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Rep. accuses KTA chief of trying to bribe gov.

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades, R-Newton, said the head of the Kansas Turnpike Authority offered Gov. Sam Brownback $25 million to back off his proposal to merge

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the KTA with the Kansas Department of Transportation.

KTA President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Johnston denied the allegation.

Rhoades made his comment Monday during committee discussion of a proposal to take $30 million in “savings” from KTA and KDOT to sup-

port general state operations.

State Rep. Nile Dillmore, D-Wichita, said no one from the Brownback administration has explained how those savings would occur. The savings, he said, “seems to be a number plucked straight from the air.”

Rhoades responded, “Maybe it would come from the $25 mil-

lion that the director offered the governor.”

Asked to respond to Rhoades’ comment, the KTA’s Johnston told the Lawrence JournalWorld, “There is no truth to it.”

He said of revenue collected from tolls on the 236-mile turnpike, Please see KTA, page 2A Johnston

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Commissioners to consider new rate plan

KU marks title in subdued fashion While Kansas State’s basketball players and coaches clipped the nets in Bramlage Coliseum in celebration of the school’s first Big 12 championship since 1977, there was no such commotion at Kansas University — where the co-champion Jayhawks, like the Wildcats, lost Saturday to see their final league record settle at 14-4.

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By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

concerned the estimated $1 million operating budget of the proposed center will become a drain on the city’s budget. She said the city should look

Just in time for grassgrowing season, Lawrence city commissioners at their meeting today will consider increasing water and sewer rates.

Commissioners at their weekly meeting will be asked to approve a new rate plan that would increase rates by about 6 percent for the typical residential customer.

The plan also calls for similar annual increases through 2017, but future commissions will have to approve those increases before they take effect.

Commissioners today will be urged by staff members to approve the 2013 rates, CITY which are slat- COMMISSION ed to help pay for everything from a new sewage treatment plant to new equipment to help alleviate taste and odor issues with the city’s drinking water.

“We think what we’re asking for is real important to serve the community not just today, but into the future,” said Dave Wagner, director of the city’s utilities department.

But the improvements will require a different mindset on water and sewer rates for the future. Since 2008, the water and sewer bill of an average residential user has increased about 2.5 percent per year, according to data from the city. The rate plan currently being proposed calls for annual increases that average about 5.7 percent per year between now and 2017.

Here’s a look at some of the projects the proposed rate increases would fund between now and 2017:

About $63 million for a

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BRAVING COLD TEMPERATURES MONDAY, city horticulturists Paul Baumchen, left, and Nick Fulks plant dozens of pansies in a planter at the southeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets. The city is looking for volunteers to assist with some of the plantings downtown and in other public spaces and parking areas.

The next opportunity will be from 9 a.m. to noon Monday at locations downtown.

Longtime Lawrence resident chosen as mediator in school case

By John Milburn Associated Press

TOPEKA — Attorneys involved in a Kansas school finance lawsuit on Monday announced they had picked the dean of Pepperdine University’s law school and a Topeka attorney to serve as mediators to settle the case.

The attorneys told Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss that law school dean Deanell Tacha and Topeka attorney James

Steven Pigg will mediate the case.

Nuss had given the parties until last F r i d a y Tacha to agree on a mediator to assist in brokering a settlement.

Tacha, who continues to maintain a home in Lawrence, is the former chief judge of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Tacha received

her bachelor’s degree from Kansas University in 1968, and she was a faculty member at the KU School of Law from 1974 to 1985.

Nuss also announced that the court would hear the appeal of a lowercourt ruling on the case on Oct. 8 in Topeka. Each side will have one hour to present arguments in the case.

“My guess is we’ll have more than one or two spectators in the gallery,” Nuss said.

No time was given for

a ruling, but it is likely the decision could come during the 2014 legislative session.

The state is appealing a January ruling by a three-judge panel in Shawnee County that legislators must increase the state’s annual spending on schools by at least $440 million.

The lawsuit was filed in November 2010 by the parents and guardians of 32 students and the Wichita, Hutchinson, Please see MEDIATOR, page 2A

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Candidates quizzed on ways to cut budget

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

When it comes to putting a damper on City Hall spending, ideas from Lawrence City Commission candidates range from slashing the proposed $25 million recreation center to creating a new citizens task force.

Residents at a candidate forum hosted by the North Lawrence Im-

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provement Association on Monday quizzed the field of six City Commission candidates on how they would deal with future budget shortfalls, if any arise.

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State Board of Ed to review social studies standards

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

EVAN VERNON Evan Vernon, 77, passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013 at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. He was born June 26, 1935 in Oberlin, Kansas, the son of Cloyce and Nettie Leake Vernon.

He graduated from Decatur Community High School in Oberlin in 1953, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays State University.

He served three years in the Army, 27 months of which was in Germany. He was employed by Kansas University Continuing Education for 14 years.

For most of that time he was manager of the KU Extension Center in Colby, which served 19 counties. He later was employed by the Kansas Commission on Veterans Affairs as director of the Colby office for 12 years and the Lawrence office

for 5 years.

He married Carol Ann Anderson on August 8, 1964. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a son, Gary of Lawrence, a daughter Pam Waldren and husband Garry of Salina. Evan was a loving husband and father and will be greatly missed.

There will be no service in Lawrence.

Private inurnment will be in Oberlin, Kansas.

The family suggests memorials to the Douglas County Visiting Nurses Hospice or the Lawrence Humane Society sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, PO Box 1260, Lawrence, KS 66044.

Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.

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MURLIN G. HEFFNER Services for Murlin G. Heffner, 75, rural Lawrence, are pending at Rumsey-Yost. He died Mon., Mar. 11, 2013, at Brandon Woods at Alvamar. rumsey-yost.com

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The Kansas State Board of Education is preparing to adopt new standards for history, government and social studies classes at the same time state lawmakers are considering a bill that would mandate the teaching of certain content.

The state board will discuss the latest draft of the proposed new standards when it meets at 10 a.m. today at the Department of Education building in Topeka.

The proposed new standards have been in development for more than a year by a committee that includes teachers, academics, Department of Education officials and community members.

The standards are meant to define what Kansas students should know and be able to do at various grade levels in the subjects of history, civics and government, geography and economics.

Agency officials say the new social studies

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for ways to make the proServices for Robert W. Ridgway, 89, Lawrence, will be posed 181,000-square-foot, Wed 11 am, visitation at 10 am at Lawrence Presbyterian eight-gym center smaller.

Manor. He died Monday at LMH. rumsey-yost.com “I think we should cut that building in half,” Soden said. “We would ARRY HOMAS ENNETT have room to expand after we see some real numbers, No services are his dog, and having coffee not speculative numbers.” planned for Harry with his friends.

Scott Criqui also said he Thomas Bennett, 82, of He married Elizabeth would consider recreation Lawrence.

Louise Lazenby on June funding as an area to cut Mr. Bennett died 16, 1962 in Kansas City, when trying to deal with Monday, March 11, 2013, at Missouri. She preceded a future budget shortfall, his home. him in death. although he stopped short He was born March Survivors include of talking about the recre27, 1930, in Kansas City, a son Darrell Bennett ation center specifically.

Missouri, the youngest of of Leawood, Kansas; Instead, he — like all the seven children to Frank a daughter, Cheryl candidates — said he would and Christine Clancy Lincoln of Lawrence; work first to protect core Bennett. He graduated 5 grandchildren; and 6 services such as police, fire, high school in Kansas great grandchildren. street maintenance and City.

He moved to Condolences may be other such services.

Lawrence in 1962. sent at www.rumsey-yost.

“I don’t think recreation Mr. Bennett served com. is one of those core serin the U.S. Navy during Please sign this vices,” Criqui said.

Korea and was self guestbook at Obituaries.

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Harry varied. enjoyed sailing, working Jeremy Farmer said he in his yard, playing with was impressed with the task force the Lawrence public school district assembled to study the issue of school consolidation.

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after the state backed off from previous promises on its education funding.

The state is the only defendant.

Gov. Sam Brownback and Attorney General Derek Schmidt, both Republicans, sought the mediation, saying they wanted to see whether the parties could resolve the case out of court.

Nuss said the court would contact Tacha and Pigg to inform them that they had been approved to serve as mediators. A date for the start of settlement talks wasn’t set. The chief justice suggested that it would be helpful for the state to have representatives in the room who would be authorized to approve any deal that is struck.

Arthur Chalmers, a Wichita attorney hired to defend the state in the case, said House Speaker Ray Merrick and Senate President Susan Wagle have indicated that they wouldn’t be present at mediation at the start, but Brownback’s chief of staff Landon Fulmer and representatives from the attorney general’s office would be at the table.

Attorneys for the school districts and parents said having people at mediation who are authorized to approve a settlement was necessary.

“If the matter’s going to

— Attorney Alan Rupe be resolved, it’s not going to be resolved unless we have those people at the table,” said Alan Rupe, attorney for the plaintiffs, who suggested Nuss consider issuing an order compelling legislative leaders to attend.

“I’ll give that some thought,” Nuss said.

Last week, Democratic leaders in the Legislature said they would be filing a request with the court to be a part of the mediation process.

The court also has ordered both sides to begin filing briefs with the court to continue the march toward the October court hearing if mediation fails. Nuss said no motions from attorneys to extend the time for filing the documents or seeking a continuance for the October hearing would be granted.

Nuss said Monday’s conference call was the first of its kind in a case of this magnitude to allow members of the media to listen to the conversation. A handful of media outlets, including The Associated Press, listened to the discussion but weren’t allowed to ask questions.

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new sewage treatment plant south of the Wakarusa River. The plant is designed partly to provide the community the ability to accommodate more growth in coming decades, but also is needed to take pressure off the city’s current treatment plant during wet weather events. The city’s current plant is drawing scrutiny from the Environmental Protection Agency on how it functions during heavy rains.

If the rates are approved, the city would spend about $6.3 million this year to begin preliminary work on the project.

The plant would be functional in 2018.

$19.3 million to make improvements to the

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“This money doesn’t belong to me, and I can’t spend it without board approval.”

Johnston said a House member called him recently and asked him whether he offered $25

standards also reflect the new Common Core State Standards for reading and math, and they are intended to help students apply what they learn in class to real-life situations.

“We must go beyond simple recitation of foundational information and instead encourage the application of that information in authentic and realistic situations,” agency officials said in a memo to the state board.

That discussion comes at the same time Kansas lawmakers are considering one bill that would block implementation of the Common Core standards and another to mandate the teaching of specific content about American history.

House Bill 2289, which would prohibit the state agency or any local school district from spending public funds to implement the Common Core standards, is pending in the House Education Committee.

House Bill 2280 passed the House March 1 and is now pending in the Sen-

ate Education Committee. It would designate the week that includes Sept.

17 — the anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 — as “Celebrate Freedom Week,” during which schools would be required to teach about the founding of the country.

In other business, the state board will:

Consider modifying the state reading and math assessments for the 201314 school year as the state shifts to new tests the following year that will be aligned with the Common Core standards.

Recognize the 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools.

Receive an update on the Next Generation Science Standards.

The board meeting will continue Wednesday with visits to the Kansas State School for the Deaf in Olathe and the School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kan.

tee that could help with ideas on how to control city budgets during tight times.

“As a community, we have really smart people,” Farmer said. “That’s not to say that staff wouldn’t make good recommendations and commissioners wouldn’t have good ideas, but I think we really learn a lot when we listen to the community.”

Terry Riordan said the city hopefully had learned from its past practice of cutting street maintenance funding when budgets got tight. He said residents would be in a better position to make recommendations to the city on spending matters if the city’s budget were easier to understand.

“The general person should be able to read the city’s budget and say ‘that’s not right,’” Riordan said.

Commissioner Mike Amyx, the lone incumbent in the field, said he would avoid across-the-board budget cuts and would look for ways to trim administrative costs before cutting into services.

“This time I probably would start at the city manager’s office,” Amyx said. “You start at the top and go down from there.”

Rob Chestnut said bet-

ter long-range capital improvement plans would give the city more comfort about future city budgets.

He also said it is important to periodically review the effectiveness of all city programs.

“Something that was a good initiative six or seven years ago may not be serving the community well now,” Chestnut said.

“There are programs out there that don’t add the value they once did.”

Voters in the April 2 general election will choose three candidates from the field. Voters in the lightly attended Feb. 26 primary election narrowed the field to six.

Amyx, a city commissioner and downtown barber shop owner, finished in the top spot. He was followed by: Farmer, the chief executive of the food bank Just Food; Riordan, a Lawrence pediatrician; Chestnut, a former city commissioner and a chief financial officer of a private company; Criqui, an executive with Lawrence’s nonprofit Trinity In-Home Care; and Soden, the owner of a Lawrence pet care business.

city’s two water treatment plants designed to help control occasional taste and odor problems. The city, however, doesn’t yet have a clear plan on what equipment will need to be added. The city is set to hire an engineering firm to create a set of options.

$4.7 million to add a new water intake to the city’s Kaw Water Treatment plant. The city’s oldest water treatment plant has had one intake in the river fail, and the one remaining intake for the plant has experienced problems caused by Kansas River sand in the past.

$7.8 million to extend a water main across the Kansas River to North Lawrence.

Currently, North Lawrence only has one main pipe supplying treated water to the area.

This project would provide a second source of water to the area.

$12.6 million to re-

place aging water lines in the city.

$13.4 million to improve existing sewer lines so they don’t take on so much water when it rains.

$3.9 million to replace the aging water tanks near the top of Mount Oread.

The tanks are just north of the Adams Alumni Center, and Wagner said the university does have an interest in future development of the property. Wagner said the city will study whether the city and KU could make a land swap that would allow the tanks to be built elsewhere, although he said that may not be feasible from an engineering standpoint.

City commissioners are scheduled to discuss the rate increase and related utility projects at 6:35 p.m. today at City Hall.

million to kill the merger proposal. “I gave him the same answer I am giving you,” Johnston said. He declined to identify the House member.

As far as the proposed savings that Brownback has said would be realized if KTA were brought under KDOT, Johnston said he has no idea what the governor is talking about.

“I was never consulted about anything,” he said.

Also on Monday, the House gave final approval to a bill that says the KTA and KDOT should work together to minimize duplication of effort in maintaining the turnpike and state highway system.

— Peter Hancock can be reached at 8327259. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJWpqhancock.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

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Chaplain to receive Medal of Honor WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will award a posthumous Medal of Honor to a Korean War Army chaplain credited with ministering and providing medical assistance to fellow soldiers under heavy fire during combat operations at Unsan, Korea.

The award ceremony for Capt. Emil J. Kapaun is scheduled for April 11. Members of Kapaun’s family will attend.

The White House says Kapaun, a Roman Catholic priest from Kansas, exhibited “extraordinary heroism” while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during a battle with communist forces in 1950.

Kapaun stayed behind to help the wounded even though he knew he would be captured.

Kapaun died at the prisoner of war camp hospital seven months after he was captured by the Chinese in 1950.

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Recommendation would cut $16M from higher ed its work on the budget this week and send it to the full House for consideration.

TOPEKA — Republicans on Rhoades’ plan would rethe House budget committee duce Brownback’s budget by on Friday approved a recom- approximately $30 million, mendation that would cut with $16 million from higher $16 million in higher education, specifically education funding community colleges, from Gov. Sam Browntechnical education, back’s proposal.

Washburn University Appropriations and the regents’ office.

Chairman Marc Rhoades said the Rhoades, R-Newton, LEGISLATURE state budget proposal would not factor said the cuts had been “offered” by the Kansas Board in hundreds of millions of of Regents as part of a reduced dollars of revenue gained resources plan, but state Rep. in Brownback’s tax plan Jerry Henry, of Atchison, the because that plan has not ranking Democrat on the gained acceptance in the committee, said, “I think I take Legislature yet.

Brownback, a Republican, offense to the word ‘offer.’”

He said the reductions has proposed reducing indiproposed by the regents vidual state income tax rates were simply to comply with over the next four years but Brownback’s directive to in- keeping the state sales tax clude a possible emergency at 6.3 percent. Under curbudget cut when submitting rent law, the sales tax rate is supposed to decrease to 5.7 spending proposals.

“I believe all these cuts percent on July 1. Brownback would have tremendous also has proposed eliminating homeowner deductions pain,” Henry said.

The Appropriations Com- for mortgage interest and mittee is expected to finish real estate taxes.

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PIPER SEETIN, 13, of Lawrence, plays Frisbee with a friend Monday near 17th and Vermont streets.

Temperatures climbed into the 40s Monday, with a possibility of 70 degrees by Friday.

School board hires principals, discusses specifics of bond issue

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

The Lawrence school board voted Monday to hire new principals at Pinckney and Sunset Hill schools, as well as an assistant principal for Liberty Memorial Central Middle School.

Kristin Wondra will become the new principal at Pinckney School starting in the fall. She will succeed Lesa Frantz, who is retiring this spring after 17 years at the school.

Wondra is currently an educational consultant at the South Central Education Service Center in Clearwater, one of seven regional education cooperatives in Kansas. There she provides profession-

Wondra Wallace al development training for teachers and administrators in 26 school districts. Before that, she spent seven years as an elementary teacher in the Derby school district. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Wichita State University.

The board named Darcy Kraus to be the next principal at Sunset Hill School. She will replace Chris Bay, who is resigning in June after 13 years at the school and 21 years

with the district.

Kraus has worked the last 20 years in the Topeka school district, including the last four as an elementary language arts consulting teacher.

She has also been a Title I reading liaison and instructional coach, a seventh-grade reading teacher and a first-grade teacher. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Kansas State University and a master’s at Emporia State University.

In addition to the two new principals, the board named Anne Wallace to be the permanent assistant principal at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. She has worked in that job on an interim basis this year while Lisa Clipsham, the

assistant principal since 2006, was on extended leave because of illness.

Clipsham officially resigned, effective Feb. 28.

