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Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Portner's grand slam helps DSU steal win over Valley City State
DICKINSON, N.D. (DAKOTA STATE) — No. 5 seed Dakota State (S.D.) erased a three-run deficit in the ninth inning to defeat No. 8 seed Valley City State (N.D.) 5-4 on Friday morning in the North Star Athletic Association Baseball Tournament elimination bracket at Dakota Community Bank & Trust Ballpark. With the win, the Trojans improved to 25-23 on the season, while the Vikings ended their year at 20-32. Trailing 4-1 entering their final at-bat, DSU mounted a four-run rally capped by Dawson Portner's go-ahead grand slam to center field. The senior third baseman came through after the Trojans loaded the bases with back-to-back hit-by-pitches and a pinch-hit infield single. The dramatic finish backed a strong relief outing from Sam Tyrpa (W, 5-6), who earned the win with 4 2/3 scoreless innings. Tyrpa allowed just two hits, struck out seven and did not issue a walk, facing the minimum over his final two frames to preserve the lead. He extended his all-time DSU school record of 259 strikeouts, previously held by Nicholai Arbach briefly who had 254 career strikeouts after Friday's game. VCSU opened the scoring in the bottom of the first. Kaden Rozdeba singled with two outs, advanced on a wild pitch, and scored on a sharp single through the left side by Alexis Velasco to give the Vikings a 1-0 advantage. Dakota State tied the game in the fourth when Ben Loos homered to center with two outs, his first long ball of the postseason and his collegiate career. Loos finished 1-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. The Vikings responded with a three-run fifth inning. Diesel Goya was hit by a pitch to lead off the frame and stole second. With one out and two runners on, Porter Jorgenson delivered the biggest hit of the day for Valley City State—a three-run double to the left-center gap that cleared the bases and extended the lead to 4-1. Jorgenson went 1-for-3 with three RBIs and a walk, while Rozdeba reached base three times and scored twice. DSU managed just five hits through the first eight innings off Valley City State starter Takao Cookson, who struck out eight in 7 1/3 innings. He exited with one out in the eighth, and the Vikings turned to freshman left-hander Connor Martin. Martin (L, 0-6) after allowing both inherited runners to reach and surrendering Portner's decisive homer. The Trojans' ninth-inning dramatic rally began with a hit-by-pitch to Cassidy Watt, followed by another hit batter—Camaron Haller—putting two aboard with no outs. After a flyout, Loos struck out looking for the second out. Seth Altwine entered as a pinch hitter and legged out an infield single to keep the inning alive and load the bases. Portner followed with the game-winning blast. On the mound, Alex Swack started for Dakota State and allowed four earned runs on three hits and five walks over 4 1/3 innings. He exited in the fifth with the bases loaded and one out. Tyrpa entered and retired the next two batters, limiting further damage and keeping the Trojans within striking distance. Offensively, Aidan Perry paced the Trojans with a 2-for-3 day and reached base three times. Altwine and Camaron Raney each added a hit, while Michael Buchmann (courtesy runner for Watt) and Raney scored key runs in the ninth. Defensively, the Trojans played solidly behind their pitching staff, committing just one error. The Vikings turned two double plays in the loss and got an error-free effort from their fielders. DSU awaits the loser of the winner's bracket game between No. 7 seed Mayville State (N.D.) and No. 3 seed Dickinson State (N.D.), which is played Friday evening at 8 p.m. (CT)/7 p.m. (MT). The Trojans' second elimination game of the NSAA tournament is slated for 12 p.m. (Central Time)/11 a.m. (Mountain Time). Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
David Beckham's former assistant Rebecca Loos insists she ‘never lied' about affair claims
Rebecca Loos, David Beckham's former assistant, is not backing down from her claims that she had an affair with the former soccer player while he was married to Victoria Beckham over 20 years ago. During Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes Australia," the Dutch model-turned-yoga instructor, 47, opened up about her "truth" and explained why she believes her choice to go public with her claims was "brave." "In my opinion, it was a very brave thing to do to go up against them," Loos said during her interview. "I have stuck to the truth. I've never exaggerated. I never lied about a single thing." "Why? Because I'm going up against the strongest, most powerful couple in the media who have all the money in the world for the best PR, the best lawyers. And all I had on my side was the truth," she added. During the interview, Loos said Victoria was out of town the first time David made a move on her. "He said 'let's go back to my hotel,'" Loos claimed. Loos said it was "the look in his eyes" that ultimately made her "give in." "The way he looks at you, he's got a certain charismatic power," she said. "He can easily get what he wants and he knows it." "I fell hook, line and sinker for every single cliché line he fed me," Loos said. "And then two weeks later we were at [Christiano] Ronaldo's birthday party, and he's off with this beautiful model. And I was like, 'Uh.' That was a hard night for me. I was like, 'Uh, I don't understand.' And realization started to hit that I'd been massively played." A representative for David did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment regarding Loos' new interview. Loos originally came forward about an alleged, four-month relationship with the footballer in 2004. She had worked as his assistant the previous year. At the time, David denied all the allegations and released a statement saying he was "very happily married," and that "There is nothing any third party can do to change these facts." The