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USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
AUSL crowns inaugural champion as Talons claim sotball title with late home run
The first-ever Athletes Unlimited Softball League championship goes to the top-seeded Talons. After winning a rain-delayed Game 1 in the AUSL championship series, the Talons completed the two-game sweep of the Bandits on Sunday, July 27 with another delayed victory at Rhoads Softball Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Sydney Romero's solo home run with one out in the top of the sixth inning broke a scoreless tie and provided the winning margin in a 1-0 championship-clinching victory. It was the former Oklahoma star's first homer of the postseason and just her second of the season. The first-ever AUSL Champion: @AUSL_Talons 🏆 The first game in the best-of-three series was postponed a day earlier in the bottom of the sixth inning on Saturday as the Talons led the Bandits 3-1. ` With the skies clear on Sunday morning, the Talons closed out the victory to put themselves on the brink of a title. Romero, Fouts star in Game 2 Game 2 was a classic pitcher's duel between the Talons' Montana Fouts and the Bandits' Taylor McQuillin. They matched zeroes through the first four frames before the rain forced another delay in the top of the fifth inning. Once the skies cleared, Fouts – playing on the same field where she starred collegiately at Alabama – returned to the mound for the Talons. Meanwhile, the Bandits turned to their ace Lexi Kilfoyl, who took the loss in Game 1. With the game still scoreless in the sixth, Romero caught up with a fastball at the top of the strike zone and deposited it over the wall in left field to break the scoreless tie. SYDNEY ROMERO TAKES FLIGHT 🦅Talons have a 1-0 lead in the top of the In the bottom of the seventh, the Bandits' Bubba Nickles-Camarena nearly tied the game with a long drive that hit just a few inches away from clearing the wall in left-center field. But she was erased one batter later on a line drive that was snagged by Talons first baseman Tori Vidalis, who dove back to the bag and beat Nickles-Camarena for the double play. Fouts then struck out Bella Dayton to complete the shutout and the championship-clinching 1-0 victory.
The Herald Scotland
17-07-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Chargers' new uniforms: 3 alternates revealed, old Color Rush retired
A team spokesman told USA TODAY Sports that both Color Rush versions used from 2020 to '24, one navy and the other Royal Blue, were retired in favor of the new alternates. This will mark the first time since 2006, when they were still based in San Diego, that the Chargers will don blue helmets. "We've always considered ourselves to be leaders in the uniform space," said team president of business operations A.G. Spanos said in a statement. "We take pride in the fact that the Chargers are widely considered to have the best uniforms in the NFL; some even argue in all of sports. One of the main reasons for that is our continued push to evolve, authentically, with every opportunity." (No argument there.) Shop new LA Chargers NFL jerseys just hits, no misses — Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) July 15, 2025 Since changing their uniforms in 2007, the Chargers have exclusively worn white helmets, albeit different variations depending on whether or not jersey numbers were included and/or the color of the lightning bolt. Prior to 2007, the Bolts mostly featured what is now called the "Super Chargers" uniform - the team dubbed it as a "modern throwback" - a design that had succeeded the Air Coryell version, which featured Royal Blue, in 1988. Led by Seau, the team made its lone Super Bowl appearance in the predominantly navy look to cap the 1994 season. Tomlinson scored a single-season NFL record 31 touchdowns in it in 2006, when he was also named the league's MVP. And yet since joining the NFL in 1970, the Chargers' best run arguably occurred under Hall of Fame coach Don Coryell and quarterback Dan Fouts, who led the team to four consecutive playoff berths from 1979 to '82, losing the AFC championship game twice during that stretch - including the notorious "Freezer Bowl" in Cincinnati, when a minus-59 degree wind chill grounded an offense which ranked No. 1 overall five times between the 1980 and '85 campaigns. RANKING NFL UNIFORMS WORST TO BEST: Who looks good? Who doesn't? Where do Chargers, Bucs check in after new reveals? Those teams helped revolutionize the passing game in the NFL, Fouts throwing for 4,802 yards in 1981, a record at the time. "It was wonderful. It really was," Fouts said via a team news release Tuesday. "As a quarterback, one of the great, unique things you can do is quiet your own crowd. I had to do that so often so the