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Son gets 685 Christmas presents

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback spent 2012 stiff-arming Obamacare, but received federal permission to turn over the Kansas Medicaid program to private companies.

That kind of maneuvering will likely continue in 2013 as more of the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, becomes a reality, the new Medicaid system, called KanCare, takes effect this week, and a major decision awaits on whether to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of Kansans.

“That, to me, is the big, outstanding issue,” said Sheldon Weisgrau, director of the Health Reform Resource Project, which is funded by five Kansas health foundations. Whether Medicaid is expanded “will directly impact a number of people, how they access services, how many people will get sick and die in the state,” Weisgrau said.

At issue is whether Kansas should increase the income eligibility for Medicaid.

Expanding Medicaid was a major provision of the Affordable Care Act aimed at getting more people under a health plan.

And while the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the ACA constitutional, the decision allowed states to decide whether to participate in the expansion. Several states, led by Democratic

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SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ISAAC GODSEY is pictured below six shelves of his nearly 700-piece Pez dispenser collection. Deacon Godsey, Isaac’s father, began collecting the dispensers in 1996 and decided to give them to his son for Christmas. The collection contains figures from Disney and Pixar films, “The Simpsons,” the cast from “The Lord of the Rings” and many others, including some rare dispensers from Europe.

Father dispenses Pez collection to his 7-year-old

By Rebekka Schlichting rschlichting@ljworld.com

Like any father, Deacon Godsey wanted to do something special for his son, Isaac, for Christmas.

He didn’t want to give him a store-bought present; he wanted to give Isaac something close to his heart, something handed down from father to son.

So on Christmas morning, he told his son to close his eyes and carried him into his office. When Isaac opened his eyes and saw a whiteboard that was adorned with a large bow, he read the words written there with a huge smile: “Merry Christ-

mas Isaac!

All of my Pez are now yours. Love, Daddy.”

H u n dreds of colorful characters have filled Deacon Godsey Godsey’s Lawrence office wall-towall for years, a collection of Pez candy dispensers he began accumulating in 1996. As a youth pastor, he found that the candy packages created a connection between him and the children he worked with. On Christmas Day, Godsey passed down 685 Pez candy

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dispensers and Pez collector’s items to his son.

Godsey’s collection includes everything from common Pez dispensers such as Disney and Pixar movie characters to rare items from France and Australia. The most expensive dispenser is a $20 gold-colored Jack Jack baby from “The Incredibles.” His son now owns many large dispensers, about a foot tall, and miniature dispensers, about 2 inches tall, along with hundred of standard-

sized dispenses, collector’s key chains, cars and tins.

Chris Godsey said his brother Deacon’s choice of Pez as a collectible was interesting and never got out of hand.

“He’s a geek in the best way,” he said.

Pez, which originated in Austria in the 1920s, is a chalky, tablet-shaped hard candy. But it’s the dispensers for the candy that are prized by collectors. Over Please see PEZ, page 2A

Moving day arrives for homeless shelter

By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com

at the old location, 120 people moved into the new shelter Saturday, said Loring Henderson, director of the shelter.

By noon, the guests were finding their way around their new place, tracking down misplaced bags, grousing over new sleeping arrangements, and experiencing all the little trials that go along with a big move.

“Lots of lumps, as with any first day,” Henderson said while stacking up boxes in the lobby. “We call it normal.”

If moving day is an exciting, but complicated, event for most of us, imagine what it’s like for a homeless shelter with 120 residents.

That long-awaited day finally came Saturday for the Lawrence Community Shelter, moving into its new home at the eastern edge of Lawrence. A bus borrowed from the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence helped carry the shelter’s guests from the old building at 10th and Kentucky More amenities Several guests stopped streets to the new one, located in a converted warehouse Henderson in the hallways space at 3701 Franklin Park to compliment the new shelCircle. Counting others who Please see SHELTER, page 4A hadn’t been able to find room

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RESIDENTS OF THE LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER moved Saturday from their longtime home at 10th and Kentucky to this new location at 3701 Franklin Park Circle, on the eastern edge of Lawrence.

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Managed care groups add jobs in preparation for KanCare TOPEKA (AP) — Three managed care organizations have increased their presence in Kansas with staff and facilities as they prepare to implement the KanCare system of Medicaid services.

The hiring of several hundred employees — and more likely in the coming years — is an unexpected bonus for Gov. Sam Brownback. New hires mean more revenue and economic activity in Kansas as the state aims to save nearly $1 billion over five years by curbing the growth in its share of health care costs.

“I didn’t anticipate that, but I’m glad to hear it,” Brownback Brownback said of the job creation. “I’m excited about what they’ve put forward. The idea that we’re able to add preventive dental care and hold costs down over five years, I’m really excited about that.”

The 395,000 KanCare participants will be assigned to one of the three managed care organizations — Amerigroup Corp., based in Virginia Beach, Va.; Sunflower State Health Plan, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene Corp.; or United Healthcare, headquartered in Minneapolis.

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DEATHS TERRENCE LEE ELLIOTT

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the years, the company Services are pending for Terrence Lee Elliott, 53, Services for Randy Jason Mitchell, 34, Lawrence, are has produced thousands Lawrence, who died Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Colmery- pending . Mr. Mitchell died Dec. 25, 2012 at Lawrence of variations, based on cartoon and movie characters, O’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka. rumsey-yost.com Memorial Hospital. Please visit rumsey-yost.com historical figures and many other inspirations. Prime VELYN LILER examples can be worth OGER AYLOR hundreds of dollars.

Thousands of people Graveside services Wed. 11 am at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Roger H. Taylor II died Visitation 10:00-10:45 Wed. at Rumsey-Yost. In-state collect the dispensers — Thursday, December 27, there’s even a Pez museMon. noon-7 pm. Full obituary at rumsey-yost.com 2012, after a long illness. um, in Connecticut — and He was 62 years of age. the average Pez collector He was born and reared in has between 750 to 1,000 Springfield, MO, although dispensers, according to most of his adult life WHEEL GENIUS Chris Jordan, owner of the was spent in Lawrence, online Pez Collector Store.

Kansas.

She said about 4,000 colRoger was a 1968 lectors are subscribers to graduate of Greenwood her store’s newsletter.

Laboratory School. He Lawrence to remove the existing “My personal collection Johnson of Kansas City, attended the University of City construction shoofly lanes and finish has approximately 6,000 MO, and two stepsons, Missouri–Columbia, and projects are now mapped road work. different Pez, and mine Chris and Tony Johnson. was a member of Alpha #" Street concrete will at http://lawks.us/conis in no way complete or Mr. Taylor was preTau Omega Fraternity. be reworked this week struction-map. even among the largest deceased by his parents, Roger completed his #"The city of Lawrence east of Nicklaus Drive, collections,�

Jordan said.

Roger and Genevieve undergraduate degree will be sealing street Palmer Court and Drive, So Isaac and Deacon in Social Work from Taylor of Springfield, and cracks in the neighbor- and Hogan Court and have a ways to go. But Washburn University in by two sisters, Carolyn hoods east and west of Drive. Through traffic will they’re off to a good start.

Burridge of Topeka, Kansas, where Taylor Monterey Way, north of generally be maintained, Godsey, who occasionBaltimore, Maryland, and he graduated with Sixth Street. Lanes may be but there may be street ally writes for the Jourdepartmental honors. Emily Taylor Lincoln of closed temporarily during closures. nal-World’s Faith Forum He went on to earn a Columbia, Maryland. #" Belle Haven Drive working hours. column, said he was more Funeral arrangements Master’s Degree in Social #" Street traffic has will be closed from West than happy to pass the are under the direction Work from the University shifted from the exist- 25th to West 27th streets collection down to his Gorman-Scharpf, of Kansas – Lawrence, of ing shoofly lanes onto from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. son. He said collecting Springfield.

Services Kansas.

Roger served the new 23rd Street Monday through Friday Pez started to become less as a child advocate with will be held at 1 p.m. bridge near Haskell Avas the Lawrence utility fun and more stressful as Monday, December CASA (Court Appointed enue.

Two westbound department will install a he spotted examples he 31, 2012, at GormanSpecial Advocate).

He lanes and one eastbound water main in the area. wanted to acquire.

Scharpf Brentwood was a good listener and lane will be open on the Construction should last “I would see one and Chapel with Father a gentle soul. He loved bridge as crews work for at least a week.

I would feel this intense Kenneth L. Chumbly of animals, especially his need to get the next one Christ Episcopal Church Dalmatian, Riley, and his in the collection.

It didn’t officiating.

Interment golden retriever, Shamus. feel good anymore,� he will follow in Hazelwood Roger was a member of said. “But now, I know Cemetery.

In lieu of the Episcopal faith. going against the national that he has the collection, Roger is survived by flowers, the family has trend. and it’s something that he his wife, Ellen Miles requested donations be The national uninsured and I can bond over. It can made to the American Taylor; and two sisters; rate decreased from 16.3 bless him and it feels more Nancy Taylor Graff of Cancer Society or the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A percent, or 49.9 million life-giving now.�

Missouri Cape Coral, FL, and Southwest people in 2010 to 15.7 perAfter reading the whiteGenevieve (G-g) Taylor Humane Society. governors, have said they cent, or 48.6 million, in board and looking over Please sign this Shryer of Springfield, will expand, while several MO; a stepdaughter, Kelly guestbook at Obituaries. other states, led by Re- 2011, which was the big- his new collection, Isaac gest percentage drop asked if he could open LJWorld.com. publican governors, have since 1999. the collector’s tins. After rejected the idea.

But the uninsured rate being given the go-ahead, Currently, Medicaid in ILLIAM ILL LATZ in Kansas increased from he smiled and hugged his Kansas provides health 12.8 percent, or 350,000 father and insisted that he care coverage to about people, to 13.1 percent, or keep some of the dispensMemorial services for 380,000 people, with the 365,000. ers as well.

H. William “Bill� Platz, 75, largest portion of them Weisgrau said he is enGodsey said his son Lawrence, will be held at — about 230,000 — becouraged that Brownback plans to keep adding to 11 a.m. Saturday, January 5, ing children. The rest are is taking his time to study the collection.

2013 at Warren-McElwain mostly lower-income, the Medicaid expansion “This will be something Mortuary in Lawrence. pregnant women, people issue, but he doesn’t be- that if he chooses to carry He passed away Thursday, with disabilities and the lieve the governor will opt it on, that’s totally up to December 27, 2012. elderly. The $2.8 billion in, given his other deci- him,� Godsey said. “But Bill was born on July program is funded with sions related to the ACA. I know that giving this to 27, 1937 in Scottsbluff, NE federal and state dollars.

In November, Brown- him will speak value and the son of William Gustav Medicaid in Kansas back refused to partner blessing to him. That was and Bessie Elora Matzke doesn’t cover low-income daughter, Shelly with the federal govern- the real goal.�

Platz. He had four sisters, one and adults who don’t have ment in setting up a health Mary, Wilma, Georgia Platz-Davidson children.

And a nondis(all deceased) and Bessie husband Chris, Lawrence; abled adult with children insurance exchange, tout- — Reporting intern Rebekka Schlichting can be reached at 785-832-7248.

Kath, Scottsbluff, NE and three sons, Doug Platz, is eligible only if his or her ed as a one-stop place for two brothers, Dr. John Dallas, TX, Jeff Platz, income is below 32 per- people to compare and Platz, Sidney, NE and Lawrence, Jon Platz and cent of the poverty level, purchase health insurGus Platz, Loveland, CO wife Stacey, Lenexa, KS which is approximately ance.

Student accuses “Kansans feel Obamand many half brothers and three grandchildren, $5,000 per year. That is Evan, Lilah, and Eli. acare is an overreach by parents of stalking and sisters. He lived in In lieu of flowers, the about the most difficult el- Washington and have reLawrence for 52 years.

LEAWOOD (AP) — A subigibility level in the counjected the state’s particiHe retired from family suggests memorial try. urban Kansas City woman contributions in his name pation in the federal proFarmland Industries studying music theater at But starting in 2014, the where he worked for 37 to: Meals on Wheels, ACA creates an eligibil- gram,� Brownback said. the University of Cincinnati Douglas County Amateur Critics said Brownyears and was proud to College-Conservatory of Music ity level of 138 percent of Baseball Association back’s decision cost the say he worked his way up has won a stalking protection the federal poverty level, (DCABA), or Stepping state an opportunity to set from janitor to a variety order against her parents. which currently stands at of management positions Stones Child Care Center $15,415 per year for an in- up the exchange in a way The Cincinnati Enquirer and may be sent in care of tailored to the needs of in the fertilizer division. reported that 21-year-old dividual and $26,344 per Kansans.

Bill’s family was always the mortuary.

Aubrey Ireland of Leawood year for a family of three.

Online condolences Brownback’s decision foremost in his life. He has convinced a Cincinnati Estimates indicate that also enjoyed bowling. may be sent to www. Kansas’ Medicaid enroll- was no surprise. A year judge that her parents have warrenmcelwain.com. earlier, he rejected a $31.5 fishing coaching, playing Please sign this ment would increase by million federal grant to been harassing her. cards and making life fun She says they often showed 135,000 people under the guestbook at Obituaries. develop the exchange. for those around him. up unannounced at her school ACA expansion.

In addiSupporters applauded On September 2, 1961, LJWorld.com. and told her department head tion, health care experts the federal rebuff, but crithe married Terry Michal she had mental issues that say many more children ics said Brownback was in Lincoln, NE. She could force them to go to would gain coverage as placating tea party Repubsurvives of the home. court to have her treated. their parents sign up. Eslicans.

Other survivors include Her parents admitted they timates show that about Just weeks after bowing installed monitoring software 70 percent of Kansas chilout of participating in the INA ANE LACE UTHER UNDLEY dren currently without exchange, the Brownback on their daughter’s laptop and cellphone. Aubrey said it health insurance actually administration received was like she was “a dog with are eligible for Medicaid the go-ahead from federal A memorial service for Harold, Lawrence; three but are not enrolled. a collar on.� officials to implement the Mina Jane Place Luther sons, Jerry Luther and Her mother, Julie Ireland, If Kansas opts for the Hundley, 81, Lawrence wife, Joy, Lecompton, expansion, the federal state’s new Medicaid sys- told the judge her daughter will be held at 11a.m. Randy Luther, Eudora, government would pay for tem, known as KanCare, has been “catered to all Friday, January 4, 2013 Steve Luther, Pamona; 100 percent of the addi- on Jan. 1. her life by loving parents�

Under KanCare, nearat Warren-McElwain 13 grandchildren and tional cost for three years and insisted they “weren’t Mortuary in Lawrence. 22 great grandchildren; starting in 2014. Then the ly 400,000 Kansans will bothering her.�

Burial will follow at Oak sisters, Mary Place, Elaine federal share would drop have their health care administered by for-profit Hill Cemetery. She died Place, Lucille Baise, and to 90 percent by 2020. managed care companies.

December 24, 2012 at husband, Carl, Paulette Several Republican Brownback vowed that Place; one brother, Jim governors have dismissed Brandon Woods.

Mina was born on Place, and wife, Polly. She the expansion out of hand, the new system will proJuly 21, 1931 in Soldier, was preceded in death but Brownback, also a Re- vide better health care KS the daughter of by two daughters, Janice publican and ardent critic more efficiently — ironiLewis Franklin and Edna Luther Blackman, and Lita of the ACA, has said he cally the same goals of the Luther Bateson; her sister, wants to study the issue. ACA. But the proposal has (McClain) Place.

She worked for MD Norma Collins, and three He has expressed doubts its detractors, such as the Corporation in Eudora and brothers, Gene Place, that the federal govern- AARP and several other for Torneden Tax Service. Nick Place, and Charles ment could afford the ex- organizations that had asked for delays in impleShe was also a seamstress. Place pansion in future years Mina was a member of M e m o r i a l because of budget prob- mentation, saying that Brownback’s timeline was the Cornerstone Baptist contributions may be lems. too aggressive.

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Inmate escapes from Leavenworth jail An escaped Leavenworth County Jail inmate is being sought in surrounding areas.

A release from the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office describes Raheem Keron Armstead, 29, as a black man, 6-foot-3, 190 pounds, with a slim build.

Armstead escaped from a work detail about 1 p.m. Saturday while emptying Armstead an outdoor trash bin. He was wearing green-andwhite-striped jail clothes and tennis shoes.

Arrested June 26 on felony drug charges, Armstead was being held at the jail pending additional drug and nonpayment of child support charges.

Armstead served time in prison after a 2008 conviction for robbery and aggravated burglary in Douglas County.

After Saturday’s escape, police radio alerts suggested Armstead might be traveling south from the jail in a girlfriend’s 1995 Chevy Monte Carlo, color unknown.

Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office at 913-682-5724.

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HANNAH GILMORE, 10, PAINTS A FACE on a dish Friday at Sunfire Ceramics, 1002 New Hampshire St. Hannah was with her mother, Cassie Gilmore, of Lawrence, and was making a set of three plates for her mom, her dog and herself. “This is our favorite place to come when she has a school day off,� her mother said.

Schools getting few answers about fiscal cliff impact

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Students who get free or reduced-price lunches at school should still be able to eat when classes resume Wednesday.

But as negotiations in Washington grind on about how to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,� state education officials say nothing is certain. “Here’s what they told us just not long ago,� said Kansas Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis. “They didn’t think (the fiscal cliff) would affect the lunch program, but it could. And they said nobody will know the answer to that until they reach some kind of agreement.�

School lunch subsidies are just

one of many federal programs affecting schools that could take a hit if Congress and President Barack Obama fail to reach agreement SCHOOLS on a deficit reduction package by midnight Tuesday.

That’s the point commonly being called the “fiscal cliff� because, under an earlier agreement reached in 2011 over extending the federal debt ceiling, a series of spending cuts and tax increases will automatically take effect on Jan. 1 unless Congress and the president reach agreement on a long-term deficit reduction package.

Dennis said Kansas schools

receive about $125 million a year in meal subsidies through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Two other programs through the U.S. Department of Education also each provide about $100 million a year in federal funds for Kansas: special education and Title I funding for schools that serve predominantly students from low-income households.

There are six elementary schools in Lawrence that receive Title I funding: New York, Kennedy, Woodlawn, Schwegler, Hillcrest and Pinckney.

If the automatic cuts take effect Jan. 1 — a process officially known as “sequestration� — most domestic discretionary

programs would take an 8.2 percent cut across the board.

Dennis said state officials are being told that some programs could be exempted from the automatic cuts, but as of Friday nobody knew what might be exempted and what might not.

Of the three major federal programs, Dennis said the one least likely to be affected by automatic spending cuts is Title I funding.

That’s because Title I is “forward funded,� meaning the money for the current school year is locked in place, so that program would not feel the impact until the 201314 school year.

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TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kansas public employee retirees say they are long past due a cost of living increase on their pensions.

The last cost of living adjustment, or COLA, approved by the Legislature for members of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System was in 1998. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since that time, according to the Consumer Price Index, the cost of living has increased by nearly 40 percent,â&#x20AC;? said Dennis Phillips, who is chairman of the Kansas Coalition of Public Retirees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we are sensitive to the budget problems of the state of Kansas, we believe that it is way past time for a COLA,â&#x20AC;? Phillips said as the coalition released a report Thursday to the Legislature.

There are approximately 77,000 retired KPERS members. The coalition includes 39 groups, including retirees formerly employed by state and local government and schools.

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A burglar entered an unlocked window at house in the 900 block of Louisiana Street on Thursday night and stole a television.

The crime was reported at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, and the television was described as a 46-inch flatscreen valued at $500.

The Lawrence Police Department is still investigating the crime, said Kim Murphree, a Lawrence police

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ter, which can house 50 more people than the previous one and, for the

By Adam Strunk first time, will offer three Read more responses and add meals a day, seven days your thoughts at LJWorld.com a week. With more than 7,000 additional square Do you or have you ever collected something? feet in the shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s living and working areas, there Asked on Massachusetts Street will be space for private rooms for families, a medSee story, page 1A ical clinic staffed by volunteers, and more showers, lockers and laundry machines.

While some guests were still sleeping on mats Saturday, all will eventually have beds at the new shelter. It also has 10,000 square feet of vacant warehouse space that it plans to use for job training programs and partnerDaniel Ohlemeier, Kyle Palmer, ships with businesses in works at a bank, English teacher, the future.

Lawrence Palo Alto, Calif.

The shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knives, I guess. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going â&#x20AC;&#x153;I collected baseball cards and the renovations to to sound like a crazy perwhen I was little. I still the building that made it son. They are outstanding have them.â&#x20AC;? possible, were paid for by pieces of craftsmanship.â&#x20AC;? a capital campaign that raised about $3.3 million for the project. The project received a $540,000 grant from the Mabee Foundation in Tulsa, Okla., but the bulk of the money came from local donors.

Individual donors also provided a large set of picture windows that let sunshine into the new shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining room, and a flatJenna Zakrajsek , Avery Beck, screen television where, fifth-grade teacher, student, Henderson said, the guests Palo Alto, Calif.

Lawrence â&#x20AC;&#x153;I collected old letters and might watch KU basketball â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a minimalistic person and I pictures and notes people and the Super Bowl.

Jade Vargas, of Lawsent me.â&#x20AC;? always lose thingsâ&#x20AC;?

FIRE CALL Eudora city and Eudora township firefighters responded to a chimney fire around 7 p.m. Saturday near 12th and Elm streets.

Pete Feyerabend, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interim fire chief, said crews made short work of the fire, which was contained to the chimney and did not damage the rest of the house.

Feyerabend said a buildup of debris likely contributed

rence, has been a guest of the shelter for several weeks and spent Saturday volunteering at the front desk, taking calls and greeting newcomers.

He heard mostly positive reactions, he said, and said the added laundry and shower facilities and larger sleeping space were among the most important new benefits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were so packed in down there, it was insane,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Far from downtown Things will be different at the new location, even beyond the added facilities.

The shelter will stop serving as a community drop-in center. At its downtown location, it served as a place where anybody could drop in and get off the streets for the day. Here, only people who have committed to a shelter program and actively work to get out of homelessness will be allowed to stay.

The one drawback that some guests, including Vargas at the front desk, pointed to was the new shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location at the edge of the city.Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long walk from downtown, and it includes a stretch of Kansas Highway 10 that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as safe to walk on as a city street. But the city has added a bus route that stops by the shelter once per hour, and the shelter also has a van and a volunteer driver to shuttle guests around town.

Rik Fawcett, 32, has been a guest of the shelter for 16 months and he

to the fire, which was under control by 7:15 p.m. The family was cleared to re-enter the house Saturday night.

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Lawrence Memorial Hospital reported no births Saturday.

never agreed with the location, but he did approve of most other aspects of the new facility, which incorporated many of his and other guestsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ideas from the planning stage.

As someone who worked as a contractor and has experienced homelessness in Chicago, Baltimore and Miami, Fawcett said he had made an effort to be involved in planning the renovations.

The guestsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suggestions had included choosing the most sturdy furniture possible to hold up to inevitable wear and tear, and setting aside private space for families. The nine families and 22 children at the shelter are housed apart from groups of single men and women, all coming from different backgrounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to miss having the kids aroundâ&#x20AC;?

Fawcett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there are sometimes bad apples around setting bad examples for them.â&#x20AC;?

Some of the guests had other anxieties on Saturday, he said, because long-standing personal routines were being disrupted. A couple of guests were ultimately unwilling to make the move, preferring to stay outdoors in the downtown area. With the cold winter weather that has come to Lawrence, Fawcett said, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worried about them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a good call,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to weigh on my mind.â&#x20AC;?

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shortfall for the next fiscal year.

Aside from the COLA issue, public retirees will be confronted by a move by the powerful Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which has said it will lobby the Legislature to move away from a traditional pension system and start a 401(k)-style plan for new teachers and government workers.

Gov. Sam Brownback has voiced support for such a proposal.

Over the past two sessions, the Legislature has approved measures to deal with KPERS funding problems, but a proposal to move toward a 401(k)-style plan, where benefits are tied to investment earnings, failed earlier this year in the Senate on a 20-20 vote. Many of those moderate Republicans who voted against it have been replaced by candidates supported by the Kansas Chamber.

Public employee groups, including the Kansas Coalition of Public Retirees, oppose setting up a 401(k)-style pension plan, saying it will result in reduced benefits, and will fail to help reduce the unfunded liability within the KPERS system. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

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BRIEFLY 5 traffic deaths Rare gazelle dies reported over holiday at Topeka Zoo The Kansas Highway Patrol responded to four fatality accidents, resulting in five deaths, during the Christmas holiday week from Dec. 21 to Dec. 26, according to news release issued by the KHP Friday.

The fatality accidents included the Dec. 21 death of a 36-year-old Wyandotte County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office deputy.

None of the fatality accidents was alcohol related.

During a similar time period in 2011, there were no fatality accidents reported.

The KHP also issued more than 1,000 speeding tickets and 1,200 speeding warnings between Dec. 23 and Dec. 26, compared with 670 and 760, respectively, in the same time period last year.

Liberal police officer let go over warrant LIBERAL (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Liberal police officer has been dismissed after an outstanding warrant for him was discovered.

Robert A. Buchanan was accused in late 2009 of not returning a laptop computer to his employer, the western Oklahoma oilservices company Schlumberger.

The Hutchinson News reported that an arrest warrant was filed in January 2010 in Beckham County, Okla. It stated that there was an anticipated charge or charges of embezzlement.

The warrant came to light in Hays on Dec. 18 when a vehicle hit a Liberal police car that Buchanan and another officer were using to transport a prisoner. A check of Buchananâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license turned up the outstanding warrant.

Liberal police say the warrant hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shown up in previous background checks. Buchanan doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a listed phone number.

TOPEKA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A rare gazelle has died at the Topeka Zoo after a sudden illness.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reported that the zoo euthanized the 3-yearold Addra gazelle last week.

The animal became sick Wednesday and was unable to stand. The gazelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition worsened, however, and the staff euthanized it after about five hours.

Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley said the cause of death hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been determined, but a test showed abnormalities in some of the gazelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organs, including its liver. More tests are being conducted.

The Addra gazelle is a critically endangered species from Africa. The zoo says there are only about 500 believed to remain in the wild.

The Topeka Zoo owns two more Addra gazelles, which appear healthy.

Inmates suspected of suicide pact HUTCHINSON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hutchinson Correctional Facility officials suspect there was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;suicide pactâ&#x20AC;? among three inmates who attempted to simultaneously hang themselves in their cells.

Prison spokesman Dirk Moss said last week that the investigation into the Oct. 30 suicide attempts is â&#x20AC;&#x153;mostly complete.â&#x20AC;? He says the inmates were each in individual cells in the segregation unit, and some of them were adjoining.

The Hutchinson News reported that the inmates used bedding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;primarily sheets,â&#x20AC;? in the hanging attempt.

The inmates were taken to the internal prison clinic for treatment, and two were transferred to a Wichita hospital due to the extent of their injuries.

All three were returned to the prison population within a few days. Their names havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been released.

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Some holes exist in KanCareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specialist network Staff and Wire Reports

TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The three managed care companies that will take over Kansas Medicaid services have strong primary care physician networks but some gaps in their specialty provider networks.

Sunflower State Health Plan had no providers within 25 miles of Douglas County in four of 22 medical specialties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dermatology, neonatology, nephrology and neurosurgery, based on data collected earlier this month.

Another company, Amerigroup, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any providers in nephrology.

In neighboring Shawnee County, Sunflower

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The goal of the program, approved by the federal government in early December, is to provide poor and disabled Kansans with a broad array of services that take a proactive approach toward health care.

Kansas needed federal approval to move to the managed care model and gain flexibility in how health care is administered under national Medicaid guidelines.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services informed the state late Thursday that it approved the special terms and conditions of the waiver that were being worked out.

Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, a plastic surgeon, believe the new system can be more efficient and lower the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs without increasing eligibility requirements for recipients, such as income levels, cutting services or

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Amerigroup didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any providers in nephrology, physical medicine/ rehabilitation and plastics and reconstructive surgery within 25 miles of Shawnee County, and United Healthcare had no neonatologists within 25 miles of Shawnee County.

The three companies have been building provider networks since this summer, when they were announced as the recipients of contracts for KanCare, Gov. Sam Brownbackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s managed care plan

for Medicaid. Most of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 380,000 Medicaid recipients have been assigned to one of the companies, but starting Jan. 1, they will have 90 days to switch between them.

United Healthcare spokeswoman Alice Ferreira said the networks are constantly changing and the company responds to member needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in any immediate or eminent danger of having no access to their doctor,â&#x20AC;? Ferreira said.

Brownback and other members of the administration say KanCare is imperative to stem burgeoning Medicaid costs. They estimate it will save the state more than $1 billion during the next five years

without cutting benefits, limiting enrollment or lowering provider compensation rates.

Miranda Steele, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said provider networks have grown since the document was last updated and will continue to grow after KanCare goes live. She also said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the managed care organizations to ensure specialist care. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The MCOs must guarantee access to specialists, so if a specialty is not available in their network in a specific area, they must make arrangements for members to access those services out of network,â&#x20AC;? Steele said.

reducing provider reimbursement rates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serving the needs of the whole person as well as ensuring long term fiscal sustainability for the state are the principles this plan is built upon,â&#x20AC;?

Colyer said.

UnitedHealth Group has plans to create more than 320 jobs to administer KanCare, spread statewide. That brings the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total to more than 2,300 workers, plus more than 1,700 contractors.

Matt Stearns, spokesman for UnitedHealth, said the company was also making a three-year, $1.5 million investment in an employment program called Empowering Kansans. By partnering with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the program will bring various state and local researchers together to help KanCare recipients find meaningful employment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The program is designed to address both the need for employment among persons with disabilities in Kansas as well as employer needs

to grow their businesses and the Kansas economy,â&#x20AC;?

Stearns said.

Amerigroup has hired more than 250 employees with a goal of 274 in the state. The company has a new office in Overland Park, which includes a customer contact center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we grow in Kansas, we expect to expand our workforce,â&#x20AC;? said Laura Hopkins, Amerigroup Kansas chief executive officer.

The Sunflower State Health Plan is headquartered in Lenexa, but has staff located statewide.

The company plans to hire more than 230 employees initially to manage their contract, but a spokeswoman said the number could increase after Jan. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our approach to business is based on the core belief that quality health care is best delivered locally,â&#x20AC;? said spokeswoman Monica Stoneking.

Kansas officials have put in place safeguards to ease the transition to the new system, including allowing recipients to keep their current physician for

90 days, even if the doctors are not in provider networks. In some areas, the MCOs havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to get enough specialty physicians to join the networks initially.

Similar provisions cover care received at out-ofnetwork nursing homes, hospitals and communitybased services designed to keep residents in their homes.

Most Kansans who receive state medical assistance are covered by managed care through private contractors, but the Medicaid overhaul represents the first time the state has tried to include relatively expensive, long-term care for the disabled and the elderly, including those in nursing homes.

The three companies offer competing plans, giving KanCare participants choices of services, such as preventive dental care for adults. Participants have until April to switch plans and the contracts offer incentives to the companies to pay claims quickly and improve overall health of program participants.

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BRIEFLY Ex-President Bush moved out of ICU

hospital on Dec. 23 after he developed a fever.

On Friday, McGrath said Bush had improved since arriving in the ICU. He said he was alert and in good spirits and was even doing some singing.

McGrath said Saturday morning that future updates on Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition would be made as warranted.

Bush, the 41st president, is the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest living former president by a few months.

Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens on Thursday night, the second time this month a commuter has died in such a nightmarish fashion.

Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said. She could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted. She was in custody and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be reached for comment, and it was unclear if she had an attorney.

Menendez, who was arrested after a tip by a passer-by who saw her on a street and thought she looked like the woman in a surveillance video released by police, admitted shoving Sen, who was pushed from

behind, authorities said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been beating them up,â&#x20AC;? Menendez told police, according to the district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office.

Sen was from India, but police said it was unclear if he was Muslim, Hindu or of some other faith. The 46-year-old lived in Queens and ran a printing shop.

He was shoved from an elevated platform on the 7 train line, which connects Manhattan and Queens.

Witnesses said a muttering woman rose from her seat on a platform bench and pushed him on the tracks as a train entered the station and then ran off.

HOUSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Former President George H.W. Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PresiAP File Photo dent Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s THE ORIGINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION is condition shown on display in 2005 in the Rotunda of the has imNational Archives in Washington. proved, so he has been Bush Murder charge in moved today from the intensive care unit subway shove death to a regular patient room NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A woman at The Methodist Hospital who told police she shoved to continue his recovery,â&#x20AC;? a man to his death off a family spokesman Jim Mcsubway platform into the Grath said Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The path of a train because she Bushes thank everyone has hated Muslims since for their prayers and good Sept. 11 and thought he was wishes.â&#x20AC;? one was charged SaturBush was hospitalized Find Movie Listings at: day with murder as a hate Nov. 23 for treatment of a

By Brett Zongker Constitution and Declacrime, prosecutors said. bronchitis-related cough. lawrence.com/movies/listings Associated Press ration of Independence.

Erika Menendez was He was moved to intenOn the busiest days, 8,000 charged in the death of sive care at the Houston WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; As New people file through for a Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day approached 150 glimpse of the founding years ago, all eyes were on charters.

President Abraham LinPerformances and recoln in expectation of what enactments are scheduled he warned 100 days earlier to continue throughout would be coming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his fi- New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. The U.S. nal proclamation declaring Postal Service will unveil all slaves in states rebel- a new Emancipation Procling against the Union to be lamation stamp as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;forever free.â&#x20AC;?

This special display is A tradition began Dec. just one of many com31, 1862, as many black memorations planned in churches held Watch Washington and in churchNight services, awaiting es nationwide to mark the word that Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eman- anniversary of Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cipation Proclamation actions to end slavery and would take effect amid a end the Civil War. bloody Civil War. Later, President Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cotcongregations listened as tage in Washington, where the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic the 16th president spent words were read aloud. much of his time and where The proclamation he began drafting the procwould not end slavery lamation, is displaying a outright and at the time signed copy of the docu "2 " 4"0' ! 2 " ( 2 , !, ' (, ! couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be enforced by ment through February. It Lincoln in areas under also will host its own New ( ' , "! ' &( ' (,

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back together without the for six weeks beginning institution of slavery.

Jan. 3 in the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex Lincoln issued his pre- hibit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Civil War in "! 0$ ," liminary Emancipation America,â&#x20AC;? which features Proclamation in Septem- many personal letters and ber 1862, after the Battle diaries from the era. of Antietam, announcing Also, the Smithsonianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that if rebel states did not National Museum of Afcease fighting and rejoin rican American History the Union by Jan. 1, 1863, and Culture just opened all slaves in rebellious its newest exhibition, states or parts of states â&#x20AC;&#x153;Changing America,â&#x20AC;? to would be declared free recount the 1863 emancifrom that date forward. pation of slaves and the This year, the Watch 1963 March on WashingNight tradition will follow ton for Civil Rights. It inthe historic document to its cludes a rare signed copy home at the National Ar- of the 13th Amendment to chives with a special mid- the Constitution that ultinight display planned with mately abolished slavery. readings, songs and bell The Watch Night traringing among the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dition also continues at founding documents. many sites Monday night.

The official document In Washington, the Metbears Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature ropolitan A.M.E. Church, and the United States seal, where abolitionist Fredersetting it apart from cop- ick Douglass was a memies and drafts. It will make ber, will host a special 150th a rare public appearance anniversary service. from today to Tuesday History lovers say this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for is a chance to remember thousands of visitors to what the Emancipation mark its anniversary. On Proclamation actually sigNew Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve, the dis- nified. play will remain open past Lincoln wrote in part: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I midnight as 2013 arrives. do order and declare that â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be calling back all persons held as slaves to an old tradition,â&#x20AC;? said within said designated U.S. Archivist David Fer- States, and parts of States, riero, noting the procla- are, and henceforward, mationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When shall be free.â&#x20AC;? you see thousands of peoHe went on to say the ple waiting in line in the military would recognize dark and cold ... we know the freedom of slaves, that that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not there just freed slaves should avoid for words on paper. violence and that freed â&#x20AC;&#x153;On this 150th anniver- slaves could enlist in the sary, we recall those who U.S. armed forces. It did

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Over the cliff: Soft or hard landing?

