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Affidavit says UConn employee threatened dean of fine arts

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer A University of Connecticut employee, who was arrested last week and charged with disorderly conduct, allegedly made threatening statements to another university employee regarding the dean of the School of Fine Arts.

The employee, Community School of The Arts professional staff member Gary Kirsch, made comments to Community School of The Arts program director Eva Robbins-Davies on Jan. 21 that made her feel “extremely uncomfortable and uneasy,” according to the affidavit for his arrest.

Robbins-Davies and Kirsch were discussing their plans for the rest of the day when Kirsch allegedly said, “Maybe I’ll just go out and buy a gun to shoot (School of Fine Arts Dean Brid Grant). Oh wait, did I say that out loud?” He also reportedly said he was planning to make a voodoo doll of the dean and stick pins in it.

The affidavit also lists several other statements allegedly made Kirsch dating back to summer 2013. Kirsch allegedly told a

student worker he would cut the student’s Achilles tendon so he could not play tennis, since Kirsch does not like to play tennis. He also allegedly suggested burning down the Community School of The Arts facility at the Depot Campus.

Kirsch denied making the comments about the firearm and burning down the Community School of The Arts. However, he did acknowledge making the voodoo doll comment, according to the affidavit.

Kirsch stated that he has a harsh sense of humor and admits that his comments are inappropriate at times, the affidavit said.

“The current work environment is stressful considering possible budget cuts on the horizon,” Kirsch said in a written statement to the UConn police on Jan. 23. “This sometimes warrants inappropriate comments at work. … I’m truly sorry for creating a cause for concern and would like to get this situation resolved.”

UConn police began investigation the accusations on Jan. 22 and Kirsch was arrested on Feb. 10. Kirsch has been placed on administrative leave and is barred from UConn property

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TOP LEFT: UConn employee Gary Kirsch, left, poses with Treblemakers Choral Program Director Amanda Hanzlik in this 2012 photo.

BOTTOM LEFT: Kirsch is presented a plaque by CCS Interim Director Peter Diplock to commemorate his 10th year of work at UConn in 2012 . RIGHT: Kirsch at a farewell party for his Community School of the Arts colleague, Topher Logan, in January 2014.

while the university reviews the situation, according to university spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz.

“The safety of those who study, work and visit our cam-

puses is UConn’s highest priority,” Reitz said. “These precautionary actions have been taken as part of the ongoing personnel matter, and do not indicate

that UConn has made any negative or adverse determinations regarding this employee.”

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BOSTON (AP) — A speedy winter storm that blew through parts of the Great Lakes and East on Tuesday is expected to leave a trail of warmer weather and rain that should provide a respite for residents weary of weeks of bitter cold but also create the potential for flooding and collapsing roofs in some areas.

Clogged storm drains could cause ponding and puddles on roads, and in Ohio the National Weather Service said the combination of melting snow and more rain could cause significant flooding. In Michigan, where several roof collapses have been reported since January, there was concern that rain on top of snow could lead to more.

Temperatures above freezing in places where the storm passed through Tuesday should move up to the 40s to mid-50s for the rest of the week, said John Cristantello of the National Weather Service in New York.

Despite the warming and some expected rain on Wednesday and Friday, flooding will not be a concern in New England, said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the weather service in Taunton, Mass.

“The snow can handle a lot of rain,” he said. “It’s not like

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Construction slated for health services building

Plans have been in limbo for the past few years, but officials say a new building will serve influx of new students

By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer The University of Connecticut’s Student Health Services is slated to receive a new space by about 2018, and meetings with architecture firms could begin in early 2014, director Michael Kurland said.

Plans to construct a new building for Student Health Services have been in limbo for the last few years. A new Student Health Services building has been a listed project under the university’s UConn 2000 construction and renovation plan for over ten years, but funding from the recently-approved $1.5 billion Next Generation Connecticut initiative and Student Health Services’ own revenues have expedited the ongoing approval process for a new space.

“We’ve been assured that we will be getting a new facility,” Kurland said in a Nov. 2013 interview. “If all goes well, we would be meeting with architects within about six months, and it takes about a good year to start with the architects until it’s able to go out for bid.”

UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz said constructing a new space for Student Health Services is a priority for the university, especially in light of the current building’s increasing inefficiency coupled with UConn’s plans to increase its already record-high enrollment over the next few years.

“The effect on Student Health Services is being considered as

part of the planning to accommodate the enrollment growth,” Reitz said. “With a new facility and a modest increase in staffing, Student Health Services is expected to be well positioned to meet students’ needs and continue to provide them with an array of important health services.”

Kurland said that while a new building for Student Health Services has not been the university’s highest priority in the past, the planned enrollment of 4,500 new students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs as a result of Next Generation Connecticut – as well as plans to construct new STEM-oriented facilities near Student Health Services’ current location – have elevated the need for a new space.

“We’ve been told by the administration that they actually need our real estate,” Kurland said.

“They’re building a new School of Engineering building right behind us. And with the new NextGen project getting 4,500 new students – and so many of them being STEM – not only do they need this real estate for the engineering program, with 4,500 new students we’re going to need new space.”

Kurland said Student Health Services’ current space, a 25,000 square foot brick building built in 1950, is architecturally and functionally unfit for the role it plays on campus. Its lack of sufficient waiting room space can lead to healthy students coming to Student Health Services for routine physicals sitting next to

students infected with the flu and other highly-contagious, communicable diseases, something that doesn’t happen in normal doctor’s offices.

“You don’t want to mix really sick people with well people, people who are coming in for physicals,” Kurland said. “You don’t want them with people who have the flu and all of these communicable things. Up until two years ago we had no waiting rooms.

Most people sit out in the hall outside of their provider’s office. That never happens in the real world.

We have one waiting room but it probably only sits 12 people.”

Kurland said that due to the abundance of asbestos in the walls, the building undergoing extensive renovations to remedy its haphazard configuration is out of the question.

“The building just doesn’t really work so much anymore,” Kurland said.

Kurland said that in most doctor’s offices, each doctor or nurse practitioner has their own office separate from the exam rooms, allowing them to circulate between two or more exam rooms and see a higher volume of patients in a shorter amount of time. But in Student Health Services’ current configuration, each doctor can only see one patient at a time, causing a major drag on efficiency.

“It’s a really inefficient way that we’re seeing patients, and we could see a lot more with the same number of providers but maybe a different configuration, having more ancillary staff with them,”

Kurland said. “You have doctors and physicians with huge offices who don’t need them. It’s not an efficient use of resources.”

Kurland said Student Health Services’ doctors and nurse practitioners work in enormous spaces that serve a dual function as both an office and an exam room, complete with a desk on one side and an exam table on the other, another anomaly in the primary care world.

Students are forced to wait in rows of chairs in the hallway outside of their provider’s office, instead of in normal waiting rooms like those found in most doctors’ offices.

“In an efficient medical practice, you have each nurse practitioner or physician operating out of at least two exam rooms. And normally they’ll have two exam rooms side-by-side and a consult room,” Kurland said. “So one patient is getting ready, the other one is finishing up, and if your physician needs to see you it can be in the consult room.”

UConn students William Richardson and Abby Mace said they share Kurland’s concerns regarding the problems facing Student Health Services in its current space. Mace, a sophomore, said she goes to Student Health Services four to six times a year to get her iron tested, and that the abundance of check-in areas in the building adds to its confusing arrangement.

“Doctor’s offices, when you go in, it seems like you walk into a waiting room, and the staff

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TOP: Student Health Services, known as the Infirmary among many UConn students,is shown in this file photo. BOTTOM: Arjona, the new location for Counseling and Mental Health Services, is pictured. The CMHS program was moved out of the SHS building last year.

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we’re looking at temperatures into the upper 50s and mid-60s. The snow’s not going to all melt away all at once. By next week, we’ll be back down to normal and below normal temperatures.”

The storm brought “thundersnow” to Pittsburgh and areas northeast of the city. Pennsylvania Turnpike officials reduced speed limits along the entire 360-mile highway system but later lifted most of them.

By midday, the weather service said parts of western Pennsylvania had gotten about 6 inches of snow, with 3 inches falling at Philadelphia International Airport and 2 inches outside New York City. The latest storm came days after the Southeast and Northeast were paralyzed with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.

It was expected to drop 3 to 5 inches of snow on Boston, with 6 to 10 inches forecast for parts of Northern New England, before moving out late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Many schools in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine canceled for the day or planned early dismissals, and New

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Hampshire reduced the speed limit on all of its highways to 45 mph.

School cancellations were not an issue in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, where most schools have a February break this week, though the University of Connecticut canceled classes beginning after 2 p.m. at both its Storrs and Greater Hartford campuses.

“I’m ready for it to end,” said Bill Long, 50, of Abington, Mass., as he waited in line for lunch at a Boston food truck. “It’s a pain to come home from work and have to dig out my driveway.”

Relief is in sight.

On Monday, several inches of snow fell across the Great Lakes, causing Chicago’s two airports to cancel more than 1,000 flights. In Michigan, crashes closed portions of Interstate 96 in Grand Rapids and the Muskegon area saw whiteout conditions.

Last week, about 1.2 million utility customers lost power as the storm marched from the South through the Northeast. Schools, businesses and government offices closed. The storm was blamed for at least 25 deaths stretching from Texas to Maine.

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People wait in line at a food truck in Boston as snow from the latest storm to hit the area begins to fall, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. After this week’s blast of winter weather, things will finally start to look a little warmer.

Conn. journalist sues police Sixty-year-old student health who questioned drone use services building to be replaced HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Hartford police officers violated his free-speech rights by questioning his use of a remotecontrolled aircraft to record images of a car wreck.

Pedro Rivera asked a federal court to weigh in on the appropriate uses for aerial drones as policymakers try to catch up with technology that has made them far more versatile.

His complaint says that officers demanded that Rivera stop flying the remote-controlled aircraft, asked him to leave the area and told his employer that he had interfered with a police investigation.

“I told them I was there on my personal time,” said Rivera, who was suspended for a week from his on-call job with a Connecticut television station. “They went to my employer and caused a lot of problems for me and my job.”

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court against the Hartford Police Department, seeks damages for Rivera but also asks the court to declare that he did not break any laws by operating the 2 1/2-pound, four-rotor aircraft above the scene of the fatal Feb. 1 wreck. It says that Rivera

made clear he was not working for the television station, WFSB-TV, although he acknowledged that he occasionally sent the video feed from his drone to the station.

“The suit is as much about trying to make sure police officers don’t legislate from the beat as it is about getting a court to weigh in and say what the standards are,” said Norm Pattis, the attorney for Rivera.

Rivera, 29, of Hartford, argues in the lawsuit that police violated his First Amendment right to free expression as well as his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures. Although his device was hovering at an altitude of 150 feet, he said he was operating in public space and observing events that were in plain view.

Lt. Brian Foley, a Hartford police spokesman who is named as a defendant in the suit, said he could not comment on pending litigation.

Foley said earlier this month that police questioned Rivera but said officers did not ask him to ground the drone. At the time, he said the only concerns for police were for the safety of the officers and the privacy of the victim,

whose body was left hanging out of a mangled car.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating Rivera’s use of an aerial drone, has discouraged their use for commercial purposes, including journalism.

A law passed by Congress two years ago requires the FAA to integrate unmanned aircraft of all sizes into the domestic airspace by late 2015, but it’s clear the agency won’t meet that deadline. The FAA has been working for more than four years on regulations to permit small drones — those weighing less than 55 pounds — to be used for commercial purposes, but it repeatedly has missed deadlines for proposing those regulations.

Last month, the FAA again moved back the date it expects to propose those regulations to November of this year. Even then, it will be just a proposal. It takes months and often years before proposed regulations become final.

The FAA is tackling small drones that are flown under about 400 feet — below where most manned aircraft fly — first because they’re the easiest. Regulations to permit commercial use of larger drones are even further behind.

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is friendly and knowledgeable and there to help you,” Mace said. “And then in (Student Health Services) you go in and there’s a check-in and there’s another check-in down the hall, and I know that to go to the mini lab there’s a check-in downstairs. So it’s just very disorganized, and it seems like (the check-in rooms) need to be consolidated so they have one check-in room.”

Richardson, also a sophomore, said that on the occasions he has visited Student Health Services due to broken bones and bruises, he has gotten lost and waited in the wrong waiting area for 30 minutes before being directed to the right one.

“I think Student Health Services needs a major update,” Richardson said. “The building itself is really old. Every time I go in, I feel like it’s from a horror movie. It’s just really, really old and it’s kind of easy to get lost in if you don’t know where you’re going.”

Richardson said that at a time when UConn is attempting to elevate its national profile through a variety of initiatives – including campus-wide landscaping improvements and

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The current student health services building is shown in this 2012 file photo. With an expected influx of new students, administration has decided to gear some state bond money to rebuilding it.

a branding overhaul – Student Health Services’ building remains a relic of the past.

