WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS LOCAL FOLKS CALENDAR 133RD YEAR, NO. 291 Devin Kahey Kindergarten, Franklin High 63 Low 43 Mostly sunny Full forecast on page 2A. 1 Gene Kelly sings “Singin’ in the Rain” over the end credits of what 1971 film? 2 In 2005, what product reintroduced its catchphrase “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing”? 3 What state’s board of education voted on November 2005 to teach intelligent design alongside biology textbooks? 4 What Major League Soccer team signed David Beckham in a $50 mil- lion contract in 2007? 5 Who was, appropriately enough, the first person buried in the crypt beneath the dome of Saint Paul’s Cathedral? Answers, 6B INSIDE Classifieds 5B Comics 4B Obituaries 5A Opinions 4A Curley Williams is the owner of Children First Daycare. Tuesday, Feb. 19 ■ Tuesday Tunes: Take a musi- cal mid-day break at the Colum- bus Arts Council’s Rosenzweig Arts Center, with Linda Inmon Pate of the Columbus Music Study Club at the grand piano. Bring your lunch or just come for the music. For more information, contact the CAC, 662-328-2787. ■ MSU Chorale: Mississip- pi State’s University Chorale presents “Rejoice and Reflect II: Celebrating African-American History Through Music” at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories on the university campus. The free concert by the 103-voice group includes arrangements of spirituals and gospel music, interspersed with short readings about the lives of outstanding African-American women, includ- ing Condoleezza Rice and Marion Anderson. For more information, call 662-325-3490. Thursday, Feb. 21 ■ Celebrating 175 years: Starkville’s175th Birthday Speak- er Series features Dr. Roy Ruby and Ryan Sims at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Memorial Library John Grisham Room on the Mississip- pi State University campus. Dr. Ruby, who worked at MSU for 40 years, will speak on how and why Starkville was chosen for the site of MSU and how the school became a land grant university. 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The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for finding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and other doctors said. “It’s not just about turning off the tele- vision. It’s about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as how much they watch,” said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children’s Re- search Institute. The research was to be published on- line Monday by the journal Pediatrics. Nancy Jensen, second from left, looks on as her son Joe, 2, is given a special treat of a little TV time Tuesday at their home in Seattle. Nancy was a participant in a new Univer- sity of Washing- ton study on the effects of televi- sion viewing on kids. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren See TV , 3A “It’s about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as how much they watch.” Dr. Dimitri Christakis Courtesy photo Ginger Redden is photographed with multiple bruises she sustained when her husband, John Alan Redden, assaulted her on Aug. 15, 2011. Red- den pleaded guilty but will serve no jail time for the felony. Victims’ advocates worry judges don’t take domestic abuse seriously BY SARAH FOWLER [email protected]On Aug. 15, 2011, John Alan Redden got into an argument with his wife that quickly es- calated into a savage beating. Redden beat his wife, Ginger Redden, with a belt, jabbed her with a golf club, then kicked her as she collapsed on the floor. Then he climbed on top of her and began choking her with his bare hands. When Ginger Redden broke free from his choke hold, he told her he would kill her if she left him. Last week, Redden pleaded guilty to aggravated assault-do- mestic violence, a felony that carries a maximum prison sen- tence of 20 years. But Redden won’t be serv- ing any jail time. In fact, he won’t even have to report to a probation officer, take an anger management class or even per- form community service. See ABUSE, 6A BY JEFF CLARK [email protected]The deadline for candidates to qualify for the 2013 Columbus Municipal Elections is rapidly ap- proaching. Prospective candidates have two weeks to submit a letter of intent to qualify. The deadline is 5 p.m. on March 8. The primary election will be held May 7. A run- off, if necessary, will held May 21. The general election is June 14. The election will be the first for the city since the 2012 redistrict- ing. While there was no change in wards 1 and 2, in Ward 3, every- thing south of Hemlock Street and everything west of McCrary Street move into Ward 4. The Ward 6 area south of Waverly Road, and a block of Sixth Street North, is now part of Ward 5. City Administrator David Arm- strong said voters affected by the change will be given notification by the Lowndes County Circuit Clerk’s office to alert them as to where they will vote. Mayor Robert Smith has qual- ified for re-election and is cur- rently running unopposed. Smith See ELECTION, 6A Redden Coleman
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WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS LOCAL FOLKSCALENDAR
133RD YEAR, NO. 291
Devin KaheyKindergarten, Franklin
High 63 Low 43Mostly sunny
Full forecast on page 2A.
1 Gene Kelly sings “Singin’ in the Rain” over the end credits of what 1971 fi lm?2 In 2005, what product reintroduced its catchphrase “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing”?3 What state’s board of education voted on November 2005 to teach intelligent design alongside biology textbooks?4 What Major League Soccer team signed David Beckham in a $50 mil-lion contract in 2007?5 Who was, appropriately enough, the fi rst person buried in the crypt beneath the dome of Saint Paul’s Cathedral?
Answers, 6B
INSIDEClassifi eds 5BComics 4B
Obituaries 5AOpinions 4A
Curley Williams is the owner of Children First Daycare.
Tuesday, Feb. 19 ■ Tuesday Tunes: Take a musi-cal mid-day break at the Colum-bus Arts Council’s Rosenzweig Arts Center, with Linda Inmon Pate of the Columbus Music Study Club at the grand piano. Bring your lunch or just come for the music. For more information, contact the CAC, 662-328-2787.■ MSU Chorale: Mississip-pi State’s University Chorale presents “Rejoice and Refl ect II: Celebrating African-American History Through Music” at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories on the university campus. The free concert by the 103-voice group includes arrangements of spirituals and gospel music,
interspersed with short readings about the lives of outstanding African-American women, includ-ing Condoleezza Rice and Marion Anderson. For more information, call 662-325-3490.
Thursday, Feb. 21■ Celebrating 175 years: Starkville’s175th Birthday Speak-er Series features Dr. Roy Ruby and Ryan Sims at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Memorial Library John Grisham Room on the Mississip-pi State University campus. Dr. Ruby, who worked at MSU for 40 years, will speak on how and why Starkville was chosen for the site of MSU and how the school became a land grant university.
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Coleman gives wife-beater a slap on the wrist
Qualifying deadline for municipal elections nears
Study: Better television might improve kids’ behaviorBY DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIPThe Associated Press
SEATTLE — Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschool-ers’ behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found.
The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for fi nding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and other doctors said.
“It’s not just about turning off the tele-vision. It’s about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as
how much they watch,” said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children’s Re-search Institute.
The research was to be published on-line Monday by the journal Pediatrics.
Nancy Jensen, second from left, looks on as her son Joe, 2, is given a special treat of a little TV time Tuesday at their home in Seattle. Nancy was a participant in a new Univer-sity of Washing-ton study on the effects of televi-sion viewing on kids.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren See TV, 3A
“It’s about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as how much they watch.”
Dr. Dimitri Christakis
Courtesy photoGinger Redden is photographed with multiple bruises she sustained when her husband, John Alan Redden, assaulted her on Aug. 15, 2011. Red-den pleaded guilty but will serve no jail time for the felony.
Victims’ advocates worry judges don’t take domestic abuse seriously
On Aug. 15, 2011, John Alan Redden got into an argument with his wife that quickly es-calated into a savage beating. Redden beat his wife, Ginger Redden, with a belt, jabbed her with a golf club, then kicked her as she collapsed on the fl oor. Then he climbed on top of her and began choking her
with his bare hands. When Ginger Redden broke free from his choke hold, he told her he
would kill her if she left him.Last week, Redden pleaded
guilty to aggravated assault-do-mestic violence, a felony that carries a maximum prison sen-tence of 20 years.
But Redden won’t be serv-ing any jail time. In fact, he won’t even have to report to a probation offi cer, take an anger management class or even per-form community service.
The deadline for candidates to qualify for the 2013 Columbus Municipal Elections is rapidly ap-proaching.
Prospective candidates have two weeks to submit a letter of intent to qualify. The deadline is 5 p.m. on March 8. The primary election will be held May 7. A run-off, if necessary, will held May 21. The general election is June 14.
The election will be the fi rst for the city since the 2012 redistrict-ing.
While there was no change in wards 1 and 2, in Ward 3, every-thing south of Hemlock Street and everything west of McCrary Street move into Ward 4. The Ward 6 area south of Waverly Road, and a block of Sixth Street North, is now part of Ward 5.
City Administrator David Arm-strong said voters affected by the change will be given notifi cation by the Lowndes County Circuit Clerk’s offi ce to alert them as to where they will vote.
Mayor Robert Smith has qual-ifi ed for re-election and is cur-rently running unopposed. Smith
See ELECTION, 6A
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MondaySay What?“When you have as many arms in the bullpen as we do, you can run them out any time you want to.”
MSU senior catcher Mitch Slauter, following the baseball team’s sweep of the University of Portland on Sunday.
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Singer Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicideThe AssociATed Press
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday in Ar-kansas in an apparent sui-cide. She was 37.
The Cleburne Coun-ty Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Mc-Cready was found dead at a residence in Heber Springs from what appears to be a single, self-inflicted gun-shot to the head. An autop-sy is pending.
It wasn’t the first suicide attempt for the troubled singer, whose list of prob-lems only continued to grow in 2013.
McCready entered
c o u r t - o r -dered rehab earlier this month after her father told a judge she was no longer tak-ing care of herself or her children and was abus-ing drugs and alcohol. Her sons were put in foster care at the time, but it’s not clear where Zander and Zayne were at the time of Mc-Cready’s death.
McCready’s longtime boyfriend David Wilson, the father of her younger son, died last month in Ar-kansas. Authorities found his body on the same porch where they discovered Mc-Cready’s on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES — Hyla Merin grew up without a father and for a long time never knew why.
Her mother never spoke about the Army officer who died before Hyla was born. The scraps of in-formation she gathered from other relatives were hazy: 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel was a rabbi’s son, brilliant at mathematics, the brave winner of a Purple Heart who died sometime in 1945.
Aside from wedding photos of Markel in uniform, Merin never glimpsed him.
But on Sunday, decades after he won it, Merin received her father’s Purple Heart, along with a Silver Star she never knew he’d won and a half-dozen other medals.
Merin wiped away tears as the Silver Star was pinned to her lapel during a short ceremony attended by friends and family at her home in Westlake Village, a community straddling the Ventura and Los An-geles county lines. The other med-als were presented on a plaque.
“It just confirms what a great man he was,” Merin said tearfully. “He gave up his life for our country and our freedom. I’ll put it up in my house as a memorial to him and to those who served.”
Merin’s mother, Celia, married Markel in 1941 when he already was in the military. They met at a Jewish temple in Buffalo, N.Y.
About four months ago, the manager of a West Hollywood apartment building where Merin’s mother lived in the 1960s found a box containing papers and the Pur-ple Heart while cleaning out some lockers in the laundry room, Merin
said.The manager contacted Purple
Hearts Reunited, a nonprofit orga-nization that returns lost or stolen medals to vets or their families.
A search led to Merin.She became “kind of emotional,
because I don’t have a lot of pic-tures, I don’t have a lot of stories, and I’ve always been a crier,” she said. “My mother was always the stoic one, very strong.”
Markel was killed in the last days of World War II on May 3, 1945, in Italy’s Po Valley while fighting Ger-man troops as an officer with the 88th Division of the 351st Infantry Regiment, said Zachariah Fike, the Vermont Army National Guard captain who founded Purple Hearts
Reunited.“The accounts suggest that he
was out on patrol and he got am-bushed and he charged ahead and basically took out a machine gun position to save the rest of his guys,” said Fike, whose organiza-tion has returned some two dozen medals. “For that, he paid the ulti-mate sacrifice.”
He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star posthumous-ly, but for some reason the family never was told about the Silver Star and it was never sent to them, Fike said.
Merin’s mother never talked in detail to her daughter about Markel.
“It was a very difficult topic for her. When my father died, she was seven months pregnant with me,” Merin said.
Her mother briefly remarried when Merin was 10 but her stepfa-ther died three years later, Merin said.
Her mother moved into the apart-ment in 1960 and may have placed the Purple Heart in the locker then, Merin said. Her mother lived there until 1975 before moving away, and Merin’s aunt lived there until 2005. Another aunt lived there until 2009.
They never spoke about what was in the locker, and the family must have missed the box when they took away the aunts’ posses-sions in 2005 and 2009, Merin said.
Merin said that in addition to the Purple Heart, which Pike kept for framing, the box contained letters and other papers, and her father’s Jewish prayer book.
Merin’s mother was told about the discovery of the Purple Heart but didn’t live to see it — she died Feb. 1 at age 94.
McCready
AP Photo/Jeannie NussYellow crime-scene tape blocks off the front of a home in Heber Springs, Ark., where country singer Mindy Mc-Cready was found dead in an apparent suicide on Sunday.
AP Photo/Mark J. TerrillArmy Capt. Zachariah L. Fike presents Hyla Merin with a plaque that contains medals during a ceremony at her home Sunday in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The medals were presented posthumously to her father after they were recently discovered in an apartment where Merin’s mother and aunts had once lived.
“bring your own bottle” nightclubs could help control littering, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and assaults.
The proposal would require a city beer per-mit or a state alcohol permit for establish-ments that serve alcohol and provide entertain-ment, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Jour-nal reported.
“For me, it’s safe-ty,” said Tupelo Police Chief Tony Carleton. He noted a 2011 New Year’s Day shooting at a McCullough Boulevard nightclub.
Both the state and city permits require background checks, spe-cific security measures — especially for large
crowds — and annual registration. The permit fee is $25 a year.
