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Before Trump, there was Jesse

By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — He was a candidate few thought stood a chance. Best known as a television showman, he seemed more interested in self- Jesse p ro m o t i o n Ventura than winning public office. But soon he was dominating media coverage and debate stages, each pungent remark only endearing him more to a disenchanted public.

Then Jesse “The Body” Ventura became governor of Minnesota.

Well before Donald Trump shook up the race for the Republican presidential nomination, there was Ventura, the former professional wrestler, radio talk show host and suburban mayor who — in his own election-night words — “shocked the world” with his improbable 1998 victory.

As Trump looks to expand his delegate lead in Super Tuesday contests and further show that he’s for real, the similarities between his campaign and Ventura’s continue to grow. The billionaire businessman enters the biggest day of the race so far with several wins under his belt and exuding confidence about his chances in the contests across the Deep South. His top rivals, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, are struggling to contain him.

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GOP, Democrats set to caucus

By RICK DANLEY and RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

As the nation’s attention swivels from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina to today’s Super Tuesday contests in a dozen other states, political enthusiasts in Kansas may want to mark

their calendars for their own presidential caucuses this Saturday.

The purpose of the Republican and Democratic party caucuses, which offer a first chance for the eager voter to make her voice heard in the long drawn-out run-up to the general election, is to focus the party’s attention on a favorite candidate and to nomi-

Poll: ACA least popular in Kansas

By BRYAN THOMPSON KHI News Service

A new poll from NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores Americans’ experiences with the health care system in the two years since the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented.

Kansas was one of seven states singled out for closer scrutiny. And while much of what Sunflower State residents said followed national trends, there were some notable exceptions.

Of all the states surveyed, Kansas is where the Affordable Care Act is the least popular. Robert Blendon of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School

The above graphic shows perceptions of the Affordable Care Act’s impact on survey participants or on people in the state where they live, according to a recent NPR-Harvard University Poll. KHI NEWS SERVICE of Public Health was primarily in charge of conducting the poll. He said of Kansans surveyed, 26 percent thought things improved as a result of the ACA and 13 percent

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nate delegates to send to the respective national conventions this summer.

Participation rules for the Republican and Democratic caucuses differ significantly from each other, but party affiliates will be on hand at both events to walk nervous caucus-goers through See CAUCUS | Page A6

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawyers, a prison rehabilitation organization and faith communities launched a coalition Monday that will push for changes to the Kansas criminal justice system.

Kansans for Smart Justice announced a series of measures, including reducing sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, during a Statehouse news conference.

The American Civil Liberties Union is among the 13 organizations that are part of the coalition.

Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said the coalition will highlight state trends including a rise in incarceration despite the falling crime rate.

He said at the news conference that the Kansas prison population quadrupled from 1978 to 2014.

“The criminal justice system in Kansas is broken,” Kubic said. “Too many people are being sent to prison for too long, for too trivial of reasons, costing us ... and doing too great of a harm to communities in the process.”

He added that blacks and Hispanics in Kansas are incarcerated at twice the rate of the national average.

Kubic pointed out legislation that passed both the state House and Senate that would reduce penalties for marijuana. Lawmakers are still trying to come to an agreement on the measure.

Benet Magnuson, executive director of the civil rights organization Kansas Appleseed, said the state Senate’s recent vote to overhaul See REFORM | Page A6

Drillers keep at it, even with low prices WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Contracts with landowners are forcing a small number of companies to drill for oil and natural gas regardless of unfavorable market conditions.

The Wichita Eagle reports that producers are required by contract to drill in a newly acquired lease within a few years in order to maintain the land lease.

Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association President Ed Cross says forcing producers to be picky about their leases keeps them thinking about the long-term success of their companies.

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“They have to maintain the leases, even though they didn’t necessarily want to drill,” Cross said.

Other producers, such as Rod Andersen of Kansas Petroleum Resources, are taking advantage of lows costs in hopes for future profit.

Anderson’s company is drilling and testing wells at discounted prices and leaving the good ones uncompleted so that they will be relatively easy and inexpensive to complete when the price turns up.

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perfect case history to show this can happen,” said Bill Hillsman, a Minneapolis ad man and close Ventura adviser who came up with several memorable campaign ads, including one that depicted Ventura as an action figure who tells special interests: “I don’t want your stupid money.”

“Donald Trump’s campaign is just Jesse’s campaign writ very large, with more money and some hugely advantageous communications tools” such as social media and online organizing, Hillsman said.

There are differences, of course, particularly on social issues. Trump has proposed expanding the border wall to keep out immigrants from Mexico and has rejected gay marriage. Ventura has supported open borders and said during a 1998 debate that government shouldn’t be involved in who may marry.

Ventura also was a Reform Party candidate who blasted Republicans and Democrats as “rival gangs,” while Trump is seeking the GOP nomination.

But voters see Trump as sufficiently untethered from the party. Both Trump and Ventura are brash and loose with words, much in contrast to the more scripted tra-

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is endorsing Donald Trump for president.

Kobach cited Trump’s “aggressive” stance against illegal immigration in announcing his endorsement of the billionaire New York businessman’s bid for the Republican nomination

Monday.

Kobach is a former law professor who gained a national reputation for helping states and cities draft laws cracking down on illegal immigration before being elected secretary of state in 2010.

He is the first major Kansas elected official to endorse Trump ahead of the state’s

GOP presidential caucuses scheduled for Saturday.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback said last week that he’d vote for Trump if Trump were the GOP nominee, but the governor has endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

State Treasurer Ron Estes also endorsed Rubio on Monday.

ditional candidates.

That was enough to draw Darren Anderson to the polls in 1998, when at age 25 he was one of many first-time voters who helped Ventura win. Anderson, now 43, recalls watching a debate between “Jesse,” Democrat Skip Humphrey and Republican Norm Coleman.

Ventura was the only one who “called a spade a spade.”

“He wasn’t your standard politician and he wasn’t blowing smoke.”

That’s also why the teacher from New Ulm, Minnesota, is now leaning toward Trump in Minnesota’s vote today.

While in the back of his mind he worries a Trump presidency could “go really wrong,” he says the GOP front runner “is saying things the country wants to hear.”

Both Ventura and Trump drew some of their strongest support

from blue collar voters who dislike the political establishment.

But Ventura’s typical voter was younger, largely male and “for the most part regarded the election as a giant kegger,” said St. Cloud State University political science professor Stephen Frank, who co-wrote a book on Ventura’s election.

