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Prog-jam favorites Umphrey’s McGee announced on Tuesday that Brooklyn-based nine-piece funk powerhouse Turkuaz will serve as support for their show on Saturday, June 22nd at Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. On Saturday, Turkuaz announced their newly added gig onstage as they closed out their winter tour at Denver, CO’s Ogden Theatre.On Friday, June 21st, the first night of the run, Umphrey’s McGee will be joined by Arizona jam quartet Spafford. On the run’s final night, Sunday, June 23rd, Umphrey’s will perform three sets including a special Led Zeppelin set with guest drummer Jason Bonham, reprising their collaboration from last summer at LOCKN’.In addition to the three Red Rocks shows, Umphrey’s guitarists Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger will help kick off the weekend with an intimate acoustic performance at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox in Denver on Thursday, June 20th. Proceeds from the performance will benefit Conscious Alliance. That show is sold out.Tickets for Umphrey’s McGee’s three-night Red Rocks run are on sale now here.For more information and a full list of Umphrey’s McGee’s upcoming tour dates, head to the band’s website. read more

From subject line to messaging, your emails to members can have a big impact or fall short. This is especially true when it comes to eliciting action from your members, say asking members to complete a survey or to cast a vote in a board election or merger election.Jenn Barton, marketing director at Votenet Solutions, Washington, D.C., offers tips on getting members to click and take action, specifically when it comes to voting. Votenet powers CUES eVote, CUES’ election management and online voting service.Getting to the Point“Your members and voters will decide to open your email based on the subject line—it can make or break your campaign. Why would you spend time crafting a compelling email message that will never be read because you chose a boring or irrelevant subject?” Barton asks. continue reading » 2SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr read more

The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body, made the long-expected announcement. National Association president Pat O’Conner says the leagues “don’t have national TV revenues.” O’Conner estimated 85-90% of revenue was related to ticket money, concessions, parking and ballpark advertising. The minors drew 41.5 million fans last year for 176 teams in 15 leagues, averaging 4,044 fans per game. MLB teams are planning for a 60-game regular season and most of their revenue will derive from broadcast money.In other baseball news:Major League Baseball says a team will not specifically announce a COVID-19 injured list placement for a player who is removed from the club after testing positive, just an IL trip. MLB’s operations manual says a positive test and exhibiting symptoms that require isolation for additional assessment or exposure to someone who has had the virus are cause for placement on the new COVID-19 IL. — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is optimistic right fielder Aaron Judge, left-hander James Paxton, center fielder Aaron Hicks and designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton will be ready to play in the time for New York’s rescheduled opener at World Series champion Washington on July 23. Judge did not play in any exhibition games due to discomfort in his right pectoral muscle and shoulder that he felt when swinging. Paxton had surgery Feb. 5 to repair a herniated disk in his back. — Outfielder Heston Kjerstad agreed to a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles that includes a $5.2 million signing bonus, well below the slot value of $7,789,900 assigned to the No. 2 overall pick. The 21-year-old joins a rebuilding Orioles team that has lost at least 100 games in two straight seasons and used the No. 1 pick in 2019 to secure catcher Adley Rutschman out of Oregon State. —The San Diego Padres have acquired infielder Jorge Mateo from the Oakland Athletics in the first trade since baseball resumed after a shutdown of more than three months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Padres will send either a player or cash to the A’s for the 25-year-old Mateo, who will be added to the player pool for the resumption of spring training. The Padres are scheduled to have their first workout Friday at Petco Park. — Shohei Ohtani (SHOH’-hay oh-TAH’-nee) will resume his two-way career with the Los Angeles Angels when baseball returns. Angels general manager Billy Eppler confirms his Japanese star will pitch and hit in the majors this season. Ohtani was only a designated hitter last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. He wasn’t expected to pitch in 2020 until at least May, and Eppler confirmed that the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t altered the Angels’ plans. The Angels could have a six-man rotation for the short season.