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The Hill
a day ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Majority of Republicans support same-sex marriage, new polling shows
A majority of surveyed Republicans say they support same-sex marriage, according to new data from a trio of polling firms. In the poll, provided exclusively to The Hill, 56 percent of Republicans say they agree that same-sex couples should have the right to marry each other, while 42 percent say they disagree. When given a neutral option, GOP respondents are more evenly divided — with much of the support shifting to the third option: 43 percent disagree, 40 percent agree, and 17 percent say they are neutral. Americans, overall, broadly agree that same-sex couples should have the right to marry: 72 percent of respondents agree, and 26 percent disagree. When Americans are presented with a neutral option, 61 percent of respondents agree, 24 percent disagree, and 15 percent say they are neutral. The June 2025 survey — conducted on behalf of Project Right Side and Centerline Liberties by polling groups Redbud Consulting, Echelon Insights and National Research — comes 10 years after the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges ruling granted the federal right to same-sex marriage. The poll shows Republicans are split on whether they approve of the decision, with a slightly larger share saying they disapprove, at 51 percent, than approve, at 48 percent. But given a neutral option, that trend flips: 41 percent of Republican respondents say they approve, 37 percent say they disapprove, and 22 percent say they neither approve nor disapprove. Among Americans overall, 68 percent of those surveyed approve of the decision, and 30 percent disapprove of the decision. When given a neutral option, 63 percent approve, 22 percent disapprove, and 15 percent say they're neutral. The poll includes data suggesting opposition to same-sex marriage perhaps is not as fervent as it once was. Supporters of same-sex marriage are more likely to say the issue is important to them, at 59 percent, compared with 41 percent who say the issue isn't important to them. This 18-point gap narrows to 6 points among opponents of same-sex marriage: 53 percent of those surveyed say it's an important issue to them, and 47 percent say it's not. Respondents are also more likely to say that, throughout their lifetimes, they have become more supportive of same-sex marriage, at 31 percent, than more opposed, at 13 percent. The vast majority of respondents, at 57 percent, say their views have not changed. The pollsters point to the latest data to suggest same-sex marriage is no longer 'a divisive political issue' and is instead 'an accepted social norm'— one that they say is not worth litigating on the campaign trail. 'The data is clear: engaging in efforts to roll back recent gains is not a winning political issue,' Alex Lundry, co-founder of Redbud Consulting, said in a statement about the poll. 'In fact, there is a clear pathway forward for Republicans to continue growing their coalition, finding common ground on religious liberty, and ensuring the law judges all citizens based solely on their individual merit, nothing more, nothing less,' Lundry added. The poll was conducted May 27-June 1, 2025, and included 800 registered voters. The margin of error is 3 percentage points. A recent Gallup poll showed different results. In the May 2025 poll, GOP support for same-sex marriage fell to 41 percent — its lowest point since 2016, when 40 percent supported same-sex marriage. The poll also showed Republicans and Democrats were more divided on the issue than at any point in the last 30 years, with 88 percent of Democrats supporting same-sex marriage.
Los Angeles Times
a day ago
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Dodgers Dugout: Who is their best first baseman, Freddie Freeman, Steve Garvey or Gil Hodges?