By Connie Cass

If New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day arrives without a deal, the nation shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plunge onto the shoals of reWASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Efforts cession immediately. There still might be time to save the nation from go- to engineer a soft landing.

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ing over a year-end â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiscal cliffâ&#x20AC;? were still in disarray as lawmakers returned to the Capitol to confront the tax-and-spend crisis.

A tone-setting quotation was Democratic Sen. Harry Reidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assertion that the House under Republican Speaker John Boehner had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;operating with a dictatorship.â&#x20AC;?

President Barack Obama flew back to Washington from Hawaii after telephoning congressional leaders from his Christmas vacation perch.

Once back, he set up a meeting with leaders of both parties at the White House late Friday to make a Boehner fresh attempt to find a solution before Monday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deadline.

A look at why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so hard for Republicans and Democrats to compromise on urgent matters of taxes and spending, and what happens if they fail to meet their deadline:

New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headache Partly by fate, partly by design, some scary fiscal forces come together at the start of 2013 unless Congress and Obama act to stop them. They include: ! Some $536 billion in tax increases, touching nearly all Americans, because various federal tax cuts and breaks expire at yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. ! About $110 billion in spending cuts divided equally between the military and most other federal departments. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about 8 percent of their annual budgets, 9 percent for the Pentagon.

Hitting the national economy with that double whammy of tax increases and spending cuts is whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called going over the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiscal cliff.â&#x20AC;? If allowed to unfold over 2013, it would lead to recession, a big jump in unemployment and financial market turmoil, economists predict.

What if they miss the deadline?

If New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day arrives without a deal, the nation shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plunge onto the shoals of recession immediately. There still might be time to engineer a soft landing.

So long as lawmakers and the president appear to be working toward agreement, the tax hikes and spending cuts could mostly be held at bay for a few weeks. Then they could be repealed retroactively once a deal was reached.

The big wild card is the stock market and the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial confidence: Would traders start to panic if Washington appeared unable to reach accord? Would worried consumers and businesses sharply reduce their spending? In what could be a preview, stock prices in the U.S. and Eu-

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned lawmakers that the economy is already suffering from the uncertainty and they shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t risk making it worse by blowing past their deadline.

What if they never agree?

If negotiations between Obama and Congress collapse completely, 2013 looks like a rocky year.

Taxes would jump $2,400 on average for families with incomes of $50,000 to $75,000, according to a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Because consumers would get less of their paychecks to spend, businesses and jobs would suffer.

At the same time, Americans would feel cuts in government services; some federal workers would be furloughed or laid off and companies would lose government business.

The nation would lose up to 3.4 million jobs, the Congressional Budget Office predicts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The consequences of that would be felt by everybody,â&#x20AC;? Bernanke says.

The taxes Much of the disagreement surrounds the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts, and whether those rates should be allowed to rise for the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealthiest taxpayers. Both political parties say they want to protect the middle class from tax increases.

Several tax breaks begun in 2009 to stimulate the economy by aiding low- and middle-income families are also set to expire Jan. 1. The alternative minimum tax would expand to catch 28 million more taxpayers, with an average increase of $3,700 a year. Taxes on investments would rise, too. More deaths would be covered by the federal estate tax, and the rate climbs from 35 percent to 55 percent. Some corporate tax breaks would end.

The temporary Social Security payroll tax cut also is due to expire. That tax break for most Americans seems likely to end even if a fiscal cliff deal is reached, now that Obama has backed down from his call to prolong it as an economic stimulus.

The spending If the nation goes over the fiscal cliff, budget cuts of 8 percent or 9 percent would hit most of the federal government, touching all sorts of things from agriculture to law enforcement and the military to weather forecasting. A few areas, such as Social Security benefits, Veterans Affairs and some programs for the poor, are exempt.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more at stake All sorts of stuff could

get wrapped up in the fiscal cliff deal-making. A sampling: ! Some 2 million jobless Americans may lose their federal unemployment aid. Obama wants to continue the benefits extension as part of the deal; Republicans say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too costly. ! Social Security recipients might see their checks grow more slowly.

As part of a possible deal, Obama and Republican leaders want to change the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated, which would mean smaller checks over the years for retirees who get Social Security, veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; benefits or government pensions. ! The price of milk could double. If Congress doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a fix for expiring dairy price supports before Jan. 1, milk-drinking families could feel the pinch.

One scenario is to attach a farm bill extension to the fiscal cliff legislation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if a compromise is reached in time. ! Millions of taxpayers who want to file their 2012 returns before mid-March will be held up while they wait to see if Congress comes through with a deal to stop the alternative minimum tax from hitting more people.

Call the whole thing off?

In theory, Congress and Obama could just say no to the fiscal cliff, by extending all the tax cuts and overturning the automatic spending reductions in current law.

But both Republicans and Democrats agree itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to take steps to put the nation on a path away from a future of crippling debt.

Indeed, the automatic spending cuts set for January were created as a lastditch effort to force Congress to deal with the debt problem.

If Washington bypassed the fiscal cliff, the next crisis would be just around the corner, in late February or early March, when the government reaches a $16.4 trillion ceiling on the amount of money it can borrow.

Boehner says Republicans wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go along with raising the limit on government borrowing unless the increase is matched by spending cuts to help attack the long-term debt problem. Failing to raise the debt ceiling could lead to a first-ever U.S. default that would roil the financial markets and shake worldwide confidence in the United States.

To avoid that scenario, Obama and Boehner are trying to wrap a debt limit agreement into the fiscal cliff negotiations.

vote for higher taxes only on incomes above $1 million but dropped the effort when it became clear he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the votes.

Republicans also insist on deeper spending cuts than Democrats want to make. And they want to bring the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longterm debt under control by significantly curtailing the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security â&#x20AC;&#x201D; changes that many Democrats oppose.

Obama, meanwhile, wants more temporary economic â&#x20AC;&#x153;stimulusâ&#x20AC;? spending to help speed up a sluggish recovery. Republicans say the nation canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford it.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just Washington Seems like they could just make nice, shake hands and split their differences, right?

But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason neither side wants to give ground. The two parties represent a divided and inconsistent America.

True, Obama just won reelection. But voters also chose a Republican majority in the House.

Republicans and Democrats alike say they are doing what the voters back home want.

Neither side has a clear advantage in public opinion. In an Associated Press-GfK poll, 43 percent said they trust the Democrats more to manage the federal budget deficit and 40 percent preferred the Republicans. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a similar split on whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more trusted with taxes.

About half of Americans support higher taxes for the wealthy, the poll says, and about 10 percent want tax increases all around. Still, almost half say cutting government services, not raising taxes, should be the main focus of lawmakers as they try to balance the budget.

When asked about specific budget cuts being discussed in Washington, few Americans express support for them.

The countdown Time for deal-making is short, thanks to the holiday and congressional calendars. Some key dates for averting the fiscal cliff: ! Lawmakers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin returning to the Capitol until Thursday, leaving less than a week to vote on a compromise before yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. !

Obama returned Thursday from his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.

The president asked congressional leaders to the White House Friday to try to resolve the fiscal cliff. ! If lawmakers reach Dec. 31 without a deal, some economists worry that the financial markets might swoon. ! The current Congress is in session only through noon Eastern time on Jan. 3. After that, a newly elected Congress with 13 new senators and 82 new House members So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the holdup? would inherit the probTheyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at loggerheads lem. over some big questions.

Obama says any deal must include higher taxes for the wealthiest Americans. Many House Republicans oppose raising anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tax rates. Boehner tried to get the House to

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ARRIVES to make a statement on the fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders in the briefing room of the White House on Friday in Washington. The negotiations are a last ditch effort to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts.

Last-minute fiscal cliff talks in Senate

By David Espo Associated Press

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Senate leaders groped for a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly prevent deep spending cuts at the dawn of the new year as President Barack Obama warned that failure could mean a â&#x20AC;&#x153;self-inflicted wound to the economy.â&#x20AC;?

Obama chastised lawmakers in his weekly radio and Internet address for waiting until the last minute to try and avoid a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiscal cliff,â&#x20AC;? yet said there was still time for an agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cannot let Washington politics get in the way of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progress,â&#x20AC;? he said as the hurry-up negotiations unfolded.

For all the recent expressions of urgency, bargaining took place by phone, email and paper in a Capitol nearly empty except for tourists. Alone among top lawmakers, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell spent the day in his office.

In the Republicansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; weekly address, Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri cited a readiness to compromise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Divided government is a good time to solve hard problems â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in the next few days, leaders in Washington have an important responsibility to work together and do just that,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Even so, there was no guarantee of success, and a dispute over the federal tax on large estates emerged as yet another key sticking point alongside personal income tax rates.

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Political calculations mattered as much as deep-seated differences over the issues, as divided government struggled with its first big challenge since the November elections.

Speaker John Boehner remained at arms-length, juggling a desire to avoid the fiscal cliff with his goal of winning another term as speaker when a new Congress convenes next Thursday. Any compromise legislation is certain to include higher tax rates on the wealthy, and the House GOP rank and file rejected the idea when he presented it to them as part of a final attempt to strike a more sweeping agreement with Obama.

Lawmakers have until the new Congress convenes to pass any compromise, and even the calendar mattered. Democrats said they had been told House Republicans might reject a deal until after Jan. 1, to avoid a vote to raise taxes before they had technically gone up and then vote to cut taxes after they had risen.

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By Aya Batrawy Associated Press

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SHMUEL FORTMAN HAPARTZY, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets founder and teacher, speaks to students Dec. 4 in Tel Aviv, Israel. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.

Making a prophet: At school, anyone can learn to be one for becoming Einstein or Mozart.â&#x20AC;?

That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deterred the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder and sole TEL AVIV, ISRAEL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In- teacher Shmuel Hapartzy, stead of long beards and a follower of Chabad, a robes, they wear track worldwide Orthodox Jewsuits and T-shirts. Their ish outreach and worship tablets are electronic, not movement that has come hewn of stone, and they under fire because part of hold smartphones, not its membership crowned staffs. They may not look its late leader the Messiah. the part, but this ragtag The Chabad movement in group of Israelis is train- Israel has distanced itself ing to become the next from the school. generation of prophets.

Anyone looking in the For just 200 shekels, about curriculum for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parting $53, and in only 40 short the Sea 101â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to classes, the Cain and Abel Predict the Futureâ&#x20AC;? or School for Prophets says it even â&#x20AC;&#x153;Principles of Prowill certify anyone as a mod- claiming A Jeremiadâ&#x20AC;? will ern-day Jewish soothsayer. be disappointed. Instead, The school, which students learn about the launched classes this meaning of dreams, the month, has baffled critics, classification of angels, many of whom have dis- the mysteries of the holy missed it as a blasphemy spirit. They learn how to or a fraud. discern a On a relipersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inThere is no way to ner feelings gious level, Jewish tra- teach prophecy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from his or dition rec- like opening a school her external ognizes a behavior few dozen for becoming Einstein and appearp r o p h e t s or Mozart.â&#x20AC;? ance. from the Hapartzy b i b l i c a l â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rachel Elior, a professor of canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarera â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from Jewish thought at Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antee his the monu- Hebrew University course will m e n t a l give his figures of students a Abraham, direct line Moses and Elijah to to God. But, he says, the lesser known foretellers syllabus provides the esof doom and tormented sential tools to bring out questioners like Micah the prophet in anyone. the Morashtite and Haâ&#x20AC;&#x153;In the past there were bakkuk. prophets but even now, Tradition says no one in our time, divinity is becan be a prophet ever ing revealed to everyone. since the Romans de- We just need to open our stroyed the second tem- eyes to it,â&#x20AC;? said Hapartzy ple in Jerusalem in the at his introductory course, year 70 and the era of which is held at a religious prophecy can only be re- center in grungy south vived with the arrival of Tel Aviv, known more for the Messiah and the tem- its licentious street parties pleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rebuilding. As one than piety.

Talmudic phrase puts it, And graduates do get a the only prophets now diploma. are children and fools.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little â&#x20AC;&#x153;profitâ&#x20AC;?

But also, on a philo- motive to the venture. sophical level, how do you Hapartzy said the token learn divine inspiration in fee is to prove studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; school? And can anyone dedication and is donatlearn? ed to the religious cenâ&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no way to ter hosting the school. teach prophecy,â&#x20AC;? said Ra- Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no application chel Elior, a professor of process â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anyone who Jewish thought at Jerusa- wants to become a prophlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hebrew University. et can do so by just showâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like opening a school ing up for the course.

CAIRO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Islamist president warned against any unrest that could harm the drive to repair the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battered economy in his first address before the newly convened upper house of parliament on Saturday, urging the opposition to work with his government.

In the nationally televised speech, Mohammed Morsi said the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire efforts should be focused on â&#x20AC;&#x153;production, work, seriousness and effort,â&#x20AC;? now that a new constitution came into effect this week, blaming protests and violence the last month for causing further damage to an economy already in crisis since the fall of auto-

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RESCUERS WORK AT THE SITE OF A PLANE CRASH Saturday at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow. A passenger airliner ran off the runway at Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thirdbusiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Another four were severely injured. Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings, which was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport.

Assad wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t step down in Syria, Russian foreign minister says

By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press

MOSCOW â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreign minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise.

After a meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s envoy for the Syrian crisis, Sergey Lavrov also said that the Syrian opposition risks sacrificing many more lives if it continues to insist on Assad leaving office as a precondition for holding talks on Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future.

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The worst violence came in clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo that killed 10 people, and though it was sparked when Islamists attacked a sit-in, Morsiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allies have depicted the opposition as to blame.

Opponents fear that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, from which he hails, are monopolizing rule and that the new con-

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crat Hosni Mubarak.

Citing the economy, Morsi pressed the opposition to drop its refusals to deal with his government, repeating his invitation for it to join a national dialogue he has been holding â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and adding a warning that appeared directed at the opposition not to turn to protests that might cause unrest.

All sides must â&#x20AC;&#x153;realize the needs of the momentâ&#x20AC;? and work only through â&#x20AC;&#x153;mature democracy while avoiding violence,â&#x20AC;? he told the 270-member Shura Council. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We condemn and reject all forms of violence by individuals, groups, institutions and even from the nation and its government. This is completely rejected.â&#x20AC;?

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Lavrov said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no possibility to change this position.â&#x20AC;?

Brahimi warned that the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war could plunge the entire

region into chaos by sending hundreds of thousands of refugees into neighboring nations, but his talks in Moscow produced no sign of progress toward settling the crisis.

Brahimi and Lavrov both said after their meeting that the 21-month-old Syrian conflict can only be settled through talks, while admitting that the parties in the conflict have shown no desire for compromise. Neither official hinted at a possible solution that would persuade the Syrian government and the opposition to agree to a ceasefire and sit down for talks about a political transition.

stitution will consecrate their power. The charter allows for a stronger implementation of Islamic law, or Shariah, than in the past and provisions that could limit many civil rights and freedoms of minorities.

The charter was passed by 64 percent in the referendum, though turnout was only around 33 percent.

Under the new constitution, the upper house of parliament, which normally has few powers, is now serving as the law-making body until a new legislating lower house is chosen in national elections expected within a few months.

The upper house, called the Shura Council, has an overwhelming Islamist majority, mainly from Morsiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brotherhood and the allied ultraconservative Salafis.

6 men face murder charge in gang rape NEW DELHI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus nearly two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

The murder charges were laid after the woman died earlier Saturday in a Singapore hospital where she has been flown for treatment.

New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said the six face the death penalty if convicted, in case that has triggered protests across India for greater protection for women from sexual violence, and raised questions about lax attitudes by police toward sexual crimes.

The tragedy has forced India to confront the reality that sexually assaulted women are often blamed for the crime, forcing them to keep quiet and discouraging them from reporting it to authorities for fear of exposing their families to ridicule. Police often refuse to accept complaints from those who are courageous enough to report the rapes, and the rare prosecutions that reach courts drag on for years.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was aware of the emotions the attack has stirred, adding it was up to all Indians to ensure that the young womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death will not have been in vain.

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Guns on campus

WASHINGTON — While accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative justices of “disdain for democracy,” Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain.

The Stanford law professor is, however, less talented at her chosen task of presenting a coherent understanding of judicial review. Still, her “Democracy and Disdain” in the November Harvard Law Review usefully illustrates progressivism’s consistent disdain for the Founders’ project of limiting government.

The primary focus of her displeasure is, remarkably, Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion mostly upholding Obamacare. But she begins by being appalled at Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion that the lopsided majorities by which Congress in 2006 extended Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act were “a reason not for deference, but for suspicion.” Well.

That section requires some Southern states and other jurisdictions to seek Justice Department permission to make even minor changes in voting procedures. This was a justifiable infringement of federalism in 1965. But in 2006, when blacks were registering and voting at higher rates than whites in some covered states, Congress extended the act until 2031 using voting information from 1972. Surely Scalia was correct that Congress, indifferent to evidence, continued to sacrifice federalism merely to make a political gesture.

The Roberts court was ex-

Kansas university officials should continue to push back on the contention that it makes sense to sanction the carrying of concealed weapons on campuses.

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n the wake of the recent mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents predicted another heated battle in the Kansas Legislature over allowing concealed guns to be carried on university campuses across the state.

State Sen.-elect Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, already has said he will push for a bill that allows people with concealedcarry permits to take their weapons into public buildings. In the 2012 session, when he was a member of the Kansas House, Knox got a similar bill through the House after it was amended to allow universities and hospitals to exempt themselves. However, the bill died in a Senate committee.

Knox and others argue that preventing law-abiding people with concealedcarry permits from taking their weapons into public buildings is an invitation to criminals to illegally carry guns into those buildings. University officials take the other side of the argument, saying that increasing the number of guns on campuses would increase the risk of violence and possibly prove confusing in an emergency situation.

This debate, in various forms, is taking place all across the nation since 26 people, including 20 elementary students were killed in Newtown earlier this month. It’s an important debate that also should include discussions about the role that mental health treatment and what many people see as a culture of violence in America contribute to such tragic incidents. Americans seem to have a special relationship with their guns that isn’t common in other cultures and there may be something officials can learn from looking at laws in other countries.

Regents Chairman Tim Emert said the nine-member board will continue to oppose concealed carry on campuses, and acknowledged it will be interesting to see what direction the Legislature takes on the issue in the 2013 session. Both the Kansas House and Senate will have many new members and a generally more conservative slant.

The overriding goal of any discussion about weapons is to try to increase the safety of people in Kansas and throughout the nation. While some advocates are certain that having more weapons in more locations will accomplish that goal, university officials and others are right to push back and offer other alternatives.

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Today’s American public does not share Karlan’s nostalgia for the Warren court, which she says was ‘optimistic about the possibility of politics.’” cessively deferential in not overturning Section 5 in a 2009 case, when it merely urged Congress to reconsider the section.

Karlan’s disdain for the Citizens United decision — which held that Americans do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they choose to speak collectively through corporate entities — is muddled. She denounces “spending by outside groups” without explaining what they are outside of. Evidently she accepts the self-interested assumption of the political class — the parties and candidates — that elections are their property and independent participants are trespassers. Karlan approvingly quotes Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s and Stephen Breyer’s unsubstantiated assertion — itself disdainful of elected officials to whom Karlan urges vast deference

— that contributions “buy candidates’ allegiance.” She seems unaware that abundant social science demonstrates that contributors respond to candidates’ behavior, not the reverse. And when darkly warning about campaign contributions from corporations’ “management,” she seems unaware that much of the corporate political spending is by nonprofit advocacy corporations — Planned Parenthood, not Microsoft.

It is, however, the court’s health care decision that she thinks especially reveals “disrespect for, and exasperation with, Congress.” Even though Roberts upheld the crucial provision — the mandate — he did so with what Karlan considers a faulty attitude.

His opinion was “grudging” in finding that, although Congress flinched from calling the mandate a tax, the law could be saved by calling it this.

Karlan is very difficult to please. Roberts rescued Congress’ handiwork from Congress’ clumsy legislative craftsmanship, and still she complains because in doing so Roberts inevitably made “a thinly veiled critique of Congress.” Which Karlan seems to consider lese-majeste. “He conveyed disdain even as he upheld the Act,” thereby revealing the conservative justices’ “premise of distrust” toward Congress.

Today’s American public does not share Karlan’s nostalgia for the Warren court, which she says was “optimistic about the possibility of politics.” Karlan subscribes

to the progressive axiom that the cure for the ills of democracy is democracy, meaning elections. She sees little need for courts to protect against what the Founders’ feared — liberty-threatening excesses of majorities. With a true progressive’s impatience with the crux of the Constitution, the separation of powers, Karlan wants the court to consider Congress “a full partner in seeking to address the nation’s pressing problems.” But often our institutions preserve liberty by being rivals rather than collaborators.

She abhors the conservative justices’ “combination of institutional distrust — the court is better at determining constitutional meaning — and substantive distrust — congressional power must be held in check.” Clearly she thinks Congress would be “better” at judging the limits of its own power. This fits her assumption that restraints on its power are presumptively anti-democratic.

She concludes: “For if the justices disdain us, how ought we to respond?” Her pronoun radiates democratic sentimentality — “us” conflates the citizenry and Congress. Today, just 18 percent of the citizenry approves of Congress’ performance.

What becomes of Karlan’s argument when the conservative justices’ distrust of Congress, for which she disdains them as anti-democratic, is exceeded by the public’s distrust of Congress?

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

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The first “policewoman” to be assigned to routine field patrol YEARS in Lawrence had AGO been hired and IN 1972 was to start her duties next week.

Renee Ann Suitt, 25, wife of Douglas County Deputy Sheriff Michael P. Suitt, was a graduate of Baldwin High School and had also attended a local business college. She had been working for the past six years in the communications division of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka. Police Chief Richard Stanwix said today that Suitt would receive the same training as a male employee, would rotate shifts, and would “receive no special assignment favors because of her sex.”

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Board integrity To the editor: A recent article noted that voters were concerned that 2005 school bond funds were not used for their intended purpose and may still cause suspicion among voters.

School Superintendent Rick Doll disagrees, stating that such arguments are not accurate. As a former school board member, I have to disagree with Dr. Doll.

At a board meeting that I presided over in 2006, a discussion was had regarding the construction of a $40,000 tower at Lawrence High School for aesthetic purposes. I disagreed with the proposal. The proposal to construct a tower was not in the original plan. The board promised the public that

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In a 2006 article in the Journal-World, following the meeting, former school board member James Hilliard said he was astounded that the board had proposed construction of the tower and voters would feel like the “board had pulled the wool over their eyes.”

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 30, 1912: YEARS “Something or AGO other kept the IN 1912 gas pressure up in Lawrence this morning even though the mercury showed a tendency to drop down toward the low figures.

It has been the case in the past few months that a drop on the part of the thermometer was accompanied by a weakening of the gas pressure, but it was not so this morning.... A Lawrence man who has been in the gas territory in southern Kansas for several months declares that there is a gross waste of gas in this section of the country and that if the gas were conserved there would not be the scarcity which the gas burning towns experience every time there is a cold spell. All of the gas people realize this but it seems impossible for them to do anything to prevent this waste.

According to the Lawrence man, the oil magnates are responsible for the waste of the gas. Whenever they secure a lease on a piece of this territory they immediately open up a well and allow all of the gas to escape. ‘Blow out’ it is called. Some of these wells have been known to run or blow for several days until the well had been exhausted in the meantime, wasting millions of feet of gas which Lawrence and other towns are clamoring for. After the gas is all blown out the oil men continue their search for oil. This article is so much more valuable than gas that the promoters do not consider the value of gas and waste it in their efforts to secure oil.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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Sunshine and patchy clouds

Sunshine and patchy Mostly sunny and cold clouds

High 42° Low 27° POP: 5%

High 30° Low 12° POP: 60%

High 28° Low 16° POP: 15%

High 33° Low 11° POP: 10%

High 26° Low 15° POP: 15%

Wind S 8-16 mph

Wind NNE 4-8 mph

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McCook 30/8

Kearney 29/10

Oberlin 32/11

Clarinda 36/17

Lincoln 34/13

Grand Island 30/10

Beatrice 38/15

Concordia 38/17

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Centerville 33/20

St. Joseph 40/21 Chillicothe 38/25

Sabetha 38/19

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 42/27 40/29 Salina 40/21 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 40/21 32/13 42/26 Lawrence 42/25 Sedalia 42/27 Emporia Great Bend 42/30 44/26 40/19 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 46/30 40/19 Hutchinson 44/29 Garden City 40/23 38/16 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 45/30 44/27 40/23 40/18 46/31 46/31 Hays Russell 38/17 38/18

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Temperature High/low Normal high/low today Record high today Record low today

38°/18° 38°/19° 71° in 2004 -6° in 1990

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 7 p.m. yest. 0.00 Month to date 0.65 Normal month to date 1.53 Year to date 20.59 Normal year to date 39.87

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Atchison 40 24 s 29 10 sn Independence 46 30 pc 38 20 sn 40 22 s 29 10 sn Belton 42 26 s 32 14 sn Fort Riley 42 27 s 31 14 sn Burlington 44 27 pc 34 17 sn Olathe Coffeyville 46 31 pc 38 20 sn Osage Beach 43 30 s 38 20 sn 42 26 s 31 14 sn Concordia 38 17 s 24 10 sn Osage City 44 27 pc 34 15 sn Dodge City 40 19 s 24 8 sn Ottawa 44 27 pc 34 18 sn Holton 40 22 s 28 11 sn Wichita Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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INTERNATIONAL CITIES Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Today Hi Lo W 91 73 s 45 44 c 57 50 sh 63 45 pc 95 72 c 27 12 s 48 39 c 45 42 c 92 73 pc 67 49 s 22 1 pc 49 44 sh 44 31 pc 55 49 sh 57 46 pc 46 13 s 48 45 c 48 30 pc 74 45 s 18 9 pc 21 13 c 68 45 pc 37 29 c 48 43 pc 93 76 t 54 39 s 21 7 s 88 77 t 41 32 c 77 63 sh 54 43 r 26 21 pc 38 26 pc 39 32 s 37 31 s 6 -11 sn

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Mon. Lo W 76 pc 42 r 48 sh 43 s 73 pc 14 pc 41 r 42 c 53 t 48 s 15 s 34 sh 34 c 52 s 44 s 15 s 41 r 37 pc 47 pc 23 sn 24 c 45 pc 22 sn 44 r 76 t 39 pc 12 s 77 t 36 c 66 s 37 c 21 c 26 pc 34 s 31 pc -9 pc

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: Cold winds will buffet the Northeast with snow showers downwind of the eastern Great Lakes today. Snow showers are also in store for part of the interior West. Rain showers will fall over Southern California.

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 46 34 pc 47 37 r Albuquerque 43 28 s 39 22 c 70 63 s 74 66 pc Anchorage 38 29 sn 32 26 sn Miami 25 22 pc 31 8 c Atlanta 46 32 s 53 43 pc Milwaukee Minneapolis 24 7 s 10 -6 pc Austin 53 45 c 62 45 r 40 27 s 47 36 r Baltimore 37 25 pc 40 32 pc Nashville Birmingham 46 30 s 53 45 pc New Orleans 51 43 pc 63 59 pc 34 25 pc 36 32 pc Boise 28 13 sf 27 11 pc New York 34 12 pc 19 -2 c Boston 32 18 pc 34 28 pc Omaha 60 49 s 69 53 pc Buffalo 28 23 sf 35 24 sn Orlando 36 25 pc 37 30 pc Cheyenne 32 5 s 21 7 sn Philadelphia Phoenix 60 43 pc 56 39 pc Chicago 26 21 s 32 14 c 31 16 sf 35 30 sn Cincinnati 28 18 pc 34 28 sn Pittsburgh Cleveland 30 19 sf 36 25 sn Portland, ME 31 9 pc 30 22 pc Portland, OR 42 28 pc 41 30 c Dallas 50 38 pc 49 34 r 33 13 sf 34 14 pc Denver 34 10 s 23 6 sn Reno Richmond 43 24 s 48 35 pc Des Moines 32 17 pc 21 -3 c Sacramento 49 29 pc 47 28 pc Detroit 28 19 pc 34 18 c 40 27 s 37 24 sn El Paso 55 38 pc 50 28 pc St. Louis Salt Lake City 32 18 sf 26 11 pc Fairbanks 19 8 pc 21 3 c San Diego 58 44 c 57 45 s Honolulu 83 66 s 82 69 c San Francisco 51 39 pc 52 40 pc Houston 56 44 pc 64 52 r 41 29 pc 40 30 pc Indianapolis 26 19 pc 34 19 sn Seattle 23 13 pc 25 7 pc Kansas City 42 25 s 29 11 sn Spokane Tucson 60 38 pc 51 31 sh Las Vegas 48 35 pc 48 31 s Tulsa 46 33 pc 41 25 r Little Rock 44 33 pc 43 35 r Wash., DC 39 27 pc 44 34 pc Los Angeles 58 43 c 59 43 s National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Vero Beach, FL 85° Low: Angel Fire, NM -30°

WEATHER HISTORY A storm brought record-breaking cold to the East on Dec. 30, 1880.

The low was 7 degrees below zero in Washington, D.C.

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Q:

When are large snowflakes most likely to occur?

Usually when the temperature is close to the freezing mark

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FBI removes many redactions in Marilyn Monroe’s official file ————

Actress was monitored for ties to communism

By Anthony McCartney Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and reissued, revealing the names of some of the movie star’s communist-leaning friends who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.

But the records, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe’s death 50 years ago. Letters and news clippings included in the files show the bureau was aware of theories the actress had been killed, but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe’s death was a probable suicide.

Recently obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, the updated FBI files do show the extent the agency was monitoring Monroe for ties to communism in the years before her death in August 1962.

The records reveal that some in Monroe’s inner circle were concerned about her association with Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who was disinherited from his wealthy family over his leftist views.

A trip to Mexico earlier that year to shop for furniture brought Monroe in contact with Field, who was living in the country with his wife in self-imposed exile. Informants reported to the FBI that a “mutual infatuation” had developed between Field and Monroe, which caused concern among some in her inner circle, including her therapist, the files state.

“This situation caused considerable dismay among Miss Monroe’s entourage and also among the (American Communist Group in Mexico),” the file states. It includes references to an interior decorator who worked with Monroe’s analyst reporting her connection to Field to the doctor.

Field’s autobiography devotes an entire chapter to Monroe’s Mexico trip, “An Indian Summer Interlude.” He mentions that he and his wife accompanied Monroe on shopping trips and meals and he only mentions politics once in a passage on their dinnertime conversations.

“She talked mostly about herself and some of the people who had been or still were important to her,” Field wrote in “From Right to Left.” ‘‘She told us about her strong feelings for civil rights, for black equality, as well as her admiration for what was being done in China, her anger at red-baiting and McCarthyism and her hatred of (FBI director) J. Edgar Hoover.”

Under Hoover’s watch, the FBI kept tabs on the political and social lives of many celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Monroe’s ex-husband Arthur Miller.

The bureau has also been involved in numerous investigations about crimes against celebrities, including threats against Elizabeth Taylor, an extortion case involving Clark Gable and more recently, trying to solve who killed rapper Notorious B.I.G.

50th anniversary The AP had sought the removal of redactions from Monroe’s FBI files earlier this year as part of a series of stories on the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s death on Aug. 5, 1962. The FBI had reported that it had transferred the files to a National Archives facility in Maryland, but archivists

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IN THIS JULY 14, 1956, FILE PHOTO, Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, arrive in London from New York. The FBI has released a new version of files it kept on Monroe that reveal the names of some of her acquaintances who had drawn concern from government officials and members of her entourage over their suspected ties to communism. Miller was among the suspects. BELOW: This copy of a document from playwright Arthur Miller’s FBI file shows an FBI report stating that “the New York Daily News received an anonymous telephone call” on July 3, 1956. The caller, “an unidentified male,” stated that “Arthur Miller had been and still was a member of the CP (Communist Party) and was their cultural front man” and that (his wife) “Marilyn Monroe” also “had drifted into the Communist orbit.”

said the documents had not been received. A few months after requesting details on the transfer, the FBI released an updated version of the files that eliminate dozens of redactions.

For years, the files have intrigued investigators, biographers and those who don’t believe Monroe’s death at her Los Angeles area home was a suicide.

A 1982 investigation by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office found no evidence of foul play after reviewing all available investigative records, but noted that the FBI files were “heavily censored.”

That characterization intrigued the man who performed Monroe’s autopsy, Dr. Thomas Noguchi. While the DA investigation concluded he conducted a thorough autopsy, Noguchi has conceded that no one will likely ever know all the details of Monroe’s death.

The FBI files and confidential interviews conducted with the actress’ friends that have never been made public might help, he wrote in his 1983 memoir “Coroner.”

“On the basis of my own involvement in the case, beginning with the autopsy, I would call Monroe’s suicide ‘very probable,’” Noguchi wrote. “But I also believe that until the complete FBI files are made

public and the notes and interviews of the suicide panel released, controversy will continue to swirl around her death.”

Not a communist Monroe’s file begins in 1955 and mostly focuses on her travels and associations, searching for signs of leftist views and possible ties to communism. One entry, which previously had been almost completely redacted, concerned intelligence that Monroe and other entertainers sought visas to visit Russia that year.

The file continues up until the months before her death, and also includes several news stories and references to Norman Mailer’s biography of the actress, which focused on questions about whether Monroe was killed by the government.

For all the focus on Monroe’s closeness to suspected communists, the bureau never found any proof she was a member of the party.

“Subject’s views are very positively and concisely leftist; however, if she is being actively used by the Communist Party, it is not general knowledge among those working with the movement in Los Angeles,” a July 1962 entry in Monroe’s file states.

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KANSAS 89, AMERICAN 57

All-American rout

Releford keys KU blowout

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Tharpe looking sharp

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University defensive stopper Travis Releford has been known to pass up a wide-open shot or two on the offensive end during the course of a basketball game.

“I don’t think about it. Afterward, they (teammates) all come up to me and say, ‘Trav, I need that assist. You are a good shooter, just shoot it,’” the 6-foot-6 senior guard said after hitting a careerbest five three-pointers in six attempts in the Jayhawks’ 89-57 rout of American University on Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

“This week in practice, coach (Bill Self) came up to me and said I need to look for my shot more,” added Releford, who went 7-for8 overall and finished with a game-high 19 points. “My teammates told me to look for it more. They looked for me out there. They got me open. I stepped up and made shots.”

Releford wasn’t the only Jayhawk on fire from threepoint land. Elijah Johnson (12 points) hit four of five and Naadir Tharpe (nine points, 12 assists) three of four on a night KU cashed 15 of 24 threes. The 15 makes were one off the school record of 16 set against Baylor on Jan. 25, 2005, in Waco, Texas. It marked the most threes by the Jayhawks since hitting 15 versus Texas in the Big 12 championship game on March 16, 2008.

“I think we fed off each other’s energy. One guy made a shot, the crowd got into it, another guy made a shot,” Releford said. “I felt like whoever shot it next, it seemed like it was going to go in.

“I think it was based off energy the crowd brought for us,” added Releford, who a week ago was credited for his stellar defensive work against preseason All-American Deshaun Thomas in KU’s victory over Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio.

“Not at all,” senior center Jeff Withey said, asked if Releford’s offensive production surprised him Saturday.

“We know he can shoot.