The proposal is on the City Council’s study agenda Tuesday. So is an ordinance that would let patrons bring their own alcohol to some restau-rants without a beer or liquor license, as long as it accompanied a meal.
March 5 is the earliest the nightclub ordinance could come up for a vote.
The ordinance in-cludes exemptions from several security mea-sures for businesses that operate without trouble and whose business is primarily focused as a restaurant.
Events hosted or sponsored by a gov-ernmental entity or
tax-exempt charities are exempted from the pro-posed ordinance; how-ever, those groups still have to go through the permitting process to sell alcohol.
The proposed ordi-nance appears to be re-dundant for the restaura-teurs who already hold state alcohol or city beer permits, said Voz Vanel-li, whose restaurant in-cludes a bar with live music.
“Their concerns are already covered by ex-isting statutes and fees, from what I understand,” said Vanelli. “As part of my permit, I’m respon-sible for making sure I provide a safe environ-ment.”
Meredith plans presentation in CorinthThe AssociATed Press
CORINTH — James Meredith, a leader of de-segregation of the Univer-sity of Mississippi in the 1960s, will be in Corinth on Thursday for a presen-tation and book-signing.
The Dai-ly Corinthi-an reports M e r e d i t h will sign his memoir, “A Mission from God,” at 3 p.m. at
the Corinth Library.Then at 6 p.m., he will
lead a discussion at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, 1000 Scott St.
St. Mark Pastor Kim Ratliff said Meredith’s presentation is open to the public.Meredith
AP Photo/Hyla MerinThis undated image provided by Hyla Merin shows 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel with his bride, Celia Markel. Markel was a rabbi’s son, brilliant at mathematics, the brave win-ner of a Purple Heart who died in 1945.
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MCCOMB — The city of McComb is getting an extra $200,000 from the Mississippi Department of Transportation to restore two train cars that have been added to the display near the downtown depot.
The Enterprise-Journal reports that funds will also be used to extend the can-opy at the display.
Mayor Whitney Rawl-ings says the canopy will be extended to cover a wrecker derrick rail car — a part of the project that initially was scrapped to save money.
The extra money brings the project’s total funds to $500,000.
Rawlings says he ex-pects the work to begin in May or June.
The city recently ac-quired a postal car dat-ing to 1907 and an offi ce car dating to 1883 for the display. The cars will be sandblasted, painted and restored.
Conviction thrown out in 2008 Ala. bridge deathsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOBILE — An Ala-bama appeals court has thrown out the conviction and death sentence of a man tried for killing four children in 2008 by throw-ing them off a coastal bridge.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Friday the trial of Lam Luong should have been moved outside of Mobile County because “publicity surrounding the murders completely saturated” the community. Al.com re-ports judges have sent the murder case back to Mo-bile County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors say Luong killed the four children — whose ages ranged from 3 years to 4 months — by throwing them off the Dauphin Island bridge one-by-one and into the Mississippi Sound more than 80 feet below.
District Attorney Ash-ley Rich did not immedi-ately return a call to her offi ce Saturday.
McComb train display gets $200K budget boost
Obama offering immigration plan as backup for SenatorsBY PHILIP ELLIOTTThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House is downplaying its draft proposal as merely a back-up plan if lawmakers don’t come up with an immigration overhaul of their own. It won’t be neces-sary, Republican and Democrat-ic lawmakers alike are telling the Obama administration.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that President Barack Obama wants to “be prepared” in case the small bipartisan group of senators fails to devise a plan for the estimated 11 million il-legal immigrants in the United States. In response, lawmakers assured the White House they are working on their own plan — and warned that Obama would be heading toward failure if the White House gets ahead of them.
“We will be prepared with our own plan if these ongoing talks between Republicans and Dem-ocrats up on Capitol Hill break down,” McDonough said, adding he’s optimistic they would not crumble.
But he was equally realistic about the fi erce partisanship on Capitol Hill.
“Well, let’s make sure that it doesn’t have to be proposed,”
McDonough said of the presi-dent’s pitch, fi rst reported on USA Today’s website late Satur-day.
Even so, the administration is moving forward on its own immigration agenda should one of Obama’s top priorities get de-railed.
The administration’s propos-al would create a visa for those in the country illegally and allow
them to become legal permanent residents within eight years. The proposal also requires busi-nesses to know the immigration status of their workers and adds more funding for border securi-ty.
It drew immediate criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the eight lawmakers searching for a comprehensive plan.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, FileIn this Tuesday, Jan. 29 fi le photo, President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday.
TVContinued from Page 1A
The study involved 565 Seattle parents, who periodically fi lled out TV-watching diaries and questionnaires measur-ing their child’s behavior.
Half were coached for six months on getting their 3-to-5-year-old kids to watch shows like “Ses-ame Street” and “Dora the Explorer” rather than more violent programs like “Power Rangers.” The results were com-pared with kids whose parents who got advice on healthy eating instead.
At six months, children
in both groups showed improved behavior, but there was a little bit more improvement in the group that was coached on their TV watching.
By one year, there was no meaningful difference between the two groups overall. Low-income boys appeared to get the most short-term benefi t.
“That’s important because they are at the greatest risk, both for being perpetrators of aggression in real life, but also being victims of aggression,” Christakis
said.The study has some
fl aws. The parents weren’t told the purpose of the study, but the au-thors concede they proba-bly fi gured it out and that might have affected the results.
Before the study, the children averaged about 1½ hours of TV, video and computer game watching a day, with violent con-tent making up about a quarter of that time. By the end of the study, that increased by up to 10 minutes. Those in the TV
coaching group increased their time with positive shows; the healthy eating group watched more vio-lent TV.
Nancy Jensen, who took part with her now 6-year-old daughter, said the study was a wake-up call.
“I didn’t realize how much Elizabeth was watching and how much she was watching on her own,” she said.
Jensen said her daugh-
ter’s behavior improved after making changes, and she continues to con-trol what Elizabeth and her 2-year-old brother, Joe, watch. She also de-cided to replace most of Elizabeth’s TV time with games, art and outdoor fun.
During a recent vis-it to their Seattle home, the children seemed more interested in play-ing with blocks and run-ning around outside than watching TV.
Another researcher who was not involved in
this study but also focus-es his work on kids and television commended Christakis for taking a look at the infl uence of positive TV programs, instead of focusing on the impact of violent TV.
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Miracle in the PrairieIt all started
about three days before. The rains were torrential and the lake was so full that most of the center stumps were submerged.
“Sam, I think the spillway is dammed up. The water is high.”
After work Sam took the gator to the spillway and sure enough a beaver had dammed the flow again. In drizzling rain Sam shoveled out the dam and checked the beaver trap. No beaver.
“Did you see Leah?” I asked. Leah is our domestic Pekin duck,
the lone survivor of three ducks.“Yes, she was out in the center of the
lake.”
It was about 5:30 and getting dark. I was becoming more confident about Leah. She had learned from the geese to treat humans with suspect, to avoid the bank while alone, and to swim to the middle of the lake for safety.
Pekin ducks are large white flight-less birds. They are social animals and easy to care for. I’ve spent hours watch-ing her. She stretches tall and flaps her wings while skimming the top of the water. More than once she has toppled head over heels and bobbed up again. I clap my hands and cheer at her efforts.
When she lost her two companions I sat on the dock and sang, “How much is that ducky in the window, the one with the cur-r- -ly tail? How much is that ducky in the window, I do hope that she
is for sale.” That seemed to calm one of us.
The morning after breaking the beaver dam, I went to the lake and called for Leah. No Leah. I scanned the horizon. No Leah. I walked the perim-eter of the lake. No Leah. I went to the dock and lay belly-down. I peered upside down under the cabin but she was not there.
I sat on the dock and grieved silent-ly. The only words that came were, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Bless be the name of the Lord.” I soothed myself all day long with the words. I told no one.
I’ve learned it is not beneficial to tell your husband bad news while he is at work or when he walks through
the door at the end of the day. I greet Sam with fresh brewed coffee, a snack and hear about his day. Then I tell him something like, “The washing machine broke today.”
That day I told him that Leah was gone and together we grieved. Sam said Leah and her friends were some-where swimming on that great crystal sea.
Two days later I saw a white bundle at the place where I leave Leah her “chop.” I tore across the field. Whatever her condition I wanted her.
Leah’s head popped up and she let me get close. She ate two cups of chop. I clapped my hands and cheered for her.
The large white duck, the size of a goose, had appeared out of nowhere.
Shannon Rule Bardwell is a writer, who lives in the Prairie. Her e-mail ad-dress is [email protected]. Possum-haw is a regular feature of Monday’s Dis-patch.
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The following is an edited selection of reader com-ments posted at the end of stories and columns published on-line. More can be found at www.cdispatch.com.Roses and thorns
Hal5702: How comical, you do realize Rick Stans-bury is responsible for the dumpster-fire that is MSU basketball now. The program had become a national joke, how quickly the infighting, suspensions, and inexplicable losses are forgotten. Stans made his bed when he brought Renardo Sidney in.
I have to agree with you Hal5702, MSU basketball went downhill under Stansbury. In my opinion, Stans-bury should have been fired at least two years before. MSU was on a downhill slide for a long time. Sidney was just the lowest point in the valley. But, let’s not forget the lack of and missed communications involv-ing Dee Bost, Phil Turner, Codi Augustus and others. Look at how many players left the program after a year or two under Stansbury.
Stansbury may be MSU’s winningest coach, but it is not because of greatness. It is because of tenure and being able to schedule at least 10-12 guaranteed patsies a year. In my opinion, MSU basketball will never reach any serious prominence because the standards for being “successful” is set so low. We are considering a coach and his program as successful and the last Final Four banner was hung 17 years ago when Stansbury was an assistant coach. They haven’t even made it to the Sweet 16 with Stansbury at the helm. Personally, I would not label Stansbury as a successful coach. He was mediocre for the most part and less than mediocre in his last four or five years because he lost control of his teams. I was not impressed with the “success” of Rick Stansbury.
City Council to make appointment to CMSD Board
Col-Voter: Quote by Mr. Prude; “I want to contin-ue my commitment to establish strong schools and competitive students succeeding on a global level,” Prude wrote on his application. “Strong schools equal strong cities.” So what has the school system shown for his 14 years of service. A grade of F, potentially leading to a take-over by the state and an extremely high mileage rate that is not producing results.
The Writers Rock: A couple of wild magnolias chat about the crossroads, where literature and music meet
Rex Walton: I became friends with James (Redd) in Lincoln, Neb., where he and his love moved for English Dept. work at UN-Lincoln. I’ve heard his writing read and sung and find both to be melodic, intense, heartstrung renditions of what he feels so strongly about the world, and what it tells him with such fervor. I’m glad to hear he’s still growing strong and stronger in his Southern clime .
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Facing up to what we did in interrogations
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
Col. Nathan Jessep to Lt. Daniel Kaffee
A Few Good Men (1992)
“You,” said Jack Nicholson’s Jessep to Tom Cruise’s Kaffee, “have the luxury of not knowing what I know.” Viewers of the movie “Zero Dark Thirty “ will, accord-ing to some informed persons, lose the luxury of not knowing about hard but morally defensi-ble things done on their behalf. Other informed persons, however, say that viewers will be misled because the movie intimates (actually it is ambiguous about this) a crucial role of “enhanced interrogation” in extracting infor-mation useful to tracking Osama bin Laden.
In “A Few Good Men,” Col. Jessep insists that a harsh and proscribed training method (Code Red ) saves lives: “You [expletive] people … you have no idea how to defend a nation. “Zero Dark Thir-ty” explores the boundaries of the permissible when defending not a nation but this nation. Viewers will know going in how the movie ends. They will not know how they will feel when seeing an American tell a detainee, “When you lie to me I hurt you,” and proceed to do so.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair-man of the intelligence commit-tee, and two colleagues have denounced the movie as “grossly
inaccurate and mis-leading” for its “sug-gestion” that torture produced information that led to locating bin Laden. But former CIA director Michael Hayden, while saying “there is no way to con-firm” that information obtained by enhanced interrogation was the “decisive” intelligence in locating bin Lad-
en, insists that such information “helped” lead to bin Laden.
Former attorney general Mi-chael Mukasey goes further: Kha-lid Sheik Mohammed “broke like a dam” under harsh techniques, including waterboarding, and his “torrent of information” included the nickname of a trusted courier of bin Laden, perhaps the one cen-tral to the movie’s narrative.
In 2007, Hayden ended the use of half the “enhanced interroga-tion” techniques, including water-boarding, because U.S. law, our understanding of the threat and our sources of information had changed. He also says, however, that such interrogations produced half our knowledge of al-Qaeda’s structure and activities.
“In the end, everybody breaks, bro, it’s biology,” says the CIA man in the movie, tactically but inaccu-rately, to the detainee undergoing “enhanced interrogation.” This too familiar term has lost its capacity for making us uneasy. America’s Vietnam failure was foretold when U.S. officials began calling air attacks on North Vietnam “protec-tive reaction strikes,” a semantic obfuscation that revealed moral queasiness. “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, who warned
about governments resorting to “long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
Viewers of “Zero Dark Thirty” can decide whether or which “en-hanced interrogation” measures depicted, slaps, sleep deprivation, humiliation, waterboarding, con-stitute, in plain English, torture. And they can ponder whether any or all of them would be wrong even if effective.
Mukasey says the phrase “en-hanced interrogation techniques” is “so absurdly antiseptic as to im-ply that it must conceal something unlawful.” Such harsh techniques were, he says, used against fewer than one-third of the fewer than 100 “hard-core prisoners” in CIA custody.
