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Hamilton Spectator
01-08-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Unhappy at his contract demands, Toronto FC trades winger Tyrese Spicer to Orlando
TORONTO - Unhappy at his contract demands, Toronto FC traded winger/wingback Tyrese Spicer to Orlando City SC on Friday in exchange for up to $550,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars) in general allocation money. The 24-year-old Trinidad and Tobago international, the first overall pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft, scored six goals and added two assists in 42 appearances across all competitions in his two seasons with Toronto. 'We would like to thank Tyrese for his time at the club over the past year and a half,' Toronto GM Jason Hernandez said in a statement. 'As our MLS SuperDraft pick, our intention was to continue working and growing with Tyrese. However, it was communicated that the player only wanted to continue with the club if certain contractual commitments and conditions were secured this summer. 'Unfortunately, the terms proposed were not acceptable to the club at this time; hence, we decided to find a mutually beneficial transaction for all parties involved. We wish Tyrese all the best in his future endeavours, and we will prepare to utilize the assets received in our future roster transactions.' Spicer is making $83,122 this season, third lowest among TFC players. His contract expires at the end of the season, although Toronto had club options in 2026 and '27. Faced with a contract impasse, the team opted to get something for him now rather than lose him for nothing. Toronto gets $225,000 in general allocation money this year and $275,000 in 2026 — with an additional $50,000 in conditional GAM if certain performance-based metrics are met. Toronto will retain a sell-on percentage in the event of a future permanent transfer. Spicer has won six caps for Trinidad and Tobago, making his senior debut in March in a CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification match against Cuba. In going to Orlando (11-6-8), Spicer joins a club in sixth spot in the Eastern Conference, six places and 20 points ahead of Toronto (5-13-6). 'We're excited to welcome Tyrese to Orlando,' said Ricardo Moreira, Orlando's GM and sporting director. 'He's a hard-working, left-footed talent from the Trinidad and Tobago national team who brings additional depth and energy to our side. 'His relentless work rate and ability to stretch the field will give us a much-needed boost and add another dimension to our attack moving forward.' Friday's deal was the first for TFC in the MLS secondary transfer window, which opened July 24. More moves are expected. At his best, Spicer was a pacy winger able to cause headaches for opposition defenders. He made his TFC debut off the bench in a 2-1 loss at New York City FC in March 2024. A week later, he scored 35 minutes into his first start, a 2-0 win over Atlanta United at BMO Field. Cutting off the left wing, Spicer drifted towards the penalty box and, taking a pass from Deandre Kerr, accelerated past a defender and beat Brad Guzan with a low shot to the corner. Unable to secure regular playing time, Spicer was an on-and-off presence, however. His 21 league appearances this season included only seven starts. Last season, he started 13 games with six more appearances off the bench. As a rookie, he was slowed by a sore big toe, the legacy of a small fracture suffered at Lipscomb, forcing him to see a specialist. Spicer was a surprise first overall pick out of Lipscomb University, somewhat of an unknown despite impressive college statistics. In his final year at Lipscomb, Spicer was a United Soccer Coaches first-team all-American, the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year and a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy. He led the ASUN with 14 goals and added three assists for a conference-leading 31 points. He had 29 goals and 18 assists in 57 career appearances for Lipscomb, which is based in Nashville. —- This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2025
Winnipeg Free Press
01-08-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Unhappy at his contract demands, Toronto FC trades winger Tyrese Spicer to Orlando
TORONTO – Unhappy at his contract demands, Toronto FC traded winger/wingback Tyrese Spicer to Orlando City SC on Friday in exchange for up to $550,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars) in general allocation money. The 24-year-old Trinidad and Tobago international, the first overall pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft, scored six goals and added two assists in 42 appearances across all competitions in his two seasons with Toronto. 'We would like to thank Tyrese for his time at the club over the past year and a half,' Toronto GM Jason Hernandez said in a statement. 'As our MLS SuperDraft pick, our intention was to continue working and growing with Tyrese. However, it was communicated that the player only wanted to continue with the club if certain contractual commitments and conditions were secured this summer. 