“It’s time for a change,” Richardson said. “Everything about the university is changing – the logo, the construc-

tion over by the (School of Business) building. I think that if you have the money and the funds and the availability to (construct a new space), why

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This Feb. 1, 2014 photo, taken by a camera mounted on a drone aircraft and provided by Pedro Rivera, shows an auto that crashed into a building in Hartford, Conn. Rivera filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, alleging that Hartford police officers violated his rights by demanding he stop using the aircraft to record images of the wreck.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut on Tuesday became the 15th state to allow residents to register online to vote.

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by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill, was part of the legislative package the two state officials proposed in 2012 to make it easier for people to cast their ballots.

“This is a reform that many of us wanted for many years,” Merrill said.

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Merrill estimates about 200,000 people are eligible but unregistered voters in Connecticut. She said many of them likely have driver’s licenses and would be able to use the new system.

The state of Connecticut website — www.ct.gov — has a link to the voter registration feature as do other state agencies.

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Explaining U.S. lethal injection drug shortage

BRUSSELS (AP) — There’s one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won’t allow the drugs to be exported because of its fierce hostility to capital punishment.

The phenomenon started nine years ago when the EU banned the export of products used for execution, citing its goal to be the “leading institutional actor and largest donor to the fight against the death penalty.” But beefed up European rules mean the results are being most strongly felt in the United States now, with shortages becoming chronic and controversial executions making headlines.

In Ohio last month, Dennis McGuire took 26 minutes to die after a previously untested mix of chemicals began flowing into his body, gasping repeatedly as he lay on a gurney. On Jan. 9, Oklahoma inmate Michael Lee Wilson’s last words were: “I feel my whole body burning.”

The dilemma again grabbed national attention this week when an Oklahoma pharmacy agreed Monday to refrain from supplying an execution drug to the Missouri Department of Corrections for an upcoming lethal injection. Death row inmate Michael Taylor’s representatives had argued in a lawsuit that recent executions involving the drug pentobarbital would likely cause “inhumane pain” — and, ahead of a hearing set for Tuesday, The Apothecary Shoppe said it would not provide the drug.

EU nations are notorious for disagreeing on just about everything when it comes to common policy, but they all strongly — and proudly — agree on one thing: abolishing capital punishment.

Europe saw totalitarian regimes abuse the death penalty as recently as the 20th century, and public opinion across the bloc is therefore staunchly opposed to it.

The EU’s uncompromising stance has set off a cat-andmouse game, with U.S. corrections departments devising new ways to carry out lethal injections only to hit updated export restrictions within months.

“Our political task is to push for an abolition of the death penalty, not facilitate its procedure,” said Barba Lochbihler, chairwoman of the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights.

Europe’s tough stance has

caused U.S. states to start experimenting with new drug mixtures, even though convicts’ lawyers and activists argue they increase the risk of painful prolonged death and may violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In an upcoming execution in Louisiana, the state is set to follow Ohio’s example in using the untested drug cocktail used in McGuire’s execution.

It changed its execution protocol last week to use Ohio’s two-drug combination because it could no longer procure pentobarbital, a powerful sedative.

The execution was scheduled for February, but was stayed pending a federal judge’s examination in April regarding whether the state can proceed with the plan to execute Christopher Sepulvado, convicted in the 1992 killing of his 6-year-old stepson.

In 2010, Louisiana switched from the established threedrug protocol to a one-drug pentobarbital lethal injection, but eventually that drug also became unavailable because of European pressure.

“The lethal injection that they are using now in certain states has never been tested, verified, let alone been approved for executions,” said Maya Foa of Reprieve, a London-based charity fighting the death penalty. “This amounts to using humans as guinea pigs. No doctor would ever do that.”

Ohio prosecutors counter that condemned inmates are not entitled to a pain-free execution under the Constitution.

Even if the effect of the two drugs used by Ohio “presents some inherent risk of discomfort, that does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment,” Christopher Conomy, an assistant Ohio attorney general, argued in court documents last month.

The U.S. execution dilemma goes back to 2005, when the EU restricted exports of goods “for the purpose of capital punishment or for the purpose of torture.” That ban includes items such as electric chairs and lethal injection systems.

The drug shortage then started biting in 2010 when Hospira Inc., the sole U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental, a sedative that is part of the normal three-drug mixture, stopped production. A few months later, Hospira dropped plans to produce it in Italy because the government there asked for guarantees that it would never be used in executions.

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National shortage of execution drugs becomes more critical ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the bad publicity and the legal and ethical risks.

The scarcity of drugs for lethal injections has forced states to scramble for substitutes. And experts say that whatever alternatives are found will almost certainly face costly court challenges made more complicated by laws that cloak the process in secrecy.

On Monday, the Tulsa, Okla.based compounding pharmacy the Apothecary Shoppe agreed to stop selling pentobarbital to the Missouri Department of Corrections after the pharmacy was named in a lawsuit filed by death row inmate Michael Taylor alleging that the drug could cause “inhumane pain.”

Missouri previously paid $8,000 in cash for each dose of the drug. The settlement will probably mean changing delicate execution procedures just a week before Taylor is scheduled to die for raping and killing a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989. Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that Missouri is prepared to carry out the Feb. 26 execution but declined to elaborate.

Messages left with spokesmen for the corrections department were not returned. The Apothecary Shoppe declined interview requests or to answer emailed questions.

Missouri, like many states, is reluctant to divulge much information about how, or where, it obtains lethal injection drugs, citing the privacy rights of the supplier.

Lethal injection has faced increasing scrutiny over the past decade. Major drug makers, many of them based in Europe with longtime opposition to the death penalty, have stopped selling to prisons and corrections departments. The source of the drugs is moving to the forefront of the death penalty debate.

Compounding pharmacies — which custom-mix prescription drugs for doctors and patients — seemed like the answer. They are generally overseen by state boards, not the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, although a law adopted last year allows larger compounding pharmacies to register with the FDA and submit to federal inspections.

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The lethal injection bed used in the “Old Main,” the retired Southern part of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, is shown in this June 2012 photo. A recent shortage of the drugs used to perform lethal injections has haulted capital punishment procedures and sparked national controversy.

But now, some compounding pharmacies are starting to back away, too.

Experts say they’re not surprised, given the limited profit in selling execution drugs, ethical concerns in the medical profession, potential legal costs and unwanted publicity.

“This is not a good business model for compounding pharmacies, to be making drugs for executions, particularly with all the secret ways they’re doing it,” Fordam Law School professor Deborah Denno said.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washingtonbased Death Penalty Information Center, agreed.

“I’m sure they’ve never had such publicity,” Dieter said.

“They must be wondering what they got themselves into.”

In Texas, the nation’s most active death-penalty state, where 510 lethal injections have been carried out since 1982, the supply of pentobarbital may be running low.

After Wo o d l a n d s Compounding Pharmacy near Houston was revealed in October as the supplier for Texas, the pharmacy asked the state Department of Criminal Justice to return unused vials.

The state refused to do so.

The state’s existing supply expires April 1. Texas has two executions scheduled for March and five others after the expiration date.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said in a statement last week that the agency “continues to explore all options, including the continued use of pentobarbital or an alternate drug(s) in the lethal injection process.”

The Woodlands pharmacy did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Ohio’s lethal injection policy, like those in Missouri and Texas, calls for a single dose of pentobarbital. The state was unable to obtain pentobarbital for the past two executions, instead using a backup, two-drug combination of the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone.

That combination was used to kill Dennis McGuire on Jan. 16 in an execution that raised new concerns. McGuire took 26 minutes to die, snorting, gasping and repeatedly opening and shutting his mouth as the drugs took effect.

Despite the concerns in Ohio, Missouri may be going to a similar backup plan.

A top corrections official, Dave Dormire, said last month in a deposition that Missouri has obtained midazolam and hydromorphone. The state revised its execution protocol to allow a combination of those two drugs to be used if “the department director determines that a sufficient quantity of pentobarbital is not available, or at any time the available pentobarbital is

deemed unusable.”

Taylor’s legal team asked the U.S. District Court in Kansas City for a stay of execution Tuesday, citing concerns that the two-drug combination, never used in Missouri, could cause pain and suffering for the inmate. Messages left with attorneys John Simon and Matt Larson were not returned.

Some death-penalty states are well-stocked. Mississippi has not executed a prisoner since June 2012, but the state has an adequate supply of execution drugs, spokeswoman Tara Booth said.

Oklahoma uses a three-drug combination of pentobarbital, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. The state has “plenty” of each of the drugs, including 10 doses of pentobarbital, according to Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie.

The state will have “no problem” finding new stock when that supply runs low, Massie said, though he did not elaborate.

Like Missouri, Texas and other states, Oklahoma does not disclose the source of its drugs.

Dieter said most states will struggle to find drugs for executions.

“That is going to continue to be a conflict,” he said. “There’s no nice way to kill people, and this is part of that dilemma that the death penalty presents.”

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Michigan slow to respond to football player misconduct

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few weeks ago, the student newspaper at the University of Michigan, The Michigan Daily, broke a story about former kicker for the Michigan football team, Brendan Gibbons. Gibbons had been “permanently separated” from the university following a violation involving sexual misconduct. However, the misconduct in question was a violation that was reported to have occurred on November 22, 2009, a little over four years ago.

Despite the violation, Gibbons remained kicker for the team and has only now been reprimanded by the university. Additionally, following the publication of the report, The Michigan Daily was not invited to a press conference for football coach Brady Hoke. Many writers took to Twitter in response, saying they felt it was due to the article and how it had put the university in a negative light.

The issue with this story is two-fold. First and foremost, it was wrong of the University of Michigan to have such a delayed response to Gibbons’ violation. If the administration knew about the incident back in 2009, it should not have taken over four years for punishment to be levied. Hoke stated that Michigan Athletics has no bearing on a review of a potential code of conduct violation and that they do not take disciplinary action until the university process has taken its course. However, this does not change the fact that no action was taken, by whichever part of the university was responsible for such matters, until Gibbons became a graduate student.

The other issue is how the newspaper was not invited to the press conference. Though it is difficult to prove that this was done intentionally in response to the published article, rather than a simple clerical error or genuine forgetfulness, it brings up the issue of the relationship between a college and its student newspaper.

The newspaper is not something that should be used as a PR machine for the school; especially considering it is financially independent from the university. Its job is not to make the school look good, or even to make them look bad. Its job, and the job of any newspaper, is to report the news. And these students should not be getting punished for doing their job.

No but... I really have been in the InstantDaily over 100 times.

I am probably the only person on this campus who cares how Latvia does in the Olympics.

Snow days, snow days. Sure waited until the last minute on this one.

“I wasn’t gonna get out of bed until they cancelled classes. Because if I did get up and they didn’t cancel, that means I would have no good reason not to go.”

I only have class Tuesday and Thursday. If I had known I was gonna have a spring break in the middle of February, I would have booked a trip to Aruba or something...

“A 12-year-old boy works a 15 hour day in an unregulated factory. You won’t believe what happens next! He dies of influenza.” - BuzzFeed, 1924 If you have a LinkedIn app on your phone... I’m judgin’ Are you in the Illuminati?

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The Digest’s slow and painful death

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hat is the world’s highest circulation magazine worth? About $1.50, apparently. On Monday, the UK edition of Reader’s Digest was sold for just one £1.

The classic waiting room magazine was and still is part of a formidable empire.

10.5 million people worldwide subscribe to Reader’s Digest, more than any other paid publication. Each issue reaches more than 40 million people. There are 49 editions in 21 languages, including braille, audio, digital and large type editions.

To be clear, though, only the UK edition, which has a circulation of about 200,000,

By Kristi Allen was sold on Associate Commentary Editor M o n d a y .

R e a d e r ’s Digest is still owned by the RDA Holding Company and split into many different divisions around the world.

Many other once great publications have crashed and burned in recent years (Newsweek, Spin, US News and World Report), but Reader’s Digest is unique.

How can a piece of a service with 10 million subscribers be worth less than a cup of coffee?

To add another layer of complexity, Reader’s Digest UK was worth millions just four years ago. The US Reader’s Digest parent company was in dire financial straits in 2009 and filed for bankruptcy protection during a restructuring meant to reduce their $2 billion (yes, billion) debt burden. The UK arm of the company couldn’t get approval for a buyout of their underfunded pension plan, so the magazine

was put into administration.

Even then, the Guardian reported that the owners of RD received more than 100 ‘expressions of interest’ in the ailing publication. It was eventually sold to Better Capital, a well-known private equity firm run by Jon Moulton, for £13 million. Moulton invested another £9 million into Reader’s Digest, but it failed to turn a profit and he decided to take the £23 million loss, telling in the Guardian that restructured magazine was now “too small” for his business.

