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Task force shows plans for proposed library

The task force proposing a new library to serve the north side of Muskegon on Wednesday unveiled plans for a 16,000-square-foot facility expected to cost $5.3 million. The proposed library would serve North Muskegon, Laketon Township and part of Fruitland Township. It would be on Lake Avenue next to Erickson’s Trucking in North Muskegon. The city has agreed to provide the property, which overlooks Muskegon Lake. Details, A2

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‘Frozen Fury’ MMA packs a punch

For the first time in the city’s history, professional mixed martial arts fights took place, courtesy of the Xtreme Fighting Championship — and spectators loved it. “This is huge for Muskegon, absolutely huge,” Muskegon resident Jason Walls said. Details, A9 MUSKEGON COUNTY

Dog walk raises funds to beneﬁt veterans

Pups and people played in the snow Saturday for the inaugural “Winter Wonderland Walk” at Dog Star Ranch, 4200 Whitehall Road. The event, which helped raise money for Christmas baskets for veterans, was organized by members of AlcoaHowmet’s UAW Local 1243 and the local Veterans Committee & Veterans Service Center. Details, A3

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Law enforcement copes with issues hospitals once handled

Institutional closures shift burden to local communities

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Farkhad Sharipov, left, hits Deivison Ribiero during Friday’s XFC “Frozen Fury Fight.” at the L.C. Walker Arena in Muskegon. (Madelyn Hastings/MLive.com)

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uskegon County’s criminal justice and mental health systems have very different

But the two systems — one meant to protect public safety, the other to treat the mentally ill — are deeply intertwined. Sometimes they work together. Sometimes they clash. The close, if unintended, Burns relationship between criminal justice and the mental health system happens because serious mental illness, left untreated and unsupervised, sometimes leads to criminal behavior. It’s not the norm — most mentally ill people SEE ILLNESS, A7

Muskegon County Sheriff Deputy Greg Zylstra, left, walks with an inmate Tuesday in the Muskegon County Jail. (Ken Stevens/ MLive.com)

MENTAL HEALTH COURTS AND MORE A three-year evaluation of 10 Michigan mental health courts shows lower recidivism, or repeat oﬀending, by graduates of such programs: STATEWIDE Recidivism one year after graduation: 19 percent

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19% Recidivism in comparison group of similar offenders not in mental health court: 43 percent 43% MUSKEGON COUNTY From its inception in 2009 through August 2013, approximately 112 people graduated from 60th District Court’s mental health court. Of those, approximately 25 percent had reoffended as of September 2013.

25% DIVERTED FROM JAIL From October 2010-September 2013, 403 defendants were diverted from Muskegon County Jail to Community Mental Health supervision. Of those, 58 reoﬀended, for a recidivism rate of approximately 14 percent in that period.

14% Sources: Muskegon County District Court Probation Office, State Court Administrative Office, Muskegon County Community Mental Health

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How does untreated mental illness impact jail operations? MUSKEGON — Jeffrey Lewis, Muskegon’s public safety director, has had a close-up look at the impact of closing state psychiatric hospitals. Lewis worked for the Ypsilanti Police Department in the 1990s. Early in that decade, Ypsilanti State Hospital — which once housed thousands of mentally ill patients — shut down. “One thing we noticed right away: Transitional homes in our community went from just a few to like 70,” Lewis said. One result of the influx of city residents formerly housed in the hospital was a noticeable increase in police calls and arrests, he said. In Muskegon, as in Ypsilanti, police regularly cope with crimes commit-

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A holding cell for an inmate in the Muskegon County Jail is pictured Tuesday. (Ken Stevens/ MLive.com)

ted by mentally ill people, Lewis said. Some also present an “easy target for street crime.” Both situations pose extra challenges for officers. While it’s all part of the job, “It is a burden,” he said. “I don’t have the answers. I

don’t think that locking up people forever is the answer. I just think it’s something that’s a real challenge for the community at large to deal with.” Part of the answer has SEE JAIL, A7

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The task force proposing a new library to serve the north side of Muskegon on Wednesday unveiled plans for a 16,000-square-foot facility expected to cost $5.3 million. About 75 people gathered at the community center next to the old library to hear a presentation from architects and library officials. The proposed library would serve North Muskegon, Laketon Township and part of Fruitland Township. The task force studying a proposed library has hired a consultant to conduct a feasibility study to see if there is enough interest to fund the library with private donations or a property tax. The library would be located on Lake Avenue next to Erickson’s Trucking in North Muskegon. The city

has agreed to provide the property, which overlooks Muskegon Lake. James Mumby, of Ann Arbor-based Quinn Evans Architects, said the site plan was designed to take advantage of the waterfront. Three sections of the library would be distinctive from the outside — the adult and teen section, the children’s section and a program room. The facility could be built in an 18-month time period. Library officials were optimistic about building a library, even as they acknowledged the printed word is fading from popularity and publishing businesses are rapidly changing. “My grandchild, for sure, will see the end of the book, and yet, you tell us that you want more books,” Library Branch Manager Char Zoet said. The new library would be able to hold 2.5 times the number of books in the current library.

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A man with an arrest warrant out of Tennessee made it easier than expected for authorities looking for him in the Fruitport Township area. Recent information received by Fruitport Township Police officials led authorities toward a home in the area where a 29-year-old man with an outstanding warrant out of Tennessee may have been staying. While heading to that location, officers on Thursday were redirected to an alleged

A computer rendering shows what a proposed 16,000-squarefoot library in North Muskegon could look like. (Courtesy)

Zoet said she had read about the opening of alldigital libraries and knows the role of the library might change. Mumby, a specialist in libraries, said many of them are becoming more like resource centers. “They’re becoming the hub and center of a community,” he said. The furniture would be modular, so the library could be reorganized for new demands or advances in

technology, Mumby said. Its size — 16,000 square feet — was determined earlier by research consultant George Lawson. There would be 58 study seats in the library with about 30 places for casual seating. The program room would seat 165 people. The Walker Library, now serving Laketon and North Muskegon, is part of the Muskegon Area District Library System. That building was constructed in 1969.

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Snow blowers reported stolen

By Heather Lynn Peters hpeters@mlive.com

A number of snow blowers apparently have been stolen from the Norton Shores area. Authorities said this week there have been three reports involving the theft of snow blowers. The incidents occurred in the 3400 block of Hiawatha Drive, 1900 block of Bonneville and 1600 block of Ritter Drive, police said. Police believe all the thefts have occurred during daylight

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No one matched the winning Mega Millions numbers Friday, increasing the next jackpot to $550 million. According to the Mega Millions official website, 9 tickets in the multi-state lottery game matched 5 numbers, winning $1 million each on Dec. 13. Those tickets were purchased in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida (2), Michigan (2), New Jersey and New York (2). The Michigan tickets were

purchased in the Metro Detroit area: Eastside Petro & M/Mart, 26220 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores Grapes & Hops Market Inc, 4177 Cass Elizabeth Road, Waterford The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday. The jackpot will be $550 million. If someone had won the $425 million jackpot Friday, it would have been the Mega Millions’ second-largest jackpot and the fifth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot, according to Lottery officials.

The Mega Millions jackpot has been building since a Maryland man won $189 million on Oct 1. The winner opted to remain anonymous and chose the cash option, worth $86 million after federal and state taxes. Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Five balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 75; the Mega ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 15. The odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 258,890,850.

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BEAN Ruth, of Muskegon (Sytsema Funeral Homes, Inc.) BEENE John L., 80 FLICKEMA Albert H., 92, of Muskegon (Sytsema Funeral Homes, Inc.) HAYNES Martha A., 90, of Muskegon (Sytsema Funeral Homes, Inc.) KERR Suzanne, 65, of Battle Creek, Formerly of North Muskegon (Casterline Funeral Home) KRUSE Frederick, 85, of Muskegon (Clock Funeral Home - Muskegon)

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refuse. Among those composting are staff in the kitchen, where two 32-gallon composting containers have been stationed. The college averages about two yards of compostable material each week, said Stanley J. Dean, physical plant supervisor for the college. But that number is expected to double next year when the college starts using compostable dinner plates, flatware and drinking cups, Dean said. “We currently capture all organic food waste and scraps — basically anything with a peel,” he said, adding that paper towels also are composted. Dean said staff and students are doing a “fair amount” of composting and recycling. And while he and custodial staff regularly “cruise” the composting bins and discard items that don’t belong, proper compliance “is getting better,” Dean said.

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hours. Two snow blowers were stolen from open garages and the third was stolen from the side of the garage, police said. Authorities are urging residents to lock up their snow blowers in garages. Anyone with information to assist the investigation is asked to contact Silent Observer, 231-72-CRIME, 911 or Norton Shores Police at 231-733-2691.

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retail fraud incident at the Younker’s store in The Lakes Mall. Officers responded to that incident only to find the subject involved in the alleged fight was the man with the Tennessee warrant. “Upon arrival, officers made contact with the subject and immediately recognized him as the subject they were seeking with the outstanding warrant,” according to a news release from the Fruitport Township Police Department. The man was taken into custody and lodged at the Muskegon County Jail.

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Resources are key to our city’s good future There has been a lot of focus on our future in some recent coverage, and it’s interesting, even exciting, to think about what could be while keeping an eye on what we have right now. First, the Muskegon Chronicle/MLive.com highlighted the next potential group of community leaders in a package named 40 under 40. The conversation this coverage generated in the community — particularly through social media — was encouraging to see. That discourse is exactly what we sought by putting together this list, with some input from readers. We

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emphasized finding leaders from all walks of life, from business to educators to social advocacy. As Lisha Arino pointed out in the announcement of this group, those highlighted help signal part of a new generation taking hold in this community. Some are more of the out-front mold, people

you regularly see in public and quoted in the media. Others work more behindthe-scenes, but no less passionately. Collectively, the people listed already are making an impact here and represent untold potential for our future. Speaking of potential, the possibilities for the Port of Muskegon were at the forefront when dozens of private and public sector leaders met to talk about what it would take to bring Mississippi River system barges to Muskegon Lake. There is particular interest in the agriculture sector

for such a venture, though officials note other industries concerned about stemming logistics costs could turn to water for transportation. Our natural deep water port has presented us with an opportunity, as evidenced by the ship traffic we saw with wind turbine parts coming in on major vessels. We are in a rare position to accommodate the heft of the ships used in that trade, thanks to Mother Nature. That got some people thinking beyond “salties” to whether the Muskegon port could tap into the Mississippi River barge traffic via Chicago. For instance, the

Port of Milwaukee has done limited river barge traffic. There are challenges in Muskegon, to be sure. Prevailing westerly winds cause higher waves on this side of Lake Michigan as opposed to Milwaukee, where the wind conditions are more favorable. Officials say the route here from Chicago is more than 60 miles farther than it is from Chicago to Milwaukee. And the issue of Asian carp is unsettling, as well. Some dismiss the notion of barge traffic working or warn against it being pie-in-the-sky. Maybe that’s true. But studying is worth it, at least.

I am hopeful barge traffic would work and open our community to some new economic possibilities. If not, I hope that having this conversation, at least, will open others’ eyes to the capabilities here and shipping commerce is expanded (that also can bring its own brand of tourism). At the bare minimum, it is exciting that we’re having this conversation at all. There are serious business interests who see a future in this port, and that is better than not being on the radar. Our resources — be they people or natural — are the key to our good future.

“He has a real commitment to humanity that I found appealing.” REGINA SJOBERG, FERRYSBURG CITY COUNCIL MEMBER

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Businessmancoach to conduct a basketball clinic Rufus the dog takes Jackson Watson, 5, for a walk during Saturday’s Winter Wonderland Walk at the Dog Star Ranch in Muskegon. The walk was held to help raise funds for food baskets for veterans this Christmas. (Madelyn Hastings/MLive.com)

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small pack of dogs and their human counterparts trekked through a cold and snowy landscape Saturday to give local veterans a boost during the Christmas season. The group gathered for the inaugural “Winter Wonderland Walk” at Dog Star Ranch, the former golf course-turned-dog park and activity center at 4200 Whitehall Road in Muskegon. Organized by members of Alcoa-Howmet’s UAW Local 1243 and the local Veterans Committee & Veterans Service Center on East Apple Avenue, the affair helped raised money for Christmas baskets for veterans. Coordinators invited area residents and their pets to the ranch, where they walked through a 24-acre nature trail known as the Canine Frontier. Steve Mayberry, of Montague, along with his wife, Caroline, brought their 6-year-old Clumber Spaniel, Ginger, to the event. “She was leading the pack today,” said Steve Mayberry, obviously proud. “I think she had a blast.” Steve Mayberry said Ginger, who wore a black dog blanket and a green velour collar adorned with gold jingle bells, even recognized some of her buddies from her weekly visits to the activity center. Some of those furry

People walk their dogs during the Winter Wonderland Walk.

friends braved the cold without extra attire, including a pup named Chance, who only wore a handkerchief reminiscent of a candy cane. The triangular-shaped Canine Frontier stood among vast blankets of snow and evergreen trees and boasted its own street names like Diggers Alley, Barkers Lane, Puppies Pass and Not-So-Lonesome Trail. “It was just a casual walk through our natural trail,” ranch office manager Jennifer Goudreau said of the 45-minute outing. After the late morning walk, participants were invited to hot chocolate and cookies. Caroline Mayberry, who initiated and performed much of the organizing for the event, said partici-

pants offered minimum $15 donations to be used for the Christmas gift baskets. The extra proceeds will go toward replenishing a food pantry, she said. John Padilla, the veterans committee chairman, said the basket will include common holiday fixings such as turkey, stuffing and cranberries. Padilla said the group regularly hosts fundraisers for veterans, including the Armed Forces Salmon Assault in May. This year, Team Coast Guard and Code Blue Charters tried to defend their title for “Veterans Cup” in the main fishing tournament called the “DOD Challenge,” while the White Lake VFW Post 3256 tried to defend their honor and the

“Canteen Cup” in the Post to Post Challenge, according to the event’s official website. About 16 dogs and their human friends came out to the ranch to raise money, exercise and socialize. Staff members at the 24-7 operation, often known as “Star Buddies,” believe “a well-behaved dog is an exercised and socialized dog.” The facility, which gives its 500 members aroundthe-clock key access, sells supplies and healthy snacks and boasts five fenced-in dog parks that cater to an array of canine types. The center also offers daycare, boarding, grooming and obedience classes. To learn more about Dog Star Ranch, visit dogstarranch.com or search for it on Facebook.

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A businessman who runs a Spring Lake basketballskills business is volunteering to offer a basketball clinic for youth in Newtown, Conn. — a year after a mass shooting at nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. Spring Lake resident Jim McGannon, owner of My Basketball Basics, grew up in Norwalk, Conn., near Newtown, and once played high school basketball in the area. He’ll hold a basketball clinic Dec. 28-29 with the Yale men’s basketball team at the gym of a Newtownarea nonprofit group. McGannon’s clinic in Connecticut is scheduled for two weeks after the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting incident. The shooting Dec. 14, 2012, left 20 students and six adults dead. McGannon’s roots in the area left him wanting to do something to help the area — although, at first he wasn’t sure what to do or even say. “There’s no words — are there, honestly?” he said. “So, this is an action I’m trying to take.” Months after the shooting, McGannon contacted the manager of the Newtown Youth Academy Sports and Fitness and later the coach of the Yale men’s team. Both agreed to help him stage basketball clinics for children in the area. “We’re calling it ‘The 26th State in support of the (Sandy Hook) 26,’” he said. Michigan is the country’s 26th state. The nonprofit Newtown Youth Academy Sports and Fitness “inspires Newtown and surrounding area residents, particularly the youth, by hosting and facilitating affordable and sponsored programs that promote health, fitness and general wellbeing,” according to its website. McGannon said he is

McGannon volunteering his time, but the academy will collect a $10 fee for the clinics and is accepting donations to support its programs. At least one of McGannon’s Michigan students may come out to Connecticut to participate in the clinic there. “I told the (student’s) mom and the dad, they’re going to be telling the Yale guys what to do,” he said. A former basketball player for Dartmouth College, McGannon runs a variety of sports clinics in West Michigan. His style is to focus on fundamentals like dribbling and shooting and qualities like sportsmanship rather than simply letting the players play pick-up games. “We don’t play — all we do is teach,” he said. Ferrysburg City Council member Regina Sjoberg said McGannon was the city’s “businessman of the year” for 2012 in a chamber of commerce contest. The city rents out its gym to him on a regular basis. “He does a lot of good for the city of Ferrysburg and the kids,” she said. He’s dedicated to sports, but “more than that, he has a real commitment to humanity that I found appealing.”

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Get your boots, join city manager for a walk By Dave Alexander

Commerce. Peterson wants to get a winter look at downtown as it relates to snow removal and Peterson other issues. Since coming to Muskegon in September, Peterson has taken several tours with different groups. He began with a tour of the city’s major thoroughfares with community leaders and followed that with neighborhood tours with citizens in the Nelson and Nims neighborhoods.

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There won’t be a trolley ride as Muskegon City Manager Frank Peterson takes his next look at the city with a tour of the downtown. Peterson — and those willing to join him — will don coats, boots, hats, gloves and probably long underwear and take a late afternoon trek through the city’s central business district. The downtown walk is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday. Downtown walkers will meet at the Hines Building, home to the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of

Those tours were in a Muskegon County Trolley Co. bus. Peterson said he will return to the neighborhoods moving east of downtown and then to the west end of the city in the months to come, but his next tour with residents will be downtown. As with other tours, Peterson and key city staff are looking for the good, the bad and the ugly. Peterson has said wants to improve the image and physical appearance of the city and seeks citizen input. City officials ask that elements that are positive be

pointed out and areas that need improvement or attention also be noted. With problems and issues, Peterson has asked those attending the tours to come up with solutions or at least potential partnerships with the city that could lead to fixes. Those interested in the downtown tour are asked to contact the city’s Planning Department to make a reservation. Call the Planning Department at 231-724-6702. With Monday’s forecast of snow showers and 27 degrees, walkers are warned to be prepared for cold and snow.

By Dave Alexander

•Barges need to be less than 10 years old, unmanned and transported no more than The “rulemaking” machinthree at a time. ery of the U.S. Coast Guard •Barges and their tugboats already is grinding on the must stay within five miles request of the state’s agriof shore and be able to enter cultural community to allow harbors of refuse during Mississippi river barges to heavy weather. come to the Port of •Dry cargo “hopper” Muskegon. A recent gathering of more barges cannot carry liquids or hazardous materials. than 70 interested parties in •The freeboard — how a proposal by the Lansingbased Michigan Agri-Business far the barge sticks out of the water — has to be at least a Association to allow river minimum amount. barges to travel between •Barges cannot operate Chicago and Muskegon was the beginning of a federal lob- under U.S. Weather Service “small craft advisories,” which bying effort. are issued with winds greater Regulations were estabthan 28 mph and waves more lished in the 1990s to allow river barge traffic as far north than 4 feet tall. The safety concern was as Muskegon and Milwaukee. emphasized in an August Milwaukee port operators 2003 incident when a threeworked with the U.S. Coast barge transport ran into Guard to establish specific heavy weather heading south Lake Michigan river barge out of Milwaukee. One barge rules in conjunction with sank in Lake Michigan, and a safety committee federal the other two were towed officials established. Barge into Waukegan, Wis., for traffic between Milwaukee and Chicago has been ongoing shelter. “Barge fleets have been for years. updated to higher standards LINK TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER than when these regulations were put in place,” Now, agricultural interests and West Michigan economic Brink wrote about the initial Milwaukee rules for operadevelopers want to link the tions since 1992. region to Chicago and the “Also, weather forecasting river barge system all the way down the Mississippi River to technology is much more advanced. Tugboats have GPS the Gulf Coast. The movement of Michigan technology and much more horsepower readily available.” grain to the Gulf Coast for export and the import of farm COMMENTING LINK products such as fertilizer Coast Guard Capt. J.W. could be much more cost effective by water than by rail Mauger, chief of design and or truck, MABA President Jim engineering standards in the commandant’s office, Byrum said. The conclusion of the Dec. 6 responded to Brink’s and Byrum’s request for a formal information meeting of parrule-making process. He ties from across the state accepted the petitions and set and around Lake Michigan up an online document and interested in pursuing a commenting link. river barge operation out of “Before deciding on your Muskegon ended in a call to petition, we believe it is action. appropriate to seek further Those interested were public comment in order to asked to begin the process of make an informed decision,” lobbying in their local comMauger wrote Nov. 26. munities, state government “There may be other comand federal legislators to panies and barge operators persuade the Coast Guard to establish river barge rules for that could benefit from such rule making and there may be Muskegon. other entities that have conOn Sept. 9, the MABA cerns or objections.” wrote U.S. Coast Guard The request for comments Commandant Adm. Robert will be published with a Papp Jr. about its river barge proposal for Muskegon. It was notice in the Federal Register, Mauger wrote. a formal “petition for ruleHe also established an making,” in the language of online rule-making docket. the federal government. Brian Brink, of Brink Farms Anyone may submit and view Inc. in Hamilton, made a simi- all of the comments on the matter. lar request. Anyone may view the “We have had the opportuonline docket by going to nity to facilitate shipments of regulations.gov. In the search fertilizer into Michigan, but this has been a constant road box, use the docket number USCG-2013-0954 and click on block,” Brink wrote the head “search,” eventually clicking of the Coast Guard. “We feel on “open docket folder” for these restrictions are outdated and warrant a review of the information. The Coast Guard did not them.” indicate how long the ruleSAFETY A CONCERN making process might take Safety will be a big concern as it has yet to determine the length of the comment period. if the Coast Guard writes Byrum said Port of rules allowing river barges Muskegon promoters hope a into the Port of Muskegon. decision will be rendered in The Milwaukee group the first half of 2014. established these rules: dalexan1@mlive.com

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aren’t lawbreakers — but it does happen, officials say. So does victimization of the vulnerable mentally ill. Occasionally, the result is the kind of high-profile, sensational horror story that grabs the headlines. Much more often, it’s dayto-day misdemeanors that endanger public safety and property, take police time, fill jail beds and clog court dockets: assaults, shoplifting, larceny, drug crimes and more.

There’s this population of chronically mentally ill people who are dangerous, and our system does not make a distinction between them and someone who would be a temporarily or transiently mentally ill person, who is going through a life crisis. Everybody’s in the same revolving-door type of treatment program. NEIL MULLALLY, MUSKEGON COUNTY CHIEF PROBATE JUDGE

JAIL OR TREATMENT About 70 percent of the Muskegon County Jail inmates referred to Community Mental Health for evaluation are found to need medication or therapy.

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The shotgun marriage of two cultures — criminal justice and mental health — has grown closer in recent decades. From the 1980s through the early 2000s, because of budget cuts, improvements in psychiatric medication and a change in philosophy toward community-based care, Michigan closed most of its state psychiatric hospitals. Those institutions, notably the once-thriving Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital, housed many thousands of severely mentally ill patients for months or years. Today, Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital is the main long-term institution serving West Michigan, and it’s used only for the most severe and least treatable cases. With those closures, the job of dealing with severely mentally ill citizens fell on local communities — including, in many cases, law enforcement. Community mental health workers and private practitioners work hard to properly handle a never-ending caseload of patients. Their resources include courtordered referral to outpatient treatment, Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital and a limited number of shortterm beds at facilities such as Mercy Health Behavorial Health at Muskegon’s Hackley campus and, in Grand Rapids, Pine Rest and Forest View hospitals. Criminal-justice officials say that’s not always enough. “When the state mental institutions were shut down, essentially it put the ball in a lot of people’s courts,” Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson said. “The state has to re-examine whether or not that was a wise decision.” Brett Gardner, who retired in 2013 after more than 25 years as Muskegon County’s chief assistant prosecutor, put it bluntly: “When you put someone with significant mental issues on the street, it’s a walking time bomb.” Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler, who runs the Muskegon County Jail, believes the closings “created absolute chaos as far as the criminal justice system. I think the theory behind it was good. But, like most government initiatives, it didn’t function well. ... There is a failure in the mental health system.” “Jails and prisons are our new Traverse City Regional Hospitals,” said Michael Walsh, a Muskegon County

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Total jail inmates booked per week (2012 average)

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attorney who practices criminal defense and family law including court-ordered commitments of mentally ill patients. “We’ve closed those big mental-health hospitals, and that has a direct impact, I think, on crime, especially petty crime.” From a different perspective, Pamela Beane, who runs a jail diversion program for Community Mental Health Services of Muskegon County, also expressed concern about the reduction in the number of beds available to treat the severely mentally ill. “They have shrunk the (number of) beds. I am worried about that,” Beane said. GOOD INTENTIONS

mentally ill person, who is going through a life crisis,” Mullally said. “Everybody’s in the same revolving-door type of treatment program.

$39:

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Source: Sheriff’s Office, Michigan Department of Corrections

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Concern for public safety and recidivism among mentally ill criminal defendants almost five years ago led to the creation of an informal “mental health court” led by Chief 60th District Judge Maria Ladas Hoopes, in cooperation with Community Mental Health and the Muskegon County Probation Office. Another initiative is CMH’s jail diversion program. Intended to identify mentally ill inmates and, with a judge’s approval, steer those believed to be safe for release into supervised mental-health treatment, it’s been steadily expanded since a CMH staffer was assigned full time about seven years ago. The goal is to ease jail overcrowding and reduce recidivism. One goal officials in both systems, criminal justice and mental health, say they share: open communication between the two.

Health’s Beane said public safety is an important part of mental health workers’ decision-making process in client referrals, with input from law enforcement taken into account. Timothy Maat since early this year has been chief assistant Muskegon County prosecutor. For years before that, he was one of the prosecutor office’s main contacts with the mental-health system. Maat said communication between the two systems has improved over the years and generally operates well, although officials don’t always agree. The systems’ differing goals — psychiatric treatment and public safety —need to be considered, Hilson said. “The more law enforcement and community mental health communicate with each other, certainly the safer citizens are going to be because we’re all working together.”

been training for police officers in handling potentially violent situations, including those involving people with mental disorders. “It requires an officer to think very quickly on their feet as to how to de-escalate,” Lewis said, or, if necessary, move appropriately into the “force continuum” to subdue a resisting suspect. With some disturbed individuals, “that uniform immediately signals to them a negative,” triggering a combative or flight reaction, Lewis said. ”That uniform is a very intimidating feature that they can’t quite process.” While police agencies don’t keep statistics on the number of mentally ill suspects or victims they arrest or encounter, officials said it’s a significant part of police work. “Off the top of my head from my 42 years in law enforcement, I’d say that at least two out of 10 people that we deal with have a mental problem,” Muskegon County Undersheriff Dan Stout said. That sheriff’s department also deals with the next stage in the criminal justice process: running the county jail. Nationwide, Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler said, “Jails and prisons are the de facto mental-health institutions in the country now. ... It’s a drain on resources.” Unlike with street-level police work, some estimates are available about the impact of untreated mental illness on Muskegon County Jail operations. • According to Lt. Mark Burns of the sheriff’s office, the jail administrator, jail staff refer an estimated average of 25 people per week to Community Mental Health Services of Muskegon County staff for mental evaluation. Of that, CMH staff say about 70 percent have some type of mental illness that needs support. • Those numbers compare with total volume of 7,288 inmates booked at the jail in 2013 through Nov. 22, Burns said — an average of 156 total inmates per week. • The average cost per day to lodge an inmate at the jail is $39, including health care, Burns said. The jail doesn’t keep separate statistics about the cost of lodging a mentally ill inmate, but Burns believes that cost is higher than the average because of a more frequent need for treatment and more expensive treatments, especially psychiatric medications. • Overall, the jail pays its contracted health care provider $875,000 per year for all medical services, Burns said. Separate statistics weren’t available for the psychiatric portion, but jail officials believe it’s a significant chunk. Once in a while, someone arrested is “so sick we don’t accept them,” Burns said. When a suspect initially is brought to the jail, staffers ask a series of medical and mentalhealth assessment questions — a kind of triage process. If someone is in a serious mental-health crisis, the jail tells the arresting agency to take

The de-institutionalization trend was well intentioned, if not always well handled. Until about a half-century ago, the prevailing philosophy of hospitalizing the severely mentally ill, sometimes against their will, leaned heavily toward protection at the expense of individual rights. As Muskegon County Chief Probate Judge Neil Mullally put it, “if somebody was going OPEN LINES to act out 10 percent of the Community Mental time— by act out, I mean, harm somebody, harm themselves — we kept them in this protected environment 100 percent of the time.” That began to change in 1963 after President John F. Kennedy got legislation passed creating the nation’s community mental health system. It was accelerated by federal court rulings that allowed the commitment of people against their will only while they presented a current— not just potential future — danger to themselves or others or were unable to care for their basic needs. “There’s this population of chronically mentally ill people who are dangerous, and our system does not make a distinction between them and someone who would be Lopez examines a urine test from an inmate Tuesday at the clinic in the Muskegon County Jail. a temporarily or transiently

Not everybody should be coming to jail.” LT. MARK BURNS OF THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, JAIL ADMINISTRATOR

the person to a hospital emergency room for evaluation and treatment. “Not everybody should be coming to jail,” Burns said. That doesn’t happen very often. Burns said 25 incoming arrestees were diverted from jail before being booked in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, or a little more than two per month. Beyond simply filling jail beds they wouldn’t occupy if they had received adequate treatment that prevented them from committing a crime in the first place, mentally ill inmates create additional work for jail staff. Most of that is at the beginning of the process, Burns said. “Every inmate is treated individually,” he said. “We have to make assessments on every person that comes into the jail, and treat every individual on a basis of assessment, and sometimes it can require some extra work.” Like Lewis, Burns said patrol officers today get training in how to deal with mentally ill people, including determining who might need treatment rather than incarceration. That means some people taken into custody never get to jail in the first place. On a much larger scale, the Michigan Department of Corrections deals with some of the same issues in the state prison system. State prisons house convicted criminals, primarily felons, who have been sentenced to incarceration for longer than one year. “The shuttering of the state mental-health hospitals through the ’80s and ’90s have led to more people sent to prison who would have gone to psychiatric hospitals,” MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan said. “But we get who we get, and we try to address that and treat that population as best we can.” Marlan said about 17 percent of the total state prison population is diagnosed as mentally ill when admitted, with varying levels of severity. The prison system gives every incoming prisoner a diagnostic test to determine if the inmate requires mental treatment. About 9 percent of the total population is kept on psychotropic medications, Marlan said. “Those would be the ones considered seriously, chronically mentally ill,” he said. He noted, “They do cost more.” Marlan estimated the average cost to house an MDOC prisoner for a year at about $30,000, with annual costs in the $44,000 or higher range for seriously mentally ill prisoners.

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Courtroom drama photo leads best-of collection Editor’s note: Ken Stevens is multimedia specialist for MLive Muskegon Chronicle. He has worked for the local news organization for 27 years. By Ken Stevens

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When covering an emotional event — such as a court hearing — the key is being prepared. That played out this week as I captured a photo when emotions were running high during the sentencing of Sarah Renee Knysz for her involvement in the shooting death of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II in September. The moment when Butterfield’s father approached Knysz in the courtroom just before making his statement was particularly emotional. He wanted Knysz to see a photo of his son who was gunned down during a traffic stop in rural Mason County on Sept. 9. That photo and several others are part of this edition of the Muskegon Chronicle/ MLive.com’s weekly feature called Ken Stevens Picks Pics, highlighting some of the top photographs shot recently by staff. The feature also provides some photography tips. When Butterfield’s father asked the judge to present something to Knysz, I anticipated something unique may happen. I was able to swing the video camera quickly on a tripod and let it roll and then capture the moment with a still camera. Knysz’s husband, Eric John Knysz, is charged with the murder.

Winter weather has hit pretty hard in the greater Muskegon area. It has provided the multimedia staff with plenty of opportunities to photograph the elements during news events. That included an outdoor news conference on Monday introducing a bill for a possible law by state Rep. Collene Lamonte, D-Montague. The bill would require convenience stores and gas stations operating between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. to schedule at least two workers on that shift, or install a security camera system recording attacks, robberies and other crimes affecting employees.

“Being new to the area, it was interesting to walk into the Hesperia High School gym for the varsity wrestling team’s first home meet and feel out the mood of the room. There was a definite sense of community, sprinkled with a bit of tension which made it an exciting event to cover. I enjoyed capturing the reactions of some of the Hesperia community members during the match, as well as seeing how the new head coach, John Dingledine, handled the event,” Hastings said.

Left, Jim Ray waits to be removed from his vehicle by the Ravenna Area Fire Department on Monday. (Natalie Kolb/MLive. com)

Below, Shelby Heeringa walks away from the podium after a news conference Monday. (Ken Stevens/MLive.com)

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MLive intern Natalie Kolb was out in the elements throughout the week. “With worsening traffic conditions, I found myself at the scene of three separate weather-related accidents this week,” she said. “Of the three, the most complex accident was the single-vehicle crash in Moorland Township. “When I got to the scene, Jim Ray, the driver of the tipped vehicle, was still inside. I watched him communicate with law enforcement officers through his window, unable to touch any part of his car until Consumers Energy took care of downed wires. I love the image of him looking through his window as people begin to rescue him,” Kolb said. MADELYN HASTINGS

Intern Madelyn Hastings began her first week of work by covering the opening of the wrestling season at a match in Hesperia.

