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911 call gives new details on McCarthy Hall incident

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

A 911 call made from inside McCarthy Hall offers a look into why police responded to the University of Kansas apartment building in

mid-December for an incident that has turned into a rape investigation.

The Journal-World requested 911 calls related to a reported rape, runaway and use or possession of drug paraphernalia from KU’s Office of Public

Safety. Elizabeth Phillips, the office’s assistant director, said in an email that only one 911 call was “associated with the report(s) mentioned.”

In a recording of the call provided to the JournalWorld, a man identifying

himself as a resident assistant at McCarthy Hall, 1741 Naismith Drive, which houses KU’s men’s basketball team along with other male students, tells the dispatcher there is an “altercation going on in the building.”

“Um, one resident’s — I believe it’s their guest — has been banging on their door and harassing them,” the man said. “I believe she is looking for her phone.”

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KU asks for hospital exemption

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But many in state’s education community have reservations Kansas U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran have both expressed support for Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s pick for education secretary, despite widespread opposition and concern from the Kansas education community.

DeVos, who is married Peter Hancock to billionaire Dick phancock@ljworld.com DeVos, heir to the Amway fortune, is widely known as a champion of voucher programs, charter schools and other kinds of “school choice” programs. The two are also known as major contributors to Republican congressional campaigns.

Several Senate Democrats have pointed out that DeVos owes an estimated $5.3 million in fines and late fees to the Ohio Election Commission for violations of that state’s campaign finance laws committed by a now-defunct political action committee she headed, the All Children Matter PAC.

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The University of Kansas is seeking an exemption from the state’s concealed carry mandate for its medical school and attached hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Officials from the hospital, now known LEGISLATURE as KU Health System, testified Thursday before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, the same panel that heard testimony Wednesday on a broader bill that would permanently exempt public college and university campuses as well as city and county buildings.

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Here’s what some Kansas figures had to say about Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary.

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City says its ban will last until 2018

Ms. DeVos confirmed to me that there will be no federally mandated voucher program in the state of Kansas.”

— U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran

She gave me her commitment that she will fully enforce and implement the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act.”

— U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts

By Rochelle Valverde

We have always had concerns about the role of private schools being publicly supported and what that means, the issue of charter schools, so we have concerns about her policies.”

Come July, where Lawrence residents can carry a concealed weapon may depend on whether they are walking into a building on the University of Kansas campus or a municipal building, such as the public library.

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— Mark Tallman, of the Kansas Association of School Boards

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Kobach seeks to let state police enforce federal immigration law

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seeking legislation that would authorize state police to enforce federal

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The bill, which has not yet been drafted, was introduced “conceptually” Thursday in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. Rep. John Whitmer, R-Wichita, introduced the

bill on Kobach’s behalf.

Immigration enforcement has long been seen as the responsibility of the federal government. Local law enforcement agencies have authority to arrest people living in the country illegally who

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officer and have them go up to the third floor,” the dispatcher said. The call then ended, after one minute and 27 seconds.

Some of the call was redacted by KU police. The exact time that the call was made was not clear.

As the Journal-World has previously reported, KU police have been investigating the reported rape of a 16-year-old girl in McCarthy Hall. Currently the case remains open, and no arrests have been made.

While the reported rape took place between 10 p.m. Dec. 17 and 5 a.m. on Dec. 18, it is unclear if the female guest discussed in the 911 call is the same person who

reported the rape.

The KU police case number associated with the 911 call stems from a runaway call reported to KU police shortly after 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, according to the university’s online crime log.

Previously, KU police Deputy Chief James Anguiano said a runaway was picked up, but he declined to offer additional details because the incident involved a minor.

When asked in late January, KU Police Chief Chris Keary would not confirm whether the runaway report was connected to the rape.

McCarthy Hall is an all-male apartment building that houses about 40

students. About half of the hall’s residents are KU men’s basketball players; the other half are upperclassmen.

It is unclear who lives on the third floor.

Five people, all members of the KU men’s basketball team, were listed in the KU police report as witnesses in connection with the reported rape. Others interviewed include a KU Athletics administrator and two 19-year-old women.

Dec. 16 was the last day of fall finals on the KU campus. The night of Dec. 17, the KU men’s basketball team played Davidson College at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Unlike students who

live in on-campus residence halls, students living in campus apartments — including McCarthy Hall — can stay over winter break, KU Student Housing director Diana Robertson said.

The building uses biometric access for residents at its entrances, stairwell doors, elevators and apartment doors, Robertson said.

KU men’s basketball player Carlton Bragg Jr. on Wednesday was granted diversion in the drug paraphernalia case that stemmed from that evening.

should be up to states to decide whether guns should be allowed in schools, mentioning that CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A some locations might need guns for protection Those senators have against grizzly bears. said she should pay off In statements released those fines before she is earlier this week, though, confirmed as education Roberts and Moran said secretary. that in private meetings DeVos went through with them, DeVos eased a rocky confirmation their concerns. hearing Jan. 17 before “She gave me her comthe Senate Health, mitment that she will fully Education, Labor and enforce and implement Pensions Committee, the Individuals with Diswhich Roberts serves on. abilities in Education Act,” During that hearing, she Roberts said in a stateappeared confused about ment released Tuesday. the Individuals with In a separate statement Disabilities Education Wednesday, Moran said: Act, or IDEA, and at one “Ms. DeVos confirmed point said states should to me that there will be have the right to decide no federally mandated whether to enforce it, voucher program in the despite the fact that it is state of Kansas. She asa federal civil rights law. sured me that the state, She also would not local districts and school commit to the idea that boards will retain their if charter schools and important role in adminprivate schools receive istering our school and public money that they determining our stushould be held to the dents’ curriculum.” same accountability stanMoran went on to say dards as public schools. that DeVos had vowed to And she was widely to pursue full funding for criticized nationally for IDEA and that “she agrees her statements that it that we must return control

over our students’ education to the state and local levels by implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act as Congress intended.”

The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, is the latest renewal of the 1960s-era Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which directs federal funding for public schools.

The previous version of the law was known as No Child Left Behind.

Those statements, however, did not satisfy many education leaders in Kansas.

“Completely unqualified,” said Mark Desetti, who lobbies for the Kansas National Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union.

“Her entire adult life has been about dismantling public education and destroying it.”

“This would be like taking the president of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and making him the secretary of agriculture overseeing ranching and livestock,” he added.

Mark Tallman, of the Kansas Association of

School Boards, said that organization does not take positions on individuals who are nominated for jobs, but he said many school board members in Kansas have expressed grave concerns about DeVos. “We have always had concerns about the role of private schools being publicly supported and what that means, the issue of charter schools, so we have concerns about her policies,” Tallman said.

Both Desetti and Tallman said the mere fact that DeVos has promised not to “mandate” charter schools — privately operated schools that receive public funding — does not mean that she won’t pursue policies that could pressure states into accepting them.

“One of the things that has been talked about, though, is federal programs that would either encourage or reward if you did, or penalize if you didn’t,” Tallman said.”You don’t have to do these types of programs, but you’re not going to get any federal money if you

don’t. That’s another area of concern.”

Likewise, the Kansas PTA does not take positions on nominations, but it posted a statement on its website urging PTA members to share the group’s policy positions on key issues, including: “The PTA opposes any private school choice system — vouchers, tax credits or deductions — that would divert public school resources.”

The Senate is scheduled to take a cloture vote today to end a Democratic filibuster of her confirmation. A final vote is expected Monday.

So far, two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, have said they will oppose DeVos’ confirmation. If all Democrats and independents vote no as well, that would create a 50-50 tie in the Senate, leaving Vice President Mike Pence to cast the deciding vote.

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The man tells the dispatcher that he is calling from inside his room on the third floor and the “altercation” was taking place on the third floor as well.

“So I just wanted to give somebody a heads up just in case something else, you know, this kind of gets a little hectic or a little crazy,” he said.

When the dispatcher asks the man if he can describe the person banging on the door, he says, “No, I haven’t stepped outside yet.”

“OK, I will send an

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The difference has to do with the beginning date of a four-year exemption to a state concealed carry law that went into effect July 2013. Universities and municipalities were allowed to submit a resolution declaring an exemption, and the City of Lawrence resolution did not count an initial six-month exemption period that was built into the original version of the law in its resolution, according to assistant city attorney Maria Garcia.

An amendment that states the exemptions will expire in July 2017 was added last year to the concealed carry law.

However, Garcia said because the city’s resolution declaring an exemption until January 2018 was submitted before that expiration date was added, it continues to hold.

“Our interpretation of it is still the same,” Garcia said. “And we feel confident our interpretation

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Under a law passed in 2013, the hospital will be required to allow adults who are legally allowed to own guns to carry concealed weapons in its buildings, unless the hospital provides security measures that ensure no one can bring in guns.

House Bill 2150 would carve out a specific exemption for the area of Kansas City known as the Health Care District.

“If guns are allowed to be brought into our hospital, we will be the only hospital in the seven counties surrounding the metropolitan area where that’s allowed, and we will be

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284.

— KU reporter Sara Shepherd contributed to this report.

— This is an excerpt from Peter Hancock’s Statehouse Live column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

is correct.”

The League of Kansas Municipalities backs up that assertion. Eric Smith, deputy general counsel for the league, said the expiration date of July would not affect the prior exemptions of cities such as Lawrence.

“We’re comfortable that ultimately it will be determined that that did not affect the prior exemptions,” Smith said.

Smith said that case law supports that stance, and that while he knows other institutions are planning for their exemptions to expire six months earlier, he thought there would be little opposition to the city’s resolution.

“The only ones who could ever make an ultimate ruling on that would be a court, if there was ever litigation on it,” Smith said. “So it’s really going to be up to the legal interpretation of the different agencies and what they choose to do from there.”

The concealed carry law, named the Personal and Family Protection Act, allows people to have concealed weapons in public buildings that don’t

provide security measures.

Once all exemptions have expired, the application of the law in Lawrence will still be more complicated than whether you are on KU property or municipal property. That’s because prohibition of weapons can only be determined at the building level. An amendment to the law specified that universities or cities can only continue to ban concealed weapons if all of a building’s entrances have “adequate” security measures, defined as metal detectors or guards.

“This has everything to do with whether a building has the authority to prohibit — putting up that sticker on the door — someone from bringing a gun in there,” said Breeze Richardson, director of communications for the Kansas Board of Regents. “Whether that’s the courthouse or whether that’s the library or whether that’s the university.”

The Kansas Board of Regents applied for the exemption for all the

universities that it governs, with an exemption period from July 2013 to July 2017, according to Richardson. That means starting in July, any buildings where KU wants to prohibit weapons must have the security measures required by the state.

Richardson said universities will have to apply to the Board of Regents annually in order to prohibit weapons in certain buildings. With its exemption period expiration only five months away, KU has already announced plans to ban weapons for certain events at Allen Fieldhouse.

According to its resolution, the City of Lawrence has another 11 months to figure out which municipal buildings it would like to add security to in order to allow those buildings to prohibit concealed weapons.

As part of budget discussions last year, a plan was proposed, but ultimately not pursued, that would have put metal detectors and guards at four of the

most frequently visited city buildings: City Hall, Lawrence Municipal Court, the Lawrence Public Library and the police department’s Investigations and Training Center. The cost of that plan was estimated to be between $530,000 and $895,000, depending on personnel salaries.

Due to the cost of adding security, the city is considering consolidating some of its facilities to use metal detectors and guards more efficiently.

The city owns the building that houses City Hall, but leases the building at 1006 New Hampshire St. where Lawrence Municipal Court is located. City Manager Tom Markus said Thursday that staff is still discussing consolidation options but there is nothing ready to go public yet.

As part of the 2018 budget, city commissioners will ultimately decide which buildings, if any, should add metal detectors in order to prohibit weapons. The City Commission typically begins budget discussions for the upcoming year the first week in May.

competitively disadvantaged in our main operating area,” said Bob Page, president and CEO of the hospital.

Lee Norman, chief medical officer at the hospital, said that hospital environments are unique and that hospital staff often has to deal with emotionally stressful situations.

“With gang members, disturbed and overstressed people, our campus police will lose the power to head off problems by preventing guns from being brought into high-stress situations,” he said.

The hospital is co-located with the KU Medical Center, the university’s medical school, and so has its own campus police force to provide security.

Rick Johnson, the chief of that police department,

appeared in uniform urging lawmakers to pass the bill.

“Allowing the carrying of concealed handguns in a health care environment will not increase security, but will create new public safety threats,” he said. “I am absolutely convinced that firearms do not enhance hospital security, but will contradict best practices already in place.”

Many members of the panel, however, appeared unconvinced by those arguments.

“Right now, this bill takes away your 10,000 employees’ right to carry a handgun into the facility, because they’re working at all times of day, morning and night, and so is there no provision for them if they would feel safer in the nighttime traveling

from the parking garage to one of the facilities?” asked Rep. Kristey Williams, RAugusta. “That’s one of the concerns of mine.”

“We have, through Chief Johnson over here, an outstanding police department and a security force, so we will escort employees back to their cars in the evening,” Page said. “We have all kinds of mechanisms to control safety on our campus, and we believe those measures are sufficient to make sure our staff are safe.”

Under questioning from Rep. Eric Smith, RBurlington, Johnson said there had been only two recorded incidents of weapons law violations at the hospital during 2016, and there had been none the year before.

“We do operate a metal detector in our

emergency department.

It’s very rare that we intercept weapons at that point,” Johnson said.

“The more likely point of reception is through ambulances that come through.”

But Smith followed up, asking if Johnson truly believed that only two weapons had entered the facility, and whether it was possible some had gotten through undetected.

“I think that there’s more than that, but I do think it’s fair to say that because of our history and our presence of police and security on our campus, I think our community knows that if they’re going to come to KU hospital, they can’t bring their guns,” Johnson said.

The hearing came one day after the same committee heard testimony

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BIRTHS Bryc Brock and Jessica Wilcox, Lawrence, a girl, Wednesday.

Cameron M. Garst and Kylie L. Turpen, Edgerton, a boy, Thursday.

CORRECTION An article in Thursday’s Journal-World stated an incorrect date for when work on St. John Catholic School’s $3.3 million renovation project began. The work started on Wednesday. on a bill to extend broader exemptions from the concealed-carry law for college and university campuses and other buildings run by local governments, including public hospitals and mental health centers.

Rep. Melissa Rooker, R-Fairway, who supports that bill, said she thinks it is at least three votes shy of the number it needs to advance out of committee, and she said those against the bill appear unwavering in their opposition. But she said a narrower bill just for hospitals might have enough votes.

Even if neither of the bills makes it out of committee, however, lawmakers have the option of trying to add them in the full House as amendments onto other bills on related topics.

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Report: 2 KU players allegedly involved in car vandalism case Staff Reports

Two University of Kansas men’s basketball players are persons of interest in a car vandalism case being investigated

by Lawrence police, according to a Kansas City Star report published online Thursday.

“Multiple sources have told The Kansas City Star” that Lagerald Vick and Josh Jackson are the players of interest in the crime, reported in December outside a Lawrence bar, according to the article.

The corresponding Lawrence police report, obtained by the Journal-World, indicates that criminal damage to property that had just occurred was reported about 2 a.m. Dec. 9 at 530 Wisconsin St., the address of the Yacht Club. The report says damage was estimated at $2,991.

No suspects or witnesses are named in the report, only the

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front page of which is available to the public upon request. The victim reported the incident to police, according to the report.

Responding officers were not able to contact all involved parties, and the investigation is ongoing, Lawrence police officer Drew Fennelly told the Journal-World last week.

A man who refused to give his name called the Journal-World last week and said Vick was involved in the car vandalism and Jackson was at the scene. The alleged incident followed a dispute with the woman — a KU

student — at the bar, the man said. He said the windshield of the woman’s car was broken and a door was kicked.

The same man also told the Journal-World that Vick was the subject of a domestic violence investigation by KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access approximately a year ago, involving the same female victim. The Journal-World was unable to substantiate the claims of the man regarding either the vandalism incident or the alleged domestic violence.

The Star reported earlier this week that “according to information obtained by” the newspaper, the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access investigated from late December 2015 into January 2016 and determined Vick likely committed domestic violence.

It is not clear whether the female victim was aware the

information was being shared with media.

When contacted again this week by the Journal-World, the man, who said he was the victim’s father, referred reporters to a Texas-based attorney, who, through a receptionist, declined to talk to a reporter and said he had no comment. The attorney also did not respond to emails.

The female victim did not respond to messages from the Journal-World to her KU email address. A phone number the police report listed for her was disconnected.

Vick is a sophomore from Memphis, Tenn. Jackson is a freshman from Detroit.

