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New York Times
4 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Is Florida the early leader for No. 1 QB in Class of 2027? Notes from UA Next Future 50
BRADENTON, Fla. — Kennedy Brown was on the verge of being called up to the varsity at Kingwood High School in Humble, Texas, as a freshman when he tore the ACL in his right knee trying to make a tackle. 'I was running across the field and when the player with the ball cut back, I planted my knee and it got twisted,' the towering 6-foot-5, 285-pound offensive tackle said. 'I got turf-monstered.' Advertisement Brown said he considered quitting football. He's glad he didn't. Brown started every game last fall as a sophomore for Kingwood's varsity team at right tackle and punctuated his comeback by squatting 495 pounds during spring workouts. Now, he's the No. 2 overall prospect in the Class of 2027 in the 247Sports Composite. He received his first offer from Texas Tech in September, and the list of suitors continues to grow. Oregon and Texas are among his early leaders, he said Friday at the Under Armour Next Future 50. But Georgia, Alabama, Clemson, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Penn State and USC are all high on his list, too. College coaches were first allowed to initiate contact with rising juniors on June 15. Brown said he made unofficial visits to Oregon, Nebraska, USC, Georgia, Clemson and Alabama this spring. He would like to get to Notre Dame soon. He lived in Indiana for six years before moving back to Texas, where he was born. 'I'll probably commit next summer,' Brown said. 'I plan to start (right away in college). I want to go to a place that I'm needed and not wanted.' He was asked about the role NIL compensation will play in his final decision. 'I'm not necessarily into money,' he said. 'I'm not a materialistic type of person. Tattoos, watches and grills, and all that, I'm not into that. I grew up in a great environment. My mom, I appreciate her significantly. I don't have to do all that.' Brown was one of eight five-star prospects in the Class of 2027 who is participating in this weekend's events at IMG Academy. Here are some updates on a few of the top QBs in the class. • Elijah Haven, the only five-star quarterback, for now, in the Class of 2027 in the 247Sports Composite, recently completed a two-week tour where he hit seven schools. The Baton Rouge, La., native started at Georgia and then hit Clemson, Auburn, Michigan, Alabama and Ohio State before completing the trip at Florida. Advertisement Haven said LSU, Ohio State, Michigan and Alabama are high on his list, but the Gators appear to be standing out a little more than others for the 6-5, 220-pounder who plays at The Dunham School. Haven said his conversation with Gators sophomore DJ Lagway — the No. 2 QB recruit in the Class of 2024 — on his recent visit to Gainesville was eye-opening. '(Lagway) said the relationships he built in his recruitment process with the coaches is what separated them for him,' Haven said. 'They didn't fake it or anything, and they were always welcoming to him and to his family. That's a big thing for me. It's just about fit for me, whether it's LSU or if it's their rival.' Haven said his mother likes Florida and his dad, who was born in Atlanta and raised a Georgia fan, is in lock-step with whatever he decides. Haven said he rooted for Joe Burrow and LSU as a child. The Tigers won the national title when he was in fifth grade. Haven said early playing time is something he covets in his college choice, but he's also 'not opposed to learning from a guy like DJ Lagway for a year or two.' Is there a program Haven would like to visit before making a final decision? 'Miami, I've never been up there,' Haven said. 'They were one of the schools that contacted me on June 15, but as far as making it out there, we haven't planned it. Seeing what Cam Ward did last year, it's definitely one of those schools I could see myself playing at with the playing style he had.' Does playing for a national championship contender matter to Haven? 'That's definitely something I want to strive for,' Haven said. 'But I'm not going to go to a school just because they won a lot.' • Peyton Houston, the eighth-ranked quarterback and No. 85 overall recruit in the 2027 class, said Clemson, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Texas have made him feel like a priority early in the process. USC is also high on his list. Advertisement Houston, who plays at Evangel Christian in Shreveport, La., said Texas was the first team to call him at midnight on June 15. Houston said it's meaningful to him that he was also the first quarterback in the class who Clemson and USC offered. He would like to commit sometime this fall before the end of his junior year. 'The reason is because there's a lot of schools that just got onto the boat,' Houston said. 