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The train’s passage was a good omen for the 20th annual summit, sponsored by the Coos Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Bank, and attended by about 175 people. But the bottom line was this: Although big new industries have been proposed here, they’ll succeed or fail according to factors entirely out of local control. Meanwhile, several more modest local projects are prospering. It’s all connected David Koch, CEO of the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, reviewed the Port’s efforts to coordinate development of a marine terminal at Jordan Cove in In 1969, a year after Tracy Mueller was born, his father started Art Signs. Mueller watched the business evolve from hand-painted signs to crane-installed signs, neon and vinyl lettering. He took over the busi- ness in 2007, and it continues to evolve, he told Friday’s economic outlook summit. You wouldn’t believe what people use a sign crane for. He’s moved safes, freezers, barbecues, trusses and even a frozen baby whale. He’s not above trimming a tree or cleaning a gutter while he’s installing a sign. In fact, going the extramile has won him customers from Lin- coln City to Crescent City and inland to Roseburg and Eugene.He’s been told he got jobs because he was the only contractor who showed up for the appointment. He’s seen changes in his business because of hard times. Contractors who never bothered to put the BY MATT APUZZO AND P AT EATON-ROBB The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. — A grieving Connecticut town braced itself today to bury the first two of the 20 small victims of an elementary school gunman and debated when classes could resume — and where, given the carnage in the building and the children’s associations with it. The people of Newtown weren’t yet ready to address the question just three days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and a day after President Barack Obama pledged to seek change in memory of the children and six adults ruthlessly slain by a gun- man packing a high-powered rifle. “We’re just now getting ready to talk to our son about who was killed,” said Robert Licata, the father of a student who escaped harm during the shooting. “He’s not even there yet.” Newtown officials couldn’t say whether Sandy Hook Elementary, where authorities said all the vic- tims were shot at least twice, would ever reopen. State police Lt. Paul Vance said today at a news conference that it could be months before police turn the school back over to the district. Today’s classes were canceled and Newtown’s other schools were to reopen Tuesday. The district was making plans to send surviv- ing Sandy Hook students to a for- mer school building in a neighbor- ing town, but they didn’t say when that would happen. The gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition, authorities said Sunday — enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, raising the chilling possibility that the blood- bath could have been even worse. The shooter decided to kill him- self when he heard police closing in about 10 minutes into Friday’s attack, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said on ABC’s “This Week.” At the interfaith service in Newtown on Sunday evening, Obama said he would use “what- ever power this office holds” to engage with law enforcement, mental health professionals, par- ents and educators in an effort to By Lou Sennick, The World Tracy Mueller, owner of Art Signs in Coos Bay, poses with a few neon signs his company is fixing up for customers. Source: Oregon Employment Department Engines of prosperity in Coos County Source: Oregon Employment Department Sign of the times SEE SIGN | A8 SEE PROSPERITY | A8 Newtown school’s future debated ■ First two funerals for shooting victims today SEE SCHOOL | A8 BY DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE The World COOS BAY — Clad in a black hoodie, his silver beard blowing atop a ’58 Harley- Davidson Shovelhead, Walt Evans doesn’t look like your typical Santa. His elves fare little better by traditional standards. His crew prefer leather to tinsel. And, like Evans, they’d just as well ditch the reindeer and stick with two wheels. But this weekend wasn’t about tradi- tion; it was about 85 bikers and an urge to bring Christmas to needy kids. On Sunday, Evans and his crew deliv- ered $13,000 worth of bikes, board games and other toys to the Salvation Army in Empire. Those goodies will be bandied out to 500 children Wednesday. For 12 years,Evans has been the ring- master of “South Coast Bikes for Tykes,” a toy drive motivated by his desire to repay the Salvation Army for giving him a refuge as a child. “This was where I hung out after school on weekdays and played basketball,”he said. The gratitude of children and families has kept Evans, and other bikers, fundrais- ing anew each year. Evans still remembers the inaugural year, when he came across one mother and her son after the gift giving. Bikers haul trove of gifts to 500 kids See related photo gallery at: theworldlink.com By Lou Sennick, The World Grizz Haggard, dressed as Santa Claus, waves to the throng of motorcycles and other vehicles for the annual Toy Run caravan of Christmas bikes and presents.They started at Coos Cycle, where the donat- ed gifts were gathered, and headed to the Salvation Army headquarters in Empire on Sunday. SEE TOY RUN | A8 THE WORLD COOS BAY — High winds toppled trees and cut power to thousands of homes in in North Bend, Coquille and Myrtle Point on Sunday evening. Winds 30-40 mph were recorded at the North Bend airport during the night, with gusts of 45-50 mph around midnight. Wind speeds should abate today, but wind and rain will continue from the west-south- west,with rain and snow showers increasing. Snow level will be at 1,000 feet inland, with little accumulation expected. Snow level is expected to drop to 700 feet Tuesday, and rain is expected the rest of the week. A tree that that fell across state Highway 42 five miles east of Myrtle Point shortly before 9 p.m. delayed traffic for about an hour. Anoth- er fallen tree closed Coos River Highway at Weather may get a little flaky SEE WEATHER | A2
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NORTH BEND — As business owners and otherinterested citizens approached the Mill Casino-Hotelfor Friday morning’s Economic Outlook Summit, theyhad to wait for a trainload of lumber to pass along thenewly refurbished tracks in front of the parking lot.
When the Oregon International Port of Coos Baybought the Coos Bay Rail Link, many predicted that nosuch train would ever roll on any such tracks.
The train’s passage was a good omen for the 20thannual summit, sponsored by the Coos Bay AreaChamber of Commerce and U.S. Bank, and attendedby about 175 people.
But the bottom line was this: Although big newindustries have been proposed here, they’ll succeed orfail according to factors entirely out of local control.Meanwhile, several more modest local projects areprospering.
It’s all connectedDavid Koch, CEO of the Oregon International Port
of Coos Bay, reviewed the Port’s efforts to coordinatedevelopment of a marine terminal at Jordan Cove in
In 1969, a year after Tracy Mueller was born, hisfather started Art Signs. Mueller watched the businessevolve from hand-painted signs to crane-installedsigns, neon and vinyl lettering. He took over the busi-ness in 2007, and it continues to evolve, he told Friday’seconomic outlook summit.
You wouldn’t believe what people use a sign crane for.He’s moved safes, freezers, barbecues, trusses and even afrozen baby whale. He’s not above trimming a tree orcleaning a gutter while he’s installing a sign. In fact,going the extra mile has won him customers from Lin-coln City to Crescent City and inland to Roseburg andEugene. He’s been told he got jobs because he was theonly contractor who showed up for the appointment.
He’s seen changes in his business because of hardtimes. Contractors who never bothered to put the
BY MATT APUZZOAND PAT EATON-ROBB
The Associated Press
NEWTOWN,Conn. — A grievingConnecticut town braced itselftoday to bury the first two of the 20small victims of an elementaryschool gunman and debated whenclasses could resume — and where,given the carnage in the building andthe children’s associations with it.
The people of Newtown weren’tyet ready to address the questionjust three days after the shootingat Sandy Hook Elementary School,and a day after President BarackObama pledged to seek change inmemory of the children and sixadults ruthlessly slain by a gun-man packing a high-powered rifle.
“We’re just now getting ready totalk to our son about who waskilled,” said Robert Licata, thefather of a student who escapedharm during the shooting. “He’snot even there yet.”
Newtown officials couldn’t saywhether Sandy Hook Elementary,where authorities said all the vic-tims were shot at least twice,would ever reopen. State police Lt.Paul Vance said today at a newsconference that it could be monthsbefore police turn the school backover to the district.
Today’s classes were canceledand Newtown’s other schools wereto reopen Tuesday. The districtwas making plans to send surviv-ing Sandy Hook students to a for-mer school building in a neighbor-ing town, but they didn’t say whenthat would happen.
The gunman, 20-year-old AdamLanza, was carrying an arsenal ofhundreds of rounds of especiallydeadly ammunition, authoritiessaid Sunday — enough to kill justabout every student in the school ifgiven enough time, raising thechilling possibility that the blood-bath could have been even worse.
The shooter decided to kill him-self when he heard police closingin about 10 minutes into Friday’sattack, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy saidon ABC’s “This Week.”
At the interfaith service inNewtown on Sunday evening,Obama said he would use “what-ever power this office holds” toengage with law enforcement,mental health professionals, par-ents and educators in an effort to
By Lou Sennick, The World
Tracy Mueller, owner of Art Signs in Coos Bay, poses with a few neon signs his company is fixing up forcustomers.
Source: Oregon Employment Department
Engines ofprosperity inCoos County
Source: Oregon Employment Department
Sign of the times
SEE SIGN | A8
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Newtownschool’sfuturedebatedn First two funerals forshooting victims today
SEE SCHOOL | A8
BY DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIEThe World
COOS BAY — Clad in a black hoodie, hissilver beard blowing atop a ’58 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead, Walt Evans doesn’tlook like your typical Santa.
His elves fare little better by traditionalstandards. His crew prefer leather to tinsel.
And, like Evans,they’d just as wellditch the reindeer andstick with twowheels.
But this weekendwasn’t about tradi-
tion; it was about 85 bikers and an urge tobring Christmas to needy kids.
On Sunday, Evans and his crew deliv-ered $13,000 worth of bikes, board gamesand other toys to the Salvation Army inEmpire. Those goodies will be bandied outto 500 children Wednesday.
For 12 years, Evans has been the ring-master of “South Coast Bikes for Tykes,” atoy drive motivated by his desire to repaythe Salvation Army for giving him a refuge
as a child.“This was where I hung out after school
on weekdays and played basketball,” hesaid.
The gratitude of children and familieshas kept Evans, and other bikers, fundrais-
ing anew each year.Evans still remembers the inaugural
year, when he came across one mother andher son after the gift giving.
Bikers haul trove of gifts to 500 kids
See related photogallery at: theworldlink.com
By Lou Sennick, The World
Grizz Haggard, dressed as Santa Claus, waves to the throng of motorcycles and other vehicles for theannual Toy Run caravan of Christmas bikes and presents. They started at Coos Cycle, where the donat-ed gifts were gathered, and headed to the Salvation Army headquarters in Empire on Sunday.
SEE TOY RUN | A8
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COOS BAY — High winds toppled trees andcut power to thousands of homes in in NorthBend, Coquille and Myrtle Point on Sundayevening.
Winds 30-40 mph were recorded at theNorth Bend airport during the night, withgusts of 45-50 mph around midnight.
Wind speeds should abate today, but windand rain will continue from the west-south-west, with rain and snow showers increasing.Snow level will be at 1,000 feet inland, withlittle accumulation expected. Snow level isexpected to drop to 700 feet Tuesday, and rainis expected the rest of the week.
A tree that that fell across state Highway 42five miles east of Myrtle Point shortly before 9p.m. delayed traffic for about an hour. Anoth-er fallen tree closed Coos River Highway at
Weather mayget a little flaky
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BY TIM NOVOTNYThe World
COOS BAY — For the pastthree decades, hungry fami-lies have been able to putfood on their tables for theholidays thanks to the effortsof the Knights of Columbusand their community part-ners. But as the need contin-ues to rise, the local econo-my has continued to drop,making it tougher andtougher for them to makeends meet.
That is why, even as theyprepared to distribute foodboxes to another 1,000 fami-lies the weekend, the Knightsof Columbus hoped to findmore individuals able todonate to the cause.
“This year we are right onthe line if we are going to beable to pay our bills or not,and that’s tough,” said clubmember Mike Main, as theyfinished up some boxes Fri-
day morning. “But we justtrust in God. You have totrust in God.”
This year, 960 familiessigned up in November,through Oregon Coast Com-munity Action for theChristmas Food Basket pro-gram. Main, who was joinedby Jim DeLong, Terry Evansand Tom Chase on the com-mittee that heads up theeffort, said they make extraboxes for anyone who maynot have signed up but is stillin need.
Those folks can come bythe Coos Bay National GuardArmory after 2:30 p.m. Sun-day, located just off New-mark Avenue, and anythingthat is left will be distributed.After that, any leftovers will
be taken directly to the Ecu-menical Food Cupboard atthe Emmanuel EpiscopalChurch in Coos Bay.
It is an expensive effort,Even in the best of times. Theboxes work out to a cost ofabout $41 dollars per box,leading to an estimatedexpense this year of between$41,000 and $50,000.Unfortunately, donationshave dipped this year.
“One of the issues that wehave is that we got donationsfrom all of the businessesthat normally donate,” Mainsaid, “ but this year thedonations were smaller, andthat just kills us.”
While financial donationshave been down, donationsof time from volunteers hasbeen on the rise.
The Knights also are get-ting help again from the kidsand adults that make up thePerrydale FFA, who arrivedSaturday with a truckload ofabout 80,000 pounds offresh produce, includingthings like potatoes, carrotsand apples.
“Volunteers from a lot ofdifferent organizations comeand help us ... . We had somefrom Hauser CommunityChurch came down and helpus ...; it’s just awesome.”
But right now, he said,they are more in need offunds than anything else.Donations are being accept-ed through Holy RedeemerCatholic Church in NorthBend, 2250 16th Avenue,97459. Write on the checkmemo line that the money isfor the Christmas Food Bas-ket program for the Knightsof Columbus.
