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11-08-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
2025 Delaware Football Predictions: Blue Hens Ranked 114th in RJ Young's Ultimate 136
College Football 2025 Delaware Football Predictions: Blue Hens Ranked 114th in RJ Young's Ultimate 136 Published Aug. 10, 2025 9:36 p.m. ET share facebook x reddit link This isn't your average college football ranking. My Ultimate 136 is a set of rankings that is fluid, but it's my job to look ahead and make a claim for all FBS teams based on what I know and why I know it. Here are the three pressing questions I started by asking when putting together this list: Who do I think is good? Why do I think they're good? What are the chances they will finish above or below my expectations? Here is a look at where Delaware lands in my Ultimate 136. Delaware ranking: 114 Last year's ranking: N/A Top player: DB KT Seay: Led team with 4 interceptions last season and was fifth on the team in tackles with 38; has started 21 games for Delaware in the last two seasons. [Delaware's 2025 schedule] RJ's take: If you're looking for a 2023 James Madison — the kind of program that can show up in Year 1 of FBS play and be one of the nation's best — you've already located Delaware. Last year the Blue Hens finished 9-2 and made the FCS playoffs. ADVERTISEMENT Perhaps Ryan Carty's team will take a moment to settle in, but winners tend to make winning a habit. Returning 17 of 22 starters from last year's team ought to help that cause. [Check out RJ Young's Ultimate 136 College Football Rankings here] Delaware Win Total Odds: Over 4.5 (-140) Under 4.5 (+112) Have an issue with my rankings? Think your alma mater is too low, or your school's rival is too high? Get at me on X, @RJ_Young , and I'll select my favorite tweets and respond to them in a future article. RJ Young is a national college football writer and analyst for FOX Sports. Follow him at @RJ_Young. FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience College Football Delaware Blue Hens share
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The results are in: Meet Delaware's newly elected school board members
More than 15,500 Delawareans turned out to vote in school board elections on May 13, according to the unofficial results from the Delaware Department of Elections. Even with rough totals, that's a nearly 176% increase in turnout compared to 2024, which also saw nine fewer contested races. This year, 11 school districts drew voters to the polls, totaling 16 contested elections for open seats. Only Colonial, Milford, Delmar, Laurel and Seaford had no elections. In Delaware code, any uncontested race won't reach the ballot. New Castle saw the highest turnout, with over 7,900 voters. Overall it was a comfortable night for many incumbents seeking re-election, but several new faces will also join Delaware school boards. Here are the preliminary results posted by the Delaware Department of Elections: Appo's open at-large seat saw a three-way contest. By a difference of just 45 votes, Tim Higgins bested both Sandhya Celestin-Brown and Chuck Boyce. While the Middletown businessman claimed 667 votes Tuesday, Celestin-Brown trailed with 622 and Boyce, 435. Higgins is a business owner of over 30 years and has served on several boards in the community such as the Canal Little League, Saint Margaret's Church, youth ministry groups and a former religion teacher. Incumbent Alexander Najemy won his re-election to fill the District A seat, by just 69 votes. The 46-year-old of Wilmington secured roughly 51% of 3,081 votes cast in this election, edging out his competition in Kenyon Wilson. The former U.S. Army captain works as an attorney in the global capital markets office for M&T Bank, after his military service. Now, he'll look to continue his work on the Brandywine board. In District B, Brian Jordan had a much more comfortable win with about 81% of the vote. The Wilmington attorney and father of two Brandywine students beat former New Castle County Council President Karen Hartley-Nagle by nearly 2,000 votes. Frank Livoy will fill the board's District E seat, beating his opponent Tracy Todd Woodson. The Wilmington-area resident secured nearly 63% of some 3,321 Brandywine voters on May 13. Today, Livoy coaches new teachers at the University of Delaware and Delaware State, while also teaching writing courses at Wilmington University. Shannon Troncoso secured the District A seat on Christina's school board. Incumbent and Vice President Alethea Smith-Tucker – a board member who has often joined a deciding four-person bloc – did not run for re-election. The Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer just about doubled votes over Janiene Campbell, at 876 to 414, in unofficial