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The massive and continual construction/renovation projects at Texas Tech improve upon and maintain the state-of-the-art facilities of its 90-year-old campus. Several construction projects reached completion over the past year, and several others are now in progress.

Michael Molina, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction, said within the last six years, Tech has either completed or is currently working on around $1.1 billion of construction and design.

Some of the major ongoing projects include the Sports Performance Center, the new Honors residence hall and the addition to Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

The $15 million expansion to the business college will add more than 40,000 square feet to its existing area, Molina said. The groundbreaking ceremony for the project happened in July 2015.

“It is moving very well and we will be open in the fall of 2016,” he said.

Just south of the College of Business, the new Honors residence hall will begin construction in about a month, Molina said.

The 83,000-square-foot building will feature a pod-living layout with 305 beds and is set to be completed by August 2017.

In terms of athletic upgrades, $48 million has been dedicated for the construction of the Sports Performance Center. This complex will replace the Athletic Training Center, also known as “The Bubble,” Molina said. It will feature indoor football and track facilities, a trainers’ area for ath-

letes and also a nutrition center.

The facility will be completed in about a year and a half, he said.

The Bubble has been deflated and construction will begin soon.

“We are clearing that out as we

speak. We will start demolition on that building, on the existing building, any day now,” Molina said.

The new System Office building at the intersection of Texas Tech Parkway and the Marsha

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Sharp Freeway is a $27.5 million project for the Tech University System, according to the Facilities Planning and Construction website. The three-story building will be 80,000 square feet in area,

consisting of support spaces, infrastructure, landscaping, surface parking and office space for all of the System offices.

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Tech plays third-straight Physicists discuss game against ranked team gravitational waves

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team has a chance to keep its hopes of the NCAA tournament alive in its game against the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners at 8 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Red Raiders have twostraight victories after picking up a win at home against then-No. 14 Iowa State followed by a road victory against the No. 25 Baylor Bears. Against the Bears, Tech decisively snatched the game with an 84-66 final score.

Since winning its Big 12 opener against the Texas Longhorns, Tech did not surpass the 80-point mark in 10 straight games until breaking the streak against the Cyclones in overtime with 85 to Iowa State’s 82. Tech has scored 80 or more points in eight games this season, and Tech has come out with a victory in all of them.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said Tech’s ball movement has increased steadily to allow the Red Raiders to set up a play or find an open man.

“We’re shooting the ball better and that’s one thing in the last

Several researchers affiliated with Texas Tech participated in a discovery of gravitational waves, which proved a component of Einstein’s 100-year-old theory of relativity.

Robert Coyne, a postdoctoral researcher, said he felt vindicated by the discovery.

“The story of why this is a big deal is it happens on many, many, many different levels,” he said. “The first one is that it is further indication that Einstein was right. The gravitational waves are a prediction of general relativity that has been around for as long as the theory has.”

People worked on the idea of gravitational waves for 50 years, trying to determine if the waves were real or not, Coyne said.

“This was the culmination of 100 years of work, many different — thousands of people involved,” he said.

It was not until the 1990s that the Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory, or LIGO, project, Coyne said, became something the researchers felt was a feasible way to detect these waves.

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Texas Tech guard Devaugntah Williams makes a pass down court to guard Toddrick Gotcher during Tech’s 85-83 overtime victory against Iowa State on Feb. 10 in the United Supermarkets Arena. two games, we did shoot better from the outside,” he said. “We got to keep attacking inside and keep trying to get to the freethrow line.”

Against the best offense in the Big 12, the Red Raiders must repeat another strong offensive showing. The Sooners attack stretches throughout the

court with senior guard Buddy Hield striking from all angles, senior guard Isaiah Cousins and junior guard Jordan Woodard shooting at a high percentage from the three-point line and senior forward Ryan Spangler handling the post.

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“We detected, for the first time, black holes that are more than 25 times the mass of our sun. Up OWEN until now, this never happened,” Coyne said. “We’ve seen black holes maybe up to 20 times the mass of our sun, and we’ve seen the huge ones in the centers of galaxies.”

They also confirmed that two black holes can evolve and merge in the lifetime of the universe, proving something only theorized up to this point, he said.

The most important level of this discovery, he said, is that it is opening up an entirely new method of observation of the universe, like suddenly gaining another sense.

“It was the culmination of a lot of things, yeah, it was a lot of firsts,” Benjamin Owen, a physics professor at Tech, said.

Over the last 100 years the methods of looking at the universe expanded to radio and gamma telescopes, Owen said, and showed researchers completely new things, but were all fundamentally different wavelengths of light.

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Texas Tech’s meat judging team has done much to prepare for its contests and has been a successful team for Tech. The meat judging team consists of 16 Tech students.

The meat judging team evaluates beef, pork and lamb. They are in carcass form as well as different primal cuts. They evaluate them for quality, trimness and muscling, Loni Lucherk, one of the team’s coaches, said. She has coached at Tech since 2013.

The team has won its past two contests in Denver and Fort Worth and the next one will be in Houston at the beginning of March, she said.

To prepare for the team and contests, students take a class, Lucherk said. The team also goes to a beef

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honor in the pursuit of excellence just like the university,” she said. “It teaches students that no matter what they do, to always strive for honor in the pursuit of excellence.”

Lucherk said the students also learn to serve unselfishly by serving in soup kitchens, putting on different contests, helping 4-H and FFA teams and volunteering time into service activities.

“I think it teaches them to strive for excellence, do it with honor and to serve others unselfishly, in addition to written skills, leadership skills, oral communication skills, decision making, working with a team and getting along with peers and mentors,” Lucherk said.

Courtney Jasik, a junior natural resources management major from Mertzon and a member of the team, said

there are several benefits of being a part of the team.

Keeley Sears, a sophomore animal science major from Peaster and member of the team, said anyone should give it a try.

“I never thought I would like meat judging but I love

it. People should just give everything a shot,” Sears said. “I think some people don’t realize that everything in animal science is open to everyone.

We have people who aren’t Ag majors so I think anyone should try it.”

the surface of a neutron star, gravitational waves come from the core and can give new insight into the extreme conditions inside.

Alessandra Corsi, an assistant professor of physics at Tech, said her focus is on integrating the use of gravitational wave detection with the more common methods using the electromagnetic spectrum, such as radio and visible light.

The gravitational waves give a general area of an event, and then the electro-

magnetic detection methods are used to pinpoint and correlate the different data sets involved in the event to learn much more, Corsi said.

Owen’s focus was on data analysis methods used to detect the signal and troubleshoot the algorithms involved to ensure they worked correctly, he said.