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KANSAS GUARD NAADIR THARPE SIGNALS “THREE” AFTER HITTING A THREE-POINTER against American. Tharpe Please see KANSAS, page 4B was 3-for-4 on treys — and KU 15-for-24 as a team — in an 89-57 rout Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

For the longest time, Naadir Tharpe played like an athlete who didn’t seem sure he was good enough to hang with the guys surrounding him. They attacked. He retreated. They made plays.

He tried to avoid making bad plays.

Remember that guy? You can forget him now. Tharpe certainly has shoved him into the past.

Tharpe is sure he belongs now, so sure he played with as much confidence as anyone Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse, where he sparked Kansas University to an 89-57 men’s basketball blowout of American, or for that matter anyone on your television all day long.

Tharpe always had one quality that gave him potential to fit in eventually. He’s fast, really, really fast, and plays on a team at its best when flying up and down the court. But when a player looks as if he’s not quite sure he’s good enough, it’s difficult for anyone else to hop on board.

Suddenly, Tharpe’s bandwagon’s getting more crowded by the game, and he’s at the wheel. For the fourth game in a row, Tharpe played inspired basketball and had a big hand in Kansas’ playing at such a rapid pace.

The most impressive individual game statistic of this getting-better-all-the-time season now belongs to Tharpe. He had 12 assists without a turnover. He consistently attacked, penetrating into the paint and zipping passes to open shooters behind the arc and underneath. He mixed in nine points on 3-of4 three-pointers and picked up four defensive rebounds in 20 minutes off the bench.

By halftime, Tharpe had eight assists, driving, shooting Please see KEEGAN, page 5B

Ex-Jayhawk brings football to Salina ————

Former running back Jake Sharp part owner of fledgling Bombers squad

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Photo Courtesy of the Salina Journal

FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY RUNNING BACK JAKE SHARP, shown in this Oct. 19 file photo at the Bicentennial Center, is helping to bring arena football to his native Salina.

Former Kansas University running back Jake Sharp may be done slapping on shoulder pads and strapping on a helmet, but that does not mean he’s finished with football.

Sharp, a Salina native who played for the Jayhawks from 2006-09, recently became part owner of an indoor football team in the CPIFL that he helped bring to his hometown.

“I’ve always wanted to have an arena team here in Salina,” Sharp said. “Even when I was a kid, I wondered why there wasn’t one here.”

The Salina Bombers will kick off their first season on March 16.

“We have a big military base out here, and we pretty much named it after the base and kind of the history of the town,” said Sharp, who joined with two guys from Junction City to create the ownership group.

Sharp said he has enjoyed the experience.

From seeking sponsors and naming the team to marketing and signing players, Sharp said his early encounters with ownership only have added to his belief that he could get into this line of work.

A couple of years back, after a few short-lived tryouts with NFL teams, Sharp played six games with an indoor team based in Wichita and was picked up by the UFL’s Omaha (Neb.) Nighthawks. Although he never played a game in Omaha, Sharp learned enough from both stops to know he liked indoor football as much as he liked the outdoor version.

“I kind of saw how the league was run and the teams were run and thought this might be something I might want to get into when I was done playing,” he said. “It just all fell together nicely.”

Sharp said he was com-

fortable with the fact that his playing days are behind him.

Besides, the league actually has a rule against putting owners on the active roster, stemming from former NFL receiver Terrell Owens’ sneaky stint as a player/ owner with the IFL’s Allen (Texas) Wranglers in which Owens suited up to add talent and get around the salary cap.

“Guys play for different reasons, and I always played for the excitement and the thrill of it.” Sharp said. “If I could’ve done that playing paintball with 80,000 people Please see SHARP, page 3B

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ter the pain in his right knee returned this week, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Saturday. The person requested anonymity because a final decision has yet to be made.

The three-time All-Star initially retired as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers before last season. Pain created by a

lack of cartilage in his knees robbed Roy of the smooth, shotmaking game that made him one of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best shooting guards and a building block of the Blazers franchise. But he underwent platelet-rich plasma therapy over the summer after sitting out the season, then felt good enough to attempt a comeback this year. The Tim-

berwolves lured him away from other suitors including Dallas, Chicago and Golden State with a two-year, partially guaranteed deal, and things were looking up for Roy and the Wolves during a promising training camp.

During a preseason game against Indiana, Roy knocked knees during a collision, and it has been all downhill since.

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COMMENTARY

Jacksonville would be good place for Tebow

By Mike Bianchi The Orlando Sentinel

When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Do yourself a favor, Jacksonville Jaguars.

Bring Tim Tebow back home where he belongs.

Make yourself instantly interesting. Make yourself immediately relevant. Throw your downtrodden fans a bone; give your economically depressed city something to get excited about it. Open up your welcoming arms; embrace the hometown hero; give Jacksonvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous and favorite son the chance no other NFL team is willing to give him.

That famous NFL analyst Robert Frost said it best: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.â&#x20AC;?

Time for Timmy to come home where he is loved and appreciated. Time for the Jaguars to take him in.

It is apparent now â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the wake of the despicable way the New York Jets have treated one of the classiest athletes in the history of sports â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that nobody believes Tebow can be a legitimate NFL quarterback. And, likewise, nobody believes the Jaguars can be a legitimate NFL franchise. The Jags and Tebow are two lost souls in desperate need of finding one another.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s puzzling and bumfuzzling to me why other young quarterbacks are drafted into the NFL and are given two and three years to develop, learn from their mistakes and go through the process of becoming a pro quarterback. Not Tebow.

Nobody has ever given this kid a chance to grow and progress into an NFL quarterback.

Never, ever.

Why it is that guys like Brandon Weeden, Christian Ponder, Blaine Gabbert, Josh Freeman, Jake Locker, etc., etc. get opportunity after opportunity to fall on their face, but Tebow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of the greatest players in college football history â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is on the verge of being drummed out of the NFL? Not one time has any pro team ever committed to Tebow. Not once. Last year, the Broncos finally bowed to public pressure, threw him into the starting lineup for half-a-season and watched him lead the team into the postseason and to a playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. And that was it. Denver acquired Peyton Manning and traded Tebow to the Jets, where he rotted on the bench this season while watching two lesser quarterbacks play ahead of him.

Memo to the Jaguars: Peyton Manning ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coming to Jacksonville.

When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nothing, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nothing to lose.

Bring Tim Tebow back home where he belongs.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the worst that could happen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the great Tebow experiment becomes a side show? Guess what? A side show is better than no show at all.

One or two seasons of being compelling is better than the last decade of being irrelevant.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are 2-13 this year with a retread coach running a conventional offense.

When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wolvesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roy mulls another retirement MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brandon Roy has seemingly tried everything to ease the chronic pain in his knees and rejuvenate his career. After a last-ditch arthroscopic surgery didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the trick last month, the Minnesota Timberwolves guard might be out of options.

Roy is considering a second, and likely final, retirement af-

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Green Bay v. Minnesota 3:25p.m. Fox Kansas City v. Denver 3:25p.m. CBS Dallas v. Washington

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N.C. St. v. S.D. St. 2 p.m.

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College Hockey

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Great Lakes Inv. Boston Coll. v. Minn.

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College Wrestling

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CONNECTICUT COACH KEVIN OLLIE WATCHES THE ACTION during a Nov. 1 game in Storrs, Conn. Ollie has been given a contract through the 2017-18 season.

Connecticut gives coach Ollie new contract HARTFORD, CONN. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Connecticut has given menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach Kevin Ollie a new contract that runs through the end of the 2017-18 season.

The deal, signed Saturday, is worth just over $7 million and begins Jan. 1. When Ollie was hired in September, he was signed for just one season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I said in my first press conference, I want to be here a lifetime and this is a step, hopefully a great step, in the program moving forward,â&#x20AC;?

Ollie said.

Ollie, who turned 40 on Thursday, was hired after Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun retired.

His original deal had a pro-rated value of just over $465,000, the school said.

Ollie has led UConn to a 9-2 record despite losing five underclassmen from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team after it was announced that the Huskies were academically ineligible for the upcoming postseason. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shown that he can coach, that he can lead this team on the court, and academically,â&#x20AC;? athletic director Warde Manuel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the epitome of a UConn Husky.â&#x20AC;?

Ollie, who played point guard for Calhoun from 1991-95, was his former coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand-picked successor. He became an assistant at UConn in 2010, after 13 years as an NBA journeyman.

But, he had never been a head coach on any level. Manuel said thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why he waited before tendering a multi-year offer, even though he knew it could have a negative impact on recruiting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help, the short-term nature of the deal,â&#x20AC;? Manuel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I wanted the opportunity to see Kevin and get a sense of who he was for the long term.â&#x20AC;?

The contract includes some stiff penalties should UConn in the future again fail to meet the minimum standards for the NCAA Academic Progress Rate. Ollie would forfeit two weeksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; salary and all postseason payments.

PRO HOCKEY

NHL, union talking again NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The NHL and the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; association are spending lots of time talking, but not negotiating yet.

One day after it was revealed that the NHL made a new contract offer to the union, the sides spent much of Saturday taking part in conference calls. The talks were strictly on an informational level and not meant for bargaining purposes. The thought is that the sides are looking to meet for traditional negotiating today in New York, but that hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been scheduled as of Saturday afternoon.

The playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; association has been going over the new proposal it received late Thursday. Calls were scheduled for Saturday so the union could ask questions of league officials regarding the offer that is about 300 pages in length.

Whether enough progress will be made to lead to face-to-face talks remains to be seen. So far, only more informational sessions have been scheduled for Sunday morning.

The sides havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten together in person since Dec. 13 with federal mediators.

PRO FOOTBALL

Chiefs shelve WR Copper KANSAS CITY, MO. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Chiefs have put wide receiver Terrance Copper on injured reserve and elevated wide receiver Junior Hemingway from the practice squad for their game today at Denver.

Copper hurt his knee last Sunday in a loss to the Indianapolis Colts. He has primarily played on special teams this season, though he does have eight catches for 79 yards. Hemingway was the second of the Chiefsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two seventh-round draft picks in April. The former Michigan standout has been on the practice squad all season.

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Tuesday, Jan. 1 Ticket City Bowl Cotton Bowl-Dallas Oklahoma St ..........17 (70) ................... Purdue Gator Bowl EverBank Field-Jacksonville, Fla. Northwestern ................1 (53).................. Mississippi St Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium-Tampa, Fla. South Carolina ............. 5 (48) .......................... Michigan Capital One Bowl Citrus Bowl Stadium-Orlando, Fla. Georgia ............................ 9 (62) ......................... Nebraska Rose Bowl Rose Bowl-Pasadena, Calif.

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Oregon ................... 9 (75) ............... Kansas St Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl Cowboy Stadium-Arlington, Texas Texas A&M ............. 3 (73) ............... Oklahoma Saturday, Jan. 5 Compass Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, Ala. Mississippi ....................31â &#x201E;2 (53)..................... Pittsburgh

Sunday, Jan. 6 Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd-Pebbles Stadium-Mobile, Ala. Arkansas St ....................4 (61) ............................. Kent St Monday, Jan. 7 BCS Championship Game Sun Life Stadium-Miami Gardens, Fla. Alabama .........................91â &#x201E;2 (41) .................. Notre Dame NBA Favorite ............ Points (O/U) ........... Underdog DETROIT ...........................3 (192) ...................... Milwaukee San Antonio ................51â &#x201E;2 (208) ......................... DALLAS a-SACRAMENTO .........OFF (OFF) .......................... Boston LA CLIPPERS ............... 91â &#x201E;2 (195) ................................ Utah a-Sacramento guard T. Evans is questionable.

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Broncos need victory over Chiefs for bye DENVER (AP) — One team is going for the first seed in the AFC playoffs.

The other is in line for the first pick in next year’s NFL Draft.

Yes, today’s game featuring Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos against Jamaal Charles and the Kansas City Chiefs shows every sign of being one of those routine Week 17 blowouts. Denver is a 16-point favorite.

But if the Chiefs (2-13)

are playing like a team that’s packed it in for the season, those 352 yards rushing they amassed last week against Indianapolis certainly don’t show it.

And if the Broncos (12-3) are thinking more about their Super Bowl aspirations than their AFC West rivals, they certainly aren’t telegraphing that.

“We’re all pretty focused here,” receiver Brandon Stokley said.

“Just concerned about the

Chiefs and trying to play a good game this weekend.”

With a victory, the Broncos would secure at least the No. 2 seed in the AFC and the first-round bye in the playoffs that goes with it. A win, combined with a Houston loss to Indianapolis in a game that ends around the time the Broncos kick off, would make the Broncos the top-seeded team in the conference. The only airplane flight on their

potential road to the title would be a trip to Manning’s home town, the Super Bowl city of New Orleans.

Might that compel the Denver quarterback to check the out-of-town scores today?

“No,” he said.

But, he concedes, he’s glad there is something on the line in this game — with a loss and a New England win, Denver could actually fall to the

third seed and lose the bye — unlike many final-week scenarios he faced in Indianapolis, where the Colts often had nothing to play for come the last game.

“Another chance to work on something,” said Manning, who insists he is nowhere near the comfort level he’d like to reach with his new team, despite a season in which he has thrown for 4,355 yards and 34 touchdowns. “It’s been such a fast-break year. It’s

Aquinas grad eyes pro career ————

Henning overcomes injuries to earn MLS combine invite Allison mentored him “like a father away from home.”

Coleton said he moved around, playing different positions in his time at Furman — although he still refuses ever to play goalkeeper — always sure that the end result would be consistent with what Allison ensured when the two first met.

“Playing for a good soccer program at Div. I was the goal coming out of high school,” Coleton said.

“Then the next goal was the combine.”

By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com

Todd Henning figured that if he could just get his then-middle school son Coleton interested in other sports and activities, maybe he wouldn’t get burned out on soccer. Maybe he’d see, after already more than a half dozen years of soccer saturation, that there was something else out there.

Yet after each day of football or baseball practice, sports at which he also excelled, Coleton would be in the back of the family car peeling off his pads in exchange for a soccer jersey, the car pointed toward a club soccer practice scheduled that same evening.

Eleven years later, Coleton Henning — who was born in Oklahoma and lived in Indianapolis until moving to Shawnee in fifth grade — has left behind a trail long on accolades: Gatorade Kansas Player of the Year awards, multiple All-Americas and four straight state titles at St. Thomas Aquinas, and a string of All-America honors at Div. I Furman University in South Carolina.

His next act will be his biggest: Earlier this month, Coleton became one of 54 Div. I seniors to be invited to the Jan. 1115 Major League Soccer combine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., just days before the 2013 MLS SuperDraft dictates the fates of dozens of professional soccer hopefuls.

“I’ve always said he’s the next guy from the Kansas City area to play in the league,” Aquinas soccer coach Craig Ewing said.

But Coleton’s path here was not without its valleys. He suffered three separate devastating injuries in high school and college — each capable of derailing a career.

That he came back from them is one thing. How he has played each time back is quite another. Family, coaches and former high school teammates — including current Sporting Kansas City players Michael Thomas and Kyle Miller — will tell you that, if anything, those injuries shaped the Coleton now preparing for an audition he learned about just a few weeks ago.

Empirical evidence supports what is often said of Coleton: Each time he has been sent crashing to the turf, he’s sprung up stronger.

“He knew what it was like when he was hurt,” Todd Henning said, “and he didn’t like that.”

‘Coleton and the Miracles’ Included among the people Coleton first called after he received an email invitation to the MLS combine was Thomas, a midfielder for Sporting Kansas City after playing in Sweden for more than a year out of Notre Dame.

Thomas graduated from Aquinas two years before Coleton, with Miller graduating a year between the two. The trio’s careers overlapped during a dy-

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COLETON HENNING, A STANDOUT AT ST. THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH AND THEN FURMAN UNIVERSITY, hopes to continue his career in the MLS. nastic Saints run that produced nine straight state titles and national exposure.

Coleton’s youth soccer career was nearly as decorated. Todd Henning, learning the sport as he went along, signed on to coach Coleton’s recreational league team, allowing him to play at 4 instead of its age-6 requirement.

Coleton went on to win three national titles at the club level and another indoor national title. Coleton’s club career continued during high school offseasons; his Kansas City Futbol Club went on to win five state championships.

“He was somebody who came into Aquinas and made an immediate impact as a freshman,” Thomas said. “He came in, and I knew right away that this kid was going to be good.”

In back-to-back seasons, however, Coleton suffered season-ending injuries to each of his anterior cruciate ligaments, each in the same earlyseason tournament.

After each injury, Todd Henning said, Coleton bounced back by competing the following summers in Germany and Austria, and Central America, respectively. One year, he went to rehab five days a week instead of the two scheduled for him.

“He saw the results of hard work at a really young age, and I think that really defined him,” Todd Henning said.

By the time Coleton’s senior year arrived, his supporting cast wasn’t nearly as dominant as that of his first two shortened varsity seasons.

The Saints were “unreal” for a while, Ewing said. But even when they weren’t, with Henning at the helm, they still captured another state title and maintained their dominance.

“Really, he just kind of drug the team across the finish line,” Ewing said of Henning’s 27-goal senior year, second-best in team history.

“Coleton and the Miracles,” read one headline after the game. It referred to the improbable nature of the Saints’ latest title run.

Fall and rise Even after nearly five years living in South Carolina, Coleton Henning still doesn’t favor grits.

“I’ve definitely missed my mother’s home cooking,” Coleton said by phone. “Everything has grits — even in the mornings.”

Though the self-described “Midwestern kid” never quite took to southern culture, Coleton seemed to fit in on the Paladins’ men’s soccer team right away. He earned the Southern Conference Freshman of the Year award and received first-team all-conference honors after scoring a team-high seven goals and four assists. He started all 18 games the following

year. But just as the Paladins looked poised for a spirited run at the NCAA Tournament during what was to be Coleton’s junior season, an all-too-familiar sensation screamed in his left knee, years after playing uninhibited by such an injury.

While competing for the then-Kansas City Wizards’ developmental team in a game in Minnesota, Henning was taken down from behind, shelving him for a junior season yet to begin.

After earning a medical red shirt, Coleton’s second take of a junior season in 2011 saw him capture the Southern Conference Player of the Year award and a host of other accolades after scoring seven goals with four assists to lead the Paladins to an NCAA Tournament berth.

“He’s not injury-prone,” Todd Henning said. “He’s a blue-collar worker who’s not afraid of anything. Every tackle he attempts is like the last tackle ever.

He’s never shied away.”

Coleton finished his college career as the first three-time first-team allconference honoree at Furman in more than five years.

Today, Coleton considers his next move with a bittersweet taste left from his final season, in which the Paladins failed to return to the NCAAs. But before long, his tone turns reflective as he talks about growing up on and off the field at Furman — how Paladins coach Doug

MLS calling?

Thomas, who was born in Olathe, says he’s living his dream right now and that his former high school teammate has the work ethic and soccer mind to do the same, here or overseas.

But before Thomas could reach this point he, too, had to participate in the weeklong combine, a series of matches between teams whose teammates are also competing with one another for the attention of MLS coaches and scouts.

Those observers, Thomas said, will be watching to see not only how well an athlete shines individually but if he can bring together a team of athletes unaware of each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

Thomas called Coleton a force at pressing the ball forward on the field, an intelligent player with the toolkit to make it at the next level.

“He’s just so smart off the ball,” Thomas said.

“Somebody who’s always offering options and making runs deeper. Whether he plays forward or center midfielder, he has a very good knack for the goal.

He can score important goals at important times.”

According to several online mock drafts, Henning is not projected to be picked in the first round of next month’s two-round draft. Most online mock drafts, however, only project the first 19 of the draft’s 38 picks.

And though Sporting Kansas City would be an obviously ideal destination — six Kansas Cityarea players are on the roster, and Henning is familiar with coach Peter Vermes — the Hennings know Sporting Kansas City is set at the midfielder position.

Then again, just this summer, Coleton’s younger brother, Clayton, figured a call from Kansas City or Texas was imminent during Major League Baseball’s draft. Instead, he was selected by Tampa Bay in the 11th round.

Coleton knows he’s in no position to choose his destination.

“Put me somewhere out in the snow, and I’d be happy,” he said. “I think it definitely helps me to be flexible and having a family willing to drop everything and fly out to see you.”

Added Todd Henning: “Our kids are our life.

Wherever he lands, we’ll be there. No doubt about it.”

a great opportunity for us and I think we’re facing a tough challenge.”

Making it even less likely the Broncos will overlook the Chiefs are the memories of the season’s first meeting, five weeks ago in Kansas City.

Denver’s 17-9 victory was a four-quarter struggle and marked the only time during its 10-game winning streak that it has been held under 20 points.

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there watching, I would’ve done that. So I don’t necessarily miss the game as much as I miss the excitement.”

That’s the thought that was behind the idea of bringing arena football to Salina in the first place, Sharp said. With the 5,000seat Bicentennial Center already standing and the tone of the town matching many other arena homes — most notably Grand Island, Neb., which packs 7,500 fans into every home game — Sharp and his partners believed the endeavor would be as close to a sure thing as possible.

“Salina’s got the same demographic. We’re a football town. There’s really nothing else to do from March to May. Why wouldn’t this fly here?”

Sharp said.

One thing helping the Bombers’ cause is the roster, which is made up largely of former KU and K-State players as well as other standouts from smaller schools nearby.

Dane Simoneau, a fouryear starter at Washburn University in Topeka, recently was signed as the team’s starting quarterback, and former Jayhawks Raymond Brown (2005-08) and Eric Washington (2005-06) also are on the roster. Sharp said he expected to add a few more current Jayhawks to the roster in the coming weeks.

Bob Frey, a 25-year coaching veteran who worked for three seasons at Kansas Wesleyan and was a college roommate of former KU offensive coordinator Ed Warinner’s, will be the program’s first head coach.

Sharp said support around town has been amazing. Sponsors are opening their wallets, and fans are looking forward to the season. While those seem to be good signs the team might make it, Sharp said the best sign was the strong league in which the Bombers landed, which includes cities throughout Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

“What kills leagues of this level are the travel costs,” Sharp said. “If you have to take the whole team to Washington, that’s $60,000.

So if we’re just traveling to Wichita, Kansas City, Lincoln (Neb.), Tulsa (Okla.), you keep the costs low, and that makes it a strong league for everybody.”

When he’s not working on his new project, Sharp continues to grow his own business, a sports-training academy known as Sharp Sports Performance, which caters to athletes of all kinds. Sharp, who ranks 11th on KU’s all-time rushing list with 2,239 career yards, loves working for himself, is excited about being back in football and can’t help but wonder if this is the beginning of his behind-the-scenes future.

“I’d love to own the Kansas City Chiefs,” he said. “But I don’t have a $500 million trust fund.

But I’ve always thought it would be cool to get into something like this, be successful and maybe go back to a university and teach sports-management classes or something like that. Like any other business venture, all you can do is throw yourself into it and see what happens, and we’re certainly not afraid to do that.”

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KU CENTER JEFF WITHEY (5) GETS A BUCKET AND A FOUL from American center Tony Wroblicky during the first half. KU beat the Eagles, 89-57, on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.

Eagles impressed by point-guard play

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

The hot shooting of Kansas University senior Travis Releford made life difficult for visiting American University during an 89-57 KU men’s basketball victory Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse.

But the way American coach Jeff Jones saw it, it was the play of KU point guards Elijah Johnson and Naadir Tharpe that made things oh-so-easy for Releford, who hit five of six three-pointers and led all scorers with 19 points.

“You gotta give Tharpe, in particular, credit,” said Jones of the KU sopho-

more, who finished with 12 assists and no turnovers in 20 minutes. “The 12 assists, that’s a great number. And 25 assists on 34 baskets for (KU) is another really high number.

And I think a lot of that is really due to their guards being able to drive the ball (to) force us to react.”

Jones said he and his players knew they had a difficult task heading into Saturday’s contest, and their game plan centered on two things: First, taking away the inside, where 7-foot center Jeff Withey created a match-up nightmare for the Eagles, who had just two players taller than 6-foot-6 play more

than three minutes in the loss; and, second, limit the opportunities that KU got off of drives to the basket.

The Eagles (4-9) were unsuccessful in both areas. Withey finished with 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting, and KU’s post players combined for 31 points and 22 rebounds on 14-of20 shooting. But Jones was far more concerned about his team’s inability to stay in front of the facilitators of KU’s offense.

“In an ideal world, we would’ve done a better job of containing their dribblers,” Jones said. “They don’t have a lot of ’em. It’s Johnson or Tharpe. The other guys are what we re-

fer to as straight-line drivers. But those two guys (Johnson and Tharpe) were able to get into the paint, and, it might be on the other side of the floor, but they do a great job finding those spot-up shooters.”

The Jayhawks shot 15of-24 from three-point range, one make shy of tying the school record for three-pointers in a game.

The Eagles felt every one.

“It wasn’t one or two guys,” Jones said. “It seemed like it was the entire team.”

Added American senior Stephen Lumpkins, who led the Eagles with 16 points: “It was tough to defend them. We really

tried to focus on protecting the rim and not letting them get a bunch of easy dunks. It’s tough when a team gets going like Kansas did.”

Asked what he did — or at least tried — to counter KU’s hot hand from behind the arc, Jones’ answer provided a glimpse into just how helpless his defense was.

“It’d be one thing to say, ‘Get up on ’em and contest,’” he said. “But with Tharpe, he was getting into the lane, and if you’re playing good help defense, then you’re reacting to that penetration. ...

The way they were shooting the basketball, we just

didn’t have much of a chance.”

Because of his team’s hectic December schedule, Jones’ first glimpse at the Jayhawks this season came just a few days prior to Saturday’s game.

Evidently, a few game films and one long, painful in-person look was all the former Virginia head coach needed to make a read on where this KU team ranks.

“They’re a really good team regardless, but if they can shoot the ball like that, that takes them to a whole (different) level,” he said. “ ... They’re as good as anybody in the country.”

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He does it in practice.

He has the hot hand. He showed it today,” added Withey, who scored 11 points with four blocks and four rebounds.

The 6-foot-6 Releford is averaging 13.3 points a game (third on the team) off team-leading 61.7 percent shooting.

He has made nine of his last 11 threes over four games and for the season has cashed 16 of 36 threes for 44.4 percent. He’s also made 28 of 32 free throws for 87.5 percent.

“Travis was on fire,” Self said. “What was he, 5-of-6 from three? That’s hard to do. He has shot it well. He was looking for it (shot) tonight.

“We shot the ball unbelievably,” Self added after a game in which KU (11-1) hit 63 percent of its shots to American’s 35 percent.

“The one that needed to make some shots was Elijah. He’s been kind of cold from behind the arc. He came out and made shots.

They played kind of contain defense. We made them pay by doing that and made a lot of shots.”

KU’s final three was an air-ball by walk-on Tyler Self, the son of the coach.

“We are going to call an attorney and see about a name change,” Bill Self joked. “His mother said she still loved him, so I guess that will probably pass.”

Freshman Perry Ellis had 11 points and 10 rebounds to become KU’s first freshman to record a double-double since Thomas Robinson (15 points, 10 rebounds) against Alcorn State in 2009.

Freshman Ben McLemore, who was in early foul trouble, had nine points and three boards in 20 minutes.

KANSAS PLAYERS, FROM LEFT, PERRY ELLIS, BEN MCLEMORE, Rio Adams, Kevin Young and Elijah Johnson laugh after a missed bucket by reserve Tyler Self in the final seconds.

BOX SCORE AMERICAN (57)

MIN FG FT REB PFTP m-a m-a o-t Stephen Lumpkins 30 5-10 6-7 1-6 2 16 Mike Bersch 14 1-3 0-0 1-1 0 3 Tony Wroblicky 33 3-10 2-5 5-11 2 8 Daniel Munoz 37 3-9 0-0 0-0 0 6 John Schoof 34 5-7 0-0 0-2 3 14 Blake Jolivette 19 2-6 0-0 0-0 0 5 Jesse Reed 10 0-3 0-2 1-1 2 0 Austin Carroll 9 0-3 0-0 0-0 1 0 Marko Vasic 7 1-4 0-0 0-0 0 3 Zach Elcano 3 1-2 0-0 1-1 0 2 Warren Flood Jr. 2 0-2 0-0 1-1 1 0 Daniel Fisher 2 0-0 0-2 1-3 0 0 Kyle Kager 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 team 2-2 Totals 21-60 8-16 13-28 11 57 Three-point goals: 7-17 (Schoof 4-4, Jolivette 1-1, Bersch 1-3, Vasic 1-3, Carroll 0-1, Reed 0-2, Munoz 0-3). Assists: 13 (Bersch 3, Schoof 3, Wroblicky 2, Munoz 2, Jolivette 2, Lumpkins). Turnovers: 8 (Schoof 3, Wroblicky 2, Munoz, Flood, Jolivette).

Blocked shots: 4 (Wroblicky 2, Carroll, Reed). Steals: 3 (Munoz 2, Lumpkins).

KANSAS (89)

KANSAS GUARD TYLER SELF (11) PUTS UP A SHOT over American guard Jesse Reed during the second half. Self missed the shot and a three-pointer, much to the dismay of his dad/coach.

KU used a 16-2 run (Johnson hit two threes, Releford one) to bust a 7-7 tie and give the Jayhawks a 23-9 lead early.

The Jayhawks hit eight threes the first half and held a 53-26 halftime advantage, the outcome never in jeopardy against American (4-9).

“We played pretty well.

Our defensive pressure was actually pretty good even though we didn’t

turn them over a lot,” Self said. “We shared the ball, and it was good to see a lot of guys get a lot of minutes. Certainly some of our bench guys made the most of it.”

KU will meet Temple a week from today in Allen Fieldhouse. Game time will be either 12:30 or 3:30 p.m., with CBS to announce the time in com- KANSAS GUARD ANDREW WHITE (3) ELEVATES TO ing days depending on its THE BUCKET for a dunk as American guard Daniel Munoz watches during the second half.

NFL playoff schedule.

MIN FG FT REB PFTP m-a m-a o-t Kevin Young 17 3-3 0-0 1-4 0 6 Jeff Withey 21 5-7 1-1 0-4 0 11 Elijah Johnson 24 4-8 0-0 0-1 0 12 Ben McLemore 20 2-4 4-4 0-3 2 9 Travis Releford 23 7-8 0-0 1-2 0 19 Jamari Traylor 21 1-3 1-3 1-5 4 3 Naadir Tharpe 20 3-4 0-0 0-4 1 9 Perry Ellis 17 5-7 0-0 3-10 3 11 Andrew White III 14 2-5 0-0 0-1 4 4 Rio Adams 11 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 Evan Manning 3 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 3 Tyler Self 3 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 Niko Roberts 3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 Christian Garrett 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 team 0-1 Totals 34-54 6-8 6-37 17 89 Three-point goals: 15-24 (Releford 5-6, Johnson 4-5, Tharpe 3-4, Manning 1-1, Ellis 1-1, McLemore 1-2, Adams 0-1, Self 0-1, White 0-3). Assists: 25 (Tharpe 12, Johnson 4, McLemore 3, Releford 3, Young, Adams, Self). Turnovers: 11 (White 3, Traylor 2, Withey, Johnson, Adams, Roberts, Garrett, team). Blocked shots: 7 (Withey 4, Ellis 2, Young). Steals: 7 (Young 2, Traylor 2, McLemore, Adams, Manning).

American 26 31 — 57 Kansas 53 36 — 89 Officials: Mike Stuart, Darron George, Kipp Kissinger. Attendance: 16,300.

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ACTOR JASON SUDEIKIS, RIGHT, and actress Olivia Wilde watch the video board during the second half.

NOTEBOOK

Actors a hit with Jayhawks

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos

WITH A HAND BEHIND HIS HEAD, KANSAS GUARD TRAVIS RELEFORD COMES IN FOR A DUNK against American during the first half. Releford had a game-high 19 points in the Jayhawks’ 89-57 victory over the Eagles on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

KU SCHEDULE

KANSAS FORWARD JAMARI TRAYLOR (31) GETS UP to defend against a shot by American center Tony Wroblicky.

Keegan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B

and passing Kansas to a 53-26 advantage. This was more a case of a sophomore fueled by soaring confidence than a superior athlete exploiting inferior competition.

Kansas won’t again play a team as talent-challenged as American, but his rapid improvement predated Saturday.

In the past four games, one against then-No. 7 Ohio State, Tharpe has 22 assists and has not turned it over once. Streaks like that are rare at any level of basketball. This assistswithout-a-turnover streak

grows much bigger and #TharpeFanClub will be trending on Twitter.

Tharpe also has made seven of eight threepointers in the past three games, heading into that stretch with a 6-for-21 accuracy rate. But it’s what he’s doing as a distributor and what he’s not doing — turning it over — that has raised the ceiling on a basketball team that already had a high one.

He’s making such great decisions on the run, threading passes into tiny openings for sure-handed teammates who know how to finish. Tharpe’s greatest wow moments came when was in the air seemingly with no play and found senior center Jeff Withey for a dunk

Nov. 9 — Southeast Missouri State in CBE Classic, W 74-55 (1-0) Nov. 13 — Michigan State in Atlanta in Champions Classic, L 64-67 (1-1) Nov. 15 — Chattanooga in CBE Classic, W 69-55 (2-1) Nov. 19 — Washington State in CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo., W 78-41 (3-1) Nov. 20 — Saint Louis in CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo., W 73-59 (4-1) Nov. 26 — San Jose State, W 70-57 (5-1) Nov. 30 — Oregon State in Kansas City, Mo., W 84-78 (6-1) Dec. 8 — Colorado, W 90-54 (7-1) Dec. 15 — Belmont, W 89-60 (8-1) Dec. 18 — Richmond, W 87-59 (9-1) Dec. 22 — at Ohio State, W 74-66 (10-1) Dec. 29 — American, W 89-57 (11-1)

Jan. 6 — Temple, 12:30 or 3:30 p.m.

Jan. 9 — Iowa State, 6 p.m.

Jan. 12 — at Texas Tech, 3 p.m.

Jan. 14 — Baylor, 8 p.m.

Jan. 19 — at Texas, 1 p.m.

Jan. 22 — at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 26 — Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

Jan. 28 — at West Virginia, 8 p.m.

Feb. 2 — Oklahoma State, 3 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at TCU, 8 p.m.

Feb. 9 — at Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

Feb. 11 — Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 16 — Texas, 8 p.m.

Feb. 20 — at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 23 — TCU, 3 p.m.

Feb. 25 — at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

March 2 — West Virginia, 1 p.m.

March 4 — Texas Tech, 6 p.m.

March 9 — at Baylor, 5 p.m.

March 13-16 — Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo.

and when he turned his back to the basket in the lane and dished to Andrew White III for a slam.

Not long ago, it looked as if the one soft spot for Kansas was that Elijah Johnson was the only reliable point guard, and Tharpe better fit the description of undersized shooting guard.

Since Tharpe’s emergence, Johnson’s play has picked up as well.

It took Tharpe longer than some to adjust to a demanding coach who isn’t interested in athletes comfortable with becoming known as good basketball players. He wants them all to strive to achieve great things.

“It’s been a process from the start,” said

Tharpe, a friendly sort not burdened by conceit.

“No one just comes to Kansas and automatically is a superstar. So I’ve been trying to work hard in practice so I can be out on the floor to help my team win.”

Few things put a charge into a team as richly as watching a young athlete shed his cloak of insecurity to reveal his true talent.

“It’s awesome because ‘Naa’ gets into the paint a lot and he knows how to find people,” Withey said. “He did it today. He showed it. He does it all the time in practice. We’re just getting more comfortable with him, and he’s doing a great job coming off the bench and doing really well. For bigs, we

Comedic actor/Kansas University basketball fan Jason Sudeikis asked KU basketball coach Bill Self for a copy of his book, “Bill Self: At Home in the Phog,” before Saturday’s KU-American basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse.

“I said, ‘Why would you want that book?’ Now I know. He’s something else,” Self said of Shawnee Mission West grad Sudeikis, who pretended he was reading the book when introduced to the fans on the center video board during the second half.