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Scratch off No. 28 from Natalie Hill’s bucket list: The Marshfield High School teen battling cancer had a tattoo created on her arm Saturday. Hilland her friend Samantha Ring both turned 17 on Saturday, and each had a tattoo done by Lisa Johnson, owner of Inspired Ink in Coquille. Hill’sreads “To Infinity...,” and Ring’s reads “...and Beyond.” Hill is now more than halfway through her list of 51 items to do while she battles cancer. Sherecords her progress on her Facebook page, Natalie Hill Updates.
North Bend Planning Commission— 7 p.m., council chambers, cityhall, 835 California St.; regularpublic meeting.
By Timothy Novotny, The World
Hundreds of boxes await food for distribution by the Knights of Columbus.
CuisineSpice up your menuwith recipes andexpert advice for allappetites.
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REEDSPORT — Rotary tal-ent show has moved to Febru-ary. Deadline to apply for par-ticipation in the annual RotaryClub of Reedsport’s talentshow is Jan. 8. The CoastalDouglas Has Talent! talentshow is scheduled for 6 p.m.Feb. 2, at Pacific Auditorium,2260 Longwood Drive, Reed-sport.
Applications are availablefrom any Rotarian or the office
of Steve Miller, Attorney, 320Fir Ave., Reedsport, OR97467. All types of talent areeligible to audition. The eventis open to both adults andchildren. Submit applicationsto KDUN Radio Station orSteve Miller’s office.
Tickets for the event are $5at the door. For more informa-tion contact Kathleen Millerat [email protected].
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milepost 4. Drivers pickedtheir way along U.S. High-way 101 through a darkenedNorth Bend and past fallenwires south of Coos Bay. Noinjury accidents werereported, but police cleareddebris from roads and
responded to wind-inducedalarms at businesses.
On Monday morning,Pacific Power reported scat-tered outages remainingthroughout western Oregon,including parts of CoosCounty, and Coos-CurryElectric Cooperative person-nel were working to restorepower to 200 homes in theCoqulle area.
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MONDAYCancer Survivors Support Group
Potluck 10 a.m. to noon, SouthCoast Hospice Education andBereavement Center Building,1620 Thompson Road, CoosBay. 541-756-5464
You Wanna Be A Star Sign-ups1:30-3 p.m., Ocean Crest Ele-mentary School, 1040 Alleghe-ny Ave., Bandon. Variety showfor kids K-12. 541-347-2517
Holiday Lights 4-9:30 p.m.,Shore Acres State Park, 89039Cape Arago Highway,Charleston. Refreshments anddisplays in the Garden House.Parking is $5. The Carolers 4-5p.m.; Port Orford ChristianCenter 5:30-7 p.m. Pavilionentertainment.
Shore Acres State Park, 89039Cape Arago Highway,Charleston. Refreshments anddisplays in the Garden House.Parking is $5. Myrtle PointHigh School Show Choir 6-6:30 p.m. Pavilion entertain-ment.
Bingo 6:30 p.m., Masonic Tem-ple, corner of Virginia andUnion Avenues, North Bend.Earlybird starts at 6:45 p.m.,blackout jackpot $300.Refreshments available. 541-297-0086
You Wanna Be A Star Sign-ups6:30-8 p.m., Ocean Crest Ele-mentary School, 1040 Alleghe-ny Ave., Bandon. Variety showfor kids K-12. 541-347-2517
WEDNESDAYHoliday Lights 4-9:30 p.m.,
Shore Acres State Park, 89039Cape Arago Highway,Charleston. Refreshments anddisplays in the Garden House.Parking is $5.
Chamber Business After Hours5-7 p.m., Evergreen Court, 451O’Connell St., North Bend. 541-756-4466
Christmas at Billy Smoothboar’sRestaurant 5-8 p.m., 3030 Ore-gon Ave. SW, Bandon. Santa,Mrs. Claus, elves, carolers,clowns, goodies and ginber-bread cookie decorating. Treatsfor ages 12 and younger. 541-347-2373
Historically Speaking Series 7p.m., Coos Bay Public Library,Myrtlewood Room, 525 Ander-
son Ave., Coos Bay. “HistoricalBuildings of Coos County” byHilary Baker. 541-269-1101
“The Wizard of Oz” 7 p.m.,Marshfield High School Audito-rium, 10th and Ingersoll, CoosBay. Adults $8 and students$5.
FRIDAYHome for the Holidays Ginger-
bread Village and Breakfastwith Santa 9 a.m. FlorenceEvents Center, 915 Quince St.,Florence. Limited seating,RSVP at 888-968-4086. Cost is$20 for adults and $10 for ages6-12. Proceeds benefit FlorenceEvents Center.
Holiday Lights 4-9:30 p.m.,Shore Acres State Park, 89039Cape Arago Highway,Charleston. Refreshments anddisplays in the Garden House.Parking is $5. Clint Guevaraand Friends 7-8 p.m. Pavilionentertainment.
National Homeless Persons’Memory Day Candlelight Vigil5:30-6:30 p.m., Coos BayBoardwalk Shelter, U.S. High-way 101 and Anderson, CoosBay. Bring cookies and cleanitems to donate to homeless.541-266-8739
Grandparents ROCK ChristmasFun 5:30-7 p.m. Faith LutheranChurch, 2741 Sherman Ave.,North Bend. GrandparentsRaising Our Children’s Kids pro-vides pizza, treats and orna-ment making fun. Register at541-297-9256 or [email protected].
“The Wizard of Oz” 7 p.m.,Marshfield High School Audito-rium, 10th and Ingersoll, CoosBay. Adults $8 and students $5.
SATURDAYHistoric Hughes House Victorian
Christmas 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,Cape Blanco State Park, 91100Cape Blanco Road, Port Orford.Cape Blanco Lighthoue tours,ages 16 and older, $2 weatherpermitting.
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COOS COUNTY — TheCoos County CulturalCoalition is offering morethan $11,000 in the 2013grant cycle and your projectcould be next to be funded.
The coalition offers fund-ing opportunities to mem-bers of the local arts, music,theater, writer, cultural andnatural history, and craftscommunities.
Individuals and non-profit groups planning a spe-cial project, a topical exhibitreflecting local culture orsome other creative endeav-or that incorporates localculture, should considerapplying for grant funds.
The deadline for grantapplications is Feb. 28. Grantselections will be decided inMarch and awards will bepresented April 18. To learnmore about grant require-ments and download anapplication form, visit theCoos County CulturalCoalition website atwww.ccculturalcoalition.org. Applications also are avail-able at Coos County public
libraries.Applications must be
mailed to the Coos CountyCultural Coalition, P. O. Box1091, Coos Bay, OR 97420,postmarked no later thanFeb. 28. Let us help you bringyour passion to the public.
Soroptimist groupoffers grants
BAY AREA — SoroptimistInternational of the CoosBay Area invites applicationsfor a $750 professional-technical grant that is madepossible by the service club’sfundraising efforts in thecommunity.
The ProfessionalTechnical Award will be pre-sented to a person selectedfrom the applicant pool whois a graduate from MarshfieldHigh School or North BendHigh School currently resid-ing in the Coos Bay/North
Bend area or if living out ofthe area. The applicant mustprovide high school tran-scripts from Marshfield HighSchool or North Bend HighSchool. Applicant must beenrolled as a full-time stu-dent in a professional ortechnical certificate pro-gram.
Soroptimist members andtheir immediate families arenot eligible for this award.Applications are available atCoos Bay and North Bendpublic libraries, or by callingStacy Rose at 541-808-1002.The deadline for applicationsis March 20.
The local group is cele-brating 71 years of service tothis community. This is oneof four scholarships offeredannually. In past years, theclub has made donations tomany local agencies includ-ing South Coast Hospice,Women’s Safety andResource Center, Boys &Girls Club of SouthwesternOregon, Bob Belloni Ranch,Inc. and Wineva JohnsonCenter for Girls.
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R E P O R T S
As the white flag rises aboveRepublican redoubts, offering asurrender on taxes, the mindgoes back to what seemed aworse time for conservatives:December 1964.
Barry Goldwater had suffereda defeat not seen since Alf Lan-don. Republicans held less thanone-third of the House and Sen-ate and only 17 governorships.The Warren Court was remakingAmerica.
In the arts, academic andentertainment communities, andnational press corps, conserva-tives were rarely seen or heard. Itwas Liberalism’s Hour, withAmerica awash in misty memo-ries of Camelot and great expec-tations of the Great Society tocome in 1965.
That year, however, saw escala-tion in Vietnam, campus protestsand civil disobedience against thewar. That August, there explodedthe worst race riot in memory inthe Watts section of Los Angeles,with arson, looting, the beating ofwhites, and sniper attacks on copsand firemen.
A year after LBJ’s triumph,black militants and white radi-cals were savaging the LiberalEstablishment from the left,while Gov. George Wallace hadcome north in 1964 to win a thirdof the vote in the major Democ-ratic primaries with an assaultfrom the populist right.
Below the surface, the Demo-cratic Party was disintegratingon ethnic, cultural and politicallines. Law and order and Viet-nam were the issues. Richard
Nixon would see the opening andseize the opportunity to disman-tle FDR’s coalition and cobbletogether his New Majority.
Today, the GOP strength in theHouse, Senate and governorshipsis far greater than anythingRepublicans had in the 1960s.The difference is that, then, wecould visual-ize a newmajority ofc e n t r i s tRepublicans,G o l d w a t e rconservatives,N o r t h e r nCatholic eth-nics andS o u t h e r nP r o t e s t a n tDemocrats.
And wecould see the issues that mightbring them into the tent: a newSupreme Court, law and order,peace with honor in Vietnam.
When the Liberal Establish-ment collapsed during the1960s, unable to end the war inVietnam or the war in the streets,national leadership passed to theparty of Nixon and Ronald Rea-gan. From 1968 to 1988, the GOPwon five of six presidential elec-tions, two of them in 49-statelandslides.
The crisis of the GOP today isdemographic, cultural and polit-ical.
Demographically, people ofcolor are nearing 40 percent ofthe U.S. population and 30 per-cent of the electorate. Thesefolks — 85 to 90 percent of all
immigrants, legal and illegal —are growing in number. And in2012, people of color voted forObama 4 to 1.
The GOP trump card — we arethe party of Reagan, who led us tovictory in the Cold War — ceasedto work 20 years ago. Then,George H.W. Bush, a war herowho had presided over the fall ofthe Berlin Wall and dissolution ofthe Soviet Empire, the victor ofDesert Storm, won 38 percent ofthe vote against a draft-evadernamed Bill Clinton.
Culturally, the causes of the1960s’ revolutions — no-faultdivorce, legalized drugs, “repro-ductive rights,” teenage access tobirth control, gay rights and gaymarriage — have either beenembraced or become acceptableto most of America’s young.
As a result of the sexual revo-lution promoted by the counter-culture of the 1960s, the domi-nant culture today, 40 percent ofall births in the United States arenow to single moms.
With no husband, thesewomen look to government tohelp feed, house, educate, med-icate and provide income sup-port for themselves and theirchildren. For sustenance and thesurvival of their families, theydepend on that same Big Gov-ernment that Republicansdenounce at their rallies.
As to the GOP’s strongestappeal — we are the party thatwill cut taxes — half the countrydoes not pay income taxes, andthe GOP is about to surrender toObama even on the tax front.
Republicans stand for bring-ing entitlements under control.But the primary beneficiaries ofthe big entitlements, SocialSecurity and Medicare, are sen-iors, the party’s most reliablevoting bloc.
On foreign policy, the mostvisible Republican spokesmenare Sens. John McCain and Lind-sey Graham. Both were unhappywith the withdrawals from Iraqand Afghanistan. Both want tointervene in Syria and Iran.
What does America want? Tocome home and do our nation-building here in the United States.
The bedrock values of Reagan— work, family, faith — still holdan appeal for tens of millions. Butthe faith of our fathers is dying,the family is crumbling, andwork is less desirable when thesocial welfare state offers a cush-ioned existence for life.
Conservatives need to redis-cover what they wish to conserveand how, in a climate every bit ashostile as 1964 — then await themoment when the country turnsagain to an alternative.
As it will. For our economiccourse is unsustainable. And ourregnant elite are more arrogantthan the establishment of the1960s, though less able to satisfythe clamors of their bawling con-stituencies for more and morefrom a country that is approach-ing an end of its tolerance and aninevitable crash.
Patrick J. Buchanan is theauthor of “Suicide of aSuperpower: Will AmericaSurvive to 2025?”
Whenever horrific car-nage shocks Americans,responses from politiciansand commentators are pre-dictable to the point ofbeing ritualistic.
After last week’s schoolshootings in Connecticut,gun-control advocatesrenewed their proposals toban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. (As ifthe inconvenience of reload-ing might deter a madman.)
On the other extreme, astate legislator from Medfordrevived the idea of armingteachers. (Wouldn’t such astrategy compel future gun-men to kill every teacher in
sight, just as a precaution?)Among regular folk,
without political agendas,Friday’s tragedy was simplychilling. Parents wonderedwhether they safely couldentrust their children topublic schools.
Perspective is in order. TheAssociated Press remindedus over the weekend thatmass shootings are not new,nor are they becoming morefrequent. Children are farmore likely to die from otherperils of everyday life.
Rather than despair orpolitical overreaction, themost rational response tothese tragedies is prudent
preparation.As The World reported
Saturday, local schools andpolice have devoted con-siderable energy to theissue. The Coos Bay SchoolDistrict has a crisis man-agement team that plansfor various kinds of emer-gencies, including armedinvasions of schools. Policepractice maneuvers insideschool buildings, and thedistrict has lockdown pro-cedures.
