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Space Coast Daily – Friday Night Locker Room Team is Brevard’s No. 1 sports sourceFour members of the Florida Tech men’s cross country and track teams were named to the College Sports Communications Academic All-District team when the organization announced the selections Tuesday afternoon. (Florida Tech photo) BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Four members of the Florida Tech men’s cross country and track teams have earned spots on the College Sports Communications Academic All-District Team, with the organizations announcing their selections Tuesday afternoon. Luke Aagaard, Chinedum Ajabor, Brycen Hanner and Brennan Lackey will represent the Panthers on the CSC Academic All-District…
Kyle Melin “I don’t understand why there’s so much buzz about Curtis Hertel,” a colleague said to me the other day. I stopped breathing for a minute. “Don’t you remember that Hertel was a state representative?” I asked. That was just 18 months ago. He was the guy behind the scenes making all the deals. He was the one who got things done. He was the guy who could dazzle anyone with his quick wit and biting sense of humor in floor speeches. He was the guy with a booming voice like Obama’s who could utter the quote of the…
(Bloomberg) — The European Union is set to scold France for violating EU rules on its deficit and debt, setting in motion a process that could lead to heavy fines and complicate campaign priorities with less than two weeks to go before polls open in parliamentary elections.Most read articles on BloombergEU rules include tough measures for countries with debts above 60% of gross domestic product and budget deficits above 3%. France’s budget deficit last year was 5.5% and its debt was about 111% of GDP.The debt will limit the next government’s ability to deliver on a series of pledges, including…
More than 2,000 high school wrestlers from across the country are gathering in Tulsa to compete in the USA Wrestling Junior National Duels.Tournament director Zachory Randall said Tulsa was the first city to host a women’s dueling event, paving the way for more wrestling opportunities for women.The Cox Business Center is packed with 45 girls high school wrestling teams and 45 boys high school wrestling teams registering and weighing in ahead of the USA Wrestling Junior National Duals.It’s not easy to get here.”It’s a really tough tournament,” Nebraska athlete Riley Johnson said, “You have to qualify through state, so basically…
Former AIADMK Minister Selur K Raju (Photo | Instagram)MADURAI: Former minister and AIADMK leader Selur K Raju has welcomed Vijay’s entry into politics and urged him to join the AIADMK alliance, saying party leaders and workers are not afraid of elections. He also criticised the DMK, alleging that the party is robotically adopting new methods every election.”The DMK has been distributing funds to woo voters like in the by-elections in Pudukottai where the DMK conducted a ‘Moi Vidhu’ event and in Erode where voters thronged like goats. Amid all this, Congress leader EVKS Elangovan praised the MK Stalin government and…
With just over two months until the 2024 college football season and less than a month until the return of EA Sports’ video game, College Football 25, college football fans received more good news this week when “Phil Steele’s 2024 College Football Preview” arrived in VIP subscribers’ mailboxes. While the days of walking into your local newsstand and buying multiple copies of college football preview magazines are largely over, Steele’s Preview remains the best college football preview around, and fans rely on it as a source of information throughout the season. So what does Steele think about the 2024 Virginia…
A high-ranking delegation of US congressional officials, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, visited the Dalai Lama at his home in India on Wednesday and met with him, a visit that had been condemned in advance by China, which considers the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist.A delegation led by Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, arrived Tuesday in Dharamsala, the Himalayan city where the Dalai Lama has lived since the 1960s. The delegation visited the offices of the Tibetan government-in-exile, which promotes autonomy for Tibet within China.The visit came days after Congress passed a…
NEW DELHI: A video of Pakistan speedster Haris Rauf getting into a scuffle with a fan has gone viral on social media. Rauf was walking on a footpath with his wife when the fan reportedly hurled abuse at him over the team’s poor performance in the T20 World Cup.In the video, an enraged Rauf can be seen running towards the fan and claiming that he is Indian, to which the fan replies that he is Pakistani. Three to four other fans intervene and stop Rauf from escalating the situation further.After the video went viral, Rauf posted a message on social…
The United States should urgently provide Pakistan with additional military equipment to counter rising attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, Islamabad’s envoy to Washington has said.Ambassador Masood Khan also said: National He said Israel needs around $100 billion to adapt to the effects of climate change, which is wreaking havoc on the South Asian country through deadly floods and heat waves, and called for the implementation of a “time-bound” two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, officially known as the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.Islamabad…
Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93.Mays’ family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night he had died earlier in the afternoon in the Bay Area.“My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” son Michael Mays said in a statement released by the club. “I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life’s…