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Lt. Gov. Colyer: ‘Structurally balanced’ budget ready

‘This is the sort of work I feel like I was built for.’

State spending plan won’t include furloughs, massive cuts, he said

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer said Wednesday that administration officials have completed work on a plan for closing a $932 million budget hole over the next 18 months and that it is ready to be presented to the Kansas Legislature in January.

Speaking with the Journal-World over breakfast in downtown Lawrence, Colyer declined to offer many details of the plan, except to say that it will be “structurally balanced” and will not involve massive spending cuts, tax increases or furloughs of state employees.

“We will fund core priorities,” Colyer said. “Education is a core priority. Public safety is a core priority.

Colyer We have a core priority on Medicaid and people that are on a safety net. I think you’ll see a plan that is a reasonable approach that doesn’t rely on a giant income tax increase nor massive cuts.”

Colyer has been closely involved in helping to craft the administration’s budget plans, and Gov. Sam Brownback’s office even posted a photograph on Twitter earlier this month showing Colyer, Brownback,

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MARLIN BATES HAS BEEN NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Douglas County Extension Office, 2110 Harper St. Bates, who will take over duties in the new position after the first of the year, previously served as a horticulture agent.

New executive director of County Extension Office hopes to see community outreach thrive

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Marlin Bates is eager for the new year.

On Dec. 19, the Douglas County Extension Board promoted the 38-yearold Bates to the position of Extension

executive director. Bates, who has been the Douglas County Extension horticultural agent the past three years, will start his new duties with the start of the year. He succeeds Don Moler, who retired in November after two years as director.

“This is the sort of work I feel like

I was built for,” Bates said. “I think that’s because I have a passion for the mission.”

Douglas County Extension is a partnership between Kansas State University and federal, state and

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supporting the continuation and expansion of DACA. While many administrators and students share sentiments about the concept of welcoming undocumented immigrant students, based on numbers, some campuses are probably talking about it more than others.

KU does not have many undocumented immigrant students. However, several

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postsecondary schools in our state have many more.

Four students enrolled at KU this fall received tuition adjustments under state statute 76-731a, university spokesman Andy Hyland said. (For context, KU’s total enrollment this fall was 28,401.)

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here are many reasons a good number of people want a downtown grocery store.

We had a recent article detailing how such a store may make life easier for people who live in nearby food deserts. Other people believe a grocery will help ensure the longterm vitality of downtown. And

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then there is me: I simply want a grocery store with a bakery case across the street from my office.

(The engineers remind me there really is nothing simple about the steel girders that will have to be placed in the floor beneath my office chair.)

The reasons for a grocery store are not what’s on my mind today, though. Instead, I’m wondering whether city commissioners have killed the latest proposal for a downtown grocery store. In case you have forgotten, commissioners last week blessed a policy that essentially would prohibit the city from providing financial incentives to a project that includes any developer that is delinquent on taxes or special assessments.

The current proposal for a downtown grocery store has been put forward by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor for the spot at Seventh and New Hampshire that previously housed the Borders bookstore. Compton has been in the news recently for being part of a development group that has more than $1 million in back taxes and special assessments on a struggling commercial development near 23rd and O’Connell.

There is no question that a downtown grocery is going to seek financial incentives from the city.

So, upon watching commissioners last week say no more incentives for people behind on their taxes, I naturally wondered what that meant for the grocery store proposal. Thus far, the development group doesn’t seem too concerned that the policy will derail their plans.

“I think there is still very good support from the City Commission for a grocery store downtown, and the community wants it,” said Bill Fleming, an attorney for the development group. “We still will proceed on it.

The talk has been about community benefit, and

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est question in all of this is: Has the city created a fair policy?

I will grant that it certainly seems like a policy that is grounded in common sense. Why would the city want to provide — Bill Fleming, attorney a financial incentive to someone who is behind obligations owed to the that is what this project on his or her taxes? But city. really provides.” the issue became more — Ownership inOK, so the incentives complicated when the terests, or “financial policy hasn’t scared off city drafted the policy interests” as the policy the development group, to apply to any person but how does the project calls them, aren’t writ“who owns any financial move forward if commis- ten in stone. If I owned interest in real property . sioners are serious about a minority interest in a . .” I highlighted the word not providing incentives development group that “any” because that is a was behind on taxes, to developers who are key point. what would prevent behind on their taxes?

What happens when I Fleming didn’t get into me from signing my own a minority interest — say 10 percent — of details on that point, but interests of that failed a commercial developcompany over to a son, did say: “I don’t think a daughter, a spouse or a ment that is behind on its it will have a negative close business associate? taxes? As the owner of impact on the grocery 10 percent of the comAt the point that I sign store project. Doug just pany, I don’t have any those interests over to wouldn’t get to be involved until he gets these someone else, would I no legal authority to order the company to pay its longer be subject to the other issues settled.” taxes, even if the money city’s policy?

I suppose one posexisted to do so. I have — Businesses have sibility is that Compton no legal authority to tell their own set of rules pays the $1 million plus that generally are spelled the other partners in the in back taxes and asout in a document called company to dip into their sessments at 23rd and personal checkbooks and an operating agreement.

O’Connell, and commispay the property taxes.

Depending on how that sioners pat themselves on the back for a job well agreement is structured, In theory, I could write a personal check to the it may be very easy for done. For some reason, Douglas County Treame to simply forfeit — I don’t think that is how surer to pay my share of this gets settled. Another or perhaps sell for a the back taxes, but as the possibility is the grocery $1 — my shares in the city’s policy is written store project just no lon- company. In that case, the shares go to the other that seemingly would do ger involves Compton. I remaining partners in the me no good. I would still find that highly unlikely have a financial interbusiness. At that point, too.

What seems more like- would I no longer be sub- est in real property that ly is the city’s new policy ject to the city’s policies? is behind on its taxes. I on incentives has more suppose I could pay 100 — A property tax — stretch to it than my percent of the back taxes or special assessment waistband after a bakery — liability isn’t really even though I own only sale on day-old pastries.

10 percent of the compaa long-term liability. If To be clear, I don’t know the development group ny, but that doesn’t seem how Compton will settle that I’m a part of doesn’t reasonable. his issues of back taxes Of course, the city’s repay its property taxes on and assessments. sponse very easily could a failed piece of comBut what is clear is be, so what? It is not like mercial property, the that there seems to be a I have a constitutional tax liability goes away lot of ways around the right to receive a finanas soon as the property city’s policy. Here are a cial incentive from the is put up for auction as few that came to mind af- part of the foreclosure city. What I may have, ter I read the city policy, process. Even if the auc- though, is a good project which simply says: It is that could benefit the tion doesn’t generate a the policy of the city that high enough sales price community for decades no economic developto come, but I need some to cover the tax bill, my ment incentive will be help in bringing it to tax liability is erased. At granted to any applicant reality. that point, would I no or petitioner who owns How this policy will longer be subject to the any financial interest in impact the future of city’s policy? any real property, anygood projects in the city It sure seems like the where within the state of policy may be an invitais unclear. It is possible Kansas, with delinquent that even if my business tion for gamesmanship. special assessments, interests aren’t behind on Of course, as questions delinquent ad valorem any taxes that this policy like these arise, the city taxes, or federal and may modify the policy to may still kill future deals. state tax liens, or who is That’s because this poltry to eliminate some of currently delinquent or icy could become really these loopholes. Likely, in default on any debts, other questions then will problematic for bankers. responsibilities, or other emerge. Perhaps the largSay I have a good

idea (I know, I’m asking you to stretch your imagination), and I go to a banker to get a loan for that idea. I tell my banker that I think I’m going to get $3 million worth of city incentives as part of this project.

My banker factors that $3 million of relatively secure money into the equation when she considers whether she can loan me the money.

Then she becomes aware of the city policy. That policy makes it clear that the city incentives could be revoked, if one of my business interests falls behind on taxes.

At that point, my banker needs to see all my business interests.

She may trust me to stay current on my taxes, but she may not trust my business partner Joe Blow. Joe is the majority owner of several partnerships that I’m involved in. That creates a situation for my banker where actions of a company controlled by Joe may cause my project to lose my city incentives, which may be the difference in whether I can make my loan payment in full.

It seems like this policy could create a lot of uncertainty. Or maybe I’ve got it all wrong. This part of the policy is very new. Other parts of the policy went through a review process by various groups, such as the Public Incentives Review Committee or the Joint Economic Development Committee. This part of the policy was added after those reviews were completed.

To me, it seems like the city is in a struggle many of us often find ourselves in: a battle between idealism and pragmatism.

There is little debate that this city policy is an idea that makes us feel good.

No incentives to people behind on their taxes.

Whether it is an idea that looks good for the future of development in the city is still an open question.

“I’m just doing the same thing, only people are taking notice of it a bit more,” he said. “At the beginning, when the governor asked me to be his lieutenant governor, he said, ‘I want you to be the busiest lieutenant governor in the history of the state.’ And boy, has he gotten it.”

Brownback may offer some outline of his budget plan when he delivers his State of the State address on Tuesday, Jan. 10.

The full budget proposal will be spelled out to the House and Senate budget committees the following day, Jan. 11.

KU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center, the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships and Legal Services for Students.

I think there is still very good support from the City Commission for a grocery store downtown, and the community wants it. We still will proceed on it.

The talk has been about community benefit, and that is what this project really provides.”

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amount out of this year’s budget, they would still have to cut another $583 million in spending for the next fiscal year that begins July 1.

Many lawmakers, including Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, have criticized Brownback for not ordering cuts or other measures in November, as soon as the new forecasts were released. But Brownback declined to do that, saying instead that he would present his plan to law-

makers for approval in January.

Last year, the administration offered the idea of selling off the state’s future tobacco settlement payments in exchange for a one-time lump sum payment, a financial transaction known as “securitization.” But lawmakers — under pressure from child welfare and education advocates that represent groups that receive funding from that revenue stream — declined to consider it.

Colyer would not say whether that idea or any other one-time source of funding would be part of the budget plan.

“I’m going to let the governor talk to that Wednesday,” he said. “In the end, expect the budget to be structurally balanced so that revenues and expenditures will match up.”

There has been some speculation that Colyer is getting more deeply involved in the budget process and is having more direct contact with legislators in anticipation that Brownback will receive a federal appointment in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

Colyer, however, dismissed that notion.

Hyland. Those schools, based on September 2016 enrollment counts, are: l Johnson County CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A Community College — 216 immigration status to pay l Butler Community in-state tuition and fees College — 88 at state postsecondary l Kansas City Kansas institutions if they meet Community College — 81 certain criteria. Accordl Wichita State Uniing to the law, to get versity — 49 in-state tuition students l Garden City Commust have attended an munity College — 43 accredited Kansas high l Fort Hays State Unischool for at least three versity — 42 years; graduated from l Seward County an accredited Kansas Community College — 35 high school or earned a l Dodge City CommuKansas GED; and applied nity College — 26 to legalize their immigral Kansas State Univertion status or obtain U.S. sity — 25 citizenship, or plan to l Washburn Univerdo so as soon as they’re sity — 12 eligible.

Students move along Ten state instituJayhawk Boulevard on tions have more than 10 the KU campus between students using 76-731a, classes on Wednesday according to a fact sheet January 27, 2016. from the Kansas Board Students move along of Regents, provided by Jayhawk Boulevard on

the KU campus between classes on Wednesday January 27, 2016. by Richard Gwin As of this week K-State President Richard Myers was the only other Kansas university CEO besides Gray-Little to sign the DACA letter, organized by Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., where close to 4 percent of students are on DACA or undocumented. Signees call DACA a “moral imperative and a national necessity”; say it should be upheld, continued and expanded; and offer to meet with U.S. leaders on the issue.

“DACA beneficiaries on our campuses have been exemplary student scholars and student leaders, working across campus and in the community,” the letter says. “With DACA, our students and alumni have been able

to pursue opportunities in business, education, high tech, and the nonprofit sector; they have gone to medical school, law school, and graduate schools in numerous disciplines. They are actively contributing to their local communities and economies.”

The issue has been in the media since Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. Some fear Trump will do away with the DACA program, which President Barack Obama launched in 2012 to temporarily shield from deportation young people who came to the United States illegally as children.

KU, in a recent news release, noted that while KU has no centralized resource for undocumented and DACA students, they can find referrals and other help through

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budget director Shawn Sullivan and another aide saying, “Coming in January: A balanced budget.

Stay tuned.”

Lawmakers will convene Monday, Jan. 9, for the start of the 2017 session with the state in the midst of a budget crisis.

In November, state budget officials released new revenue forecasts showing tax collections falling $349 million short of budgeted expenses for the rest of this fiscal year.

The forecast also showed that even if lawmakers were to cut that

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In the end, expect the budget to be structurally balanced so that revenues and expenditures will match up.”

— Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer

— This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears each weekday on LJWorld.com.

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222. Follow him on Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

— This is an excerpt from Sara Shepherd’s Heard on the Hill column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

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BRIEFLY 6-year-old dies in house fire Wellsville — Authorities say a 6-year-old boy has died in a northeast Kansas house fire.

Kansas State Fire Marshal’s Office spokesman Kevin Doel says the victim of Tuesday night’s fire in Wellsville has been identified as Brax Morris. Doel says a working smoke detector outside his mother’s bedroom alerted her to the fire.

She was able to escape with her 3-yearold daughter.

One sheriff’s deputy suffered a cut hand breaking out a window.

Investigators have determined that the fire started in the living room. The cause is under investigation but no foul play is suspected.

Police: Would-be robber killed Wichita — Authorities say a 19-yearold man has been arrested in a deadly Wichita shooting.

KAKE-TV reports that the suspect was booked into jail Wednesday morning on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Charles Hawkins.

Police Lt. Todd Ojile says Hawkins was killed Friday when he pulled out a gun and attempted to rob the suspect during a drug deal. Ojile says the suspect also was armed and shot Hawkins.

Prosecutors plan to present the case to prosecutors later this week. Hawkins’ death is Wichita’s 33rd homicide of 2016.

Teen killed after car hits deer St. John — Authorities say a teenager is dead and two others are hurt after they collided with a dead deer while driving in central Kansas.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash happened Monday night in Stafford County. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victim as 18-year-old Alexandra Wheeler, of Haysville, who was driving.

Two of her passengers were taken to a hospital with injuries.

The patrol says the deer previously had been hit by another vehicle and was in the roadway. After striking the deer, Wheeler lost control, and the car entered the ditch before rolling several times.

Grandfather pleads no contest after 8-year-old driver dies Troy — A northeast Kansas man whose 8-year-old granddaughter was killed in a crash as she drove him home from church has pleaded no contest in her death.

The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Dennis Meers, of St. Joseph, entered the plea to an aggravated child endangerment charge last week. Sentencing is set for Feb. 6.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says Cadence Orcutt was killed in November 2015 when the car she was driving plunged down an embankment and overturned in rural Doniphan County. Meers was injured.

Meers previously was sentenced to two years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for felony driving on a revoked license. In 1996 and 2001, Meers was convicted in Missouri on charges of being a persistent offender for driving while intoxicated.

Kansas gun store that moved after deadly gunfight to close Shawnee — A suburban Kansas City gun store that changed locations after a fatal gunfight is closing.

Jon Bieker was killed in January 2015 while defending his wife, Becky Bieker, from four Missouri men who were attempting to rob their Shawnee store, called She’s a Pistol. Three of the robbers were wounded in the shootout. All four are charged with attempted robbery and first-degree murder.

