EPIC.LAN’s EPIC44 will take place at Kettering Conference Centre from Feb. 20-23. More details and ticketing information can be found at www.epiclan.co.uk. The renewed partnership will see Intel serve as a headline partner for EPIC.LAN’s three planned flagship events in 2025 at Kettering Leisure Village, providing activations, hands-on Intel technology demonstrations, community tournaments, and prize […]
EPIC.LAN’s EPIC44 will take place at Kettering Conference Centre from Feb. 20-23. More details and ticketing information can be found at www.epiclan.co.uk. The renewed partnership will see Intel serve as a headline partner for EPIC.LAN’s three planned flagship events in 2025 at Kettering Leisure Village, providing activations, hands-on Intel technology demonstrations, community tournaments, and prize giveaways to participants and fans. Intel will also continue to support unique activations such as Intel Community Championship Belt–giving fans of all skill levels an opportunity to compete in a variety of games to earn points for a chance to be crowned the ultimate champion. Marking the fifth consecutive year working together, Intel will continue to work with EPIC.LAN to champion grassroots gaming and esports in the region as a key partner through sponsorships, giveaways, activations, and more. “We have all seen the challenges faced in the events industry over the last few years,” said Jon Winkle, managing director at EPIC.LAN. “One of the reasons EPIC.LAN has been able to continue delivering top-quality gaming events is through the strength of its partnerships and how those partners understand our community-first approach As we go into our fifth year of working with Intel, it’s clear that they thoroughly understand the importance of supporting those grassroots gaming and esports communities with us and we look forward to another year of strong collaboration.” Intel UK and UK-based community gaming and esports organisation EPIC.LAN announced Monday that they have teamed up for another year. Financial terms of this renewed partnership were not disclosed.
Eric Dane Reveals His Right Arm No Longer Works Amid ALS Battle
Eric Dane just revealed in April that he’d been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but he’s already lost function in his right arm and worries about weakness on his left side and in his legs. “My left side is functioning, my right side has completely stopped working,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum said, after sharing he […]
Eric Dane just revealed in April that he’d been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but he’s already lost function in his right arm and worries about weakness on his left side and in his legs.
“My left side is functioning, my right side has completely stopped working,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum said, after sharing he only had “one functioning arm,” in an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on Monday and Tuesday’s Good Morning America. “I feel like maybe a couple more months and I won’t have my left hand either. It’s sobering.”
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Dane, who appeared somewhat physically weak in the pre-taped conversation, already had a scary incident with his 13-year-old daughter when the former competitive swimmer and water polo player jumped into the water and realized he didn’t have the strength to swim.
“She dragged me back to the boat,” he said of his child, adding that he broke down in tears. “I was just, I was, like, heartbroken.”
Dane said his symptoms began over a year ago when he started to notice weakness in his right hand.
“I didn’t really think anything of it at the time. I thought maybe I’d been texting too much or my hand was fatigued,” he recalled. “But a few weeks later, I noticed it had gotten a little worse.”
He then ended up seeing a series of doctors, including two hand specialists and neurologists, the second of which told him, “This is way above my pay grade.”
After nine months of testing, he got the ALS diagnosis: “I’ll never forget those three letters.”
The neurological disorder, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects motor neurons, a type of nerve cell in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing, according to the National Institutes of Health. As these cells deteriorate, muscles weaken and waste away and the brain loses its ability to start and control functions like walking, talking, chewing and breathing. The disease gets worse over time.
Dane, who plays Cal Jacobs on Euphoria and stars in the upcoming Prime Video police thriller Countdown, was focused on his family as he talked to Sawyer and said he wants to work as long as he’s able.
“I mean, I really, at the end of the day, just, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can,” he said. “I don’t think this is the end of my story. I just don’t feel like, in my heart, I don’t feel like this is the end of me.”
He grew emotional when he referenced wife, Rebecca Gayheart, whom he called his “biggest champion.”
“I talk to her every day,” he said, pausing to collect himself as he got choked up. “We have managed to become better friends and better parents. And she is … probably my biggest champion and my most stalwart supporter. And I lean on her.”
And after losing his own father to suicide at the age of 7, Dane is “angry” the disease could also take him from his teenage daughters while they’re young.
“I’m angry because, you know, my father was taken from me when I was young,” he said. “And now, you know, there’s a very good chance I’m going to be taken from my girls while they’re very young.”
There’s currently no known cure for ALS, and most people die from being unable to breathe on their own, usually within three to five years of symptoms first appearing, according to NIH. Approximately 10 percent of people diagnosed with ALS survive for 10 years or more.
