Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

I hate to say it but...

I hate to say it but…

Peter Dennis, Columnist February 23, 2012

…but Jeremy Lin (’06) is in for a rough few weeks. I know how foreign that may sound, what with him leading the before-terrible Knicks to wins in 8 out of their last 10 games, including a 7 game winning...

Ive Been Linking...

I’ve Been Linking…

Shannon Scheel, Columnist February 20, 2012

This President’s Day break, oh humble readers, Shanzie here did the unthinkable. I watched a live NBA game, two nights in a row. (I know, I know. Don’t faint out of shock or anything.) And I have...

The Pac-Anticlimactic

The Pac-Anticlimactic

Peter Dennis, Columnist February 2, 2012

Sometimes I get ashamed for living in California. Mind you, that’s not very often, what with our low 60’s weather in the winter (and we complain for every degree of it), lack of obnoxious accents,...

Columnist Shannon Scheel (12) thoroughly enjoys her Fraiche. Soon after this photo was taken it was promptly devoured...

Food for an Athlete’s Thought

January 30, 2012

Like any athlete, I like food. Like any water athlete, I burn more calories than the average person does in a week. I eat a lot. A LOT. Of food. Put down any kind of food, you name it, it will become...

David Akers takes some practice field goals to warm up for todays game. Akers scored 12 points for the niners in todays game.

The 49ers Breese by the Saints

Sammy Solomon, Staff Writer January 15, 2012

“Alex Smith has no chance of beating Drew Brees” is all we’ve heard on the radio for the past week. However, the forecast in San Francisco this afternoon was not as BREESy as expected.The Niners...

The Pessimist: Sports Commentary is Terrible

The Pessimist: Sports Commentary is Terrible

Peter Dennis, Columnist January 12, 2012

Note: For commentary on the growing scandal over The Optimist's blog, as the title would suggest, please look at the last three paragraphs of this column. As I watched Oregon handily win the “Granddaddy...

Columnist Shannon Scheel (12) would love to see this merger in the future. Shes already got the apparel for it!

Colts Getting “Lucky”

Shannon Scheel, Columnist January 8, 2012

Happy 2012, readers! Yes, this early on in the year, a crucial issue has caught my eye: the Colts have earned the number one draft pick. Yes, I do know that this means their season of one win and god...

Luck passes against Cal in the 2010 Big Game. Luck has been runner-up for the Heisman for the past two years.Andrew Luck © 2009 John Martinez Pavliga, used under a Creative Commons Generic Attribution License

Heisman Heist

Jonny Glazier, Staff Writer and Devoted Cardinal Fan December 11, 2011

In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. For the past three years, I have sat, anxiously in front of my television. For the past three years, I have hung my head in disbelief. For the past three...

The San Francisco 49ers: The Most Overrated Team in the NFL

Brennan Miller, Coulmnist December 10, 2011

Amongst all the hubbub and rigmarole, the hustle and bustle, over every Faithful and bandwagon fan there should be a cloud. Not a huge, dark, ominous cloud looming over every day and ruining the Palo Alto...

The Best: A Curtain of Steel

Brennan Miller, Columnist December 8, 2011

It’s 1976. Handlebar mustaches are cool, everyone has big hair and the speakers are blasting Dancing Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody. Life was pretty far out. In fact, it was way groovy…as long as you...

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