After the gunfight, the store was moved to a new location less than 2 miles away, but legal bills and increased labor expenses have taken a toll. Becky Bieker told WDAF-TV that the closure “feels like losing Jon a second time.”

The store is conducting a liquidation sale and will close no later than 3 p.m.

Saturday. Firearm training will continue at a different location.

Sheriff’s deputy arrested on suspicion of child sex crimes Burlington — Authorities have arrested an eastern Kansas sheriff’s deputy after an investigation into child sex crimes.

The 28-year-old deputy was arrested Tuesday at the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office on suspicion of two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count each of electronic solicitation and sexual exploitation of a child.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that its agents began to investigate last week at the request of the sheriff’s office. The release says the deputy has been terminated. He had worked for the sheriff’s office since March 2014.

The KBI says its investigation is ongoing.

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county governments charged with helping improve the quality of life for citizens by providing research-based educational programs. According to the agency’s website, Extension educational programs focus on five key areas of community vitality, food sources, enhancing youth leadership, health and water.

The executive director position is a job Bates has spent a lifetime preparing for, beginning with his 4-H days growing up on a farm near Erie in Neosho County. He then earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in horticulture from Kansas State University, traveling the state as a graduate student with his adviser, Ted Carey, an Extension state horticultural specialist. Carey shared both his knowledge and passion for Extension during those years, Bates said.

Bates’ first job out of college was with University of Missouri Extension.

He and his wife, Erica, and two children moved to Douglas County three years ago when he accepted the position of county horticultural agent.

Despite his thorough background in Extension, Bates said he found the Douglas County office a little different because of the county’s diversity — with its mix of large farms, urban agriculture and rural “estate” landowners, Bates said.

Another challenge is addressing the needs of the diverse population with an Extension staff of 14 in a county of 115,000 residents, Bates said. The keys to successfully surmounting those challenges are the quality of Extension’s staff and community outreach, he said. By the latter, Bates

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A lot of people didn’t know much about us when they first contacted us, and now we are their biggest resource. We are here to serve you if you have needs.

If we can assist you, we will. If we can’t, you can bet we will put you in touch with someone who can.”

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means communicating to the public what Extension has to offer and developing partnerships to help realize and expand its goals.

“Only through partnerships can we reach our public,” he said. “One of the things I look forward to is strengthening our existing partnerships and finding new ones.”

Extension’s master gardener program is an example of a successful partnership with volunteers who share their gardening expertise with the community, Bates said.

Sandy Jacquot, Douglas County Extension Board secretary, said Bates was an intelligent, creative and enthusiastic leader who has the respect of the Extension peers and the Douglas County community. He has been very active in establishing a local food network, which allows county food producers to market in the community, she said.

Bates is currently chairman of the Douglas County Food Policy Council, which will be involved with two high-visibility programs in the coming months. The first of those is a marketing study for the county’s farmers’ markets in downtown Lawrence, Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton, which is scheduled to be released in January. The study is to have recommendations on how the four markets can be improved, and its authors are to visit with organizers of the local markets about the recommendations. Some money will be available to help implement suggested improvements.

The Food Policy Council is also developing a countywide food policy for the update to the Horizon 2020 comprehensive plan for the city of Lawrence and Douglas County. The food policy plan, which is to be completed this spring, will outline policies for such things as ordinances that allow urban agriculture, zoning for agriculture production, economic development incentives to support new food and farm businesses and zoning to allow farm-worker housing.

The efforts in support of the local food producers, from large to small, is an example of Extension’s economic development role, Bates said.

The success of urban and small-plot agricultural entrepreneurs provides economic and lifestyle benefits for county residents, he said.

Extension also heads the E-Commerce efforts to aid economic development in Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton.

The economic development activity is all part of Extension’s effort to improve the quality of life of county residents, Bates said.

“A lot of people didn’t know much about us when they first contacted us, and now we are their biggest resource,” he said.

“We are here to serve you if you have needs. If we can assist you, we will. If we can’t, you can bet we will put you in touch with someone who can.”

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166. Follow him on Twitter: @ElvynJ

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Housing policy and the market The city has defined ‘affordability,’ but it needs to remain flexible and responsive to demand.

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t’s good that the city of Lawrence has established specific benchmarks for what constitutes affordable housing, but the city must remain open to changes to the policy as the market changes.

The new system defines not only what an affordable unit is but also how many affordable units a developer must include in a residential project to qualify for economic development incentives from the city. That certainly should make clear for developers what they’re getting into when they seek incentives from the city.

The new policy requires residential developments seeking incentives to set aside 10 percent of the units as affordable if there are fewer than 50 units; 15 percent if there are 50 or more units. The rents established by the city are the fair market rents calculated annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Lawrence market. For example, the fair value rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Lawrence for 2016 is $639 per month, including the cost of essential utilities like water, electricity and gas. For a two-bedroom unit, it’s $835 per month.

For projects that include homes or condos for sale, affordability will be based on income brackets. Payments can’t exceed 30 percent of household income for families that make 80 percent of the area median income.

“I think it gives us a quantifying measure, where we can actually look at something, and instead of just subjectively saying, ‘Oh, I think that is or isn’t affordable,’ we can actually tie it to a fixed market rate we have established,” said City Commissioner Matthew Herbert.

The new incentives policy is designed to address what has been defined as a severe shortage of affordable housing in Lawrence. U.S. Census data show 57 percent of renters and 28 percent of homeowners in Lawrence spend more than 30 percent of their monthly incomes on housing, qualifying them as “cost burdened.”

But it’s also important to note that the city is in the midst of the most rapid rate of apartment construction in its history.

This year, a record number of building permits were issued for apartment construction — more than $40 million in projects adding 1,191 units. In all, an estimated 2,500 new apartment units are in some phase of construction.

That construction is likely to have a significant impact on the Lawrence market and the number of residents who are cost burdened. In turn, those market changes are likely to impact demand for affordable housing in future projects, especially those with only a handful of units.

It’s laudable for the city to try to increase the availability of affordable housing by clearly defining affordability and including it in its economic development incentives policy. But in the long run, changes in market demand may dictate changes in the policy.

TODAY IN HISTORY On Dec. 29, 1916, James Joyce’s first novel, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” was first published in book form in New York after being serialized in London. l In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II. l In 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them. l In 1940, during World War II, Germany dropped incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.” l In 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard. l In 1975, a bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people (it’s never been determined who was responsible).

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Washington — It is axiomatic that if someone is sufficiently eager to disbelieve something, there is no Everest of evidence too large to be ignored. This explains today’s revival of protectionism, which is a plan to make America great again by making it 1953 again.

This was when manufacturing’s postwar share of the labor force peaked at about 30 percent. The decline that

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The apparel industry employs 135,000 Americans.

Can one really justify tariffs that increase the price of clothing for the 45 million in order to save some of the 135,000 low-wage jobs?”

began then was not caused by manufactured imports from today’s designated villain, China, which was a peasant society. Rather, the war-devastated economies of competitor nations were reviving. And, domestically, the age of highly technological manufacturing was dawning.

Since 1900, the portion of the American workforce in agriculture has declined from 40 percent to 2 percent. Output per remaining farmer and per acre has soared since millions of agricultural workers made the modernization trek from farms to more productive employment in city factories. Was this trek regrettable?

According to a Ball State University study, of the 5.6 million manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010, trade accounted for 13 percent of job losses and productivity improvements accounted for more

than 85 percent: “Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production, we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers [in 2010]. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million.” Is this regrettable? China, too, is shedding manufacturing jobs because of productivity improvements.

Douglas A. Irwin of Dartmouth College notes that Chinese imports may have cost almost one million manufacturing jobs in nearly a decade, but “the normal churn of U.S. labor markets results in roughly 1.7 million layoffs every month.”

He notes that here are more than 45 million Americans in poverty, “stretching every dollar they have.” The apparel industry employs 135,000 Americans. Can one really justify tariffs that increase the price of clothing for the 45 million in order to save some of the 135,000 low-wage jobs? Anyway, if tariffs target apparel imports from China, imports will surge from other lowwage developing nations.

The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip, who reports that there currently are 334,000 vacant manufacturing jobs, says that when Jimmy Carter tried to protect U.S. manufacturers by restricting imports of Japanese televisions, imports from South Korea and Taiwan increased. When those were

restricted, Mexican and Singapore manufacturers benefited.

In his book “An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy,” Marc Levinson recalls the 1970 agonies about Japanese bolts, nuts and screws.

Under the 1974 Trade Act, companies or unions claiming “serious injury” — undefined by the law — from imports could demand tariffs to price the imports out of the market. Of the hundreds of U.S. bolt, nut and screw factories, some were, Levinson writes, “highly automated, others so old that gloved workers held individual bolts with tongs to heat them in a forge.” A three-year 15 percent tariff enabled domestic producers to raise their prices, thereby raising the costs of many American manufacturers. By one estimate, each U.S. job “saved” cost $550,000 as the average bolt-nut-screw worker was earning $23,000 annually. And by the mid1980s, inflation-adjusted sales of domestic makers were 15 percent below the 1979 level.

Levinson notes that Ronald Reagan imposed “voluntary restraints” on Japanese automobile exports, thereby creating 44,100 U.S. jobs. But the cost to consumers was $8.5 billion in higher prices, or $193,000 per job created, six times the average annual pay of a U.S. autoworker.

And there were job losses in sectors of the economy

into which the $8.5 billion of consumer spending could not flow. The Japanese responded by sending higherend cars, from which they made higher profits, which they used to build North American assembly plants and to develop more expensive and profitable cars to compete with those of U.S. manufacturers.

In 2012, Barack Obama boasted that “over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires.” But this cost about $900,000 per job, paid by American purchasers of vehicles and tires.

And the Peterson Institute for International Economics says that this money taken from consumers reduced their spending on other retail goods, bringing the net job loss from the job-saving tire tariffs to around 2,500.

And this was before China imposed retaliatory duties on U.S. chicken parts, costing the U.S. industry $1 billion in sales. Imports of low-end tires from Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and elsewhere largely replaced Chinese imports.

The past is prologue.

The future probably will feature many more such self-defeating government interventions in the name of compassion as protectionist America tries to cower its way to being great again.

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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Hospital praise To the editor: Before Christmas my wife and I both ended up in Lawrence Memorial Hospital on the same day. My wife had a knee replacement and I had to go to the emergency room. I just wanted to express my thanks for the exceptional care we experienced. We are quite fortunate to have the quality of care in Lawrence, Kan. The emergency room was run very professionally, and Dr. Trent and Angie and many others on the staff were very kind. Those who have to go to the emergency room are in pain and stressed and scared, but the medical staff remains poised despite tremendous pressure. They are compassionate and treat each person with pleasant courtesy and reassurance. My wife had a very successful knee replacement, thanks to Dr. Wendt and pro therapy in LMH and our family doctor, Dr. Brunfeldt, came to visit.

I know LMH is a top 100 Hospital, but if you ask either of us, it is No. 1.

Thanks to LMH, all the great physicians, staff and technicians for a memorable and successful treatment for us in our moment of need!

Craig Tucker and Judy Northway, Lawrence

WWI repeat?

To the editor: I just finished reading Margaret MacMillan’s massive book called “The War That Ended Peace.” It deals with the gross incompetency of European politicians during the years leading up to the outbreak of World War I. With the exception of France and Great Britain, Europe’s only major de-

mocracies at that time, the sole prerequisites for becoming a foreign policy adviser or an ambassador seemed to be wealth and noble bloodlines. Many of these people were naïve, untrained plutocrats, quite similar to the billionaires President-elect Donald Trump has nominated for his cabinet.

In great detail, MacMillan describes how Kaiser Wilhelm II, a spoiled, illtempered, bellicose “man child” had, over a period of 15 years or so, replaced all of the competent members in his government (including Otto von Bismarck) with militaristic sycophants.

In the end, these men became largely responsible for plunging Germany and all the rest of Europe into the needless, devastating maelstrom of World War I. We as a nation need to pray every day that history will not repeat itself.

James Barnes, Lawrence

Illness is illness To the editor: As a person living with a mental illness, I question why we are not treated the same as people with physical illnesses. When we are in crisis, we often wait weeks to see a doctor or sit in an emergency room for hours — days, oftentimes — before being sent to a psychiatric hospital in another part of the state. There, we are ‘warehoused’ until our insurance runs out or we are deemed well enough to be released.

Unlike people with a physical illness, we can be forced to go to these warehouses against our will while others are jailed for minor offenses arising from their illness.

Psychiatric illnesses are physiological; they are real brain illnesses, not unlike Parkinson’s disease, Alzheim-

er’s disease, stroke, autism and epilepsy. So why are we treated differently?

Maybe it’s because our illnesses are stigmatized with the name “mental illnesses.” Maybe it’s because our illnesses affect how we feel and think, which may lead to unusual behaviors that are troubling and difficult to understand … even for us. But science has shown that thinking and feeling are physical brain activities affected by conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.

Thousands of people in Lawrence are living with a mental illness. We are just like you. Why aren’t we treated at our local hospital like everyone else?

Why can’t we receive emergencyroom or long-term psychiatric treatment in our community when we have a crisis stemming from our illnesses?

Charlie Ross, Lawrence

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Daughter’s death too much, son says Andrea Mandell @andreamandell USA TODAY

Actress Debbie Reynolds died Wednesday after being rushed to a hospital, her son told the Associated Press. She was 84.

“She’s now with Carrie, and we’re all heartbroken,” Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, said from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his mother was taken by ambulance Wednesday.

KEVIN MAZUR He said the Debbie stress of his Reynolds sister Carrie Fisher’s death “was too much” for Reynolds.

Fisher died at a Los Angeles hospital days after suffering a heart attack on a plane Friday.

She was 60.

TMZ said Wednesday morning that Reynolds was at her son’s home in Beverly Hills planning her daughter’s funeral and may have suffered a stroke.

Reynolds’ celebrated career in Hollywood lasted more than 65 years. She starred in memorable films including 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, 1962’s How the West Was Won and 1956’s Bundle of Joy. And there was her true-life role as Carrie Fisher’s mother, the subject of Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel and 1990 film Postcards From the Edge.

Reynolds was married three times, to singer Eddie Fisher; to businessman Harry Karl; and to real estate developer Richard Hamlett.

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Secretary of State John Kerry says construction of Jewish settlements threatens prospects for peace with the Palestinians.

KERRY: U.S. ABSTAINED FOR PEACE IN MIDEAST

The easiest job in American journalism? Even in a year that defied all kinds of easy expectations, that would be identifying the biggest political surprise of 2016 — plus some runners-up.

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Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday defended the controversial decision to abstain on a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements, saying the Obama administration wants to push a two-state solution for peace with Palestinians.

“That is what we are trying to preserve for our sake and (Israel’s),” Kerry said. “We reject the criticism that this vote abandons Israel.”

In a lengthy explanation of his vision for peace in the Middle East, Kerry assailed Israeli settlements on land claimed by Palestinians for an independent state as an obstacle to peace.

Kerry said the settlements put prospects for peace in “jeopardy.”

Kerry said a two-state solution, which calls for an independent Palestinian state existing peacefully alongside Israel, is the only way to guarantee the Jewish state’s long-term security in the region.

“If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both,” Kerry said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had condemned the United States for abstaining in Friday’s Security Council vote, lashed out at Kerry’s speech as “almost as unbalanced as the anti-Israel resolution passed at the U.N.

