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Student numbers factor into talks ——

Elementary school task force reviewing district’s enrollment projections as part of closure decision

By Mark Fagan

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THIS PHOTO OF RAFTERS NORTH OF LAWRENCE was taken with an Apple iPhone and an inexpensive photo app.

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FORMER JAYHAWKS Paul Pierce and Mario Chalmers, front, celebrate after Chalmers made a three-pointer and tied the Legends of the Phog basketball game on Sept. 24.

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A PORTRAIT of Lawrence High School quarterback Brad Strauss, whom his coach described as “a throwback to the olden days when you had that kid who did everything.”

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HUMMINGBIRDS SWARM a Lawrence feeder on their way south for the winter.

SHOWERS MOVE across the horizon west of Lawrence just before sunset, creating an array of colored light.

VARSITY RUNNERS take off at the Sunflower League cross country meet Oct. 15 at Rim Rock Farm.

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See more photos on Page 6A, and go to LJWorld.com to see videos of each photographer discussing his favorite images of the year.

As the new year begins, the Lawrence school district is gathering projections for how many more students will be expected to enroll in elementary schools during the next five years.

Even if it’s not clear which schools will be open then.

“We need these numbers for future planning, for facilities and for programs,” said Rick Doll, district superintendent. “It’s essential for us, from a planning standpoint.”

RSP & Associates Inc., hired Doll two months ago, has compiled its preliminary report of enrollment projections for the district’s 14 elementary schools. The numbers are being studied by members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group, an advisory panel charged with recommending how to consolidate two or three elementary schools during the next two years.

Among the projections that group members are reviewing: !" Overall elementary enrollment to reach 4,867 students in 2016-17, which would be an increase of 223 students, or 4.8 percent, from this year’s 4,644. !" Nine schools to see enrollment increases over the next five years: Broken Arrow, Cordley, Hillcrest, New York, Pinckney, Prairie Park, Schwegler, Sunflower and Woodlawn. !"Five schools to post declining enrollment during the next five years: Deerfield, Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Quail Run and Sunset Hill. !" Enrollment at four schools to be over capacity by the 201617 school year: Broken Arrow, Hillcrest, New York and Sunflower.

The numbers mean different things to different people, but RSP’s projections — based upon historical trends, building permit applications, home sales Please see ENROLLMENT, page 2A

Gallery searching for boy who drew picture that sold for $18 “

IN HOPES of inspiring a young artist, David Allen, of Lawrence, purchased a drawing made by a boy possibly named Eli at the Copt/Feiden Holiday Gallery, 815 Mass. The boy had been encouraged to make a drawing during a visit to the gallery. The gallery is now trying to locate him to give him his money.

By Andy Hyland

I saw that as an opportunity to be a patron of the arts, and show young artists of all ages that The folks who run the their work has value.” ahyland@ljworld.com

Copt/Feiden Holiday Gallery at 815 Mass. are on the lookout for a young boy who was in the gallery not too long ago. They figure they owe him some cash.

About two weeks ago, a young boy who looked to be about 5 years old and his mother walked into the art gallery.

— Gallery customer David Allen, of Lawrence The boy began asking his mother if he could go home and draw “Okay Mountain,” and asked more than once, remembered Mark Feiden, a partner in the gallery who

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DEATHS LOUISE GILBERT Funeral services for Louise Gilbert, 97, of McLouth, are pending at the Barnett Family Funeral Home in

Oskaloosa. She died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at her home in McLouth.

CARL DEAN WALES Funeral services for Carl Dean Wales, 76, of the Williamstown Community of Perry, will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday at the First Assembly of God Church in Topeka. Burial and committal services will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Underwood Cemetery in Williamstown.

He died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at the St. Francis Hospital emergency room in Topeka.

Friends may call after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Barnett Family Funeral Home in Oskaloosa, 1220 Walnut (U.S. Highway 59), where the family will greet them from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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piece of paper.”

So he did, and signed his name. Though a letter to the editor in the Journal-World last week looking for the boy called him by the name “Eli,” Feiden said it very well could have been “Eligah” from the signature on the artwork, which is all they have to go on.

Once the boy finished the relatively small drawing, Feiden asked him how much he figured the piece was worth. “$18,” Feiden said. “He wrote $18.”

Feiden told the boy he’d be happy to hang it up in the gallery for him along with all the other art.

It wasn’t a week later when the piece caught the eye of David Allen, a Lawrence resident and a customer of the gallery.

He, too, had a son named Eli who drew from a very young age. That young Eli got lots of encouragement, went to the Montessori School

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and other data — are gaining special attention from members of the working group.

The group includes representatives from the six schools identified last year both by another advisory panel and the Lawrence school board as candidates for consolidation: Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill. The group’s recommendations are due to the school board by the end of January.

Proposals are starting to take shape. Representatives from Cordley, for example, have crunched the numbers and concluded that while the district could consider combining some schools in eastern Lawrence — Cordley and Kennedy, New York and Kennedy, or New York and Cordley — the prospect of closing a school in central Lawrence would not be appropriate, especially given that enrollments are forecast to rise.

While Cordley representatives acknowledge that the working group is supposed to recommend closing two or three schools, they say that the numbers no longer add up. The RSP report forecasts enrollment rising nearly twice as fast as the district had expected as recently as a year ago.

“We have found that it is not possible to fully meet this part of our charge while also following the other parts of our charge and while offering a responsible long-term plan in light of enrollment growth,” the Cordley representatives said in their report outlining their proposed consolidation options.

The working group’s next meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive. Group members also are invited to attend and participate in the next board meeting, during which

and doodled and sketched throughout his youth. Today, the 19-year-old Eli is enrolled at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. Allen asked Phyllis Copt, who was working in the gallery at the time, about the Okay Mountain piece. She told him the story, and Allen bought it “without hesitation” for the $18 listed price.

“I saw that as an opportunity to be a patron of the arts, and show young artists of all ages that their work has value,” Allen said.

Copt said her letter to the editor didn’t work — Eli (or Eligah) still hasn’t shown up to collect his money. They put up a sign while they were away for the holidays saying they would return on Wednesday. But so far, nothing. So they’re still looking for him.

Allen said he hopes the artist can return to get paid for his work.

“It’s in our house,” Allen said. “It’s sitting on the mantle. It’s awaiting a frame.”

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU.

WORKING GROUP STILL WORKING Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary Schools Consolidation Working Group will meet tonight to continue work on recommendations for consolidating a list of six schools — Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill — by two or three during the next two years.

Recommendations are due to the Lawrence school board by the end of January, and Monday’s meeting is the first of three remaining. The others are set for Jan. 16 and Jan. 30.

Representatives from the six schools have proposed a variety of consolidation options.

Among them: #"Build a new school, at the corner of 15th Street and Haskell Avenue, to combine Kennedy and New York schools. #"Expand some schools to accommodate closure of others. #"Combine schools in eastern Lawrence, but keep ones in central Lawrence — Hillcrest, Pinckney and Sunset Hill — open to help handle expected enrollment growth, as suggested by representatives from Cordley.

The meetings are from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.

Midwest officials explore passenger rail expansion

By Heather Hollingsworth Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, MO. — Expanding passenger rail service through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas would cost the federal and state governments hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a recently released study that looked at several proposals for the region.

One option it examined would provide nighttime passenger train service between Fort Worth, Texas, and Newton, Kansas. Another would establish daytime service between Fort Worth and Kansas City. Both options would use an existing stretch of Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that pass through Lawrence, Topeka and Wichita in Kansas as well as Oklahoma City.

The analysis released earlier this month had to be completed to apply for federal funding. It follows up on a feasibility study completed

by Amtrak in March 2010 and looks at such things as the route schedule and the infrastructure cost.

Passenger rail backer Mark Corriston said Congress could agree to pay up to 80 percent of the cost under the Passenger Rail Investment Act. “The price tag isn’t much at all,” said Corriston, secretary of the Northern Flyer Alliance, a nonprofit that lobbies for passenger rail development for 65 communities between Kansas City and Fort Worth. “If you take 80 percent of the costs off the total development, which would be split between three states, it’s not a very large burden for the state to support to develop this.”

Dennis Slimmer, chief of transportation planning for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said the agency would present the study to the Kansas Legislature during its upcoming session. The $500,000 passenger rail study was done with a $250,000 federal grant and matching money from the

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We haven’t heard a lot in the way of pushback from folks but we know that once they start talking about real dollars people will start being more serious in their analysis of whether it is really one of the highest priorities or not. It would be nice if it was because I think a lot of people would like to be able to ride the train.”

— Dennis Slimmer, chief of transportation for the Kansas department of Transportation transportation departments in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Transportation agencies in Texas and Missouri provided information used to complete the study but no funding.

“The Legislature will determine what happens with this next,” Slimmer said. “I don’t know what the chances are. Realistically, we will have to get federal funding, but there is no guarantee for that.”

The expanded service would require the construction of more stretches of double track and other upgrades, in part to ensure that passenger trains wouldn’t stall freight trains. Those infrastructure improvements would cost $132.5 million for the nighttime service and $368.2 million for the daytime service. To do both projects would cost only $403 million because some of the improvements needed for the daytime service are required for the nighttime service, too.

Night service also would require the $4 million purchase of an additional coach car, and day service would require buying two train sets, a spare locomotive and coach and food service cars at a cost of $68 million.

The participating states would share an annual operating subsidy of $4.4 million for night service and $10 million for day service. That would be on top of the money Texas and Oklahoma already pay to subsidize a train called the Heartland Flyer.

The nighttime option would essentially expand the route of the Heartland Flyer, which travels south

from Oklahoma City in the morning hours and returns in the evening, with an afternoon layover in Fort Worth.

With the expansion, the route would start and end in Newton in the early morning hours. From Newton, travelers could catch Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which travels back and forth from Chicago to Los Angeles, passing through Kansas City along the way.

The standalone daytime service between Kansas City and Fort Worth would provide a second daily train in each direction on the stretch of track between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth. The study said travel time between Kansas City and Fort Worth would be 12 hours and 20 minutes.

Under the daytime plan, stations and stops also could be added in the Kansas cities of Wichita, Shawnee, Emporia, Strong City and Arkansas City, and the Oklahoma communities of Ponca City, Perry, Guthrie and Edmond. The plan also proposes additional stops in Davis, Okla., and in the Krum and Denton area in Texas. The communities would bear the cost of adding the stations, with the possible help of grant money.

“We haven’t heard a lot in the way of pushback from folks but we know that once they start talking about real dollars people will start being more serious in their analysis of whether it is really one of the highest priorities or not,” Slimmer said. “It would be nice if it was because I think a lot of people would like to be able to ride the train.”

Kansas towns adapting after losing Duckwall stores La Crosse residents teamed up shortly after HAYS — Envelopes, paper the closure to open their clips, quick and easy meals, own investor-owned socks. You name it, Duckwall store, Post Rock Variety.

By Gayle Weber

The Hays Daily News

stores in northwest Kansas carried it. That is until the parent company, Duckwall-Alco Stores Inc., decided to close its Duckwall stores at the beginning of 2011, leaving residents in Atwood, La Crosse, Ness City and Plainville without a variety store and those grab-itand-go items.

But some of the towns are on the rebound. La Crosse residents teamed up shortly after the closure to open their own investor-owned store, Post Rock Variety.

“It was not the easiest thing to do,” said Judith Reynolds, a member of the five-member management team for the store. “I think that it has progressed.”

Inexpensive food items, for which there was a demand, toys, cards, craft supplies and more are offered at the store, picking up where Duckwall left off. And hunting supplies and licenses also are sold.

“Hunting has become a market demand in Rush County,” Reynolds said.

Five part-time employees keep the store going, and more than a dozen investors are backing the store.

“It’s getting better all the time,” Reynolds said.

The other three communities haven’t been quite so fortunate, but both Atwood and Rob Schwarz, RSP’s principal Ness City are closing in on planner, will present his final projections and discuss methods for compiling them.

The board’s meeting is set for 7 p.m. Jan. 9 at district headquarters.

— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be reached at 832-7188.

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deals to bring a locally owned variety store into service.

“We hope to open a variety store in the spring or early summer,” said Julie Britton, Rawlins County economic development director.

Britton said she’s been working to find a store for Atwood for nearly a year and thinks she’s finally found the right person for the job.

“We plan to replace 75 percent of the original merchandise that was in there, and the other 25 percent we’ll acquire from other distributors, so I think it’s all going to come together really well,” Britton said.

Dale Staab, Ness County’s economic development director, said he still is working with a potential candidate on a finance package to open a local variety store, too.

The Duckwall building in Ness City already has been leased as nonretail space, but he hopes the store still can become a reality.

“We miss it here,” Staab said of Duckwall. “I still hear comments just about weekly about ‘When are we going to get one?’”

Other retail stores in Ness City and Plainville have tried to step up, expanding offerings to make up for the loss of Duckwall.

“Some of the local stores have picked up some of the products ... that were most in demand,” said Roger Hrabe, Rooks County’s economic development director.

He said Dollar General had approached him even before Duckwall’s closing announcement about putting in a store in Plainville, and Staab said he had had the same communication. However, both projects stalled when the chain decided to pull back on its expansion plans.

Though there has been no progress made on finding a replacement in Plainville, Hrabe said he continues to have conversations with local residents and corporate businesses.

“We lost employers that had a lot more jobs than what Duckwall’s did, but the idea of what they carried, it was very convenient,” Hrabe said.

And now, Staab said, it’s likely residents are doing more of the Duckwall-type shopping when they are in Hays.

“With us only being an hour away from Hays and the fact that people come into Hays for doctor’s appointments ... Hays has benefited a little bit more because people are doing more of that when they go to Hays,” Staab said.

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LOOKING FORWARD 2012 1 | WASHINGTON

Ranger shot, killed at park A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was fatally shot following a New Year’s Day traffic stop, and the 368-square-mile park in Washington state was closed as dozens of officers searched for the armed gunman over snowy and rugged terrain.

Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said late Sunday afternoon Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old believed to have survivalist skills, was a “strong person of interest” in the slaying of Margaret Anderson. A parks spokesman said Barnes was an Iraq War veteran. Authorities recovered his vehicle, which had weapons and body armor inside, Troyer said.

Barnes was also a suspect in the early Sunday morning shooting of four people at a house party south of Seattle, police said.

Authorities believed the gunman was still in the woods, with weapons. They asked people to stay away from the park, and for those already inside to leave.

“We do have a very hot and dangerous situation,” Troyer said.

Troyer said authorities were following tracks in the snow they believe are from the gunman, and crews planned to bring an airplane through the area with heat-seeking capabilities.

“We believe we have a good track on him, but he’s way ahead of us,” Troyer said.

Law enforcement budgets to be key factor gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

agencies and the courts will face in 2012:

For law enforcement agencies and the courts in Douglas County, 2012 could be called the “wait-and-see” year at this point.

With so many budgetary questions up in the air at the local and state levels, leaders are focusing on ways to operate more efficiently and still crack down on the area’s crime rate as well.

Here’s more about key issues law enforcement, public safety

Lawrence Police Department !" A firm studying the city’s police facilities will issue a report on its findings early this year, which will likely lead to further discussions at City Hall.

Police Chief Tarik Khatib and other city leaders have said the department needs an upgrade, likely one that would place the patrol and investigations division under one roof. !" City commissioners as part of last year’s budget granted

By George Diepenbrock

Khatib, who was promoted last February, a few more patrol positions, but he says the city needs to add more positions, mostly patrol ofKhatib ficers and crime analysts, to help reduce Lawrence’s crime rate to put it more in line with cities like Lenexa and Overland Park. !" This year’s city budget discussion could include a conversation about calls offi-

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NASA puts twin probes in moon orbit NASA kicked off the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in the latest mission to understand how Earth’s closest neighbor formed.

There was no champagne popping in the mission control room at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the Grail spacecraft arrived back-to-back over the New Year’s weekend, but several scientists and engineers celebrated by blowing noisemakers.

“It’s a really good feeling to have not one but two of our twins in orbit,” project manager David Lehman said Sunday after the mission was deemed successful.

The action began on New Year’s Eve when GrailA swung over the south pole, fired its engine and braked into orbit around the moon. Not to be outdone, its twin Grail-B executed the same maneuvers on New Year’s Day. The arrivals capped a roundabout journey spanning 3 1/2 months and covering 2 1/2 million miles.

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DANA AND TYLER CUMMINS hold their newborn daughter, Claire Jamison Cummins, Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Born at 6:23 a.m., Claire was Lawrence’s first baby of 2012.

Little Claire is 1st baby of 2012

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No one chooses to give birth to the first Lawrence baby in the new year; there are too many variables, and it just comes down to luck.

And the prize for the winning parents? Your room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital

gets flooded with cameras and reporters all wanting a glimpse of the baby.

But in the moment, it all seems pretty cool.

“She’s the first one,” said a smiling Dana Cummins, who at exactly 6:23 a.m. on New Year’s Day gave birth to Claire Jamison Cummins, a 6-pound 2-ounce, 19-and-a-quarter-inch girl quickly nicknamed “Little Peanut.”

Taking part in a 60-year-old tradition of celebrating Lawrence’s first baby of the new year, Dana, 26, sat with her husband, Tyler, 27, and talked about the whirlwind end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.

The early arrival of baby Claire, who was due Jan. 9, has already paid dividends for the couple who barely missed out on the prized yearly child tax Please see BABY, page 4A

No surprise to pastor religion tied to community engagement

By Aaron Couch acouch@ljworld.com

Forty percent of Americans are actively involved in some form of religion, and that might be a good thing for the 60 percent who aren’t.

That’s because religiously active Americans are more

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South Korea’s president opened the door today to possible nuclear talks with North Korea and warned the neighboring country to avoid any provocations, saying the Korean peninsula is at a crucial turning point.

Lee Myung-bak’s comments in a nationally televised speech come as the young son of the late Kim Jong Il takes power in North Korea as Supreme Commander of the military and ruling party leader after Kim’s death last month. The North vowed Sunday in a New Year’s message that it would bolster its military and defend the son, Kim Jong Un, “unto death.”

“The situation on the Korean peninsula is now entering a new turning point,” Lee said. “But there should be a new opportunity amid changes and uncertainty.”

Lee warned that South Korea would sternly respond to any North Korean provocation. In 2010, 50 South Koreans died in attacks blamed on the North, though the Koreas have met in recent months for preliminary nuclear discussions.

cers respond to that typically aren’t criminal in nature, such as a potential dispute between neighbors that is not violent or a fender-bender in a parking lot. Khatib said residents generally expect police to respond to those, but they also can keep officers busy, especially if the department is short staffed.

“We’re good about solving the murders or major shootings, but there are some robberies, street robberies, home invasion robberies,” Khatib said, “those

likely to be involved in their communities than their nonreligious peers, according to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The study’s authors say their findings contradict the view that religious Americans are an insular bunch, primarily concerned with the inner workings of

their own places of worship.

Those findings don’t surprise Jeff Barclay, lead pastor at Christian Community Church, 1100 Kasold Drive.

“I think it would be hard for me to find somebody who wasn’t doing something,” Barclay said of his congregation.

After the church made

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community service its official theme for 2011, Barclay discovered many of its members had been quietly volunteering throughout the community for years. One woman counsels prisoners, while other congregation members lead a Boy Scout troop and organize food drives.

Hilda Enoch said the connection between faith and service goes to the essence of what religion should be.

As a member of the Jewish Community Congregation and a fixture in Lawrence social justice movements for decades, Enoch has seen that Please see RELIGION, page 4A

Every year, hundreds of stories end up in the Journal-World about criminal events in Lawrence and the surrounding communities: sexual assaults, burglaries, drunken driving and the occasional shooting. This year, however, lacked some of the more high-profile crimes seen in years past. Instead, 2011 was a year of closure for several significant crime stories that date back several years.

Here’s the 2011 crime year in review: !"KU ticket scandal conspirators sentenced: Four Kansas Athletics Inc. employees and a paid consultant involved in the Kansas University ticket scandal, which surfaced in 2010 and cost KU $2 million in ticket revenue, all began federal prison sentences in 2011 following guilty pleas. In May, federal prosecutors said they would not be filing crimi- C. Blubaugh nal charges against anyone else at KU. Prosecutors said there was no evidence that former KU Athletics Director Lew Perkins — who retired earlier than expected in September 2010 — “knowingly participated” in KU’s cash-fortickets scheme.

The five received the following sentences: Rodney Jones, former assistant athletic director for the Williams Fund, 46 months; Kassie Liebsch, former systems analyst and former director of ticket operations, 37 months; Charlette Blubaugh, former associate athletic director for ticket operations, 57 months; Blubaugh’s husband, Thomas Blubaugh, former paid Please see CRIME, page 4A

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DEBBIE NALL, LEFT, GIVES A TOUR of her home to Christ Community Church lead pastor Jeff Barclay, center, and Dot Fernandez, church director of women’s ministry, right, on Thursday.

The church is considering purchasing the home as a halfway house for women in trouble.

Religiously active Americans are more likely to be involved in their communities than their nonreligious peers, according to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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connection in action.

In the 1960s, she helped found Children’s Hour, a program for preschoolers that evolved into the local Head Start chapter. In the 1970s, she was involved in founding Small World, which continues to help families who have moved to Lawrence from other countries integrate into the community. Both programs were held in religious facilities, rent-free. Without the use of those spaces, the programs would never have gotten off the ground.

“I think the best of religion is in meeting the basic, unmet needs of the community,” Enoch said. “I think all religions have that in common.”

The Pew study noted that 38 percent of religiously active Americans said their actions could have a major impact on their communities.

That’s 11 percentage points higher than nonreligious Americans. Religiously active people were also more likely to rate their communities as excellent places to live, all of which could help explain their motivation to be involved in them.

Matt Hertig, a Christian Community Church mem-

ber, coaches youth basketball and soccer. Hertig said that service can be anything and doesn’t need to be related to the church. For him, coaching is about seeing children’s eyes light up when they begin to grasp the game, not from any desire to preach to the kids.

“I think sometimes churches can become like a country club, where we’re very adept at taking care of the members,” Hertig said. “What gets lost is what God calls us to do, which is to go out and serve.”

— Reporter Aaron Couch can be reached at 832-7217. Follow him at Twitter.com/aaroncouch.

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deduction for 2011.

The couple just returned home from walking their dog Chester when Dana’s water broke, fully relieving the couple from having to slap together a dish for a New Year’s Eve party.

“We kind of got off the hook,” joked Tyler, a junior golf manager at the Lawrence-based Kansas Golf Association.

Tyler, despite the months of preparation, said he was still caught off guard by the moment.

“I naturally freaked out,” said Tyler, who ran right to the “baby book” to see what he was supposed to do next.

“I was speechless.”

Once at LMH, it all went smoothly, said Dana, a Kansas University graduate and pharmacist at Dillon’s.

As midnight passed, Dana, a Dodge City native, said they all started thinking more about their chance to have the first baby of 2012. But ac-

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types of things, that if we were doing hot-spot policing, if we had more attention to the area where the lower-level crime is occurring, some of those bigger crimes might not occur because we’re there and actively intervening.”

Douglas County District Attorney’s Office !"District Attorney Charles Branson said county department leaders have already begun discussions with county administration about a potential 2 percent to 3 percent decrease in Branson the county’s budget for 2013. Those conversations would take place as part of the budget process this summer.

“We’re starting to reach the point where the belt tightening can only go so far if the revenues don’t increase,” Branson said. !" Prosecutors also expect to hear this week whether they have been given grant funds again for a position to prosecute domestic violence cases. Branson said the grant money in 2011 made an impact because it allowed for

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TYLER CUMMINS holds his daughter, Claire Jamison Cummins, Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Claire was Lawrence’s first baby of 2012. cording to LMH staff, several other women were delivering that day.

“We knew there was a little bit of competition,” she said, talking about the other mystery couples angling for the first birth.

Surrounded by family, including Dana’s parents, beaming as first-time grandparents, Tyler had taken over

holding the baby, and despite his earlier anxious moments seemed like a natural with Claire in his arms.