Ventura appealed to them as much for his personality as for his promises to cut taxes amid a budget surplus.

Coleman, a former St. Paul mayor, and Humphrey, the son of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, focused on each other during debates, ignoring Ventura.

Ventura told The Associated Press Monday he sees echoes of his campaign in Trump’s.

But he’s split between supporting Trump or Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s vying for the

Democratic nomination.

He’s also considering his own bid as a thirdparty Libertarian candidate.

Dane Smith, who spent 30 years as a reporter in St. Paul and Minneapolis and covered Ventura, recalls a “Trump-like” feeling in the governor’s race when polls showed Ventura running surprisingly strong.

“You were saying to yourself ‘Holy cow. This guy isn’t going to collapse,’ “ Smith said.

Even Ventura needed some convincing on election night. After the first TV station called the race saying he’d won, the governor-elect told his team he wanted to wait for more results before making his victory speech.

Ventura had a mixed record as governor. After campaigning on a tax cut, Ventura refunded part of a state

surplus to taxpayers — payments he dubbed “Jesse checks.” He oversaw building of the Twin Cities’ light rail and provided more money for schools.

But he also butted heads with lawmakers and seemed to tire of the day-to-day slog of government. Toward the end of his first term he said he wouldn’t seek another.

“There’s no consensus whether he was a

bad governor or an average governor,” Smith said. “There is sort of a consensus he was far too egotistical and selfcentered, that the whole purpose was to serve his own fame and fortune.”

Still, Minnesota voters like Anderson say if there’s a lesson for 2016, it’s to take Trump seriously.

“So many people took it as a joke, a big public joke,” Anderson said.

“And then they win.”

Police reports Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Vernon L. Van Houden, Pleasanton, Friday in the 400 block of North Sycamore Street for alleged battery, interfering with a police officer, being a pedestrian under the influence of alcohol, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property from a location in the 800 block of North Jefferson Avenue.

Renee Harclerode and Judy Stover were arrested Friday evening in the 700 block of East Madison Avenue for suspicion of theft.

Harclerode also is being charged with alleged illegal drug possession.

Jandy Wiltse, 49, Iola, was arrested Thursday for suspicion of driving while intoxi-

cated, transporting an open container of alcohol and improper driving on a laned roadway after Iola police conducted a traffic stop in the 10 block of West Madison Avenue.

Computer stolen Aaron Kinzle, 37, told Iola police officers Thursday somebody stole his computer in the 200 block of North Street. A suspect was identified.

Driver cited Iola police officers were called Monday to an accident in the 200 block of North Washington Avenue. During the investigation, Christopher Figura, 24, Iola, was charged with allegedly striking an unattended vehicle and driving with an expired registration.

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more negative about the impact on Kansas as a whole and about individuals,” Blendon said.

MORE THAN a third of Kansans surveyed — 39 percent — thought the health care law has been detrimental to the state. That compares with 27 percent nationwide. Blendon sees two main factors behind these numbers for Kansans.

There is “a real con-

cern, greater than the other states, about the cost of health care for them and the state,” he said. “And the other is this sense of concern that many Republicans have that the law wasn’t the right thing to do. The two together is why I think Kansas stands out as being more critical of the ACA than other states.”

The Kansans with the most negative views about the health care law tend to be older than 65, live in rural areas

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and identify as Republican. They also say their health care costs are unreasonable and they have experienced serious financial problems as a result.

The extent of their worry about costs surprised Blendon.

“Kansans are much more concerned about rising health care costs than people in other states,” he said. “They think they’re going up.

They’re more concerned about the future.”

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The finding that a lot of Kansans are not happy with the Affordable Care Act comes as no surprise to Mike Walker, assistant director of the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University.

The institute has been doing its own polling of Kansans for seven years.

“We did see in our own data that Kansans were not favorable toward ACA overall,” he said. “There was a large portion that were favor-

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able, but the majority of folks were not.”

Walker said Kansans almost always vote Republican. What’s more, he said, President Barack Obama is not popular in Kansas, and that carries over to his signature health care law, informally referred to as Obamacare.

“A lot of Kansans just seem to dislike Obama, more specifically,” he said. “So I think those two things sort of lay a foundation for just opposing something that a Democratic president might come up with, and especially Obama.”

WALKER SAID while it’s clear that Kansans are concerned about health care costs, it’s not clear whether those cost increases are real and actually caused by Obamacare.

“My experience tells me that people that have experienced their cost going up, or perceive that their costs are going up, are more likely to be vocal about the issue and complain about the

ACA,” he said. “Folks that aren’t impacted by it aren’t going to say anything about it.”

If costs are increasing significantly, Walker said, it might be because people have more comprehensive coverage now thanks to the ACA — something they may not appreciate until they get sick or injured. Walker said the health reform law is complicated, and it’s understandable that people might be confused about it, especially with persistent attacks on Obamacare from the state’s political leaders.

“But I kind of think that people don’t want to understand these issues, because it runs like a brick wall against their support for the Republican Party and their opposition to Obama in general,” he said.

Walker said the real test will be to see how Kansans’ attitudes toward the ACA evolve over time as they have more experience with the health reform law and the health care system.

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Hesston: Woman posts bond WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge set a $10,000 bond Monday for the woman accused of providing the guns used in last week’s mass shooting at a Kansas lawn equipment factory.

More than a dozen family members and friends of Sarah Hopkins came to her first court appearance in U.S. District Court in Wichita, but they refused to talk to the media. Her attorney, Douglas Adams, declined comment. Prosecutors did not seek her detention, and court records show she later posted the bond.

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convicted felon. Prosecutors say she gave Cedric Ford an AK-47type semi-automatic rifle and a .40-caliber handgun that he used in the attack at Excel Industries in Hesston.

Four people, including Ford, were killed and 14 others were injured.

Hopkins told investigators that she moved out of a home she shared with Ford in July 2015. Police officers the following month helped her retrieve the firearms, which she had purchased, according court documents. Hopkins said at the time that Ford was a convicted felon who could not lawfully possess them, the documents say.

She told federal in-

vestigators after Thursday’s shooting rampage that she gave the guns to Ford in August because he had threatened her, according to the probable cause affidavit filed in the case.

But the government contends Hopkins, who bought the guns in 2014, had subsequently pawned them and redeemed the rifle this month — months after she said she’d given the guns to Ford.

Ford is the father of Hopkin’s 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, according a Harvey County paternity case.

Adams told the court he expected Hopkins would be indicted today. Her next hearing is March 9.