Sawyer had teased the second part of the interview, which aired on Tuesday, when she would speak with Dane and his doctor, Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, the executive director at Massachusetts General Brigham Neuroscience Institute.
“It’s a hard diagnosis to hear, but I want them to hear that there’s hope,” said Cudkowiczm, speaking to others with ALS, which she said affects 5,000 people per year and is a number that is rising too quickly. “I never want anyone to hear that there’s nothing to do because there’s a lot to do.”
Cudkowiczm said it’s predicted by 2040 that the numbers of people with ALS worldwide will increase at least 40 percent, due to the aging population and environmental factors including plastics, bacteria in lakes, pesticides, being in the military and head trauma. She also spoke about a new breakthrough drug that has been showing improvements in clinical testing.
Dane, who doesn’t qualify for that trial per gene testing, is taking medication to slow down the symptoms and participating in a different research study. “I will fly to Germany and eat the head off a rattlesnake if she told me that will help,” said Dane, with a smile, of being open to trying anything to combat the disease.
The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral starting in 2014 has raised $200 million for U.S. research.
“I’m pretty hopeful,” closed Dane. “In my heart, I don’t feel like this is the end of me.”
— Jackie Strause contributed to this story.
This story first posted on June 16 at 5:58 am PT and was updated on June 17 at 6:30 a.m. with Dane’s Tuesday interview on GMA.
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AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (22-41) won 8-4 (BOX SCORE) The Hooks got on the board in the 2nd inning scoring 5 runs on a Ferreras solo HR, Austin RBI double, Sacco RBI single and Williams 2 run HR. In the 3rd, Guillemette connected on a 3 run HR to extend the lead. Rodning got the […]
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (22-41) won 8-4 (BOX SCORE)
The Hooks got on the board in the 2nd inning scoring 5 runs on a Ferreras solo HR, Austin RBI double, Sacco RBI single and Williams 2 run HR. In the 3rd, Guillemette connected on a 3 run HR to extend the lead. Rodning got the start and tossed 2 scoreless innings. Santa pitched in relief allowing 4 runs, 2 earned, over 2 innings. The rest of the pen was great tossing 5 scoreless as the Hooks won 8-4.
Five Eagles Earn 2025 CSC Women’s At-Large Academic All-District Honors
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STATESBORO – Georgia Southern placed five student-athletes on the 2025 Collegiate Sports Communicators Women’s At-Large Academic All-District teams, as announced by the organization Tuesday afternoon. To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District honors, student-athletes must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA at their institution. They […]
STATESBORO – Georgia Southern placed five student-athletes on the 2025 Collegiate Sports Communicators Women’s At-Large Academic All-District teams, as announced by the organization Tuesday afternoon.
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District honors, student-athletes must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA at their institution. They must also be at least a sophomore academically. Each school is allowed six male and six female honorees for the all-district team based on academic and athletic merit in the sports of men’s and women’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s gymnastics, men’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, men’s rifle, men’s skiing, men’s volleyball, men’s water polo, men’s wrestling, women’s beach volleyball, women’s bowling, women’s crew/rowing, women’s fencing, women’s field hockey, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, women’s ice hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s rifle, women’s skiing and women’s water polo.
The five honorees are: rifle athlete Bremen Butler, rifle athlete Ella Goldfaden, rifle athlete Zahra Gonzalez Mazo, rifle athlete Emma Pohlmann, women’s golf athlete Drive Tunwannarux.
For Pohlmann, it’s her second all-district recognition while it’s the first for the other four.
Butler, Goldfaden, Gonzalez Mazo and Pohlmann will advance to national balloting for possible Academic All-America honors. Only student-athletes who were all-conference, earned All-America honors or were players of the year in their respective conferences advance to the national ballot.
Longhorn Nation, Well folks, WE DID IT AGAIN! It came down to the wire, literally. I must admit I was on the edge of my seat, sweating out every point late Saturday night as our Women’s Track and Field squad put on a final surge of Texas Fight at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene […]
Well folks, WE DID IT AGAIN! It came down to the wire, literally. I must admit I was on the edge of my seat, sweating out every point late Saturday night as our Women’s Track and Field squad put on a final surge of Texas Fight at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene to get us across the finish line. And when the number crunchers frantically tallied in our tie for 10th-place NCAA finish as well as those of the two programs on our heels (Stanford & USC), it was confirmed — the LEARFIELD DIRECTORS’ CUP WAS CLINCHED and will remain right here where it belongs on the Forty Acres! What a breathtaking and heart pumping way to cap off another fantastic year across all sports. Now it’s not officially official as we’re awaiting the final results that will come from our friends at NACDA later this month at the conclusion of baseball, but rest assured nobody can catch us now. Your Longhorns have claimed The Cup as the nation’s premier all-sports athletic program for the second-straight year and fourth time in five years (how about that for absolute dominance!). YES, we are the champions, AGAIN!
