United States’ Julie Ertz announced her retirement from international soccer following Sunday’s heartbreaking defeat to Sweden in the 2023 Women’s World Cup round of 16.
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Rory McIlory was once again in the Top 10 of a PGA Tour event this week at the Travelers Championship with an impressive 18-under score after 72 holes.
Normally, a showing like that would be more than good enough to a win a tournament, but he finished tied seventh and five shots behind the winner at 23-under, Keegan Bradley. He set the tournament record by one shot.
TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. took a shot from McIlroy after he said the course has basically failed to adapt to the club and ball technology that has evolved for the professionals.
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“I don’t particularly like when a tournament is like this,” McIlroy explained via The New York Post. “Unfortunately, technology has passed this course by, right? It sort of has made it obsolete, especially as soft as it has been with a little bit of rain that we had.”
Tournament officials were asked about the conditions at TPC River Highlands this week due to the pros scoring well all over the course. With many rounds in the low 60s, the officials said a cold spring, which rarely happens in the area, didn’t allow the grounds to firm up.
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Add in the rain that McIlroy mentioned, and the course becomes even softer, allowing for more aggressive play. When it comes to these PGA Tour pros, they salivate at conditions like these because they know they can go at pins and fairways without the usual risk at other courses.
Take Los Angeles Country Club for example at last week’s U.S. Open or Oak Hill Country Club for the PGA Championship. Justin Thomas and Max Homa were cut after two rounds at the Open and players like Jon Rahm and Tony Finau barely scraped by at Oak Hill.
Not every course is going to have treacherous roughs and cunning greens like those two. Yet, McIlroy, who has played virtually everywhere on Tour, made a point to make a comment that shows he believes it needs to get tougher out there.
Nonetheless, he wasn’t able to score as high as he wanted to. He was off on a tear to start his final round Sunday, though, when he birdied five of the first eight holes he played. But he couldn’t keep that momentum pushing throughout the round.
It was a great pay day either way.
“I knew I was never going to win with the way Keegan was playing, but I felt like I probably needed a couple more birdies to finish Top 5,” McIlroy said.
The Rocket Mortgage Classic is next on the PGA Tour docket at Detroit Golf Club, which owns a 134 slope rating, measuring the course’s difficulty. An average rating is 113.
Zak Herbstreit, the son of Kirk Herbstreit and a current tight end at Ohio State, is home from the hospital.
The 21-year-old was in stable condition with what his father called “some issues with his heart.”
The ESPN analyst said “the last five or six days have been kind of a whirlwind,” but things are trending upward for his son.
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“He’s in good spirits, he’s home with us where his mom can take really good care of him,” the former quarterback told “The Pat McAfee Show on Thursday.” This is just going to be a long process to kind of see how his heart responds to some of the medications that he’s on. This is a three- or four-month kind of thing to kind of see how it recovers. But the key is being patient and positive.”
The elder Herbstreit said the hospitalization “came out of nowhere,” and they initially thought he had pneumonia, but further testing showed otherwise.
“I really would encourage anybody who’s playing sports to go a little bit more than just doing your normal physical or even EKG wiring, that’s not really enough,” Kirk said, “The [echocardiogram] is what you really need to discover some things that potentially can be scary. We’re very fortunate that he got the echo and found some stuff. … He had very few symptoms. You would never know that he was dealing with what he’s dealing with.”
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“I have had a bit of a setback these past couple of weeks. Not feeling right,” Zak said. “Culminated with tests results this past Friday that forced me into the hospital. I have some of the best cardiologists looking after me, and I am beyond appreciative. We are doing a number of tests and conjuring a plan to ensure that I will be able to be back to feeling normal again. I appreciate the overwhelming support over the past couple of days. I am feeling good and hope to be out of the hospital soon.”
Zak Herbstreit has been with the Buckeyes since 2021. He previously played tight end for Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a third-generation Ohio State football player; his grandfather, Jim Herbstreit, played running back, and his father started at quarterback from 1989 to 1993.
Ohio State is coming off an appearance in the College Football Playoff and will enter the upcoming season ranked as the No. 4 team in the country in the preseason coaches poll. The Buckeyes kick off the 2023 season on Sept. 2 against Minnesota.
Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
A video has emerged showing cars piled on top of each other after a tornado with estimated peak wind speeds of 130 mph ripped through South Florida.
Footage taken in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Palm Beach Gardens Saturday depicted a car overturned with another propped up against it.
“Oh my God. Look at this thing,” a person could be heard saying as locals were wandering around the area to survey the damage.
The city of Palm Beach Gardens said there were reports of “roof damage, minor structural damage to buildings, a lot of trees down and a lot vehicle damage” in the wake of the EF-2 tornado.
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“Fire Rescue states that no injuries were reported in our jurisdiction as a result of the storm, but they did assist with transports in nearby areas,” the city added, noting that “multiple roadways were blocked with debris and downed trees.”
