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Border watch: A Biden-Made Disaster
The Border Patrol encountered 1 million illegal border crossers in the first half of fiscal year 2022; even before peak migration months, agents are “overwhelmed,” reports the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. And it’s about to get much worse. President Biden is lifting Title 42, “a Trump-era measure that allowed the US to turn back illegal border crossers on grounds of protecting the country against the coronavirus pandemic.” This “will create a rush of illegal crossers at the border, a prediction even the White House does not dispute.” In other words, it’s coming. Not a natural disaster, but “a man-made disaster, with the man, in this case, being Biden.”
Gadfly: Corporate America’s Double Standard
While “the way corporate America has rushed to cut ties with its operations in Russia” is “heartening,” argues National Review’s Jim Geraghty, it offers “a strange contrast” to how the same companies have “rarely if ever uttered a critical word about the government of China despite its ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs, its human-rights abuses, its oppression of Hong Kong,” etc. Indeed, it’s “groveled to Beijing.” But then “Russia is a much smaller and less important market . . . than China.” Thus, “Disney gave the Chinese government de facto veto power over its creators for decades, but paused all business operations in Russia on March 10.” Fact is, “Vladimir Putin is giving corporate America an easy win, and one that helps it sweep its corrupting relationship with China under the rug.”
Crime desk: Business Wakes Up
“The decriminalization of retail theft in cities across the country has taken place amid a long-term nationwide increase in shoplifting. The US Chamber of Commerce now is calling for help from the federal government” — “but its plea is misdirected,” observes Tom Hogan at City Journal. “It’s not Congress, or federal prosecutors’ offices — designed to handle major crimes, such as terrorism, corruption and drug cartels — but local prosecutors to whom the Chamber should be appealing.” Indeed, if the business community, which has sometimes had “a reformist position on criminal justice,” wants to see “criminals held to account, it should put its money where its mouth is. George Soros made a series of effective investments that helped get progressive prosecutors elected in big cities.” Those wanting to see the law enforced “should donate money to promoting law-enforcing prosecutors.”
From the right: Big Labor’s Defeat
“The tide is turning politically on Capitol Hill, and the latest evidence is the surprising defeat of David Weil to run the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division,” cheers The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, with three Senate Democrats opposing “the union favorite.” Weil “sought to destroy the franchise business model and gig economy as Americans know them” when he held the job in the Obama years. “More workers have embraced freelancing during the pandemic. So why would” President Biden “nominate someone to a top Labor job who wants to kill their jobs?” Because he expected Weil to “impose via regulation much of Big Labor’s Pro Act that has failed to pass the Senate.” The “embarrassing defeat is a sign” Biden’s “radical nominees” are “getting more scrutiny” as “progressives turn to executive action to impose what they can’t pass in Congress.”
Libertarian: Colleges, End Mask Mandates
“Across the country, government-mandated masking is mostly over,” notes Reason’s Robby Soave. But “many college campuses still have mask mandates in place, even though their student populations are almost entirely vaccinated.” George Washington University, for one, “still has a universal indoor mask mandate in place,” with no plans to end it — though it “requires students to be vaccinated and boosted, and tests them every other week.” And GWU is “hardly alone”: NYU, UCLA and the University of Michigan still require masks. Sigh. “Every college that still clings, desperately, to mask mandates must ask itself one simple question: If not now, when?” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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If LeBron James ultimately passes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, it could lead to one awkward handshake.
Abdul-Jabbar criticized James for the third time this season on Sunday before the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets. He was at the arena to present Carmelo Anthony, James’ teammate with the Lakers, with the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy honoring the NBA’s Social Justice Champion for the 2020-21 season.
Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t think James has fully utilized his platform to make a difference. He’s not the first one with that opinion, but this was Lakers-on-Lakers criticism.
“Some of the things he’s done and said are really beneath him, as far as I can see,” Abdul-Jabbar said, according to ESPN.com. “Some of the great things that he’s done, he’s standing on both sides of the fence almost, you know? It makes it hard for me to accept that when he’s committed himself to a different take on everything. It’s hard to figure out where he’s standing. You’ve got to check him out every time.”
James recently passed Karl Malone to move into No. 2 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. He is less than 1,400 points away from catching Abdul-Jabbar. But the two all-time greats don’t have a personal relationship, even if they are bonded by the purple and gold uniform.
“If he would take the time [to know me], I definitely got the time,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I admire the things that he’s done that have gotten all our attention. Sending a whole school to college? Wow. That’s amazing. His thoughtfulness and willingness to back it up with his wallet, you got to give him credit for that. So I’m not throwing stones. I just wish he wouldn’t — you know, some of the things he’s done, he should be embarrassed about. That’s just where I’m coming from.”
Like what specifically?
Abdul-Jabbar took issue with an R-rated celebration by James after he made a big overtime shot against the Pacers in December.
“For me, winning is enough,” Abdul-Jabbar said in a video posted on Substack, a subscription commentary website. “Why do you need to do a stupid, childish dance and disrespect the other team on the court? It doesn’t make sense. GOATs don’t dance.”
When James later made reference on social media to what he feels is confusion between symptoms for COVID-19, a cold and the flu, Abdul-Jabbar “called it a blow to his worthy legacy.” James dismissed Abdul-Jabbar and anyone else who misunderstood the intent of his message at the time.
“With the issues I was talking about,” Abdul-Jabbar said, “things that really affect the black community, he should be careful. That’s all I’m asking.”
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Judge Patrick McAllister last week did the right thing by rejecting New York’s blatantly gerrymandered new congressional and legislative maps and ordering the Legislature to draw new ones that win support from both political parties.
Since the Democrats ‘ maps illegally disenfranchise GOP voters, despite the clear intent of the state Constitution as expressly amended by the voters, he’ll order an independent special master to do maps for this year’s elections (at least) if the Legislature’s Dem majorities can’t come up with districts that pass the sniff test by April 11.
But Dems are digging in. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James issued a terse-but-scandalous joint response to the ruling: “We intend to appeal this decision.”
In other words, they’re both more interested in currying favor with the party hacks who see a chance to lock in permanent Dem dominance than with basic fairness and the public’s will.
The Democrats’ maps aim to slice New York’s GOP seats in the House of Representatives from eight to four, handing Dems 22 safe seats. It similarly limits Republicans to 15 of 63 state Senate seats. (McAllister tossed the map for Assembly districts because the whole process was so blatantly tainted.)
Defending this horror means Hochul owns it: “It’s not just a gerrymander, we’re calling it a Hochulmander,” said state Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy, noting the gov is now “directly responsible.”
Hochul & Co. hope the state appellate courts, utterly dominated by Democratic appointees, will meekly deny the obvious and protect the obscene power grab. If so, expect public-interest lawyers to take the case to the federal courts, likely delaying this year’s primaries.
This abomination must not stand, and it’s a huge black mark against Hochul that she’s trying to save it.
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In 1907, the famous composer and conductor Gustav Mahler visited Finland to conduct the Helsinki Philharmonic in a program of Beethoven and Wagner.
While preparing for his own program, he had the opportunity to hear the orchestra perform a program of lighter works that included music by Finland’s foremost composer, Jean Sibelius, whose music had by that time become virtually synonymous with a movement to create a new Finnish national mythology in support of political independence.
In contrast to this populist body of work, Sibelius was coming to an understanding of the symphony as a vehicle for a composer to explore a more internal landscape of purely musical matters of form, harmonic logic and motivic relationships; and in meeting with Mahler during that week, he shared this view with his Austrian colleague.
Mahler’s indignant response: “No, a symphony must be like the world: It must encompass everything!”
On April 30, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, which is a vast and profound expression of this sentiment. Lasting well over an hour, it was composed in 1901 and 1902 at a pivotal moment in his life, having recently suffered a near-death experience early in 1901 and subsequently having met and (at the time happily) married Alma Schindler, who by summer 1902 was expecting their first child.
Accordingly, the five-movement symphony begins with a dark funeral march, includes an intimate love song to his new wife, and ends with a thrilling manifestation of the triumph of the human spirit. Between all of these is indeed an entire world of sound and emotion, described by the composer himself after hearing the first rehearsal of the work as a “foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound, … dancing stars, … breathtaking, iridescent and flashing breakers.” For audience and orchestra alike, it is a timeless musical journey through the full range of human experience.
This program was envisioned to be the centerpiece of the YSO’s 50th anniversary celebration. It is a work of incredible complexity and difficulty even for an experienced professional orchestra (though it may not sound so to the audience), and as such this performance will truly be a testament to how far our hometown orchestra has come since its debut during the 1971-72 season as a local volunteer community ensemble. Beyond the stage, it also will be a testament to five decades of work behind the scenes by volunteer board members, community partners and eventually staff, all of which has made possible the level of artistic achievement and community impact the Yakima Valley enjoys from the symphony organization today.
The exceptional professional musicians of the YSO teach our children not only music but also leadership and other life skills; they contribute in innumerable ways on their own, beyond the orchestra stage, to the cultural life of our community and countless others throughout the Pacific Northwest; and the quality of their work brings together people from all backgrounds and walks of life in ways that benefit the social, economic and spiritual foundations of our entire region.
True to Mahler’s words, a symphony -- both the music and the ensemble -- must indeed encompass everything.
• David Rogers is executive director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra. Learn more at www.ysomusic.org.
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Artist Skip Smith began to use a digital camera just a few years ago after working in black and white for over 30 years. “Hiding out at home from COVID restricted my opportunities for new fieldwork," he said. "Physical confinement plus the endless possibilities presented by Lightroom of altering hue, saturation and luminance prompted me to break out of old ways of seeing my previous work.”
Adobe Lightroom is used, often in concert with Photoshop, to brighten photos, enhance colors and mask distracting elements. It has a multitude of tools, with some presets made by professional photographers.
Says Smith on working with color: "What has delighted me most is the complete difference in mood and emotional response that is made possible when the photograph is in color as opposed to when it is monochrome.”
You will certainly notice the strong use of saturation -- the intensity of the color -- in Smith's photography. A grayscale or black-and-white photo has no color saturation, while a full-color photo of a field of sunlit wildflowers might be extremely saturated. Saturation can be altered in Lightroom to make the colors richer. Luminance adds more lightness to the color, where hue can actually change the color altogether.
The exhibit “In Your Face Color” opened Saturday, April 2, at the Boxx Gallery in Tieton and will continue through April 24.
The Boxx also features an artist in the gift area, and the one for this month is Cathy Lapsley, a local collage artist. Sue Berg, who does marketing for Boxx, says “her clever and thought-provoking pieces will delight and amuse you!”
• David Lynx is executive director of the Larson Gallery at Yakima Valley College. He writes this weekly column for Explore. Learn more at www.larsongallery.org.
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GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A barn fire in Greenfield caused some road closures Sunday evening.
According to the Greenfield Police Department, crews responded to Plain Road for a report of a barn that was on fire.
Plain Road was closed for several hours while fire fighters battled the flames. There was serious damage to the barn.
There is no word on what caused the fire.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (April 2, 2022) Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Aaron Paredes, a native of Pearl City, Hawaii, fires an M4 carbine during a live-fire exercise aboard amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), April 2, 2022. Essex is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christina Himes)
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Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson says three juveniles and an 18-year-old were involved in a multi-county police chase Saturday night that ended in the stolen vehicle crashing into tractor trailer.
The pursuit started with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office receiving a call of a reportedly stolen vehicle.
Sheriff Wilson says HCSO chased the vehicle into Walker Co. on GA 193 and the vehicle crashed into a trailer (tractor- trailer) leaving the roadway on GA Hwy 193, South of Nickajack Rd.
Three juveniles and one 18 yr old were able to get free of the wreckage and were taken into custody.
The three juveniles were taken to the youth detention center. The adult was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Sheriff Wilson says he is not certain at this time what charges HCSO will have on the individuals.
In Georgia the driver will face multiple traffic charges and felony bringing stolen property into the state.
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U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 (HMH-466) on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) during Balikatan 22, off the coast of the Philippines, March 28, 2022. Balikatan is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades shared experiences. Balikatan, Tagalog for 'shoulder-to-shoulder,' is a longstanding bilateral exercise between the Philippines and the United States highlighting the deep-rooted partnership between both countries. Balikatan 22 is the 37th iteration of the exercise and coincides with the 75th anniversary of U.S.-Philippine security cooperation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Doan)
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The right-to-repair movement has scored another win.
Samsung is the latest tech company giving customers the ability to repair their own mobile devices amid pressure from consumers, regulators and even US President Joe Biden to ease restrictions on fixing products.
The company announced on Thursday a new program that will allow users of some of its flagship Galaxy devices to repair their own products, giving them and third-party fixit companies access to genuine parts, repair tools and visual step-by-step repair guides for the first time. Previously, Samsung (SSNLF) users had to rely on the company's in-house repair service to fix devices.
The new program will first be available starting this summer to users of the Galaxy S20 and S21 family of products, and the Galaxy Tab S7+, but not to owners of its S22 lineup. The company said it is collaborating with iFixit, an online repair community that's worked with Motorola on a similar self-repair program.
In November, Apple (AAPL) announced a program, called Self Repair Service, that will make spare parts for Apple products, such as displays, batteries and camera modules, available to purchase and give anyone access to repair manuals. The program, which has not yet officially launched, will be limited to iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 users to start. Apple previously said the service will later expand to Mac computers that use Apple's new in-house M1 chip.
Companies such as Samsung and Apple have been criticized for using tactics that make it harder for independent repair businesses to access devices, such as using non-removable memory or batteries, or sealing devices with special glue. The companies argue that this is done to ensure the products are properly repaired through authorized repair services.
Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, told CNN Business that Samsung's latest announcement is "part of a sea change where manufacturers are moving to support your right to repair."
"Extending the lifespan of electronics is essential for the future of the planet, and providing consumers with self-repair options is an essential step to making that happen," he added.
Last summer, President Biden urged the Federal Trade Commission to set rules preventing manufacturers from imposing restrictions on independent device repair shops and DIY repairs, a principle known as "right to repair."
A week later, the FTC vowed to "root out" illegal repair restrictions on various products, including phones. This push has also gained traction among regulators in Europe.
New regulations could prohibit this practice and require all smartphone manufacturers to make parts, tools, repair manuals, and diagnostics for out-of-warranty repairs more readily available to third-party businesses.
"In many cases, the price to fix a smartphone or computer is close to, if not more than, replacing it all together — a strategy that encourages people to buy new devices rather than fixing them," Pedro Pacheco, a senior director at market research firm Gartner, told CNN Business at the time.
Consumers could benefit from the shift in other ways. Because giving customers more control over how their devices get fixed could likely prolong the lifespan of products, companies will need to "entice consumers to switch or upgrade smartphones with better specs and other approaches," Pacheco added. "They will need to refocus their efforts."
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And the philanthropist is hoping the decision to help the UK Government will inspire others to accommodate those fleeing Russian bombs
Visas have been issued for 210 Ukrainians to travel to Scotland under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
About 32,200 applications have been made to the UK government scheme, which is open to refugees with a named sponsor.The Yianis Christodoulou Foundation has previously raised over £1 million to help good causes in the UK and the founder's home country of Cyprus.
Scottish formula one racing legend David Coulthard famously supported the Foundation with auctionable experiences, including karting lessons and dinner for two with him in Monaco.
The Foundation has also backed HRH Prince of Wales at a charity event in Dumfries House, in Ayrshire.
Currently based in Monaco, Mr Christodoulou fled the Turkish invasion of Cyprus to the UK in 1974 along with his family and is now opening the doors to two of his Yianis Group hotels to give more than 750 people a safe home for a year, at no cost.
Yianis Group has a a portfolio of residential, hotel, retail and leisure properties in the UK and Europe. Its two hotels to home Ukrainian refugees are the Radisson Blu Hotel in Liverpool and Palace Park Inn in Southend on Sea.
But Mr Christodoulou hopes it will encourage families and businesses everywhere in the UK - including Scotland - to get involved and do their bit.
There are still people fleeing Ukraine today, leaving many seeking refuge.
With Phase One of the Homes for Ukraine scheme, individuals are encouraged to volunteer suitable accommodation if they have it available.
Anyone who resides in a part of the UK, regardless of nationality or immigration status, provided they have at least six months leave to remain, may act as a sponsor if they have a spare room, or other unoccupied accommodation that is fit for people to live.
He said: "‘We are pleased to be able to open our hotel rooms to help those seeking refuge from the crisis in Ukraine. When an event of such scale causes devastation, it’s important for individuals, communities, businesses, and charities alike to come together and support one another.
"The UK Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme plays an important role in helping welcome people into our society and ensuring they integrate seamlessly and effectively.
"We encourage those who have the means, and safe accommodation spaces, to help offer a place for people to stay and streamline their integration process, whilst also processing difficult current circumstances, amongst a host of other issues fuelled by conflict. As a child, I know what pain my parents went through."
Refugee families are torn apart every day by having to flee war zones and avoid the brutality of conflict.
In Ukraine, more than three million people have been forced from their homes in a mere matter of weeks, including around 1.5 million children, elderly people, women carrying babies, and families who have had their homes destroyed by turmoil.
Along with the UK, countries including Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Moldova, and Romania have begun making provisions to help provide people fleeing their homes with a safe place to stay and integrate into society.
In response to the humanitarian crisis, the UK Government relaxed family visa regulations for Ukrainian refugees, meaning Ukrainians in the UK can now be joined by their extended family, including siblings, adult children, cousins, and grandparents.
In order to try and meet these new housing needs that have arisen, the Government devised the Homes for Ukraine scheme, whereby the British public can offer to sponsor a spare room or home to Ukrainian refugees for a 6-month duration.
The scheme will enable individuals, and soon, community groups, businesses, and charities to volunteer accommodation and provide a safe immigration route for those forced to flee their homeland.
Phase One of the scheme, which opened on 18 March, currently only allows named individuals to offer accommodation, however, the Government intends on opening it up to businesses and other organisations to sponsor people at a later stage.
If a person is a Ukrainian national (or immediate family of someone who is) and was a resident in Ukraine before January 1, 2022, they are eligible, and based on the number of Brits available to help, the UK plans on welcoming as many arrivals as possible.
People arriving under this scheme will be able to access benefits, healthcare, employment support, education, and English language tuition. This will also allow people to live and work in the UK for up to three years, helping ease into the lifestyle and employment part of the process.
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Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Heavy Horse, Light Horse, Private Driving, Harness Grooming & Decoration, Heavy Horse Turnouts and Fleece classes can now be entered by applying on the show’s website.
And entries for Farriery, Poultry, Sheep Shearing and Show Jumping classes will open on Thursday 7 April.
The organisers said that to celebrate the bicentenary, a range of special commemorative rosettes, prize cards, sashes and medals would be awarded this year – including medals with gold finishing, a change from the usual bronze version awarded in other years.
This year, two new sheep classes for Dutch Spotted and Valais Blacknose were announced, as well as two new equestrian classes, Maxi Cob of the Year Championship and Mountain & Moorland Junior 122cm Working Hunter Pony of the Year.
This is in addition to a number of classes being upgraded to Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifier status.
RHASS competitions manager, David Tennant, commented: “This year will be the first time we have held a full Show in three years, so we have no doubt competitors will be eager to fully experience the incomparable atmosphere of the Ingliston showground once again.”
He added that the whole team at the show was looking forward to seeing the showground come to life again this June.
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"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes."
That passage from George Orwell's 1946 essay, A Nice Cup of Tea, welcomes you to one of the most lush Afternoon Teas London has to offer.
The signature Jasmine Afternoon Tea at Kona in the Taj 51 Buckingham Gate Suites and Residences, reflects the Indian heritage of the owners of the regal self-contained apartments that sit a mere stone's throw from Buckingham Palace.
With at least 15 different teas as well as an additional selection of infusions on offer, my choice is 'Chai Secrets of India', an intoxicating blend of black tea, ginger, star anise, cardamom, pink pepper, cloves and orange slices. It's a spice heaven, the flavour intensifying with every pour as the aroma transports you to another continent.
As for the 'sandwiches'... where to start? Each is a culinary work of art evoking the traditions of Indian dining culture. Savouries include a spiced cream cheese and kachumbar pinwheel in beetroot bread. There's a curried egg pinwheel, a spiced paneer bhurjee and a hot crispy chicken tikka wrap, each is far lighter than they appear.
The cakes and sweets too are tempting and include Gulabi Scones with kismis and almonds served with mango compote and cinnamon clotted cream. Then there's the Gajar Halwa Macaroon, a pistachio Crusted Fruit and Cardamom tart, a chocolate Rasmalai cup and a shot glass of saffron rice pudding with chandni foam to indulge in.
I couldn't finish the delights served, but was offered a box to take back to my rooms, however, I did leave room for the guiltily decadent Gold Leaf Gulab Jamun and Cheesecake and yes, disappointingly, gold has no taste whatsoever. I washed it all down with a shot of salty caramel lassi with a chikki toffee crunch Perfect.
A limited edition The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Afternoon Tea is also currently available.
Budget or Boutique
There's nothing budget here, this is top-end luxury, the choice of visiting royalty, film stars, politicians and those looking to treat themselves for a special occasion.
Room Service
Split into three houses - Falconers, Ministers and Kings - my butler, Matthew, showed me to Suite 1022 in Kings, proudly regaling colourful tales of the history of the Victorian townhouses, the fountain in the centre of the courtyard (believed to have been a gift from the monarch of the time), before highlighting the facilities of my accommodation. I say butler, but there's nothing stuffy about Matthew; he is welcoming and informed, as are all the staff I meet.
My 'urban chic' One Bedroom Deluxe Solo Suite comprise a living room with dining area, fully equipped kitchen, toilet, spacious bathroom with deep bath, shower room and intelligent toilet that scared me half to death - sensor activated, the seat lifts of its own accord on approach - just make sure you set the water and warm jets to your preference before being seated.
With a large bedroom housing a small desk area, I could happily live here on a permanent basis.
The Kings Townhouse hosts Junior and one bedroom suites, with a floor of residences of three to seven-bedroom suites.
Worth Getting Out of Bed ForLook up as you bask in the verdant St James Court on the doorstep of the Kings Townhouse and you will see what Matthew assured me is the world's longest fresco, depicting William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, As You Like It. The craftsmanship is stunning, the detail mesmerising.Wining and DiningStart the day with a traditional Indian breakfast. There's a different selection available each morning with everything from Mixed Vegetable Pongal, a porridge-style rice with lentils and vegetables, to Punjabi Choley, a spicy chickpea curry. There's also an a la carte breakfast menu.
For lunch and dinner, visitors have access to the nearby contemporary [email protected] restaurant where signature dishes 'pair popular flavours from around the globe together to spark curiosity', and the Michelin-starred Quilon, where Chef Sriram Aylur shares his passion for South-West coastal Indian cuisine.Little ExtrasRefresh body and mind at the award-winning spa where traditional Indian treatments meet contemporary Mediterranean wellness philosophy.
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“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.” That passage from George Orwell's 1946 essay, A Nice Cup of Tea, welcomes you to one of the most lush Afternoon Teas London has to offer, writes Liam Rudden.
The signature Jasmine Afternoon Tea at Kona in the Taj 51 Buckingham Gate Suites and Residences, reflects the Indian heritage of the owners of the regal self-contained apartments that sit a mere stone's throw from Buckingham Palace.
With at least 15 different teas as well as an additional selection of infusions on offer, my choice is 'Chai Secrets of India', an intoxicating blend of black tea, ginger, star anise, cardamom, pink pepper, cloves and orange slices. It's a spice heaven, the flavour intensifying with every pour as the aroma transports you to another continent.
As for the 'sandwiches'... where to start? Each is a culinary work of art evoking the traditions of Indian dining culture. Savouries include a spiced cream cheese and kachumbar pinwheel in beetroot bread. There's a curried egg pinwheel, a spiced paneer bhurjee and a hot crispy chicken tikka wrap, each is far lighter than they appear.
The cakes and sweets too are tempting and include Gulabi Scones with kismis and almonds served with mango compote and cinnamon clotted cream. Then there's the Gajar Halwa Macaroon, a pistachio Crusted Fruit and Cardamom tart, a chocolate Rasmalai cup and a shot glass of saffron rice pudding with chandni foam to indulge in.
I couldn't finish the delights served, but was offered a box to take back to my rooms, however, I did leave room for the guiltily decadent Gold Leaf Gulab Jamun and Cheesecake and yes, disappointingly, gold has no taste whatsoever. I washed it all down with a shot of salty caramel lassi with a chikki toffee crunch. Perfect. A limited edition The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Afternoon Tea is also currently available.
Budget or Boutique
There's nothing budget here, this is top-end luxury, the choice of visiting royalty, film stars, politicians and those looking to treat themselves for a special occasion.
Room Service
Split into three houses – Falconers, Ministers and Kings – my butler, Matthew, showed me to Suite 1022 in Kings, proudly regaling colourful tales of the history of the Victorian townhouses, the fountain in the centre of the courtyard (believed to have been a gift from the monarch of the time), before highlighting the facilities of my accommodation. I say butler, but there's nothing stuffy about Matthew; he is welcoming and informed, as are all the staff I meet.
My 'urban chic' One Bedroom Deluxe Solo Suite comprise a living room with dining area, fully equipped kitchen, toilet, spacious bathroom with deep bath, shower room and intelligent toilet that scared me half to death – sensor activated, the seat lifts of its own accord on approach – just make sure you set the water and warm jets to your preference before being seated.
With a large bedroom housing a small desk area, I could happily live here on a permanent basis. The Kings Townhouse hosts Junior and one bedroom suites, with a floor of residences of three to seven-bedroom suites.
Worth Getting Out of Bed ForLook up as you bask in the verdant St James Court on the doorstep of the Kings Townhouse and you will see what Matthew assured me is the world's longest fresco, depicting William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, As You Like It. The craftsmanship is stunning, the detail mesmerising.Wining and DiningStart the day with a traditional Indian breakfast. There's a different selection available each morning with everything from Mixed Vegetable Pongal, a porridge-style rice with lentils and vegetables, to Punjabi Choley, a spicy chickpea curry. There's also an a la carte breakfast menu.
For lunch and dinner, visitors have access to the nearby contemporary [email protected] restaurant where signature dishes 'pair popular flavours from around the globe together to spark curiosity', and the Michelin-starred Quilon, where Chef Sriram Aylur shares his passion for South-West coastal Indian cuisine.Little ExtrasRefresh body and mind at the award-winning spa where traditional Indian treatments meet contemporary Mediterranean wellness philosophy.
Guestbook Comments
Relax in the luxury enjoyed by the jet set.
Prices
Prices start from £400 a night
Taj 51 Buckingham Gate Suites and Residences, London SW1E 6AF, (+44 20 7769 7766, www.taj51buckinghamgate.co.uk)
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Bill McDowell, 60, and Norman McDade, also 60, met for the first time since the 1982 conflict at a home in Bishopton, which is run for veterans by charity Erskine.
The pair, who both now live in Erskine, likely came across each other during a transition of British troops onto ships heading into battle during the Falklands.
They decided to reunite to mark the war's 40th anniversary on Saturday.
Mr McDade, who prefers to go by the name Mac, joined the Royal Navy aged 17 in 1978 and trained as a chef.
But when war broke out between the British and the Argentines, Mac and his crew onboard the HMS Plymouth were ordered to head to the South Atlantic to fight.
When not dodging bombs and defending troops against fighter jets, the Navy chef-turned gunner was involved in assisting in the transportation of soldiers arriving from the UK onto ships going into battle.
On May 27, the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) arrived in South Georgia carrying the 5th Infantry Brigade, including Mr McDowell, who was a member of the Scots Guards.
The troops were then transferred to smaller ships, including the Plymouth and HMS Intrepid, to be transported onto East Falkland.
This is where the two were believed to have come across each other for the first time.
"There is definitely a possibility we waved at each other or saw each other at this point," Mac said.
"It's not always easy to recognise everyone because we all look a little different now, most of us certainly have less hair."
Speaking about his memory of the transfers between boats, Mr McDowell said he was "reduced to tears" on several occasions.
"In the boats most of us were crouching, kneeling or sitting in icy water which gathered in the bottom, at times it was so cold that I could barely hold my rifle," he said.
"There were several ship-to-ship transfers, as the QE2 could not be put at risk."
He said on June 5, the troops embarked the HMS Intrepid, which was an amphibious assault ship used by the Royal Marines and headed to Bluff Cove.
"It was from HMS Intrepid that we were launched, crammed into a couple of landing crafts for what could only be described as a night of freezing cold and wet hell.
"The whole night was spent in the bitter freezing cold, pitch black, South Atlantic winter.
"At one point during the night, shells burst over the landing crafts, shells which were fired from Royal Navy warships that were unaware that the battalion was in the landing crafts and came very close to identifying us as enemy and opening fire.
"The flat-bottomed ships were tossed mercilessly in the waves and every time the boats bow came crashing down, the freezing cold water would come pouring into the boat and rushing over - there would be a collective gasp as the water hit us."
When 2nd Battalion Scots Guards landed at Fitzroy, a settlement on East Falkland, on June 6, Mr McDowell and his comrades then went on to fight in the Battle of Mount Tumbledown a week later.
On June 13, the bloody conflict, with hand-to-hand fighting, led to the deaths of nine Scots Guards troops and 47 wounded.
"I still find it difficult to talk about the moments that changed my life forever," Mr McDowell said.
"I was confused, scared and a long way from home."
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The ordeal of giving evidence to police and then facing cross-examination from defence lawyers is harrowing enough without then being judged in the court of public opinion.
It was for that reason that blogger Craig Murray was jailed last year for repeatedly flouting the terms of a court order not to identify witnesses in the Alex Salmond trial in which the former First Minister was acquitted.
In her judgement, trial judge Lady Dorrian said that although he did not positively identify the complainants, he understood and deliberately ran the risk he was taking and “relished” publishing enough information to allow their identities to be pieced together. He got eight months.
For a victim to voluntarily waive their anonymity takes enormous courage and belief that their experience needs to be exposed, almost always because they feel there is a wider issue of the welfare of others at stake, and that speaking out will add power to their message so some good can come from their trauma.
Into that category falls Holly Hamilton who as a teenager was sexually abused for six months by care worker Gordon Collins in an Edinburgh Council secure unit, and who this week told the Edinburgh Evening News, and then the BBC, what she had been through.
The assaults on Miss Hamilton took place 15 years ago, but Collins was only tried in 2016 after a cold case review produced evidence of repeated abuse of four underage girls and he was jailed for six years.
The council then conducted its own serious case review in 2017 which found the victims’ complaints had previously been dismissed because staff thought they were troublemakers or attention-seekers, and also revealed concerns about inappropriate restraint, isolation and other harsh treatment of the young people in the units.
It’s no surprise, therefore, that as a key witness in the investigation, Miss Hamilton was shocked to learn five years on that another council inquiry had uncovered virtually the same issues in the units and that "illegality, injustice and maladministration" went on long after Collins was jailed until another whistle-blower sounded the alarm in 2020.
The Evening News revealed the 2017 council review found young people were “at risk from punitive and sometimes painful measures of control by staff members. Many were also subject to isolation and removal of personal possessions, often unnecessarily and often for unnecessarily long periods."
It’s virtually identical to the findings of the latest report which makes over 40 recommendations for improvements and illustrates the extent to which the reforms identified in 2017 were not followed through.
“It just seems to be recommendation after recommendation. Every ten years the same recommendations but nothing ever changes,” said Miss Hamilton with every justification. “How many generations of broken children does this system need to create?" she asked.
For Miss Hamilton at least, getting these horrendous conditions out in the open matters, and that is in stark contrast to the actions of Edinburgh Council, which only made the latest report available to councillors under strict conditions of secrecy, to the extent that note-taking was prohibited, and only the very briefest outline was published in the agenda papers for the last full council meeting on March 17.
At that meeting the SNP-Labour administration, with the assistance of two Green councillors, voted against having any kind of debate of the issue because it was 5pm.
