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New York Post
25-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Samford-Mercer college baseball game descends into chaos with mom ejected, team pulled after home run
Who needs Yankees-Red Sox when you've got Samford vs. Mercer? Fireworks erupted Saturday during a Southern Conference tournament game between the two schools after Samford's Michael Gupton hit a two-run homer to give the Bulldogs a 5-1 lead in the sixth inning. As he showboated his way around the bases, Gupton could be seen yelling at Mercer shortstop Bradley Frye and the Mercer dugout as Gupton made his way from third to home. 3 Michael Gupton reacts after hitting a home run during Samford's game against Mercer. Screengrab via X/@11point7 Gupton continued to celebrate, which angered Frye and the rest of the Mercer team. Frye attempted to follow Gupton before the umpires stopped him. That led to Mercer's coaching staff arguing with the umpire crew, and Mercer began taking players off the field to protest Gupton's actions. Southeast Conference commissioner Michael Cross eventually talked to the umpires on the field, and Gupton and Frye were both tossed from the game. 3 Michael Gupton celebrates after hitting a home run during Samford's game against Mercer. Screengrab via X/@11point7 Mercer pitching coach Tanner Gordon and Samford assistant coach Gil Walker were also ejected. The penalties extended to the stands, as Frye's mother was also ejected from the stadium after she made her way onto the top of the dugout when her son was tossed. All of it led to a delay in the game of almost 25 minutes before play resumed. 3 Mercer's game against Samford turned chaotic after a home run. Screengrab via X/@11point7 Later, Mercer third baseman Brant Baughcum was tossed after he shoved a Samford player who was thrown out in a rundown. Samford went on to win, 5-1, to advance to the championship game against East Tennessee State.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Mercer walk off field and player's mother ejected after home-run taunt
Mercer were so incensed by an opposing player's home run celebration that they walked off the field during their Southern Conference tournament defeat on Saturday. After he smoked a homer to give Samford a 5-1 lead they would not relinquish, Michael Gupton leapt and skipped while rounding the bases, breaking with the baseball custom in which players usually keep their celebrations in check immediately after hitting a home run. He also appeared to yell at Mercer shortstop Bradley Frye and the opposing dugout. The Mercer coaches voiced their displeasure with the umpires while Frye had to be held back as he approached Gupton. Advertisement Mercer started to leave the field, while Frye, Gupton and two coaches were ejected. Frye's mother then jumped on the dugout roof and was told to leave the stadium. The game was paused for nearly 30 minutes during the disturbance and Southern Conference commissioner Michael Cross was forced to enter the field to attempt to calm matters down. Samford's victory means they will play East Tennessee State for the Southern Conference championship on Sunday.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
As a teen, Soleil Moon Frye's breast reduction made magazine covers. It taught the former 'Punky Brewster' star that 'people want you to stay little forever.'
Soleil Moon Frye has been in the public eye since she was a mismatched-shoed little girl on TV's Punky Brewster in the '80s. At 48, she feels like she's finally coming into her own. 'When we're really young, we have so much of that spark of who we want to be, of what we want to do and then, as life transpires, oftentimes we go on these different roads,' Frye tells Yahoo Life for our Unapologetically series. 'I personally feel like so much of the journey in my life — and this moment — has been guiding me back to who I really am and who I always was. Yet it took the path less traveled to get there.' Frye's path as of late has led her to documentary filmmaking. She helmed Paramount+'s two-part docuseries The Carters: Hurts to Love You, an exploration of how fame, mental illness and addiction led to singer Aaron Carter's death in 2022, told from the perspective of his twin sister, Angel Carter Conrad. Before that, Frye exposed her own experience growing up in Hollywood and losing friends to addiction and suicide in Kid 90, which was released by Hulu in 2021. She's currently completing a documentary about singer Shifty Shellshock, a childhood friend and ex-boyfriend who died from an accidental drug overdose in 2024. The projects come amid a larger period of self-discovery for Frye. She and her husband of more than 20 years, Jason Goldberg, who share four children, divorced in 2022. After their split, Frye reconnected with Crazy Town frontman Shellshock (real name: Seth Binzer), whom she had known as a teen. They went on to date, but ended their relationship prior to his death. 'It's been such a journey getting to this moment in time, and there's been so much love, faith, pain, grief,' she says. 