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USA Today
16-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
5 position battles to watch for at Chargers training camp
The Chargers' veterans report to training camp on Thursday, marking the start of their preseason program early due to their participation in the Hall of Fame Game on July 31. While most of the roster is set, a few key battles on the roster bubble will begin to play out with the entire 90-man team on the field. Here are a few battles on the back end of the roster to watch. RB4: Hassan Haskins, Jaret Patterson, Raheim Sanders With Najee Harris set to miss some of camp with a "superficial" eye injury suffered over the 4th of July weekend, the running backs at the back end of the roster may get more of an opportunity to prove themselves. First-rounder Omarion Hampton will be the unquestioned starter with Harris out, which may lessen the reps the Chargers give the rookie in preseason action. With 2024 sixth-rounder Kimani Vidal expected to play a role as well, the final spot will be decided by special teams upside. Haskins returned kickoffs for the Chargers last season, Patterson mainly was on the practice squad, and Sanders is one of the more high-profile UDFAs on the squad. TE4: Tucker Fisk, Stevo Klotz Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers coaching staff have raved about Klotz, a UDFA from Iowa State who Los Angeles thinks will start to shine when the pads come on. It's difficult to find a path to a roster spot for Klotz, however, unless he can unseat Fisk or prove he's a better fullback than two-way player Scott Matlock. Fisk has been a fringe roster player for most of his NFL career, but his blocking ability opens up a lot of what Greg Roman wants to do on offense. DL: Naquan Jones, Scott Matlock Speaking of Matlock, there's no guarantee that the Boise State alum will crack the rotation on the defensive line, either. LA added Da'Shawn Hand, Jamaree Caldwell, and Jones last season to a group that already included Otito Ogbonnia, Teair Tart, and Justin Eboigbe. If the competition at fullback is close and Jones is repping ahead of Matlock, his utility as a two-way player may not end up mattering. CB6: Ja'Sir Taylor, Trikweze Bridges The Chargers are deep at corner, with Donte Jackson, Tarheeb Still, Cam Hart, Benjamin St-Juste, and Deane Leonard set to form a solid first five. Taylor has started on and off at nickel, but Still and Derwin James excelled in that role last season, and special teams coordinator Ryan Ficken has been overhauling the core special teams unit that Taylor once belonged to. Bridges, a seventh-round rookie, has the flexibility to play corner or safety. S4: RJ Mickens, Tony Jefferson Mickens and Jefferson may get away without having to battle too much if Elijah Molden (meniscus) remains on the PUP list to start the season, but the sense from minicamp is that Molden will be active to start the year. That leaves the rookie and veteran to battle over the last spot in a room occupied by James, Molden, and Alohi Gilman, all of whom will play crucial roles on defense. Mickens has more special-teams upside, but the Chargers value Jefferson's veteran presence after keeping him around last season.