So a woman has the guts to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of a council worker and how that kind of abuse has continued but, rather than have an open debate, Edinburgh Council’s leader Adam McVey told the Evening News that, as it was 5pm, there had to be a duty of care to staff and extending the meeting might impact on their welfare. If only the victims in St Katherine’s House had experienced the same level of concern for their welfare.
Yesterday, the council’s new director of education and children’s services, Amanda Hatton, wrote in the Evening News that her department is “working hard to put in place some immediate steps”.
In other words, the department has still to implement safeguards which should have been in place at least five years ago, yet her predecessor was able to walk away from the job 18 months ago with full notice payments and glowing tributes. Rather than reassuring, her article is an admission of abject failure.
Donna Ockenden’s inquiry into the heart-breaking tragedy at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust found “it failed to investigate, failed to learn and failed to improve”, and while Edinburgh Council eventually did investigate what was happening in its secure units, the evidence shows it failed to learn or improve, and all the investigations and recommendations in the world will make no difference if they do not result in meaningful change.
Not only that, but the newly updated Scottish Standards Commission’s code of conduct requires councillors to “maintain and strengthen the public's trust and confidence in the integrity of the council”, which prioritises an authority’s reputation above all other considerations, and is the basis of a cover-up culture, not one of openness. The further duty to “project a positive image… and avoid making any public comments that could bring it into disrepute” is even more explicit.
Analysis of Shrewsbury in The Times cited “dreadful care, a reluctance to investigate and a defensive closing of ranks against families, all overseen by bosses who did not want to know”.
That too could apply to Edinburgh Council, which set such narrow parameters for last year’s review of management culture by Susanne Tanner QC that it failed to re-examine past cases, and as a result the whistle-blowers it should have satisfied instead believe it was a whitewash and want a public inquiry. After Holly Hamilton’s testimony this week, who can blame them?
John McLellan is a Conservative councillor in Edinburgh
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To many, it seemed that the UK would be unable to defend this faraway island territory, but the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, took the decision to send a British force to retake the islands.
Two months later, on June 14, 1982, following the deaths of more than 900 people, the Argentinian commander on the islands surrendered and, just three days after that, the head of Argentina’s ‘junta’, General Leopoldo Galtieri, resigned.
Victory for the UK in the Falklands War stopped the islanders from falling under the control of a vicious dictatorship, but it also helped to end a regime infamous for waging the so-called ‘Dirty War’ in Argentina. Thousands of student activists, intellectuals and others who sought to oppose the junta had been tortured and murdered, in some cases by being thrown out of planes into the Atlantic Ocean.
Before the year was out, Raúl Alfonsín, a lawyer who had defended victims of the regime’s oppression, was democratically elected as president.
Today, as the world reels from the invasion of another democratic country, Ukraine, by forces commanded by another murderous despot, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, it is worth remembering why the Falklands War was a just war.
Most see it as a conflict between the UK and Argentina, but it can also be viewed as a battle between democracy and tyranny. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Britain and Argentina’s competing, historic claims to the islands, the people living there had a right to be free, to live without fear of being thrown out of a plane, and Britain had a duty to defend them.
That same battle is now raging in Ukraine as Putin forces conscripts into the ranks of his army to die for his vainglorious ambition, while lying to his own people.
Just as Galtieri and co were responsible for all of the deaths in the Falklands War – 649 Argentinian, 255 British and three islanders – Putin is responsible for all the deaths, on both sides, in Ukraine.
Ukrainians have a right to fight for their freedom and every democratic country has a duty to help them.
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The train operator, which was taken over by the Scottish Government on Friday, only displays the price of single tickets for one-way journeys, even when buying a return would be cheaper.
This is despite Britain’s official National Rail Enquiries (NRE) website showing passengers return fares if they are cheaper than singles for one-way trips.
Ironically, the website then provides a link for customers to book the cheaper ticket via ScotRail’s website.
The Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland said ScotRail should do more to ensure passengers got the best fare.
After Scotland on Sunday raised the issue, ScotRail said its website operator was now “working on a fix”.
The ScotRail anomaly includes journeys between several stations in Glasgow – Britain’s biggest urban rail network outside London.
These include an off-peak one-way trip between Hyndland in the West End and Queen Street, for which a single ticket costs £2.70 but an off-peak return is only £2.40.
At Shettleston in the East End, a single to Queen Street is £3 while an off-peak return is £2.70.
On the south side, Mount Florida to Glasgow Central is £2.60 single but £2.40 off-peak return.
The anomaly is understood to be because such returns were heavily discounted historically to encourage off-peak travel.
There are even cheaper return tickets available on some routes for travel between 11am and 3pm on weekdays, but these are not shown on either the ScotRail or NRE websites when booking one-way journeys – the Hyndland-Queen Street one costs just £1.80.
Other such super off-peak day return tickets include £10.40 between Edinburgh and Glasgow compared to the off-peak single fare of £14.
One passenger said: "The issue at stake is passengers purchasing single tickets for some off-peak journeys are being charged more by the ScotRail website than if they purchase the same journey from ScotRail via the NRES website, which will assign them an off-peak return ticket when it is cheaper than the single fare.”
Passenger watchdog Transport Focus said: “We have asked ScotRail to investigate why this has occurred and are seeking assurances this issue is fixed.”
Senior stakeholder manager Robert Samson said: “It’s important passengers have confidence they can find the best deal when buying their ticket.
"Finding out you could have saved money if only you’d known where to look damages trust between passengers and train companies.”
Fares campaigner George Eckton, who has a lodged a Holyrood petition for passengers “to be given information on the cheapest possible fare as a matter of course”, said: “It’s the right thing to do for a service now directly delivered by ministers to tell the public the cheapest fare available."
A Transport Scotland spokesperson said: “We want more people to choose to travel by train on our publicly-controlled and operated railway, so need to feel confident they can book a ticket easily and they have got the best fare.
“ScotRail Trains Limited will be expected to explore what more can be done to achieve this.”
ScotRail commercial director Lesley Kane said: “We want our customers to travel quickly, easily and with the best-value ticket possible.
“We’re committed to ensuring rail fares are affordable and customers have easy access to best-value fares.”
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The national forecaster has issued a yellow weather warning for ice which could cause "some injuries from slips and falls" and "possible travel disruption" in eastern areas on Saturday morning.
Covering the eastern half of the UK including the Scottish Borders, Northumberland, Durham, North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, the warning lasts from midnight until 10am on Saturday.
It follows a frosty start to April across much of the UK on Friday with the mercury dropping to as low as -8C, which was recorded in Tulloch Bridge, Scotland.
While icy conditions will affect much of Scotland on Saturday, most areas will stay dry. Spells of sunshine are expected to shine across the country – particularly in West Scotland.
However, Sunday will see heavy rain accompanied by strengthening winds – although temperatures will begin to turn milder across the day.
Many areas across the country experienced snow showers earlier in the week, which are not set to return over the weekend.
The icy weather this month comes after the UK experienced its sunniest March since 1929.
New Scotland saw 64% more sun than usual, with a total of 160.1 hours.
Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said overnight temperatures would be several degrees colder than the average for the time of year, with cities across the UK experiencing below freezing conditions.
Mr Stroud said the wintry weather, which is being caused by Arctic air crossing the UK, is set to continue through the weekend.
He said: "It's generally dry and cold, if not slightly less cold than we have had for the next few days.
"We've got an Arctic air flow established at the moment, that's coming from a cold source.
"So we've basically got cold, clear air established across the UK.
"There's also a lot of clear and sunny skies, especially to the western parts of the UK."
Mr Stroud also said temperatures should climb from around 10C averages over the weekend to around 14C on Monday as the Arctic air system moves away.
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Associated Press (AP) journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
The reporters also saw two bodies wrapped in plastic, bound with tape and thrown into a ditch.
Authorities said they were documenting evidence as Ukraine’s military reclaims territory and discovers indications of execution-style killings to add to their case for prosecuting Russian officials for war crimes.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, said scores of civilians who had been killed were found on the streets of Bucha and the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin and Hostomel in what looked like a “scene from a horror movie”.
Mr Arestovych said some people were shot in the head and had their hands bound, and some bodies showed signs of torture, rape and burning.
The capital city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said civilians were “shot with joined hands” and told German newspaper Bild “what happened in Bucha and other suburbs of Kyiv can only be described as genocide”.
A day earlier, AP journalists witnessed Ukrainian soldiers removing at least six bodies from a street in Bucha with cables in case the Russians had booby-trapped corpses with explosives before their withdrawal.
Local residents said the dead people were civilians killed without provocation – a claim that could not be independently verified.
Mr Klitschko called on other nations to immediately end Russian gas imports, saying they were funding the invasion of Ukraine, now in its 39th day.
“Not a penny should go to Russia anymore. That’s bloody money used to slaughter people. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately,” the mayor said.
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, wrote on Twitter he was shocked by the “haunting images of atrocities committed by Russian army” in the capital region.
The EU and non-governmental organisations were assisting in the effort to preserve evidence of war crimes, according to Mr Michel, who promised “further EU sanctions” against Russia.
Meanwhile, on Sunday morning, Russian forces launched an airstrike on the Black Sea port of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, sending up clouds of dark smoke that veiled parts of the city.
The Russian military said the targets were an oil processing plant and fuel depots around Odesa, which is Ukraine’s largest port and home to its navy.
The Odesa city council said Ukraine’s air defence shot down some missiles before they hit the city. Ukrainian military spokesman Vladyslav Nazarov said there were no casualties from the attack.
The smaller port of Mariupol, located to the east on the Sea of Azov, remained cut off from the rest of the country as Russian and Ukrainian soldiers fought for control of the besieged city.
About 100,000 civilians – less than a quarter of the pre-war population of 430,000 – are believed to be trapped there with little or no food, water, fuel and medicine.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it hoped a team of nine staffers and three vehicles it sent on Saturday to help evacuate residents would reach Mariupol on Sunday, but said: “The situation on the ground is volatile and subject to rapid changes.”
Ukrainian authorities said Russia agreed days ago to allow safe passage from the city, which has been the site of some of the worst attacks and greatest suffering, but similar agreements have broken down repeatedly under continued shelling.
Mariupol is in the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years. Its capture would create an unbroken land corridor from Russia to Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
With Mariupol squarely in Russia’s sights, Ukraine insisted it had gained a leg up elsewhere in the country.
As his nation’s troops retook territory north of the capital of Kyiv from departing Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on all Ukrainians to do whatever they could “to foil the enemy’s tactics and weaken its capabilities”.
“Peace will not be the result of any decisions the enemy makes somewhere in Moscow. There is no need to entertain empty hopes that they will simply leave our land. We can only have peace by fighting,” Mr Zelensky said late on Saturday.
Mr Zelensky and Ukraine’s western allies believe Russia has shifted its forces from the capital region and the country’s north in order to build strength in the east and south.
The Ukrainian leader again urged the West to supply his military with warplanes and more anti-missile systems.
While the geography of the battlefield morphed, little changed for many Ukrainians more than five weeks into a war that has sent more than four million people fleeing the country as refugees and displaced millions more from their homes.
The regional governor in Kharkiv, said on Sunday that Russian artillery and tanks performed more than 20 strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city and its outskirts in the country’s northeast over the past day.
Governor Oleh Synyehubov said a missile strike on the city of Lozovo wounded four people and Russian tanks bombarded a hospital in the town of Balakliia.
Mr Zelensky alleged on Saturday that Russian troops had left mines around homes, abandoned equipment and even the bodies of the dead as they withdraw from around Kyiv.
Those claims could not be independently verified, but Ukrainian troops were seen heeding the warning.
In towns and cities surrounding Kyiv, signs of fierce fighting were everywhere in the wake of the Russian redeployment. Destroyed armoured vehicles from both armies lay in streets and fields along with scattered military gear.
Ukrainian troops were stationed at the entrance to Antonov Airport in the suburb of Hostomel, demonstrating control of the runway that Russia tried to storm in the first days of the war.
The head of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia said Moscow’s negotiators informally agreed to most of a draft proposal discussed during face-to-face talks in Istanbul this week, but no written confirmation has been provided.
The Ukrainian negotiator, Davyd Arakhamia, said on TV that he hoped the proposal was developed enough so that the two countries’ presidents could meet to discuss it.
But the top Russian negotiator in talks with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinksy, was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying it was too early to talk about a meeting between the two leaders.
Ukrainian authorities warned Russia’s focus on eastern Ukraine did not mean Kyiv and other cities would not become targets again.
Elsewhere, the Kremlin said that by imposing sanctions on Russian president Vladimir Putin the West had demonstrated it had abandoned its sense of reason.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in televised remarks on Sunday the sanctions against Mr Putin were going “beyond the edge of reason”, adding they showed the West was “capable of any stupidities”.
Mr Peskov said Mr Putin’s meeting with Mr Zelensky was “hypothetically possible” once negotiators from the two countries prepared a draft agreement to be discussed.
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For the man who was once our top whistler, and who officiated at a World Cup final, the moment seemed to sum up the glorious madness of Scottish football. Passionate, grumpy, committed, certain … and funny. Well, sometimes there is laughter, and acceptance of the fact that it’s only a game. More of the Old Firm conflagration of 1999 shortly.
Who’d be a referee? Hugh and Andrew for two but not Dallas’ other son Stuart. “I think he looks at the pair of us sometimes and thinks: ‘What the heck? … ’” But the whole family, not forgetting wife Jackie, have formed a “rock” for Dallas and without it he might not have got much further than reffing Motherwell Bridgeworks’ amateur matches for a fiver a time.
They’ve been there for the good times and the bad. Good: “It was close to kick-off in Yokohama [2002 Mundial] and Jackie was sat down with a houseful all ready for the final when the phone rang. ‘Hullo?’ she said. ‘Ciao, Pierluigi.’” Signore Collina, the referee for Brazil vs Germany, was, at the suggestion of his fourth official, checking in with her, just before the goalnets were presumably checked for holes in time-honoured fashion and the Italian made sure he was in possession of a spare whistle.
Bad: ’99 was the “shame game” when Dallas was struck on the head with a coin hurled from the crowd but in 2010 there was “Dallasgate”. An email containing an offensive joke about the Pope, which he forwarded from his SFA account, resulted in him being sacked as head of refereeing development. “It’s a big regret, of course,” he tells me. “There was no malice [intended in the joke] but in the world in which we live … forgiveness … I paid the price and am no longer able to pass on my experience to the next generation of referees.”
Dallas, 64, now works for Uefa and because of how his career in Scotland ended I wasn’t sure he’d want to talk, especially given I’d be asking him to re-live the events of 2 May, ’99 with the Old Firm clashing again tomorrow. But, just back from critiquing the match officials in the Portugal-North Macedonia qualifier for Qatar 2022, he’s happy to chat.
I ask again: who’d be a referee? “You’ve got to love football and have been steeped in it,” he says. Okay, but given that many fans suspect the motivation comes either from being a failed player or a full-on lust for power, which was it for him? “I’ll plead guilty to the fact I wasn’t good enough to become a footballer. I’m a Shotts boy, dad was a committee man for Shotts Bon Accord and I followed them everywhere, became a ballboy, desperately wanted to play for them, only to be told by the coach: ‘Dream on.’
“But the power thing … there’s a helluva lot of hard work needed to get to the top level of refereeing, application and commitment, the travel, training and seminars - and yet all the fan sees is the game and thinks: ‘90 minutes, that guy’s just earned himself a thousand quid.’ No, it’s not about that.”
Still, some supporters will beg to differ. They’ll reckon their least-favourite refs must have missed the lectures entitled “It’s not all about you” and “How to become invisible on the pitch”. Dallas admits the man in black can never win and is only glad he did the job when there were fewer cameras, not as many pundits and less whataboutery because social media hadn’t yet been invented.
In the study of his Motherwell home bedecked with memorabilia, he calls this era the golden age of Scottish football for the privilege referees enjoyed as much as the crowds of being in the presence of “the Larssons, the Laudrups, the Gazzas”. First, though, there was an apprenticeship in the Juniors. “I remember a game at Pollok, walking off at the end and this old guy shouting: ‘Christ, you’re worse than Dallas!’ His pals had to point out to him that it was me, back spoiling his afternoon.”
Later, Roberto Carlos might have concurred. The left-back with the rocket shot was unhappy with Dallas’ performance in a game Real Madrid lost to Bayern Munich. “He blasted me in the media, asking how someone from ‘such a small country’ had been put in charge of an important match. I hit back by namechecking Sir Alex Ferguson. A few weeks later I’m refereeing Uruguay vs Brazil. I tap him on the shoulder in the tunnel and he goes: ‘Ah, my old friend!’”
When our man was building his reputation, if not his notoriety, he appeared on Family Fortunes. Few can claim to have intrigued both Mogwai - the Scots rockers have a song called “Hugh Dallas” - and Max Bygraves, the quiz show’s host. “We were watching it in the house one Christmas and thought: ‘This is easy, we could do that.’ Our team was me, Jackie, dad, sister and brother-in-law. It was Max’s last-ever edition and when I told him refereeing was my hobby he said: ‘One day Wembley?’”
Dallas graduated to the senior game in 1990. Remember when his name, printed, was followed by (Bonkle)? Newspaper reports and match programmes, as well as Sportscene and Scotsport, would list his place of residence, as they did for all referees. “I was the guy who got that stopped,” he reveals. “If a stranger had moseyed into Bonkle and asked the first person he met, ‘Where does Hugh Dallas live?’, the answer would have been: ‘In there.’” Les Mottram in his Lanarkshire village of Wilsontown would have been easily found, too. “It was a nonsense. Mind you, I would get called ‘Hughie Bonkle frae Dallas’, which was pretty funny.”
It was all right for Tom Wharton, he was (Glasgow). Except he was just about the most conspicuous whistler there’s ever been. “Tiny” was a giant of a man who, in folk memory, rarely moved out of the centre circle. Dallas couldn’t have got away with that and in the 2002 Old Firm Cup final only Neil McCann ran further than him.
He’s obviously proud of that stat but hasn’t tallied up all his clashes of the titans. “It must be around 20,” he says, producing a photograph from his first, Richard Gough and Paul McStay at the coin toss. “I’d been assistant at Ian Durrant’s comeback from his bad injury, 27,000 for a reserve game, but that was my first time refereeing at Ibrox. I remember the police commander explaining how any important announcements would come over the Tannoy but I was like: ‘How am I ever going to hear them?’ The noise of the crowd was thunderous.
“But it was funny, and a bit spooky: as soon as the match started I couldn’t hear the fans. When anyone ever asks what the atmosphere is like in an Old Firm game I have to say I don’t know. All I could ever hear was my whistle and that was the only way I was ever going to be able to focus. In those matches you always needed to be thinking: ‘What’s going to happen next?’
“I loved Old Firm games. They’re the ultimate test for a referee, but you were just hoping to get lucky. No one reaches that level [of officiating] by having got a lot of things wrong but when Celtic play Rangers it’s the big calls you have to get right.” Once, driving away from a match at Fir Park, his linesman shrugged off controversy over a disallowed goal by saying: “Don’t worry, it’s gone.” Dallas pointed out it would be his name splashed across the back pages if there were photos showing the ball had crossed the line. “My God was I not right. Over by a metre. My assistant hadn’t seen it and I’d been too far away.”
For the Old Firm, multiply the hysteria potential by a hundred. His strategy involved seeking out the fixture’s firebrands for their help. “I’d say to Peter Grant and Ian Ferguson: ‘Guys, I must have you onboard today, calming everyone down.’” The same Tiny Wharton had been the match observer for Dallas’ baptism. “He said to me: ‘Hugh, if you make a mistake at one end, don’t try to balance it out with one at the other.’ Sound advice from a great man. That match went all right. All my Old Firm ones did, really - apart from the coin game.”
Three red cards, pitch invasions, with one fan plummeting from Celtic Park’s top tier. Never again will such an incendiary fixture be allowed to kick off at 6.05pm in the middle of a bank holiday weekend, but Dallas had been worried about the game earlier that Sunday. “I’d walked the dog and met some pals for a sauna, my usual pre-match routine. On the way home, though, by one o’clock, there were supporters flat out on the grass looking the worst for having had a good drink.”
When Dallas was floored it was from shock rather than pain. “I dropped to my knees and thought: ‘What was that?’ I think it was Giovanni van Bronckhorst who told me I was bleeding. Jim Dunn, my wee assistant, asked me if I was okay. ‘Oh aye,’ I said, ‘f****n’ terrific.
“As the referee in an Old Firm game you have to accept you’re the last thing on the players’ minds; they’re caught up in trying to beat their fierce rivals. But they were great that day and Henrik [Larsson] even managed to stop one of the fans who ran onto the park.”
When Colin Hendry checked on him, Dallas is supposed to have said: “Crack on.” He cannot remember this but the match would continue. “Anywhere else, like Germany the other other day [VfL Bochum vs Borussia Monchengladbach] when an assistant was hit by a missile, then it could have been abandoned. But we would have been tipping 60,000 onto the streets with the police not ready for that.
“At half-time I think my big fourth official, John Rowbotham, feared he would have to take over from me. Smelling salts were delivered to our room and he grabbed them. ‘No John,’ I said, ‘they’re for me.’ But I wasn’t going to quit, no way.”
One of Dallas’ most controversial calls - in the eyes of Celtic fans, anyway - was awarding Rangers a penalty right after play had resumed. A furious Paul Lambert confronted him, pointing on his head to where the ref had been struck, as if to say: “Maybe you need a wee lie down.” “Great guy, Paul, but I told him he needed to have a word with his defender who I’d already warned about wrestling with opponents.”
In the fallout - Rangers winning the game and the title - a brick lobbed at Dallas’ home broke a window. He plays the incident down, saying no one was in the affected room, and that it was only discovered the next day. He’s sure the culprit regretted his actions later and again he pays tribute to wife Jackie for her strength and support.
Then Celtic summoned a behavioural psychologist to examine his decision-making in playback. Dallas chuckles at this and says: “If the guy had come to me I would have given him a full debrief. No one went back through that game more than I did. That’s what referees do: they analyse themselves to bits.”
In a few weeks’ time Dallas was due to officiate at that season’s Scottish Cup final, the Old Firm again - was he up to it? He told his bosses that if they wanted to take the game off him, he’d hang up his whistle. The Hampden showpiece is “the pinnacle of our football” and in all he refereed four of them.
Celtic vs Rangers was never less than 100 percent stressful. “Afterwards I’d be mentally exhausted and yet I wouldn’t be able to sleep because the game would still be spinning in my head. Referees should always call what they see, not what they hear,” he adds, admitting that he once thought he spotted St Johnstone’s John O’Neill kicking out at a Celtic player and, with the Glasgow club’s fans in uproar, produced the red card. “The look on John’s face told me I’d got it wrong. He’d been shaking mud off his boot. I said to him later: ‘I don’t even need to see that back.’”
Referees only have split-seconds to issue their verdicts; “trial by Sportscene” can then extend for an entire edition to illustrate the wrongness of them. Human error and referee error are the same thing, only they’re not in fans’ eyes and often those of the players, and especially when it’s the Old Firm doing battle.
Dallas has one last story for me. It’s from the 2002 Scottish Cup final when he turned down furious Celtic demands for a penalty when Lorenzo Amoruso leaned towards a strike to block. The luck Dallas insists officials need was with him. Because of his positioning he could see the Italian’s hands were tucked behind his back. “The Celtic player wouldn’t speak to me after the game but Chick Young, who was coming onto the pitch for interviews, said as he passed: ‘Some decision by the way.’ He’d seen I’d got it right.
“The following night was the Player of the Year awards. Henrik approached and said: ‘Hugh, we honestly thought it was a penalty until we watched the incident back.’ That was a measure of the man.” Dallas misses the kind of honesty he encountered in Scottish football - also the humour and, yes, the glorious madness. But next week, having moved on from it, he’ll be in London for a Euro double-header.
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There are big-game players on each side who can make a difference to not only the match, but given their proximity in the table, the title race. It could come down to fine margins and when two foes are so closely matched, the devil is in the detail and the smaller individual duels which could also have a bearing on the outcome.
Here, we look at some of the areas Sunday’s showdown could be won and lost…
Filip Helander v Giorgos Giakoumakis
The Swedish international will likely be preferred to Leon Balogun to start, given their contrasting travels and participation in the World Cup play-offs. Balogun played 180 minutes in Nigeria and Ghana, Helander five minutes for Sweden.
Even so, his attributes lend themselves to this fixture. Helander is a defender who loves to defend, first and foremost. No nonsense, no risk, just stop the opposition, and it is those principles which will come into play in a bid to shackle Celtic’s in-form Greek striker.
Much has been made of Giakoumakis’ goal-scoring feats, and the fact that so many have been first-time finishes. If Helander is tasked with applying the fundamentals, carrying out the basics with his risk averse nature, it’s unlikely that there will be many first-time opportunities for Giakoumakis to capitalise on. If he is going to score then, he’s going to have to work for it.
Helander already knows what it is like to score an Old Firm winner too and with Celtic at their most vulnerable from set-pieces, aerial superiority at both ends of the pitch could also become a factor of the match, and therefore the title.
James Tavernier v Daizen Maeda
It’s not unusual for a forward against a defender to be regarded as a key battle in a match – the reasons for this one being so crucial though is a little different and turn the usual one-on-one on its head.
The Rangers captain is one of his side’s biggest attacking threats with his right-side bursts, assists and goals. Curtailing those runs and forcing Tavernier to defend more than he otherwise would in domestic situations will help Celtic reduce his influence, and more importantly his crosses, where Ange Postecoglou’s side have lost most of their 18 goals from this season.
That will be as important a task for Maeda’s forward role in keeping Tavernier defensively busy with his perpetual darting movement, as it will be actually attacking the Rangers defence. However the Rangers captain has proven himself adept at both ends of the pitch this season when called upon, particularly in Europe so an engrossing tussle is expected wide on the wing.
John Lundstram v Reo Hatate
Sunday’s Old Firm midfield battle could just as easily be listed as a face-off between Ryan Jack and Callum McGregor but it is hard to separate the players who fulfil very similar roles for club and country – even Scotland boss Steve Clarke replaced McGregor with Jack against Poland in a straight swap. Who comes out on top could simply come down to individual performances on the day – or both could neutralise the other in the centre of the park.
Alongside them, in contrast are Hatate and Lundstram – two players who have come to the fore since January.
In Lundstram, Giovanni van Bronckhorst has discovered a reliable utility man and a perfect pair for Jack with a power in both his tackling and driving runs which, tradition tells us, is so suited to this fixture.
But Hatate took the last Old Firm match in his stride and lit up Parkhead that night with two goals in an all-round dynamic display that caught the hearts of Celtic’s support.
Who is able to exert their authority on the middle-ground or set a platform and dictate the play will be vital component for each side in the midfield where, as the football cliche goes, the game is won and lost.
Kemar Roofe v Carl Starfelt
For the second Old Firm in a row, Rangers are without Alfredo Morelos. Kemar Roofe led the line when Celtic triumphed 3-0 in February, and he got very little change from Cameron Carter-Vickers and Carl Starfelt. While a blow for the home side, the stats suggest it is not much of a let-off for Celtic. Roofe scored twice last season in the fixture at Ibrox and has a far healthier strike-rate than his Colombian team-mate with a goal every two hours compared to Morelos’ 173 minutes.
Stats also show though that Starfelt is part of the SPFL’s meanest defence, conceding once every two games on average, but those goals come when opponents make first contact in the penalty area. How Roofe steps up to continue his streak, and how Starfelt maintains his own defence’s record will be a tussle that could have a defining mark on the game, and the season.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst v Ange Postecoglou
Call it pragmatism against philosophy, but while Celtic have a set way of playing and set-up, Rangers have exhibited a degree of flexibility in both style and formation. John Lundstram and Calvin Bassey are key to those options with van Bronckhorst using both in central defence on occasion whether to accommodate others, or play three at the back and see out games. It’s an ability to change tactically which has benefited, particularly in Europe and in contrast to the ideology of Postecoglou.
The Celtic manager’s ways have been well documented, with a set-play for the season regardless of venue or opponent. It worked to a tee in the previous encounter in February though it provided a wake-up call for Rangers who have adapted since.
Each manager will prosper or falter based on the decisions they make and in Sunday’s game, the stakes could barely be higher.
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In attacker Daizen Maeda, his manager Ange Postecoglou has a player who would appear tailor-made for the energy-sapping 90 minutes that awaits in one of the most eagerly anticipated editions in recent times of the one Scottish fixture that elicits global intrigue. The Japanese forward seems suited to the derby’s particular demands because he gives the impression of being powered by a battery that never seems to drain. Even as he has played solidly for the past year-and-a-bit in bouncing straight from his homeland set-up to the cinch Premiership in January.
It might have been wondered if his exertions were catching up with him during the international break. Postecoglou revealed he was “under the weather” in being forced to withdraw from the Japan squad and would have missed the derby had it been played last weekend. Yet, in being “fine” now, it can be taken as read he will be beavering away in a wide-left role at Ibrox that could prove crucial in Celtic’s game strategy. Maeda will be matched-up against James Tavernier. The Rangers captain may be a right-back in positional terms, but in status he is his team’s most potent provider. He boasts the league’s highest assists total with an 11 haul, has fashioned 96 chances and it is from his flank that 40 per cent of Rangers’ attacks flow. The stamina-sapping mission for the Celtic attacker then, signed on a loan-to-permanent deal from Postecoglou’s old club Yokahama F Marinos, will be to constantly get in-and-about Tavernier. Deny him space to tee up crosses when Celtic are out of possession, and look to get in behind the over-lapping defender when they are on the ball. These tasks appear right in Maeda’s wheelhouse judging by how Postecoglou sets out the player’s strengths.
“Obviously I coached Daizen for a year and I knew what I was getting,” said the Celtic manager. “He has this tremendous capacity for work and doing some of the things that are difficult for a lot of footballers to do – not just from a physical perspective but mentally too. He is forever trying to close down opponents. That’s the point of difference between him and a lot of attacking players and it’s why I was so keen to bring him in. It’s no secret I wanted to bring him last summer but with the position Yokohama were in at the time, going for the championship, I knew I would probably not get him until January.
“He is giving everything I expected him to give and there is more there. He is the kind of guy who wants to keep improving. But the appetite he has for pressuring the opposition and the physical capacity he has for that – it’s not easy. It’s not just about fitness, it’s about being able to repeat effort and that is something different compared to the other attacking players we have.”
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With six league matches remaining, Ange Postecoglou’s men lead their Old Firm rivals by six points with six games remaining, while also having a vastly superior goal difference.
Despite Aaron Ramsey opening the scoring early on in front of a frenzied home support, Celtic regained their composure and levelled via Tom Rogic before Cameron Carter-Vickers scored what turned out to be the winner just before half time.
Celtic’s players were understandably jubilant at full time and headed over, along with Postecoglou, towards the 700 away fans housed in the far corner of the stadium.
They danced and celebrated in front of them, although they were met by some hostilities from a group of Rangers supporters in the Sandy Jardine stand, who were understandably disappointed with how the match played out for them and their team.
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The Arsenal loanee was responsible for earning Hibs a point against Dundee United on Saturday and keeping them in the mix for a top six slot. And if he can replicate his debut performance when the Leith travel across Edinburgh to face their capital rivals in the final round of fixtures before the split, his presence will be all the more appreciated.
"There's a bit of added pressure for the derby,” admitted the Englishman, who knows he has returned for a period of the season brimming with possibilities but fraught with danger.
Securing top six would give them a serious shot at a European place, while the upcoming Scottish Cup semi-final takes them tantalisingly close to silverware but lose the back to back derbies and the season would have a disappointing conclusion.
“Obviously, we have two in a row and it means a lot to the fans and the club,” acknowledged Clarke, who spent most of his rehabilitation from a tendon tear back in London with his parent club.
“To play in my first derby, with so much importance to the game, should be good.
"It was good to be back and we have a big few games coming up so hopefully, I can hit the ground running," added the 21 year-old.
He did that on Saturday but he believes there is even more to come.
“Chris Cadden has got a good delivery and it worked for my goal. The manager wants me to get in at the back post and use my pace, which I didn't really do a lot [against United]. He said I can be an attacking threat which is nice.
