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CURING CANCER WITH THE POWER OF MUSIC Benefit concert supports Relay for Life UConn in SU Theater. FOCUS/ page 5
RUNAWAY MCBRIDE McBride scores 23 as Huskies lose heartbreaker. SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: SUBOG’S SPRING CONCERT TICKET PROCESS NEEDS FIXING Inefficient ticketing process leaves students outraged and disgruntled. COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: UCONN RETHINKS CURRICULUM TO MEET NEW DEMANDS Rapidly evolving job market puts pressure on recent and future graduates. NEWS/ page 2
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Women’s basketball team narrowly loses in final Late rally isn’t enough to win Big East Championship against Notre Dame By Tyler Morrissey Associate Sports Editor HARTFORD – UConn’s hopes of a 6th straight Big East women’s basketball tournament title were dashed on a turnover with just seconds remaining, as Notre Dame defeated the Huskies 61-59 at the XL Center in Hartford. After a missed jump shot by Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins, UConn sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis picked up the offensive rebound and passed the ball to guard Kelly Faris who missed on the layup attempt. UConn retained possession of the ball, but with seven seconds remaining in the game MosquedaLewis committed an untimely turnover to Diggins who passed the ball to her teammate, Irish forward Natalie Achonwa. Achonwa drove the ball down the court to score the game winning layup, which secured the first ever Big East tournament victory for Notre Dame. Irish head coach Muffet McGraw praised the play of her bench in the victory. “That was an unbelievable game, third in a row,” said McGraw. “I thought we played really well in the first half and got a little bit of lead with Natalie Achonwa and Ariel Braker on the bench. The bench came in and did a great job of keeping us in it and getting us the lead.” The Huskies struggled mightily from behind the arc, as UConn did
not score a single three-pointer. This was the first time in 11 years that UConn did not make a threepointer; the last time was against Oklahoma in the 2002 NCAA National Championship. Head coach Geno Auriemma told his team that he did not want to settle for outside jump shots, but rather drive the ball into the lane. “I don’t know the way that Notre Dame played defensively was exactly the way Oklahoma played it,” said Auriemma. “I thought today’s game was going to be won in the lane and I encouraged our guys to get the ball in the line, to drive it and put it in the lane. I didn’t want us to settle for outside jump shots. But for us to go o-fer, I don’t think we are going to make the shot, we always do.” In the first half the Huskies jumped out to an early 4-0 lead over the Irish; however momentum quickly shifted in favor of Notre Dame after a missed layup by junior center, Stefanie Dolson. The Irish followed up with an 8-0 followed by a 7-0 run to jump out to a 13 point lead, their largest of the first half. UConn battled back in the second half after scoring on three straight second chance opportunities to cut the Irish lead to just two. Notre Dame rallied and took a 35-26 lead into the locker room at the half. At the start of the second half, after a couple free throws by Hartley and a driving layup by
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UConn women’s basketball forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis drives the ball to the hoop in last night’s game against Notre Dame.
Faris, UConn came within seven of the Irish lead. Both teams got into foul trouble as Achonwa picked up her fourth foul of the game and took a seat on the bench as the Huskies edged closer to Notre Dame’s lead. UConn eventually tied the game off two free throws from freshman Breanna Stewart. Notre Dame and UConn traded the lead back and forth until the Irish took a 57-55 advantage with just four minutes left to play. The game remained tied at 59 with just a minute left to play before the missed jump shot by Diggins and the final possession for the Huskies. Stewart, who started for the Huskies, was one of UConn’s top performers on offense, as she fin-
ished the game with 16 total points in the 37 minutes of time she saw on the floor. Dolson led the Huskies in points and rebounds with 18 total points and 14 rebounds, which was good for her 6th career double-double. At the end of the game Dolson said her performance didn’t matter due to the result. “Honestly at this point how I played isn’t really in my mind,” said Dolson. “It sucks that we lost and like Coach said we fought in the second half. That layup that tied it up was a lot of different emotions but at the end of the day we didn’t win. It doesn’t really matter how I played.” Mosqueda-Lewis, who has been one of the Huskies’ top offensive weapons this year, averaging
17.7 points a game scored just eight points, after she received four fouls. “I rushed my shots, I just didn’t make shots that I got open for, I didn’t offensive rebound, I didn’t defensive rebound really,” said Mosqueda-Lewis. For UConn, the loss snapped a streak of five consecutive Big East Tournament titles. Out of the 23 times that the Huskies appeared in the championship, UConn has recorded just five losses. The Huskies must now prepare for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which will begin on Saturday, March 23rd at Gampel Pavilion.
