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In February 1981, "Weird Al" Yankovics song Another One Rides the Bus was officially released as a single, roughly five months after it first received radio airplay.

In the early part of Yankovics career, the comedian befriended Barrett Hansen, better known as the eccentric radio personality Dr. Demento. It was Dr. Demento who gavethe young artist his first airplay, and the accordion-wielding singer became a regular on the radio host's syndicated specialty show.

I used to get, like, 25 to 30 tapes every week, and one of the cassettes that came in was this one from Alfred Yankovic: Lynwood, Calif., Demento recalled to Yahoo!in 2018. And I put it on, and though it was crudely recorded, probably with one of those little cassette machines with a self-contained microphone, the balance was right, you could understand his words, the words were funny and he played the accordion which by itself was new and unusual at that time.

As their friendship grew,Yankovic became a regular on Demento's radio program.

On Sept. 14, 1980, Yankovic was scheduled to debut his latest creation, a parody of Queens Another One Bites the Dust, with a live performance on The Dr. Demento Show. Thanks to its quirky lyrics and frenzied energy, the track became a quick hit withthe program's loyal listeners.

Listen to 'Weird Al' Yankovic's 'Another One Rides the Bus'

If I had to pick out one moment as the most exciting thing that has ever happened on The Dr. Demento Show, that would definitely be the one, Demento wrote in the liner notes to the Permanent Record: Al in the Box box set.

And the audience agreed: For the next few weeks, we got twice as many requests for Another One Rides the Bus as for everything else put together. Thank goodness I had a tape rolling! We even got it in stereo.

Sensing how the song resonated with listeners, Yankovic decided to release the parody. Capitol Records, which had released his previous parody hit My Bologna, was no longer interested in working with the singer.

Im sure Capitol really thought of My Bologna as my one hit, Im a one-hit wonder, the singer explained on VH1s Behind the Music. At that point, they pretty much stopped returning my phone calls.

Without a record deal, and unable to find a new one, Yankovic borrowed money from Dr. Demento and pressed roughly 1,000 copies of the Another One Rides the Bus EP - a collection of four songs that included the title track, as well as three other originals: Happy Birthday, Gotta Boogie and Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung. Yankovicsold these EPs in local record stores, arranging consignment deals with the owners. His plan worked, as they quickly sold out (and have since become a sought-after collector's items).

"I would get home from class and my roommate would say, 'Oh, New Zealand just called - they want to know how they can get 'Another One Rides the Bus,' Yankovic recalled in the liner notes toPermanent Record. So I knew I had a sizable underground hit."

Word of Yankovic's parody even reached Queen. "There's been a few cover versions [of 'Another One Bites the Dust'] of various kinds," guitarist Brian May noted in an interview at the time (later reprinted in Queen: The Complete Works). "Notably 'Another One Rides the Bus', which is an extremely funny record by a bloke called 'Mad Al' or something in the [United] States it's hilarious."

Watch 'Weird Al' Yankovic Perform 'Another One Rides the Bus'

Sensing Yankovics growing popularity, TK Records signed the comedian and agreed to release Another One Rides the Bus as an official single in February 1981.

The track continued gaining steam, making it to Billboards Bubbling Under chart and ranking as high as No. 104. It seemed as though momentum would easily take it into the Top 100, an impressive feat for a comedy track. But then things suddenly came crashing down.

TK Records, which had come to prominence during discos reign, had fallen on tough financial times. The label abruptly shut down, halting all its distributions and promotions. Doing so completely stagnated Another One Rides the Bus, the final single released by TK Records. The company was soon sold to Roulette Records, which then turned the imprint into Sunnyview Records.

By this point, Yankovic was long gone - his brief relationship with TK lasting for the one single only. Continued appearances on The Dr. Demento Show helped keep his career moving forward, as did his first television appearance, a performance on The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder. He met Jay Levey, the man whod becomehis longtime manager, later that year. Still, it wouldnt be until 1983 that Yankovics debut album would be unleashed onto the world.

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

The 2024 presidential election is three years and eight months away, but plenty of bettors are already putting money down, at least, thats what the movement in the odds would suggest.

Over the past ten days, several prominent politicians and pseudo-politicians have seen their odds get considerably better or considerably worse.

Odds represent averages across online sportsbooks on the specified dates.

One of the potential outcomes of Donald Trumps second impeachment trial was a ban from holding public office.

Trumps odds to win a second term in 2024 were as short as +667 in late December 2020. They faded to +1567 immediately after the Capitol Riots and stayed put until his acquittal in the Senate.

His legal troubles are far from over, but he is at least legally allowed to run again in 2024 at this juncture.

Texas is in a state of emergency due to severe winter weather. Power and water outages are wreaking havoc on millions in the Lone Star State. Governor Ted Cruz decided now was a good time to go on vacation in sunny Cancun.

Despite the uproar over his ill-advised trip, Cruz saw his 2024 election odds improve from +5074 to +4450. This appears to be a case-in-point for the old adage theres no such thing as bad press.

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Even before this week, Dwayne dont-call-me-The-Rock-anymore Johnson was considered a top-ten favorite to win the White House in 2024. It wasnt immediately clear why oddsmakers set him so short. Its not even clear which partys nomination he would be seeking.

Nevertheless, Johnsons odds shortened from +2800 to +2000. The most-likely cause is that someone, somewhere laid a decent-sized bet on the star of Fast Fiveto be our next President-elect, despite a complete lack of evidence suggesting its even a remote possibility.

But eight years ago, someone, somewhere might have written the same thing about Donald Trump.

