After one season away from the Pacific Northwest, former UW offensive lineman Geirean Hatchett will be returning to the Huskies for 2025. The 6-foot-5, 318-pound Hatchett transferred to Oklahoma before the 2024 season, starting the Sooners' season-opening game before undergoing bicep surgery and missing the rest of the season. Hatchett will be a scholarship player at UW, a source close to the player told The Seattle Times. The 2025 season will be the Ferndale native's sixth season of college football, and he has the option for a seventh if he seeks a medical redshirt for the 2024 campaign. His return to Washington also reunites Geirean with his brother Landen Hatchett, a sophomore offensive lineman who started five games for UW in 2024. This story will be updated.Days after suggesting that First Lady Jill Biden engaged in “heavy-duty petting” with Donald Trump because of her “fondness for power,” Larry Kudlow broke out his rendition of what’s become known as the “Trump dance” during a live Fox News segment. The Fox Business host, who previously served as Trump’s chief economic adviser , busted a move while gushing over the president-elect’s policy proposals and his selection of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a government efficiency commission, colloquially calling them the “DOGE brothers.” Sitting down with Fox News anchor Sandra Smith on Friday afternoon, Kudlow claimed that the economy has been “rejuvenated” and “people feel liberated” after the election because Trump has promised to cut regulations. “The DOGE brothers, Elon and Vivek, are going to go after the regulatory state,” he declared. “Trump will cut taxes – he will extend the tax cuts and put some new ones up. People can’t wait for that. The stock market is soaring.” Continuing to praise the “DOGE brothers” for being “on the right track” when it comes to slashing federal spending, Kudlow called them “great” before joking that “they don’t dance as well as The Blues Brothers.” After applauding Trump’s recent promise to expedite and waive environmental regulations for investors who spend at least a billion dollars, Kudlow said the “enviros and the lefties will sue him, and it won’t matter” because the lawsuits will be tied up in the courts for years. “He’s a can-do guy, and don’t forget among his many skills, he was a successful businessman,” Kudlow exclaimed. Smith and Kudlow bantered some more about the “optimism” among business leaders about Trump’s return to office. Kudlow insisted that “the DOGE brothers are going to deliver,” sparking Smith to laugh and the former Trump adviser to start gyrating in his chair. “Are you doing the Trump dance, Larry?! Oh, wow, look at you go!” Smith exclaimed, referencing the president-elect’s trademarked bop that he made famous on the campaign trail, typically to The Village People’s “YMCA.” “I save my best stuff for you,” the 77-year-old business host responded. The dance, which the New York Times described as an “ungainly series of hip-swivels and fist-pumps, not unlike the movements of an automaton gaining sentience,” has taken the sports world by storm since Trump’s electoral victory last month. And while it has become all the rage among conservatives as something of a spiking of the football over the election results, Trump’s own family members don’t seem all that impressed with it. Soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump admitted last week that she’s never done the dance, while Trump’s son Barron appeared embarrassed when his father and Musk shook a leg on Thanksgiving.It's been a long road back to the highest levels of motorsport for Canadian driver Robert Wickens. 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Wickens, from Guelph, Ont., was named the newest driver for DXDT Racing earlier this week, moving the 35-year-old up to IMSA GTD competition for 2025, the highest class on the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series. His promotion was made possible by a new hand control braking system created by Bosch Electronics, with help from GM Motorsports and Corvette Racing/Pratt Miller. “It’s not going to be easy but I wanted to get to the highest levels of motorsport again because, frankly, that’s where I was when I was injured,” said Wickens, who crashed at Pocono Raceway in 2018 during IndyCar’s ABC Supply 500. “But not only that, I want to prove to myself and other generations of people with disabilities that you can really do anything. “Maybe you’re having a hard time getting back to your place of work after a life-altering accident and — whatever your discipline, it doesn’t even have to be athletics — but I know it’s possible as long as you align yourself with a strong support system.” For Wickens, that’s been his wife Karli Wickens, his family and, in his professional life, organizations like Bosch and GM. Wickens’s crash left him with a thoracic spinal fracture, a neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, a fractured elbow, four fractured ribs, a pulmonary contusion, and an indeterminate spinal injury that combined to make him a paraplegic. As he has slowly recovered some movement in his legs, Wickens has eased back into motor racing. He drove the parade lap of the 2019 Honda Indy Toronto, competed in the IndyCar iRacing Challenge during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then in January 2022 it was announced he would drive in the Michelin Pilot Challenge for Bryan Herta Autosport. He and co-driver Mark Wilkins won twice in the Michelin Pilot Challenge’s TCR category with three podiums in 2022. In 2023 the pairing didn’t win, but they reached the podium seven times to earn the TCR championship. All of Wickens’s post-accident cars have been fitted with hand controls. Those conventional systems rely on paddles around the steering wheel that activate pneumatics that then press the foot pedals. Hand controls like that are acceptable for regular road vehicles and even lower levels of motorsports but in the highest classes, like IMSA GTD where cars top out at more than 280 kilometres, the lag between the driver toggling the paddle and the car responding is unacceptably slow. That’s where the Bosch electronic system comes in, with the controls linked directly to the car’s braking system, removing the pneumatics as an intermediary. “When you hit the brakes to slow the car down for each corner that was always a big challenge for me where (with) the Bosch electronic system, the latency is milliseconds not tenths of a second,” said Wickens. “It’s basically as accurate as I would be if I was an able-bodied driver wanting to apply the brake. “Honestly, it’s just better in every facet imaginable. It’s just been a true blessing.” Advances in physical rehabilitation from spinal cord injuries as well as the ongoing development of vehicle technology has made Wickens’s return to competitive motorsport possible. “I’m very fortunate in the timing of my paralysis and my career,” Wickens said Wednesday from Tampa, Fla. “If this was even a decade ago we’d be having a very different conversation today.” The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has four classes of vehicles: two sports prototype