"I was a bit leggy at the end. But hopefully, in the next week or two I will be back fully fit."
As it stands, it would take an amazing sequence of events to deny Tam Courts’ Tannadice side their place in the top half of the Premiership but beneath them there are six teams vying for the remaining two berths, one of them being Hibs, which is why there was frustration that they could not turn their superior second half performance into all three points.
"I think a win would have been the most important thing, but it was nice to get a goal and finally get to play here,” said Clarke.
Having gone behind to a Ross Graham header in just the 10th minute, the home side grasped the urgency of the predicament. But it took them until almost half-time to conjure up the appropriate response.
There are signs of training ground efforts but the execution was not crisp enough in that ponderous opening 45 minutes. That equated to no real shots on goal until Clarke, who made his Hibs debut as a left-sided wingback, popped up. His first effort was fired wide, the second found the net
That lifted Hibs who were a different proposition in the second half, although a glaring miss from Elias Melkerson late on was an example of the work that still has to be done in the final third.
And with big games coming thick and fast, that needs to be evident sooner rather than later.
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Admitting to being disappointed with the draw against Dundee United in their penultimate match before the split, the Easter Road gaffer said he questioned referee Don Robertson’s decision to not only wave aside a late penalty claim but also book Chris Mueller for simulation. However, he admitted that his own men had been instrumental in the final result.
“The ref has a difficult job. They see it very quickly. If he feels it wasn't a penalty, he might feel he has to do something. For me, it was a bit harsh because I thought it was a foul.
“I think there was contact. From what I have seen it was maybe the wrong decision. These things seem to be happening at the moment but we’ll move on quickly.”
One positive was the goal-scoring debut from Harry Clarke, whose finish cancelled out Dundee United’s opener. But the draw still leaves Hibs in a precarious position.
“At this time of the season the result will dictate how the players, the supporters feel,” said Maloney. “But I was pleased with the performance. The difference between talking about a draw and a win is very fine margins.”
It leaves the Leith side seeking victory at Tynecastle, in next weekend’s capital derby, to ensure a top six spot for the concluding five Premiership games.
“When we perform like we did in the second half, we can cause any team trouble.
“We’ll look forward to next week. What gives me comfort is the way we played. Going down 1-0 after 10 minutes, we could have gone the other way and panicked, but we played very well. We gave them zero opportunities up to the last five minutes when it became a bit chaotic.
“But saying that, still in that final third we have to be more creative and dangerous with the actual clear cut chances we create. We have to make a difference in that area.”
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Okay, technically we were called European Play-Off - lumped together with Ukraine and Wales - so the saltire did not appear on the jazzy screens at Friday's draw ceremony, but we were there.
As a 36-year-old, I can remember watching Scotland at France 98 but I don't think draws were televised back then, or certainly not to as much fanfare. As a nation starved of being on the biggest global stage for too long, moments like this feel momentuous.
I see many in England already think they have won the World Cup after being handed a group containing the Islamic Republic of Iran (it's Sunday so I'm giving them their Sunday name), the United States of America and one of Wales, Ukraine or Scotland. No sooner had the balls stopped spinning, I was watching our southern chums on Twitter get all excited. Routes to the final are already being plotted. They view this group as easy meat. Senegal in the last 16, Argentina in the semi-finals (God, can you imagine the tabloids).
I'll use the old cliche that there are no easy games in the World Cup, but I'm going to admit that as the draw unfolded, Group B was staring me in the face: that's the one I want! We drew with England at Wembley so surely we shouldn't fear them in the desert, the US are most definitely not the force of old and the Iranians - well, okay, we have history with them - but Iraj Danaeifard is now 67 and long retired. The ghosts of 1978 have to be put to rest some day.
Because of the "constraints" of the draw, teams from certain federations not being allowed to face each other in the groups, it became apparent reasonably early that there was a high chance of being put in Group B. I'd much rather have this one than playing Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea (sorry, Korea Republic, as it's Sunday), as was our other option in Group H. Cristiano Ronaldo, Luiz Suarez and Son Heung-min, or Harry Kane, Sardar Azmoun or Christian Pulisic? No brainer.
This is about as delectable a World Cup group as one could wish for, so I'll forgive England - who are actually a very, very good football team and deservedly one of the favourites to win this under the likeable Gareth Southgate - for being so optimistic. I'm already concerned that my holiday in December will need to be cancelled so that I can work on Scotland against Netherlands in the last 16. Okay, I jest …
Who knows if the tie against Ukraine will ever be played. One really, really hopes so. Home advantage at an emotional Hampden will help, but that is a very difficult assignment Beat the Ukrainians and it's Wales in Cardiff. What a huge event that would be. We think we've had it bad but there's a generation of Welsh fans who have not experienced their nation being at a World Cup. My colleague Andrew Smith took in their play-off game against Austria and reported back that not many of their team would get into ours, but the one man who definitely would is an absolute superstar. Gareth Bale concerns me, the ogre ready to turn Scottish dreams into nightmares.
And then there's the fact that this is being held in Qatar, with the controversy about how this tiny middle-eastern nation came to be the 2022 host, its human rights record and the deaths associated with constructing the stadia. Moments like Friday's draw, rightly or wrongly, take you away from what has gone on, and what is going on. Gianni Infantino, FIFA's president, said this World Cup could be a unifier in the face of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, and while he is quite right when discussing the war, what is going on in Qatar's neck of the woods is far from palatable either.
So getting excited about November and December comes with a caveat, given all of the above, but I can't help myself. This current Scotland team is a good one, steadily improving under the wily Steve Clarke, and are playing with togetherness and confidence. There is a reasonable chance that they can do it. Take the blue-tinted spectacles off and if you were neutral, you wouldn't be put off backing Scotland. Ukraine and Wales are good teams too, but they are not scary.
If - and it's a big if - Scotland qualify, we will be involved on opening day, against the Americans in Al Rayyan on Monday, November 21 (kick-off time would be 7pm our time, of course I've checked). Back in 1998, the last time we graced the world's stage, it was Brazil, in Paris, on opening night. I'll cling on to that small omen. We've had a taste of being part of this World Cup, even if it's just in spirit. Now I really, really want us to be there in person.
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Goals from Tom Rogic and Cameron Carter-Vickers overhauled Aaron Ramsey’s early opener for the hosts in a move which mirrors Celtic’s comeback in the league table since Christmas.
The three points takes Ange Postecoglou’s advantage to six points at the top of the table with six games to go, and former Rangers striker Boyd can’t see them dropping their lead now after they showed ‘another side’ to their game.
“Oh it‘s over, finished, no doubt about it” Boyd declared after the game. “Celtic, with that form, we’ve seen how good they are going forward in recent games but we’ve actually seen another side to them in terms of defending properly.
"I thought [Carl] Starfelt and [Cameron] Carter-Vickers were outstanding.
"When you look at Celtic they are sometimes left two-on-two or even one-vs-one, but this time every single time Rangers got to the by-line and tried to put a ball in it, Starfelt was there to cut out, it was proper defending from them both today.
"They didn’t try to play out, they were excellent.”
Boyd also had a word for another two defenders at the other end of the pitch – but wearing the same colours, defending from the front.
He added: "The front two [Giorgos] Giakoumakis and [Daizen] Maeda, their work-rate unsettled Rangers and didn’t let them build the passage of play that you want to see from Rangers.
"For me it was going to be very difficult for Rangers to get back into the title, but it’s done today for me.”
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Assessing the action on social media after the match many conceded their chances and hurting fans also placed the record of van Bronckhorst under the microscope, but players were also in the firing line as fans picked over the bones of a second consecutive Old Firm defeat.
@CF3Loyal: “We couldn’t have asked for a better start but thereafter we lost our way and composure. Poor all over the park. Our key players not good enough. League over. Focus now on winning the Scottish Cup and continuing to progress in the Europa League, and look ahead to next season.”
@roymassie1: “Absolutely shocking to go 1-0 up after 3/4 minutes then let them play is totally unacceptable.”
@Mikey29283811: “Well done Celtic, fair enough you spent alot of money this season but the league is yours. Only a miracle could win us the league now.”
@_wotta: “Pathetic. Only Bassey and Ramsey get pass marks. Would rather have Sakala over Roofe tbh. We need a new team. This one did it’s job of stopping 10, now though we need to sell our assets and rebuild.”
@Passenger__57: “Those players rolled over and let the bellies get a wee tickle. Major rebuild needed, start by getting that defensive unit out! All of them!!! Goalie, CB’s all honking!”
@FlipTheMindset: “I hope it hurts because it just wasn't good enough. Need to bounce back.....again.
@ibroxrocks: “We had to win and we lost. The season in microcosm. Too many errors, too many bad decisions at key moments. No way back in the league from here.”
@IJW_RFC_55: “Six points clear at the winter break, now six points behind. Absolutely shocking.”
@Kirky_8: “Sometimes just need to put your hands up as a full group and say not good enough after a seven-point turnaround.”
@Awitsjustyou: “League’s over as much as it pains me to say it. Try and win one cup now not to be made a laughing stock at the end of the season.”
@RangersFC_Zone: “Gio hasn’t given us anything without Europe. I hate to say it, he’s not convincing me that he’s the man. He’s done well in Europe against some big sides but he’s not doing it domestically for us…. Really hate to say it.”
@gsdavo1975: “Gio I loved you as a player, but, a 12 point swing since you've taken over. You're living off your Europa league results. The league is our bread and butter. Under your watch, we've dropped 12 points. You can not continue after this season. #GioOut.”
@johnstott1981: “Funny commentary there after the match..no penalty for the hand ball from Carter-Vickers from Boyd...didn’t even mention Goldson getting his shirt pulled at the corner..then Boyd says Collum referee’d well and kept is cards in his pocket. Ralston’s was a red all day.”
@DAVEMACK007: “Sadly no 56 this season we have to salvage some Pride in Europa and Scottish Cups now!”
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“I didn't see it in person, but I did see it on TV, and I thought it was something very special,” said Matsuyama, recalling the marvellous gesture as he prepared for his Green Jacket defence in the event’s 86th edition.
“I'm glad that Shota did it,” he added. “It's a sign of respect, not only to the Masters tournament but Augusta National. It was something that was good. I never really thought it would receive the attention that it has generated.”
Helped by a third-round 65, Matsuyama succeeded where the likes of Isao Aoki, ‘Jumbo’ Ozaki, Tommy Nakajima and Shigeki Maruyama all came up short in their bids over the years to become a major champion.
“To be the first to do it was a source of great pride, I guess,” admitted the 30-year-old, who has been hampered by a back problem in the build up to his return to the Georgia venue. “But I'm really not the pioneer.
“There's been so many others that have come before me that have laid the foundation for me to achieve this goal. So it's not just me, but it's all of those that have gone before me that have tried and struggled and put the work in and were great examples to me.”
During his reign as Masters champion, Matsuyama has landed the Zozo Championship on home soil by five shots and also won the Sony Open in Hawaii in a play-off. Off the course, though, has the last 12 months changed his life?“I haven't really figured that out yet,” he said. “I know I'm a happier person. I've also noticed people have received me differently. It's been a wonderful experience. If that's changed my life, I don't know.
“But that's really the one impression that I've had this past year is how warm people have embraced me and received me and cheered me on.”
He shed tears of joy straight after the win. “Yeah, those tears, it wasn't because I won,” he insisted. “Walking up from the 18th green, I saw all my team, and they were all crying, and I think that's probably what started me crying, too.
“But it was really cool to be able to share that with my team. The feeling of ‘we finally did it’. That was the reason why those tears were falling down all of our cheeks.”
The day after his triumph, Matsuyama was pictured sitting in Atlanta airport with his Green Jacket hanging over a chair. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, his celebration back in Japan was initially a diluted affair.
“It was difficult because of the quarantine,” he said. “I arrived in Japan and immediately for two weeks was under quarantine. But, when that finished, I still had a week and was able to celebrate with friends and family.
“Shigeki Maruyama (his mentor) was one of those that I was able to celebrate with. Even though it was a little belated, it was still a good celebration.”
It’s a Masters tradition that winners donate a meaningful club to Augusta National. “I sent a 56-degree wedge,” he revealed. “I used that wedge a lot last year at the Masters, and it was one of the reasons why I was able to win. The club performed very well.”
Matsuyama led by four shots heading into the final circuit before seeing his cushion quickly whittled down to just a shot by Will Zalatoris. But, after making three birdies on the front nine, it was plain sailing in the end.
“I don't know how well I controlled it,” he said of the last-day pressure. “I guess if I won, I was able to control it well. But it was a struggle all day long. I felt that pressure right until the end.”
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In a post on social media, the five-time winner revealed that a sensational return could still be on the cards in the season’s opening major.
“I will be heading up to Augusta today to continue my preparation and practice,” wrote Woods. “It will be a game-time decision on whether I compete.”
The 46-year-old landed in Waynesboro, which is about 20 minutes from Augusta, just before 2pm, soon after patrons attending the Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals had all left Augusta National.
Wearing a Georgia peach-coloured top and looking in great physical condition, Woods walked on to the practice range at 3.21pm with caddie Joe LaCava and long-time friend Rob McNamara, shaking hands with Kevin Na before starting to hit balls.
Broken up by a warm hug from BMW PGA champion Billy Horschel and chewing the fat with him, he hit 33 balls in total, including seven drivers to finish, in a warm up that lasted just under 20 minutes.
The course had been closed to the media, meaning that Woods was afforded total privacy as he headed out, starting at the tenth and likely to play just nine holes.
Woods, who also congratulated 16-year-old Anna Davis on her win in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Saturday in his tweet, played a practice round at the Georgia venue last Tuesday.
The 15-time major champion was joined for that by his 13-year-old son Charlie and Justin Thomas, the 2017 US PGA winner.
It allowed Woods to test out his right leg, which was badly injured in a car crash in Los Angeles 13 months ago, on one of the most undulating courses in golf.
Woods last played in an official event in the 2020 Masters, which was held in November due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The defending champion on that occasion, he tied for 38th behind Dustin Johnson.
His life was then turned upside down a few months later as the 82-time PGA Tour winner was involved in a single-car accident in California.
He suffered serious injuries to his right leg and foot, admitting towards the end of last year when he hosted the Hero Challenge in the Bahamas that amputation of the leg had been a possibility.
Woods has also spoken about how he’d only play on a limited basis if he did return to the PGA Tour.
Rory McIlroy, who was also at Augusta National last Tuesday, spoke about the possibility of Woods playing this week ahead of the Valero Texas Open.
“I think for golf and for the Masters Tournament and for everyone, to have Tiger there would be phenomenal,” said the four-time major winner in San Antonio, where he then missed the cut.
“I think it just adds to the event. Anything Tiger Woods does in the game of golf is heightened whenever he’s there. It would be awesome for him to be there.
“He’s trying to see what he can do. Obviously, no one knows but him if he can make it around and if he believes he can compete.”
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Former jockey Williams had saddled the first two home in the Coral Trophy at Kempton in February and on the same afternoon Win My Wings won the Eider Chase at Newcastle.
He probably never thought he would equal that achievement - but in saddling the first two home in Scotland's biggest race, the Welsh handler once again proved there are not many better when it comes to training staying chasers.
Win My Wings - the 13-2 joint-favourite with Kitty's Light - was ridden with extreme confidence by Irish amateur Rob James, whose 7lb claim offset almost all the 8lb rise she incurred for winning at Newcastle.
James had only ever ridden one other winner in the UK, Milan Native in the Kim Muir at the Cheltenham Festival, but is one of the most prolific winning point-to-point jockeys in Ireland.
Having settled his mare in mid-division behind a generous early pace, he kept out of trouble on the outside before joining Ask A Honey Bee a long way from home.
Stamina is the winner's forte and as the likes of Major Dundee and Ashtown Lad began to tire, Win My Wings just pulled further and further clear.
James allowed her to coast home after the last, as Kitty's Light stayed on dourly to claim second, seven lengths adrift. Major Dundee was third with Fidux fourth.
Williams said: "I feel sorry for Kitty's but nothing would have beaten her today, that's how it looked to me. It was some performance.
"I was pretty confident the whole race to be honest, but I was just a little worried if she'd done a bit too much too early in the race.
"Rob kept her out of trouble on the outside and she jumped great.
"I don't know about Aintree next year. She wouldn't be over-big which would be a concern and the thing about Aintree is you have to build your whole season around it and there's a lot of fun to be had before then. I'll talk to the owners.
"She's been to France before and won so that style of racing does suit her, but I don't think she'll go this year as she's had two hard races.
"She might go to Sandown for the bet365 Gold Cup, she does have that option so I wouldn't have thought it would be France this year. The thing is with these mares when they get on a roll you want to keep the ball rolling. We'll sit down after the weekend and chat sensibly.
"Sandown is an option for Kitty's as well. He's had some hard races and while he hasn't won a big one this season he's won plenty of prize-money.
"He's got time on his side still, he's still only six and he'll win a big one some day, he's got plenty of time."
He added: "They are two wonderful horses, two great jockeys and it's just a shame all the staff couldn't be here to celebrate, so we'll do that when we get home."
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A turbulent night before a family funeral in Glasgow might seem an unlikely subject to inspire a show created for one of the city's biggest stages by the National Theatre of Scotland.
But anyone familiar with the dark humour of the classic 1990s Scottish film Orphans will have an inkling of what to expect.
Peter Mullan’s directorial debut, which follows the travails of three brothers and their sisters throughout a surreal, storm-lashed night, has been transformed for a new incarnation bringing together the talents of a host of names from Scottish theatre, music, comedy and film.
Playwright Douglas Maxwell and director Cora Bissett have joined forces with singer-songwriters and composers Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly to adapt Mullan’s screenplay into a stage show with a 15-strong cast, including Burnistoun star Robert Florence, which opens at the Armadillo in Glasgow on Thursday, and will also visit Edinburgh and Inverness.
The show emerged from a desire by Bissett to create a new Scottish stage musical for the broadest possible audience – and to work with Hart and Reilly, after seeing their first film, the Christmas-set zombie high school musical Anna and the Apocalypse.
She recalls: "I went to see it as I knew some people who were in it and just loved it. I couldn’t work out why I was so moved watching a bonkers zombie rom-com. I had tears streaming down my face.
“Roddy and Tommy were singer-songwriters first and foremost who had written their own albums. They’ve come to film and theatre with a very different perspective. They’re very good at telling stories through their songs.
“They discovered that they love writing music that’s not just for themselves to sing and I love making shows with music in them. I know how much it connects with people.”
Seeking inspiration for a possible adaptation of a Scottish film for them to adapt together, Bissett turned to her DVD collection.
She adds: “We knew we wanted something that felt intrinsically Scottish, whatever that means, but not in some sort of couthy, cliched way. We wanted something with a gritty dark humour.
“As I was watching Orphans, I felt it had such a brilliant structure, with four people who lose their mother at the start. One of them gets stabbed and it triggers off a series of crazy journeys through this kind of dark night of the soul.
"I loved the storytelling, as it took grief and dealt with it in a gritty, darkly humorous way, but also explored the madness of those emotions in a magical-realist way. I felt it could be perfect.”
Reilly said: “We had talked about working together on loads of different things with Cora, but one day she just sent us a message that said: ‘Orphans?’ We both just thought: ‘That’s it.’
“The three of us watched the film about seven times over the course of a week. The more we got into it the more we felt it was ripe to be adapted.
"There were so many great take-off points, big elements and crazy things happening for the characters over the night. We wrote a couple of songs towards the end of that week that are actually in the final show.”
Released in 1998, Orphans helped establish Mullan as one of the biggest names in Scottish film, along with My Name Is Joe, which he starred in and was also set in Glasgow.
He recalled: The year after my mum died, I really wanted to make something in Glasgow involving how I was feeling at the time.
"I had four short films in my head and then thought of a very simple device where I made it about a family whose mum has just died. I wrote it very quickly in a couple of weeks.”
Mullan was relaxed about the prospect of a stage adaptation, meeting Bissett in person to discuss her ideas.
She says: “We’ve stuck pretty damn close to Pete’s original story and worked with his original story. We’ve developed the role of Sheila more, we wanted to bring more female characters and one of the sons is now adopted, as we wanted to have a more diverse cast.
"I think we’ve been very true to the film, its language and humour. We’ve not cleaned it up. There’s a lot of swearing and it’s very raw. We’ve not made a shiny version of Orphans for the stage.”
Florence makes his theatrical debut playing Thomas, the devoutly religious brother memorably played by Gary Lewis in the film.
Florence says: “Thomas is very much trapped in his loyalty to the memory of his mother, to the chapel and to God. He is maybe struggling the most with how to deal with things. I’ll hopefully be bringing my own thing to the part.
"It’s such a brilliantly written and conceived thing. Everybody’s got some really heavy emotional lifting to do.
"I think Cora and Douglas have done a really good job of keeping the emotional centre, reality, surrealism and laughs of the film without it going in any particular direction.
"It’s a very funny, Glasgow and street-level story, with an unbelievable amount of swearing, catchy-as-anything songs, and an amazing set.
“I know in my heart of hearts that there are plenty of people who would absolutely love this but would never buy a ticket for a musical. The challenge is getting those people to see it. My hope is that word of mouth really picks up once people have seen it.”
Mullan says: “I’ve only seen a read-through, but it completely blew me away. If people like the film I think they’ll really enjoy the stage show.
"It’s very gregarious and life-affirming. You can feel it and touch it in a way that you can’t with film.”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (USC SID) – The University of South Carolina baseball team fell to Missouri, 10-3, on Sunday afternoon (April 3) at Taylor Stadium.
Carolina took a 1-0 lead in the first as Brandt Belk single, stole second and third and scored on Braylen Wimmer’s sacrifice fly to right. Missouri answered with a run in the first but Josiah Sightler’s third home run of the weekend in the second put the Gamecocks up, 2-1.
Missouri took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the fifth, then scored three in the sixth and four in the eighth. Carolina scored a run in the eighth as Kevin Madden scored on a double play ball by Andrew Eyster.
Carolina had just four hits on the day. The loss went to Matthew Becker, who allowed three runs and three hits with five walks and five strikeouts in 4.1 innings pitched.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Brandt Belk extended his hitting streak to 16 games after his leadoff single in the first.
- Carolina hit six home runs in the Missouri series.
- Sightler now has four home runs on the season.
UP NEXT
The Gamecocks will head to Charlotte, N.C., for the second time this season on Tuesday night (April 5) as Carolina will face North Carolina at Truist Field. First pitch is at 7 p.m. and the game will be on ACC Network Extra.
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Grammys 2022: Jon Batiste wins big including 'best American roots performance'
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jon Batiste has already taken home four Grammy Awards, including his first ever, in what could be a big night for this year’s leading nominee.
During the show’s pre-telecast ceremony Sunday, Batiste won for best American roots performance, best American roots song, best music video and tied with Carlos Rafael Rivera for best score soundtrack for visual media. His song "Freedom" in the music video category beat out several other tough competitors, including Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish.
"I am so grateful for the gifts that God has given me and the ability to share that for the love of humankind," Batiste said. "We just wanted everyone to see it. Any depression, any bondage or any darkness that was over your life is completely removed by just the love and the joy of the video."
Batiste — not present for his first three awards — also won for "Soul" alongside Rivera for his composing efforts on "The Queen’s Gambit."
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It’s the first tie since 2019 when Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake tied with Anderson .Paak to win best rap performance.
Batiste — who lost in four other categories — entered the Grammys as the leading nominee with 11 nominations. The losses halted the multi-talented performer from making history for most wins in one night.
Foo Fighters won three awards, but were not in attendance to pick up their trophies following the recent death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins. The rock band did extend their record for most best rock album wins with five for "Medicine at Midnight." The group’s song "Making a Fire" won best rock performance and "Waiting on a War" bested other nominees for best rock song.
TJ Osborne, who came out as gay last year, fought back tears as he and his brother accepted a Grammy for their song "Younger Me." He noted the song was inspired by his coming out.
"I never thought that I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality. And I certainly never thought I would be here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life changing and potentially in a very negative way," Osborne said.
"And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and he loves me back. ... "I don’t know what I did be so lucky."
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Osborne performs with his brother John as the Brothers Osborne.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson won his sixth Grammy for best music film through "Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised.") His documentary also won an Oscar for best documentary feature last weekend.
Chick Corea and Vicente Fernandez each won posthumous Grammys. Joni Mitchell won best historical album for "Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967)."
"Thanks to the academy for this nomination and this win, I didn’t expect this," she said.
Eilish could become the first artist ever to win record of the year three times in a row, and the only artist along with Paul Simon to take home the award three times. She’s in position to join Adele as the only artists to ever win three major categories — record, song and album of the year — twice. She previously won for "Bad Guy" and "Everything I Wanted."
Trevor Noah returns for a second time as Grammys host. The ceremony shifted from Los Angeles to Las Vegas because of rising COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing "too many risks" to hosting the performance-filled show at the time. It airs live beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS and Paramount+.
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If Eilish wins in all her seven nominated categories, she’ll be the woman with the most Grammys won in a single year (H.E.R., Doja Cat and Rodrigo could do the same). But that might be a tough feat with Eilish facing some stiff competition for the show’s top prize — album of the year — which was expanded to 10 nominees.
Even if Eilish comes away with six wins, she’ll be tied with Beyoncé and Adele — which is not bad company to be in.
Rodrigo has an opportunity to join Eilish and Christopher Cross as the only artists to win all four major categories (best new artist, album, record and song of the year). The 19-year-old "drivers license" singer could be following Eilish’s remarkable record by becoming the second-youngest album of the year winner with "Sour."
H.E.R., who won song of the year last year for "I Can’t Breathe," could go back-to-back. She’s nominated this year for the soulful "Fight for You," whose poignant lyrics from the "Judas and the Black Messiah" soundtrack were written by H.E.R., producer D’Mile and singer Tiara Thomas. It won an Academy Award for best original song last year.
The awards will be without several big names: Drake and The Weeknd both decided to not take part in the Grammys, at all. Ye, who changed his name from Kanye West, said he was told that his act was pulled from the show.
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West, known as Ye, was not in attendance to accept his award for best rap song through "Jail," featuring Jay-Z, who extended his record as the most awarded rapper of all time with 24 wins for his songwriting on the song. Jay-Z is also up for album of the year for his guest appearance on West’s "Donda."
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion will battle to see who becomes the first woman to win best rap performance as a solo artist. Stallion, who won the award with Beyoncé last year, is nominated for her song "Thot S(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk)," while Cardi B is up for her crossover hit "Up."
A healthy dose of performers will hit the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, including Silk Sonic, H.E.R., Chris Stapleton, Cynthia Erivo, Jack Harlow, Nas, Leslie Odom Jr. and Brothers Osborne.
Silk Sonic’s Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak won two awards. The duo’s song "Leave the Door Open" and Jazmine Sullivan’s "Pick Up Your Feelings" tied to win best R&B performance, and "Leave the Door Open" won best R&B song.
Rodrigo’s "Drivers License" won best pop solo performance.
Artists competing with Eilish for album of the year include Rodrigo, Batiste, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X and Kanye West.
Bennett extended his record as the artist with the most traditional pop vocal album with 14 wins with "Love for Sale," a duet album with Lady Gaga.
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On the production side, Serban Ghenea could tie Al Schmitt as the engineer-mixer with the most Grammys won with 20. He’s won a total 18 trophies in his career and enters the awards with five nominations for his work on Doja Cat’s "Planet Her" and Lil Nas X’s "Montero." Ghenea also could extend his record as the engineer-mixer with the most album of the year wins at five.
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CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Families, friends, and cancer survivors gathered in person on Sunday for the Stroll N’ Roll walk at Garden City.
The annual event hosted by The Tomorrow Fund helps raise money to support families of children battling cancer at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
“So this fundraiser helps support out programs, things like paying or parking for the duration of treatment, mortgages, and rents. You know, no parent expects to hear the words that your child has cancer,” Executive Director Lisa Abbenante said. “So, what they are doing is, they’re concentrating in focusing on their health and we are the safety net. We are the safety net for the families to make sure that the bottom doesn’t fall off when they are going through this horrific situation.”
Executive Director Lisa Abbenante said this year’s turnout was back to post-pandemic levels.
“Friday when we closed pre-registration were near six hundred and fifty people and then we’ve had walk-in registrations come in as well. So, we are back to numbers that we were before,” Abbenante said.
This year’s fundraising goal is $100,000.
“We were right around $70,000 so between donations and registrations, walk-in registrations, we have to see where we end up,” Abbenante said.
You can learn more about ways to support The Tomorrow Fund on their website.
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Billie Eilish delivered a powerful performance of “Happier Than Ever” off of her heavily Grammy-nominated sophomore album during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday night.
The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, who received a total of seven nominations, sang her sweet, moody ballad in a set that looked like an upside living room filled with water that came up to her shins for part of the song before joining her producer brother Finneas O’Connell to belt out the more rockin’ portion of the track during what looked like a massive downpour of rain on stage.
Eilish also donned a black shirt with the late Foo Fighters anchor Taylor Hawkins’ picture on the front and his name on the back. As she took a bow and received a standing ovation following her turn, she make sure to point to the shirt for the cameras and audience. Hawkins died at the age of 50 on March 25.
Eilish will perform three sold-out evenings at The Forum in Inglewood this week before making her way to Indio to headline the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival April 16 and 23, won two Grammy awards last year and swept the top four categories in 2020.
She’s nominated in the album record and song of the year categories and if she does score record of the year, she’ll be the first person to win that honor three years in a row.
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Reggaeton star J Balvin and Argentine singer Maria Becerra performed their single “Qué Más Pues” live at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night and the duo definitely has chemistry.
Balvin and Bercerra played well off of one another, each allowing the other to have their big vocal moments. Balvin then split off on his own and danced around several glowing dancers upon the stage as he delivered his bouncy track featuring Skrillex, “In Da Getto.”
Balvin’s record, “Jose,” was nominated in the best música urbana album category, but lost to Bad Bunny’s “El Último Tour del Mundo.”
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Olivia Rodrigo is officially a Grammy Award-winning artist.
Congrats Best Pop Solo Performance winner –
"drivers license" @oliviarodrigo 💜WATCH NOW 🎶: https://t.co/iZP2mSPJkJ #GRAMMYPremiere #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/VosS8thQo7
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) April 3, 2022
During the 64th Annual Grammy Awards premiere ceremony before the official, televised ceremony on Sunday, Rodrigo was announced as the winner for best pop solo performance, for “Drivers License.” She was not there to accept the award in person but was seen on the red carpet heading into the official ceremony shortly before her award was announced.
The 19-year old pop music superstar and Temecula, California, native is snapping up accolades just one official album (“SOUR”) into her career. Last summer, she broke Taylor Swift’s record for most songs in the top 10 at one time by a woman on Billboard’s streaming songs chart.
Now, she’s won a Grammy, and fans are losing their minds.
GUYS IM SOBBING. OLIVIA JUST WON A GRAMMYS AWARD FOR DRIVERS LICENSE (HER DEBUT SINGLE) FROM HER DEBUT ALBUM. OLIVIA RODRIGO IS THE IT GIRL. @LiviesHQ #GRAMMYS
— nia ♡︎’s liv !! (@niasgray) April 3, 2022
OLIVIA RODRIGO GRAMMY WINNER!
— rafa (@oIiviasouIs) April 3, 2022
olivia rodrigo grammy winner 🗣🗣🗣🗣
— bel. (@Iuvsdonny) April 3, 2022
OLIVIA IS A GRAMMY WINNER!!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE TO SAY 🥹 @LiviesHQ
— k is driving 2 the grammys (@brinamadsari) April 3, 2022
She is also up for best new artist, album of the year, record of the year, and song of the year, so this may not be her only win. But the celebration has already begun.
