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UM poet produces love album

Errio Boyd, also known as AyoMarz, believes that life couldn’t function without love, prompting the creation of an amour-centric album.

Boyd, 24, is a public rela-tions major at the University of Memphis, but better defines himself as a poet.

“Love is the interest of all things good,” Boyd said. “Anything that promotes good.”

In light of Valentine’s Day, he recorded an album entitled “Lovetape #1690”, also known as “Love art with your whole heART.”

According to him, he got the idea about three months before his birthday in January.

“I wanted to give something instead of receiving, and what’s a greater gift than love,” Boyd said.

The album will feature seven tracks laced with his personal battles and experiences with love. According to him, love is not always all lovey-dovey — there’s a painful side of love that has to be accepted along with the happy aspects.

“There’s loving friends, lov-ing community, loving God, and loving lovers,” Boyd added.

In one song, he features a poem entitled “Love and War” that expresses his heartache.

“People should listen because it’s something beneficial,” Boyd said. “You’ll be inspired to create out of love.”

As an attempt to get other people involved, Boyd is also taking personal requests.

Aside from his album, he has created “Lovegrams,” which are poems dedicated to loved ones. He will be writing “Private Poetry,” which are poems for secret admires. Lastly, he will write “Battle of the Sexes,”

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University to continue updating master plan

Members from the Master Planning Team gave a presenta-tion Tuesday on the new University Master Plan, which guides what improvements the University of Memphis will make to its campuses.

The presentation, given by Neal Kessler and Lauren Williams of

SmithGroupJJR, covered several improvements that the U of M plans on making to not only the Main Campus but also to the Park Avenue Campus and the Lambuth Campus.

Kessler, lead campus planner, started the meeting by describing the team of 14 different profes-sionals hailing from seven different firms.

Five steps must be performed in order to begin improvement. Most of these steps deal with gathering data, while others consist of obser-vation and analysis, conceiving ideas and documenting the results.

A crowd of about 38 people gathered in the University Center Ballroom to listen and share their opinions on how they want space to be utilized.

“The approach we have is inclu-sive and transparent,” Kessler said. “We like to hear as many voices as possible.”

Several ideas for improvements were mentioned. A main concern was to “create one interconnected University.”

According to Neal, one of the

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Ramen reality: improving the college diet

Ramen noodles are a wildly popular meal among college stu-dents because they are cheap, and preparation is quick and easy, but most skip right past the nutri-tional information to read the preparation directions.

Ramen noodles consist of a very high sodium and fat count

and have very little nutritional value. Each packet contains two servings of noodles, 14 grams of fat and 1,600 milligrams of sodium.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2,300 mg of sodium is the maxi-mum amount Americans aged between 2 and 51 years old should consume daily.

Even when they’re eating

out, students rarely seek out the healthiest options.

“I mostly eat fast food because it’s cheap and easy to get,” Will Baranski, a 19-year-old his-tory major at the University of Memphis, said. “The average col-lege students don’t have the dis-posable income to spend extra on eating right.”

According to a study done by Grubhub, college students are

28 percent less likely to place healthier orders than the average diner.

Many students are unaware of just how quick and easy it can be to make healthier alter-natives to the fast food choices they make. Damon Durham, a 20-year-old personal trainer at French Riviera Spa and business

Ramen noodles, though a popular dish among college students, are high in sodium and fat.

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Opinion

Gay athlete should be praised, not punished Michael Sam, a standout defen-

sive end for the Missouri Tigers, came out to the public Sunday night

in an inter-view with S p o r t s I l lustrated, The New York Times and other media out-lets. He is the first All-A m e r i c a n

and potential NFL player to do so, yet many owners, executives, players and other staffers within the league think it’s a bad idea.

Sam helped the Tigers win the 2013 SEC East Championship and a berth in the SEC Championship Game in which they lost to the Auburn Tigers. He also helped seal a victory in the 2014 AT&T Cotton Bowl against the Oklahoma State Cowboys when he sacked the OSU quarterback and knocked the ball out and one of his teammates scooped it up and ran it back for a touchdown. Sam helped lead the Missouri Tigers to a 12-2 record this season, one of the best seasons the team has seen. Sam also led the SEC in tackles for loss with 19 and sacks with 11.5 while being named the SEC co-defensive player of the year.

