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Shelton Named to AVCA Player of the Year Watch List

NORMAN – Senior Alexis Shelton was named to the preseason watch list for the 2025 Division I Player of the Year Award, presented by Nike Volleyball, the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced Tuesday. The list includes 30 players from 20 different schools, featuring some of the best talent in the nation. The names will be […]

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NORMAN – Senior Alexis Shelton was named to the preseason watch list for the 2025 Division I Player of the Year Award, presented by Nike Volleyball, the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced Tuesday.

The list includes 30 players from 20 different schools, featuring some of the best talent in the nation. The names will be revealed in groups of 10 over three days, from June 22-24.

A 2024 third-team All-American, Shelton had a breakout junior season as she led the team with 455 kills and 4.38 kills/set. She ranked second on the team in digs with 204 and in blocks with 93.

The junior tallied double-digit kills in every meet of the season, including a season-best 27 against Texas. She recorded 20-plus kills on nine occasions and notched eight double-doubles on the year.

Shelton reached the 1,000-kill mark in 2024, the 15th Sooner to achieve the feat. Her 1,118 career kills are good for 14th all-time. Her 455 kills in 2024 place her second all-time for kills in a single season.

The list will be narrowed down to semifinalists in November, after a midseason addition in October. The names of the finalists will be released in December, with the AVCA Player of the Year announcement occurring on Dec. 19 at the AVCA Awards Banquet in Kansas City.

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USC Women’s Water Polo Has 14 Trojans On ACWPC Academic Honor Roll

The Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches has announced its annual All-Academic Awards list, with 14 USC women’s water polo players picking up top honors for their academic efforts. Leading the powerful group of Women of Troy are four-time honorees Tilly Kearns, Sally McCarthy and Isabel Zimmerman. Four more Trojans have their third round of […]

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The ACWPC awards academic honors to student-athletes with 3.2 cumulative GPAs who have dressed at least once in the season.

USC’s 2025 ACWPC All-Academic Awards

Outstanding (4.0-3.71 GPA)

Morgan Netherton*

Isabel Zimmerman^

Superior (3.70-3.41 GPA)

Caitlin Cohen*

Madison Haaland-Ford~

Rachel Gazzaniga~

Maggie Johnson*

Tilly Kearns^

Meghan McAninch~

Sally McCarthy^

Anna Reed

Sinia Plotz*

Excellent (3.40-3.20 GPA)

Hannah Carver~

Emma Lawson~

Alma Yaacobi

^ – four-time honoree

* – three-time honoree

~ – two-time honoree

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Croatia Dominates Montenegro to Claim 5th Place at World Championships

The Croatia men’s water polo team secured a convincing 19–13 (3–2, 2–3, 8–2, 6–5) win over Montenegro to finish fifth at the World Championships in Singapore. Ivica Tucak’s squad defeated Montenegro for the second time at this tournament, closing out their campaign with five wins overall. Unfortunately, a single quarterfinal loss to an energetic Hungarian […]

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The Croatia men’s water polo team secured a convincing 19–13 (3–2, 2–3, 8–2, 6–5) win over Montenegro to finish fifth at the World Championships in Singapore.

Ivica Tucak’s squad defeated Montenegro for the second time at this tournament, closing out their campaign with five wins overall. Unfortunately, a single quarterfinal loss to an energetic Hungarian team meant Croatia had to settle for fifth place.

The turning point came in the third quarter. Croatia pulled away with a dominant 8–2 run, including two mini-surges of 3–0 and 5–0.

The first two quarters were tightly contested, with no team taking a real advantage. Montenegro led 6–5 at halftime. But Croatia roared back in the third, scoring three unanswered goals to go up 8–6. Montenegro briefly equalized (8–8), but two goals from Konstantin Kharkov reignited Croatia’s momentum. Luka Bukić, Marko Žuvela, and Loren Fatović capped off a decisive 5–0 run to extend the lead to a game-breaking 13–8.

Žuvela led the charge with five goals, Bukić added four on perfect shooting, and Kharkov chipped in three. Goalkeeper Marko Bijač recorded eight saves. Montenegro’s top scorer was Filip Gardašević with three goals.

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Athletes' Salaries

However, pay gaps still exist when comparing the salaries of male and female sports stars. Case in point? There were no women on Forbes‘ 2025 list of top 50 highest-paid athletes. Alex Morgan—who retired from soccer in 2024 after playing her last game with the San Diego Wave—came in at No. 16 on the outlet’s […]

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However, pay gaps still exist when comparing the salaries of male and female sports stars. Case in point? There were no women on Forbes‘ 2025 list of top 50 highest-paid athletes.

Alex Morgan—who retired from soccer in 2024 after playing her last game with the San Diego Wave—came in at No. 16 on the outlet’s ranking of highest-paid female athletes last year. The publication estimated the World Cup champ earned $600,000 on-field and $7 million off-field (scoring some solid endorsement deals) in 2024.

And while there have been strides to bridge the pay gap (with U.S. Soccer becoming the first federation to equalize FIFA World Cup prize money for the country’s women’s and men’s national teams), there is still a long way to go until it’s a more equitable playing field.

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Should Twins be interested in Severino?

I think a great “soft sell” move would be the Twins trading 1 or 2 of Martin, Julien, Miranda to Oakland for Luis Severino. Severino is having a perceived bad year, He actually has value. His split are solid away from that minor league ballpark the As play in, with an ERA of 3.03 on […]

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July 26, 2025

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I think a great “soft sell” move would be the Twins trading 1 or 2 of Martin, Julien, Miranda to Oakland for Luis Severino.

Severino is having a perceived bad year, He actually has value.

His split are solid away from that minor league ballpark the As play in, with an ERA of 3.03 on the road vs. 6.68 at home. while he is not a strikeout machine, he i slimiting hitters to a .212 avg on the road vs .303 at home. Giving up .820 OPS at home but just .605 on the road.

He just signed a 3 year $67M deal this past offseason. Part of the reason for that is the league mandate that Oakland had to spend to a certain threshhold.

I am sure MLB woudl frown on them just trading to slash salaries after that mandate, but they couldnt block a deal based on “baseball sense”

So lets say Twins send 1-2 of Julien, Martin, Miranda to Oakland for Severino where Twins take on 100% of remaining salary this year, but Oakland retains 50% the next 2 years.

That would basically mean the Twins get Luis Servino on a 2 year deal (after this year at an average of $12M per). 2 years at $24M total would be a great sign as a FA signing of a pitcher of Severinos potential!!

If we get the “away” version of Severino for that money that is a STEAL!!!

Oakland is not contending this year, and most likely nto until they move to Vegas which is still not until 2028. There is ZERO need to have Severino on the roster, and he wouldn’t have been if they weren’t forced to spend.

Would Severino be better than… Paddack? Zebby? Fest? Bullpen Game? I think so!!

and next year with a rotation of Lopez, Ryan, a potentially healthy Ober, Severino, would be a great base for a new ownership group to play with.

And none of Martin, Julien, Miranda, etc will be part of the future anyways.

Build for the future without “selling” now.

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52 athletes from Southern Arizona earned NJCAA All-Academic status from Pima, EAC, Arizona Western and Central Arizona; Jamie Black named FC Tucson MVP

Share Tweet Share Share Email (FC Tucson Graphic) This list will be updated all year in an effort to recognize all former local prep stars who have gone on to win either academic and/or athletic awards at the next level. These are not high school […]

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