Northern 4A All-Region basketball awards: Whittaker, Ballinger, top boys 4A All-

Region

Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide The Northern 4A prep
basketball awards were announced Tuesday and most of the selections went just about
as expected. In boys basketball, Mason Whittaker, a senior from Spanish Springs and
Cort Ballinger, a junior at Bishop Manogue, are the Players of the year, for the
High Desert and Sierra Leagues, respectively. They are also co-Players of the Year
for the Northern 4A. Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide
For the girls All-Northern selections, three players were selected by the
coaches, Autumn Wadsworth and Mariah Barraza, both seniors at Spanish Springs
and; Kenna Holt, a senior at Bishop Manogue. Here are the coaches selections for
the Northern 4A basketball awards: Buy Photo Spanish Springs guard Mason Whittaker
(15) shoots over the Reed defense during the first half of the class 4A Northern
Regional Boys Basketball Championship game at Spanish Springs High School in
Sparks (Photo: Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ, Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ) 2019-20
Prep Basketball Awards: HDL Boys Coach & Player of the Year: HDL Boys COY Matt
Ochs Reno HDL Boys POY Mason Whittaker SS G Sr High Desert Lague Boys First Team
All League: Cordell Stinson SS G Sr; Trey Hummel SS G Sr; Trey Stevens Reed G
Sr; Ridge Peterson Reed G Sr; Skylar Hales Reno F Sr; Kareem Rowe McQ G-F Sr; Tevin
Grant Hug F Sr. HDL Boys Second Team All League: Wade Hollenback SS G Sr; Neill
Baysa Reed G Sr; Trey Wilmot Reno G Jr; Tristian Yabut McQ G Jr; Marcus Thorne Reed
F Jr; Tristan Szabo SS G Jr; Drue Worthen Reno F Sr. HDL Boys Honorable
Mention: Omar Cordy Hug G Sr; Kellen George Reed F Sr; Ryan Bernard Reno F
Sr; Karson Kaltenbacher SS G Sr; Nate Hutson SS G Sr; Ray Asis Hug G Jr; Joseph
Freeman Hug G So; Jace Cook Reed G So. Buy Photo Bishop Manogue's Cort Ballinger
drives while taking on Reed during the NIAA Northern Region boys basketball semi-
finals at Spanish Springs in Reno on Feb. 21, 2020. (Photo: JASON BEAN/RGJ) Sierra
League Boys SL Boys COY Brian Voyles DR; Bill Ballinger B.Manogue SL Boys POY Cort
Ballinger BM G Jr SL Boys First Team All League: Mateo Reviglio BM G Sr; Logan
Howren BM G Fr; Jack Cherry G G Jr; Isaac Wood G G Jr; Mitch Conway DR G Sr; Joey
Summers C G Jr; Christopher Thacker DHS G Jr SL Boys Second Team All League: Dalton
Plummer BM G Sr; Nathan Smothers C G Sr; Parsa Hadjighasemi C G So; Cameron Swain
D F Jr; Javin Basbas DR G Sr; Larry Ballard DR C Sr; Isaiah Duve G G Jr; Porter
Rasmussen G F Jr SL Boys Honorable Mention: Jesus De LaPuente W G Sr; Derek Tarkang
W F Sr; Christopher Smalley D F So; Camden Brown D G Sr; Dominic Benna BM G
Sr; Eddie Tierney DR G So; Chase Nelson G G Sr; Nick Vargas DR G Jr; Jacob Carlton
BM F Jr. Buy Photo A photograph taken during the class 4A Northern Regional Girls
Basketball Championship game at Spanish Springs High School in Sparks, Nev.,
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (Photo: Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ, Tom R.