Another incredible year of Longhorn Sports
NCAA Championships
Top-3 finishes
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Conference Championships ( SEC)
When official results come out later this month, the @LDirectorsCup will stay here for 4th time in 5 yearshttps://t.co/N8tTzS3Q8i
That SPECTACULAR TROPHY will be delivered soon enough and look absolutely glorious taking center stage alongside the others in our collection of the Learfield Directors’ Cups inside the Frank Denius Family University of Texas Athletics Hall of Fame. It never gets old folks and shines brightly as a beacon of the PRIDE AND WINNING TRADITION of The University of Texas. This year’s Cup will forever be a bold reminder of the history made in our inaugural year as members of the Southeastern Conference. There were the eight SEC crowns (Beach Volleyball’s CCSA Championship made it nine conference titles), thrilling National Championships in Softball and Men’s Swimming and Diving, dramatic NCAA and CFP Final Four Tourney runs for Football, Women’s Basketball and Men’s Tennis, and top-three finishes from Rowing and Women’s Swimming and Diving that made it SEVEN teams among the nation’s top-three, along with 10 top-five’s and 13 top-10’s. And I’ve got to give credit where credit is due — it all starts with our unbelievable leaders — Chairman Eltife and President Davis — and their incredible support that allows our coaches, student-athletes and staff to do their thing. Longhorn Nation, you’re the absolute best too and have been right by our side helping us all vigorously row the boat in the same direction. When we do that — and keep those BBs in the box — we can accomplish anything under the sun! Y’all know, a United Texas is a reckoning my friends!
And while I’ve got you, here’s hoping everyone had an enjoyable Father’s Day weekend as we cherished the patriarchs in our lives. It was a day to applaud and thank them, and I do want to take a moment and send a shoutout to all of our Longhorn Dads. This week we will recognize and celebrate a very important Juneteenth holiday with our annual participation in the Central Texas Juneteenth Emancipation Parade on Thursday. It makes for another week of gratitude and family time filled with admiration, appreciation, reflection and love.
Speaking of appreciation, we’ve got to give our phenomenal women’s golfer Farah O’Keefe a huge round of applause and emphatic Hook ‘Em, Horns. Talk about WHAT STARTS HERE CHANGES THE WORLD, Farah was en fuego and put that Texas Fight on full display in stampeding all the way to The Women’s Amateur Championship final in Nairn, Scotland last week. Facing an elite field of 144 golfers from 30 countries, she took dead aim and advanced from stroke play through several rounds of match play, including a thrilling semifinal victory that put her in the championship match. Then on a special Father’s Day with her dad by her side, Farah battled through a grueling 36-hole final and came up just short. She left it all on the course and there’s no shame in being the runner-up on the grandest of world amateur stages. Well done my friend, we are very lucky to have you in the Burnt Orange & White.
The same can be said for our Fab Freshman Timo Legout who on Friday was tabbed the ITA Men’s Tennis National Player of the Year (making it three -straight Longhorns to earn that honor to boot). He went 35-3 on the season, 12-0 in conference for our SEC Championship squad and was the nation’s No. 1-ranked singles player this year. Another first-year phenom, Baseball’s Dylan Volantis, was named the NCBWA National Freshman of the Year. Our towering lefty and conference freshman of the year for our SEC Champions tossed 74 strikeouts against just 12 walks in 51 innings this year. He led all rookies nationally in saves (12), while ranking second in ERA (1.94) and batting average allowed (.185). Additionally last week, our sensational student-athlete Marg Van der Wal, the SEC Rower and Scholar-Athlete of the Year, was tabbed a finalist for the CRCA Athlete of the Year award and Softball’s Katie Stewart earned Academic All-America honors for her efforts on and off the field as well. Those are just another in a long line of Longhorn student-athletes that received national recognition this year! We are so proud of all of them and the time and effort our student-athletes commit to be elite in their sports, the classroom and the community.
Congrats to Timo Legout – @ITA_Tennis men’s National Player of the Year!
Can’t get enough of the reminders of the THRILL OF VICTORY Coach White and our Softball program provided us. This recap with Coach White and our National Championship Longhorns will take you back and have you puttin’ those Horns Up. What a fabulous time it was watching our squad dig deep and win big, there was nothing “Weak or Timid” about their Texas Fight at the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City! Now that the championship hardware is home in Austin, be sure to get that National Championship gear to add to your collection, too!