He had been working on this type of data analysis for decades.

While one method was developed over the course

of three years by multiple individuals, the other he had been working on personally for more than 20 years, Owen said.

“It was actually my very first real physics paper, my first big grad student project,” he said.

It got published in 1996, though he started working on it earlier, and he continued to work on it over the years, Owen said.

“LIGO is more like an ear than an eye,” Owen said.

“You can think of it like if

someone on the other side of the parking lot is throwing a hand grenade. If you’re looking you can see the flash and see very precisely where the grenade is, but if you’re not looking and you just hear it, you’re just kinda, ‘It was in that direction somewhere.’”

The detection of the gravitational waves works in a similar way to the sonar on submarines, Owen said.

There are different tones that can be detected that represent different things.

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plant every Friday to practice evaluating meats.

The contests are comprised of 15 different cattle, 10 different specifications and 10 different classes. The specifications look for defects such as bones being left behind and cuts that are too thin or too long, she said.

After evaluating the meat, the team members are required to look at the classes, evaluate which one is the best or highest quality and rank four carcasses in order from best to worst, Lucherk said.

Then, they have to defend their placing by writing a set of written reasons telling the judge why they placed them in the order they did.

Anyone can join the team, regardless of major, after taking the recommended class first, Lucherk said.

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Analysis: Cruz tax plan would benefit rich, explode deficit WASHINGTON (AP) — A new analysis of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s tax plan concluded that it would add trillions to the federal deficit while providing huge tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest earners.

The analysis issued Tuesday by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found Cruz’s plan would cost $8.6 trillion over in the first 10 years, not including interest on the national debt.

Center director Len Burman said about two-thirds of all federal discretionary spending would have to be cut to balance the budget if Cruz’s tax plan were enacted. Not even eliminating every dollar spent on national defense, the biggest pool of money in the federal budget, would be enough, he said.

“In Senator Cruz’s defense, I have no doubt he really wants to slash spending,” Burman said. “But these are really big tax cuts ... that would require really big spending cuts to So-

cial Security, Medicare, defense and all the other big things we spend money on.”

The scale of the cuts that would be required to balance Cruz’s budget would likely be political unpalatable to members Congress of both parties, he added.

Meanwhile, under Cruz’s plan, the top 0.1 percent of income earners would see their tax burden reduced 23 percent.

Middle-income households would receive an average 2.4 percent tax cut, while the lowest earners would actually see their payments increase by about 1 percent, according to the analysis.

The Tax Policy Center is a joint project of the centrist Brookings Institute and leftleaning Urban Institute.

Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler criticized the center’s analysis, which he said fails to account for the massive economic growth that would be spurred by Cruz’s plan. He pointed to a competing analysis

by the conservative Tax Foundation, which concluded Cruz’s plan would grow the nation’s economy by nearly 14 percent over the next decade and add 5 million new jobs.

“Tax cuts create economic growth,” Tyler said. “Economic growth creates more taxpayers who make more money and have more revenue to be taxed, which creates more revenue for the government.”

Cruz’s proposal would repeal the corporate income tax and payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, was well as eliminate estate and gift taxes. It would collapse the current seven individual income tax rates to a single 10 percent rate while increasing the standard deduction and eliminating most other deductions.

The plan would also introduce a new 16 percent broadbased consumption tax — a sort of national sales tax that would hit poorer Americans harder than wealthy ones.

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Inmate executed for killing store clerk HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday for the shotgun slaying of a Dallas-area liquor store clerk during a robbery more than 25 years ago.

Gustavo Garcia, 43, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m.

CST — 16 minutes after the lethal drug began to flow into his arms. He became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state.

“God bless you. Stay strong. I’m done,” Garcia said in his final statement, adding that he loved his mother and other family. None of his relatives attended the execution.

As the pentobarbital began taking effect, he yawned, gurgled, exhaled and started to snore quietly. Within 30 sec-

onds, all movement stopped.

Garcia was sentenced to death for fatally shooting 43-year-old Craig Turski during a 1990 holdup in Plano. It was one of two killings during robberies linked to Garcia, who was 18 at the time, and then-15-year-old Christopher Vargas.

Garcia’s attorneys made no late legal attempts to stop the execution after the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal last week to rehear an appeal. A federal judge also wouldn’t halt it, and the Texas parole board rejected a clemency petition.

Garcia spent more than half of his life on death row for the killing of Turski. Vargas was tried and convicted as an adult and sentenced to life in prison. His young age

made him ineligible for the death penalty.

Court documents show Garcia shot Turski in the abdomen on Dec. 9, 1990, then reloaded and shot the man in the back of the head. A month later, Garcia and Vargas entered a Plano convenience store armed with a sawed-off shotgun and carried out a holdup in which another clerk, 18-year-old Gregory Martin, was fatally shot in the head.

Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend just before the shooting and told her to call police. Officers arrived and found Vargas standing over Martin’s body and Garcia hiding in a beer cooler with the shotgun nearby. Authorities later determined the weapon was the same one used in Turski’s death.

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Bats close East Texas emergency room KILGORE (AP) — An East Texas emergency room has been closed after small bats began to spread through the building.

In a statement posted Tuesday night on the Kilgore Police Department social media pages, Good Shepherd Medical Center said “a number of

small bats” had moved into the Longview, Texas-based hospital’s free-standing emergency room in nearby Kilgore.

The bats had moved into the building’s walls and ceilings, with some migrating into the area that receives ambulances.

Good Shepherd says it’s working with the City of

Kilgore, which owns the building, and Allegiance Specialty Hospital, with manages it, to get the bats removed. In the meantime, Good Shepherd had decided it’s in the best interests of its patients and staff to suspend emergency medical services in the building until the bats can be removed.

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Students should remain informed about Lubbock flag scare regional elections, active during elections proves shameful

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ost Texas Tech students may not know or even care about the upcoming regional and statewide elections on March 1. Perhaps they think they cannot make a difference or the issues and politics do not apply to their lives. This way of thinking reflects U.S. society in general, which largely lags behind other democratic countries in voter turnout.

According to a May 6, 2015, study published by the Pew Research Center, U.S. voter turnout in the 2012 presidential elections was barely above 50 percent. For millennials, the number is even more dismal with just 19.9 percent of 18to 29-year-old citizens casting ballots in the 2014 elections, Catherine Rampell wrote in the Washington Post on July 23, 2015.

This may be due to the fact Americans take certain privileges for granted, including their right to vote, a fact that has caused resentment in some underprivileged sectors of our society.

