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“I was looking at all three ... four bank accounts and they said the same thing: zero.” Mary Davisson, 53, who is staying at Temple Beth Shalom as part of the Winter Relief program to help the homeless

County exec plans to stay the course, focus on the policies he campaigned on By Amanda Yeager

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Mary Davisson, left, talks with volunteer Laura Murray on Sunday while staying at Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold, the Christmas week host of the Winter Relief homeless program.

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Arnold temple assists with homeless effort for Christmas holiday By Phil Davis

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Inside the Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold, a group of men sat on couches, gathered around a television with the channel tuned to sports analysts talking about the Baltimore Ravens game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. On Christmas Day, the scene inside the temple was somewhat of a makeshift holiday gathering. For the past five years, the Jewish congregation has helped local churches with the Winter Relief homeless program, which is operated by the Arundel House See HOMELESS, page A6

Michael King, center, plays cards at a table with a volunteer’s children, Jack and Sophia Josephs.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh’s goals for the new year should look familiar to those who have been following his administration for the past two years. As 2017 nears, Schuh said he doesn’t have any major initiatives to preview. He’s focused, instead, on advancing the objectives he laid out when he took office in December 2014. “Our priorities are the same,” Schuh said in an interview last week. Guiding all of Schuh’s policies is his often-repeated five-point plan, a vision that includes reducing taxes and fees, Schuh strengthening education, investing in public safety, reforming county government and cleaning up Anne Arundel’s waterways. An additional goal — point number “five and a half” — seeks to improve quality of life for county residents. The past year has seen Schuh move forward on many of those objectives. He also experienced a setback on a priority for his administration: changes to the procurement process. Looking back, Schuh said, “the biggest disappointment” was the failure of an effort to waive formal bidding for county purchases estimated to cost less than $75,000. Anne Arundel voters in November narrowly rejected a charter change that would have tripled the current threshold for procurement. Schuh said he thought his administration had done “a very poor job of educating the See SCHUH, page A10

TEENS OF THE WEEK WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Millersville resident looking forward to real start of career By Wendi Winters

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Dr. Helen Selonick Prevas was a Teen of the Week in 2003, the year she graduated from Maurice J. McDonogh High School in Owings Mills. She commuted daily from her parents’ home in Crownsville to the campus near Baltimore. She spent her undergraduate years at Williams College in Massachusetts. She returned to her home state when she applied to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and was accepted. Her focus was on internal medicine. Afterward, she did her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Though home on maternity leave now, the 31-year-old has a fellowship program at the intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center, which will end next summer. Medicine was not a surprising path

considering she was only 5 when she drew a portrait of herself as a doctor. “It was a stick figure in a white coat holding a stethoscope,” she remembered. At McDonogh, Prevas was a harpist. For an honors recital, she was chosen to represent her high school. A plucky sort, she kept playing the harp through college. In a concerto competition she won the prize — performing with the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She barely has time to play the harp now. A resident of Millersville, she is married to Dr. Jim Prevas and they have two young children, including a baby, and a house well-stocked with first-aid kits. Their toddler now plucks at the harp strings. A role model for her younger brother and sister, Prevas was on the cross country team at McDonogh, sang in the choir and did photography for the yearbooks. See PREVAS, page A10

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92 feared dead in Russia jet crash Teams hunt for bodies, clues after flight to Syria crashes into Black Sea By Vladimir Isachenkov and Veronika Silchenko Associated Press

SOCHI, Russia — Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched Sunday for victims after a Russian airliner carrying 92 people to Syria crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff. Investigators said they were looking into every possible cause for the crash, including a terror attack. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military Tu-154 plane are believed to have died when it crashed two minutes after taking off at 5:25 a.m. in good weather from the southern Russian city of Sochi. The passengers included dozens of singers in Russia’s worldfamous military choir. More than 3,000 rescue workers on 32 ships — including over 100 divers flown in from across Russia — were searching the crash site at sea and along the shore, the Defense Ministry said. Helicopters, drones and submersibles were being used to help spot bodies and debris. Powerful spotlights were brought in so the operation could continue all night. Emergency crews found fragments of the plane about 1 mile from shore. By Sunday evening, rescue teams had recovered 11 bodies and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said fragments of other bodies were also found. Asked if a terror attack

was a possibility, Sokolov said investigators were looking into every possible reason for the crash. Several experts noted factors that suggested a terror attack, such as the crew’s failure to report any malfunction and the fact that plane debris was scattered over a wide area. The jet was taking the Defense Ministry’s choir, the Alexandrov Ensemble, to perform at a New Year’s concert at Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia. Those on board also included nine Russian journalists and a Russian doctor famous for her work in war zones. Russian President Vladimir Putin went on television to declare Monday a national day of mourning. “We will conduct a thorough investigation into the reasons and will do everything to support the victims’ families,” Putin said. The Black Sea search area — which covered about 4 square miles — was made more difficult by underwater currents that carried debris and body fragments into the open sea. Sokolov said the plane’s flight recorders did not have radio beacons, so locating them on the seabed was going to be challenging. The Tu-154 is a Sovietbuilt three-engine airliner designed in the late 1960s. More than 1,000 have been built, and they have been used extensively in Russia and worldwide. The plane that crashed Sunday was built in 1983, and under-

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Rescue workers carry a body onto a pier near Sochi, Russia, after a Tu-154 airliner crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a day of mourning for Monday.

went factory check-ups and maintenance in 2014 and this year, according to the Defense Ministry. Before Sokolov spoke to reporters in Sochi, senior

Russian lawmakers had ruled out a terror attack, arguing that the military plane was under reliable protection. Security is particularly tight in Sochi, the Black Sea city that hosted the 2014 Winter Games and is regularly visited by Putin, who often receives foreign leaders at his residence there. Alexander Gusak, a former chief of a SWAT team at the main domestic security agency, the FSB, told Dozhd TV that Russian airports are still vulnerable to terror threats despite security cordons. “It’s possible to penetrate them. It’s a matter of skills,” he said. The passenger list re-

leased by the Defense Ministry included 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble. The ensemble is the official choir of the Russian military and also includes a band and a dance company. Viktor Yeliseyev, head of the rival choir for the Russian National Guard, said “most singers of the choir have died.” Also on board was Yelizaveta Glinka, a Russian doctor who has won wide acclaim for her charity work, which has included missions to war zones in eastern Ukraine and Syria. Her foundation said Glinka was accompanying a medical shipment for a hospital in Syria. Syrian President Bashar

Assad was among numerous foreign leaders who sent their condolences to Putin, saying he received news of the crash “with deep grief and sadness.” In recent years, Russian airlines have replaced their Tu-154s with more modern planes, but the military and other Russian government agencies have continued to use them. While noisy and fuelguzzling, the plane is popular with crews that appreciate its maneuverability and ruggedness. Still, since 1994, there’s been 17 major crashes involving the Tu-154 that have killed more than 1,760 people. Most resulted from human error.

Netanyahu summons envoys over U.N. vote Israeli leader assails Obama, curtails diplomatic ties with some states By Ruth Eglash The Washington Post

JERUSALEM — U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro was summoned Sunday to a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over America’s failure to prevent a United Nations Security Council resolution harshly criticizing Israeli settlements from passing, a senior official in the prime minister’s office said. The meeting followed a series of summons Sunday with envoys from countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel and voted in favor of the resolution. Passing on a vote of 14-0, the resolution declares that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation under international law.” It also calls the settlements a major obstacle to achieving a two-state solution and peace with the Palestinians. Breaking with a longstanding policy of blocking resolutions dealing with Israel, the United States did not use its veto powers to

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scolded foreign diplomats Sunday.

stop its passage, opting to abstain instead. The summons were part of a series of diplomatic measures announced by Netanyahu, who is also Israel’s foreign minister, since the resolution was adopted on Friday. Israeli media reported Sunday that Netanyahu had instructed members of his Cabinet to refrain from traveling to countries that voted for the resolution and that he had canceled a meeting scheduled with British Prime Minister Theresa May. Following the U.N. vote, Netanyahu recalled Israel’s ambassadors to New Zea-

land and Senegal, canceled scheduled trips to Israel by the Senegalese foreign minister and Ukraine’s prime minister. He also said that Israeli aid to Senegal would be canceled and contributions that Israel makes to five U.N. agencies would be halted. “I share my ministers’ feelings of anger and frustration vis-a-vis the unbalanced resolution,” Netanyahu said at his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday. He laid blame for the resolution squarely on the shoulders of President Barack Obama. “From the information we have, we have no doubt that the Obama administration initiated it, stood behind it, coordinated on the wording and demanded that it be passed,” Netanyahu said. He said the move contradicted traditional American policy not to dictate terms of a permanent peace agreement on Israel. “Over decades, American administrations and Israeli governments had disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the Security

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Family members in the Amona outpost in the West Bank light Hanukkah candles Sunday.

Council was not the place to resolve this issue,” he said. “As I told (Secretary of State) John Kerry on Thursday, friends don’t take friends to the Security Council.” B’Tselem an Israeli human rights organization, estimates there are close to 600,000 Israelis living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The figures are based on data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Palestinians say the figure is likely higher. Over the past six months, Israel has announced plans

to add hundreds of units to existing settlements, each time drawing rebuke from the White House. More recently, Netanyahu’s government has been pushing legislation to legalize settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land. The U.S. abstention Friday was a rare rebuke to Israel, reflecting mounting frustration in the Obama administration over settlement growth. With his time in office due to end in under a month, his decision not to veto was a last-minute symbolic statement of that displeasure and a sense of exasperation that the time

has come for two states to be carved out of the contested land. Responding with a strongly worded statement, Netanyahu said the Obama administration had “not only failed to protect Israel against this gang-up at the U.N., it has colluded with it behind the scenes.” He stated clearly that he looked forward to working with Trump “to negate the harmful effects of this absurd resolution.” Media reports Sunday said Netanyahu had instructed Foreign Ministry officials to look into ways to overturn the resolution.

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Powerful earthquake strikes southern Chile; 22K lose power SANTIAGO, Chile — A powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of deaths and only minor known damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 quake struck shortly before noon near the southern tip of Chiloe Island, about 25 miles southsouthwest of Puerto Quello and at a depth of 22 miles. The area, some 800 miles south of the capital

of Santiago, is relatively sparsely populated. National emergency director Ricardo Toro said about 4,000 people were evacuated for fear of a possible tsunami following the quake, but the alert was eased about 90 minutes after the temblor. The local electric company reported that power was cut to about 22,000 customers. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake in February 2010 generated a tsunami and killed 524 people in Chile.

Iran: Will pay half of announced price for 80 new Boeing planes TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Sunday that the deputy transport minister said his county will pay only half of the announced price for 80 new Boeing planes, given the reductions in its purchasing options. According to the IRNI report, Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan said that despite an initial $16.8 billion deal with Boeing to purchase 80 passenger planes, “Re-

garding the style of our order and its options, the purchase contract for 80 Boeing aircraft is worth about 50 percent of the amount.” He did not elaborate. Boeing did not make an immediate comment. Iran announced earlier this month that it had finalized the deal, which was made possible by last year’s landmark nuclear agreement with the U.S. and other world powers.

Obamas make Christmas visit to thank Marines, their families HONOLULU — President Barack Obama spent Christmas afternoon visiting with Marines and their families. The White House said the president and first lady Michelle Obama visited Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, to thank troops for their service. The visit to the base has become an annual Christmas tradition for the president during his winter vacation.

In West Palm Beach, Fla., President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a latenight Christmas Eve service at the historic Episcopal Church of Bethesdaby-the-Sea where they were married 11 years ago. The service ended after midnight, and the Trumps returned to the presidentelect’s Mar-a-Lago private club to celebrate Christmas with family and friends.

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History comes alive: John Godzieba, left, as Gen. George Washington, and others march Sunday after crossing the Delaware River during a re-enactment of the Colonial Army’s 1776 Christmas maneuver to battle Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, N.J.

Turkey moves arms to Syrian border, seeks Trump’s backing Turkey’s military deployed tanks and guns on the Syrian border, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported Sunday, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged joint action with the Trump administration against the Islamic State group in its de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria. The deployment, including long-range guns and armored personnel carriers, followed Erdogan’s remark on Saturday that Turkish troops fighting to capture the militants’ stronghold of al-Bab in northwest Syria could move first to the town of Manbij and then to Raqqa. The artillery reinforce-

ments were sent to the border towns of Oguzeli and Karkamis, north of Manbij, the Anadolu Agency said. Erdogan reiterated his country’s readiness to extend its fight against the Islamic State group in Raqqa if President-elect Donald Trump agrees to block Kurdish forces from participating. Turkey is concerned that Kurdish territorial gains in Syria could lead to a new state there, emboldening the separatist aspirations of its own Kurds. Kurds have established control over much of Syria’s north during five years of violence, and in doing so, emerged as a

favored U.S. fighting force in the ground war against Islamic State. “We will not allow the formation of a new state in northern Syria,” Erdogan said as he vowed to retake Manbij, which was seized by Kurdish forces from the Islamic State group. Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August to fight Islamic State militants and the Kurdish forces. Turkey regards the Kurds as terrorists because of their links to the PKK, whose fight for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast has, by the government’s account, killed nearly 40,000 people and cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Macedonian conservatives secure win in revote SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia’s conservatives, led by former Prime minister Nikola Gruevski, secured victory on Sunday in a bitterly contested national election after a poll rerun in a single station. The rerun, in the northwestern village of Tearce, 31 miles from the capital,

Skopje, gave the opposition, led by the Social Democrats, 245 votes to 149 for the conservatives, led by Gruevski’s VMRODPMNE party. The rerun came after complaints of voting irregularities from the opposition Social Democrats. With the rerun result in,

VMRO -DPMNE won 454,577 votes and 51 seats in the 120-member Parliament to 436,981 votes and 49 seats for the Social Democrats. Gruevski will need to form a coalition government with one or more of the Albanian-minority parties.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Explosives experts on Sunday defused a large World War II aerial bomb in the southern German city of Augsburg — clearing the way for thousands of evacuated residents to return home for Christmas celebrations. City police tweeted that they had “good news at Christmas” just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Some 32,000 households with 54,000 residents were forced to leave by 10 a.m. Christmas morning so experts could handle the bomb. The munition’s large size — 1.8 tons — suggested it was a so-called blockbuster of the type dropped by British forces, with the aim of blowing apart surrounding buildings so that incendiary bombs could start fires more easily. The bomb was uncovered last week during construction work in the city’s historic central district.

Queen ill: A bad cold kept

Queen Elizabeth II from attending the traditional Christmas church service near her Sandringham estate in rural Norfolk, England, raising some concerns about her health. It’s extremely rare for Elizabeth, 90, to miss the service, which brings the monarch into contact with the area’s residents.

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D.C. police: Officer shoots, injures knife-wielding man WASHINGTON — District of Columbia police say an officer shot and injured a knife-wielding man who ignored commands to drop his weapon. Police say in a news the incident occurred about 11:30 a.m. Sunday when officers were called to the 3200 block of Walnut Street for a domestic disturbance. When they arrived, police say, the officers found a man armed with a knife. Police say the man ignored the officers’ commands

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fuel truck. Lt. Kevin Ayd with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police said 31year-old Clinton Lamont Worrell also had a valid medical certification. The company Worrell worked for, Carroll Independent Fuel, said in a statement posted online that he was an outstanding employee. The company said it is working with authorities on their investigation into the Dec. 17 incident. A nearly 70-vehicle pileup occurred nearby around the same time, killing two people and injuring about two dozen others. Police said they are investigating the crashes separately, but both occurred during particularly icy conditions.