KU officials did not confirm a university investigation of Vick or the involvement of Vick and Jackson in the car vandalism.

Regarding the Yacht Club report, KU associate athletics director for public affairs, Jim

Marchiony, said only, “We are aware of an incident and an investigation.”

Marchiony said he could not confirm anyone’s involvement in any investigation by KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access.

University spokesman Joe Monaco said the same.

“Due to federal law, and to protect the rights of all individuals involved, the university does not confirm or deny IOA investigations,” Monaco said in an emailed response Thursday evening.

In IOA investigations the university uses a preponderance of the evidence standard, meaning that the alleged misconduct was more likely than not to have occurred, to determine whether a student is responsible. In criminal courts, the standard of evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt.

Corrections officials: New state prison possible Kobach

By John Hanna Associated Press

Topeka — Kansas corrections officials said Thursday that they are considering replacing the state’s largest prison with a modern facility that would be safer and cheaper to maintain.

But some legislators had questions after learning the Department of Corrections is contemplating having a private company build the prison in Lansing and lease it back to the state. Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration has argued in the past that it doesn’t need lawmakers’ approval for such agreements.

“This is a back door to privatization of our corrections agency,” said state Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the Senate budget committee.

Corrections Secretary Joe Norwood said in a statement that the state will solicit proposals from private companies to build the new prison. His announcement did not say how the

state would finance the project, only that his department expects it to be “budget neutral” because the state would see efficiencies from operating a modern prison.

Department spokesman Todd Fertig later said a lease-purchase option is “one that we are exploring.” Several legislators said Norwood was more definitive in his statements to them and suggested a lease could last between 25 and 40 years.

Norwood’s announcement came out of the blue for many lawmakers, who are starting to tackle projected budget shortfalls totaling nearly $1.1 billion through June 2019. The state’s adult inmate population has slightly exceeded the prison system’s capacity for at least a year; the Lansing prison has space for 2,405 male prisoners and had 2,366 as of Wednesday.

Fertig said the oldest part of the Lansing prison, dating to the 1860s, will be preserved, while other parts of the prison will be razed. He said plans are to keep

all of the inmates within the state prison system while the project is ongoing.

The oldest part of the facility still has long rows of cells in tiers, rather than square pods of cells in modern prisons. Repairs have become more costly, Fertig said, and building a new facility will allow the state to upgrade its security systems as well.

State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a Leavenworth Republican whose district includes the prison, said the project also could increase the state’s prison capacity, improve staffing and boost pay for some workers. Fitzgerald, who was briefed on the project several weeks ago, said inmates and workers “deserve a better facility.”

“My understanding is that while we’re going to gain efficiencies from this, nobody is going to be fired or lose their job,” Fitzgerald said. “They’ve got that taken care of, and in fact, there’s going to be some new jobs as part of the lease that are

going to be better paid.”

But Rebecca Proctor, executive director of the largest union for state employees, questioned whether the state could achieve savings without reducing the prison’s staff.

“I’d really want to understand where all the purported efficiencies are coming from,” Proctor said.

Kansas used bonds to finance the construction of its newest maximum-security prison outside El Dorado, requiring legislators’ prior approval. The prison opened in 1991.

Fertig said a request for proposals for a new Lansing prison will be issued within the next month. The agency expects the project to take three years.

If the department leases the new prison, Fertig said, the workers will remain state employees.

But House Minority Leader Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, questioned whether the company owning the prison would give up oversight of its operations.

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stopped or anyone they suspected of being in the state illegally. Kobach played a major role in drafting that legislation.

The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned that law, saying it was pre-empted by federal law.

Kobach was not immediately available for comment Thursday. But Rep. Louis Ruiz, DKansas City, said the bill raises a number of concerns for him.

“The Highway Patrol has a lot more to do right now, with their numbers being down and their funding being down to start having extra duties,” he said.

The bill was one of two pieces of legislation introduced on Kobach’s behalf Thursday.

The second is a bill that was considered last year but died in the House prohibiting local governments and state agencies from adopting “sanctuary” policies for aliens who are unlawfully present in the U.S.

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Irresponsible government Lawmakers should be ashamed for prioritizing ideology over decent treatment of their constituents.

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here are many Kansas legislators who should not be sleeping well these days. Their guilty consciences should keep them awake.

There have long been people who have wondered how legislators sleep at night after passing some of the fiscal policies that have created tremendous budgetary strain for the state. But now it appears that actions by lawmakers may land a couple of perhaps-unwitting Kansans in jail.

Lawmakers in 2013 passed the Kansas Second Amendment Protection Act, which says firearms, accessories and ammunition manufactured and kept within the borders of Kansas are exempt from federal gun control laws. Kansas lawmakers passed the law despite being plainly told that it was in conflict with federal law.

Now, the predictable has happened. A jury in November delivered eight guilty verdicts to a Kansas gun shop owner who was selling these “Kansas-made” firearms and a customer who owned a “Kansas-made” silencer. This week, a federal judge upheld their convictions and rejected the notion that the Kansas law somehow shielded them from federal prosecution.

None of this should come as a surprise, but it apparently did to the two individuals, But many of the Shane Cox and Jeremy Kettler. same lawmakers attorney who voted for this An for Kettler arbill also do their gued that Kettler and many best to convince Kansans constituents that other were under the “mainstream the mistaken media” can’t be belief that the Kansas Second trusted. What Amendment baloney.

Protection Act was valid and protected them from federal prosecution.

Kansas lawmakers ought to ask themselves how Kettler got that impression.

Kansans should have had a fairly good understanding that the Kansas law was unconstitutional by reading media reports from the time the law was passed.

But many of the same lawmakers who voted for this bill also do their best to convince constituents that the “mainstream media” can’t be trusted. What baloney.

However, it also should be reasonable for Kansans to believe that following a new state law won’t get them prosecuted under federal law.

Instead, Kansas residents were duped by ideologues. That is what this issue is about, more so than the Second Amendment. People who believe federal gun laws are trampling on their Second Amendment rights are free to believe so.

They may even be right in some instances. But the proper course of action is to work through the judicial system to win those legal victories. Don’t pass a law that does nothing more than please your ideology, and then encourage Kansans to go do as they please. That’s irresponsible.

It is not surprising, however, in Kansas.

State government has become dominated by ideologues. Their hidebound devotion to an ideology threatens to leave the state with an empty bank account. And now it threatens to put two Kansans in a jail cell.

That doesn’t sound like government for the people.

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No mixing of editorial opinion with reporting of the news. l Safeguarding the rights of all citizens regardless of race, creed or economic stature. l Sympathy and understanding for all who are disadvantaged or oppressed. l Exposure of any dishonesty in public affairs. l Support of projects that make our community a better place to live. l l

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Trump must avoid Iranian Bay of Pigs Washington — By putting Iran “on notice” for its aggressive behavior, President Trump has taken aim at a country that’s opposed by many U.S. allies. But he has begun this confrontation without much preparation or strategic planning, continuing the haphazard pattern of his first two weeks in office.

David Ignatius

davidignatius@washpost.com

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With just two weeks in office, the new administration hasn’t had time to fill some key national-security posts, let alone plan a strategy.”

Iran is a convenient enemy for Trump. Israel and the Gulf Arab states share the administration’s antipathy toward Iran, and the regime’s hard-liners gave Trump a pretext with a ballistic-missile test last weekend that arguably violated a U.N. Security Council resolution.

Trump’s challenge also comes at a moment when Russia, Iran’s only major ally, is seeking better relations with the new administration. That may be a useful point of leverage. Some American, Israeli and Arab officials hope Russia might be persuaded to accept limits on Iranian behavior as the price of rapprochement with the U.S. But some senior intelligence officials are skeptical.

Confronting Iran carries significant dangers. The U.S. Central Command has thousands of troops in Iraq and the Gulf that could be vulnerable to Iranian reprisals. The White House, however, didn’t coordinate its actions with Centcom before national security adviser Michael Flynn announced Wednesday his nonspecific

but menacing “notice” about Iran’s “destabilizing” behavior.

In a tweet Thursday, Trump echoed Flynn’s comment that Iran should be grateful for the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by President Obama, which Trump termed a “terrible deal,” rather than continuing its aggressive actions.

The administration appears to be considering new sanctions, but since taking office, Trump hasn’t moved to revoke the deal itself.

Iranian officials launched rhetorical counter-volleys.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman described Flynn’s warning as “repetitive, baseless and provocative.” But the Iranians, too, avoided any suggestion that the nuclear agreement was at risk.

Trump’s goal of curbing aggressive Iranian behavior in the region has wide support, including among many countries that backed the nuclear deal. Arab nations argue that Iran has destabilized regimes across the Middle East, and that its proxies now control Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Saana. Flynn’s statement cited an attack last week by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on a Saudi vessel off the Yemen coast.

“I don’t think we are so much looking for a fight as responding to lethal provocations,” argued one senior U.S. military official. He

noted that in addition to attacking the Saudi ship, the Houthi rebels have been mining waters near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

But U.S. and foreign officials caution that any attempt to contain Iran needs to be carefully planned and implemented. Iran is a hardened adversary, despite its political isolation. Any confrontation has to take into account Iran’s strong position in Syria and Iraq, and its ability to thwart Trump’s pledge to eradicate the Islamic State there.

“They wanted to send a message, but they have no idea what it means,” says a top Republican former foreign policy official.

With just two weeks in office, the new administration hasn’t had time to fill some key national-security posts, let alone plan a strategy.

Take Syria: Administration officials don’t like Obama’s strategy, but they don’t yet have an alternative.

The Trump team has explored partnering with Russia, and even considered contacts with the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Some Syrian opposition officials have urged the U.S. to work with Russia (and, implicitly, the Assad regime) in a joint partnership against the Islamic State.

One opposition leader told me this week there’s hope that Moscow will curtail the operations of the roughly

PUBLIC FORUM

A new election To the editor: In an act of great honesty and courage, the person sworn in as U.S. president on Jan. 20 has revealed 3 million to 5 million illegal votes cast in the last election. Such massive electoral fraud naturally invalidates not only his election but that of the vice president and all members of Congress involved.

Those of us whose academic specialty is the study of Third World conditions and practice are sadly familiar with such fraudulent events. The only solution is as usual to hold new election, with official observers from neighboring nations and/or the United Nations.

Bryant Freeman, Lawrence

Cadillacs and crisis To the editor: Whenever I need a ride I’m not looking to see if it’s the latest Cadillac. I learned as a youth from my aunt, “Anything on wheels beats anything on heels!” She taught me that a vehicle’s intended purpose is simply to take me to my desired destination. Our friends and loved ones who have mental health challenges understand this lesson.

They are not asking for a Cadillac type building with all the fixings. They want a ride that gets them from point A to B. From crisis to stabilization. From intoxicated to sober. From hurting to whole.

My questions are, “Why do our current County Commission, City Commission and hospital administrators drag their feet in creating a mental health crisis prevention center, a center that our community desperately needs? Why are we letting our favorite architects convince us to get a Cadillac? What is our fixation with newer buildings? Why are we afraid to refurbish?”

I’m not against finer items but we should

spend more on services and highly qualified and dedicated employees rather than larger buildings and ongoing maintenance.

Serving people should be our priority. A mental health crisis prevention center will meet a great need in our community. Our community doesn’t need another Cadillac building. We do need community leaders to work together to create a crisis prevention center that will move our community from point A to B. Here’s to getting off our heels and finding some affordable wheels.

It’s time to get moving.

Jesse Brinson, Lawrence

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5,000 Iran-backed Syrian Shiite militiamen there.

But Iran holds some choke points. Its strongest leverage is in Iraq. With the victory over the Islamic State in Mosul probably six months away, the Iranians can mobilize thousands of Iraqi Shiite militiamen across Iraq. U.S. advisers are vulnerable to attack by these Iran-backed militias, as happened a decade ago in Iraq.

The complex order of battle in Syria was described Thursday by Ahmed alJarba, who leads an opposition group called the Syrian Elite Forces. He said in an interview that his roughly 3,000-man Sunni Arab group is now being trained inside Syria by U.S. Special Operations Forces, alongside Syrian Kurdish fighters, in preparation for the coming assault on Raqqah. He said his group also had “good and balanced relations” with Russia, even though it opposes Assad and Iran, Russia’s partners. That’s a tangled web.

Moderating the Iranian threat in the Middle East has been an American aim since the 1979 revolution. Arabs and Israelis alike will cheer Trump’s hard line. But Iran is among the toughest foreign policy challenges Trump will face, and he should be careful to avoid ill-planned early actions that would make it his Bay of Pigs.

— David Ignatius is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

TODAY IN HISTORY On Feb. 3, 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, was sunk by a U-boat off Britain after the crew was allowed to board lifeboats. l In 1783, Spain formally recognized American independence. l In 1867, Crown Prince Mutsuhito became Japan’s 122nd emperor at age 14 four days after the death of his father, Emperor Komei.

(Emperor Meiji, as he’s posthumously known, oversaw Japan’s transition from a feudal state to a capitalist world power.) l In 1877, the song “Chopsticks,” written by 16-yearold Euphemia Allen under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli, was deposited at the British Museum under the title “The Celebrated Chop Waltz.” l In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. l In 1924, the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67. l In 1930, the chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigned for health reasons. (He died just more than a month later.)

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reported incidents.

A fourth sex crime was reported at 6:33 p.m. Tuesday, the logs indicate.

Again the address was redacted and Lawrence Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads declined to comment on the incident, noting the reported crime was still under investigation.

The four recently reported sex crimes come shortly after another group of sex crimes were reported in late January.

One sex crime was reported at 2:57 p.m. on Jan. 27, and a second was reported at 12:29 a.m. on Jan. 28, police logs indicate. Addresses for both

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

Three sex crimes were reported in Lawrence between Wednesday and Thursday, Lawrence Police Department activity logs indicate.

The first was reported at 11:01 a.m. Wednesday; the second was reported at 3:29 p.m. Wednesday; and the third was reported at 12:08 a.m. Thursday. It is unclear where the reports were taken because the addresses for all three incidents are redacted in the activity logs.

As of Thursday morning, no arrests in the jail’s booking logs matched the

reported incidents are redacted.

Rhoads said both incidents remain under investigation, but declined to offer additional information.

As of Thursday morning, no arrests in the booking logs matched the reports.

A third sex crime was reported at 4:02 p.m. on Jan. 28; however, Rhoads said that report was related to a “previous sex crime call” but did not offer additional details.

More information was not immediately available.

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284.

Follow him on Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

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Conflict questions trail HHS pick

Lawmaker bought shares in company bill would help Price’s nomination tee on Wednesday, and his nomination to lead Health and Human Jayne O’Donnell was opposed Services will soon be voted on by @jayneodonnell the full Senate.

USA TODAY by several Price introduced the Patient Access to Durable Medical Democratic President Trump’s nominee to Equipment Act on May 12, a week be the nation’s top health official after McKesson warned in its ansenators. introduced legislation last May nual report to stockholders that that would benefit a health company he had recently invested in.

The $15,000 purchase of shares in McKesson is the latest financial action raising questions about possible conflicts of interest during the confirmation battle over Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. The orthopedic surgeon was approved by the Senate Finance Commit-

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its profits and those of its clients were at risk because of cuts faced in Medicare payments. Price’s stockbroker informed him of the purchase in early April, according to a report Price submitted to the House.

Price’s bill would reverse cuts in reimbursement to makers of home medical beds and other

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equipment. McKesson, which bills itself as the oldest and largest health care company in the world, distributes drugs, medical supplies and equipment, including beds and lifts for homes.

Price’s nomination was opposed by several Democratic senators over other health care

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Fifty years since the birth of the Super Bowl, the growing beast of NFL business still chomps up every nickel it can get.

Take the latest edition, the big game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots: The roughly $5 million price tag to air a 30-second commercial during Sunday’s game is more than double the cost in 2007 and 16 times the inflation-adjusted price of a commercial during the first matchup in 1967.

It’s part of the NFL’s goal to reach $25 billion in annual revenue by 2027, nearly double what it is now. Getting there doesn’t look nearly as easy as it once did, especially after the league showed signs of backlash and bloat this season.

Regular-season NFL television ratings fell to their lowest average since 2008, according to Nielsen data.

Viewership among the Millennial generation declined in recent years, too.

“We might be right on the edge of a whole series of cultural tipping points,” said Paul Haagen, a

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company investments, and at least two members of Congress have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate. Democratic members of the finance panel boycotted Wednesday’s vote in part to protest Trump’s immigration order last weekend.

Since 2012, Price has traded shares worth more than $300,000 in about 40 health-related companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. At the same time, Price was on the House Ways and Means Committee’s subcommittee on health working on measures that could affect his investments.

