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After another wild week of the high school baseball season, it's time to look back on the best performances.

Read about the players who stood out last week and let us know who you think should be the HSS North Jersey Baseball Player of the Week in the poll at the bottom of this page.

Voting closes at 5 p.m. Thursday.

Jason Amalbert, DePaul

Amalbert powered the Spartans (16-2) to a 3-0 week to extend their winning streak to 10 games. The senior batted .667 (6 for 9), featuring four home runs to raise his season total to 10. He had two walks, one hit by pitch, 10 RBIs and six runs.

Alex Bellovich, Ramapo

Bellovich guided the Green Raiders (14-5-1) to two Bergen County tournament wins and 12 victories in their last 14 games. The senior batted .500 (4 for 8), with one run and five RBIs. He had three hits, one run and four RBIs in an 8-7 win over Paramus Catholic.

Roberto Cotes, Ramsey

Cotes drove the Rams (14-7) to a 2-1 week and seven victories in their last nine games. The senior hit .818 (9 for 11) to raise his batting average to .500. He had three doubles, a triple, two walks, four runs, two RBIs and was 5 for 5 on stolen bases.

Chris Cundari, Wayne Hills

Cundari earned both wins during a 2-0 week, featuring a 7-3 victory over Wayne Valley in a Passaic County tournament quarterfinal. Over 8 1/3 innings, the senior allowed one earned run, on four hits and six walks, and struck out 13 for the Patriots (14-3-1).

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Max Demaras, Bergen Catholic

Demaras helped the Crusaders (11-10) to a 2-1 week that featured two Bergen County tournament wins. The junior batted .857 (6 for 7), with one walk, three runs and four RBIs. He had three hits, two runs and four RBIs in a 13-1 quarterfinal win over Westwood.

Michael Hanna, Don Bosco

Hanna led the Ironmen (17-4) to a 2-0 week to stretch their winning streak to 12 games and became the Bergen County tournament’s all-time hits leader with 22. In county wins over Glen Rock and River Dell, the senior hit .571 (4 for 7), with a homer, four runs and four RBIs.

Luis Hernandez, Hackensack

Hernandez came within one out of a no-hitter before reaching his pitch limit in a 2-0 win over Cliffside Park. The junior issued seven walks and struck out seven, and his brother, Leifry, secured the final out for a combined no-hitter for the Comets (9-10).

Nicholas Maretzo, Mahwah

Maretzo led the T-Birds (7-14) to a 2-0 week, featuring a 7-6 victory over St. Mary. The senior batted .571 (4 for 7), raising his season average to a team-leading .485. He walked twice, scored five runs, including three against St. Mary, and added three RBIs.

Cade Tuozzolo, Pompton Lakes

Tuozzolo earned both wins in a 2-0 week, featuring a 6-5 victory over West Milford in a Passaic County tournament quarterfinal. The sophomore tossed six scoreless innings, scattering five hits and one walk. He hit .500 (3 for 6), with one walk, two runs and an RBI.

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Olivia Rodrigo’s new photos in a tiny micro minidress perfectly exuded soft, romantic vibes. The “drivers license” hitmaker wore a white dress with delicate lace patterns that added a subtle, feminine charm to the look. She styled the outfit with minimal accessories to let the dress shine.

Olivia Rodrigo’s tiny micro minidress is literally all lace

Take a look atOlivia Rodrigo’s photosin a tiny minidress with lacy details:

Rodrigo fully embraced her soft vibe in the new look in a lace-heavy ensemble. She wore a white micro minidress with layered ruffles that added an ethereal charm to the silhouette. The intricate lace detailing gave the outfit a soft, couture-like finish.

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She paired the dress with knee-high boots, adding a striking contrast to the ensemble. Rodrigo completed the look with stylish black sunglasses. Meanwhile, her relaxed pose further added effortless charm to the look. In the photos, she was surrounded by greenery, which made the scene feel natural and radiant.

Originally reported by Chhavi Puri onRealityTea.

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The offseason ahead of Year 2 of Kellie Harper’s tenure in Columbia appears to be complete.

Missouri women’s basketballwill head into the 2026-27 season, barring any late additions to the roster, with a 13-player roster that includes five returners from last year’s team, a five-player high school signing class andthree transfer newcomers.

Mizzou, if it wants, has room to add two more players. But, it looks very much like the team is set.

Harper indicated via her social media account that the Tigers’ roster fornext year is now complete,and the team has updated its official online roster to include all of the team’s offseason signings.

Grace Slaughter is joined by Abbey Schreacke, Averi Kroenke, Sydney Mains and Reka Toman as the Tigers’ returners. Mizzou landed guard McKenzie Mathurin from Michigan, point guard Nevaeh Caffey from Indiana and guard Tanyuel Welch from Arizona.