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In 1971, Jake Thackray made a documentary for ITN about a valley in North Yorkshire called Swaledale. He is recognised in the program and asked if he is Jake Thackray to which he replies, Sometimes more or less. It feels almost heretical to write a summation of his work. He said of his songs, Nothing is real here, everything is a pack of lies, and that I've no interest in my autobiography. I've read it.

You can treat this piece, then, like a gallop through Jakes life. I chose not necessarily an inventory of his best songs but the ones that give an idea of the man and his dynamic, confused artistic voice. There was always going to be so much Id have to leave out but it still pains me not to discuss the lilting beauty of Joseph, as beautiful as anything Nick Drake ever recorded, or The Remembrance AKA The Greatest Anti-war Song Of All Time.

Biography is usually of little interest when writing about art. However, when an attempt is made by the artist to self-mythologise or distance themselves from biography, a la Tom Waits or Frida Kahlo, I see it as becoming part of the work. For someone who worked so hard to distance himself from attention, it seems fitting to give a summation of Jake Thackrays music through his life. Indeed, his work often ended up echoing or anticipating what he later became. In Lah Di Dah he makes a promise to keep off the pale ale, but he died an alcoholic. Similarly, in a superb radio program called Jake Thackray - The Yorkshire Chansonnier, Cerys Matthews notes that Jake became the village scallywag he sang about, eventually becoming the subject, rather than observer, of stories.

Jakes music can be difficult to summarise. Even in terms of nomenclature, in the way Lou Reed is Lou and David Bowie Bowie, sometimes it seems more appropriate to say Jake and sometimes Thackray. Each studio album is less a sustained aesthetic thrust and more a collection of songs. Compilations and live albums outweigh studio albums by three to one. The task is made harder by how, when performed live, Jakes songs were accompanied by addenda like lyric changes, stories, and jokes. Can that deliciously rueful look to the side when he sings fine warm wool for a gentlemans shoulders during Old Molly Metcalfe be counted as part of the music? There are the postmodern introductions hed write such as I spend my time voting conservative and lying to audiences, or this song could be called The Solider, I call it the prisoner. Even as a life-long devotee, nay vocal evangelist, of stony-faced silence in between live music, I cant help but love his patter, or what he called, the drivel youre supposed to talk between songs. This sense of Jake existing alone is explained by some of his contradictions. Hes a performer who didnt want to be a performer that rarely performed (once explaining his absence at a gig in August because of a snow drift). A musician that reportedly would have preferred to be a writer, his lyrics are enjoyably prolix, full of dazzling wordplay, peculiar phrasing, puns, and virtuoso rhyming.

Jake Thackray details the place where the small, the humdrum, and the grotesque intermingle, like the shepherdess frozen with her sheep, the wretched pub-goerss wrecked lament, the deviant cockerel, and the park statues that spring to life after dark. From playing an unpopular instrument (a nylon-stringed guitar), to his baritone voice, to his thick, clipped Yorkshire brogue, and his mix of the profound and the profane, the comic brio veined with melancholy, he remains, sometimes more or less an original.

Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray from The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray (1967)

That Jake Thackrays debut album is called The Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray is some indication of how his music can seamlessly entwine the poignant and the grim. An enjoyable subversion of the youthful promise a debut album usually entails, the titular track is a blackly jubilant death note delivered in Jakes inimitable style.

Lets not forget this is a song and not an actual will, but it still presents an interesting idea of a total personal disintegration after death (incidentally a very un-English treatment of the subject). He encourages us to let my memory slip and wants no epitaphs (sorry, dude). Musically it has the apocalyptically, exultantly eulogistic feel of Nick Caves Lay Me Low or even The Sensational Alex Harvey Bands rendition of Delilah, moving between plodding contemplation to an anthemic double-time rhythm that feels like a bittersweet adieu.

You can equate The Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray with Jakes turbulent relationship with his art. The line encouraging no keep-sakes hints at how he was content to think of his music as ephemeral, even throwaway. Performing live hed say things like: Its another silly song or Its just a story and Ive tarted it up a bit. See what you think. Though perhaps intentional on his part, Jake doesnt seem to have any confidence in his musics lasting quality. I doubt hed even have recorded anything if he hadnt been contracted as, in his words, a performing dick. Perhaps he felt like a teacher from Leeds in the music industry and a performing dick in the real world. He squared this by treating his songs as if they were nothings, ditties, fluff. This all means theres a tension between the surface level of Jake Thackrays songs and the deeper merit he himself was maybe unaware of. Like all his best work, Last Will And Testament uses humour to allude to a deeper melancholy, arriving at something bracingly consoling.

Your rosebuds are numbered;Gather them now for rosebuds' sake.And if your hands aren't too encumberedGather a bud or two for Jake.

Kirkstall Road Girl from Jake In A Box: The EMI Recordings 1967-76 (2006)

These days, Kirkstall Road is indistinguishable from any other busy A-road in Britain (I used to live by it). Walking along it youll see supermarkets, gyms, and, incidentally, a shop called Tyrannosaurus Pets. But according to Jake Thackrays song Kirkstall Road Girl, it used to be the kind of place that, if you lived there, it defined you, and probably not in a good way.

Kirkstall Road Girl is ostensibly a throwaway ditty, a sly poke at those who get ideas above their station. Its a classic Thackray character study, the girl swapping chips and cocoa for marron glace suppers. Attempts to distance oneself from ones past are usually futile, and the song is an interesting analogue for Jakes attempts to paint himself as a rural boy from the Dales. He often tried to distance himself from his working class background. His real name is John, taking the name Jake after a French relative titled a letter to him Jacques.