“It’s definitely sunk in,” said Tyler of now officially being a dad.

So far, Tyler’s had an easy run at fatherhood, as Claire’s been a content baby.

“She’s been so good,” he said.

a prosecutor and Lawrence police detective to focus exclusively on those types of cases.

and child-in-need-of-care cases. There are types of cases in these areas that seemed to be resolved before that have remained contested last year.

“We’re still trying to figure out what we need to do to try to improve things and to even things out a little bit,” Fairchild said.

Douglas County District Court !"Chief District Judge Robert Fairchild doesn’t anticipate the Legislature granting major funding increases to the court system this year.

He doesn’t expect Douglas County to get another judge’s position, for one. But court officials will be watching closely recommendations a Blue Ribbon Commission will make to the Kansas Supreme Court this month, especially on how resources are allocated in courts across the state.

“The problem is I don’t see the end in sight for that right now,” Fairchild said. “We’re all hopeful that the process of evaluation would result in some things that alleviate these concerns, but I don’t know that we’re going to have a miracle solution very quickly.” !" Fairchild said Douglas County is focusing on applying for grants and will be participating in a pilot program that will allow parties to file cases electronically. !" The court is still adjusting after one year to the retirement of longtime Judge Jean Shepherd, who presided over family court and domestic cases. Three judges, Sally Pokorny, Kay Huff and Peggy Kittel, have been handling domestic

Douglas County Sheriff’s Office !" Sheriff Ken McGovern said his office met its 2011 goal to add three full-time case managers to its jail reentry program, which is aimed at saving the county money by keeping frequent inmates from further criminal trouble.

“We are McGovern already experiencing reduced jail populations as a direct result of their work,” McGovern said. !" This year the sheriff’s office is focusing on a longterm project that requires emergency response agencies to change their radio systems from analog to digital format. The office is also sorting through more than 60 years of criminal history records and storing them electronically.

— Reporter George Diepenbrock can be reached at 832-7144. Follow him at Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock.

consultant, 46 months; and Ben Kirtland, former associate athletic director for development, 57 months. !" One sentenced in Yellow House case: Carrie Neighbors, previous co-owner of the Yellow House Store, 1904 Mass., was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for her role selling stolen goods. The government had accused her of knowing or being deliberately ignorant that goods, such as tools and electronics, sold from her C. Neighbors store were stolen. During the six-day trial, federal prosecutors presented witnesses who said they sold merchandise to Neighbors at the Yellow House that they’d stolen from other stores in the area.

Neighbors’ husband, Guy Neighbors, was also charged in the case, but his trial had been delayed because he wasn’t declared mentally competent to stand trial until September. A drug charge against Guy was recently dropped, but two others involving the selling of stolen goods are still pending.

For nearly five years, the couple have accused police and prosecutors of corruption and repeatedly said they did not knowingly purchase stolen goods. !" Mistrial, sentencing in 2006 shooting: In December, after more than five years, one of two men arrested in connection with the Oct. 15, 2006, shooting death of Lawrence hip-hop artist Anthony “Clacc” Vital was sentenced to 14 years in prisEdwards on. Major C. Edwards Jr. of Lawrence pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for his involvement in the crime.

Prosecutors dropped charges

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD against the other defendant, Durrell Jones, a Kansas City, Kan., man, in March after a jury was unable to reach a verdict in Jones’ first-degree murder trial.

Edwards testified during that trial that Jones shot and killed Vital to collect on a drug debt for PCP, and Edwards expressed remorse for leading Jones to Vital that night. Prosecutors later said Edwards had credibility problems, but a judge upheld his plea agreement for 14 years in prison. Officers arrested Edwards in Mississippi days after Vital was shot, but Jones did not publicly come into the picture until prosecutors filed charges against both men in 2008. !" Mother sentenced for attempted murder of her son: De Soto woman Rachel Perez was sentenced in May to eight years in prison after pleading no contest to the attempted second-degree murder of her 6-year-old son. In August 2010, police found Perez’s son, who has Down syndrome, locked in Perez’s attic, covered in feces and urine and weighing less than 20 pounds. At court hearings, docPerez tors testified that the boy would have been dead within days because of severe dehydration and malnutrition.

Perez gave an exclusive interview to the Journal-World in which she said she never intended to harm the boy.

Perez, who put the boy in the attic shortly before she was arrested on a traffic warrant, said she intended to take the boy down as soon as she was

released from jail, but police discovered the boy first.

The boy was taken in by relatives, as were Perez’s other two children. It’s unclear what happened to the baby whom Perez gave birth to while in jail. !"Bike path assailant sentenced: William E. Nichols, a 31-year-old man who attacked and stabbed a 23-yearold woman on a bike path in 2010, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, battery and sexual battery charges. The attack oc- Nichols curred in the middle of the afternoon on the path between the Youth Sports Complex and Clinton Lake. During the attack, Nichols was chased away by two 19-year-old Lawrence men, Aidan Waugh and Nathaniel Mehl, who were later honored for their actions. !" Fatal K-10 accident: In April, a vehicle driven by Eudora resident Ryan Pittman, 24, crossed the median on Kansas Highway 10 near Eudora, causing a head-on collision that killed 5-year-old Cainan Shutt and seriously injured two other passengers, including a 23-monthold. Pittman was pronounced dead at the scene, and later tested positive for marijuana, methadone and an anxiety medication, all of which investigators cited as contributing factors in the crash.

The accident prompted area residents and family members of the victims to start a campaign urging the state to add cable median barriers on K-10.

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By Michael J. Crumb Crist. There seems to be a Associated Press lot of positive talk about him, but how did he do as Notre DES MOINES, IOWA — PowDame’s quarterback? erball lottery organizers are betting that bigger jackpots Crist threw fewer will entice more people to than 25 passes total in play, but gamblers are going each of his freshman to have to dig deeper into and junior years, but started their wallets to try their luck. most of his sophomore year.

Tickets for the multistate That year he completed 59 game are doubling in price percent of his passes for to $2 beginning Jan 15. While more than 2,000 yards, with the odds of winning one of 15 touchdowns and seven inthe game’s giant jackpots terceptions. Crist won only also are improving, those in four of his 10 starts while at charge of the lottery are gamNotre Dame. bling that people are willing to pay more for the hope of becoming a millionaire in a down economy.

“With the price of everything else going up, there’s not much you can get for a dollar anymore,” said 28-year-old Ryan Raker, of Des Moines, SOUND OFF Iowa, who buys a ticket once a If you have a question, call month. He says he’ll probably 832-7297 or send email to play less frequently now.

Lotteries have long sold soundoff@ljworld.com. regular people on the hope of becoming rich quick by simply picking a lucky combination of numbers. Some play loved ones’ birthdays or ON THE RECORD anniversaries in the hope that LJWORLD.COM/BLOTTER fate may point them in the direction of a jackpot. Selling FIRE MEDICAL REPORT that hope is easy; less so is • A fire at a mobile home predicting consumers’ sensipark in Eudora was reported tivity to price changes. early New Year’s Day. At 12:20 a.m., emergency crews Powerball’s move follows were called to 501 E. 10th St. the model of scratch ticket in Eudora for a report of a games, which once were all mobile home on fire. When $1 but now are offered at first responders arrived on the higher prices with the chance scene, they said light smoke for bigger prizes. was showing. By 12:45 a.m. the fire was reported under control.

The evolution of scratch tickets and the creation of DOUGLAS COUNTY families of games that ofDISTRICT COURT fer tickets at different prices MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED has proven successful across Anthony Neil Roberts, 37, the country, said Rebecca Eudora, and Carla Ann Steiner, Hargrove, president of the 37, Olathe.

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John William Keating, 52, Lawrence, and Connie Jean Boysen-Portwood, 53, Overland Park.

Joshua Michael Lake, 33, Lawrence, and Stephanie Ann Williams, 33, Lawrence.

Chris Leander Edwards, 27, Lawrence, and Monica Lea Vann, 39, Lawrence.

Tanner Jay Willbanks, 32, Lawrence, and Elizabeth Paige Stuewe, 26, Lawrence.

Keith Alan Conrad, 29, Lawrence, and Jennifer Lee Meitl, 27, Lawrence.

Bradley Glenn Reynolds, 32, Dallas, and Zhulieta Panayotova Kaludova, 32, Shumen, Bulgaria.

Michael Scott Moreno, 25, Lawrence, and Valerie Michelle Onken, 22, Lawrence.

BANKRUPTCIES Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records: • John Edward Leipzig, 1707 East 1130 Road, Lawrence.

• Deborah Jo King, P.O. Box 274, Lawrence.

• Jeremy A. Putnam and Robin M. Putnam, 15 W. 10th St., Eudora.

• Jason Warren Landreth and Lana Lynn Landreth, 3540 Tillerman Drive, Lawrence.

• Larry James Slavens, Jr., 909 E. 1938 Road, Eudora.

• Heather Ellen Kirchhefer, 603 Utah Court, Lawrence.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed.

The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name.

• The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged.

• Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported.

• Holdups and robberies.

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Tyler and Dana Cummins, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday.

Rosa Long and Brian Sizemore, Oskaloosa, a boy, Sunday.

Jessica Freeman and Jordey McTaggart, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday.

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CORRECTIONS The Journal-World’s policy is to correct all significant errors that are brought to the editors’ attention, usually in this space.

If you believe we have made such an error, call (785) 8327154, or email news@ljworld. com.

Tennessee Lottery. Scratch games like Win for Life in Illinois, Jumbo Bucks in Tennessee and the Crosswords game in Iowa have all been successful, Hargrove said.

“The more choices you gave players the higher the sales were,” Hargrove said.

“A family of games at multiple price points created the most excitement. Once those kinds of games were introduced we saw a dramatic increase in sales.”

Lottery officials believe increasing the price of the game will make it more attractive to players, said Terry Rich, spokesman for the West Des Moines-based Multistate Lottery Association, which runs Powerball.

“People like variety,” Rich said. “We’re repackaging and freshening up the product and enriching the product.”

Powerball is the big fish of the various lottery games states offer, and typically has some of the biggest payouts.

There are nine ways to win the game, from a $3 prize for matching the Power Ball number to various payouts for different combinations of winning numbers.

Odds of winning are improving because of changes the game is making in the numbers players can choose. The number of Power Ball numbers to choose from will decrease from 39 to 35. That will raise the odds of winning from 1 in 192 million to 1 in 175 million.

Picking the right numbers will have a bigger payoff: The starting jackpot is rising from $20 to $40 million. The amount won for matching all five numbers but not the Power Ball will increase from $200,000 to $1 million.

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HOW TO HELP

2012 offers plenty of volunteer opportunities Staff Reports

Resolve to volunteer in 2012! Mentor a child, adopt a park, assist with a fundraising event, walk shelter dogs, sort books, cook and serve meals, join a board or committee, assist with young children or teens, collect aluminum cans, visit nursing home residents, care for orphaned wild animals, deliver meals, shovel snow for an elderly resident, maintain trails, sort donations, tutor children or adults, paint a house or office, greet visitors, become an usher, or assist in a nonprofit office. There is something for everyone! Please contact the Roger Hill Volunteer Center for more information.

Immediate Needs !" Douglas County Senior Services is seeking assistance with data collection and data entry. Expert assistance is needed now through the end of January. Please contact Carleen at 842-0543. !" Headquarters is seeking caring people interested in

training as a volunteer counselor. Learn more at one of the upcoming information meetings: Thursday, Jan. 19, from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vt., or Wednesday, Jan. 25, from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at the Lawrence Public Library.

For more information, visit www.HeadquartersCounselingCenter.org or call 8412345. Volunteer counselors must be at least 20 years old with a minimum of one year of independent living from parent/guardian. !" Van Go Inc. is seeking volunteers for the Spring JAMS Session, which runs from Feb. 13 through April 12.

JAMS is a job training program where teens, ages 14-18, learn essential job and life skills while producing works of art. Volunteers are asked to commit a minimum of one day per week to work directly with teens on site. Two volunteers are also needed to

provide transportation from LHS and FSHS. A volunteer orientation will take place Jan. 28 from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Please contact Lindsay at 842-3797 to volunteer. !" AARP Tax-Aide is seeking volunteers to assist with tax preparations for lowincome and senior residents throughout the area. Volunteers will help prepare and file state and federal income tax returns at no cost to qualified taxpayers. You do not need to be an AARP member or have previous taxpreparation skills, but should have basic computer skills.

All volunteers will receive free training and materials in January 2012 and are reimbursed for program-related expenses. The program will run from Feb. 1 through April 15. For more information, please contact Sarah Merriman at 785-832-0080.

— For more volunteer opportunities, contact Shannon Reid at the United Way’s Roger Hill Volunteer Center, at 785-865-5030 or volunteer@rhvc.org, or go to volunteerdouglascounty.org.

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Busy New Year’s for police, but nothing serious It was a busy start to a new year for Lawrence police, as officers responded to fights, domestic disturbances and noise complaints.

But nothing serious, Sgt. Kirk Fultz said.

“It was one of the busiest (New Year’s) ever,” he said. “It was nothing big — just enough to keep us busy.”

One of the larger incidents involved two fights that broke out, about an hour apart, in the 3100 block of Iowa. Ten police units responded to the first incident around 3 a.m. and broke up a fight. Officers

returned about 3:45 a.m. to settle down another fight in the same general area.

But the Douglas County Jail booking log did not show any arrests related to either incident.

In a span of less than eight hours, area law enforcement also made four arrests for driving under the influence. The arrests occurred between midnight and 8 a.m. New Year’s Day. Driving under the influence arrests averaged about 2.5 per day in Douglas County, according to 2009 statistics provided by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

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KANSAS RECEIVERS KALE PICK (7) and D.J. Beshears get airborne in the end zone to celebrate a touchdown by Pick late in the second quarter against Northern Illinois on Sept. 10 at KU’s Kivisto Field.

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WHILE AT THE TOP of the Rock-O-Plane ride, Judy Kibbee, left, found herself stuck upside down in the cage with niece Abbi Folks, 12, while the ride operator loaded more riders during the Territorial Days celebration in June in Lecompton.

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A CAR CRASHED into the Lawrence Family Vision Clinic, 311 W. Sixth St., on March 29. No one was injured.

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STATE HIGHWAY TROOPER CASEY SIMONEAU says goodbye to a young girl from the Ballard Community Services Early Education programs after he helped her shop for Christmas gifts in late December.

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KANSAS PLAYERS Royce Woolridge (11), Markieff Morris (21), Josh Selby (32) and Marcus Morris (22) wait in the tunnel before taking the court Feb. 26 at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.

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A SCENE FROM the Battle of Wilson’s Creek 150th Anniversary Re-enactment, held Aug. 12-14 near Springfield, Mo.

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THREE ZOMBIES, left, wait for the start of the Zombie Walk Oct. 6 in South Park.

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Romney’s chief Iowa rivals press electability Candidates say they can beat Obama if given nomination

By Beth Fouhy and Thomas Beaumont Associated Press

DES MOINES, IOWA — With time running short, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and other Republican presidential contenders insisted they could beat President Barack Obama as they worked to persuade undecided Iowa Republicans aching to win the White House to choose them over chief rival Mitt Romney.

“I’m the candidate that actually was able to win in states, as a conservative, in getting Democrats and independents to vote for us,” Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who is surging in the race and is a favorite among cultural conservatives, said in an interview on CNN. “Mitt Romney has no track history of doing that.”

Paul, a libertarian-leaning Texas congressman who Romney has said is outside the GOP mainstream, countered the suggestion that he’s a fringe candidate. In an interview with ABC from his home state, where he was spending the weekend, Paul insisted: “I’m electable. I’ve been elected 12 times in Texas, when people get to know me.”

With Romney in a position

BRIEFLY Cops: Man tried to use $1M bill at Walmart LEXINGTON, N.C. — Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?

Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart.

Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-yearold Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested.

The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.

Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn’t clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday.

68 Occupy protesters arrested in NYC NEW YORK — Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on New Year’s Eve as they tore down barricades surrounding New York City’s Zuccotti Park, the former home of their encampment that was dismantled several weeks ago.

About 500 protesters gathered in the park Saturday evening, where they rang in the new year with songs and their now-familiar chant of “We are the 99 percent.”

About 11 p.m., after a relatively quiet evening, some protesters began to tear down the barricades that have surrounded the park since New York police officers evicted Occupy Wall Street members on Nov. 15, protesters said Sunday. Police then moved in.

“They (police) got very aggressive and started pushing people and pepper-spraying people,” protester Jason Amadi, 27, of San Jose, Calif., said Sunday. “I got pepper-sprayed in the face.”

The protesters said they worked at sections of the park in teams of twos and threes, retreating only when police converged and pulled the barricades back.

“People were collecting all the barricades and making kind of a big heap of them in the middle of the park,” said protester Melanie Butler, 30, of Brooklyn. “And we were standing on it with our Occupy Wall Street banner.”

The New York Police Department said 68 people were arrested, and at least one person was accused of assaulting a police officer, who suffered cuts on one hand. Other charges included trespassing, disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment.

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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and wife Ann wave during a campaign appearance at the Family Table restaurant Sunday in Atlantic, Iowa. of strength in Iowa, both Santorum and Paul went directly at the former Massachusetts governor’s chief argument — that he is the most electable Republican in a head-tohead matchup against Obama next fall. They hope they can sway the roughly half of likely caucus-goers who say they are undecided or willing to change their minds two days before the leadoff presidential caucuses.

A Des Moines Register poll released Saturday showed Romney and Paul locked in a close race, with Santorum rising swiftly to challenge them. Nearly half of likely Iowa caucus-goers view Romney as the Republican most likely to win the general election. He was far ahead of Santorum and Paul, who was viewed as the least likely to win.

Those two are fighting

against the notion in GOP circles that their bases of support are narrow and neither would be able to cobble together the diverse voting coalition necessary to beat Obama in November. Paul attracts legions of backers who put states’ rights above much else, while Santorum — an anti-abortion crusader — is popular among Christian conservatives who make up the base of the Republican Party.

In contrast, Romney has styled himself as a Republican able to attract a broad spectrum of voters. As polls showed him in strong standing in Iowa in the past week, he has redoubled his effort to portray himself as the business-savvy executive with national appeal who is best able to defeat Obama on the campaign’s most pressing issue, the economy.

Although the race remains fluid, it appeared that Romney’s carefully crafted plan to avoid underperforming in Iowa, where he campaigned little until last week, may be working, given a divided GOP electorate torn between several more conservative candidates and Paul’s appeal to libertarians.

The issue of what type of candidate to choose cuts to the heart of why the Iowa race is so volatile; an NBC/ Marist poll last week showed nearly even percentages of Iowa caucus-goers want a candidate who shares their values as want a candidate who can beat Obama.

“The first thing you see when you talk to any Iowa Republican is that desire to beat Barack Obama,” Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn said.

Mindful of that, both Romney and Santorum canvassed the state Sunday to make the electability case — and their schedules illuminated their late-game strategies for rallying their backers to the caucuses.

Obama seeks right tone on economy

By Jim Kuhnhenn Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work.

His Republican rivals, in the face of late-arriving economic good news, are making slight adjustments themselves, arguing that Obama’s policies have been a drag on a recovery that could have taken hold sooner.

The competing rhetoric reflects the positive indicators in areas ranging from retail sales and housing to unemployment and falling gas prices. All this has pushed up consumer confidence, a potential barometer of political attitudes. Even Congress and Obama managed to agree on a two-month payroll tax cut extension before leaving Washington for the holidays.

But the economic signs could prove fleeting, as they were in the early spring when economist also detected upticks in activity only to watch them tumble. These new indicators may hold more promise. But a looming European debt crisis is casting a pall.

No one is more aware of that risk than Obama.

“We’ve got an economy that is showing some positive signs; we’ve seen many consecutive months of private sector job growth,” Obama said last week before departing for Christmas in Hawaii. “But it’s not

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND HIS DOG, BO, SHOP at PetSmart on Dec. 21 in Alexandria, Va. A bullish, yet wary Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not lifted millions out of joblessness. happening as fast as it needs to.”

For Obama, the danger is in promoting an economy that while, slowly recovering, has yet to reflect reality for millions of Americans, or in highlighting positive signs only to see them falter in 2012.

For David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s top political adviser, visions of a European financial meltdown are what keep him awake at night.

“I think the American economy is gaining strength, I don’t think many would argue that point,” he said. “The imponderable is not about that, it’s really about these externalities and

particularly Europe. Especially now that we’ve passed this threshold on the payroll tax cut and assuming that the Republicans in Congress don’t want to rerun that battle, the one big thing on the horizon is Europe.”

Indeed, as the year ends on an up note, leading economists surveyed by The Associated Press expect the economy will grow slightly faster in 2012 — about 2.4 percent compared with the less than 2 percent annual growth that the economy is expected to register by the end of this year.

But underscoring the political challenges facing Obama, these same econo-

mists don’t expect unemployment to drop much in a year from November’s 8.6 percent rate.

The public’s economic outlook is improving. An Associated Press-GfK poll in December found that 37 percent of those questioned expect improvement in the economy in the coming year. It was the first time since May that the sentiment significantly outweighed the share saying the economy would get worse in the next year.

This modestly rosy scenario is contingent on keeping any financial disruptions in Europe contained to the other side of the Atlantic.

Obama has pressing European leaders, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to act swiftly to avoid a wholesale debt crisis from taking hold. But Obama has few tools other than persuasion with which to influence an outcome.

In a trend the Obama camp is sure to watch, the public is holding Obama more accountable for the economy.

The AP-GfK poll found that the percentage who says Obama deserves little or no blame for the economy’s sluggishness has declined from 43 percent in October to 36 percent now.

Republicans are watching, too.

After months of asserting that conditions under Obama have worsened, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney this past acknowledged signs of improvement, but gave Obama no credit.

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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Baby boomers take note: Medicare as your parents have known it is headed for big changes no matter who wins the White House in 2012. You may not like it, but you might have to accept it.

Dial down the partisan rhetoric and surprising similarities emerge from competing policy prescriptions by President Barack Obama and leading Republicans such as Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.

Limit the overall growth of Medicare spending? It’s in both approaches.

Squeeze more money from upper-income retirees and some in the middle-class?

Ditto.

Raise the eligibility age?

That too, if the deal is right.

With more than 1.5 million baby boomers a year signing up for Medicare, the program’s future is one of the most important economic issues for anyone now 50 or older. Health care costs are the most unpredictable part of retirement, and Medicare remains an exceptional deal for retirees, who can reap benefits worth far more than the payroll taxes they paid in during their careers.

“People would like to have what they used to have.

What they don’t seem to understand is that it’s already changed,” said Gail Wilensky, a former Medicare administrator and adviser to Republicans. “Medicare as we have known it is not part of our future.”

Two sets of numbers underscore that point.

First, Medicare’s giant trust fund for inpatient care is projected to run out of money in 2024. At that point, the program will collect only enough payroll taxes to pay 90 percent of benefits.

Second, researchers estimate that 20 to 30 percent of the more than $500 billion that Medicare now spends annually is wasted on treatments and procedures of little or no benefit to patients.

Taken together, that means policymakers can’t let Medicare keep running on autopilot and they’ll look for cuts before any payroll tax increases.

Privatization is the biggest divide between Democrats and Republicans.

Currently about 75 percent of Medicare recipients are in the traditional governmentrun, fee-for-service program and 25 percent are in private insurance plans known as Medicare Advantage.

Ryan’s original approach, part of a budget plan the House passed in the spring, would have put 100 percent of future retirees into private insurance. His latest plan, developed with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would keep traditional Medicare as an option, competing with private plans.

‘Synthetic’ marijuana is problem for U.S. military

By Julie Watson Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called “Spice,” which mimics a marijuana high and can bring on hallucinations that last for days.

The abuse of the drug has so alarmed military officials that they’ve launched an aggressive testing program that this year has led to the investigation of more than 1,100 suspected users, according to military figures.