Perhaps the reason so many were willing to invest serious money in what looked like a doomed business was because of the long history and name recognition of Reader’s Digest. It’s one of the most defining publications, in the history of American media.

DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila founded the magazine in 1922 while he was recovering from wounds sustained during WWI. Their first office was located under a Greenwich Village speakeasy during prohibition. The original format for Reader’s Digest was 31 articles (one for every day of the month) compiled and often condensed from other publications and a few pages of funny stories and anecdotes sprinkled in between. It was wildly successful.

During the 1940’s, only the Bible outsold Reader’s Digest (and RD produced their own condensed version and presented it to Pope John Paul II in 1982). Wallace was editor for more than 40 years and his strong conservative, anti-communist political leanings made the publication so popular in mid century America. The Wallaces were heavily supportive of Richard Nixon, and Nixon repaid their campaign contributions and editorial support by presenting them with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1972.

Their magazine famously published the first article linking cancer and smoking.

The Wallaces also had an impressive art collection. The man who made his for-

tunes condensing literature for the masses decorated his offices with Renoirs and van Goghs.

The UK Reader’s Digest’s new owner Mike Luckwell is a 71-year-old venture capitalist whose previous hits have included the production company responsible for “Bob the Builder.” He says he will be targeting “frisky over-50’s” with the restructured magazine. The Guardian quoted him and saying that he and his peers “all have fairly active and interesting lives and we’re not a bunch of old fuddy-duddies.”

Regardless, Reader’s Digest will be hard to resurrect. The UK Reader’s Digest is struggling with mismanagement and the legal mess of bankruptcy. Even though it has the highest number of subscribers of any magazine in the world, advertising has fallen. Subscriptions didn’t usually generate the bulk of income for publications, and even though Reader’s Digest still sells well in many countries, there are better places for advertisers to spend their money.

Reader’s Digest has come a long way from their Cold War glory days, and it looks like their era is over. Tellingly, the highest circulation paper in the US is currently AARP The Magazine, a freebie that comes with AARP membership. No one, not even Luckwell’s “frisky over 50’s”, pays for print publications anymore. Luckwell himself admitted he had never subscribed to the magazine and had last picked one up “in the doctor’s surgery some years back”, according to the Guardian.

Reader’s Digest is a dinosaur and if Luckwell can get it to turn a profit, it will be a miracle, but it’s probably already extinct and will soon be history.

 Kristi.Allen@UConn.edu  4th-semester journalism and geography

Same-sex marriage should be left to the states

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ast Thursday, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The author of the opinion, Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen, wrote, “Our Constitution declares that ‘all men’ are created equal. Surely this means all of us.” It is worth noting that the expression

By Brian McCarty Judge Allen refers to is Staff Columnist found in the Declaration of Independence, not the United States Constitution. Regardless, Judge Allen’s interpretation of the Constitution in this case reflects an unfortunate misunderstanding of both our founding document and our system of government.

Judge Allen found Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage to be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, a vessel the federal judiciary has too commonly used to invade the reserved rights of the states. In fact, the Fourteenth Amendment itself is of questionable validity due to the circumstances of its ratification. In order to obtain the required three-quarter majority of states necessary for ratification, the federal government made ratification of the

amendment a requirement for the Southern states to regain representation in Congress subsequent to their defeat in the Civil War. This, compounded with the unprecedented degree of control the federal government had over Southern state legislatures at the time, resulted in a forced ratification. As the principle of consent is at the heart of ratification, “forced ratification” is a farcical oxymoron inconsistent with our federal system. However, presuming the Fourteenth Amendment was properly enacted, it still does not lead to Judge Allen’s conclusions.

Judge Allen determined Virginia’s ban to be in violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The clauses together read, “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The due process clause, adapted from the Fifth Amendment was intended to insure that all people, including the newly freed slaves, would have the right to “due process of law”, or fair legal proceedings, whenever the government attempted to take away the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and property. The guarantee

of this clause is due process of law, not liberty. However, in recent decades many have found substantive rights in this clause, specific liberties so fundamental that, even with due process of law, cannot be taken away.

Judge Allen believes the right of same-sex couples to marry to be one of these liberties. The drafters of this clause never intended for the federal judiciary to determine what sacred and fundamental liberties states cannot deny. They only sought to guarantee a legal process to all when certain rights were threatened.

However, “due process of law” was not enough for the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment because the legal process was applied unequally to different persons. For example, in many Southern states, blacks could not present evidence or be witnesses, and often received harsher punishments than whites for similar crimes. The equal protection clause was meant to ensure that every person would be treated equally in the legal process. Judge Allen maintains that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violates their right to equal protection of the laws. The clause was not meant to create new substantive rights, but to make sure that the legal proceedings previously guaranteed in the due process clause were applied equally to all.

Decisions such as the one issued by Judge Allen are dangerous because they severely undermine the principles of federalism and ratification. When a state ratifies the Constitution or a subsequent amendment, they are consenting to delegate some of their sovereign rights to a common agent, the federal government. Any rights not delegated by ratification are retained by the states. No person could honestly claim that the states that ratified the Fourteenth Amendment intended to surrender their right to legislate on same-sex marriage.

Therefore, since three-fourths of the states have never surrendered this power, by necessity, they still retain it. Evolving social conditions do not empower the federal judiciary to claim powers not delegated to it and contravene the wishes of a state as expressed by its legislature. As similar decisions have recently been issued by federal judges in Utah and Oklahoma, it is almost certain the Supreme Court will have to issue a ruling in the near future. Hopefully, it will affirm the constitutional principle that unless three-fourths of the states say otherwise, this issue is to be decided by the people of the

 Brian.McCarty@UConn.edu  4th-semester political science

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Human interaction the focus of Student Union art exhibit

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer The result of a new exhibit showcased at the Student Union Art Gallery was exactly what the name called for: Human Interactions.

At the opening reception of the exhibit on Tuesday evening, many gathered to take in the works created and displayed

by UConn students. Filled with chatter, picture taking and food, the event cultivated human interaction and connection.

The new exhibit features the works of eleven artists who strive to make the intangible, tangible. It centers on the small and large interactions we make every day and tries to embody the spontaneity of these connections, and everything that they are subjected to.

Viewers gently treaded the floor strewn with black balloons, taking their time to fully understand the art displayed on all four walls and sculptures installed on the floor, which were illuminated by the warmth of blinking Christmas lights along the back wall. Even through the many conversations between those catching up after a long time and those that traveled to the show together, music from a playlist including The White Stripes and The Pixies played from a speaker system set up along a wall, near a table filled with sliced cheeses, crackers and dispensers filled with iced tea.

There was no awkwardness in standing closely with a stranger while taking the time to appreciate the works presented. The

subject matter for each piece was such that every person could relate and interact with the piece as well as each other.

Some works focused on the presence and absence of people.

“I am always drawn to places that are void of human life,” Ariel Maronich said in her abstract for her artwork. With pictures of an abandoned gas station, alleyway, and garage, she describes how it doesn’t matter whether a person left the place ten minutes ago or ten years ago; their presence always leaves an imprint.

Marisa Lewon’s works don the words “Are you awake,” “I can’t sleep,” and “it’s been a year and I am just starting to miss you.” She described her art as “focusing on this idea of longing for things to be different, or not happen in the first place, or a way to erase time.”

She asked viewers to share with her any regret by writing it in a piece of paper, putting it in a balloon, and blowing it uphence the black balloons all over the floor.

Marissa Stanton focused on reminders, familial memories, and grieving while creating her pieces based off the poem and painting titled “Finding Stephanie.” She explained how there may be many little reminders to “take the trash out” and do other chores that are written in words, but it’s things like the scent of perfumes that brings back memories of lost ones.

Artists Ashley Futo and Matthew Montana McIntosh chose scientific approaches to their subjects. Futo used mathematical concepts and transferred

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The new art exhibit at the Student Union features the diverse work of 11 student artists on the theme of human interaction.

them to art forms while focusing on geometry and the degrees of curve and proportion in her sculpture. McIntosh’s subject matter was that of streamlined technology in modern agriculture and the breakdown of Americanisms including the ideas of Manifest Destiny and the Old West. He focused on the relationships between humans and animals, especially the human characteristics of animals.

A number of others shared the theme of body appreciation.

Famed singer, activist and actor, Harry Belafonte visits UConn

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American singer, actor and activist, Harry Belafonte came to UConn for an evening of song and discussion. A humanitarian who was been recognized by President Clinton, Belafonte received the Nelson Mandela Courage Award. He is an active member of UNICEF and USA for Africa.

Rebecca Uliasz created photographs of her own hands clutching at her skin in a collection titled, “About Self.” She wrote about exposing one’s self by trying to have a voice and all the difficulties that present themselves when expressing yourself so intimately through art.

Chris Ortega, whose photography is in the exhibit, said his project began as a photography assignment that focused on light and paper. Inspired by the Slut Walk Movement, Ortega asked some female friends to write

what they thought of themselves on a piece of paper, and then the names they have been called on a separate sheet. The pictures play with light, words and expressions in black and white.

Ransom Waring said to his audience that, “remembering to be nice to yourself and respect your body can sometimes be hard but in the end it is worth it.”

The exhibit is open until March 1 and located on the third floor of the Student Union.

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Rainbow Center seminar sheds light on the challenge of dating in LGBTQ communities LGBT community, and De Castro explained which apps are best for different types of relationships.

“Grindr is the most popular gay While dating is a compliapp on the market right now,” cated practice for many college said De Castro, speaking about students, it can be particularly challenging for those who aren’t the somewhat infamous GPSready to make assumptions about enabled app that allows men to locate other men in their area. their peers’ sexual orientations.

“Love Guru: LGBT Edition” Other than relative distance given attempted to answer some ques- in anything from miles to feet, not tions many students have about a lot of information can be shared meeting people and finding out by users.

Other apps and sites De Castro whether or not their sexual orienmentioned were “OkCupid”, tations are compatible. which is for peo“In the LGBT ple of all genders community, it’s hard to meet peo- “In the LGBT com- and sexual orientations who are ple because ‘gay’ looking to share or ‘lesbian’ isn’t munity, it’s hard more informawritten on your to meet people tion about themface,” said 4thselves and persemester com- because ‘gay’ or haps form deeper munication major ‘lesbian’ isn’t writconnections, and Lucas De Castro, “Brenda”, which who hosted the ten on your face.” is somewhat event. De Castro like Grindr but is a facilitator for towards Among Men, a -Lucas De Castro focused women. group within the Even with all of Rainbow Center the social media that hosted the options available, people at the event Monday afternoon.

Among Men is a group within discussion said that they genthe Rainbow Center where men erally preferred meeting people can meet and confidentially speak in-person than on social media. about sexuality, politics, music, Some said that this was because they’re more outgoing, while othfamily, relationships and more.

DeCastro explained that while ers feel that they’re awkward on some LGBT relationships begin social media.

However, students also agreed at places such as LGBT-specific that social media can be helpful clubs or cultural centers, they can also begin through friendships for members of underrepresented made in classes, sports teams and communities who want to find people similar to themselves. student organizations.

In general, students found There are no sure-fire ways to tell a person’s sexual orienta- that they could meet and form tion by looking at him or her. relationships with people just by However, De Castro said that doing what they love, trying new rainbow gear could indicate that a things and getting involved with person is a member of the LGBT clubs, whether they be geared towards LGBT people or not. community, or is at least an ally.

“The more you immerse yourHe also suggested paying close self in different spheres, the more attention to body language, and simply engaging in conversation. likely you are to meet people,” “As much information as you tell said eighth-semester electrisomeone, they will tell you back,” cal engineering major, Amanda Sweat.

De Castro said.

Online dating is becoming a more popular option for everyone, including the members of the Molly.Miller@UConn.edu

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Objectifying sexual orientation

By Imaani Cain Campus Correspondent I don’t know how many times I’ve been around various male friends, most of whom, at some point of time, have found it necessary to tell me that they find any sort of “girl-on-girl” action attractive. This does not include actual lesbian relationships, or at least not including femme lesbians or bisexual women, who are very often viewed as not being “really” gay, but merely experimenting. Katy Perry’s bubblegum pop song, “I Kissed a Girl” only served to add fuel to the fire; in order to titillate men, only a bit of faux-lesbianism needs to be practiced. This was, of course, done only under the influence and in view of other people.

Lesbian pornography serves only to perpetuate this. There, the girls cater to a particular brand of lesbianism—they are shaven clean, doe-eyed and utterly feminine. There are no butches or genderqueer people to speak of, at least there aren’t in mainstream porn.

The actresses are cisgender, without any ambiguity, and enthusiastically acting out their sexual desires for the benefit of a heterosexual male audience. It’s painfully obvious that the entirety of it is catered to a male gaze. It even occurs in regular film.

