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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
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Fort Drum Events June 1-7 Quick Look
A quick look at this coming week's Fort Drum events. Event Where Address When Healthy Environments Workshop SFRD Enrichment Center 10262 4th Armored Division Dr. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Toddler Story Time Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 10 to 11 a.m. Preschool Science at the Library Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 1 to 2 p.m. Pickleball Tournament Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 to 9 p.m. Event Where Address When Retro Spin Class Monti Physical Fitness Center Conway Rd P-4305 6:15 a.m. Family Craft Workshop Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tennis League Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 to 7 p.m. Volleyball Open Play Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 to 8 p.m. Event Where Address When Army Ten-Miler Qualifier Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 7 to 9 a.m. Lunch at the Bowl Pine Plains Bowling Center 4320 Conway Rd. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volleyball Open Play Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 to 8 p.m. Event Where Address When Toddler Story Time Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 10 to 11 a.m. Lunch at the Bowl Pine Plains Bowling Center 4320 Conway Rd. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parent Advisory Board Child and Youth Services 10799 North Riva Ridge Loop 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Preschool Time at the Library Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 1 to 2 p.m. Wing Night Thursdays Pine Plains Bowling Center 4320 Conway Rd. 4 to 7 p.m. Volleyball League Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 p.m. Kickball League Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 6 to 9 p.m. Event Where Address When Guided ATV Rides ODR 11115 Iraqi Freedom Drive 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Baby Time at the Library Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 9:30 to 10 a.m. Bilingual Story Time Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Lunch at the Bowl Pine Plains Bowling Center 4320 Conway Rd. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Summer Story Time Robert C. McEwen Library 4300 Camp Hale Rd. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday Night Fun Ridge Sports Bar 4350 Euphrates River Vally Rd. 3 to 9 p.m. Midnight Madness Softball Tournament Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 8 p.m. to Midnight Event Where Address When Volleyball Open Play Magrath Sports Complex 10050 Tigris River Valley Rd. 10 a.m. to Noon Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
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American rock band Night Ranger set to perform in Bossier City
BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — The American rock band Night Ranger is set to perform live in Bossier City. Academy-award winner Billy Bob Thornton coming to Bossier City The band gained popularity during the 1980s, particularly after the release of their second album, 'Midnight Madness.' The band members include Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Brad Gillis, Eric Levy, and Keri Kelli. Some of their biggest hits are '(You Can Still) Rock in America,' 'Sing Me Away,' 'Goodbye,' and 'When You Close Your Eyes.' Night Ranger has sold over 17 million albums worldwide and has performed on thousands of stages. You can see their performance at Live! Casino and Hotel event center on Saturday, June 21, starting at 7:00 p.m. You must be 21 or over to attend. To purchase tickets, visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
15-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Vice President JD Vance drops CFP trophy during Ohio State's White House visit: Examining other trophy mishaps
Ohio State visited the White House on Monday to commemorate its national championship victory last season, and after President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and coach Ryan Day all publicly praised the Buckeyes on the South Lawn, Vance went to hoist the national championship trophy. But he dropped it. Advertisement Well, he dropped half of it. As Vance tried to lift the trophy off a table onstage, the base separated from the top and fell to the ground. Buckeyes star running back TreVeyon Henderson was helping support the top as Vance went to lift the full trophy and managed to catch and secure it. Vance, an Ohio State alum and a former senator from Ohio, joked about the drop on X after. 'I didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it,' Vance said. I didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it — JD Vance (@JDVance) April 14, 2025 The College Football Playoff national championship trophy is described as 'two integral but separate pieces' on the CFP website. The top, made from 24-karat gold, bronze and stainless steel, is 26 1/2 inches long, with the design rising to form a football. The 12-inch base is bronze with a black patina finish. 