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Oral Roberts claims surprise College World Series bid; Wake Forest, LSU, Virginia also win supers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

No. 1 national seed Wake Forest was expected to make it to the College World Series.Oral Roberts? Not so much.Yet it’s on to Omaha for the Golden Eagles, who certainly look the part of a team deserving to be among the final eight in the NCAA Tournament after going on the road and sweeping through regionals and then winning a three-game super regional against Oregon.ORU is the lowest seed to reach the CWS since Stony Brook in 2012. The feat is reminiscent of ORU’s run to the Sweet 16 in the 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.Now the team from the small evangelical school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will head to Omaha, Nebraska, to play TCU on Saturday at Charles Schwab Field. Oral Roberts’ only other CWS appearance was in 1978, when the team was known as the Titans and played as an independent.“We’re going to let it fly here in a week,” coach Ryan Folmar said after his team’s 11-6 win Sunday night. “We knew we had a good club coming into the year. We continued to get bet...

Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ exploring Jewish identity with an intergenerational story, wins Tony Award for best play

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ exploring Jewish identity with an intergenerational story, wins Tony Award for best play.Source

Hernández lifts Red Sox over Yankees 3-2 in 10 innings to take series

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Kiké Hernández hit a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Sunday night with the help of a late error by second baseman Gleyber Torres.Justin Turner homered and Brayan Bello allowed three hits in seven efficient innings for the Red Sox, matching his career high. Last-place Boston (33-33) took two of three low-scoring games at Yankee Stadium in the first series this season between the longtime rivals.Jose Trevino’s early two-run single that took a lucky bounce off second base was one of only three hits for the Yankees — and all the offense they could muster.Chris Martin worked a hitless inning for his 10th career save and first for the Red Sox. With a runner on third, he struck out Trevino and rookie Anthony Volpe to end it.Hernández’s sharp single to left field off Ron Marinaccio (2-3) in the 10th scored pinch-runner Adam Duvall, placed at second base as the automatic runner before advancing to third on Tr...

'Aidan's Song' marks preschool graduation for young boy with visual impairment

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Last week, 5-year-old Aidan Gleason graduated from Anchor Center School for Blind Children.The collaboration to celebrate his big accomplishment brought together talented folks for a project they won't forget."We didn't know if he would walk or talk or be communicative but despite all of his challenges, he is all over the place," Adam, Aidan's father, said.Aiden was born with disabilities that include visual impairment.He's a very happy boy learning about the world around him and his place in it. Tix for trade: Local barber offers free haircuts for life in exchange for Nuggets tickets "We use songs in therapy, we've made up so many songs about bath time, potty time, going up the stairs," Elizabeth, Aidan's mother, said.Elizabeth and Adam celebrated his graduation from preschool, in part, with his favorite thing in the world: his toy police car."He will drive that around the house," Adam said, "he loves looking at the lights, that's something with this vision he ca...

Straub: We need a better solution to problems like TikTok

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

The Trump administration tried to ban TikTok, and the Biden administration has threatened to — because of its ties to China. Now, Montana has passed legislation banning the app in the state to protect residents’ “personal and private data from the Chinese Communist Party.” However, many believe the law may not hold up in court.The right to spread information — even information that may counter national security interests — is well established. The concerns raised by Montana and two presidential administrations go far beyond this, focusing on the app’s tracking — including gathering information about others — and collection of information on a mass scale. This collection could lead to numerous threats, ranging from future cyberattacks to election tampering to recruiting U.S. citizen spies. This information is also useful for commercial purposes such as targeting advertisements for goods and services.The United States has several competing interests to consider. The first is constitut...

