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1 week ago | 
dexterstatesman.com | Tom Davis
The Dexter High School varsity baseball squad is off to its best start in 13 springs, and yes, senior thrower Beau Carrier has a lot to do with that success, but he is far from being the lone guy carrying his team.
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1 month ago | 
ft.com | Tom Davis
When a small Chinese artificial intelligence lab showed in January how to build a large language model that outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT...
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1 month ago | 
fieldandstream.com | David E. Petzal |Phil Bourjaily |Tom Davis |Christine Peterson
Grizzly bears are the largest predator in North America, but they seldom pose a serious threat to outdoorsmen who’ve taken the proper precautions. According to the National Park Service, historical data shows that on average one person a year dies from a grizzly attack, and since the turn of century, grizzlies and black bears collectively have killed fewer than 50 people in North America.
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1 month ago | 
fieldandstream.com | David E. Petzal |Tom Davis |Christine Peterson |Phil Bourjaily
I met Buzz Charlton in 1992, on a safari in Zimbabwe when he was a 19-year-old apprentice PH. Buzz’s father was a professional hunter in Kenya, and Buzz has hunted since he was a boy. He has survived attacks by hippo, mamba, and elephant, and has kept both his life and his sense of humor. On a safari in 2017, he managed to listen to two weeks’ of my “safaris in the good old days” stories without going mad.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
It’s proving to be a memorable week already for the Bell City High School varsity boy’s basketball program. The Cubs beat North Pemiscot 56-13 in Wardell on Monday for their ninth victory. That number tops last season’s eight wins, which were the most by the program since 2017. “We just have got to be locked in,” third-year Bell City coach Luke Bixler said of his team. “We can’t have letdowns.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
If investing in the basketball career of Bernie High School sophomore Braxton Arnold was similar to the purchasing of a stock, you might want to have a long-term perspective on your money. The career trajectory of Arnold is certainly on the rise, as it is with a number of Mule sophomores, but the day-to-day volatility of that stock, er, Arnold’s potential, may drive you a bit insane.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
The coaching staff for the Campbell High School varsity boy’s basketball squad will feel some pressure this week, as the Bootheel Conference Tournament unfolds at Portageville High School. However, for second-year Camel assistant coach Blake Fowler, you'll have to forgive him if he isn’t stressed to the max with each outing by his team.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
There isn’t much secrecy to playing the Bloomfield High School varsity boy’s basketball squad this winter. The Wildcats have won seven of 16 games by slowing the pace of each game down to a crawl, defending hard, and most importantly, getting the ball to senior guard Caleb Upchurch. “You know that it is going to be a battle,” veteran Dexter coach Chad Allen said last month after beating Bloomfield 47-37 at the Bearcat Event Center.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
DEXTER – The Bearcat Event Center was nearly full Friday with fans anticipating the championship final of the Stoddard County Athletic Association Varsity Boy’s Basketball Tournament between area hoop powers Puxico and Woodland. Of the couple of thousand fans in attendance, however, not a single one could have foreseen how the game would unfold. The Indians absolutely throttled the Cardinals at both ends of the floor, from the opening tip to the final buzzer winning (not a typo) 76-42.
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2 months ago | 
semoball.com | Tom Davis
DEXTER – Fourth-year Puxico High School varsity boy’s basketball coach Bryant Fernetti and veteran Bernie High School coach Jason Long have been in this business long enough to know a lot, and they see the same things. When asked about how the Woodland High School squad is dominating its way through this season, they both had similar responses. “Woodland just seems to be able to wear people down,” Fernetti said on Thursday.