Smedes/Special to RGJ) High Desert League HDL Girls COY Art Cardenas SS HDL Girls
POY Autumn Wadsworth SS G Sr; Mariah Barraza SS F Sr HDL Girls First Team All
League: Jada Townsell SS G Jr; Kara Clayton SS C Sr; Madison Shults Reno F Sr; Hana
Hackbusch Reno F Sr; Alisi Peau McQ C Jr; Emma Johnson Reed G Sr; Gracen McGwire
Reno F Jr HDL Girls Second Team All League: Megan Gower SS G Sr; Adia Walker Reno G
Fr; Arzona Peaua McQ G So; Jasmine Churchill Reed C Jr; Emily Queaphama H G
Sr; Lauryn Dressler SS G Sr; Reagan Kumle Reed G Fr HDL Girls Honorable
Mention: Amelia Delamora SS G Sr; Marlo Towle Reno G Sr; Valerie Blue Horse Reed G
Sr; Jenifer Queahpama H G Sr; Iyonna Gomez McQH Jr; Talia Marini McQ G So; Destiny
Zepeda H G Sr Buy Photo Bishop Manogue's Jordyn Jensen shoots with Spanish Spring's
Kara Clayton covering her during on Jan. 9, 2020. (Photo: Andy Barron/RGJ) Sierra
League SL Girls COY Doug Whisler Carson SL Girls POY Kenna Holt Manogue G Sr SL
Girls First Team All League: Jordyn Jensen BM F Jr; Ducky McLeod BM G Jr; Alyssa
Barnard DR G Jr; Khalilah Corley DR G Fr; Lilian Bouza C G Sr; Taylynn Kizer D G
Sr; Bella Kordonowy C F Sr. SL Girls Second Team All League: Kiley de Bruin BM G
Jr; Seini Tuipulotu DR G Fr; Abby Golik C G Jr; Riley Mello D F So; Ellie Kulpin
DR G Jr; Camryn Quilling C F Sr; Hilina’i Smith DR F Sr SL Girls Honorable
Mention: Kira Skelton W F Sr; Madeline Hunden W F So; Courtney Battcher D F
Jr; Lois Tarkanian D G Jr; Nayzeth Alvarez C G Jr; Lauren Vasquez BM G Sr; Hannah
Hartley G F Jr. Javin Basabas, a senior at Damonte Ranch, was a second team
selection. (Photo: Provided by John Byrne) Boys All Northern Region: Co-COY Matt
Ochs Reno; Brian Voyles Damonte; Bill Ballinger Bishop Manogue Co-POY Cort
Ballinger BM G Jr; Mason Whittaker SS G Sr Boys All-Northern Region Cordell Stinson
SS G Sr; Trey Hummel SS G Sr; Trey Stevens Reed G Sr; Ridge Peterson Reed G
Sr; Skylar Hays Reno F Sr; Kareem Rowe McQ G-F Sr; Tevin Grant H F Sr; Mateo
Raviglio BM G Sr; Logen Howren BM G Fr; Jack Cherry G G Jr; Isaac Wood G G
Jr; Mitch Conway DR G Sr; Joey Summers C G Jr; Christopher Thacker D G Jr Girls All
Northern Region: Co-COY Art Cardenas SS; Doug Whisler C Co-POY Autumn Wadsworth
SS G Sr; Mariah Barraza SS F Sr; Kenna Holt BM G Sr Jada Townsell SS G Jr; Kara
Clayton SS C Sr; Madison Shults Reno F Sr; Hann Hackbush Reno F Sr; Alisi Peau
McQ C Jr; Emma Johnson Reed G Sr; Gracen McGuire Reno F Jr; Jordyn Jensen BM F
Jr; Amaya McLeod BM G Jr; Alyssa Barnard DR G Jr; Khalilah Corley DR G Fr; Lilian
Bouza C G Sr; Taylynn Kizer D G Sr; Bella Kordonowy C F Sr. Buy Photo A photograph
taken during the class 4A Northern Regional Girls Basketball Championship game at
Spanish Springs High School in Sparks, Nev., Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (Photo: Tom
R. Smedes/Special to RGJ, Tom R. Smedes/Special to RGJ) Jim Krajewski covers high
school and youth sports for the Reno Gazette Journal. Follow him on Twitter
@RGJPreps. Support his work by subscribing to RGJ.com right here.