So-called “synthetic” pot is readily available on the Internet and has become popular nationwide in recent years, but its use among troops and sailors has raised concerns among the Pentagon brass.

“You can just imagine the work that we do in a mili-

tary environment,” said Mark Ridley, deputy director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, adding, “you need to be in your right mind when you do a job. That’s why the Navy has always taken a zero tolerance policy toward drugs.”

Two years ago, only 29 Marines and sailors were investigated for Spice. This year, the number topped 700, the investigative service said. Those found guilty of using Spice are kicked out, although the Navy does not track the overall number of dismissals.

The Air Force has punished 497 airmen so far this year, compared to last year’s 380, according to figures provided by the Pentagon. The Army does not track Spice investigations but says it has medically treated 119 soldiers

for the synthetic drug in total.

Military officials emphasize those caught represent a tiny fraction of all service members and note none was in a leadership position or believed high while on duty.

Spice is made up of exotic plants from Asia like Blue Lotus and Bay Bean. Their leaves are coated with chemicals that mimic the effects of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, but are five to 200 times more potent.

More than 40 states have banned some of its chemicals, prompting sellers to turn to the Internet, where it is marketed as incense or potpourri. In some states, Spice is sold at bars, smoke shops and convenience stores. The packets usually say the ingredients are not for human consumption but also tout them

as “mood enhancing.”

Service members preferred it because up until this year there was no way to detect it with urine tests. A test was developed after the Drug Enforcement Administration put a one-year emergency ban on five chemicals found in the drug.

Manufacturers are adapting to avoid detection, even on the new tests, and skirt new laws banning the main chemicals.

“It’s a moving target,” said Capt. J.A. “Cappy” Surette, spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

The military can calibrate its equipment to test for those five banned chemicals “but underground chemists can keep altering the properties and make up to more than 100 permutations,”

Surette said.

Complicating their efforts further, there are more than 200 other chemicals used in the drug. They remain legal and their effects on the mind and body remain largely unknown, Navy doctors say.

A Clemson University created many of the chemicals for research purposes in 1990s. They were never tested on humans.

Civilian deaths have been reported and emergency crews have responded to calls of “hyper-excited” people doing things like tearing off their clothes and running down the street naked.

Navy investigators compare the drug to angel dust because no two batches are the same. Some may just feel a euphoric buzz, but others have suffered delusions lasting up to a week.

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Voting test Kansas is preparing to put its new voter ID law to the test.

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epending on how much interest there is in a sales tax election in Cimarron, there may be more media people and official “observers” than voters at the city’s single poll location on Jan. 10.

A new Kansas law requires voters to show photo identification at the polls before casting their ballots. Cimarron, a city of 2,200 about 175 miles west of Wichita, has the distinction of holding the first election in the state after the law took effect on Jan. 1.

In the election, Cimarron residents are being asked to decide whether to collect a 1.25 percent sales tax to fund the construction and operating expenses for a new municipal swimming pool. According to Gray County Clerk Bonnie Swartz, a strong turnout for the election would be 40 percent or about 480 voters.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who pushed for the voter ID requirement and a companion law that will require Kansans to prove their citizenship when registering to vote, said last week that the Cimarron vote would be a good test of the new law. He said he and his staff will be monitoring the election to see how many people come to the polls without their IDs and what other problems arise.

Cimarron, with one polling place, seven poll workers and maybe 480 voters may provide a small amount of data about the ID requirement, but that community’s Jan. 10 vote will provide only an inkling of issues that likely will arise across the state in the November 2012 presidential election. Several other local elections are planned in the next two months, including a special election on Feb. 28 in Wichita on subsidies for a hotel project. The Wichita election will perhaps provide a better test of the new ID system, but the predicted 11 percent turnout still is far short of what would be expected in August primaries and the November general election.

Interestingly, one of the main problems Swartz expects at the Cimarron polls is that voters in the small community won’t think IDs are needed “because everybody knows everybody.” The clerk, a Republican, said she doesn’t have a problem with the law but added, “There’s not rampant voter fraud.”

That opinion probably is shared by a majority of Kansans. Everyone wants clean, fair elections in the state, but they doubt that the voter fraud problem the new laws are trying to fix really existed in the first place. We don’t want illegal voting in Kansas elections, but we also don’t want to establish barriers that discourage qualified voters from casting their ballots.

The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas to make sure they aren’t being used to suppress certain segments of the vote. The Kansas law isn’t currently under review, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be carefully monitored, especially in early elections.

LONDON — 2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.

In place of Clausewitz’s famous “fog of war,” we had a “fog of revolution” and consequent “fog of policy.”

If you’re looking for a unifying image for 2011, several possibilities are obvious: One is “the protester,” Time magazine’s choice for person of the year. Another is “the dead terrorist,” Osama bin Laden, whose killing marked the emotional end of the decade after Sept. 11, 2001.

In this year-end review, I’m going to focus on a third image, “the befuddled leader.” 2011 offered many such candidates, from Barack Obama, the American president whose reticent style was lampooned as “leading from behind”; to the bootless Europeans, Angela Merkel of Germany and Nicholas Sarkozy of France, who spent the year muffing their economic crisis; to the nervous freemarket totalitarians, Vladimir Putin in Russia and Hu Jintao in China, looking over their shoulders at technology-empowered citizens.

And don’t forget the most befuddled leaders of all — Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (deposed), Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen (has

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said he will relinquish power by February), Moammar Gaddafi of Libya (dead), and Bashar alAssad of Syria (probably on his last legs).

Given the uncertainties facing the world, the U.S. was probably lucky to have a “no drama” president who sought to avoid mistakes. Still, there’s no disguising the fact that 2011 was a lesson in the diminished power of the United States. One great debate for the 2012 campaign will be whether an American restoration is possible and, if so, within what limits?

This was a year riven with contradictions: The citizen movement that took flight in Tunisia as the Arab Spring end-

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now is flexibility and growth — encouraged by a European Central Bank that can act, like the U.S. Federal Reserve, as a lender of last resort.

But the Germans don’t want that sort of balm. Better for spendthrift Europeans to suffer; and so they will, unless Mario Draghi, the ECB president, can accomplish by stealth what the Germans (backed by eurozone treaties) forbid him from doing openly.

Pakistan is the year’s scariest example of leadership failure.

It’s a story abetted by American policies that, with the best intentions, kept adding to Pakistan’s destabilization. Through 2011, the Pakistani military rolled over the hapless President Asif Ali Zardari as if he were no more than a gaudy piece of cardboard. The military’s zealotry sought to cover its failure — to find an al-Qaida leader who had been hiding in plain sight, and to combat an Islamist insurgency that threatens Islamabad far more than America ever could.

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a “hinge.” And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don’t know yet which way the door will swing.

America would be wise to do more in 2012 to make sure the hinge is an opening, rather than a closing.

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

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The present weather is ‘shut out’ season for many of the laboring men of Lawrence. The heavy fall of snow has rendered work impossible in many instances, and the men find that they can not provide for their families.”

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ed up empowering Muslim political groups across the map, to the point that some secular Arabs worry it’s now an “Islamist Winter,” freezing the rights of women and minorities. In Egypt, a military that began the year as the protesters’ ally ended it as their enemy; the Tahrir Square uprising wobbled unsteadily at year-end, often seeming to be adding another depressing chapter to Crane Brinton’s “The Anatomy of Revolution,” a classic study of how such revolts go off track.

And what about radical Islam? The paradox of 2011 was that al-Qaida, the leading terrorist edge, seemed on the verge of defeat with the death of bin Laden, while the political face of the Muslim Brotherhood was ascendant in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria — not to mention Turkey, which seemed to be bidding in 2011 for neo-Ottoman status, with Obama as facilitator and sometime apologist.

The two most worrisome examples of the befuddled leader were in Europe and Pakistan.

Though culturally a world apart, both experienced a year in which political leaders failed to address existential threats.

Europe is still a puzzle at year-end, especially a Germany that acts as if it can flog the rest of the continent to economic health. Coordinated fiscal policy and austerity will certainly be necessary for the eurozone’s future. But what’s needed right

YOUR TURN

Knowledge punched by pundits in 2011

By Leonard Krishtalka

2011 featured pernicious political posturing over what we know and how we discover it. Florida Gov. Rick Scott told the state’s universities that they should be educating students in areas “where people can get a job in this state.” Accordingly, he intends to invest higher education dollars in physical science, math, engineering and technology departments, and let the humanities, arts and social sciences go fallow. Scott singled out anthropology as an example of a job-less education, saying, “Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so.”

Well, think again. Anthropology sits at the busy intersection of nature and culture, one that has seen explosive accelerations, enormous traffic jams and massive pile-ups in the human condition for at least the past 2 million years. Its lessons are instructive for Florida, the nation and global communities: how peoples have exploited their environments for food, fiber, fuel and pharmaceuticals, how they fashioned their cultures, economies, industries, technologies and jobs, and why they went boom and bust.

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, graduates in career-oriented majors, such as science, math and technology, do indeed have a higher probability of landing a job — at least initially. But, a few years down the career path, liberal arts graduates “frequently catch or surpass graduates with career-oriented majors in both job quality and compensation.”

Why? Because of their knowledge of ethics, communication and social dynamics, which is adaptive to rapidly changing global economic, political and cultural environments.

Scott might be interested in the career paths of people who majored in job-less disciplines: Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Pack-

ard, medieval history and philosophy; George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. president, history; Dick Cheney, former U.S. vice president, political science; Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court justice, English; Michael Crichton and Ursula K. LeGuin, best-selling authors, anthropology; Sally Ride, astronaut and first woman in space, English; Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president, 33rd governor of California, economics and sociology.

Earlier in the year, three Republican presidential candidates went AWOL from modern science. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry opined on talk shows and stump speeches that 20 years of research on climate change involving thousands of investigators Krishtalka was “junk science.”

Apparently, they choose to be deaf/dumb/blind to evidence. They didn’t issue a retraction when a leading skeptic of global warming, physicist Richard Muller and his Berkeley Earth group, confirmed the findings of the “junk” scientists: Global temperatures have risen sharply since the mid-1800s because of a jump in greenhouse gases, notably CO2. “Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other [scientific] teams,” said Muller’s Berkeley Earth study, which has solid conservative credentials: It was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and foundations established by Bill Gates and the Koch brothers.

While on the stump, Bachmann and Santorum proudly flashed their pre-Enlightenment credentials, espousing their belief in intelligent design as the best biology curric-

ulum for the nation’s students. One can’t be polite about this. What’s next? Scrap Pasteur and teach the Bad Air Theory of disease in medical school? Dump Aristotle for the Flat Earth Theory in geography class? Bachmann and Santorum are entitled to their private discomfort with the established knowledge of Darwinian evolution. But, hubris aside, their personal discomfort is not a rationale for national policy on science education.

The prize for sanctimonious social science goes to Cal Thomas’ editorial piece on the Sandusky-Penn State affair (JournalWorld, Nov. 15, “Penn State’s shame — and America’s too”). The blame, he writes, extends beyond the individuals involved to all society, to the “free-loving ’60s, (when) we seem to have taken a wrecking ball to social mores.” Really? No song at Woodstock advocated rape or pedophilia.

Thomas also blames human nature, “but society — buttressed by religion — once did a better job of keeping human nature in check,“ specifically, keeping “lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientations” in check as “sinful.” Hmmm. You’d think being buttressed by religion against sin would naturally have kept the Catholic clergy in check. Yet, as we now know, its systematic sexual abuse and pedophilia were rampant, with the crimes abetted and covered up by repeatedly moving the abusers from diocese to diocese. It started long before the free-loving ’60s,” and went beyond one locker room at Penn State to parishes worldwide. Its innocent victims are countless.

The complex challenges of the world in 2012 and beyond demand more from our self-declared leaders and sages than wishful, simplistic nostrums as our default solutions or salvation.

— Leonard Krishtalka is director of the Biodiversity Institute and a professor or ecology and evolutionary biology at Kansas University.

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‘Lived: Living’ New Mexico and New York artists Jordon Schranz and Isadora Stowe each exhibit individual bodies of work that are influenced largely by ideas surrounding family and family history.

“Lived: Living” features more than 60 oil-on-panel paintings. Schranz’s painting is based on her grandfather’s series of slides, while Stowe’s works are described as “ethereal landscapes.” The end result is an exhibit with two distinct sets of work that still manage to complement each other, creating a whole that is greater than its parts.

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A golf tournament brought in $2,400, and Wichita resident Tony Clark — a Marine veteran of Afghanistan — raised $6,000 with a 135-mile run from California’s Death Valley to the top of Mount Whitney.

Augusta resident Denise Lange has raised nearly $10,000 by selling “In Honor of Fallen Soldiers” medallions. Lange’s son, Army Pfc. Erin Thomas, was killed in a 2009 car accident in Texas.

The Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane contributed $21,000 from the revenue it raised during a controlled gambling demonstration before its recent opening.

Nick Williams, a tanker pilot at McConnell Air Force Base who serves on the Operation Freedom Memorial Foundation board, is accepting donations for the miles he logs while running marathons and training for the Boston Marathon. He runs 50 miles a week and has brought in $4,400 so far.

Dixon and Williams say they understand why the campaign is not moving as quickly

Breakfast chefs

The Women of the ELCA organized the Fall Festival at the Trinity Lutheran Church. The festival features crafts, baked goods and breakfast and raises funds for ministries for women and children locally, national and internationally. Kelly Rice, left, and K.C. Atchison, made biscuits and gravy for the breakfast. Harriet Shaffer submitted the photo

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Fundraising goes on for planned Kan. war memorial

WICHITA (AP) — From holding golf tournaments to running marathons to selling granite paving stones, a dedicated group is steadily raising money for a monument to Kansans who have lost their lives to wars starting with Brownback’s daughter 1991’s Operation Desert Storm.

Anita Dixon is leading the weds at Topeka church campaign to install the OpTOPEKA — The first family of eration Freedom Memorial Kansas closed out 2011 with a at Veterans Memorial Park happy celebration. in Wichita. Her son, Army Gov. Sam Brownback esSgt. Evan Parker, was killed corted his daughter Abby Chris- in Iraq in 2005. Dixon began tine Brownback down the aisle working on the project in of a Topeka church Saturday early 2010, and fundraising afternoon for her wedding to Eric started in June of that year Teetsel. with the formation of a nonThe Topeka Capital-Journal profit foundation. reports the private ceremony So far, the group has raised took place at the First Presbyte- about $63,000 of the estirian Church, where the governor mated $200,000 needed for and his wife, Mary, were married the project, The Wichita 29 years ago.

Eagle reported. Dixon hopes Abby Brownback is an eduto break ground March 1 and cation reporter for The Gazette, have the monument built in a weekly newspaper in Marytime for a dedication on Meland’s Prince George’s County. morial Day, which is May 28.

She holds a bachelor’s degree “But we need to have all our in journalism from Kansas funds secured before we can State University and a master’s start construction,” she said. in public affairs reporting from Donations have been the University of Maryland. raised from a variety of How fast does a large snowflake fall?

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as earlier fundraising efforts for other war monuments, such as the World War II memorial in Wichita. With World War II veterans dying at a rate of 1,000 per day, there was a sense of urgency to get that monument done.

“Family members wanted to see their members honored and remembered before we lost them,” Dixon said.

By contrast, the Operation Freedom Memorial will honor the sacrifices of the current generation of veterans and service members, many of whom are still deployed overseas.

“Basically, our board is attempting to build this memorial a generation early,” said Williams, who has served in southwest Asia. “Instead of waiting 20 or 30 years for the raw feelings of war to subdue, we’re trying to memorialize those lost while the conflict is current.”

The foundation’s website, updated through Nov. 18, 2011, lists 82 Kansans killed in wars beginning with Operation Desert Storm, when U.S. troops ousted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

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Baylor barely team to beat Once the Big 12 season tips off at 6 p.m. today on ESPNU when Texas A&M travels to Waco to face undefeated Baylor, discussion of where the conference stands compared to other heavyweights gives way to talk of the far more compelling race for a league title.

First, a look at how the Big 12 performed in compiling a 100-26 record (73-4 at home) in the nonconference portion of the season. It went a combined 16-7 against the Big East (7-4), Big Ten (4-1) and Pac-12 (5-2), which means the Big 12 has huge muscles. Not so fast. It also went a combined 6-13 vs. the ACC (1-6), Missouri Valley (2-3) and SEC (3-4).

Forecasting a Big 12 champion isn’t any easier than it was when the season tipped off in November, but it’s worth taking a shot at a predicted order of finish.

1. Baylor (13-0): Bears strength is up front, where a bunch of guys named Quincy and Jones keep ending up on the right side of thrillers. Baylor always has three long, springy players in the back of its 2-3 zone. Anthony Jones backs up Perry Jones III, Quincy Miller and Quincy Acy, but it’s 5-foot10 junior guard Pierre Jackson, a juco transfer and Las Vegas native who keeps coming up big in the clutch for the Bears.

Nobody does better in thrillers than Jackson. In the team’s three tight games, Jackson had a shot-block at the buzzer and a pair of game-winning shots.

Most impressive victory: At Brigham Young, 86-83.

Best player: Perry Jones III, 6-11, Jr., Duncansville, Texas.

2. Missouri (13-0): First-year coach Frank Haith has not let the ongoing NCAA investigation into needy booster Nevin Shapiro’s allegations that Haith knew about a $10,000 payment to a player he was recruiting when at Miami distract him from keeping the Tigers on track.

The fast-paced Tigers take care of the basketball, know how to get good shots and have a wide array of accurate shooters. They lead the Big 12 in field-goal percentage (.517), three-point percentage (.415) and free-throw percentage (.766).

Most impressive victory: Notre Dame, 87-58.

Best player: Kim English, 6-6, Sr., Baltimore, Md. 3. Kansas (10-3): Rebounded remarkably well from surprising news that freshmen Ben McLemore and Jamari Traylor would not be eligible to play this season. It crippled the team’s depth, but nobody ever talks about it, mopes about it, or uses it as an excuse.

Best player: Thomas Robinson, 6-10, Jr., Washington, D.C. Most impressive victory: Ohio State, 78-67.

Worst loss: Davidson, 80-74, in Sprint Center.

4. Kansas State (11-1): Not unlike the Wildcats’ football team, Frank Martin’s physical scrappers have exceeded expectations by playing terrific team ball. Freshman forward Thomas Gipson got out of the gate great and has hit the freshman wall. Just as he started to slump, freshman point guard Angel Rodriguez emerged.

Best player: Rodney McGruder, 6-4, Jr., Washington, D.C. Most impressive victory: Alabama, 71-58, in Sprint Center.

K.C. wins, but …

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By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

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KANSAS CITY QUARTERBACK KYLE ORTON (8) THROWS against Denver early in the Chiefs’ game Sunday in Denver. The Chiefs won, 7-3.

… Broncos still make playoffs DENVER (AP) — The steady chorus of boos raining down on Kyle Orton went in one ear and out the other.

Maybe once, when he was the starter in Denver, the harsh reaction from the Broncos crowd would’ve rattled and riled Orton, especially with so many clamoring for Tim Tebow to take his job.

But this time, the noise hardly made a difference. Because this time, Orton had the final say.

Released from the Broncos in November, Orton returned as the quarterback of Kansas City and got his revenge, leading the Chiefs to a 7-3 win over Denver on Sunday.

In the end, though, only the Chiefs (7-9) went home emptyhanded. The Broncos (8-8) backed into the playoffs despite the loss thanks to San Diego’s 38-26 win over Oakland later on Sunday.

Even that couldn’t dampen Orton’s mood. Although he tried to treat it as just another game, this wasn’t.

Not in the least.

“It was a little more (than just another game). You can’t deny

BRONCOS QUARTERBACK TIM TEBOW greets Kansas City defensive back Sabby Piscitelli (42). that,” said Orton, who was steady all afternoon as he completed 15 of 29 passes for 180 yards. “It was a long year for me.”

And now, thanks to his late-season success, maybe even a profitable one.

With this win, and by ending the Green Bay Packers’ perfect season two weeks ago, Orton might just

command starter’s money and a long-term contract in free agency this offseason.

Who knows? It might even be back in Kansas City.

“I’m going to take a step away,” Orton said. “I know they have a great quarterback in Matt Cassel.

Please see CHIEFS, page 3B

Jordan Juenemann will be spending more time than usual in Allen Fieldhouse second semester.

“I’ll be a working man — 8 (a.m.) to 3 (p.m.) until we practice, wearing a suit and tie,” Juenemann, Kansas University’s 6-foot-3 senior walk-on basketball guard, said proudly.

The exercise-science major, who minored in business the past four years at KU, has landed a 15-hour internship with KU’s Williams Fund to complete his undergraduate academic responsibilities. “ W h a t e v - Juenemann er they ask,” Juenemann said, asked what his duties will entail. “I will work with Mr. Mohajir (Terry, KU senior associate AD/external relations). Greg Gurley (director of development, Williams Fund) is in there. I’m looking forward to being an intern, sitting in an office and taking calls and interacting with members.

“I’m really looking forward to it. I love KU athletics. I love this place. I love Kansas. I could live here and sleep in the gym.

I’m excited about being in the building all the time and all the people I’ve met and working with everybody.”

Juenemann, who grew up in Hays — his family moved to Olathe two years ago — hasn’t finalized his career path quite yet.

Last summer, he indicated that after graduation he planned to play basketball overseas, then would pursue a law degree, with aspirations to be an athletic director or sports agent.

“I want to stay around basketball and do something in basketball — in administration or athletics,” Juenemann said. “I’ll see what God brings me here in the next few months.

“I’m just enjoying the season.

I’ve been here four years and now, I’ve got four months left.

I’m trying to do everything I can to enjoy and savor the moment.

I can’t believe how time flies. I’ll see what God has next for me.”

Please see JUENEMANN, page 3B

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FREE STATE HIGH IS COUNTING HEAVILY on five seniors this basketball season. They are, from left, Cameron Dabney, Brett Frantz, Shawn Knighton, Tyler Self and Gabe Patterson.

Seniors key for FSHS boys basketball “

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

With senior status comes great responsibility.

At least that is how things work in the Free State High boys basketball program.

The Firebirds (2-3) boast five seniors in their top five — Please see KEEGAN, page 3B guards Cameron Dabney, Brett

Frantz, Shawn Knighton and Tyler Self, and forward Gabe Patterson. Coach Chuck Law said it will be up to that group to determine how the rest of the FSHS season plays out.

“Every team is only as good as its seniors, and we do rely heavily on those guys,” Law said.

Both Frantz and Knighton played extensively as juniors,

while Dabney and Self gave Free State good minutes off the bench last year.

Patterson, meanwhile, played for the Firebirds’ junior varsity team as a junior.

Law said those five players have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders, and it has been challenging to have a team whose most experienced play-

Every team is only as good as its seniors, and we do rely heavily on those guys.”

ers aren’t necessarily accustomed to being in that role.

“The leadership side of it is something that is certainly a work in progress,” Law said.

“Leaders … they’re not made.”

Knighton said the seniors feel like this is their team now, and — Free State high Law has made it clear they need boys basketball coach Chuck Law Please see FSHS, page 3B

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Righty reliever Frasor returns to Blue Jays CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reliever Jason Frasor is headed back to the Toronto Blue Jays.

The 34-year-old righty was traded from the White Sox to Toronto on Sunday, five months after the Blue Jays dealt him to Chicago.

The White Sox got minor-league righthanders Myles Jaye and Daniel Webb in this latest swap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It felt like I was never coming back. (His July 27 trade) was an emotional day. I think it was the first time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d cried since I gave up five runs in Atlanta a couple of years ago,â&#x20AC;? Frasor said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going back to Toronto. My wife is thrilled, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great. What a thrill, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know else what it say, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to put on those new uniforms,â&#x20AC;? he said during a conference call from his home in Tampa, Fla. Frasor, from Chicago, was 3-3 with a 3.60 ERA in 64 relief appearances with the White Sox and Toronto last season. Chicago acquired him and pitcher Zach Stewart from the Blue Jays for pitcher Edwin Jackson and infielderoutfielder Mark Teahen in midseason.