'You've got to really know the school, the people and just being able to build the relationship. The longest relationship I've had has been with (Texas assistant A.J. Milwee). I've known him since the seventh grade.' • Four-star quarterback Keegan Croucher, who plays at Cheshire Academy in Connecticut, said Oregon, Ole Miss, Miami, Penn State, Indiana, Virginia Tech and Syracuse have been recruiting him the hardest thus far. He visited Oregon, Clemson, Penn State, Notre Dame, Miami and Ole Miss in June. The Ducks and Nittany Lions appear to be early leaders, with the Hurricanes and Rebels slightly behind. Which visit blew him away? 'Oregon, for sure, I really liked it. First time being out there,' the New York native said. 'I was a little skeptical being that far away from home. It didn't feel that far away.' He's been to Penn State four times. What attracts him to the Nittany Lions? 'It is the closest to home,' Croucher said. 'What do I like? The relationships I've built, what they've done with Drew Allar, the fact they're constantly winning. Everything coach Franklin says is true. He really cares about his players. He said it's the best place to put people in the league. We'll see.' • Bobby Coleman Jr., the younger brother of Auburn sophomore star receiver Cam Coleman, said Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Louisville and UAB are the schools that have shown the most interest to this point. Advertisement The 6-1, 180-pound quarterback at Phenix City (Ala.) Central is 74th in the ESPN Top 300 but is unranked in the 247Sports Composite. Coleman was the backup last season to Tulsa signee Andrew Alford. He's completed 57 percent of his 42 pass attempts for 475 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions so far at the varsity level. (Top photo of Elijah Haven: Manny Navarro / The Athletic)
CBC
18 hours ago
- General
- CBC
Letter from WWII sailor killed by Nazi U-boat found in 'the bowels' of Calgary high school
Social Sharing While digging through old folders and filing cabinets, Western Canada High School teacher Geneviève Dale happened across an 81-year-old letter mailed by a Canadian Navy sailor during the Second World War. The letter was signed by Cecil Richard Moss, who attended Western Canada High, according to Dale, and addressed to Rosalie Cummings, a former schoolmate. Dale found the letter in the school's underground storage area. She was searching for old, missing yearbooks for a digitization project with some colleagues. "There's a lot of weird little nooks and crannies here at Western. And so at one point, there was a discussion about going down into, kind of the bowels of the school," she said. "We all went down into one of the basement storage rooms and just started rifling through drawers and boxes." "I found this little letter kind of tucked into a file folder, just sort of sitting there." In the letter, Moss offered advice on classes, listed his favourite teachers, and reflected back on high school track and field competitions. "Betty Mitchell, old lady McKinnon and Johnny Souter were my favourite teachers. The trouble is I didn't know it until I'd left there," he wrote. (Mitchell, who taught drama, would go on to become a legend in Calgary's theatre community, with two venues and an annual awards event named in her honour.) Moss also wrote about his family, saying he was the youngest of eight children but insisting he didn't grow up spoiled. "I'm glad to say I'm the youngest of a family of seven boys and one girl. I've got two brothers overseas in Italy, one in the Air Force in Edmonton," he wrote. "I guess the rest of the family had to look after me but I'm glad I had nobody to look after. Don't get the idea I was spoiled either as everybody does, just because I'm the youngest." Dale said Moss left school after Grade 11 to enlist. "As I started reading it, I was really struck by how much he sounded like our students that we have in school. Like this is the most teenage boy thing I've read in a long time," she said. "It almost felt like if I'd picked it up off the floor of my classroom." 'Day dreaming' of coming home to Calgary Toward the end of his letter, Moss talks about wanting to get home. "I've given up the idea of having anything to do with women until I get home and then just look out. I can just see myself going howling down Eighth Avenue at 12 o'clock Saturday noon. (Day dreaming again)," he wrote. "It would be nice if all us kids could get home together. Let's just keep hoping, it's sure something to look forward to, in fact it's the thing that keeps me going." The letter is dated May 1, 1944 — about seven months before Moss was killed in late November during the Battle of the St. Lawrence. He was aboard the HMCS Shawinigan, which sank off the Newfoundland coast after it was attacked by a German submarine, according to the Canadian War Museum. The 91 crew members aboard were all lost at sea. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's records say Moss was just 18 at the time. "That's a baby. That's not even a 19-year-old. That's a really young person," said Dale. "Finding out that he and all of his crewmates passed away, I was touched more by it than I thought I would be." Dale poured through yearbooks in hopes of finding more information about Rosalie Cummings but said she didn't turn up much, other than that she had planned to become a nurse after graduation. "This school, even within its bones, has so much to teach us," she said, adding that she plans to continue looking for more details about Moss and Cummings' lives. Dale said she's still deciding what to do with the letter, but she's not planning to keep it and would like to donate the document to a local museum.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Warped Tour Pulled Off the Impossible and Took Fans Back in Time