Wallace previously spent five years as a curriculum specialist overseeing career and technical education programs in science, health and wellness, physical education, and science- and health-related fields. She also coordinated the district’s guidance counseling program.

Bond discussion The bulk of Monday’s board meeting was devoted to discussing the $92.5 million bond issue that voters will decide on in the April 2 election.

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Sentence dispute in KU ticket scheme is heard

By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

WICHITA — A former Kansas University athletic consultant convicted in a $2 million ticket scalping conspiracy deserves a more lenient sentence based on conflicting provisions in his plea deal, his new attorney argued Monday.

Thomas Blubaugh was sentenced in 2011 to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States through wire

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fraud, tax obstruction and interstate transportation of stolen property. A federal prosecutor Monday denied any conflicted existed in

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Douglas County Emergency Management officials will gladly help you program your weather radio, assistant director Jillian Rodrigue said.

You could come a bit early to the department’s rescheduled Weather 101 Workshop, 7 p.m. March 18 at South Middle School, 2734 Louisiana St. The workshop is free and open to anyone.

Or, Rodrigue said, you can simply bring your weather radio to the Emergency Management office on the second floor of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St. She said visitors should call the department at 832-5259 to make an appointment.

Proposal would politicize all state government jobs Rhoades said eliminating the classified system would make it easier to reward high-performing employees.

He said the bill was patterned after one adopted in Arizona.

But Proctor said transforming classified employees to unclassified status would remove long-standing civil service protections, and then all state employment could be based on political affiliation.

She also warned that the state could jeopardize federal funds for Medicaid, food stamps and other major programs aimed at helping those with disabilities because the federal government requires the maintenance of a merit-based employment system to ensure that taxpayer funds are not used in a political way.

But Rhoades disagreed, saying, “We would make sure that everything federally funded was not affected. We are not going to have language in the bill that would jeopardize federal dollars.�

Several committee members noted that Kansas University got rid of its classified employee

system in 2005, but Proctor said that was decided by employees in a vote and that the switch required the establishment of a civil service-type board to handle appeals of job dismissals or disciplinary actions.

HB 2384 would make all state attorneys, supervisors and information technology workers unclassified. After July 1, all new hires, or any current state employee who is either transferred, demoted or promoted, or promoted into a different position would be unclassified. The bill would exempt employees of public safety agencies from the changes.

Mike Marvin, executive director with the Kansas Organization of State Employees, said the current classified system also protects the interests of the state by keeping experienced workers at crucial jobs. “It keeps a continuity in the agencies so when you change management you don’t change all your employees at the same time,� he said.

Bill protects farmers from nuisance lawsuits

Police officer named new undersheriff

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U.S. District Judge Monti Belot wanted Robison to testify after Blubaugh claimed ineffective counsel in court filings and during a January hearing on the issue. Belot did not immediately rule after hearing Robison’s testimony.

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Throughout the monthslong discussion leading up to the bond proposal, board members and district officials have insisted that it would not result in an increase in district property taxes.

During Monday’s meeting, district officials explained just how they plan to accomplish that.

Kathy Johnson, the district’s finance director, said the plan is to issue the bonds in three phases, starting with $36 million in fiscal year 2014; another $36 million in 2015; and $20.5 million in 2016.

During that time, the district will be retiring other bonds, which will enable the district to keep its property tax levy for bond and interest payments flat, Johnson said.

The district’s current tax rate for debt payments is 10.642 mills. That translates to $183.57 in tax on a $150,000 home. For commercial property valued at $1 million, it translates to $2,660.50 a year in property tax.

That, however, is only the bond and interest portion of the district’s total property tax levy, and board member Mark

vided ineffective counsel, based on the testimony he heard.

Typically when the court rules an attorney did a poor job in advising his client, the defendant is allowed to withdraw any guilty plea and a trial is set. But in this case, Blubaugh told the judge he doesn’t want to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial. He just wants a shorter sentence.

Robison told the judge that he advised his client at the time he entered the plea deal that he believed the agreement was that he had not yet provided enough cooperation to earn a motion for substantial assistance from prosecutors.

Robison testified it was his impression that Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Hathaway and case agents were “underwhelmed� with the information his client initially provided investigators but that he had expected further meetings with prosecutors.

Robison also acknowledged under questioning by Hathaway that Blubaugh told agents he only sold $200,000 worth of stolen tickets to an Oklahoma broker, when in fact the actual figure was more than $800,000. Robison said he had advised Blubaugh to cooperate fully with the government and not to underestimate his role in the conspiracy. “Frankly, Tom didn’t do that. He underestimated,�

Robison said. “But I am not the one who pays the price.�

Bradford said it will be important for the next board to communicate that to the public. “There are different pieces that make up the total bill,� said Bradford, who is not running for reelection after his term expires this year. “I think it’s imperative that the board continue to explain that on an annual basis. Other parts (of the mill levy) may go up or down.�

Johnson also said that her projections of future bond and interest mill levies were based on a number of assumptions, any of which could change over time.

Among the factors beyond the board’s control that could influence future property taxes, she said, are changes in assessed property values in the district; the county’s property tax delinquency rate; and future actions by the Kansas Legislature.

Johnson said she tried to take future valuation growth and delinquency rates into account in making her projections. But even if those factors should force an increase in the bond and interest levy, she said, the district could offset that by reducing other levies such as the one for capital outlay expenses to hold the total mill levy about even.

TOPEKA — Representatives of state workers on Monday said a bill dismantling the classified employment system would mean jobs would be based on politics instead of merit. “Every agency could turn over with a turnover of the administration,� said Rebecca Proctor, with the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas. “If you are on the wrong side politically, you could lose your job.�

No one testified in favor of House Bill 2384 during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee.

That prompted concern by some of the committee members about why the committee was considering the legislation. “We really have a ghost,� said Rep. Jerry Henry, D-Atchison.

Appropriations Chairman Marc Rhoades, RNewton, said he and several others, whom he declined to identify, proposed the bill because he said the conversation needs to start on phasing out the classified system.

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Already seeking repeal of corporate farming restrictions, Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration on Monday pushed for passage of a bill that would limit lawsuits against agricultural operations.

Chelsea Good, an attorney with the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said Senate Bill 168 was needed “to provide an important added layer of protection LEGISLATURE for farmers and ranchers from unwarranted nuisance lawsuits.�

But Paul Johnson, policy analyst with the Kansas Rural Center, urged the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee to delay action on the measure and appoint a panel to study this bill and Senate Bill 191, which would alleviate restrictions on corporate farming, before the 2014 legislative session. “While agriculture is vital to Kansas, do farmers have a greater fundamental right to expand their operations over the ‘property rights’ of their neighbors?� Johnson asked. He said the two bills represent fundamental public policy changes “that will shape the future of Kansas’ ag-

riculture and impact the qualify of life in Kansas.�

But Good, with the state agriculture department, said there are groups that have used nuisance lawsuits to restrict and, in some cases, shut down agriculture production.

Good, however, said she knew of no such movement in Kansas. Johnson, with the Kansas Rural Center, said there was no testimony on an increase in nuisance lawsuits, “so why are we rushing this bill through?�

Under the measure, agricultural operations could “reasonably� expand, decrease or change operations as long as they comply with applicable local, state and federal laws. The legislation also limits damages that farms may face under nuisance claims.

Under questioning from members of the committee, Good said if a farmer wanted to change the land use to a more intense operation, the farmer would have to comply with all applicable environmental laws.

In addition to the agriculture department, the measure was supported by the Kansas Pork Association, Kansas Livestock Association, and other farm groups. — Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

A Lawrence police captain has been appointed as an undersheriff in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Ken McGovern announced the appointment Monday of James Martin Jr. as the undersheriff in charge of the office’s operations division.

The position was opened in September with the retirement of Kenny Massey, who now works with the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority.

The sheriff’s office employs two undersheriffs.

Undersheriff Steve Hornberger will oversee the office’s corrections division, including the Douglas County Jail.

Martin, a patrol shift commander for the Lawrence Police Department, has been a military police officer, a corrections officer, a patrol deputy, a juvenile crimes investigator, a crime scene investigator and a patrol supervisor over the past 28 years. He is also a former member of the Eudora school board.

As undersheriff of the operations division, Martin will supervise the office’s patrol, civil process and warrants, investigations, courtroom and building security, community relations and administration functions.

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KU, LMH partner to decrease hospital readmissions

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Being released after hospitalization doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always mean the patient is back to normal health. Oftentimes patients with chronic diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or heart failure, are re-hospitalized within the same month.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital, partnered with the Kansas University School of Social Welfare Office of Aging and Long Term Care, is conducting a pilot program to see if they can decrease that number and increase the overall quality of life for patients living with chronic diseases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 20 percent readmit within 30 days, and that costs Medicare billions (of dollars) a year,â&#x20AC;? Linda Gall, LMH director of care coordination, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continue to strive to decrease readmissions and be sure patients have everything they need â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not just physical needs but emotional needs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that keep them healthy for a successful recovery at home.â&#x20AC;?

Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association was responsible for writing the grant for the program. It received $25,000 from the Kemper Foundation for the initial program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to reach out beyond the LMH walls and make sure patients get everything they need,â&#x20AC;? Sarah Smith, LMH endowment association development specialist, said.

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ADULT NURSE PRACTITIONER JAYNE MITCHELL, RIGHT, watches as patient Marlena BechtelRysdam, from Elgin, Ore., practices using an electronic monitoring device called a Health Buddy at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore., in this Jan. 30 file photo. Hospitals are under new pressure from Medicare to slow a pricey revolving door â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the number of people who are rehospitalized only weeks after they left for problems that could have been prevented. Lawrence Memorial Hospital has partnered with Kansas University to conduct a pilot program matching volunteers with recently discharged patients to help them in the weeks following their hospital stay. cently discharged patient who is similar in age and interests.

The volunteer will visit the patient at the patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home for one hour twice a week for 10 weeks. Together the volunteer and patient will work to outline goals for the patient and the volunteer will help the patient to follow a new lifestyle plan.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having that volunteer is just another layer to help see what will work at home for that patient,â&#x20AC;? Gall said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much targeting medical, technical issues but more living life; how do I live life with this chronic disease?â&#x20AC;?

When a patient is discharged from the hospital, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re given instructions for

readjusting to life at home, but Gall said that often theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just ready to go home and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily pay complete attention to what they need to do once they get there.

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Cash can bribe dieters to lose weight, study finds

By Marilynn Marchione Associated Press

Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.

Many employers, insurers and Internet programs dangle dollars to try to change bad habits like smoking or not exercising, but most studies have found this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work very well or for very long.

The new study, done with Mayo Clinic employees, was the longest test yet of financial incentives for weight loss. Doctors think it succeeded because it had a mix of carrots and sticks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; penalties for not losing weight, multiple ways to earn cash for succeeding, and a chance to recoup lost money if you fell off the â&#x20AC;&#x153;diet wagonâ&#x20AC;? and later repented.

Incentives are â&#x20AC;&#x153;not like training wheels where people learn healthy habits and then will continue them on their ownâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you have to keep them up for them to work, said one study leader, Dr. Steve

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new lifestyle regimen. By providing a volunteer, the hospital is giving the patient a person to ask questions, to connect with and to provide support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This program is a pilot that was developed from another program to see if this does affect readmission rates, whether it does improve quality of life for clients and does it work, is it a viable program,â&#x20AC;? said Allyson Leland, LMH director of volunteer services.

The previous program conducted by the Office of Aging and Long Term Care was aimed at older adults and was adapted for this program to focus on patients with more physical, chronic conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our previous study, people who went through the program had significant reduction in depression symptoms and increase in quality of life,â&#x20AC;? said Sarah Landry, project coordinator and doctoral student.

KU has the added role of the evaluation portion of the program by having patients and volunteers fill out questionnaires through the process, by tracking the progress of the patients and evaluating the program as a whole, but KU and LMH are working together to recruit volunteers and participants.

Volunteers must be 55 years or older and have transportation access.

They will go through an interview and screening process and, if chosen, will receive training before being matched with a patient. The training for the program includes reviewing the basics of COPD and heart failure, mental health symptoms that often accompany living with a chronic disease, and basic strategies and tips for managing those conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten some really great people interested in being volunteers, and if others are interested in participating in a high-impact volunteer experience, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be fantastic,â&#x20AC;? Landry said.

The first training day for the program is scheduled for Friday and a second date is tentatively set for early April. If interested in participating in the program as a volunteer, community members should contact Leland at 505-3141 or Landry at 8643823.

Driver of Mayo in Rochester, Minn.

And if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to set up a system like this at work or among friends, the key is to make it selfsustaining, Driver said.

The Mayo one did that by having people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose weight put penalties into a fund that paid rewards to those who did.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a good idea to make people pony up in advance. One woman flew into a tizzy when she stepped on a scale at a weigh-in and was told sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to pay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She headed for the doorâ&#x20AC;? but later came back and paid, Driver said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People in Minnesota are pretty honest.â&#x20AC;?

The group released results Thursday. Mayo paid for the study and Driver owns stock in Gympact, a company with an Internet program that gives financial incentives for exercising.

The diet study involved 100 obese employees at Mayo Clinic but was not a workplace wellness program. Half were given weight-loss counseling, monthly weigh-ins and a three-month gym membership. The others had those things plus financial incentives.

The aim was to lose 4 pounds a month up to a goal that depended on their starting weight. If they failed, they paid $20 into a kitty. If they succeeded, they got a voucher to collect $20 when the study ended.

Part of the kitty was used to pay the rewards.

The rest was put into a lottery that anyone could win, whether they had made their weight-loss goals or not. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People saw that if they stuck with it, they had a chance at winning more than they had lost,â&#x20AC;? Driver said.

$200K grant supports local partnership

By Ali Edwards Heartland Community Health Center

The Sunflower Foundation this month announced a $200,000, twoyear grant award to fund a partnership between Heartland Community Health Center and the Bert Nash Center.

The award will:

Continue funding for behavioral health consultant Karin Denes-Collar, an employee of the Bert Nash Center, to provide mental/behavioral health support for patients at primary care clinic, Heartland Community Health Center.

Place a psychiatric nurse practitioner from the Bert Nash Center onsite at Heartland Community Health Center.

Place a primary care provider from Heartland Community Health Center onsite at the Bert Nash Center.

National studies show that up to 70 percent of diagnoses in a primary care setting result from

Morffi and Denes-Collar psycho-social issues, not biology. Those diagnosed with a mental health disorder die on average of 25 years sooner than the rest of the population. These statistics show a great need for physical and mental health to be treated in the same setting by a team of both primary care and mental health providers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having experience in practicing in both the mental health and primary care settings has shown me the great need in both populations for integrated care. Helping people where they are already accessing health care, at their doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office,

makes it easier and less stigmatizing to address mental health concerns, which are so common. Being able to offer primary care at the mental health center should offer the same advantages â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people getting healthier faster and more efficiently,â&#x20AC;? said Denes-Collar, behavioral health consultant.

The award is actually the second two-year award from the Sunflower Foundation supporting the partnership between HCHC and the Bert Nash Center.

The first placed DenesCollar at HCHC to provide mental and behavioral health and provided funding for an additional primary care provider to practice at HCHC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This grant award will increase access to muchneeded care. We also anticipate greater patient satisfaction, improved health outcomes and an overall reduction in health care costs. This type of care is an all-around win,â&#x20AC;? said Raul Morffi, HCHC medical director.

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BRIEFLY Conclave to elect pope opens today VATICAN CITY — Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel today to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There’s no frontrunner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems.

A copper chimney erected atop the Sistine Chapel will pipe out puffs of smoke to tell the world if there’s a new pope. The first puffs of smoke should emerge sometime around 8 p.m. (2 p.m. CDT) today.

Black smoke means “not yet” — the likely outcome after Round 1. White smoke means the 266th pope has been chosen.

Voting will continue, four rounds each day, until a pope is elected.

Judge strikes down NYC soda ban NEW YORK — A judge struck down New York City’s pioneering ban on big, sugary drinks Monday just hours before it was supposed to take effect, handing a defeat to healthminded Mayor Michael Bloomberg and creating uncertainty for restaurants that had already ordered smaller cups and changed their menus.

State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling said the 16-ounce limit on sodas and other sweet drinks arbitrarily applies to only some sugary beverages and some places that sell them.

“The loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the stated purpose of this rule,” Tingling wrote.

The city vowed to appeal the decision, and Bloomberg urged businesses to comply despite the court ruling. “If you know what you’re doing is harmful to people’s health, common sense says if you care, you might want to stop doing that,” he said.

N. Korean leader ratchets up rhetoric

By John Hanna Associated Press

TOPEKA — A powerful Republican lawmaker said Monday he has a proposal to reduce Kansas’ personal income taxes that would also allow the state sales tax to drop as scheduled, avoiding the GOP governor’s plan to stabilize the state budget by maintaining the current sales tax rate.

Rep. Richard Carlson, chairman of the House Taxation Committee, wants to allow the income tax rate to drop annually but only if state revenues grow by at least 2 percent each year. Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal

calls for cutting income tax rates by a specific amount every year r e g a r d - LEGISLATURE less of how much money the state is bringing in.

Carlson said his plan also would allow Kansas’ sales tax to drop as scheduled, starting in July, as promised three years ago when lawmakers temporarily hiked the sales tax to help fill a budget gap. The governor’s plan would keep the sales tax where it is — but Carlson said he doubts the House

would approve canceling the decrease.

“We feel there’s going to be difficulty in passing the extension of the sales tax,” said Carlson, who shared details of his plan with The Associated Press on Monday, a day before he planned to present the plan to his committee.

Carlson also is proposing that the state divert $370 million from highway projects over the next two years if legislators can’t trim spending enough elsewhere in the budget.

Both his and the governor’s plans follow the massive income tax cuts that were enacted last

Facebook ‘likes’ can often be revealing LONDON (AP) — Clicking those friendly blue “like” buttons strewn across the Web may be doing more than marking you as a fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga.

It could out you as gay.

