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Cats fend off No. 12 Irish 81-76
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By T.J. Walker sports@kykernel.com
A mid-November game had the atmosphere, environment and play of an NCAA tournament game as the No. 10 UK women’s basketball team held on to defeat No. 12 Notre Dame 81-76. Although UK (4-0) and Notre Dame (3-2) women’s basketball teams have never played each other before, the intensity surrounding the game made it seem like Dunlap a bitter rivalry. Thanks to a hometown crowd of 6,794 and senior forward Victoria Dunlap the Cats ousted the Irish. “It was a great crowd, great energy, the building was electric and it was Memorial,” UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said. Dunlap led the Cats in the victory. The reigning Southeastern Conference Player of Year finished with 24 points, 14 rebounds, four assists, two steals and three blocks. Dunlap’s leadership was an important contribution that won’t show up on the stat sheet. She played 38 minutes while stepping up for sophomore A’dia Mathies, who struggled from the field. “(Mathies) had a rough time,” Dunlap said. “I tried to keep talking to her and keep confident, but when she got a steal right there, that’s A’dia. She still can make things happen.” It was a steal that helped seal the victory. “I put (Mathies) on (Skylar) Diggins at the end of the game because I was as confident in (Mathies) as anyone, and she made a big time play in the game,” Mitchell said. Notre Dame appeared to be able to bully the much smaller UK inside to begin the game, but the Cats used a 21-4 run to pull ahead of the Irish 41-35 at halftime. UK’s late three-point shooting also helped to seal the victory. Despite missing its first 11 threes to start the game, UK made three of five to finish the first half and it hit five more in the second half, most coming from junior guard Keyla Snowden. Snowden finished 5 of 12 from beyond the arc, scoring 17 total on the day. “We all contributed to this but it felt good to help my teammates in the second half and hit some shots,” Snowden said. UK knows being undersized means it will have to find other ways to win. “The equalizers were the free throw line, the three point line and we were plus five on turnovers and to win (a game) those statistics have to be good,” Matthews said. Shooting 45.5 percent from three-point range in the second half was crucial for the Cats, but no three was bigger than freshman guard Bernisha Pinkett’s with less than five minutes to play in the game. The Irish had just cut the lead to one when Pinkett received the ball on the corner and launched a three that banked off the backboard and through the hoop, pushing the UK lead back to four. Mitchell joked it went according to the play he designed. “I have to take all the credit on that one, it was good coaching,” Mitchell said.
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Corey Smith performing for the sold out crowd at Buster’s Backroom & Billiards on Saturday November 10, 2010.
‘The Good Life’ Corey Smith brings party atmosphere to a sold-out Buster’s MATT MURRAY
Kernel columnist Corey Smith promised a party in Lexington Saturday night, and he delivered. With guests Ingram Hill and Kenny Owens, all three acts treated the stage as if they were headliners, and a sold out Buster’s crowd fed off the enthusiasm. Lexington native Kenny Owens kicked off the set with a cover-filled performance, and his song selection was immaculately suited for his audience. Ranging from Old Crow Medicine Show to Ryan Adams to Bob Marley, the audience belted lyrics louder than Owen— so much so that he would often step back from the mic, take a swig of his Bud Light and laugh. Ingram Hill took the stage next, thundering through a 45minute set of songs so catchy that it didn’t matter more than half the crowd hadn’t heard them. Their refrains have a onetime listen learning curve. During the 30-minute set change between Ingram Hill, fans stepped around the Pabst Blue Ribbon tall boys that littered the floor to break the seal before Smith took the stage. The lights dropped, and “The
Ingram Hill drummer performs for the sold out crowd at Buster’s Backroom & Billiards on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2010. Jeffersons” theme thundered through Busters, kicking off yet another sing along before Smith, complete with sunglasses, came on to thunderous applause. His set was a balanced act of old and new material-- a blend of acoustic singer/songwriter ballads of pain and loss, and full-band country songs found on his latest album, “Keeping up with the Joneses.” During a break between songs, fans delivered their trademark Busters mid-show Cats chant, drawing a laugh from the Georgia native. Regardless of how hard Smith pushed his new material on fans, it was clear the fans wanted the old material. Songs
like “Drinkin’ Again” and “If I Could Do it Again” elicited the biggest responses, while the lesser-known new tracks seemed to simply serve as filler time. Rehab’s “Bartender” got a little extra love as both Owens and Smith covered the track, but the crowd took in stride, an encore of sorts, and screamed along to it each time. With a vibe more like a group of friends singing along and drinking beer to a strumming guitar in a family room rather than a concert, the intimate feeling behind the show is what brought authenticity. It was as much a house party as it was a show. And that’s exactly what the fans wanted.