Sudeikis was accompanied to Saturday’s 89-57 KU rout by actress/girlfriend Olivia Wilde, who, along with Sudeikis, also saw KU hammer Howard, 89-34, on Dec. 29, 2011, in the fieldhouse.

“They came back in the locker room after the game. Our guys were pretty excited to see Jason,” Self joked. “It’s cool, because Jason, (Rob) Riggle and (Paul) Rudd have all been really good to us and been to games and support us. He brought Olivia to a game last year at our place. It’s pretty cool to see them hanging around.”

Other faces in the crowd included former KU players Aaron Miles, Calvin Thompson, Christian Moody and Stephen Vinson.

Coincidentally, KU’s Naadir Tharpe dished 12 assists against no turnovers on the same night Miles, KU’s all-time assists leader, was in the stands. Miles is on break from Russia, where he plays pro ball.

“It’s funny, because he was at practice yesterday.

He was working with us,” Tharpe said of Miles. “He probably hit me with a little bit of his assists or something. I don’t know what it is.”

MORE PHOTOS " For more photos from

KU’s rout of American, go to KUSports.com

the video a standing ovation after it played. !

Popular video: Self was the subject of a “Pop-Up Video” on the big screen during the second half.

The fans gave Self and/or

Stats, facts: Travis Releford’s five threes were most by a Jayhawk this year. ... Tharpe’s eight assists in the first half were the most since Tyshawn Taylor had eight assists in the first half of a win over Ohio State on Dec. 10, 2012. ... Tharpe is 7-of8 from three-point land in his last three contests. ... Tharpe has not had a turnover in his last four games and is boasting an assist-to-turnover ratio of 22-to-0 in that span. ...

Jeff Withey collected four blocks to raise his total to 59 rejections on the year and 224 for his career for fifth all-time on the KU career blocks list. ...

Withey has now recorded at least one block in 22 consecutive games. ... Perry Ellis and fellow freshman Evan Manning each hit their first three-pointers as Jayhawks. ... KU is 11-1 or better for the third time in the last four seasons and the fifth time in the 10-year Self era. ... KU has won 10 straight games. ... KU has won 62 consecutive games against non-conference competition in Allen Fieldhouse. ... KU is 2-0 all-time vs.

American. ... KU has won 29 consecutive games overall in Allen, the second-longest streak in Div. I (Syracuse, 31). ... Bill Self is 280-54 at KU and 487-159 overall. ...

KU has shot 50 percent or better for six straight games. ... With the score tied at 7 at the 15:45 mark in the first half, KU went on a 16-2 run over the next 3:53. ... KU is now outscoring its opponents 210-115 in the opening eight minutes of games. ...

KU shot a season-low eight free throws and converted on a season-low six. ... The KU bench scored a seasonhigh 32 points. ... Kansas’ 53 first-half points were the most scored in a half this season. The Jayhawks also tallied 53 points in the second half against Baylor on Jan. 16, 2012. ... The Jayhawks held the Eagles to 35 percent shooting, marking the fifth-straight game they have held an opponent under 40 percent and the 10th contest this year.

love playing with guards like that, anybody who can drive and kick it.”

Tharpe’s play has improved in all areas.

“He’s getting more comfortable, and he’s more aggressive defensively,” KU coach Bill Self said. “We’ve always said he could shoot the basketball, and he can, he can really shoot, but he’s getting where he can really facilitate very, very well.”

Self, who hasn’t been shy about criticizing Tharpe in the past, marveled at the box score.

“His line tonight, you go 3-for-4 from three and you have 12 dimes and no turnovers, you don’t see that very often,” Self said.

American coach Jeff Jones, in the aftermath

of the blowout, became the latest to express the opinion that Kansas is as good as any team in the country. Nobody was saying that when Tharpe was in retreat mode.

“Ever since our team started playing well, you could probably look back and say he’s a big reason why,” Self said of Tharpe.

“When we were laboring, basically up until the Colorado game, I don’t think Naadir had played very well, but when he plays well, it seems like to me he’s giving a boost every time he comes into the game.”

Tharpe’s recent play has made a deep team deeper, and the two-man depth chart at point guard no longer is too shallow.

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Stat of interest: “Our top-six minutes guys had 23 assists and two turnovers. I don’t know if I ever had a team get that many assists with that few turnovers before,” Self said his five starters, plus Tharpe. !

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Louisville ends drought against UK The Associated Press

No. 4 Louisville 80, Kentucky 77 LOUISVILLE, KY. — Russ Smith scored 21 points, and Chane Behanan had 20, and Louisville ended a four-game losing streak against rival Kentucky on Saturday.

Peyton Siva added 19 points as the Cardinals (12-1) won a hard-fought Battle of the Bluegrass.

Though the Cardinals trail the series 30-15, their victory followed last spring’s 69-61 national semifinal loss to the Wildcats, who went on to win their eighth national title.

But Louisville had to withstand several charges from Kentucky to do so.

The Wildcats trailed 5134 but outscored the Cardinals 28-14 to get within 65-62 before Smith’s two baskets keyed an 8-5 run to give Louisville some space.

Behanan sealed Louisville’s win with two late dunks, the final one following his steal of a pass

by Archie Goodwin with 18 seconds remaining.

Goodwin scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half for Kentucky (8-4), and Ryan Harrow added 17 points.

Poor foul shooting doomed the Wildcats’ comeback. They shot just 11-of-23 (48 percent) from the line, matching their percentage from the field.

Louisville also shot 48 percent from the field but made 17 of 25 from the free-throw line to win its seventh straight. As might be expected from bitter in-state rivals, the early minutes were physical and intense with six ties and five lead changes.

KENTUCKY (8-4) Noel 4-5 0-1 8, Cauley-Stein 3-4 0-4 6, Goodwin 8-15 3-4 22, Harrow 6-15 4-6 17, Mays 1-8 0-0 3, Polson 0-0 0-0 0, Poythress 2-4 2-6 7, Wiltjer 4-7 2-2 14.

Totals 28-58 11-23 77.

LOUISVILLE (12-1) Blackshear 2-7 0-2 5, Behanan 8-13 4-6 20, Price 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 9-20 3-6 21, Siva 6-11 5-5 19, Ware 1-4 0-0 2, Dieng 3-4 0-0 6, Hancock 0-0 0-0 0, Harrell 1-3 5-6 7. Totals 30-62 17-25 80.

Halftime-Louisville 36-28. 3-Point Goals-Kentucky 10-21 (Wiltjer 4-7, Goodwin 3-5, Harrow 1-1, Poythress 1-2, Mays 1-6), Louisville 3-7 (Siva 2-4, Blackshear 1-2, Smith 0-1). Fouled OutSiva. Rebounds-Kentucky 39 (CauleyStein, Noel 8), Louisville 36 (Behanan, Blackshear, Dieng, Smith 7). AssistsKentucky 10 (Harrow 3), Louisville 11 (Behanan, Smith 3). Total FoulsKentucky 21, Louisville 21. TechnicalsKentucky Bench 2. A-22,810.

No. 1 Duke 90, Santa Clara 77 DURHAM, N.C. — Seth Curry scored 12 of his season-high 31 points during the late run that helped Duke pull away for a victory over pesky Santa Clara.

No. 14 Florida 78, Air Force 61 SUNRISE, FLA. — Kenny Boynton snapped a shooting slump with three three-pointers in the second half, when Florida pulled away to beat Air Force in the second game of the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic.

SANTA CLARA (11-3) Trasolini 4-12 2-4 10, Garrett 0-1 2-2 2, Roquemore 6-14 3-4 17, Foster 12-22 0-0 29, Cowels III 4-8 0-0 10, Clark 2-4 5-5 9, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, McArthur 0-0 0-0 0, Harrison 0-0 0-0 0, Atanga 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 28-61 12-15 77.

DUKE (12-0) Mas. Plumlee 6-10 10-15 22, Kelly 3-8 3-3 10, Cook 6-14 2-2 15, Sulaimon 2-8 2-5 6, Curry 12-18 3-4 31, Thornton 1-2 0-2 3, Murphy 0-0 0-0 0, Hairston 1-2 1-2 3, Mar. Plumlee 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-63 21-33 90.

Halftime-Duke 38-36. 3-Point GoalsSanta Clara 9-27 (Foster 5-11, Cowels III 2-6, Roquemore 2-7, Trasolini 0-1, Clark 0-2), Duke 7-14 (Curry 4-7, Kelly 1-1, Thornton 1-2, Cook 1-2, Sulaimon 0-2). Fouled Out-Atanga, Thornton.

Rebounds-Santa Clara 28 (Roquemore 6), Duke 40 (Mas. Plumlee 13). AssistsSanta Clara 9 (Foster 4), Duke 15 (Cook, Mas. Plumlee 5). Total Fouls-Santa Clara 26, Duke 17. A-9,314.

No. 2 Michigan 88, Central Michigan 73 ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Trey Burke had 22 points and 10 assists as Michigan finished its nonconferTimothy D. Easley/AP Photo ence schedule with a vic- LOUISVILLE’S GORGUI DIENG, RIGHT, DUNKS over tory over Central Michi- Kentucky’s Alex Poythrees, left, and Kyle Wiltjer. gan.

Louisville defeated Kentucky, 80-77, on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. CENTRAL MICHIGAN (7-6) Mbaigoto 7-12 0-0 14, Simons 0-3 4-4 4, Randall 4-10 0-0 10, Fowler 1-3 2-4 4, Keel 4-5 1-1 11, Krannitz 2-6 2-2 8, Richardson Jr. 5-5 0-1 11, Rowse 0-0 0-0 0, Craddock 1-4 0-0 2, Wiest 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart 4-8 0-0 9, Hibbitts 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 28-59 9-12 73.

MICHIGAN (13-0) Robinson III 9-13 1-3 20, Morgan 4-8 0-0 8, Burke 9-12 0-0 22, Stauskas 6-10 2-2 19, LeVert 4-11 0-0 9, Albrecht 0-1 2-2 2, McGary 2-5 1-2 5, Akunne 0-4 1-2 1, Vogrich 0-1 0-0 0, McLimans 0-1 0-0 0, Person 0-1 0-0 0, Bielfeldt 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 35-68 7-11 88.

Halftime-Michigan 46-29. 3-Point Goals-Cent. Michigan 8-25 (Keel 2-3, Randall 2-5, Krannitz 2-5, Richardson Jr. 1-1, Stewart 1-2, Fowler 0-1, Mbaigoto 0-2, Craddock 0-2, Simons 0-2, Hibbitts 0-2), Michigan 11-29 (Stauskas 5-8, Burke 4-7, Robinson III 1-3, LeVert 1-4, McLimans 0-1, Vogrich 0-1, Albrecht 0-1, Person 0-1, Akunne 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Cent. Michigan 38 (Krannitz 9), Michigan 29 (Stauskas 7).

Assists-Cent. Michigan 13 (Fowler 8), Michigan 21 (Burke 11). Total FoulsCent. Michigan 9, Michigan 10. A-12,693.

No. 9 Syracuse 57, Alcorn State 36 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — C.J. Fair scored 13 points, Trevor Cooney added 12, all in the second half to key a late surge, and Syracuse beat Alcorn State in the final game of the Gotham Classic.

ALCORN STATE (2-13) Raquil 1-1 0-0 2, Nicholas 0-0 1-2 1, Baker 5-16 2-2 15, Nieves 0-4 0-0 0, Luckett 5-7 1-5 11, Hunt 1-1 0-0 2, Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Francis 0-0 0-0 0, Hester 1-2 1-2 3, Starks 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 14-32 5-11 36.

SYRACUSE (11-1) Fair 6-12 1-2 13, Christmas 2-5 0-2 4, Coleman 3-9 2-7 8, Carter-Williams

1-3 3-3 5, Triche 1-7 3-5 5, Grant 1-4 3-7 5, Cooney 5-9 0-0 12, Keita 1-1 0-0 2, Southerland 1-6 0-2 3. Totals 21-56 12-28 57.

Halftime-Syracuse 32-16. 3-Point Goals-Alcorn St. 3-17 (Baker 3-12, Luckett 0-1, Nieves 0-4), Syracuse 3-15 (Cooney 2-6, Southerland 1-4, Fair 0-1, Triche 0-2, Grant 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Alcorn St. 28 (Hester, Luckett, Nieves 4), Syracuse 39 (Christmas 7). Assists-Alcorn St. 10 (Evans 4), Syracuse 10 (Carter-Williams 6). Total Fouls-Alcorn St. 24, Syracuse 11. A-19,365.

St. 8-17 (Della Valle 3-4, Ross 2-3, Craft 1-2, Smith, Jr. 1-3, Thomas 1-5). Fouled Out-Ukaigwe. Rebounds-Chicago St. 22 (Ross, Ukaigwe 3), Ohio St. 48 (Ravenel 10). Assists-Chicago St. 5 (Robinson 3), Ohio St. 20 (Craft 6). Total FoulsChicago St. 26, Ohio St. 16. A-16,881.

AIR FORCE (8-3) Fitzgerald 1-6 0-2 2, Earls 2-3 1-2 5, Broekhuis 3-6 3-4 10, Fletcher 2-7 2-3 7, Lyons 3-12 3-4 11, Olesinski 2-3 0-0 6, Coggins 3-3 0-1 8, Williams 0-0 1-2 1, C. Michael 0-0 0-0 0, Yon 0-0 0-0 0, Green 3-6 4-4 11, Kammerer 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 19-47 14-22 61.

FLORIDA (9-2) Murphy 8-10 3-4 21, Young 6-9 1-3 13, Boynton 4-10 3-3 14, Rosario 2-6 2-2 7, Wilbekin 2-7 5-8 9, Yeguete 0-2 0-2 0, Frazier II 2-3 0-0 5, Prather 4-5 1-1 9.

Totals 28-52 15-23 78.

Halftime-Florida 33-31. 3-Point Goals-Air Force 9-20 (Coggins 2-2, Olesinski 2-3, Lyons 2-6, Broekhuis 1-2, Fletcher 1-2, Green 1-2, Fitzgerald 0-3), Florida 7-19 (Boynton 3-7, Murphy 2-3, Frazier II 1-2, Rosario 1-3, Wilbekin 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Air Force 25 (Lyons 7), Florida 36 (Murphy 7). Assists-Air Force 11 (Fletcher 3), Florida 12 (Murphy 4). Total Fouls-Air Force 22, Florida 19. A-12,779.

No. 16 Creighton 87, Evansville 70 OMAHA, NEB. — Doug McDermott scored 14 of his 29 points in a 61⁄2-minute stretch of the second half when Creighton pulled away from Evansville.

EVANSVILLE (7-6) Jones 3-8 2-2 8, Mockevicius 2-2 0-0 4, Taylor 4-8 2-2 10, Ryan 9-20 6-6 25, Cox 0-4 0-0 0, Sawvell 1-2 0-0 2, Nelson 1-1 0-0 3, Moore 4-7 1-1 9, Wing 3-4 0-0 6, Jahr 1-4 0-0 3, Balentine 0-5 0-0 0. Totals 28-65 11-11 70.

CREIGHTON (12-1) McDermott 9-15 10-11 29, Echenique 6-11 1-4 13, Chatman 3-7 0-0 9, Gibbs 1-5 0-0 2, Manigat 5-8 0-0 13, Stormberg 1-1 0-0 3, Yates 0-0 0-0 0, Dingman 3-5 2-2 11, Artino 1-3 0-0 2, Wragge 1-6 2-2 5. Totals 30-61 15-19 87.

Halftime-Creighton 45-34. 3-Point Goals-Evansville 3-14 (Nelson 1-1, Ryan 1-3, Jahr 1-4, Cox 0-1, Wing 0-1, Jones 0-1, Balentine 0-3), Creighton 12-24 (Chatman 3-4, Dingman 3-4, Manigat 3-6, Stormberg 1-1, McDermott 1-3, Wragge 1-4, Gibbs 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Evansville 27 (Taylor 10), Creighton 43 (Echenique 13).

Assists-Evansville 17 (Taylor 10), Creighton 18 (Chatman 8). Total FoulsEvansville 18, Creighton 15. A-18,458.

No. 12 Illinois 81, Auburn 79 CHICAGO — Tracy Abrams scored a careerhigh 29 points, and Illinois beat Auburn.

No. 10 Ohio State 87, The Illini (13-1) saw an Chicago State 44 11-point lead shrink to one COLUMBUS, OHIO — Dein the closing minutes but shaun Thomas scored 17 they prevailed after falling points, and Ohio State reto Missouri a week earlier. gained its shooting touch with a victory over Chi- AUBURN (5-7) Payne 4-8 2-3 10, Chubb 5-7 3-4 13, cago State, the Buckeyes’ 8-17 0-0 21, Denson 2-8 3-6 8, S. No. 18 Butler 68, final tuneup before begin- Sullivan Johnson 2-3 0-0 5, Dixon-Tatum 2-3 1-2 ning Big Ten play.

5, Wallace 3-6 1-1 8, Holmes 0-0 0-0 0, Vanderbilt 49 Greene Jr. 1-3 0-0 3, N. Johnson 2-5 0-0 NASHVILLE, TENN. — 6. Totals 29-60 10-16 79.

CHICAGO STATE (3-12) Rotnei Clarke hit seven ILLINOIS (13-1) Robinson 0-4 0-0 0, Ross 2-4 0-2 Griffey 4-6 0-2 8, Egwu 3-7 0-0 6, three-pointers and fin5, Gray 1-3 0-0 3, Pippen 4-8 1-2 12, Rosenberg 0-6 0-0 0, Dismukes 3-11 Richardson 2-7 3-5 8, Abrams 6-11 13-15 ished with 22 points, and 1-3 7, Gage 0-0 0-0 0, Chamberlain 0-1 27, Paul 3-12 7-10 13, McLaurin 2-2 2-4 0-0 0, Williams 1-4 0-0 3, Duhon 1-4 7-7 6, LaTulip 0-0 0-0 0, Bertrand 3-3 0-0 Butler shook off a sluggish 9, Ukaigwe 0-1 1-2 1, Starks 1-3 2-2 4. 7, Henry 1-3 1-2 3, Langford 1-1 1-2 3. start and routed VanderTotals 25-52 27-40 81.

Totals 13-49 12-18 44.

Halftime-Illinois 47-42. 3-Point bilt for its seventh straight OHIO STATE (10-2) Thomas 7-13 2-6 17, Thompson 2-4 Goals-Auburn 11-23 (Sullivan 5-12, N. victory.

0-0 4, Williams 1-2 2-4 4, Craft 4-6 1-1 Johnson 2-3, Wallace 1-1, Denson 1-1, The Bulldogs (10-2) 10, Smith, Jr. 6-12 0-4 13, Scott 3-3 0-0 S. Johnson 1-2, Greene Jr. 1-2, Payne 6, Ross 4-7 5-6 15, Rogers 0-0 0-0 0, 0-2), Illinois 4-15 (Abrams 2-3, Bertrand missed their first seven Ravenel 2-6 1-2 5, Della Valle 3-4 2-4 1-1, Richardson 1-4, Griffey 0-1, Henry three-pointers and led 11, McDonald 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 33-58 0-1, Paul 0-5). Fouled Out-S. Johnson.

Rebounds-Auburn 39 (Payne 10), only 25-22 at halftime be13-27 87.

Halftime-Ohio St. 37-24. 3-Point Illinois 31 (Abrams 8). Assists-Auburn fore taking control of the Goals-Chicago St. 6-18 (Pippen 3-6, 18 (Denson, Sullivan, Wallace 4), Illinois Williams 1-1, Ross 1-3, Gray 1-3, 14 (Abrams 5). Total Fouls-Auburn 25, game with a 14-3 run to Rosenberg 0-1, Dismukes 0-4), Ohio Illinois 15. A-18,136. open the second half.

BIG 12 ROUNDUP

K-State struggles but turns back UMKC Jan. 9 against Southern Mississippi.

The Owls established an early 19-13 advantage, but Texas came back to tie the score at 22-22 about four minutes before halftime. The Longhorns briefly moved ahead, but Ramljak hit a jumper to send the teams into the break tied 26-26.

Texas used a late 12-1 run to pull away, capped by a three-pointer from McClellan with 2:10 to play that made it 53-39.

The Longhorns play Baylor on Jan. 5.

The Associated Press

Men No. 25 Kansas State 52, UMKC 44 MANHATTAN — Rodney McGruder scored 17 points, Thomas Gipson had 13 points and six rebounds, and Kansas State struggled to a victory over Missouri-Kansas City on Saturday night.

Playing without guards Angel Rodriguez and Martavious Irving due to injuries, the Wildcats (10-2) shot just 32 percent from the field and went 2 of 10 from beyond the arc in their first game since beating then-No. 8 Florida on a neutral floor.

They certainly looked nothing like the team that beat the Gators last weekend.

Fred Chatmon had nine points and 16 rebounds for the ’Roos (4-9), who were within 40-36 with 3:11 remaining.

UMKC (4-9) Tanner 0-4 0-0 0, Chatmon 4-8 1-4 9, Korver 2-5 2-2 8, Burke 1-2 0-0 2, Tyler 3-6 0-0 6, Rogers 2-9 0-0 4, Wedel 0-1 0-0 0, Staton 3-12 5-6 13, Reid 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 16-48 8-12 44.

KANSAS STATE (10-2) Williams 3-12 2-5 8, Gipson 4-8 5-8 13, Southwell 0-4 1-2 1, McGruder 7-17 2-4 17, Spradling 2-8 3-4 8, Lawrence 1-3 3-4 5, Diaz 0-0 0-0 0, Henriquez 0-0 0-4 0, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 17-53 16-31 52.

Halftime-Kansas St. 25-21. 3-Point Goals-UMKC 4-12 (Staton 2-3, Korver 2-5, Rogers 0-1, Wedel 0-1, Tanner 0-2), Kansas St. 2-10 (McGruder 1-4, Spradling 1-5, Southwell 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-UMKC 36 (Chatmon 16), Kansas St. 40 (Williams 13). Assists-UMKC 5 (Tyler 4), Kansas St. 12 (Southwell, Spradling 3). Total Fouls-UMKC 24, Kansas St. 14. A-12,528.

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KANSAS STATE’S RODNEY MCGRUDER, FRONT, slips past UMKC’s Estan Tyler. KSU won, 52-44, on Saturday night in Manhattan.

Texas 57, Rice 41 AUSTIN, TEXAS — Sheldon McClellan scored 14 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds as Texas defeated Rice in the Longhorns’ final nonconference tune-up before starting Big 12 competition.

Julien Lewis added 12 points, and Jonathon Holmes had eight boards as Texas (8-5) improved to 7-0 against the Owls under head coach Rick Barnes.

Austin Ramljak scored 14 points for Rice (3-9), which plays at Harvard on Jan. 5 and begins Conference USA competition

RICE (3-9) Wilson 0-2 1-2 1, Gearhart 0-3 0-0 0, Guercy 3-6 2-2 9, Jackson 5-17 1-2 12, DeBose 2-7 0-0 5, Washington 0-3 0-0 0, Peera 0-0 0-0 0, Ramljak 5-8 0-0 14, Firozgary 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 15-47 4-6 41.

TEXAS (8-5) Holmes 2-6 4-4 8, Ridley 3-6 0-1 6, McClellan 4-10 5-6 14, Felix 1-6 4-5 7, Lewis 4-7 3-4 12, Holland 0-3 0-0 0, Bond 1-3 1-3 3, Lammert 2-6 0-2 4, Papapetrou 1-1 1-3 3, Ibeh 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 18-49 18-29 57.

Halftime-Tied 26-26. 3-Point GoalsRice 7-21 (Ramljak 4-7, DeBose 1-3, Guercy 1-3, Jackson 1-5, Gearhart 0-3), Texas 3-9 (Lewis 1-1, Felix 1-1, McClellan 1-3, Lammert 0-1, Holland 0-3). Fouled Out-DeBose. ReboundsRice 23 (Washington 6), Texas 46 (McClellan 9). Assists-Rice 7 (Guercy, Jackson 2), Texas 9 (Felix 7). Total Fouls-Rice 24, Texas 12. A-10,943.

Oklahoma 74, Ohio 63 NORMAN, OKLA. — Steven Pledger scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half, Amath M’Baye and Romero Osby added 16 points apiece, and Oklahoma pulled away in the second half to beat Ohio.

Cameron Clark had back-to-back dunks in transition to spark a 15-2

run by the Sooners (8-3) and put the game away after Ohio had cut an 11-point deficit down to four. Pledger followed with a fall-away jumper and a three-pointer from the right wing.

D.J. Cooper had 14 points and seven assists to lead the Bobcats (8-5).

OHIO (8-5) Keely 6-8 1-1 13, Offutt 4-10 0-2 11, Cooper 6-13 0-0 14, Kellogg 0-6 0-0 0, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Green 1-1 0-0 2, Hall 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 2-2 0-0 4, Taylor 3-5 0-0 8, Baltic 2-3 4-4 9. Totals 25-53 5-7 63.

OKLAHOMA (8-3) M’Baye 6-8 4-5 16, Osby 5-8 6-6 16, Pledger 7-16 2-3 18, Hield 2-7 0-0 5, Hornbeak 1-2 3-4 5, Grooms 1-2 0-1 2, Fitzgerald 1-4 2-4 4, Cousins 0-3 0-0 0, Neal 0-0 0-0 0, Clark 4-7 0-0 8. Totals 27-57 17-23 74.

Halftime-Tied 29-29. 3-Point GoalsOhio 8-26 (Offutt 3-8, Taylor 2-3, Cooper 2-7, Baltic 1-1, Hall 0-1, Kellogg 0-6), Oklahoma 3-12 (Pledger 2-8, Hield 1-2, Hornbeak 0-1, Grooms 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Ohio 30 (Keely 8), Oklahoma 33 (M’Baye, Pledger 6).

Assists-Ohio 16 (Cooper 7), Oklahoma 14 (Hield 7). Total Fouls-Ohio 19, Oklahoma 13. Technicals-Johnson, M’Baye. A-10,036.

Women No. 3 Baylor 106, SE Louisiana 41 WACO, TEXAS — Jordan Madden scored all 13 of her points in the first half, and Baylor took control early in a victory over Southeastern Louisiana.

The Lady Bears (10-1) have won 46 consecutive games at home, now the longest active streak in women’s college basketball. Earlier Saturday, No. 2 Connecticut won 61-35 at top-ranked Stanford to end the 82-game home streak by the Cardinal.

SE LOUISIANA (7-4) Gibson 4-10 0-0 8, Simmons 4-7 4-7 12, Styles 0-4 4-5 4, Hoskins 1-7 0-0 3, Miller 0-2 0-0 0, Epting 1-4 0-0 2, Hernandez 0-3 0-0 0, Morris 0-0 0-0 0, Mims 3-4 0-0 6, Pool 3-7 0-1 6, Harvey 0-1 0-0 0, Reyes 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 16-50 8-13 41.

BAYLOR (10-1) Pope 4-4 0-0 8, Griner 5-10 2-2 12, Sims 3-5 3-3 9, Hayden 3-6 0-0 7, Madden 6-7 0-1 13, Johnson 2-4 0-1 4, Williams 5-6 4-4 14, Chandler 1-3 0-0 2, Prince 7-14 2-4 17, Fuqua’ 3-5 1-1 7, Robertson 2-6 0-0 5, Agbuke 1-1 0-0 2, Higgins 3-4 0-2 6. Totals 45-75 12-18 106.

Halftime-Baylor 52-19. 3-Point GoalsSE Louisiana 1-11 (Hoskins 1-4, Styles 0-2, Epting 0-2, Hernandez 0-3), Baylor 4-10 (Madden 1-1, Prince 1-1, Hayden 1-2, Robertson 1-4, Sims 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-SE Louisiana 20 (Gibson, Simmons 4), Baylor 49 (Pope, Williams 8). Assists-SE Louisiana 11 (Miller 3), Baylor 30 (Sims 7). Total Fouls-SE Louisiana 17, Baylor 10.

A-8,864.

No. 18 Oklahoma 79, Cal State Northridge 57 NORMAN, OKLA. — Aaryn Ellenberg scored 24 points, and Portia Durrett added 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead Oklahoma past Cal State Northridge.

CS NORTHRIDGE (6-5) Masoni 1-5 2-2 5, Mahlknecht 1-3 0-0 2, Sharpe 3-8 6-7 12, Guay 2-9 2-2 6, Friess 1-7 0-0 2, Alexander 0-2 0-0 0, White 1-12 1-2 3, Jackson 5-15 1-4 12, Alama 4-10 0-0 9, Walker 2-2 0-2 4, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 21-75 12-19 57.

OKLAHOMA (10-2) McFarland 3-7 1-2 9, Griffin 4-8 3-4 11, Ellenberg 9-17 1-2 24, Hook 2-8 0-0 5, Campbell 2-10 4-4 10, Kornet 2-8 0-0 4, Durrett 6-7 0-0 14, E. Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Dunn 0-0 0-0 0, Hartman 1-2 0-2 2. Totals 29-67 9-14 79.

Halftime-Oklahoma 37-24. 3-Point Goals-CS Northridge 3-18 (Alama 1-2, Masoni 1-2, Jackson 1-4, Guay 0-1, Alexander 0-1, Sharpe 0-1, Friess 0-3, White 0-4), Oklahoma 12-28 (Ellenberg 5-9, Durrett 2-2, McFarland 2-3, Campbell 2-5, Hook 1-4, Kornet 0-5). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-CS Northridge 42 (Jackson 7), Oklahoma 55 (Durrett, McFarland 10). AssistsCS Northridge 6 (Guay, Sharpe 2), Oklahoma 23 (Hook 7). Total Fouls-CS Northridge 14, Oklahoma 18. A-6,148.

BUTLER (10-2) Jones 2-6 2-4 6, Marshall 4-5 1-2 9, Smith 4-7 0-1 8, Barlow 2-3 2-2 6, Clarke 7-15 2-2 22, Smeathers 0-0 0-0 0, Morgan 0-1 0-0 0, Fromm 0-0 1-2 1, Aldridge 0-1 0-0 0, El. Kampen 0-0 0-0 0, Dunham 4-8 2-2 12, Em. Kampen 0-0 0-0 0, Woods 1-2 2-2 4, Stigall 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 24-51 12-17 68.

VANDERBILT (5-6) Odom 1-9 1-2 4, Henderson 2-4 1-2 5, Johnson 3-10 2-5 9, Fuller 4-9 1-3 10, Bright 1-4 0-2 3, Astroth 0-0 0-0 0, Jeter 2-3 0-0 5, Parker 2-5 0-0 5, Moats 2-5 3-5 8, Siakam 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 17-51 8-19 49.

Halftime-Butler 25-22. 3-Point GoalsButler 8-20 (Clarke 6-9, Dunham 2-5, Smith 0-1, Barlow 0-1, Woods 0-1, Stigall 0-3), Vanderbilt 7-17 (Moats 1-1, Parker 1-2, Jeter 1-2, Bright 1-3, Fuller 1-3, Johnson 1-3, Odom 1-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Butler 42 (Marshall 11), Vanderbilt 27 (Moats, Odom 5). Assists-Butler 13 (Barlow, Clarke, Jones 3), Vanderbilt 7 (Johnson 4). Total Fouls-Butler 18, Vanderbilt 16.

A-11,990.

North Carolina 79, No. 20 UNLV 73 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — P.J. Hairston scored 15 points in his first career start to help North Carolina beat UNLV. UNLV (11-2) Thomas 0-2 0-0 0, Bennett 6-16 3-4 15, Dejean-Jones 6-12 1-3 14, Reinhardt 4-9 3-5 15, Marshall 6-10 2-3 15, Birch 1-4 1-2 3, Hawkins 1-2 0-1 3, Moser 1-1 0-0 3, Goodman 1-2 0-0 2, Lopez-Sosa 1-1 1-3 3, Cook 0-0 0-0 0, Cheaney 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 27-59 11-21 73.

NORTH CAROLINA (10-3) Hubert 1-1 1-2 3, McAdoo 5-13 3-5 13, Hairston 5-10 3-4 15, Strickland 5-8 6-10 16, Paige 3-9 6-8 12, James 0-1 0-0 0, McDonald 2-4 0-0 5, Johnson 6-8 0-2 12, Tokoto 1-1 1-2 3. Totals 28-55 20-33 79.

Halftime-North Carolina 39-30.

3-Point Goals-UNLV 8-17 (Reinhardt 4-5, Moser 1-1, Hawkins 1-2, Marshall 1-2, Dejean-Jones 1-3, Bennett 0-4), North Carolina 3-10 (Hairston 2-5, McDonald 1-2, Strickland 0-1, Paige 0-2). Fouled Out-Hawkins, Moser. Rebounds-UNLV 38 (Bennett 13), North Carolina 33 (McAdoo 9). Assists-UNLV 15 (Marshall 8), North Carolina 12 (Paige 4). Total Fouls-UNLV 25, North Carolina 20. A-NA.

No. 23 N.C. State 84, Western Michigan 68 RALEIGH, N.C. — C.J. Leslie scored 19 points to lead North Carolina State past Western Michigan.

Richard Howell added 18 points on 8-of-8 shooting for the Wolfpack (102), who won their sixth consecutive game.

WESTERN MICHIGAN (8-5) Richie 4-5 0-0 9, Whittington 4-15 5-6 14, Pokley 1-8 2-2 5, Hutcheson 6-10 3-3 16, Paul 5-17 2-2 12, Tava 2-4 0-0 4, Klein 0-3 2-2 2, Perry 2-5 2-2 6, Loney 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 24-67 16-17 68.

NC STATE (10-2) Purvis 2-8 3-6 7, Howell 8-8 2-5 18, Brown 4-8 0-0 10, Leslie 5-10 9-11 19, Wood 4-9 2-2 11, T. Lewis 0-1 4-4 4, Vandenberg 0-1 0-0 0, Cannon 0-0 0-0 0, J. Lewis 0-1 0-0 0, Warren 7-9 0-0 15, Battle 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 30-55 20-28 84.

Halftime-NC State 43-36. 3-Point Goals-W. Michigan 4-16 (Richie 1-1, Whittington 1-2, Pokley 1-4, Hutcheson 1-4, Perry 0-1, Paul 0-4), NC State 4-11 (Brown 2-2, Warren 1-2, Wood 1-5, Purvis 0-1, J. Lewis 0-1). Fouled Out-Howell. Rebounds-W. Michigan 42 (Paul 10), NC State 32 (Howell 9).

Assists-W. Michigan 10 (Paul 3), NC State 17 (Purvis 4). Total Fouls-W. Michigan 19, NC State 13. Technical-W. Michigan Bench. A-12,576.

TOP 25 WOMEN

UConn routs Stanford The Associated Press

No. 2 Connecticut 61, No. 1 Stanford 35 STANFORD, CALIF. — Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, and second-ranked Connecticut played spoiler and streak-buster this time, snapping No. 1 Stanford’s nation-leading 82game home unbeaten run with a surprisingly easy 61-35 victory Saturday in women’s college basketball.

It was the Huskies who saw the end of their NCAA-record 90-game winning streak at Maples Pavilion with a 71-59 loss two years ago, almost to the day on Dec. 30.

Mosqueda-Lewis scored 19 points as UConn (11-0) thoroughly outplayed Stanford (11-1) on both ends of the floor.

UCONN (11-0) Mosqueda-Lewis 7-13 3-3 19, Dolson 4-8 2-2 10, Doty 0-2 0-0 0, Hartley 4-12 0-0 10, Faris 3-8 2-2 10, Tuck 0-1 0-0 0, Jefferson 0-2 0-0 0, Banks 1-3 1-2 3, Stewart 2-7 5-5 9, Buck 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-56 13-14 61.

STANFORD (11-1) Ruef 0-4 0-4 0, Ogwumike 6-22 6-7 18, Tinkle 1-5 0-0 2, Kokenis 2-11 2-4 6, Orrange 0-6 0-0 0, Greenfield 0-3 0-0 0, James 0-1 0-0 0, Camp 0-1 0-0 0, Payne 0-0 1-2 1, Picknell 0-0 0-1 0, Samuelson 2-4 2-2 8. Totals 11-57 11-20 35.