For example, it wasn’t until 1920, with passage of the 19th Amendment, that women had the right to vote.

As for the African-American community, although the 15th Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote in 1870, it was not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “before the majority of AfricanAmericans in the South

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were registered to vote,” the Library of Congress has stated in its document, “Primary Documents in American History: 15th Amendment to the Constitution.”

In addition, many immigrants in the U.S. cannot vote, yet the laws that are passed still impact them.

Yet, does your vote really make a difference? Is it counted? According to the article, “The black box: Voting machines” published in the Huffington Post on Sept. 3, 2015, computerized voting machines, which do not print receipts, can easily be hacked into and the results changed.

A Princeton University study, published on Sept.

13, 2006, experimented on a Diebold computerized voting machine. The researchers found “Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks.

For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal

votes undetected, modifying all records, logs and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates.”

Whether you believe the elections are rigged or not, it is still important to at least know what is on the ballot, because whether you like it or not, whoever is elected or whatever laws get passed will impact the community.

The Princeton University research supports findings by Bev Harris in her 2004 book “Black box voting: Ballot tampering in the 21st Century,” in which she details numerous instances of computer misconduct in electronic voting machines, where the makers of these machines, when confronted, simply shrug off the issue as nothing to be concerned about.

“In the Alabama 2002 general election, machines made by Election Systems and Software (ES&S) flipped the governor ’s race. Six thousand three hundred Baldwin County electronic votes mysteriously disappeared after the polls had closed and everyone had

gone home,” she wrote.

Other cases of voting machine misconduct include one of the most contested presidential elections in history between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush, with widespread complaints about voting machine malfunctions in four Florida counties during the 2000 elections, PBS published in the article “Landmark cases: Bush v. Gore (2000).”

Whether you believe the elections are rigged or not, it is still important to at least know what is on the ballot, because whether you like it or not, whoever is elected or whatever laws get passed will impact the community.

The nonpartisan League of Women Voters puts out a free “Voters Guide” for every election that educates people about the laws and candidates on the ballot.

You can also access information online at vote411. org. The upcoming regional and statewide elections will be held on March 1, but students at Texas Tech can vote early starting Feb. 16, with polling stations set up at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

The voting machines will be electronic and you will not receive a receipt. Fortunately, the process is quick and painless for anyone trying to make a difference. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Gravitational wave discovery relevant for all

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ith the discovery of gravitational waves in space, Einstein’s theory of relativity has finally been confirmed. This amazing discovery paves the way for astronomers and scientists, who are now able to say that after 100 years, Einstein was correct.

The big question is why everyday people should care about the gravitational waves in space. To put it simply, this discovery will significantly impact the field of astronomy.

“It’s like Galileo pointing the telescope for the first time at the sky,” Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team member Vassiliki Kalogera said, according to a Feb. 12 Space. com article. Because of this, it is immensely important to everyone’s future.

For instance, when CNN published a story by Todd Leopold titled “Gravitational waves detected — and that’s creating waves in science,” we find out the scientists at LIGO have discovered gravitational waves in space.

The article goes into detail about the cause of the waves, stating the gravitational waves “were created by the merging of two black holes… one black hole had the mass

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of 29 suns; the other was the equivalent of 36 suns.”

The article does not stop there, and continues to give more information about the black holes. “More than a billion years ago — LIGO estimates about 1.3 billion — the two collided at half the speed of light.”

The article then speaks more about LIGO, saying “the waves are so small that it takes a detector like LIGO, capable of measuring distortions one-thousandth the size of a proton, to observe them.”

The CNN article continues, stating “this discovery will open up new horizons, including direct tests of Einstein’s general theory.”

These tests would lead to an increase in scientific understanding throughout the scientific community.

While CNN’s article gives basic information about how the waves were discovered, an article by Vox goes into more detail related to the

waves. In an article by Brian Resnick titled “The simplest explanation of why we should care about gravitational waves,” Resnick interviewed Cliff Burgess, who is a theoretical physicist at McMaster University in Ontario.

Burgess continued, saying “If you could see [gravitational waves], you can see back past where you can’t see physical light.” Burgess writes, “Focusing on gravitational waves, scientists were able to ‘see’ or ‘hear’ (both metaphors work) black holes in action for the very first time in scientific history.”

If we are able to see distant planets and galaxies through these gravitational waves, we would be able to study distant galaxies and planets past visible light.

This could lead to multiple discoveries of planets and galaxies past our solar system, and in turn, could lead to discoveries of extraterrestrial life in space.

These discoveries could include an alternate planet that we could inhabit in the far future. With the discovery of Planet Nine last year, this only adds to space’s mystique. We currently know there is a ninth planet that exists in our solar system,

and due to LIGO sensing these ripples, we may know of any additional galaxies past our viewing point.

Although it would take some time before we notice these gravitational waves, as we have just found out about the waves after the black holes collided 1.3 billion years ago, it would still be monumental to the scientific community.

For instance, if we discover any more of these gravitational waves, we would possibly be able to observe different types of planets and galaxies, seeing how they develop in their own time, taking into account space’s delayed showing of said planets.

Watching these planets and galaxies develop could ultimately lead to the discovery of how these differing galaxies operate and could lead to the discovery of extra-terrestrial life in the near future.

Having the ability to observe these far distant planets and galaxies would, in turn, help scientists around the world in developing theories and observations about these distant worlds. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com

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ubbock’s elephant in the room seems to have taken a move to the top of the Lubbock Citizen’s Tower this week, when a black banner with Arabic writing was hung from the building, causing quite an uproar, according to a Monday article in The Daily Toreador.

In a letter to City Manager James Loomis, Mayor Glen Robertson wrote, “I am requesting that the flag be removed immediately, that we get an accurate translation of the flag, and that Chief Stevens notify the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and our Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Department.”

As it turns out, the Arabic writing said, “Love is for all,” and the giant red heart on the flag set it distinctly apart from the ISIS Flag. The words of the mayor, as well as the reaction of the town, shows that having an irrational fear of Arab cultures only cripples us as a town.

I can understand why people might have been surprised to see a flag with Arabic writing in it.

Lubbock, hours away from cities besides Amarillo, cannot boast being as multicultural as other Texas cities such as Houston or Dallas. The flag may not be offensive, but it is certainty unusual to see Arabic writing hung from a building downtown.

Furthermore, it was not just hung from any old building downtown, but from the ugliest downtown building. The Citizen’s Tower rises from Lubbock like a bulging red pimple on the face of an attractive person. No matter how pretty the city is, the ugliness of the Citizen’s Tower draws my attention in like a black hole. Whoever hung the flag made a terrible decision hanging it from this building, as just looking at the building automatically put people in a rotten mood (unless they hung the flag in attempt to get the building bulldozed, which is actually pretty smart).

