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“My goal throughout free agency was to find a way to get back on the field,” Trubisky said Thursday, just minutes after his deal with the Steelers became official. “When an opportunity arose to play for coach (Mike) Tomlin and wear a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform, I was so excited. Now I’m ready to roll and get to it.”
“She’s kind of our whole brand, especially when we get into March,” Norris said. “We always joke around when we advance, it’s kind of like Sister Jean advancing to the round of 32. No, but she’s great. I mean, she means a ton to our university and to our team, and it’s awesome to have her here.”
The U.S. State Department has been “doing everything we can to support Brittney Griner to support her family, and to work with them to do everything we can, to see that she is treated appropriately and to seek her release,” spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday at a briefing. He cited privacy considerations in not giving out more details.
“To see how much he’s grown, that’s good, man. He could’ve folded when John Groce got fired. He could’ve left. I told him, ‘What you want to do? You want to stay or go to another school?’ He said, ‘No, Dad, I want to stay for the long haul.’ To me, it’s all about growth.”
The seven-inning games in Glendale and Mesa, Ariz., will begin at 3:05 p.m. CT. The Sox’s home game at Camelback Ranch will be televised on NBC Sports Chicago, while the home game for the Cubs at Sloan Park will be shown on Marquee Sports Network. /No word yet if the Cubs’ home game at Sloan Park will be on Marquee Sports Network./
Ogunjobi is no stranger to steep climbs. His football journey began in high school in Jamestown, N.C., with the most modest of goals. He was extremely overweight, an admitted video game couch potato, and his parents were simply pushing him to find some way to become more active and find a healthier lifestyle.
“I’m pretty big — 6-6, like 210 pounds — defense is my strength, and I feel like this year I got comfortable playing defense,” Vlasic said. “Being able to use my size and strength to my advantage, talking to my advisers and my coaches, we all agreed that it was ready for me to move on and accept bigger challenges and accept what was to come in the future and playing against bigger, faster, stronger — just better players in general.”
“People said to me, ‘Is this going to your head?’ ” she said. “No, it’s not going to my head. I just try all the time to make people happy, to be happy myself. And if I make people happy and it’s good for my congregation what I do, and good for Loyola what I do, I’ll do it. I have a lot of fun doing what I do, and that makes me happy.
“The reality of it is looking in our face,” Donovan said. “It’s about how we have to respond to it. We have a long, long way to go in these moments, but this is what we have to go through. … Our guys are playing hard. They’re trying, they don’t give up, they battle, they fight. But I’m hoping we learn some lessons sooner or later.”
“We’re kind of getting near full force right now,” Donovan said. “We’ll see how he responds and how he does, but it’s good news. … I was optimistic that he would be able to get back before the end of March. He’s moving in that direction, but a lot of it’s going to now depend on how it goes once he does that and what medical feels is an ample amount of time for him to get comfortable actually going into a game.”