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Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
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DJ Moore & Rome Odunze like 'perfection' Bears coach Ben Johnson demands
DJ Moore and Rome Odunze are spending a lot of time together, lately. The Bears dynamic duo spent Sunday working with kids at Moore's annual youth football camp in Deerfield. Kaitlin Sharkey caught up with the star wideouts ahead of this week's mandatory minicamp to see their first impressions of new Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson and what to expect in Year 2 with Caleb Williams.
New York Times
16-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Chicago Sky expecting Courtney Vandersloot to help growth of Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Courtney Vandersloot wanted a seat. She had just finished a long practice (more than two hours) and then followed that up with a 3-point shooting drill. If she was going to talk, she wanted to rest her legs. She's 36 years old and a little sleep-deprived these days, given she and her wife, Allie Quigley, have a month-old daughter. Advertisement Vandersloot will need to find moments to get a break this season as she embarks on a return tour with the team that drafted her third in 2011. The Chicago Sky need her more than ever as they try to develop their two young post players, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. When Vandersloot, the franchise leader in games, assists and steals, first got here, Sylvia Fowles was the star. Next came Elena Delle Donne. After that, it was a late-career Candace Parker, with whom she won a WNBA title in 2021. Now the Sky are counting on Reese and Cardoso to power this team into the next phase of the WNBA, a league that is finally ready for its national close-up. (With that in mind, the Sky announced a deal with Covergirl to be the team's official cosmetics sponsor Thursday.) Reese exploded on the scene last season, grabbing headlines and rebounds, setting records and starting arguments seemingly every week. Cardoso, after an early injury, showed why the Sky picked her No. 3. But it was clear what they were missing: a point guard, someone to help guide them on the court. (They also have a new coach in Tyler Marsh.) Now, they have Vandersloot, who has the second-most assists in league history (2,849, fewer than 400 behind Sue Bird) and who has been named first- or second-team All-WNBA five times. One of the main reasons Vandersloot returned to the Sky after winning a title last year with the superteam New York Liberty is that she and Quigley were starting a family. They had a house in Deerfield and Quigley's family in the south suburbs. 'We've been dreaming about this for so long,' Vandersloot said. 'This has always been in the plans, but it was just about finding the time. We are so happy. Over the moon. There's no better feeling.' Vandersloot and Quigley played together in Chicago for a decade, along with their overseas career, so this is a change for Vandersloot, having her teammate at home and not on the court. Quigley, who hasn't played since 2022, is home taking care of their baby while Vandersloot plies her trade. Does Quigley miss it? 'Of course she misses it,' Vandersloot said. 'She's the biggest basketball junkie I know.' Though their daughter, Jana, is growing every day — 'She grew out of a couple outfits and I'm just like heartbroken by it' — Vandersloot's day job is helping those two other young women develop. 'I think all bigs need a point guard, you know,' she said with a laugh. 'I was excited about the opportunity. … That's like a point guard's dream. It hasn't been that clean yet, it's gonna take some time, but yes, that played a big part in it, too. I just saw the potential.' Advertisement What does she see in this duo? 'You know, I love playing with a really good rolling post player with good hands, which is Kamilla. And then Angel brings her own sense of dominance in terms of rebounding, and she's a great screener. She's a good distributor. So, yeah, we're trying to figure it out, but it was an exciting thing for me.' I asked her her thoughts on Reese's nascent offensive game. We know she can rebound, but she needs to be shooting better than 39.1 percent from the field. That ticked up to 47 percent in the Unrivaled season and should go up from there. 'I think she has to find her niche, especially with another post player (in Cardoso),' Vandersloot said. 'I think the paint was kind of always hers, and now we have someone else that could dominate in the paint, too. So we're finding ways for them to play off each other. But I think having her on the perimeter is going to be really good for her career. I think she handles the ball really well, which I didn't know before I came here. She can pass it very well. So she has a lot of other skill sets other than just rebounding and layups. And I think we've got to tap into that.' Reese's popularity was both a boon and a burden last year. There was attention for everything she did, good and bad. She's got NBA-level endorsements and a fan base that transcends basketball. It certainly helped that her rivalry with Caitlin Clark has carried over from college. The Sky's season opener Saturday afternoon at the Indiana Fever is sure to set WNBA TV records. It's airing on ABC. 'It's a fun time,' said Vandersloot, who played with stars such as Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones for her two seasons in New York. 