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Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Publishers react to Spokesman-Review's nonprofit course -- served with beer -- at News Industry Mega Conference
Apr. 16—ORLANDO, Fla. — Newspaper executives took some of the first sips of an exclusive beer brewed by No-Li Brewhouse in partnership with The Spokesman-Review, an early case served at the News Industry Mega-Conference on Tuesday. Attendees drank the hazy IPA, named 1AB after the First Amendment, as they listened to a behind-the-curtain look at Northwest Passages book club events from Spokesman-Review Executive Editor Rob Curley. For the past six years, the live interviews have served as a vehicle to bring Spokanites together in consideration and conversation while also giving them a tangible relationship with their local newspaper, Curley told his day-drinking audience. Spokesman-Review staff are often at Northwest Passages events in their various capacities: covering the event, watching it on their own time, or interviewing the featured guest. It's good to have attendees see the people behind the bylines they read, Curley said. "The interviewer is one of either our reporters, editors or columnists, because we want the people who come to the events to see an act of journalism happen in front of them," Curley said. It's that relationship, fostered in part through Northwest Passages, that America's Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings said other publications could learn from and implement in their own communities. Ridings is working with Curley to create a "playbook" to make this happen. It's good for business and for people, he said. "The way that you engage with the community is fundamentally the most important thing that you're doing," Ridings said. "Whether a newspaper is for profit, not for profit, a hybrid or completely setting the model like you are doing now, you've got to have engagement. You've got to listen to your community. You've got to respond to your community. And I feel like you all are doing it off the charts." Though now exclusive to Spokane, Northwest Passages events are "hitting the road" and may soon be in other states. Leonard Woolsey, publisher for the Galveston County Daily News in Texas, thinks the event would fit right at home on his island community after he attended a Northwest Passages in Spokane featuring author and rancher Craig Johnson. "I stood up and turned around and looked backward, and what I saw were hundreds of people who shared a love for community and literature, and they were our readers; they were our people," Woolsey said. "It was like, 'This is a thread that pulls people together.' " Elena Perry's work is funded in part by members of the Spokane community via the Community Journalism and Civic Engagement Fund. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact our newspaper's managing editor.
USA Today
30-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Eagle, eagle, albatross!: Tag Ridings recalls his magical nine holes in 2005 American Express
Tag Ridings smiled when asked about his play in the 2005 American Express, then the Bob Hope Classic, and said every two months or so someone asks him to recount that record-setting day. Ridings' third round that week at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage, one of four courses in the desert tournament that year, is still in the record books. Ridings is the only golfer in tour history to have two eagles and a double eagle in a single round, and he did it in just nine holes. It's a round Ridings, in contention this week at the Galleri Classic after a 9-under 63 on Saturday, remembers well. 'You know, we played so many courses in that Hope out here, you say, 'oh, I don't remember this course or that course, I only played one year,' ' Ridings said. 'I only played Tamarisk one year. It's had been off the rotation for a little while.' Playing the back nine at Tamarisk as his opening nine of the day, Ridings started the historic run with a 2-iron from 256 yards on the par-5 12th that found the hole for the rare albatross. Later, Ridings made eagles on the par-4 17th from the fairway and then the par-5 18th. "Of course, I can remember certainly every hole on that nine,' Ridings said. 'And I remember most of the holes on that back just because of the strangeness of the round." Despite being 7 under on those three holes, Ridings managed only a 6-under 66 on that day. 'I recount the fact that I had a double eagle and two eagles in nine holes, but I also had five three-putts in 10 holes,' Ridings laughed. Ridings followed the record round with a fourth-round 76 (the event was five days and 90 holes at the time) and missed the cut.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Steve Allan, Tag Ridings weren't in Galleri Classic field last weekend; now either could win
Steve Allan and Tag Ridings, two players who didn't know last weekend if they would even be in the field of the Galleri Classic presented by Spotlight 29 Casino, will find themselves Sunday looking for their biggest senior golf moment by winning the tournament. Allan, with no wins in his previous 27 PGA Tour Champions starts, fired a 7-under 65 on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage on Saturday. That puts Allan at 10-under 134 for 36 holes, one shot ahead of Ridings. In just his second PGA Tour Champions event, Ridings tied the tournament single-round scoring record with a 9-under 63 to vault up the leaderboard. Steve Allan watches as his eagle putt on the 18th hole just misses the on the 18th hole during the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2025. Allan enters the final day with a one shot lead. The low scoring was in part because the strong winds that hit the Dinah Shore Course in Friday's first round weren't as gusty Saturday morning and actually disappeared as the round moved on. Advertisement 'We got pretty lucky today. It was windy at the start and it kind of eased,' said Allan. 'A couple of gusts but not too bad. I think you just have to be patient. You just have to know everyone is struggling with it. It's hard.' Allan was out of the field when last weekend started as the first alternate to the field. But when Steve Stricker withdrew from the event with an ailing back, Allan found himself in the tournament. More: Galleri Classic merchandise options include unique autograph kit 'I wasn't sure I was going to get in. I think when I got down to first (alternate), I was fairly confident, but you never know,' Allan said. 