Paul Butterﬁeld hands a photo of his son to Sarah Renee Knysz to look at before his making a statement to the court Tuesday. (Ken Stevens/MLive.com) Right, Hesperia’s Chase Siersema and Sparta’s Joel Reese attempt to pin each other during a match at Hesperia High School on Wednesday. (Madelyn Hastings/MLive.com)

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‘Frozen Fury’ well-received; spectators hope for more By Brandon Champion

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The Muskegon Lumberjacks were on the road, but there was still plenty of fighting inside L.C. Walker Arena on Friday night. That’s because for the first time in the city’s history, professional mixed martial arts fights took place, courtesy of the Xtreme Fighting Championship. The event, titled XFC 27 “Frozen Fury,” featured 10 professional fights, highlighted by an XFC Featherweight Championship bout between Farkhad Sharipov and Deivison Ribeiro of Brazil. Ribeiro defeated Farkhad by unanimous decision, 50-45, 49-46, 50-45, to claim the title in front of approximately 2,800 people in attendance. For many, the fact that the event was in Muskegon is what mattered most. “This is huge for Muskegon, absolutely huge,” said Muskegon resident Jason Wall. “I’m glad to see that as many people came out to support it that did. I only hope that Muskegon can keep trying to make it bigger for next time.” The night began with four preliminary bouts featuring fighters from West Michigan. Many in attendance showed up to support Grand Haven’s David Rohn, who won a high-profile boxing bout in September. Unfortunately for Rohn, he was not able to duplicate his success in the octagon, losing to Drew Morais by submission as the result of a guillotine choke in the first round. “I came out to support my buddy, David Rohn,” said Grand Haven resident Adam Bagalay. “David gave it his all, but he’s more of a boxer. But I give all these fighters credit.” Wall and Muskegon resident Anthony Foster also said they came out to support Rohn. Other highlights of the night included Dom O’Grady defeating Eric Reynolds by submission as the result of a rear naked choke in the second round during the co-main event, and Dave Courchaine defeating Alex Trevino by

Deivison Ribeiro, left, and Farkhad Sharipov swing at each other during the XFC Frozen Fury ﬁght on Friday. (Madelyn Hastings/MLive.com)

knockout after a right hook to head in the second round during the feature event. Perhaps the night’s most entertaining fight was a three-round battle between Holland’s Raymond Lopez and Detroit’s Shamir Garcia in which Lopez battled through a severely cut eye for most of the second round. “Lopez and Garcia was probably my favorite fight of the night,” Bagalay said. “Lopez had him in the first round. It had me on the edge of my seat. Those guys had a lot of heart.” The best knockout of the night belonged to Dequan Townsend, who dropped Marcus Reynolds with a spinning kick clean to the liver in the third round of their welterweight bout. Overall, those in attendance seemed to enjoy the unique event, which featured announcers, cage girls and national television (AXS TV). “I came out to hang out with some friends and have a night out with the guys,” Foster said. “It’s something to do, drink a few beers and just chill. I liked it. They were all good fights and I’d like to encourage other people to come out to events like this.” Bagalay said he hopes another MMA event comes to the Muskegon area soon. “I thought it was pretty cool,” he said. “I think they should bring stuff like this around here more often.”

Above, Daniel Swain, left, tackles JP Reese during the ﬁght Friday. Below, Shamir Garcia is introduced to a ﬁght against Raymond Lopez.

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Winter sports complex opens up shop early By Michelle Anderson

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Some of the best December snow in the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex’s history led the recreation center to open a couple weeks early Saturday. The complex on Friday announced on its Facebook page that it planned on opening its sledding hill and ice rinks along with its skating, snowshoe trails and most of its cross-country ski trails the next day because of the forecast, which called for continuous precipitation throughout the weekend. Since the announcement, Muskegon-area residents young and old have flocked to the secluded location at 462 Scenic Dr. for a dose of winter fun. “They’ve been streaming in all day. We’ve got a good crowd right now and we’re very happy,” said complex director Jim Rudicil. “We’ve had several hundred people come in today.” Rudicil confirmed that the recent snowfall was the best in the facility’s near 30-yearold history. Last year, the complex opened right after Christmas for about five days, and then closed because of warm weather. The on-and-off pattern continued through January. “We didn’t have good, skiable snow until late January. We’re a month early for that compared to last year,” Rudicil said. The best conditions for skiing call for at least four to six inches of snow, depending on the density and snow type, he said.

The luge tracks are closed and not ready for use, but the massive pathways might open earlier than the scheduled date of Dec. 27, Rudicil said. “We like to have it open for Christmas and New Year’s Day for the tourists,” Rudicil said. “Our primary luge season is January, February and the first part of March.” Rudicil said he expects next weekend to be the real season kick-off because many adults will be on vacation and will have more leisure time to spend with their loved ones. “We’re expecting to be crazy busy after Christmas,” he said. “This is the place where winter makes sense.” Nestled inside the Muskegon State Park, the complex hopes to update its facility and add rock-climbing, a zip-line “canopy tour” of the park’s dune land and a 20,000-square-foot covered pavilion to its list of offerings in the near future. The plans place more emphasis on a four-season approach and would be more assessible to people of various physical abilities, Rudicil has said. From now until Dec. 24, the complex is selling family season passes for $150 and $35 for the rental add-on. The regular price for the pass is $250 and $50 for the rental. The complex is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Its set holiday hours for luge activities will be from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 27 to Jan. 5. During that time, ticket sales will be available on a walk-in only basis. For more information and to check the available activities, visit: msports.org.

Sandi McDowell helps her son, Jones, 4, with his gloves while they ice skate Saturday at the Winter Sports Complex. (Madelyn Hastings/MLive.com)

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Pets need certiﬁcation when traveling out of state By Rosemary Parker

paperwork for the pet in the backseat. Going to Grandma’s for Michigan state veterinarChristmas dinner and planian James Averill said the ning to take the family pet CVI must be signed by a U.S. along for the ride? Department of Agriculture Even if you’re just driving accredited veterinarian. It to Indiana for a meal, state serves as proof the animal law requires the dog have has been inspected by a veta Certificate of Veterinary erinarian. A copy of the CVI Inspection, issued within the is delivered to the Michigan previous 30 days, said Janet Department of Agriculture Berish, animal health special- and Rural Development ist with the Indiana Board of (MDARD), where it is kept on Animal Health. file for just such emergencies. More important to public DOGS, CATS, FISH, MORE health, though, in the event Cats, too, need CVI papers. of a disease outbreak, these And if you’re going to “traveling papers” are critical Indiana or any other state to to tracing exposed animals get a puppy for Christmas, and people. the Michigan Department of Most people know of such Agriculture will expect the regulation among farm anisame level of certification mals or horses because there when the dog crosses the bor- have been cases of animal der back into Michigan. illnesses that required speedy State animal health officials quarantine. In 2011, Michigan sent a reminder Monday to was on the alert after cases of pet owners — and agriculdeadly, contagious neurologic tural producers — that all equine herpes were found in animals, including pets, fish, horses in Colorado following exotic animals and livestock, a show that brought particicoming into Michigan must be pants from many other states. accompanied by a CVI. “In 2012, more than 3.1 milAnimal health authorities lion animals, with traveling say these documents play papers, were imported into a vital role in preserving Michigan, and we investigated the health of Michigan ani145 disease cases connected mals. to animal imports,” Averill Jim Connell, veterinarian at said. Town and Country Veterinary Hospital in Allegan, said most CONTAINING DISEASE of his pet owners are surBut cats and dogs? Really? prised to learn their animals Connell said that’s an need such papers. important aspect of containHe provides certification ing contagious diseases, since to his regular patients at no animals are assured healthy charge, as a way to promote shortly before they travel. the program, designed to “If Aunt Sadie’s dog has protect animal public health. kennel cough, we don’t want it It also helps him avoid latecoming to Michigan. And that night calls from panicked fam- dog probably shouldn’t be in ilies who have been stopped the back seat of the car, anyfor traffic violations while on way,” if it has a fever, he said. vacation and are surprised The certification requires when an officer demands to an office visit to a veterinarsee not only driver’s license ian, usually no longer than an and registration but also hour’s visit depending on the

veterinarian’s familiarity with the animal and the requirements of the state of destination, Averill said. The local practitioner sets the fee, which can be “all over the board” depending on what is needed, Averill said. Whether by air or car, traveling pets are governed by the same law, PA 466, which requires the pet owner’s address, animal description and veterinary signatures. In Michigan, dogs more than 12 weeks old are required to have been vaccinated for rabies before they enter the state, Averill said. Horses in almost every state require a Coggins test to assure they are not carrying equine infectious anemia, and some states, such as Florida, have round-the-clock monitoring of their borders, checking horse trailers as they arrive from out of state, Connell said. What happens if the law is ignored? Averill said the U.S.D.A.’s first step is to educate pet owners and to bring them into compliance, requiring any missing vaccinations or verification that the animal has had them. But in the event of repeat or large scale offenders, or if there is an incident such as a dog bite or diseased animal, the pet owner may be required to return the animal to the state of origin or the animal may be quarantined, he said. “Depending on the species, the animal could be confiscated,” Averill said. It is ultimately the issuing veterinarian’s responsibility to ensure all import and export requirements are met, according to the news release. To seek import or export assistance from MDARD, call 800-292-3939 or visit MDARD’s website.

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Semi driver ticketed after U.S. 31 pileup The driver of the truck pulling a trailer full of cattle has been ticketed for his alleged role in Thursday’s 40-car accident on southbound U.S. 31. Muskegon County Sheriff’s Deputy Kendall Jeppesen said he handled that part of the crash and confirmed Friday the driver was ticketed for driving too fast for road conditions. Jeppesen said he couldn’t say yet whether his alleged speeding set off the string of crashes that followed. The driver of the cattle trailer — that was “fully loaded” with cattle — told police he was traveling 40 to 45 mph when he started to lose control and veered to the right to avoid hitting a semi in front of him, Jeppessen said. He ended up striking the back corner of the truck. The pileup, which began at about 9:30 a.m., closed the southbound lanes near White Lake Drive. MUSKEGON

Port team rescues freighter in trouble Big Lake freighters having problems on Lake Michigan would do well to have them near the Muskegon Harbor, the captain and crew of the Catherine Desgagnes learned Wednesday. The 410-foot Catherine Desgagnes, out of Quebec City, Quebec, lost power about 30 miles northwest of the Muskegon pierheads about 9 a.m. Wednesday. The call for help from vessel agent Aaron Bensinger, of Inter Ship in Chicago, went to Port City Marine Services President

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Accused killer’s wife gets prison term Sarah Renee Knysz, nine months pregnant and weeping, spoke at great length at her sentencing Tuesday about the life of terror she said she lived as the wife of Knysz a controlling, abusive Eric John Knysz. He is charged with murdering Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II. Sarah Knysz admitted helping him get away afterward. One thing she never mentioned in court: any expression of regret or apology to Butterfield’s family and loved ones. Butterfield’s fiancee, Jennifer Sielski, and his

father, Paul T. Butterfield, spoke about their grief and anger over the trooper’s death. Sarah Knysz, 20, of Luther, was sentenced for her role in the aftermath of the younger Butterfield’s slaying. She was ordered to state prison for two to five years for accessory after the fact to a felony, and a concurrent 11 months for motor vehicle theft. LUDINGTON

Accused killer’s mom heading to trial Tammi Lynne Spofford, the mother of Eric Knysz, who is charged with murder in the shooting death of Michigan State Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II, waived her preliminary examination on charges of accessory after the fact and motor vehicle theft. That moves her felony case to Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court for trial. Spofford’s preliminary examination, a hearing at which a district judge hears evidence and decides whether a felony case is strong enough to send to trial, had been scheduled for Wednesday.

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A number of good games are on the slate Thursday and Friday as candidates for the Muskegon Chronicle/MLive Game of the Week, which will be the last one before Christmas. The candidates include Ludington vs. Mona Shores girls, Tri-unity Christian at Muskegon Catholic Central boys, ReethsPuffer vs. Oakridge girls, Oakridge at North Muskegon boys and Grand Haven at Reeths-Puffer boys. Fans have until 6 p.m. Tuesday to vote for their team. Go to mlive.com/mupreps, and selections can be made once an hour. Your vote determines what game we’ll highlight in a preview. Then, we’ll provide bonus game coverage including a live chat that not only will provide up-to-theminute reports from our Game of the Week, but information on other games in the area as well. The game also will be featured in stories and photos in Sunday’s paper. We’ll then take two weeks off for Christmas and New Years, but starting Jan. 3 we will ask for nominations for our polls for our Jan. 9-10 games. BOYS BASKETBALL

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Holland senior point guard Dante Hawkins scored 30 points, including 23 in the second half, to lead the Dutch past host Grand Haven 56-49 on Friday night. The Dutch (2-0) distance themselves with a 17-7 third quarter. The teams were tied at the half. “I just don’t think we were executing very well offensively,” Grand Haven coach Steven Hewitt said. “We missed a lot of shots, and I think they were bad shots. We just didn’t guard them in the paint and they were breaking us down.” Connor Grimes led Grand Haven (0-2) with 18 points and seven rebounds. He was 11 for 11 from the free-throw line. More coverage, B3

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Big Reds: So far, so good By Mark Opfermann

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USKEGON — There are big expectations surrounding the Muskegon boys basketball team and the Big Reds showed flashes of that Friday in a 57-32 seasonopening win against Rockford.

Senior guard Deshaun Thrower missed just two shots from the floor and finished with a game-high 26 points to lead the Big Reds in the Muskegon Chronicle/MLive.com Game of the Week. Rockford led 8-4 before Muskegon went on a 15-0 run to close the first quarter. The Big Reds led 32-19 at halftime and scored the first six points of the second half to pull away. Here are five takeaways from Friday’s game: WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON, SO DOES DESHAUN

Coming off ankle and hand injuries toward the end of football season, Thrower didn’t show any lingering effects. He poured in 20 first-half points and didn’t shy away from taking the ball to the basket or hitting the outside shot. He hit 5-of-6 from 3-point range. “It was better than I expected. I didn’t think I’d shoot the ball that well coming off just a week off,” he said. The senior guard even surprised himself when an intended alley-oop to Deyonta Davis swished. “When you throw up an alley-oop and it goes in, I mean, it’s just your night, right?” Muskegon coach Keith Guy said. LOOK FOR DAVIS TO GET MORE INVOLVED

Davis, a 6-foot-9 junior center, didn’t get many touches and had just five points at halftime. In the second half, Muskegon went inside to him on its first three possessions, and it resulted in two buckets, including two dunks. Davis, who made a verbal commitment to Michigan State earlier in the week, finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and seven blocks. “I was disappointed in the guys. We have a 6-9 guy that can score and we’re not looking at him and we’re shooting jump shots,” Guy said. “I wanted to make a concerted effort to get him the ball, and if we didn’t, we were going to get some guys in there that would. (In the second half), we did a great SEE BIG REDS, B2

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Muskegon’s Joeviair Kennedy puts up a shot against Rockford’s Christopher Sunday during Friday’s Muskegon Chronicle/MLive.com Game of the Week. Muskegon won 57-32. (Ken Stevens/MLive.com)

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Fruitport downs Fremont in Lakes 8 battle Iyana Brown scored eight points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Fruitport (2-1, 1-0 Lakes 8) which outscored visiting Fremont 19-4 in the second quarter in a 34-28 win Friday. Branne Burns had seven points and Francesca Cerniglia grabbed a team-high 13 rebounds. The teams totaled seven points in the first quarter in what Fruitport coach Bob German called a “sluggish start.” “(They) kept it close in the second half, but (we) held them off for the win,” German said. Lexie Bradley and Hailey Lensky scored 10 points each for Fremont (0-4, 0-2), and Marissa Spickerman added six. More coverage, B3

Muskegon team formed for wooden-bat summer league By Mark Opfermann mopferma@mlive.com

MUSKEGON — The name Muskegon Clippers is resurfacing as a local baseball team. The old Clippers played at Marsh Field in the late 1940s as an affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees. The new Clippers also will play at Marsh Field as part of the newly formed Michigan Summer Collegiate Baseball League that will kick off in June 2014. The league will be comprised of up to eight teams from the state and will feature eligible college players from junior college to the Division I level. The league will use wooden bats and play a schedule of about 30 games. Players for the Muskegon team have not been announced.

Other teams already committed to the league are three teams from the Detroit area, one from Holland and one from Grand Rapids. The Muskegon team is owned by Pete Gawkowski, a local businessman who also owns the indoor baseball facility Extra Innings. He is one of the founders of the Lakeshore Baseball Club, which operates Marsh Field for the city of Muskegon. Walt Gawkowski, Pete’s brother, will serve as the head coach and will be joined on the staff by Brian Wright, Keith Williams and Bob Cavanaugh. Jim Grevel, who is a part of the Lakeshore Baseball Club, will be in charge of player development. Walt Gawkowski stepped down as the varsity coach at Mona Shores last season and brings 33 years of varsity coaching experience.

Pete Gawkowski, a prominent ﬁgure in local baseball, will own the Muskegon Clippers, a team forming this summer to play in a wooden bat league. (MLive.com ﬁle)

Wright has been the varsity baseball coach at Shelby for 33 years, Williams is a former assistant at Muskegon Community College and Cavanaugh is the founder and president of the West Michigan Riptide, a youth travel baseball organization.

The Michigan league will be affiliated with the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate Baseball League, which has operated in Ohio and Kentucky for the past 27 years. The Great Lakes League is sanctioned by the NCAA and receives funding from Major League Baseball.

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Game of the Week MUSKEGON 57, ROCKFORD 32

Guy has Muskegon on the right track Coach known for getting most out of talented players

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USKEGON — Year 2 started a ton better than Year 1 for Muskegon boys basketball coach Keith Guy. The second-year athletic director and varsity basketball coach for the Big Reds hopes it also ends better. Guy’s first season at Muskegon after nine highly successful seasons at Muskegon Heights started with a 10-point loss at Rockford and finished in the Class A state quarterfinals with a 19-7 record. After a 57-32 win over Rockford at RedmondGuy Potter Gymnasium on Friday night, the Big Reds are 35 points improved from a year ago, and seemingly bound for big things. It wouldn’t surprise anyone who has watched Guy’s teams the past 10 years if a talented Big Reds squad, featuring two future Division I college players in senior Deshaun Thrower (Stony Brook) and junior Deyonta Davis (Michigan State), could get to Breslin Center this season. Guy expects big things from his players, his teams and himself every year. The Big Reds improved quite a bit through the span of 26 games last year. If they can do that again after a huge win in their season debut Friday, watch out. Guy guided Muskegon Heights to five final fours and two state runner-up finishes during his nine seasons. He has the same goals at Muskegon. He had talent to work with on the Tigers teams, to be sure, but he also got the most out of them, demanding hard work, discipline and fundamentals. Guy was at it again Friday

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job of getting it to him. We want to play inside-out, and I think we can spread the floor with our perimeter guys. But it has to go through him first.”

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with the Big Reds. Late in the first half, he was pleading with his team to work its offense inside-out, a basic basketball principle, especially when you have 6-foot-9 Davis in the post. It didn’t happen late in the first half, but Davis got the ball early and often to start the second half. “I was impressed with how well the guys responded to instruction,” Guy said. “We talked about getting the ball inside before the game, and they didn’t do it in the first half. But I think they took heed to the message at halftime and really worked the ball inside (in the second half), and we were able to increase our lead because of it.” Muskegon’s team defense was strong throughout the game, limiting Rockford to 32 points, 10 field goals and just four buckets inside the 3-point arc. The Big Reds were far from perfect, though, allowing plenty of dribble penetration and open 3-point shot attempts by the Rams, and relying way too much on Davis to protect the basket. Davis came through with seven blocks, but foul trouble could come easily for him in the future if teams are allowed to attack him too much. Guy recognized the poor defensive technique by his players on a couple of occasions, and made it a point of emphasis during a couple of his talks. “We can do better,” Guy said. “We don’t play defense like that. We keep our man in front, we don’t reach, and we move our feet and beat them to the spot. I felt a couple times we were undisciplined, and we don’t want to play that way. We want to play disciplined, smart basketball.”

With 6-foot-9 Deyonta Davis, left, and fellow Division I commit Deshaun Thrower, right, on the court together, Muskegon has the pieces in place for a shot at a state title. (Ken Stevens/MLive.com)

Big Reds pass first test — but it’s a long season Muskegon has the talent to be a title contender, needs to make sure it puts the pieces together

USKEGON — They have the makings of one of the best Class A teams in the state.

Just how good remains to be seen for the Muskegon Big Reds boys basketball team. The scary part is after a 57-32 rout against Rockford, Muskegon coach Keith Guy wasn’t giving out any A grades. You can’t blame him. Why would he after the season opener? No need to go there yet. The Big Reds were inconsistent at times and not quite in basketball shape yet, but also showed flashes of their talent as well. With senior guard Deshaun Thrower having a big night with a game-high 26 points, and 6-foot-9 junior center Deyonta Davis throwing down some monster dunks, what’s not to like with the inside-outside potential of this team.

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Potential is the key word for Guy. He said this team still is a work in progress after Friday’s win while a good turnout at Redmond-Potter Gymnasium filed out into the cold. “I think we have a lot of weapons. I think we’re a really good team, we could be, over time,” Guy said. “Those (state) ratings, 2 and 3 or 1, I think we can be there. I don’t know if we’re there yet. I think we have the tools and the players to possibly be a contender come March.” It was hard for Guy to find fault in Muskegon’s defense, though. Muskegon gave up fewer two-point field goals than 3-point field goals as Rockford looked outside with Davis patrolling the inside. “Any time you hold Rockford under 40 points, you played well defensively,” Guy said. “For us to only have seven practices and for us to defend the way we did, I thought it was a great team

effort. But we have a lot of work to do. I’m not trying to nit pick, but it was ugly.” Guy wasn’t happy the Big Reds settled too often on the outside shot without getting enough touches inside for Davis, who made a verbal commitment to Michigan State on Wednesday. Davis ended up taking a couple 3s of his own, but did his damage on the inside on some alley-oops and on the defensive end with 10 rebounds and seven blocks. Guy gave the team the weekend off to rest before getting back to practice Monday. Thrower, Joeviair Kennedy, Jordan Waire and Will Roberson were starters on the football team that finished as state runners-up and must make the switch in the change of sports. There is a transition on the physical and mental side from football to basketball, but the high expectations remain. “I’m excited to see what we bring to the table this year,” Thrower said. “A lot of people have us ranked high and Muskegon hasn’t been ranked that high, so we have to play up to that expectation. We have a lot of talent on the floor in the first five and on the bench, too.”

in transition whenever possible. Besides Davis, another strength for Muskegon is the quickness of Thrower, Will Roberson and Jordan Waire. LEARNING CURVE

It’s only the first game and both teams want to get better. Rockford coach Nick Allen hopes that’s the case for the ROCKFORD’S WATTERS ISN’T Rams. “They’re a pretty darn BIG, BUT HE CAN PLAY good team, but our guys are The senior guard scored the certainly competitive. It’s cerfirst eight points for the Rams tainly a learning experience and finished with a team-high for us. I think there are some 16. He was in foul trouble and things we can pull from it that picked up his fourth less than will help gets us better,” he three minutes into the second said. Muskegon gets back to work for practice Monday, but half. The Rams showed they doesn’t play again until the like to run a motion offense Meijer Muskegon Area Sports and try to spread the defense Hall of Fame Holiday Classic for their 3-point shooters on Dec. 27. “I thought it was a or go inside to post player good first-game effort for us,” Christopher Sunday. Guy said. “I didn’t expect to MUSKEGON CAN SCORE beat Rockford like this. They IN BUNCHES are always a well-coached The Big Reds showed some team. We still have a lot of work to do, a lot of work to tough pressure on the ball and looked to get out and run do.”

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Heights rolls in season opener

Grand Haven remains undefeated

Eddie Tornes scored 25 points, including six 3-pointers, to lead the Muskegon Heights Academy boys basketball team to a 70-26 win over Manistee on Friday. “Eddie really got things rolling,” said Muskegon Heights coach Dalrecus Stewart, whose team outscored Manistee 23-5 in the first quarter. “They packed it in a little bit in the early going, and Eddie hit two or three straight 3s, which forced them to play us on the perimeter.” Tornes added eight rebounds, five steals and four assists, and Aaron Sydnor recorded 16 points, seven rebounds and four steals. Antonio Jones added 11 points and five rebounds. Alex Bialik led Manistee with 10 points. FRIDAY

Austin Sied, Nick Castenholtz and Alex White scored seven points each. GRANT 57, LUDINGTON 49: Grant out-shot Ludington from the line 27-17 and hit seven 3-pointers in the game. Matthew Ritter led Ludington with 10 points. Cameron Bandstra and Remington Rohrer scored eight each. NEWAYGO 56, REMUS CHIPPEWA HILLS 44: Heath Harrington led Newaygo with 12 points, while Kyle Wright and Dakota Queen each had 11. Chippewa Hills’ leading scorer was Colton Conley wtih 12. LAKEVIEW 60, HOLTON 43: Shawn Lindsey recorded 17 points, 12 rebounds and five steals to help Lakeview, as Brad Hamlin added 14 points and Caleb Ruvalcaba added 12. Corey Sokolowski led Holton with 12 points, followed by Aaron Poling’s 11. FRUITPORT CALVARY CHRISTIAN 58, WALKERVILLE 38: Calvary Christian’s Mike Warren scored a career-high 40 points and added 15 rebounds. Sam Sweet led Walkerville with 22 points, and Gerardo Varrious added 13. CEDAR SPRINGS 68, KENT CITY 54: Cedar Springs took a 14-point first quarter lead and held on. Cam Link had 28 points and Brad Brechting had 10 for Cedar Springs. Kent City’s Jake Krueger had 14 points, followed by Rans Hill, 10. Cedar Springs hit 19-of-24 free throws. — MLive.com

Taylor Craymer scored 19 points, draining four 3-pointers, and grabbed nine rebounds to help Grand Haven remain undefeated in a 44-32 win at Harper Woods Chandler Park Academy on Friday. Craymer also recorded four steals for the 4-0 Buccaneers. “Taylor is getting it done on both ends,” Grand Haven coach Katie KowalczykFulmer said. “She’s a threat outside and inside for us. She did a nice job on the glass and has been a great leader for us.” In addition to Craymer’s performance, Amanda Merz scored 10 points, grabbed eight rebounds and had six assists. Jada Ivy had 10 points for Chandler Park Academy. SATURDAY

FLINT SOUTHWESTERN 46, MUSKEGON 43: Muskegon cut the lead to one point with under one minute left in the game, but a missed layup with 20 seconds left. Mardrieka Cook scored 16 points to lead Muskegon, while Jade Paige added 14. Chavon Tiggs scored 17 points to lead Southwestern, while Kayla Brown added 16. FRIDAY

MUSKEGON MONA SHORES 47, HOLLAND 17: Jasmyn Walker led Mona Shores with 16 points. Martha DenHerder had 14 points for Holland. COOPERSVILLE 57, SPRING LAKE 47: Coopersville was led by Sammie McCarthy, who scored 21 points, while

Shelby DeHaan pitched in with 14. Spring Lake’s Kelsee Zuidema had a doubledouble with 13 points and 15 rebounds. Courtney Kyser finished with nine points and 10 rebounds. FRUITPORT 34, FREMONT 28: Iyana Brown scored eight points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Fruitport, who outscored Fremont 19-4 in the second quarter. Lexie Bradley and Hailey Lensky scored 10 points aech for Fremont. TRI COUNTY 75, MUSKEGON ORCHARD VIEW 70 (OT): Orchard View’s Deejia Hill made the two free throws to tie the game at 61-61, but Tri-County outscored Orchard View 14-7 in overtime. Hill finished with 26 points, while teammates Precious Anderson had 17 and Jayshonna Blackshire added 10 points. Kaylie Caverley and Alexis Firovich had 22 points each for Tri County. Kelsy Hackbardt had 12 and Jenna DeGeer 11. MUSKEGON WESTERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN 47, WYOMING KELLOGGSVILLE 30: Anneliese Dekam scored 11 points to lead Western Michigan Christian, while Alyssa Wright and Olivia Varnado added 10 each. Kelloggsville’s Kayla Shannon scored a gamehigh 12 points, while Larissa Shumpert added 11. LUDINGTON 66, GRANT 30: Ludington’s Madilyn Shank had 12 points, as Ali Plamondon and Brandi Thomas scored 10 each. Samantha Slachter led

Grant with nine points. FRUITPORT CALVARY CHRISTIAN 69, HESPERIA 54: Calvary Christian’s Taylor Richards scored 29 points and had 18 rebounds, and Allyson Richards added 27 points and nine rebounds. Lauren Zeerip had 20 points, Mariah Stitt 12 and Katie Annis 10 for Hesperia. KENT CITY 44, CEDAR SPRINGS 34: Bailey Freeland had nine points for Kent City and Aubree Mouthaan had 10 for Cedar Springs. THURSDAY

GRAND RAPIDS UNION 55, MUSKEGON HEIGHTS ACADEMY 23: Fayth Talbert and Tatriellia Whittington each led Union with 14 points. Rodrica Jefferson led Heights with nine points. MUSKEGON OAKRIDGE 66, WHITEHALL 36: Morgan Giddings led Muskegon Oakridge with 19 points, 11 assists, six rebounds and four steals. Megan Larabee added 18 points, seven assists and six steals for Oakridge. Jenna Pesch led Whitehall with 15 points, and Emily MacArthur added 12. SHELBY 39, MONTAGUE 28: Tristen Moore led Shelby with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Elyse Taylor led Montague with 11 points. NORTH MUSKEGON 48, HART 34: North Muskegon’s Abby Clark scored nine of her game-high 23 points in the second quarter. Baylee Draper led Hart with seven points, seven rebounds and four blocks. — MLive.com

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MUSKEGON MONA SHORES 68, MUSKEGON WESTERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN 43: Mona Shores jumped out to a 37-19 halftime lead. Marcus Tumblin led the Sailors with 19 points, while Logan Haugh added 12. WMC’s Bernard Smith scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. COOPERSVILLE 55, SPRING LAKE 52 (OT): Joseph Dekkenga led Coopersville with 16 points, while Nathan Darcy added 15 and Alec Wysocki 12. Nick Goeglein led Spring Lake with 19 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks, and Zach Montgomery added 13 points. FREMONT 66, FRUITPORT 50: Dylan Krim scored 23 points and grabbed seven

rebounds to lead Fremont, while Daniel Greeting added 15 points. Luke German led Fruitport, scoring 17 points, and Shawn Know added 10. WHITEHALL 61, MUSKEGON OAKRIDGE 47: Matt Russell led Whitehall with 28 points, followed by Matt Rohen, 12. Oakridge’s Austin Wright scored 17, while Hunter Benson with 14 points. TRI COUNTY 59, MUSKEGON ORCHARD VIEW 39: Tri County’s Ryne Dailey scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Jordan VandeVreede added 16 points. Orchard View senior Brandon Edwards scored 10 points, while Maraki Taylor chipped in nine. SHELBY 84, MONTAGUE 62: Jason Beckman led Shelby with 22 points, including five 3-pointers. Andrew Beckman finished with 14 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, as Devin Mussell chipped in 12 points, Caleb Anderson 11 points and Brody Lee 10. Montague’s Luke VanBoxel finished with a game-high 30 points, and Chayce Lohman added 16. NORTH MUSKEGON 54, HART 30: Marcos Visconti led North Muskegon with 12 points, followed by Ben Gautraud’s 10. Hart’s James Freeman had eight points. MASON COUNTY CENTRAL 73, RAVENNA 48: Anders Asiala led Mason County Central with 12 points, while Kody Ambrose added 11 points and Austin Krusinski had 10. Jake Sied led Ravenna with a game-high 22 points, as

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Hyrns falls short of Sochi Olympic bid By Scott Brandenburg sbranden@mlive.com

MUSKEGON — Jake Hyrns’ dream of competing in the Olympics will have to wait a little longer. Hyrns, a Muskegon native, and teammate Andrew Sherk, of Fort Washington, Pa., competed in a race-off for Team USA’s final spot in the 2014 Sochi Games. Hyrns and Sherk lost to Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman by 0.23 of a second over a two-run span Friday at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah, according to a story on usaluge.org. Hyrns and Sherk needed a 10th-place finish in a World Cup race Friday to secure a spot in the Sochi Games. According to usaluge.org, they never got the chance because they were disqualified from a run in the Nations Cup qualifier Thursday because of steel which was too warm. Niccum and Terdiman

Lakers get two takeaways in first half but fail to take advantage

By Peter J. Wallner pwallner@mlive.com

Muskegon native Jake Hyrns, front, along with partner, Andrew Sherk, lost a race-off for the ﬁnal spot on Team USA’s luge team for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. (AP)

needed a top-five finish at Friday’s World Cup to secure the second and final doubles luge spot for USA in the Olympics, but wound up 11th, forcing the race-off for the final spot.