results. The Delaware mom of two BlueHens doesn't have any children in the school district, but she saw running for the Christina school board as a public service. Devon Hynson saw a deciding win over his competition for Red Clay's District B seat, with nearly 73% of the vote. He beat Martin Wilson to secure a four-year term. The 53-year-old of Wilmington has stated publicly that the top priorities for his campaign include increasing engagement between parents, community members and staff about decisions that are made for the district. Incumbent Joyce Denman won re-election for the at-large seat, 687-527, over challenger Amy Spampinato. A former teacher and director of special education, Denman, 72, received nearly 57% of the votes to fill this four-year term. Capital had two contests for at-large seats, one for a three-year term and another for a four-year term. One incumbent who's served since 2020, Anthony De Prima, didn't run for re-election. The other incumbent, Vickie Pendleton, took office in February to fill an open seat for the rest of the term, which ends this year. For the three-year term, Pendleton won 471-331 over her 18-year-old challenger Jordan Davis. A math teacher with over 40 years of experience, Pendleton, 65, received nearly 59% of the votes. For the four-year term, Donna Johnson Geist won 494-308 over Mozella Richardson Kamara. Geist, 54, is the vice president for policy and advocacy at Cognia, an education nonprofit. She was a nationally board-certified high school math teacher, district administrator, director of accountability and assessment at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington D.C. and executive director of the Delaware State Board of Education. She received just over 61% of the votes. Incumbent James L. Rau won 177-64 to keep his at-large seat in Lake Forest. He received just over 73% of the votes against challenger Darrell Hughes for a four-year term. Rau, 49, has been a legal administrator for 25 years and is a lifelong member of the Felton Fire Company. He has also coached 18 combined seasons of fall and spring soccer through Harrington Parks and Recreation. In a three-way race for an open at-large seat, Aaron Weisenberger won the four-year term with just over 49% of the votes. Incumbent Christine Malec did not run for re-election. Here are the totals: Weisenberger with 406 votes, Charlotte Middleton with 214 and Justine L. Flint with 202. Weisenberger, 50, retired in December 2024 as assistant chief of the Dover Air Force Base Fire Department, where he worked for 24 years after serving in the military. In the Cape Henlopen School District, incumbent Bill Collick kept his at-large seat, while Patty Maull was elected to the District C seat. Collick received 3,208 votes to opponent Chris Lovenguth's 830. Maull received 2,011 votes compared to Laura Parsons' 1,458 and Andy Lewis' 575. The winners will each serve four-year terms. Collick, 73, is a former Delaware State University football coach and educator. Maull, 42, is a cosmetologist. Both told the ACLU they support 'inclusive' education. Incumbents Lisa Hudson Briggs and Kelly Kline beat out Dereck Booth to keep their District 1 seats in the Indian River School District. Briggs received 87 votes and Kline 64, while Booth garnered 31. Briggs, a 61-year-old state retiree, and Kline, a 42-year-old library director, were both appointed to the board in 2024. They will now serve four-year terms. In the Woodbridge School District, Timothy Banks defeated Latoya Harris for the at-large seat, 192 to 56 votes, respectively. Banks, 60, is the senior pastor of The Life Center and co-owner of the Helping Hands Learning Center in Bridgeville. He will serve a four-year term. Looking at Delaware's uncontested races, some winners didn't have to join a ballot. Christine L. Smith, Phila Breeding and Christopher Piecuch Sr. will join Colonial's board in District B, C and D, respectively. Jason Bradley will fill Cape Henlopen's District B seat, while Ray Vincent fills Delmar's District B seat. Jerry Peden Jr. will serve on Indian River's school board for District 2, while Michelle Parsons represents District 4. Yanelle Powell is Milford's next at-large board member, while Jeffrey T. Benson Jr. will now fill the same role in Seaford and Moraima Reardon in Woodbridge. Got an education story? Contact Kelly Powers at kepowers@ This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: How Delaware's 2025 school board elections shook out
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nick Maton's RBI groundout
'Off the charts': Blue Hens putting in work toward FBS climb Delaware players and head coach Ryan Carty concluded spring practices with the annual Blue and White Game April 18, 2025, saying afterward they "believe in the work they've put in." 2:14 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Technical.ly