I dont think Jake was ashamed of his humble roots but he still made attempts to obscure this with what his old agent called clouds of half-truths and lies. He wrote lyrics rooted in a bucolic sensibility about country buses, foals, and farms, a far cry from Leeds industrial seethe. Although one finds it hard to imagine Jake eating a marron glace supper, Kirkstall Road Girl is still a nuanced depiction of the ways everyone, more or less, attempts to circumvent their upbringing.

Go Little Swale from Bantam Cock (1972)

If Leeds was somewhere to escape from then the Yorkshire Dales were somewhere to escape to. Jake Thackrays Swaledale was similar to James Joyces Dublin: a quasi-magical place rooted in a real geography containing the worlds multitudes. The superb BBC Jake In A Box documentary describes how he insinuated he was a country lad, which could explain the near-fetishisation of that area in his songs. His father, Earnest Thackray, was a policeman and had to move the family regularly from place to place. This somewhat nomadic existence contrasts the staid country life described in many songs about that area (Fine Bay Pony, Brigadier, etc). Go Little Swale is the most perfect combination of the particular and poetic. It presents a beautifully-rendered image of a river flowing past a fragmenting, non-physical landscape. The stationary old men who stare at the dead afternoons seem at odds with the children learning to leave [the Dales] behind. Theres a particular sense of place, By Booze, by Muker, by Gunnerside, by Crackpot, which is accompanied by the feeling that a way of life is disappearing. Go Little Swale is hurried along by filigree guitar melodies with the same cascading rhythms as the river itself. Its a delicate, feather-light ode to the place Jake loved.

Brother Gorilla from Bantam Cock (1972)

An important moment in Jakes artistic development was his move to France and subsequent infatuation with French music. This is one of the reasons he seems detached from Western pop heritage. He lived in France during the early 1960s which is a key time in British guitar music. Furthermore, in the 1970s and late 1960s, when Jake was writing songs about scallywags, pubs, and jumble sales, groups were looking further abroad to India and America for cosmic inspiration. He later said I missed out on rock, all my influences were French. These influences are most evident in the chanson franaise style of Brother Gorilla.

Released in 1972 on the Bantam Cock album, Jake translated Le Gorille, a song by his idol Georges Brassens, into English. The lyrics spool forth, a rollicking, abstract critique of capital punishment delivered by allusions to a gorilla in captivity. Less direct than the French original, Brother Gorilla still identifies the fallibility of judges and state-sanctioned punishment.

Le Gorille is in the Chanson Franais genre, a style with lyrical themes characterised by love, sex, life, and hate. Its the tradition in which Jake is most readily placed. However, certain elements disturb this categorization. A certain Gallic pronunciation notwithstanding, he usually sang in English about quintessentially English things. Jake also frequently veered into magic realism and fabulism. Often sweeter and more wistful than what Brassens wrote, Jakes occasional lean towards the ethereal, both musically and lyrically, further distinguishes him from the spiky Chanson style. Jakes Francophilia was a vital part of his music but he took this influence and translated it, so to speak, into his own brand of Yorkshire chanson.

The Bull from Jake Thackray And Songs (1981)

Although politics were never directly obvious in Jake Thackrays lyrics, he had an anarchist streak that manifested as a wariness of authority figures. His song The Bull is a dissection of what Joseph Conrad called the exquisite comedy of leadership. Here, Jake strikes a conspiratorially advisory tone rather than a didactic one. The lyrics take the particular, a bull on a farm, and make it universal by embodying and interrogating all the character traits of leadership.

The hero arrives, we hoist him shoulder-high.He's good and wise and strong, he's brave, he's shy.And how we have to plead with him, how bashfully he climbsUp the steps to the microphone - two at a time.

The Bull is an antidote to current political discourse in art. Theres Idles arent they rotten! stance, and Spitting Images ability to, as Nasrine Malik recently put it brilliantly in an article for The Guardian, reduce [politicians] to an unthreatening cartoon. Jakes Orwell-esque allegory both identifies the absurdity of the whole circus and hints towards the danger. The line if you must put people on pedestals, wear a big hat seems particularly appropriate these days.

The self-referential line, theres one of them here his names on the poster outside, places himself firmly in the category of a Bull and defuses any didacticism by acknowledging his own place in the spotlight, his culpability. Jake warns Beware of His Honour, His Excellence, His Grace, His Worshipful. 'The Bull' is a song of the times and there's a lot we can learn from it.

On Again! On Again! from On Again! On Again! (1977)

Jake Thackray was not immune to the type of mundane, everyday sexism that permeated culture, especially comedy, in the 1960s and 70s when he was most active. A noticeable minority of his songs would be rightly held up today as containing sexist lyrics with tired references to ghastly stepmothers and womens proportions.

The most notorious of these is probably On Again! On Again! which details the misogynistic stereotype of women talking too much. Jake even prefaced live performances of this track by saying this song is offensive. To say Jake was part of a music hall tradition would be anachronistic, but the type of variety sets he played during the most popular section of his career were to crowds appreciative of these type of bawdy songs. Its obvious Jake wrote On Again! On Again! with one eye on the stalls. Tellingly, The Hair Of The Widow Of Bridlington, Thackrays song about female sexual independence, is a far rarer inclusion in live sets, live albums, and compilations than On Again! On Again!.

