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15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
WNBA Franchise Cuts Ties With Former Champion Amid Roster Moves
Second-year WNBA forward Caitlin Bickle has once again become a free agent. The Connecticut Sun announced Thursday it waived Bickle along with rookie center Kamila Borkowska. Bickle, who joined the Sun on a training camp contract in 2025, was set to enter her second season with the club. Advertisement Bickle joined the Sun for the first time on a training camp contract in April 2023. The team waived her before the start of the 2023 regular season. Then last year, Bickle re-joined the club on a seven-day contract in July. She signed another seven-day contract in August. On the short-term deals, Bickle appeared in eight games for the Sun last season. She played 15 minutes and didn't score, missing all three of her 3-point attempts. Former Baylor Bears forward Caitlin Bickle© Annie Rice/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Bickle played a lot more in college with the Baylor Bears. During her fifth-year at Baylor in 2022-23, she averaged a career-best 11.9 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. Advertisement She started all 30 of her games that season. Baylor advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament that spring. During her freshman season, Baylor won the national championship in 2018-19. Baylor posted a 37-1 record in Bickle's freshman season when the team won the national championship. Bickle posted two points and 1.1 rebounds while playing in 28 contests. Like Bickle, Borkowska, a Poland native, also went undrafted in her class this spring. She signed a training camp contract with the Sun on February 24. The Sun released both players a day prior to the team facing the New York Liberty in their second preseason game Friday. Advertisement Bickle and Borkowska combined to play eight minutes in the team's preseason opener Sunday. Neither player scored a point. Related: WNBA Sends Strong Message on Brittney Griner
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
KOIN Most Remarkable Woman 2025 will go to Hollywood
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — During Women's History Month each March, KOIN 6 News and our parent company Nexstar encourage people to nominate Remarkable Women, those whose everyday actions speak to a larger sense of purpose and a can-do spirit. This year, KOIN 6 News received hundreds of nominations. Four of those nominees were chosen as Remarkable Women in our area: but she does more than that. She saved it, she manages it, she supervises an army of volunteers as they pack and distribute food to those in need. A few years ago, the group lost its non-profit status and lost donations from grocery stores and the Oregon Food Bank. The food share was on the verge of shutting down until Tiffany Slottke stepped up to make sure that didn't happen. Asked what she thinks when people say she's remarkable, Tiffany Slottke merely said, 'Thank you' — with a smile. who found her voice when she popped her fake eye out on Instagram in an empowering video moment. She started the Fun Eye Fund 'just to share the stories of one-eyed people because there weren't support groups for me to send them to.' The charity has now gifted more than 300 unique prosthetic eyes. when her husband died and became the sole caretaker for six kids. She is the owner and CEO of what is now a world-renowned grass seed brand, And in 2015, she opened , where people with intellectual disabilities from 14-adulthood can connect with community. It's life-changing work, the result of years of dedication, sacrifice and loss. But the , who has been changing lives inside a classroom for 35 years. When the Community Transitional School began in 1990, she was there. She opened the doors to a welcoming place of learning for Portland's homeless and transient children. She remembered there was only one child who came to school that day. She was determined. She raised money for supplies and eventually moved into a permanent spot in the Cully neighborhood in 2007. In recognition for being the 2025 Remarkable Woman, KOIN 6 News presented a $1000 check to Cheryl Bickle (that she donated to the school), and she will travel to Hollywood to meet the other Remarkable Women chosen by Nexstar stations nationwide. When the check was presented, Bickle turned the attention back to the students. 'They do inspire you to be a good teacher, to be the teacher that they need and the more you direct them to succeed, the more they do succeed,' she said. But she was very surprised at her selection. 'I don't believe all this,' Bickle said. 'It seems really unbelievable.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Cheryl Bickle creates a school family for homeless students
Editor's Note: March is Women's History Month. Each Tuesday during March, KOIN 6 News will spotlight a Remarkable Woman nominated by others in the community. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Cheryl Bickle has been changing lives inside a classroom for 35 years. When the began in 1990, she was there. 'The school had no funding and it had no materials,' Bickle told KOIN 6 News. 'And I thought, oh, well, the most I had ever done is raise money for the March of Dimes.' She opened the doors to a welcoming place of learning for Portland's homeless and transient children. She remembered there was only one child who came to school that day. 'I thought, OK, there's a problem here. We've got to go on and find out where the children whose lives and families that have no housing right now where they are,' she said. She was determined. She raised money for supplies and eventually moved into a permanent spot in the Cully neighborhood in 2007. 'We bought the building and we raised the money and we were debt free when we moved in 18 months later,' she said. Over the years, the school expanded to help even more children in pre-K through 8th grade, added two more classrooms and a small bus fleet that is able to get students to school no matter where they're currently staying. There's so many things that hold back a homeless family. Usually transportation is a problem,' Bickle said. 'I just think we just don't understand how complicated it is to get out of poverty and to get out of being homeless or unhoused or whatever we're calling it now. It is really hard.' Cheryl Bickle is both principal and teacher, teaching multiple grades in one classroom. 'We're not a big staff and we have a big job, so we use it all. We help each other, sort of a family.' This family does so much more than teach reading and writing. Students eat breakfast and lunch together, celebrate holidays together at school and, for many, it's the first time in their young lives they've established a routine. 'Probably as important as academics is helping the kids have faith in themselves,' she said, 'working with them to accept the challenge, to accept their life as it is right now. It doesn't have to be that way forever.' Cheryl Bickle was nominated as a 2025 Remarkable Woman by one of the 2020 Remarkable Women, Joan Dalton. 'Being the principal — because I've been one — it's a lot of work,' Dalton said. 'She's also a full-time teacher, so she is carrying a big load. But the thing about her, she's so open and sharing. It's her passion. It's not a job. It's her passion.' Bickle said she thinks they do a good job 'because we focus on what will really help them when they leave us. That's our goal.' 'You try to let them know that they have the power within themselves to succeed and to not be invisible and to be a part of the group and to be responsible to the group,' she said. 'We all probably have become who we are by people believing in us.' And for thousands of students, Cheryl Bickle has been that person. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Politics