categories and two grand tourer classes. GTD is considered the highest of the four classes because each team must have at least a silver or bronze driver and more than one platinum-rated driver on a team is prohibited. “I want to win,” said Wickens. “I think the big thing for me on this journey back was I wanted to race again because I truly felt like I could still win. “I want to raise awareness for spinal cord injury and disability, not by just being a participant, but by being the guy. I want to win races, fight for podiums, win championships, every time I’m sitting in the car.” Wickens said he won’t just be a role model for people living with paralysis or other mobility disabilities, but the technology his car will employ in 2025 will likely become commercially available for use in road vehicles. “Motorsports and the automotive racing industry were founded to be a proving ground for everyday automotive vehicles,” he said. “From there you make road cars and road safety better. “Hopefully we can provide the technology and have regularly available components that can make any race car accessible for anyone that needs hand controls or any other form of disability.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 27, 2024. Follow jchidleyhill.bsky.social on Bluesky. Advertisement Advertisement
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Edison International stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors despite daily gains: Inside the Tech That ESPN and the NFL Use To Bring Springfield to Life The world of alternative broadcasts is expanding once again. Tonight, ESPN will roll out on ESPN2, Disney+, ESPN+, and NFL+ (mobile). SVG goes behind the scenes in Springfield (and Bristol) with in-depth coverage of every aspect of the production: not only promises to be filled with more humor and schtick than previous alternative broadcasts but also demonstrates how quickly the technology is evolving to power such broadcasts. “I think this is the most alternate of the alternate broadcasts,” says . “To me, this is the true alternative because we’re not just treating the game or wrapping it with an alteration. We’re actually re-creating the game in a truly alternative universe. By design, we’re explicitly pursuing the interest of fans who may not want to watch the game in the conventional manner, and I think that is really important.” Tonight’s broadcast involves creative elements representing everything from the writing staff to the ESPN graphics team, which continues to get more and more reps with such broadcasts. Those creative elements make use of some key technology pieces that make it all possible and, increasingly, allow the. shows to become even more sophisticated. Explains , “We always had this vision when we started player-involved tracking, which is what we call the Next Gen Stats platform, to create benefits for the entire ecosystem of the NFL. One of those is bringing new experiences to our fans and creating more engaging content. With the Beyond Sports team and Hawk-Eye data, we’ve been able to take it to the next level. The more creative and engaging content we can create, the better. We continue to grow, thanks to great partners like ESPN and Beyond Sports.” According to Orlins, the constant and rapid progress with the technology that started with single-point tracking just a couple of years ago and relatively basic movements has evolved to blended tracking, which is single-point NGS tracking combined with the Hawk-Eye tracking. He credits and his team with taking the alternative broadcast to new heights. Our 3-D simulation is based, first, on positional tracking data,” explains Westerhof. “We have two sources coming together. The single-point tracking data provided by Next Gen Stats relies on trackers in the shoulder pads of the player and gives us a very stable feed of the position of the player.” The secondary source, he notes, is optical tracking that provides skeletal data from 29 points on each player’s body and limbs. The secret sauce provided by Beyond Sports is to combine the two sets of data in an accurate way. “It allows us to get a lot closer to the actual players’ movement and give the [animated characters] detailed movement,” Westerhof explains. “It’s a little less stable than the single-point tracking, but, when it works, you want to use it as much as possible because it provides the detail.” Tonight’s effort takes things to yet another height. Characters like Lisa Simpson, for example, will not be as tall as Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. So, when the Beyond Sports system tracks a ball thrown to a real-world 6-foot-2 receiver but the shorter Lisa Simpson animated character is what the viewer sees, the Beyond Sports system needs to adjust the flight of the ball so that it lands in the hands of Lisa Simpson. “With data processing,” says Westerhof, “we can take the ball and make it go exactly into her hands. That is difficult to do, especially in real time, and a whole bunch of different processes are going on in the background on our side, mostly machine-learning processes, to make that happen. It needs to be adjusted on the fly as we don’t know beforehand what character is going to be in what play. We spent a lot of time on making the system as flexible as possible, because we don’t know what’s going to happen.” The advances in Hawk-Eye have been driven by a broad technical partnership between Sony and the NFL that began in the summer and is being expanded to other aspects of the NFL’s business. “This alternate broadcast is a good example of [that expansion], from a Hawk-Eye perspective,” says . “The more data we capture, the better it gets, and we can deliver more use cases from it. As this data gets better and the systems get better and we have more reps and trials, obviously, we get to do things like the game and the game and, hopefully, even more serialized or episodic media content.” He also sees a role for this sort of data in officiating: “Our number-one focus on the Hawk-Eye side is to use the optical tracking data and start to advance NFL officiating. Our hope is to eventually get other sports embracing next-generation officiating.” Another advance, adds Westerhof, is the use of VR headsets by the commentary team. The commentators will wear Oculus Quest or Meta Quest Pro headsets so that they can be transported into the immersive graphic representation of the stadium, field, and players. “The headset,” he explains, “transports them into the virtual world, and we will actually be able to see them in the virtual world, to the point where they can go on to the field and be amongst the players. That is super exciting.” Adds , “After last year, we moved to where we have the talent calling the game and immersed in the game wearing a Meta Pro VR headset. People who hadn’t used the headset before put it on and [said] the scene feels so real. Obviously, it’s an animated scene with an animated stadium in Springfield. But, once the talent puts on the VR headset, they’re going to feel like they are next to each other and that next to them is an animated character. They can even be on the sideline at Mo’s Juice Bar.”