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Construction is underway in the Har Homa settlement near the Palestinian East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher. last week.”

“Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders,” he said.

The sharp exchange represents another flare-up in the Obama administration’s relationship with Israel. Netanyahu was a leading critic of last year’s nuclear arms deal with Iran.

President-elect Donald Trump, another critic of the nuclear deal, wanted the United States to veto the United Nations resolution and attacked it after it passed.

Before Kerry’s speech Wednesday, Trump tweeted, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”

Trump will be inaugurated as

Donald Trump is the oldest person elected to a first term in the White House — and the one with the highest negative ratings.

1. PRESIDENT TRUMP

president Jan. 20.

The city of Jerusalem had planned to approve permits Wednesday for the construction of hundreds of homes for Israelis in East Jerusalem, but it postponed a vote, so Kerry could give his speech outlining the Obama administration’s vision for peace.

The committee could approve the construction permits at a later date.

About 600,000 Israeli settlers live on land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that both Israel and Palestinians claim rights to.

In addition to condemning Israeli settlements as a “flagrant violation” of international law, the U.N. resolution condemned Palestinian attacks on Israelis.

Palestinian Authority Presi-

There was wide skepticism he would run, few predictions he could claim the Republican presidential nomination and disbelief among most of the pros he could win the White House on Election Day. But Donald Trump, real estate mogul and reality TV star, is poised to be inaugurated as the nation’s 45th president next month.

By multiple measures, he’s a historic figure as commander in chief: the first president to have neither governmental nor military command experience.

He’s the candidate with the highest negative ratings of any winning contender in the history of polling and the oldest person elected to a first term in the White House — and, based on the financial disclosure forms filed when he started his bid, the richest.

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Police petition Amazon for Alexa’s memory of fatal night Digital assistant may have record of killing Elizabeth Weise @eweise USATODAY

SAN FRANCISCO How much does Alexa remember? Police in Arkansas want to find out.

In what may be a first, they asked Amazon for recordings potentially made by an Echo device in connection with a murder investigation.

Police in Bentonville, Ark., re-

quested that Amazon provide audio and other records from an Echo digital assistant in the home of James Andrew Bates after Victor Collins was found dead in Bates’ hot tub last year, The Information website reported.

The Amazon Echo is an always-on digital assistant that can answer questions, order items and stream music, among other tasks. It supports Amazon’s voicerecognition program, Alexa, which operates in the cloud.

Bates was charged with killing Collins on Nov. 22, 2015.

The two had been drinking and watching football with two other friends in Bates’ home. One of the

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Amazon’s Echo voice-activated speaker carries implications for users’ privacy.

friends left, but Collins and another stayed, the affidavit for a search warrant said.

The cause of death for Collins was strangulation with drowning as a secondary cause, according to police. Bates was arrested and charged with the murder and is out on bail.

In a statement to USA TODAY, Amazon said it will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on it.

Amazon did give prosecutors information about Bates’ account and purchase history.

The Echo keeps less than 60 seconds of recorded sound in its

storage buffer. As new sound is recorded, the old is erased.

Users need to be aware that all Internet of Things devices might be implicated in criminal investigations, said Marc Rotenberg, president of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit group in Washington.

To protect privacy, “there should be clear legal standards established for law enforcement access.

And manufacturers should adopt techniques for data minimization and data deletion.

Devices that retain data will be the targets not only of law enforcement officials but also criminal hackers,” Rotenberg said.

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2. DYNASTIES DEFEATED

Trump’s path to the nomination plowed through the two leading families in American politics.

First, in the Republican primaries, Trump vanquished the GOP’s most successful dynasty, the Bushes, the family that fielded two of America’s four most recent presidents. Though former Florida governor Jeb Bush started his bid with the most money in the bank and establishment endorsements in his pocket, he failed to fuel the fervent support that Trump commanded. “Lowenergy,” Trump devastatingly dubbed him.

After four generations of family members serving in the Senate, the House, the Texas and Florida Governors’ Mansions and the White House, the sole Bush in elective office at the moment is George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner and the 40-yearold great-grandson of the late Connecticut senator Prescott Bush, who launched what would become the family business.

In the general election, Trump defeated the most powerful family in Democratic politics. Bill and Hillary Clinton have been central figures in defining the Democratic Party since Bill ousted George H.W. Bush from the White House in 1992.

Though the Clintons are nothing if not resilient, the family’s era may be over: Sixty-two percent of Democrats and independents in the USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released last week said Hillary Clinton shouldn’t make another run for the job in four years.

3. THE OBAMA DISCONNECT

After two terms, Barack Obama is moving out of the White House with a healthy job approval rating, 54% in the latest USA TODAY survey.

He took over eight years ago at a time of financial calamity and leaves office with a recovering economy and an unemployment rate that has been slashed in half.

Even so, he will turn over his office to his political nemesis.

Trump initially gained attention in the political world as a provocateur of the “birther” issue,

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Although Hillary Clinton’s campaign organization swamped Trump’s campaign organization in fundraising, she still lost. pressing discredited questions about whether Obama had been born in the USA. Six in 10 Americans in last week’s USA TODAY poll predicted Trump will significantly dismantle Obama’s legacy.

Since World War II, an outgoing president’s approval rating has been a key indicator of whether his party’s voters will turn out for the candidate to succeed him, an analysis by Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz found, and no modern president campaigned as vigorously for his chosen successor as Obama did. Hillary Clinton still lost.

That disconnect and its potential consequences for his place in history seem to rankle Obama, who said in an interview released Monday that he and his message could have prevailed — that is, if the 22nd Amendment hadn’t barred him from a third term.

“If I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” he told former adviser David Axelrod.

Trump disagreed. “NO WAY!” he replied in a tweet.

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President Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office two days after the election.

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Sanders, a 74-year-old self-declared socialist, gained traction.

4. FEEL THE BERN

A 74-year-old self-declared socialist from Vermont who has never been a registered Democrat came close to winning the party’s presidential nomination this year.

Meet Bernie Sanders.

Sanders’ success in the Democratic primaries demonstrated the power of the rising Millennial generation (at least when young voters are enthused about a candidate), the fundraising potential of small online contributions over traditional big-dollar donors and the resurgence of the party’s more liberal wing.

After four decades of Democrats being told they had to move to the center to win, Sanders was defiantly liberal, tugging Clinton to the left on trade and college aid.

The debate over the Democrats’ direction hasn’t ended, especially as the party’s congressional leaders calculate how to counter the new Republican president. (See Surprise No. 1.) Note that Sanders has left open the possibility of running for president again.

So has Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another hero of the left.

6. MONEY? MEH.

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U.S. intelligence agencies concluded with “high confidence” that hackers with ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin broke into U.S. networks.

5. MOSCOW MEDDLING

Foreign leaders have had preferences in previous American elections, but never before have they done so much to affect the outcome. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded with “high confidence” that hackers with ties to the Kremlin broke into the computer networks for the Democratic National Committee, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and others and orchestrated leaks designed to hurt Clinton’s chances of being elected.

Obama has ordered an investigation that is supposed to be concluded before Trump takes office and takes charge, among other things, of U.S.-Russian relations.

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What the 2016 campaign demonstrated wasn’t that money didn’t matter. It’s that other factors mattered more.

Trump won the GOP nomination over better-financed rivals, including Jeb Bush. Then he won the general election against an opponent who raised and spent more in about every major category.

Clinton’s campaign organization swamped Trump’s in fundraising, $623.1 million to $329.4 million, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed by the end of last month.

The disparity among supportive super PACs was even wider: $204.3 million behind Clinton to $79 million backing Trump.

Only in party and joint fundraising committees was there anything close to parity, and even there, Clinton and Democratic groups raised more, $595.4 million to $524 million.

In all, Trump’s campaign and its supportive affiliates spent $932.3 million; Clinton, $1.4 billion.

In 2016, you might say message and the moment trumped money.

Quieter tornado year has Kerry cautions fewest deaths since 1986 Israel Doyle Rice

PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER

One must take one’s hat off to him: Trump defeated the most powerful family in Democratic politics: the Clintons.

dent Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he is ready to resume peace talks with Israel if it halts settlement construction.

Prospects for resuming longdormant negotiations soon seem highly unlikely as long as Israel’s government supports expanded settlements and Palestinians persist in attacking Israelis with knives and other weapons.

Kerry, acknowledging the difficulty of resuscitating peace talks, said Netanyahu’s ruling coalition is “the most rightwing in Israel’s history.”

“The settler agenda is defining the future of Israel. And their stated purpose is clear: They believe in one state,” Kerry said. The secretary, whose four-year tenure ends next month, revived his plan for a peace agreement, which includes negotiated borders for Israel and a Palestinian state, formal recognition of each other’s sovereignty and access to holy sites in Jerusalem.

@usatodayweather USA TODAY

From floods to wildfires, 2016 featured several weather disasters, but a big, deadly tornado outbreak was not one of them.

Tornadoes killed 17 Americans this year, the fewest in 30 years and the second fewest since accurate records began in 1950. In 1986, 15 died, which is the least on record, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Unofficial records from before 1950 show only one other year with so few deaths: 1910, which had 12.

The number of tornadoes was also well below average this year: 901 reported through Dec. 27. An average year sees 1,061 tornadoes, according to data from the prediction center.

This made it the third-quietest year in the past 10 years.

“We didn’t see one of the big, classic tornado outbreaks,” according to Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist at the prediction center. There was no overarching meteorological reason for the less-active year, he said, just noting that

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A tornado touches down near Wynnewood, Okla., in May. The tornado-prone Plains saw fewer twisters than normal.

“we got into a pattern in which we didn’t get all the ingredients coming together.”

Deadly tornadoes spun up in the Southeast in January and February. That’s a typical location for twisters during El Niño years such as 2016, Marsh said.

Another unusual statistic this year was that February was the second-most-active month for tornadoes, with 138 reported,

Marsh said. Though May was the busiest month, as is typical, February is usually among the quietest.

On Feb. 23-24, twisters killed seven people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia, making February the deadliest month of the year as well. May had 239 tornadoes and two deaths.

Spring and summer saw lower counts over the main tornadoprone regions of the USA, including the Plains and South, according to AccuWeather.

Five people died in tornadoes in the South in November.

For the second year in a row, the Storm Prediction Center did not issue a single “high risk” forecast area, which is issued when the chance for severe weather is greatest.

No widespread areas of severe thunderstorms are forecast anywhere in the USA over the next three days, so this year’s tornado tally is probably final.

Looking ahead to 2017, “there is no way to forecast the annual number of tornadoes, and they do fluctuate a great deal from year to year,” said meteorologist Mike Smith of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions.

In 2011, tornadoes killed 553 Americans, mostly in horrific outbreaks in Alabama and Missouri.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch

STORY STOCKS Price: $18.68 Day’s high: $19.55

Once-bullish January turns treacherous Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

January used to be a bullish month for U.S. stocks. But not so in recent years.

Since 2000, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index has posted losses in January 10 of the past 17 years, including a 5.1% drop in 2016. (The index posted gains in the seven Januarys prior to 2000.) January now ranks No. 6 out of the 12 months in terms of performance, The Stock Trader’s Almanac says.

January has a reputation for setting the tone for the full year.

The old saying, “As January goes, so goes the year” fits for the S&P 500. The “January Barometer,” devised by the Almanac’s Yale Hirsch in 1972, has had only eight

SPX

-18.96

INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

CLOSE: 19,833.68 CHANGE: -.6% PREV. CLOSE: 19,945.04 YTD: +2,408.65 YTD % CHG: +13.8% RANGE: 19,827.31-19,981.11

Change -$0.95 % chg -4.8%

-48.88

RUT

-16.88

CLOSE: 5,438.56 PREV. CLOSE: 5,487.44 RANGE: 5,434.70-5,498.91

Change -$0.85 % chg -1.7%

Day’s high: $50.46 Low: $49.45

$65.75

Nov. 30

Dec. 28

4-WEEK TREND $60

The airliner canceled its deal with Boeing to purchase 18 of its 787 Dreamliners. Delta inherited the order via its 2008 merger with Northwest. Delta and Boeing did not reveal the details of their agreement to end the $4 billion order.

$49.51

$40

Nov. 30

Dec. 28

Coach (COH) Rises amid reports of Kate Spade purchase.

RUSSELL

17,500

June

RUSSELL 2000 INDEX

Price

$ Chg

35.14

+.70

+2.0 +1.8

Constellation Brands (STZ) Positive company notes, advances.

+.8

152.39

+1.25

NASDAQ COMPOSITE

+7.4 -34.7 +7.0

32.78

+.19

+.6

+82.2

Michael Kors (KORS) Rises along with Coach on Kate Spade talks.

43.14

+.22

+.5

+7.7

89.98

+.38

+.4

+.11

+.4

unch.

Verisign (VRSN) Positive note, fund manager boosts.

76.99

+.24

+.3

-11.9

Urban Outfitters (URBN) Climbs as fund manager buys.

28.73

+.09

+.3

+26.3

McCormick (MKC) Fund managers hold/reveal, shares rise.

92.79

+.21

+.2

+8.5

Price

$ Chg

YTD % Chg % Chg

109.25

-8.07

-6.9 +231.5

7.23

-.36

-4.7 +60.7

49.69

-2.08

-4.0

-33.4

First Solar (FSLR) 32.80 Positive outlook long term after negative first few years.

-1.19

-3.5

-50.3

Mosaic (MOS) 29.06 Breaks winning streak and nearly evens December.

-.98

-3.3

+5.3

Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Reverses gain on positive company note.

Mallinckrodt (MNK) Short-seller critical on Acthar drug.

2,250

2,249.92

2,050

4,600

June

Dec.

June

AP

Fund, ranked by size Vanguard 500Adml Vanguard TotStIAdm Vanguard InstIdxI Vanguard TotStIdx Vanguard InstPlus Vanguard TotIntl Vanguard TotStIIns American Funds GrthAmA m Fidelity Contra Vanguard WelltnAdm

NAV 207.57 56.33 204.82 56.31 204.83 14.61 56.33 42.38 99.31 67.52

Chg. -1.71 -0.48 -1.69 -0.49 -1.69 -0.02 -0.49 -0.29 -0.78 -0.27

4wk 1 +2.4% +2.3% +2.4% +2.3% +2.4% +1.5% +2.3% +1.8% +1.1% +2.5%

YTD 1 +12.5% +13.2% +12.5% +13.0% +12.5% +3.8% +13.2% +9.3% +4.3% +11.2%

49.22

-1.43

-2.8 +32.4

Albemarle (ALB) Reverses early drop and evens month.

86.58

-2.43

-2.7 +54.6

Perrigo (PRGO) Drops to month’s low in losing sector.

82.84

-2.34

Apache (APA) 64.59 Negative industry note, December now a losing month.