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1 dead, 1 injured in crash CATONSVILLE — Maryland State Police say one person is dead and another is injured after a wreck in Catonsville. Police said the wreck occurred just before noon on Sunday on Interstate 195 when a Honda Civic collided with a BWI Airport taxi. Police said the driver of the Honda, 90-year-old John Ignatius Wellham, suffered fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The taxi driver, 74-year-old Song Kil Park, was transported to a local hospital with not life-threatening injuries. His passenger, 38-year-old Nelson Martin Menacho, was not harmed in the wreck. Police said the cause of the collision is still under investigation.

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Man killed in crash after police chase; teen charged WASHINGTON — Washington police say a motorist was killed after being struck by a carjacking suspect involved in a police chase. The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement Saturday that the suspect, a 17-year-old Washington resident, has been charged with seconddegree murder. The statement says officers on Friday night were pursuing a Lexus that had been stolen in an armed robbery. Police said the Lexus was speeding when it struck a Nissan Altima, causing a chain reaction that involved two other cars. The Nissan’s driver, 31-year-old Kenneth Edward Morris Jr., of Washington, was taken to a hospital, where he died. The driver of another vehicle was treated for not life-threatening injuries. The statement says three suspects fled the Lexus. The 17-year-old was arrested, but the other two escaped. The Associated Press does not generally name juveniles charged with crimes.

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The Anne Arundel County Ethics Commission has appointed Michael Botsaris as its new executive director. Botsaris, a former member of the commission, replaces the previous director, Betsy Dawson, who died of cancer in August after advising the commission for 20 years. The seven-member Ethics Commission decides matters involving public ethics law. The body’s executive director advises commission members, supervises ethics training for county employees and main-

tains a list of registered lobbyists in the county. Botsaris, who practices business law at Glen Burnie-based firm Botsaris & Vance, was appointed to a four-year term on the Ethics Commission in April. His name had previously been proposed for a seat on the commission in December, but was withdrawn in the midst of controversy about the role of politics on the board. At the time, Botsaris was offered as an alternative to Democrat Vanessa Carter, who had already been nominated for a seat. County Executive Steve Schuh said he wanted to establish a Republican majority

on the Ethics Commission in order to fulfill the will of voters who elected mostly Republicans to local public offices. Botsaris, a Republican, donated $2,675 to Schuh’s campaign in six donations between 2005 and 2012, according to campaign finance records. In December, he said his political affiliation would not be a factor in how he would conduct business as a member of the Ethics Commission, given the nature of the board. “When you’re dealing with the Ethics Commission, you’re dealing with something far beyond any political party,” he said. According to a news release from the

commission, Botsaris graduated cum laude from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and earned his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1986. He is admitted to all courts in the state of Maryland. He is a member of the Commercial Law League of America, the Maryland-DC Creditors Bar Association and the Anne Arundel County Bar Association. He volunteers with Maryland Volunteer Lawyer Services and is a licensed pilot. Botsaris and his wife, Helen, have lived in Anne Arundel County since 1992 and have two children.

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roadneck High School’s National Honor Society has established a record not only of academic excellence, but of giving back to the community. To top off their 2016 year of service, Broadneck NHS students this December donated 50 boxes of Legos to a drive for children who are patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital in memory of Joey Sudo, who would have been a junior at Broadneck High this year. Joey died in 2012 at the age of 13, after a five-year battle with brain cancer. His parents, Suzanne and Joe Sudo, have kept his memory alive with the Joey Sudo Foundation, a charity that benefits families impacted by life-threatening illness. Suzanne Sudo also has a personal charitable endeavor close to her heart: a Lego drive each December for children at Johns Hopkins. Legos were Joey’s favorite toy, and Suzanne chose donating Legos as a personal way to acknowledge Around Broadneck his birthday every year, collecting the toys each Maureen December and distribThomas uting them in January. Grace Lear, a junior at Broadneck High and a member of the National Honor Society, was in charge of collecting the money and Legos. “Mrs. Sudo mentioned to me that NHS might be interested in helping out with the Lego drive … I asked ... if I could take the lead on the Lego drive for NHS since I was great friends with Joey. It was an awesome opportunity for NHS to get involved with a close family in our community. Joey would’ve been a junior at Broadneck this year and I know he would’ve been in NHS with all of us.” Last year, Suzanne donated 400 sets. This year, NHS raised funds to purchase sets and students donated for a total of 50 sets to add to what is collected. Broadneck’s chapter of NHS, led by county Teacher of the Year nominee Tammy Dronberger, has 140 student members. To qualify for membership, students need a weighted grade-point average of 3.7, and an unweighted GPA of 3.5. Students must maintain this average during their membership. More importantly, the group has high philanthropic standards. Each member must complete six hours in-school and six hours out-of-school service per quarter, and eight NHS hours per year. While many students fulfill these obligations through individual efforts such as Scouting endeavors, church activities and tutoring, the group actively runs and participates in many group activities throughout the school year. When Dronberger took over as adviser in 2014, the group had experienced transitory leadership, and their group service activities were limited, mainly to tutoring, recycling and school cleanup, which did not reflect the spirit of leadership and service in the community. Over the past three years, the group has taken on in-school activities such as helping teachers prepare their classrooms, serving as guides for incoming ninth-

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Grace Lear, left, a member of Broadneck High School’s National Honor Society, and her friend, Jessica Sudo, a ninth-grader at Broadneck, purchase Legos for the donation drive to Johns Hopkins Hospital.

graders, volunteering at numerous community festivals and helping with activities such as the Michael DiPaola 5K Race/Fun Run. They’ve raised money and participated in the Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge and Out of the Darkness Walk; and served as parking attendants for the Across the Bay 10K, an activity which raises $1,000 for the organization and allowed them to create a scholarship for a graduating NHS member, in memory of Carlos Heredia, a Broadneck graduate and NHS member who died. They have given a large amount of money and goods to Harvest for the

Hungry, Giving Back: Linda’s Legacy, Toys For Tots, the Light House, Wildlife Animal Sanctuary and Boxer Rescue Network. The group also was a sponsor Anne Arundel Animal Control’s program which places shelter cats with women inmates at the Jessup Correctional Institution, as well as anonymously purchasing gift cards for homeless Broadneck students during the holidays. Every spring, there is a student-run kickball tournament, which involves the entire student body and faculty. Money and goods raised are donated to a nonprofit animal rescue organization such as Friends of Anne Arundel Animal

Control, Senior Dog Sanctuary of Maryland and Animal Resource Foundation on Kent Island. Dronberger is proud of the NHS students, who “truly embody service in the community at large.” Grace said this year Jessica Sudo, Joey’s sister, is a ninth-grader at Broadneck, which is attended by many of Joey’s childhood friends. “I know the Lego drive will become an annual NHS service opportunity because ... Jessica ... will apply to be in NHS and will continue the legacy of the Lego drive.” Send your Broadneck news and events to aroundbroadneck@gmail.com.

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Annual lighting of the menorah Rabbi Yoni Warren, of the Naval Academy, and Rabbi Nochum Light, of the Chabad Center of Anne Arundel County, sing after lighting the menorah at City Dock on Sunday evening at the annual Menorah Parade and Lighting on the second night of Hanukkah. RIGHT: Children in the crowd watch the lighting ceremony. See more photos and video from the event at capitalgazette.com. PHOTOS BY JOSHUA MCKERROW, STAFF

Christmas Day blizzard takes aim at the Dakotas, Montana CHICAGO — It’s been a white — but slick and messy — Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states. Most of the Dakotas and southwest Minnesota had turned into a slippery mess due to freezing rain Sunday morning before snow arrived later in the day as temperatures fell. “Between the ice and snow, and winds howling like crazy, there will be nothing moving” until late afternoon Monday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Gust in Grand Forks, North Dakota. “Then it’s dig-out time.” Gust’s advice to holiday travelers: “Stay put.” A blizzard warning was in effect for most of North Dakota, western South Dakota and a small section of eastern Montana through Monday, with expected snow totals of 8 to 15 inches and winds up to 55 mph. The South Dakota Department of Transportation announced the closing Sunday night of Interstate 90 from the

Wyoming border to Chamberlain — a stretch of about 260 miles. “The freezing rain from earlier today and dropping temps have created icy and slushy roadways; falling snow and increasing winds are creating zero visibility conditions in the west,” the department said in a statement. The North Dakota Transportation Department closed a 240-mile stretch of Interstate 94 Sunday night, from the Montana border to Jamestown. A 100mile stretch of U.S. Highway 83 between Bismarck and Minot also was closed due to drifting snow and near-zero visibility. Up to a 1 / 2 inch of ice could accumulate in central Minnesota, and the weather service has said anyone who “must travel” should have an extra flashlight, food and water. Rain and possible storms were due to move through parts of Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska on Sunday. Associated Press

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Sharon Sheckells

Sharon Sheckells Sharon Lynn Sheckells, a longtime resident of Annapolis, MD, died on Wednesday, December 21, 2016, at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 57. Born April 28, 1959, in Annapolis, MD, to the late Betty and Edward Drury, she graduated from Annapolis Senior High School. Sharon worked at First American Bank was a partner in F.W. Sheckells, Inc. She enjoyed tennis, bowling and was in a bowling league. Sharon loved spending time with her family. She was the devoted wife of 32 years of Floyd W. Sheckells, III; beloved mother of Floyd W. Sheckells, IV of Severna Park, MD and Kayla Sheckells of Annapolis, MD; sister of Edward Drury, Jr. of Annapolis, MD, and the late Sandra Jones. Friends may call on Wednesday, December 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at the George P. Kalas Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Rd., Edgewater, MD, where a funeral will be held on Thursday, December 29 at 10 a.m. Interment immediately following at Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery. An online guestbook is available for your convenience at www.KalasFuneral Homes.com

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LONDON — George Michael, who rocketed to stardom with Wham! and went on to enjoy a long and celebrated solo career lined with controversies, has died, his publicist said Sunday. He was 53. Michael died at his home in Goring, England. His publicist, Cindi Berger, said he had not been ill. Michael’s manager, Michael Lippman, said the cause of death was heart failure. His family issued a statement saying he “passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period.” Michael enjoyed immense popularity early in his career as a teenybopper idol, delivering a series of hits such as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Young Guns (Go for It)” and “Freedom.” As a solo artist, he developed into a more serious singer and songwriter, lauded by critics for his tremendous vocal range. He sold well over 100 million albums globally, earned numerous Grammy

and American Music awards and recorded duets with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti and Elton John. Throughout his career, Michael encountered frequent brushes with the law, most famously in 1998 when he was arrested for public lewdness in Los Angeles. Yet he managed to turn the incident into fodder for a popular song that poked fun at his behavior, and his acknowledgment of his homosexuality at that time made him even more popular with his fans. Michael formed Wham! with school friend Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s. Helped by MTV, an emerging music industry force at the time, the cheerful duo easily crossed the Atlantic to become popular in the United States with Michael, as lead singer, usually the focal point. He started his solo career shortly before Wham! split, with the release of the megahit single “Careless Whisper,” making a seamless transition. His first solo album, 1987’s “Faith,” sold more than 20 million copies, and he enjoyed several hit sin-

gles including the raunchy “I Want Your Sex,” helped by a provocative video that received wide airplay on MTV. At the time, Michael had not disclosed his homosexuality, and much of his chart success was based on his sex appeal to young women. But Michael’s situation changed abruptly in 1998 when he was arrested for lewd conduct in a public restroom in Los Angeles after being spotted by a male undercover police officer. He went on to release a single and video, “Outside,” that made light of the charges against him and mocked the Los Angeles police who had arrested him. The arrest also prompted him to speak openly about his sexual orientation. In 2008, he was arrested a second time in public restrooms — in North London for drug use, which prompted him to apologize to his fans and promise to get his life in order. Michael was active in charities and helped raise money to combat AIDS, help needy children and support gay rights.

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Two possible routes to transportation future

popular wisecrack holds that it’s tough to make predictions, particularly about the future. Nonetheless we’ll venture a forecast about two highly touted technologies that may get tryouts in the corridor between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore: Self-driving cars will have an effect on how average Americans live and travel long before it’s possible for anyone to take a magneticlevitation train from Washington to New York in a half-hour. Market- and technology-driven change — largely using existing infrastructure, and requiring little more than that the government make appropriate rules and a few adjustments — usually comes faster than change that requires government cooperation with a massive infrastructure project. Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration has now done what it can to roll out the red carpet for both prospective innovations, short of committing the state to spending any of its own money.

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The state has applied to participate in a U.S. Department of Transportation program for the field-testing of driverless-car technology, and one proposed testing site is BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Other potential areas are Interstate 95, U.S. routes 1 and 40, the Intercounty Connector and the Port of Baltimore. Federal transportation officials are expected to announce their choices early next year, with the actual testing to start in 2018. If Maryland roads are chosen, the General Assembly will probably want to take a look at whether new laws are needed. Meanwhile, with $28 million in federal funding to study possible route alignments, the Federal Railroad Administration and the state Department of Transportation have been holding public meetings on the possibility of a Northeast Corridor maglev line — on which the frictionless technology would allow trains to run at better than 300 mph — extending through the Washington-Baltimore corridor, possibly with a

stop at BWI. Transportation by magnetic levitation is a technology that goes back more than a century. It has enormous potential, but has always been hampered by the fact it can’t use existing railroad infrastructure but needs its own separate, expensive system of tracks. Even with backers ready to pick up the direct costs, government cooperation is needed — and ultra-speedy trains between Washington and New York are unlikely to do that much more for congestion on local roads that is not already being done by existing rail systems. Driverless cars, on the other hand, could ultimately remedy congestion and save thousands of lives annually by turning over routine driving to machines that are never drunk, drowsy or distracted. But the advent of such systems is going to require adjustment, legal and psychological. The federal program for which the Hogan administration has applied could be a good way for this state to stick its toe in the water.

OTHER VOICES

Your editorial “AACC owes its Dreamers a candid discussion” (The Capital, Dec. 20) ignored one point about Katherine Hernandez Marroquin’s status: She and her parents broke the law by outstaying their visa. People like her have attended college under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, “policy,” created by executive order. DACA is not law under the definition of the Constitution, and a presidential policy is not equivalent to law when it’s in conflict with the Constitution. It’s well and good for Ms. Marroquin to want to take advantage of a policy, and it’s understandable that she and her ilk should feel nervous now that we’re about to swear in a new president who claims he’s going to repeal this and other nebulous policies created by Obama’s fiat. Any law enacted under a provision of the Constitution should be enforced without resorting to popular opinion about what the law is or should be in these or any such circumstance. Also, in the hierarchy of laws, any law enacted by Maryland or any other state that conflicts with federal law is inferior. Start the discussion if you must, and take it to the courts, but please, in your ramblings remember what a precious piece of paper our Constitution is. To be fair, even to lawbreakers like Ms. Marroquin, the law must be obeyed and mercy under the law has to be prayed for. That is the beginning of any discussion. JOHN WELLS Annapolis

Schuh, Mayo The Schuh administration continues to have problems with transparency and with Mayo residents. In a column (The Capital, Dec. 19), Steve Schuh’s chief of staff defended her boss while making false statements about zoning changes. The root of the problems in Mayo is directly related to a lack of infrastructure, not zoning changes. During the last comprehensive rezoning, the council changed six parcels in Mayo, not 17. All were related to marinas and not a single change on the peninsula increased housing density. Schuh failed to engage the community at the beginning of his proposed park expansion which created legitimate concern

about potential traffic, compounded by the 990 new proposed parking spaces at peninsula parks. After Schuh’s in-box was flooded with email, he offered residents a meeting and over 500 showed up in opposition. After the meeting, a member of the community submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the sign-in sheets, but Schuh’s attorneys denied access to the emails and phone numbers, claiming it was not in the public interest. This was an obvious attempt to prevent the community from communicating and organizing against his plans. The community is not opposed to the parks, as long as there is infrastructure. But instead of offering solutions, Schuh points to repaving and filling potholes. Additionally, he claims lane widening at Route 214 and Muddy Creek Road is proof he is listening. The project is not on the Mayo peninsula, was started years before the county executive took office and does nothing to improve the one-lane-in and one-lane-out traffic pattern. The county executive has had ample opportunity to offer real solutions, reverse course or dramatically scale back his multimillion-dollar park plans, but refuses.