team could hear my signals at the line of scrimmage. Charger Power was real, it wasn't just a slogan on a T-shirt. That stadium was absolutely alive every time we took the field. We had to calm everyone down, they were so excited." While the team hasn't reproduced uniforms like the ones Fouts and his teammates wore - think Kellen Winslow, Charlie Joiner, John Jefferson, Wes Chandler and Chuck Muncie, among others - the club said of the new "Charger Power" look: "While the all-gold 'Charger Power' uniforms are the first of their kind to be worn by the Bolts, they manage to still evoke a sense of familiarity and capture the energy of a revolutionary chapter in Chargers football." The organization has never worn the NFL crown, blown out 49-26 by the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 29. However, prior to the merger in 1970, the Bolts did win the AFL title in 1963. the best got better. again. — Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) July 15, 2025 The "Charger Power" uniforms will be initially worn for Legends Weekend against the Indianapolis Colts on Oct. 19. The "Super Chargers" navy throwbacks will debut four days later against the Minnesota Vikings on "Thursday Night Football," when former Bolts safety Rodney Harrison will be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame. Since updating their current uniforms, which coincided with the club's move into SoFi Stadium in 2020, the Chargers have worn six different uniform combinations, including the new-defunct Color Rush options. They were 0-6 in those navy alternates, which featured dark pants, jerseys and lightning bolts on the white helmet. Spanos said the new powder blue pants cater to a request from fans. "Pretty soon after our 2020 uniform launch we began getting the question, 'Why don't you have powder blue pants?' We heard it from fans and players alike," he said. "Everyone wanted what we knew was probably a missing look, but rules only allowed for so many pant options and we were at our limit. We knew this time around we needed to be creative in how we could incorporate them into our uniform kit, and we're excited to bring even more versatility to our primary look for 2025 and beyond." All NFL news on and off the field. Sign up for USA TODAY's 4th and Monday newsletter.
Newsweek
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Dog 'Literally Cries' While Begging for Treat—and There's a Good Reason
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Internet viewers have been awed by a dog "manipulating" his owners into giving him a treat as he cried real tears while begging. Bruno the boxer dog is 6 years old, and has been with his owner, Hannah Fouts, 26, since he was 5 months old, when she rescued him and they became "inseparable." "He has gone to college with me, moved to a new state with me, and everything in between," Fouts, originally from Pennsylvania but now living in North Carolina, told Newsweek. Having such a close bond with her dog would already make it difficult for Fouts to say no to him—but he has a special quirk that makes it practically impossible not to give him what he wants. That quirk? Bruno cries when he is begging for food. "His hobbies include staring into your soul when you open the fridge; giving side-eye that deserves its own Oscar; and, of course, his excellent tear performance," Fouts said. And this performance has gone viral, after Fouts shared a clip to her TikTok account @bruntheboxer on July 2 showing Bruno begging for a slice of banana—with tears leaking from his eyes. In the video, viewed more than 11.5 million times, a man eats a banana while Bruno stands beside him, giving puppy-dog eyes. And as he licks his lips and stares at the treat, tears come rolling down his cheeks—until, finally, Bruno is given a piece of banana. From left: Bruno watches the banana held by a man, with tears rolling down the dog's cheeks. From left: Bruno watches the banana held by a man, with tears rolling down the dog's cheeks. TikTok @bruntheboxer "How are we supposed to say no when he literally cries," Fouts wrote over the video, adding in the caption: "He was gonna get a piece either way but the tears really sold it." TikTok users had a huge reaction to the clip, liking it more than 2.3 million times, as one described it as the "manipulation final boss." "I've never seen a dog actually cry … he'd get his way every time with me," another posted, as a third commented: "I didn't know dogs could do that omg [oh my God]." Many concerned commenters urged Fouts to take Bruno to the vet; one wrote, "it's a result of an eye infection or something else," and another added: "He has an eye infection. Dogs do not cry." And as Fouts told Newsweek, Bruno's heart-renching tears are, in fact, the result of an unusual condition, having been diagnosed with Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), also known as dry eye. KCS causes decreased tear production in dogs. Tears are needed for lubrication, comfort and health of a dog's eyes, and symptoms of KCS can range from redness and swelling to vision impairment and blindness, according to a vet-reviewed report from PetMD. Fouts tried every medication available, but when nothing worked, Bruno underwent a surgery that rerouted part of his saliva gland into his eyes, "to work as a natural substitute for tears to keep the eyes moist." From left: Bruno the boxer dog stands outside; and chews toy. From left: Bruno the boxer dog stands outside; and chews toy. TikTok @bruntheboxer The surgery worked, but it came with an interesting side effect: "When he smells food, his saliva glands start working really well, causing him to produce a lot of saliva and 'cry' tears," Fouts said. This is an expected side effect of the surgery, but, in Bruno's case, things got even stranger—if he gets excited or hungry, he would produce so much saliva in his eyes that he would temporarily lose his sight. "After he settles down, he gets his vision back, but he has run into a fair amount of walls and accidentally walked into many pools," Fouts said. She added that he "belongs in the vet textbooks" because it appears this side effect is uniquely Bruno's. As Fouts put it: "Long story short, he took puppy eyes to a whole other level!" Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend, and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘On our doorstep:' Coweta County passes 180-day moratorium on data center proposals after 2 approved
The Coweta County Commission voted to impose a moratorium on proposals for building new data centers until Nov. 3. The decision came Tuesday, just weeks after commissioners voted to approve a data center project. During an executive session, commissioners expressed concerns with data center development and the county's lack of specific and detailed guidelines for the proposals. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] 'I believe we need the ordinance to protect us as a county, protect our citizens and I also believe that we need to pass a moratorium on rezonings for data centers,' said Comm. Bill McKenzie during the executive session. 'I'm not against data centers, in the least, but I think they need to be in the right place, and that being in our industrial areas and uh that's just the way I feel.' During discussion of a moratorium, commissioners asked the county attorney and the attorney for the Coweta County Development Authority about how a moratorium would impact the two projects already approved for development, which are Project Sail and Project Peach. TRENDING STORIES: Overtime budget for Fulton Co. jailers approved, sheriff says some claims 'inaccurate, political' North Georgia paramedic accused of installing camera in ambulance office restroom GA man sues NFL over Shedeur Sanders' drop to 5th round in NFL Draft 'I don't disagree that we're being inundated with these data centers and we don't have our ducks in a row,' Comm. John Reidelbach said. 'Can we still put a moratorium in place and make them wait to get this ordinance in place?' Channel 2 Action News covered the $17 billion Project Sail's development proposal back in January when it first began to apply for approval. Project Peach was approved, with more than two dozen conditions, on April 16. At that commission meeting, Channel 2's Eryn Rogers heard from Palmetto residents who are pushing back strongly against the new development. 'We just approved one here a couple of weeks ago, and we put in 27 conditions, am I correct Mr. Fouts?' Reidelbach asked the county attorney, Michael Fouts. Fouts confirmed there were numerous conditions for approval for Project Peach. To better serve their constituents and set proper guidelines for the data center development process, commissioners voted to have a 180 day pause on new proposals, which would last until Nov. 3. During the moratorium, county staff would have the opportunity to set 'minimum standards and the other things [that] will come into a zoning condition,' according to Fouts. Commissioner Jeff Fisher said he agreed with the comments of his board colleagues but wanted to have a more detailed discussion with staff. 'I know what it's going for, but we have two and we have to address what is on our doorstep today,' Fisher said. Commissioners chose to have a vote on the moratorium at the public board meeting later on Tuesday evening, eventually passing it unanimously. The moratorium will run for 180 days, but if an ordinance is drafted that handles the guidelines they feel necessary, and it passes a commission vote before Nov. 3, the moratorium could be lifted early. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
