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American Press
15-05-2025
- Sport
- American Press
Demons' late run haunts McNeese
Grant Mangum is greeted at home by Bryce Fontenot (left) and Conner Schneider after his second-inning homer Thursday in Hammond. (Matthew Bonnette/McNeese Athletics) Samuel Stevenson's two-run single in the bottom of the ninth lifted Northwestern State to a walk-off victory over the Cowboys to open play in the Southland Conference postseason. Stevenson hit a 3-2 pitch to the left-center gap between a pair of McNeese State outfielders to sink the Cowboys 7-6 at Alumni Field in Hammond, Thursday afternoon.. The win puts the fourth-seeded Demons (34-19) on the winners' side of the Hammond Bracket, where they will take on the victor of Thursday's late game between top-seeded Southeastern and No. 8 New Orleans. McNeese (32-16) will face the loser at 1 p.m. Friday, with its season on the line. During the regular season, the Cowboys swept UNO and took two of three from Southeastern in Hammond. 'A tough one,' McNeese head coach Justin Hill said. 'We have to move on. We can be upset for a moment, but after we eat dinner, we have work to do.' The Cowboys, who entered the tournament as the fifth seed, had a history of playing well in Hammond. They were 7-2 all-time in tourney games at Alumni Field, winning it all in 2022 and making it to the championship game last season in a surprising run. They were looking for more this year and led 6-5 entering the ninth on the arm of starter Sergio Lopez, who had gone the first eight innings. Lopez allowed five runs, four earned, on eight hits during his afternoon. He had not walked a batter and struck out seven. With the game on the line, Hill turned to All-Conference lefty Alexis Gravel, who had not pitched in three weeks due to an injury. 'It was a gut feeling,' said Hill. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, that move didn't work out. Gravel gave up a single to pinch-hitter Bryce Johnson and then hit Hudson Brignac, the No. 9 Demon hitter. Gravel was replaced by Eric Nachtsheim, who allowed a bloop single to Reese Lipoma to load the bases for Stevenson with nobody out. 'I thought Sergio was really good,' said Hil. 'He deserved to win that ballgame. I hate it for him.' McNeese finished with 10 hits but left six runners on base. 'We had some good moments,' said Hill. 'We also left some runs out there.' Gravel took the loss, falling to 4-3. Dylan Marionneaux (4-4) picked up the win in relief, allowing just one run on five hits while going the final four innings. Catcher Grant Mangrum had a big day to lead the McNeese offense. The junior drove in four runs on a pair of hits, including blasting his second home run of the season, a two-run shot to start the scoring in the second. His two-run single in the sixth was part of the Cowboys' three-run game-winning rally that gave them the lead for good at 6-4. Clay Jung hit a solo home run in the eighth to cut the lead to 6-5. It was his seventh of the season and just over the glove of a leaping Conner Westenburg in right-center field. Lopez's only other mistake was in the fifth when Rocco Gump hit a wind-blown homer to left, his eighth. It was a two-run shot that gave the Demons a 4-3 lead. Now the Cowboys hope they can reboot some of that Hammond magic from the past, or their season will be over.