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X lot, Farmer Brown may become New York fights to site of new recreation facility ban sugary drinks
By Jackie Wattles Campus Correspondent
Talk of a new recreation facility has been circulating around the University of Connecticut. Faculty members on the planning committee that was formed to provide recommendations for how to make use of the 26-acre plot of land have halted their discussion until student feedback is heard. The planning committee will work in conjunction with Student Body President Stephen Petkis and the Undergraduate Student Government to hold forums in mid-April for students to voice their opinions. The university recently purchased the parking lots known as “Farmer Brown” and “X lot”, located on the northwest side of campus, for $3.8 million. Almost immediately, a working group was formed to gather information and assess how the space can be put to the best use. Thomas Callahan, the university’s associate vice president of infrastructure planning and strategic project management, heads the committee. “We think that this property is an ideal location for a potential recreation facility,” Callahan said. “But a lot has to be considered.” According to Cyndi Costanzo, the executive director of recreational services and a member of the planning committee, cost is a major factor in determining what UConn will build.
By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent
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UConn recently purchased both “X Lot” and ‘Farmer Brown’, plans to build new recreation facility are in the process.
“It’s a substantial expense. At the end of the day, the students must be behind this because it will cost,” Costanzo said. Costanzo said student fees have funded most recreation facilities built at universities around the country in recent years, though no decisions have been made yet as to how UConn would pay for a new facility. The planning committee hopes to use the student forums in April to explain what the recreation center would include and the process and financing of the project. Costanzo said the group wants to relay that the building is an investment in UConn’s future, as most current
students will never use the facility. “The students that are here today won’t use that building. Realistically, it’s a two-year building process and that doesn’t take into account all of the planning that will have to occur beforehand,” Costanzo said. “We’re asking students to invest in it, not necessarily financially, but as an idea.” Though an Environmental Impact Statement must be completed before construction can begin, which is typically a six to nine month process, Callahan said construction could begin as early as 2014.
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A judge struck down the ban on large sugary drinks in New York the day before it was supposed to take effect, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg is determined to fight the ruling. Bloomberg has won appeals on previous health-related policy initiatives such as his smoking ban and calorie count requirements. However, this is Bloomberg’s last term, and only time will tell if he will successfully defeat this latest challenge. The ban would have made illegal the sale of sugary drinks bigger than 16 ounces in New York City foodservice establishments. The penalty for vendors that did not comply would have been $200. Only businesses that were under the jurisdiction of the health department would have been affected. Grocery and convenience stores would have remained unrestricted. Furthermore, milk-based drinks such as milkshakes would have also been saved from a “verboten” stamp. Other drinks, such as sweetened coffees, were not addressed, leaving some establishments unsure of whether they would be
fined. The ban has been criticized for being capricious. It only applies to some food establishments and leaves out beverages that have more sugar than others. It would have gone into effect last Tuesday if not for the suit filed against it by the American Beverage Association, which represented companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple. The mayor writes this challenge off as special interest groups trying to thwart his revolutionary policy. Michael DiMaio, an 8th-semester political science and economics double major says, “I find efforts to reduce total sugar consumption worthwhile for the health of society long-term, but I am not sure if this is the best approach to achieve that goal.” DiMaio compares the ban to legislation that requires bikers to wear helmets. He relates the tensions between restrictions on the personal freedom of riders and the harm to the community that could ensue should an individual be injured while not wearing a helmet. DiMaio can see a justification for the law in this
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What’s on at UConn today... Academic Training Workshop 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Student Union, 321 Academic Training is a benefit for students on J-1 visas to gain practical experience related to their studies at UCONN through off campus work or training.
