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Canada News.Net
3 days ago
- Sport
- Canada News.Net
Judge-less Yankees set to face surging Phillies, ace Zack Wheeler in finale
(Photo credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images) In the first season of interleague play in 1997, a 94-loss edition of the Philadelphia Phillies pulled off a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees, the then-reigning World Series champions. The current edition for the Phillies is jostling for first place in the National League East and another win in New York on Sunday will give them a three-game sweep of the Yankees, who will put Aaron Judge on the injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow. The Phillies outscored the Yankees 21-9 in the first two games of the series and totaled 27 hits. In Saturday's 9-4 win, Bryce Harper homered, Trea Turner drove in two runs and Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run double for the Phillies. Nick Castellanos was held out of the lineup after jamming his knee Friday and Edmundo Sosa suffered a bruised back in a collision with left fielder Brandon Marsh, though both could be in the lineup Sunday. Harper has five homers in his past eight games and is hitting .347 (17-for-49) in his past 12 games. Turner had a four-hit game Friday and is 10-for-20 in his past four games. Schwarber homered twice Friday and is batting .353 (12-for-34) with six homers and 15 RBIs in eight games since the All-Star break. J.T. Realmuto had an RBI single and his hitting .394 (28-for-71) in his past 17 games. 'It's the ebbs and flows,' Phillies manager Rob Thomson said after his team collected 13 hits Saturday. 'We got a lot of guys swinging the bats well right now and that comes and goes.' Judge experienced discomfort, wincing on a throw during New York's three-game series in Toronto. He was in more discomfort Friday and the Yankees sent him for tests that revealed only the strain and no damage to the ulnar collateral ligament. 'All in all, we got good news,' manager Aaron Boone said. 'I think all of us feared the worst.' Without Judge, the Yankees dropped to 3-7 in their past 10 games following a five-game winning streak. The five-game run followed their second six-game losing streak and the Yankees are 21-28 in their past 49 games since winning 35 of their first 55 and holding a seven-game lead atop the AL East. 'We're going to have to figure it out,' New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton said. 'Everybody's going to have to step up.' New York on Sunday will face righty Zack Wheeler (9-3, 2.39 ERA), who can reach double-digit wins for the fifth straight season. Wheeler earned his most recent win July 6 against the Cincinnati Reds when he pitched a one-hitter. Since then, he has allowed six runs on 13 hits in a pair of six-inning starts in no-decisions against the San Diego Padres and Boston Red Sox. Wheeler notched his fifth double-digit strikeout game this season Monday against Boston when he fanned 10 and allowed seven hits, equaling his second-highest total this season. Wheeler is 1-2 with a 7.18 ERA in five career starts against the Yankees. He last faced the Yankees in a 14-4 loss in Philadelphia last season, allowing three homers and seven runs in five innings on July 29. New York has an MLB-worst 6.29 ERA this month and starts Carlos Rodon (10-7, 3.10). Rodon is 2-4 with a 4.20 ERA in his past eight starts and allowed four runs (two earned) in five innings during a 4-1 loss at Toronto on Monday, his most recent start. Rodon is 1-0 with a 0.51 ERA in three career starts against the Phillies.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Inside the movement to make Idaho a ‘Christian State' — and how that affects Latter-day Saints
One of the most influential conservative policy groups at the Idaho Capitol wants to make the state explicitly Christian. But their definition excludes a quarter of the population who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, not to mention those in the state who belong to other religions or no religion at all. Over the past five years, the Idaho Family Policy Center has become a legislative powerhouse, drafting, sponsoring and training lawmakers to debate a host of bills promoting Christian values in public spaces. This year the organization pushed to mandate daily Bible reading in public schools. Though the policy never received a floor vote, the organization has vowed to bring it back next year, with the proposal representing just the beginning of what the group envisions for the state. Religious litmus tests in Idaho? Idaho Family Policy Center president Blaine Conzatti told the Deseret News he would not oppose declaring Idaho a 'Christian