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AURORA – With one of the state’s best players and two highly-touted freshmen, Smoky Hill’s window to win its first boys basketball crown is wide open. The Buffaloes have yet to lose in the state of Colorado behind the play of senior Rickey Mitchell Jr., who leads Class 6A at 26.6 points per game. And beyond Mitchell, Smoky Hill features towering freshmen Kai McGrew (6-foot-8) and Carter Basquez (6-5), both of whom are already drawing Division I interest. Consider it a reloaded cupboard after the Buffaloes lost seven of their top eight varsity players to the prep school scene during the pandemic-affected 2020 season. “We got hit by the prep movement hard in 2020,” Smoky Hill head coach Anthony Hardin said. “People don’t know, because we took it in stride and found a way to be competitive (at 10-6), even though we lost the majority of our guys. And two of those guys were already Division I commits.” Smoky Hill’s best playoff showing came in 2006 when the Buffaloes made the … [Read more...] about Smoky Hill, led by Class 6A leading scorer Rickey Mitchell Jr., playing like contender for school’s first boys hoops title

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — He answers to the nickname Jet, confesses to having “little man” syndrome and has a high-pitched voice — constantly imitated by his teammates and coach — that would make a high school freshman blush. But Jerick McKinnon, the Chiefs’ diminutive running back, has also made an outsized contribution as something of a quarterback helper. He caught nine touchdown passes during the regular season to tie the Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk’s 2001 mark for scoring receptions by a running back. “He just finds a way to get in the end zone,’’ Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. “A lot of those things he’s not the first read, he’s not the second read. He’s able to just be in the right spot at the right time whenever I need to hit a check down, I can get it to him and then he makes the most of it by getting into the end zone.” Perhaps the best example of McKinnon’s savvy came in a December game against the Denver Broncos, when Mahomes was flushed from the pocket … [Read more...] about Quarterback’s Little Helper

Airline reward programs offer a simple proposition: If you fly with our airline a bunch, you’ll get paid back in the form of miles or points that can be used for future travel. Yet understanding how many miles you’ll earn, and how much these miles are worth, can be anything but simple. These reward programs drive a huge part of airlines’ business. For example, American Airlines AAdvantage members spent $1,220 on flights on average in 2019 compared to $408 for non-members, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. So airlines have a strong incentive to earn frequent flyers’ loyalty with high-value rewards. Yet for customers, parsing the many variables that go into this value proposition isn’t easy. For many it can be downright daunting. A survey in December 2021 and January 2022 of 2,150 U.S. consumers by Arrivia, a travel technology company, found that 45% of Americans say they don’t know if they’re getting the best value from their travel rewards. … [Read more...] about Frontier Miles found to be most valuable airline reward program

Watch out for next week - for it contains the dreaded ' Blue Monday' ! The supposedly fearful day, which this year falls on January 16, has long been coined 'the most depressing of the year' - and the time we're most likely to give up on our new year resolutions (if we haven't already!). New Order may have famously sung about it in 1983, but Blue Monday didn't become an annual 'thing' until 2005, after being conceived by life coach and happiness consultant Dr Cliff Arnall. But is it really the most depressing day of the year? And if so, why? Let's find out ... Want to get the latest health news direct to your inbox? Sign up for the Mirror Health newsletter HERE The notion of 'Blue Monday' was born out of research commissioned by Sky Travel. ( Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) What actually is Blue Monday? Blue Monday usually falls on the third Monday of January every year, although it can also fall on the second or fourth. The phrase was … [Read more...] about What is Blue Monday and why is it the most depressing day of the year?

Welcome to T Wanderlust, a travel newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Starting next week, we’ll be on winter break. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every other Friday once we return , along with our T List newsletter each Wednesday. And you can always reach us at [email protected] . Located on Taiwan’s southwestern coast, Tainan, the island’s oldest city and former capital, has a long history of cultural incursion, much of which can be traced through its existing architecture. Dutch traders started building forts here in the early 1600s, and Ming and Qing loyalists seized control about half a century later. From 1895 to 1945, while the island was under Japanese rule, city planners upgraded Tainan’s municipal grid with new roads, European-style shop houses and an imposing government hall with a mansard roof. Today, relics of the past can be found all over town, sharing space with the street food vendors and restaurants that have made Tainan the … [Read more...] about Chefs and Bartenders Are Injecting New Life Into Taiwan’s Oldest City