Those are stats from just this year alone, so I don’t understand how NFL organizations can say they wouldn’t be comfortable drafting an openly gay athlete. It’s 2014, and we have come a long way. Ten years ago, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize gay marriage and many others have followed suit. I think many more will continue to fol-low until all 50 states have legalized it.

I have read a few articles from Bleacher Report, ESPN and The New York Times stating that employees of the NFL —players, general managers and player per-

sonnel staffers— have gone on and off the record saying that the NFL is not ready for a gay player. They are afraid of the media surround-ing the team, the chemistry in the

locker room and other miniscule problems.

I believe the NFL is ready now. Maybe they will have to teach sen-sitivity classes at training camps or

fine players for using racial, homo-phobic or any other derogatory term, but the timing has never been better with the Winter Olympics happening in Sochi and Russia’s oppression of the LGBT community being exposed.

Sam came out to his Missouri teammates in August right before the season started. So, the chemistry between players should not be a problem. If a college football team comprised of 18 to 22 year olds who are still young and immature can handle having a teammate be gay, why couldn’t the NFL, which is comprised of mature, professional athletes?

New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma said he didn’t think an openly gay player would be as accepted as much as the NFL thinks he would. I don’t know if it’s because they are afraid of being naked with the possibility of being looked at by another man who is gay. Just because someone is gay does not mean the person is attracted to everybody of the same-sex they come in contact with, similar to how straight people don’t think every woman or man they see is attractive. I doubt Mr. Vilma has anything to be worried about.

And the extra media that would come with drafting Sam shouldn’t scare off teams. Take a look at the past few years when teams have been surrounded with media atten-tion due to players getting in trouble or being in a spotlight. The Eagles signed Michael Vick after being released from prison for fighting dogs. The team went 11-6 and made the playoffs even though they lost in the first round in his first year as the starter.

The Eagles also went into this season with a lot of controversy

By Jordan [email protected]

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Missouri Tigers defensive lineman Michael Sam on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, became the most prominent, and apparently the first, active male athlete on the major U.S. sports scene to publicly disclose that he’s gay. Sam is seen during a college football game against Florida in this October 19, 2013, file photo

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The University of Memphis Wednesday, February 12, 2014 • 3

Which junk food is your biggest weakness?

By Brandon CaradineTigers’ Ta es

“That’s a tough one because I try to eat healthy all the time. I guess trail mix with candy in it.”

Carmen Savage,Exercise sports science

sophomore

“I don’t know, probably cheese dip.”

Daniel Taylor,Business management

junior

“I’m a sucker for Cokes, and I will drink them probably more than anything.”

Harrison Ervin,American studies senior

“I guess ramen noodles, because it’s just easy to make and so cheap.”

Anna Hugues,Sociology senior

“I like ramen noodles bad.”

Molly Price,English junior

poems to better understand the opposite sex, and “Selfie Love” poems written for oneself.

According to Boyd, recording an album is a long process — he spent many long nights in the studio working into the early hours of the morning.

“It was a lot of time and work, but everything worth having in life is worth the effort,” Boyd said.

His cousin Kino, a local musi-

cian, helped him produce the tracks. According to him, work-ing with his cousin is perfect because he has his best interest in mind.

Boyd has been writing since the age of six and performing spoken word since age 12.

He first heard poetry as a child when his aunt, Jacqueline Brown, would recite poems around him. In the summer of 2007, Brown suffered a stroke and is now paralyzed on her entire left side.

“She’s the reason I have admi-

ration for the art,” Boyd said. “I used to write when I wanted to, but after her stroke, I knew I had to get our message out.”

He said that her stroke pushed him into his artistry. Brown said she constantly encouraged Boyd to write the way he wanted.

“Poetry is a way to express who you are and how you feel,” Brown said. “It doesn’t have to rhyme, but it does have to have a meaning.”

According to Brown, her nephew performs at every fam-ily function. She believes he is

naturally talented. “His poetry is in his mind,

and he doesn’t even have to write them down,” Brown said.

