opportunities right at their fingertips. I wish more people would appreciate their daily blessings all around the world. You never know when they can be taken away.
A member of the crowd (red t-shirt) blows a kiss for Barack Obama during Tuesday’s Town Hall meeting in Berea, hio:
Barack Obama seemed more confident and aggressive with his speech today, taking jabs at the Republican Candidate John McCain as well as the current President, George W. Bush:
Can you hear me now?:
Rain or shine, hot or cold, The Lakewood High School football team is busting their butts in order to have a successful season in 2008-2009.
Today’s two-a-day practice included agility workouts, as well as special teams and offense/defense. The Rangers get their full equipment Tuesday, and start hitting on Wednesday. If I can’t wait for full contact, imagine how excited the players must be to start plowing each other over.
Last year, August 23rd, 2007, Lakewood High School and OHSAA Baseball lost a great friend, teacher, baseball and football coach to Cancer. My classmate, Eric Converse, thought of the idea of creating a tribute baseball game to honor the coach. He attended the first annual tribute game, but this year we played the first ever Jerry Gruss Memorial baseball game.
We had a great turnout of former players, coaches, students, parents, you name it. The money raised went to the American Cancer Society and the scholarship fund that my friend and I created in Coach’s name last year. I had a photo show last year and raised money, and my friend thought of the baseball game and raised more money towards a new scoreboard that we dedicated earlier this spring in the coach’s name.
I covered the event for The Lakewood Observer and I had to substitute whenever needed so that each team had enough players.
I grew up with most of these players/friends, from elementary school on, and covered their games as they went through high school. That’s also how I met Coach Gruss. He always treated me like I was part of the team, and encouraged me to be hard working and respectful.
Rough day for me in the field. I had three errors (two missed pop ups and I dropped a double play flip) at second base and I struck out once. I did get a hit and scored later from third.
Regardless, I didn’t have a hard time catching the ball with my camera. Here’s my first attempt at catching the baseball in flight.
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