UConn IDEA Grant 10 to 11 a.m. Storrs Campus Have you always dreamed of inventing the next big thing? Now is your chance! A pilot program for UConn IDEA Grants is being launched this spring.
LUNAFEST 6 to 9 p.m. Student Union Theatre A traveling film festival of award winning short films by, for and about women to support the Breast Cancer Fund and the University of Connecticut Women’s Center.
“Sicilian Marionette Theater in New York City” 7:30 to 9 p.m. Ballard Museum of Puppetry The Spring Puppet Forum continues on “Sicilian Marionette Theater in New York City”, Tony DeNonno and his film It’s One Family Knock on Wood. -NIKKI SEELBACH
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Conn. seen in strong position for drone production
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s deep ties to the aerospace industry put it in a strong position to capitalize on a boom in the production of unmanned aircraft, a group promoting the manufacture of drones said Tuesday. The state could gain nearly 4,100 manufacturing and other jobs between 2015 and 2025, according to a report by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. Total economic impact could be about $397 million. Connecticut is home to aerospace giants General Electric Co. and United Technologies Corp., and the state is projected to be No. 6 in the United States in economic benefits from unmanned vehicle production. Only California, Washington, Texas, Florida and Arizona are expected to benefit more than Connecticut. GE and United Technologies operate manufacturing plants in Connecticut and out-of-state, but contractors that manufacture components for subsidiaries of the two companies, such as jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney and parts maker Hamilton Sundstrand, operate in Connecticut.
Connecticut jury awards $16M in severed leg case
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury awarded more than $16 million Tuesday to a Bridgeport man who lost his leg when he was struck by a state police cruiser almost three years ago. The Superior Court jury in Bridgeport awarded Melvin Gordils $16.25 million, a sum his attorneys described as the highest verdict against the state. In its $25 million award against the state, the jury found Gordils 35 percent responsible for the accident and the trooper 65 percent responsible, according to Gordils’ attorneys, Joel T. Faxon and Michael A. Stratton. Gordils, 48, who owns a restaurant, ran out of gas at night on the Route 25/8 connector in May 2010. He was walking across the highway around 2:30 a.m. when he was struck by Trooper Darren Pavlik’s cruiser. The impact completely severed Gordils’ right leg. He also suffered a crushed pelvis and arm injuries, his attorneys said. The trooper was driving at least 75 mph in a 45 mph zone without his emergency lights or sirens on when the cruiser hit Gordils. His attorneys claim the trooper began interrogating Gordils in the street, rather than administer first aid. “It was the worst case of a selfish uncaring defendant that I’ve ever seen in my career,” Faxon said. “You would be more compassionate to an animal that you just hit than this police officer was to Melvin Gordils.” The state’s lawyer argued Gordils failed to look for traffic while crossing the highway. The defense also said a test showed Gordils had a blood-alcohol level of .24, triple the legal driving limit, the Connecticut Post reported. Pavlik testified he was trying to catch a speeding car when he struck Gordils, the paper reported. A video, played for the jury showed the trooper get out of his car, examine its bumper where he struck Gordils and stand over Gordils, asking for his name and address, the paper reported.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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UConn students could save $560 a month by living off-campus By Meagan Kelleher Campus Correspondent The semi-annual Off-Campus Housing Fair took place yesterday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Student Union Ballroom. Over 25 landlords and representatives from apartments in the area attended to provide students with details of rent, location and other information they need to make a decision on where to live. Prices at the different apartments may vary, but all agreed that it’s less money than living on campus. The average cost of a one-bedroom off-campus apartment is about $800, and a two bedroom is about $1,400 per month. Most include heat and hot water, but the tenant pays for all other utilities and furniture. Amanda Valley, a 4th-semester communications and journalism major, is happy with her decision to move off campus and finds that she is saving money, “Even on top of electricity, rent, heat and groceries, I still spend significantly less than I would living on campus, especially living in an on campus apartment. I only spend about $50 a week on groceries, as opposed to a several thousand dollar meal plan.” For students living on campus, a regular double, triple or quad dorm room is around $760 per month, plus a meal plan, which starts at $600 per month.