Frasor had been the longest serving member of the Blue Jays and left as the franchise leader in games pitched when they traded Alan Diaz/AP Photo him. He spent eight seasons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2004-2011 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; SAVANNAH BRINSON WATCHES FIANCE with the Blue Jays, posting a 24-28 record in LEBRON JAMES during the Heatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game 455 games with 36 saves and a 3.69 ERA. Sunday in Miami.

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DENVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Playoff pessimism.

Yes, the Broncos are champs of the AFC West, but the Chargers, Chiefs and Raiders almost certainly will be the happy ones while watching the Pittsburgh Steelers devour Denver in the first round of the playoffs.

After Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gruesome 7-3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, John Fox tried his best to put a sunny face on the upcoming clash with the Steelers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you get in,â&#x20AC;? Fox said of the playoffs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;anything can happen.â&#x20AC;?

This is true. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not out of the realm of possibility that the Broncos could upset the Steelers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only almost out of the realm.

Am I being too harsh?

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think so. There are dozens of reasons to expect a football disaster this coming weekend at Mile High.

Consider: Since jumping to a 16-7 firsthalf lead over the mighty New England Patriots, the Broncos have been outscored 73-24. The Buffalo Bills lost eight of their final nine games with the lone win a rout The Chiefs over the Broncos. came close to The Steelers will blanking the bring a snarling, frightening defense Broncos on into Mile High next Sunday, largely week, led by James because Tim Harrison, the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reigning Mr. Sinister. Tebow couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Harrison is probably find receivplotting unspeakably ers, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t evil deeds shots even find openas we speak.

Pittsburgh boasts ings to run, the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best scorcouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deing and passing defense. It could be a liver a dramatic fourth-quarter long, ugly afternoon for the Broncos, who comeback and will struggle to avoid couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t silence a shutout. his reborn The Chiefs came close to blanking the legion of doubtBroncos on Sunday, ers.â&#x20AC;? largely because Tim Tebow couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find receivers, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find openings to run, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deliver a dramatic fourth-quarter comeback and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t silence his reborn legion of doubters.

Tebow became a national folk hero by leading the Broncos on a six-game winning streak while reviving a lagging love affair between the Broncos and their fans on the Front Range. He made Tebowing a national fad. He inspired a harmless, hilarious skit on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Live.â&#x20AC;?

Then, poof, all the fun fell apart.

In the past two games, Tebow has failed to complete 33-of-52 passes, thrown five interceptions and caused many of us to wonder why we ever jumped on the Tebowmania bandwagon.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most discussed player in the NFL, a genuine national phenomenon. He also was purely awful against the Chiefs.

The Chiefs saw the power of Tebowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legs during Denverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent winning streak. This led Kansas City to an obvious strategy for Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rematch.

They dared Tebow to beat them with his arm. He responded by throwing 16of-22 passes into the dirt on his way to a microscopic 20.6 quarterback rating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The three losses havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shaken my confidence,â&#x20AC;? Tebow said.

But the three losses should inspire him to several hundred hours of labor in the offseason. No one should dismiss Tebowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and the Broncosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; surprising, inspiring win streak that carried this team into the playoffs.

Still, even his believers must see NFL defenses are figuring him out. At first, he was a freaky, sneaky, different kind of quarterback. In a league filled with pass-first, seldom-stray-from-the-pocket types, Tebow was a revelation. He boldly challenged defenders - and disaster - by lowering his shoulder and pulverizing linebackers. As you know, linebackers usually do the pulverizing.

He must learn the more subtle arts of his position. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to survive - or fail - with his left arm. He remains young, and Tebow has always been able to conquer his doubters. I remain hopeful for his future.

But not his immediate future.

The Steelers soon will arrive in Colorado. Their fans will be grabbing every available ticket. Their defense will be planning football mayhem. Their opponent should be scared, very scared.

The Broncos are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2005. It will be a brief return.

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DALLAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn State insists it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a leading candidate in its nearly twomonth long search for a football coach.

USA Today and ESPN reported Sunday that New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien is the top contender for the Nittany Lions job.

At a Penn State pep rally Sunday outside the Cotton Bowl, Acting Athletic Director David Joyner cut off a reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question about the reports and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe anything you read in the newspapers. I was taught that long time ago.â&#x20AC;?

He answered â&#x20AC;&#x153;No,â&#x20AC;? when asked if anyone could be classified as a leading candidate.

The program has been without a permanent head coach since Nov. 9, when university trustees fired Hall of Famer Joe Paterno in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Longtime defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, who has been leading the team on an interim basis, has interviewed for the job.

Defensive line coach Larry Johnson is also among the candidates who have interviewed.

MIAMI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeBron James and longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson are engaged.

A representative for James confirmed the news to the Associated Press on Sunday morning, a few hours after close friend Chris Paul and Miami Heat owner Micky Arison were among those tweeting their congratulations.

The Miami Heat forward popped the question to his high school sweetheart on Saturday night, doing so at a party to celebrate both New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve and his 27th birthday, which was Friday.

James and Brinson are the parents of two sons.

No wedding date was announced.

ESPN: Falling camera fluke TEMPE, ARIZ. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A review has determined a camera that fell from an overhead wire during the Insight Bowl was an isolated incident.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said Sunday that the cause of the crashing camera during Friday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game has been addressed and extra precautions will be taken for the six remaining bowl games.

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Kingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cousins demands trade SACRAMENTO, CALIF. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Sacramento Kings say DeMarcus Cousins has demanded a trade and has been told to stay away from the team.

Kings coach Paul Westphal released a statement before Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against New Orleans, saying when Cousins â&#x20AC;&#x153;continually, aggressively, lets it be known that he is unwilling/unable to embrace traveling in the same direction as his team, it cannot be ignored indefinitely.â&#x20AC;?

Cousinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; agent, John Greig, says he â&#x20AC;&#x153;has no idea what the Kings are doingâ&#x20AC;? and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the team excused him from Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game until Westphalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement. Greig withheld any further comment.

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Falcons extend Gonzalez ATLANTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Record-setting tight end Tony Gonzalez has signed a one-year contract extension with the Atlanta Falcons, ending speculation he would retire after the season.

The extension was announced before Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against Tampa Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Very happy to be coming back next year to play. I love everything about the Falcons and the city of Atlanta,â&#x20AC;? Gonzalez said on his Twitter account Sunday.

The 35-year-old Gonzalez has enjoyed a strong season, starting every game. Entering Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, he already had topped his 2010 totals with 79 catches for 867 yards and seven touchdowns. His 79 catches rank third among NFL tight ends.

Now in his 15th season, Gonzalez was chosen to the Pro Bowl for the 12th time this season. His first Pro Bowl season came in 1999, his third season with Kansas City.

Teen falls at Raiders game OAKLAND, CALIF. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A 17-year-old fan has been taken to the hospital as a precaution after falling about 10 feet from the stands at the Oakland Raiders game.

The team says Juan Salceto was leaning over the railing at the end of the game trying to catch the attention of the players when he lost his balance and fell over the railing.

Paramedics responded immediately.

The team says Salceto never lost consciousness and was able to move all of his extremities. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

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Sugar Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Michigan ........................3 (51) ..................Virginia Tech

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Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium-Miami, FL. Clemson .........................3 (61) ..................West Virginia Friday, Jan 6th.

Cotton Bowl Cowboys Stadium-Arlington, TX. Arkansas ...............8 (63) ...............Kansas St Compass Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, AL. Pittsburgh ....................3 (47) ...................................Smu Sunday, Jan 8th.

Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd Peebles Stadium-Mobile, AL. Arkansas St ............... 11â &#x201E;2 (63)........................ N. Illinois Monday, Jan 9th.

BCS Championship Game Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Alabama ......................11â &#x201E;2 (40) ...................................Lsu NBA Favorite ...........Points (O/U) .......... Underdog a-PHOENIX ............ No Line (XXX)................. Golden St b-NEW YORK......... No Line (XXX).....................Toronto MIAMI............................. 8 (195).............................Atlanta Indiana..........................5 (180) ..................NEW JERSEY BOSTON ........................12 (185) ...................Washington Orlando......................... 3 (182)...........................DETROIT San Antonio............. 51â &#x201E;2 (200)................. MINNESOTA Oklahoma City ............1 (199) ............................ DALLAS DENVER...................... 51â &#x201E;2 (200)....................Milwaukee UTAH............................51â &#x201E;2 (182) ............... New Orleans a-Golden State guard S. Curry is questionable. b-New York forward A. Stoudemire is doubtful.

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to step up and do their jobs.

The 5-foot-9 point guard said they have been charged with guiding the younger players — such as juniors Kyle McFarland, Logan Bannister and Wilson Hack, and sophomores Blake Winslow, Joe Dineen and Reshawn Caro — and showing them what Free State basketball is about.

In the spotlight of a game, Knighton added, the seniors have all had their moments, but two have stood out.

“Cameron and Brett,” Knighton said, “have been stepping up.”

Frantz said adjusting to an increased role hasn’t always been easy, and he and the rest of the seniors know if they

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Matt’s a good friend, he’s a great teammate.

“I look at this as his team and we’ll go from there.”

Like with Orton, the future for interim coach Romeo Crennel’s future remains uncertain. But he went a long way in his bid to retain the job, one that Crennel inherited after Todd Haley was fired following a 5-8 start.

Kansas City has responded under Crennel’s leadership, finishing out the season 2-1.

The campaigning on Crennel’s behalf has already started.

“Oh man, we wanted to win for this guy so bad,” defensive back Brandon Flowers said. “Having him as the defensive coordinator is one thing. But when the whole team can feed off of his spirit and energy, it’s definitely a positive. I hope this guy can stay around. But upper management has a say in it.”

Just like Denver’s management had a say in releasing Orton.

And had the Broncos been eliminated from the postseason because of the right arm of Orton, Broncos boss John Elway’s dangerous decision to release him would have gone down as one of the biggest mistakes in team history.

However, Elway and his team were let off the hook by Oakland’s loss.

Orton even offered up his congratulations.

Then again, old friendships are hard to forget. He was the starter in Denver for 21⁄2 years, but the fans never

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Lone loss: West Virginia, 85-80, double overtime, in Wichita.

5. Texas (10-3): Freshman Myck Kabongo ranks second in the conference in assists (5.46) and knows where to pass the ball, to Big 12 leading scorer J’Covan Brown (19.3). The Longhorns most talented frontcourt players also are their least experienced, which will make winning the conference title a tough challenge.

Best player: J’Covan Brown, 6-3, Jr., Port Arthur, Texas.

Most impressive victory: Temple, 77-65.

Worst loss: North Carolina State, 77-74, in New Jersey.

6. Texas A&M (9-3): Star Khris Middleton missed seven full games after suffering hamstring injury in the first half of the seasonopener and has performed unevenly in his four games since returning. Strong post player David Loubeau, who seems as if he’s been an Aggie for a good 15 years, finally is a senior.

Best player: Khris Middleton, 6-8, Jr., North Charleston, S.C. Most impressive victory: St. John’s, 58-57, in Madison Square Garden.

Worst loss: Rice, 65-58.

7. Oklahoma (10-2): Lon Kruger’s Sooners have done surprisingly well and Steve Pledger, shooting .484 from three-point range and averaging 18.8 points,

don’t live up to Law’s expectations, they will be held accountable.

“We need to set the tone,” Frantz said, “and if not, coach will find the people that are willing to come in and bring energy and get us going.”

The senior who has most impressed Law has been Patterson, whom the coach called a pleasant surprise.

“Gabe’s on board with what we’re trying to do,” he said of the 6-foot-3 forward.

Even though a strained hip flexor kept Patterson out of Free State’s overtime loss to Lawrence and has limited what the big man can do in practices since then, Law praised Patterson for refusing to “wallow in self pity” because he is hurt.

“He’s really made a commitment to becoming a better player,” the coach said,

SUMMARY Kansas City 7 0 0 0—7 Denver 0 0 3 0—3 First Quarter KC-McCluster 21 run (Succop kick), :11.

Third Quarter Den-FG Prater 38, 8:11.

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KC Den First downs 14 16 Total Net Yards 281 266 Rushes-yards 30-106 47-216 Passing 175 50 Punt Returns 4-40 2-23 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-25 Interceptions Ret. 1-1 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 15-29-0 6-22-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-5 2-10 Punts 8-47.1 9-44.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 6-36 6-49 Time of Possession 27:02 32:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Kansas City, McCluster 12-61, Jones 15-42, McClain 2-4, Orton 1-(minus 1). Denver, McGahee 28-145, Ball 9-24, Royal 2-18, Tebow 6-16, Johnson 2-13.

PASSING-Kansas City, Orton 15-29-0-180.

Denver, Tebow 6-22-1-60.

RECEIVING-Kansas City, Bowe 6-93, Baldwin 3-27, McCluster 3-25, Copper 1-14, Pope 1-12, Breaston 1-9. Denver, D.Thomas 3-34, Fells 1-14, Larsen 1-7, Decker 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Kansas City, Succop 44 (WL).

really warmed up to him. At first, it was because he wasn’t Jay Cutler and later because he wasn’t Tebow.

Orton got the last laugh.

Yet when asked if this was the biggest win of his career, he quickly dismissed that notion.

“No, not at all,” he said. “It was a good win for us as a team, as individuals and as an organization.”

This win had less to do with Orton and more to do with the legs of Dexter McCluster, who bolted by the Denver defense for the lone TD of the game, a 21-yard scamper in the first quarter.

From there, the Kansas City defense clamped down on Tebow and the offense.

Sure, the Chiefs allowed Willis McGahee to gain 145 yards, but when it mattered most, they rose to the occasion.

deserves some of the credit.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the planes, has shot .410 from long range and help opponents to .309.

Best player: Steven Pledger, 6-4, Jr., Chesapeake, Va. Most impressive victory: Arkansas, 78-63.

Worst loss: St. Louis, 8363, in Anaheim.

8. Oklahoma State (7-6): Talented freshman forward Le’Bryan Nash has struggled to find consistency and has made just 11 of 43 field-goal attempts the past four games and is shooting .364 overall and .240 on three-pointers.

Best player: Keiton Page, 5-9, Sr., Pawnee, Okla.

Most impressive victory: At Missouri State, 72-67.

Worst loss: New Mexico, 66-56, in Oklahoma City.

9. Iowa State (10-3): Forward Royce White, who was on the wrong side of the law at Minnesota and never did play for the Gophers, is making the most of his second chance. He leads the Cyclones in points, rebounds and assists.

Best player: Royce White, 6-8, So., Minneapolis.

Most impressive victory: Iowa, 86-76.

Worst loss: At Drake, 74-65.

10. Texas Tech (7-5): Billy Gillispie, a proven recruiter and coach, will turn it around, but it’s not going to happen this year. The safest prediction is picking the Red Raiders to finish last.

Best player: Jordan Tolbert, 6-7, Fr., Fort Worth, Texas.

Most impressive victory: North Texas, 69-64.

Worst loss: Indiana State, 60-49, in Florida.

“and it’s a shame that he’s dinged up right now.”

Patterson likely will be out a few weeks, Law said, but should be ready in time for the McPherson Invitational, which begins Jan. 19.

The coach said Patterson is a great example of someone who paid his dues, while fellow classmates played at a level above him the past two seasons.

During the winter break, Law has been meeting oneon-one with every FSHS player. For the seniors, he has a distinct message: “They’ve got to practice better. They’ve got to bring it every day.

“It’s their team,” Law said.

“There’s 15 games left in their regular season — careers for some of them.”

The Firebirds’ season resumes at 7 p.m. Tuesday, with a home game against Shawnee Mission South.

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A walk-on who played 27 minutes in KU’s two exhibition games, then 10 minutes total in KU’s first 11 regular-season contests, Juenemann scored five points in a 10-minute stint Thursday against Howard. He had three rebounds in seven minutes in Saturday’s 84-58 victory over North Dakota.

KU coach Bill Self called on Juenemann to play the final three minutes of the first half of the UND game.

“I was guarding Huff. He was their really good player,” Juenemann said of UND guard Troy Huff, who hit six of 13 shots and scored 16 points. “He got a bucket on me. He was going pretty hard. I’ve got to keep guys in front of me and play solid defense.”

Self, who has not been pleased with his bench lately, definitely is not afraid to call on his more experienced players. Juenemann keeps himself ready at all times.

“If coach wants me for my defense, that’s what I need to come in there and do and get stops,” Juenemann said, “be a ball mover, do anything the team needs. I want coach to know I’m there and ready if he needs me. If not I’ll be helping out in practice and doing those things.”

Senior walk-on Juenemann’s former roommate, Jeff Withey, had his first bad game of the season on Saturday, logging just eight minutes.

“With Jeff, I was encouraging him, (saying), ‘Stay in there and keep positive,’’’ Juenemann said. “With our team and what coach says, ‘Think next play, next game,’ you have to keep your head up. It’s a long season, and that’s one game and one experience. What you learn is through these experiences.

That’s how you get better.

“Coach is coaching them.

He has a way he wants them to play. Coach expects that.

As a player, you want the coach to coach you and teach you those things for the betterment of the team.”

It’s easy for Juenemann to try to inspire. He is a man of great faith, evidenced by his description of himself on his Twitter account.

It reads: “Servant of Christ Jesus. University of Kansas.

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you — Matthew 6:33.”

“I feel like every direction in my life, God has had a hand in it. He led me to where I am now,” Juenemann told kuathletics.com. “I was uncertain on a college choice but wanted to play at the Division I level. I believed I had what it takes and had an opportunity to walk on at Kansas (coming out of Hays High). I felt that’s where my life direction was heading and I took that leap of faith. It is a great experience and I have met an amazing group of people, while having doors and opportunities open I could not imagine.

“The desire in my heart led me to my faith and that is where I find my true happiness.”

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Syracuse cruises, 87-68 The Associated Press

No. 1 Syracuse 87, DePaul 68 ROSEMONT, ILL. — Kris Joseph scored 22 points, and Syracuse used its defense and depth to rout DePaul on Sunday, the unbeaten Orange’s 15th straight victory.

C.J. Fair added 16 points, Dion Waiters had 13 and Fab Melo scored 12 points to go with six blocks for the Orange (15-0, 2-0 Big East).

Syracuse opened 18-0 last season and the Orange’s best start under coach Jim Boeheim was 19 straight wins to kick off 1999-2000.

DePaul (9-4, 0-1) had its five-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 3-18 all-time facing No. 1-ranked teams. Cleveland Melvin led the Blue Demons with 23 points.

Syracuse held DePaul to 30.8 percent shooting in the first half — 0 for 8 on threepointers — and blocked five shots, three by the 7-foot Melo. The Orange shot 65.5 percent and had a 19-9 rebounding edge in opening a 45-26 lead.

SYRACUSE (15-0) Christmas 0-2 0-0 0, Joseph 7-15 7-9 22, Melo 6-7 0-0 12, Jardine 2-3 0-2 4, Triche 4-6 1-1 10, Carter-Williams 1-3 0-0 2, Resavy 0-0 0-0 0, Waiters 5-8 3-5 13, Fair 6-6 4-4 16, Keita 0-0 0-0 0, Reese 0-0 0-0 0, Tomaszewski 0-3 0-0 0, Southerland 3-5 1-2 8. Totals 34-58 16-23 87.

DEPAUL (9-4) Melvin 9-18 5-9 23, Crockett 2-6 3-3 7, Faber 1-2 0-0 2, Kelly 1-5 2-2 5, Young 0-8 0-0 0, Clahar 1-3 1-2 3, McGhee 1-1 0-0 2, Belcaster 0-0 0-0 0, Robertson Jr. 2-4 0-0 4, Morgan 3-7 0-0 8, Kirk 5-6 4-4 14, McKinney 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 25-62 15-20 68.

Halftime-Syracuse 45-26. 3-Point GoalsSyracuse 3-12 (Southerland 1-2, Triche 1-2, Joseph 1-3, Carter-Williams 0-1, Jardine 0-1, Tomaszewski 0-3), DePaul 3-18 (Morgan 2-5, Kelly 1-5, Melvin 0-1, McKinney 0-1, Young 0-3, Crockett 0-3). Fouled Out-Christmas.

Rebounds-Syracuse 35 (Joseph 7), DePaul 32 (Melvin 8). Assists-Syracuse 15 (Jardine, Waiters 3), DePaul 16 (Young 8). Total FoulsSyracuse 15, DePaul 17. A-12,102.

No. 5 North Carolina 102, Monmouth 65 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — John Henson scored 21 points, and North Carolina won its seventh straight overall and 26th straight at the Smith Center.

Harrison Barnes added 20 points for the Tar Heels (13-2). They shot 54 percent, built a 55-26 rebounding advantage, used a 33-10 run late in the first half to take a 31-point halftime lead. They cruised from there to break the arena record established from 1992-94.

Freshman Andrew Nicholas led the Hawks (2-12) with 22 points, including six threepointers. First-year coach King Rice played at North Carolina from 1988-91.

P.J. Hairston had 16 points for North Carolina.

MONMOUTH (NJ) (2-12) Myers Keitt 2-8 2-2 7, Ware 3-7 0-1 6, Waite 1-5 0-0 2, Nesmith 0-3 0-0 0, Steele 6-14 2-2 17, DiLeo 2-3 0-0 4, Campbell 0-4 0-0 0, Nicholas 8-12 0-2 22, Harris 0-4 0-0 0, Tillotson 3-5 0-0 7, James 0-0 0-1 0, Wait 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 25-67 4-8 65.

NORTH CAROLINA (13-2) Henson 9-12 3-6 21, Barnes 7-13 3-3 18, Zeller 4-5 0-4 8, Strickland 2-4 3-4 7, Marshall 1-2 4-6 6, White 0-1 1-2 1, Hubert 0-0 0-0 0, Hairston 6-11 0-0 16, Simmons 0-1 0-0 0, Dupont 1-2 0-0 3, Watts 0-0 0-0 0, Crouch 0-1 1-2 1, Cooper 1-1 0-1 2, Bullock 4-8 1-1 11, McAdoo 2-7 4-4 8. Totals 37-68 20-33 102.

Halftime-North Carolina 57-26. 3-Point Goals-Monmouth (NJ) 11-27 (Nicholas 6-8, Steele 3-7, Tillotson 1-2, Myers Keitt 1-3, Wait 0-1, Nesmith 0-2, Harris 0-2, Campbell 0-2), North Carolina 8-21 (Hairston 4-9, Bullock 2-6, Dupont 1-1, Barnes 1-2, Marshall 0-1, Crouch 0-1, White 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Monmouth (NJ) 26 (Tillotson 4), North Carolina 55 (Zeller 11). AssistsMonmouth (NJ) 18 (Steele 9), North Carolina 26 (Marshall 11). Total Fouls-Monmouth (NJ) 28, North Carolina 9. A-18,614.

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SYRACUSE’S C.J. FAIR, LEFT, AND FAB MELO, RIGHT, TRAP DePaul’s Moses Morgan. Syracuse won, 87-68, Sunday in Rosemont, Ill. VILLANOVA (7-7)

No. 7 Duke 85, Penn 55 Yarou 5-9 4-6 14, Pinkston 4-9 5-9 13, DURHAM, N.C. — Ryan Wayns 4-13 4-4 12, Hilliard 4-7 4-4 12, Cheek 2-10 1-1 6, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Ouano 0-0 0-0 Kelly had 18 points and 12 re- 0, Kennedy 4-5 0-0 8, Yacoubou 3-6 0-0 8, Sutton 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 28-64 18-24 77. bounds to lead Duke.

