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JAYHAWK FANS WAVE THE WHEAT as the end of the KU-North Carolina game is rebroadcast Sunday on the video screen during the wait to greet the team at Allen Fieldhouse. The 80-67 Elite Eight victory over North Carolina means KU will be headed to the Final Four in New Orleans, where the No. 2 seed Jayhawks will face No. 2 seed Ohio State on Saturday.

It’s not cheap, but it’s doable

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Are you so inspired by the Jayhawk’s Sunday win over the Tar Heels that you’re ready to catch them live at the Final Four in New Orleans? Here’s a guide to help you g e t there, s t a y there, and get in the Superdome for the March 31 and April 2 games.

Warning: It’ll cost you.

And better act fast, because prices are climbing by the minute.

Getting there

By automobile: It’s 872 miles from Allen Fieldhouse to the MercedesBenz Superdome in New Orleans. Google maps estimates the trip should take 14 hours and 31 minutes. To get there before the 5:09 p.m. start of the LouisvilleKentucky game, an ambitious traveler would need to set off from Lawrence at 2:38 a.m. Saturday. Of course, you need to fac-

What this all means, financially, to Bill Self As Bill Self’s Jayhawks keep advancing in the NCAA Tournament, the head coach’s contract calls for him to earn several bonuses on top of his already-guaranteed $3 million per year.

Self’s contract includes several provisions that trigger bonus payments for him.

He already has two bonuses in the bag this year.

The Big 12 regular season conference title earned him $50,000. And when his team went on a 12-0 run to send North Carolina packing on Sunday, that Final Four berth earned Self another $100,000.

A few other bonuses might be in reach, too. If

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Minus a few flowers and a couple of tree limbs, downtown Lawrence was back to normal Monday morning, just hours after fans filled Massachusetts Street to celebrate Kansas University’s latest trip to the Final Four.

About 40 employees from the city’s Parks and Recreation and Public Works departments began cleanup duty at 5 a.m. and were finished by 7 a.m.

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Self wins The Associated Press’ Coach of the Year award, he gets another Self $50,000.

He won it once before, in 2009, and he has already been named as the Sporting News Coach of the Year this year.

The biggest bonus comes with the biggest prize: If his team goes to New Orleans and wins two more games, Self will earn another $200,000 for a national title.

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Public asked to report ‘docile’ raccoons to city Lawrence officials are asking area residents to be on the lookout for raccoons that display signs of lethargy or seem unusually docile or tame.

Area wildlife officials have determined the raccoons are not infected with rabies but are carrying an illness that can be spread to pets and other animals. City officials, who have received several calls about the raccoons, are advising pet owners to ensure their pets are up-todate with their vaccinations.

Megan Gilliland, city spokeswoman, said the raccoons likely have contracted a strain of distemper, a respiratory illness fatal to animals that contract it.

Distemper, according to the city, cannot be transmitted from animals to humans. The city, however, is still recommending that Lawrence residents who come across an odd-acting raccoon contact the Police Department at 8327509, and an animal control officer will be sent to the scene.

Gilliland said wildlife officials are speculating the mild winter may have increased the cases of distemper in the area’s raccoon population.

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TOPEKA — Topeka would be split between two congressional districts, with the Statehouse and heavily minority city neighborhoods moving into a district with far-flung western Kansas farming communities, under a redistricting plan approved Monday by a state House com- Topeka has never been split bemittee.

The Redistricting tween two disCommittee endorsed the plan to divide To- tricts, and it has peka on a 12-11 vote, been in a northwith House Speak- east or eastern er Mike O’Neal, a Kansas district Hutchinson Republican who appointed since 1899. The himself chairman, proposal to divide breaking a tie among it drew bipartisan its other members.

The measure goes to opposition from the House for debate area lawmakers. later this week.

Legislators must redraw the state’s four congressional districts to account for shifts in population over the past decade.

The 1st District, of western and central Kansas, is nearly 58,000 people short of the ideal population of 713,280 and must gain territory and residents.

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DEATHS VICTORIA CONTRERAS PARR A Memorial Mass for Victoria Contreras Parr, 86, Lawrence will be held Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence, KS. Inurnment will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, April 21, 2012 at the Humeston Cemetery in Humeston, IA. Vicky was born in Campbellton, Texas, on January 12, 1926 to Corina Contreras. Vicky attended public and parochial schools in Texas.

She was married in April 1944 in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Marvin Eugene Parr with whom she moved to his hometown, Humeston, Iowa, and spent the next 50+ years of her life. In 2002, she relocated to Lawrence in order to be closer to her family.

She was preceded in death by her husband Gene, her mother Corina Contreras Toscano, stepfather Seferino Toscano, Uncle Alfredo Contreras, who became her guardian following her mother’s early death.

She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church of Corydon, Iowa, and the American Legion Auxiliary, as well as a library trustee for many years. She worked as a clerk and a seamstress while in Iowa. Her hobbies included golf, quilting, gardening and sewing and her passions were her family and her faith.

One of the staples in her life in Iowa was her daily coffee group that endured through all her Humeston years. Among those in her coffee group was her sister-in-law Mary Vandell, with whom she enjoyed a special friendship of nearly 70 years.

She also spent quality time mending and refinishing old furniture with her brother-in-law Oliver Parr. Family gatherings with her in-laws Chella and Miles Parr, Oliver and Mary, Dale, Linda, Jo and Ron Vandell were the source of much joy in her life.

Her son and only child David married Joan Farmer in 1968. This union was the beginning of a new chapter in her life. She truly adored her daughter-in-law, grand-

children and great-grandchildren and cherished the extended family she gained in her marParr riage and in the marriages of her son and her grandchildren. She treasured her trips to her grandchildren’s colleges and homes in Princeton, NJ, Madison, WI, Chicago, IL, and San Leandro CA and numerous other trips with Joan and David.

In 2000 she joined Joan and granddaughter Angie on a Caribbean cruise, a real highlight in her life.

After moving to Lawrence she met many new and wonderful friends.

She enjoyed being in a larger city again, along with being able to shop and to drive to water aerobics classes only a few blocks from her home at Prairie Commons. She also enjoyed several trips to her son’s Lake of the Ozarks house to hang out, swim, boat and even once to take a jet ski ride with Jim Street, her surrogate son.

She is survived by a son David and his wife Joan, of Lawrence, grandson Matthew Parr and his wife Carrie, London, and granddaughter Angela Hicks and husband Bryant, San Leandro, CA, along with six greatgrandchildren Beatrice, Luke, Wyatt, and Finn, London, and Khalil and Saniyya, San Leandro, half-sisters Teresa Reyes and Louisa Jimenez, and half-brother Felix Toscano. She set an example of grace and dignity in her treatment of others, and this approach to life drew people to her. Vicky leaves a host of loving relatives and friends whose lives she touched and who will miss her dearly.

Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Humeston Public Library and may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com.

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CAROL ELLER MCCAFFREY Funeral services for Carol Eller McCaffrey, 66, Lawrence, KS will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.

She died on Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Carol was born on June 5, 1945 in Lawrence, KS, the daughter of Leo and Dorothy Giesy Eller. She grew up in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1963. She attended Emporia State University for two years.

She was the longtime Director of First Impressions at KLWN and KLZR. Earlier in her career, she worked for Maupintour, Inc. in Lawrence.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Lawrence.

Survivors include a son, Michael Leo McCaffrey and his companion, Erin Goedtel, of Minneapolis, MN, her husband, Marty Thomas, of Lawrence; two step-daughters, Lara Francisco, of Lawrence, KS, Carrie and husband,

Ken Farrar, of Lawrence, KS, a stepson, Kent Thomas and wife, Laura Shaw Dunn, McCaffrey of Portland, OR, a brother, Neal and his wife, Becky Eller, of Lawrence, KS; eight step-grandchildren, Emily Thomas, Hanna Thomas, Kendall Francisco, Corbin Francisco, Carter Francisco, Jakob Farrar, Savannah Farrar, Lacey Shay Farrar; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

The family will greet friends from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday at WarrenMcElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.

The family suggests memorials in her name to the Lawrence Humane Society or to the LMH Endowment Association for the Oncology Department, and may be sent in care of the mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com.

Please sign this guestbook at obituaries.ljworld. com.

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Ralph Dean Allen, 89, Tonganoxie, KS, died Monday March 26, 2012 at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, KS. Funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, 2012, at the United Methodist Church, Tonganoxie. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. Saturday until the funeral, at the church.

Burial will be in Wapello Cemetery, Wapello, Iowa.

Ralph was born July 29, 1922 in Wapello, Iowa, the son of Lucian E. and Della Rachel Hartman Allen. He was united in marriage to Betty Kerr on December 16, 1944 in Wapello, Iowa. She preceded him in death on June 13, 2011. He served in the 517th Parachute Army Infantry Division during WWII. He graduated from Iowa State University, Ames, IA and worked as a ceramic engineer.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church and the American Ceramics Society.

Survivors include his son, Dean and wife Debbie Allen, Tonganoxie, KS, and 2 grandchildren.

Sign the guestbook at LADYS UNE CHAFER OSS www.quisenberryfh.com.

Please sign this guestGladys June Schafer Schafer, book at obituaries.ljworld.

Ross, 83, of Perry, died Pacific, MO., com.

Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Patrick E. the Rolling Hills Nurs(Kerry) ing Center in Topeka.

Schafer, Gladys was born June 21, Perry, one 1928 at Perry, the daughsister, Aleta ter of Edgar Leslie and Schafer, ToRoss Myra Dick Patterson. As peka, seven CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A a lifelong resident and Grandchildren, Meghan homemaker in Perry, she Randecker, Abigail round trip, based on an was a 1946 graduate of Schafer, Olivia Schafer, average 30 miles to each Perry Rural High School.

Chad Schafer, Michael gallon.

She was a member of the Schafer, Nicholas Schafer,

By plane: Certainly Perry United Methodist Matthew Schafer, and a costlier mode of transChurch, the United Meth- two great-grandchildren, portation, plane tickets odist Women, Order of Layla Schafer and Sumleaving from Kansas City Eastern Star Chapter # 431 mer Schafer. on Friday to New Orleans of Perry, and a member Funeral Services will and returning Tuesday of Jefferson County Farm be at 10:30 AM, Thursday, will cost between $1,200 Bureau, serving as the March 29, 2012 at the and $2,500, according to a First District Women’s Perry United Methodist survey of several websites.

Chairman for many years. Church. Burial will be

By train: For $354, She was also very active at Oak Ridge Cemetery, you could take an Amtrak in the Jefferson County Perry. Visitation will be train from Kansas City to Republican committee. from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, New Orleans. However, Gladys and her husband, Wednesday at Barnett the train would leave at “Tunney”, were longtime Family Funeral Home, 7:43 a.m. Friday and not members of the Perry 1220 Walnut (U.S. Highpull into New Orleans Squares Square Dance way 59), Oskaloosa. The until 3:30 p.m. but still in club. She was married to casket will remain closed. time for tipoff.

Eugene “Tunney” SchaMemorials may be made

By bus: To get to fer on August 21, 1948 at to Perry United Methodthe Superdome for tipoff, Perry; he preceded her in ist Church or to Grace you’d have to leave Lawdeath on October 12, 1986. Hospice in care of the Furence at 6 p.m. Thursday, She married G. Roland neral Home, P.O. Box 602, and you’d arrive in New ETTIE OU OVER ETTEY Ross on May 9, 2003 at Oskaloosa, KS 66066.

Orleans at 8:30 p.m. FriPerry; he died on April www.barnettfamilyfh. day, all for $143.

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Bettie Lou Dover-Pettey, TX. Siblings: by three sons, Calvin E. Please sign this guestWhere to stay 74, Gardner, will be held Brother, (Linda) Schafer, Galena, book at obituaries.ljworld.

A search on Hotels. at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, Zachariah IL., Donald L. (Vickie) com. com shows the cheapest March 29, 2012 at War(Sonny), and nightly hotel rate in New ren-McElwain Mortuary three sisters Orleans at the Maison St. ARREN ATCLIFFE OONS – Eudora Chapel. She Lorraine, Charles Quality Inn & died at the Medical Lodge Dover-Pettey Mary and Suites, at $299 per night.

A memorial service for He was an active member of Gardner on March 23, Elizabeth.

A four-night stay, which Warren Ratcliffe Coons, 2012. She was born March 17 Grandchildren and 18 of the United Methodist many of the hotels require 87, Lawrence, KS will be 11, 1938 in Norman, OklaChurch for over 60 years.

Great-Grandchildren. for the Final Four, would held at a date to be deter- He was recognized for his homa to Zachariah and She was preceded in cost about $1,200. Staying mined. He passed away Pearl Dover. volunteer service with the death by four brothers: at the Maison St. Charles March 25, 2012 at Brandon Red Cross and the Sun She married Kenneth Lee, Joe, Alfred, Steve, would put you at 2.1 miles Woods of Alvamar.

Bryant in 1956; they later and three sisters: Naomi, City Center Emergency from the Superdome.

He was born on August Squad. divorced after sixteen Dorothy & Lavinia.

6, 1924 in Hartford, CT years of marriage. She Warren’s parents; a The family will greet Getting in to Walter and T. Beatrice brother, Walter; and a sisthen married Victor friends from 5-7 p.m. on A variety of online tickCoons.

Pettey in 1972; they later ter, Betty Jane preceded Wednesday, March 28, et sites, such as StubHub. He graduated from divorced after seventeen him in death. Warren is 2012 at the Warren-McElcom and Primesports.

Weaver High School years of marriage. survived by Janelle, his wain Mortuary – Eudora com, are offering Final in Hartford in 1943 and Left to cherish her wife of 65 years, a son Chapel.

Four tickets on a ticket immediately joined the memory are her sons, LarPhilip and wife, Deborah Online condolences exchange program for U.S. Air Force, where he ry Bryant – Hays, Ks, Jim- may be sent to www. of Saratoga Springs, NY; groups of two to 20. The served as a flight officer mie Bryant – Lawrence, warrenmcelwain.com a daughter, Susan Wade, cheapest tickets, includuntil the war ended in Ks, Loyd Bryant – Eudora, Please sign this guestand husband, John of ing both games, is listed at Ks, Billy Pettey, Freeport, book at obituaries.ljworld. 1945. During his training Lawrence, KS; and a son, $175 per ticket. But if you in Texas he met Janelle TX, and one daughter, Robert and wife, Sherri com. have the cash, you can Howell and they were Debra Bryant Leavey – of Goshen, KY. He had spend up to $15,000. married May 25, 1946 in seven grandchildren, Denton, TX. Kate, Jonathan, Timothy, How’s that budget look?

ILLIAM HARLES AY Warren was a manuAngelica, Kaitlyn, Andrea If you carpool with one facturing engineer for and Meghan.

(December 22, 1963- March 23, 2012) friend, drive to New OrUnited Technologies in The family suggests leans, share a room, and Son of Bobby (deestablishments be made Windsor Locks, CT for memorials in his name to buy the nosebleed seats, ceased) and Nina Ray, handicapped accessible. over 40 years. Warren First United Methodist you can get in and out of brothers: Gary Allen, Da- William died at Lawrence and Janelle retired to Sun Church, Lawrence, and the Final Four, not includvid (both deceased), Rob- Memorial Hospital in the City Center, FL where may be sent in care of the ing KU championship ert and Paul Ray, all of intensive care unit Friday, they lived for 15 years be- mortuary. shirts or food, for about Lawrence, KS. Survived March, 23, 2012, due to a fore moving to Lawrence Online condolences $883. by: a lost son, William severe infection. He will in 2004. may be sent to www.

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— Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached Tonyell; son, Johnathan; send any donations to ing, square dancing with Please sign this guestat 832-7173. Follow him daughter-in-law, Nicole; Penny Miller, 921 N.Y., Janelle for over 40 years, book at obituaries.ljworld. at Twitter.com/shaunhittle. granddaughter, Lizzie; ex- Lawrence, KS 66044. and was an avid golfer. com. wife, Penny Miller; niece, Viewing and speakTracy Cook; nephew, ing will take place at 6 Troy Cook. Life long p.m. Tuesday, March friends: Phillip Lewis, 27, at the Rumsey-Yost Brent Howard, Terry Elli- Funeral Home, 601 Ind. son, James Winborn, Paul Please meet at 11 a.m.

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House advances bill to defund remedial courses

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — The House on Monday advanced legislation that prohibits state funds from being used for remedial courses at Kansas University and other public colleges.

It would also cut from 10 percent to 5 percent the number of freshman class or transfer admissions allowed under the “exception window,” meaning they don’t meet minimum admission standards.

The bill was supported 69-50 in a preliminary vote.

A final vote on the measure, sponsored by House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, is expected today.

KU offers one remedial course, intermediate algebra, which has an average of 900 students each fall.

Rep. Barbara Ballard, DLawrence, spoke against the bill, saying many students need remedial math, including those who have been out of school for a while.

Rep. Tom Sloan, RLawrence, said, “I daresay

that most of us couldn’t do college-level algebra at this point of our lives without remedial help.”

The other part of the bill cuts in half the number of students admitted through the exception window. Of the six regents schools, three exceeded 5 percent in the number of freshman students admitted as exceptions: Emporia State, 8.1 percent; Pittsburg State, 7.1 percent; and Fort Hays State, 6.8 percent. Kansas State was at 3.7 percent; Wichita State at 1.6 percent; and Kansas University had the lowest rate of admitting students under the exception at 0.4 percent.

Rep. Kasha Kelley, R-Arkansas City, said students who need remedial help or haven’t achieved minimum standards would probably do better to attend a community college or technical school. Rep. John Grange, R-El Dorado, succeeded in putting in an amendment that would exclude military veterans from being counted as those students admitted through the exception window.

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Teacher charged in child sex crime case A Eudora High School English teacher has been charged in Sedgwick County District Court after being arrested on charges related to an improper relationship with a 15-year-old girl in the Wichita area.

The man, a 32-year-old Lawrence resident, has been charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a child, indicating fondling or touching, and two counts of aggravated indecent libCOURTS erties with a child, indicating intercourse, according to Sedgwick County District Court spokeswoman Georgia Cole.

Cole said the charges all involve the same victim and are alleged to have occurred in January 2010.

Kristin Magette, a spokeswoman for the Eudora school district, said Monday that the man remains on paid administrative leave. He began work at the school district in August after teaching in the Wichita area.

The Journal-World does not generally identify sex crime suspects unless they are convicted.

The man is next scheduled to appear in court in Wichita at a preliminary hearing at 2 p.m. April 9. He remains free on a $100,000 bond.

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MARGO GORDON, a retired Kansas University professor, is a resident of Sprague Apartments, the three-story red brick building at 1400 Lilac Lane.

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By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

Margo Gordon, a retired Kansas University professor of social work, said she’s found a pretty good living situation, even though she’s a mite older than most of her neighbors.

Gordon retired from KU in 1983. After her husband died, she was looking to leave her small house around 1997 and found out about Sprague Apartments through some friends and acquaintances.

Today, Gordon occupies one of nine apartment units for retired faculty that are right on campus.

Her home is just up the road from several scholarship halls (Gordon said she occasionally gets invited to some of their outdoor cookouts), and bustling Jayhawk Boulevard is nearby.

“I enjoy it,” she said.

“It’s fun to watch students go up and down the hill to class.”

And she’s close to a lot of on-campus activities and downtown. Her church is nearby, too.

Sprague Apartments, the three-story red brick building at 1400 Lilac Lane, is tucked behind Danforth Chapel on the KU campus.

Visible while traveling on 14th Street east of Jayhawk Boulevard, it was built in 1960, after a bequest from Elizabeth Sprague, head of KU’s home economics

department from 1914 to 1941.

The gift was made with the intent of providing retired faculty members and their spouses with a place to live.

Today, it’s owned and operated by the KU Endowment Association, and Gordon said she didn’t think it was very well-known.

“I think I was here several years before I knew it existed,” she said.

Today, applicants must have had at least 15 years of service to KU to apply for the waiting list, said Monte Soukup, senior vice president for property management at KU Endowment. About 15 people are on that list now, he said.

Soukup said rents are kept low — a two-bedroom unit goes for $550 per month, including utilities — and the facility is operated at no profit.

It’s not assisted living, but residents say they enjoy living in a small community with others, he said.

“They really take care of each other,” Soukup said.

In addition to managing Sprague Apartments, Soukup also is in charge of Pioneer Cemetery on KU’s West Campus, the final resting place of many prominent KU figures.

“You’re our landlord here and ever after,” he recalled one resident tell-

ing him.

A management company maintains the property and collects rent from tenants. A graduate student typically occupies a basement apartment and receives a discounted rent in exchange for helping the residents with small tasks such as changing hard-to-reach light bulbs and shoveling snow from walkways.

This semester, that’s Ryan Callihan, a master’s student studying geography. He said he just kind of fell into the living situation, after a friend recommended he live there. He worked in a retirement home in high school, so the environment is not totally foreign to him.

He enjoys telling his friends about the place and mentioning that he lives with a bunch of retired faculty members.

“The only people who know what Sprague Apartments is are the ones who try and park in the parking lot and get run off,” he said.

He enjoys his neighbors’ company, many of whom encourage him (sometimes sternly, he said) to stay focused and finish his thesis.

“There’s lots of wisdom to be had just talking with them,” he said.

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Megan Gilliland, the city’s communications manager, provided this information: The answer to the question is yes; private signs are allowed on public streets if the sign and/ or island mark an area or approved subdivision and are approved by the city with written permission.

For the sign in question, the owners of Meadowbrook Apartments signed an agreement with the city in September 2002 to maintain the sign and the landscaped island in the center of Crestline Drive (a public street). The agreement also states that if the owners of Meadowbrook Apartments choose to remove the sign, all landscaping will be removed as well.

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With more volunteers, Big Event ready to provide big help Some KU faculty and staff joined the students this year, he said.

On Saturday, almost The students will divide 1,900 Kansas University into small groups and head volunteers, mostly stu- to about 180 different sites. dents, will say thanks to People who wanted help the Lawrence community could sign up through a variby performing all sorts of ety of ways, and the sites will odd jobs and other tasks. mostly be people’s homes, It’s all part of The Big Bjornson said, though a Event, an event started few nonprofit organizations last year and modsigned up to receive eled after a similar help this year, includeffort that began at ing a school.