'I think that for so many years we've been begging to have people follow us because we felt like we always had a great product. But it was so hard to get the fans to follow players from college to the league. Now I think they're doing that. We have a bunch of young, talented superstars, and their fans are coming with them, and it's really blowing up the league. I think the WNBA is in a really good place, and you know it's going to only continue to get better.' Advertisement The Sky-Fever rivalry was intense on the floor, as it should be, but the online toxicity between Reese and Clark fans, and the media that debated it, was borderline uncomfortable. Were those reactions just a natural result of a league growing in mainstream popularity? 'Yeah, that's what I thought,' Vandersloot said. 'It was just natural that when you have more eyes on (the league), you have more opinions, you have more people online talking about it and it just kind of comes with the territory. I think we have to be, I don't want to say accepting, but (accepting) in a healthy way. The bad part of it, absolutely not. But a little bit of criticism or whatever, it comes with the territory and we have to be OK with it. The NBA guys, there are whole TV shows dedicated to just talking crap about them and they have to be OK with it. The more people are talking about (the WNBA), the better for us.' Courtney Vandersloot to Angel Reese is gonna be a big time assist connection this season — WNBA Clips & Highlights (@WNBAPlayerWatch) May 7, 2025 Three years ago around this time, I talked to Vandersloot about her post-playing ambitions and whether she wanted to try coaching in the NBA, as some of her peers had started to do. 'No, I don't think so,' she said then. 'That's not something I'm interested in. I would more be interested in maybe a front office, GM-type position. But eventually, I would always end up back in the WNBA.' I wondered whether coming back to the Sky was part of that goal of making the WNBA better from within. 'The Chicago Sky is so important to me, and I just always want them to be in a really good place, making sure that they're on the right path to championships,' she said. 'And I think that we kind of took this team, this franchise, that was always lower in the pack and we just built it over time. … Allie and I really committed to making this a place that players want to play. And so for me, that was a big reason I wanted to come back. I want this always to be a destination for players just because it's so important to me.' The Sky are building a new practice facility, but they still practice in a suburban recreation center for now. Things are changing, though. The team is getting more sponsors and selling more tickets. Reese brought her college spotlight with her, and so will rookie guard Hailey Van Lith. Advertisement Family and opportunity brought Vandersloot back to Chicago, but she's not done playing just yet. Winning is on her mind. 'I think we should be a playoff team,' she said. 'We should be competitive in this league. We have a lot of great vets surrounded by youth. We've got a lot of good weapons. We've got to put it together, but we should have high expectations for ourselves because no one is going to expect anything from us.' (Top photo of Courtney Vandersloot from 2022: Kamil Krzaczynski / USA Today)
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Mandatory school gun safety training course clears House panel
Four-term state Rep. Terry Roy, R-Deerfield, who is a retired police officer, said a mandatory one-hour annual firearms safety training course for all K-12 public school students would help the state respond to dangerous permissive videos youths see about guns on social media. 'Go on TikTok or YouTube and the gun glorification culture our young people are being exposed to is awful,' said Roy, who chairs the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. 'What is the countermeasure to that? We need to meet children where they are and that's at school.' Critics maintain some studies have concluded the courses from the National Rifle Association and other advocacy groups don't make children any more prepared to deal with guns in a real-life scenario, such as a school shooting. 'Let's call this bill what it is; an attempted jobs bill for gun lobbyists and firearm dealers,' said Zandra Rice Hawkins, a leader in Common Sense New Hampshire, a left-of-center group that supports gun-control legislation. Sen. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, said it's the height of hypocrisy for a leader in the Republican-led Legislature to champion a gun-safety course for children when lawmakers have rejected countless proposals for adults, such as firearm waiting periods, closing background check loopholes and 'red flag' laws that allow a judge to seize the weapons of someone judged as a danger to himself or others. 'The content of this program I find personally offensive. This Legislature has refused to take any action on firearm protection. We have done nothing to increase safety in this state when it comes to firearm violence,' Altschiller said. 'Normalizing firearms in kindergarten inside the school when we do nothing to promote safety outside the school is inappropriate and outrageous.' Roy's committee voted 9-6 to attach the amendment to a popular Senate-passed bill that would raise the penalty for those accused of drunk or drugged driving who refuse to take a blood alcohol content (BAC) test along the roadside (SB 54). Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn has said this is the most important in a package of bills his team is promoting to deal with a rise in those engaging in hyper-speed, distracted and impaired driving on state highways. Roy also tweaked the refusal to consent bill to enhance an incentive for motorists who agree to take the BAC test after they're pulled over. His changes would allow someone who gets drug counseling to ask a judge to reduce the license suspension period by nine months. Drivers who have BAC analyzed under Roy's plan could also seek a 'Cinderella' license while under suspension. This would permit them to drive from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as long as they agree to install an ignition interlock device that won't allow the car to start if the driver is impaired. 'These alterations would add more of a carrot while still retaining the stick of longer suspension and loss of license for those who refuse to consent,' Roy said. On the firearm training course, leaders of the pro-gun control Moms Demand Action turned out to oppose Roy's idea. One of them was Gabrielle Rothstein, a student at the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill who dealt with shooting threats at Portsmouth High School. 'I have lived through the fear which this bill ignores,' Rothstein said. 'The root of gun violence in schools isn't a lack of knowledge; it is the choice to provide harm.' The bill makes a reference to Eddie Eagle GunSafe, the NRA course started in 1998 that has been taught to 30 million children. 'This is the number one priority of the NRA this legislative session,' said Justin Davis, state director of the NRA. 'It is critical for gun safety for the state of New Hampshire.' Roy said it's only an example and the bill expressly directs the state departments of Education and Safety to come up with a curriculum by next Jan. 1 to be introduced in the 2026-27 school year. State educators must provide materials for the courses at no cost to the local school districts. The proposal requires all study be 'age appropriate.' Live firearms and ammunition are not permitted on school grounds for the courses, but they would permit 'dummy firearms' or 'multimedia resources.' All schools must offer the course, but any parent could opt out of having their child be involved. Rep. Heather Raymond, D-Nashua, dealt with this controversy as an eight-year member of the Nashua Board of Education when the junior ROTC program wanted to start an air rifle competition team. The board held three public hearings, took more than 10 hours of testimony and came up with an off-site program that was opt-in, meaning a parent had to volunteer to have their child take part or they could not. 'Since this started in 2019, we have not heard another word about it,' Raymond said. 'Nothing prohibits any school district to offer a gun safety course, I get an email from NRA every month offering this training. I would really encourage you making this an opt-in program given the sensitivity about this topic.' What's Next: The bill comes to the full House and is likely to pass given support for gun rights among its rank-and-file members. Prospects: Roy has tacked this onto a bill Senate GOP leaders consider a must pass and it will be up to them to decide whether to accept this marriage or seek a conference committee to try and settle their differences. klandrigan@
Associated Press
09-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Walgreens Committed to Supporting Rite Aid Customers and Employees
DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2025-- In light of Rite Aid's recent bankruptcy filing, Walgreens is committed to assisting Rite Aid customers and employees who are impacted by store closures in their local community. For customers who want to transfer their prescriptions to Walgreens: We recognize the trust patients have placed in their Rite Aid pharmacists, and Walgreens is here to continue that care with compassion and consistency. Walgreens is dedicated to meeting patients' needs for continued access to trusted, high-quality pharmacy and health services in communities across the country. This includes those who may be impacted by Rite Aid store closures or other changes to their local pharmacy's operations. 'Pharmacists are deeply embedded in their neighborhoods, and I know how difficult it can be for patients to lose access to their community pharmacy and the pharmacists they interact with regularly,' said Rick Gates, chief pharmacy officer, Walgreens. 'Our Walgreens pharmacy teams are here to make it easy for patients who are affected by these changes, whether that's by helping quickly transfer a prescription, answering questions about a medication, or providing health services like vaccines and testing.' With some Rite Aid store closures expected to begin in the coming weeks, Walgreens encourages patients to transfer their prescriptions as soon as possible to avoid care interruptions. By visiting customers can easily find their nearest Walgreens location and transfer their prescriptions securely. Patients can also call 1-833-961-1642 if they need further assistance in transferring scripts. For employees interested in open positions at Walgreens: In response to the nationwide shortage of pharmacists, Walgreens is actively working to attract and hire skilled professionals. Rite Aid employees who are impacted by this news are encouraged to explore Walgreens opportunities near them and to visit to learn more. There is also a dedicated phone line (833-Join-Wag) and email inbox ( [email protected] ) for Rite Aid employees to leverage. We value the time that employees have invested at Rite Aid and intend to recognize Rite Aid service for eligible individuals joining our team. In the coming weeks, Walgreens will also host virtual informational sessions for pharmacists, pharmacy interns, pharmacy managers and pharmacy technicians. 