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Enjoy Stress-free Shopping for Your Healthy Essentials from The Goodwill Market

Enjoy Stress-free Shopping for Your Healthy Essentials from The Goodwill Market

Taking care of your health is of utmost importance as the pandemic continues to spread through our communities with a more infectious Omicron variant. With the higher chances of exposure to the Covid-19 virus, one of the ways to ensure your safety and that of your family is to limit the time spent around other people. This is why people have turned to online shopping for their essentials as it…

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Healthy, Hassle-Free Holiday Bundles from The Goodwill Market

Tis the season to show you care by sending healthy goodies from The Goodwill Market to family and friends. The gift baskets have been carefully curated to fit different lifestyles, filled with wholesome products that focus on health and wellbeing. What’s more, they can be delivered safely and conveniently to your loved ones doorstep via orders on The Goodwill Market website. You don’t have to leave the comfort and safety of your home to send out healthy and high-quality gifts this Christmas. 

The Goodwill Market is an online shop owned and operated by Dygen Pharma Distribution Corporation (DPDC), a subsidiary of Dyna Drug Corporation. Its mission is to make premium brands more accessible to Filipino consumers with online orders and fuss-free delivery. “This is a very valuable e-commerce service especially as everyone stays safe inside their homes” says DPDC General Manager May Panganiban. “Our gift packages contain a wide selection of health and wellness products that are sure to add a spark of joy to the holidays. ”Here are some of the gift selections that you can send as corporate giveaways, or as personalized gifts to your loved ones.

The Holiday Flavor Pack delivers goodies that are fit for the season’s feasts. It contains a selection of imported pasta sauces for easy meals made special.2. Work from Home (WFH) is a healthy spread of snacks and ingredients that are perfect for who like to bond over good food while working. Wholesome meals and snacks are more accessible with tasty treats and premium ingredients.3. The Lunch Box Buddies is the perfect gift for parents who shower this kids with love and care. It’s got everything they need to make bath time fun while taking care of baby’s sensitive skin. It’s also got kiddie vitamins for that extra boost of protection.  Make your Christmas list and check it twice. Find out which gift sets from The Goodwill Market will fit your friends and family members best, or check out the other items that are available at www.goodwill.market and its official social media pages on Facebook and Instagram and have these wholesome gift packs delivered directly to your recipient hassle-free.  Book your corporate giveaways, customized orders and special requests through customer@goodwillmarket.ph

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The Goodwill Market Delivers Perfect Presents This Season of Giving

The Goodwill Market Delivers Perfect Presents This Season of Giving

Gift-giving is made simpler with the goodies that have been bundled up for easy delivery by The Goodwill Market. Choose from a wide array of wholesome treats that have been packed into perfect presents to fit any lifestyle. Delivery is also hassle-free as your orders can be delivered directly to friends and family, to help you stay safe at home as you shop for the holidays. The Goodwill Market…

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In high dudgeon

My friend and former colleague Liz posted her thoughts the other day, wishing that the politicians who were in “high dudgeon” over four lives lost in the Benghazi raid would demonstrate equally high dudgeon over 130-thousand lives lost to COVID-19, and the seemingly insane push to reopen schools in the fall without any real plan to keep children and teachers safe. 

It was certainly thought-provoking. The main thought it provoked in me, of course, was “where did the word ‘dudgeon’ come from?” (And did you notice it is always ‘high,’ and never low? For that matter, there’s not even any medium dudgeon!) 

Okay, first things first. The word “dudgeon” is not related to, and should not be confused with “dungeon.” We know “dudgeon” means a feeling of being offended, deep resentment and anger. But what’s the origin of “dudgeon?” Well, the people who make a living investigating these things say…they don’t know. 

There are plenty of theories, though. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “One suggestion is Italian aduggiare, ‘to overshadow,’ giving it the same sense development as umbrage.” 

There was a Middle English word, “dogeon,” which referred to the wooden hilt (handle) of a dagger, made of boxwood. Shakespeare used the word in that sense when Macbeth was psyching himself up to murder King Duncan and uttered his famous “Is this a dagger I see before me” speech. Macbeth senses the dagger is a hallucination but says, “I see thee still/And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood…” Shakespeare didn’t have to explain the word; he assumed his audience would know what it meant. A few folks have tried to propose a link between anger and the dagger hilt (“He was so angry, he grabbed the dagger and plunged it in right up to the hilt. That’s how great was his dudgeon”), but there’s no particular evidence supporting that. 