“Jennifer’s Body” and “Blue is the Warmest Color” are both incredibly uncomfortable examples of exploiting queer women for a profit.

It puts women in an uncomfortable position as a whole.

Female sexuality is seen as existing solely for male consumption, and protesting otherwise becomes indicative of being a sourpuss. Refusing to kiss another woman in front of an expectant crowd denounces one’s possible queerness—you can’t be queer because you won’t kiss in front of men. The idea that one might be quietly queer, aware from spectatorship, is almost unfathomable. Women are encouraged only to be queer for an audience, for the sake of eager fetishization. On the other hand, gay men are expected to keep their relationship mum so that people don’t become uncomfortable. It’s a ridiculous standard to which no one benefits, except for straight men.

I remember a friend once asking me in high school about a couple of queer ladies I was friends with. “Which one’s the guy?” he asked, to which I responded that the entire point was that no one was male in their partnership. “Someone’s always the guy,” he told me. This is very similar to male homosexual relationships. Comedian David Sedaris recounts in one of his memoirs that an acquaintance asked him who was the woman in his relationship. Lesbian sex is frequently dismissed as “fake” sex, that unless there is a penis jabbing into you, it isn’t genuine or pleasurable at all. It’s a bit sad if that’s what is considered as proper sex these days, to be honest.

It seems that a mass education is definitely required.

Imaani.Cain@UConn.edu

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It’s brutally hard but oh so satisfying to knock out the bigger opponents.

Not to mention each of them portrays a hilarious stereotype. From Glass Joe to Bald Bull, the characters remain memorable to this day both for being either incredibly easy or difficult but for their hilarious and cheesy phrases which each would highlight each match up.

“Punch-Out!!” is one of those games thats stood the test of time. Is it nearly as complex as the modern fighting title? No and it doesn’t have to be. It knows what works and what doesn’t.

I guarantee the title is still as fun today as it was 20 years ago .

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By Zach Lederman Staff Writer

It seems that poor Red will never be the Pokémon master like he always wanted. Instead, he seems to have taken ill with a curious disease–some form of schizophrenia, perhaps? He seems to find himself wandering around in circles, acting erratically, the voices in his head screaming to move in different directions and act in ways that make no sense.

However, we know the truth; we know that he’s really suffering from a bad case of Twitch.TV. Last week, some brilliant, anonymous mind had an idea: What if thousands of players all played the same game at the exact same time? What would happen? To try it out, he picked a game that didn’t require a lot of reaction time and featured turned based-gameplay.

The game was “Pokémon: Red Version.” So, whoever this man is, set things up so that the entire Internet could play a single game of “Pokémon: Red Version.”

To do this, he set up the game via an emulator to allow it to be streamed on Twitch.TV, a popular video game streaming site, which allows viewers to watch and comment on people playing popular games, such as “League of Legends” and “World of Warcraft.” He then programmed a bot to read and analyze all comments that corresponded to the

controls on a standard Game Boy (A, B, Up, Down, Start, Select, etc.). Anytime a commenter says one of these specific commands, the bot inputs it into the game.

The results have been amusing, to say the least. In addition, the game has two modes, anarchy and democracy. In anarchy mode, every single input is recorded and acted upon, while in democracy mode, all moves must be voted on.

Poor Red (the playable character), as I stated earlier, has been absolutely lost. He’s spent minutes walking into walls, trying to use key items in battles, talking to the same people and releasing his Pokémon. Encounters and areas that should have taken at most a few minutes to clear have taken hours. A game that usually runs about 10-12 hours has now gone on for nearly six days of playtime.

As an avid “Pokémon” player myself, it couldn’t be more hilarious; not that everything is funny, however. I was quite sad when his Ratatta, “ABBBBBBK,” and Charmeleon, “JLWWNNOOOO,” were released. They were named by players in a frenzy of button mashing, hence the rather bizarre names.

The entire scenario is, of the author’s own admission, a social experiment. Exactly what he’s testing is somewhat unclear, as not much other information has been released. Whatever the case, the stream has been an amazing

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After a live stream of the game on TwitchTV, where users could input commands by commenting on the video, ‘Pokémon: Red’ took a turn for the worse.

success. It’s already spawned countless memes (including memorializing the aforementioned released Pokémon), a subreddit, fansites and analysis by countless websites, including Joystiq and Kotaku. The stream has already boasted a record 78,000 simultaneous users, an incredibly high number for any stream.

That being said, I really wish I knew more about what the author’s hypothesis was in starting this experiment. Whatever it was, people really have come

together to work towards a common goal here. We may be making incredibly slow progress, but the fact that we’re making any at all should still be considered an achievement in and of itself.

Maybe sometimes the Internet can come together as one, instead of users doing everything in their power to ruin each other’s days.

friend Riley, another young girl only mentioned in the main campaign, the pair embark on an adventure that while short, is no less memorable than the one-of-akind title that preceded it.

One of the most fun things in the DLC is seeing how these two young kids act in the devastated society they were born into. Despite the constant threat of danger and certain death, the characters manage to spend time goofing off as if they were normal, for example, taking pictures together in a photo booth.

The bond between them extends to the gameplay as well. The game becomes noticeably tenser when the pair splits up, mentally affecting your ability to play.

Since Ellie isn’t the strong hardened brute that Joel is, you have to use your wits and surroundings better than ever before.

For fans of stealth this is a welcome change but other might be perturbed. That said, in a certain sequence Ellie is actually forced to eliminate all enemies to continue, which I found both a tedious and unnecessary addition. Others in the game also feel as though the fighting is “forced.” But then again, I’m sure we’d be in uproar if the DLC lacked any combat at all.

Additionally, the game features a mingling of zombies and human soldiers unseen in the original game, where the trick is to pit the two against each other

and away from you.

The plot is exceptionally well written, and is filled with many of the same jaw dropping moments that made the first game so memorable (although I won’t ruin them for you here).

Additionally, while the DLC is superbly crafted, I can’t help but regret that I paid $15 for what amounts to less than a three hour (admittedly spectacular) story experience. Its a common criticism of mine, and I stand by it.

“The Last of Us: Left Behind” is a prime example of story DLC done right. It compliments, not extends, the main game and mixes things up just enough to make things not feel stale. Despite a few minor shortcomings, it’s a must buy for fans of the game and one of the finest story DLCs around.

addictive game, “FarmVille.”

Founded in 2002, King only decided to go public once “Candy Crush” had achieved the pinnacle of popularity. But several analysts say any comparisons between King and Zynga are unfair — to both companies.

“They have been around longer and are much larger,” said John Fitzgibbon, the founder of IPOScoop.com. “Why go public? Because they can.”

King is five years older than San Francisco’s Zynga, and thanks largely to in-app purchases people make while playing “Candy Crush,” the company generated 2013 revenue of $1.88 billion, more than 10 times its 2012 revenue of $164.4 million. Zynga’s 2013 revenue, meanwhile, was $873.3 million, down from $1.28 billion in 2012.

Another major difference: King is profitable, while Zynga is not. King had 665 employees at the end of 2013. Zynga, meanwhile, is cutting jobs but still has about 2,100 employees, down from a peak of 3,300 in 2012, at the tail end of the “FarmVille” craze.

“They are two different kinds of game companies, with ‘Candy’ being a bit more mobile centric,” said Gartner

analyst Brian Blau. They also take different approaches to game development, he added.

Zynga analyzes how its games are played to try to make the games better, more addictive and more lucrative once they are already out, while King tests its titles “for a very, very long time” before releasing them to the public, Blau said.

“Candy Crush,” which involves matching rows of bright-hued virtual candies to make them disappear, is successful by any measure. There were 93 million users playing the game every day in December, according to King’s regulatory filing. If King isn’t a household name, “Candy Crush” certainly is. The game’s fans can be spotted on subways, waiting in line at the Post Office or in the theater before the start of a movie.

“Candy Crush” is free to play, but users spend money on extra items to boost gameplay. That’s the model for Zynga’s Facebook games, too.

King said in its filing that the IPO will include shares offered by the company as well as those offered by existing stockholders. The Dublin-based company, which has offices in Sweden, London, San Francisco and elsewhere, plans to list its stock on the New York Stock

Exchange under the ticker symbol “KING.” King had filed its original IPO papers last summer under a federal law passed in 2012 that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to keep its IPO documents under seal until the final few weeks before a price is set on a stock offering. The legislation — known as the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS, Act — allowed Twitter Inc. to secretly fine-tune its filing to satisfy regulators before going public in November 2013.

King will certainly face questions from investors over whether it sustain soaring revenue growth. Already, the company saw a sequential slowdown between the third and fourth quarters of last year. Its revenue in the first three months of 2013 was $205.9 million. It more than doubled that in the second quarter, to $455.5 million. Revenue then peaked at $621.2 million in the third quarter and declined 3 percent, to $601.7 million in the fourth.

Meanwhile, the company behind another wildly popular mobile game, “Angry Birds,” has not disclosed IPO plans despite rumors. Founded in 2003, Espoo, Finland-based Rovio is still privately held.

Don’t leave this DLC behind

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer Naughty Dog owned the Summer of 2013. Upon its release, their latest game “The Last of Us,” was hailed by some as gaming’s “Citizen Kane.”

Ever since, gamers have been itching to return to the game’s dystopian future United States.

At the same time, after the emotional and somewhat discomforting ending of the game, many were afraid to see such a grand title treated as a new sequel laden franchise. For now anyway, those fears have been settled, as the game’s first and only piece of story based DLC acts as a prologue to the main campaign.

Fleshing out more of Ellie’s backstory, “The Last of Us: Left Behind” focuses on the young girl’s exploits before meeting up with Joel. Together with her

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‘Candy Crush Saga’ maker King Digital plans IPO NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind “Candy Crush Saga” is going public, hoping the popularity of its addictive online game will translate to sweet returns for itself and its investors.

King Digital Entertainment PLC, which also makes lesserknown games such as “Bubble Witch Saga” and “Pet Rescue Saga,” did not disclose how many shares it expects to offer in the IPO or a projected price range for the stock. In papers filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it hopes to raise as much as $500 million in the offering. The amount could change in the coming weeks as the company and the IPO’s underwriting banks gauge investor demand.

“Candy Crush” was the most downloaded free app on iPhones and iPads in 2013, beating Facebook, Google Maps and YouTube. The game’s success helped King replace Zynga Inc. —maker of “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars”— as the No. 1 producer of games played on Facebook.

So is King the next Zynga?

Zynga, too, once ruled the realm of online games. And in 2011, the company went public riding the popularity of an

One of the best-kept secrets of the core gaming community is the existence of the “Humble Bundles” on humblebundle.com. Re-inventing charitable donations for the digital age, the service has quickly risen to prominence in the past few years.

The Humble Bundles are a series of charity-benefitting sales of digital PC games.

Originally known as the Humble Indie Bundles (complete with an emphasis on offering smaller indie titles), in time, major publishers came to support the service as well, with companies such as EA and THQ offering some of their major titles including the likes of “Dead Space,” “Battlefield 3,” and “Saint’s Row The Third.”

The Humble Bundles offer a unique way for donors to pay for the games. You can set your own price and pay whatever you want. The great thing about Humble Bundles is that you can donate as little or as much as you want and still get your games. But there are a few catches. You need to donate a minimum of $1 in order to receive the games – a restriction put into place after previous bundles featured various donations at the $0.01 level – and you don’t get to receive every single game offered if you only pay the minimum amount.

For example, in the recent “Sid Meier Bundle,” paying the minimum amount would net you the complete editions of both “Civilization III” and “IV” as well various other titles. To be awarded “Civilization V” or it’s first expansion pack “Gods and Kings,” you are required to “beat the average,” that is pay more than the combined average sum of the donations made. To be awarded the game’s latest expansion pack, “Brave New World,” you would be required to pay a set price of $15. That being said, compared to the average retail price of these items, the Humble Bundles allows you to receive a substantial discount.

Additionally, for every cent a visitor to the site donates, they can choose where their money goes. If you donate a $1, you can choose to give it all to charity, the game’s publisher or the operators of the Humble Bundle website.

Alternatively, they can distribute the donation evenly amongst the listed parties or in any way they see fit.

The Humble Bundles are an exciting and innovative way for getting the tech savvy gaming community interested in possible charity donations.

The Humble Bundles help great causes, make for great PR for publishers and allow gamers to rapidly increase their game libraries at a bargain.

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Lupita Nyong’o is Hollywood’s new fixation BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

(AP) — Lupita Nyong’o is preparing herself for normalcy.

After the frenzy that’s followed her gripping performance in “12 Years a Slave,” she wants to be ready for life back home in New York.

“I try to keep my regimen — rest, water, eat well, workout — so that when this is all over, I don’t experience a total hangover,” she says, taking a bite of scrambled eggs in a recent interview at a Beverly Hills cafe.

She hasn’t yet accepted that her life may never be the same.

