For this assignment I wanted to look at a specific sports news app. My favorite sports news app that I have on my phone is the Bleacher Report Team Stream App. There are many things that I love about this sports news app. One thing that you can do on this sports news app is to customize you own settings. You can pick what teams, sports, and athletes you want to keep up with. This allows you to get news notifications about these certain sports, teams, and athletes. Interactive sports news articles, sports news top 10 lists, and interactive links are one of my favorite things about this sports news app. Once you click on a specific tab such as NFL, it will give you articles on the sport and also will include interactive tweets from twitter from sports news 
journalists about breaking sports news topics. Being able to set the app up where I see just what I want to see is a big plus to me. Yes you can do that on other sports news apps but you can only set up your favorites for just specific sports teams. With this app it is great to do individual sports and sports athletes. Critiquing this sports news app is very easy for me because I really don't have anything to say bad about this app. To me this app is much better in terms of customization compared to other sports news apps such as ESPN, FOX Sports, and CBS Sports. I often check my Bleacher Report app on a daily basis to check things such as Arkansas Razorbacks, NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and WWE.
On October 16th 2013, college football announced that they would do away with the very controversial Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and adapt the new College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff is made up of the top four teams at the end of the season playing in two high ranked bowl games respectively. The match ups for those two playoff games are set by number 1 playing number 4 and number 2 playing number 3. The Playoff had a terrific first year with Ohio State winning it all after beating #1 ranked Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. With that win the Buckeyes advanced to take on and defeat the #2 ranked Oregon Ducks in the first College Football National Championship. The problem with this CFB Playoff is that it only has four teams. Four teams in my mind is too few of teams. It needs to expand to 8 teams now. Reason being that it will help both TV ratings and schools. If you have the conference champion from the SEC, BIG 10, BIG 12, PAC 12, ACC, and then the first two teams who have either an undefeated record who didn't win conference championship or has a 1 loss record and put them into a 8 team playoff you would for sure have an interesting field for sure. As of now if you look at the rankings and predicted who would win the conference championship you would have these 8 teams advancing to the CFB Playoff: Clemson (ACC), Alabama (SEC), Ohio State (BIG 10), Oklahoma (BIG 12), Stanford (PAC 12), Iowa (BIG 10, Undefeated Record) and Oklahoma State (BIG 12 will have 1 loss after losing to OU). An 8 team playoff is much better than a 4 team playoff because it gives us match-ups that we regularly that we wouldn't see in the regular season. As a huge fan of College Football I would love to see this happen in the near future. It would boost TV ratings, School exposure and the all important MONEY!!!
The entertainment world was hit with a wake up call a few weeks back when Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani announced that they are now together in a relationship. Stefani 46, and Shelton 39 both are judges on the hit NBC reality show "The Voice". Recently before their relationship came out, a fan who attended the live taping of "The Voice" told People magazine that "Right when they called for the break, Blake ran over to Gwen's chair.
They were talking close and laughing until makeup duties called." Shelton was previously married to fellow country music star Miranda Lambert. Those two were married back in 2011 and filed for divorce earlier in 2015. Stefani is just recently getting over a divorce of her own from her ex husband Gavin Rossdale. This relationship between Shelton and Stefani comes as a surprise to many people in the entertainment world on the fact that they are co workers on "The Voice'. But for many months in the past in was very obvious that Shelton and Stefani had a flirtatious side between each other . It appears that in the entertainment light that Shelton is happier than ever before and it all has to do with Stefani. People magazine recently spoke with Shelton and asked him how the relationship with Gwen was going and he replied back "Good really good." So for now both Stefani and Shelton are happy together, lets hope that this happiness stays together. But always remember that these two have histories of divorce.
http://www.people.com/article/blake-shelton-gwen-stefani-hotline-bling-the-voice
http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/11/19/blake-shelton-talks-gwen-stefani-romance-going-good/
Rev. Fernando Karadima of Chile has been punished and accused of sex abuse by the Vatican. On Wednesday November 10, 2015 the gray headed priest walked into a court room to plead his innocence. Three victims have brought cases against Rev. Karadima that he sexually abused them in times before. The Rev was escorted into the court room by several police officers and was questioned for more than 2 hours. Karadima stated that "I don't recognize the abuses, with children. Never, ever, I maintain my innocence ... I never had sexual relations with those who accuse me." Protesters were seen outside trashing Karadima's SUV and yelling "Pedophile!" at him. This isn't the first time that Karadima has been accused of sexually abusing people. Back in April of 2010 Karadima first had allegations of sexual abuse brought up against him from a case nearly six decades ago. This is still an on going story in the country of Chile.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chilean-priest-punished-sex-abuse-claims-innocent-35140671
What exactly is Numeracy? Numeracy is is the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts. Numeracy is right now at the heart of data journalism. Data in numeracy can answer some questions but not all questions. Let’s say you want to do a story prompted by your thoughts on horses and
bridges, and you are (happily) not reacting to a local collapse. You need to first gather all the data that there is. Then you need to start asking any questions you can. Once you gain all the data that you needed and have asked all the questions to you want to ask you can move on to the next step. Always remember that Numeracy requires confidence. Always have confidence in yourself that you can get all the information that you need for numeracy. Remember to read, gather enough data, and fill out a well thought out plan. But the last thing to remember is dont have a very big project, always start small and it will be very easy to deal with it.
