Defense suffers rare lapse in loss to Texas

many second-chance opportunities. While the Cowboys scored their highest point total in five weeks, the defense gave up a season-high mark in an 89-75 loss in Austin on Tuesday night.

Bush Assistant Sports Editor

For once, OSU’s defense didn’t hold up its end of the bargain.

Texas knocked down a high percentage of its shots, but even when the defense was clicking, it gave the No. 10 Longhorns too

“Eighty-nine points, you know, that’s just something we don’t do,” guard Woody Newton said on the postgame radio show.

“We always say we’re a defensive team, and we can’t go on the road and allow a team score 89 points in their crib.”

Just two weeks removed from a 56-point outing against the Cowboys, Texas (17-3, 6-2) turned its offense around. Four Longhorns scored in double digits, and they scored season-highs in 3-point and field goal percentage for an OSU opponent.

OSU trailed 17-6 just seven minutes into the game, which stemmed from an 11-0 Texas run. But the Cowboys closed the gap. Then, after closing the score to within three with more than four minutes until halftime, OSU (11-9, 3-5) didn’t score again in the first half, while Texas extended the lead to eight.

Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES

— When a gunman fatally shot 11 people and wounded nine others in Monterey Park over the weekend, it was more than just the latest tragedy in America’s horrific mass-shooting epidemic.

The gunman attacked the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, one of the best-known hubs of the vibrant Asian American ballroom dance community in Southern California — a longtime safe haven for older immigrants, the kind of place where they knew they would be welcomed.

“In Asia, ballroom is an incredibly popular sport and social dance,” said Marisa Hamamoto, a professional ballroom and salsa dancer in L.A. who had been to Star on occasion.

“Ballroom is one big activity where Asians are able to gather and meet people with that shared experience. It’s a place to find belonging and connection,” said Hamamoto. “Many Asian Americans are traumatized by this. When we started seeing photos of victims, we can’t help but feel like these people are our parents and grandparents. Especially after all the phobia during COVID, it’s triggering.”

All of the victims slain at the ballroom studio — who included immigrants from Taiwan, China and the Philippines — were in their 50s, 60s or 70s.

Yutian Wong, a professor at San Francisco State University‘s School of Theater and Dance who specializes in Asian American dance studies, said her father, a 70-something Malaysian immigrant, probably would have been at the ballroom when the shooting happened Saturday night, if he hadn’t been dropping off a relative somewhere else.

“It’s pretty horrible. That’s the thing. You just imagine these places that are thought of as safe community spaces, where one isn’t going to be harassed,” said Wong. “I know a lot of people think, ‘Ballroom dancing, it’s so odd, why do Asian people like it?’ But it’s been a big, thriving community for a long time.”

The once strictly European practice of ballroom dancing has long since internationalized and taken on a life of its own, with dancers of all ages and nationalities finding joy, community and a healthy workout in swaying through the waltz, the foxtrot, swing and rumba. “Dancing with the Stars” was a staple of ABC’s programming for more than 30 seasons before recently moving to Disney+. California ballroom competitions can draw hundreds of competitors of every ethnicity.