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Dan Hurley Says UConn Has 'Super High' Confidence After Back-To-Back Titles
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The 2024 college basketball season is about to begin … and Dan Hurley tells TMZ Sports his UConn program is running at a “super high level” of confidence as they prepare for a three-peat!!
The 51-year-old head coach was out greeting fans in New York City … a couple weeks before the Huskies’ first regular season game on November 6 in Storrs, Connecticut.
All eyes are on the back-to-back NCAA champions leading into the 2024-25 season … and Hurley — who decided to stay with UConn instead of joining the Los Angeles Lakers — mentioned their recent success has increased the team’s self-assurance, which will be crucial as they try to defend their title yet again.
“I think we’re even more urgent to keep the program where it is, you know, but now we got a super high level of confidence,” Hurley said.
“So, we’re even more urgent than ever, but the confidence is now high.”
In fact, Hurley compared their desire for a three-peat to needing oxygen … that’s how badly they want it.
The Huskies would be the first college hoops team to pull it off since the historic John Wooden-led UCLA squads did it in the ’60s and early ’70s.
Needless to say … Hurley believes the Huskies can do just that.
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Sunday Puzzle: Name the category
On-air challenge: Here are names of things that are in certain categories. Take the first two letters and reverse them. Then name something else in the same category that starts with those two letters.
Ex. Dress Verse –> ADDRESS, ADVERSE
- Alpha
- Germany
- Parenthesis
- Amos
- Osmium
- Nationals
- Octahedron
- Defense
- “It Happened One Night”
- “Eleanor Rigby”
Last week’s challenge: This week’s challenge comes from listener David Dickerson, of Tucson, Arizona. The city UTICA, NEW YORK, when spelled out, contains 12 letters, all of them different. Think of a well-known U.S. city, that when its name is spelled out, contains 13 letters, all of them different. Your answer doesn’t have to match mine.
Challenge answer: Casper, Wyoming
Winner: John Meissner of Estes Park, Colorado
This week’s challenge: Name a place somewhere on the globe — in two words. Rearrange the letters of the first word to name some animals. The second word in the place name is something those animals sometimes do. What is it?
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If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, October 31st, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.
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A Miami photo exhibit dispels myths about Haitian-American religious traditions
Haitian-Americans have become the targets of disinformation and even hate this political season. Some of this is based on long-standing stereotypes and misunderstanding of their religious beliefs and spiritual practices.
A photo exhibition recently opened in Miami tries to shed some light on faith practices and ceremonies among Haitian-Americans and others that have connections to the Caribbean and Africa. The show, featuring work by photographer Woosler Delisfort, documents some of Miami’s vodou traditions.
The exhibition, “Sanctuary: Our Sacred Place” at HistoryMiami Museum showcases traditions actively practiced by communities throughout South Florida. Delisfort, a Haitian-American photographer who grew up in Little Haiti and was raised Catholic, became fascinated by the many ways people in his community expressed their spirituality. He says, “This is part of my culture. This is part of my tradition.”
Many of the nearly 150 photos in the exhibition focus on ceremonies from vodou, santeria and ifa traditions that have their origins among West Africa’s Yoruba people. All the images were captured in south Florida. He says, “There’s vodou ceremonies happening in Miami Shores, Pembroke Pines, West Miramar, the different places where you never would have thought… there’s ceremonies happening over here.”
In the gallery, one of Delisfort’s photos is of a vodou ceremony he attended in the backyard of a home in a Ft. Lauderdale suburb. A dozen women circle a decorated post called a poto mitan. “Most of these women are mambos,” he says. A mambo is a priestess in the vodou tradition. The poto mitan, Delisfort says, “is the charge between, the connection between the earthly world and… the ancestor world.”
Delisfort says he was always was aware of vodou growing up and had friends and family who took part in its ceremonies and traditions. It’s about spirituality, he says but also about culture. Many who practice vodou he says, are observing Catholics or members of other Christian faiths. “At the end of the day,” he says, “vodou is a way of life. And that’s how most people view it. It’s a way of life.”
An altar from the Yoruba ifa tradition is part of the exhibition. It’s covered with sea shells, fruit, flowers and other offerings to Yemaya, an orisha or divine spirit who’s considered the mother and embodies the oceans. It was created by Michelle Murray, a choreographer and ifa practitioner. She says there’s a lot of misunderstanding surrounding ifa, vodou and santeria. “People make it seem magical and mystical and demonized,” she says. “What we’re actually doing is taking care of the Earth and honoring all that comes with that.”
Another part of the exhibition documents a ceremony held on a Miami beach on Juneteenth every year at dawn. The show’s curator, Marie Vickles says practitioners of vodou, ifa and other faiths come together to send out on the water an offering of fruits, vegetables and flowers laid on a flotilla of palm fronds. Vickles says, “As it goes out, it’s meant to commemorate those who did not survive the middle passage, who were lost to the waters.” She says it also honors “those that made it and were able to create a new life here.”
Other faiths and religious practices documented in Delisfort’s exhibition include Catholic San Lazaro Day and Ethiopian Orthodox Holy Week ceremonies, Santeria practices and Day of the Dead altars. They’re ceremonies not always open to outsiders. Delisfort spent years building relationships with religious leaders and practitioners and collaborated with them in this exhibition. Vickles says, “This is a project that not only celebrates spiritual practice, but also is documenting it for history, for the future. So, people can look back and say, ‘Oh, this existed in Miami,’ and hopefully still exists.”
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