There is nothing quite like the music people discover when they're in high school. It's these songs that soundtrack first loves and heartbreaks, and all the moments that feel like they're the end of the world. It's these songs that act as a salve in teen bedrooms and hit even harder live, sung with a sea of people. This weekend, the Vans Warped Tour in Washington, D.C. transported about 40,000 festival attendees right back to those high school summer days filled with sticky pavements, sweaty mosh pits and, if you were lucky enough, crowd-surfing to the songs that mattered the most. In this brief moment of time traveling, everything else felt far away— even our increasingly alarmingly political times, marked by a paltry event disguised as a military parade that our eerily authoritarian president was hosting just a few miles from the festival. At Warped, the only thing that mattered was the music. More from Rolling Stone Warped Tour to Head to Washington, D.C., for Second Consecutive Year Cartel to Celebrate 'Chroma' 20th Anniversary With Re-Recording and Fall Tour Sublime Will Play DC Warped Tour 30 Years After Headlining First Edition Many bands across the Warped Tour lineup also shared they felt like they'd been sent back to their teen years for the weekend, from Warped Tour veterans and ska-punkers Less Than Jake or mid-2010s stalwarts like State Champs. 'We feel like we're going to yet another high school reunion where we know everybody, but we're not sure if we're going to be invited to the party or not,' Less Than Jake vocalist Chris DeMakes told Rolling Stone. 'I kinda feel like a senior in high school,' State Champs lead guitarist Tyler Szalkowski said. With their headlining set on Saturday, pop-punkers All Time Low fully brought Warped Tour back to high school, complete with a marching band and cheerleading squad to join them onstage. But this wasn't just any squad or band; the Maryland natives made sure to honor their hometown and celebrate marginalized voices by inviting the American University cheer squad and DC's Different Drummers marching band to join their set. DCDD is a nonprofit LGBTQ+ marching band dedicated to building pride and community through music. 'We also wanted to make sure that this is a celebration of absolutely fucking everybody out there,' lead singer Alex Gaskarth told the audience. 'You are safe here, you are welcome here,' he said before adding a pointed comment in reference to Trump's military parade: 'This is the place to be tonight in D.C., I'll tell you that.' Machine Gun Kelly closed out the first night of Warped Tour D.C., which some people didn't seem to understand. But up onstage with his larger-than-life persona, it was clear why. MGK embodies the core principles of Warped Tour: an eclectic spirit built from the ground up. The genre-blurring musician came up on the famous Kevin Says Stage at Warped Tour, a stage meant for platforming up and coming acts that founder Kevin Lyman took a chance on. MGK ripped through his wide-ranging catalog from pop-punk tracks like the Halsey-assisted 'Forget Me Too' and his rap-focused 'El Diablo.' He event performed his new pop-leaning single 'Cliche,' in its live debut, singing it to a little girl in the audience in a sweet moment. During her Warped Tour debut on Sunday night, even Avril Lavigne felt that same energy as she asked the audience if they wanted to go back to high school with her. The pop-punk princess knew just how to shuttle the Warped Tour audience back to bygone years: She surprised everyone with a cameo from Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, her friend and former partner, who played the band's Warped staple 'In Too Deep.' Whibley and Sum 41 were not on the lineup at all, making the surprise extra special. Throughout her dazzling set, Lavigne delivered a string of hits from 'Girlfriend' to 'Complicated,' and even included fan-favorite 'I'm With You,' which hit so much harder in the rain. One of the main elements of Warped Tour is the camaraderie between bands that roughed it out together amongst cramped vans and tents for years. This same energy was alive and well, both backstage as bands caught up with each other and during performances as multiple acts invited each other to perform fan favorites for their sets. From Machine Gun Kelly bringing out fellow Warped self-made artist Modsun up for 'Concert for Aliens' to smaller acts like The Wonder Years bringing out Knuckle Puck's Joe Taylor for the Philly emo classic 'Came Out Swinging.' For those who were in high school in the mid-2000s, the highlight was when Derek Sanders from Mayday Parade joined All Time Low for the scene-defying track 'Dear Maria, Count Me In.' The best of these occurrences were when goliaths of the scene welcomed newbies: Boys Like Girls invited viral sensation Brendan Abernathy to sing the band's hit 'The Great Escape' and All