If he had engaged the community and offered transparency during the process he wouldn’t need to shift blame. County Councilman JERRY WALKER District 7 Crofton

Campaign autopsy Terence Smith would never make it as a medical examiner, as his autopsy on the 2016 presidential election (The Sunday Capital, Dec. 11) missed the major diagnoses and causes of death. Donald Trump’s victory was due to his not being another politician who talks down to the public, promising everything and delivering nothing, as we experienced during the eight years of Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton’s problem was she was not, as Mr. Smith stated, that she was actually the most qualified. She was a failure as secretary of state who left the Middle East ablaze, and she was perceived as a basically self-serving, dishonest and unlikable candidate who assumed it was her destiny and right to be the first woman president. ARTHUR MENSCH West River

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DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

My budget addresses critical needs

he road to formulating any reasonable budget request is sure to be dotted with myriad difficult decisions. Such was the case in the process that culminated with the presentation of my $1.16 billion fiscal 2018 operating budget request to the Board of Education last week. The request does not, to be clear, contain everything I would like to see or even believe our school system needs as we move forward. However, it is a realistic approach to addressing some of our critical needs as we seek to best support our employees and the more than 81,000 students who walk through our schoolhouse doors every day. Ours is a school system that is facing many challenges. We are charged with addressing the academic needs of our Guest students, but we also Column must increasingly confront issues re- George Arlotto lated to their social and emotional wellness. Our students are coming to our classrooms with more diverse and intense needs than ever before, and more students and their families are turning to our schools for help. This is a public health issue, but our failure to at least help address those needs would only compound the difficult task our educators face every day. My request (online at www.aacps.org) includes sorely needed positions to assist us in addressing the social and emotional needs of students. Those positions include teachers and aides for special education students; five assistant principals for elementary schools to help allow counselors and reading specialists to concentrate on their areas of expertise instead of administrative functions; three school psychologists and one social worker; and school counselors to provide fulltime counselors at three additional elementary schools and one early education center. We must expend equal effort, however, to support our hardworking and dedicated employees. All of that must be done within the fiscal realities we face. My request includes $15.6 million for employee compensation increases, sufficient to fund full step increases for all eligible employees as well as increases for all employees not otherwise eligible for steps. It also includes $20.5 million to address critical issues in our health care fund. Our continuing efforts to keep that fund solvent must include a collaborative approach from all of our bargaining units to identify more than $20 million in cost avoidances or revenue enhancements to support health care costs if we are to avoid more drastic actions such as furloughs or a reduction in force. Instructionally, my request includes funding to open the Monarch Academy Annapolis Public Contract School in September. Monarch will ease overcrowding in Annapolis schools and provide a program of choice that does not currently exist for elementary students in Annapolis. As our school system grows, we also need more teachers to accommodate our students. My request includes funding for 33 classroom teachers to address enrollment increases and 10 additional teachers to continue to try to reduce class sizes. The enrollment rise is particularly sharp among English Language Learners, where we have 574 students (14 percent) more than a year ago. I have included funding for English Language Acquisition classroom teachers and additional bilingual facilitators to undertake the critical work of collaborating with families of these students. There also are positions allocated to expanding our Triple-E program to the seven elementary schools in the Old Mill cluster, and to expand the Central Middle School STEM program to the eighth grade. I truly would have liked to do more, but crafting a wish list with every well-intentioned idea would have been irresponsible. Instead, more than $51.7 million in requests from department heads — every penny of them worthwhile and justified — was eliminated as we crafted this budget. Those difficult decisions will be the subject of much debate over the next six months. It is my hope that collaboratively we can arrive at a place where our school system — and, therefore, everyone in our county — is propelled forward. George Arlotto is superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools. He can be reached at superintendent@aacps.org.

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Strong holiday typhoon hits Philippines By Jim Gomez Associated Press

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — A powerful typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Christmas, spoiling the biggest holiday in Asia’s largest Catholic nation, where a governor offered roast pig to entice villagers to abandon family celebrations for emergency shelters. Typhoon Nock-ten was packing maximum sustained winds of114 miles per hour and gusts of up to 158 mph Sunday night when it made landfall in Catanduanes province, where fierce winds and rain knocked down the island’s power and communications, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. After Catanduanes, the typhoon, which had a 300-mile rain band, was expected to barge westward across the mountainous southern plank of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon and blow close to the capital, Manila, on Monday, before starting to exit toward the South China Sea. Nock-ten may weaken after hitting the Sierra Madre highlands in southern Luzon, weather officials said. Heavy rainfall, destructive winds and battering waves were threatening heavily

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Philippines residents prepare for evacuation Sunday as Typhoon Nock-ten approaches.

populated rural and urban regions, where the Philippine weather agency raised typhoon warnings, stranding thousands of people in ports as airlines canceled flights and ferries were prevented from sailing. Officials warned of storm surges in coastal villages, flash floods and landslides and asked villagers to evacuate to safer grounds. With many refusing to leave high-risk communities, some officials said they decided to carry out forced evacuations. In the past 65 years, seven typhoons have struck the Philippines on Christmas, according to the government’s weather

agency. Gov. Miguel Villafuerte of Camarines Sur province, which is in the typhoon’s expected path, offered roast pig, a popular Christmas delicacy locally called “lechon,” in evacuation centers to entice villagers to move to emergency shelters. “I know it’s Christmas but this is a legit typhoon,” Villafuerte tweeted on Christmas Eve. “Please evacuate, we’ll be having lechon at evacuation centers.” Camarines Sur officials had targeted about 50,000 families — some 250,000 people — for evacuation by Saturday night, but the number of those who responded was initially far below expectations. In Catanduanes province, Vice Gov. Shirley Abundo said she ordered a forced evacuation of villagers, saying some “are really hard-headed, they don’t want to leave their houses because it’s Christmas.” “We need to do this by force, we need to evacuate them now,” she told ABS-CBN television. The Department of Social Welfare and Development said only about 4,200 people were reported to have moved to six evacuation centers by Sunday morning in the Bicol region, which includes Camarines Sur.

SCHUH From page A1

public about the impact of the ballot question.” “It was perceived by citizens, and even some elected officials, as expanding the use of no-bid contracting, which is exactly what it didn’t do,” Schuh said. “All it did was allow more procurements to be subject to the short-form procurement (process).” If the ballot question had passed, it would have allowed county officials to speed up purchasing, which can take months to complete, on projects worth less than $75,000. Currently, county charter requires the government to advertise its intention to make purchases of more than $25,000 and solicit bids for those goods or services. Smaller purchases go through shortform procurement, a less public process. County officials are required to reach out to at least three bidders for a short-form procurement project, but do not have to publicly advertise the contract. That led some council members to express concern that local businesses could miss out on opportunities to work with the county. Schuh said expensive projects should go through a formal procurement process. But he likened short-form procurement to the process homeowners go through when building an addition to their house. “You call your friends, you get three capable builders and you choose the best one and you build your house, and it’s all done in six months,” he said. “Why should county government take three years to do that job?” Schuh has said he plans to renew his pitch for procurement change in 2018. Beyond that setback, the county executive did see other priorities succeed this year. A new Crofton High School — which local advocates have pushed for years — was funded in 2016 and is slated to break ground next year. Schuh continued efforts to streamline county government, including overturning 64 executive orders passed by his predecessors and reorganizing staff within the county’s Planning and Zoning and Inspections and Permits departments. And he also passed a major cut to the fee developers pay to hook up to public water and sewer — the largest fee cut in county history, he said. On a smaller scale, he made reductions to spay and neuter fees, as well as fees for joining the Senior Plus program. Though the cuts may seem small in the face of a $1.4 billion countywide budget, “what we think (is) a little thing can be a big thing for a family or for certain people,” he said. Schuh said he is currently looking for a new tax or fee cut to introduce in 2017. Though the county executive is sticking to his five-and-a-half point plan, the new year might have at least one surprise in store. Schuh said he is planning an expansion to his quality-of-life plans that would “add another dimension to that whole initiative.” But he wouldn’t say more yet — that announcement, he said, would have to wait for 2017.

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At McDonogh High School and in college, former Teen of the Week Dr. Helen Selonick Prevas, pictured in 2002, was a harpist.

PREVAS From page A1

When her Teen of the Week article appeared, she was surprised by the flattering comments. Her parents, both doctors, received quite a few comments from their patients. Her mom is a cardiologist, and her dad is an oncologist. Her husband’s parents are both doctors, too. “It made it easier when our parents first met and played ‘Who do you know?’ ” Prevas said. She is still getting used to being a mother of two. “Hanging out with a toddler is pretty fun,” she said. “I’ve been off work so it’s been fun hanging out with her, especially before the new baby came.” She added, “Being a doc and a mom makes things tricky. It definitely helps see things from my patients’ perspectives as to what’s going and what they hope for.” Looking back, Prevas realized she’s been in school for 26 years. “It’ll be interesting to finally, truly be in the real world next July.” Teens of the Week: Where are they now? is a yearly series running between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. If you were once a Capital Teen of the Week, check in please. If you’d like to be considered for the 2017-18 series, email Wendi Winters and include your update and full contact information including cellphone, email and home phone. Her email address is wwinters@capgaznews.com.

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown reaches the ball across the goal line for a touchdown during the second half of Sunday’s game against the Ravens in Pittsburgh.

NFL STEELERS 31, RAVENS 27

Playoff hopes dashed Ravens defense couldn’t stop Steelers in Sunday’s tough loss By Jeff Zrebiec The Baltimore Sun

PITTSBURGH — One-by-one, the Ravens’ defensive players stood in front of their lockers and tried to assess what had just happened. Their voices cracked and barely rose over the din of travel bags being packed and lockers being emptied. They were sure they were going to beat the Pittsburgh RAVENS @ Steelers on Sunday BENGALS and move onto next Sunday, 1 p.m. week’s game against TV: Ch. 13 the Cincinnati BenRadio: 97.9 FM, gals with a chance 1090 AM to win an AFC North title. The Ravens had already surrendered two fourthquarter touchdowns, but they weren’t about to give up a third, not with only 78 seconds remaining, not after the offense had engineered one of its best drives all season. “I knew we were going to win,” Ravens safety Lardarius Webb said. “Put it on the defense and let’s go out and win the game.” It’s been a solid recipe for much of the

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Ravens’ Terrell Suggs walks off the field at the conclusion of Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field.

season, but at the worst possible time, the Ravens defense collapsed. As a result, the team’s playoff hopes are now gone. Ben Roethlisberger hit Antonio Brown on a 4-yard touchdown pass with just nine seconds to go as the Steelers engineered two fourth-quarter comebacks in a pulsating 31-27 victory over the Ravens in front of an announced 66,276 at Heinz Field.

Brown, who the Ravens had silenced while building a 20-10 lead early in the fourth quarter, fought through hits by middle linebacker C.J. Mosley and safety Eric Weddle before extending the ball into the end zone on the game-winning play. The touchdown, the Steelers’ third in an 11 ½-minute stretch in the fourth quarter, See RAVENS, page B4

anta Claus Reporter got stuck in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Christmas Eve, and the delivery of gifts to local sporting figures is a day late as well. It was another exciting year on the Baltimore-Washington sports scene with the Baltimore Orioles making the playoffs, the Navy football team reaching the American Athletic Conference championship and multiple Anne Arundel County programs capturing state championships. Here’s hoping that 2017 brings more great memories for the region’s sports fans, beginning with the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins both squeaking into the playoffs. Santa Claus Reporter has been making his list and checking it twice, so without further ado, here are the gifts we are giving for the coming year. Bill Merry Christmas and Wagner Happy New Year everybody. To Keenan Reynolds: A spot on the active roster of the Baltimore Ravens as a slot receiver and punt returner. By all accounts, the former Naval Academy star has been working hard and making improvement as a member of the Ravens’ practice squad. Coach John Harbaugh liked some of what he saw out of Reynolds during preseason, but felt the converted quarterback needed more seasoning. I overheard Ravens President Dick Cass praising Reynolds in a conversation with Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk during the media luncheon at M&T Bank Stadium prior to the Army-Navy game. Cass told Gladchuk that Reynolds was doing very well and stood a very good chance of being the team’s punt returner in 2017. To Severn native A.J. Francis: A spot on the active roster of any NFL team for the entire 2017 season. Francis is a darn good football player who deserves a break. The 6-foot-5, 330pound defensive tackle has logged time with five different National Football League franchises since 2013. The Maryland graduate signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent and spent three seasons with that organization with a stint on the New England Patriots practice squad mixed in. Francis played in one regular season game for the Dolphins before being released in 2015. He was promptly picked up by the Seattle Seahawks and played in two games for the Super Bowl XLVIII champions. See WAGNER, page B3

QUICK LANE BOWL

Game could be springboard for Terps’ offseason

Win would be a boost for program after up-and-down first season for Durkin By Don Markus The Baltimore Sun

When the Maryland football team beat Florida International on the road early in the season, first-year coach DJ Durkin remained in the state to recruit before playing Central Florida the following week. Coming off a win, he was able to deliver a confident message to prospective players. When Durkin returns to the recruiting trail for the last month before signing day Feb. 1, he wants to be able to carry the same message. A victory over Boston College (6-6) today in the Quick Lane Bowl at Detroit’s Ford Field would help give Maryland (6-6) a positive vibe after an up-and-down season. “Anything we do has to do with recruiting,” Durkin said during a news conference in Detroit on Friday. “Obviously, winning a

game helps you, no matter who you’re MARYLAND playing or what VS. BOSTON you’re doing. COLLEGE When you’re winAt Ford Field in ning, it helps in Detroit recruiting. Every Today, 2:30 p.m. decision we make TV: ESPN in our program has Radio: 105.7 FM, something to do 980 AM with recruiting. Line: Maryland “Absolutely, to by 2 go win a bowl game, I think, will definitely help us in recruiting — in a particular recruiting battle, I don’t know the specifics of that. We want to finish the season with a winning record, we want to come off a bowl win and go recruiting in January coming off that win.” The Terps began the season 4-0 but later lost four straight, dropping three of the games by a combined score of 149-13. They were able to regain some of their earlyseason confidence with a 33-14 win over See TERPS, page B3 Quick Lane Bowl

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Fifth-year senior quarterback Perry Hills has benefited from the time off ahead of today’s Quick Lane Bowl game against Boston College.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

No. 10 Louisville should move up after Kentucky win By John Marshall AP Basketball Writer