Time of India
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Wind Breaker Anime is bringing the Roppo Ichiza Arc next; Here are the details
Wind breaker Roppo Ichiza Arc With the end of an emotional sixth episode, Wind Breaker anime is all set to introduce the latest enemies of Bofurin High in the seventh episode. This time, the war is going to bring two new groups into the scene - Roppo Ichiza and Gravel. And the story moving ahead is going to be one full of action and stuff that the Wind Breaker fans have been craving for from the last two to three episodes. Without any further ado, let's have a look at the details of the Roppo Ichiza arc and see the direction in which the story is going to unfold. Wind Breaker Season 2 debuts Roppo Ichiza Arc The arc revolves around the Roppo Ichiza group, who are the protectors of the Keisei Street , which is popular for its nightlife. The group is being led by Kanji Nakamura along with Akihito Miyoshi, Shogo Hidaka, and Ritsu Otowa. They make sure that the district is safe from all the threats actively roaming around. Now, the peace and harmony are broken when Gravel gang comes into the scene. The group, led by Shuhei Suzuri, is a fan of aggressive actions and takes them in the blink of an eye. This raises a lot of eyebrows in Roppo Ichiza, and in order to maintain peace and sustain a war against Gravel, they need someone to support them. At this point, the upper heads in Roppo Ichiza connect with Bofurin to form an alliance and deal with the threat. And then it is a full-fledged war against Gravel with two of the protectors in alliance. Anything beyond this point is going to be a spoiler, which we will avoid giving at this time for those who are not following up with the manga and are only really on the anime. On a concluding note, the anime moving forward is going to be an action-packed affair for sure. Also Read: Lord of the mysteries anime release date, time, and more Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . And don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
The Guardian
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Poem of the week: Gravel by Maurice Riordan
For Frank I, too, will spend an hour playing with the gravel. Sorting and cleaning it. It does love the dirt. Dead leaves, grit, seeds that can sprout. And it hides the odd slug or worm. We can't be having that! Some of these stones have come a great distance. I can no longer tell which are from Uist or Orkney. And there's one that came from a mountain in Sarawak. Could it be this basalt with the twinkle of schist? A shame. It's somehow joined the rabble tipped here one morning from the Travis Perkins lorry. I'm acting the snob! Each and every anonymous stone has its captive soul, its own fixed little being. And stones are time travellers. They start out in lake or esker, or on the seafloor having housed small creatures. The very tips of the Himalayas are limestone. All these mute souls, who can tell their journeys… How can I be their god! I'm too bald to be a saviour. Though for an hour we'll sift them through our hands. Each one – like the last poems of Celan – born dark. Each one condemned for the duration of the earth. Maurice Riordan's genial, intimate tone in Gravel registers at once in the first-name-only dedication and an unqualified agreement with the dedicatee that 'I, too, will spend an hour playing with the gravel. / Sorting and cleaning it.' Although the thought of the poem will extend vastly beyond the tactile, that sensation comes first to hand, easily shared and imagined. No figurative elaboration attends it: the verbs do the work ('playing with', '[s]orting', 'cleaning') and the full-stops pace the absorbed, leisurely processes. At this stage we don't know how seriously the poem will take itself – a pleasure often to be found in Riordan's work. There's a withdrawal into irony, a focus on the gravel's attraction to 'dirt' and a self-mocking, undertone regarding 'the odd slug or worm: / 'We can't be having that!' The suggestion that the stones deserve a little respect in view of the 'great distance' some have covered, is somehow lit by a lingering wry smile. Interestingly, while the poem expands and intensifies in the subsequent verses, the persona continues interlacing it with moments of ironical self-perception. Now he admits to being unable to 'tell' any longer from which countries individual stones originate – countries which range from the Outer Hebrides to Malaysia. Sign up to Bookmarks Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you after newsletter promotion The possible stone from Sarawak ('this basalt with the twinkle of schist?') has 'somehow joined the rabble', the heap of gravel provided by a commercial producer, Travis Perkins. Might the unsorted stones suggest the displacement and eventual effacement of human individuality through the effects of migration? Again, there's a self-scolding. The next verse suggests attention to hierarchies might be the issue: 'I'm acting the snob!' But then, in an untroubled shift to a more serious, passionate register, the poet declares that '[e]ach and every anonymous stone / has its captive soul, its own fixed little being.' No analogy and no apology are needed: the reader is entrusted with the concept of 'soul', and we in turn trust the poet to wield the concept, and the necessity of such concepts, without any ironical sneer or diminution of scientific fact. The facts are indeed integral to the vision of the stones as 'time travellers'. Their migration is plainly and perfectly described in the concluding lines of verse 3. 