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Oklahoma's Brent Venables Ripped by CFB Fans After Armed Forces Bowl Loss to NavyHims & Hers ( HIMS 1.24% ) announced this week that it's getting into the nutrition business with bars and shakes. But are these the right products to add to a pharmaceutical business? Travis Hoium breaks down the news and how this fits into Hims & Hers' business in this video. *Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Nov. 21, 2024. The video was published on Nov. 21, 2024.
Fair Grounds Field demolition. Nov. 25, 2024. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One thing I learned in my last job was that you feel your age when you start covering the children of athletes you covered years earlier, or when those athletes you covered years before become coaches on your beat. I learned a new lesson Monday, just weeks into this job with The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate, where sports isn't really my beat — I'm bringing you news of public safety and the courts — but I found myself standing in the parking lot of Fair Grounds Field as the monster slowly beat away at the stadium. It's being demolished at a cost of $334,000 by Lloyd D. Nabors Demolition , and one machine was on site Monday afternoon, pounding away at cement on one end of the stands. The lesson? Even the things you don't appreciate enough hurt a bit when they disappear. Fair Grounds Field was state of the art in the 1980s, when I first worked there, running the message center part of the scoreboard. I typed in each hitter's stats and designed graphics to run with each commercial as it played over the intercom or was read by John James Marshall over the public address system. No baseball expert, I worked the job for income, but for some unknown reason I've held on to my first Shreveport Captains polo shirt. It will outlive the stadium itself, though it's been in approximately the same condition for some time. Regardless of your interest in the game itself, there is something so very American about going to a baseball game. And there was something so very Shreveport about Fair Grounds Field. Now subject to the wrecking ball, the stadium opened in 1986, giving the Shreveport Captains Double A baseball team a place to play that didn't embarrass that operation or the city. SPAR Stadium, the team's previous home and just northwest of what is now the Interstate 20/Interstate 49 intersection, seemed to my young eyes to have been a place where cheap beer was its biggest attraction, not for me but for the few who attended games in its final years. Fair Grounds Field brought the city so much more. It was a 4,200-seat place for families to enjoy an evening's entertainment. Tickets could be cheap, even free; the Captains made their money from concessions. Those of us working in the press box got free meals every night, but sometimes you had that urge to bypass what was free to make the walk to the grill adjacent to left field. Those were good hamburgers. Fair Grounds Field demolition, Nov. 25, 2024. The first paycheck I could physically hold in my hands came from that Captains franchise. I saw my first baseball brawl there, and it was shown on national highlight shows. Dee Dixon, himself a fixture on the roster at the time, took his best tool — speed — and turned it into an inside the park grand slam one pitch before a dugout-clearing brawl recalled by Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate sports editor Roy Lang earlier this year. Two pitchers combined for a no-hitter, and it was only the first game of a doubleheader. I remember seeing the San Diego Chicken, as he was known before he lost the city part of his name, and, yes, I got to see him out of costume. I remember at least one Texas League All-Star game and, more significantly to me, a mid-season exhibition against the parent club, the San Francisco Giants. Will Clark was on that team, and I think the Captains won by a run, though the Giants' stars made only short appearances early in the game. For some reason, I remember Marshall's frustration with himself when he learned that Kirt Manwaring, elevated to the Giants, had been dubbed Kirt "What is that" Manwaring by ESPN's Chris Berman. Marshall, who liked to come up with his own monikers for Captains, hadn't thought of it. Royce Clayton, Rod Beck and Juan Gonzalez are among many other players I saw play before their Major League careers. Another memory of mine, being a college student living in Louisiana Tech's Neilson dorm at the time — the dorm where I twice had to climb out of an elevator is already demolished — is that I counted down the outs as the game neared the ninth inning. I had an hour's drive ahead of me and classes the next day, couldn't wait to leave. I thought of that Monday, too, as I watched the monster tear apart cement along the first-base line. As much as I couldn't wait to leave all those nights, now it stings to see it go.Raiders confirm QB Gardner Minshew out for season, look to Aidan O'Connell
CLINTON, S.C. (AP) — Quante Jennings rushed for 190 yards and a tiebreaking touchdown as Presbyterian beat Butler 30-20 in a regular-season finale on Saturday. Collin Hurst threw for 172 yards and two scores and ran for another for the Blue Hose (6-6, 4-4 Pioneer League). Reagan Andrew threw for three touchdowns and was intercepted once for the Bulldogs (9-3, 5-3). Jennings' 50-yard rush led to Hurst's 17-yard touchdown pass to Worth Warner to tie the game at 20 midway through the third quarter. Presbyterian's next possession began on the Butler 30 after a short punt from deep in Bulldogs territory, and five plays later Jennings scored from 10 yards out. Peter Lipscombe made it a 10-point lead with a field goal with 2:15 to go after a 15-play, 89-yard drive that took over 10 minutes. About a minute later, Andrew threw a 42-yard score to Ethan Loss but the Blue Hose recovered the onside kick. The Blue Hose defeated a ranked FCS team — Butler (9-3, 5-3) is No. 23 in the coaches poll — for the first time in its Division I history that began in 2007. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football . Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25
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