This fan recorded her reaction, screaming at the announcement of the news.
well, I ended up throwing my phone away from the emotion, besties @LiviesHQ @oliviarodrigo 😭😭😭💜 #ProudOfOlivia #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/B3eIuu542t
— a i k o is proud of liv 💜 (@camiftnath) April 3, 2022
Many fans saw Rodrigo’s win as acknowledgment of her talent and staying power.
if ur winning a grammy with ur debut single then u ain't going anywhere… olivia rodrigo is here to stay
— leon (@bordertears) April 3, 2022
olivia rodrigo really just won a grammy with her DEBUT SINGLE 🥲 pic.twitter.com/z9HYVcRXxd
— brianna is driving 2 the grammys (@sweetenerisbest) April 3, 2022
olivia rodrigo deserves all her grammys i’m sorry. sour had the entire world on chokehold from the first song till the last song on the record for a good 6 months, what makes you think there’s any eligible record standing against it? it’s hers. she’s taking it home. easy win.
— A🪡 (@folkeiry) April 3, 2022
Check out more of our Grammy Awards coverage here.
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Irrespective of your discipline, you need to attend to the shifts in academic and public discourse.
Stories about the campus language police are a staple of the conservative-leaning press. There, you’ll read about a University of Washington language guide created by the campus’ information technology department that describes the words “grandfather” and “housekeeping” as problematic. How so? Because of the former term’s association with the infamous “grandfather clause” that exempted some whites from voting restrictions in the South; the latter, because it “feels gendered.”
Then there’s Brandeis’s oppressive language list, which warned the campus not to use words or phrases including “picnic,” “rule of thumb,” “homeless person,” or even “trigger warning” -- which the school’s Prevention, Advocacy, and Resource Center claimed had “roots, histories, and/or current usage that can serve to reinforce systems of oppression” and had violent or gendered connotations.
Insensitive use of language, the guides explain, can wound or cause stress or hurt to those who have been “impacted by violence” or bias, while alternative word choices can “promote [a] more inclusive campus.”
The noted linguist John McWhorter and the author Joyce Carol Oates were not alone in likening the “ultra-woke” to commissars engaged in thought control who contributed to a culture of censorship. And yet it is also the case that words can indeed cause harm, normalize violence, contribute to stigma, trivialize relationship violence, invalidate feelings, and marginalize groups of people or strip them of agency.
Words have become weapons in the culture war and language itself has become an arena of cultural and political conflict. But don’t be a passive bystander: Discussion of the politics of language deserves a place in our classrooms.
Words and grammar, of course, are constantly in flux, but today, more than the past, words, which we often think of as having transparent, consensual meaning, are now subject to politicized debate. For example, is a border wall a fence or an apartheid barrier?
Words are not simply descriptive, nor merely a way to materialize concepts. Words can actively influence understanding and perceptions, as figures as diverse as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kenneth Burke, and Benjamin Lee Whorf have argued. Little wonder that language has become a site of contestation.
Words can recognize and valorize previously marginalized identities. Language can also subvert certain common but previously unrecognized biases. Yet words can also obfuscate. Just ask yourself: Is the term sexual assault a more or less accurate substitute for rape?
Recent years have witnessed the publication of a slew of books with “Keywords” in the title. There’s Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle, which argues that “the capacity to name has … self-evident liberatory power.” There’s also Political Keywords: A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else, which describes a series of commonly misused and dangerously vague terms that are used to “spin disputed ideas or justify questionable actions.”
Then there’s a series of Keywords for African American Studies, American Cultural Studies, Children’s Literature, Comics Studies, Environmental, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Media Studies – all inspired by Raymond Williams’s 1976 classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, which documented semantic changes in language that reflect shifts in the social and power relations of production and cultural values.
We are in the midst of a self-conscious process of re-signification. Neologisms proliferate, with new gender pronouns perhaps the most obvious innovations. An especially noteworthy and revealing new word is “gaslight,” which means to manipulate, create an alternate reality, or unsettle an obvious truth.
Yet something larger is going on than a dispute about whether or not to speak of “pregnant persons.” I would submit that we are experiencing a fundamental shift in discourse.
This shift is manifest in:
- A heightened attentiveness to people’s psychological realities, evident in claims that particular actions or behaviors or words threaten someone’s safety or invalidate their lived reality.
- Concept creep, the semantic extension of concepts of harm, trauma, and pathology to a broader range of experiences.
- An acute sensitivity to words denoting discrimination and bias, including a 400 percent increase in the use of the words “sexist” or “racist” in The New York Times since 2012.
- The destigmatizing of certain expletives combined with a growing taboo against the use of other invectives in virtually any context.
- The rejection of terms that seem to deny agency or full personhood and that strike many as intrinsically offensive, such as slave or disabled.
Discourse analysis – the study of the uses of language in particular social contexts and how terminology, concepts, and labels are institutionalized and become instruments of power, understanding, and persuasion – is now central not only to the fields of semiotics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, but across the humanities and in many of the social sciences.
Words are, of course, enablers of human thought, keys to communication, and instruments of understanding. Our ability to conceive of complex concepts depends on words. Words can also be weapons and can shape our perception of reality. As Wittgenstein put it in his 1922 Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
Let me suggest three ways that diverse fields of study would benefit from a better understanding of discourse:
- Shifts in word usage, meaning, and epistemology: By tracing the etymology of the terminology of Christian morality, Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1887 On the Genealogy of Morality revealed that far from being timeless moral truths, moral precepts were the products of particular historical circumstances. Etymology is, in many respects, a record not only of shifting social values but ever-changing social realities. John Patrick Leary’s Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism show how the 21stcentury economic marketplace gave birth to a series of new words that are now applied far outside the economic realm, including terms like empowerment, wellness, synergy, and flexibility.
- The ambiguous and contested character of language: Not only is language fluid, but words’ meaning is often contested. As such scholars as Eric Foner and Daniel T. Rodgers, the keywords of American politics, above all, the words “rights” and “freedom,” exert enormous power, but are also floating signifiers that can be invoked in behalf of many contradictory arguments.
- Verbal response modes: Our communication style colors the ways that our messages are received. It’s not just a matter of tone –patronizing, disdainful, supercilious, or snooty – or of volume -- yelling, bellowing, or barking – that prompts negative reactions. So, too, does one’s “verbal response modes” – one’s directness, presumptiveness, or attentiveness.
Many of our classes contain contrasting discourse styles that can provoke discomfort or awkwardness. I’ll always recall how, at Columbia, some students found a fairly typically New York City speaking style – rapid fire and in one’s face – disconcerting and even hostile.
Although recent shifts in discourse are usually linked to the political left, the fact is that discursive shifts occur with surprising frequency and rest upon underlying societal transformations. Every college instructor knows that the discourse of college teaching has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, driven by the learning sciences and a host of advocates and reformers. Even those who claim to know little or nothing about pedagogy now use a vocabulary drawn from the scholarship of teaching and learning. We speak of learning objectives, 21stcentury competencies or literacies, critical thinking, Bloom’s taxonomy, and so forth.
Some shifts in discourse are seismic. Consider the shifts that took place:
- In the late 18th century, when a new vocabulary spread that helped to justify revolution, including constitutionalism, natural rights, and republicanism.
- In the early 19th century, which the rise of a new industrial order and the emergence of the modern nation state resulted in the proliferation of such words as class, exploitation, individualism, nationalism, the reformatory, and scientist.
- In the early 20th century, when a discourse inspired in the United States, by progressivism, and in Europe, by social democratic thought arose, including such new terms as children’s rights, feminism, and the welfare state.
- Beginning in the 1920s and accelerating after World War II, when the psychoanalytic language, with terms like anal retentive, defense mechanisms, displacement, masochism, narcissistic, and projection were embraced.
Words, we are quite rightly told, possess power. They have “the ability to help, to heal, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” Words can also inspire, motivate, and encourage. As Proverbs 18:21 puts it: “The tongue has the power of life and death.”
As another writer has observed: “Words cannot change reality, but they can change how people perceive reality.”
Given the power of words, we should certainly speak and write mindfully. Choose your words wisely.
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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11 Ways That Pandemic Zoom Changed Campus Meeting Culture
How durable might these changes be post-pandemic?
Meeting on Zoom during the pandemic has changed how we meet. The question is, how permanent will these changes be?
Here, I'm talking about meetings with colleagues at your institution. Regular meetings. Not academic conferences. Although, the pandemic has likely changed those as well.
Will higher people revert to our pre-pandemic ways of meeting? Or will the changes in how we meet be more durable?
11 ways that meeting on Zoom during the pandemic has changed how we meet:
1. The Mute Button - Overt Signaling of Listening and Desire to Speak
Zoom meeting culture seems to have evolved to defaulting to mic muting. If you are not talking, you are expected to go on mute.
Muting can provide a visual signal to everyone else in the meeting that you are listening. A related advantage to muting is that when you go off-mute, it signals that you want to say something.
I think that this visual signal of listening — and wanting to speak — has improved conversations. There is, I would hypothesize, less interrupting.
And it may be easier for quiet people to insert themselves into a conversation. The person who goes off mute first has priority to speak next.
2. The Proliferation of Back-To-Back-To-Back Meetings
Virtual meetings are scheduled one after the other. There is no buffer time left to travel between meetings. We jump from one Zoom to another.
The rise of the back-to-back-to-back Zoom meeting has some negative consequences. Frequently, we struggle to get out of one Zoom meeting to get to the next. It is not uncommon to have latecomers to a virtual meeting, with apologies that the last Zoom ran over.
Having no buffer in-between meetings is also exhausting. We need to instantly switch to the next topic, the next discussion, the next meeting.
3. The Replacement of Informal Conversations with Scheduled Meetings
Scheduled meetings are one way to share information. We can also exchange information by e-mail, Slack, or other digital means. Or we can have informal conversations.
The pandemic has largely killed the informal campus chat. Maybe we will get it back when more of us come to campus. But not everyone will be returning to working full-time on campus. Many will be working remotely, and many more will be working some days at home each week.
As informal chats are harder to come by, scheduled meetings increase. We are constantly scheduling Zoom meetings through our e-mail/calendaring systems. I use Outlook. You maybe use Gmail. As we can see our colleagues' free/busy schedules through these systems, scheduling Zoom meetings becomes easier.
This is not all bad. Less informal drop-in conversations maybe mean fewer interruptions. Theoretically, we can block off our calendars — and get something done. How many of us block off enough time to get all of our work done during "normal" work hours?
4. The In-Meeting 1:1 Backchannel
With Zoom, we can use the chat function to chat to either the entire group or to individuals. The 1:1 chat function has normalized the small meeting backchannel. If there are more than two people in a meeting, there is a good chance that two of them are chatting.
In some ways, a built-in Zoom chat backchannel is productive for meetings. Chatting lets colleagues get on the same page. We can encourage each other. We can vent.
If and when we go back to face-to-face and mixed in-person/virtual meetings, in-meeting backchanneling will be more difficult. How the loss of 1:1 chatting in meetings will change meeting productivity is an open question.
5. The Accidental Backchannel Message to Everyone
The flip side of the 1:1 chat in Zoom is the accidental chat to the wrong person or the entire group. Have you done this? I have. And I've witnessed some embarrassing mis-chats.
6. The Elimination of Physical Meeting Room Scarcity
The combination of the pandemic and universal Zoom seems to have increased the number of meetings that we all attend. There must be some data on this change. Has Microsoft or Google published anything?
One big reason we have more Zoom meetings than physical meetings is that there is no limit on virtual space. There are only so many physical rooms on campus that we can meet. Getting a room is often a challenge. With Zoom, there are no limits on meeting rooms.
How will we adjust to meeting room scarcity once we are (mostly) back on campus?
How many of those meeting rooms will be set up for high-quality hybrid meetings, with some folks in-person and others online?
7. More People in Meetings Owing to the Elimination of Room Size Constraints
Zoom meetings might be more inclusive than face-to-face meetings. Why? Inviting more people to a virtual meeting is easier than a physical meeting. There is no constraint on the size of the room or the table in the room where people sit.
Again, this seems like an empirical question. Have our campus meetings gotten larger as they have become virtual? Are more people being invited to conversations? And has an increase in meeting size resulted in greater meeting diversity?
8. Maybe Women are Getting Talked Over Less?
The idea that women get talked over less in Zoom meetings than in face-to-face meetings came from my wife. Her experience has been that women can gain and hold the floor better in Zoom than in person.
The mute button helps, as interrupting a person while speaking requires the two-step process of unmuting and then interrupting.
What do you think?
9. Screen Sharing as a Regular Aspect of Meeting
By now, we mostly all know how to share our screens in Zoom. (Although the process is still seldom smooth).
In face-to-face meetings, sharing our screens is more of a challenge. It is never seamless to switch presenters. There is the juggling of dongles. Wireless presenting works sometimes, but seldom without some planning and testing.
What will happen when we can no longer easily share the spreadsheets and decks on our computers with colleagues in in-person meetings?
10. Easily Breaking Into Sub-Groups During a Meeting (Breakout Rooms)
I estimate that 10 percent of Zoom meetings account for 90 percent of breakout rooms. Or maybe only 10 percent of Zoom users are comfortable planning for and managing breakouts.
No matter - breakout rooms are a thing. When used properly, a Zoom meeting with breakouts can be highly effective.
Will we move breakout room practices back to face-to-face meetings? Where will the people "breaking out" go? How much extra time for breaking out will we need to plan for?
11. Changing Expectations to Join Meetings
The final way the shift to meeting on Zoom during the pandemic has changed meeting culture is expectations around missing a meeting. We can still participate in a meeting with Zoom, even if we can't physically be on campus.
The result has been colleagues jumping on Zoom meetings who would not have been able to participate in pre-pandemic times.
With Zoom, we have colleagues participating in meetings while traveling. (Zooming in from a car, airport lounge, or hotel room).
We also see colleagues Zooming in when they are too sick to come to campus but feeling well enough to meet—or Zooming in when the kids are ill, or the plumber is at the house.
Too many of you Zoom in from vacation.
How else has pandemic Zoom changed academic meeting culture?
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NEW YORK — Bright pink and all-over metallics were the fashion stories of the Grammys red carpet led by Saweetie in fuchsia Valentino and Tiffany Haddish in sparkling one-shoulder Prada as the music crowd did Las Vegas proud with a show of wild, whimsical and meaningful looks.
Saweetie's full skirt and bra top were paired with long matching gloves. Billy Porter, always a fashion standout, also went with fuchsia in a trouser look that had a sheer button-down shirt and long ruffled cape from Valentino.
Justin Bieber, in a baggy, gray suit a few sizes too big, wore a fuchsia beanie on his head as walked with his wife, Hailey, in white Saint Laurent. Count Chrissy Teigen in the pink camp as well.
“The color of the season I hear is fuchsia,” Porter told E! His look was straight off the runway.
Saweetie was a twofer on the carpet, changing into an Oscar de la Renta black gown with a silver piece covering one breast.
Lady Gaga chose classic Hollywood in black-and-white velvet Armani Prive. She dripped in Tiffany & Co. diamonds that included a short statement necklace as she hit the carpet just before the televised awards. Her hair was swept into an updo.
Haddish stunned in a fitted one-shoulder gown, and Carrie Underwood went full ballgown with sparkle in the top with sash and a full skirt of sunset orange. Mickey Guyton rocked an ombre long-sleeve silver and gold fringe flapper sparkle dress by Ashish, shimmying for the cameras.
Brandi Carlile toted about 40 pounds of hand-cut crystals on a multicolored Huge Boss tuxedo jacket with stripes of the same crystals on the trousers and waist.
“I’m finally morphing into Elton John, which is my dream,” she said.
Olivia Rodrigo waved and smiled in a black sheath gown from Vivienne Westwood, who included purple sparkle trim with rocker chokers. She was joined in black by Billie Eilish in a Rick Owens trench coat turned cape, lug soul boots on her feet.
“Olivia Rodrigo in her black opera gloves and black sheath floor length was giving me Morticia Addams in a totally hip way. Very mature and lady like for her,” said Holly Katz, a stylist and host of the Fashion Crimes podcast. “A similar Pressiat corset dress was worn by Halsey that had the same vibe. This is a trend for the long and lean but will always be a classic dress style for decades to come.”
Katz was not a fan of Eilish's look.
“As far as the ‘unfashion’ trends go, let's all hope that Billie Eilish doesn’t get her curtain dress trend to trickle down. We would have one too many fashion blobs on the streets.”
All seven members of the sensation BTS, meanwhile, wore custom Louis Vuitton suits with sneakers in a range of colors from bright white to muted blue.
Multiple nominee H.E.R. paid homage to Aretha Franklin in an embellished orange and yellow ombre look, and fashion favorite Cynthia Erivo was in sparkling silver and gray from Louis Vuitton. H.E.R. wore a custom winged kaftan jumpsuit from Dundas. It was chiffon and embellished with a golden beaded and sequin phoenix motif.
Sofia Carson wore an elegant Grecian gown from Valentino with a long sheer cape that swept over the carpet as she walked. And Lil Nas X didn't disappoint in embellished white Balmain with butterflies at the chest and on the sleeves, sky high platforms on his feet.
Jon Batiste went full sparkle in a Dolce & Gabbana suit with yellow and black touches honoring his hometown, New Orleans.
“These are New Orleans Saints colors. I wanted to bring home with me on the carpet,” he said.
Megan Thee Stallion went in another direction in an animal print dress with an oh-so-high slit. The lining was a contrast animal strip, an unusual touch. Dua Lipa was a study in straps sporting long blonde hair. Her Versace gown was adorned with straps and gold hardware.
Lady Gaga was high on the fashion list for Katz.
“Unexpected, old Hollywood glam that shows her more feminine, traditional side. Vey different from her edgy persona we are all used to. Don’t be surprised to see this dress trickle down in many knockoffs soon to come,” she said.
Among early walkers was Li Saumet from Colombia's Bomba Estéreo, who covered her face with a helmet-like mask. Cherry Moon of the 1 Tribe Collective children's group went all out in full gold, complete with a huge architectural collar. Victoria Evigan smooched her husband, Jason, in a peach and yellow dress with “Love is the Weapon” at the back.
Alisha Gaddis, with comedy on her resume, paired her shiny, minty gown with a head piece of high, golden branches. Elle King was resplendent in a red bell-bottom trouser suit with swinging bell sleeves and an ultra-wide brim hat to match. Black Coffee, the DJ from South Africa, paid homage to his friend Virgil Abloh, wearing a pair of the late designer's sneakers before his win for dance/electronic music album.
King, a new mom, was thrilled to be wearing Christian Siriano.
“I just trusted him. He knows how to dress all types of bodies and I really celebrate that in him,” she told The Associated Press. "I just wanted to feel powerful.”
Japanese Breakfast smiled for cameras in a mini dress of bright yellow ruffles from Valentino, while Doja Cat, her hair accentuated in spikes, wore an ice blue Atelier Versace crystal embellished sheer look.
As for the men, there was plenty of ornate, brocade jackets and suits in the early bunch.
“It's the sort of thing that can look genuinely fantastic when executed carefully,” said Jonathan Evans, Esquire's style director.
Leon Bridges lent a nod to his native Texas in a cream tuxedo look embellished with embroidery and a touch of blue bonnets.
“I just like to look good, you know,” he told the AP.
Among Evans' early standouts was something on the other end of that spectrum, Cory Henry in a double-breasted suit and turtleneck combo.
“Rich, offbeat colors like purple can prove tricky when it comes to tailoring, but he nails the modernized ’70s vibe,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Gary Hamilton and Marcela Isaza in Las Vegas contributed to this story.
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LAS VEGAS — Olivia Rodrigo has won the best new artist crown at the Grammy Awards, joining esteemed previous company including Carly Simon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Tom Jones, the Beatles and Billie Eilish.
A veteran of the “High School Musical” series, Rodrigo became the breakout music star of 2021, leading with her massive viral hit “Drivers License” and following with the aching album “Sour” and the single “Good 4 U.”
So far Sunday, “Drivers License” has earned her the trophy for best pop solo performance, and it is up for record of the year, while “Sour” is up for album of the year. Rodrigo came into the night nominated for the night’s top four awards — best new artist, album, record and song of the year — but lost the best song trophy to Silk Sonic.
“This is my biggest dream come true,” she said.
Silk Sonic — the all-star union of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — opened the Grammys in Las Vegas with their high-energy, infectious fix of retro soul and funk by performing their “777.” They returned to the stage a short time later to collect the song of the year trophy for “Leave the Door Open.”
The win helps Mars tie the record for most song of the year wins. He had previously won for “24K Magic.”
“I never thought that I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality. And I certainly never thought I would be here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life changing and potentially in a very negative way,” Osborne said.
“And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and he loves me back. ... “I don’t know what I did be so lucky.”
Osborne performs with his brother John as the Brothers Osborne.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson won his sixth Grammy for best music film through “Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised.”) His documentary also won an Oscar for best documentary feature last weekend.
Chick Corea and Vicente Fernandez each won posthumous Grammys. Joni Mitchell won best historical album for “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).”
“Thanks to the academy for this nomination and this win, I didn’t expect this,” she said.
Eilish could become the first artist ever to win record of the year three times in a row, and the only artist along with Paul Simon to take home the award three times. She’s in position to join Adele as the only artists to ever win three major categories — record, song and album of the year — twice. She previously won for “Bad Guy” and “Everything I Wanted.”
The ceremony shifted from Los Angeles to Las Vegas because of rising COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing “too many risks” to hosting the performance-filled show at the time. It airs live beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS and Paramount+.
Both Mars and .Paak jumped out their seat, threw up their hands and dance to their song.
“I couldn’t be more proud to be doing this with than anyone other than you,” Mars said to .Paak. “We’ll be singing this song together for the rest of our lives.”
Host Trevor Noah introduced the duo’s opening performance by saying they were singlehandedly bringing back the 1970s, “which might explain the inflation.”
By the time the show started on CBS, Jon Batiste has already taken home four Grammy Awards, including his first ever, in what could be a big night for this year’s leading nominee.
During the show’s pre-telecast ceremony, Batiste won for best American roots performance, best American roots song, best music video and tied with Carlos Rafael Rivera for best score soundtrack for visual media. His song “Freedom” in the music video category beat out several other tough competitors, including Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish.
“I am so grateful for the gifts that God has given me and the ability to share that for the love of humankind,” Batiste said. “We just wanted everyone to see it. Any depression, any bondage or any darkness that was over your life is completely removed by just the love and the joy of the video."
Batiste — not present for his first three awards — also won for “Soul” alongside Rivera for his composing efforts on “The Queen’s Gambit.”
It's the first tie since 2019 when Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake tied with Anderson .Paak to win best rap performance.
Batiste — who lost in four other categories — entered the Grammys as the leading nominee with 11 nominations. The losses halted the multi-talented performer from making history for most wins in one night.
After Noah announced all the stars due to present and perform — he called them a “musical Madame Tussauds” — Olivia Rodrigo performed her aching hit song “Drivers License” in a white ruffled dress and black boots.
Foo Fighters won three awards, but were not in attendance to pick up their trophies following the recent death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins. The rock band did extend their record for most best rock album wins with five for “Medicine at Midnight." The group's song “Making a Fire” won best rock performance and “Waiting on a War" bested other nominees for best rock song.
Billie Eilish paid tribute to Hawkins during her performance, wearing a T-shirt with his photo and name on it.
TJ Osborne, who came out as gay last year, fought back tears as he and his brother accepted a Grammy for their song “Younger Me.” He noted the song was inspired by his coming out.
“I never thought that I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality. And I certainly never thought I would be here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life changing and potentially in a very negative way,” Osborne said.
“And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and he loves me back. ... “I don’t know what I did be so lucky.”
Osborne performs with his brother John as the Brothers Osborne.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson won his sixth Grammy for best music film through “Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised.”) His documentary also won an Oscar for best documentary feature last weekend.
Chick Corea and Vicente Fernandez each won posthumous Grammys. Joni Mitchell won best historical album for “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).”
“Thanks to the academy for this nomination and this win, I didn’t expect this,” she said.
Eilish could become the first artist ever to win record of the year three times in a row, and the only artist along with Paul Simon to take home the award three times. She’s in position to join Adele as the only artists to ever win three major categories — record, song and album of the year — twice. She previously won for “Bad Guy” and “Everything I Wanted.”
The ceremony shifted from Los Angeles to Las Vegas because of rising COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing “too many risks” to hosting the performance-filled show at the time. It airs live beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS and Paramount+.
Artists competing with Eilish for album of the year include Rodrigo, Batiste, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X and Kanye West.
Bennett extended his record as the artist with the most traditional pop vocal album with 14 wins with “Love for Sale,” a duet album with Lady Gaga.
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MTSU's UAS course one of the largest, best aerospace departments in the south
The senior class of of MTSU’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems program recently set up a command station at the Almaville Bamboo Company in Almaville — about 15 miles from campus.
As graduation approached, the group was in pursuit of its Capstone project where students demonstrate skills, competencies and knowledge in unmanned aviation, commonly referred to as the use of aerial drones. Seniors repeatedly go out in the field throughout the course to gain hands-on experience and to test their knowledge and equipment in various locations and environments.
The Almaville Bamboo Company has served as an ideal location.
The UAS curriculum has been offered at MTSU since the spring of 2014, covering various aspects of UAS training, including hands-on flight practice, maintenance, uses, applications, privacy concerns, safety and federal policies concerning UAS. It’s the first of its kind in the state and one of only a handful of similar programs in the U.S.
Upon successful completion of course training, graduates with bachelor degrees in Aerospace and Unmanned Aviation often pursue careers in industries such as agriculture, public safety, photography, media, disaster response/management, power industry and defense department.
This is the fourth consecutive year that MTSU’s UAS students have traveled to the Almaville Bamboo property to test out technical training.
The owners of this bustling bamboo business, Chris and Kathy (Wood) Buker, as well. The property, which has been in Kathy Buker’s family for 150-plus years, has been continuously farmed the entire time, making it prestigiously eligible for Century Farm status, although that designation was never pursued.
Kathy’s father, Randall Wood, entered the military at age 17. He went on to serve two decades as a pilot for the U.S. Air Force. He also spent 19 months flying combat support missions during the Korean War. He retired as a major in 1968.
In 1969, Randall Wood was asked to join the MTSU faculty. There, he helped to found what is now one of the largest and top-rated aerospace departments in the southeastern U.S. He was the first instructor to train students in this field; he later became the first Aerospace department chairman, a role he served in until his retirement in 1984. He died in 2008.
Under the watchful eye of Kevin Corns, assistant professor of Aerospace at MTSU — he was on hand during last week's training — the senior class executed Capstone drone flights and completed missions.
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(WXYZ) — In the United States, one person every 17 seconds sustains a traumatic brain injury, and in most cases the treatment is complex and expensive.
That’s why the Brain Injury Association of Michigan is calling on folks to donate their auto insurance refund amount to the auto no-fault survival fund.
It’s the organization's latest campaign to help traumatic brain injury patients with the continued care they need.
Officials say changes to the state's auto no-fault law cut reimbursements to care providers for survivors by nearly half.
Related: Companies cut off auto no-fault patients from care due to new law
As a neuropsychologist, Charles Seigerman has worked with hundreds of patients with traumatic brain injuries. The symptoms range from as mild – like forgetting how to tie a shoelace – to something as serious as being in a coma.
Seigerman says brain injuries are complex and require expensive treatment. That’s why when he got his $400 auto insurance refund, he donated all to the auto no-fault survival fund.
"A fund that’s actually being used for patients since they are now not spending money on patients,” Seigerman said.
Related: Hundreds of catastrophic crash survivors protest cuts in care in Lansing
After reaching a surplus, the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association transferred about $3 billion to insurers starting last month.
But Tom Constand from the Brain Injury Association of Michigan says that money should have been utilized for patient care.
“1500 people patients care has been displaced, over 3000 jobs in the healthcare industry have been lost and 29 businesses of shut their doors entirely,” Constand said.
For Tom, helping brain injury patients is personal.
A few years ago, his son, Thomas, suffered a severe brain injury in a boating accident. At the time, doctors informed the family to brace for the worse.
"He was in a coma for three days, they didn’t think he would make it,” Constand said.
But thanks to the treatment and care that Thomas received in Michigan, Tom says his 26-year-old son has recovered and is wrapping up grad school at Oakland University.
“We are so fortunate to have that in Michigan, it was all enabled primarily through the groundwork of no-fault. And we should offer the best care possible, whether it's a brain injury, whether it's cancer, whether is heart disease, no matter what the infliction, people should have access to care,” he said.
Tom’s message is simple – donate whatever amount is possible to the auto no-fault survival fund. He said even a dollar could go a long way in helping a brain injury survivor get their medication on time or that vital therapy session.
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RAVENNA, Mich. — A fire in Ravenna on April 3, 2022, left a local church without a home.
The fire at First Reformed Church started around Saturday afternoon and lasted throughout the evening. the Ravenna Fire Department called roughly seven different agencies to help battle the blaze which was challenging because there was only one fire hydrant nearby.
Ultimately tankers with water were used to put out the fire. However, it did reignite overnight into Sunday morning taking with it many memories.
“I have a tremendous number of memories at this church I was married in the church my father and my uncle helped build the sanctuary back in the early sixties and all four of my children were baptized in the church some of them were married” said church member Geraldine Eadie.
Thankfully no lives were lost in the fire. Although the building is gone other churches in the area opened their doors to give First Reformed Church members a place to worship for Sunday service
“Even though behind me there’s a burnt down shell of a sanctuary where we were anticipating worshipping today but by god’s grace our neighbors opened up their sanctuary and people came in set up the chairs and that’s about community its about people.” Said First Reformed Church Pastor Steve Vanderwoude.
Pastor Vanderwoude told Fox 17 it could take up to a few years until the church is completely rebuilt.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 64th annual Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday in Las Vegas (all times local):
5:33 p.m.
Silk Sonic is having a funky Grammys.
The Grammy Award for song of the year goes to the duo’s “Leave The Door Open.”
The songwriting award goes to the duo’s two members, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, along with two co-writers.
The award was the first handed out during Sunday’s telecast of the Grammys from the MGM Grand Garden arena in Las Vegas.
Mars and .Paak stood up and grooved when the win was announced and the song played.
The two men, who performed to open the show, also won a Grammy for best R&B performance before the telecast started.
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5:15 p.m.
Host Trevor Noah has opened a Grammy Awards show that he says will be part party, part concert, with some trophies handed out in between.
The comedian and “Daily Show” host delivered his opening monologue between performances by Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
He walked among tables set up near the stage instead of theater seats.
“Look at this room, this is a party, everyone’s hanging out we’ve got the tables, we’re doing shots. Last year we were doing shots like Moderna and Pfizer,” Noah said.
He added, “We’re going to be dancing, we’re going to be singing, we’re going to be keeping people’s names out of our mouths.”
The crowd laughed at the reference to Will Smith shouting to Chris Rock to keep wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out of his mouth after slapping Rock on the Oscars stage a week earlier.
It was Noah’s second-straight year hosting the show, but the first with a typical, arena-sized Grammy crowd.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, last year’s awards were held in an outdoor pavilion in Los Angeles with only a small audience of nominees and guests.
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5 p.m.
Silk Sonic brought back the ’70s with a Vegas-inspired set to open the Grammy Awards in Sin City on Sunday with spinning roulette wheels on the screens.
The duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak set the tone with their performance of “777” and a jamming horn section. Mars started the show imploring the Las Vegas crowd at the MGM Grand Arena to get up and dance.
The pair won two awards during the pre-telecast ceremony and are nominated for record and song of the year. The duo’s song “Leave the Door Open” and Jazmine Sullivan’s “Pick Up Your Feelings” tied to win best R&B performance, and “Leave the Door Open” won best R&B song.
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4:40 p.m.
BTS has arrived at the Grammys full strength after one of their members recently tested positive for COVID-19.
All seven members of the Korean megastar boy band walked the carpet wearing custom Louis Vuitton suits with sneakers in a range of colors from bright white to muted blue. Member V wore a bouquet of giant floral pins.
The group, which is nominated for their hit “Butter,” will also perform on the show.
Member Jungkook was recently tested positive for the coronavirus,
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4:05 p.m.
