Smiles came easily for Kelly Holmes May 4 during her brief visit to Canton High School s softball field, the place where in 1992 she struck out a still-standing national record 24 batters in a seven-inning game. Whenever I go by a softball field, I remember the smell of the freshly-cut grass, the dirt, everything, said Holmes, who was inducted into the Canton High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. Being here brings back a lot of great memories. In April 2020, Holmes, who starred as a pitcher for the University of Michigan s softball program for four years after graduating from Canton in 1993, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an incurable form of brain cancer.
Many Hillsborough County teachers relieved to get first vaccine dose Josh Cascio reports TAMPA, Fla. - Brent Bowman and his wife Leah are teachers at Martinez Middle School. They were among those who used their teacher workday Monday to get their first round of the Pfizer COVID-19vaccine. It is an extra insurance policy, feels good, said Brent. Hillsborough County is using the Ed Radice and Vance Vogel Sports Complexes as vaccine sites for the newly expanded eligibility. Florida law enforcement given new vaccine Late Thursday night, the first shipment of the new single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Florida.
The case was dismissed at the district-court level, but the Court of Appeals sent the case back, and it remains ongoing. Cambridge Christian points to the 2012 championship game between University Christian and Dade Christian School, when praying over a loudspeaker was allowed by the FHSAA, as it was prior to the other three FHSAA contests in which Cambridge Christian competed during the 2015 playoffs. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, in his opinion for the Court of Appeals, wrote: Permitting certain speech on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and baring precisely the same message on Friday without credible explanation of what may have changed is the essence of arbitrary, capricious and haphazard and therefore unreasonable decision making.
/ Cambridge Christian School is involved in a federal lawsuit after being denied use of a public address system before a 2016 high school football title game. Amid a legal fight about a pre-game prayer, a Senate Republican on Wednesday filed a bill that would require the Florida High School Athletic Association to allow schools to have access to public-address systems before sports competitions. Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez, R-Doral, filed the bill (SB 880) as the association and Cambridge Christian School of Tampa have been locked in a long-running federal lawsuit stemming from a 2016 high school football championship game. The association, which is the governing body of high school sports, denied a request by Cambridge Christian to use the public-address system at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium to offer a pre-game prayer. That prompted the school to file the lawsuit, arguing that its First Amendment rights had been violated.