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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.

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Speaker 2: News forty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The trial of Brian

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Speaker 2: Walsh will begin next week. Wbz's Brook McCarthy with an

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Speaker 2: update on a judge's ruling today in Norfolk Superior Court.

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Speaker 3: Judge Diane for Neer said a doctor found that Brian

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Speaker 3: Walsh is competent after weeks of evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital,

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Speaker 3: which means he will stand trial, with jury selections set

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Speaker 3: to start on Tuesday and opening statements could begin as

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Speaker 3: soon as December first. The defense had also requested the

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Speaker 3: trial be moved out of Norfolk County because of extensive

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Speaker 3: media coverage on Walsh's case, but Judge for Neir denied

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Speaker 3: this motion.

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Speaker 4: The publicity in this case peaked in January twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: three when the defendant was charged in connection with the

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Speaker 4: victim's murder, and has decreased in frequency over time time,

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Speaker 4: undermining a presumption of prejudice.

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Speaker 3: She also said there is no reason to bring in

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Speaker 3: jurors from another county because there is a large enough

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Speaker 3: pool within Norfolk County. Walsh is accused of murdering and

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Speaker 3: dismembering his wife Anna in their cohas at home on

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Speaker 3: New Year's Day twenty twenty three. Her body has never

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Speaker 3: been found. Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: But update now out of California, where police say college

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Speaker 2: football coach John Beam has died after he was shot

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Speaker 2: on campus at Laney College yesterday. He's best known from

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Speaker 2: Netflix's Last Chance You. Police say a suspect has been arrested.

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Speaker 2: The mayor, Barbara Lee praised Beam as a mentor and

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Speaker 2: community leader. Beam was featured in the twenty twenty season

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Speaker 2: of the docu series. According to his biography on the

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Speaker 2: college website, twenty of his players have gone on to

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Speaker 2: the NFL. President Trump's planning to call on the Justice

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Speaker 2: Department to investigate ties between Jeffrey Epstein and several Democrats,

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Speaker 2: including Bill Clinton and Larry Summers. In multiple truth Social

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Speaker 2: posts about what he called the Epstein hoax, the President

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Speaker 2: says this is another Rush Russia Russia scam, with all

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Speaker 2: arrows pointing to the Democrats. The President says, records show

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Speaker 2: these men and many others spent large portions of their

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Speaker 2: life with Epstein and on his island. Meantime, the House

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Speaker 2: is set to vote on the release of the full

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Speaker 2: Epstein files in the coming days. The President says Epstein

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Speaker 2: is not the Republican's problem, and don't waste your time

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Speaker 2: with Trump. I have a country to run, he says.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administrations officially withdrawn a rule proposed by the

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Speaker 2: former Biden administration that would have required airlines to provide

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Speaker 2: compensation for passengers facing significant delays.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Transportation says it is withdrawing a Biden

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Speaker 1: era plan that would have required airlines to compensate passengers

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Speaker 1: and cover expenses if the passengers are significantly delayed due

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Speaker 1: to something in the airline's control. The Department saying not

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Speaker 1: requiring airlines to compensate for long delays allows airlines to

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Speaker 1: compete on compensation and that it would have been a

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Speaker 1: burdensome new rule. The airline industry is celebrating the move.

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Speaker 1: The change does not impact current rules in which passers

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Speaker 1: are entitled to compensation for canceled flights. Alec Stone Ebcnews.

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Speaker 2: In the four DA WBZ ACTU Weather forecasts some lingering

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Speaker 2: clouds as we head into the evening some clearing skies

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Speaker 2: overnight to night, temperatures will cool down thirty two in Boston,

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Speaker 2: will be in the mid to upper twenties in most

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Speaker 2: of the inland suburbs. Tomorrow, we're going to have that

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Speaker 2: at Chili breeze around again, so we'll have that real

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Speaker 2: feel in the thirties despite temperatures in the mid forties.