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Navy Seal receives Medal of Honor

By ANGELA KEANE BLOOMBERG NEWS

WASHINGTON — A Navy SEAL who rescued a doctor held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan became the 11th living service member to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan.

Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers, 36, received the top military award Monday from President Barack Obama at the White House for a 2012 raid in which a fellow SEAL was killed. Byers and his SEAL team recovered Dilip Joseph, a U.S. doctor who recounted his rescue in the book “A Story of Terror, Hope and Rescue by Seal Team Six: Kidnapped by the Taliban.”

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers, U.S. Navy during a ceremony Monday.

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“Standing here in front of the nation is not Senior Chief Byers’s idea of a good time.

He does not seek the spotlight. He shuns it,” Obama said while presenting the honor in the White House East Room.

It was the 47th Medal of Honor Obama has awarded.

Byers completed SEAL training in 2002 and has deployed overseas eight times, according to the White House.

On Dec. 8, 2012, Byers and his team hiked more than four hours through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan to a compound where Joseph was believed to be held, according to an account by the Navy.

After they were spotted by a guard outside the building, a member of Byers’s team shot at the sentry and then pursued him through a makeshift door, six layers of blankets hung in front of the entry.

Byers’s colleague, Petty

Officer 1st Class Nicolas Checque, was immediately shot and died of his wounds.

“Chief Byers, fully aware of the hostile threat inside the room, boldly entered and immediately engaged a guard pointing an AK-47 towards him,” the Navy said.

After engaging another militant in handto-hand combat, Byers flung himself on top of Joseph to protect him from gunfire, and then pinned a third militant to the wall with his hands around the man’s throat until another SEAL shot him. Byers, a certified paramedic, performed CPR on Checque during the 40-minute flight to Bagram Airfield, according to the Navy’s citation.

Byers is the sixth SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor, according to the Navy. Two of the previous recipients attended Byers’s award at the White House.

Couple has 2 Leap Year babies CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan couple is celebrating the unique occurrence of both their children being born on Leap Days.

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Suspect in 2014 Pittsburg murder found in Mexico PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — The fourth suspect in a 2014 home invasion that led to the death of a Pittsburg State University student has been taken into custody in Mexico.

The Pittsburg Morning Sun reports 20-yearold Bryan Levi Bridges was arrested in Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday night. He was wanted in Kansas on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated burglary and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery in the October 2014 home invasion that left 20-year-old Taylor Thomas dead.

Crawford County Attorney Michael Gayoso says he hopes to have Bridges back in the county early next week for a first court appearance.

Prosecutors say Bridges was in the home with three other men as the group attempted to steal marijuana from Thomas’ roommate when Thomas was shot.

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Less talk, more walk: Get fit fast The ‘why’ behind prairie fires It’s as simple as putting one step in front of another. That’s the idea behind Walk Kansas, an eight-week K-State Research and Extension program designed to promote activity and better health. As the days get longer, many of us are eager to get outside and be more physically active and people find Walk Kansas to be an easy way to get moving.

Walk Kansas works by forming a team of six people, one serving as a captain. Your team can be made up of family, friends, co-workers, organizations, or as a work wellness program.

Each team works toward a common goal – typically 150 minutes of physical activity per person per week, which collectively is enough to walk 423 miles over the eightweek period. Teams that want a greater challenge can set a goal to walk the 750-mile distance across Kansas diagonally, equaling 4 hours of activity per week, or around the 1.200 mile perimeter of Kansas, equaling six hours of

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physical activity per week.

Goals of the Walk Kansas program are based on the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. While walking is easy for most people, any activity can count if it: • Is of moderate or vigorous intensity.

• Done for a minimum of 10 consecutive minutes.

• Is an aerobic activity (like walking) or a strengthening exercise.

Many people wear a fitness tracker or pedometer. Participants can report over 6,000 steps in a day. Every 2,000 steps equals 15 minutes of activity. Each participant decides which method of reporting works best for them ­— steps versus minutes of activity.

The Walk Kansas website has gone through a makeover and has many new interactive features for participants.

At walkkansas.org, captains and participants can log their numbers directly onto the website, chat with other team members, and learn about local events and resources.

We have a lot of conveniences in our lives today. Taking care of ourselves is a privilege.

Investing in your personal health now pays off down the road, and being physically active is one of the most important steps we can take to improve our health.

Registration forms are available in each of the Southwind Extension District offices located in Erie, Iola, and Fort Scott and also available at www.southwind. ksu.edu under Walk Kansas. Don’t have a team? Let us know — there is always a team needing an extra member. For more information, contact Joy Purkeypile at 620-223-3720 or jpurkeyp@ksu.edu.

Warm temps draw out winter wheat WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Unseasonably warm temperatures have prompted winter wheat to break dormancy early in Kansas.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service

reported Monday that rain is needed to support growth and development of the crop.

The agency rated winter wheat condition as 6 percent poor to very poor. About 35 percent is

in fair shape, with 51 percent rated as good and 8 percent as excellent.

Mild weather conditions have been good for calving season, which is about 24 percent complete in Kansas.

Poultry litter Lawrence considers seminar set canned food as payment for Wednesday for parking tickets Properly managing poultry litter use is one way that producers can protect their land and environment. The Kansas Farm Bureau and K-State Research and Extension are cohosting a Poultry Litter Seminar on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Southeast Research and Extension Center in Parsons.

Featured speakers include K-State Research and Extension Environmental Quality Specialist Peter Tomlinson, K-State University Soil Science Professor Dan Sweeney, and K-State Research and Extension Watershed Specialist Herschel George. Their topics will include Best Litter Management Practices, Turkey Litter, Fertilizer, and Tillage Influence on Runoff from a Claypan Soil, and Guidelines for Poultry Litter Storage Site Selection and Poultry Litter Applications.

Registration for the public meeting begins at 2:30 p.m. For more information about the meeting please call the Wildcat Extension – Girard office at (620) 7248233.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence is considering allowing people to pay parking tickets with canned goods or monetary donations to food pantries.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that city commissioners are considering the issue Tuesday.

Currently, the fines cost $3. The city had projected bringing in $545,202 to the parking fund from overtime parking violations in 2016. Staff projects that the city

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Every spring across the vast, open Flint Hills grasslands, you can see fires for miles.

The flames lick at the blue Kansas sky as the brown, dry grass crinkles, crackles and bursts into orange.