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Massive iceberg about to appear off the Antarctic shelf

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It’s the crack that’s captivating the world. A 110-mile-long rift in an Antarctic ice shelf promises to eventually shear off and create a massive iceberg larger than Rhode Island.

For now, it’s fascinating scientists, gamblers and the public worldwide. Everyone wants to

know when part of the Larsen C ice shelf will finally break off, fundamentally changing the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The short answer: It could take days to years. But the iceberg is most likely to break free within the next few months because of the overwhelming weight the 110 miles of already separated ice is placing on the 12 miles that remains connected to the shelf, said Adrian Luckman of Project MIDAS, a British Antarctic research project that’s keeping watch on the ever-growing crack.

Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass, according to the

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An aerial photo from November 2016 released by NASA shows a rift in the Antarctic ice shelf.

National Snow and Ice Data Center. Studying them is important because they “hold back the glaciers that ‘feed’ them,” Luckman said. “When they disappear, ice can flow faster from the land to the ocean and contribute more quickly to sea-level rise.”

There is no direct evidence to link this event to climate change, he added. Although the general ice shelf decay along the Antarctic Peninsula has been linked to a warming world, this rift appears to have been developing for many decades, and the result is likely natural, according to Project MIDAS. A similar event happened 15

years ago with the dramatic break-up of part of the nearby Larsen B ice shelf. After that break, the number of glaciers behind it accelerated and are still flowing faster than before.

The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf is now about 1,500 feet wide, and has lengthened substantially in the past few months, growing by about 20 miles since December.

Irish bookmakers offered odds last month on when the iceberg will finally break off. PaddyPower offered 7-to-2 odds it will break free in February or March, which is summer in Antarctica. By October, the odds slide to 25-1.

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday eased economic sanctions on Russia, allowing some cyber-security transactions with the Russian Federal Security Service accused of meddling in the U.S. electoral process.

Some Russian officials applauded the move as signaling a thaw in relations with Washington. But several members of Congress decried the move as pandering to Russia and its hacking attempts.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, denied any easing of sanctions, describing the changes as routine tweaking of complicated policy.

The move by Treasury makes changes to sanctions initially imposed by President Obama in April 2015 and strengthened again in December in reaction to alleged “malicious cyber-enabled activities” by Russia’s security

service, known as the FSB, in the U.S. electoral process.

The changes by the Office of Foreign Assets Control cover, with certain exceptions, “all transactions and activities” involving the FSB, the primary successor to the KGB, that were banned by Obama’s executive orders. It specifically eases the ban on sales of information technology products to Russia.

President Trump disputed the notion that the modifications of earlier sanctions amounted to an easing of sanctions. “I’m not easing ... anything,” he told reporters.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the changes do not mark a policy shift, describing them as “a regular course of action” that Treasury takes to address unintended consequences of sanctions.

In the latest case, some U.S. companies had expressed concern that the sanctions would limit their ability to sell electronics to Russia. The FSB has control over imports to Russia of devices with encryption technology.

While the White House tamped down speculation of a policy change, former FSB director Nikolai Kovalyov, a member of the State Duma, saw the move as a sign of improving relations.

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sports law professor at Duke University. “If this continues, then I think you’re going to start to see some dramatic rethinking and response. One thing you know is that the NFL is very carefully monitoring it.”

It certainly is, but make no mistake: The NFL still dominates television ratings and consumer demand in American sports.

More than 110 million viewers are likely to watch Sunday’s game, which again would rank among the most-watched U.S. broadcasts.

Analysts have noted consumption trends that suggest the league may be hitting a crossroads of sorts, going one of two ways: No. 1: The league could be on the cusp of a broader culture shift that could diminish its standing long-term.

As a younger generation comes of age, it will bring with it different entertainment preferences and multiple new ways of consuming media that don’t always fatten the NFL’s pockets.

This is an era in which consumers can watch countless ondemand commercial-free shows on Netflix. Fewer may be willing to watch a regular-season game that averages more than three hours and is interrupted 25 times with a combined 41 minutes of

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No. 2: The NFL will continue to be the dominant force in American sports, though it might struggle with challenges facing other sports and media businesses.

The big one is the digital revolution, which created a fragmentation of the media beyond traditional powerhouses such as CBS and Fox. Such networks pay tens of billions of dollars to the NFL to broadcast games and sell airtime to advertisers. The value of that lucrative business model is threatened if fans tune out, don’t watch as much or consume in other ways, such as on highlight shows, mobile phones and social media.

“We believe the changing media landscape is good for people who have high-quality content like the NFL,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said at a news conference Wednesday.

Even if football still draws eyeballs in other places, it might not bring in as much money.

“We all know we consume our content differently now, but how it affects the business is really the magic question,” said John Entz of Fox Sports.

Next season promises to be telling. To keep growing and stay dominant, the league will have to watch several issues that vexed it this season: uViewership: The league averaged 16.5 million viewers per game during the regular season, its lowest mark since 2008 and down 8% from 2015, according to Nielsen. Viewership improved after the election in November but still was down from last year’s average of 17.9 million average. uGenerational shift: If the Millennial generation is the future, the NFL has another concern: Will those consumers watch and buy at the same rate as the Baby Boomer generation, which was raised on the NFL? Regular-season viewership among those aged 18-34 has decreased every year since at least 2013, down to 2.9 million this year, according to Nielsen.

This is the same generation that’s learned a lot about the risks of head injuries in football and has fueled the rise of other sports.

“We need to spend more time with that group of fans and find out how they’re spending their time, where they’re spending their time and what is it that we have to adjust in terms of distribution of this content,” Falcons team owner Arthur Blank said. uUndesirable TV: Amid multiple entertainment options available on multiple devices, the NFL arguably offers a product that doesn’t have enough action and is too commercially cluttered.

Goodell said the league is looking at reducing stoppages of play and commercial breaks from five to four per quarter. The trick is to not reduce the revenue that comes with all those ads.

Contributing: Larry Berger

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The U.S. has eased restrictions on transactions with Russia’s security service, although the White House denies it is a change.

“This shows that actual joint work on establishing an anti-terrorism coalition is about to begin,” Kovalyov told Russia’s TASS news agency. “Without easing these sanctions it would have been impossible to take the next step.”

In Washington, where GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have called for strengthening, not easing of sanctions on Moscow, the move by Treasury

was met with dismay among some members of Congress.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., ranking member of a House CIA subcommittee, accused the Trump administration of “rewarding” the FSB for tampering with the U.S. elections.

“This is the same group (FSB) that, just a month ago, our intelligence community determined was responsible for the attack on our democracy,” Swalwell told

USA TODAY. “We just made it easier for the same group to import into Russia the tools they could use to hack us or our allies again.”

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said the Trump administration appeared to be going to “extreme lengths” to put Russian interests above the United States.

“Allowing U.S. companies to do business with the Russian intelligence service (FSB) rewards Russia for its nefarious behavior and emboldens Putin to act out in the future,” he said.

The Trump administration’s starts and fits over other policies, such as the recent travel ban, complicated efforts to assess the meaning of the move by Treasury.

In the past, sanctions have been modified, for example, when the Obama administration eased sanctions on Iran in its landmark 2015 nuclear deal because the language of the act inadvertently included a ban on the sale of medical devices using nuclear medicine.

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surrounding Price’s McKesson investment to three former government ethics lawyers who have represented or investigated both Republicans and Democrats.

“It’s crazy,” says Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush whose job included vetting nominees.

“We wouldn’t have put up with anybody in the Bush administration buying and selling health care stocks. When you engage in this kind of conduct, you’re asking for allegations to be made against you.”

Larry Noble, former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, said “there appears to be a direct connection” between Price being notified he bought the stock, “receiving notice from the company that any reductions in reimbursement could hurt its bottom line and the introduction of legislation to delay the cuts.”

“It’s a straight line,” Noble said.

That puts Price at risk of violating the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which was designed to keep members of Congress from using information they have through their jobs to make money in the stock market.

Even if Price’s broker bought without Price’s knowledge, once he knew about the purchase, he should have directed the broker to sell the shares because he was introducing legislation that would benefit the company, or he should have consulted the ethics committee, Noble said.

TOM PRICE’S HOLDINGS IN MCKESSON AND RELATED LEGISLATION

EARLY 2016 MARCH 17

Price bought up to $15,000 in stock in McKesson Corp.

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Price notified that the stock has been traded for him by his broker.

MAY 12

Price introduces legislation to delay cuts to reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment, which dies in Senate, but some of his provisions to delay or reverse reimbursement cuts become part of the 21st Century Cures Act.

In its annual report to stockholders, McKesson says its profit margins could be hurt by laws reducing reimbursement rates for medical treatments and related services.

LATE 2016 NOV. 29

Price nominated Health and Human Services Secretary.

DEC. 13

Cures Act signed into law by President Obama.

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The Obama administration cracked down on payments to the medical equipment industry, which has been plagued by Medicare and Medicaid fraud for years.

Tougher enforcement of who can legally get the equipment has led to substantial reductions in payments.

When asked for comment, HHS provided a statement from an unnamed official that said Price has long been concerned about problems with the “durable medical equipment” (DME) competitive bidding process, and he introduced legislation to change it in 2012 and 2013. The statement rebuffed any suggestion that Price’s involvement in public service has been motivated by something other than improving people’s lives.

The legislation Price sponsored on medical equipment had 121 cosponsors, including 19 Democrats, the Trump administration noted.

Earlier allegations about Price’s special access to discounted stock for the Australian company Innate Immunotherapeutics — and misstatements about it — were not linked to Price’s sponsorship of specific legislation that would benefit the company.

The McKesson purchase “raises a serious issue because there’s no question he knew he had the stock when he introduced the legislation,” said Noble, general counsel

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of the bipartisan Campaign Legal Center.

“If you, as a member of Congress, buy and sell health care stocks at the same time you are possessing non-public information about that legislation, you are taking the risk of being charged with criminal insider trading,” said Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor.

The House Ethics Manual states that whenever a member of Congress considers sponsoring legislation or taking similar action “on a matter that may affect his or her personal financial interests,” the member should seek guidance from the House Ethics Committee.

Price did not consult with the committee as there was no conflict of interest, the Trump administration said.

“It’s fairly difficult to get in trouble in the House or Senate” when it comes to conflicts of interest, said Robert Walker, former chief counsel to the Senate and House Ethics committees. Walker’s advice to members of Congress is “Invest in diversified mutual funds.”

“Price is certainly not the only member of the House or Senate who buys and sells stock in this way or has individual stock in his portfolio,” said Walker with law firm Wiley Rein. “But even if there’s not an actual conflict under

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Cures Act passes Senate, making it a “red letter day” for medical equipment providers, said John Gallagh er, a lobbyist for VGM Group. McKesson is one of VGM’s “vendor partners.”

House rules, there will be potential appearance questions, so you need to be able to meet those head on.”

‘RED LETTER DAY’

After passing the House, Price’s legislation died in the Senate before portions, especially related to reimbursement in rural areas, were included in the 21st Century Cures Act. When that law passed the Senate on Dec. 6, the home health equipment services organization VGM Group couldn’t contain its enthusiasm. McKesson is a “vendor partner” of VGM. “It is a red letter day for DME providers and their patients with the passage of rural relief,” John Gallagher, VGM’s vice president of government relations, said in a blog post illustrated with a picture of him and Price. “Providers will be able to recoup dollars over the past six months with a foundation being laid for the future with a change in leadership at HHS.” Price was nominated to head HHS in late November.

McKesson spokeswoman Kristin Hunter said the company “did not meet with Rep. Price prior to his introducing the legislation.”

The ethics lawyers were unanimous in their view that it doesn’t look good. “It’s just stupid and shows very poor judgment,” Painter said.

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In theaters this weekend A Dog’s Purpose

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Director: Lasse Hallstrom

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1 hours, 40 minutes

Passengers

Rating: PG Upside: Though leaked video shows a dog being forced to perform a water stunt, the movie depicts dogs with reverence.

Downside: Hallstrom works the emotions like a golden retriever slobbering on a tennis ball. It gets gross.

Plot: Two beautiful passengers (Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) are awakened 90 years early on a journey to a distant space colony when their sleeping pods malfunction.

Director: Morten Tyldum

1 hour, 55 minutes

Patriots Day

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Keaton exudes folksy likability with an edge as the biopic’s iconic subject.

Downside: The plot meanders with subplots and veers wildly from its initial feel-good tone.

Plot: Cops and residents pull together after the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon rock the city.

Director: Peter Berg

2 hours, 1 minute

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rating: R Upside: McConaughey loses hair and gains a paunch in a winning transformation.

Downside: Instead of a treasure, ‘Gold’ is a tonally messy period piece about human greed.

Plot: A group of Rebel spies embark on a mission to steal the secret plans for the Empire’s Death Star.

Director: Gareth Edwards

2 hours, 7 minutes

Sing

Rating: PG Upside: The film has a strong cast as well as heady themes of civil rights.

Downside: The space drama sometimes takes the focus off the three stars’ magnetic chemistry.

Plot: A showman koala (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) tries to save his theater with a singing competition.

Director: Garth Jennings

2 hours, 8 minutes

The Space Between Us

Rating: PG-13 Upside: The movie revisits the Hollywood musical in joyous and dazzling fashion.

Downside: Not for Grinches who don’t like good tunes and Broadway-style showstoppers.

Plot: A teenage boy (Asa Butterfield) raised on Mars comes to Earth to find love and his father.

Director: Peter Chelsom

1 hour, 53 minutes

Split

Rating: PG Upside: The charming seafaring epic is buoyed by a bevy of Lin-Manuel Miranda tunes.

Downside: The plot drifts away at times.

Plot: A man (James McAvoy) with 23 distinct personalities takes three teenage girls captive.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

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Hidden Figures

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Director: Theodore Melfi

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La La Land

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Plot: An aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) fall in love while trying to make their dreams come true.

Director: Damien Chazelle

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Moana

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Directors: John Musker and Ron Clements

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STYLE STAR Actor Timothy Olyphant looked dapper in navy and black at the premiere of his latest show, Netflix's ‘Santa Clarita Diet,’ at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome Wednesday night in Hollywood.

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artists have performed twice e during Super Bowl halftimes since 1991: Gloria Estefan, Justin Timberlake, Nelly, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars NOTE Beyoncé also sang the national anthem in 2004.

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Rating: PG-13 Upside: Lawrence and Pratt have chemistry, but android bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen) steals the show.

Downside: Events spin madly out of control and crash into a sappy ending.

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2 hours, 13 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: The drama effectively captures the real tragedy and the “Boston Strong” spirit.

Downside: The plot is exposition-heavy at first before settling into an action-packed pace.

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2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Edwards has a strong handle on what makes ‘Star Wars’-ready spectacle.

Downside: The spinoff is upended by a glut of fan service and a lack of strong characterization.

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1 hour, 48 minutes Rating: PG Upside: The musical sequences are done well, plus there are hilariously quirky moments.

Downside: It’s not a very deep story, and on the whole can’t compare in a strong year of talking-animal fare.

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Downside: The mission fails courtesy of illogical story beats and groan-inducing emotional manipulation.

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Downside: Stock characters and thriller clichés bog down the movie’s twisty narrative.

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‘Santa Clarita Diet’ definitely worth keeping on the menu In Santa Clarita, death is a holiday.

As a caveat for the squeamish among us, death as it appears in all its gory glory in Netflix’s sparkling TV PREVIEW new comedy Santa ROBERT Clarita Diet (FriBIANCO day, eeee out of four) can also be a stomach-wrenching experience. But for those who can muscle through, the reward is one of the most joyous, hilariously dark comedies to come our way in many a season.

Created by Victor Fresco, who also gave us the too-shortlived Better Off Ted and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Diet stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant — perfectly, delightfully off-kilter as married real-estate brokers Sheila and Joel Hammond. They have a lovely house and a whipsmart daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), but they’re vaguely discontented: Sheila’s too timid and Joel’s too indecisive.

That all changes when Sheila becomes a zombie, though that’s a word Eric (Skyler Gisondo), the nerdy teen neighbor they go to for advice, doesn’t like. (“It’s inherently negative.”) Obviously, there are disadvantages, including what (or whom) to eat. But being dead also brings Sheila to life, making her bolder and more confident, if a little impulsive.

That may lead you to think Diet is a spoof of zombie movies, and on one level it is.

But on a more resonant and fruitful level, it’s a spoof of our “self-actualization” culture — the current belief that the key

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Sheila’s (Drew Barrymore) hunger pangs create messy situations most suburbanites don’t have to deal with. to happiness is doing and buying and being anything you want, no matter the cost to anyone else.

Yet that’s not all Diet is, either.

