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OSU sweeps Texas on senior night Sam Hutchens Assistant Sports Editor
Alexander Hernandez Morgan Day pitched the finale against Texas where the Cowgirls completed the three-game sweep of the Longhorns.
When coach Kenny Gajewski got filled in on the conversation, he agreed. Oklahoma State assistant coaches Jeff Cottrill and John Bargfeldt discussed a plan before the Cowgirls played a doubleheader against Texas on Sunday. If OSU won the first game, they would throw senior Morgan Day in the second one. They told Gajewski the plan, and the hypothetical situation soon turned to reality. OSU took the first game, setting up a matchup between Day, an Illinois State transfer, and Texas ace Haley Dolcini. No. 6 OSU beat No. 16 Texas 2-1 Sunday evening in Cowgirl Stadium. With the win, which was Day’s ninth, the Cowgirls completed the sweep of the Longhorns. “It was awesome,” Day said. “With this being my first year in the Big 12. My only year in the Big 12, being on the roster I kind of feel the competitiveness and rivalry between the schools. It’s awesome. It’s a feeling I wanted and why I came here.” OSU (38-7) has now won nine of its last 10 games against Texas. Day, who has emerged as OSU’s No. 3 starter, pitched five innings and allowed one run. She overcame a bases-loaded jam in the first inning and three hits from Texas batters that were catchable. “I am so proud of Morgan Day,” junior catcher Julia Cottrill said. “When I was warming her up in the bullpen she was like, ‘I’m so nervous’. I was like, ‘Just go out there and give us your best stuff.’ That’s what she did. Even when we weren’t necessarily giving her all of the defense behind her.” Gajewski said he wants to pitch Day in OSU’s upcoming series against No. 5 Florida State, instead of relying solely on Kelly Maxwell and Miranda Elish. He said getting Day innings against Texas was critical. “It’s very important and it turned out to be a great thing that she got that,” Gajewski said. “If we don’t act like a junior high team and catch some balls that game is a different game. (The Longhorns) don’t get eight hits, they probably get two or three.” Texas outhit OSU 8-2, but the Cowgirls had the home run advantage. Cottrill hit a solo home run to right in the second inning. “It feels good,” Cottrill said. “I feel like there for a stretch I was struggling. My teammates were picking me up. It was kind of my turn to pick them up right back.” Texas battled back in the third inning with a sacrifice fly that scored a run to tie the game. The winning run came in the bottom of the third when Chelsea Alexander, one of OSU’s fastest players, darted home on a double steal and barely beat UT catcher Mary Iakopo’s tag. No runs were scored after that, a testament to Day and, later, Maxwell, who threw two innings in relief for OSU. “The more pitches I get in a game setting, I feel like I get a little more confident,” Day said. It was senior day, and the last regular-season game at Cowgirl Stadium. The Cowgirls, though, are in good position to host regional and super regional games. Day, who received a framed jersey and a warm ovation after the game, participated in senior day last year at Illinois State. She said the reception in Cowgirl Stadium felt just as good. “It’s kind of unusual that somebody gets two senior days, but I felt as honored at this one as I did at a university I spent four years,” Day said. “I feel very special. I feel grateful.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
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Karisa Sheely Oklahoma State baseball dropped its first series of the season to TCU on Sunday after TCU won the final two games.
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sixth. However, Osmond’s day shouldn’t be overshadowed by the runs earned. Osmond’s outings have steadily gotten longer and more impressive. Coach Josh Sundays have been good to the Holliday attributes his success lately to Cowboys this year. the character Osmond has built. Except this Sunday. “Bryce is just tougher than he’s The No. 3 OSU Cowboys lost to ever been,” Holliday said. “Things that the No. 21 TCU Horned Frogs 7-6 and used to bother him, now don’t bother lost the three-game series 2-1. him as much, he’s keeping his mindset After a long first inning that saw really consistent, which is great.” Bryce Osmond throw 30 pitches, OsOsmond and a TCU player were mond proceeded to have a semi-strong yelling at each other after the second outing through five more innings. Oshome run was hit. Holliday noted that mond gave up two homers including a moment to highlight the mental growth two-run shot in the third that gave TCU of Osmond and how it helped him get a 3-1 lead. through the tough third inning and finOsmond also gave up a run in the ish the game on a high note.
