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Microsoft’s Windows Hello face unlock feature no longer works in dark rooms, and it’s not a bug. Microsoft quietly made the change to Windows Hello in April, in order to fix a vulnerability with Windows Hello spoofing. Fixing the security flaw has now removed key functionality from Windows Hello in Windows 11.
Windows Central spotted April’s change after some Surface Laptop users have noticed they can no longer use their face to sign into their laptop in a dark room. “After installing this update or a later Windows update, for enhanced security, Windows Hello facial recognition requires color cameras to see a visible face when signing in,” says Microsoft in its April Windows Update patch notes.
You can get Windows Hello to continue working in a dark room if you disable your webcam in the Windows 11 Device Manager, but then this means you can’t use your camera in any apps or video calls. It’s a workaround if you only use the camera to unlock your laptop, but most people will want the camera to function inside video calling apps.
Microsoft uses a combination of the color camera and IR sensors to detect a face for its Windows Hello feature. The security vulnerability, discovered by the Nanyang Technological University, was rated “important” by Microsoft, and hasn’t been publicly disclosed or exploited. Microsoft even suggests it’s “less likely” that a malicious actor would exploit this locally on a device.
We’ve reached out to Microsoft to see whether the company might get Windows Hello working in the dark again in the future, and we’ll update you accordingly.
Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — After a turbulent run-up to this summer’s Gold Cup, the U.S. men’s national team can breathe again.
In the throes of a four-game, home losing streak under new-ish manager Mauricio Pochettino, the USMNT began the Gold Cup Sunday with a resounding 5-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago. The scoreline was by no means a fluke, either. The U.S. dominated from start to finish, and received a pair of goals from Malik Tillman and another from Patrick Agyemang when he deflected in Diego Luna‘s goal-bound effort. Substitutes Brenden Aaronson and Haji Wright rounded out the scoring in the final 10 minutes, padding the USMNT’s goal differential in the process.
It made for the kind of comfortable win that seemed beyond this group of players just last Tuesday following their 4-0 humbling against Switzerland. But the funk surrounding the USMNT went deeper than that result.
Just how low had the U.S. sunk? The USMNT hadn’t lost four consecutive games at home since 1988, when it lost two games each to Chile and Ecuador. That was at the tail end of a 40-year barren spell between World Cup appearances for the USMNT. The current streak also involved almost the entirety of the U.S. player pool from stars to second-teamers. It couldn’t entirely be blamed on youth.
Then there was the off-field drama. Among the more dominant storylines surrounding the side was Christian Pulisic‘s decision to take the summer off and not play in the Gold Cup, which resulted in a chorus of criticism from fans as well as former U.S. internationals like Landon Donovan.
Pulisic’s father, Mark, then came to his son’s defense with the help of ChatGPT. That was followed by Pulisic saying he didn’t understand manager Mauricio Pochettino’s decision to turn down his offer to play in two friendlies and bypass the Gold Cup, to which Pochettino reminded the sometime U.S. captain that he is the one in charge, not the players.
The only way for the USMNT to really change the conversation was by winning. It didn’t really matter that the victory came over the 100th-ranked team in the world — one shorn of key forward Levi García who, in an only-in-Concacaf move, picked this weekend to get married. (He’ll be back for T&T’s remaining games.) This youthful side, with seven starters having less than seven caps entering the match, needed to start building a foundation somehow, and they did precisely that.
“I think [Sunday’s win] is about [congratulating] them and I think the first half there’s a lot of positive things, that we need to keep evolving in different areas,” said Pochettino. “But I think overall it was a good game and three points. [It’s] important to keep working.
“Nothing is done, but yes, to feel the victory and being more positive in the next few days, I think it’s important to grow that confidence in between us.”
It helped that the more veteran elements of the U.S. lineup provided the required platform for success. Center backs Tim Ream and Chris Richards gave outside backs Alex Freeman and Max Arfsten the security to perform their two-way roles on offense and defense with confidence, Arfsten in particular pushing higher up the field. Luca de la Torre provided stability to Sebastian Berhalter in midfield, while Tillman led the attack with two goals, allowing Luna to buzz around defensively and provide two assists, with Jack McGlynn making attacking contributions as well.
Granted, it helps that the U.S. was playing T&T and not Switzerland but scaling the rock face is a lot easier when the handholds are within reach. It will make for a greater level of confidence when the tougher moments arrive, and could apply to both team veterans and youngsters alike.