More than 11 million Florida residents had been placed under a tornado watch that covered most of the Florida Peninsula Saturday, according to FOX Weather.
Another video taken of the tornado showed a car being lifted off the ground and thrown through the air while it was in the middle of a street.
Palm Beach Gardens said it has activated its “Emergency Operations Center with personnel from Police, Fire and Public Works to address cleanup.”
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“A cell merger that began between the turnpike and Interstate 95 in Palm Beach Gardens was able to take advantage of a favorable environment for tornadoes and spawn an EF-2 tornado,” the National Weather Service (NWS) had said in a report.
“The tornado began just east of Interstate 95 and moved northeast across A1A, passing just south of the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center,” it continued. “As it moved through the Sanctuary Cove Community it turned more north-northeasterly crossing PGA Blvd near the intersection with U.S. 1.
“After a short trek up U.S. 1, the tornado dissipated before reaching Juno Beach,” the NWS statement concluded.
The NWS also said that the tornado destroyed a dry-cleaning business, collapsed light poles and caused an electrical concrete pole to lean over.
The tornado lasted 11 minutes and traveled nearly 3 miles before it dissipated, the NWS added.
“The City Engineer and Building official continue to do structural damage assessments,” the City of Palm Beach Gardens said.
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Talor Gooch increased his lead to 10 strokes after shooting his second straight 10-under 62 on Saturday at the inaugural LIV Australia tournament.
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An incredible human drama in space exploration ended with the miraculous safe return of the three Apollo 13 astronauts on this day in history, April 17, 1970. “In Mission Control, pandemonium erupted,” NASA reports of the joy that overwhelmed the command center after the mission’s capsule splashed down in the South Pacific shorty after noon … Continue reading On this day in history, April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts return alive, defy odds after space explosion
A Michigan couple is seeing pink as they welcomed a baby girl named Audrey in March, ending a 138-year streak of only boys being born into the family.
When Carolyn and Andrew Clark of Caledonia, Michigan, held their “gender reveal” party, they weren’t expecting any big surprises.
Andrew Clark had informed his wife before they married 10 years ago that they would not be having a girl — due to a long line of male-dominated births in his family.
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“I didn’t believe him because it’s a 50/50 chance of having a boy or a girl,” Carolyn Clark, 36, told Fox News Digital.
“So when he told me that, I just thought he was kidding,” she added.
Carolyn Clark said that the next time she saw her husband’s parents, she decided to get to the bottom of the family’s abundance of male births.
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“They told me, ‘Oh yeah, this is a real thing,” Carolyn Clark said.
“My father-in-law pulled out some family tree to show me.”
Carolyn Clark said there was one name on the family tree — the person who was apparently the last girl to be born in the family.
The family member’s birth year was 1885.
“I said, ‘This does not seem right. I’ve never heard of this happening before,” Carolyn Clark recalled.
But there was more proof.
“My grandpa was really big into our genealogy,” Andrew Clark, 34, told Fox News Digital.
“So, he traced it back and found all the birth certificates and marriage certificates and death certificates.”
And when the couple had their son Cameron, 4, it seemed that history was repeating itself, Carolyn Clark said.
“I thought, ‘It must be true. His brothers only have boys as well, so I guess this is actually real.'”
Having all boys isn’t necessarily a point of pride in the Clark family, Andrew Clark said.
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“It was just a crazy fact that kept occurring in our lives,” he said.
Still, every time someone in the family was having a baby, there was always a glimmer of hope that the child would be a girl.
“Even when we were biting into the cookie for our gender reveal, we were just expecting it to be blue,” Carolyn Clark said.
The Clarks invited their family over to bite into cookies to reveal whether they’d be welcoming a boy or a girl.
Carolyn Clark said she, her husband and their loved ones were in “utter shock” when they learned the streak would be broken (SEE THE VIDEO at the top of this article).
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“My sister-in-law and I were always saying, ‘There has to be a girl at some point, whether it’s us or maybe our boys will have a daughter at some point.’ So when we bit into [the cookie], I looked at her like, ‘Is this pink?’ And she freaked out.”
Carolyn Clark said she wondered if Audrey’s birth might pave the way for future Clark girls.
“We were happy either way,” she said.
“We just wanted a healthy baby and it was just the icing on that cake that it was a girl. Andrew’s brother and his wife are wanting more kids,” she said — and added that she hoped it “gives my sister-in-law hope that it can be done.”
Before little Audrey was born, the Clarks had suffered a miscarriage, which is why the couple has called their brand-new daughter a “rainbow baby.”
A rainbow baby is a baby born after a loss due to miscarriage, infant death, stillbirth or neonatal death, according to the American Pregnancy Association.
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“Rainbow babies are considered ‘miracle’ babies due to the powerful impact they can have on helping parents heal after a loss,” the organization wrote on its website.
Carolyn Clark had been scheduled to be induced on March 16, but Audrey had other plans and arrived on the morning of the 17th — St. Patrick’s Day.