Texas A&M Uni“Last year, we foversity. cused mainly on just Event organizfamilies’ homes,” said ers said they were KANSAS Hannah Bolton, a jupleased with the UNIVERSITY nior from St. Libory, student turnout for Neb., who helped the second annual event, run last year’s event. “This which had about 500 KU year, it’s kind of grown to students volunteer last larger organizations.” year.

Bjornson said that he “A lot of people signed hoped that the event up this year,” said Dan would continue to grow in Bjornson, an Overland the future. At Texas A&M, Park junior who served as more than 20,000 students executive director of the participate, and students event. “We’re really ex- get a day off from classes cited.” to participate. That’s an The volunteers will be eventual goal for the event doing light painting, yard at KU, too, Bjornson said. work and a variety of othAdministrators have er jobs, too, Bjornson said. been supportive of the

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United Way seeks helping hands for Day of Caring The United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center is looking for volunteers for its annual Day of Caring event on April 21.

Shannon Reid, volunteer coordinator at the center, said about 330 volunteers are needed for the 26 projects posted online at volunteerdouglascounty. org.

The annual event is one of the center’s two annual communitywide volunteering events; the other is the nationwide Make a Difference Day in October, Reid said. event, and KU’s chancellor is scheduled to address volunteers in the morning before they leave the parking lot outside the David Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center to the various sites they’ll be working at throughout the community.

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

Officers continue search in area where human remains found sdhittle@ljworld.com

CARBONDALE — Dozens of law enforcement officers and search dogs on Monday continued to scour the area where human remains were discovered Saturday evening in Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka with a population of about 1,400.

Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said a mushroom hunter discovered the remains on 118th Court, just off Wanamaker Road, but Dunn has not yet disclosed more specifics about what was found.

Other news services, including The Associated Press, have reported that a skull was found.

“We’ve searched quite a bit of the area,” Dunn said in front of a makeshift home base in an open field, as law enforcement shuttled in and out of a wooded area. Dunn said officers had covered about a half-mile radius but had yet to find any other remains.

Dunn said the nature of the case — whether it’s a possible homicide, suicide

or death by natural causes — remains unclear.

“I don’t know what this is yet,” she said.

In addition to Osage County law enforcement, Dunn said law enforcement officers from the Northeast Kansas “MSquad,” comprised of representatives from numerous law enforcement agencies including the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, were assisting in the search.

While crews search for more evidence or clues, Dunn said they’ll also be trying to connect the remains to any missing persons cases, though there aren’t currently any in Osage County, she said.

The remains have been collected by a coroner, but results from any testing could be weeks or months away.

Dunn said that crews would probably continue to search through Monday evening and that she wasn’t sure when the search would be called off.

Two homes are near where the remains were found, including the home of Dean Crader, who said the area was popular among mushroom hunters. Crader said he’s lived in the area for only the past few months and had

also planned to go mushroom hunting until he saw all the law enforcement in the area.

“It surprised me,” Crader said. “I’m not going out in the woods.”

— Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173. Follow him at Twitter.com/shaunhittle.

Typically, the event draws a mixture of families, individuals and local businesses that want to help out, Reid said.

“The hope for us is that people get the volunteer bug,” and choose to get more involved with an organization that pulls at them, she said.

People who are interested in volunteering can sign up online, call Reid at the volunteer center at 865-5030, or email her at volunteer@rhvc.org.

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Tax credits for private school Cleanup scholarships defeated in House

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By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — A bill that would have provided tax credits for those who contributed to scholarships to send students to private schools was rejected by the House on Monday.

State Rep. Clay Aurand, R-Belleville and chairman of the House Education Committee, said his bill would give parents an option if their child was not adapting well in public school. The student could take advantage of a scholarship and go to a private or parochial school, he said.

“Parents should have options for what is best for their children,” Aurand said.

He was backed by legislators who were critical of public schools.

State Rep. Mike Kiegerl, R-Olathe, said public schools were beset with overpaid administrators who wanted to have a monopoly education system.

Kiegerl said his grandchildren attend private schools that have small

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District of eastern Kansas.

Also, the House last week rejected a proposal supported by O’Neal to split the Kansas City area between two districts, moving part of it into the 1st, and an alternative plan to dramatically change district lines in south-central and southeast Kansas.

The House’s rejection of different proposals last week forced the Redistricting Committee to start over in drawing a congressional plan, under conditions that pushed members to seriously consider splitting Topeka.

“We backed into it,” said Rep. Clay Aurand, a Courtland Republican who supported the latest plan. “The 1st District had to have more people, and nobody was volunteering too much, and so we had to make a choice.”

class sizes and offer advanced programs. “ W h y should a LEGISLATURE single black mother in Wyandotte County not have the same opportunity to send her child to the school my grandchildren go to?” he asked.

But opponents of the bill, which failed on a 5566 vote after a lengthy debate, said many poor people would have been unable to benefit from the program. The bill was targeted to 18 school districts with large populations of low-income students.

Lawrence was not one of the districts.

Private schools wouldn’t be required to accept all students, and the scholarships, which would average about $4,000, would not be enough to pay the full tuition at many private schools, critics added.

Rep. Jim Ward, DWichita, tried to eliminate the bill and replace it with one that would raise pub-

lic school funding by $150 million over two years to restore a portion of the cuts made to schools in recent years.

“I have a scholarship program for every child that enters public schools.

I’m going to call it state aid,” Ward said. His amendment failed.

Other opponents said giving tax credits would drain tax revenue to the state general fund that goes to public schools.

Rep. Bob Brookens, RMarion, said the measure was in conflict with the duty of the Legislature concerning public education.

“Is it our duty to use tax dollars and tax policy to send Kansas money to private schools? Kansas was built on and Kansas will live or die on its public education,” Brookens said.

Rep. Bill Otto, R-LeRoy, said he feared that “schools that may not agree with your values or my values” could benefit from the proposal.

But Topeka has never been split between two districts, and it has been in a northeast or eastern Kansas district since 1899.

The proposal to divide it drew bipartisan opposition from area lawmakers.

The plan would create a finger of land in the 1st District that covers Democratic-leaning, heavily minority areas on the city’s east side, while leaving wealthier, mostly white and GOP-leaning areas on the west side in the 2nd District.

The city of Lawrence — and the Kansas University campus — has been split between the 2nd and the 3rd District, centered on the Kansas City area, for the past 10 years. But most plans considered by lawmakers have moved all of Lawrence into the 2nd, because the 3rd District is overpopulated.

The Senate approved a bipartisan congressional redistricting proposal last month, but it included Manhattan in the 1st

District. Both O’Neal and Republican Gov. Sam Brownback oppose the idea, arguing that keeping Manhattan with other eastern Kansas communities will better protect a planned federal biosecurity lab there.

Political considerations also are a factor.

The Kansas Republican Party criticized the Senate’s plan because it would result in a slightly more Democratic 2nd District for Rep. Lynn Jenkins, the senior member of the state’s all-GOP delegation in the U.S. House.

The House committee’s proposal would leave Jenkins and freshman Rep. Kevin Yoder, of the 3rd District, with slightly more Republican districts. The 1st District, represented by freshman Rep. Tim Huelskamp, would become significantly more Democratic — but still remain the state’s most GOP-leaning district.

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

pulled off, which we wish wouldn’t happen,” said Mark Hecker, parks superintendent for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. “We’ll probably have to replace a couple of trees — but not this week.”

Instead, city crews will be preparing for two more possible downtown cleanups. Every parks maintenance worker in the city will be on call following KU’s Final Four matchup on Saturday evening against Ohio State, and then again on Monday, if the Jayhawks end up in the National Championship contest.

“It is like waiting for the snow,” Hecker said.

“It is something that may or may not come, but we have to be ready for it.”

Hecker said the cleanup operation is becoming pretty efficient. Parks and Recreation employees basically use leaf blowers to push all the debris into the middle of the streets. Public Works employees then use large street sweeping vehicles to suck up the trash.

Hecker, though, said crews still did have to pick up significant amounts of glass bottles. The city earlier this month passed a special ordinance prohibiting any glass containers on downtown sidewalks or streets in the hours following Kansas University’s Elite Eight and Final Four games. The ordinance, which carries a possible $100 fine, will be in force after Saturday and Monday’s games.

The ordinance turned Massachusetts Street into a magnet for plastic cups, but city spokeswoman Megan Gilliland

iss said Mayor Aron Cromwell and City Commissioner Bob Schumm both had Douglas County Sheriff’s asked the staff to research officers arrested a 49-year- other options for providing old rural Lawrence man lighted tennis courts. on suspicion of rape on Several neighbors Saturday. near Lawrence High have An adult woman reported expressed concern that that she was raped about adding lights to the eight 8 p.m. Saturday at a home courts would negatively south of Lawrence, acaffect nearby residential cording to Douglas County properties.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lewis.

“We just need more The suspect and victim are time to research what related, and officials believe other options may be out the suspect had been using there,” Corliss said. “Hopealcohol, Lewis said. fully, we’ll get it back on an The man appeared in agenda soon.”

Douglas County District Court on Monday and was 2 found dead in charged with one count of Edwardsville home rape. His bond was set at $100,000, and he is next EDWARDSVILLE (AP) — scheduled to appear in Police in a northeastern court for a preliminary hearKansas town are investigating on Wednesday. ing the deaths of two men The Journal-World typifound inside a home. cally does not identify peoKCTV reported that ofple accused of sex crimes ficers went to the house in unless they are convicted.

Edwardsville after getting a 911 call shortly before 4:30 City defers issue p.m. Monday. Police haven’t said who placed the call. of tennis lighting Investigators were trying A plan to light eight pub- to determine whether the lic tennis courts near Lawdeaths were a murder-suirence High cide or a double homicide.

School won’t Edwardsville is a commuget a hearing nity of about 4,500 people at today’s in Wyandotte County, just Lawrence west of Kansas City, Kan. City Commission meeting CITY COMMISSION after all.

Salina nears deal The city to clean polluted site manager’s office anKANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) nounced late Monday — Lawyers for Salina have afternoon that the tennis begun working toward a court lighting issue had been “indefinitely deferred” financial settlement with the federal government that from today’s commission would allow the Kansas city meeting.

City Manager David Corl- to take over the cleanup of

for a possible Saturday celebration.

“Our main goal is that anybody who comes downtown to celebrate be smart, safe and have fun,” Gilliland said.

Police department officials said Monday that crowd members, for the most part, were well-behaved. Two people were arrested on charges of battery after two fights near Eighth and Massachusetts streets, said Kim Murphree, a police spokeswoman, but those were the only arrests made in connection with the celebration.

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

— Reporter Andy Hyland contributed information to this report.

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said there may be some confusion about what’s allowed in those cups.

Gilliland said the new ordinance did nothing to make it legal for people to carry cups of beer or other alcoholic beverages up and down Massachusetts Street, although police officers weren’t strictly enforcing the open container code on Sunday.

“But it is still illegal to have an open container of alcohol on a city street,” Gilliland said.

Gilliland said the city also heard concerns about the number of people on downtown rooftops as part of the celebration.

She said city officials will be meeting this week to discuss any new preparations the city may make

contamination at a former Air Force base.

Salina acquired the former Schilling Air Force Base when it closed in 1965.

Salina officials, the Salina Airport Authority, the Salina school district and Kansas State University-Salina filed a federal lawsuit in Kansas City, Kan., in 2010 to recoup the cost of cleaning up pollution. The cleanup had previously been the jurisdiction of the federal government.

Much of the pollution consists of TCE, or trichloroethylene, which was used as an industrial solvent and was classified last year as a human carcinogen. The plaintiffs contend that the federal government should pay for the cleanup because the chemicals came from the Air Force operation at the site. In their lawsuit, Salina officials said the TCE and other compounds have “migrated into the soils” under residential areas near the site.

A joint status report filed Friday in the case said the parties have agreed in principle and have signed nonbinding proposed settlement papers.

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Some ‘pink slime’ operations suspended

By Betsy Blaney Associated Press

LUBBOCK, TEXAS — The maker of “pink slime” suspended operations Monday at all but one plant where the beef ingredient is made, acknowledging recent public uproar over the product has cost the company business.

Craig Letch, director of food quality and assurance for Beef Products Inc., declined to discuss financial details but said business has taken a “substantial” hit since social media exploded with worry over the ammoniatreated filler and an online petition seeking its ouster from schools drew hundreds of thousands of supporters.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided school districts may stop using it, and some retail chains have pulled products containing it from their shelves.

Federal regulators say the product, which has been used for years and is known in the industry as “lean, finely texBeef Products t u r e d will suspend b e e f , ” eets operations at m f o o d plants in Ama- s a f e t y s t a n rillo, Texas; Garden City, d a r d s .

But critKan.; and Wa- ics call terloo, Iowa. the product an unappetizing example of industrialized food production.

Beef Products will suspend operations at plants in Amarillo, Texas; Garden City, Kan.; and Waterloo, Iowa, Letch said.

About 200 employees at each of the three plants will get full salary and benefits for 60 days during the suspension. The company’s plant at its Dakota Dunes, S.D., headquarters will continue operations.

The company, meanwhile, will develop a strategy for rebuilding business and addressing what Letch called misconceptions about the beef the company makes.

“We feel like when people can start to understand the truth and reality then our business will come back,” he said. “It’s 100 percent beef.”

The company last week took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal defending its product. It also launched a new website, beefisbeef.com, which Letch says will help dispel myths about pink slime, a term coined by a federal microbiologist grossed out by it and now widely used by critics and food activists.

The lower-cost ingredient is made from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts. The bits are heated and spun to remove most of the fat. The lean mix then is compressed into blocks for use in ground meat.

The product is exposed to ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria, such as E. coli and salmonella.

Studies: Surgery may reverse diabetes CHICAGO — New research gives clear proof that weight-loss surgery can reverse and possibly cure diabetes, and doctors say the operation should be offered sooner to more people with the disease — not just as a last resort.

The two studies, released Monday, are the first to compare stomach-reducing operations to medicines alone for “diabesity,” Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity. Millions of Americans have this and can’t make enough insulin or use what they do make to process sugar from food.

Both studies found that surgery helped far more patients achieve normal blood-sugar levels than medicines alone did.

The results were dramatic: Some people were able to stop taking insulin as soon as three days after their operations. Cholesterol and other heart risk factors also greatly improved.

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Justices moving to heart of health care overhaul Today’s session will explore Congress’ power to impose the insurance requirement and penalty.

By Mark Sherman Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As demonstrations swirled outside, Supreme Court justices signaled on Monday they are ready to confront without delay the keep-or-kill questions at the heart of challenges to President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Virtually every American will be affected by the outcome, due this summer in the heat of the election campaign.

On the first of three days of arguments — the longest in decades — none of the justices appeared to embrace the contention that it was too soon for a decision.

Outside the packed courtroom, marching and singing demonstrators on both sides — including doctors in white coats, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and even a brass quartet — voiced their eagerness for the court to either uphold or throw out the largest expansion in the

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DR. SONIA NAGDA PUTS ON A PIN supporting the health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama as she gathers with other health care professionals in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday as the court begins three days of arguments on the health care. nation’s social safety net since Medicare was enacted in 1965.

Today’s arguments will focus on the heart of the case, the provision that aims to extend medical insurance to 30 million more Americans by requiring everyone to carry insur-

ance or pay a penalty.

A decision is expected by late June as Obama fights for re-election. All of his Republican challengers oppose the law and promise its repeal if the high court hasn’t struck it down in the meantime.

On Monday, the justices took on the question of whether an obscure tax law could derail the case.

The 19th-century law bars tax disputes from being heard in the courts before the taxes have been paid.

Under the new health care law, Americans who don’t purchase health insurance would have to report that omission on their tax returns for 2014 and would pay a penalty along with federal income tax on returns due

by April 2015. Among the issues facing the court is whether that penalty is a tax.

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., defending the health law, urged the court to focus on what he called “the issues of great moment” at the heart of

the case. The 26 states and a small business group challenging the law also want the court to go ahead and decide on its constitutionality without delay.

But one lower court that heard the case, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., has said the challenge is premature. No justice seemed likely to buy that argument Monday.

The justices fired two dozen questions in less than a half hour at Washington attorney Robert Long, who was defending the appeals court ruling.

Verrilli said Monday’s argument dealt with the meaning of the word in the context of the 19th century-law, the AntiInjunction Act. Today’s session will explore Congress’ power to impose the insurance requirement and penalty. In that setting, he said, Congress has the authority under the Constitution “to lay and collect taxes,” including the penalty for not having insurance.

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By Deb Riechmann Associated Press

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Afghan security forces shot and killed three international troops Monday, one of them an American, in two attacks. They were the latest in a rising number of attacks in which Afghan forces have turned their weapons on their foreign partners.

The killings reflect a rise in tensions between Afghan and international forces that follow an American soldier’s alleged massacre of Afghan civilians, the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. base, and uncertainty about Afghanistan’s fate as foreign troops prepare to pull out.

They also come at a time when international troops have stepped up training and mentoring of Afghan soldiers, police and government workers so that Afghans can take the lead and the foreign forces can go home. The success of that partnership is key to the U.S.led coalition’s strategy to withdraw most foreign combat forces by the end of 2014.

U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told reporters at the Pentagon that these types of attacks are characteristic of any warfare involving insurgents.

“We experienced these in Iraq. We experienced them in Vietnam,” Allen said. “On any occasion where you’re dealing with an insurgency and where you’re also growing an indigenous force ... the enemy’s going to do all that they can to disrupt both the counterinsurgency operations” and the developing nation’s security forces.

Since 2007, an estimated 80 NATO service members were killed by Afghan security forces, according to an Associated Press tally, which is based on Pentagon figures released in February.

More than 75 percent of the attacks have occurred in the past two years.

Wife defends soldier accused in rampage SEATAC, WASH. — The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says her husband showed no signs of PTSD before he deployed, and she doesn’t feel like she’ll ever believe he was involved in the killings.

“I just don’t think he was involved,” Karilyn Bales said in an interview with Matt Lauer that aired during Monday’s “NBC Nightly News” broadcast.

Earlier, she said on NBC’s “Today” show that she didn’t know much about PTSD symptoms.

She defended her Bales husband, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, in the weekend interview. Officials say Bales left his base March 11 in southern Afghanistan and killed eight Afghan adults and nine children.

The wife of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier said the accusations are “unbelievable to me.”

“He loves children, he’s like a big kid himself,” she said. “I have no idea what happened, but he would not ... he loves children, and he would not do that.”

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Cameron: Earth’s deepest spot desolate, foreboding

By Seth Borenstein Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In James Cameron’s fantasy films, like “Avatar” and “The Abyss,” the unexplored is splashed in color and fraught with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, reality proved far different: white, barren and bland.

Yet otherworldly — and amazing.

“I felt like I literally, in the space of one day, had gone to another planet and come back,” Cameron said Monday after returning from the cold, dark place in the western Pacific Ocean, seven miles below the surface. “It was a very surreal day.”

Cameron is the first person to explore the deepest valley in the ocean since two men made a 20-minute foray there more than half a century ago. He spent about three hours gliding through the icy darkness, illuminated only by special lights on the one-man sub he helped design. That was only about half as long as planned because his battery ran low.

This deepest section of the 1,500-mile-long

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FILMMAKER AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER-INRESIDENCE JAMES CAMERON emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, on Monday. The dive was part of Deepsea Challenge, a joint scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research.

Mariana Trench is so untouched that at first it appeared dull. But there’s something oddly dark and compelling about the first snippets of video that Cameron shot. It’s not what you see but where it puts you. There is a sense of aloneness that Cameron conveys in the wordless video showing his sub gliding across what he calls “the very soft, almost gelatinous flat plain.”

“My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity,” Cameron said.

The images “do lack the visual impact of highly colorized 3D spectacular representations of the ocean,” Bowen said. But there are still “dramatic discoveries to be made.”

The minute-long snippet, released by trip sponsor National Geographic, is just a coming attraction. Cameron will keep diving in the area, some 200 miles southwest of the island of Guam, where the depth of the trench is called Challenger Deep.

And he’s already filming it in 3D for later viewing.

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

Bernanke: U.S. job market weak

By Martin Crutsinger Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke says that the U.S. job market remains weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the Federal Reserve’s existing policies will help boost economic growth.

B e r n a n k e ’ s Bernanke comments Monday to a group of economists in Arlington, Va., drove stocks higher.

Many took his cautious words about the economy to mean the Fed is likely to stick to its plan to hold short-term interest rates at record lows through 2014.

Though the hiring has helped support consumer confidence and incomes, “we have not seen that in a

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Further job gains will likely require stronger consumer and business demand, Bernanke said in a speech to the National Association for Business Economics spring conference.

The association has 2,500 member economists who work for corporations, universities, the government and trade associations. Bernanke was addressing the group for the first time since 2008.

After Bernanke spoke, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 160 points, its third-biggest gain of the year. Broader indexes also increased.

The surge in hiring since December had led some economists to predict that the Fed might consider raising rates earlier than

planned. But many took Bernanke’s cautious tone as a firmer commitment to the late-2014 timetable.

And some viewed the speech as a signal that the Fed might take further steps, if the economy falters, to try to further drive down longterm borrowing rates. The goal would be to encourage more spending by consumers and businesses.

Robert Dye, chief economist at Dallas-based Comerica bank, said the Fed might extend a program of shuffling its investment portfolio to shift more of its holdings into long-term Treasurys. That could help lower long-term rates. Or the Fed could launch another round of bond-buying.

Employers added an average of 245,000 jobs a month from December through February. The unemployment rate has fallen nearly a full percentage point since summer, to 8.3 percent.

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Redistricting rift The biggest redistricting battle in the Kansas Legislature this year isn’t between Republicans and Democrats.

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sually, any fights about legislative and congressional redistricting occur between Republicans and Democrats. In a Republican state like Kansas, such disputes usually are settled fairly quickly in favor of the majority party.

In an interesting twist, the biggest redistricting battle in Kansas this year apparently is being waged within the Republican Party itself over how to redraw Kansas Senate districts.