It might reveal how you vote.

It might even suggest that you’re an unmarried introvert with a high IQ and a weakness for nicotine.

That’s the conclusion of a study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers reported analyzing the likes of more than 58,000 American Facebook users to make guesses about their personalities and behavior, and even whether they drank, smoked, or did drugs.

Cambridge University researcher David Stillwell, one of the study’s authors, said the results may come as a surprise. “Your likes may be saying more about you than you realize,” he said.

Facebook launched its like button in 2009, and the small thumbs-up symbol has since become ubiquitous on the social network and common across the rest of the Web as well. Facebook said last year that roughly 2.7 billion new likes pour out onto the Internet every day, endorsing everything from pop stars to soda pop. That means an everexpanding pool of data available to marketers, managers, and just about anyone else interested in users’ inner lives, especially those who aren’t careful about their privacy settings.

Stillwell’s study zeroed in on the 58,466 U.S. test takers who had also vol-

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A SIGN WITH FACEBOOK’S “LIKE” LOGO is posted at Facebook headquarters near the office for the company’s User Operations Safety Team in Menlo Park, Calif. A study by researchers at Cambridge has found that clicking the social network’s friendly blue “like” buttons may reveal more about people than they realize. unteered access to their likes.

When researchers crunched the “like” data and compared their results to answers given in the personality test, patterns emerged in nearly every direction. Since the study involved people who volunteered access to their data, it’s unclear whether the trends would apply to all Facebook users.

Strong trends Some likes were more revealing than others. Researchers could correctly distinguish between users who identified themselves as black or white 95 percent of the time. That success rate dropped to a still impressive 88 percent when trying to guess whether a male user was homosexual, and to 85 percent when telling Democrats from Republicans. Identifying drug users was far trickier — researchers got that right only 65 percent of the time, a result scientists generally describe as poor.

Predicting whether a user was respectively a child of divorce was even dicier.

With a 60 percent success rate, researchers were doing just slightly better than random guesses.

The linkages ranged from the self-evident to the surreal. Men who liked TV song-and-dance sensation “Glee” were

more likely to be gay. Men who liked professional wrestling were more likely to be straight. People who preferred pop diva Jennifer Lopez usually gathered more Facebook friends than those who favored the heavy metal sound of Iron Maiden.

Some of the patterns were difficult to understand: The link between curly fries and high IQ scores was particularly baffling.

Guard your privacy “The prediction of personal attributes based on publicly accessible information, such as ZIP codes, choice of profession, or even preferred music, has been explored in the past,” Facebook’s Frederic Wolens said in a written statement.

Wolens said that Facebook users could change the privacy settings on their likes to put them beyond the reach of researchers, advertisers or nearly anyone else. But he declined to say how many users did so.

For the unknown number of users whose preferences are public, Stillwell had this advice: Look before you like.

The like button is “quite a seductive thing,” he said.

“It’s all around the Web, it’s all around Facebook.

And it’s so easy.”

paramount rule,” he said.

The visit to Lawrence wasn’t his first — he visited the downtown store at Seventh and Massachusetts streets in 2001 and 2007.

When Winter first began his Starbucks-drinking mission in 1997, there were only about 1,500 company-operated Starbucks locations, he said.

Now, there are more than 17,000 Starbucks locations around the globe.

“Obviously I had no idea at the time they’d expand out to what they are,” Winter said.

He’s had a cup of cof-

fee, or at least a sample, at more than 11,000 stores — nearly 8,900 in the U.S. and more than 2,200 international shops, according to his website.

Winter, who is originally from Texas, also visited a recently opened Starbucks in Overland Park, at 3807 W. 95th St., during his trip to Kansas.

The stores are the first two company-operated Starbucks locations to open in Kansas in nearly five years, Winter said.

To follow Winter’s Starbucks journey, visit his website starbuckseverywhere.net.

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year to stimulate the state economy but are now projected to create a budget shortfall for the fiscal year that begins in July. Carlson, of St. Marys, said he tried to craft a plan that could pass the House, where GOP leaders have been cool to canceling the sales tax decrease.

The governor also wants to eliminate two popular income tax deductions for homeowners to prevent budget problems. Carlson said he’d like to phase out all individual income tax deductions as tax rates dropped, rather than targeting specific breaks.

Rep. Tom Sawyer of Wichita, the ranking

Democrat on the House tax committee, wasn’t impressed with Carlson’s plan. Like other critics of last year’s cuts, he argues that they favored the state’s wealthiest residents over its poorest ones, and he said Carlson’s proposal does nothing to correct the problem.

Also, he said, continued reductions in personal income taxes will handcuff the state’s efforts to finance public schools and force local districts to boost property taxes at a time when local levies already have been rising.

“We’ve got a property tax problem in Kansas, not an income tax problem,” Sawyer said.

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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea’s young leader urged front-line troops to be on “maximum alert” for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. Kim Jong Un told artillery troops stationed near disputed waters that have seen several bloody clashes in past years that “war can break out right now,” according to a report by North Korean state media.

Kim’s visit and the armistice claim are part of a torrent of angry North Korean rhetoric that has followed last week’s U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang’s Feb. 12 nuclear test. Pyongyang has also vowed to strike the United States with nuclear weapons.

North Korea apparently cut one telephone and fax hotline at a village straddling the Demilitarized Zone between the countries, but

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Apramay Mishra, an eighth-grade student at Southwest Middle School, still has a chance to qualify for the national chess championship tournament this summer.

Apramay finished in a three-way tie for first place Saturday at the Kansas Scholastic Chess Association state tournament in Wichita.

As a result, tournament organizers said, he’ll have to play in a tie-breaking round robin match against the two other top finishers — Joshua Fernandes, of Wichita Collegiate, and Zachary Schuh, of California Trails Junior High in Olathe — to decide which one gets to claim the state title. The time and place of that match have not yet been decided.

The winner will go on to the Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions July 27-30 in Middleton, Wis. Apramay was just one of several Lawrencearea chess players who brought home trophies and titles from the state tournament at the Independent School in Wichita, where 591 players from elementary, middle and high schools throughout Kansas competed.

Lawrence schools swept the high school team competition, with

Free State High School winning first, just ahead of second-place finisher Lawrence High School.

The team from Southwest Middle School took first in the K-8 competition.

Cordley and Sunset Hill schools took first and second, respectively, in the K-5 competition.

Raintree Montessori won second place in the K-3 category, followed

by Cordley in third place, Prairie Park School in eighth, and Quail Run in ninth.

In addition to Apramay, other individual players from the Lawrence area included:

High school:

Venkata Malladi, Free State, second place.

Edward Wilson, LHS, third place.

Aaron Simon, Free State, fifth place.

K-5:

Ryan Duan, Quail Run School, fourth place.

Ben Hoopes, Cordley, ninth place.

Guthrie Bricker, Cordley, 10th place.

K-3:

Aidan Jayaraman, Quail Run, second place.

Oliver Rubenstein, Raintree, fourth place.

— Peter Hancock can be reached at 8327259. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJWpqhancock.

Seat belt enforcement a priority at schools

By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com

High school students in Douglas County will be under extra scrutiny for seat belt use the next two weeks.

On Monday, the Kansas Highway Patrol began sending troopers to check seat belts and write tickets at high schools in Lawrence and Eudora as part of an annual two-week enforcement effort that continues until March 22, highway patrol spokesman Lt. Joshua Kellerman said.

Free State High School and Eudora High School are specifically on troopers’ list of schools to check, Kellerman said.

The reason for increased enforcement is that a disproportionate number of teenagers are still dying in car accidents while not wearing seat belts, according to a news release issued by the highway patrol. Of 43 Kansas teenagers who were killed in crashes last year, 74 percent were not wearing seat belts.

That figure was 63 percent for the general population of motorists, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT

is promoting the highway patrol’s two-week enforcement campaign.

Col. Ernest Garcia, superintendent of the highway patrol, wrote in an announcement of the campaign that troopers would much rather find teenagers safely buckled up than write a ticket.

“Teenagers are at an exciting time in their lives, with many events ahead of them — spring break, prom, graduation, state sporting events. We want them to be able to enjoy these activities, and not spend their time in a hospital bed recovering from injuries sustained in a crash,” Garcia wrote.

“Or even worse, not make it after being involved in a crash.”

Kansas law mandates a minimum of a $60 ticket for drivers and passengers ages 14 to 17 who are cited for not wearing a seat belt.

The ticket is $10 for those 18 and older.

Police can stop a car for the sole reason of a seatbelt violation in the front seats of the vehicle, according to state law. If the back-seat passengers are the only ones in violation, police can cite them only if the vehicle has been stopped for another violation.

— Reporter Ian Cummings can be reached at 832-7144 . Follow him at Twitter.com/iancummings4.

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Ticket trend

Israeli offers advice to Obama

By Ami Ayalon Los Angeles Times

Last year’s decline in local citations for traffic and other violations suggests the need to examine the city’s enforcement priorities.

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or of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

What might have been? That’s likely what some families may be wondering as they ponder the significant drop in traffic and other citations issued by Lawrence police during 2012. A city report shows that 28,707 citations were issued during the year, a drop of 7.6 percent from 2011 and the first instance in at least five years in which ticket volume did not reach 30,000.

There’s no formal explanation on the record yet. Officials speculate that staffing levels and priorities in assigning manpower may be part of the underlying cause.

The department issued 6,000 speeding tickets in 2008 and more than 5,000 in 2009 and 2010 before the numbers were more than halved in 2011 and 2012. This would seem to warrant a review of practices.

The same goes for tickets issued for driving under the influence of alcohol, which plummeted to a five-year low of 394 in 2012, down from a peak of 798 in 2010.

Would lives have been saved with more focus on enforcing traffic and DUI laws?

Would people who were hospitalized have been spared their injuries? Would the costs of medical care, auto repair and other damages have been lessened if the levels of enforcement had merely stayed the same as in previous years?

This is not a call for overly strict law enforcement or for implementation of harsh crackdowns on driving infractions or other behaviors. It’s not a criticism of police officers or their individual judgment.

It is certainly a cry for introspection on the part of the city and its top police administrators.

We’re a growing city with a sizable population of young, relatively inexperienced drivers — a segment of the population with a propensity to flout laws and ordinances that might get in the way of having a good time (minor in possession tickets also were below the five-year average in 2012.)

Such a city requires a law enforcement focus that protects the public from, well, itself — and makes certain there are fewer family members wondering today what might have been, in terms of lives damaged or lost, if only there had been more staffing, or a different enforcement priority, or…

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Israel, I fear, is on a suicidal path: It could cease to be the democratic home of the Jewish people.

This is why I greatly appreciate President Obama’s decision to come to Israel despite all the serious issues he faces in America. His visit could mark the beginning of a new era in the struggle to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Because it is crucial to make the most of it, I am taking the liberty of offering four suggestions to the president as he prepares for his trip.

First, he must avoid ambiguity. We Israelis appreciate direct talk. Overly positive or opaque pictures created deep disappointments for us in the 1990s. We understand that maintaining the status quo will lead us into the abyss. We also realize that guiding us away from the abyss will entail painful concessions. We need to be shown a clear picture of both the tough road and the better future ahead.

Second, he should espouse the following clear principles for the endgame: Two states for the two peoples with mutual recognition; borders based on the 1967 lines with

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Rightly or wrongly, Obama’s ability to jump-start the peace process has become a test of his leadership in the eyes of many Israelis, Palestinians and Arab moderates.” equitable swaps to enable the settlement blocks to remain under Israeli sovereignty; Jerusalem should remain an open city, capital of two states, with Palestinian sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods, Israeli sovereignty over Jewish neighborhoods and a special shared regime for the administration and guardianship of the holy sites; a demilitarized Palestine with international guarantees of its security; Palestinian refugees returning only to the Palestinian state or resettling in third countries with compensation; declaration of end of conflict by all sides.

These principles are in line with the Clinton parameters, the Arab League peace initiative, the Geneva Accord and the proposal I put forward in 2002, with Palestinian scholar Sari Nusseibeh, that nearly half a million Israelis and Palestinians have signed.

Third, it’s important to make sure the parties talk about an agreement, not a process. Over the last 20 years, negotiations seemed to be the end, not the means.

That approach has taken us further from the destination we seek. The famous “road map” is a case in point.

Fourth, Obama should adopt a new approach: constructive and coordinated unilateralism. This is not an oxymoron.

Bilateral negotiation is the only way to reach an agreement, but the U.S. should support any step, by Israel or the Palestinians, even if done unilaterally, that moves us closer to a reality of two states for the two people. And conversely, the U.S. should oppose any step that takes us further from this outcome.

A few examples: The United States should support the Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations, to enable a discussion about borders between the two states. It should not object to the establishment of a Palestinian unity government of Fatah and Hamas, provided that government is based on the two-state vision. It should support Israel when and if it announces that it does not see its sovereignty being ap-

plied east of the security barrier, and when and if it enacts a voluntary evacuation and compensation law to encourage settlers to relocate from the West Bank.

I offer these ideas as an Israeli citizen, but I also strongly believe they are in America’s interest. A clear process that will lead to an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is a precondition for the creation of a regional coalition that will address Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and terrorism, violence, fundamentalism and nuclear proliferation throughout the Mideast.

Rightly or wrongly, Obama’s ability to jump-start the peace process has become a test of his leadership in the eyes of many Israelis, Palestinians and Arab moderates.

Israel has won many battles to secure the Zionist dream of a democratic homeland for the Jewish people, but it seems to be losing the war. We need a two-state solution to fulfill this dream. Israel eagerly awaits Obama’s visit.

— Ami Ayalon is a former director of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, and a co-founder of the nonpartisan Israeli political organization, Blue White Future, www.bluewhitefuture.org. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

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Focus on Paul To the editor: Sen. Marco Rubio praised Rand Paul’s filibuster as “doing the Senate’s work.”

My thanks to Sen. Rubio for that clarification. I’d mistakenly thought Sen. Paul was misusing public office to give false legitimacy to partisan paranoia — and, not coincidentally, play for the spotlight.

Steve Hicks, Lawrence

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Market move raises concerns

By Michael E. Riling

The Lawrence City Commission recently considered a request from the Lawrence Farmers’ Market to use a portion of Parking Lot 8 in downtown for its Tuesday market.

The question the City Commission had to decide was whether the market would be inconvenienced by being forced to hold the Tuesday market a few hundred yards away from its Saturday market location or whether to disrupt the customers, clients and employees of downtown businesses. The City Commission, after weighing the various interests, chose to go with disrupting the businesses of downtown.

Parking is a big problem for all downtown businesses.

Special events like the Farmers’ Market create traffic which is good for many businesses downtown, but not all.

Downtown Lawrence Inc., which has a board elected by the majority of the businesses located downtown, opposed having the Tuesday market at this location. The opposition was not to the market, but to using Parking Lot 8 because of parking issues.

Downtown businesses are affected differently when parking is at a premium. Restaurants and bars tend to do better when there is high traffic. People make spur of the moment decisions about whether to go for a drink or eat at a restaurant. Whether to visit a dentist, lawyer or accountant is not a decision people make impulsively.

Thus, high traffic benefits restaurants and bars but is

YOUR TURN disruptive to businesses that provide services and many merchants where impulse buying is not a big factor.

These businesses will not be able to set appointments for clients on Tuesday afternoons out of fear that their clients will not be able to find a parking space.

O v e r the last 30 years, I have w i t n e s s e d Riling downtown Lawrence change from a retail shopping district to a bar and restaurant district. The commission has intentionally or unintentionally set priorities that benefit bars and restaurants when balancing the interests of special events like the Farmers’ Market. Businesses considering locating downtown and businesses currently located downtown have been sent a clear message about priorities for downtown. Some folks say that a bar and restaurant district downtown is not a bad thing. I disagree. Downtown Lawrence should strive for a mixed-use district. Mixed-use districts provide a stronger downtown but also present greater parking challenges.

I am very concerned about the City Commission’s steps toward making a decision on this issue. Farmers’ Market representatives stated at the City Commission meeting that they had started the process

of requesting the Tuesday market move in November of 2012. DLI and local businesses were not notified until late January of the request. That notification stated that the Tuesday market wanted to be in the grass and would take no parking spaces away.

By the time the issue came to a head in front of the City Commission, the Farmers’ Market was requesting the parking spaces and was in a position where it had to know where the market was going to be for the spring. The commission was faced with making a decision on this issue at the last minute. Will the City Commission repeat this mistake or will it take steps to ensure that this issue is thoroughly studied before a decision is made the next time?

The Lawrence Farmers’ Market representatives have made it clear that they have no interest in the parking lot under construction by the library. They are committed to the current Farmers’ Market location. I think everyone hopes the market expands and does well, but, if it stays at the current location, expansion of the weekday market will create a serious problem. The market will more than likely expand to Thursdays and seek additional parking spaces for its Tuesday market. The City Commission should not wait until a snowy day in February to begin the process of making this decision. If it does, and the trend continues, downtown Lawrence will end up a bar and restaurant district.

— Michael E. Riling is an attorney whose offices are located in downtown Lawrence.

To the editor: As a Journal-World subscriber, I’d like to see more coverage on the school bond issue that will be decided by voters on April 2. Lawrence doesn’t have to sit idle and play victim to decisions from Topeka. We can vote “yes” on the $92.5 million school bond that will not raise our taxes, so we can protect property values, modernize and equalize educational facilities, and support local business by training more electricians, nursing assistants and more via new career training opportunities.

This isn’t just about public school kids or business owners; it’s about everyone, since few of us wire our own homes or are responsible for answering the call light for a friend in the hospital or Lawrence’s many nursing homes.

This school bond is about keeping Lawrence thriving — no matter what happens in the rest of the state.