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. Shohei Ohtani pitched! We will have more on that in Friday's newsletter. Here are my picks for the top 10 first basemen in Dodgers history, followed by how all of you voted. Numbers listed are with the Dodgers only. Click on the player's name to be taken to the page with all their stats. 1. Gil Hodges (1943, 1947-61, .273/.369/.487, 120 OPS+, 8-time All Star, 3 Gold Gloves) Hodges made his debut with the Dodgers in the final game of the 1943 season. And it could have been his final game ever, as he joined the Marines after the season ended and was a gunner for the 16th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion. In April 1945, Hodges and his battalion stormed the beaches of Okinawa and were involved in heavy fighting. He was awarded a Bronze Star for heroic service in a combat zone. In a letter to his family, Hodges wrote about the experience. 'We arrived here [Okinawa] the first of April and things really cut loose. We were always having air attacks and the ships were really knocking down the planes. It's just like being tied down when you're on board a ship because you can't do a thing but just stand there and wait for something to happen. One Japanese plane, a Zero, came circling around where we were anchored and when everyone saw it they really cut loose. I don't see how it was possible for him to escape with so much firing being done at that time. He was the plane that really gave all of us a scare. He started to pull away from the firing and then he got hit and started circling around, then into a suicide dive. He started coming down and boy he was really moving. He crashed on the bow of another LST not very far from our ship and exploded. I don't know how many got hurt but I'm sure there were quite a few. Well, that's just one incident and I don't want to go into any other at the present time because I could probably sit here and write all day and still not be through.' You can read more about Hodges' time in the Marines here. Hodges was discharged before the 1946 season and returned to the Dodgers. He spent 1946 in the minors, but came up to the majors in 1947 to stay. He broke in as a catcher, but with the Dodgers wanting to get his bat in the lineup and realizing he would never be better behind the plate than Roy Campanella, they converted him to first base before the 1948 season. As manager Leo Durocher said, 'I put a first baseman's glove on our other rookie catcher, Gil Hodges. Three days later I'm looking at the best first baseman I'd seen since Dolph Camilli.' Hodges hit at least 20 homers in 11 consecutive seasons and drove in at least 100 runs in seven consecutive seasons. After never being voted into the Hall of Fame in his 15 years on the regular ballot, Hodges was elected by the Golden Era Committee in 2021. 'It's a great thing that happened for our family,' Gil Hodges Jr. said. 'We are all thrilled that Mom got to see it, being 95. We've all waited a long time, and we are just grateful and thankful that it's finally come to fruition.' 2. Steve Garvey (1969-82, .301/.337/.459, 122 OPS+, 1 NL MVP award, 8-time All Star, 4 Gold Gloves) One of the most beloved Dodgers while he was playing, Garvey was an integral part of the longest-lasting infield in baseball history, the Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey infield. Garvey was drafted by the Dodgers in 1968 and made it to the big leagues one year later. He had a hard time sticking there, however, because he was a terrible third baseman. He had a weak arm and little range. He played 85 games at third in 1972, making 28 errors, mostly on throws. It was more of the same in 1973, with Garvey mainly riding the bench as a pinch-hitter. On June 23 of that year, both left fielders, Von Joshua and Manny Mota, were injured. Bill Buckner, the regular first baseman, went to manager Walter Alston and suggested they put him in left and Garvey at first base (Buckner and Garvey were teammates in the minors and Buckner remembered that Garvey had played well in a few games there). As Buckner later recounted, 'I never played first base for the Dodgers again.' Garvey had an off year, for him, in 1982, hitting .282 with 16 homers, good for a 101 OPS+. He was a free agent after the season, but there's no way they would let Mr. Dodger leave, right? Wrong. 'Final offers had to be made,' Garvey recounted in his book. 'Peter O'Malley said his final offer was $5 million for four years, no incentives. We drew the line at $6 million for four years.' Garvey signed with the San Diego Padres for five years, $6.6 million. A lot of Dodger fans believe Garvey should be in the Hall of Fame. With 75% needed for induction, Garvey never got higher than 42.6% of votes on the Hall of Fame ballot, back in 1995. Some fans mistakenly believe he is already in the Hall. Although the Dodgers usually only retire the numbers of people who make the Hall of Fame as Dodgers, they did not hand out Garvey's No. 6 after he signed with the San Diego Padres before the 1983 season until Jolbert Cabrera was given the number in 2003. 