However, despite the peculiarity of the flag or the ugliness of the building on which it was hung, Lubbock’s reaction to the flag was shameful. We are all well aware of the atrocities ISIS has done, but the outcry over simple Arabic writing shows both a lack of intelligence and a lack of courage.

The outcry over the flag shows a lack of intelligence concerning Middle Eastern culture, which is pretty concerning considering how involved the U.S. is with different countries. It is vital

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

to understand there are countless Arabic speaking movements besides ISIS and not every group wants to blow Lubbock up.

When combating national security threats, it is important to be both alert and informed.

Contacting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over a piece of Arabic graffiti, however, shows how Lubbock residents are hyper-alert, yet severely uniformed of the cultures we fear.

As the U.S. is heavily involved in foreign affairs with Middle Eastern countries, such as our recent negotiations with Iran and our long-lasting friendship with Saudi Arabia, it is disheartening to see American citizens so alarmed at the mere sight of Arabic writing.

Lastly, the freak-out over the lowered flag speaks poorly for the courage of Lubbock residents.

The acts committed by terrorist organizations have indeed been horrific, but as the U.S. increasingly becomes involved in efforts to combat these acts, we must be diligent in keeping fear of other cultures at bay. Besides, Lubbock has had no incidents involving radical Islam in the past — the small group of Muslims Lubbock has are just as peaceful and hard working as the rest of us.

When combating national security threats, it is important to be both alert and informed. Contacting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over a piece of Arabic graffiti, however, shows how Lubbock residents are hyper-alert, yet severely uninformed of the cultures we fear.

It is unclear whether the sign was hung up in a political gesture or simply to rile Lubbock residents up. Regardless, the message the flag sent is clear — there are countless people trying to vocalize how their culture is not the enemy, but our society is too afraid to listen. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Ted Cruz rivals pounce on trust issues, supposed unethical campaign tactics BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Ted Cruz is getting hammered by his Republican rivals over what they call a pattern of unethical campaign tactics and inac curate statements by the Te x a s s e n a t o r w h o h a s shaped his White House bid around trust.

Cruz has had some trouble getting all his facts straight in debates, has used campaign tactics that some find suspicious and had an ad by an outside group temporarily pulled for questions about its accuracy. His opponents are

blunter, calling him simply a liar.

The Texas senator, whose 2015 autobiography is titled, “A Time for Truth,” shrugged off the criticism Tuesday while campaigning for Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary.

“Both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have this very strange pattern where if you point to their actual record, if you point to the words that have come out of their mouth, they don’t respond on substance. They just scream ‘Liar! Liar! Liar!’”

Cruz said Tuesday.

Both Trump and Rubio have accused Cruz of distorting their records with increasing frequency. And while such charges are common in presidential politics, Cruz’s team has also faced rebukes for misleading voters in recent weeks from multiple outside groups — the Iowa Secretary of State and a prominent anti-abortion group, among them.

The fiery conservative’s ability to navigate questions about his integrity could well decide his fate in the crowded

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“He’s lying. And I think it’s disturbing,” Rubio said in Beaufort. “Just here in South Carolina this week, he’s lied about my record on Planned Parenthood, he’s lied about my position on marriage, he’s lied about his own record on immigration. So, I think this is very disturbing when you have a candidate that now on a regular basis just makes things up.”

Trump was even more aggressive, describing Cruz the day before as

“the single biggest liar I’ve ever come across, in politics or otherwise.”

“And I have seen some of the best of them,” the billionaire businessman said in a statement. “His statements are totally untrue and completely outrageous. It is hard to believe a person who proclaims to be a Christian could be so dishonest and lie so much.”

Virtually all of the 2016 candidates have been caught stretching the truth over the course of the campaign,

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After a legal review, a South Carolina television station over the weekend temporarily pulled down an ad from a pro-Cruz super PAC that targeted Rubio’s position on immigration.

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Moot Court Team wins College recognized as national competition top military school The Texas Tech School of Law Advocacy Team won the 66th annual National Moot Court Competition in New York City on Friday.

Shelby Hall, Kristen Vander-Plas and C.J. Baker, the team of third-year law students, were pitted against teams from across the country and defeated a team from Georgetown University in the finals to win the crown, according to a Tech news release. Hall additionally won the honor of having written the top legal brief in the competition.

This is Tech’s fourth time winning the competition in school history, and the third time it has done so in the last six years, according to the release. The competition, hosted by the New York City Bar Association, has been hosted annually since 1950 and is considered one of the oldest and most prestigious moot court competitions in the country.

“This was a huge win for our program,” Robert Sherwin, assistant professor at the School of Law and director of advocacy programs,

said in the release. “After back-to-back championships at this competition in 2011 and 2012 and a heartbreaking loss in the semifinals in 2014, it means so much to get back to the top of the mountain. C.J., Shelby and Kristen made it their goal at the outset of the year to take this crown, and they worked incredibly hard to make it happen.”

This is the 37th advocacy championship in the law school’s history, according to the release. @DailyToreador

POLICE BLOTTER

Tech police investigate thefts

Monday 1:14 p.m. — A Texas Tech police officer investigated a theft in Gordon Residence Hall. A secured bicycle was taken.

1:19 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in Stangel Residence Hall. A secured bicycle seat was taken.

9:23 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Chitwood

Residence Hall. A student was having chest pains.

The student was transported to the University Medical Center Emergency Room by Emergency Medical Services.

1:28 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of marijuana and no driver’s license in the 400 block of Flint Avenue after a traffic stop. The non-student

was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:45 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for unlawful carrying of a weapon at the C1 parking lot after the investigation of a suspicious person. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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Scalia death phone inquest unusual MARFA (AP) — A county judge’s determination via telephone that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes and required no autopsy was unusual, Texas officials said, but sometimes happens in rural areas of Texas where a county can be bigger than some U.S. states.

Within two hours of Scalia’s body being found Saturday at Cibolo Creek Ranch in remote West Texas, Presi-

dio county Judge Cinderela Guevara, who was 60 miles away, consulted by phone with the county sheriff and a U.S. marshal and concluded there was no foul play. After speaking to Scalia’s personal doctor later that evening, she decided that he had died of natural causes and no autopsy was necessary.

“I have no issue with how she handled his death,” said David Beebe, a justice of the peace in

Presidio County, where Scalia died.