For Tillman this kind of performance has been a long time coming, so much so that teammate Chris Richards was shocked that the two goals were Tillman’s first with the national team. But more is being asked of the PSV attacker in this environment than in previous camps with the national team. He’s as soft-spoken as they come, but is ready to take on a bigger role.
“I’m quite confident. I had a good season at PSV,” said Tillman, who notched 16 goals and five assists for his Dutch team in 2024-25 (34 games, all competitions). “I’ve been here quite some time now. So yeah, I just take the responsibility. I like to take it and try to show it to everyone else.”
That dynamic between youth and experience was also visible through a more unsung contribution deeper in midfield. Tyler Adams was out with a foot injury and Johnny Cardoso was sidelined due to an illness, which meant Pochettino had to mine the depth chart/ In this instance he opted for De la Torre and Berhalter — the latter sat in a deeper role, allowing de la Torre to sniff out opportunities while also tracking back when needed.
Overall the combination showed promise, and is the latest sign that De la Torre is another player who is making an impression on Pochettino. The San Diego FC midfielder has long been a performer that knits the attack together in the middle third. But in this case, he’s picked his moments to push further up field when the situation demands it.
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Keller wonders why USMNT has so much disconnect
Kasey Keller breaks down the situation between Christian Pulisic and Mauricio Pochettino, in which Pochettino said Pulisic isn’t allowed to dictate games he plays in.
Pochettino liked what he saw out of both players, and is pleased that another midfield combination is emerging.
“I think the football relationship between Luca and [Sebastian], it was fantastic and they controlled the game,” said Pochettino. “They played really well. I am so happy. They both show that in that position they can fit very well.
“Of course we didn’t have the help of Tyler and Johnny, but this is a good thing — a period of opportunity to see [the other two] players. But sometimes [they] surprise you and say, ‘Okay, they take the opportunity,’ and that is good because the competition is going to be higher now.”
Luna, for one, felt the presence of his veteran teammates, as well as the love of 30 friends and family members in the stands.
“It allows me to get the ball and combine,” Luna said about playing with Tillman and de la Torre. “And then have guys that have experience and have been in tough moments, be there and help along the way. [Having] good players around you always allows you to be more confident and have trust within the team.”
Luna’s two-assist performance, including a steal and feed to Tillman for the USMNT’s second goal, was another step forward for the native of nearby Sunnyvale, Calif. The bear hug he got from Pochettino after being substituted in the 74th minute showed his continued ascendency.
The extent to which this mix of youth and experience can move forward will get its next test in four days against Saudi Arabia in Austin, Tex. That is bound to be a much tougher assignment than Sunday’s match. But for now, the clouds have parted a bit, and the hope is that the coming forecast for the USMNT involves even more sunshine.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Ex Says She Fainted After Reading Cassie Ventura’s Lawsuit
Jane said during her testimony that parts of Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit—which was ultimately settled—mirrored her own experience with Combs.
“I almost fainted, in fact, I think I did,” she told jurors as she cried. “There was three specific pages that was just a harrowing reference to what I was experiencing.”
Jane, who took part in “hotel nights, “said that it felt like she was reading “her own story.” It led to her confronting Combs via text messages.
“I feel like I am reading my own sexual trauma,” she wrote after Ventura’s lawsuit, in screenshots shown in evidence. “I am sick. It’s exactly word for word, drug-filled days and nights. You knew this was coming. You gaslit me, you made me go crazy.”
“I am disgusted, I felt forced to perform back to back,” the messages continued. “You made me feel crazy about the sex trauma I was feeling. I feel very violated. This was sexual exploitation.”
Combs subsequently called Jane and recorded the conversation without her knowledge that was entered into evidence, in which he told her that they “did these things together” and that “this is when” he needed her “to be there.”
Jane, who didn’t know she was being recorded, told Combs that she was “sick” to her stomach after reading Ventura’s documents.
There were riots across Northern Ireland, including Ballymena
Twenty-nine people have now been arrested over violence that erupted in Northern Ireland over the last week and police have warned that there will be further arrests.
In total, 64 police officers have been injured in disturbances which started last Monday after a peaceful protest over an alleged sexual assault in Ballymena, County Antrim, and later spread to other areas.
