Eastwood has sophomore pole vaulters, Dalton Hesselbart and Julia Sabo, who placed at the regional meet and qualified for the Division II state meet held at Pickerington High School North on Friday and Saturday, June 4-5.
Clearing new heights that is what Julie Sabo does Published by sports@presspub. on Mon, 05/24/2021 - 10:32am
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Vaulter Julie Sabo clears the bar. (Photo by Danielle DeFalco)
Like grandfather, like father and now like daughter that is how it is in the Sabo family. Eastwood sophomore Julie Sabo was named Northern Buckeye Conference Field Event Athlete of the Meet after winning the pole vault. She did it by shattering a seven-year-old record, but the league’s award took her by surprise. “It was neat. I was not expecting to get it honestly, and just hearing my name was kind of shocking. It was a good feeling to have,” Sabo said.
Woodmore’s Beam takes two NBC top athlete awards Published by sports@presspub. on Mon, 05/24/2021 - 10:33am
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Woodmore senior Ava Beam leads the pack. (Photo by Julie Beam)
Woodmore senior Ava Beam pulled double duty during the Northern Buckeye Conference awards ceremony, earning the league’s Athlete of the Meet Award and Athlete of the Year Award. It is the result of years of hard work running every day. “Her work ethic is incredible,” Woodmore track coach Jim McMahon said. “She shows up every day at practice and she gives everything she has in the workouts, the practice plan, the attention to detail she is one of those athletes who shows up ready to work and as a coach, you love that.
‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students
Klaus Vedfelt
Blake Bailey’s 900-page biography of Philip Roth had been on shelves a matter of days when women began stepping forward to accuse Bailey of sexual assault, harassment, and grooming. Bailey, who has denied the allegations, was quickly dropped by his literary agency. His publisher, Norton, announced this week that it is permanently putting the Roth biography out of print and donating the equivalent of Bailey’s book advance to “organizations that fight against sexual assault or harassment and work to protect survivors.”
At the start of her eighth grade year, Heather was struggling. She was insecure, and lonely, and she wasn’t getting along with her mom. She worried that she wasn’t popular enough, or attractive enough, and that she’d never have a boyfriend. These insecurities were hard to talk about. The one place she felt comfortable expressing them was in Mr. Bailey’s English class.
By 1998, when Heather entered eighth grade, the 35-year-old Blake Bailey was already a legend at Lusher Extension, a magnet middle school in New Orleans. A published author, he was funny, charismatic, and academically demanding. In his yearbook photo, he looked like an eager preppy, with dark hair parted to the side and a loosely knotted tie. In 2000, he’d be named Louisiana’s Humanities Teacher of the Year.