At heart — and this show does have a surprisingly warm, beating heart — Diet is a comedy about the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love and preserve a sense of normalcy, even in the most abnormal situations. Which may be why some of the funniest moments in Diet are those when Sheila and Joel are arguing in standard, married-couple ways over things that married couples usually don’t face. (“I hate eating so late.” “Yeah, well there’s a lot about this that’s not ideal.”)

With her baby-doll looks and voice, Barrymore might seem an odd choice for Sheila. And yet like most everything in Diet, she’s an inspired one, playing off our expectations while making Sheila’s

plight seem real and touching. As for Olyphant, he once again proves he’s one of the finest and most appealing stars we have, moving effortlessly from Justified’s cocky tough and The Grinder’s egotistical goof to this sweet, solid husband who is in way over his head.

But two people don’t make a show, and the 10-episode Diet also gets great work from a cast of guest stars that includes Ricardo Chavira, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Richard T. Jones, Nathan Fillion and Thomas Lennon. Still, special praise goes to Gisondo and Hewson, who make Eric and Abby as worthy a pair as Sheila and Eric.

Often in shows like this, you dread when the plot turns to the teens. These teens help propel a series that gets richer, funnier and wilder with each outing.

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Speech problem makes young person self-conscious Dear Annie: I’m almost 19 years old, and I’ve had a speech problem ever since I could talk. When I was about 7, I started getting help to correct my speech, and I continued until I graduated high school.

Around that time, I got a part-time job. I worked with a lot of customers, and a lot of times they would ask me whether I came from out of the country, because I sound as if I have an ‘’English accent.’’

I’ve been asked so much that I’ve tried to take it as a compliment, but now that I have a new job working with customers full time, it’s becoming more of a problem. It gets annoying, but with a customer service job, I cannot get angry with our customers. I talked with my parents about it, and they said that I

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just have to try to not have it get to me.

The problem is that because I am asked almost constantly, I’ve become very self-conscious. I try my best not to have my speech problem, but it’s not something that I can fully control. I need advice on how not to be fast to anger when asked about my ‘’accent.’’ Have any pointers to help me get through my day?

— Speech Problems in Pennsylvania

Zombie sendup fun, over the top We’ve all seen sitcoms with nosy neighbors and zany housewives. What happens if you add zombies? The answer is “Santa Clarita Diet” (TV-MA), streaming on Netflix starting today.

This smart, silly, super-grossout series marks Drew Barrymore’s television debut.

She stars as Sheila, married to Joel (Timothy Olyphant, ‘‘Justified’’), her partner in real estate sales in a rather sterile California suburb. Things seem normal enough when they greet the day and their ornery teen daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), but soon Sheila finds herself retching during a sales pitch to reluctant house-buyers.

Those looking for subtlety may leave the room now.

Sheila’s prolonged bout of projectile vomiting may set some kind of record, exceeding even the marionette eruption in ‘‘Team America: World Police.’’

The world is divided into people who laugh at extended upchuck scenes and those who don’t.

Count me among the former.

It’s not giving too much away to reveal that Sheila’s episode leaves her without a pulse and a ‘‘hunger’’ for more. And that ‘‘more’’ extends to an exaggerated sex drive and a sense of the spontaneous that she feared she had lost. There’s also a taste for raw meat that leads to grisly complications.

Olyphant shines here as the overwhelmed dad and husband trying to cope as his wife goes through some ‘‘changes.’’ Abby graduates from eye-rolling to sisterhood when she realizes that her mom and her secret(s) need protecting. She’s aided in that effort by Eric (Skyler Gisondo), the socially stunted boy-next-door who will do literally anything to get on Abby’s good side. The fact that he’s the son of a bully and a cop bring new complications to these gruesome proceedings.

Over the course of two nights, we’ve seen the debut of ‘‘Powerless’’ and ‘‘Santa Clarita’’ -- sendups of two dominant television genres, the comic book superhero and the flesh-eating zombie.

While ‘‘Powerless’’ lacks substance and bite, ‘‘Santa Clarita’’ at least has fun with the degrading and brainless gore of ‘‘The Walking Dead’’ and its imitators.

Tonight’s other highlights

O A seven-year fast sure builds

up an appetite on “Grimm” (7 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

O A child star’s pal ends up on the slab on “Rosewood” (7 p.m., Fox, TV-14) O Dorothy comprehends her past on “Emerald City” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

O Blasts from Dreyfuss’ past on “Sleepy Hollow” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

O A new twist on cold drinks on “Shark Tank” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

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Dear Speech: I’m printing your letter because you offer an invaluable perspective.

I will now think twice before asking someone about an ‘’accent,’’ which might turn out to be an alienating and awkward question, as you’ve shown.

As for your getting through the day, focus on what you can control.

You can’t control what customers say, but you get to decide whether or not it bothers you.

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that meditation can work wonders to make all the annoying, stressful parts of daily life a little less so.

Dear Annie: Your suggestion to scroll down and hit ‘’unsubscribe’’ on unwanted emails could result in your reader’s being hacked. My computer guru tells me to first

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Friday, Feb. 3: This year you are capable of making one statement and then turning around and saying something that makes the first statement seem disingenuous.

You often struggle with an internal conflict, sometimes without even realizing it. If you are single, though you are highly desirable, recognize that others easily become confused by your mixed signals. If you are attached, your sweetie tends to be on your case.

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) +++ You have a sense of impending and unstoppable change.

Tonight: Treat a friend to TGIF. Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ You could find that your sensitivity builds and that you feel a lot different from how you have felt in a while. Tonight: On top of the world.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ Listen to feedback, and then decide what is most important to you. Tonight: Play it low-key.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ A friend seems to have a lot to say. Listen to what is being shared. Tonight: Say little for now.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Examine what is going on with a loved one. Listen to what he or she has to say. Tonight:

check the email address of where it originated to make sure it is not spam (i.e., from a malicious or fraudulent sender, as opposed to a vendor whose mailing list you’re actually on).

Hitting ‘’unsubscribe’’ tells the sender there is someone working that email address.

Any emails not wanted should be blocked instead so they go into the junk email folder.

Any emails wanted can be sorted by going to the search box at the top and putting in the name or subject. That will reduce the list of emails to be sorted through.

I am sure other readers have more suggestions. — Full Inbox, Too — Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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In the limelight.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You will be OK with the decisions someone else makes.

Tonight: Follow the music.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ One-on-one relating elicits a stronger solution than usual. Tonight: A loved one focuses on you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Be willing to defer to a loved one, and let him or her carry the ball to the finish line.

Tonight: Ask a friend for feedback.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Defer to others and listen to what they have to share.

A roommate or family member might try to take you in a new direction. Tonight: Pace yourself.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) +++++ You know what to do, no matter what comes down the pike. Tonight: Confirm meeting times.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You might be in a rut, and getting out of it will take a lot of endurance. Tonight: Make it an early night, if possible.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++ You’ll need to ask questions and do adequate research about which way to turn. Tonight: Keep it light.

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19 Victorian, historically 20 Travolta musical 21 Superb 23 Having scruples 26 Certain bridge players 27 Definitely not as nice 28 Put a pharaoh on layaway?

30 Naval lockup 31 “Seinfeld” character Braun 32 “___ only a game” 35 Be human, according to a saying 36 Victims of many triple slaps 38 Word that frequently follows me?

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12 Bat mitzvah reading source 13 Irish poet William Butler 18 Don 22 It’s in a pina colada 23 Fix firmly in concrete 24 ___ firma 25 Barber’s job?

26 Swelling on an eyelid 28 Run away to marry 29 Christmas quaffs 31 Laze on deck 33 Breakfast staple 34 Arranges into various piles 36 Meaty thing at a barbecue

44 An authoritative command 46 Attraction 48 Hiding places for wild game 49 Mosquito relative 50 Mask of death 52 Asian tie 53 Like one cracking knuckles before playing the piano?

58 Large coffee container 59 Covered with greenery, as some walls 60 Appraisal determination 61 Joplin piece “Maple Leaf ___” 62 Capital city on the Aare (var.)

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3 “Horton Hears a ___” 4 Sleeping accommodations 5 Like rationing candidates 6 Butcher’s garbage 7 “Not only that ...”

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44 Leg entangler of cattle 45 Participate in Darwin’s theory?

46 Love at the foot of Mount Etna 47 Certain astrological sign 48 Bonnie’s partner in crime 50 It beats an ace high 51 Vital port of Yemen 54 One of the first to inhabit Eden 55 Ancient 56 Serve papers on 57 Danson of TV

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New tenant in old M&M building has ties to KU’s construction

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ffects of KU’s construction boom soon may become a little more evident on downtown’s Massachusetts Street. No, construction crews still seem disinclined to let me take a bulldozer for a spin, but you should look for a new high-profile office of an engineering firm that is expanding, in part, because of all the work going on at KU. Perhaps you have noticed construction work is underway on the old M&M Office Supply building at 623 Massachusetts St. Well, part of that work is to accommodate a new office for Professional Engineering Consultants.

For a number of years, the company — which primarily goes by PEC — has had a Lawrence office at Sixth and Vermont streets in the building that houses the local accounting firm The McFadden Group. Jarrod Mann, principal and Lawrence office lead for PEC, told me the engineering firm was quickly outgrowing that space.

That led the company to sign a deal to lease the entire second floor of the old M&M Office Supply building.

“We’ve been having a lot of growth in our staff,” Mann said. “This will let us almost double the amount of square footage that we have available.”

PEC’s Lawrence office has grown from just a handful of employees since it entered the Lawrence market in 1999 to 18 employees currently.

The new space easily will allow the firm to grow to 30 employees.

Mann offered no timetable on when the company may see that type of growth, but he said business has been good.

The historic amount of construction underway at the University of Kansas campus has certainly played a role in the company’s growth. PEC is working on parts of the Central District construction projects, and the company has an on-call contract to do work for the university. Mann also cited several projects by hospitals in the region that have aided the company’s growth, and the Kansas Department of Transportation continues to be a good customer, despite

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A Lawrence man is in jail after a stabbing was reported Wednesday night.

Richard Allen Wilson, 58, was booked into the Douglas County Jail early Thursday morning on suspicion of felony aggravated battery, ac-

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DELBERT L. EBERHART Services for Delbert L. Eberhart, 85, Lawrence are pending and will be announced by Warren­ McElwain Mortuary. He died Wed. Feb. 1st at Medicalodges Eudora. warrenmcelwain.com.

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A RENDERING DEPICTING what the building at 623 Massachusetts St., formerly the site of M&M Office Supply, will look like when construction is complete.

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the strained finances of the state.

The Lawrence office serves the greater northeast Kansas area, Mann said. The company is based in Wichita, but also has offices in Topeka, Pittsburg, Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Fort Collins.

The company is an example of the type of firm that economic development leaders would be wise to keep an eye on. When I talk about Lawrence striving to be the “Creative Capital of the Great Plains,” this is an example of a company I’m talking about.

Engineers, architects, software designers, marketing firms and other such businesses that rely on a large number of creative minds are attractive types of jobs.

And Lawrence may be an attractive type of community for those types of workers, who often place

a high value on qualityof-life factors.

The engineering industry also is a good example of where Lawrence may have something that Kansas City can’t offer.

The Kansas City metro does not have an engineering school that can compete with KU’s. If you are an engineering firm that wants to be close to a pipeline of new talent, Lawrence may have some advantages over KC. In talking with Mann, the other thing I noted is that companies are starting to notice a synergy in downtown Lawrence.

Mann told me that when PEC started looking for new office space, it definitely wanted to stay in downtown Lawrence.

The reason: Many of an engineering firm’s largest clients are architects, and downtown Lawrence has a lot of architects. Treanor, Gould Evans, Sabatini and Paul Werner are all fairly large firms that are based in the downtown area.

Communities with successful economies usually find a synergy they can exploit to their advantage. Who knows, maybe this is one for Lawrence.

As for the PEC project, look for the company to move into its new offices sometime in May. l PEC remodeling

work is not the only thing going on with the M&M building. As we have reported, the facade of the building is getting a whole new look. The stucco, 1970s style largely will be gone, and more bricks and windows will take its place.

The big unanswered question, though, is what else may go into the building. PEC is taking the entire second floor, but the ground floor may be primed to bring in new retailers. In case you have forgotten, the building is unique in downtown because the building — which used to be a car dealership years ago — is set off of Massachusetts Street a few feet. That allows for private parking stalls at the front door of the building, rather than the metered parking spaces that dominate the rest of Massachusetts Street.

Allison Vance Moore with the Lawrence office of Colliers International is marketing the groundfloor space to retailers.

She said the space could accommodate one larger retailer or two smaller ones, but she didn’t have any updates on potential tenants yet.

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

Stabbing report results in arrest

By Conrad Swanson

Friday, February 3, 2017

cording to the jail’s online booking logs. He was arrested at the Lawrence Police Department’s Investigations and Training Center, 4820 Bob Billings Parkway.

Wilson’s arrest bears a police department incident number matching a reported stabbing from Wednesday night.

The stabbing was reported at 10:55 p.m. in the 300 block of Maine Street, according to LPD activity logs. Eleven officers responded to the scene.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital is in the 300 block of Maine Street.

The booking logs indicate Wilson lives several blocks away from the

hospital, at 101 Maine St. Wilson is currently being held in the Douglas County Jail without bond.

Additional information was not immediately available.

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284.

Follow him on Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

BRIEFLY Man suspected of assault with deadly weapon A Lawrence man arrested early Thursday morning at an eastside strip mall is accused of assault with a deadly weapon.

Ryan Lamonz Patterson, 22, was booked into the Douglas County Jail at 3:29 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the jail’s online booking logs. He was arrested at 1910 Haskell Ave. Patterson’s arrest bears a Lawrence Police Department incident number that matches a reported disturbance with weapons from early Thursday morning, LPD activity logs

show. The disturbance was reported at 2:19 a.m. in the 1900 block of Haskell Avenue. Nine officers responded to the scene.

Patterson was being held in the Douglas County Jail without bond pending a first appearance in court as of Thursday morning.

Additional information was not immediately available.

Woman accused of sexually abusing child A Lawrence woman is accused of sexually abusing a child in Lyon County.

Marcella Antoinette Langston, 18, was arrested in Lawrence Wednesday afternoon, according

to the Douglas County Jail’s online booking logs.

Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kristen Dymacek said deputies arrested Langston on a warrant issued in Lyon County.

Langston has since been transferred to the Lyon County Jail, the logs indicate.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Lyon County District Court, Langston is accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old between Jan. 9 and Jan. 10. She faces felony charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and indecent liberties with a child.

Langston is being held in the Lyon County Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond.

Here is a list of recent Lawrence Police Department calls requiring the response of four or more officers. This list spans from 6:13 a.m. Wednesday to 5:49 a.m. Thursday. A full list of department calls is available in the Lights & Sirens blog, which can be found online at LJWorld.com. Each incident listed only bears a short description and may not capture the entirety of what took place.

Not every call results in citations or arrests, and the information is subject to change as police investigations move forward.

Wednesday, 7:22 a.m., four

officers, warrant service, 2300 block of Iowa Street.

Wednesday, 3:29 p.m., four officers, sex crime report, address redacted.

Wednesday, 4:37 p.m., four officers, auto accident, intersection of Ninth Street and Emery Road.

Wednesday, 4:55 p.m., four officers, disturbance, 3000 block of Four Wheel Drive.

Wednesday, 8:17 p.m., nine officers, administrative, 100 block of East 11th Street.

Wednesday, 8:29 p.m., five officers, disturbance, 2500 block of West Sixth Street.

Wednesday, 10:55 p.m., 11 officers, stabbing, 300 block of Maine Street.

Thursday, 2:19 a.m., nine officers, disturbance, 1900 block of Haskell Avenue.

DATEBOOK 3 TODAY

Ecology Seminar: Dawn Beuhler, Friends of the Kaw, noon, Takeru Higuchi Hall, 2010 Constant Ave. Career Clinic, 1-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Health Spot, 707 Vermont St. Tween Club (ages 8-11), 3:30-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Post Inaugural Commiseration Dance, 8-10 p.m., Union Pacific Depot, 402 N. Second St.

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Red Dog’s Fun Run, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelers, 833 Massachusetts St. Jayhawk Audubon Society Late Winter Bird Seed, Book & Feeder Sale, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Fellowship Hall, 1245 New Hampshire St. Read Across Lawrence Kick-off Parties, adults, 11 a.m.-noon; kids ages 7-11, 2-3 p.m.; kids ages 12-17, 4-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. St. Pat’s Parade: Pool Tourney and Chili CookOff, noon, Astros, 601 Kasold Drive.