The government properly co-operated with the making of this movie because the public needs realism about the world we live in. “We live,” says Col. Jessep, “in a world that has walls … You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. Regarding terrorism, the problem is that we live in a world without walls, without ramparts that can be manned for the pur-pose of repelling an invasion by a massed enemy.
When the CIA woman who drives the pursuit of bin Laden is about to enter, for the first time, the room where “enhanced inter-rogation” is administered, the CIA man who administers it tells her, “There’s no shame if you want to watch from the monitor.” She, how-ever, knows, and viewers of “Zero Dark Thirty” will understand, it is best to look facts, including choic-es, in the face.
George Will writes a syndicated column on politics and domestic affairs. His email address is [email protected].
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i’ve learned it is not beneficial to tell your husband bad news while he is at work or when he walks through the door at the end of the day.
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Grapevine police Sgt. Robert Eberling said at a Saturday news con-ference that offi cers in-structed Morales to lie on the ground and show his hands, but he rushed to-ward them. Morales, 42,
was unarmed at the time of the shooting and was not wearing handcuffs. He was holding some sticks, Eberling said.
“He was very skilled and crafty as far as mak-ing makeshift edged weapons inside the pris-on. That was in the fore-thoughts of the offi cers. He was able to almost kill an offi cer with some eye-glasses,” Eberling added.
Police said Morales used a sharp piece from his eyeglasses to stab Miami-Dade Detective Jaime Pardinas, who was
transferring him by car to Nevada, where Morales was to serve a sentence of 30 years to life after be-ing convicted of a sexual assault.
Pardinas was treated at a Dallas hospital for deep stab wounds to the neck, shoulder and back and a collapsed lung. Parkland Memorial Hos-pital spokeswoman April Foran said Pardinas was released Saturday.
Two hours before Mo-rales was shot, offi cers responded to a report that jewelry and men’s clothing had been sto-len during a break-in at a nearby home. Eber-
ling said Morales was still wearing part of his prison-issued jumpsuit as well as jogging pants, but couldn’t comment on whether the stolen cloth-ing and jewelry were found with him.
Pardinas was accom-panied by Miami-Dade Detective David Carrero during the transfer. They fl ew to Houston with Mo-rales and then decided to drive the rest of the way after he became disrup-tive on the fl ight. They had stopped near the store while waiting for a third offi cer who was fl y-ing to the Dallas area to join them.
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Margie BrooksMargie Elizabeth
Jaynes Brooks, 78, died Feb. 14, 2013.
Services are today at 2:30 p.m. at Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery with the
Rev. Jerry Pickard offi ciating. Moores Funeral Home and Crema-tory is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Brooks was born Jan. 7, 1935, to the late Leander and Mary Ellen Jaynes. She was a native of Ethelsville, Ala., and was retired from the Veterans Unit at Central State Hospi-tal. She was a member of Ethelsville Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Roy Harris Brooks; and siblings, Herbert Jaynes, Boyd Jaynes and Hortence Lollar.
Survivors include her daughter, Vicki B. Newsome of Gor-don, Ala., and Mary O. Simpson of Ivey, Ala.; brothers, Charles Jaynes of Birmingham,
Ala., Lewis “Bobby” Jaynes of Columbus and Larry Jaynes of Ethelsville; sister, Do-ris Neil of Birmingham; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchil-dren.
Lewis JunkinGORDO, Ala. —
Lewis Junkin, 83, died Feb. 16, 2013, at Hos-pice of West Alabama.
Services are Tues-day at 11 a.m. at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ralph Smith, the Rev. Mike Trull and the Rev. Billy Carl Sullivan offi ciating. Burial will follow in Bill Hill Bap-tist Church Cemetery. Visitation is today from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Junkin was born Sept. 14, 1929, to the late Victor Lewis Junkin and Pirnie Hall Junkin. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and was a retired driver for Central Foundry and
Dowdle Gas Company. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
In addition to his parents, he was preced-ed in death by his wife, Sara Frances Robert-son Junkin; and four sisters.
Survivors include his sons, Danny Junkin of Buhl, Ala., Stevie Junkin and Kenny Junkin, both of Gordo; sister, Grace Harrison of Vernon, Ala.; and 10 grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons and nephews.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404.
Edith BrowningCOLUMBUS —
Edith Browning, 87, died Feb. 17, 2013, at The Windsor Place.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Gunter & Peel Funeral Home.
Josey ShaulMACON — Josey
Campbell Shaul, 86, died Feb. 16, 2013, at Noxubee General Hos-pital.
Services are today at 2 p.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel with Bill Duncan offi ci-ating. A private burial will follow at Shuqualak Cemetery. Visitation is from 12:30 p.m. until time of services.
Mr. Shaul was born Sept. 20, 1926, to the late Joseph B. and Sinnie Hunter Boswell. She was a graduate of Macon High School and was formerly employed with Merchants and Farmer’s Bank in Macon for more than 22 years. She was a member of First Baptist Church.
In addition to her par-ents, she was preceded in death by her hus-bands, Tom Campbell and Harold Shaul; and two sisters.
Survivors include her
sons, Tommy Campbell and Jimmy Campbell, both of Macon; sisters, Linda Grantham of Hattiesburg and Nina Allred of Richmond, Texas; brother, James Hunter Boswell of Ma-con; six grandchildren and seven great-grand-children.
Pallbearers are Jimbo Campbell, Hunter Campbell, Jarratt Baker, Clint Campbell, Tyler Hansen, Lee Lindley, Brad Lanier and Jay Hunter.
Leon BeardMILLPORT, Ala. —
Leon Beard, 68, died Jan. 12, 2013, at Genera-tions of Vernon.
Graveside services are today at 2 p.m. at Higdon Church of God in Kennedy, Ala. Dow-dle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an employee of AGC Aerospace and De-fense, Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public Relations con-fi rmed Sunday night.
Al Haase, president and CEO of AGC, issued a statement early Sunday that, while not referring to Hundley by name, called reports of behavior by one of its executives on recent personal travel “offensive and disturb-ing” and said he “is no longer employed with the company.” Keeney would not say whether Hundley was fi red or resigned. Hundley was president of AGC’s Unitech Compos-ites and Structures unit.
Hundley was charged last week in federal court
in Atlanta with simple assault for allegedly slap-ping the 2-year-old boy during the Feb. 8 fl ight. His attorney, Marcia Shein, of Decatur, Ga., said Saturday that Hund-ley will plead not guilty. The charge carries a max-imum penalty of a year in jail.
Shein did not immedi-ately returned messages seeking comment left Sunday evening by The Associated Press. Hund-ley does not have a listed phone number.
The boy’s mother, Jes-sica Bennett, 33, told the FBI their fl ight was on fi nal descent into Atlanta when her 19-month-old son started to cry due to the altitude change. Hundley “told her to shut that (N-word) baby up,” FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement. She said Hun-
dley then slapped him in the face, scratching the boy below his right eye and causing him to scream even louder.
Bennett told Twin Cit-ies television stations on Saturday that the incident has caused her family a great deal of trauma and that her son, Jonah, had been outgoing but had turned apprehensive of strangers.
Hundley became in-creasingly obnoxious and appeared intoxicated during the fl ight and com-plained that her son was too big to sit on her lap, she said.
“He reeked of alcohol,” Bennett told KARE-TV. “He was belligerent, and I was uncomfortable.”
Bennett said she was shocked by the racial slur she says Hundley used when Jonah started cry-ing.
Man charged with slapping toddler now out of a job
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AbuseContinued from Page 1A
On Feb. 5, Circuit Court Judge Lee Coleman sen-tenced Redden to fi ve years, suspended the sen-tence, and placed Redden on unsupervised proba-tion, despite the victim’s pleas that her ex-husband serve jail time.
Of the hundreds of cases prosecuted by the district attorney’s offi ce, court offi cials believe it is the fi rst time a judge has ever handed down unsu-pervised probation.
Coleman’s move to sen-tence Redden to unsuper-vised probation appears to be a means of circumvent-ing a state law that prohib-its anyone who has been on probation from being placed on probation again without serving jail time. Redden was previously convicted on a federal charge of possessing gam-bling machines, a felony.
During Redden’s sen-tencing, Coleman called the abuse an “abnormali-ty” and referenced the fact that Redden is a business owner and volunteers with-in the community. Ginger Redden produced medi-cal records from other in-stances where she claimed Alan Redden abused her.
In the end, it made no difference.
No jail timeLight sentences for se-
rious cases of domestic abuse are not uncommon, although Redden’s case represents the most le-nient sentence possible.
Since 2010, seven people have appeared in Lowndes County Circuit Court on the charge of ag-gravated assault-domestic violence. Four of the seven served no jail time.
According to the Mis-sissippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Mis-sissippi ranks second na-tionally in domestic vio-lence.
Assistant District At-torney Lindsay Clemons, who prosecuted the Red-den case, is concerned that the light sentence will send a negative message to other victims of domes-tic violence.
“For every woman that reports the fact that she’s been the victim of do-mestic violence, there are countless others who do not,” Clemons said. “My fear is that women who are in similar situations will see this and decide there is no point in coming for-ward.”
Clemons said that the abuser’s status in the community should not be grounds for leniency.
“You can be an upstand-ing member of the commu-nity and go home and beat your spouse. It’s an insid-ious crime that happens behind closed doors,” she said.
Redden’s case is not the only instance where Cole-man has handed down a light sentence. Since he fi rst began serving on the bench in January 2011, two of the seven aggravated
assault-domestic violence cases have gone before Judge Coleman: Alan Red-den and Ambrosha Bran-don.
Brandon pleaded guilty to the charge and received a suspended sentence of 15 years. Brandon was also sentenced to serve fi ve years probation, pay court cost and a $1,200 fi ne.
That sentencing serves in stark contrast to Judge Lee Howard. Two of those seven cases were heard by Howard.
In May 2010, Jeremiah Douglas’s probation was revoked after he commit-ted aggravated assault-do-mestic violence. Howard sentenced Douglas to sev-en years with MDOC and ordered him to attend long term anger management classes while in custody. The court also retained jurisdiction of Douglas for one year.
In August 2012, Dominico Saddler pleaded guilty. Howard sentenced Saddler to 17 years with MDOC, fi ve suspended, with 12 to serve. Saddler was also placed on fi ve years post-release super-vision and ordered to pay court costs and a $1,000 fi ne.
Judge Jim Kitchens has heard three of the seven aggravated assault domes-tic violence charges since 2010.
In November 2010, Kitchens sentenced An-drea Herod to fi ve years, suspended the sentence, and placed Herod on fi ve years of probation with an order to pay court costs
and a $200 fi ne. In December 2010,
Kitchens sentenced Terry Lee Truelove to 20 years with MDOC as a habitual offender, meaning he will serve every day of his sen-tence.
In December 2011, Adam Swindoll pleaded guilty to aggravated as-sault-domestic violence. Kitchens sentenced Swin-doll to a suspended sen-tence of 20 years with MDOC, fi ve years proba-tion and ordered to pay court costs, approximately $2,000 in restitution to the victim and a $250 fi ne.
No supervisionRedden’s case differs
from the other six in the fact that he has unsuper-vised probation. The oth-er defendants must each check in with MDOC to ensure they are following their probation guidelines. If they violate their proba-tion at any point, they will have to serve the remain-der of their sentence.
Since Redden does not have to check in with MDOC, there is no way to guarantee he will abide by his probation guidelines.
When questioned, Judge Coleman declined to comment on Redden’s sentencing.
Becky Sims, the board president for the Missis-sippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said light sentences are not un-common.
“Often times you have a good law when it’s en-forced properly and, for some reason, it may not
be taken as seriously as it should be,” Sims said. “This does happen. The horrible part about these things is oftentimes, some-body gets killed before a proper response is given. That’s been happening for a long time. Unfortunately, domestic violence is not looked upon as a black-and-white crime. There seems to be personal feel-ings involved or a gray area. It is sometimes not considered to be a ‘true crime’ like burglary.”
Joyce Tucker, the di-rector at local abuse shel-ter Safe Haven, said she hoped judges would view domestic violence serious-ly, regardless of the social status of the offender.
“Domestic violence is serious, it doesn’t matter about a person’s status in the community,” Tuck-er said. “We would hope that everyone would take domestic violence more seriously, including law enforcement and judges. It can be deadly for those involved.”
Cases on the increaseInvestigator Brett Wat-
son with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Depart-ment said the investiga-tions division has been handling more aggravat-ed assault-domestic vio-lence cases since the law changed.
The law used to read that aggravated assault domestic violence was limited to “seriously bodi-ly harm” such as a bro-ken bone or “assault with a deadly weapon.” In the
past several years, stran-gulation has been added to the statute.
“With that element coming into play, more of them are being treated as felonies,” Watson said. “We need to make the pub-lic aware that the law now includes choking as an ele-ment of aggravated domes-tic violence. Both potential victims and perpetrators need to be aware of that.”
Safe Haven’s Tucker said that she has worked with local law enforcement to teach them the signs of domestic violence.
“The CPD has allowed us to come in and train their offi cers on domestic violence and to make sure that those who are vic-tims of domestic violence know about the protective order. The only thing a victim has to do is ask law enforcement and they will assist them,” she said.
However, what the judges do is sometimes an-other matter.
“We would hope every-one would take the com-plaint of domestic violence seriously and the sentenc-ing would be fair,” she said.
For those who are in abusive relationships, Tucker encourages them to seek the help they need.