Viewed up close or at a distance, prairie fires are mesmerizing. Beautiful and frightening at the same time, it’s hard to take your eyes away from this annual ritual.

These fires aren’t a recent phenomenon and they aren’t strictly for the viewing pleasure of those traveling up and down our highways.

Long before civilization invaded the prairie, fires were ignited by lightning storms and the charred prairie restored the health of the native grasses.

Native Americans were the first practitioners of prescribed fires.

They used the fire to attract the buffalo for easier hunting.

Today, farmers, stockmen and landowners continue to use fire as a range management tool while maintaining the economic viability of the Flint Hills.

The artificially ignited controlled burning of the tall-grass prairie in east-central Kansas is an annual event designed to mimic nature’s match. It has become a tradition, part of the culture of the communities and the

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people who inhabit this region of our state.

Fire is an essential element of the ecosystem.

Burning pastures is one of the best management tools for maintaining the native prairie.

This annual pasture burning only occurs for a few days each year. It is not a procedure that is drawn out and lasts for weeks. Weather conditions dictate the length of the burning seasons most years.

Not every cattleman burns his pastures every year as is sometimes portrayed. Instead, individual ranchers and landowners survey and decide each spring, which pastures will benefit and produce a healthier, lush grass for livestock after burning.

Often neighbors plan and burn together, giving them more hands to ensure a safe, controlled burn.

Forage quality and ecosystem health are both dependent on fire.

Without fire, woodlands take over the Flint Hills and the livestock industry loses a fantastic resource.

Kansas State University recommends burning take place when wind speeds are between five and 15 miles per hour, relative humidity is from 40 to 70 percent and temperatures fall in the range of 55 to 80 degrees.

Landowners in all counties must notify local officials prior to planned, controlled burns. This notification is key to preventing prescribed fires from turning into accidental wildfires and ensuring burning is allowed under the existing conditions.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has a Kansas Flint Hills Smoke management plan to help alleviate air quality issues in urban areas generated by prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region.

Coupled with the associated web tools, it should give producers better decision-making abilities when planning and implementing prescribed fires.

Producers can now assess how the smoke from their burns may impact urban areas downwind.

Information like this can make a difference in keeping ozone within acceptable levels and keeping regulatory restrictions from impacting ranchers.

This website is www.ksfire.org.

Foundation wants to bring non-profits to Topeka TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The former Menninger campus has sat abandoned since that mental health organization moved to Texas in 2002.

Fourteen years later, the Sunflower Foundation is determined to breathe new life back into at least part of what was once a thriving health care campus.

The nonprofit organization will renovate two buildings that predate Menninger and locate its headquarters there, president and CEO Billie Hall said.

But Sunflower Foundation — which gives

grants to further health care initiatives in Kansas — is putting forth an even larger goal that Hall called “an extension of our mission.” More than 22,000-square-feet of space in the two buildings will be renovated to provide lease space to area nonprofits and meeting and conference space, as well.

Construction will begin as soon as the final plans are determined. If all goes as planned, the buildings will be renovated and ready for occupation by late fall in 2017.

The cost of the project originally was estimated to be $6 million to

$7 million, but Hall said an upper end of $10 million was set. Given how difficult renovations can be, and how unexpected problems can occur, they are unsure of the final cost. The project will be funded through a combination of structured debt, grants and private contributions, and revenues from leasing the tenant space and for use of the powerhouse conference center will help to offset costs.

Hall said Sunflower Foundation’s level of grant making won’t change as the organization funds its new headquarters.

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Today’s vote may clear political air Hillary Clinton stormed closer to the Democratic presidential nomination with her landslide victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday. Today’s Super Tuesday primaries across the South may be the coup de grâce for Bernie Sanders.

Sanders’ anti-establishment platform still draws sizable numbers, but unless he works a miracle today Clinton will have firmly taken the reins. Doing such will permit her to bank contributions and build her war chest to monumental proportions.

She and President Obama have been favorite targets of Republican candidates, although if Donald Trump prevails some may take a pass on voting in the fall election.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., announced he would not support Trump, saying he would look for a third candidate who espouses the conservative values he cherishes.

Likely the vast majority of Republicans would bite their tongues and mark Trump’s name if he is the GOP nominee. Few would be able to stomach Clinton — and “four more years of Obama,” as they rail — or an unabashed democratic socialist in Sanders.

WHILE THE Dems await

Super Tuesday’s results, Republicans will watch just as intently though from a different perspective. Many in the GOP are uncomfortable — to phrase it mildly — with Trump leading their charge into November.

Ted Cruz tops the poll in Texas, his home state.

In concession to reality, Cruz reportedly said if Trump does well today, it would be hard to derail his campaign.

Seasoned observers, from the cerebral George Will on down, still maintain Trump has made enough missteps, taken enough outrageous positions and been vague enough on details to lead to his downfall.

Perhaps.

However, Trump’s advisers seem to have calculated a strong enough strategy to cement support among an electorate that is fed up with the so-called establishment and gridlock in Washington.

Obama’s support is less than 50 percent by several points, but it looks sterling compared to that of Congress, which can muster barely into the teens.

Tonight’s tallies will give a clearer view of the big picture, although on the Republican side if Cruz, Marco Rubio or both have had good days it will have become even more muddled.

— Bob Johnson

A look back in time 60 Years Ago Week of Feb. 28,1956

Keith Richardson announced this morning that he has sold his ladies readyto-wear store to John Lawrence and Pat Michaelis, who will take possession March 1. The store will be renamed “The New Leader,” and will be managed by Lawrence, who is resigning as manager of Edmiston’s Department Store in Iola.

Michaelis is owner of the Geneva Oil and Gas Co., and will continue to devote his time to that business. *****

Robert V. Talkington, young Iola attorney who is now in the Army, filed as a candidate for county attorney yesterday through his father-in-law, Dr. Lyle F. Schmaus. He will seek the Republican nomination in the August primary. ***** James P. Frederickson, 86, Allen County’s best known peace officer, died quietly at his home about noon today. Frederickson was marshal of Bassett for about half a century and was known as a tough but fair officer.

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Letters to the editor Dear editor,

Last Monday morning I awakened to read an overnight email, informing me that one of the people killed in Kalamazoo by the Uber driver was Barbara Hawthorne, a close high school friend. By the end of the week four people were dead and 14 injured in Hesston. The senseless killing is getting too close to home.

