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Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Longhorns safety Michael Taaffe shares his story with Texas Exes in Tyler
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — One of the best stories in college football has been Texas Longhorn safety Michael Taafe, who went from walk-on to one of the leaders on the Texas defense. Michael Taaffe honors those who died at Camp Mystic with special tie during SEC Media Days On Saturday, he was in East Texas, getting another chance to share his journey. It was all part of the annual Texas Exes Tyler-Smith County Chapter scholarship dinner, hosted at the Hollytree Country Club. This event helps raise money for East Texas students. Every year, they invite a special guest speaker, but Taaffe is the first ever current football player to take part in this ceremony. Taafe, who played high school ball for Austin Westlake, committed to Rice in 2020, but decided to go to U-T when they offered him a walk-on spot on the 40 acres. He excelled in his red-shirt freshman season and earned a scholarship before the Alamo Bowl. Since then, he has been an integral piece in bringing the Longhorns program back to prominence, and an example of what can be accomplished when you take a chance on yourself. He was also grateful for this opportunity and excited to be here in the pineywoods. Taaffe and the Longhorns will open the 2025 season with a rematch against last year's national champions, as Texas travels to Columbus, Ohio, to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. OSU knocked Texas out of the college football playoff in the semifinal round last year. These two will kick the season off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, and you can see all the action on FOX51. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nebraska 8-man QB receives Big Ten offer
A team in the Big Ten Conference has noticed Nebraska high school football prospect Wyatt Frey. And it isn't his in-state school. Northwestern offered the 2027 prep a scholarship earlier this week, as the Lawrence-Nelson High School star looks to continue to add to his resume. Frey, who competes in 8-man football in Nebraska, was a quarterback and defensive starter for the Raiders, throwing for almost 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns while adding another 1,258 yards and 19 scores on the ground. On defense, he recorded 44 tackles and picked off six passes. In 2023, Frey played for Red Cloud High School where he threw for over 1,500 yards with 31 touchdowns. MORE: Former Nebraska standout, Iowa prep credits Matt Rhule with getting him ready for the NFL Despite playing in the lower classification, Frey stands out, as he is 6-foot-5 and over 200 pounds. He was an all-state honorable mention selection in basketball as both a freshman and sophomore. Frey has spent the summer at several camps, including one hosted by the Wildcats. MORE HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS NEWS: Hawkeyes receive in-state commit from top high school wrestler Iowa lands key Tennessee basketball prospect for Class of 2025 Treynor pitcher decommits from Iowa softball program
Fox News
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump responds to death of congressional intern: 'Eric will be held in my heart'
Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., and The Fund for American Studies President Roger Ream remember 21-year-old Eric Tarpinian-Jachym as a 'great person' and 'intelligent young man' and share details on the scholarship started in his name.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Father Figure by Emma Forrest review – a slippery tale of teenage obsession
Father Figure opens with a memory of murders, bought and paid for; then skips briskly to scholarship girl Gail, who is on the verge of being expelled from her expensive London academy for writing a scandalous essay. The connection between death and day school is new girl Agata, the daughter of notoriously corrupt East End businessman Ezra Levy. Ezra, a man who takes phone calls from Putin, buys football clubs and has had people killed, wants more for Agata than he had when young. Her anorexia is killing her, and he, 'fleshy and stupid', can't stop it. Gail sets her sights on Ezra: part compulsion, part seduction, an adolescent power game taken to dangerous conclusions. Gail's mother, Dar, wants to make it clear that they are a very different sort of Jewish from Ezra. Ezra, Dar believes, is bad for Britain and bad for Jewish people. A pro-Palestinian activist for whom Israel is 'a KICK ME sticker', Dar isn't sure about Ashkenazim (too much therapy, not enough booze) and 'suspicious of Hassidim ... booking flights that took off on Saturdays so she'd never have to sit next to them'. Is Dar antisemitic? Gail worries she might be. And Dar worries about Gail all the time: the mother-daughter relationship is close, troubled and finely drawn. Precocious Gail is the kind of 16-year-old who writes long, thoughtful letters to George Michael. They begin simply – 'Dear George … what exactly happens in cottaging?'