SCOREBOARD SCORES

SATURDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL Flint Southwestern 46, Muskegon 43 WRESTLING Grandville Challenge 1. Bay City Western 240.5; 2. Grandville 240; 3. Detroit Catholic Central 230; 4. Middleville; 4. Muskegon Mona Shores; 4. Marysville. Bosse Invitational 1. Mason County Central 191; 2. Three Rivers 125.5; 3. Holton 96.5; 4. Hart 95; 5. Manton 92; 6. Martin 74; 7. Ludington 61; 8. Zeeland West 49; 9. Montague 36; 10. Kalkaska 18. BOYS ICE HOCKEY Clarkston 6, Grand Haven 0 Detroit U-D Jesuit 6, Muskegon Mona Shores 2 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer 5, Manistee 0 BOYS SWIMMING Raider Sprints 1. Mattawan 277; 2. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 233; 3. Manistee 217; 4. Wayland 177; 5. Middleville/ Hastings 160; 6. Ionia 137; 7. Ottawa Hills 121; 8. Eaton Rapids 90; 9. Ludington 30; 10. West Catholic 27; 11. Union 22; 12. Muskegon Catholic Central 8; 13. Jenison. COMPETITIVE CHEER CCCAM Scholarship Invitational at Comstock Park - Division 3 1. Comstock Park 739.1; 2. Holland Christian 658.5; 3. Howard City Tri County 585.3; 4. Spring Lake 570.2; 5. Portland 556.7; 6. West Catholic 464.4. CCCAM Scholarship Invitational at Comstock Park - Division 2 1. DeWitt 746.2; 2. Middleville 731.3; 3. Muskegon Mona Shores 688.9; 4. Kenowa Hills 688.6; 5. Sparta 674.6; 6. Muskegon Reeths-Puffer 656.9; 7. Cedar Springs 644.8; 8. Zeeland East 483.8; 9. Fruitport 355.8; 10. GR Christian. FRIDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Big Rapids 77, Hesperia 34 Cedar Springs 68, Kent City 54 Coopersville 55, Spring Lake 52 Fremont 66, Fruitport 50 Fruitport Calvary Christian 58, Walkerville 38 Grant 57, Ludington 49 Holland 56, Grand Haven 49 Howard City Tri County 59, Muskegon Orchard View 39 Lakeview 60, Holton 43 Mason County Central 73, Ravenna 48 Muskegon 57, Rockford 32 Muskegon Heights Academy 70, Manistee 26 Muskegon Mona Shores 68, Muskegon Western Michigan Christian 43 Newaygo 56, Remus Chippewa Hills 44 North Muskegon 54, Hart 30 Shelby 84, Montague 62 Stanton Central Montcalm 60, White Cloud 37 Whitehall 61, Muskegon Oakridge 47 GIRLS BASKETBALL Bear Lake 71, Pentwater 33 Coopersville 57, Spring Lake 47 Fruitport 34, Fremont 28 Fruitport Calvary Christian 69, Hesperia 54 Grand Haven 44, Harper Woods Chandler Park Academy 32 Grand River Preparatory 66, Muskegon Catholic Central 42 Howard City Tri County 75, Muskegon Orchard View 70 Kent City 44, Cedar Springs 34 Ludington 66, Grant 30 Muskegon 61, Rockford 48 Muskegon Mona Shores 47, Holland 17 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian 47, Kelloggsville 30 WRESTLING Remus Chippewa Hills 35, Shelby 32 BOYS ICE HOCKEY Muskegon Mona Shores 2, Wyandotte Roosevelt 1 Northville 4, Grand Haven 0 Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 5, Muskegon ReethsPuffer 4 THURSDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Baldwin 58, Pentwater 34 GIRLS BASKETBALL Union 55, Muskegon Heights Academy 23 Lakeview 55, Holton 49 Mason County Central 64, Ravenna 25 Muskegon Oakridge 66, Whitehall 36 North Muskegon 48, Hart 34 Remus Chippewa Hills 56, Newaygo 49 Shelby 39, Montague 28 Stanton Central Montcalm 57, White Cloud 41 BOYS BOWLING Potter’s House 15, Muskegon Western Michigan Christian 15 GIRLS BOWLING Potter’s House 27, Muskegon Western Michigan Christian 3 BOYS SWIMMING Ottawa Hills 86, Fremont 57

SCHEDULE

MONDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Montague at Muskegon Orchard View, 7:15 p.m. Muskegon Western Michigan Christian at Fruitport, 7:30 p.m. Spring Lake at Shelby, 7:30 p.m. BOYS BOWLING Lee at Kent City, 3:30 p.m.

Grand Valley’s season ends in the semiﬁnals

GIRLS BASKETBALL Fruitport at Muskegon Western Michigan Christian, 7 p.m. Fruitport Calvary Christian at Mason County Eastern, 7:30 p.m. Hesperia at Morley-Stanwood, 7 p.m. Lakeview at Newaygo, 7 p.m. Muskegon Heights Academy at North Muskegon, 7 p.m. Reed City at Holton, 7 p.m. White Cloud at Remus Chippewa Hills, 7 p.m. GIRLS BOWLING Ravenna at Allendale, 3:30 p.m. Lee at Kent City, 3:30 p.m. WRESTLING Triangular at Manistee: Grant, Ludington, 5:30 p.m. Holton at Fremont, 5:30 p.m. TUESDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Bear Lake at Pentwater, 6 p.m. Fruitport Calvary Christian at Ravenna, 7 p.m. Grand Haven at Forest Hills Central, 7 p.m. Grant at Belding, 7 p.m. Hart at Whitehall, 7 p.m. Holton at Reed City, 7 p.m. Kent City at Coopersville, 7 p.m. Mason County Central at Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, 5:30 p.m. Morley-Stanwood at Hesperia, 7 p.m. Muskegon Heights at Rockford, 7 p.m. Muskegon Mona Shores at Fremont, 7:30 p.m. Newaygo at Lakeview, 7 p.m. North Muskegon at Ludington, 7 p.m. Remus Chippewa Hills at White Cloud, 7 p.m. Walkerville at Baldwin, 7:30 p.m. BOYS BOWLING Muskegon Mona Shores at Grandville, 3:30 p.m. BOYS SWIMMING Fremont at Ludington, 6 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Belding at Grant, 7 p.m. Coopersville at Kent City, 7 p.m. Montague at Hart, 7:30 p.m. Muskegon Oakridge at North Muskegon, 7 p.m. Muskegon Reeths-Puffer at Muskegon Heights Academy, 6 p.m. Ravenna at Shelby, 7:30 p.m. Whitehall at Mason County Central, 6 p.m. GIRLS BOWLING Muskegon Mona Shores at Grandville, 3:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Muskegon Catholic Central at Pentwater, 6 p.m. Spring Lake at Muskegon Mona Shores, 7 p.m. BOYS BOWLING NorthPointe Christian at Kent City, 3:30 p.m. Howard City Tri County at Fremont, 4 p.m. BOYS ICE HOCKEY Grand Haven at Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, 7:30 p.m. Muskegon Mona Shores at Rockford, 8 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Walkerville at Onekama, 7:30 p.m. GIRLS BOWLING NorthPointe Christian at Kent City, 3:30 p.m. Howard City Tri County at Fremont, 4 p.m. WRESTLING Quad at Newaygo: Grant, Kent City, Newaygo, 5:30 p.m. Zeeland East Quad, 6 p.m. Grand Haven at East Kentwood, 7 p.m. Quad at Reeths-Puffer: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, 6 p.m. WMC Jamboree: Hart, Montague, Muskegon Oakridge, North Muskegon, Ravenna, Shelby, Whitehall, 5 p.m. CSAA Tri: Holton, 5:30 p.m. Muskegon at Fruitport: Fruitport, Muskegon, Muskegon Mona Shores, 5:30 p.m. Tri at Hesperia: Hesperia, 5:30 p.m. THURSDAY BOYS BASKETBALL Benzie Central at Ludington, 7 p.m. Montague at Hart, 7:30 p.m. Muskegon Oakridge at North Muskegon, 7 p.m. Onekama at Walkerville, 6 p.m. Shelby at Ravenna, 7 p.m. Whitehall at Mason County Central, 6 p.m. BOYS SWIMMING double Dual at Ottawa Hills: Muskegon Catholic Central, 6 p.m. Ludington at Grand Haven, 6:30 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Big Rapids at White Cloud, 7 p.m. Holton at Hesperia, 7 p.m. Hall of Fame Tournament: Ludington vs. Muskegon Reeths-Puffer, 5:45 p.m. Morley-Stanwood at Stanton Central Montcalm, 7 p.m. Hall of Fame Classic, 4 p.m. Newaygo at Reed City, 7 p.m. Mona Shores Tournament, 7 p.m. WRESTLING Ravenna at Mason County Central, 5 p.m.

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GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Valley State had one gift too many go unopened in the NCAA Division II semifinals Saturday. Northwest Missouri State committed two first-half turnovers and made several early mistakes, but the Lakers were unable to capitalize as the Bearcats pulled away late the second half for a 27-13 victory before 4,096 at Bearcat Stadium in Maryville, Mo. “It’s a bittersweet feeling,” GVSU coach Matt Mitchell said. “I’m disappointed that we lost the game, because we had some opportunities to win it. But at the same time, you can’t fault the players in the program. To be one of the top four teams in the nation, that’s says something about who they are.” Grand Valley, after an early 6-0 lead, managed only a third-quarter touchdown in its first appearance in the semifinals since 2009. The Lakers, who had won eight in a row, finished the season 12-3. Northwest Missouri State, ranked No. 2 most of the season, improved to 14-0 and will face Lenoir-Rhyne, a 42-14 winner against West Chester, for the championship. The finals will be noon Saturday in Florence, Ala. The Bearcats, who average almost 47 points a game, collected 303 of their 521 total yards in the second half after struggling early in the game, played on a frigid afternoon with wind chill in single digits. The Lakers got as close as 20-13 on a 4-yard touchdown catch by Jamie Potts from Heath Parling at the end of the third quarter, but the Bearcats answered midway through the fourth with an insurance score. “There were several opportunities for us to make plays, and we didn’t make them,” Mitchell said. “I don’t feel like we were outmatched in any way, shape or form. We just didn’t make the plays you need to make in those type of games.” It will be the first half the Lakers remember, and not fondly. They had a number of chances, but the only production was two field goals from Joel Schipper.

Grand Valley State’s Deonte Hurst tackles Northwest Missouri State’s Reuben Thomas on Saturday in an NCAA Division II semiﬁnal game. The Lakers lost 27-13 and ﬁnished the season 12-3. (Courtesy/Doug Witte)

The first break came on the Bearcats’ second play from scrimmage, a lateral that was recovered by the Lakers’ Matt Mosely on the Bearcats’ 17-yard line. Schipper hit from 37 yards out. The Lakers used their next possession to go 49 yards, highlighted by a 28-yard catch by Joe Wirth, before the drive stalled. Schipper connected from 28 yards for a 6-0 early lead, a nice change for the Lakers who had struggled in the first half in the postseason. The Bearcats, however, responded, as quarterback Brady Bolles capped a nine-play, 80-yard drive with a 6-yard touchdown run to make it 7-6 — a lead they never relinquished. The Lakers were given another opportunity when the Bearcats fumbled on the Lakers’ goal line on a botched sneak attempt by quarterback Trevor Adams following a long drive. In turn, the Lakers marched on a 14-play drive that consumed 5:44 on the clock — and much more, considering two replays that both went the Lakers’ way. Both were on pass receptions, one to Potts for 29 yards that was reversed, and then to Darryl Pitts for 18 yards that was not overturned when the front of his foot might have been out of bounds. Also on the drive, NW Missouri State cornerback Brian Dixon dropped an

interception in the end zone. But when the drive stalled, Schipper’s 33-yard field-goal attempt was pushed right. “I was looking up at the scoreboard, and we were down 7-6, and I just wanted the lead getting into halftime,” Mitchell said. “But, yeah, wind was a little bit of a factor on that one (missed field goal).” The Bearcats used the final 2:24 to control the field and finished the half with an 18-yard field goal by Simon Mathieson. It also was another missed opportunity, as his first try was botched and holder Adams threw incomplete. But it came on a third down. He made his second try, and the Bearcats took a 10-6 lead at halftime. “There’s a lot of things that go into it,” Mitchell said. “But, potentially, if we make that field goal, we go into the locker room up 9-7, rather than heading into the locker room down 10-6.” The Bearcats scored on their first drive in the third quarter, on a 28-yard pass from Adams to Rueben Thomas and, then, added a 25-yard field goal to open a 20-6 lead. After the Bearcats went up 27-13, the Lakers didn’t pose much of a threat. Parling was sacked to knock out one opportunity and then fumbled away the ball in the closing minute.

HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP WRESTLING

Fruitport Invite: Fruitport won its own invitational Saturday, posting a 5-0 record. Fruitport defeated secondplace finisher Schoolcraft 43-24 and also posted wins over Cedar Springs (50-12) and Kent City (45-30). Kent City posted a 2-3 record to finish fourth, defeating Benzie Central and Muskegon. Team Duals at Grand Haven: Battle Creek Lakeview finished 4-1 on Saturday at Grand Haven High School, defeating Reeths-Puffer 35-31, Zeeland East 73-5, Caledonia 35-34, Spring Lake 59-5, and losing to host Grand Haven 41-25. Max Kriger (145) finished 5-0 to lead Spring Lake, while George Neitering (130) added a 4-1 record for the day. Lawton Invitational: The Lawton wrestling team went 5-0 and had nine wrestlers go undefeated at its host invitational on Saturday. Lawton’s

closest match was against the Hesperia B team, a 47-26 victory. Hesperia went 4-1. Bosse Invitational: Mason County Central scored 191 points to win Saturday’s Bosse Invitational hosted by Hart, finishing 65.5 points ahead of second-place finisher Three Rivers. Central’s Trever Skinner defeated Holton’s Jordan Whitener 5-3 in the 125-pound final, while Doug Wyman (285) pinned Three Rivers’ Dallas Recker in 1:59. Caleb Wood (135) placed second for the Spartans. Holton scored 96.5 points to place third, with three Red Devils claiming their weight classes. Holton’s Brendan Cregg (119) defeated Three Rivers’ Jordan Blades in the finals 11-3, while Garrett Martin (135) pinned Central’s Caleb Wood in 1:41 and Hayden Cregg (145) defeated Martin’s Sam Smith 19-4. The win marked Hayden Cregg’s 100th in his career.

Hart scored 95 points to place fourth, as Blake Kaat (112) and Devin Whitney (130) placed fourth in their respective weight classes. Ludington (61) finished seventh, as Logan Sorenson finished second at 171, and Dillon Lindeman finished fourth at 125. Tri County Invite: Byron Center went 5-0 at the Tri County wresting Invitational on Saturday, followed by Leroy Pine River and Tri County, each finishing 4-1. BOYS ICE HOCKEY

DETROIT U-D JESUIT 6, MONA SHORES 2: The host Detroit U-D Jesuit hockey team scored three goals in the second period to pull away from Shores on Saturday. Ben Essenburg scored two goals to lead Mona Shores (2-3), while Alec Sturr and Colin Rabach each added one assist. “We played a talented, physical, fast team in Detroit Jesuit,

and we fell behind early,” Mona Shores coach Patrick Rabbitt said. Mona Shores plays at Rockford (2-3-1) on Wednesday. CLARKSTON 6, GRAND HAVEN 0: Clarkston’s Jack Viazanko made 25 saves to post the shutout Saturday. Grand Haven (1-6) plays Reeths-Puffer on Wednesday. MONA SHORES 2, WYANDOTTE ROOSEVELT 1: Alec Sturr scored the gamewinning goal in the final minute to down Wyandotte Roosevelt on Friday night. Travis McCloud had Shores’ other goal. COMPETITIVE CHEER

CCCAM Scholarship Invitational — Division 3: Tri County placed third, finishing with 585.3 points. Comstock Park won the event with a 739.1 score. Spring Lake finished fourth (570.2). — MLive.com

LUMBERJACKS

Muskegon drops pair of weekend road games For MLive.com

The Muskegon Lumberjacks offense struggled Friday against a stout Indiana defense and solid goaltending from Jason Palowski, falling 3-1 at the Pan Am Pavilion in downtown Indianapolis. The loss put the Jacks below the .500 mark (11-12-4). The Ice got on the scoreboard first at the 5:27 mark as

Joe Sullivan connected on a one-timer for his third goal of the season. The Ice scored again, at the 14:29 mark, as Denis Smirnov found himself open on the backdoor, sliding the puck past Jordan Uhelski’s (6-5-3) right pad. Indiana built on their lead, lacing a power-play goal at the 8:58 mark of the second period as a Bradley Johnson

shot was deflected by Tyler Andrew and past Uhelski. Mason Jobst ended Palowski’s shutout in the final five minutes of the game, powering a shot from the left circle past the goalie. It was Jobst’s fourth goal of the season. Pawloski stopped 29 of 30 shots for the Indiana Ice to earn his second victory against Muskegon this season. Uhelski stopped 28 of 31 shots.

JACKS FALL IN CHICAGO

Muskegon couldn’t stay out of the penalty box in what proved to be a chippy game in Saturday night’s 6-4 loss to the Chicago Steel. The teams combined for 91 penalty minutes. Carson Gatt, Robbie DeMontis, Matt Mendelson and Mason Jobst scored for Muskegon. Jordan Uhelski made 40 saves.

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NO. 5 MSU HOLDS OFF OAKLAND 67-63 STATE TIGERS

Worth designated for assignment

With the 40-man roster at full capacity, the Detroit Tigers designated 28-year-old utility infielder Danny Worth for assignment Friday to make room for veteran right-hander Joba Chamberlain. The move was necessary as the Tigers needed to create an open spot for Chamberlain, who agreed to a one-year deal with the club early Friday. “We felt we had some depth there and had to make a decision,” Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said during Chamberlain’s introductory teleconference. With the recent addition of utility player Steve Lombardozzi, Worth — who was out of options — was considered a long shot to make the Tigers’ 25-man roster out of spring training. Acquired in the deal that sent starting pitcher Doug Fister to Washington, Lombardozzi is expected to be the Tigers’ primary backup to Jose Iglesias at shortstop. “I thought it would be hard for (Worth) to make the club this spring,” Dombrowski said. Hernan Perez, who will likely open the season in Triple-A Toledo, and touted prospect Eugenio Suarez also provide the Tigers with depth at the position. “We liked Danny, but with Lombardozzi coming on board, we felt we had some depth there and had to make a decision,” Dombrowski said. The Tigers have 10 days to put Worth through waivers or trade him. If he’s not claimed on waivers or traded, the Tigers would be able to option him to the minor leagues. A look at payroll. C3 RED WINGS

Weiss will be out past Christmas The Detroit Red Wings don’t know yet the extent of center Stephen Weiss’ groin injury, but general manager Ken Holland said Saturday that he will be out until at least after Christmas. That means Weiss will miss at least six more games. “He had an MRI (Friday); Dr. (Doug) Plagens is going to look at the pictures tonight, and there’s a chance we might send him in for another opinion to one of these groin specialists,” Holland said. “You got a guy that had groin issues 3-4 weeks ago, came back, felt great, now we got groin issues. We got to be sure.” Weiss, who missed six games last month due to a groin pull, is on short-term injured reserve. Meanwhile, Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg skated before practice Saturday, the first time he has been on the ice since the Dec. 1 game at Ottawa. Zetterberg (herniated disc) is not eligible to come off long-term injured reserve until Dec. 28. “Z’s doing better every day,” Holland said. “We’re cautiously optimistic he’ll be ready to go on 28th.” Holland said Dec. 28 the target date for defenseman Danny DeKeyser and center Darren Helm to return from their shoulder injuries, but indicated they might be back before then. Gustavsson key now, C3

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LIONS VS. RAVENS

Monday’s prime-time game at Ford Field against Baltimore is critical for slumping Lions’ playoﬀ chances

Must-win TV

The most recent Monday Night Football game in Detroit was Oct. 10, 2011, which resulted in a 24-13 Lions victory. Detroit hosts the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens this week. (AP ﬁle) By Kyle Meinke

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ALLEN PARK — The Detroit Lions desperately need a win, mathematically and otherwise. Baltimore does, too. The stakes are higher than they’ve been all year, for both teams. One coach’s job could depend on it. And they’ll duke it out in prime time on national TV at what sure is to be a raucous Ford Field. In other words: Detroit’s game Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens amounts to a de facto playoff. “The playoffs start in a couple weeks. But for us, the playoffs are starting now,” Lions tailback Reggie Bush said. “Every game is kind of win-or-go-home. We have to understand the unique opportunity, the situation that we’re in right now. “To be in a position to clinch the division, that’s something that hasn’t been done here in a long time, and also understanding that we still have three games left to go. It’s going to be a playoff atmosphere here on Monday.” Detroit has skidded to a 7-6 record after losing three of its past four games. Its five-week run as the sole leader of the NFC North ended after Chicago pulled even last week. Green Bay (6-6-1), not to be forgotten, is nipping at their heels, a half-game behind both teams. The Lions continue to control their destiny by virtue of their headto-head tiebreaker over the Bears. But with a loss — any loss — that no longer is the case. “It’s definitely a must-win for us,” defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said. “We want to be where we want to be, and we want to be in control of that. It’s a must-win for us. It’s

UPDATE Next game: Detroit Lions vs. Baltimore Ravens, 8:30 p.m. Monday at Ford Field TV: ESPN More: A guide to the game, C6

though it has gotten here in antithetical fashion. While Detroit has skidded into a playoff race, rather than run away with it, Baltimore has played itself into one by winning four of its past five games. Baltimore occupies the final wild card spot in the AFC, and, like Detroit, needs a victory to control its fate. “We have clawed our way back Coach John Harbaugh has the Ravens to where we are now,” said Ravens ﬁghting for a wild-card spot after they coach John Harbaugh, who spent started the season 3-5. (AP ﬁle) part of his childhood growing up in Ann Arbor. “If we are going to get in, coming down to the very end. we will have to claw our way in, and “Coach had a great analogy for us. that’s where we are at.” You’re in the World Series. You’re That this game comes on Monday the closer who comes into the game Night Football only ratchets up the and you have to get three outs. We frenzied subplots surrounding it, got three outs we got to knock out, and the stakes attached to its outand it starts with the Ravens.” come. Detroit, in some ways, will be Toss in the frenetic crowd atmoan organization at the crossroads sphere — Chicago false-started nine when Baltimore visits. With a win, it times due to the deafening noise for would take a significant step toward Detroit’s last home Monday night securing its first division title in 20 game in 2011 — and this matchup years. has all the fixings to be a spectacle. With a loss, its season would be “Monday night has a certain feel imperiled, and so too would be this to it, and a certain vibe,” receiver entire coaching regime. Nate Burleson said. This won’t be a win-or-go-home “It creates a stage that I think is game for the Lions, but just about parallel to the playoffs, especially everything else is at stake. when you have two teams that are “There is very little margin of fighting to make their push for the error when it comes to the finish postseason. like this,” Lions coach Jim Schwartz “This is one of those games, if I said. “We have to relish that opporwas at home, I definitely wouldn’t be tunity. We will.” doing anything else. I’d be clearing The Ravens (7-6) will have simimy schedule to sit back and enjoy lar imminent playoff implications, the show.”

No. 1 rallies past U-M By Brendan F. Quinn

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ANN ARBOR — John Beilein stood at a podium Friday and refused to overhype a Saturday meeting with No. 1 Arizona. Michigan’s coolheaded coach swore it was just another game. “We’re anxious to get to this game and see where we are,” he said. Well, here’s where Michigan is: The Wolverines squandered an eight-point lead with 7 minutes, 55 seconds remaining Saturday and were left shell-shocked following a 72-70 loss to the topranked team in the country. The Wildcats stole the win and U-M’s hopes of a marquee early season victory by outscoring the Wolverines 22-12 down the stretch. “We were right there,” Beilein said Saturday. “With a break or two, we win the game.” Or with a late bucket or rebound. Michigan converted three field goals over the final 8:44 and grabbed two rebounds, on either end of the floor, in the final 7:17. With 2:32 remaining, Arizona’s Rondae HollisJefferson, scoreless for the game’s 37-plus minutes, gave the Wildcats their first lead since the 15:05 mark of the first half on a layup and a free throw. The teams traded leads the next four possessions before an Arizona offensive rebound — a backbreaker for Michigan all game — all but ended things. Getting a stop with less than a minute to go, U-M allowed Arizona’s T.J. McConnell to run down a long rebound in the corner. McConnell got the ball to Nick SEE U-M, C2

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Michigan’s Nik Stauskas looks for a basket around Arizona’s Rondae Hllis-Jefferson and Aaron Gordon. (Melanie Maxwell/ MLive.com)

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State Sports MSU FOOTBALL

Terry ‘all for’ redshirting with Spartans winning By Diamond Leung

against Ohio State, helping mimic Buckeyes QB Braxton Miller along with freshman INDIANAPOLIS — receiver Trey Kilgore. Michigan State quarterback “I grew up a big Braxton Damion Terry prepared for the season as if he were going Miller fan,” Terry said. “This week was kind of different. I to play but took a lot of hits. Hopefully, it ultimately transferred out there, and we redshirted got the win.” while Terry said he was sore after sophomore a week of going through live Connor practices, but that he knew Cook took what was coming after having the startpreviously played in practice ing job and Terry as Michigan quarterback carried the Devin Gardner. Spartans to the Rose Bowl. “This is all for the seniors,” Holding a rose on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium after the Terry said. “I know I tried my hardest like everyone else in Big Ten championship game last Saturday, Terry described practice just to get them prepared. Everything’s all good. his season spent on the sideWe won, so I’ll do anything it line. “I’m just down for whatever takes.” Coach Mark Dantonio in the team needs me to do,” the preseason spoke of a fourTerry said. “As long as we’re quarterback race and ended winning right now, I’m not up starting Cook and using complaining, and I’m all for Andrew Maxwell and Tyler it.” O’Connor as backups while Terry did contribute to Terry redshirted. Michigan State’s 34-24 win dleung@mlive.com

MSU FOOTBALL

Narduzzi ranks 28th nationally among assistant coach salaries By Josh Slagter

jslagter@mlive.com

EAST LANSING — Pat Narduzzi is due for another raise. Whether that’s because he decides to remain at Michigan State as the Spartans’ Narduzzi defensive coordinator or if he becomes a head coach somewhere remains to be seen. Narduzzi is the 28th highest-paid assistant coach in the country, according to the spreadsheet released by USA Today. Narduzzi’s base salary is $557,208, which includes an annual retention bonus, with Michigan State’s entire assistant coaching staff totaling $2,410,483 in salary. Here’s how the rest of the MSU staff’s pay breaks down:

•Dave Warner, co-offensive coordinator, running backs — $279,000 •Jim Bollman, co-offensive coordinator, tight ends — $262,000 •Harlon Barnett, secondary — $230,075 •Mike Tressel, linebackers/special teams — $230,075 •Brad Salem, quarterbacks/recruiting coordinator — $218,125 •Mark Staten, offensive line — $214,000 •Terrence Samuel, wide receivers — $209,000 •Ron Burton, defensive line — $202,000 Mark Dantonio’s 2013 salary of $1.95 million ranks 51st nationally and ninth among Big Ten head coaches. Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis has indicated he’s working on putting together a package to try to keep Dantonio’s staff intact.

U-M FOOTBALL

Mattison, Borges among nation’s top 10 highest-paid assistants By Nick Baumgardner

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ANN ARBOR — Michigan has lost 10 football games during the past two years. But the Wolverines’ struggles aren’t due to a lack of wallet power. USA Today Mattison unveiled its annual look at the country’s highest-paid assistants. Michigan defensive coordinaBorges tor Greg Mattison and offensive coordinator Al Borges both rank in the top 10. Mattison, per the report, will collect $851,400 in 2013. Borges, meanwhile, is looking at a net of $709,300. Mattison is the fourthhighest paid assistant in college football. Borges is the ninth-highest paid assistant. Both coaches rank Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, in coach pay within the Big Ten.

Michigan’s defense ranked No. 38 nationally this season, after ranking 13th in 2012 and 17th in 2011. Michigan’s offense ranked No. 84 nationally in 2013. Borges’ offense ranked No. 79 in 2012 and No. 42 in 2011. Borges received a new three-year contract and an 86 percent raise after the 2011 season. In total staff pay, Michigan’s $3.072 million dedicated to assistant coaches ranks second in the Big Ten, behind Ohio State. Michigan’s number ranks 14th nationally. Here are the reported salaries for the rest of Michigan’s coaching staff: •Wide receivers coach/ recruiting coordinator Jeff Hecklinski: $234,350 •Offensive line coach Darrell Funk: $215,000 •Defensive backs coach Curt Mallory: $214,450 •Special teams/tight ends coach Dan Ferrigno: $214,400 •Running backs coach Fred Jackson: $214,000 •Linebackers coach Mark Smith: $214,000 •Outside linebackers coach Roy Manning: $205,000

NO. 5 MSU 67, OAKLAND 63

Appling leads MSU past Oakland was energetic around the basket with a variety of tip opportunities and five offensive rebounds. In general, he played with passion. •Payne scored 16 first-half points and was able to use his overwhelming size and athleticism to impose his will on offense and on the boards. He had some trouble matching up against center Corey Petros on defense, but was generally unstoppable when he wanted to be. •Alvin Ellis III provided some nice minutes while Gary Harris did not dress. The freshman had a dunk in transition, a blocked shot and overall looked comfortable on the court. That’s a good sign considering Harris could miss even more time.

Spartans trailed for much of the game By Diamond Leung

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AUBURN HILLS — The sloppy play that led to Michigan State’s first loss showed up at times Saturday, but what the Spartans needed to beat Oakland 67-63 was for Keith Appling to clean it all up. Appling keyed the run that allowed No. 5 Michigan State to finally pull away from Oakland at The Palace of Auburn Hills. He hit the goahead 3-pointer, assisted on a Branden Dawson basket that beat the shot clock and then converted a 3-point play to give MSU a 58-53 lead. The senior point guard finished with 21 points after being hampered in the team’s loss to North Carolina from taking a hard fall that left him going at half-speed. Against Oakland, he was back to his old self, and he had help in a game in which leading scorer Gary Harris was sidelined with a sprained right ankle. Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson both had double-doubles, with Payne coming through with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Dawson matched his career high with 13 rebounds to go along with 16 points. The Spartans survived the back-and-forth game that fea-

LOWLIGHTS

Michigan State center Adreian Payne dunks the ball for two of his 20 points Saturday. (Mike Mulholland/MLive.com)

tured plenty of lead changes up until Appling got hot. Duke Mondy led all scorers with 24 points for Oakland. HIGHLIGHTS

•Dawson was plenty

active on the court unlike what he’s been of late, as it was clear that he responded to coach Tom Izzo’s efforts to motivate him since the North Carolina loss. He matched his career high in rebounds,

•Valentine missed each of his seven field goal attempts, including all four of his 3-point looks, and later in the game gave way to Ellis, who was playing better. •Michigan State committed 17 turnovers, with Appling coughing up six of them and Dawson at times being careless with five turnovers. •The defense held 3-point shooting star Travis Bader in check, but couldn’t stop Mondy, who scored 24 points. NEXT GAME What: North Florida at MSU When: 7 p.m. Tuesday TV: BTN

U-M FOOTBALL

Butt says ‘the sky’s the limit’ at tight end By Nick Baumgardner

through hell and back with Michigan strength and condiANN ARBOR — Jake Butt tioning coach Aaron Wellman. should have spent his January He came here to play. And watching high school basketthat was that. ball games and eating bad “I didn’t want to sit out, I cafeteria food with his friends love football too much, I had in Pickerington, Ohio. to see the field,” Butt said. “I Instead, he spent the early knew the only way to do that part of his new year with steel was to come in early. dumb bells, nutrition plans “I hold myself to a high and a strength coach screamstandard, so I expected this. ing in his ear. ... (Against Notre Dame), I got Why, exactly had he signed thrown in the fire there, and up for this? that was probably the best “That first workout,” Butt feeling of my life.” recalled. “I came in, and I After enrolling early this really struggled through it.” year, Butt will enter this offSome 10 months later, he season with one full session of finally got the answer to why, winter conditioning, one full exactly, he skipped the final session of spring practice, a semester of his high school full season, bowl prep and a Michigan’s Jake Butt catches a pass in the ﬁrst quarter against career to enroll early at bowl game under his belt. Ohio State. (MLive.com ﬁle) Michigan. That’s, basically, twice as Because the sacrifices Butt entered his first year at Butt’s emergence this fall much as most true freshmen he made in January turned Michigan as a scrawny, 6-foot- was something neither offen- ever see. into production on the field 6, 209-pound prospect with sive coordinator Al Borges As for next year? as a true freshman, as the potential. He’ll leave it some nor head coach Brady Hoke He says the possibilities are Wolverine rookie tight end 37 pounds heavier, at 6-foot-6, expected, as his low weight endless. enjoyed a true breakout per246-pounder with 11 percent when the winter began almost “The sky’s the limit. One formance in a narrow loss body fat and an appetite for certainly had him on the path day, I hope I can do the whole against Ohio State — going for much, much more. for a redshirt season. thing. Hand in the ground on 85 yards and a touchdown on “(The coaching staff) wants Butt wasn’t having that, runs, pass sets, and then just five catches. me at 255, but I think I can get however. He didn’t enroll keep running routes. I want to He finished the regular sea- to 260, I’m a skinny 246 right early to sit out a year. He be 260, get stronger and just son with 17 receptions for 202 now,” Butt said. “I can put on didn’t skip the easiest part take over the whole tight end yards and two touchdowns. more.” of a high schooler’s life to go position.” nbaumgardner@mlive.com

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Johnson, who calmly sank two free throws with 24.6 seconds left, giving the Wildcats a 67-66 advantage. “That was a key play,” Beilein said. Michigan (6-4) would never lead again. Arizona (11-0) outrebounded U-M 37-24 and gathered 17 offensive rebounds. Sophomore forward Brandon Ashley led four double-digit scorers for the Wildcats with 17 points. Glenn Robinson led Michigan with 20 points, 16 in the first half. Caris LeVert, conversely, scored 11 of his 16 points in

the second half. Before squandering its lead, LeVert was the story of the second half for U-M. The sophomore scored 10 straight points over seven minutes and capped the effort by tossing an alley-oop to a streaking Robinson. Two Robinson free throws later, Michigan held a 53-46 lead, but Arizona kept coming. The Wildcats opened the half making nine of their first 12 shots. Robinson was the best player on the court in the first half. His 7-of-7 shooting on two 3s, one mid-range jumper and four scores at the rim, had Crisler buzzing. The sophomore’s step-back 3-pointer with 2 seconds until halftime sent U-M into the locker room

with a 37-28 lead. “One of the reasons Glenn was successful, and this is really key for us, was that we were able get stops defensively and run the floor — that’s a big part of what he does so well,” Beilein said. “We couldn’t get a lot of stops (in the second half). We really didn’t do anything differently than we did in the first half (offensively).” Arizona shot 55.2 percent from the field (16-29) after halftime and made 10-of-11 second-half free throws. The loss was Michigan’s 11th straight to a top-ranked team, a streak dating back to a 104-61 loss to Duke on Dec. 9, 2000. U-M is now 2-24 all-time against AP No. 1 teams.