Time Low pulled up new pop-punk outfit the Paradox's lead singer Eric Dangerfield for a rendition of 'Hate This Song.' One of the most unique facets of Warped Tour has always been how the festival showcases non-profit organizations. From To Write Love on Her Arms to Fuck Cancer to Music Saves Lives and Headcount and Peta, various organizations that became synonymous with Warped Tour brought their tents back out at Warped 30. In between sets, festival-goers could sign up to vote with Headcount or write down how music had life-altering impact on them with Music Saves Lives. At the heart of Warped Tour has always been its incredible ability to launch new acts and introduce attendees to their new favorite band. For its 30th year, the festival made sure to bring back the Warped Unplugged stage for acoustic performances from emerging artists. There was always a crowd under the Unplugged tent, and it wasn't always to take cover from the heat. It was clear attendees were genuinely curious to learn about new musicians they might not have heard of yet. Early in the day as people flooded into the venue, smaller bands like nu-metal rockers Silly Goose were self-promoting in the same ways from Warped's past, handing out CDs and holding up posters with their band's set time. In the age of Spotify, live music discovery is a rare occasion and that makes warped tour that much more special. Something Kevin Lyman has always understood is that people are hungry for these experiences. As long as music fans exist, they will constantly want to discover new music in person. But few places are able to provide a space like that because of the challenges that exist, from ensuring attendees safety to bearing the cost of the event. It's clear with the support of a mega live event production corporation behind them like Insomniac, Warped Tour could give it not just another go, but a successful one. There were a lot of differences: the sponsors, the locations, the DIY nature has changed with the time, but none of that made the festival feel like a corporatized shell of itself, like some competitors that have cropped up in Warped Tour's absence. Lyman is just as involved as ever before. If you watch the founder for five seconds, festival goers and artists alike are instantly coming up to meet the mythical man that started this all. On Sunday morning, as Lyman stood around the famed half pipe, multiple festival goers came up to speak to him. One father brought his two sons to their first Warped Tour and informed Lyman it was his 20th year going to the festival. For their 30th anniversary, Vans Warped Tour managed to do what it envisioned: to somehow conjure up the best pieces of its past self and bring it into the future in a way that didn't feel outdated or misplaced. And though Warped Tour 2025 was a time machine, no one's perspective was the same. It's a swath of different people and distinct voices. Everyone comes for a different band a different goal. Lyman acknowledged this very fact when he spoke to Rolling Stone back in October: 'Everyone has their own experience when they go to Warped Tour, but they're part of a greater community.' The D.C. edition proved he was right. Launch Gallery: The Best Photos From Warped Tour 2025 Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
CTV News
2 days ago
- Sport
- CTV News
Manitoba high school students honoured as athletes of the year
Magnus Carlos and Payton Durand pictured at the MHSAA awards on June 25, 2025. (Scott Andersson/CTV News) The Manitoba High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) is celebrating its top athletes for their work both in their sport and in the classroom. On Wednesday, the association announced its athletes of the year at an event at the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Magnus Carlos of Vincent Massey Collegiate and Payton Durand of Collège Jeanne-Sauvé were chosen as the overall high school male and female athletes of the year. Both students are multi-sport athletes, who showed leadership on and off the field. Durand said when she found out about her award it was both overwhelming and exciting. 'It's kind of like all the hard work's paid off and it feels really good,' she said. Other students honoured at the event were Ky Solomon of Hamiota Collegiate Institute, Colby Darragh of Warren Collegiate Institute, Shannon Bodnarus of Collège Stonewall Collegiate, Chael Rozdeba of Hamiota Collegiate Institute, Kai Gaudet of MacGregor Collegiate Institute, and Junior Martine of Neelin High School. The MHSAA has four competition categories – A, AA, AAA, AAAA – which are based on school populations. A male and female athlete of the year is selected in each category, along with the overall athletes of the year.
Washington Post
2 days ago
- Sport
- Washington Post
H.S. sports superlatives: Best season, comeback, playoff run and more
Another school year has come to an end, meaning it's time to break out the yearbooks and wish your classmates a great summer. To capture some of the best moments from the past 10 months of high school sports, we turned to a yearbook tradition: superlatives. No, we didn't choose a class clown. But here are 10 categories after an exciting year.