Boston Globe
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
The 1975 Red Sox remembered on the 50th anniversary of their legendary World Series vs. the Reds
As part of the celebration this week, the Sox welcomed back numerous former players to watch from the Legends Suite at Fenway. On Tuesday's NESN telecast, the broadcasters wore 70s-era attire and a 70s-era graphics package was implemented for the third inning. Wednesday's series finale will give out replica 1975 pullover jerseys to the first 7,500 fans in attendance. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Fisk, 77, was among the ex-players in the ballpark, and he was greeted with a raucous ovation after being shown on the videoboard in the middle of the third inning. Advertisement 'I think it's cool,' Sox manager Alex Cora said of the celebration. 'Obviously, the players involved were studs. Different type of baseball, but at the end of the day, a bunch of Hall of Famers going at it. 'If you go back and watch some of those games, they're fantastic. We can all talk about the Fisk homer, but the whole series was a back-and-forth.' In the half-century since the '75 Sox endeared themselves to New England, the franchise has seen its infamous 86-year title drought snapped, and went on to win four championships in a 15-season span. Advertisement But for those who witnessed the 1975 World Series — and for those who played in it — the memories remain ingrained as a singular moment in club history. Right fielder Dwight Evans, who played in Boston from 1972-1989, was best-known in the series for his spectacular catch to rob Joe Morgan of an extra-base hit in the 11th inning of Game 6. During an interview with NESN on Monday, Evans described the moment he realized the magnitude of what he was taking part in. 'It was Pete Rose coming to me at third base, when [Reds manager] Sparky Anderson changed the pitcher,' Evans said. 'And Pete says, 'This might be the greatest game I've ever played in.' And I was 23, but I'm just looking around, and I just didn't see it. But I woke up right around then and realized how important it was.' But while the celebration took hold this week, it was without one treasured member of the team: ace Luis Tiant, who died in October at age 83. Known as 'El Tiante,' the Cuban lefthander played for six major league teams during his 19-year career, including eight seasons in Boston. In the 1975 World Series, the Sox won all three games Tiant pitched — including an 155-pitch complete game in Game 4. 'Going to spring training and just being with him for the first time, we knew he was a character,' slugger Jim Rice said of Tiant. 'He's the type of guy who kept you loose, he got on you — but he got on you in a positive way. Advertisement 'Even in spring training, he grew on us a bit and became a pain — but that's what we miss about him.' Cora was born on Oct. 18, 1975 — the second of four days of rainouts between Games 5 and 6 of the series — and later grew up idolizing some of the players from both sides. 'I used to have a poster of Davey Concepcion in my bedroom, kind of like, wow. He was amazing,' Cora said. 'Tony Perez, being back home and always around, that always caught my attention. Just a bunch of good players.' Coincidentally, the Reds hosted their own 50th anniversary reunion celebration last week at Great American Ball Park, bringing back 23 members of the 'Big Red Machine' squad that won back-to-back titles in '75 and '76. Reds manager Terry Francona, who also managed the Sox' first two championship teams of this century, enjoyed watching the celebrations unfold from both sides over the past week. 'I literally just saw the guys that beat their [expletive] over the weekend,' Francona said on Monday. 'But I will look forward to [the Sox celebration], because seeing Yaz is great, and Fred Lynn was one of my all-time favorite players.' What a pair of rookie outfielders the Red Sox had in 1975: Fred Lynn (left) in center field, and Jim Rice in left. They drove in 100 runs apiece during the Sox' AL-pennant winning season. ASSOCIATED PRESS As Rice reflects back to what made that team so beloved, he feels part of it was the team's homegrown core — between himself, Evans, Fisk, Fred Lynn, Carl Yastremski, and the many others who remain Red Sox royalty all these years later. 'When you think about having a dynasty, you think about a team like Steinbrenner put together for the Yankees,' Rice said on NESN. 'But we were all Boston Red Sox, a dynasty.' Advertisement Matty Wasserman can be reached at
Irish Times
16-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Your biggest career move? Choosing a spouse or partner