Michigan returns to action next Saturday against Stanford in Brooklyn. HIGHLIGHT

•A huge turnout from Michigan students — despite finals week looming — offered a great environment for an early tip-off at Crisler Center. Many students began lining up outside the arena at 7 a.m., battling snow, wind and cold. LOWLIGHT

•In a game Michigan needed a strong performance from its frontline, Mitch McGary was mostly quiet through his 24 minutes. The sophomore finished with eight points and four rebounds and continually was scored on down low.

MUSKEGON CHRONICLE / SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 / C3

State Sports PENGUINS 4, RED WINGS 1

Penguins special teams too much for Detroit By Ansar Khan

to 5-2-0. Niklas Kronwall scored the Red Wings’ lone goal. DETROIT — The The Red Wings went 0-forPittsburgh Penguins have the best special teams in the 5 on the power play, failing to convert during 9:36 with the NHL, and put them to good extra man. They registered use Saturday against the 13 of their 29 shots on the Detroit Red Wings. power play. The Penguins’ top-ranked The Red Wings outshot power play converted twice the Penguins 14-4 in the and their second-ranked second period but could not penalty kill prevented the Red Wings from capitalizing score, despite having 6:30 in power play time. on their many chances. The Penguins took a 3-1 Sidney Crosby scored lead with 47 seconds to two goals, Evgeni Malkin play in the period on a goal had a goal and two assists, by Olli Maatta. Gustavsson and rookie goaltender Jeff appeared to have Maatta’s Zatkoff made 28 saves as the shot smothered, but the puck Penguins defeated the Red Wings 4-1 at Joe Louis Arena. trickled through his pads. Crosby all but sealed the The Red Wings (15-10-9) are winless in four (0-2-2) and win with his second goal of the game, his 18th of the dropped to 5-7-6 at home. season, at 14:33 of the third The injury-riddled Red Wings lost another player, as period. The Red Wings got off to forward Justin Abdelkader a good start, as Kronwall left the game with 30 secscored his fourth goal of the onds remaining in the first season at 6:09 of the first period after taking a hit period. His shot from just to the head from Deryk inside the blue line deflected Engelland. Abdelkader was helped off off Crosby’s stick and the ice. Engelland received a bounced past Zatkoff. The Penguins got powermatch penalty (five-minute play goals from Crosby and major, game misconduct) Malkin just 3:52 apart to take and could be suspended for a 2-1 lead. hitting Abdelkader in the Crosby scored at 9:08, head with his shoulder. Malkin suffered an appar- tucking in a loose puck at the side of the net. Malkin scored ent leg injury at 2:19 of the at 12:50, a shot from the slot. third period. He had to be This was the first of helped off the ice by teamthree meetings between mates and did not return. these rivals who are now in Jonas Gustavsson is winthe same conference. The less in three (0-2-1) after Penguins return to JLA on an 8-0-1 start this season. March 20. The Red Wings Zatkoff, who grew up in Clinton Township, improved visit Pittsburgh on April 8. akhan1@mlive.com

Joba Chamberlain

Rajai Davis

Nick Castellanos

Ian Kinsler

New Detroit Tigers closer Joe Nathan. (AP)

TIGERS

Show me the money It appears the Tigers payroll will be similar to last season’s By Chris Iott

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The Detroit Tigers are not cutting payroll. But they aren’t adding much either. The Tigers reportedly agreed to a one-year contract with free-agent relief pitcher Joba Chamberlain on Thursday for $2.5 million. They still might make moves this offseason, but they headed to the winter meetings seeking help in left field and in the bullpen and made moves in both spots. It is possible that the Opening Day roster is all but set at this point. How much will their current roster cost them? The Tigers had an Opening Day payroll of about $148.7 million in 2013, according to Baseball Prospectus. That ranked them fifth in the majors. The Tigers have a projected Opening Day payroll of $157.5 million for 2014. That’s an increase of $8.8 million over 2013. Of course, each team in the majors is due about $26 million in additional television revenue starting this season, so the Tigers should improve the bottom line by increasing their payroll by substantially less than that $26 million figure. The Tigers still could make another move or moves this offseason, but it seems unlikely that the projected Opening Day payroll will change much. Are the Tigers going through a tran-

OPENING DAY ROSTER, PAYROLL

Here is a list of the projected Opening Day roster for the Detroit Tigers along with their salaries. A few notes on the salaries listed below: •Salaries are estimated for the six Tigers players who are eligible for arbitration based on the numbers used by MLB Trade Rumors. •Salaries for players who are making around the league minimum simply are listed as $500,000. That number could be off slightly for each individual player, but there’s no point quibbling over $10,000 or $20,000 here or there. We’re trying to estimate the big picture as best we can. •Jose Iglesias is not yet eligible for arbitration but also is not a minimum-salary player. He just wrapped up a four-year contract worth about $8.25 million. He likely will get a slight raise over the $2.06 million he made last season.

$2.1 million — Jose Iglesias $500,000 — Nick Castellanos TOTAL: $80.6 million Starting rotation $20 million — Justin Verlander $15.8 million — Anibal Sanchez $13.6 million — Max Scherzer (estimate) $7.7 million — Rick Porcello (estimate) $500,000 — Drew Smyly TOTAL: $57.6 million Bullpen $9 million — Joe Nathan $2.5 million — Joba Chamberlain $1.9 million — Phil Coke $700,000 — Al Alburquerque (estimate) $500,000 — Bruce Rondon $500,000 — Luke Putkonen $500,000 — Ian Krol TOTAL: $15.6 million

Starting lineup $22 million — Miguel Cabrera $16 million — Ian Kinsler $14 million — Torii Hunter $12 million — Victor Martinez $5.3 million — Austin Jackson (estimate) $5 million — Rajai Davis $3.7 million — Alex Avila (estimate)

Bench $1.7 million — Andy Dirks (estimate) $1 million — Don Kelly $500,000 — Steve Lombardozzi $500,000 — Bryan Holaday TOTAL:$3.7 million

sition period from “win at all costs” to “compete for division titles while watching the bottom line”? It’s entirely possible. But the situation might become more clear in a year. At that point, Scherzer will be a free agent and Cabrera will be one year away

from free agency. The Tigers likely will make a run at re-signing Scherzer, but if they aren’t successful in doing so, will they invest a substantial amount of money elsewhere? Will they try to lock up Cabrera for the long term? Time will tell.

PROJECTED: $157.5 million

PISTONS

Cheeks and Jennings check out the video By David Mayo

Philadelphia 76ers, spent some extra weekend time with AUBURN HILLS — For an Jennings to iron out some hour after Saturday’s practice, unsightly wrinkles for which Detroit Pistons coach Maurice the point guard bears ultimate Cheeks and point guard responsibility in any era. Brandon Jennings holed up in “I know when I was playvideo study. ing, if I didn’t get a guy in a Andre Drummond dropped certain spot, at a certain time, by to sponge information too, my coach would be on me,” but it clearly was a moment for Cheeks said. “He wouldn’t a former championship point be on Doc (Julius Erving) guard to try seeing the game or Moses (Malone). He ain’t through the eyes of the point gonna yell at them, he’s gonna guard he now coaches, one day yell at me. So, I had to take after a near-meltdown in the on that responsibility. It’s the fourth quarter of a 103-99 vicsame thing with Brandon.” tory over Brooklyn. Cheeks likened the task to A day later, Cheeks still an NFL quarterback respondwas confronting the all-tooing to a teammate’s playbook frequent lack of offensive flow failures. in fourth quarters, when the “When you see those really Pistons’ philosophy is to use good quarterbacks, and they Rodney Stuckey and Jennings get upset and they call timeas centerpieces. out, that’s because someThe Pistons’ minus-2.2 body’s not in the position, and fourth-quarter scoring margin they’re going to take the brunt is the NBA’s second-worst, of it, so they call timeout,” often because of structural Cheeks said. “It’s the same breakdowns which don’t show thing. And I tell Brandon it’s until late in games. the same thing. Hence, Cheeks, a 1983 “He’s the quarterback of NBA champion with the that team, and he’s got to

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take ownership of running our team and getting us into our precise things that we’re going to run. And if we miss a shot running our offense, so be it. But we’ve got to know exactly what we’re doing and where we’re going.” Precision becomes even more important for the Pistons (11-13) as they open a five-game week with a backto-back gauntlet. Tonight at 6, they host the Western Conference-leading Portland Trail Blazers. Monday, the Pistons travel to Indiana to take on the league-leading Pacers (20-3). With Damian Lillard, LaMarcus Aldridge and the Blazers’ waves of shooters coming to town, the topic of slowing an offense which entered Saturday second in the league at 106.4 points per game, and with a streak of 10 consecutive 100-plus-point games, surely came up. But Cheeks was honed in on how the Pistons close offensively Saturday, and he said he liked the receptiveness of

Jennings, the team’s leading scorer and playmaker (17.1 points, 7.6 assists per game). “We looked at Brandon from before, and we thought he was just a scorer,” Cheeks said, referring to Jennings’ days with the Milwaukee Bucks. “He’s so much more than a scorer. He’s just such a willing learner.” PISTONS NOTES

•In the first 17 games, Kyle Singler averaged 6.8 points and shot 23.5 percent on 3-pointers (8 of 34). In the past seven games, Singler has averaged 11.3 points and shot 50 percent on 3s (10 of 20). •Will Bynum played an extended three-on-three game after practice Saturday and said he hopes to return at some point during this backto-back, but is uncertain. UPCOMING GAMES Today: Portland at Detroit TV: 6 p.m., FSD Monday: Detroit at Indiana TV: 7 p.m., FSD

With Howard out, Wings must lean on Gustavsson By Ansar Khan

you,” Gustavsson said. “On the other hand, you can’t be too cocky going into a game. DETROIT — Jonas “It’s so little between sucGustavsson has been a bit of cess and failure, especially at a savior for the Detroit Red this level. But I’ve been feelWings with Jimmy Howard ing good, and I’m going to try not in peak form. to push myself. That’s what I Now, Gustavsson will be need to keep feeling good.” invaluable, since Howard is Gustavsson has inspired out two-to-four weeks with a confidence in his team. sprained left MCL. “He looks extremely good Gustavsson is 8-1-2, with this year,” Daniel Alfredsson a 1.93 goals-against average said. “It’s one of those things and .933 save percentage. The club has 18 of a possible where he’s been healthy for a stretch again and starting 22 points in his starts. off good, with some confiThis is what the Red dence. He’s playing poised, Wings hoped to see from he’s aggressive when he Gustavsson when they needs to be, and it looks like signed him to a two-year, $3 he’s comfortable.” million contract on July 1, Said Babcock: “He’s 8-1-2; 2012. But an injury-plagued, pretty hard to argue with lockout-shortened 2013 seathat. He’s been excellent. son limited Gustavsson to He’s given us an opportufour starts. nity, and obviously we’re “He has been a big story not afraid of (Petr) Mrazek for us; he gives us a chance either; he’s a good goalie.” to win every night,” general Mrazek will back-up manager Ken Holland said. “In this day and age, you need Gustavsson, and likely get to have two goalies going. The an occasional start, while Howard is out. Mrazek has days of one guy playing 70 three career NHL starts, postgames are over. ing a 5-0 win at Edmonton on “Last year was a tough Nov. 1 in his lone appearance year for him with the injuwith the Wings this season. ries. When he got healthy, it Gustavsson said a chance was a must-win every night, to make the Swedish so (coach) Mike Babcock Olympic team for the second went with Jimmy Howard time is in the back of his every night, and he was mind but not at the expense dialed in.” Holland said Howard was of losing focus on his job with the Red Wings. moving gingerly on Friday, “If you play good, you get two days after getting hurt some opportunities, you get in practice. He has not been a bigger chance to make the placed on injured reserve, (Olympic) team,” Gustavsson but he won’t be back before said. “But there are a lot Dec. 28. The injury jeoparof (Swedish) goalies over dizes his chance to play in the Jan. 1 Winter Classic and here now. It wasn’t like my possibly dashes his hopes to first year when I made the make the U.S. Olympic team. Olympic team (2010); we “He’ll see how he feels in a had maybe only two or three guys from Sweden playing week,” Holland said. “Knee in the NHL. The competisprains are harder on a tion is tougher this time, but goalie.” of course it’s something I Gustavsson is ready to would like to be a part of.” assume a greater role. This Henrik Lundqvist of is the best he has felt in some the New York Rangers time. is Sweden’s top goalie. “You always try to feel good about what you do even Gustavsson appears to be a shoo-in for one of the other if you win or lose; you try to two spots. take all the positives with akhan1@mlive.com

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TV SUNDAY

BASKETBALL Noon — College: St. John’s vs. Syracuse. Fox Sports 1 2:30 p.m. — College: La Salle at Villanova. Fox Sports 1 4:30 p.m. — College: Chicago State at DePaul. Fox Sports 1 6 p.m. — NBA: Portland Trail Blazers at Detroit Pistons. FSD 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Western Michigan at Missouri. ESPNU

FOOTBALL 1 p.m. — NFL: Chicago Bears at Cleveland Browns. Fox 4 p.m. — NFL: New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins. CBS 4:25 p.m. — NFL: Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys. Fox 8:20 p.m. — NFL: Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers. NBC

GOLF 1 p.m. — Franklin Templeton Shootout, Final Round. Golf Channel 2 p.m. — Franklin Templeton Shootout, Final Round. NBC HOCKEY 5 p.m. — NHL: Tampa Bay Lightning at Detroit Red Wings. FSD Plus

SOCCER 8:30 a.m. — English Premier League: Aston Villa vs. Manchester United. NBC Sports Network 11 a.m. — English Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Liverpool. NBC Sports Network 3 p.m. — NCAA College Cup, Final: Notre Dame-New Mexico winner vs. Virginia-Maryland winner. ESPNU 6:48 p.m. — Fútbol Mexicano Primera División Final, Vuelta: Club América vs. Club León. Univision

WRESTLING Noon — College: Ohio State at Penn State. Big Ten Network MONDAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Mississippi Valley State at Northwestern. Big Ten Network 7 p.m. — Men’s College: GardnerWebb at Duke. ESPNU 7 p.m. — NBA: Detroit Pistons at Indiana Pacers. FSD

FOOTBALL 8:25 p.m. — NFL: Baltimore Ravens at Detroit Lions. ESPN TUESDAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — Men’s College: North Florida at Michigan State. Big Ten Network 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Jimmy V Classic, Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh. ESPN 7 p.m. — Women’s College: Jimmy V Classic, Connecticut at Duke. ESPN2 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Florida Gulf Coast at South Florida. ESPNU 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Yale at Providence. Fox Sports 1 9 p.m. — Men’s College: Jimmy V Classic, Florida vs. Memphis. ESPN 9 p.m. — Men’s College: Missouri State at Louisville. ESPN2 9 p.m. — Men’s College: Wichita State at Alabama. ESPNU 9 p.m. — Men’s College: Ball State at Marquette. Fox Sports 1

HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. — NHL: Anaheim Ducks at Detroit Red Wings. FSD 7:30 p.m. — NHL: Washington Capitals at Philadelphia Flyers. NBC Sports Network

SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — FIFA Club World Cup: Semiﬁnal, TBA vs. Bayern München. Fox Sports 1 WEDNESDAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Delaware at Ohio State. Big Ten Network 7 p.m. — NBA: Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat. ESPN 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Texas at North Carolina. ESPN2 7 p.m. — Men’s College: North Carolina State at Tennessee. ESPNU 7:30 p.m. — NBA: Detroit Pistons at Boston Celtics. FSD 8 p.m. — Men’s College: San Francisco at St. John’s. Fox Sports 1 9 p.m. — Men’s College: Stanford at Connecticut. ESPN2 9 p.m. — Men’s College: LSU at Texas Tech. ESPNU 9:30 p.m. — NBA: Chicago Bulls at Houston Rockets. ESPN

HOCKEY 8 p.m. — NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers. NBC Sports Network

SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — FIFA Club World Cup: Semiﬁnal, TBA vs. CA Mineiro. Fox Sports 1 THURSDAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Iona at Dayton. NBC Sports Network 7:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Carquest Auto Parts Classic, Duke vs. UCLA. ESPN 8 p.m. — NBA: Chicago Bulls at Oklahoma City Thunder. TNT 9:30 p.m. — High School: Huntington Prep (W.Va.) at Arsenal Tech (Ind.). ESPN

Scoreboard 10:30 p.m. — NBA: San Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors. TNT

GOLF

FOOTBALL AMERICAN CONFERENCE

10 p.m. — Royal Trophy, Day One. Golf Channel

East

HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. — NHL: Calgary Flames at Detroit Red Wings. FSD VOLLEYBALL 7:30 p.m. — Women’s College: NCAA Tournament, First Semiﬁnal. ESPN2 9:30 p.m. — Women’s College: NCAA Tournament, Second Semiﬁnal. ESPN2 FRIDAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Nicholls State at Indiana. Big Ten Network 7:30 p.m. — NBA: Charlotte Bobcats at Detroit Pistons. FSD 8 p.m. — NBA: Houston Rockets at Indiana Pacers. ESPN 9 p.m. — Men’s College: NebraskaOmaha at Minnesota. Big Ten Network 10:30 p.m. — NBA: Minnesota Timberwolves at Los Angeles Lakers. ESPN

FOOTBALL 7 p.m. — College: NCAA Division III, Final. ESPNU 8 p.m. — College: NCAA FCS Division, First Semiﬁnal. ESPN2

GOLF 10 p.m. — Royal Trophy, Day Two. Golf Channel

OLYMPICS 8 p.m. — U.S. Trials: Women’s Ice Hockey, Canada vs. United States. NBC Sports Network SATURDAY

BASKETBALL Noon — Men’s College: Georgetown at Kansas. ESPN Noon — Men’s College: Belmont at Kentucky. ESPNU Noon — Men’s College: East Carolina at North Carolina State. FSD 2 p.m. — Men’s College: Maine at Providence. FSD 2 p.m. — Men’s College: Youngstown State at St. John’s. Fox Sports 1 3 p.m. — Men’s College: Governor’s Holiday Classic, Hampton at James Madison. NBC Sports Network 3:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Gonzaga vs. Kansas State. ESPN2 4 p.m. — Men’s College: Michigan State at Texas. CBS 4 p.m. — Men’s College: Rider at Villanova. Fox Sports 1 5 p.m. — Men’s College: Davidson at North Carolina. ESPNU 5:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Illinois at Missouri. ESPN2 5:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Governor’s Holiday Classic, Virginia Commonwealth vs. Virginia Tech. NBC Sports Network 6 p.m. — Men’s College: Louisville at Florida International. Fox Sports 1 7 p.m. — Men’s College: Big 12-SEC Challenge, Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M. ESPNU 7:30 p.m. — NBA: Houston Rockets at Detroit Pistons. FSD Plus 7:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Gotham Classic, Notre Dame vs. Ohio State. ESPN2 8 p.m. — NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers at Chicago Bulls. WGN 8:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational, Michigan vs. Stanford. Fox Sports 1 9 p.m. — Men’s College: New Mexico at Marquette. ESPNU 11:30 p.m. — Men’s College: Colorado vs. Oklahoma State. ESPN2

FOOTBALL Noon — College: NCAA Division II Championship Game. ESPN2 2 p.m. — College: Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Colorado State vs. Washington State. ESPN 2 p.m. — College: NCAA FCS Division, Second Semiﬁnal. ESPNU 3:30 p.m. — College: Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, Fresno State vs. USC. ABC 5:30 p.m. — College: Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Buffalo vs. San Diego State. ESPN 9 p.m. — College: R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, Louisiana-Lafayette vs. Tulane. ESPN

GOLF 10 p.m. — Royal Trophy, Final Day. Golf Channel

HOCKEY 7 p.m. — NHL: Detroit Red Wings at Toronto Maple Leafs. FSD

SOCCER 7:45 a.m. — English Premier League: Liverpool vs. Cardiff City. NBC Sports Network 10 a.m. — English Premier League: Manchester United vs. West Ham United. NBC Sports Network 1:30 p.m. — English Premier League. NBC

VOLLEYBALL 9:30 p.m. — Women’s College: NCAA Tournament Final. ESPN2

WRESTLING 9 p.m. — College: Penn State at Iowa. Big Ten Network

OTHER 9 p.m. — Kickboxing: Glory 13, Tokyo. Spike

SPORTS CALENDAR

NFL

0 .769 349 287

Miami

0 .538 286 276

New England

Pct

N.Y. Jets

0 .462 226 337

Buﬀalo South

4 W

9 L

0 .308 273 334 T Pct PF PA

y—Indianapolis

0 .615 313 316

Tennessee

0 .385 292 318

Jacksonville

0 .308 201 372

Houston North

2 W

11 L

0 .154 250 350 T Pct PF PA 0 .692 334 244

Cincinnati

Baltimore

0 .538 278 261

Pittsburgh

0 .385 291 312

Cleveland West

4 W

9 L

0 .308 257 324 T Pct PF PA

x-Denver

0 .786 535 372

Kansas City

0 .769 343 224

San Diego

0 .500 343 311

Oakland

0 .308 264 337

East

SUN

NATIONAL CONFERENCE W L T Pct PF

MON

DETROIT LIONS

0 .615 334 301

Dallas

0 .538 357 348

DETROIT vs. Portland at Indiana 6 p.m. 7 p.m. PISTONS FSD FSD DETROIT RED WINGS

vs. Anaheim 7:30 p.m. FSD

MICHIGAN STATE

0 .769 343 243 0 .692 298 188

Tampa Bay

0 .308 244 291

Atlanta North

3 W

10 L

0 .231 282 362 T Pct PF PA

PENGUINS 4, RED WINGS 1

0 .231 279 407 T Pct PF PA

New Orleans

Detroit

0 .538 346 321

Chicago

0 .538 368 360

Green Bay

1 .500 316 326

Minnesota West

3 W

9 L

1 .269 315 395 T Pct PF PA

x—Seattle

0 .846 357 205

San Francisco

0 .692 316 214

Arizona

0 .615 305 257

St. Louis

0 .385 289 308

x—clinched playoﬀ spot y—clinched division WEEK 15 Thursday San Diego 27, Denver 20 Today Philadelphia at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Seattle at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Chicago at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Houston at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Buﬀalo at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. New England at Miami, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at Tennessee, 4:25 p.m. New Orleans at St. Louis, 4:25 p.m. Green Bay at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m. Monday Baltimore at Detroit, 8:40 p.m. WEEK 16

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1 0

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4 1

First Period—1, Detroit, Kronwall 4 (Abdelkader, Alfredsson), 6:09. 2, Pittsburgh, Crosby 17 (Jokinen, Malkin), 9:08 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Malkin 9 (Jokinen), 12:50 (pp). Penalties—Kobasew, Pit (delay of game), 2:37; Bertuzzi, Det (hooking), 8:31; Kronwall, Det (hooking), 11:39; Engelland, Pit, served by Kobasew match penalty (match--deliberate injury), 19:30. Second Period—4, Pittsburgh, Maatta 2 (Kunitz, Malkin), 19:13. Penalties-Adams, Pit (slashing), 16:02. Third Period—5, Pittsburgh, Crosby 18 (Vitale, Conner), 14:33. Penalties-Miller, Det (high-sticking), 1:43; Malkin, Pit (holding), 2:19; Kunitz, Pit (tripping), 17:00; Eaves, Det (roughing), 19:25. Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 9-4-12-25. Detroit 12-14-3-29. Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 2 of 4; Detroit 0 of 5. Goalies—Pittsburgh, Zatkoﬀ 5-2-0 (29 shots-28 saves). Detroit, Gustavsson 8-2-2 (25-21). A—20,066 (20,066). T—2:20. Referees—Francois St. Laurent, Justin St. Pierre. Linesmen—Scott Driscoll, Brian Mach. THURSDAY 0 — 0 —

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1 0

1 2

Tampa Bay won shootout 1-0 1st PERIOD—1, Detroit, Quincey 1 (Nyquist, Franzen), 15:04. Penalties—Palat, TB (holding), 15:41; Ericsson, Det (tripping), 18:09. 2nd PERIOD—2, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 3 (Brown), 19:16. Penalties—Barberio, TB (holding), 3:06; Ericsson, Det (holding), 9:46. 3rd PERIOD—None. Penalties—Palat, TB (hooking), 1:24; Tatar, Det (closing hand on puck), 13:21; Sustr, TB (interference), 16:32; Abdelkader, Det (hooking), 19:17. OVERTIME—None. Penalties—None. SHOOTOUT—Detroit 0 (Datsyuk NG, Alfredsson NG, Tatar NG, Bertuzzi NG, Nyquist NG, Franzen NG), Tampa Bay 1 (Purcell NG, Kucherov NG, Filppula NG, Carle NG, Johnson NG, St. Louis G). SHOTS ON GOAL—Detroit 8-6-10-5—29. Tampa Bay 6-10-11-0—27. POWER-PLAY OPPORTUNITIES—Detroit 0 of 4; Tampa Bay 0 of 4. GOALIES—Detroit, Gustavsson 8-1-2 (27 shots-26 saves). Tampa Bay, Bishop 16-5-2 (29-28). A—19,204 (19,204). T—2:50. Referees—Graham Skilliter, Mike Hasenfratz. Linesmen—Tim Nowak, Lonnie Cameron.

HOCKEY

NHL

BASKETBALL

GF GA 90 64 87 73 87 80 89 91 97 99 96 111 76 108 55 96 GF GA 105 74 100 93 79 94 75 88 85 92 72 86 75 85 83 118

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central GP W L OT Pts Chicago 35 23 7 5 51 St. Louis 31 22 6 3 47 Colorado 31 21 9 1 43 Minnesota 35 19 11 5 43 Nashville 33 16 14 3 35 Dallas 31 15 11 5 35 Winnipeg 34 14 15 5 33

GF GA 132 100 110 73 88 73 81 81 77 92 90 93 90 100

Paciﬁc Anaheim Los Angeles San Jose Vancouver Phoenix Calgary Edmonton

GF 108 93 108 92 104 83 91

W L OT 22 7 5 22 7 4 20 7 6 19 10 5 18 9 5 13 15 4 11 20 3

SATURDAY Pittsburgh Detroit

Detroit Tampa Bay

Sunday, Dec. 22 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Denver at Houston, 1 p.m. Miami at Buﬀalo, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 4:05 p.m. Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. New England at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. Chicago at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 Atlanta at San Francisco, 8:40 p.m.

GP 34 33 33 34 32 32 34

Pts 49 48 46 43 41 30 25

at Toronto 7 p.m. FSD

at Texas 4 p.m. CBS (BB)

TAMPA BAY 2, DETROIT 1, SO

Pts 47 37 35 33 32 31 30 24

vs. Calgary 7:30 p.m. FSD

N. Fla. 7 p.m. BTN (BB)

0 .385 251 334

10 L

L OT 10 1 12 3 13 7 17 1 15 4 15 3 15 6 19 6

vs. Charlotte vs. Houston 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. FSD FSD+

vs. Stanford at Brooklyn 8:30 p.m. FS1 (BB)

3 W

W 23 17 14 16 14 14 12 9

SAT

MICHIGAN

GP 34 32 34 34 33 32 33 34

FRI

at Boston 7:30 p.m. FSD

vs. Tampa Bay 5 p.m. FSD+

Carolina

N.Y. Giants Washington South

EASTERN CONFERENCE L OT Pts GP W 32 22 8 2 46 34 20 11 3 43 32 18 11 3 39 34 15 10 9 39 34 17 14 3 37 34 13 15 6 32 33 11 17 5 27 33 7 23 3 17

THU

vs. Baltimore 8:25 p.m. ESPN

Today Philadelphia at Washington, 3 p.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. Florida at Montreal, 6 p.m. Calgary at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Chicago, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Monday Toronto at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Columbus, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Metropolitan Pittsburgh Washington Carolina N.Y. Rangers Columbus Philadelphia New Jersey N.Y. Islanders

WED

Philadelphia

Atlantic Boston Montreal Tampa Bay Detroit Toronto Ottawa Florida Buﬀalo

TUE

GA 87 65 82 81 100 102 117

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Thursday Tampa Bay 2, Detroit 1, SO Colorado 4, Winnipeg 3, SO Columbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 Philadelphia 2, Montreal 1 Ottawa 2, Buﬀalo 1 St. Louis 6, Toronto 3 Nashville 3, Dallas 1 Calgary 2, Carolina 1, OT Phoenix 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 Boston 4, Edmonton 2 San Jose 3, Minnesota 1 Friday Florida 3, Washington 2, SO Pittsburgh 3, New Jersey 2 Vancouver 4, Edmonton 0 Saturday Calgary 2, Buﬀalo 1, OT Los Angeles 5, Ottawa 2 Dallas 6, Winnipeg 4 Toronto 7, Chicago 3 Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 1 New Jersey 3, Tampa Bay 0 Montreal 1, N.Y. Islanders 0, OT St. Louis 4, Columbus 3, OT Nashville 3, San Jose 2 Carolina 3, Phoenix 1 Minnesota 2, Colorado 1, SO Boston at Vancouver, late

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic

Pct

Boston Toronto

11 9 8

14 13 15

.440 .409 .348

GB — ½ 2

.304

7 W

18 L

.280 Pct

4 GB

17 12 10

6 12 14

.739 .500 .417

— 5½ 7½ 7½

Brooklyn New York Philadelphia Southeast Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

.409

Orlando

.304

Central

Pct

Indiana

.870

—

Detroit

.458

9½

Chicago

.409 10 ½

Cleveland Milwaukee

9 5

14 19

.391 11 .208 15 ½

Southwest

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct

San Antonio Houston

19 16

4 8

.826 .667

— 3½

Dallas

.583

5½

New Orleans

.524

Memphis

.455

8½

Northwest Portland

W 20

L 4

Pct .833

GB —

Oklahoma City

.818

Denver Minnesota

13 11

9 12

.591 .478

6 8½

.231

W 16

L 9

Pct .640

GB —

Utah Paciﬁc L.A. Clippers Phoenix

.591

1½

Golden State

.542

2½

L.A. Lakers

.478

Sacramento

.286

Thursday Brooklyn 102, L.A. Clippers 93 Portland 111, Houston 104 Friday Cleveland 109, Orlando 100 Indiana 99, Charlotte 94 Toronto 108, Philadelphia 100 Boston 90, New York 86 Atlanta 101, Washington 99, OT Detroit 103, Brooklyn 99 Oklahoma City 122, L.A. Lakers 97 New Orleans 104, Memphis 98 Chicago 91, Milwaukee 90 San Antonio 117, Minnesota 110 Phoenix 116, Sacramento 107 Utah 103, Denver 93 Houston 116, Golden State 112 Saturday L.A. Clippers 113, Washington 97 L.A. Lakers 88, Charlotte 85 Miami 114, Cleveland 107 New York 111, Atlanta 106 Toronto 99, Chicago 77 Portland 139, Philadelphia 105

Dallas 106, Milwaukee 93 San Antonio 100, Utah 84 Today Houston at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m. Portland at Detroit, 6 p.m. Orlando at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Denver, 8 p.m. Monday Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Miami, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Chicago, 8 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

PISTONS 103, NETS 99 FRIDAY DETROIT (103) Smith 3-13 4-6 10, Monroe 10-18 2-4 22, Drummond 8-11 6-8 22, Jennings 3-14 2-3 8, CaldwellPope 2-4 0-0 6, Singler 5-8 5-5 16, Stuckey 7-13 3-5 17, Harrellson 1-1 0-0 2, Billups 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-83 22-31 103. BROOKLYN (99) Anderson 2-4 0-0 5, Garnett 2-8 0-0 4, Evans 1-2 1-2 3, Williams 7-13 6-7 22, Johnson 5-16 0-0 12, Blatche 7-15 6-9 20, Plumlee 1-1 2-2 4, Pierce 5-9 0-0 12, Livingston 0-1 0-0 0, Teletovic 6-10 0-0 17. Totals 36-79 15-20 99. Brooklyn Detroit

24 23

20 38

24 25

31 17

99 103

3-Point Goals—Brooklyn 12-23 (Teletovic 5-6, Pierce 2-4, Williams 2-4, Johnson 2-7, Anderson 1-1, Blatche 0-1), Detroit 3-10 (Caldwell-Pope 2-3, Singler 1-2, Billups 0-1, Smith 0-1, Jennings 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Brooklyn 44 (Blatche 12), Detroit 57 (Drummond 13). Assists—Brooklyn 24 (Williams 9), Detroit 23 (Smith 6). Total Fouls—Brooklyn 25, Detroit 21. Technicals—Garnett, Brooklyn defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls— Blatche. A—15,159 (22,076).

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NO. 1 ARIZONA 72, MICHIGAN 70 SATURDAY ARIZONA (11-0) McConnell 2-4 0-0 5, Gordon 7-11 0-0 14, N. Johnson 3-9 6-6 14, Ashley 8-16 2-2 18, Tarczewski 5-10 4-4 14, York 1-6 1-2 4, Mayes 0-0 0-0 0, Hollis-Jeﬀerson 1-5 1-1 3. Totals 27-61 14-15 72. MICHIGAN (6-4) Robinson III 8-9 2-3 20, McGary 2-3 4-4 8, Walton Jr. 0-3 1-2 1, Stauskas 4-11 5-5 14, LeVert 6-15 1-1 15, Albrecht 3-4 1-2 10, Horford 1-2 0-0 2, Irvin 0-1 0-0 0, Morgan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-48 14-17 70. Halftime—Michigan 37-28. 3-Point Goals—Arizona 4-10 (N. Johnson 2-4, McConnell 1-1, York 1-3, Gordon 0-1, Ashley 0-1), Michigan 8-17 (Albrecht 3-4, Robinson III 2-2, LeVert 2-5, Stauskas 1-4, Walton Jr. 0-1, Irvin 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Arizona 37 (Tarczewski 9), Michigan 24 (Stauskas 6). Assists—Arizona 14 (McConnell 5), Michigan 9 (Albrecht 4). Total Fouls—Arizona 18, Michigan 17. A—12,707.