state' and implementing religious tests for public office, although he clarified these are not his short-term goals. While the Supreme Court struck them down in 1961, provisions to prevent non-Christians from office are not new or radical, according to Conzatti. Many early American states incorporated religious tests requiring a belief in the Christian God, or a specific affiliation to Protestant sects. Conzatti does not advocate for states to put their stamp of approval on one specific denomination but he does draw a line between 'historic Christianity,' based on the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, and the faith of Latter-day Saints. While they share many beliefs in common with Conzatti, some of the roughly one-third of Idaho lawmakers who belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say this approach could alienate the state's nearly half million members, and threatens religious pluralism. 'Mr. Conzatti, unfortunately, would not consider the majority faith in my legislative district to be Christian,' said Rep. Josh Wheeler, a Republican who represents the southeast corner of Idaho. 'That right there shows you the danger of becoming too narrow in what you require in policy that brings faith into the public square.' Since Wheeler entered the statehouse in 2023, legislators have introduced a record number of bills, with 'a large majority' of those originating from groups like the Idaho Family Policy Center, Wheeler said. The organization has had some major victories like the 2023 passage of bills letting parents sue libraries that carry sexually offensive books and letting students sue for encountering members of the opposite sex in public bathrooms. The Idaho Family Policy Center is characterized by its relentless approach, providing lawmakers with several versions of a bill to introduce each session to make it more likely that efforts like daily Bible reading will eventually pass, according to Wheeler. 'What I was surprised by is the way that this influence kind of shapes the whole legislative process in Idaho,' Wheeler said. But these legislative wins may ultimately come at the expense of broader goals to spread Christian values across society, Wheeler said, because they don't take into account the needs of all state residents. What the founders intended? In a series of email responses, Conzatti said that his political mission rests on the belief that the Founding Fathers crafted constitutions with the assumption that governments would actively promote what Conzatti calls 'biblical Christianity.' 'We are a Christian nation, as our founders at both the federal and state level affirmed,' Conzatti told the Deseret News. 'Put simply, we want our public schools and local governments to acknowledge God, in ways consistent with the history and tradition of our state and nation.' To support his conclusion, Conzatti, who studied government and law at Liberty University, cites numerous sources from the American Revolution and late 19th century where founders and Supreme Court justices affirmed the nation's Christian foundations. Drawing on Federalist leader Fisher Ames, Commentaries on the Constitution (1833) by Justice Joseph Story and Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1892), Conzatti argues that the First Amendment was never meant to put a wall between traditional Christianity and policymaking. His view is the opposite, that the maintenance of constitutional governance depends on the 'governmental promotion of biblical Christianity,' and that forgetting this has threatened American liberty, led to increased crime and weakened the family. 'Both policymakers and voters alike should take this opportunity to return to those biblical principles that made America a great place to work, worship, and raise families,' Conzatti said. Conzatti said he does not believe state-endorsed Christianity needs to come at the expense of religious liberty. The founding fathers, Conzatti said, were also firm believers in the natural right to freedom of conscience. While Conzatti is consistent in stating that voters of every state should have the power to choose what 'religious values and system of morality their state government will reflect,' he said 'biblical Christianity' is the only worldview that can sustain the country. 'We can — and we should — openly promote biblical Christian values and acknowledge God in our governmental affairs," Conzatti said. 