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Speaker 2: Some sunshine giving way eventually to clouds tomorrow and then

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Speaker 2: daybreak on Sunday. Temperatures will warm overnight Tomorrow night, with

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Speaker 2: low starting near forty and then rising through the forties,

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Speaker 2: landing in the low fifties on Sunday, windy conditions, though

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Speaker 2: the clouds will break for some sunshine, and then temperatures

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Speaker 2: some sun we'll have some clouds. We'll have a wind

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Speaker 2: around on Monday with a higher forty five. Right now,

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Speaker 2: it is forty four degrees in Boston. One of the

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Speaker 2: oldest team sports in the world comes to Harvard Yard.

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Speaker 2: WBC's Jallette has details.

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Speaker 1: Who's on my team.

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Speaker 5: I'm playing stickball, a Native American ball game that involves

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Speaker 5: one stick or two. The goal was to slam a

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Speaker 5: ball into the opposing team's pole to score. James walking

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Speaker 5: Stick is the academic Engagement coordinator at the PVD Museum.

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Speaker 5: He says, starting Harvard stickball has been a journey.

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Speaker 6: And beyond that, we've got players here on campus that

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Speaker 6: are students' staff that all played in the World Series,

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Speaker 6: and so this is a way for us to come together.

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Speaker 6: We were all brought here for a reason.

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Speaker 5: Exposing the Northeast to what's played often in Cherokee and

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Speaker 5: Choctaw nations, of which Bailey Brown of Oklahoma shares his expertise.

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Speaker 3: You have centers, defense and offense.

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Speaker 2: Just like any other game.

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Speaker 3: You can score anywhere on the pole. It's usually about

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Speaker 3: eight to ten feet tall.

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Speaker 5: The game was often played to settle dispute over land,

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Speaker 5: and while people would occasionally perish, it was preferred over

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Speaker 5: the mass bloodshed of war, but.

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Speaker 3: It kind of helped not wipe out all the tribes.

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Speaker 5: And gamebridge Jaywallett, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Here comes some big soccer changes. Major League Soccer making

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Speaker 2: a complete season change of their schedule to aligned with

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Speaker 2: the FIFA World Soccer Calendar. Some soccer fans believe it's

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Speaker 2: another step toward kicking MLS up to the next level.

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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of time people think MLS fans

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Speaker 5: are not as like die hard as some other clubs.

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Speaker 6: Emilio is a soccer fan from Handover and said he's

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Speaker 6: thrilled about the new summer to spring schedule that'll go

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Speaker 6: into effect for Major League Soccer in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 6: He's all forgetting the top American league more respect and

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Speaker 6: hopefully shedding its minor league appearance on the world stage.

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Speaker 1: It couldn't be further from the truth.

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Speaker 6: So basically the schedule would align with FIFA in other

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Speaker 6: top leagues around the world. Rob is a REVS fan

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Speaker 6: from Brockton. He wants that REV Stadium, a project in Everett,

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Speaker 6: to hit the fast track.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that anybody is really talking about how

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Speaker 5: great it's gonna be just to watch other teams come

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Speaker 5: in and play there, like we want to see our team,

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Speaker 5: you know, set the standard.

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Speaker 6: The MLS summer to spring change will happen in mid

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty seven. Jim McKay wb Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: For the person who has everything and then still has money,

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Speaker 2: left over. It's sports team ownership. A share of a

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Speaker 2: team is becoming a symbol of status for the ultra wealthy.

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Speaker 2: A new study by JP Morgan Private Banks, as twenty

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Speaker 2: percent of the one hundred and eleven billionaire families office

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Speaker 2: principal surveyed reported owning controlling stakes in a sports team.

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Speaker 2: It's six percent up from twenty twenty two. According to

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Speaker 2: the survey, sports assets have also taken over traditional trophy assets,

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Speaker 2: thirty four percent investing in teams and arenas compared to

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Speaker 2: twenty three percent who are investing in art and ten

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Speaker 2: percent in cars. You are now in the loop. For

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's news

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