Halftime-UConn 31-13. 3-Point Goals-UConn 6-24 (Mosqueda-Lewis 2-5, Faris 2-5, Hartley 2-7, Tuck 0-1, Jefferson 0-1, Doty 0-2, Stewart 0-3), Stanford 2-14 (Samuelson 2-4, Orrange 0-1, Camp 0-1, Kokenis 0-2, Tinkle 0-2, Ruef 0-2, Greenfield 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-UConn 40 (Dolson 14), Stanford 44 (Ogwumike 13). AssistsUConn 12 (Dolson, Hartley 3), Stanford 3 (Greenfield, Kokenis, Ogwumike 1).

Total Fouls-UConn 15, Stanford 13.

Technical-UConn Bench. A-7,329.

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 11 4 0 .733 529 331 Miami 7 8 0 .467 288 289 N.Y. Jets 6 9 0 .400 272 347 Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 316 426 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Houston 12 3 0 .800 400 303 x-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 329 371 Tennessee 5 10 0 .333 292 451 Jacksonville 2 13 0 .133 235 406 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Baltimore 10 5 0 .667 381 321 x-Cincinnati 9 6 0 .600 368 303 Pittsburgh 7 8 0 .467 312 304 Cleveland 5 10 0 .333 292 344 West W L T Pct PF PA y-Denver 12 3 0 .800 443 286 San Diego 6 9 0 .400 326 329 Oakland 4 11 0 .267 269 419 Kansas City 2 13 0 .133 208 387 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Washington 9 6 0 .600 408 370 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 358 372 N.Y. Giants 8 7 0 .533 387 337 Philadelphia 4 11 0 .267 273 402 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Atlanta 13 2 0 .867 402 277 New Orleans 7 8 0 .467 423 410 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 367 377 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 313 325 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 11 4 0 .733 399 299 Minnesota 9 6 0 .600 342 314 Chicago 9 6 0 .600 349 253 Detroit 4 11 0 .267 348 411 West W L T Pct PF PA x-San Francisco 10 4 1 .700 370 260 x-Seattle 10 5 0 .667 392 232 St. Louis 7 7 1 .500 286 328 Arizona 5 10 0 .333 237 330 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Today’s Games Jacksonville at Tennessee, noon Carolina at New Orleans, noon N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, noon Chicago at Detroit, noon Tampa Bay at Atlanta, noon Oakland at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 3:25 p.m.

Miami at New England, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 7:20 p.m.

College Bowl Glance

Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State 41, Toledo 15 Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego BYU 23, San Diego State 6 Friday, Dec. 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. UCF 38, Ball State 17 Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34 MAACO Bowl Las Vegas Boise State 28, Washington 26

Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU 43, Fresno State 10 Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan 24, Western Kentucky 21 Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington San Jose State 29, Bowling Green 20 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati 48, Duke 34 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Baylor 49, UCLA 26 Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Ohio 45, Louisiana-Monroe 14 Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech 13, Rutgers 10, OT Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31 Saturday’s Games Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Rice 33, Air Force 14 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Syracuse 38, West Virginia 14 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona State 62, Navy 28 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Texas 31, Oregon State 27 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Michigan State (6-6) vs. TCU (7-5), (n) Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (7-5), 1 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At Dallas Purdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Mississippi State (8-4) vs.

Northwestern (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), noon (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (8-4), noon (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (102), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), noon (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (121), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

College Men

EAST Babson 74, Utica 63 Boston College 70, Holy Cross 60 Bridgewater (Mass.) 70, Mary Washington 60 Bryant 80, Lehigh 79 Coll. of Charleston 62, Vermont 50 College of NJ 57, W. Connecticut 53 Columbia 69, Manhattan 58 DeSales 99, Penn St.-Abington 84 Gettysburg 74, Grove City 64 Keene St. 89, Montclair St. 80 LIU Post 91, Chestnut Hill 75 La Salle 80, Siena 52 Maine 76, Quinnipiac 71 Mount St. Mary’s 58, UMBC 55 Old Westbury 100, Misericordia 97 Penn St. 84, Duquesne 74 Randolph-Macon 76, Washington (Md.) 55 St. Peter’s 71, CCSU 69 Stonehill 57, Philadelphia 52 Syracuse 57, Alcorn St. 36 UConn 61, Washington 53 Wagner 68, Penn 63, OT William Paterson 54, Lehman 48 Yeshiva 62, Brooklyn 61 SOUTH Alabama St. 73, Auburn-Montgomery 50 Arkansas St. 63, South Alabama 54 Butler 68, Vanderbilt 49 Campbell 72, UNC Wilmington 60 Catholic 77, Denison 35 Charleston Southern 105, Va. Intermont 59 Coker 87, St. Andrews 73 Cumberlands 100, Tenn. Wesleyan 83 Davidson 70, Richmond 64 Duke 90, Santa Clara 77 East Carolina 74, Norfolk St. 63 Fairfield 55, Old Dominion 54 Florida 78, Air Force 61 Florida St. 82, Tulsa 63 Georgia 82, Florida A&M 73 Georgia Southern 68, Georgia St. 64, OT Georgia Tech 73, Fordham 48 Guilford 88, Birmingham-Southern 85 Jacksonville St. 83, Tennessee Tech 62 Kentucky Wesleyan 93, Salem International 67 Lenoir-Rhyne 60, Lander 58 Lindsey Wilson 100, Hamilton 69 Louisiana Tech 68, Denver 60 Louisiana-Monroe 65, FAU 64 Louisville 80, Kentucky 77 Maryland 79, Delaware St. 50 Miami (Ohio)-Middletown 82, Thomas More 79 Middle Tennessee 69, FIU 52 NC State 84, W. Michigan 68 North Carolina 79, UNLV 73 Radford 95, Cent. Pennsylvania 68 SE Louisiana 71, Spring Hill 61 South Carolina 76, Presbyterian 60 South Florida 61, George Mason 57 Southern Wesleyan 76, Georgia College 74

Tennessee 51, Xavier 47 Tennessee St. 67, E. Illinois 59 Texas-Tyler 82, Rhodes 71 UAB 83, Northeastern 63 VCU 96, Fairleigh Dickinson 67 Valparaiso 66, Murray St. 64 W. Kentucky 70, North Texas 64 MIDWEST Ashland 95, Ohio Christian 63 Baker 82, Harris-Stowe 73 Baldwin-Wallace 74, King’s (Pa.) 57 Bradley 67, Drake 57 Cardinal Stritch 75, Purdue-N. Central 52 Concordia (Mich.) 85, Siena Heights 77 Concordia (Moor.) 81, St. Scholastica 59 Creighton 87, Evansville 70 Davenport 91, Goshen 71 Findlay 74, Northwestern Ohio 38 Gustavus 61, Wis.-Eau Claire 47 Hope 96, Aurora 85 Illinois 81, Auburn 79 Kansas 89, American U. 57 Kansas St. 52, UMKC 44 Loras 74, Wis.-Stout 67 Loyola of Chicago 69, DePaul 61 Marquette 75, NC Central 66 Michigan 88, Cent. Michigan 73 Michigan Tech 69, Wis.-Parkside 51 Millikin 78, Rockford 75 Milwaukee 95, Ohio Dominican 80 Minn. St.-Moorhead 63, Viterbo 53 N. Dakota St. 65, S. Dakota St. 62 Nebraska 68, Nicholls St. 59 Oakland 84, IUPUI 62 Ohio St. 87, Chicago St. 44 Penn St. Behrend 60, Otterbein 42 Purdue 73, William & Mary 66 SE Missouri 65, UT-Martin 60 South Dakota 95, Nebraska-Omaha 72 St. Cloud St. 90, Ashford 59 St. Norbert 67, Marian (Wis.) 47 Toledo 74, Ill.-Chicago 55 UMass 64, N. Illinois 59 W. Illinois 62, IPFW 50 Walsh 98, Ohio Mid-Western 61 Wis.-Oshkosh 70, Concordia (Wis.) 62 Wis.-River Falls 79, St. John’s (Minn.)

73 Wis.-Superior 74, St. Olaf 65 Wis.-Whitewater 71, Northwestern (Minn.) 61 Wisconsin 87, Samford 51 Youngstown St. 93, Marygrove 52 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 79, Northwestern St. 61 Houston 80, Prairie View 75 Lamar 81, LIU Brooklyn 80 Oklahoma 74, Ohio 63 Sam Houston St. 90, Howard Payne 49 San Jose St. 72, Texas St. 55 Stephen F. Austin 67, Texas A&MCC 56 Texas 57, Rice 41 Texas A&M 61, Army 55 Texas-Arlington 68, New Mexico St. 47 Utah St. 71, UTSA 67 FAR WEST Arizona St. 68, Coppin St. 52 BYU 97, Virginia Tech 71 Cal Poly 58, UC Riverside 48 Colorado 80, Hartford 52 Colorado St. 80, Adams St. 55 Harvard 67, California 62 Long Beach St. 67, Pacific 63 Montana St. 101, Northwest Indian 70 Towson 67, Oregon St. 66, OT Washington St. 74, Idaho St. 39 Weber St. 110, Southwest 45 TOURNAMENT Dr Pepper Classic Championship Chattanooga 76, Utah Valley 69 Third Place High Point 76, Austin Peay 74 UCF Holiday Classic Championship UCF 66, Belmont 63 Third Round Boston U. 71, Howard 44

Big 12 Men

Overall League W L W L 11 1 0 0 10 1 0 0 10 2 0 0 9 3 0 0 8 3 0 0 8 4 0 0 8 4 0 0 8 5 0 0 6 4 0 0 6 5 0 0

Kansas Oklahoma State Kansas State Iowa State Oklahoma Baylor TCU Texas Texas Tech West Virginia Friday’s Games Texas Tech 85, North Carolina A&T 74 Gonzaga 94, Baylor 87 Saturday’s Games Kansas 89, American 57 Texas 57, Rice 41 Kansas State 52, UMKC 44 Oklahoma 74, Ohio 63 Today’s Games Mississippi Valley State at TCU, 3 p.m.

Eastern Kentucky at West Virginia, 3 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 31 Florida A&M at Texas Tech, noon South Dakota at Kansas State, 1 p.m.

Texas A&M Corpus Christi at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

Gonzaga at Oklahoma State, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 1 Yale at Iowa State, noon Saturday, Jan. 5 Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

Texas at Baylor, 1 p.m.

Oklahoma at West Virginia, 3 p.m.

Texas Tech at TCU, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 6 Temple at Kansas, TBA Tuesday, Jan. 8 Baylor at Texas Tech, 6 p.m.

College Women

EAST Boston U. 68, Fairleigh Dickinson 42 Canisius 56, Vermont 55 Colgate 72, New Hampshire 61 La Salle 72, St. Peter’s 55 Lafayette 54, Fordham 50 Lehigh 67, Binghamton 37 Penn 52, Alabama St. 37 St. Francis (NY) 58, Rider 55 SOUTH Alabama 80, LIU Brooklyn 58 Auburn 80, Samford 51 Austin Peay 67, Alabama A&M 54 Belmont 66, SIU-Edwardsville 52 E. Illinois 76, Tennessee St. 67 East Carolina 71, Elon 64 FAU 82, Louisiana-Monroe 72 FIU 66, Northeastern 56 Furman 85, SC-Upstate 80, OT George Mason 54, Georgia Southern 53 Georgia St. 76, MVSU 60 Georgia Tech 74, Quinnipiac 57 High Point 58, UNC Asheville 57 Liberty 90, Winthrop 57 Longwood 57, Radford 49 Louisiana-Lafayette 56, UALR 54, 2OT McNeese St. 80, Mississippi 75 Memphis 72, Missouri 69 Mississippi St. 82, Troy 60 N. Illinois 69, Norfolk St. 38 Old Dominion 79, SC State 63 Presbyterian 50, Coastal Carolina 30 South Alabama 53, Arkansas St. 47 South Carolina 66, W. Carolina 44 South Florida 100, Florida A&M 75 Tennessee Tech 73, Jacksonville St. 51 Toledo 76, Charlotte 66 Tulane 71, E. Michigan 65 Virginia 54, Xavier 45 W. Kentucky 82, North Texas 80 Wake Forest 84, Campbell 68 MIDWEST Drake 80, Milwaukee 70 Iowa St. 83, Air Force 35 Marquette 77, Loyola of Chicago 61 Michigan 82, Niagara 44 Michigan St. 57, Temple 47 N. Iowa 73, Saint Louis 64

Nebraska 84, Grambling St. 39 Notre Dame 74, Purdue 47 S. Illinois 69, Chicago St. 66 Valparaiso 58, Ball St. 53 Youngstown St. 69, Bucknell 51 SOUTHWEST Baylor 106, SE Louisiana 41 Cent. Arkansas 91, Philander Smith 36 Nicholls St. 65, Texas Southern 58 Oklahoma 79, CS Northridge 57 TCU 69, Texas A&M-CC 38 FAR WEST Colorado 84, New Mexico 39 Kansas St. 60, UC Santa Barbara 45 Long Beach St. 79, Columbia 50 Louisiana Tech 82, Denver 77, 2OT Montana St.-Billings 57, Montana St. 54 North Dakota 62, Utah 56 Pacific 75, San Francisco 59 Portland St. 64, Portland 61 Providence 71, Colorado St. 53 S. Utah 66, Utah Valley 49 San Jose St. 98, Texas St. 96 Santa Clara 58, Fresno St. 53 Seattle 76, Idaho 71 UC Riverside 82, UNLV 66 UConn 61, Stanford 35 Vanderbilt 74, Southern Cal 56 Washington St. 57, Gonzaga 51 Wyoming 84, Loyola Marymount 68 TOURNAMENT Hawk Classic Championship Saint Joseph’s 79, UMBC 38 Third Place Fairfield 81, Wagner 44 Terrapin Classic Championship Maryland 72, Hartford 40 Third Place Brown 57, Md.-Eastern Shore 46 UM Holiday Tournament Championship Miami 67, Wisconsin 44 Third Place CCSU 76, Delaware St. 54

Big 12 Women

Overall League W L W L Oklahoma State 10 0 0 0 Baylor 10 1 0 0 Iowa State 8 1 0 0 Oklahoma 10 2 0 0 Kansas 9 2 0 0 Texas Tech 9 2 0 0 Kansas State 9 3 0 0 West Virginia 8 3 0 0 Texas 7 3 0 0 TCU 7 4 0 0 Friday’s Games West Virginia 72, Appalachian State 67 Oklahoma State 92, Harvard 62 Iowa 86, Texas 63 Saturday’s Games Oklahoma 79, Cal St. Northridge 57 Iowa State 83, Air Force 35 Kansas State 60, UC Santa Barbara 45 TCU 69, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 38 Baylor 106, Southeastern Louisiana 41 Today’s Games Texas vs. Central Michigan at San Diego, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma State at San Diego State, 4 p.m.

Houston at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.

Alabama State at Iowa State, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 2 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Baylor at TCU, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

West Virginia at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Texas at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 5 Kansas at West Virginia, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas, 12:30 p.m.

TCU at Kansas State, 6 p.m.

Iowa State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 6 Oklahoma State at Baylor, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 8 Kansas at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

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

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

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Roundup

The Associated Press

Thunder 124, Rockets 94 HOUSTON — Russell Westbrook scored 28 points, and Kevin Durant added 26 as Oklahoma City built a big lead in the Southeast Division second quarter and rolled W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf over Houston.

Miami 20 8 .714 — 8-2 L-2 14-2 6-6 9-5 Durant scored 11 points Atlanta 19 9 .679 1 6-4 W-4 11-5 8-4 13-4 during a 16-0 run by the Orlando 12 18 .400 9 5-5 L-5 7-9 5-9 5-12 Thunder to end the first half and extend the lead to Charlotte 7 23 .233 14 0-10 L-18 5-12 2-11 5-9 Washington 4 24 .143 16 1-9 L-1 3-11 1-13 2-18 18. Oklahoma City had another big run early in the third quarter to put the Central Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf game further out of reach.

Former Thunder sixth Milwaukee 16 12 .571 — 7-3 W-2 9-6 7-6 14-6 man James Harden scored Chicago 16 12 .571 — 6-4 W-1 9-7 7-5 12-4 25 for the Rockets, who Indiana 17 13 .567 — 6-4 L-1 9-3 8-10 8-7 went cold on offense for long stretches.

Detroit 10 22 .313 8 3-7 W-1 7-8 3-14 8-9 It was Oklahoma City’s Cleveland 7 25 .219 11 3-7 L-2 3-10 4-15 5-17 second win this season over Houston, after taking the first meeting 120-98.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kevin Martin, who Southwest Division came to Oklahoma City W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf in the trade for Harden, San Antonio 23 8 .742 — 6-4 W-4 12-2 11-6 13-6 finished with 19 points and five three-pointers.

Memphis 19 8 .704 2 5-5 W-1 13-3 6-5 10-6 Marcus Morris added a Houston 16 14 .533 61⁄2 7-3 L-2 11-6 5-8 5-12 career-high 24 points for Dallas 12 18 .400 101⁄2 2-8 L-5 8-5 4-13 5-10 Houston.

Northwest Division Oklahoma City Denver Minnesota Portland Utah

W 23 17 14 14 15

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

W 24 20 15 11 10

Saturday’s games Atlanta 109, Indiana 100 New Orleans 98, Charlotte 95 Toronto 123, Orlando 88 Brooklyn 103, Cleveland 100 Chicago 87, Washington 77 Oklahoma City 124, Houston 94 Memphis 81, Denver 72 Minnesota 111, Phoenix 107 Milwaukee 104, Miami 85 Philadelphia at Portland, (n) Boston at Golden State, (n)

Today’s games San Antonio at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s games Charlotte at Chicago, 2 p.m.

Memphis at Indiana, 2 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Houston Min: 8. Pts: 0. Reb: 0. Ast: 0.

Darrell Arthur, Memphis Min: 18. Pts: 6. Reb: 2. Ast: 2.

Mario Chalmers, Miami Min: 28. Pts: 5. Reb: 2. Ast: 3.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 24. Pts: 12. Reb: 10. Ast: 3.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Did not play (coach’s decision).

Xavier Henry, New Orleans Min: 9. Pts: 2. Reb: 0. Ast: 1.

Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Min: 33. Pts: 10. Reb: 6. Ast: 7.

Marcus Morris, Houston Min: 32. Pts: 24. Reb: 6. Ast: 0.

Markieff Morris, Phoenix Min: 19. Pts: 6. Reb: 4. Ast: 2.

Paul Pierce, Boston Late game.

Brandon Rush, Golden State Did not play (knee injury).

Calendar Feb. 15-17 — NBA All-Star weekend (Houston).

Feb. 21 — Trade deadline.

April 20 — Playoffs begin.

June 6 — NBA Finals begin (possible switch to June 4).

June 20 — Last possible date for NBA Finals (possible switch to June 18).

June 27 — NBA Draft.

Josh Selby, Memphis Did not play (coach’s decision).

Tyshawn Taylor, Brooklyn Did not play (coach’s decision).

Leaders THROUGH FRIDAY Scoring

G Bryant, LAL 30 Anthony, NYK 24 Durant, OKC 28 Harden, HOU 28 James, MIA 27 Aldridge, POR 26 Westbrook, OKC 28 Pierce, BOS 28 Wade, MIA 23 Lee, GOL 30 Curry, GOL 30 Ellis, MIL 27 Parker, SAN 29 Mayo, DAL 30 Lillard, POR 28 Gay, MEM 25 Holiday, PHL 26 Walker, CHA 29 Griffin, LAC 30 DeRozan, TOR 30 Rebounds Varejao, CLE Randolph, MEM Howard, LAL Asik, HOU Lee, GOL

G 25 26 30 29 30

FG FT PTS 309 220 903 235 152 684 258 235 798 216 243 730 274 114 700 222 110 554 206 143 594 185 145 565 175 107 464 250 102 602 207 97 599 193 119 526 215 112 556 196 97 560 176 97 512 174 80 455 188 69 473 193 105 527 222 99 545 203 122 544

AVG 30.1 28.5 28.5 26.1 25.9 21.3 21.2 20.2 20.2 20.1 20.0 19.5 19.2 18.7 18.3 18.2 18.2 18.2 18.2 18.1

OFFDEF TOT AVG 138 223 361 14.4 124 204 328 12.6 111 244 355 11.8 94 247 341 11.8 94 242 336 11.2

Hickson, POR Noah, CHI Faried, DEN Chandler, NYK Jefferson, UTA Assists Rondo, BOS Paul, LAC Holiday, PHL Vasquez, NOR Westbrook, OKC Williams, Bro Calderon, TOR Parker, SAN Lawson, DEN Nelson, ORL FG Percentage Chandler, NYK Jordan, LAC McGee, DEN Howard, LAL Ibaka, OKC Lopez, NOR Hickson, POR Bosh, MIA James, MIA Griffin, LAC

27 27 31 30 30

113 183 98 187 128 192 128 179 66 237

296 285 320 307 303

11.0 10.6 10.3 10.2 10.1

G AST AVG 25 292 11.7 30 283 9.4 26 231 8.9 29 256 8.8 28 243 8.7 28 218 7.8 30 226 7.5 29 211 7.3 31 220 7.1 22 151 6.9 FG 144 120 141 186 171 145 139 176 274 222

FGA 209 202 238 325 299 259 251 319 500 411

PCT .689 .594 .592 .572 .572 .560 .554 .552 .548 .540

OKLAHOMA CITY (124) Durant 8-18 6-7 26, Ibaka 2-7 5-5 9, Perkins 1-2 0-0 2, Westbrook 11-22 4-5 28, Sefolosha 6-10 2-2 15, Collison 6-10 0-0 12, Martin 6-14 2-2 19, Jackson 3-6 2-2 8, Thabeet 1-3 0-0 2, Lamb 1-2 0-0 3, Maynor 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 45-94 21-23 124.

HOUSTON (94) Parsons 5-13 0-0 10, Morris 9-14 2-2 24, Asik 2-4 0-2 4, Lin 3-8 1-1 7, Harden 6-17 11-14 25, Douglas 6-13 3-4 17, Smith 1-1 1-2 3, Patterson 0-5 2-2 2, Aldrich 0-0 0-0 0, Cook 0-3 0-0 0, Motiejunas 0-3 0-0 0, Machado 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 33-83 20-27 94.

Oklahoma City 31 37 28 28 — 124 Houston 26 24 24 20 — 94 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 13-29 (Martin 5-8, Durant 4-9, Westbrook 2-5, Lamb 1-1, Sefolosha 1-4, Ibaka 0-1, Jackson 0-1), Houston 8-30 (Morris 4-6, Douglas 2-4, Harden 2-7, Cook 0-1, Motiejunas 0-2, Patterson 0-2, Lin 0-3, Parsons 0-5). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Oklahoma City 63 (Collison, Ibaka 10), Houston 45 (Asik, Smith 8). Assists-Oklahoma City 22 (Westbrook 8), Houston 18 (Lin 7).

Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 18, Houston 19. Technicals-Oklahoma City defensive three second, Houston defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls-Maynor.

A-18,460 (18,023).

Hawks 109, Pacers 100 ATLANTA — Lou Williams had 21 points and a career-high 12 assists, Al Horford added 20 points, and Atlanta won its fourth straight, beating Indiana on Saturday night.

David West scored a game-high 29 points for the Pacers, who had won four straight and seven of eight.

INDIANA (100) George 7-13 3-3 18, West 11-18 5-7 29, Hibbert 0-2 0-0 0, Hill 7-11 0-0 15, Stephenson 6-13 0-0 13, Green 3-11 0-0 6, T.Hansbrough 1-3 4-4 6, Mahinmi 3-7 7-8 13, Augustin 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 38-80 19-22 100.

ATLANTA (109) Korver 5-10 2-3 16, Horford 10-13 0-0 20, Pachulia 7-11 3-4 17, Teague 6-13 2-2 15, Williams 7-17 4-4 21, Stevenson 0-1 0-0 0, Jenkins 4-6 0-0 10, I.Johnson 3-6 0-1 6, Petro 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 44-80 11-14 109.

Indiana 26 22 22 30 — 100 Atlanta 33 22 28 26 — 109 3-Point Goals-Indiana 5-15 (West 2-3, George 1-2, Hill 1-3, Stephenson 1-3, Green 0-4), Atlanta 10-20 (Korver 4-5, Williams 3-8, Jenkins 2-2, Teague 1-3, Stevenson 0-1, Petro 0-1). Fouled Out-I.Johnson. Rebounds-Indiana 40 (T.Hansbrough 10), Atlanta 44 (Pachulia 14). Assists-Indiana 20 (George 8), Atlanta 26 (Williams 12). Total FoulsIndiana 15, Atlanta 23. TechnicalsHill, Indiana defensive three second.

Flagrant Fouls-Stephenson. A-16,558 (18,729).

Raptors 123, Magic 88 ORLANDO, FLA. — DeMar DeRozan scored 21 points, and Jose Calderon added 15 points and 10 assists, helping Toronto to an easy victory over injury-depleted Orlando.

Rookie Ed Davis had 18 points and seven rebounds as Toronto won for the seventh time in eight games. The Raptors, who hit a season-high 15 three-pointers, received 16 points apiece from Kyle Lowry and Terrence Ross.

TORONTO (123) Pietrus 3-6 0-0 9, E.Davis 7-11 4-6 18, Gray 0-2 0-0 0, Calderon 6-10 1-1 15, DeRozan 7-14 7-8 21, Johnson 2-4 2-4 6, Lowry 6-12 2-2 16, Anderson 4-8 0-0 11, Ross 6-10 0-0 16, Fields 3-3 0-0 6, Acy 1-1 0-0 2, Lucas 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 46-82 16-21 123.

ORLANDO (88) Harkless 0-3 0-0 0, Nicholson 10-14 2-4 22, Vucevic 4-7 0-2 8, Smith 6-12 0-2 13, Afflalo 5-14 3-4 14, Turkoglu 3-8 2-4 8, Redick 2-12 3-4 9, McRoberts 3-4 0-0 7, Ayon 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 2-4 1-2 5, O’Quinn 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 36-81 11-22 88.

Toronto 36 31 20 36 —123 Orlando 21 26 24 17 — 88 3-Point Goals-Toronto 15-27 (Ross 4-5, Pietrus 3-5, Anderson 3-6, Lowry 2-5, Calderon 2-5, Lucas 1-1), Orlando 5-18 (Redick 2-6, McRoberts 1-1, Smith 1-2, Afflalo 1-6, Jones 0-1, Turkoglu 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsToronto 52 (Fields 9), Orlando 45 (Vucevic 9). Assists-Toronto 33 (Calderon 10), Orlando 18 (Afflalo, Smith 6). Total Fouls-Toronto 18, Orlando 13.

Technicals-Afflalo.

A-18,846 (18,500).

Bob Levey/AP Photo

OKLAHOMA CITY’S RUSSELL WESTBROOK, CENTER, DRIVES against two former Kansas University standouts, Houston’s Cole Aldrich, left, and Marcus Morris, right. The Thunder defeated the Rockets, 124-94, on Saturday night in Houston.

Hornets 98, Bobcats 95 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Eric Gordon had 24 points and seven assists, helping New Orleans overcome a 21-point first-half deficit and extend Charlotte’s losing streak to 18 games.

The Bobcats are one game away from a winless December. They haven’t won since Nov. 24.

Gordon, who hadn’t played since April 22 following arthroscopic right knee surgery, was 5 of 13 from the field.

NEW ORLEANS (98) L.Thomas 1-4 0-0 2, Davis 4-11 0-2 8, Lopez 4-7 0-0 8, Vasquez 7-13 0-0 16, Rivers 0-2 0-0 0, McGuire 1-2 0-0 2, E.Gordon 5-13 12-14 24, Anderson 6-14 4-6 19, Roberts 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Henry 1-5 0-0 2, Mason 4-5 1-1 13. Totals 35-82 17-23 98.

CHARLOTTE (95) Kidd-Gilchrist 11-14 0-2 22, Warrick 4-9 4-6 12, Biyombo 0-4 0-0 0, Walker 7-15 1-2 15, Henderson 6-10 5-6 19, Haywood 2-3 0-0 4, Sessions 1-9 1-2 3, Taylor 2-2 0-0 6, B.Gordon 6-13 2-2 14.

Totals 39-79 13-20 95.

New Orleans 22 18 33 25 — 98 Charlotte 25 32 16 22 — 95 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 11-24 (Mason 4-5, Anderson 3-6, Vasquez 2-3, E.Gordon 2-6, Davis 0-1, Henry 0-1, Rivers 0-1, Smith 0-1), Charlotte 4-10 (Taylor 2-2, Henderson 2-3, Walker 0-1, B.Gordon 0-2, Sessions 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-New Orleans 50 (Davis 10), Charlotte 50 (Warrick 10). AssistsNew Orleans 24 (Vasquez 8), Charlotte 27 (Walker 9). Total Fouls-New Orleans 20, Charlotte 17. Technicals-Charlotte Coach Dunlap. A-18,100 (19,077).

Nets 103, Cavaliers 100 NEW YORK — Brook Lopez scored a season-high 35 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Brooklyn improved to 2-0 under interim coach P.J. Carlesimo by beating Cleveland.

Lopez followed his 26-point, 11-rebound performance in a victory Friday over Charlotte by shooting 13-of-20 from the field, making a number of timely baskets in the fourth quarter that the Nets ultimately needed.

CLEVELAND (100) Gee 4-9 2-2 10, Thompson 5-11 7-8 17, Zeller 6-14 0-0 12, Irving 5-16 2-2 13, Waiters 2-8 1-2 5, Walton 2-4 0-2 4, Miles 11-15 3-3 33, Pargo 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 38-82 15-19 100.

BROOKLYN (103) Bogans 1-3 0-0 3, Wallace 1-6 5-8 7, Lopez 13-20 9-11 35, Williams 5-12 5-6 15, Johnson 6-13 2-2 15, Evans 1-5 5-6 7, Stackhouse 3-5 1-2 8, Blatche 2-5 2-4 7, Watson 1-2 0-0 2, Brooks 2-4 0-0 4.

Totals 35-75 29-39 103.

Cleveland 24 29 21 26 — 100 Brooklyn 34 27 18 24 — 103 3-Point Goals-Cleveland 9-20 (Miles 8-10, Irving 1-6, Waiters 0-1, Gee 0-1, Walton 0-2), Brooklyn 4-15 (Blatche 1-1, Stackhouse 1-2, Bogans 1-2, Johnson 1-4, Watson 0-1, Wallace 0-2, Williams 0-3). Fouled Out-Zeller. ReboundsCleveland 47 (Thompson 15), Brooklyn 51 (Lopez 11). Assists-Cleveland 21 (Irving 7), Brooklyn 15 (Williams 7).

Total Fouls-Cleveland 24, Brooklyn 16.

A-17,732 (17,732).

T’wolves 111, Suns 107 MINNEAPOLIS — Nikola Pekovic had 28 points and 11 rebounds, and Kevin Love added 23 points and 18 boards to lift Minnesota over Phoenix. Andrei Kirilenko added 20 points and five rebounds for the Timberwolves, who were missing guard Ricky Rubio because of back spasms. Luis Scola had 33 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns, who lost their fifth straight game. They led 102-99 with 3:30 to play, but once again failed to close it out.

PHOENIX (107) Dudley 8-13 1-2 18, Scola 16-26 1-2 33, Gortat 3-6 3-4 9, Dragic 4-10 8-13 16, Brown 9-17 2-2 21, Morris 3-9 0-1 6, Tucker 1-2 0-0 2, Beasley 1-8 0-0 2, Telfair 0-6 0-0 0. Totals 45-97 15-24 107.

MINNESOTA (111) Kirilenko 10-13 0-0 20, Love 8-20 5-7 23, Pekovic 13-20 2-4 28, Ridnour 2-7 0-0 4, Shved 3-6 5-6 12, Stiemsma 1-2 0-0 2, Barea 5-13 0-2 10, Williams 3-6 2-3 10, Cunningham 0-2 2-4 2. Totals 45-89 16-26 111.

Phoenix 29 29 29 20 — 107 Minnesota 32 32 25 22 — 111 3-Point Goals-Phoenix 2-17 (Brown 1-3, Dudley 1-5, Beasley 0-1, Dragic 0-2, Morris 0-3, Telfair 0-3), Minnesota 5-18 (Williams 2-3, Love 2-6, Shved 1-4, Ridnour 0-2, Barea 0-3). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Phoenix 55 (Scola 10), Minnesota 60 (Love 18). AssistsPhoenix 29 (Dragic 12), Minnesota 27 (Shved 10). Total Fouls-Phoenix 23, Minnesota 14. Technicals-Barea, Minnesota defensive three second.

A-19,356 (19,356).

Bulls 87, Wizards 77 CHICAGO — Marco Belinelli came off the bench to score 17 points and lead Chicago past Washington.

Carlos Boozer added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulls (16-12), who snapped a two-game losing streak. Belinelli made seven of 16 shots in a reserve role as Richard Hamilton returned to the starting lineup. Hamilton had missed 12 games because of a torn plantar fascia in his left foot.

WASHINGTON (77) Webster 4-10 0-0 10, Nene 4-11 2-6 10, Okafor 5-11 1-2 11, Temple 3-11 2-2 8, Beal 5-15 4-4 14, Seraphin 5-11 2-2 12, Vesely 1-2 0-0 2, Mack 3-8 1-2 7, Martin 1-6 0-0 3. Totals 31-85 12-18 77.

CHICAGO (87) Deng 4-13 2-3 11, Boozer 5-12 5-7 15, Noah 4-11 1-2 9, Hinrich 3-6 2-2 10, Hamilton 4-9 0-0 9, Belinelli 7-16 1-2 17, Gibson 3-7 0-0 6, Mohammed 0-3 0-0 0, Robinson 3-8 0-0 7, Butler 1-2 1-2 3, Teague 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-87 12-18 87.

Washington 26 13 24 14 — 77 Chicago 22 23 25 17 — 87 3-Point Goals-Washington 3-10 (Webster 2-3, Martin 1-2, Temple 0-2, Beal 0-3), Chicago 7-16 (Belinelli 2-3, Hinrich 2-4, Hamilton 1-2, Deng 1-3, Robinson 1-3, Butler 0-1). ReboundsWashington 65 (Okafor 18), Chicago 54 (Boozer 12). Assists-Washington 19 (Temple, Mack 5), Chicago 24 (Hinrich 7). Total Fouls-Washington 16, Chicago 22. A-22,447 (20,917).

Grizzlies 81, Nuggets 72 MEMPHIS, TENN. — Rudy Gay scored eight of his 19 points down the stretch, and Memphis beat Denver.

Gay’s rush was part of 10 straight points for Memphis, breaking open a 68-68 game with 4:45 left. His 18-footer on the baseline with 1:25 left gave Memphis a 10-point lead, helping the Grizzlies snap a two-game losing streak.

DENVER (72) Gallinari 2-8 2-2 7, Faried 5-7 1-2 11, Koufos 4-6 0-0 8, Lawson 1-7 1-2 3, Iguodala 5-10 1-4 12, Brewer 5-10 1-1 12, McGee 5-11 2-2 12, A.Miller 2-5 3-5 7, Mozgov 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 29-68 11-18 72.

MEMPHIS (81) Gay 8-18 2-3 19, Z.Randolph 6-13 0-0 12, Gasol 3-9 0-0 6, Conley 3-12 0-0 7, Allen 3-5 0-0 6, Pondexter 1-5 0-0 3, Bayless 3-6 0-0 6, Speights 3-9 2-4 8, Arthur 3-7 0-0 6, Ellington 2-4 0-0 6, Haddadi 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 36-89 4-7 81.