'Idaho Family Policy Center affirms the freedom of all religious minorities to live out their faith, and we advocate for the religious freedom of everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.' Idaho's history of religious discrimination Republican Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen, who represents the area west of Idaho Falls, said proposals for the state to come out in transparent support of a certain interpretation of Christianity have 'been on turbocharge over the last few years.' Groups like Idaho Family Policy Center have an 'outsized influence' in Idaho politics because of the partnerships they have developed with many sitting lawmakers and prospective primary challengers, Mickelsen said. While some of their initiatives align with conservative small government principles, like allowing tax dollars to follow students outside of public school, others would expand government through increased litigation, spending and regulations, according to Mickelsen. An approach to social issues that takes control away from local governments is not just heavy-handed, it could create a precedent that infringes on the kind of pluralism that protects religious diversity, Mickelsen said. 'I think that we're getting back to a very slippery slope of being like the Church of England, or the Roman Catholic influence in Italy,' Mickelsen said. 'When's this going to stop? What's good enough for them?' Even though the 14th Amendment extended the Constitution's prohibition on religious tests to the states in 1868, just after Idaho became a territory, in the state's early history there was an effort to exclude Latter-day Saints from political life. Despite Latter-day Saint missionaries being among the first Europeans to settle in Idaho, the territory's laws in the 1880s, and its first state constitution, required an 'Idaho Test Oath' that banned supporters of groups that practiced polygamy from voting, serving on juries or holding office. The Supreme Court upheld the law in an unanimous ruling in 1890 — the same year the church ended the practice of plural marriage. And while enforcement ended later in the 1890s, the language that had earlier disenfranchised Latter-day Saint voters was not removed from the Idaho State Constitution until 1982. Personal faith in the public sphere Like Wheeler, Mickelsen, who is also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pointed to the church's seminary program as an example of how to bring religion into the public square without imposing on others. In southeast Idaho, as in Utah, high school students are given release time to leave campus for one period to attend church seminary buildings that are often built next door to the school. Former Republican Rep. Chenele Dixon, who was defeated in a primary in 2024 after opposing an Idaho Family Policy Center proposal, said she shared Wheeler and Mickelsen's view that an individual's faith should influence their policy decisions, and that this is healthy for society. During her single term in office, Dixon supported some bills written by the Idaho Family Policy Center that overlapped with her conservative views as a lifelong Republican, she said. But she said she thought other bills seemed like solutions in search of problems that the Idaho Family Policy Center had stirred up in an effort to box out views, or religions, they did not agree with. 'I do have a concern when we say that we need to be a Christian state, because there is always, I have found, a litmus test for Christianity with people that say that,' Dixon said. 'And actually, the folks who are saying that, don't have room for LDS people either, and I think a lot of LDS people don't understand that.' Correction: The Idaho Family Policy Center was not directly involved in lobbying for bills to require the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms and to allow chaplains to serve as school counselors. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Opendoor has become the first true woman-led meme stock—and that can get complicated
– Open up. Another day, another meme stock. Or is it? In the four years since GameStop went viral, it's been pretty rare for one of the stocks that Reddit's r/WallStreetBets has pushed to artificial highs to be a woman-led company. But alongside AMC, Nokia, and Trump Media & Technology Group, we can now count Opendoor, the real estate businesses headed by CEO Carrie Wheeler. Opendoor was a Fortune 500 member in 2022 and 2023 (and Wheeler was a Fortune 500 CEO), but the company has since fallen off the list of America's largest businesses. An online home buyer and flipper, its fortunes have reversed post-pandemic and after a 2020 SPAC. It came close to being delisted from the Nasdaq earlier this year. Over the past week, Opendoor's shares were up more than 400%—which still places its stock price at just $2.88 as of yesterday's market close. (Kohl's is another new meme stock of the past week, too.) Investor Eric Jackson is bullish on Opendoor, as are retail traders who see something Wall Street doesn't. But of course the attention of Reddit traders can get complicated. Investor Keith Rabois, who was a force behind the launch of the company a decade ago, has been openly questioning Wheeler's competence and calling for a new CEO—and others are following along. It's not easy to be a meme, and it's not easy to be a female CEO. Emma The Most Powerful Women Daily newsletter is Fortune's daily briefing for and about the women leading the business world. Subscribe here. This story was originally featured on