Defense has not been a problem for Louisville. Rarely is under coach Rick Pitino. The questions for the Cardinals this season have come on the offensive end. They answered a few against No. 6 Kentucky on Wednesday. Attacking Kentucky’s defense instead of settling for jumpers, No.10 Louisville had its best shooting percentage (43 percent) from 3-point range this season to beat its biggest rival 73-70. “Everybody was aggressive on offense,” Pitino said. “We have been, in the past, aggressive on defense, but I felt we were aggressive on offense.” Louisville (11-1) has been stellar on the defensive end again this season, ranking fifth in shooting percentage against at 36 percent and 15th in scoring defense, allowing 60.3 points per game. An inability to knock down shots, particularly from 3-point range, has led to a loss (to Baylor) and a few closer-thanexpected games. Through 12 games, the Cardinals are 235th nationally from 3-point range, shooting 33 percent. Louisville beat Kentucky by attacking, which opened up shots along the 3-point arc. While many teams are afraid to go inside against Kentucky’s length and athleticism, Louisville went right at the Wildcats. Though the Cardinals were average from the floor, shooting 43 percent, they hit the open shots on the perimeter, making 6 of 14 from the arc to win the biggest game on their schedule every year. The win is likely to move Louisville up a

few spots in Monday’s AP Top 25, though the road doesn’t get any easier, with games against No. 12 Virginia and No. 16 Indiana coming up this week. “We were hoping to get on a little bit of a run here and get a few wins with this schedule coming in, this gauntlet coming, and we got one tonight,” Pitino said. “We got it by playing really good basketball and that’s important.” ZAGS RISING: Gonzaga had a few questions heading into the season, with two players gone to the NBA and center Przemek Karnowski returning from a back injury. This year’s Bulldogs may end up being the best team coach Mark Few has had in Spokane. Karnowski has been healthy and effective, transfer Nigel Williams-Goss has been superb at point guard and 7-foot freshman Zach Collins has provided a nice lift with Kyle Wiltjer now playing in the NBA. Gonzaga (12-0) has wins over No. 18 Arizona, Florida and Iowa State, and broke the school record for best start to a season with its blowout victory over South Dakota State on Wednesday. HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK: Most players will take an alley-oop and dunk it with one hand. Kansas freshman Josh Jackson took the oop to a new level with this tomahawk dunk against UNLV. HART FOR POY?: Villanova’s Josh Hart was among the preseason favorites to be the national player of the year. Through two months of the season, he may now be the front-runner. Hart leads the top-ranked Wildcats with 20.1 points and is shooting 56 percent from the floor and 43 percent from 3-point range. He is averaging 6.6 rebounds and is second

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Ray Spalding of the Louisville Cardinals grabs a rebound during Wednesday’s game against the Kentucky Wildcats.

on the team with 44 assists. Hart had 20 points in Villanova’s rout of American on Wednesday that keeps the Wildcats (12-0) undefeated and, most likely, atop the AP Top 25 on Monday. FRESHMAN WATCH: De’Aaron Fox, Kentucky. Malik Monk has gotten more attention, particularly after scoring 47 points against North Carolina, but Fox

has been just as good. The freshman point guard had the second triple-double in Kentucky history against Arizona State and is the fuel that makes the Wildcats go. Fox fills up the stat sheet every game and is averaging 16.3 points, 6.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds. He had 21 points while Monk struggled to find his shot in the loss to Kentucky.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE THURSDAY, DEC. 22

NC State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN2)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Idaho 61, Colorado State 50

TUESDAY, DEC. 27 Heart of Dallas Bowl Army (7-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), Noon (ESPN) Military Bowl, Annapolis Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl, San Diego Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl, Phoenix Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)

FRIDAY, DEC. 23 Bahamas Bowl, Nassau Old Dominion 24, E. Michigan 20 Armed Forces Bowl Louisiana Tech 48, Navy 45 Dollar General Bowl Troy 28, Ohio 23

SATURDAY, DEC. 24 Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii 52, Middle Tennessee 35

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28

TODAY St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Mississippi State (5-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit Boston College (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Independence Bowl, Shreveport, La.

Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx, N.Y. Northwestern (6-6) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl, Santa Clara, Calif. Indiana (6-6) vs. Utah (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (FOX)

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC Montreal Ottawa Boston Tampa Bay Florida Toronto Detroit Buffalo

2 pts for win; 1 for OT/SO loss; ROW-regulation+OT wins

LEADERS

SCHEDULE, RESULTS No games scheduled Monday TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 Washington at NY Islanders, 7 Ottawa at NY Rangers, 7 Boston at Columbus, 7 Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30 Minnesota at Nashville, 8 Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30 Calgary at Colorado, 9 Dallas at Arizona, 9 San Jose at Anaheim, 10 WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE Toronto at Florida, 7 Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30 Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8 Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10

THURSDAY, DEC. 29 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl South Florida (10-2) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl, Charlotte, N.C. Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl, San Antonio Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Colorado (10-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN)

FRIDAY, DEC. 30 Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn. Georgia (7-5) vs. TCU (6-6), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas North Carolina (8-4) vs. Stanford (9-3), 2 p.m. (CBS) Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee (8-4) vs. Nebraska (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Arizona Bowl, Tucson, Ariz.

FRIDAY’S RESULTS NY ISLANDERS 5, Buffalo 1 Minnesota 7, NY RANGERS 4 New Jersey 1 `, PITTSBURGH 4 WASHINGTON 4, Tampa Bay 0 COLUMBUS 2, Montreal 1 Detroit 4, FLORIDA 3 (SO) CAROLINA 3, Boston 2 (OT) Colorado 2, CHICAGO 1 (OT) DALLAS 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT) Toronto 4, ARIZONA 1 CALGARY 4, Vancouver 1 SAN JOSE 3, Edmonton 2 (OT) Home team in CAPS

CALENDAR Jan. 1: Centennial Classic, Tor. Jan. 2: NHL Winter Classic, St. Louis. Jan. 27-30: All-Star break

GOALS AGAINST AVG.

GAA

Dubnyk, MIN Rask, BOS Bobrovsky, CBJ Price, MTL Howard, DET Holtby, WSH Budaj, LA Jones, SJ Murray, PIT Raanta, NYR Condon, OTT Ward, CAR Crawford, CHI Johnson, CGY Darling, CHI Luongo, FLA Lehner, BUF Anderson, OTT Lundqvist, NYR Nilsson, BUF

1.57 1.87 1.87 1.91 1.96 1.98 2.04 2.08 2.14 2.17 2.20 2.24 2.26 2.30 2.35 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.47

SOCCER

Chelsea, Conte standing out in EPL MANCHESTER, England — In one sense, normality has returned to the English Premier League after the craziness of Leicester’s improbable surge to the title last season. The top six on Christmas Day are the teams most pundits predicted would be challenging for the title: Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United. There’s nothing normal about Chelsea’s current form, however. After 11 straight wins, Chelsea leads the league by six points from Liverpool, heading into the hectic period of festive fixtures that is unique to British soccer. Only once — Arsenal in 2001-02, with 13 straight wins — has a top-tier club had a longer winning streak in one season since World War II. One thing is for sure, there’ll be no miracle sequel for Leicester in the Premier League. Languishing in 15th place in the 20-team standings, the reigning champions are closer to the relegation zone than the Champions League qualification spots. It’s back to the heavyweights challenging for the title. And Chelsea is the big favorite. — Associated Press

1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. Penn State (11-2) vs. Southern Cal (9-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl, New Orleans Oklahoma (10-2) vs. Auburn (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Air Force (9-3) vs. South Alabama (6-6), 5:30 p.m. (ASN) Orange Bowl, Miami Gardens, Fla. Florida State (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

SATURDAY, DEC. 31 Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla. LSU (7-4) vs. Louisville (9-3), 11 a.m. (ABC) TaxSlayer Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. Kentucky (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) CFP Semifinals Peach Bowl, Atlanta Alabama (13-0) vs. Washington (12-1), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. Clemson (12-1) vs. Ohio State (11-1), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

MONDAY, JAN. 9 College Football Championship Tampa, Fla. Semifinal winners, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

SATURDAY, JAN. 21

MONDAY, JAN. 2

East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. West vs. East, 3 p.m. (NFL) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif. National vs. American, 4 p.m.

Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla. Florida (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), 1 p.m. (ABC) Cotton Bowl, Arlington, Texas Western Michigan (13-0) vs. Wisconsin (10-3),

Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 2:30 p.m. (NFL)

NBA CAVALIERS 109, WARRIORS 108

NHL STANDINGS

METROPOLITAN Columbus Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Washington Philadelphia Carolina New Jersey N.Y. Islanders

Texas Bowl, Houston Kansas State (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN)

Irving clutch against Warriors again as Cavs win By Tom Withers AP Sports Writer

CLEVELAND — With another clutch shot, Kyrie Irving took the Warriors on a trip down memory lane. Irving dropped a short, turnaround jumper over Klay Thompson with 3.4 seconds left as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied just the way they did in June’s NBA Finals to defeat Golden State 109-108 on Sunday in a marquee Christmas matchup that more than lived up to the hype. Down by 14 early in the fourth quarter, the Cavs chipped away and then put the ball in the hands of Irving, whose step-back 3-pointer over Stephen Curry on June 19 helped seal Game 7 and gave Cleveland its first major pro sports championship since 1964. This time, Irving went deep in the lane before spinning and making his shot over Thompson, one of the league’s best defenders. “The kid is special,” LeBron James said of his teammate. “It was never in doubt.” Golden State had one last chance but Kevin Durant, who led all scorers with 36 points in his first game in the league’s hottest rivalry, lost his balance coming off a screen and couldn’t get off a shot as time expired. Durant felt he was fouled by Richard Jefferson. “I was trying to make a move,” he said. “I didn’t fall on my own.” James scored 31 points with a season-high 13 rebounds, Irving added 25 points and Kevin Love 20 for the Cavs, who were down 3-1 in the Finals before storming back to stun a Warriors team that won 73 games during the regular season, but came up one victory short of winning their second straight title. Thompson added 24, Draymond Green 16 and Curry15 — on 4 of11shooting — for the Warriors, who had their winning streak stopped at seven and fell to 9-1 against Eastern Conference teams. The teams will meet again Jan. 16 and then not again unless they make it back to the Finals — a “three-quel” that would be the first in league history.

TONY DEJAK/AP

Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving and Golden State Warriors’ Andre Iguodala battle for a loose ball in the second half of Sunday’s game.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28

NBA STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

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Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Chicago Detroit ATLANTIC Toronto Boston New York Philadelphia Brooklyn SOUTHEAST Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

23 14 15 14 14

6 14 16 16 18

— 81⁄2 9 91⁄2 101⁄2

3-3 4-3 3-2 3-4 2-3

17-4 10-10 8-10 10-9 8-11

16-2 10-7 11-5 8-6 8-7

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

W-5 W-1 L-2 L-3 L-5

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21 18 16 7 7

8 13 14 22 22

— 4 51⁄2 14 14

5-0 5-1 1-3 1-3 0-5

13-4 14-5 8-8 5-12 2-14

11-5 6-6 11-5 5-14 6-8

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

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1-0 1-0 1-1 1-2 1-0

17 15 13 14 10

13 15 16 18 21

— 2 31⁄2 4 71⁄2

4-1 3-4 3-5 4-3 3-4

11-9 11-7 9-11 8-12 5-13

10-6 7-7 10-6 6-10 5-11

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

W-3 W-1 L-1 W-1 L-1

0-3 0-0 1-2 1-0 1-1

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Oklahoma City Utah Portland Denver Minnesota PACIFIC Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento L.A. Lakers Phoenix SOUTHWEST San Antonio Houston Memphis New Orleans Dallas

19 18 13 12 9

12 13 19 18 21

— 1 61⁄2 61⁄2 91⁄2

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

10-7 13-9 9-14 7-10 4-14

12-6 10-7 8-6 6-8 4-11

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

W-3 L-3 L-5 L-2 L-2

3-1 0-0 2-1 0-3 1-1

27 22 13 12 9

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— 5 13 16 17

6-1 2-2 2-2 4-4 1-6

18-4 15-5 10-9 7-13 3-17

12-2 11-5 6-6 7-7 5-9

8-2 6-4 6-4 2-8 3-7

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

0-1 0-1 0-3 0-0 3-2

25 22 20 11 9

6 9 12 21 21

— 3 51⁄2 141⁄2 151⁄2

6-1 5-3 4-0 0-6 1-6

14-4 16-6 12-5 4-18 6-13

9-4 10-3 12-7 7-10 6-8

8-2 8-2 6-4 4-6 5-5

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

0-0 2-0 4-0 2-3 1-1

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RESULTS, SCHEDULE

Phila. at Sacramento, 10:30 TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE Memphis at Boston, 7:30 SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Oklahoma City at Miami, 7:30 Boston 119, NEW YORK 114 Houston at Dallas, 8:30 CLEVELAND 109, Utah at LA Lakers, 10:30 GOLDEN STATE 108 WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE SAN ANTONIO 119, Indiana at Washington, 7 Chicago 100 Charlotte at Orlando, 7 OKLAHOMA CITY 112, New York at Atlanta, 7:30 Minnesota 100 Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:30 LA LAKERS 111, LA Clippers 102 Brooklyn at Chicago, 8 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE LA Clippers at New Orleans, 8 Milwaukee at Washington, 7 Phoenix at San Antonio, 8:30 Memphis at Orlando. 7 Minnesota at Denver, 9 Charlotte at Brooklyn, 7:30 Sacramento at Portland, 10 Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 Indiana at Chicago, 8 Home team in CAPS Dallas at New Orleans, 8 Jan. 5: 10-day contracts Phoenix at Houston, 8 can be signed. Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 Jan. 10: All contracts Toronto at Portland, 8 guaranteed for the Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 remainder of the season.

Through Sunday

LEADERS 3-PT PCT.

TEAM 3P%

Ingles, SF Lee, SG Young, PF Lowry, PG Belinelli, SG Frye, PF Redick, SG Mills, PG Dudley, SF Sabonis, PF Brogdon, SG McCollum, SG Green, SG Gasol, C Ross, SF Crabbe, SG Gordon, SG Irving, PG Porter Jr., SF

UTAH NY IND TOR CHA CLE LAC SA PHX OKC MIL POR SA MEM TOR POR HOU CLE WSH

.477 .476 .458 .455 .453 .451 .444 .444 .444 .444 .444 .435 .435 .430 .429 .426 .425 .425 .425

Celtics beat Knicks after blowing lead NEW YORK — When the Knicks tried to make a Christmas comeback, the Celtics’ response was strong and Smart. Isaiah Thomas scored 27 points, Marcus Smart made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 47 seconds left after Boston blew a late lead, and the Celtics beat New York 119-114 on Sunday. The Knicks wiped out a late nine-point deficit with an out-of-nowhere 11-2 run in a little more than a minute, but Smart answered with his shot and Avery Bradley and Al Horford made big defensive plays afterward. “We did a good job of just being calm and gutting out the win,” Thomas said. Jae Crowder and Kelly Olynyk each had 16 points for the Celtics, who won for the fifth time in six games. Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points and Derrick Rose had 25 for the Knicks, who fell to 22-29 in their NBA-record 51 Christmas appearances. “You don’t want to lose at all but to lose today, it was a tough loss,” Anthony said. — Associated Press

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Monday, December 26, 2016 THE CAPITAL

WAGNER

SPORTS ON TV MONDAY, DEC. 26 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11 a.m. ESPN — St. Petersburg Bowl: Miami (Ohio) vs. Mississippi St., at St. Petersburg, Florida 2:30 p.m. ESPN — Quick Lane Bowl: Maryland vs. Boston College, at Detroit 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Independence Bowl: NC State vs. Vanderbilt, at Shreveport, Louisiana NBA 7 p.m. CSN — Milwaukee at Washington 8 p.m. NBA — Indiana at Chicago

10:30 p.m. NBA — Denver at L.A. Clippers NFL 8:15 p.m. ESPN — Detroit at Dallas SOCCER 7:30 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Crystal Palace at Watford 10 a.m. CNBC — Premier League, Bournemouth at Chelsea NBCSN — Premier League, Sunderland at Manchester United 12:10 p.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester City at Hull City

PRESS BOX EDITED FROM NEWS SERVICES IN BRIEF

■ BASEBALL: The Royals signed LHP Jona-

than Sanchez to a minor-league contract Saturday, according to reports. Sanchez, 34, is 39-58 with a 4.70 ERA for four different teams in eight major-league seasons. He last pitched in the majors in 2013, when he was 0-3 in four starts for the Pirates.