In the latest round of arrests, five people have been detained in connection with disorder in Ballymena and Larne.
A 40-year-old man, a 33-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl have been charged in connection with the rioting in Ballymena.
In total 21 people have been charged.
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Disorder started in Ballymena, County Antrim on 9 June
Detectives investigating online posts relating to the disorder have charged a 32-year-old man with sending menacing messages through a public electronic communications network and encouraging or assisting offences.
Meanwhile, a 25-year-old man has also been arrested in relation to an arson attack at Larne Leisure Centre last week.
A 56-year-old woman has also appeared in court charged with obstructing a police officer during last week’s riots.
Violence first broke out in Ballymena after two teenage boys appeared before Coleraine Magistrates’ Court accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
They spoke through an interpreter in Romanian to confirm their names and ages.
Their solicitor said they would be denying the charges.
A peaceful protest was held on 9 June, but after it dispersed rioting broke out.
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Water cannons were brought to Portadown to deal with disturbances
‘Outrageous’ violence
North West Migrants’ Forum integration and welfare officer Gaelle Gormley said the violence was “absolutely horrific”.
“Our service users are very concerned, we are very concerned,” she said.
“We are really, really worried that it will also come to the centre of Derry. It’s outrageous.”
There was some violence in the city on Friday, but not on the same scale as Ballymena.
Gaelle Gormley, of the North West Migrants’ Forum, said the violence was “horrific”
Ms Gormley said migrants were “very resilient” but at the moment they were avoiding going out late at night and avoiding certain streets.
She called for people to show their support.
“We want more people who are welcoming and aware of the fact that we are all citizens of the world and that everybody can be a migrant anywhere,” she said.
“Since the beginning of humanity people have been going to different countries and it’s thanks to that that we have all the progress we have.”
Sameh Hassan, chairman of North West Islamic Association, said immigrants feltunsafe
Sameh Hassan, chairman of North West Islamic Association, said many immigrants were scared to go out, while others had left their homes to go to safer places.
“It’s unfair for anyone to feel unsafe in their house, especially people who have kids and families,” he said.
“Feeling unsafe about your family is the worst thing you could experience.”
Mr Hassan said he had lived in Northern Ireland for 17 years and had found people “very welcoming”.
However he said there were some issues, such as housing and jobs, that were causing “anti-migrant sentiment” and needed “to be addressed in the right way”.
He added that the spread of misinformation on social media was “very misleading”.
What happened on Sunday night?
Police said there had been “sporadic disturbances” in different locations on Sunday night but described it as a “reduced level of disorder”.
Overnight graffiti in Bangor, County Down and on an unoccupied house in Chadwick Street in south Belfast are being treated as race-motivated hate crimes, the police said.
In Brompton Park in Ardoyne, in Belfast, about 30 young people set a bin on fire but no damage was caused to shops and police said “no serious disorder ensued”.
Ass Ch Cons Melanie Jones said “Our heightened presence in our local communities and continued community engagement to de-escalate violence continued last night, thankfully, similar to Saturday, the situation was much calmer.
“Thankfully, none of our officers policing this disorder reported being injured on duty last night (Sunday).”
Police have already circulated images of individuals they want to identify and interview.
In the crisis-filled environment of the Trump presidency, it is difficult to decide which of the many outrages du jour most deserves our attention. However, we cannot afford to ignore the current battle over who will pay the rapidly rising costs of climate-intensified weather disasters.
A longstanding legal principle is that polluters should pay to prevent, reduce, or repair the damages they cause. The fossil energy industry disagrees. It is fighting in the courts, lobbying Congress, and enlisting President Trump in its fight to avoid responsibility.
But whether it wins or loses, the astronomical and rising costs of weather disasters will come out of every American’s pocket. That will be inevitable if the U.S. remains addicted to fossil fuels.
To understand what’s happening — and what should happen — we can go back to the tobacco wars of the last century. In the mid-1950s, individuals began suing tobacco companies for health damages from smoking. Forty years later, state public health programs had become so expensive that states sued tobacco companies to recoup the costs.
By the 1960s, tobacco companies knew that nicotine was addictive. They knew as early as the 1940s that smoking was linked with cancer, but they denied and tried to cover up these effects. In 1998, the four largest tobacco companies finally agreed to a historic settlement with states. In addition to admitting the cancer connection, the companies agreed to pay states billions of dollars annually in perpetuity to support public health programs.