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Messmer's office wanted Boonville library to call police on constituents; director said no
EVANSVILLE – Staff members with Rep. Mark Messmer's office asked employees at the Boonville Public Library to call the police on constituents during a mobile office hours event – even though the mostly older attendees weren't breaking any rules, the library's director confirmed Wednesday. Director Brooke Bolton told the Courier & Press she refused the request. 'We told them that (the constituents) had not broken any of the rules of our library and we would not call the police unless the rules of our library were being broken,' she said. 'I didn't see or witness anything that was hostile.' The event took place from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday at the library in Boonville. Mobile office hours usually provide voters a chance to speak to representatives of their elected officials and express concerns. Two staffers for the Eighth District Republican were at the library, but they repeatedly declined to meet with more than one constituent at a time, an attendee told the Courier & Press. Bolton said the request to contact authorities came not from the staffers on hand, but via a phone call to the library from a Washington, D.C. area code. She identified the person she spoke with as Michael Curcio. The website LegiStorm lists Curcio as Messmer's chief of staff. A spokesperson for Messmer didn't respond to a request for a comment Wednesday. It's just the latest bit of silence from the congressman, who has repeatedly declined to speak to the Courier & Press. Kristina Bickle, founder of Evansville Resistance, was one of about 15 people in attendance Tuesday. She took several videos of exchanges with Messmer's staff that she forwarded to the Courier & Press. She said the trouble started when she and others wanted to meet with the reps as a group so everyone could hear their questions or concerns. But the staffers refused, only agreeing to meet with people one at a time in a room so tiny she described it as a 'closet.' 'They had picked the smallest room in the building,' she said. '… They wouldn't let married couples go in together.' According to Bickle, the staffers turned down several offers from library workers to move them to a larger room so they could accommodate more people. Eventually they gave in and shifted to a conference room, but they still wouldn't let in more than one person at a time. Bickle said the Messmer staffers barred all recording devices and kept the door closed anytime a constituent came inside. 'We just felt like that was not right. Nobody was getting loud or hostile, but everyone was very, very upset about this situation,' she said. 'One man was crying – not so much about the situation, but that his constitutional rights had been violated. Meaning our country is in trouble.' She believes the staffers asked the library to call police so it wouldn't look like the request was coming from Messmer's office. And it was all for a group "that was mostly senior citizens." "That's absurd," she said. Most of the videos from Bickle show constituents standing outside the original room and asking the Messmer staffers to meet with the entire group at once. Bickle said the group voted, and all of them wanted a public meeting instead of private conversations. In one video, a man and two women repeatedly ask the staffers – a woman and young man – to come out. 'Nobody wants a one-on-one meeting out there,' the man says, gesturing toward the other attendees. '… We've got people here who are going to walk away if it's not a public meeting." 'OK,' a staffer says. In another, a different man with gray hair and a flannel shirt addresses them. 'You should be here to talk to us. We've called Messmer's office and we don't get any answers,' he says in an even tone. '… Let's go to a place where we can all talk. We'll be civil.' According to the videos, the exchanges are largely calm and never reach the point of screaming or arguing. They do, however, show some moments of frustration. At one point, as the staffers continue to evade a group discussion, an elderly woman interjects. 'It's about time you Republicans grew some damn balls,' she says. Another video shows Bolton – who had to be called in on her day off – addressing the attendees as they wait outside the hall. She reminds them the library has no say over where Messmer staffers meet and thanked the constituents for being respectful to library staff. She told the Courier & Press Messmer's office reserved that specific small room. They were told how many people it could hold. The people at the library Tuesday aren't the only ones struggling to get answers from Messmer. Earlier this month, he didn't respond to multiple messages from the Courier & Press asking him his thoughts on potential Medicaid cuts that could affect thousands of people in his district. He dodged another interview in December, with a spokesman saying he would only take questions written in advance. During last year's election, he declined to debate his opponents and didn't have any public events in Evansville. He hasn't announced plans to hold a town hall, either. Those have been hard to come by in the Evansville for years. Courier & Press archives show that Messmer's predecessor, Rep. Larry Bucshon, only had five of them in the city during his 14 years in office. And according to a report from Politico earlier this month, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee has ordered GOP officials not to stage any town halls in the near future. In Messmer's absence, some Evansville residents plan to have a 'people's town hall' instead. The 'Messmer's Missing' rally is scheduled for March 22 at 1 p.m. in front of the congressman's local office at 20 NW Third St. In a news release, organizer Wendy Bredhold said residents are encouraged to bring any written comments they have for the congressman. They'll then be passed along to his office the following Monday. If Messmer agrees to hold an actual town hall, she said, they'll cancel the event. 'Elected officials should be accessible to the people they serve, yet he refuses to face his constituents,' the release states. 'We're showing up anyway.' Bickle said she told Messmer's staffers about the protest as the library event ended Tuesday. They left promptly at 3 p.m., she said, even though some constituents were still waiting to speak to them. 'I feel like he's forgotten he works for us,' she said. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Messmer's office wanted Boonville library to call police during event