Beebe is one of two justices of the peace in the county who are routinely called by authorities to verify a death. Both Beebe and the second justice of the peace were out of town Saturday. Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez, in need of a justice to conduct a death inquest, then called Guevara, who offered to hear the matter.

For the third year in a row, Military Times has ranked the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration as a Best for Vets Business School.

Texas Tech’s business college was ranked at No. 23 on the list, according to a university news release, and was one of two Texas schools recognized in the top 25 by the military news organization.

“All of the faculty, staff and administrators at Texas Tech respect and appreciate the sacrifices and efforts given by the women and men serving their country in our military,” Paul Goebel, interim dean of the Rawls College, said in the release.

“We strive to ensure that veterans receive the assistance

necessary to smoothly transition into higher education, and ultimately graduate and move into successful careers.”

The college was one of 77 selected after Military Times considered 180 schools total, according to the release.

Schools were ranked based on university culture, cost and financial aid, academic outcomes and quality, student support and academic policies, according to the release.

Factors like Fall 2015 enrollment numbers, and overall institution retention rates were also considered.

“Recognition as a Best for Vets Business School for the third consecutive year reflects once again that Texas Tech University is providing exceptional programs and a

campus-wide support system for our military and veteran students,” Lou Ortiz, director of Military and Veterans Programs, said in the release.

The Texas A&M Mays Business School was ranked at No. 9 on the list, according to the Military Times website.

Aside from the Rawls College of Business, the only Big 12 schools on the list were the University of Kansas School of Business at No. 4 and West Virginia University College of Business and Economics at No. 71.

“The Rawls College of Business is honored to be selected as a Military Times Best for Vets Business School for the third consecutive year,” Goebel said in the release.

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should be fully operational by September of this year.

“Of course, we are including the 1 percent public art and 1 percent landscape to this project,” Molina said. “So, you’ll see a beautiful piece from an artist in Colorado named Frank Swanson.”

One percent of each new major capital project is used to fund public artwork, according to Tech’s Public Art Program website. The Public Art Program for Tech University System was initiated by the Board of Regents in 1998, and since then more than 100 pieces of art have been added across various Tech campuses.

Emily Wilkinson, public art director for Tech, said several public art pieces are currently being planned. The artwork for the new Engineering Research Center by Frank Swanson will be a red granite sculpture.

Artwork for some of the other projects is still being selected, Wilkinson said. This includes the Sports Performance Center, the new System Office building and the Honors residence hall. The art piece for the business college expansion, however, has been selected.

It is a 20-foot sculpture by artist Koryn Rolstad that emphasizes technology and circuitry with the use of dichroic glass, she said.

“We have several (projects) in progress right now,” Wilkinson said. “So, lots of new things coming up.”

Some of the major construction projects that were finished recently include the campus beautification project, the Bayer Plant Science building, the Bayer CropScience Open Seeds Innovation Center and Tech Innovation Hub and Research Park.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The major renovation project on campus is the Maddox Engineering Research Center.

Located near Memorial Circle at the entrance to the Engineering Key, this research facility will occupy the former Media and Communication building, which has been vacant since 2012 when the College of Media and Communication moved to its current location, according to a Tech news release.

The basement, first and second floors of this building are being completely renovated, and the building is being torn down to the substructure of concrete to install new utilities, infrastructure and finishes, Molina said. This $30 million project is slated to be completed by August and

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By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Burkhart Center for Autism Education and R e s e a r c h i n v i t e d Te r r i Hendrix, a singer-songwriter from San Marcos, to teach several autistic students how to write their own songs.

The students are part of the Burkhart Transitional Academy where autistic students out of high school are being taught tools and skills in order to help them transition into a higher education setting.

Music is one of the methods the transitional academy uses to help these students come out of their comfort zones and express themselves, and they have weekly music therapy every Friday.

“Music is a real form of self-expression, and at the end of this songwriting event they were feeling confident,” Janice K. Magness, the director of the Burkhart Transition Academy, said. “Music is the window to the soul, and for some of these students it really is.”

Hendrix and Lloyd Maines were in Lubbock and happened to stop by the Burkhart Center for a tour, and when they noticed the students had

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Terri Hendrix, a singer-songwriter from San Marcos, helps students in the Burkhart Center’s Transitional Academy write their own song together Tuesday afternoon. The students have music therapy sessions on Fridays, and the songwriting session helped the students interact with each other.

music therapy sessions on Fridays they wanted to jump on board and help.

Hendrix had each of the six students get a composition notebook and write down some ideas for song lyrics, and one by one each student gave his or her suggestion before they came up with a final product together.

After the song was created, the students sang it out loud with Hendrix and were allowed to hear

it back on a recording.

Hendrix said she has been in love with music since the fourth grade and has run her own label since 1996. Her career has allowed her to travel all over the world.

She has decided to not only share her music for people’s enjoyment, she said, but also to try to make the world a better place with her writing and singing with purpose.

She said she loved be-

ing able to come to the Burkhart Center and help the students write songs.

“I don’t know if I taught or if I learned,” she said.

“I love to write songs and I wanted to write a song with them, and I wanted them to write a song with me. It was about loving music.”

Writing songs is important, Hendrix said, and she enjoys getting to show people how to write their own songs.

“It’s a way to get your

feelings out on paper, so it’s important for me and I think that’s a universal thing of importance,” she said. “People with autism tend to have sensory issues, like they may have a difficult time making social connections with someone or touching them or hugging them, but they like music and art. They explore all of the areas that most people do, but I really think music speaks to people with autism.”

Magness said songwriting was a great opportunity to get Hendrix to the Burkhart Center to help these students write songs and interact with each other socially.

“I don’t think they had any idea before she came this morning how to write a song, and they didn’t understand that she was going to take input from every one of them,” Magness said. “It makes the song real personal for all of us because everybody helped write it.”

Some of the students are very outgoing and others are not, she said, but they were all participating in the workshop.

“I noticed she managed to bring everybody out, which was great,” she said.

“Our whole goal to be here is to develop good social

skills with our students interacting with other people, so it was a great opportunity for them to feel some good vibes and some good self esteem.”

Angel Inakicosodiac, a student in the Transitional Academy from Mexico City, said he enjoyed the songwriting and he is glad Hendrix took the time to help them.

“I appreciate the experience a lot because they are famous people and they are usually on a routine or out of town doing concerts and for them to come and show us how to do this is really nice,” he said.

Inakicosodiac also said hearing the song they wrote being sung by himself and his classmates was a surreal experience because it was something that manifested from their minds and was brought to life.