— Sinkerballing reliever Jared Hughes and the New York Mets agreed to a $700,000, one-year contract, a deal that amounts to $259,259 in prorated pay over the 60-game season. He had a 6.35 ERA over five appearances and 5 2/3 innings during spring training with the Houston Astros and was released March 19. A right-hander who turns 35 on July 4, Hughes was 5-5 with a 4.04 ERA last season for Cincinnati and Philadelphia. — The Oakland Athletics are selling cardboard cutouts with fans’ photos that they will put in the seats at the Coliseum this season. The team also plans to mix in images of former players and celebrities alongside the fan cutouts. Major League Baseball is looking to play a 60-game regular season this summer because of the coronavirus. There will be no fans at ballparks on opening day, but some markets are hoping to play in front of smaller crowds by the end of the season. The cardboard cutouts for A’s games range in price from $49 to $129. Proceeds from the sales go to charity.VIRUS OUTBREAK-NBA-PELICANS July 1, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK-NHL-HURRICANESHurricanesRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Members of the Carolina Hurricanes have returned to their home ice at PNC Arena as the team began voluntary training sessions amid the second phase of the NHL’s return plan.In a video conference with reporters, captain Jordan Staal said the players went through safety protocols that included wearing a mask and getting a temperature check when arriving at the arena, as well as “keeping your distance as best you can.”The team had announced last week that roughly 16 players were expected to participate, divided into two groups, with workouts closed to the public and media. F1 drivers discuss whether to take a knee at season openerLONDON (AP) — Formula One drivers will discuss taking a knee at the opening race of the delayed season in Austria on Sunday. McLaren driver Lando Norris says it will be discussed following the drivers’ briefing with the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association on Friday. Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has been vocal about the Black Lives Matter movement and F1′s diversity issues. Black Lives Matter has been supported by soccer players in Germany, Italy and England taking a knee before and during games. Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditMINOR LEAGUE SEASON CANCELEDBaseball’s minor leagues cancel 2020 seasonsNEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s minor leagues canceled their seasons Tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the head of their governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections. Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As monuments, statues and memorials around the world come under increased scrutiny, some former Most Valuable Players in Major League Baseball are saying they’d like to see a change in future MVP plaques. The trophy is engraved with the name of Kenesaw Mountain Landis in large letters. Landis was baseball’s first commissioner and there were no Black players in the majors during his reign from 1920 until his death in 1944. His name has been on every American League and National League MVP plaque since then. Barry Larkin, Terry Pendleton and Mike Schmidt say they’d like to see it pulled off.Toward the end of his tenure as commissioner, Landis told owners they were free to sign Black players. But there is no evidence he pushed for baseball integration.FORMULA ONE-PROTESTS In other developments related to the coronavirus:— The LPGA Tour lost another tournament when the Canadian Women’s Open was canceled because of travel restrictions and quarantine requirements from the COVID-19 pandemic. The CP Women’s Open was scheduled for Sept. 3-6 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver. The LPGA Tour and Golf Canada say it will return to Shaughnessy the last week in August next year.— Up to 800 spectators per day will be allowed at a tennis exhibition in Berlin in mid-July. This, even after four players tested positive for the coronavirus after playing in a similar event fronted by Novak Djokovic. Organizers of two tournaments in Berlin say the city health authorities have approved a limited number of spectators. The maximum is set at 800 per day for a July 13-15 outdoor event on grass, and 200 per day for a hard-court event in a hangar at the disused Tempelhof airport from July 17-19. NBA-RACIAL INJUSTICE-MORANT APOLOGYGrizzlies’ Morant apologizes for anti-police Instagram post Three New Orleans players test positiveNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pelicans general manager David Griffin says three New Orleans players have tested positive for COVID-19 and will be in self-isolation until testing shows they can return to team activities without infecting others.Griffin declined to identify the players, citing medical privacy laws.The positive tests occurred on June 23, the first day all members of the team were tested as part of the NBA’s plan to restart the season, which was suspended in mid-March because of the pandemic. Griffin says the Pelicans have had no players test positive since.When the Pelicans return to action on July 30 against Utah at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex outside of Orlando, Florida, they will be 3½ games out of the Western Conference’s final playoff spot with eight games left. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant posted and deleted an Instagram photo suggesting he’d replace his name with an expletive on his number 12 jersey in a protest against police. Morant then apologized, saying the post didn’t “accurately convey” what he wanted to share. Morant said he knows “there are good cops” out there.The league, Nike and the players association are reportedly working on a deal that would allow players to replace the names on the backs of their jerseys with social justice statements. MLB-RACIAL INJUSTICE-MVP PLAQUES‘A dark past’: MVPs say time to pull Landis name off plaques Update on the latest sports BROADCASTS-DISCRIMINATIONSoccer players’ union points to racial bias in broadcastsLONDON (AP) — The soccer players’ union in England believes racial bias is evident during broadcasts of matches based on the language used by commentators in European leagues. The study conducted by Danish research firm RunRepeat in association with the Professional Footballers’ Association found 63% of praise regarding a player’s intelligence was aimed at those with lighter skin, while 63% of criticism for a player’s intelligence was aimed at those with darker skin tones. The study looked at 80 matches in the Premier League as well as the top divisions in Italy, Spain and France this season. ENGLAND-LESLIE STATUECampaign for Black soccer player denied by England in 1925LONDON (AP) — A fundraising campaign has been launched to raise money for a statue to honor a man who was denied the chance to play for England’s national soccer team in 1925 because he was Black. Jack Leslie was an attacking player who scored 137 goals in 401 matches with Plymouth Argyle. He was named in England’s team for an international match against Ireland 95 years ago. But the campaign website says his name disappeared from the team sheet because Football Association officials discovered he was Black. Viv Anderson eventually became the first Black player to represent England’s national team in November 1978. read more

Junior Taylor Wurtz played the most minutes for Wissonsin last season and averaged 8.3 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game, the best stats out of the returning players.[/media-credit]The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will have a full plate this year.UW released its 2011-12 schedule Monday and is slated to face 14 teams that played in the postseason last year.After finishing 16-15 (10-6 Big Ten) last year, UW will face six teams that finished in USA Today’s final Top 25 poll of the 2010-11 season, as well as two more teams who received votes.The strongest opponent the Badgers face, based on last season’s records, is Green Bay. The Phoenix finished last season ranked No. 9 with 34 wins on the season. Wisconsin will also face last season’s No. 17 Ohio State, No. 18 Michigan State and No. 25 Marquette. The Badgers will also face seven teams who played in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament.UW reached the second round of the WNIT before falling to Illinois State, 62-59. Wisconsin will face five nonconference teams who also appeared in the WNIT, including BYU, Boston College, Oral Roberts and Colorado – who reached the Elite Eight. The first three teams ended their seasons in the Sweet 16.After opening Big Ten play against Ohio State Dec. 30, Wisconsin will face Penn State the following week. Both Michigan and Northwestern made appearances in the WNIT, while Iowa also received votes in the USA Today poll.In total, Wisconsin will face 11 teams who had 20-plus wins last season. Nine of the Badgers’ games will air on the Big Ten Network, five of which will be played at the Kohl Center.Other notes on the schedule:UW will face UW-Whitewater and UW-Parkside in its two exhibition games this season. Wisconsin has never played UW-Parkside and hasn’t faced UW-Whitewater since 1979.Wisconsin hosts Oral Roberts and Washington State, which is the first time in school history the Badgers have faced either of those teams. They will also meet Montana State in the Omni Classic in Boulder, Colo. for the first time in school history, as well.Wisconsin will face Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern and Purdue only once each this season due to the Big Ten’s expansion to 12 teams. It will play newcomer Nebraska twice. The Badgers are 5-0 all time against the Cornhuskers. The most recent meeting between the two teams was Nov. 29, 2000, at the Kohl Center. They’ll meet for the first time at the Kohl Center again on Jan. 12 this season, before the Badgers travel to Lincoln, Neb. Feb. 19. read more

Dodgers hit seven home runs, sweep Colorado Rockies ANAHEIM – Kyle Garlick’s long baseball journey wound back to Southern California this week. It always does.After the Dodgers’ rookie outfielder played one game in Cincinnati, two in Pittsburgh, three in San Francisco, and dressed for another series in St. Petersburg, Fla., without appearing in a game against the Rays, he finally had a locker at Angel Stadium on Monday and Tuesday.Garlick is attending the Dodgers Foundation gala Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium. On Thursday, he’ll have a locker and a nameplate at his home park for the first time. Garlick said five family members will be in attendance for that night’s game against the Cubs: his mother, Cary, father Steve, plus an aunt, an uncle and his grandmother.That’s a relatively quaint gathering under the circumstances, but quaint gatherings have followed Garlick for some time now. He was scarcely recruited by college teams out of Chino Hills High, nor did he attract the attention of MLB scouts. A broken ankle suffered late in his junior year torpedoed his chances of appearing on the showcase circuit during his critical final summer in high school. How Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling topped the baseball podcast empire Cary Garlick is doing well now. She had a recurrence of breast cancer in early 2018, just as Kyle was set to report for spring training. Since having surgery, Kyle said, her cancer went back into remission; she was even able to attend some games at Triple-A Oklahoma City last year.Garlick moved up the Dodgers’ minor league ranks quickly. He returned to Southern California with advanced Class-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga by the end of 2015, just 46 games into his professional career. Garlick began this season, his third full year as a pro, by hitting 12 home runs in 43 games with Oklahoma City. Finally, the call came from the big leagues, followed by a series of flights that took him around the country with few plate appearances interspersed.For anyone among the small crowds that have been rooting for Garlick from the beginning, his latest homecoming was a just reward.