“We encourage (the vic-tim) to reach out to domes-tic violence shelters. We have a licensed profession-al counselor on staff who can assist them. If they need emergency shelter we have that as well,” she said.
The Safe Haven hot-line number is 662-327-6040.
ElectionContinued from Page 1A
earns $78,797.47 per year according to the 2012 Municipal Salaries and Benefi ts Survey released by the Stennis Institute
at Mississippi State Uni-versity. He also receives health insurance and a state retirement plan.
Columbus councilmen
receive $17,500 per year as well as a full benefi ts package including health insurance and state re-tirement.
Also running unop-posed to date are Ward 1 Councilman Gene Taylor and Ward 3 Councilman Charlie Box.
In Ward 2, incumbent Democrat Joseph Mick-ens is being challenged by Republican Susan Mackay. Mickens defeat-ed Mackay in 2009 by 36 votes.
Longtime Ward 4 Councilman Fred Stewart faces challengers Marty Turner and Maurice Web-ber.
Incumbent Ward 5 Councilman Kabir Kar-riem will face challenger Kenneth McFarland.
Columbus -L ow ndes Convention and Visitors Bureau board member Whirllie Byrd will chal-lenge incumbent Bill Gavin in Ward 6. Both are running as Republicans.
All elected offi cials will be sworn in on July 1.
BY MARK LONGThe Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica Patrick is at her best in the spotlight.
Good thing, too, because she’s going to be there all week.
Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, becoming the fi rst woman to secure the top spot for any race in NASCAR’s premier cir-cuit. It’s by far the biggest achievement of her stock-car career. She’s braced for the attention that will follow.
“I think when pressure’s on and when the spotlight’s on, I feel like it ultimately ends up be-coming some of my better moments and my better rac-es and better
results,” Patrick said. “I just understand that if you put the hard work in before you go out there that you can have a little peace and a little peace of mind knowing that you’ve done everything you can and just let it happen.”
Patrick, who taped inter-views Sunday with CNN, ESPN and Good Morning America, was the fi rst wom-an to lead laps in the India-napolis 500. She fi nished third in 2009, the highest fi nish in that illustrious race for a woman. And she be-came the only woman to win an IndyCar race when she did it in Japan in 2008.
Her latest stamp in the history books came with a lap at 196.434 mph around Daytona International Speedway. Patrick went out eighth in the qualifying ses-sion, then had to wait about two hours as 37 fellow driv-ers tried to take her spot.
Only four-time Cup cham-pion Jeff Gordon even came close to knocking her off the pole. Gordon was the only other driver who topped 196 mph in qualifying. He locked up the other guaranteed spot in next week’s season-open-ing Daytona 500.
“It’s great to be a part of history with Danica being on the pole,” said Gordon, who joked that at least he
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INSIDE THE GAMES■ MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Left-handed pitcher Luis Pollorena. After tossing the fi nal 2/3 innings in a 7-1 victory in game one, Pollorena pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of starting pitcher Will Cox to help MSU sweep the University of Portland 6-0. Pollorena had six strikeouts, which was one shy of his career high, in just 66 pitches.
■ KEY MOMENT: In the eighth inning of game two, MSU scored four runs to eliminate the possibility of having to use sophomore closer Jonathan Holder twice in the weekend series. The Bulldogs nearly batted around with RBI hits by junior outfi elder Demarcus Henderson, senior designated hitter Trey Porter, and junior outfi elder Hunter Renfroe.
■ KEY HIT: Shortstop Adam Frazier followed Jacob Robson’s RBI single to left fi eld with a RBI triple by Frazier in game one.
CALENDAR■ Through Tuesday — Salary arbitration hearings, Phoenix■ Wednesday — Mandatory reporting date for players not participating in the WBC.■ March 2-11 — Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players■ March 2-19 — World Baseball Classic■ March 13 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days■ March 27 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2013 salary■ March 31 — Opening day, Texas at Houston. Active rosters reduced to 25 players
College Baseball: MSU 7-6, Portland 1-0Auto Racing: Daytona 500
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Chipper back in Braves camp, but he’s not coming backBY PAUL NEWBERRYThe Associated Press
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Chipper Jones was lingering beyond the left-fi eld wall, signing as many autographs as he could, when someone asked the obvious ques-tion.
“Do you miss it yet?”Jones was quick with a reply.“No,” he said, “not too much.”Jones has reported to camp
with the Atlanta Braves, but don’t get too excited about seeing No. 10 in that familiar uniform. There are no plans for a comeback. If anything, he’s surprised at just how little he misses the game
that was such a big part of his life.He’s kept himself more than
busy (just check out his Twit-ter account!), from starting up business ventures to running his ranch, from a new romantic relationship to spending time with his kids, from working the banquet circuit to enjoying the solitude of hunting.
“I’m having fun,” Jones said Sunday, while walking across the outfi eld at Champion Stadi-um, the spring training home of the Braves. “It’s kept my mind off things pretty much. I thought this week would probably be a little more diffi cult than it has been. But, you know, I really ha-
ven’t had the urge to put the uni-form on again.”
“That,” he went on, “let’s me know I made the right decision. I had my time. Now, it’s their time.”
Jones will suit up as a special instructor until Wednesday. He still believes he has something to offer, but cringed when his former teammates called him “coach.”
“I wouldn’t really say I’m a coach,” Jones said, even as some-one else walked by and shouted it at him. “I’m more of a ... well, I don’t know what you would call me. But I don’t like being called a coach. I don’t think I’m quite to that extent yet. This is just kind
of a carryover from mentoring these guys when we were play-ing. And that’s not going to stop just because I’m not playing.”
He still fi ts right in.When Jason Heyward and
Justin Upton walked into the bat-ting cages, Jones shouted, “All right, here come the big dogs!” A short time later, the 40-year-old plopped down on a bench next to Heyward, chatting up the out-fi elder who is nearly two decades his junior.
“They’ve got to schedule a day to retire your jersey,” Heyward said, breaking into a big smile. “It better not be one of those get-away night games.”
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Patrick makes history by winning fi rst pole
David Miller/Special to The DispatchMississippi State University freshman forward Sherise Williams goes up for a shot Sunday in a 63-41 loss to LSU at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville.
Women’s College Basketball: LSU 63, MSU 41
David Miller/Special to The DispatchMississippi State University’s Jacob Robson went 2-for-4 with an RBI in a 7-1 victory against the University of Portland in game one of a doubleheader Sunday at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville.
STARKVILLE — Every time the bull-pen door opened at Dudy Noble Field this weekend, a new problem arose for the University of Portland baseball team.
Mississippi State University relievers capped a dominating weekend Sunday, allowing one run on six hits in 8 2/3 innings in 7-1 and 6-0 victories against the University of Portland. MSU (4-0) completed the season-opening sweep of Portland thanks to 10 relievers who combined to give up one run in 15 2/3 innings in four games. Six pitchers had multiple strikeouts, including senior left hander Luis Pollorena, junior Ben Brace-well, and sophomore closer Jonathan Holder. Pollorena had one strikeout in 2/3 of an inning in game one. He went 4 1/3 innings in game two, allowing three hits and two walks. He struck out six.
“When you have as many arms in the bullpen as we do, you can run them out any time you want to,” MSU senior catch-er Mitch Slauter said. “It’s pretty dang hard to get into a rhythm when you keep running people out of that bullpen that is just as good, if not better.”
The performance by the bullpen helped MSU to its third 4-0 start under coach John Cohen.
“We know if we can get the baseball
BULLISH ABOUT BULLPENMSU relievers allow only one run, six hits in series sweep of Portland
Number of runs given up in 15 1/3 innings this weekend by the Mississippi State University bullpen.
Number of balls Portland hit out of the infi eld against senior right-hander Kendall Graveman. Graveman rolled 10 groundball outs and didn’t allow a ball out of the infi eld until the fi fth inning.
Number of double plays MSU turned this weekend. It led the nation in that category last season with 71.
Batting average of MSU catcher Mitch Slauter. He went 6-for-9 with four RBIs in two games. With a double and a home run, he had a team-best 1.111 slugging percentage and a .727 on-base percentage.
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1 2 7 .667
to myself, Ben Bracewell, and Holder at the end of the game, we have a real-ly great chance because the two of them are lights out,” Pollorena said.
Last season, MSU used Pollorena as a situational pitcher out of the bullpen be-cause of his struggles against right-hand-ed hitters. This season, Pollorena has perfected what he and the MSU
STARKVILLE — The second half again proved to be the undoing for the Mississippi State University women’s basketball team.
After a solid fi rst half and an aggres-sive fl urry to start the fi nal 20 minutes, MSU hit only three fi eld goals in a nine-minute stretch en route to a 63-41 loss to LSU before a crowd of 1,405 at Humphrey Coliseum.
Danielle Ballard had a game-high 19 points to go with seven rebounds and four steals to help LSU (15-10, 6-6 Southeastern Conference) earn its fi rst back-to-back league victories this sea-son. It also marked the fi rst time the Lady Tigers have won back-to-back games on the road.
Carnecia Williams (13 points, eight rebounds) was the only player in dou-ble fi gures for MSU (11-14, 3-9), which lost its second-straight game after a two-game winning streak. Like in a 65-51 loss to the University of Missis-sippi on Thursday, MSU allowed the game to slip away in the second half. LSU outscored MSU 35-16 and held it to a season-low 18.8 percent (6 of 32) in the second half. The Bulldogs shot 24.6 percent (15 of 61) for the game, their second-worst percentage of the season, and the fourth time this season they have shot under 30 percent. It also marked the eighth time this season MSU has scored 47 points or less in a SEC game, and tied for the second-low-est output in a league game this season.
“It was just lack of execution,” said MSU junior guard Candace Foster, who had a career-high four points and matched her career-high with three as-sists in her eighth start of the season. “I think we just kind of started rushing things because the point defi cit began to expand on a little bit, so we just tried to get ourselves back in the game.”
Foster started in place of junior point guard Katia May. MSU coach Vic
Cold shooting in second half dooms Bulldogs
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Prep BasketballMississippi High School Activities Association
Class 6A North State tournamentToday’s Games
Greenville-Weston (girls) at Columbus, 7 p.m.Class 5A North State tournament
Starkville (girls) at New Hope, 7 p.m.Class 4A North State tournament
Noxubee County (girls) at Pontotoc, 7 p.m.Class 2A North State tournament
Hamilton (girls) at South Delta, 7 p.m.Class 1A South State tournament
West Lowndes (girls) at Salem, 7 p.m.Class 6A North State tournament
Tuesday’s GamesClass 5A North State tournament
Yazoo City (boys) at New Hope, 7 p.m.Class 4A North State tournament
Pontotoc (boys) at Noxubee County, 7 p.m.Caledonia (boys) at Corinth, 7 p.m.
Class 3A North State tournamentIndependence (boys) at Aberdeen, 7 p.m.
Class 1A South State tournamentStringer (boys) at West Lowndes, 7 p.m.
Mississippi Association of Independent SchoolsTuesday’s Games
Class AAA State tournamentAt Jackson Academy
Starkville Academy (girls) vs. Jackson Prep, 4 p.m.Starkville Academy (boys) vs. Madison-Ridgeland Academy, 5:15 p.m.
Mississippi Association of Independent SchoolsWednesday’s Games
Class AA State tournamentAt Canton Academy
Oak Hill Academy (girls) vs. Columbia Academy, 4 p.m.Oak Hill Academy (boys) vs. Central Private, 5:15 p.m.
Prep SoccerMississippi Association of Independent Schools
Class AAA, Division I tournamentToday’s Games
Pillow Academy (boys) at Starkville Academy, 3 p.m.Heritage Academy (boys) at Jackson Prep, 3 p.m.
TodayAUTO RACING
6 p.m. — NASCAR, Whelen All-American Series, at Daytona Beach, Fla., SPEED
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL6 p.m. — Notre Dame at Pittsburgh, ESPN6 p.m. — Hofstra at Drexel, NBC Sports Network8 p.m. — West Virginia at Kansas State, ESPN
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL6 p.m. — Kentucky at Texas A&M, ESPN28 p.m. — Baylor at UConn, ESPN2
TuesdayAUTO RACING
6 p.m. — NASCAR, Whelen Modifi ed Series, at Daytona Beach, Fla., SPEED7:30 p.m. — NASCAR, K&N Pro Series, at Daytona Beach, Fla., SPEED
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL6 p.m. — Indiana at Michigan State, ESPN6 p.m. — Florida State at North Carolina State, ESPN28 p.m. — Florida at Missouri, ESPN
NHL7 p.m. — San Jose at St. Louis, NBC Sports Network
SOCCER1:30 p.m. — UEFA Champions League, Malaga at Porto, Fox Sports South7 p.m. — UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich at Arsenal (same-day tape), Fox Sports South
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BRIEFLYMSUSoftball team sweeps doubleheader
STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State University softball team defeated Murray State University 4-1 and Lipscomb University 6-3 Sunday at the MSU Softball Field on the final day of the Bulldog Battle.
Junior Logan Foulks’ hit in the bottom of the 10th inning of the second game helped MSU improve to 6-3.
“We learned a lot about ourselves this weekend,” MSU coach Vann Stuedeman said. “It’s exciting to see how much and how quickly we’re growing up and gelling as a team.”
MSU had 28 strikeouts Sunday, including a school-record 21 in game two. The total was one shy of tying the Southeastern Con-ference single-game record, set by the University of Tennessee in 2007 against the University of Florida.
For the first time since 1998, MSU had a pitcher fan 14 in a game. Alison Owen tied the school record in game two on 76 pitches (61 strikes).