'So many experiences of peeling back the onion.' Frye tells me about some of those layers — from growing up in a world that felt way too comfortable having discussions about her teenage body, to coming into her own as a filmmaker. I'm so thankful to be doing what I love each and every day. It makes me emotional because I love, love, love sharing stories … and to share stories that help create meaningful conversations is truly a dream. [Plus, there's been my own] self-discovery — through Kid 90 and [my old] diaries and what that brought up for me, the documentary [Werewolf and the Waves] I'm working on about [Shellshock] and The Carters, [which] led me into deeper empathy and compassion around looking at addiction as a disease. Every step has led me to right here, right now and I'm really thankful for it. It's been a beautiful, heart-wrenching journey to get here. In my 20s and 30s, there was a lot of wanting to make other people proud. … I cared what other people thought. … [My 40s have] been that process of unlearning and going: I have to do this because I love it and it feeds my soul. For a long time, I cared about what other people thought. I was really fortunate to have an incredible foundation at home and amazing family and friends and I look at our journey of growing up and growing up in the business [as] so colorful. There was so much fun and joy within our friendships. Some of my friends have gone on to have these incredible families and really healthy, exquisite lives and some of my friends didn't make it out. Some had struggles with their families and some had absolutely beautiful, stable families. … When you take mental illness and addiction and you combine that with money and fame and all of these other elements, then that can really implode. So many young people globally are struggling in front of their screens, while somebody else is liking, disliking or calling them out. This is a global crisis. I think about what a sensitive, loving, beautiful heart this young man had — and what becomes that breaking point? That certainly made me look at my own life. I remember wanting to please people and that doesn't even have to be something that your parents or the industry puts on you. It's something that you may put on yourself. But when you layer that, it can become explosive. Right? I had gone through this rapid development so early on as a teenager and feeling that objectification, all those layers. I can't even imagine doing it under the microscope of social media. That's what young people are going through — and I don't think we've begun to scratch the surface on what that looks like and what that means. I know. It's wild because I had [a breast] reduction and so much of that was health reasons — my back, all these different things — and then I remember it made it look like I had [other work done]. People were like, 'Oh, you did this and this and this.' No! What?! But I think we've lived so often in this sensationalist society where we love to build people up, and then we love to break them down. It was so surreal, and so crazy. I think so often when you grow up — and this is something that I related to with Aaron — is that when you play a character [like Punky], people want you to stay little forever. It's like they want to remember you as that little girl or boy. Then we grow up. I know for me, I went through such an awkward stage while trying to figure out who I was, who I wanted to be, in such formative years. So, as we were speaking earlier about coming back into myself, it's been such an incredible journey. One of the most incredible things has been that they're like, 'Oh, mom's been on this ride too.' I think that as much as we communicate and share stories about the awkward stages and our bodies, I think so much of it is inside. It's so internal. So you can make changes to your body, but so much of the work is the internal part of it. Something that is most important to me is us having conversations and not brushing things under the rug and looking within to get to the root of our experiences. I live in the bath a lot of the time — and I walk a lot. The last few docs were so intense and I remember there were days when I'd be on Zoom and I'd be like: 'Excuse me' and I'd have to [step away] because of the things that I was seeing or hearing. It was just so emotional. So meditation, walking, those are the things that I that I most lean into — and then my kids' arms. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Soleil Moonfrye (@moonfrye) I feel like I'm graduating from my teens to my 20s. I'm entering my 20s. … I am still such a kid in so many ways. I have this joy for life and discovery and adventure and excitement that feels incredibly youthful — and at the same time, this incredible gratitude and appreciation for the experience. Sometimes I'll look at pictures of when I was in my teens and 20s, and I'm like, Look at that young woman and how beautiful and full of life she is. I really didn't see it at the time. I had so many insecurities. … I cared about what the world thought. I didn't have that level of self-love, so I wasn't really able to appreciate the beauty of what was. So I've really made it a point for myself, in this moment, that I really want to appreciate all the different versions of myself, so that when I'm 80, 90 or 100 years old, looking back, I can be like, Wow, you really were able to feel that moment and appreciate [it]. That's something that I work on on a regular basis. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Local board of elections helped other counties with paper pollbooks
