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The Rock Chalkboard
KU’s MLB draftees sign; how might the Jayhawks replace their production? – KU Sports
That group includes pitchers Hunter Cranton (third round, Seattle Mariners) and Reese Dutton (undrafted, Philadelphia Phillies), both transfers who played at four-year schools and JUCOs and then exhausted their eligibility at KU. But it also features six additional Jayhawks who could have potentially returned for additional seasons in college.
Cure, former high school quarterback and D-II tight end, adds new element to position group – KU Sports
Cure, who transferred to Kansas from Fort Hays State in the offseason, recounted his memorable completion to reporters on Wednesday, following his second day of fall camp with the Jayhawks. The Tigers were playing down at Central Oklahoma in 2022 and the first read, a go route, was covered, but Cure was able to go through his progression and find a teammate underneath for a 20-yard gain.
Eraser Dust
‘Is she black or Indian?’: Trump attacks Harris’s racial identity
“I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black,” he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
9/11 attack: US reaches plea deal with alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed | CNN Politics
The pretrial agreement – reached after 27 months of negotiations – takes the death penalty off the table for Mohammed, Walid Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa al Hawsawi, prosecutors said in a letter, obtained by CNN, sent to the families of 9/11 victims and survivors shortly before the Department of Defense announced the news in a press release Wednesday evening.
Jimmer Fredette, former BYU star, has Team USA in men’s basketball 3×3 gold medal hunt at 2024 Paris Olympics – CBSSports.com
If you watched college basketball in any capacity during the early 2010s, you are probably familiar with former BYU star Jimmer Fredette — the headliner of the U.S. 3×3 men’s basketball team in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Fredette will be a first-time Olympian this summer when he takes the floor for Team USA’s opening game against Serbia on Tuesday in Paris just over 13 years after earning Naismith and CBS Sports player of the year honors for the 2010-11 season.
Cancer rates in millennials, Gen X-ers have risen starkly in recent years, study finds. Experts have 1 prime suspect.
While the new study doesn’t answer why this is happening, Sung and other experts have a prime suspect in their sights: obesity. Ten out of 17 of the cancers that are becoming more common over the generations have been linked to obesity, the study authors noted.
Trump and his allies had a plan for how to hit Harris. Then he opened his mouth. – POLITICO
Scrambling to put an end to Kamala Harris’ ascent, Donald Trump’s campaign and outside allies came up with a plan: Hit her on immigration, her record as a “liberal prosecutor” and as a “radical.”
It didn’t last long.
What to do now that the Fed is signaling lower interest rates | CNN Business
By that he means: “Rates are not going to fall fast enough to bail you out of a bad situation [this year],” McBride said. “And for savers, [the initial declines] won’t wipe out your interest earnings. Savers will still be way ahead of the game.”
Montana designs new hurdles for abortion clinics ahead of vote to protect access
The proposed rules, released July 26 by the state Department of Public Health and Human Services, would set requirements for facilities that perform abortions for or provide medication abortion to at least five patients a year, excluding hospitals and outpatient surgical centers. Clinics would have to meet minimum limits for the size of their rooms and hallways, submit to annual state inspections, maintain written patient transfer agreements with hospitals, and be led by a medical director who is a licensed physician.
Ryan Reynolds Confesses to Unconventional Sleeping Arrangement With Wife Blake Lively and 4 Kids – Parade
In fact, the couple—who’ve been married since 2012—seemingly doesn’t even get the opportunity to sleep next to each other at home (which many parents of young kids can relate to), as the actor admitted his children “can’t even fall asleep unless they’re in our bed.”
10 worst book-to-movie adaptations, ranked | Digital Trends
Then there are those adaptations that are painfully, ridiculously, and embarrassingly bad. These movies fail miserably at recapturing what made their book counterparts popular to begin with, with the major themes getting lost in translation. They are mediocre as movies but outright terrible as adaptations, to the point where the authors themselves have sometimes denounced them.