“I have a very ostrich mentality,” she says. “I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.”

Before playing slave Patsey in Steve McQueen’s brutal tale of a free black man kidnapped into slavery in the 19th century South, Nyong’o was virtually unknown. Now, as a supporting actress Oscar nominee, she’s become a breakout star.

When she received the call from McQueen saying she had landed the role, “I was so elated,” she recalls. “But then I immediately panicked. I was so scared.”

No wonder; this would be her first major role after attending the Yale School of Drama. Yet shooting the film gave her the confidence she needed coming out of school. “It was an amazing feeling,” she says.

Now, with all eyes on what she’ll do next, the actress refuses to stress about securing another role that’s equally as celebrated.

“The bar has been set very high externally and internally,” she says. “But I don’t want to feed into that pressure of expec-

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tation. This film was so fulfilling and artistic. I’ve tasted that and I obviously want to experience that kind of creative fulfillment again, but I also know that I can’t replicate that. I want a varied acting experience and that may include some failure and that’s healthy.”

Actually, Nyong’o’s next film is already in the can and ready for release on Feb. 28: She plays a flight attendant opposite Liam Neeson in the action-thriller “Non-Stop.” ‘’It was what I needed to do,” she says. “It was the perfect antidote to ‘12 Years a Slave.’ It was a different genre with different demands. It was very technical and fun.”

Growing up in Kenya, Nyong’o says her parents encouraged her and her five siblings to “find out what we were called on this earth to do and then do it to excellence.”

Before former Kenya president Daniel Arap Moi allowed multi-party politics in 1991, Nyong’o’ father, Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, was an advocate for democratic reform, opposing Kenya’s autocratic regime.

Then a political science teacher, Nyong’o’s father relocated his family to Mexico City for their safety. It was there that Nyong’o was born, yet her family returned to Kenya before she was a year old.

Nyong’o says her parents have been supportive of her Hollywood success but have also taken the excitement in stride. “It’s nice to have parents like that because they’re thrilled,” she says. “But they’re not shaken by it.”

(Nyong’o’s father is now a Kisumu County senator and her

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Newcomer to Hollywood, Lupita Nyong’o in a scene from “12 Years a Slave.” Nyong’o is nominated for an Oscar for her performance by an actress in a supporting role.

mother, Dorothy Nyong’o, is the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation.)

With the Academy Awards less than two weeks away, the 30-year-old actress says she wants to continue to savor every moment, even the overwhelming ones.

“The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful,” she remembers of the October ceremony, where she shared the spotlight with the likes of Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey. “It was the biggest press line I’d ever seen. It was difficult to orient myself, but there are familiar faces now, so it becomes less daunting.”

Not only blessed with signifi-

cant acting ability, Nyong’o’s striking beauty and bold fashion choices have made her one of the most talked-about celebs on the red carpet.

From the turquoise Gucci column gown she wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards to the emerald green Christian Dior dress she chose for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards last weekend, she’s what “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley calls “undeniably poised and graceful.”

Never the girl who thumbed through Vogue (now she appears in the magazine as the face of fashion house Miu Miu), Nyong’o began buying fashion

Costas returns to Olympic coverage

magazines in preparation for all of the formal events she expected to attend following the success of “12 Years.”

“I was like, ‘OK, I have to research,’” she recalls with a giggle. But letting herself “dress large” has been scary, she admits. Referencing the scarlet Ralph Lauren dress she wore to the Golden Globes, she adds, “It had a cape! That was exhilarating.”

Despite her tendency to make fashion statements in stunning ensembles, she doesn’t feel pressure to always deliver a talked-about look. And the same goes for her feelings about Oscar night.

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SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Bob Costas returns as host for NBC’s prime-time Olympic coverage Tuesday night, if still not exactly clear-eyed, at least with a sharpened sense of respect for the colleagues and crew who covered for him during a sixday absence.

“The doctors told me the infection has to run its course, which is 2-to-3 weeks, which covers the entire Olympics. It’s the all-time perfect bad timing, but what can you do? It’s a curve ball and you’ve got to go with it,” Costas chuckled during an interview with The Associated Press, “even though I couldn’t spot the rotation on a curve ball right now.”

Wrapping up preparations a few hours before air-time, the broadcaster who began his Olympic work as a late-night host at the 1988 Seoul Games looked relaxed at the NBC compound in a navy polo shirt and cardigan sweater. Traces of his bout with viral conjunctivitis were still visible — the infection began in his left eye and spread quickly to the right — and both are still reddened.

“I’m better than I was,” he said, “but not as good as I’d like to be.”

Costas nursed a cup of Starbucks coffee and propped his feet up on the desk as he discussed his unwanted week off.

He rated himself a 2 on a scale of 1-10. At one point, he thought there was about a 10 percent chance he wouldn’t make it back for the games.

Costas interviewed President Obama on Feb. 6, the night before the opening ceremonies.

He awakened the next morning “and my left eye was like a slit, and I’m thinking, ‘What the hell?’” Costas recalled. “But I’m also thinking maybe I put a few eye drops in and it resolves itself. But as soon as the doctor got a look at it, he realized something was wrong.”

Costas worked that night trying to cover up the redness by wearing glasses that made him look like a hipster. Drawing barbs from TV critics and snickers on social media, he finally sidelined himself after five nights of Olympic coverage when his blurred vision and sensitivity to light made working impossible.

“When something out of the ordinary happens, like with my eyes, you know (the attention is) coming, but again, the degree of attention to it makes me uncomfortable. Not because I don’t understand it,” he said, “but because that isn’t the story that we came here expecting to talk about.

“So what I tried to do the first few nights — when I thought it was only going to be a few nights — is kiss it off with a candid line and move on and not dwell on it. But when it got to the point where I couldn’t be on the air,” Costas added, “you couldn’t expect that people would ignore that.”

Current “Today” show host Matt Lauer and former coanchor Meredith Vieira subbed for Costas. It was the first time anyone except Costas had been the host of an Olympic primetime telecast on any American network since 1998.

Costas said he spent three

days in a darkened hotel room awake at odd hours. The chance to watch the NBC feed kept him current, but also gave him a different perspective on the coverage.

“When they did the hookup, it really didn’t matter when I slept — from noon to 8, or midnight to 8 in the morning. Generally, I was awake at 5 (a.m., Sochi time) so I watched a good portion of prime-time every night. ... I experienced it something closer to the way someone in

the States would, except it was dawn when I was doing it,” he added, “and it was a little blurry.”

Costas also said he the chance to watch some of the network’s cable coverage of events in real time, and thought about whether that would influence his own presentation.

“My Olympic road is closer to its end than its beginning,” he said. “By the time I can foresee prime-time changing radically, somebody else will be doing it.”

NEW YORK (AP) — One of three works by the elusive British street artist Banksy offered Tuesday at a Miami auction sold for $575,000.

An anonymous buyer purchased “Kissing Coppers,” spray-painted in 2005 on the Prince Albert Pub in Brighton, England, and removed from the side of the building to stand alone. The piece was expected to sell anywhere from $500,000 to $700,000.

The two other works — “Bandaged Heart” and “Crazy Horse Car Door” — went unsold because they didn’t receive their minimum bids, said Ashley Jimenez, a spokeswoman for Fine Art Auctions Miami. Jimenez said interested buyers can still contact the auction house within 30 days.

New York City art dealer Stephan Keszler, the owner of all three Banksy works that went to auction, said he was happy with the selling price for “Kissing Coppers.” And while the other two pieces didn’t meet their reserve bids, he said he was encouraged by the offers they received.

“Kissing Coppers,” a blackand-white stencil of two uniformed English “bobbies” (police officers) in a passionate clinch, reportedly was lifted and transferred to a canvas before the pub sold it to Keszler.

“Bandaged Heart,” which was spray-painted on the side of a Brooklyn warehouse, was removed by a team of special-

MIAMI (AP) — The Associated Press and other media outlets urged a judge Tuesday to grant access to police videos made shortly after pop singer Justin Bieber’s arrest last month on driving under the influence and other charges.

The news organizations said in a motion filed in Miami-Dade County court that the 19-yearold has no legal basis to prevent release of the videos, taken at the Miami Beach police station after he was booked Jan. 23.

Bieber’s attorneys have asked a judge to allow them to review the videos before their potential release.

Attorney Deanna Shullman, who represents the AP and the other news organizations, said in the filing that Bieber cannot legally compel a state agency to withhold a public record and that his attorneys have not identified any exemption that would apply. In addition, she said the law would permit only certain portions of the videos to be withheld or redacted if they were exempt or deemed confidential.

“Quite simply, the defendant’s private will does not trump Public Records Act mandates,” Shullman said in the motion.

A hearing is scheduled

Thursday on the matter before Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield. The office of State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has denied the AP’s request for the videos pending the outcome of the hearing, Shullman said.

Bieber’s attorneys, including well-known defense lawyer Roy Black, said in their motion that Bieber would suffer “irreparable harm” if the videos are not reviewed by them before their release. One video was previously released by police, showing Bieber being patted down by an officer after his arrest.

There are eight other unreleased

videos.

If the recordings are released, the AP would review the content and determine what, if any, of it would meet the news cooperative’s standards for publication.

Defendants in criminal cases often ask judges to limit release of evidence to the public, but typically they claim their right to a fair trial would be jeopardized. Bieber’s claim is unusual because it involves privacy rights. Bieber’s lawyers have said the videos may depict him “in various states of undress” that should not be made public.

In their own filing Tuesday, prosecutors said that although

there is no general right of privacy in jail, a defendant could expect that the public should not see any embarrassing information from a jail setting. The prosecution wants the judge to view the tapes before deciding whether all or parts of them should be withheld.

Bieber has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license. Police say he and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff were involved in an illegal street drag race in a residential section of Miami Beach.

Breath tests showed that Bieber’s blood-alcohol content

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NBC’s Bob Costas prepares for broadcast at an anchor desk in Sochi, Russia. Costas plans to make his return to NBC on Monday after sitting out an eye infection.

ple are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence,” she says. “But my responsibility is to just keep on pursuing my dreams and goals and the admiration will take care of itself.”

Notes Whoopi Goldberg, who Nyong’o cites as an inspiration after watching her in “The Color Purple” as a child: “Hollywood is a very strange place. Lupita has to be really glad people want her autograph and know that she has the right to say ‘Not right now.’ But no one can limit her conversation to race because she’s better than that. She’s a great visual for why dreaming is OK.”

ists shortly after it was completed during Banksy’s selfproclaimed New York City residency in the fall, Keszler said.

Keszler, who owns Keszler Gallery in Manhattan and Southampton, said he paid to have the 8-foot-by-11-foot hole left behind sealed up.

He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.”

“Bandaged Heart,” an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, had a presale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000. Soon after it went up, the work was immediately “tagged” (a la aerosol artstyle) by another graffiti artist. It’s believed Banksy then added the words “is a jealous little” afterward.

“Crazy Horse Car Door,” also created during Banksy’s New York residency, was estimated to bring $200,000 to $300,000. It is a rear door of a Manhattan car spray-painted with a scene depicting a struggling, Herculean figure surrounded by running horses.

In the last three years, Keszler said, he has sold 11 original works by the street artist, including “Banksy Slave Labor (Bunting Boy),” which sold for $1.1 million in London to a U.S. collector.

Asked if he worries about selling art by someone whose identity remains a mystery, Keszler quipped: “He knows who we are.”

AP, others seek access to Bieber arrest video

was below the .02 legal limit for underage drivers, but toxicology tests revealed the presence of the active ingredient in marijuana and the antidepressant Xanax. A March trial date has been scheduled.

Besides the AP, the following news organizations have joined in the motion seeking release of the videos: the Orlando Sentinel, Scripps Media Inc. representing the Naples Daily News, the St. Lucie News Tribune, Stuart News, TCPalm.com, the Vero Beach Press Journal, WPTV-TV, WFTS-TV; and the SunSentinel Co.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Be respectful and don't hold a grudge or you'll be hurting yourself. It's okay not to make changes yet, but prepare for speed. Caring for others is your motivation. Don't gamble or waste your money.

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 9 -- It's not a good idea to spend now. Figure out your next move. Begin a new money-making venture. Track sales closely. Support a loved one emotionally, rather than financially. Don't believe everything you hear.

Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 22) - Today is an 8 - Set long-range goals. Work in private. A female gives the green light on a project. Don't get cocky or make expensive promises. Map the pitfalls. Do the extra credit problems. Leave the past in the past.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- A roadblock slows the action. A female helps you find harmony about it. Think it over. A conflict of interests needs to get worked out. Rest up for it.

Advance quickly after that. Consider all options.

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Keep costs down. Postpone a financial discussion. Use your own good judgment on how to proceed. Provide leadership.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Curtail your enthusiasm and avoid a hidden danger. It's not a good time to travel or start new projects. Make sure you know what's required before committing. Consult a respected elder. Rest and recharge.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Give kind words, not expensive treats. Begin a new work project. An important document arrives. New evidence threatens complacency.

