The Chicago Cubs will need to make big changes after underachieving in 2025. They could move on from some key players to make way for young stars in the organization. While listing Cubs players who would not be on the team at the end of Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings, FanSided's Zach Pressnell predicted that second baseman Nico Hoerner would be traded. "Hoerner takes the spot at second base, blocking the Cubs top prospect from coming to the big leagues. Matt Shaw is the Cubs top prospect and he's big-league-ready. Last season, Shaw slashed .284/.379/.488 split between Double-A and Triple-A. While in Triple-A for just under 40 games, Shaw slashed an incredible .298/.395/.534," wrote Pressnell. "It's hard to imagine that somebody with his raw talent and results will stick in the minor leagues for long. He's a huge piece of Chicago's future and there's not going to be any holding him back in the minor leagues." Hoerner is a Gold Glove Award winner, but offensively the Cubs need more. He had a .273 batting average, but his OPS was .708. He does not take many walks and does not really hit home runs. He had just seven last season. Meanwhile, Matt Shaw has been great offensively. Hoerner signed a three-year, $35 million extension with the Cubs before the 2023 season. He is a great defender and could fetch a decent return in a trade. Trading him would open the door for Shaw to start on Opening Day. The Scubs would not struggle to find a trade partner. Hoerner's defense and .335 OBP should make him a target for teams in need of a second baseman. More MLB: Cubs trade proposal ships 2-time All-Star to Yankees to replace Anthony Rizzo
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Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence, the son of Eddie Murphy and daughter Martin Lawrence , just announced their engagement . Now, fans can’t help but imagine how entertaining their family gatherings will be. On November 30, the couple — who have been dating since 2021 — shared footage of the proposal. In a joint Instagram post set to Eric Benét’s “Spend My Life With You,” Eric popped the question in a room filled with white roses, candles, and an orange, heart-shaped light. “We’re engaged!!” they captioned the post, along with the date “11.27.2024.” “God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter,” the couple wrote. “Special thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful!!” Although Eric and Jasmin have been together for three years, that didn’t stop fans on social media from sharing their excitement over the romantic pairing. “I wanna go to this wedding so bad,” one fan wrote on X/Twitter. “Thanksgiving must be the most hilarious reunion ever,” another user said , while someone else echoed : “I know them family holidays go crazy.” Some people couldn’t help gush over Eric and Jasmin’s future children, who will be genetically predisposed to a sense of humor. “That baby gon be so funny, I’m laughing already,” one person said , as someone else wrote : “They have the chance to make the funniest human of all time.” Then, there were those who simply wanted Murphy and Lawrence to reunite on-screen with a film about their son and daughter’s real-life romance. “Now we need this as a movie where the father in laws hate each other and cause havoc during the wedding week,” one fan said . Eric and Jasmin announced their relationship in June 2021. Their fathers first starred alongside each other in the 1992 romantic comedy Boomerang , before appearing together again in 1999’s Life . They’re rumored to be teaming up again for a remake of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World . In 2022, Jasmine revealed to InTouch that it was actually her uncle that introduced her to Eric. “It wasn’t even our dads, and they’ve done two movies together,” she said at the time. “They’re friends. I don’t even know. It’s crazy. But we met through my uncle, and we became really good friends. We bonded on a lot of things. Obviously, we have similar backgrounds, so we understood each other on a certain level.” Lawrence previously joked about Eric and Jasmin’s possible future wedding on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2022, claiming that he was going to “try to get Eddie to pay for it.” Kimmel noted that Eric and Jasmin would make “a comedy super baby” — a sentiment later echoed by Murphy in a CBS Mornings interview last June, when he said: “Our gene pool is going to make this funny baby.” He also seemed pleased when he talked about the couple, saying: “They’re both beautiful, they look amazing together.”Elon Musk Demands Ownership of InfoWars Social AccountsMedical technology startup Prodancy raises funds