“I think the Burkhart Center is on the forefront of looking past somebody’s ability or disability, I mean what is a disability?” Hendrix said. “I think learning skills in life is very important, and I was very excited to come here and be a part of this inventive program and being able to incorporate songwriting into that is a blessing.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Belafonte lectures about his career in social activism

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Emmy Award-winning social activist Harry Belafonte spoke as a part of the African-American History Month Lecture Series in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building on Tuesday.

His lecture, titled “My Life in Activism,” touched on his many years of social activism and what individuals inspired him throughout his career.

Through interactions with Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., Belafonte helped shape some of the recent movements in history, including the Civil Rights movement, he said.

“I think that in my youth when I became engaged in social activism, the goals we set for ourselves were met,” Belafonte said. “In the Civil Rights movement, we never lost a battle. We got the African-American the right to vote, we changed the laws of segregation.”

When Belafonte first met Martin Luther King

Jr. in 1954, he said he did not think the Civil Rights movement would last.

“At the time, I thought the cause would maybe at best last a couple of years,” Belafonte said. “I did not know that it would completely consume me, the nation and the world, and do what it did. I feel most blessed and fortunate that I was a part of that time.”

It is important to hear from individuals like Belafonte, Jacynda Ammons, history professor, said. It is important for students to see him as an iconic figure and to hear him talk about his activism because it shows the students the past was not that long ago.

Lectures inspired Belafonte when he was a child, he said.

“I left lectures feeling inspired and feeling more in touch with things that I wanted to become more informed about,” Belafonte said.

Through his lecture, Belafonte said he hopes to inspire the way that students think about Civil Rights and activism.

“My task in this lecture

is to pass on information to citizens who are so inclined to hear what I have to say,” he said. “It is my responsibility to make sure that I fill the moment with ideas and thoughts and experiences that might change how they think.”

Michael Crowe, a senior civil architecture major from Denton, said he was a student who really did not have any idea who Belafonte was before this lecture, but he wants to do more research on Belafonte because of the lecture.

“He is a really interesting guy,” Crowe said. “I thought that it was very interesting what he had to say about coming back to the United States after being a solider in World War II where he had fought the ideas of Hitler, which was basically segregation, and he came home and found that those ideas were still here when he came back.”

Right now Belafonte wants to inspire the current generation into expanding the Civil Rights movement, he said.

“Despite all those vic-

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tories that we had in the Civil Rights movement, we just touched the tip of the iceberg,” Belafonte said.

“What’s deeply necessary is for the succeeding generations to understand the legacy and understand what we endured. Young people need to step into the breach and make it work.”

To r e a c h o u t t o t h e new generation, Belafonte started a social justice organization called Sankofa to help other artists use their resources to support the great need of change.

Partnering with artists like Common, John Legend and Macklemore, Sankofa’s mission is to use artists’ platforms to speak up on matters of political and social urgency, according to Sankofa’s website.

Ammons hopes Belafonte will inspire students and cause them to be more involved in social activism, she said.

The next lecture in the African American History Month Lecture series is from Cornel West on the endurance of racism in Barack Obama’s America.

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Harry Belafonte answers questions at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. He visited Texas Tech to lecture about his career in social activism at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Building Allen Theatre.

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Singer, actress Denise Matthews dies Band performs for Paris attack survivors Vanity, a Prince protege who renounced her sexy stage persona to become a Christian minister, has died.

She was 57.

The singer and actress, born Denise Matthews, died Monday at a hospital in Fremont, California, said Gisela Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the Washington Hospital Health Care System. Hernandez did not give a cause of death.

Matthews’ sister Renay said the death was from complications over longstanding

kidney issues.

She said Denise Matthews was happy in recent years. “She loved her time in the ‘80s, but I think she loved her recent time more, because she had been at peace,” Renay Matthews said.

A native of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Matthews first rocketed to stardom through her association with Prince and the 80s girl group Vanity 6.

During her time in music, Vanity released four albums with Motown and Warner Brothers, and was known for

her sultry appearance and her sexually-themed music, including “Nasty Girl.” “Action Jackson.”

“I was sick inside. I was a crack cocaine addict and didn’t even know how to wake up in the morning without some smoke,” she said in an Associated Press story in 1999.

She renounced her Hollywood lifestyle and became a Christian minister. She married former Oakland Raider Anthony Smith in 1995 and they divorced the next year.

PARIS (AP) — The California rock band Eagles of Death Metal performed Tuesday at a highly charged Paris concert filled with fans who survived a terrifying massacre and siege at their last Paris show - and filled with memories of those who didn’t.

“Bonsoir Paris, we’re ready for this!” frontman Jesse Hughes told the crowd at the Olympia concert hall, before heading straight into the first song.

Later, between two songs, he shouted: “Peace, love and rock

and roll!”

The band’s performance Nov. 13 at the Bataclan concert hall turned into a bloodbath when Islamic extremist suicide bombers stormed in, as near-simultaneous attacks hit cafes and a stadium around Paris. Scores of concert-goers at the Bataclan were killed, while others hid or lay motionless for hours until a police raid ended the siege. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Armed police guarded entrances to the Olympia for Tuesday’s performance, and concert-

goers went through three bag and body searches before entering. Viewers seemed in good spirits ahead of the show, some drinking outside.

One man wounded at the Bataclan appeared at Tuesday’s concert in crutches. Others overcame deep fears or depression to attend.

“After the attacks ... I felt apprehension even being at the movies,” said Bataclan survivor Florian Novac. After seeing the security at Tuesday’s concert, however, he said, “Now I’m not afraid, I am confident.”

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Snowboard club offers rare experience in Texas

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS Editor

The Texas Tech Ski and Snowboard club competes across various parts of the New Mexico and Colorado region.

Founded in 2011, the club has been competing and placing members of the competition team at every meet it attends.

The club was founded in 2011 by senior Patrick Gres, a native of Giddings.

According to Gres, the club consists of 79 members.

One member that stands out to Gres is sophomore finance and accounting major Ryan

Deen from Carrollton.

“I had only snowboarded on family vacations while DEEN growing up,” Deen said. “I came to school and saw a flyer about a Texas Tech snowboarding club and thought that I should give it a shot.”

Deen said that he did well on tough courses before joining the club and that he quickly began competing with some success after joining the club.

Deen placed twelfth at a national competition his first

year on the competition team in the club. He also said that the club has had a special impact on his time at Tech.

“I’ve had so many opportunities to meet different people that share a common bond with me in Texas in an area like this that has no courses or resorts,” Deen said.

Deen said that he encourages people to join clubs at Tech for the experience and opportunities that are offered. He said the snowboarding club has given him memories he will never forget.