Re-Imagined Pollinators Mural Community Meeting, 1-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Great Books Discussion Group: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” 2-4 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Americana Music Academy Community Jam, 3-5 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts St.

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Lawrence Stands with Refugees, 4-6 p.m., Islamic Center of Lawrence, 1917 Naismith Drive.

American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Arnie Johnson and the Midnight Special, 7-10 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. KU Wind Ensemble and KU Jazz Ensemble I with special guests Boston Brass and saxophonist Chris Vadala, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

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Threatened and Endangered Species in Kansas with Bill Busby, Zoologist with Natural Heritage Inventory and Kansas Biological Survey, 9:40-10:45 a.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway.

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here is a new menu item coming to Lawrence called “Look Good Naked Smart Chicken.” No, the battle between the plethora of Lawrence fried chicken restaurants hasn’t devolved into a clothingoptional battle (never a good idea around a fryer). Instead, there is a new business coming to west Lawrence that says it makes ready-to-eat meals so healthy that you will like how you look in the mirror, even sans clothes.

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The growing Omahabased franchise Eat Fit Go has signed a deal to locate near Sixth and Wakarusa in the retail building that houses Spin Pizza, just east of Wal-Mart. Eat Fit Go isn’t really a restaurant, though. Instead, it is a shop where you can buy ready-to-eat meals that

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THE OMAHA-BASED FRANCHISE EAT FIT GO will soon occupy space at the retail center at 525 Wakarusa Drive, just east of Wal-Mart in West Lawrence. The business will offer a range of ready-to-cook meals. just need to be warmed up.

The business will have coolers full of ready-toeat meals. You can buy one at a time or sign up for the store’s weekly meal plans where you can get several days’ worth of food. Each meal has nutritional information on it, and instructions for reheating. If you are hungry at that moment, though, the store will have a few tables and a microwave.

David Baumann — who is opening the Lawrence location along with business partners Joel Jacobs and Jeff

White — said that on any given day there will be about 40 different meals or food items to choose from. The menu currently has breakfast items like a southwest scramble, a steak and eggs dish and breakfast burritos.

The lunch and dinner menu includes items like a chicken pesto pasta, chicken fried rice, enchiladas, jambalaya, beef tenderloin and potatoes, and several salads. Then there is the “naked” portion of the menu. The store sells a popular dish called Look Good Naked Smart Chicken and also a Look Good Naked Salm-

on dish, both of which feature something called roasted vegetables and a low number of calories.

Folks who are looking to eat healthy are obviously a big part of the business’ target market.

The meals even have a barcode that can be scanned into the Weight Watchers app and other fitness programs. But Baumann thinks the market will be bigger than just healthy eaters.

“Our target market is pretty broad,” Baumann said. “Initially it is just busy people on the go.

That can be the busy millennial or it can be

the sports mom. We find there are a lot of young professionals who don’t really engage in cooking full meals very much. But we also find that the 50

and older crowd don’t cook as much either and don’t want to eat out every night. This

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Tuesday, Jan. 24 345 Construction SerKathryn A. Hetu, Trustee vices, LLC to Brad Owen and to Rookin Ventures, LLC, Sara Owen, 1202 Palmyra 615/617 Maine St., LawCt., Baldwin City. rence.

Nancy E. Deyarmett to Kathryn A. Hetu, Trustee Jennifer M. Alford and Shane to Rookin Ventures, LLC, J. Alford, 809 Branchwood 611/613 Maine St., Lawrence. Dr., Lawrence.

Lawrence Kansas Rentals, Ponciano C. Manalo, Jr. LLC to Richard Hird, 812 E. and Maria G.Q. Manalo to 1250 Rd., Rural.

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Wednesday, Jan. 25 Estate of Joseph N. Baker Christopher A. Lange and to Five Star Quality Care-KS, Julie M. Lange and ConLLC, 1608 Brandon Woods stance A. Lange and Edward Ct., Lawrence.

J. Lange, Jr. to Christopher CP Property Holdings, A. Lange and Julie M. Lange, L.C. to Drippe Construction, 648 E. 1600 Rd., Rural.

Inc., 301 & 303 N. Parker Cir. Ronald E. Coffman, and 331 N. Chamberlain Ct., Trustee to Martin Johnson Lawrence. and Jana Johnson and, 3409 Five Star Quality Care-KS, W. 9th Ct., Lawrence.

LLC to Thomas F. SwearinNorman and Rosemary gen and Carol K. Swearingen, Lawrence Trust to Thomas 1608 Brand Woods Ct., Hayes, 1515 W. 26th St., Lawrence.

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J. Jacobsen, 1521 W. 22nd Monday, Jan. 30 St., Lawrence.

Freestate Land, LLC to Ryan M. Rainer and Amanda Rainer and Michael Midwest Property Group, LLC, Vacant Land, Rural.

C. Rainer and Diana Price to Ralley L. Smith and Jodie William M. Dent, 1544 LegC. Smith to Mark Stearns end Trail Dr., Lawrence. and Melinda L. Stearns, 607 Thursday, Jan. 26 Lake St., Lawrence.

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is a healthy way and a portion-controlled way to eat.”

Baumann estimated most meals will cost between $6.75 to $9, depending on whether you get the small or large version. The menu includes some staples that are available week after week, but new items are rotated in about every quarter. All the meals are made off-site at a commercial kitchen supervised by a chef.

Baumann is part of the group that owns the franchise for Lawrence, Manhattan and Wichita.

Allison Vance Moore, a broker with the Lawrence office of Colliers International, negotiated the deal to bring the company to the west Lawrence site. Baumann said Lawrence is his group’s focus currently, but plans to add locations in Manhattan and Wichita.

“We felt Lawrence was a great market,” Baumann said. “It is a progressive town. The

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university helps with that, and there is good growth with the number of young professionals living there.”

Baumann said he hopes to have the shop — which will employ about 20 people and is hiring now — open by the end of March.

Blue Moose update Since we are in the neighborhood, I thought I would give you an update about plans for a Blue Moose Bar & Grill in west Lawrence. As we have reported, the Kansas City-based restaurant is slated to go in the same building as Eat Fit Go and Spin Pizza.

Several of you, however, have called worried that the restaurant had decided not to come to Lawrence after all.

We reported that it was

tion, though, is just taking longer than expected. Nelson said he now expects the restaurant to open in late April or early May. In case you have forgotten about the Blue Moose or have never been to one of its locations in Kansas City or Topeka, I described it slated to open in Octolast year as being “fancy ber or November, and it but not full-on-fancy.” clearly did not.

Yes, the restaurant does Well, be patient. It serve items such as takes a long time to cook chicken wings, hama moose (the antlers burgers, pizza — the make the oven door flatbread variety — and hard to close). Actually, even fried pickles. But I always get confused: you’ll also find more The moose isn’t on the upscale items such as menu but rather is the a baked brie appetizer, mascot. Regardless, it several salmon and fish takes a fair amount of dishes, a couple of pasta time to build a new Blue offerings and a dish Moose Bar & Grill from called lemon chicken scratch. saltimbocca.

But Ed Nelson, who — This is an excerpt from is the president of the Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk Kansas City restaurant column, which appears each company KC Hopps, weekday on LJWorld.com. which is the parent company of Blue Moose, told me work is still underway and going well.

“It is going to be amazing,” Nelson said.

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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM 3C

in Douglas County Court, 111 E. 11th Lawrence, Kansas, 24th day of March, 9:00 a.m.

District Street, on the 2017 at

Petitioner, Pro Se Jennifer L. Bennett 507 Oak Leaf Court Baldwin City, KS 66006 785-817-2427 _______

NOTICE OF HEARING If you have any objection THE STATE OF KANSAS TO to the requested name (First published in the ALL WHO ARE OR MAY BE change, you are required Lawrence Daily JournalCONCERNED: to file a responsive plead- World on January 27, 2017) You are hereby notified ing on or before March 20, IN THE DISTRICT COURT that Jennifer Louise Ben- 2017 in this court or apOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, nett, filed a Petition in the pear at the hearing and KANSAS —- CIVIL COURT above court on the 1st day object to the requested DEPARTMENT of February 2017, request- name change. If you fail to ing a judgment and order act, judgement and order IN THE MATTER OF changing her name from will be entered upon the THE APPLICATION Jennifer Louise Bennett to Petition as requested by to adopt: Petitioner.

Jennifer Louise Metzger.

LANDON STEPHEN RAKE, The Petition will be heard /s/Jennifer L. Bennett a Minor Child.

Case No. 2016-AD-000020 Division 6 PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 59 OF KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTATED NOTICE OF SUIT To all concerned persons: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by Rachel Springer and Carl John Springer, seeking the adoption of Landon Ste-

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This downsizing sale has many delightful and quality products.

Wicker furniture, patio furniture, much art work, numerous beautiful old frames, Cuisinart coffee maker, glassware, kitchenware, Oster mixer, Revere cookware, copper antique kettle, books, antique collectibles, cockery, jugs, area and book shelving, Panasonic flat 42” TV, buffet w/mirror, leather table chairs, antique dining room table w/5 chairs, floor and table lamps, Russian Samovar, decorative balls, large set of red glasses, candle holders, place settings, 3 Amoire’s, rugs, small coffee size table of pine, buffet w/ mirror and marble top, side chairs, tapestrys, sofas, clocks, decorative spindles, mirrors, 2 king size beds, linens, pillows, pine trunks, decorative wood shelving, cedar chest, GE microwave, office chairs, Samsung washer/dryer, side tables, games, vanity table, bar chairs, 2 leather recliners, entertainment center, small childs trunk, Toshiba CD player, Oval dining room table w/ 6 chairs, bird cages, 6 drawer chest, old sewing machine, fabric, easels, art equipment, 1930’s kitchen cabinet, 6’ tall oak cabinet, blank canvases, shelving, walnut pie cupboard, 35MM cameras, Vest pocket Kodak model b, 3 drawer walnut chest w/ mirror, bar refrigerator, small work bench w/ 6 drawers, Oak jewelers work bench, collectibles, Husky work cabinets on wheels, Jewelry making equipment, antique signs, 8’ heavy duty workbench, acetylene torch w/tips and tank, jewelry work bench, steel tapping set, vintage West Lake jewelers staking set in wooden case, Dremel stand, bench metal shear, Tyobi 6” grinder, 6’ cabinet w/ tin front, Toshiba 12” TV, 18” Dynex TV Flat screen, golf clubs, steamer trunks, wicker coffee table, Forge tool cabinets and matching drawers on wheels, Skill 3 tool drill set, router w/ base and 13 bits, wrought iron gate, wheel barrow, space heater, hand tools, decorative tin shelf, marble base scale, Black and Decker hedge trimmer, Homelite gas weed eater, Toro hand mower and much misc.

phen Rake by Carl Springer. You are hereby required to plead to the petition or appear in Court on March 21, 2017 at 4:00 p.m., in Division 6 of the District Court of Douglas County Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment may be entered upon the petition.

Respectfully Submitted, LEE & MCINERNEY, LLC

/s/ Michael Scott Lee Michael S. Lee, KS Bar # 24930 Lara L. McInerney, KS Bar # 23651 719 Massachusetts, Ste 101 Lawrence, KS 66044 michael@ leemcinerneylaw.com lara@ leemcinerneylaw.com Tel. (785)856-2449 Fax (785)842-4025 Attorneys for Petitioner _______

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Magazines Life - Look Saturday Evening Post Magazines 8-Saturday Evening Post from 1944-1967 1-Look April 1969 14-Life from 1962-1981 $25.00 316-992-5678 Pet Taxi H 12” x W 14” x L 23” Clean, like new Too Small for my pet. $15.

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ESTATE AUCTION Monday February 6th 6:00 PM Ron Stricker’s Auction Co. 790 N. Center St. Gardner KS. 66030

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Lawrence Large Garage Sale 701 Maple on N Lawrence Friday, Feb 3, 8-2 Saturday, Feb 4, 8-12

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(First published in the dent are notified to exhibit Lawrence Daily Journal- their demands against the World on February 3, 2017) Estate within the latter of four months from the date IN THE DISTRICT COURT of first publication of noOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, tice under K.S.A. 59-2236 KANSAS and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the In the Matter of creditor is known or reathe Estate of: sonably ascertainable, 30 BRUCE ANTHONY COBURN, days after actual notice DECEASED was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, Case No. 2017 PR 6 Petition Pursuant to they shall be forever K.S.A. Chapter 59 barred.

Division 4 Respectfully submitted, NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE LAW OFFICE OF THE STATE OF KANSAS TO DAVID J. BROWN, LC ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: By: You are hereby notified /s/ that on January 27, 2017, a David J. Brown (#14409) Petition for Issuance of 1040 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Letters of Administration Suite 14 was filed in this Court by Kansas 66044 Donald Carl Coburn, Jr., an 785-842-0777 heir, of Bruce Anthony djbrown@ davidbrownlaw.com Coburn, Deceased.

Attorneys for Petitioner _______ All creditors of the dece-

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 3, 2017) NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Office of the City Clerk, 6 East Sixth Street until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, 2017, for the following: BID #1700 Lawrence Solid Waste Facility- Phase 2 Copies of the Notice to Contractors and specifications may be obtained at the Finance Department at the above address.

The City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities.

City of Lawrence, Kansas Sherri Riedemann City Clerk _______

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Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com/sports l Friday, February 3, 2017

KU softball gears up for new season

By Shane Jackson sjackson@ljworld.com

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

LHS athlete enjoying his 15 minutes

When the Kansas softball team takes the diamond Feb. 10 in Deland, Fla., it will be a much different group than the one that walked off the diamond in May of last year.

Despite several new faces, the Jayhawks still aim to improve on their 31-20 campaign from 2016, which marked the sixth straight season of reaching the 30win threshold. All while still trying to establish their identity. “(It’s a) totally different roster,” Kansas coach Megan Smith said. “We have done lots of scrimmages

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s practice wound to a close late Thursday afternoon, the center for Lawrence High’s undefeated-in-league basketball team buried three consecutive 3-pointers from the left corner and did as most teenagers would do. He lapsed into announcer mode and belted, “He’s on fire!”

Yes, he is.

Day Three of Kobe Buffalomeat’s national-celebrity status is scheduled to begin with a 7:30 a.m.

Skype interview on ESPN today, roughly 12 hours after he taped a Skype interview with Jimmy Kimmel for the ABC show that Buffalomeat would air three hours later.

The Sports Illustrated interview came a day earlier.

Tonight, the center of attention will line up for the center jump at 7 p.m. at Shawnee Mission South, where his game and not his name will be the focus.

“He’s handling it great,” Lawrence High basketball coach Mike Lewis said.

“He’s having fun with it.”

A day after Illinois State’s announcement of its football signing class triggered a social media firestorm because of a name that fascinated the masses, Buffalomeat chuckled at his fame over a name.

His mother, Paula, named him after Kobe Bryant, the basketball player, not after the Japanese steak.

He can’t answer which he prefers between Kobe steak and buffalo meat.

Not that he won’t, he can’t. He said he never has sampled either.

“Believe it or not, I’m not a big fan of steak,” Buffalomeat said. “I’m mainly a chicken or hamburger kind of guy. I’ve never had buffalo meat, but I’ve heard it’s really good and really good for you, so I might try it some time.”

He said the family is unaware of any story behind the Buffalomeat name and added, “I’m definitely proud to be a part of Native American culture.”

Lewis calls him by the same name as he called older brother Anthony, an Emporia State graduate who played football for the Hornets: “Buff.”

Kobe did not play football as a sophomore or junior and said that he decided to give it a try his senior year after Lions coach Dirk Wedd told his mother, father, grandfather and brother he thought that he could land a college scholarship.

“Once he decided to come out for football, he showed up for every 7 a.m. conditioning session, all

against each other. Some days our pitching is shutdown and looks awesome and some days our hitters are on it, which is actually a good thing. I don’t want to see one area dominate. I think we will have a pretty good balance.”

KU will have to overcome losing nearly half of its run production from last year due to graduation. Of the team’s 250 runs batted in during the 2016 season, only 129 RBIs — notched by nine different players — return this spring.

The most notable player Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo to replace will be former UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SOFTBALL HEAD COACH MEGAN SMITH talks with broadcaster Brian Hanni about the upcoming season during Softball Media Day on > SOFTBALL, 4D Thursday at Rock Chalk Park.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

With the help of a surprise win over Troy, Seabury boys showing ‘who we really are’

By Bobby Nightengale

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ishop Seabury’s boys basketball players have seen all of the rankings across the state. Never lacking for confidence, they feel that they deserve the top spot in Class 2A. If Thursday night was any indication, there’s not many teams in the state — in any classification — who can slow them down when they are playing at their best.