3. Freddie Freeman (2022-current, .316/.399/.524, 143 OPS+, 3-time All Star) You could put the Nos. 2-4 guys in almost any order and be fine. If Freeman continues to play like he has so far with the Dodgers, then he'll be No. 1 one day. There's not much to write about Freeman that I haven't covered the last few seasons, so let's just watch his World Series grand slam again. 4. Dolph Camilli (1938-43, .270/.392/.497, 136 OPS+, 1 NL MVP award, 2-time All Star) Camilli was an offensive machine with the Dodgers, leading the league in homers (34) and RBIs (120) in 1941, and leading in walks in 1938 (119) and 1939 (110). He immediately made the Dodgers better and led them to the NL pennant in 1941, their first since 1920. While playing for the Dodgers, he developed a real hatred for the Giants. This was during an era that featured a lot of dirty play, such as the sharpening of spikes and stepping on first basemen. The Giants targeted Camilli often because he was the best player on the Dodgers. When the Dodgers traded him to the Giants in July 1943, he refused to report to his new team, instead going home and spending the rest of the season on his ranch. 'I hated the Giants,' Camilli told the New York Times. 'This was real serious; this was no put-on stuff. Their fans hated us, and our fans hated them. I said nuts to them, and I quit.' 5. Wes Parker (1964-72, .267/.351/.375, 111 OPS+, 6 Gold Gloves) Many consider Parker to be the best fielding first baseman in history. He's certainly the best one in Dodgers history. In 2007 he was voted by fans as the best defensive first baseman since the Gold Glove award was established in 1957 and was named to the all-time Gold Glove team. He is the only member of that team not in the Hall of Fame. He never even appeared on the ballot since he played only nine seasons, leaving him one short of the 10 needed for eligibility. His numbers on offense are also better than they appear because he played in one of the greatest pitchers' eras in baseball history. He drove in 111 runs in 1970 despite hitting only 10 homers. He led the league that season with 47 doubles and also hit .319. Parker has been criminally underrated by many because of the era he played in and the fact he retired young, quitting after the 1972 season when he was only 32. 'By the time I retired, we had winning records, but we weren't winning pennants,' Parker told biographer David Krell. 'My friends were gone. Tommy Davis was traded. Maury Wills was released. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Wally Moon, and Jim Gilliam had retired. The game was changing. It was becoming more individualized. Plus, I got tired of the traveling.' 6. Jake Daubert (1910-18, .305/.365/.395, 123 OPS+, 1 NL MVP award) Daubert was named NL MVP in 1913 when he led the league with a .350 average. He also led the league with a .329 average in 1914 and led the Dodgers to their first World Series appearance in 1916. Daubert is probably the second-best fielding first baseman in Dodgers history and was considered one of the best fielders of his era. He was also ahead of his time, wanting players to form a union, which is one of the reasons the Dodgers traded him to Cincinnati after the 1918 season. He led the Reds to the World Series title in 1919 (the infamous Black Sox scandal Series). He was still with the Reds in 1924 when he left to have an appendectomy. He died one week after the operation. 7. Adrián González (2012-17, .280/.339/.454, 119 OPS+, 1-time All Star, 1 Gold Glove González was acquired on Aug. 25, 2012, along with Josh Beckett, Nick Punto and Carl Crawford from the Boston Red Sox for James Loney, Iván DeJesús Jr., Allen Webster, Jerry Sands and Rubby De La Rosa. In his first at-bat with the Dodgers that same day, he hit a three-run home run against the Miami Marlins, which was apropos because he was one of the Dodgers' best clutch hitters for four seasons. In his final at-bat as a Dodger, González homered, making him the rare player who has homered in his first and last at-bat with a team. He was traded after the 2017 season along with Charlie Culberson, Scott Kazmir and Brandon McCarthy to Atlanta for Matt Kemp. González was a very popular Dodger who led the majors in RBIs in 2014 with 116. He was the heart of the Dodger offense for several seasons until age, injuries and the infield shift all seemed to catch up to him at the same time. 8. Eric Karros (1991-2002, .268/.325/.454, 109 OPS+, Rookie of the Year) The Dodgers finished 63-99 in 1992, their worst season since moving to L.A., and the biggest bright spot to the season was Karros, who in 149 games hit 30 doubles, 20 homers and was named NL Rookie of the Year. Over the next six seasons, Karros seldom drew the headlines on a team that had Mike Piazza and Raul Mondesi, but you knew what you were going to get from him every season: Around 