Members of the UK community and a U.S. international development offical discussed the severe conditions of Haiti and how UK can help the struggling nation Friday. “The United States, the University of Kentucky, and the Haitian Crisis” featured Russell Porter, the deputy coordinator of the United States Agency for International Development. President John F. Kennedey developed USAID in 1961 to implement foreign aid around the world. The organization has sent 12,000 people to Haiti in its strategy to bring relief and development, which ideally would blend for prosperity, Porter said. The Department of Defense has sent an additional 20,000 people for vertical lift of people, supplies and rubble by helicopter to work with the agency. “It has been a huge challenge for the agency to coordinate with the Department of Defense, but we couldn’t have done it without them,” Porter said. Haiti, the poorest conuntry in the western hemisphere, experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in January. The country also faces a cholera epidemic that has spread to Port au Prince, the nation’s capital. Haiti ranks 148 on the United Nations’ development index, Porter said. Eighty percent of Haitians make their living in the informal economy. A quarter of all Haitian children are chronically malnourished, and these are all statistics made prior to the earthquake and cholera outbreak, Porter said. When the earthquake hit, 3.5 million people were displaced. That was the largest urban displacement that has occurred in recent history. The response was the largest urban feeding program in history, Porter said. But there are several cooks in this kitchen, non-profit organizations, multi-national organizations, and national governments rushed to aid the nation in hope to make it operate to its full potential. But if this aid is not spent efficiently, it will only hinder the nation more as a crutch instead of improving it, Porter said. Two million oral rehydration salts to ease cholera our on it’s way to Haiti and today 185 messages will play on Haitian radio and television telling people to wash their hands and practice hygiene. “We can’t put enough doctors in the country,” Porter said. “It’s going to have to be the Haitians who will be trained.”
First half of Harry Potter finale grabs $24 million with midnight shows By Russ Britt MCT
LOS ANGELES _ "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I" made $24 million in its debut during the wee hours Friday, enough to pull into third place among films with midnight screenings, according to figures from box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "Deathly Hallows" fell behind two films in the "Twilight" series. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" still is tops with its $30 million-plus debut earlier this year on June 30. And "The Twilight Saga:
New Moon" comes in second at $26.3 million for its Nov. 20, 2009 midnight release. But "Deathly Hallows" is ahead of the last film in the series, fourth-place "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which made $22.2 million during its midnight run in July 2009. And "Deathly Hallows" is well ahead of fifth-place The Dark Knight," another film from Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. studios, which made $18.5 million in its July 2008 midnight screenings. "That's really strong. These are numbers that would be a great opening
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weekend for a lot of movies," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Hollywood.com's box-office division. He predicted that "Deathly Hallows" would top the $100 million mark during the weekend. Can "Deathly Hallows" meet that mark? The top seven box-office takes for midnight debuts, which also includes sixth-place "Star Wars: Episode III _ Revenge of the Sith" from 2005 and seventhplace "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in 2009, indicates the odds are good that "Deathly Hallows" will reach the magic $100 million mark in its first weekend.
"Star Wars" was distributed by Twentieth-Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., which also owns MarketWatch, publisher of this report. "Transformers" is from Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit. The only two of the top seven to not reach that mark were "Eclipse" and the other "Potter" film on the list, "Half-Blood Prince." But both debuted on a Wednesday. By the time its first weekend was over "HalfBlood Prince" made $77 million from the Friday-to-Sunday period, but accumulated $158 million in total over its
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Harry Potter fans line up at the Cinemark Fayette Mall movie theatre hours before the midnight premier of the latest Harry Potter. first five days. "Eclipse" made $64.8 million in its first Friday-toSunday period but had accumulated $157.6 million from Wednesday to Sunday.
The record opening threeday weekend for films opening on a Friday is held by "Dark Knight," which made $158.4 million when it first hit screens in July 2008.
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