The 10-inning game tied for the longest game in school history (by inning, done 14 times).
In game one, senior Kylie Vry and freshman Jacey Punches combined to strike out seven and walk none. Vry (1-1) earned the victory, while Punches secured her first career save.
Senior Jessica Cooley was 2-for-2 with a career-high two dou-bles and an RBI. Fellow senior Shelby Fisher tallied a season-high two hits and drove in her first run, while sophomore Julia Echols drove in two.
Using international tiebreaker rules in the 10th inning of game two, Foulks’ hit up the middle to scored classmate Jessica Offutt for the walk-off victory.
MSU had 12 hits, including multiple-hit efforts from junior Heidi Shape (2-for-4, two runs, walk), Lenahan (3-for-4, two RBIs, run), and Offutt (2-for-4, run).
Senior southpaw Stephanie Becker struck out seven in four innings before Owen (3-1) came on in relief and tied the school record with 14 strikeouts in the final six innings.
MSU will return to action Saturday when it competes in the Blues City Classic in Southaven. The University of Memphis will play host to the tournament. MSU will take on Belmont University at 11 a.m. Saturday and Wichita State University at 4 p.m.
Ole MissBaseball team completes sweep of TCU
OXFORD — Stuart Turner’s first hit as a member of the Uni-versity of Mississippi baseball team Sunday was a memorable one.
The junior catcher’s grand slam in the first inning helped power No. 14 Ole Miss (3-0) to 5-2 victory Sunday against No. 12 Texas Christian University at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.
The Rebels (3-0) won 1-0 Friday night and 5-2 Saturday to set up the sweep.
Trailing 1-0 after the top of the first, Turner delivered a two-out shot to left field to propel the Rebels to a 4-1 lead.
Chris Ellis (1-0) earned the victory in his second career start, and first outing as a weekend starter. The sophomore, who was on a pitch count, went four innings and allowed one run on two hits. He walked three and struck out three as the designated pitcher of record.
Senior Tanner Bailey picked up his first save working the final 1 1/2 innings. He gave up one hit and struck out two. The right-hander entered the game in the eighth inning with a man on second and one out and retired the next two batters
TCU took a 1-0 lead in the top half of the first when Jantzen Witte hit a solo shot to left field. Ellis then struck out Kevin Cron and Jerrick Suiter around a walk of Derek Odell to get the Rebels out of the inning.
Turner’s shot scored Austin Anderson, Auston Bousfield, and Sikes Orvis. Anderson reached on a one-out walk before Bousfield singled through the left side to put two men on. TCU got the sec-ond out with a strikeout of Will Allen before Orvis drew the Rebels’ second walk to load the bases.
Ole Miss added to the lead in the fourth on Anderson’s RBI double to left center that scored Tanner Mathis, who reached on a two-out single to left.
TCU cut the lead to 5-2 in the sixth with a groundout to third from Odell that scored Witte home. TCU loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh, but sophomore Scott Weathersby responded out of the pen to retire the first batter faced on a groundout and keep the Horned Frogs off the board. Bailey then entered the game in the eighth with the leadoff man on second and kept the Horned Frogs off the board the rest of the way.
Ole Miss will play host to the University of Tennessee-Martin at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
■ Women’s basketball team loses to South Carolina: At Columbia, S.C., Valencia McFarland and Tia Faleru combined for 30 points Sunday, but the women’s basketball team lost to No. 14 University of South Carolina 62-47.
With the loss, Ole Miss fell to 9-16 and 2-10 in the Southeast-ern Conference, while South Carolina improved to 21-5 and 9-4 SEC. McFarland scored 16 points, six rebounds, and four assists, while Faleru had 14 points and seven rebounds. Ole Miss shot 31.4 percent (16 of 51) from the field, while South Carolina shot 39.4 percent (26 of 66).
McFarland had eight of her points in the first half, but South Carolina led 29-15 at halftime. Ole Miss used an 8-0 run capped by a layup from Courtney Marbra to cut the deficit to 29-23 with 18 minutes, 55 seconds left to play. The Gamecocks responded and used an 11-2 run to push the lead back to 40-25 with 16:30 to play.
Ole Miss will play at 7 p.m. Thursday at Texas A&M University.■ Softball team beats Jackson State: At Mobile, Ala.,
Freshman designated player Madi Osias drove in four runs, and junior pitcher Carly Hummel struck out nine as the Ole Miss softball team (4-7) defeated Jackson State 10-2 in six innings Sunday morning at the Mardi Gras Invitational.
Osias, who opened the tournament against Lamar University with her first collegiate victory as a pitcher, finished it as a desig-nated player with her first collegiate home run, a three-run shot over the left-field wall. Osias went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and one run scored.
Hummel went all six innings, allowing four hits and two runs while striking out nine, a season-high.
Brown had two doubles, and has now hit a double in five straight games. In those five games, Brown has notched six doubles, and her nine doubles on the season are one shy of her 2012 season total.
RT Cantillo went 2-for-3 with three runs scored, a double, one RBI, and a walk. She also had a career-high three stolen bases.
Ole Miss will play host to the University of Southern Mississip-pi in a doubleheader at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
■ Men’s tennis team beats Mississippi State: At Seattle, For the second time in less than two weeks, the No. 12 men’s ten-nis team faced No. 10 Mississippi State, this time Sunday in their final match at the ITA National Team Indoors Sunday. The Rebels got revenge for their loss in the River Hills Mississippi Cup, taking down the Bulldogs (8-2) 4-2 at the Seattle Tennis Club.
The win snaps a four-match losing streak for the Rebels in the series, and helps them conclude the weekend 2-1.
After a huge win at No. 2 doubles to take the opening point, the Rebels earned straight set victories in singles from Nik Scholtz at one, Stefan Lindmark at five, and the clincher from Adrian Forberg Skogeng at six.
In the previous meeting this season, Ole Miss lost the doubles point. Scholtz and Jonas Lutjen, ranked No. 16, defeated 13th-ranked Malte Stropp and Jordan Angus 8-4 at No. 1.
After MSU won the No. 3 match 8-4, William Kallberg was serving to give the Rebels the doubles at 7-6 on court two. Unfor-tunately, MSU’s Zach White and Ethan Wilkinson broke to force a tiebreaker. The 25th-ranked Reb tandem lost the first two points and then won seven straight to clinch the doubles.
In three prior meetings this year, Scholtz, ranked No. 16, and Bogaerts, ranked No. 19, had gone three sets twice. Bogaerts had won the two indoor meetings, but Scholtz won 6-4, 6-2 to put the Rebels ahead 2-1. Lindmark defeated Stefan Vinti 6-4, 6-1 at court five to push the lead to 3-1.
Two of the three remaining matches went three sets just like they did in Jackson. MSU’s James Chaudry defeated 40th-ranked Kallberg 6-0, 1-6, 6-2 on court three to cut into the lead.
Forberg Skogeng won a key first set tiebreaker 7-6 (5) against White, while Lutjen and Stropp headed to a third set for the second time in two weeks at No. 2 singles. With those two locked at 2-2 in the third, Forberg Skogeng made sure it wouldn’t be necessary, taking the second set against White 6-3 to clinch the victory.
Ole Miss will play host to the University of Memphis at 2 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center, while MSU will play host to Samford University at 11 a.m. Saturday.
■ Women’s tennis team defeats Washington: At Oxford, the No. 26 ranked women’s tennis team bounced back from a dis-appointing loss on Friday to beat No. 39 University of Washington 6-1 Sunday at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center.
With the victory, the Rebels improve to 2-3, while Washington falls to 6-3. The Rebels took the opening doubles point and then secured singles wins from Erin Stephens, Julia Jones, and Mai El Kamash.
Ole Miss will play host to No. 16 University of Virginia at noon Saturday.
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PALM CITY, Fla. — President Barack Obama teed it up with Tiger Woods on Sun-day.
The White House confi rmed the President and the world’s most famous golfer played a round at a secluded, exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida’s Treasure Coast.
Once the sport’s dominant player before his career was sidetracked by scandal, Woods joined Obama at the Floridian, where Obama is spending the long Presidents Day week-end. The two had met before, but Sunday was the fi rst time they played together.
The White House, which has promised to be the most open and transparent in his-tory, has prohibited any media coverage of Obama’s golf outing.
The foursome also included Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who owns the Florid-ian and baseball’s Houston Astros, and out-going U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. Crane and Kirk also were part of Obama’s foursome on Satur-day, the White House said.
Obama, an avid golfer, also received some instruction Saturday and played a few holes with Butch Harmon, Woods’ former swing coach.
Initial word that the First Duffer would play a round with the world’s No. 2 player didn’t come from the White House, but in-stead came from veteran golf journalist Tim Rosaforte, who announced it on Twitter. Ro-saforte’s late-morning tweet said: “The presi-dent is arriving at the Floridian range. Await-ing is Tiger Woods and club owner Jim Crane. Historic day in golf. Their fi rst round.”
Woods joins Obama for round of golf
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coaching staff believes is a change-up equalizer that will allow him to be a better long relief option.
“The thing with our club this year, and we say it over and over, is pitching and defense,” MSU coach John Cohen said. “The difference this year is the amount of experi-ence we have back up and down the order.”
Pollorena (1-0) was one shy of his career high in strikeouts in 66 pitches in game two. Former Amory High School standout Will Cox went the fi rst three innings, allowing three hits and two walks. He struck out two. The 5-foot-9 Pollorena was hit hard last week in his fi nal split-squad scrimmage.
“I felt like I’d react well when the season started because I came in to throw to the square in the nets and then watched video tape,” Pollorena said. “Getting shelled in the last out-ing before the season was the best thing that could happen to me.”
Before the start of last season, MSU reported to Baseball America it had 13 pitchers who could throw 90 mph or better. The Bulldogs have lost only fi rst-round draft pick Chris Stratton from that group.
“We have so many kids on our pitching staff that just say, ‘Hey, what’s going to help us get to the next level and I’ll do it’,” Cohen said. “From the moment I got to Mis-sissippi State, this is what we have wanted to create is having a men-tor situation. Have the older guy instructing the younger guys. As a player at Mississippi State, I know what that felt like.”
Ross Mitchell, who had 24 relief appearances last season, allowed just one hit in the sixth inning to earn his fi rst victory of the season, and fourth career victory Saturday.
The right-left-right relief com-bination of Bracewell, C.T. Brad-ford from center fi eld, and Holder worked a perfect fi nal three innings Saturday in a 2-1 victory. In the past three seasons MSU is 71-1 in games it has led after eight innings.
“Ben Bracewell has had a huge spring, and in both velocity wise and stuff wise, pitch ability wise he has been special,” Cohen said. “That could be an element that puts you over the top is an experienced Ben Bracewell that can give you two outings in a weekend on a Friday and a Sunday.”
After being named a Freshman All-American by numerous publi-cations, Holder could have asked to be a starting pitcher this season, but the Gulfport High standout told the coached early in the fall he pre-ferred to be a closer. He earned his 10th career save Saturday, and has allowed just one earned run in 30 innings.
The sophomore right-hander lost nearly 20 pounds in the offseason and should be able to handle a big-ger load this season. That should be welcome news to Cohen and his coaches as the Bulldogs try to re-place Caleb Reed.
“I love (the closer role), and I just gave a speech to the team about adrenaline and coming in the last inning to get just a few outs gets me going,” Holder said.
Kendall Graveman earned the victory in game one. He went the fi rst 6 1/3 innings and surrendered two hits and walked four. He struck out four. Trevor Fitts allowed two hits, one run, and walked two in two innings.
John Marc Shelly allowed one hit in one inning to close the door on MSU’s bullpen effort.
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Schaefer attributed the lineup change to “spotty” point guard play of late and for issues leading up the game he wasn’t pleased with. The Bulldogs tried to use other perimeter threats against LSU’s zone defense, which stretched to the wings to cov-er shooters like Darriel Gaynor (2 of 7, six points) and Jessy Ward (0 of 6, zero points). Ward played 17 min-utes, her second-most this season, and second time she has reached double digits in the SEC.
All of that came on the heels of a disappointing loss to Ole Miss in which the Rebels held a 38-16 edge and limited the Bulldogs to 24.1 per-cent shooting in the second half.
“The fi rst half, I thought we were very competitive and I thought it was a very competitive game,” Schaefer said. “In the second half, it got away from us. I didn’t think we were ready to come out of the gate. That is my fault for keeping them in the locker room too long. You have to give LSU credit. I think they are playing on a mission and with an NCAA tourna-ment bid on their mind.”
While MSU has delivered sim-ilar shooting performances in the second half in the past two games, Schaefer said the consistent lev-
el of effort and intensity his team showed in victories against the Uni-versity of Arkansas and the Univer-sity of Missouri has been missing. Schaefer appreciated the effort of Carnecia Williams, who matched her season-high with 36 minutes, and Sherise Williams (fi ve points, six rebounds in 24 minutes).
Carnecia Williams scored inside to cut LSU’s lead to 33-29 with 17 minutes, 6 seconds left in the game. LSU slowly pulled away and capital-ized on MSU’s cold shooting. May’s driving basket at the 15:29 mark was the only fi eld goal the Bulldogs hit until the 10:10 mark. By then, LSU had pushed its lead to 50-34. MSU didn’t hit another fi eld goal until Williams scored inside with 6:34 to go. She also hit the team’s fi nal fi eld goal of the half with 59.5 seconds left.
“It is just focus,” Grant said. “I feel like the fi rst Ole Miss game, the Arkansas game, the Missouri game, we were all on the same page and connected. I am not saying we lost it, but we’re not where we were. The next couple of days we have to get that focus back in practice and practice hard because the way we practice is the way we play.”