The degree of irony that Jake introduces by he himself wittering on again on again in increasingly complicated verbiage does not defuse the sexist subject matter. There was a glut of major feminist works in 1977, when On Again! On Again! was released, such as the first issue of the Womens Studies In Communications journal, The Womens Room by Marilyn French, and a report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called Sex Bias In The U.S. Code. No matter how tongue in cheek, this type of song was one of the reasons Jake Thackray, something of a dinosaur in an era partly defined by increasing female emancipation, fell out of popularity.

Sister Josephine from Bantam Cock (1972)

Jake said he once asked himself What's funny about being a Catholic?", and realised it was everything. Jakes relationship with the Church was a complicated one. Although he was raised Catholic and clearly found solace in religion, he still railed against authority of any kind. Its hard to imagine how his priest felt about welcoming an ale-drinking television personality who sang songs about carnal delights into the diocese.

Sister Josephine tells the story of Big Bad Norman (or Bernard or Desmond, depending on which version you hear), a criminal whos on the run disguised as a nun. Its one of Jakes best lyrics, a barrage of virtuoso rhyming and carnivalesque images like sprinting through the suburbs dressed only in [her] wimple and [her] rosary. The intricate dual guitar patterns weave with Jakes voice to create something both languorous and anthemic.

Sister Josephine is the founder of the convent pontoon team, the one who leaves the cloister toilet seat stand upright, and from whose cell one hears empty bottles of altar wine come clunking. You might even draw similarities between Jake and Norman, both having big hands, a voice thats on the deep side, and a thirst for booze.

Catholicism stretched throughout Jakes life. He was raised by Jesuit priests and even considered becoming one himself. However, never was it more important than at the end of his life. At that point, the only performing he allowed himself to do was bellringing on a Sunday morning. Despite this, you get the sense Jake found Catholicism a tight fit and was aware of its manifold peculiarities, hypocrisies, and contradictions.

The Black Swan from The Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray (1967)

The wildly popular South Korean boy band BTS have a song called The Black Swan which, according to Wikipedia, refers to an artist's fear of losing passion in their art (thanks, disambiguation). The parallels to Jake Thackrays alcoholism and its effect on, or perhaps antidote to, him losing faith in music are stark.

Jakes songs occasionally make reference to booze problems, such as in Lah-Di-Dah where he promises his betrothed to keep off the pale ale, but never is this more apparent than in the augury of The Black Swan. It takes the form of a classic lament with incremental repetition and regular refrains. Its one of the darkest songs he ever wrote, with soaring string parts wreathed in melancholy and yearning.

Drink deep, drink long,Drink our heads off, drink on

The narrator describes his own damnation, But don't come and find me, I'm lost, I've lost. They act as a kind of Jacob Marley figure, Your life is your own, don't lose it all; indeed, Jake too died on Christmas Eve. The traditional English pub setting is made hellish by a strong we pronoun, conjuring images of damned souls in hell, we don't go home tonight. Once again, theres that portrayal of the grotesque and horrific nestled in a comfy, domestic, familiar setting.

Jake Thackray died in 2002, bankrupt and an alcoholic. His unique good looks, all strong jawline, heavy-lidded eyes, and expressive features, became a little more drawn, worried, and jowly. The Black Swan offers a mournful glimpse into the life Jake would eventually lead.

Jakes Scene - Swaledale (1967)

The documentary Jake made for ITN is a fascinating time capsule detailing various, unnamed parts of Swaledale in a liminal state between tradition and modernity. Jake talks to all sorts, such as a shepherd, a schoolteacher, publicans, and old men, having startlingly modern discussions about gentrification, school class size, and the working week.

Its a charmingly idiosyncratic program. Jake hobbles about on crutches on account of a broken leg and rides on a pony and trap. He plays a traditional Yorkshire game called knurr and spell and sings Old Molly Metcalfe at Muker School with the children providing a haunting call-and-response. The old Yorkshire accents are so broad its easy to mistake them for Irish or Scottish. Jakes Scene captures a moment right before the Post-Industrial age really started gathering momentum.

Any background information about the documentary has long been consigned to ITNs vaults so Im not sure whether this is intentional or not, but Jake seems to inadvertently stumble on replicas of characters and places from his songs. John Tom is similar to the old men that stare at the dead afternoons in Go Little Swale. The shepherd on the moors is similar to Old Molly Metcalfe, especially when he talks about ice forming on his face in the depths of winter. Jake visits a pub called The Black Bull and meets a man dressed as a monk for a reenactment (who knows if the Sister Josephine parallels were mentioned). The program offers a glimpse of the reality behind Jakes fantasy of the Dales.

Jake seems to have escaped the booming industry of quadruple vinyl reissues with eight lyric books and a metric pound of stickers. There are no career-spanning interviews or lifetime awards. I hope Damon Albarn never makes a supergroup to play his songs but I live in anticipation of a hologram tour of Yorkshires flat-roofed pubs. Jake lives on in little snatches of cultural ephemera like this documentary, the odd article he wrote for the Yorkshire Evening Post, a couple of radio programs, and enjoyably lo-fi videos of performances to fifteen people. And I think this is, more or less, how hed like to live on.

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

The 2024 presidential election is three years and eight months away, but plenty of bettors are already putting money down, at least, thats what the movement in the odds would suggest.

Over the past ten days, several prominent politicians and pseudo-politicians have seen their odds get considerably better or considerably worse.

Odds represent averages across online sportsbooks on the specified dates.

One of the potential outcomes of Donald Trumps second impeachment trial was a ban from holding public office.