NO. 5 MICHIGAN ST. 67, OAKLAND 63 SATURDAY MICHIGAN ST. (8-1) Dawson 7-13 2-4 16, Payne 7-16 5-6 20, Appling 6-10 6-7 21, Trice 2-8 0-0 6, Valentine 0-7 0-0 0, Byrd 0-0 0-1 0, Gauna 0-0 0-0 0, Ellis III 2-3 0-1 4, Schilling 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-57 13-19 67. OAKLAND (2-9) McCune 0-3 0-0 0, Petros 5-7 1-2 11, Bader 5-20 4-4 18, Mondy 10-17 1-1 24, Felder 1-5 2-2 4, Hill 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 2-4 1-1 6, Baenziger 0-4 0-0 0, Neely II 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-60 9-10 63. Halftime—Oakland 31-30. 3-Point Goals—Michigan St. 6-16 (Appling 3-4, Trice 2-5, Payne 1-3, Valentine 0-4), Oakland 8-27 (Bader 4-14, Mondy 3-5, Williams 1-3, McCune 0-1, Felder 0-1, Baenziger 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Michigan St. 41 (Dawson 13), Oakland 32 (Mondy, Petros 6). Assists—Michigan St. 14 (Appling, Valentine 4), Oakland 12 (Bader, Felder, Mondy 3). Total Fouls— Michigan St. 14, Oakland 17. A—13,873.

MEN’S MAJOR SCORES EAST Bryant 90, Navy 80 Colgate 69, Albany 60 Dartmouth 76, Jacksonville St. 46 Fordham 79, Howard 60 Longwood 99, Blueﬁeld St. 73 Maryland 66, Florida Atl. 62 Monmouth 74, Binghamton 46 Pittsburgh 91, Youngstown St. 73 Princeton 81, Penn St. 79, OT Richmond 71, Coppin St. 49 Rider 79, Wagne 58 Robert Morris 67, Duquesne 63 Rutgers 89, UNC-Greensboro 72 St. Bonaventure 102, Iona 89 St. Francis (N.Y.) 67, Canisius 51 St. Peter’s 83, Seton Hall 80, OT UMass 80, N. Illinois 54 W. Virginia 74, Marshall 64 MIDWEST Akron 84, Bethune-Cookman 56 Butler 76, Purdue 70 Dayton 84, C. Michigan 58 Ill.-Chicago 75, SE Missouri St. 69 Indiana St. 74, UKMC 63 IPFW 95, SIU-Edwardsville 75 Jackson St. 57, Evansville 51 Kansas 80, New Mexico 63 Louisville 79, W. Kentucky 63 Marquette 86, IUPUI 50 Nebraska 79, Arkansas St. 67 N. Iowa 77, VCU 68 Notre Dame 79, Indiana 72 Ohio 72, Alabama A&M 47 Ohio St. 79, N. Dakota St. 62 Omaha 82, Nevada 80 Saint Louis 66, Woﬀord 52 Toledo 77, Sam Houston 61 UW-Green Bay 89, S. Dakota 85 Valparaiso 80, Loyola Mary 73 Wichita St. 70, Tennessee 61 Wisconsin 86, E. Kentucky 61 Xavier 64, Cincinnati 47 SOUTH Alabama 59, Charl Southern 45 Austin Peay 77, Liberty 71 Clemson 71, Furman 35 E. Carolina 84, N. Carolina A&T 71 Florida Gulf Coast 83, Samford 51 Gardner Webb 106, Clearwater Chr. 54 Georgia 84, Lipscomb 75 Georgia St. 79, Old Dominion 73 James Madison 84, High Point 69 Lou.-Lafayette 79, Houston 76, OT LSU 61, UL-Monroe 54 New Orleans 104, Champion Bapt. College 35

N. Carolina 82, Kentucky 77 NC State 82, Detroit 79 Northwestern St. 116, Louisiana 76 Ole Miss 72, Mid. Tennessee 63 Southern Miss 96, St. Catherine (Minn.) 60 SOUTHWEST Arizona St. 97, Grambling St. 55 Incarnate Word 83, McMurry 56 New Mexico St. 81, Drake 69, OT N. Arizona 63, Grand Canyon 61 Oklahoma 101, Tulsa 91 Oklahoma St. 70, Louisiana Tech 55 Texas 85, Texas St. 53 Texas A&M 73, McNeese St. 60 UNLV 73, S. Utah 51 FAR WEST Air Force 62, UC-Riverside 52 California 67, Fresno St. 56 Oregon 71, Illinois 64 Saint Mary’s 82, Boise St. 74 S. Dakota St. 85, Belmont 72 Stanford 83, UC-Davis 56 UCLA 95, Prairie Valley A&M 71 Washington 85, Idaho St. 66

WOMEN’S MAJOR SCORES EAST Drexel 62, St. John’s 55 George Washington 75, Morgan St. 60 Maryland 93, Delaware St. 44 Rhode Island 63, Vermont 50 W. Virginia 82, Marshall 51 MIDWEST Louisville 108, Austin Peay 53 Nebraska 63, Creighton 38 Notre Dame 86, Michigan 64 Ohio 70, Notre Dame College 52 SOUTH Clemson 88, S. Carolina St. 46 Mississippi St. 71, Southern Miss 61 N. Carolina 100, Charl Southern 49 Tennessee 103, Troy 64 SOUTHWEST Arizona St. 81, CS-Fullerton 55 N. Arizona 85, Texas-Arlington 65 Oklahoma St. 75, S. Florida 56 Tulsa 81, Abilene Chr. 61 FAR WEST Colorado St. 67, SD-School of Mines 47 Fresno St. 76, Portland 67 Loyola Mary 71, UNLV 67 N. Dakota 88, N. Dakota St. 83 Oregon 113, Portland St. 78 Sacramento St. 99, UC-Irvine 94 San Francisco 76, Boise St. 70 Santa Clara 64, Utah Valley 61 Seattle U. 74, Montana St. 63 Stanford 73, Gonzaga 45 Utah 82, BYU 74, 2OT Wyoming 71, Ball St. 51

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BOWL SUBDIVISION SCORE Navy 34, Army 7

CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION PLAYOFFS QUARTERFINALS FRIDAY Towson 49, Eastern Illinois 39 SATURDAY North Dakota State 48, Coastal Carolina 14 Eastern Washington 35, Jacksonville St. 24 New Hampshire 20, Southeastern Louisiana 17 SEMIFINALS FRIDAY, DEC. 20 North Dakota State (13-0) vs. New Hampshire (10-4), 8 p.m. SATURDAY, DEC. 21 Towson (12-2) vs. Eastern Washington (12-2), 2 p.m.

DIVISION II PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS SATURDAY Lenoir-Rhyne 42, West Chester 14 Northwest Missouri St. 27, Grand Valley St. 13 CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, DEC. 21 At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Lenoir-Rhyne (13-1) vs. Northwest Missouri St. (14-0), Noon

DIVISION III PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS SATURDAY Mount Union 41, North Central (Ill.) 40 Wisconsin-Whitewater 16, Mary Hardin-Baylor 15 AMOS ALONZO STAGG BOWL FRIDAY, DEC. 20 At Salem Stadium Salem, Va. Mount Union (14-0) vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater (14-0), 7 p.m.

NAIA PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY, DEC. 21 At Barron Stadium Rome, Ga. Cumberlands (Ky.) vs. Grand View (13-0), 4:30 p.m.

GOLF

FRANKLIN TEMPLETON SHOOTOUT SATURDAY At Tiburon Golf Club (Gold Course) Naples, Fla. Purse: $3 million Yardage: 7,271; Par: 72 SECOND ROUND Harris English/Matt Kuchar 64-60—124 Retief Goosen/Freddie Jacobsen 67-61—128 Ian Poulter/Lee Westwood 70-61—131 Charles Howell III/Justin Leonard 64-67—131 Chris DiMarco/Billy Horschel 68-64—132 Sean O’Hair/Kenny Perry 64-69—133 Rory Sabbatini/Scott Verplank 69-64—133 Jonas Blixt/Greg Norman 72-63—135 Jerry Kelly/Steve Stricker 71-65—136 Jason Dufner/Dustin Johnson 68-69—137 Graham DeLaet/Mike Weir 73-64—137 Mark Calcavecchia/Chad Campbell 72-66—138

NELSON MANDELA CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY At Mount Edgecombe Country Club Durban, South Africa Purse: $1.38 million Yardage: 6,612; Par: 71 THIRD ROUND Dawie Van der Walt, South Africa 67-62-66—195 Matthew Baldwin, England 67-62-68—197 Jorge Campillo, Spain 70-59-68—197 Romain Wattel, France 64-67-67—198 Oliver Bekker, South Africa 64-66-69—199 John Hahn, United States 69-66-65—200 Jaco Ahlers, South Africa 66-68-66—200 Adrien Saddier, France 66-67-67—200 Branden Grace, South Africa 64-66-70—200 Merrick Bremner, South Africa 68-66-67—201 Also Daniel Im, United States

70-68-71—209

GLANTZ-CULVER LINE

NFL

TODAY FAVORITE

at Atlanta San Francisco Arizona New Orleans Seattle Chicago at Indianapolis Buffalo New England Philadelphia at Carolina Kansas City at Dallas Cincinnati

OPEN

TODAY

O/U

3½ 7 (50) 5 5 (41) 3 2 ½ (42) 4½ 6 (47 ½) 6½ 7 (41 ½) +2 1 (44 ½) 6 ½ 5 ½ (45 ½) 2 2 (43) 3 1 (45 ½) 3 ½ 5 ½ (51 ½) 10 ½ 11 (40 ½) 3 ½ 4 ½ (41 ½) OFF OFF (OFF) 3 2 ½ (41) MONDAY 5 ½ 5 ½ (48)

at Detroit Oﬀ Key Green Bay QB questionable

UNDERDOG

Washington at Tampa Bay at Tennessee at St. Louis at N.Y. Giants at Cleveland Houston at Jacksonville at Miami at Minnesota N.Y. Jets at Oakland Green Bay at Pittsburgh Baltimore

— The Associated Press; all times Eastern

MUSKEGON CHRONICLE / SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 / C5

National Sports COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Texas: Brown steps down

Florida State freshman quaterback Jameis Winston won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night. (AP)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Winston wins Heisman

By Ralph D. Russo

23 days short of 20. The 19-year-old also was investigated NEW YORK — Jameis Winston left last month for a year-old sexual assault, voters no choice but to give him the but no charges were filed and the case Heisman Trophy. was closed four days before Heisman The Florida State quarterback votes were due. became the second straight freshWinston is the nation’s top-rated men to win the Heisman on Saturday passer and has led the top-ranked night, earning college football’s most Seminoles to a spot in the BCS champiprestigious individual award with a onship game against No. 2 Auburn on performance so spectacular and domiJan. 6, his birthday. The former five-star nant that even a criminal investigation recruit from Bessemer, Ala., impressed couldn’t derail his candidacy. from his very first game. On Labor Day Winston received 668 first-place night, on national television, Winston votes and 2,205 points. He finished went 25 for 27 for 356 yards and four 1,501 points ahead of Alabama quartouchdowns in a victory at Pittsburgh. terback AJ McCarron for the seventhIt was a brilliant debut that lived up largest margin of victory in Heisman to the offseason hype, when Winston history, despite being left off 115 of the wowed Florida State fans in the 900 ballots that were returned. Seminoles’ spring football game and Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan on the baseball diamond as a hardLynch was third, followed by Boston throwing reliever and clutch-hitting College’s Andre Williams, Texas A&M’s outfielder. He had already earned the Johnny Manziel and Auburn’s Tre nickname Famous Jameis before he Mason. ever played a college football game. Manziel was the first freshman to Winston and Florida State were win the Heisman, and was trying to cruising toward an undefeated season join Ohio State’s Archie Griffin as a when news broke of an unresolved sextwo-time Heisman winner. Instead, ual assault complaint against him made Winston made it two freshman winners to the Tallahassee Police Department in the 79-year history of the Heisman. last December. He also became the youngest winner at The dormant case was handed over The Associated Press

to the state attorney’s office for a full investigation. A female student at Florida State accused Winston of rape. Winston’s attorney said the sex was consensual. During three weeks of uncertainty, Winston continued to play sensationally, especially in Florida State’s big games against Clemson and Miami, while other contenders stumbled or failed to distinguish themselves. The Heisman Trust mission statement says: “The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.” The accusations against Winston were serious and documents released by the police with the accuser’s allegations were not flattering to him and likely affected his vote total. Last year, Manziel appeared on 92 percent of the ballots. Winston appeared on 87 percent this year. There was no doubting his on-thefield credentials. Winston is on pace (190.1) to break Russell Wilson’s record for best passer efficiency rating in a season and set FBS freshman records for yards passing (3,820) and touchdown passes (38).

Texas says coach Mack Brown has stepped down Saturday and that the Alamo Bowl against Oregon on Dec. 30 will be his last game with the Longhorns. Brown led the Longhorns to the 2005 national championship and ranks second at the school in career victories. He’s stepping down after 16 seasons â€” and one tumultuous week of reports and speculation that this was coming. He is 158-47 at Texas, but 30-20 the last four seasons, including 19-17 in the Big 12. The 62-year-old Brown was hired at Texas from North Carolina in 1997 and was credited with reviving a dormant program. Texas had a run of dominance from 2001-2009 when the Longhorns went 101-16. He is one of the highest-paid coaches in the country at $5.4 million this year. In a statement released by the school, Brown said he was brought to Texas to “pull together a football program that was divided” and that he leaves comfortable that he did that. “It’s been a wonderful ride. Now, the program is again being pulled in different directions, and I think the time is right for a change,” Brown said. The school scheduled a Sunday news conference for 1 p.m today.

Navy makes it 12 in a row over Army

Keenan Reynolds ran through steady snow and swirling wind into the NCAA record book and Navy beat Army 34-7 on Saturday for its 12th consecutive victory in the series. Reynolds has 29 rushing touchdowns, breaking the single-season mark for a quarterback previously held by Ricky Dobbs (Navy, 2009) and Collin Klein (Kansas State, 2011), both of whom had 27. Reynolds ran 30 times for 136 yards on a frozen, snowcovered field for Navy (8-4). Army finished 3-9. NFL

NFL

Bears’ Cutler will start vs. Browns By Tom Withers

filling in was pass for a career-high 348 yards and throw four touchdown passes CLEVELAND — The Chicago Bears against the Cowboys; post the league’s were in a tailspin, their playoff hopes get- third-highest QB rating in seven starts; ting blown around as if caught in the bru- and guide the Bears back into contention tal, whipping winds off Lake Michigan. in the NFC North. Backup quarterback Josh McCown Bears coach Marc Trestman made it rescued them, maybe saved their season. clear that when Cutler was healthy, he His reward? A demotion. will play. That time has come. McCown returns to a reserve role “Josh has done exactly what we’ve today behind starter Jay Cutler as the asked him to do, he’s performed very, Bears (7-6), coming off a win over Dallas, very well as a backup and he undervisit the Browns (4-9). Cleveland still is stands his role,” Trestman said. “We’ve smarting after a final-minutes collapse got a very close quarterback room, guys — aided by some questionable officiatare resolute in terms of how we operate ing — last Sunday in New England and a and how we work. We all feel very, very 27-26 gut-wrenching loss to the Patriots. good about the way we put this thing Cutler has missed the past four games together.” with a severely sprained left ankle, but Cutler will have to shake off any rust was cleared to play Thursday and will be against a defense itching to rebound back in the lineup. All McCown did while after failing to close out games the past The Associated Press

two weeks. “We definitely feel like we’ve got a lot to prove,” Browns linebacker D’Qwell Jackson said. “We felt like we played pretty good for three quarters, and then that last five minutes of the game, it just swung back and forth. We’ve got to do a better job of when we have a lead, we’ve got to hold onto it and not give it up.” As the Bears welcome back Cutler, the Browns can only hope quarterback Jason Campbell can deliver a performance close to the one he pulled off against Bill Belichick’s defense. Campbell, who spent last season as a backup with Chicago, passed for a career-high 391 yards and three touchdowns last week. Campbell’s impressive outing has spawned speculation he might be in the mix to start next season.

NFL

Rodgers ready to play, coach not ready to play him The Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. — While saying Aaron Rodgers feels ready to play, coach Mike McCarthy it was tough to break the news to him that he wouldn’t be taking snaps on Sunday. “Hey, it’s not the easiest thing to sit there and tell your franchise quarterback he can’t play in the game when he wants to play in the game,” McCarthy said after practice Friday. “This is clearly a decision that’s made in the best interest of Aaron Rodgers.” Rodgers has been sidelined

since he broke his collarbone early in Green Bay’s loss to the Chicago Bears on Nov. 4. Rodgers practiced on a limited basis this week and took some reps with the firststring offense in team drills Wednesday and Thursday. But still not enough to apparently sway the decision to have him play in a critical game for the Packers. This will be the sixth straight game Rodgers misses. “Frankly, it’s been a difficult morning going through the conversation with Aaron and (team) Doctor (Pat) McKenzie,” McCarthy said. “(Rodgers) feels like he’s

ready to play. He’s had a good week of preparation. (But) he did very little today. “He’s very disappointed. He’s frustrated. But speaking with Doctor McKenzie, this is the right decision.” Matt Flynn will make his third straight start in place of Rodgers as the Packers (6-6-1) try to stay in contention for the NFC North title with three games left. They are one half game behind division coleaders Detroit and Chicago, both 7-6. Flynn rallied Green Bay from a halftime deficit of 11 points to a 22-21 win over Atlanta last Sunday, snapping

the Packers’ five-game winless streak. “I thought Matt had his best practice today of the two weeks of full preparation,” McCarthy said. “Yesterday was not our best practice as a football team, but I thought Matt Flynn was very sharp today, and he obviously took all of the reps.” McCarthy repeatedly has announced since Rodgers resumed practicing before the Thanksgiving loss at Detroit on Nov. 28 that what has kept the quarterback from playing again is that he hasn’t been medically cleared.

Bears’ Briggs still out against Browns A struggling Chicago Bears defense will wait at least one more week to get seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker Lance Briggs back after fracturing his left shoulder.

Belcher’s body exhumed

The family of former Kansas City Chiefs’ linebacker Jovan Belcher has had his body exhumed so that his brain can be examined for possible clues about why he killed his girlfriend and himself last year.

No. 12 Wichita St. improves to 10-0 Tekele Cotton scored all 19 of his points in the second half and No. 12 Wichita State beat Tennessee 70-61 on Saturday as the Shockers got off to the best start in school history at 10-0. HOCKEY

Bruins’ Thornton suspended 15 games Boston Bruins forward Shawn Thornton was suspended for 15 games without pay by the NHL on Saturday for punching and injuring unsuspecting Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik. Thornton went after Orpik during a stoppage in play Dec. 7, slew-footing him to the ice and punching him twice. Orpik sustained a concussion and was taken off the ice on a stretcher. Earlier, Orpik hit Boston’s Loui Eriksson, knocking him out of the game with a concussion. Thornton was assessed a game misconduct. Orpik hasn’t played since the game.

Oilers trade goalie to Blackhawks

The Edmonton Oilers traded goalie Jason LaBarbera to the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday for future considerations. LaBarbera, 33, will be assigned to the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs. BASEBALL

Royals sign Infante

Second baseman Omar Infante has agreed to a fouryear, $30 million contract to play for the Kansas City Royals, according to several published reports. GOLF

Man on probation for shooting golfer A Reno man has been placed on probation and fined $1,000 for shooting a golfer whose errant ball broke a bedroom window at his home. Jeff Fleming, 53, was put on probation for up to five years in Washoe County District Court. He had faced as much as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine after he earlier pleaded guilty to a felony charge of battery with a deadly weapon. The unidentified golfer who struck Fleming’s house took a drop and was attempting to play his next shot on the Lakeridge Golf Course in September 2012 when Fleming fired a shotgun at him. The golfer was treated at a hospital for minor injuries to an arm and both legs. SOCCER

Construction death in Brazil again

A construction worker fell to his death Saturday from the roof of a World Cup stadiNo. 4 Wisconsin um being built in the jungle city of Manaus, marking the still perfect latest setback to hit Brazil Ben Brust scored 20 points before it hosts football’s to lead four Wisconsin playshowcase event next year. ers in double figures and the It was the second death at fourth-ranked Badgers beat the Arena Amazonia in less Eastern Kentucky 86-61 on than a year, and the third Saturday to improve to 12-0. fatality in a World Cup stadium in less than a month. No. 18 UNC tops Brazil already had made headlines a week ago No. 11 Kentucky Marcus Paige scored 21 of because of fan violence his 23 points in the second in the final round of the half and James Michael Brazilian league, and again McAdoo had 20 points, help- earlier this month after ing No. 18 North Carolina World Cup organizers said beat No. 11 Kentucky 82-77 that none of the six stadion Saturday. UNC is 7-2. ums that had to be done by Kentucky is 8-3. the end of the year would be delivered on time. Andrade Gutierrez, the No. 22 UMass is 9-0 construction company buildCady Lalanne scored ing the Arena Amazonia, 16 points to lead No. 22 said in a statement Saturday Massachusetts to an 80-54 that 22-year-old Marcleudo victory over Northern Illinois de Melo Ferreira fell some on Saturday and stay unbeat- 115 feet (35 meters) in the en at 9-0. early morning accident. COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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Lions MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

Detroit (7-6) vs. Baltimore (7-6)

Kickoﬀ: 8:30 p.m. Where: Ford Field TV: ESPN. For more on the game, go to mlive.com/lions.

YOUR DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MONDAY’S GAME

FOUR DOWNS

Keep your eye on these when watching Monday’s game

It’s the turnovers, stupid

Bill Clinton told us in 1992 that it was the economy, stupid. It helped win him a presidency, but not a football game. For the Detroit Lions: It’s the turnovers, stupid. Eliminate them, and maybe they can win a game. Detroit has gobs of turnovers the past four weeks — 15, for those counting at home — and they’ve dearly cost the Lions. Opponents scored 40 points off those 15 turnovers, which, according to ESPN, is a league high. On the season, Detroit has 11 turnovers inside the opponent’s 30-yard line, which has quashed some of their best scoring chances. No other team has as many as six. The Lions have a top-five offense, but can’t maintain leads because they squander too many of their own scoring chances while giving too many to the opposition. Their season will sink if a cure isn’t discovered.

Bottle up the run

Detroit’s secondary is always bad, and now it’s thin, too, with Darius Slay not expected to play because of a torn meniscus and Chris Houston uncertain because of a toe injury. The Lions, as always, must stop the run to have any shot at getting stops defensively. Detroit has been very good against the run this season, but was gashed by LeSean McCoy for 217 yards last week in the strange, snowy conditions. Lucky for them, Baltimore’s Ray Rice doesn’t have that kind of firepower this year. Baltimore is 29th in rushing this year, with only 82.3 yards per game.

Catch the darn ball

Detroit’s second-half letdowns and surrendered fourth-quarter leads aren’t a product of just the turnovers. There are the dropped passes, too. Lots of them. The Lions lead the free world in drops with 38. Baltimore doesn’t do a whole lot exceptionally well. In fact, looking at the Ravens’ statistical profile, it’s sort of hard to figure out how they’re actually 7-6. But they’re seventh against the run, which is their trademark. So the Lions need to have their passing game working. You can bet they’ll go for it, too, after Baltimore’s smack talk this week about Calvin Johnson’s age. Reggie Bush and the Lions will look to hang on to the football against the Ravens. (AP File)

Baltimore might not have a run game, but it has found something in receiver Torrey Smith. He already has career-highs with 55 receptions and 963 yards this season, and is closing in on the franchise single-season reason record. He’s done much of his damage deep, averaging 17.5 yards per catch. That’s fifth most in the NFL, just behind Calvin Johnson’s 18.0 yards. Detroit’s secondary problems are well documented, and you can bet Baltimore will try to stretch the field with Smith. — Kyle Meinke

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Backs against the wall (again) and a prime time game? This is when the Lions shine. The Ravens aren’t as good as their record suggests, so I’m going to go out on a limb and predict a double-digit victory for Detroit.

THE MATCHUP LIONS DEFENSE VS. RAVENS OFFENSE

The Lions struggled in the snow in Philadelphia, but expect the run defense to re-establish itself against the Ravens’ anemic ground game. Ray Rice has been one of the league’s best backs the past several seasons, but he’s averaging only 3.0 yards per carry this year. Where Baltimore remains potent is with the deep ball. The Ravens have tallied 13 pass plays of 40 or more yards, the second most in the NFL. The Lions have allowed 14 such plays, the second worst in the league. By taking so many deep shots, the Ravens expose quarterback Joe Flacco, who has been sacked 41 times. The difference might be in the red zone, where the Lions have been stout — allowing touchdowns on only 40 percent of opponents’ trips. Edge: Lions

SPECIAL TEAMS

Jeremy Ross has emerged as a reliable, possibly even electric return man for the Lions. But Tandon Doss has been a dynamite option for the Ravens all season, averaging a league-leading 15.6 yards on punts. On kickoffs, Baltimore’s Jacoby Jones ranks third in the NFL with a 28.7-yard average. Beyond the return game, the Ravens have Justin Tucker, the NFL’s best kicker. In his second season after going undrafted out of the University of Texas, he has made 27 consecutive field goal attempts and converted a staggering 92.2 percent in his short career. Edge: Ravens COACHING

In five seasons with the Ravens, John Harbaugh has gone to the postseason and won at least one playoff game each year. That includes a

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The Lions are indoors, have Reggie Bush back and will have a deafening crowd behind them. Plus, they’re angry, and Baltimore won’t like that. Detroit has a better chance of routing the Ravens than losing.

CALVIN JOHNSON Sparked by some innocuous comments from Dez Bryant earlier in the season, the Lions superstar receiver went off for 329 yards against the Dallas Cowboys. How will Johnson respond to being called “old” and having his physicality questioned by Ravens rookie safety Matt Elam?

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LIONS 34, BALTIMORE 20

As long as wide receiver Calvin Johnson is active, the Lions field one of the best offenses in the NFL. But the Ravens counter with an assignment-sound, physical defense, capable of holding Detroit in check. Baltimore is eighth against the run and 14th against the pass. It will be tough sledding for Detroit running backs Reggie Bush (if he plays) and Joique Bell against Baltimore’s 3-4 front, which could leave the Lions’ hopes resting on the arm of quarterback Matthew Stafford. Detroit’s potent red zone offense (61.2 percent touchdown rate) also will be challenged by a defense that clamps down inside the 20. The Ravens allow a touchdown less than 40 percent of the time. Edge: Lions

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LIONS 33, BALTIMORE 23

JOHNS ON

Detroit Lions rookie Devin Taylor began the season on the inactive roster. But Jason Jones’ seasonending injury forced Taylor into a reserve role, and a subsequent injury to Ezekiel Ansah put him in Taylor the starting lineup for two games. He has responded well, registering 11 tackles and 2.5 sacks. Taylor, a rookie fourthrounder out of South Carolina, is known for his unusual fashion sense around the locker room. MLive beat writer Kyle Meinke asked about that and a few other topics in this week’s Q&A.

You were wearing a Sonic The Hedgehog hat the other day. You’ve had blue hair and red hair and some crazy shirts, and you wear a ton of bracelets. Where does all this stuff come from? I just have a creative mind, I guess. I haven’t actually started with tattoos and all that stuff, so this is a way for me to express myself I guess without getting too crazy.

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LIONS OFFENSE VS. RAVENS DEFENSE

Get to know Devin Taylor

STAFF PREDICTIONS

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Super Bowl victory last season. Even with a significant roster turnover this year, Harbaugh still has Baltimore on track to return to the postseason. In five seasons with the Lions, Jim Schwartz is 29-48 with one playoff appearance and zero postseason wins. Edge: Ravens INTANGIBLES

The last time the Lions hosted a game on Monday night, the raucous Ford Field crowd baited the Chicago Bears into nine false start penalties. That doesn’t bode well for the Ravens, who lead the league in false starts coming into the contest. Those 5-yard infractions can be devastating against a defense that ranks first in the NFL on third down. Edge: Lions — Justin Rogers

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Olympics BOBSLED

American women on top of the world United States sweep medals as Sochi Olympics near The Associated Press

Shaun White, shown during the halfpipe competition at the 2010 Olympics, is back in training for the upcoming Vancouver Games. White, who has won two Olympic gold medals would love to add the ﬁrst slopestyle medal. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK

With addition of slopestyle at Sochi, White again the favorite

A golden opportunity By Nancy Armour

style is making its Olympic debut in Sochi, White has had to put the disciWith two Olympic gold medals, more pline on hold as he prepared for previthan a dozen titles at the X Games — ous Winter Games. He didn’t hit a jump Winter and Summer for close to two years before Vancouver, — and crossover appeal in fact. When he returned, he found he’d that makes sponsors fallen far behind. drool, Shaun White “I had to learn these new tricks,” knows everyone will White said. “I set out to do that and right be coming after him in as I completed that and won a major Sochi. contest in Europe, the sport took anothSo, what else is new? er little turn. People were doing these “I can’t tell you the double flips in the beginning, and now White last time I didn’t feel they’re doing triple flips.” hunted,” he said. “Ever At the Winter X Games last January, since I was a kid, I was someone to beat. not only did White not win, he finished Maybe I wasn’t ‘the guy,’ but I was some- a distant fifth. He didn’t even make it to body to be looked at as a threat. But for the starting line at the Winter Games me, that was always something that in New Zealand in August, crashing in inspired me. I knew that they were look- training. ing toward me and I was looking toward “It’s hard for me to even think about them, and I knew that would help me anything else, in a sense. I don’t know get to the place I needed to learn new the last contest I went to where I wasn’t tricks and to progress in the sport.” trying to win,” he said. “I don’t really The only difference now is that White look at any other spot but that. That’s will be chased in two events. In addition what I’m striving for.” to a third straight gold in snowboardA LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN ing, White is hoping to become the first Olympic champion in slopestyle. In this fantasy league, Peyton “That’s such a huge challenge for me, to Manning and Adrian Peterson go do halfpipe and slopestyle,” he said. “It’s a undrafted. Instead, the top picks are rarity in the sport to do both disciplines, players like Aksel Lund Svindal, of as well as do them at the Olympics. ... Norway, or Ted Ligety, of the U.S. That’s what I love about this sport. Every Now, those skiers really can score single time around there’s something points for a team. brand new that presents itself.” A few years ago, U.S. skier Steven In slopestyle, snowboarders move Nyman was sitting around the lodge in through rails, big jumps and bumps on Lake Louise, Alberta, on a minus-30 their way down the hill. As dominant as degree day. Rather bored, he started White is in the halfpipe, it would seem throwing around ideas with teammate to follow that he’d be unbeatable in Nolan Kasper, when they hit on the conslopestyle, too. Not exactly. cept of a ski version of fantasy football. Oh, he was once. But because slopeWith the help of his brother, Nyman The Associated Press

created a fantasy ski league that’s soaring in popularity. When he first launched his site, only a handful of players took part. Last year, he had 7,000 players sign up, and this season it’s already jumped to 15,000. “This is going great,” said Nyman, who’s planning to go mobile with the site so players can pick their skiers on their phones. “I don’t make any money doing it. People yell at me all the time, accuse me of cheating. Why? I don’t know. But it’s just fun.” BURKE NAMED TO BIATHLON TEAM

Tim Burke is going to the Sochi Olympics. The first American in 26 years to win a medal at the biathlon world championships was one of the first three athletes named to the Sochi team by U.S. Biathlon. Lowell Bailey and Susan Dunklee also earned spots at the Winter Games. The U.S. has never won an Olympic medal in biathlon, a sport that combines cross-country skiing with rifle marksmanship and traditionally has been dominated by the Europeans. But the Americans have been inching closer to the podium over the last five years. First came Leif Nordgren’s bronze medal at the Youth/Junior Biathlon World Championships in 2008, followed the next year by Jeremy Teela’s bronze at a World Cup event — the best result for an American at a World Cup in 17 years. PASSPORT, PLEASE

Lithuania’s president has granted citizenship to U.S. ice dancer Isabella Tobias, allowing her and Deividas Stagniunas to represent the Baltic country at the Sochi Olympics.

DOWNHILL SKIING

Vonn to skip St. Moritz, expected to be ready for Olympics The past World Champion still is recovering from broken bones in a crash

Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, reacts in the ﬁnish area following her run at the women’s World Cup downhill ski race in Lake Louise, Alberta last week. (AP Photo)

By Howard Fendrich

The Associated Press

Mapping out her Olympics preparation after a threerace test, Lindsey Vonn will skip this weekend’s World Cup stop at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and is planning to return to the circuit in a downhill at Val d’Isere, France, on Dec. 21. The 29-year-old American returned to competition at Lake Louise, Alberta, last week, 10 months after tearing two ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in that leg during a crash at the world championships. She also had a setback when she partially re-tore one of those surgically reconstructed ligaments in a fall during practice on Nov. 19. Vonn finished 40th in a

downhill Friday in her World Cup season debut, then 11th in another downhill Saturday, and fifth in a super-G on Sunday. Asked after that last event what those 72 hours of racing told her, Vonn replied: “It tells me that I do need a couple more starts. I want to make sure that I get on the podium at least once, if not win, before ... Sochi. For me, mentally, I really want to have that in my back pocket.” She also indicated she did not think she needed much more in the way of World Cup work before heading to the

Olympics, which start in less than two months. “I know that I’m skiing well, so I know that I don’t need to push myself and try to push the limits of my knee to race as many as races as I can. ... I’m ready for Sochi,” Vonn said. “I may race in one or two races, something like that.” She added the she wanted to limit her schedule so as to “take the risk away from any long-term damage on my knee.” The races she’ll miss at St. Moritz are a super-G and giant slalom. She’s won the

downhill at Val d’Isere three times — in 2005, 2006 and 2010. After that initial victory there, Vonn was awarded a cow by local farmers. Vonn won two medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games, including a gold in the downhill, and she is a four-time overall World Cup champion. Her 59 race wins are three shy of the World Cup career record. Vonn explained that she would work with her coaches to figure out when to race ahead of going to Sochi. “We take everything day to day and week to week with her. There won’t be nearly as much volume, because the one thing we don’t have to do with Lindsey is teach her how to ski,” U.S. Ski Team women’s speed coach Chip White said at Lake Louise. “We’re just going to try to make sure that the training and racing that she does is quality and trying not to take an unnecessary risk with her.”