Yes, the slaughter is done by people, not guns safely locked in gun safes with no one to pull the trigger, but all humans are at times emotionally frail. Who has not had a moment when he or she has lost it? And of course some people are much less stable than others. But even these people are human, not the “monsters” the media likes to

Dear editor,

There are over 30,000 people killed a year with guns in the U.S. Half of those deaths are white suicides, approximately 8,000 drug-related.

There have been three incidents where someone drove into a crowd killing people last year. Just think if only 15,000 of those 30,000 suicides would have gotten into a car slamming into innocent victims before taking their own lives.

We now have drones that high schools students can program to shoot shells while flying overhead. These same students can go to the Internet and learn how to make a bomb device and have it delivered by the same flying drone. We will see more people killed in the U.S. by bombs due to the ease of finding instructions and ingredients online.

It is sad that you, Susan,

call them in an effort to separate them from the rest of us.

What has caused this national tragedy is the combination of flawed humanity and a proliferation of highpowered automatic weapons readily available to everyone.

When Keith and I visited Italy last October several people told us they would not consider visiting the U.S. for fear of being shot. This is how the rest of the world sees us.

I have no idea how to solve this.

Despite the NRA’s paranoia, no one in their right mind would seriously consider taking away all the firearms. Even if there were a unanimous national will to do so, the genie could not possibly be stuffed back into the bottle.

And of course there are legitimate reasons to own guns.

However, bolstering an insecure sense of one’s personal power is not one of them. We all need to accept our personal vulnerability as we realize that there are many ways in which we are not in control of our own lives. No amount of firepower can stop the wild storms of a disordered weather system or even the drunk driver swerving into our lane of the highway.

And the rampant rise of automatic weapon ownership, instead of making us more secure, has turned into yet another fearsome executioner spinning ever closer, out of control.

Sincerely, Mary Ann Dvorachek, Iola, Kan.

think that the NRA is responsible for being an accomplice in the San Bernadino shooting. By your thinking, everyone that is pro-abortion is guilty of being an accomplice of murder.

Television is a culprit. Let your children watch all the killing, bloodshed, and sex, then wonder why our children are desensitized to it.

At the same time we have taken prayer and all religion out of the schools. We should be teaching compassion, and love to our children.

Due to wrongful procedures and medication errors, doctors are the number one killer of innocent people, according to the Internet. High on the list of death-related incidents is bathtub falls and drowning. Over 200 people are killed every year due to deer-related car accidents.

While it is still murder when a police officer shoots a man

in the back for shoplifting.

There is only a .00000025 percent chance of being killed by a police officer. We do not outlaw doctors from practicing, eliminate police from protecting us, eradicate all deer, or even outlaw bathing in tubs.

It is a heart-wrenching to think that a lone gunman can walk into a classroom or a building and shoot a roomful of innocent children or people. The thing to remember is that these incidents, as terrible as they are, were the decision of one or a few angry or mentally charged people. The guns are only one device that people can or have chosen to use to cause destruction. Removing guns from the hands of every U.S. citizen will not prevent one or a few people from causing destruction when they are determined to do so.

Raymond Cooper, Iola, Kan.

How to contact your elected officials

President Barack Obama, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 4561111

Gov. Sam Brownback, (Republican) Capital, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; email: governor@ls.gov

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Pittsburg: 306 N. Broadway, Suite 125, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; (620) 232-2286. Email: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/ contact-me/

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov or 19984 County Rd. 1077 Parker, KS 66072 phone: (913) 898-2366

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, or phone: 620-496-2255 1816 2800 St., LaHarpe, KS 66751 email: kent.thompson@ house.ks.gov

Rep. Adam Lusker, (Democrat) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 2967698 State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: adam.lusker@ house.ks.gov

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Reform: Coalition seeks reform Continued from A1

the juvenile justice system was a step in the right direction. Under the measure that passed 38-2, youths who violate probation will be referred to programs such as anger management that allow them to stay in homes with their families.

Magnuson said the adult system also would benefit from placing low-risk offenders in community-based rehabilitation programs instead of jails. A 2012

Council of State Governments Justice Center report found that the recidivism rate in Kansas dropped by 15 percent through the introduction of rehabilitative services. “We cannot build our way out of this problem,� Magnuson said, urging Kansas lawmakers not to spend money on building more prisons. “If you build it, they will fill it.�

SuEllen Fried, founder of Reaching Out From Within, an orga-

nization that promotes prison rehabilitation programs, echoed the need to create bipartisan legislation that reduces incarceration and supports re-entry of ex-offenders into society. She added that the recidivism rate could be lowered if job and housing applications didn’t require applicants to list their criminal records. “If we do all these things together, we can save souls and save money,� Fried said.

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procedural snarls. In the meantime, here are a few points of fact to keep in mind: Republicans Who: Kansans want-

ing to participate in Saturday’s caucus need to have been registered as Republicans by Feb. 4 and must present a photo ID upon arrival at caucus sites.

When: Voting is open between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Where: Allen County GOP voters will caucus at the Parsons Municipal Building, 12 S. 17th St. in Parsons.

Procedure: Representatives for each candidate will address the caucus.

Participants can come and go as they please, and may cast their secret ballots at any point during the four-hour meeting.

Absentee

ballots?:

Those unable to caucus in person Saturday can still cast their vote. Absentee ballots are available by calling (785) 234-3456, or by sending an email to clayton@ksgop.org. Ballots will be counted as long as they are postmarked by Saturday.

Kansas Republicans will select 40 delegates, on a proportional basis, to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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Procedure: At 3 p.m., caucus-goers will divide into candidate “preference groups� (Clinton over here, Sanders over there, etc.). If a group does not have a sufficient number of people to be declared viable (15 percent of total caucusgoers), then participants may join another preference group or recruit attendees into their group until it is of viable size.

Absentee

Democrats Who: Caucusing

is open only to Kansas Democrats, but voters can register to vote or change their registration on site. Voter ID is not required.

When: Registration will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Where: Allen County Dems will caucus at Jayhawk Elementary School, 415 S. 6th St. in

ballots?:

Sorry, Dems. You have to be on site in order for your vote to be counted.

The Kansas Democratic party will not accept absentee ballots during Saturday’s caucus.

From here, party officials will judge the strength of each candidate based on his or her support, and allocate the party’s 37 Democratic delegates proportionally.

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Refugees amass in tent city IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — On foot or by taxi, hundreds of exhausted refugee families trying to reach Western Europe flocked today to a burgeoning tent city

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glut. It will continue to rise in the months ahead, and we will have taken advantage of it,�

Anderson said. “It won’t be immediate term, but in the longer term.�

Bear Petroleum owner Dick Schremmer agrees and notes that smart people “know this won’t stay down.�

Bear will drill one new well every three months in a location Schremmer feels confident will produce.