Billboard and Telemundo Announce On the Rise and Regional Goes Urban Panels for
LatinFest+

Billboard and Telemundo announced today (Feb. 19) two new highly-anticipated panels
taking place at this year's inagural LatinFest+ set to take place in Las Vegas in
April. Exploring the urban and trap corridos movement, the "Regional Mexican Goes
Urban" panel will discuss the newest regional Mexican music trend of fusing
traditional corrido beats with urban or trap music. The discussion will feature
key players ushering the movement such as label executives and artists who are
moving forward the trend. Featued panelists include T3R Elemento’s Sergio Cárdenas,
DEL Records founder Ángel Del Villar, Legado 7’s Alex Guerra, Rancho Humilde’s co-
founder Jimmy Humilde, Fuerza Regida’s Jesús Ortiz Paz, singer-songwriter Lenin
Ramírez and Arsenal Efectivo’s Shrek. "Regional Goes Urban" will take place
Tuesday, April 21. The other announced panel, "On the Rise: The New Generation of
Urban Men and Women," is a spinoff of Billboard's On the Rise franchise published
biweekly spotlighiting up-and-coming artists who are making waves in music. On
Wednesday, April 22, enre-bending newcomers Natanael Cano, Cazzu, Jhay Cortez,
Lunay, Mariah, Sech, Myke Towers and Manuel Turizo will join the candid
conversation to discuss how they're pushing boundaries in the urban and trap
genres. Cortez, Sech and Turizo all join the panel in the midst of tremendous
success, having recently been announced as finalists in the artist of the year, new
category at the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Cano, who is behind the corridos
tumbados movement with songs that have gained popularity among young listeners and
superstar Bad Bunny who jumped on a remix of Cano's "Soy el Diablo." Towers joins
the panel following the success of his sophomore album Easy Money, Baby, which
debuted at No. 1 on the Feb. 8 Top Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums charts.
Lunay, who in only 18 months of his career has already made an impact in the Latin
music business, completes the lineup of panelists, joined also by Argentine star
Cazzu and “Perreito” singer Mariah, two female powerhouses making waves in the Trap
genre. Other stars confirmed so far to participate at LatinFest+ include Ozuna, J
Balvin, Rosalía and Los Tigres del Norte. Registration for 2020 LatinFest+ is
already open at latinfestplus.com. The inaugural Latinfest+ also marks the 30th
anniversary of Billboard’s Latin Music Conference, the longest-running and biggest
Latin music gathering in the world. Latinfest+ will be an immersive, week-long
experience for the Latin entertainment industry, artists, executives and fans and
will include superstar conversations, industry panels and workshops, celebrity
fireside chats, live concerts, fan experiences and live activations of some of
Billboard’s most celebrated franchises, including Growing Up Latino. The three-day
music event culminates with the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards, which will air
live April 23 on Telemundo. © Provided by Billboard Latin Fest 2020

David Bowie and Mariah Carey

David Bowie The disc jockey Steve Wright used to have a funny segment on his Radio
1 show in which an impressionist would make mundane comments in the unmistakable
style of David Bowie. And that's the singer's problem - no matter who he plays he
is unmistakably David Bowie. Consequently his best performance was in Nic Roeg's
The Man Who Fell To Earth in which he was a skinny alien, a role not a million
light years removed from his real-life musical persona of the time. But as vampire
John Blaylock in The Hunger and Major Jack Celliers in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
he made wooden furniture looked animated by contrast. He cropped up again recently
in Ben Stiller's unfunny comedy Zoolander. His screen time was mercifully brief.
Mariah Carey The crash and burn horror that was Glitter, a rags to riches saga of a
singer - not unlike Carey's own life story, was so breathtakingly bad that it had
critics struggling to find suitable images to convey the depths of their dismay.
"An unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic cliches that
illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication," opined
The New York Times. "This star vehicle for Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for
her breasts," said the Washington Post. The universal slating doesn't appear to
have put Carey off though. She will next appear in Wisegirls, a mafia caper in
which she stars alongside Mira Sorvino. Share or comment on this article: