Logically, Dylan Travis shouldn’t be sporting Workforce USA throughout his basketball jersey this summer time in Paris. 

Then once more, this 31-year-old particular schooling trainer’s basketball profession defies logic.

The Omaha, Nebraska, native led his dwelling state in scoring his senior 12 months of highschool however had no Division I provides. He dedicated to Midland College, a Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics faculty in Fremont, Nebraska. 

“Being all-state popping out of highschool, (I) was humbled my first 12 months at an NAIA faculty,” the 6-foot-3 guard mentioned. “I did not have my head on straight, type of getting in bother and stuff, speaking again to coaches.”

After a 12 months at Midland, he transferred to Iowa Central Neighborhood Faculty. He knew if he discovered success there, it may set him as much as play Division I basketball.

“I needed to mature quite a bit going into Iowa Central,” Travis mentioned. “Coach (Dennis) Pilcher, Corridor of Fame coach on the juco stage, actually helped me. That type of formed me to the place I am at now.”

His success at Iowa Central, the place he averaged 18.3 factors per recreation, led him to decide to Florida Southern, a Division II faculty. 

There, Travis thrived. In his junior 12 months, the Moccasins received the Division II nationwide championship. After that season, his long-awaited Division I supply got here alongside. 

“By that point, I used to be over it. I stayed at Florida Southern and was an All-American my senior 12 months,” Travis mentioned. “Florida Southern was nice, particularly in spite of everything these stops. It felt like heaven there.

“Be a great teammate, be a great individual off the courtroom, irrespective of the place you are at on this planet, that actually issues. I discovered that quite a bit at Florida Southern.”

After commencement, Travis performed abroad in Germany and Australia. After 4 years, he determined to place the basketball down, as a substitute pursuing a profession in schooling.

Travis remained concerned in basketball by teaching his highschool’s group. It by no means occurred to him to play competitively once more till his good friend really useful enjoying in Omaha’s 3×3 match circuit.

Travis fell in love with the 3×3 recreation, beginning with the group 3Ball Omaha and persevering with to play over 150 video games on the professional circuit. Ultimately, he met his future teammates, Jimmer Fredette, Kareem Maddox and Canyon Barry, on the circuit. Later, the quartet bought picked up by USA Basketball.

In November, the group ranked second on this planet and earned an Olympic bid to symbolize the crimson, white and blue. 

The squad boasts a powerful resume, together with gold medals on the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup and the 2023 Pan American Video games, plus a silver medal on the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup.

With all his success on the courtroom, Travis most relishes the truth that his mother might be in Paris watching him play.

“It is simply me and my mother rising up. She labored three jobs so I may go to a personal highschool,” he mentioned. “She’s by no means been outdoors of the States, so to see her (in Paris) will imply quite a bit to me.”

As Travis heads to the Olympics, he feels assured along with his squad.

“We are the first (U.S. males’s) group that is been chosen for the Olympics, so there may be some stress and a few expectations to win gold and develop the game,” he mentioned. “We’re veterans, and we will have that on our shoulders. So we’re wanting ahead to that problem.”

Reflecting on his profession, Travis appreciates his roller-coaster journey.

“I am simply the no-name that made it,” he mentioned. 

“I am a Division II man and bought to journey the world enjoying 3×3. Now I am within the Olympics,” he added. “When you love the sport, keep it up.”

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Dangerous information for passengers: Delta Air Strains canceled a whole lot extra flights early Tuesday morning, as the issues brought on by final week’s world tech outage continued right into a fifth day. Worse information: Delta’s meltdown will most likely lengthen via the tip of the week.

The meltdown has ensnared an estimated half one million folks, ruined holidays and journey plans and prompted a federal investigation – at the same time as Delta flight cancellations and delays are ongoing and much outpacing points at different carriers.

As of 2pm ET the Atlanta-based airline had canceled 466 flights, and Endeavor Air, its regional provider that feeds its system beneath the Delta Connection model, had canceled one other 28 flights. The cancellations comply with greater than 1,250 flight cancellations Monday, and 4,500 flights from Friday via Sunday between Delta and Delta connection.

There have been greater than 1,000 Delta and Delta Connection listed as delayed by FlightAware. The canceled flights by the 2 carriers represented almost 70% of all flights inside, to or from the USA which have been canceled on Monday, in keeping with FlightAware. No different US airline had canceled one tenth as many flights.

The issues prompted the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to announce the Division of Transportation can be beginning an investigation to verify Delta is following the regulation and treating passengers pretty.

“I’m listening to lots of issues I’m very involved about, together with folks being on maintain for hours and hours attempting to get a brand new flight. folks having to sleep on airport flooring, even accounts of unaccompanied minors being stranded in airports unable to get on a flight,” Buttigieg informed reporters on Tuesday.

“A part of why we had been opening this investigation is the size of the issue,” he added. “Over 6,000 flights have been canceled since Friday, a whole lot of flights have been canceled at this time, and we estimate that greater than half one million passengers have been impacted by this.”

The DOT mentioned it has acquired a “excessive quantity of shopper complaints” about Delta’s actions since Friday. The division mentioned if can penalize an airline for “an unfair and misleading follow” if it finds finds that an airline supplied insufficient buyer help when flights are canceled or journey plans considerably modified.

Buttigieg requested passengers with complaints to contact the Division of Transportation.

“When you ought to first attempt to resolve points immediately with the airline, we need to hear from passengers who consider that Delta has not complied with USDOT-enforced passenger safety necessities through the latest journey disruptions,” he tweeted. “We are going to comply with up.”

Delta mentioned it cooperating with the investigation.

“We stay fully centered on restoring our operation,” the corporate informed CNN in a press release. “Throughout our operation, Delta groups are working tirelessly to take care of and make it proper for patrons impacted by delays and cancellations as we work to revive the dependable, on-time service they’ve come to anticipate from Delta.”

The issues stemmed from a software program replace issued late Thursday evening by cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike that crashed Home windows software program. A cascade impact brought about issues all through the worldwide airline {industry} final Friday.

Though most airways had been capable of get well and resume regular operations by the tip of the weekend, Delta has been unable to repair issues with its crew monitoring system, leaving it unable to seek out the pilots and flight attendants it wanted to fly its planes.

The issues will proceed for no less than just a few extra days, warned Rahul Samant, the corporate’s chief info officer, in a message to Delta staff Monday.

“So we’re optimistic we’ll get it finished,” Samant mentioned within the video message together with CEO Ed Bastian. “There can be some issues as Ed mentioned, that we are going to do at this time, tomorrow to get to a greater place by the tip of the week.” He mentioned the IT employees is working “feverishly” and “across the clock” to repair the issue.

Pissed off passengers and crews

The issues left tens of hundreds of annoyed Delta clients stranded and unable to return dwelling. Lots of them booked different flights that had been subsequently canceled as properly. An absence of resort rooms compelled many to sleep in airports and watch for hours on maintain attempting to get via to Delta in an often-futile effort to discover a flight.

Delta crew members are coping with comparable frustrations. Many have been left stranded in airports removed from their bases and houses, unable to be positioned on flights as a result of Delta has been unable to find crews and place them on planes. Some Delta crew members are additionally unable to get resort rooms and are sleeping at airports. And airport staff are contending with offended, annoyed clients who don’t perceive why their flights are being canceled when crew members can be found.

Jeremy and Kaylee Jones had been married on Saturday and left Spokane, Washington Monday for his or her honeymoon, they informed CNN. 5 friends weren’t capable of attend the marriage on account of flight points.

They arrived in Atlanta early Tuesday morning for a connecting flight from Atlanta to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. There have been no points with the flights till they landed in Atlanta this morning and noticed the flight to St. Lucia was cancelled on account of a scarcity of crew. The following Delta flight to St. Lucia shouldn’t be till Friday, so they’re canceling their honeymoon.

The one different choice is to be re-routed to different airports, which they consider may have the identical drawback, and so they nonetheless don’t have their baggage.