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Students attending the Off-Campus Housing Fair yesterday were provided with details of rent, location and other key information. Over 25 landlords and representative from apartements in the area attended the fair.
That is $560 more a month compared to living in a single bedroom off-campus apartment. A popular option for upperclassmen on campus is to live at Hilltop or Charter Oak apartments. “I like being close to classes and campus life,” said Shannon Beatty, a 6th-semester communications major who will live at Hilltop next year. “Also I’m going to be living in an apartment or house the rest of my life so I would rather pay to stay on
campus with classmates.” These apartments, like the dorms, are fully furnished and include all utilities. Hilltop and Charter Oak apartments are around $970, and a meal plan is not required. Another main reason students choose to live off-campus is for more privacy, and comfort. “I decided to live off campus because I love the freedom of it. I love living alone and not worrying what anyone else [a roommate] likes or doesn’t like,” said
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Greenwich student brings live bat to school
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut say a naked man high on PCP kidnapped his girlfriend’s baby and ran onto a busy highway in Bridgeport, where state troopers took him into the custody. The baby wasn’t harmed. Thirty-year-old Santos Rodriguez was charged with kidnapping and other crimes after the series of events early Saturday morning. He was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Rodriguez’s girlfriend told police he was acting erratically Saturday morning. She said he believed someone was after him, called her the devil and threw a Bible at her. Police say Rodriguez took off his clothes and ran out of the home with her son. State police later received several 911 calls reporting a man running across I-95. Rodriguez surrendered without incident. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.
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Construction may begin as early as 2014
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GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Greenwich health officials say a local private school student didn’t realize the implications when bringing a live bat to school to show to a science class. The incident at the Whitby School last week prompted a rabies test of the bat, which was killed by an exterminator. The test came back negative Saturday. School officials told the Greenwich Time (http://bit.ly/10Aa5CK ) that they notified parents about the incident and when the test came back negative. A school spokesman says the student and the student’s parents thought the bat would be an interesting thing to study but didn’t think about the possible hazards. In 1995, Greenwich eighth-grader Maria Fareri died of rabies after being exposed to a rabid bat. She was the first person in Connecticut to die from rabies since 1932.
Cops: naked man kidnaps baby, runs onto highway
Gianfranco LaMarca, a 6thsemester psychology major. But some students are still content with living on campus. “I don’t have to worry about paying rent every month. Living on campus is less of a hassle and more convenient,” said Alexandria O’Neill, a 4th-semester communications major.
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Off-campus housing mascot walks through housing fair in Student Union on March 12, 2013. For full story on the Off-Campus Housing Fair see full story above.
Ban criticized for being capricious from NEW YORK, page 1
way: “by consuming high amounts of soda, individuals can develop serious disabilities such as diabetes, leading to a greater strain on the total health costs of the society, and in turn leading to relative rationing of the health spending on other individuals.” Emily Jeagal, a 4th-semester nutrition major, says that
she doesn’t believe sugar to be the biggest health problem worth addressing. She personally does not drink soda, but believes processed foods are a bigger threat to our health. Jeagal points out “even if there was a ban on the size of sodas, people could just buy as many sodas as they wanted.” Many New Yorkers feel that Mayor Bloomberg
is infringing on their personal rights. Jeagal agrees, “We should all have free choice. Drinking soda is not a danger to others, only to you. They [the government] can’t control people like that.” Only time will tell who will win the war on large sugary drinks.