Boyd is also a member of The Underground Poets Society.

Stephen Robertson, sopho-more African-American studies major at the U of M, co-founded the society while in the Navy. He has been writing poetry since the age of 7.

“The Underground Poet Society is where poets, people and artists express themselves,” Robertson, 23, said.

Boyd said he and Robertson share a mutual inspiration for each other’s work.

“Ayo is my favorite poet in the whole world,” Robertson said. “He’s able to match the words to the flow. It’s a gift, and it’s disre-spectful to call that a talent.”

Both artists describe them-selves as passionate about love, noting that it embodies all of their work.

“Love is something you def-initely cannot live without — a spiritual, mental binding to something,” Robertson said.

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Errio Boyd, 24, performing a spoken word piece. Boyd’s writing deals with matters of the heart and he believes that there is “no gift greater than love.”

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after wide receiver Riley Cooper was caught on video at a Kenny Chesney concert calling a security guard a racial slur. The chemistry in the locker room was in jeopar-dy, but the Eagles righted the ship and Cooper played a huge role in leading the Eagles to the playoffs — also losing in the first round.

And lastly, the amount of media outlets surrounding the New England Patriots this off-season and preseason after star tight end Aaron Hernandez was accused of murdering Odin Lloyd in June. The Patriots were one game away from playing in the Super Bowl.

Therefore, the extra media at training camps and in the locker rooms shouldn’t have an effect on whichever team drafts him — out-side of Cleveland or Dallas, they are always out of whack.

Michael Sam should be con-gratulated for coming out as a gay athlete in a time in which it is still hard for people who don’t have a national platform to do so. He is a brave man for playing football at a high level, and he is an even braver man for coming out. I don’t under-stand why an NFL team wouldn’t want such a brave individual in their organization.

Sam, in an interview with The New York Times, said, “I don’t want to be defined as Michael Sam, the gay athlete or gay foot-ball player. I want to be defined as Michael Sam for being a great person, for great character.”

He doesn’t want to be known for his sexual orientation. He wants to be known for how he interacts with the community and what he does for others.

In his interview, he also said he may be the first player to come out but he definitely won’t be the last, which is true.

Since Sunday night, I have found myself comparing Michael Sam to the late Jackie Robinson. Robinson is known for being one of the first African-Americans to play Major League Baseball. And to me, they are quite similar. Robinson broke the color barrier, while Sam is breaking the sexual orientation barrier in pro sports.

Robinson had to put up with fans throwing bottles at him, threatening to murder him and racial slur after racial slur. As much as I hate it and do not want to see it, Sam will be subject to gay slurs and other hateful and harm-ful consequences.

But after listening to his inter-view and reading articles about him, I think he has a good head on his shoulders and will learn how to keep his cool and let it transform into how he plays on the field — where people should really judge him.

I think whoever decides to choose Michael Sam in this year’s NFL Draft will be one lucky team, because his sexual orientation shouldn’t define him but his abil-ity to perform on the field should. They will also have one of the bravest professional athletes that I, or any of you, will ever witness.

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most efficient ways to do this is to create bike paths through the unuti-lized Audubon Park in between the Main Campus and South Campus.

Another way to improve connec-tivity, he said, would be to create an additional Blue Line path to expand to Audubon Park. This is to cre-ate a more pedestrian friendly envi-ronment for students who wouldn’t make the walk otherwise.

Lauren Williams, another Campus Planner, focused on what projects are in progress and plan-ning. On the Main Campus, a new Student Recreational Center has recently been accepted, along with the new residential facility to replace Richardson Towers.

Williams began to question some current land use with the primary example being the location of the Plant Building, which is in the cen-ter of campus.

“Is there an opportunity to move the Plant Building to the perim-eter?” Williams asked. “Is there an opportunity for that to be better utilized so that it better enhances the student experience?”

She also brought up the possi-bility of new parking spaces being provided. According to Williams’

research, the national average for campus parking is one space for every 2.8 people, while the U of M has one space for every 2.4 people.