– and progress, as Gail's dangerous infatuation with Ezra builds, to 'Dear George … I looked like a teenage girl in a pornographic magazine. He didn't see that. But I did.' The one-sided nature of the correspondence evokes exactly the never-enough feeling of adolescence. The conceit is charming and funny, if a little underdeveloped. The year is 2015 but, with minor tweaks, the novel could be set 10 years later or 50 before. Adolescence, and the hot, hungry nature of it, doesn't change much. The teenage girl, in Forrest's capable and unusual fifth novel, is a kind of bottomless pit of need – for desire, attention and the world to come. Agata, seriously ill, attempts to wrest back control from Ezra and her doting stepmother; Faith, Gail's one-time lover and former best friend, breaks away from Gail by flirting with a whole cohort of teenage boys on Hampstead Heath; and Gail herself is unstoppable. 'I fellated a Cypriot fruiterer at the apex of Parliament Hill,' begins her controversial essay. The teenage girl is also a thing mostly beyond adult understanding, and certainly beyond adult intervention, which here only serves to complicate matters further. This is a book that seeks to complicate everything it possibly can. From the sexual agency of teenage girls to bigotry among billionaires, mental illness, murder, protest, queerness, and the obviously thorny question of Israeli-Palestinian relations, Father Figure thrives as an exploration of grey areas. As a novelist, Forrest tends to reserve judgment: her characters are not likable, but they are tender. They feel things very deeply, and Forrest treats each one with distinction. You could never mistake them for anyone else. The same is true of Forrest's prose, the rhythm always half a beat from where you think it will land. The overall effect is of a kind of faux-naivety, even a childlike desire to spell things out, to have clarity at all costs ('Faith swam back and forth between the child and the mother, unsure of who could better advance her needs, because she still didn't know what her needs were'). And yet the contrast between this plain tell-don't-show approach, and the complex nuances of Forrest's plot, characters and morality systems creates a kind of literary twilight zone in which anything is possible. It feels like being told a story by a liar. Or by a precocious teenager. Forrest's adolescent ventriloquism is a gift deployed powerfully here. Being able to avoid the school loos, for example, is a 'more valuable talent than being able to hold your breath under water'; the only girl more unloved than Gail is 'Fat Lilah'; the resentment of Gail for her mother is matched only by Dar's desperation to understand her daughter. 'Living in the era where mothers could track their children digitally,' Dar muses, 'only made her daughter's emotional secrecy more challenging to accept.' Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion The novel twists in the final third: from a meditation on older men and betrayal, it becomes a breathtaking gallop into something significantly closer to a thriller. This is fairly unexpected, but not at all unwelcome. A plot! In a literary coming-of-age story! Nothing, in Forrest's writing, is ever simple. Things are deceptive, untidy and uneasy – and happen when you least expect it. Actions have consequences, and those consequences can change the shape of everything – which is, I suppose, always the true lesson of adolescence. And the true, tricky, slippery lesson of Forrest's novel. Father Figure by Emma Forrest is published by W&N (£18.99). To support the Guardian buy a copy at Delivery charges may apply.
Free Malaysia Today
2 days ago
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Sabah allocates highest amount of RM136mil for scholarships this year
Chief minister Hajiji Noor said 4,170 students will benefit from the scholarship programme this year. (Bernama pic) KOTA KINABALU : The Sabah government has allocated RM136 million for state government scholarships this year. This is part of its continuous commitment to strengthen the development of higher education in the state, chief minister Hajiji Noor said. The allocation is the highest so far. It has risen significantly from RM50 million in 2020, reflecting the determination of the state government to ensure its youth, regardless of socio-economic background, have a chance to further their studies, Hajiji said. 'This is the government's long-term investment project to develop quality human capital that is competitive. 'We don't want young Sabahans to be left behind in education due to financial constraints,' he said in his speech read by Sabah science, technology and innovation minister Arifin Arif at the Sabah university student aid presentation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah here today. He said 4,170 students will benefit from the scholarship programme this year, in line with the goals of Sabah Maju Jaya in empowering the education sector as a core of state development. In addition, the Sabah government has allocated RM77.5 million to carry out 13 education initiatives to benefit schools, parent-teacher associations, Sabah student associations and tertiary students. This includes a one-off cash aid for registrations, aid to purchase computers and the flight fare aid for Sabah students. Hajiji said the Sabah education fund, introduced in June 2022, had helped 10,104 recipients, and RM15.8 million had been spent so far.