(12-2) Seth Curry added 15 points MARQUETTE J. Wilson 3-8 5-8 11, Crowder 4-9 0-0 9, Johnson-Odom 8-18 4-7 24, Blue 2-5 3-8 for the Blue Devils (12-1), Cadougan 1-5 4-6 6, Mayo 2-6 6-7 11, who scored 20 of the game’s 7, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, D. Wilson 0-0 0-0 0, first 24 points. Duke led by 18 Gardner 6-9 1-1 13. Totals 26-60 23-37 81.

Halftime-Marquette 40-37.

3-Point points at halftime and by as Goals-Villanova 3-17 (Yacoubou 2-5, many as 34 after the break, Cheek 1-7, Wayns 0-1, Pinkston 0-1, sending the Blue Devils to Johnson 0-1, Hilliard 0-2), Marquette 6-15 (Johnson-Odom 4-6, Crowder 1-3, Mayo their fifth straight victory 1-4, Cadougan 0-1, J. Wilson 0-1). Fouled overall and 43rd straight at Out-Cheek, Crowder, Gardner, Hilliard, Johnson, Wayns. Rebounds-Villanova 40 Cameron Indoor Stadium.

(Kennedy 12), Marquette 38 (Gardner 10).

Zack Rosen had 11 points Assists-Villanova 11 (Wayns 4), Marquette (Cadougan 6). Total Fouls-Villanova 27, for the Quakers (6-8), who 17 Marquette 21. A-14,550. played the Blue Devils almost even for the rest of the No. 18 Michigan 61, half after the opening flurry.

Minnesota 56 The Blue Devils finished ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Freshwith a 47-29 rebounding adman Trey Burke scored a seavantage. son-high 27 points, and MichPENN (6-8) igan won its seventh straight.

Brooks 4-10 0-0 8, Belcore 1-4 0-0 2, Cartwright 5-14 0-0 10, Rosen 5-13 1-1 11, Bernardini 2-5 2-2 7, Esprit 0-0 0-0 0, Kukoc 3-6 2-2 9, Dougherty 1-4 0-0 2, Cairns 0-0 0-0 0, Crocker 0-0 0-0 0, Jok 0-2 0-0 0, Rennard 0-1 4-4 4, Lucas-Perry 0-0 0-0 0, Howlett 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 22-62 9-9 55.

DUKE (12-1) Mas. Plumlee 4-8 2-5 10, Kelly 7-12 0-1 18, Rivers 3-8 2-2 8, Thornton 2-3 0-0 5, Curry 5-12 2-2 15, Cook 2-5 2-2 6, Gbinije 1-2 0-0 2, Hairston 2-3 1-2 5, Dawkins 2-7 1-2 6, Mi. Plumlee 4-6 2-2 10. Totals 32-66 12-18 85.

Halftime-Duke 44-26. 3-Point Goals-Penn 2-13 (Bernardini 1-2, Kukoc 1-2, Belcore 0-1, Rennard 0-1, Jok 0-2, Cartwright 0-2, Rosen 0-3), Duke 9-20 (Kelly 4-4, Curry 3-7, Thornton 1-1, Dawkins 1-3, Gbinije 0-1, Rivers 0-2, Cook 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Penn 29 (Brooks 6), Duke 47 (Mas. Plumlee 14). Assists-Penn 10 (Rosen 4), Duke 20 (Cook 9). Total Fouls-Penn 17, Duke 11. A-9,314.

No. 14 Marquette 81, Villanova 77 MILWAUKEE — Darius Johnson-Odom matched a seasonhigh with 24 points to lead Marquette.

Reserve forward Davante Gardner had 13 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for the Golden Eagles (12-2, 1-0 Big East), who responded from their worst performance of the season — a 17-point drubbing by Vanderbilt on Thursday.

Mouphtaou Yarou had 14 points for the Wildcats (7-7, 0-2) and JayVaughn Pinkston had a career-high 13.

The Wildcats, without a scholarship senior, are off to their worst start in coach Jay Wright’s 11 seasons and have lost seven of 10 after starting the season 4-0.

Marquette led 42-39 at halftime and opened the first 2-plus minutes of the second half on a 9-0 run.

MINNESOTA (12-3) Williams 4-8 3-4 11, Sampson III 3-5 0-0 6, Welch 3-7 2-2 11, Ahanmisi 2-7 1-2 7, Au. Hollins 2-6 0-0 6, An. Hollins 0-3 0-0 0, Osenieks 3-4 0-0 6, Armelin 3-7 0-0 7, Eliason 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 21-49 6-8 56.

MICHIGAN (12-2) Smotrycz 1-4 0-0 2, Morgan 3-6 1-4 7, Novak 3-9 2-4 9, Burke 8-11 9-11 27, Hardaway Jr. 2-14 3-4 7, Douglass 3-6 0-0 9, Brundidge 0-0 0-0 0, Vogrich 0-1 0-0 0, McLimans 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-52 15-23 61.

Halftime-Michigan 23-19. 3-Point GoalsMinnesota 8-19 (Welch 3-4, Ahanmisi 2-4, Au. Hollins 2-6, Armelin 1-1, An. Hollins 0-1, Osenieks 0-1, Williams 0-2), Michigan 6-20 (Douglass 3-4, Burke 2-2, Novak 1-6, McLimans 0-1, Vogrich 0-1, Smotrycz 0-2, Hardaway Jr. 0-4). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Minnesota 28 (Sampson III 10), Michigan 36 (Morgan 12). AssistsMinnesota 16 (An. Hollins, Sampson III, Welch 3), Michigan 9 (Burke 3). Total FoulsMinnesota 18, Michigan 12. A-12,721.

Cincinnati 66, No. 22 Pitt 63 PITTSBURGH — JaQuon Parker scored a career-high 21 points, and Sean Kilpatrick added 19 for streaking Cincinnati. The Bearcats (113, 1-0 Big East) have won six straight games since a brawl against crosstown rival Xavier last month led to the suspension of several players.

CINCINNATI (11-3) Jackson 3-9 0-0 6, Wright 3-10 0-0 7, Dixon 6-14 0-0 13, Kilpatrick 7-18 0-1 19, Parker 7-11 3-5 21, Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Guyn 0-1 0-0 0, Gaines 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-65 3-6 66.

PITTSBURGH (11-4) Taylor 0-4 2-2 2, Patterson 4-10 2-2 13, Robinson 8-12 3-4 19, Wright 1-4 1-2 3, Gibbs 7-15 2-2 18, Epps 0-1 0-0 0, J. Johnson 1-5 2-3 4, Zanna 1-2 0-0 2, Moore 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 23-56 12-15 63.

Halftime-Tied 31-31. 3-Point GoalsCincinnati 11-27 (Kilpatrick 5-11, Parker 4-6, Dixon 1-3, Wright 1-5, Guyn 0-1, Jackson 0-1), Pittsburgh 5-19 (Patterson 3-6, Gibbs 2-7, Taylor 0-1, Epps 0-1, Moore 0-1, Wright 0-1, J. Johnson 0-2). Fouled Out-J. Johnson.

Rebounds-Cincinnati 30 (Jackson, Parker 7), Pittsburgh 44 (Taylor 11). Assists-Cincinnati 14 (Wright 7), Pittsburgh 14 (J. Johnson 5).

Total Fouls-Cincinnati 15, Pittsburgh 13.

A-12,508.

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NFL

4B

Monday, January 2, 2012

ROUNDUP

Brady rallies Pats to homefield edge The Associated Press

Patriots 49, Bills 21 FOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Tom Brady led the Patriots back from a three-touchdown deficit as they scored 49 straight points and clinched homefield advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.

Buffalo 21 0 0 0—21 New England 0 14 14 21—49 First Quarter Buf-Choice 4 run (Coutu kick), 11:18.

Buf-St.Johnson 18 pass from Fitzpatrick (Coutu kick), 5:19.

Buf-Spiller 15 pass from Fitzpatrick (Coutu kick), :48.

Second Quarter NE-Green-Ellis 1 run (Gostkowski kick), 11:58.

NE-Hernandez 39 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 5:42.

Third Quarter NE-FG Gostkowski 47, 12:19.

NE-FG Gostkowski 20, 5:13.

NE-Gronkowski 17 pass from Brady (Woodhead run), 1:32.

Fourth Quarter NE-Green-Ellis 3 run (Gostkowski kick), 11:16.

NE-Gronkowski 7 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 3:02.

NE-Moore 21 interception return (Gostkowski kick), 2:55.

A-68,756.

Buf NE First downs 26 28 Total Net Yards 402 480 Rushes-yards 20-106 29-138 Passing 296 342 Punt Returns 1-5 0-0 Kickoff Returns 2-42 4-77 Interceptions Ret. 1-33 4-77 Comp-Att-Int 29-46-4 24-36-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-11 4-18 Punts 3-41.3 2-48.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 5-45 4-77 Time of Possession 30:22 29:38 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Buffalo, Spiller 13-60, Fitzpatrick 5-36, Wilson 1-6, Choice 1-4. New England, Ridley 15-81, Hernandez 2-26, Green-Ellis 7-22, Edelman 1-6, Woodhead 1-5, Hoyer 3-(minus 2).

PASSING-Buffalo, Fitzpatrick 29-46-4-307.

New England, Brady 23-35-1-338, Hoyer 1-10-22.

RECEIVING-Buffalo, Hagan 7-89, Martin 4-42, St.Johnson 4-40, Spiller 4-40, Chandler 3-29, Roosevelt 3-29, Nelson 2-23, Choice 1-9, Brock 1-6. New England, Gronkowski 8-108, Hernandez 7-138, Welker 6-51, Woodhead 2-10, Green-Ellis 1-53.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Buffalo, Coutu 45 (WL).

Ravens 24, Bengals 16 CINCINNATI — Ray Rice had a pair of long touchdown runs that gave the Ravens their third AFC North title and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs.

Baltimore 10 7 0 7—24 Cincinnati 3 0 7 6—16 First Quarter Bal-Rice 70 run (Cundiff kick), 12:58.

Bal-FG Cundiff 42, 6:45.

Cin-FG Nugent 46, 3:02.

Second Quarter Bal-Pitta 9 pass from Flacco (Cundiff kick), :11.

Third Quarter Cin-Scott 25 run (Nugent kick), 3:26.

Fourth Quarter Cin-FG Nugent 46, 12:35.

Bal-Rice 51 run (Cundiff kick), 5:41.

Cin-FG Nugent 23, 2:39.

A-63,439.

Bal Cin First downs 15 19 Total Net Yards 347 336 Rushes-yards 32-221 24-105 Passing 126 231 Punt Returns 1-11 4-45 Kickoff Returns 2-22 3-72 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 15-19-0 22-44-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-4 1-1 Punts 7-46.7 4-53.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 7-59 4-35 Time of Possession 29:26 30:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Baltimore, Rice 24-191, R.Williams 6-28, Flacco 1-1, Leach 1-1.

Cincinnati, Benson 13-51, Scott 6-34, Dalton 4-17, Hawkins 1-3.

PASSING-Baltimore, Flacco 15-19-0-130.

Cincinnati, Dalton 22-44-0-232.

RECEIVING-Baltimore, Pitta 6-62, T.Smith 5-33, Rice 2-8, Dickson 1-20, Leach 1-7.

Cincinnati, Gresham 5-72, Simpson 5-54, Hawkins 3-34, Green 2-26, Leonard 2-19, Benson 2-10, Lee 2-9, Scott 1-8.

Chargers 38, Raiders 26 OAKLAND, CALIF. — Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes.

San Diego 7 17 7 7—38 Oakland 7 6 6 7—26 First Quarter Oak-Heyward-Bey 3 pass from Palmer (Janikowski kick), 7:20.

SD-Gates 38 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 1:03.

Second Quarter SD-Tolbert 1 run (Novak kick), 10:26.

Oak-FG Janikowski 52, 6:19.

SD-Goodman 105 kickoff return (Novak kick), 6:06.

Oak-FG Janikowski 43, 2:19.

SD-FG Novak 51, :46.

Third Quarter Oak-FG Janikowski 27, 13:18.

SD-Jackson 13 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 7:33.

Oak-FG Janikowski 32, 1:18.

Fourth Quarter Oak-Boss 22 pass from Palmer (Janikowski kick), 9:37.

SD-Floyd 43 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 6:49.

A-58,721.

SD Oak First downs 25 28 Total Net Yards 463 520 Rushes-yards 31-153 24-103 Passing 310 417 Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 Kickoff Returns 6-215 3-64 Interceptions Ret. 1-5 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 19-26-1 28-43-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 0-0 Punts 0-0.0 1-58.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-68 8-64 Time of Possession 30:27 29:33 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-San Diego, Tolbert 9-58, Brinkley 16-52, Jackson 1-41, Hester 2-5, Rivers 3-(minus 3). Oakland, Bush 19-66, Murphy 1-27, Palmer 2-6, Moore 1-3, Cartwright 1-1.

PASSING-San Diego, Rivers 19-26-1-310.

Oakland, Palmer 28-43-1-417.

RECEIVING-San Diego, Floyd 7-127, Gates 5-106, Brinkley 3-12, Jackson 2-29, Crayton 1-23, Tolbert 1-13. Oakland, Heyward-Bey 9-130, Murphy 5-72, Moore 3-101, Boss 3-33, Reece 2-28, Ford 2-19, Bush 2-13, Myers 1-11, Ausberry 1-10.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East y-New England N.Y. Jets Miami Buffalo

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South y-Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis

North y-Baltimore x-Pittsburgh x-Cincinnati Cleveland

West y-Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

and the Jets were eliminated from the AFC wild-card playoff race.

N.Y. Jets 7 3 0 7—17 Miami 3 3 0 13—19 First Quarter Mia-FG Carpenter 44, 9:31.

NYJ-Keller 1 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), 5:51.

Second Quarter NYJ-FG Folk 31, 3:39.

Mia-FG Carpenter 58, :00.

Fourth Quarter Mia-Clay 1 pass from Mat.Moore (Carpenter kick), 10:27.

Mia-FG Carpenter 40, 7:11.

Mia-FG Carpenter 44, 2:32.

NYJ-P.Turner 10 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), 1:15.

A-65,811.

NYJ Mia First downs 20 14 Total Net Yards 374 210 Rushes-yards 27-129 26-82 Passing 245 128 Punt Returns 2-26 0-0 Kickoff Returns 2-51 2-42 Interceptions Ret. 2-0 3-76 Comp-Att-Int 22-33-3 22-32-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-3 1-7 Punts 5-38.2 4-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-40 5-35 Time of Possession 28:53 31:07 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-N.Y. Jets, Tomlinson 11-56, Greene 14-55, Kerley 1-16, Sanchez 1-2.

Miami, Slaton 11-55, Thomas 12-28, Mat. Moore 3-(minus 1).

PASSING-N.Y. Jets, Sanchez 21-32-3-207, Kerley 1-1-0-41. Miami, Mat.Moore 22-322-135.

RECEIVING-N.Y. Jets, Keller 7-45, Kerley 4-71, Burress 4-57, Tomlinson 4-23, Mulligan 1-41, P.Turner 1-10, Slauson 1-1. Miami, Bess 6-45, Marshall 5-50, Fasano 4-11, Hartline 2-16, Thomas 2-12, Clay 1-1, Hilliard 1-1, Slaton 1-(minus 1).

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NFC 4-0-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 0-4-0

Div 3-3-0 5-1-0 2-4-0 2-4-0

Saints 45, Panthers 17 NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees threw for 389 yards and five touchdowns, and New Orleans set a slew of NFL and club records.

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W L y-San Francisco 13 3 Arizona 8 8 Seattle 7 9 St. Louis 2 14 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Div 5-1-0 4-2-0 3-3-0 0-6-0

Carolina 7 10 0 0—17 New Orleans 14 10 14 7—45 First Quarter NO-Ivory 35 run (Kasay kick), 13:21.

Car-Smith 12 pass from Newton (Mare kick), 6:42.

NO-Colston 15 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 2:50.

Second Quarter Car-FG Mare 41, 5:50.

NO-FG Kasay 43, 2:42.

Car-Stewart 29 run (Mare kick), 1:18.

NO-Colston 42 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), :07.

Third Quarter NO-Graham 19 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 8:54.

NO-Collins 1 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 3:47.

Fourth Quarter NO-Sproles 9 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 12:15.

A-73,065.

Car NO First downs 21 33 Total Net Yards 301 617 Rushes-yards 24-164 35-208 Passing 137 409 Punt Returns 0-0 3-45 Kickoff Returns 2-37 2-54 Interceptions Ret. 1-53 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 15-25-1 31-38-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-21 0-0 Punts 4-45.8 1-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 1-5 6-60 Time of Possession 25:26 34:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Carolina, Stewart 9-79, D.Williams 7-53, Newton 6-32, Smith 1-1, D.Anderson 1-(minus 1). New Orleans, Ivory 19-127, Sproles 6-40, P.Thomas 5-30, Henderson 1-9, Brees 1-5, Daniel 3-(minus 3).

PASSING-Carolina, Newton 15-25-1-158.

New Orleans, Brees 28-35-1-389, Daniel 3-30-20.

RECEIVING-Carolina, Smith 6-86, Shockey 3-18, LaFell 2-27, D.Williams 2-20, Stewart 2-7. New Orleans, Graham 8-97, Colston 7-145, Sproles 5-29, P.Thomas 3-36, Henderson 2-48, Meachem 2-30, Collins 2-3, Arrington 1-17, Higgins 1-4.

y-N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Dallas Washington

South y-New Orleans x-Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay

North y-Green Bay x-Detroit Chicago Minnesota

West

Steelers 13, Browns 9 CLEVELAND — Isaac Redman replaced an injured Rashard Mendenhall and ran for a touchdown.

Pittsburgh 0 3 10 0—13 Cleveland 0 6 3 0— 9 Second Quarter Cle-FG Dawson 26, 6:03.

Cle-FG Dawson 45, 1:06.

Pit-FG Suisham 19, :00.

Third Quarter Pit-FG Suisham 29, 9:43.

Pit-Redman 7 run (Suisham kick), 5:27.

Cle-FG Dawson 49, 1:59.

A-68,266.

Pit Cle First downs 22 14 Total Net Yards 360 240 Rushes-yards 36-161 15-72 Passing 199 168 Punt Returns 0-0 3-22 Kickoff Returns 4-92 2-23 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 23-40-0 16-41-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-22 2-9 Punts 4-45.3 6-38.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-0 Penalties-Yards 4-37 5-40 Time of Possession 39:11 20:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Pittsburgh, Redman 19-92, Mendenhall 8-38, Clay 9-31. Cleveland, Wallace 3-44, Hillis 10-30, Hardesty 2-(minus 2).

PASSING-Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 23-40-0-221. Cleveland, Wallace 16-41-1-177.

RECEIVING-Pittsburgh, A.Brown 6-90, Ward 5-24, Cotchery 3-28, Redman 3-18, Miller 2-23, Sanders 1-14, Wallace 1-11, Mendenhall 1-7, Johnson 1-6. Cleveland, Cribbs 7-91, Moore 4-39, Massaquoi 2-16, C.Mitchell 1-19, Cameron 1-15, Hillis 1-(minus 3).

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Pittsburgh, Suisham 45 (WL).

Jaguars 19, Colts 13 JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Indianapolis locked up the top pick in April’s NFL draft, setting the stage to select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.

Indianapolis 0 3 3 7—13 Jacksonville 7 3 6 3—19 First Quarter Jac-West 23 pass from Gabbert (Scobee kick), 3:10.

Second Quarter Ind-FG Vinatieri 48, 12:03.

Jac-FG Scobee 25, 1:01.

Third Quarter Ind-FG Vinatieri 20, 9:07.

Jac-FG Scobee 32, 7:33.

Jac-FG Scobee 47, 5:47.

Fourth Quarter Jac-FG Scobee 39, 6:30.

Ind-Collie 12 pass from Orlovsky (Vinatieri kick), 3:22.

A-62,481.

Ind Jac First downs 19 15 Total Net Yards 298 261 Rushes-yards 22-56 35-190 Passing 242 71 Punt Returns 1-(-1) 2-13 Kickoff Returns 3-30 3-79 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-19 Comp-Att-Int 27-40-2 11-19-0

Sacked-Yards Lost 3-22 3-21 Punts 3-45.3 2-43.5 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 4-40 1-10 Time of Possession 29:12 30:48 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Indianapolis, D.Brown 8-24, Addai 8-19, Orlovsky 1-7, Carter 5-6.

Jacksonville, Jones-Drew 25-169, D.Harris 3-12, Karim 2-6, Owens 1-3, Thomas 1-3, Gabbert 3-(minus 3).

PASSING-Indianapolis, Orlovsky 27-40-2264. Jacksonville, Gabbert 11-19-0-92.

RECEIVING-Indianapolis, Collie 9-96, Wayne 8-73, Clark 5-53, Garcon 2-22, D.Brown 2-15, Carter 1-5. Jacksonville, Lewis 3-33, Osgood 2-19, West 1-23, Dillard 1-8, D.Harris 1-4, Jones-Drew 1-4, Cloherty 1-3, Thomas 1-(minus 2).

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

Titans 23, Texans 22 HOUSTON — Matt Hasselbeck threw two touchdown passes, but the Titans’ slim playoff chances ended when they did not get the helped they needed from several other teams.

Tennessee 0 13 3 7—23 Houston 7 3 3 9—22 First Quarter Hou-Tate 4 run (Rackers kick), 5:15.

Second Quarter Ten-FG Bironas 21, 13:06.

Ten-Avery 1 pass from Hasselbeck (Bironas kick), 3:48.

Hou-FG Rackers 52, 1:09.

Ten-FG Bironas 43, :00.

Third Quarter Hou-FG Rackers 37, 11:46.

Ten-FG Bironas 33, 7:22.

Fourth Quarter Hou-FG Rackers 22, 14:57.

Ten-Washington 23 pass from Hasselbeck (Bironas kick), 4:31.

Hou-B.Johnson 5 pass from Delhomme (run failed), :14.

A-71,512.

Ten Hou First downs 17 22 Total Net Yards 361 387 Rushes-yards 22-86 30-152 Passing 275 235 Punt Returns 4-43 1-11 Kickoff Returns 1-23 1-32 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-35-0 22-32-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-22 3-23 Punts 6-47.7 6-44.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 6-47 7-55 Time of Possession 25:22 34:38 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Tennessee, C.Johnson 15-61, Harper 4-19, Hall 2-7, Hasselbeck 1-(minus 1). Houston, Tate 16-97, Ward 12-50, Jones 1-4, B.Johnson 1-1.

PASSING-Tennessee, Hasselbeck 22-35-0297. Houston, Delhomme 18-28-0-211, Yates 4-4-0-47.

RECEIVING-Tennessee, Washington 4-92, Cook 4-63, C.Johnson 4-49, Avery 3-45, L.Hawkins 3-19, Williams 2-21, Hall 1-4, Harper 1-4. Houston, Casey 7-91, Tate 4-24, Jones 3-35, Dreessen 3-18, B.Johnson 2-45, A.Johnson 2-21, Graham 1-24.

Dolphins 19, Jets 17 MIAMI — Mark Sanchez threw three interceptions,

Packers 45, Lions 41 GREEN BAY, WIS. — Backup quarterback Matt Flynn threw a touchdown pass to Jermichael Finley with 1:10 left to finish off his recordsetting day of 480 yards and six TD passes.

Detroit 9 10 15 7—41 Green Bay 10 14 7 14—45 First Quarter Det-T.Young 8 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 13:00.

Det-Team safety, 12:59.

GB-FG Crosby 22, 5:55.

GB-Nelson 7 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), :16.

Second Quarter Det-Johnson 13 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 8:18.

GB-Grant 80 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 8:00.

Det-FG Hanson 30, 5:53.

GB-Nelson 36 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 3:37.

Third Quarter Det-T.Young 2 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 6:39.

GB-Nelson 58 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 4:32.

Det-K.Smith 5 pass from Stafford (Scheffler pass from Stafford), 2:07.

Fourth Quarter GB-Driver 35 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 8:10.

Det-Scheffler 12 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 2:39.

GB-Finley 4 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 1:10.

A-70,294.