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teammate Austin Nettleton, (who is a graduate student) at Tech, and he had been competing longer than I have and I beat him,” Deen said.

“So that has stuck with me and it was just a lot of fun.”

The competition team portion of the club was founded by Nettleton after joining Gres.

The competition team consists of 11 members out of the clubs 79 total members.

Gres said that he also encourages people to venture out and give clubs a try.

“For me, it’s the closest thing to flying,” Gres said.

“After every meet, I can’t help but look forward to the next

year. For people that are just trying to give snowboarding a shot, it opens up a whole new world.”

Deen and Gres recently traveled to Ski Cooper resort near Leadville, Colorado, for a competition on Feb. 5-7. At the competition, Gres said that the two competed against some of the toughest competitors from around the world.

“It was just Ryan and I who traveled to compete in Ski Cooper, and we faced some of the hardest competition I’ve ever seen,” Gres said. “The course was challenging and it was our first

time competing at this event.

It was fun and Ryan did well so it was great seeing that from him.”

The team previously competed in Angel Fire, New Mexico, before the competition in Ski Cooper and earned points towards qualifying for the United States of America Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships in Lake Placid, New York, the week of March 6-12.

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Davis sparks No. 24 Texas over Rangers will hit refresh in No. 10 West Virginia, 85-78 spring by putting 2015 in past AUSTIN (AP) — Eric Davis Jr. scored 15 points and sparked a flurry of first-half 3-pointers for No. 24 Texas as the Longhorns held off a late rally to beat No. 10 West Virginia 85-78 on Tuesday night.

Davis made four 3-pointers in the first half and Texas (17-9, 8-5 Big 12) had 10 in the game in capping a regular-season sweep of the Mountaineers. Texas broke a two-game losing streak.

Texas coach Shaka Smart had implored his team to show more emotion heading in a tough, late-season gauntlet against four ranked opponents in six games. Davis responded with arguably his best half of the season after scoring seven total points in the previous four games.

Isaiah Taylor led Texas with 23 points and seven assists.

Tarik Phillip scored 19 points for West Virginia (206, 9-4), which dropped one game behind No. 2 Kansas

in the Big 12.

Jaysean Paige, the Mountaineers’ leading scorer at 14.0 points per game, injured an ankle in the first half and never returned.

West Virginia, which trailed by as many as 16 points in the second half, pulled within 77-71 on a three-point play by Jonathan Holton with 38 seconds left. Texas put the game away with eight consecutive free throws.

The win is another big result on the NCAA Tournament resume of first-year coach Smart, who still hasn’t lost three straight with the Longhorns. Texas is 5-3 against ranked opponents this season and three of its last five games will come against No. 25 Baylor, Kansas and No. 3 Oklahoma.

Just like its first win over the Mountaineers in January, Texas expertly handled West Virginia’s pressing defense, turning the ball over just seven times. West

Virginia attacked Texas ballhandlers early and produced three quick turnovers in the opening minutes that fueled a 12-4 Mountaineers lead.

But Texas cleaned up the sloppy play and quickly fought back before Davis took over the last 6 minutes of the first half with a slew of 3-pointers. Davis made three as the teams traded seven straight 3-pointers and his fourth pushed the Longhorns to a 45-36 halftime lead.

The Longhorns kept up the barrage in the second half. Connor Lammert’s 3-pointer followed by a threepoint play by Taylor quickly pushed Texas to a 12-point lead in the opening minutes.

Even when Texas’ scoring slowed down, the Mountaineers couldn’t make the run they needed to rally. After shooting 63 percent in the first half, West Virginia tapered off badly in the second and struggled from the free throw line.

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Trinidad, Tobago beats Guyana 5-1 HOUSTON (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago scored three goals in the first 16 minutes and went on to beat Guyana 5-1 on Tuesday to earn a spot in the semifinals at the CONCACAF women’s Olympic qualifying tournament.

The Soca Warriors are likely to face the top-ranked U.S. national team in a semifinal match on Friday,

with the winner earning a spot in the Rio Olympics.

Kennya Cordner, Mariah Shade and an own goal gave Trinidad a commanding lead before Ahkeela Mollon added a goal in the 21st minute.

Bria Williams scored for Guyana before the end of the first half to narrow it, but Cordner scored again

for the Soca Warriors in the 61st minute.

Canada plays Guatemala in the final match of the group on Tuesday night to determine the final standings. The top two teams in the group advance to the semifinals of the tournament for the North and Central America and Caribbean regions.

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(AP) — There will be a moment early in spring training when the Texas Rangers gather as a group and put last season in the past.

All of 2015 — the slow start in April that could have derailed the entire season, the surprising AL West title and the mind-boggling, gutpunching end in the playoffs.

“We will shut the door on last year at some point when it’s appropriate,” manager Jeff Banister said.

“I think the ability for all of our guys to shut the door on last year collectively is important so that we refresh just where we came from and what we went through, but also acknowledge this is a new year.”

A year when expectations certainly will be much different, at least externally.

Left-hander Cole Hamels will start this season in Texas after being a midseason addition last year and Yu Darvish is on track to return by late May or early June from Tommy John surgery that kept him out all last season. Plus, the bullpen has been strengthened even more and the everyday lineup is pretty much intact.

Banister, the AL Manager of the Year in his Rangers debut, said the team didn’t meet its goal “of winning the last game we get to play at

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“I am really proud of our team,” Tech coach JoJo Robertson said in the release. “We gave up a few shots yesterday but other than that we were right there for low rounds in two of the three rounds.

Each player contributed this week and it was an all-

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comfort in spring training.”

One of the biggest questions for the Rangers going into last spring, the bullpen is now a strength. Shawn Tolleson had 35 saves after mid-May, and there were the midseason additions of Jake Diekman and Sam Dyson.

Two more relievers with closing experience were added this offseason, free agent Tony Barnette (from Japan) and Tom Wilhelmsen (trade from Seattle).

The Rangers were 8-16 and 9 1-2 games out of first place a month into last season. But last April, Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo were just starting solid comebacks from injuryplagued 2014 seasons, Darvish had already been lost for the season and Derek Holland pitched only one inning in before missing four months. The bullpen was still months from its midseason makeover.

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Texas got to Game 5 of the AL Division Series. They lost after that wild seventh inning in Toronto, with three consecutive errors before Jose Bautista’s tiebreaking three-run homer punctuated by his big bat flip.

Prince Fielder said Banister sets the tone, and did so last year before even managing his first game when Texas was coming off a 95-loss season.