-1.75

30.35

-.81

-2.7

-42.8

-2.6 +45.2 -2.6

-9.3

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SECTOR

PERFORMANCE DAILY YTD

Energy

-1.1%

25.5%

Industrials

-1.0%

17.8%

Materials

-1.0%

15.2%

Technology

-0.9%

13.8%

Utilities

-0.9%

11.3%

Consumer discret. -0.7%

5.2%

Consumer staples -0.6%

2.5%

Telcom

-0.4%

1.0%

Financials

-1.0%

-1.9%

Health care

-0.8%

-4.1%

1 – CAPITAL GAINS AND DIVIDENDS REINVESTED

ETF, ranked by volume SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr VanE Vect Gld Miners Dir Dly Gold Bull3x CS VelSh 3xInvrsNGs Dirx Jr GoldMin Bull iShs Emerg Mkts SPDR Financial Barc iPath Vix ST ProShs Ultra VIX ST iShares Rus 2000

Ticker SPY GDX NUGT DGAZ JNUG EEM XLF VXX UVXY IWM

Close 224.40 20.24 7.11 2.78 5.24 34.69 23.37 24.62 8.16 135.25

Chg. -1.87 +0.37 +0.39 -0.29 +0.46 +0.26 -0.24 +0.80 +0.53 -1.40

% Chg -0.8% +1.9% +5.8% -9.4% +9.6% +0.8% -1.0% +3.4% +6.9% -1.0%

%YTD +10.1% +47.5% unch.

-77.8% unch. +7.8% +20.8% unch. unch. +20.1%

INTEREST RATES

MORTGAGE RATES

Type Prime lending Federal funds 3 mo. T-bill 5 yr. T-note 10 yr. T-note

Type 30 yr. fixed 15 yr. fixed 1 yr. ARM 5/1 ARM

Close 6 mo ago 3.75% 3.50% 0.66% 0.41% 0.51% 0.23% 2.03% 1.01% 2.51% 1.47%

Close 6 mo ago 4.16% 3.54% 3.34% 2.72% 3.11% 2.82% 3.50% 2.86%

SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM

COMMODITIES

Garmin (GRMN) Rating downgraded to hold at Zacks.

Dec.

MARKET PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR

TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS 29.42

Nvidia (NVDA) Falls on Citron’s negative note.

STANDARD & POOR’S 500

5,400

-19.3

Under Armour (UAA) Winning UCLA deal pushes shares up.

Company (ticker symbol)

Dec.

TOP 10 MUTUAL FUNDS

Newmont Mining (NEM) Has solid afternoon as it finishes project in Chile.

Ralph Lauren (RL) Buying opportunity, makes up early loss.

5,438.56

YTD % Chg % Chg

Allergan (AGN) 204.06 +3.57 Expected to lead migraine relief market, shares up.

Invesco (IVZ) All-day drop finds December’s low.

19,833.68

20,000

CLOSE: 1,360.83 CHANGE: -1.2% PREV. CLOSE: 1,377.71 YTD: +224.94 YTD % CHG: +19.8% RANGE: 1,359.22-1,379.26

Company (ticker symbol)

LOSERS

$60

Delta Air Lines

S&P 500

S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS/LOSERS GAINERS

$80

The chip maker was fined by South Korea’s antitrust regulator for its patent royalty activities and unfair sales practices. The fine is roughly $850 million.

Along with a negative industry note, shares gapped down premarket.

Price: $49.51

Dec. 28

4-WEEK TREND

Qualcomm

% chg -2.2%

Nov. 30

CLOSE: 2,249.92 CHANGE: -.8% PREV. CLOSE: 2,268.88 YTD: +205.98 YTD % CHG: +10.1% RANGE: 2,249.11-2,271.31

COMPOSITE

CHANGE: -.9% YTD: +431.14 YTD % CHG: +8.6%

$5

Price: $65.75 Day’s high: $67.07 Low: $65.70 Change -$1.50

$18.68

$25

The regional drugstore chain enacted a poison pill plan after a hedge fund bought an almost 25% stake in the company. Fred’s is in negotiations with Rite Aid to acquire 865 stores it needs to sell to close its merger with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

STANDARD & POOR'S

NASDAQ

COMP

4-WEEK TREND

DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS

DOW JONES

DJIA

Low: $18.41

Fred’s

major errors since 1950 and has an accuracy rate of close to 90%.

Still, the January Barometer got it wrong this year. Despite a 5.1% drop in January 2016, the S&P 500 is up 11% with two trading days to go in the year.

The good news? The S&P 500 has posted an average January gain of 0.7% in the first year of a president’s term since 1950. So, with Donald Trump set to move into the White House in January, the chances are good that positive gains in the first month of 2017 will translate into a full-year gain.

That said, how the S&P 500 fares in the first five trading days of January 2017 could serve as an “early warning” signal as to how the full year will play out. In postpresidential election years, the first five trading days of the year has correctly predicted the fullyear market direction 12 of 16 times, the Almanac says.

MAJOR INDEXES -111.36

ALL THE MARKET ACTION IN REAL TIME. MARKETS.USATODAY.COM

Commodities Close Prev.

Cattle (lb.)

1.16 1.15 Corn (bushel) 3.48 3.55 Gold (troy oz.)

1,139.40 1,137.30 Hogs, lean (lb.) .65 .65 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.93 3.76 Oil, heating (gal.)

1.70 1.70 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

54.06 53.90 Silver (troy oz.)

15.99 15.93 Soybeans (bushel) 10.07 10.15 Wheat (bushel) 4.01 4.10

Chg. +0.01 -0.07 +2.10 unch. +0.17 unch. +0.16 +0.06 -0.08 -0.09

% Chg. +0.9% -1.9% +0.2% unch. +4.5% unch. +0.3% +0.4% -0.8% -2.0%

% YTD -14.6% -2.9% +7.5% +8.9% +68.2% +54.4% +46.0% +16.1% +15.6% -14.6%

Close .8183 1.3558 6.9548 .9609 117.19 20.7547

Prev. .8147 1.3571 6.9497 .9562 117.45 20.7567

12.95

Close 11,474.99 21,754.74 19,401.72 7,106.08 45,563.18

30

10

6 mo. ago .7495 1.3056 6.6481 .9051 102.79 18.8110

Yr. ago .6718 1.3896 6.4893 .9112 120.34 17.2505

40

Prev. Change 11,472.24 +2.75 21,574.76 +179.98 19,403.06 -1.34 7,068.17 +37.91 45,299.67 +263.51

15

IN-DEPTH MARKETS COVERAGE USATODAY.COM/MONEY

22.92

7.5

%Chg. YTD % unch. +6.8% +0.8% -0.7% unch. +1.9% +0.5% +13.8% +0.6% +6.0%

SOURCES: MORNINGSTAR, DOW JONES INDEXES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

+0.95 (+7.9%)

S&P 500 P/E RATIO The price-to-earnings ratio, based on trailing 12-month “operating” earnings:

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FOREIGN CURRENCIES Currency per dollar British pound Canadian dollar Chinese yuan Euro Japanese yen Mexican peso

CBOE VOLATILITY INDEX Measures expected market volatility based on S&P 500 index options pricing:

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DIGITAL DOLLARS

DirecTV Now is newest option for cord cutters Is AT&T’s streaming service a fit for you? Maybe Mike Snider @mikesnider USA TODAY

AT&T is making its play for cord cutters and mobile video junkies with DirecTV Now, a Net TV service that has been live more than three weeks now.

During its introductory launch

period, DirecTV Now is letting newcomers check out more than 100 channels for free for seven days and after that for $35 monthly. You can keep that monthly price as long as you remain a customer.

What channels are we talking about? AMC, CNBC, CNN, Discovery, Disney, ESPN, ESPNU, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC Sports, Nickelodeon and TBS, some local

broadcast channels and regional sports networks in certain markets. Eventually, that package will cost $60 monthly, with others ranging from $35 to $70 monthly.

In addition to linear live-streaming channels, DirecTV Now has on-demand programming, too.

Among the pluses: No annual contract, and you don’t need a satellite dish, as with standard DirecTV, or a pay-TV set-top box.

If you are a Roku devotee, you will have to wait. So far, the ser-

vice is available on Apple TV, iPhones and iPads, Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecasts, Android phones and tablets, computers and Google Cast TVs from China’s LeEco. Watching recently, I encountered little of the freezing video and error messages some viewers reported. I watched on a tablet and smartphone connected via Wi-Fi at home and at work and on an Ethernet cable connected to my router to an Apple TV to

watch on a big screen. Only a few times did I see pixelated video and once did I see video freeze. I was also able to watch my local news on Fox and NBC. For now, CBS, as well as CBSowned Showtime, are not on the service. And if you need a DVR, you may want to wait for DirecTV Now to add that functionality.

Sports fans, take note: DirecTV Now doesn’t gain you access to the satellite service’s popular NFL Sunday Ticket service.

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Two wrongs don’t make one roommate right Dear Annie: I live with four other people in a big old house outside Boston. Two of the roommates are a couple, ‘’Jeremy’’ and ‘’Rachel.’’ Rachel is a very close friend of mine and has been for about 10 years, ever since we met in college. She and Jeremy live downstairs, while the other three of us live upstairs.

Jeremy and Rachel have been together for three years, and I liked Jeremy fine — until we moved in together.

The past year has been a war. He and I started butting heads pretty much immediately. He kept using my condiments and leaving my TV on. (I keep it in the living room downstairs.) I had to tell him to stop several times before he finally did.

Dear Annie

Annie Lane

dearannie@creators.com

Well, things really came to a head yesterday. I was about a month late paying him my portion of the heating bill, and he texted me to ask for it. I told him I would have it to him when I get paid this week. He said, ‘’What about the money Rachel lent you last month?’’

I lost my cool and told him it wasn’t his money or his business. He immediately wrote back, ‘’Whoa,

TLC shares kids’ weird collections Don’t dare call it clutter. TLC presents “My Kid’s Obsession” (9 p.m.), a one-hour special celebrating how young people demonstrate their passions by creating unique collections of most peculiar objects.

When I was a kid, I knew somebody who fancied himself a collector of pocket combs and would pick them up off the street.

My other friends and I weren’t exactly clean freaks, but we found that a bit icky. But his comb fetish had nothing on the collections featured here, including one belonging to Reese, an 11-year-old from Wisconsin with an impressive number of fans.

Some of these juvenile curators are quite specific. Iowa native Logan, 14, covets a very particular brand of vacuum cleaner.

One he’s wanted for years. Years!

Imagine being 14 and having that kind of attention span. But before judging a teenage Hoover collector, consider Shelby, 10, from Oklahoma. The girl collects cockroaches. Lots of them.

While some see amassing objects as a reflection of individualism, siblings Spike, 12, and Katie, 8, have teamed forces to achieve their goal of creating the world’s largest collection of fishing lures.

Their folks must be so proud.

O Indiana and Utah meet in the Foster Farms Bowl (7:30 p.m., Fox).

Not to be confused with the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl (8 p.m., ESPN) pitting Texas A&M against Kansas State.

O With college bowl games popping up all over, the SEC Network glances back more than half a century to “SEC Storied: Before They Were Cowboys” (8 p.m.) to recall how Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson teamed up to help lead the 1964 Arkansas Razorbacks football squad to its only undefeated season and how that moment contributed to their legends. Produced by ESPN Films.

O Travel Channel continues its week of ‘‘Chillcation’’ programming, celebrating frigid climes.

“Expedition Unknown” (8 p.m.) goes to Siberia, South Korea and the North Pole in search of DNA belonging to the long-extinct woolly mammoth, in the hopes that this long-frozen genetic material can be used to bring the pachyderms back to life. Good idea? I think not.

Tonight’s other highlights

O TBS invites viewers to binge

on the first season of “People of Earth” (6:30 p.m. to midnight).

O A fashion retailer finds his stores disorganized on “Undercover Boss” (7 p.m., CBS).

O To endure harsh winters, wolves and buffalo share an uneasy truce on a 2013 episode of “Nature” (7 p.m., PBS, check local listings).

O Luke and Manny strive to be student leaders on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., ABC, r).

O Mouch faces questions after Platt is attacked on “Chicago P.D.” (9 p.m., NBC, r).

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whoa, OK, Friday is fine. Pay me back whenever.’’ But it was too late for him to try to backtrack, and I let him have a piece of my mind. I told him to go to hell or at the very least get out of our house. I may have used even more colorful language than that.

I was just so floored by his rudeness.

Now Rachel says she’s angry with both of us for handling ourselves the way we did.

She says she knows that Jeremy can be annoying, but she’s hurt that I would act so hatefully toward her boyfriend. He’s trying to find a place to stay temporarily because I told him I don’t want him living here.

I am not apologizing. I am the one who has been wronged here. Right? — Mad in

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Thursday, Dec. 29: This year you have a unique opportunity heading your way. If you are single, you might not meet someone who knocks your socks off before the second half of 2017.

If you are attached, be sensitive to your partner, as he or she might be going through an identity crisis.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ++++ Take charge of a situation rather than be spontaneous and impulsive. You could be dealing with a higher-up. Tonight: Adjust to the moment.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++++ Take an overview, and you’ll gain a perspective that allows you to come up with a solution. Tonight: Surround yourself with music.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ One-on-one relating can be challenging, but with your skill set it doesn’t have to be. Tonight: Out with a favorite person.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Defer to others, and do a better job of listening to what is being requested. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Schedules often need adjusting, and you might need to change your plans accordingly.

Tonight: Pace yourself.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ Understand that a

Massachusetts Dear Mad: No matter how bad you think Jeremy is, cursing him out just made you worse.

Let’s review Morality 101: Two wrongs don’t make a right; they just make a mess.

And your friend, by the way, is in the middle of that mess.

Apologize to Jeremy for the outburst, but let him know that you do have some valid concerns about living with him. Find a way to tolerate each other, at least until the lease is up. There is enough drama in the world without friends tearing each other apart over condiments and heating bills.

— Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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child or loved one could be changing right in front of you. Tonight: Play it light and easy.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ You might have a lot to do in order to get the results you desire. Tonight: Settle into a leisurely evening.

Scorpio: (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Be willing to express your thoughts and feelings, but give yourself leeway to change your mind in a discussion. Tonight: At a favorite haunt.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Remember how different others’ perspectives can be.

Take a good look at your finances, as there could be a problem. Tonight: Be a couch potato.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ You could create a problem. You might be surprised by how certain matters play out.

Tonight: Make some time for a special friend or loved one.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++ You might be much more serious than you have been in the past. How you see a personal matter is subject to change.

Tonight: Off by yourself.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++++ You often distort what you hear and see, which transforms the issue to suit your agenda. Tonight: Enjoy great music.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy Parker December 29, 2016 ACROSS 1 Seemingly cuddly bear 6 ___ Gras 11 Poppa 14 “___-face!” (military shout) 15 Vegetable that brings tears 16 Reproductive cells 17 Fishy shout from a frustrated couple?

19 Fabray or Goldin 20 The best score, in golf 21 Conclusion for “psych” 22 Edmonton football team 25 Place for a thoroughbred 27 Little bit of food 28 Tied up tightly 30 Habitually misbehaving child 31 City known for rubber 32 Parked it 35 Floating biblical sanctuary 36 Eases up or off 38 Poem of homage 39 Ham sandwich option 40 Fertile bit of desert land 41 Having a common ancestor 42 He sang “On the Road Again”

12/29

44 Palooka 46 Servile toady 48 Having “I” problems?

49 Soothing bubble bath ingredient 50 Unnatural lack of skin color 52 Homer’s next-door neighbor 53 Fishy plea for mercy?

58 You-here separator 59 Like some campfire stories 60 Regard as wonderful 61 “___ been a while” 62 Sound from an old floorboard 63 Like a dirty chimney DOWN 1 What a friendly dog offers 2 Mr. Lincoln’s first name, casually 3 Thanksgiving mo.