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After Osmond was off the mound, the bullpen struggled to close the game, giving up a run in each of the last three innings to make it 7-4 going into the ninth. The biggest problem the Cowboys faced on Sunday was leaving runners on base. The Cowboys had 10 runners on base that couldn’t get brought in, including the tying run on second base in the bottom of the ninth. Reliable hitters were also unable to get their bats going, as Griffin Doersching went 1 for 5 and Caeden Trenkle and David Mendham went 0 for 4. Marcus Brown and Ian Daugherty both had good days respectively, with Brown going 2-2 at the plate and Daugherty
going 1-2 with two RBIs. Brown discussed the fundamentals when it comes to reflecting on a game and learning from it, without dwelling on it. “So there’s two sides to it when you evaluate a game,” Brown said. “There’s the individual side and then there’s the team side. So individually, ‘did I do what I needed to do to be successful today,’ and then ‘did I do what I needed to do to help the team be successful today.’ Stuff like that, you just rate your overall performances in those two areas and that’s how you learn
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Etienne, teammates earn first-team reps amid offensive line shortage Caleb Ettiene (middle) earned first team practice with the offensive line at Saturday’s spring finale due to injuries.
The Cowboys entered Saturday with nine offensive linemen. After trainers assisted center Eli Russ off the field after an apparent leg injury, the Cowboys ended with eight linemen. The thin unit often collapsed several times throughout the practice, causing Adam Engel Cowboy quarterbacks to escape the Staff Reporter pocket. But in those struggles, development is made. Caleb Etienne is the largest man “There’s some toughness that is on the field. instilled in them during this process As an offensive lineman, massive that will pay off for them as we move size is needed. Etienne stands at 6 foot, forward,” Gundy said. “Now, I’m gon7 inches tall and weighs 325 pounds. na bet if you ask them, they’re gonna But it’s not the only pre-requisite. want a smoke break and they’re gonna Experience is key. That’s somebe glad that spring ball is over.” thing OSU’s offensive line lacked durThose circumstances resulted in ing its spring finale at Boone Pickens accelerated reps for Etienne, a right Stadium Saturday afternoon. tackle who transferred from junior colBodies also lacked. lege in summer 2020. After appearing A plethora of injuries resulted in in three games a season ago, Etienne coach Mike Gundy to reduce a tradidropped 40 pounds and learned the tional spring game format into practice. playbook.
“Even after the season at bowl practice when we were given him a lot of reps, he was a ways away,” Gundy said. “He’s now just a short ways away. He’s coming along and he’s developing some toughness because he knows which way to go.” An experienced defensive line full of depth exposed its counterpart on Saturday. But OSU’s defense strengthens the offensive line. “It’s been real beneficial going against the top dogs from Collin (Oliver) to (Tyler) Lacy and all of them,” Etienne said. “It’s been getting me better with my feet. I’m happy that I’m able to go against them every day.” Despite the struggles, Etienne’s weight loss accompanied a growth period. “You’re out of shape,” Gundy said. “You’re trying to figure out what to do. Everything is new and you don’t know what direction you’re going.
That’s a bad combination.” Etienne evolved from an oversized JUCO player to a Power Five lineman with first team reps. “He gets it,” Gundy said. “He’s learning. He can think. He doesn’t overact, doesn’t panic and he can become more aggressive, which we all know all he’s got to do is be just somewhat aggressive. He’s going to be in good shape because of how big he is.” Gundy said he expects 25 healthy linemen by August. For spring ball, Etienne and his teammates were forced into participation. “Just be versatile on both sides in case anything happens. We got an oline shortage. So, anything can happen. Next man up and I just gotta be ready.”
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WHEN IS LITTLE MUCH?
There is a short chorus that has encouraged me many times. “Little is much if God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There’s a crown and you can win it. If you go in Jesus’ name.” The woman, who poured the precious ointment on Jesus just before he was crucified, was criticized for “wasting” this expensive item. Yet, Jesus said everywhere the gospel is preached this woman’s action would be told. (Mk 14:3-9) Little things mean a lot as we are willing to serve the Lord. Paul mentions many in Romans 16 who helped him. The Good Samaritan stopped to help the man beaten and robbed. (Lu.10:30-37) Paul writes as you have opportunity, do good to all men, especially to other believers.(Gal.6:10) When the poor widow dropped the two pennies, all that she had, into the temple offering. Jesus said she gave more the large offerings given. Her “large giving” was in relation to what she had. (Mk.12:41-44)
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Many people may plan to give when they receive a great amount of money, but that large amount of money may never come. We may plan to give time or talent to a project when we have more time, but that perfect time arrangement may never happen. Again, the apostle Paul encourages us “as you have opportunity, do good to all men.” We never know when a little gesture of kindness, with money, or helping in an area of service, spending a little time with a person, a word of encouragement, will be just the action that will be a great help to someone. These can be practical ways of living out the Lord’s challenge to love one another. This is the fulfilling of the many commandments in the Bible: loving people by word and action.