Melinda Toumi, Lawrence

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 12, 1913: YEARS “The Social SerAGO vice League this IN 1913 morning was given the care of two small children and is in need of a couple of beds for them. The little folks are now at the Social Service Hall where they will be taken care of until permanent homes can be found for them. Anyone having a child’s bed that is not needed, call either Rev. E. E. Stauffer or Mrs. S. T. Gillispie. The two children are two and four years old. They were given to the Social Service League this morning by Judge Lindley of the Juvenile Court. The little tots are said to have been deserted by their parents.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

Read more Old Home Town at LJWorld.com/news/lawrence/ history/old_home_town.

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Sabetha 42/22

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Social Media Club of Lawrence: “Using Pinterest Strategically,” 7:30-8:30 a.m., Signs of Life (upstairs), 722 Massachusetts Street.

University-Community Forum: How Russia Views America, noon, Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, free.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County

DOUG AND SHELLY NATIONS, center, received the 2013 Pelathe District Character Counts Award at the Pelathe District Boy Scout Annual Awards Banquet on Feb. 7.

The Nations family gathered for a picture to commemorate the event. Pictured from left to right are Lane, Doug, Shelly, Jordan and Blake. Keith Wood took the photo, and Cindy Lynn submitted it. Email your photos to friends@ljworld.com or mail them to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence, KS 66044.

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volunteer information, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Dole Institute Study Group with Brig. Gen. Roosevelt Barfield, 4-5:30 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

School bond issue community informational presentation, 6:30 p.m., Hillcrest School, 1045 Hilltop Drive.

Faith Forum: Caring for Creation: Faith-Based Environmental Activism and the Challenges We Face, 6:30 p.m., Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Tony Reyes and Friends, 7 p.m., Cutter’s, 218 E. 20th St., Eudora, no cover.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. KU School of Music Oread Tuba/Euphonium Quartet, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Humanities Lecture Series: An Evening with Edwidge Danticat, 7:30-9 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa St.

FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS

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Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, enter on southeast side, free.

Lawrence Area Partners in Aging 8th Annual Senior Resource Fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway.

Child care licensing orientation training, 1-4 p.m., Lawrence-Douglas County Health Dept., 200 Maine Street.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County volunteer information, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. The Devil’s Stage: Hubert Cailleau’s Illuminated Manuscripts and the Illusion of a Medieval Theater, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi St. Basic Personal Finance & Investing, 6-7:30 p.m., Carnegie Building East Gallery, 200 W. Ninth Street, free.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6-10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St., no cover.

Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. School bond issue community informational presentation, 6 p.m., Quail Run School, 1130 Inverness Road.

Financial Fitness: Investment Basics & Choosing Investments Wisely, 7 p.m., Douglas County Senior Center, 745 Vermont St. Herbs study group, 7 p.m., Unitarian Fellowship, 1263 North 1100 Road.

Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m.,

Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Tuesday Concert series presents Jon Fitzgerald, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Science on Tap: Global Shift — A Challenging Twist on Climate Change, 7:30-9 p.m., Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts.

KPR’s 60th Anniversary: An Evening with Scott Horsley, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

KU School of Music Choirs: Collegium, Women’s Chorale, 7:30-9 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive Gamer Night, 8 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., free.

Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Geeks Who Drink pub quiz, 8 p.m., Phoggy Dog, 2228 Iowa St. Teller’s Family Night, 9 p.m.-midnight, 746 Massachusetts St. Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa St.

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KU HOOPS: Withey, McLemore on APâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-Big 12 team. 3B

SPORTS

ALL SIGNS POINT TO BAYLOR Brittney Griner strikes a pose after Baylor won its third straight Big 12 tournament title with a 75-47 rout of Iowa State.

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Jayhawks: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to celebrateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Big 12 better than it seemed

It happens every midMarch. College basketball coaches across America talk up the strength of their conferences often in hopes that their subliminal messages will lodge in the brains of NCAA Tournament selection committee members dispensing the berths and seeds.

Such talk usually sounds contrived. Not this year in the Big 12. Coaches donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to oversell because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious the league is loaded, so much better than it looked during the nonconference season.

To appreciate the strength of the league, reflect back on the play in which Baylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pierre Jackson used a cross-over dribble to get around Elijah Johnson in the lane and finish with a dunk.

Jackson busted that highlight move Saturday in an 81-58 rout of Kansas on his way to 28 points, 10 assists and six rebounds. He made 11 of 13 shots from the field, including two of three threepointers.

Jackson was named the Big 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preseason player of the year. He led the conference in scoring and assists, so it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be said he had a disappointing season. He met expectations, but the elite-talent pool in the Big 12 was deeper than anybody could have imagined.

How deep? So deep that the Big 12 coaches didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vote Jackson onto the fiveman first team. Oklahoma Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcus Smart, Ben McLemore and Jeff Withey of Kansas, Kansas Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rodney McGruder and Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Romero Osby beat out Jackson. (The media gave Jackson the nod over Osby).

A check of two websites â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NBAdraft.net and ESPN. com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that chart top draft prospects reveals that when Oklahoma State and Baylor meet, five players who are ranked among the top 40 prospects on one or both lists will share the floor.

Again, Jackson is not one of them. Smart, Markel Brown and Leâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Bryan Nash of Oklahoma State and Isaiah Austin and Cory Jefferson of Baylor are listed ahead of Jackson.

When that much talent is on the same floor, it usually means itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a semifinal or final of conference tournament. In the Big 12 tourney, the schools meet in a quarterfinal game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Big 12 conference is a league that has gotten much better as the year has gone on,â&#x20AC;? Baylor coach Scott Drew said when asked about his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances of getting a bid with a 9-9 conference record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were several teams that were younger putting teams together. The Big 12 is as tough as it gets this year. Our nonconference record might not have reflected that.â&#x20AC;?

Kansas Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball players and coaches clipped the nets before about 3,000 fans Monday in Bramlage Coliseum in celebration of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Big 12 championship since 1977.

There was no such commotion at Kansas University â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where the co-champion Jayhawks, like the Wildcats, lost Saturday to see their final league record settle at 14-4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pop any bubbly on the way back from Waco, trust me,â&#x20AC;? KU coach Bill Self said of the aftermath of the

Jayhawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 81-58 loss to Baylor.

He did congratulate his players for winning a ninthconsecutive Big 12 crown on the bus ride from Topekaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Forbes Field to Lawrence on Saturday night and, on Monday afternoon, handed each of his players league-title hats and T-shirts following a critical film session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve celebrated at all,â&#x20AC;? KU senior center Jeff Withey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lost when we won it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a very good way to win it.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to say there will be no pep rally in Lawrence this week in advance of KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big 12 quarterfinal contest against

either Texas Tech or West Virginia, set for a 2 p.m. tipoff Thursday at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are they?â&#x20AC;? Withey said Monday when informed the Wildcats had scheduled a pep rally for Monday night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Kansas. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to do that. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just looking forward to the (Big 12) tournament coming up.â&#x20AC;?

Or as senior guard Elijah Johnson noted: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine straight, but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t celebrate until everything is Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo said and done. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to celebrate about right THE BIG 12 TROPHY SITS IN THE PLAYERS LOUNGE at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas now, anyway.â&#x20AC;?

University earned a share of the title with Please see HOOPS, page 3B Kansas State.

KANSAS TRACK AND FIELD

Jump for joy

April L. Brown/AP Photo

SURROUNDED BY HER KANSAS UNIVERSITY TEAMMATES, SENIOR ANDREA GEUBELLE HOISTS THE SECOND-PLACE TEAM TROPHY at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark. Geubelle won the long-jump and triple-jump individual titles, and KU placed second for the second-straight season.

KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geubelle relishes Indoor titles

By Andrew Hartsock ahartsock@ljworld.com

The last time Andrea Geubelle was at an NCAA Track and Field Championships, she thought she had won another individual title but later learned she hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Friday, she thought she hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won and later learned she had. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the (long-jump) finals, a girl tied me, and I was confused about what was going

on,â&#x20AC;? Geubelle said Monday, just a couple of days removed from winning two national titles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; long jump on Friday, triple jump Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the NCAA Indoor in Fayetteville, Ark. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually thought I was in second. At the end of the competition, I had to ask an official who won. They told me I had won. It was a weird feeling. I had won, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know I had won.â&#x20AC;?

At last springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA Outdoor in Des Moines, Iowa,

she thought she had won the triple jump and had been announced as the winner, but her winning jump was ruled a foul â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after the event â&#x20AC;&#x201D; following an appeal from a rivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach, and Geubelle was relegated to third.

Though the event and venues were different and would seem to bring the karma back into balance, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think for a minute the sting of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor triple didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t carry over into this season.

Please see TRACK, page 3B

Kansas WR McCay out to prove himself

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Based on fan reaction, one of the biggest surprises regarding the Kansas University football programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-spring depth chart was junior Justin McCayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s listing as the second-string X Please see KEEGAN, page 3B receiver.

The news did little to shock McCay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The depth chart is where they perceive us to be,â&#x20AC;? McCay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we all gotta perform. You can go from last to the top, so the depth chart doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter, you just gotta go out there and compete every day.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what McCay has

done since he arrived in Lawrence, but because of the circumstances surrounding his transfer, it mattered little.

Dating back to January 2012, when McCay first committed to leave Oklahoma and join the Jayhawks, fans of KU football have been operating under the assumption that McCay could be

a game changer. That possibility certainly still exists, but as the team heads into its second spring session under head coach Charlie Weis, McCay is one of the most significant question marks on the roster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of the guys we have here

â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I found out I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won, at first I was really bitter,â&#x20AC;? Geubelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really mad. I knew I had the capability of winning. I knew I wanted to win more than anything, and it becomes a game of proving people wrong. I fouled at 46-11. A lot of people took that away from me because I fouled by a centimeter. Not many Americans are jumping over 46 feet indoors.

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49ers pick up Boldin; Seattle lands Harvin The Associated Press

On the eve of NFL free agency, trades involving top receivers Anquan Boldin and Percy Harvin grabbed the headlines.

In an odd twist Monday, Boldin went from the Ravens to the San Francisco 49ers, the team he helped Baltimore beat 34-31 in last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Bowl.

Harvin was sent to Seattle.

San Francisco acquired the 32-year-old Boldin for a sixthround draft pick. Boldin, a star in Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run to the Super Bowl title last season, must pass a physical to complete the deal.

The 24-year-old Harvin, Minnesotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moody and multitalented receiver, will join the Seahawks for a package of draft picks that includes Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-round selection next

Royals have few open jobs SURPRISE, ARIZ. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The names Chris Getz and Johnny Giavotella appear right next to each other on an alphabetical listing of the Kansas City Royals who are still in spring training camp.

Call it fitting.

The race between them for the second basemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job is just that close.

The Royals have perhaps the fewest job competitions of any team in the major leagues this spring, mostly because they have one of the youngest, most promising groups of position players in the game. Along with second base, the backup catcher and utility infielder jobs, and the fifth spot in the starting rotation, are just about all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up for grabs.

The competition between Getz and Giavotella may be the most interesting, though, and most difficult to get a read on, because the playing styles of the principals are polar opposite.

Getz is the steady defensive stalwart who hits for average and not much else. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s held down the job most of the past two years, and was having a breakout 2012 season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Getz wound up hitting .275 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; before injuries set in: bruised ribs, strained leg and a broken left thumb.

The injuries provided another chance for Giavotella, whom the Royals view as their second baseman of the future. He has more upside at the plate, even though two big league stints havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been all that productive, but his balky defense has given the team reason for pause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about the competition that much,â&#x20AC;? said Giavotella, a career .308 hitter in the minor leagues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look at it more as an opportunity for me to get better as a player, and work on the things I need to work on. And if I work on the things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m weak at, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be an allaround good player, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m striving for.â&#x20AC;?

When asked about the perception that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a poor defensive second baseman, Giavotella seems to bristle. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of reputation that is hard to overcome, mostly because improvement isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as easy to quantify as hitting, where average, homers and RBIs can prove progress.

Giavotella said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been working diligently on his fielding, improving everything from his lateral movement to his ability to snag groundballs and deliver accurate throws. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It definitely kind of irks me a little bit, but it motivates me to go out there and prove everyone wrong,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defense is all just repetitions, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about listening to people who are better than you and more knowledgeable, and taking it and applying it to your game.â&#x20AC;?

Both of them are off to good starts in spring.

Giavotella is 7-for-23, while Getz is now 8-for-26 after going 3-for-4 in a 17-11 win over the Angels Sunday, one that improved the Royals to a 13-1-1 entering Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day off.

Getz has even homered, something heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done twice in 1,309 career plate appearances.

Yost isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about to name a leader in the race for second base, just like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not appointing a favorite between George Kottaras and Brett Hayes for backup catcher, or among Luke Hochever, Bruce Chen and Luis Mendoza for the fifth spot in the starting rotation.

month, No. 25 overall. He also must pass a physical.

Also Monday: Q The Giants are allowing Victor Cruz to enter restricted free agency, placing a firstround tender on the wide receiver.

Q Cornerback DeAngelo Hall was cut by the Redskins, a casualty of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NFL-imposed salary cap penalty.

Q The Broncos released nine-year veteran linebacker D.J. Williams, freeing up his $6 million salary in 2013 for other needs. Denver also released third quarterback Caleb Hanie.

Q The Jets signed quarterback David Garrard to back up starter Mark Sanchez.

Q The Cardinals released running back Beanie Wells.

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Northeast final Big East tourney Horizon final Summit final Big East tourney

ESPN2 ESPNU ESPN ESPN2 ESPNU

34, 234 35, 235 33, 233 34, 234 35, 235

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6 p.m.

8 p.m.

8 p.m.

8 p.m.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball Time Summit final Big East final

2:30p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 6 p.m. ESPN 33, 233

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5 a.m. noon 7 p.m.

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155,242 155,242 155,242

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N.M. St. v. Okla.

6:30p.m. FCSC

Ex-champion Seavey takes lead in Iditarod NOME, ALASKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has come down to a furiously contested sprint among veterans, with one seasoned musher grabbing the lead from another Monday and several others within striking distance.

By evening, sled positioning trackers showed 2004 Iditarod winner Mitch Seavey ahead of four-time champion Jeff King and last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runner-up Aliy Zirkle, as he reached the checkpoint at Elim, 123 miles from the finish line in Nome, a frontier town on Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wind-pummeled coast.

Others were closing in, including Ray Redinton Jr., the grandson of race co-founder Joe Redington Sr. Nome favorite Aaron Burmeister was fifth behind Redington as he raced toward his hometown.

If he were to win the Iditarod, one local official said, it could be pandemonium.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;place would come unglued,â&#x20AC;? said Richard Beneville, the vice president of the Nome Chamber of Commerce.

school that he got â&#x20AC;&#x153;caught upâ&#x20AC;? in the emotions of a hard-fought game and lost his composure.

Booker says he regrets putting the school and the basketball program in a poor light.

TV

MVC commish livid at CBS

ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference says he would rather have the tournament title game televised on the Food Network if CBS canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarantee it will televise the entire game nationally.

Doug Elgin told the Associated Press on Monday that central and northern Illinois and all of Indiana didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the conclusion of Creightonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 68-65 nail-biter over Wichita State. Wichita State shaved a 13-point deficit to one in the final minute, and Malcolm Armstead missed a potential tying three-pointer just before the buzzer Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never be able to make this up to us,â&#x20AC;? said Elgin, adding the conference had received â&#x20AC;&#x153;hundredsâ&#x20AC;? of complaints from irate fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our concern is our most important game of the year COLLEGE BASKETBALL carries nationally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly Gonzaga remains No. 1 in poll what we bargained for.â&#x20AC;?

CBS switched some viewers to the start of Gonzaga is no one-week wonder at No. 1.

Indianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory at Michigan for the Big Ten title.

The Bulldogs beat Loyola Marymount 66-48 The 10-team Missouri Valley has four schools in in its first â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and so far only â&#x20AC;&#x201D; game as the nathe areas that missed the finish of the champitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top-ranked team. Then they easily won the onship game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bradley, Illinois State, Indiana West Coast Conference title Monday night.

State and Evansville.

Gonzaga received 54 first-place votes from CBS spokeswoman Jennifer Sabatelle said the 65-member national media panel. Duke, the decision to switch games affected about which received the other 11 first-place votes, 17 percent of the country and was made when moved up one spot to second after beating Creighton had a 10-point lead with 3:50 remainVirginia Tech and North Carolina last week. ing, time for another tipoff.

Indiana dropped one place to third after losing to â&#x20AC;&#x153;We pulled out the home territories of the Big Ohio State then rallying for the dramatic win at Ten to get them to the start of the Michigan-InMichigan that gave the Hoosiers the outright Big diana game,â&#x20AC;? Sabatelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The overwhelming Ten title. majority stayed on the Missouri Valley champiLouisville jumped from eighth to No. 4 and onship.â&#x20AC;? was followed by Georgetown, Michigan, Kansas, Michigan State, Miami and Ohio State.

The weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone newcomer is Missouri Valley Baylor women remain No. 1 Conference champion Creighton, which returns Baylor remains No. 1 in the Associated Press after being out of the poll the last four weeks. womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball poll for a 10th consecutive The Bluejays replace Oregon, which dropped out week. from 19th after losing two games last week.

The Lady Bears received all 40 first-place votes for the third straight week and have won Crean apologizes to UM aide 49 straight Big 12 regular-season and tournament games including Monday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rout of BLOOMINGTON, IND. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Indiana coach Tom Iowa State in the league title game.

Crean says he apologized to Michigan assistant The top four stayed the same, with Notre Jeff Meyer for their heated exchange after Dame, Connecticut and Stanford following BaySundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. lor. The Irish and Huskies will play for the third Crean said Monday that he apologized to time this season when they meet in the Big Meyer over the phone on the way to the plane East tournament title game tonight. Stanford afterward. He said he wishes he had â&#x20AC;&#x153;never clinched the Pac-12 tournament Sunday night addressed anything after the heat of battle in a and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play again until NCAA tournament. game, but I did and we move on.â&#x20AC;?