This kind of preparation isuseful in smaller incidents,such as September’s schoollockdown in Reedsport. Thegunman in a motel standoff
finally killed himself, andthe threat to students wasnot extreme. But schoolofficials’ heads-up responsewas comforting.
But let’s be realistic. If aheavily armed gunmanwants to attack a publicschool or a shopping mall,even the best preparationscan only limit the blood-shed, not prevent it alto-gether.
So the gun controldebate will rage, and com-mentators will bemoanvarious cultural evils. Inpractical terms, we canonly make rational prepa-rations — and pray.
As yet another make-believe Washing-ton “crisis” looms, it’s tempting to suspectthat the most fraught interludes in Ameri-can politics derive from turning govern-ment into a TV show. Artificial deadlines,imaginary cliffs, villains and heroes — astate of permanent emergency. These well-worn dramatic devices have been the stuffof serial melodrama from “The Perils ofPauline” through “24.”
No sooner was the 2012 presidential elec-tion blessedly ended than journalists startedhandicapping the 2016 presidential election.
Next, a new crisis was declared. OMG!The Fiscal Cliff! OMG!
Without a conflict,see, there’s no story.
Must we, therefore,govern the countryaccording to the narrativeconventions of spy thrillersto boost cable news net-work ratings and to ensurepundits and politiciansplenty of TV face time?
Apparently so. Howev-er, is it really good for ourdemocracy that manyotherwise normal Ameri-
cans recognize figures like Rep. Eric Cantor,R-Va., or Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., onsight? To put it another way: If I weren’t asubscriber to the NBA League Pass, would I,too, stand in danger of turning into a “fiscalcliff” junkie between now and Jan. 2, fever-ishly flipping from MSNBC to Fox seekingfresh excitement and outrage?
In his 1997 book “Breaking the News:How the Media Undermine AmericanDemocracy,” James Fallows explained a lotabout what drives such coverage. “Why do(journalists) want to appear (on TV), whenso many reporters make fun of the shows?”he asked. “The most immediate payoff isthe simple thrill of being noticed andknown. Political-journalistic Washingtonfunctions much like a big high school, withcliques of the popular kids, the nerds, therebels, the left-outs, and so on. To be on TVis to become very quickly a cool kid. Friendscall to say they’ve seen you. People recog-nize you in stores. Whether people agree ordisagree with what you said (or whetherthey even remember), they treat you as‘realer’ and bigger than you were before.”
And that was back when 24/7 cable TVpolitical programming barely existed.Since then, print reporters have quit dis-missing TV. (Most were only pretending tobe snobs about it anyway.) Now they pon-der how to become the next Ezra Klein.
The rewards, Fallows made clear, can beheady. Celebrity journalists “have that extra,sizzling experience of seeing strangers’ headsflip back for a second look (‘Is it really him?’)as they walk into restaurants or through air-port corridors .... (T)he recognition is almostentirely judgment-free .... TV’s effect ismainly to make you bigger than life. For eachhundred acquaintances who will say, ‘I sawyou on the show,’ only one will say,‘I agree (ordisagree) with what you said.’”
So pundits start coasting, graduallydrawing down their stock of genuineexpertise — such as it is. Next comes fak-ing. On camera, some talking head asks thejournalist to opine about a topic that,strictly speaking, he knows bugger-allabout. Instead of saying so, our hero clev-erly paraphrases something he heard someother savant say on a different channel.
So heighten the contradictions. Rampup the conflict. The Fiscal Cliff! OMG! It’snot a budget debate, it’s good vs. evil! Civ-ilization hangs in the balance!
Except, no it doesn’t. It’s a budget fightthat President Obama wins.
He’s holding all the high cards, Republi-cans are playing a weak hand badly, andpeople are getting really fed up with thefake hysteria.
Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyonsis a National Magazine Award winner . Youcan email Lyons [email protected].
Enough withthe made-for-TV ‘cliff ’hysteria
Winter of conservative discontent
Our viewPreparation can’t preventevery school shooting, butit’s the best reasonablestrategy.
What do you think?The World welcomesletters. Email us at [email protected].
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DDEEAARR AABBBBYY:: Twice inrecent years my husband hasbought a gift for himself forChristmas, wrapped it, put itunder the tree and thenopened it on Christmasmorning, gleefully exclaim-ing that it was a great gift andjust what he wanted.
The first time he did it, hewrote my name on the gift cardas the giver. The second timehe didn’t bother. When I askedhim why, he said it was some-
thing he sawin the storeand wanted.When Iasked whyhe didn’tjust ask meto get it, hedidn’t havean answer.
He hasalso boughtcards forhimself forValentine’sDay. On
both of them he wrote, “ToLarry from ‘Hon,’” his petname for me.
I was flabbergasted andupset and asked him why hewould do such a thing. He saidhe ran across the “perfectcard” for him while lookingfor one for me.
I don’t know what to makeof his behavior, but it isdemeaning and I feel angry fordays afterward. He has a habitof comparing my gifts withthose from his son or those hebought for himself, and itmakes me feel as if mine don’tmeasure up. My husband is 77.What’s wrong with him? —PERPLEXED IN FLORIDA
DDEEAARR PPEERRPPLLEEXXEEDD:: Itappears you married someonewho likes to buy on impulseand is insensitive to how hiswords and actions affect oth-ers. Look on the bright side:He’s solved the problem ofwhat to get the man who haseverything for you!
However, because this is arecent change in his behav-ior, consider reporting it tohis doctor.
DDEEAARR AABBBBYY:: I havereceived several invitations toparties recently in which Iwas asked to do part of thework or participate in someof the expenses.
The one that really tookthe cake was to a party host-ed by my boss. She haddecided to celebrate herbirthday at her house, andwhen I and my co-workersRSVP’d, we were asked whattype of dish we planned tobring. We also discoveredthat only invited EMPLOY-EES were asked to bring food.Her “real friends” weren’tasked to bring anything.Needless to say, all but oneemployee remembered theyhad a “conflict.”
If someone doesn’t havethe time or money to host aparty, there are plenty ofinexpensive foods, dispos-able tableware, etc., that canbe used in a pleasant, cost-effective event without bur-dening — financially or oth-erwise — invited guests.What matters is gettingtogether to celebrate andsocialize and have a goodtime with friends and family.Abby, your thoughts? —UNHAPPY “GUEST” INMISSOURI
DDEEAARR ““GGUUEESSTT"":: I’m gladyou asked. I agree with yoursentiments. Your boss shouldbe ashamed of herself fortrying to use you and theother employees in the guiseof having you as guests at herbirthday party. How tacky!
DDEEAARR AABBBBYY:: I’m attend-ing a wedding in a fewmonths. The bride hasrequested that all femaleguests not wear heelsbecause they’re a short cou-ple. I don’t have any flats thatwill go with my dress, so I willhave to either buy new shoesor “disappoint” the bride.
I’ve been hearing storiesabout wedding guests beingtold what colors to wear.I thinkbrides (and couples) like thisare going too far. What do youthink? — PUT OUT IN B.C.
DDEEAARR PPUUTT OOUUTT:: I thinkthat if the bridal couple wouldlike to feel a few inches talleron their big day, and buying anew pair of shoes wouldstretch your budget, youshould consider having an oldpair of flats dyed to match yourdress, or skip the festivitiesand send your good wishes.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Achase that ended with 13 offi-cers firing 137 rounds, killingtwo people, began with a pop— perhaps a gunshot orbackfire from a car speedingpast police headquarters.
For the next 25 minuteslate in the night of Nov. 29,the car crisscrossed Cleve-land tailed by officers, head-ed along Interstate 90 andwound up near the backentrance of a school in EastCleveland, where policeopened fire.
Police don’t know why thedriver, Timothy Russell, 43,refused to stop. Russell had acriminal record includingconvictions for receivingstolen property and robbery.His passenger, MalissaWilliams, 30, had convictionsfor drug-related charges andattempted abduction.
The fallout from theirdeaths has cast the Cleve-land police department in anuneasy light amid communi-ty complaints about what’sbeen called a racially moti-vated execution of two peo-ple with no evidence theywere armed.
The state took over thecase and families for bothvictims and civil-rightsgroups have demanded afederal investigation. Theyaccuse officers of allegedcivil rights violations in thepursuit and gunfire barrage.
“You just can’t help butwonder how so many officerswere able to shoot so manybullets at these two people inthis vehicle,” said PaulCristallo, an attorney repre-senting Russell’s family.
Protesters yelled “execu-tion” at a community meet-ing called by Mayor FrankJackson to quell rising ten-sions. The city tried to defusethe outrage by reaching out tofederal officials for help.There was no immediate fed-eral decision to intervene.
The officers involved inthe shooting have beenassigned to desk duties,which is standard procedureafter a shooting. They wantto avoid talking to the mediawhile subject to the state andinternal investigations, theirunion president said.
The scene of the deathshas turned into a memorial,with small vigil candlesarranged in the shape of aheart and the number 137and stuffed animals piledtogether with a frost-encrusted poinsettia.
The chase began about10:30 p.m. when an officerthought he heard a gunshotfrom a car speeding by thepolice and courts complex indowntown Cleveland andjumped into his patrol car,made a U-turn and radioedfor help.
The chase went through
crowded residential neigh-borhoods, then reversedcourse, headed east ontobusy I-90 and through partsof Cleveland and eventuallyEast Cleveland, ending withthe car blocked in the rear ofa school.
By police accounts, atleast 30 patrol cars wereinvolved in the chase,including Cleveland and EastCleveland police, sheriff’sdeputies and state troopers.
As the chase ended alonghillside driveways heading tothe school in John D. Rocke-feller’s old neighborhood,Russell allegedly rammed apatrol car and drove towardan officer on foot. Then thegunfire erupted: 137 rounds,Russell shot 23 times andWilliams 24 times and theircar pockmarked.
Jeff Follmer, president ofthe police union, defendedthe officers’ actions and saidofficers used force to confronta driver using his vehicle as apotentially deadly weapon.
That was an acceptablepolice response, said DavidKlinger, a former Los Angelesand Redmond, Wash.,patrolman who teachescriminal justice at the Uni-versity of Missouri-St. Louis.
“Police officers areauthorized to use deadlyforce to protect themselvesand others from great bodilyinjury or death,” he said.
137 police shots, 2 dead in Ohio
CEDAR LAKE (AP) —While the tragic shooting ofchildren was unfolding at aConnecticut school Friday,Cedar Lake police and theLake County Sheriff ’sDepartment were busy deal-ing with reports a manthreatening to kill “as manypeople as he could” at JaneBall Elementary School.
Interim Cedar Lake PoliceChief Gerald A. Smith saidhis officers were called to thehome of Von Meyer, 60, inthe 9300 block of West 93rdAvenue on Friday morning.
Smith said Meyer alleged-ly threatened to set his wifeon fire after she fell asleep.
A police statement saysMeyer also said he wouldenter Jane Ball ElementarySchool and “kill as manypeople as he could” before
police couldp o s s i b l estop him.
M e y e r ’shome isl o c a t e dw i t h i n1,000 feet ofthe schooland con-n e c t e d
through a set of trails andwalking paths, Smith said.Inside his home, authoritiesfound 47 guns and ammuni-tion worth more than$100,000.
A check of Lake CountyClerk records showed noprior criminal chargesagainst Meyer.
Smith said police notifiedthe school resource officerand Hanover School offi-cials, who worked closely
with law enforcement offi-cials to increase securitymeasures at all Cedar Lakeschools Friday.
Upon learning Meyer, amember of the InvadersMotorcycle Gang, had a largenumber of weapons andammunition hiddenthroughout the two-storyhome, Cedar Lake Police andthe Lake County Sheriff’sTactical Team executed asearch and arrest warrantshortly after noon Saturday,Smith said.
Meyer was charged Satur-day with four counts offelony intimidation and mis-demeanor domestic batteryand two counts of resistinglaw enforcement. If convict-ed of all charges, Meyer facesa maximum sentence of 15years in prison.
HELEN O’NEILLAP Special Correspondent
A gold plaque hangs nextto a bullet hole in the Sikhtemple in Oak Creek, Wis.,where a lone gunman killedsix worshippers and injuredthree others last August. It isengraved with the words,“We Are One.”
“It frames the wound,”says Pardeep Kaleka, son offormer temple presidentSatwant Singh Kaleka, whodied in the massacre. “Thewound of our community,the wound of our family, thewound of our society.”
In the past week, thatwound has been ripped openwith shocking ferocity.
In what has become sick-eningly familiar, gunmenopened fire on innocents inwhat should be the safest ofplaces — first, at a shoppingmall in Oregon, and then,unthinkably, at an elemen-tary school in Connecticut.
Once again there werescenes of chaos as rescuersand media descended on thescene. Once again there werepictures of weeping sur-vivors clutching one another,of candlelight vigils andteddy bears left as lovingmemorials. And once again achorus of pundits debatedgun control and violence associety attempted to makesense of the senseless.
“Are there any sanctuariesleft?” Kaleka asked. “Is this afact of life, one we havebecome content to live with?Can we no longer feel safegoing Christmas shopping ina mall, or to temple, or to themovies? What kind of socie-ty have we become?”
As this year of the gunlurches to a close, leaving abloody wake, we are left towonder along with Kaleka:What is the meaning of all this?
Even before Portland andNewtown, we saw a formerstudent kill seven people at
Oikos University in Oakland,Calif. We saw gunmen inSeattle and Minneapoliseach kill five people and thenthemselves. We saw themidnight premiere of “TheDark Knight Rises” at a the-ater in Aurora, Colo., devolveinto a bloodbath, as 12 peopledied and 58 were wounded;24-year-old James Holmeswas arrested outside.