4 Competitor with a sword 5 Not away 6 Styles or manners 7 Sentence extenders 8 Be an unruly prisoner 9 One of Snow White’s friends 10 It goes on the dotted line

11 Fishy shout to a wallflower?

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Wichita moms struggle with school, homelessness

By Roy Wenzl The Wichita Eagle

Wichita (ap) — Heidi sleeps most nights in her pickup with her two boys, ages 1 and 5.

She parks in one of Wichita’s truck stops.

They allow public access and don’t seem inclined to run people off, she told The Wichita Eagle.

She drives there after work, after dark, and after she picks up her 1-year-old from his babysitter, and her 5-year-old from his school.

The younger boy runs around with seemingly boundless energy, laughing.

It’s tiring just to watch him.

When it gets cold at night (it got down to 18 degrees on Tuesday), Heidi, 29 years old, wakes up every two hours or so.

She turns on the engine.

After the cab gets warm, she turns it off.

The Wichita school district is working with Heidi and at least six other Wichita families with schoolchildren who are living and sleeping at night in their cars.

Shelters for the homeless are nearly all full, especially when the weather gets cold, said Cynthia Martinez.

She runs the homeless student education office in Wichita’s school district.

The shelters don’t do waiting lists, she said. If you’re homeless like Heidi, you call, and call, and hope you call before someone else gets in, Martinez said.

Another obstacle that homeless parents like Heidi face, she said: Some shelters don’t let parents leave their children in the shelter unattended, if, like Heidi, they have a job.

Martinez and her staff identify homeless kids at the beginning of a school year. They find them transportation and try to keep them in the same school the whole year. At times, with a limited budget, they find them shoes, clothes, food, toothpaste.

The number decreased from 2,400 two years ago to 1,940 last year in part because the district has gotten better at helping families find food, shelter and

transportation before they are forced into homelessness.

Martinez identified and helped 1,549 students by mid-December, including 10 high school children living on the streets and 60 more high-schoolers “couch surfing” with friends or relatives. There are 28 students sleeping outside or in cars, abandoned buildings or campgrounds, she said.

“The homeless kids and their families go to QuikTrips and take care of themselves (wash) in the bathrooms,” she said. “You can’t imagine some of the emotional struggles they have, about how they are sleeping tonight, or the worries about where they will stay tomorrow, or what and when they will eat.”

“It’s tough for them, but at least they are attending school,” she continued. It’s a point of pride for her that several homeless school children graduate from Wichita schools every year.

Some parents, when Martinez and her staff encounter them, seem “traumatized, heartbroken, devastated” by finding themselves homeless.

“Others seem to go into a survival mode. They just learn to take it day by day.”

Lynn sometimes steals food for her children. Until her car died, she slept in the car with the kids, with a switchblade knife in easy reach.

She did not want her full name used for this story because she doesn’t want kids at her children’s schools to know they have been homeless. She lived in the car for several months; after the car died several weeks ago, Michelle Drake, a social worker with the homeless education program run by Martinez, helped her find the apartment she lives in now. Lynn got the apartment by saying she’d pay rent, from money owed to her for child support. But the man didn’t pay the support, so she has no money for rent.

In the car, she’d find a cul-de-sac or some other quiet place, and park it in the dark, hoping police would not run her off.

“As a mother, you don’t

sleep in a car,” she said.

“You watch all angles, and you have to be ready with the knife.”

They were never attacked, or even bothered.

But those night vigils wore on her.

When she had the car, they’d eaten regularly at the Lord’s Diner downtown, which feeds all comers seven nights a week; but walking from her apartment to the diner and back would mean a fourmile walk in the dark, too much for her elementaryschool-age daughter.

Explaining this, she began to cry.

She uses food stamps, but they are not enough.

She steals from Dillons and QuikTrips. She takes bread, canned vegetables, ramen noodles “and sometimes those little wieners in cans.”

“I don’t steal for me. I steal for my kids.”

She steals sometimes because her daughter asks her, “when will we eat again?”

Living without a permanent home is hard on the children, Martinez said.

They move a lot; relatives or friends get tired of sharing a dwelling with them, or they move to another hotel. Or they park their cars in different places to sleep. It’s hard to do homework when moving around, or when living where there isn’t a table to write on.

“But you’d be amazed at how dedicated many of them are about keeping their kids in school,” Martinez said.

Heidi said she is trying to make sure her 5-year-old attends school.

“I was actually a standout student and was on the student council,” said Heidi, who grew up in Hutchinson. “I know how important school is.”

She never thought she’d sleep with kids in a truck at a truck stop.

Some homeless people, as Martinez said, end up that way because of problems with mental illness or drugs and alcohol, but Heidi said she doesn’t smoke or drink or take drugs. Or have mental illness.

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kids, and she ran up debts.

After that, she said, after she found shelters full, she found truck stops.

After she gets off work at 3 p.m. Heidi picks up her boys, one from the babysitter, one from the school.

She feeds them in the truck, a bag supper bought at a QuikTrip. She eats, sleeps and helps with the older boy’s kindergarten schoolwork in a 16-yearold pickup packed as high as the seat backs with blankets, backpacks, food and drink containers, clothes, shoes and two car seats.

She started sleeping at the truck stops in August, when it was hot outside.

She has a job that went full time recently, she said: She’s a contract security officer for a Wichita company she declined to name.

She has relatives in southern Kansas, but for reasons she declined to describe, she can’t stay with them often. They did take her in on several recent cold nights.

She has a third child who stays with his father.

But the younger boys’ father “just kind of ran out on us,” she said.

She ran up a debt at her last apartment, got evicted, and is making payments; the eviction has made it difficult to get a new apartment.

With her full-time job, she will make about $500 a week, she said, but her 1-year-old’s babysitter costs $150 a week. Between that, and food, gasoline and debt payments, she can’t save money beyond expenses so far even with the food stamps she gets.

Like Lynn, she’s always on guard at night. “I never truly sleep.”

She keeps a container of pepper spray within easy reach, and keeps the truck locked with the windows rolled up; this was hard to do in August and September. “It got really hot and stuffy in the truck, but you don’t want to have the windows down too much.”

She’s trying to find housing, and how to pay for it.

She has no idea how or when this living arrangement will play out.

“But crying about it isn’t doing anything to help.”

“It will all work out in the end. I know God is working for me.”

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Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Holiday Happenings, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holcom Park Center, 2700 W. 27th St. Downtown Grocery Committee Monthly Public Meeting, 9-10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library Meeting Room C, 707 Vermont St. Toddler Storytime, 9:30-10 a.m. and 10:3011 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Cottin’s Hardware Farmers Market indoors, 4-6 p.m., Cottin’s Hardware and Rental, 1832 Massachusetts St. Dinner and Junkyard Jazz, 5:30 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Weekly Tango

Lessons and Dancing, 7:30-10:30 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Don’t Miss: Karaoke New Year’s Eve Party, 9 p.m.- 2 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 31, The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St.

FINAL FRIDAY: DEC. 30

Holiday Happenings, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holcom Park Center, 2700 W. 27th St. Build your own Menorah (children’s event), 11 a.m., Home Depot, 1910 W. 31st St. Career Clinic, 1-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Health Spot, 707 Vermont St. Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W.

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1 SUNDAY

The Lawrence Transit System will not operate on Jan. 1.

The Lawrence Public Library will be closed through Monday, Jan. 2.

New Year’s Day Run (Free Community Run/ Walk), 9 a.m., Ad Astra Running, 734 Massachusetts St. Don’t Miss: John Lee: Life-Changing Truths Workshop, noon-6 p.m., Personal Power Wholeness (formally Pilates Studio), 3115 W. Sixth St. Call 316-2098865 to reserve.

Don’t Miss: Karaoke New Year’s Eve Party, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St. The Lawrence Public Library will be closed Saturday through Monday, Jan. 2.

Red Dog’s Fun Run, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelers, 833 Massachusetts St. American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 2 MONDAY p.m., first games 6:45 Solid waste collecp.m., snack bar 5-8 p.m., tion: Monday commercial American Legion Post No. routes will be completed

on Tuesday.

City offices will be closed Monday. See lawrenceks.org for more information.

Parking at meters in downtown Lawrence will be free.

The Lawrence Transit System will be in operation.

The Lawrence Public Library will be closed Monday.

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TreeCycling Collection, before 6 a.m., regular scheduled trash day, Lawrence.

Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:30 p.m., Planning Conference Room, City Hall, 6 East Sixth St. Holiday Happenings, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holcom Park Center, 2700 W. 27th St.

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Holiday Happenings, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holcom Park Center, 2700 W. 27th St.

5 THURSDAY

TreeCycling Collection, before 6 a.m., regular scheduled trash day, Lawrence.

Lawrence Stamp Club Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Watkins Museum of Hisory, 1047 Massachusetts St. Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council Meeting, 7 p.m., Commission Meeting Room, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.

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Arnie Johnson & The Midnight Special, 7-10 p.m. Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St.

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Beaty feels more pressure, from himself

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

As 2017 approaches and University of Kansas football coach David Beaty continues to immerse himself in the offseason drudgery that comes with trying to restore the rundown program he took over two years ago, he understands expectations have risen.

The Jayhawks’ home victories over Rhode Island and Texas this fall, coupled with one-score home losses to TCU and Iowa State, already had a deprived — and at times disgruntled — fan base clamoring for more victories in Beaty’s upcoming third season as head coach.

The call for further progress and a better winning

percentage grew in volume earlier this month, when the 2-22 KU coach signed a contract extension through 2021, and saw his salary doubled to $1.6 million for the coming year.

That freshly signed extension, Beaty realized, meant a zero- or two-win season, such as those Kansas endured the past two years, would not qualify as

anywhere near acceptable.

“You know, the pressure has never been higher — from myself,” Beaty said recently, when asked about the need to produce more victories going forward.

“I’ve never worried about the pressure from outside, because it doesn’t match what the pressure I put on myself and we put on ourself as a staff.”

After notching his first victory as a head coach in the 2016 opener, against overmatched FCS foe Rhode Island, Beaty’s Jayhawks dropped their next nine games before upsetting Texas in overtime in their home finale. Throughout that losing streak, Beaty, who had yet to lead his team

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Freshman Lightfoot in position to become a factor

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Everybody knows that the Kansas men’s basketball team has the guards necessary to win the Big 12 Conference for a record-tying 13th consecutive season.

But whether the third-ranked Jayhawks actually get it done could come down to the play of their big With all the men.

KU perimeter bigs, we told players Frank Ma- them everyson III, Devonté body’s gotta Graham and Josh Jackson all rank step up their in the Top 15 in game even the Big 12 in scoring — Mason and more now Jackson in the Top that Udoka’s 6 — and the KU out.” offense ranks first in the conference in three-point per- — KU guard Devonté centage (.413), sec- Graham, on teammate ond in field goal Mitch Lightfoot percentage (.517) and third in scoring (86.6 points per game) and assists (18.1 per game).

Add to those numbers the fact that KU’s elite backcourt trio has been supported by strong play from parttime starters Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Lagerald Vick, and it’s easy to see that KU coach Bill Self has plenty of depth, flexibility and flat-out talent to do whatever he chooses with his backcourt.

Up front, it’s a bit of a different story.

With the recent injury to six-game starter Udoka Azubuike undercutting KU’s front court depth, the Jayhawks (11-1) find themselves in the position of needing freshman forward Mitch Lightfoot to step up in his absence.

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KANSAS FORWARD MITCH LIGHTFOOT (44) REACHES FOR A REBOUND against Long Beach State forward Larond Williams on Nov. 29 in Allen Fieldhouse.

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Lee finds shooting touch for Tonganoxie girls basketball

By Evan Riggs eriggs@ljworld.com

Taylor Lee was always the player to end practice by making a free throw until coach Matt Frost recently decided that was too easy of a way to avoid running.

“He tells me I can’t shoot them because he wants to make

us run,” Lee said.

That’s the only time Frost will ever tell Lee she can’t shoot. Since he became the Tonganoxie High girls basketball coach last season, Frost has implored Lee to shoot anytime she’s remotely open.

“She’s got the green light all the time,” said Frost, a former Free State assistant coach.

“She’s old enough and experienced enough not to force bad shots. She’s our best option, so I want her shooting the ball.”

So far in her senior season, Lee has obliged by averaging 19 points per game and scoring a school-record 40 points in a game. Her record-breaking performance came in a 61-38 win over Ottawa on Dec. 13.

She only made three shots from beyond the arc, which she said shows her growth as a player.

After making just one threepointer in her sophomore season, Lee developed into the best perimeter shooter in Tonganoxie school history as a junior.

She broke the school-record for 3-pointers made in a season (48) and in a game (six) after an off-

season full of shooting drills and practice with her dad.

“If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have a shot,” Lee said of her dad. “Once you get the technique, you can kind of shoot from wherever. Technique was a big thing in our house.”

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Oregon shocks No. 2 UCLA SOUTH

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No. 21 Oregon 89, No. 2 UCLA 87 Eugene, Ore. — Dillon Brooks hit a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left to give Oregon a victory over UCLA on Wednesday night in the Pac-12 opener for both teams.

Brooks, who finished with 23 points and nine rebounds, grabbed Bryce Alford’s missed free throw with 8.9 seconds to go, dribbled to the right wing and pulled up for the gamewinning shot.

Payton Pritchard added 15 points and nine assists for the Ducks (12-2, 1-0), who won their 10th consecutive game and pushed the nation’s second-longest home winning streak to 34 games. Pritchard’s 3-pointer pulled Oregon within one with 12.9 seconds left.

Thomas Welch had 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Bruins (13-1, 0-1), and Alford had 20 points. Lonzo Ball added 14 points and TJ Leaf had 13.

UCLA was trying to match its best start in 10 years.

UCLA (13-1) Leaf 5-8 2-4 13, Welsh 8-11 4-4 20, Alford 7-11 0-1 20, Ball 5-11 1-2 14, Hamilton 1-6 0-0 2, Goloman 2-3 0-0 4, Anigbogu 4-4 1-1 9, Holiday 2-10 0-0 5. Totals 34-64 8-12 87.

OREGON (12-2) Brooks 9-20 3-6 23, Bell 5-8 2-2 13, Ennis 3-11 3-4 10, Pritchard 5-8 2-2 15, Dorsey 3-9 4-6 11, Boucher 2-8 4-5 9, Bigby-Williams 1-1 0-0 2, Benson 2-2 0-0 6. Totals 30-67 18-25 89.

Halftime-Oregon 52-47. 3-Point Goals-UCLA 11-25 (Alford 6-10, Ball 3-8, Leaf 1-2, Holiday 1-3, Hamilton 0-2), Oregon 11-30 (Pritchard 3-5, Benson 2-2, Brooks 2-8, Bell 1-1, Ennis 1-4, Boucher 1-5, Dorsey 1-5). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-UCLA 34 (Welsh 10), Oregon 32 (Brooks 9). Assists-UCLA 19 (Holiday 7), Oregon 19 (Pritchard 9). Total Fouls-UCLA 19, Oregon 16. Technicals-Bigby-Williams.

A-12,364 (12,364).

No. 1 Villanova 68, DePaul 65 Villanova, Pa. — Josh Hart scored 25 points and Jalen Brunson added 13 as Villanova barely held off DePaul.

The Wildcats (13-0, 1-0 Big East) looked rather pedestrian playing for the first time in a week. But thanks to Hart, considered among the favorites for national player of the year, they survived. A 14-6 Villanova run gave the Wildcats a 51-39 lead with 16:41 to go.