Trumps odds to win a second term in 2024 were as short as +667 in late December 2020. They faded to +1567 immediately after the Capitol Riots and stayed put until his acquittal in the Senate.

His legal troubles are far from over, but he is at least legally allowed to run again in 2024 at this juncture.

Texas is in a state of emergency due to severe winter weather. Power and water outages are wreaking havoc on millions in the Lone Star State. Governor Ted Cruz decided now was a good time to go on vacation in sunny Cancun.

Despite the uproar over his ill-advised trip, Cruz saw his 2024 election odds improve from +5074 to +4450. This appears to be a case-in-point for the old adage theres no such thing as bad press.

Even before this week, Dwayne dont-call-me-The-Rock-anymore Johnson was considered a top-ten favorite to win the White House in 2024. It wasnt immediately clear why oddsmakers set him so short. Its not even clear which partys nomination he would be seeking.

Nevertheless, Johnsons odds shortened from +2800 to +2000. The most-likely cause is that someone, somewhere laid a decent-sized bet on the star of Fast Fiveto be our next President-elect, despite a complete lack of evidence suggesting its even a remote possibility.

But eight years ago, someone, somewhere might have written the same thing about Donald Trump.

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And just like that, the La Salle boys basketball team will head to the postseason as the favorite to win the state championship.

The undefeated Rams hosted one-loss Mount Pleasant in a battle for the No. 1 seed from Division I-North. As has been the case most of the season,Raphel AwaandDimetri Iafratecame through in a big way, leading La Salle to a 67-59 win and one win away from a perfect regular season.

Awa provided a steady stream of points in the first three quarters, getting eight in the opening eight minutes and finishing the fist half with 13 before going off for nine in the third in his 22-point night.

Iafrate was just steady from tip to buzzer, scoring at least four points in each of the four quarters as he finished with 18 points for the Rams.

Will Sampsonadded 11 in the win for La Salle, which will be the top seed from DI-North and play the winner of the play-in game in the first round. Before that happens, the Rams will finish the regular season when they host Woonsocket on Saturday.

Jansel Hayeshad a solid night for the Kilties, scoring 18 points.Keon Lawrencecame through with 12 and Omarian Vidalhad 10 in the loss. Mount Pleasant can clinch the No. 2 seed with a win in its final two games or if Cumberland loses to Woonsocket on Friday.

Division II

Tolman 62, Burrillville 46

A balanced first-half scoring attack teamed with a solid defensive effort was in key in the Tigers coming away with a 62-46 win over the Broncos.

In the opening half, Tolman sawJayel Rodriguesscore11 points andMaarten LopesandJalyn Baptistaboth score eight while taking a 32-18 lead into halftime.

Lopes carried the scoring over to the second half and finished with 19 points, including four 3-pointers. Baptista also hit four treys but finished with 18 while Rodrigues added 13 total points in the win.

Jack Berginwas the lone Burrillville player in double figures, scoring 12.

The game wraps up the D-II regular season for both teams. The win puts Tolman in position to earn the No. 2 seed out of DII-North while Burrillville slides to No. 3 in the seeding.

East Greenwich 58, Coventry 48

Jack McMullendidn't score 54 this time, but his 16 points led three Avengers in double figures as EG locked up the No. 1 seed in Division II-South with a 58-48 win over the Oakers.

McMullen hit three 3-pointers in his 16-point performance.Dan Priorscored 14 andWill Fosterhad 10 for the Avengers, who led at half 28-21 an maintained it the remainder of the game.

Jeff RosaandTyler Byrnesled Coventry with 11 points each andNolan Morellihad 10 in the loss.

East Greenwich has two non-league tuneups against East Providence and North Kingstown on its schedule before the playoffs start. Coventry closes the D-II regular season next week with a must-win game against Chariho.

Wheeler 70, Lincoln 50

Travis Cobainwas steady as a rock all game and his 30 points helped the Warriors get past the Lions, 70-50.

Cobain scored 15 in the first half, helping Wheeler get off to a 36-20 lead at the break. He was helped out Thursday byWyatt Greenberg, who scored 13 points and 12 rebounds.Isaiah Smith-Johnsonscored 14 in the win for the Warriors.

Octavio Britoled Lincoln with 20 points. The Lions have three games left in the regular season, starting Saturday at 1 p.m. against Johnston. One win should secure a playoff spot but they'll need to win as many as possible to avoid a play-in game.

Wheeler remains undefeated in DII-North and also has three games left, starting Friday against Johnston. The Warriors need two wins to claim the to seed from the division.

Division III

Times2 59, Central Falls 45

Jason PetersandJosh Ojuriwere an unstoppable duo, combining for 50 points as the Bald Eagles took down the Warriors, 59-45.

Peters was his usual dominant self, scoring 30 points. He had 16 in the first half and hit five 3-pointers on the night. Ojuri was just as effective, scoring 20. All his shots came from inside the arc and he scored 14 in the first half to put Times2 up 36-26 at the break.

Chunn Andersonled Central Falls with 11 points. The Warriors have two games left - starting with Exeter-West Greenwich on Saturday - and may need to win both to secure a playoff spot.

Times2 remains undefeated and will be the top seed out of DIII-Central.

Non-league

Moses Brown 44, North Smithfield 30

Christian ChaseandDarius Ajakaiyeboth came through with 10 points and the Quakers' defense took care of the rest in a 44-30 win over the Northmen.

Andrew Perryscored eight in the win and Christian Bazzanohelped Moses Brown with six points.Gerald Corraoled North Smithfield with nine in the loss.