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File Photo Lianna Bailey won her first Big 12 Championship on Sunday for her first win of the season.
Bailey wins Big 12 Championship, Cowgirls finish tied for second Chris Becker Editor in Chief Lianna Bailey needed to card a bogey or better on the 18th hole at the Club at Houston Oaks to win the individual Big 12 Women’s Golf Championship. Bailey carded a par on her final hole of her senior season conference championship. The par rounded out a round that was anything but smooth. She won by one stroke over Baylor’s Addie Baggarly, but it wasn’t without difficulty.
Bailey entered the final round at 4-under, the only golfer under-par at the beginning of the final round. However, Bailey bogeyed her first four holes of the day and then carded a double-bogey on the fifth hole. Her large lead had evaporated and she was left fighting back toward the crown. She birdied the eighth and the 11th holes for her only two birdies of the round, to remain in a tight race for the championship. Bailey then bogeyed the 12th and 13th hole before posting another double-bogey on the 14th. After a par on the 15th hole to get back on track Bailey was one-shot off the lead of 3-over held by teammate Han-Hsuan Yu. Bailey approached the par-5 16th hole, needing to make a move. In the two previous rounds Bailey had played
the hole 1-over-par. That wasn’t the case Sunday. Bailey eagled the hole and suddenly found herself back in the lead. After a Yu bogey on the 18th, Bailey coasted to the podium winning her first individual Big 12 Championship. Bailey’s drama-filled round not only encapsulated the whole tournament, but the final round as well. The Cowgirls, in hot pursuit of defending their title, entered the final round in second place behind Texas trailing the Longhorns by nine strokes. As play winded down the Cowgirls had closed the gap down to two strokes, however that would be as close as the Longhorns let them get. The Longhorns shot 14-over-par as a team in the final round, almost letting the title slip out of their hands,
but with a final tally of 24-over they dethroned the Cowgirls who finished at 27-over tied with Baylor for second. Yu ended the event finishing in a tie for third at 4-over-par after firing off a final round 4-under, 68. It was the low round of the day for the field and joined Baggarly as the only under-par rounds. Sophomore’s Maddison HinsonTolchard and Rina Tatematsu both finished tied for 19th at 12-over-par. Tatematsu had the second best round for the Cowgirls on Sunday posting a 1-over, 72 at the challenging Club at Houston Oaks. Hailey Jones ended the event in 36th place and carded a tournament score of 19-over-par. sports.ed@ocolly.com
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News “Unbearable weight of massive talent” is a massive success Jaden Besteda Staff Reporter
that this isn’t real. Pedro Pascal plays Nick Cages’ newfound best friend in the movie and the way they play off each other is fantastic. Even though the trailers show a bit of the film there was so much that I was shocked to see. The relationship or bromance if you will goes into waters that are always exciting. I honestly could’ve just watched a film with Javi and Nick Cage being bros for two hours. This is an action film but not in the typical way you may expect. Most action films are action first plot second. This film is plot first. Craziness second. Action third. Wild events happen often in this movie. Often. The cinematography at times is really beautiful. They really use the most of showing how luscious a millionaire can be and the pacing is actually good enough to warrant multiple viewings. This movie will likely be one of the most remembered of the year, which is saying a lot considering the stacked slate of 2022. “Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is one of the most original and exciting films we have gotten in years.