If your boss ever invites you and your spouse to a work party, do you accept immediately, confident your charming, supportive partner will boost your standing in the office? Or do you automatically turn down the invitation, knowing there is a high chance your loud-mouthed, prickly other half will be an embarrassing blight on proceedings and your career? Lucky you if you can answer yes to the first question. You have won one of life's great lotteries by acquiring a vital, yet under-appreciated asset: a partner who makes working life easier rather than harder. I thought about this the other day as I was reading When The Going Was Good, the recent memoir by former Vanity Fair magazine editor Graydon Carter . It ends with a list of life advice that includes what Carter thinks are the essential ingredients to look for in a mate, namely someone who is Fisk: funny, interesting, smart and kind. READ MORE He's right. These traits are hugely important and not to be taken for granted in corporate life. Over the years, I have come across a non-trivial number of people who have succeeded despite their actively disagreeable spouses. As it happens, I have ended up with a partner drenched in Fisk qualities, a sentence I would type even if he did not read almost everything I write. I had not realised quite how fortunate this makes me until this week, when I spoke to an academic who has spent years studying career advancement. 'For women with high ambition, you must find a partner who will support your career,' says Anna Carmella Ocampo of Spain's Esade business school. 'Otherwise, the evidence is clear: just stay single.' This is partly because women are still stuck with what Ocampo calls the double bind of pressure to be a perfect partner and parent, as well as a perfect worker. For those overloaded with family responsibilities who can't afford childcare and other home help, something often gives, like a career. This pressure is pernicious, even for the brightest budding female leaders. A 2017 paper by three economists who studied the behaviour of students in an elite MBA programme in the US revealed this in bracing detail. The research showed single, female students dialled down open displays of career ambition if they thought they were being watched by their male counterparts – and potential future partners – rather than by other women. The single women participated 'much less' in class than married women and, when asked for their job preferences, said they would work fewer hours, travel less and get paid less if they expected their classmates to see their answers. If they thought their answers would stay relatively private, they responded in the same way as non-single women. Employees with emotionally competent spouses had as much as 26 per cent more of the traits that bosses value But women are not the only ones who stand to gain a lot from a career-supporting spouse. A paper Ocampo published this year suggests there are sizeable benefits for men and employers too. The study looks at something psychologists think is a big factor in success at work, so-called 'emotion regulation ability', or the way people manage their own and others' feelings. Existing research has focused on the way that high levels of this type of emotional competence can make you better at certain jobs, more valuable in teams and, crucially, more desirable to bosses. But a worker can gain a lot from having a spouse with the emotional ability to boost their resilience, confidence and general capacity to navigate the world of work, Ocampo and her co-authors found. Employees with emotionally competent spouses had as much as 26 per cent more of the traits that bosses value, compared with those with less helpful partners, the study showed. [ Gen Z is leading the charge back to the office Opens in new window ] Importantly, that competence was drained if such spouses were burdened with family demands, meaning it is in both employees' and employers' interests if workers have the time and flexibility to help share domestic chores. It might seem obvious that a happy home life makes for a happier and therefore more productive work life. But that is far from the case in many workplaces, where domestic life can often be regarded as at best irrelevant, and at worst an irksome distraction. The bottom line is, do your best to find a full-Fisk partner. And then find a job with the flexibility to let you help them stay that way. – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025
ABC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
ABC leads networks in 2025 Logie Award nominations
ABC programs and personalities have received an incredible 44 Logie nominations, more than any other network or streamer, including a Gold Logie nomination for Lisa Millar. Millar's warmth, energy and compassion has struck a chord with Australian audiences as presenter and narrator of Muster Dogs ( Where Are They Now and Collies & Kelpies ), host of Back Roads , and presenter on ABC News Breakfast from 2019 to 2024. A respected journalist, Millar is also one of the ABC's longest-serving foreign correspondents. The ABC received nominations across most categories, with Fisk (produced by Origma 45) shortlisted five times, Austin (Northern Pictures with Lincoln Pictures) four times, The Newsreader (Werner Film Productions) and Return to Paradise (BBC Studios and Red Planet Pictures) each three. Zan Rowe has been nominated for the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter for her work on Take 5 With Zan Rowe and the ABC's New Year's Eve broadcast while Guy Montgomery ( Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee ) is in contention for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent. 7.30 anchor Sarah Ferguson and Insiders host David Speers are both nominated for the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Presenter. The ABC is nominated