BaseballSunday’s College Scores
SOUTHAustin Peay 6, Iowa 1Belmont 7, Valparaiso 3Belmont Abbey at Pfeiffer, ppd., snowBrevard 5-6, Lenoir-Rhyne 4-12, first game 8 inningsButler 10, Georgia St. 8Carson-Newman 10-2, Tusculum 2-1Cent. Michigan 10, Louisiana-Lafayette 2Coll. of Charleston 4, Xavier 1Delaware St. at Charlotte, ppd., snowDrury 12, Christian Brothers 2E. Kentucky 5-5, Charleston Southern 1-6E. Mennonite 16, NJ City 2ETSU 9, Penn St. 7Emory 5, Rhodes 0FAU 4, Cincinnati 3Felician 3, Southern Connecticut 1FIU 1, Stony Brook 0Florida St. 8, Rhode Island 6, 10 inningsGeorgia Southern 11, Georgia 2Guilford 7, Maine-Presque Isle 6High Point 7, The Citadel 2Kennesaw St. 9, Jacksonville St. 3King (Tenn.) 13-17, Glenville St. 12-1Lamar 14, N. Kentucky 4Lindsey Wilson 7, Northwestern Ohio 2Long Beach St. 13, Vanderbilt 9Memphis 5, Illinois St. 2Merrimack 8, Felician 2Mount Olive 12, Le Moyne 4Northwestern Ohio 5, Lindsey Wilson 4Radford 11, Jacksonville 5Rogers St. 4-4, Baker 0-3Savannah St. 8, Presbyterian 4Shawnee St. 13-3, Union (Ky.) 3-1SC-Aiken 5, Shepherd 1SIU-Edwardsville 3, Lipscomb 2St. Andrews 6, WVU Tech 1Tennessee Tech 7, Illinois 6Towson 8, McNeese St. 1UCF 8, Siena 2Vermont Tech 7, UNC-Wilmington 2W. Kentucky 4, Bowling Green 3Wingate 4-2, Catawba 0-5
SOUTHWESTNew Mexico 9, Oklahoma St. 1Texas A&M-CC 12, Texas-Pan American 7
Friday’s GamesUNLV 10, Tennessee 9 LSU 1, Maryland 0UIC 2, Texas A&M 0 Alabama 8, VMI 3Duke 4, Florida 3 Georgia 6, Georgia Southern 5 Southern Miss 5, Missouri 2 Ole Miss 1, TCU 0Vanderbilt 10, Long Beach St. 4 Mississippi St. 16, Portland 1Arkansas 9, W. Illinois 1 Auburn 3, Maine 2South Carolina 4, Liberty 3Kentucky 9, UNC Asheville 2
Saturday’s GamesTennessee 8, UNLV 3Florida 4, Duke 2 Alabama 10, VMI 5 Texas A&M 4, UIC 3Southern Miss 5, Missouri 3 Vanderbilt 12, Long Beach St. 2 Auburn 4, Maine 3 Ole Miss 5, TCU 2 Georgia Southern 3, Georgia 2 LSU 5, Maryland 1 Mississippi St. 2, Portland 1 Arkansas 7, W. Illinois 2 Auburn 12, Maine 3
Sunday’s GamesUNLV 3, Tennessee 2 Mississippi St. 6, Portland 0 Liberty 3, South Carolina 2Mississippi St. 7, Portland 1 Alabama 7, VMI 4W. Illinois 7, Arkansas 5 Texas A&M 5, UIC 1 Southern Miss 6, Missouri 1 Long Beach St. 13, Vanderbilt 9 Georgia Southern 11, Georgia 2South Carolina 8, Liberty 7 LSU 14, Maryland 3 Ole Miss 5, TCU 2 Florida 16, Duke 5 Kentucky 20, Niagara 3 Auburn 8, Maine 4
Today’s GameKentucky at South Carolina Upstate, Noon
Tuesday’s GamesNew Orleans at Arkansas, 3:05 p.m.Vanderbilt at Belmont, 4 p.m.Grambling State at Mississippi State, 4 p.m.Florida at UCF, 5:30 p.m.Lamar at LSU, 6 p.m.Southern Miss. at Alabama, 6:05 p.m.Stephen F. Austin at Texas A&M, 6:35 p.m.
BasketballNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
W L Pct GBNew York 32 18 .640 —Brooklyn 31 22 .585 2½Boston 28 24 .538 5Philadelphia 22 29 .431 10½Toronto 21 32 .396 12½
Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 32 21 .604 —Chicago 30 22 .577 1½Milwaukee 26 25 .510 5Detroit 21 33 .389 11½Cleveland 16 37 .302 16
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 42 12 .778 —Memphis 33 18 .647 7½Houston 29 26 .527 13½Dallas 23 29 .442 18New Orleans 19 34 .358 22½
Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 39 14 .736 —Denver 33 21 .611 6½Utah 30 24 .556 9½Portland 25 28 .472 14Minnesota 19 31 .380 18½
Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 39 17 .696 —Golden State 30 22 .577 7L.A. Lakers 25 29 .463 13Sacramento 19 35 .352 19Phoenix 17 36 .321 20½
Sunday’s GameAt Houston
West All-Stars 143, East All-Stars 138Today’s Games
No games scheduledTuesday’s Games
Charlotte at Orlando, 6 p.m.Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Chicago at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Boston at Denver, 8 p.m.Golden State at Utah, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Portland, 9 p.m.San Antonio at Sacramento, 9 p.m.
West All-Stars 143,East All-Stars 138
EAST ALL-STARS (138): James 7-18 2-4 19, Bosh 3-9 0-0 6, Garnett 0-2 0-0 0, Wade 10-13 0-0 21, Anthony 8-14 7-9 26, Chandler 2-5 3-3 7, Irving 6-11 0-0 15, Deng 4-10 1-1 10, George 7-13 0-0 17, Noah 4-7 0-0 8, Holiday 3-6 0-0 6, Lopez 0-1 3-4 3. Totals 54-109 16-21 138.
3-Point Goals—East All-Stars 14-39 (George 3-6, Irving 3-6, Anthony 3-7, James 3-7, Wade 1-2, Deng 1-5, Lopez 0-1, Holiday 0-2, Bosh 0-3), West All-Stars 12-32 (Paul 4-5, Harden 3-8, Durant 3-8, Howard 1-1, Parker 1-3, Duncan 0-1, Westbrook 0-3, Bryant 0-3). Rebounds—East All-Stars 61 (An-thony 12), West All-Stars 52 (Howard 7). Assists—East All-Stars 33 (Wade 7), West All-Stars 39 (Paul 15). Total Fouls—East All-Stars 10, West All-Stars 14. A—16,101 (18,023).
Sunday’s Men’s Major College Scores
EASTAmerican U. 64, Holy Cross 61, OTBoston U. 68, New Hampshire 56James Madison 72, Delaware 71Niagara 60, Manhattan 56Rider 67, Marist 63
SOUTHAppalachian St. 76, UNC Greensboro 68Louisville 59, South Florida 41Miami 45, Clemson 43
MIDWESTCleveland St. 88, Milwaukee 67Green Bay 71, Youngstown St. 54Illinois 62, Northwestern 41Iowa 72, Minnesota 51Michigan 79, Penn St. 71Wichita St. 68, Illinois St. 67Wisconsin 71, Ohio St. 49
FAR WESTArizona 68, Utah 64California 76, Southern Cal 68
Saturday’s GamesTennessee 88, Kentucky 58Florida 83, Auburn 52Arkansas 73, Missouri 71Alabama 68, South Carolina 58LSU 80, Mississippi St. 68Vanderbilt 63, Texas A&M 56Mississippi 84, Georgia 74, OT
Tuesday’s GamesLSU at Tennessee, 6 p.m. (ESPNU)Florida at Missouri, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday’s GamesMississippi at South Carolina, 6 p.m. (CSS)Mississippi State at Alabama, 7 p.m. (SEC Network)Texas A&M at Auburn, 7 p.m.Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 7 p.m. (SEC Network)
Thursday’s GameGeorgia at Arkansas, 6 p.m. (ESPN/2)
Wednesday’s GamesMarshall at UCF, 6 p.m.UTE at Southern Miss., 7 p.m.East Carolina at Tulsa, 7:05 p.m.Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Conference All Games W-L Pct. W-L Pct.Southern U. 12-2 .857 18-8 .692Texas Southern 11-2 .846 12-14 .462Ark.-Pine Bluff 11-3 .786 12-14 .462Alcorn St. 7-7 .500 9-20 .310Prairie View 6-7 .462 11-15 .423Alabama St. 6-7 .462 8-18 .308Jackson St 6-8 .429 7-16 .304Alabama A&M 5-8 .385 9-15 .375MVSU 4-10 .286 4-20 .167Grambling St. 0-14 .000 0-23 .000
Saturday’s GamesTexas Southern 75, Ark.-Pine Bluff 69Southern U. 58, Alabama St. 49Prairie View 80, MVSU 77Alabama A&M 72, Alcorn St. 65Jackson St. 77, Grambling St. 38
Today’s GamesAlabama St. at Alcorn St., 7:30 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at Prairie View, 7:30 p.m.MVSU at Texas Southern, 8 p.m.Alabama A&M at Southern U., 8 p.m.
FAR WESTArizona 61, Utah 52California 72, Southern Cal 64Colorado 71, Arizona St. 63Oregon 65, Washington St. 60San Diego St. 86, UNLV 50Stanford 68, UCLA 57
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Univer-sity of Alabama baseball team’s offense shined again Sunday in a 7-4 victory against the Virginia Military Institute in the series finale at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
Tucker Hawley (1-0) helped Alabama improve to 3-0. Senior right-hander Charley Sullivan went for 4 1/3 innings to start the game, allowing three runs on six hits and four walks with five strikeouts, tying his career-high. Hawley, a junior right-hander, went 2 1/3 innings and allowed only one run on two hits. Sophomore south paw Justin Kamplain got the save, throwing 2 1/3 scoreless innings, while allowing only one hit with three strikeouts.
“It was a good weekend,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. “When you’re coming in with that many freshman on the field, we felt like for the last five months that we were going to play that well. I thought all the guys played really well, mainly with their composure and poise that you want to see. Also, they all have a competitive edge about them that you like to see.”
Senior third baseman Kenny Roberts was 1-for-2 with a double, two walks, a career-high three runs scored, and an RBI. Senior catcher Brett Booth went 1-for-2 with a single, two walks, a run scored, and an RBI, marking Booth’s third straight game with an RBI. Freshman center fielder Georgie Salem went 2-for-4 with two singles, two stolen bases, and an RBI
Sophomore first baseman Cary Baxter drove in two runs for the Tide, while Roberts, Booth, Salem, freshman shortstop Mikey White, and freshman left fielder Ryan Blanchard pitched in an RBI each.
Alabama will play host to No. 23 University of Southern Mississippi at 6:05 p.m. Tuesday at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
■ Women’s basketball team loses at Auburn: At Auburn, Ala., the Alabama women’s basketball team couldn’t overcome offensive struggles in the first half, falling Sunday 70-53 at Auburn University at Auburn Arena.
With the loss, the Crimson Tide dips to 12-13 and 2-10 in the Southeastern Conference, while the Tigers improve to 14-11 and 3-9.
“We had some really good looks at the basket, especially early, but we didn’t make them,” Alabama coach Wendell Hudson. “Once the shots weren’t falling, we didn’t play as well. We have to tip our hats to Auburn. They shot the ball real well and came out ready to play.”
Sophomore Daisha Simmons led Alabama in scoring with 19 points, while senior Meghan Perkins added 11. Sim-mons also had a team-high six rebounds, four steals, and two assists.
Blanche Alverson led Auburn with 22 points, 11 rebounds, six assists, and one steal.
Auburn used a 21-3 run in an eight-minute stretch midway through the first half to build a 19-point lead. It shot 52.9 percent in the first half and led 41-18 at the half. The Tigers scored the first five points of the second half before sophomore Brittany Jack hit a 3-pointer to end the run. Auburn led by as many as 17 the rest of the way.
Alabama will play at 7 p.m. Thursday at Mississippi State University.
■ Softball team beats Southern Illinois: At Fort Myers, Fla., the top-ranked softball team claimed the FGCU LaQuinta Inn and Suites Tournament title Sunday morning with a 10-1 victory against Southern Illinois University at the FGCU Softball Complex.
Alabama went 5-0 on the weekend to improve to 10-0.
Junior Kaila Hunt went 3-for-3, scored three runs, and drove in four. Senior Kayla Braud had two hits, scored twice, and drove in a run, while sophomore Danae Hays was 2-for-2 with two RBIs.
Sophomore Leslie Jury (3-0) allowed one unearned run on four hits. The right-hander struck out six and walked three.
Alabama will play at the University of Alabama at Birmingham at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
■ Men’s golf team has lead at Puerto Rico Classic: At Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, the third-ranked men’s golf team shot a 9-under-par 279 Sunday to secure the opening-round lead at the 2013 Puerto Rico Classic on the par-72, 6,902-yard River Course at the Rio Mar Country Club.
Alabama has a one-stroke lead against the University of Oklahoma (280) and a two-shot advantage against Clemson University (281). Georgia Tech is fourth at 2-under 286.
Redshirt freshman Tom Lovela-dy and senior Scott Strohmeyer led Alabama with 3-under-par rounds of 69. They are tied for fifth, two strokes off the lead of Clemson’s Billy Kennerly. Love-lady closed with two birdies in his final three holes, while Strohmeyer carded four birdies and one bogey on his round.