There’s a Welsh word, “dygen,” that means resentment, malice, or grudge, and that would be a neat and easy link, but the Oxford English Dictionary – which is considered the ultimate authority on this stuff – says that link “appears to be historically and phonetically baseless.” Oh, well. 

And before you try to make a connection between dudgeon and bludgeon or curmudgeon, I’ve got bad news for you: both those words are “of uncertain origin,” too. It’s enough to put you in a state of high dudgeon!

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Dyna Drug brings Recogen to the Philippines: A food supplement to help improve muscle mass building

For people living an active lifestyle, like runners and triathletes, Recogen is one supplement that can help them keep track of their muscle health and support their daily activities. Distributed by Dyna Drug Corporation, Recogen is a nutritional and diet supplement with bioactive collagen peptides—which plays an important role in joint cartilage regeneration and building muscle mass as well, making it an important component for athletes’ muscle rehabilitation.

Collagen and Muscle Mass Building

While we may be familiar with collagen when it comes to skin care, collagen also play an important role in joint cartilage and muscle regeneration. Collagen peptide is a chain of amino acids that acts as a connective tissue for the skin and bones. It is a type of protein that provides structure to the body’s bones, skin, tendons and ligaments and is naturally produced by the body to act as chains, connecting different joints in our body and improve skin elasticity. Aside from improving skin elasticity and joint health, collagen plays a big role in improving muscle mass. Collagen contains the amino acids proline and glycine which both help in muscle growth, making them an important component of muscle mass.  

Healthy Joints and Muscles Start with Recogen

Recogen keeps you moving with 100% pure Bioactive Collagen Peptides (BCP) from Germany which helps to repair and regenerate cartilage for strong joints. Bioactive Collagen Peptide is a kind of collagen which is more easily absorbed by the body due to its shorter chains of amino acids. It is hydrolyzed, meaning it’s broken down with water, which makes it easily absorbed by the bloodstream upon digestion. The bioactive collagen peptide in Recogen are smaller to help the body absorb it more quickly and effectively.

Multiple studies also prove that, when taken with regular exercise, collagen supplements help build more muscle mass versus exercising alone. Since athletes are more physically active, their muscles are more prone to getting worn out at an early age. Taking collagen supplements will help them with joint and muscle pain and in the regeneration and rebuilding of their muscle mass.

Recogen also gives users a boost in energy – it is high in nutrient and amino acids to enhance muscle strength and give you the boost you need to live an active lifestyle. Recogen is also enhanced with two crucial amino acids; glycine and proline. Glycine is an amino acid that helps stimulate muscle growth, while proline is used by the body to produce different proteins, including collagen.

Recogen prevents the risk of arthritis and other joint related conditions as it aids the regeneration of cartilage.  A joint clinical trial carried out by Harvard Medical School and Tufts Medical Center in 2011 showed that Recogen can improve cartilage tissue in 48 weeks, helping prevent joint conditions such as Osteoarthritis.

With Recogen’s nutrients and amino acids to keep your muscles and joints healthy, you can live the active and fulfilling life you deserve. It is currently available at goodwill.market for only P2,610.00 (30 sachets).

About Dyna Drug Corporation

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Today, Dyna Drug remains to be part of the Philippines’ Top 1,000 companies with more than 500 employees. Guided by an unwavering commitment to service excellence, Dyna Drug aims to be a leading entity in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry dedicated to providing our customers at all times with products of the highest quality possible, while constantly seeking new and innovative ways to uphold our integrity, maintain our reliability and improve our core competencies.

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CHAMPIONSHIPS GAME 05: PALMETTO STATE FOXES vs. USC TROJANS

PRE-GAME

A Championships game means a Friday of missed classes. The Foxes head to Upstate Regional Airport in the morning to make the long journey to Los Angeles, which includes an hour-long layover in Atlanta. The team splits up upon landing and retrieving their gear from baggage claim into several vans, as do the Vixens, who were on the same flight. Instead of heading directly to the stadium from the airport, they go to their hotel first: to drop off their things, eat dinner in the hotel restaurant and if possible, since they’re at the disadvantage of a three-hour time difference, nap.

An hour before first serve, they drive over to the Trojans’ stadium, donning their orange-on-white away uniforms and then gathering in the lounge for a pep talk from Wymack, who entreats them to play a good, clean game against the Trojans, and to not take any unnecessary risks—no repeats of the fights or the injuries that they saw against the Buckeyes. 