Det GB First downs 32 27 Total Net Yards 575 550 Rushes-yards 15-73 24-81 Passing 502 469 Punt Returns 2-8 1-0 Kickoff Returns 4-103 3-39 Interceptions Ret. 1-30 2-6 Comp-Att-Int 36-59-2 31-44-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-18 3-11 Punts 3-47.0 4-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-1 Penalties-Yards 11-101 6-78 Time of Possession 28:20 31:40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Detroit, K.Smith 9-35, Logan 1-16, Morris 4-13, Burleson 1-9. Green Bay, Grant 12-48, Saine 8-28, Kuhn 2-5, Flynn 2-0.

PASSING-Detroit, Stafford 36-59-2-520.

Green Bay, Flynn 31-44-1-480.

RECEIVING-Detroit, Johnson 11-244, Pettigrew 7-116, Burleson 6-45, Scheffler 4-65, K.Smith 4-26, T.Young 4-24. Green Bay, Nelson 9-162, Finley 7-64, J.Jones 6-89, Saine 3-17, Driver 2-52, Kuhn 2-10, Grant 1-80, D.Williams 1-6.

Minnesota, Webb 17-32-2-200, Ponder 4-101-28.

RECEIVING-Chicago, Bell 5-28, R.Williams 4-60, Bennett 3-31, Sanzenbacher 2-27, Hester 1-14. Minnesota, Harvin 10-115, Aromashodu 3-53, Booker 3-33, Rudolph 3-15, Camarillo 1-9, Gerhart 1-3.

Falcons 42, Buccaneers 24 Eagles 34, ATLANTA — Julio Jones Redskins 10 caught two touchdown passPHILADELPHIA — Michael es in a span of 26 seconds.

Vick threw three touchdown Tampa Bay 0 7 11 6—24 passes.

Atlanta 21 21 0 3—45 First Quarter Atl-Rodgers 1 run (Bryant kick), 8:12.

Atl-Jones 17 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 3:30.

Atl-Jones 48 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 3:04.

Second Quarter Atl-Turner 1 run (Bryant kick), 11:40.

Atl-Lofton 26 interception return (Bryant kick), 10:43.

Atl-Turner 81 run (Bryant kick), 6:49.

TB-Briscoe 2 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 2:04.

Third Quarter TB-FG Barth 41, 4:19.

TB-Mack 40 interception return (Winslow pass from Freeman), 3:32.

Fourth Quarter TB-Briscoe 5 pass from Freeman (run failed), 11:13.

Atl-FG Bryant 20, 3:59.

A-68,167.

TB Atl First downs 18 22 Total Net Yards 294 428 Rushes-yards 14-35 38-251 Passing 259 177 Punt Returns 2-15 1-9 Kickoff Returns 3-53 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-40 3-49 Comp-Att-Int 31-45-3 13-21-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 0-0 Punts 3-49.7 2-50.5 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 2-20 3-20 Time of Possession 29:52 30:08 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Tampa Bay, Freeman 3-14, Blount 6-12, J.Johnson 1-5, Madu 2-4, Lumpkin 2-0. Atlanta, Turner 17-172, Snelling 9-50, Rodgers 8-24, Jones 1-9, Redman 3-(minus 4).

PASSING-Tampa Bay, Freeman 31-45-3274. Atlanta, Ryan 6-9-0-106, Redman 7-121-71.

RECEIVING-Tampa Bay, Briscoe 8-53, Winslow 7-56, Lumpkin 5-27, Parker 4-74, Madu 3-19, Blount 3-14, Williams 1-31.

Atlanta, Jones 4-76, White 4-69, Gonzalez 1-8, Weems 1-8, Palmer 1-7, Rodgers 1-5, Snelling 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

Cardinals 23, Seahawks 20, OT GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Larry Fitzgerald’s spectacular onehanded grab set help up a 28yard field goal by Jay Feely to give Arizona its fourth overtime victory at home in the last nine weeks of the season.

Seattle 0 3 7 10 0 —20 Arizona 7 3 7 3 3 —23 First Quarter Ari-Taylor 1 run (Feely kick), 3:02.

Second Quarter Sea-FG Hauschka 43, 12:10.

Ari-FG Feely 41, 3:28.

Third Quarter Sea-Washington 48 run (Hauschka kick), 10:56.

Ari-Heap 13 pass from Skelton (Feely kick), 6:18.

Fourth Quarter Ari-FG Feely 43, 12:18.

Sea-FG Hauschka 26, 9:05.

Sea-Lockette 61 pass from Jackson (Hauschka kick), 7:47.

Overtime Ari-FG Feely 28, 5:49.

A-61,798.

Sea Ari First downs 19 20 Total Net Yards 369 388 Rushes-yards 34-178 31-131 Passing 191 257 Punt Returns 5-42 4-63 Kickoff Returns 2-84 3-84 Interceptions Ret. 1-33 1-49 Comp-Att-Int 21-35-1 22-40-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-31 2-14 Punts 8-44.6 7-46.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 7-55 9-76 Time of Possession 33:42 35:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Seattle, Lynch 19-86, Washington 7-78, Forsett 6-16, Jackson 1-3, Tate 1-(minus 5). Arizona, StephensHowling 21-93, Skelton 5-19, Taylor 3-8, Roberts 1-8, Sherman 1-3.

PASSING-Seattle, Jackson 21-35-1-222.

Arizona, Skelton 22-40-1-271.

RECEIVING-Seattle, Tate 5-46, Baldwin 3-40, Obomanu 3-37, Forsett 3-(minus 4), Washington 2-12, Lynch 2-5, Lockette 1-61, Morrah 1-14, Butler 1-11. Arizona, Fitzgerald 9-149, Roberts 4-24, Heap 2-35, Housler 2-27, King 2-12, Sherman 1-11, Doucet 1-7, Taylor 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Seattle, Hauschka 24 (BK).

Washington 0 0 7 3—10 Philadelphia 3 7 3 21—34 First Quarter Phi-FG Henery 35, 10:29.

Second Quarter Phi-Hall 7 pass from Vick (Henery kick), 1:44.

Third Quarter Was-Helu 47 pass from Grossman (Gano kick), 10:29.

Phi-FG Henery 20, 4:05.

Fourth Quarter Was-FG Gano 27, 13:24.

Phi-D.Jackson 62 pass from Vick (Henery kick), 12:01.

Phi-Celek 4 pass from Vick (Henery kick), 5:56.

Phi-Lewis 9 run (Henery kick), 1:56.

A-69,144.

Was Phi First downs 21 24 Total Net Yards 377 390 Rushes-yards 25-130 19-75 Passing 247 315 Punt Returns 2-(-1) 2-32 Kickoff Returns 2-53 2-43 Interceptions Ret. 1-28 1-31 Comp-Att-Int 22-45-1 24-39-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-9 2-20 Punts 5-36.6 4-50.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 6-71 8-75 Time of Possession 30:41 29:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Washington, Royster 20-113, Young 1-12, Helu 4-5. Philadelphia, Lewis 12-58, Brown 6-14, Vick 1-3.

PASSING-Washington, Grossman 22-45-1256. Philadelphia, Vick 24-39-1-335.

RECEIVING-Washington, Royster 5-52, Gaffney 4-28, Moss 3-45, Young 3-32, Helu 2-48, Paulsen 2-29, Banks 1-10, Stallworth 1-8, Austin 1-4. Philadelphia, Maclin 8-105, Celek 6-86, D.Jackson 4-86, Avant 4-42, Harbor 1-9, Hall 1-7.

49ers 34, Rams 27 ST . LOUIS — Michael Crabtree caught two touchdown passes.

San Francisco 7 13 7 7—34 St. Louis 7 0 3 17—27 First Quarter StL-Clemens 18 run (Jo.Brown kick), 6:20.

SF-Ale.Smith 8 run (Akers kick), :37.

Second Quarter SF-Crabtree 28 pass from Ale.Smith (Akers kick), 13:05.

SF-FG Akers 36, 7:14.

SF-FG Akers 42, 1:00.

Third Quarter StL-FG Jo.Brown 49, 5:04.

SF-Crabtree 14 pass from Akers (Akers kick), :55.

Fourth Quarter StL-FG Jo.Brown 48, 12:19.

SF-Dixon 1 run (Akers kick), 6:30.

StL-Lloyd 36 pass from Clemens (Jo. Brown kick), 4:49.

StL-Williams 1 run (Jo.Brown kick), 4:36.

A-55,990.

SF StL First downs 21 18 Total Net Yards 321 311 Rushes-yards 36-110 25-111 Passing 211 200 Punt Returns 4-37 2-7 Kickoff Returns 3-75 5-130 Interceptions Ret. 2-16 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-32-0 14-34-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-22 3-26 Punts 5-56.8 6-50.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-80 6-50 Time of Possession 35:08 24:52 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-San Francisco, Hunter 16-76, Dixon 8-21, Gore 7-9, Ale.Smith 5-4. St. Louis, S.Jackson 16-76, Clemens 2-18, Williams 7-17.

PASSING-San Francisco, Ale.Smith 21-310-219, Akers 1-1-0-14. St. Louis, Clemens 14-31-1-226, Brandstater 0-2-0-0, Norwood 0-1-1-0.

RECEIVING-San Francisco, Crabtree 9-92, V.Davis 8-118, Hunter 2-11, Dixon 1-6, Swain 1-6, Miller 1-0. St. Louis, Lloyd 6-100, Kendricks 3-54, Alexander 3-36, B.Gibson 1-21, S.Jackson 1-15.

Giants 31, Cowboys 14 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes, and the Giants won an all-or-nothing game to claim the final spot in the NFL playoffs.

The regular season went down to the last game, and it was coach Tom Coughlin’s Giants (9-7) who won the Bears 17, Vikings 13 NFC East and returned to the MINNEAPOLIS — Charles postseason for the first time Tillman’s interception return since 2008. in the second quarter gave Dallas 0 0 7 7—14 Chicago (8-8) the lead for N.Y. Giants 7 14 0 10—31 Quarter good, and the Bears stopped First NYG-Cruz 74 pass from Manning (Tynes their five-game losing streak kick), 4:57. despite 31⁄2 sacks by Jared Al- Second Quarter NYG-Bradshaw 5 run (Tynes kick), 13:27. len.

NYG-Bradshaw 10 pass from Manning Chicago 0 14 0 3—17 Minnesota 10 3 0 0—13 First Quarter Min-FG Longwell 26, 8:53.

Min-Harvin 5 run (Longwell kick), 3:42.

Second Quarter Chi-R.Williams 22 pass from McCown (Gould kick), 14:19.

Chi-Tillman 22 interception return (Gould kick), 13:37.

Min-FG Longwell 26, :55.

Fourth Quarter Chi-FG Gould 27, 10:19.

A-62,867.

Chi Min First downs 10 16 Total Net Yards 209 301 Rushes-yards 25-92 27-79 Passing 117 222 Punt Returns 2-4 0-0 Kickoff Returns 3-39 2-58 Interceptions Ret. 3-24 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 15-25-1 21-42-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 7-43 2-6 Punts 7-47.9 6-46.0 Fumbles-Lost 4-2 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-20 5-38 Time of Possession 28:46 31:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Chicago, Bell 17-54, McCown 4-30, Allen 4-8. Minnesota, Gerhart 15-67, Harvin 5-13, Webb 4-2, Kluwe 1-0, Booker 2-(minus 3).

PASSING-Chicago, McCown 15-25-1-160.

(Tynes kick), 1:09.

Third Quarter Dal-Robinson 34 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 6:54.

Fourth Quarter Dal-Robinson 6 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 10:15.

NYG-FG Tynes 28, 5:45.

NYG-Nicks 4 pass from Manning (Tynes kick), 3:41.

A-81,077.

Dal NYG First downs 19 20 Total Net Yards 300 437 Rushes-yards 16-49 31-106 Passing 251 331 Punt Returns 3-17 3-1 Kickoff Returns 6-127 3-66 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-(-1) Comp-Att-Int 29-37-1 24-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 6-38 2-15 Punts 6-42.3 4-40.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-0 Penalties-Yards 7-43 3-28 Time of Possession 25:27 34:33 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Dallas, F.Jones 11-30, Morris 3-16, Romo 2-3. N.Y. Giants, Bradshaw 16-57, Ware 2-19, Jacobs 7-16, Manning 6-14.

PASSING-Dallas, Romo 29-37-1-289. N.Y. Giants, Manning 24-33-0-346.

RECEIVING-Dallas, Witten 7-69, F.Jones 7-47, Bryant 6-70, Robinson 4-61, Austin 2-20, Fiammetta 1-14, Bennett 1-5, Morris 1-3. N.Y. Giants, Cruz 6-178, Nicks 5-76, Hynoski 4-31, Bradshaw 3-12, Pascoe 2-14, Beckum 2-13, D.Thomas 1-14, Ware 1-8.

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Townhomes

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3BR, 2 bath, 2408 Lancaster, 2 car garage, C/A, W/D 2859 Four Wheel Drive 2BR — 909 Missouri or 1305 hookups, DW, FP, deck, Kentucky, in 4-plex. Have fenced yard, 1 pet ok, $835, Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standCA & DW. No pets. $450/ 785-841-5797 ing townhome w/ courtmonth. Call 785-841-5797 yard, cathedral ceilings, NEW RENT SPECIALS skylights, & W/D. Most 2BR, 1310 Kentucky. CA, DW, residents professionals.

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Are you looking for a career opportunity in media sales and can you answer YES to the following questions?

• Do you enjoy meeting new people and coming up with creative ideas?

• Are you famous for getting results from your customers?

• Are you a great listener and problem solver?

• Do you use unique and innovative ways to achieve budget?

• Do you love to turn a “no” into a “yes”?

• Do you believe digital advertising needs to be a part of every campaign?

• Do you use social marketing as part of your everyday life?

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If you have been answering YES to these questions and have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling then we want to hear from you!

The World Company has an extraordinary opportunity for talented media sales professionals. As a sales rep some of what you would be doing includes: • Selling creative solutions to your clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a trio of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawrence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, our Deals websites (including Lawrence Deals and johnsoncountydeals.com), and event marketing sponsorships.

• Prospect new regional clients and make initial contact by cold-calling either in person or by phone.

• Develop and build relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list.

Ideal candidates will also have remarkable verbal and written communication skills; enjoy networking; effective time management and interpersonal skills; regularly achieve monthly sales goals; self-motivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

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Asst.

Leasing Manager Plans and administrates needed for Parkway Com- career-related programs mons Apt. The ideal candi- including career coundate will have excellent seling appointments and customer service skills, workshops. Leads UCC knowledge of MS Office efforts to effectively utisocial networking programs and organiza- lize tional skills. Apply in per- strategies.

REQUIRED QUALIFICAson at 3601 Clinton Pkwy, TIONS: Master’s Degree Lawrence, Ks. (Requirements completed by date of appointment) in education, counseling, human resources or related area; excellent written communication skills as demonstrated on application materials; one year in teaching, training Director of or group facilitation exCareer Services perience; one year expeKU School of Law rience in providing career counseling to colFull time, unclassified polege students; successsition supports key funcful completion of at least tions of the office, adone graduate level vises students & alumni course in career on aspects of career dedevelopment/career velopment and impleguidance. ments programs that To Apply: Go Online to support employment jobs.ku.edu and search search. JD and 2 years of for position #00065932. post-JD work experience Deadline to apply required. Preferred: law 1/16/2012. school or higher educaEO/AA Employer tion administration, student services, or career services experience; prior legal recruiting or law practice experience.

Application review begins January 16, 2012.

For more information and to apply on line: https://jobs.ku.edu, search position 00005002. EO/AA

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2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 2BR - 2406 Alabama, Bldg. 2, 2 story, 1.5 baths, CA, DW, $500. No pets. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

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DISTRIBUTION TEAM LEADER Lawrence Journal-World is hiring a Team Leader in our distribution center. We are a family-owned operation with a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, several weekly community newspapers, a Commercial Printing division, and a contract print site for USA TODAY. Team Leaders are responsible for handling the processing and bundling of newsprint products from the press to distributors; troubleshoot machinery; and assist with supervising and providing training to team members.

Candidates must be available to work between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.

We are looking for talented and hardworking individuals who are looking to grow in their career with a fastpaced company. Ideal candidate will have leadership experience; a team player; self starter with strong organizational skills; experience operating machinery and maintenance skills preferred; strong communication skills; good attention to detail and able to multi-task; a high school diploma or GED; able to lift up to 70 lbs.; stand for long periods of time and frequently twist and bend; and proficient with MS Office products.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com or complete an employment application at 609 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS. We offer an excellent benefits package including health insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, opportunities for career advancement and more!

Background check, pre-employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required. EOE

WEB DESIGNER Looking for a new gig? Well, regardless of whether you are or are not “in search of” that next great place to work… We are looking for you!

Want to be our next web designer and be part of our rapidly expanding digital development team? The team designs/develops our digital products, provides maintenance/support of existing websites, and implements third-party digital initiatives. The World Company’s online operation is considered to be among the most innovative of news and media organizations in the country. Our websites include LJWorld.com, Lawrencemarketplace.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com and WellCommons.com. We are in search of a designer that is fairly technical and not afraid of the command line when dealing with front-end development and that can also provide creative concept and design solutions after ramping up.

What we want to see: • A few years of web design experience is ideal (preferably using open-source technologies).

Obviously - proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Experience in designing for mobile platforms a plus).

• Knowledge and hands on experience with content management systems is extremely helpful (Django templates would be ideal).

• Strong preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience. However, we will train the right person who demonstrates passion for their work and a willingness to learn.

• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git).

Some of what you will do here: • Varied design work and maintenance in addition to design processing from concept to implementation.

• Respond to non-technical users on a variety of technical issues and status updates.

• Identify research and resolve technical problems.

• Document, monitor and follow-up on issues to ensure a timely resolution.

The World Company is a communications and media company based in Lawrence, Kansas. We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

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Call 785-841-2381.

3BR, Remodeled old farm house, huge kitchen/LR, 1 Rollerblades. Gently used bath. 7 mi. S. of Lawrence ladies rollerblades in caron all blacktop. $800/mo. rying bag. Size 5-7. $40.00.

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Subleases Enormous apt. right next to campus w/gated parking, huge closet & private bathroom. $395/mo. 817-690-7743

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Cars-Domestic

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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TV-Video

TV. 36” Sony Trinitron standard definition TV. Great for children’s playroom. Call 785-318-0774.

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT Stk#D8756 Sale Price $15,780

2BRs avail. now for females in 4BR townhome. No pets/ smoking. $350/BR per mo.

Share utils. 785-727-0025

Cars-Domestic

Cars-Imports Acura 2007 TL-Type S loaded (navigation, back up camera), pearl white with beige interior, 74K miles, sole owner, have all Acura dealer service records, heated seats, dual climate control, Bluetooth, 3-month old Michelin Sport tires, never has had a single door ding, mint condition, call 913-484-7564.

FORD 2008 FOCUS Stk#B6482A $12,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

TV, Sharp 19” Color TV. $25.

Please call for more information 785-331-7022

Roommates

2BR, 1 bath.

The house is at 4101 W. 13th St. Lawrence, KS. 66049. $450/month $450 deposit.

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Pontiac 2010 G6 4cyl, great gas mileage, GM certified, that means 2 yrs of scheduled maintenance for free!

Stk#453475 only $12,877.

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Chevrolet 2002 Corvette Convertible, 2Dr. Stk#T96291A Sale Price $27,495

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Chevrolet 2010 Malibu’s 32 mpg hwy, nicely equip’d.

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3BR nice mobile home, 1.5 bath, new carpet, CH/CA, W/D hookup, $545/mo. + deposit & Refs. 913-845-3273

Tonganoxie 2BR Duplex, new furnace & window AC, thermal pane windows. $450/mo. + $450 deposit. 603 Church. Avail. now. Call 913-205-7183 3BR country home, 2 full bath, partial bsmt, 2 car, large yard, $800/mo.

816-807-1832, 913-369-3055

CEDAR HILLS

New Management

Many improvements!

816-260-8606, 913-845-0992

Office Space Downtown offices, 2 avail. $325 or $350/month. New! Nice amenities. Utils. pd. Buick 2007 Lacrosse CXL, Year lease. 785-842-7337 ABS, traction control, remote start Chrome Tech alloy wheels, On Star, Office Space Available very sharp and only at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy. $10,850.00 stk#304751 785-841-4785 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Office space for lease, from $525/mo. w/locations on Iowa, 6th, 9th, & 27th St. Theno R.E. 785-843-1811 Buick 2008 Lucerne CX, 46K, Dark Crimson Retail & Metallic Commercial Space A Car For The People from The “Dealer For 1311 Wakarusa - office The People” space available. 200 sq. ft. www.academycars.com - 6,000 sq. ft. For details 785-841-0102 call 785-842-7644

Antiques

KIPP’S TREASURES

423B E 4th Street Tonganoxie, KS 66086 913-704-5037 Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Furniture, Treasures

Baby & Children's Items

Buick 2009 Lucerne CXL, leather heated seats, 3800 V6, great power with great gas mileage, On Star, trade in, stk#54939A2 only $12,500 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Snowsuit- Carters 6 to 9 months Snow Suit $25, never worn.

Call 785-393-0749

Boots, Men’s black work boots - Wolverine brand.

6” lace up, soft toe, oil & skid resistant, water proof, gore tex lined. Size 10 1/2 D. Like new condition. $30.

785-842-8776.

A Full Cord Seasoned Hedge, Oak, Locust & mixed hardwoods, stacked & delivered, $160. Call Landon, 785-766-0863

Cadillac 2007 CTS sunroof, leather, Bose sound, navigation, On Star, and more, only $13,500. stk#371851.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix Certified, Stk#B6652A Sale Price 19,000.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

2006 CHRYSLER 300 NADA retail price $10200, Buy it NOWfor $6900

Chrysler 2010 Sebring Limited Brilliant Black, 48K Check Out the Cockpit of This Amazing Machine! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2008 Mustang GT this is one hot ride!

Leather heated seats, Shaker sound system, local trade, very nice!

Stk#58041A2 only $16,999.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix, sunroof, spoiler, alloy wheels, great gas mileage and room for the family! Stk#166701 only $10,854.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2002 Mustang. Local trade-in in shiny black.

Nice car with automatic and V6. Two owners and only 75K miles. Much recent maintenance done.

Clean interior. See website for photos and more information.

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Chrysler 2010 Sebring LTD Leather, Alloys, 38K, Inferno Red! Credit so Easy a Child Can Do It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Seasoned Firewood for Cadillac 2007 DTS very very luxurious! sale. hedge, oak, locust, & nice, out the luxury other mixed hardwoods. With $160/cord. Split stacked & price! Stk#164601 only Delivered. Call Ryan at $14,956.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 785-418-9910 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Furniture

DayBed, Metal frame includes mattress. Used 5 times. Great condition. $50.

785-843-9199

1999 CHEVROELT MALIBU NADA retail price $3625, Buy it NOWfor $1750

Mattress, New Full size Limited Edition I Ortho-Firm-Posture series mattress for sale. Perfect condition.

Downsizeing guest room to twin size. $499.95 new. Selling for $100/offer. 785-691-7316

Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder, only at

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Moving Sale, Ethan Allen a moire, side board/buffet, qu.size bed w/headboard, 2 night tables, 1 rocking chair. ex. cond. Call for appt. 913-244-0311 Lawrence

Chevrolet 2002 Cavalier, Automatic 2 door in very clean condition. A very nice car, with good gas mileage for under $5000.

Come for a test drive. See website for photos.

Sofa w/ queen sleeper. ReRueschhoff Automobiles movable pillows.

Blue rueschhoffautos.com Denim fabric. $100/offer.

2441 W. 6th St. Kevin at 785-760-1151.

785-856-6100 24/7 Table, Hexagon glass table, $25.

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Medical Equipment Electric Medical Bed- Bed and mattress like new. $100.00 Call 785-331-6368.