Hot off the press. We’ve got new @TexasSoftball Natty gear here at the Texas Team Shop on the San Jac side of DKR-TMS. 10-4 Mon-Thurs and 10-5 Fri-Sun pic.twitter.com/N03uNC8e8z
Oh, and be sure to grab your copy of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine. I know y’all can’t get enough football in the offseason and thumbing through the wealth of information DCTF has provided for generations is an annual ritual for so many in our great state. Our guy COACH SARK’S ON THE COVER and it’s a keeper for sure! You can check out all the behind-the-scenes video from the photo shoot here as well.
— Dave Campbell’s — TexasFootball.com (@dctf) June 12, 2025
So, folks, THAT’S A WRAP. With the Learfield Directors’ Cup clinched and our sports seasons complete, what a perfect time for our final Forty Acres Insider of 2024-25. You’ve got plenty to be oh-so-proud of, so wear your Burnt Orange & White often and keep those Horns Up all the livelong day! We’ll be prepping for the year ahead while our student-athletes put in the work to continue to chase greatness. Y’all get yourself some much-deserved good solid R&R, let your road trips commence, so you’re ready to roll when the action heats up again in August. We’ve got lots of fun on the horizon and we’ll be ready to get revved back up soon enough because our work is not done. Preparations for 2025-26 are underway! See you soon!!
M/W Track and Field put a bow on season at NCAA Outdoor Championship
Coach Flo and our Longhorns took on the best of the best over in TrackTown USA last week at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Our individual highlights included a pair of bronze medal performances. For the women, Nina Ndubuisi led the way with a third-place finish in the shot put on the strength of a personal-best throw of 19.50 meters, that’s over 60 feet y’all! Kody Blackwood paced the men with his third-place showing in the 400-meter hurdles. Both 4×100-meter relays earned points, as the women’s group placed fifth and the men’s team finished eighth in the finals. And kudos to Xavier Butler and Kenondra Davis, who both earned first-team All-America honors in the 200-meter dash with top-seven performances.
Here’s some final nuggets to carry you over this summer!
Before I let you go for the summer, I mentioned quite a few of our outstanding notables from this recently completed 2024-25 academic calendar year. But folks, here’s a few more so that you can puff your chest out at the water cooler around your co-workers at the office and take with you on your family vacations this summer. With our Men’s Swimming and Diving and Softball teams capturing National Championships this season, this marks the FIFTH-STRAIGHT year that the Longhorns have won multiple national titles in the same academic season. Excluding the COVID-shortened year of 2019-20, Texas has now won at least one NCAA team title in 10-STRAIGHT seasons! Over the last five years, the Longhorns have won 13 NCAA team championships by eight different programs, while seven additional programs have either made the Final Four OR finished in the top three at the NCAA Championships. We sponsor 21 intercollegiate programs here on the Forty Acres, and 15 OF THOSE 21 PROGRAMS have now claimed a National Championship. WOW! We qualified 20 of our 21 NCAA eligible sports for their respective NCAA Championship events. Texas was the ONLY SCHOOL IN NCAA DIVISION I to have its Football, either Men’s or Women’s Basketball, and either Baseball or Softball programs reach the Final Four of their NCAA Tournaments this season!
The Longhorns have captured 68 all-time National Championships (64 NCAA titles). And how about a few more nuggets. Our 10 top-five performances in 2024-25 marked a tie for the second-most in school history, trailing only the 12 recorded in 2021-22. And our 13 top-10 efforts also tied for the second-most in school history, just one shy of the record 14 in 2021-22. We have recorded a total of 49 top-five NCAA team finishes and 65 top-10 NCAA team finishes during the last five years.
Hook ‘Em Horns,
Chris Del Conte
P.S. — Glad we’ll be able to be a part of Coach Corso’s final GameDay show. He’s been an institution for generations and is the absolute best!