Meanwhile, spectators file in to fill the stadium. This far away from Palmetto, there isn’t a lot of orange in the packed stands, the crowds awash in scarlet and gold. Trojans fans, however, are the most cordial of Exy fans, and though the Vixens aren’t met with enthusiastic cheers as they take to their pre-game routines, they aren’t met with boos, either.

Half an hour before first serve, the Foxes are allowed onto the court for a brief warm-up. They line up in order of position—Strikers, then Dealers, then Backliners, then Goalkeepers, with Grant and Claudia in the front as Captain and Vice-Captain—and enter the stadium. After the warm-up, Grant meets the Trojans’ captain at center court for the coin toss that will determine who gets first serve. The Foxes win the toss, and the starting players take their positions for the start of play, while the rest take their spots on the bench—including Cameron and Joel, due to red cards in the game against the Buckeyes, and Casey, due to injury.

FIRST HALF

STARTING LINEUP:

Goalkeeper: Cecil James (Sub: Eliana Felix)

Dealer: Marley Reid (Sub: Pax Ridley)

Strikers: Logan Trask, Arlo Booth (Sub: Akira Sato)

Backliners: Zia Mendez, Colin Jessup

The Foxes’ starting line files in through the away team doors, taking their spots for the start of play. Across the court, the Trojans do the same, and taking the court are two faces that are familiar to the Foxes—or, at least, to some of them: Arlo’s former foster brother and friend Theo Massey and Cecil’s boyfriend Jon Dygen, both strikers. 

Marley serves to start the half, and the game is off to a fast start. Arlo and Theo start next to each other on the half-court line, all of their old competitiveness from Connecticut renewed and intensified, and Theo bodily keeps Arlo from sprinting to meet Marley’s serve. It falls to Logan, who is just a moment too slow. 

The Trojans take possession, and push toward the Foxes’ goal, with fast footwork and lightning-fast passes that take all of Zia and Colin’s ability to keep up with. It takes just a split-second lapse to create an opening, Jon firing off a shot the second the Trojans’ offensive dealer gets the ball in his racquet—a shot that Cecil is just a moment too slow to block, putting his boyfriend on the board with the first point of the night.  

The Trojans serve to restart play but this time Marley is there to intercept the serve, running it up the court to Logan, pushing with him in a series of zig-zagging passes that take him closer to the Trojans goal until he’s able to slip a shot past the Trojans’ goalkeeper, putting the Foxes on the board and tying up the score. 

Most of the Foxes are celebratory as they retake their positions, but there’s a different game that’s going on on the court, and this one is just between Arlo and Theo. Every time play restarts at center court they exchange words, growing more and more clipped each time, and after every serve they’re dogging each other, each of them wanting to be the first between the two of them to score a point—and wanting to do everything they can to stop the other from accomplishing that feat. 

Marley serves and, this time, Arlo is too fast for Theo to keep up with. He breaks away and catches the serve, and then it’s him against the Trojans backliners—who are skilled, but still can’t keep up with the fire that’s driving Arlo towards the Trojans goal. A risky shot lands him just inside the perimeter of the goal, lighting it up red with another point for the Foxes. 

Further down the court, Theo’s cursing, the butt of his racquet hitting the court floor in loud punctuation to his frustration, turning all heads on the court his way. In a violent sport where emotions run high, the Trojans have maintained their reputation by keeping each other in check. Personal insults and highly aggressive play are not the Trojan Way, and as the players line up again, Theo gets his share of sidelong glances from his teammates, and a kind-but-firm rebuke from his Captain, the Trojans’ starting dealer. 

But it doesn’t seem to help. As the players take their spots again for the Fox serve, Theo and Arlo’s voices raise again—not enough for their exchange to be heard in its entirety over the noise of the crowd and the fans circulating air on the court, but enough for the Foxes on the court to make out one word from Theo’s mouth: father.

Marley serves, but Theo is hot off of his mark, a below-the-belt verbal hit and a hard check getting Arlo out of the way for him to take possession of the ball and run it up the court with dizzying speed. Once his ten steps are up, he doesn’t pass, instead feinting and passing to himself off of the court wall. In the split-second before his rebound reaches him again, he takes down Colin, a hard hit that sends him into the wall before Theo is off again, scoring against Cecil—and the score, in every sense, is tied. 