By tradition, the Kansas House and Senate usually take care of their own redistricting maps, which then are routinely approved by the opposite house.

The Kansas House already has passed a plan to redraw its own districts, but the process isn’t going as smoothly in the Senate.

The conservative end of the state Republican Party, supported by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, already has announced plans to try to oust a number of moderate Republican senators, including several in key leadership positions, from their seats. Last week, the Kansas Senate’s redistricting committee, perhaps in response to that threat, approved a map that would protect several incumbents by drawing new district lines that would exclude their already announced conservative challengers.

After both the Kansas Chamber and Gov. Sam Brownback voiced opposition to the plan and urged a number of senators to vote against it, the so-called Ad Astra plan failed to gain Senate approval.

The Senate redistricting process stalled temporarily and is expected to be revisited this week.

According to some Democratic leaders, it is unusual for the governor and his staff to get involved in the House and Senate redistricting process. It’s impossible to know the tone of Brownback’s lobbying against the map, but the possibility that any governor would allow his or her action on pending legislation to be influenced by how one or more senators voted on redistricting is unsettling.

The governor’s most public complaint about the Senate map is that it does not make Leavenworth County into a single Senate district. Leavenworth County currently is split between two districts represented by Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, and Kelly Kultala, D-Kansas City. Brownback’s interest in Leavenworth County may be justified, but it’s impossible not to note the political impact that redrawing those lines would have on Holland and Kultala, who formed the Democratic governor and lieutenant governor team that opposed Brownback in the last election.

It’s no surprise that the once-a decade redistricting process can be a raw political battle, but what makes this year interesting is the open warfare that is on display within the Republican Party. About the only good news for Kansas voters is that this battle is being played out in a relatively public manner for everyone to see. The best news for the state would be for Kansans to finally realize the detrimental impact this highly political process has on every facet of the legislative process and insist that lawmakers seriously consider a fair nonpartisan process to accomplish redistricting in the future.

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Afghan women fear U.S. exit What will happen to Afghan women?

As the United States winds down its presence in Afghanistan and tries to talk to the Taliban, will Afghan women pay the price? Will the gains they’ve made over the last decade be rolled back?

Last week, I heard Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton make a passionate commitment to the contrary at a lunch marking the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Afghan Women’s Council.

During “this period of transition,” she said, “it’s absolutely critical we protect these gains and expand on them.”

Clinton’s pledge To those who fear women’s rights will be sacrificed in talks, Clinton repeated what she has said in Kabul and elsewhere: “The United States cannot and will not let that happen.” She added: “Any peace that is attempted to be made by excluding more than half the population is no peace at all. It is a figment that will not last.”

Amen. Clinton is correct, and I applaud her passion on this issue. But given the slippage that’s already occurring in women’s rights in anticipation of the U.S. withdrawal, I wonder how she will be able to keep her pledge.

To understand how much Afghan women could lose, let me offer a few statistics.

As Clinton noted, in 2001, life expectancy for women in Afghanistan was just 44 years.

Now it is 62 years. In the Taliban era, almost no girls went to school, but today 3 million do, making up almost 40 percent of primary-school enrollments. In the past decade, nearly 120,000 Afghan

girls have graduated from high school, and 15,000 are enrolled in universities.

There’s no doubt that the life of women and girls in rural areas and even in cities is still seriously restricted in accordance with local custom.

And many girls no longer attend school in areas where the Taliban have returned.

are held by women. Afghan women and girls make up 24 percent of doctors and medical workers.

Yet, in talking with women in Kabul by phone or during visits, I have heard deep fear that they will be sold out by their government, and by the United States, in talks with the Taliban. Despite Clinton’s assurances, they do fear the old days will return.

The nine women members of the 70-member Afghan High Peace Council, which is charged with seeking reconciliation with the Taliban, are left out of major discussions.

(Indeed, the council itself has been sidelined since its head, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated last year.)

U.S. diplomats have been holding secret talks with the Taliban to try to get negotiations going in the Gulf state of Qatar. But Afghan women have no input to those discussions; they can only wait and wonder whether U.S. negotiators would, or could, ensure their rights.

Progress apparent But, having visited Afghanistan in 1999, when it was under Taliban rule, I can assure you that women’s progress since then has been substantial. On that trip, I spoke with little girls who were attending secret schools at great risk. I interviewed widows who could not get medical care because no women could venture outdoors without a male relative age 16 or older. I talked to educated women who were virtually imprisoned because they could not go outside or work.

Today, one-fourth of government posts and 28 percent of parliamentary seats

‘Code of conduct’ endorsed Another reason Afghan women are fearful is that their president, Hamid Karzai, has already endorsed a “code of conduct” issued by an influential council of clerics that restricts women’s rights. The Ulema Council’s document renounces the equality of men and women enshrined in the constitution, saying “men are fundamental and women are secondary.”

It endorses husbands’ rights to beat their wives under certain circumstances.

The code also endorses many rules that are a throwback to Taliban days, saying women should not travel

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… having visited Afghanistan in 1999, when it was under Taliban rule, I can assure you that women’s progress since then has been substantial.”

without a male guardian and should be segregated in schools, markets, and offices.

Karzai defends this code as being in line with Islamic sharia law. But he is clearly sacrificing constitutional principles, and women’s rights, in order to court conservative clerics — and, perhaps, the Taliban.

This clerical code is not legally binding, but Afghan civic activists say it has emboldened conservatives to start harassing women, and to push for a formal rollback of their rights. Afghan human-rights groups view this as a foretaste of what will happen if the Taliban win a major role in the government via peace talks.

This brings me back to Clinton’s public commitment to Afghan women. She has rightly emphasized that the Afghan constitution protects them. While we still have leverage in Kabul, U.S. officials should push Karzai to give women and civil society a formal voice in any Afghan peace negotiations.

As for U.S. negotiating efforts, if we take Clinton at her word, in any talks with the Taliban the United States must insist on guarantees that women’s rights would not be repealed. Any U.S. aid to a future Afghan government, with or without a Taliban presence, should be contingent on that premise.

“We all need to be vigilant ... in our ... refusal to accept the erosion of women’s rights and freedoms,” Clinton said Wednesday. The trick will be translating that premise into facts on the ground.

— Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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More facts To the editor: I both commend and second the “pertinent facts” submitted by Walt Hull and published in the March 22 Journal-World, an excellent summary of truths too few people know about, much less care about.

I’d like to add one more item of equal truth value to Hull’s list: a clip from an article in the March 22 Kansas City Star: “A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted prices and U.S. domestic oil production by the Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump. If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you’d now be paying $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you’re paying the highest prices ever for March.” (p. A7). The simple truth is that the current status of stability vs. tensions in the Near and Middle East at any given time, compounded by speculation in the world oil market, influences prices at the pump many times more than any amount or lack of domestic U.S. production.

Hull did omit, however, the other side of the story about government “borrowing” from Social Security. It’s my understanding the Social Security law requires that taxpayers’ payments be invested to earn a return for the benefit of the taxpayers, but that same law permits such investments only in the safest possible vehicles in existence: i.e., U.S. government securities. So one man’s borrowing from Social Security is another man’s following the law in order to provide maximum protection for the taxpayers’ investments.

Kevin Haight, Lawrence

Abortion coverage To the editor: This week, I received a letter from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas stating that because of a 2011 Kansas law, I had a one-time “opportunity” to opt in for coverage for elective abortion. The cost is extra and spelled out. So now, for $6.95 per month, we can get away with murder, in this case the murder of innocent, unborn children. Shame on Blue Cross, shame on our country, shame on all of us who stand by and watch this further step toward what happened in 1930s Nazi Germany as the U.S. government legitimizes taking the lives of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Just because it is legal doesn’t make it right. There is eventually a higher judge to whom we all will individually and as a nation give an

account. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said we must not render to Caesar that which is God’s. Aborted children have no voice because they are not given time to learn to speak. Who might they have become? Would they have become truly great presidents, scientists, educators or physicians? We will never know.

In Obamacare there will be rationing for seniors, the lack of choice in medical care for many and perhaps even the “gracious” euthanizing of those who are too great a burden for the “healthy” in our society. The result is a caste system where certain elite and government officials such as presidents and congressmen will have any care they desire and the rest of us will be subject to decisions made by government workers who must rein in costs.

After spending eight years in one of Hitler’s concentration camps, pastor Martin Niemoller poignantly described the insidious, downward slide in Germany: “First they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.” Next they will come for you and for me. Better think hard about it. I am.

Susan P. Schmidt, Lawrence

Naismith legacy To the editor: The passing of Ian Naismith is one that should be noted. He was one of a kind. Naismith took very seriously the honor and significance of his grandfather’s legacy. He enjoyed the exhibit at the Watkins Community Museum entitled “The Basketball Man” and came to see it frequently.

He was a fierce, passionate man who always battled institutions and individuals who he thought were in the wrong. In the future, when his grandfather’s significance is more completely acknowledged, it will be because of his grandson’s persistence and dedication.

Steve Jansen, Lawrence

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A shower or t-storm in spots

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High 79° Low 51° POP: 40%

High 79° Low 53° POP: 55%

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McCook 77/41

Kearney 77/41

Oberlin 76/41

Clarinda 78/44

Lincoln 76/40

Grand Island 77/41

Beatrice 72/45

Concordia 77/46

Centerville 76/47

St. Joseph 80/45 Chillicothe 79/50

Sabetha 77/48

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 78/56 79/56 Goodland Salina 79/44 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 73/40 78/47 73/42 77/50 Lawrence 79/55 Sedalia 79/51 Emporia Great Bend 80/56 80/53 75/47 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 81/58 79/48 Hutchinson 81/56 Garden City 79/50 75/46 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 82/58 79/53 78/54 79/44 83/59 81/58 Hays Russell 76/44 76/48

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WEATHER HISTORY Dumont, S.D., received 38 inches, the greatest 24-hour snowfall in South Dakota history, on March 27, 1950.

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Niagara Falls. March 29, 1814.

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Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Dole Institute Study Group: “Presidential Play-By-Play” with Dole Fellow Tom King and guest Peter Fenn, 4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers. For more information, call 843-7359.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Girl Scout day camp registration night, 6-7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway.

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

Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Trivia Night at the Jayhawker, 8-10 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Teller’s Family Night, 9 p.m.-midnight, 746 Mass.

Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa.

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University-Community Forum, “Health Care in Kansas,” noon, Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers. For more information, call 843-7359.

Dole Institute Study Group: “Put Your Money Where Your Vote Is” with Dole Fellow Elizabeth Conatser and NRA lobbyist Jeff Freeman, 4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Country Jam hosted

by Good Ole Boys, 6-8:30 p.m., Cutter’s Smokehouse, 218 E. 20th St., Eudora.

Opening Doors: Preserving the American Dream, a series on home ownership, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.

Last Wednesday Book Club, “Little Bee,” 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. A Conversation with John Yoo, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

TODAY’S BEST BETS “Some Leaders Are Born Women!,” with attorney Sarah Weddington, 7:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Faculty Recital Series: Joyce Castle, mezzo soprano, and Mark Ferrell, piano, 7:30 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Tuesday Concert presents Jon Fitzgerald, Jessica Perry, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Free salsa lessons, 8:30-9:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

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Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Introduction to Corporate Giving, noon, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Book Talk with Author Philip White, “Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance,” 3 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Fundamentals of Estate Planning, 5:30-7 p.m., Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt. Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Baker University Community Choir Rehearsal, 6-7:50 p.m., McKibben Recital Hall (Owens Musical Arts Building), 408 Eighth St., Baldwin City.

Yonder Mountain String Band with Brown Bird, 7 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Mass.

Big Tent: Stories & Poems in Three Acts,

readings by Kara Bollinger (nonfiction prose), Mick Cottin (fiction) and William Sheldon (poetry), 7 p.m., The Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St. Informational Session on Guardianship for Young Adults with Disabilities, 7-8:30 p.m., Community Health Facility, 200 Maine.

Peace Corps Application Workshop, 7-9 p.m., Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Foodscapes: Urban Agriculture, Sustainable Design & Community Health, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

Big 6 at the Eldridge, 9 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

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Indian Taco Sale Fundraiser for Four Winds Native Center, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Indian United Methodist Church, 950 E. 21st St. Ecumenical Lenten Taize Service, 6 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Open mic poetry night at The Mirth Café, 7-9 p.m., 745 N.H. KU Theatre presents “The Foreigner,” 7:30 p.m., Inge Theater, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Free Community Yoga Class, 7:30-8:45 p.m., Breathe Holistic Life Center, 1407 Mass.

School of Music Scholarship Concert, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka,” 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Harlem Wizards vs.

Perry-Lecompton Elementary School Hoop Troop, 7 p.m., PerryLecompton High School, 404 Lecompton Road, Perry.

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Taylor not yet dome free When a reporter informed Kansas University senior guard Tyshawn Taylor the day before the North Carolina game that he never had hit a three-pointer in a dome, more stewing than laughing took place on the platform at which the coach and five starters sat.

Such a fact had not made its way into Taylor’s head, and once it did, it wasn’t likely to leave until he hit one.

Taylor played well in Sunday’s 80-67 victory against the Tar Heels that sent KU to the Final Four, but his bizarre NCAA Tournament long-range shooting slump continued.

He made 10 of 14 twopointers, had six rebounds, five assists and five steals, but missed all five threepointers and had five turnovers in a 22-point game. As usual, some of the fives were in the right places, some in the wrong places, but when they all were added up, the positives outweighed the negatives.

“When he doesn’t play well he gets a lot of attention, and when he does play well he gets a lot of attention,” KU coach Bill Self said Monday. “He’s one of those kind of kids. I’m so proud of him and how far he’s come.”

Taylor’s atypical threepoint shooting stats compiled in four NCAA Tournaments: 3-for-37 overall; 0-for-17 in domes; 0-for-17 in this season’s tournament.

Taylor has the loudest, friendliest personality on the team. One day after being informed of his shooting futility, he was able to laugh about it.

“I don’t even care,” he said. “I don’t care one bit. I don’t like domes, but they love me, it seems like, because we won, you know.”

Proving he had not spent much time looking ahead, Taylor asked a question in hopes the answer would set him dome-free the rest of the way.

“Is New Orleans a dome, too?” Taylor asked.

Yes, the Superdome is indeed a dome.

“Oh, man,” Taylor said, disappointed.

Although it’s rare for a player to shoot 8 percent from three in NCAA Tourney games and 41 percent in all others, as has Taylor, poor dome shooting afflicts many.

“It’s depth perception, no question about it,” Louisville coach Rick Pitino said on a Monday conference call that featured the Final Four head coaches. “It’s the wide-open space. It’s something you need to get a little practice in and get used to, and I think you’ll feel comfortable in it.”

Taylor’s next assignment pits one of the toughest guards to guard against Ohio State’s Aaron Craft, one of the guarding guards. In the Dec. 10 game won by Kansas, 78-67, in which injured Buckeyes center Jared Sullinger didn’t play, the point guards played to a stalemate. Taylor had 13 assists, seven turnovers and did not attempt a three-pointer. If he can trim a few turnovers, repeating the other two stats might make for a ticket to the title game for Taylor and teammates.

It’s unanimous

Robinson first-team All-American

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THOMAS ROBINSON CELEBRATES A FIRST-HALF BASKET against North Carolina in an Elite Eight game Sunday in St. Louis. Monday, Robinson was named a unanimous first-team All-American by the Associated Press.

Kansas University forward Thomas Robinson on Monday earned first-team Associated Press All-America honors in most convincing fashion.

The 6-foot-10 junior from Washington, D.C., who has averaged 17.9 points and 11.8 rebounds a game, became the organization’s first unanimous selection since Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin in 2009.

He was a first-team pick of all 65 members of the national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25.

Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis, who is running neck-and-neck with Robinson for national player-of-theyear consideration, received 63 first-team votes. Joining the duo on the first team were Jared Sullinger of Ohio State, the first repeat All-American in three years (30 first-team votes), Draymond Green of Michigan State (53) and Doug McDermott of Creighton.

KU’s Tyshawn Taylor earned third-team All-America honors.

“It’s a blessing to be named even in the same category as Blake Griffin,” Robinson said.

“For that to happen, I’m glad all the hard work is paying off.”

Robinson did find some similarities between them besides the fact both were Big 12 players of the year.

“That man jumps out the gym. He looks like a superhero when he takes off,” Robinson said. “But we both try to be aggressive. He knows what Please see ROBINSON, page 3B

Final Four field filled with royalty

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The 2012 Final Four is being billed as one of the best in history, with No. 1 seed Kentucky, No. 2s Kansas and Ohio State and No. 4 Louisville set to duke it out in New Orleans.

“It’s a great field. You’ve got some of the most historic, tradition-rich programs in the country hooking up and going at it,” KU coach Bill Self said during Monday’s Final Four coaches teleconference.

“In ’08, we had an unbelievable field, too. It’s the first time we had all four No. 1 seeds advance,” Self added of KU, Memphis, North Carolina and UCLA.

“There’s not that The way it stacks FINAL much difference in the up, Kentucky has sevteams — (seeds) 1, 2, 3 FOUR en NCAA titles, but … it doesn’t mean any- Who: Louisnone since 1998, the thing. You have to play ville (30-9) year after Pitino left the opponent across vs. Kentucky that school. KU has from you. In this par- (36-2); Kan- three (officially, to go ticular year, there are sas (31-6) vs. with the two Helms no major surprises Ohio State titles), Louisville two who is there,” Self con- (31-7) and Ohio State one. tinued. “I think it’ll be “These are four of great for fans. Cinder- When: Game the top 10 traditions of ella is always a great One: 5:09 all time, no question,” story, but no way you p.m. Satursaid Pitino, whose could ever say a Rick day; Game Cardinals (30-9) will Pitino-coached team Two at 7:49 meet Kentucky (36-2) (Louisville) or Kansas p.m. at 5:09 p.m. Saturday or Ohio State or Kenin the Superdome. tucky will ever be a Cinderella. KU (31-6) and Ohio State (31It makes for a more traditional- 7) will follow approximately type high-profile Final Four 7:49 p.m. similar to ’08.”

“Ohio State ... we know of

their recent success, but you don’t realize going back how successful they were,” Pitino added. “These are four programs with tremendous interest in the game of basketball.

Kansas, Louisville and Kentucky ... the fever pitch for basketball has always been off the charts. When kids grow up there, they understand it.

“Ohio State, when (Jerry) Lucas and those guys played, they were at their best and certainly have great tradition, and now Thad Matta in recent years has it back to where they are a top five, seven program every year. It is basketball royalty in terms Please see FINAL FOUR, page 3B

Sources: Martin leaving K-State for Gamecocks

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KANSAS STATE COACH FRANK MARTIN REACTS TO A QUESTION during a news conference March 16 prior to the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament game a day later against Syracuse. Sources said Monday that Martin is leaving K-State to become coach at South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Frank Martin has agreed to become South Carolina’s next men’s basketball coach, people familiar with the decision said.

The people spoke to the Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the school had not announced the hiring. The university’s board of trustees is scheduled to meet this morning to discuss a contract matter.

Martin will replace Darrin Horn, who was fired two weeks ago after going 6063 over four seasons. The Gamecocks finished last in

the Southeastern Conference last year.

Martin is leaving Kansas State, which he led to the NCAA Tournament four of the last five seasons. The Wildcats reached the regional finals in 2010. His overall record as a head coach is 11754, and he is 6-4 in the NCAA Tourney.

The Gamecocks have been to the NCAA Tournament just once since 1998. They finished this season 10-21 and 2-14 in the SEC. Martin is the son of Cuban immigrants who coached high school basketball in Miami for 15 years and was

an assistant at Northeastern for four seasons before Bob Huggins brought him on to his staff at Cincinnati.

Martin has not publicly commented about the South Carolina job or why he might want to leave Kansas State.

He was an in-studio analyst for CBS during its weekend NCAA Tournament coverage and didn’t answer directly when asked about coaching the Gamecocks.

“The stuff that gets out these days, I look at it as a compliment that we’re doing our job the right way at Kansas State that these sorts of things get out,” Martin said.

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Panel discusses options for BCS GRAPEVINE, TEXAS (AP) — BCS leaders finally are starting to get into some specifics in their discussions about possible — maybe even likely — changes in college football’s postseason and how to determine a champion.

They are finding out just how tricky the process will be. And it’s still far from being finished. “The complexity is phenomenal, the level of details requires a great deal of time,� BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said Monday, after the 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director met for about 7 1/2 hours.

This was the third meeting this year, coming just more than a month after the group met over two days at the same hotel connected to a terminal at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

While the commissioners have acknowledged a four-team playoff is among the options being considered, and there seems to be considerable talk about that, Hancock cautioned that isn’t a done deal. “There’s a long way to go and a lot of people still to hear from,� he said.

The next meeting is scheduled April 24-26 in Hollywood, Fla., when the Football Bowl Association holds its annual meetings.

The group released a statement after the meeting that concluded with: “We’re making good progress toward our selfimposed goal of making a final recommendation this summer to our governing bodies.�

Among the things that have to be taken into account with a four-team playoff system would be where games would be played (Neutral sites or on campuses?) and how teams would be selected (Current ranking system, new ranking system or a selection committee?). Some have suggested a format that requires teams in a conference to win their league to be eligible for a playoff.

The statement also said Monday’s meeting was “constructive and highly detailed.� But it acknowledged that no decisions were made about the overall structure.

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Giants’ walk-off downs Royals SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. (AP) — Pablo Sandoval gave the San Francisco Giants something to smile about with a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to defeat Kansas City, 4-2, on Monday.

Sandoval had three hits, including a double, and scored twice.

But what occurred in the first 22â „3 innings was even more important for the Giants.

Ryan Vogelsong, expected to be a key part of the rotation, made his first Cactus League start after twisting his back at the start of the spring.

Vogelsong, a right-hander who was 13-7 in 30 games (28 starts) in 2011, gave up a run and two hits and struck out two in 22⠄3 innings. He threw 39 pitches, one short of the team’s goal. “It wasn’t bad in the first inning (when the run scored), but it was definitely better in the second and third,� Vogelsong said. “It was good that I got to sit down, get back up, sit down, get back up, sit down, get back up for three innings.�

He said he hasn’t been worried about his back this spring. “I was confident that I would be OK,� he said. “You guys (reporters) were more worried about it than anyone else. It has been a non-issue. “I had Tommy John surgery (in 2001), so I have been through the rehab process before. “I haven’t thought about it (back) at all. I just try to pitch.