“At the moment I’m fairly bitter,” Jeremy Jones mentioned. “I get that issues occur. That is simply stunning to me {that a} multi-billion greenback company would wrestle this a lot to get the ball rolling once more.”

“I’m pondering the domino impact of flight cancellations are inflicting folks to be caught right here for five days. I haven’t any confidence in getting wherever at this level.”

This week, Delta remained at nighttime concerning the whereabouts of its crew members. Crew members who logged on to the corporate’s pc system to enroll in flights acquired prompts and questions that included: “Please enter beneath what airport code you might be closest to,” “What’s your present standing?” and “Please describe your present location.”

An individual accustomed to the airline’s operations allowed CNN to see screenshots of the prompts. Delta declined to touch upon the questions it was asking crews.

To assist repair its staffing issues, Delta is providing crew members premium pay, in addition to extra assurances they’ll be capable of journey again to their houses on the finish of their work interval, in keeping with the display screen pictures seen by CNN. The premium pay and assurances can be in place via Friday, one other signal the staffing drawback will not be mounted for a number of extra days. Delta additionally declined to touch upon these provides to crew members.

However a letter from the chair of Delta’s pilot’s union obtained by CNN mentioned that pilots had been as soon as once more dealing with the identical “unacceptable obstacles” they normally face when the airline has an issue, specifically, the “lack of ability to contact the corporate in any capability and the sensation that we’ve got been deserted within the system.”

Prices at $163 million – and climbing

The service meltdown will price Delta, each by way of its fame and in greenback prices. The meltdown has already price essentially the most worthwhile US airline about $163 million via Monday, in keeping with an estimate from Savanthi Syth, airline analyst for Raymond James.

That estimate comes from misplaced income and is prone to climb as soon as extra pay for workers and reimbursements for patrons are added in. Though the issues Tuesday should not as unhealthy as they’d been the final 4 days, the extra flight cancellations will add to these losses.

Delta has prided itself on its on-time efficiency and customer support. Earlier this month its bragged in its earnings report that it achieved industry-best completion issue and on-time efficiency, and operated 39 cancellation-free, brand-perfect days. This meltdown is performing some injury to that fame that may take time to restore.

After the same service meltdown at Southwest Airways through the year-end vacation journey interval in 2022, the airline canceled almost 17,000 flights, or about half of its schedule, stranding greater than 2 million passengers over an 10-day interval. That price it almost $1.2 billion between the fourth quarter of that 12 months and the first two months of 2023. Along with buyer compensation, the airline confronted extra labor prices and misplaced income that continued into February. As well as it was hit with a $140 million nice from the Division of Transportation.

Delta’s service black eye may additionally trigger it to lose some future bookings from annoyed clients. This previous weekend was the busiest journey interval of the summer time with 90% of the seats booked. That has made it tough for Delta to seek out different flights for these clients whose flights have been canceled. Even when Delta was working all of its flights usually, it could take days to accommodate all its offended, stranded passengers.

Rows and rows and rows of baggage

Getting these passengers reunited with their checked baggage goes to take many extra days past that.

United Airways was additionally hit exhausting by the pc drawback, with greater than 1,000 canceled flights, though it was again to near-normal operations on Monday with solely 69 cancellations for its mainline operations. In a observe to employees CEO Scott Kirby mentioned that the airline’s 26,000 computer systems affected by the issue had all been mounted and its operations had been regular for the final 24 hours. He mentioned some passengers had but to be reunited with their baggage, and United is utilizing FedEx to ship the luggage to a few of them.

At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport, Delta’s headquarters and largest hub, hundreds of items of baggage are lined up on the flooring of luggage declare. The baggage made it to the world’s busiest airport however, via delays and cancellations, their homeowners both haven’t but arrived or arrived on a special aircraft.

Delta staff from all totally different departments and roles throughout the corporate had been supplementing efforts to assist passengers who made it to Hartsfield to seek out their baggage.

Arthur Ginolfi, who had flown into Atlanta for a International Enterprise Journey Affiliation conference after two journeys to the airport in Philadelphia over the weekend, was a kind of selecting up a bag that had arrived on a special flight than he did.