Along with parking, Williams brought up the idea of Patterson Road realignment, in order to make the intersection with Walker Street and Southern Avenue less confusing and hectic. According to the team, this is up to city funding and council approval.

Another improvement coming to the University is an amphitheater that will be located in the Student Plaza.

Tyler Ricossa, the coordinator for telecounseling and mail servic-es in the Office of Recruitment & Orientation Services, believes the presentation was the perfect exam-ple of the complex planning process that must be done in order to get results.

“I have always had a keen interest in the growth and advancement of our institution,” Ricossa said. “It’s exciting to find out what the new, up-and-coming projects are for the University.”

Ricossa believes the University exists for students, and areas of improvement should be focused towards places that are highly uti-lized by students.

“I would think that the University

Center, residence halls, recreation center, dining facilities and campus safety are the areas of highest prior-ity,” Ricossa said.

Jenna Thompson, an architecture professor at the U of M, went to the meeting due to her profession and expertise in planning. She is con-cerned how long the developments will take due to problems in com-munication between departments.

“This Master Plan affects me, and I wanted to speak out,” Thompson said. “I think more students should have come out because this affects them the most, and they should have a say in what goes on.”

Sherry Bryan, another architec-ture professor, believed that the pre-sentation was very vague.

Both Thompson and Bryan think that improvements should be made in gathering spaces in order to increase student involvement on campus.

“If the University built something to make students stay on campus,” Bryan quickly added, “the students could become more involved with the school.”

For students who want to learn more information or voice their opinions, they can attend the next meeting in late April once the date is set, or visit memphis.edu/masterplan.

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management major at the U of M, doesn’t doesn’t think lack of time should be an excuse not to eat healthy.

“Anyone can spend 30 min-utes once a week and cook food in bulk to last them all week,” Durham said. “Also, a lot of fast food places are going with healthier options. Just look at the nutrition facts on foods before you buy them and watch out for a lot of fats and sodium.”

Spenser Allen, a 19-year-old national strength and con-ditioning association certified personal trainer and exercises and sports science major, agrees and believes staying away from fast food and looking for other options is a great way to stay in shape.

“Most college students are eating on a budget, but there are great alternatives to fast food such as chicken,” Allen said.

He actively searches for gro-cery store bargains, claiming that one time he purchased a twelve pack of chicken from Kroger for as low as $1.99 a pound.

Exercise is another key com-ponent for students to stay in shape. While some may not have the time to make their way to the gym because of school and work, there are still many ways

to fit workouts into hectic daily routines.

“If someone does not have time to hit the gym, they do not have an excuse to do jumping jacks, push-ups or other short exercises during the little down-time they have,” Durham said. “There is always time in a day too throw in some workouts. The gym is not a necessity.”

According to Allen, time management is the best way to work in exercise between school and other obligations.

“The average student needs 30 to 60 minutes of exercise three to five days a week,” Allen said. “Most students have time to go to the gym whether it is in the morning before classes or if it is in the afternoon when they are watching TV or playing video games.”

For Allen, the difference between living a healthy life style and accepting a fast food diet is simply a matter of motivation.

“Most students can get in a fair amount of exercise, but many of them go the opposite direction by eating fast food twice a day,” Allen said. “I think one of the biggest contribut-ing factors to student health is being intrinsically motivated, or self motivated. Once you get to the point that you can moti-vate yourself to follow a diet and exercise, everything else becomes a lot easier.”

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Applications for University Housing Are Now Being Accepted for

Fall 2014/Spring 2015To request a room:1. Go to www.memphis.edu2. Log into your myMemphis3. Go to the Student tab4. Click on Residence Life and Dining Services-Apply for Housing

Room request priority will be given to applications received by Friday, Feb. 28.

Room assignments will be made after that, based on availability and date of application.

NOTE: Richardson Towers South will not be available for Fall 2014/Spring 2015. Richardson Towers North will house both males and females on designated � oors for

the Fall 2014/Spring 2015 semesters.

Questions? Contact Residence Life and Dining Services, Richardson Towers Room 001, or call 678-2295

Enterainment

Curls and dimples:Any kid who ever tap-danced at

a talent show or put on a curly wig and auditioned for “Annie” can only dream of being as beloved — or as important — as Shirley Temple.