In the lead up to the May 6 special election, many Ohio counties switched back to paper pollbooks, at least temporarily. A number of those counties reached out to the Ashtabula County Board of Elections, which was one of three county boards of elections in Ohio that still use paper pollbooks, along with Sandusky and Noble counties. Board of Elections Deputy Director Charlie Frye said the Ohio Secretary of State's Office told the roughly 55 counties relying on KNOWiNK electronic pollbooks to go back to paper after Perry County discovered issues with them. The KNOWiNK-reliant counties reached out to the Ashtabula County Board of Elections, who 'lend best practice,' Frye said. 'We didn't really micromanage, because every county board of elections is different,' he said. The counties told to switch to paper pollbooks relied on the Ashtabula County Board of Elections' training videos to learn about paper pollbooks and train poll workers, Frye said. Frye does not expect most of the counties to stick with paper pollbooks, he said. 'Its hard to say,' he said. Frye said the Ashtabula County Board of Elections was one of the first counties in the state to adopt electronic pollbooks. 'Our experience with it wasn't really a great experience,' he said. The board decided to transition back to paper after having issues with electronic pollbooks, such as bad updates that caused screens to freeze or go black, he said. 'We were just not happy,' he said. During the 2020 election, the county board of elections' electronic pollbooks had an issue, where 44 voters were not logged in them. 'That was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back for us,' Frye said. The board of elections switched back to paper pollbooks in 2021, he said. 'It just made more sense to go back to paper,' Frye said. The electronic pollbooks the board used were going to be out of date, and it would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to update to a new system, Frye said. The switch back to paper has worked out well for the board. 'We've been fine ever since,' Frye said. Frye has noticed poll workers are more engaged with their work and the electoral process since the board of elections went back to paper pollbooks, he said.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Board of elections approves 26 provisional ballots, rejects six
JEFFERSON — The Ashtabula County Board of Elections approved 26 provisional ballots at a meeting Monday. Board of elections Director John Mead said the counted provisional votes will not affect the results of anything on the ballot. The board also accepted a provisional ballot, pending review by the Ohio Secretary of State's Office. Board of elections Deputy Director Charlie Frye said the voter had a religious objection to using a photo ID. Typically Amish voters object to the use of a photo ID for religious reasons, he said. Frye said the Secretary of State's Office is checking if the voter has a photo ID. 'We anticipate that this is going to be a good voter, however, the secretary of state's office said the earliest they're going to get back with [us] is tomorrow,' he said. The vote will not be counted if the secretary of state's office determines the person has a photo ID, Frye said. Frye said there were 10 absentee ballots from the election that arrived by the Saturday deadline. The board of elections will vote on certifying official election results at its next meeting 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The board voted to reject six provisional ballots. Three were rejected because voters failed to provide a photo ID. Two provisional ballots were rejected because the voters already voted. 'There were two voters that came into our office to vote, and decided to go vote on election day as well,' Frye said. Frye said the two voters were older and likely misremembered voting. 'That's why we train for it,' he said. 'Obviously, if was something nefarious, we would suggest an alternate route.' One was rejected because the voter was not registered in the state. 'This was a voter that came in to vote, who had lived in [Pennsylvania],' Frye said. 'They had moved here, but they didn't have an ID. They just weren't registered here.' Frye said the overall election went well and the poll workers did a good job. 'We had an electric blurb in the southwestern part of the county for about seven [to] eight minutes,' he said. 'The way they explained to me, a transformer breaker that went out had to be reset, and basically it knocked the power out for about 10 minutes.' The board of elections is preparing to host a mock election for county high schoolers at the end of August. Frye said the event will work on recruiting future poll workers and engage students with voting. 'Those aren't long-term solutions, but it's a start,' he said. Five schools are participating in the mock election. The five schools are: Grand Valley, Geneva, Edgewood and Saint John high schools and A-Tech. Mead said GV was a recent addition. 'We're happy to have the one down south, because the rest of them are way up north,' he said. Conneaut, Jefferson and Pymatuning Valley high schools could not participate, Mead said. The board did not hear back from Lakeside High School.