■ COLLEGE BASKETBALL: David Col-

lette scored 17 points on 8-for-8 shooting to lead Utah to a 74-66 victory over Stephen F. Austin in the fifth-place game of the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu. JoJo Zamora and Devon Daniels each added 16 points and Lorenzo Bonam added 12 for the Utes (9-3), who shot 58.5 percent (24 of 41) from the field. They scored 30 points off 23 turnovers. Leon Gilmore III had 13 points, Ty Charles 11 and Ivan Canete 10 for the Lumberjacks (5-7). It was just the second meeting between the schools and the first since Utah beat Stephen F. Austin 5750 in the second round of the 2015 NCAA tournament. In the seventh-place game, Jack Purchase made five 3-pointers and scored 17 points to lead Hawaii to a 60-46 victory over Southern Mississippi. Hawaii went on a 10-0 run to stretch its lead to 21 points midway through the second half and end a four-game losing streak. Gibson Johnson added 10 points for the Rainbow Warriors (5-7), who made 10 3-pointers. Michael Ramey hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points for Southern Mississippi (3-9), which lost its eighth straight game.

■ COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Dru Brown threw

for 274 yards and four touchdowns and Hawaii overcame an early deficit to beat Middle Tennessee 52-35 in the Hawaii Bowl on Saturday night in Honolulu. The Rainbow Warriors (7-7) amassed 500 yards of total

TERPS From page B1

Rutgers at Maryland Stadium on Nov. 26 to close the regular season. It allowed Durkin and his players to forget the back-to-backto-back losses at Michigan (59-3), to Ohio State (62-3) and at Nebraska (28-7). The month spent practicing and preparing for Boston College — as well as rehabilitating injuries — has given Maryland some semblance of the lineup it used before Durkin had to rely on many of the 16 true freshmen he wound up playing at key positions. While senior cornerback Will Likely III, who has been out since suffering a knee injury Oct. 15 against Minnesota, will not be among those returning, fifth-year senior quarterback Perry Hills has benefited from the time off. “Health-wise, we’re pretty good for this point in the season,” Durkin said. “Like anyone else, we’ve got some guys nicked up, bumps and bruises. Most importantly, our quarterback, who’s been in and out throughout the year, is feeling as good as he has in a long, long time.” A healthy Hills should be able to help a running game that disappeared for that three-week stretch before the Rutgers game, in part because of the suspension of star freshman Lorenzo Harrison before the game against Ohio State on Nov. 12 for an incident six days earlier. Harrison and freshman wide receiver DJ Turner, who were charged by police with firing a BB gun on campus, are still “going through the process” of trying to get reinstated. Despite speculation on 247Sports that the two might play against Boston College, their status has not changed, a Maryland spokesman said. If Hills is effective running the ball, it would certainly help take some pressure off sophomore running back Ty Johnson, whose nearly 9-yard-per-carry average is among the nation’s best. It would also help keep Eagles defensive end Harold Landry, the nation’s co-leader with 15 sacks, on his heels. “I think the story of the game for both sides of the ball is the run game. Whoever’s able to run the ball effectively has the upper hand,” Durkin said. Said Boston College coach Steve Addazio: “For us to have success, everyone’s got to have a part. We don’t have that go-to guy,

offense and their highest-scoring output this season to end the year on a three-game winning streak. Brown completed 20 of 30 passes without an interception. He had a 2yard TD run and was sacked just once. Brown had nine TDs and no interceptions in his last two games. Diocemy Saint Juste ran for 170 yards on 25 carries. Hawaii turned three Middle Tennessee turnovers into 21 points. It fell behind 14-0 just over 5 minutes into the game but scored the next 28 points and never relinquished the lead. Brent Stockstill started at quarterback for the Blue Raiders (8-5) after missing the last three games with a broken collarbone. He finished 30 of 51 for 432 yards. Stockstill threw four TD passes — two to Richie James — and was intercepted twice. James caught nine passes for 175 yards. It was his 14th game of 100 or more receiving yards in his career. Middle Tennessee posted 542 yards of total offense.

■ HOCKEY: The Maple Leafs recalled G

Jhonas Enroth from the American Hockey League on Saturday night. The Leafs sent F Byron Froese and F Frederik Gauthier and G Antoine Bibeau to the Marlies, who are also located in Toronto. Enroth, 28, is 0-3-1 with a 3.94 goals-against average in six appearances for the Leafs this season. He’s 50-69 with a 2.84 GAA in nine seasons for four teams.

■ SKIING: Olympic super-G champion Anna Fenninger of Austria plans to return to World Cup racing at a giant slalom in Semmering, Austria on Tuesday, 14 months after badly damaging her right knee in a training crash. Fenninger won the overall title in 2014 and again the following year. She hasn’t competed since March 22, 2015.

Today’s game MARYLAND (6-6, BIG TEN) VS. BOSTON COLLEGE (6-6, ACC)

What’s at stake: A victory would give coach DJ Durkin a chance to finish with a winning record in his inaugural season, something only Bobby Ross (1982) and Ralph Friedgen (2001) have done in the modern era at Maryland. The Terps are also looking for their first bowl win since Friedgen’s final game, the 2010 Military Bowl. Key matchup: Maryland’s offensive line and Boston College defensive end Harold Landry. The line, which has struggled against good pass rushers at times this season, will have its collective hands full against Landry, whose 15 sacks tied for the lead nationally among Football Bowl Subdivision players. The Terps need to be able to keep senior quarterback Perry Hills in the game, something they failed to do often this season as Hills injured both his shoulders taking big hits. Player to watch: Sophomore running back Ty Johnson is one of the best in the country at breaking off big runs, which is why he averages 8.9 yards for his 95 carries this season. With Lorenzo Harrison still out because of an indefinite suspension, it will be up to Johnson to set the tone offensively for the Terps against a team ranked eighth nationally against the run. — Don Markus

Football Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Wake Forest vs. Temple, 3:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 30 Men’s Basketball

Francis signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the offseason and performed well in training camp, but was part of the final cuts. Good news came in mid-October when Francis signed with the Washington Redskins. That homecoming story seemed complete when he was promoted to the active roster on Nov. 29, but he never got into a game and was waived on Dec. 10 and resigned to the practice squad. Francis deserves a lot of credit for rolling with the ups and downs while persevering in his quest to establish an NFL career. Santa Claus Reporter knows the best present for Francis would be the security of a steady game-day paycheck. To Navy wide receiver Jamir Tillman: To hear his name called during the 2017 NFL Draft. Tillman sure looks like an NFL wide receiver to me in terms of size, athleticism and talent. The 6-foot-4, 212-pound senior catches everything — I mean everything — thrown his way. The Las Vegas native has body control and ball skills that are off the charts. A total of 28 NFL scouts came to the academy this season in order to take a first-hand look at Tillman, who has been invited to the NFL Players Association All-Star game on Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. To former South River High baseball coach Kenny Dunn: Hearty congratulations. Dunn was inducted into the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame in November during a banquet at Salisbury University. Dunn was enshrined as a manager for his success at South River, which he led to the Class 4A state championship in 2013. Dunn grew up on the Eastern Shore and played varsity baseball Dunn for three seasons at St. Michael’s High before transferring to Severna Park High. He was a three-sport standout as a senior for the Falcons, playing football and baseball for a pair of legendary coaches in George Roberts and Jim Pitt. When South River High opened in1978, Dunn was named varsity head coach for both basketball and baseball. He led the baseball team to an 85-48 record and three East Region championship appearances from 2008 to 2013, retiring after the Seahawks captured the state title. To former Arundel High baseball pitcher Brandon Agamennone: A Top 10 pick in the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft. Agamennone was just hired as a regional scout by the Boston Red Sox and will cover northern Texas and northern Louisiana. He will continue to own and operate Pro Source Athletics, a successful baseball academy in Dallas. Agamennone was a 20th-round pick of the Montreal Expos in 1998 after a stellar career at the University of Maryland. The Crofton native spent eight seasons in the minor leagues with the Montreal, Baltimore and Pittsburgh organizations. There would be no better way for Agamennone to break into the business then by scouting and signing a first day draft pick for the Red Sox. To legendary sportswriter Pat O’Malley: A fast and full recovery. O’Malley recently underwent surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital for a fairly serious health issue and is back home convalescing. The Anne Arundel County Sports Hall of Famer is doing well and no doubt eager to get back to covering high school athletics for the Varsity Sports Network. To Navy men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis: A Patriot League Tournament title. Navy has made steady progress under

so to speak.” While not many Maryland fans are expected to make the trip — nor is a big crowd expected in the 65,000-seat indoor stadium — Durkin can’t overstate the significance of his team’s playing in a bowl game. It has given the Terps 15 extra practices. “This is an important game for us, and they know that, they understand that,” Durkin said. “It’s important for our program moving forward, it’s important for our seniors, it’s important for our university, our fan base. Our guys know that and they’ve taken the right approach all along.” don.markus@baltsun.com twitter.com/sportsprof56

Bucknell at Navy, 7 Women’s Basketball Navy at Bucknell, 6

SUNDAY, JAN. 1 Wrestling Navy at Southern Scuffle (Chattanooga, Tenn.), 9 a.m.

DeChellis, who was lured away from Penn State in 2011. The Midshipmen have increased their number of victories — both overall and in the league — every season of the DeChellis era. Unfortunately, Navy has not been able to do much damage in the Patriot League Tournament during that time, falling in the first or second round all five years. It’s time for the Midshipmen to take a big step forward and there would be no more tangible sign of progress than to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. To Annapolis resident Dee Smith: A Paralympic sailing medal at the Tokyo games in 2020. Smith came awfully close to earning a medal at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, finishing fourth in the 2.4 meter class. The veteran professional sailor made a remarkably rapid rise through the ranks and trailed only three longtime 2.4 veterans in Damien Seguin of France, Matthew Bugg of Australia and Helena Lucas of Great Britain. I believe Smith would be a strong contender for gold if he mounted another campaign for 2020. Last month, Smith captured the U.S. Disabled Championship, winning seven of nine races and beating runner-up Charles Rosenfield by nine points. To former Major League Baseball player Mark Teixeira: Happiness and contentment in retirement. Teixeira is in the process of making a difficult transition following a wildly successful 14-year career in the majors. The Severna Park native will no doubt have some pangs of regret when spring training begins in February. Teixeira leaves the game in satisfying fashion as he was a three-time All-Star, five-time Gold Glove winner and threetime Silver Slugger Award recipient. Above all else, the Mount St. Joseph graduate was a World Series champion in 2009 with the New York Yankees, for whom he played the final eight seasons on a mind-boggling $180 million contract. Teixeira posted super career numbers with 409 home runs, 408 doubles and 1,298 RBIs while batting .268. There are mixed opinions about whether Teixeira is worth of induction into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. However, Santa Claus Reporter is here to tell you that “Tex” is a shoo-in for the Anne Arundel County Sports Hall of Fame. What would Teixeira rather have: a bust in Cooperstown or a plaque in Glen Burnie? To action sports star Travis Pastrana: A successful Nitro Circus show in Annapolis. Pastrana has created a world-wide phenomenon with his Nitro Circus Tour, which features the Annapolis native and many of his friends riding dirt bikes and performing all manner of dangerous stunts. Nitro Circus shows have performed to sellout crowds in Australia, New Zealand, numerous European countries and all over the United States. Santa Claus Reporter has heard from sources that Pastrana is hoping to bring the popular franchise to his hometown with a summer show held at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Unfortunately, there are reports that a few community leaders in Ward 2, which includes neighborhoods surrounding the stadium, are not in favor of the event. It would be a real shame if Annapolis did not roll out the red carpet for one of its most famous native sons. Nitro Circus is a family-friendly show that would be no more a disruption to the surrounding neighborhoods than a typical Navy football game. You can rest assured the Naval Academy Athletic Association would never give tentative approval to any event it remotely thought would cause problems for the surrounding neighborhoods. Instead of making predictions based on zero information about a particular event, Ward 2 community leaders should give the show a shot and see what really happens. bwagner@capgaznews.com

PREP SCHEDULE MONDAY, DEC. 26 Boys Basketball Overtime Live Tournament at Chesapeake College Arundel vs. Seaford, 2:45 Spartans Holiday Tournament at Laurel HS Southern vs. Croom, 12:45 Old Mill vs. Ballou (DC), 2:30 James T. Bogle Invitational at Glen Burnie Broadneck vs. North County, 5 Glen Burnie vs. Patuxent, 7 Girls Basketball Lady Bucs Holiday Tournament at Kent Island Broadneck vs. Pallotti, 2 Kent Island vs. Huntingtown, 4

TUESDAY DEC. 27

COLLEGE SCHEDULE TUESDAY, DEC. 27

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Boys Basketball Overtime Live Tournament at Chesapeake College Consolation, 2:45; championship, 6:45 Spartans Holiday Tournament at Laurel HS White consolation, 11 a.m.; White championship, 4:15 Royal consolation, 12:45; Royal championship, 6 James T. Bogle Invitational at Glen Burnie Consolation, 5; championship, 7 Severna Park at Century Tournament Severna Park vs. Century, 7:30 Rte. 175 Classic at Meade Meade vs. High Point, 4 C. Milton Wright vs. Kennedy, 5:30 Governor’s Challenge Indian Creek vs. Easton, 10:30 a.m. Girls Basketball Lady Bucs Holiday Tournament at Kent Island Consolation, 2; championship, 4 Magruder Tournament Severna Park vs. Clarksburg, 1 Lady Millers Holiday Tournament Arundel vs. Largo, noon Mistletoe Madness at Chesapeake Indian Creek vs. Green Street Academy, 5 Chesapeake vs. Southwestern, 7 Meade at Title IX Classic Southern at Oakland Mills Holiday Tournament Wrestling Broadneck at Damascus Tournament

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28 Boys Basketball Fred Stauffer Cap City Classic at Annapolis Loyola Blakefield vs. Pikesville, 5 Annapolis vs. Chesapeake Science Point, 7 Rte. 175 Classic at Meade Consolation, 4; championship, 5:30 Severna Park at Century Tournament

Consolation, 5:30; championship, 7:30 Severn at Huntingtown Tournament Indian Creek at Gov.’s Challenge Northeast Holiday Tournament LaPlata vs. Mount Hebron, 4 Northeast vs. Greater Grace, 6 Mistletoe Madness at Chesapeake Wheaton vs. Southwestern, 5 Chesapeake vs. Green Street Academy, 7 Girls Basketball Fred StaufferCap City Classic at Annapolis Central vs. Northwestern, 1 Annapolis vs. LaPlata, 3 Lady Spartans Holiday Tournament at Laurel HS North County vs. Coolidge (DC), 2:30 Glen Burnie vs. Northern, 6 Hyde Holiday Tournament at Queen Anne’s Severn vs. Northeast, 4 Queen Anne’s vs. JEB Stuart (Va.), 6 Waldorf Holiday Hoops Classic at North Point Old Mill vs. Thomas Dale, 1 Southern at Oakland Mills Holiday Tournament Meade at Title IX Classic Arundel at Lady Millers Holiday Tournament Severna Park at Magruder Tournament Wrestling Broadneck at Damascus Tournament

THURSDAY, DEC. 29 Boys Basketball Fred Stauffer Cap City Classic at Annapolis Consolation, 3; championship, 7 Severn at Huntingtown Tournament AACS in Governor’s Challenge Northeast Holiday Tournament Consolation, 4; championship, 6 Mistletoe Madness at Chesapeake Consolation, 3; championship, 7 Girls Basketball Fred Stauffer Cap City Classic at Annapolis Consolation, 1; championship, 5 Mistletoe Madness at Chesapeake Consolation, 1; championship, 5 Hyde Holiday Tournament at Queen Anne’s Consolation, 4; championship, 6 Waldorf Holiday Hoops Classic at North Point Consolation, 1; championship, 4:30 AACS Tournament AACS vs. King’s Christian, 7:45 Meade at Title IX Classic Glen Burnie, North County at Laurel Tournament Wrestling South River Duals Severn at Mount Mat Madness

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RAVENS NOTES

Waller’s drop in end zone a ‘huge turn of events’ By Edward Lee

was probably the difference in the fourth quarter. It was more about that than it was about pressure or not pressuring.”