Temple, who died Monday night at 85, sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era movie-goers and remains the ultimate child star decades later. Other pre-teens, from Macaulay Culkin to Miley Cyrus, have been as famous in their time. But none of them helped shape their time the way she did.

Dimpled, precocious and ador-able, she was America’s top box office star during Hollywood’s golden age and such an enduring symbol of innocence that kids still know the drink named for her: a sweet, nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry.

Her movies — which includ-ed “Bright Eyes” (1934), “Curly Top” (1935), “Dimples” (1936) and “Heidi” (1937) — featured sentimental themes and musical subplots, with stories of resilience that a struggling American public strongly identified with.

Her early life was free of the scandals that have plagued Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and so many other child stars — parental feuds, or drug and alcohol addiction.

She was a tribute to the eco-nomic and inspirational power of movies, credited with helping to save 20th Century Fox from bank-ruptcy and praised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself as a bright spirit during a gloomy time.

She was “just absolutely mar-velous, greatest in the world,” director Allan Dwan told film-maker-author Peter Bogdanovich in his book “Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors.”

“With Shirley, you’d just tell her once and she’d remember the rest of her life,” said Dwan, who directed her in “Heidi” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” ‘’Whatever it was she was sup-posed to do — she’d do it. ... And if one of the actors got stuck, she’d tell him what his line was — she knew it better than he did.”

Her achievements did not end with movies. Retired from acting at 21, she went on to hold several diplomatic posts in Republican

administrations, including ambas-sador to Czechoslovakia during the sudden collapse of commu-nism in 1989.

Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died at her home near San Francisco. The cause of death was not disclosed.

She appeared in scores of mov-ies and kept children singing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” for generations. From 1935 to 1938, she was the most popular screen actress in the country and was a bigger draw than Clark Gable, Joan Crawford or Gary Cooper.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the greatest screen legends put Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses.

“I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the lifetime achievement award: Start early,” she quipped in 2006 as she was honored by the Screen Actors Guild.

In “Bright Eyes,” Temple intro-duced the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop.” She was teamed with the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in the 1935 movies “The Little Colonel” and “The Littlest Rebel.” Their tap dance up the steps in “The Little Colonel” (at a time when interracial teamings were rare in Hollywood) became a landmark in the history of film dance.

At age 6, she won a special Academy Award — and was pre-sented with a miniature Oscar statuette — in 1935 for her “out-standing contribution to screen entertainment” in the previous year.

Temple became a nationwide sensation. Mothers dressed their little girls like her, and a line of dolls was launched. Roosevelt observed: “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”

Temple’s mother, Gertrude, worked to keep her daughter from being spoiled by fame and was a constant presence during filming.

But Temple later suggested that in some ways, she grew up too soon. She stopped believing in Santa Claus at age 6, she once said, when “Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

Decades later, her interest in politics brought her back into the spotlight.

She made an unsuccessful bid as a GOP candidate for Congress in 1967. After Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he appointed her as a member of

the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. In the 1970s, she was U.S. ambassador to Ghana and later U.S. chief of protocol.

She then served as ambas-sador to Czechoslovakia during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career.

“Politicians are actors too, don’t you think?” she once said. “Usually if you like people and you’re outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.”

Born in Santa Monica, Calif., to an accountant and his wife, Temple was little more than 3 when she made her film debut in 1932 in the Baby Burlesks, a series of short films in which tiny per-formers parodied grown-up mov-ies, sometimes with risque results.

Temple married Army Air Corps Pvt. John Agar in 1945. They had a daughter, Susan, in 1948. The actress filed for divorce the following year. She married Charles Black in 1950, and they had two more children, Lori and Charles. That marriage lasted until his death in 2005 at age 86.

Shirley Temple dies at 85

Shirley Temple Black, shown in 2006 receving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, went from being a child film star to a diplomatic career serving the United States in the United Nations and as an ambassador.

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U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships has brought some of the world’s elite tennis players to the Memphis area. Wednesday night that tradition continues when two Memphis Tigers will get their shot at the Bryan broth-ers, the world’s top-ranked doubles duo.

