What is Thy Bidding?

LOS ANGELES, Cali. — Nadir Joshua debated late elimination rounds at such tournaments as Emory, St. Mark’s, and Wake Forest, placed second at the Stanford Round Robin, and was champion of the Malcolm A. Bump Memorial Tournament, the Lexington Winter Invitational, the Manchester-by-the-Sea Invitational, the Princeton Classic, and the New Jersey State Tournament. He also [...]

There And Back Again

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Michelin Massey — the former assistant coach at Denver East in Colorado and former director of forensics at Christopher Columbus in Florida, Hopkins in Minnesota, and Harvard-Westlake in California — has been active in Lincoln-Douglas debate since 1992.
Given both his many years as a preferred judge and his rare resumé as [...]

Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and All Ships At Sea, Let’s Go to Press!

JW Patterson is the director of debate at the University of Kentucky, one of the most historically significant and successful debate programs in the United States. He is also the founder and director of the National High School Tournament of Champions — the TOC — the tournament which has become, over its long history, the [...]

From the Archives: Standards of Excellence

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — I begin 2008 by looking to the past: that is, the past archives of Victory Briefs Daily on my computer. Some early material has been lost in the shuffle as we’ve moved servers or restarted the site, and specifically, a number of interviews conducted on Saturday6AM — an online portal that was [...]

The Winningest: The Follow-up

As promised, Jason Baldwin has answered a series of questions submitted and posted by VBD readers. These questions are in response to his interview — “The Winningest” — which was posted on VBD on January 22, 2007.

You argue that it’s much better for first- and second-year-outs to serve as assistant coaches. My question is what [...]

The Winningest

When he graduated from Vestavia Hills High School in 1993 — having claimed the titles of the Wake Forest National Earlybird, the the Glenbrooks, the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational, the Barkley Forum for High Schools, and the Tournament of Champions, among many others — Jason Baldwin was recognized as the winningest competitor in [...]

Grand Persuasion

Jon Cruz sits down with 2006 NCFL Champion Caitlin Halpern in this exclusive VBD interview.