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The refusal of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to attend a Cricket West Indies meeting on governance reform is not sitting well with chairman of the Caricom Sub-Committee on cricket, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. “The closing of the year on that score was not a good thing,” PM Rowley said on Saturday’s ISport programme on i95FM. On December 6, the two territorial boards did not send representatives to the planned shareholders meeting which was described as “pivotal.” The meeting was to vote on implementing governance reforms recommended by the Wehby Report, a document compiled by a group headed by Jamaican business executive Don Wehby. The meeting failed to come off because the required quorum was not met. In a subsequent statement, the two boards stated in part that “the BCA and GCB rejected the Wehby Report on the basis that it seeks to relinquish power from the territorial boards.” Saying that he was “disappointed” that there was no quorum, Rowley stated that, “this signals a reluctance on the part of the establishment in current West Indies cricket to engage the issue and to take hard decisions.” The Prime Minister added: “I’m afraid that what is appearing to be coming up on the surface is that some people who can influence the outcome are prepared to have the current arrangements remain in place even though we acknowledge that they are not delivering as we would like (them) to...” Rowley reasoned: “Even though we do not have 100% agreement, what we have agreement on, we could move forward with or, when we acknowledge a problem, that we try to find a way to move forward with.” However, the T&T PM did not think that there was governmental influence on the positions of the GCB and BCA. “I don’t think there is any underlying strategic planning on the part of the (governmental) leadership. I think it has more to do with the Cricket West Indies itself and its membership; the territorial leaders where certain strong-willed individuals believe that this direction is not right.” But, he stressed, “the place to do that is at the meeting.” Adding also that, “there is no attempt by Caricom to run West Indies cricket,” he said Caribbean leaders can only use “moral suasion” with the CWI decision-makers. “We want to encourage people in this period or great risk and possible good rewards to get to the table, take the assistance that is available, work as one body. Nobody is going to respect West Indies cricket if we are fractured at the level of the management of the game,” he said. No sense to disbanding And the Prime Minister used stronger words to describe the recent suggestion by former chairman of world governing body ICC Greg Barclay that it may be time for West Indies to be disbanded as a cricket-playing entity, describing it as “tomfoolery.” “I’ve never heard more nonsense,” he said, adding: “As a matter of fact, the West Indies as a team is a unique entity in World cricket and the fact that we have dominated the game for two decades should indicate that the model does work, and we don’t need any advice from anybody telling us that the way to go is with 13 different countries.” Rowley added: “What they really trying to encourage us to do is to get out, because they are aiming to form an elite group of...cricket-playing countries and you will be ranked by your performance and therefore West Indies’ history would come to nought. And rather than try to aspire to where we achieved, we should go down in Division Three or Division Four and scratch our way down there among newcomers.” He said: “We must reject that...At Caricom we have taken a decision that...West Indies has played a role and we’ve paid our dues and we need to be treated with more respect and have more resources from the ICC, so that we can get those resources to bring our game into line with what is required in today’s sport and not to abandon our great legacy and our great record.”Tributes pour in from Congressional lawmakers after Jimmy Carter's death: 'A great humanitarian'

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The Minnesota Wild’s in-game entertainment folks make sure that no matter what happens on the ice, home games are quite a spectacle of music and light. But after nearly a month, Wild forward Joel Eriksson Ek had done more than enough of watching the show. On Sunday, Eriksson Ek returned to the Wild lineup after missing the previous 11 games with a lower-body injury. ADVERTISEMENT “It’s never fun being injured. So yeah, happy to be back for sure,” said Eriksson Ek, following the team’s morning skate at TRIA Rink. During a Dec. 3 home win over Vancouver, Eriksson Ek left the ice during overtime after a collision with Canucks winger Jake DeBrusk. “I think we hit each other’s knees,” Eriksson Ek said. “So yeah, just an unlucky play.” The Wild went 5-6-0 with their top-line center missing, including a season-worst, four-game losing streak. While Kirill Kaprizov missed a second consecutive game and his third of the season on Sunday, Minnesota coach John Hynes struck an optimistic note about getting two-thirds of the team’s standard top line back together to face Ottawa. “It was nice that he had a full practice yesterday and feels good, so getting him back is obviously always a benefit,” he said. “With who he is as a player, who he is as a guy and what he means to our team, it’s good.” In 22 games with the Wild this season, Eriksson Ek has five goals and eight assists for 13 points, normally playing center between Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello, when all three are healthy. That has been a rarity this season, as the trio has combined to miss 29 games among the 37 that the Wild have played. ADVERTISEMENT While the Ottawa Senators were in Minnesota on Sunday, around two dozen folks from the State of Hockey are in Ottawa this week, attending the 2025 World Junior Hockey Championship and planning for a year from now when the world’s best young hockey talent comes to Minnesota. The Senators’ home rink and a secondary site in Ottawa are hosting the 2025 event, while starting in December 2025 the games will be played at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis and Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The Twin Cities last hosted the World Juniors — which is considered second only to the Olympics among global hockey events — in 1982, with the since-demolished Met Center used as one of the rinks. The group visiting Ottawa included officials from both local arenas, several people from Minnesota Sports and Events and Minnesota hockey legend Lou Nanne, who is one of the local ambassadors for the 2026 World Juniors. ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .

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Before his death today in hospice care at his home in Georgia , Jimmy Carter defied illness and death for years. When his melanoma spread to his brain in 2015, he drew praise for announcing it publicly. Even as he underwent treatment, he continued to teach Sunday school in his home town's Baptist church. Within months, he announced that he was cancer-free. Four years later, Carter fell at least three times, at one point breaking a hip and at another requiring 14 stitches. Each time he bounced back, even showing up for a Habitat for Humanity home-building project shortly after one stumble. Jimmy Carter's tragic 10-word dying wish as he faces death's door in hospice in Plains, Georgia Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter celebrates her 96th birthday with Jimmy and ice cream But he has slowly retreated from public life lately, making fewer and fewer appearances or statements and was unable to attend President Biden's inauguration in January 2021. However, he lived long enough to outlast two presidents who followed him and his own vice president, Walter Mondale. He became the longest-living president in March 2019 when he passed former President George H.W. Bush, who died four months before. Although Carter, nicknamed Jimmy Cardigan after once wearing a jumper for a televised speech, left the White House after one of the biggest landslide defeats of the modern era, he was one of very few US leaders to be memorialised while still alive. The evolution of his legacy was unusual as he had such a long period between the end of his unpopular presidency and the announcement at the weekend that he would undergo no further treatment to die peacefully at his home. Carter's time in the White House was marred by his struggles to respond to formidable challenges, including a major energy crisis, high inflation, and unemployment. He took office after Gerald Ford left the entire US government in disarray. Carter entered the Oval Office facing mounting challenges - an energy crisis, Soviet aggression and, above all, a deep mistrust of leadership by voters. In foreign affairs, he reopened US relations with China and tried to broker peace in the historic Arab-Israeli conflict, but was damaged late in his term by a hostage crisis in Iran. Carter's diagnosis of America's "crisis of confidence" did little to boost his flagging popularity, and in 1980 he was defeated in the general election by Ronald Reagan. Over the following decades, Carter built a distinguished career as a diplomat, humanitarian and author, pursuing conflict resolution in countries around the globe. He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Born in Plains, Georgia, in October 1924, Carter attended the US Naval Academy graduating in 1946. Already, he had a solid moral compass installed in him by his nurse mother, "Miz" Lillian. She set an example for her son by crossing the strict lines of segregation in 1920s Georgia to counsel poor African American women on health care. Shortly after passing out of the navy, he married Rosalynn Smith, having four children together. But tragedy struck in July 1953 as while he was preparing to serve as an engineering officer on the submarine Seawolf, his father, Earl, died from cancer. Carter returned home and was able to rebuild his family's struggling peanut warehouse business after a crippling drought. Ironically the legume became the symbol of his presidential campaign. Active in community affairs and a deacon at the Plains Baptist Church, he launched his political career with a seat on his local board of education. In 1962, he won the election to the Georgia State Senate as a Democrat, running for the governor's office four years later, finishing a disappointing third. The loss sent Carter into a depression, which he overcame by finding renewed faith as a born-again Christian. He ran again for the governorship in 1970 and won. A year later, Carter was featured on the cover of Time magazine as one of a new breed of young political leaders in the South, known for their moderate racial views and progressive economic and social policies. Initially, Carter was a political phenomenon, a new-generation Democrat who, after a single term as governor of the Peach State, shocked the political world by beating a host of better-known rivals to capture his party's presidential nomination in 1976. A year later, he would oust the incumbent Republican president, Ford. Over four years in office, he sought to restore trust in government following the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, ushering in reforms meant to transform politics. He mediated the historic Camp David Accords, making peace between Israel and Egypt, an agreement that remains the foundation of Middle East relations. But a sour economy, rocketing inflation, and a 444-day hostage crisis in Iran where 52 American diplomats were held captive undercut his public support. Ultimately, it cost him his re-election bid, losing to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Carter spent his post-presidency, however, on a series of philanthropic causes around the world, like building houses for the poor, combating disease, promoting human rights in places of repression, monitoring elections and seeking to end conflicts. His work as a former president in many ways came to eclipse his time in the White House, eventually earning him the Nobel Peace Prize and rehabilitating his image in the eyes of many Americans. "Between