Olivia Rodrigo has won her first career Grammy in what could be the beginning of a big night.
The 19-year-old won the award Sunday for best pop solo performance for her viral hit “Drivers License.”
The viral single made a pop star out of the Disney Channel actor and turned her album “Sour” into one of the biggest of the year.
Rodrigo did not accept the award in person, which was presented before the Grammys telecast, but is slated to be a performer during the show. She walked the red carpet in a black sheath gown from Vivienne Westwood, who included purple sparkle trim.
She’s nominated for six more Grammys on Sunday night including best new artist and album of the year.
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3:39 p.m.
Foo Fighters have won three Grammys just days after the death of their drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The group won Grammys for best rock performance, best rock song and best rock album.
No one from the band appeared to accept the award at the Sunday ceremony in Las Vegas.
Hawkins had been the band’s drummer for 25 years and was the best friend of Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl.
They had been scheduled to perform on the Grammys telecast. Producers say Hawkins will be honored during the ceremony.
Hawkins died at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, where the band had been scheduled to play a music festival on March 25.
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3:22 p.m.
Last week’s slap at the Oscars got some early laughs at the Grammys.
LeVar Burton, the host of the pre-show ceremonies Sunday, introduced comedian Nate Bargatze and told everyone they needed to stay in their seats.
“I need to warn everybody, the next presenter is a comedian,” Burton said. “I need to caution everybody, remain in your seats and keep your hands to yourselves."
Bargatze came out with a comically oversized helmet just in case.
“They said comedians have to wear these now at award shows,” he joked. “It doesn’t even cover your face.”
The two were referencing the shocking moment at the Oscars broadcast when actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock. Grammy host Trevor Noah was also anticipated to touch on the controversy.
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3:15 p.m.
Chick Corea and Vicente Fernandez have each won posthumous Grammys.
The jazz giant Corea, who died in February 2021, won two awards Sunday, for best improvised jazz solo and best Latin jazz album with Eliane Elias and Chucho Valdés.
The Mexican singer, actor and cultural icon Fernandez won best regional Mexican music album for “A Mis 80s.”
Fernandez died in December at age 81.
Other posthumous Grammys are possible Sunday for Chris Cornell, who died five years ago and is nominated for best rock performance. And the Foo Fighters, who lost their drummer, Taylor Hawkins, just over a week ago are up for three Grammys.
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2:35 p.m.
First the Oscar, now “Summer of Soul” has claimed Grammy glory.
The win for best music film Sunday came a week after “Summer of Soul’s” Oscar moment was upended by Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock. Director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson briefly nodded to the Oscars slap, saying the film has been on a journey from the Sundance Film Festival “until … last week,” he said, laughing.
Questlove instead focused his speech on the artists featured in the film, naming many of them.
While winners at the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, where more than 70 awards are handed out, are generally limited to 45 seconds and one speaker, the four winners for “Summer of Soul” were able to speak. (Mostly uninterrupted – the band started up after the second speaker, but quickly stopped.)
“Who’s having a better week than Questlove?” host LeVar Burton asked after the win. “Nobody!”
“Summer of Soul” tells the story of the mostly forgotten and unseen 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured performances by a young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, the 5th Dimension B.B. King and many others.
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2:34 p.m.
Joni Mitchell has won a Grammy and made a rare appearance on the awards show stage to accept it.
Mitchell won best historical album on Sunday afternoon for “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).”
The 78-year-old Mitchell needed a cane and help from an escort to get to the podium, but strutted and danced as she made her way up to accept her ninth career Grammy.
“Thanks to the academy for this nomination and this win, I didn’t expect this,” she said.
Along with her musical team, she thanked her physical therapist, whom she called “my angel.”
Mitchell had a brain aneurysm seven years ago that left her unable to speak or walk.
On Friday night, she was honored by the Recording Academy as the MusiCares person of the year, an award that honors a career of artistic achievement and philanthropy. John Legend, Brandi Carlile and Jon Batiste played her songs in tribute to her.
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1:45 p.m.
TJ Osborne has given an emotional speech at the Grammy Awards after winning an award with his brother for their song “Younger Me.”
Osborne, who came out as gay last year, fought back tears as he reflected on the moment and the support he’s received. He noted that “Younger Me” was written in response to his coming out. The song won best performance by a country duo or group Sunday afternoon.
“I never thought that I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality. And I certainly never thought I would be here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life changing and potentially in a very negative way,” Osborne said.
“And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and he loves me back.
“I don’t know what I did be so lucky.”
Osborne performs with his brother John as the Brothers Osborne.
The Brothers Osborne win came moments after Chris Stapleton won the Grammy for best country solo performance for a record third time. He took the trophy Sunday for his single “You Should Probably Leave.” He also won the award in 2018 and 2016.
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1 p.m.
A project that turned “Bridgerton” into a musical has won a Grammy Award.
Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow won the best musical theater Grammy on Sunday afternoon for “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.”
They gleefully accepted the award, noting the project began a year ago by asking what “Bridgerton” would be like if it was a musical.
LeVar Burton presented them the honor during the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, where more than 70 awards are handed out.
Burton is doing double duty – he’s also nominated for best spoken word album.
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3:45 a.m.
While John Legend was being honored for his musical achievements, the Grammy singer used the Recording Academy stage to pay homage to a Black music culture that shaped himself and the world.
Legend explained how Black music has set trends for worldwide listeners during the academy’s Black Music Collective event, held Saturday night in Las Vegas. He was honored with the Global Impact Award for his personal and professional achievements in the music industry. Like Legend, the event was filled with empowering messages that touched on the importance of recognizing Black music creators, and featured a slew of popular performances.
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3 a.m.
Several performers such as Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste have a chance to carve their names in the Grammy history books Sunday.
Eilish could become the first artist ever to win record of the year three times in a row, and the only artist along with Paul Simon to take home the award three times.
She’s in position to join Adele as the only ones to win three major categories – record, song and album of the year – twice.
Trevor Noah returns for a second time to host the show, which airs live in Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 64th annual Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday in Las Vegas (all times local):
5:33 p.m.
Silk Sonic is having a funky Grammys.
The Grammy Award for song of the year goes to the duo’s “Leave The Door Open.”
The songwriting award goes to the duo’s two members, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, along with two co-writers.
The award was the first handed out during Sunday’s telecast of the Grammys from the MGM Grand Garden arena in Las Vegas.
Mars and .Paak stood up and grooved when the win was announced and the song played.
The two men, who performed to open the show, also won a Grammy for best R&B performance before the telecast started.
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5:15 p.m.
Host Trevor Noah has opened a Grammy Awards show that he says will be part party, part concert, with some trophies handed out in between.
The comedian and “Daily Show” host delivered his opening monologue between performances by Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
He walked among tables set up near the stage instead of theater seats.
“Look at this room, this is a party, everyone’s hanging out we’ve got the tables, we’re doing shots. Last year we were doing shots like Moderna and Pfizer,” Noah said.
He added, “We’re going to be dancing, we’re going to be singing, we’re going to be keeping people’s names out of our mouths.”
The crowd laughed at the reference to Will Smith shouting to Chris Rock to keep wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out of his mouth after slapping Rock on the Oscars stage a week earlier.
It was Noah’s second-straight year hosting the show, but the first with a typical, arena-sized Grammy crowd.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, last year’s awards were held in an outdoor pavilion in Los Angeles with only a small audience of nominees and guests.
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5 p.m.
Silk Sonic brought back the ’70s with a Vegas-inspired set to open the Grammy Awards in Sin City on Sunday with spinning roulette wheels on the screens.
The duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak set the tone with their performance of “777” and a jamming horn section. Mars started the show imploring the Las Vegas crowd at the MGM Grand Arena to get up and dance.
The pair won two awards during the pre-telecast ceremony and are nominated for record and song of the year. The duo’s song “Leave the Door Open” and Jazmine Sullivan’s “Pick Up Your Feelings” tied to win best R&B performance, and “Leave the Door Open” won best R&B song.
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4:40 p.m.
BTS has arrived at the Grammys full strength after one of their members recently tested positive for COVID-19.
All seven members of the Korean megastar boy band walked the carpet wearing custom Louis Vuitton suits with sneakers in a range of colors from bright white to muted blue. Member V wore a bouquet of giant floral pins.
The group, which is nominated for their hit “Butter,” will also perform on the show.
Member Jungkook was recently tested positive for the coronavirus,
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4:05 p.m.
Olivia Rodrigo has won her first career Grammy in what could be the beginning of a big night.
The 19-year-old won the award Sunday for best pop solo performance for her viral hit “Drivers License.”
The viral single made a pop star out of the Disney Channel actor and turned her album “Sour” into one of the biggest of the year.
Rodrigo did not accept the award in person, which was presented before the Grammys telecast, but is slated to be a performer during the show. She walked the red carpet in a black sheath gown from Vivienne Westwood, who included purple sparkle trim.
She’s nominated for six more Grammys on Sunday night including best new artist and album of the year.
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3:39 p.m.
Foo Fighters have won three Grammys just days after the death of their drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The group won Grammys for best rock performance, best rock song and best rock album.
No one from the band appeared to accept the award at the Sunday ceremony in Las Vegas.
Hawkins had been the band’s drummer for 25 years and was the best friend of Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl.
They had been scheduled to perform on the Grammys telecast. Producers say Hawkins will be honored during the ceremony.
Hawkins died at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, where the band had been scheduled to play a music festival on March 25.
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3:22 p.m.
Last week’s slap at the Oscars got some early laughs at the Grammys.
LeVar Burton, the host of the pre-show ceremonies Sunday, introduced comedian Nate Bargatze and told everyone they needed to stay in their seats.
“I need to warn everybody, the next presenter is a comedian,” Burton said. “I need to caution everybody, remain in your seats and keep your hands to yourselves."
Bargatze came out with a comically oversized helmet just in case.
“They said comedians have to wear these now at award shows,” he joked. “It doesn’t even cover your face.”
The two were referencing the shocking moment at the Oscars broadcast when actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock. Grammy host Trevor Noah was also anticipated to touch on the controversy.
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3:15 p.m.
Chick Corea and Vicente Fernandez have each won posthumous Grammys.
The jazz giant Corea, who died in February 2021, won two awards Sunday, for best improvised jazz solo and best Latin jazz album with Eliane Elias and Chucho Valdés.
The Mexican singer, actor and cultural icon Fernandez won best regional Mexican music album for “A Mis 80s.”
Fernandez died in December at age 81.
Other posthumous Grammys are possible Sunday for Chris Cornell, who died five years ago and is nominated for best rock performance. And the Foo Fighters, who lost their drummer, Taylor Hawkins, just over a week ago are up for three Grammys.
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2:35 p.m.
First the Oscar, now “Summer of Soul” has claimed Grammy glory.
The win for best music film Sunday came a week after “Summer of Soul’s” Oscar moment was upended by Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock. Director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson briefly nodded to the Oscars slap, saying the film has been on a journey from the Sundance Film Festival “until … last week,” he said, laughing.
Questlove instead focused his speech on the artists featured in the film, naming many of them.
While winners at the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, where more than 70 awards are handed out, are generally limited to 45 seconds and one speaker, the four winners for “Summer of Soul” were able to speak. (Mostly uninterrupted – the band started up after the second speaker, but quickly stopped.)
“Who’s having a better week than Questlove?” host LeVar Burton asked after the win. “Nobody!”
“Summer of Soul” tells the story of the mostly forgotten and unseen 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured performances by a young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, the 5th Dimension B.B. King and many others.
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2:34 p.m.
Joni Mitchell has won a Grammy and made a rare appearance on the awards show stage to accept it.
Mitchell won best historical album on Sunday afternoon for “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).”
The 78-year-old Mitchell needed a cane and help from an escort to get to the podium, but strutted and danced as she made her way up to accept her ninth career Grammy.
“Thanks to the academy for this nomination and this win, I didn’t expect this,” she said.
Along with her musical team, she thanked her physical therapist, whom she called “my angel.”
Mitchell had a brain aneurysm seven years ago that left her unable to speak or walk.
On Friday night, she was honored by the Recording Academy as the MusiCares person of the year, an award that honors a career of artistic achievement and philanthropy. John Legend, Brandi Carlile and Jon Batiste played her songs in tribute to her.
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1:45 p.m.
TJ Osborne has given an emotional speech at the Grammy Awards after winning an award with his brother for their song “Younger Me.”
Osborne, who came out as gay last year, fought back tears as he reflected on the moment and the support he’s received. He noted that “Younger Me” was written in response to his coming out. The song won best performance by a country duo or group Sunday afternoon.
“I never thought that I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality. And I certainly never thought I would be here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life changing and potentially in a very negative way,” Osborne said.
“And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and he loves me back.
“I don’t know what I did be so lucky.”
Osborne performs with his brother John as the Brothers Osborne.
The Brothers Osborne win came moments after Chris Stapleton won the Grammy for best country solo performance for a record third time. He took the trophy Sunday for his single “You Should Probably Leave.” He also won the award in 2018 and 2016.
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1 p.m.
A project that turned “Bridgerton” into a musical has won a Grammy Award.
Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow won the best musical theater Grammy on Sunday afternoon for “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.”
They gleefully accepted the award, noting the project began a year ago by asking what “Bridgerton” would be like if it was a musical.
LeVar Burton presented them the honor during the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, where more than 70 awards are handed out.
Burton is doing double duty – he’s also nominated for best spoken word album.
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3:45 a.m.
While John Legend was being honored for his musical achievements, the Grammy singer used the Recording Academy stage to pay homage to a Black music culture that shaped himself and the world.
Legend explained how Black music has set trends for worldwide listeners during the academy’s Black Music Collective event, held Saturday night in Las Vegas. He was honored with the Global Impact Award for his personal and professional achievements in the music industry. Like Legend, the event was filled with empowering messages that touched on the importance of recognizing Black music creators, and featured a slew of popular performances.
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3 a.m.
Several performers such as Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste have a chance to carve their names in the Grammy history books Sunday.
Eilish could become the first artist ever to win record of the year three times in a row, and the only artist along with Paul Simon to take home the award three times.
She’s in position to join Adele as the only ones to win three major categories – record, song and album of the year – twice.
Trevor Noah returns for a second time to host the show, which airs live in Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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- Nutrition for the Brain: FOCUSfactor will serve as primary partner on Jones's Chevrolet Camaro for Sunday's race at Richmond Raceway. As the anchor sponsor on the No. 43 machine, FOCUSfactor's blue and green colors will continue to be featured throughout the 2022 season.
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- From the Drivers Seat: Six races, six different winners with smaller teams competing up front. Does that give you encouragement at Petty GMS?
“It does for sure. I think we’ve seen the parity right from the start of the season. There are different cars, different drivers, different teams running up front. We’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of that and having some strong runs. Our expectations are high at this point. We all feel like we can win races and we’ve had cars that can win races this year already. If we continue to bring that speed to the track, it will happen. But putting these races together isn’t easy. It’s not easy to win a Cup race at all. We have to keep pushing and working hard to put it all together. Winning and playoffs are definitely in our sights and definitely where our goals are for the rest of this season.”
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AS THE MOST RECENT WINNER AT CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE IMPENDING FUTURE OF THAT TRACK?
“That’s not what I expected to get asked about first thing here at Richmond (laughs).
I like Chicagoland a lot. It’s a really technical, fun racetrack; super slick and extremely rough. I don’t really know what’s happening with it, but bummed it’s not on the schedule. It’s definitely a special place.”
FOUR OF THE NEXT FIVE RACES ARE AT TRACKS ONE-MILE OR SHORTER. THREE OF THOSE RACES YOU WON LAST YEAR. DOES THAT GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE GOING INTO THIS NEXT LITTLE STRETCH?
“Yeah, for sure. They are all racetracks that I really enjoy. I think if we still had last year’s car, I’d be super confident. But a lot has changed this year with this racecar and I don’t really know what to expect at a lot of these places with the Next Gen car. So, at least kind of knowing that I know what to look for and know what I need in the racecar to be successful at these places is good. But trying to find that with a completely new racecar is definitely going to be tough.”
CHEVROLET AS A WHOLE HAS WON FOUR OF THE LAST FIVE RACES. WHY DO YOU THINK THE MANUFACTURER HAS HAD SO MUCH SPEED EARLY ON?
“I think we’ve definitely had really fast racecars each and every week, and it’s cool to see Chevrolet have so much success. There were races that things went our way too. We have a lot of really smart people that have worked really hard. I feel like the playing field is pretty even right now.”
WITH SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS CAR, I KNOW AERODYNAMICALLY, IT’S SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT, PARTICULARLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE. THE COMPOSITE BODY LENDS ITSELF TO LESS TIRE RUBS. IS THERE A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF INTENSITY IN THE RACE THAT WE MIGHT HAVE SEEN AT A ROAD COURSE THAT WE’RE LIKELY TO SEE AT A SHORT TRACK?
“Yeah, for sure. I think you can definitely run into stuff that would have ended your day in the past. We kind of got sandwiched in between a bunch of cars on a restart last week; drove straight into somebody and it would have completely ended our day last year. Probably would have ended up knocking the radiator out of it and just been done. It’s cool to not have any damage after that. I think there’s a fine balance between that, right? You don’t want to be able to just bounce off stuff and I don’t think you are. But the old car was super fragile. I think it’s definitely going to change the racing a little bit. I don’t know that it’ll change the racing here a ton. Going to Homestead, it’s going to make running the fence way easier and way less stressful, I think, just because if you hit it once, you’re not going to instantly get a flat tire. It’s definitely different and I’m excited to see how it all plays out.”
MY HOME TRACK, MOBILE (SPEEWAY), IS KIND OF COMING BACK TO LIFE THIS YEAR. I KNOW YOU MADE A COUPLE OF ARCA STARTS THERE. DO YOU HAVE ANY MEMORIES OF RUNNING MOBILE OR RACING THERE?
“Yes, I ran there once in an ARCA car. I remember being there to test and it rained, and we sat around and did nothing because we didn’t have a jet dryer or anything. It was a fantastic time (laughs). I think we sat fast time and ran third or something.
It’s a cool place. The Mobile memory for me is the video of Will Kimmel flying off the end of the racetrack. That’s the one that sticks out in my head. It’s a cool racetrack, for sure.”
YOU’VE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOME CHAOTIC, WILD FINISHES THIS YEAR. DENNY (HAMLIN) HAD KIND OF INSINUATED ON TWITTER EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT THE ETHICS OF LATE RACE RACING HAVE CHANGED OVER THE LAST FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS. DO YOU SEE THAT AND WHY ARE THINGS MORE CUT-THROAT OR WIN-AT-ALL-COST NOW?
“I think the Playoff format has a lot to do with that. But I think we’ve seen that over the course of the years. You’ve seen people spin people out at the end of races and get pretty physical at the end of the races for a long time. I think there’s some new guys in the series that are extremely aggressive. Like everyone knows how aggressive Ross (Chastain) is at all times. AJ (Allmendinger) is an aggressive driver, too. I don’t necessarily think it has changed as much as Denny (Hamlin) thinks maybe. But I think if there’s a reason and you have to put your finger on it, it would be the Playoff format. How much winning matters and sometimes you can overcome those guys hating you for that trophy.”
LOOKING AHEAD TO BRISTOL, YOU’RE A DIRT GUY. YOU’VE BUILT CARS FOR DIRT RACING. LOOKING AT GOING BACK TO BRISTOL AND TAKING THE NEXT GEN CAR THERE, WHAT CHALLENGES DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT CAR MIGHT HAVE RUNNING ON DIRT?
“Similar challenges to what we had last year. I think the cars last year adapted pretty well to the dirt stuff. Obviously, independent rear suspension is way different. I’ve never driven anything on dirt with independent rear suspension, so it’s going to be interesting to kind of learn about that and see how the steering rack is and all that. I think your main challenges are still going to be visibility and keeping the grill open. The things we fought with last year.
I’m excited it’s a night race. I think that’s going to help everybody. I’m looking forward to it. I love dirt racing. While I couldn’t see an inch from my windshield last year, I still had a blast when I could see. Bristol is a really fun time.”
I’VE HEARD IN THE PAST THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PHOENIX (RACEWAY) AND RICHMOND (RACEWAY). WITH THIS NEW CAR, IS THAT A SIMILAR SITUATION WHERE SOME OF THE DATA FROM PHOENIX CAN LEND ITSELF TO HOW YOU GUYS SETUP THE CAR HERE AT RICHMOND. IF NOT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU GUYS FACE WITH THE NEW CAR COMING HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME?
“Yeah, I think they’re definitely similar. They are two places where I’m pretty awful at (laughs), so they kind of lend themselves to each other there. (Turns) one and two at Phoenix (Raceway) is somewhat similar to here. Just trying to take the data from that and know what we fought with our racecar there. Obviously it’s different. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s at least close.
We struggled at Phoenix this year. We were better than where we finished, but still wasn’t great. So, just trying to learn from that and use the parts and pieces that we can. And also, use all the engineering stuff to be better here.”
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DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 19 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
What one area do you think if you get it fixed you will be better?
DENNY HAMLIN: “Everywhere. That’s what we stay on Mondays. I’m not sure honestly. It’s just a little bit everywhere honestly. It just takes time learning a lot of different new things. There were some setbacks with our testing car. There was a big crash in Texas last year with it and it set us back with some data and whatnot that maybe has an effect in it, but we’re trying to get our cars driving better and going faster.”
MARTIN TRUEX JR.: “There is a lot that goes into it. One of the biggest things for us has been not showing up on weekends close enough. Not a lot of people I think have talked about the schedule, but 15 minutes of practice, literally impound racing, you can’t change springs and major setup components during practice, so basically what you show up with you fine tune with wedge and shock clicks and small adjustments and then you go racing. Really if you are off, you are off. I think for us that’s a big thing. We’re sim racing right now. We’ve been behind throughout testing, and I feel like that has definitely hurt us, so we are definitely searching and at this point doing some testing.”
Are you concerned where you are in the point standings?
DENNY HAMLIN: “I don’t think we’ve been through this for sure. I think you can catapult up the standings really, really quickly – the way things are. Other kind of short of Ross (Chastain) who has been really good the last three or four weeks, everyone – their finishes are bouncing around all over the place. If you have a couple solid weeks where we don’t get crashed or cause a crash, those things add up. We’re not happy with where our speed is at, for sure, but certainly we are not a 22nd-place team and am I worried about making the Playoffs, if that is what you are asking, no.”
As an owner and driver, are you concerned about the wheels?
DENNY HAMLIN: “They had – from the evidence I’ve seen – is a loose wheel from the very beginning of the race and it just kept getting worse with each set of tires that they put on. I don’t know what caused it – I don’t know how or why – but it looked like this problem probably started on lap one of the race. There is some concern – there is a lot of wheels falling off. You would think with the single lug that we wouldn’t have that. If you missed one or two lugs before, you always would have backup. When you only have one, that’s it – it’s going to come off. There is some concern, but the concern I heard earlier in the year was you would mount the wheel a few times and the next thing you would know is it’s not good anymore because it gets all mauled up, which is what they RFK guys were doing at the beginning of the year – trying to fix that. I don’t think the teams have really perfected anything that looks like the fix right now and I don’t know what the fix is – if there is any fix – if it’s just you need to wait longer and get the wheels tight to be sure.”
How do you view Richmond as the barometer for Joe Gibbs Racing with the Next Gen car?
MARTIN TRUEX JR.: “I think we have high expectations. We have a lot of people at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) that understand the track and understand what it takes to win here, but obviously this is a whole different deal now. I think for us this season – the short season it has been so far – is whatever you think you knew and the way you thought about these tracks before and the way you approach these things – just forget about it, because this is a whole new ballgame with this car and everything, we are doing this year. Forget everything you knew in the past and focus on what it takes to make this thing go, which we are still trying to figure out. Hopefully, we can make some steps in the right direction. Obviously, it’s been a great track for us, driver wise as well. You just try to use what we know about it and apply it to practice this morning and throughout the weekend.”
DENNY HAMLIN: It’s more just kind of anxious for me because I run the simulator and what not. I run this guy’s setup and that guy’s setup and they are on different planets and I’m like somebody’s right and somebody’s wrong. We will know within two laps – are we in the ballpark or not? The tough part is – like he said – is you are kind of locked in springs and whatnot, so your adjustments are somewhat limited when you get here. It’s almost like a COVID schedule, only you just get some laps with your car, and you can fine tune it or tweak it, so if you are way off you just can’t really wholesale it like you used to. For me, I’m anxious to see after lap two, did we guess right?”
Do you like the new car’s road course package?
DENNY HAMLIN: “It’s just different. No preference one way or the other. From a road course perspective, I think the car races better on road course with the independent rear suspension, the shifting. The gearing was interesting. Last week, we had five gears, and we only used four of them. We didn’t use fifth gear. We kind of mis-aligned what that was going to be, but it’s fine. Just getting used to it all.”
Looking at this season with one off-weekend, are you worried about burnout?
DENNY HAMLIN: “I’m not sure what we can do about it. We have to work extreme hours. We have to wait on parts, like my crew chief told me on the plane this morning – don’t tear the splitter up. We have legitimate concerns that we won’t have a splitter for Martinsville. Just be gentle, but how do you do that and race too. The short supply is causing extended hours and eventually people – I think I saw some stuff on Twitter yesterday – teams are losing a lot of people just because of workload and eventually it becomes a problem. You can’t afford to just pay them more – we’re trying to do everything we can to tread water right now. It’s just a tough position that we are in. The supply chain is just not coming through to us as good as it needs to, but we’ve designated one supplier to do all the work and when that one supplier doesn’t get the stuff we need, we are stuck because we told everyone else to pound sand. It’s just a tough spot to be in right now and the teams don’t know what else to do. It’s tough to retain your workforce right now and all of the teams are losing people.”
Are there any consequences to the rough racing that you referenced on social media?
DENNY HAMLIN: “Not really. I don’t think there is any consequences to it. We’ve seen you can kind of do whatever. You might be worried about getting wrecked here and there in the future, but I think it’s just become accepted. The art of passing is just something that isn’t quite used as much now-a-days. The easier route is getting them out of your way as quick as possible by moving them. I’ve done it – every time I’ve done it, it has been unintentional, but I think it’s become more of an intentional move in the years lately.”
MARTIN TRUEX JR.: “I think it’s part of the way kids come up racing. It’s funny I flew with (Kevin) Harvick a few weeks ago and we had a conversation. He goes and watches his kid go race go-karts and it’s crazy. They all go out there and drive through each other from lap one of practice. It’s just a normal occurrence. Everybody comes up through racing a certain way. I learned a certain way. Denny (Hamlin) learned a certain way. Kids now-a-days maybe it’s different. I know when I was making my way through the ranks I was working, I was building my cars. I didn’t want to tear the nose off of the thing because I knew I had to fix it on Monday. I had to keep the car in one piece. We had to keep our stuff – we couldn’t just go out and buy new stuff. We didn’t have the money when I was doing it. Maybe that’s it – I think it’s different. You see racing, you see short track racing, it’s every race there. They race for the win. It’s exciting because they are knocking the hell out each other. That’s what everybody wants to see these days. There is a lot of things from different angles that’s different in all of those things. It’s different and it’s made its way here. That’s the way it goes. The field gets younger, new guys come in and what used to fly or didn’t used to fly maybe can now. I think it’s a lot different than when I started here.”
Do you feel a lot closer with this car every week?
DENNY HAMLIN: “We’re starting over from our perspective. We’re trying to find a point where we are good. We are decent. We’re not shit. We are decent, but we are not where we have been for the last three years. We are trying to find that point where we are good, and we can build off of that.”
Do you think anything should be done to speed up these caution periods?
DENNY HAMLIN: “I told y’all before the season started that these races are going to be really long. There’s going to be more cautions and cautions are going to take longer. As far as that particular track and Road America, caution laps are I think 10 minutes. It’s huge, but I don’t know how you really fix it. It’s kind of what we got. I don’t know how you fix it. I don’t know that it’s broken either. Maybe we like sitting around for four and a half hours.”
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Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang are set to start 17th in Sunday’s 400-lapper at Richmond Raceway.
In Saturday’s qualifying session on the three-quarter-mile oval, Burton turned a lap at 119.506 miles per hour.
It was a pick up from his best lap in practice, where he posted a speed of 118.095 mph on the ninth of the 29 laps he ran.
Burton said he and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane team are happy with the adjustments they made to their No. 21 Mustang.
“I felt like we made good gains on the car,” Burton said. “I just missed the entry into Turn Three on the second lap.
“I feel like we are going to be OK in the race.”
Sunday’s 300-mile race is scheduled to start just after 3:30 p.m. with TV coverage on FOX. Stage breaks are set for Laps 70 and 230.
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For the second consecutive race and third time of the seven-race old season, Penske Racing’s Ryan Blaney will start from the Busch Light Pole – earning the top position Saturday in qualifying for Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Blaney’s No. 12 Penske Racing Racing Ford Mustang turned in a lap of 119.782 mph to take the top position by only .20 over William Byron in the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
Blaney – who, remarkably, has only a single Top-10 finish in 11 starts at the 0.75-mile Richmond track – was fastest in his first group as well as topping the final qualifying session.
"It means a lot," Blaney told FS1. "Honestly, I didn’t think I got a very good lap. It was kind of an ugly lap on my end. Really proud of the 12 group.
"Track position means a lot here," he continued. "Especially how my past history is here, I need all the track position I can get. Good start to the weekend, just got to keep it up and keep tires under it, that’s the biggest thing. We’ll see what tomorrow holds. Should be fun."
Kyle Busch will start the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota third, alongside Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe. Busch’s six wins at Richmond is most among active drivers and he is one of three former winners to advance to the Top-10 in qualifying.
The Richmond track has historically been a good venue for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, which is still looking for its first victory of the 2022 season. Five different
Gibbs drivers have accounted for eight wins in the last 12 Richmond races.
Petty GMS Racing’s Erik Jones will start fifth, alongside JGR driver Martin Truex Jr., who has won three times in the last five Richmond races. SHR’s Kevin Harvick, another three-time Richmond winner, will start sixth alongside last weekend’s COTA winner, Ross Chastain, driver of the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet. Christopher Bell (No. 20 JGR Toyota) and Aric Almirola (No. 10 SHR Ford) rounded out the Top-10 in qualifying.
Defending race winner, Alex Bowman will start the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 28th in the 37-car field.
NEW ERA, NEW STYLE?
Defending Richmond Raceway NASCAR Cup Series winner Alex Bowman addressed the media Saturday morning and acknowledged that the style of competition in all three national series has become increasingly aggressive. And he expects it to be no different in the first short track test of the Next Gen car this weekend.
Bowman, who was involved in a pair of accidents in the frantic last laps of racing in both the Camping World Truck Series and NACAR Cup Series events at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) last week, said he agreed with series veteran Denny Hamlin who questioned the level of early-season intensity on social media this week.
"I think the Playoff format has a lot to do with that, but I think we’ve seen that over the course of the years," said Bowman, who finished runner-up at COTA in the NASCAR Cup Series race after a last lap tussle with race winner Ross Chastain.
"You’ve seen people spin people out at the end of the races and get pretty physical at the end of the races for a long time. I think there’s some new guys in the series that are extremely aggressive. Everyone knows how aggressive Ross (Chastain) is at all times. A.J. (Allmendinger) is an aggressive driver too.
"I don’t necessarily think it has changed as much as Denny (Hamlin) thinks, maybe," he continued. "But I think there’s a reason and if you have to put your finger on it, it would be the Playoff format How much winning matters and sometimes you can overcome those guys hating you for that trophy."
CHASTAIN’s WARM RECEPTION
As you might expect following a career first victory in NASCAR’s premier NASCAR Cup Series, Ross Chastain conceded he had a busy last week. The driver of the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevy earned the win last week at COTA in a dramatic action-packed final lap – edging Bowman and colliding with A.J. Allmendinger on the last corner before racing off to his first trophy.
The 29-year old Floridian said he did not get much sleep in the immediate hours after his career-changing win at Austin road course. He did extra media interviews, worked with sponsors and just spent time celebrating with friends and his new team. Trackhouse Racing only expanded to two cars – and added Chastain – this season.