When I first heard that Nicolas Cage had decided to make a film dedicated to his career and he will be in fact playing himself. I was sure of one thing. The outcome will either be awful or amazing. Thank heavens it’s the latter. “Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is a movie that is essentially an action, comedy, bromance that revolves around Nick Cage and Javi (Pedro Pascal), and eventually the FBI gets involved. Directed by Tom Cormican “Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is something of a super meta film. It has the witty jokes you would expect that a Nick Cage-led film would have but it’s also a crime drama that will have you gripping your seats. The meta route is something that’s hard to tiptoe. It’s something that tv shows like “Dave” have mastered but other pieces of fiction have let it lose focus. “Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” found the line really well. Nick Cage is playing a very fictionalized version of himself but I couldn’t help but root for him in this movie almost completely forgetting news.ed@ocolly.com
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Lifestyle Inside the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia’s very last-minute Coachella collab Mikael Wood Los Angeles Times
The sofas scattered around the backstage artists’ compound at Coachella were still wrapped in plastic when the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia gathered earlier this week to rehearse for the joint headlining performance that will close the first half of the annual desert mega-festival on Sunday night. “Just like grandma’s house,” said Mike Dean, the veteran hip-hop producer, as he munched from a mini-bag of Doritos. Dean, who’s playing guitars and keyboards in the show, was talking gear with Steve Angello and Axwell of Swedish House Mafia, the Stockholmbased dance-music trio; the Weeknd, who paused production on an upcoming HBO series to perform at Coachella after Kanye West abruptly pulled out, was chatting about TV with a member of his team. (He hasn’t had time to watch much lately, though he recently caught the 2018 docuseries “Wild Wild Country.”) A stagehand popped in to usher the crew onto Coachella’s enormous main stage, where a scrubbing disco groove boomed across the sprawling polo field — empty for now but soon to be filled with tens of thousands of music fans elated to be back in the desert for the first time since 2019. Angello pointed up: “We have nine lasers up there,” he said, “and we have nine lasers up there.” Somebody handed the Weeknd a microphone, and suddenly his high, pleading voice was floating out into the dusk. “Can we start this one again?” he asked after a minute or two. Silence. Then: Thump-thump-thump-thump. For Swedish House Mafia — which last played Coachella in 2012, not long before the group broke up — Sunday’s performance with the Weeknd is a splashy way to relaunch a muchhyped reunion that had barely gotten started when the pandemic stalled the trio’s comeback plans more than two years ago. On Friday, the group released a new album, “Paradise Again,” that stakes out a future beyond the kind
of fist-pumping EDM with which Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso (who was late arriving from Sweden for rehearsals) made their names. In a text message, the Weeknd — who worked with the group on his latest LP, “Dawn FM,” and who appears on “Paradise Again” in the scifi-soulful “Moth to a Flame” — called Swedish House Mafia “the biggest DJs in the world” and said he was “ecstatic” to “have them as bandmates for this once-in-a-lifetime moment of collaboration.” For the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, scheduled to run Friday to Sunday at Indio’s Empire Polo Club, before repeating April 22-24 with the same bill, the mash-up represents an elegant solution to the problem created when West bailed on the closely watched event with less than two weeks until showtime. Neither the rapper nor Coachella has officially explained his cancellation, though it follows West’s being disinvited from performing at this month’s Grammy Awards because of threatening messages he posted online. (Other top artists set to appear at Coachella, which is sold out, include Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Lil Baby, Phoebe Bridgers, Megan Thee Stallion and Karol G.) Swedish House Mafia was already booked to take part in the festival when the coveted Sunday-night slot opened up; indeed, it was the first act announced for this year’s edition, which comes after the 2020 and 2021 shows were both called off due to COVID-19. The original plan was for the group to perform directly after Styles’ headlining set on Friday, Angello said in an interview before this week’s runthrough. Seated outside at a ritzy Palm Springs hotel, he and Axwell vaped discreetly as they talked; at one point, Angello tucked a little pouch of snus under his top lip. “Abel was always coming too,” albeit in a smaller role, Angello said, using the Weeknd’s given name. Wassim Slaiby, who manages both acts as well as Doja Cat, said the idea to move the performance to Sunday and to expand it to headlining dimensions — on the Coachella poster it’s billed as Swedish House Mafia x
Courtesy of Tribune News Service DJ group Swedish House Mafia spins onstage during day one of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 13, 2012, in Indio, California.
The Weeknd — came together quickly in the wake of West’s withdrawal. “Paul Tollett and I spoke,” he said, referring to the president of L.A.-based Goldenvoice, which puts on the festival. “He’s a good friend. I’ve been going to Coachella for 10 years-plus. Never miss it. So this was just kind of natural.” Asked to respond to a report in the New York Post that he’d had to push Tollett to pay the Weeknd what Tollett planned to pay West — $8 million plus a $500,000 production fee, according to the Post — Slaiby, who goes by Sal, scoffed. “I don’t even know where that story started from,” he said. He similarly brushed off a question about negotiating Coachella’s radius clause, which prohibits artists booked
for the festival from playing other gigs within a certain distance from Southern California for a certain amount of time. “Our focus was just on giving the fans a special show,” Slaiby said, adding that the performance will be unique to Coachella and not a version of the touring production the Weeknd will bring to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium in September. Everyone involved wanted to keep details about the gig under wraps; Coachella, with a minimum ticket price of $449, prizes its you-have-to-be-there quality, even though the festival is livestreamed these days on YouTube. See Coachella on page 8
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Courtesy of Tribune News Fans are anticipating headliners Harry Styles and Billie Eilish at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music Festival this and next weekend.