the time he left office and entered hospice care, he got to sit back and enjoy the adulation of a grateful nation," Jeffrey Engel, the director for the presidential history centre at Southern Methodist University, said. "The passage of time smoothed out the rough edges of his political career. If Carter had died in 1982, there would be less adulation than he is receiving right now." Joseph Crespino, the Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, called his resilience "remarkable." "Instead of sulking about not winning the second term, he used his influence and prominence from his position in politics to help millions of people and win the Nobel Peace Prize," he said. When asked about regrets, Carter spoke of his in his autobiography "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety." The former president said he was upset by how his kiss with the Queen Mother was portrayed. He wrote how he didn't regret puckering up to Her Majesty, describing it as "lightly on the cheek" as the pair said goodnight after dinner at Buckingham Place in May 1977. However, much like his presidency, its impact never left those affected most by his actions. To her dying day, the Queen Mother had two hates, as detailed in her 2009 biography - oysters and being kissed by a US president.Trae Young collected 34 points and 10 assists and the visiting Atlanta Hawks never trailed en route to a 136-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. Reserve De'Andre Hunter added 22 points for the Hawks, who have won four games in a row. Jalen Johnson chipped in 15 points, six steals and one block. Onyeka Okongwu returned after missing five games due to a knee injury and scored 15 points off the bench, Zaccharie Risacher contributed 14 points and Clint Capela had 11 points and 13 rebounds. Scottie Barnes had 19 points, eight rebounds and three steals for the Raptors, who have lost 10 straight games. RJ Barrett added 17 points, and Jakob Poeltl (groin injury) was back in the lineup after missing four games and had 13 points. Bruce Brown made his season debut and scored 12 points off the bench for Toronto, which committed 31 turnovers. Atlanta led 35-25 after one quarter, taking advantage of 10 Toronto giveaways. Toronto started the second quarter with a 6-2 run, but Young's 3-pointer bumped Atlanta's lead to 14 points, 47-33, with 8:36 to play in the frame. The Raptors then used an 11-2 surge to cut the margin to five with five minutes remaining. However, the Hawks stayed in control before settling for a 64-58 lead at the break after the Raptors' Chris Boucher canned a 31-foot 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer. Atlanta shot 43.8 percent from the field in the first half and had nine turnovers. Meanwhile, Toronto shot 57.9 percent overall during the first two quarters while committing 17 turnovers. Atlanta was up 76-64 with 9:21 left in the third quarter after Risacher's dunk following Young's steal. A 7-0 rally extended Atlanta's lead to 17 with 5:41 remaining in the frame, and Hunter's 3-pointer stretched the gap to 21 points, 99-78, with 2:53 to go. Atlanta had a 104-82 cushion after three quarters and saw its advantage reach as many as 31 in the fourth. --Field Level Media

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Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Monday, the Carter Centre said. He was 100. “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son. “My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honouring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.” A Democrat, he served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 US election. Carter was swept from office four years later in an electoral landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor. Carter lived longer after his term in office than any other US president. Along the way, he earned a reputation as a better former president than he was a president – a status he readily acknowledged. His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East. But it was dogged by an economy in recession, persistent unpopularity and the embarrassment of the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office. In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on 19 November, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair. Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th US president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president. “I’m Jimmy Carter and I’m running for president. I will never lie to you,” Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile. Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: “The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader.” Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Centre in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world. A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher since his teens, Carter brought a strong sense of morality to the presidency, speaking openly about his religious faith. He also sought to take some pomp out of an increasingly imperial presidency – walking, rather than riding in a limousine, in his 1977 inauguration parade. The Middle East was the focus of Carter’s foreign policy. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, based on the 1978 Camp David accords, ended a state of war between the two neighbours. Carter brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for talks. Later, as the accords seemed to be unravelling, Carter saved the day by flying to Cairo and Jerusalem for personal shuttle diplomacy. The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and establishment of diplomatic relations. Begin and Sadat each won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. By the 1980 election, the overriding issues were double-digit inflation, interest rates that exceeded 20 percent and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis that brought humiliation to America. These issues marred Carter’s presidency and undermined his chances of winning a second term. On 4 November, 1979, revolutionaries devoted to Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, seized the Americans present and demanded the return of the ousted shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was backed by the United States and was being treated in a US hospital. The American public initially rallied behind Carter. But his support faded in April 1980 when a commando raid failed to rescue the hostages, with eight US soldiers killed in an aircraft accident in the Iranian desert. Carter’s final ignominy was that Iran held the 52 hostages until minutes after Reagan took his oath of office on 20 January 1981, to replace Carter, then released the planes carrying them to freedom. In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He also asked the US Senate to defer consideration of a major nuclear arms accord with Moscow. Unswayed, the Soviets remained in Afghanistan for a decade. Carter won narrow Senate approval in 1978 of a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama despite critics who argued the waterway was vital to American security. He also completed negotiations on full US ties with China. Carter created two new US Cabinet departments – education and energy. Amid high gas prices, he said America’s “energy crisis” was “the moral equivalent of war” and urged the country to embrace conservation. “Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth,” he told Americans in 1977. In 1979, Carter delivered what became known as his “malaise” speech to the nation, although he never used that word. “After listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America,” he said in his televised address. “The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.” As president, the strait-laced Carter was embarrassed by the behaviour of his hard-drinking younger brother, Billy Carter, who had boasted: “I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.” Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle against a vigourous Republican adversary. Reagan, the conservative who projected an image of strength, kept Carter off balance during their debates before the November 1980 election. Reagan dismissively told Carter, “There you go again,” when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan’s views during one debate. Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan, who won 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral College landslide. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on 1 October, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one of four children of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, served in the nuclear submarine program and left to manage the family peanut farming business. He married his wife, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he called “the most important thing in my life.” They had three sons and a daughter. Carter became a millionaire, a Georgia state legislator and Georgia’s governor from 1971 to 1975. He mounted an underdog bid for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, and out-hustled his rivals for the right to face Ford in the general election. With Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate, Carter was given a boost by a major Ford gaffe during one of their debates. Ford said that “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration,” despite decades of just such domination. Carter edged Ford in the election, even though Ford actually won more states – 27 to Carter’s 23. Not all of Carter’s post-presidential work was appreciated. Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, were said to have been displeased by Carter’s freelance diplomacy in Iraq and elsewhere. In 2004, Carter called the Iraq war launched in 2003 by the younger Bush one of the most “gross and damaging mistakes our nation ever made.” He called George W. Bush’s administration “the worst in history” and said Vice President Dick Cheney was “a disaster for our country.” In 2019, Carter questioned Republican Donald Trump’s legitimacy as president, saying “he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.” Trump responded by calling Carter “a terrible president.” Carter also made trips to communist North Korea. A 1994 visit defused a nuclear crisis, as President Kim Il Sung agreed to freeze his nuclear program in exchange for resumed dialogue with the United States. That led to a deal in which North Korea, in return for aid, promised not to restart its nuclear reactor or reprocess the plant’s spent fuel. But Carter irked Democratic President Bill Clinton’s administration by announcing the deal with North Korea’s leader without first checking with Washington. In 2010, Carter won the release of an American sentenced to eight years hard labour for illegally entering North Korea. Carter wrote more than two dozen books, ranging from a presidential memoir to a children’s book and poetry, as well as works about religious faith and diplomacy. His book “Faith: A Journey for All,” was published in 2018.