Duke, California, Penn State, Texas A&M and The incident happened after the Hoosiers Tennessee round out the first 10. The Aggies beat the Wolverines 72-71 for the Big Ten title. made the biggest leap moving up 10 spots after Indianapolis TV station WRTV showed Crean bewinning the SEC tournament. ing restrained as he yelled at Meyer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You helped Purdue rejoined the poll at No. 21 after taking wreck the program.â&#x20AC;? the Big Ten tournament. Toledo and LSU fell out.

Crean was hired by Indiana in 2008 and inherited a program burdened by NCAA sanctions for NBA violations under former coach Kelvin Sampson. Meyer served on Sampsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff but was Irving out for month cleared of any major violations.

INDEPENDENCE, OHIO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kyrie Irvingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dazzling skills as a point guard are undeniable. Kid ISUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Booker sorry for gesture can do it all.

AMES, IOWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iowa State senior Anthony His durability is debatable.

Booker has apologized for making an obscene Irving could miss the next month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and gesture during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win over West Virmaybe the rest of this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; because of a ginia. sprained left shoulder, the latest injury to sideline Booker was on the bench when he made the the Cleveland Cavaliersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; All-Star guard who has gesture toward the Mountaineersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; student secmissed 29 games in his first two NBA seasons tion shortly after being called for a flagrant foul. with injuries and could sit out 19 more in 2013.

Booker says in a statement released by the Irving was hurt in a loss at Toronto on Sunday.

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VOLUNTEERS HANG A BANNER ABOVE THE BURLED ARCH, which serves as the finish line for the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday in Nome, Alaska. The race began March 3 in Willow, Alaska, and some race-watchers predict it will end today.

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Big East tourney 11 a.m.

Big East tourney 1 p.m.

W.Va. v. Texas Tech 6 p.m.

ESPN ESPN Big 12

Big East tourney Big East tourney SEC tourney Texas v. TCU

6 p.m.

8 p.m.

6:30p.m.

8:30p.m.

ESPN2 ESPN2 KSMO Big 12

SEC tourney

9 p.m.

KSMO

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WBC game 6 p.m.

MLB MLB

155,242 155,242

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2:30p.m. FSN

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Kansas University’s Ben McLemore and Jeff Withey were named first-team All-Big 12 by the Associated Press on Monday, a day after being accorded the same honor by the league coaches.

The Jayhawks, who were unanimous picks by media members who voted, were joined on the first team by AP Big 12 Player of the Year Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State, as well as Kansas State’s Rodney McGruder and Baylor’s Pierre Jackson.

For player of year, Smart received 10 of the 17 votes, while McLemore and Withey received

three each. Jackson, the Big 12’s leading scorer at 19.4 points a game, got the other top vote. Smart received 14 votes for top freshman, and McLemore took the other three.

KU’s Travis Releford was named honorable mention All-Big 12.

Kansas State’s Bruce Weber, whose Wildcats shared the Big 12 regular season title in his first season, was selected Coach of the Year. Weber got 15 votes while Oklahoma State’s Travis Ford and Kansas’ Bill Self split the remaining two votes.

The only others to be the AP’s Big 12 Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year in the same

season were Texas’ Kevin Durant in 2007 and Kansas State’s Michael Beasley the season after that.

Smart has averaged 15.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 3.0 steals a game, the only player ranked among the top 15 in the Big 12 in all of those categories. His 89 steals have tied the league’s single-season record.

Iowa State senior guard Will Clyburn, a transfer from Utah, earned the AP Newcomer of the Year award. Clyburn got 15 votes, while teammate and Michigan State transfer Korie Lucious got the other two votes.

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didn’t even bother watching Kansas’ game at Baylor after getting home from Stillwater on Saturday night, assuming the Jayhawks would win to clinch the outright Big 12 title.

The disappointed coach was out on a walk with his dog, Penny, when he found out Kansas lost.

Weber was near campus when all of a sudden car horns started honking and people yelled congratulations to him.

“I mean, obviously, when you get any kind of award like that, it means you had a successful season, and I couldn’t be more pleased for our players,” Weber said.

“They just, from Day 1, you get a change of coaches and, you know, they bought in, and really slowly but surely built a trust factor, and our staff did a great job. We had a good locker room, good chemistry between coaches and players, and it all adds up to us having some success, and winning the league.”

Along with being the league’s top non-freshman newcomer, Clyburn was a second-team pick, with Oklahoma senior forward Romero Osby, Oklahoma State guard Markel Brown, Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez and Isaiah Austin, Baylor’s 7-foot-1 freshman center.

that game already,” he said. “We can learn from it for sure. At the end of the day, we are still champions. We won it with K-State. We did our job.

We’re going to try winning the tournament. It’s all we focus on.”

Traditionally, winners of the Big 12 tournament also clip the nets.

“It’s for pride,” Withey said of the upcoming tourney. “Whoever wins it was best team in the league.

We definitely want to win it. It’d help us get a No. 1 seed hopefully in the NCAA Tournament.”

off the gas? We’ve got to have that killer instinct so moving forward if we experience some success we don’t think that success automatically comes to you. You’ve got to work every day.”

Self said KSU was equally deserving.

“We’re not going to apologize for sharing it at all, and congratulations to K-State. I hate that they share it with us, but they deserve it because they

had a great year,” Self said. “They won some big games away from home, too. It’s one of those things that I don’t know if people around here — and maybe rightfully so — really appreciate what it is, but from a guys’ lockerroom standpoint, from a coaches’ locker-room standpoint, you want to be the best that you compete against. For us, that’s also (North) Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, Michigan State and some other people that we run against.

The primary deal is, you spend 21⁄2 months of your season trying to win a league championship.

Why would you discredit winning a league championship when you spend so much time trying to do it?

“To get nine in a row, or a piece of it, is pretty cool,” he added, noting everybody on the team has “maxed out.” “If they’ve been here five years, they’ve got five rings. If they’ve been here three years, they’ve got three rings.”

Withey said the BU game is now officially past tense.

“We’ve forgot about

best jump — hence the confusion, at least in Geubelle’s mind.

Geubelle, a senior and 10-time first-team AllAmerican (indoor and outdoor), is only the fourth woman in the 30year history of the Indoor to win both jump titles at the same Indoor.

“It’s a huge surprise,” she said. “Knowing me, I went in thinking I’d win both, because I never set standards l o w e r than winning, even though t h e r e might be a little Bartnovskaya doubt in my head. When I won the long jump, I was shocked.

But after the long jump, I knew if I didn’t win the triple, I wouldn’t be satisfied.”

Geubelle wasn’t the only national champion in Fayetteville.

Junior Natalia Bartnovskaya won the pole vault Saturday at 4.45 meters, or 14-73⁄4. That’s the eighth-

best mark in NCAA history.

Not bad for a woman in her first year of Div. I competition.

Bartnovskaya, from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, was a two-time NJCAA national champion at Vincennes (Ind.) University.

She quickly found there’s a vast difference in the two levels.

“Practice is much more difficult,” she said with a laugh. “It’s tough to practice. The process is much more difficult than in junior college, but I … survived.”

Though she had had success for KU in Fayetteville before, Bartnovskaya was ranked third in the country going in and didn’t expect to finish much higher at the Indoor.

“I wanted to do my best, but I wasn’t feeling confident,” she said. “There was a lot of strong competition. But I just focused very well and tried to make the bar on the first attempt, and it worked. I got the lead on the competition and decided there’s no way I was going to give it up at the end.

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Though mighty disappointed in KU’s 23-point loss to Baylor — a game that took place after KSU’s loss at Oklahoma State — Self has made sure to tell his players “congratulations” more than a few times.

“One game can’t take away from what our guys have accomplished, what they’ve done through the course of the conference season,” Self said. “We are not real pleased the way we ended it. I’m proud we got a piece of it. I look forward to going to Kansas City and seeing what happens there.”

Self said he’s heard from several individuals who have said, ‘“Congratulations, great accomplishment, it sucks how you did it.’ That’s not true.

It doesn’t stink. It’s a great feat for our guys.

“It’s never great losing the last game of a regular season. If you look at the

body of work, since Jan. 10 it has been pretty impressive. Eliminate eight days (three consecutive losses), and it’s been really impressive. We’ll talk about it (title), but I don’t see any reason to be giddy about it or celebrate it in a big way because I want our guys to still sting, to still feel even though we’re happy with our accomplishment, why would we not put a foot on a throat (at BU)? Why would we take the foot

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When I won the long jump, I was shocked. But after the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B long jump, I knew if I So that’s been my goal all didn’t win the triple, I season. wouldn’t be satisfied.”

“I won with 46-6, just shy of the American record. That’s a bigger accomplishment for me more than winning the event, just showing I can do it.”

Geubelle indeed won with a leap of 14.18 meters, or 46 feet, 61⁄4 inches, the fourth-longest in NCAA history and just two inches behind the indoor American record.

Strangely, she won on a bad wheel.

On her penultimate long jump Friday, Geubelle bruised a heel.

Though she won the event, she was in pain, and it affected her triplejumping the next day.

“I was having trouble walking,” Geubelle said.

“I had horrible warm-ups for the triple jump. I was babying (the heel). I didn’t want to put pressure on it. The girl in second was right on my butt. I taped it

— Kansas jumper Andrea Geubelle up a little and put a cushion in my shoe. I thought, I’m in the finals, and I have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. My foot’s only going to keep hurting worse, so I put one out there — 46-6 — and I had a pretty good feeling I was going to win the competition.

“It’s also a mental game, and when somebody jumps that far … in the triple jump, when you start pressing, you’re not going to jump that far. Once I knew I had won, I was relieved.”

She won the long-jump title with a leap of 6.55 meters, or 21-6. She actually tied with runner-up Christabel Netty of Arizona State, but Geubelle won by virtue of her second-

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Weber’s crack sparks no comment: The Wichita Eagle’s account of Monday’s KSU pep rally reports that “coach Bruce Weber joked that he had hoped to celebrate a Big 12 championship a week earlier on Senior Day, but poor officiating — referring to KU’s overtime victory at Iowa State — got in the way.”

Reached by the JournalWorld for a reaction to that news item, Self said: “No comment.”

Kansas University’s women’s track-and-field team had a program-best 11 athletes named first- or second-team All-Americans, it was announced Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Senior Taylor Washington earned the first team All-America distinction for the fourth-straight year, while seniors Andrea Geubelle and Denesha Morris and junior Diamond Dixon earned first-team honors for the third-consecutive season.

Geubelle was a first-

teamer in long jump and triple jump, both of which she won at the NCAA Indoor over the weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. She is a 10-time All-American: five times indoors, five outdoors.

Junior Natalia Bartnovskaya, who won her first NCAA pole vault championship, was a firsttime first-teamer.

Dixon was named to the first team after finishing sixth in the 400 meters last weekend. Her time of 52.33 was the second-fastest of her indoor career. The Houston native also anchored the 4x400-meter relay team to their third-straight first

team performance, claiming eighth in Fayetteville.

Dixon is tied with Geubelle for the most firstteam All-America honors in school history with 10 after she was honored six times indoors and four times outdoors.

Washington became the first Jayhawk in the women’s program’s history to be named an All-American all four seasons of her collegiate career. She was a member of the AllAmerican distance medley relay squad in 2010 and then was honored threestraight seasons for her part on the 4x400-meter relay team. She was joined in Fayetteville by Morris,

now a three-time indoor honoree, Paris Daniels, who has claimed two first team distinctions on the relay, and Dixon.

Daniels also earned a first first-team nod in the 200 meters. She finished eighth in the event over the weekend, clocking in at 23.27. The senior was also a second-team honoree after she finished 11th in the 60. Daniels is the first KU female to earn three All-America distinctions at a single NCAA meet — indoors or outdoors.

Joining Geubelle on the long jump first team AllAmerica list was senior Francine Simpson, who

BRIEFLY Kansas OF Suiter player of week Kansas University outfielder Michael Suiter was named Big 12 Baseball Player of the Week.

A 6-foot-1 sophomore from Kailua, Hawaii, Suiter went 8-for-14 with seven stolen bases, five runs scored and two RBIs last week in a four-game series with Niagara. He extended his team-best hitting streak to 10 games.

KU diver Cash 36th at zone HOUSTON — Kansas University senior Christy Cash placed 36th in the three-meter event at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships on Monday. Cash’s score of 238.80 was a personal best.

KU freshman Meredith Brownell placed 41st with 223.30, and junior Alyssa Golden was 43rd with 204.85.

The zone one-meter event will be today.

KU soccer adds exhibition Kansas University’s soccer team will play an exhibition contest against the National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) FC Kansas City on March 30, coach Mark Francis announced Monday. The match will take place at Shawnee Mission North High Stadium in Overland Park.

The FC Kansas City contest completes a 12-match spring exhibition schedule for the Jayhawks, who have already begun their spring slate, dropping the opener to Nebraska 3-2 on March 1.

Tanner honored

A public reception for Brady Tanner will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Coffin Sports Complex on the campus of Haskell Indian Nations University.

Tanner will be inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame.

He is the only special“But, yeah, it was kind of a surprise. I didn’t ex- needs person to have been selected for this Hall of pect that for myself.”

The three national Fame. championships helped Kansas — which earlier had won its first Big 12 Indoor team title — score a program-best 44 points and repeat as national runner-up. Oregon won with 56 points.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B “Of course, it’s good to place second at nationals Drew also pointed to a as a team,” Bartnovskaya victory at Kentucky early said, “but first place is alin the season as a point in ways better.” favor of the Bears, the No. “I’m happy,” Geubelle 6 seed in the conference said. “You can’t not be championship that gets happy with a second-place under way Wednesday in finish. We had a team the Sprint Center for the meeting about it today. bottom four seeds, ThursWe have so much potenday for the top six. tial to finish first. We did “Personally, I’ve never so much work and came seen the league better out with second place, with more teams that can which we deserve, but … win our league tournasecond place becomes bitment than we have right ter when you think about now,” 10th-year Kansas it. coach Bill Self said. “You “I have so much congo into the tournament fidence we can be a No. in the past and you could 1 team. Today we went say, ‘You know what? back to practice. Today This team could win a we went back to work. couple of games,’ or, ‘This We’re going to pull toteam could do well,’ or, gether and hopefully “This could be an upset,’ we’ll surprise some peobut not very often do you ple.” go in and say, ‘I think that team could positively win three games in a row.’

And there are six teams that could win three games in row.”

Self added that he thinks Myck Kabongo’s return has made Texas finished third at the na- a much better team and that West Virginia and tional meet.

Alena Krechyk made Texas Tech are playing her way onto the indoor better. And he noted that All-America list for the TCU’s two conference second time but the first victories (Kansas and time as a first team hon- Oklahoma) came against oree. The senior placed NCAA Tournament sixth in the weight throw teams.

It’s a stretch to think at the NCAA Championany of the bottom four ships.

Three Jayhawks made teams could win the four the second team: sopho- in a row required to make more Lindsay Vollmer, the NCAA Tournament. who finished ninth in the Oklahoma doesn’t quite pentathlon at her first have as much talent as NCAA Indoor; freshman any of the other five Anastasia Muchkayev, teams that earned a first12th in the shot put; and round bye, but this is a Kyle Clemons, KU’s lone wide-open conference men’s representative, tournament that should who placed 15th in the result in several close games.

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

New York Brooklyn Boston Toronto Philadelphia

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GB — 3 5 15 151⁄2

L10 6-4 5-5 6-4 3-7 2-8

Str W-1 L-1 L-1 W-1 W-1

Home Away Conf 22-10 16-12 24-13 21-13 16-14 28-13 22-9 12-19 20-16 16-16 9-23 14-21 18-16 6-23 14-24

L 14 28 41 46 50

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GB — 131⁄2 27 301⁄2 35

L10 10-0 5-5 5-5 3-7 0-10

Str W-18 L-2 W-1 W-1 L-10

Home Away Conf 29-3 18-11 24-9 19-11 15-17 21-16 15-17 5-24 11-27 10-24 8-22 8-31 7-24 6-26 10-24

L 24 28 29 43 42

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GB — 4 6 171⁄2 18

L10 7-3 4-6 6-4 2-8 5-5

Str L-1 L-1 W-2 L-6 L-2

Home Away Conf 25-7 14-17 26-14 18-14 17-14 26-13 16-14 16-15 21-17 15-20 8-23 19-21 12-19 9-23 15-22

Pct .766 .689 .531 .468 .344

GB — 51⁄2 15 19 27

L10 7-3 9-1 5-5 6-4 3-7

Str W-1 W-4 L-1 W-3 W-1

Home Away Conf 26-4 23-11 27-11 25-8 17-11 22-13 20-9 14-21 15-22 17-12 12-21 17-22 12-20 10-22 12-27

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GB — 41⁄2 14 17 24

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Home Away Conf 28-4 19-13 31-10 28-3 15-19 29-11 23-8 10-23 18-19 20-10 9-23 18-21 14-16 7-23 11-26

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Southeast Division x-Miami Atlanta Washington Orlando Charlotte

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Central Division Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Memphis Houston Dallas New Orleans

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L 15 19 30 33 42

Northwest Division Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland Minnesota

W 47 43 33 29 21

Pacific Division L.A. Clippers Golden State L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

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Today’s games

Atlantic Division

Washington at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Boston at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Portland, 9 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Miami at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Washington, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 7 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

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

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

New York at Denver, 9:30 p.m.

How former Jayhawks fared Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 17. Pts: 4. Reb: 2. TO: 3.

Marcus Morris, Phoenix Min: 24. Pts: 16. Reb: 4. Ast: 3.

Markieff Morris, Phoenix Min: 27. Pts: 4. FGs: 2. Ast: 2.

Brandon Rush, Golden St. Did not play (injured) Tyshawn Taylor, Brooklyn Did not play (coach’s dec.)

Roundup The Associated Press

Spurs 105, Thunder 93 SAN ANTONIO — Tiago Splitter had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and San Antonio snapped Oklahoma City ’s five-game winning streak on Monday night.