Not long ago, Michelle Obama posted a black-and-white photo of herself on Instagram, cozy in an armchair, a nearby side table displaying an adorable baby pic of Malia and Sasha. She is barefoot, dressed in wide-legged jeans and a satin shirt, smiling widely as she looks down … at her knitting. “Every time I tell people how much I love to knit,” she writes in the caption, “They seem so surprised!” And I thought, why ? I suspect it’s because knitters, unlike Mrs. Obama , are presumed to be aging ungracefully: prim, elderly (probably white) ladies rocking away on the porch in cultural irrelevance. Before I refute that — yarn lovers come in all ages, genders, sexualities and races — I want to ask, even if it were true, so what? The dismissal, the reflexive derision of women from midlife onward — especially if we stop chasing social media standards of beauty — is a nasty form of ageist sexism. Besides, that imagined innocuousness can be a strength, even a superpower. Knitting is … [Read more...] about The Revolutionary Power of a Skein of Yarn

GOOGLE offer some of the best smartphones on the market, and if you are an Android fan the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 will be on your radar, but which is for you? One is a former flagship and its successor has proved a huge hit, so we've put both head to head to help you choose between these two impressive handsets. Google Pixel 6 (2021), £398 - buy here Google Pixel 7 (2022), £699 - buy here Google remain one of the leading brands in the Android world and has yet again proved its popularity with the release of its new flagship device, the Google Pixel 7. But with just a year between its predecessor the Google Pixel 6 it can make choosing which is for you that bit harder. The Google Pixel 6 hit the market back in October 2021 and caused a stir and has remained one of Google's most popular handsets. Just a year later Google unveiled its newest flagship, the Google Pixel 7 in October 2022 and Android lovers flocked to get their hands on it. But with a … [Read more...] about Google Pixel 6 (2021) vs Google Pixel 7 (2022)

A flight attendant has urged travellers to think twice about using toilet roll when on planes . The bathroom experience on most commercial jets is one the majority of us would like to forget for a multitude of reasons. Now TikToker Cierra Mistt, who shares videos about her life working onboard planes, has added another hang up to add to the list. In a recent video on TikTok, Cierra warned against the low quality of toilet tissue and how it has a tendency to fall apart at the wrong moment. She said: "When you go to the bathroom on a plane, don't use the toilet paper. Instead use the paper towels because it's higher quality and it won't rip or dissolve like the toilet paper will." She went on to urge passengers always to wear shoes when they go to the toilet due to the state of the floor. While this may seem like obvious advice, Cierra said that many people go in shoe and even sockless. Fellow TikTok video maker flightbae.b offered another unpleasant word of … [Read more...] about Flight attendants urge people to avoid the loo roll in plane toilets for gross reason

(CTN News) – It may not be enough to justify today’s spike in share price even if Amazon does enter the NFT business in the future. In spite of the fact that tech stocks were having a modestly up day, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq up nearly a full percentage point as of 12:25 p.m. ET, Amazon ( AMZN 3.44% ) was doing a lot better than most of its peers — rising by a solid 3% as of 12:25 p.m. ET. There seems to be a very technical reason why they would do so: non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a type of token that cannot be fungible. According to Blockworks, a crypto news source, an Amazon NFT initiative may be coming soon, as outlined in a report published late yesterday afternoon. The e-commerce giant is expected to start selling digital collectibles as early as April, and to offer its customers the option to play crypto games, which will allow them to win free NFTs as prizes, through its website. Blockworks’ report has not been commented upon by Amazon, but this seems … [Read more...] about What Caused Amazon’s Stock Price To Spike This Morning?

Piaget Ventus had been working in the New York restaurant industry for several years when her manager informed the staff one day, circa 2015, that they all needed to take a ServSafe course. The employees met at a sister restaurant, where they watched safety videos, took practice tests and had to pass a final exam to get certified. The course cost Ventus $15, for which she was reimbursed, but it consumed about three hours of her day, which she was expected to surrender without pay. As a server, Ventus rarely had to handle food directly. There were runners for that. Nonetheless, she took the course at face value. She figured her managers just wanted to make sure everyone had a firm grasp of food safety basics. But after the New York Times reported this month that the ServSafe program also raises money for the National Restaurant Association, Ventus felt something akin to betrayal. The NRA - occasionally called "the other NRA" - is a multimillion-dollar trade association that lobbies … [Read more...] about Restaurant group uses workers’ cash to lobby against them, advocates say