“That is the worst expertise I’ve ever had in my 35 years of enterprise journey,” he mentioned. “There are traces that had been unacceptable, there have been those who had been annoyed. I noticed and I heard lots of unhappy tales.”

He mentioned he thinks Delta must be providing extra compensation than he’s gotten from the airline to date.

“I needed to pay for parking for 12 hours, I needed to pay for meals, I needed to pay for tolls,” he mentioned. “I deserve extra professionals than a $24 present card.”

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Vacationers, remember to pack some endurance. Chaos continues to be underway with Delta Air Traces, because the airline has entered its fifth day of flight cancellations and delays following Friday’s international software program outage.

And whereas the Atlanta-based provider continues to be making an attempt to get operations so as, the U.S. Division of Transportation has opened an investigation into the latest flight disruptions, citing “the excessive quantity of shopper complaints” the division has acquired in opposition to Delta.

“We now have made clear to Delta that they need to handle their passengers and honor their customer support commitments,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated in an announcement Tuesday.

“This isn’t simply the appropriate factor to do, it’s the regulation, and our division will leverage the complete extent of our investigative and enforcement energy to make sure the rights of Delta’s passengers are upheld,” he added.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Delta had canceled greater than 400 flights and delayed roughly 860 flights for the day, based on flight monitoring web site FlightAware.

In an announcement to NPR, Delta Air Traces acknowledged the Division of Transportation’s discover of the investigation and stated it’s “absolutely cooperating” with the division.

“We stay fully targeted on restoring our operation after cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike’s defective Home windows replace rendered IT programs throughout the globe inoperable,” the airline stated in its assertion, including that groups are always working to get its operations again to regular.

On Monday, Delta Air Traces CEO Ed Bastian stated that the airline has been working to revive the software program that tracks and schedules its flight crews. Nevertheless, he famous that it could take a number of days to completely restore the airline’s operations.

“We’ve obtained everybody across the firm working across the clock to get this operation the place it must be,” Bastian stated within the assertion.

In a public letter Sunday, Delta supplied journey waivers to clients on flights impacted by the outage, permitting them to vary itineraries and rebook their flights with none added charges. However in a submit on X, Buttigieg stated that below new federal rules, clients are usually not obligated to simply accept the journey credit score supplied to rebook flights however are entitled to a immediate money refund.

“Delta should present immediate refunds to customers who select to not take rebooking, free rebooking for many who do, and well timed reimbursements for meals and resort stays to customers affected by these delays and cancellations, in addition to sufficient customer support help,” he wrote.

Thousands and thousands of Microsoft customers worldwide have been knocked offline following a flawed software program replace from CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity group. CrowdStrike stated the issue was not a cyberattack however a “software program glitch.” After figuring out the difficulty, the corporate stated it withdrew the “problematic channel file” that affected clients’ programs.

Delta’s technical points are comparable to people who occurred with Southwest Airways throughout the 2022 vacation journey season. The Dallas-based airline canceled hundreds of flights and left hundreds of thousands of vacationers stranded.

Following the incident, the U.S. Transportation Division ordered Southwest to pay $140 million in a civil penalty, which was by far the most important the DOT has ever levied for customers, the division stated in an announcement asserting the penalty.

Former “Fox & Associates” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck stated “The View” and the remainder of the media are in “manipulation mode” in relation to the 2024 presidential election, whereas Democrats abruptly care about gender. 

Hasselbeck, who additionally beforehand represented conservatives as co-host of ABC Information’ “The View,” joined “Hannity” on Monday night time to debate President Biden’s resolution to bow out of the presidential race. “Hannity” aired a montage of the present “View” co-hosts gushing over Vice President Kamala Harris, who was shortly endorsed by Biden to take a seat atop the ticket. 

“Glad I’m not with ‘The View’ proper now,” Hasselbeck informed Sean Hannity. 