Kawhi Leonard scored 17 points, Danny Green had 16 and Tim Duncan finished with 13 as San Antonio (49-15) rebounded from its second-worst home loss ever to maintain the Western Conference’s top record. Manu Ginobili had 12 points and Boris Diaw added 11 as the Spurs’ reserves outscored their counterparts 34-16.

Kevin Durant had 26 points and Russell Westbrook added 25 for Oklahoma City (47-17), which lost its sixth straight in San Antonio. Serge Ibaka was the only other player in double figures, adding 13 points and 16 rebounds.

San Antonio’s defense was the difference, turning an evenly matched battle into its third victory in four games without Tony Parker. The All-Star point guard is going to miss another three weeks with a sprained left ankle.

OKLAHOMA CITY (93) Durant 7-13 11-11 26, Ibaka 4-8 5-6 13, Perkins 3-5 0-0 6, Westbrook 11-27 2-3 25, Sefolosha 2-5 2-2 7, Martin 3-8 0-0 9, Collison 2-4 0-0 4, R.Jackson 1-4 0-0 2, Fisher 0-3 1-2 1, Thabeet 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 33-77 21-24 93.

SAN ANTONIO (105) Leonard 8-17 0-0 17, Duncan 6-14 1-1 13, Splitter 9-11 3-5 21, Joseph 2-2 0-0 4, Green 6-9 0-0 16, Ginobili 4-11 3-4 12, Diaw 4-5 2-2 11, Neal 3-7 0-0 7, Blair 0-2 0-0 0, S.Jackson 1-3 2-2 4, De Colo 0-0 0-0 0, Mills 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 43-82 11-14 105.

Oklahoma City 32 18 24 19— 93 San Antonio 22 35 26 22—105 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 6-17 (Martin 3-5, Durant 1-1, Sefolosha 1-3, Westbrook 1-3, R.Jackson 0-1, Ibaka 0-2, Fisher 0-2), San Antonio 8-21 (Green 4-4, Diaw 1-2, Neal 1-4, Leonard 1-4, Ginobili 1-4, Mills 0-1, S.Jackson 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Oklahoma City 50 (Ibaka 16), San Antonio 39 (Splitter 10). Assists-Oklahoma City 16 (Westbrook 6), San Antonio 25 (Neal 6). Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 18, San Antonio 20. A-18,581 (18,797).

76ers 106, Nets 97 PHILADELPHIA — Spencer Hawes had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Jrue Holiday added 15 points and 11 assists, and Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak.

Hawes also had seven assists. Thaddeus Young

had 16 points and 10 rebounds in coach Doug Collins’ 100th victory with the team.

Deron Williams had 27 points and 13 assists for the Nets, who had won three in a row.

Philadelphia grabbed control in the second quarter and never trailed in the second half. It was a rare feel-good win for a team that had high expectations before center Andrew Bynum was lost indefinitely with knee injuries.

Evan Turner also scored 16 points for the Sixers, and Dorell Wright had 10.

BROOKLYN (97) Wallace 2-8 0-0 4, Evans 4-9 1-2 9, Lopez 8-13 3-3 19, Williams 10-19 5-7 27, Johnson 8-11 1-2 20, Bogans 1-3 0-0 3, Teletovic 2-7 0-0 4, Watson 1-3 0-0 2, Blatche 4-7 1-2 9, Brooks 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 40-81 11-16 97.

PHILADELPHIA (106) Turner 6-18 3-4 16, T.Young 6-9 4-8 16, Hawes 10-15 4-6 24, Holiday 4-8 6-8 15, Wilkins 5-8 1-1 13, Moultrie 1-3 0-0 2, Jenkins 0-2 0-0 0, Allen 1-2 0-0 2, Wright 6-10 0-0 15, Ivey 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 40-76 18-27 106.

Brooklyn 28 18 29 22— 97 Philadelphia 24 29 29 24—106 3-Point Goals-Brooklyn 6-19 (Johnson 3-5, Williams 2-6, Bogans 1-3, Teletovic 0-2, Wallace 0-3), Philadelphia 8-15 (Wright 3-5, Wilkins 2-3, Ivey 1-1, Holiday 1-1, Turner 1-5). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Brooklyn 48 (Evans 11), Philadelphia 43 (Hawes, T.Young 10). Assists-Brooklyn 28 (Williams 13), Philadelphia 31 (Holiday 11). Total Fouls-Brooklyn 19, Philadelphia 15.

A-16,789 (20,328).

Jazz 103, Pistons 90 SALT LAKE CITY — Mo Williams scored 20 points, and Al Jefferson had 16, helping Utah stop a fourgame slide.

Reserves Marvin Williams and Enes Kanter added 14 points apiece for the Jazz (33-31), who moved into a tie with the idle Los Angeles Lakers for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Utah had dropped seven of eight overall.

Rodney Stuckey, Greg Monroe and Jonas Jerebko each had 15 points for the Pistons (23-43), who lost their sixth straight game.

The Jazz returned home after a winless four-game trip and got back on the right track by controlling the area around the basket. Utah outrebounded Detroit 47-30, and Derrick Favors had three of the Jazz’s nine blocked shots.

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The Pistons closed to 84-79 on Will Bynum’s two free throws with 7:01 left, but Mo Williams helped Utah hold on for the sorely needed victory.

DETROIT (90) Singler 1-6 3-4 5, Jerebko 5-14 4-4 15, Monroe 7-15 1-1 15, Calderon 6-8 1-1 14, Knight 0-2 0-0 0, Kravtsov 0-0 0-2 0, Stuckey 6-10 2-2 15, Middleton 4-7 0-0 12, Villanueva 1-7 0-0 2, Bynum 4-11 4-4 12. Totals 34-80 15-18 90.

UTAH (103) Carroll 2-6 1-1 5, Favors 2-5 2-2 6, Jefferson 7-15 2-2 16, M. Williams 9-14 1-1 20, Foye 1-5 0-0 2, Burks 2-7 0-0 5, Hayward 4-8 3-4 13, Ma.Williams 5-8 2-2 14, Kanter 7-9 0-0 14, Evans 3-4 2-3 8.

Totals 42-81 13-15 103.

Detroit 19 18 33 20— 90 Utah 20 31 25 27—103 3-Point Goals-Detroit 7-20 (Middleton 4-5, Calderon 1-2, Stuckey 1-3, Jerebko 1-4, Knight 0-1, Bynum 0-1, Villanueva 0-4), Utah 6-16 (Hayward 2-3, Ma.Williams 2-3, M. Williams 1-2, Burks 1-2, Carroll 0-2, Foye 0-4). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Detroit 38 (Monroe 13), Utah 52 (Jefferson 10). AssistsDetroit 14 (Calderon 7), Utah 26 (M. Williams 6). Total Fouls-Detroit 15, Utah 14. Technicals-Monroe, Ma.Williams.

A-18,568 (19,911).

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Gonzaga (54) 30-2 1,611 1 2. Duke (11) 27-4 1,559 3 3. Indiana 26-5 1,491 2 4. Louisville 26-5 1,421 8 5. Georgetown 24-5 1,344 5 6. Michigan 25-6 1,230 7 7. Kansas 26-5 1,224 4 8. Michigan St. 24-7 1,184 10 9. Miami 24-6 1,082 6 10. Ohio St. 23-7 1,073 14 11. Kansas St. 25-6 932 9 12. Marquette 23-7 921 15 13. Florida 24-6 838 11 14. Oklahoma St. 23-7 805 13 15. New Mexico 26-5 771 12 16. Saint Louis 24-6 557 16 17. Pittsburgh 24-7 551 20 18. Arizona 24-6 523 18 19. Syracuse 23-8 362 17 20. Memphis 27-4 316 25 21. UCLA 23-8 245 23 22. Wisconsin 21-10 191 22 23. Creighton 27-7 190 — 24. Notre Dame 23-8 171 24 25. VCU 24-7 157 21 Others receiving votes: Saint Mary’s (Cal) 117, Butler 105, North Carolina 49, Colorado St. 48, Temple 20, Belmont 13, UNLV 7, Wichita St. 6, Kentucky 5, Oregon 4, Valparaiso 1, Villanova 1.

USA Today Men’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 10, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Gonzaga (29) 30-2 772 1 2. Duke (2) 27-4 736 4 3. Indiana 26-5 699 2 4. Louisville 26-5 689 6 5. Georgetown 24-5 611 5 6. Kansas 26-5 601 3 7. Michigan State 24-7 557 12 8. Michigan 25-6 542 8 9. Ohio State 23-7 533 13 10. Miami 24-6 502 7 11. Florida 24-6 472 9 12. Kansas State 25-6 410 10 13. Marquette 23-7 400 17 14. New Mexico 26-5 345 11 15. Oklahoma State 23-7 331 14 16. Saint Louis 24-6 287 15 17. Memphis 27-4 269 20 18. Arizona 24-6 252 18 19. Pittsburgh 24-7 238 22 20. Syracuse 23-8 171 16 21. Saint Mary’s 27-5 136 23 22. VCU 24-7 112 19 23. Wisconsin 21-10 106 21 24. Creighton 27-7 94 — 25. UCLA 23-8 72 — Others receiving votes: Notre Dame 46, North Carolina 30, Butler 24, Colorado State 13, Belmont 9, Middle Tennessee 5, Missouri 4, San Diego State 2, California 1, Kentucky 1, Stephen F. Austin 1, UNLV 1, Wichita State 1.

AP Women’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Baylor (40) 31-1 1,000 1 2. Notre Dame 29-1 959 2 3. UConn 28-3 909 3 4. Stanford 31-2 884 4 5. Duke 30-2 846 6 6. California 28-3 777 5 7. Kentucky 27-5 738 7 8. Penn St. 25-5 659 8 9. Texas A&M 24-9 646 19 10. Tennessee 24-7 645 9 11. UCLA 25-7 582 14 12. Maryland 24-7 574 10 13. North Carolina 28-6 467 15 14. Georgia 25-6 461 12 15. Delaware 27-3 405 16 16. Louisville 24-7 397 13 17. South Carolina 24-7 334 17 18. Dayton 27-2 325 11 19. Colorado 25-6 279 18 20. Green Bay 26-2 230 20 21. Purdue 24-8 193 — 22. Syracuse 24-6 160 24 23. Iowa St. 23-7 128 — 24. Nebraska 23-8 86 21 25. Florida St. 22-9 82 23 Others receiving votes: Toledo 78, LSU 59, Michigan St. 36, Gonzaga 24, Oklahoma St. 17, San Diego St. 13, Oklahoma 5, Chattanooga 1, Quinnipiac 1.

College Men

Monday’s Scores TOURNAMENTS Colonial Athletic Association Championship James Madison 70, Northeastern 57 Mid-American Conference First Round Buffalo 74, Cent. Michigan 72, OT E. Michigan 45, N. Illinois 44 Miami (Ohio) 63, Bowling Green 52 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference First Round Morgan St. 61, SC State 52 Savannah St. 59, Md.-Eastern Shore 44 Southern Conference Championship Davidson 74, Coll. of Charleston 55 Summit League Semifinals S. Dakota St. 72, IPFW 56 Sun Belt Conference Championship W. Kentucky 65, FIU 63

Nuggets 108, Suns 93 PHOENIX — Kosta Koufos scored a career high 22 points on 10-of-11 shooting, mostly from pointblank range, and Denver ran its winning streak to nine games.

Corey Brewer added 20 points and Ty Lawson 19 as the Nuggets matched College Women their longest winning Monday’s Scores TOURNAMENTS streak of the season.

Big 12 Conference Baylor 75, Iowa St. 47 Denver dominated East Conference points in the paint 74-32, Big Semifinals including an assortment Notre Dame 83, Louisville 59 UConn 64, Syracuse 51 of soaring dunks.

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Wesley Johnson scored Semifinals Marist 72, Iona 48 18 and Marcus Morris 16 Athletic Conference for the Suns. Hamed Had- Mid-Eastern First Round Coppin St. 44, NC Central 41 dadi scored a career-high Morgan St. 56, Md.-Eastern Shore 49 13 for Phoenix.

SC State 50, Savannah St. 35 DENVER (108) Gallinari 1-8 3-3 5, Faried 4-9 2-2 10, Koufos 10-11 2-3 22, Lawson 8-13 2-4 19, Iguodala 2-6 2-3 6, Brewer 7-16 4-6 20, Chandler 5-7 1-2 11, A.Miller 3-7 1-1 7, McGee 4-9 0-1 8. Totals 44-86 17-25 108.

PHOENIX (93) Marc.Morris 6-13 3-6 16, Mark.Morris 2-7 0-0 4, Scola 2-7 5-6 9, Dragic 3-9 1-1 8, Johnson 9-17 0-0 18, Haddadi 4-7 5-5 13, Dudley 4-9 1-2 12, Marshall 1-3 0-0 3, Tucker 0-2 0-0 0, Beasley 3-7 2-2 8, Brown 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 35-84 17-22 93.

Denver 25 28 27 28—108 Phoenix 26 24 24 19— 93 3-Point Goals-Denver 3-12 (Brewer 2-4, Lawson 1-3, Chandler 0-1, Iguodala 0-2, Gallinari 0-2), Phoenix 6-20 (Dudley 3-5, Marc.Morris 1-2, Dragic 1-3, Marshall 1-3, Mark.Morris 0-1, Brown 0-1, Beasley 0-1, Johnson 0-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Denver 51 (Koufos 10), Phoenix 53 (Scola 13).

Assists-Denver 25 (Iguodala 7), Phoenix 25 (Dragic 7). Total Fouls-Denver 16, Phoenix 21. Technicals-Denver defensive three second, Phoenix defensive three second. A-15,597 (18,422).

Southern Conference Championship Chattanooga 64, Davidson 63 Summit League Semifinals S. Dakota St. 86, IPFW 59 South Dakota 82, IUPUI 72 Sun Belt Conference Championship Middle Tennessee 53, UALR 48 West Coast Conference Championship Gonzaga 62, San Diego 50 MIDWEST Valparaiso 67, Ill.-Chicago 57 EAST Holy Cross 59, Colgate 38 Navy 60, Bucknell 48

Big 12 Men’s Tournament

March 13-16 at Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday’s First Round No. 8 West Virginia (13-18, 6-12) vs.

No. 9 Texas Tech (10-19, 3-15), 6 p.m.

No. 7 Texas (15-16, 7-11) vs. No. 10 TCU (11-20, 2-16), 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Quarterfinals No. 4 Oklahoma (20-10, 11-7) vs. No. 5 Iowa State (21-10, 11-7), 11:30 a.m.

No. 1 Kansas (26-5, 14-4) vs. West Virginia-Texas Tech winner, 2 p.m.

No. 2 Kansas State (25-6, 14-4) vs.

Texas-TCU winner, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Oklahoma State (23-7, 13-5) vs.

No. 6 Baylor, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Semifinals Oklahoma-Iowa State winner vs.

Kansas-West Virginia-Texas Tech winner, 6:30 p.m.

Kansas State-Texas-TCU winner vs.

Oklahoma State-Baylor winner, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Championship Game Semifinals winners, 5 p.m.

Big 12 Women’s Tournament At American Airlines Center, Dallas First Round Friday, March 8 Texas 51, Kansas State 49 Kansas 83, TCU 61 Quarterfinals Saturday, March 9 Oklahoma State 59, Texas Tech 54 Baylor 80, Texas 47 Iowa State 77, Kansas 62 Oklahoma 65, West Virginia 64 Semifinals Sunday, Mach 10 Baylor 77, Oklahoma State 69 Iowa State 79, Oklahoma 60 Championship Monday’s Game Baylor 75, Iowa State 47

AP Men’s Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s Games No. 19 Syracuse vs. Seton Hall or South Florida at Madison Square Garden, 1:30 p.m.

No. 24 Notre Dame vs. Rutgers or DePaul at Madison Square Garden, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No. 4 Louisville vs. Villanova or St. John’s at Madison Square Garden, 6 p.m.

No. 5 Georgetown vs. Providence or Cincinnati at Madison Square Garden, 11 a.m.

No. 6 Michigan vs. Penn State at the United Center, 1:30 p.m.

No. 7 Kansas vs. West Virginia or Texas Tech at the Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., 2 p.m.

No. 11 Kansas State vs. Texas or TCU at the Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., 6 p.m.

No. 12 Marquette vs. No. 24 Notre Dame, Rutgers or DePaul at Madison Square Garden, 8:30 p.m.

No. 14 Oklahoma State vs. Baylor at the Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., 8:30 p.m.

No. 15 New Mexico vs. Wyoming or Nevada at the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m.

No. 17 Pittsburgh vs. No. 19 Syracuse, Seton Hall or South Florida at Madison Square Garden, 1:30 p.m.

No. 18 Arizona vs. Colorado or Oregon State at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, 4:36 p.m.

No. 20 Memphis vs. Tulane or Marshall at the BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla., 6 p.m.

No. 21 UCLA vs. Stanford or Arizona State at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, 2:06 p.m.

Friday’s Games No. 2 Duke vs. Maryland or Wake Forest at Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Indiana vs. Illinois or Minnesota at the United Center, 11 a.m.

No. 8 Michigan State vs. Iowa or Northwestern at the United Center, 8 p.m.

No. 9 Miami vs. Boston College or Georgia Tech at Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum, 11 a.m.

No. 10 Ohio State vs. Purdue or Nebraska at the United Center, 5:30 p.m.

No. 13 Florida vs. Georgia or LSU at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn., noon No. 16 Saint Louis vs. Richmond or Charlotte at the Barclays Center, 11 a.m.

No. 22 Wisconsin vs. No. 6 Michigan or Penn State at the United Center, 1:30 p.m.

No. 25 VCU vs. Xavier or Saint Joseph’s at the Barclays Center, 5:30 p.m.

NCAA Men’s Statistics Team Scoring Defense Through games of Mar. 10 G Stephen F. Austin 29 Western Ill. 29 Florida 30 Virginia 31 Denver 29 Pittsburgh 31 Savannah St. 31 North Dakota St. 31 Wisconsin 31 Georgetown 29 N.C. Central 30 Stony Brook 31 Southern U. 30 Bucknell 32 Wyoming 30 Middle Tenn.