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Callahan said the committee has done some “very preliminary designing” and has been discussing what types of activities the new recreation center could potentially facilitate. A track, pool, workout room and outdoor fields, have all been brought up in discussions. The planning committee plans to present the recreation facility idea to the Board of Trustees, who will have the ultimate authority in the decision, at the board meeting scheduled for April 24, should the forums show strong student support. “Farmer Brown” and “X-lot” will be available after spring break for commuters and employees with “area 2” parking permits to use, helping to address a parking deficiency that has been frustrating students and staff. The lots are likely to remain open for parking until construction begins. Though Costanzo said the 26-acre plot of land is large enough to house a recreation facility and additional parking, due to financial constraints, one project has to be taken on at a time. A parking garage, academic buildings and recreational fields have also been discussed as potential first steps.
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UConn rethinks curriculums to meet new demands
By Abby Mace Campus Correspondent
Today’s job market – like the world in which it exists – is rapidly evolving. The environment is competitive as high unemployment rates. As a result, colleges and universities across the nation are rethinking their curriculums to meet the demands of this changing market, and UConn is no exception. Currently, the United States has 3.4 million job openings, and post-secondary institutions are looking at how they can best prepare their students to fill these openings.
Openings that, if filled, would lower the national unemployment rate from 8.3 to 6 percent. In order to maintain its cutting-edge presence in the working world, UConn networks with a myriad of corporations and employers. “We meet regularly with employers to ask about trends, employment, and how things work and what we need to do to help our students in the changing job market,” said Dennis Rouelle, a career counselor in the Department of Career Services. Rouelle reported the fields of accounting, engineering
and the sciences are in especially high demand today in terms of job availability. Similarly, the U.S. News and World Report’s “100 Best Jobs of 2013 Rankings” revealed that careers in the medical and technology fields dominate the charts, with dentist, registered nurse and pharmacist grabbing the top three spots. A UConn 2009 survey, Post Graduate Placement Statistics, saw the majority of graduates entering the professional/ management/administrative field, while other popular choices included teaching, health and clerical/sales. Some of these careers, such
as accounting, nursing, and engineering, often require degrees from their respective preprofessional programs. However, the majority of UConn students are enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), a division of UConn with largely non-preprofessional majors. With a Fall 2012 undergraduate enrollment of 10,350 students, CLAS boasts a larger student population than all nine of UConn’s other (mainly preprofessional) schools combined. The second largest college enrollment is School of Engineering, with 2,109 students, followed by the
Woodward warns of government corruption
By Kim Wilson News Editor Bob Woodward, one of two reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal at The Washington Post in the 1970s, told an audience Tuesday night at Eastern Connecticut State University to be wary of corruption in today’s government. “What I worry about the most is secret government,” Woodward said. “There’s too much unnecessary secrecy in the White House and executive branch.” Woodward is currently an associate editor at The Washington Post and has authored or coauthored 17 books regarding American government and political leaders. The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s revelation of deep-seated scandal in the Nixon administration, resulting in the only resignation of a U.S. president. Woodward made his break as an iconic journalist when he investigated a report of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C., while working as a reporter who covered the police at The Post. Further investigation of the break-in, with the help of his colleague Carl Bernstein, revealed a tape-recording system in Richard Nixon’s office and shady money transfers. These facts implied the president was aware of the burglary and was attempting to cover the illegal proceedings. Nixon resigned two years after Woodward and Bernstein began reporting on the infamous scandal. Woodward led into his dealings with political figures and politics by describing a dinner at which he was
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Bob Woodward warns of corruption in today’s government during talk at Eastern Connecticut State University on Tuesday night.
seated next to Al Gore, who challenged Woodward on the authenticity of his published Watergate stories. Woodward told Gore he was as “factual and empirical” as possible in writing those stories. “Look, buster, I read those stories,” Gore said in Woodward’s recounting of the exchange. Woodward countered by telling Gore, “I wrote those stories.” Woodward said he has had the luxury of time in writing his books and longer pieces for The Post to gain an accurate reflection of today’s political events and the “players” – Woodward’s word to describe the subjects of his articles. It is important, both as a journalist and as a discerning citizen, to consider the actual truth in all political circumstances, Woodward said. When he tried to investigate who originally came up with the idea of the sequester, he was given the run-
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“Katherine Graham, she knew all the stories, she knew the players,” Woodward said. “At the end of the lunch, she had the killer CEO question: ‘When are we going to find out the whole truth about Watergate?’” Woodward gave her an answer she didn’t want to hear. “I said never. She said, ‘Never? Don’t tell me never,’” Woodward said, adding that a plaque with Graham’s words should be placed in The Post’s building. “I left the lunch a highly motivated employee.” Woodward said he has always aimed to increase the percentage of knowledge and public transparency in government workings. “We know 50 or 60 percent of what’s going on, but we don’t know what we don’t know,” he said.
