Women’s Tennis Opens Season With Loss at Baruch

FLUSHING, NY - Taking the courts for the first time in the Fall of 2026, the Yeshiva Women's Tennis Team fell to Baruch College, losing to the Bearcats by a score of 7-0 on Thursday, Sep. 3rd. The Maccabees got off to a slow start in doubles play, dropping both...

Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard known for her outspoken style, recently offered pointed comments about teammate Caitlin Clark that underscored both her loyalty and her frustration with how online conversation treats the team’s stars.

Learn about an apple variety that is super crisp and firm that I am getting at apple orchards over Honeycrisp this month. It took a long time from when the Crimson Crisp apple was first bred until it was available to be grown commercially. It was first developed in the 1970s by the PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, and Illnois) co-operative. It wasn't until 2006 that the apple was released for growers. That is a long time in the development process. You don't get rich quick by developing a new apple variety!

In her exit interviews, WNBA star Caitlin Clark opened up about her future with the Indiana Fever, stating there were big decisions that had to be made. Clark made clear she plans to remain with the Fever, even as she weighs an early contract extension that could reshape the team’s roster flexibility.

Deklon Ford disappeared from Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County), on May 6, 2015, with his mother, Brittany Anne Ford (pictured below), according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Deklon's photo above (far right) has been age progressed to 8, though he would now be 11. His mother would now be 40.

Strudel, a resilient 20-pound Boston Terrier, is walking again after spinal surgery and months of crate rest and physical therapy, and now Vintage Pet Rescue is hoping to find her a home where she can keep growing stronger. The Rhode Island-based rescue explains Strudel came to them unable to walk after an injury; although her history is unknown, an MRI led to surgery to repair her damaged spine. “She is truly a fighter!” the rescue shared.

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I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. The invitation came after service, phrased as a question but understood as an honor: would the Reverend stay for dinner? In Baptist, Methodist, and AME congregations across the country in the 1950s and 1960s, having the pastor to Sunday dinner was a serious occasion. It wasn't everyday food. It was the food a family put forward as their best, cooked by the woman who had spent Saturday afternoon making sure everything was set.

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I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Every dish on this list arrived in America inside someone's memory. Not a written recipe, just the way a mother learned it from her mother, carried across an ocean and rebuilt in a Chicago three-flat or a South Florida kitchen or a New Jersey row house where something was always on the stove. By the time the grandkids sat down to eat, nobody at the table called it Hungarian or Greek or Czech. It was just dinner.

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