allegations resurfaced in the 2023 documentary, "Beckham" - a Netflix production that took a deep dive into the lives of the retired soccer player and former Spice Girl. "I don't know how we got through it, in all honesty," David said of the infidelity rumors in the documentary, which did not directly name Loos as the alleged mistress. "Victoria is everything to me, to see her hurt was incredibly difficult, but we're fighters and at that time we needed to fight for each other, we needed to fight for our family." "And what we had was worth fighting for." While discussing their marital struggles, Victoria opened up about the resentment she felt toward her husband after he was traded from Manchester United in England to Real Madrid in Spain in 2003 – when Loos became his assistant. "Did I resent David? If I am being totally honest, yes I did," Victoria said. Victoria did not immediately move to Spain and chose to stay in England to raise their young sons while David was playing soccer in Madrid. "It was probably, if I'm being honest, the most unhappy I have ever been in my life," she added. "It wasn't that I felt unheard because I chose to internalize a lot of it because I was always mindful of a focus that he needed." "It was an absolute circus — and everyone loves it when the circus comes to town, right? Unless you're in it," she said. After the documentary aired, Loos said David was playing the "victim" and made her out to be a "liar." "He is making himself a victim, and he's making me look like the liar," she said in an interview with the Daily Mail at the time. "He's making me look like I've made up these horrible stories. I'm the one that's made Victoria suffer. Poor him. He's had nothing to do with this. And it was so awful." "I think it's one thing if you don't want to take responsibility for things at home because of your family and your children, that's absolutely fine, and if he hadn't even mentioned any of that and just said it was a tough time for us and moved on, I wouldn't be here today," she continued. "If he was going to touch on this time and how difficult it was, it would have been really nice for him to have said, 'Not my proudest time… It was a tough time for us.' Something like that. Just maybe a little bit of acknowledgment. Or no acknowledgment at all and don't even touch the subject… I never received any closure. If somebody had just called me – if he had just called me and said, 'I'm so sorry, how can we fix this?' Things would be so different…. I was made to look like a liar. I felt like I had to continue to defend myself." Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this post.
The Guardian
10-02-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Campaign launched to make public toilets a legal requirement in Britain
It will involve spending more than a penny, but it's a call that is likely to be viewed sympathetically by anyone who has ever been caught short while out and about. A campaign has been launched to make the provision of public toilets a legal requirement for central government and local authorities after a slump in the number of loos in town centres, parks and other locations. The Legalise Loos campaign is the brainchild of the British Toilet Association (BTA), a not-for-profit members' organisation, which estimates that the number of public conveniences has fallen by about 40% since 2000. The national shortage has been blamed in part on cash-strapped councils cutting expenditure on public loos in order to protect services they are obliged by law to provide for local people. Lavatory humour has long been a part of British culture and society, but the BTA reckons this is no laughing matter. It said the slump in the number of toilets was 'impacting both people's wellbeing and the health of our economy'. 'This affects people of all ages, whether travelling, participating in activities outside or visiting family, friends and colleagues,' it said. Trying to assess the seriousness of the problem is complicated by the fact that there is no central database or system for managing information on public loos in the UK – or, arguably, a clear definition of what constitutes one. The BTA, however, said that by piecing various bits of information together, it believed 40% 'is a reasonable estimation for the decrease over the last 25 years'. According to the Audit Commission, there were just over 6,600 public toilets in England in 2000, while the official Valuation Office Agency put the figure at 5,410. In August 2023, the Liberal Democrats published freedom of information data stating that the number of public toilets had fallen by 14% since 2018-19. The BTA believes the number now stands at around 3,300. Local authorities are responsible for the provision for public toilets, but it is an optional provision rather than a mandatory requirement. The BTA quoted 2019 research which claimed the 'loo leash' put as many as one in five people off venturing out of their homes as often as they would like. The organisation said that '14 million people have incontinence issues, 15 million people menstruate, and 16 million people have a disability'. Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion Rose Marshall, 36, a communications consultant from Chelmsford in Essex, said: 'I'm a runner with Crohn's disease, a heady combination that often means I get an urgent need to go to the loo when jogging around streets and parks. Over the years I've developed a mental map of where I can go should the need arise, and it's alarming how scarce my options are. 'The situation has been getting steadily worse, especially as shops are increasingly making toilets only available for paying customers. This is affecting people up and down the country … Why should we have to pay for what is a basic human right?' The BTA managing director, Raymond Martin, said: 'Now is the time for action. This government has an opportunity to reverse recent decline and make public toilets legal by making their provision a duty and not a choice.'