The Baltimore Sun

PITTSBURGH — Darren Waller evoked memories of Lee Evans, and not in a good way. The Ravens tight end failed to pull in a pass in the end zone on third down-and-3 from the 4-yard line on the second play of the fourth quarter. Ultimately, the team settled for a 23-yard field goal by kicker Justin Tucker, but it wasn’t enough in Sunday’s 31-27 loss here at Heinz Field. Waller appeared to catch the ball and have both feet inbounds while running to the sideline, but rookie strong safety Sean Davis (Maryland) jostled Waller’s hands enough to dislodge the ball as he fell to the turf. “I was catching it and focusing on getting my feet down,” Waller said in the locker room afterward. “I was pulling the ball in, and he came up under my arm and knocked it out.” The play reminded some of the Ravens’ 23-20 loss at the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game on Jan. 22, 2012, when Evans appeared to make a 14-yard grab in the right corner of the end zone, but was stripped by cornerback Sterling Moore with 22 seconds left in regulation to end the comeback. It wasn’t as deflating as the Evans play because more than 14 minutes remained on the clock Sunday, and the team still had a lead. But Waller acknowledged that making the catch and giving the team a potential 24-10 advantage instead of a 20-10 lead would have been critical. “That’s a huge play,” he said. “The point swing alone on that one play was huge for us and could have propelled us into who-knows-what. So yeah, that’s a huge turn of events.” Asked whether offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg or tight ends coach Richard Angulo said anything to him after the play, Waller replied, “I know the ball has to be caught. So there’s not really that much that needs to be said. They’re just trying to keep me into the game and not psych myself out.” Too much Brown: In the first half, the Ravens secondary played well enough to keep people from wondering about cornerback Jimmy Smith, who missed his second straight game because of a sprained right ankle. That was especially evident against Pittsburgh star wide receiver Antonio Brown, who had just one catch for seven

Cox, Koch take responsibility for botched FG: Tucker converted all four

BY KENNETH K. LAM, THE BALTIMORE SUN

Ravens’ Darren Waller failed to pull in a pass in the end zone on third down-and-3 from the 4-yard line on the second play of the fourth quarter during Sunday’s game.

yards in the first two quarters. But Brown exploded in the second half, making nine grabs for 89 yards and the game-winning 4-yard touchdown with nine seconds left in the fourth period. Rookie cornerback Tavon Young said the defense figured that the Steelers would try to get Brown more involved after his quiet start. “That’s their No. 1 receiver. Of course they would target him,” Young said. “On the outside, he didn’t really do anything on the outside. But once he got into the slot and was working the zone, they were just making plays.” Brown, who caught six passes for 73 yards in Pittsburgh’s 21-point fourth quarter, said he didn’t panic over his meager numbers in the first half. “You just have to stay simple,” he said. “Over the course of the game, there are going to be ups and down. I might not get the ball as much as I want to, but just stay positive. We have a great quarterback. We don’t blink. They’re always looking for opportunities, and they found a way to get me the ball.” What pass rush? With Pittsburgh Steelers

quarterback Ben Roethlisberger having

completed 62.3 percent of his passes for an average of 236.6 passing yards and throwing for six touchdowns in his team’s five-game winning streak, the Ravens elected to activate outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith in addition to starters Terrell Suggs and Albert McClellan and reserves Elvis Dumervil and rookie Matthew Judon for Sunday. But the defense failed to sack Roethlisberger, who was hit three times but still found time to complete 24 of 33 passes for 279 yards and three touchdowns. It marked the first time that Roethlisberger, who had two interceptions, had not been sacked by the Ravens since Nov. 28, 2013, and only the third time in 22 career meetings. Free safety Lardarius Webb said it would be a mistake to single out the pass rush as a culprit. “We mixed up the calls,” he said. “We played coverage sometimes, and we blitzed a couple times. Hats off to Big Ben.” Coach John Harbaugh echoed that sentiment, adding: “You can’t just run all blitzes against them with the guys they have. We ran pressures. I think when we got pressure, he bounced out a couple times. He made some plays on the run. Roethlisberger moving out of the pocket and making plays

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capped a 10-play, 75-yard drive after the Ravens had taken a four-point lead with a touchdown drive with 1:18 to go. When Joe Flacco’s final desperation pass was intercepted, the Steelers (9-5) celebrated another AFC North title and their first victory over the Ravens (8-7) in the last five meetings. The Ravens, meanwhile, headed home Sunday evening knowing their season will end next week in Cincinnati. They will miss the playoffs for the third time in four years. “It’s just a tough feeling right now, when everything you work for and you don’t reach your goal,” Weddle said. “We’re just somber, heads down. You have to give them credit. Ben got it rolling and we just needed to make one play to win the game. Our offense played great football ... gave us every chance to win the game, but we didn’t do our part in the fourth quarter. That’s why we lost.” Across the locker room, Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith Sr., whose 18-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter had given the visitors their first lead, tried to put the defeat in perspective. “I thought we were going to win,” Smith said. “We all probably could have made some more plays, and that’s evident. But we played a good game. It came down to what, nine seconds? That’s nothing to be sad about.” The Ravens had taken a 27-24 lead when Flacco, who played one of his best games all season, took the Ravens 75 yards on 14 plays with fullback Kyle Juszczyk bulling over Steelers safety Mike Mitchell on a 10-yard touchdown run. The drive ate up 5:58, but with the way Roethlisberger had led the Steelers down the field on the previous two drives, it was easy to wonder whether the Ravens left too much time on the clock.

BY KENNETH K. LAM, THE BALTIMORE SUN

The Steelers celebrate Antonio Brown’s game-winning touchdown with 9 seconds left in the game on Sunday.

“We’re trying to score a touchdown,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “If you’re saying we should have sat on the ball and then kept our fingers crossed to score later, I would say that’s not a strategy I’ve seen attempted too often. They had a lot of time left on the clock and it’s our job to get them stopped. That’s what we didn’t get done.” Taking over at the Steelers’ 25-yard line with1:18 to play, Roethlisberger hit tight end Jesse James for 3 yards, Brown for 8 and then James for16 to cross midfield. A 9-yard completion to Demarcus Ayers and a 20-yard strike to Eli Rogers put Pittsburgh inside the Ravens’ 20. Two more completions — a 6-yarder to Cobi Hamilton and 9 yards to James — set up the Brown touchdown. The Ravens’ defense, which had been ranked No. 1 in the NFL just two weeks earlier, was powerless to stop the Steelers, who gained 205 yards from scrimmage in the fourth quarter alone. After the Ravens had taken a 20-10 lead less than a minute into the fourth quarter, Roethlisberger led

Pittsburgh on two touchdown drives in four minutes, 25 seconds. Running back Le’Veon Bell finished both, with a 7-yard touchdown run and a 7-yard touchdown reception. Normally kept under wraps by the Ravens, Bell had 122 rushing yards. “It’s very disappointing, especially how our offense played,” Ravens rush linebacker Terrell Suggs said. “They showed up to play. Usually, when our offense scores 27 points and we’re winning in the fourth quarter, it works out in our favor. It’s very disappointing in that fashion. It happened. It sucks. They executed and they won this one. You got to applaud them. They wanted it a little bit more than we did this time. It showed by their play.” The Ravens didn’t turn the ball over until Flacco’s last-ditched desperation pass with no time on the clock. They were 9-of-17 on third downs and possessed the ball for more than 9 minutes longer than the Steelers. Behind hard-running rookie Kenneth Dixon, the Ravens rushed for 122 yards and averaged 4.7 yards per carry.

field goals he attempted in the loss, but the second one he lined up for never had a chance. Early in the second quarter, on fourthand-21 at Pittsburgh’s 27-yard line, holder Sam Koch could not bring down a high snap from long snapper Morgan Cox and lost the ball. Right tackle Rick Wagner eventually recovered it at the 30, and the Steelers maintained their 7-3 lead. Afterward, both Cox and Koch accepted responsibility for the rare gaffe. “In snapping, and a specialist’s job in general, it’s a matter of a fraction of millimeters, and on the snap, I just let go of it too late,” Cox said. “If I had let go of it just a little bit earlier, I’d feel a lot better about the snap. Obviously, I hate to let the guys down, and I’m going to go to work and make sure that it never happens again.” Added Koch: “It’s just one of those freak things that happened. I know that Morgan wanted it probably a little lower, and I should have bailed him out and got it down. But it just didn’t happen.”

End zone: The list of players the Ravens deactivated offer a familiar look. Jimmy Smith, guards Ryan Jensen and rookie Alex Lewis (high right ankle sprain), running back Javorius “Buck” Allen, tight end Crockett Gillmore (pulled hamstring) and linebacker Lamar Louis sat out for at least the second consecutive game. Linebacker Brennen Beyer, who was promoted from the practice squad to the active roster on Saturday to replace Kamalei Correa, was a healthy scratch. … Wide receiver Steve Smith Sr. (thigh), defensive end Brent Urban (illness) and safety Anthony Levine Sr. (toe), all of whom were listed as questionable Friday, played. … The Steelers deactivated three starters: wide receiver Sammie Coates (hamstring), tight end Ladarius Green (concussion) and defensive end Stephon Tuitt (knee). Coates and Green had been listed as doubtful, while Tuitt was questionable. … Cornerback Justin Gilbert, outside linebacker Jarvis Jones, quarterback Zach Mettenberger and offensive tackle Brian Mihalik were healthy scratches for Pittsburgh. … Wide receivers Mike Wallace and Smith, Suggs, Webb and fullback Kyle Juszczyk represented the Ravens for the coin toss.

The Ravens’ only real offensive lament was that they settled for four field goals by Justin Tucker. All five of the Ravens’ first half drives extended into Steelers’ territory but they managed only six points. Another attempt by Tucker was cut short when holder Sam Koch couldn’t handle a high snap by Morgan Cox. “There were a couple of plays left out there — probably five or 10 points left out there,” said Flacco who was 30-of-44 for 262 yards, one touchdown pass and one interception. “They could have made a difference, but you can say that about every game. It comes down to what it comes down to at the end of the game. You are given your opportunities.” Two plays directly prevented the Ravens from building a bigger lead. A holding penalty on center Jeremy Zuttah wiped away a 14-yard run by Dixon and a potential first-and-goal situation late in the third quarter. The Ravens settled for a 46-yard field goal by Tucker and a 17-10 lead. Following an interception by C.J. Mosley on the ensuing possession, the Ravens took over on the Steelers’11-yard line. Flacco fired a bullet to Darren Waller in the corner of the end zone, but the backup tight end had the ball knocked out of his hands by former Maryland standout Sean Davis. The Ravens were forced to accept a 23-yard field goal and a 20-10 advantage. But even when the Steelers scored the back-to-back touchdowns, Flacco and the Ravens’ offense answered. The defense, though, never could get that one stop. “After we scored, in my mind, we have the best defense in the NFL, so it’s a wrap,” Juszczyk said. “I thought they’re going to go out there and make a stop. … We woke up this morning and, in my mind, we were going to the playoffs. As a player, you never doubt that. We were so sure we were going to come in here and win and play next week. When the game finally ends, and that’s not the reality, that’s something you have to deal with.”

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ST. PETERSBURG BOWL

Redskins’ game with Giants moved to 4:25 p.m. Sunday

Mississippi State, Miami excited to be in Florida

NEW YORK — The NFC North title showdown between Green Bay and Detroit has been moved to Sunday night on New Year’s Day. The NFL announced the switch on Christmas Day, and also moved two afternoon games back from 1 p.m. to 4:25 p.m.: New Orleans at Atlanta and the New York Giants at Washington. Green Bay (9-6) has won five straight games. Detroit (9-5) plays at Dallas tonight before hosting the Packers. Regardless of the outcome of Lions-Cowboys, the game with the Packers will decide the NFC North. A first-round playoff bye also could be available for the Packers-Lions winner. — Associated Press

By Fred Goodall AP Sports Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — So much for the notion that the St. Petersburg Bowl is just another lower-tier postseason matchup featuring teams with mediocre records and little to accomplish, even by winning. Mississippi State (5-7) and Miami of Ohio (6-6) are happy to be in Florida, and not just because the temperature climbed into the low 80s on Christmas Day. Much of the past week has been filled with fun in the sun, and on the beach; however, the Bulldogs and RedHawks are taking the game seriously, too. It’s been a largely disappointing season for Mississippi State, which is making its seventh consecutive bowl appearance under coach Dan Mullen. The Bulldogs

were selected to play, despite their losing record, because of their NCAA Academic Progress Rate. Finishing with a 35-point rout of archrival Mississippi wouldn’t have been the worst way to end the season for Mullen and his players. However, Monday’s game against Miami, which has won six straight to rebound from a 0-6 start, provides an opportunity to feel even better about themselves moving forward. “I think bowl games are one of the great experiences for players,” Mullen said. “The message for our guys was, we didn’t have our best season but because of our academics and how we have taken care of things in the classroom, they got rewarded with a bowl game.” And yes, winning does matter, even if the

Bulldogs would still wind up with a losing record. “I don’t want to be miserable for nine months. We do not play again until September,” Mullen said. “You want to finish on a win. That can really energize you” heading into offseason work. Miami is the first team in NCAA history to overcome a 0-6 start to finish the regular season 6-6. The RedHawks surged to a share of the Mid-American East Division title, received their first bowl berth since 2010, and is relishing the attention that comes with facing an opponent from the vaunted Southeastern Conference in St. Petersburg. Part of coach Chuck Martin’s reaction to learning Miami was headed to a bowl in Florida for the first time in 41 years was: “Well, we really did win the lottery.”