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At the start of a tour of Columbia High School’s new education facility that included Columbia High School coaches, Columbia-Brazoria ISD administration and school board members, C-BISD Superintendent Steven Galloway introduced a couple of architects and construction firms working with the district on its new facility. One of the men he introduced was David Gaubatz. His father, Dennis, was a Roughneck football player in the 1950s who went on to play for the Baltimore Colts after being drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 1963 NFL Draft. “It’s just kind of funny that he (David) wound up being PBK Architects’ representative on the job who is related to somebody from Columbia High School, who played in the NFL, the cover of Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, Life Magazine; it’s kind of cool,” Galloway said. The historical presence didn’t end at the door; it was the start of a theme for the new Columbia High School gymnasiums. Columbia High School will open its new gymnasiums Tuesday. The Roughnecks are hosting Van Vleck in boys basketball action. Tip-off of the freshman and junior varsity games are at 4:30 p.m. and varsity game is at 6 p.m. “This whole facility means so much to everybody,” Roughnecks coach Sean Cox said. “When I got here, it was the dome gym, and that’s all these kids have known their whole lives. To be able to call this home and something to be proud of is huge for the community and the kids. “The history is tied into all this, and it’s great for the kids to understand that, and they get to be a part of it from the start.” The two-story facility toward the back side of Columbia High School features a new career and technical education facility for agriculture and trade training, dual gyms, a weight room, locker rooms and a new facility for fine arts instruction. However, the two gymnasiums’ uniqueness is the historical ties they showcase to the school district and the city of West Columbia. “When we went into design, we talked about calling this court First Capital Court,” Galloway said. “In 1836, after the Battle of the Alamo, the Battle of San Jacinto, it (West Columbia) became the first capital, and they decided to meet here in October of 1836 and inaugurated Sam Houston as the first president of the Republic of Texas. “So when we went through the process of the facilities committee, they asked us to respect the history of the area.” First Capital Court is the main varsity high school gymnasium. To incorporate West Columbia’s history, oil derricks are etched on the court, highlighting the oilfield workers who came to West Columbia in 1919 and 1920 to find a better place for their children to go to school, Galloway said. “West Columbia ISD was created as a taxing entity back in 1920; that’s when the election went to the voters to do that, so that is represented here,” Galloway said. The court also encompasses modern-day Columbia High School and Columbia-Brazoria ISD, with a circular “C” logo at midcourt. The logo represents the district’s “Ride for the C” mantra, which athletics director Earnest Peña instilled when he took over the position in 2023. “If you look at the court and know the history, it is from the very beginning to the very current,” Galloway said. Next door to the varsity gym is the auxiliary gym, which will host subvarsity volleyball and basketball games. That gym is named Charlie Brown Court and has the year 1896 along the sideline. Brown was a freed slave who moved to Texas after Emancipation and became Texas’ first Black millionaire. He died in 1920. However, his wish for a school for Black children outlived him, and the district wanted to make sure it honored him with the new upgrades. “In 1896, a U.S. Supreme Court hearing called Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal. A few months after that, Charlie Brown donated land to this school district, which at the time was Common School District 16 in 1896,” Galloway said. “He donated land to the district to build a facility to educate the Black children of the school district at that time. “In that beginning, and to represent that history, we named that court Charlie Brown Court. The idea is to respect the history, and what we want is when people come to the gym and ask ‘What does 1896 mean?’ Our people can tell them the history. We are an education business and we want everything we do to teach a history lesson.” District voters approved the $79 million bond project, managed by PBK Architects, in November 2022 to replace buildings as old as 60 years, including the old dome-like gymnasium. “It looked like the construction was going to take us three years, 36 months. Once we got Drymalla (Construction Co.), the construction manager at risk, on board and sat down in planning, we found a way to cut the construction time from 36 months to 20 months,” Galloway said. “But the key was, get this (the high school gym) opened first.” Phase 1 of the project was to complete the gymnasiums. Phase 2, which started after Thanksgiving, included moving everything into the building. Phase 3 involves tearing down the current auxiliary gym, also known as the G building, and the girls’ locker room. The old domed building was demolished in August 2023. The volleyball and basketball teams have played their home games at West Brazos Junior High School in Brazoria during construction. “But part of the other process was while everything else is going on, we’re going to school around it,” Galloway said. “It’s been a masterpiece of planning and it’s turned out perfect. When we start school in August, we will be in everything.” Galloway praised the community for its support. “It’s fantastic,” he said. “Anytime you want somebody to pay a little money, that’s hard. But, when we were doing our tours and talking to groups, our promise was that we were going to do things right. I hope when we bring people into this facility, they agree.” Lady ’Necks coach Maurice Jones had never experienced another gym like this because the gymnasiums he visited before didn’t have the sense of character Columbia’s has, he said. “There is history tied behind this,” he said. “Here, First Capital Court; West Columbia being the first capital for the Republic of Texas is great, and we understand that the oil is what established West Columbia ISD, and now, we ‘Ride for the C.’ That is the culture that we want to establish here at Columbia. “It’s exciting for the kids to experience all of that. When you walk into this gym, there is history here, and you feel something different than the norm.” Both coaches showed their players the facility during the day Nov. 21. Jones’ team got to practice Nov. 25 and Cox’s on Nov. 26, but Cox’s team will get the chance to christen the gymnasium with Tuesday’s non-district game. “They are excited. They are chomping at the bit to get here,” Cox said. “Being able to practice here a couple of times before a game is huge. They can get comfortable going into a new locker room, knowing where you are going and getting acclimated to a new space.” The weight room is for girls’ sports and boys’ basketball, eliminating the need to walk to the field house. “We can have a group lift and a group practice without having to travel across campus. It makes it so much easier,” Cox said. Peña is one of more than a dozen coaches who are alumni of Columbia High School and played in the dome gym. In a way, the opening of the new gymnasiums is a journey come full circle for the 2003 Roughneck graduate, who will soon see his own children do the same at the new facility, including his daughter, Emsley, who will play in the new gym in a few years as a freshman. “It means a lot because where we played before, and now we are part of a new beginning. ... I think about the community and all the people I grew up with; they all have kids coming through here, and they played in the dome,” Peña said. “It’s a new beginning for us ... everybody on the coaching staff, the alumni and the community appreciates it. “How often do you get to open up a new gym ... and our kids get to play in this gym and experience it? We are proud and excited about it.”
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Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence, the son of and daughter , just . Now, fans can’t help but imagine how entertaining their family gatherings will be. On November 30, the couple — who have been dating since 2021 — shared footage of the proposal. In a joint post set to Eric Benét’s “Spend My Life With You,” Eric popped the question in a room filled with white roses, candles, and an orange, heart-shaped light. “We’re engaged!!” they captioned the post, along with the date “11.27.2024.” “God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter,” the couple wrote. “Special thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful!!” Although Eric and Jasmin have been together for three years, that didn’t stop fans on social media from sharing their excitement over the romantic pairing. “I wanna go to this wedding so bad,” one fan on X/Twitter. “Thanksgiving must be the most hilarious reunion ever,” another user , while someone else : “I know them family holidays go crazy.” Some people couldn’t help gush over Eric and Jasmin’s future children, who will be genetically predisposed to a sense of humor. “That baby gon be so funny, I’m laughing already,” one person , as someone else : “They have the chance to make the funniest human of all time.” Then, there were those who simply wanted Murphy and Lawrence to reunite on-screen with a film about their son and daughter’s real-life romance. “Now we need this as a movie where the father in laws hate each other and cause havoc during the wedding week,” one fan . Eric and Jasmin their relationship in June 2021. Their fathers first starred alongside each other in the 1992 romantic comedy , before appearing together again in 1999’s . They’re rumored to be teaming up again for a remake of . In 2022, Jasmine revealed to that it was actually her uncle that introduced her to Eric. “It wasn’t even our dads, and they’ve done two movies together,” she said at the time. “They’re friends. I don’t even know. It’s crazy. But we met through my uncle, and we became really good friends. We bonded on a lot of things. Obviously, we have similar backgrounds, so we understood each other on a certain level.” Lawrence previously joked about Eric and Jasmin’s possible future wedding on in 2022, claiming that he was going to “try to get Eddie to pay for it.” Kimmel noted that Eric and Jasmin would make “a comedy super baby” — a sentiment later echoed by Murphy in a interview last June, when he said: “Our gene pool is going to make this funny baby.” He also seemed pleased when he talked about the couple, saying: “They’re both beautiful, they look amazing together.”After Trump's win, Black women are rethinking their role as America's reliable political organizers
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