Take action for home or family. Don't give in to a friend's complaints. It works out.

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Organize your infrastructure. Prepare the marketing materials. Handle overdue tasks, and clean house. Manage your work well and an authority approves.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Make plans and establish the rules. An agreement could be elusive, with a communications breakdown. A great idea on paper doesn't work in practice. Don't gossip about work. Let your partner do the talking. Listen for the gold.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Talk over a possible purchase with someone you love. Don't put your money down yet. You can get farther faster now. Dish out the assignments, and get into the game. Small, disciplined steps can have big impact.

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Falling metal forces Indiana to postpone Iowa game

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The roof literally caved in on Indiana.

The Hoosiers' game against No. 15 Iowa was postponed Tuesday night after an 8-foot long, 50-pound piece of metal inside Assembly Hall fell from the ceiling into some empty seats in the northwest corner of the arena.

No makeup date was announced and parts of the building's four corners were roped off as engineers inspected the metal plates around the rest of the building.

Three hours after announcing the postponement, athletic director Fred Glass said the teams could have played the game, but only if fans were kept out. The Hoosiers also briefly considered moving the game to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis later this week.

Glass said he was told that the harsh winter was the culprit.

"The preliminary assessment is that with the snow and ice, it settled at the lowest point in that curve at such a magnitude that it basically popped that bottom plate off," Glass said. "I'm also advised that the plating is actually ornamental and it serves no structural purpose. So what we may do is just remove all that plating."

For Indiana (14-11, 4-8 Big Ten), it's another strange twist in a season that has seemingly gotten rougher by the day.

The defending league champs are stuck in 10th place and are trying to rebound from what has been their worst month of the season.

Since upsetting then No. 10 Michigan on Feb. 2, the Hoosiers have lost three straight — blowing a 6-point halftime lead at Minnesota, a late double digit lead against Penn State, and then when they couldn't inbound the ball before getting blown out Saturday at archrival Purdue.

Now the Hoosiers are dealing with a scare inside one of college basketball's iconic arenas, which seats more than 17,000.

Glass said the Hoosiers asked engineers and outside experts to inspect the premises after the 14-inch wide piece crashed into the seats about six hours before tip-off.

Engineers quickly advised school officials not to host any events until a cause could be determined.

Later, during an early evening news conference, Glass said Wednesday night's women's game against Michigan will be played

as scheduled because fans could be kept out of the affected seats.

As for the men's team, the Hoosiers have 72 hours to come up with a makeup plan before Big Ten officials will get involved.

Indiana remains hopeful its final two home games, March 2 against Ohio State and March 5 against Nebraska, will go on as scheduled.

In fact, Indiana coach Tom Crean would have been content using the building on Tuesday.

"I think we would feel fine doing that tonight, to be honest with you. It's very isolated," he said. "Our guys would have been comfortable playing anywhere today. They were ready to go."

Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said his team was reluctantly heading home, and that he would work with Glass and Big Ten officials to come up with a new game date, and possibly a different venue for the Hoosiers and third-place Hawkeyes (19-6, 8-4).

"Obviously, we are disappointed tonight's game had to be cancelled," Barta said. "(Coach) Fran (McCaffrey) and his team are in contention for a Big Ten title and were looking forward to the opportunity to getting back on the court. The most important part of this equation is safety.

"We are in full support of Indiana's decision to postpone the game based on the issues with Assembly Hall."

Indiana officials knew the building, which first opened in 197172, needed work. Last month, they announced Cindy Simon Skjodt was donating $40 million to help renovate the facility, which will be renamed the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Among the planned changes are a new entryway, remodeled bathrooms and concession stands, and a big, new video scoreboard along with box seats above the south baseline bleachers.

But none of the proposed renovations involved the metal plates, and Glass doesn't believe it is necessary now.

"Early on we got the all clear from the engineer that the floor was fine," Glass said. "We could have practice on the floor. We could have had a game there if there were no fans there. So the floor area is in really good shape.

"The fact that the roof itself is almost, well, it's new within three years, and it had been inspected recently, gives us a great deal of comfort there."

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Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass describes the location of the piece of metal

Jonny Gomes' beard is gone, his hunger remains

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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — It's time to cut off all that Boston beard talk.

For Jonny Gomes, it wasn't too stressful to get rid of the bushy growth that flourished along with his team last season.

"I mean, no one died," he said Tuesday with just a patch of light-brown hair below his lip remaining. "We're going to be all right."

Looking much younger than his 33 years, the outfielder arrived at spring training after having his beard shaved off on national television last Wednesday. Some Red Sox teammates from last year's club that won the World Series were shocked at his new, almost unrecognizable appearance.

He looks like "a freshman in high school," right fielder Shane Victorino said.

"I wouldn't go back that far," manager John Farrell said with a smile, "but he looked young."

Gomes and first baseman Mike Napoli encouraged teammates to grow beards in spring training last season, their first

with Boston. They kept growing theirs and, along with catcher David Ross, sported the longest beards by the end of the season.

More than a curiosity, it was part of a change in a dour clubhouse culture and helped many new players bond in a more enjoyable atmosphere. Gomes hit just .247 last season when he platooned in left field with Daniel Nava. But the value of his personality may have been greater. That led Farrell to start Gomes in left field in five games of the six-game World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

"There was an edge that we had a little bit more when he was in the lineup," Farrell said.

"Jonny brought an intangible that others feed off of."

Gomes was hitless in his first nine at-bats, then hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning that broke a 1-all tie in Game 4. Boston won 4-2.

"He adds so much and it starts with what he does between the lines," Farrell said.

Gomes has played on five

teams since starting with Tampa Bay in 2003 and four have reached the postseason. The Rays lost the World Series in 2008 but he didn't play in that postseason. He was with Cincinnati in 2010 and Oakland in 2012 but both lost the division series. His team finally went all the way last year.

"I've been fortunate and unfortunate to bounce around and in bouncing around I've always been extremely focused on the game at hand, the pitch at hand," Gomes said. "You truly see what works and what doesn't work.

"There's hundreds of ways to lose a clubhouse and lose momentum. There's not that many things you have to do to win. There's not many things you have to do to keep a tight clubhouse."

The right-handed hitting Gomes and switch-hitting Nava figure to platoon again in left field. Grady Sizemore, sidelined the last two seasons, also will get a look in left.

MLB managers ready to test expanded video replay PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball managers are getting ready to test the expanded instant replay system.

While most seem to embrace the idea, they acknowledge it's uncharted territory and yet another strategic tool to employ during games.

"I think there's some anxiety because we don't fully understand it yet," Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona said.

The issue was a consistent line of questioning when managers and general managers of the 15 teams that hold spring training in Arizona gathered for MLB media day on Tuesday.

"It's going to be baptism under fire," San Diego Padres skipper Bud Black said.

All clubs will get a chance to test the new system in a handful of spring training games, although details of that schedule had not been determined.

Each team will get at least a minimum number of games this spring to test the rules.

Teams with more spring training games that are televised probably will have more opportunities to try out the new procedure.

"They're going to take a day next week and give us a learning session, then one again in March, and there'll be some games later in the spring," Francona said. "The more we learn, the better I'm sure we're all going to feel because we're used to doing things one way. Especially in our sport, we're kind of creatures of habit, and it's going to be an important part of the game. ... So you want to be good at it."

Under the new rules, each manager will get to challenge at least one call per game. If the challenge is upheld, the manager gets another one. From the seventh inning on, if the manager has used up his challenge, umpires can call for a review. All video reviews will be overseen by umpires in New York.

"I don't think anything is going to be real hard," Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. "I think it's going to be real interesting. We're still learning, we're still trying to understand the process and we don't really get much room to practice in spring training because

there's not that many games televised. But I don't see it being a huge challenge. It's going to be another tough decision to make."

Oakland manager Bob Melvin said the Athletics already are analyzing statistics that would help him determine which calls to challenge.

"We're a statistical organization. We look at numbers," he said. "Our people are looking at it now."

Melvin said one of his main concerns is how much time a manager will have to decide whether to challenge.

"I'm glad we're going to test this thing out," he said. "We'll all have a better feeling once the season starts."

It will take time for managers to decide just how to use the tool in terms of strategy, whether to avoid challenging early in a game so the opportunity will still exist later.

"The idea is really solid," Francona said.

"They're trying to get to where the game isn't decided by a bad call. Every other sport is trying to do it, and with technology the way it is, umpires are really the only ones who don't have the use of it. The game's going fast, and everybody else has the ability to slow it down except for the umpire."

There is less certainty over a proposed ban on home plate collisions.

San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said that according to a recent conference call, the rule is close to being written. Melvin, though, said he's heard it might not be in place this year.

"I would like to see what the details of this are, because I think there are going to be some growing pains and a learning curve with it," Melvin said. "Whether it's the runner has to slide, the catcher can't block the plate — those are such instinctive things that just to say, 'Hey, you can't do this anymore,' there's going to be some problems."

One manager didn't make the media session. Colorado's Walt Weiss was absent because of a medical issue involving his son.

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QB backs bid to form college athletes union

AP

Northwestern University outgoing senior quarterback Kain Colter makes his way to the beginning of three days of hearings before the National Labor Relations Board.

CHICAGO (AP) — Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter testified Tuesday that he was essentially paid to play via his scholarship as the National Labor Relations Board opened a closely watched hearing on a bid to form what would be the first union for college athletes in U.S. history.

From a witnesses stand in a federal court building, Colter characterized playing college football as a job and said schools make clear to incoming players that athletics are a higher priority than academics.

Colter, a co-founder of the newly formed College Athletes Players Association, said players adhere to grueling schedules, putting in 40- to 50-hour weeks on football during and before the season. During August training, he said, players often start practice at 8 a.m. and finish at 10 p.m.

"It's a job, there is no way around it — it's a job," said Colter, a 21-year-old senior whose college career is over.

Asked why Northwestern gave him a scholarship of $75,000 a year, he responded: "To play football. To perform an athletic service." Later, he said players earn the money, in part, "by sacrificing our bodies."

Whether the players qualify under federal law as employees is the core question for the NLRB. If they are deemed employees, they would have rights to unionize. Whatever ruling the panel makes can be appealed.

The Colter-led bid, which is supported by the United Steelworkers, is seen as a test case that could transform the landscape of college athletics. The NCAA

Men’s Swimming and Diving Go to Louisville for First-Ever AAC Championships

By Eugene Joh Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s swimming and diving team will look to continue its winning streak as it heads to Louisville, Ky. for the first annual American Athletic Conference Championships.

The Huskies went 6-0 in head-to-head dual meets this year, only tasting defeat once in late November at the Virginia Tech Invitational, where they finished fourth out of four teams.

Cincinnati, Southern Methodist and home team Louisville round out the rest of the men’s teams that will compete at the championships, which will be held at the Ralph R. Wright Natatorium

Feb. 19-22.

Despite going undefeated in dual meets this year, UConn enters the contest with the lowest point total among the four teams, with 635.56.

UConn, however, had a meet cancelled and was only able to compete in six meets instead of the customary seven. Louisville enters with the most points, at 931.70, and a 7-0 record.

Preliminary swims are set to begin at 10 a.m. each day, with the finals taking place in the evening at 6 p.m. Diving preliminaries are set to begin at noon each day, with the finals taking place at 6 p.m. alongside the swim events.

Eugene.Joh@UConn.edu

and Big Ten Conference, which includes Northwestern, both maintain that college students are not employees whatever their participation might be in athletics.

During his opening statement, an attorney representing the university, Alex Barbour, insisted academics are at the center of a football player's college experience.

"Academics always trumps athletics at Northwestern," he said. "Northwestern is not a football factory."

But during his testimony, Colter said he abandoned his hopes of entering a pre-med program because of time demands Northwestern makes on football players. He said chemistry was invariably offered at times that conflicted with football practice.

"You fulfill the football requirement and, if you can, you fit in academics," he said. "You have to sacrifice one. But we can't sacrifice football. ... We are brought to the university to play football."

Devoting more time to academics at the expense of his football, he added, could result in the loss of a scholarship.

Asked if coaches ever told players to leave practice and go study, Colter said no.

Another Northwestern attorney, Anna Wermuth, asked Colter whether playing football was, in itself, part of the education process. Does it help players learn to "critically analyze information?" she asked.

"We learn to critically analyze a defense," said Colter, who ended up studying psychology. Football also taught values, including perseverance,

he added.

"But that does not mean it helps you earn a psychology degree," he said. "It makes it harder."

Northwestern spokesman Bob Rowley declined to comment on Colter's suggestion the school made football a higher priority than academics in some cases.

He said the university's own witnesses later this week could address that and other questions.