And yet those who studymass shootings say they arenot becoming more common.
“There is no pattern, thereis no increase,” says crimi-nologist James Allen Fox ofBoston’s Northeastern Uni-versity, who has been study-ing the subject since the1980s, spurred by a rash ofmass shootings in postoffices.
The random mass shoot-ings that get the most mediaattention are the rarest, Foxsays. Most people who die ofbullet wounds knew theidentity of their killer.
MEDFORD (AP) — Feder-al authorities are increasing-ly using asset-forfeiture lawsto seize money and propertyfrom people involved in Ore-gon’s medical marijuanaprogram.
A review of U.S. DistrictCourt records by the MedfordMail Tribune newspapershows that in 2010, prosecu-tors filed just one forfeiturecase to seize money related tomarijuana that was grownunder the program. Last year,there were a dozen suchcases, and there were 11 in thefirst 11 months of this year.
Civil forfeiture laws allowpolice to seize the proceeds ofillegal activity without neces-sarily filing criminal chargesagainst those involved.
In one 2011 case, policeseized more than $120,000in cash and nearly $34,000worth of precious metalsfrom a registered Grants Passmedical-marijuana groweraccused of shipping pot tothe East Coast.
In another case, investi-gators took $6,600 in cashafter it was mailed in March2012 from Oklahoma to amedical-marijuana growerin Eugene. The grower wasseemingly in compliancewith state grow rules, but hefurnished what police con-sidered to be conflicting andhazy reasons for the ship-ment of cash.
Gun-control gainssupport of lawmakers
PORTLAND (AP) — Ore-gon gun-control advocateshave gained support amongOregon state lawmakers aftercalling for a ban on semi-automatic weapons on thesame day as the Connecticutschool massacre.
Members of a gun-controlgroup circulated through thestate Capitol Friday andgained 12 co-sponsors of abill that would ban semi-automatic rifles classified asassault weapons, accordingto The Oregonian .
Lawmakers who signed onare Democrats and all butone are from Portland or itsinner suburbs.
Ceasefire Oregon beganplanning for the effort follow-ing the shootings at Clacka-mas Town Center, where agunman killed two peopleTuesday and then himself.
Ceasefire Oregon said thegroup wants to “ban the saleof military-style assaultweapons — weapons whoseonly purpose is to kill asmany people as possible veryquickly.”
Seven states currentlyhave such laws on the books.A federal law existed from1994 until Congress let itexpire in 2004.
4 cell tower workersstranded on mountain
BURNS (AP) — HarneyCounty rescuers are waitingfor a break in the weather tomake another attempt to
reach four cell phone towerconstruction workers strand-ed since Saturday on SteensMountain near Andrews insoutheast Oregon.
KOIN reports their snowcat became stuck in a drift,and the four took shelterthere until Sunday. Thenthey waded through waist-deep snow to a heated shelterwith electricity.
Search and rescue coordi-nator Matt Fine says rescuerswere forced to turn backSunday afternoon by white-out conditions in the roughterrain.
One of the four strandedworkers is Brandon Seaver ofT igard. H is father JohnSeaver has been in cell phonecontact and told KOIN theyare at the 9,000-foot level ofthe mountain. He says theyare tired and hungry but safe.
Man with sword delaysfirefighters on a call
PORTLAND (AP) — Aman waving a sword delayedfirefighters who arrived atburning home in North Port-land.
KATU-TV reports that thefirefighters had to wait forpolice to detain the man Sat-urday evening. He was alsoholding a shield.
Sgt. Greg Pashley with thePortland Police Bureau saysfirefighters first encounteredthe 69-year-old man on thefront porch. Officers tried totalk to the man, but he keptswinging the sword andyelling incoherently.
Police fired a Taser to sub-due the man. Firefighterswent inside and rescued adog that was suffering fromsmoke inhalation. They useda special dog oxygen mask tohelp the animal.
Firefighters got the fireunder control in about 20minutes. There was around$40,000 in damage to thehouse.
Oregon men injured inaccidental shooting
ALBANY (AP) — TwoLebanon, Ore., men wereinjured when a handgunaccidentally discharged.
Sheriff Tim Mueller ofLinn County says the bulletgrazed the hand of 23-year-old Brandon Butler and shat-tered a bone in the forearm of31-year-old Anthony Catullo.
The incident occurred ona logging road late Friday asButler demonstrated how todisassemble the firearm. Hehad offered to trade thehandgun to Catullo inexchange for tires.
Both men were taken toLebanon Community Hospi-tal in personal vehicles.
He added that alcohol wasa contributing factor in theshooting.
Feds use forfeiture lawsagainst Ore. pot growers
STATED I G E S T
The Associated Press
In this Aug. 5 photo, a man wipes away tears outside a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. after a shooting. A whitesupremacist killed six worshippers and injured four other people before taking his own life.
Indiana man wanted to kill as manyas he could at elementary school
Von I. MeyerSuspect
No rise in mass killings,but their impact is huge
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If we sang it once, wesang it a thousand times.“Sixteen Tons” was No. 1 onmy elementary school’s hitparade, holding the recordas the most-requested songin fourth-grade music class.
To be perfectly candid, Ihadn’t thought much about
t h e o l dm i n e ra n d h i sd o l e f u ll a m e n t .A coupleo f yea rsa go, Iwas din-ing withf r i e n d swhen thes u b j e c to f t h e“compa-ny store”came up.
I knew I’d heard that phrasesomewhere. In a flash, I wasback in class, belting outthat old familiar chorus:
“You haul 16 tons, wha-daya get? Another day olderand a-deeper in debt. SaintPeter don’t cha’call mecause I can’t go — I owe mysoul to the company store.”
What was this companystore, and more important-ly, why did this guy owe hissoul to it? Must be serious ifhis debt could forestall hisdeath. As I’ve always said, ifyou need an answer, find ateacher.
Welcome Richard Joyce,h i s to ry tea c h e r a tWi l m i n g to n H i g h i nWi l m i n g to n , I l l . , wh otaught me that soon afterthe discovery of extensivecoal fields in the 1860s,large corporations boughthuge tracts of land, mineswe re s u n k a n d “ b o o m -towns” exploded in size, asminers flocked from Easternstates and Europe.
Life was horribly difficultfor the miners and theirfamilies. The undergroundwork was dangerous, dirtyand damp. Miners pickedand shoveled the coal for 10hours a day, breathed stale,dusty air, and many devel-oped black lung.
The most common com-plaint of the miners, how-ever, concerned their payand the total control thatthe companies had overtheir financial well-being.
Most mining towns were“company towns.” The coalcompany owned the land.They built, rented or soldthe houses to their workers.If the miners quit or went onstrike, the company couldev i c t t h e m . T h ey o f te nforced workers to buy at“company stores,” wherecredit was readily availablebut the prices higher.
Companies sometimespaid in scrip that was takenin trade only at the companystore. At times, men whorefused to buy from thecompany store were dis-missed.
We l l , t h a t ce r ta i n lyexplains things. “SixteenTons” isn’t only a song —it’s a history lesson. Makesme thankful to be living in2012 and not 1898. I mean,really, can you even imagineliving under such intolera-ble and unfair economicconditions?
Companies would nevercharge usurious fees orthink of offering credit tothe point that a customercould ever become overex-tended.
How could a companyhope to stay in businessthese days if it was encour-aging — or even enabling —its customers to purchasegoods and services beyondtheir means? We can onlyimagine what that wouldfeel like — to owe your soulto a company. Or a store.
You know, it’s good totake time for reflection nowand then, to make surewe’ve learned from the mis-takes of the past. After all,we sure wouldn’t want torepeat them. Oh, we’vecome a long way, baby!
Or have we? Mary Hunt is the founder of
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You can email her atm a r y @ e v e r y d a y c h e a p -skate.com, or write toEveryday Cheapskate, P.O.Box 2099, Cypress, CA90630.
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North Bend, involving facili-ties for exporting liquefiednatural gas and coal.
Though the port hasbrought the partners together,it can now only wait to see ifthe project becomes reality.The liquefied natural gas ter-minal and gas pipeline areawaiting federal approval, andboth projects have opponents.A $6.5 million study of theenvironmental impact ofdeepening the channel is notyet complete. Pollution fromcoal trains has been ques-tioned by communities alongthe rail route from coal-richWyoming to the sea. And fromNorth Bend, the coal and gaswould be launched into anunpredictable world market.
Nevertheless, the port isinvesting $31 million ingrants and loans to repair thetracks and bridges, gamblingthat the interconnectedprojects will succeed. Toremove one obstacle, Kochurged his hearers to exertwhat influence they could onthe regulatory process. “Weneed you to help us tell ourstory, so politicians and theregulatory community don’tstand in our way,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Coos BayRail Link’s engines are bene-fiting local industries, haul-ing steel for American Bridgein Reedsport, feed forCoquille Valley dairies, andlumber for local mills.
Airport ups and downsSouthwestern Oregon
Regional Airport, too, has astake in the Jordan Coveproject. Coos County Air-port District Board Chair-man Joe Benetti told thegathering the airport needs a400-foot runway extensionto serve larger jets, and it’shoping to get the necessarymaterial when Jordan CoveEnergy Partners dredges thebay to create a ship berth andturning basin.
In the shorter term, theairport district has a limitedwindow of time to spend afederal grant to help con-vince Delta Air Lines to startsummer jet service to SaltLake City, which wouldenable connections to theEast Coast.
But Benetti said if thatdeal isn’t finalized by Janu-ary, the service won’t hap-pen this summer.
The district continues toseek a partner interested indeveloping the property itowns west of the airport.
Hospital is healthyBay Area Hospital is pros-
pering and will throw a grandopening for its $45 millionaddition Feb. 16, said CEOPaul Janke.
The addition increases thehospital’s size by half, andadds numerous updates andimprovements to its facili-ties. The biggest change is a$4 million investment infacilities and equipment forcardiology services. A cardi-ologist recruited from Sacra-mento, Calif. will inauguratehis practice in February, andfull services will be availablein May or June.
Recovery will be slowIn addition to the heads of
the port, airport and hospi-tal, the forum’s audienceheard from Ray Cox, theowner of Giddings BoatWorks in Charleston, andTracy Mueller, the owner ofArt Signs in Coos Bay, eachof whom delighted the crowdby telling the story of histhriving business.
Two economists alsoaddressed the group, sayingslow growth is likely in CoosCounty’s future.
Guy Tauer, regional econo-mist for the Oregon Employ-ment Department, saidunemployment in our area isjust over 10 percent.
National unemployment inOctober was 7.9 percent, and
Tauer said the Federal Reservehas set a goal of 6.5 percent,and will keep interest rateslow until it is reached.
That would translate to arate of 7 or 8 percent in CoosCounty, Tauer said. Some ofour unemployment is sea-sonal or “structural” —caused when workers live
too far from jobs or don’thave the needed skills — andwouldn’t be affected byinterest rates.
Tauer said that between2007 and 2009, Coos Countylost 7 percent of its total
employment — about 1,900jobs — and has gained backonly 500 — an increase of 2.1percent in total employment.Employment in Coos Countyshould grow by 1 percent ayear for the next 10 years,Tauer said.
At the close of the session,John Mitchell, an economicconsultant with U.S. Bank,put the county’s prospectsinto national and internation-al perspective, outlining somehopeful economic indicators.He predicted that if Congresscould find a compromise to
avoid the “fiscal cliff” ofspending cuts and taxincreases, the nation — andOregon — would continue toexperience slow growth, atabout 2 percent a year.
Regarding that necessarycompromise, he quotedWinston Churchill: “We canalways count on the Ameri-cans to do the right thing,after they have exhausted allthe other possibilities.”
Reporter Gail Elber can bereached at 541-269-1222, ext.234, or at [email protected].
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South CoastTonight: Showers. Low around 35. West southwestwind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. TTuueessddaayy: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highnear 43. West northwest wind 10 to 13 mph.TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: Showers. Low around 40. West north-west wind around 11 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. WWeeddnneessddaayy: Rain. High near 47. Breezy, with a southwind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts to 36 mph.
Curry County CoastTonight: Showers. Low around 34. West southwestwind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. TTuueessddaayy: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highnear 44. West northwest wind around 9 mph. TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: Showers. Low around 39. West north-west wind around 9 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.WWeeddnneessddaayy: Rain. High near 47. Breezy, with a southwind 16 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.
Rogue ValleyTonight: Rain and snow showers likely, then snowshowers. Low around 29. Light and variable wind. TTuueessddaayy: Snow showers. High near 35. Calm wind. TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: A 30 percent chance of snow showers.Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. WWeeddnneessddaayy: A chance of snow. Snow level rising to2000 feet. Cloudy, with a high near 39.
Willamette ValleyTonight: Rain showers. Snow level lowering to 800feet. Low around 33. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph. TTuueessddaayy: Snow showers, possibly mixed with rain.High near 39. South southwest wind around 8 mph. TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around37. South wind around 8 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.WWeeddnneessddaayy: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 46.Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 22 mph.
Portland areaTonight: Rain and snow showers. Snow level 600feet. Low around 32. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph. TTuueessddaayy: Snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a highnear 37. South southwest wind around 9 mph.TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: Rain and snow likely. Snow level 800feet. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. WWeeddnneessddaayy: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 41.South wind 15 to 21 mph. Chance of rain is 70%.