16-04-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
Delaware's fintech moment: CAFE's 2025 spring cohort and more on the horizon
Delaware is having its fintech moment. Since the Center for Advancing Financial Equity — better known as CAFE — launched in 2023 at the then-new Fintech Innovation Hub at the University of Delaware's STAR Campus, it has quietly been building a name for itself. It's also been building a fintech brand for Delaware, something that has long seemed elusive despite the state being a major financial center since the 1980s. Even with prominent fintech companies like Delaware-based Best Egg, FairSquare and a PayPal presence, there was a certain kind of buzz that didn't seem to resonate beyond state lines. That may be changing. For its current spring cohort, CAFE held a three-day event from April 8 to 10 that drew fintech insiders, leaders and investors from all over the country to Delaware, including the Fintech Innovation Hub, sponsor Best Egg's North Wilmington headquarters, and, finally, the DuPont Country Club for an invite-only pitch and networking event that included the fintech portion of the Delaware Prosperity Partnership's Startup302 competition. 'I have really found a tremendous welcoming here in Delaware, so much so that I've adopted the Blue Hens as my own,' said Phil Goldfeder, president of the American Fintech Council, one of the many big names in fintech who came for the event. Speakers included Wilmington Mayor (and former Delaware Governor) John Carney; Ben du Pont, cofounder of Chartline Capital Partners and Zip Code Wilmington; Rob Habgood, CEO of Wilmington-based FairSquare/Ally Card; and CAFE founder Kristen Castell. CAFE startups from California, New York and Arizona made their pitches In the past CAFE cohorts, Delaware startups, including NESTER and Carvertise, participated among others from all over the country. This cohort's six CAFE startups are all established startups from out of state. Some are looking to do business in Delaware, but all are getting an exposure to Delaware's tech ecosystem to take home with them. The spring CAFE cohort is comprised of AI underwriting platform DubPrime (Los Gatos, California), smart estate planning platform Goodtrust (Palo Alto, California), ATM alternative Spare (Los Angeles, California), expense reduction platform Starlight (Brooklyn, New York), client management system TAZI AI (San Francisco, California) and predictive credit platform Trackstar AI (Chandler, Arizona). All six gave 5-minute pitches to cap off the event. Three Startup302 fintech finalist startups pitched early in the day, competing for part of $100,000+ in cash grants, mentoring and investor connections. Those startups are Roam, an Everett, Washington-based HOA management platform (first place), Wilmington-based Grad Village, a platform that connects college students with private donors to help them with tuition costs (second place) and Innocuous AI, a New York City-based data management platform (third place). There will be two more Startup302 finals competitions at upcoming exosystem events: environmental impact startups will pitch at the Clean Tech Ecosystem Summit on April 24, and life sciences startups will pitch at Delaware's DNA Life Science Conference on May 8. These events will feature finalists from Wilmington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. A spotlight on Delaware's talent Delaware's history as a finance and business center was held up as a major component of the state's brand identity, with Mayor Carney telling the story of how Wilmington became a center of banking for out-of-towners from places like San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles. 'When Ben's father [Pete du Pont] was governor, our economy here in our state was in really bad shape,' Carney said. 'One of the things that the administration did around 1980 was they passed important legislation called the Financial Center Development Act.' What it did, he explained, was bring a big New York bank to Delaware to set up its credit card operations, which was then followed by many others. Later, as banks consolidated, Bank of America bought MBNA, which had turned part of downtown to its own corporate campus. 'There was a lot of talent here looking for things to do,' Carney said, 'and that's where our Fintech sector came from.' That history continues to be apparent in the state's talent pool, said Habgood. 'What really drove the success of Fairsquare was being here in Delaware,' he told the attendees. 'Just finding ourselves in Delaware was a huge benefit because there's clearly more talent in the credit card space in this Wilmington area than anywhere else on the planet.'