Week 1: Columbus, OH
We’re kicking off College GameDay with a trip to Texas-Ohio State, as we celebrate Lee Corso’s final show back where he first made headgear history! pic.twitter.com/FtOLmXPXKB
Millard high schools face off in volleyball showdown
Battle at Buell: Millard high schools face off in volleyball showdown STADIUM WHERE THE CLOCK SAYS 47 MINUTES UNTIL MATCH NUMBER TWO OF THE DAY FOR VOLLEYBALL DAY AT NEBRASKA. AND YO HUSKER ATHLETICS, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS. AND THEY HAVE LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED. OVER MY SHOULDER HERE, YOU’LL SEE CONSECUTIVE SELLOUTS, 306. […]
Battle at Buell: Millard high schools face off in volleyball showdown
STADIUM WHERE THE CLOCK SAYS 47 MINUTES UNTIL MATCH NUMBER TWO OF THE DAY FOR VOLLEYBALL DAY AT NEBRASKA. AND YO HUSKER ATHLETICS, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS. AND THEY HAVE LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED. OVER MY SHOULDER HERE, YOU’LL SEE CONSECUTIVE SELLOUTS, 306. THEY CHANGED IT FROM FOOTBALL TO VOLLEYBALL. IT’S INSPIRING. THESE WOMEN ATHLETES ARE INSPIRING TO TALK ABOUT ALL THAT INSPIRATION. LET’S GO TO KETV. NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S MADDIE MADDIE AUGUSTINE NOT WANTING TO MISS THIS HISTORIC DAY IN THEIR SPORTS HISTORY. TEAMS ACROSS THE METRO HAVE CANCELED PRACTICE AND LOADED UP BUSSES TO HEAD DOWN TO LINCOLN. THEY KNOW THESE PLAYERS. THEY’VE PLAYED WITH THEM, THEY’VE WATCHED THEM. THEY’VE BEEN MENTORED BY THEM. AND TO GET TO SEE THEM ON THIS BIG STAGE, IT ONLY LEIGH GIVES THEM CONFIDENCE TO BE ABLE TO DO THE EXACT SAME THING FOR PLAYERS ON PAPILLION LA VISTA SOUTH’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM. VOLLEYBALL DAY IN NEBRASKA PROVES THEY CAN REACH THE NEXT LEVEL. SEEING THEM AND LIKE SEEING THEIR CONFIDENCE GROW HAS REALLY JUST LIKE IT’S LIKE, WOW, I CAN COMPETE AT THAT LEVEL TOO. AND LIKE I CAN DO THE THINGS THAT THEY’RE DOING TODAY IS JUST LIKE SO INSPIRING BECAUSE WE GET TO SEE WHAT, WHAT WE COULD DO WHEN WE WORK THIS HARD. WITH MORE THAN 90,000 FANS EXPECTED, TODAY’S GAMES COULD BREAK THE RECORD FOR ANY WOMEN’S SPORTING EVENT DIRECTOR OF PREMIER VOLLEYBALL CLUB SHANNON SMOLINSKI SAYS FOR HER ATHLETES AND HER DAUGHTER, TODAY IS MONUMENTAL. I THINK IT’S JUST AN INCREDIBLE DAY FOR THOSE YOUNG FEMALES TO BE ABLE TO SEE IF CAN SEE THEM DO IT, THEN CAN DO IT MYSELF. FORMER UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER JAYDEN CENTENO ADDING TO BE ABLE TO SET THAT IN NEBRASKA IN OUR HOME I THINK IS GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST DEAL JUST FOR FANS, FOR PLAYERS, FOR ATHLETES ALL AROUND THE WORLD. SEVEN FORMER PREMIER VOLLEYBALL ATHLETES WILL BE COMPETING IN TODAY’S MATCHES. SMOLINSKI SAYS SHE COULDN’T BE PROUDER. THAT STAGE IS GOING TO BE JUST A SUPER COOL MOMENT FOR THEM, FOR THEIR FAMILY AND THEN US AS A PREMIER FAMILY TO CELEBRATE. THAT IS GOING TO BE SUPER COOL. VOLLEYBALL DAY NEBRASKA PROVING TO BE AN INSPIRATION TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF ATHLETES AND HELPING TO CELEBRATE THE PROGRESS OF WOMEN’S SPORTS. MADD
Battle at Buell: Millard high schools face off in volleyball showdown
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Related coverage in the video aboveThe Millard high schools are battling it on the court this summer.Millard South Volleyball posted on social media to announce the Battle at Buell.All three schools will face off in an epic high school showdown “under the open sky, under the lights” at Buell Stadium near 149th and Q streets.The night of outdoor volleyball will take place on Aug. 21.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
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Millard South Volleyball posted on social media to announce the Battle at Buell.
All three schools will face off in an epic high school showdown “under the open sky, under the lights” at Buell Stadium near 149th and Q streets.
The night of outdoor volleyball will take place on Aug. 21.
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We are excited to announce… BATTLE at BUELL
Get ready for the most electric night of outdoor high school volleyball! Under the open sky, under the lights — it’s more than a game, it’s a SHOWDOWN.
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