North CoastTonight: Showers. Low around 35. West wind 13 to 20mph, with gusts to 31 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. TTuueessddaayy: Showers. High near 41. West wind around 11mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: Rain. Low around 38. West wind 11 to18 mph. Winds could gust to 26 mph. WWeeddnneessddaayy: Rain. High near 47. Windy, with a southwind 31 to 37 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph.
Central OregonTonight: A 50 percent chance of snow showers.Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17. TTuueessddaayy: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with ahigh near 30. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph. TTuueessddaayy NNiigghhtt: A chance of snow showers. Mostlycloudy, with a low around 20. WWeeddnneessddaayy: A 40 percent chance of snow. Cloudy,with a high near 35. South wind 10 to 18 mph.
Temperatures indicate Sunday's high andovernight low to 5 a.m.
The Tide TablesTo find the tide prediction for your area, add orsubtract minutes as indicated. To find your esti-mated tidal height, multiply the listed height bythe high or low ratio for your area.Location High time ratio Low time ratioBandon -0:18 .81 -0:06 .84Brookings -0:40 .81 -0:30 .91Charleston -0:11 .89 -0:04 .91Coos Bay +1:20 .86 +1:24 .84Florence +0:38 .77 +0:54 .75Port Orford -0:28 .86 -0:23 .99Reedsport +1:05 .79 +1:20 .75Umpqua River -0:01 .81 -0:01 .91
HIGH TIDE A.M. P.M.Date time ft. time ft.17-Dec 3:24 8.6 2:51 8.618-Dec 4:11 8.5 3:49 7.719-Dec 4:59 8.5 4:53 6.820-Dec 5:49 8.5 6:08 6.221-Dec 6:39 8.5 7:34 5.9
LOW TIDE A.M. P.M.Date time ft. time ft.17-Dec 8:57 2.9 9:23 -0.218-Dec 9:59 2.8 10:10 0.619-Dec 11:07 2.7 10:59 1.620-Dec 12:19 2.5 11:52 2.521-Dec - - 1:30 2.1
Oregon Temps Local high, low, rainfallFriday: High 50, low 37, 0.31 inchesSaturday: High 50, low 36, .26 inchesSunday: High 54, low 45, 0.79 inchesTotal rainfall to date: 48.87 inchesRainfall to date last year: 36.45 inchesAverage rainfall to date: 59.62 inches
Storm In East Exits, Paci�c Storm Dives ThroughWest
Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy
Rain and a wintry mix of precipitation will continue in the Northeastas the storm system of the region pushes offshore. Meanwhile,the strong Pacific storm of the West drops southward into theSouthwest and Rockies with heavy snow.
National forecastForecast highs for Tuesday, Dec. 18
PROSPERITYPort, hospitalairport reportedContinued from Page A1
By Gail Elber, The World
Ray Cox bought Giddings Boat Works in 2007. The businessrecently expanded from seven employees to 27 and is hop-ing the Port can help it acquire equipment it needs to takeon bigger projects.
By Alysha Beck, The World
A Coos Bay Rail Link train slowly moved through downtown Coos Bay earlier this month while workers tossedrail ties from the cars. The Port of Coos Bay is restoring the rails in hopes the rail line will underpin a shippingrenaissance.
When Ray Cox called to ask about buyingTarheel Aluminum 11 years ago, he wasthrilled to hear about the company’s line ofbusiness.
“You work on drag boats?” he said. “I’llbe right there.”
Even after he found that by “drag boats”they meant fishing vessels instead of high-speed racing craft, he sold everything hehad and bought the company, living in hiscamper for eight months.
When he’d put the business on a prof-itable footing, he learned that boat builderDon Giddings wanted to retire. “I decidedto roll the dice again and take this chance,”Cox said.
Since then, he’s grown his business fromseven employees to 27 — “family wagejobs,” he said. Recently he took the plungeinto building fishing boats from the groundup. “It’s the first time since 1999 that aboat has been built in Charleston,” he said.“It builds self-esteem.”
He’d like to build still more and biggervessels, and he’s hoping his landlord, thePort of Coos Bay, can help him get the trav-el lift — a large crane — he needs tomaneuver them.
Ship shaper
name of their business ontheir truck now want theextra advertising. Businesseswant to explore ways tospruce up their facades inex-pensively.
Mueller said he sticks to acouple of principles. Hespends locally, buying vehi-cles and fuel from people hedoes business with. And hepassed along a maxim thatwould work well in anyindustry: “Always do the bestyou can, even if it’s 10:00 ona Friday night and it’s rain-ing.”
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“She was crying becauseher son has never had a newbicycle,” he said.
Kevin Pope, the SalvationArmy’s pastor, can under-stand that reaction.
“A lot of the families can’tafford to even put food on thetable, let alone buy a bike fortheir child,” Pope said. “Thisyear, there’ll be 80 kids ridingaround on bikes on Christ-mas morning.”
Richard Clemons, 57, a log-ger and avid biker, says that’swhy — even if their sleighsmight have more chrome thantraditional — they’ll be backnext Christmas.
“I got a big family and Icame from a big family,”Clemons said. “It’s just agood thing, you know?”
Reporter Daniel Simmons-Ritchie can be reached at 541-269-1222, ext. 249, or [email protected].
TOY RUNContinued from Page A1
prevent more tragedies likeNewtown.
“What choice do wehave?” Obama said on a starkstage that held only a smalltable covered with a blackcloth, candles and the presi-dential podium. “Are wereally prepared to say thatwe’re powerless in the face ofsuch carnage, that the poli-tics are too hard?”
As Obama read some ofthe names of victims early inhis remarks, sobs resonatedthroughout the hall. Heclosed by slowly reading thefirst names of each of the 20children.
“God has called them allhome,” he said. “For those ofus who remain, let us find thestrength to carry on andmake our country worthy oftheir memory.”
The first funerals wereplanned today for Jack Pinto,a 6-year-old New YorkGiants fan who might beburied in wide receiver VictorCruz’s jersey, and NoahPozner, a boy of the same agewho liked to figure out howthings worked mechanically.
“He was just a really lively,smart kid,” said Noah’s uncleAlexis Haller. “He wouldhave become a great man, Ithink. He would have grownup to be a great dad.”
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BY JOHN GUNTHERThe World
COQUILLE — Coquille’s girlsstarted each half fast and beat GoldBeach 40-29 for the title in theWinter Lake Classic on Saturdaynight.
“We took it to them right at thestart and right at the third quar-ter,” said Coquille coach TimGeDeros.
Gold Beach’s Morrigan Cliffordscored the opening hoop, but theRed Devils then scored 10 straight,including 3-pointers by bothEmily Lack and Taylor GeDeros.
The Panthers pulled within 10-9 at the end of the first quarter, butCoquille outscored Gold Beach 15-4 in the second and then had a 9-2run to start the third quarter,sparked by a 3-pointer from Lackon the opening possession.
The closest the Panthers gotafter that was 11 points, failing totake advantage of the Red Devilsgetting just two free throws fromGeDeros for their only scoring inthe fourth quarter.
“We played better, except forthe fourth quarter,” Tim GeDerossaid.
Lack finished with a game-high13 points and was named to the all-tournament team.
Taylor GeDeros, meanwhile,had another strong all-aroundgame, with 12 points, six steals, sixrebounds and six assists, and wasnamed the tournament’s mostvaluable player.
All-tournament pick ElizaLander had nine points, four stealsand eight rebounds for thePanthers. Jessica Young, who hadsix points and eight rebounds, alsowas on the all-tournament team.
“Overall, I’m happy with thetournament,” said Gold Beachcoach Chris Clark. “It’s good to seeCoquille and see where we’re at.”
The Sunset Conference foeswill meet twice in league play,though Clark said his bigger focuswill be on Myrtle Point andReedsport, the two teams thePanthers are battling with for theClass 2A District 1 playoffs.
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COQUILLE — In a busy pre-season featuring a number of tal-ented teams from larger schools,Coquille got a learning experienceSaturday night.
North Valley, the top-rankedteam in Class 4A, beat the RedDevils 56-39 in the championshipgame of the Winter Lake Classic.
What bothered Coquille coachDan Cumberland wasn’t the out-come of the game, but the path tothe final score, he said.
“They’re a very good team;there’s no doubt about it,” he said.“I thought we could give them abetter game.”
What the Red Devils didn’t do,at least for most of the contest,was try to get the ball insideagainst the taller Knights. Instead,the Red Devils resorted to 3-pointattempts and other outside shotsfor most of the first three quar-ters.
The results weren’t favorable.Coquille was barely better than 20percent shooting for the openingthree quarters, and finished at 27percent. The Red Devils shot just2-for-16 from 3-point range.
“They shot the ball well, wedidn’t,” Cumberland said, sum-marizing the contest.
The game was close for a quar-ter, with North Valley leading 13-9.
Wilson Hodge scored the firstbasket of the second quarter topull the Red Devils within two, butNorth Valley scored the next 14points to take control.
The Knights attackedCoquille’s defense with efficientball movement, getting open looksboth inside and outside.
Wyatt McCue scored 12 of his 15points in the first half andCameron Lyon was effective bothinside and outside on the way to ateam-high 19 points, connectingon three 3-pointers.
Knightstop Devilsfor title
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Portland guard Damian Lillard celebrates after hitting the game-winning shot against the New Orleans Hornets on Sunday.
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PORTLAND — There was asplit-second as his shot arced overa defender’s hands that TrailBlazers rookie Damian Lillardrealized his game-winning 3-pointer was going to fall.
“I looked. And it looked good,”he said.
Lillard’s 3-pointer with 0.3seconds left helped Portland handNew Orleans its sixth straight losswith a 95-94 victory over theHornets on Sunday night.
After trailing by as many as 16,the Hornets tied it at 92 on AustinRivers’ 3-pointer with 50.9 sec-onds left. The Blazers thenabsorbed a blow when LaMarcusAldridge suddenly came up limp-ing and headed to the locker roomwith what appeared to be a leftankle injury, but Lillard camethrough to give Portland the win.
The winning shot appeared tocome at the buzzer but a reviewput the 0.3 fraction back on theclock. Lance Thomas made analley-oop layup from RyanAnderson as time ran out for thefinal margin.
“You need .04 to get the shotoff, so we just ran a play for execu-
tion. There was not time for us toget a shot off, with them grabbingand holding Ryan it was going tobe tough for him to get a shot off,so we were working on execution,”Hornets coach Monty Williamssaid. “According to the rules youneed .04 to get a shot off. It was asituation where we worked onsomething we would need in thefuture.”
However, the NBA’s so-calledTrent Tucker rule says there has tobe at least 0.3 on the clock for aplayer to gain control of a reboundor inbound pass and shoot a fieldgoal. The only type of field goalwhich may be scored if the clock isat 0.2 or less is a tip-in or high lob.
J.J. Hickson had a season-high24 points and added 16 reboundsfor the Blazers, who have wonthree straight. Hickson has fivestraight double-doubles and 13overall this season.
Anderson had 26 points,including seven 3-pointers, forNew Orleans — so why he didn’ttake the final shot was perplexing.
“There was not a lot of time onthe clock,” Anderson said. “Itwould have been tough, I don’teven know if we could have got ashot off in time. Coach was saying
you need .04 to get set and get ashot off.”
Aldridge had 20 points beforeleaving the game and the teamlater said that X-rays were nega-tive. Lillard finished with 16points.
“I was excited to win the game.We had a big lead, we let themfight back and tie the game up andwe were looking at overtime, so Iwas kind of relieved and excited atthe same time,” Lillard said.
Wesley Matthews, who hit a 3-pointer to open the night for theBlazers, was making his return tothe starting lineup after missingtwo games because of a strainedleft hip. The injury put him on thebench in street clothes for the firsttime in his four-year NBA career.He had played in 250 straightgames, second-most amongactive players behind OklahomaCity’s Russell Westbrook.
Matthews was replaced byVictor Claver less than five min-utes into the game and did notreturn. The Blazers said there wasno specific injury, he just “didn’tfeel right.”
Lillard stole the show in thebattle of the rookies with AnthonyDavis.
Davis, the top pick in last June’sdraft, is still getting his legs backafter missing 11 games with a leftankle injury. In the first threegames off the bench since hisreturn, he averaged 11.7 points and6.3 rebounds for the Hornets.
Against the Blazers he had 15points. Before the stress reactionin his ankle, Davis was averaging16 points and 8.3 rebounds.
Lillard, the sixth overall pick inthe draft, has been the WesternConference’s rookie of the monthfor both October and November,and was leading all rookies with anaverage of 18.9 points going intoSunday night’s game.
Hickson pushed Portland’sfirst-half lead to 51-38 with alayup and the Blazers went intothe break ahead 54-43.
Aldridge’s dunk made it 67-53midway through the third quarter.But it was Hickson’s 11 points thathelped put the Blazers up by asmany as 16 in the period.
Anderson’s putback layupclosed the Hornets to 82-75 with7:55 left, but Luke Babbittanswered for the Blazers with a 3-pointer.
Rookie hits game-winner for Blazers
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The Green Bay Packers and Houston Texansclinched their divisions, while the BaltimoreRavens earned a playoff spot despite anotherlousy loss.
The jumbled NFC East? Well, that will comedown to the final week of the season.
The New York Giants were humiliated 34-0by the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, falling into afirst-place tie with the Dallas Cowboys andWashington Redskins, who both won toimprove to 8-6.
The Redskins did it without Robert GriffinIII, who sat out with a sprained right knee andwasn’t happy about having to stand on thesideline and watch his teammates play. But fel-low rookie Kirk Cousins stepped in and threwfor 329 yards and two touchdowns, leadingWashington to its fifth straight win, 38-21 overthe Cleveland Browns.
