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USA Today
a day ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
What is a Chanticleer? Coastal Carolina's mascot explained
With the College World Series having kicked off its round of regional tournaments on Friday, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are one of the hosts. But what is a Chanticleer? The name comes from a rooster character in a Middle Age fable that was eventually widely popularized in "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century short story anthology that had a marked impact on English literature in the centuries since. Coastal Carolina, which originally dubbed its sports teams the Trojans, adopted the new moniker in the early 1960s, when it transitioned from being a regional community college to an extension of the University of South Carolina. To make its teams' nickname more in-line with South Carolina's "Gamecocks" – also a rooster – what was then known as USC Coastal Carolina College changed its mascot to the Chanticleer. COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: Regional host sites for NCAA baseball tournament bracket After Coastal Carolina ended its connection with the University of South Carolina and became an independent university, it held onto the Chanticleer nickname. Here's everything you need to know about what a Chanticleer is: What is a Chanticleer? Chanticleer was the name of a rooster featured as the main character of "The Nun's Priest's Tale," a portion of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." In "The Nun's Priest's Tale," Chanticleer has a dream that he is going to be caught and killed by a fox. After waking in a panic, the rooster is eventually consoled by one of his wives. But Chanticleer's dream was one of clairvoyance; he encounters a fox waiting for him in a cabbage patch, and the wily animal convinces the prideful Chanticleer to show off his crow with his eyes closed and neck outstretched. As Chanticleer closes his eyes, the fox snatches him by the neck and runs off. But Chanticleer, a witty animal in his own right, plays up to the fox's pride and convinces it to tell the pursuers to give up. As soon as the fox opens its mouth to boast of its speed to the animals giving chase, Chanticleer escapes its jaws and hides. 2025 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: Tournament bracket winners and losers start with SEC College World Series Conway regional schedule Dates: Friday, May 30 - Monday, June 2 Friday, May 30 - Monday, June 2 Teams: Coastal Carolina, Florida, East Carolina and Fairfield Friday, May 30 Game 1: East Carolina vs. Florida | Noon ET Game 2: Fairfield vs. Coastal Carolina | 6 p.m. ET Saturday, May 31 Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser | Noon ET Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner | 6 p.m. ET Sunday, June 1 Game 5: Game 4 loser vs. Game 3 winner | Noon ET Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner | 6 p.m. ET Monday, June 2 Game 7 (if necessary for double elimination): Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser | TBA
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Customers were eating when fire broke out at a popular restaurant in Columbia
A popular restaurant near the University of South Carolina campus was on fire Saturday night. California Dreaming, at 401 South Main Street with Green's Beverages, near Assembly Street, was the scene of a fire, according to Columbia Fire Department. Members of the fire department responded to the restaurant just before 9:30 p.m., and quickly called for more help in the form of a 2nd Alarm after flames were seen shooting through a rear section of the roof and the building's third floor, the fire department said. Both customers and employees were inside the restaurant when the fire started, according to the fire department. Everyone evacuated safely and there were no injuries, including the emergency responders, the fire department said. Firefighters established a water supply before they entered the burning building and traced the fire to the ventilation system of the restaurant, according to the fire department. At 10:22 p.m., the fire department said the blaze had been brought under control, and by 11:11 p.m. officials confirmed the fire had been extinguished. Information about what caused the fire in the restaurant's ventilation system was not available, and officials did not say if the blaze remains under investigation. There was no word on the extent of the damage to the restaurant caused by the flames, smoke and water the firefighters used to quickly contain and limit the blaze. Prior to the fire, California Dreaming was scheduled to open at 11 a.m. Sunday, according to the its website. Calls to learn about the restaurant's status were unanswered, but at about 10:30 a.m., restaurant officials used a Facebook post to announce they'd be open as scheduled. 'Greetings from California Dreaming. We're open today, Sunday, 5/25— and feeling extra grateful.' There was a similar fire at the restaurant in June 2018, and it was soon again open for business after that incident caused minor damage. California Dreaming is part of a restaurant chain. The chain operates six locations overall, with four in South Carolina and single restaurants in Georgia and Alabama, according to its website.