“How he kept the mood in the clubhouse and how he started it off in spring training, it’s hard to create that during the season,” Fielder said. “It’s a credit to how good a manager he is of getting us going in that mindset in spring training.”

Rangers pitchers and catchers have their first workout Friday, and the first fullsquad workout is February 24 in Surprise, Arizona. Here are a few things to watch: Third baseman Adrian Beltre played most of last season with a torn ligament in his left thumb and missed two games in the ALDS because of a lower back strain.

He had thumb surgery after the season, and plenty of time to rest his back. “It’s just nice getting to a point that it’s comfortable doing everything,” Beltre said. “I don’t think there will be any dis-

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After beating Iowa State for its first Big 12 Conference win of the season in January, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team will attempt to sweep the season series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Ames, Iowa, in the Hilton Coliseum.

In the victory earlier this season, the Lady Raiders won an overtime thriller 69-66 in Lubbock. They forced Iowa State into committing 23 turnovers and were led by a doubledouble from junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor.

In the all-time series, the Cyclones have a 15-12 advantage.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said her team played well during the previous meeting against Iowa State but can be much better after watching film from the game.

“Any time you play someone the first time, you go back and watch the film, there’s a lot you can learn on both sides. Things you did well, things you didn’t do well,” she said. “Looking at adjustments they may make and looking at some of that as you go into your game plan.”

The two teams met early in Big 12 play this season.

Later in the season now, the Cyclones are in eighth place

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in the conference with a 12-12 record while the Lady Raiders are in ninth place with an 11-13 overall record.

CookTaylor recorded a then career-high 12 rebounds in the game against Iowa State in Lubbock. She said beating the Cyclones on the road is far from a guarantee, but it is a great opportunity.

“We are excited, they were our first win,” CookTaylor said.

“Like every other team in the Big 12, they’re tough. But we are excited for this opportunity.”

The junior guard is the top scorer on Tech’s roster and the ninth best scorer in the conference, according to the Big 12 website, with 14 points per game. She has had assistance from freshman guard Japreece Dean this season.

Dean, the five-time conference freshman of the week, is a top 15 scorer in the Big 12 and the second-highest-scoring freshman. She also leads all freshmen in assists per game and is second in free throw shooting percentage, according to the website.

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Texas Tech guard Ryann Bowser dribbles the ball up the floor to set up the offense for the Lady Raiders during the basketball game against Baylor on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Junior guard Seanna Johnson runs the Iowa State offense. Johnson is second in the Big 12 in scoring with nearly 17 points per game.

Johnson is also third in the conference in rebounding and

in the top 10 category for assists per game. She scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds the last time the two teams met.

Whitaker said Johnson can do it all and Tech has to limit her if they want to

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Texas Tech forward Zach Smith wins the opening tip-off during the Red Raiders’ match against Iowa State on Feb. 10 in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Raiders came out victorious, winning in overtime 85-83.

Tech’s scoring average of 73.3 falls short of the Sooners’ 83.6, but the Red Raiders have found added help from sophomore guard Keenan Evans and junior forward Aaron Ross. In three of Tech’s last four games, Evans has scored in the double digits with a career high 21 against Baylor.

Coming off the bench, Ross has hit double digits in five straight games and scored 20 points in Tech’s wins over Iowa State and Oklahoma State.

While Tech’s offense has surged since passing the halfway mark of the regular season, in its last outing versus Oklahoma Tech suffered a 91-67 loss, its worst of the season.

At halftime, Tech trailed 49-39 and scored just 28 to Oklahoma’s 42 in the second half.

Alongside an efficient offense, Smith said the Sooners defense clogged up the lanes to pick up 14 combined blocks.

“We couldn’t get inside, couldn’t score inside,” he said.

“That’s what they do, they go out and pressure you in the perimeter, make you go to the

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basket and they have a good shot blocker.”

Tech’s last result against Oklahoma showed the Sooners’ ability to take control of the game. The Red Raiders last defeated Oklahoma in 2014 with Woodard, Cousins, Hield and Spangler in the starting lineup.

A win over Oklahoma would improve Tech’s overall record to 16-9 and its Big 12 record to 6-7.

Smith said the team knows what a win over Oklahoma would mean, getting that much closer to a trip to the NCAA tournament, Tech’s first since 2007.

“Last year we had no chance this time of the year, but now we have a legitimate opportunity,” he said. “Hopefully it will be inspirational and it’d be inspiring them to come out and work harder in practice and be more focused.” @DGaytanDT

have a chance to win.

“Johnson is definitely their go-to. Makes big plays for them, can put it on the floor, can shoot it,” she said. “(Johnson) is a very aggressive offensive rebounder, go-

ing to look for opportunities to get put backs.”

The Lady Raiders have swept a season series against a Big 12 opponent only once in Whitaker’s time as the coach. @DailyToreador

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A San Antonio shootaround practice is winding down in silence, except for the occasional sound of a dribble or the whooshing noise that accompanies the ball going through the net.

Players are lined up along the sides of the foul lane, watching teammates take two free throws before moving on in orderly fashion. It’s very orderly, no half-court shooting

contests or wasting energy.

And it’s a microcosm of how the Spurs do business — simply and effectively.

“You try to do things that are logical,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “It’s sort of what works for us.”

In a league that isn’t shy about showing off glitz and glamour, the Spurs just show up, do their job and usually go home with the win.

And the team wearing San Antonio’s silver and black this season perhaps is the franchise’s best yet under Popovich, no small statement considering that he’s already won five NBA championships with the Spurs.

At 45-8 so far, there’s no doubt that this year’s team is good enough to give him hope of winning ring No. 6.

“All the guys love him,”

said Spurs All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge, the prize of last summer’s free-agent class. “They understand that he thinks differently, outside the box.

And they understand that he’s very strict. But he’s a winner, and they love him.”

Around the league, there’s no coach who commands the respect — from players and coaches — than Popovich, who can speak eloquently on any number of topics but almost steadfastly refuses to reveal the secrets of his basketball success. Maybe that’s part of his genius.

Or maybe, as Spurs forward David West suggests, there are no secrets to share after all.

When West first joined the Spurs over the summer as a free agent, his initial order of business was to find that mystical something that obviously exists and separates Popovich from other coaches. His quest turned up nothing.

“There’s no big mystery or anything like that,” West said.

“It’s just the way that they do things.” Such is what Popovich has done for two decades and counting in San Antonio, where the Spurs are quietly putting together a most historic season. They’re on pace for the third-best regular season record in NBA history — but as of now that would only merit the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference because of defending champion Golden State’s dazzling 48-4 start.