"The highlights have been talking to people back home," Chastain said. "In Charlotte and Mooresville (N.C.), there are a lot of people that have helped get me here that have been a part of this journey.
"But when you look at the people back home, they weren’t paid to do it. They had no real reason other than they liked racing or they were my family. Talking to them, hearing the stories of where they were at towards the end of the race, seeing a couple of videos of them reacting to the race – that’s when it really sank in. That’s when it felt real."
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Denny Hamlin
- Denny, that is about the most pumped up I have ever seen you. Where did you come from?
DENNY HAMLIN: Yeah, just great strategy there. Just drove as hard as I could. Just so proud of this whole FedEx Camry team, man, just never giving up.
There was no doubt in my mind, maybe just a little, but they got this car right there towards the end. Wow, unbelievable.
- It hasn't been an easy start to the season. Not even a top 10 through the first six races. What does this win mean to you, to Toyota, to kick things off here at your home track?
DENNY HAMLIN: I talked to you before the race, we needed a data point, something, a good run to kind of balance ourselves on other tracks. Obviously I think we got it here.
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Kevin Harvick
- Kevin Harvick, the end of the race you were chasing him down, right there. Just fell a little bit short.
KEVIN HARVICK: Yeah, just proud of everyone on our Ford Mobil 1 Mustang for staying there and having a great strategy and doing everything they did all day. First clean day we've had all year. Cars have been fast.
Had a shot there at the end. I wanted to be close enough with the white to just take a swipe at him. Yeah, the lap cars there kind of got in the way and I lost a little bit of ground.
Still a great day for us. Just hopefully a little momentum in a positive direction.
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It was a tough start to the day for Toyota driver Kurt Busch who would bring out the first caution of the day as the car lost power and fuel pressure which brought the field to a slow as Busch stopped on the back needing a push back to the garage.
As stage one laps began to wind down, Ross Chastain would make his move over Ky. Busch took the spot away for third, but it would be Brad Keselowski who started in the 19th spot making moves to work himself well inside the top-10 by the end of the stage.
Blaney would easily lead all the laps in the first stage over second place starter Byron cruising to the stage one win.
As stage two got underway the JGR crew of cars would extend their pit sequence allowing for Bell to grab the lead for about two dozen laps until tires finally gave up over the faster cars that had already pitted. His teammate Hamlin would follow him onto pit road but end up a lap down and Truex would take over the lead as the team decided to pit early.
With 50 laps remaining in the stage pit stops once again got underway for the cars that had pitted earlier in the stage this all helping Bell who pitted much later than others handing the lead once moved over to him followed by teammates Hamlin and Truex.
However, with much newer tires and on a different tire strategy Truex would get past Hamlin and set his sights on Bell out in the lead by over ten seconds. By cutting nearly a second a lap to the leader Bell it would be Truex who would once again take over the lead in the closing laps of stage two which would also hand the second stage win to Truex over Bell who faded back on older tires.
Ross Chastain along with Logano and Blaney would battle through the ending laps of the stage behind both Bell and Truex.
Just as the final stage was getting underway Cody Ware and Jones would get together sending Ware up the track into Stenhouse before Ware would end up resting next to the wall but would drive away and continue but not before the caution would fly once more. Ware’s day would end shortly after making the trip to pit road with damage to the right side of the car sending him to the garage.
Green flag laps wouldn’t last for long when Ty Dillon and Custer got together that ended with Cindric getting pushed up the track eventually spinning just off turn two.
Well inside the range with 90 to go Byron and team would make their stop allowing Truex to take over the lead on a different tire strategy as pit stops cycled Bryon would once again take the lead before the field would once again all hit pit road for a 45-lap run to the checkered flag.
As those stops were once again underway NASCAR would black flag Kyle Busch after seeing tape on the grille that was meant for the brake duct. NASCAR made this change with the Next Gen car to keep them similar aerodynamically.
“200 laps ago we put tape on it missed it and hit the grille and they just black flagged us for it. That’s why we had to pit.” Said Ben Beshore crew chief for Kyle Busch.
Busch for his part would pit to remove the tape and end up a lap down.
With laps winding down Byron would set sail working through traffic as Truex would attempt to close the gap down at one point under three seconds, but Byron would continue to pick off lap cars and use them to keep Truex well behind. As tires began to wear down Byron with the oldest tires in the field would allow Truex to close.
It wouldn’t be enough for Truex as radioed in he had burnt his tires trying to run down Byron. Hamlin and Harvick would begin to close in first getting past Truex then Byron.
Hamlin would clear away with the lead with Harvick in tow with just four laps remaining. Harvick would attempt to reel in Hamlin, but it wouldn’t be enough as Hamlin would cross the finish line a half second ahead to take home the victory at his home track.
The NASCAR Cup Series returns under the lights at Martinsville Speedway for the Blue Emu 400 next Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
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- Martin, strong all day long in the 19 car. Battling at the end. You had the leader in your sights. How frustrating is that to have so many strategies?
MARTIN TRUEX JR.: Yeah, I mean, it's frustrating. But that's part of it here. It's part of the whole day. Obviously we did good there for awhile.
James did a great job all day with strategy, getting us up front, getting us the lead. Our Auto Owners Camry TRD was super fast out front, super fast in clean air.
At the end I think we just tried to gamble, tried to gamble on beating the 24. He ended up trying to do our strategy, which we both screwed up.
Obviously heads up the other way, I think we had the best car. Doesn't matter. Overall I'm really proud of our guys and really a step in the right direction from Phoenix, completely different mindset coming here, after today what we can do going forward. Excited about that.
Just thanks to everybody at TRD, Toyota, everybody back at JGR for working their butts off.
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CCM Racing is excited to announce that driver Matt Wilson will be making his ARCA Menards Series East debut with the team in the Nashville 200 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway on May 7, 2022.
Wilson, a Springdale, Arkansas native, currently competes in the COMMA Racing Series at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Jennings, Oklahoma. Wilson’s crew chief is Colton Collins, who is also a crew member for CCM Racing in the ARCA Racing Series.
Wilson tested with CCM Racing at the pre-season practice session at Daytona International Speedway in January earlier this year.
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway will host the ARCA Menards Series East for the third time when the series heads there in May. CCM Racing and Wilson will have support from partners Laravel, MW Consulting, and RA Wilson Enterprises
The Nashville 200 will take place the day before Wilson’s 37th birthday!
CCM Racing last competed at Nashville in 2019 when team owner Eric Caudell finished 14th.
The Nashville 200 can be viewed on FloRacing at 9:30PM ET on Saturday, May 7, 2022. You can also follow CCM Racing on Twitter for live updates from the track @ccm_racing.
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“Having the opportunity to drive in the ARCA Racing Series is literally a dream come true. Two years ago, I decided I wanted to chase that dream not knowing if it would ever become a reality and here we are.
I’d like to personally thank Eric Caudell for working with me and going out of his way to open doors so I could be here. I owe him a huge thank you.
I’d also like to thank the entire CCM Racing team, all of our sponsors - Laravel, RedTide Canopies, RA Wilson Enterprises, Coble Enterprises - and everyone else that makes this possible
Thanks to my family and friends that have supported me and pushed me to pursue this dream. Without all of their support, none of this would be possible.” - Matt Wilson
“CCM Racing is looking forward to getting Matt into his first ARCA race. We tested a few times last year and are excited to finally see it happen.” - Eric Caudell
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Even though he had not raced his sprint car in five months, Trent Williams showed little rust when he returned to action in the USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series last Saturday night at Perris Auto Speedway. Starting 14th in the 30-lap main event, he moved up five spots and took the checkered flag in ninth place.
Performing before one of the largest crowds to ever witness a sprint car race at the 26-year-old Riverside County racing facility, Williams was the 14th fastest qualifier in the 23-car field with a time of 17.111. Heat race action saw the Cal State Fullerton graduate start on the outside of row one and end up fourth in his first competitive laps since last fall.
Coming from the outside of the seventh row in the 30-lap finale, Williams ran in 15th for the first ten circuits around the Riverside County half-mile clay oval. However, by lap 15 he was all the way up to 10th. He picked up one more spot and ran ninth the final 10-laps of the race. When he crossed the stripe to end his first race since fall, “T-Dub” was on the tail of the eighth place car and was not far out of sixth.
Ironically, Saturday’s outing had the exact same results as his last race which was also at Perris Auto Speedway in October when he started 14th and finished ninth.
Despite not participating in the first three races of the 2022 campaign, the Apple Valley, California resident was 26th in points after Saturday. Look for him to climb several positions this week as he will be competing in Central California on Friday and Saturday, April 1st, and 2nd. Friday the action will be at Peter Murphy’s Keller Auto Speedway. On Saturday Williams will drive 30-miles southeast to the Stone Chevrolet GMC Buick Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare.
Spectator gates in Hanford will open at 4:00 p.m. The track is located at 801 S. 10th Avenue in Hanford (93230) and its website is https://www.racekingsspeedway.com/. Advance tickets for Friday’s show are available by using the following link https://www.myracepass.com/events/402000/tickets/
Saturday’s racing action in Tulare gets underway when spectator gates open at 4:00 p.m. Hot laps will follow at 5:00 with qualifying at 6:00 and the first race of the night will be at 7:00. The Thunderbowl is located on the Tulare County Fairgrounds on the corner of Bardsley and K Streets at 620 South K Street Tulare, California 93274. The track website is http://www.thunderbowlraceway.com/ and the office phone is (559) 688-0909. Camping will be available off turns three and four at Tulare.
Fans unable to attend this week’s races can see both nights of action on Flo Racing. Details on a Flo Subscription are available at www.floracing.com.
Williams would like to thank marketing partners Victory Boys Performance and Sorrento Homes for making it possible to race his Maxim Chassis/Shaver Engines #52V during the 2022 season. If you or your business would like to be a partner of the Victory Boys racing endeavors, please call (760) 780-8782 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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Torgerson Racing and Rowdy Energy will debut a new Driven Gen III Chassis for their 2022 Micro Sprint season with driver Ashton Torgerson in the No. 02 Rowdy Energy entry.
Rowdy Energy founder and NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch and his son Brexton have dipped their toes into the Micro and Jr. Sprint scene this season. Brexton notably swept an event at the Southern Illinois Center in his Driven JRX Jr. Sprint.
"We are really excited to have Ashton and Torgerson Racing in a D1," Driven Chassis owner Jake Hagopian said. "Ashton's talent has definitely been on display as of late, with a very successful campaign to begin the 2022 season. We are looking forward to extending the Driven/D1 relationship further into the season with Torgerson Racing and Rowdy Energy!"
Rowdy Energy supports Torgerson Racing and Ashton Torgerson, who competes in the No. 02 Micro Sprint in a full season of competition in Arizona and California. His older brother Austin also races in Micro Sprints in the No. 88. The team has a schedule which includes 360 Sprint Car starts as well. Ashton made a successful and competitive debut on March 19 at Marysville Raceway Park.
Torgerson Racing will compete for Micro Sprint championships in California at Dixon Speedway and Delta Speedway. The schedules include major races at Dixon Speedway such as the Grandma Pam Non-Wing Nationals in May and the Lonnie Kaiser Memorial in October.
Delta Speedway’s biggest events are the Summer Sizzler in June, Dual at Delta in September, and Turkey Bowl XXIII which closes the month of October.
To learn more about Torgerson Racing, visit them at their website www.TorgersonRacing.com. Torgerson Racing is also available on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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The start of every April marks the return of a proud and special tradition for everyone at MPM Marketing.
Over a half-dozen MPM Marketing clients will be carrying number fonts with puzzle pieces to celebrate Autism Awareness Month, which is designed to recognize and share stories of people who are affected by autism.
Autism awareness has always been a very important cause for MPM Marketing owner Tonya McCallister with her son being diagnosed at an early age and has been thrilled to see her clients and the auto racing community wholeheartedly embrace the cause.
“We try and do something a little different each year to bring awareness,” McCallister said. “The support is always phenomenal during Autism Awareness Month and it seems to grow each year. Obviously autism is very near and dear to our hearts, so we’re always looking for opportunities to bring more awareness.”
Autism is characterized by social communication challenges and repetitive behaviors. Usually detected by parents in their children within their first three years, approximately one percent of the world’s population has autism, which equates to over 75 million people.
McCallister and MPM Marketing sell Autism Awareness themed T-shirts every year with proceeds going to Team Therapy of South Carolina. For 2022, Arizona Sports Shirts was responsible behind the design of the T-shirts that will also be on hand for both April CARS Tour events at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and Goodyear All American Speedway.
MPM Marketing’s support for Autism Awareness will be prevalent throughout April with Boo Boo Dalton, Kody King, Payton Freeman, Devon Morgan, Michael Faulk and Delaney Gray all adorning the puzzle-themed numbers. Braden Rogers is also carrying the unique font while driving for Lee Faulk Racing; another MPM Marketing client.
Brandon Gray, who is Delaney’s father and is a part of the MPM Marketing clientele with his own short track operation, shares McCallister’s passion about autism awareness and believes that MPM Marketing’s actions will succeed in assisting those who are directly affected by it.
“We believe that God blesses us to be able to race and that we should use our platform to help better as many people’s lives as possible,” Brandon said. “The opportunity to run the autism puzzles on our car aligns perfectly with our mission and the purpose of our platform. We are passionate about raising awareness for autism and are honored to support MPM’s efforts.”
For the puzzle-themed numbers, McCallister turned to Fuz1on Graphics; a sister company of Lee Faulk Racing whose list of drivers outside of Rogers include MPM Marketing clients like King and Lee’s son Michael.
Michael, who primarily oversees Fuz1on Graphics, was more than happy to help McCallister in promoting awareness towards autism, adding that the puzzle-themed numbers were the perfect way to express that support out on the track.
“Autism Awareness Month holds a special place in my heart,” Michael said. “I have close family and friends with this condition and anytime we’re always trying to raise money for the cause. MPM and Fuz1on came up with the idea of the puzzle piece overlays and I thought it was a great way to bring attention to the cause.”
McCallister is eagerly looking forward to seeing so many Autism Awareness Month-themed cars out on track over the next several weeks and is already starting to brainstorm over how MPM Marketing can be more involved in promoting the cause over the next several years.
“I can’t thank Fuz1on Graphics enough for always being willing to help me,” McCallister said. “Michael and Lee are like family, and they know how special this month is to us, but I also must thank the MPM client base and families that never cease to amaze me with their generosity. All of this really comes down to the entire racing family from partners, fans and organizations that support us with autism awareness during the month of April.”
MPM Marketing’s support of Autism Awareness Month formally begins with the on-track action this weekend. Those that want to add the puzzle-themed number to their car can contact Michael at Fuz1on Graphics for the MPM discounted price, while McCallister can be reached about T-shirts if fans are not able to attend either CARS Tour race in April.
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Billie Eilish just turned into a full-fledged rock star.
The typically low-key singer-songwriter slayed the live stage like never before while performing her heart-shattering hit “Happier Than Ever” at Grammys 2022.
The namesake track off her 2021 album seemed to break Eilish free of her previously soft sound with its thundering hard rock bridge at Sunday’s Grammys telecast from Las Vegas.
The 20-year-old pop superstar — fittingly clad in a black tribute T-shirt bearing the visage of the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins — started the tune with the first soft verses as she wandered through a prop upside down house flooded with water.
Then, transitioning into the iconic bridge, the rain came down. The lyrics, detailing the anger and resentment felt after a breakup, paired with the electric rock sound to deliver a sort of musical middle finger.
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Thrashing in the downpour — an impressive rain-shower special effect — she sang her heart out, letting her heartbreak flood the stage.
Eilish, who already has seven Grammys, is nominated for another seven this year including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.
In 2020, she was famously caught on camera pleading “please don’t be me” after she racked up her first five Grammys.
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Jumping into the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series for the first time can be an intimidating experience that could be compared to being a starting pitcher in Yankee Stadium. That is what longtime sprint car driver Brody Roa faced last weekend at the Bakersfield and Perris Auto Speedways. As daunting as that can be, Roa maintained his composure and by the time the weekend ended, he started his first-ever World of Outlaws main event.
On Friday, a warm night greeted the fans who jammed the stands at the 77-year-old Bakersfield Speedway for the Outlaws only appearance of 2022. They saw Roa cut his first-ever laps in qualifying with the legendary sprint car series. His time of 11.371 was only a little over a half-second slower than the night’s fastest qualifier and it was 24th fastest of the 27 cars on hand.
Roa started and finished ninth in his heat. That meant he would have to pass three cars to get into the 35-lap A main event. The Garden Grove, California resident got by one car and was closing on another when the laps ran out and he missed out on Friday’s feature.
Twenty-four hours and 180 miles later, Roa was on the familiar digs of “The Southern California Home of Major League Sprint Car Racing,” Perris Auto Speedway. One of the largest crowds in the 26-year history of the track showed up and many of them were anxious to see how Roa would do in his familiar #91R car with unfamiliar wings mounted on top and on the nose.
The 32-year-old veteran driver turned in a lap of 15.009 in qualifying. Once again he finished ninth in his heat and got the ticket into the B main.
Roa started seventh in the B main and only needed to pass one car to grab a spot in his first-ever World of Outlaws A main event. Early on, the sixth-place car put distance between himself and Roa, but that changed on lap four.
Roa kept on digging and he began to reel in the more experienced winged driver and challenged for the final spot on the fifth circuit. On the sixth lap, with the entire hometown crowd urging him on, he used the wide line to pass for the final transfer on the back straight. However, he got sideways in turn four and his foe took the spot back.
Determined to not be denied, Roa switched lines and went to the inside in turn one. He nearly snatched the spot back, but the other driver got a great run down the back chute and again put distance between himself and the bright green #91R. However, the “Pride of Garden Grove” did not give up. He chased his competitor down again, stayed on the inside, and with the crowd cheering him on, he snatched the last transfer spot. From that point on, he pulled away and maintained the position to the checkered flag to earn a coveted transfer spot into his initial World of Outlaws main. The fans showered Roa with applause as he passed in front of the grandstands on his slow-down lap.
For the A main, Roa started 24th. Early on, he passed a few cars, but on lap 21, a minor tangle with another driver flattened his right front tire and damaged the nose wing. As per World of Outlaws rules, there is no waiting for cars after lap 20 is completed. The crew did their utmost to get the car out, and it still had some fight left in it. Unfortunately, they missed getting it out on time by less than 15 seconds. Ultimately, Roa was saddled with a 24th place finish.
Twenty-fourth place finish or not, few drivers qualify for a World of Outlaws main event on their second try and only in their fourth time racing with a wing. Roa did just that and he looks forward to competing with the World of Outlaws again in the future.
After taking this Saturday off, Roa and the team will be back in action on April 9th when the NARC King of the West Series visits Peter Murphy’s Keller Auto Speedway. He will wrap up the month of April on the 30th when he takes the wings off to compete with the USAC/CRA Series at Perris.
Brody Roa merchandise is available online. You can see it all in his store which is packed with great items including t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, beanies, baby onesies, plush blankets, jigsaw puzzles, stickers, notebooks, tote bags, wine tumblers, mugs, bandana pet collars, and more. To check it out, please visit the following website https://www.brodyroa.com/shop/.
In 2022, Roa will race USAC/CRA, USAC National, and other select events, in his #91R BR Performance/HD Industries Eagle. He will also drive the #8M for May Motorsports in select USAC West Coast events. The 2019 USAC Southwest and 2017 USAC West Coast champion is always open to discussing other driving opportunities.
Roa and the team want to thank the following sponsors for making the 2022 season possible. HD Industries, Burris Racing, Sander Engineering, Inland Rigging, Caltrol, “Biker” Bruce Fischer, Competition Suspension, ALR Virtual Services, K-1 Race Gear, Molecule, Rod End Supply, Driven Racing Oil, Baldwin Filters, and NGK Spark Plugs. In addition, the veteran driver offers thanks to RDM Mechanics, Fastenal, Coopers Propane, Ten West Towing, Ten West Environmental, TJM Distribution, and Westco International for sponsoring the #8M he will pilot for Jayson May on 10 occasions in 2022.
If you or your company would like to jump on board and receive recognition as a team partner throughout the 2022 racing season, please give the two-time USAC champion racer a phone call or drop him a note at the contact information on the top of this release.
Fans can learn more about Roa and the team at https://www.brodyroa.com/. Fans can also check out the team news at Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/br91r/.
To keep up with May Motorsports, please check out and “like” its Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/MayMotorsports8M
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A battle down to the final turn at 81-Speedway with the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region presented by Smiley’s Racing Products, Blake Hahn held off the last corner slide job from Ryan Timms for his first victory of the 2022 season, and ninth with the series.
Holding off Hahn through restarts and traffic from the start, it was slower traffic that brought Hahn to the back bumper of the No. 5t. Squeezing by Timms on Lap 19, Hahn put some distance on Ryan before traffic with two to go tightened things up.
A massive run to the backstretch on the final lap, Timms drove deep into the final two turns. Drifting across the 81-Speedway, Timms pulled even in the fourth turn, but it was Hahn who hammered the cushion to win by 0.490-seconds.
Not out of the woods for the runner-up spot, the closing laps had a third player as Dylan Westbrook charged into the mix from seventh. Nearly working by Timms as well, the No. 5t held second by 0.163-seconds over Westbrook. Jeremy Campbell crossed fourth with Sean McClelland in fifth.
Transferring to the A-Feature after starting last in the B-Feature, Kyler Johnson tore through the field from 18th to finish sixth in the No. 45x. Chase Porter grabbed seventh, followed by Zach Chappell, who advanced from 15th to eighth. Whit Gastineau and Danny Jennings completed the top ten.
The next event for the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region presented by Smiley’s Racing Products is Friday, April 15, at Creek County Speedway and Saturday, April 16, at Caney Valley Speedway.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes 11 Regional Tours encompassing both wing and non-wing competition.
For other news, notes, and information on any of the tours under the ASCS banner, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com , follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@LucasOilASCS).
Race Results:
ASCS Sooner Region
81-Speedway (Park City, Kan.)
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Car Count: 25
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5T-Ryan Timms[2]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn[4]; 3. 1J-Danny Jennings[1]; 4. 91-Jeff Stasa[3]; 5. 50Z-Zach Chappell[5]; 6. 2W-Whit Gastineau[9]; 7. 88J-Jeremy Huish[8]; 8. 90-Lance Norick[6]; 9. 45X-Kyler Johnson[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[1]; 2. 10P-Dylan Postier[2]; 3. 03-Joe Wood Jr[5]; 4. 22M-Rees Moran[3]; 5. 95-Matt Covington[8]; 6. 12-Jeffrey Newell[6]; 7. 2J-Zach Blurton[7]; 8. 96S-Brandon Sampson[4]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Chase Porter[1]; 2. 1-Sean McClelland[3]; 3. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[5]; 4. 10-Jordan Knight[2]; 5. 55B-Brandon Anderson[8]; 6. 71-Bradyn Baker[4]; 7. 22S-Slater Helt[6]; 8. 2B-Brett Becker[7]
B-Main (12 Laps): 1. 50Z-Zach Chappell[2]; 2. 88J-Jeremy Huish[4]; 3. 12-Jeffrey Newell[3]; 4. 45X-Kyler Johnson[11]; 5. 10-Jordan Knight[1]; 6. 2J-Zach Blurton[6]; 7. 71-Bradyn Baker[5]; 8. 2B-Brett Becker[8]; 9. 22S-Slater Helt[7]; 10. 90-Lance Norick[9]; 11. 96S-Brandon Sampson[10]
A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[4]; 2. 5T-Ryan Timms[1]; 3. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[7]; 4. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[2]; 5. 1-Sean McClelland[6]; 6. 45X-Kyler Johnson[18]; 7. 2-Chase Porter[3]; 8. 50Z-Zach Chappell[15]; 9. 2W-Whit Gastineau[12]; 10. 1J-Danny Jennings[11]; 11. 12-Jeffrey Newell[17]; 12. 10P-Dylan Postier[8]; 13. 91-Jeff Stasa[13]; 14. 88J-Jeremy Huish[16]; 15. 10-Jordan Knight[19]; 16. 2J-Zach Blurton[20]; 17. 95-Matt Covington[9]; 18. 22M-Rees Moran[14]; 19. 03-Joe Wood Jr[5]; 20. 55B-Brandon Anderson[10]
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INDYCAR will support the RRDC Evening with Rick Mears presented by Firestone by hosting the pre-dinner reception at the Road Racing Drivers Club's annual West Coast banquet, held prior to the 47th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.) on April 7, 2022.
Rick Mears, four-time Indianapolis 500 champion, winner of 29 INDYCAR SERIES races in his career, and an enduring member of Team Penske following his retirement, will be honored by his peers at the RRDC’s 12th annual legends dinner.
“The members of the RRDC are honored to have INDYCAR host the reception at this year's RRDC Evening with Rick Mears,” said RRDC president Bobby Rahal.
“With RRDC member Roger Penske’s new role with INDYCAR, the level of awareness of such a dynamic racing series and organization has been raised,” added Rahal. “We at the RRDC are proud to have INDYCAR support our RRDC Evening with Rick Mears, and we look forward to a continuing productive association.”
“Rick Mears was simply magical on the racetrack,” said Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles. “His first of three INDYCAR SERIES championships in 1979 set the stage for what would become a stellar career. At Indianapolis, Rick’s record-tying four victories in the Indianapolis 500, record six pole positions and 11 front row starts are iconic accomplishments. Additionally, his popularity during his annual return to Indianapolis is a shining example of how he remains a rich part of the fabric of the Brickyard. We are pleased to support the RRDC and their much-deserved recognition of a true legend in our sport.”
The RRDC Evening with Rick Mears Presented by Firestone will be held on Thursday, April 7, at the Hilton Hotel, 701 West Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, Calif., with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are $300 per person ($280 for RRDC members), although there are very few available seats remaining. No walk-ups. Please contact Jeremy Shaw for details at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The dinner's proceeds will help support the RRDC's young driver initiatives, including its groundbreaking www.SAFEisFAST.com presented by Honda program and the Team USA Scholarship, which the RRDC has backed since 1997. Previous banquets have honored Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske, Jim Hall, Brian Redman, Emerson Fittipaldi, Bobby Unser, George Follmer, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford and David Hobbs, drawing fans and luminaries from all forms of motorsports.
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Late last week the City of Henrico named current Richmond Raceway track president Dennis Bickmeier to lead the city’s sports and tourism program including a new events facility under construction.
Bickmeier will call it a career working for NASCAR owned tracks going all the way back to 1999 when he was hired on at Auto Club Speedway before moving to Michigan International Speedway 2007 and finally in 2011 being named president of Richmond following this weekend's events at the track.
“Well, it’s a little bit bittersweet, 11 years have gone by quickly here at Richmond Raceway. As I look back there are so many things, I’m proud of working with our team to keep fans entertained throughout the weekend.” Said Bickmeier
While overseeing the track Richmond has made significant changes over the years including a $40-million-dollar infield upgrade and expansion for fans. In 2019 following a 14-year hiatus the Camping World Truck Series returned to the track only to take a break during COVID once again returning in 2021.
Bickmeier's time at Richmond also included a redevelopment of the on-property amphitheater pairing AEG Live and VACU to bring concerts and festivals back to the complex after decades of sporadic use.
Bickmeier and his team will get to see the fruits of their labor this weekend in the Toyota Owners 400 when the Next Gen car makes its debut racing appearance at the track. But it was also the first track the new car ever tested on with Austin Dillon behind the wheel.
“This plays into the history and legacy of Richmond Raceway. I’m excited overall to see the new car and talking with our fans they are excited to see the car.”
For the first time since the early 90s when the lighting system was installed and all of Richmond Raceway events were moved to nighttime events the track will see a return to an all-day schedule in 2022. This of course excluding the shift of events during COVID that moved the events to day to accommodate for the season schedule.
“What we’ve seen when you have a race during the day here presents another challenge to the drivers. It races much differently during the day than it does at night. From a competition standpoint that was one of the factors. It’s important for us as a sport to try and get as many eyeballs on the sport as possible.”
“If everyone agrees it’s an opportunity to race at night again that's what they’ll do and if not that’s okay too.”
The Toyota Owners 400 weekend kicks off with the Whelen Modifieds, Friday, April 1 culminating with the NASCAR Cup Series Toyota Owners 400 on April 3rd at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
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Cassie Carli’s body found buried in shallow grave in Alabama, ex-boyfriend to face charges
NAVARRE, Fla. (WALA/Gray News) - Investigators said Cassie Carli was found buried in a shallow grave inside of a barn in Alabama.
The Santa Rosa County sheriff said the discovery was made late Saturday night after they executed a search warrant in St. Clair County outside of Birmingham.
An autopsy will be performed on Monday to determine the cause of death, WALA reports.
The Navarre, Florida, mother was last seen alive on Sunday, March 27, when she met with her ex, Marcus Spanevelo, to swap custody of their child. Sheriff Bob Johnson said he expects murder charges to be filed against Spanevelo.
The sheriff said Spanevelo has a connection to the property where Carli’s body was found, but he would not reveal what led them to search the barn.
Spanevelo is in jail in Tennessee where he was arrested on Saturday on charges of tampering with evidence, giving false information concerning a missing persons investigation, and destruction of evidence.
Johnson said Spanevelo has been uncooperative with investigators throughout the case, and he expects him to fight extradition.
The sheriff said Carli’s four-year-old daughter was found unharmed and is now in a safe environment.
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Chris Madden led every lap in Friday night’s XR Super Series Late Model feature to score the $50,000 victory at the Karl Kustoms Bristol Dirt Nationals.
In other racing Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, T.J. Herndon claimed another victory in Street Stock while Ricky Ingalls took the win in Factory Stock.
Madden, who earlier in the day set a track record at 14.950 seconds at 128 mph in qualifying, drove his ultra-quick car to lead all 50 laps from the pole and claim his second win in the four-race series over the two-week event. With the win, Madden moved into contention to claim the $100,000 event bonus that will be awarded tomorrow to the racer with the highest average finish.
“Its pretty awesome, what a phenomenal race car, we had some mishaps last Saturday, but we recovered well,” said Madden, who won last Friday night’s race in similar dominating fashion but finished 12th Saturday. “It’s awesome to be at Bristol and see all the fans out and appreciate all their support.”
Madden, from Gray Court, S.C., says he hopes he can make a similar run in tomorrow’s 50-lap finale to try and pocket the hefty bonus check.
“Our goal is to win races and we have a big points fund going into tomorrow night,” Madden said. “There’s definitely some tough competition here this weekend, but we’ve been fortunate to put ourselves in position to win and that’s what we have to do tomorrow.”
He says the $100,000 he’s won so far is critical funding for his team.
“It takes every bit of it, we’re just thankful and blessed to be able to win,” Madden said. “Hats off to the crew. Thanks to XR for stepping out on a limb to give us racers some great money to race for. We appreciate them.”
Last Saturday's winner Chris Ferguson made a late race charge to finish second and was followed by rising star Devin Moran in third. NASCAR Cup champ Kyle Larson finished fourth, Ricky Weiss was fifth and Scott Bloomquist finished sixth.
Herndon of Atwood, Tenn., swept the week in Street Stock, winning all four of his feature races, including tonight’s 30-lapper.
Herndon held off Morristown’s Austin Adkins, who finished second, and Georgia racer Andy Stewart, who rebounded from a crash last night and overcame a back of the field starting spot to score a third place finish. Dale Nelson finished fourth and Mario Gresham was fifth.
Megan Erwin, who made history Wednesday night by becoming the first female to win a race at BMS, finished sixth.
Herndon led all 30 laps to take the $5,000 winner's prize.
“I’ve got an incredible team,” Herndon said. “Couldn’t ask to be no better. I don’t know what else to say. My car was phenomenal, we didn’t make a change from the time we unloaded it out of the trailer to tonight.”
Herndon said winning at Bristol, where so much racing history has been made, is the biggest of his career.