Denver 15 21 21 15 — 72 Memphis 19 18 16 28 — 81 3-Point Goals-Denver 3-16 (Gallinari 1-3, Brewer 1-4, Iguodala 1-6, Lawson 0-3), Memphis 5-19 (Ellington 2-3, Gay 1-3, Pondexter 1-3, Conley 1-5, Arthur 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Z.Randolph 0-1, Bayless 0-2). Rebounds-Denver 45 (McGee 9), Memphis 57 (Speights 10). AssistsDenver 17 (Iguodala 5), Memphis 19 (Conley 6). Total Fouls-Denver 17, Memphis 17. Technicals-Gallinari, Gay, Haddadi. A-17,707 (18,119).

Bucks 104, Heat 85 MILWAUKEE — Brandon Jennings scored 25 points, and Mike Dunleavy had 13 of his 18 in the fourth quarter as Milwaukee beat Miami to spoil Dwyane Wade’s return.

Wade was back after serving a one-game suspension for flailing his leg and making contact with guard Ramon Sessions’ groin during the Heat’s 105-92 victory over Charlotte on Wednesday.

Wade sat out Miami’s 10999 loss to Detroit on Friday night.

MIAMI (85) James 11-20 3-5 26, Battier 1-4 0-0 3, Bosh 5-14 2-2 12, Chalmers 1-5 2-4 5, Wade 10-19 4-7 24, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0, Allen 1-6 0-0 2, Miller 1-1 0-0 3, Cole 1-2 0-0 2, Harrellson 2-5 1-2 5, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Te.Harris 0-0 3-4 3. Totals 33-76 15-24 85.

MILWAUKEE (104) Daniels 1-9 0-0 2, Mbah a Moute 8-15 2-3 19, Sanders 8-11 0-0 16, Jennings 8-16 7-7 25, Ellis 6-18 0-0 14, Dunleavy 5-12 5-5 18, Udoh 0-3 0-0 0, Ilyasova 2-7 2-2 6, Udrih 1-3 0-0 2, Henson 1-4 0-0 2, To.Harris 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-98 16-17 104.

Miami 20 24 27 14 — 85 Milwaukee 25 31 13 35 —104 3-Point Goals-Miami 4-13 (Miller 1-1, James 1-2, Battier 1-3, Chalmers 1-3, Allen 0-1, Harrellson 0-3), Milwaukee 8-21 (Dunleavy 3-7, Ellis 2-4, Jennings 2-7, Mbah a Moute 1-1, Daniels 0-1, Udrih 0-1). Rebounds-Miami 60 (Bosh 16), Milwaukee 51 (Sanders 11). AssistsMiami 18 (James 7), Milwaukee 29 (Ellis 9). Total Fouls-Miami 17, Milwaukee 19. Flagrant Fouls-Chalmers. A-18,717 (18,717).

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SYRACUSE RUNNING BACK PRINCE-TYSON GULLEY (23) AND GUARD ZACK CHIBANE CELEBRATE Gulley’s third-quarter touchdown against West Virginia in the Pinstripe Bowl. Syracuse won, 38-14, on Saturday in New York.

Orange plow through WVa NEW YORK (AP) — The weather made passing at the Pinstripe Bowl perilous, so Syracuse sent Prince-Tyson Gulley and Jerome Smith dashing through West Virginia and the snow.

Gulley ran for a careerbest 208 yards and had three touchdowns, Smith added 157 yards, and the Orange bid a blustery farewell to the Big East with a 38-14 victory Saturday.

Syracuse (8-5) will enter the Atlantic Coast Conference on a roll after finishing this season with six wins in its last seven games, capped by its second postseason victory at Yankee Stadium in the last three years.

In a bowl played in a baseball stadium, with weather more suited for a playoff game in Green Bay, the team that plays in a dome ended up being better equipped to handle the elements.

“The football gods brought snow,” said Smith, who carried a season-high 30 times. “The football gods from Syracuse brought us some snow and it changed even West Virginia’s game.

They had to run a little bit more than they were used to. We ran the ball a little bit more than we’re used to and did what we were supposed to do.”

Syracuse finished with a season-high 369 yards on the ground and beat its former Big East rival from West Virginia, now playing in the Big 12, for a third straight time.

“They just did a better job than us at the line of scrimmage,” Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said.

“To be in a game like this when you’ve got to rely on your run defense to help you win and you’re not able to do it, it’s frustrating.”

Geno Smith connected with Stedman Bailey for two touchdown passes for West Virginia (7-6), but the Mountaineers’ quarterback also was sacked in the end zone in the first half and called for intentional grounding in the end zone in the third quarter to give Syracuse a second safety.

Smith, who was an early

SUMMARY West Virginia 0 7 7 0—14 Syracuse 3 9 23 3—38 First Quarter Syr-FG Krautman 25, 5:21.

Second Quarter Syr-Lynch Safety, 7:59.

Syr-Gulley 33 run (Krautman kick), 6:07.

WVU-Bailey 32 pass from G.Smith (Bitancurt kick), 3:38.

Third Quarter Syr-Wales 10 pass from R.Nassib (Krautman kick), 10:43.

Syr-Gulley 67 run (Krautman kick), 6:52.

WVU-Bailey 29 pass from G.Smith (Bitancurt kick), 5:41.

Syr-Gulley 10 pass from R.Nassib (Krautman kick), 2:52.

Syr-Sharpe Safety, 1:08.

Fourth Quarter Syr-FG Krautman 36, 11:57.

A-39,098.

WVU Syr First downs 15 28 Rushes-yards 37-88 65-369 Passing 197 142 Comp-Att-Int 16-24-0 13-25-1 Return Yards 0 0 Punts-Avg. 5-31.4 3-24.7 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 10-106 5-68 Time of Possession 23:37 36:23 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-West Virginia, Austin 12-54, Buie 9-33, Bailey 1-13, G.Smith 5-13, Alston 7-5, Kinsey 3-(minus 30).

Syracuse, Gulley 25-208, Smith 30-157, R.Nassib 8-8, Team 2-(minus 4).

PASSING-West Virginia, G.Smith 16-24-0-197. Syracuse, R.Nassib 12-241-134, Loeb 1-1-0-8.

RECEIVING-West Virginia, Bailey 7-126, Woods 5-41, Austin 2-21, Clay 1-10, Buie 1-(minus 1). Syracuse, Gulley 5-56, Wales 3-39, Lemon 3-11, Sales 1-19, West 1-17.

Heisman Trophy frontrunner as the Mountaineers got off to a 5-0 start this season, was 16 for 26 for 197 yards in the final game of his record-breaking career. The NFL awaits.

Same goes for Ryan Nassib, though Syracuse didn’t ask much of its talented senior quarterback.

He threw two touchdown passes and an interception. His most impressive feat on this day was surviving being driven into the cold turf by Terence Garvin on a sack in the first half. Nassib missed only one play.

“It’s my last game, man, nothing’s going to take me out,” he said.

Especially against a West Virginia team the Orange felt didn’t give them much credit after two straight victories over the Mountaineers.

“It was about us going out there and getting respect,” tackle Justin Pugh said. “They didn’t give us any respect. We kind of said three strikes you’re out. Beat them three straight times, so they really can’t say anything now.”

FORT WORTH, TEXAS (AP) — When Rice freshman quarterback Driphus Jackson was suddenly thrust into action in the Armed Forces Bowl, he drove the Owls within 2 yards of a tying touchdown before his errant pitch.

Jackson more than made up for that miscue that ended the first half.

After starter Taylor McHargue was knocked out the game because of a concussion, Jackson threw for 264 yards with two second-half touchdowns to Jordan Taylor, and Rice beat Air Force 33-14 on Saturday.

“I couldn’t get down (after the fumble). The guys had all the confidence in the world in me,” Jackson said. “Things slowed down for me in the second half.”

Rice (7-6), which had to win four in a row just to get bowl eligible, has won both of its bowl games under sixth-year coach David Bailiff. Before their 2008 Texas Bowl victory, the Owls had lost their only four bowl games since winning the 1954 Cotton Bowl.

“This football team has overcome a lot of adversity and really played well down the stretch,” Bailiff said. “We had a very motivational talk with our team just before the winning streak, and our coaching staff and players worked hard and kept improving every game.”

And this is a Rice team with only seven seniors, three of them tight ends.

The Owls were 1-5 after a loss at Memphis on Oct. 6, and their only loss was 28-24 to Conference USA champion Tulsa.

“We had our ups and downs. To cap it after the start we had, it means the world,” said running back Turner Petersen (nine carries for 81 yards).

Air Force (6-7) scored on consecutive drives in the second quarter with backup quarterback Kale Pearson in the game. But the Falcons had a seasonlow 214 total yards.

Jackson’s first series ended with a bad pitch near the goal line only two seconds before halftime, when the Owls trailed 14-7. It was the third lost fumble by Rice in the second quarter.

“We didn’t make a lot of adjustments at halftime,” said Taylor, who had nine catches for 153 yards and three TDs, including a 16-yarder from McHargue in the first quarter. “The coaches just told us to execute and protect the football better than we did in the first half.”

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TEXAS’ MARQUISE GOODWIN, CENTER, CELEBRATES with teammates after defeating Oregon State in the Alamo Bowl. Texas won, 31-27, Saturday in San Antonio.

UT stuns Beavers ————

Beleaguered ’Horns rally, 31-27 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — David Ash wasn’t sure he would start the Alamo Bowl. No one will remember after the way he finished Texas’ rocky season with a validating and dazzling victory.

The sophomore threw a 36-yard touchdown strike to Marquise Goodwin with 2:24 left for the last of two fourth-quarter touchdown passes, stunning No. 15 Oregon State and lifting the Longhorns to a 31-27 comeback victory Saturday night.

The Longhorns (9-4) never led before Goodwin scored his second touchdown on a deep post pattern, just a down after Texas converted a fourth-and-1 play to keep its chances alive.

“I guess in every situation you have to be thankful,” said Ash, who was pulled in a loss to TCU a month ago and wasn’t immediately selected the starter for the Alamo Bowl. “I learned a lot at TCU. It was a tough situation I was in. I was just really thankful I got another opportunity to play a game I love.”

With Texas down 2010 at halftime, Longhorns coach Mack Brown said he told his players they would win.

“I told them this wasn’t going to be easy, but I told them this game was ours and we would win it,” Brown said. “This one is really special.”

Storm Woods ran for 118 yards and scored two touchdowns for the Beavers (9-4), who left stunned after looking as though they would wrap up their first 10-win season since 2006.

“Not to take anything away from Texas, that was a great team offensively and defensively,” Wood said. “In the first half we had a great style of football. In the second half, Texas made some adjustments and I guess, they just wanted it more.”

The victory was a dose

SUMMARY Texas 3 7 7 14—31 Oregon St. 10 10 7 0 —27 First Quarter OrSt-FG Romaine 29, 9:12.

Tex-FG Jordan 40, 6:46.

OrSt-Woods 12 run (Romaine kick), 1:33.

Second Quarter Tex-Goodwin 64 run (Jordan kick), 14:40.

OrSt-FG Romaine 37, 9:20.

OrSt-Ward 9 run (Romaine kick), 3:46.

Third Quarter Tex-Ash 11 run (Jordan kick), 5:17.

OrSt-Woods 2 run (Romaine kick), :09.

Fourth Quarter Tex-Gray 15 pass from Ash (Jordan kick), 8:18.

Tex-Goodwin 36 pass from Ash (Jordan kick), 2:24.

A-65,277.

Tex OrSt First downs 16 21 Rushes-yards 31-117 42-103 Passing 241 194 Comp-Att-Int 21-34-1 15-29-2 Return Yards 33 22 Punts-Avg. 5-45.4 4-40.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 9-78 2-10 Time of Possession 29:02 30:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Texas, Goodwin 1-64, Ash 7-22, Gray 7-18, Monroe 3-9, Malcol.

Brown 4-8, Shipley 1-2, Bergeron 5-2, Team 3-(minus 8). Oregon St., Woods 21-118, Wheaton 4-26, Ward 6-25, Cooks 1-15, Vaz 10-(minus 81).

PASSING-Texas, Ash 21-33-1-241, King 0-1-0-0. Oregon St., Vaz 15-28-2194, Team 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Texas, Shipley 8-88, Goodwin 4-68, M.Davis 3-30, Gray 2-27, Malcol.Brown 2-14, Monroe 1-9, Grant 1-5. Oregon St., Hamlett 5-70, Wheaton 3-37, Cooks 3-31, K.Cummings 2-15, Woods 1-22, Ward 1-19.

of much-needed good news for Texas after coming into the game under a cloud of questions following the suspensions of backup quarterback Case McCoy and injured linebacker Jordan Hicks.

Ash, who’s been pulled at times for McCoy this season, was 21 of 33 for 241 yards. Ash sputtered until the fourth quarter, when he went 9 for 11 for 146 yards. Even if there were doubts about Ash before then, Texas had no choice but to stick with him: the only backups were two redshirt freshmen who haven’t taken a snap all season.

Brown announced the suspensions Friday but wouldn’t reveal which players were sent home.

A person with knowledge of the suspensions told The Associated Press the players were McCoy and Hicks, speaking on condi-

tion of anonymity because Texas wasn’t releasing the names.

Brown addressed the suspensions during a previously schedule news conference and referred to a local TV report that police were investigating two unidentified Texas players in an alleged sexual assault at a San Antonio hotel. Police released a heavily redacted incident report that only identifies the suspects as two students, one 20 and the other 21.

Authorities are still investigating and no charges have been filed.

Brown said he would not address the suspensions further.

Oregon State quarterback Cody Vaz was 15 of 28 for 194 yards and two interceptions. The Beavers had negative 4 yards in the fourth quarter as they were muffled by the Longhorns defense that was led by Alex Okafor, who finished with 41⁄2 sacks.

“When we tried to just drop back and pass, it was difficult,” Oregon State coach Mike Riley said.

“That’s why Cody had to just hang in there. It was very, very tough. He made some plays and some other plays didn’t develop because he didn’t just have time.”

Although Goodwin’s touchdown catch might have won the game, two spectacular Texas plays in an earlier 83-yard scoring drive handed the Longhorns momentum — and a chance.

First was wide receiver Jaxon Shipley rescuing a pass sailing behind him with a dazzling one-handed grab at midfield. Ash made up for that off-target throw six plays later, slithering out of safety Anthony Watkins’ near-certain sack and flinging the ball to Johnathan Gray, who then zipped down the sideline for a 15-yard scoring play that got the Longhorns to 27-2

FIGHT HUNGER BOWL

Arizona St. gets first bowl win in seven years SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Taylor Kelly, Marion Grice and the rest of the Arizona State offense put an emphatic finish on coach Todd Graham’s successful first season with the Sun Devils.

Kelly threw four touchdown passes and ran for a fifth score to lead Arizona State to its first bowl win in seven years, a 62-28 victory over Navy in the Fight Hunger Bowl on Saturday.

Offensive MVP Marion Grice ran for 159 yards and two touchdowns for the Sun Devils (8-5), who used their fast-paced spread offense to score touchdowns on their first nine possessions.

“Our guys came to play today and dominated,” Graham said. “I’m proud of them.”

The Sun Devils won their most games since 2007 and won a bowl for the first time since the 2005 Insight Bowl against Rutgers.

They also capped their season by beating rival Arizona and winning a bowl, a feat they had accomplished just once in the past 33 seasons.

“This win means a lot — 1978 is a long time,” said Rashad Ross, who caught three touchdown passes.

“I’m just glad to be on this team, the team that finally did it: Beat U of A and

then go on and win a bowl game.”

The Midshipmen (8-5) have lost five of their last six bowl games. Among the few highlights for Navy were Keenan Reynolds’ 3-yard TD pass to Matt Aiken in the first half and a 95-yard kickoff return for a score by Gee Gee Greene in the third quarter.

Rashad Ross, who grew up in nearby Vallejo, started and ended the first-half outburst with touchdown receptions. His 16-yard catch from Kelly capped a 75-yard game-opening drive and he got behind the Navy defense for a 52-yard score in the final

minute of the half to make it 34-7. Ross then caught a 50-yard TD pass on Arizona State’s first drive of the second half to make it 41-7.

Grice, playing with a heavy heart after his brother was murdered last week in Houston, scored on a 10-yard run in the first quarter and a 39-yarder in the third. He had 19 touchdowns this season, with 11 coming on the ground.

“We opened our arms out for Marion,” Kelly said. “We’re all with him.

He’s in our prayers and our family. He’s having a hard time in the locker room or he’d be out here.

He’s all into this program.

He wanted to come out and play for his brother and his family and also our brothers.”

Much of the talk leading up to the game was how Arizona State would handle Navy’s unique triple-option offense. It turned out that the Midshipmen had much more trouble with the Sun Devils’ spread, giving up 648 yards.

“We couldn’t stop them,” linebacker Brye French said. “Everything that they would try, they just dominated us in basically every aspect of the game. It was very frustrating but you have to give them credit. They had a

great game plan. They executed on everything.

They had the deep ball, they had the run, they had the short pass. They had a great game plan and we just couldn’t stop them.”

Arizona State had seven touchdown drives of at least 60 yards in the first three quarters and had just three third-down plays in that span as Kelly easily picked apart the defense. The longest drive took just 2:43 and one of the quickest came at the end of the half when the Sun Devils went 80 yards in two plays covering 19 seconds after Nick Sloan missed a 33-yard field goal for Navy.

COMING MONDAY IN GO! Clear out your old stuff for 2013 without throwing it away

Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is fun but lacks impact.

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TO KICK OFF

2013 With New Year’s Eve on Monday, here are a few suggestions of local events to keep you entertained as the clock approaches midnight.

For more New Year’s Eve happenings, check out the event listings at Lawrence.com.

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Music: Mountain Sprout and Tyler Gregory at the Bottleneck Celebrate with the bluegrass-inspired, down-home local music of long-time Lawrence strummer Tyler Gregory and the updated bluegrass of national act Mountain Sprout for a hootenanny Hogmanay.

Tickets for the all-ages show are $13 in advance or $15 the day of the show, and doors open at 8 p.m. at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.

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The arts and entertainment events and news you need to know that are going on the first few months of the year.

See what’s happening on page 4C.

Local music: Approach, Cloud Dog and Radkey at the Jackpot This NYE party features local hip-hop artist Approach, drum-led indie color-spolotion group Cloud Dog and fellow local indie rockers Radkey. Starts at 8 p.m. and is for those 18 and over at the Jackpot Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St. Music: Murder

By Death at The Granada Murder By Death’s electric-cello-led alt-country promises to crescendo into a memorable night.

Cowboy Indian Bear and Y(our) Fri(end) will also play. Starts at 9 p.m. at The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 the day of the show.

See more about Murder by Death on page 2C.

SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS from the first few months of the year include: Above, musician Josh Ritter will take the stage at Liberty Hall April 21; above left, Chuck Mead will be inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame March 2; and, at left, Theatre Lawrence will be getting a new home, under construction now and expected to be open by the summer.

Classy watch party: NYE at The Eldridge The Big 6 Room at the Eldridge. 701 Massachusetts St., will host a countdown party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

A midnight champagne toast comes with the $20 cover charge, but is reduced to $10 with dinner at any of the hotel’s restaurants (Five 21, The Jayhawker or Ten). The party is for those 21 and older.

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Classy watch party: Ballroom Blitz at Pachamama’s Pachamama’s Alton Ballroom, 800 New Hampshire St., will have champagne, hors d’oeuvres and a dance floor for $15, reduced to $5 with dinner (reservations recommended). The event is for those 21 and older and lasts from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Local music: Pale Hearts, Stiff Middle Fingers & Monsoon Lazer at Frank’s North Star Tavern If you’re more inclined to rock out, Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust St. in North Lawrence, offers a chance to “get trashy one last time before making those New Year’s resolutions” with three pop-punk-inspired local bands: Pale Hearts, Stiff Middle Fingers and Monsoon Lazer. 21+, $5, starts at 10 p.m.

Dance party: Mingle at the Taproom Mingle, a rotating club/ hip-hop DJfest, returns for what’s sure to be a holiday blowout at the Taproom, 19 E. Eighth St. It starts at 10 p.m. and costs $5 to get in. It’s for the 21-and-older crowd.

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Their keys to success?

Trust and honesty. For 10 years now, the Indiana folk-rock band has been out in the indie-rock trenches, going on bruising tours, maintaining strong fan connections, and handling their own merchandising.

In fact, before this interview, he was prepping Christmas orders for shipment, including long johns with a pocket for a flask. While Murder by Death may be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;mid-level bandâ&#x20AC;? as Turla points out, they have a die-hard fan base because of the openness of its members and its constant activity.

Which is why in some sense the Kickstarter success is not surprising or unexpected. And while the relatively spare and stripped-down â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bitter Drink, Bitter Moonâ&#x20AC;? would have been released without the Kickstarter (it had been recorded in January), it was a way of financing the vinyl production of their albums for a couple of years.

Maybe more importantly, it was another creative way of engaging with fans.

This included a variety of

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INDIANA FOLK ROCKERS MURDER BY DEATH, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, Matt Armstrong, Scott Brackett, Adam Turla, Sarah Balliet and Dagan Thogerson, will be playing a New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Even show at The Granada along with Cowboy Indian Bear and Y(our) Fri(end). packages and incentives that included a Murder by Death book club, house shows, studio versions of cover songs, and even a trip to Cedar Point, Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed amusement park, with the band.

As Turla says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Kickstarter highlighted something that has been there for our band the whole time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been together and it made it much more public to people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know so much about the band.

It was definitely a bigger view of something that has existed the whole time.â&#x20AC;?

His emphasis in trying out this experiment seems to hold true to what the band has been about all along: honesty, value, creativity and fun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon,â&#x20AC;? which goes to dark and brawling places, is vintage Murder by Death and possibly their most bracing record yet, with a solemn focus that holds across its desolate 13 tracks.

This downshift was a conscious decision, Turla says, because of the addition of multi-instrumentalist Scott Brackett (of Okkervil River and Shearwater). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to basically figure out how to lay off while also having a million more sonic options.

That was a big part of the writing process â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cutting away,â&#x20AC;? Turla says. The other thing contributing

to the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strippeddown quality was new producer John Congleton, whose hand has guided many of the best independent releases of the last half-decade. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just has the quickest ear of anybody Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever heard. He just has a way of â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear a song once and then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, I like this part but you should just not play guitar through this whole section.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;... He hears something once and then he has an opinion about it, which I think is so refreshing.â&#x20AC;?

With songs that heavily draw on the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Indiana roots, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bitter Drink, Bitter Moonâ&#x20AC;? develops stirring images and poignant rustic profundity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The song â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ghost Fieldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is about how many of the people who live here, their parents are farmers, but none of our friends are farmers,â&#x20AC;? Turla says. Which seems cute enough, but then you hear the magic of the song with its vital images and you realize the full power of this band.

With a new record and a semi-tradition for rollicking New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bashes (their performance this year at The Granada is the second time playing such a show in Lawrence), Murder by Death is set to send Lawrencians off into the new year.

NEW YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EVE SHOW

Murder by Death with supporting acts Cowboy Indian Bear and Y(our) Fri (end) will be playing starting at 9 p.m.

Monday at The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

LAWRENCE LIBATIONS

BY SARA SHEPHERD

HOT HARD CIDER AT HENRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UPSTAIRS Tis the season for hot drinks, and Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Upstairs serves a local favorite of the alcoholic variety. The barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seasonal Hot Hard Cider is made with apple juice, bourbon, spices, a dash of lemon juice and, depending on your bartender, a touch of Goldschlager. Apple slices dipped in apple whiskey float on top.

What makes drinking this beverage at this particular place all the better this time of year? Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Upstairs has a fireplace.

The hard stuff: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A whole lot oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bourbon,â&#x20AC;? the bartender says.

Where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s served: Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Upstairs, 11 E. Eighth St. (above Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffee shop) What it costs: $4 When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on special: Wednesdays. Hot Hard

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ARTS NOTES

Auditions this week for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Labyrinthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Auditions are this week for the Lawrence Arts Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming all-ages production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Escape from the Labyrinth: The Adventures of Thesus and Icarus.â&#x20AC;?

The play is written, composed, and directed by Ric Averill with puppetry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including a giant Minotaur and other monsters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and costumes by the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resident performing artist, Spencer Lott.

Auditions are from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Ages 7 and older are welcome, and families may audition together. No audition material is needed, as auditions will consist of theater exercises and improvisation. Attendees should wear comfortable clothes and bring any instruments they play proficiently.

Performances are set for Feb. 8, 9 and 10. For more information about the production, auditions and rehearsals, visit lawrenceartscenter. org.

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riter/director Quentin Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cult-flavored obsessions and his uncanny ability to create unforgettable moments have always resulted in movies that transcend their hybrid genres and become something with startlingly emotional depth and clarity.

At least, that is, until â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchained.â&#x20AC;?

Although it is set in the Antebellum South during the height of this countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shameful slavery practices and gleefully revels in the brutality of that period to shocking effect, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? never quite achieves the poignancy of Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous rewriting-history revenge fantasy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inglourious Basterds.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t full of terrific performances. It is, especially from Tarantino veterans Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. As Stephen, a sharp-as-nails plantation house slave, Jackson is electrifying.

The scowl is permanently fixed on his face, but having the ear of his master and the cunning to manipulate him, Stephen has more power than anyone in the house.

And three years after winning an Oscar for playing the scary/ campy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jew Hunterâ&#x20AC;? in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basterds,â&#x20AC;? Waltz again shows how singularly qualified he is to turn Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wordy dialogue into gold with impeccable comic timing. Despite all of his bravado and skills, Waltz gives bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz a surprising amount of tenderness as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? is also full of inspired scenes of sheer lunacy. Only Tarantino would approach such a sensitive subject with the ferociousness of a rabid dog. With key scenes built around the torture, fighting and killing of slaves for amusement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? is not for the faint of heart. That said, the blunt treatment of slavery throughout the film is enough to spark serious discussion about its lasting

A miserable time The 1980s smashhit stage musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les MisĂŠrablesâ&#x20AC;? arrives on the big screen in a movie adaptation from director Tom Hooper (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speechâ&#x20AC;?) that is a punishing display of actorly â&#x20AC;&#x153;rawâ&#x20AC;? emotion, ploddingly staged, and stuck in an endless spindry cycle.

Hooper, by way of the stage play by ClaudeMichel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, reduces Victor Hugoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expansive 1862 novel about meaningful redemption into a claustrophobic soap opera where characters sing about their connections to one another rather AP Photo/The Weinstein Company than actually developing them.

FROM LEFT, CHRISTOPH WALTZ AND JAMIE FOXX STAR in Quentin Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest In early 19th-century film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchained.â&#x20AC;? The film centers on a slave trying to rescue his wife from France, Jean Valjean a Mississippi plantation. BELOW: Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway star in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les (Hugh Jackman) goes Miserables.â&#x20AC;? The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for best musical or comfrom emaciated convict to edy this month, but film critic Eric Melin was not a fan. rehabilitated upperclassman while Javert (Russell silent types â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crowe), a former guard, a bit of a cipher. There is obsessed with bringing doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be much him down. Because you going on behind his eyes. see, in his eyes, people Perhaps the idea was to canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change. make Django stick out by But change Valjean being surrounded by big does, swooping in to save personalities and perforthe daughter of Fantine, mances, but Foxx doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one of his unfortunate add any weight to the factory workers (Anne role.

Hathaway), who creAs the long list of forates climax No. 1 of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les mer TV/movie stars and MisĂŠrablesâ&#x20AC;? about 40 B-movie regulars cycle minutes in with her gothrough their supportfor-broke rendition of the ing roles and cameos, playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic pity party â&#x20AC;&#x153;I â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? does Dreamed A Dream.â&#x20AC;? The achieve some of those problem is, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve barely quintessential Tarantino spent any time with the moments of cinematic woman, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practiAP Photo/Universal Pictures bliss, which only makes cally begging us for our the moments that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tears. Later in the film, we reach that bliss more are supposed to believe ence. Part of that is pacing. frustrating. Something a relationship between The film feels choppy, is off about the pacing.

Valjean and her daughter and unwieldy transitions The movie is lumpy and (Amanda Seyfried) exists abound as it shifts gears in doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always unfold when no proof is found fits and starts to spotlight with the urgency that it on screen. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get the best scenes while keep- should. me started on the undering forward movement The drawn-out finale developed love triangle. alive. Meanwhile, characis a perfect example. It For two and a half hours, ter development on the feels like an experiment â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les MisĂŠrablesâ&#x20AC;? roughly part of Django â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the in genre expectations, follows the pattern it set eric@scene-stealers.com wife he is searching for â&#x20AC;&#x201D; alternately rewarding with everything leading is lacking. and subverting them to up to climax No. 1. Misery. effect on the country.

Another part of the frustrating effect. It all Heartbreak. Melodrama.

As an entertaining problem is the lead actor. builds up to a good and Extended high note. Marevenge flick with roots in As Django, Jamie Foxx bloody showdown, but nipulative death. Repeat. exploitation films and spa- is uncharacteristically â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;?

Except in the second ghetti westerns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django bland. Sure, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed lacks the fully fleshed-out cycle, it adds the Rousing Unchainedâ&#x20AC;? succeeds. But to be stoic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; following emotional experience Chorus, which plasters it never rises above its in the tradition of Clint that Tarantino has been blustery lyrics on top of genre to become a real, af- Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man With No able to pull off with such a bunch of kids playing fecting, emotional experiName and other strong, unlikely frequency before. dress-up in French revolu-

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tionary costumes.

Not all movies need to connect emotionally in order to succeed on some level, (see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchainedâ&#x20AC;?), but â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les MisĂŠrablesâ&#x20AC;? is clearly going for emotion. Unfortunately, Hooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea to make the performances gritty and real backfires completely.

His strategy for infusing an already bombastic and melodramatic stage play with realistic emotion was to have the actors sing onset (rather than lip-syncing pre-recorded studio tracks as is the standard) and film them in long, unbroken takes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with frequent use of close-ups, handheld camera, and lots of swooping crane shots. Right in their faces. Over and over again.

The cumulative effect is the filmic equivalent of brain freeze. Ice cream tastes good on a hot day, but would you eat an entire gallon? The movie is a continuum of repetitive music (reprises of reprises?) and imagery (â&#x20AC;&#x153;squalidâ&#x20AC;? sets and non-convincing CGI backgrounds), with actors playing as big as possible, even though we are right there next to them. They neednâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shout.

We can hear them just fine.

By the time the chorus was chanting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the night that ends at last!â&#x20AC;? I was begging for black, for those credits to roll. But they were still a long way off. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing worse than falling out of a movie completely and not being able to get back into it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les MisĂŠrablesâ&#x20AC;? did that quicker and more consistently to me than anything else Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in a while. It is certainly the most alienating movie experience Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had all year. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Eric is a longtime Lawrence.com/Journal-World entertainment writer. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the editor-in-chief of Scene-Stealers and on-air film critic for Kansas First News. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, vice president of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, and drummer for The Dead Girls and Ultimate Fakebook. On the air-guitar circuit, he goes by the name Mean Melin. Eric goes to 11.

Ticket rush: Film fans hand Hollywood record cash

By David Germain Associated Press

LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact that the number of tickets sold went up for the first time in three years.

Thanks to inflation, revenue generally rises in Hollywood as admission prices climb each year.

The real story is told in tickets, whose sales have been on a general decline for a decade, bottoming out in 2011 at 1.29 billion, their lowest level since 1995.

The industry rebounded this year, with ticket sales projected to rise 5.6 percent to 1.36 billion

by Dec. 31, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still well below the modern peak of 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, but in an age of cozy home theater setups and endless entertainment gadgets, studio executives consider it a triumph that they were able to put more butts in cinema seats this year than last. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a victory, ultimately,â&#x20AC;? said Don Harris, head of distribution at Paramount Pictures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we deliver the product as an industry that people want, they will want to get out there.

Even though you can sit at home and watch something on your large screen in high-def, people want to get out.â&#x20AC;?

Domestic revenue should finish up nearly 6 percent from 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $10.2 billion and top Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous high of $10.6 billion set in 2009.

The year was led by a pair of superhero sagas, Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Avengersâ&#x20AC;? with $623 million domestically and $1.5 billion worldwide and the Warner Bros. Batman finale â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dark Knight Risesâ&#x20AC;? with $448 million domestically and $1.1 billion worldwide.

Sonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s James Bond adventure â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skyfallâ&#x20AC;? is closing in on the $1 billion mark globally, and the list of action and familyfilm blockbusters includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hunger Games,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Part Two,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ice Age: Continental Drift,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Madagascar 3: Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Wanted,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Amazing SpiderManâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brave.â&#x20AC;?

While domestic revenues inch upward most years largely because of inflation, the real growth areas have been overseas, where more and more fans are eager for the next Hollywood blockbuster.

Rentrak, which compiles international box office data, expects 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreign gross to be about $23 billion, 3 percent higher than in 2011. No data was yet available on the number of tickets sold overseas this past year.

International business generally used to account for less than half of a studio filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall receipts. Films now often do two or even three times as much business

overseas as they do domestically. Some movies that were duds with U.S. audiences, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battleshipâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Carter,â&#x20AC;? can wind up being $200 million hits with overseas crowds.

Whether finishing a good year or a bad one, Hollywood executives always look ahead to better days, insisting that the next crop of blockbusters will be bigger than ever.

The same goes this time as studio bosses hype their 2013 lineup, which includes the latest â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Man,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Star Trek,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hunger Gamesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thorâ&#x20AC;? installments, the Superman tale â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man of Steelâ&#x20AC;? and the second chapter in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hobbitâ&#x20AC;? trilogy.

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VIM EXHIBIT (JAN. 18)

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A RENDERING OF THEATRE LAWRENCE’S NEW BUILDING, at 4660 Bauer Farm Drive, that will have a 300seat theater, dressing rooms and space for classes.

Theatre Lawrence’s new home

After decades of venue-hopping and squeezing into a retrofitted downtown church, come summer, Theatre Lawrence should have a shiny new home designed just for it.

Construction is progressing on Theatre Lawrence’s new $6.5 million home at 4660 Bauer Farm Drive. Plans call for a 300-seat theater with dressing rooms and offices, plus an education

wing with classrooms and outdoor space.

“We’re going to have a lovely building,” executive director Mary Doveton says. “People have been so generous.”

If things go perfectly (and winter weather doesn’t interfere with the construction schedule), the theater could be complete in time for the final show of Theatre Lawrence’s 2012-13 season, “Ragtime,” sched-

uled to open June 7.

In the meantime, shows will go on at Theatre Lawrence’s current location, 1501 New Hampshire St. The next performance will be “The Fox on the Fairway,” opening Jan. 18.

While opening the new building doesn’t depend on it, a final fundraising effort is hoped to enable the theater to upgrade some of its equipment to better fit its new home,

Doveton says. Theatre Lawrence has raised about $150,000 of $350,000 to pay for equipment such as stronger lights, a new sound system and certain stage rigging.

“We just want to ensure that the equipment that we put in the building will provide high-quality performance,” Doveton says.

“And no theater is ever finished when it comes to equipment.”

The next new visual arts exhibit scheduled to open at the Lawrence Arts Center is called “VIM,” a firsttime collaboration between painters Kent Michael Smith, Lisa Lala and Archie Scott Gobber and ceramist Ben Ahlvers, who is also the Arts Center’s exhibitions director.

The exhibit will feature new works from all four artists, who use color and varied techniques to suggest energy and momentum, according to the Arts Center’s description. The exhibit aims to accentuate distinctive qualities in materials, process and ideas, and relationships between the works on display.

VIM opens Jan. 18 at the Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., and runs through March 2.

A reception is scheduled for 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 27, and an Insight Art Talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 7.