The university and its attorneys have repeatedly pointed out that Northwestern has one of the highest graduation rates for football teams in the country — with around 97 percent of players receiving degrees.

Colter said most of the team's 85 scholarship players support forming a union, though he has been the only one to step forward publicly with the support of the United Steelworkers, the players association and its leader, former UCLA linebacker Ramogi Huma. Huma was also expected to testify, possibly on Wednesday.

Supporters say a union would provide athletes a vehicle to lobby for financial security and improved safety, noting that players are left out of the billions generated through college athletics. They contend scholarships sometimes don't even cover livings expenses for a full year.

A decision by the NLRB could come soon after the testimony concludes.

For now, the push is to unionize athletes at private schools, like Northwestern.

Public universities, which are subject to different regulations, could follow later.

Stypulkoski: capturing the USA's win from WHERE, page 14 around a middle-aged youth hockey coach’s smartphone, joining together to cheer and collaborating to watch a moment of history.

That tweet, more than any other, captured the gravity of the moment for me, probably because that’s what the Olympics – and in turn Olympic hockey – is all about: pride, unity, competition, hope, joy.

The youthful exuberance on those faces crowded around a barely-three-inch screen displayed everything positive about the Games and what they’re meant to embody. The picture displayed a memory in the making.

Take a moment to remember where you

were last Saturday morning. Cement it in your mind. Thirty-four years from now, that will still be a story to tell.

I sure as hell won’t forget running around the entrance of the XL Center, smartphone in hand, still streaming, screaming and chanting, anytime soon.

That’s the beauty of the Olympics. It doesn’t take a Miracle. It just takes a little hope, a little pride and one great, unforgettable moment to make a memory that will last forever.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

Czechs beat Slovakia 5-3, play US in quarterfinals

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Roman Cervenka scored for a second time late in the second period to give the Czech Republic a four-goal lead, and it went on to beat Slovakia 5-3 on Tuesday and advance to an Olympic quarterfinal match against the United States.

"We're one game away to play for a medal and that's pretty special," David Krejci said after scoring the third of the Czechs' first-period goals.

The Slovaks pulled within a goal in the third, but their loss was sealed when Andrej Meszaros was called for slashing with 53 seconds left. They pulled their goaltender to create an even-strength situation and Tomas Plekanec scored an empty-net goal 14 seconds later for the Czechs.

"We got the job done, that's the most important thing," said Krejci, a Boston Bruins forward.

The Czech Republic will play the Americans on Wednesday for a spot in the semifinals.

"It will be a tough game, but at this point in the tournament there's no easy games," said Ales Hemsky, who scored the Czechs' first goal 6:53 after the puck dropped. "So anyone can win against anybody."

Ondrej Pavelec, who stopped 29 shots, didn't give up a goal until Slovakia's Marian Hossa scored with 1:03 left in the second period.

Hossa scored again, off a rebound, midway through the third period. Tomas Surovy's slap shot made the final 11-plus minutes intense in the elimination game until the costly late penalty.

"We came close, but it was too little too late," said Slovakia's Michal Handzus.

The rivals used to be a part one nation until 1993, when Czechoslovakia split into the two countries.

Jaromir Jagr and goaltender Dominik Hasek helped the Czechs win gold in 1998, the first Olympics with NHL players, and bronze in 2006. While Hasek has retired, the 42-year-old Jagr is still skating, shooting and setting up teammates.

The five-time Olympian assisted on Cervenka's first goal midway

through the first period, putting the puck on his stick with a centering pass in front of the net.

Jagr has been around long enough that he played for Czechoslovakia at the 1991 Canada Cup — when he was 19 — after helping the Pittsburgh Penguins win the first of two straight NHL titles.

Slovakia goaltender Ian Laco, a Kontinental Hockey League backup starting ahead of St. Louis Blues standout Jaroslav Halak, gave up three goals on the first 13 shots he faced and finished with 24 saves.

The Czechs opened the Sochi Games with 4-2 loss to Sweden, beat Latvia by the same score and lost 1-0 to Switzerland in the preliminary round.

The winless Slovaks, who finished fourth and fifth at the last two Olympics, were perhaps the most disappointing hockey team at the Olympics.

Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara, of the many NHL standouts on the Slovaks' team, said he wished he knew why his team fared so poorly.

"That's the million-dollar question. It's tough to say," Chara said.

"We had a rough game the first game against the U.S. That game kind of put us really down mentally, our confidence was not there. But we bounced back against Russia and played our strongest game of this tournament. We thought we would follow up on that game and obviously we didn't.

"It's a big disappointment and we'll have to look back and figure out what went wrong."

Their best showing was Sunday in a shootout loss to Russia, when which Laco made 36 saves to earn a chance to play ahead of Halak.

He was pulled from a rout to the Americans and had a goals-against average of more than five in two losses.

Slovakia coach Vladimir Vujtek said he stuck with Laco because of how well he played against the Russians.

"For 65 minutes, he did not miss a single puck," Vujtek said.

AP

Slovakia forward Michal Handzus (26) and Czech Republic defenseman Marek Zidlicky (2)

Zimmerman-at-first a new look for Nationals

Ap

In this Sept. 7, 2013, file photo, Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman throws to first

VIERA, Fla. (AP) — The new piece of equipment in Ryan Zimmerman's locker is a first baseman's mitt. He doesn't mind using it a little, as long as it's not a lot.

"I don't know if I'm ready for 65-70 games over there, but you never know," Zimmerman said Tuesday. "I think with the way I finished, the way my arm feels now, I think I can help this team win more games at third base.

"But if there's an opportunity for me to play 10-15 games at first base and it helps us win some of those games, then I'm down to help out any way I can."

Zimmerman had been pegged as a third baseman first, last and always as the longtime face of the Washington Nationals — until he started throwing the ball away. With his shoulder not fully recovered from offseason surgery, Zimmerman's throws to first became so wayward last year that he started playing

shallower. He had 16 throwing errors, and manager Davey Johnson openly suggested that a move across the diamond could be forthcoming if there was no improvement.

Now there is a new manager, Matt Williams, who plans to have Zimmerman take grounders at first during spring training.

Williams, though, isn't portraying the move as a phased-in career switch because of arm trouble, but rather as a strategic move that would allow the manager to sit regular first baseman Adam LaRoche against some left-handed pitchers. Williams said Zimmerman will be at third "99 percent of the time."

"You use the scenario, some tough left-hander — Clayton Kershaw as an example," Williams said. "You want to try to stack your lineup if you can against Clayton. ... It's on a temporary basis if we want to gain an advantage with our lineup.

Nothing further than that."

Fine, except that Zimmerman hasn't played first at any level beyond perhaps Little League.

He's unaccustomed to the different way — the opposite way, in fact — that the ball comes off the bat. He hasn't had to catch a pitcher's pickoff move, or turn the tricky 3-6-3 double play. He only recently obtained the first baseman's mitt, and he's played catch with it just a couple of times.

"For some reason, everyone just thinks that's where they put the adult softball guy and he can play big league first base, which is not the case," Zimmerman said. "I'll work at it. (Williams) made it very clear, and I respect him for that, that he doesn't want me to feel uncomfortable or put me in any situation to fail."

In that respect, he has the full empathy of his manager, who was mostly a third baseman and shortstop but played a handful

of games at first with the San Francisco Giants in 1996.

"The game, when you move to that side, looks backwards to you," Williams said.

Of course, the plan could go haywire if Zimmerman can't make the routine throw to first.

He's encouraged that he will.

His shoulder grew stronger as last season progressed, and he's had a regular, rehab-free offseason, which means a normal workout regimen. He's confident enough in his arm that he plans to back up a bit and play third at his usual depth, the way he did when he won a Gold Glove in 2009.

"I think I need to have a year like I used to have," Zimmerman said. "Play third base like I know I'm capable of and like people expect me to play. Then once I go a year doing it and being consistent, that's when you can really say the shoulder's fine."

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» That’s what he said

Home game

Away game

Men’s Basketball Feb. 20 Temple 9 p.m.

Feb. 23 SMU 2 p..m.

March 1 Cincinnati 12 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Tomorrow UCF 7 p.m.

Feb. 22 Houston 5 p.m.

Feb. 25 Houston 8 p.m.

March 5 Rutgers 7 p.m.

Medal count update United States 20 6

6

Get it off!

March 3 Louisville 7 p.m.

5 7

Men’s Hockey (16-10-4) Feb. 21 Feb. 22 Army Army 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 24 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.

4 Feb. 25 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.

8

Women’s Hockey (9-21-2) Feb. 21 Maine 2 p.m.

Feb. 22 Maine 2 p.m.

Baseball Feb. 21 Wichita State 4 p.m.

Softball Feb. 21 Hofstra Noon

Feb. 28 Hockey East Quarterfinals

Feb. 23 Coastal Carolina 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 28 Lipscomb 5 p.m.

8

4

Feb. 28 AAC Champ.

TBA

March 1 AAC Champ.

TBA

9

March 1 AAC Champ.

All day

March 8 ECAC Champ.

10 a.m.

March 9 ECAC Champ.

All day

4

Germany 15 3

4

Sweden 9 5

6

2

1

France 9

3

Feb. 29 Lipscomb 3 p.m.

1

6

Switzerland

Feb. 22 Feb. 23 UMass Illinois State 2 p.m. 11 a.m.

March 7 IC4A Champ.

TBA

7

Canada 17

5 Feb. 22 College of Charleston Noon

6

Norway 18

2

(0-0) Feb. 21 DePaul 2 p.m.

8

20

Russia 19

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Feb. 22 George Mason 5 p.m.

10

Austria 9

2

March 8 IC4A Champ.

TBA

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8

Belarus 6

5

0

1

China

3

2

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Slovakia defenseman Andrej Sekera reaches for the puck as it bounces off of Czech Republic forward Milan Michalek, helmet during the third period of the 2014 Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey game at Shayba Arena, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

THE Storrs Side

Women’s Track and Field Feb. 28 AAC Champ.

9 a.m.

6

2

Men’s Track and Field Feb. 22 Alex Wilson Invitational 12:30 p.m.

4

Netherlands

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Robinson Cano

» Pic of the day

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March 1 Rutgers 4 p.m.

» OLYMPICS

“Now I know I don’t have to shave every two days. I’m going to keep it. Let’s see how good I do this year with this.”

- Mariners’ second baseman Robinson Cano on his new facial hair

(20-5)

Feb. 26 USF 7 p.m.

The number of feet covered in the world’s longest televised putt. The putt was made by the BBC’s Sir Terry Wogan.

Men’s basketball rises in the rankings to No. 21

March 10 ECAC Champ.

All day

What's On TV Olympics: Men’s Hockey: Czech Republic vs. USA, Noon, NBC Sports TJ Oshie and the boys will continue their surge towards the gold medal in their first single elimination game in the tournament.

The Czech Republic is coming off a 5-3 win aginst Slovakia and will be attempting a huge upset against the Americans.

AP

NCAA Basketball: Boston College v. No. 1 Syracause, 7 p.m., ESPN2 No. 1 Syracuse looks to keep the ball rolling as they come off yet another heart pounding game against NC State that they barely came away unscaithed.

Boston College on the other hand, has been having a rough go thus far this season with a 6-19 record.

Boston College came close to beating Syracuse earlier in the year, but ultimately fell short by 10 points.

AP

By Elan DeCarlo Campus Correspondent After blowing out South Florida and surviving an overtime thriller against Memphis, UConn (20-5, 8-4 AAC) finds itself No. 21 in the nation.

Last week, the Huskies sat as No. 24. UConn is currently No. 4 in the American Athletic Conference, 3.5 games behind first place Cincinnati (23-3, 12-1 AAC). UConn heads down to Philadelphia to face the Temple Owls this week, followed later by a rematch against Southern Methodist at Gampel Pavillion. Earlier in the season, SMU defeated UConn in Dallas.

Led by Shabazz Napier and his 34 points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals, the overtime victory against Memphis could be a galvanizing win heading into a crucial stretch leading up to the postseason. For his efforts, Napier was named the American Conference Player of the Week.

For the third consecutive week, Syracuse (25-0, 12-0 ACC) sits atop the AP Top 25 poll. However, Syracuse barely escaped with victories over Pitt and North Carolina State, open-

ing the door for No. 2 Florida to receive one first place vote in the poll. Rounding out the Top 5 are No. 3 Wichita State, No. 4 Arizona and No. 5 Duke.

Duke is ranked for the 132nd straight week, beginning in the preseason of the 2007-2008 campaign.

Saint Louis’ 17-game winning streak has thrust the Billikens to No. 10 this week, granting them their first Top 10 appearance since December 1964.

UCLA and Gonzaga both reenter the rankings this week, at No. 23 and No. 25 respectively. They replace Southern Methodist and Pitt.