Coachella... Continued from page 6
But Axwell allowed that the show will feature Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd both separately and together. And Angello said they’re going bigger in terms of stagecraft than when they were set to play Friday. “There were limitations before because Harry’s stuff was gonna be in there,” he said. Now, those 18 lasers are just the beginning. Spectacle was perhaps Swedish House Mafia’s defining mode during the group’s first go-round, when it helped take club music into arenas and stadiums around the globe. “We were early [in] trying to outdo ourselves with production,” said Axwell, who formed the trio with the other two in 2008 after each had established himself as a solo DJ. “We always figured, you’re never gonna stand onstage and say, ‘Oh, I’m glad we saved money by not doing those pyro hits.’” Music has changed dramatically in the decade since the group scored a Top 10 pop hit with the soaring “Don’t
You Worry Child”; EDM, which in the early 2010s filled the Hot 100 with high-gloss bangers by David Guetta, Calvin Harris, LMFAO and others, eventually gave way to darker, weirder sounds. Yet demand for Swedish House Mafia remains strong: This summer, the group is touring Europe and North America, and they’re still playing arenas and stadiums even as many of their peers have downsized. To release “Paradise Again,” Slaiby brokered a deal with Republic Records, one of pop’s most effective hitmaking machines. (In addition to the Weeknd, whose “Blinding Lights” spent a record 90 weeks on Billboard’s singles chart, the label is home to Drake, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Post Malone.) But Angello says he’s not interested in chasing what’s happening, for instance, on L.A.’s KIIS-FM, which he says he doesn’t listen to. “We don’t have a hit record on the radio right now, but we’re headlining Coachella,” he said. “There’s so many artists that are doing more in the world than just having a Top 40 record. Look at Kanye and the ‘Donda’ album. Look at Tyler, the Creator. Look at Kendrick Lamar. A chart hit compared
to cultural impact — they’re completely different things. “I talked to Paul [Tollett] yesterday, and he was like, ‘I booked you guys for the experience,’” Angello continued. “I’d rather be remembered for that than ‘for 2022 — they had a hit record.’ Who gives a f—?” He and Axwell say they modeled “Paradise Again” on the kind of immersive albums they grew up with — LPs by Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder and Gang Starr. (Daft Punk’s 2001 “Discovery” was a specific dance-music touchstone.) Beyond “Moth to a Flame,” which has more than 275 million streams on Spotify, the 17-track set features collaborations with Ty Dolla Sign, 070 Shake, Mapei, ASAP Rocky and Sting, who sings a few lines of the Police’s indelible “Roxanne” over a jackhammering beat in “Redlight.” “We just stole the sample off YouTube, as a placeholder,” Axwell said of the song’s creation. “We thought it was cool but that we’d never be able to clear it. But then Sal said, ‘Hey, let’s try.’ Sent Sting the track and he said, ‘Let’s do it — I’ll even resing the vocal for you.’ And we slaughtered his song!” The group recorded ASAP
Rocky’s vocals for “Frankenstein” one day before the rapper began serving a monthlong jail sentence in Sweden related to a street fight that was caught on tape in 2019. “It was the elephant in the room,” Angello said. “But listen, he took it like a champ, and we ended up going back and forth on the track after he got out.” “It would be easy to think he would have a grudge against anything Swedish,” Axwell said. “But no.” Asked whom they’d like to collaborate with in the future, Axwell mentioned Willow Smith (“Great voice”) while Angello singled out FKA twigs (“I love her sonics”). The key to a fruitful partnership, they said, is finding someone willing to explore new ground, “so we’re both doing something we’re not used to,” Angello said. That’s why Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd works, they added. “It’s actually really hard to get people out of their comfort zone,” Angello said. “They say they want to in interviews, but it’s not the case. Abel, Pharrell — there’s only a couple of guys that really push boundaries.” entertainment.ed@ocolly.com