He’ll then leave his wells incomplete until oil prices to get up to $30 or $35 per barrel. Kansas crude now sells for about $20 a barrel.

Schremmer said it won’t take long for the industry to revive after better times roll back around.

on Greece’s border with Macedonia, which has not allowed anybody in for 24 hours, citing a similar policy by Serbia further north.

The impasse drew strongly worded criticism from the United Nations refugee agency, which warned that Europe “is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis.�

A UNHCR statement said inconsistent policies in the continent, which faces its worst immigration crisis since the end of World War II, “are causing unnecessary suffering and risk being at variance with EU and international law standards.�

Greek police say there could be up to 10,000 people — mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees — stuck at the country’s Idomeni border crossing now in deteriorating conditions.

Hundreds of tents fill the fields stretching toward the border fence, which is patrolled on the Macedonian side by

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scores of regular police, Macedonian special police forces from other Balkan countries.

During the day on Monday, Macedonia let in only 30 refugees.

The Idomeni crossing has become a key flashpoint in Europe’s migration crisis. Several European nations, led by Austria, have imposed refugee caps and border restrictions over the past 10 days, creating a huge backlog of migrants in Greece. These unilateral actions have infuriated Greece and threaten to damage the unity of the 28-nation European Union.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch rights group blamed “discriminatory border closures� and a cap imposed by Austria for the situation at Idomeni. “Trapping asylum seekers in Greece is an unconscionable and short-sighted non-solution that is causing suffering and violence,�

HRW Greece specialist Eva Cosse said.

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Jayhawks cruise past Longhorns

Humboldt senior Corey Whitcomb drives to the basket in Monday’s 62-47 home win over Central Heights in the first round of the playoffs. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

RISING TO THE OCCASION Humboldt gets past first-round matchup

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Humboldt students welcome their team onto the floor for Monday’s playoff game. The students decided to go with a beach theme for the playoff game.

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HUMBOLDT — For Monday’s first round playoff game against Central Heights, the goals were simple; survive and advance.

That is just what the Cubs did, winning 62-47.

“I’m happy for the boys,” Humboldt coach David Taylor said. “Usually this is the toughest game, getting through the first one and making sure they play to win and no, not to lose.”

The game was not a run-of-the-mill

one-seed versus eight-seed matchup for the favored Cubs. Humboldt (17-4) had faced the 3-win Central Heights earlier this season and the Vikings pushed them to overtime before the Cubs eventually pulled away with the win in the extra session.

“We knew what we were getting into,” Taylor said.

The rematch appeared to be the same type of nip-and-tuck game through the first half. After Humboldt jumped to an early 9-2 lead, the Vikings charged back and ended the first quarter trailing just 9-8. “(Central Heights) is very good defensively,” Taylor said. “They played good half-court man defense and they See CUBS | Page B3

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Enough about winning a share of the Big 12 title: Kansas wanted the crown all to itself.

The top-ranked Jayhawks grabbed it in emphatic style Monday night, romping over No. 23 Texas 86-56, an impressive exclamation point on yet another title-winning season.

“That was definitely motivation. We didn’t want to come out flat and thinking the league was over. We wanted to come out and win it outright,” Jayhawks guard Devonte’ Graham said.

Perry Ellis scored 20 points and Kansas settled the question of its undisputed title in the opening minutes with a barrage of 3-pointers, a steady diet of points from Ellis and defense that gave Texas nothing easy.

“For 20-25 minutes, that was about as well as we can play,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

“We talked about we don’t want to share anything.”

The Jayhawks (26-4, 14-3) made 11 3-pointers, led by 24 points by halftime and sent Texas’ sellout home crowd headed to the exits early. Ellis finished 9 of 11 from the field.

Frank Mason III added 14 points for Kansas.

Javan Felix scored 13 points for Texas (19-11, 10-7), which has never beaten a No. 1-ranked opponent in nine tries.

Kansas, which spent two weeks at No. 1 in early January, looked every bit the part this time. And in a season the Big 12 finally seemed like it could crown a new champion, the Jayhawks stormed through the second half of the league schedule with a ninegame winning streak to take it again.

Kansas has won nine of its last 10 against Texas, but See KU | Page B4

Wildcats roll to playoff win

Marmaton Valley High’s Justice Pugh, center, goes up for a layup early in the Wildcats’ 46-36 win over Pleasanton. Pugh scored 20 in the victory. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

MORAN — Dan Uhlrich isn’t one to mince words.

“At the beginning of the year, we were a bad basketball team,” he said Monday.

But as the calendar races

toward spring, the proverbial switch has flipped, and just in time for the Wildcats.

Marmaton Valley, which entered Class 1A-I substate play with three wins on the season, picked up its fourth in most convincing fashion.

An early 11-0 run put the Wildcats in front of visiting

Pleasanton, and they never looked back in a 46-36 victory.

The win pushes Marmaton Valley into the substate semifinals where they will host top-seeded Flinthills at 6 p.m.

Thursday.

While technically the road team, the Wildcats are the host school for the substate tournament.

The winner advances to Saturday’s championship game at 7:30 against either St. Paul or Southern Coffey. The winner advances to the state tournament.

Perhaps no single player better epitomizes Marmaton Valley’s ascension than Justice Pugh, who did much of the heavy lifting offensively with 20 points.

The sophomore guard scored on a steal and layup to give the Wildcats a 6-5 lead — an advantage they didn’t relinquish the rest of the night.

He was only getting started.

His layup was followed by a 3-pointer, another layup and a short jumper, part of a personal 9-0 run to give the Wildcats a 13-5 lead.

“Coach talked to me a couple of weeks ago, about knowing when to pull it out and when to take it in hard,” Pugh said.

He did just that, repeatedly, See WILDCATS | Page B3

Kansas City Royals’ Joakim Soria during spring training on Sunday in Surprise, Ariz. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

Familiar face returns in Royal blue in 2016 SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Joakim Soria is back with the Kansas City Royals, a relative soft tosser in the bullpen of the World Series champions.

The 31-year-old righthander was the Royals’ closer from 2007-11 and averaged 93 mph with his fastball last year. But Wade Davis, Kelvin Herrera and Luke Hochevar all reach 95101 mph.