Division I

South Kingstown 72, East Greenwich 35

The Rebels saw 12 different players score as they took care of the Avengers, 72-35.

Taylor Martinhit four 3-pointers and led SK with 14 points.Jami Hillscored 11 in the win andJane Carradded 10.Alex Megaled East Greenwich with 15 points in the loss.

Johnston 43, Moses Brown 30

The Panthers trailed by three at halftime but put together their best defensive effort of the season in the second half on their way to a 43-30 win.

Johnston surrendered only seven points in the final 16 minutes while scoring 23.Tori Viauhit five 3-pointers and scored 16 points in the win.Sarah Bandomahad 10 for the Panthers andEmily Iannuccillichipped in with eight points.

Maura O'Malleyled Moses Brown with eight points.

Division II

West Warwick 49, Smithfield 29

The Wizards had it working on the defensive end, holding the Sentinels to under 20 in both halves on their way to a 49-29 win.

Tori Birdled West Warwick with 15 points andKellylyn Kozlinjoined her in double figures with 11.Kayla SaddlerandKalen Greenhalghboth had seven in the win.Sydney Mabrayled Smithfield with eight points.

Providence Country Day 44, Pilgrim 43

Janaya PrinceandJillian Archercarried the Knights' offense, combing for 30 points as they held off the Patriots, 44-43.

Prince scored 16 points and hit 5 of 8 from the line, including three second-half free throws. Archer hit two 3-pointers and made all four of her free throws in a 14-point night.Rose DiSandroandJennifer Sturgesboth added six for PCD.

Alysia Medeirosled Pilgrim with 11 points in the loss.

Division III

Mt. Hope 62, Mount Pleasant 46

A big performance out of Abigail Razzinohelped the Huskies get an impressive win over the defending D-III champ Kilties, 62-46.

Razzino led nine Mt. Hope scorers with 17 points.Elsa Whitecame through with 10 andLauren PaisandAmani Jacksonhelped the cause with eight.

Francheska Contrerasled Mount Pleasant with 15 points in the loss.

Lincoln 56, North Providence 21

The Lions defense pounced, holding the Cougars under 10 points in the first half as Lincoln rolled to a 56-21 win.

Lincoln led 29-8 at halftime and never looked back.Elliana Wuhit three 3-pointers and led the team with 15 points.Lauren Ciprianowas also in double figures with 10 andMakayla Horanscored eight.Michaela Rizzoled North Providence with eight points in the loss.

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Goaltending for the New York Islanders has been a strongsuit in recent years.

With veteran Semyon Varlamov continuing where he left off from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, while Ilya Sorokin seems to be developing exponentially at the NHL level, Head Coach Barry Trotz has another tandem brewing.

On Tuesday night, Ilya Sorokin picked up his first National Hockey League victoryand his first career NHL shutout as he denied all twenty shots thrown his way by the Buffalo Sabres. From start number one of his career to start four, he has improved drastically.

He was just electric in the win and seemingly bailed his team out the entirety of the night. It was a game to remember and one that the young netminder will look to build on when he gets his next opportunity.

On Monday, Semyon Varlamov was brilliant yet again, as he stopped 20 in the 3-1 victory. His biggest save came against Sabres forwards Victor Olofsson, which you can view for yourself below and please do because it is pretty special.

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Semyon Varlamov #40 of the New York Islanders. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Getty Images)

On the Islanders eight-game point streak, Varlamov has started six of those games, as he has posted a 4-0-2 record with a 1.50 GAA with a .921 SV%. Sorokin has received two starts, as he has posted a 1-0-1 record, with a 2.00 GAA and a .931 SV%.

To dive deeper into how good these two have been over this stretch, Varlamov has stopped 89.6% of higher danger chances he has faced (52 of 58), while Sorokin has stopped 90.47% (19 of 21).It is safe to say that the Islanders have been bailed out by their netminders often this season and have been vital reasons for the wins and the points.

Last season, particularly in the second half, Head Coach Barry Trotz saw his tandem fall apart. Thomas Greiss struggled mightily post All-Star break, while Varlamov was solid as he played the majority of games before the leagues hiatus. When the Playoffs began, Varlamov was the starter and played well before showing signs of fatigue against the Philadelphia Flyers. Once he finally allowed a goal in Game Two, after setting an Islanders postseason shutout streak record, Greiss was thrown into the fire and played well despite losing that game in overtime.

Ilya Sorokin #30 of the New York Islanders. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

When it came to Game 7 of this series, Greiss got the nod as he shutout the Flyers as the Islanders advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 1993.While Varlamov would start all games against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the series loss was not his fault. He had been a rock all postseason long, but the Islanders just ran into a better hockey club.

Heading into this season, given the shortened schedule and the number of games needed to be played, tandems would play a pivotal role in making the Stanley Cup Playoffs. For the Islanders, there was a significant question mark as prospects are prospects until they can prove themselves at the NHL level.

After his first two starts, it seemed it could take longer, meaning Varlamov would have to be relied on heavily. Even though the veteran has done his job and more this season, Sorokin can take some of the pressure off his shoulders.

There is now confidence that I do not believe was there previously with Sorokin. That is not a knock on Sorokins play, but the Islanders in front of him were failing to play well enough in their own zone, and their offense was just not there when the rookie was in between the pipes. And that was leading to a lack of points. Given this short season, it would have been hard to give Sorokin chances if Varlamov was getting the best out of his team.