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The difference between immigrants, refugees. Info on legal pathways to enter the US
Refugee resettlement and immigration are hot topics in the United States right now. As conversations about both pathways for entering the country continue, it's important to note the difference between the two. Policies, funding and executive orders impact those populations of people differently. The United Nations High Commission of Refugees defines a refugee as a person 'forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country.' Depending on their motivation for migrating, a person fleeing persecution, violence, conflict or human rights violations is categorized as a refugee, an asylum seeker, an internally displaced person or someone in need of international protection. An asylum seeker is a person seeking international protection from dangers in their home country, but whose claim for refugee status has not been determined legally in their destination country, according to International Rescue Committee. Asylum seekers must arrive at or cross a border to apply for protection in their country of destination. From there, they must prove to authorities that they meet the criteria to be covered by refugee protections. Not every asylum seeker is recognized as a refugee. Refugees resettled in the U.S. receive monetary support, resources and access to programs depending on what their specific situation is and if they meet certain requirements. Some classifications have shorter windows than others to capitalize on offered assistance. A refugee of any distinction has crossed an international border and cannot return home unless it is safe to do so, according to UNHCR. Afghan refugees become Blue Hens: 'The Taliban came, like, overnight': Afghan women flee Taliban to attend college at UD Immigrants, like refugees, are starting new lives in a new country. They go through a vetting process and intend to settle permanently in a new location. Unlike refugees, immigrants choose to leave home and begin elsewhere. They may decide to leave home to be closer to family, to pursue their education or for better economic opportunities, among other reasons. This means that they were not forced to leave and can return home if they want to, without risking their life or freedom. Due to this distinction, the term 'migrant' can be used to describe an immigrant but should not be used when referencing a refugee, according to Amnesty International. Education news: English-learning students discriminated against at this Delaware district, teacher reports Immigration and refugee resettlement cover many types of legal entry into the U.S., but there are other pathways available for certain groups of people to enter the country, too. One term you might hear is 'humanitarian parole.' This process allows an individual, who may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for U.S. entry, to be paroled into the country for a temporary period. A humanitarian parolee has not been formally admitted into the U.S. for purposes of immigration law, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Immigration and Nationality Act grants the secretary of homeland security the authority to temporarily parole any person applying for admission into the U.S., whether for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. Parole is typically granted for no more than one year but can be longer depending on the reason for the parole. People granted parole are typically not automatically allowed to work in the U.S., but it may be granted due to a person's circumstances. Examples of recent humanitarian parole programs, according to International Rescue Committee, are: The Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela parole program, which offered crucial assistance to people from these countries and significantly reduced border arrivals. This program was terminated on Jan. 20. Uniting for Ukraine, which provided a pathway to safety for Ukranians fleeing war in their country. Many Ukranians were granted parole status for up to two years before the program was suspended on Jan. 27. Operation Allies Welcome, which assisted vulnerable Afghans, including those who supported U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of people evacuated from Afghanistan after the withdrawal of American troops in 2021 were granted parole status. Another type of U.S. entry is the Special Immigrant Visa program, which is available to people who helped the U.S. government abroad. One SIV program is for those who worked with the U.S. Armed Forces or under Chief of Mission authority as a translator or interpreter in Iraq or Afghanistan. This program offers visas to up to 50 people a year, according to the U.S. Department of State. This program is distinct from two other programs granting SIVs for certain Iraqi and Afghan nationals who worked for, or on behalf of, the U.S. government in either country. Certain requirements must be met for program consideration. These pathways do not encompass every available process for U.S. entry, but they are some common examples showing the differences between programs and how they change based on global situations. Got a tip or a story idea? Contact Krys'tal Griffin at kgriffin@ This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Info on legal pathways for entering the US, what a refugee is