Memphis seniors David O’Hare and Joe Salisbury are slotted third in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association doubles rankings, but the pair of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan is sure to be unlike anything the two Tigers have seen on the collegiate circuit.

“It’s a great opportunity for our guys,” Tigers head coach Paul Goebel said in a press release. “That match on Wednesday night is going to be fun. The Bryan brothers are the best-ever to play doubles and are fun to watch.”

The Bryans have dominated the last decade of doubles tennis, hold-ing an all-time record of 93 dou-bles titles, including 15 doubles grand slam titles. They have won the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships in Memphis three times in their careers, including the 2013 title.

While O’Hare and Salisbury may have the highest-profile matchup, they’re not the only Tigers playing in the event.

Seven total Memphis play-

ers are competing in the tourna-ment, including Connor Glennon, Johnny Grimal, Cedric De Zutter, David O’Leary and Ian Chadwell.

Glennon, Grimal and Salisbury were the only Tigers to win their individual first round matches in the qualifying draw, but each dropped their second round contests.

“This whole tournament has been a great experience for our whole team,” Goebel said. “It was good to see our guys looking so comfortable out there.”

As for the Tigers in collegiate competition, they’ve gotten off to a solid start to the 2014 sea-son. They’re currently ranked No. 18 in the nation and sport a 3-1 record with the lone loss com-

ing in Starkville to then-No. 13 Mississippi State.

Memphis defeated then-No. 18 South Carolina in the first game of the season. The two most recent victories have come in dominat-ing fashion with 7-0 wins over UT-Chattanooga and Murray State.

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The Commodores hold a 6-1 record on the year with wins against two top-30 programs in Northwestern and LSU, but they were stomped 4-0 by No. 10 Texas.

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SOCHI, Russia — The motto for the 2014 Winter Olympics is “Hot.Cool.Yours.” Unfortunately, it’s getting a little too hot in sub-tropical Sochi.

After Monday’s temperatures reached the balmy upper 50s and Tuesday’s temps appeared headed toward that direction, Russian officials went with Plan B and broke out snow stored from last winter. They applied it to courses that needed it at the mountain venues in Krasnaya Polyana.

“I cannot tell you how much. I just don’t know,” said Aleksandra Kosterina, spokeswoman for Sochi 2014, in an article from Olympic News Service. “I mean I don’t know the specifics but I know that we did.”

Some athletes were apprecia-tive. “It’s nice out,” joked USA snowboarder Shaun White. “The sun’s out. I don’t know what the temperature is.”

It was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and fans were crunching by in slush.

White said that after the grooming, the halfpipe was in much better condition during official qualifying runs Tuesday than it had been during the informal training on previous days. “I’m so thankful for that,” said White.

Temperatures dropped as night fell on the halfpipe finals Tuesday, and Seamus O’Connor of Ireland said the snow was better because the bottom of the pipe had re-frozen.

White, meanwhile, crashed on both of his runs in the finals, fell to fourth place and missed out

on a medal.Snow is a tricky business for

the Winter Olympics Too much of it, like the near white-out conditions at the 1998 games in Nagano, Japan, isn’t a good thing. Too little of it — organiz-ers of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver were praying for snowfall — isn’t a good thing, either.

Sochi is a large area with a dual identity. The Black Sea coastal area, where the skating sports arenas are located, has palms and fir trees. It’s there where the weather has been balmy. Less than an hour away are the mountains, which have natural snow at the higher eleva-tions that’s been augmented with artificial snow.

Critics have complained about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put the Winter Games in the place in Russia where it snows the least. And Russian Olympic officials have had to deal with snow questions even before the games began.

“We do have a strong contin-gency plan in place,” Kosterina said. “We developed a special program I think two years ago certainly that included several measures, and one of them was the snow preservation.”

In a scathing report last May detailing alleged corruption in around the construction of the Winter Games, frequent Putin critic Boris Nemtsov wrote:

“Russia is a winterly country. On the map, it is hard to find a spot where snow would never fall, and where winter sports would not be popular. Yet Putin has found such a spot and decid-ed to hold the Winter Olympics there: in the city of Sochi.”