But now that the Islanders see they can win with him in net, they can score goals, which is a major confidence boost for all the parties involved. Because Varlamov has been so good, it is still difficult to give away starts to Sorokin, especially as the Islanders look to extend their point streak as far as they can. Last year, we saw the importance of a streak, as without the Islanders one earlier in the season, making the Playoffs would not have come to fruition.

Semyon Varlamov is in goal tonight when the puck drops against the Pittsburgh Penguins. I would not be shocked to see Ilya Sorokin back in net sooner than later as both netminders give the New York Islanders a chance to win each night.

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When New England Conservatorys Black Student Union honors alumna Coretta Scott King with a concert Feb. 25, theyll also be remembering all the people we lost this year, says Zoe Cagan, a classical flutist and chair of the BSU.

A lot of the people who are affected the most [by the COVID pandemic] are Black and brown people, essential workers who have to go out there, notes Cagan, 23, who is pursuing her masters degree. Then George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, all the other names from this year that werent as big as them but still we lost along the way. And then on top of that, this year was a year that we lost a lot of Black legends and figures like Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Cicely Tyson, John Lewis, all of them. So this was like a really hard year for a lot of Black Americans.

This is the fourth year that NEC has honored King, a 1954 graduate of the school who met her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., while studying in Boston. The hourlong event, Continuation of a Dream: Requiem, will be pre-recorded and streamed on Feb. 25.

For the main concert we really wanted to feature our Black student body and Black alums, Cagan says.

That includes Cagan and Black Student Union marketing and media chair Lemuel Marc, a 19-year-old freshman trumpeter from Milton who joined her for a recent Zoom interview to preview the event.

Cagan decided to perform a solo piece for flute, and zeroed in on a work by a composer from her home state of Texas.

I knew about Allison Loggins-Hull because shes also a Black flutist, and I wanted to play something by her, says Cagan. I found Homeland and thought it was so beautiful, and I listened to her speak on YouTube about it, and I just thought it was perfect.

Homeland was written pre-pandemic, but remains relevant.

She wrote it in 2018 in response to the events around us at the time there was a hurricane in Puerto Rico, we were in the midst of all the political things happening here in America, Cagan explains. The piece basically has elements of anguish and hope and sorrow and nostalgia throughout it, and I just thought it was really appropriate to play because it deals with loss, but also maybe a better hope for tomorrow.

Marcs selection reached back to the 1950s, to Governor Orval Faubus ordering the Arkansas National Guard to prevent Black students from enrolling in Little Rocks all-white Central High School in 1957, an outrage immortalized by the Charles Mingus composition Fables of Faubus on his classic 1959 album Ah Um.

Charles Mingus is probably just my all-time favorite musician of any genre, Marc explains. I started playing jazz officially freshman year of high school, and in our big band we played Fables of Faubus, and it just touched me in a way other songs Ive heard never touched me before. And I kind of just dove really deep into Mingus.

Marc arranged Minguss piece for a septet that included vocalist and Black Student Union board member Naledi Masilo, who will also be featured singing the protest song Thina Sizwe from her native South Africa.

I took a lot of inspiration from multiple recordings of Fables of Faubus, says Marc, because theres at least eight different live versions, all super long, and what Mingus will do usually is theyll play the melody, and the instrumentalists will take a chorus or two and theyll kind of descend into madness. There will be a cadenza, free instrumentalists, and its like a very free solo in a way. But what I did felt slightly different. When we went into the free section, I had a poem being read by Naledi Masilo, a poem [written] by Camonghne Felix entitled For Breonna.

The poem was kind of like the anger that a lot of people felt when Breonna Taylor died. But also the hope. The blues section was really just mourning the lives that were lost over the pandemic, and we go back to the melody and the last note is kind of like the high note the hope.

Encouraging the students to make music relevant to themselves and the year weve just lived through were faculty advisers Nedelka Prescod and Jason Moran, the pianist and composer who also serves as artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center.

My role is to make sure the students feel like they are being heard by the NEC community, Moran says in an e-mail. The students have been vocal about what they feel is missing in the conservatory, and meanwhile the students dig into the work they are triggered by and it may well define the rest of their careers. When I was a student at Manhattan School of Music, the Pan-African Student Union was the place where we read books together, had potlucks, and made each other learn spirituals as well as compose for one another. My relationships in that organization fuel me to this day, and I feel it is important for these students dive into the history to witness the futures.

Sometimes it feels like programming for Black History Month is like tokenized programming, where its like, Lets just play this because its Black and Lets get all the Black students, says Cagan. But the fact that this is something we created ourselves meant that we could do things that we wanted to, things that were meaningful to us. And when its something thats coming from us, from our own heads and our own hearts, I think thats what makes a difference. Thats what makes this concert different from other concerts that other institutions might just put together.

CONTINUATION OF A DREAM: REQUIEM

Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Free. Details and links to related performances at necmusic.edu/black-history-month and necmusic.edu/events/coretta-scott-king-tribute-concert-continuation-dream-requiem

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You could be the heir to a fortune if you have one of these 169 Hertfordshire surnames.

The Government has recorded a list of all the unclaimed estates from people who have passed away in the county in recent years.

When a person dies they leave behind everything they owned including their car, property and money - but if they haven't made a will or have no family, their property passes to the Crown as owner-less property.

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Familiar Tim Hortons menu shrinking

Had the 2020 CFL season not been cancelled, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats would have had a remarkable 10, arguably 11, players on the roster most of them starters who had been with the team since its new stadium opened on Labour Day, 2014. Well always call them the Tim Hortons Generation. Inarguably era-defining.