145 games played, a batting average around .270, 25 homers, 25 doubles and 100 RBIs. One of the secrets to having a good team over a long period of time is finding guys who can produce consistently. Karros was that for the Dodgers. He still holds the L.A. record for most career homers, and you can probably win a few bets with that knowledge. He was also one of the slowest Dodgers in history. And he had a fielding quirk at first base. When there were two outs and he took a throw from another infielder, he pulled his foot off the bag and started running toward the dugout at almost the same exact second he caught the ball, even before the ump could make a call. I'm convinced he stole a few outs for the Dodgers during his career by doing this. The ump would see him running full speed off the field and on a call that could go either way, say 'Well, I guess he was out then.' 9. Jack Fournier (1923-26, .337/.421/.552, 157 OPS+) One of the best hitters the Dodgers have ever had, Fournier led the NL in homers in 1924 with 27 and drove in 130 runs in 1925. If you are just going by offensive numbers, then Fournier should be in the top three. However, Fournier was really bad defensively. He was born about 50 years too soon to be a designated hitter. For what it's worth, in his 'Historical Baseball Abstract,' Bill James has Fournier listed as the 35th-greatest first baseman of all time, just behind Camilli (29th), Hodges (30th) and Garvey (31st). That, of course, counts their time with other teams as well. Fournier has ties to Los Angeles: He played for the Los Angeles Angels minor league team for three seasons and he also coached UCLA's baseball team from 1934 to 1936. 10. Tim Jordan (1906-10, .263/.356/.384, 139 OPS+) Only one Dodger has led the National League in home runs twice, and it's not Duke Snider or Mike Piazza. It's Jordan, who led the NL in 1906 and 1908 with 12 home runs, which was a lot in the dead-ball era. Jordan got the Dodgers' first base job in an unusual way. Acquired from Baltimore before the 1906 season, he was set to become the backup to regular first baseman Don Gessler. On April 18, a devastating earthquake hit San Francisco, and several major league teams held benefit exhibition games, with proceeds going to relief help. Jordan started the game held in Brooklyn, went three for three with a double, and manager Patsy Donovan decided to make him the starter. Jordan was one of the best power hitters in the league, and he was fast. Four of his 12 homers in 1906 were inside-the-park homers. It also helped that ballparks back then were much more spacious. The wall in center field at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park was 515 feet away. Jordan held out for more money after the 1909 season, but Brooklyn had Jake Daubert (sixth on this list) and were in no hurry to give Jordan more money. He hurt his knee and finally reported, but his knee injury pretty much ended his career in the majors. He was released in May, and played in the minors until 1920. He worked as a security guard, opened his own restaurant, and died in 1949 at the age of 70. The next five: Dan Brouthers, Del Bissonette, James Loney, Eddie Murray, Greg Brock. 1,352 ballots were sent in. First place received 12 points, second place nine, all the way down to one point for 10th place. Here are your choices: 1. Gil Hodges, 825 first-place votes, 14,475 points 2. Freddie Freeman, 360 first-place votes, 11,625 points 3. Steve Garvey, 147 first-place votes, 11,483 points 4. Eric Karros, 13 first-place votes, 8,471 points 5. Wes Parker, 7,402 points 6. Adrián González, 5,802 points 7. Dolph Camilli, 4,433 points 8. Eddie Murray, 3,123 points 9. Jake Daubert, 1,845 points 10. James Loney, 1,462 points The next five: Nomar Garciaparra, Jack Fournier, Albert Pujols, Norm Larker, Greg Brock. Who are your top 10 Dodgers first basemen of all time (including Brooklyn)? Email your list to top10secondbasemen@ and let me know. Many of you have asked for a list of players to consider for each position. Here are the strongest second baseman candidates, in alphabetical order. Hub Collins, Álex Cora, Tony Cuccinello, George Cutshaw, Tom Daly, Delino DeShields, Mark Ellis, Jim Gilliam, Mark Grudzielanek, Billy Herman, Orlando Hudson, Jon Hummel, Jim Lefebvre, Howie Kendrick, Jeff Kent, Pete Kilduff, Lee Lacy, Davey Lopes, Gavin Lux, Bill McLellan, Charlie Neal, Willie Randolph, Jody Reed, Jackie Robinson, Juan Samuel, Steve Sax, Ted Sizemore, Eddie Stanky, Chase Utley, John Ward, Eric Young. A reminder that players are listed at the position in which they played the most games for the Dodgers, which is why Gilliam and Robinson are listed here and not at other positions they played. Gil Hodges and Ernie Banks compete on 'Home Run Derby.' Watch and listen here. Have a comment or something you'd like to see in a future Dodgers newsletter? Email me at and follow me on Twitter at @latimeshouston. To get this newsletter in your inbox, click here.