for 12 Silver Logies including Michael Theo, Ben Miller ( Austin ) and Aaron Chen ( Fisk ) for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy. Kitty Flanagan ( Fisk ) and Sally Phillips ( Austin ) are nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. Return to Paradise stars Lloyd Griffith and Tai Hara are nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Anna Samson for Best Lead Actress in a Drama. ABC Director, Screen, Jennifer Collins said: 'I'm delighted to see Lisa, Zan and so many talented ABC colleagues and programs recognised at this year's Logie Awards. Congratulations to all our nominees, our incredible production partners and our brilliant ABC Screen and News teams. These nominations reflect our commitment to delivering a premium slate of programming that has a real and meaningful impact for Australians.' The 65th Logie Awards are on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at The Star Sydney. ABC 2025 Logie Award Nominees GOLD LOGIE – Most Popular Personality on Australian Television ● Lisa Millar, Back Roads, ABC News Breakfast, Muster Dogs: Where Are They Now and Muster Dogs: Collies & Kelpies, ABC Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter ● Zan Rowe, Take 5 With Zan Rowe, ABC New Year's Eve, ABC Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent ● Guy Montgomery, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee, ABC Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Presenter ● David Speers, Insiders, ABC ● Sarah Ferguson, 7.30, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Drama ● Lloyd Griffith, Return To Paradise, ABC ● Tai Hara, Return To Paradise, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Drama ● Anna Samson, Return To Paradise, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Comedy ● Aaron Chen, Fisk, ABC ● Ben Miller, Austin, ABC ● Michael Theo, Austin, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Comedy ● Kitty Flanagan, Fisk, ABC ● Sally Phillips, Austin, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actor ● Glenn Butcher, Fisk, ABC SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actress ● Julia Zemiro, Fisk, ABC ● Marg Downey, The Newsreader, ABC ● Michelle Lim Davidson, The Newsreader, ABC Best Drama Program ● Return To Paradise, ABC ● The Newsreader, ABC Best Miniseries or Telemovie ● Plum, ABC Best Entertainment Program ● ABC New Year's Eve, ABC ● Countdown 50 Years On, ABC Best Current Affairs Program ● 7.30, ABC ● Australian Story, ABC ● Four Corners, ABC Best Scripted Comedy Program ● Austin, ABC ● Fisk, ABC ● Melbourne International Comedy Festival, ABC ● Optics, ABC Best Comedy Entertainment Program ● Gruen, ABC ● Hard Quiz, ABC ● The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, ABC Best Structured Reality Program ● Muster Dogs: Collies & Kelpies, ABC Best Lifestyle Program ● Gardening Australia, ABC ● Grand Designs Australia, ABC ● Restoration Australia, ABC Best News Coverage or Public Affairs Report ● Betrayal of Trust, Four Corners, ABC Best Factual or Documentary Program ● Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian, ABC ● The Assembly, ABC Best Children's Program ● Bluey, ABC ● Ginger and the Vegesaurs, ABC ● Hard Quiz Kids, ABC ● Little J and Big Cuz, NITV and ABC ● Play School, ABC Media contact Nikki Tugwell, ABC Communications
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Fisk University to End Gymnastics Program
Fisk University to End Gymnastics Program originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Fisk University announced it would be discontinuing its gymnastics program at the conclusion of the 2025-2026 school year. Their final season will be in Spring 2026. Advertisement The University made the decision due to their gymnastics program competing outside of their conference in the HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC). This makes it hard for the school to keep up with the program. Challenges with scheduling opponents and recruiting also occurred. After only three seasons, Fisk University still managed to acquire a national champion in Morgan Price. She won the honor in 2024 and was able to defend her title this year to become the first ever HBCU gymnast to win consecutive championships. With the help of Price, Fisk gymnastics has made a name for itself and she helped put the program on the map. The champion not only made history as the first HBCU gymnast to win a title, but she also scored a perfect 10 on the uneven bars. Related: Fans in Disbelief over EA Sports' decision on HBCU's in College Football 26 This year, she also dominated once again to reclaim her national title. She had a score of 9.90 on the beam, 9.825 on the floor, and 39.950 for her final total. Athletic director, Valencia Jordan, said that she wishes all the athletes the best and that she was proud of how far the program has progressed in such a short amount of time. Advertisement Related: NCAA Sends Clear Message About Athlete Pay and Roster Limits This past season, Fisk won most of its competitions, facing off against schools like Rutgers and Wilberforce University. A short-lived yet successful for Fisk University Gymnastics could potentially put HBCU gymnastics on the grid. This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