On offence; Jeremiah Masoli, Brandon Banks, Mike Filer and possibly, at some point, Luke Tasker. On special teams; long snapper Aaron Crawford. On defence; Simoni Lawrence, Ted Laurent and Mike Daly, plus Cats-to-the-bone Courtney Stephen, Rico Murray and Delvin Breaux who had returned although they each spent a year or two elsewhere.

In recent days, that group has been pared by probably four: Crawford went to Calgary via free agency, immensely popular Filer wont be resigned, Tasker hasnt been made an offer and, this week, versatile Rico Murray, who was the 2019 wide side linebacker, announced his retirement.

Rico Murray, who was the 2019 Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide side linebacker, announced his retirement this week. Teammate Courtney Stephen sends a message of congrats.

Winning followed Murray around in his eight-year CFL career, which began and ended with the Ticats. He arrived here for the Guelph season in 2013, made the East all-stars at halfback for each of the thee Ontario teams and five times in his eight CFL years, he went to the Grey Cup. He won it with, oh geez, Toronto in 2017 and three of his six Ticats squads made it to the Cup final.

Although he made it public Thursday, several weeks earlier Murray took the classy and respectful route of privately informing the Ticats of his pending retirement so football operations could go into free agency pre-armed with that knowledge.

Foul shooting and foul mouthing?

As he watched the Toronto Raptors, Spectator reader Jeff Witt noticed that with no distracting fans, players seemed to have better focus at the foul line. So, he summoned up NBA stats for the last four seasons and found that in 2020 and 21, when a lot of games have been played with few or no fans, indeed foul shooting success had risen over the two previous full-fan years.

Well supplement that reasoning with: all teams have obsessed over pure shooting skills in practice and roster construction since the Warriors moved the three-pointer from the accessories drawer to the main wardrobe closet.

But it also got us to wondering about something else the naked eye suggests: that maybe mounting time in cooped-up mode has stoked frustration in players and officials.

Its by no means an empirical study, but heading into Thursdays night slate 11 players were averaging at least .20 technical fouls per game so far in the compacted 2021 season. Over the past 15 years, only twice has a season ended with more than seven .20-plus-per-game players, and never reached double figures. And no one has come remotely at those seasons ends to the .47 T-ups per game the combatively-talented Russell Westbrook currently averages.

Beam us in Scotties

Every time theres a gap in live-event scheduling which has been a whole bunch over the past year along comes the curling broadcast replays to plug the hole. So, its energizing to the see the real, live, thing return this week with most of the games top Canadian women athletes at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

The Scotties is always big deal spiel and this will be one of the toughest to win, ever, with the one-time expansion of playoffs and teams (18). Itll be mentally draining with no fans to invigorate the long days, very strict quarantine restrictions inside the Calgary bubble, and the inevitable procedural adjustments on the fly during this first of four major national championships to be held in the venue this winter/spring. Plus, many teams havent had much game or even practice experience this season and theres a berth in the Olympic trials on the line.

It should be great to finally watch curling drama again without actually knowing the script.

DeNobile shepherded Hall in roughest times

Back to the 110-yard game, we cant let February end without noting that late last month executive-director Mark DeNobile left the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, just shy of his bakers dozen anniversary.

It was a really enjoyable 13 years and we went through a lot of changes, says the 62-year-old Hamilton native. I wish the Hall absolutely nothing but the best.

DeNobiles late father, Geno, won the 1957 and 63 Grey Cups during his nine seasons as a Ticat guard, and his son lived and breathed the Hall of Fame during his stewardship. Plagued by lack of money, minuscule attendance and other issues, the Hall closed its downtown location, near City Hall in 2015. Ownership passed, by agreement with the city, to a non-profit board of directors at arms length from, but controlled by, the CFL head office.

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DeNobile doggedly and tirelessly promoted its artifacts and displays, escorting them around the country for big CFL promotions and Grey Cup week. But, there was no rooted physical location until June 2018, when the Hall was rebooted on the imaginatively reconfigured fourth floor at Tim Hortons Field, with additional displays in the west entrance lobby and the seventh floor media zone.

Greg Dick, the leagues CFO and director of football operations, is also chair of the Halls board and says the league has several plans to upgrade the in-house experience over time. Dick will run operations until a new executive-director is in place.

End Offs

He missed a week with an injury and more with the COVID-19 restrictions which shut down the Wild, but Caledonias Cam Talbot is doing exactly what he was brought to Minnesota to do: stabilize the goaltending and defensive confidence. Talbot came off the NHLs pandemic protocol list Thursday and didnt play that night against the Ducks but might get in Saturdays second game Anaheim. Hes 3-2 with a .920 save percentage but those positive numbers understate his calming steadiness hes brought ... In Calgary, critics have been slamming the core players after a ragged three games. Some called for the re-promotion of Hamiltons Zac Rinaldo from the taxi squad to add a little edge to the seemingly listless team in a weekend home-and-home with Edmonton. Rinaldo has played just one game with just three shifts and two minutes of ice time two weeks ago, but it was a Flames win over the Oilers ... Nick Caamano of Ancaster played the Dallas Stars first nine games but was returned to the taxi squad last weekend ... Earlier this week, legendary St. Johns sports writer Robin Short detailed The Rocks all-time NHL scorers and Michael Ryder was No. 1 followed by Dan Cleary, the first Newfoundlander to win a Stanley Cup. Both played for the AHL Hamilton Bulldogs ... RIP longtime friend and former Torstar colleague Frank Orr, who made heavy days on the road lighter with incisive humour and uncanny knowledge of some of the worlds funkiest restaurants.

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