The link between fossil fuel pollution and climate change emerged similarly. As early as the 1950s, major oil companies learned that the combustion of their product was causing the Earth to warm, the climate to change, and the weather to become more violent. Industry leaders decided to follow the tobacco playbook.
They conducted “a campaign of deception, disinformation, and doublespeak” with “dark money, phony front groups, false economics, and relentless exertion of political influence,” according to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who participated in a congressional investigation of the oil industry’s practices last year.
The deception campaign is still underway. In 2024 alone, the industry spent $153 million and deployed nearly 730 lobbyists to influence policymakers. Oil companies and their allies spent more than $135 million on elections. Counting the cost of advertising to promote fossil fuels, oil and gas trade associations spent $1.3 billion between 2008 and 2018, according to a study in 2022.
Since 2017, about three dozen state and local governments have sued oil and gas companies to recover the costs of weather disasters and future investments in climate resilience. Although the bases of the lawsuits vary, they reflect the polluter pays principle and are supported by attribution science, where scientists say they can determine, to a degree admissible in court, how much a specific oil company has contributed to a weather disaster.
Unlike Big Tobacco, Big Oil does not accept responsibility. It wants Congress to give it immunity from lawsuits. The industry likes the 2005 precedent in which Congress gave immunity to gunmakers from liability for deaths and injuries resulting from unlawful misuse of firearms. Big Oil’s attorneys argue that energy consumers, not energy companies, are the polluters.
On March 9, oil executives met with Trump to ask for help quashing the lawsuits. Trump responded on April 8 with an executive order that described the state litigation as “extortion,” “ideologically motivated,” and beyond the states’ legal authorities. He ordered the U.S. Attorney General to stop states from enforcing climate liability laws and programs like carbon trading.
The Justice Department has complied by filing complaints against New York and Vermont laws that hold oil companies responsible for climate damages. It has also filed preemptive lawsuits to prevent Hawaii and Michigan from passing similar laws.
The state and local lawsuits have had mixed results so far. However, with climate damages growing, the noose may be tightening around Big Oil. Recent litigation addresses the industry’s culpability differently. A Seattle woman has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against oil majors. Her daughter was one of 1,400 people who died from heat exposure during the Pacific Northwest’s record heat wave in 2021. In Puerto Rico, 37 municipalities filed a RICO suit, which is more commonly used against organized crime. They alleged the industry’s misinformation about climate change was partly responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths from Hurricane Maria.
Turning reality on its head, Trump claims that curbing fossil fuel pollution threatens “American energy dominance and our economic and national security.” Yet history shows repeatedly that oil addiction is the greatest threat to economic stability and national security.
Now, the threat is Trump’s sabotage of America’s shift to clean energy and the opportunity to dominate one of the world’s greatest emerging markets.
Despite all the distractions, middle Americans should pay close attention to this buck-passing on the rising costs of weather disasters. So long as the nation’s fossil-fuel addiction persists, every outcome leads to their pocketbooks. If oil and gas companies are found liable, they will pass the costs to consumers. If governments end up with the bill, taxpayers will pay. If insurance companies pay, everyone’s premiums will rise.
Because of past and current energy pollution, more extreme weather and costs are inevitable. The only way to stop the economic bleeding is to shift to 100 percent clean energy as quickly as possible.
William S. Becker is a former U.S. Department of Energy central regional director who administered energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies programs. He is executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, a nonpartisan initiative that is not affiliated with the White House.
Ninety One is set to finalise the transfer of Sanlam Investments UK’s active asset management business to Ninety One UK today (16 June).
The move is part of a broader agreement between Ninety One and Sanlam, positioning Ninety One UK as the primary active asset manager for a portion of Sanlam Investments UK’s assets under management.
Initially announced in November 2024, the agreement designates Ninety One as the primary active investment manager for Sanlam’s single-managed local and global products.
The alliance also formalises a 15-year relationship between the two firms through various operative agreements concluded in March 2025.
As part of the arrangement, Sanlam will receive 125.7 million shares in Ninety One, translating to a 12.3% equity stake.
Excluding ARC Financial Services Investments, Sanlam’s effective shareholding in Ninety One will be approximately 8.9%.
Additionally, Sanlam will become an anchor investor in Ninety One’s international private and specialist credit strategies.
