A judge has, for the time being, blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE over the weekend. CBS News correspondent Michael George has more.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Stogie's Athlete Of The Week
#0 - Sophia Chepenik
USF Bulls Women's Lacross
#0 - Sophia Chepenik
USF Bulls Women's Lacross
Position Attack
Height 5-11
Class Redshirt Sophomore
Highschool Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Hometown Palm Coast, Fla.
Prev School Clemson
Instagram sofiachepenik
Major Mass Communications
Pre-Season AAC All-Conference Team
AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention (2025 - Week 1)
AAC Attacker of the Week (2025 - Week 3)
AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention (2025 - Week 5)
CHEPENIK’S GAME-BY-GAME
2025 Stats (Goals-Assists-Points-Draw Controls)
vs. KSU (4-2-6-2); at Mercer (1-0-1-2); vs. Lehigh (0-2-2-1); vs. Florida (5-0-5-0); vs. Towson (5-1-6-5); vs. St. Bonaventure (2-2-4-2); vs. Xavier (4-1-5-3);
2025: Started vs. Kennesaw State, scored four goals and recorded two assists which earned her an AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention... Started versus Mercer, scored one goal and controlled two draws... Started vs. Lehigh, recorded two assists and controlled one draw... Started vs. Florida and scored five goals... Started vs. Towson, scored five goals, recorded an assist, and controlled five draws... Five goal performances vs. Florida and Towson earned her AAC Attacker of the Week honors... Started vs. St. Bonaventure, scored two goals, recorded an assist, and controlled two draws... Started vs. Xavier, scored four goals, recorded an assist, and controlled three draws...
2024: Redshirted.
2023 (CLEMSON): Appeared in 15 games for Clemson… Scored 33 goals and completed 20 assists for a total of 53 season points… Recorded 14 ground balls and seven caused turnovers… No. 10 in ACC in Assists Per Game with 20 total and 1.43 avg… Led the ACC Freshmen in goals and assists… ACC Offensive Player of the Week (3/14/23)… Led Clemson in goals against Duke with four… Scored the game-tying and game-winning goal against Duke… Recorded five games with three or more goals scored… Selected for ACC All-Freshman team… Earned ACC All-Academic Team Honors
High School: Played for the Episcopal School of Jacksonville… Finished with career totals of 250 goals, 169 assists, and 300+ draw controls… 3x HS Varsity Lacrosse MVP… 3x HS Varsity Lacrosse Captain… Awarded High School All-American honors in 2021, as well as a Gait top-20 all-star… Awarded Best Athlete in Single Sport for Episcopal School of Jacksonville… Earned US Lacrosse Jackie Pitts Award… 2x US Lacrosse All-American… 3x NE Florida All First Coast… Participated in the South’s All-Star Game and was recognized with ESPN’s Player of the Game award… Played club lacrosse for Snipers Elite.
Personal: First picked up a lacrosse stick and learned the sport in sixth grade at a Jacksonville lacrosse clinic hosted by the McCords.
CHEPENIK'S CAREER HIGHS:
Goals: 5, (2x), last vs. Towson 2/23/25
Assists: 5, vs. Gardner Webb 2/22/23
Points: 7, (2x), last vs. Presbyterian 3/22/23
Draw Controls: 5, last vs. Towson 2/23/25
Rally For Mahmoud Khalil!
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society along with other organizations like TAARPR, DSA, PSL, FRSO, and more, to call for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University international student who was detained by Homeland Security along with ICE for his work as a student protester, along with demanding the end of Trump’s attacks on free speech, and more.
The event will be at 50th and Fowler, at 5:30 PM on Wednesday March 12th. You are welcome to attend!
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Trump to liberals: Stop ‘illegally’ boycotting Teslas!
People unhappy with Elon Musk have been boycotting the world’s richest man’s car company and President Donald Trump is having none of it. more
Hialeah, a city of immigrants, is set to have its cops take on immigration enforcement
US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedom and now ranks near Serbia and Congo
The U.S. was added to a watchlist of countries with “faltering civic freedoms” after a global watchdog group raised alarm bells over recent actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration. more
Monday, March 10, 2025
Trump Helps Liberals in Canada
If you had asked Canadians a few months ago who would win the country's next general election, most would have predicted a decisive victory for the Conservative Party. more
Marco Rubio threatens to deport green card holders over pro-Palestine protests
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has threatened to deport green card holders involved in pro-Palestine protests, marking a stark escalation of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on student activists. more
Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. But to some of her colleagues, she is giving a voice to those who feel they can't speak out. more
Palestinians react as Israel cuts off Gaza’s remaining electricity
What’s believed to be the last power line operating into Gaza has been cut off by Israel, threatening the operation of a key water facility. Palestinians in Gaza have been living without proper power supplies since the start of the war.
Tampa AAPI Festival Brings Culture, Food, and Tradition to the City
The Tampa Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Festival is back, bringing a day of authentic flavors and dynamic performances to the heart of downtown. The community event, set for March 22, 2025, from 12 pm to 7 pm at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park (600 North Ashley Drive), is the city’s largest celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander cultures.....MORE
Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.
He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.
“What all of this tells me, is not just in Michigan or in Vermont, the people of this country will not allow us to move toward oligarchy. They will not allow Trump to take us into authoritarianism,” Sanders yelled. “We’re prepared to fight. And we’re going to win.”
Letters from an American March 9, 2025
Lately, political writers have called attention to the tendency of billionaire Elon Musk to refer to his political opponents as “NPCs.” This term comes from the gaming world and refers to a nonplayer character, a character that follows a scripted path and cannot think or act on its own, and is there only to populate the world of the game for the actual players. Amanda Marcotte of Salon notes that Musk calls anyone with whom he disagrees an NPC, but that construction comes from the larger environment of the online right wing, whose members refer to anyone who opposes Donald Trump’s agenda as an NPC.....MORE
Sunday, March 9, 2025
RAYBOR: It's Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
It is the never-ending saga; will The Rays build a new stadium in St. Pete? All of it coming down to a funding dispute between the team and local officials. Now the team has until March 31 to decide if they’re still on board with the current deal that has already been approved. However, there is new reporting on a possible deal in the works and the Tampa group making a play to buy the team and build a stadium in Tampa. We talk to longtime Tampa Bay sports journalist JP Peterson about it all.
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in protests against Israel at Columbia University, according to his attorney. more
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