'Unfortunately, the terms proposed were not acceptable to the club at this time; hence, we decided to find a mutually beneficial transaction for all parties involved. We wish Tyrese all the best in his future endeavours, and we will prepare to utilize the assets received in our future roster transactions.' Spicer is making $83,122 this season, third lowest among TFC players. His contract expires at the end of the season, although Toronto had club options in 2026 and '27. Faced with a contract impasse, the team opted to get something for him now rather than lose him for nothing. Toronto gets $225,000 in general allocation money this year and $275,000 in 2026 — with an additional $50,000 in conditional GAM if certain performance-based metrics are met. Toronto will retain a sell-on percentage in the event of a future permanent transfer. Spicer has won six caps for Trinidad and Tobago, making his senior debut in March in a CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification match against Cuba. In going to Orlando (11-6-8), Spicer joins a club in sixth spot in the Eastern Conference, six places and 20 points ahead of Toronto (5-13-6). 'We're excited to welcome Tyrese to Orlando,' said Ricardo Moreira, Orlando's GM and sporting director. 'He's a hard-working, left-footed talent from the Trinidad and Tobago national team who brings additional depth and energy to our side. 'His relentless work rate and ability to stretch the field will give us a much-needed boost and add another dimension to our attack moving forward.' Friday's deal was the first for TFC in the MLS secondary transfer window, which opened July 24. More moves are expected. At his best, Spicer was a pacy winger able to cause headaches for opposition defenders. He made his TFC debut off the bench in a 2-1 loss at New York City FC in March 2024. A week later, he scored 35 minutes into his first start, a 2-0 win over Atlanta United at BMO Field. Cutting off the left wing, Spicer drifted towards the penalty box and, taking a pass from Deandre Kerr, accelerated past a defender and beat Brad Guzan with a low shot to the corner. Unable to secure regular playing time, Spicer was an on-and-off presence, however. His 21 league appearances this season included only seven starts. Last season, he started 13 games with six more appearances off the bench. As a rookie, he was slowed by a sore big toe, the legacy of a small fracture suffered at Lipscomb, forcing him to see a specialist. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. Spicer was a surprise first overall pick out of Lipscomb University, somewhat of an unknown despite impressive college statistics. In his final year at Lipscomb, Spicer was a United Soccer Coaches first-team all-American, the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year and a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy. He led the ASUN with 14 goals and added three assists for a conference-leading 31 points. He had 29 goals and 18 assists in 57 career appearances for Lipscomb, which is based in Nashville. — This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2025
The Age
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
These farming women are bursting with creative pursuits. Just don't call them ‘trad wives'
In 2022, she expanded into homewares, a 'bit of a gamble' to make her art more accessible, and last year launched a separate clothing business called Far Mer., which features her Wild West-centric art and its rodeo motifs, sepia colours and the occasional Stetson. In the middle of it all, she uploads snippets to Instagram: a short natter about pop culture while she's reversing the ute for Tim, footage of their three sons chasing each other around the yard in gumboots as the peachy sun blooms, her unedited thoughts on Married at First Sight (which screens on Nine, owner of this masthead) or the 'trad wife' movement, which Spicer finds thoroughly entertaining. The growing cultural awareness of country life, spurred in part by those earnest homemaking women, Yellowstone's success and Beyonce's timely switch to Nashville-happy beats, is a source of inspiration for Spicer, whose edgy cotton tees, vibrant bandanas and pastel sarongs sit on shelves in rural boutiques and inner-city stores. 'I really don't know what the future holds, but we're just rolling with it,' she says. 'I definitely feel a huge support from women in rural communities. [My business] started with a rural base, and they're still there. Living in a rural town has not been a hindrance to my business at all; it's because of it that I've been so successful. Rural women just get behind other rural women.' 'I'm happier in the country': Meg Bignell, 50 Before marrying into a big farming family in Tasmania's Bream Creek, 45 minutes from Hobart, author Meg Bignell, whose own father is a hops farmer, worked as a nurse, TV producer and medical adviser for Australian hospital dramas. Dairy cows were not necessarily on her radar. These days, when she's not busy with farm life and raising her three children, Bignell writes novels inspired by the Tasmanian experience. Her latest, The Good Losers, out in July, is loosely inspired by Bignell's weekly journey to Hobart to support her daughter's rowing and schooling. Her previous book, The Angry Women's Choir, captured the power, fury and wonder of the Tasmanian spirit through the voices of 10 passionate women. Writing for both took place on the family's dairy farm, at a small desk in her bedroom overlooking Marion Bay and the milking sheds. While her books don't directly cover agricultural experiences, Bignell says the peace of this landscape, the rhythm of farming operations, and the time she has to herself when the dairy churns to life before the sun rises, enables ideas to flow more freely. 