Ninety One, originally from South Africa with a global footprint, hopes to benefit from preferred access to Sanlam’s distribution network.
The alliance is expected to expand Ninety One’s market reach and accelerate its international private credit offerings.
Announcing the deal in November, Ninety One founder and CEO Hendrik du Toit said: “We are looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Sanlam, a business with a powerful brand and significant scale in South Africa.
“Our experience and expertise are complementary. This agreement will give us the opportunity, as leaders in our respective markets, to create additional value for our stakeholders.”
Last week, India’s Shriram Group launched its wealth management venture by collaborating with Sanlam Group, focusing on serving India’s affluent and high-net-worth individuals.
The equally shared joint venture, branded Shriram Wealth, targets Rs500bn ($5.84bn) in assets under advice and plans to onboard 500 wealth management experts within five years.
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Nintendo will offer an early look at Donkey Kong Bananza during a livestream on Wednesday, June 18th at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. The company announced the upcoming Direct event through its Nintendo Today app and on X, saying the livestream will feature 15 minutes of information about the Switch 2 game.
Donkey Kong Bananza was announced on April 2nd and launches for the Switch 2 on July 17th. It’s an action-adventure game that has a newly designed Donkey Kong smashing his way through levels to retrieve stolen banana-shaped diamonds from an evil group known as VoidCo. The game’s destructible environment allows Donkey Kong to break through walls, dig tunnels, and even dig underground to find more areas to explore.
If this Direct is anything like the one for Mario Kart World, Nintendo will likely go beyond the gameplay we’ve already seen, giving us a more in-depth look at Donkey Kong Bananza’s key features and mechanics. Maybe we’ll learn more about the game’s new character, Odd Rock, too.
Nintendo will air the Direct on YouTube. Donkey Kong Bananza will cost $69.99 when it launches next month, and it’s available for preorder now.
Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald.
OMAHA, Neb. — In summer 2019, Jamie Aloy pulled together enough money to fly himself and his sons to Omaha for the Men’s College World Series. It was a bucket-list trip for Aloy, a former college ballplayer raising a family in Wailuku, Hawai’i.
They stayed in a motel across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and sat in the cheap seats. They went to every game. His boys, Wehiwa, 15, and Kuhio, 13, loved baseball, and Jamie wanted them to “feel and smell” the atmosphere so that it wouldn’t seem so far-fetched to someday play there.
The boys didn’t say much, aside from a few “wows.”
“It’s a culture thing,” Jamie said of their quiet demeanors.
Six years later, on Thursday, Jamie Aloy was at the downtown Omaha Marriott with his grown-up sons. Wehiwa, now 21, and Kuhio, now 19, are star hitters for the No. 3 overall Arkansas Razorbacks, and they were about to play in the Men’s College World Series. Jamie gave them a hug.
“Can you believe we’re here again?” he asked them.
The brothers looked around and didn’t say anything.
“I think they cannot believe it either,” Jamie said. “I mean, what do you say?”
For five months, the Aloys have made plenty of noise in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Wehiwa has hit 20 home runs and earned SEC Player of the Year, and is a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award. Kuhio, who’s 17 months younger, has hit 13 homers and driven in a team-high 70 runs.
Together, they’re known as the “Bash Braddahs.”
The name is in deference to Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, the slugging duo who led the Oakland A’s to a 1989 World Series title. The Aloys weren’t alive then, of course, but learned about them as kids when they searched, “hardest-hit balls ever in MLB.” They marveled over old videos of the duo, who would bash each other’s forearms in celebration of homers. But the brothers do not exactly carry the towering physical traits of Canseco and McGwire. Wehiwa is 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds; Kuhio is 6-1 and 205.
Wehiwa said they get their strength from lifting a lot of weights and eating a lot of their parents’ cooking. Their parents attribute it to island life — living five minutes from the beach and five minutes from the river, where they’d run, swim, surf and fish.
“We’re just raised differently,” Kuhio said.
Before Jamie Aloy leaves for a trip to Fayetteville, he cooks all of their Hawai’ian favorites — Kalua Pig, Chicken Long Rice and Lomi-Lomi Salmon — and packs them in a cooler.
The Bash Braddahs’ story began in Wailuku, a town of about 16,000 located on Maui Island, with Wehiwa smacking a plastic ball off a tee as a toddler. Soon, the brothers would be playing whiffle ball together, the competitions oftentimes getting chippy. (They still play whiffle ball when they come back home).
