Draft board articles
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Back to drawing board
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. WBO No. 1 bantamweight Reymart Gaballo was pitted against Osaka-based Mexican Kenbun Torres in an eight-rounder at the Midas Hotel and Casino, Pasay City, last Friday to serve as a tune-up for a shot at WBO champion Yoshiki Takei sometime in September.
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Where Are The Latinas in Sports? Allow Drafted to Show You
Growing up as a queer Latina in Southern California, Karina Martinez found comfort in playing sports in high school. Martinez, who came out as queer at 16, felt alone in a school of 700 other kids who were either straight or closeted. But when she played sports, those feelings of standing out went away. “When I played sports for that hour or two a day, I felt like everybody else,” she tells Refinery29 Somos. The power of sports also aided Jennifer Yepez-Blundel’s personal development....
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PPS Board Members Recruit for JROTC
by Anonymous In an opposition-be-damned vote of 4-3, Portland school board opened the door for JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) programs in our high schools. Whoopee, another victory for recruitment and indoctrination. School member Patte Sullivan, in the minority on this proposal, indicated that public comments were whoppingly 200 to 1 opposed. Likewise, the student board member (and non-voter) Frankie Silverstein reported that the...