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COVID Outbreaks at UVa, BC Scuttle Fenway, Military Bowls

27Dec

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COVID Outbreaks at UVa, BC Scuttle Fenway, Military Bowls

By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Fenway Bowl and Military Bowl were both canceled due to the pandemic on Sunday as coronavirus outbreaks at Virginia and Boston College forced them to call off their postseason plans. The game scheduled for Wednesday at Fenway Park was to pit the Cavaliers against SMU. The Military Bowl scheduled for Monday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland, between Boston College and East Carolina was canceled because of positive COVID-19 tests at BC. Also Sunday, Miami said it would not play Skechers Shoes Outlets in the Sun Bowl, which was scheduled for Friday against Washington State. The Hurricanes have been dealing with a virus outbreak for several days. “This is not the way we wanted to s...

NHL Brings Back Taxi Squads in Effort to Keep Season Going

27Dec

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NHL Brings Back Taxi Squads in Effort to Keep Season Going

By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW, AP Hockey Writers The NHL is emerging from an extended holiday break with taxi squads and other roster revisions, a move made to guard against more disruptions to the season amid more players and coaches going into COVID-19 protocol Sunday. Each team will be allowed to have a taxi squad of up to six players and to make emergency recalls from the minors if COVID-19 absences would cause anyone to play without a full lineup. Taxi squads, which were used during the shortened 2021 season, Hoka Shoes are set to be in effect until at least the All-Star break in early February. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed the new roster rules in an email to The Associated Press, and the NHL announced the changes Sunday night. The league also ...

26Dec

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Heat’s Max Strus wearing Jimmy Butler’s shoes and thriving two years after knee surgery

Jimmy Butler hasn’t played in nearly three weeks, but his shoes have been on the court. With Butler missing the last eight games because of a tail bone contusion, Miami Heat forward Max Strus has been playing the best basketball of his NBA career while wearing the Li-Ning Yushuai 14 Low sneakers made specifically for Butler. “We wear the same size and they’re comfortable,” Strus said, with the Heat set to continue its four-game homestand on Sunday against the Orlando Magic (3:30 p.m., Bally Sports Sun). “I wear whatever. I just wore those the past couple of games.Skechers Outlets ,If I have a good game, I usually wear the same one the next time. So I’m just going to keep them rolling.” Strus, 25, may never wear other shoes again based on how he has played in Butler’s sneakers. With an inc...

Worried about carbon footprint? Indian start-up’s ‘recycled’ shoes may put your mind at ease

26Dec

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Worried about carbon footprint? Indian start-up’s ‘recycled’ shoes may put your mind at ease

Gurugram/Jalandhar: This one is for those worried about their carbon footprint, quite literally. You can now buy a pair of sneakers, that manufacturers claim are made entirely of recycled waste. The price of $129.90 (Rs 9,757), will no doubt seem steep for the average shopper, but for the environmentally woke, it will be a small price to pay for an item the production of which has traditionally been a major source of solid waste production. According to an article published in 2014, an average pair of shoes take about 50 years to completely decompose. A paper published in 2020 estimated that globally, Skechers Womens Outlet about 21 million shoes are manufactured annually. “This creates a humungous amount of waste generation from footwear and leather sectors. The maximum percentage of foo...

26Dec

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Making a difference, one SOLE at a time

LEXINGTON, S.C. (WIS) - SOLE Stepping, a nonprofit organization that provides new shoes and socks to elementary school students, is making a difference in childrens’ lives one sole at a time. It began in 2016 when mother and founder of SOLE Stepping, Kara Jefferson, had some extra shoes and noticed a need in her community. “She took this idea of putting shoes on kids’ feet and it’s turned into this project of not just connecting community people, but allow us all to experience just how Hey Dude Women's Shoes awesome it is to be able to give,” said Elizabeth Keisler, a volunteer of four years for SOLE Stepping. One day, Keisler’s children came home with new shoes. That’s when she stepped in to help. “The fact that there were just kind people out there doing things for other people just ...

26Dec

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In My Own Shoes: Begging to burn the midnight oil

I wanted to be a big girl. I yearned to be a big girl. I knew I could do it like a big girl, but every year my parents wouldn’t let me. All I wanted to do was stay up until midnight on New Year’s Eve like the big kids and grownups did. I longed to see that beautiful, bejeweled ball slide slowly down into Times Square announcing the new year, watching the throngs hug and kiss and blow horns while a veritable mountain of confetti rained down upon them. That’s really all I wanted, but my parents thought better of it. Still, I knew I could prove them wrong. I knew I could do it. “Just give me a chance,” I wailed each year, “and I’ll stay up! I can do it. I can make it till midnight.” So somewhere around my 11th or 12th birthday they let me win the annual argument. This would be the year,...