I don’t hear the crowd, I don’t hear the music, I just focus on

TWO-DAY TODAY • Baseball at Missouri State, 6:30 p.m. • Softball at Missouri State 2, 4 and 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY • Track at Texas Relays

BOX SCORE Giants 4, Royals 2 Kansas City

Lenny Ignelzi/AP Photo

KANSAS CITY ROYALS STARTING PITCHER LUIS MENDOZA PITCHES in the first inning against the San Francisco Giants in a spring training game Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. hitting the (catcher’s) glove as much as I can.�

He also was pleased that he was able to throw out of the stretch, and even fielded a bunt.

The Giants might not be able to get Vogelsong into the rotation to start the regular season.

With a little more than a week to go before opening day, it is likely he will start on the disabled list until he is able to log more innings.

The team has some concerns about young right-hander Eric Surkamp, one of their top prospects. He has been experiencing soreness in his elbow and had an MRI earlier Monday. He had pitched in five games (three starts) with a 3-1 spring record.

Closer Brian Wilson, who had been out since March 17 be-

cause of arm soreness, pitched a scoreless fifth.

Until Vogelsong and Surkamp are healthy, the rotation likely will be right-handers Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain, left-handers Madison Bumgarner and Barry Zito and perhaps right-hander Yusmeiro Petit, who will start against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.

Kansas City’s rotation is expected to be bolstered by righthander Luis Mendoza. He has not been officially selected by manager Ned Yost. However his efforts this spring, including the one on Monday, could make Yost’s decision easier.

Mendoza gave up three hits in five innings, walked two and struck out four. His ERA is 0.54 and his opponents are hitting .180.

After being acquired from

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Umpires-Home, Rob Drake; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Dana DeMuth; Third, Adrian Johnson.

T-2:41. A-8,790 (12,000).

Texas in 2010, Mendoza was the Pacific Coast League’s Pitcher of the Year with the Royals’ Triple-A affiliate in Omaha, Neb., and the PCL’s postseason MVP. “I’m just doing my job. They (management) have the decision,� Mendoza said. “I have felt great all spring long. I am making my way, pitching with a purpose, trusting my pitches.�

Jets QB Tebow addresses New York media

NFL may consider Payton appeal NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell might allow Sean Payton to coach the Saints while he appeals his seasonlong suspension for his role in the team’s bounties program. “I said in a letter they have to appeal by April 2, I believe,� Goodell said Monday at the owners meetings in Palm Beach, Fla. “If he decides to appeal, I probably will allow him to continue and I would expedite the hearing and I would expedite my decision. “We did meet twice and went through the information. If he has something else for me to consider, I will.�

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Duke freshman Rivers to go pro DURHAM, N.C. — Austin Rivers is leaving Duke after one season for the NBA Draft.

The freshman guard announced his decision and plans to hire an agent Monday after team

TODAY • Girls soccer vs. Shawnee Heights, 6:30 p.m. • Track at Lawrence Triangular, 3:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY • Boys golf at Free State Invitational, 3 p.m. • Girls swimming at Manhattan Invitational, 3:30 p.m. • Boys tennis at Topeka High Quad, 3:30 p.m.

LAWRENCE HIGH TODAY • Boys tennis at Emporia Tournament, 3 p.m. • Track at Lawrence Triangular, 3:30 p.m. • Girls swimming at Lawrence Invitaitonal, 3:30 p.m. • Softball vs. Shawnee Mission West, 4:15 p.m. • Baseball vs. Blue Springs South, 5:30 p.m. • Girls soccer vs. Baldwin, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY • Boys golf at Free State Invitational, 3 p.m.

SEABURY ACADEMY TODAY • Girls soccer at KCCS, 5 p.m.

HASKELL TODAY • Softball vs. Saint Mary, 3 p.m.

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Tim Tebow got his first New York close-up Monday.

Speaking at news conference in the Jets field house, because the media crush was so great the session couldn’t be held in the team’s normal press room, the headline-grabbing New York backup QB went out of his way to play down any conflict between himself and starter Mark Sanchez. “Me and Mark have a great relationship,� Tebow said. “We’ve been friends past three years and have already texted back and forth. We are going to Tebow have a great working relationship and I think we’ll have a lot of fun together.�

Tebow’s new club threw the former Denver Bronco a quick challenge on Monday, sending him out alone to take questions at what was probably the biggest news conference ever for a second-string NFL player. Tebow stayed composed, speaking in an upbeat tone for more than half an hour.

While coach Rex Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum insist Sanchez is entrenched as the first-string quarterback, Tebow will also see plenty of time on the field and certainly much more of the spotlight. “I don’t see Tim just holding a clipboard,� Ryan told a group of reporters while in Florida for a meeting of NFL team owners on Sunday. “He’s going to be playing for us. There is no doubt.�

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officials said he spent the weekend discussing his future plans with his family at their home outside Orlando, Fla. The son of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers averaged a team-leading 15.5 points and was a unanimous selection as the Atlantic Coast Conference’s rookie of the year.

Orange’s Waiters to enter draft SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sophomore guard Dion Waiters of Syracuse is entering the NBA Draft.

Waiters, who averaged 12.6 points per game this season, says he plans to sign with an agent.

No NBA for Texas’ Kabongo AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas freshman Myck Kabongo has decided not to enter the NBA Draft and will return for another season.

The Canadian guard said Monday he wanted “to get this out of the way now� because the Longhorns were about to start individual offseason workouts.

Leading scorer J’Covan Brown has denied reports that he is skipping his senior season to enter the NBA Draft. If Brown leaves, Kabongo and fellow freshman Sheldon McClellan would be the top returning scorers for the Longhorns.

McClellan averaged 11.3 points, while Kabongo scored 9.6 points per game, led the team in assists and steals and was the only player other than Brown to start all 34 games.

TENNIS

Roddick upsets Federer in Fla. KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. — Techno music rocked the stadium during a changeover, then faded, the din replaced by the crowd’s cheers as Andy Roddick took his position at the baseline, one game from a win over nemesis Roger Federer.

Roddick held the balls, and that was the edge he needed. He served out the match to win 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4 Monday night in the third round at the Sony Ericsson Open.

Also dominating with the serve was Serena Williams, who matched a career high with 20 aces to beat Samantha Stosur 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals.

Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka lost 10 of the first 11 games, then rallied to remain unbeaten this year by beating No. 16-seeded Dominika Cibulkova 1-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5. Azarenka was two points from defeat five times, but swept the last three games and extended her winning streak to 26 matches, all in 2012.

TODAY College Basketball Time Net Cable NIT: UMass v. Stanford 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 NIT: Wash. v. Minn.

8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable NCAA: UConn v. Kentucky 6 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 NCAA: N. Dame v. Maryland 8 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Baseball Phila. v. Pittsburgh Angels v. San Fran.

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2011 — Jamie Skeen scores 26 points as Virginia Commonwealth delivers the biggest upset of the NCAA Tournament, a 71-61 victory over No. 1 seed Kansas in the Southwest Regional final.

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Matta hopes to enjoy it Spring drills

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

The last time Thad Matta guided an Ohio State basketball team to the Final Four, he learned a valuable lesson that stuck with him.

This time, when his squad invades New Orleans this weekend to face Kansas University at 7:49 p.m. Saturday, Matta vows to take five minutes to look around and enjoy what he and the Buckeyes (31-7) have accomplished.

“I’m excited,” said Matta, whose OSU squad lost to Florida in the national title game in 2007. “I think six years ago, I probably didn’t enjoy the moment as much as I wanted to or needed to. But truth be told, I probably won’t enjoy this one, either. We’ll get down there and try to play our best basketball.”

Although his team entered the preseason ranked in the top five, Matta said during a Monday teleconference of the four coaches in this year’s Final Four that he knew his team had a “long, long way to go.”

Reaching New Orleans always was the goal, but there were stretches during the season when many outside the program began to doubt whether that was possible. The Buckeyes opened

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of the interest involved.

For us, a small state like Kentucky of 3 million people, to have two teams in the Final Four is quite special.”

The two semifinal games are rematches.

Kentucky beat Louisville, 69-62, on New Year’s Eve in Lexington. KU beat Ohio State, which was without All-America forward Jared Sullinger, 78-67, on Dec. 10 in Allen Fieldhouse.

“Every game we play is someone’s Super Bowl,” said Kentucky coach John Calipari, who like KU’s Self is from the Larry Brown coaching tree.

“You think of this whole Final Four. We ended Ohio State’s season last year. We opened up this season beating Kansas (7565, Nov. 15 in New York).

You don’t think they want a piece of us?

“We beat Louisville earlier in the year. They are going crazy to beat us, but let me say this, so was Vandy, so was Florida, so was North Carolina. Everybody we play was that way. It’s not like this is any different from any game we play. The other team is going to play out of their minds. We know it.”

Here’s a brief history of the four teams in the NCAA Tournament: O Kentucky: 15 Final Fours, seven national titles, second all-time to UCLA’s 11. Last national title was 1998. John Calipari has not won a na-

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he does well. I feel the same way. I know what I do well.”

Robinson received nationwide support as a sophomore when he lost his mother, grandmother and grandfather in a three-week period. He not only became a starter this season, he became a dominant one.

“It’s an unbelievable honor for a kid that came as a semi-highly recruited guy, played seven minutes as a freshman, 10 minutes as a sophomore, endured the tragedies he’s had and then somehow made so many sacrifices, not only for the betterment of him-

Michael Dwyer/AP Photo

OHIO STATE COACH THAD MATTA CELEBRATES AFTER HIS TEAM BEAT SYRACUSE, 77-70, in the East Regional final on Saturday in Boston. Ohio State will meet Kansas University on Saturday in the Final Four in New Orleans. the season by winning eight straight, a run that propelled them to No. 2 in the national polls. But then came a loss at No. 13 Kansas in which the Buckeyes played without big man Jared Sullinger, and their unbeaten streak was over.

OSU won 13 of its next 15 games — losing at Indiana and at Illinois — before encountering a nightmarish stretch in February in which the Buckeyes lost three of five Big Ten games, including two at home. Although the tough losses hit the Buckeyes hard, Matta made sure to emphasize that his team’s late-season rough patch

may be responsible for his team standing where it stands today.

“I don’t know if I could be prouder of a basketball team in terms of everything that they’ve been through,” Matta said. “We never lost two games in a row. And if you look at the losses we had this year, hard-fought games. I think the thing that makes me the most proud is these guys kept getting better.”

Added Sullinger, who Monday joined KU’s Thomas Robinson in being named an All-American by the Associated Press: “I appreciated that everyone doubted this basketball

Ex-Jayhawk Haase lands UAB job J-W Staff and Wire Reports

He has tremendous work ethic and enthusiasm and Former KU guard Jerod will bring imagination to Haase has been named the basketball staff and head coach at Alabamaprogram. He is a tireless Birmingham, UAB athletic worker and will have a director Brian Mackin great deal of passion for announced Monday. not only the basketball Haase, who turns 38 on program, but the entire April 1, played for Roy Wil- university community.” liams at KU and has spent A 1997 KU graduate the last 13 years on Wilin business administraliams’ staff with KU and tion, Haase served as KU North Carolina. He helped director of basketball the Tar Heels to national operations from 1999championships in 2005 2003. During that time, and 2009. He has also the Jayhawks reached the served as the head coach 2002 Final Four and the for the junior varsity team national championship five times in his nine-year game in 2003. Haase will UNC tenure. be formally introduced at “I am elated for both a press conference this Jerod and UAB,” Williams morning. said in a statement MonLast weekend, he spoke day night. “This will be a with the Journal-World great marriage. He is one about his desire to be a of the finest young men head coach.

I have ever known. There “When the opportunity is absolutely no doubt in is right,” he said. “That’s my mind he is going to be one of the biggest things. a great head coach. The I don’t need to run out people at UAB can count and get a head coaching on the fact that Jerod job just because I might will spend every single be able to get one. Getday continuing to build ting in the right situation a great program there. is paramount.”

team. I want to thank y’all because, through all the adversity, we constantly pushed through that.”

That much was obvious by the way Ohio State finished the pre-NCAA Tournament portion of its season. First the Buckeyes crushed Purdue and Michigan en route to a match-up with Michigan State in the Big Ten tournament title game. The Buckeyes lost that game, 68-64, but took a lot of confidence away from it and into the East Regional, where, seeded second, they knocked off top-seeded Syracuse, 77-70, Saturday to advance to the Final Four.

OSU won its four tourney games by an average of 12 points per game, including back-to-back victories over Big East squads Cincinnati and Syracuse.

With a trip to the Big Easy next up on the schedule, Matta said he would emphasize having fun along the way.

“Well, I think New Orleans is a celebration-type town,” he said. “So we’re just going to keep rolling right in there. I’ve been a head coach (at OSU) now for 12 years, and the one thing I’ve always tried to do was enjoy the special moments. We’re going to enjoy (this). I think taking the time to celebrate is something that they deserve.”

Sullinger did not play in the loss to KU because of back spasms.

“I think Thomas will be excited,” Self said of Thomas Robinson, who like Sullinger is a firstteam All-American. “I know he thinks a lot of Jared. Even when we played them the first time, I know our guys (wanted him to play). It was one of those — if it wasn’t game-time it was a that-day decision — when they decided not to play Jared. Looking back now, what a smart decision. Why risk anything and you still are a team that goes to the Final Four.

That was smart on their part. We know we caught a break that day. I know our guys. They’ve played in enough big games and I know they like playing against the best. Certainly we’ll get an opportunity to play against not only a great team but one of the premier players in the country.”

tional title. He’s been to the Final Four with three schools (UMass, Memphis, Kentucky). This is his fourth Final Four.

O Louisville: nine Final Fours, two national titles.

Last national title was 1986. Pitino has won one national title and been to the Final Four with three schools (Louisville, Kentucky and Providence).

This is his fifth Final Four.

O Kansas: 14 Final Fours, three national ti-

Sullinger is back: There will be a lot of hype this week concerning the fact

Popular KU staff: Barry Hinson’s name continues to be mentioned as a serious candidate for the head coaching post at Southern Illinois University. The Southern newspaper in Carbondale, Ill., in fact, says Hinson is one of the Salukis’ top candidates to succeed Chris Lowery.

Hinson, KU’s director of basketball operations, is fourth all-time in wins at Missouri State. Also, ESPN reports that Tulsa “reached out” to KU assistant Danny Manning about its opening. KU assistant Joe Dooley continues to be mentioned as a strong possibility at Mississippi State.

self but the betterment of all of us.,” KU coach Bill Self said. “To be unanimous, it’s just something that blows me away.”

Robinson is Kansas’ first first-team AP AllAmerican since Wayne Simien in 2005.

Also Monday, Robinson was one of 10 players named to the John R. Wooden Award All-America team. He was joined by Davis, Green, McDermott and Sullinger, plus Murray State’s Isaiah Canaan, Marquette’s Jae Crowder, Missouri’s Marcus Denmon, West Virginia’s Kevin Jones, and North Carolina’s Tyler Zeller.

The 6-9 Sullinger, who was selected East Regional most outstanding player as he led the Buckeyes to the Final Four, is the first

repeat All-America since North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough in 2009.

Sullinger, the first player to repeat as a freshman and sophomore since Chris Jackson of LSU in 1989 and 1990, averaged 17.6 points and 9.3 rebounds while shooting 53.9 percent from the field. He is the fourth Ohio State player to repeat joining Jerry Lucas, Robin Freeman and Garry Bradds. Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said it’s no surprise Sullinger has already sealed a place in the history of the program.

Davis burst onto the national scene as part of the Wildcats team that spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the poll and then entered the NCAA tournament as the overall No.

1 seed. The 6-10 Davis was chosen the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year after averaging 14.3 points, 10 rebounds and 4.6 blocks while shooting 64.2 percent from the field.

The 6-7 Green averaged 16.1 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.5 steals while doing everything the Spartans needed on the way to sharing the Big Ten regular season title, winning the conference tournament and being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

McDermott is Creighton’s first All-America and he joins three-time selection Pete Maravich of LSU as All-Americas coached by their fathers.

The 6-7 sophomore was third in Division I in scoring with a 23.2 average.

tles (two Helms titles).

Last title was 2008. Self has won one national title, and this is his second Final Four.

O Ohio State: 11 Final Fours, one national title (1960). Thad Matta has not won a national title.

This is his second Final Four. He led Xavier to the 2004 Elite Eight.

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Five things to watch for this spring

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

When new Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis was introduced in December as the 37th head coach in school history, he promised he and his coaching staff would make life miserable for the Jayhawks following their return from the holiday break.

With winter workouts and the installation of an entirely new football culture now behind them, it’s time to see just how much that misery paid off.

Spring football officially begins today, with the first of 15 practices scheduled for 4:35 p.m. With it comes the beginning of a process that will go a long way toward determining just how successful Weis’ first team will be this fall.

Because the majority of the players in Weis’ first recruiting class are not on campus yet, spring ball serves a couple of different purposes for KU this year. First, it’s a chance for those who are in town to get a leg up on the guys who will arrive this summer.

“With some frontline players joining our team in June, March/April is the time for current players to stake their claim for playing time,” Weis recently wrote on his Twitter feed.

Beyond that, the start of spring ball provides the entire team a chance to move forward. Now that the Jayhawks are well versed on the ins and outs of the Weis way off the field, spring ball offers an opportunity for the players to begin running Weis’ offense, working in defensive coordinator Dave Campo’s system and installing all of the things Weis believes will mark the beginning of a turnaround.

After finishing 2-10 and 3-9 in the past two seasons, it’s clear that there is work to be done for the Jayhawks to reach respectability. But starting from the bottom does not mean Weis and company will use that as an excuse for more losing in 2012.

“Don’t you think you have an ethical responsibility to the older players to shoot for (winning) as a goal?” Weis said on signing day in February.

“I think you have an ethical responsibility. (Senior quarterback) Dayne (Crist) didn’t come in here and say, ‘Hey, let’s go 2-10 again.’ That’s not why he came here. I don’t know how many games we’re going to win. I’m not going to make that mistake of making projections, but I do know without a doubt you have an ethical responsibility to your older guys first, and (you have to) do all you can to win as many games as you can.”

With that in mind, here are five things to look for from the Jayhawks this spring: O Quarterback play: During the past couple of seasons, spring ball has been dominated by talk of the quarterback position.

Two years ago, Jordan Webb and Kale Pick battled it out for the starting spot. Last year, Webb was the clear starter, but the position was clouded by the curiosity surrounding true freshman Brock Berglund. This year, there’s no such uncertainty. Crist, the 6-foot-4, 235-pound transfer from Notre Dame, is the clear-cut starter, and his presence should be seen immediately. In addition to Crist, sophomore Jake Heaps also will be able to participate in spring drills, even though he will not be eligible to

play this fall. Heaps has been dubbed by many as the quarterback of the future, and getting a look at him should be entertaining.

O Justin McCay: McCay is another impact transfer on whom Jayhawk fans should have their eye this spring. Although his status for 2012 remains up in the air, the Oklahoma transfer will be eligible to participate in spring practices and is likely to do so with the mind-set that he will be this team’s go-to wide receiver and one of its most dangerous weapons. McCay has petitioned the NCAA for a hardship waiver that, if granted, would allow him to play at Kansas without sitting out a season. It’s possible that we could hear something about the NCAA’s ruling at some point this spring, but even if we don’t, it will be fun to watch McCay develop a rapport with Crist.

O Conditioning: By all accounts, the offseason conditioning program run by new strength coach Scott Holsopple these past couple of months was much more intense and tougher than anything the Jayhawks had experienced during the past two seasons. The fruits of that labor might not fully show up until the fall, when the Jayhawks are able to use their increased size and strength and greater endurance during games, but don’t be surprised if the work they have put in is easy to spot this spring.

O Defensive adjustments: Statistically speaking, the Kansas defense was awful last season. It ranked near the bottom of Div. I in total defense, scoring defense, rushing defense and passing defense, and that gives Campo and his staff plenty of room to improve. Whether that will come through new schemes and formations or different principles and mentality, we should start to see some of what Campo wants to do this spring. He’s said all along that he would like to play a little out of both the 3-4 and 4-3 sets, but what he does with his new D this spring should give KU fans a pretty good idea of what the Jayhawks’ base look will be.

O Guys at new positions: Not a spring goes by where somebody does not switch positions in an attempt to make the team better, improve his own prospects for playing time or both. This is especially true when a new staff takes over. It might be too soon to tell which players will make a move this spring, but it’s a safe bet someone will.

Jayhawks add DE Weis announced Monday that former Nebraska defensive lineman Josh Williams had signed a grant-in-aid agreement with KU and would transfer to Kansas in June and be eligible to play his senior season of football for the Jayhawks this fall.

Williams, like former Notre Dame quarterback Dayne Crist, comes to KU as a graduate of his previous university, which allows him to be eligible immediately. After red-shirting during his freshman season at Nebraska, Williams, 6-4, 260, played in 29 games for Nebraska, including all 13 games during the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

The defensive end made two starts last season and racked up 27 tackles during his Nebraska career.

When he arrives this summer, Williams will join a revamped defensive line that all of a sudden appears to be loaded with depth.