33 Louisville 31 Wright St. 32 Mercer 34 Saint Louis 30 Princeton 27 Ohio St. 30 Fairfield 34 Vermont 31 Wofford 32 Cincinnati 31 Alabama 31 Michigan St. 31 Syracuse 31 Eastern Mich.

31 Gonzaga 32 Clemson 30 Howard 30 Miami (FL) 30 Manhattan 31 Vanderbilt 30 San Diego St. 30 Columbia 28 Gardner-Webb 33 Kansas St. 31 UTEP 30 Northern Ky. 26 Wichita St. 34 Fresno St. 29 Navy 31 Weber St. 29 Albany (NY) 32 Hartford 30 Winthrop 31 Kansas 31 New Mexico 31 Team Scoring Offense Northwestern St. Iona Indiana Iowa St. Ole Miss LIU Brooklyn Houston Duke VMI Detroit VCU Gonzaga North Carolina St East Carolina Missouri Belmont Cal St. Fullerton North Carolina Central Ark. BYU St. Mary’s (CA) Weber St. Michigan Creighton Cal St. Northridg UCLA Memphis Kansas

G 29 32 31 31 31 32 29 31 31 32 31 32 31 29 31 32 31 31 29 32 32 29 31 34 31 31 31 31

OPts 1456 1527 1597 1689 1599 1712 1713 1720 1736 1627 1703 1765 1723 1842 1729 1907 1798 1859 1978 1751 1577 1761 1998 1824 1890 1833 1838 1839 1848 1850 1910 1791 1795 1796 1856 1800 1814 1694 1997 1876 1816 1574 2064 1762 1888 1769 1952 1835 1897 1900 1900

Avg 50.2 52.7 53.2 54.5 55.1 55.2 55.3 55.5 56.0 56.1 56.8 56.9 57.4 57.6 57.6 57.8 58.0 58.1 58.2 58.4 58.4 58.7 58.8 58.8 59.1 59.1 59.3 59.3 59.6 59.7 59.7 59.7 59.8 59.9 59.9 60.0 60.5 60.5 60.5 60.5 60.5 60.5 60.7 60.8 60.9 61.0 61.0 61.2 61.2 61.3 61.3

Pts 2389 2603 2504 2482 2454 2531 2280 2431 2423 2500 2420 2497 2410 2238 2392 2469 2385 2385 2231 2448 2440 2197 2338 2563 2333 2326 2322 2314

Avg 82.4 81.3 80.8 80.1 79.2 79.1 78.6 78.4 78.2 78.1 78.1 78.0 77.7 77.2 77.2 77.2 76.9 76.9 76.9 76.5 76.3 75.8 75.4 75.4 75.3 75.0 74.9 74.6

Illinois St. Baylor Southeast Mo. St. Bryant Eastern Ky. South Dakota St. Niagara Kentucky Charleston So. Ohio Arkansas Southern Miss.

Hawaii Davidson Oakland Santa Clara Colorado St. Louisiana Tech Louisville Massachusetts Boise St. Arizona

33 31 33 30 33 32 32 31 31 31 31 31 30 32 32 32 31 31 31 29 30 30

2460 2309 2446 2223 2445 2367 2366 2291 2290 2287 2286 2285 2211 2358 2357 2356 2281 2280 2280 2132 2205 2202

74.5 74.5 74.1 74.1 74.1 74.0 73.9 73.9 73.9 73.8 73.7 73.7 73.7 73.7 73.7 73.6 73.6 73.5 73.5 73.5 73.5 73.4

Kansas Men

Exhibition Oct. 30 — Emporia State, W 88-54 Nov. 5 — Washburn, W 62-50 Regular season Nov. 9 — Southeast Missouri State in CBE Classic, W 74-55 (1-0) Nov. 13 — Michigan State in Atlanta in Champions Classic, L 64-67 (1-1) Nov. 15 — Chattanooga in CBE Classic, W 69-55 (2-1) Nov. 19 — Washington State in CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo., W 78-41 (3-1) Nov. 20 — Saint Louis in CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo., W 73-59 (4-1) Nov. 26 — San Jose State, W 70-57 (5-1) Nov. 30 — Oregon State in Kansas City, Mo., W 84-78 (6-1) Dec. 8 — Colorado, W 90-54 (7-1) Dec. 15 — Belmont, W 89-60 (8-1) Dec. 18 — Richmond, W 87-59 (9-1) Dec. 22 — at Ohio State, W 74-66 (10-1) Dec. 29 — American, W 89-57 (11-1) Jan. 6 — Temple, W 69-62 (12-1) Jan. 9 — Iowa State, W 97-89, OT (13-1, 1-0) Jan. 12 — at Texas Tech, W 60-46 (14-1, 2-0) Jan. 14 — Baylor, W 61-44 (15-1, 3-0) Jan. 19 — at Texas, W 64-59 (16-1, 4-0) Jan. 22 — at Kansas State, W 59-55 (17-1, 5-0) Jan. 26 — Oklahoma, W 67-54 (18-1, 6-0) Jan. 28 — at West Virginia, W 61-56 (19-1, 7-0) Feb. 2 — Oklahoma State, L 80-85 (19-2, 7-1) Feb. 6 — at TCU, L 55-62 (19-3, 7-2) Feb. 9 — at Oklahoma, L 66-72 (194, 7-3) Feb. 11 — Kansas State, W 83-62 (20-4, 8-3) Feb. 16 — Texas, W 73-47 (21-4, 9-3) Feb. 20 — at Oklahoma State, W 68-67, 2OT (22-4, 10-3) Feb. 23 — TCU, W 74-48 (23-4, 11-3) Feb. 25 — at Iowa State, W 108-96, OT (24-4, 12-3) March 2 — West Virginia, W 91-65 (25-4, 13-3) March 4 — Texas Tech, W 79-42 (264, 14-3) March 9 — at Baylor, L 58-81 (26-5, 14-4) March 14 — vs. Texas Tech or West Virginia in Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo., 2 p.m.

High School

All-Frontier League 2012-2013 Season Girls First Team Megan Bonar, De Soto, SO Lyndsee Johnson, Paola, SO Shelby Baker, Spring Hill, SO Katie Jones, Baldwin, JR Tyra Lyday, Ottawa, SR Second Team Paige Williams, DeSoto, SR Kailyn Smith, Baldwin, SR Tiana Maola, Paola, SO Allie Webb, Eudora, JR Alexis Roecker, Ottawa, SR Honorable Mention Natalie Moore, Louisburg, SO Katie Kehl, Baldwin, SR Brook Vaughan, Louisburg, SR Corie Fischer, Ottawa, SO Taylor Williams, Paola, FR Katie Gehrt, De Soto, SR Maddie Ogle, Baldwin, SO Remick Paulsen, Paola, JR Kaylee Farmer, Paola, SR Macy Carbajo, Spring Hill, SR Melody Hanson, Spring Hill, SR Boys First Team Semi Ojeleye, Ottawa, SR Andrew Ballock, Eudora, JR Quinton Verhulst, De Soto, JR Dallas Natt, Ottawa, SR Alex Hasty, Ottawa, SR Second Team Luke Fursman, Baldwin, JR Lucas Wilson, Paola, JR Chad Berg, Baldwin, JR Corbin Wertz, Louisburg, SO Chris Bybee, Spring Hill, JR Honorable Mention Isaac Lueth, Desoto, SR Nick Becker, Eudora, SR Caleb Gaylord, Baldwin, SR Cayman Long, Paola, JR Mesa Ribordy, Louisburg, SO Matt Smith, Spring Hill, SR Dalton Verhulst, Desoto, SO

BNP Paribas Open

Monday At The Indian Wells Tennis Garden Indian Wells, Calif.

Purse: Men: $6.05 million (Masters 1000); Women: 6.02 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def.

Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-3, 6-1.

Rafael Nadal (5), Spain, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, walkover.

Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Andreas Seppi (20), Italy, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, def. Florian Mayer (27), Germany, 6-1, 6-1.

Richard Gasquet (10), France, def.

Jerzy Janowicz (24), Poland, 6-1, 6-4.

Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 6-3, 6-1.

Women Third Round Angelique Kerber (4), Germany, def.

Yanina Wickmayer (30), Belgium, 6-1, 7-6 (4).

Nadia Petrova (10), Russia, def. Julia Goerges (21), Germany, 6-1, 6-2.

Garbine Muguruza, Spain, def.

Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-0.

Sam Stosur (7), Australia, def. Peng Shuai (32), China, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Caroline Wozniacki (8), Denmark, def. Elena Vesnina (29), Russia, 6-2, 6-1.

Monday’s Games Boston 3, Ottawa 2, SO Calgary at Los Angeles, (n) Tonight’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Boston at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

COLLEGES

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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No. 1 Gonzaga rolls over Saint Mary’s

Julie Jacobson/AP Photo

GONZAGA’S KEVIN PANGOS REACTS AFTER HITTING A THREE-POINT BASKET against Saint Mary’s during the first half of the West Coast Conference tournament championship on Monday in Las Vegas. The Zags won, 65-51.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kelly Olynyk had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and topranked Gonzaga bolstered its case for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament by routing Saint Mary’s, 65-51, in the West Coast Conference final Monday night.

Already headed to the NCAA tournament for the 15th straight season, Gonzaga (31-2) sure had the look of a No. 1 seed, playing a superb game at both ends.

The deep Zags shot 52 percent, dominated inside and teamed up to hound Gaels leading scorer Matthew Dellavedova everywhere he went. Elias Harris added 19 points for Gonzaga, which had a 4218 advantage in the paint.

Saint Mary’s (27-6) labored against Gonzaga’s attacking defense, particularly after point guard Jorden Page injured his right knee midway through the first half.

Dellavedova struggled for the second straight

BOX SCORE SAINT MARY’S (CAL) (27-6) Waldow 3-7 3-5 9, Page 0-2 0-0 0, Young 2-4 1-2 5, Dellavedova 1-8 0-0 2, Holt 8-14 0-0 19, McCoy 0-0 0-0 0, Giusti 0-5 0-0 0, Levesque 3-7 0-2 9, Petrulis 1-5 0-0 3, Hodgson 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 20-56 4-9 51.

GONZAGA (31-2) Pangos 2-8 0-0 4, Bell, Jr. 4-6 0-0 9, Olynyk 7-12 7-9 21, Harris 8-13 3-3 19, Hart 0-0 2-2 2, Dranginis 0-1 0-0 0, Edi 0-0 0-0 0, Stockton 1-2 0-0 3, Karnowski 0-1 1-2 1, Dower 3-5 0-0 6, Barham 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 25-48 13-16 65.

Halftime-Gonzaga 38-29. 3-Point Goals-Saint Mary’s (Cal) 7-27 (Levesque 3-5, Holt 3-8, Petrulis 1-4, Young 0-1, Page 0-2, Giusti 0-3, Dellavedova 0-4), Gonzaga 2-9 (Bell, Jr. 1-1, Stockton 1-2, Olynyk 0-2, Pangos 0-2, Harris 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Saint Mary’s (Cal) 29 (Holt 7), Gonzaga 35 (Olynyk 12). Assists-Saint Mary’s (Cal) 12 (Dellavedova 7), Gonzaga 12 (Harris, Pangos, Stockton 3). Total Fouls-Saint Mary’s (Cal) 15, Gonzaga 10. A-7,896.

game, scoring two points on 1-of-8 shooting, and the Gaels went 7-for-27 from 3-point range.

Stephen Holt led Saint Mary’s, which should have a solid enough resume to earn an at-large NCAA bid.

Gonzaga has been the marker for mid-major success, reaching the NCAA tournament 14 straight

seasons and the regional finals four times, including the past two seasons.

This season, the Zags broke through a big barrier on their way to 30 wins for the first time: No. 1.

Behind Olynyk, the long-haired Canadian with the Seattle-grunge vibe and way-above-the-rim game, Gonzaga lost just two games — to ranked teams — and became the first team to go 16-0 in the WCC. That earned the Bulldogs a spot atop The Associated Press poll for the first time last week.

While glare at the top was too much for many teams in this season of parity, Gonzaga handled prosperity well, closing the regular season with a rout over Portland. Gonzaga then beat Loyola Marymount in the semifinals of the WCC tournament to reach the title game for the 16th straight season.

Waiting for them was a familiar foe.

The Gaels and Bulldogs have met 15 times the past

Big 12 hoops title part of big year for K-State MANHATTAN (AP) — There are times when Kansas State president Kirk Schulz is traveling on business — could be to drum up support for the biology program, or perhaps to discuss serious issues affecting other land-grant schools — and his conversations drift toward sports.

Given the year the Wildcats have had, it’s only natural.

Maybe even inevitable.

Led by Bill Snyder, their chronically underrated and overlooked football program won its second Big 12 championship last fall, and if not for a miserable night against Baylor, might have play for the first national title in school history.

Fast-forward a few months, and with new coach Bruce Weber in charge, the Wildcats thumbed their noses at prognosticators who picked them to finish in the bottom half of the league. The men’s basketball team instead tied Kansas for its first conference title in 36 years.

Only Oklahoma and Texas have won Big 12 football and basketball titles in the same year.

Throw in an Olympic silver medalist in high jumper Erik Kynard, a volleyball program that qualified for the NCAA tournament, a new basketball training facility and a $75 million expansion to the football stadium, and it’s been a banner year for Kansas State sports.

“When I’m particularly on the east and west coast,” Schulz said, “one of the first things people talk about is football, and now our success in basketball. I hear from colleagues and people I run into, and it still ends up being the No. 1 thing that opens up conversation.”

The 11th-ranked Wildcats enter the Big 12 tournament this week at the Sprint Center as the No. 2 seed. And if things fall right for them in seeding for the NCAA tournament, Kansas State could play the first two games of that tournament in Kansas City, too.

It’s heady stuff for a school that less than two years ago was wondering whether it would be shuffled out of the Big 12, or all major conferences, during a period of realignment.

Nebraska and Colorado departed, followed by Texas A&M and Missouri.

But with the addition of TCU and West Virginia this season, and the new leadership of commissioner Bob Bowlsby, the Big 12 has stabilized — and in

five seasons, trading WCC tournament championships each of the past four seasons.

Gonzaga beat Saint Mary’s both times they met during the regular season, 83-78 at home and 77-60 in the Bay Area.

The Gaels nearly missed a third shot, needing a late 3-pointer by Dellavedova and overtime to hold off San Diego in the WCC semifinals.

Saint Mary’s managed to keep it close until Page got hurt at 11:42 of first half, then went more than 6 minutes without a field goal against Gonzaga’s aggressive man defense.

Olynyk brought the mostly pro-Gonzaga crowd to its feet by stripping Dellavedova and streaking in for a breakaway dunk, then Kevin Pangos kept the roar going with a jumper off another steal. Harris followed with another basket on the break, putting the Bulldogs up 33-21 and the fans back on their feet.

McCay CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B

and not the guys coming in,” Weis began. “The only unknown for us, really, is Justin, until he gets out there and we see what holes he has in his game.

Last year at this time, when we went through spring drills, we were very disappointed.”

At the time, the 6-foot2, 213-pound McCay not only was going through the process of leaving OU and relocating closer to his Kansas City, Mo., home, but I’m just he also was in the ready to middle of get out a long and d r a w n - there out battle and show with the everyNCAA for body what immediate eligibility. Kansas It never football came, as can really both his i n i t i a l do.” waiver r e q u e s t — Kansas WR and subse- Justin McCay quent appeal were denied, leaving McCay ineligible for the 2012 season.

As soon as that was settled, McCay put his disappointment on the shelf and went back to work. The coaching staff noticed.

“He gained our support as time passed because he kept getting better and better,” Weis said. “I would like to think that Justin is going to press Andrew, (Turzilli) and Andrew better be ready to bring his A game.”

While McCay worked almost exclusively with the scout team last season, Turzilli took the first significant step forward in his career, finishing with 287 yards on 17 catches in four starts. He started slow, took off in the middle and faded at the finish. But whether he stays ahead of McCay on the depth chart or winds up working behind him, there is plenty of room for both players to play prominent roles in an offense that received zero touchdown receptions from its wide receivers in 2012.

McCay, who said it killed him to have to sit out while his teammates battled last year, believes things will be different this season. From where he sits, they already are.

“Oh, man, I’m super excited,” he said. “I’m just ready to get out there and show everybody what Kansas football can really do. Not just myself. It’s not an individual thing at all.

I’m just here to help the team out any way I can.

I’m not a selfish guy at all.

If I don’t play a down at receiver and I’m on special teams, I’m happy with that. I just want to play.”

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Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo

IOWA STATE CENTER ANNA PRINS (55) DEFENDS BAYLOR CENTER BRITTNEY GRINER in the first half of the Big 12 championship game Monday in Dallas.

The Bears won, 75-47.

Griner, Bears roll to crown Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo

KANSAS STATE COACH BRUCE WEBER INSTRUCTS HIS TEAM in the first half of the Wildcats’ game against Baylor on March 2 in Waco, Texas. some ways, become one of the strongest leagues around.

“Sports do a great job of letting people feel good about your institution,” Schulz said.

It’s hard to decide which was the bigger surprise this year, the football program reaching the Fiesta Bowl or the basketball team going 25-6 overall and 14-4 in the conference.

Most people close to the program would choose hoops.

The football team had most of its key pieces coming back from a team that went to the Cotton Bowl, but the basketball program lost a couple of important seniors and was under the direction of a new coach who had been recently fired by Illinois.

The reception to Weber was so lukewarm that some fans even organized a protest outside of Bramlage Coliseum the day he was introduced, and the most cynical of fans still believe that his intro was made during Final Four weekend so that it wouldn’t receive much attention.