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Dale Willey Automotive 2840 Iowa Street (785) 843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Dodge 2010 Caliber SXT 44K, Inferno Red Are You Drowning In Choices? No More! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Pontiac 2008 G6 sedan, 4cyl, great gas mileage and room for the family, stk#16670 only $10,854.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2005 Taurus SE Sedan - Silver. T96907A $7991.00 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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0% FINANCING AVAILABLE on all service contracts.

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Pontiac 2008 G6 Sedan GT Stk#D8757 Sale Price $14,780

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

2003 GMC Yukon XL NADA retail price $11,650, Buy it NOWfor $1750

Ford 2007 Focus SE Cloud 9 White!

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Pontiac 2009 G6, V6, power seat, ABS, traction control, remote start, 17” chrome tech wheels, GM certified, lots of warranty!

Stk#314521 only $15,444.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

NADA retail price $7550, Buy it NOWfor $4750 Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder, only at

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Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2007 Mazda 5 Sport 46K, Brilliant Black 6 Passenger Comfort, Can You Imagine?

And Fuel Economy Too! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2006 Mazda3 S, 2 owner, 65k original miles, 5dr hatchback, moon, manual, 30+ MPG, 6CD, sporty! $9900 .

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

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73,350 miles. Has all extras except moonroof. A silver beauty with a lot of good miles left! $7,500.

785-843-2140

WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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MERCURY 2005 GRAND MARQUIS Stk#B6902A Special Price $12,000.

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Chevrolet 2011 Traverse, Nobody beats us on selection! We’ve got 3 to choose from starting at $24,776 and GM certified!

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Chevrolet 2006 Uplander LT, FWD, leather heated seats, dual power seats, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, DVD, XM radio, & more, stk#117531 only $12415 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Volkswagen 2009 Passat Sedan 4dr Auto Komfort FWD Sedan Stk#T6696A Sale Price $20,995

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Chrysler 2009 PT Cruiser 40K, Surf Blue Pearl You Have the Right To Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2004 DODGE DURANGO LIMITED NADA retail price $9650, Buy it NOWfor $6200

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Volkswagon 2008 Jetta 2.5, local trade in, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, very sharp, stk#308742 only $13,700.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Nissan 2007 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two starting at only $12,762. stk# 14043.

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2008 Mini Cooper S, 2 Door, 6speed manual, heated seats, cloth, Moon, CD, Bluetooth, Trac, Spoiler, 25K, $19,900.

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Volvo 2009 V50 Wagon.

ONE local owner, super clean, silver, and a long lit of options. Priced way below comparable Volvos. Ford 2009 Escape LimTake a look at this NICE, ited, leather, ABS, alloy safe Volvo. Great reviews wheels, steering wheel roof rack, on this model. 75K miles. controls, stk#588491 only $17,653 See website for photos.

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Crossovers

Nissan 2010 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two only $14223.00 stk#s13257 or 14043 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Porsche 1999 Boxster.

ONLY 32K miles! Local car kept in garage by a meticulous professional. Guards Red is very shiny. Excellent condition with all keys and books. Would make a great Christmas present! 2006 Acura MDX Touring, AWD, 2-Owner, Includes big red bow! See V6, well-maintained, leather, website for photos.

Moon, 3rd row, Bose, Rueschhoff Automobiles 92K, $17,900. rueschhoffautos.com View pictures at 2441 W. 6th St. www.theselectionautos.com 785-856-6100 24 4/7 785.856.0280 Rueschhoff Automobiles 845 Iowa St. rueschhoffautos.com Lawrence, KS 66049 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Smart 2009 ForTwo Passion. Local one-owner car with only 10K miles! Previous owner moved to asisted living. Beautiful blue and silver. Panorama glass roof, automatic, and very clean. A rare low mile find.

Tremendous gas mileage! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-610 00 24/7 Toyota 2000 Camry LE Automatic. 4cyl. 198K, Runs great! Non-smoker. Very clean interior & exterior.

Timing belt & water pump were changed at 153k.

Newer brakes & tires.

Heater & AC work great!

Power driver seat. Sun Roof. Factory radio & CD. Power windows & mirrors.

Cruise control. Excellent gas mileage. $4,200. Contact AJ 913-568-2981

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2009 Audi Q7 Premium 3.2 Quattro, AWD, panoramic sunroof, lthr, 3rdrow, htd seats, Bose, Navi/Back U cam, pwr liftgate, 43k $39900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2009 Corolla XLE 46K, Capri Sea Metallic From Your Partner in On-Line Car Buying! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

Are You Listening?

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Toyota 2007 RAV4 Limited, V6, FWD, 3rd row seat, DVD, 79K, Excellent Condition. $15,500.

785-242-3830 785-418-5749

Buick 2008 Enclave CXL AWD CERTIFIED Stk#D8770 $27,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

2006 Toyota 4Runner SPORT, 4WD, Moon, tow, CD, PL, PW, cruise, spoiler, 120K, new tires, clean! $14,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2010 Corolla, CE Barcelona Red, 48K Can you believe It?! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2010 Corolla CE 21K, Barcelona Red Can You Afford to NOT Buy Your Next Car On-Line at Academy? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Honda 2009 Pilot EXL 4wd, 2nd row bench, 3rd row, alloy wheels, CD changer, leather heated seats, and more!

Stk#37542A3, only $25,840 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2006 Grand Prix GT, this is a fantastic luxury sedan, plenty of room for the family and power for the driving enthusiast!

Stk#424761 only $9,412.

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Saab 2006 9.5, 4Dr wagon 2.3T Sport SUV Black, 76K, $12,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2006 Camry LE 65k, Dark Grey Metallic From Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership!

Mercury 2008 Milan White Suede Pearl, 34K Academy Cars: Where You Have the Right To Love Your Car!

Pontiac 2009 G3, automatic, talk about fuel economy and room!

You’ve gotta try this one to believe it! Stk#328851 only $11,650.

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2002 NISSAN ALTIMA NADA retail price $6175, Buy it NOWfor $4800

Toyota 2009 Yaris Silver, 70K Fuel Economy PLUS A Cheap Payment! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2006 HHR LT, running boards, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, power seat, and more, stk#631502 only $10,850.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Protect Your Vehicle with an Extended Service Contract from Dale Willey Automotive.

Call Allen orr Tony at 785-843-5200

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Honda 2005 Civic VP sedan, one owner, great commuter car, great gas mileage, stk#378131 only $9,900 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder,

Cars-Imports Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

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Only $9,774.. stk#10854.

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Crossovers

TOYOTA 2004 Prius Hatchback HYBRID - no photo.

Stk#T7056A Sale Price $12,000

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

KIA 2006 AMANTI. Stk#T6622A. Sale Price $13,999

2002 LINCOLN LS

Red Oak/White Oak Mix, $150/truck, $210/cord Stacked & delivered. Cured & Seasoned.

Adam 816-547-1575

(3) Pianos, Winter Company Spinet or Acrosonic Spinet, $525.

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Chevrolet 2005 Tahoe LS SUV, Stk#B6867B Special Price $13,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Firewood, Mixed hardwoods, full cord: $150. You haul. Or small delivery fee.

Oak & hedge cords slightly more. 35 years in business.

Call Bill at 816-810-3673

Music-Stereo

Chevrolet 2006 Monte Carlo LT, local trade, alloy wheels, spoiler, sunroof, ABS, traction control, cd changer and much more! Stk#500993 only $9,444 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Clothing

Firewood-Stoves

Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo LT, leather heated seats, ABS, traction control, spoiler, alloy wheels, very sharp, stk#168771 only $10,995.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Cars-Imports

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Stk#376431 only $10,888 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Buick 2010 ENCLAVE Certified, Stk#T96788A Special Price $30,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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ONLINE ADS 2008 Buick Enclave CXL 1-Owner, AWD, Pearl White, 3rd row, Leather, 2nd Row Buckets, rear ac, Bose, htd seats, power, park assist 92K, $20,900.

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Concrete

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785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

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Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

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Origins Interior Design

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• Color & Design • Space Planning • Furniture Layouts • Trade Discounts • Project Management 785-766-9281 originsinteriordesign.com

Pet Services

Recycling Services

Adorable Animal Designs

Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

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Full Service Grooming All Breeds & Sizes Including Cats!

Flea & Tick Solutions

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Accessible and General Public Transportation

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Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

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Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

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785-843-2244

Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

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Call Calli 785-766-8420

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Plumbing

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Salon & Spa

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785-766-2785

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Travel Services Lawrence First Class Transportation

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Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

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Tree/Stump Removal

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Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

Chris Tree Service 12th & Haskell 20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, Recycle Center, Inc. cut down, hauled off.

No Monthly Fee - Always Free Est. Ins. & Lic. been FREE! 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659 Cash for all Metals Fredy’s Tree Service We take glass!

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Professional Service with a Tender Touch

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Fast Quality Service

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

Piano Lessons 4704 W. 24th St Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year!

Landscaping

We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

Dependable & Reliable Holiday pet sitting, feeding, overnights, walks, more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

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Eagles Lodge

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarketpla ce.com/Eagles_Lodge

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Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist Snow Removal Driveways & Sidewalks

Insured 20 yrs. experience

Air Conditioning Heating/Plumbing

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Buckingham Palace Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services “The Greener Cleaner”

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Carpet Cleaning

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning.

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No Job Too Big or Small

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

Quality work at a fair price!

Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

Get Lynn on the line!

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Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

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Moving-Hauling

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

FOUNDATION REPAIR

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

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JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

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ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

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K’s Tire

For all the things you do not know whom to call.

I get it done!

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

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Sales and Service

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Marty Goodwin 785-979-1379

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Family Owned & Operated

For All Your Battery Needs

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

Home Improvements

Decks & Fences

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

Oakley Creek Catering

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

General Services

Save up to 80%

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

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Events/ Entertainment

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Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

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You are hereby notified that on December 19, 2011, a Petition for Issuance of Letters of Administration was filed in this Court by Rocky Russell.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Robin A Prososki, Steven E Prososki, Jane Doe, and John Doe, et al., Defendants

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Title to Real Estate Involved

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World January 2, 2012)

Case No. 11CV729 Court No. 4

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THE LAW OFFICE OF DAVID J. BROWN, LC BY: /s/ David J. Brown S. Ct. #14409 1040 New Hampshire, Suite 14 Lawrence, Kansas 66044 785-842-0777

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Lawrence

NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by CitiMortgage, Inc., praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows: LOT THREE (3), IN BLOCK ONE (1), IN LONGLEAF ADDITION NO. 3, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. U15817CW for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of summons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas will expire on February 13, 2012. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 lcraft@msfirm.com Jeremy M. Hart, #20886 jhart@msfirm.com Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 jmichaels@msfirm.com 11460 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Suite 300 Leawood, KS 66211 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax) ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ATTORNEYS FOR CITIMORTGAGE, INC. IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. ________

(Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World January 2, 2012) The abandoned property of Connor Monarez, 2001 W. 6th St., C20, Lawrence, including household cleaning items, will be disposed of on or after January 17, 2012.

785-841-8468 ________

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 19, 2011) The following list of vehicles will be sold by Bob’s Imports at public auction for repairs and storage fees on January 6, 2012, at 10:00am, at 714 W. 6th St., Lawrence, KS.

2000 VOLKSWAGEN (First published in the Law- 3VWCF21C9YM439574 rence Daily Journal-World 1986 GMC 1GDJK34W2GS528079 December 26, 2011) 1990 AUDI IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WAUFC58A8LA068098 DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS 1998 CHEVROLET 1GNCT18W4VK129459 1996 CHEVROLET In the Matter of the 1GNDT13W9T2275980 Estate of: 1999 BMW RAYMOND LEE RUSSELL, WBAAM5339XEJ40036 Deceased 1992 ISUZU 4S2CY58Z3N4331892 Case No. 2011 PR 209 ________

Stepdaughters must learn about consequences Annie’s Mailbox

convey that message to his errant daughters.

Dear Annie: My sister “Rose” and I are as different as night and day. She also is 17 years older than I am.

I am now in my late 40s, and although Rose and I get along, there is one thing that causes me grief. Every time we speak, she feels the need to remind me of what a spoiled brat I was when I was a teenager. She’s right. But I’m anniesmailbox@comcast.net not that way any longer. She makes it clear that she still is use that property and chase not OK with this, so I’ve apolall prospective buyers away. ogized for my teenaged self.

We have offered to sell it to Repeatedly. It hurts to know them at a good price, but why should they buy it when they can use it for free? We can’t afford two house payments.

My husband has no leverage with them. He won’t do anything that could get them into legal trouble that may affect the rest of their lives. I don’t know what to do. — Anguished in Oregon Dear Oregon: These spoiled brats have been out of control for years because they have two ineffectual, spineless parents, and there never have been any consequences for their behavior. Your husband can sell the farm by having a broker handle prospective buyers by appointment only.

But make it clear to your husband that if they vandalize your home, threaten you or hurt your pets, you will call the police. And he should

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell

New year brings old formulas At a time of year known for new ventures, too many television offerings have a familiar feel. Bravo goes out on a conceptual limb with “It’s a Brad, Brad World” (9 p.m.). A show about a stylist!

On Bravo! What’s next?

To be brutally frank, it’s about a glorified servant, Brad Goreski, who thinks he’s fabulous because he gets to shop for people whose names he can drop. In reality, he is basically a pre-enchanted Cinderella, slaving away for a series of evil stepsisters. Just don’t tell him. He thinks he’s “arrived.”

“The Bachelor” (7 p.m., ABC) returns with a former Bachelor. Yes, Ben is back. Technically, he was on “The Bachelorette,” but who really cares?

Look for limos, tears and the mutilation of many a rosebush before this comes to its utterly forgettable conclusion. Seriously, if you’re still watching “The Bachelor” after 16 seasons, you need to get a life. If your friends are still watching, you need smarter friends.

I’m not just being cranky here. If enough people stop watching “The Bachelor,” ABC will have to come up with some real programming. That means actors, writers and production crews will get hired, hopefully at union wages. So blowing up “The Bachelor” is actually good for the economy! I feel like a oneman stimulus program. And to be honest, I wouldn’t mind more decent dramas and comedies to review.

It’s not enough to be a freak anymore.

You have to be a celebrity freak. There was a time when shows like “Hoarders” showcased (and exploited) the marginally sane who couldn’t throw anything away. Now the competition is tougher. You have to be both semi-famous and a little touched in the head. As evidence, I present tonight’s “Extreme Clutter” (9 p.m., OWN), featuring Mackenzie Phillips. A poster child for dysfunctions too grim to catalog here, she blames her life of drugs and emotional abuse for her untidiness.

The boldfaced-name scourge continues on tonight’s preview episode of “Celebrity Wife Swap” (9 p.m., ABC). Tonight’s swappers include Tracey Gold, an actress known for her anorexia, and Carnie Wilson, famous for her struggles with avoirdupois. Wilson is also infamous for her addiction to appearing on really bad reality shows (“Carnie Wilson: Unstapled”), but I digress.

Tonight’s other highlights

Versus is so 2011. That network emerges rechristened as NBC Sports with “Cold War on Ice: Summit Series ’72” (3:30 p.m.).

Not even prison can prevent House from diagnosing (and annoying) his colleagues on “House” 7 p.m., Fox).

“Antiques Roadshow” (7 p.m., PBS, check local listings) explores treasures in Tulsa, Okla.

The four girls rebound a month after their arrest on “Pretty Little Liars” (7 p.m., ABC Family).

Coupons and cupcakes abound on “2 Broke Girls” (7:30 p.m., CBS).

The twins turn 17 on “The Lying Game” (8 p.m., ABC Family).

A teen’s slaying appears to have been a professional hit on “Hawaii Five-O” (9 p.m., CBS).

Scheduled on “Rock Center With Brian Williams” (9 p.m., NBC): farmland prices; lobster diving.

Fans of “The Closer” (9 p.m., TNT) will have to wait until summer for new episodes and the series finale.

ROUND UP By Alice Walker

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exhausted and looking at an old situation differently.

A new perspective could be important and most enlightening. Tonight: Vanish.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) You might have difficulty nailing down a problem, as an elusive detail is missing. Ask questions if you are confused.

Tonight: Where the action is.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Take off. Be willing to take a risk. Use good sense, but remember that if you don’t take risks in life, you have nothing.

Tonight: Could be a late night.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) Work directly with a partner or associate. Sometimes, like today, there is an innate tension that makes you feel uncomfortable. Tonight: Put on some music.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Others could be far more challenging than you anticipated. Fatigue might have you acting like a real grump. Tonight: Dinner and a chat.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Get the job done. You could be exhausted by what is occurring. Slow down and take a

deep breath, go for a walk or take a break. Tonight: Someone knows how to get you going!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) You might be harder on a friend than you realize. If this person has a strong reaction, understand that you might have pushed him or her away. Tonight: Burning the candle at both ends.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The emphasis remains on real estate, home and a potential investment. A roommate might not be ready for your ideas and new direction. Tonight: Fun and games.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be asked a lot of questions in the a.m. You might want to close down or walk away.

Tonight: Happily head home.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Be aware of an innate insecurity and how this trait might be playing into your financial situation. Try to detach. Tonight: Hang with a friend.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Country musician Harold Bradley is 86.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is 70. TV host Jack Hanna is 65.

Actress Wendy Phillips is 60. Actress Gabrielle Carteris is 51. Movie director Todd Haynes is

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that she can’t let it go.

I truly love my sister. My question is, should I confront Rose? If not, how do I deal with the continued belittling?

— Little Sister in California Dear Sister: It might help to talk to Rose. Remind her that you are no longer a spoiled brat, and ask why she is having such a hard time forgiving your teenaged self.

Perhaps there is a reason she keeps bringing it up. If she cannot recognize her obsessive behavior or stop it, the best you can do is say, “Yes, Rose,” and then change the subject.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Monday, Jan. 2: You are a force to be dealt with, especially within your community or professional circle. Never take a disagreement personally; understand that others can only come from their history. If you are single, you are likely to hook up with someone very different.

If you are attached, share more of your ideas with your sweetie. Taurus can be quite provocative.

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 are nothing less than fiery in the morning, but your energy seems to fizzle when focusing on a money matter. Don’t even question if someone is confused — he or she is, or you are! Tonight: Indulge at dinner — just a little.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You have been out of whack longer than you realize. Recognize what has occurred when you feel much better late afternoon. Tonight: Only where you want to be.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Push to get the job done. You could be

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Actress Tia Carrere is 45.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is 44. Model Christy Turlington is 43. Actor Taye Diggs is 41. Rock musician Scott Underwood (Train) is 41. Rock singer Doug

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13 Be inclined (to) 18 Trounces 22 “___ the night before Christmas ...”

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Dear Annie: My husband has twin 28-year-old daughters. They are hardworking and smart, and any parent would be proud of their achievements.

I began dating my husband five years after his divorce, and we married three years later. However, when I was supposed to meet his daughters, they told him they would chase me away if I visited.

The relationship went downhill from there. They threw my possessions into the backyard while we were not home, threatened to kill me, vandalized our house, tried to run me over, ambushed me with a bucket of water when I stepped out the door, were cruel to my dog and more.

We moved 2,000 miles away.

Now that our parents are getting old, we are thinking of moving back to our hometown to be near our families.

But I don’t know how to handle his daughters. They text, phone and email their dad but never acknowledge my existence. We send birthday and Christmas presents from both of us. Their mother and I get along well, but she only chastises them by saying they are “exhibiting inappropriate behavior.” They still live with her, and I think she is intimidated.

My husband owns a farm nearby and we have been trying to sell it, but the daughters

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

Answer:

Robb (Hoobastank) is 37.

Actor Dax Shepard is 37.

Actress Paz Vega is 36.

Country musician Chris Hartman is 34. Rock musician Jerry DePizzo Jr. (O.A.R.) is 33. Rhythmand-blues singer Kelton Kessee (IMX) is 31.

Saturday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: POUND POUCH STYLUS GALLON Answer: Everybody liked to go to Pat Sajak’s house because he was a — GOOD HOST

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Monday, January 2, 2012

SPORTS

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L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Golden State Sacramento Phoenix

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Roundup The Associated Press

Magic 102, Raptors 96 ORLANDO, FLA. — Ryan Anderson scored 24 points and led a fourth-quarter rally that sent Orlando past Toronto on Sunday night.

The Magic trailed by as many as 16 points, but went on a 16-0 run in the final period. Orlando shot 4-for-5 on three-pointers during the burst, with Anderson making two of them, as the Magic took a 94-88 lead with 3:05 left.

Dwight Howard had 19 points and 15 rebounds for the Magic, who have won four straight since a season-opening loss to Oklahoma City. J.J. Redick added 21 points and Hedo Turkoglu had 15 points and seven assists.

Andrea Bargnani paced the Raptors with 28 points, and Jose Calderon had 18 points and 13 assists.

TORONTO (96) Butler 0-2 3-3 3, Bargnani 10-21 7-7 28, A.Johnson 3-5 2-2 8, Calderon 6-9 3-3 18, DeRozan 4-12 8-9 17, Magloire 3-3 1-1 7, J.Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Barbosa 3-8 3-4 9, E.Davis 1-4 0-0 2, Carter 2-5 0-0 4, Alabi 0-0 0-0 0, Forbes 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-70 27-29 96.

ORLANDO (102) Turkoglu 6-14 1-1 15, Anderson 9-16 1-1 24, Howard 7-11 5-9 19, Nelson 4-7 0-0 9, J.Richardson 1-8 2-4 5, G.Davis 3-6 1-2 7, Redick 6-10 6-7 21, Duhon 1-3 0-0 2, Clark 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-75 16-24 102.

Toronto 27 25 29 15— 96 Orlando 18 29 23 32—102 3-Point Goals-Toronto 5-13 (Calderon 3-4, DeRozan 1-2, Bargnani 1-3, Butler 0-1, Barbosa 0-1, Carter 0-2), Orlando 12-27 (Anderson 5-8, Redick 3-5, Turkoglu 2-5, Nelson 1-2, J.Richardson 1-5, G.Davis 0-1, Duhon 0-1). Fouled Out-Barbosa. ReboundsToronto 38 (Bargnani 7), Orlando 48 (Howard 15). Assists-Toronto 23 (Calderon 13), Orlando 20 (Turkoglu 7). Total FoulsToronto 27, Orlando 22. Technicals-Orlando defensive three second. A-18,846 (18,500).

Celtics 94, Wizards 86 WASHINGTON — Rajon Rondo had 18 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds while Kevin Garnett had 24 points and nine rebounds to lead Boston over the winless Wizards.

The victory was the Celtics’ second straight after losing their first three. Washington is 0-4.

John Wall, who was 10 for 37 from the field in Washington’s first three games, was 6 for 13. He had 19 points, eight assists and seven rebounds.

JaVale McGee had 16 points and 14 rebounds for the Wizards. Nick Young had 18.

BOSTON (94) Pierce 2-8 4-6 9, Garnett 9-17 6-6 24, O’Neal 4-7 0-0 8, Rondo 7-10 4-7 18, Allen 5-10 1-2 13, Bass 4-8 0-0 8, Dooling 2-3 0-2 6, Bradley 1-2 0-0 2, Daniels 1-3 0-0 2, Stiemsma 2-4 0-0 4, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-74 15-23 94.

WASHINGTON (86) Lewis 4-12 0-0 8, Blatche 4-7 2-2 10, McGee 6-15 4-5 16, Wall 6-13 7-9 19, Young 7-15 4-4 18, Crawford 1-7 2-2 5, Singleton 0-1 0-0 0, Turiaf 0-0 0-0 0, Booker 3-4 1-1 7, Mason 1-4 0-0 3, Mack 0-0 0-0 0, Seraphin 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 32-78 20-23 86.