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Philadelphia Boston New York Toronto New Jersey

W 27 27 25 16 16

L 22 22 25 34 35

Pct .551 .551 .500 .320 .314

GB — — 21⁄2 111⁄2 12

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

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

Home Away 17-10 10-12 17-8 10-14 16-10 9-15 8-16 8-18 6-19 10-16

Conf 20-11 22-12 18-15 9-25 12-25

Pct .729 .640 .600 .224 .149

GB — 4 6 241⁄2 271⁄2

L10 7-3 7-3 7-3 2-8 2-8

Str L-2 W-3 W-4 L-4 L-4

Home 20-2 18-8 16-7 6-19 4-18

Away 15-11 14-10 14-13 5-19 3-22

Conf 27-7 25-12 23-11 7-24 5-29

Pct .784 .604 .449 .370 .347

GB — 91⁄2 17 201⁄2 22

L10 7-3 6-4 7-3 4-6 4-6

Str L-1 W-2 L-2 L-3 W-1

Home 20-5 15-7 11-11 9-15 12-12

Away 20-6 14-12 11-16 8-14 5-20

Conf 29-7 19-15 16-18 9-22 12-20

GB — 61⁄2 7 71⁄2 22

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

Str W-4 W-1 W-1 W-1 L-2

Home 20-4 18-8 16-7 19-7 5-21

Away 13-10 10-14 10-14 8-16 7-16

Conf 22-11 19-17 16-18 17-18 6-26

Pct .755 .540 .540 .480 .469

GB — 101⁄2 101⁄2 131⁄2 14

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

Str W-3 W-1 W-1 W-1 W-1

Home 22-4 19-6 15-12 13-12 16-8

Away 15-8 8-17 12-11 11-14 7-18

Conf 27-9 17-17 14-22 19-17 16-17

Pct .612 .571 .510 .426 .347

GB — 2 5 9 13

L10 7-3 5-5 7-3 4-6 4-6

Str L-1 W-2 W-2 L-1 L-3

Home 20-4 17-8 15-10 11-13 13-10

Away 10-15 11-13 10-14 9-14 4-22

Conf 22-10 17-16 15-16 13-17 12-21

Southeast Division Miami Orlando Atlanta Washington Charlotte

W 35 32 30 11 7

L 13 18 20 38 40

Central Division W L x-Chicago 40 11 Indiana 29 19 Milwaukee 22 27 Cleveland 17 29 Detroit 17 32 x-clinched playoff spot

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Dallas Memphis Houston New Orleans

W 33 28 26 27 12

L 14 22 21 23 37

Pct .702 .560 .553 .540 .245

Northwest Division Oklahoma City Utah Denver Minnesota Portland

W 37 27 27 24 23

L 12 23 23 26 26

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

W 30 28 25 20 17

L 19 21 24 27 32

How former Jayhawks fared Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 13. FGs: 4-7. FTs: 4-6.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Pts: 6. FGs: 2-9. FTs: 2-2.

Xavier Henry, New Orleans Pts: 8. FGs: 2-5. FTs: 4-6.

Marcus Morris, Houston did not play (coach’s decision).

Paul Pierce, Boston Pts: 36. FGs: 10-20. FTs: 15-18.

Monday’s games Boston 102, Charlotte 95 Indiana 105, Miami 90 Orlando 117, Toronto 101 Detroit 79, Washington 77 Utah 105, New Jersey 84 New York 89, Milwaukee 80 Denver 108, Chicago 91 Houston 113, Sacramento 106, OT L.A. Clippers 97, New Orleans 85

Today’s games Cleveland at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 9 p.m.

San Antonio at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Denver at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

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

Leaders Scoring

G Bryant, LAL 49 Durant, OKC 49 James, MIA 46 Love, MIN 46 Westbrook, OKC 49 Wade, MIA 38 D. Williams, NJN 45 Aldridge, POR 47 Howard, ORL 49 Nowitzki, DAL 46 Ellis, MIL 42 Griffin, LAC 48 Parker, SAN 44 Paul, LAC 43 Jefferson, UTA 44 J. Johnson, ATL 44 Lee, GOL 46 Thornton, SAC 41 Gay, MEM 46 Irving, CLE 42 Rebounds G Howard, ORL 49 Love, MIN 46 Bynum, LAL 45 Cousins, SAC 46 Humphries, NJN 47 Griffin, LAC 48 Gasol, LAL 49 Noah, CHI 48 Gortat, PHX 49 Monroe, DET 48

FG 492 479 455 400 442 335 332 405 390 345 329 402 331 301 374 317 358 279 345 291

FT 329 314 285 323 245 192 219 192 251 221 170 195 183 175 104 123 169 126 135 152

PTS AVG 1385 28.3 1366 27.9 1231 26.8 1210 26.3 1178 24.0 871 22.9 985 21.9 1003 21.3 1031 21.0 966 21.0 880 21.0 1001 20.9 857 19.5 834 19.4 853 19.4 850 19.3 885 19.2 771 18.8 865 18.8 789 18.8

OFF 182 191 144 196 179 154 140 181 132 185

DEF 543 446 410 312 339 366 371 298 355 287

TOT 725 637 554 508 518 520 511 479 487 472

AVG 14.8 13.8 12.3 11.0 11.0 10.8 10.4 10.0 9.9 9.8

Team stats Team Offense Oklahoma City Denver Miami San Antonio Minnesota Utah Milwaukee Houston Golden State Sacramento Chicago New York Phoenix L.A. Clippers Portland Indiana L.A. Lakers Memphis Dallas Atlanta Cleveland Orlando Philadelphia Washington New Jersey Boston Toronto Detroit New Orleans Charlotte Team Defense Philadelphia Chicago Boston Orlando Atlanta Indiana Dallas Miami L.A. Lakers New Orleans Memphis Toronto New York L.A. Clippers Portland San Antonio Detroit Oklahoma City Phoenix Houston New Jersey Milwaukee Cleveland Utah Minnesota Golden State Charlotte Washington Denver Sacramento

G 49 49 47 47 50 49 48 49 47 48 50 49 49 48 49 47 49 47 50 50 46 49 49 48 50 48 49 48 48 46

Pts 5078 5078 4754 4736 4971 4851 4715 4807 4600 4695 4882 4767 4748 4651 4740 4523 4698 4478 4750 4740 4345 4595 4595 4484 4633 4375 4459 4328 4271 4021

Avg 103.6 103.6 101.1 100.8 99.4 99.0 98.2 98.1 97.9 97.8 97.6 97.3 96.9 96.9 96.7 96.2 95.9 95.3 95.0 94.8 94.5 93.8 93.8 93.4 92.7 91.1 91.0 90.2 89.0 87.4

G 49 50 48 49 50 47 50 47 49 48 47 49 49 48 49 47 48 49 49 49 50 48 46 49 50 47 46 48 49 48

Pts 4293 4437 4343 4492 4634 4384 4667 4389 4577 4501 4417 4645 4660 4586 4692 4510 4620 4763 4770 4781 4940 4745 4559 4858 4959 4692 4630 4841 5022 4961

Avg 87.6 88.7 90.5 91.7 92.7 93.3 93.3 93.4 93.4 93.8 94.0 94.8 95.1 95.5 95.8 96.0 96.3 97.2 97.3 97.6 98.8 98.9 99.1 99.1 99.2 99.8 100.7 100.9 102.5 103.4

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The Associated Press

Celtics 102, Bobcats 95 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Paul Pierce scored a seasonhigh 36 points on Monday night, and Boston moved into a first-place tie with Philadelphia in the Atlantic Division.

Pierce shot 10-of-20 from the field, made 15 of 18 free throws and added 10 rebounds and four assists.

Pierce has scored 20 or more points in five of the past six games and is averaging 22.3 points per game during March.

Kevin Garnett had 24 points for the Celtics.

Gerald Henderson had 21 points for the Bobcats (7-40), who have lost six of their past seven and remain the only team in the NBA with fewer than 10 wins. Charlotte got 59 points from its bench, including 18 from Byron Mullens and 16 from Derrick Brown.

The Celtics have the same record (27-22) as the 76ers with 17 games remaining in the regular season.

BOSTON (102) Pierce 10-20 15-18 36, Bass 4-9 7-8 15, Garnett 10-20 4-6 24, Rondo 1-7 5-8 7, Bradley 5-10 1-1 11, Stiemsma 1-2 1-2 3, Dooling 1-2 0-0 3, Hollins 1-2 1-2 3, Daniels 0-0 0-0 0, Pavlovic 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 33-73 34-45 102.

CHARLOTTE (95) Maggette 1-7 3-4 5, Thomas 1-4 2-2 4, Biyombo 2-4 0-0 4, Augustin 0-5 2-3 2, Henderson 9-14 3-5 21, Mullens 8-18 1-2 18, Brown 4-6 8-8 16, Walker 1-8 5-7 7, White 4-7 1-4 9, Williams 3-6 0-0 9.

Totals 33-79 25-35 95.

Boston 33 19 30 20—102 Charlotte 15 35 25 20— 95 3-Point Goals-Boston 2-12 (Dooling 1-1, Pierce 1-6, Garnett 0-1, Bradley 0-2, Rondo 0-2), Charlotte 4-12 (Williams 3-5, Mullens 1-3, Walker 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Boston 53 (Pierce 10), Charlotte 54 (Mullens 7). AssistsBoston 21 (Rondo 13), Charlotte 25 (Brown, Walker 7). Total Fouls-Boston 25, Charlotte 31. Technicals-Stiemsma, Boston defensive three second, Charlotte Coach Silas. A-16,357 (19,077).

Pacers 105, Heat 90 INDIANAPOLIS — Danny Granger scored 25 points to help Indiana beat Miami.

Darren Collison added 20 points, and Paul George had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers, who have won four of five and finally got the signature win they have sought since the All-Star break.

LeBron James had 24 points and nine rebounds, and Dwyane Wade had 24 points and six assists for Miami.

The Heat, coming off a 103-87 loss at Oklahoma City on Sunday night, lost by double digits in backto-back games for the first time this season. Miami (35-13) lost for the fourth time in eight games overall and is running out of time to catch Chicago (4010) for the best record in the Eastern Conference.

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BOSTON CELTICS’ PAUL PIERCE (34) DRIVES over Charlotte Bobcats’ Kemba Walker during the second half on Monday in Charlotte, N.C. Pierce scored 36 points, and Boston won, 102-95.

Boykins hit two free throws with 21 seconds left and two more seven seconds later to secure the win.

DeMarcus Cousins scored a career-high 38 points and had 14 rebounds, and Marcus Thornton added 27 points for the Kings, who lost their fifth straight road game. They are an NBAworst 4-22 on the road this season.

SACRAMENTO (106) Evans 5-11 2-2 12, Greene 4-9 0-0 8, Cousins 15-26 8-12 38, Thomas 3-13 2-4 8, Thornton 9-22 6-6 27, Hayes 1-4 1-2 3, Fredette 0-1 0-0 0, Salmons 0-1 0-0 0, Outlaw 0-1 0-0 0, Garcia 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 4-7 0-0 10. Totals 41-96 19-26 106.

HOUSTON (113) Parsons 6-12 3-6 16, Scola 8-12 2-2 18, Dalembert 1-5 0-0 2, Dragic 6-12 1-1 14, Lee 5-13 5-5 16, Camby 1-2 0-1 2, Boykins 2-6 6-6 10, Budinger 4-11 2-2 11, Patterson 10-16 4-4 24. Totals 43-89 23-27 113.

Sacramento 29 22 21 27 7—106 Houston 17 25 29 28 14—113 3-Point Goals-Sacramento 5-18 (Thornton 3-7, Williams 2-4, Fredette 0-1, Garcia 0-1, Greene 0-2, Thomas 0-3), Houston 4-20 (Dragic 1-4, Budinger 1-5, Parsons 1-5, Lee 1-6). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Sacramento 54 (Cousins 14), Houston 58 (Scola 14). AssistsSacramento 17 (Thomas 6), Houston 27 (Dragic 10). Total Fouls-Sacramento 20, Houston 21. Technicals-Cousins.

A-13,572 (18,043).

Nuggets 108, Bulls 91 MIAMI (90) James 9-21 4-6 24, Bosh 4-11 6-11 14, CHICAGO — Ty Lawson Anthony 1-2 0-0 2, Chalmers 4-7 4-6 13, Wade 7-16 6-8 24, Cole 0-4 0-0 0, Haslem tied a season high with 27 1-2 2-2 4, J.Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Turiaf 2-3 2-4 points, Arron Afflalo add6, Battier 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 29-69 24-37 90. ed 22, and Denver shot 50 INDIANA (105) Granger 8-19 6-7 25, West 5-8 0-0 10, percent to beat Chicago.

Hibbert 4-9 3-6 11, Collison 7-12 4-4 20, Denver, playing its George 7-14 0-0 16, Hansbrough 1-3 6-8 8, Hill 0-2 0-0 0, Amundson 0-1 1-2 1, third game in four nights Barbosa 5-11 1-1 14, D.Jones 0-2 0-0 0. as part of a seven-game Totals 37-81 21-28 105. road swing, got its first Miami 24 22 19 25— 90 Indiana 24 25 29 27—105 win three games into the 3-Point Goals-Miami 8-20 (Wade 4-8, James 2-4, Battier 1-3, Chalmers 1-4, trip.

Bosh 0-1), Indiana 10-18 (Granger 3-5, Al Harrington added 17 Barbosa 3-7, Collison 2-3, George 2-3). points, and Andre Miller Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Miami 43 (James 9), Indiana 61 (West 12). chipped in with 12 points Assists-Miami 11 (Wade 6), Indiana and 10 assists for the Nug20 (West 4). Total Fouls-Miami 24, Indiana 29. Technicals-Indiana Coach gets, who are scrapping Vogel. Flagrant Fouls-D.Jones. A-17,415 for a playoff spot in the (18,165).

West.

C.J. Watson and John Rockets 113, Kings 106, Lucas III scored 17 points OT each for the Bulls. Chicago HOUSTON — Patrick Pat- star Derrick Rose sat out terson scored a career- his seventh straight game high 24 points and Earl due to a groin injury.

Boykins hit four free (108) throws for Houston late in DENVER Chandler 3-10 1-1 7, Faried 3-6 2-3 8, overtime to lead the Rock- McGee 5-11 0-2 10, Lawson 11-21 2-2 27, 8-12 4-4 22, Harrington 6-14 2-2 ets to a victory over Sac- Afflalo 17, Miller 6-8 0-0 12, C.Brewer 0-3 0-0 0, ramento.

Mozgov 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 44-88 12-16 108.

(91) Boykins, who was CHICAGO Deng 3-9 2-2 9, Boozer 7-9 0-2 14, Noah signed by Houston earlier 1-5 0-0 2, Watson 5-12 4-4 17, R.Brewer in the day, finished with 10 2-6 0-0 5, Gibson 2-5 1-2 5, Asik 3-5 1-1 7, Korver 5-7 0-0 14, Lucas 5-11 0-0 14, points in his first action of Butler 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 35-74 8-11 91.

Denver 25 29 27 27—108 the season.

27 25 16 23— 91 Houston built a 107-102 Chicago 3-Point Goals-Denver 8-16 (Lawson lead in overtime behind 3-5, Harrington 3-6, Afflalo 2-4, 0-1), Chicago 13-20 (Korver four points from Chandler Chandler 4-4, Lucas 4-7, Watson 3-4, Deng 1-2, R.Brewer 1-2, Butler 0-1). Fouled OutParsons.

Rebounds-Denver 54 (Lawson Tyreke Evans got Sac- None.

9), Chicago 36 (Gibson, Boozer 7). ramento within three with Assists-Denver 24 (Miller 10), Chicago (Watson 8). Total Fouls-Denver 12, a layup with 29 seconds 24 Chicago 15. Technicals-Denver defenleft. sive three second 2. A-22,274 (20,917).

Knicks 89, Bucks 80 NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored 28 points, delivering his highest total in two months without the injured Amare Stoudemire and Jeremy Lin, and the Knicks beat Milwaukee to increase their lead for the final Eastern Conference playoff berth.

MILWAUKEE (80) Delfino 2-6 0-0 5, Ilyasova 0-2 2-2 2, Gooden 2-9 2-2 6, Jennings 6-22 3-4 15, Ellis 2-14 0-0 4, Mbah a Moute 2-3 1-2 5, Dunleavy 10-14 1-3 26, Udrih 3-5 3-5 9, Udoh 3-8 0-0 6, Livingston 1-2 0-0 2.

Totals 31-85 12-18 80.

NEW YORK (89) Anthony 8-20 12-12 28, Fields 1-5 0-0 2, Chandler 3-7 7-9 13, Davis 3-12 6-6 13, Shumpert 4-8 0-0 11, Bibby 1-2 0-0 3, Smith 3-13 2-2 9, Harrellson 1-3 1-2 3, Novak 2-4 2-4 7. Totals 26-74 30-35 89.

Milwaukee 26 26 12 16—80 New York 30 17 21 21—89 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 6-24 (Dunleavy 5-8, Delfino 1-5, Ilyasova 0-1, Gooden 0-1, Ellis 0-2, Jennings 0-7), New York 7-31 (Shumpert 3-6, Novak 1-2, Bibby 1-2, Davis 1-5, Smith 1-10, Chandler 0-1, Harrellson 0-1, Fields 0-2, Anthony 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Milwaukee 50 (Mbah a Moute 7), New York 63 (Anthony 12).

Assists-Milwaukee 17 (Jennings 5), New York 16 (Davis 7). Total FoulsMilwaukee 28, New York 19. TechnicalsNew York defensive three second.

A-19,763 (19,763).

Jazz 105, Nets 84 NEWARK, N.J. — Paul Millsap had 24 points and 13 rebounds, and the Jazz shook off the weariness from their four-overtime loss 24 hours earlier.

Al Jefferson added 19 points and eight rebounds as the Jazz won for the seventh time in eight games and kept a hold on one of the last playoff spots in the Western Conference.

UTAH (105) Hayward 3-8 1-2 7, Millsap 10-14 3-3 24, Jefferson 9-14 1-2 19, Harris 3-9 2-2 9, Miles 3-7 2-2 10, Watson 1-2 0-0 2, Burks 5-11 5-5 15, Favors 2-7 0-0 4, Carroll 3-5 0-0 7, Kanter 1-2 2-2 4, Tinsley 1-1 0-0 2, Evans 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 42-81 16-18 105.

NEW JERSEY (84) Wallace 4-11 6-8 14, Humphries 0-6 2-2 2, S.Williams 2-2 0-0 4, D.Williams 7-21 2-5 17, Brooks 3-10 4-4 10, Green 7-14 2-6 20, J.Williams 5-6 3-8 13, Stevenson 0-1 0-0 0, Petro 1-7 2-2 4, Gaines 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 29-81 21-35 84.

Utah 15 34 23 33—105 New Jersey 17 15 33 19— 84 3-Point Goals-Utah 5-14 (Miles 2-4, Millsap 1-1, Harris 1-2, Carroll 1-3, Burks 0-1, Hayward 0-3), New Jersey 5-21 (Green 4-8, D.Williams 1-7, Gaines 0-1, Stevenson 0-1, Brooks 0-2, Wallace 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Utah 52 (Millsap 13), New Jersey 55 (Humphries 10). Assists-Utah 29 (Harris 11), New Jersey 19 (D.Williams 11). Total FoulsUtah 22, New Jersey 17. A-10,310 (18,711).

Pistons 79, Wizards 77 WASHINGTON — Rodney Stuckey scored half of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including the winning 20-foot jumper with 0.2 seconds left, and Detroit ended a five-game losing streak by erasing a 13-point deficit.

DETROIT (79) Prince 6-15 5-6 18, Maxiell 0-3 0-0 0, Monroe 3-4 4-4 10, Knight 3-13 2-4 8, Stuckey 9-20 4-5 24, Gordon 0-4 0-0 0, Wallace 2-2 1-4 5, Jerebko 3-5 3-3 9, Wilkins 0-0 0-0 0, Bynum 2-7 1-1 5, Daye 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 28-76 20-27 79.

WASHINGTON (77) Singleton 0-5 1-2 1, Seraphin 6-9 0-0 12, Nene 3-8 2-4 8, Wall 6-17 1-1 14, Crawford 9-16 1-1 20, Vesely 2-5 2-3 6, Cook 2-3 0-0 5, Mason 3-10 2-3 9, Mack 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 32-78 9-14 77.

Detroit 16 14 23 26—79 Washington 14 21 27 15—77 3-Point Goals-Detroit 3-13 (Stuckey 2-6, Prince 1-3, Daye 0-1, Jerebko 0-1, Knight 0-2), Washington 4-17 (Cook 1-1, Wall 1-1, Crawford 1-5, Mason 1-6, Nene 0-1, Mack 0-1, Singleton 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Detroit 60 (Jerebko 12), Washington 46 (Nene 9). Assists-Detroit 12 (Knight 7), Washington 21 (Wall 9). Total FoulsDetroit 23, Washington 23. TechnicalsDetroit Coach Frank, Detroit defensive three second, Washington defensive three second. A-15,911 (20,278).

Magic 117, Raptors 101 TORONTO — Ryan Anderson made a career-best eight three-pointers and finished with 28 points.

ORLANDO (117) Turkoglu 2-9 2-2 7, R.Anderson 9-15 2-2 28, Howard 8-14 7-10 23, Nelson 8-11 0-0 18, J.Richardson 3-7 0-0 7, Q.Richardson 0-2 0-0 0, Duhon 3-5 0-0 7, G.Davis 5-8 3-5 13, Redick 5-8 0-0 12, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Liggins 1-2 0-0 2, Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-81 14-19 117.

TORONTO (101) J.Johnson 4-6 4-4 13, Bargnani 3-11 2-2 8, Gray 1-4 4-4 6, Calderon 4-9 0-0 9, Forbes 7-14 3-4 21, Kleiza 7-10 1-2 18, E.Davis 3-6 3-3 9, Magloire 1-1 1-3 3, Bayless 2-6 0-0 6, A.Johnson 2-5 0-0 4, A.Anderson 0-1 2-2 2, Alabi 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 35-74 20-24 101.

Orlando 28 33 32 24—117 Toronto 26 23 24 28—101 3-Point Goals-Orlando 15-34 (R.Anderson 8-13, Nelson 2-3, Redick 2-5, Duhon 1-2, J.Richardson 1-3, Turkoglu 1-7, Q.Richardson 0-1), Toronto 11-22 (Forbes 4-7, Kleiza 3-5, Bayless 2-4, J.Johnson 1-2, Calderon 1-3, Bargnani 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Orlando 44 (Howard 10), Toronto 41 (Magloire 7). AssistsOrlando 26 (Turkoglu 8), Toronto 25 (Calderon 11). Total Fouls-Orlando 18, Toronto 17. A-16,429 (19,800).

Clippers 97, Hornets 85 LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul had 25 points and 10 assists against his former team, leading the Clippers to a win over New Orleans.