'The trophy was created to be raised in celebration of the highest level of team achievement in college football,' the website says. Fortunately for Vance, he is not the first person to have a trophy mishap. Here is a look at some other trophy calamities. In 2008, a prospective high school tight end from Tampa destroyed Florida's $35,000 BCS championship trophy, named The Coaches' Trophy. The prospect's tour of campus went through the school's football facilities, where he saw former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's Heisman Trophy. He leaned to take a photo with it, accidentally knocking the nearby title trophy to its death. That prospect? Orson Charles — who played four NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns from 2012 to 2018, and instead committed to Georgia even after the Gators staff joked Charles had no other option than to commit to Florida after the incident. Advertisement An honorable mention in Gators' trophy-smashing history goes to former men's basketball coach Billy Donovan, who in October 2006 fooled the Midnight Madness crowd — those who came to kick off the team's first official and public practice after their 2006 national championship season — by dropping a replica crystal trophy. The message? New team, new season. Florida went on to win the back-to-back title in 2007, securing another very real championship memento. In 2012, Nick Saban and his then-Alabama team had their 2011 BCS title trophy shattered by a player's father who was admiring it on A-Day, Alabama's annual spring game. Carleton Tinker, father of then-long snapper Carson Tinker, told ESPN at the time he was 'not really sure' how it happened. Carleton said he watched several Alabama recruits pick up the trophy to see what it felt like. So he did, too. 'I didn't walk away with it,' Tinker said then. 'I set it back down on the stand and turned to walk away, and had my back away from the trophy when I heard it tumble.' Carleton offered to work off the $30,000 of destruction within the athletic department on weekends. Alabama declined and quickly thereafter ordered a replacement. The Spokane Chiefs, representing the Western Hockey League, won the Canadian Hockey League's Memorial Cup in May 2008, which promptly broke after the team captain Chris Bruton tried to hand it off to a teammate Trevor Glass. The Chiefs defeated the Kitchener Rangers 4-1 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, Ontario, to earn their soon-to-be two-part trophy. In 2011, the Copa del Rey trophy was run over by a bus after Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos dropped it from the upper level of the double-decker bus. The cup — which came home with Real Madrid after a 1-0 win over archrival Barcelona thanks to an extra-time goal by Cristiano Ronaldo — was perched on Ramos' head and slipped from his hands after he appeared to try to jump up and down with teammates. Advertisement After the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2023, Lando Norris slammed a bottle of champagne on a table on the Formula One Podium, knocking winner Max Verstappen's handmade porcelain trophy to the ground in pieces. Norris would later apologize for the mishap that destroyed the award, which took nearly six months to make, but he initially brushed off the accident. 'Max just placed it too close to the edge. It fell over I guess. Not my problem, it's his,' Norris said when first asked. However, the Briton was more contrite when the question was posed again before the next race in Belgium. 'I know how much it means to the Hungarians and part of their culture … and I did apologize to Max,' Norris said. 'I know I made a couple of jokes about which maybe I shouldn't but I do feel bad for (him).'
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dellwood Mayor launches Midnight Madness basketball
DELLWOOD, Mo. – Dellwood's recreation center opened its doors Friday night to area teens interested in playing basketball for free. The city's mayor, Reggie Jones, believes the newly launched Midnight Madness basketball program will help give area youth a positive outlet to burn energy and a place where positive relationships are formed. 'It's really a multi-faceted approach and the main target is to try and drive down youth-related crimes in north county,' Jones said. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now The program includes the Riverview Gardens, Hazelwood, Normandy, Ferguson-Florissant and Jennings school districts. Several community organizations and service providers, such as Employ St. Louis and Refuge and Restoration, are also involved. The North County Police Cooperative (NCPC) is another partner, providing engagement and security. 'We're more than just a badge and a gun; we are people that are embedded in our communities,' said Det. Benjamin Santoyo, NCPC. Janelle Turner brought her 12-year-old son to play basketball and enjoy a positive experience. Family of Riley Strain files wrongful death lawsuit against Delta Chi fraternity 'I think this is going to give an opportunity for him to learn how to engage and speak up and be about community, which is really important,' Turner said. Jones said funding for the program came from a grant from the St. Louis Violence Prevention Commission. For now, the games are played from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Friday nights through the end of July. Jones hopes to add more hours as the program moves forward. Registration information is available at the Dellwood Recreation Center by calling 314-869-8686. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
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What John Calipari did for Kentucky will eventually be appreciated ... just not now