“We’re in first place in our division now, andit was a great business trip for us,” Griffin said.“I got healthier by not playing. We won thegame and put ourselves in position to controlour own destiny.”
Cousins connected with LeonardHankerson for both TDs in his first career start,and the Redskins barely missed a beat withoutthe talented and multi-dimensional RG3. Lastweek, Cousins came off the bench after Griffingot hurt, and delivered a performance in thisone that extended Washington’s longest win-ning streak since 2007.
“I talked to him about being cool, calm andcollected and not to freak out,” Griffin said. “Hedid a good job of staying poised and stayingconfident in there.”
Rookie Trent Richardson had a pair of TDruns for the Browns (5-9).
Cowboys 27, Steelers 24, OT: AtArlington, Texas, Dallas’ Brandon Carr inter-cepted a pass by Ben Roethlisberger in over-time, returned it 36 yards to the 1, and DanBailey kicked a 21-yard field goal for a win overPittsburgh.
“Those are the plays you dream about in thebackyard, making the game-winning intercep-tion or touchdown,” Carr said.
Bailey’s kick — 1:24 into OT — won a gamefor the second straight week since Dallas prac-tice squad linebacker Jerry Brown was killed in
a one-car accident that led to manslaughtercharges against teammate Josh Brent. AfterCarr’s interception, Tony Romo took a 2-yardloss to put the kicker in better position for theCowboys.
The Steelers (7-7) lost for the fourth time infive games and trail AFC North rival Cincinnatiby a game for the conference’s second wild-card spot. They host the Bengals next week.Roethlisberger is 0-2 since returning from athree-game absence with shoulder and ribinjuries.
“There won’t be any quit from us, especial-ly from me,” Roethlisberger said. “This one isgoing to sting real bad. It will hopefully makeme and make us better.”
Packers 21, Bears 3: At Chicago, thePackers clinched their second straight NFCNorth title with a victory over the archrivalChicago Bears.
James Jones caught all three touchdownpasses thrown by the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers.Green Bay has now won six straight in the NFL’soldest — and fiercest — rivalry. The Packers (10-
4) have won 12 straight against NFC Northopponents, the longest streak in the NFL.
Brandon Marshall had a 15-yard TD catchfor the Bears (8-6), who have lost five of six andare in danger of missing the playoffs afterbeginning the year 7-1.
Texans 29, Colts 17: At Houston, AndreJohnson had 151 yards receiving and a touch-down, Bryan Braman scored on a blocked puntand Shayne Graham kicked five field goals toclinch the AFC South for the second straightyear.
J.J. Watt had three sacks for the Texans (12-2) as Houston’s defense got back on track aweek after a 42-14 loss to New England.
The Colts (9-5) had won three straight andneeded a win to clinch a playoff berth a yearafter going 2-14.
Broncos 34, Ravens 17: At Baltimore,Chris Harris returned an interception 98 yardsfor a momentum-turning touchdown, andDenver won its ninth straight.
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Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler is sacked by Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews during the second half Sunday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Matt Scott watched help-lessly as Nevada kicked afield goal to pad its lead. TheArizona quarterback hadalready thrown two intercep-tions, and now needed twoquick scores and some luck —in a hurry, too — to somehowwin the New Mexico Bowl.
Scott even admitted hedidn’t have “positive”thoughts before returning tothe field.
But in the final 46 sec-onds, Scott threw two shorttouchdown passes and col-lege football’s postseasonstarted with a wild one asArizona rallied past Nevada49-48 Saturday.
Overcoming a slow startand three big turnovers,Arizona (8-5) recovered anonside kick in the lastminute, setting up Scott’s 2-yard toss to Tyler Slavin with19 seconds left for the win-ning score.
“It’s not easy to comeback from that situation,”Scott said. “You’re not nec-essarily going to think themost positive thing at thetime, but we went out thereand took care of business. Itwas just a big drive. I stillcan’t believe it.”
Arizona trailed 21-0 in thefirst quarter and was down45-28 entering the final peri-od. Scott threw for 382 yardsand marched his team backinto the game despite thosetwo earlier interceptions.
“Certainly, I’ve had somegames come down to thatend,” he said. “But to haveeverything, the defense mak-ing the stop, to the field goal,Matt leading the quick drivedown there, getting theonside kick ... and then Mattleading down again. It justdoesn’t happen very often.”
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leader, Ka’Deem Carey,gained 172 yards for theWildcats and but fell short ofbecoming only the 16th run-ning back in NCAA history toreach 2,000 yards in a sea-son.
Arizona receiver AustinHill caught eight passes for175 yards and two touch-downs. The teams combinedfor 1,237 total yards.
Cody Fajardo threw forthree touchdowns and ran foranother score to lead theWolf Pack (7-6). He had 256yards passing and 140 yardsrushing and controlled mostof the game, completing 22 of32 throws.
Stefphon Jefferson, thenation’s second-leadingrusher, ran for 180 yards forNevada and also seemedunstoppable as the Wolf Packtook a big lead and held on toit for most of the game.
But after forcing Nevadato kick a field goal with 1:48left that made it 48-35, Scottdrove the Wildcats down 75yards in about a minute.Arizona then recovered anonside kick and Scottmarched his team into theend zone after three playsand 51 yards.
“They scored 14 points inless than two minutes,”
Nevada linebacker AlbertRosette said. “I’m still inshock right now.”
Nevada head coach ChrisAult said the team passdefense just didn’t make aplay when it was needed.
“Well, it’s a sick feeling,”he said. “Congratulations toArizona. They held in thereand did it, but it’s a sick feel-ing.”
Ault said a late injury toFajardo also hurt Nevada’srunning game in the last sixor so minutes of the game.
“He ran it one time, justtucking it up in there,” Aultsaid. “But we could not runour read game at that partic-ular time.”
Rodriguez, who took ayear off from coaching after adisappointing stint atMichigan, is now 3-5 in bowlgame appearances. He calledhis New Mexico Bowl winamong his best career wins asa coach.
“It’s the latest and thegreatest so far,” Rodriguezsaid.
Famous Idaho Potato BowlUtah State 41, Toledo
15: Kerwynn Williams ran for235 yards and three touch-downs and No. 18 Utah Statewon a bowl game for the first
time in nearly 20 years.The victory capped the
best season in Utah State his-tory. The Aggies finished 11-2, won the Western AthleticConference title outright andhad their first bowl victorysince 1993.
Chuckie Keeton scored ona 62-yard run to put UtahState up 7-3, and Williams,the game’s MVP, sparked a28-point fourth quarter forUtah State when he brokethrough the defense andraced 63 yards for a touch-down to put the Aggies up20-9. Williams, who had 18carries, followed that with TDruns of 5 and 25 yards. Keetonran for 92 yards and was 21-of-31 passing for 229 yards.
Toledo (9-4) was able tomove the ball and made fivetrips inside the red zone. Butpenalties and miscues forcedthe Rockets to settle forJeremiah Detmer’s three fieldgoals.
The Rockets’ only touch-down came when BernardReedy returned a fourth-quarter kickoff 87 yards.Reedy was the only big pro-ducer on a Toledo offenseheld to 315 total yards. Reedyhad 51 yards rushing andcaught six passes for 62yards.
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NEW YORK — TheToronto Blue Jays tried toclose a trade for New YorkMets ace R.A. Dickey, withthe deal hinging on whetherthe NL Cy Young winnercould work out a new con-tract.
The Mets would getprized catching prospectTravis d’Arnaud. There wasspeculation Toronto alsowould receive catcher JoshThole whiles e n d i n gc a t c h e rJohn Buckand minorl e a g u epitcher NoahSyndergaard to the Mets.
Dickey, a 38-year-oldknuckleballer, was 20-6 witha 2.73 ERA last season. He issigned for $5.25 million nextyear, and the Mets startedexploring trades after theycouldn’t agree to a contractadding two years.
Andruw Jones will playfor Japanese team
TOKYO — Andruw Jonesis headed to Japan.
The five-time All-Staroutfielder has finalized a $3.5million, one-year contractwith the Rakuten Eagles ofJapan's Pacific League. Theteam announced the move onSunday.
The 35-year-old Jonesbecame a free agent afterspending the past two sea-sons as a part-time playerwith the New York Yankees.He appeared in 94 games thisyear, batting.197 with 14home runs.
SKIINGLigety gives U.S. skiteam weekend sweep
ALTA BADIA, Italy — TedLigety cruised to his thirdgiant slalom win of the sea-son by a large margin after anopening run that left his fel-low skiers in awe, giving theU.S. team two wins in twodays.
Ligety sliced his waydown the classic Gran Risacourse in a two-run com-bined time of 2 minutes, 37.27seconds. Defending overallWorld Cup winner MarcelHirscher finished second,2.04 seconds behind, andThomas Fanara of France wasthird, 3.27 back.
With Aksel Lund Svindalfinishing ninth, Ligety nar-rowed the gap behind theNorwegian in the standings.Svindal now has 614 points,Ligety is next with 508 andHirscher is third with 460.
Steven Nyman, anotherAmerican, won the downhillin nearby Val Gardena onSaturday, making it the firsttime two American men wonraces on consecutive dayssince Marco Sullivan andBode Miller achieved the featin Chamonix, France, inJanuary 2008.
Maze extends lead inWorld Cup standings
COURCHEVEL, France —Tina Maze won her fourthstraight grand slalom race toextend her overall World Cuplead — and more importantlycreate a bigger gap to LindseyVonn, the defending champi-on who had another disap-pointing day and failed tofinish.
Maze had a comfortablelead of 0.63 seconds overFrenchwoman Tessa Worleyafter her first run and the 29-year-old Slovenian then heldoff Austria’s Kathrin Zettel inthe second to win by 0.22.
Maze, who was secondoverall behind Vonn last yearby 578 points, let out a whoopof joy as she won. Vonn trailsMaze by 385 points withmore of the Slovenian’sfavored technical eventscoming up in the Swedishresort of Are later this week.
Vonn returns to U.S. torecover from illness
ALTA BADIA, Italy —Lindsey Vonn is heading hometo the United States for anunexpected break in the mid-dle of the World Cup ski sea-son, and is unlikely to returnto Europe until January.
U.S. women’s head coachAlex Hoedlmoser told TheAssociated Press that Vonn’sheavy schedule has notallowed her to recover fromthe intestinal illness thatlanded her in the hospital in
Vail, Colo., last month.Hoedlmoser says the tim-
ing of Vonn’s return“depends on how she’s feel-ing and exactly what hercondition is.”
TENNISATP opposes Mondayfinish at U.S. Open
LONDON — The ATPopposes the U.S. Open’sswitch to a Monday final in2013 and is not satisfied withthe prize money increase forthe tournament.
The governing body ofmen’s tennis said “the ATP andits players have made it clear tothe U.S. Open that we do notsupport a Monday final.”
The U.S. TennisAssociation announced lastFriday that the women’s finalwould be moved to Sundayand the men’s final toMonday next year.
The ATP said today “westrongly believe the U.S.Open should keep a similarschedule to the other GrandSlams, with the men’s semi-finals completed by Fridayand the final on Sunday.”
PRO BASKETBALLNBA suspends Buckscenter Przybilla
NEW YORK — MilwaukeeBucks center Joel Przybillahas been suspended onegame without pay for throw-ing a basketball that hit a ref-eree during a game againstthe Los Angeles Clippers.
Stu Jackson, the NBA’sexecutive vice president forbasketball operations,announced the suspensionSunday.
The incident occurredwith 1:36 remaining in thefourth quarter ofMilwaukee’s 111-85 loss tothe Clippers on Saturdaynight.
GOLFGarcia wins with fastfinish in Malaysia
JOHOR, Malaysia —Sergio Garcia won the rain-shortened Johor Open, clos-ing with an 11-under 61 for athree-stroke victory in theAsian Tour’s season-endingevent.
The 32-year-old Spanishstar finished at 18-under 198at Horizon Hills for his sec-ond victory of the year and24th international title. Healso won the PGA Tour’sWyndham Championship inAugust.
Garcia had the lowestfinal round by a winner inAsian Tour history. AmericanJonathan Moore also shot a61 to finish second.
John Daly finished with a65 to tie for 15th at 8 under.South Africa’s Ernie Elsclosed with a 72 to tie for48th at 3 under.
Schwartzel capturessecond straight title
MALELANE, SouthAfrica — Charl Schwartzelwas a runaway winner for thesecond straight week, coast-ing to a 12-shot victory at theAlfred DunhillChampionship on theEuropean Tour.
The 2011 Masters cham-pion finished with a totalscore of 24-under 264 atLeopard Creek CountryClub. He won by 11 strokes inThailand last weekend.
Schwartzel won for theeighth time on the EuropeanTour. The South African alsocaptured this tournament in2004, his first title on thetour.
Loves team to win theFather-Son Challenge
ORLANDO, Fla. — DavisLove III had a nice pitch shoton No. 18 and son Dru fin-ished off the birdie to capturethe Father-Son Challengetitle.
With Larry and JoshNelson already in at 22 underfor the two-day scrambleformat, both Loves misfiredin trying to reach the green intwo at the par-5 finishinghole. Dru, an Alabama fresh-man who won five Georgiastate titles in high school,went long and right near thegrandstand at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes. Daviswatched his ball roll onto thebank of a greenside pond.
But the elder Love foundthe right touch on his pitchfrom Dru’s position and hisson made the winning putt.