Wizards 111, Pacers 105 Washington — John Wall had 36 points and 11 rebounds, and Washington held off Indiana on Wednesday night.

INDIANA (105) Robinson 1-4 0-0 2, George 10-20 8-8 34, T.Young 5-10 1-3 11, Turner 6-9 3-3 15, Teague 6-12 6-7 19, Miles 4-12 3-3 15, Seraphin 0-2 0-0 0, Jefferson 2-3 1-3 5, Brooks 0-2 0-0 0, Ellis 1-5 2-2 4. Totals 35-79 24-29 105.

WASHINGTON (111) Porter 6-10 7-7 22, Morris 4-11 2-2 10, Gortat 4-8 5-7 13, Wall 11-19 12-13 36, Beal 5-9 1-4 12, Oubre 1-3 0-0 2, Nicholson 1-3 0-0 2, Smith 3-4 0-2 7, Burke 0-5 0-0 0, Thornton 3-6 0-2 7, McClellan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 27-37 111.

Indiana 25 23 26 31 — 105 Washington 23 35 27 26 — 111 3-Point Goals-Indiana 11-28 (George 6-10, Miles 4-8, Teague 1-3, Turner 0-1, Ellis 0-2, T.Young 0-4), Washington 8-22 (Porter 3-6, Wall 2-3, Smith 1-1, Thornton 1-2, Beal 1-3, Nicholson 0-1, Oubre 0-1, Morris 0-2, Burke 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Indiana 34 (Turner 8), Washington 54 (Gortat 16). AssistsIndiana 24 (Teague 11), Washington 21 (Wall 9). Total Fouls-Indiana 29, Washington 27.

Technicals-Gortat. A-16,172 (20,356).

Hornets 120, Magic 101 Orlando, Fla. — Kemba Walker scored 21 points, Nicolas Batum had 20 and Charlotte had a huge third quarter.

CHARLOTTE (120) Kidd-Gilchrist 5-9 2-2 12, Williams 3-7 0-0 8, Zeller 4-6 2-2 10, Walker 8-12 3-3 21, Batum 8-12 1-1 20, Hawes 3-4 0-0 6, Kaminsky 3-11 2-2 9, Hibbert 2-4 0-0 4, Sessions 5-9 2-2 13, Roberts 0-0 2-2 2, Graham 0-0 1-2 1, Lamb 5-10 3-3 14.

Totals 46-84 18-19 120.

ORLANDO (101) Ibaka 9-15 0-0 20, Gordon 1-5 0-0 2, Biyombo 2-3 1-1 5, Augustin 2-5 2-2 7, Meeks 5-9 0-0 11, Rudez 2-7 0-0 6, Green 1-4 3-3 5, Vucevic 10-13 1-2 21, Zimmerman 3-3 0-0 6, Payton 2-10 0-0 4, Watson 1-6 1-2 4, Hezonja 4-6 0-0 10, Wilcox 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-87 8-10 101.

Charlotte 32 30 35 23 — 120 Orlando 28 27 13 33 — 101 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 10-24 (Batum 3-4, Williams 2-4, Walker 2-6, Sessions 1-1, Lamb 1-2, Kaminsky 1-6, Hawes 0-1), Orlando 9-35 (Hezonja 2-4, Ibaka 2-6, Rudez 2-6, Augustin 1-3, Meeks 1-4, Watson 1-4, Wilcox 0-1, Payton 0-2, Gordon 0-2, Green 0-3). ReboundsCharlotte 46 (Batum 9), Orlando 34 (Ibaka 7). Assists-Charlotte 25 (Batum 8), Orlando 25 (Payton, Vucevic, Watson 4). Total FoulsCharlotte 13, Orlando 15. A-18,273 (18,846).

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TODAY

DEPAUL (7-7) NEBRASKA (7-6) • Women’s basketball at BOSTON RED SOX YORK YANKEES TAMPA BAY RAYS TORONTO BLUE JAYS McCallum 9-14 0-0 19, Hanel 1-2 0-0 2, Cain No. 10 Creighton 89, BALTIMORE ORIOLES Jacobson 2-6 0-0 4, MorrowNEW5-9 2-2 12, Morningside 6-19 0-0 14, Garrett 6-16 5-5 17, Cyrus 3-7 Seton Hall 75 Watson 8-18 6-7 26, Webster 7-13 5-10 21, AL CENTRAL 1-2 7, Eichelberger 0-0 0-0 0, Cook 2-2 0-0 4, 1-3 1-1 3, Horne 4-6 0-0 11, Roby 3-5 2-2 FRIDAY Omaha, Neb. — Maurice E.Taylor Curington 0-2 0-0 0, Gage 1-1 0-0 2, Wood 0-2 8, Tshimanga 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 31-64 16-22 87.

• Women’s basketball at 0-0 0. Totals 28-65 6-7 65.

Watson had 21 points and 10 INDIANA (10-3) VILLANOVA (13-0) Anunoby 4-10 2-5 12, Bryant 5-12 7-11 17, Morningside assists, and four other CreighReynolds 1-1 1-4 3, Jenkins 3-9 3-3 12, Johnson 7-11 0-0 19, Newkirk 5-10 0-0 11, DETROIT TIGERS MINNESOTA TWINS CHICAGO WHITE SOX KANSAS CITY ROYALS CLEVELAND INDIANS • Men’s basketball vs. Kansas Brunson 5-7 3-6 13, Hart 8-15 8-9 25, Bridges 2-5 ton players scored in double Blackmon 4-14 2-2 12, Morgan 1-2 1-2 3, Davis 2-2 8, Paschall 1-2 0-0 3, DiVincenzo 1-3 1-2 4. figures.

1-4 2-2 4, McRoberts 0-1 0-0 0, Green 1-1 0-0 3, AL WEST Wesleyan, 7 p.m.

Totals 21-42 18-26 68.

Jones 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 28-65 16-24 83.

Halftime-Villanova 32-24. 3-Point GoalsHalftime-Indiana 36-33. 3-Point GoalsDePaul 3-17 (Cain 2-8, McCallum 1-5, Wood SETON HALL (10-3) Nebraska 9-18 (Watson 4-7, Horne 3-5, Webster Rodriguez 9-16 1-3 24, Sanogo 0-3 0-0 0, 0-1, Garrett 0-1, Curington 0-2), Villanova 2-5, Jacobson 0-1), Indiana 11-25 (Johnson 8-26 (Jenkins 3-9, Bridges 2-5, Paschall 1-2, Delgado 3-8 4-5 10, Jones 3-8 0-0 6, Carrington 5-7, Anunoby Blackmon 2-9, SEATTLE Newkirk LOS ANGELES ANGELS OAKLAND2-4, ATHLETICS MARINERS1-1, TEXAS RANGERS ANAHEIM 0-0 Green 1-1, Morgan 0-1, Bryant 0-2). Fouled DiVincenzo 1-2, Hart 1-6, Brunson 0-2). Fouled 8-11 8-13 27, Nzei 0-0 1-2 1, AnthonyOF0-0 TODAY Out-Garrett. Rebounds-DePaul 30 (McCallum 0, Powell 2-8 0-0 4, J.Thomas 1-3 0-0 3. Totals Out-Bryant , Morrow. Rebounds-Nebraska 36 7), Villanova 28 (Bridges 7). Assists-DePaul 26-57 14-23 75.

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MLB AL LOGOS 032712: 2012 American uses, including as a linking device on a Web site, or in anFootball League team logos; stand-alone; various College Time Net Cable 11 (Cain, Garrett 4), Villanova 11 (Brunson 6). CREIGHTON (13-0) Nebraska 12 (Watson 4),Other Indiana 15 (Bryant advertising or promotional piece, may4). violate this entity’s trademark or sizes; staff; ETA 4 p.m.

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Belk Bowl: Halftime-Creighton 50-37. 3-Point Goals- No. 17 Xavier 82, No. 6 Louisville 53 Hall 9-18 (Rodriguez 5-6, Carrington 3-5, Providence 56 Arkansas v. Va. Tech 4:30p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Louisville, Ky. — Devon Seton J.Thomas 1-2, Jones 0-2, Powell 0-3), Creighton Cincinnati — Trevon Bluiett Alamo Bowl: Hall scored 10 points and Kyle 5-16 (Huff 2-3, Watson 1-2, Hegner 1-3, Foster K.Thomas 0-1, Patton 0-1). Fouled Out- scored 22 points, and Xavier Okla. St. vs. Colorado 8 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Guy added a key jumper with 1-6, Sanogo. Rebounds-Seton Hall 31 (Delgado 10), took control at the outset.

2:02 remaining as Virginia Creighton 30 (Patton 9). Assists-Seton Hall 10 3), Creighton 14 (Watson 9). Total withstood a late rally to defeat (Carrington College Basketball Time Net Cable Fouls-Seton Hall 25, Creighton 18. Technicals- PROVIDENCE (10-4) Louisville.

Bullock 1-11 0-0 2, Holt 2-4 0-0 4, Lindsey 5-9 Sanogo, Patton.

Georgia at Auburn 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 2-2 15, Jackson 5-8 6-7 17, Cartwright 2-5 4-5 8, Young 2-3 1-3 5, Diallo 1-5 0-0 3, Fazekas 0-0 0-0 Tenn. at Texas A&M 6 p.m. SEC 157 VIRGINIA (11-1) 0, White 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 19-49 13-17 56.

Wilkins 2-4 0-0 4, Salt 1-4 0-0 2, Perrantes No. 15 Purdue 89, Iowa 67 Butler at St. John’s 6 p.m. FS1 150,227 XAVIER (11-2) 2-10 4-6 9, Thompson 3-6 0-0 7, Hall 5-10 0-1 Gaston 6-6 0-0 12, Sumner 4-7 4-7 13, Bernard Kentucky at Miss.

7 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 West Lafayette, Ind. — 10, Reuter 3-4 0-0 6, Diakite 3-3 2-2 8, Jerome 0-0 0-0 0, Guy 3-5 3-3 9, Shayok 2-3 2-2 6. Totals Freshman guard Carsen Ed- 3-8 0-0 7, Bluiett 8-14 3-4 22, Macura 4-6 1-1 11, Vanderbilt at LSU 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Jones 1-1 0-0 2, Gates 1-2 0-0 3, Barr 0-1 0-0 0, 24-49 11-14 61. wards scored 19 points and Stainbrook 0-0 0-0 0, O’Mara 3-3 2-3 8, Bergen Florida at Arkansas 8 p.m. SEC 157 LOUISVILLE (11-2) Adel 3-9 2-3 8, Johnson 2-4 0-0 4, Mathiang Dakota Mathias added 17 as 0-0 0-0 0, Goodin 2-5 0-0 4, Schrand 0-0 0-0 0, St. Mary’s at L. Mary. 10p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Peterson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-53 10-15 82.

0-0 0-0 0, Snider 2-5 3-6 8, Mitchell 3-11 0-0 7, Purdue dominated Iowa.

Halftime-Xavier 37-25. 3-Point GoalsSpalding 1-2 1-2 3, King 2-3 2-2 6, Mahmoud 2-5 Providence 5-14 (Lindsey 3-5, Diallo 1-2, 3-5 7, Hicks 4-5 0-2 8, McMahon 0-0 2-2 2. Totals Jackson 1-2, Holt 0-1, Cartwright 0-1, White 0-1, Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable 19-44 13-22 53.

IOWA (8-6) Halftime-Virginia 36-21. 3-Point GoalsPemsl 4-8 2-2 10, Wagner 0-2 0-0 0, Moss 0-4 Bullock 0-2), Xavier 8-20 (Bluiett 3-8, Macura UConn at Maryland 5 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Virginia 2-8 (Thompson 1-2, Perrantes 1-4, 0-0 0, Jok 4-15 4-4 13, Bohannon 2-8 2-2 6, Uhl 2-3, Sumner 1-1, Gates 1-2, Bernard 1-5, Goodin 0-1).

Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Providence Oklahoma at Kansas 7 p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 Guy 0-1, Shayok 0-1), Louisville 2-14 (Snider 1-2 0-0 2, Kriener 1-2 0-0 2, Cook 6-10 0-0 12, 1-2, Mitchell 1-6, Hicks 0-1, King 0-1, Adel 0-4). Baer 3-6 1-1 7, Dailey 1-1 0-0 2, Ellingson 3-4 15 (Young 5), Xavier 37 (Bluiett 9). Assists- Kansas St. at Baylor 7 p.m. FCSC 145 Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Virginia 31 (Salt 2-2 11, Williams 0-5 2-2 2. Totals 25-67 13-13 67. Providence 13 (Cartwright 8), Xavier 22 (Sumner 7). Total Fouls-Providence 15, Xavier 7), Louisville 26 (Spalding 6). Assists-Virginia PURDUE (12-2) 12 (Perrantes 7), Louisville 7 (Mahmoud 2).

Swanigan 4-12 3-3 11, Haas 7-9 2-3 16, 18. A-10,426 (10,250).

Pro Basketball Time Net Cable Total Fouls-Virginia 19, Louisville 15.

Mathias 6-11 1-1 17, C.Edwards 7-13 2-2 19, Thompson 2-5 0-0 5, Eifert 0-0 0-0 0, V.Edwards Thunder at Grizzlies 7 p.m. FSN 36, 236 6-10 1-1 15, Smotherman 0-1 0-0 0, Luce 0-0 0-0 No. 20 Florida St. 88, Celtics at Cavaliers 7 p.m. TNT 45,245 0, Cline 2-6 0-0 6, McKeeman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals Wake Forest 72 No. 9 North Carolina 102, 34-67 9-10 89.

Monmouth 74 Tallahassee, Fla. — Mavericks at Lakers 9:30p.m. tNT 45,245 Halftime-Purdue 49-25. 3-Point Goals-Iowa Chapel Hill, N.C. — Jus- 4-17 (Ellingson 3-3, Jok 1-7, Moss 0-1, Cook Dwayne Bacon and Xavier Baer 0-1, Bohannon 0-4), Purdue 12-29 Pro Hockey Time Net Cable tin Jackson scored 28 points, 0-1, (Mathias 4-7, C.Edwards 3-6, V.Edwards 2-4, Rathan-Mayes scored 23 points and North Carolina beat Mon- Cline 2-6, Thompson 1-3, Swanigan 0-3). Fouled apiece as Florida State opened Devils at Capitals 6 p.m. NBCSN 38,238 Out-Pemsl. Rebounds-Iowa 28 (Baer 7), Purdue mouth.

ACC play with a victory over 31 (Swanigan 10). Assists-Iowa 16 (Bohannon 4), Purdue 27 (Thompson 6). Total Fouls-Iowa Wake Forest.

College Hockey Time Net Cable MONMOUTH (NJ) (10-3) 15, Purdue 13. Technicals-Pemsl. A-14,804 Brady 1-4 0-0 3, Hornbeak 4-13 6-8 17, (14,846).

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W. Mich.

