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Delaware State announced Thursday that it will become the first historically Black institution to offer Division I women s wrestling.Jahi Jones, the executive director of the HBCU Wrestling Initiative, said his organization has contributed $1.25 million to help launch the program.The decision is timely for two reasons. The plan is to start competing during the 2025-26 school year 鈥?which coincides with first season womens wrestling is expected to make the move from an emerging sport to an NCAA championship sport. Add the fact that girls wrestling is Americas fastest-growing high school sport, and Jones is ecstatic. I dont think the timing could have been any any better than what it is righ
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This is when many people in the southern U.S. make preparations for hurricane season, but it s also the time of year when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near New Orleans turns its eye to protecting marshland from storms.Black Hawk helicopters are dropping bundles of Christmas trees into the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans 鈥?about 15 minutes from the heart of downtown. All of this was open water just like you see out in front of us, Pon Dixon of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. So here we are about 20 years later, and you see all the vegetation that has grown. Dixon has been a U.S. Fish and W
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