The debate in Kentucky this week is how Wildcat basketball fans should greet their former coach, John Calipari, when he returns to Rupp Arena on Saturday as the leader of the Arkansas Razorbacks. Cheer? Boo? Just do nothing? The answer is whatever the heck they want, of course. It's a basketball game. Part of the fun of being a fan is reacting (or overreacting) in every imaginable way, good or bad. Calipari is 65 years old and long ago proved he gives as good as he takes. He'll survive. 'My guess is I'm going to get booed,' Calipari said this week. 'But that's all part of it. Shoot, you get booed. I've done this so long, I'll tell ya, I've got bazooka holes in my body. So when you shoot arrows, it doesn't even hit skin.' Gallows humor as a deflection tactic seems appropriate because as battle-tested as Calipari is walking into enemy arenas that despise him, this is not one he is looking forward to experiencing. For 15 years — or at least all but the final couple when success started to be tempered, especially in March — Rupp was Calipari's castle and Kentucky was his Camelot. Now he'll return, likely wearing a red Arkansas sport coat — an outward symbol of where he is now that he never embraced at his previous stops (i.e. he didn't always wear Kentucky blue). Kentucky fans are free to view Calipari how they wish. There is little debate that the program had gotten stale at the end of his time there. Cal likely did everyone a favor by opting out of essentially a lifetime contract and leaving for Arkansas last spring. Still, he left and for a SEC rival no less. He also took many of his players, recruits and staff with him. It isn't like UK fans would be jeering some retired old coach. One day Cal will get his flowers. When Rick Pitino finally returned for Midnight Madness last year as a guest of new coach Mark Pope, he was cheered. There was no such love when he was leading Louisville. What isn't a debate, though, is what Calipari did for the Kentucky program. Maybe he built up so much sustained success that the uncertain nature of his start is forgotten, but things were uncertain in 2009 when he arrived from Memphis. The Wildcats hadn't reached a Final Four in 11 seasons. Recruiting toward the end of the Tubby Smith era and the two-year run of Billy Gillispie had been mostly pedestrian. The teams weren't talented, exciting or all that successful. There was a real question about whether the expectations and intensity of the job were too big for anyone to manage. Essentially only Pitino — a massive personality in his own right — had truly corralled it in modern times. But even he left. Kentucky may believe that winning is a birthright, and its history gives reason for that. Nothing is guaranteed though. In 2009, when Calipari arrived in Lexington, Kentucky wasn't alone in plight. Longtime rival Indiana was searching for a formula to return to prominence as well. Indiana is still searching. Calipari, meanwhile, breathed immediate life into not just the program, but the entire state. He was a whirlwind. His first recruiting class featured John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe. It would only get better at times — a turnstile of breathtaking talent that didn't just win games but thrilled fans. He barnstormed the state that first offseason, using a book tour to introduce himself to them and them to himself — flying helicopters into little towns and spending hours at gas station diners and coal mine break rooms and low-wattage radio stations. He'd catch old-school breakfasts with Joe B. Hall to learn about the past and use new-school social media to make the place cool. That first team went 35-3, won the SEC before a horrific shooting night doomed the Wildcats in the Elite Eight. The next season they were in the Final Four. The one after that, they were national champs. It was part of a lightning-bolt run — Kentucky averaged 30.5 victories a season for his first decade in Lexington. Maybe this is viewed as inevitable, just the pushing of a button or two, but it was far more complicated. Cal spoke the other day about how Kentucky had 'good bones' when he took it over, and that is accurate. It needed an overhaul though. He provided it. The bigger the job got, the more intense the spotlight, Calipari tried to not just match it, but use it in a positive manner. When, say, there were floods in Eastern Kentucky, Calipari would organize a televised fundraiser, with players working the phone bank. He embraced individual fans, took time to meet everyone and served as a spokesman for the school and the state — each too often overlooked by the country as a whole. In the end, you have to win though, especially in March. Calipari didn't do that in his last six years there. He should have won at least one more national title — namely with the 38-0 team he brought to the Final Four only to fall to Wisconsin in 2015. In the end, his tenure became known for losses to St. Peter's and Oakland. It was contentious and difficult and uncomfortable. Everyone wanted better and no one was wrong for that. Only Adolph Rupp himself coached the Cats longer. So Cal left and is trying to rebuild Arkansas, to uneven results thus far. Kentucky, meanwhile, has moved into a new day — with former player Mark Pope in charge of a likable, scrappy team full of potential. Does the above merit a roaring cheer? No, not necessarily. There will no doubt be some applause, but this is still an SEC basketball game. What John Calipari did for Kentucky will eventually be appreciated. On Saturday, expect a lot of booing. The cheers will come one day.