But Weber managed to win over his players, even a couple of them who were trying to decide whether to transfer. And then he slowly got them to play his style, and the results have been impressive: a

nonconference win over Florida, wins over Oklahoma State, Iowa State and Baylor during the Big 12 meat-grinder, and now a share of the conference championship.

“They deserve it,” said Kansas coach Bill Self, who’s led the Jayhawks to at least a share of nine straight. “They had a great year, and they won some big games away from home, too.”

The Big 12 trophy was only the start of the rewards.

On Monday, Weber was a near-unanimous choice for AP’s Big 12 coach of the year, Rodney McGruder was first-team allleague and fellow guard Angel Rodriguez made the second team.

“There’s only like, a dozen or so schools in the country in the last so many years in major power conferences that won football and basketball in the same year,” Weber said. “It’s a rare instance, you know?

And it’s great for K-State and the university.”

The only other teams in Division I this year to have accomplished the feat are Louisville in the Big East and Arkansas State in the Sun Belt, and the combined 36 wins between football and men’s basketball is trumped only by the Cardinals’ 37 wins in the two sports.

DALLAS (AP) — The celebrations are always fun for top-ranked Baylor.

Brittney Griner and the Lady Bears have had plenty of practice.

Now the defending national champions can turn their focus toward trying to win the biggest prize one more time with their 6-foot-8 senior star.

The Lady Bears have another trophy to show for their dominating run through the Big 12, clinching their third straight conference tournament championship with a 75-47 victory over No. 23 Iowa State on Monday night.

“Winning never gets old, especially this one,” said Griner, one of five Baylor seniors. “We wanted to celebrate this, everybody did. This is our last go-around with the Big 12.

Meant everything to us.”

Along with their three tournament titles in row, the Lady Bears (32-1) have won the last three Big 12 regular-season championships as well — going undefeated through the league for the last two.

They have won 49 consecutive regular-season and tournament games in the Big 12, though that streak doesn’t include the NCAA regional final loss to then-conference foe Texas A&M two years ago in the American Airlines Center, where they won their latest tournament title.

“We had that epic disappointment along the way. I’m never going to forget that,” coach Kim Mulkey said. “Those kinds of things motivate us.”

BOX SCORE IOWA ST. (23-8) Christofferson 1-7 2-2 5, Williamson 0-2 0-0 0, Poppens 1-4 0-0 2, Prins 8-12 0-0 20, Moody 4-13 2-2 12, Blaskowsky 1-3 0-0 3, Hagedorn 1-1 0-0 3, Arganbright 0-0 0-0 0, Ellis 1-3 0-1 2, Baier 0-0 0-0 0, Zimmerman 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 17-45 4-5 47.

BAYLOR (32-1) Pope 2-6 0-2 4, Griner 14-17 3-4 31, Sims 7-9 2-2 20, Hayden 1-5 0-0 2, Madden 2-6 0-0 6, Johnson 1-2 0-0 3, Williams 4-7 0-0 8, Chandler 0-0 1-2 1, Prince 0-4 0-0 0, Fuqua’ 0-1 0-0 0, Robertson 0-1 0-0 0, Agbuke 0-0 0-0 0, Higgins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-58 6-10 75.

Halftime-Baylor 41-13.

3-Point Goals-Iowa St. 9-19 (Prins 4-4, Moody 2-4, Hagedorn 1-1, Blaskowsky 1-2, Christofferson 1-4, Williamson 0-2, Poppens 0-2), Baylor 7-12 (Sims 4-5, Madden 2-3, Johnson 1-1, Hayden 0-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Iowa St. 23 (Christofferson, Poppens 5), Baylor 35 (Griner 8). Assists-Iowa St. 13 (Blaskowsky 4), Baylor 22 (Hayden 8). Total Fouls-Iowa St. 12, Baylor 11.

Technical-Iowa St. Bench. A-8,662.

Griner, already a twotime All-American, had 23 of her 31 points by halftime — outscoring Iowa State by 10 points on her own by then in a title game matchup of the Big 12’s top two seeds.

It was Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly who said after a 28-point loss at Baylor early in conference play that the Big 12 race was basically to determine who finished second behind Baylor.

The Cyclones wound up the runner-up both in the regular season and the tournament.

“They are different than anyone in the country,” Fennelly said. “They’ve proven that over the last two years.”

Odyssey Sims added 20 points for Baylor, including three 3-pointers in the first 4 minutes after halftime.

Anna Prins had 20 points and Nikki Moody 12 for the Cyclones (23-8).

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2004 Lexus LS 430-124K, AT, CD Changer, Navigation, Heated/Cooled Leather, Moonroof, 2-owner, Local Trade $14,900.

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v6, at, ac, cloth int, clean, 169k miles, $7,000.

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Mid-sized 4 door SUV -2.4L, I-4 cyl 6-Speed Automatic Trans.with Shiftronic Ext. Color-Sonoran Red, Int. Color- Beige, Mileage-36,617 A CERTIFIED PREOWNED AWD SUV for only $17,999!

Honda 2010 Insight Hybrid, one owner, hard to find, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#16586 only $16,777.

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Part of our Ford Certified Pre-Owned program which comes with a remaining 7 year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty. This one is an SE with the SYNC package, automatic transmission, and alloy wheels. Priced thousands less than a new one and has a better warranty.

P1118 $16,995.

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2008 Honda Civic LX-133K, AT, CD, Keyless Entry, Cruise, 2-owner, Clean $8,900.

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Great luxury car with low miles considering it is 11 years old. Well taken care of and a 1-Owner vehicle. 13C699B $9,995

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2011 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS Certified Pre-Owned, Carfax one-owner. Blue exterior with grey exterior. Great comfort and space. 44K miles. $18,995 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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2 door Convertible, 3.3L, V-6, 5-Speed Automatic Trans. with Overdrive, Mileage-67,861, Red Ext./ Grey Int. Warm weather is a comin! Get this little red convertible while she’s hot at only $15,248!

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2010 Lincoln MKZ This Lincoln is fully loaded with AWD and the Technology Package that includes navigation, BLIS warning system, and the THX Premium Sound System. Brand new this Lincoln was over $42,000. Now it is a great deal. P1101 $23,527

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4 door Sedan Engine2.5L V-6 cyl Ext. ColorWhite Mileage71,215 $17,988.

2011 Hyundai Santa Fe -GLS

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Chevrolet 2009 HHR LS 4 cyl, manual, cruise control, power equipment, On Star, GM Certified with 2 years of scheduled maintenance included! Stk#396051 only $10,847 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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2011 Dodge Charger 4 Dr sedan, 3.6L engine, AT, Gray ext, 41k miles. $18,998 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

2002 Dodge Intrepid ES

2006 Nissan Altima

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Chevrolet 2011 Cruze LS, one owner local trade, only 6k miles, power equipment, cd, GM certified with 2 years of scheduled maintenance included, stk#349091 only $16,819.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013 7B Cars-Imports

SL V6 with heated leather seats and a sunroof. Local trade and always maintained. V6 gets great gas mileage and this is a very comfortable ride. 13C547B $12,937

Hard to come by LTD model! 4 door Sedan, 1.8L, I-4 cyl, 6-Speed Automatic Trans with Overdrive. Ext. Color Silver, Int. Color-Gray Leather, Mileage11,558 This car won’t last at $19,661!

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Cadillac 2007 STS White Diamond, leather heated seats, Bose sound, remote start, alloy wheels, loaded with luxury! Stk#10273 only $19,415.

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Cars-Imports

Lexus, 2006 GS300 All Wheel Drive. Super nice Lexus with only 53K miles!

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Cadillac 2009 DTS Cadillac Certified w/ 6yrs or 100,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty! This is confidence like no other!

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2010 Toyota Matrix Hatchback 50K miles Great space and gas mileage. Black exterior with grey interior. $13,923 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Dear Annie: My husband, “Clark,” and I have been married for 47 years.

We both have Facebook accounts. A year ago, Clark became friends with “Toni,” an ex-girlfriend from his late-teen years. I am my husband’s third wife. Toni has been married at least twice, maybe three times. I’ve lost track.

The problem is, Clark and Toni were chatting and “poking” each other regularly until his sister told him it was not fair to me. Clark claimed that he stopped chatting. However, the poking has continued.

A few months ago, I sent Toni a friend request. All of Clark’s friends from his hometown have friended me right off, but Toni didn’t respond. Clark then asked her to do it as a favor to him. She then sent me a friend request, with no mention of being sorry for ignoring my previous

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one. I agreed so as not to be rude. When Toni’s birthday came, I wished her a “happy birthday.”

Our birthdays are in the same month. She ignored mine.

Last week, I taught Clark how to delete a poke, and he did. But this week, they are doing it again. Since he was the one who did the delete, he must have been the one to start back up.

When I asked him, his response was that nothing is going on and Facebook chatting and poking is no big deal. Clark has

‘Duggars’ special is real but dull Reviewing reality television often reminds me of my favorite quote from director Alfred Hitchcock. When asked why his movies weren’t more like “real life,” he replied, “What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?” Too often, reality television is nothing but the “dull bits.”

I was reminded of this while watching “19 Kids and Counting: Duggars Do Asia” (8 p.m., TLC).

For the uninitiated, the Duggars are a family from Arkansas. Parents Jim Bob and Michelle have 19 children, and all have names that begin with “J’’ -- from the eldest, Joshua (age 25), to the baby, Josie Brooklyn.

Dull is precisely the word to describe this Duggar special. We watch while the huge brood packs for the trip to Japan. The cost of the adventure or the purpose of the trip are never discussed. Nothing is ever discussed. We’re too busy watching them pack. And eat waffles on their way to the airport. And arrive at the airport. And sleep on the plane. If anything qualifies for Hitchcock’s definition of “the dull bits,” it’s these banal scenes of brazen ordinariness presented with infantile cheerfulness. Look!

A big family is walking up to the baggage carousel! What an accomplishment!

Although this show is presented as good, clean, wholesome fun with a religious (be fruitful and multiply) backdrop, I found it more than slightly decadent.

There’s something rather sad about all these little Duggars — Jessa, Jinger, Jackson, Jennifer — being set up and exhibited as postmodern performance artists for us to consume as entertainment.

Tonight’s other highlights

The 2012 geological shocker “Ring of Fire” (7 p.m., Reelz) concludes.

The subtitle is a spoiler as the 2012 miniseries “Hindenburg: The Last Flight” (7 p.m., Encore) concludes.

A winner emerges on the season finale of “The Taste” (8 p.m., ABC).

Tough calls on “Smash” (9 p.m., NBC).

Megan and her team come under fire on “Body of Proof” (9 p.m., ABC).

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BIRTHDAYS Actress-singer Liza Minnelli is 67. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is 66. Singer-songwriter James Taylor is 65. Actor Jerry Levine is 56. Former MLB All-Star Darryl Strawberry is 51.

Actress Julia Campbell is 50. Actor Aaron Eckhart is 45.

even commented that he would like to meet Toni, with me, just to see what she looks like now.

Toni is not the only female who regularly pokes Clark on Facebook. I have told him that liking and sharing posts is less personal than pokes, chatting and messages. Now he is talking about creating a Twitter account. Am I overreacting, or should Clark be more considerate of my feelings? — Torn Dear Torn: This boils down to trust. Something about Toni is ringing a lot of bells in your head, and Clark should respect this by limiting contact. However, he doesn’t seem to have done anything untoward, so he objects to your reaction. Try calmly explaining why Toni bothers you and why it is important that his behavior reassure, rather than alarm, you. He needs to know this is moving into risky territory.

Dear Annie: I’m 19 years old and work at least 60 hours a week. I recently found out that I am pregnant. The father does not have a job and lives far away. I want him involved with our child, but not if he can’t help support the baby. Am I being too harsh? — Hard Worker Dear Hard: Yes. A parent’s importance should not be based on his income. “Support” is more than money. It can include taking care of the child and being emotionally supportive of the mother. Unless the father is a drug addict, alcoholic or abuser, your child’s relationship with him is necessary and beneficial.

But the father should be actively looking for work so he can pay child support, and you should hold him responsible for it.

In the meantime, please don’t deny either of them the positive aspects of this relationship.

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Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 12, 2013

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18 “... with a right away. You call the shots in Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) banjo on my your life, so only you can change Someone is hot on your ___” this pattern. If you are single, avoid heels and wants to at least have 19 White heron 20 Start of making any impulsive commita conversation with you, if not an a sage ments. If you are attached, the two agreement. If you try to change of you might be eyeing a property this person’s mind or do something 23 thought Part of investment. differently, you will still get a hard F.D.R. The Stars Show the Kind of Day bottom line. Tonight: Go with the 24 Performed badly You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; moment.

28 Preposition 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) in poetry Aries (March 21-April 19) Manage your exuber29 Lacking Mars enters your sign, ance. You might not even realize brightness which invigorates you even more. what a strong reaction others are or color 32 AFC Central Harness this vitality. Tonight: Do not having to it. Tonight: Choose a player stand on ceremony. stressbuster.

33 High-end Taurus (April 20-May 20) Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) hotel Your irritation with a par You can’t hold yourself offerings ticular situation might be building, back from using your imagination, 35 He played and a sudden event could trigger nor would you want to. You are a Ponch stronger feelings. Stop investing en- solution finder. Tonight: Let the fun 36 Second part of a sage ergy in suppressing your emotional begin. thought state. Tonight: Let mystery in.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) 40 Piano Gemini (May 21-June 20) Get past a hassle involving chanteuse You know that you a domestic matter. You might have Amos 41 Dumbbells are heading in the right direction. errands to run and calls to make, A meeting could be unpredictable. but completing them could be close 42 Having star Tonight: The more people there are to impossible. Tonight: Go with the 45 quality?

Average golf around you, the happier you will be. flow. scores Cancer (June 21-July 22) Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) 46 Oft-mis-

You might want to work with a boss or superior, but this person could become more demanding.

Just remember who is in charge, and you will be OK. Tonight: A must appearance.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) An unexpected call triggers your imagination. Your mind seems resistant to any discipline or focus. Tonight: Catch up on emails.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A close associate or a loved one might change his or her tune when you least expect it. This

Speak your mind, but take a moment before you express your thoughts. Choosing the right words could make all the difference in the receiver’s response. Tonight: Return calls.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Know what is going on with your finances. A costly mistake could impact your cash flow, and that could cause a lot of disruption.

Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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W-S ADDITION IN THE CITY Kenneth M. McGovern, OF LAWRENCE:, IN DOUGCOUNTY, KANSAS Sheriff LAS Douglas County, Commonly known as 641 Kansas Lincoln Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Prepared By: and you are hereby reSouth & Associates, P.C. quired to plead to said petiKristen G. Stroehmann tion in said Court at Law(KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 rence, Kansas on or before the 26th day of April, 2013.

Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 Should you fail therein (913)663-7899 (Fax) judgment and decree will Attorneys For Plaintiff be entered in due course (146710) upon said petition. ________ (First published in the Law- THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO rence Daily Journal- World, COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY March 12, 2013) INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THA AT IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PURPOSE. JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff In the Matter of the 6310 Lamar - Suite 235 Adoption of: Overland Park, KS 66202 LGH, (913)831-3000 DOB: xx/xx/1998, Fax No. (913)831-3320 Minor Child Our File No. 12-005508/dkb ________ Case No: 13 AD 23 Division No: 15 (First published in the LawChapter 59 rence Daily Journal-World March 5, 2013) NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR ADOPTION IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS The state of Kansas to Bradley C. Hagan, the In the Matter of the biological father of LGH: Estate of: SANDRA BEHYMER, You are hereby notified Deceased that a petition has been filed in the above-named Case No. 2013 PR 32 court by Timothy A. Division 1 McAnany, praying for an order and decree of said Petition Pursuant to Court that petitioner be K.S.A. Chapter 59 permitted and authorized to adopt LGH, a minor male NOTICE OF HEARING AND child, as his own child; that NOTICE TO CREDITORS an order and decree of adoption of said child by THE STATE OF KANSAS TO the petitioner be made and ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: entered by said court; and that all other proper relief You are hereby notified be granted.

You are re- that on February 25, 2013, a quired to file your written petition was filed in this defenses thereto on or be- Court by Donna Bartkoski, a fore the 3rd day of April, devisee, legatee and execu2013, at 9:00 o’clock a.m., in tor named in the “Last Will the District Court of John- and Testament of Sandra son County, Division 15, in Behymer,” deceased, dated Olathe, Kansas, at which July 16, 2010, requesting the time and place the cause Will and Testament of Sanwill be heard. Should you dra Behymer be admitted fail to do so, judgment and to probate and record; petidecree will be entered in tioner be appointed as exdue course upon said Peti- ecutor, without bond, and tion. petitioner be granted Letters Testamentary.

WALLACE, SAUNDERS, AUSTIN, BROWN AND ENOCHS, You are required to file CHARTERED your written defenses to By: Cheryl A. Kessler the petition on or before KS #22061 March 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

James G. Butler, Jr. in the District Court, DougKS #07009 las County, Kansas at 10111 West 87th Street which time and place the Overland Park, KS 66282 cause will be heard. Should 913-888-1000 you fail to file your written 913-888-1065 - FAX defenses, judgment and dejbutler@wallacesaunders.com cree will be entered in due ATTORNEYS FOR course upon the petition.

PETITIONER ________ All creditors of the dece(First Published in the Law- dent are notified to exhibit rence Daily Journal-World, their demands against the Estate within the latter of March 12, 2013) four months from the date IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF of first publication of notice DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably asINVESTORS, INC, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH certainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as CERTIFICATES, SERIES provided by law, and if MLCC 2005-3, U.S. BANK their demands are not thus NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE,

BY PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION AS SERVICER Plaintiff, vs.

LORRAINE ALBER Defendants.

Case No. 13CV105 Div. No. 5 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure NOTICE OF SUIT The State LORRAINE

/s/ Donna Bartkoski, Petitioner Prepared by: 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 Djbrown@davidbrownlaw.com

Attorneys for Petitioner ________

of Kansas to: ALBER, A/K/A

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