Boston 28 23 22 21—94 Washington 17 17 26 26—86 3-Point Goals-Boston 5-12 (Dooling 2-2, Allen 2-5, Pierce 1-4, Bradley 0-1), Washington 2-16 (Crawford 1-4, Mason 1-4, Singleton 0-1, Young 0-3, Lewis 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Boston 48 (Rondo 11), Washington 46 (McGee 14). Assists-Boston 26 (Rondo 14), Washington 15 (Wall 8). Total Fouls-Boston 20, Washington 21. A-17,458 (20,278).

Heat 129, Bobcats 90 MIAMI — Chris Bosh scored 20 of his 24 points in the first half as Miami improved to 5-0 for the first time in franchise history.

The 129 points is the most scored by any NBA team so far this season and the 39-point victory margin matched the third-largest in Heat history. Dwyane Wade scored 22 points and LeBron James and Mario Chalmers

Baylor at Texas Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Missouri at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

Iowa State at Texas A&M, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Texas, 6 p.m.

NFL

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Baker Men

at Kansas Wesleyan, W 102-60 (1-0) at Haskell, W 80-62 (2-0) Friends, W 75-65 (3-0) St. Mary’s, L 76-79 (3-1) Ottawa, W 70-42 (4-1) at Harris-Stowe, W 66-52 (5-1) at McPherson, L 63-77 (5-2) Bethany (at McPherson), W 63-62 (6-2) at Ottawa, W 79-77 (7-2) at Fort Hays State, L 72-90 (exhibition) Avila, W 76-70 (8-2) at Missouri Valley, W 64-47 (9-2) Evangel, L 53-69 (9-3) Point Loma Nazarene (at San Diego Classic), L 51-80 (9-4) San Diego Christian (at San Diego Classic), L 51-77 (9-5) Jan. 5 — at Peru State (Neb.) Jan. 7 — Culver-Stockton Jan. 12 — at MidAmerica Nazarene Jan. 14 — at Graceland (Iowa) Jan. 19 — Benedictine Jan. 21 — at Central Methodist (Mo.) Jan. 26 — at Avila Jan. 28 — Missouri Valley Feb. 4 — at Evangel (Mo.) Feb. 9 — Peru State Feb. 11 — at Culver-Stockton (Mo.) Feb. 16 — MidAmerica Nazarene Feb. 18 — Graceland Feb. 23 — at Benedictine Feb. 25 — Central Methodist

College Women

EAST Yale 63, Army 62 SOUTH Georgia 67, Arkansas 57 Kentucky 59, Florida 56 LSU 83, Mississippi 44 South Carolina 68, Alabama 42 Tennessee 73, Auburn 52 MIDWEST Illinois St. 62, Evansville 49 Indiana St. 72, S. Illinois 66 SOUTHWEST Tulsa 72, Stephen F. Austin 53 FAR WEST Gonzaga 92, St. Francis (Pa.) 50

Nuggets 99, Lakers 90 DENVER — Danilo Gallinari Big 12 Women Golden State at Phoenix, scored 20 points, Ty Lawson NFL Playoff Glance Conf.

Overall 2:30 p.m. had 17 points and 10 assists Wild-card Playoffs W L W L Jan. 7 Washington at Boston, and the Nuggets beat the Saturday, Baylor 0 0 13 0 Cincinnati at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

Mario Chalmers, Miami Texas Tech 0 0 12 0 Detroit at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

Lakers.

Kansas 0 0 11 1 Pts: 16. FGs: 6-7. FTs: 0-0.

Jan. 8 Indiana at New Jersey, Nene had 13 points for Sunday, Missouri 0 0 10 1 Atlanta at New York Giants, noon Oklahoma State 0 0 8 1 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m. the Nuggets, who avenged a Paul Pierce, Boston Texas 0 0 10 2 Orlando at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. three-point loss to the Lakers Texas A&M 0 0 9 2 Pts: 9. FGs: 2-4. FTs: 4-6.

Best NFL Seasons Iowa State 0 0 9 2 Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m. in Los Angeles less than 24 NFL teams that won 15 or more games in Kansas State 0 0 9 3 Toronto at New York, 6:30 p.m. hours earlier. a season: Oklahoma 0 0 8 3 Josh Selby, Memphis 1984 San Francisco (15-1) lost to San Antonio at Minnesota, Pau Gasol had 20 points Pittsburgh 20-17 (game 7) — Won Super Friday’s Games Pts: 6. FGs: 3-9. FTs: 0-0.

Baylor 93, Mississippi Valley State 55 7 p.m. and 11 rebounds and Andrew Bowl Texas A&M 72, McNeese State 62 1985 Chicago (15-1) lost to Miami 38-24 Oklahoma City at Dallas, Bynum had 18 points and Missouri 66, Sam Houston State 48 each scored 16 for the Heat, (game 13) — Won Super Bowl Iowa State 65, Buffalo 45 7:30 p.m.

16 rebounds for the Lakers.

1998 Minnesota (15-1) lost at Tampa Bay Texas Tech 58, San Diego 57 who ran out to an 18-point Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m.

Kobe Bryant scored 16 points 27-24 (game 9) — Lost NFC Championship Long Island 64, Oklahoma State 63 lead after one quarter and 2004 Pittsburgh (15-1) lost to Baltimore Wednesday, Jan. 4 New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m. on 6-of-28 shooting.

30-13 (game 2) — Lost AFC Championship Kansas at Texas, 8 p.m. never trailed.

2007 New England (16-0) undefeated — Texas A&M at Kansas State, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. LAKERS (90) DJ White scored 21 points Lost Super Bowl Missouri at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Barnes 1-5 0-0 2, Gasol 8-15 4-4 20, Bynum 2011 Green Bay (15-1) lost at Kansas City and Kemba Walker finished Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

7-12 4-10 18, Fisher 2-6 0-0 4, Bryant 6-28 3-4 19-14 (game 14) Iowa State at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

16, Murphy 0-2 0-0 0, World Peace 3-7 3-4 with 17 for Charlotte, which Saturday, Jan. 7 10, Blake 6-9 0-0 14, McRoberts 1-1 2-2 4, Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m. lost its seventh straight regKansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Chiefs Kapono 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 35-88 16-24 90.

Texas at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, Buffalo, L 7-41 (0-1) ular-season meeting against DENVER (99) Texas Tech at Missouri, 4 p.m. at Detroit, L 3-48 (0-2) Gallinari 7-16 5-7 20, Nene 4-7 5-6 13, 7 p.m.

Miami.

Baylor at Iowa State, 7 p.m. at San Diego, L 17-20 (0-3) Mozgov 0-0 3-4 3, Lawson 5-11 7-8 17, Afflalo

How former Jayhawks fared

CHARLOTTE (90) Maggette 0-6 2-2 2, White 10-12 0-0 21, Diaw 2-4 0-0 5, Augustin 1-11 2-2 4, Henderson 4-13 0-0 8, Diop 0-2 0-0 0, Biyombo 2-5 2-6 6, Mullens 1-6 4-4 6, Walker 6-13 3-5 17, Carroll 1-4 0-0 2, Brown 6-11 1-2 14, Higgins 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 35-92 14-21 90.

MIAMI (129) James 6-10 4-6 16, Bosh 9-13 6-6 24, Anthony 3-5 2-2 8, Chalmers 6-7 0-0 16, Wade 9-16 4-4 22, Battier 0-3 0-2 0, Haslem 1-4 4-4 6, Jones 2-4 0-0 6, Cole 6-8 4-5 16, Harris 3-6 2-2 9, Gladness 1-1 0-0 2, Pittman 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 48-80 26-31 129.

Charlotte 15 22 27 26— 90 Miami 33 32 27 37—129 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 6-18 (Walker 2-4, Higgins 1-1, Diaw 1-1, White 1-1, Brown 1-2, Henderson 0-1, Maggette 0-2, Augustin 0-3, Carroll 0-3), Miami 7-11 (Chalmers 4-4, Jones 2-4, Harris 1-2, Battier 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Charlotte 50 (Brown 7), Miami 51 (Bosh 10). Assists-Charlotte 20 (Augustin 7), Miami 33 (Cole 9). Total FoulsCharlotte 20, Miami 18. A-20,016 (19,600).

Cavaliers 98, Nets 82 CLEVELAND — Antawn Jamison scored 23 points and the Cavaliers made 16 3-pointers in a win over New Jersey.

Kyrie Irving, the No. 1 pick in the draft, had 13 points, four assists and four rebounds for Cleveland (2-2).

Deron Williams led New Jersey (1-4) with 16 points.

The Nets dropped their fourth straight game despite having all five starters score in double figures.

Cleveland made 16 of 26 shots from 3-point range, falling one short of the team record for 3s in a game. The Cavaliers made 17 3-pointers in the 2008 and ‘09 seasons.

NEW JERSEY (82) Humphries 1-5 9-11 11, James 3-5 4-6 10, Okur 4-10 0-0 10, D.Williams 6-16 3-4 16, Gaines 5-12 0-2 11, Brooks 0-3 0-0 0, Sha. Williams 1-2 0-0 2, She.Williams 1-3 2-2 4, Morrow 5-13 3-3 15, Stevenson 1-2 0-0 3, Horner 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-71 21-28 82.

CLEVELAND (98) Casspi 3-7 2-2 9, Jamison 10-15 0-0 23, Varejao 1-5 0-0 2, Irving 5-11 0-0 13, Parker 2-7 0-0 4, Gee 4-8 0-0 11, Gibson 6-12 2-2 19, Sessions 2-6 0-0 5, Samuels 1-2 1-1 3, T.Thompson 4-5 1-6 9. Totals 38-78 6-11 98.

New Jersey 27 22 18 15—82 Cleveland 24 19 30 25—98 3-Point Goals-New Jersey 7-22 (Okur 2-5, Morrow 2-6, Stevenson 1-2, Gaines 1-3, D.Williams 1-4, James 0-1, Brooks 0-1), Cleveland 16-26 (Gibson 5-7, Jamison 3-3, Irving 3-4, Gee 3-5, Casspi 1-1, Sessions 1-2, Parker 0-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsNew Jersey 46 (Okur 8), Cleveland 50 (Varejao 11). Assists-New Jersey 16 (D.Williams 5), Cleveland 24 (Sessions 8).

Total Fouls-New Jersey 16, Cleveland 26.

A-15,084 (20,562).

Timberwolves 99, Mavericks 82 MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love had 25 points and 17 rebounds and hit two huge threes in the fourth quarter to help the Timberwolves end an 18-game losing streak dating deep into last season.

The young Wolves closed the game with a 15-0 run.

They lost the last 15 games of last season and the first three of this year, meaning it’s been 295 days since the franchise’s last victory.

Ricky Rubio added 14

Today’s games

Sacramento at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Utah, 8 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

points and seven assists and Luke Ridnour scored 11 for the Timberwolves (1-3), who were winners for the first time under new coach Rick Adelman.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 21 points, but the defending champions have looked slow and sloppy in starting the season 1-4.

The Mavericks turned the ball over 17 times and Jason Terry, Jason Kidd and Lamar Odom combined to shoot 7 for 23.

DALLAS (82) Marion 1-3 6-6 8, Nowitzki 9-20 1-1 21, Haywood 2-3 2-2 6, Kidd 1-5 0-0 3, West 6-9 1-1 13, Terry 4-11 0-0 10, Odom 2-7 1-4 7, Mahinmi 2-3 2-3 6, Carter 1-7 4-4 6, Beaubois 1-3 0-0 2, Cardinal 0-4 0-0 0, S.Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-77 17-21 82.

MINNESOTA (99) Beasley 3-10 2-4 8, Love 9-16 2-2 25, Milicic 2-3 3-4 7, Ridnour 5-9 1-1 11, Johnson 1-7 0-0 2, Barea 4-11 0-1 8, Rubio 4-8 4-4 14, Randolph 1-6 2-2 4, Tolliver 5-8 0-0 13, D.Williams 1-3 2-4 4, Ellington 1-4 1-2 3.

Totals 36-85 17-24 99.

Dallas 25 16 28 13—82 Minnesota 25 25 24 25—99 3-Point Goals-Dallas 7-24 (Nowitzki 2-3, Terry 2-4, Odom 2-4, Kidd 1-5, Beaubois 0-1, Carter 0-1, Marion 0-1, West 0-1, Cardinal 0-4), Minnesota 10-22 (Love 5-6, Tolliver 3-5, Rubio 2-3, Johnson 0-2, Ridnour 0-3, Barea 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsDallas 44 (Marion 6), Minnesota 64 (Love 17). Assists-Dallas 17 (Kidd 5), Minnesota 15 (Rubio 7). Total Fouls-Dallas 22, Minnesota 17. Technicals-Odom, Randolph. A-15,115 (19,356).

Bulls 104, Grizzlies 64 CHICAGO — Carlos Boozer scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and the Bulls easily won their home opener.

Derrick Rose finished with 16 points after a slow start.

Ronnie Brewer scored 17 with Richard Hamilton a late scratch because of a groin injury.

But with Boozer dominating, the Bulls simply put this one away early.

Rudy Gay had just five points for Memphis. Zach Randolph bruised his right knee and scored only two points in 11 minutes.

MEMPHIS (64) Gay 2-12 1-1 5, Randolph 1-5 0-0 2, Gasol 2-6 4-5 8, Pargo 2-13 0-0 4, Allen 1-5 0-0 2, Mayo 2-9 2-2 6, Selby 3-9 0-0 6, Pondexter 3-3 1-2 7, Cunningham 2-4 0-0 4, Davis 3-9 3-4 10, Young 5-9 0-0 10. Totals 26-84 11-14 64.

CHICAGO (104) Deng 4-12 2-4 11, Boozer 7-10 3-5 17, Noah 3-6 2-4 8, Rose 4-10 8-8 16, Brewer 6-10 4-4 17, Asik 4-8 0-0 8, Gibson 3-8 1-2 7, Korver 2-6 1-2 6, Watson 2-4 0-0 4, Lucas 3-7 0-0 8, Scalabrine 0-1 0-0 0, Butler 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 39-84 21-29 104.

Memphis 12 16 16 20— 64 Chicago 25 29 30 20—104 3-Point Goals-Memphis 1-9 (Davis 1-4, Mayo 0-1, Selby 0-2, Pargo 0-2), Chicago 5-13 (Lucas 2-4, Brewer 1-1, Deng 1-3, Korver 1-4, Rose 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsMemphis 48 (Gasol 10), Chicago 66 (Boozer 11). Assists-Memphis 13 (Mayo 5), Chicago 24 (Rose 6). Total Fouls-Memphis 18, Chicago 15. A-22,763 (20,917).

2-7 2-3 6, Harrington 3-7 6-6 12, Andersen 5-6 2-2 12, Miller 5-11 1-1 12, Fernandez 2-6 0-0 4.

Totals 33-71 31-37 99.

L.A. Lakers 21 15 35 19—90 Denver 26 21 25 27—99 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 4-23 (Blake 2-5, World Peace 1-4, Bryant 1-8, Murphy 0-1, Kapono 0-1, Fisher 0-2, Barnes 0-2), Denver 2-18 (Miller 1-3, Gallinari 1-7, Lawson 0-1, Harrington 0-2, Afflalo 0-2, Fernandez 0-3).

Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 53 (Bynum 16), Denver 52 (Harrington 11). Assists-L.A. Lakers 19 (Bryant, Fisher 4), Denver 21 (Lawson 10). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 28, Denver 18.

Technicals-Barnes. A-19,155 (19,155).

Kings 96, Hornets 80 SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Tyreke Evans had 27 points and Marcus Thornton scored 25 for the Kings in a victory over New Orleans.

Playing without DeMarcus Cousins, who demanded a trade prior to the game and was told by coach Paul Westphal to stay home, the Kings ended a three game skid. Cousins was among several players who expressed frustration with the team’s poor play after a 114-92 loss to the New York Knicks on Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS (80) Ariza 8-14 1-2 17, Landry 6-11 0-0 12, Okafor 5-7 3-6 13, Jack 3-11 0-0 6, Belinelli 3-12 0-0 6, Kaman 5-13 4-4 14, Smith 1-5 0-4 2, Vasquez 3-9 0-0 6, Aminu 0-5 0-0 0, Ayon 0-0 0-0 0, T.Johnson 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 36-89 8-16 80.

SACRAMENTO (96) Salmons 5-11 1-1 13, Hickson 1-6 2-3 4, Hayes 3-9 0-0 6, Evans 9-18 7-8 27, Thornton 9-18 6-7 25, Thompson 2-7 0-0 4, Fredette 3-8 0-0 7, Outlaw 1-4 2-2 4, Garcia 2-4 0-0 6, Greene 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-85 18-21 96.

New Orleans 22 18 18 22—80 Sacramento 21 17 30 28—96 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 0-15 (Smith 0-1, Aminu 0-1, Ariza 0-3, Jack 0-3, Belinelli 0-7), Sacramento 8-23 (Evans 2-3, Garcia 2-4, Salmons 2-6, Fredette 1-3, Thornton 1-5, Outlaw 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsNew Orleans 70 (Kaman 15), Sacramento 44 (Hayes 10). Assists-New Orleans 24 (Jack, Vasquez 8), Sacramento 16 (Fredette 5).

Total Fouls-New Orleans 18, Sacramento 15.

A-13,628 (17,317).

Minnesota, W 22-17 (1-3) at Indianapolis, W 28-24 (2-3) BYE at Oakland, W 28-0 (3-3) San Diego, W 23-20 (OT) (4-3) Miami, L 3-31 (4-4) Denver, L 10-17 (4-5) at New England, L 3-34 (4-6) Pittsburgh, L 9-13 (4-7) at Chicago, W 10-3 (5-7) at N.Y. Jets, L 10-37 (5-8) Green Bay, W 19-14 (6-8) Oakland, L 13-16 (OT) (6-9) at Denver, W 7-3 (7-9)

College Football

Today’s Games TicketCity Bowl at Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl at Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ESPN) Outback Bowl at Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (10-3), noon (ABC) Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), noon (ESPN2) Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl at Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl at Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl at Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl at Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship at New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

College Men

EAST Cincinnati 66, Pittsburgh 63 Fairfield 72, Canisius 54 Norfolk St. 71, Navy 65 SOUTH Akron 67, Marshall 51 Clemson 65, ETSU 58 Duke 85, Penn 55 North Carolina 102, Monmouth (NJ) 65 Princeton 76, Florida A&M 61 South Florida 67, Rutgers 65 MIDWEST Marquette 81, Villanova 77 Michigan 61, Minnesota 56 Northwestern 68, Penn St. 56 S. Illinois 86, Illinois St. 71 Syracuse 87, DePaul 68

Clippers 93, Blazers 88 LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin had his second straight double-double, Caron Butler scored 19 points, and the Clippers snapped a twogame skid.

Griffin had 20 points and 10 rebounds to go with 17 points by Chris Paul and 13 Big 12 Men by reserve Mo Williams in sending the Blazers to their Baylor first loss of the season.

Missouri PORTLAND (88) Wallace 0-5 0-0 0, Aldridge 9-21 1-2 19, Camby 1-3 1-2 3, Felton 4-10 4-4 12, Matthews 4-10 3-3 12, Crawford 7-16 8-9 23, Batum 6-10 1-2 15, Thomas 2-3 0-0 4, C.Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-78 18-22 88.

L.A. CLIPPERS (93) Butler 7-16 3-5 19, Griffin 6-11 8-10 20, Jordan 4-6 1-4 9, Paul 8-15 0-0 17, Foye 3-9 1-2 8, M.Williams 5-13 2-3 13, Cook 1-3 0-0 3, Gomes 1-1 0-0 2, Thompkins 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 36-75 15-24 93.

Portland 17 19 16 36—88 L.A. Clippers 21 23 25 24—93 3-Point Goals-Portland 4-15 (Batum 2-3, Matthews 1-2, Crawford 1-5, Aldridge 0-1, Felton 0-4), L.A. Clippers 6-24 (Butler 2-8, Cook 1-2, Foye 1-4, M.Williams 1-5, Paul 1-5). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Portland 52 (Aldridge 9), L.A. Clippers 45 (Jordan 11).

Assists-Portland 20 (Felton 8), L.A. Clippers 25 (M.Williams 8). Total Fouls-Portland 24, L.A. Clippers 18. Technicals-Crawford, Portland Coach McMillan. A-19,060 (19,060).

Baker Women

Conf.

W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Overall W L 13 0 13 0 11 1 10 2 10 3 10 3 10 3 9 3 7 6 7 5

Kansas State Oklahoma Kansas Texas Iowa State Texas A&M Oklahoma State Texas Tech Saturday’s Games Kansas 84, North Dakota 58 Virginia Tech 67, Oklahoma State 61 Iowa State 67, Mississippi Valley State 65 Kansas State 82, Howard 46 Texas 73, Rice 59 Oklahoma 83, Northwestern State 63 Today’s Game Texas A&M at Baylor, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 3 Oklahoma at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 4 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Texas at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 7 Kansas at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

at Kansas Wesleyan, L 51-74 (0-1) Northwest Oklahoma (Baker Classic), L 65-80 (0-2) Rogers State, L 66-81 (0-3) Friends, W 56-55 (1-3) Ottawa (Ottawa Classic), L 61-65 (1-4) Park (Mo.) (Ottawa Classic), L 59-62 (1-5) at Rogers State (Okla.), L 63-85 (1-6) at William Woods (Mo.), L 50-67 (1-7) at Columbia College (Mo.), L 66-87 (1-8) Avila, L 55-65 (1-9) at Missouri Valley, L 71-72 (1-10) Evangel, L 69-72 (1-11) Sterling (Tabor Classic in Hillsboro), L 67-76 (1-12) Tabor (Tabor Classic), W 58-48 (2-12) Jan. 5 — at Peru State (Neb.) Jan. 7 — Culver-Stockton Jan. 12 — at MidAmerica Nazarene Jan. 14 — at Graceland (Iowa) Jan. 19 — Benedictine Jan. 21 — at Central Methodist (Mo.) Jan. 26 — at Avila Jan. 28 — Missouri Valley Jan. 31 — College of the Ozarks Feb. 4 — at Evangel (Mo.) Feb. 9 — Peru State Feb. 11 — at Culver-Stockton (Mo.) Feb. 16 — MidAmerica Nazarene Feb. 18 — Graceland Feb. 23 — at Benedictine Feb. 25 — Central Methodist

BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX-Acquired RHP Myles Jaye and RHP Daniel Webb from Toronto for RHP Jason Frasor.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS-Assigned C Hamady Ndiaye to Iowa (NBADL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Suspended St. Louis D Ian Cole for three games for delivering an illegal check to the head of Detroit F Justin Abdelkader Saturday.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 36 23 9 4 50 107 77 Philadelphia 36 22 10 4 48 123 106 Pittsburgh 38 21 13 4 46 121 100 New Jersey 37 21 15 1 43 103 105 N.Y. Islanders 36 13 17 6 32 84 113 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 35 24 10 1 49 123 68 Ottawa 39 19 15 5 43 120 133 Toronto 38 18 15 5 41 118 125 Buffalo 38 17 17 4 38 100 112 Montreal 39 14 18 7 35 99 110 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 39 20 12 7 47 103 107 Winnipeg 38 19 14 5 43 104 107 Washington 37 20 15 2 42 111 109 Tampa Bay 37 17 17 3 37 104 122 Carolina 40 13 21 6 32 103 135 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 38 24 10 4 52 125 107 Detroit 38 24 13 1 49 123 84 St. Louis 38 21 12 5 47 95 85 Nashville 39 21 14 4 46 105 108 Columbus 38 10 23 5 25 93 128 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 39 24 13 2 50 129 96 Minnesota 40 21 13 6 48 95 95 Colorado 40 21 18 1 43 108 115 Calgary 40 18 17 5 41 99 111 Edmonton 37 15 19 3 33 100 104 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 39 19 14 6 44 86 90 Dallas 37 21 15 1 43 100 107 San Jose 34 19 11 4 42 99 83 Phoenix 39 19 16 4 42 102 103 Anaheim 37 10 21 6 26 87 124 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Nashville 5, Calgary 3 Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers vs. Philadelphia at Philadelphia, PA, 2 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.