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No need for Giants to root for Cowboys Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — At least now the Giants don’t have to root for the Cowboys. After Tampa Bay lost to New Orleans on Saturday, New York advanced to the playoffs. Had the Bucs won, the Giants would have needed their archrival from Dallas to beat Detroit tonight to secure a postseason berth. Instead, the Giants (10-5) are in the playoffs for the first time since 2011, when they won the Super Bowl. They must wait until after the season finales to find out where they will head on Jan. 7 or 8 for a wild-card game. “There is a process in progressing to your ultimate objective,” said coach Ben McAdoo, who replaced Tom Coughlin this year. “This is the next step in the process. But each step requires focus on the task at hand, and our focus right now is on learning from Thursday night’s (loss at Philadelphia) and moving on and getting better. “It’s all in front of us, and we are still working toward playing our best, most complete game.” This will be the Giants’ 32nd postseason appearance, tying them with Dallas for the most in NFL history. The Packers will also participate in their 32nd postseason should they qualify. New York could face Green Bay, which it lost to on Oct. 9, or Detroit, which it beat on Dec. 18. It could also be at Atlanta or Seattle, neither of which it played this season. The Giants need their offense to come alive. Eli Manning has been inconsistent, often rescued by the super pass-catching and tackle-avoiding skills of Odell Beckham Jr. The running attack has improved recently, but it was so weak for much of the schedule that it had nowhere else to go but up. Offensive line is the weakest spot on the roster, forcing Manning to throw too many

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The Giants (10-5) must wait until after the season finales to find out where they will head on Jan. 7 or 8 for a wild-card game.

times before he has wanted. But as in their 2007 and 2011 championship seasons, the Giants have developed a dynamic pass rush, even without star DE Jason Pierre-Paul. Their secondary, a question mark when the season began, has become a strength as safety Landon Collins blossomed into a Pro Bowler and cornerbacks Janoris Jenkins and Dominique

Rodgers-Cromartie have performed well. The Giants certainly won’t fear the Cowboys, whose only two losses this season were against New York. But they haven’t been much of a road team, going 3-4, with one victory a “home game” for the Rams in London. And barring a bevy of upsets, they won’t be playing any postseason games at MetLife Stadium as the No. 5 seed in the

NFC. In wild-card matches, the Giants are 6-4. Two of those wins came in their most recent Super Bowl years. As for McAdoo, he is the fourth coach in Giants history to lead the team to the playoffs in his first season, joining Allie Sherman (1961), Dan Reeves (1993) and Jim Fassel (1997).

Win came at cost for Raiders David Carr wasn’t only QB to go down during Week 16 By Eddie Pells AP National Writer

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Matthew Stafford will lead the Lions against the Dallas Cowboys tonight.

Stafford comes home, looking to clinch playoffs for Lions Dallas native seeks third straight win over Cowboys in regular season By Schuyler Dixon AP Sports Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas — Matthew Stafford doesn’t dwell on Detroit’s loss to his hometown Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs two years ago. The Lions quarterback focuses on the good memories as he prepares for another homecoming tonight, knowing his team can clinch a postseason berth with a victory. “I really like coming home and playing in Dallas,” Stafford said. “It’s where I grew up. I played a lot of football in the state of Texas and in Dallas in my life. It’s a lot of fun going home, seeing friends and family, but at the same time just trying to win a ballgame against a really good team.” The Cowboys (12-2) have clinched the NFC East title and home-field advantage in the playoffs. Dallas did it without playing thanks to Philadelphia beating the New York Giants on Thursday. Detroit (9-5) got a similar boost on Christmas Eve with Tampa Bay’s loss to New Orleans. The Lions can’t clinch the NFC North. That will have to wait until the finale at home against Green Bay. But they’re in the playoffs for the second time in three seasons under coach Jim Caldwell if they beat Dallas for the third straight time in the regular season. Caldwell said before the Bucs lost that none of the scores would affect his team’s approach. “That’s the short answer,” he said. “We’re going to go out and prepare like we normally prepare and play like we normally play.” Stafford will play at the $1.2 billion home of the Cowboys a little more than a week after his high school, Dallas Highland Park, celebrated on that field after winning its first state title since Stafford led the way 11 years ago. Highland Park’s quarterback is John Stephen Jones, the grandson of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. While Highland Park

binds Stafford and the Jones family, the quarterback said he doesn’t know the younger Jones and hadn’t reached out to his dad, Cowboys executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones. “Obviously proud and happy for him and the team, but my relationship with the Jones family is just very limited,” Stafford said. “We know each other, obviously live in the same area, but that’s about it.” The last time he was on that field, Stafford had to watch one of Dallas quarterback Tony Romo’s signature celebratory moments — face down on the turf, arms outstretched in exuberance after throwing an 8-yard touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter in the Cowboys’ 24-20 win. The loss dropped Stafford to 0-2 in the playoffs, but he’s 2-0 against Dallas in the regular season, averaging 364 yards per game. One of the best moments for the No. 1 overall pick in 2009 was leading the Lions 80 yards in 50 seconds, capped by his 1-yard sneak with12 seconds remaining for a 31-30 win over the Cowboys in 2013. Detroit had trailed by 10 points in the final four minutes. “Anybody wants to play better because they’re from somewhere around there or because it’s the holidays, that’s a good reason to play good, we’re all for it,” offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter said. “We’re all for our guys playing better. So whatever it takes we’re good with.” Stafford didn’t play in the Cowboys’ retractable roof stadium in high school because it opened four years after he graduated. His Jones-owned “home” field was old Texas Stadium, and he remembers playing there as a 15-year-old sophomore. Now, the 28-year-old Stafford credits those days for helping him handle being a walk-in starter as a top recruit for Georgia, and again after he was drafted by the Lions. “Playing against Ennis and a bunch of really good football teams, a bunch of cameras on you after the game,” Stafford said. “I think that kind of puts you in the spotlight early and lets you understand what it’s all about.” Now it’s about clinching the playoffs with his Lions.

In one city, a win felt a lot like a loss. In another, the losers finally figured out how to win. The Oakland Raiders stayed in the hunt for home-field advantage through the playoffs, but their 33-25 victory over the Colts came at a cost. Their quarterback, Derek Carr, was carted off the field with a broken right leg and is out for the rest of the season. At the other end of the standings, the Cleveland Browns avoided going down in infamy; they beat the Chargers 20-17 for their first victory of the season and will not join the 2008 Detroit Lions as the second team to finish 0-16. “I don’t want that next to any of our names associated with this organization and so we got that monkey off our back,” coach Hue Jackson said. Carr wasn’t the only key quarterback to go down during Week 16 of the NFL season. And the Browns weren’t the only bad team to pull out an unexpected win. In case you missed it, here’s what else happened on the NFL’s second-to-last weekend: MARIOTA OUT: Joining Carr on the sideline for the rest of the season will be Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota, who, like Carr, was carted off the field Saturday with a broken right leg. Unlike the Raiders, though, the Titans lost their game. The 38-17 loss to the Jaguars, combined with Houston’s12-10, AFC South-clinching victory over Cincinnati, knocked Tennessee out of the playoff picture. DOING THEIR OWN THING: The Vikings defense threw their game plan out for the first half and paid the price. Packers receiver Jordy Nelson caught seven passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns over the first two quarters while being covered mostly by Terence Newman. That went against the Vikings game plan, which called for Xavier Rhodes to cover the Packers receiver. After halftime, Rhodes handled Nelson and held him to nine yards. “That’s what he was supposed to do the whole game,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said after Minnesota’s 38-25 loss. “Someone decided they wouldn’t do that.” MIAMI RUN MACHINE: The Dolphins inched closer to a playoff spot with the help of running back Jay Ajayi, who ran for 75 of

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Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr is helped off the field after an injury during Saturday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts in Oakland, California.

his 206 yards during Miami’s game-winning drive in overtime. The Dolphins beat the Bills 34-31. Ajayi became the fourth player in NFL history with three 200-yard rushing games in a season. The company he joins: Earl Campbel, O.J. Simpson and Tiki Barber. “Oh, man, he’s a grinder. He’s a workhorse,” tight end Dion Sims said. “He goes 100 miles an hour, and that’s why he’s got the nickname ‘Train’ because he’s just going nonstop.” If the Broncos lose to Kansas City on Sunday night, the Dolphins have their first playoff spot since 2008. A WIN-WIN SITUATION: The only bad thing about winning for Cleveland was that the victory loosened its grasp on next year’s first pick in the draft. Leave it to the equally awful San Francisco 49ers to fix that problem. The one-win Niners, who would’ve received the first pick had they and the Browns finished tied with a single victory, got their second win when Chip Kelly opted for a 2-point conversion after a late touchdown against the Rams. Colin Kaepernick ran in the 2-pointer for a 22-21 victory over the Rams and helped the Niners snap a 13-game losing streak and improve to 2-13. The Browns can wrap up the top pick with a loss at Pittsburgh next week. The 49ers play Seattle.

NFL STANDINGS AFC EAST

y-New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets AFC SOUTH

13 10 7 4

2 5 8 11

L PCT. .867 .667 .467 .267

406 349 389 245

236 345 348 399

PAHOME AWAY AFC NFC 6-2-0 6-1-0 4-4-0 1-6-0

7-0-0 4-4-0 3-4-0 3-5-0

10-1 7-4-0 4-7-0 3-8-0

3-1-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

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NFC NORTH Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago NFC WEST

285 364 297 361

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

3-4-0 3-4-0 3-5-0 0-7-0

7-3-0 7-4-0 4-7-0 3-8-0

2-2-0 2-2-0 3-1-0 0-4-0

3-2-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 2-3-0

y-Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville AFC NORTH

9 8 7 3

6 7 8 12

.600 .533 .467 .200

262 357 387 298

304 361 372 376

7-1-0 4-3-0 3-4-0 2-6-0

2-5-0 4-4-0 4-4-0 1-6-0

7-4-0 5-6-0 4-7-0 2-9-0

2-2-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

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

7-1-0 4-3-1 1-6-0 1-6-0

2-4-1 2-5-0 3-5-0 1-7-0

5-5-1 5-5-1 3-8-0 2-9-0

4-0-0 1-3-0 1-3-0 0-4-0

2-2-1 3-1-1 2-3-0 2-3-0

y-Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland AFC WEST

10 8 5 1

5 7 9 14

.667 .533 .367 .067

372 333 298 240

303 294 305 425

5-2-0 6-2-0 3-3-1 1-7-0

5-3-0 2-5-0 2-6-0 0-7-0

8-3-0 7-4-0 4-7-0 1-10

2-2-0 1-3-0 1-2-1 0-4-0

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

x-Oakland Kansas City Denver San Diego NFC EAST

12 10 8 5 W

3 4 6 10 L

.800 .714 .571 .333 PCT.

410 319 299 383 PF

361 6-2-0 6-1-0 274 5-2-0 5-2-0 258 4-3-0 4-3-0 386 3-4-0 2-6-0 PAHOME AWAY

9-2-0 7-3-0 5-5-0 4-7-0 NFC

3-1-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 AFC

3-2-0 4-0-0 1-3-0 1-4-0 DIV

y-Dallas x-N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia NFC SOUTH

12 10 8 6

2 5 6 9

.857 .667 .567 .400

366 291 386 340

258 274 364 318

6-1-0 7-1-0 4-3-0 5-2-0

6-1-0 3-4-0 4-3-1 1-7-0

8-2-0 7-4-0 6-5-0 4-7-0

4-0-0 3-1-0 2-1-1 2-2-0

3-2-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 1-4-0

y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

10 8 7 6

5 7 8 9

.667 .533 .467 .400

502 337 437 353

374 353 416 385

4-3-0 3-4-0 4-4-0 4-4-0

6-2-0 5-3-0 3-4-0 2-5-0

8-3-0 6-5-0 6-5-0 5-6-0

2-2-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

4-1-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 1-4-0

y-Seattle 9 5 .633 329 269 Arizona 6 8 .433 374 356 Los Angeles 4 11 .267 218 350 San Francisco 2 13 .133 286 455 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division SATURDAY’S LATE RESULT Houston 12, Cincinnati 10 SUNDAY’S RESULTS Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 27 Denver at Kansas City, late TONIGHT’S GAMES Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. SUNDAY, JAN. 1 New England at Miami, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. New Orleans at Atlanta, 4:25 p.m. Kansas City at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Arizona at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:25 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 4:25 p.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 8:30 p.m.

9 9 7 3

5 6 8 12

.643 .600 .467 .200

301 401 289 269

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DEAR ABBY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Talk turkey to freeloading relatives Dear Abby: It has happened again, another stressful, unpleasant Thanksgiving for me. My husband has out-of-town relatives who fly in using frequent flier miles. They get picked up from the airport on arrival and returned to the airport for departure. They spend a week here eating, drinking and being entertained. NEVER ONCE have they offered to buy any food, help with meals or take us out for dinner. If we go out for a meal, it is always our treat. They brag nonstop about how much money they are saving, and they could well afford to be gracious. This has been happening for 15 years. They invite themselves. I do NOT enjoy their company. My husband is aware of how I feel, but has asked me to tolerate them because they are the only blood relatives he’s in contact with outside of our family. I am left to do the laundry and cleaning after they leave. They have a nice vacation, and I feel used and abused. How can I get rid of them and still keep peace in the family? — Fed Up With Freeloaders Dear Fed Up: If your husband insists on entertaining these users because of his blood relationship, you should allow him to do it. If you’re feeling magnanimous, welcome them warmly and tell them you’re sorry you can’t spend more time with them, but you are leaving to visit: your grown children, your parents, your dear old school chum(s). Perhaps when your husband has to shoulder all of the responsibility for those awful people, he will realize the extent to which he is being used and find the courage to tell them what he expects of them the next time they visit. You have suffered

enough. Dear Abby: My fiance and I have been planning our wedding for two years. Both of us are working our butts off at two jobs to pay for all the elaborate details. It will, after all, be the most beautiful day of my life. My fiance’s sister just got engaged and I’m happy for her. But now she’s talking about having her wedding “around the same time as ours” to make it convenient for our distant relatives. My concern is that they’re going to “steal our moment.” I feel very hurt, but I’m not sure how to approach her because I don’t want to cause conflict. It would make so much more sense for them to be married the following year. On the other hand, it’s their prerogative to do it whenever they want. Am I being unreasonable? — Unreasonable In New Hampshire Dear Unreasonable: Every bride — or almost every bride — fantasizes that her wedding day will be the most beautiful day of her life. Whether or not your fiance’s sister has her wedding around that time will not detract from yours in the slightest — and it shouldn’t be a contest anyway. Frankly, the idea of sparing the relatives the expense of traveling to a second wedding makes sense. However, if you cannot accept this, then perhaps you should consider postponing your wedding for another year. Look at the bright side: If you do, you will have 12 months of extra income, and your wedding can be even more elaborate. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dear Doctor: If I received the flu year against H1N1. shot in September, will I still be This decreased immunity is esprotected from the flu in March? pecially pronounced in people over Dear Reader: That’s a very good the age of 65. It decreases even question — and the answer defurther among those over 65 who pends, in part, on your current have chronic illnesses. health. Some pharmacies have been The flu season normally lasts administering the flu vaccine as from November to March, but it can early as the middle of August. This Ask the begin in October and even end in isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Doctors May. The injected influenza vacsomeone older than 65 or someone Dr. Robert cine, which contains three to four with chronic illnesses, because you Ashley inactivated viruses from the prior still get immunity from the vaccine flu season, spurs the formation of that should last through much of antibodies to help your body fight off the flu season. Still, it’s probably better to wait influenza if you’re exposed. It takes about two until at least the middle of September to get weeks after the vaccine for your body to the flu vaccine just to ensure you’re protected produce sufficient protective antibodies. for as much of the flu season as possible. If you are a young, healthy person under Finally, it’s especially important to get 50, you’re more likely to get a good immune yearly flu vaccines if you are: older than 60; response from the vaccine — and also more between the ages of 6 months and 4 years; likely to have an immune response that lasts have chronic illnesses; or are pregnant. The six to12 months. You’ll also have a greater and flu is especially risky for these groups. longer-lasting immune response if you get the While imperfect, the flu vaccine is the best flu vaccine every year. So if you got your shot way our society has found to decrease the in September, you should have immunity that death rates and the long-term complications lasts throughout the flu season. from a potentially fatal disease that causes If you’re older than 50 and have diabetes, anywhere from 3,300 to 49,000 deaths per cancer, or kidney or liver failure, your ability year in the United States. to mount a good response from the vaccine Robert Ashley, M.D., is an internist and decreases. So six months after your vaccina- assistant professor of medicine at the Univertion, you may not have sufficient antibodies to sity of California, Los Angeles. Send your ward off the flu. This has been shown questions to askthedoctors@mednet.ucla.edu, specifically for the H1N1 influenza virus. If or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o Media Relations, you received the vaccine on Sept. 1, you may UCLA Health, 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 350, be less protected by April of the following Los Angeles, CA, 90095.