New Orleans committed a season-high 29 turnovers, leading to 35 points for the Clippers.

NEW ORLEANS (85) Ariza 0-3 3-6 3, Thomas 2-4 0-0 4, Ayon 3-7 2-2 8, Jack 4-12 1-1 9, Belinelli 3-8 0-0 7, Johnson 4-6 3-5 11, Landry 4-6 6-8 14, Henry 2-5 4-6 8, Aminu 7-8 0-0 15, Vasquez 2-3 2-3 6. Totals 31-62 21-31 85.

L.A. CLIPPERS (97) Butler 3-9 0-0 6, Griffin 8-10 4-9 20, Jordan 3-6 1-1 7, Paul 9-17 5-5 25, Foye 2-8 0-0 5, Martin 2-4 0-0 4, Young 5-11 3-3 17, Simmons 1-4 0-0 3, Bledsoe 1-1 2-2 4, Evans 2-2 0-1 4, Thompkins 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 37-74 15-21 97.

New Orleans 20 18 17 30—85 L.A. Clippers 27 22 25 23—97 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 2-11 (Aminu 1-2, Belinelli 1-5, Henry 0-1, Ariza 0-1, Jack 0-1, Vasquez 0-1), L.A. Clippers 8-26 (Young 4-8, Paul 2-6, Simmons 1-3, Foye 1-5, Martin 0-1, Butler 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-New Orleans 55 (Landry 10), L.A. Clippers 29 (Griffin 7). AssistsNew Orleans 23 (Jack, Vasquez 7), L.A. Clippers 25 (Paul 10). Total Fouls-New Orleans 23, L.A. Clippers 26. Technicals-Ariza, Griffin. Flagrant Fouls-Griffin. A-19,060 (19,060).

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Kirkpatrick first-team J-W Staff Reports

City athletes from Free State and Lawrence high schools were among the many honored by Sunflower League coaches on the 2011-12 all-league teams for girls and boys basketball.

Free State girls junior guard Kennedy Kirkpatrick was the lone firstteam selection from Lawrence.

The second teams had one city representative apiece: Lawrence boys senior guard Logan Henrichs and FSHS senior girls guard Lynn Robinson.

While the girls teams were split into two 10-player lists, the boys teams had three fiveplayer lists, and Free State senior guard Brett Frantz made the All-Sunflower League third team.

Several city players garnered honorable mention on the all-league teams, too: junior Monica Howard and sophomore Kionna Coleman, LHS girls; senior Jackie Garcia and junior Chelsea Casady, FSHS girls; seniors An-

thony Buffalomeat and KJ Pritchard, junior Jake Mosiman and sophomore Bryce Montes de Oca, LHS boys; and senior Gabe Patterson, FSHS boys.

Olathe South senior guard Megan Balcom was named the girls player of the year, and Olathe Northwest’s Joel Branstrom was selected as girls coach of the year.

ONW senior guard Shavon Shields was voted the boys player of the year in the Sunflower League, and his coach, Mike Grove, was coach of the year.

On the boys side, Olathe South’s Noah Knight was tabbed sophomore of the year and Shawnee Mission South’s Dainan Swoope was freshman of the year.

Those awards are not given for girls basketball.

Girls first team: Emmy Allen, Shawnee Mission South; Megan Balcom, Olathe South; Kelsey Brooks, Olathe Northwest; Kylie Gafford, Olathe East; Alex Hugo, Olathe South; Kennedy Kirkpatrick, Free State; Caroline Nick, Shawnee Mission East; Alyssa Palmer, Olathe East; McKayla Ross, Shawnee Mission

Lawrence High senior wrestlers Reece WrightConklin and Nick Pursel recently were recognized by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association for their work in the classroom.

Wright-Conklin and Pursel received honorable mention on the Class 6A KWCA academic all-state team for the 2011-12 season.

As an entire team, LHS

received first-team recognition and was runner-up in the race for the allacademic state championship. Topeka High, with a GPA of 3.44, finished just ahead of the Lions, who had a cumulative average of 3.403.

Firebird 8th at golf invite OVERLAND PARK — Free State High junior golfer Alex Green carded a 74

and finished in eighth place on Monday at the Blue Valley West Invitational, held at LionsGate.

The Firebirds, who scored 329 total, did not place in the team standings.

Lawrence High, which was led by senior Logan Henrichs’ 79, finished with a team total of 334.

Both Lawrence and Free State High will compete next at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Free State Invitational at Eagle Bend golf course.

NCAA WOMEN

Baylor rolls into Final Four The Associated Press

Baylor 77, Tennessee 58 DES MOINES, IOWA — Baylor has two wins to go for 40-0. Tennessee’s future is far less certain.

Brittney Griner had 23 points, 15 rebounds and nine blocks before being ejected with less than a minute left and top-seeded Baylor rolled over Tennessee to advance to the Final Four.

“We’re so happy, but you can’t relax,” Baylor’s Destiny Williams said. “We have two more games left.”

Shekinna Stricklen had 22 points for Tennessee (27-9), whose seniors became its first four-year Lady Vols class not to reach a Final Four.

The second-seeded Lady Vols now face an uncertain future, as Pat Summitt has yet to say if she’ll return for a 39th season as Tennessee coach. She announced in August she’d been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type.

“This team is about Pat Summitt. This team has battled all year,” said Tennessee associate head coach Holly Warlick as she fought back tears. “I’m proud of them. I thought our team and coaching staff obviously was in a difficult situation. But I thought this team was responsive. I wouldn’t trade anything that we did this year.”

The Lady Bears (380), who are back in the national semifinals for the second time in three years, will face Stanford on Sunday night in Denver. Should Baylor win it all, it’ll become the first men’s or women’s team in NCAA history to finish a year with 40 wins.

“Definitely happy that we got past this game. It’s not over,” Griner said. “It gets tougher as you go.”

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BAYLOR’S BRITTNEY GRINER (42) CATCHES A PASS over Tennessee’s Glory Johnson, left, and Vicki Baugh. The Bears beat UT, 77-58, in a NCAA Tournament regional final on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa.

Baylor held Tennessee to just 30.3 percent shooting from the floor. Much of that was because of the inside presence of the 6-foot-8 Griner, who was just one block shy of her fifth career triple-double.

“Defense wins ballgames for you,” Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said.

“I guess learned from two of the best. I learned from (Summitt) and (former Louisiana Tech coach) Leon Barmore, you better guard people. And these kids are going to guard you.”

A rather ugly game from a purist’s perspective got even uglier in the final 46.8 seconds.

Baylor’s Odyssey Sims, who led the Bears with 27 points, tumbled to the

NCAA Women

DES MOINES REGIONAL Regional Semifinals At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, March 24 Tennessee 84, Kansas 73 Baylor 83, Georgia Tech 68 Regional Championship Monday, March 26 Baylor 77, Tennessee 58 FRESNO REGIONAL Regional Semifinals At Save Mart Center Fresno, Calif.

Saturday, March 24 Duke 74, St. John’s 47 Stanford 76, South Carolina 60 Regional Championship Monday, March 26 Stanford 81, Duke 69 RALEIGH REGIONAL Regional Semifinals At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Sunday, March 25 Maryland 81, Texas A&M 74 Notre Dame 79, St. Bonaventure 35 Today Regional Championship Maryland (31-4) vs. Notre Dame (333), 8 p.m.

KINGSTON REGIONAL Regional Semifinals At The Ryan Center Kingston, R.I. Sunday, March 25 UConn 77, Penn State 59 Kentucky 79, Gonzaga 62 Regional Championship Tuesday, March 27 UConn (32-4) vs. Kentucky (28-6), 6 p.m.

FINAL FOUR At Pepsi Center Denver National Semifinals Sunday, April 1 Baylor (38-0) vs. Stanford (35-1), 5:30 or 8 p.m.

Raleigh champion vs. Kingston champion, 5:30 or 8 p.m.

National Championship Tuesday, April 3 Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

Northwest; Jessica Sheble, Olathe North.

Girls second team: Katie Biggers, Shawnee Mission Northwest; Michaela Crall, Olathe Northwest; Jaylah Jackson, Olathe Northwest; Tashia Jones, Leavenworth; Kylee Kopatich, Olathe South; Taylor McDowell, Shawnee Mission South; Shannon McGinley, Shawnee Mission East; Molly Norburg, Shawnee Mission West; Bailey Rinehart, Olathe South; Lynn Robinson, Free State.

Boys first team: Willie Cauley, Olathe Northwest; Dylan Christie, Shawnee Mission South; Grant Greenberg, Leavenworth; Noah Knight, Olathe South; Shavon Shields, Olathe Northwest.

Boys second team: Trey Bales, Olathe Northwest; Logan Henrichs, Lawrence; Blaine Miller, Olathe East; Tyler Thomas, Olathe South; Vance Wentz, Shawnee Mission East.

Third team: Brett Frantz, Free State; Preston Padgett, Leavenworth; Josh Pedersen, Shawnee Mission South; Zach Schneider, Shawnee Mission East; Jay Tamaat, AP Men’s All-America Shawnee Mission West.

Statistics through March 13

BRIEFLY LHS wrestlers academic all-state

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First Team Thomas Robinson, Kansas, 6-10, 237, junior, Washington, 17.9 ppg, 11.8 rpg, 1.9 apg, 53.1 fg pct. (65 first-place votes, 325 points) Anthony Davis, Kentucky, 6-10, 220, freshman, Chicago, 14.3 ppg, 10.0 rpg, 64.2 fg pct., 4.6 blocks (63, 321) Draymond Green, Michigan State, 6-7, 230, senior, Saginaw, Mich., 16.1 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 3.6 apg, 1.5 steals (53, 301) Jared Sullinger, Ohio State, 6-9, 280, sophomore, Columbus, Ohio, 17.6 ppg, 9.3 rpg, 53.9 fg pct. (30, 246) Doug McDermott, Creighton, 6-7, 220, sophomore, Ames, Iowa, 23.2 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 61.0 fg pct., 49.5 3-pt fg pct. (29, 237) Second Team Isaiah Canaan, Murray State, 6-0, 195, junior, Biloxi, Miss., 19.2 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 3.7 apg, 47.3 3-pt fg pct., 84.0 ft pct, 1.4 steals (30, 232) Marcus Denmon, Missouri, 6-3, 185, senior, Kansas City, Mo., 17.6 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 2.1 apg, 40.9 3-pt fg pct., 89.8 ft pct., 1.6 steals (22, 220) Tyler Zeller, North Carolina, 7-0, 250, senior, Washington, Ind., 16.5 ppg, 9.3 rpg, 55.5 fg pct., 80.9 ft pct., 1.3 blocks (7, 185) Jae Crowder, Marquette, 6-6, 235, senior, Villa Rica, Ga., 17.4 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 2.1 apg, 50.5 fg pct., 2.4 steals (6, 140) Kevin Jones, West Virginia, 6-8, 260, senior, Mount Vernon, N.Y., 20.1 ppg, 11.1 rpg, 38.3 minutes, 51.3 fg pct. (2, 112) Third Team Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Kentucky, 6-7, 232, freshman, Somerdale, N.J., 11.8 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 2.0 apg (0, 89) Tyshawn Taylor, Kansas, 6-3, 185, senior, Hoboken, N.J., 17.3 ppg, 4.8 apg, 49.2 fg pct, 43.5 3-pt fg pct. (2, 83) John Jenkins, Vanderbilt, 6-4, 220, junior, Hendersonville, Tenn., 19.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 44.8 3-pt fg pct., 84.3 ft pct.

(2, 73) Kendall Marshall, North Carolina, 6-4, 195, sophomore, Dumfries, Va., 7.8 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 9.7 apg, 1.2 steals (5, 49) Damian Lillard, Weber State, 6-3, 195, junior, Oakland, Calif., 24.4 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 4.1 apg, 42.1 3-pt fg pct., 88.1 ft pct., 1.5 steals (3, 45) Honorable Mention Harrison Barnes, North Carolina; Will Barton, Memphis; Julian Boyd, LIU Brooklyn; Ryan Broekhoff, Valparaiso; De’Mon Brooks, Davidson.

Trey Burke, Michigan; Deonte Burton, Nevada; Torrey Craig, S.C.-Upstate; Paul Crosby, Mississippi Valley State; Matthew Dellavedova, Saint Mary’s.

LaRon Dendy, Middle Tennessee; Matt Dickey, UNC Asheville; Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State; Jorge Gutierrez, California; John Henson, North Carolina.

Robbie Hummel, Purdue; Pierre Jackson, Baylor; Darius Johnson-Odom, Marquette; Perry Jones III, Baylor; Kris Joseph, Syracuse.

Jeremy Lamb, Connecticut; Scott Machado, Iona; C.J. McCollum, Lehigh; Dominique Morrison, Oral Roberts; Mike Moser, UNLV. Andrew Nicholson, St. Bonaventure; Kyle O’Quinn, Norfolk State; Darryl Partin, Boston University; Ryan Pearson, George Mason; Mason Plumlee, Duke.

Patrick Richard, McNeese State; Austin Rivers, Duke; Zack Rosen, Pennsylvania; Mike Scott, Virginia; John Shurna, Northwestern.

Jordan Taylor, Wisconsin; Dion Waiters, Syracuse; Casper Ware, Long Beach State; Mitchell Watt, Buffalo; Royce White, Iowa State; Isaiah Wilkerson, NJIT; Nate Wolters, South Dakota State; Cody Zeller, Indiana.

NCAA Men

FINAL FOUR At The Superdome New Orleans National Semifinals Saturday, March 31 Kentucky (36-2) vs. Louisville (30-9), 5:09 p.m.

Ohio State (31-7) vs. Kansas (31-6), 7:49 p.m.

National Championship Monday, April 2 Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.

DETROIT TIGERS-Optioned RHP Jacob Turner to Toledo (IL). Reassigned RHP Chris Bootcheck, INF Audy Ciriaco, INF Argenis Diaz, INF Ryan Strieby and OF Quintin Berry to minor league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS-Reassigned RHP Brendan Wise to minor league camp.

TEXAS RANGERS-Optioned RHP Mark Hamburger to Round Rock (PCL).

Assigned RHP Sean Green to their minor league camp. Released LHP Joe Beimel, LHP Mitch Stetter and OF Conor Jackson.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS-Agreed to terms with RHP Dustin McGowan on a three-year contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS-Agreed to terms with RHP Shawn Camp on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Announced LHP John Grabow exercised his option to opt out of his minor league contract and become a free agent.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS-Returned C Mike Rivera to minor league camp.

NEW YORK METS-Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Young on a minor league contract.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS-Reassigned OF Adron Chambers to their minor league camp.

SAN DIEGO PADRES-Placed INF Logan Forsythe on the 15-day DL. Reassigned RHP Brad Boxberger to minor league camp.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS-Agreed to terms with LS Mike Leach on a threeyear contract and LB Reggie Walker on a two-year contract.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS-Released FB Lousaka Polite.

ST. LOUIS RAMS-Signed WR Steve Smith.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS-Signed RB Matt Walter.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS-Reelected Jeff Thompson to the board of directors.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS-Assigned F Trent Whitfield to Providence (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS-Recalled G Carter Hutton from Rockford (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS-Reassigned D Adam Almqvist to Grand Rapids (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS-Recalled D Peter Harrold from Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS-Agreed to terms with F Andrew Yogan.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SPORTING KANSAS CITY-Waived F Birahim Diop.

TENNIS WTA-Named Bessie Lee, Winston Lord, Bruce Rockowitz and William Pfeiffer to the Global Advisory Council.

COLLEGE ALABAMA-Signed football coach Nick Saban to a two-year contract extension through Jan. 31, 2020; defensive coordinator Kirby Smart and offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier to three-year contracts; outside linebackers coach Lance Thompson to a two-year contract; and tight ends and special teams coach Bobby Williams, strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran, defensive line coach Chris Rumph, running backs coach Burton Burns, wide receivers coach Mike Groh and secondary coach Jeremy Pruitt to one-year contract extensions.

DRAKE-Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Amy Stephens.

DREXEL-Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Bruiser Flint on a multiyear contract extension.

DUKE-Announced freshman G Austin Rivers will enter the NBA draft.

MISSISSIPPI STATE-Announced junior F Renardo Sidney will enter the NBA draft.

MURRAY STATE-Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm on a one-year contract extension through the 2015-16 season.

UAB-Named Jerod Haase men’s basketball coach.

WAGNER-Promoted men’s assistant basketball coach Bashir Mason to head coach.

Sony Ericsson Open

Monday At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park Key Biscayne, Fla. Purse: Men, $4.83 million (Masters 1000); Women, $4.83 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round Mardy Fish (8), United States, def.

Kevin Anderson (28), South Africa, 6-4, 6-3.

Richard Gasquet (17), France, def.

Albert Ramos, Spain, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3.

Nicolas Almagro (12), Spain, def.

Fernando Verdasco (20), Spain, 6-3, 6-4.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def.

Viktor Troicki (27), Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.

David Ferrer (5), Spain, def. Julien Benneteau (30), France, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Juan Martin del Potro (11), Argentina, def. Marin Cilic (23), Croatia, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Andy Roddick (31), United States, def. Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4.

Juan Monaco (21), Argentina, def.

Gael Monfils (14), France, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Women Fourth Round Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def.

Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Marion Bartoli (7), France, def. Maria Kirilenko (22), Russia, 6-1, 6-2.

Agnieszka Radwanska (5), Poland, def. Garbine Muguruza Blanco, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.

Serena Williams (10), United States, def. Sam Stosur (6), Australia, 7-5, 6-3.

Li Na (8), China, def. Sabine Lisicki (12), Germany, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Caroline Wozniacki (4), Denmark, def. Yanina Wickmayer (23), Belgium, 7-6 (6), 6-0.

Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, def.

Dominika Cibulkova (16), Slovakia, 1-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5.

Venus Williams, United States, def.

Ana Ivanovic (15), Serbia, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-2.

floor, and she and Stricklen had to be separated and were each assessed technical foul for unCollege Ottawa University Invitational sportsmanlike conduct.

Tournament No punches were At Eagle Bend thrown, but Griner and Monday (first of two rounds) Leader: Derek Frick (Haskell) 36-34 NIT teammates Terran Con70.

Semifinals drey and Jordan Madden At Madison Square Garden Next: 9 a.m. shotgun start, Eagle Bend were ejected for leaving New York the bench. The NCAA Today UMass (24-10) vs. Stanford (24-11), 6 High School Boys says none of the players p.m.

Varsity (24-10) vs. Minnesota (22- Monday at LionsGate in Overland Park will be suspended for the Washington 14), 8 p.m.

Blue Valley West Invitational Final Four.

Championship Team results: Free State 329;

Stanford 81, Duke 69 FRESNO, CALIF. — Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 29 points and nine rebounds, sending topseeded Stanford to its fifth straight Final Four berth.

Little sister, Chiney Ogwumike grabbed 17 rebounds to go with 12 points.

Thursday Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES-Optioned INF Matt Antonelli, RHP Brad Bergesen and RHP Jason Berken to Norfolk (IL). Reassigned OF Scott Beerer, C John Hester, INF Steve Tolleson, RHP Armando Galarraga and LHP Dontrelle Willis to their minor league camp.

Placed LHP Zach Britton and INF Brian Roberts on the 15-day DL.

Lawrence High 334.

Free State individuals: Alex Green 74, eighth place; Wilson Hack 81; Lee York 87; Colin Becker 87; Levi Baker 89.

Lawrence High individuals: Logan Henrichs 79; Brett Van Blaricum 81; Cole Cummins 84; Connor Henrichs 90; Narito Mendez 95.

Junior Varsity Monday at Lake Shawnee Shawnee Heights Invitational Team results: Free State 354, second place.

Free State individuals: Max Soto 83, fourth place; Nick Hay 87; Matt Siler 90; Nick Allen 94; Addison McCauley 98.

Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto Detroit Oakland Los Angeles Seattle New York Kansas City Baltimore Boston Minnesota Chicago Tampa Bay Texas Cleveland NATIONAL LEAGUE

W 19 15 14 14 12 13 13 10 11 13 10 7 7 6

L 4 4 5 9 8 9 11 9 10 12 13 14 16 15

Pct .826 .789 .737 .609 .600 .591 .542 .526 .524 .520 .435 .333 .304 .286

W L Pct St. Louis 13 7 .650 Los Angeles 12 8 .600 San Francisco 14 10 .583 San Diego 15 11 .577 Colorado 13 10 .565 Houston 11 12 .478 Chicago 12 14 .462 Milwaukee 10 12 .455 Miami 8 10 .444 Philadelphia 10 13 .435 Cincinnati 10 15 .400 Arizona 9 14 .391 Atlanta 8 14 .364 Pittsburgh 8 14 .364 Washington 7 13 .350 New York 6 14 .300 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against nonmajor league teams do not.

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 10, Minnesota 4 N.Y. Mets 6, St. Louis 3 Washington 7, Houston 4 Boston 6, Philadelphia 0 Detroit 3, Miami 3, tie, 10 innings Milwaukee 6, Cleveland 5 Colorado 6, L.A. Angels 2 San Francisco 4, Kansas City 2 Chicago Cubs (ss) 2, San Diego 0 L.A. Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Arizona 3, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2 Baltimore 4, Pittsburgh 1 Texas 12, Cincinnati 2 Today’s Games Detroit vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Washington vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:35 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. San Diego (ss) at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego (ss) vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-N.Y. Rangers 75 47 21 7 101 206 168 x-Pittsburgh 75 47 22 6 100 253 195 x-Philadelphia 76 44 24 8 96 241 213 New Jersey 76 42 28 6 90 206 200 N.Y. Islanders7531 33 11 73 180 224 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 75 44 28 3 91 244 184 Ottawa 77 39 28 10 88 236 227 Buffalo 76 37 29 10 84 197 209 Toronto 76 33 34 9 75 217 239 Montreal 76 29 34 13 71 197 211 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 75 36 24 15 87 186 206 Washington 76 38 30 8 84 205 214 Winnipeg 76 35 33 8 78 205 223 Tampa Bay 75 35 33 7 77 214 255 Carolina 76 30 31 15 75 202 228 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-St. Louis 76 47 20 9 103 196 147 x-Detroit 76 46 25 5 97 237 187 Nashville 76 44 24 8 96 219 199 Chicago 76 42 26 8 92 230 220 Columbus 76 24 45 7 55 177 250 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Vancouver76 46 21 9 101 230 187 Colorado 78 40 32 6 86 201 207 Calgary 77 35 27 15 85 191 212 Minnesota 75 31 34 10 72 159 207 Edmonton 76 31 36 9 71 206 223 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 76 39 27 10 88 210 196 Dallas 76 41 30 5 87 202 203 Phoenix 77 37 27 13 87 200 202 Los Angeles 76 37 27 12 86 175 165 Anaheim 76 32 33 11 75 191 212 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Philadelphia 3 Detroit 7, Columbus 2 Ottawa 6, Winnipeg 4 Calgary 5, Dallas 4 Vancouver 1, Los Angeles 0 San Jose 5, Colorado 1 Today’s Games Carolina at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 6 p.m.