They competed in pretty much every sport, but it was clear, early on, that baseball was their love. Jamie Aloy said there were two baseball leagues on the island, and the only real way a player could gauge his talent was to go to the mainland. There were glimpses, like when Wehiwa was 8 and turning double plays and Napua, the Bash Braddahs mom, asked her husband, “Is that normal?”
The boys’ talents became more obvious on all-star teams that competed on the West Coast.
Wehiwa grew six inches in 2020 during the pandemic. Napua, an obstetrics nurse, was the only one who wasn’t on lockdown. The family set up a mini gym in the garage, and all he did was eat, sleep and train every day.
Still, coming out of high school, Wehiwa was an unknown recruit — if he could even be called a recruit. Sacramento State took a chance on him, and Wehiwa slashed .376/427/.622 with 14 home runs and earned freshman All-American honors. That season earned him a spot on a coveted SEC roster at Arkansas, and the shortstop was second-team All-SEC in 2024.
A time zone away in Utah, his little brother was getting noticed, too. Kuhio was recruited as a pitcher at BYU but wound up leading the team with 38 RBIs. He entered the transfer portal after the season, and Arkansas was the first team to call.
Wehiwa said the brothers fought when they were children, but they have matured and are past that. The players got to pick their own roommates, and the Aloy brothers decided to live together, both in Fayetteville and on the road. Their parents were somewhat surprised by that decision.
“I wasn’t so much fearful,” Napua said, “but I was like, ‘Well, how the hell is that gonna work in college when they’re living together?’ Because we lived so remote, we always say, ‘If mom and dad aren’t around, you guys just have each other, so make sure you take care of each other.'”
Because they’re brothers, they can say things to each other that other teammates maybe wouldn’t. They can analyze each others’ games and provide feedback. Wehiwa is a very serious person, Jamie said, while Kuhio is more fun-loving.
They spend most of their time together, be it in practice, on the road or fishing with their teammates. The Razorbacks often talk about how close-knit this group is, and some of that was forged at local ponds where the teammates fish morning and night, usually catching and releasing the fish.
It’s a way to clear their heads, Arkansas infielder Nolan Souza said. They’re private about some of their favorite spots.
But the big takeaway for the Aloy family is this: After all of that time together, and all those years competing against each other, they choose to be together, even in their free time.
The Razorbacks face Murray State on Monday in a MCWS elimination game (2 p.m. ET on ESPN), and the Aloy family doesn’t like to talk about the end. Wehiwa is expected to be a first-round pick in next month’s MLB draft, another milestone that is beyond any of their wildest dreams. The Bash Braddahs’ story, really, started on a minor league field, years before they were born.
Jamie Aloy was a 48th-round pick by the San Francisco Giants in the 1999 draft. He toiled away in their farm system for a couple of years, and, when the dream of making it to the big leagues eventually seemed too far-fetched, he retired from baseball. He went home to Hawai’i and became a schoolteacher, and he never pressured his sons to play his sport or live out his dreams.
He gets choked up when he thinks about how far those teenagers have gone since that trip to Omaha six years ago.
“Somebody told us, or told me, that you could probably make a movie out of this,” he said, “no matter how it turns out.”
Napua, still tired from the emotionally draining loss to LSU on Saturday night, laughed.
She said it would be a short movie.
“No, for real,” he said. “You look at this story, it’s like a Cinderella story for them personally. For all of us, actually.”
Savannah, who has custody of younger siblings Grayson and Chloe amid her parents’ sentences, has explained how their convictions and their lack of contact with one another has weighed on her.
“The last time they spoke was the morning they went into federal prison,” she shared with E! News March 2024, alleging that there’s “a lot of retaliation going on against my father for how outspoken we’ve been about conditions.”
In fact, she alleged that prison officials had been “blocking a lot of his emails correspondence to my mom.”
And while not wanting to make the experience about herself, she admitted that it was overwhelming at times.
“What’s tough for me is how Mom and Dad have that feeling that life is just continuing to move on without them,” Savannah explained on her podcast Unlocked in April 2024. “In a way, I have that feeling with people in my life because it’s like they just continue on living their lives.”
“I’m still sitting here struggling to catch my breath,” she continued. “Whether it’s financially with the kids, trying to parent, me in a relationship.”