Facing Troy High in a matchup featuring two teams ranked among the top five in 2A, the Seahawks turned an expected slugfest into a blowout with a 69-51 victory at Dillon Gymnasium.

“It wasn’t really a top-five matchup for us, it was just making a statement to Kansas,” senior guard Mikey Wycoff said.

“Show them who we really are. We don’t get no love in 2A.” From the start, the Seahawks were electric. They made 10 of their first 14 shots, motioning to their fans to yell louder after swishing 3-pointers.

They pulled away with a 9-0 run at the end of the first half, which included five

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BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY SENIOR MIKEY WYCOFF (2) drives to the basket for a score during the Seahawk’s game against Troy High School Thursday at Seabury.

Tough 3-game stretch leaves Jayhawks in good shape

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Eleven days ago, in a dimly lit, all-but-empty gymnasium in Morgantown, W.V., where only the custodial crew and a few family members remained, the Kansas men’s basketball team slowly filed out to the team bus still trying to digest exactly what went wrong in an 85-69 loss to the Mountaineers.

One day later, after information about a reported rape at their on-campus > KEEGAN, 4D dormitory surfaced and set

the stage for a stretch of the season dominated as much by off-the-court news as what the Jayhawks did on it, the Kansas basketball team was at a crossroads.

Up next were games at No. 4 Kentucky and home against No. 2 Baylor, and although only the Baylor game would have any direct impact on the team’s chances at a 13th straight Big 12 title, the game the Jayhawks were pushing as the least imporNick Krug/Journal-World Photo tant of the two was getting weeklong hype from ESPN KANSAS GUARD DEVONTE’ GRAHAM ducks under the Baylor forward Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. (0) for a bucket during the second half, > HOOPS, 4D Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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You know, 3-0 would be nice, but you’re not gonna win every game, especially in this league.

So we’ll take that 2-1 and keep rolling with it.”

— Devonté Graham

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TODAY • Track at Nebraska Invitational, all day • Women’s tennis at North Carolina State, noon • Women’s swimming vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY • Track at Nebraska Invitational, all day NORTH • Swimming vs. Iowa State, 10 a.m.

• Men’s basketball vs. Iowa State, 1 p.m.

Bill Belichick follows a familiar script to coaching greatness

Toughness only goes AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE so far with concussions EAST

By Eddie Pells

AP National Writer

AMERICAN FREE STATE HIGH H ouston (ap) FOOTBALL — He val- CONFERENCE TODAY AP Sports Columnist ues the team’s overall culture • BoysNORTH swimming at Sunflower ahead of its individual parts.

EAST Houston (ap) — Mark HerHe rules his team with an League prelims, at FSHS, 5 p.m. zlich beat cancer to make it to iron fist, and yet, instills that • Girls/boys basketball at Shawnee the NFL, so he knows some- team with a sense of family.

Mission Northwest, 5:30 p.m. thing about toughing things He can appear heartless — SATURDAY out. quick to say “goodbye” to those • Boys swimming at Sunflower AMERICAN FOOTBALL He’s also suffered three who no longer fit in —CONFERENCE and yet, League meet, at FSHS, 12:30 p.m. concussions in the league, a he is deeply loyal. reminder that toughness only He has hard-and-fast ideas EASTteam, NORTH goes so far. about how to run his own LAWRENCE HIGH SOUTH WEST “Before I could even tell any- but is never against learning TODAY one my teammates were saying and adding bits of others’ ex• Boys swimming at Sunflower to get him checked out,” the Gi- pertise to his own repertoire.

AL EAST League prelims, at FSHS, 5 p.m. ants linebacker said about his Yes, this is a description of • Girls/boys basketball at Shawnee latest concussion, suffered in a New England coach Bill BelichMission South, 5:30 p.m. hit in a November game against ick, who can set himself apart SATURDAY the Browns. “We’re policing Sunday by winning a record AL CENTRAL AP File Photos • Boys swimming at Sunflower SOUTH each other.” fifth Super Bowl title as a head WEST League meet, at FSHS, 12:30 p.m.

IN THIS SUNDAY JAN. 22 FILE PHOTO, New England Patriots head coach That, in a nutshell, is the coach. good news about concussions It’s also a description of for- Bill Belichick talks on his headset on the sideline during the second half AL EAST game against the Pittsburgh in the NFL these days. Players mer coaches Chuck Noll of the of the AFC championship NFL football VERITAS CHRISTIAN AL WEST Belichick has much in common with Tom are more aware of them and Steelers and Tom Landry of Steelers in Foxborough, Mass.

TODAY there are procedures in place the Cowboys and Alabama’s Landry (pictured bottom left in 1988), Chuck Noll (pictured below in • Girls/boys basketball at WAHAA, 1973), John Wooden (pictured bottom right in an undated photo) and that, in theory at least, get them Nick Saban.

AL CENTRAL 5:30 p.m. off the field before they suffer As well as Gregg Popovich any other coach to put himself among the Mount Rushmore of the best SATURDAY another hit to the head. of the Spurs and former UCLA to ever run a team.

• Girls/boys basketball at Wichita SOUTH Everyone, it seems, is on the coach John Wooden and pretty WEST lookout for woozy players. much everyAFC other person Classical, noon TEAM LOGOSwho 081312: Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m.

“There’s been a massive has cemented him or herself AL WEST AL EAST cultural change. I see it every on the Mount Rushmore of the HASKELL day,” said Eric Winston, an of- profession.

SATURDAY fensive lineman for the Bengals “Xs and Os are the price of ad• Women/men’s basketball at who doubles as president of mission,” says John O’Sullivan, College of the Ozarks, 3 p.m. the NFL Players Association. founder of the Changing the AL CENTRAL “It’s changing, I truly believe Game project, who speaks ofAFC TEAM LOGOS 081312: Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m. it’s changing.” ten about the importance of That by itself is cause for a coaching in society. “But great SPORTS ON TV bit of celebration among play- coaches, the first thing they AL WEST ers in an era where the fright- do is connect. When you conTODAY ening dangers of CTE caused nect with people, they’ll run NBA Basketball Time Net Cable by hits to the head become through a wall for you.”

Lakers at Celtics 7 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 more apparent with each disBelichick, a people person?

Grizzilies at Thunder 7 p.m. FSN 36, 236 covered case. This is a league, The same might have been Dallas at Portland 9:30 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 you might remember, that only said, or asked, about Noll, a few years ago was just fine Landry, Saban or any of these College Basketball Time Net Cable AFC TEAM time LOGOS 081312: with an ESPN segment called coaches, whose facing theHelmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m.

Rhode Island at Davidson 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 “Jacked Up” that celebrated the public usually involves 5- and Iona at Rider 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 biggest hit of the week.

10-minute segments with the Buffalo at Ball State 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 “I played with a guy who media during which their main Golf Time Net Cable won it two weeks in a row,” goal is to not reveal anything Winston said. “And that’s important about their game Dubai Desert Classic 1:30 a.m. GOLF 156, 289 something you don’t want to plan — or much about themPhoenix Open 2 p.m. GOLF 156, 289 win.” selves.

Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable There are, of course, still The effort — and sometimes, Seton Hall at Marquette 11:30 a.m. FSN 236 bone-jarring hits and plenty accolades — they get from of them in the NFL. That too their players says more.

Soccer Time Net Cable many of them still come from Terry Bradshaw couldn’t Hamburg vs. B. Leverkusen 1:20 p.m. FS2 153 helmet-to-helmet hits means stand Noll on their way to winthere is still work to be done to ning four Super Bowls with SATURDAY protect player brains.

Pittsburgh. Only years later did College Basketball Time Net Cable The system is also far from the Hall of Fame quarterback Wagner at Fairleigh 10 a.m. ESPNU 35, 235 perfect, as evidenced by the hit concede that he benefited from Purdue at Maryland 11 a.m. ESPN 33, 233 to the head Miami quarterback Noll’s coaching. “Did I respect Virginia at Cuse 11 a.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Matt Moore took in the playoffs him? Of course I did,” BradDuquesne at Dayton 11:30 a.m. NBC 38, 238 against the Steelers last month shaw said last year. “Like him?

Seton Hall at Georgetown 11 a.m. FS1 150, 227 that left him bleeding from the No, I didn’t like him.”

Pittsburgh at Duke 12 p.m. KCTV 5, 205 mouth. Instead of being evaluAmong the 15 blocks on Rutgers at Penn St. 12 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 ated further in the locker room Wooden’s famed pyramid of Texas at TCU 12 p.m. ESPNN 140, 231 as the protocol now calls for, success is “self-control,” an atIowa State at KU 1 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Moore was back in the game tribute that applies to the play- with one of them, and he chose the top was the concept, virtu- Georgia at South Carolina 1 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 after missing only one play. ers as well as the coaches and Staubach, while trading Mor- ally unheard of at the time, that So. Illinois at Loyola 1 p.m. FSN 36, 236 the word “love” really did be- Marquette at DePaul 1 p.m. FS1 150, 227 But as members and execu- general managers choosing ton to the Giants.

GW at Richmond 1:30 p.m. NBC 38, 238 tives of the NFLPA held their them.

“Sometimes it is unfortunate long in a locker room.

More recently, Tom Cough- Xavier at Creighton 2 p.m. WDAF 4, 204 annual session with the media In a recent talk he gave to to have to make such a deciThursday, they were surpris- a group of coaches, Popovich sion,” Landry said at the time. lin overdid discipline for most Mississippi at Vanderbilt 2 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 2 p.m. ESPNN 140, 231 ingly upbeat about the progress spoke of the virtually manda- “But it is important to clear the of his first 10 years in the NFL. KSU at Baylor that has been made. tory requirement to resist tal- air so there is no speculation Only when he let up a bit, then Tennessee at Miss St. 2:30 p.m. SEC 157 Minnesota at Illinois 3 p.m. BTN 147, 237 got Michael Strahan on board, Zona at Oregon “This used to be a different ented players who are more on it from week to week.”

3 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 league,” said DeMaurice Smith, focused on themselves than the Tom Thibodeau, coach of did the Giants become win- UCONN at Cincinnati 3 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 the NBA’s Minnesota Timber- ners. the union’s executive director. team.

Utah at Stanford 3:30 p.m. FS1 150, 227 This year’s other Super Bowl Ok St. at West Virginia 4 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 “If you stumbled to the side“That’s not easy,” he said. wolves, spent time with Belichline, somebody maybe pushed “You have to follow through, ick a few summers ago and said coach, Dan Quinn of the Fal- Memphis at UCF 4 p.m. ESPNN 140, 231 you back in.” be good to your principles. he marvels because “the infra- cons, has discussed his season- Notre Dame at UNC 5 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 If anyone needed a reminder That person who’s going to be structure is so strong” — one long quest to turn his group of Ohio St. at Michigan 5 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Arkansas at Missouri 5 p.m. SEC 157 of that, former Commissioner good, who has potential, that’s factor that allows great coach- players into a “brotherhood.” es to say goodbye to key playBelichick will never be con- Oklahoma at Texas Tech 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Paul Tagliabue provided it this going to get you fired.”

6 p.m. ESPNN 140, 231 fused as warm-and-fuzzy, SMU at Tulsa week when he apologized for A lot has been made this ers without missing a beat.

Illinois St. at Wich St. 7 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 “You either conform and though maybe Vince Wilfork’s comments he made in the 1990s year of New England’s deciat Florida 7:15 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 when medical experts and re- sion to part ways with two key become a team-first guy, or tweet after parting with the Pa- Kentucky Texas A&M at LSU 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 porters both started asking cogs in its defense — Chandler you won’t be there long,” triots in 2014 painted the best Santa Clara at Zaga 9 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 questions about the long-term Jones in the offseason, then Thibodeau said. “I think every picture about the sort of atmo- UC Irvine at Long Beach 10 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 health of concussed players. linebacker Jamie Collins, who player really wants discipline. sphere the coach has created: At the time Tagliabue said was (ruthlessly?) traded away And they want to win. So when “We are always family,” Wil- NBA Basketball Time Net Cable concussions were “one of to winless Cleveland in Octo- you give them the environ- fork wrote.

Cavs at Knicks 7:30 p.m. KMBC 9, 209 And while great coaches those pack journalism issues.” ber. That defense still allowed ment, they’ll usually respond have some hard-and-fast rules Golf He also claimed the number the fewest points in the league. in a positive way.”

Time Net Cable But while the great coaches about how they want to run Dubai Desert Classic of concussions “is relatively Belichick is hardly the first 2:30 a.m. GOLF 156, 289 small; the problem is the jour- coach faced with those sorts demand discipline, they also their teams, the best of them Phoenix Open 12 p.m. GOLF 156, 289 nalist issue.” of choices. In the ’70s, Landry figure out ways to get their are always keeping an open Phoenix Open 2 p.m. KCTV 5, 205 The timing was interesting, spent a season shuffling be- teams to bond. Former coach mind toward learning.

Time Net Cable Famous are the stories of Soccer with Tagliabue a finalist for the tween Roger Staubach and Packers coach Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame. Still, it’s never Craig Morton at quarterback. had a well-earned reputation Belichick’s willingness to go Chelsea vs. Arsenal 6:25 a.m. NBC 38, 238 Bayern Mun vs. Schalke 8:30 a.m. FS1 150, 227 Eventually, he recognized the as a taskmaster, and yet one > COACHES, 4D Hoffenheim vs. Mainz 8:30 a.m. FS2 153 > DAHLBERG, 4D Cowboys could only succeed epiphany that took him over

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Seabury girls slip against Troy, 38-27 SCOREBOARD

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

It took about one half for Bishop Seabury’s girls basketball team to adjust to Troy High’s full-court press and zone defense.

Once the Seahawks had it figured out, it was too late.

Seabury couldn’t recover from a 17-point halftime deficit in a 38-27 loss at home on Thursday.

“First half, we just turned the ball over way too much,” Seabury coach Nick Taylor said.

“I should’ve recognized that. That was kind of on me there. We came out of the locker room and we played pretty decent in

the second half. Took care of the ball better but we also got some open looks that we weren’t getting in the first half.”

Seabury (2-11), which committed 23 turnovers, started to play tighter defense when it didn’t have to chase players following steals. The Trojans (2-11) only scored three points in the third quarter — a 3-pointer from Lexi Norris.

With the defense standing strong, the Seahawks started to find some rhythm on offense. Seabury senior Kayleigh Boos scored 10 of her team-high 12 points in the second half, drilling mid-range jumpers in the soft spots of the zone defense.

Boos added 12 rebounds to complete a double-double.

“We made some adjustments at halftime and they worked,” Taylor said. “Obviously we should’ve done it quicker because we got in a deep hole and it’s hard to get out of those deep holes in the first half. But I told the girls I was proud of them for fighting back in the second half.”

Seabury closed the fourth quarter on an 11-2 run, but didn’t have enough time to rally.

Celia Taylor-Puckett scored nine points while Emily Heinz, Allison Eckert and Maria Ruiz each added a basket.

“I told them we’ve come a long ways since the beJames triangular ginning of the season,” St. Thursday at Park Lanes Varsity boys: LHS-2486 1st place Taylor said. “You know Cameron Stussie: 213-214-195 — 622 there’s some things we did Javier Lemmons: 194-216-207 — 617 in the second half that’s Adonis Stanwix: 178-213-222 — 613 Hunter Krom: 192-203-209 — 604 promising — that we’re Noah Goepfert: 141-144-148 — 436 shooting for. We try to get Jared Radford: 123-111-142 — 376 Junior varsity boys: 1874 2nd place better every day.”

Ethan Huslig: 188-179-136 — 503 TROY (38) Blair Wishaar 8-21 0-0 18, Kassidy Ashworth 0-2 0-0 0, Lexi Norris 2-7 1-2 7, Kassi Meng 3-7 0-0 6, Amanda Stock 1-6 1-4 3, Alyssa Schmille 0-1 0-0 0, Macy Norris 1-6 0-0 2, Morgan Masters 1-8 0-0 2. Totals 16-58 2-6 38.

SEABURY (27) Celia Taylor-Puckett 2-13 4-8 9, Emily Heinz 1-9 0-4 2, Allison Eckert 1-2 0-0 2, Maria Ruiz 1-1 0-0 2, Kayleigh Boos 5-12 2-6 12, Camryn Mathis 0-0 0-0 0, Sami Dennon 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 10-37 6-18 27.

Troy 13 14 3 8 — 38 Seabury 7 3 6 11 — 27 3-point goals: Troy 4-17 (Weishaar 2, Norris 2); Seabury 1-8 (TaylorPuckett). Fouled out: Masters.

Turnovers: Troy 12, Seabury 23.