Cory Whitsett fired a 2-under-par 70 to tie for 10th. Bobby Wyatt is tied for 15th after a 1-under-par 71. Justin Thomas was Alabama’s drop score at 1-over-par 73.
Alabama will play with Oklahoma and Clemson today.
Junior CollegesEMCC basketball teams will play Northwest Mississippi tonight
SCOOBA – Sophomore Day activities at East Mississippi Community College will take on added significance tonight when the women’s and men’s basketball teams play host to Northwest Mississippi C.C. at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Keyes T. Currie Coliseum.
Coach Sharon Thompson’s Lady Lions enter their home finale in a three-way tie for fourth place with Holmes C.C. and Mississippi Delta C.C. in the MACJC’s North Division standings. With all three teams tied at 4-6 in division play, one of the three will earn the fourth and final spot in the MACJC State Basketball Tournament on Feb. 25-28. Itawamba C.C., Northeast C.C., and Northwest C.C. have clinched spots in the tournament.
Coach Mark White’s Lions can clinch their fourth consecutive MACJC North Division regular-season title with a victory tonight. At 15-6 and 8-2 in division play, EMCC is riding a four-game winning streak.
Thursday’s GamesArkansas at Georgia, 6 p.m.Auburn at Tennessee, 6 p.m.Vanderbilt at Florida, 6 p.m.Alabama at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.Mississippi at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.LSU at Missouri, 8 p.m.
Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACarolina 13 8 4 1 17 41 37Tampa Bay 14 7 6 1 15 55 45Florida 14 4 6 4 12 35 53Washington 15 5 9 1 11 41 51Winnipeg 14 5 8 1 11 35 46
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 15 12 0 3 27 51 31Nashville 15 7 3 5 19 30 29St. Louis 15 9 5 1 19 52 48Detroit 15 7 6 2 16 40 44Columbus 15 4 9 2 10 34 48
Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 14 8 3 3 19 41 33Minnesota 15 7 6 2 16 33 38Edmonton 14 6 5 3 15 35 38Calgary 13 5 5 3 13 39 47Colorado 13 5 7 1 11 31 38 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 14 11 2 1 23 50 37Dallas 16 8 7 1 17 41 43San Jose 14 7 4 3 17 37 33Phoenix 15 7 6 2 16 40 41Los Angeles 13 5 6 2 12 30 36
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Saturday’s GamesAnaheim 3, Nashville 2, SOTampa Bay 6, Florida 5, OTToronto 3, Ottawa 0Montreal 4, Philadelphia 1N.Y. Islanders 5, New Jersey 1Phoenix 5, Columbus 3Edmonton 6, Colorado 4
Sunday’s GamesSt. Louis 4, Vancouver 3, SOPittsburgh 4, Buffalo 3Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2Boston 3, Winnipeg 2Calgary 4, Dallas 3Minnesota 3, Detroit 2N.Y. Rangers 2, Washington 1
Today’s GamesOttawa at New Jersey, NoonPhiladelphia at N.Y. Islanders, NoonNashville at Colorado, 2 p.m.Carolina at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at Florida, 6:30 p.m.Calgary at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Columbus at Anaheim, 9 p.m.
Tuesday’s GamesWinnipeg at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.San Jose at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Detroit at Nashville, 7 p.m.Vancouver at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Friday’s GamesAlabama 2, Florida Gulf Coast 1 LSU 7, Virginia 2Auburn 3, Tennessee St. 2 South Carolina 8, Stetson 3Texas A&M 1, North Carolina 0 Florida 12, Savannah State 0 Georgia 6, Northwestern 5LSU 9, North Dakota St. 0Florida A&M 5, South Carolina 4 Texas A&M 7, Pittsburgh 3 Auburn 10, Bryant 0Florida 10, UNC Wilmington 0 Georgia 11, Campbell 0Alabama 9, Appalachian St. 3 Florida St. 9, Arkansas 1 Kentucky 3, Washington 2 Central Arkansas 4, Ole Miss 2 Tennessee 8, Coastal Carolina 0 Fresno St. 4, Missouri 0 Auburn 3, Tennessee State 2Ole Miss 11, Lamar 1 Missouri 11, UC Santa Barbara 3 Tennessee 7, North Carolina St. 0 Hofstra 8, Arkansas 1
Saturday’s GamesLSU 5, Memphis 4 South Carolina 8, Buffalo 0Texas A&M 9, Pittsburgh 5LSU 4, Virginia 0 UCF 3, South Carolina 1 Oklahoma 11, Kentucky 0 South Alabama 4, Ole Miss 2 Texas A&M 3, North Carolina 1 Missouri 5, San Diego 0 Alabama 2, Georgia Southern 1Northwestern St. 10, Mississippi St. 5 Missouri 11, Fresno St. 3 Florida 14, Savannah State 0 Auburn 8, Kansas 5 Tennessee 11, USF 0 Mississippi St. 1, WKU 0 Georgia 13, Middle Tennessee 1 Kentucky 11, UC Riverside 3 Florida 5, W. Carolina 0 Alabama 2, Wichita St. 0 Arkansas 14, Tulsa 3
Sunday’s GamesLSU 1, Nicholls St. 0 Florida 4, Charleston Southern 3Chattanooga 6, Auburn 4 Mississippi St. 4, Lipscomb 3 Texas A&M 9, Stephen F. Austin 0Mississippi St. 4, Murray State 1 Florida 9, UNC Wilmington 1Hofstra 6, Arkansas 4Missouri 12, UC-Santa Barbara 1Ole Miss 10, Jackson St. 2 UT Arlington 9, South Carolina 6 Tennessee 8, North Carolina St. 2Alabama 10, S. Illinois 1
Tuesday’s GameAlabama at Alabama-Birmingham, 6 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesSouthern Miss. at Mississippi, 4 p.m.Stephen F. Austin at Texas A&M, 5 p.m.Georgia State at Auburn, 5 p.m.
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“Eddie,” has been invited to the wed-ding of a waitress who works at a restaurant/bar he frequents. I was not invited. Eddie doesn’t dance and has slow danced with me only once. When I told him I would not appreciate him slow dancing with anyone there, we had a heated argument. Eddie told me I have no right to tell him what to do and that I’m trying to control him.
I have run this by many peo-ple — male and female — and they all say it’s inappropriate to slow dance with anyone but your significant other, especial-ly when she’s not present.
I feel Eddie has little regard for my feelings. If he really cared for me, he wouldn’t want to dance with anyone else. I am interested in your thoughts. — HIS ONLY DANCE PARTNER
DEAR HIS ONLY: If you would like to “graduate” from girlfriend to fiancee, you will stop trying to control him and tell him you hope he has a good time at the wedding.
Insecurity is not an attrac-tive trait, so calm down and recognize that a dance is only a dance. From your description
of Eddie’s lack of ability, I seriously doubt he will be a sought-after partner on any dance floor.
DEAR ABBY: Our two children (ages 4 and 1 year) have hyphenated last names. It works well and the names sound elegant together.
My husband and I have made this known in the family and have
discussed it when asked about it by various family members. However, over the last four years our choice has been ignored by two relatives from separate sides of our family. They persist in using only my husband’s last name for corre-spondence and gifts. He has suggested returning the mail as “addressee unknown,” which I think might come across as rude.
Is there any way of having our children addressed cor-rectly by relatives who seem to want to ignore their real names? — NEW YORK MOMMY
DEAR MOMMY: Before doing it your husband’s way, try this: Have another chat with the non-compliant relatives, who may come from a different generation. Explain that you gave your children hyphenated last names for a reason — that
you want to be equally repre-sented — and the omission of “your” name hurts your feel-ings. If that doesn’t work, then go to back to plan A because you don’t want your children to be confused.
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I will be married 25 years and have three children. In my family, my dad was the boss. I always was, too, but never was involved very much with the kids. My wife never really complained about it. She just wanted to keep the family together.
Now that the kids are gone, I realize I should have been a better husband. She mostly ig-nores me and spends her time with the kids and going places. I feel left out. She doesn’t even want to celebrate our upcoming 25th. Should we? I know my dad drank a lot, and now I find myself thinking often about how it must have been for my mom back then. — REGRET-TING IN ILLINOIS
DEAR REGRETTING: Ask your wife why she doesn’t think that 25 years of marriage is something to celebrate, because it should be. She may spend her time with the kids and going places because that is what she HAS been doing for all these years.
There is still time for you to mend this marriage, provided you are both willing to work on it. However, it may take the ser-vices of a marriage counselor to break the ice.
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Dear Abby
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 18). You’re a love magnet, and you’ll find it tough to sort out your scheduling because everyone wants to spend time with you at once. Take a calcu-lated financial risk this month. March brings the rejuvenation of an old relationship. You’ll put on a show in April. May unites your family. Wedding bells ring in September. Leo and Cancer people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 1, 23, 38 and 14.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Once you break down a task into manageable chunks, you’ll discover that your chal-lenges are not really that hard. You are absolutely capable of meeting the goal posts you
projected at the beginning. TAURUS (April 20-May
20). The left-brain-dominant people will misunderstand the right-brain-dominant people. Now able to swing freely from one mode to another, you’ll be the translator who helps everyone get along.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Sometimes things slip from your mouth that you didn’t intend to say, especially around people you like. It’s a function of being comfortable, and it’s nothing to worry too much about.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Today will be an elaborate game of advance and retreat. Choose your tactic, and another person will naturally
fall into the opposite role. So would you rather chase or be chased?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll give freely to the one who gives freely to you. You’ll also give to people who are not likely to give back, and that’s fine, too. In many ways, it’s even more satisfying be-cause you sense there is real need there.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may feel that you’re wound too tight, but this is just the adrenaline rush you need to have a highly productive day. Your nervous energy is put to good use through cleaning, building or growing things.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your personal happiness is not governed by the actions of another. You know best what you need to do to squeeze maximum enjoyment from a situation, and you’re gloriously self-sufficient now, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Justice demands total im-partiality. You may not be the right one to deliver justice in a situation involving your loved ones. To avoid favoritism, get the opinion of an outsider.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Someone loves you and loves you completely. You are much harder on yourself than this person ever would be. If you could see yourself the way this person sees you, you would be kinder to yourself.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There really are very few things you need, so wherever possible, reduce your needs to wants. Needing causes you to hand over your power. Wanting puts you back in charge.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You like attention, but not when it comes with pressure. For instance, you’ll avoid peo-ple who seem to want you to give their lives meaning. That’s too much responsibility!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Happiness lends a cha-risma that’s hard to beat. It’s better than beauty or riches. You know this to be true, so you smile whether or not you feel like it. Soon your insides match your mouth.
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fastest guy. “I think we all know how popular she is, what this will do for our sport. Congratulations to her. Proud to be on there with her.”
The rest of the field will be set in duel qualify-ing races Thursday.
However the lineup unfolds, all drivers — in-cluding boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — will line
up behind Patrick’s No. 10 Chevrolet SS.
“I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl,” she said. “That was instilled in me from very young, from the beginning. Then I feel like thriving in those moments, where the pres-sure’s on, has also been a help for me. I also feel like I’ve been lucky in my ca-
reer to be with good teams and have good people around me. I don’t think any of it would have been possible without that.
“I’ve been lucky enough to make history, be the first woman to do many things. I really just hope that I don’t stop do-ing that. We have a lot more history to make. We are excited to do it.”
Sprint Cup Daytona 500 Lineup After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday
At Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla.Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)1. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 196.434 mph.2. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 196.292.Failed to QualifyDuel qualifying races to be held Feb. 213. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 195.976.4. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 195.946.5. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 195.925.6. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 195.852.7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 195.771.8. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 195.767.9. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 195.767.10. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 195.725.11. (88) Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Chevrolet, 195.584.12. (17) Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Ford, 195.537.13. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 195.508.14. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 195.503.15. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 195.495.16. (33) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 195.385.17. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 195.240.18. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 195.228.19. (56) Martin Truex, Jr., Toyota, 195.207.20. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 195.156.
21. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 195.084.22. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 195.042.23. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 194.961.24. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 194.793.25. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 194.742.26. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 194.742.27. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 194.729.28. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 194.683.29. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 194.654.30. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 194.616.31. (26) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 194.313.32. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, 194.254.33. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 193.657.34. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 193.544.35. (95) Scott Speed, Ford, 193.540.36. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, 193.515.37. (51) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 193.096.38. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 192.996.39. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 192.563.40. (36) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 192.094.41. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 190.339.42. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 190.142.43. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, owner points.
Failed to qualify44. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, owner points.45. (52) Brian Keselowski, Toyota, owner points.