'I actually got the news on Saturday, so I kind of knew a little bit earlier, so I had a bit of time to sort of prepare here.' Advertisement Ridings' status for the Galleri Classic was more perilous. He was part of Tuesday's qualifying tournament at Bermuda Dunes Country Club for the event, where three spots in the main field were available. Ridings fired an 8-under 64 to win the qualifier and make his way into the field. Tag Ridings spins his club after hitting a good tee shot on the par-3 17th hole during the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2025. '(The qualifier) helps a lot. Even just playing Tucson (The Cologuard Classic earlier this month), where conditions weren't easy, either, I played okay and finished 30th,' Ridings said. 'That helped give me some confidence, as well. It's a big boost of confidence, but more than confidence out here, you need status. I'm here to do something good tomorrow and work that out.' Three players, reigning PGA Tour Champions player of the year Steven Alker, Jason Caron and first-round co-leader Cameron Percy, are tied for third at 8 under entering Sunday's final round. Alker fired 65 to move into contention at a tournament where he has finished second each of the last two years. Caron managed a 68, while Percy shot 69. Cameron Percy tees off on five during the second round of The Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Saturday, March 29, 2025. Billy Mayfair follows alone in sixth place at 7 under and six players, including first-round co-leader Bernhard Langer, Vijay Singh and Miguel Angel Jimenez, are all at 6 under. Advertisement Ridings had the round of the day with his 63, tying the course record for the event set last year by Ricardo Gonzalez. Ridings' round included nine birdies and put him in the lead for much of the afternoon. 'I made birdie on 1 and did the right thing and birdied 2, which was a very short par 5, and I can't remember the rest of it all,' Ridings said. 'But I made some nice bombs like around the middle of the front nine, 7 and 8 I think, I made some 25-foot putts that were just bonuses, and birdied 9.' Steve Allan strangles his driver as he tries to persuade his tee shot to stay in the fairway on the 18th hole during the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2025. Riding continued with four more birdies on the back nine and had a putt for a birdie on the par-5 18th but missed that 10-footer to settle for 63. Advertisement Playing eight groups behind Ridings, Allan began crawling up the leaderboard with four birdies in a five-hole stretch starting on the par-3 eighth hole. The last of those birdies on the par-4 12th tied Allan for the lead, with players like Caron, Alker and Mayfair jockeying for position. Alker finally grabbed the solo lead by reaching the island green on the par-5 18th in two and two-putting for his seven birdies of the day. That put Allan in a rare position of sleeping on the lead overnight in a pro tournament. 'I had a couple of outside chances last year to win out here, and I didn't play particularly well on the last day,' Allan said. 'But hung in there a couple of times, Dick's (Sporting Goods) and then in Michigan at the Ally, and Stewart Cink played so good early that I was kind of out of it. Tag Ridings celebrates a birdie putt on the par-3 17th hole during the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2025. 'So it's been a while, but it's fun, and the more you get up there, the more you get comfortable with it,' Allan added. 'It was nice to play well today, and wasn't quite in the last group, but it was good.' Advertisement Like Allan, Ridings is soaking up the experience of playing well, even taking something from playing in a threesome Saturday with World Golf Hall of Famers Ernie Els and Vijay Singh. Riding is also well aware that a big day Sunday could change his status for the rest of 2025 on the senior tour. 'Every step of the ladder is a big deal,' said Ridings, who hasn't played full time on the PGA Tour since 2017 and who turned 50 last September. 'That comes into your game plan.' Allan, Ridings and Alker will play in the final threesome at 10:11 a.m. Sunday, when desert winds are expected to get stronger again. This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: Steve Allan, Tag Ridings share Galleri Classic lead with 18 holes to play
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Daisy defender is Riding high as team looks to build on wins
Daisy Hill will be looking to build on their good form over the past week when they host AFC Blackpool at the Plumb Factory Stadium in the North West Counties League First Division North on Saturday (3pm). Last weekend's 2-1 win at Droylsden inflicted the hosts' first home league defeat of the season and a damaging blow to their promotion hopes. And with Daisy following up that result with a Monday night victory over North Walkden in the semi-final of the Atherton Charity Cup, full-back Jacob Ridings says the challenge now is for the squad to build on those results for the remainder of the season. 'Since I came back to the club (in November), that Droylsden game was probably the best performance I've played in,' said Ridings. 'I think they are the best footballing side in the league, and to go there and win was massive, and in terms of our league results this season that would take a bit of beating. 'So that win, and Monday's win against North Walkden, will hopefully see us starting to get a bit of a run together for the rest of the season.' Saturday's opponents AFC Blackpool sit just above Daisy in the league table, in mid-table, but are the joint-second highest scorers in the division. The main goalscoring threat comes from the impressive strike partnership of Luke Hepple and Jacob Gregory, who have scored 23 and 15 goals, respectively, this season, and Ridings says he is well aware of the threat they will pose. 'I've played in this league a few years now and whenever you play AFC Blackpool, they are always set up well and difficult to beat, they are a good team,' said Ridings. 'But we are playing them on the back of some good results, especially against Droylsden - that was a result that was big for morale. 'Putting wins together builds momentum, and as we are looking towards next season now, the focus is very much on helping to build towards that. 'Going into pre-season on the back of some good results at the end of the previous season will build confidence as a squad, so getting a win on Saturday for us would be massive for this group.' Supporters planning to attend Saturday's game are advised to buy tickets in advance via the link on the club website at and social media channels, as the attendance limit has now been set at a maximum of 660.