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Politics
- Business Insider
Most NATO armies likely 'could not meet Ukrainian standards' in combat effectiveness, retired US Army general says
A retired US Army general said it's most of NATO, not Ukraine, that has to learn from the other about combat. Ret. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges was asked in a video interview with the Kyiv Post, published on Tuesday, about what Ukraine's NATO allies could do to help Kyiv's military reach Western standards. But Hodges flipped the question on its head. "Well, actually, it's not about meeting Western standards. Most NATO armies could not meet Ukrainian standards, in terms of actual combat effectiveness," said Hodges, who was the US Army's commanding general in Europe from 2014 to 2017. Hodges highlighted what he said was a gap in NATO capabilities, such as poor cohesion among fighting units from different member states. "We still cannot communicate securely with British or German units," Hodges said. "So I think the Ukrainians kind of look down their noses at us a little bit, you know, when they hear us go: 'We're going to come help train you.'" "We should be begging them to help us learn how to do what they're doing," he continued. NATO said in May that it has trained roughly 192,000 Ukrainian personnel so far. Some were sent to NATO sites to learn how to use Western equipment. At least a dozen brigades were also directly instructed outside Ukraine on tactics and maneuvers by European and American military trainers. Some units have criticized parts of that training, saying there were gaps between what they were taught and the battlefield's realities. The dominant use of cheap hobby drones as deadly weapons, for example, is a new development that's changed the face of war. In his interview, Hodges also cited Kyiv's naval operations in the Black Sea as an example of what NATO forces could learn. "They have shown the entire world that you can defeat a conventional navy, at least in an enclosed body of water like the Black Sea, without having to have capital ships of your own. Lots for us to learn there," he said. "That may not apply in the Atlantic Ocean, but certainly in the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, these kinds of things. I hope we are paying attention," Hodges added. Romania and Bulgaria, he said, could benefit from building up fleets of uncrewed vessels the way Ukraine created and used its own to counter Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Hodges said he was also impressed by Ukraine's integrated air and missile defense to give it a clear picture of all the incoming aerial threats it's facing at any given time, such as fighter jets, missiles, or drones. "The Ukrainians have developed that for themselves. I would want to be confident that we have a shared picture between them, Poland, Baltic countries, Germany, the US, Romania, for example, Turkey," he said. He said the right system would help prevent NATO states from using the wrong weapons to take down targets. "You're not going to waste Patriots on drones," Hodges said. In February, NATO inaugurated a department in Poland called the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Center. The alliance said the center would focus on gleaning lessons from the war in Ukraine to "better position NATO's deterrence." Meanwhile, Hodges said that Ukraine does have to learn how to reshape its military as an institution. Much of the country's forces were built on a Soviet organizational culture that Ukrainian troops frequently bemoan as a source of poor decision-making and unnecessary bureaucracy. "That means that the government has got to earn the confidence of the people," Hodges said. "That their sons or daughters will not get sent off to the war until they are properly trained, properly equipped, and put into a well-trained, ready unit."