Lorenzo Dan: 142-164-182 — 488 Isaac Cox: 154-1478-126 — 428 Pride Leggins: 109-170-127 — 406 Curtis Wesley: 137-126-133 — 396 Daniel Davidson: 101-144-141 — 386 Varsity girls: 1960 1st place Holly Evans: 185-126-217 — 528 Diamonique Vann: 151-166-179 — 496 Carli Stellwagon: 145-156-155 — 456 Hannah Reed: 139-146-157 — 442 Morgan Daniels: 143-160-123 — 426 Renea McNemee: 137-119-153 — 409 Junior varsity girls: 1627 1st place Ashley Dykes: 129-145-158 — 432 Lana Chieu: 86-157-176 — 419 Jojo Blackwood: 146-125-111 — 382 Skyler Scrivner: 140-95-125 — 360 Kira Auchenbach: 91-124-74 — 289

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LHS, FSHS swim teams ready for league

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

When Chad Bourdon joined Free State High’s boys swimming and diving team as a freshman, all he wanted to do was earn a varsity letter.

Fast forward to his senior season, and Bourdon has his eyes on winning titles.

The first step is trying to win his first Sunflower League crown. Free State and Lawrence High will compete at the league meet, beginning with prelims at 5 p.m. today at the Indoor Aquatic Center.

Bourdon has won each meet that he’s entered this year. He missed the beginning of the season because of surgery on his hip and wrist, which left visible scars, from an old gymnastics injury.

“Honestly, my freshman year I didn’t even think that I was going to go to state and then I made finals,” Bourdon said. “Last year was kind of like a dream for me. I wanted top five

and then I placed third. I was like, ‘OK, I really am going to push through next year and see if I can win.’”

Along with his title goals, Bourdon wants to break the school diving record. It’s the oldest record in the program, set in 1999 by Joseph Charles (461.65 points). Bourdon was about 30 points short last weekend.

“I got my (personal record) at league last season, so I think that I can do it,” Bourdon said.

As a team, the Firebirds have finished second at the league meet for the past two seasons. The hardest part is keeping up with the depth of two-time defending state champion Shawnee Mission East.

“We’re just excited to have the boys swim at their home turf,” McDonald said. “I think they are excited about being the host of that and showing how much they’ve worked and how much time they can drop.”

Lawrence High senior Jakob Busch didn’t swim his freshman

year and joined the team “out of spite” of his friends who were swimming and to stay in shape.

He started in the slowest practice lane during his sophomore year and eventually worked his way to a state-qualifying time this season. It’ll be his first time competing at the varsity league meet.

“It’s pretty awesome that after three years of swimming competitively that I can make it to state,” Busch said. “It opens up other doors that shows it’s possible to do things even if you haven’t done them before and you can still be good at them.”

Lawrence placed third at the league meet last season, but will have an uphill climb to reach that mark this year.

“Of course, we’d like to do that, but realistically we lost a lot of points and we haven’t got them back,” LHS coach Kent McDonald said. “Stephen (Johnson) should do really well. Alex (Heckman) should do really well. Two of our relays should do really well.”

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How former Jayhawks fared

Hawks 113, Rockets 108 Houston — Dwight Howard scored 24 points and grabbed 23 rebounds in his first game back in Houston since signing with Atlanta in the offseason, leading Atlanta to a victory over Houston on Thursday night.

ATLANTA (113) Bazemore 3-7 0-0 7, Millsap 4-8 7-8 16, Howard 11-13 2-3 24, Schroder 2-12 1-1 5, Hardaway Jr. 12-18 5-7 33, Bembry 5-6 0-0 10, Muscala 4-7 1-2 9, Delaney 1-10 0-0 2, Dunleavy 2-4 1-2 7. Totals 44-85 17-23 113.

HOUSTON (108) Ariza 1-12 0-0 3, Anderson 4-12 0-0 11, Capela 9-11 4-5 22, Beverley 3-8 1-2 9, Harden 10-23 16-21 41, Dekker 1-5 0-0 2, Brewer 1-4 1-1 3, Hilario 2-4 0-0 4, Gordon 4-14 3-4 13. Totals 35-93 25-33 108.

Atlanta 26 21 26 40 — 113 Houston 32 18 36 22 — 108 3-Point Goals-Atlanta 8-30 (Hardaway Jr. 4-9, Dunleavy 2-4, Bazemore 1-3, Millsap 1-4, Bembry 0-1, Delaney 0-3, Muscala 0-3, Schroder 0-3), Houston 13-51 (Harden 5-12, Anderson 3-9, Beverley 2-6, Gordon 2-10, Ariza 1-10, Dekker 0-2, Brewer 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Atlanta 56 (Howard 23), Houston 38 (Capela 9). Assists-Atlanta 26 (Bazemore 6), Houston 19 (Harden 8). Total FoulsAtlanta 20, Houston 20. Technicals-Atlanta defensive three second, Atlanta team, Houston defensive three second, Houston team. A-15,602 (18,055).

Wizards 116, Lakers 108 Washington, D.C. — John Wall scored 33 points and had 11 assists, Bradley Beal added 23 points and Marcin Gortat tied his season high with 21 to lead Washington to its sixth straight

Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Min: 26. Pts: 13. Reb: 11. Ast: 1.

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Did not play (knee injury).

Markieff Morris, Washington Min: 35. Pts: 12. Reb: 11. Ast: 2.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 24. Pts: 4. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Late game.

Thomas Robinson, L.A. Lakers Did not play.

win, over the Los Angeles Lakers.

L.A. LAKERS (108) Deng 6-11 2-2 17, Young 3-10 0-0 7, Mozgov 0-1 0-0 0, Black 5-6 3-5 13, Russell 5-15 3-6 17, Ingram 1-3 3-4 5, Nance 4-8 0-0 8, Randle 1-4 0-0 2, Zubac 2-4 0-0 4, Clarkson 9-13 0-0 20, Williams 4-12 5-5 15. Totals 40-87 16-22 108.

WASHINGTON (116) Porter 4-9 0-0 11, Morris 3-14 6-8 12, Gortat 10-13 1-1 21, Wall 11-23 8-10 33, Beal 9-17 0-0 23, Oubre 2-5 0-0 4, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Burke 2-8 1-2 5, Satoransky 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 44-96 16-21 116.

L.A. Lakers 29 15 35 29 — 108 Washington 31 27 32 26 — 116 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 12-39 (Russell 4-10, Deng 3-7, Clarkson 2-6, Williams 2-8, Young 1-8),

No. 5 Arizona 71, Oregon State 54 Corvallis, Ore. — Allonzo Trier scored 18 points and No. 5 Arizona roared to life in the second half to defeat Oregon State on Thursday night.

ARIZONA (21-2) Markkanen 1-6 5-5 8, Ristic 4-7 2-2 10, Allen 1-5 1-1 3, Simmons 3-6 2-2 9, Alkins 4-9 0-1 8, Pinder 1-1 1-2 3, Comanche 0-3 3-4 3, Trier 6-11 5-7 18, JacksonCartwright 3-4 1-2 9. Totals 23-52 20-26 71.

OREGON ST. (4-19) Eubanks 5-9 2-3 12, Rakocevic 5-9 2-3 12, McLaughlin 1-5 2-2 4, Manuel 3-7 0-0 9, Thompson

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too late to say you’re sorry, even if it does no good for the players whose brains were scrambled during all those years the league turned a blind eye to head injuries.

“I do regret those remarks,” Tagliabue said in an interview with the Talk

7-17 1-2 16, Kone 0-0 0-0 0, Dahlen 0-1 0-2 0, Sanders 0-0 0-0 0, Stacy 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 21-50 8-14 54.

Halftime-Oregon St. 29-27. 3-Point GoalsArizona 5-17 (Jackson-Cartwright 2-3, Simmons 1-1, Markkanen 1-3, Trier 1-4, Allen 0-2, Alkins 0-4), Oregon St. 4-15 (Manuel 3-6, Thompson 1-5, McLaughlin 0-2, Rakocevic 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Arizona 37 (Markkanen 9), Oregon St. 26 (Manuel 6). Assists-Arizona 10 (Allen, Simmons 3), Oregon St. 11 (McLaughlin 7). Total Fouls-Arizona 14, Oregon St. 19.

No. 24 Florida 93, Missouri 54 Gainesville, Fla. — Chris Chiozza notched the first triple-double of his career, finishing with 12 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for Florida.

of Fame Network that aired Wednesday night. “Looking back, it was not sensible language to use to express my thoughts at the time.

My language was intemperate, and it led to serious misunderstanding.”

Tagliabue’s successor, Roger Goodell, also had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the concussion debate. He tried to ignore it as much as possible, too, before mounting evidence and outside pressure

Thursday at Washburn-Rural WASHBURN-RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL-A 43, SOUTHWEST 32 SW-A highlights: Cole Wheeler 14 points; Tre’Sean Jackson 5 points; Zach Bloch 4 points; Miles Branch 4 points; Kaleb Sarver 2 points; Nate Pilakowski 2 points; Alec Wilson 1 point.

Record: 6-2. Next: Monday vs.

Central Middle School WASHBURN-RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL-B 38, SOUTHWEST 36 SW-B highlights: Jackson Dooley 9 points; Jason Brown 8 points; Alec Wilson 6 points; Ben Melvin 5 points; Nick Edwards 3 points; Charlie Elsten 2 points; Noah Mitchell 2 points; Braxton McCullough 1 point.

Record: 5-3. Next: Monday vs.

Central Middle School Thursday WEST-A 57, LEAVENWORTH WARREN 51 West-A highlights: Kris Daniels 18 points; Jainte Neal 13 points; Thailan Simpson 10 points; Joey Wood 9 points.

Record: 4-3. Next: Monday at South.

LEAVENWORTH WARREN-B 39, WEST 20 West-B highlights: Zeke Sheridan 11 points; Lane Luna 4 points.

Record: 3-4. Next: Monday at South.

NBA Washington 12-33 (Beal 5-9, Porter 3-6, Wall 3-7, Satoransky 1-1, Burke 0-1, Smith 0-1, Oubre 0-3, Morris 0-5). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 47 (Black 11), Washington 45 (Gortat 14). Assists-L.A. Lakers 19 (Russell 11), Washington 27 (Wall 11). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 23, Washington 19. A-16,473 (20,356).

Spurs 102, 76ers 86 San Antonio — Gregg Popovich tied the NBA record for the most career wins with a single franchise, earning his 1,127th in San Antonio’s victory over Philadelphia.

The frontcourts for both teams were depleted, San Antonio missing LaMarcus Aldridge and Pau Gasol, and Philadelphia without Joel Embiid.

PHILADELPHIA (86) Ilyasova 8-18 7-8 25, Saric 5-16 2-2 14, Okafor 4-12 1-1 9, McConnell 2-5 0-0 4, Stauskas 2-10 2-2 8, Holmes 1-4 2-6 4, Rodriguez 3-7 1-2 8, LuwawuCabarrot 3-10 2-2 9, Randle 2-6 0-0 5. Totals 30-88 17-23 86.

SAN ANTONIO (102) Leonard 8-17 3-5 19, Bertans 5-14 0-0 12, Dedmon 5-7 3-3 13, Parker 0-5 1-2 1, Green 5-10 0-0 12, Anderson 1-3 2-2 4, Lee 4-7 4-6 12, Anthony 2-3 0-0 4, Murray 0-2 0-0 0, Forbes 0-1 0-0 0, Mills 5-9 0-0 12, Ginobili 0-3 2-3 2, J.Simmons 3-8 5-6 11. Totals 38-89 20-27 102.

Philadelphia 21 32 20 13 — 86 San Antonio 24 24 31 23 — 102 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 9-25 (Stauskas 2-5, Saric 2-6, Ilyasova 2-7, Rodriguez 1-1, Randle 1-2, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-3, McConnell 0-1), San Antonio 6-22 (Mills 2-3, Green 2-5, Bertans 2-9, Murray 0-1, Ginobili 0-1, J.Simmons 0-1, Leonard 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Philadelphia 48 (Ilyasova 10), San Antonio 57 (Dedmon 10). Assists-Philadelphia 21 (McConnell 7), San Antonio 26 (Parker 6). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 23, San Antonio 20.

Top 25 College Basketball Roundup The Associated Press

Thursday South vs. Liberty Memorial Central SOUTH-A 60, CENTRAL 20 South-A highlights: Isiah Mayo 24 points; Shavian Jones 11 points; D’Marion Proctor 8 points, 8 rebounds; Kallon Chitama 8 points; Drew Meyer 5 rebounds; Karson Green 4 rebounds.

Record: 10-0. Next: Tuesday vs.

West SOUTH-B 52, CENTRAL 36 South-B highlights: Ryan Wampler 9 points; Josen Shepard 8 points, 8 rebounds; Marcilino Chavez 8 points; Malachi Barron 6 points; Dominick Everson 4 points.

Record: 9-0. Next: Tuesday vs.

West.

MISSOURI (5-16) Woods 0-4 0-0 0, Barnett 3-7 0-0 6, Puryear 2-8 4-5 8, Geist 2-8 0-0 5, Walton 4-9 1-3 10, Nikko 1-3 3-4 5, Wolf 0-0 0-0 0, Glassman 0-0 0-0 0, Phillips 5-10 0-3 14, VanLeer 2-5 0-0 6, Rau 0-1 0-0 0, Hughes 0-8 0-0 0. Totals 19-63 8-15 54.

FLORIDA (17-5) Robinson 4-12 0-0 9, Leon 1-6 2-3 4, Egbunu 2-6 3-5 7, Allen 5-7 2-2 15, Hill 2-4 6-8 11, Gak 1-2 0-0 2, Hayes 3-5 2-2 8, Rimmer 0-1 0-0 0, Chiozza 4-8 2-2 12, Hester 3-5 0-0 8, Barry 5-10 5-5 17. Totals 30-66 22-27 93.

Halftime-Florida 48-20. 3-Point Goals-Missouri 8-21 (Phillips 4-6, VanLeer 2-4, Walton 1-1, Geist 1-2, Barnett 0-2, Puryear 0-2, Hughes 0-4), Florida 11-28 (Allen 3-5, Chiozza 2-4, Hester 2-4, Barry 2-6, Hill 1-3, Robinson 1-5, Leon 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Missouri 28 (Nikko, Geist, Walton, Puryear 4), Florida 55 (Chiozza 12). AssistsMissouri 7 (Phillips 3), Florida 16 (Chiozza 10). Total Fouls-Missouri 21, Florida 13. A-10,153 (11,548).

turned it into a crisis the NFL could no longer ignore.

The changes that have been made are significant, if not perfect. Possible concussions are now the first thought after any head-tohead hit, and at every game there are medical personnel in the booth that look for woozy players and can call time out if they spot them.

Players themselves are also more aware, and less likely to shake off symptoms, lest they lose their

spot on the field.

Still, in a big game like the Super Bowl that may not be enough, as evidenced by the fourth quarter hit Julian Edelman took in the Super Bowl two years ago that should have triggered the concussion protocol but didn’t.

“At the end of the day I think the medical staff has to protect us from ourselves,” Winston said.

“I’ve been saying that a long time.”

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 31 18 .633 — Toronto 30 20 .600 1½ New York 22 29 .431 10 Philadelphia 18 31 .367 13 Brooklyn 9 40 .184 22 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Washington 29 20 .592 — Atlanta 29 21 .580 ½ Charlotte 23 27 .460 6½ Miami 20 30 .400 9½ Orlando 19 32 .373 11 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 33 15 .688 — Indiana 26 22 .542 7 Chicago 25 25 .500 9 Detroit 22 27 .449 11½ Milwaukee 21 27 .438 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 38 11 .776 — Houston 36 17 .679 4 Memphis 30 21 .588 9 Dallas 19 30 .388 19 New Orleans 19 31 .380 19½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 31 19 .620 — Oklahoma City 28 22 .560 3 Portland 22 28 .440 9 Denver 21 27 .438 9 Minnesota 19 30 . 3 8 8 11½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 42 7 .857 — L.A. Clippers 31 18 .633 11 Sacramento 19 30 .388 23 L.A. Lakers 17 35 .327 26½ Phoenix 15 34 .306 27 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 125, Minnesota 97 Indiana 98, Orlando 88 Boston 109, Toronto 104 Detroit 118, New Orleans 98 Miami 116, Atlanta 93 New York 95, Brooklyn 90 Dallas 113, Philadelphia 95 L.A. Clippers 124, Phoenix 114 Memphis 119, Denver 99 Utah 104, Milwaukee 88 Chicago 128, Oklahoma City 100 Golden State 126, Charlotte 111 Thursday’s Games Washington 116, L.A. Lakers 108 Atlanta 113, Houston 108 San Antonio 102, Philadelphia 86 Golden State at L.A. Clippers, (n) Today’s Games

Toronto at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Utah, 8 p.m.

