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By Jeff White (jwhite@virginia.edu) VirginiaSports.com CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Lara Kology remembers it as an “aha moment.” It dawned on her, after she entered the transfer portal last spring, that the University of Virginia would offer her an experience she could not find elsewhere. At no other school would she be reunited her with her brother Griffin. “I was like, ‘Not many people can say that they were able to go to school with their twin and both be athletes there,’ ” Lara recalled this week. Griffin was already at UVA, studying economics in the classroom and playing close defense on the men’s lacrosse team. He’d arrived on Grounds in the summer of 2022 after spending his freshman year at the University of Richmond. Two years later, Lara began looking for a new home after two seasons at the University of Florida, the first of which she’d missed with a knee injury. Another sibling, Kyle, had preceded Griffin on the Cavalier men’s team, so Lara already knew something about Charlottesville and UVA’s academic reputation. Moreover, she had childhood friends at the University. And so when Sonia LaMonica, head coach of the Virginia women’s lacrosse team, reached out to Lara, things progressed

Apr 19, 2025 07:51 PM IST Actor-politician Khushbu Sundar posted on Instagram that her X (formerly Twitter) account has been hacked and she received this message. Actor-politician Khushbu Sundar revealed on Instagram that her X (formerly Twitter) account has been hacked. What’s more, she even revealed that she received a WhatsApp message from her hacker saying this. (Also Read: Khushbu Sundar flaunts glam and lean new look, gives it back to troll who called it 'magic of Mounjaro injection') Khushbu Sundar shared screengrabs of the message she received from a hacker. Khushbu Sundar’s hacker sends her messageKhushbu informed fans a few hours ago on Instagram that her X account was hacked and that she was unable to access it. She wrote, “Hi friends, my #TWITTER @khushsundar account is hacked. I am not able to log and its not accepting my id or password. I am blocked out. Any news, updates, posts, or any activity on my twitter page is not done by in the last 9 hours. Trying to sort this out. Kindly bear and keep me posted if you see any kind of activity on my TWITTER page. See you soon on twitter. Till then, i am here.” On

Apr 18, 2025 05:39 PM IST Kesari Chapter 2 arrived in theatres today and fans can't get enough of Akshay Kumar's performance, which verdict suggests is ‘National Award worthy’ Back in 2019, Akshay Kumar left the country deeply emotional with his impactful performance in Kesari, where he brought the events leading to the Battle of Saragarhi alive onscreen. Today, the actor returned to theatres with the spiritual sequel titled Kesari Chapter 2. Also starring R Madhavan and Ananya Panday, the Karan Singh Tyagi directorial tells us the untold story of Jallianwala Bagh — what happened after the horrific 1919 massacre. Well, according to first day reviews by fans, the courtroom drama between Akshay and Maddy has left the audience in awe, with Ananya being a surprise package. Ananya Panday, Akshay Kumar and R Madhavan in Kesari 2 Netizens cannot get enough of the Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan and Ananya Panday-starrer. After catching the first day shows of Kesari Chapter 2, many are now convinced that Akshay deserves a National Award for his impactful portrayal of late advocate C. Sankaran Nair. One such fan gushed, “we cried, we laughed and we clapped. what a film , i repeat what a film.

April 18, 2025 Seven Vanderbilt bowlers named to the Commissioner’s Honor Roll NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Seven Vanderbilt bowling student-athletes received Conference USA academic awards, which were announced Thursday and Friday. Isabel Allen, Sydney Bohn, Kailee Channell, Kaylee Hitt, Haley Lindley, Paige Peters and Victoria Varano were named to the 2024-25 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll. Allen, Bohn and Varano also received the Commissioner’s Academic Medal. To be eligible for the Commissioner’s Honor Roll, student-athletes must have a minimum cumulative GPA of a 3.0 and completed at least one academic semester at the institution. Nominees also must have been included on the team’s roster as of the last contest or last day of the semester. Commissioner’s Academic Medal recipients must meet all of the above criteria and maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher.

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DALLAS — Middle Tennessee men's golfers JJ Zimmer and Luke Perkins have been named to the 2024 Conference USA Men's Golf All-Academic Team, as announced by the league office Thursday afternoon. Zimmer, a senior from Jackson, Tennessee, and Perkins, a junior from Oxford, England, are two of just five student-athletes across the league to earn the prestigious honor, which recognizes excellence in both academics and athletics. "Luke and JJ are the definition of what it means to be a student-athlete," said head coach Mark McEntire. "They excel both in the classroom and on the golf course. As a coach, they are an example of what we want all of our players to live up to be. I'm incredibly proud of the work they've put in." Zimmer is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies and holds an impressive 3.87 GPA. In his lone season with the Blue Raiders, the senior has competed in every tournament and currently owns the second-best scoring average on the team at 72.04. He has carded 16 rounds of par or better and six rounds in the 60s. Zimmer has recorded four top-20 finishes this season, highlighted by a fourth-place showing at the Argent Financial Classic.

Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Samantha Cole: I have never been a smoker, period. I have never smoked nicotine of any kind. Such a loser.  Morgan Sung: Sam Cole is a tech journalist and co-founder of 404 Media, and last summer, she tried to vape the internet.  Samantha Cole: There was this tweet going super viral back in July. It was a guy that was like, “no way we got Twitter on my vape.” And it was a photo of him holding a vape with Twitter on it, reading tweets on it.  Morgan Sung: It was exactly what it sounds like, a little flip phone-sized disposable vape, with a digital screen.  Samantha Cole: And everyone was freaking out about it. It became a meme format. Like, there was one where someone was putting Zillow on a vape.  Morgan Sung: In other posts, people were getting breaking news alerts on their vapes or playing games like Tetris and 2048. And Sam, being an intrepid journalist, was determined to figure out if it was real.  Samantha Cole: I’m always looking for new ways to ingest the internet. So I was

April 14, 2025Updated April 16, 2025 8:27 am EDTNEW YORK — It’s rare for Paige Bueckers to feel rushed. But exceptions are made when dreams come true.Bueckers didn’t have to wait long to hear her name called in the 2025 WNBA Draft. Ten minutes after the festivities officially began, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert voiced the most predictable, and anticipated, news of the evening: The Dallas Wings selected Bueckers as the No. 1 pick. Yet, Bueckers, a master at controlling pace on the floor, couldn’t slow the moment. Compared to what she imagined, she said the whole scene was “a lot faster than I thought.”She rose from her table positioned in the center of the draft hall and shared her first hug as a professional basketball player with her former UConn teammate, Azzi Fudd. An embrace with her college coach, Geno Auriemma, came next. Then family. A sellout crowd of spectators, many of whom were wearing her jersey, rejoiced. A few of her other Huskies teammates cheered her on, and Bueckers became emotional discussing their impact on her.It was clear that a franchise had been changed — quickly. Everything happens fast on draft night. Nothing but gratitude from Paige Bueckers after

My screen time report glares back at me: 10 hours and 26 minutes. Mostly Twitter (now ‘X’). I should be concerned, but instead, I find myself scrolling through another thread about someone “reheating nachos.” This is my natural state now. Chronically online, my brain is thoroughly cooked. In a world where conventional meaning feels increasingly untrustworthy, our generation has created its own semiotic system. When official channels of communication feel compromised by corporate interests, political agendas, and algorithmic manipulation, stan Twitter offers an alternative form of expression that paradoxically reflects our collective attentional paralysis while providing an escape from it. Consider “Onika Burger,” a term born when someone misinterpreted the phrase “North West ate,” used in reference to a piece of art created by West and posted on Twitter. Another account responded with “she=onika ate=burgers,” an insult aimed at Nicki Minaj (whose real name is Onika Maraj), suggesting she was overweight at a time when her profile photos featured close-up glamour shots. The phrase makes no logical sense but communicates perfectly to those fluent in stan semiotics. This evolution of language represents what Barthes might call the ‘death of the author’ and the birth of pure signification. Stan Twitter operates

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Justin Hastings (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Harry Takis (Brisbane, Australia) each fired 4-under 66s to help the San Diego State men’s golf team take a seven-stroke lead on the first day of the Western Intercollegiate Monday on the par-70, 6,486-yard Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California.Hastings and Takis are in third place, one shot behind co-leaders Filip Jakubcik (Arizona) and Taiga Kobayshi (Nihon Univ.), and the Aztecs have five players in the top 20 of the six-count-five-event.SDSU, which is 18th in the latest NCAA Scoreboard computer rankings, shot a 12-under-par 338, seven strokes ahead of a three-way tie for third between No. 21 Arizona, No. 42 Stanford and Nihon Univ. at -5. No. 34 UNLV is fifth at -4.Hastings, who missed the cut at the Masters in his first major over the weekend but still had the lowest score among amateurs at +4, came up with five birdies and one bogey for his 66 today. Takis, meanwhile, had seven birdies and three bogeys for his matching 66.Junior Chanachon Chokprajakchat (Bangkok, Thailand) is tied for seventh at 3-under 67, which included three birdies and no bogeys.Sophomore Dylan Oyama (Carlsbad, California) is tied for 15th at