“Nobody deserves it more than him,” said Kyle Billingsley, Garlick’s head coach at Chino Hills High. “He worked his butt off. I’m really excited for him and his family.”“He’s a great kid,” Betten said.To hear his amateur coaches tell it, Garlick’s journey to the pros doesn’t fall in any of the stereotypical buckets. He was neither a gritty underdog nor a can’t-miss talent. Garlick combined a bit of both traits, but his broken ankle in high school, his wrist injury at Oregon (Garlick said it was never formally diagnosed), and the delicacy of drafting a hitter who crushes Division II pitching threatened to shoot down his star before it could rise.Betten said he didn’t even recruit Garlick out of high school. He knew Garlick was a Division I talent, and Division II coaches simply don’t land that caliber of player. The Broncos’ 40-something-year-old field and attendance that was measured in the hundreds were not compelling recruiting tools.Related Articles Newsroom GuidelinesNews TipsContact UsReport an Error Dodgers’ Max Muncy trying to work his way out of slow start Garlick landed a scholarship to play for the University of Oregon anyway. But after a promising sophomore season, a wrist injury ended his junior year early. He graduated from Oregon without ever being drafted.Because he was granted a medical redshirt year, Garlick still had one year of Division I eligibility after the 2014 season. He never used it.“My mom was sick at the time. She had breast cancer,” he said. “I wanted to go home and be closer to her. And so when I went to (Cal Poly) Pomona I was just living at home, commuting back and forth. Pomona happened to give me a good scholarship so I didn’t have to pay too much back.”Garlick’s last season of college baseball, the one that got him drafted by the Dodgers in June 2015, was effectively set against the background of a small family gathering. Certainly hitting a school-record 17 home runs for the Division II Broncos helped Garlick’s draft stock. He liked the program. He liked head coach Randy Betten. But that isn’t why Garlick came home for his final year of college baseball.“I think it helped a lot just because family is the most important thing,” he said. “It should be the most important thing in all of our lives. Just to be able to live at home … when I was at Oregon, I would come home for Christmas break for a month, maybe a month or two in the summer if I wasn’t playing ball. That would really be it. The rest of the time would just be sporadic visits here and there, being able to see them. Going back home, being able to see her, I think it made a huge difference for both of us mentally.” On the off-chance he might land such a player, “usually there’s a tool missing – they maybe have power but they don’t have a position,” Betten said. “Kyle was a good all-around player. Good size. He could run. He could hit for average. He had a position. Some of those guys end up coming back for some reason: maybe a coaching change in Division I, maybe playing time.”In retrospect, Garlick looks like a steal for the Dodgers, just as he was for Betten. He was a 28th-round draft pick, a round that has thus far yielded two Triple-A players and no other major leaguers. His signing bonus was a mere $1,000. That’s not an unusual price for a college senior, though it rarely heralds a future major league talent. Even on the standard rookie salary, that’s about one-third of what Garlick earns in a single day now.Garlick’s first stint with the Dodgers lasted four days. His second lasted two days. His third stint entered Day 8 on Wednesday. Regardless of whether there’s a Day 9, Garlick has already beaten the odds to make it back home.UP NEXTDodgers (LHP Clayton Kershaw) vs. Cubs (LHP Jon Lester), Thursday, 7 p.m., SportsNet LA (where available), 570 AM Cody Bellinger homer gives Dodgers their first walkoff win of season Fire danger is on Dave Roberts’ mind as Dodgers head to San Francisco read more

Another death associated with vaping, bringing the nationwide total to at least seven and the CDC is taking action. Health officials are urging users to stop vaping while they scramble to figure out…what aggravating factor is causing these deaths.)The seventh death connected to using e cigarettes was diagnosed near Fresno, California. In Atlanta the US Centers for Disease Control activating an “Emergency operations center” in response to the Cases of lung injury associated with e-cigrarette product use, or vaping. read more

More cars — at least 365 —  more spectators — an estimated 10,000 — and great weather made the 2012 Road Kings event one of the ages.Staff at Mallard’s Source for Sports would like to salute the 2012 Road Kings executive for the numerous hours put in to host an event of this magnitude by honouring the members as Team of the Week.The executive includes, back row, L-R, Jack Chambers, Mode Radcliffe, Woody Wudkevich and Stan Brost.Front, Frank Anderson, Joe Mann, Pat Keegan, Mike Keegan, Britt Darough, Ron Cutler and Marcello Piro.Missing, John Madelung and Duane Magas. The Queen City Cruise just keeps on getting bigger and better every year as the tenth anniversary topped the nine previous events. read more