Boston Globe
25-05-2025
- Boston Globe
Since George Floyd's murder, police killings keep rising, not falling
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Related : Advertisement Among them was Frank Tyson, an unarmed Black man in Canton, Ohio, who uttered Floyd's famous words last year before dying when he was wrestled to the ground in a bar by police officers. This happened even though police departments nationwide, especially after Floyd's murder, have known about the dangers of asphyxiation when keeping a suspect in the prone position. (Two officers were charged with homicide in Tyson's death.) Derek Chauvin, the officer who knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes as he gasped for air, was convicted and sentenced to prison, along with three other officers who were on the scene. But even as the number of police killings has risen in the years since, it has remained exceedingly rare for officers to be charged with crimes for those deaths. Advertisement Last year, for example, 16 officers were charged with either murder or manslaughter in a fatal shooting, the same number as in 2020, according to data tracked by Philip Stinson, a professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Stinson said that given 'all of the promise of five years ago, in terms of the promises of police reform, from where I sit, the reality is that policing hasn't changed.' A mural depicting George Floyd at the spot he was killed five years ago by a police officer's knee on his neck, in Minneapolis on April 19. JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN/NYT Experts say it is difficult to draw definitive answers from the data about why police killings continue to rise without an analysis of the circumstances of each case. But they have plenty of theories about what may have contributed to the problem. An increasing number of guns in circulation heightens the chances of deadly encounters. A backlash against the police reform movement in conservative states may have empowered police in those places. And the decline in public trust in the police after Floyd's murder may have led to more deadly encounters. 'Public perception of policing can matter here,' said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer who is a law professor at the University of South Carolina and frequently testifies about use-of-force policies in criminal trials of officers. 'When police are viewed as more legitimate, folks are more likely to comply. When police are viewed as less legitimate, people are less likely to comply and more likely to resist, and that can increase the rates of violence.' Advertisement While answers may be elusive, here are some of the underlying trends that might explain the shifting nature of police violence in the United States. A growing divide in where people are getting killed by police After Floyd's killing, many Democratic-run states and cities made more robust changes to policing. And culturally, in more-liberal states, there were much louder calls for police to be reined in. This might help explain why there is a growing divide in where people are being killed by police. In more-liberal states, the rate has stabilized, but in more-conservative ones, the numbers have risen. If measured over the past 10 years, since the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 sparked wide-scale protests, fatal police shootings in more-Democratic states have declined 15% on a population-adjusted basis, with the rate holding relatively steady since Floyd's death. Related : But in Republican-leaning states, they have risen 23%. And within those redder states, exurbs and rural areas, which tend to be more conservative than cities, have the highest rates of police killings. Fewer people who are killed by police are unarmed Even as police killings have risen in the years since the killing of Floyd, killings of unarmed people have become less frequent. The numbers have fluctuated over the years, but have dropped significantly since 2015, when 152 people killed by police were unarmed. In 2020, that number was 95, and last year, it dropped to 53. The number of people killed while wielding replica weapons, fake guns that look like the real thing, has also dropped. Still, experts were split on why the drop may have occurred and how much weight to give the data. They said it was one of several statistics that would benefit from a more comprehensive national database of police use of force. Advertisement Some suggested the decrease in the number of unarmed people being killed could be a natural outcome in a country where a large percentage of people own guns. It is difficult to evaluate gun ownership in the United States, but polls have shown that more than 40% of adults report having a gun in their household. 'In a world in which we are awash in guns, and getting more awash, that's what's going to happen,' said Barry Friedman, a professor at New York University's law school who specializes in policing. Others were more skeptical. Protesters and residents watched as police in riot gear walk down a residential street in St. Paul, Minn., in May 2020. John Minchillo/Associated Press Justin Nix, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, said he hoped that the data was a reflection of improvements in policing and training, but that he was hesitant to draw any conclusions. That's in part because of how rare police killings of unarmed people are and the fluctuating number of cases where it is unclear whether the person who was killed had a weapon. Related : Nix, whose focus is on criminology and criminal justice, said the difficulty in interpreting the data was indicative of a larger problem, which is that data on police force and killings remains sparse. For example, he noted, there is little data on police shootings in which a person is not killed. One study estimated that there were roughly 800 such nonfatal shootings each year. The outlook for policing oversight Despite the rising overall number of police killings, legislators across the country have rolled back several attempts to reduce police violence. In Washington state, lawmakers passed an initiative last year that rolled back a law, passed in 2021, that had imposed limits on when the police could chase suspects in their cars. This year, Alabama enacted a new law seeking to make it harder to prosecute or sue police officers. Oregon in 2022 loosened the standard for when police could use tear gas after tightening regulations just a year earlier. Advertisement The federal government, under the Trump administration, has also pulled back from holding law enforcement agencies accountable. This past week, the Justice Department said it would no longer investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments that were accused of civil rights violations, including in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. And in April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at 'unleashing' law enforcement, including by directing the U.S. attorney general to 'provide legal resources' to defend police officers accused of wrongdoing. This article originally appeared in .
22-05-2025
- Sport
3-time NCAA champion coach Dawn Staley talks new book, ‘Uncommon Favor'
University of South Carolina's head coach, Dawn Staley, sat down with ABC News' Linsey Davis to talk about her coaching style, North Philly and why she does not want to coach in the NBA or WNBA
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The Crystal Apple: Stephanie Byrdic-Daniels
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — Education is the cornerstone of a society, and as populations and technology become more advanced, teachers often lead the way. Each month, WBTW and Ultimate California Pizza will recognize an educator for making a difference in their classroom and community. This month's winner is Stephanie Brydic-Daniels. Stephanie is a Grand Strand native. She grew up in Andrews, South Carolina, and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in psychology. A background in therapeutic counseling gave her the skills necessary to help teens in crisis as a school counselor. 'We are the calm within their storm, and we are trained to be calm when they are not,' she said of her role. As the lead counselor at Myrtle Beach High School, Stephanie sees firsthand the triumphs and troubles of teenage students. She knows problems at home can follow kids into the classroom, and says teachers are often the first ones to spot the warning signs. One of the biggest problems she encounters is cyberbullying, coupled with unrealistic expectations that kids often see online. 'The things that students see, the perception they have of other people is not reality,' she said. 'We know that it plays on their mental health, and students don't really see how it's impacting them on a daily basis.' The veteran counselor has noticed that new rules banning cell phones in class have inspired students to replace social media with social engagement. 'We are seeing more interactions, we're seeing them check out books,' Stephanie said. 'We're seeing them talk to each other more, which I think is improving their mental health because they're making more connections.' Stephanie said her ultimate goal is to prepare teenagers for the realities of adulthood so they can become contributing members of society. 'We want them to have a positive impact on this world,' she said. 'We see how special each one of them is, and we want the world to see that, too.' Those are just some of the reasons that Stephanie Byrdic-Daniels is this month's winner of the Crystal Apple Award. If you would like to recognize a teacher, coach, instructor, or administrator for a Crystal Apple Award, email Aking@ Tell us why you chose them, and please attach a photo. They winner will be featured on News13 and receive a $100 gift card to Ultimate California Pizza. * * * Morning anchor Alexis King is a South Carolina native with 20-plus years of experience in the news industry. She began her on-air career doing the ski report in Aspen, Colorado, and has been a producer, reporter, and anchor in television markets across the country. Most recently, she worked at our sister station in Savannah, Georgia. You can read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