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

Florida at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Sporting K.C. 3 0 0 9 6 1 Houston 2 1 0 6 2 2 Chicago 1 0 1 4 2 1 New York 1 2 0 3 5 5 Columbus 1 1 0 3 2 2 New England 1 2 0 3 1 4 D.C. 0 2 1 1 1 4 Montreal 0 2 1 1 1 5 Philadelphia 0 3 0 0 2 6 Toronto FC 0 2 0 0 1 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 2 0 1 7 3 0 Seattle 2 0 0 6 5 1 Real Salt Lake 2 1 0 6 5 2 San Jose 2 1 0 6 4 1 Colorado 2 1 0 6 5 5 Portland 1 1 1 4 4 3 FC Dallas 1 1 1 4 4 4 Los Angeles 1 1 0 3 4 4 Chivas USA 1 2 0 3 1 2 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Sunday’s Games New York 4, Colorado 1 Sporting Kansas City 2, FC Dallas 1 Friday, March 30 FC Dallas at D.C. United, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 31 Columbus at Toronto FC, 1 p.m.

Montreal at New York, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Seattle FC, 9 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Portland, 9 p.m.

New England at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

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We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off, tuition reimbursement and more!

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

To apply submit a cover letter, resume and link to your portfolio to: hrapplications@ljworld.com EOE

SINGLE COPY DRIVER Lawrence Journal-World is hiring for a part-time driver to distribute newspapers to machines and stores in Lawrence, KS and surrounding communities. Candidates must be flexible and available to work from 10 pm to 6 am.

Ideal candidates must have a stable work history; able to work with minimal supervision; reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and safe driving record; and ability to lift 50 lbs.

We offer a competitive salary, employee discounts mileage reimbursement, and more!

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

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to: hrapplications@ljworld.com EOE

Job description available online at: www.union.ku.edu/hr Applications available in the Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard EOE Lawrence, KS

Management PROJECT MANAGER Environmental company seeks full-time salaried employee for remediation work. Labor, construction, supervision skills required; environmental experience a plus. Extensive travel, but home every 2 weeks. 30k plus travel advances.

Cover/Resume/Refs. to Solutions@CromwellEnv.com

Part-Time

Sales-Marketing

MULTIMEDIA

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Responsible for selling and maintaining print & online advertising for: Lawrence Journal-World, Shawnee Dispatch, LJWorld.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com, Lawrence Deals.com and other company newspapers, websites and digital products. Our sales team will sell clients a platform of products including print and online advertising, web banners, and event marketing sponsorships. Account Executives are accountable for meeting or exceeding sales goals, prospecting new clients and making initial contact by cold-calling in person or by phone. They are responsible for developing and building relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list.

Ideal candidates will have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling; communication skills; networking, time management and interpersonal skills; regular achievement of monthly sales goals; self-motivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and a clean driving record.

To apply submit a cover letter & resume to: hrapplications@ljworld.com We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement and more!

Background check, preemployment drug screen and physical lift assessEOE ment required.

Trade Skills Framing Carpenter Minimum 2 years experience. Must have dependable transportation. Work in Lawrence.

BC/BS health insurance.

785-841-4284

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Move-in Special for 1BRs Only one of each left: 2BR Apt.& 2BR Townhome Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in all units.

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Applecroft Apts.

Campus Location

Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms Gas, Water & Trash Paid

2BR - 2412 Alabama, 2nd floor in 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, DW, washer/dryer, no pets. $470/mo. Call 785-841-5797

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1 & 2 Bedrooms

Campus Location, W/D Pool, Gym & Small Pet OK

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2BR - 3062 W. 7th, for fall, 2 full baths, 1 story, CA, W/D hookup, DW, study. $690/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR - 951 Arkansas, 2 story, 2 full bath, CA, DW, W/D $710. No pets. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

Swims & Sweeps is seeking Tech/Installer Assistant for Lawrence. Apply & bring resume to 422 SW 6th, 2BR — 3423 Harvard, for fall, Topeka, KS 66603. Net Res CA, 1.5 bath, W/D hookup, 2BRs - 826 Kentucky, for fall, can be sent to: jason@ DW, garage. No pets. $560. 2 full bath, 2 story, CA, DW. swimsandsweeps.com No pets. $570 or $595 with Call 785-841-5797.

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Breakroom Monitor Assist adults with developmental disabilities during work hours for their work breaks. Some paperwork, stocking first aid kits and breakrooms. FT, Mon.-Fri., 8am-4:30pm with benefits. Must have HS diploma/GED as well as driving record acceptable to our insurance carrier.

Apply at: Cottonwood Inc. 2801 W. 31st St., Lawrence or www.cwood.org EOE

Available Now Parkway Terrace Apts.

2BR - 413 W. 17th, avail. now or fall, new kitchen, hardwood floors, laundry, CA, DW. No pets. $550/mo.

Water paid. 785-841-5797

2BRs, $500/mo. $300 deposit

2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4plex, CA, W/D hookup, offst. parking. $410-$420/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797

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2BR — 934 Illinois, In 4-plex, 1st floor, DW. $490/month.

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CLASSIFIED SALES REP

Hiring for a part-time Classified Sales Rep to make outbound sales calls. Sales rep will sell commercial & private advertisements and public notices in our World Classifieds which covers northeast Kansas. Position will also sell, format, proof and obtain approvals on classified ads or public notices for advertisement in any of the World Company publications. Sales calls will be to new accounts and current customers.

Must be available to work 20-30 hrs. per wk. between 8am & 4pm, Mon. - Fri. Ideal candidate must be comfortable making outbound calls; have excellent verbal and written communication skills & interpersonal skills; strong organizational skills with ability to follow through; minimum one year of customer service experience preferred; be proficient in MS Office (Word and Excel); ability to work independently with minimal supervision; able to multi-task on numerous projects and work in a fast paced environment.

We offer a competitive salary & commissions, employee discounts and more! Background check, physical lift assessment & pre - employment drug screen required.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to: hrapplications@ljworld.com EOE

Sales-Marketing Competitive, athletic minded, self-motivated, aggressive sales person for a “hunters” position with a Billion dollar company. Outstanding growth potential. Above average base, commissions & bonuses with outstanding benefits. Contact Jack or Ted at 785-233-1556 for interview or email resume to jack_hopkins@unifirst.com

Del Monte Pet Products in Lawrence, home of Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, is currently seeking: Extruder Operator 3rd Shift Requirements: • Strong electrical/ mechanical aptitude • Diagnostic/Problem solving skills • Experience with Smart Screens, Pumps, Liquid Lines and Tanks is preferred • Familiarity with Micro Motion Meters, Weight/Loss/Belt Feeders, Hopper/Air Slide Gates and/or Pneumatic Systems helpful • Must be able to work in a physically demanding position (lifting a minimum of 75 lbs) • Ability to work mandatory overtime as required • Proof of HS Diploma or GED Del Monte Offers: -Excellent benefits on the first day of employment -Starting rate of $15.92/hour plus shift differential Drug screen and criminal background check required.

TO BE CONSIDERED: Apply In-Person at

100 E. 9th Street Lawrence, KS 785.842.1515 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday - Friday

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Swims & Sweeps is seeking Unfurnished sales assistant for Lawrence. Apply & bring resume to 422 SW 6th, To- 1BR — 810 E. 14th, 1 story, peka, KS 66603. Net Res CA, W/D hookup, DW, $430/ can be sent to: jason@ mo., 1 pet ok. 785-841-5797 swimsandsweeps.com www.rentinlawrence.com

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Sunflower Publishing, a division of The World Company, is hiring for an Account Executive to sell advertising in our magazines and niche publications. As an Account Executive you will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with our customers, and act as the liaison between the client and our creative team to ensure clients’ needs are met on every project.

If you have a proven track record of sales success then we would like to hear from you!

Established in 2004 Sunflower Publishing is a leading publisher for city/regional magazines, trade publications and directories.

Premier publications include KANSAS! magazine, Lawrence Magazine, Topeka Magazine, Manhattan Magazine, Shawnee Magazine, Hutchinson Magazine, Sunflower Living, Douglas County Newcomers Guide and the Lawrence Magazine Restaurant Guide. For more information, visit www.sunflowerpub.com.

Historical Lawrence, Kansas, is located 45 minutes from Kansas City, MO, has a nationally recognized arts scene, a vibrant downtown and is home to the University of Kansas with its longstanding basketball tradition.

Ideal candidates will have experience in outside sales, marketing, and/or advertising; media sales experience preferred; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling; remarkable verbal and written communication skills; effective time management and interpersonal skills; self-motivated; strong attention to detail; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

Don’t settle for a job, explore our career opportunity! We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

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HP WATER PAID. 785-842-7644 Works fine. $15. Please call 1628 W. 19th Terrace www.gagemgmt.com 785-331-6190.

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2-4BR, 1310 Kentucky. Near KU. $595 - $1,200/mo. $200 $400 Deposit. 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com 2BR — 2400 Alabama, 2nd floor, 1 bath, AC, DW, laundry on-site. $490/mo. No pets. Call 785-841-5797 2BRs - for fall, tri-level, 1 bath, CA, all elect., W/D hookup, DW, study. $650/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

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3BR - 1116 Kentucky, for fall, 1st floor, wood floors, CA, has washer & dryer. $610/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

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2859 Four Wheel Drive

Studio/office, Wi-Fi avail., private bathroom, 697 sq.ft.

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3-4BR, 1028 Ohio. Lovely home great for family, near KU/downtown. Low utils.

Has study, appls., parking. $1,305/mo. 785-979-6830

OWNER WILL FINANCE 3BR, 2 bath, CH/CA, appls., shed, clean, move in ready!

Lawrence 816-830-2152

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Pick up after 6 on weekdays.

Piano, Kawai, studio. Marvelous sound; beautiful furniture (oak). KU has a Kawai Concert Grand.

Wonderful gift for a son or daughter. 785-841-4456 Pool Table, Brunswick regulation size (4’ x 8’) with 1” slate. Felt and rubber like new, lightly used. Balls, rack, and cues included.

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Miscellaneous Coreopsis plants for sale.

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Subaru 2008 Outback AWD 2.5I, V6, power equipment, cruise control, alloy wheels, very sharp!

Stk#18412 only $19,877.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Sport Utility-4x4

Chevrolet 2009 Traverse LS AWD, GM certified, great room for the family with room for seven, stk#17729. Only $23,777, hurry this won’t last long at this price!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Toyota 2006 Camry LE 65k, Dark Grey Metallic From Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership!

Toyota 2008 Corolla S 38K, Silver Streak This One’s Got A 5 Speed!!! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

Cadillac 2005 SRX 76K, White Diamond See Us Today!

Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Antiques

1BR, 1043 Delaware. ceiling fans, vaulted ceiling, pri- Rifle Scope, Baush Lomb vate parking, Apr. 1st. $450 Elite 3000 Rifle Scope, 40mm - 3x9 mounts. $80 /mo. Pets ok. 785-766-6837 phone: 785-594-3578

1st Class, Pet Friendly Houses & Apts.

785-838-3377, 785-841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com

Pontiac 2008 G6 69K, BlueGold Apply On Line! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2009 Altima 2.5S fwd, 4cyl, leather, ABS, low miles, great commuter car!

Stk#16507 only $18,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

BMW 2005 X5 AWD 4.4I leather heated seats, alloy wheels, loaded. Stk#17346A1 only $17,841 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Saturn 2008 Astra XR 49K, Arctic White Want Something Special? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Collectibles NEW TOWNHOMES AT IRONWOOD

BRAND NEW One Month FREE

Playstation 2, barely used, in great condition. $60/will negotiate. Call with any questions. 785-727-8446.

Ford 2002 Thunderbird local trade, very sharp, only 25k miles, alloy wheels, cd changer, power equipment, stk#56689B1 only $20,850.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

• 2BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722

Furnished 3 & 4BRs Washer/dryer included 19th & Mass., on bus route

www.meadowbrookapartments.net

KU is Final Four Bound I have 4 complete sets of Men’s Final Four tickets in New Orleans. Included are both semi-finals games and the finals.

All 4 tickets are together.

I am also including 4 passes to the FanFest Bracket Town event.

Asking $400 per ticket for all 4 or $1000 for 1 pair. Please Contact kansasdog@gmail.com

Mobile Homes

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

Regents Court Ask about 2-person Special!

Ticket Mart

Rockband Set, barely used, comes with drumkit, guitar, microphone. In almost perfect cond. $100. Call for more details or questions.

785-727-8446

Refrigerator, stainless steel, side by side, Kenmore 22 cu feet. Automatic 3BR, 2 Bath - Just $795 For Immediate Move In! 3BR, 1.5 bath, N. Michigan St. ice maker, ice/water in pwc@sunflower.com (Woodcreek).

Hardwood door, water filtration sys785-842-3280 floors, deck, bsmt. $725. tem. Super clean, looks & works great. $400. Call 785-841-5454, 785-760-1874 785-749-9455.

3BR — 2327 Yale, 2 story, 2 bath, CA, DW, FP, 2 car gar- 2BR, in a 4-plex. New carage, no pets. $900/mo. Call pet, vinyl, cabinets, coun- Baby & Children tertop. W/D is included.

785-841-5797 Items $575/mo.

785-865-2505 3BR, 2414 Lancaster, for Booster seat, Graco HighAug. 2 story, 2 bath, 2 car, AVAIL. Now, Smr., & Fall back with arm rests and CA, W/D hookups, DW, FP, 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., cup holders. Perfect condideck, fenced yard, 1 pet FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505 tion. $20. 785-749-5829 ok, $840, 785-841-5797 3BR 932 Rhode Island, for Aug, 1st floor, 1 bath, has W/D, CA, $560, no pets, 785-841-5797

Ford 2011 Fusion SE save thousands over a new one! Great gas mileage!

Stk#12267 only $17,814.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Nissan 2001 Altima Limited Edition. Super clean car in silver with gray clean cloth. Automatic, four door with great gas mileage, all for under $5400.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Crossovers Scion 2008 xD 41K, Barcelona Red Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Basketball Arena Scoreboard for your Man Cave!

Ford 2007 Mustang GT, It is unused and measures 3’9”x6’8”. Light it up with 61,000 miles, auto., red the 2008 Championship with black stripe, $17,000. score, or hopefully, this 660-238-9988. year’s score. $98 cash. Call Ford 2003 Taurus SE. Nice Ken at 785-542-5024 (Near reliable, economical TauEudora) rus at a great price. Small Golf Club, Cobra Hybrid #3 V6 and clean inside. See Wood, Left handed, Like website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles New! Regular price $149, rueschhoffautos.com now $25. Call 785-841-2381.

2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Retail & Commercial Space TV-Video

Douglas County 10 - 50 acres, hilltop, wooded - Lecompton.

Shawnee 6 acres in exclusive area 8 ac./sm. bldg. Forbes Field Osage County 7 - 80 acres 10 min. South of Topeka, farm Income

3BR - 951 Arkansas, 2 story, 2 full bath, CA, DW, laun- 2 Bedrooms $550-$800/mo. dry, microwave, $750/mo. www.lawrencepm.com With W/D $775/mo. No 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360 pets. Call 785-841-5797 HAWTHORN TOWNHOMES www.rentinlawrence.com 2 & 3 Bedroom Townhomes Now leasing for Fall 2012!

3BR, 2121 Inverness, for Pet under 60lbs OK! Aug. 2 story, 2.5 bath, CA, pwc@sunflower.com DW, W/D hookup, 2 car, 1 785-842-3280 pet. $940/mo. 785-841-5797 3BR — 1004 Alma, for Aug. 2 story, 2 bath, 2 car, FP, DW, CA, W/D hookup, 1 pet. $825/mo. 785-841-5797

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Acreage-Lots

Move-In Specials!

3BR — 940 Tennessee, for fall, 2nd floor, CA, laundry, DW, 1 bath, no pets. $610/mo. Call 785-841-5797

Brand New

Single Family Homes 4 & 5 BRs - Avail. Now 2,400 -3 ,300 sq. ft. $1,800 - $2,200 month Garber Property Mgmt.

Crossovers

6 Speed, Liquid Yellow, 61K Apply Today! Drive Today!

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2BR - 215 Wisconsin, for fall, 2 bath, 2 story, CA, W/D hookup, DW, garage. $660/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

Cars-Imports

Chevrolet 2006 Trailblazer 74K, White 4X4, Call Today! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2009 Escape XLT 52K, Dark Blue Grey See Us Today!

Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Ford 2001 Explorer Sport, LOW miles, excellent condition. Leather, Moonroof, 4x4. Nice tires on alloy wheels. Excellent student car! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Jeep 2008 Commander 70K, Black Lifetime Engine Warranty! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Jeep 2004 Grand Cherokee Special Edition.

Local trade-in, great condition, leather, heated seats, moonroof, and much more.

Super SUV at a great price!

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2009 Tribute I Touring, 4cyl, FWD, great economy SUV, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#549442 only $15,441.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Jeep 2005 Liberty Sport 4WD, 67K, White CALL NOW!!! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Jeep 1989 Wrangler Sahara $1999 automatic 68493 miles 4x4 runs great 316-285-9346

Saturn 2009 Outlook XE AWD, On Star, alloy wheels, room for 8, sunroof, and affordable!

Only $22,777. stk#15091 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Saturn 2008 Outlook XR AWD, room for 7, GM Certified, On Star, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, regular scheduled maintenance included for 2 years!

Stk#168631 only $23,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mazda 2004 Tribute LX. Another very nice Tribute, this one in a nice blue and grey color combination.

Automatic, V6, FWD. Very clean and a super economical small SUV. See website for photos Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Subaru 2006 Forester 2.5 XT, Leather, Moon, Cruise, HomeLink, Heated Seats, 6Disc, 88K, $15,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

We buy all Domestic cars, trucks and suvs.

Call Jeremy 785-843-3500 23rd & Alabama

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Automotive Services Auto Maintenance and Repair

Catering

Decks & Fences

Foundation Repair

Oakley Creek Catering

DECK BUILDER

FOUNDATION REPAIR

- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

On-Site Cooking Available Family Owned & Operated

785-887-6936 http://oakleycreek.com

Cell Phone Service & Repair WIRELESS RESTORE

CELL PHONE REPAIR www.lawrenceautodiag.com

785-842-8665

Buy * Sell * Repair * Smart Phones Tablets Gaming Systems 2201 W 25th St.

785-424-5960

Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

785-843-5803 bryantcollisionrepair@msn.com. lawrencemarketplace.com/ bryant-collision-repair Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

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A Touch of Love

Licensed Day Care 2 Openings 18 months - 5 years First aid, CPR, SRS

785-764-6660

Full service preschool & licensed childcare center for children ages 1-12. Open year-round, Monday- Friday, from 7 am to 6 pm

Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

Electrical

http://lawrencemarket place.com/patchen

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

Employment Services

K’s Tire

Sales and Service Tires for anything Batteries Brakes Oil Changes Fair and Friendly Customer Service is our trademark 2720 Oregon St. 785-843-3222 Find great offers at

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ kstire

Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

785-842-3311

For Promotions & More Info: http://lawrencemarketplace .com/kansas_carpet_care

Janitorial Services Business-Commercial-Industrial Housecleaning Carpet Cleaning Tile & Grout Cleaning The “Greener Cleaner” Locallly Owned Since 1983 Free Estimates

785-842-6264

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Eco-Friendly Cleaning

Five yrs. exp. References, Bonded & Insured Res., Com., Moveouts 785-840-5467

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

785-843-2244

Garage Doors

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation

Accessible and General Public Transportation We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

www.independenceinc.org

IT’S BACK!

One room or your whole house.

IT’S FREE! All the latest styles and most popular colors!

Many IN STOCK for Fastest Service!

0% Easy Payments*.

3000 Iowa - 785-841-3838 www.FloorTraderLawrence.com Pre-Shop online at “local store” tab

*Details in Store. Facebook too!

MLS - Mowing or 1 Time w/out Contracts Res/Com. Spring Cleanup, Reseeding, Fertilizer, Mulch-Stone, etc.

785-766-2821 Sr. discount mikelawnservice@gmail.com

Mowing My Way Through College

Affordable, Experienced, Reliable, Call For an est.

Connor at 785.979.7390

No Job Too Big or Small

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Staining & Engraving Existing Concrete Custom Decorative Patterns Patios, Basements, Garage Floors, Driveways 785-393-1109 www.robinseggconcrete.com

Drury Place

Interior/Exterior Painting

Live More Pay Less Worry-free life at an affordable price

Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

1510 St. Andrews

785-841-6845

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Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat

Roofing

785-865-0600

Complete Roofing Services Professional Staff Quality Workmanship http://lawrencemarketplace. com/lawrenceroofing

Riffel Painting Co. 913-585-1846 Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Complete Roofing

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

We’re There for You!

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

785-749-4391

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FOLSOM ROOFING

Locally owned & operated.

RE-ROOFS, RE-DECKS, & REPAIRS FREE ESTIMATES 913-207-2861

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services

Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs

Free Estimates

Insurance Work Welcome

I COME TO YOU!

• Baths • Kitchens • Rec Rooms • Tile • Windows •Doors •Trim •Wood Rot Since 1974 GARY 785-856-2440 785-925-0803 gwbrown52@sunflower.com www.winston-brown.com Licensed & Insured

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

Dependable & Reliable pet sitting, feeding, walks, overnights, and more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289 Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Spring Cleanup

Marty Goodwin 785-979-1379

Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Your

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Medical-HealthTherapy

Salon & Spa Breathe Holistic Life Center

Yoga is more than getting on the mat.