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Mizzou’s 2026 signing class includes guards Natalya Hodge and Jada Maples and most of the Tigers’ frontcourt options for next season with forwards Ellie Mueller, Khloe Ford and Cecilie Brandimore.

Five players left Mizzou via the transfer portal, including two starters from last year’s roster.

With the transfer portal now slowing down nationwide, here’s where Mizzou’s outgoing players have landed.

Chloe Sotell transferring fromMissourito Maryland

Perhaps Mizzou’s most significant loss of this transfer portal window, Sotell is headed to the Big Ten to play for Maryland in her junior season.

In 34 games with 27 starts, Sotell filled up the stat sheet with 8.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.3 steals per game. The 6-foot shooting guard from Stamford, Connecticut, was one of Mizzou’s better shooters after transferring in from Pepperdine, knocking down 37.2% of her looks from behind the arc on 5.6 attempts per game.

Sotell played the second-most minutes on the roster last season. She’ll play for a Maryland team that has not missed the Big Dance in the past 16 years underlongtime head coach Brenda Frese.

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Shannon Dowell, California

Dowell is teaming up with a coach who also hails from the greater St. Louis metro area, as the O’Fallon, Illinois, native will play for Ladue grad and Cal coach Charmin Smith next season.

The guard is another significant loss, as she was Mizzou’s second-leading scorer with 14.9 points per game. Dowell, who transferred to Mizzou from Illinois State, averaged 6.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 3.5 turnovers per outing.

In last season’s ACC/SEC Challenge matchup between Mizzou and Cal, Dowell scored a go-ahead layup with one second remaining to cap a 20-point night.

California missed the NCAA Tournament last season with a 21-15 record and 9-9 mark in ACC play.

Hannah Linthacum, Missouri State

For the first time since the 2018-19 season, there will not be a Linthacum sister on the Mizzou roster.

Like her older sister, Sarah Linthacum, did after the 2023-24 season, Hannah Linthacum is transferring from Mizzou to Missouri State. She did not play last year due to injury in Harper’s first season.

In her two previous seasons with Missouri, Hannah Linthacum averaged 2.5 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

Missouri State won the Conference USA Tournament title last year and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time under head coach Beth Cunningham.

Lisa Thompson, Utah State

Thompson made 10 starts for the Tigers in her lone season with the program, averaging 3.9 points and 1.1 rebounds per game in 32 total appearances. She is a Joliet, Illinois, native and transferred to Mizzou last offseason from Rutgers.

Utah State went 6-24 in the 2025-26 season and is coached by Wesley Brooks.

Ma’Riya Vincent, Wichita State

Vincent played a reserve role for Mizzou in her sophomore year, averaging 8.3 minutes on the floor over 26 total games. She recorded 1.4 points and 1.4 rebounds per game.

One of the last recruits of the Robin Pingeton era at Missouri, Vincent was the No. 4-ranked high school player out of Texas in the 2024 signing class. She is heading west to play for Wichita State to play for head coach Terry Nooner.

This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune:Which Missouri women’s basketball left via transfer portal in offseason?

David Allan Coe, who has died aged 86, was a maverick country music singer known for his wild tales of prison life and working-class anthems You Never Even Called Me by My Name and Take This Job and Shove It; he was a pioneer of the “outlaw” movement which bristled against Nashville’s conservatism and conformism.

A broad, physically intimidating man who could often rub people up the wrong way, Coe arrived in the Tennessee city in 1967, keen to make it as a country music star despite being a self-declared “long-haired redneck” (though the flowing mane that was a feature of his later stage shows was a 3ft-long blonde wig).

He lived for a time in a hearse, perpetually parked outside the Ryman Auditorium, where he would don elaborate rhinestone outfits and a Lone Ranger-style mask and busk for gullible passers-by who believed he had just come off stage.

Six years after arriving in Music City, Coe hit the big time thanks to Tanya Tucker’s cover of Would You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone), which went to No 1 in the country charts. Coe signed with Columbia and released his major-label debut, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, in 1974. It included I Still Sing the Old Songs, and a cover ofGuy Clark’s country staple Desperados Waiting for the Train (later popularised by the Highwaymen supergroup consisting of Coe’s fellow outlawsWaylon Jennings, Willie Nelson,Johnny CashandKris Kristofferson).

But it was the album Once Upon a Rhyme, released a year later, that gave Coe his imperishable hit, You Never Even Called Me by My Name. Written by Steve Goodman andJohn Prine, it was a self-knowing send-up of honky tonk stereotypes involving trucks, beer and dysfunctional families: “I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison/ And I went to pick her up in the rain/ But before I could get to the station in my pick-up truck/ She got runned over by a damned old train”. The song remains a jukebox staple in bars across the Southern US, and lived up to its cocky, spoken-word interlude declaring it the “perfect country and Western song”.