The American Athletic Conference has only four teams in the Top 25; Cincinnati is highest at No. 7, followed by Louisville at 11, UConn, and No. 22 Memphis at 22.

The Big Ten leads the way with five ranked programs.

Michigan State (21-5, 10-3 Big 10) comes in highest at No. 13, followed by No. 15 Iowa, No. 16 Wisconsin, No. 20 Michigan and No. 24 Ohio State.

Elan-Paolo.Decarlo@UConn.edu

THE Pro Side Kevin Durant prefers the nickname “The Servant”

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer The NBA has always been known for its cool nicknames.

From George “Ice Man” Gervin to “Magic” Johnson and “Pistol” Pete Maravich, the NBA has some of the most recognizable nicknames in sports. However, that hasn’t stopped Kevin Durant from trying to conjure up his own nickname.

Durant told Simmons in an interview that he would like his nickname to be “The Servant.”

Durant already has a litany of nicknames at his disposal that are far more dignified than “The Servant.”

There are just initials, “KD,” that show on his shoes and various apparel. Everyone recognizes that those initials are tied to Durant’s name. It’s very dignified and classic.

Next on Durant’s arsenal of nicknames is “Durantula.” It mixes Durant’s name with one of the most horrifying arachnids to ever grace a child’s nightmares. It flows perfectly and creates an image of Durant being one of the most lethal scorers in the league.

The last of Durant’s nicknames is the “Slim Reaper.” The nickname makes perfect sense. Standing at

6’9” and 240 pounds, Durant is quite slim, while the reaper aspect of the nickname gets at just how deadly of a scorer Durant is. Plus, the nickname conjures up the idea that Durant will be the last person you see before your team is knocked out of the playoffs, much like how the “Grim Reaper” is the last person you see before you die.

When asked about the nickname

by Simmons, Durant said, “I like to serve everybody. My teammates.

Ushers at the game. The fans.”

Durant isn’t the first athlete to come up with his own nickname.

Shaquille O’Neal made a habit of it during his career, coming up with such monikers as “Big Diesel,” “Shaq Fu,” “The Big Aristotle” and “The Big Cactus.”

Durant admitted that creating your own nickname isn’t the most popular decision, but does like his choice.

“I know it’s kinda weird to make your own nickname, but I like that one better,” Durant said.

Currently on an ESPN poll, 48 percent of respondents think “Durantula” is Durant’s best nickname, while “41 percent of respondents like “Slim Reaper” and 11 percent favorite “The Servant”.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

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P. 9: Jonny Gomes shaves his beards, looks forward to season / P.11: Storrs Side/Pro Side / P.10: Czechs beat Slovakia to play USA

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By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor

Matt Stypulkoski

It was hardly a “Miracle,” but I imagine the euphoric feeling wasn’t all that different.

T.J. Oshie has become a household name over the past few days in the wake of catapulting the United States to Olympic glory over the Russians in a shootout on Saturday, and deservedly so.

The win was impressive, yes, as the Stars and Stripes took down the favored Russians on their home ice, silencing a nation all with one final penalty shot. But a Miracle? Not a chance.

By now, we know what this U.S. team is capable of.

A gold-medal game appearance against the Canadians four years ago began the revelation, and blowout wins against Slovakia and Slovenia this Olympiad helped confirm their legitimacy. So a win over the Russians should not be surprising – in fact, it should even be expected.

But that doesn’t change the emotions of a nation come 10:17 a.m. Saturday.

It’s a cliché, sure, but people forever ask the same question about defining, emotional moments: “Where were you when…?”

Thirty-four years later, Americans still remember where they were when they found out the heavily favored, dynastic Soviets fell to a rowdy bunch of college kids in the middle of a little town in upstate New York.

I’ve heard great stories through the years about where friends and family were: with their families watching in the living room, in the car listening on the radio, even in the arena, watching live instead of on ABC’s tape delay.

Thirty-four years from now, Americans will be telling similar stories about this most recent defeat against the Russians. Maybe it won’t be a movie-worthy, Hollywooddrama moment like the other famous win, but it will almost certainly be as memorable.

Frankly, that’s the beauty of the Olympics. Unlike domestic sports – MLB, NFL, NHL, NCAA and any other sporting event you can think of – the Olympics unite, rather than divide.

For a moment, Blackhawks fans who despise Oshie and the rest of his St. Louis teammates forgot their anger and animosity in pursuit of a common glory. For a moment, Devils fans, Rangers fans, Islanders fans, Flyers fans and Penguins fans – who rarely agree on much – were unanimous in their support. For a moment, the nation slowed down a bit, tuned in to NBC Sports and hoped.

Twitter may at times be a glimpse into the worst of our society – a place where insults and hatred can flow all-too-freely behind the protection of a keyboard – but on Saturday, at least within these 50 states, it was a far more joyous, optimistic place.

Tweets flowed as Americans from coast to coast reacted to Oshie’s winner. There were jokes (“Oshie just won the Cold War”), euphoric nonsense (“OSHIEEEEEE!”) and patriotic pride (USA USA USA!!”).

But amidst all the tweets flooding servers and rolling through the web, one caught my eye more than any other.

In the early morning hours, a team of boys crowded

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Wednesday night is set up for history. When the UConn women’s basketball team tips off against UCF, both Breanna Stewart and Bria Hartley will be inches away from a place in the record books.

Stewart enters the No. 1 Huskies’ 27th game of the season just two points shy of 1,000 for her career.

Barring injury or other unforeseen circumstance, the sophomore forward will be the second-fastest player in program history to reach the milestone. Only Maya Moore, who accomplished the feat in 55 games, would top Stewart’s 63.

Hartley enters the night three rebounds short of 500 for her career. Once she reaches that milestone, she’ll become just the third Husky to join the 1,500 points, 500 assists and 500 rebounds club. Diana Taurasi and Moore are the only other players in UConn history to hit all three marks.

The matchup against the Knights will also be UConn head coach Geno Auriemma’s 999th career game.

UCF has struggled through the American Athletic Conference this season, posting a 3-11 record in the conference and 10-15 record overall. The Knights sit ninth in the 10-team standings.

Meanwhile, first-place UConn (26-0, 13-0 American) enters the game on a 32-game winning streak and relatively well rested, having played just one game–a 25-point win over USF–since a Feb. 9 defeat of Louisville.

The Huskies have struggled with injury, however, with Morgan Tuck out for the season after knee surgery and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis out about another 2-5 weeks with mononucleosis. Brianna Banks was deemed close to returning from an ankle sprain, but played just two minutes against the Bulls Sunday due to doubts about her recovery. Those injuries left UConn with just six scholarship players for much of the night.

Tip-off Wednesday is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the XL Center. The game can be seen on SNY.

UConn’s sophomore guard Moriah Jefferson goes up strong for a lay up against a Louisville Cardinal in Gampel Pavilion on February 9th in a a 81-64 win against a highly ranked Cardinals team.

Matt.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

Switching sides: Ellsbury arrives at Yankees camp TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury walked into the Yankees clubhouse, filled with all that gear with pinstripes and the famous interlocking “NY.” He walked over to his locker in the back, the one used last spring by former Boston Red Sox teammate Kevin Youkilis.

Ellsbury was in the den of his former team’s enemy, at least in the view of many Boston fans. But for now, with games that count more than a month away, the speedy center fielder still gets preferential treatment after helping the Red Sox win another World Series.

He found that out when he went to a deli before heading to the ballpark Tuesday.

“Red Sox fan gave me some free breakfast this morning down here in Tampa,” he said happily.

“There’s still the love there. It’s nice to see.”

Boston made no attempt to re-sign Ellsbury, a 2011 All-Star who led the majors with 52 steals despite a broken foot late last season. He hit .298 with nine homers and 53 RBIs. Needing to rebuild its batting order, New York agreed in

December to a $153 million, seven-year contract, part of a spending spree that brought catcher Brian McCann, outfielder Carlos Beltran and pitcher Masahiro Tanaka to the Bronx.

But leaving the Red Sox for New York is different that arriving from Atlanta or even Japan. Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Luis Tiant, Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs and Johnny Damon are among those who made the Boston-to-Bronx transition.

“At different sporting events, Red Sox fans come up to me and thank me for the time in Boston.

So it’s really been all positive,” said Ellsbury, who also helped win a title as a rookie in 2007, when he batted .438 with four doubles in a four-game sweep of Colorado.

He’s not really sure how he’ll be greeted April 22, when he returns to Fenway Park wearing a Yankees uniform. He took out a full-page advertisement in the Boston Globe in December to thank the fans.

“I definitely gave them everything I had in that organization, played as hard as I could, tried to do everything the right way,” he

said. “I left it on the field for them, so whatever reception I get is yet to be seen. But I’m not going to think about it too much because it’s going to be out of my hands.”

A few days before arriving in Florida, Ellsbury had a chance to become accustomed to his new attire.

“I did a shoot for Nike the other day and so they sent down the official jersey and pants,” he recalled.

“It felt good. Obviously looks a little different.”

Another big change will be his home ballpark. A left-handed hitter, Ellsbury had to deal with Fenway Park’s quirky dimensions. While the Pesky Pole down the right-field line is just 302 feet away, the fence quickly drops back to 380 in deep right and then 420 toward center.

At Yankee Stadium, balls seem to ride a jet stream over the short porch in right.

“There’s no reason necessarily to change your swing. It’s just you may now be rewarded for something that might not have been a home run before,” he said. “Maybe a double turns into a homer, or an out turns into a ball off the wall.”

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This Dec. 13, 2013 file photo shows Jacoby Ellsbury during a news conference

Teixeira: ‘We’re back to being the Yankees again’ TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mark Teixeira took swings from the right side of the plate and then the left, his first time batting outdoors since a wrist injury ended his 2013 season almost before it began.

He pronounced himself ready to return and gave what seemed like a warning to the rest of Major League Baseball. Last year was an aberration, when the New York Yankees missed the playoffs for only the second time in 19 years.

In his mind, an offseason spending spree transformed Murmurers’ Row back into Murderers’ Row. “You look at our lineup, we’re back to being the Yankees again,” he said Sunday. “Last year we weren’t the Yankees.”

Brian McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran were signed to fortify a batting order that dropped from a team-record 245 homers in 2012 to an unBronx Bomber-like 144 last year,

the largest falloff in baseball history for a non-strike season.

Teixeira was limited to 15 games and Derek Jeter to 17, and Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson also missed long stretches.

After two days of canceled flights from New York, Teixeira started workouts four days ahead of the other position players. He fielded grounders at first base, took 53 swings off a tee and 43 more in batting practice in his first outdoor session since surgery last July 2 to repair a torn tendon sheath in his right wrist.

Jeter, still recovering from the effects of a broken ankle in October 2012, has been working out at the minor complex since Jan. 20. He reports to the big league camp Wednesday, when he will hold a news conference to discuss his announcement last week that this will be his final season.

With the Yankees weakened at

second following the departure of Robinson Cano and at third because of Rodriguez’s seasonlong suspension, New York is counting on Teixeira and Jeter to stabilize an infield in flux.

“They’re back in my mind, but I think you have to get them into games to see exactly where they’re at, to be fair to them and probably to alleviate any doubt that you might have,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

The retirement decision by Jeter, who turns 40 in June, shocked Teixeira.

“I thought that Derek had a couple years left in him. I knew how excited he would be about this season, just the same way I am when you only play 15 or 17 games,” he said. “I really could have seen Derek playing until he was 44 or 45.”

Teixeira turns 34 in April and hopes to have five more productive seasons. He might not be

ready when New York’s exhibition season starts Feb. 25, but he thinks he’ll be on the field sometime during the first week, get 50 exhibition at-bats and be able to play at least 150 games during the regular season.

He had more pop from his bat during his 49 right-handed swings than his 47 from the left side — although he said he felt his swing path was a lot better from the left.

Given his injury, sustained while hitting off a tee last March 5, his wrist stiffness likely is more of an issue hitting left-handed — when the right hand provides most of the power.

“You can definitely tell I had surgery. But I had ankle surgery 13 years ago and I could tell I had ankle surgery after 13 years,” he said. “So, it’s just something I’m going to have to make sure that I loosen up, and make sure I do all the proper rehab and strengthening exercises.”

A two-time All-Star, Teixeira usually is a slow starter. He has a .278 career average and 341 homers, but through April 30 each year his average is just .238 with 33 home runs in 11 seasons.

A poor April wouldn’t necessarily mean he hasn’t sufficiently healed.

“I can always use that ammo,” Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long said. “So that’s in our back pocket.”

Teixeira said his surgeon, Dr. Keith Raskin of New York University School of Medicine, told him the wrist will continue to improve for a year after the operation. But there always will be worries of a setback until Teixeira proves to himself that the injury isn’t a hindrance, that he regularly can clear Yankee Stadium’s rightfield wall with what broadcaster John Sterling calls a “Tex message.”