— Sara Shepherd

— Sara Shepherd

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“Mrs. Thomas Pelham (Anneta, daughter of Thomas Bridges, wife of Thomas Pelham)” by Joseph Highmore

EMPIRE OF THINGS (ONGOING)

Members of the public will have a rare opportunity to watch a gallery installation in progress as the Spencer Museum of Art’s new exhibit “Empire of Things” is unveiled slowly throughout the first months of 2013. Open areas within the museum’s galleries will allow visitors a glimpse inside the work in progress.

“Empire of Things” explores where the carefully selected objects within — a few emerging from storage for the first time since being acquired by the Spencer — come from, why they look the way they do, what they meant to their collectors and inheritors and, finally, what earned them a place within the walls of a museum, according to the museum’s description.

Themes include colonial expansion, the complexity of international commerce and the dialogue between art and science.

Artworks range from architectural fragments to blue-and-white ceramics, from paintings depicting coveted objects to the coveted objects themselves.

“Empire of Things” is the second gallery overhaul in the museum’s ongoing effort to reinstall its permanent collection in fresh, new ways. The effort, dubbed Project Redefine, aims to transform galleries organized in the traditional way — grouped by time period or geographic area — into exhibits where artworks from different regions and time periods are selected and grouped by theme.

The museum’s first redefined permanent exhibit, “Corpus,” opened in spring 2012.

— Sara Shepherd

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SWISS PERFORMANCE TROUPE MUMMENSCHANZ

MUMMENSCHANZ (MARCH 8) There really are no words to adequately describe what Mummenschanz does, which is fitting, because Mummenschanz is a Swiss mime troupe.

Don’t worry, this isn’t Marcel Marceau or hundreds of lesser silent street performers bracing themselves against an imaginary gust of wind or pretending to walk an unseen dog. Mummenschanz performances speak silent paragraphs about the absurdity of the human condition, in the most ingenious ways imaginable.

The core of Mummenschanz’s genius is countless clever props: unfurled toilet paper to mimic tears and flowing hair; full-sized clay masks that can quickly be molded into any emotion; enormous fabric hands that roam the stage gesturing and congratulating each other; giant corrugated tubes that writhe around the stage

in the name of storytelling, pathos and comedy. Lots and lots of wordless, physical comedy.

If you can imagine giant, grownup Muppets, you’ll be sort of on the right track, but Mummenschanz isn’t kids’ stuff (though kids love it). There are echoes of Blue Man Group, too, though Mummenschanz was doing its act long before the Blue Men established residency in Las Vegas.

In fact, the Swiss artists’ collective has been doing its delirious, ultra-creative act for 40 years, delighting unsuspecting audiences on every stop on their increasingly rare world and U.S. tours. Catch them at the Lied Center on March 8 — and then see if you can find words to describe the indescribable. Ticket prices range from $9$26. For more information about the performance, visit lied.ku.edu.

— Mark Potts

It has been about two-and-a-half years since Lawrence indie stars Cowboy Indian Bear released their auspicious and bracing debut “Each Other All The Time.”

This time span isn’t a knock against the group — some bands take half a decade between one album and the next — and Cowboy Indian Bear exhibits the perfect amount of organic flow with composed songcraft that is seemingly well-considered and uncovered over time. And it’s not as if the band has suffered for a lack of activity: Katlyn Conroy was integrated as a fullfledged member, there were regionwide tours, a Daytrotter session, plus solo work from Martinez Hillard under his nom de rap, Ebony Tusks.

But between Cowboy Indian Bear’s debut, singles and resolutely moving shows, a new album is an exciting prospect, especially as the band seemingly rediscovers itself. It is thrilling to watch a band build on its promise and early potential — of which “Each Other All The Time” has in spades.

The band seems as if it could morph and grow in any number of hypothetical directions, an estimation that comes after seeing the group play tight-focused sky-weltering new songs at gigs over the last year. Hillard says Cowboy Indian Bear’s sophomore effort, as yet untitled, will be launched at a CD release show at The Bottleneck on March 2, with a national drop date (digital and physical) sometime in April.

For as hard the group has worked on developing its spectral and shiverinducing focus, it will be great to finally hear the fruit of the band’s labors.

— Chance Dibben

THEATRE LAWRENCE PRESENTS ‘12 ANGRY MEN’ (APRIL)

Classic television and pop culture land on Theatre Lawrence’s stage in April.

In what is scheduled to be the final show in its current facility, the group presents a jewel of American dramatics, “12 Angry Men.” Originally presented live on CBS television in 1954, the story concerns the deliberations of a jury at a murder trial. The case appears to be open and shut. But a single juror thinks they should discuss

the case more thoroughly before just voting to convict a young man of homicide.

Slowly, he sows the seeds of reasonable doubt in the mind of one juror after another. Arguments break out, and recriminations fly, revealing more about the individual jurors than the trial or the defendant.

The teleplay was adapted to the stage in 1955 and to an Oscar-nominated screenplay that starred Henry Fonda as the heroic Juror

No. 8 under the direction of Sidney Lumet in 1957. Over the years, several more versions appeared, including a 1997 teleplay that starred Jack Lemmon and a 2007 national tour with Richard Thomas.

The story has captivated the American imagination for over 50 years.

The idea of a lone person fighting heroically against bigotry and a tyrannical majority so that a poor, less-fortunate innocent will

not be wrongly convicted is a powerful idea that has inspired a lot of imitation.

Homages to “12 Angry Men” can be found in episodes of “Happy Days,” “All in the Family,” “The Odd Couple,” “7th Heaven”, and even “The Simpsons.”

This spring, the battle will be fought once again in Lawrence. “12 Angry Men” begins its run April 12. For more information, visit theatrelawrence.com.

— John R. Phythyon Jr.

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“IT GETS BETTER”

‘IT GETS BETTER’ (FEB. 16) Tolerance, diversity and the sensitive and sometimes tragic issue of bullying will take center stage when the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, with other performers, presents “It Gets Better.”

The performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive. Tickets are $17 for adults or $17 for youths. Purchase tickets online at lied.ku.edu or in person at the Lied Center.

The Gay Men’s Chorus will be joined by local choirs in the theatrical event created with Speak Theater Arts. The multimedia performance will include local video, plus video and text projections from the national It Gets Better movement archives.

Parental discretion is advised for young children, as the show includes strong language and addresses adult issues.

— Sara Shepherd

‘AN ERRANT LINE’ (MARCH 2) Two internationally recognized artists with Kansas University ties are teaming up to create roomsized, site-specific installations for an immersive exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art. “An Errant Line: Ann Hamilton / Cynthia Schira” will fill the museum’s Central Court and other galleries March 2 until Aug. 31.

Using digital technology to explore the fundamental nature of cloth and the ways museums organize and maintain material legacies, Hamilton and Schira will consider the role of the hand and human practices that reveal and conceal, according to the museum.

The resulting exhibit will employ images of, as well as actual, objects from the museum’s permanent collection to create a “multisensory tapestry” of changing interactive elements.

“Errant Line” also has an important interactive twist, inspired by the artists’ own former studentteacher relationship (Hamilton came to KU in 1976 to study fiber arts with Schira).

Hamilton and Schira will involve current KU visual art students in the project.

— Sara Shepherd

A major renovation project is beginning at the Lawrence Public Library — so major that the library is moving out of its home at 707 Vermont St. to accommodate construction.

Fortunately for bibliophiles, the library has secured a temporary home not far away — the former Borders book store building at 700 New Hampshire St. The library will close for about two weeks during the move, anticipated sometime between Jan. 7 and

Jan. 21.

The temporary library on New Hampshire Street will house the Media Room collection, nearly all of the children’s collections, most of the teen collections and about half of the adult collections.

The rest of the collection will go to a nearby storage facility, where staff will be able to access items requested through the library catalog.

At some point during the construction process, the trees surrounding the library

will have to be cut down. On the bright side, there’s a plan to give them new life — as art.

A project called Logs to Literature aims to distribute lumber from the trees to area artists and craftsmen, selected through a juried application process, to create art objects and furniture.

Their work will be auctioned off to benefit Friends of the Library. The library expects to announce details and dates later.

— Sara Shepherd

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A RENDERING OF THE EXPANDED LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Josh Ritter at Liberty Hall (April 21) In an age of Twitter and manufactured pop hits, a truly literate songwriter seems almost a novelty. Josh Ritter follows in the footsteps of musical storytellers such as Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan in crafting songs that are more like short stories — tales of a female soldier in combat, love lost and found, ships in danger of foundering, even romance in a Cold War missile silo. Ritter even published a novel, “Bright’s Passage,” a couple of years ago, earning a favorable review from no less than Stephen King in The New York Times.

But songwriting and performing are his forte. Not quite folk, not quite rock, not quite alternative, the 36-year-old Ritter makes music for people who appreciate smart lyrics and strong melodies.

His upcoming album, “The Beast in Its Tracks,” due out March 5, will be his most personal, dealing with the collapse of his marriage. Ritter describes the songs, in his typical evocative fashion, as being like “rocks in a shoe, hard little nuggets of whatever they were, be it spite,

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JOSH RITTER, WHOSE NEWEST ALBUM, “THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS,” is due out March 5, will be playing at Liberty Hall on April 21. remorse, or happiness” and the cover depicts the singer with flames licking from his shirt. But he’s not bitter: the first song released from the album, “Joy to You Baby,” is an affectionate send-off.

Live, Ritter is as smart, ar-

ticulate and funny as his songs, apt to trot out a folkie version of “Moon River” or his hilarious ditty “Stuck to You,” which explains the science behind everything from photosynthesis to Teflon. As you’d expect from a singer-songwriter whose

oeuvre includes a song called “Lawrence, KS,” Ritter’s tours rarely miss a stop here — he’ll be performing his latest bunch of songs, along with his classics, April 21 at Liberty Hall. For ticket information, visit libertyhall.net.

— Mark Potts

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“GURU OF CHAI”

‘GURU OF CHAI’ (FEB. 7-9)

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CLYDE BYSOM

KANSAS MUSIC HALL OF FAME (MARCH 2) The Kansas Music Hall of Fame will celebrate its annual induction of new members with, naturally, a performance by some of the inductees themselves, including Lawrence’s Clyde Bysom and the Junkyard Jazz band.

The induction ceremony and concert is set for March 2 at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 each and can be purchased at

the Liberty Hall box office or online at ticketmaster. com.

Scheduled to perform with Junkyard Jazz are The Devastating Dinks of Salina, Exceptions of Topeka, Ray Hildebrand of Prairie Village, Playmate Blues Band of Hays and Tempests of Hays.

Bysom and Junkyard Jazz are being honored with one of two Directors Awards, with the other going to inductee Sherman Halsey of Inde-

pendence. Larry Emmett and the Sliders, of De Soto, are being honored with the Bob Hapgood Award.

The other 2013 Kansas Music Hall of Fame inductees are Kerry Livgren of Berryton/Topeka; Chuck Mead, formerly of Lawrence and co-founder of the band BR549, Mystic Number National Bank of Kansas City, Steve Werner of Kansas City and Wizards from Kansas of Lawrence.

— Sara Shepherd

A Lied Center performance will transport audience members to the central train station in Bangalore, India, where a humble chai vendor unexpectedly finds himself living a life of surprising drama, passion and humor.

“Guru of Chai,” a production by Indian Ink Theatre Company, shows at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 7 through Feb. 9 at the Lied Center Pavilion. Tickets are $32 for adults or $17 for students and youths.

Purchase tickets online at lied.ku.edu or in person at the Lied Center.

SOUPER BOWL SATURDAY (FEB. 4) If artistic bowls and hot soup on a cold winter weekend sounds like your thing, mark your calendar for the annual Souper Bowl Saturday event.

This year’s Souper Bowl Saturday — strategically scheduled the day before Su-

per Bowl Sunday — will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Feb. 4 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Attendees can choose from and purchase bowls and other ceramic vessels created by local artists and art students,

most starting around $10.

With each bowl purchased, the buyer gets a complimentary bowl of soup to enjoy with other attendees at the event.

Proceeds benefit the ceramics program at the Arts Center.

— Sara Shepherd

The show’s cast consists of a musician and Jacob Rajan, a founding partner of the company, who will portray 16 characters.

The poor tea seller’s life is forever changed when a young girl is abandoned in the busy station and brings the place to a standstill with her beautiful singing.

The performance is set against a backdrop of India’s cultural contradictions — iPhones intersecting with ancient gods — and cautions against the dangers of keeping your soul locked in a cage.

— Sara Shepherd

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THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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BOOKS The top books of 2012 ?

WHAT ARE YOU

READING

By Adam Strunk

Read more responses and add your thoughts at www.ljworld.com

By Connie Ogle

The Miami Herald

The year 2012 was memorable for the literary world in many ways.

Let us start with the item that makes us the most uncomfortable: E.L. James boosted the languishing profile of erotica with her bestselling “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy and became a publishing sensation. The books have sold more than 35 million Chip Marker, works at Stormont-Vail U.S. copies, print and digital, earning every Random Health Care, House employee a $5,000 Lawrence “‘Dharma Bums’ (by Jack holiday bonus. And James, Kerouac ). It’s a romantic who kicked off her U.S. trip back to the late ’40s book tour in Miami, was named Publishing Person and ’50s.” of the Year by Publisher’s Weekly. The literati can complain all they like — and many did — but she is allegedly at work on book four, and half the people you know are going to buy it.

For the first time in 2012, ebooks sales topped print sales, according to the American Association of Publishers. Philip Roth announced his retirement.

Tom DeHart, After a two-year hiatus, student, Oprah Winfrey revived Overland Park her book club, naming “I just finished ‘The Stranger’ as her first picks Cheryl (by Albert Camus). It was a Strayed’s memoir “Wild” little bit depressing and very and Ayana Mathis’ novel existential.”

“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.” Weirdly, the Pulitzer judges decided no fiction deserved a prize this year, snubbing such terrific 2011 novels as Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ “The Marriage Plot.”

But oh, the books of 2012: Historian Robert Caro offered up the fourth installment of his Lyndon Johnson biography with “The Passage of Power.”

Amy Davis, Throughout the summer, works in marketing, Gillian Flynn had spouses Wichita eyeing each other suspi“‘Dreadnought’ (by Cherie ciously after reading her Priest). It’s steampunk thriller “Gone Girl.” Tom with zombies and airships. Wolfe angered denizens It’s an alternate history of of the art world and half the Civil War.” of Miami with his savage “Back to Blood.”

We got dark, gorgeous stories from such newcomers as Megan May-

hew Bergman (“Birds of a Lesser Paradise”) and Claire Vaye Watkins (“Battleborn”) as well as old pros like Junot Diaz (“This is How You Lose Her”). We endured luminous, fictional end-of-theworld nightmares from Lauren Groff (“Arcadia”) and Karen Thompson Walker (“The Age of Miracles”). We lived through the horrors of war as seen

by Iraq veteran Kevin Powers (“The Yellow Birds,” which earned comparisons to “All Quiet on the Western Front”) and war’s aftermath, as seen

by Ben Fountain (“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” which many critics likened to Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”).

So many good books, and we couldn’t quite get to them all. Here’s hoping we’ll have time to catch up soon.

Here are The Miami Herald’s favorite books of the year: ! “Beautiful Ruins,”

Jess Walter: This unforgettable novel manages to satirize Hollywood and tell a wickedly funny story about love, greed, fate and redemption that flows across decades and continents.

Everything you seek in a great novel can be found right here.

There’s nothing more you need, except to tell everyone you know to read it, too. !" “Bring Up the Bodies,” Hilary Mantel: The sequel to Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning “Wolf Hall” won a Booker, too, and with good reason.

She dives deep into Tudor history as seen through the eyes of her fascinating protagonist, Thomas Cromwell, the right-hand man of Henry VIII. (Spoiler alert: Things don’t go so well for Anne Boleyn in this installment.) !" “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” Katherine Boo: Journalist Boo’s Na-

tional Book Award-winning account of the residents of a Mumbai slum is nonfiction, but it reads like a compelling novel.

It’s so fascinating you will wish it were longer. !"

“Wild,” Cheryl Strayed: This true account of Strayed’s attempt to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail isn’t just another outdoor adventure; it’s a refreshingly honest take on grief, growing up and moving on. !" “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” Maria Semple: Humor is sadly underrated when readers and critics hand out accolades, but few novels will make you laugh aloud the way Semple’s satiric take on a disintegrating Seattle family does. !" “Canada,” Richard Ford: A teenage boy leaves Montana and his family’s troubled past for Saskatchewan — and more trouble — in Ford’s noir masterpiece. !"“Elsewhere,” Richard Russo: In this memoir, the author of “Empire Falls,” “The Risk Pool” and “Nobody’s Fool” recalls life with his demanding mother. !" “Dear Life,” Alice Munro: The master of the short story returns — and wows us all over again with her lyricism and insight. !" “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East,” Anthony Shadid: The New York Times journalist’s story about attempting to rebuild his family home in Lebanon was made all the more poignant by Shadid’s death in February from an acute asthma attack while reporting on the Syrian conflict. !" “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic,” David Quammen: Forget Justin Cronin’s scary vampires in “The Twelve.” Quammen’s quest to learn more about where pandemics begin — and where they might strike next — is the true stuff of nightmares.

Oprah’s pick ‘Hattie’ not great literature

By Hector Tobar Los Angeles Times

Ashley Bragg, works at The Dusty Bookshelf, Shawnee “‘On the Road’ (by Jack Kerouac). It’s adventurous.”

Sara Ott, teacher, Wichita “‘Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art’ (by Christopher Moore). It’s a fictional account of Van Gogh’s death. It’s super fun.”

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Our Poet’s Showcase features work by area poets. Submit your poetry via email with a subject line of Poet’s Showcase to kcallahan@ljworld. com. Your hometown and contact information must be included.

In “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” first-time author Ayana Mathis walks upon some of the richest thematic terrain our country’s history can offer a novelist.

Her protagonist, Hattie Shepherd, arrives in Philadelphia from Georgia in the mid-1920s, one of a legion of travelers in the great migration, that movement of AfricanAmericans from the Jim Crow South to the promise and relative freedom of the North.

The great migration gave us the Harlem Renaissance and too many great American writers to list here. It ended in the middle of the last century but has never lost its influence on the American imagination. Toni Morrison tapped into that collective experience to write one of the best American novels of the 20th century, “Song of Solomon.”

“Song of Solomon” was the second book Oprah Winfrey chose for the wildly influential book club she started in 1996.

This month the recently relaunched “Oprah’s Book Club 2.0” chose as its second selection another book of fiction published

by Knopf: “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.”

Thanks to Oprah,

Mathis is now the beneficiary of the book world’s most precious and rare commodity: buzz. Thousands of people will soon buy a copy of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.” Those who read expecting to discover a great work of narrative art, however, are going to be disappointed. “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” is a competently written melodrama that only intermittently achieves anything resembling literary excellence.

Mathis is a graduate of the famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her work is not lacking in ambition. It begins in 1925, with teenage Hattie’s arrival in Philadelphia. An illness has beset her two infant children.

They have names that sound beautiful and hopeful to her Southern ear: Philadelphia and Jubilee.

And they are dying.

With a series of interlinked short stories, Mathis brings the narrative of Hattie’s progeny all the way up to the 1980s.

We see her children grow up, and Hattie herself suffer into an embittered middle age.

The novel’s scope is epic, but its ambitions sink in a sea of flat prose, including many relentless waves of simple, declarative sen-

tences. Mathis often gives us scenes that are devoid of all but the most generic physical details, with uninspired dialogue and cliched similes as filler.

Consider, for example, the passage in which Hattie’s sister Pearl arrives with her husband, Benny, to adopt one of Hattie’s children. By then, Hattie has so many mouths to feed, she’s on the dole to make ends meet.

It’s one of the most dramatic moments in the novel — but Mathis doesn’t have quite the linguistic gifts or artistic insight to make the scene come to life.

Hattie’s resentment toward her better-off sister produces a series of predictable observations in a monotone of short sentences: “Benny opened Pearl’s door. He had always had good manners. Pearl was powdering her nose like a princess. She looked wellfed, manicured.”

Not all of the writing in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” is that pedestrian. The novel begins with a vivid and tender description of the deaths of Hattie’s two babies as she scrambles across Philadelphia in a search for eucalyptus leaves and other country remedies to save them.

That scene is gut-wrench-

ing because Mathis is able to portray Hattie as a disoriented innocent in the big city.

But Mathis seems incapable of imagining her characters as anything but confused, distraught or overwhelmed.

Nor is she much interested in the physical, sensory world they inhabit.

One imagines that Philadelphia was a city vividly transformed by the great migration. But you won’t see Philadelphia come to life in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.” Mathis only provides a few street and neighborhood names to suggest the originality of the city where much of her story unfolds. The spirit of reinvention, possibility and cultural tumult that defined those hopeful years is largely absent too.

Mathis is more successful, however, in her descriptions of the inner turmoil of two of Hattie’s sons: one a musician confused about his sexuality, the other a teenage preacher who’s heard the voice of God. In the end, “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” is a callow work by a writer of still unpolished talents. Our great novelists give us fully rounded characters whose lives reflect the limitations, the possibilities and the wonder of the times in which they live. Mathis gives us a one-dimensional portrait of their suffering — and little else.

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Fiction 1. “The Racketeer.”

John Grisham. Doubleday ($28.95).

2. “Gone Girl.” Gillian Flynn. Crown ($25).

3. “Threat Vector.” Tom Clancy. Putnam ($28.95).

4. “The Casual Vacancy.”

J.K. Rowling. Little, Brown ($35).

5. “Merry Christmas, Alex Cross.” James Patterson.

Little, Brown ($28.99).

6. “Notorious Nineteen.”

Janet Evanovich. Bantam ($28).

7. “The Forgotten.” David Baldacci. Grand Central ($27.99).

8. “The Time Keeper.”

Mitch Albom. Hyperion ($24.99).

9. “Cross Roads.” William Paul Young. FaithWords ($24.99).

10. “The Last Man.” Vince Flynn. Atria ($27.99).

Nonfiction 1. “Killing Kennedy.” Bill O’Reilly. Henry Holt ($28).

2. “Thomas Jefferson.”

Jon Meacham. Random House ($35).

3. “Guinness World Records.” Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records ($28.95).

4. “Barefoot Contessa Foolproof.” Ina Garten.

Clarkson Potter ($35).

5. “No Easy Day.” Mark Owen. Dutton ($26.95).

6. “America Again.” Stephen Colbert. Grand Central ($28.99).

7. “Help, Thanks, Wow.” Anne Lamott. Riverhead ($17.95).

8. “The Signal and the Noise.” Nate Silver. Penguin ($27.95).

9. “I Declare.” Joel Osteen.

FaithWords ($21.99).

10. “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” Geoff Tibballs. Ripley Publishing ($28.95).

POET’S SHOWCASE Last Times “Last Times,” he called them, not the same as a Bucket List. Rather, acknowledging his waning agility and increasing pain, he relished each act for what he believed would be the last time he would perform it.

They were simple pleasures: The last time he would go fly fishing, the last time he walked in the garden, the last time he used his wheelchair to fetch the mail, the last Christmas he would spend with his family.

He did not feel anger nor frustration, only a patient sadness, regret that there would not be another time, increasing in a bizarre way, the pleasure he took from the doing.

His was a strange philosophy, strange to those of us who, by nature, struggle against the inevitable, fight to stay alive when purpose and pleasure are gone, when pain intrudes, and life lingers beyond our wishes.

“Last Times” he called them, drawing from those simple experiences a tranquil enjoyment, treasuring wisps of memory, enduring pain, until there would be no more “Last times.”

— Betty Laird, Lawrence

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Marvel’s Peter Parker in perilous predicament

By Matt Moore Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — After 50 years of spinning webs and catching a who’s who of criminals, Peter Parker is out of the hero game.

But Spider-Man is still slinging from building to building — reborn, refreshed and revived with a new sense of the old maxim that Ben Parker taught his then-fledgling nephew that “with great power, comes great responsibility.”

Writer Dan Slott, who’s been penning Spidey adventures for the better part of the last 100 issues for Marvel Entertainment, said the culmination of the story is a new, dramatically different direction for the Steve Ditko and Stan Lee-created hero.

“This is an epic turn,” Slott said. “I’ve been writing Spider-Man for 70plus issues. Every now and

then, you have to shake it up. ... The reason SpiderMan is one of the longest running characters is they always find a way to keep it fresh. Something to shake up the mix.”

And in the pages of issue 700, out Wednesday, it’s not just shaken up, it’s turned head over heels, spun in circles, kicked sky high and cracked wide open.

Parker’s mind is trapped in the withered, decaying dying body of his nemesis, Doctor Octopus aka Otto Octavius. Where’s Doc Ock? Inside Parker’s super-powered shell, learning what life is like for the brilliant researcher who happens to count the Avengers and Fantastic Four as friends and family.

The two clash mightily in the pages of issue 700, illustrated by Humberto Ramos and Victor Olazaba. But it’s Octavius who wins out and Parker is,

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THIS UNDATED PHOTO SHOWS the cover of the 700th and final issue in the comic book series “The Amazing SpiderMan,” issued Wednesday. at least for now, gone for good, but not before one more act of heroism.

Slott said that it’s Parker, whose memories envelop Octavius, who shows the villain what it

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called it a fitting end to the old series, which sets the stage for a new one — “The Superior SpiderMan” early next year — because it brings Peter Parker full circle, from the start of his crime-fighting career to the end.

“In his very first story, his uncle died because of something he did so the book has always been aimed at making Peter’s life as difficult as possible,” Wacker said. “The book has always worked best when it’s about Peter Parker’s life, not Spider-Man’s.”

And with Octavius influenced by Parker’s life — from Aunt May to Gwen Stacy to Mary Jane — it will make him a better person, too.

“Because Doctor Octopus knows all of those things and will make decisions on what he saw Peter going through,” Wacker said. “In a way, he gets the ultimate victory as he becomes a better hero.”

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Affleck said in a Monday Affleck posting on his Facebook page that while he loves the political process, he will not be running for public office.

Speculation about the Cambridge, Mass., native rose slightly when he did not completely rule out a Senate bid during an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation last Sunday.

In his Facebook posting, Affleck says he would continue working with the Eastern Congo Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps direct humanitarian aid to the war-torn region, and for other causes.

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means to be a hero.

“Gone are his days of villainy, but since it’s Doc Ock and he has that ego, he’s not going to try and just be Spider-man, he’s going to try to be the best Spider-Man ever,” said Slott.

Editor Stephen Wacker said that while Parker is gone, his permanence remains and his life casts a long shadow.

“His life is still important to the book because it affects everything that Doctor Octopus does as Spider-Man. Seeing a supervillain go through this life is the point — trying to be better than the hero he opposed,” Wacker said.

“Doc has sort of inspired by Peter’s life.

That’s what I mean when he talks about the shadow he casts,” he said.

The sentiment echoes what Uncle Ben said in the pages of “Amazing Fantasy” No. 15, Slott said.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR KU BOOKSTORES This salaried professional position hires part time cashiers and general merchandise floor staff and trains them in register operations and customer service at the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union. Must be a high School graduate, have moderate cashiering, retail sales and customer service experience and be able to work flexible schedule.

Mon-Fri, 8 AM-5 PM and some evenings and weekends.

Starting salary $28,782 $34,242 plus excellent benefits.

Job description & online Application available at www.union.ku.edu/hr.

Please attach resume & cover letter which should include the names, addresses & phone numbers of 3 professional work references to our online Employment Application.

Full time employment contingent upon passing a background check prior to beginning work.

KU Memorial Unions Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence, KS 66045 EOE

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$$2000.00 Sign On$$ Solo & Teams. *No Touch Freight* Call Hogan. Must have Class A CDL. Hogan.

1-800-444-6042 www.hogan1.com

Apartments Unfurnished HIGHPOINTE APTS

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Due to continued growth Ashley Distribution Services is looking for CDL A qualified Drivers to join our Kansas City Regional Over The Road Fleet delivering to KS, OK, MO and TX. Weekly home time, day pay and drop pay, great benefits and the security of driving for the #1 home furnishings company in the world. We require 1 year OTR experience, good work history & clean MVR. For an application please call 1 800-837-2241, 8 AM to 6 PM CST Mon-Fri.

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Real Estate Manager Kickapoo Tribe Supervisor: Executive Director Real Estate Manager is responsible for management of the Kickapoo Tribe In Kansas tribal lands and maintenance of tribal land records.

Must be able to interpret and comply with tribal treaties, tribal, Federal and state laws, leasing and GIS (geographical information system).

(For further job description please contact Human Resources, contact information is listed below).

Submit resume and application to: (A completed Employment Application form must be submitted in order to be considered.)

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Attn: Human Resources Department 1107 Goldfinch Road Horton, KS 66439 Or email to cory.wabski@ktik-nsn.gov Phone: 785-486-2131 ext. 246 Fax: 785-486-2277 Indian Preference is exercised.

Healthcare Medicalodges of Eudora CNA, Part Time Housekeeping, Full Time RN-PRN schedule Apply in person at 1415 Maple, Eudora or call 785-542-2176

Auction Calendar Instrument Technicianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Full-time The Lawrence Surgery Center is accepting applications for an experienced Full-Time Instrument Technician.

Individuals are responsible for decontamination and sterilization of surgical instruments and equipment. If you are a hard working, detail oriented OR Tech or Instrument Tech this may the right opportunity for you.

Competitive benefits and incentive plan offered.

Apply in person at 1112 West Sixth Street, Suite 220, or fax resume to: 785-832-2029.

Registered Nurse or Surgical Technologistâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;PRN The Lawrence Surgery Center is now accepting PRN applications for Experienced Operating Room Nurses and Technologists. Please apply in person at 1112 West Sixth Street, Suite 220 or fax resume to: 785-832-2029

HealthcareAdministration RILEY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT NURSING SUPERVISOR: Full-time exempt position including provision of direct nursing services in clinic and community settings as well as supervisory responsibilities. Hiring pay range is $2328.00 $2572.00 bi-weekly. Applications, job description and benefit information can be accessed at www.rileycountyks.gov or at Riley County Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, 110 Courthouse Plaza, Manhattan, KS 66502.

Pre-employment drug testing is required with conditional offer of employment.

Riley County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Hotel-Restaurant

FOOD SERVICE FULL TIME

â&#x20AC;˘ Lead Dishwasher Ekdahl Dining Sun - Thurs 12:30 PM - 9 PM $9.70 - $10.86 â&#x20AC;˘ Food Service Worker Underground Mon-Fri 9 AM - 5:30 PM $9.04 - $10.12 â&#x20AC;˘ Cook North College Cafe Wed-Sat 10 AM - 8:30 PM $9.70 - $10.86 â&#x20AC;˘ Food Service Worker/Custodian The Studio Mon - Fri 9 AM - 5:30 PM $9.04 - $10.12 Full time employees also Receive 1 FREE Meal ($7.50) per day Job Description & Online Application available at: www.union.ku.edu/hr.

FT employment contingent upon passing a background check prior to beginning work.

2-ESTATE AUCTIONS Sunday January 13th, 2013 9:30 A.M. Bldg. 21 4-H Fairgrounds, Lawrence, KS Elston Auctions 785-218-7851 www.KansasAuctions. net/elston

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION Monday, January 21, 7PM. Selling 315Acres +/- approx. Native grass pasture with two rural water meters. One of a kind property in north Osage County, KS. Well cared for grass with blk top Rd. on East & gravel Rd. on South. Close to Topeka Lawrence- Pomona & Clinton Lakes. LOCATED from Overbrook, KS 5 miles North on Shawnee Heights Rd. (Shawnee Heights Rd. & 121st is the southeast corner of Property)

INSPECTION: Friday, Jan. 4, 1-3PM. Sally Maichel Wiebe, Seller Info: Miller & Midyett Real Estate Wayne Wischropp

Beatty & Wischropp Auctions 785-828-4212

Listing & Pictures: www.beattyandwischropp.com

Estate Sales TAGGED ESTATE SALE

PROPERTY MANAGER: FMI is seeking an enthusiastic & experienced Property Manager to run a large apt community in Lawrence, KS. Candidate must be upbeat, able to multi-task, & computer savvy. Marketing experience is a plus & attention to detail a must.

Submit Resume to PO Box 1797, Lawrence, KS 66044 or email to jobs@firstmanagementinc.com

Fri. Jan. 4th 1:00-5:00 Sat. Jan. 5th 9:00-4:00 Beautiful collection of period antiques, including selected pieces of 18th Century furniture.

Numerous pieces of artwork, large French Trumeau Mirror, tall beveled glass mirror with sculptured pieces, Mahogany cabinet, with inlaid and painted doors-made in London, pair of Queen Anne style side chairs, English Kidney Desk, English Georgian Cabinet, c 1780, Colt black powder civil war 44 cal. reproduction revolver â&#x20AC;&#x201D;new in box, glassware, china, crystal, numerous marble top side tables, lamps, easy chairs, electric lawn mower, shelving and storage cabinets, and many misc. items.

Shown by John I. Hughes Certified Appraiser 785-979-1941

Horses Farrier, just relocated to Lawrence. I am taking on some new customers. If your interested please call 785-694-3447

Apartments Furnished Rooms (newly remodeled) Rent by week or by month.

With cable & internet. Call Virginia Inn 785-856-7536

Apartments Unfurnished 1BR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 740-1/2 Massachusetts, above Wa Restaurant, 1 bath, CA. $600/mo.

No pets. 785-841-5797

1BRs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 622 Schwarz. CA, laundry, off-street parking, No pets. $435/mo. Gas & key on a keychain water paid. 785-841-5797 in 700 block of Eagle Drive on the sideCall 832-8986 to

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785.843.4040 Senior Rent Specials & Short Term Leases Avail. fox_runapartments@ hotmail.com 4500 OVERLAND DR.

Chase Court Apts.

19th & Iowa Location, Location, Location!

1& 2 Bedrooms / 2 Bath

1-785-832-2222 or 1-866-823-8220

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2001 W 6th Street

785-841-8468

PARKWAY COMMONS 3601 Clinton Pkwy *Call For Specials* 1,2,3 BR W/D, Hot Tub Fitness Center, Sm Pet OK! 785-842-3280

2BR, appealing open plan, sunny living room. W/D hookups, great K-10 access, $595. 841-4201

NO GAS BILL! LAUREL GLEN APTS 1, 2 & 3BR All Electric units.

Water/Trash PAID. Small Dog and Students WELCOME! Income restrictions apply Call NOW for Specials!

785-838-9559 EOH

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785-843-8220

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Townhomes

A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

Move-in Specials Units avail. NOW 2BR apts, 2BR Townhomes, 3BR Townhomes VILLA 26 APARTMENTS & Townhomes Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in all units.

785-842-5227 www.info@villa26 lawrence.com

Four Wheel Drive Townhomes Move-in Specials 2859 Four Wheel Drive Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standing townhome w/ courtyard, cathedral ceilings, skylights, & W/D. Most residents professionals.

Pets ok. Water & trash pd. $685/mo.

785-842-5227 info@villa26lawrence.com

First Month Free!

3BR, 2 or 2.5 bath- 2 car w/openers W/D hookups, FP, major appls. Lawn care & snow removal 785-865-2505

HAWTHORN TOWNHOMES *Call For Specials* 3 Bedroom w/Garage Pets under 60lbs OK! 785-842-3280

Winter Special!

* Luxurious Apt. Villas * 1BR, 1 bath, 870 sq. ft. * Fully Equipped * Granite countertops * 1 car covered parking

430 Eisenhower Drive Showing by Appt.

Call 785-842-1524 www.mallardproperties lawrence.com

3BR, 2 story, 1,200 sq. ft. 1.5 Bath, W/D hookup. 3332 W. 8th St. $750/mo. + deposit.

Sunset Elem. 785-842-9033 3BR, 951 Arkansas, 1 month free, 2 bath, C/A, laundry, dw, microwave, $750, no pets, 785-841-5797

Aspen West

1 & 2BRs avail. Jan. 1st.

Near KU, on bus route, laundry on-site, water/trash paid. No pets.