That bristling self-assuredness inflected all of Coe’s music, from his Hank Williams-inspired journeyman epic The Ride in 1983 to Son of the South (1986), in which he reels off a list of his all-time favourite artists – Hank Williams Jr, the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and “David Allan Coe” himself – and, finally, Willie, Waylon and Me (1987), in which he muscled in on Nelson and Jennings’s famous friendship.

It was a pointed dig at his fellow outlaws whom he considered more a part of the country music establishment; those peers, for their part, often suggested that Coe had a tendency to self-mythologise – and at points he claimed to have more than 300 tattoos, and be a practising Mormon and a polygamist.

Jennings in particular struggled with Coe’s abrasive, confrontational edge, and once said he would “stab you in the back and then ride off your name like he’s your best friend.”Shelby Singleton, the producer who discovered Coe, told Rolling Stone in 1976 that “Ninety per cent of what he tells you is probably bulls***t.”

Coe took issue with those who refused to acknowledge his influence: he was the first mainstream country artist to have an all-female backing band, Ladysmith (a milestone which was later wrongly attributed to Dolly Parton’s early collaborator Porter Wagoner).

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David Allan Coe was born on September 6 1939 to Donald Coe and Dorothy, née Wilson, in Akron, Ohio, an industrial city then known as the Rubber Capital of the World. His childhood was impoverished and unhappy, ruled by his violent, drunken father, who worked at Goodyear Tires, and he was sent to a reform facility aged nine.

Two decades in correctional facilities followed, including three years at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, where he faced charges for grand theft auto and possession of burglary tools. He later claimed that, while incarcerated, he killed a fellow inmate with a mop bucket after the inmate made homosexual advances in the communal showers, but this was later debunked; he also met the shock-rock pioneer Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, of I Put A Spell on You fame, who encouraged him to start singing.

Prison left its mark on Coe: his first album, Penitentiary Blues, was released in 1970. Five years later, he reflected on how he had found solace in the system: “There were a lot of times when I would actually be in the county jail after being busted and I’d wake up the next morning and say to myself: ‘Oh I’m glad it’s over; I’m glad I’m going back to prison now, where I know I’ll be safe, where I’ll be out of society.’”

It was a fellow outlaw pioneer who earned Coe his most lucrative hit. In 1977, the aptly namedJohnny Paycheckhad a No 1 with a cover of Coe’s blue-collar anthem Take This Job and Shove It, which inspired the 1981 film of the same name, starring Robert Hays andArt Carney.

Coe’s commercial success began to plateau following his controversial albums Nothing Sacred (1978) and Underground Album (1982) – later reissued together as 18 X-Rated Hits – which were criticised for containing racist slurs and sexist stereotypes. Coe addressed the controversy in 2004, telling the website Swampland: “Anyone that would look at me and say I was a racist would have to be out of their mind.” It was not until his 1983 album Castles in the Sand – which contained The Ride – that Coe was welcomed back into the fold in Nashville.

Decades of obscure albums and purposely uncommercial projects ensued, including a pornographic novel. Late-life Coe was known mostly for his wizened, plaited beard and angry stage presence, as well as collaborations with the metal band Pantera and fellow country controversy-magnet, Kid Rock.

His final two decades were marred by financial struggles. In 2007, there were reports that he owed more than $290,000 in child support to his ex-wife Jody Lynn Coe (he was married six times), with whom he shares four children, including the country music podcaster Tyler Mahan Coe. Coe pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 2015 and was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to repay almost $1 million to the authorities.

He is survived by his sixth wife, Kimberley.

David Allan Coe, born September 6 1939, died April 29 2026

Christina Aguilera’s risqué lingerie-inspiredsheer tophas the internet in a chokehold. The 45-year-old singer shared photos from her recent trip to Austria. Her decision to don a corset-style pink top in the snow proves that Aguilera is bold and daring when it comes to fashion.

Christina Aguilera turns heads in new pictures

Check out Christina Aguilera’s latest photos on Instagram featuring her in a lingerie-inspired sheer top:

Aguilerashared the photos with the caption, “aprês-tina, Thank you Ischgl Tirol xx.” Unsurprisingly, the photos garnered 36.2K likes, 1.2K shares, and 1K comments at the time of writing.

In the photos, the “Lady Marmalade” singer has donned a baby pink corset top and paired it with dark, form-fitting slacks. Aguilera has donned a thick white fur coat, with a purple scarf casually draped around her neck.

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The singer’s purple beanie perfectly complements her blonde hair cascading down her shoulders. The “Beautiful” crooner’s oversized glasses add an extra oomph factor to her look.

Aguilera wore soft glam makeup with defined lashes, a contoured face, and glossy lips. Unsurprisingly, fans were in awe of the singer’s sheer top, with one commenting, “ice queen.”

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