'As a pharmacist myself with more than 30 years into a fulfilling career at Walgreens, I know firsthand how powerful it is when you are empowered to work to the top of your education, supported by a strong team that's focused on patient care,' said Gates. 'At Walgreens, that's what we're about, giving our team members a chance to grow, both personally and professionally.' Walgreens has several programs designed to help team members grow in their careers, including opportunities to expand clinical skills and transition into pharmacy, specialty pharmacy and corporate roles. Walgreens also employs innovative technology like micro-fulfillment centers to give pharmacy teams more time with patients. Dedicated investments in team members through programs like PharmStart, Pharmacy Educational Assistance Program tuition assistance and Student Loan 401(k) Match ensures employees can build their future while serving their community. About Walgreens Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities. Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients' care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions. Media Resources B-roll and photos are available for download on the Walgreens media resources hub. View source version on CONTACT: Media Contact Carly Kaplan [email protected] KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA ILLINOIS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: RETAIL HEALTH OTHER RETAIL OTHER HEALTH SPECIALTY PHARMACEUTICAL SOURCE: Walgreens Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 05/09/2025 06:46 PM/DISC: 05/09/2025 06:46 PM
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Walgreens Committed to Supporting Rite Aid Customers and Employees
Walgreens is offering recruitment events for employees and no-hassle prescription transfers for customers impacted by Rite Aid transitions DEERFIELD, Ill., May 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In light of Rite Aid's recent bankruptcy filing, Walgreens is committed to assisting Rite Aid customers and employees who are impacted by store closures in their local community. For customers who want to transfer their prescriptions to Walgreens: We recognize the trust patients have placed in their Rite Aid pharmacists, and Walgreens is here to continue that care with compassion and consistency. Walgreens is dedicated to meeting patients' needs for continued access to trusted, high-quality pharmacy and health services in communities across the country. This includes those who may be impacted by Rite Aid store closures or other changes to their local pharmacy's operations. "Pharmacists are deeply embedded in their neighborhoods, and I know how difficult it can be for patients to lose access to their community pharmacy and the pharmacists they interact with regularly," said Rick Gates, chief pharmacy officer, Walgreens. "Our Walgreens pharmacy teams are here to make it easy for patients who are affected by these changes, whether that's by helping quickly transfer a prescription, answering questions about a medication, or providing health services like vaccines and testing." With some Rite Aid store closures expected to begin in the coming weeks, Walgreens encourages patients to transfer their prescriptions as soon as possible to avoid care interruptions. By visiting customers can easily find their nearest Walgreens location and transfer their prescriptions securely. Patients can also call 1-833-961-1642 if they need further assistance in transferring scripts. For employees interested in open positions at Walgreens: In response to the nationwide shortage of pharmacists, Walgreens is actively working to attract and hire skilled professionals. Rite Aid employees who are impacted by this news are encouraged to explore Walgreens opportunities near them and to visit to learn more. There is also a dedicated phone line (833-Join-Wag) and email inbox (JoinOurStores@ for Rite Aid employees to leverage. We value the time that employees have invested at Rite Aid and intend to recognize Rite Aid service for eligible individuals joining our team. In the coming weeks, Walgreens will also host virtual informational sessions for pharmacists, pharmacy interns, pharmacy managers and pharmacy technicians. "As a pharmacist myself with more than 30 years into a fulfilling career at Walgreens, I know firsthand how powerful it is when you are empowered to work to the top of your education, supported by a strong team that's focused on patient care," said Gates. "At Walgreens, that's what we're about, giving our team members a chance to grow, both personally and professionally." Walgreens has several programs designed to help team members grow in their careers, including opportunities to expand clinical skills and transition into pharmacy, specialty pharmacy and corporate roles. Walgreens also employs innovative technology like micro-fulfillment centers to give pharmacy teams more time with patients. Dedicated investments in team members through programs like PharmStart, Pharmacy Educational Assistance Program tuition assistance and Student Loan 401(k) Match ensures employees can build their future while serving their community. About Walgreens Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities. Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients' care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions. Media Resources B-roll and photos are available for download on the Walgreens media resources hub. View source version on Contacts Media Contact Carly Kaplanmedia@ Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