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Your horoscope for today CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You are best off taking a break and rejuvenating. Too much of everything will take its toll on you mentally, physically and emotionally. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Make a personal change that will encourage you to look and feel your best. Getting ready for year-end festivities will help you put the past behind you. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Be careful what you say and how you react to others. An emotional challenge will result if you are late to an important event or fail to take care of your responsibilities. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Tally up what the festive season has cost you already and figure out how to compensate if you’ve gone over-budget. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Taking a day trip, bargain hunting or just making sure you connect with everyone you want to before the year comes to a close will be gratifying. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Emotional deception or interference will end up being costly. Focus on the positive actions you can take to help you get ahead

personally and professionally. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Speak up if something is wrong. You are best off clearing the air quickly to minimize damage and avoid ruining festive plans. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A networking function or suggestions that a friend or relative makes will give you the incentive you need to check out new possibilities. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Get out and shop for deals or check out what’s going on in your community. Cultural events will open your mind to a host of new ideas. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Don’t let bad feelings or someone acting out ruin your day. Spend time with friends who offer encouragement. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Retreat from all the temptations and indulgences you have given in to lately. Making unique changes at home will open up a space that will allow you to engage in creative pursuits. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Emotions are best controlled. If you get into a debate or let someone in on your personal secrets, you will ruin your reputation or become the subject of gossip.

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Youth is served for actor Ahmed, ‘The Night Of’ sharing star turn in ‘Lion’ hit a contemporary nerve By Gregory Ellwood

By Yvonne Villarreal

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Sunny Pawar’s life has changed dramatically ever since he was cast in Garth Davis’ “Lion” at age 6. Almost two years later, the native of Mumbai recently finished his first trip to the United States, where he promoted the film and visited the Statue of Liberty and Disneyland. His translator notes, “He knew it was a movie, but he did not know that it would become so big.” Sunny plays Saroo in the fact-based story of a young boy who is separated from his family after getting stuck on an empty passenger train car and traveling thousands of miles across India, unable to explain to curious adults trying to help him what village he’s actually from. Eventually, a Western couple, played by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham, adopt him and take him back to Australia. Decades later, an adult Saroo, portrayed by Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominee Dev Patel, tries to trace his way back home using the surprising power of Google Maps. Patel met Sunny when the production was preparing to shoot in India, and his eyes brightened when they saw each other again in a West Hollywood hotel for a day of press interviews. “Look at him. He’s just the most scrumptious little adorable creature, isn’t he? He’s so smart,” Patel says. “He’s been here just under a month, and his English has just exponentially gotten better. It’s astounding, his ability to be able to grasp things so quickly, and

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Dev Patel, right, plays the grown-up boy in “Lion,” while Sunny Pawar plays the character as a child star.

it’s just been awesome.” For Davis, it was important to create a connection between the actors. Even though they were never going to appear on screen together, they were essentially playing the same person, so Sunny’s scenes as a young Saroo had to become Patel’s memories as the older character. The “Slumdog Millionaire” actor traveled to India early in the production just to watch Sunny and the other actors playing Saroo’s family work. “It allowed me to meet Priyanka (Bose), who plays Saroo’s biological mother, and Abhishek (Bharate), who plays his biological brother,” Patel says. “And I watched them do those scenes with Sunny and took those moments as my memories, so when I came to Australia, I was building on it, on a history.” Later in the film, as Saroo is struggling with a flood of painful memories of his former life, the Aussie filmmaker used audio

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of Sunny and the other actors from scenes Patel watched being shot. “I’m staring at his blank laptop screen trying to master these emotions all of the sudden,” Patel says. But having been there on set, “I could see the room, I could see the colors, I could smell India, and that’s what you have to kind of transport yourself back.” In many ways, Patel sounds grateful that Davis found such a remarkable young actor in Sunny to play the younger version of his character. “He found this similar light, I guess,” Patel says of he and his young counterpart. “His journey is very external, whereas mine in the film is more internalized. His is a reactive force against a world and dodging the predators and all sorts of things. Mine is a different tone, even though we’re playing the same person.” Gregory Ellwood is a freelance writer.

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Riz Ahmed knows what you’re thinking: His character in “The Night Of” could have benefited from having a ride-sharing app like Uber or Lyft installed on his phone. “If we had filmed the series more recently, there would be no story,” Ahmed said during a recent interview. In “The Night Of,” Ahmed portrays Nasir “Naz” Khan, a Pakistani-American student living in New York who is accused of killing a woman he had just met, a role for which Ahmed received a Golden Globe nomination this month. Naz has no memory of the events that took place the night of the crime, though the evidence is stacked against him. The 34-year-old actor, who has steadily been building international acclaim after making a name for himself in the British indie movie scene, can be seen in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” The following is an edited transcript. Q: Did you find that you were thinking about causation and how one choice can snowball into something bigger? A: I think that’s the thing about the choices we make and the moment in which we make them. The first choice doesn’t seem too crazy, and then from that the next one doesn’t, and before you know it you’re doing pushups in prison, high on heroin, as an accessory to murder. I hope that’s something that makes people sit up and think about their lives and sliding doors that open and close. Q: The pilot was shot in 2012 but put on hold after the death of James

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In “The Night Of,” Riz Ahmed plays a Pakistani-American student in New York who is accused of killing a woman.

Gandolfini. When it came out, the series was lauded for its timely portrayal of Islamophobia and what it said about mass incarceration. A: I seem to quite often be in projects that seem to strike a nerve or connect with current affairs. It feels good. I feel that the role of an artist is to reflect the world around them, even if it’s to reimagine it. It’s ultimately to put a mirror up to reality and ask difficult questions and ruffle feathers and make us look at ourselves differently and look at each other differently. To be a part of projects that have come around at the right time and struck a chord and done all those things, that’s the goal of all art. Q: You talked to prisoners as part of your research in playing this character. What did you take away from those conversations? A: First, it was just to get a basic lay of the land, just understanding how the politics and the economy

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of prison works and how survival in prison works. Everything from phone cards, to drugs, to meal times, to gang affiliation. That’s a big picture, but really the stuff that stayed with me was the details of people’s personal experiences, particularly the idea of how you drift from family, and how people often cut that cord themselves because it’s too painful. Just calling people up and hearing their voices, remembering that life you’ve left behind, is almost too painful. It’s about the bonds that form in the wake of that, and often what I found was there were intimate or affectionate relationships that would develop between prisoners and their counsels, or prisoners and their social workers or their case workers. In that sense, the Naz and Chandra story line, which I know caused some controversy among fans, felt quite true to life in my experience speaking to people. yvonne.villarreal@latimes.com

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIvIL NO. C-02-FM-16-004915-NC -----IN THE MATTER OF: Brayan David Gomez Dias FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO: Brayan David Perdomo Gomez BY AND THROUGH HIS/HER MOTHER/FATHER/GUARDIAN: -----The above Petitioner has filed a Petition to change the name of a minor child from Brayan David Gomez Dias to Brayan David Perdomo Gomez The reason for this request is: To add the fathers last name to the minor child’s last name. Any person may file an objection to the Petition on or before the 10th Day of January, 2017. Such objection must be supported by an affidavit made on personal knowledge and served upon the Petitioner in accordance with Maryland Rule 1-321. Robert P. Duckworth Clerk True Copy TEST: Robert P. Duckworth Clerk 4653243

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Lose those losers lickety-split A.N. Onymous said, “A winner listens; a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.” Bridge winners know that some losers cannot wait; they must be eliminated immediately. In today’s deal, how can South avoid four losers in his four-heart contract after West leads the spade three? Also, what were West’s more-effective leads, and what do you think of the auction? I agree strongly with South’s two-heart positive Win at Bridge response. Here, over three hearts, North would have Phillip Alder done best to sign off in three no-trump, but that could have been really silly because the club suit might have been wide open. Given the trump break, West would have defeated the contract by leading the club ace (or her low heart, but that would not be recommended). Then East could have sat back and waited for three trump tricks to fall into her lap. West led a spade in the optimistic hope that her partner could ruff in quickly. She chose the three as a suit-preference signal for clubs, the lower-ranking of the other two side suits. Now, though, declarer led a second high spade at trick two and discarded one club loser. Then South played a third spade. East would have done best to ruff with her heart ace and shift to a club, but she ruffed low.

South overruffed, crossed to the board with a diamond and led another spade: ruff, overruff. Now declarer played a trump and got home with an overtrick, his only losers being the rounded-suit aces.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Case No. C-02-CV-15-003433-FC -----CARRIE M. WARD, ET AL., Substitute Trustees Versus ILETHA WHITE, JOHN P. WHITE, SR. Defendants -----Notice is hereby issued this Friday, December 9, 2016 that the sale of the property in the proceedings mentioned, made and reported by Joshua Coleman, Substitute Trustee(s). BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 9th day of January 2017 next; Provided, a copy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper published in Anne Arundel County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 9th day of January 2017 next. The report states that the amount of sale of the property at 252 CANDLE LIGHT LANE, GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061 to be $82,650.00. Robert P. Duckworth Clerk True Copy TEST: Robert P. Duckworth Clerk CAP 52/008 Dec. 19, 26 - Jan. 2 4649982

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Case No. C-02-CV-15-002548-FC -----KRISTINE D. BROWN, ET AL., Substitute Trustees Versus KERRY L. TRUBAN A/K/A/ KERRY L. KARL Defendants -----Notice is hereby issued this Friday, December 9, 2016 that the sale of the property in the proceedings mentioned, made and reported by Gregory Britto, Substitute Trustee(s). BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 9th day of January 2017 next; Provided, a copy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper published in Anne Arundel County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 9th day of January 2017 next. The report states that the amount of sale of the property at 7739 TWIN OAK ROAD, SEVERN, MD 21144 to be $375,800.00. Robert P. Duckworth Clerk True Copy TEST: Robert P. Duckworth Clerk CAP 52/009 Dec. 19, 26 - Jan. 2 4649983

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In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series title since 1908.

SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW

Along for the ride in a year of stunners By Paul Newberry

AP National Writer

In a year filled with stunners, sports certainly went along for the ride. From the Golden State Warriors squandering a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals after a record-breaking season to little Leicester City defying insurmountable odds to capture the Premier League title, there were plenty of shocking outcomes in our arenas and stadiums. Heck, the Chicago Cubs even won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. Let’s take a look at the games and events that left us aghast in 2016: NOT SO GOLDEN

The Warriors started the season with a 24-game winning streak and finished 73-9, the greatest regular season in NBA history. Led by the incomparable Splash Brothers, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, Golden State rallied to beat Oklahoma City for the Western Conference title and was poised for its second straight championship. But, in an astounding twist against Cleveland, the Warriors became the first team ever to blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals — dropping the last two games in Oakland, no less. “It will haunt me for a while,” Curry said while the LeBron James-led Cavaliers celebrated the first championship in franchise history. CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!

The Chicago Cubs didn’t win their first title, but it sure seemed like it. Baseball’s lovable losers were favored to finally break through after assembling a powerhouse team that led the majors with a 103-59 record. This being the Cubbies, of course, they had to make their first title since 1908 as difficult as possible. They fell behind 3-1 to another Cleveland team, the Indians. Then, like the Cavaliers, Chicago rallied to win the last three games, including the final two on the road. Game 7 was a classic that all other classics will be measured by — the Cubs prevailing 8-7 in 10 riveting, rain-delayed innings after squandering a four-run lead. “We did it,” first baseman Anthony Rizzo said. “I can’t believe it.” FOXY CHAMPIONS

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If that seemed unbelievable, check out Leicester City, perhaps the most improbable champion in the history of any major sport. The Foxes began the season as a 5,000-to-1 longshot to claim England’s top soccer title, which seemed about right for a club that had been playing in the second division two years earlier and barely avoided relegation in 2015. But Leicester City, with a payroll that was spare change compared to the Premier League’s big spenders, romped to the first league title in its 132-year history — clinching with two weeks to spare. “Nobody believed we could do it,” captain Wes Morgan said, “but here we are.” BEATING THE G.O.A.T.

Michael Phelps was poised to close his career in a blaze of glory. Then he swam against a boyish, 21-year-old from Singapore who grew up idolizing the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. Joseph Schooling won his country’s first gold medal with an upset victory in the 100-meter butterfly. Phelps finished in a three-way tie for second, giving him a silver to go along with five golds in what was again billed as his final Olympics. Phelps wasn’t the only star to falter in Rio: Kerri Walsh Jennings failed to win gold in beach volleyball for the first time; Serena and Venus Williams took their first loss ever in Olympic tennis doubles; and the U.S. women’s soccer team missed out on a medal of any color and, thanks to Hope

Solo, came off like sore losers.

SERENA SLIPS DOWN UNDER

The Olympic defeat wasn’t even the most disappointing of the year for Serena Williams, who was knocked off in the final of the Australian Open by Germany’s Angelique Kerber. After barely advancing past the opening round, the No. 7 seed took advantage of a rash of unforced errors by Williams to win 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 . Williams came back to capture Wimbledon, tying Steffi Graf’s record with 22 career major titles, and Kerber added her second major of the year at the U.S. Open. There was also a huge upset in the men’s game when two-time defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic lost in the third round to Sam Querrey, ending a 30-match winning streak in Grand Slams. ICING THE ENGLISH

Iceland, a country of roughly 300,000 people, didn’t figure to stand a chance against mighty England at the Euros, the most prestigious soccer prize outside the World Cup. But the team playing in its first major international tournament overcame an early deficit for a 2-1 victory. It was one of the humiliating defeats in the history of English football, leading to the immediate resignation of manager Roy Hodgson. In another European soccer tournament, the Lincoln Red Imps defeated perennial Scottish champions Celtic 1-0 in a first-leg qualifying match of the Champions League. Not bad for a team from Gibraltar that featured a firefighter, a police officer and a taxi driver who had just completed their day jobs. Celtic came back to win the next leg 3-0 to eliminate the part-time pros with a 3-1 aggregate score. ALEXANDER THE GREAT

The 100th Indianapolis 500 was snatched away by Alexander Rossi, a 24-year-old American competing in the race for the first time. After the other leaders pitted for a splash of fuel, Rossi gambled that he could make it to the end. He coasted across the finish line for one of the most stunning gulps of milk in the history of the illustrious race. NOTORIOUS NO MORE

After Ronda Rousey’s defeat the previous year, Conor McGregor became the face of mixed-martial arts. The Notorious looked unbeatable and certainly talked a good game, brutally mocking anyone who got in his way. Then he faced Nate Diaz in a bid to hold UFC titles in multiple weight classes. Despite taking the fight with less than two weeks’ notice, Diaz stopped the Irishman with a rear-naked choke submission. SPIETH TAKES A BATH

After making a run at the Grand Slam in 2015, Jordan Spieth was cruising toward his second straight Masters title when he made the turn on the final day with a commanding five-stroke lead. Not so fast. The young Texan dunked two balls in the water at the par-3 12th for a quadruple bogey that handed the green jacket to England’s Danny Willett. RAIDERS TURN THE SPARTANS BLUE

Michigan State went into the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as a popular pick to go all the way. The Spartans didn’t even make it past their opening game. Middle Tennessee State, a No. 15 seed, shot 56 percent from the field and knocked down 11 3-pointers for a stunning 90-81 victory that gave the Blue Raiders one of the greatest upsets in the history of the Big Dance. It fit right in with the rest of 2016. HONORABLE MENTION: Western Bulldogs captured their first Australian Football League title since 1954 by knocking off the top three teams in the league standings during in the postseason.