Colin is slow to stand, and the hand that helps him to a feet does not belong to Fox but to a Trojan—and not just any Trojan, but Jon. Though Colin, bemused, accepts the friendly overture, he brushes him off once he’s on his feet again, reassuring a concerned Zia that he’s fine as they make their way back to their marks for the Trojans’ serve. 

But the serve doesn’t come—no one hears the words that mark the breaking point, but they do all notice when Arlo’s racquet hits the court floor and he’s screaming at Theo, his words fueled by the ammunition of years of living under the same roof, knowing just the right buttons to push. On the court, the Foxes and the Trojans alike are all caught by surprise, momentarily stunned.

In the end, a moment is all it takes. Off the court, Joel seems to be the only who isn’t frozen, and he bangs on the side of the glass in warning, with a bad feeling about what’s going to happen next. It’s a momentary distraction that means that Arlo doesn’t even see it coming: when Theo lashes out, it’s not with his words but with his racquet—and when Arlo goes down, he doesn’t get up. He doesn’t even move.

In a packed stadium, you can hear a pin drop, until it’s broken by the sound of the court doors being unlocked and thrown open, space made for the stretcher that will carry Arlo off the court. Off the court, it’s all Sebastian can do to keep the benched Foxes from streaming onto the court. On the court, it falls on Zia to keep the starting Foxes back so the medics have space to work. No one needs to see the red card to know, but still the murmurs go up when the refs send an ashen-faced Theo off the court—it’s the first red card in the Trojans’ history, and his team is not pleased. 

Wymack and Abby go with Arlo—as does Joel, who won’t let anyone convince him to try and stay behind—leaving Sebastian and Talia in charge. First Sebastian and Grant meet with the referees and the Trojan Coach and Captain, leaving the rest of their teams behind to gather at their benches, wide-eyed, as they speculate on what could happen next.

The Trojans make an offer—first to reschedule, which isn’t feasible with the breakneck pace of the Championships, and then to forfeit the game entirely, to assuage the damage they’ve done to their honor. Grant stands firm: he accepts neither their guilt or their pity, he wants to beat them on the court, wants to get the points that a forfeit wouldn’t offer them, points that they need to move on past the third round. 

They split and head back to their benches, where their coaches send their lines onto the court for the resumption of play—and a penalty shot for the Foxes. Subbing in for Arlo for the rest of the half, Akira steps up to take the shot against the team that had once wanted to sign him. He winds up, shoots, and the Trojans’ goalkeeper misses by a longshot—either the Trojans are as rattled as the Foxes, or they’ve just given the Foxes a free point. 

The Foxes take their spots for the restart of play, with Eliana and Pax also subbing in for Cecil and Marley. Pax serves, and the game proceeds, but seemingly at half the skill as it had at the beginning of the night. Both teams are rattled, the Trojans are guilty and the Foxes are angry—but despite their rage, they’re like a series of disparate pieces, passes not connecting, plays falling apart. When the Trojans score against Eliana, it’s like the Foxes have, against their will, given away the point, allowing the Trojans to tie up the score.

And it doesn’t get any better after that. Frustrations mount among the Foxes: Logan and Akira can’t seem to close, Zia and Colin’s well-honed synchronicity only appears in fits and starts, and Pax is left in the middle, trying to shore up both ends. In goal, Eliana makes a few heroic saves, but it’s only a matter of time before another one slips by her, and the Trojans pull ahead. 

The Trojans serve, and it all begins again—until Colin, wanting the Foxes to snap out of it and wanting to punish somebody even if the person he wants to punish most is not on the court, slams the Trojans striker who had subbed in for Theo into the wall, holding him there with his shoulder pressed into the center of his back. It’s inside the limits of legality, but it’s undeniably aggressive, and the referees aren’t messing around, giving him a yellow card. 

Play is restarted from where it was halted, with the Trojans in possession. The clock is winding down, but the Foxes want to do everything they can to stop the Trojans from getting another point. Though it isn’t their specialty, Pax falls back to help the backliners, staying between Colin and Zia as they attempt to hold the Fox goal for a few minutes more. 

When the buzzer sounds for the end of the first half, it’s almost a relief, and the Foxes trail the Trojans by one point: 3-4. 

HALFTIME

The Foxes retreat to the locker room for halftime, silent and grim-faced, where they seem lost without Wymack there to rally them in his typical gruff fashion. With him at the hospital, and with no news about Arlo, that task falls to Sebastian and Grant. Being down by one point isn’t the worst place to be, they say. It’s hard, but we have to stay focused. Back in the stadium, where the atmosphere still hasn’t recovered from the grim scene on the court, the Vixens take to the court for halftime, though their energy is noticeably low. After fifteen minutes, both teams are called back to the court, and they take their positions for the restart of play. 

