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Brooks Barnhizer continues to be steal machine in Thunder's Summer League win over Pacers
After Kam Jones had some words to say to Brooks Barnhizer, the latter's teammate had to calm him down. Ty Brewer had a funny method by telling the Thunder's two-way player that "he's trash" and not worth his time. The de-escalation shows the energy the 23-year-old brings to the court. Barnhizer finished with 17 points on 8-of-10 shooting, five rebounds and two assists. He shot 1-of-2 from 3. He also had six steals and one block. The Oklahoma City Thunder dominated the Indiana Pacers in a 104-85 Summer League win. It was a blowout victory where everybody chipped in. For Barnhizer, that meant creating a ton of steals again. Described as a defense-first player, Barnhizer has lived up to his Northwestern reputation. He caused havoc for the Pacers in their passing lanes with six steals. That was two shy of a Las Vegas Summer League record. He's racked up the steals throughout the event. What wasn't talked about enough was his savvy off-ball decisions. Barnhizer might not have a reliable jumper, but he can read the half-court defense and make the right reads. He was gifted an easy layup by Nikola Topic when he cut to the basket in an open lane. "I feel like for me, they'll come if I just play hard. I'm not hunting them," Barrnhizer said on his steals. "It's funny. In college, I had a coach named Chris Lowery. He told me, 'If you're doing what you're supposed to do and staying where you are, they'll throw it to you sometimes.' I just really try to play hard and play the defense I'm trying to play." That's how you can carve out an NBA career. Barnhizer's endless energy on both ends of the floor has produced tangible results. The 23-year-old has been a plus-minus darling. He plays winning basketball and thrives in his role. He knows his bread and butter and sticks to it. "I feel like I really work on the game and trust your work. I play basketball. I've always grown up playing basketball and I've always worked on it. I kinda like to think reps eliminate fear," Barnhizer said. "I just got to go out there and the law of averages says if you have a good game, a bad one is probably coming at some point. How are you going to stay level-headed through it all and try to stack positive games."
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58 days until the Texans' 2025 season opener: Who has worn No.58?
The Houston Texans are less than 100 days away from kicking off the 2025 season in Los Angeles against the Rams at SoFi Stadium and we're counting down the days until a victory ensues on the west coast. Texans Wire will each day tell you which player has worn the number of the day leading up to kickoff and pick the player who ensured the number best during their time at NRG Stadium. As for today, let's take a look at who has won No. 58 since the inaugural season in 2002. Texans players to wear No. 58 No. 58 currently belongs to rookie defensive tackle Kyonte Hamilton. While it's a long shot for him to make the active roster, Hamilton has been one of the more productive names standing out during OTAs and minicamp. He could end up being a solid depth piece and rotational option for the Texans' trenches behind names like Sheldon Rankins and Tim Settle. Since Hamilton is new to the crew, he can't be the G.O.A.T. of No. 58. Here are, however, several options who could be considered the front-runner for donning the jersey number over the past two decades of success. Best Player: Brooks Reed Before it was J.J. Watt and Jadeveon Clowney wreaking havoc, it was the duo of Watt and Reed. A second-round pick out of Arizona, Reed became a fixture of Wade Phillips' 3-4 defense en route to two playoff appearances in the early 2010s. He came out the gate swinging, totaling six sacks and 11 QBs hits during his rookie season. During the rest of his tenure in Houston, Reed would tally just eight more sacks, but his ability to rush the quarterback constantly led to more consistent on-field pressures, ensuring the Texans won. Overall, in four years, Reed finished with 238 tackles, 37 tackles for loss, 23 sacks and an interception.