“They have different weapons,” Soria said. “I never throw hard like these guys. My weapons are different. My command, my breaking pitches and ev-

erything is different than them. That’s why I’ve been in the league for nine years. I had to have something to be there.

Everybody has different styles to do their job.”

Soria has 202 saves, 160 of them with the Royals, and a 2.57 ERA in 444 relief appearances in the majors. He missed the 2012 season after his second Tommy John surgery and signed with Texas.

“He’s not the same as when he was back closing, obviously,” Royals bullpen coach Doug Henry said. “He knows what he’s doing out there. And his See SORIA | Page B4

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Cubs: Humboldt victorious Continued from B1

Humboldt senior Jake Haviland rises up for two points in the Monday’s playoff win over Central Heights. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

clogged a lot of things up in the paint. I don’t know if we took a lot of shots in rhythm.”

Humboldt held just a two-point lead as they went into the locker room for halftime and Central Heights tied the game at 23 early in the third quarter.

“Coach told us (at halftime), ‘You guys are nervous. You just need to relax. This is going to be the toughest game you are going to play in the tournament because it’s on a Monday. Just go out there and have fun.’ And that is what we did,” Cub senior Jake Haviland said.

“I told the boys, we got to just keep plugging away,” Taylor said.

The teams went backand-forth until junior star Rayce Hoepker stepped up with a pair of huge plays with the game tied at 27. Hoepker drove the lane on the first play and shot a runner while taking contact from a Viking defender.

Continued from B1

Marmaton Valley High’s Trevor Wilson, left, is defended by Pleasanton’s Mason Ralle Tuesday. Wilson scored five points in the Wildcats’ 46-36 victory. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

lead was back in double digits.

“Coach has always told us that defense is what wins the game,” Pugh added.

“The last three weeks, hopefully, have shown us the Justice we’ll see the rest of his time at Marmaton Valley,” Uhlrich said.

“They used some pressure and attacked us, and substate has pressure of its own. But we did a good job

nights, I was feeling good.”

Many of Haviland’s points came as the senior keyed the Humboldt push and forced turnover which led to quick points for the home squad.

“We worry about what we can control, because you can’t control shooting sometimes and when we were able to amp up our defense and get a couple steals, our offense was a lot crisper,” Taylor said.

Central Heights was led in the scoring column by their senior guard pairing of Matthew Percy and Merrick Brown. Each of them finished with 15 points as they tried to pull the upset.

The Cubs will continue their march through the playoffs on Thursday when they face Oskaloosa in Mound City. Oskaloosa topped Jayhawk-Linn by a 47-37 score.

Yates Center girls drop first round game

Wildcats: First round win helping slice and dice Pleasanton’s zone.

Pugh’s 3-pointer late in the half re-established an 11-point Wildcat lead.

He added another jumper in the final minute of the quarter before Gage Adams — who also found his shooting range early — hit a turnaround jumper at the halftime buzzer to send Marmaton Valley into halftime with a 28-15 advantage.

The lead grew to 15 after the break before Pleasanton turned up the defensive intensity and began to chip away at the lead.

The Blu-Jays’ Brenton Laver scored six straight points, forcing a pair of Marmaton Valley timeouts, to pull Pleasanton within 33-25.

Pugh responded with a layup to push the lead back to 10.

Brady Newman got loose inside before Pugh scored once again for a 3927 lead with 5:40 left in the game.

Pleasanton never got within eight down the stretch, with Pugh snuffing another Blu-Jay rally.

The score was 39-31, and Pleasanton corralled a Wildcat miss. But Pugh stepped in front of a long outlet pass to return possession to MV. Newman scored on the subsequent possession with just under 3 minutes left and the

Whistles drew as Hoepker’s shot fell through the net. The guard stepped to the charity stripe and knocked down his foul shot to push the lead to three.

“That was big,” Taylor said.

After Humboldt got a stop on the ensuing Central Heights possession, Hoepker pulled up for a deep 3-pointer and just like that the Cubs were up by six. Hoepker scored 17 points in the game despite a slow first half shooting the ball.

Hoepker’s personal scoring streak gave the Cubs the lead for good and they never allowed Central Heights to tie the game or hold a lead again.

Humboldt built the lead up to nine points by the end of the third quarter. Haviland had nine of his game-high 27 points in the period.

“We kept our intensity up,” Haviland said. “We are always battling and hustling all the time. It was just one of those

of staying in control. We have several guys capable of stepping up, and they did.

“We’ve improved a lot,” he continued. “We went from being a bad basketball team to a competing basketball team.”

Adams followed Pugh’s lead with 13 points. Newman added seven.

Laver paced Pleasanton with 17 points. Mason Ralle followed with seven.

Yates Center had there girls basketball season come to an end as they fell 61-12 to Sedan, “It’s never easy going on the road for the first round of the post season, especially when it a long trip,” Yates Center coach Jason Graf said. “ I felt we came out and played hard just didn’t have bounces of the ball go our way.”

Now that the season has wrapped up, the goal for Graf is to build the program further in the offseason.

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The tough first round match up certainly did Yates Center no favors.

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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Georges Niang said he was afraid before his final home game at Iowa State because he realized that he’d like to be in Ames forever.

Niang then went out and showed why Cyclones fans don’t want to see him go either.

Abdel Nader scored 19 points, Niang added 17 with 10 rebounds and four assists and No. 21 Iowa State held off Oklahoma State 58-50 on Monday.

“I don’t know if I ever experienced something as great as I experienced here,” Niang said. “I think I put my all into this place, and I’m content with closing the chapter at Hilton (Coliseum) because I left everything I had out there.”

Jameel McKay had six points with 10 rebounds for the Cyclones (21-9, 10-7 Big 12), who clinched their fifth consecutive winning season in conference play.

Iowa State broke open a tight game with an 11-0 run to start the second half. The Cowboys made it interesting late, closing within 53-47, but ultimately fell to the Cyclones for the seventh straight time.

Tavarius Shine, Jeff Newberry and Joe Burton all scored nine points for Oklahoma State (12-18, 3-14), which has lost five straight. The Cowboys were 4 of 27 from three.

Iowa State also honored seniors McKay and Nader, both in their second season at Iowa State, before tip-off.

But Monday night was all about Niang.

Niang was a crucial part of Iowa State’s first Sweet Sixteen team in 14 years as a sophomore. Last season Niang earned firstteam All-Big 12 honors, and this year he became one of just nine players with 2,000 points, 600 rebounds and 400 assists in the past two decades.