Standing arm-in-arm atop the medal stand, the six women chanted in unison. “U-S-A!” “U-S-A!” “U-S-A!” No U.S. women’s bobsled team had swept the podium in a World Cup race in nearly 13 years — until last weekend, when the American dominance was on full display. Elana Meyers and Aja Evans won their second gold medal in two days, and Jamie Greubel and Lolo Jones tied for second with Jazmine Fenlator and Lauryn Williams to complete the U.S. sweep. And with the Sochi Olympics less than two months away, here’s a very good sign for the U.S.: Out of the 18 medals awarded in bobsledding and skeleton at Park City, against the best racers in the world, American sliders took 10 of them. Said 2010 Olympic bobsled gold medalist Steven Holcomb: “It was a good day.” A good weekend, to be precise. A very, very good weekend, to be more precise. The last time American women’s bobsledders swept a World Cup race was Feb. 17, 2001, in Park City, when Jean Racine, Bonny Warner and Jill Bakken were the pilots going 1-2-3. “It feels great to be on the podium,” said Jones, who won her second World Cup medal as a push athlete. “With bobsled, you never know when you are going to be on the podium and how long it will be before you are back on again. It makes you cherish the moments when you are doing well. Our drivers are doing outstanding this year.” A schedule quirk calls for certain sliding disciplines

The United States’ Elana Meyers, front, and Aja Evans won the gold medal at the Park City, Utah, World Cup races. The team led a U.S. women sweep of the event — less than two months from the start of the Sochi Olympics. (AP Photo)

to race twice at various World Cup stops this winter, and in Park City, women’s bobsled was due for the double-up. So, after winning gold Friday night, Meyers and Evans were back at it early Saturday and finished two runs in 1 minute, 38.61 seconds, good enough for a 0.63-second margin of victory. Greubel and Jones finished in 1:39.24, the same time as Fenlator and Williams, an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion in track who was making her World Cup debut. Early reviews for the sprinter-turned-bobsledder — Williams was recruited to the sport by Jones, the twotime Olympic hurdler for the U.S. — were smashing. “I’ll tell you something: Lauryn Williams is a rising star in what I see in bobsledding,” longtime bobsled analyst John Morgan said during the race broadcast. “She’s got the build for it, the speed, the explosion. ... Lauryn Williams, welcome to bobsledding.”

OLYMPICS

Athletes ﬁnd online funding By Rick Maese

The Washington Post

For all of the millions of dollars swirling around the corporation-cloaked Olympic Games, athletes for years have scrounged through the couch cushions to help finance their dreams. They hold rallies, visit hometown businesses, host fundraising pasta dinners. Bill Kerig knew of the challenges facing athletes, particular those who compete in pricey winter sports. In 2010, he was making a documentary on ski jumper Lindsey Van and was struck by how much time Van spent searching for money. He couldn’t shake the image of Van standing behind a table at a farmers market soliciting donations with a couple other Olympic hopefuls. “I was offended for them,” Kerig said. “These are world champions begging for two dollars to do what they love. ‘Anything you have would really help.’ I thought, where’s the crowd-funding for athletes?” Kerig had used online crowd-funding to help finance his film, “Ready to Fly.” In recent years, sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo had proven to be a successful, efficient fundraising tool, particularly for those in creative fields. Kerig launched RallyMe.com specifically for athletes, and still in its nascent stages, it already has proven to be a

boon for Sochi-bound athletes and future Olympians. Van, who is expected to represent the United States when women’s ski jumping makes its Olympic debut in February, said her travel, equipment and lodging for a year carries an $85,000 price tag. She set a modest $13,000 goal on RallyMe but instead raised more than $20,000 with the help of 60 donors who simply had to log in and click a few buttons to contribute. “It’s a lot easier to get $20 from 100 people than it is to get $100 from 20 people,” said Van, 29. She was able to scale back hours at her parttime job in Park City, Utah, and focus energy on training instead of fundraising. “I wish we would’ve had it sooner,” she added. Online fundraising has become increasingly popular. Last year, crowd-funding raised $2.7 billion for various campaigns worldwide, an 81 percent increase over the previous year, according to a report from crowdsourcing. org, an independent organization that monitors crowdfunding online. RallyMe, which gives athletes 92 cents of every dollar raised, has raised more than a half-million dollars for athletes since formally launching last November. Kerig estimates the site features about 100 Olympic hopefuls — nearly one-third of its network of “rallies.”

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Outdoors “They (the four campgrounds) don’t bring in a lot of money, but they also don’t require a lot of money to run them. We have a population who likes to use them.” ANNA SYLVESTER, THE DNR’S NORTHERN MICHIGAN FIELD OPERATIONS SECTION CHIEF FOR PARKS AND RECREATION DIVISION

The four state forest campgrounds slated to open will offer simple amenities such as these found at Reed and Green Bridge State Forest Campground on the Big Two-Hearted River. (Howard Meyerson/MLive.com)

MICHIGAN

In response to ‘requests from the public,’ state oﬃcials to make room in the budget for recreation

Four or more state forest camps to re-open

ampers who like rustic state forest campgrounds will have a few more choices in 2014. State officials are planning to reopen at least four of 12 that were closed in 2009 because of budget constraints. It’s an idea they began talking about earlier this year — and a welcome indication things are improving for the state’s rustic campground program. “We’ve had requests from the public to open them,” said Anna Sylvester, the DNR’s northern Michigan field operations section chief for Parks and Recreation division. “They (the four) don’t bring in a lot of money, but they also don’t require a lot of money to run them. We have a population who likes to use them.” “No sweeter words ... ” the saying goes. The 2009 closures were followed by an attempt to close 23 more in 2011. The program long had been underfunded and the camps were neglected. It was low-hanging fruit when budget cuts had to be made. But the 2011 closure effort ran into stiff headwinds in the state legislature and the idea was dumped by then-DNR director Rodney Stokes, who called for more creative ways to run the program, including finding others to manage its parts and pieces. Both events also occurred before money from the state’s recreation passport sales began flowing into the financially strapped program, which then shifted from DNR’s forest, mineral and fire management division to the DNR’s parks and recreation program, where it has received more attention. The four campgrounds that are slated

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to reopen include Muskrat Lake in Oscoda County, Twin Lakes in Cheboygan County, Lake Marjory in Otsego County and Thunder Bay River in Alpena County. None is very large, which is part of the charm of state forest campgrounds. They are less crowded and noisy than state park campgrounds and typically attract tent campers or those with small RVs, providing only a place to park, tent pad, picnic table, fire-ring, outhouse and pumped water. Thunder Bay River State Forest Campground has 10 sites along the Thunder Bay River. There is good fishing there for panfish, bass and northern pike. It’s not far from the popular Norway Ridge Pathway, which offers seven miles of hiking. The 1.5 mile WahWah-Tas-See Trail onsite can be accessed by foot or mountain bike. The campground also is canoe-accessible for those who are paddling the Thunder Bay River. Sylvester said it now will be operated by an Alpena-based private concessionaire who took it on this past summer as an experiment. Muskrat Lake State Forest Campground has 13 campsites. It will cater to the off-roadvehicle crowd. The lake has good fishing for panfish, pike and bass. The campground also

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provides direct trail access to 25 miles of motorcycle and ATV trail, along with 12 miles of trail for full-sized ORVs. The push to reopen it came from the off-road community. “There aren’t many campgrounds dedicated to ORVs, which is one reason to reopen it,” Sylvester said. “There are a lot of trails in that area.” Twin Lakes State Forest Campground has 12 campsites. It offers good fishing for bass, bluegill, splake and pike. Good hiking is found six miles away on the state’s Black Mountain 30-mile pathway complex. Those trails are open for hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and horseback riding. There also is a 1.3-mile barrier-free paved trail through the forest. Twin Lakes is being reopened because of popular demand, Sylvester said. Lake Marjory State Forest Campground has 10 campsites. It is on top of a bluff overlooking the lake. The campground is just a few minutes from Otsego Lake State Park. It is being reopened with the idea of it taking overflow from the state park when it is full. The lake

IRONWOOD

OTSEGO COUNTY

Copper Peak jump looks for comeback to world stage By Andrew Krueger

The Associated Press

It has been nearly 20 years since athletes soared into the sky off the Copper Peak ski jump near Ironwood. But change is in the air. The board that operates the western Upper Peninsula landmark is backing a new plan it hopes will put Copper Peak back on the international stage and attract athletes from around the world for ski jumping — and not just in the winter. “This is really big news for ski jumping in the United States,” said Bryan Sanders, a 1992 U.S. ski jumping Olympian and member of the Copper Peak board. “This

there has bass and panfish. Other good fishing is found nearby. Once those four are open, campers will have 132 rustic state forest campgrounds to choose from across the state. There are others, too, that may be reopened next year. Sylvester said DNR staffers are working through an internal process to determine their status. A likely candidate is The Forks State Forest Campground on the Boardman River in Grand Traverse County. It has eight campsites and offers good brown trout fishing on the river. The 11.5-mile Muncie Lake Pathway is nearby. That pathway is open for hiking, biking and cross-country skiing. “It is primarily a canoeing and fishing campground, but there is a real demand for it,” Sylvester said. Other possibilities include Big Oaks State Forest Campground in Montmorency County and Cedar River State Forest Campground in Menominee County. Both would be opened as equestrian camps. “We hope to open Big Oaks next summer,” Sylvester said. “And we are trying to get a rule change so that horses can be unloaded from trailers at Cedar River. We want to make it more user-friendly for equestrians. The goal is to have that done by next May.” And a worthy goal it is. The current effort to reopen the closed campgrounds is good to see. It says the agency now is clearly listening to the people it serves, and the state forest camping program is finally getting the attention it deserves.

The Copper Peak ski jump just launched a plan to attract major athletes for ski jumping year-round. (AP ﬁle)

makes us relevant again on the world scene.” Two key components of the plan are transforming Copper Peak from its present status as a ski-flying hill to a ski-jumping hill, and bringing summer ski jumping to the venue by 2016.

Copper Peak, which opened in 1970, features a 267-foot steel jump structure built atop a 365-foot rock outcropping about 10 miles northeast of Ironwood. Ski flying is similar to ski jumping but takes place on larger hills that allow for longer jumps. Copper Peak was the only ski flying hill in the Western Hemisphere — and one of just six in the world — but it was too small for that circuit. So, the Copper Peak board, at the suggestion of and with backing from the Federation of International Skiing, wants to make the transition to the largest ski-jumping hill in the world.

In conjunction with the switch from ski flying to ski jumping, the plan envisioned by FIS and the Copper Peak board includes the addition of summer ski jumping. How does summer ski jumping work? The landing zone “is essentially skiing on plastic — a specially designed surface that looks like spaghetti that you stack up like shingles on a roof,” Supercynski said. It approximates snow, allowing skiers to glide along as they land. The jump itself would be outfitted with ceramic tile or a refrigerated ice surface — that’s still to be determined — that athletes would glide down to make their runs.

Major snowmobile trail closes because of land-lease issue Trail runs between Old-27 in Otsego County, Lakes of the North in Antrim County By John Tunison

jtunison@mlive.com

A heavily used snowmobile trail connecting the Gaylord area to other trails near Mancelona has been closed because of a landlease issue. A snowmobile club that leased the land for the trail recently lost the right to operate on the private land, state Department of Natural Resources officials said.

The trail, Snowmobile Trail No. 4, runs between Old-27 Highway in Otsego County to Lakes of the North in Antrim County. DNR officials describe it as a “major east-west trail connecting the Gaylord-area trails with the Jordan Valley and Blue Bear trails.” They advise snowmobilers to avoid riding the trail until a new route can be established. Leaders with the snowmobile club continue efforts to work with landowners to find an alternative route or permanent easement to reopen the trail.

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MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS

LANSING

Abortion insurance debate puts state in national spotlight

These school districts were identified in the latest Michigan Department of Education report as having had a budget deficit, currently operating at a deficit, or projected to have ended the year June 30 in a deficit.

ost Michigan lawmakers have left town for the year, but Lansing remains in the national spotlight after a controversial bill won approval in the final week of the legislative calendar.

DISTRICTS OUT OF DEFICIT AS OF JUNE 30 Bellaire Public Schools Hastings Area School System Athens Area Schools Bellevue Community Schools North Dickinson County Schools Westwood Heights Schools North Adams-Jerome Public Schools Hale Area Schools Van Dyke Public Schools North Star Academy Mason County Eastern Schools Northpointe Academy

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DISTRICTS WITH REDUCED DEFICITS AS OF JUNE 30 Benton Harbor Area Schools, $15,517,748 deficit, 52.97 percent of revenues Hancock Public Schools, $514,291 deficit, 7.69 percent of revenues East Detroit Public Schools, $5,002,724 deficit, 14.72 percent of revenues Clintondale Community Schools, $3,405,650 deficit, 11.25 percent of revenues Mount Clemens Community Schools, $3,586,719 deficit, 20.04 percent of revenues New Haven Community Schools, $236,549 deficit, 2.15 percent of revenues Menominee Area Public Schools, $53,664 deficit, 0.43 percent of revenues Bedford Public Schools, $189,632 deficit, 0.49 percent of revenues White Cloud School District, $580,276 deficit, 6.25 percent of revenues Avondale School District, $239,564 deficit, 0.66 percent of revenues Oak Park School District, $1,617,163 deficit, 3.59 percent of revenues Hamtramck Public Schools, $3,443,659 deficit, 12.26 percent of revenues Redford Union Schools, $1,962,334 deficit, 8.13 percent of revenues River Rouge School District, $1,107,736 deficit, 6.65 percent of revenues

DISTRICTS WITH INCREASED DEFICITS AS OF JUNE 30 Mackinaw City Public Schools, $345,160 deficit, 16.36 percent of revenues Flint Community Schools, $10,403,722 deficit, 9.39 percent of revenues Ashley Community Schools, $225,307 deficit, 9.05 percent of revenues Brighton Area Schools, $8,500,481 deficit, 17.05 percent of revenues Pontiac School District, $51,677,552 deficit, 88.86 percent of revenues School District of the City of Hazel Park, $3,919,402 deficit, 9.95 percent of revenues Vanderbilt Area School District, $221,573 deficit, 17.15 percent of revenues Saginaw City School District, $6,157,077 deficit, 7.76 percent of revenues Bridgeport Spaulding Community School District, $3,221,274 deficit, 24.29 percent of revenues Perry Public Schools, $1,689,022 deficit, 15.23 percent of revenues Detroit Public Schools, $93,881,926 deficit, 13.42 percent of revenues Dearborn Heights School District #7, $1,769,214 deficit, 7.59 percent of revenues Taylor School District, $8,834,147 deficit, 12.46 percent of revenues Westwood Community School District, $6,311,270 deficit, 26.2 percent of revenues Ecorse Public School District, $1,809,903 deficit, 17.59 percent of revenues Southgate Community Schools, $4,906,716 deficit, 11.64 percent of revenues HEART Academy, $344,498 deficit, 22.72 percent of revenues

SCHOOLS ENTERING DEFICIT AS OF JUNE 30 Alpena Public Schools, $863,359 deficit, 2.56 percent of revenues Atlanta Community Schools, $31,842 deficit, 1.13 percent of revenues Albion Public Schools, $149,003 deficit, 1.7 percent of revenues Beecher Community School District, $701,015, 4.12 percent of revenues Pinckney Community Schools, $1,847,424 deficit, 5.92 percent of revenues Muskegon Public Schools, $1,169,873 deficit, 2.33 percent of revenues Muskegon Heights Public School Academy, $553,763 deficit, 5.74 percent of revenues Bangor Public Schools, $373,350 deficit, 3.4 percent of revenues Lincoln Consolidated Schools, $679,918 deficit, 1.66 percent of revenues Romulus Community Schools, $2,323,910 deficit, 7.33 percent of revenues Madison-Carver Academy, $402,226 deficit, 44.12 percent of revenues Highland Park Public School Academy, $620,248 deficit, 8.46 percent of revenues Aisha Shule/DuBois Prep Academy (closed) Source: Michigan Department of Education

Muskegon Heights Public School Academy seniors line up to receive their diplomas inside the gymnasium during the commencement ceremony in June. The district was among school districts that unexpectedly ended the fiscal year with a deficit. (MLive.com file)

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50 school districts end ﬁscal year with deﬁcits By Brian Smith

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New statistics from the Michigan Department of Education show 50 school districts across the state were in budget deficits as of June 30. Another 12 districts that started the 201213 fiscal year in a deficit ended the year in the black, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan told a joint House-Senate appropriations panel. Four more districts ended the year with a deficit than initially projected, as Albion Public Schools, Muskegon Heights Public School Academy, Madison-Carver Academy and Highland Park Public School Academy went into deficit while Durand Area Schools did not end the year with the deficit officials had expected. In total, 13 districts that started the year without budget overruns ended the year in the red, and 17 districts saw budget deficits increase from the start of the year through June 30. Flanagan Much of Flanagan’s testimony Thursday focused on the Pontiac School District, which faces a budget deficit calculated at 88 percent of its total revenues for the fiscal year that ended in June. The total deficit is calculated at $51.6 million, and

the district recently entered into a consent agreement with state officials to address the financial crisis. Flanagan said, however, that the district is in danger of not being able to comply with the agreement, and recently submitted a required deficit elimination plan that would last 15 years, a plan Flanagan is reluctant to approve. The district has taken significant emergency loans from the state Treasury and will need to borrow against anticipated tax revenues to make payroll in January, Flanagan’s report states. That loan will require the district to get Flanagan’s approval for a deficit plan. Flanagan also took questions from lawmakers about a proposed transfer of several academically challenged schools into the state reform district, a precursor step to a takeover by the Education Achievement Authority. The Legislature last week considered a plan that would have given the EAA additional authority under state law to operate schools, although Flanagan stressed he was not sending schools directly to EAA control. Under the current system, schools placed in the reform district are automatically transferred to EAA control through a contract between the EAA and the school reform office, although that agreement is not formalized in state law.

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Education bills ‘held back’ for a year By Brian Smith

in reading before advancing to the fourth grade. Changes still may be The House also stopped coming to Michigan’s school short of voting on Senate accountability system and revisions to a bill that the Education Achievement would give the Education Authority, but they won’t hap- Achievement Authority clearpen before the calendar rolls er legal footing to operate over to 2014. schools outside Detroit. Gov. “It’s certainly ironic that Rick Snyder had pushed for three of the education bills action by the end of the year. were held back for the year, An expansive version of but they just simply weren’t the EAA legislation detailready to advance,” Rep. Lisa ing the agency’s powers Posthumus Lyons, R-Alto, and authority had passed chairthe House in the spring but woman of languished for months in the the House Senate’s education commitEducation tee before Republican leadCommittee, ers moved the bill to the floor said Wednesday. Thursday The chair of the Senate night Education Committee, after the Sen. Phil Pavlov, R-St. Clair Legislature Lyons Township, introduced a subwrapped up stitute bill on the floor which its work. removed a majority of the House lawmakers had provisions from the House been expected to take up a legislation before passage bill replacing the state’s colWednesday afternoon. or-coded ranking system for “We sent a great-looking schools with a new system EAA bill that really helped using A-F grades, creating a kids trapped in failing requirement that all thirdschools over to the Senate grade students be proficient this past spring and we just bsmith11@mlive.com

got it, the Senate took a long look at it over the last few months, and we just got it back last night, and the members haven’t had a chance to take a look at it,” Lyons said. During Thursday’s session, some legislators expressed concerns about the Senate’s version, with Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, saying the substitute bill would place into law an agreement between the Michigan Department of Education and the EAA that transfers all schools referred to the state’s reform district into the EAA. Lyons said the delays in taking up the third-grade reading guarantee proposal and the grading changes for the state’s accountability system were the product of wanting lawmakers to better understand the proposals. “I think we just need to continue getting information to the members,” Lyons said. “We just want to make sure they’re comfortable.” The bills still could be considered once the Legislature returns to work in 2014.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, speaking Thursday on MSNBC, explained her unexpected choice to tell colleagues that she was raped some 20 years ago. Her emotional disclosure came during debate on a new law prohibiting insurers from paying for abortions — including those resulting from incest or rape — unless a woman has previously purchased a policy rider. “I’ve spent the better part of my life trying not to talk about that and not think about it,” Whitmer told the liberal talk show host Rachel Whitmer Maddow, explaining that she made the decision as she stood on the Senate floor that night. “But it became very clear that the Republicans were not listening to any women in our state.” Right to Life of Michigan has pointed out that men and women both signed petitions used to send the bill to the Legislature. A group of women who said they were conceived in rape also backed the proposal at the Capitol earlier this month. NO VOTES ON ‘VACATION’ AMENDMENT

As the state Senate wrapped up its work for the year Thursday night, Republican Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville took a good-natured shot at Gov. Rick Snyder, who pushed the upper chamber to “take a vote, not a vacation” this summer as he stumped for Medicaid expansion. Richardville offered — but withdrew before any voting — an amendment to a digital billboard proposal that would have prevented any governor from utilizing a billboard to display a message that included the world “vacation.” On a more serious note, the Senate did not complete

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work on a supplemental bill to fill a funding hole created when the upper chamber declined to give the Medicaid expansion legislation immediate effect. Work on that bill will resume in early January. ISSUE AD REVERSAL?

The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday accidentally approved a Democratic amendment that would have stripped “issue ad” donor protections from a controversial campaign finance bill. The change offered by Rep. Andy Schor, of Lansing, would have gutted the proposal of a provision that supporters have championed as a means to ensure free speech for issue advocacy. Schor has been a vocal critic of the proposal, which he said will allow “special interests” to continue funding “attack ads” without disclosure. The House chair — who gaveled the amendment through after a voice vote dominated by Democratic support — quickly called for reconsideration, and Republicans shot down the amendment. The bill, now headed to the governor, will also double campaign contribution limits. BREAST-FEEDING BILL WINS BACKING

Just one day after the contentious debate over abortion insurance, senators rallied around bills to combat human trafficking and protect breast-feeding mothers from discrimination. “Michigan remains one of the few states that fail to protect mothers from being harassed, segregated, or otherwise discouraged from breast-feeding,” said sponsoring Sen. Rebekkah Warren, an Ann Arbor Democrat. The “breast-feeding antidiscrimination act” would enact a statewide prohibition against denying a breastfeeding mother the “equal enjoyment” of public places and services. The bill now is headed to the House for consideration.

are dying of AIDS. Agema has said the State Republicans comments were taken out of context. A link to Agema’s skip Agema talks full speech is available on Michigan Republicans MLive.com. have taken no official steps Top Republicans including to rebuke the kinds of antiGov. Rick Snyder have congay comments made recently demned Agema’s comments. by GOP National Committee LANSING member Dave Agema. Leaders at the party’s Tipline aims to meeting Saturday did not deal with a measure proprevent violence posed by activist Jason A law signed Friday by Watts, submitted after the Gov. Rick Snyder authorizes deadline for resolutions. It the creation of a confidential does not mention Agema but hotline accepting tips by disavows the party of “dema- phone, text message, email gogic rhetoric that is incendi- or through a website or ary and unbecoming of civil mobile app. The state attordiscourse.” ney general’s office and other Agema told Berrien agencies will cooperate to County Republicans last establish the OK-2-SAY proweek that gays want free gram. Legislators allocated medical care for their same- $3.5 million for operational sex partners because they costs over four years. LANSING

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Nation&World THE MICHIGAN DELEGATION

Where reps stand on budget deal; 2014 Senate race looks close By Fritz Klug

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While the Michigan Legislature worked through bills on abortion insurance and the Education Achievement Authority, members of Michigan’s U.S. House delegation in Washington, D.C., voted Thursday on a short-term budget deal. Welcome to The Michigan Delegation, your look at what our representatives are up to in Washington, D.C., and the elections surrounding them.

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the economy so job creators can grow, hire and increase wages and address our longterm debt crisis.” John D. Dingell, D-Dearborn, voted yes: “At its core, this compromise is a step in the right direction to averting the harmful effects HOUSE PASSES BUDGET BILL of the sequester, restoring a The U.S. House of degree of economic certainty, Representatives on Thursday and beginning to return this night approved a $85 billion Congress to a time where deal that would restore crossing the aisle was rightly $63 million in automatic seen as an admirable and sequester cuts. necessary act to bring about The bill passed 332-94, with compromise, tackle the great seven not voting. The Senate issues of the day, and best is expected to vote on the deal serve the proud people of this next week, and President nation” Barack Obama has said he Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield supports it. Hills, voted yes. Of the Michigan delegaMike Rogers, R-Howell, tion, 10 approved the budvoted yes: Before the vote, get compromise and four Rogers told Mike Huckabee: — two Democrats and two “I got to tell you my hat’s off to Republicans — voted against Paul Ryan, who had a tough it. Here’s how the Michigan go of some long negotiations. delegation voted and their You think about where the explanation: administration was; they Dan Benishek, R-Iron wanted new taxes, and they County, voted yes: Before didn’t want any deal on fedthe vote, Benishek said the eral pension reform and they agreement “takes a small step wanted defense reductions. So towards reducing our deficit here’s what they got, nothing. by over $20 billion and doesn’t Here’s what we wanted; we raise taxes on hard-working wanted some reform on fedfamilies.” eral pension reforms, which Dave Camp, R-Midland, they said was an absolute red voted yes: “This will give line. Well guess what, we got Congress the opportunity to that. That’s huge.” work on serious solutions, Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, like tax reform, to strengthen voted yes: “The sequester was

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put into place to force the House and Senate to reach an agreement after years of not considering a budget. This agreement keeps feet to the fire for spending caps and allows the appropriators to do their work without a meat-ax approach.” Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, voted yes: “This bipartisan legislation avoids the potential of a government shutdown and gets Congress back on the path of funding the government in a timely manner through the normal

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Warming Not Paused

New research finds that while the rate of surface warming of the planet due to climate change has slowed since 1998, the effects of warming are still advancing at a rapid pace. Climate researchers from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research say it is a myth that global warming has paused, owing to solid evidence that the world’s oceans are now absorbing more than 90 percent of the excess heating of the planet. Researcher Kevin Trenberth estimates that the oceans are accumulating heat equivalent to about six Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second on average. Warming of the planet due to greenhouse emissions is still melting glaciers and ice caps, lifting ocean levels and creating some of the hottest periods on record around the planet. Writing in the American Geophysical Union open-access journal Earth’s Future, Trenberth and colleague John Fasullo say that “global warming has not stopped; it is merely manifested in different ways.” Greenhouse gas emissions continue to surge from polluting industry and transportation, setting the stage for even more intense warming in the decades ahead, researchers warn.

Sumatran Eruption

Indonesia’s erupting Mount Sinabung volcano continued to spew ash and send lava down its slopes, keeping thousands of people who were forced from their homes weeks ago in temporary housing. The Jakarta Post reports 17,713 people have now been displaced by the ongoing eruptions and are staying at 31 evacuation camps. The volcano has become increasingly active since September, erupting numerous times. Ash from the blasts has destroyed thousands of acres of farmland.

World of Extremes

Scientists have located the coldest place on Earth, where the temperature plunged to minus 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit on Aug. 10, 2010. The discovery was made after the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center analyzed thermal satellite images that pinpointed the spot in one of the many frigid pockets within the heart of Antarctica. The coldest daily temperature on the planet is often recorded at Russia’s Vostok research base, where the official planetary record low of minus 128.6 degrees occurred on July 21, 1983. Unofficial thermal satellite observations revealed last year that Iran’s Lut Desert had the world’s all-time hottest temperature in 2005, when the mercury soared to an utterly astounding 159.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That means the atmosphere has seen a swing of almost 300 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature between the hottest and coldest spots on the planet.

Smoggy Humor

Another bout of record air pollution forced several Chinese cities to shut down expressways and cancel flights as toxic fog and smog gripped northern and eastern parts of the country. Some official Communist Chinese media outlets were slammed by Internet users and other media after they tried to put a positive spin on the hazardous pollution. The Global Times said smog could be useful in military situations, where it could hinder the use of guided missiles. Broadcaster CCTV listed five “unforeseen rewards” of smog, including helping Chinese people’s sense of humor. “Is the smog supposed to lift if we laugh about it?” retorted Beijing Business Today, published by the city government’s official Beijing Daily. “Smog affects our breathing. We hope it does not affect our thinking.”

Tropical Cyclone

Category-1 Cyclone Madi churned the western Bay of Bengal for several days — the fourth successive cyclone to affect the region since early October. It later made landfall as a minimal tropical storm before dissipating over far southern India.

Earthquakes

The U.S. southern Great Plains were jolted by a 4.5 magnitude quake centered just northeast of Oklahoma City. Shaking was felt as far away as Wichita, Kan., but no reports of damage or injuries were received. • Earth movements were also felt along the Georgia-Tennessee border and on southern Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.

Snowy Irruption

One of the largest influxes of Arctic snowy owls in history is in progress across the northeastern United States and the Great Lakes region. Experts from Cornell University say a shortage of their favorite food up north, lemmings, or a bumper crop of young, is responsible for the “irruption.” An outcry over the killing of the impressive raptors in the name of aircraft safety at New York area airports prompted the Port Authority to switch to nonlethal methods to remove the snowy owls from JFK and LaGuardia airports. The agency said five planes at the three main New York City airports had been struck by owls in recent weeks. The birds appear to be attracted to airports because their open expanses in the midst of urban sprawl look similar to the owls’ normal Arctic tundra homes. Distributed by: Universal Uclick www.earthweek.com © MMXIII Earth Environment Service

appropriations process.” Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, voted yes: “While this legislation is far from perfect, it allows us to return to regular order and provides some certainty for our economy.” Candice S. Miller, R-Harrison Township, voted yes: “I was proud to support the overwhelmingly bipartisan passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. The adoption of this budget allows for several important results that benefit the American people.” Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, voted yes: While this deal is not perfect, it shows we can find bipartisan solutions that reduce the deficit without raising taxes.” Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, voted no: Before the vote, Amash told WJR that the budget proposal is “a bad deal for Americans. You have a massive increase in spending in the short run, and what they try to tell you is that we’ll make up for it 10, 12 years down the road. The problem is ... they do the same thing (10 years later). It’s sort of like a Ponzi scheme.” Kerry Bentivolio, R-Milford, voted no: Before the vote, Bentivolio spokesman Matt Chisholm. said “he will not support a budget that mortgages our children’s and grandchildren’s future by increasing our debt and spending,” said . Sander M. Levin, D-Royal Oak, voted no. John Conyers Jr., D-Detroit, voted no: “Unfortunately, I was unable to support this legislation as the ‘Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013’ does not address the sequester for fiscal years 2016-2018, and the deal reduces the cost of living adjustment for new service members in our armed forces. Worst of all, this legislation does not include an extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation, that will expire for 1.3 million Americans this Dec. 28, and for 1.9 million more individuals in the first half of 2014.” The budget agreement, negotiated by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin — and endorsed by the White House — will set overall spending levels for the current budget year and the one that begins on Oct. 1, 2014. It will eliminate the possibility of another government shutdown and reduce the opportunity for the periodic brinkmanship of the kind that has flourished in the current three-year era of divided government. The measure will erase $65 billion in across-theboard cuts set for January and early 2015 on domestic and

defense programs, leaving about $140 billion in reductions in place. On the other side of the budget ledger, it projects savings totaling $85 billion over the coming decade, enough to show a deficit reduction of about $23 billion over the 10-year period. The cuts will be replaced with money from, among other things, higher airline security fees, curbs on the pension benefits of new federal workers or working-age military retirees and premium increases on companies whose pension plans are insured by the federal government. The combination of shortterm spending increases and long-term savings would send deficits higher for the current budget year and each of the next two, a dramatic departure from the conservative orthodoxy that Republicans have enforced since taking control of the House three years ago.

a light-blue state where Republicans have had little luck at the national level — but I’m just surprised at how surprised people are that Republican former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has polled close to Rep. Gary Peters. She’s a credible candidate who won statewide twice, and in this environment, we’d expect a credible candidate to be competitive in a light blue state. To be clear, Land has never broken 43 percent in a poll, and getting to 50 percent plus one here is the real challenge. But if things don’t get better for Democrats, this race will be very close in the fall. For the Michigan gubernatorial race, the results show Snyder leading Schauer, 44 percent to 40 percent. ALSO LAST WEEK

•U.S. Rep. John Conyers was in South Africa for the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. •U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and fellow Democratic Sens. Tim LATEST IN THE SENATE RACE Johnson of South Dakota and A recent poll shows that the Dianne Feinstein of California wrote the director of National 2014 race for U.S. Senate in Michigan could be a close one. Intelligence to provide regular briefings on Iran. With the Public Policy Polling released a new poll last week recent nuclear agreement, the briefings will “help to build that shows Terri Lynn Land leading U.S. Rep Gary Peters, confidence that, at least in D-Bloomfield Hills, 42 percent the short term, Iran will be unable to pose a credible milito 40 percent. However, the tary threat to its neighbors in lead is within the three-point the region, including Israel,” margin of error. according to the letter. Of those polled, 18 percent •U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee said they are not sure who introduced a bill last week they would vote for in the to protect members of the race. armed services from predaPPP is a Democratic firm tory loans. The Transparency that earned high marks for the accuracy of its 2012 presi- in Military Lending Act would require “lenders to provide dential numbers. Pollsters a payment table to service surveyed 1,034 Michigan votmembers demonstrating the ers by telephone two weeks true cost of a loan over time,” ago. according to a news release A poll from PPP in June from Kildee’s office. showed Peters leading Land •A bill passed committee by 5 points. that would reduce the amount The poll also asked what of paperwork when selling a opinion people have of the used car or truck. Written by candidates. For Land, 34 percent said they have a favor- Gary Peters and Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio, able opinion of the former the bill would remove the Secretary of State. Of the need for documentation that remaining people polled, 23 the car or truck complies with percent said unfavorable and Clean Air Act, since every car 43 percent said they are not or truck sold in the U.S. must sure. already comply. It passed For Peters, 22 percent said they have a favorable opinion, the Energy and Commerce 21 percent unfavorable and 57 Committee and is likely to go to a vote in 2014. percent not sure. •The Democratic RealClearPolitics published Congressional Campaign an analysis of the Senate Committee put Bobby races in 2014 and has the McKenzie on its Jumpstart Michigan race in its third program. Also on the list are tier of likelihood that could Jerry Cannon, running in the flip parties. Sean Trende, a 1st, and Pam Byrnes, runSenior Elections Analyst for ning in the 7th. McKenzie, RealClearPolitics, wrote he’s surprised how people are sur- a Democrat, is running for Congress in the seat currently prised that Land has polled held by Bentivolio. close to Peters. Here’s what he had to say: — The Associated Press conI don’t want to make too tributed to this report. much of this — again, it’s

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Business “Men are promoted based on potential. Women are promoted based on performance.” DEBORAH GILLIS, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, CATALYST

A look at 23 women CEOs running Fortune 500 ﬁrms

Mary Barra, who General Motors on Tuesday named its next CEO, will be the first woman to run a major automobile maker. COMPANY

From left, General Motors Senior Vice President Mary Barra, President of North America Mark Reuss and Cadillac Chief Engineer David Leone react after the Cadillac ATS is named North American Car of the Year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. (AP ﬁle)

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Soon-to-be GM CEO known for approachability, eﬀectiveness By Tom Brisher and Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press

Kettering University President Robert McMahan was traveling in China a few months ago when he bumped into one of the university’s board members at an airport in Shanghai. Mary Barra, the busy global product development chief at General Motors Co., might have just said hello and turned back to her phone. Instead, she had a long discussion with McMahan’s teenage son about his education and his efforts to learn Mandarin. “I turned to my son after she left and said, ‘I put a month’s pay on the fact that you just met the next president and CEO of GM,’” McMahan said. “Even he, as a 16-year-old, was impressed by her approachability.” McMahan can keep his pay. On Tuesday, GM’s board named Barra, a 33-year company veteran, as its next CEO, making her the first woman to lead a major car company. Barra replaces Dan Akerson, who moved up retirement plans by several months to help his wife, Karin, battle advanced cancer. When Barra starts her new job Jan. 15, she will lead a company that has made near-

ly $20 billion since emerging from bankruptcy in 2010, much of it from the cars and trucks she helped develop. But she still faces challenges of paring down GM’s costs and winning over buyers in international markets such as India and South America. Akerson, 65, said he had planned to stay at least until spring, but his wife’s diagnosis changed that. He said the board unanimously picked Barra from several internal candidates because of the breadth of her experience, her management record, her people skills and her understanding of GM’s operations. Since February 2011, Barra has held what many say is the most important job at GM. She joined the company in 1980 as an engineering student at Kettering — then known as General Motors Institute — and became a plant manager, executive director of engineering and head of human resources. Along the way, she earned a reputation as a manager who made tough decisions, yet was able to get people to follow her lead and work as a team, according to current and former GM executives. Noting her talent, GM sent her to Stanford University to get an MBA. The 51-year-old execu-

tive has been in charge of design, engineering and quality for all GM vehicles and has shepherded most of the company’s recent new vehicle introductions. Under her command, GM rolled out brawny new full-size pickup trucks, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, and the Chevrolet Impala full-size car, which earned the highest score for a sedan in testing by Consumer Reports magazine. During her tenure, GM’s quality scores rose in surveys done by J.D. Power and Associates. She also streamlined the organization, eliminating positions and putting one engineer in charge of each vehicle. Among Barra’s biggest tasks is executing plans designed to cut costs and putting out better products, Akerson said. One big step in getting there: making more vehicles off the same underpinnings, or platforms, that can be sold in multiple markets, like the Chevrolet Cruze compact car. In 2009, GM had 30 vehicle platforms, adding to manufacturing complexity and cost. Under Barra’s leadership, it’s moving to build nearly 90 percent of its cars and trucks off five or fewer platforms by the end of this decade.