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Symbols give insight into who we are and what we value: experts
As CBC prepares to launch a contest to find the quintessential symbol that defines British Columbia, culture and history experts say much can be learned by digging into a symbol's origins and meaning. The bracket for B.C.'s Best Symbol starts on Monday, and will run for several weeks, with voting open online from Mondays to Thursdays. One final symbol will be announced as the winner at the end. A symbol, defined as a thing that represents or stands for something else, can give us insight into how we see ourselves and our communities — past, present and future, say experts. Michael Dawson, history professor at St. Thomas University and co-editor of the book Symbols in Canada, said symbols are formed in a variety of ways: some are officially proclaimed by governments, like flags and national sports, while others are more natural. "The ones that are probably the most popular, that are closest to people's hearts, are the ones that emerge more organically," Dawson national symbols can be a way to bond and connect. "They're a way of reaffirming shared experiences, potentially even shared values, shared perspectives," Dawson said. Some categories of symbols, like food (such as Nanaimo bars or maple syrup), animals (bears, salmon, beavers) and local commercial items (White Spot's pirate pack), frequently become representative of communities around the province, he said. But symbols can also create divisions. "Hockey is something that tends to bring people together at a national level. It's also something that can push people apart at a regional level," Dawson said. "You're either a Flames fan or an Oilers fan. You're not both." Marketing and advertising play a big role in deciding which symbols proliferate and last, he said. Dawson outlined how late 19th century tourism promoters in Vancouver and Victoria explicitly downplayed Indigenous culture and instead focused on the cities' connection to "Britishness." But when the Great Depression hit, shopkeepers needed a way to make more money. As a result, Dawson said, businesses in the 1930s began to increasingly incorporate elements of Indigenous culture in advertising, such as totem poles. The businesses and their marketers wanted to promote images of supposed mysticism and exoticism to differentiate B.C. and attract tourists. Dawson said the creation of this kind of advertising became a process of "selectively remembering, selectively celebrating" aspects of British and Indigenous cultures — "but making sure to never show that they were in conflict." "Tourism is there in the 1950s, 1960s, right through to the present day, helping people to reimagine and forget [and] come up with a highly selective representation of that colonial imperial process so that it actually becomes hard to have a conversation about British Columbia being the product of colonization," he said. Jordan Wilson, curator for Pacific Northwest and contemporary Indigenous art at the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology, traced part of the history of how Pacific Northwest art became seemingly synonymous with Canadian Indigenous art back to a prominent exhibition in 1927. The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa's show "Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern" was essentially the first time Indigenous material culture from the Pacific Northwest was presented as art and shown alongside paintings from the Group of Seven, Wilson said. But much of the context was stripped from the Indigenous art and items on display. "Visitors to that exhibition would not really have gained a sense of where these objects came from, what their use was, who they belonged to," said Wilson, who is a member of Musqueam Indian Band. "They were really presented as beautiful objects." There was a friction created by cultural gatekeepers "celebrating" Indigenous art and items while the Canadian government sought to oppress Indigenous people. "[The exhibition was] really trying to position Indigenous art or material culture as Canadian art, while at the same time residential schools are in full effect, the potlatch ban is in full effect, and there's this broad dispossession happening of Indigenous lands and resources." For example, the potlatch ban, which ran from 1885 to 1951, outlawed the ceremonial use of some of the same items that were displayed in the 1927 gallery show. "To put [it] in sort of crude terms ... you want our art, but you don't want our politics," Wilson said. Dawson said understanding the complex histories behind symbols can lead to better understanding of our neighbours at home and abroad. Symbols also have the power to influence how people think, he said. "People invest something of themselves in these things," he News gave Dawson an early peek of which symbols will faceoff against eachother in the contest. One particular bracket match-up caught his attention: treehuggers versus logging trucks. "There are folks that would be like, 'Absolutely, I identify with the tree-huggers, let's go!' And others that are like, 'No, no, the more logging trucks I see on the road, the happier I am." Digging deeper into the histories behind each symbol is meaningful, Dawson said. "It's important to think about these symbols, to become familiar with their histories [and] differing contemporary understandings that people have ... it allows us to maintain, I think, a higher level of political discourse than we might otherwise have."