SECOND HALF

STARTING LINEUP:

Goalkeeper: Grant Rollins

Dealer: Claudia Jewell (Subs: Teddy Ryker, Paxton Ridley)

Strikers: Jay Wright, Cora LeClair

Backliners: Sydney McCray, Justin Acevedo

The Trojans dealer serves to start play and the two fresh lineups clash against each other with renewed energy, like halftime had done some good in wiping the slate clean.

In goal, Grant in particular wants to center and focus his team, and he gets an opportunity early in the half, when one of the Trojans’ strikers gets around Justin for a hasty shot and Grant blocks it, swinging his heavy racquet to send it all the way down the court, where Claudia—who had to watch Arlo taken off the court on a stretcher, with Joel at his side—sprints to meet it. 

After what happened in the first half, the Trojans are noticeably reluctant to play a physical game—an advantage that the Foxes can’t help but notice. Cora is the first to take advantage, and when the Trojans dealer swoops in to steal the ball from Claudia in a brief scramble, she trips him, sending him crashing to the court floor and letting her run away with the ball. 

But she doesn’t get very many steps in before the referees are halting play, opening the court doors—it was the kind of move that usually wouldn’t have stopped play, but they have an example to set. They give Cora a yellow card, the Foxes’ second of the night, and the Foxes a stern warning: as far as they’re concerned, this is strike two for them, and the next card they get will be red. 

Play is restarted from where it was halted, and the Trojans dealer serves. They may not be playing physical, but they’re fast, their teamwork some of the best in the league. Despite their guilt, they can’t help but want to win, and no matter how hard the Foxes play, they can’t help but find themselves one step behind. 

The Trojans dealer passes to a striker, who Sydney is just a second too slow to block, letting them get a pass of to the other striker, who feints around Justin, needing only one moment to fire off a shot—one that Grant’s dive is just a little too late to stop, earning the Trojans another point.

The game seems to be out of their control, and it’s frustrating. As play resets at the half-court line, Grant leaves the goal to touch base with each of his players on the court, trying to rally them for the last quarter, for them to do everything they can to close the point gap. 

The Trojans dealer serves, and the Foxes have a surge of energy. Justin meets the Trojans striker at the end of the serve, pushing through a persistently aching shoulder to wrest the ball from them and throw it up the court to Claudia, who takes the ball and runs with it. At the end of her ten steps a Trojans backliner is there to intercept her attempted pass to Jay, and she has to turn right back around and sprint the other direction up the court. 

It’s a frustrating position, trying to hold the middle when the game’s not going their way, and maybe that’s why it happens, or maybe it’s just another instance of the referees being overzealous. Claudia locks sticks with the Trojans’ dealer and, somewhere in their struggle, her racquet slips and winds up colliding heavily with the other dealer’s torso, causing him to double over, winded. It was an accident, she protests to the referees when they stop play, but they made a promise and they stick to it. When the card comes, it’s red, and Claudia leaves the court, Teddy coming on in her stead.

The Trojans are awarded a penalty shot, and one of their strikers steps up to take it. In goal, Grant readies himself to block, watching the striker wind up, putting himself in what he thinks will be the path of the ball—and, when the goal lights up red behind him, it comes as a complete shock. 

Back after a minor injury in the last game and an ill-fated trip back to his hometown of Oakland afterward, Teddy is noticeably off his game. The Trojans dealer serves and, no matter how hard Teddy tries, the dealer seems to easily get around him, helping move the ball up the court towards the Fox goal time after time, Sydney and Justin just barely able to hold them at bay—and, when they can’t, it’s Grant blocking their shots, doing everything he can to slam the ball further up the court to where Cora and Jay can get to it. 

It’s after one of those massive swings that Jay is able to take possession and create an opening for himself, feinting around first one backliner and then another. As he closes in on the Trojans goal—passing to himself off the wall as he goes for another ten steps—the Foxes on the bench are on their feet, as are the Vixens, all with their breath bated, watching the Foxes’ best chance to score yet this half—and they do score, Jay slipping a shot into the very corner of the goal, lighting it up red.        