“We just thought that was super special that she is our rainbow baby, and she came on the day of celebrating luck,” mom Carolyn Clark said.
“So, she’s kind of our lucky charm.”
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are poised to push ahead with school choice legislation and other education reforms, a key policy area where the GOP has surging momentum following the high-profile defection of a Democratic legislator.
State Rep. Tricia Cotham announced last week that she’s joining the Republican Party after serving her deep blue Charlotte-area district as a Democrat. While North Carolina Republicans already held strong majorities in both chambers of the state legislature, Cotham’s decision gave Republicans a veto-proof supermajority in the House in what observers described as a “political earthquake.”
The threat of a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper had prevented Republicans from implementing much of their agenda, but now the GOP has a clearer path to push a wide range of legislation — including on school choice.
“The House Republican caucus has for several years pushed for more reform on school choice. We believe that giving parents power over their child’s education improves educational experiences for everyone,” Rep. Jason Saine, the North Carolina House GOP caucus leader, told Fox News Digital. “
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“Representative Cotham, as a former teacher and principal, is in a unique position as an elected member of the House, to assist in badly needed reforms,” continued Saine. “She was already part of the reform team, and she’s now freer to openly work on those reforms in an environment that cares more for children than antiquated systems.”
Cotham referenced school choice at a press conference last week when announcing her change of party affiliation, suggesting the Democratic Party’s stance on the issue was one reason why she became a Republican.
“On issues like school choice, like charters, we have to evolve,” Cotham said in explaining her change of party. “One-size-fits-all in education is wrong for children … [Democrats] didn’t really want to talk about children. They had talking points from adults and adult organizations.”
As chair of the Education K-12 House Standing Committee, Cotham is in a prime position to influence education reform bills that come out of the House. And fellow Republicans, armed with a veto-proof majority, are looking to press their advantage.
“The GOP will push through significant bills on education choice and parental involvement in schools,” said Chris Sinclair, a political strategist in North Carolina. “I believe Cotham will be on board with a lot of these forthcoming bills.”
One such measure, House Bill 219, is designed to provide equal funding for charter school students as well as those attending traditional public schools. It would change the current factors which determine per-pupil funding that public school districts must share with local charter schools, with proponents arguing money should follow the student if their family chooses to attend a charter school.
“If a student attends a charter school, the local school administrative unit in which the child resides shall transfer to the charter school an amount equal to the per pupil share of the local current expense fund of the local school administrative unit for the fiscal year,” the legislation states.
According to critics, however, the current education structure in place is sufficiently fair and House Bill 219 would be taking money away from public schools.
“We believe every student should have the same per-pupil amount of local tax dollars, no matter what school they go to, ” Bruce Mildwurf, director of governmental relations for the North Carolina School Boards Association, told WRAL News. “This bill significantly tilts the scales in favor of the charter schools.”
“That is money out of the classroom; it is fewer teachers; it is fewer resources. Charters are benefiting at the expense of district-wide students,” continued Mildwurf. “School boards want fair funding. We currently have fair funding. This bill is unfair funding and will take millions of dollars away from school districts each year.”
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Saine dismissed such claims as “political double speak,” saying the money should go toward educating students, not supporting the current system.
“Going so far as to suggest that the bill seeks to take funding from traditional students when the fact is we believe money should follow the child, not an antiquated system that has bred disparity in outcomes across the state,” said Saine.” This bill, cosponsored by several House leaders, including Rep. Cotham and myself, seeks to end the practice.”
Charter school attendance in North Carolina has surged by more than 19% from 2019 to 2022, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Such growth seems to be an indication of increased unhappiness with traditional public schools.
Saine argued that while some public-school systems do well in educating students, many “fall way short and unfortunately do a great disservice to many families,” calling for new innovations to the status quo.
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“Unfortunately, many in education refuse to innovate or acknowledge shortcomings,” said Saine. “What probably alarms guys like Midruff is his message rings empty on representatives like me and others. The district I represent has never received the ‘fair funding’ he claims exists and actually receives the least under the current system he defends. What’s an even bigger counter to the educational left’s argument is our district does far more in performance measures with less money than all other systems.”
House Bill 219 may be just one of several education reform measures pushed by Republicans.
“Expansion of school choice, election law reforms, as well as many other issues are still being discussed and planned,” said Saine. “Having just completed the House budget proposal and receiving the vote of nine Democrats on our budget bill, which also included a number of policy reforms, we think we are in a good place to continue to move our agenda forward.”
The state House on Thursday approved a two-year budget plan that now goes to the Senate for a vote. The budget expands school choice by growing private-school choice programs and charter schools, in part through the Opportunity Scholarship Program, a means-tested scholarship designed to allow low- and moderate-income families to attend the private school of their choice.
Cooper had proposed a budget that would eventually phase out Opportunity Scholarships.
A pitcher who allowed a HR to Fernando Tatis Jr. in a minor league game called the Padres’ star a “cheater” on Twitter.
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