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Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Do Americans think same-sex marriage will be overturned? What a new poll found
Most Americans think that the constitutional right to same-sex marriage is in jeopardy — despite the fact that it remains popular, according to new polling. In a June 11 YouGov survey, respondents were asked about Obergefell v. Hodges — the landmark Supreme Court decision that established the nationwide right to same-sex marriage — which will mark its 10-year anniversary on June 26. In the poll, 54% of respondents said that there is at least an even chance that the high court will rule that 'a state is no longer required to perform and recognize the marriages of same‑sex couples.' Specifically, 30% said there is a fifty-fifty chance this will happen, while 17% said it is likely and 7% said it definitely will happen. Just 26% expressed doubts about this prospect, with 20% calling it unlikely and 6% saying it definitely will not occur. An additional 20% said they were not sure. When the results were broken down by partisanship, some differences emerged. Among Democrats, 66% said there is at least a fifty-fifty chance that the court will revoke the right to same-sex marriage, while less than half of Republicans, 47%, and 50% of independents said the same. Despite the widespread feeling that same-sex marriage could be on the court's chopping block, most respondents, 53%, said they don't want to see the right taken away. Less than half that share, 25%, said they want Obergefell v. Hodges to be overturned, and 22% said they were not sure. Here, again, there were significant partisan differences. Just 13% of Democrats and 19% of independents said they want to see it overturned, while nearly half of Republicans, 45%, said the same. The poll sampled 4,417 U.S. adults. A YouGov representative did not respond to McClatchy News' request for the survey's margin of error. What happens if same-sex marriage is overturned? If the constitutional right to same-sex marriage is revoked, then the the authority to permit or ban same-sex marriage would return to individual states, Nan Hunter, an emeritus professor at Georgetown Law, told McClatchy News. Fourteen states — including Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan — have laws on the books banning same-sex marriage, so these would come back into effect, according to Newsweek. By comparison, 36 states passed laws legalizing same-sex marriage before 2015, so it would remain legal in these, according to PBS. Additionally, Douglas NeJaime, a professor at Yale Law School, told McClatchy News 'some state courts had found bans on marriage unconstitutional under state constitutional law, and these decisions are not undone even if the Court overrules Obergefell.' Connecticut and New Mexico are among these states. What happens to existing marriages? Should the right to same-sex marriage be struck down, one issue that would come up is the status of existing same-sex marriages. 'In a decision reversing Obergefell, the Court would have to address the continuing validity of marriages performed prior to the ruling,' Hunter said. 'It is likely that already-existing marriages would not be affected, at least for most purposes…But there is no guarantee as to what the Court would do.' NeJaime echoed this sentiment, saying the prospect of the court undoing existing marriages is 'highly unlikely.' He added that there is some precedent for this. Several months after California's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage statewide in 2008, voters passed Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage. 'The California Supreme Court ruled that the existing marriages (about 18,000 such marriages) remained valid,' NeJaime said. 'That makes sense given that the couples had legal authority to marry at the time and they accrued important interests based on the marriage (e.g., property interests, parental rights, social security benefits, etc.).' Is same-sex marriage actually at risk? Hunter — who has studied sexuality as it relates to the law — expressed skepticism that the Supreme Court will move to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges. She noted that just two justices on the bench, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, have signaled their support for this idea. In his concurring opinion in the 2022 decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court 'should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.' 'In my judgment, we are in a paradoxical position at the moment: If Obergefell went to the Supreme Court today, I think we would lose,' Hunter said. 'But if an attempt to reverse it went to the Supreme Court today, I think we would win.' The main reason for this, she said, is that the high court is wary of making a ruling that is at odds with public opinion. 'Courts generally are hesitant to upset settled expectations, especially on deeply personal issues where there is no plausible claim of harm to other persons,' Hunter said.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
MS town election decided by coin toss after votes tied
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — A Holly Springs alderman's race was decided by a coin toss after both candidates received the same number of votes. Sandra Hodges, known to folks in Marshall County as the 'Sunshine Lady,' was ecstatic after a coin toss declared her the newly elected Ward One Alderman for Holly Springs. 'They asked me to pick heads or tail and I picked tail, and it landed on tail,' said Hodges. The election was held at Holly Springs' City Hall with Kaylon Freeman and Sandra Hodges both tied 154 votes to 154 votes each. According to a State statute, 'whenever a race is tied, it shall be decided by a coin toss or drawing of straws.' 'I found that was legal and that was actually the next step, and we had some other residents in town post that information on Facebook as well,' said Paulette Nicole, Campaign Manager for Sandra Hodges. Hodges said she would have preferred a special election to be held to decide the winner is anxious to be sworn in on July 1, along with other elected Holly Springs board members, to start to work for the city. She said all areas need improvement. 'Because this our very first time, historical call on a coin toss. I've never seen it before, I've never been in it before. This is my very first time, but I'm excited about it after I know that I won. I'm the winner, so I'm excited,' said Hodges. WREG reached out to Kaylon Freemon about the coin toss decision, and he acknowledged the Mississippi law allowing for the coin toss in the situation. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