“When you may take my pulse, it’s almost by means of this studio. That was not shocking to see, by any means, as a result of I do know that desk very well,” she continued. “The mainstream media is in manipulation mode proper now.” 

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Hasselbeck believes the press doesn’t need Individuals speaking in regards to the aftermath of the assassination try on former President Trump. 

“That’s why the timing of this announcement, the textual content breakup of this election, and proceedings going ahead with Joe Biden, it’s why this announcement got here proper now. They don’t need us speaking about what occurred,” Hasselbeck stated. 

“They don’t need us speaking a couple of resilient man who confronted a close to assassination and stood up with resiliency,” she continued. “They actually didn’t need us speaking in regards to the hearings immediately. They actually didn’t need us speaking about safety failings, so what do they do? A textual content breakup and a switcheroo.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout an NCAA championship groups celebration on the South Garden of the White Home on July 22, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

Hasselbeck stated the women on “The View” had been merely practising outdated methods. 

“They’re going to pump the woman candidate it doesn’t matter what… the entire sudden, gender issues to them,” she stated. 

Hasselbeck stated the Democratic Get together has been “all about gender fluidity,” however now we’re presupposed to imagine “gender is a pillar” of why they need to elect Harris. 

“You’ve acquired to be kidding me. It is a social gathering that wishes it each methods, they usually imagine they’ll have it each methods,” she stated. 

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Hasselbeck famous that she stays pals with “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg to at the present time, they usually often have “civil discourse” about politics. Nonetheless, she disagrees with the present’s protection of President Biden trying to move the torch to Harris. 

“It’s unhappy to me that they’re making an attempt to cut back the decision-making energy of the feminine viewers’ thoughts that’s watching them by saying, ‘Hey, simply because she’s feminine and a lady… that we ought to be voting for her, that we ought to be enthusiastic about her,’ we’re not,” Hasselbeck stated. “The Democratic Get together is in disarray proper now.” 

Elisabeth Hasselbeck appeared on the Fox Information present Hannity to name out her former co-hosts at The View for his or her assist of Kamala Harris.

The conservative political commentator mentioned she was “glad” she was not on the ABC discuss present for expressing their opinions on the political race.

Hasselbeck additionally mentioned that “mainstream media is in manipulation mode” at present as they don’t seem to be giving extra protection to Donald Trump’s assassination try. She likened “the timing” of Joe Biden stepping down from the presidential race and the endorsement of Harris for the Democratic Get together nomination as an try to alter the political dialog.

“That’s why this announcement got here proper now. They don’t need us speaking about what occurred. They don’t need us speaking a few resilient man who confronted a near-assassination and stood up with resiliency,” she mentioned. “So what do they do? A textual content break-up and a switch-a-roo and right here we’re right this moment, and The View is, in fact, doing what The View does finest: they’re going to pump the woman candidate it doesn’t matter what when abruptly gender issues to them.”

Hasselbeck notably known as out Ana Navarro for being “a girl who helps a celebration that has been all about gender fluidity, and now we’re alleged to imagine that gender is a pillar for our voting reasoning? You gotta be kidding me.”

The previous View co-host mentioned that the Democratic Get together “needs it each methods, and so they imagine they will have it each methods in each class of life, and the reply isn’t any, you’ll be able to’t.”

Hannity switched it up and talked about Goldberg beforehand, stating that she was backing Joe Biden irrespective of if he pooped his pants.

Hasselbeck mentioned she was grateful for her time on The View and was “proud to take a seat at that desk” and “requested God to assist me every day as a result of I usually didn’t have sort ideas about my colleagues.” She famous that she and Goldberg are nonetheless buddies as a result of they will put their political beliefs to the aspect and have “civil discourse.”

Nevertheless, she believed that Goldberg and the present have been making an attempt to “scale back the decision-making energy of the feminine viewers’ thoughts that’s watching them by saying simply because she’s a feminine and a woman that we must be voting for her.”

“I’m so comfortable that we discovered her and that she’s protected,” stated Jenny, Alison’s aunt. “It’s been a nightmare.  I’ve not slept.  We simply saved looking out and looking out.”

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