'They start out in lake or esker' and re-emerge at 'the very tips of the Himalayas' as limestone, composed of mud, sand and fragments of shell. Although a trace of self-mockery continues, the mood is chastened in the last verse. The reminder of Paul Celan and, possibly, the prose-fragments brought together as Microliths, intensifies the shadow, reiterates the hints of persecution and displacement. In a particularly resonant simile, each stone is 'born dark' – like Celan's last poems. Celan describes his poetry as 'grey' in Microliths. I don't think Riordan's poem is 'about' poetry: it might, though, hint at some essential impersonality in poetry, and perhaps in language itself. And some essential durability? I wouldn't be sure. Beings with souls may require a god, but, Riordan protests, how can a bald man volunteer for the role of 'god' or 'saviour'? So we're left, un-stone-like, with the shudder many of us feel against the very idea of eternity. In the poem's last line, each 'mute soul', each stone, is 'condemned for the duration of the earth'. But the rhetorical question raised in the first line sends its echo, too, through the rest of the poem. It embodies a mystery not unconnected with modest human activity when it asks, concerning the stones, '…who can tell their journeys?' If anyone can, it's Maurice Riordan, in poetry that inches and twists its dialect-agile way through the gravel of glints, whispers, facts and jokes, to rise to the ever-shifting immensity of 'telling'. Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Ireland. Gravel is from his new Selected Poems, chosen by Jack Underwood (Faber £14.99) and was first published in the 2021 collection Shoulder Tap (Faber £10.99).
Axios
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Navy warship deployed on U.S.-Mexico border mission
Navy warship USS Gravely is on a mission to strengthen security at the U.S.-Mexico border, Pentagon officials said. Why it matters: The deployment of the guided-missile destroyer that last year was involved in shooting down Iran-backed Houthi rebels' ship attacks in the Middle East to a region the U.S. Coast Guard ordinarily covers marks an escalation in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown efforts at the border. Driving the news: The USS Gravely departed Virginia's Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Saturday for the Navy's U.S. Northern Command Area of Responsibility, per a statement from the combatant command. This area encompasses the continental U.S., Alaska, Canada, Mexico and the surrounding water out to some 500 nautical miles. USNORTHCOM was named "operational lead for the employment of U.S. military forces" to carry out President Trump's border executive orders and the ship "brings maritime capabilities" in response to these and a national emergency declaration, it notes. The combatant command is filling "critical capabilities gaps in support" of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, according to the statement, which does not elaborate further on this. Zoom in: The USS Gravely is participating as part of the Defense Department's response to President Trump's executive order on the border to "protect the United States' territorial integrity, sovereignty, and security," per a statement from Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command. It's contributing "to a coordinated and robust response to combating maritime related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration," according to USNORTHCOM. Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command, added in a statement the deployment "marks a vital enhancement to our nation's border security framework." What we're watching: A Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), specialized, deployable maritime law enforcement teams of the USGS, "will be embarked aboard Gravel," per USNORTHCOM. These teams carry out missions including to counter piracy, military combat operations, stop undocumented immigrants, "military force protection, counter terrorism, homeland security, and humanitarian response," per the statement. Go deeper... Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flights
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Yahoo
Worcester man found guilty in 2020 King Street murder case
WORCESTER, Mass. (WWLP) – A Worcester Superior Court jury found a man guilty of murder in the 2020 death of a man on King Street. Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early said that 39-year-old Jacob Grice of Worcester was found guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday after a ten-day trial. Former Northeastern University counselor sentenced to prison for child pornography charges The conviction comes following the alleged homicide of 31-year-old Darren Dyette on August 3, 2020, when he was shot six times in the head and neck on King Street in Worcester. Grice was also convicted of possession of ammunition without an FID card. Grice's then-girlfriend, 31-year-old Amber Gravel, has also been charged in connection with the murder. Charging documents state that Gravel allegedly lured Dyette to King Street where his cousin lived, and Grice proceeded to shoot him multiple times after he exited his vehicle. Gravel was arraigned in Worcester Superior Court on the charge of murder and held without bail in November 2020. She is scheduled to appear in court on March 6. The first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Grice's sentencing is scheduled for March 12. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