Live Passionately Yoga Nutrition Classes Relaxation Retreats 1407 Massachusetts 785-218-0174 lawrencemarketplace.com/ breathe

Guttering Services Snow Removal Driveways & Sidewalks Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of: Decks Drywall Siding Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors Trim

Moving-Hauling Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

Also Maintenance/Cleaning for home/business, inside/out plumbing / electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info 785-841-6254

Instruction and Tutoring

“where simple ideas become inspiring realities”

Flooring Installation

• Color & Design • Space Planning • Furniture Layouts • Trade Discounts • Project Management 785-766-9281 originsinteriordesign.com

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

785-842-0094

jayhawkguttering.com

Heating & Cooling

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

Music Lessons PIANO LESSONS

Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year with Simply Music!

Keys of Joy 785-331-8369 Karla’s Konservatory 785-865-4151

Insurance

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Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

Painting

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Retirement Community

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

785-764-9582

Origins Interior Design

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

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NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

All Your Banking Needs

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES

913-488-7320

Foundation Repair

785-766-2785

inside-out-paint@yahoo.com Free Estimates Fully Insured Lawrencemarketplace.com/ inside-out-paint

Mowing...like Clockwork!

Honest & Dependable Mow~Trim~Sweep~Hedges Steve 785-393-9152 Lawrence Only

albeil@aol.com

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/rivercityhvac

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RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Travel Services

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Lawrence First Class Transportation Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

785-841-5466

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Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals 1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

785-841-4855 lawrencemarketplace.com/ lonnies

Repairs and Services

Tree/Stump Removal

BUDGET TREE SERVICE, LLC. 913-593-7386

Trimmed, Shaped, Removed Shrubs, Fenceline Cleaned

No Job Too Small Free Est. Lic. & Ins. 913-268-3120 www.budgettreeservicekc.com

Chris Tree Service

20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Free Est. Ins. & Lic. 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659

Fredy’s Tree Service

cutdown• trimmed• topped Licensed & Insured.

14 yrs experience.

913-441-8641 913-244-7718

A. B. Painting & Repair

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

Al 785-331-6994

Quality work at a fair price!

Limited Time Only!

Jennings’ Floor Trader

JC PRO-MOWERS 785-248-4178 (TEXT TOO) RESEEDING $150 S/H MULCH, MOW & MORE AERATION & FERTILIZE $60.

(Seniors Discount)

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Powerwash 785-766-5285

Artisan Floor Company

Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Windows, Doors, Roofing, Vinyl siding, Painting, More 35 yrs. exp. Free estimates.

913-636-1881

Insured 20 yrs. experience

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

FREE CARPET INSTALLATION

Green Grass Lawn Care Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal. Insured all jobs considered 785-312-0813/785-893-1509

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic

Concrete

Decorative & Regular Drives, Walks & Patios Custom Jayhawk Engraving Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261

Home Improvements

(785) 550-1565

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Quality work at a fair price!

Golden Rule Lawncare Complete Lawncare Service Eugene Yoder Call for Free Est. Insured.

785-224-9436

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

785-843-2174

Hardwood Floor Installation, Refinishing and Repair Locally Owned, Insured, Free Estimates 785-691-6117 www.artisanfloorcompany.com

Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Computer/Internet

CONCRETE INC. Your local concrete repair specialists Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

Bus. 913-269-0284

Housecleaner

Carpets & Rugs

Repairs and Services

midwestcustompools.com

JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise?

We Can Help — 785-979-0838

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

General Services

Steve’s Place

Financial

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

785-594-3357

Your Local Lawrence Bank

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

785-550-5610

Fast Quality Service

www.ah-air.com

785-841-3088

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

Family owned and operated since 1992

Painting

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

Eagles Lodge

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarket place.com/Eagles_Lodge

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

Honest & Dependable Free estimate, References Call Linda 785-691-7999

Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

www.scott-temperature.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/scotttemperature

Events/Entertainme nt

Give your sweetie the gift of cleaning.

Gift Certificates Avail.

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepair.com

Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

• House Cleaning • Chandeliers • Post Construction • Gutters • Power Washing • Prof Window Cleaning • Sustainable Options Find Coupons & more info: lawrencemarketplace.com/ birdjanitorial Free Est. 785-749-0244

Flower Beds, Mulching, Mowing, Weedeating, Pruning, Retaining walls.

Noe Singleterry 913-585-1450

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

Cleaning

Hite Collision Repair

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems

785-838-4488

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Landscaping

Inside - Out Painting Service

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89degrees57’05” East, 686.05 feet, thence South 0degrees15’18” West 273.76 feet, thence South 43degrees50’29” East 70.96 feet, thence North 89degrees52’57” West 730.82 feet to the point of beginning, in Douglas County, Kansas.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they forever shall be barred.

pened.

The above described real estate is taken as the property of the defendants, Robert j. Butler, Sr., and Nancy J. Butler, and is directed by said Order of Sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement to satisfy said Order of Sale.

This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Kenneth McGovern, Sheriff, Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas GREAT SOUTHERN BANK

NICHOLSON LAW OFFICE, L.C. 26 West Peoria, P.O. Box 407 Paola, Kansas 66071 Telephone: (913) 294-4512 Lawrence Facsimile: (913) 294-2540 (First published in the Law- atty@nicklawpaola.com rence Daily Journal-World Attorneys for Plaintiff ________ March 13, 2012) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS

(Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World March 27, 2012)

GREAT SOUTHERN BANK, Plaintiff vs.

ROBERT J. BUTLER, SR., et al.

Defendants

Abandoned property of Jerri Scherff, 1506 W. 25th Ct., Lawrence, KS 66046, held by Naismith Place Apts, 1502 W. 25th Ct, Lawrence, KS 66046: Baby crib and mattress, pillows and Case No. 2011 CV 417 bedding, baseball bat, DisNOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE ney Cars table and stools, CDs, various kitchen items, TO WHOM IT MAY CON- stroller and misc. items will be disposed of on April 30, CERN: 2012.

By virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me out of the Naismith Place Apartments 1502 W. 25th Ct., said District Court in the Lawrence, KS 66046 above entitled action, I will, 785-841-1815 on the 5th of April, 2012, at naismithplaceapts@gmail.com 10:00 o’clock a.m., of said _______ day, at Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforce- (First published in the Lawment Center of the Court- rence Daily Journal-World house at Lawrence, in the March 20, 2012) County of Douglas, State of Kansas, offer at public sale, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF and sell to the highest bid- DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS der for cash in hand, the following described real esIn the Matter of the tate situated in County, Estate of Kansas, to-wit: BETTY JEANNE DOBBINS, Deceased Commencing at the SouthCase No. 12PR 42 east corner of the NorthDiv. No. 1 east Quarter of Section 8, Petition Filed Pursuant to township 15 South, Range K.S.A. Chapter 59.

20 East of the 6th Principal Title to Real Estate Involved Meridian, thence South 89degrees59’57” West NOTICE TO CREDITORS 1,703.37 feet, said point be- THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ing on the South line of the ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: Northeast Quarter and the You are hereby notified center line of Mt. Pleasant that on March 15,2012, a PeStreet in the Town of Prai- tition for Probate of Will rie City, vacated, thence and Issuance of Letters along said center line, Testamentary under the North 0degrees33’37” West Kansas Simplified Estates 1,507.56 feet for the point of Act was filed in this Court beginning, thence continu- by Kent E. Dobbins, Execuing along said center line tor named in the Last Will North 0degrees33’37” West and Testament of Betty 324.03 feet, thence South Jeanne Dobbins, deceased.

Copies of the Contract Documents, Plans and Specifications may be obtained from the Director of Public Works and County Engineer of Douglas County, Kansas.

All bids must be accompaKent E. Dobbins, Petitioner nied by a CERTIFIED CHECK, CASHIER’S CHECK or a BID STOUGH & CATT BOND for not less than Five 3300 Mesa Way, Suite C Percent (5%) of the amount Lawrence, KS 66049-2345 bid as a guarantee that if (785) 841-3384 awarded the Contract, the cattlaw2@sunflower.com bidder will enter into a ConAttorney for Petitioner tract and give bond as reBy: George L. Catt, P.A., quired. Said check or bond #06773 shall be made payable to ________ the Board of County Commissioners, Douglas (First published in the Law- County, Kansas. rence Daily Journal-World The Board of County ComMarch 27, 2012) missioners of Douglas County, Kansas reserve the DOUGLAS COUNTY, right to reject any or all KANSAS bids and to waive techniPROJECT NO. 2012-7 calities, and to award the BID NO. 12-F-0012 contract to the bidder that NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS the Commission deems Notice is hereby given that best suited to accomplish sealed proposals for the the work. performance of the contract above noted will be DOUGLAS COUNTY received in the Office of the PUBLIC WORKS Douglas County Clerk until 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 17, Keith A. Browning, P.E. 2012, then publicly opened Director of Public Works in the Courthouse, 1100 DATE: 03/22/2012 ________ Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas.

(First published in the LawProject No. 2012-7 consists rence Daily Journal-World of the application of yellow March 13, 2012) centerline markings and white edgeline markings to IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF approximately 150 miles of DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS roadway in accordance with the attached specifiMID-AMERICA cations.

In addition, this MANUFACTURED HOUSING project will include applicaCOMMUNITY, INC., d/b/a tion of painted symbols, GASLIGHT VILLAGE MHC, stop bars, railroad crossing Petitioner, symbols, and words as vs. shown in the schedule of DONALD ETEEYAN, and prices.

All roads will be made available for applica- KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF tion of traffic line paint on REVENUE, DIVISION OF MOor before October 1, 2012. TOR VEHICLES, the unThis work will be per- known heirs, executors, adformed during the ministrators, devisees, Summer/Fall of 2012 upon trustees, creditors and asreceipt of a “Notice to Pro- signs of any Defendant as ceed”. The bid documents may be deceased and the and contract will provide spouse of any Defendant; Douglas County with the the unknown officers, sucoption to renew the con- cessors, trustees, creditors tract for up to four (4) addi- and assigns of such Detional one (1) year periods fendants as are or were (i.e. application of traffic partners or in partnership; line markings during the and the unknown guardiSummer/Fall of 2013, 2014, ans, conservators and trus2015 and 2016). tees of such and any Defendants as are minors or All bids are submitted on are in anywise under legal forms obtainable at the Of- disability; and the the unfice of the Director of Pub- known heirs, executors, adlic Works and County Engi- ministrators, devisees, neer, 1242 Massachusetts trustees, creditors and asStreet, Lawrence, Kansas, signs of any person alleged or Demand Star, and are to be deceased, open for public inspection.

Respondents.

Proposals shall be submitted in sealed envelopes, adCase No. 2012CV131 dressed to the Office of the Div. No. 1 County Clerk, Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts, LawPursuant to rence, Kansas, upon which K.S.A. Chapter 60 is clearly written or printed “Proposal for Douglas NOTICE OF SUIT County Project No. 2012-7”, and the name and address The State of Kansas to Donof the bidder. Any bids re- ald Eteeyan, and all other ceived after the closing persons who are or may be time will be returned uno- concerned:

Lawrence You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County by Plaintiff, Mid-America Manufactured Housing Communities, Inc., d/b/a Gaslight Village MHC, praying for quieting title on personal property identified as a 1993 Saber Mobile Home, bearing VIN#425106 31F and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition on or before April 27, 2012, at 10:00 am, in the court at 111 E. 11th Street, Lawrence, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Prepared by: /s/ Darryl Graves Darryl Graves Law Office P.C. 1040 New Hampshire Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 (785) 843-8117 Attorney for Petitioner ________ (Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World March 27, 2012) DEMOLITION PERMIT APPLICATION Date: March 23, 2012 Project Address: 1808 Ohio Street Legal Description: N/A Property Owner Information: Associated Mgmt.

Group/Guy Stroup, Joe Stroup, 1815 Ky. St., Ste. 2, Lawrence, KS 66044 785-843-0929 cell: 785-865-7548 Signature: Guy Stroup Person, Firm or Corporation responsible for the building, if it is someone other than the owner: N/A Contractor Information: Associated Builders Inc., 1815 Kentucky St., Ste. 2, Lawrence, KS 66044 785-843-0929 cell: 785-865-7548 GCstroup@sbcglobal.net Brief Description of Structure: 2 bedroom, one bath, 600 sq. ft. 1950’s house.

Signature of Applicant: Guy Stroup ________ (Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World March 27, 2012) Abandoned property of Melissa Bosen-Jones and Joshua Jones, 1506 W. 25th Ct., Lawrence, KS 66046, held by Naismith Place Apts, 1502 W. 25th Ct, Lawrence, KS 66046: Sofa, desk, towels, mattress pads, bedding, Graco Pack N Play and misc. items will be disposed of on April 30, 2012.

Naismith Place Apartments 1502 W. 25th Ct., Lawrence, KS 66046 785-841-1815 naismithplaceapts@gmail.com

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Dear Annie: I have been with “Tony” for three years. When I started seeing him, I didn’t realize he was still legally married to a woman who cheated on him. He promised to divorce, but things remain the same.

He claims “it’s just a piece of paper” and we are married in our hearts.

I’ve tried explaining that it feels disrespectful, but he doesn’t get it.

Tony and his wife wanted to avoid court, so they drew up papers with a mediator. But each time she sends them, he finds she has hidden something that goes against what they agreed, and he refuses to sign until the papers are fixed. But Tony always waits for her to make the next move. In the past, whenever he pushed for resolution, she made it difficult for him to see their children.

It annoys me that Tony doesn’t try harder to end this. Worse, he and

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his wife still have a joint checking account. He keeps saying he’ll close it, but he hasn’t. Tony is a known procrastinator, but I am hurt and frustrated. Enough is enough.

I don’t want to throw away what we have, but I’m beginning to resent him and his promises. I think the only way he will open his eyes is if I leave.

But I love him, and our family is happy together.

Am I being unreasonable?

— Tired of Waiting Dear Tired: Tony doesn’t want to rock the boat and figures you’ll

Scrutiny turns on Murdoch A tale of screaming headlines, gossip, sex and criminal collusion between the police, press and politicians, “Murdoch’s Scandal” on “Frontline” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) offers a survey course on the scandal that threatens Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., one of the largest press empires in the world.

At the center is a London newspaper’s cynical use of voicemail-hacking to prolong a story about a kidnapping — in the process, giving false hope to the young victim’s family. In many ways, these transgressions seem lifted from fiction, specifically the 2003 BBC miniseries “State of Play” and Billy Wilder’s 1951 satire “Ace in the Hole.”

But combine the ease of accessing cellphone conversations with the ubiquity of the phones’ use, and you have the makings of a tabloid dictatorship, a place where citizens are subject to blackmail and humiliation at the hands of the vengeful, sleazy and capricious.

Imagine TMZ merging with the KGB and you’re getting close.

While some have cheered at Murdoch’s humiliation, this story transcends his press empire. As long as people seem more addicted to gossip than standing up for their rights (and the rights of others), such practices will flourish.

Twenty years ago, a newspaper tapped into a phone call that Prince Charles made to Camilla Parker Bowles, then very much not his wife. He mused privately about intimate matters that were later leaked to the press and labeled “Camillagate.”

Folks in and out of the media seemed so intoxicated by catching a royal saying naughty things to his lover that relatively few seemed to ask about the propriety of tapping his phone calls. Or to ponder fearfully, “If they can tap the phone of the Prince of Wales, what can they do to me?”

I think we’ve begun to see the results of that oversight.

A “Project Runway” for the tattoo parlor set, “Best Ink” (9 p.m., Oxygen) pits 10 artists against one another in a competition for a $100,000 prize and a cover story in Tattoo magazine.

Tonight’s other highlights

Burt throws his hat into the ring on “Raising Hope” (7 p.m., Fox).

Jess and Russell step out on “New Girl” (8 p.m., Fox).

The first contestant goes home on “Dancing With the Stars” (8 p.m., ABC).

A case complicates Carrie’s love life on “Unforgettable” (9 p.m., CBS).

Product placements on “Fashion Star” (9 p.m., NBC).

Raylan faces two killers from the Motor City on “Justified” (9 p.m., FX).

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Actor Michael York is 70. Rock musician Andrew Farriss (INXS) is 53. Movie director Quentin Tarantino is 49. Actress Talisa Soto is 45. Actress Pauley Perrette is 43. Singer Mariah Carey is 42.

Rock musician Brendan Hill (Blues Traveler) is 42. Actor Nathan Fillion is 41. Hip-hop singer Fergie (Black Eyed Peas) is 37. Actress Emily Ann Lloyd is 28.

stick it out. But it could take a long time, and his wife enjoys holding the puppet strings. (And there is no excuse to be sharing a bank account.)

Tony needs to see a lawyer who will establish visitation rights and make sure the wife sticks to the agreement. If he refuses, it is your choice whether your life is better with him or without him.

Dear Annie: I am a high school junior and attend a competitive school. I make good grades, and my parents have always been supportive.

I recently scored a 212 on the PSAT, which is terrific. But when I told my mom the results, she seemed disappointed.

She said in order to be considered for a National Merit Scholarship, my score has to be over 215.

She shows no pride in my accomplishment.

I’ve expressed to her how disheartening this is, but she simply re-

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Tuesday, March 27: This year you work on communication to clear out confusion that often seems present. You will need to step away in order to regroup and re-evaluate. If you are single, you meet people with ease. Take your time before deciding someone is perfect. If you are attached, take a workshop together to improve your communication.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) Express your thoughts.

Decide which way would be best to go. A meeting could confuse matters even more. Tonight: Where the action is.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Do not be too sure of yourself, because you easily could make an error with funds, whether it is by accident or by someone taking deceptive action. Listen to your inner voice; don’t be reactive. Tonight: Treat yourself well.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Keep conversations moving, and stay on top of what is going on. You have a strong sense of direction that emerges when dealing with several people. Tonight: As you like it.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Know when enough is enough. You could be overtired. The unexpected occurs when dealing with a friend or group. Tonight: Play it low-key.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Zero in on what you want.

Sometimes you undermine yourself without intending to. You might say too much or have a knee-jerk reaction that could give you away. Tonight:

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states that I need a higher score for the scholarship. Annie, my family is not financially needy.

I am more than capable of getting into a good school and finding other ways to get scholarships.

Is she right to be so unenthusiastic? — Feeling Unappreciated Dear Feeling: We’re not sure why your mother is so convinced you didn’t qualify. The PSAT score required to be a National Merit Scholarship finalist varies from year to year, state to state. Last year’s winning score may not be this year’s, and the results won’t be out until September. We think she may be afraid of jinxing you, and that’s why she has put a damper on her excitement. So ACROSS from us: Way to go!

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Step up to the plate. You know you have a lot to do, but you could become very upset or angry if you have to deal with a parent or higher-up. Be careful. Tonight: Working late.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Keep reaching out for new information. How you see a situation will change if you can detach and be less invested. Tonight: Let go of stress with friends.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Work with a partner.

You might be surprised by what goes on between you and another person. Tonight: Dinner for two.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Push yourself to finish a project, even if you could do something more interesting. You might be surprised how much excitement comes your way. Tonight: Let someone else make the first move.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Plunge into work without getting distracted. Someone around you might speak in a most confusing manner. Apparently, you two are on different wavelengths. Tonight: Let’s not forget to exercise.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Let your playfulness show, even at work. Everyone knows it is there, yet it is subtle in your interactions. Tonight: Let yourself enjoy friends and family.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Stay centered, knowing what you want. Push comes to shove with a partner who could be quite difficult. Relax. Don’t let this person’s crankiness create an argument. Tonight: Happy to be home.

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Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 27, 2012

1 Male admirer 5 River to the Caspian Sea 9 Sheer brilliance 14 Norse god of war 15 Mane area 16 “Jurassic Park” dinosaur, e.g.

17 Dog’s highpitched cry 18 Well for the French 19 “Philadelphia” Oscar winner 20 Reservation opening 23 Former Vice President Al 24 Briefest acceptance speech?

25 Happy folks on election night 28 Disrobe 31 “Simpsons” grandpa 34 Dusty memento 36 Wedder of Lennon 37 Door-to-door cosmetics company 38 “And now?”

42 Pupil’s colorful place 43 First of a vowel fivesome?

44 More maneuverable at sea 45 She may have quite a habit 46 Part of an Egyptian pound (Var.)

49 Make an effort 50 Victorian or Edwardian, e.g.

51 Line about which the earth turns 53 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry?

61 Unspoken, as an understanding 62 Tiniest of margins 63 Fully engrossed 64 Bail out from a jet 65 Bear in the night sky 66 Window picture 67 ___-eyed (close to tears) 68 Exercise establishments 69 Talking bird DOWN 1 Laddie, in Australia 2 Place of a very tricky serpent 3 Is green around the gills 4 Unfasten, in a way 5 Still enjoying womb service?

6 Came down in buckets 7 Did an impression of 8 Advanced, as cash 9 Alpine sounds 10 “Santa ___ Is Coming to

Town” 11 Suit size designation 12 Ancient emblem of life 13 Midterm or final 21 Shrink’s furniture 22 A caddy may hold it 25 Steve the late Crocodile Hunter 26 India’s first prime minister 27 Rubbed out, as a dragon 29 Boxing ring borders 30 Dir. from Memphis to Nashville 31 Prevent, as danger 32 Stocky dog breed 33 Ledger line 35 Nitpicky word for grammarians 37 California’s

39 40 41 46 47 48 50 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

Santa ___ winds Like some kites Vegetable in a pod Damascus is its capital Like a woman in a Roy Orbison classic Beijing belief In-crowd actors?

Vote off, a la “Big Brother” Theatrical backdrop Couple on a gossip page Visitor to Mecca Hotshot pilots Mob hoodlum “Diff’rent Strokes” actor Coleman Frilly “Once ___ a midnight dreary ...”

Italian volcano

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

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Egyptian pound (Var.)

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

Answer: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: GUESS CROWN FALLEN LIQUID Answer: Their choice of Leonard Nimoy to play Spock was this — LOGICAL

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