“I’ve had some good ones but this one pretty much tops it, especially with the weekend we’ve had,” Herndon said. “My crew works their hearts out. I couldn’t do it without them. My goal this weekend was to make it on top of that building (BMS Victory Lane) one time so I’m just speechless.”
Herndon won four Dirt Nationals trophies for the week, but tonight’s victory earned him a signature BMS Gladiator Sword, which he says he will proudly display at his home.
“It’s fixing to go on my mantle,” Herndon said with a smile. “Sometimes I put my trophies in the living room just to irritate my wife, so the sword is going to go up there when I get home.”
Ingalls, from Longview, Texas, scored an emotional Factory Stock victory, holding off fellow Texans Phil Dixon and Brandon Williams at the checkered flag.
“It’s the greatest accomplishment I’ve ever done in racing," Ingalls said. "This is the greatest place I’ve ever been, when you roll down that hill inside this track you are in awe. I love it. I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity to do this.”
The final night of the Karl Kustoms Bristol Dirt Nationals begins tomorrow at 7 p.m. Spectator gates open at 5 p.m. Grandstand tickets can be purchased online at www.racexr.com or at the gate, starting at $40 for adults and $5 for kids (12-under).
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On an afternoon on which South Boston Speedway and the SMART Modified Tour honored Modified racing legend and five-time South Boston Speedway champion, the late Ray Hendrick, Matt Hirschman put together a late-race rally and held off Jonathan Brown in a five-lap dash to the finish to win Saturday’s Flying VA 99 SMART Modified Tour race.
Hirschman got a good surge on the race’s final restart, quickly cleared Brown, and pulled away in the closing laps to earn his third SMART Modified Tour victory in four series starts this season.
“At the end, once I got back to the lead, I was confident that as long as I got a good clean start I could pull away,” Hirschman said. “Getting back to the lead is what I worried about.”
Hirschman gave up the lead to pit under caution on lap 72 for a fresh right rear tire. It wasn’t until he passed Brown on lap 89 that he regained the lead. A caution flag with five laps to go gave Brown one last shot at Hirschman, but Hirschman was able to hold onto the top spot and pull away for the win.
“We opted to get our (right rear) tire on lap 35, and a lot of guys waited until around lap 70 to come in,” Brown remarked. “It hurt us a little bit there at the end. That fresher right rear (tire) they had would have really helped us, but all in all it was a good day.”
Caleb Heady of Shelbyville, KY finished third, former NASCAR Cup Series Champion Bobby Labonte of Corpus Christi, TX placed fourth and Tom Buzze rounded out the top five finishers. Rounding out the Top 10 finishers in the unofficial results were Burt Myers, Danny Bohn, Brandon Ward, Brian Loftin and J.B. Fortin.
The race was a highly competitive one with seven lead changes among five drivers. Hirschman led three times for a total of 39 laps.
Saturday’s race was slowed by 13 cautions, a circumstance that led to a lot of competitive racing, especially on the restarts.
“There were a lot of wrecks,” Hirschman noted. “Fortunately, I really didn’t see any of them. I wasn’t around them, but it was great racing. There was a lot of grip in the track, but it’s also fast, and things happen fast. I guess that might have been part of it.”
LAYNE RIGGS SCORES THIRD STRAIGHT SBS LATE MODEL WIN
Layne Riggs is holding the upper hand in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division at South Boston Speedway.
The Bahama, NC resident made it three victories in as many races, edging defending NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series National Champion Peyton Sellers of Danville, VA to win Saturday afternoon’s 100-lap NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division race at South Boston Speedway.
Riggs had to do it the hard way, having to start mid-field in the 22-car starting field under South Boston Speedway’s handicapping system after having won two consecutive races. He worked his way past Jacob Borst to take second place on lap 47 and began chipping away at Sellers’ lead. With 18 laps to go, Riggs worked his way past Sellers. Once in front, Riggs never relinquished the lead.
“I knew I was catching him (Sellers) slowly,” Riggs noted. “He’s a tough guy to race with. He doesn’t show his cards much. I couldn’t tell if he was playing with me a little bit or if he was really slowing down. He was losing pace, and I was gaining pace at the same time. We did it all again. I hope we keep getting these victories.”
Borst, from Elon, NC, took third place with Mark Wertz of Chesapeake, VA and Mason Bailey rounding out the top five finishers. John Goin, Landon Pembelton, Camden Gullie, Chris Denny and Daniel Moss rounded out the Top 10 finishers.
JARRETT MILAM SCORES HORNETS DIVISION WIN
Jarrett Milam moved into the top spot with five laps to go and won Saturday’s 20-lap Hornets Division race. The win was Milam’s first victory of the season.
Jason DeCarlo of Chase City, VA finished second with Dylan Davis of Nathalie, VA finishing third. Nathalie, Virginia residents Steven Layne and Jared Dawson completed the top five finishers.
The race featured two lead changes among three drivers.
TONY ARNOLD TAKES CHAMP KARTS WIN
Tony Arnold took the lead from Tyler Perry on the final lap and held off a last-ditch charge from Tommy Elliott to win Saturday’s 15-lap Champ Karts race.
Kevin Elliott finished third with Perry, Kenny Mills and Billy Parrish rounding out the finishing order.
NEXT RACE AT SOUTH BOSTON SPEEDWAY
NASCAR racing action returns to South Boston Speedway on Saturday afternoon, April 16, with the Viny’s Italian Restaurant/Frutopia Mini Family Day event. It will be a big day for family fun at South Boston Speedway as everyone under the age of 18 will be admitted free courtesy of Viny’s Italian Restaurant/Frutopia Mini.
Six races are scheduled for that event, with twin 75-lap races for the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division highlighting the action. A 50-lap race for the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division, twin 15-lap races for the Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division and a 15-lap race for the Hornets Division round of the action.
Grandstand gates will open at 12:30 p.m., qualifying starts at 1 p.m. and the first race will get the green flag at 2 p.m.
Advance adult general admission tickets for the event are priced at $10 each plus a $1.50 processing fee and may be purchased online on South Boston Speedway’s website, www.southbostonspeedway.com, through Friday night, April 15.
Adult general admission tickets online and at the gate on race day are priced at $15 each.
The latest news and updates from South Boston Speedway are available on the speedway’s website, southbostonspeedway.com, and through the track’s social media channels. Information may also be obtained by phoning the speedway at 434-572-4947 or toll free at 1-877-440-1540 during regular business hours.
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Craig Von Dohren of Oley, Pa. was able to take over the lead on lap 47, after a multi-lap battle with Tim Buckwalter of Douglasville, Pa., and race home with the win in the 60th anniversary season opening VP Racing Fuels Bruce Rogers Memorial Money Maker 60-lap feature race Saturday Night at Grandview Speedway.
Jordan Henn of Kutztown, Pa. was able wrestle the lead away from Mark Kemmerer of Green Lane, Pa. on lap 12 of the 25-lap T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman Opening Night feature and pick up his third career victory. The main event went green to checker without a caution and was over in just under seven minutes.
Finishing out the top five behind Von Dohren in the Modified main event was Jeff Strunk of Boyertown, Pa, Doug Manmiller of Shoemakersville, Pa., Jared Umbenhauer of Richland, Pa. and Craig Whitmoyer of Hamburg, Pa.
The remaining top five in the Sportsman main was Cody Manmiller of Philadelphia, Pa., Jimmy Leiby of West Milford, N.J., and Dakota Kohler of Kutztown, Pa.
Next Saturday, April 9 will be the first point race of the brand-new season, part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series featuring a double header with the T.P. Trailer Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman starting at 6 pm. Pit gates open at 2 pm and grandstand gates open at 4 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18 while children under age 12 are admitted free of charge.
VP RACING FUELS BRUCE ROGERS MEMORIAL MONEY MAKER BIG BLOCK/SMALL BLOCK MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH (60 laps): CRAIG VON DOHREN, Jeff Strunk, Doug Manmiller, Jared Umbenhauer, Craig Whitmoyer, Tim Buckwalter, Jordan Henn, Nate Brinker, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Brett Kressley, Bobby Varin, Ryan Krachun, Brian Hirthler, Brad Grim, Jimmy Leiby, Kevin Hirthler, Ryan Beltz, John Willman, Ryan Grim, Duane Howard, Brad Brightbill, Kevin Graver Jr., Steve Swinehart, Ray Swinehart DNS: Dylan Swinehart
Did Not Qualify: WB James, Kyle Smith, Clay Butler, Mike Laise, Dan Waisempacher, Brad Arnold, Mike Lisowski, Eric Biehn, Kyle Weiss, Darrin Schuler, Doug Snyder, Jesse Leiby, Brett Gilmore, Steve Young, Ron Jaring Jr., Justin Grim, Corey Merkel, Mark Van Vorst, Joel Smith
- P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): JORDAN HENN, Mark Kemmerer, Cody Manmiller, Jimmy Leiby, Dakota Kohler, Logan Bauman, Dylan Swinehart, Brian Hirthler, Ryan Grim, Matt Clay, Kyle Smith, Mike Schneck, Adrianna Delliponte, Nathan Mohr, Michael Burrows, Kenny Bock, Jesse Landis, Colton Perry, Bryan Rhoads, Tyler James, Ryan Graver, Decker Swinehart, Matt Yoder, Mark Gaugler, Parker Guldin, Jesse Hirthler
Did Not Qualify: Wayne Rotenberger, Nate Horn, Mike Stofflet, Chris Esposito, Kyle Hartzell, Mike Myers, Zach Steffy, Michael Faust, Joey Vaccaro, Michael Cinelli
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Saturday, April 9 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 6 pm.
Sunday, April 10 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro & Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 1 pm.
Saturday, April 16 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman plus 602 Sportsman - 6 pm.
Saturday, April 23 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 6 pm.
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‘Take this deathtrap down’ Group protests Florida amusement park ride after teen’s death
ORLANDO (WESH) – In the aftermath of a tragedy in Florida, local leaders are promising a full safety review of a ride after a teenager fell from it to his death. Others just want the ride to come down completely.
The message from the Juneteenth Project Coalition is very clear. The charitable organization held a peaceful protest Friday in honor of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who was killed in a fall March 24 on the Orlando Free Fall Ride at Icon Park.
“Right now pointing the finger may not be very productive, but what is productive is taking this death trap down,” Tina Wilson, the coalition’s founder, said.
Wilson called on the CEO of the Slingshot Group, Ritchie Armstrong, to make the change.
“We’re asking that he remove this structure and replace it with something more kid friendly in honor of the young boy that lost his life,” she said.
The Juneteenth Project Coalition has a petition circulating on change.org for this particular ride to come down. Once they reach 10,000 signatures, they’re going to send this petition to local leaders as well as representatives of the region.
State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried was in Orlando speaking at the Wells’Built Museum about the investigation.
The state has hired a forensic engineer to investigate.
“We are not taking this lightly,” Fried said. “We are going to do everything in our power, and including potentially increasing our power, to make sure something like this never happens again.”
State Representative Geraldine Thompson will file a bill called the Tyre Sampson bill to address deficiencies in areas of safety standards, state oversight or training protocols for rides after a cause is determined. She said the state may look at seatbelts too.
“It may be that the investigation will point out that not only the harness but an additional safeguard, which would have been a seatbelt, could have saved Tyre’s life,” she said.
A statement from Icon Park said it looks forward to working with all parties “to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again.”
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Craig Von Dohren of Oley, Pa. was able to take over the lead on lap 47, following a multi-lap battle with Tim Buckwalter of Douglasville, Pa., and race home with the win in the 60th anniversary season opening VP Racing Fuels Bruce Rogers Memorial Money Maker 60-lap feature race for Big Block/Small Block Modifieds Saturday Night at Grandview Speedway. The victory for Von Dohren, his first in the Bruce Rogers Memorial, was worth a cool $10,060 and was the seventh time he has won on Opening Night in Grandview track history.
Jordan Henn of Kutztown, Pa. was able wrestle the lead away from Mark Kemmerer of Green Lane, Pa. on lap 12 of the 25-lap T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman Opening Night feature and picked up his third career victory. The main event went green to checkers without a caution and was over in just under seven minutes.
Finishing out the top five behind Von Dohren in the Modified main event was Jeff Strunk of Boyertown, Pa, Doug Manmiller of Shoemakersville, Pa., Jared Umbenhauer of Richland, Pa. and Craig Whitmoyer of Hamburg, Pa.
The remaining top five in the Sportsman main was Cody Manmiller of Philadelphia, Pa., Jimmy Leiby of West Milford, N.J., and Dakota Kohler of Kutztown, Pa.
The Modified main event saw Buckwalter race out to the lead from his pole starting position and set a quick pace. The race upfront soon became fast and furious with Buckwalter leading a group of cars including Manmiller, Von Dohren, Strunk and Brett Kressley of Orefield, Pa.
The leaders soon entered lapped traffic and had a real battle between themselves and the slower cars, putting on a crowd-pleasing duel. By lap 20, Buckwalter was leading Manmiller, Strunk, Von Dohren Kressley, Umbenhauer and Bobby Varin of Sharon Springs, NY.
This battle was slowed by the first caution for Kevin Hirthler of Boyertown, Pa. on lap 21 who stopped with mechanical problems. The lead pack shifted positions several times including Von Dohren sliding back to fourth by the half-way mark.
On lap 38 a caution for a strong running Ryan Krachun of Branchburg, NJ., who had started 19th and was running sixth, began a turnaround for Von Dohren’s run to the front.
Following that restart, he was able to pass Strunk for third, take Manmiller for second on lap 41, then track down Buckwalter, and after a multi-lap dual, slide by in turn two and have the lead to score lap 47
Several late race cautions regrouped the field, including a flat tire for Kressley and a pit stop for Buckwalter, but Von Dohren survived all to race home to the huge $10,060 pay day.
The remaining top ten spots went to Buckwalter who rebounded from a flat front tire, Jordan Henn who was doing double-duty, Nate Brinker of Macungie, Pa., Bobby Gunther-Walsh of Allentown, Pa., and Kressley.
Modified qualifying heats for the 44-car field on hand were won by Kressley, Ryan Beltz of Barto, Pa., Varin and Brian Hirthler of Green Lane, Pa. Consolations were won by Dylan Swinehart of Fleetwood, Pa. and Brad Brightbill of Sinking Spring, Pa.
Action in the Sportsman main was constant throughout the whole field for the entire race. Dakota Kohler and Mark Kemmerer were the early leaders before Jordan Henn quickly moved in to challenge from his fifth starting spot.
Henn put a lot of pressure on Kemmerer in heavy lapped traffic once they caught the tail of the field and the battle for the top spot was on.
Henn was finally able to make his move and slide underneath Kemmerer on lap 12 entering turn one. Once in front. Henn had to cut the path through traffic, and did so very well, never allowing anyone to catch him, racing on to the win.
The remaining laps of the feature was an entertaining battle for the remaining top ten spots down to the checkered, as Manmiller and Leiby had moved in on Kemmerer and put on a lot of pressure to the finish.
The final rundown was Henn, Kemmerer, Manmiller, Leiby and Kohler. The rest of the top ten was completed by teammates Logan Bauman of Boyertown, Pa. and Dylan Swinehart, Brian Hirthler, Ryan Grim of Laury Station, Pa., and Matt Clay of Lebanon, Pa.
Sportsman qualifying heat wins for the 36 cars on hand were won by Kohler, Kemmerer, Bauman, and Manmiller. Consolations went to Matt Yoder of Benton, Pa. and Kyle Smith of Fleetwood, Pa.
Next Saturday, April 9 will be the first point race of the brand-new season, part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series featuring a double header with the T.P. Trailer Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman starting at 6 pm. Pit gates open at 2 pm and grandstand gates open at 4 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18 while children under age 12 are admitted free of charge.
On Sunday, April 10, it will be the second program of the season for the Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage racers with a double program starting at 1 pm.
VP RACING FUELS BRUCE ROGERS MEMORIAL MONEY MAKER BIG BLOCK/SMALL BLOCK MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH (60 laps): CRAIG VON DOHREN, Jeff Strunk, Doug Manmiller, Jared Umbenhauer, Craig Whitmoyer, Tim Buckwalter, Jordan Henn, Nate Brinker, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Brett Kressley, Bobby Varin, Ryan Krachun, Brian Hirthler, Brad Grim, Jimmy Leiby, Kevin Hirthler, Ryan Beltz, John Willman, Ryan Grim, Duane Howard, Brad Brightbill, Kevin Graver Jr., Steve Swinehart, Ray Swinehart DNS: Dylan Swinehart
Did Not Qualify: WB James, Kyle Smith, Clay Butler, Mike Laise, Dan Waisempacher, Brad Arnold, Mike Lisowski, Eric Biehn, Kyle Weiss, Darrin Schuler, Doug Snyder, Jesse Leiby, Brett Gilmore, Steve Young, Ron Jaring Jr., Justin Grim, Corey Merkel, Mark Van Vorst, Joel Smith
American Racer Non-Qualifiers Cash ($250 each): Dylan Swinehart, Kyle Smith, Mark Van Vorst, WB James
- P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): JORDAN HENN, Mark Kemmerer, Cody Manmiller, Jimmy Leiby, Dakota Kohler, Logan Bauman, Dylan Swinehart, Brian Hirthler, Ryan Grim, Matt Clay, Kyle Smith, Mike Schneck, Adrianna Delliponte, Nathan Mohr, Michael Burrows, Kenny Bock, Jesse Landis, Colton Perry, Bryan Rhoads, Tyler James, Ryan Graver, Decker Swinehart, Matt Yoder, Mark Gaugler, Parker Guldin, Jesse Hirthler
Did Not Qualify: Wayne Rotenberger, Nate Horn, Mike Stofflet, Chris Esposito, Kyle Hartzell, Mike Myers, Zach Steffy, Michael Faust, Joey Vaccaro, Michael Cinelli
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Saturday, April 9 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 6 pm.
Sunday, April 10 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro & Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 1 pm.
Saturday, April 16 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman plus 602 Sportsman – 6 pm.
Saturday, April 23 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 6 pm.
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NASCAR Driver Ryan Ellis and Alpha Prime Racing are proud to announce that Limetree will be the primary sponsor of Ellis and the No.45 Chevy Camaro at Texas Motor Speedway for the May 21st NASCAR Xfinity Series race, the Texas 250.
Limetree has sponsored Ellis in different capacities, including last year’s Xfinity Series race at Road America, in the Henry 180. However, this will mark their first race as a full primary sponsor.
“I’m really excited to carry the Limetree colors at their home track. We’ve worked together in the past, but for them to have their own scheme and branding on track just miles away from their headquarters is really cool. I’ve always loved Texas Motor Speedway and how much the area embraces NASCAR. We’ll have a big crowd out of Limetree employees and clients. I hope we can bring the Limetree Chevy home with a solid finish in their home race,” said Ellis, driver of the No.45 Limetree Chevy.
“We’re excited about our partnership with Ryan and Alpha Prime Racing. At Limetree, we’re always looking for that extra gear of performance for our clients, and felt like racing was a perfect fit to support that message. Additionally, as a minority-owned business, we’re thrilled that we’ve been able to support Ryan in his journey and be a small part of enabling an opportunity for him. Our team members loved their interaction with him in the past and have been ecstatic with his recent success,” said Tom Rouse, Founder of Limetree.
The No.45 Limetree Chevy will hit the track for the first time Friday, May 20th, at Texas Motor Speedway. Race coverage of Saturday’s Texas 250 will begin at 1:30 pm ET on FS1. Stay tuned to Ryan’s and Limetree’s social media for more information!
Limetree was founded in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas, and is one of the fastest-growing privately held marketing companies in the US. Fans can find out more at golimetree.com.
Secondary and associate sponsorship is still available on the Limetree Chevy - for more information, please see the below contact info.
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Saturday’s ToyotaCare 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Richmond Raceway will be important for the JD Motorsports team for a number of reasons.
The 250-lap, 187-mile race will be the season’s first on a short track, giving team drivers Bayley Curry and Ryan Vargas a different perspective after weeks of superspeedway and road course racing.
The meaningful nature of the weekend stretches far beyond racing for JD Motorsports and its two-car operation. During Saturday’s race, both team cars will carry the Jersey Mike’s restaurant logo and the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games logo.
The idea for the unusual display on the team’s Chevrolets came after JD Motorsports members ordered food from the local Jersey Mike’s as a way to support the restaurant’s Day of Giving to support athletes attending the2022 Special Olympics USA Games, taking place June 5 – 12 in Orlando, Florida. Davis wanted to add to that effort by putting the spotlight on Jersey Mike’s and Special Olympics during the Richmond race.
Davis’ son, Kyle, was a Special Olympics South Carolina athlete for 1990 and competed in the running events.
“While it wasn’t originally my idea, I saw this as an opportunity to spread awareness to a cause that I hold close to my heart,” Davis said. “Kyle loved being a part of Special Olympics, winning medals and competing in sports. It’s difficult for me to put into words what seeing him have such a great time at the Special Olympics competitions meant to me. It’s one of the great organizations in the world of sports, and I’m so appreciative of Jersey Mike’s being involved in such a big way in the Special Olympics movement.”
The team’s drivers are fully on board with what promises to be a big weekend.
“I’m really excited to be representing both Jersey Mike’s and the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games this weekend at Richmond,” said Ryan Vargas, driver of the No. 6 Chevrolet. “It’s awesome to see the team step up and be able to bring attention to both organizations.”
Bayley Curry, driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet, agreed. “We’re all excited to run Richmond with these logos on the car,” he said. “Personally, I was excited to do my part and contribute to the cause earlier this week. Seeing the logos on the cars just makes it even better. I’m looking forward to a great run and bringing even more awareness to the Games.”
“I am both honored and humbled by Jersey Mike’s Subs commitment to the 2022 Special Olympics Games and Special Olympics athletes,” said Joe Dzaluk, USA Games President & CEO. “Now is the time to continue the momentum that their month of giving campaign has created and sign-up to volunteer and be part of the biggest USA Games in history.”
Catch the Jersey Mike’s/2022 U.S. Special Olympics Games Chevrolets this weekend at Richmond Raceway starting Saturday (April 2nd) at 8:30 AM EST on Fox Sports 1 for practice and qualifying, with the ToyotaCare 250 race starting at 1:30 PM EST.
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News and Notes:
- Practice; Snider and the No. 31 TaxSlayer Chevrolet will first hit the Richmond Raceway at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning for a brief 20-minute practice session. Coverage of practice will air LIVE on FS1 apart of 1.5 hours of LIVE on track coverage Saturday morning.
– Starting Position; Directly after practice at 9:00 AM ET, Snider and the Jordan Anderson Racing and Bommarito Autosport team will move into qualifying for the Toyota Care 250. A single-car two lap qualifying session will be used to determine the starting order for Saturday afternoons Toyota Care 250. Snider will roll off 33rd for his two qualifying laps based on the performance-based matrix factoring owner points, driver points, race finish, and fastest lap of the previous week. With 42 cars entered, four cars will miss the race. Coverage of qualifying will air LIVE on FS1.
– Richmond Raceway Stats; Saturday’s NXS Toyota Care 250 will mark Snider’s seventh race with Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport (JAR), and his fourth NXS start at Richmond Raceway. In 2020, Snider competed twice at Richmond Raceway driving the No. 93 car earning a 35th place finish after being involved in a crash, and a 31st place finish the next day after having to go to a backup car. During the 2021 season driving the No. 2 car Snider would earn a 25th place finish at Richmond. In his three starts, Snider holds an average finish of 30.3 at Richmond Raceway.
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– Chassis; Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport will bring Chassis No. 105 to Richmond Raceway for Snider to compete with in Saturday’s Toyota Care 250. Chassis No. 105 last competed for JAR in the Nelly Cars 250 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway just two weeks ago. In that race Snider would run in the Top-10 the last half of the race with an opportunity to win in the closing stages before getting spun out of the contention by the No. 98 car ultimately resulting in a 30th place finish. Prior to Atlanta Chassis No. 105 competed for JAR at Phoenix Raceway in November with Sage Karam behind the wheel for the NXS Championship Race. In his first race at the track Karam would come home with a 25th place finish. A month prior, Chassis No. 105 competed for JAR in the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway where JAR Owner/Driver Jordan Anderson would have a clean day coming home with a Top-20 finish. Chassis No. 105 would also see action in the Go Bowling 250 at Richmond Raceway with Josh Berry wheeling the No. 31 Chevrolet Camaro SS to a 24th place finish. Berry would also steer No. 105 prior in the year to a Top-Ten finish at Pocono Raceway in his second start with JAR. In No. 105’s debut for JAR at Texas Motor Speedway in June team owner Jordan Anderson would experience clutch issues at the start and would come home with 34th place finish.
Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport NASCAR Xfinity Series Race Overview- Richmond Raceway
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Kaulig Racing: Following another victory for AJ Allmendinger and Kaulig Racing last weekend at COTA the team now turns their attention to the short track in Richmond. Allmendinger and team have stacked up top-10 finishes in every race so far this season on top of their win last weekend. Allmendinger for his part sits one point out of the lead with 257 points to Noah Gragson 258 points.
Ty Gibbs: Gibbs with two victories already this season currently sits in third in points behind in Gibbs first attempt at Richmond last season he would start 15th and finish seventh after leading 67 laps that day.
Dash 4 Cash: Richmond will be the site of the first event in the 2022 campaign following last weekend qualifier setting up AJ Allmendinger, Austin Hill, Noah Gragson and Sam Mayer given the chance for $100,000 pay day for whomever finishes the highest this weekend. Gragson is the only one with a win at Richmond, meanwhile AJ Allmendinger holds a 16th place average finish at the track.
The top four this weekend will setup the next stop in the Dash 4 Cash next weekend at Martinsville.
ROTY: Two Richard Childress Racing drivers are set to continue battling each other this weekend at Richmond with Austin Hill holding 20-plus point lead at 172 points over Sheldon Creed’s 149 points in what will be a battle till the end of the season. Both Kyle Sieg and Jessee Iwuji are well out of it at this point by more than 150 points.
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It was a quick and smooth stage one with John Hunter Nemechek striking first to take over the lead from Ty Gibbs who had started on the pole to run away with the stage and take home the stage one.
However, AJ Allmendinger who started in the 9th spot was able to put himself in position to move up into the second spot by the time the stage flag fell and the first of the Dash 4 Cash cars.
Gibbs, who started on the pole, would wind up battling short track ace Josh Berry for much of the closing laps of the stage for the fourth position. When it was all over Berry would finally make his way around Gibbs allowing him to finish in the fourth spot.
Parker Retzlaff in his second start of the series started in the 10th position was able to battle with both JGR and RCR cars working himself up into the seventh spot by the time the stage would come to an end. Gragson, who started up front and ran well within the top-five for most of the stage, ended up fading with a brake issue; the team would spend time on pit road under repairs to fix the issue.
As stage two got underway it was quickly slowed by debris from the brakes of Gragson coming apart and laying parts and fluid all over the track. Gragson spent much of the stage caution on pit road with the team trying to fix the issues in the car.
Stage two would come to a conclusion with Ty Gibbs who made the pass for the lead just a handful of laps prior taking home the stage win over Nemechek who won stage one. Allmendinger would finish the stage in 5th and the highest finishing of the Dash 4 Cash drivers.
Gragson who had issues with brakes would go a lap down prior to the caution but would get the free pass keeping him on the lead lap but well back in the field in 22nd.
With laps beginning to wind down to just about 30 to go and Gibbs in control teammate Nemechek began a back-and-forth challenge with Gibbs for the lead taking it away momentarily until Gibbs gathered it back up to reclaim the lead. Nemechek would continue to hound Gibbs bumper for the lead and with just three laps remaining would run down Gibbs for the lead.
As the white flag flew both Nemechek and Gibbs battled side by side for the lead till Gibbs coming to the line got Nemechek out of the groove and cleared away for his third Xfinity Series win of the season. Gibbs would lead 114 laps today over Nemechek 135, Mayer was the only other driver to lead with just one lap.
" We are racing for a win, and I’ve got to do whatever I can. We raced really good there. I felt like we put on a good show, so that is really important. I want to say thank you to the Man above for blessing me so much. " Said Gibbs
AJ Allmendinger would struggle in the final goings of the event with tires falling off this allowing the young Sam Mayer driving for JR Motorsports to get past with 15 to go and hang on to take home a $100,000 pay day. Ty Gibbs, Mayer, AJ Allmendinger and Herbst would qualify for the second round of the Dash 4 Cash in Martinsville.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series returns at Martinsville Speedway next Friday, April 8th at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
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FORD FINISHING RESULTS
5th – Riley Herbst
9th – Ryan Sieg
10th – Parker Retzlaff
16th – Ryan Preece
29th- Joe Graf Jr.
32nd – JJ Yeley
34th – Joey Gase
37th – Kyle Sieg
RILEY HERBST, No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang -- “That was good from qualifying dead last to finish fifth. It’s just frustrating. I feel like we need to fire off better on runs and then start up front and we can win races. I feel like we’ve just been coming from behind the whole year. It’s frustrating, but, all in all, fifth is better than a DNF.”
DO YOU FEEL YOUR RACE STRATEGY IS GOOD, YOU JUST NEED TO FOCUS ON PRACTICE AND QUALIFYING? “I think so. It’s just a fight to get our balance and then once we do get our balance we’re fast. I think qualifying if huge and we’ve got to get it.”
WAS STAGE 3 THE BEST THE CAR HAD BEEN ALL DAY? YOU RAN FROM 12TH TO 5TH IN THAT STAGE. “We didn’t have any setup changes all day through the stages. It’s just track position. We saved a little bit better than other people, but it’s just frustrating.”
RYAN SIEG, No. 39 A-Game Ford Mustang – “The right-front tire is corded. We struggled all day with that with the 75-lap runs and then we had a 100-lap run, so it just fell apart at the end. All in all, it was a good day. We knew it was like that, but we tried to manage with air-pressure. We made it better in the middle run and then this last run we tried to adjust and we got it turning too good, but we knew that we had to get camber out of that right-front for the air-pressure, but, all in all it was a good day for our A-Game Ford. We were so good the first two stages that I wanted to finish it off, but that long run fell apart on us.”
DO YOU FEEL THIS TEAM IS COMING TOGETHER? “Yeah, definitely. We’re getting better and better each week. We’re gaining on it. Each week we’re closer to the top five, which is a big gain for us. We just have to keep at it and luckily we go to another short track, so hopefully this will carryover and we’ll pick up where we left off at the beginning of this race.”
PARKER RETZLAFF, No. 38 Ponsse Ford Mustang – HOW ARE YOU MAKING THIS LOOK SO EASY IN JUST YOUR SECOND START? “I passed a lot of cars and then we got a penalty on pit road, so I had to go back to last. I just followed Noah and Josh up through the field and it ended up just working out for me. It was just such a good car from everyone at RSS. I don’t know. I’m speechless.”
HOW DID REALITY COMPARE TO VIRTUAL AND THE IRACING WORLD? “It’s really a lot cooler just being on TV and everything and me being able to compete this good. Hopefully, we can take this momentum to next week.”
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“I really thought we were going to have a strong No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet today at Richmond Raceway. We started the race 13th and fired off decent at the beginning of the run. Unfortunately, it didn’t stay that way. We struggled for most of the day with handling issues and a lack of drive, but this Richard Childress Racing team never gave up. I’m so proud of them for all of their hard work. We’ve got some work to do in the shop and I will go back and study my notes for this track. We’ve got a lot of fight left in this team. On to Martinsville.”
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Austin Hill and the No. 21 Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet Team Battle Hard at Richmond Raceway
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“I thought we were pretty decent at the start of the race. Our Bennett Transportation and Logistics Chevrolet was free on entry and a little tight in the center. The main thing I needed at the beginning of Stage 1 was forward drive. It fired off better on that next run, but toward the end of Stage 2 I thought something happened to the left front. We were keeping up with the No. 7 car and then we suddenly got really tight. It was like a light switch. We pitted for tires and adjustments and got back inside the top 10 but with about 40 laps to go the same thing happened with the left front. It’s frustrating but we’ll bounce back next week at Martinsville Speedway.”
