Medium Varsity Division II Results 🏆
1. Greenup County High School
2. Seaford High School
3. Liberty Creek High School
4. Somerset High School
5. St Brendan High School
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Tracy Chapman — who hasn’t performed live in years — just sang “Fast Car” on stage with Luke Combs at the Grammy’s.
The backstory behind this collaboration is incredible.
Combs’ first favourite song ever was “Fast Car”. He covered it in early 2023 as a country version and the song hit #1 on country charts in July.
Chapman owns the song’s composition rights and became the first black female to top the Country chart as a sole writer.
What did she think of the cover?
Chapman told Billboard at the time: “I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there. I’m happy for Luke….and grateful that new fans have found and embraced ‘Fast Car.’”
Combs honored the original version, which he first listened to when his dad popped a cassette in the car.
“You want to just be mega respectful of the original song,” says the 33-year old country singer, per CMT. “That’s why in [my cover], it’s, ‘work in the market as a checkout girl.’ I didn’t change that…I really wanted to just do the original version of the song.”
Them performing it together tonight is perfection.
You have to be a leading lady but you can’t be nominated for best actress. You have to be a strong female director but you can’t be nominated for best director. You have to have a wildly popular dance song but you can’t be nominated for best original song.
#Nicaragua has suffered many natural & political disasters, most recently the ruthless Ortega dictatorship. Last night, @sheynnis gave all Nicaraguans -in country & exile- cause to celebrate by becoming the FIRST NICARAGUAN @MissUniverse.
¡Felicidades, bella pinolera! 🇳🇮💙🤍💙
Someone please explain to me how this is attractive? I just don’t understand …. Like is the point for people to talk to your chest instead of your face? I don’t get it
Humans can only survive without water for about 3 days. Gaza has run dry.
The blockade on water, food, and electricity is an indiscriminate, collective punishment and a crime.
It is cruel and unjust. To save millions of people in Gaza - nearly half children - it must end. Now.
What an amazing story!
When Bobbi Gibb applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying:
“Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.”
On the day of the marathon, 50 years ago, Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin.
When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in.
She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt.
As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.”
It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police.
Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt.
As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered.
Women cried.
By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming.
The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand.
The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.
In this month of October dedicated to praying the Rosary, let us not tire of asking through Mary’s intercession for the gift peace in the many countries throughout the world marked by war and conflicts. And let us continue to remember the dear country of Ukraine.
I am following apprehensively and sorrowfully what is happening in Israel. May the attacks and weaponry cease! And let it be understood that terrorism and war do not lead to any resolutions. War is a defeat! Let us #PrayTogether that there be peace in Israel and in Palestine.