'You can't get much more of a set routine than a dairy farm. You milk twice a day, calving happens twice a year, harvest in the summer, harvest in the autumn; it's just so set,' she says. '[But] no two days are the same … the busier you are, the more you get done. I do tend to go around in circles if I've got too much time, and also I just would never have had any inspiration [for the books] if I didn't have my domestic side.' When it comes to her role on the 2000-acre property, which includes running the family's consumer dairy business, market stall and occasionally moving cattle, Bignell admits to still feeling some imposter syndrome. Loading 'I don't put the cups on the cows to milk them, but in later years it's become clear to me that a farm has to operate with both the farmers as well as the support network that allows the farmers to do what they do,' she says. 'Being the mother and the person who picks up the [machinery] parts from Hobart, and the person who makes sure there's food in the fridge – that is a part of the farm operation. 'When I'm working at the farmer's market, I know that I'm going to see my community, and they're doing the same things. That's so comforting, and I think that's part of the reason why I'm happier in the country. People are just doing their thing.' 'We are not invisible any more': Lisa Addinsall, 64 Creativity and resourcefulness run in the veins of proud sixth-generation farmer Lisa Addinsall. Every morning, on her 2½-acre property in Tarrington, 300 kilometres west of Melbourne, she toils over swelling gardens of dahlias, snapdragons and cosmos. Flowers are one of the great loves of her life, alongside art, teaching and her family. Hours before she welcomes students, who will paint still-lifes of the blooms they pick in these paddocks, she's preparing bouquets for the farmgate store, tending to vegetables, running her floristry business and meeting orders for weddings, events and locals. She documents moments on social media, educating followers about the rural experience (and gardening 101) with humour, grace and colour. 'What I'm doing – and other people are doing this as well – is creating connections between the community and people, so they see farming in a different way,' she says. 'It was a bit of a closed gate [before]; you never got to get on a farm if you didn't have farming friends. I think women have been the leaders of this changing – we have diversified what being in agriculture means.' A lifelong teacher, Addinsall ran art retreats in a woolshed in the 1980s, a natural precursor to the classes she launched on her current farm in 2021. She hosts bouquet-crafting, wreath-making and painting classes alongside flower-growing lessons and farm tours, through which she demonstrates mulching, seed-saving, water preservation, slow and low-tillage farming practices – the same methods that keep her gardens bountiful and replenish the store that sits outside her front gate. A paintbrush and notebook are never far away. 'They're traditional cultural things [in farming], and I'm still working in that way, but I'm using Instagram and Facebook and modern ways of bringing people in to see what I'm doing,' she says. It's a different agricultural industry than the one her mother experienced, and will be different again for her eight grandchildren. 'Behind the scenes, women were always farmers, but it was always the male farmer who was the 'seen' person,' she says. 'My mum had times when the bank manager would only talk to my dad. You can see women in agriculture now – they're not invisible any more.'
Sydney Morning Herald
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
These farming women are bursting with creative pursuits. Just don't call them ‘trad wives'
In 2022, she expanded into homewares, a 'bit of a gamble' to make her art more accessible, and last year launched a separate clothing business called Far Mer., which features her Wild West-centric art and its rodeo motifs, sepia colours and the occasional Stetson. In the middle of it all, she uploads snippets to Instagram: a short natter about pop culture while she's reversing the ute for Tim, footage of their three sons chasing each other around the yard in gumboots as the peachy sun blooms, her unedited thoughts on Married at First Sight (which screens on Nine, owner of this masthead) or the 'trad wife' movement, which Spicer finds thoroughly entertaining. The growing cultural awareness of country life, spurred in part by those earnest homemaking women, Yellowstone's success and Beyonce's timely switch to Nashville-happy beats, is a source of inspiration for Spicer, whose edgy cotton tees, vibrant bandanas and pastel sarongs sit on shelves in rural boutiques and inner-city stores. 'I really don't know what the future holds, but we're just rolling with it,' she says. 'I definitely feel a huge support from women in rural communities. [My business] started with a rural base, and they're still there. Living in a rural town has not been a hindrance to my business at all; it's because of it that I've been so successful. Rural women just get behind other rural women.' 