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
WHEREAS, heretofore on the22nd day of February, 2007,Donald Herbert Tedford execut-ed and delivered unto Dudley H.Carter, Trustee, for the use andbenefit of Gerald Houser andPatsy Houser, a deed of trustcovering the real estate here-inafter described, which saiddeed of trust is fully recorded inTrust Deed Book 2007 at Page5336 of the land records ofLowndes County, Mississippi;and
WHEREAS, Gerald Houser andPatsy Houser, being the presentowner and holder of the indebt-edness secured by the aforesaiddeed of trust, appointed the un-dersigned Aubrey E. Nichols asthe Substituted Trustee by in-strument dated August 23,2012, and duly recorded inBook 2012 at Page 19816 inthe office of the Chancery Clerkof Lowndes County, Mississippi,prior to the posting and first pub-lication of the SubstitutedTrustee's Notice of Sale; and
WHEREAS, default having beenmade in the terms and condi-tions of said deed of trust andthe entire debt secured therebyhaving been declared to be dueand payable in accordance withthe terms thereof, Gerald Hous-er and Patsy Houser as the legalholder of said indebtedness,have requested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to executethe trust and sell the propertydescribed herein in accordancewith the terms of said Deed ofTrust with the sales proceeds tobe applied to said indebtednessand all expenses incurred as aresult of said default; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the under-signed Substituted Trustee willon the 4th day of March, 2013,offer for sale at public outcry tothe highest bidder for cash andwill sell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.) at the East-ernmost front door of the Lown-des County Courthouse inColumbus, Mississippi, the fol-lowing described property locat-ed in Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, to-wit:0.55 acre, more or less, lying inthe Southeast Quarter of Sec-tion 10, Township 18 South,Range 17 West, Lowndes Coun-ty, Mississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows:
Commencing at the Southeastcorner of the North Half of theNortheast Quarter of the South-east Quarter of said Section 10,run thence North 87 degrees 30minutes West for 35 feet to theWest right of way of a publicroad known as Lee StokesRoad, as the POINT OF BEGIN-NING; thence continue North 87degrees 30 minutes West alonga fence on the South boundaryof said North Half for 176.5feet; thence North 09 degrees55 minutes East for 145.5 feet;thence North 86 degrees 45minutes East for 141.1 feet tothe West right of way of afore-mentioned Lee Stokes Road;thence Southeasterly along saidWest right of way (35 feet fromcenterline) for 157.5 feet to thepoint of beginning.
SUBJECT TO an access ease-ment over a strip of land 25 feetwide, more particularly describedas follows:
Commencing at the Southeastcorner of the hereinabove de-scribed 0.55 acre lot, as thePOINT OF BEGINNING; thenceNorth 87 degrees 30 minutesWest along the South line ofsaid 0.55 acre lot for 176.5 feetto the Southwest corner of saidlot; thence North 09 degrees 55minutes East along the Westline of said lot for 25.2 feet;thence South 87 degrees 30minutes East parallel to theSouth line of said lot for 170.5feet to the West right of way ofLee Stokes Road; thence South-easterly along said West right ofway for 25.1 feet to the point ofbeginning.
Title to the property is believedto be good, but I will sell onlysuch title as is vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.
DATED this the 7th day of Febru-ary, 2013.
/s/Aubrey E. NicholsAUBREY E. NICHOLS,Substituted Trustee
Publish: February 11, 18, and25, 2013.
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
WHEREAS, heretofore on the22nd day of February, 2007,Donald Herbert Tedford execut-ed and delivered unto Dudley H.Carter, Trustee, for the use andbenefit of Gerald Houser andPatsy Houser, a deed of trustcovering the real estate here-inafter described, which saiddeed of trust is fully recorded inTrust Deed Book 2007 at Page5336 of the land records ofLowndes County, Mississippi;and
WHEREAS, Gerald Houser andPatsy Houser, being the presentowner and holder of the indebt-edness secured by the aforesaiddeed of trust, appointed the un-dersigned Aubrey E. Nichols asthe Substituted Trustee by in-strument dated August 23,2012, and duly recorded inBook 2012 at Page 19816 inthe office of the Chancery Clerkof Lowndes County, Mississippi,prior to the posting and first pub-lication of the SubstitutedTrustee's Notice of Sale; and
WHEREAS, default having beenmade in the terms and condi-tions of said deed of trust andthe entire debt secured therebyhaving been declared to be dueand payable in accordance withthe terms thereof, Gerald Hous-er and Patsy Houser as the legalholder of said indebtedness,have requested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to executethe trust and sell the propertydescribed herein in accordancewith the terms of said Deed ofTrust with the sales proceeds tobe applied to said indebtednessand all expenses incurred as aresult of said default; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the under-signed Substituted Trustee willon the 4th day of March, 2013,offer for sale at public outcry tothe highest bidder for cash andwill sell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.) at the East-ernmost front door of the Lown-des County Courthouse inColumbus, Mississippi, the fol-lowing described property locat-ed in Lowndes County, Missis-sippi, to-wit:0.55 acre, more or less, lying inthe Southeast Quarter of Sec-tion 10, Township 18 South,Range 17 West, Lowndes Coun-ty, Mississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows:
Commencing at the Southeastcorner of the North Half of theNortheast Quarter of the South-east Quarter of said Section 10,run thence North 87 degrees 30minutes West for 35 feet to theWest right of way of a publicroad known as Lee StokesRoad, as the POINT OF BEGIN-NING; thence continue North 87degrees 30 minutes West alonga fence on the South boundaryof said North Half for 176.5feet; thence North 09 degrees55 minutes East for 145.5 feet;thence North 86 degrees 45minutes East for 141.1 feet tothe West right of way of afore-mentioned Lee Stokes Road;thence Southeasterly along saidWest right of way (35 feet fromcenterline) for 157.5 feet to thepoint of beginning.
SUBJECT TO an access ease-ment over a strip of land 25 feet
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES
Cause No.: 2013-0027
Letters Testamentary have beengranted and issued to the under-signed upon the Estate of JamesMilton Merklin, Deceased, bythe Chancery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi on the 11th
day of February, 2013. This is togive notice to all persons havingclaims against said estate toprobate and register same withthe Chancery Clerk of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, within 90(ninety) days from this date. Afailure to so probate and regis-ter said claim will forever bar thesame.
This the 11th day of February,2013.
Sandi Michele Blair,Executrix of the
Estate of James MiltonMerklin, Deceased
Publication dates:2/18, 2/25 & 3/4/2013
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPILOWNDES COUNTY
Letters Testamentary have beengranted and issued to the under-signed upon the Estate of OliviaMcCrary Buck, Deceased, by theChancery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, on the 12th
day of February, A.D., 2013.This is to give notice to all per-sons having claims against saidestate to Probate and Registersame with the Chancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mississippi,within ninety (90) days from thefirst publication date of this No-tice to Creditors. A failure to soProbate and Register said claimwill forever bar the same.
This the 12th day of February,2013.
/s/ Lillie McGowan
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GREAT ENERGY Effi-cient ! Clayton 2012model, 3BR/2BA, 16 X80 homes for sale. Con-veniently located @ TheGrove Mobile HomeCommunity. We willeven apply up to half ofyour lot rent towardshome loan! You will en-joy home already set up(utility hook ups, under-skirting & decks) on site& ready for you to movein. Convenient financingwith great rates, lowdown payment, lowmonthly payment (WAC).Call 662-329-9110 to-day to get more detailson how easy & afford-able it is to enjoy yournew home now
1985 SANDCASTLE12x48 mobile home.2BR/1BA. Good cond.Very cost efficient.Would be great for deercamp or young family.$2000. Call 251-2494or 549-7980
Mobile HomesFor Sale 865
HOME LOT, Hwy 12.Across from CountryClub Golf Course; $12k.281-358-0429
GORGEOUS 10 acresfor sale in North Colum-bus. $85,000. Ready tobuild with undergroundpower & water. Conve-nient location. 662-425-4826.
3 ACRE lots. Fin AvailWAC, 10% dn, + Doc.Fees. Eaton Land Dev.662-726-9648
FSBO 3BR/2BA movein ready. Great neighbor-hood, close to schooland YMCA fenced backyard, storage building.Sellers willing to assistwith closing costs. 662-889-8227.
Houses For Sale:New Hope 825
3BR/2BA. Wood floors,ctl. h/a, new paint inter,gas f/place, new roof.Off Ridge Rd. Access to5 ac. lake. Below value.$155K. 251-8726
Houses For Sale:Northside 815
BBQ RESTAURANT forsale. All equipment.Ready to go. Still operat-ing. 662-386-1542
CommercialProperty 805
INEXPENSIVE MINI-STORAGE. From 5'x10'to 20'x20'. Two well-litlocations in Columbus:Near Walmart on Hwy45 & near Taco Bell onHwy 182. Call 662-328-2424 for more informa-tion
Storage &Garages 750
HOUSE WITH 2 roomsfor rent by the week ormo. Columbus. Call forinfo. 304-0530
Rooms 745
JUMP START your busi-ness at your new loca-tion. First 2 monthsFREE w/2 yr. lease.For more info contact Di-ane Blair @ CourtSquare Towers. 662-244-8944
OFFICE SPACE avail-able for rent. NorthColumbus location.Owner will do modifica-tions for tenant. BrooksProperties. 662-549-1953
Office Spaces 730
RV CAMPER & mobilehome lots. Full hookupw/sewer. 2 locationsW&N from $75/wk -$260/mo. 662-251-1149 or 601-940-1397
RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities & ca-ble from $130/wk -$480/month. 3 Colum-bus locations. Call 601-940-1397
MOBILE HOMES to rentby the wk/mo. 2BRstarting @ $125/wk in-cl. utili. or $325/mo. +util. Call Kiki 352-9330or call Don 386-5552
3BR/2BA mobile homelocated near MUW$400/mo. Call 244-0070
3BR/2BA in New Hope.Central heat/air. Call329-4512 or 574-4292
Mobile HomesFor Rent 725
WE NEED a house torent May 1st. Profession-al couple moving to thearea seeking a 2-3BR,pet friendly home with afenced in back yard.Budget is $600 - $700per month. Call Wes @704-533-0575
DOWNTOWN LIVINGThis beautiful apartmentis located over TheCommercial Dispatch inthe heart of historicdowntown Columbus.Formerly an attorney'soffice, the space hasbeen restored and mod-ern amenities havebeen added. The apart-ment features tall ceil-ings, hardwood floors,central heat and air andon-site laundry. Theapartment includes a liv-ing room, bedroom, din-ing room, kitchen andbathroom. $750 permonth includes utilities.Deposit required.Flexible lease termsavailable. No pets. CallPeter at 662-574-1561
SMALL DUPLEX 1BR/1BA for couple. Appl. in-cl. $350/mo. Fully furn.except elec. Quiet areanear woods & water.356-6123/ 549-7744.Leave msg
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FURNISHED EFF. studioapt. No smoking. Incl,utilities, satellite, DSL,washer/dryer. Quietcountry setting. 5 mi.east of Columbus. Ref.& dep. req. No pets.Great for someonetransferring to town.$600/mo. 328-2785/251-1829
1 and 2BR very clean &maintained. Soundproof. 18units which I maintain per-sonally and promptly. I rentto all colors red, yellow,black & white. I rent to allages 18 years to not dead.My duplex apartments arein a very quiet and peacefulenvironment. 24/7 camerasurveillance. Rent for 1 BD$600 with 1yr lease + secu-rity deposit. Includes water,sewer & trash ($60 value),all appliances included andwasher/dryer. If this soundslike a place you would liketo live call David Davis @662-242-2222. But if can-not pay your rent, like toparty & disturb others, youassociate w/criminals &cannot get along w/others,drugs is your thang, youdon't like me because I'mold school, don't call!!!!
***AFFORDABLE***50% off 1st mo. rent.$150 1st mo. Good thruMarch 5. 1-5BRs. Start@ only $299/mo. Large,remodeled units. HUDaccepted. Call Don.662-386-5552 orRobert 209-996-4075
Apartments ForRent: Northside701
OWN YOUR OWN busi-ness whether a busi-ness or franchise oppor-tunity...when it comes toearnings or locations,there are no guaran-tees. A public servicemessage from The Dis-patch and the FederalTrade Commission
BBQ RESTAURANT forsale. All equipment.Ready to go. Still operat-ing. 662-386-1542
BusinessOpportunity 605
POMERANIAN PUP-PIES. 10 wks. old. 1st
shots. $100. Call 662-726-9476
FULL BLOODED 3 mo.old Chow pups. $300.Registerable, h/brkn,very cute. Mom/Dadreg. On property. Call242-4662/text 352-6183. Ser. inq. only
ACOUSTIC MUSICIANSCLUB now forming. Nofees. Wanted: Singers,songwriters, musicians& poets etc. All with afocus on acoustic. Meetweekly to exchangeideas, jam, etc. CallDave 662-497-0625
MusicalInstruments 469
RUST COLORED leathersofa & love seat $500.Pub style dinette set$300. Coffee tbl & 2end tbls $300. Sharpsound tv bar system$65. 2 Amish fireplaceheaters ( 1 ) w/stand &mirror $300 & 500.Sony wega 41 ½ " tv w/glass & chrome stand$700. Items new or exc.cond. 662-368-1523
INDOOR FLEA Market.Open Fri. 10-4 & Sat. 7-4. 110 Conway Dr. offTuscaloosa. For more in-fo. Call 662-352-6318.Vendor spots available
Garage Sales:East 451
TV CABINET. QueenAnne chair. Queen bedw/mattress & boxspring. Businesscounter can be 1 longcounter or be brokeninto 2. Ex. cond. Full fa-cial eq. Would like tosell all together. 241-0184
LARGE BROWN Lane re-cliner. Good cond.$150. Starkville. 323-0136
Furniture 448
HARDWOOD BLOCKSCan deliver or you haul.Loading available. Callfor appointment. 662-242-0259
Firewood 445
USED APPLE MacintoshPowerMac tower com-puters are being sold byThe Commercial Dis-patch. Desktop towersstart at $40 each.These are oldermachines but are capa-ble of word processing,basic web browsing, etc.Though these comput-ers are offered in as-iscondition with nowarranty, each has beentested in-house & prop-erly boots. Eachdesktop has a fresh in-stallation of either OS10.3 or 10.4. Only thecomputer & power cordare included in thesesales. Keyboards, mice,monitors, operating sys-tem CDs & DVDs arenot included. Pleaseemail:[email protected] any questions. Nophone calls please