Spectator
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Wine Club: six summer delights from Mr Wheeler
With a seemingly endless round of lunches, dinners and tastings, it has been a punishing few days of far too much vino. Even dear Mrs Ray expressed her concern, although I thought that a bit rich given the state of her after Book Club. We decided, though, to take it easy, and I even foreswore my long-planned trip to Lord's for England vs India where far too many temptations and too many wicked, practised leaders-astray lay in wait. Oh yes, you know who are. I missed one of the greatest ever matches, of course, and kicked myself for being such a sap. Happily, just as I was sinking into a deep, dark gloom, a dozen or so bottles of fine Beaujolais arrived from Mr Wheeler, ready to be tasted for this offer. I looked at Mrs R and she looked at me and we agreed in an instant that abstinence was no fun at all and she ran off to get the corkscrew. I rustled up my humble version of Liv Potts's wonderful chicken pie, lined up the bottles and we dived straight in. All the wines are from mighty Maison Jean Loron, founded in 1711 and boasting vineyards in eight of the ten Beaujolais crus. With production overseen by Frédéric Maignet, MJL is one of the leading producers of the region, making – we both agreed – wines as tasty and as exciting as anyone. The 2021 Village Originel Chardonnay de Chardonnay Villa Cardenaco (1) is not, of course, from Beaujolais but – yes, you read it right – is a Chardonnay from the village of, well, Chardonnay in the Mâconnais. How satisfying is that? They've grown vines here in the commune once known to the Romans as Villa Cardenaco for almost 2,000 years, and it remains the grape's spiritual home. With plenty of white stone fruit and a lively, lemony freshness it's classic fare and made a perfect pipe-opener. £17.25 down from £18.45. By contrast, the 2023 L'Or des Pierres Beaujolais Blanc (2), from the so-called Pierres Dorées area of southern Beaujolais – thus named thanks to the golden hue of the local limestone – is more rounded and opulent. With delectably rich peachy, citrusy fruit there's also a hint of vanilla thanks to a touch of French oak and some fine lees ageing. This, we discovered, made a fine second serve. £17.25 down from £18.45. As for the reds, the 2022 Domaine des Billards, Saint-Amour (3), from the south-eastern edge of the Saint-Amour vineyard, is the latest vintage of a wine I've long enjoyed. 'Ooh, violet creams!' exclaimed Mrs Ray after having a quick sniff and gulp. I saw what she meant but I got more bramble fruit, cherries and even a touch of chocolate. Either way, it's dense, concentrated and full, with the softest of finishes and is deeply enjoyable. Our evening was shaping up nicely. £17.50 down from £18.95. If the previous wine spoke of violets, the 2021 Ch. Bellevue, Morgon Les Charmes (4) was all about raspberries – fresh, juicy, moreish, come-hither raspberries. Produced by rising star winemaker Elodie Rousselot from grapes sorted first in vineyard and then in winery, destemmed and vatted sans sulphur dioxide, the resulting wine spent almost a year in both concrete and steel and is all about freshness, vibrancy of fruit and sheer drinkability. £17.50 down from £18.95. The 2023 Ch. de la Pierre Brouilly Bonnège (5), from a microplot of 50-year-old vines within Maison Jean Loron's 12 hectare Ch. de la Pierre domaine, is quite punchy at 14 per cent vol. It's deliciously tasty, though, with intense, concentrated, full throttle dark fruit lifted by a perfectly judged underlying freshness. £20 down from £21.45. A previous vintage of the 2022 Champ de Cour, Moulin-à-Vent (6) won gold at the 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards and this, too, must surely have caught the judges' eyes, so toothsome is it. From old vines grown in the mineral-rich granite soil at the very foot of the fabled windmill itself, it's luscious, rich and concentrated, full of ripe cherry fruit and a hint of brooding liquorice. Mrs Ray's and my favourite. £21 down from £22.45. The mixed case contains two bottles of each wine and delivery, as ever, is free. Order online today or download as order form.