6 p.m. FCSA 144 WAKE FOREST (9-4) J.Robinson 7-15 1-1 16, Seaborn 6-20 4-4 19, Mitoglou 2-6 1-2 5, Arians 4-5 0-0 11, Collins James 1-3 0-0 2, Ibiezugbe 0-1 0-1 0, Traore 0-0 1-3 0-0 2, Crawford 5-15 4-4 16, Woods 7-13 1-3 0-0 0, Quinn 2-3 0-0 4, Sarr 0-0 0-2 0, Stewart Nebraska 87, FRIDAY 16, McClinton 2-3 0-0 4, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Japhet1-4 0-0 3, Tilghman 1-4 8-8 10, L.Pillari 0-2 0-0 0, No. 16 Indiana 83 Mathias 0-2 0-0 0, Wilbekin 3-8 1-2 10, Childress D.Pillari 0-1 0-2 0. Totals 23-70 19-26 74.

College Basketball Time Net Cable 3-5 8. Totals 26-60 10-16 72.

NORTH CAROLINA (12-2) Bloomington, Ind. — Glynn 2-4 FLORIDA ST. (13-1) Hicks 6-12 3-4 15, Meeks 7-12 3-5 17, Jackson W.Va. at Okla. St. 3 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Isaac 4-11 2-2 12, Ojo 0-0 2-2 2, Mann 2-4 0-0 4, 9-14 4-4 28, Williams 3-8 0-0 7, Berry 0-4 6-6 6, Watson Jr. scored 26 points Bradley 3-7 4-7 10, Rohlman 0-0 0-0 0, Rush 0-1 and Tai Webster had 21, lead- Bacon 8-15 6-7 23, Rathan-Mayes 7-10 7-10 23, N’western at Mich. St. 5 p.m. BTN 147,237 Cofer 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 1-3 0-0 2, Koumadje 1-1 Texas at Kansas St. 1-2 1, Maye 0-3 2-2 2, White 1-1 2-2 4, Coker 0-1 7 p.m. ESPNE 140,231 3-3 3, Woods 0-2 0-4 0, B.Robinson 0-1 5-7 5, ing Nebraska to an upset of In- 0-2 2, Forrest 0-0 3-4 3, Savoy 0-1 0-0 0, Walker 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 4-8 2-2 13, Angola-Rodas 1-2 1-2 4. Totals 28-55 Kansas at TCU diana.

Britt 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 31-71 33-46 102.

23-31 88.

Halftime-North Carolina 50-41. 3-Point GoalsS. Carolina at Memphis 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 The Cornhuskers (7-6, 1-0) Halftime-Wake Forest 40-39. 3-Point GoalsMonmouth (NJ) 9-28 (Hornbeak 3-9, Seaborn Indiana’s 26-game Wake Forest 10-21 (Arians 3-4, Wilbekin USC at Oregon 9 p.m. FS1 150,227 3-10, Brady 1-1, Stewart 1-2, J.Robinson 1-4, snapped Tilghman 0-1, D.Pillari 0-1), North Carolina 7-20 home winning streak by finish- 3-5, Crawford 2-7, Woods 1-2, Childress 1-2, Arizona at California 10p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Mitoglou 0-1), Florida St. 9-25 (Walker 3-6, (Jackson 6-9, Williams 1-3, Woods 0-1, Rush 0-1, Maye 0-1, Britt 0-2, Berry 0-3). Fouled Out- ing with their highest point to- Rathan-Mayes 2-5, Isaac 2-6, Angola-Rodas Hornbeak, Brady. Rebounds-Monmouth (NJ) tal of the season in the Big Ten 1-1, Bacon 1-5, Mann 0-1, Savoy 0-1). Fouled Out-Japhet-Mathias. Rebounds-Wake Forest Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable 35 (Hornbeak, Ibiezugbe, J.Robinson, Quinn, 26 (Mitoglou 7), Florida St. 34 (Isaac 9). Assists- Okla. at KU replay James, Sarr 4), North Carolina 52 (Meeks 12). opener for both. midngt. TWCSC 37, 226 Assists-Monmouth (NJ) 7 (J.Robinson 4), North Indiana’s last loss at Assem- Wake Forest 14 (Woods 4), Florida St. 11 6 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 Carolina 22 (Berry, Jackson 5). Total Fouls(Mann, Rathan-Mayes, Isaac 2). Total Fouls- Okla. at KU replay Monmouth (NJ) 31, North Carolina 25. A-20,064 bly Hall was to Michigan State Wake Forest 20, Florida St. 17. TechnicalsSt. John’s v. Seton Hall 6 p.m. FS2 153 (21,750). on March 7, 2015.

Rathan-Mayes. A-8,873 (12,508).

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MILWAUKEE (119) Antetokounmpo 8-18 6-7 23, Snell 4-4 0-0 11, Henson 2-4 3-4 7, Parker 13-18 1-1 31, Dellavedova 4-7 1-1 11, Beasley 3-8 1-2 7, Maker 1-3 0-0 2, Novak 0-1 0-0 0, Monroe 7-10 0-1 14, Plumlee 1-2 0-0 2, Terry 1-3 0-0 3, Brogdon 4-6 0-0 8. Totals 48-84 12-16 119.

DETROIT (94) Morris 3-10 3-4 11, Leuer 4-11 0-0 9, Drummond 7-13 2-6 16, Jackson 6-15 1-1 14, Caldwell-Pope 3-7 0-0 6, Hilliard 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 9-15 3-3 23, Johnson 1-5 0-0 2, Baynes 3-3 0-0 6, Ellenson 0-1 0-0 0, Marjanovic 1-2 1-2 3, Smith 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 39-88 10-16 94.

Milwaukee 31 31 28 29 — 119 Detroit 28 26 21 19 — 94 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 11-22 (Parker 4-7, Snell 3-3, Dellavedova 2-2, Terry 1-3, Antetokounmpo 1-3, Brogdon 0-1, Novak 0-1, Maker 0-2), Detroit 6-24 (Harris 2-5, Morris 2-6, Leuer 1-2, Jackson 1-6, Smith 0-1, Ellenson 0-1, Johnson 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Milwaukee 38 (Parker 9), Detroit 44 (Harris 12). Assists-Milwaukee 36 (Brogdon, Antetokounmpo 8), Detroit 28 (CaldwellPope 7). Total Fouls-Milwaukee 14, Detroit 12. Technicals-Milwaukee coach Jason Kidd, Morris. A-17,222 (19,971).

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Minnesota Min: 4. Pts: 1. Reb: 3. Ast: 0.

Darrell Arthur, Denver Did not play (coach’s decision).

Cheick Diallo, New Orleans Did not play (coach’s decision).

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Min: 19. Pts: 5. Reb: 0. Ast: 0.

Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 23. Pts: 11. Reb: 2. Ast: 3.

Markieff Morris, Washington Min: 26. Pts: 10. Reb: 7. Ast: 1.

BROOKLYN (99) Booker 3-7 0-0 6, B.Lopez 12-20 4-4 33, Whitehead 2-4 0-0 4, Bogdanovic 4-11 1-1 10, Kilpatrick 6-14 2-2 18, Hamilton 2-7 0-0 5, Dinwiddie 0-3 2-2 2, LeVert 1-4 0-0 3, Foye 5-9 0-2 11, Hollis-Jefferson 2-7 3-5 7. Totals 37-86 12-16 99.

CHICAGO (101) Gibson 4-7 0-0 8, R.Lopez 5-8 2-2 12, Rondo 2-8 0-0 5, Wade 5-13 6-7 16, Butler 14-29 11-11 40, McDermott 2-6 3-3 7, Felicio 1-3 0-0 2, Mirotic 1-7 4-4 7, Carter-Williams 1-6 2-2 4, Grant 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-88 28-29 101.

Brooklyn 20 29 29 21 — 99 Chicago 23 23 30 25 — 101 3-Point Goals-Brooklyn 13-33 (B.Lopez 5-6, Kilpatrick 4-9, Bogdanovic 1-4, LeVert 1-4, Foye 1-4, Hamilton 1-5, Whitehead 0-1), Chicago 3-13 (Rondo 1-1, Butler 1-2, Mirotic 1-4, Wade 0-1, Grant 0-1, Carter-Williams 0-2, McDermott 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Brooklyn 38 (Booker 14), Chicago 55 (Butler 11). A-21,957 (20,917).

Hawks 102, Knicks 98, OT Atlanta — Dennis Schroder scored 27 points, Dwight Howard added 16 points and 22 rebounds, and Atlanta took advantage of Carmelo Anthony’s second-quarter ejection to beat Pelicans 102, Clippers 98 New Orleans — Anthony New York.

Davis highlighted a 20-point NEW YORK (98) performance with a soaring, Anthony 4-9 1-2 10, Porzingis 7-17 6-9 24, Noah 5-8 4-4 14, Rose 9-28 8-9 26, Vujacic 1-7 one-handed alley-oop dunk.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 21. Pts: 2. Reb: 2. Ast: 1.

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Did not play (coach’s decision).

Brandon Rush, Minnesota Did not play (coach’s decision).

Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota Min: 36. Pts: 25. Reb: 5. Ast: 1.

Bucks 119, Pistons 94 Auburn Hills, Mich. — Jabari Parker scored 31 points and Giannis Antetokuompo added 23 points and eight rebounds as Milwaukee beat Detroit.

Greg Monroe added 14 points, six assists and five rebounds against his former team to help the Bucks win for the second time in five games. Tony Snell and Matthew Dellavedova each scored 11.

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Bulls 101, Nets 99 Chicago — Jimmy Butler matched his season high with 40 points and hit an 18-footer at the buzzer roughly five minutes after being helped off the court with an apparent injury.

0-0 2, Thomas 0-1 0-0 0, Kuzminskas 0-0 0-0 0, O’Quinn 3-5 0-0 6, Hernangomez 0-1 0-0 0, Jennings 1-5 0-0 2, Holiday 5-12 2-2 14. Totals 35-93 21-26 98.

ATLANTA (102) Bazemore 4-12 2-2 11, Sefolosha 3-7 4-4 11, Millsap 4-20 3-4 12, Howard 6-9 4-6 16, Schroder 11-21 4-6 27, Humphries 2-8 2-2 6, Muscala 1-4 0-0 2, Delaney 2-4 0-1 4, Hardaway Jr. 0-7 0-0 0, Korver 4-10 2-2 13. Totals 37-102 21-27 102.

New York 25 22 19 19 13 — 98 Atlanta 22 23 20 20 17 — 102 3-Point Goals-New York 7-27 (Porzingis 4-8, Holiday 2-7, Anthony 1-2, Thomas 0-1, Rose 0-2, Vujacic 0-3, Jennings 0-4), Atlanta 7-27 (Korver 3-5, Schroder 1-3, Bazemore 1-4, Sefolosha 1-4, Millsap 1-6, Humphries 0-1, Delaney 0-1, Muscala 0-1, Hardaway Jr. 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-New York 55 (Noah 16), Atlanta 56 (Howard 22). Assists-New York 20 (Rose 6), Atlanta 19 (Millsap 6). Total FoulsNew York 23, Atlanta 19. Technicals-New York defensive three second, Rose, New York team, New York coach Jeff Hornacek, Atlanta defensive three second, Sefolosha, Bazemore, Atlanta team. A-19,066 (18,118).

L.A. CLIPPERS (98) W.Johnson 1-7 0-0 2, Mbah a Moute 2-6 0-0 6, Jordan 5-6 3-8 13, Paul 7-15 5-5 21, Rivers 9-20 2-2 22, Anderson 2-3 0-0 6, B.Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Bass 3-7 1-1 7, Speights 4-12 1-1 11, Felton 1-5 0-0 3, Crawford 3-15 1-1 7. Totals 37-96 13-18 98.

NEW ORLEANS (102) Hill 1-4 2-2 5, Cunningham 2-6 0-0 6, Davis 8-16 4-8 20, Holiday 5-12 1-2 11, Hield 7-11 0-0 17, Jones 4-12 2-5 10, Diallo 0-0 0-0 0, Galloway 4-10 3-4 12, Moore 4-7 0-0 9, Evans 5-9 0-0 12.

Totals 40-87 12-21 102.

L.A. Clippers 27 29 21 21 — 98 New Orleans 19 30 27 26 — 102 3-Point Goals-L.A. Clippers 11-37 (Anderson 2-2, Mbah a Moute 2-4, Paul 2-7, Speights 2-7, Rivers 2-8, Felton 1-4, W.Johnson 0-2, Crawford 0-3), New Orleans 10-29 (Hield 3-5, Evans 2-4, Cunningham 2-5, Moore 1-3, Hill 1-3, Galloway 1-5, Holiday 0-1, Jones 0-1, Davis 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Clippers 59 (Jordan 25), New Orleans 45 (Cunningham 9). AssistsL.A. Clippers 15 (Paul 6), New Orleans 23 (Holiday 9). Total Fouls-L.A. Clippers 20, New Orleans 16. A-16,647 (16,867).

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Kansas City, Mo. — The can-he-or-can’t-he debate rolls on when it comes to Alexander Douglas Smith, better known as Alex, the quarterback of the playoff-bound Kansas City Chiefs.

As in, can a QB who has thrown 13 touchdown passes all season lead a team to the Super Bowl?

Answers never seem to be “yes” or “no,” but rather accompanied by an “if” clause: if the defense causes a turnover. Or if tight end Travis Kelce and wide receiver Tyreek Hill are able to continually score game-breaking touchdowns, as they did last weekend against Denver.

One person has no doubt about Smith’s ability.

“Alex, I think, has had a good year. He’s had a good four years,” said Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who went on to call the Denver performance “one of his better games since he’s been here.”

“That’s a tribute to him,” Reid added, “because nobody works harder or spends more time at it. He’s very diligent to his work. It’s always good to see him play well.”

Statistically speaking, it was indeed one of Smith’s best days. He was 25 of 36 for 244 yards and a touchdown, ran for 46 yards and another score and kept the Kansas City offense on track.

But he also threw an interception that led to the Broncos’ only touchdown, and many continue to argue that 244 yards passing is hardly a good day. This is an era when top-shelf quarterbacks expect to throw for 300plus, and often toss three or four TD passes in a game.

Smith hasn’t thrown three touchdown passes in a game since the season opener — of last year.

Reid and other Smith supporters counter the critics by pointing out that he rarely makes a big mistake. He’s only thrown seven intercep-

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Ahead of her senior season, Frost knew it was crucial for Lee to get more comfortable driving to the basket. Opponents started to face-guard Lee and play a box-and-one defense in an effort to prevent her from shooting last season, and she will almost certainly see more of the same this year.

Frost believes Lee is better equipped to handle the defenses opposing teams will throw at her because of the work she put in during the offseason.

“I worked on com-

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Although Lightfoot weighs in 70 pounds lighter and four inches shorter than Azubuike, a good chunk of KU’s bigman minutes the rest of the way could fall on his slightly narrower shoulders.

“Definitely,” said Graham when asked if it was important for the Jayhawks to get Lightfoot

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Master thieves The Jayhawks rank fourth in the Big 12 by snagging an average of 9.3 steals per game, which jumpstarts their transition offense. Both McKenzie Calvert and Kylee Kopatich have grabbed a team-best 17 steals this season, while five Jayhawks have recorded at least 10 steals this year. KU is averaging 16.8 points per game off of its opponents’ turnovers.

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KANSAS CITY QUARTERBACK ALEX SMITH (11) throws a pass as Denver linebacker Todd Davis closes in during the Chiefs’ 33-10 victory Sunday night in Kansas City, Mo.

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Streaking Kansas redshirt sophomore McKenzie Calvert was named co-Big 12 player of the week after scoring a careerhigh 30 points in an overtime victory against UC Riverside

tions this season, wisely makes the smart choice when things are going haywire, and is content to let the Chiefs’ strong defense win games.