Valery Lukyanov, the weather forecast manager for the Winter

Games, said in a news confer-ence before the games began that Russia added a dozen weather stations in the mountains and hired some 50 weather and tech-nical experts to forecast and advise on conditions.

Some snowboarding athletes have complained about their venue. Monday’s half pipe prac-tices were postponed as workers attempted to fix some of the concerns voiced by participating athletes.

Tuesday, some snowboarders continued to trip on the lip of the pipe or tumble in their land-ings. American snowboarder Taylor Gold said that soft snow, when it isn’t properly groomed, gets bumpy and rattles the com-petitors on their runs.

“It’s kind of scary,” he said.“Figuring out how to ride this

thing is a challenge,” Taylor said. “When the weather’s warm like this it’s bound to get soft and I’m sure it’s a challenge to get it up to competition standard. Had this event been held in a firmer pipe it would be a much better contest because we would’ve had practice and people would be going bigger.”

At a nearby event, some of the ski slopestyle competitors said they noticed the soft snow in their event too.

“Today, everything softened up,” said Devin Logan, Team USA’s silver medalist. “The land-ings were kind of mushy.” She tried to make the most of it, she said, imagining skiing on a spring day.

“Everyone was in the same conditions,” Logan said. “We can’t control Mother Nature. We just adjust to it.”

The forecast for Wednesday at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park calls for a high of 45.

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men’s basketball team strug-gled with University of Central Florida when they traveled to Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 29 for their first meeting with the Knights, but those struggles don’t com-pare to those faced by UCF (9-12, 1-9 AAC) on their current eight-game losing streak.

The Knights, who visit FedExForum on Wednesday, haven’t won a game since beating a 6-16 Temple team on Jan. 4. Over their last eight games, UCF faced all five of the American Athletic Conference teams cur-rently ranked in the top 25 and an overtime loss to inner-state foe University of South Florida.

Despite the struggles, UCF head coach Donnie Jones is focused on developing some of the younger guys on his bench.

“You focus on positive,” Jones said after his team’s most recent 75-55 loss to Connecticut. “That’s all you can focus on right now with some of these young guys. We were committed to starting those older guys and get-ting those young guys a chance. So, you look at the bench and I think we scored 34 points off the bench and that was with our young guys.”

Isaiah Sykes scored 17 of the starters’ 19 points in the Knights’ loss. The 6-foot-6 senior hung 24 points on the Tigers in the first meeting, carving up the Memphis defense with pick and roll after pick and roll.

U of M head coach Josh Pastner warned before the Tigers’ last meeting with the Knights that Sykes could pose problems

for the Memphis defense. “They’ve got a great coach

and great players,” the fifth-year coach said. “Isaiah Sykes is a triple-double machine. They’re better than their record.”

Pastner said the Tigers’ 69-59 victory over the Knights was a good win.

“We kind of had to grind it out in some areas,” Pastner said. “In the end, players made some plays. We shot a good percent-age from three, and that’s what it comes down to.”

The Tigers have excelled on the road all season, posting seven wins and only three losses away from FedExForum. Senior guard Michael Dixon Jr. said the team embraces the “us versus them mantra.”

Three-point shooting played a big role in the Tigers first vic-tory over the Knights. Senior guards Joe Jackson and Geron Johnson each connected on time-ly 3-pointers to help lift the Blue and Gray over the UCF squad.

Dixon credited ball move-ment for the uptick in Memphis’ improved shooting from beyond the arc.

“For the better part of the season we haven’t been shooting like we’re capable of,” Dixon said. “We’ve got a lot of good shoot-ers on this team, and I think that we’re moving the ball so well. Coach Pastner teaches us to make one more pass and to pass up a good shot for a great shot, and I think there has been a lot of that going on.”

Pastner hopes his team will stay hot from the outside on Wednesday as they continue their American slate. Tip off is sched-uled for 8 p.m., and ESPNU plans to broadcast the game nationally.

Memphis head coach Josh Pastner has been pleased with senior guard Michael Dixon Jr.’s impact on both ends of the floor. Dixon has raised his three-point shooting percentage to 39.3 percent after a shaky start to the season.

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