Niang’s talents and his colorful personality — perhaps best exemplified when he blew a kiss at rival Iowa fans last season — made him one the most beloved players Iowa State has ever had.

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came into this one expecting a much tougher fight than the Longhorns put up.

With four wins already this season over Top 10 opponents, Texas looked like a team ready to grab another. The Longhorns came in brimming with confidence as the league upstart under first-year coach Shaka Smart. And after its impressive win two days earlier over Oklahoma, Texas turned out its biggest — and rowdiest — crowd of the season.

The Jayhawks greeted it with little more than a shrug and a scoring burst at the start that overwhelmed the Longhorns from the opening tip.

Graham and Mason made three 3-pointers in a 15-0 run as Texas missed its first 14 shots. Ellis dominated Texas’ front line for 15 points in the first half. His 3-pointer put the Jayhawks up by 21 points with 4 minutes left.

Even when Texas started matching shots, that’s all the Longhorns could do. The Jayhawks shot 66 percent in the first half and consecutive 3-pointers by Wayne Selden Jr., and Brannen Greene in the final minute sent Kansas into halftime with a 47-23 lead.

“We’re not going to be like this every night, but the guys had fun.” Self said.

The Kansas swagger seemed to get bigger with every basket. Ellis weaved his way to another easy layup, Graham swished two more 3-pointers and two thunderous dunks by Jamari Traylor pushed the Jayhawks’ lead to 6736 with just under 13 minutes to play.

“I don’t think we were overwhelmed,” Felix said. “We didn’t defend well. We missed some shots ... you can’t do that against a team like that.”

TIP-INS: Kansas: The Jayhawks rank fourth nationally in 3-point percentage and have made 10 or more 3-pointers 11 times this season.

“We were moving the ball well. We didn’t take any bad 3-point shots,” Ellis said.

Texas: The Longhorns’ offense stalled mostly because Isaiah Taylor never got started. The point guard has been the catalyst for Texas all season — he’s their leading scorer — but started 0-for-8 shooting and missed several open looks. Taylor didn’t score until making a steal and a layup with 1:26 left in the first half.

Taylor finished with five points and took only one shot in the second half.

“He missed some shots he normally makes. We got lucky,” Self said.

TEXAS TROUBLES Texas’ last four home games have included big wins over West Virginia and Oklahoma and blowout losses to Baylor and Kansas. In the losses, Texas’ smaller, guard-oriented lineup has struggled to match up against bigger teams.

Texas’ front line of Prince Ibeh, Connor Lammert and Shaq Cleare combined for just 11 points.

“In the past when we’ve had rough games we’ve responded well,” Lammert said.

WHAT’S NEXT Kansas hosts No. 21 Iowa State on Saturday

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Future NFL quarterbacks showcase skills INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NFL teams looking for a franchise quarterback in this year’s draft may have a long search.

Sure, Carson Wentz, Jared Goff and Paxton Lynch could be the guy — in time.

But there are significant questions about all three, and this weekend’s workouts at the NFL’s annual scouting combine in Indianapolis failed to produce some of those answers.

“Most of these kids have never been under center, so when you talk about a five-step drop, most of them have never done it until they got with the (quarterback) guru,” NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said after watching Saturday’s drills. “So what the coaches are looking for is their footwork.”

Regardless, all three could find landing spots in the Top 10 picks. They always seem to.

The question this year is who is best positioned.

Goff can make every throw needed to excel in the NFL, though he played largely in a spread offense at California, a program that with the exception of Aaron Rodgers has struggled to produce NFL-ready quarterbacks.

Wentz won a national championship every year he attended

North Dakota State, but there are big questions about the level of competition he faced in the Football Championship Subdivision.

Lynch looked rather fit at 6-foot-7, 244 pounds and displayed his athleticism during workouts.

But it’s also clear he’s not a finished product yet.

“Paxton Lynch looks like, to me, that they’re building him from the ground up,” Mayock said. “When he gets his footwork the right way ... he’s got good arm strength. But he’s a little bit of a project. He’s a couple years away.”

Other first-round possibilities at quarterback could include Connor Cook from Michigan State and Christian Hackenberg from Penn State.

But the safest bet might be if a team with a solid starting quarterback decided to draft for the future “If I’m Dallas at No. 4, I’m kind of licking my lips because I’ve got a 36-year-old quarterback (Tony Romo) who hasn’t finished a season in three years,” Mayock said in reference to Wentz. “I would much prefer drafting a guy for the future.”

Here are some other observations from Indianapolis: WHO’S NO. 1: With no clear-cut quarterback at No. 1, speculation has centered around defensive end Joey Bosa from Ohio State and offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil from Mississippi. There’s little doubt Tunsil looked

most impressive. Among the players at his position, Lee ran the fastest 40 (4.47), had the best broad jump (11 feet, 1 inch), had top-10 times in the three-cone drill (7.12) and 20-yard shuttle (4.20) and a 35 ½-inch vertical jump. Lee may have performed well enough to become the fifth or sixth Buckeyes player to earn a first-round grade.

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the part this weekend, measuring in at 6-foot-5, 310 pounds and looking light on his feet. Bosa, however, ran a slowerthan-expected 4.86 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

Don’t be surprised to hear some other names join the conversation before April.

BUCKEYE BONANZA: Ohio State sent 14 players to the combine and linebacker Darron Lee might have been the

year’s top draft prospects must wait until their pro days to impress scouts.

Linebackers Jaylon Smith and Miles Jack and cornerback Kendall Fuller have not yet been cleared to participate in work on the field because of significant knee injuries. Jack and Fuller are hoping to work out before the draft. Smith may not get that chance because he had major knee surgery seven weeks ago.

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stuff is still pretty good.”

Now he’s back with Kansas City, agreeing to a $25 million, threeyear contract.

“I haven’t changed anything,” Soria said.

“I think I’m the same pitcher, same velocity, same pitches. What is important to me is my command and my command is still there. I’m the same guy.”

Davis is interested in speaking with Soria about pitching.

“He’s been fun to watch the past couple of years,” Davis said.

“It seems like he’s pretty brilliant. It will be fun to learn from him and be around him a little bit.”

NOTES: DH Kendrys Morales was absent with flu but probably will be back in camp Tuesday. .

LHP Brian Flynn, who pitched only one inning last year because of a shoulder injury, struck out the side in the first inning of an intrasquad game. Paulo Orlando doubled, tripled, scored a run and drove in a run in the 3 1/2 inning contest.

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