So far they have, too.

The Chiefs are 11-4 heading into Sunday’s regularseason finale in San Diego, and can win the AFC West with a victory and an Oakland loss in Denver.

Naturally, the first question after clinching a playoff berth, which actually occurred earlier on Sunday when Pittsburgh rallied past Baltimore, was how deep the Chiefs can go. That question goes hand in hand with how far Smith can lead them.

He has never reached a Super Bowl, though he did get the 49ers to the doorstep. But that was before things went sideways in San Francisco; he lost his starting job to a concussion and Colin Kaepernick and wound up getting traded. He is now a 32-year-old quar-

terback with limited arm strength who may have lost a step, yet is still being asked to shoulder a significant burden.

Turns out Smith himself thinks his age is a reason for his success this season.

“When you play a long time, you appreciate winning and all the different ways to do it,” Smith explained. “That’s what this game is about. It’s amazing, and it’s the highest of highs when you’re winning, you’re doing it well and you’re doing it together. The lows are crummy. It sucks to lose.

Nobody likes it. You put a lot of work and a lot of time in and you want to bear fruit, so to speak.”

It’s been working in Kansas City. And there happens to be plenty of precedence for quarterbacks who didn’t put up gaudy touchdown numbers leading their teams to the Super Bowl, too.

As much as he’s heralded for his big arm, the Steelers’ Ben Roethlis-

berger threw just 17 TD passes in the regular season when he won the Super Bowl in 2009, and 17 of them in 12 starts when he won in 2006. Troy Aikman had 16 touchdown passes while starting every regular-season game in ’95, when he led the Cowboys to the title. He threw 15 in 14 starts when he won two years earlier.

So it seems the answer to the question of whether a quarterback who has managed 13 touchdown passes in a season can lead his team to a Super Bowl is affirmative.

Now, it’s up to Smith to turn that opportunity into a reality.

Notes: Reid said that OLB Justin Houston continues to have “some inflammation” in his surgically repaired left knee. He did not practice Wednesday. ... RB Spencer Ware had an MRI exam that showed bruised ribs, but he was able to practice Wednesday and is optimistic about playing Sunday.

ing off screens inside the paint,” Lee said, “and driving to the basket because my strongest suit is free throws.”

With the loss of five seniors off last year’s team, including starters Kaitlin Hall and Mackenzie Price, Lee will have to score like she has so far this season for the Chieftains to be successful. They’ve opened the year with a 1-2 record, both losses against highly ranked opponents.

However, as a senior, she will likely have to step up in other ways.

Since Mykah Wingerter is the only other senior on the team, it will likely be equally important for Lee to take on a larger leadership role.

Lee said she’s up for that challenge, and Frost thinks she has the perfect personality to thrive in that role.

“She’s definitely speaking up a little bit more this year than she did last year,” Frost said.

“If somebody asks her something, she’s always willing to help them out.”

Lee is a three-sport athlete at THS, and she’s been an integral part of two consecutive state appearances and a thirdplace finish in volleyball.

Now Lee is hungry for that same success in her favorite sport.

“Our biggest thing is to beat Basehor-Linwood,” Lee said of Tonganoxie’s biggest rival. “Two years ago we made it to the

sub-state championship game but lost to Piper.

So it would be cool to get back there and end it with a bang.”

However, Lee’s basketball career won’t come to an end with Tonganoxie’s season.

She signed to play basketball at Dodge City Community College on Dec. 16. Kansas City Kansas Community College was the only other school to recruit Lee, which Frost believes was a huge oversight by the part of other local schools.

“Maybe this year they will sort of regret that a little bit,” Frost said. “I think there may be some coaches that will be a little disappointed they didn’t look into her a little sooner.”

to a win over a BCS opponent, and his staff found ways to keep their players from mentally checking out or giving up on the season. In fact, KU played better during the final three weeks of Beaty’s second year than during any other chunk in his time as head coach.

The Garland, Texas, native and his assistants felt pressure to win throughout the past several months, and Beaty said that should only ratchet up going forward.

“So, I mean, I know that sounds crazy, but that’s the truth. I expected to win the day we stepped in this room, period,” Beaty said in mid-December, while speaking inside Anderson Family Football Complex. “We expected to win every game. And we expect to win every one of them from this point going forward.”

KU hasn’t won more than three games in a season since 2009, Mark Mangino’s last year as head coach, when the Jayhawks finished 5-7.

Mangino’s successor, Turner Gill, went 3-9 in 2010 and 2-10 in 2011, with a single Big 12 victory (versus Colorado in 2010) in his two seasons. Gill’s replacement, Charlie Weis, went 1-11 at KU in 2012, 3-9 in 2013 and was 2-2 in 2014 before being fired. In Weis’ 28 games at the helm, KU won one Big 12 game (versus West Virginia in 2013).

Openly, Beaty wants much more out of his players and staff while he is in charge, and as-

going in the wake of Azubuike’s injury. “With all the bigs, we told them everybody’s gotta step up their game even more now that Udoka’s out.

We’ve just always been trying to push that confidence in them, even when Udoka was here.”

As an athlete, Lightfoot never has been one to lack confidence. He carries himself like a player who believes he belongs, plays, for the most part, within himself and to his strengths, and already has experienced some

pretty important minutes during the first 12 games of his college career.

He has played in 11 of the Jayhawks’ first 12 games — scored in six of them — and found himself on the floor during some key moments in early-season games against Indiana and Duke.

Although his final numbers did not find their way onto SportsCenter, Lightfoot’s value came more in the things he did not do rather than the things he did.

“I hate to say this, be-

cause it sounds like you’re taking away a guy’s game, but just don’t screw up,” began Self when asked about the primary focus for Lightfoot 12 games into the season. “Defend and run and jump and rebound and play hard and make easy plays. Those are the things I think he can do. And then when he does those things, he’ll get more freedom to expand his game a little bit offensively.”

Even though his minutes have been limited, Graham said he thought

Lightfoot had done “a good job,” thus far and praised him for his defensive presence and intensity.

“He goes after every ball,” Graham said. “He’s starting to talk a lot better and, switching four, he can do that, switch onto a guard (in) late-game situations.”

Lightfoot certainly is not the only KU big man being asked to bring a presence to this year’s team. But the Jayhawks already have a pretty good idea of what they’ll

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off of the bench. Calvert shot 12-of-20 from the floor, providing KU’s first 30-point performance since 2014. In the team’s last two games, Calvert has shot 57 percent.

Slumping After a recent three-game stretch scoring at least 11 points, KU junior Chayla Cheadle has scored nine points in the last three games, spanning 80 minutes on the court.

In those three games, Cheadle is shooting 3-of-12 from the floor (25 percent). Of course, Cheadle brings more to the court than only scoring — leading the Jayhawks with 6.5 rebounds per game — but KU ranks ninth in the Big 12 in scoring offense with 67.7 points per game and it’ll need Cheadle to help improve on the offensive end.

Probable starters KANSAS (6-5 overall, 0-0 Big 12) G — Jessica Washington, 5-8, jr.

G — McKenzie Calvert, 5-9, so.

G — Kylee Kopatich, 5-10, so.

G — Chayla Cheadle, 6-0, jr.

F — Sydney Umeri, 6-0, sr.

OKLAHOMA (9-3, 0-0) G — T’ona Edwards, 5-5, sr.

G — Peyton Little, 5-11, sr.

G — Maddie Manning, 6-2, sr.

G — Chelsea Dungee, 5-11, fr.

C — Vionise Pierre-Louis, 6-4, jr.

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pires to make sure KU fans don’t have to suffer through so many losses in the years to come.

“But the pressure, man, you’re going to have a hard time putting pressure on me harder than I put on myself,” he said.

More recognition for safety Lee Since the conclusion of his first season at KU, safety Mike Lee has been listed as one of the top freshmen performers in the Big 12, and nationally, by various publications.

Some more love for Lee came this past week, when ESPN.com ranked its top Big 12 defensive performances of 2016.

Lee, a 5-foot-11 starting safety from New Orleans, actually took the top spot, with his individual performance in the Jayhawks’ marquee victory over Texas.

“The true freshman helped spearhead the 24-21 win … that snapped the Jayhawks’ 19-game Big 12 losing streak,” Mitch Sherman wrote for ESPN. “Lee contributed 12 tackles, all solo stops, and factored in two decisive turnovers — forcing the late D’Onta Foreman fumble in the red zone that rekindled KU’s hope, then intercepting Shane Buechele’s second-down pass in overtime.”

Lee, who didn’t become a starter until the fifth game of the year, tied senior safety Fish Smithson for the team lead in solo tackles on the season, with 70. Lee made 77 total stops, 1.5 tackles for loss and an interception, while breaking up three passes and forcing two fumbles.

get from Landen Lucas and they’re not exactly sure what they can count on getting from Carlton Bragg Jr. Those facts make the development of Lightfoot not only important but also an interesting mystery.

“He needs reps, he needs game time, he needs to be able to play through mistakes, which we haven’t given him a lot of opportunities to do that,” Self said. “(We just need him to) play to his athletic ability.”

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Kansas State tops A&M passes, and the Hurricanes finally snapped a 10-year bowl drought by beating West Virginia in the Russell Athletic Bowl.

Kaaya completed 24 of 34 passes for 282 yards for Miami (9-4), which had lost its last six bowl appearances. Kaaya already held Miami’s career record in yards and took over the school’s No. 1 spots in completions and attempts.

Kaaya was selected the game MVP. And now Miami waits to see if he’ll stay for a senior season, or leave for the NFL draft.

“I have to do some soul-searching,” Kaaya told ESPN as the Hurricanes celebrated on the field afterward.

The Hurricanes punted on their first six possessions, then scored on their next five to erase an awful start. Kaaya connected with Ahmmon Richards, Malcolm Lewis and Braxton Berrios for touchdowns in the final 6:30 of the first half to get Miami rolling, and found David Njoku for another touchdown on the first possession of the second half.

Skyler Howard passed for 134 yards and ran for a touchdown for West Virginia (10-3), which fell to 3-17 against Miami. Kennedy McKoy also had a touchdown run for the

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Texas Bowl Kansas State 33, Texas A&M 28 Houston — Jesse Ertz threw for 195 yards and a touchdown and ran for two more scores in Kansas State’s victory over Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl on Wednesday night.

Ertz had a 79-yard touchdown pass and scoring runs of 1 and 5 yards to help give Kansas State its fourth straight win and first bowl victory since the 2013 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.

The Wildcats (9-4) led by five when Ertz bulled into the end zone on a 1-yard run that made it 3321 with nine minutes left.

Ertz set up the score with a 20-yard run two plays earlier. The Aggies (85) cut it to 33-28 on Josh Reynolds’ 15-yard TD reception about a minute later.

Texas A&M Kansas St.

7 7 7 7 — 28 7 16 3 7 — 33

Russell Athletic Bowl Miami 31 No. 14 West Virginia 14 Orlando, Fla. — Brad Kaaya tied a career best and Miami bowl record with four touchdown

Mountaineers, who committed 11 penalties and allowed four sacks.

West Virginia came in averaging more than 500 yards per game. Miami held the Mountaineers to 229.

“That’s the best defense we faced all year,” West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said.

West Virginia Miami

7 0 7 0 — 14 0 21 10 0 — 31

Pinstripe Bowl Northwestern 31, No. 22 Pittsburgh 24 New York — Justin Jackson ran for 224 yards and three touchdowns to power Northwestern to only its third bowl victory.

Jackson was the straw that stirred Northwestern’s offense in the Bronx and helped etch this performance alongside the 1948 Rose Bowl and 2012 Gator Bowl victories in the program’s oft-futile history.

Pittsburgh Northwestern

3 7 7 7 — 24 0 14 7 10 — 31

Foster Farms Bowl Utah 26, Indiana 24 Santa Clara, Calif. — Joe Williams ran for 222 yards and a touchdown and Andy Phillips kicked

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a 27-yard field goal with 1:24 to play to lead Utah to its 14th victory in its past 15 bowl games.

Tyler Huntley ran for another score and the Utes (9-4) forced three turnovers to spoil Tom Allen’s coaching debut at Indiana and improve Utah coach Kyle Whittingham’s bowl record to 10-1.

Allen took over the Hoosiers (6-7) after Kevin Wilson’s sudden resignation this month. Allen had finished his first season at Indiana as defensive coordinator and is now tasked with rebuilding the team as he did in his one year with the defense.

He appeared to be off to a good start when the Hoosiers rallied from 10 points down to take a 2423 lead early in the fourth quarter on Devine Redding’s 3-yard run following a fumble by Utah’s Zach Moss.

Williams then lost a fumble on the next drive for the Utes, but Griffin Oakes missed a 40yard field goal attempt with 5:34 left to prevent the Hoosiers from adding onto the lead. That proved costly when Williams ran for 64 yards on the ensuing drive.

Indiana 7 10 0 7 — 24 Utah 10 7 6 3 — 26

EAST Cincinnati 56, Temple 50 Delaware 63, Iona 54 Houston 62, UConn 46 NJIT 64, Stony Brook 61 Penn 75, Drexel 67 Pittsburgh 112, Marshall 106 Princeton 77, Hampton 49 Villanova 68, DePaul 65 SOUTH Clemson 87, UNC-Wilmington 73 Davidson 105, Hartford 75 E. Kentucky 70, Virginia Wise 51 East Carolina 60, South Florida 49 Elon 89, Central Penn College 60 Florida Gulf Coast 75, FAU 62 Florida St. 88, Wake Forest 72 Georgia Tech 59, NC A&T 52 Jacksonville 93, Thomas (GA) 64 James Madison 82, Eastern Mennonite 65 Louisiana-Monroe 81, Grambling St. 45 Mercer 80, Kennesaw St. 76 Miami 78, Columbia 67 Morehead St. 120, Asbury 77 NC Central 88, Truett-McConnell 54 NC State 99, Rider 71 Nicholls 88, Spring Hill 64 North Carolina 102, Monmouth (NJ) 74 Northwestern St. 86, Louisiana College 66 SE Louisiana 64, Southern U. 53 Samford 94, Fort Valley State 74 UAB 98, Miles 66 UCF 85, Tulane 72 UMass 74, Georgia St. 65 UNC-Greensboro 95, The Citadel 87 Virginia 61, Louisville 53 Virginia Tech 87, UMBC 70 W. Carolina 87, Mars Hill 71 W. Kentucky 97, Austin Peay 92 MIDWEST Creighton 89, Seton Hall 75 IUPUI 81, Marian (IN) 60 Marquette 76, Georgetown 66 Missouri St. 68, N. Iowa 64 N. Dakota St. 80, S. Dakota St. 69 Nebraska 87, Indiana 83 Notre Dame 63, St. Peter’s 55 Purdue 89, Iowa 67 SIU-Edwardsville 85, Missouri S&T 67 Valparaiso 80, Chicago St. 61 Wichita St. 80, Indiana St. 72 Xavier 82, Providence 56 SOUTHWEST Prairie View 87, Huston-Tillotson 57 FAR WEST Boise St. 83, Utah St. 80 Denver 77, Oral Roberts 73 Grand Canyon 71, Cal Poly 64 New Mexico 78, Fresno St. 73 Oregon 89, UCLA 87 UC Davis 72, Seattle 65 Utah Valley 73, UC Riverside 64 Wyoming 84, Air Force 72

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