5 things to know about Barra Mary Barra will become the ﬁrst female CEO of a U.S. automaker when she takes over as CEO of General Motors on Jan. 15. Here are ﬁve things people may not know about the 51-year-old GM veteran:

Deep ties: Barra was born and raised in the Detroit suburbs and steeped in the car industry. Her father, now deceased, was a die maker at GM for 39 years. She went to college at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), a sort of automotive preparatory school in Flint, where she earned a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering and began her GM career as part of a student co-op program. Her first job, at 18, was at the Pontiac plant that made the Pontiac Fiero sports car. No bean counter: Barra is the first engineer to run GM since CEO Bob Stempel left in 1992. The two men who followed Stempel, Rick Wagoner and Fritz Henderson, were finance executives. Ed Whitacre and Dan Akerson were brought in from the telecommunications and finance industries by the federal government, which inherited an ownership stake as part of GM’s bailout and bankruptcy. Barra has worked in just about every corner of GM, but has little experience in finance and the sales and marketing of cars and trucks.

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Due for a pay raise: As GM’s product chief, Barra has made less than comparable executives at other companies, according to the company’s compensation committee. That’s partly because the government was capping executive salaries while it owned part of GM. On Monday, the government sold the last of its GM shares. Akerson said Tuesday that the company plans to change its salary metrics to focus more on vehicle quality. The value of Barra’s compensation totaled $4.85 million last year, according to GM’s latest proxy statement. That included a $750,000 base salary plus stock units.

Family matters: Many GM insiders say Barra admirably balances her work and home lives. Barra is married with two teenage children, one boy and one girl. She has been known to end meetings to go pick up her kids, and when they were young their artwork was proudly displayed in her ofﬁce. Car crazy: Barra’s ﬁrst car was a Chevrolet Chevette. These days, she tools around in a new Cadillac CTS, one of several cars that have been released during her time as GM’s global product chief. But her real love is the sporty Chevrolet Camaro. She and her husband have owned several over the years.

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WASHINGTON

Report: Growth stalls for ranks of female CEOs Women hold less than 15 percent of the top spots among the Fortune 500 By Lillian Cunningham The Washington Post

On the same day General Motors announced it had chosen a woman to lead the company, fresh research showed the automaker’s new chief executive is still the exception rather than the rule. Catalyst — a nonprofit research organization that studies women in leadership roles — released a report that found women currently hold less than 15 percent of senior positions among the Fortune 500, a number that hasn’t significantly changed over the past four years. “It’s really disappointing,” said Deborah Gillis, chief operating officer at Catalyst. “The advancement of women really isn’t hard, it just requires intentional focus and leadership.” That reality may have been masked by a few big names who have recently ascended to top jobs in traditionally male-dominated industries. TECHS AND DEFENSE

Mary Barra attends January’s presentation of the Car & Truck of the Year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Barra was named GM CEO on Tuesday. (AP ﬁle)

CEO

Some of the tech industry’s biggest names are women — Virginia Rometty of IBM, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, Margaret Whitman of Hewlett-Packard and Ursula Burns of Xerox. Three of the country’s largest defense contractors have women at the helm as well. Add to that list Mary Barra, who will become the first woman to lead GM — or any major automaker, for that matter. The auto industry has been unlocking slightly more doors to women over the past decade. In 2002, 11 percent of corporate officers in the industry were women, according to Catalyst research. Today, they make up 16 percent. GM, in particular, is notable for having higher percentages of women in leadership than the average Fortune 500 company. A quarter of its corporate officers are women,

MARY BARRA Age: 51 Born: Dec. 24, 1961. Experience: Has served in a variety of roles for General Motors, including vice president of global human resources and vice president of global manufacturing engineering. Named senior vice president of global product development in February 2011. Assumed responsibility for GM’s global purchasing and supply chain organization and was named executive vice president, global product development and global purchasing and supply chain in August. Is a member of the GM executive operations committee and serves on the Adam Opel AG supervisory board. Education: Started with GM in 1980 as a General Motors Institute (Kettering University) co-op student at the Pontiac Motor division. Barra graduated with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. She graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1990 with an MBA after receiving a GM fellowship in 1988. Family: Married with two children. Appointments: Serves on the boards of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, General Dynamics and the Kettering University board of trustees. She is GM’s key executive for Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley.

even though women make up nearly 21 percent of overall workers in the auto industry, according to Catalyst. CLIMBED THE LADDER

Barra, who started as a factory intern and currently serves as executive vice president of product development, has spent her career at GM. Like IBM’s Rometty and Lockheed Martin’s Marillyn Hewson, Barra climbed the ladder within the same organization for three decades before becoming chief executive. In

fact, more than one-third of the 23 female chief executives who will now lead Fortune 500 companies have done the same. Finding top male chief executives who are company “lifers” is far less common. “Men are promoted based on potential,” Gillis said. “Women are promoted based on performance.” Because of this, Catalyst found, women actually tend to make more money by staying with the same employer than by switching jobs — while the opposite is true for men. Women who spend their careers at one company build relationships and credibility over time, Gillis said. And for some, as in the case of Barra, it can take 33 years to break up an organization’s old boy’s club and prove fit for its top job, Gillis added. According to David Ulrich, a human resources expert and a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, Barra’s appointment may signal the automaker’s willingness to change its organizational culture and its confidence in the talent and strategy it has in place. That may be important given that the company is only now emerging from its federal bailout. “It’s a symbol of opportunity as well as a signal of comfort,” Ulrich said. NOT LEADING THE BOARD

One role Barra isn’t taking over is that of chairman of the board. Though Dan Akerson currently serves as GM’s chief executive and chairman, those positions will be split. So Barra, though gaining a seat on the board, won’t lead it. Catalyst’s new report, as it happens, could have predicted that. As with senior leadership roles, board seats have remained flat for women — with female directors making up less than 17 percent of Fortune 500 board members this year. So does Barra’s appointment signal any real advances for women at the top? “That’s something to celebrate,” Gillis said. “But frankly, we’ll really celebrate when we’re not counting the first woman in various industries.”

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Washington CLIMATE CHANGE

Local leaders planning for climate fallout Federal support needed, but not the red tape that comes with it By Matthew Daly

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — When it comes to climate change, local officials have a message for Washington: Lead or get out of the way. Local governments have long acted as first responders in emergencies and now are working to plan for sea level rise, floods, hurricanes and other extreme events associated with climate change. Local officials say they want and need federal support, but they worry congressional gridlock and balky bureaucratic rules too often get in the way. Some say Washington needs to reconsider national policies that encourage people to build in vulnerable areas. “The first thing the feds should do is stop making things worse,” said Boulder, Colo., Mayor Matthew Appelbaum. Specifically, by subsidizing flood insurance in low-lying areas and paying billions to fight wildfires that destroy property near national forests, the federal government is encouraging development “in all the wrong places,” Appelbaum said at a recent forum on the impacts of climate change. Federal assistance was crucial after a massive flood in Colorado in September destroyed nearly 2,000 homes, washed out hundreds of miles of roads and left many small mountain towns completely cut off. But even as cities and towns relied on the National Guard and other federal help in the storm’s immediate aftermath, local leaders said the disaster illustrated problems with a one-size-fits-all approach. In Fort Collins, Colo., for instance, nearly three dozen federal agencies were involved in fixing a road destroyed by a mudslide. “Half said, ‘No, it can’t be fixed,’” said Fort Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat. “The other half said ‘go ahead.’ That’s a problem that needs to be resolved.” Weitkunat, who serves on the presidential task force, said her message to federal officials is simple: “Get out of the way, and we can rebound.” The White House says it backs a local approach to climate change. That’s a key reason President Barack Obama appointed the task force, which includes more than two dozen state, local and tribal officials who will advise the administration on how to respond to severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other events affected by climate change. All but four task force members are Democrats. “Climate impacts are really local. They are about the place where you are, and everyone has to deal with this in a bit of a different way,” said Susan Ruffo, deputy associate director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

“We need to be selective about the drugs we use in animals and when we use them.” WILLIAM FLYNN OF FDA’S CENTER FOR VETERINARY MEDICINE

“The ﬁrst thing the feds should do is stop making things worse.” BOULDER, COLO., MAYOR MATTHEW APPELBAUM

In states such as Florida, climate change is “about sea level rise,” Ruffo said, while in some Western states the main effects are more frequent wildfires, as well as extreme flooding or drought. While the task force is looking at federal money spent on roads, bridges, flood control and other projects, most key decisions are local, Ruffo said, citing zoning rules and building codes that could be adapted to account for climate change. Even when Congress does act, it faces resistance. A law approved last year lowers federal subsidies for properties in flood zones. The measure, intended to keep the National Flood Insurance Program solvent after an onslaught of disaster-related claims in recent years, is under attack from lawmakers in coastal states worried about sharp insurance rate hikes for some property owners. Some of those pushing to delay or repeal the law voted for it last year. Appelbaum, the Boulder mayor, said the pushback on the flood-insurance law shows the daunting task facing government at all levels. “Maybe we’ll never get up the political gumption to make everybody move” from flood- and fire-prone areas, he said at a forum last week hosted by the World Resources Institute and the Union of Concerned Scientists. “But we should sure as heck stop encouraging people to increase development in those locations. The feds keep doing it.” Appelbaum was among a host of local officials from around the country who spoke at the climate forum, which served as a sounding board of sorts for the presidential task force. Stephen Marks, an assistant administrator in Hoboken, N.J., said Superstorm Sandy showed that emergency responders need better training and equipment. Hoboken was caught without special cars and trucks equipped for high water during Sandy, which caused extensive flooding to businesses, residences and Hoboken’s historic rail terminal. “We lost a lot of vehicles in the storm,” Marks said. Cindy Lerner, mayor of Pinecrest, Fla. said one step the federal government can take is to account for climate effects in relicensing nuclear power plants such as the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station in South Florida. The plant, 25 miles south of Miami, was shut down for months following Hurricane Andrew in 1992. “I’m horrified and terrified” at what could happen in a storm similar to the 2011 tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, Lerner said.

Boulder Creek flows at high speed next to a road closed off by debris in September 2013. Days of rain flooded the base of Boulder Canyon, Colo. (AP file)

Turkeys are raised without the use of antibiotics at David Martin’s farm, in Lebanon, Pa. Citing a potential threat to public health, the Food and Drug Administration moved Wednesday toward phasing out the use of some antibiotics in animals processed for meat. (AP ﬁle)

FOOD SUPPLY

FDA takes steps to phase out antibiotics in the meat we eat ics can lead germs to become resistant to the drug so that it is no longer effective in treating a particular illness. In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released soberBy Mary Clare Jalonick ing estimates that more than 23,000 The Associated Press people a year are dying from drug-resisWASHINGTON — Citing a potential tant infections. threat to public health, the Food and The biggest risk is from germs spread Drug Administration is taking steps in hospitals, and it’s not clear how much toward phasing out the use of some anti- of the problem is related to the use of biotics in animals processed for meat. drugs in meat. Still, the FDA says this is Many cattle, hog and poultry producone step toward decreasing resistance. ers give their animals antibiotics regu“We need to be selective about the larly to ensure that they are healthy and drugs we use in animals and when to make the animals grow faster. Now, we use them,” said William Flynn of the agency has announced that it will FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. ask pharmaceutical companies to volun- “Antimicrobial resistance may not be tarily stop labeling drugs important for completely preventable, but we need to treating human infection as acceptable do what we can to slow it down.” for that growth promotion in animals. The new guidance will give the comIf the drug companies sign on — and panies three years to comply. two major companies have signaled Michael Taylor, FDA’s deputy comthey will — using those antibiotics to missioner of foods, said he believes askpromote growth in animals would be ing industry to make the changes is the illegal. Prescriptions would be required fastest way to help phase the drugs out. to use the drugs for animal illnesses. If the FDA made the process mandatory, The FDA has been debating how to he said, the agency would have had to address the issue of antibiotics in meat move forward with a complex regulafor several years as antibiotic-resistant tory process that could take years. diseases have risen and consumers “We have high confidence based on increasingly have clamored for antibiot- dialogue with industry that this initiaic-free meat. McDonald’s, among other tive will succeed,” Taylor said. companies, has moved to limit the drugs Drug companies Zoetis and Elanco, in their meat, pushing many animal two of the leading manufacturers of aniproducers to go along. The restaurant mal antibiotics, have signaled they will chain Chipotle also has tried to use meat comply. raised without antibiotics, but has cited The American Academy of Pediatrics challenges in finding enough of it. said the move will be particularly helpFDA officials said the move is ful for children, who already are limited designed to limit antibiotic-resistant dis- in the number of antibiotics they can eases in humans as antibiotic resistance take. has become a growing public health “When one type of antibiotic is found problem. Repeated exposure to antibiot- to be resistant to a strain of an infec-

Drugs keep animals healthy, make them grow faster

tion, some of our sickest young patients are left without life-saving treatment options,” said Thomas K. McInerny, the group’s president. Animal agriculture groups will not have much of a choice in the matter if drug companies sign on and make the drugs’ use illegal. But many antibiotics will still be available for those producers to use, just not those that the FDA has classified as most important for treating human infections. Some of the antibiotics that could not be used in animals are penicillins and tetracyclines, the FDA said. Many animal groups signaled support for the FDA guidance after it was announced Wednesday, including the National Pork Producers Council. Still, Dr. Liz Wagstrom of the pork producers’ group said the FDA action will mean “real change” in the way antibiotics are used on the farm, as some animals may not grow as quickly and producers may see more disease. She said she does not know how much it will cost the industry. Some advocates pushing to rid the animal food supply of antibiotics said the FDA did not go far enough. Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York, a microbiologist, said the FDA should have made the action mandatory. The guidance “falls woefully short of what is needed to address a public health crisis,” she said. Others hailed the agency move as progress. “We commend FDA for taking the first steps since 1977 to broadly reduce antibiotic overuse in livestock,” said Laura Rogers of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ human health and industrial farming campaign. “There is more work to do, but this is a promising start, especially after decades of inaction.”

WELFARE

Broad coalition opposes food-stamp restrictions By Alan Bjerga

by an unusual alliance of food producers, the U.S. WASHINGTON — Nicole Department of Agriculture, Blakey says she can’t stand libertarians and advocates for watching other people buy the poor who are thwarting junk food with the governefforts to require recipients ment-issued food-stamp debit to buy healthy items with cards she has used to raise their food stamp benefits as three children while earning Congress debates reauthoriz$9 an hour at a dry cleaner. ing the law that governs the “It makes me sick when you program. see people at the store, and Obesity “is a complex they have 12-packs of pop,” the health condition that affects 37-year-old Columbus, Ohio, Americans of all income levresident, said. Taxpayers els,” said Chris Gindlesperger, “would probably be more public affairs director for supportive of the program” if the American Beverage people weren’t allowed to buy Association, a trade group unhealthy items, she said. in Washington that includes That view is being defied Coca-Cola and opposes Bloomberg News

restricting food purchases under food stamps. Targeting families that rely on food stamps, he said “will not make America healthier or reduce government spending.” Subsidies for food purchased at retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger reached a record $75.2 billion in 2012. More than 1 in 7 Americans, 47.7 million, used the program in August, the most recent month available, according to Agriculture Department data. Obesity increased to a record 27.2 percent of the adult U.S. population in 2013, up from 26.2 percent in 2012.

Asparagus and other fresh vegetables are nutritious items that can be purchased using food stamp debit cards. (MLive.com ﬁle)

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Nation&World “It’s absolutely ear-splitting.”

AYLESBURY, ENGLAND

MARSHALL HANNUM, WHOSE BICYCLE SHOP IN FORT COLLINS, COLO., IS NEAR THE TRACKS

Mysterious ‘white widow’ eludes police in Africa By Gregory Katz

group that includes many resettled Pakistanis. She conShe is called the most verted to Islam as a teenager. wanted woman in the world, “Living in the neighbora suspected terrorist charged hood, she became very with plotting to blow up friendly,” said Khan. “She resort hotels in Kenya packed came to enjoy the hospitality with Christmas tourists, a of the Muslim community.” Westerner who wrote an ode Her embrace of Islam praising Osama bin Laden, a generated little notice, nor jihadist who has eluded the did her marriage in 2002 to law even as she has traveled Jermaine Lindsay, a British through Africa with four Muslim with Jamaican roots young children in tow. whom she first met in an Samantha Lewthwaite’s Internet chat room and later saga is one of betrayal and in person at a demonstration revenge in a murky world against the war in Iraq. where, somehow, a white And yet, on July 7, 2005, woman born to a British her husband stepped onto a soldier becomes a Muslim subway train and blew himconvert and then an interself up as part of an attack national fugitive accused of that killed 52 civilians and conspiracy. three other bombers. Her first husband blew Aylesbury residents himself up as part of Britain’s were unaware of Lindsay’s worst ever terrorist attack role until dozens of heavily in 2005, an act she first conarmed police descended on demned — and her second Lewthwaite’s house just six partner adhered to the same days after the bombing. She militant brand of Islam and became a national figure also apparently met an early that night, viewed not as death. Her notebooks, seized an Islamic extremist but as in 2011, are filled with lavish a wronged young mother, praise for extremists who pregnant with her second slaughter civilians and hopes child, shocked to discover that her children will do the that her husband had been same. part of a terrorist plot. Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorAnd yet, since she disappeared some months after ism specialist at the Swedish the London bombing, no National Defense College, one can say how the “white doubts that Lewthwaite widow” became radicalized, helped plan the subway moving from mainstream attack, because the plotters Islam to a “holy war” against would have been unlikely to the West — or why she jeopardize security by telling would embrace a movement her about the scheme. that denies a woman’s right He also said detectives to education and other basic would have scrutinized all of liberties. Lewthwaite’s communica“That is the mystery,” said tions and prosecuted her if Niknam Hussain, a commuthey found anything incriminity organizer and former nating. But it is fairly common Aylesbury mayor. There was for converts like Lewthwaite never a hint that Lewthwaite to “overcompensate” by had chosen jihad during her becoming more radical than years in Aylesbury, the small the people around them. English city 40 miles northTIES TO AL-QAIDA west of London where she grew up. In July 2010, a white “What was the journey woman calling herself from there to here?” asked Asmaa Shahidah BintHussain. “I don’t think you Andrews registered at the wake up radical. One is eduexclusive eight-room Genesis cated, inculcated, pulled into birth clinic in the well-to-do it. This is a small community. Saxonwold suburb just outOne would hope that if anyside Johannesburg. She paid thing unusual was going on her deposit in cash — 27,500 someone somewhere would South African rands, about have noticed it. No one seems $3,700 at the time. able to paint a picture of A baby girl, Surajah, was what happened. What is her born with no complications, role? What does she do? aided by midwife Lesley “We’re at a loss.” Rose, and was duly registered with authorities. TEEN CONVERT TO ISLAM Nearly two years later, Samantha Louise in early 2012, Kenyan Lewthwaite was born on counter-terrorism police May 12, 1983, in the violence- said Lewthwaite had linked scarred British territory of up with key figures in the Northern Ireland, where her shadowy al-Shabab terrorist father was a British Army networks, which has ties to soldier and her mother an al-Qaida and is branded a Irish Catholic — the Ulster global threat by U.S. officials. equivalent of star-crossed Police said she and others lovers. had entered Kenya the year Before Samantha was before to plan a bomb attack 6, the family moved to on a coastal resort over the Aylesbury, where her father Christmas holidays. worked as a truck driver Police had nearly nabbed until the couple’s separation. her in a raid on Dec. 20, Raj Khan, a former 2011 — just days before the Aylesbury mayor who knew planned attack— but let her Lewthwaite and her family, go after being fooled by the said she forged strong bonds South African passport she with the city’s Muslims, a was carrying. The Associated Press

Dan Weinheimer, legislative policy manager in Fort Collins, Colo., stands by a train line that runs through the center of town. (AP)

FORT COLLINS, COLO.

3 Colorado towns try to change federal freight train noise rules By Kristen Wyatt

The Associated Press

Three northern Colorado towns tired of freight train horns blaring day and night are on a mission to change federal train safety policy so they can muffle warning blasts. Under pressure from Colorado’s two Democratic senators and the towns of Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor, the Federal Railroad Administration has agreed to hold hearings next year on the train-horn rule. The 2005 regulation requires horns to blow at least 15 seconds in advance of all public-grade crossings, unless a town has received a “quiet zone” designation that includes lowered gates and flashing lights at intersections. In towns like Fort Collins, a university town where development has increased in recent years, there are more people who are exposed to the several minutes of blaring each train makes — blasts that are about 100 decibels, or as loud as a jackhammer. “It’s absolutely ear-splitting,” said Marshall Hannum, who sells bicycles at Lee’s Cyclery downtown. “It’s so unbelievably loud that if you don’t stick your fingers in your ears, it’s going to damage your hearing.” The horns, however, also save lives.

Fatalities and accidents at train crossings nationwide are down significantly from 2005. The FRA recorded 14,523 “accidents/incidents” at train crossings in 2004. In 2012, that number was 10,906 — a decline of more than 24 percent. The FRA allows towns to skirt the train-noise requirements if they apply for “quiet zone” designation and take precautions such as installing gate warning systems with flashing lights. Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor insist they either can’t afford the upgrades or don’t have space for them. The three towns want to be designated “quiet zones” without taking the required precautions. Other nearby towns, such as Fort Morgan, have paid for new medians and other required upgrades as they seek “quiet zone” designation. But in Fort Collins, city officials insist the requirements need to be modified. “It’s not going to work here,” said Dan Weinheimer, legislative policy manager who has studied having his downtown designated a quiet zone. “The way we’d have to do it, you’d be preventing people from walking and biking, which is just not going to work here.” Colorado even considered rerouting train lines between Denver and Cheyenne. But the idea was rejected

after a 2007 study by the Colorado Department of Transportation said rerouting the line through rural northeast Colorado would cost at least $1 billion. Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall have appealed to the FRA. “It’s not just a nuisance,” Bennet said. Local officials, he said, are “worried it’s stifling economic development in the hearts of our communities. Safety is obviously paramount, but we’re hoping we can move past a one-size-fits-all solution.” The FRA has rebuffed previous efforts to silence train horns. Florida passed a 1984 law banning train-whistle noise along the Florida East Coast Railway, which runs 351 miles from the Port of Miami to Jacksonville. Fatalities and accidents rose. In 1993, the FRA required Florida trains to sound their horns again. The number of collisions returned to pre-whistle ban levels, the FRA said. An agency spokesman declined to speculate on whether the FRA may be more amenable this time around. Rail companies that trundle through northern Colorado haven’t taken a public position. Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said the railroad would work with the FRA on any modification. A decision is likely years away.

WARRI, NIGERIA

Nigerian survivor almost missed rescue diver By Lekan Oyekanmi and Sunday Alamba The Associated Press

He had survived three days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, then saw lights in the water. Air bubbles rose around the cook as he squatted in an air pocket. A diver was coming. Rescue seemed imminent for Harrison Odjegba Okene. But then the lights disappeared. Desperate, Okene swam through pitch-dark waters in the sunken boat to grab the diver. Okene couldn’t find him and, with the air in his lungs giving out, he swam back to the cabin that held his precious, but dwindling, pocket of air. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Okene described the ordeal and his miraculous rescue that was videotaped and which went viral after it was put on the Internet this month. The 29-year-old still has nightmares and vows to never return to the sea again. He has taken a new job as cook

went back.” His rescuers from the Dutch company DCN Diving were looking only for bodies and already had recovered four corpses when they came upon Okene. When the diver returned, Okene had to swim to reach him and still he did not see him. “So I tapped him at the back of his neck, so he was afraid.” When the diver saw his Harrison Odjegba Okene looks in awe as a rescue diver surfaces hand he said “corpse, corpse, into the air pocket which has kept Okene alive for nearly three a corpse,” into his microdays, recorded by the diver’s video headcam. (AP) phone, reporting up to the rescue vessel. the dark, he had almost given “When he brought his hand on firm ground instead. up hope after three days when close to me, I pulled on his Okene was the only survihe heard the sound of a boat, a hand,” Okene said. vor in a crew of 12 when the hammering on the side of the “He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s boat capsized in May. It still vessel and then, after a while, alive!” Okene remembers haunts him. In addition with hearing.Okene described a being saddled with survivors’ saw lights and the rising waters around him bubbling. surreal scene after the diver guilt, some Nigerians believe He said he knew it had to emerged into the air pocket. he saved himself through be a diver, but he was on the Until his rescue, Okene black magic. believed his colleagues must The Jascon 4 was resting on wrong end of the cabin. “He came in but he was have escaped. The tug was the seabed upside down at a too fast, so I saw the light but one of three towing a Chevron depth of about 100 feet. before I could get to him, he oil tanker in Nigeria’s oil-rich The cook survived on only Delta waters, but on May 26 one bottle of Coke. Two flash- was already out. I tried to follow him in the pitch darkness there was a sudden lurch and lights that he had found gave but I couldn’t trace him, so I it keeled over. up after less than one day. In

Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive Briton whom news media have dubbed the “white widow.” The international police agency says the notice was issued at the request of Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possessing explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony in December 2011. (AP/Interpol ﬁle)

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Fitness&Nutrition FITNESS

Seniors: Taking up exercise triples rate of healthy aging By Makiko Kitamura

ing to the World Health Organization. “This study supports pubIt’s never too late to start lic health initiatives designed exercising to improve your to engage older adults in health, even if you’re about physical activity, even those to retire, according to a who are of advanced age,” recent study. the researchers, led by Mark People who took up exerHamer at University College cise over a four-year period London, said in the were more than three times published paper. as likely to be healthy agers Participants, taken from as those who did nothing, the English Longitudinal according to the study of Study of Aging, described 3,454 people in England the frequency and intensity whose average age was 64. Active adults who continued of regular physical activity from 2002 and every subseto exercise during that time quent two years until 2011. were seven times as likely Any participants with existto be healthy agers as those ing chronic disease were who were consistently inacexcluded. tive. Healthy aging was meaThe study, published sured through absence of in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, is one of the major disease and disability, first to focus on how exercise mental health, cognitive abilities and ability to maintain affects health in the elderly. social connections. Physical inactivity is the The study was funded by fourth leading risk factor the U.S. National Institute on for premature death — Aging and a consortium of after smoking, excessive drinking and obesity — caus- British government departments coordinated by the ing an estimated 3.2 million Office for National Statistics. deaths globally, accordBloomberg News

The biggest health benefit of flax is its omega-3 content, which helps lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. (MLive.com file) NUTRITION

Is ﬂax really all that good for you? Dietitian says yes By Hope Warshaw

The Washington Post

I hear that incorporating flax into my eating plan is healthful. I see flaxseed oil, ground flaxseeds and whole flaxseeds available. What are ways to use them?

Let’s sort through the AFlaxseeds facts on flax. are the seed of

the flax plant, which grows in cooler climates, such as in Canada and the northern United States. The seeds are a bit larger than sesame seeds and range from dark reddish brown to deep gold. The calories in flax, like most seeds, come mainly from fat with a tad of protein. The big reason people are told to consume flax is because of the type of fat it contains: mainly omega-3 polyunsaturated fat. Much of the omega-3 fat is alphalinolenic acid, one of the two essential fatty acids we must eat to make other fats the body requires. Flaxseeds contain, relatively speaking, a good bit of dietary fiber. They’re also rich in lignans, which are phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens imitate the action of the hormone estrogen, but much more mildly. Some research has shown that phytoestrogens might play a role in the prevention of some cancers. It’s these nutrition components of flax that constitute its purported health benefits. Several years ago, omega-3s became the shining star of fats. This catapulted flax to fame as well. However, the research on omega-3 fats has been mixed, with their benefits, especially from omega3 supplements, not packing the expected health punch (as often has been the case with supplements).

The biggest health benefit of flax is its omega-3 content, which has beneficial effects on total cholesterol and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. The fiber in flax plays a role here, too, as it binds onto cholesterol, helping us excrete more and leaving less to be absorbed. Flax has been associated with other health benefits, such as reducing chronic inflammation, decreasing hot flashes and ovarian cysts in women, reducing the risk of some cancers, such as breast cancer, and treating heart disease. But according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, there’s not enough research to recommend flax for these health benefits. “A form of flax isn’t on the top of my must-do list, but it’s within my Top 5. I suggest (it) for its general anti-inflammatory and hearthealth benefits,” said Susan Moore, a dietitian. Flax is available in several forms: whole seeds, ground flax meal, oil and capsules. Two types of ground flax meal are available: golden and brown. Brown has a nuttier taste and grinds coarsely. Neither variety is more healthful than the other. INCORPORATING FLAX INTO YOUR DIET

Here are some ways to fit in a few teaspoons of ground flax meal every day: •Sprinkle over dry cereal. •Mix into yogurt. •Top a bowl of fresh fruit. •Add to healthful muffins and breads you bake. •Mix it into pancake or waffle batter. •Sprinkle on salads. •Use as a topping mixed with bread crumbs for casseroles.