Blue Jays seektrade for Dickey
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Arizona’s Tyler Slavin comes down with a touchdown catch in the end zone in front of Nevada’s Bryson Keetonto tie the New Mexico Bowl in the closing seconds Saturday. The Wildcats kicked the extra point to win 49-48.
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Peyton Manning threw for 204 yardsand a score in his ninth consecutive winagainst Baltimore, the first with theBroncos (11-3).
The Ravens (9-5) were playing theirfirst game under offensive coordinatorJim Caldwell, who replaced the firedCam Cameron. Baltimore clinched aplayoff spot by virtue of Pittsburgh’sovertime loss to Dallas.
Falcons 34, Giants 0: At Atlanta,Matt Ryan threw three touchdownspasses and the Falcons’ defense handedthe Giants their first regular-seasonshutout since 1996.
“We love the haters, man,” saidFalcons cornerback Asante Samuel,who had the first of two interceptionsagainst Eli Manning. “The haters keepus going. So keep your hate coming. Welove it. It makes us play with a chip onour shoulder.”
Julio Jones caught a couple of scoringthrows from Ryan, who broke his ownfranchise records for completions andpassing yards in a season. He finished 23of 28 for 270 yards.
The Falcons (12-2), who have alreadyclinched the NFC South, moved a stepcloser to home-field advantagethroughout the conference playoffs.
Manning had his lowest-rated gamesince 2007 for New York (8-6), whichwent 0-for-3 on fourth down andmissed a short field goal.
“Atlanta was very, very good. Wewere very, very bad,” New York coachTom Coughlin said. “There’s no excusefor what happened here.”
49ers 41, Patriots 34: AtFoxborough, Mass., San Franciscoearned a playoff berth by withstandinga stunning comeback by Tom Brady andNew England from a 28-point deficit tobeat the Patriots.
Michael Crabtree took a short passfrom Colin Kaepernick and sped aroundcornerback Kyle Arrington for a 38-yardtouchdown with 6:25 to go, then DavidAkers made a 28-yard field goal toclinch it. San Francisco (10-3-1) owns atleast a wild-card spot and plays atSeattle next week with a chance to winthe NFC West.
AFC East champion New England(10-4), which had won seven in a row,trailed 31-3 at one point and lost for thefirst time at home in December in 21games. The Patriots also had won 21 in arow in the second half of the schedulebefore San Francisco somehowregrouped late in a game it seeminglyhad clinched long before.
Vikings 36, Rams 22: At St. Louis,Adrian Peterson ran for a season-best212 yards, including an 82-yard touch-down.
Peterson has 1,812 yards rushing for
the Vikings (8-6), leaving him 294 shyof breaking the NFL’s single-seasonrecord of 2,105 by Eric Dickerson of theLos Angeles Rams in 1984. Peterson,less than a year removed from a seriousknee injury, has two games left — atHouston and home against Green Bay —to top Dickerson.
Former Oregon State standoutSteven Jackson went over 10,000 yardsfor his career on a 9-yard run in thethird quarter, and finished with 73 yardson just eight carries for the Rams, givinghim 909 yards for the year and keepinghim within range of his eighth straight1,000-yard season.
The Rams fell to 6-7-1.Seahawks 50, Bills 17: At Toronto,
Seattle rookie quarterback RussellWilson ran for three touchdowns andthrew for another in leading theSeahawks to their second straight rout.
Wilson scored on runs of 14, 25 and 4yards and then hit Zach Miller for a 4-yard touchdown in helping theSeahawks (9-5) score 31 points on theirfirst five possessions. The defense forcedthree consecutive turnovers to start thesecond half, including Earl Thomasscoring on 57-yard interception return.
The Bills (5-9) were knocked out ofplayoff contention for a 13th consecu-tive season.
Cardinals 31, Lions 10: AtGlendale, Ariz., Greg Toler returned aninterception 102 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown as Arizona ended anine-game losing streak.
The Cardinals (5-9) interceptedMatthew Stafford three times, return-ing two for touchdowns and setting up aTD with the other.
The Lions (4-10) lost their sixthstraight. Rashad Johnson brought backa pick 53 yards for a touchdown to capArizona’s 21-point second quarter.Patrick Peterson’s interception set upanother score.
Detroit’s Calvin Johnson became the
first player in NFL history with consec-utive 1,600-yard receiving seasons andtied an NFL record with his seventhstraight 100-yard receiving game.
Panthers 31, Chargers 7: At SanDiego, Mike Tolbert scored twiceagainst his former team and DeAngeloWilliams turned a tipped pass fromCam Newton into a 45-yard touchdownreception.
Carolina (5-9) won consecutivegames for the first time since lastDecember. The loss knocked theChargers (5-9) out of playoff contentionfor the third straight year, and clinchedtheir first losing season since 2003,when they were an NFL-worse 4-12.
Saints 41, Buccaneers 0: At NewOrleans, Drew Brees passed for 307 yardsand four touchdowns, and New Orleansposted its first shutout since 1995.
Brees connected on his scoring pass-es with tight end David Thomas, run-ning back Darren Sproles and receiversLance Moore and Joe Morgan. MarkIngram added an 11-yard touchdownrun for the Saints (6-8).
Josh Freeman endured one of hisworst outings of the season for TampaBay (6-8), throwing four interceptionsand losing a fumble.
Dolphins 24, Jaguars 3: At Miami,the Dolphins (6-8) kept former team-mate Chad Henne out of the end zone,made three fourth-down stops deep intheir own territory and benefited froman odd penalty.
The Dolphins turned back threescoring threats, and a go-ahead touch-down for the Jaguars (2-12) came off theboard because of an illegal-substitutionpenalty.
Raiders 15, Chiefs 0: At Oakland,Calif., Sebastian Janikowski kicked fivefield goals and Darren McFadden rushedfor 110 yards.
The Raiders (4-10) overwhelmed theChiefs (2-12) to snap a six-game losingstreak.
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Golden State 115, Atlanta 93New York 103, Cleveland 102Orlando 107, Charlotte 98Indiana 88, Detroit 77Miami 102, Washington 72Chicago 83, Brooklyn 82Minnesota 114, Dallas 106, OTSan Antonio 103, Boston 88L.A. Clippers 111, Milwaukee 85Memphis 99, Utah 86
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TransactionsBBAASSEEBBAALLLLAAmmeerriiccaann LLeeaagguueeLOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with
OF Josh Hamilton on a five-year contract.NNaattiioonnaall LLeeaagguueePHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed LHP
Mauricio Robles off waivers from Seattle. BBAASSKKEETTBBAALLLLNNaattiioonnaall BBaasskkeettbbaallll AAssssoocciiaattiioonnNBA — Suspended Milwuakee F Joel Przybilla
one game for throwing the basketball and hit-ting a referee during a Dec. 15 game against thethe Los Angeles Clippers.
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F TerrenceJones from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). Signed FDominic McGuire.
FFOOOOTTBBAALLLLNNaattiioonnaall FFoooottbbaallll LLeeaagguueeARIZONA CARDINALS — Released WR Stephen
Williams and OL Mike Gibson. Signed DT RickyLumpkin from the practice squad.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed FB ChrisPressley on injured reserve. Signed FB JohnConner.
DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Lance Long.Signed RB Shaun Chapas from the practicesquad.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released WR KevinElliott. Signed G Austin Pasztor from the prac-tice squad and WR Jerrell Jackson to the practicesquad.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed T CharlesBrown and S Malcolm Jenkins on injuredreserve. Signed G Ricky Henry and S JericoNelson from the practice squad.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Released OL SelvishCapers. Signed CB Terrence Frederick from thepractice squad.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released T MikeGibson.
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed DE LoganHarrell to the practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released WR ChadHall from the practice squad.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed GHayworth Hicks to the practice squad.
SSOOCCCCEERRU.S. SOCCER FEDERATION — Announced the
new women's professional league will be calledthe National Women's Soccer League.
CCOOLLLLEEGGEEMICHIGAN — Suspended CB J.T. Floyd, P Will
Hagerup and LB Brandin Hawthorne for theOutback Bowl.
TENNESSEE — Named Zach Azzanni widereceivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
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Texas players Khat Bell, left, Megan Futch and Halewy Eckerman celebrate with the championship trophy following their victory over Oregon in theNCAA volleyball championship game Saturday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) —Bailey Webster played littlein Texas’ previous NCAAvolleyball championshipgame appearance three yearsago but became quite experi-enced with the postseason asthe Longhorns reached twomore semifinals.
That seasoning paid offfor the junior Saturday nightwhen she helped Texas win anational championship.
Webster had 14 kills, HaleyEckerman added 12 and thethird-seeded Longhornsswept Oregon for its firstNCAA title since 1988. Texaswon 25-11, 26-24, 25-19.
“All I remember aboutthis match is that we did thewhole thing together,” said
Webster, who finished with a.500 hitting percentage andfour block assists and wasvoted the tournament’s mostoutstanding player. “I reallythink we won this because wewere such a team out there.”
Texas (29-4) has been arecent regular at volleyball’sFinal Four, making its fourthappearance in five years andplaying in its first title gamesince 2009. The Longhornslost to Penn State in five setsafter leading 2-0.
This time they took careof business for their secondtitle in four tries, recordingtheir third sweep in the pastfour matches. When it endedthe Longhorns swarmed thecourt to celebrate, with
sophomore middle blockerKhat Bell jumping on coachJerritt Elliott’s back.
“I’ve been in this thing alot of times and finally webroke through,” Elliott saidabout winning his first titleas a coach. “This has been along time coming.”
But the Longhorns endedup making quick work of theDucks by dominating the net,outblocking Oregon 15-1.Texas also outhit the Ducks.438-.202.
Leading the way wasWebster, a first-team AVCAAll-American outside hitter.She was injured during Texas’2010 semifinal appearance butbounced back to be the 2011Big 12 Conference player of the
year and lead the Longhornsand enter this year’s Final Fourwith a .519 postseason hittingpercentage.
On Saturday Webster waspart of a Texas effort that shutdown AVCA Division I playerof the year Alaina Bergsma,whose nine kills were alsomatched by nine errors. Manyof her attempts were blockedas the Longhorns’ defensekeyed on her.
Liz Brenner and KatherineFischer each had 13 kills forfifth-seeded Oregon (30-5),which made its first title-game appearance.
“I don’t know what itmeans to Texas; I know that ithurts for us to lose it,” Duckscoach Jim Moore said.
Texas beats Ducks for NCAA title
CHICAGO (AP) —National Women’s SoccerLeague will be the name ofthe new league run by theU.S. Soccer Federation.
The USSF announced thename of the league Saturdaynight when the women’snational team played its finalgame of the year, a 4-1 exhi-bition win over China.
The NWSL will start playnext spring and replaces theWomen’s Professional Soccerleague, which folded in Mayafter three seasons. Its pred-ecessor, Women’s UnitedSoccer Association, lastedonly three seasons, from2001-03.
The eight teams in thenew league are: BostonBreakers, Chicago Red Stars,FC Kansas City, PortlandThorns FC, Sky Blue FC,Washington Spirit, WesternNew York Flash and Seattle,which has yet to announce itsname.
In the Amercans’ win overChina at Boca Raton, Fla.,Abby Wambach scored twomore goals.
The 32-year-oldWambach has 152 interna-tional goals, six behind Mia
Hamm for the U.S. record.Megan Rapinoe and
Sydney Leroux also scoredfor the Olympic championAmericans in their third con-secutive match against Chinain the finale of a 10-game FanTribute Tour. The U.S. ran itsunbeaten streak to 23.
“It was an unbelievableyear for us, coming off theWorld Cup,” U.S. captainChristie Rampone said. “Itwas a whole journey to get tothe Olympics and the battles.The good and bad days oftraining all paid us for us.”
Morgan, who finished theyear with 28 goals, andWambach combined to tiethe U.S. scoring record bytwo players in one year.Michelle Akers (39 goals) andCarin Jennings (16) had theprevious record in 1991.
“It means so much to mebecause Alex and I spend somuch time encouraging eachother in practice, drill afterdrill,” Wambach said. “WhenAlex scores, it lights some-thing inside me and when Iscore it lights somethinginside her.”
Jill Ellis guided the U.S. inher last game as interim headcoach on Saturday. Ellis had a5-0-2 record after takingover for P ia Sundhage.Former Australia coach TomSermanni will take over inJanuary.
Soccer leagueannounces namen U.S. women’steam caps seasonwith 4-1 victory
ISTANBUL (AP) — RyanLochte won two more races atthe short-course worldchampionships on Sunday,finishing the event with sixgolds and one silver. Theresult matched his medaltotal from the last champi-onships, in Dubai in 2010.
Lochte won the 100-meter individual medley, aday after he broke the worldrecord in the event. The five-time Olympic champion fin-ished in 51.21 seconds, ahead
of Kenneth To of Australiaand George Bovell III ofTrinidad and Tobago.
Lochte then joined theU.S. team of MatthewGrevers, Kevin Cordes andThomas Shields to win the4x100-meter medley relay in3:21.03, with Russia second.
“All the races I have donelast week are starting to catchup,” he said. “But it is the lastday of the tournament andthere is always somethingleft in the tank.”
Lochte wins six golds
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EUGENE — Oregon cen-ter Tony Woods scored 14points and the Ducks over-came a sluggish performanceon offense to defeat Nebraska60-38 on Saturday.
Forward Arsalan Kazemialso had 10 points and a sea-son-high 17 rebounds for theDucks (9-1). Oregon startedthe week one spot out of thetop 25.
With the win, Oregon alsoimproved to 8-0 at home thisseason.