Editorial: Farm Bill must say no to Big Sugar subsidies

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

Sugar in the U.S. costs nearly twice as much as elsewhere in the world, raising prices for candy, baked goods, ice cream and more. The reason is no mystery. A government farm-subsidy program in effect since the 1930s blocks cheaper imports and controls the price and quantity of sugar in our marketplace. As in the days of Soviet central planning, the program benefits a few at the expense of the many.The main culprits? A small group of domestic sugar processors, sugar cane growers in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, and sugar beet producers in a handful of mostly northern states. Lining the pockets of this wealthy, politically connected pressure group costs U.S. consumers at least $2.4 billion at the grocery store each year.Someday, the price-gouging must stop, and reformers have high hopes for the 2023 Farm Bill — the federal farm and food policy legislation that comes up for renewal every five years. Voters are justifiably angry about the high cost of food, and no doubt would support e...

‘Jagged Little Pill’ star Lauren Chanel takes deep dive into role

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

Every night, Lauren Chanel spends two hours playing Frankie Healy, a Black, adopted 16-year-old who rages against her wealthy, white, Stepford Wife-like mother, Mary Jane Healy. For Chanel, diving daily into the role of Frankie in “Jagged Little Pill” can be overwhelming.“This show requires all of you,” Chanel told the Herald. “It’s mentally, physically draining. Yes, acting is not real, and we know that. But sometimes your body and mind have a disconnect, so your mind knows it’s fake but your body is going through something physically. That can mean trembling. It can mean hearing words that trigger a certain experience. The show is exhausting.”But the exhaustion comes with tremendous artistic satisfaction.Despite being based on Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill,” this is no silly jukebox musical indulgence. This is a decidedly modern Broadway production – “Jagged Little Pill” plays at the Citizens Bank Opera House June 13 -25.Developed at Cambridge’s American Reper...

Dear Abby: Spouse wants to travel before it’s too late

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

Dear Abby: I was diagnosed with chronic heart failure seven years ago. It has no cure. I want to see and do more before my life is over. My husband and I have been married 29 years. After talking about this with my therapist, I was finally able to express it to my husband. He said he understands, but we will need to save for a trip and won’t be able to go until late next year.I have told him I need to go somewhere to see more of the world very soon. I’d be willing to go by myself. He told me we needed to close out an old bank account in which there was $3,000. We have spent other money I don’t think was necessary. We are going to his sister’s wedding in a few months, which will cost around $2,500, and he’s already talking about how he’s going to take his annual vacation to see his family.My sister said she and I should take a trip together this year to a destination four hours by car. It would be for about four days. My husband said “we̵...

Bail hearing set for Utah woman accused of killing husband then writing grief book for kids

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death, and was later accused of fatally poisoning him, is scheduled to appear in court Monday to determine whether she should remain detained or have an opportunity to post bail.Kouri Richins, 33, is charged with murder and drug possession. Prosecutors say in court documents that she slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a Moscow mule cocktail she made for her husband, Eric Richins, amid marital disputes and fights over a multimillion-dollar mansion she ultimately purchased as an investment.The mother of three self-published an illustrated book about an angelic father watching over his sons. The case became a true-crime fixation when charges were filed last month, prompting people to pore over the children’s book and scrutinize remarks she made while promoting it as a tool to help children grieve the loss of a loved one. Prosecutors have painted a picture o...

New Zealand public radio apologizes for publishing ‘pro-Kremlin garbage’ after wire stories altered

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:39:58 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The head of New Zealand’s public radio station apologized Monday for publishing “pro-Kremlin garbage” on its website after more than a dozen wire stories on the Ukraine war were found to have been altered.Most of the stories, which date back more than a year, were written by the Reuters news agency and were changed at Radio New Zealand to include Russian propaganda. A digital journalist from RNZ has been placed on leave pending the result of an employment investigation.Paul Thompson, the chief executive of taxpayer-funded RNZ, said it had found issues in 16 stories and was republishing them on its website with corrections and editor’s notes. He said he was commissioning an external review of the organization’s editing processes.“It is so disappointing. I’m gutted. It’s painful. It’s shocking,” Thompson said on RNZ’s Nine to Noon show. “We have to get to the bottom of how it happened.” Thompson said it had forensically reviewed about 2...