Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K. Like hundreds of others native to the Indian Ocean islands, Dugasse was kicked out of her homeland more than half a century ago when the British and U.S. governments decided to build an important military base there.
“I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it’s a little bit of that,” Cordella said Wednesday after he had a chance to look at the “Sunday Night Football” slate for the upcoming season. “They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We’re all campaigning. We’re all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.”One would think the job has gotten somewhat easier the past couple of years as the league has come up with more broadcast windows, including making Christmas Day a permanent fixture.
The trade off, though, is that this is the third year under the league’s broadcast deals that all of the games are up for bid for every network.CBS remains the primary home of the AFC, with the NFC on Fox, but if there is a great NFC matchup during a week when CBS has the doubleheader, that game will end up on CBS. That is the case in Week 1 with Detroit visiting Green Bay in the 4:25 p.m. EDT spot.Hans Schroeder, the NFL’s executive vice president of media distribution, said this year’s rotation of the NFC North facing the AFC North and NFC East created a lot of favorable matchups to divide among all the network’s broadcast partners.
“We love every schedule in May. Hopefully we love it in December, too,” said Schroeder, who is in his second year leading the league’s scheduling team. “We have a lot of great matchups, and the flexibility of those new TV deals that every game could go into any widow, I think that’s the key and to marry that with a team that is relentless in their effort, I think led to a fun and really great schedule.”Even though the league announced the release date during the first round of the NFL Draft on April 24, the
Because some of the games started to be announced on Monday during network upfront presentations to advertisers, those matchups were locked in on Sunday night.
The biggest final-minute decision with the early announced games came with the Fox Week 16 Saturday doubleheader on Dec. 20. The league knew it wanted Packers vs. Bears and Eagles vs. Commanders, but it didn’t finalize the home teams until Sunday night.John Baker stands near a cross that he and his father erected to mark the location where a church used to stand near the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
John Baker stands near a cross that he and his father erected to mark the location where a church used to stand near the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)“There were bodies floating out of the Flowage for years afterward,” said Patty Loew, a retired journalism professor who has written several books on the history of tribes and is a citizen of the Mashkiiziibii, also known as the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
Baker says that his grandmother has an old map with the names and home locations of many people who once lived there, and that she always told him to protect this place. “That’s what we are. We’re protectors of the land,” he said.John Baker holds a spear while getting ready to fish at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)