E.J. Singler scored 13 forthe Ducks, who were held19.4 points below their sea-son average, including a sea-son-low point total in thefirst half, though Oregon stillled 27-18 at the break.
“Well, we probably set thegame back about 10 yearsthere,” Oregon coach DanaAltman said. “Our shootingand ball movement wasn’twhat we wanted. It was awin, but we didn’t take thestep we needed to. We’ve gota long ways to go.”
The Ducks also missed ontheir first 11 3-point attemptsbefore Singler made a pair inthe final seven minutes of thegame.
Oregon had 16 turnovers,including 10 in the first half.
But led by Woods, whowas 7 of 11 from the field withfour dunks, and Kazemi, the
Ducks dominated inside,outscoring the Cornhuskers40-12 in the paint, and out-rebounding them 41-25.
“I’m just playing withconfidence and feeling goodabout my offense,” saidWoods, who scored sixstraight midway through thefirst half to give Oregon an18-6 lead.
Dylan Talley scored 11points to lead theCornhuskers (6-3), who shotjust 30.6 percent from thefloor with 16 turnovers whilescoring a season low.
Oregon State 87,Chicago State 77: RobertoNelson tied a career highwith 34 points and OregonState pulled away from visit-
ing Chicago State in the sec-ond half Sunday.
Nelson scored 22 points inthe second half and set a newcareer high with six 3-point-ers. He has 12 3-pointers inthe last three games.
Devon Collier added 25points and eight rebounds forOregon State (7-2).
Quinton P ippen, thenephew of former NBA greatScottie Pippen, had 13 pointsand seven rebounds forChicago State (3-9).
Nelson, who shot 10 of 14overall, has averaged betterthan 23 points in the pastfour games.
Nelson credits his recentsuccess to his team’s postplayers, whom he says are
scoring easily inside anddrawing the defense awayfrom him.
“The 3-point shots I’mgetting are just wide-open,”said Nelson, who also hadthree rebounds and threesteals.
With Oregon State scor-ing leader Ahmad Starksstruggling for a secondgame, the Beavers were look-ing for someone to fill thevoid.
Starks, averaging 14.9points coming in, was heldscoreless.
“We needed somebody tostep up there, and Robertoanswered the challenge,”Oregon State coach CraigRobinson said.
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North Valley also was ableto get the ball to 6-foot-9-inch post JJ Chirnside, whohad a huge game with 15points, 15 rebounds, fourblocks and four assists.Chirnside even nailed a 3-pointer for the Knights, whoshot just over 50 percent (23-for-45) overall, including five3-pointers.
The Red Devils got a fewnice looks inside to LarryBowen for baskets early in thethird quarter, but didn’t con-sistently get good shots untilthe fourth. They cut the leadto 42-29 with six straightpoints to start the quarter, andhad four possessions with achance to get closer, but cameup dry on all of them.
Chirnside got NorthValley’s first points of thefinal quarter on a dunk with5:07 to go and the Knightsquickly reasserted control ofthe contest.
North Valley also finishedwith a 40-30 reboundingedge, the first time a team hastopped the Red Devils on theboards all season.
“Our effort was lacking,”Cumberland said. “I think itwas more mental than physi-cal.”
Bowen had a strong game,with 19 points, 12 reboundsand four steals, and wasnamed to the all-tournamentteam, along with CalebOwens, who had 20 points inthe opening win againstYoncalla and four Saturday.
Chirnside was the tour-nament’s most valuableplayer and Lyon also was onthe all-tournament team forNorth Valley.
Coquille turns aroundTuesday to host another topClass 4A team, North Bend,and hosts much-improvedSiuslaw on Thursday. The
Red Devils also will havethree games against largerschools in the Les SchwabSouth Coast HolidayBasketball Tournament atMarshfield after Christmas.
“The competition is greatand is getting better,”Cumberland said. “I’mguessing our character willget a real test.”
Gold Beach 52, Yoncalla29: Garrett Litterell had 19points and two other team-mates also finished in doublefigures as the Panthers wonthe consolation game.
Garrett Dolan had 13points and Dustin Carteradded 12 for Gold Beach.
Alex Anderson had ateam-best nine points forYoncalla.
Litterell and Andersonwere named to the all-tour-nament team.
NonleagueOakland 65, Pacific 35:
The Pirates got off to a roughstart and couldn’t recover athome.
“We came out and spottedthem 14 right off the bat,”said Pacific coach BenStallard. “When we settleddown and were composedand ran our stuff, we made alittle run.”
Tyler Cline had 14 pointsand Ethan Cline added ninefor Pacific.
Colton Reber had 15points and Roy Benzel added13 for Oakland.
The Pirates committed 37turnovers, Stallard said.
“They played pretty gooddefense, but we’ve got to fig-ure out how to fix that,” hesaid. “We’re way better thanwe were last year. They playhard — period. You can’t everbe disappointed with theeffort.”
Santiam Christian 50,Bandon 35: The host Eaglesheld off a second-half come-back attempt by the Tigers towin on Saturday.
Logan Shea had 12 pointsfor Bandon. Jordan Risingerscored 18 for the Eagles.
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“We’ve got some youngones,” Clark said, referring tofreshman guard HaileyTimeus and sophomore postMorrigan Clifford. “We’restill trying to find ourselves alittle bit.”
The Panthers travel toRiddle today and then com-pete in a three-day tourna-ment at Klamath Falls start-ing Thursday.
Coquille, meanwhile, ishome against North Bend onTuesday and visits Siuslawon Thursday.
T im GeDeros said heexpects a bigger challengefrom the Panthers nextmonth.
“Chris is a good coach,” hesaid. “When we have themdown there, he’ll have themready.”
North Valley 54,Yoncalla 45: The Knightsscored 21 points in the secondquarter and 23 in the fourthto beat the Eagles in the con-solation game.
Kenzi Schmoll had agame-high 24 points andLexi P ittman added 22,including three 3-pointers,for North Valley. MikalaMohr was the only otherNorth Valley player to score,finishing with 10 points.
Tabitha Shaw had 14points and Salista Williamsadded 12 for the Eagles, wholed by 11 points after the firstquarter, trailed by four athalftime and led by twoentering the fourth.
Schmoll and Shaw were
named to the all-tournamentteam.
Phoenix InvitationalKlamath Union 55,
Reedsport 37: The Pelicanstopped the Braves in thethird-place game at Phoenixon Saturday, outscoringReedsport 36-8 in the middletwo quarters.
Kayla Doane had 21 pointsto lead Reedsport.
The Braves lost to eventu-al champion Phoenix in thesemifinals Friday.
NonleagueOakland 53, Pacific 24:
The Pirates got 22 pointsfrom Riley Engdahl, but onlytwo from the rest of theteam, falling at home to theOakers.
“We couldn’t throw it inthe ocean,” Pacific coach BenStallard said. “I thought wecould play with that team.We were getting good shots.It was just one of those nightswhen they wouldn’t fall.”
Brooke Spencer had 18points to lead the Oakers.
Stallard said he’s lookingforward to a break fromgames — Pacific doesn’t playagain until the Crow tourna-ment after Christmas.
“It will be nice to have afull week of practice,” he said.
Santiam Christian 52,Bandon 34: The Tigers fellbehind 42-14 on the roadagainst the Eagles before fin-ishing strong in the finaleight minutes.
Hailey Iverson had 11points for the Tigers. JessiSeumalo led the Eagles with20 points.
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Anderson made a pair offree throws to close NewOrleans to within 85-80. His3-pointer pulled the Hornetsto 90-87 with 3:21 left. LanceThomas got them closer witha putback but Aldridge had astep-back jumper with 1:04to make it 92-89.
Lakers 111, 76ers 98:Kobe Bryant scored 34points, Metta World Peaceadded 19 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, and theLos Angeles Lakers won con-secutive games for the firsttime in nearly a month.
The Lakers (11-14), whobeat Washington 102-96 on
Friday night, won two in arow for the first time since athree-game streak from Nov.16-20.
Even without injuredstars Steve Nash and PauGasol, the Lakers hardlyresembled the team whichentered the night four gamesbelow .500.
Nick Young paced thereeling Sixers (12-12) with 30points.
Raptors 103, Rockets96: Jose Calderon had 18points, 14 assists and 10rebounds, and Toronto wonconsecutive games for thefirst time in eight monthswith a victory over Houston.
Alan Anderson had 24points and DeMar DeRozanadded 19 for the Raptors (6-19), who hadn’t won consec-utive games since April 13and 15 of last season.
James Harden scored 28points for the Rockets andMarcus Morris added 19.
Nuggets 122, Kings 97:Reserve JaVale McGee scored19 points, Danilo Gallinarihad 18 and Denver built a biglead in the first half to cruisepast Sacramento.
The Nuggets scored 16straight points to snap afirst-quarter tie and takecontrol.
Isaiah Thomas had 20points and DeMarcusCousins had 19 points and 11rebounds for the Kings.
Sacramento’s AaronBrooks committed a hard foulagainst Andre Miller late inthe first quarter and a mildaltercation ensued involvingCousins and Kenneth Fariedof the Nuggets. All four play-ers were given technicalfouls.
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Oregon’s Johnathan Loyd flies through the air as Nebraska’s Ray Gallegos stuffs the ball Saturday.
Ducks,Beaversget wins
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Villanova’sBig East banner that hangs in the raftersalready has a white patch stitched overWest Virginia.
The Wildcats can now start puttingXs over most of the rest of the confer-ence schools, as well.
The Big East — a proud league builton basketball moments like the 1985Wildcats stunning conference rivalGeorgetown in the national champi-onship game — will soon becomeextinct, even if the name lives on insome unrecognizable form.
On Saturday, Villanova,Georgetown, St. John’s, DePaul,Marquette, Seton Hall and Providenceall decided to officially separate fromthe conference many of them helped tobuild, so they can construct a leaguefocused on basketball in this ever-changing landscape of college athletics.
The breakaway from the Big East wasonly the first step. It will be weeks andmonths of uncertainty, and possiblylawsuits, before the final structure overthis transition period falls into place.
The seven schools must decide whowill join them in the new hoops-heavyconference, when they want to depart,where they’ll play a conference tourna-ment, and whether they will attempt tokeep the Big East name. Plus, the leaguewill need a commissioner.
There is no true timetable for any ofthose decisions. Like so many of thesereshaped conferences that stretch fromcoast to coast, this new league won’t beconfined to eastern teams. Xavier,Butler, Dayton, Creighton, and Gonzaga,way out in Spokane, Wash., also don’tplay major college football and would benatural fits to align with these Catholicschools. The league also will considernon-denominational schools, as well.
“They don’t necessarily have to beCatholic, but it could happen,” PatrickLyons, Seton Hall’s athletic director,said. “We’re not restricting it. We alsohave to consider our football-playingBig East partners and what they plan todo. But we’re extremely excited aboutbeing able to shape our future.”
The seven departing schools havewon three men’s basketball nationalchampionships with 18 Final Fourappearances. Georgetown, St. John’s,
Seton Hall and Providence helped formthe Big East, which started playing bas-ketball in 1979. Villanova joined in 1980,and Marquette and DePaul in 2005. TheBig East began playing football in 1991.
“I just like the fact that our schoolsare being proactive and moving in adirection that I think will be just great,”DePaul coach Oliver Purnell said. “I’vealways said DePaul will be fine becausewe’ll be in a terrific basketball leagueand nothing’s transpired in the lastweek or so that’s changed my mind.”
For most of the schools, leaving isbittersweet, but it is a move necessitat-ed by earlier defections like Syracuse(ACC), Pittsburgh (ACC) and WestVirginia (Big 12), and the heavy empha-sis on the cash-cow football programs.
“I think the tipping point in the mindof all seven of us was the most recentdeparture of Louisville and Rutgers,”said Villanova’s president, the Rev. PeterM. Donohue. “There was a concern onall of our parts about where the confer-ence was heading and where basketballwas playing a part in the conference.”
Big East bylaws require departingmembers give the conference 27months’ notice, but the league hasnegotiated early departures withOrange, Panthers and Mountaineersover the past year. Those schools all hadto pay exit fees. Big East rules do allowschools to leave as a group withoutbeing obligated to pay exit fees.
The seven schools could play one
more year in the Big East or figure out away to get started on their league a sea-son early. No one wants to deal with theuncertainty and nastiness that can leadfrom a split for any more time than nec-essary.
The breakup, however, is almostguaranteed to get messy. The Big Eastname, after all, will be up for grabs innegotiations.
“The association has served us well,for sure,” Villanova Athletic DirectorVince Nicastro said. “It’s been part ofthe fabric of our programs. But we’relooking forward.”
Villanova coach Jay Wright, a nativeof the area, and raised on the Big East,said the time was right for a change.
“All of us basketball schools (arenow) able to get together and say, ‘OK,where are we going to go? How are wegoing to do this?’” he said. “Not sit backand say, ‘Let’s wait and see what thefootball schools decide, then let’s seewhere we’re going to go.’”
The latest hit to the Big East leavesConnecticut, also a founding member,Cincinnati, Temple and South Florida —the four current members with FBS foot-ball programs — as the only schools cur-rently in the Big East that are scheduled tobe there beyond the 2013-14 school year.
The Big East is still lined up to have a12-team football conference next seasonwith six new members, including BoiseState and San Diego State for footballonly.
Big East faces uncertain hoops future
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Marquette coach Buzz Williams watches from the sideline during his team’s game againstSavannah State Saturday. Marquette is one of seven Big East schools that have decided to leavethe conference and pursue a new basketball framework.