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Race Winner: Ty Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 1 Winner: John Hunter Nemechek of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 2 Winner: Ty Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Overview:
Riley Herbst wheeled his No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang to a strong fifth-place finish in the Richmond 250 Saturday at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. The 23-year-old from Las Vegas started 24th in the 250-lap race around the .75-mile oval, but he didn’t stay there long. Herbst was 13th at the end of the first stage and thanks to quick pit work by his Stewart-Haas Racing crew, Herbst was among the top-10 for the start of the second stage, ultimately finishing ninth to pick up two valuable bonus points. The third and final stage consisted of 100 laps and Herbst was methodical on every tour of the track as the race stayed green through to the finish, with Herbst rising to fifth when the checkered flag waved to earn his third top-five of the season.
Riley Herbst, driver of the No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
“That was good from qualifying so far back to finishing fifth. It’s just frustrating. I feel like we need to fire off better on runs and then start up front and we can win some races. We’ve just been coming from behind the whole year and it’s frustrating. All in all though, fifth is better than a DNF (Did Not Finish).”
Notes:
● Ty Gibbs won the Richmond 250 to score his seventh career Xfinity Series victory, his third of the season and his first at Richmond. His margin over second-place John Hunter Nemechek was .116 of a second.
● There were three caution periods for a total of 24 laps.
● Nineteen of the 38 drivers in the Richmond 250 finished on the lead lap.
● AJ Allmendinger leaves Richmond as the championship leader with a 20-point advantage over second-place Ty Gibbs.
Next Up:
The next event on the Xfinity Series schedule is the Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call 811.com on Friday, April 8 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The race starts at 7:30 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by FS1 and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Core Scientific, Inc. f/k/a Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. ("Core Scientific" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CORZ; CORZW; XPDI; XPDIU; XPDIW). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Core Scientific and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
Core Scientific began as a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC"), also called a blank-check company, which is a development stage company that has no specific business plan or purpose, or has indicated its business plan is to engage in a merger or acquisition with an unidentified company or companies, other entity, or person. On January 20, 2022, Core Scientific completed a business combination with a target company and began offering blockchain and artificial intelligence infrastructure services. Then, on March 3, 2022, Culper Research ("Culper") issued a short report alleging that Core Scientific "has wildly oversold both its mining and hosting businesses, which it cobbled together in a series of questionable transactions before dumping onto the market via SPAC." The Culper report also stated that, "[o]n Monday, Core [Scientific] disclosed that its board waived the 180-day lockup on over 282 million shares, making them free to be dumped just 5 trading days from today[,]" which "shows insiders have abandoned any pretense of care for minority shareholders."
On this news, Core Scientific's stock price fell $0.72 per share, or 9.35%, to close at $6.98 per share on March 3, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Graphite Bio, Inc. ("Graphite" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GRPH). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Graphite and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around June 25, 2021, Graphite conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), issuing 14 million shares of common stock priced at $17.00 per share. Then, on March 21, 2022, Graphite issued a press release providing business updates and announcing is fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results. Among other items, Graphite disclosed that the early proof-of-concept data from the Phase 1/2 CEDAR clinical trial for GPH101 in sickle cell disease are now expected in 2023, attributing the delay "to impacts of the recent COVID-19 Omicron variant surge on patients and site resources and operations[.]"
On this news, Graphite's stock price fell $1.23 per share, or 15.15%, to close at $6.89 per share on March 21, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Natera, Inc. ("Natera" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NTRA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Natera and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 9, 2022, Hindenburg Research published a short report addressing Natera, entitled "Natera: Pioneers In Deceptive Medical Billing." Among other allegations, Natera stated that "[b]ased on more than 2 dozen interviews with former Natera employees, patients and industry experts, a review of hundreds of online complaints, FOIA requests to state Medicaid offices and state Attorneys General, and the company's financial filings, we show how Natera's revenue growth has been fueled by deceptive sales and billing practices aimed at doctors, insurance companies and expectant mothers."
Following publication of the Hindenburg Research report, Natera's stock price fell $17.95 per share, or 32.79%, to close at $36.80 per share on March 9, 2022.
Then, on March 15, 2022, CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx") announced that it had won a $44.9 million false advertising lawsuit against Natera after a federal jury found that Natera and its senior executives falsely advertised its Prospera kidney transplant rejection assessment test and made false comparisons to CareDx's competing product, AlloSure.
On this news, Natera's stock price fell $5.57 per share, or 15.52%, to close at $30.32 per share on March 15, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Killing Eve season 4, episode 5 ends with Villanelle on the verge of death. While Eve watches in horror, Villanelle gets shot on the street by a hidden archer, felled by an arrow that flies into her back. The episode closes with Eve desperately rocking an unconscious Villanelle in her arms, eyes darting around for the mysterious assassin.
But…was it really an assassination? Had the show, in its dramatic final season, really killed off its psychopathic darling once and for all? Or was it just a juicy cliffhanger, designed for a moment of heart-stopping drama? (Reminds us of another show that recently pulled off that trick.)
Sunday night’s episode quickly revealed the truth, which is that Villanelle is…alive and surprisingly well-ish. She’s saved after Eve drags her to a safe room with Konstantin and his new assassin-in-training, Pam. The apprentice tends to Villanelle, deftly taking out the arrow, cleaning the wound, and stitching her up. One long nap later and Villanelle is practically as good as new, healing up TV-fast. After a heady tete-a-tete with Eve, she gets up and strides out the door, resolving the cliffhanger of her injury in just under 10 minutes.
So, for now, Villanelle is safe. As is Eve, though the title of the show has long made one wonder if her fate is already sealed. (Though Killing Eve has veered from the path of the original Villanelle book series, making it unclear how things will end for the eponymous character.)
The rest of the episode splits its time between Carolyn, still searching for the name of the person who ordered her son’s killing; Pam, as she attempts her first assassination; and Villanelle as she gobbles up painkillers and hunts down for Hélène. As it turns out, the latter arc brings us to the actual Big Death of the episode. Once Villanelle finds Hélène, she crouches under her bed with a large dagger in her hands and an evil little smile on her face, thrilled at the prospect of slicing her ankles.
Her plan is thwarted when Eve surprisingly barges into the room, demanding to know where Carolyn is. Hélène brings up their saucy, complicated past, and it’s not long before a jealous Villanelle reacts, slicing her ankles and blowing her cover to Eve. The two tussle for a bit, but Villanelle clearly has the upper hand, pinning Hélène to the floor. All the French assassin can do is grab Villanelle by the shoulders and beg for a cool death. “Make it glorious,” she urges, a deranged smile on her face. Villanelle proceeds by slitting her throat and leaving Eve to deal with the aftermath. She lives (and kills!) another day—for now.
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Billie Eilish paid tribute to the Foo Fighters' late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, during her performance at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
While singing her Grammy-nominated song “Happier Than Ever” during the award ceremony held in Las Vegas on Sunday night, the pop star wore an oversize black t-shirt featuring a photo of Hawkins's face. At the Oscars last week, Eilish told Access Hollywood that when she heard the news of the drummer's passing, “It was incredibly heartbreaking. It was right before we went on stage. And we got the news and it really, really tore us all apart. It’s horribly, horribly tragic.” Her brother Finneas added, “Taylor was such a legendary player. We were admirers of his work years before we got to meet him. And we only met him a handful of times…I wish we got to spend more time with him, but he couldn’t have been a kinder, cooler, more generous person as well. And such a deeply inspiring person. We’re just heartbroken.”
The Foo Fighters were set to perform at the Grammys prior to Hawkins's sudden, unexpected passing. However, on Tuesday, the band announced that they would be canceling the rest of their upcoming concert dates due to the loss. “We’re sorry for and share in the disappointment that we won’t be seeing one another as planned,” the band said in a statement. “Instead, let’s take this time to grieve, to heal, to pull our loved ones close, and to appreciate all the music and memories we’ve made together.”
Despite the Foo Fighters cancellation, CBS executive vice president of specials, music, and live events Jack Sussman confirmed ahead of the award ceremony that the Grammys was planning a special tribute to Hawkins's life and work. Sussman said in a statement to Variety, “We will honor his memory in some way. We want to figure out what is the right thing to do that is respectful to everyone involved. We’re patient. We’ll be planning right up until the very end.”
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Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa were both anointed with the best new artist Grammy after their breakthrough years, so it only made sense that they would be on hand to give this year’s award to pop’s most recent success story, Olivia Rodrigo, at the 2022 Grammys. They did have one surprise in the bag for the ceremony. The pair came out in matching black floor-length gowns, and engaged in a bit of banter.
“You stole my look!” said Megan as she looked Lipa up and down.
“I was told I had the exclusive,” Lipa joked. “I’m going to have to have a talk with Donatella.”
“Yeah, because I thought I was the Versace hottie,” Megan replied, referencing a line from her song “Outside.”
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Then Donatella Versace joined the pair on stage. “Basta, basta, basta,” she said. “Let’s do this, and this.” She then unclipped a part of Lipa’s dress to reveal a jumpsuit underneath. She then turned to Megan and unveiled a shorter body-con skirt under the original dress.
The fashionable moment was, of course, reminiscent of the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards where Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston showed up in the same dress and joked a bit about how they both thought theirs was one of a kind. Carey finished the exchange by ripping a layer of her skirt off, revealing a shorter hemline. It was an apt choice, as Carey herself won best new artist in 1994. (Houston, however, was actually never nominated for the award because her appearance on a Teddy Pendergrass single that had received a Grammy nod a year before she released her debut album.)
Lipa is a brand ambassador for Versace and has appeared in a number of the house’s ad campaigns. On the red carpet earlier on Sunday, Lipa wore a vintage 1992 look by the brand that was once worn by Donatella herself.
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Halsey went right from the operating room to the Grammys 2022 red carpet, and not for the first time in her career.
The pop star, who uses she/they pronouns, walked the red carpet at the Grammys in Las Vegas on Sunday just four days post-surgery. Halsey posted a selfie of themselves in a hair cap, surgical mask, and hospital gown on their Instagram on Saturday alongside a photo of a basket of lemons, two white camellia flowers, a t-shirt, and their infant son Ender. “The last time I attended the Grammys was 2017 and it was 3 days after I had my first Endometriosis surgery. I walked the carpet with my stitches still in,” they wrote in the caption. “As luck would have it, I’m attending tomorrow for the first time in years and I had surgery again (you guessed it) 3 days ago. Only posting this to say, if you see me be gentle lol I’m fragile. Fragile but excited :)” Halsey's latest album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, is nominated for best alternative music album at this year’s Grammy Awards.
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The singer has been open about their struggles with endometriosis in the past and how it's affected their life, saying that the diagnosis sometimes makes them feel like a "prisoner" in their own body. The last time they got surgery just ahead of the Grammys, Halsey also shared the experience with their fans, writing on Instagram, “Today I braved multiple terrifying surgeries. The most important of which being the surgery that would hopefully treat my endometriosis.” They went on to admit that while they were in “total agony” following the procedure, “in my recovery I am thinking of all of you and how you give me the strength and stamina to power through and prosper. If you suffer from chronic pain or a debilitating disease please know that I have found time to live a crazy, wild, rewarding life AND balance my treatment and I hope so much in my hear that you can too.” Halsey gave birth to their first child with boyfriend Alev Aydin in July 2021.
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Grammys 2022 Red Carpet: All the Fashion, Outfits & Looks
It’s been a long time coming and has involved some controversy, but music’s biggest night is finally here.
While the Grammys 2022 were originally scheduled for January 31, a surge in COVID-19 cases related to the omicron variant forced the 64th Grammy Awards to be postponed until now—and from the looks of the red carpet, it was well worth the wait.
On Sunday, stars descended on the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in their finest ’fits to take part in a night that’ll feature performances from more than 20 acts who are topping the charts, ruling the airwaves, and popping up on our favorite playlists. From barely there ensembles —complete with opportunities to showcase colorful tattoos, diamond-encrusted statement jewelry, and jaw-droppingly toned physiques—to over-the-top glamour only rock stars can get away with, the nominees, their fellow musicians, and their guests brought all kinds of style to the Grammys 2022. Whether they dressed in designer duds or went DIY, everyone who graced the red carpet was truly dressed to impressed.
All eyes will be on a collection of newcomers to see what they bring to the red carpet, how they fare on the Grammys 2022 stage, what awards they take home, and who they thank in their acceptance speeches. It may be Olivia Rodrigo’s first time at the Grammys, but the 19-year-old singer-songwriter is nominated for an impressive seven awards for her debut, Sour. The self-proclaimed “spicy Pisces” will compete with fellow pop powerhouses for record of the year (“drivers license”), album of the year (Sour), song of the year (“drivers license”), best new artist, best pop solo performance (“drivers license”), best pop vocal album (Sour), and best music video (“good 4 u”).
Fresh off her Oscar win for “No Time to Die,” the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name, Billie Eilish also earned seven nods. It may just be her lucky number because the pop star previously won seven Grammys, including one for her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? She’s up for record of the year (“Happier Than Ever”), album of the year (Happier Than Ever), song of the year (“Happier Than Ever”), best pop solo performance (“Happier Than Ever”), best pop vocal album (Happier Than Ever), best music video (“Happier Than Ever”), and best music film (Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles). The singer-songwriter, who performed the award-winning James Bond track at the 2022 Oscars, is slated to perform at the Grammys as well.
But before Sin City is filled with the sounds of musical acts including Rodrigo, Eilish, Cynthia Erivo, H.E.R., J Balvin, John Legend, Lil Nas X, Silk Sonic, and more, take a look at all the must see outfits from the Grammys 2022 red carpet. And see who made our Grammys best-dressed list here.
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See All the Fuchsia Looks on the 2022 Grammys Red Carpet
The 2022 Grammys are finally here — and with it comes the highly anticipated red carpet fashion from music's biggest night.
Amid a mix of black and embellished ensembles on the carpet at the 64th Grammy Awards, several stars made a splash in bright pink. Shades of pink have taken over the carpets this award season. From soft blush tones at the 94th annual Academy Awards to bold fuchsia, a popular color throughout Fashion Month and on the Grammys carpet.
Billy Porter and first-time Grammy nominee Saweetie rocked the color of the moment, both in statement-making, off-the-runway looks by Valentino. The “Best Friend” rapper looked chic and sexy in her two-piece, crop top and skirt set accessorized with a diamond choker while Porter looked whimsical in a sheer ruffled blouse (equipped with a flowing train) tucked into matching pants. Both accessorized their looks with another popular trend of the moment: opera gloves.
Chrissy Teigen arrived at the Grammys alongside husband John Legend, wearing a flowing Nicole + Felicia Couture ballgown. Teigen styled the grand strapless number with a slicked-back ponytail and dangling diamond earrings.
And while stars like Porter went for full, head-to-toe pink looks, Justin Bieber and Travis Barker decided to style their ensembles with pops of pink. Bieber walked the Grammys red carpet with wife Hailey Bieber, sporting an oversized grey Balenciaga suit accessorized with a fuchsia beanie. Barker later arrived on the red carpet with fiancée Kourtney Kardashian, and while the couple looked fierce in black (similar to their Oscars looks), the drummer donned a fuchsia Givenchy jacket, draped over his shoulders.
Ahead, a look at all the fuchsia moments from the Grammys red carpet.
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The 19 Best-Dressed Stars at the 2022 Grammys
While many musical artists spend hours, days, months, and sometimes even years perfecting the unique, signature sound that’ll set them apart, putting together a memorable look for the Grammys 2022 can also take a whole lot of work.
Thanks to the efforts of tireless stylists and glam squads galore, the Grammys 2022 red carpet showcased stylish looks on musicians from across a lengthy list of genres—including pop, dance/electronic, contemporary instrumental, rock, alternative, R&B, rap, country, new age, jazz, gospel/contemporary Christian, Latin, American roots, reggae, global music, and classical—each with their own individual take on what it means to be fashionable.
Despite many stars dripping in glittering gems and jewels, the night’s most coveted accessory may actually be a golden gramophone. But long before envelopes were opened, names were called, and awards were handed out, stars dazzled in everything from off-the-rack finds to custom creations made by their favorite high-end designers.
From the look of things, the Las Vegas location of the 64th annual Grammy Awards may have served as inspiration for many of tonight’s more over-the-top ensembles. Thanks to a seemingly endless supply of extravagant looks, all of the red-carpet fashion from the 2022 Grammys is sure to make headlines. However, only a select few standouts pushed the boundaries far enough—or not at all—to deserve a spotlight of their own on our best-dressed list.
Ahead, our picks for the best-dressed stars at the 2022 Grammys. Interested in more from the red carpet? See all of the fashion, outfits, and unbelievable looks here.
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Command Sgt. Maj. Benjamin Lemon, USAG Humphreys, senior enlisted advisor talks military inclusion and policy which protect the Soldiers during an open forum located in the Humphreys Family Theater March 22, 2022.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (April 2, 2022) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Tasad Townsend, from Marion, S.C., assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) directs a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to the “Island Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 to ascend during flight quarters, April 2. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 7th Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
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PACIFIC OCEAN (March 31, 2022) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Jonathan Patito, from Los Angeles, assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) directs a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to the “Island Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 to ascend during flight quarters, March 31. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 7th Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Curtis D. Spencer)
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MONROE, Conn. (WTNH) – A wanted woman trying to evade police hit seven police cruisers and eventually crashed into a pole in Connecticut.
Hannah Casperson, 25, of Brookfield has been wanted by the Wolcott Police Department for allegedly assisting her boyfriend in the vandalization of 41 vehicles. While her boyfriend, Thomas Crawford, was caught by police, Casperson fled in a white Hummer. Police had been on the lookout ever since.
Sunday morning around 8:43 a.m., police received a tip about Casperson’s location. Waterbury police arrived at the location and found Casperson’s car with her inside. They attempted to make contact with her as she sat in the driver’s seat, but she decided to evade, they said.
Casperson reportedly accelerated her car, smashing a police cruiser and hitting another before driving onto the interstate.
Multiple police officers chased after her in their vehicles.
Casperson eventually lost control of her car during the chase and hit a telephone pole.
Taking into account the locations provided by police, she drove between 22 to 28 miles before crashing into the pole.
The Monroe Police Chief said seven police cruisers were hit during the chase. Seven officers from the Waterbury Police Department were transported to the hospital for treatment, where they were all listed in stable condition.
Casperson was transported to Bridgeport Hospital to be treated for her injuries, which were not life-threatening.
Casperson has multiple outstanding warrants and additional charges pending.
This is not Casperson’s first run-in with the law. She previously pleaded guilty to criminal mischief in Southbury and failed to appear in court. According to the Connecticut court system, Casperson is in the middle of serving 18 months of probation due to her first crime.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Sunday he was still working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, despite that leader’s seeming justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and said he wouldn’t rule out travelling to the region if it would help.
Speaking to reporters en route home from Malta, Francis said he and Patriarch Kirill were thinking of a possible location in the Middle East. But he provided no details other than to recall that they spoke by video on March 16.
Kirill has called for peace and for civilians to be spared but has seemingly justified Russia’s invasion by casting it as a “metaphysical” battle with the West and its “gay parades.” His insistence that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” is echoed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Francis was asked what he would say to Putin if they were to speak by phone, and recalled what he had told Maltese leaders upon his arrival on Saturday. In the speech, Francis blasted the “potentate” for his “infantile and destructive aggression” that he had justified under the guise of “anachronistic claims of nationalist interests.” Still, he did not name Putin in the speech.
Francis stressed that he had no immediate plans for a visit to Kyiv but that a proposal was “on the table.”
“I said the availability is always there. There is not a ‘No,’” he said. But he stressed that any such trip would have to be evaluated to see if it would help or not, or could even be done. And he said if it was determined that it could help, “I must do it.”
He paid tribute to the reporters who have died covering the conflict, saying they were providing a courageous service for the common good.
“I want to offer condolences for your colleagues who have fallen, no matter what side, I don’t care,” he said. “Your work is a work for the common good. They died in service of the common good: information. We wont forget them. They were courageous. I pray for them, and may the Lord reward their work.”
Francis was also asked about his health, given his clear struggles walking during the two-day trip to Malta. He used an elevator to board and descend from the plane, and at times he needed assistance getting up from his chair.
“My health is a bit capricious,” he said. “I have this problem with my knee which makes problems of mobility and walking. It’s a bit painful. But it’s getting better. At least I can move.”
He revealed that a few weeks ago, he couldn’t walk — an apparent reference to the rest ordered up by his doctors that forced the cancellation of a trip to Florence and Francis’ participation in an Ash Wednesday procession.
“We’ll see if I go back (to that),” he said. “There’s some doubt because at this age, you don’t know how it’ll end up. We’ll hope it turns out OK.”
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LONDON (AP) — The war in Ukraine is the conflict where spies came in from the cold and took center stage.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor in late February, intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain have been remarkably willing to go public with their secret intelligence assessments of what is happening on the battlefield — and inside the Kremlin.
The U.S. this week declassified intelligence findings claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine by advisers scared to tell him the truth. On Thursday a British spy chief said demoralized Russian troops were refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their own equipment.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads Britain’s electronic intelligence agency GCHQ, made the comments in a public speech where he said the “pace and scale” at which secret intelligence is being released “really is unprecedented.”
Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at University College London, agreed that the very public intelligence campaign “reflects the fact that we now live in a different age, politically and internationally. And this is a different kind of war.”
Officials say the stream of declassified intelligence — which includes regular briefings to journalists in Washington and London and daily Twitter updates from Britain’s defense ministry — has several aims. Partly it’s to let Putin know he is being watched, and to make him question what he’s being told. It’s also designed to embolden the Russian military to tell Putin the truth, and to convey to the Russian public that they have been lied to about the war.
The U.S. and Britain also have released intelligence assessments in a bid to deter Russian actions. That was the case with recent warnings Russia might be preparing to use chemical weapons in Ukraine.
It’s all part of a closely coordinated trans-Atlantic strategy that has been in the works for months.
Biden administration officials say they decided to aggressively share intelligence and coordinate messaging with key allies, including Britain, as U.S. concerns about Russian troop movements in autumn 2021 put the intelligence community on high alert.
In early November, President Joe Biden dispatched CIA director William Burns to Moscow to warn that the U.S. was fully aware of Russian troop movements. The White House has typically been tight-lipped about the director’s travels, but the Biden administration calculated that in this situation they needed to advertise the visit far and wide. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced that Burns had met with top Kremlin officials shortly after his trip was over.
Soon after Burns’ Moscow mission, U.S. officials decided they needed to accelerate intelligence sharing.
Officials shared sensitive intelligence with other members of the Five Eyes alliance — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — and also with Ukraine. Director of national intelligence Avril Haines was dispatched to Brussels to brief NATO members on intelligence underlying growing American concerns that Russia seemed intent on invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.
Some allies and analysts were skeptical, with memories lingering of past intelligence failings, like the false claim Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Late last year, France and Germany led a group of European countries that appeared to be seeing similar military intelligence as the U.S. and Britain, but were less convinced that an invasion of Ukraine was imminent. At NATO, Germany initially blocked the use of a system for helping Ukraine to acquire certain military equipment. France and Germany also blocked NATO from launching an early crisis planning system in response to the buildup, before relenting in December.
This week, French media reported that the head of France’s military intelligence agency, which failed to anticipate the Russian invasion, has been removed from his post.
Eric Vidaud’s departure comes amid soul-searching among France’s leadership about why it was taken by surprise by the war — which was particularly embarrassing for President Emmanuel Macron, who speaks regularly with Putin. Some see Vidaud as a scapegoat, and note that his removal comes just ahead of this month’s French presidential election.
In January, as Russia amassed troops near Ukraine’s border, Britain’s Foreign Office issued a statement alleging that Putin wanted to install a pro-Moscow regime in Ukraine. The U.K. said it was making the intelligence assessment public because of the “exceptional circumstances.”
Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 largely silenced the doubters, and drew a unified response from NATO. The release of U.S. and British intelligence is partly designed to shore up that Western unity, officials and analysts say. Both Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson doubt Putin is serious about negotiating an end to the war and want to keep up the West’s military and moral support of Ukraine.
The impact inside Russia is hard to measure. The U.S. official who spoke to the AP said the White House hopes divulging intelligence that Putin is misinformed could help prod the Russian leader to reconsider his options in Ukraine. But the publicity could also risk further isolating Putin or make him double down on his aim of restoring Russian prestige lost since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The official said Biden is in part shaped by a belief that “Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do,” regardless of international efforts to deter him.
Galeotti said Western intelligence agencies likely don’t know how much impact their efforts will have on Putin.
“But there’s no harm in giving it a try,” he said. “Because when it comes down to it, in this kind of intensely personalistic system (of government), if one line, or one particular notion, happens to get through and lodge itself in Putin’s brain, then that’s a really powerful result.”
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Madhani reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Ben Fox and Nomaan Merchant in Washington, Lorne Cook in Brussels and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this story.
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BERLIN (AP) — Negotiations between scientists and governments over a key United Nations climate report were going down to the wire Sunday, as officials from major emerging economies insisted that it should recognize their right to development.
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-backed science body, is meant to show the paths by which the world can stay within the temperature limits agreed in the 2015 Paris accord.
The agreement aims to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) this century. But with temperatures already more than 1.1C higher than the pre-industrial baseline, many experts say that’s only possible with drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.
The closed-doors meeting was meant to wrap up Friday so that the report could be presented to the public on Monday.
But several observers, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the proceedings, told The Associated Press that the talks were still far from finished with less than 24 hours to go before the publication deadline.
One senior climate scientist said about 70% of the text had so far been agreed and there was still hope the negotiations might finish Sunday.
India has emerged as a key voice pushing for recognition in the report that developing countries have contributed a far smaller share of the carbon dioxide emissions already in the atmosphere than industrialized nations and should therefore not need to make the same steep cuts. India, which remains heavily dependent on coal, also wants poor countries to receive significantly more financial support to cope with climate change and make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Others, such as oil exporter Saudi Arabia, argue that fossil fuels will still be needed for decades to come and phasing them out too quickly could hurt the world’s poorest.
The text being negotiated is a summary for policymakers that will serve as the basis for government talks at international climate meetings such as the upcoming U.N. summit in Egypt this fall. The underlying science report outlining the world’s progress in cutting emissions is not subject to negotiation, but it cannot be published until the summary is agreed.
A previous instalment last year warned that there is no doubt the rapid climate change seen in recent decades is caused by humans and some effects of global warming are already inevitable. Last month, the science panel outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
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Job ads dropped back on the February strength.
ANZ comments on today's release:
- ANZ Job Ads, ABS job vacancies, job change expectations and other indicators all point to further solid employment gains and upward pressure on wages growth.
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Earlier, CPI indications from Australia, the y/y trimmed mean (that core data is in the body of post) was solid but base effects took it lower from the February reading.
Australia, monthly inflation gauge (March): Headline inflation : +0.8% m/m to 4.0% y/y
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LOS ANGELES – The NBA is 75 years old, but it can still deliver surprises.
Take New Orleans Pelicans coach Willie Green’s unusual request before tipoff against the Clippers on Sunday that the NBA refrain from featuring one of his players in its highlight packages.
And then there’s the reason for that wish: Jose Alvarado.
“Grand Theft Alvarado,” as the Pelicans’ rookie guard is affectionately known, is playing a innovative version of hide-and-seek that keeps successfully resulting in steals and turnovers.
A steal is part of the game, but the way Alvarado does it, his are more like well-planned heists.
Alvarado – a 23-year-old undrafted New Yorker – has been hiding his 6-foot frame in different corners of the court, ducking down and sometimes blending in with the players on his own bench, on opponents’ inbound plays.
And then, when the other team’s guard is dribbling up court, unaware that Alvarado is quietly, hurriedly approaching from behind.
He’s done it to Chicago’s Alex Caruso, Atlanta’s Trae Young, to Portland’s Kris Dunn.
And Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said hoped none of his players would be Alvarado’s next victim, and so he planned to remind his players a few times to watch out for the Pelicans’ resident thief – who averages 1.3 steals per game, and 3.0 per 36 minutes.
“We’re aware of that … we’re going to show it on film before the game as well,” Lue said. “He’ll probably still get one but we’re aware of it.
“I’m pretty sure everyone’s putting it in the scout report. (Portland coach) Chauncey (Billups) called me today and said he put it on his film and he still got it three times in the same game, so he’s very crafty at doing that so we’ve got to make sure he doesn’t get any tonight.”
Lue said Alvarado’s gambit brought to mind Pablo Prigioni, the sneaky Argentine-Italian guard who played four NBA seasons (including with the Clippers in 2015-16). Pablo “the Pickpocket averaged 2.8 steals per game in his NBA career.
“He was pretty good at it,” Lue said. “But not like this. (Alvarado is) more sneaky.”
Green said he’s surprised by Alvarado’s move every time he does it.
“Because it’s just unorthodox,” New Orleans’ first-year coach said. “But like I said, he’s a talented kid. He works hard, he works at it, and it’s a part of what he does. And we love it. If he can get steals and get an easy layup, more power to him.
“Most guys, you just haven’t seen it before, so for the first time we’re seeing somebody like hide out in the corner and here he comes. Sometimes I’m not even paying attention until it happens, so, I’m sure more teams are starting to scout him and starting to scout what he does.
“Ty Lue has looked at it and they’ll be looking behind them when they take the ball out. Hopefully he’s able to come up with one.”
Jose Alvarado does this thing where he hides in the corner and then forces travels/steals/turnovers and ive seen him pull it off 3 times since Sunday alone.
Watch how far he runs in the last one. https://t.co/GCN7MSdTEA pic.twitter.com/OEplhdIkO3
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 25, 2022
POWELL TAKES THE COURT
Per usual, Lue demurred when asked about Norman Powell’s status before the game, saying he didn’t know whether the talented guard would return to practice this week.
The Clippers’ guard suffered a suffered a fractured medial sesamoid bone in his left foot in a loss in Dallas on Feb. 10 and hasn’t been able to play – or even practice with the team – since.
Powell looked spry putting up 3-pointers before Sunday’s game, likely another good sign — if one also counts Powell’s Instagram post on Friday, a selfie that he captioned, simply: “See y’all.”
Norman Powell working out pregame. pic.twitter.com/emfXs2SS0p
— Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) April 4, 2022
Nobody:
Norman Powell: 👀 pic.twitter.com/697XldLGl2
— Joey Linn (@joeylinn_) April 1, 2022
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Ben Platt (“Dear Evan Hansen”), Cynthia Erivo (“Genius: Aretha”), Leslie Odom Jr. (“Hamilton”) and Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) honored those who died in the last year during a special In Memoriam segment of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday night.
They sang songs by the late Grammy-winning musical composer Stephen Sondheim as photos and names scrolled across the screen in the background. Platt kicked things off with “Not a Day Goes By” and Erivo and Odom took over with “Send in the Clowns” and Zegler joined the trio on stage, adding in a bit of “Somewhere.”
Sondheim was responsible for works such as “West Side Story,” “Company,” “Sweeney Todd, “Into the Woods” and “Sunday in the Park with George.” Sondheim died on Nov. 26, 2021 at the age of 91.
During his career, Sondheim won eight Grammy awards and eight Tony awards including a lifetime achievement Tony in 2008. He also won a Pulitzer, an Oscar, a Laurence Olivia Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Country music singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton performed his single “Cold” during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday night.
Pre-ceremony, the Kentucky native won best country solo performance for “You Should Probably Leave” and best country song for “Cold.” During the show, he won best country album with “Starting Over.”
Stapleton, known for his well-worn cowboy hat and ZZ Top-esque beard, absolutely wailed on stage as he played guitar along to “Cold,” proving just why that particular cut was an award winner. Much like with Rodrigo, Eilish and Carlile’s performances earlier in the evening, Stapleton’s voice was the main attraction, each word delivered with such intention and passion. It was certainly enhanced by the string section and his backing band, which gave the song some dazzle on music’s biggest night.
In March, Stapleton won male artist of the year at the 57th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, beating out Jimmie Allen, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen and Thomas Rhett.
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