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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Prep talk: City Section track and field preliminaries set for Thursday
No more taking it easy in City Section track and field. It's time to start reaching peak form when the preliminaries will take place on Thursday at Birmingham High in preparation for next Thursday's finals at the same venue. Field events begin at noon and running events start at 1 p.m. Birmingham has a new Mondo track surface that should produce faster times. Advertisement Carson has won nine consecutive City titles in girls' track and field. Junior Christina Gray will be back in the sprints. She won the Marine League 100 and 200 events last week. In the boys' competition, there's some terrific matchups, particularly in the 400, where Granada Hills' Justin Hart will be preparing to face Venice's Nathan Santa Cruz. In the sprints, Birmingham's Antrell Harris won the West Valley League 100 meters in 10.85 seconds. General admission tickets are $12 and $8 for students. The finals next week begin at 4 p.m. with running events. … The Southern Section track and field championships will take place Saturday at Moorpark High School. Field events begin at 10:30 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. Admission tickets are $14 for adults and $7 for students and can be purchased in advance at … Advertisement The Southern Section baseball playoffs open Thursday in Divisions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Here's the link to the schedule. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Prep talk: City Section track and field preliminaries set for Thursday
No more taking it easy in City Section track and field. It's time to start reaching peak form when the preliminaries will take place on Thursday at Birmingham High in preparation for next Thursday's finals at the same venue. Field events begin at noon and running events start at 1 p.m. Birmingham has a new Mondo track surface that should produce faster times. Carson has won nine consecutive City titles in girls' track and field. Junior Christina Gray will be back in the sprints. She won the Marine League 100 and 200 events last week. In the boys' competition, there's some terrific matchups, particularly in the 400, where Granada Hills' Justin Hart will be preparing to face Venice's Nathan Santa Cruz. In the sprints, Birmingham's Antrell Harris won the West Valley League 100 meters in 10.85 seconds. General admission tickets are $12 and $8 for students. The finals next week begin at 4 p.m. with running events. … The Southern Section track and field championships will take place Saturday at Moorpark High School. Field events begin at 10:30 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. Admission tickets are $14 for adults and $7 for students and can be purchased in advance at … The Southern Section baseball playoffs open Thursday in Divisions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Here's the link to the schedule. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email
CBC
13-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ric McIver voted in as new Alberta legislature Speaker
Calgary legislature member Ric McIver is the new Speaker of the Alberta legislature. McIver resigned as municipal affairs minister early Tuesday and soon after was voted into the Speaker's job by his peers, defeating Opposition NDP candidate Heather Sweet. After the vote result was announced, McIver was ceremoniously dragged to the Speaker's chair by Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition NDP house leader Christina Gray. Some jovial heel dragging on McIver's part meant Gray dropped his elbow and started pushing him from behind while Smith led the way. The dragging is a parliamentary tradition that dates back hundreds of years to when the Speaker's role was viewed as both unappealing and perilous, given that they risked incurring the wrath of the sovereign. In his first speech from the Speaker's chair, McIver said he was grateful for the new post. "I've committed to everybody on both sides to honour the traditions of this place, to be non-partisan and to help us get through the business of the day every day," McIver said. "If we have a little fun, great ... better fun than nastiness." The Speaker's role is to be the non-partisan referee during question period and debate. WATCH | Why Nathan Cooper resigned as Speaker: Why the legislature Speaker is becoming Alberta's U.S. representative 5 days ago Duration 1:52 After mistakenly thanking Sweet by name in his speech, breaking the parliamentary tradition of referring to members only by their titles, McIver urged colleagues to bear with him as he learns the ins and outs of the role. "See? I'm already breaking the rules," he said. "Despite the fact I've watched this show for this important place for almost about 13 years, that doesn't mean I won't mess it up. But with your help, I'll fail along until we get better at it." Since being elected in 2012, McIver served as municipal affairs minister under two premiers, while also doing stints as transportation minister, infrastructure minister and jobs minister. The Speaker's job became vacant last week after Nathan Cooper announced he was stepping down in order to represent Alberta's interests in Washington D.C.