HAYNES, MRS. MARTHA ANNA Widow of Hurshel Muskegon

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OBITUARIES

BEENE, JOHN

John L. Beene, age 80, departed this life on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. His wife, Lenora Beene, preceded him in death in 2005. He is survived by two children, Robert (Shirley) Madison, and Yolanda Lee, both of Muskegon, MI. Public viewing will be Sunday, December 15 at New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church from 3-7 PM. Funeral Service will be held Monday, December 16 at New Mt. Zion MBC at 11 AM with Pastor Allen R. Bolton officiating. ArrangeBEAN, MRS. RUTH G. ments by Toombs Funeral Muskegon Home. Interment: Mona View Ruth was born September 6, Cemetery. 1924 to Charles and Minnie Schmiedeknecht (both deceased) in Claybanks Township, Oceana County. Ruth was a public school teacher for 35 years, starting in a one room school house and ending her career as an elementary teacher with Fruitport Schools. Ruth graduated from Western Michigan University. Ruth was married to Delbert Bean on July 11, 1947. They were married for 49 years until Delbert’s death. Ruth was also preceded in death by her oldest son Delbert "Chuck" Bean and his wife Bernetta, her oldest daughter Ruth Ann Conner, her grandson Michael Bean, her granddaughter Marcy Rehkopf, her great-grandson Austin Rehkopf. She was also preceded by all her siblings: Julius, Clarence, Elmer Schmiedeknecht and Maxine FLICKEMA, ALBERT H. Sallgren. Ruth is survived by “OBBIE” sons: Thomas, Steven, Timothy, Husband of Norene and daughter Vicky Bean. SonsMuskegon in-law: Scott Hoos and Bruce Conner. Ruth’s grandchildren: Mr. Albert H. Charles, Christopher, Tom, “Obbie” Flickema, Shane, Nick Bean, Shelly age 92, died late Deblock, Mike Rehkopf, Lisa Wednesday eveFoster, Shauna Priest. Greatning, December 11, 2013, at his Bean, Jeff grandchildren: home. He was born May 23, Maykala, Dylan, Christian 1921 in Muskegon to William J. Rehkopf, Chelsea and Owen and Antoinette W. (Zahn) Deblock, Memphis and Morgan Flickema; and had been a life Foster. Great-greatresident of the Lakeside area. granddaughter: Lyrra Bean. He was a 1940 graduate of Ruth was a long time member Muskegon High School. On Ocof Our Redeemer Lutheran tober 2, 1942, at the age of 20, Church, she was active in the Albert joined the U.S Army. He Stephen’s Ministry, served as was part of the Normandy invaformer president of the Womsion, landing on Omaha Beach an’s League, and participated in on D-Day in 1945. He received many other church functions. his 2nd Lieutenant commission Ruth had a true calling to make while studying at the Napoleon others feel better. She sent Castle, in France. “Obbie” enmany cards of encouragement joyed sharing his War stories and was always available to and had been a speaker at the those in need. Ruth lived out WWII lecture series given at the her elder years at Christian USS Silversides Museum. AlCare for 16 years and The Cove bert had been a 41-year emher last two years. She has nuployee of Anaconda Wire and merous friends at both assisted Cable prior to his retirement. living places. Ruth and her husHe was a wonderful family man, band Delbert were very involved enjoyed golf and fishing with his and avid polka fans. I am sure wife, the former Norene they are sharing a dance now. Clawson, whom he married Ruth is rejoicing at going home. February 6, 1942; and with SERVICES will be held 11:00 whom he celebrated 71 years of AM Tuesday at Our Redeemer marriage. SURVIVORS include Lutheran Church with Rev. Robhis wife, Norene; two daughert J. Conradt officiating. Burial ters, Marjorie (Clifford) Lund will take place in Twin Lake and Susan (Roger) Carlson, Cemetery. VISITATION with the both of Muskegon; four grandfamily will be from 4-7 PM Monchildren, Gina (Chris) Reynolds day at of Niles, MI, Shelley (Brad) The Sytsema Chapel Kurth of Spring Lake, Chris 737 Apple Ave. (Becky) Lund of Norton Shores (231) 726-5210 and Kim (Aaron) Hennesey of and one hour prior to the servGrand Rapids; ten greatice at the church. MEMORIALS grandchildren and three sisters, to Our Redeemer Lutheran Alberta Goldsborough of MusChurch or the Activities Departkegon, Annjean Yandian of Dement at Lakewoods Nursing troit and Karolyn (Ken) Center c/o Stacey McManus will Rollenhagen of North Musbe appreciated. Share memokegon; and by his sister-in-law, ries with the family at their OnPatricia (Carl) Lipton. “Obbie” line Guest Book at was and remains a favorite unwww.sytsemafh.com cle to several nieces and nephews. He was affiliated with Lakeside Baptist Church and was a member of the American Legion Post #9. A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held 11:00 AM Monday, December 16, 2013 at Forest Park Covenant Church (3815 Henry St., Norton Shores, MI 49441) with his granddaugh ter, Pastor Shelley Kurth officiating. VISITATION with Albert’s family will be one-hour prior to the service at church. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS to the USS Silversides Submarine Museum or Center Lake Bible Camp will be appreciated. You are also invited to sign the family’s Online Guest Book at www.sytsemafh.com. Arrangements by The Walburn Chapel 1547 W. Sherman Blvd. 231-759-8565

Mrs. Martha Anna Haynes, age 90, passed away Wednesday evening, December 11, 2013, at her home surrounded by family. Martha was born November 12, 1923 in Cadillac, MI to Joseph and Amelia (Shields) Drake. On September 28, 1941, she married Hurshel H. Haynes and he preceded her in death on February 10, 1998. Martha had worked for Ore-Ida Foods for 28 years prior to her retirement. She was a loving mother and grandmother who loved to bake pies and was famous for her potato salad. Martha also enjoyed camping and fishing in Manistee and time spent on Reeds Lake. She is survived by her daughter, Amelia Huntley; daughter-in-law, Laura Haynes; eight grandchildren, Debbie, Teresa, Cathy, Vicki, Paula, Laura, Doris, and Ross; 21 great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren; a brother, Donald Drake of Florida; a sister, Doris Niehardt of Cadillac, and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband, Hurshel, she was preceded in death by her son, David; her parents; and brothers, Richard, Russell, Bill, Robert, Joseph, William, Ralph; and sisters, Edith, Dorothy, and Betty. A FUNERAL SERVICE will be held 11 AM Monday, December 16, 2013 at The Sytsema Chapel 737 Apple Avenue 231-726-5210 with Rev. Curtis Freed officiating. VISITATION will be Sunday from 2-5 PM. INTERMENT will be in Egelston Township Cemetery. MEMORIAL CONTRIBU TIONS may be made to the family. Share memories with the family at their on-line guestbook at www.sytsemafh.com.

KRUSE, MR. FREDERICK ARTHUR Muskegon Mr. Frederick A. Kruse, age 85, died Friday, December 13, 2013. He was born in Leelanau County, MI., on June 21, 1928 to Arthur and Anne (Haw) Kruse and married the former Mary Jane Nussdorfer on November 4, 1950. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict. Mr Kruse had been employed as a Traffic and Logistics Manager at Sealed Power for 36 years until retiring in 1986. He was a member of First Congregational Church UCC, a member and past chief at the Viking Lodge and lifetime member of the Elks. He had served on the board at Red Cross and on the Norton Township Planning Commission. Fred was a member of White Lake Golf Club, volunteered at Hackley Hospital Cherry Guild and was an Old Newsboy for 30 years. He was an avid reader and loved traveling with friends and family. SURVIVORS Wife Jane; son, Gregory Kruse: daughter, Pamela (Al) Ruggirello, Grandchildren, Anthony (Katie) Ruggirello and Michael Ruggirello; special nephew and nieces, Gary (Rosemary) Charles, Nikki (Dave) Elrod and Lynn (Brad) Jacobs; sistern-laws, Donna Seastrom and Dorthea Schrock. SERVICE Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 11:00 AM at Clock Chapel with Rev. Timothy D. Vander Haar officiating.. VISITATION One hour prior to the service at the funeral home MEMORIAL: Viking Linne Lodge Scholarship fund or Burn Camp or First Congregational Church Memorial Fund. Please visit www.clockfuneralhome.com to leave a memory or sign the online guest book. Clock Funeral Home- Muskegon

KERR, SUZANNE M. Age 65, of Battle Creek, formerly of North Muskegon passed away peacefully at home December 13, 2013 after a long battle with ALS. Beloved wife of David. Cherished mother of Jason Livingston of North Muskegon, Brooke Livingston of Grand Rapids, and Amie Wendt, Atlanta, GA. Adored grandmoth er of Chase, Lexie, Peyton and Ava. Loving sister of Jonathon Vento of Tokyo. Suzanne was a loving wife, mother, grandmoth er, sister, and friend. She loved working, traveling and supporting many charitable activities. A memorial service will be held Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 3 PM with a time of gathering beginning at 2 PM at Sytsema Funeral Home, Lee Chapel, 6291 S. Harvey St., Norton Shores. In lieu of flowers contributions to ALS of Michigan would be appreciated. Online condolences at www.casterlinefuneralhome.com

LEE, MRS. MARY ELEANOR “ELLIE” Muskegon Mrs. Mary Eleanor “Ellie” Lee, age 83, passed away Sunday, December 8, 2013 at her home in Norton Shores. She was born in St. Louis, MO on August 8, 1930 to parents Ruth and Randell Dodd. Ellie grew up in Kirkwood, MO and graduated from Maryville University in St. Louis, MO in 1955 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education. After teaching kindergarten and first grade, her sense of adventure took her to New York City where she worked as a flight attendant for TWA. After marrying in 1958, Ellie left her days in the sky to become a wife and mother. As the family grew and established itself, they moved around the country claiming residence in Boston, MA; Milwaukee, WI; Rocky Mount, NC and Tampa, FL until business brought the family to Muskegon in 1966. Ellie reconnected with her passion and love of musical theatre by appearing on stage in many memorable leading roles with Muskegon Civic Theater and Saugatuck’s Red Barn Theater. Ellie went back to school in 1974 earning her Master’s Degree in Special Education while teaching in the Adult Special Education Program for Muskegon Community Mental Health. In 1977 she returned to her first love, teaching elementary school children. In 1994, she retired after many years of teaching second grade for Muskegon Public Schools where she made a great impact on many of her student’s lives, often giving well beyond what was expected. Ellie will be remembered for her love of music, hard-working spirit, tenacity, contagious humor and love of family. She is survived by her four children, Mary (Gary) Miller, Cathy (Kurt) Forrest, Debbie (Jeff) Winter and David (Marnie) Lee; nine grandchildren, Joshua, Jacob, Rachel and Libby Miller, Daniel, Hannah and Maddie Winter, and Alex and Luke Forrest; and one sister, Ruth Dazey. She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Peggy Nelson and Nancy Goeteman. A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held 11:00 AM Friday, December 27, 2013 at The Lee Chapel 6291 S. Harvey St. 231-798-1100 VISITATION will be one hour prior to the service. MEMORIALS in Ellie’s name may be made to the Muskegon Civic Theatre or the Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundation. You may sign her online guestbook at www.sytsemafh.com

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LINCK, SYLVESTER Sylvester J. "Bets" Linck, Jr., age 86, of Ravenna, died Thursday, December 12, 2013 at home surrounded by his loving family. Bets was born on June 10, 1927 in Ravenna, MI to the late Sylvester J. and Maude (Finkler) Linck Sr. Bets served in the United States Army during WWII. He married Jeanette Clare (English) Linck on May 4, 1956 in St. Louis, MO. He received his B.A. in 1951. He was owner/operator of the Linck Insurance Agency in Ravenna. Bets is survived by his wife of 57 years, Jeanette of Ravenna; six sons, Thomas (Lori) Linck of Ravenna, John (Jill) Linck of Colorado, Peter (Tina) Linck of Spring Lake, James S. (Robin) Linck of Texas, Paul (Lynn) Linck of Georgia and Timothy Linck of Ravenna; one daughter, Helen Linck of New York; 17 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; one brother, Honorable Thomas (Pat) Linck of Muskegon; one sister, Irene Petelle of Tennessee; several nieces and nephews also survive. Bets was preceded in death by parents, two children, Clare and Maureen, two brothers, Leo and John; two sisters, Helen Pierson and Agatha Denhof. Mass from the Order of Christian Funerals will be prayed on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 10 AM at St. Catherines Catholic Church in Ravenna with Father Fred Brucker celebrant. Burial will be in St. Catherines Cemetery. The family will be at St. Catherines Hall on Monday, December 16, 2013 from 5-8 PM with the Rosary at 8 PM and again at the church one hour prior to service. Memorials may be directed to: American Legion Ravenna Post or Old Newsies. Go to: www.throopfhravenna.com/ or Facebook at Throop Funeral Home of Ravenna Inc. to sign the online guestbooks. The Throop Funeral Home of Ravenna is in charge of funeral arrangements. 231-853-6511

. MARCHIDO, MR. R. RICHARD "DICK" Shelby, MI Dick Marchido, age 87, passed away December 12, 2013. Visitation is Monday, 6-8 PM. The funeral service will be held Tuesday, 2 PM at Harris Funeral Home. Please consider the American Cancer Society as a memorial. You may get directions or leave a message for the family at www.harrisfhome.com. Harris, Shelby 861-2360 or 1-888-216-9744

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would have believed how much I enjoy helping these kids – God has saved the best for last.” In addition, he also worked part-time grading achievement tests from around the country through Measurement, Inc. of Nashville until June 2009. Due to failing health, both he and Myrtle moved to NHC Place-Cool Springs at that time until his passing.

RAKE, E. L. "LEE" E. L. “Lee” Rake was born February 24, 1930 in Muskegon, Michigan, the first-born child of LeRoy and Ruth Rake. He met the love of his life, Myrtle Brown, while stationed in the Army Air Corps at Smyrna Field, Tennessee. Following his service in the Korean War, they married on November 19, 1951 in Pontiac, Michigan where they made their first home. After relocating to Muskegon, Michigan the following year, they welcomed their only child, Janis Lee, on May 18, 1953. From the start and to this very day, she was and is her Daddy’s girl. Being a child of the Great Depression, Lee was forced to quit school in the 9th grade to go to work and contribute to the family income. This was a difficult thing for him to accept, as he was an excellent and eager student. While serving his country, Lee made a point to get his GED. Later, as a husband and father, he determined to attain a college degree by at tending night school after work. First, he completed his Associates degree at Muskegon Community College while working days for Brunswick. After the family again relocated to the Tonawanda, NY area in 1963, Lee continued on. Working long hours as a filawound engineer and department manager for Spaulding Fibre, he would return home for a quick dinner, then head to night school, a Bachelor’s degree in his sights. When Janis was in high school, after years of diligence and perseverance, he finally achieved this dream. In 1978, their nest empty for several years, Lee and Myrt moved once again, this time to Brentwood, Tennessee. Lee worked in various capacities of middle and upper management for IKG Industries until his retirement. Following retirement, he became a Senior Volunteer for four years as a tutor in Nashville area elementary schools as part of the FLIP Program. He once commented to his daughter that “I never

. MARTIN, MRS. FREDA C. “MIDGE” Wife of Cliff Norton Shores Mrs. Freda C. “Midge” Martin, age 80, passed away Thursday morning, December 12, 2013. According to Freda’s wishes, there will be no services. Share memories with the family at their On-line Guest Book at www.sytsemafh.com Arrangements by The Walburn Chapel 1547 W. Sherman Blvd. (231) 759-8565

Lee was preceded in death by his parents, LeRoy and Ruth Rake, by his younger brother Cpl. Richard F. Rake, and by his younger granddaughter, Lora Beth Hernandez. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Myrtle Rake of Franklin, TN, his daughter Janis (Anthony) Hernandez of Helena, Montana; his older granddaughter, Crystal (James) Butler, greatgrandchildren, L. Evyn, Ashlyn, and Camden Butler, all of Nashville, North Carolina, his siblings, Ruth Eek of Muskegon, Michigan and William (Sandy) Rake of White Cloud, Michigan, brothers-in-law Will (Eleanor) Brown of Franklin, KY, Jerry (Yvonne) Brown and a sister-in-law Katherine Brown, all of Lebanon, TN, as well as numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, and numerous friends. Lee was forever a spunky “Yankee” who loved his home among Nashville’s southerners. Those who worked for him, respected him. Those whom he loved and befriended enjoyed his quick wit and treasured his friendship. In October 2011, during a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, Lee finally made peace with and surrendered his will to the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior. We rejoice in the sure knowledge that he is reunited with family in the presence of God, whole, strong, and at peace. No more tears, never again to say goodbye to those whom he has loved so fiercely in this life. The family expresses their sincere appreciation to Lee’s caregivers the last four years at NHC-Cool Springs and doctors and staff who cared for him periodically at Baptist Hospital. The family will receive friends from 2-4pm Sunday and again from 11am-1pm Monday at the Mount Olivet Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1pm Monday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Daly Thompson, Jr. of Johnsons Chapel UMC officiating. Military graveside services will follow in theLaGuardo Cemetery on Woods Ferry Road.

SOLIS, VIOLET IRENE Muskegon

Violet Irene Solis, age 93, passed away on December 9, 2013. Violet was preceded in death by her husband, Alexander Solis; son, James Solis; and daughter, Dr. Teresa Solis. She is survived by three daughters, Mildred Folta, Mary Solis and Patricia Foster; grandchildren, Christopher Pryor, Aaron Solis, Megan Brown, Amber Spearman and Andrew Foster; two great-grandchildren, Adelle and Brock. Violet was retired from Mercy Hospital. Cremation has taken place. Violet was a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 451 S. Getty Street where a Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 10:30 AM with Fr. Matthew J. Barnum officiating.

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Loving You Always, Your Wife Corinne, Children, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren SEIFERT, MR. DONALD ANTON Norton Shores Mr. Donald A. Seifert, age 85, died Friday, December 13, 2013. He was born in Chicago, IL., on September 20, 1928 to Bruno and Gabrielle (Glass) Seifert and married the former Mary Louise Steiner on August 19, 1950. Mr. Seifert had been the owner of Highland Park Dairy and served his country in the US Army. He was a Muskegon Community College Board Member for 33 years and had also been a trustee on the Michigan Community College Board. Don was a member of First Congregational Church, the Muskegon Country Club and had served on the board of the Muskegon Historical Museum. SURVIVORS Son, Bruce (Deborah LaMassa) Seifert; Daughter, Sherry Seifert; grandchildren, "Danny" Bruce Daniel II (Tiffany) Seifert, Mary Cate Seifert, "Tori" Ella Victoria Seifert, "DJ" Donald James Seifert, Katherine (Michael) Mieczkowski, Quinn Kelley, Chelsea (Joe) Grimes, Kyle Kelley, Brett (Mauren) Kelley, and Brenna Kelley; great grandchildren, River, Quintain, Dakota, Walker, DeMarcus, Tristan, Zaaven, Japheth, Malachi, Asher, and Violet. He was preceded in death by his wife Mary in 2011 and a grandson, Patrick. SERVICE A memorial service will be held in January at First Congregational Church UCC. MEMORIAL: Harbor Hospice or SIDS Foundation. Please visit www.clockfuneralhome.com to leave a memory or sign the online guest book. Clock Funeral Home- Muskegon

WEISE, MRS. BETTY JANE Fruitport Mrs. Betty (Hart) Weise, age 88, passed away Monday, December 9, 2013 due to injuries from a car accident. She was born in Fruitport, MI on February 5, 1925 to John and Edna (Petersen) McManamey. Mrs. Weise had been employed as a bus driver and later the Administra tor of Transportation for Fruitport Public Schools until retiring. She was an active member of the Eagles and V.F.W. #3734, Fruitport-Polar Bear Post. Betty volunteered for Meals on Wheels and in recent years enjoyed going to the casinos, traveling and keeping bowling scores at Pincrest Lanes. She was a loving person who you could always find helping others. She will be greatly missed. SURVIVORS Children, Mary Ann (Hart) Vargas of Muskegon, Kenneth (Renee) Hart of Nunica, Carleen Weise of FL; Louanne (Vince) DeCarbo of FL; Sherri Hart of Muskegon; several grand and great-grandchildren; special niece, Cleo Aurich. She was preceded in death by husbands, Clifford Hart and Walter Weise; son, Michael Gue; siblings, Eleanor (Ron) Shields, Bob (Clarice) McManamey, Marv (Jane) McManamey, Jimmy McManamey. CELEBRATION OF LIFE A Celebration of Betty’s life will be held in May of 2014 at the Clock Funeral Home. An announcement will be put in the Chronicle close to time of service. Please visit www.clockfuneralhome.com to leave a memory or sign the online guest book. Clock Funeral Home- Fruitport

GARBER, LAWRENCE (LARRY) M.D. Larry Garber passed away on July 26, 2013 in his home on Platte Lake MI, of esophageal cancer. His wife Martha, daugh ters Liz Bruning, Marty Thiede, Susan Vigland were all with him. Larry’s son David is deceased. Also survived by his sister Ellen Simmons.Larry was the fifth generation physician and the fa ther, grand father, father-in-law to twelve decendants. He crewed the Chicago-Mac and the Port-Huron Mac races for 15 years. Larry grew up on Muskegon Lake and was sail ing a family boat at age seven. He, Martha & family owned and operated a Marina in Cadillac Michigan. He was the first Obgyn and delivered 6000 babies there. He was chief of staff at Mercy Hospital and served on the Cadillac School board. Lat er in life volunteered half the year in Indian Health Service in Montana, AZ & Mexico. In 15 years Larry & Martha sailed over 40,000 miles in a Bayfield 36. Larry’s interests were volunteerisim , skiing, building cedar strip plank canoes, built kayaks and dinghies with his grand children. His influence, friendship and en couragement are extensive and he is greatly missed by many people.

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WINGLER, EDWARD F. Ph. D. Edward F. Wingler, Ph. D., 73, died November 15, 2013 at King-Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge, IL. The cause was esophageal cancer. "Doc" Wingler was a long-time Hinsdale resident and popular teacher at Hinsdale Central High School. His early years were spent at Hillsboro, IL where his family owned the local theater. He was a graduate of Muskegon High School, MI. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1962 from Northwestern University where he was president of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and served four years as drum major for the NU Marching Band. Dr. Wingler taught at Hinsdale Central the better part of four decades, with time away while earning his Ph. D. from the University of Illinois and teaching at Vanderbilt University (Peabody College) in the 1970s. Returning to Hinsdale Central, he taught English and Rhetoric and directed the Hinsdale Central Drama Group through scores of productions, including classic plays, musicals and oneactor productions. A number of his former students are active professionals in the theater. Dr. Wingler was preceded in death by his father, Dale M. Wingler, a music teacher, and his mother, Peggy F. Pink, a Hinsdale resident and former head of the English Department at New Trier High School. He is survived by step-siblings, Steve Pink of Florida, Jim Pink of Nevada and Holly Campbell of Oregon. The residue of Dr. Wingler’s estate will fund a scholarship program for college-bound graduates of Muskegon High School who have excelled in English and have contributed to theater activities. Dr. Wingler’s friends and family wish to recognize Hinsdale Adventist Hospital, ManorCare of Hinsdale, The King-Bruwaert House and St. Thomas Hospice for their caring attention to Ed over several months. Donations in Ed’s name are requested to any of the above or to the Hinsdale Humane Society. Disposition of Ed’s ashes will be private. Plans for a memorial gathering are pending.

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To Our Beloved Children BRUCE AND ANTONIA PRIVACKY 4/28/95 - 12/14/11 3/27/98 - 12/14/11

BLOOMQUIST, PATRICIA "Tish, or Tisha" Formerly Mrs. Robert Scharf; Patrica Robinson born in Kaleva, MI, in 1934 and died July 8, 2013. Tish celebrated 27 years of marriage to Walter Bloomquist and his family of five sons-David, Brad, Walt Jr., Tom and Kirk; one great granddaughter Anna DeGraff. Sadly for the family Tish’s husband Walt passed away a few days after she did, after an extended illeness. Robert Scharf and Tish graduated from Muskegon High School together, sometime later married and had two daughters Nancy La Flamme and Carolyn Orcutt. The Scharf family had four grandchildren and one great grandchild. The Bloomquist family enjoyed a good life together and occasionally celebrated family occasions with the Scharf family. Tish and Walt traveled with a group of good friends owning travel homes for many happy years and experiences. Tish was secretary to an official for Butterworth Hospital for 15 years. Walt was self employed in investments and a veteran of the US Navy.

To our two beautiful children who gave us so many wonderful memories in your short lives We wish we would have had the time to make more and see you grow. Although that is not possible, know that you are not only in our hearts and thoughts, every minute of every day, but are in the hearts of everyone you touched. FOREVER! Love you Lil Bruce and Baby Girl Toni, Love, your Mom and Dad Always and Forever

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Military ofﬁcers accompany the casket of former South African President Nelson Mandela as it arrives Saturday at the Mandela residence in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela will be buried after funeral services today. (AP)

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Mandela makes ﬁnal journey home before funeral today in South Africa By Christopher Torchia The Associated Press

QUNU, South Africa — Nelson Mandela came home Saturday. A hearse carrying Mandela’s body drove into his hometown in rural South Africa ahead of burial today, returning the country’s peacemaker to the place where he had always wanted to die. It was in Qunu that Mandela roamed the hills and tended livestock as a youth, absorbing lessons about discipline and consensus from traditional chiefs. From there, he embarked on a journey — the “long walk to freedom” as he put it — that thrust him to the forefront of black South Africans’ struggle for equal rights that resonated around the world. As motorcyclists in uniform and armored personnel carriers escorted the vehicle carrying Mandela’s casket to the family compound, people lining the route sang, applauded and, in some cases, wept. “When I saw the hearse passing, I couldn’t hold my excitement. I felt like I was holding him by the hand,” said Norma Khobo. “It was very exciting, I saw him!” The vehicle carrying Mandela’s casket, covered with a national flag, arrived

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Newberry 18/0

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Menominee 16/2

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People pause Saturday while church bells ring in honor of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Newtown residents asked people to honor the victims on the one-year anniversary in quiet, personal ways. (AP)

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Bells tolled 26 times to honor the children and educators killed one year ago in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School as churches held memorial services Saturday and President Barack Obama observed a moment of silence. The bells rang 26 times at St. Rose of Lima church in Newtown beginning at 9:30 a.m. — the moment the gunman shot his way into the school Dec. 14, 2012 — and names of the 20 children and six educators were read over a loudspeaker. Connecticut’s governor also directed that flags in the state be lowered to half-staff.

Levels in feet Saturday at 7 a.m. Location Flood Stage Level 24-hour Change

River

Marquette 18/4

L’Anse 12/2

A snowstorm expected to drop a foot of snow or more in the Northeast over the weekend moved into the region Saturday as road crews went on high alert and airlines began canceling flights. The National Weather Service has said 6 to 12 inches of snow was expected in New England, with as much as 14 inches possible along the Maine coast.

Nation honors Sandy Hook victims

RIVER LEVELS

Copper Harbor 16/12

Snowstorm begins trek into Northeast

NEWTOWN, CONN.

NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY

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Windy with snow showers, 1-3”

MICHIGAN FORECAST

HARRISBURG, PA.

A bombing killed at least two U.N. peacekeepers in Mali and seriously wounded several others in the troubled northern city of Kidal, U.N. officials said Saturday. A car packed with explosives detonated in front of a bank guarded by the peacekeepers, an intelligence official in northern Mali said. The explosion blew open the doors of houses in the area. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media, said the fatalities were two Senegalese peacekeepers. Abdallah Ag Ibrahim, a resident of Kidal, said the bank crumbled and a U.N. armored personnel car caught fire.

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An 18-year-old Colorado high school student with an apparent grudge against a teacher wounded a classmate with a shotgun before killing himself, shocking a state that still is trying to make sense of mass shootings at Columbine High School and an Aurora movie theater. Students at Arapahoe High School on Friday alerted the targeted teacher, who quickly left the building. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the gunman as Karl Halverson Pierson, a senior who participated in debate activities. Robinson said Pierson previously had an altercation with the teacher. He did not elaborate. The wounded classmate, a 15-year-old girl, was in critical condition with a gunshot wound, Robinson said. Two other students were treated for minor injuries and released.

MORE INSIDE To read more about Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy, E1

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Mandela, tearfully embraced at Mthatha airport when the casket arrived. Mandela had been imprisoned for 27 years for opposing racist apartheid and emerged in 1990 to forge a new democratic South Africa by promoting forgiveness and reconciliation. He became president in 1994 after South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections. The late president died in his Johannesburg home Dec. 5 at age 95. His body lay in state for three days last week, drawing huge crowds of South Africans who mourned his death and celebrated his successful struggle against apartheid. When Mandela’s body arrived at Mthatha airport, soldiers in full dress regalia, male and female, were stationed on foot on either side of the road as cows grazed nearby. Local residents lined the route, shielding themselves from the sun with umbrellas.

at the family compound under cloudy skies at 4 p.m. It was accompanied by an enormous convoy of police, military and other vehicles, and a military helicopter hovered overhead. According to Xhosa tribal tradition, Mandela was honored as a leader by placing a leopard skin on the coffin, replacing the flag. Mandela’s journey started Saturday with pomp and ceremony at an air base in the capital before being flown aboard a military plane to this simple village in the wide-open spaces of eastern South Africa. At the Mthatha airport Mandela’s casket was welcomed by a military guard and placed in a convoy for the 20 mile voyage toward Qunu. Residents and people who had traveled for hours thronged a road leading to Qunu, singing and dancing as Mandela T-shirts were distributed. “We got up this morning at 2 a.m. and drove from Port Elizabeth — it’s about seven hours — and we got here now. We’re waiting to show our last respects to Madiba,” said Ebrahim Jeftha, using Mandela’s clan name. Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, and his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-

2 U.N. peacekeepers killed in Mali

Ludington 22/15 Big Rapids 19/10 Whitehall/ Montague 23/15

Muskegon

Mt. Pleasant 22/11

24/15 Grand Haven 23/16 Grand Rapids Holland 24/12 24/16

Houghton Lake 20/8

East Tawas 24/10

Midland Bay City 23/11 25/12

Bad Axe 24/10 Sandusky 25/10

Flint 24/10

Kalamazoo Ann Arbor 24/12 24/6 Battle Creek 24/11 Jackson Benton Harbor 24/9 24/14 Sturgis Adrian Niles 22/9 28/7 23/10

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HI/LO/W 51/31/s 5/-8/s 50/29/s 53/37/s 36/25/pc 32/22/pc 56/32/s 34/21/c 36/26/pc 26/11/pc 68/48/s 22/19/sf 59/36/s 37/30/sf 51/31/s 25/20/sn 34/30/c 23/22/sf 29/27/c 63/39/s

WORLD CITIES

Saginaw 24/10 Lansing 24/11

CITY HI/LO/W Albuquerque 46/28/s Anchorage 14/-2/sn Asheville 44/25/s Atlanta 49/30/s Atlantic City 45/29/pc Baltimore 42/24/pc Birmingham 46/27/s Bismarck 23/15/sf Boise 33/25/c Boston 36/19/sn Brownsville 62/39/s Buffalo 22/15/sf Chrlston, SC 63/39/r Chrlston, WV 36/24/sf Charlotte 54/28/s Chicago 17/4/c Cincinnati 30/18/pc Cleveland 26/14/sf Columbus, OH 28/16/c 54/34/s Dallas

Port Huron 25/9 Pontiac 25/10 Detroit 26/10

CITY Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Bermuda Bogota Buenos Aires Cairo Dublin Hong Kong Jakarta

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HI/LO/W 47/42/c 58/42/pc 53/37/pc 44/22/s 42/35/c 75/71/sh 69/45/t 97/73/pc 59/43/s 53/40/c 67/59/r 87/75/r

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CITY Denver Des Moines Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk Okla. City

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HI/LO/W 54/27/s 24/16/s 38/25/pc 81/66/sh 55/33/s 22/15/c 39/25/s 60/42/s 44/30/s 76/52/s 32/23/pc 40/31/s 85/65/t 18/5/c 8/5/c 38/25/s 53/36/s 41/22/pc 54/33/s 56/30/s

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HI/LO/W CITY HI/LO/W 47/40/r Johannesburg 81/59/pc 57/45/s Kabul 63/34/s 54/38/s Kinshasa 81/73/c 42/21/s London 56/53/r 46/39/c Madrid 56/33/s 74/61/r Manila 88/76/pc 70/50/c Mexico City 70/44/pc 100/73/pc Montreal 14/1/sn 61/45/s Moscow 18/9/s 44/35/pc Nassau 84/70/pc 61/53/r Paris 47/39/pc 88/76/r Rio de Janeiro 83/68/pc

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HI/LO/W 58/32/s 34/23/c 36/24/c 81/67/sh 64/38/s 33/27/sn 45/27/pc 65/45/s 57/33/s 82/53/s 41/34/pc 54/38/s 77/61/sh 21/18/sf 27/19/sn 50/34/pc 57/39/s 28/22/pc 42/30/pc 62/31/s

MON.

HI/LO/W 82/57/s 59/32/s 85/73/c 55/41/r 55/35/s 88/75/t 68/42/pc 5/-4/s 23/21/c 81/73/pc 49/41/pc 82/65/c

TODAY

CITY HI/LO/W Omaha 32/18/s Orlando 78/49/t Philadelphia 38/24/pc Phoenix 70/49/s Pittsburgh 31/13/sf Portland, ME 26/11/sn Portland, OR 48/36/c Raleigh 54/27/s Reno 44/20/s Richmond 52/29/pc St. Louis 32/25/pc Salt Lake City 25/24/c San Antonio 60/34/s San Diego 72/55/s San Francisco 61/45/s San Juan, PR 85/74/s Seattle 51/41/r Tampa 76/51/t Tucson 66/43/s Wash., DC 45/26/pc

CITY Riyadh Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Warsaw

TODAY

HI/LO/W 58/42/sh 56/41/pc 36/21/s 88/77/t 39/33/r 75/63/sh 72/66/r 58/44/s 50/39/s 24/5/sf 50/38/r 37/32/c

Weather (W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow flurries, sn–snow, i–ice

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HI/LO/W 39/24/pc 67/48/pc 31/22/pc 73/50/s 23/22/pc 20/-3/pc 48/33/pc 48/31/s 47/24/s 42/29/pc 42/29/pc 29/23/s 66/37/s 78/51/s 67/46/s 84/73/s 48/35/c 67/49/pc 71/46/s 34/26/pc

MON.

HI/LO/W 56/44/pc 57/41/s 37/25/c 90/75/r 43/36/c 77/61/s 76/63/r 61/44/s 52/41/s 20/11/sf 44/37/c 42/37/pc