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Motivated again by disparaging comments, The Harvest Prep Baseball team made West's Coaches Chew on their Feet!

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Stop disparaging HPS!  Twice this season, teams have had to deal with "foot-in-mouth" disease. Harvest Prep coaches have successfully used poor sportsmanship as bulletin board material for the HPS baseball team, motivating their 2 upset victories.  "Foot-in-mouth disease" is an informal, metaphorical phrase for the habit of making embarrassing, insensitive, or tactless remarks . It is a pun on the real livestock disease (foot-and-mouth) and the idiom "to put one's foot in one's mouth," suggesting a chronic tendency to say the wrong thing.  Over the last 10 completed seasons (2015–16 through 2024–25), the Harvest Preparatory School varsity baseball team had a combined record of: 1 win 119 losses 1 tie Harvest Prep entered the season not knowing whether they would have a coach to lead their team.  A coach stepped up, but was unable to continue for the season.  Recent graduates Keaton Webb and Nate Franklin took over the helm, and many wondered whethe...

Ukraine is Holding or Folding?

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Conflicting reports are becoming the norm.  Some experts are claiming Ukraine is holding on, while others claim Ukraine is ready to capitulate. UN Meeting Ready to Negotiate or Not? India   "The Ukrainian president made another push for a diplomatic end to Russia's attack by offering to discuss with Moscow the possibility of designating Ukraine a non-aligned country.  Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to send a delegation to Belarus' capital for talks with Ukraine but only after its military "lays down its arms". Putin also told China's Xi Jinping over phone that Russia is ready for high-level talks with Ukraine." The Washington Post "NATO leaders also discussed plans for ongoing military support to Ukraine, including air defense equipment, but provided no further details." FoxNews "Terror has taken hold in Ukraine, people." are 'running away from death." NBC "Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said late Wedn...