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Fifty-eight transgender people in the United States have died from violence and suicide this year. Local activists and community leaders want to ensure their names are never forgotten. On Wednesday night, about 100 people gathered to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance in Vancouver. The national event started about two decades ago to honor the memory of transgender people who have died through violent means, including by gun violence and intimate partner violence. The ceremony brought together religious and nonprofit leaders, children, families and transgender individuals who say they are tired of the continued violence against their community. “I am one of the fortunate people, to where I have a family that loves and supports me,” said Remi Ostermiller, a transgender activist. “But it’s hard growing up in a society that does not value you. So many people in my community don’t get to live that long. Will I be murdered before I’m able to retire?” Local nonprofit Odyssey World International Education Services hosted the event at the downtown Vancouver offices of Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health. Rev. Byron Harris, lead pastor at Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church, introduced various speakers, including Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver, and Vancouver City Councilor Ty Stober. Harris, who identifies as queer, acknowledged how the church has negatively impacted the LGBTQ+ community. “Can we speak truthfully in this moment? The church has caused a lot of wounds within our community. Religious institutions have bruised a lot of people,” Harris said. “But there is some work being done in this area. All hope is not gone.” As people spoke during the event, a slideshow of the 58 transgender people who died played on a TV screen, showing their photos, age, how they died and where they were from. “When we were talking about this meeting, I said I wanted there to be a PowerPoint. You can read names, but they’re just names,” Ostermiller said. “Seeing the faces of the people and realizing that they were human, and they were people like you and I. They were people with hopes and dreams.” Community member Leeza Edwards read all of their names, followed by a moment of silence to honor them. Rates of violence Transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith started Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999 as a vigil to commemorate the deaths of Black transgender women Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett in 1998 and 1995, respectively. But more than 20 years later, Black transgender women continue to face violence at disproportionate rates. Since 2013, the Human Rights Campaign has tracked incidents of fatal violence against the transgender community. This year, it reported the deaths of at least 30 transgender and gender-expansive people. Of those people, 77 percent were people of color, and 53 percent were Black transgender women. In 2022, the FBI recorded a record high number of hate crimes related to gender identity, including a 33 percent jump in hate crimes on the basis of gender identity from the year before, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Gun violence disproportionately impacts the transgender community: To date, more than half of all victims of fatal violence in 2024 were killed with a gun. Vancouver’s Nikki Kuhnhausen was a 17-year-old transgender teenager who was killed in June 2019. David Bogdanov was later convicted and sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for her murder . Wylie spoke of Kuhnhausen and her memory on Wednesday night. “I was the leader in Olympia that brought back the trans panic bill that was passed in the wake of Nikki’s murder,” Wylie said. “In my floor speech, I had permission to read some letters from her to her mom. I made my point that Nikki, and all of us, are somebody’s child.” Kuhnhausen’s case inspired local activists to push for a ban on the trans panic defense, where defendants could justify violence based on a person’s gender identity. The resulting legislation, which was originally introduced in 2019 by then-state Rep. Derek Stanford, passed a year later in Washington. Wylie added an amendment to name the bill the Nikki Kuhnhausen Act. Flyn Alexander, a social worker, said despite the violence, coming together with the community gives him hope as a transgender man. “I think in the last few years for myself, these events are very heavy, but I think we need to hold on to that praxis of hope,” Alexander said. “Hope is not something you just feel, it is a practice. I think a big piece of that journey for me has been community. Finding my people, that has been my praxis of hope in a place of grief.” This story was made possible by Community Funded Journalism , a project from The Columbian and the Local Media Foundation . Top donors include the Ed and Dollie Lynch Fund, Patricia, David and Jacob Nierenberg, Connie and Lee Kearney, Steve and Jan Oliva, The Cowlitz Tribal Foundation and the Mason E. Nolan Charitable Fund. The Columbian controls all content. For more information, visit columbian.com/cfj .Ohio State, Michigan players involved in postgame scuffle

ST. LOUIS — Matvei Michkov scored 26 seconds into overtime and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Saturday night. Owen Tippett and Tyson Foerster also scored for Philadelphia, and Aleksei Kolosov had 25 saves. Dylan Holloway and Jake Neighbours scored for St. Louis. Jordan Binnington finished with 28 saves. Neighbours tied the score with 19 seconds left in regulation, putting in a loose puck from just outside the crease. Tippett tapped in the puck from the right side after a pass from Michkov at 9:15 of the first period. Holloway tied it 1-1 with 8:49 remaining in the third, and Foerster scored on a rebound to put the Flyers back ahead 51 seconds later. Takeaways Flyers: Veteran Sean Couturier ended a four-game point streak (three goals, two assists). Philadelphia Flyers right wing Tyson Foerster, center, has a shot blocked by St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk, right, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in St. Louis. Credit: AP/Jeff Le Blues: Defenseman Philip Broberg was back on the ice on day after coming off injured reserve after recovering from a lower body injury and missing 12 games. He was hurt in a game against Toronto on Nov. 2. Key moment Binnington recorded two eye-popping saves late in the second period with the Blues trailing 1-0. Binnington was sprawled in the crease blocking a backhand shot by Tracy Konecny with 1:02 remaining. Sean Couturier nabbed the loose puck, but a prone Binnington made an acrobatic glove save on the goal line seconds later to prevent a sure goal. Key stat The Flyers are 4-0-1 in their last five games, with three of them going into overtime. Since their victory over the Blues on Halloween night, Philadelphia has gone 8-3-2. Up next Blues visit Winnipeg to begin a four-game trip, and Flyers host Florida on Thursday. St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk, left, pressures Philadelphia Flyers center Morgan Frost, right, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in St. Louis. Credit: AP/Jeff Le __ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHLSam Hicks, defense lead Abilene Christian over Northern Arizona 24-0 to extend 1st trip to playoffs

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