'I'm happier in the country': Meg Bignell, 50 Before marrying into a big farming family in Tasmania's Bream Creek, 45 minutes from Hobart, author Meg Bignell, whose own father is a hops farmer, worked as a nurse, TV producer and medical adviser for Australian hospital dramas. Dairy cows were not necessarily on her radar. These days, when she's not busy with farm life and raising her three children, Bignell writes novels inspired by the Tasmanian experience. Her latest, The Good Losers, out in July, is loosely inspired by Bignell's weekly journey to Hobart to support her daughter's rowing and schooling. Her previous book, The Angry Women's Choir, captured the power, fury and wonder of the Tasmanian spirit through the voices of 10 passionate women. Writing for both took place on the family's dairy farm, at a small desk in her bedroom overlooking Marion Bay and the milking sheds. While her books don't directly cover agricultural experiences, Bignell says the peace of this landscape, the rhythm of farming operations, and the time she has to herself when the dairy churns to life before the sun rises, enables ideas to flow more freely. 'You can't get much more of a set routine than a dairy farm. You milk twice a day, calving happens twice a year, harvest in the summer, harvest in the autumn; it's just so set,' she says. '[But] no two days are the same … the busier you are, the more you get done. I do tend to go around in circles if I've got too much time, and also I just would never have had any inspiration [for the books] if I didn't have my domestic side.' When it comes to her role on the 2000-acre property, which includes running the family's consumer dairy business, market stall and occasionally moving cattle, Bignell admits to still feeling some imposter syndrome. Loading 'I don't put the cups on the cows to milk them, but in later years it's become clear to me that a farm has to operate with both the farmers as well as the support network that allows the farmers to do what they do,' she says. 'Being the mother and the person who picks up the [machinery] parts from Hobart, and the person who makes sure there's food in the fridge – that is a part of the farm operation. 'When I'm working at the farmer's market, I know that I'm going to see my community, and they're doing the same things. That's so comforting, and I think that's part of the reason why I'm happier in the country. People are just doing their thing.' 'We are not invisible any more': Lisa Addinsall, 64 Creativity and resourcefulness run in the veins of proud sixth-generation farmer Lisa Addinsall. Every morning, on her 2½-acre property in Tarrington, 300 kilometres west of Melbourne, she toils over swelling gardens of dahlias, snapdragons and cosmos. Flowers are one of the great loves of her life, alongside art, teaching and her family. Hours before she welcomes students, who will paint still-lifes of the blooms they pick in these paddocks, she's preparing bouquets for the farmgate store, tending to vegetables, running her floristry business and meeting orders for weddings, events and locals. She documents moments on social media, educating followers about the rural experience (and gardening 101) with humour, grace and colour. 'What I'm doing – and other people are doing this as well – is creating connections between the community and people, so they see farming in a different way,' she says. 'It was a bit of a closed gate [before]; you never got to get on a farm if you didn't have farming friends. I think women have been the leaders of this changing – we have diversified what being in agriculture means.' A lifelong teacher, Addinsall ran art retreats in a woolshed in the 1980s, a natural precursor to the classes she launched on her current farm in 2021. She hosts bouquet-crafting, wreath-making and painting classes alongside flower-growing lessons and farm tours, through which she demonstrates mulching, seed-saving, water preservation, slow and low-tillage farming practices – the same methods that keep her gardens bountiful and replenish the store that sits outside her front gate. A paintbrush and notebook are never far away. 'They're traditional cultural things [in farming], and I'm still working in that way, but I'm using Instagram and Facebook and modern ways of bringing people in to see what I'm doing,' she says. It's a different agricultural industry than the one her mother experienced, and will be different again for her eight grandchildren. 'Behind the scenes, women were always farmers, but it was always the male farmer who was the 'seen' person,' she says. 'My mum had times when the bank manager would only talk to my dad. You can see women in agriculture now – they're not invisible any more.'
29-06-2025
- Sport
Toronto takes down the Timbers 3-0 for rare home win
TORONTO -- Alonso Coello and Tyrese Spicer each scored to help injury-depleted Toronto beat the Portland Timbers 3-0 on Saturday night. Toronto (4-10-5) snapped a five-game winless run (0-4-1) at home. Before Saturday, it had collected just five of a possible 33 points at home (1-7-3). Portland (8-5-6) entered having lost just one of its last seven outings (3-1-3). Coello scored on a free kick in the 11th minute when he fired the ball past the Portland wall and Canadian goalkeeper James Pantemis for his second MLS goal. Spicer made it 2-0 in the 56th. Pantemis made a lunging one-handed save to stop Kosi Thompson's header but the ball went back to Spicer, who sent it home for his second of the season. Toronto added an insurance goal in stoppage time, with Derrick Etienne Jr.'s cross bouncing in off Portland defender Ian Smith with TFC forward Deandre Kerr nearby. Sean Johnson posted his fifth clean sheet of the season after Portland attempted just four shots, none on target. Only five of TFC's remaining 15 games are at home.
