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Montana State's Hailey Coey, Drake Wilkes set school records at Bobcat PReview season-opener
BOZEMAN — A pair of school records and a standout day in the women’s pole vault highlighted a slew of eye-popping performances from the Montana State track and field team in their Bobcat PReview season-opener inside Worthington Arena on Thursday.
Drake Wilkes’ record in the men’s 60 meters and Hailey Coey’s record in the women’s triple jump headlined the day, but the two top marks were far from the only head-turning results.
“I think across the board we’re in a really good place with our entire team which is exciting,” head coach Lyle Weese said. “We had some standout performances and events like the women’s pole vault, pretty special having three go over 13 feet in the first meet. That was really exciting. School records for Hailey in the triple jump and Drake in the 60, so it was quite a first meet.”
Wilkes, making his Bobcat debut on the track after joining the team over the offseason, made quite the first impression.
The Austin, Texas, native clocked a converted time of 6.79 to rewrite the Montana State record in the 60 meters, beating out his new teammate Noah Barbery, who set the record last year in 6.80 seconds.
In the jumps, Coey started her day with a leap of 20-00.50 in the long jump to move up to No. 3 all time. The Billings native became one of just three women in program history to clear 20 feet in the indoor long jump, joining Lacy Hinzpeter (2000) and Janet Buntin (1983).
Later, Coey outdid herself in the triple jump.
With the current school record holder, Erin Jones-Graf, watching and measuring the event, Coey’s fourth jump went 40-03.25 — breaking Jones-Graf’s record of 40-00 set in 2004.
After Coey’s celebration with teammates and coaches, Jones-Graf was the next to greet the new school record holder with a congratulatory embrace.
In the final event of the night, a trio of Bobcat pole vaulters remarkably all cleared 13 feet.
Led by Tatum Richards’ final clearance of 13-05.75, Libby Hansen and Megan Bell also cleared 13-01.75, with the jumps of all three coming in succession as they fed off each other’s energy and momentum.
Richards’ mark propels the Emmett, Idaho, product to No. 3 all-time in MSU history, with Hansen and Bell both now tied for sixth in the record books.
In the sprints, Peyton Garrison picked right up from a strong outdoor season last spring, running a blistering converted time of 7.52 in the women’s 60 meters to win the event and move up to third all-time at Montana State.
Racing alongside Wilkes’ record-breaking performance, Xavier Simpson clocked a converted time of 6.86 to tie for sixth in program history, building on his previous best time by a hundredth of a second.
Over in the throwing cage, Jenavieve Lynch unleashed a massive heave of 59-10.25 in the women’s weight throw. The second-best throw by a Bobcat since 2012 was good enough to move the Bozeman High standout up to seventh in program history.
“Today was the product of a lot of hard work for our sprints, jumps, and throws squad from this summer and fall,” Weese said. “They showed today that we’re in a really good place as a team, so we’re excited to start the indoor season so strong and think about what we can do in January and February.”
Prior to the 4×400 meter relays, the 2024 Big Sky Men’s Outdoor Track and Field championship team was honored with a tribute and the unveiling of the championship banner in the northeast corner of Worthington Arena.
For full results from the Bobcat PReview meet, click here.
Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) is facing yet another lawsuit over allegations of unlicensed sampling — only this time, it’s centered on a video clip of the rapper’s infamous 2013 fight with paparazzi.
In a case filed Wednesday (July 15) in Los Angeles federal court, the celebrity news agency Bauer-Griffin claims that Ye, French Montana (Karim Kharbouch) and others used audio from the headline-grabbing incident in “Where They At,” released in 2024 off French’s Mac & Cheese 5.
The May 2013 video, which also features a pregnant Kim Kardashian, shows West charging at a photographer outside a Los Angeles restaurant and shouting “don’t take no photos” and a string of profanities: “All of you m*therf*ckers stop it, man!”
The clip appears prominently in the intro to Montana’s song — a use that the lawsuit calls “blatant and willful” copyright infringement.
“Given Mr. Ye’s history of numerous confrontations with paparazzi, the video was highly newsworthy,” the agency’s lawyers write in legal documents obtained and first reported by Billboard. “Listeners immediately recognized the audio sample that begins the infringing record as being copied from the video.”
Ye has been sued over a dozen times for allegedly using unlicensed samples and interpolations in his music, including a high-profile battle with Donna Summer. In May, he lost a jury trial over using an uncleared sample in an early version of the Grammy-winning “Hurricane” from Donda. He had testified at trial that he’s “very generous” about giving credit and compensation when it’s due, but that “a lot of people try to take advantage of me.”
In Wednesday’s complaint, Bauer-Griffin says the creators of “Where They At” showed no such respect to its rights in the video of the paparazzi incident, using it despite being well aware that sound recordings must be licensed when any amount is directly sampled into a song.
“In the music industry, copyrights are prevalent and well understood,” lawyers for the agency write. “Every defendant knew that they needed to have but did not have permission to use the audio sample.”
Reps for both stars did not immediately return requests for comment. The lawsuit also names as defendants producers Dem Jointz (Dwayne Abernathy Jr.) and BoogzDaBeast (Jahmal Gwin), as well Gamma, the label that released the song, and its distribution unit Vydia.
The confrontation at issue in Wednesday’s lawsuit was one of two high-profile scuffles with paparazzi that year for the rapper, who was then still known as Kanye West. Two months later, he clashed with photographer Daniel Ramos outside of LAX, resulting in a civil assault lawsuit that the star eventually settled two years later on the eve of trial.
As many celebrities have learned over the years, simply appearing in a photo or video does not give someone any legal rights to it. Ownership of such material is always retained by the creator — an inconvenient fact that has sparked lawsuits against Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa.
It’s unclear who filmed the May 2013 incident, which happened outside a Beverly Hills restaurant minutes after the star had also been filmed accidentally banging his head into a signpost while trying to avoid other photographers. But the rights to the footage have been owned by Bauer-Griffin from the beginning: When TMZ first posted it at the time, it came with a watermark crediting the agency.
“The infringing record has been widely distributed on various streaming platforms, in flagrant violation of plaintiff’s exclusive rights under copyright laws,” Bauer-Griffin’s attorneys write. “Plaintiff brings these claims to vindicate those rights.”
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