The Advertiser
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Matildas star Clare Wheeler to tie the knot after beachside proposal
Matildas star Clare Wheeler and long-time partner Jeremy Ord are engaged. The Matildas midfielder announced on Instagram that the pair are set to tie the knot. Ord popped the question during an overseas holiday at Cala Luna beach on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The couple shared a picture and video on social media. In the video, Ord walks over to Wheeler at the edge of the water before getting down on one knee. Wheeler and Ord have been in a relationship since 2021. The post has been flooded with messages from family, friends and Matildas teammates. "Yayyyyy congrats you cuties " Mary Fowler said. "SCREAMING!!! So happy for you both " Tegan Micah wrote. "Congrats you two " Ellie Carpenter added. Tameka Yallop, Charli Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross, Emily Gielnik and Mackenzie Arnold were among the other Matildas to offer congratulations. Wheeler, 27, plays for Everton in England, and has 30 caps for the Matildas. The engagement caps a massive two years for the player. The Newcastle-born player was a member of the 2023 World Cup squad and last year's Olympics squad in Paris. Wheeler's journey started with Adamstown Rosebud Junior Football Club aged 10. READ MORE: Matildas superstar still can't get used to 'insane' cereal box moment She honed her skills at Hunter Sports High and came through the Emerging Jets program before earning a W-League contract with the Jets as a 15-year-old. Matildas star Clare Wheeler and long-time partner Jeremy Ord are engaged. The Matildas midfielder announced on Instagram that the pair are set to tie the knot. Ord popped the question during an overseas holiday at Cala Luna beach on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The couple shared a picture and video on social media. In the video, Ord walks over to Wheeler at the edge of the water before getting down on one knee. Wheeler and Ord have been in a relationship since 2021. The post has been flooded with messages from family, friends and Matildas teammates. "Yayyyyy congrats you cuties " Mary Fowler said. "SCREAMING!!! So happy for you both " Tegan Micah wrote. "Congrats you two " Ellie Carpenter added. Tameka Yallop, Charli Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross, Emily Gielnik and Mackenzie Arnold were among the other Matildas to offer congratulations. Wheeler, 27, plays for Everton in England, and has 30 caps for the Matildas. The engagement caps a massive two years for the player. The Newcastle-born player was a member of the 2023 World Cup squad and last year's Olympics squad in Paris. Wheeler's journey started with Adamstown Rosebud Junior Football Club aged 10. READ MORE: Matildas superstar still can't get used to 'insane' cereal box moment She honed her skills at Hunter Sports High and came through the Emerging Jets program before earning a W-League contract with the Jets as a 15-year-old. Matildas star Clare Wheeler and long-time partner Jeremy Ord are engaged. The Matildas midfielder announced on Instagram that the pair are set to tie the knot. Ord popped the question during an overseas holiday at Cala Luna beach on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The couple shared a picture and video on social media. In the video, Ord walks over to Wheeler at the edge of the water before getting down on one knee. Wheeler and Ord have been in a relationship since 2021. The post has been flooded with messages from family, friends and Matildas teammates. "Yayyyyy congrats you cuties " Mary Fowler said. "SCREAMING!!! So happy for you both " Tegan Micah wrote. "Congrats you two " Ellie Carpenter added. Tameka Yallop, Charli Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross, Emily Gielnik and Mackenzie Arnold were among the other Matildas to offer congratulations. Wheeler, 27, plays for Everton in England, and has 30 caps for the Matildas. The engagement caps a massive two years for the player. The Newcastle-born player was a member of the 2023 World Cup squad and last year's Olympics squad in Paris. Wheeler's journey started with Adamstown Rosebud Junior Football Club aged 10. READ MORE: Matildas superstar still can't get used to 'insane' cereal box moment She honed her skills at Hunter Sports High and came through the Emerging Jets program before earning a W-League contract with the Jets as a 15-year-old. Matildas star Clare Wheeler and long-time partner Jeremy Ord are engaged. The Matildas midfielder announced on Instagram that the pair are set to tie the knot. Ord popped the question during an overseas holiday at Cala Luna beach on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The couple shared a picture and video on social media. In the video, Ord walks over to Wheeler at the edge of the water before getting down on one knee. Wheeler and Ord have been in a relationship since 2021. The post has been flooded with messages from family, friends and Matildas teammates. "Yayyyyy congrats you cuties " Mary Fowler said. "SCREAMING!!! So happy for you both " Tegan Micah wrote. "Congrats you two " Ellie Carpenter added. Tameka Yallop, Charli Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross, Emily Gielnik and Mackenzie Arnold were among the other Matildas to offer congratulations. Wheeler, 27, plays for Everton in England, and has 30 caps for the Matildas. The engagement caps a massive two years for the player. The Newcastle-born player was a member of the 2023 World Cup squad and last year's Olympics squad in Paris. Wheeler's journey started with Adamstown Rosebud Junior Football Club aged 10. READ MORE: Matildas superstar still can't get used to 'insane' cereal box moment She honed her skills at Hunter Sports High and came through the Emerging Jets program before earning a W-League contract with the Jets as a 15-year-old.