Denver at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Big 12 Men

League Overall Kansas 8-1 20-2 Baylor 7-2 20-2 West Virginia 6-3 18-4 Iowa State 5-4 13-8 Kansas State 4-5 15-7 Texas Tech 4-5 15-7 TCU 3-6 15-7 Oklahoma State 3-6 14-8 Texas 3-6 9-13 Oklahoma 2-7 8-13 Tuesday’s Game West Virginia 85, Iowa State 72 Wednesday’s Games TCU 86, Kansas State 80 Baylor 68, Kansas 73 Texas Tech 58, Texas 62 Saturday, Feb. 4 Texas at TCU, noon Iowa State at Kansas, 1 p.m.

Kansas State at Baylor, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma State at West Virginia, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 6 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 6 Kansas at Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Big 12 Women

League Overall Baylor 11-0 22-1 Texas 11-0 17-4 Oklahoma 8-3 17-6 Kansas State 7-4 17-6 West Virginia 4-6 16-6 Oklahoma State 3-7 13-8 Texas Tech 3-7 11-10 Iowa State 3-8 12-10 TCU 2-8 10-11 Kansas 1-9 7-15 Sunday’s Games Texas 69, West Virginia 54 Baylor 92, Oklahoma 58 Wednesday’s Games Kansas 52, Oklahoma 89 Kansas State 65, Texas Tech 53 Texas 85, Oklahoma State 71 Baylor 82, Iowa State 52 Saturday, Feb. 4 Iowa State at West Virginia, 11 a.m.

Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, noon Baylor at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.

Kansas State at Texas, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 5 TCU at Kansas, 1:30 p.m.

Lawrence High

Wednesday at LHS LOUISBURG 42, LAWRENCE 30 113 — Julian Cassella, LHS, pinned Thad Hendrix, LOU. 120 — Nathan Keegan, LOU, won by forfeit.

126 — Kyle Allen, LOU, def. Marcus Cassella, LHS, 8-6 SV. 132 — Ja’Relle Dye, LHS, pinned Dillon Keegan, LOU. 138 — Ryan Adams, LOU, def.

Ja’Melle Dye, LHS, 18-17.

145 — Stanley Holder, LHS, pinned Alec Maler, LOU. 152 — Dylan Meyer, LOU, pinned Justin Miller, LHS. 160 — Blue Caplinger, LOU, pinned Gentry Dennison, LHS. 170 — Santino Gee, LHS, pinned Austin Moore, LOU. 182 — Tucker Wilson, LHS, pinned Owen Staver, LOU. 195 — Ben Hupp, LOU, pinned Isaac Flint, LHS. 220 — A. Kaetzel, LOU, pinned Billy Phiavilayvong, LHS. 285 — Mason Koechner, LOU, won by forfeit.

BASEBALL National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with 1B Mark Reynolds on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Dayan Diaz on a minor league contract.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Carlos Martinez on a five-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Named Magic Johnson adviser to owner Jeanie Buss.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Acquired F-C Spencer Hawes and C Roy Hibbert from Charlotte for C Miles Plumlee.

Waived F Steve Novak.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Signed C Joel Anthony to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Named Phil McGeoghan wide receivers coach, John Egorugwu defensive quality control coach, Marc Lubick offensive quality control/assistant quarterbacks coach, Matt Smiley assistant special teams coach and Bill Teerlinck assistant defensive line coach.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted Curtis Fuller to secondary coach.

Named Lance Taylor wide receivers coach and Jeff Imamura assistant defensive backs/nickels coach.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed LS Greg Warren to a one-year contract.

COLLEGE NORTHWESTERN — Announced the addition of graduate transfer WR Jalen Brown from Oregon.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Named Jason Munoz volleyball coach.

PENN — Named Kyle Metzler tight ends coach.

PITTSBURGH — Named Shawn Watson offensive coordinator.

WISCONSIN — Named Jim Leonhard defensive coordinator.

BRIEFLY Lawrence High wrestling loses to Louisburg

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Lawrence High’s bowling teams swept the St. James triangular ThursLawrence High wresday at Park Lanes. tling lost, 42-30, in a dual Cameron Stussie led against Louisburg on the LHS boys with a 622 Wednesday at LHS. three-game series, while The Lions picked up Javier Lemmons folfive wins from pinfall: lowed with a 617, Adonis Julian Cassella (113 Stanwix rolled a 613 and pounds), Ja’Relle Dye Hunter Krom had a 604.

(132), Stanley Holder For the LHS girls, Holly (145), Santino Gee Evans bowled a 528 (170) and Tucker Wilseries and Diamonique son (182).

Vann rolled a 496.

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QB Peyton Bender sticking with Kansas and wants to play

of things for you in this game, and particularly in this league, when those windows open and close so fast, and if you can’t get the ball out quick, it makes a huge difference.”

Before long, Bender was making plans to visit Kansas on the weekend the Jayhawks faced Texas at Memorial Stadium.

“It was awesome coming here,” Bender said of being in Lawrence when the Jayhawks knocked off the Longhorns, “especially after a tough season they had been going through.”

Between his interaction with Beaty and the other coaches and getting a glimpse of KU’s potential, Bender could see himself wearing crimson and blue and playing football in the Big 12. The former high school standout at Cardinal Gibbons High, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, stuck to those impressions, too.

Georgia, the program he grew up watching and cheering for with his father, Mike, made a late push to get Bender, but the QB stayed with Kansas and signed in December.

“You know, I really like

the coaching staff,” Bender said. “I feel like they’re really sincere guys when you talk to ’em. Like I’ve said over and over, Coach Beaty’s a great guy. He’s a player’s coach and that was someone I wanted to play for.”

Admittedly, the chance to get on the field in 2017 as a junior influenced Bender’s thinking, too.

He spent his redshirt in his first year at Washington State, before appearing in five games for WSU in 2015. He only has two years of eligibility remaining.

“I made sure the coaches were clear about that with me and I was clear about that with them,” Bender said. “I’m going somewhere because I want to play. They told me what they thought and told me I was gonna have the chance to compete, and I thought they were honest about that, and that’s why I decided to come.”

Though Kansas quarterback Carter Stanley entered the offseason as the incumbent starter after helping the Jayhawks beat Texas as a redshirt freshman, Beaty made it clear in December he expects Bender and Stanley to compete for the No. 1 spot on the depth chart in the months ahead.

“I don’t really pay at-

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forced to stand still until the next inbounds play.

“It felt like we came out with a bunch of energy,” said Wycoff, who scored a game-high 29 points. “We knew what we had to do. We knew who we were facing.

That’s what we’ve been working on all week in practice.”

Perhaps the best sign for the Seahawks was the emergence of The Other Guys. Seabury’s usual leading scorers Wycoff and point guard Zach McDermott, who was held to three points, picked up a lot of defensive attention.

Instead, Gaumer scored 12 points on four 3-pointers. Junior Bansi King scored 13 points and junior Thomas diZerega had nine points and a game-high 12 rebounds. King, known for his shooting, even played some of his best defense against Troy standout Cuttar Huss (17 points).

In the second half, the Seahawks never eased off of the gas pedal. With some trash talk on the court between the two teams, they never wanted to let up.

Wycoff scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, driving to the rim and

TROY (51) Brody Winder 4-7 0-0 9, Reid Greaser 1-6 2-4 4, Wyatt Huss 5-15 2-3 12, Wil Smith 4-7 1-1 9, Cuttar Huss 7-12 1-2 17, Tyler Franken 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-47 6-10 51.

SEABURY (69) Mikey Wycoff 11-19 5-6 29, Zach McDermott 1-10 1-2 3, Thomas DiZerega 4-8 1-1 9, Bansi King 5-11 0-0 13, Austin Gaumer 4-7 0-0 12, Max Easter 1-4 0-0 3, Chris Green 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 26-59 7-9 69.

Troy 15 11 11 14 — 51 Seabury 27 14 17 11 — 69 Three-point goals: Troy 3-12 (C. Huss 2, Winder); Seabury 10-27 (Gaumer 4, King 3, Wycoff 2, Easter).

Turnovers: Troy 14, Seabury 6.

won’t start ticking until the following school year, giving him fiveand-a-half years to build his big frame, perhaps enough time for him to land an advanced degree without paying for room, board, tuition and books.

He said he does not yet know what he wants to study and listed his creative-writing class taught by assistant basketball coach Matt Stiles as his most enjoyable.

“He comes into class with a topic and we get to sit down and write for

about 15 or 20 minutes,” Buffalomeat said and then supplied an example. “One time we had to write about something we lost and found. So I was in medieval times and I lost a dragon behind the mountain and I found him one day walking in the trails.”

What next?

“He cut us off at that point,” Buffalomeat said.

“I never finished the story.”

It appears he has a fertile imagination, but even at that there is no way he ever could

have dreamed he would become a celebrity overnight for something about him that hasn’t changed since the day he was born, Jan. 8, 1999.

“Crazy ride, kind of hard to wrap my head around right now,” he said. “It happened so fast. I’m enjoying all of it. I like all the attention. I think it’s fun. I’m definitely going to ride the wave while it lasts because it’s not going to be here my whole life.

It’ll probably be a week or so, so I’m having fun with it while I can.”

tance of not only stepping up in terms of offensive numbers, but as well as being more vocal.

“Last year my sister (Shannon McGinley) and Briana (Evans) in the outfield definitely challenged me to be more of a leader,” McGinley said. “Now that they are gone, it’s wanting to fill their roles. I want to lead others like they led me. I just want to do what they did and have strong leadership.”

The mound is maybe even more murkier.

KU will have a new staff ace after losing Andie Formby, who posted a 2.26 ERA with 113 strikeouts in 149 frames. The team’s most experienced arm is sophomore Alexis

Reid, who fanned 33 batters in 65 innings of work, while posting a 3.88 ERA. Reid appeared in eight games, starting in all but two of them to make the All-Big 12 Freshman Team. She had a slower start to her KU career but began to find her groove in league play, where she went 4-1, including Reid’s first career victory over the eventual national champion — Oklahoma.

“I’m excited to just hit the dirt and get things going,” Reid said. “We are all excited for these changes. We have such good chemistry. It helps for me, having some experience. I know what I’m doing now, so that helps out a lot.”

The Jayhawks will certainly have a better understanding of their ball club after the first month. They will compete in four tournaments — three of which are in Florida — in February and the first weekend of March. Kansas actually won’t play in Lawrence until Friday, March 10, when the squad takes on Wisconsin-Green Bay. “I think it’s a good thing, a lot of people think the travel is difficult,” Smith said. “Here we are used to it. We don’t want to play here, it’s cold. The girls can have their focus on games and getting better as players.”

Kansas will play Akron at 10 a.m. Feb. 10.

“The impression he made on colleagues was almost universally favorable — open-minded, incredibly hardworking, absolutely committed to being a little better every day ... a master at using film,” wrote David Halberstam in his 2005 profile on Belichick, “The Edu-

cation of a Coach.”

Another great coach took note of that.

Before Nick Saban started winning his five national titles in college, he was Belichick’s defensive coordinator with the Browns from 1991-94.

“I thought I knew something, and really

found out that I was really in a position to learn a lot,” Saban said. “That time in Cleveland probably helped me as much as anything in developing the kind of philosophy and organizations that have helped us be successful through the years.

I attribute a lot of it to Bill Belichick.”

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

A junior college quarterback sitting in his dorm room in Fulton, Mississippi, Peyton Bender answered a phone call from a random number this past October, unaware the conversation that followed would get him back to playing football in a Power Five conference.

The voice on the other end introduced himself as Rob Likens, an offensive assistant coach with the University of Kansas at the time.

Bender, in the midst of a stellar sophomore season at Itawamba Community College, had been recruited by some FCS teams since he left Washington State to play at the juco level. But no BCS team had shown interest in him. Not until his surprise call from KU. Likens, who has since moved on to work at Arizona State, told Bender, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound QB, the staff liked what they had seen of him on video and they would keep in touch.

“I talked to Coach (David) Beaty, I think the next day,” Bender recalled Wednesday while speaking with media for the first since enrolling at KU for the spring se-

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KANSAS QUARTERBACK and Washington State transfer Peyton Bender talks with media members following a Signing Day news conference at the Anderson Family Football Complex. mester, “and they ended up offering me and coming down to see me that week.”

KU’s head football coach watched the former WSU backup throw in person, and it confirmed what he had seen on Bender’s highlight reel.

“One of the things that drew me to Peyton right away was his quick release,” the third-year KU coach said. “His release is about as clean and as quick as I’ve been around in a long time… And a quick release does a lot

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KANSAS GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) beats his chest during a Jayhawk run against Baylor in the second half, Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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and being viewed nationwide as the potential game of the year in college basketball.

Fast-forward 11 days, where off-the-court questions still linger and nine games remain in the regular season, and the third-ranked Jayhawks sit at 20-2, are poised to move up in the rankings and at least have answered one question during what will go down as their toughest three-game stretch of the 2016-17 season — these guys know how to win.

Asked after Wednesday’s solid and stout 7368 home victory over No. 2 Baylor if his team would have taken a 2-1 record during KU’s recent stretch against three of the best teams in college basketball, KU junior Devonté Graham’s immediate answer gave away what was coming.

“Definitely,” Graham said. “You know, 3-0 would be nice, but you’re not gonna win every game, especially in this league. So we’ll take that 2-1 and keep rolling with it.”

It’s not as if things get easy from here. But calling the upcoming schedule easier seems like a fair word to describe what’s ahead — Iowa State at home on Saturday, at Kansas State on Monday and at Texas Tech on Feb. 11.

Regardless, Kansas coach Bill Self will continue to push the message that any single win, no matter how big or who it comes against, will not mean anything if the Jayhawks don’t take care of business in the next one.

He’ll be this way for the rest of the season, and it’s that line of thinking that makes the Jayhawks the favorite to snag Big 12 title No. 13 in a row. It’s also helped them navigate a nightmare week.

“We’ve been trying to figure out how tough we are,” Graham said. “We’ve been having a lot going on and stuff like that, but those two wins, especially at Kentucky, I think it just showed how tough we are and how we can grind out games and get Ws.” Self all but agreed. He’s always going to demand improvement and seek perfection. But sitting in the media room following Wednesday night’s thriller against Baylor, the Kansas coach admitted one thing about his team that he had not said much so far this season.

“Considering a lot of different things, I think our team got better,” Self said of the progress made in the last 11 days. “Not only did we win a couple games, I think we got better.”

points from Wycoff, for a 17-point lead. The Trojans (11-2, No. 5 in 2A) were never within double digits in the second half.

Senior Austin Gaumer said the Seahawks (13-2, No. 3) usually start out slow, but there was nothing slow about their play Thursday, flipping their defense into transition offense.

During dead-ball situations, they looked annoyed that they were

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24 of them, and every practice,” Wedd said.

“His hard work got him this opportunity.”

Which in turn made him a celebrity, truly a signing-day surprise for all involved.

A 6-foot-7, 273-pound senior, Buffalomeat will enroll second semester of the 2017-18 school year as a gray-shirt, which means his fiveyear eligibility clock

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shortstop Chaley Brickey, who led the program in all-time walks, runs scored and RBIs. Though her glaring absence will be felt on the field, Brickey will still serve as a student assistant on the coaching staff.

Perhaps the biggest burden to replace Brickey will fall on junior Erin McGinley’s shoulders.

McGinley started in 45 contests last spring, hitting .320 with 19 RBIs and a .370 on-base percentage. However, McGinley understands the impor-

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the extra mile — especially in the film room — from the time he got his first NFL job, as an assistant to Colts coach Ted Marchibroda in 1975.

tention to what the coaches are saying about the competition,” Bender offered, when asked about the coach’s proclamation. “It’s up to me to go out there and perform as best as I can, no matter who it is, whether it’s competing with four guys or two guys. At the end of the day, I’m just trying to go out there and do the best I can.”

As his head coach also has previously discussed, Bender’s familiarity with the Air Raid made KU a good fit for him, too, and could help him as he tries to win the starting job.

Bender, who studied the offense extensively under WSU coach Mike Leach, said he knows roughly 80 percent of the Jayhawks’ system at this point.

“There is variation from Air Raid to Air Raid,” the junior QB said. “All the coaches like to put their own twist on certain things. But we’ve been doin’ seven-on-sevens and it’s almost identical to what I’ve been doing.”

For Bender, the next significant step comes during the spring, on the KU practice fields located more than 600 miles away from a Mississippi junior college where his phone rang out of the blue one night not too long ago. scoring on post-ups in the paint.

“I know a lot of the guys talked about trying to make a statement, we were trying to win a ballgame,” Battles said.

“That’s it.”