AC Management 785-842-4461 AVAILABLE NOW! 2BR, 500 Colorado, 2BR, 506 Colorado, upper units, no pets, $465/mo, $465/sec dep ************************ Nice 2BR 1BA in fourplex 1807 W 4th #2, W/D hookups, No Pets $475/mo , $475/sec dep Call Randy Ham 766-7575

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644 Mississippi Lawrence, KS. 66044

KU Memorial Unions Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence, KS 66045 EOE

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W/D, pet friendly 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Reduced Deposits

Townhomes

Close to KU, 3 Bus Stops

Bob Billings & Crestline Leasing Immediately, Spring and Aug. 2013 $250 per person deposit No App Fee! www.meadowbrookapartments.net

785-842-4200

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Hampton Court Apts.

2350 Ridge Court, #20 785-843-6177

Half off Jan. rent!

1BR W/D, Pool, Gym

Canyon Court Apts 700 Comet Lane Lawrence (785)832-8805

Hunters Ridge Apts.

550 Stoneridge 1 and 2 Bedroom Apts.

Salt Water Pool, Business Center, Fire Side Lounge and Tennis Court Call Today 785-830-8600 www.HuntersRidgeks.com

Limited time Only: Sign a lease, get $250 off 2nd monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rent!

Prices starting at $449/bedroom. Located on bus route, close to KU and access to upgraded amenities, including 24-hour clubhouse, fitness center, business center, 2 bark parks and indoor basketball court.

Call 785-842-5111 for more info or visit www.campuscourtku.com SUNRISE VILLAGE Check out our new patios! $300-$400 off 1st mo. rent!

3-4BR, gar, W/D, KU bus route, 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Duplexes 2BR, W/D hookups, dishwasher, patio, garage, no pets, $525, $550 & $600.

785-841-5454 3BR, 2Bth, 1 Car Garage duplex, 3420 Augusta, W/D hookups, no pets, avail. immediately, $850/mo, $850/sec dep Randy Ham 766-7575 First Month Free! 2BR, in a 4-plex. New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop. W/D is included. $575/mo.

785-865-2505

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VILLAS & TOWNHOMES * 1 BR, 870 sq. ft.

Covered Parking * 2 BR, 1,300 sq. ft. * 3 BR, 1,700 sq. ft.

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Houses 2730 Maverick, $850/mo, 3 BR, 1 bath, basement, large fenced yard, available now.

Heritage Realty 785-841-1412 2BR, Amazing old stone house just S. of town, modern amenities.

No pets/ smoking. $1170/mo.

Please call 785- 841-2828.

Buick 2007 Lucerne CX, alloy wheels, power equipment, 3800 V6, great gas mileage and plenty of room for the family, stk#10899 only $16,995.

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Chevrolet 2011 Malibu LTZ, one owner trade in, GM certified with 2yrs of scheduled maintenance included, remote start, traction control, leather heated seats, sunroof, Bose sound, very sharp!!

Stk#32293A1 only $17,245.

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2005 Ford Focus ZX5 Great car for a first time driver. 5 door hatchback with an automatic transmission. Great gas mileage and a local trade.

This one won’t last.

12T1083B $7,995

(785) 841-4785

garberprop.com 3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage, all appls. included, 6201 W. 6th, pets welcome $1,250/mo. 785-218-7264

2009 Honda Accord EX-L, a/t, 4cyl, black ext, black leather int, 37k miles, 18732.00

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Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo LS, spoiler, alloy wheels, power seat, power equipment and very affordable!

Stk#113962 only $9,915.

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Mobile Homes 2BR, 2 bath, in Lecompton, in quiet park, first month’s rent FREE! $560/mo. Call 785-887-6584

Office Space Available Now 400 sq. ft. Office Space 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy $500 w/ all utilities paid (785) 842-2 2475

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Cadillac 2008 DTS Luxury II V8, leather heated & cooled seats, remote start, alloy wheels, all the luxury without the luxury price! Stk#543052 only $16,815 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2011 Volt, GM certified, only 11k miles, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, navigation, this is an incredible car!

Stk#19048.

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4 cylinder that gets great gas mileage and a clean CARFAX. This is one of the most popular mid-size sedans on the road today and a great value. This one was more than $23,000 brand new.

P1085 $15,412

Ford 2000 Mustang. ONE OWNER, gleaming white, tan interior. NICE car, 5 speed, alloy wheels with Michelin tires. 3 month drive train plan included.

“New sale price- $4650” See website for photos Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/ /7

Full length sun lamp for psoriasis treatment $100.

Please call or texts 785-893-4176 Refrigerator, Older pool refrigerator Please call or 785-893-4176

Hardwood Firewood, split, seasoned, and delivered.

Full size pickup load $100.

785-843-TREE (8733) Seasoned Mixed Firewood for sale. Lawrence area.

Delivery available.

Call Pine Landscape Center.

785-843-6949

2011 Hyundai Accent GLS, 39K, Auto, Gas Saver, $10.000 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Chevrolet 2010 Camaro RS, one owner, GM certified, remote start, alloy wheels, On Star, 2 years of maintenance included, very sharp!

Stk#328131 only $22,815.

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Pianos, Kimball console $575, Howard Spinet $525, Baldwin Acrosonic Spinet, $475. Gulbranson Spinet $450. Price includes tuning & delivery. 785-832-9906

2005 Chevrolet Cavalier Great car for a high school student. Easy to drive, great on gas, and inexpensive to own.

Only 91K miles and a clean CARFAX vehicle history report. 13B562A $7,995 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2008 Chevrolet Cobalt LT

2013 Hyundai Elantra GLS, black ext, 4cyl, a/t, cruise, low miles, clean car, 17400.00

2005 Chevy Cavalier, 4cyl, 91k miles, a/t, clean car, 7995.00 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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2008 Lincoln MKZ Luxury and comfort come in this great car. Leather seats, remote start, and good gas mileage.

P10025A $14,942 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Appliances, furniture, electronics, dishes, cookware, china, crystal, utensils, shelving, piano, bedding, outdoor furniture, stable items, horse tack, dog items, horse fencing and gates, chain link, shop fans, heaters, farm implements, and too much too list!!!

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Chevy 2011 Impala LT GM Certified w/2 years scheduled maintenance included, very affordable with low payments, stk#16717 only $14,396.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Chrysler 2005 300C, beautiful silver with gray leaher heated seats, and only 45K miles! ONE owner, CLEAN car and history. Fully loaded.

Moonroof and backup sensors. Buy below loan value!

Sale$14,990. See website for photos Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. /7 785-856-6100 24/ Chrysler 2005 PT Cruiser Limited Edition. Ft. Riley soldier trade-in, Cool Vanilla, moonroof, chrome wheels, and only $4990 (KBB value $6732, loan value $6300). See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th Stt. 785-856-6100 24/7

2007 Mini Cooper 5 speed, 63K, Blue Ext, Convertible, $13.000 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Hyundai 2006 Tiburon GT, alloy wheels, spoiler, power equipment, V6, fun to drive!

Only $10,874.00 stk#485232 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Chevrolet 2011 Equinox LT fwd, one owner trade in, GM certified with 2yrs of scheduled maintenance included, power equipment, On Star, steering wheel controls.

Stk#308681 only $21,415.

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2011 Mitsubishi Lancer ES

Saturn 2007 Ion 3, one owner, local trade, super nice car! Leather, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, great gas mileage! This one won’t last long, please hurry!

Stk#392301 only $9,845.

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2007 Hyundai Tiburon SE, 81K, 2DR, 6 speed, $11.367 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Dale Willey Automotive 2840 Iowa Street (785) 843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

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Chevrolet 2001 Malibu LS, ONE owner, NO acccidents, and ONLY 49K miles! Beautiful condition, great gas mileage, NICE car for a great price! Nice navy blue color, clean inside. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles 2002 Ford Escort for sale. rueschhoffautos.com Only 41,000 miles (yes 2441 W. 6th St. that’s right)! Power win785-856-6100 24/7 dows, locks, tilt, cruise control, 4D. $4,000. Call 550-0534 (leave message)

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Toyota 2004 Corolla S. Very clean, two owner no accident car in nice navy blue.

4 cyl automatic for great gas mileage- 34 MPG highway. Very clean interior.

See website for photos Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Chevrolet 2011 Equinox LT fwd, one owner trade in, GM certified with 2yrs of scheduled maintenance included, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, remote start, stk#309831 only $22,884.

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Low miles and a lot of factory warranty left.

We sold this one brand new. Great gas mileage and a blast to drive.

P1077 $15,000 23rd & Alabama Lawrence 843-3500

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2010 Toyota Prius 41K, FWD, Blue ext, $17.500

Ford 2010 Edge SEL AWD one owner, power liftgate, SYNC, leather heated seats, CD changer, power equipment, and much more!

Stk#113961 only $21,444 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Chevrolet 2011 Malibu LT, GM certified with 2 years of scheduled maintenance included, power equipment, cruise control, steering wheel controls, stk#18083A only $16,352 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser Touring, 4cy, only 47K, $7.800

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

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2003 Toyota Corolla 4cyl, Silver ext, only $5.500

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365 HP EcoBoost engine and AWD makes this Taurus an exciting car to drive. CARFAX 1-owner and low miles. Remaining factory warranty.

P9897 $25,972

Infiniti 2007 G35 X AWD V6, leather heated memory seats, sunroof, spoiler, alloy wheels, Bose sound, power equipment, stk# 118131 only $17,694.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2011 Ford Focus Ford Certified Pre-owned comes with a great warranty and peace of mind knowing that the car is almost brand new. Great gas mileage and plenty of room. P1074 $14,995 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Mitsubishi 2010 Lancer one owner, sunroof, rear spoiler, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, premium sound, lot of extras, stk#599933 only $15,815 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Volvo 2001 Coupe C70, sporty styling and in excellent condition.

One owner, clean, extremely well maintained.

Color: Moondust; tan leather seats, seat warmers, sunroof, automatic transmission. Must see to appreciate! $3,500 or best offer.

Call 785-633-1508 for more information.

23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Infinity 2008 G37, only 39k miles, leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, Bose sound, stk#656231 only $23715.

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2003 Acura 3.2 tl, v6,a/t, silver ext,black lthr int, 117k miles, 8888.00 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

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Nissan 2010 Altima 2.5 SL leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, very nice!

Stk#366371 only $17,800.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2012 Volvo C30 This is a very fun car to drive. Turbocharged 5 cylinder engine with an automatic/manual transmission. Very zippy.

Bluetooth technology and memory seats with a hatchback for storage.

Over $30,000 brand new.

P1078A $24,000 23rd & Alabama Lawrence 843-3500

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2008 Ford Edge SEL Great crossover with leather seats. Very safe with Ford’s Safety canopy system and advanced traction control system makes it easy to drive.

12T638B $15,780 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama 843-3500

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2009 Nissan Maxima 4 door sports car. A lot of room in this fun to drive car with a 6-disc cd changer, SMART key with push button start and still gets good gas mileage. P10012A $19,500

BMW 2007 335I, one owner, leather heated memory seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, very nice!

Stk#18259 only $22,714.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

2008 Ford Edge SEL Great crossover with leather seats. Very safe with Ford’s Safety canopy system and advanced traction control system makes it easy to drive.

12T638B $15,780

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Pets 3 year old female bassett hound, housebroken, has shots, great w/kids & dogs, $50. 913-638-4787

Convertible with all the options. Leather, Navigation, Automatic, V6 engine. Only 67K miles.

P1033A $16,748

2007 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited, V6, Blue Ext, 118K, $12.995

Mercedes 2008 E320 diesel, one owner, very nice car! You need to see this one! Leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, navigation and more! Stk#69828A1 only $25,368.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

ESTATE AND HORSE STABLE SALE

1774 E 1200 Rd. Lawrence. 2 miles north of 6th and Kasold

2007 Toyota Camry Solara

23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Power windows, power locks, alloy wheels, and a rear spoiler make this the perfect kid car.

Great on gas and front wheel drive.

12M883A $7,600.

Lawrence

EVERYTHING MUST GO THIS WEEKEND

Buick 2006 Rendezvous CXL, leather heated seats, 3rd row, alloy wheels, sunroof, room for the whole family and only $11,888. stk#492161 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

2010 Taurus SHO

JANUARY 3, 4 & 5 from 8 am - 4 pm.

NO EARLY BIRDS

The Selection

Premium selected automobiles Specializing in Imports www.theselectionautos.com 785-856-0280 “We can locate any vehicle you are looking for.”

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Furniture

Music-Stereo

Mazda 2011 CX9, one owner, leather heated seat, power equipment, Bose sound, sunroof, tow package, 3rd row seating, stk#10890 only $23,598.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mazda 2007 6, one owner, fwd, ABS, power equipment, CD changer, very affordable!

Stk#324441 only $9,415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Seasoned Mixed Firewood, $80 per half cord. $160 full cord. 3 miles S. of Lawrence.

Call Lloyd 785-842-4502

Chainsaw, reconditioned Homelite super 2 gas chainsaw 16” with case, $85.

Please call 785-843-5396

97K, AT, Heated Leather, Dual Moonroof, CD Changer, DVD System, 2-owner, Third Row $17,900.

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Clothing

Firewood-Stoves

2008 Buick Enclave CXL

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

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Pair of Hi-Tec fall/winter hiking boots—waterproof & insulated leather. Size 9.5 wide (EE). Original cost $150. Worn only a few miles in town—they were too small for me. Ex. condition. $40.

Call 785-864-3037/ 785-749-0670

Convertible, heated leather seats, and phenomenal gas mileage.

Very low miles and perfect for a commuter car.

Roomier than you might think. 12C462A $11,000 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2012 Ford Fusion SE

AVAILABLE at WEST LAWRENCE LOCATION $525/mo., Utilities included Conference Room, Fax Machine, Copier Available Call Donna at (or e-mail) 785-841-6565 Advanco@sunflower.com

Appliances

2004 Lincoln LS V8, 61K, White Ext, Only $11.995

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Rooms

2009 Smart ForTwo Passion

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama Lawrence

1BR, furnished, in quiet, neat home. Perfect for student, non-smoker preferred. $475. 785-979-4406

Buick 2008 Enclave CXL AWD, one owner, running boards, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, navigation, On Star, DVD, loaded!

Stk#451741 only $23,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Cadillac 2004 CTS Luxury package, only 45k miles, bought new here, serviced here, one family owned. You won’t find a nicer car!

Stk#658111 only $13,815.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Lexus 2011 RX350 AWD, one owner, leather heated memory seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, save thousands over new!

Stk#600721 only $35841.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Have your car cleaned by a Professional! We will detail your car the same as our pre-owned inventory. Most vehicles are only $220.95 call Allen @ Dale Willey Automotive to schedule your cars make over! You won’t believe the difference! 785-843-5200 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Crossovers

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama Lawrence

2BR, 715 Maine, 2 bath, 3 story, C/A, W/D hookups, DW, 2 car garage, 1 pet ok, $1350, 785-841-5797 Available Now 2, 3, & 4 Bedroom Homes $850 - $1150

WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports

Call 785-727-0244 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama 843-3500

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Lexus 2007 RX400H Hybrid AWD, one owner, power lift gate, tow package sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, navigation, very nice!! Stk#32142A1 only $24,588.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Nissan 2006 Sentra 1.8S, automatic, great gas mileage, in shiny silver. CLEAN car, CLEAN history, fun and economical to drive. Famous Nissan reliability.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. /7 785-856-6100 24/

2009 VW Passat Komfort Wagon 2.0L Turbo engine with an automatic gets great gas mileage from a roomy and useful wagon.

Leather seats, power liftgate and a cargo cover.

12T451A $16,000 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

GMC 2011 Terrain SLT, GM certified, one owner, tow package, alloy wheels, remote start, leather heated seats, sunroof, and much more!

Stk#47851A1 only $25415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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BUSINESS Accounting

Carpets & Rugs

Caroline H. Eddinger, CPA, LLC Tax Services Business Consulting lawrencemarketplace.com /eddinger-cpa (785) 550-4149

New Easy-Care Floors At Warehouse Savings!

Auctioneers

Kitchen & Bath

BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

Automotive Services 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

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

785-842-2108

• • • • •

Fast Update with Ceramic Tile Wood Laminates Oak Planks Vinyl Tiles Vinyl Rolls

Carpet Remnants

Soft, Warm & Quiet Room-Size Overstocks At Warehouse Savings!

• Guest Bedroom • Family Room • Playroom • Living Room • ANY Room!

Bring your room sizes and let’s get started!

D-I-Y or use the Pro’s!

Call 866-823-8220 to advertise.

Construction

Foundation Repair

Cecil Construction LLC All your home improvement needs specailizing in new const., siding, windows, doors, additions, decks, Fully ins. 785-312-0813

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

Decks & Fences

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791 www.billyconstruction.com

Stacked Deck

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

FOUNDATION REPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepairks.com

Electrical

Warehouse prices 40%-70% less than showroom stores. www.FloorTraderLawrence.com Jennings’

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

3000 Iowa St. 841-3838

Get Lynn on the line!

785-843-LYNN www.lynnelectric.com

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665

Home Improvements JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 lawrencemarketplace.com/ jtconstruction

For All Your Battery Needs Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

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 lawrencemarketplace.com/ westside66

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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785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Guttering Services 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: lawrencemarketplace.com/ kansas_carpet_care

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266 STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

785-832-2222 classifieds@ljworld.com

Advertising that works for you!

Residential Commercial Prof. Window Cleaning Post Construction Gutters • Power Washing Sustainable Options lawrencemarketplace.com/ hawkwash Free Est. 785-749-0244

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

Financial Computer Repair & Upgrades Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise? We Can Help 785-979-0838

Aquatech Seamless Guttering Proven Leaf guards Popular Colors available Free Est. 913-634-9784 www.GUTTERMYHOME.com

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

Your Local Concrete Repair Specialist Foundation & Crack Repair Driveways- Sidewalks-Patios Sandblasting-Concrete Sawing Core Drilling 888-326-2799 Lawrence concreteinc@centurylink.net Decorative & Regular Drives, Walks & Patios Custom Jayhawk Engraving Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Bus. 913-269-0284

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES BATH.KITCHENS TILE.TRIM BASEMENT FINISHING

HANDICAP ACCESABILITY LICENSED & INSURED SINCE 1974 GARY-785-856-2440 gary@winston-brown.com

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic

Heating & Cooling

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Powerwash 785-766-5285

jayhawkguttering.com

All Your Banking Needs Your Local Lawrence Bank

Insurance

Flooring Installation

785-841-6845

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ druryplace

I COME TO YOU!

Lawn, Garden & Nursery Golden Rule Lawncare Lawn cleanup Snow Removal Family owned & operated Eugene Yoder Call for Free Est. Insured.

785-224-9436 Green Grass Lawn Care Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal. Insured all jobs considered 785-312-0813/785-893-1509 ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

Dependable & Reliable pet sitting, feeding, walks, overnights, and more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

Roofing

Plumbing Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Precision Plumbing

New Construction Service & Repair Commercial & Residential FREE ESTIMATES Licensed & Insured

785-856-6315

lawrencemarketplace.com/ precisionplumbing

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 40 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace. com/kastl

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

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 lawrencemarketplace.com/ starvingartist

Painting A. B. Painting & Repair

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

Al 785-331-6994 albeil@aol.com

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

Hardwood Floor Installation, Refinishing and Repair Locally Owned, Insured, Free Estimates 785-691-6117 www.artisanfloorcompany.com

Free Estimates 785-764-9582

Real Estate Services

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ mclaughlinroofing

Tree/Stump Removal Realty Executives - Hedges Joy Neely 785-371-3225 www.happyhomehunters.com

Chris Tree Service

20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Free Est. Ins. & Lic. 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659

Kansas Tree Care.com

Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals 1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 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

Trimming, removal, & stump grinding by Lawrence locals Certified by Kansas Arborists Assoc. since 1997 “We specialize in preservation and restoration” Ins. & Lic. visit online 785-843-TREE (8733)

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

Utility Trailers

EAGLE TRAILER CO.

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

Free estimates/Insured.

Mold/Mildew on your house?

Pet Services

Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

Mobile Enviro-Wash 785-842-3030

Locally owned & operated.

Manufacturing Quality Flatbed Trailers 20 years SALES SERVICE PARTS WE SELL STEEL WELDING SERVICES (785) 841-3200

Window Installation/Service Martin Windows & Doors

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

785-843-2244

Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs Insurance Work Welcome

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Artisan Floor Company

785-865-0600

Complete Roofing Services Professional Staff Quality Workmanship lawrencemarketplace.com/ lawrenceroofing

(785) 550-1565

785-842-0094

Concrete CONCRETE INC

STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

785-832-2222 classifieds@ljworld.com

No Job Too Big or Small

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

1510 St. Andrews

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

• Holiday Lighting Installation • Professional and timely • Residential & Commercial

Cleaning Employment Services

Live More Pay Less Worry-free life at an affordable price

Light Up The Season!

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Retirement Community

midwestcustompools.com

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913-488-7320

General Services

Pet Services

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

Year round storage

Floor Trader

Buy locally with confidence.

A Jennings store for over 25 years

Landscaping

Drury Place

JB’s Handyman Remodeling Over 20 years exp. All small remodel jobs in the Lawrence area. Specializing in Drywall.

Call David 785-331-5773 gonfshing@sunflower.com

Garage Doors

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

Heating & Cooling

www.scott-temperature.com lawrencemarketplace.com/ scotttemperature

Serving individuals, farmers & business owners 785-331-3607

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Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Call Calli 785-766-8420

www.cnnmobilepetsalons.com

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

Milgard replacement windows Free est. 15 yrs. exp.

Locally owned & operated Great prices! 785-760-3445

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Vans-Buses

2006 Ford Escape XLT, local trade, 6 cyl, a/t, 4wd, black ext, 93k miles, clean suv, 11988.00 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2003 Honda CR-V EX 4WD-122K, AT, AC, CD Changer, Moonroof, Cruise, 2-owner, Clean $9,500.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2005 Honda CR-V LX 4WD-117K, AT, AC, CD, Cruise, Keyless Entry, 1-owner, Nice $10,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2006 Subaru Outback 2.5i

Real Time 4x4 from Honda a great car for the family. Easy to keep clean and drive in bad weather. Clean CARFAX. “Jazz Hands” 13B246B $13,995

Limited AWD-80K, AT, CD Changer, Heated Leather, Moonroof, Florida Car, Nice $13,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

GMC 2010 Terrain SLE, one owner, GM certified with 2 years of scheduled maintenance included, alloy wheels, On Star, power equipment, stk#53828A1 only $20,415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2010 Toyota Rav4

2006 GMC Yukon Denali AWD -119K, AT, Dual Zone Climate Control, CD Changer, Moonroof, Heated Leather, 1-owner, Third Row $13,900.

2004 Nissan Xterra XE, 4WD, 109K, V6, $8.333 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Ford 2010 F150 Lariat 4wd, one owner, very clean, leather heated & cooled seats, running boards, tow package, alloy wheels, navigation, sunroof, stk#626692 only $33,777.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

GMC 2010 Sierra Ext cab, GM Certified with 2yrs of scheduled maintenance included, one owner, running boards, On Star, power equipment.

Stk#386021 only $21,455.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Honda 2003 Pilot EXL 4wd, leather, power seat, 2nd row bench, alloy wheels, very affordable, only $10,815.00 stk#54357A1 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

V6 Limited-110k, AT, Dual Zone Climate Control, CD Changer, Navigation, Heated Leather, 1-owner, Clean $20,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2004 Honda Element EX

Jeep 2007 Liberty Sport.

Popular white, clean inside and out. 4X4, chrome wheels, ONE owner, NO accident Jeep, on sale for only $7995. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

2005 Yukon Denali, awd, a/t,fully loaded,tan ext, 131k miles,13995.00 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

We are now your Chevrolet dealer, call us for your service or sales needs!

Dale Willey Automotive 785-843-5200

1997 Ford F-150 Rare SuperCab Lariat with the Flareside bed.

5.4L V8 with leather seats and only 91K miles.

Well taken care of and a CARFAX 1-owner.

12T1293A $7,995 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2004 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE Crew Cab 4X4-77K, AT, Dual Zone Climate Control, CD, Line-X Bed, Cruise Control, Tow Package, 1-owner, Low Miles $17,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

4WD-74K, AT, AC, CD, Cruise, Moonroof, 2-owner, Steal at $17,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Sport Utility-4x4 Chevrolet 1999 Suburban, in shiny white with super clean interior. Beautiful wheels, rear air, 3rd row, MUCH more. 4X4. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

GMC 2011 Yukon Denali, AWD, heated & cooled seats, running boards, tow package, 20” alloy wheels, navigation, DVD, Bose sound, GM certified, sunroof, and much more! Stk#17711A Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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2008 Nissan Rogue S AWD crossover with heated leather seats and a 4 cylinder engine that gets great MPG. Local trade bought new here in Lawrence and traded in on a newer crossover.

13T557A $13,874 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama 843-3500

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Chevrolet 2012 Traverse special purchase 3 to choose from! Starting at $25,415 stk #17524. Hurry for best selection!!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2010 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium Symmetrical AWD from Subaru and great gas mileage from this small SUV. Very easy to drive and a CARFAX 1-Owner.

Also has the GIANT sunroof. P1095 $20,495 LAIRD NOLLER 23rd & Alabama 843-3500

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

GMC 2008 Yukon Denali, AWD, sunroof, leather heated seats, remote start, Bose sound, DVD, navigation, running boards, stk#445781 only $29,655.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com GMC 2003 Yukon SLT. Local family trade-in.

4X4, leather, and loads of options! Beautiful platinum gray. 125K miles and under $10,000. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 7

Chevy 2011 Equinox LS fwd, one owner, GM Certified with 2 years of scheduled maintenance included, power equipment, alloy wheels, stk#397671 only $21,326.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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GMC 2011 Yukon XL SLT 4wd, one owner trade in, GM certified, tow package, alloy wheels, remote start, Bose sound, navigation, On Star, leather heated seats, save huge over new!!

Stk#348961 only $30,815.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited X, 65K, 4WD, V6, Black Ext, $20.350

2008 Toyota 4Runner V6 SR5

Honda 2004 Odyssey EX another one owner trade in! Alloy wheels, great dependability, DVD, power equipment, stk#52302A1 only $7,815.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Truck-Pickups

2002 Ford F-150 SuperCrew

4WD -119K, AT, AC, CD Changer, Heated Leather, Moonroof, 2owner, Third Row Seating $12,900.

Low miles and 3rd row Sto ‘n’ Go. Built in car seats in the middle row and the LATCH system for other car seats.

Great minivan from the original minivan maker.

12C1216A $12,500 23rd & Alabama, Lawrence 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2005 Honda Pilot EX-L

2008 Dodge Grand Caravan

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS GROVER W. EVERETT, and CAROLYN C. EVERETT, PLAINTIFFS, vs.

LAWRENCE G. MORGAN, DEFENDANT. Case No.: 12CV 433 Div No.: 1 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT The State of Kansas to Lawrence G. Morgan, and any other persons who are or may be concerned:

1995 Ford F-250 XL HD, 2wd, A/T, fifth wheel, 163k miles, 7995.00 Dodge 2006 Ram SLT 4wd, 4.7 V8, power equipment, tow package, soft tonneau cover, crew cab, 20” alloy wheels, stk#51222A3 only $19,598.

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GMC 2008 Yukon Denali AWD leather heated seats, sunroof, running boards, remote start, Bose sound, navigation, and much more!

Stk#539791 only $28,794.

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2002 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner V6 SR5 2WD-110K, AT, AC, CD, Cruise, Cloth Interior, 2-owner, Save $11,900.

2005 GMC Canyon SLE

Nissan 2009 Xterra SE 4wd, running boards, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, local trade, power equipment, stk#159931 only $18,745 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 23, 2012)

Ford 2011 Explorer Limited, one owner trade in, low miles, leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, remote start, navigation, 3rd row seats, stk#629041 only $31,415.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2006 Ford F-350 Lariat, 4wd, a/t, v-8 diesel eng, white ext,53k miles, flint int, 27995.00 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Good crew cab truck and MPG. 5 Cyl engine for a little more power and priced to sell. #12T1162A $11,600 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Vans-Buses Chevrolet 2003 Astro Cargo AWD. Rare findclean ONE owner Astro with all wheel drive. No longer made, best work van ever. White, very clean, low miles. $7950.

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You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County by Plaintiffs Grover W. Everett and Carolyn C. Everett praying for quieting title on real property identified as The West Half of Lot 8, in Block 9, in Haskell Place, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, in Douglas County, Kansas, and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition on or before February 21, 2013, 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: Darryl Graves#08991 Darryl Graves, A Professional Law Corporation 1040 New Hampshire Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 (785) 843-8117; FAX (785) 843-0492 office@dgraves-law.com Attorney for Plaintiffs ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 28, 2012) In accordance with the statutes governing adverse possession, the West parking lot at 3101 W. 6th, Lawrence, KS, will be closed January 1, 2013. HD Lewis _______

NOTICE TO BIDDERS:

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Interested vendors are encouraged to visit the University of Kansas Purchasing Services website for a listing of Current Bid Opportunities. Electronic Bid postings are located at: www.purchasing.ku.edu /Bids/KU_Bids.aspx Interested vendors may also contact KU Purchasing Services, 785-864-5800.

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Woman struggles with ultimatum from boyfriend Dear Annie: I have been friends with “Jon” for seven years. For three of those, we dated and lived together. In the end, we decided we didn’t work as a couple and decided to remain friends.

Jon is rather arrogant, and even though he has always been there for me, he also has occasionally taken advantage of our friendship.

I began seeing “Dennis” two years ago. At one point, I had problems with him and discussed my relationship with Jon. When I admitted this to Dennis, he became quite angry. I am fairly loyal to my friends and like to see the good side of them, but Dennis doesn’t like Jon one bit and has demanded I choose between them.

Annie, I know that at the end of the day my boyfriend is the one I want to be with, but dumping my friendship with Jon is causing me

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much emotional turmoil.

I don’t like causing other people pain, and I’m feeling very guilty. Am I doing the right thing? — Sad and Guilty Dear Sad: While we appreciate that Dennis doesn’t want you to have a friendship with an old boyfriend (that is really his point), we are not keen on anyone dictating who your friends can be. Tell Dennis that you will cut back on your contact with Jon, and that you promise to stop confiding your relationship troubles to him.

Road trip has sizzle

Many cable networks have wandered and wavered from their original plan. The History Channel has never been more popular. And it occasionally airs series about history. On a recent episode of the soon-to-depart “30 Rock,” Liz Lemon jokes about the vulgarity of one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” shows, while her boss, Jack Donaghy, shows his age by musing, “I remember when they used to show opera on Bravo.”

Of the many networks to change its stripes, at least the old Planet Green had the honesty to change its name. It’s now called Destination America — dedicated, it seems, to domestic travel and to people who travel on their stomachs. ‘‘United States of Bacon” (9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Destination America) follows intrepid host and carnivore Todd Fisher as he scours the 50 states for new and unusual meals. He’s not celebrating bacon in its usual role as a breakfast side dish served with eggs and toast. He’s after people who incorporate bacon into unusual menus, even serving it with ice cream, jam and cocktails.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams discuss their decadeslong collaboration on such movies as “Jaws,” ‘‘Close Encounters” and “Schindler’s List” on a segment of “AFI Master Class” (7 p.m.

Sunday, TCM), first aired in 2011.

While younger filmmakers and many of Spielberg’s contemporaries have opted to use existing and familiar pop and rock music to create soundtracks, Spielberg has stuck to the “old school” notion of marrying an original score to the motion picture, a process, he explains, that is essential to his storytelling.

Sunday’s other highlights

Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6:30 p.m., CBS): breakthroughs in robotic limbs; insight into a drone strike; a profile of Judd Apatow.

If the force isn’t with you, you can spend the day lollygagging on the couch with a “Star Wars” marathon on Spike. It includes “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (2:53 p.m.), “Episode IV: A New Hope” (6:07 p.m.) and “Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” (9:11 p.m.).

The Washington Redskins host the Dallas Cowboys in “Sunday Night Football” (8:20 p.m., NBC).

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BIRTHDAYS Actor Joseph Bologna is 78.

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Sandy Koufax is 77. TV director James Burrows is 72. Singer-musician Michael Nesmith is 70. Singer Patti Smith is 66. Rock singermusician Jeff Lynne is 65. TV host Meredith Vieira is 59. Country singer Suzy Bogguss is 56. “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer is 55. Actress-comedian Tracey Ullman is 53. Radio-TV commentator Sean Hannity is 51. Golfer Tiger Woods is 37. TV personalityboxer Laila Ali is 35. Actress Eliza Dushku is 32. NBA player LeBron James is 28.

Dennis rightly views that as a betrayal. And if you still harbor any romantic feelings for Jon, then you should, in fact, end the friendship.

Dear Annie: Many of our parents and grandparents are aging and have been placed in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities.

As an employee at one of these facilities, I would like to make a suggestion: Many of our residents have clothing that desperately needs to be replaced. It makes me sad when I go through their closets and everything has a hole in the seam or a waistband that is falling apart. Please check the status of your loved one’s clothing and replace what needs it.

This brings me to another point. Many people never have visitors, so there is no one to replace their clothing or even to tell about it. It may be something to consider

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for a community service project to provide new clothing for the residents who are unable to shop for themselves. Useful items include sweaters, sweatshirts, front-button or zipper shirts, pants with an elastic waistband, socks and slip-on or Velcro-strap shoes.

Even secondhand clothing would be wonderfully appreciated as long as it is in good repair. Our seniors have paved the way for us, and we should not forget about them. — A Long-Term Care Employee Dear Employee: What a lovely, helpful suggestion. Those who have family in nursing homes should remember to check that their clothing is clean, comfortable and in decent shape. And a community effort to supply such items would be much appreciated and a wonderfully compassionate way to start off the new year.

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For Sunday, Dec. 30: This year you express more warmth through your behavior and personality. As a result, many people are drawn to you. If you are single, your status could change, as you will attract many suitors. If you are attached, your sweetie will enjoy the change and bask in your sunniness.

Tonight: Do your thing.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Much goes on behind the scenes. Be aware that your reaction could be off-kilter if you do not have all the facts. Tonight: Get plenty of R and R. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You can’t turn down the invitations heading your way.

You like being in demand. Tonight: The Stars Show the Kind of Day Where the party is.

You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult You must first deal with a difficult associate before you can Aries (March 21-April 19) free yourself up. Don’t make plans; Be careful with all of your instead, be spontaneous. Tonight: In enthusiasm and energy. If you bethe limelight. come frustrated, you quickly could Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) find yourself in a disagreement.

Make a call to a special Tonight: Be willing to tame your someone early rather than get wild spirit. caught up in the madness of New Taurus (April 20-May 20) Year’s. Consider inviting this person You might feel as though to join you for the holiday. Tonight: you have a chain around your ankle. Opt for something different.

Others are either too demanding or Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) hot under the collar. Tonight: Home A key person in your life ward bound. could animate your day. Just let Gemini (May 21-June 20) this person in. Tonight: Add more Have a long-overdue chat romance to your life. with a neighbor. Once you start Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) sharing, a difficult situation could Maintain an even pace, turn out to be nothing more than a despite some disruptions. You funny misunderstanding. Tonight: might not be able to curb your Just don’t be alone. temper if you feel like you’re being Cancer (June 21-July 22) pushed too far. Tonight: A force to Curb a possessive streak, be dealt with. or you actually might push away Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) the very person you want to please.

Get involved in a hobby Remember the individuality of this or favorite pastime. A source of person. Tonight: Ever playful. relaxation such as this could be Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) very worthwhile, especially as you You beam, and others tend to take on others’ problems. notice. If you find a close loved one Tonight: Make it early. to be argumentative, ask yourself — The astrological forecast should if this person could feel threatened be read for entertainment only. by all the attention you’re receiving.

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