Teddy serves, but it lacks the power behind it that it usually has and, as a result, Jay and Cora are too far up the court to receive it. Frustrated with his steadily mounting errors, and the exhaustion that seems to dog his every step, he throws himself into the fray with Sydney and Justin as the Trojans push all three of them steadily towards the Fox goal. They get a lucky break: Justin checks his striker mark to the ground and passes to Teddy, who sprints as hard as he can to get the ball up to Jay. 

But the effort takes its toll—Teddy is doubled over at center court, barely able to keep his feet as the world seems to spin around him. Sydney is the first to notice that something’s wrong, and she moves up to stabilize Teddy just as it seems he’s about to collapse. She flags the Foxes on the bench, who pound on the court walls to get the attention of the referees, who halt play. She helps him off the court, delivering him to Talia, who quickly whisks him back to the Foxes’ locker room to treat him for apparent dehydration and exhaustion.

Sebastian makes the call to send Pax back on for the Foxes, and they serve to restart play from where it was halted, deep in the Trojans’ zone. They pass to Cora, who after ten steps takes a shot on goal, which the Trojans’ goalkeeper blocks, knocking it down the court and into the net of one of the Trojans backliners’ racquets. 

Pax runs for it, but can’t get there in time before the backliner fires off a pass to the Trojans’ dealer and, just like that, the Trojans now have another chance at the Fox goal. A Trojan striker shoots on Grant, which he blocks, but he doesn’t have the time or the room to clear the ball, and the Trojans get the ball back before Sydney and Justin can stop it, and the Trojans slip it past Grant in a split-second rebound. 

The Trojans serve, and the game is all but over, a point gap that the Foxes can’t hope to close in the few minutes that remain. Stubborn to the end, it doesn’t stop the Foxes from trying—a point might not mean victory, but it could help them get farther in the finals. 

Justin checks one of the Trojans strikers hard, muscling them to the ground with a shoulder, and throws the ball up the court to Pax, who then throws it to Cora. There isn’t an opening, and there isn’t enough time—the Trojans backliners and dealers fall back to protect the goal, and the wild shot that Cora fires off in the last few seconds of the game goes wide, bouncing harmlessly off the back wall as the buzzer sounds. 

The final buzzer sounds and the score is 4-7 in favor of the Trojans, the Foxes’ biggest defeat in the Championships so far. 

POST-GAME

Losing should be nothing new to the Foxes—but with the successful run they’ve had so far this season, it is, and it’s devastating. The Trojans’ celebration on the court is muted, in deference to the strange circumstances of the game, and yet it still feels like salt in a wound. The Foxes retreat off of the court as the Trojans stream onto it, gathering by their bench to slap each other on the back and offer platitudes—that they played hard, even if this wasn’t the outcome they wanted. It’s more comforting for some than for others. 

They gather for the post-game handshakes, going down the line as Trojans tell them good game with earnestness that seems to scream of apology, some attempt to salvage the reputation that one careless and angry swing of a racquet had shattered. At the end of the Trojans’ line is Theo Massey, who still seems shell-shocked, but doesn’t seem surprised as some of the Foxes blatantly ignore his outstretched hand. 

They retreat to their locker room and, with Wymack gone, it falls on Sebastian to send two of the Foxes to talk to the press, and he chooses: Cecil, who may be the only person left in the Foxes’ locker room with anything nice to say about the Trojans; and Akira, who has more experience dealing with the media than the rest of the Foxes combined.

The rest of the players shower and change out and then gather to wait for Cecil and Akira to join them, sitting in mostly stunned silence, punctuated with concern for Arlo, who’s still at the hospital with Wymack, Abby and Joel. When Cecil and Akira finish with the press, there’s nothing for them to do besides go back to their hotel and wait—for Arlo to be released, and then for the flight the next morning that will take them back to Palmetto, and let them leave this nightmare of a loss behind them. 

ADMIN NOTE: And that concludes the first game of the third round! As a reminder, you’re welcome to set threads during any of the periods listed above (pre-game, expanding on the events of the game itself, halftime, post-game) and I can’t wait to see what you come up with! As always, please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

I’ll see you guys back here on April 7 for the Foxes’ game against the Penn State Lions, which will be the Foxes’ last chance to move on to the next round of the Championships. (No pressure.)

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High dudgeon

Getting annoyed is a natural human emotion. Most of us encounter something irksome during the course of the day. So it is not surprising that there are many words and phrases available to describe our blood boiling. One of my favourites is in high dudgeon by which we mean having a feeling of anger, resentment or simmering outrage. There is an air of theatricality around its usage –…

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