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hands-on work experience is crucial. “Internships are absolutely essential now for entering into the workplace,” he added. However, for all students, the most important job-finding skills are those not necessarily indicated on the degree. “In regard to any career, the most important elements are knowledge about oneself, one’s interests, and values; knowledge of occupations and values that are work-related,” Rouelle said. “Major does not have to equal career.”
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Another life sentence for Argentine ex-dictator BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s last dictator, Reynaldo Benito Bignone, has received another sentence of life in prison, this time for human rights violations involving detainees inside the Campo de Mayo military base. As many as 5,000 so-called subversives were held inside the base during Argentina’s 19761983 dictatorship. Most were killed and made to disappear. This trial ended with the 85-year-old Bignone convicted of illegal arrests, kidnapping,
robbery, torture and murder against 23 of the detainees, including seven women who gave birth inside the clandestine prison. Bignone is already jailed for other crimes, but the additional conviction pleased Gaston Mena, whose mother gave birth to a sibling who was probably illegally adopted after the mother was killed. Mena said the sentence provides “closure, but we keep looking for my brother or sister.”
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The top security official in Libya’s capital said Tuesday 79 people have died over the past four days from drinking homemade alcohol, suspected of containing poisonous methanol. Colonel Mahmoud al-Sharif, security chief in Tripoli, said authorities are searching for two people believed to be involved in making the poisonous drinks. He said authorities are looking into whether it was the methanol or bad fermentation that caused the large number of victims. He said at least seven were found dead in their bed after consuming the bad liquor. The victims began to arrive to hospitals on March 7, he said. They included 10 women, he said. Al-Sharif raised the death toll
from the one earlier reported by the health minister Nouri Doghman, who said 60 people died. Doghman said that some of those who survived were blinded, and others went into comas or suffered kidney failure. He pointed to delayed relief efforts as contributing to the increasing toll. On Monday, 51 were reported dead. He said the dead range in age from 19 to 50 years old, and that Algerians and Tunisians were among them. The sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in the conservative North African country. Like illegal drugs elsewhere, some Libyans turn to black market dealers to buy alcohol, which is often cooked in homes or deserted farms.
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eeks ago SUBOG announced that the much anticipated Spring Concert would be Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki, much to the surprise of the student body. The concerts in the past few years have been good but Lamar seemed to be universally considered as a big get for SUBOG. The Spring Concert is rapidly becoming a staple in student’s sense of a UConn tradition. There are certain things that students of any university hold dear to their hearts and thanks to the work by SUBOG in the past few years, the Spring Concert’s popularity is reaching extraordinary levels of significance. That is why it was distressing to see so many student’s outraged by the inefficient ticket purchasing process for this year’s show. According to first hand accounts and several disgruntled online forums, the concert’s popularity is being marred by the headache to obtain a ticket. First of all there is the problem with students purchasing the max number of tickets only to sell them to non-students at a much higher cost. This leads to many people who actually go to the university missing out on being able to attend, however, there is really nothing that the SUBOG can do about that issue other than discourage it. The real issue here is that the process by which SUBOG made students get a ticket was tedious and far too lengthy. Students who won the lottery were brought upstairs to the Student Union Theater, once there they traded it for a ticket to wait in the Ballroom, following that, the hundreds of students were brought back downstairs to wait in line to exchange tickets once again before finally getting in line to purchase their tickets. The process took over two hours for many who were there. This process happened in the middle of the day on a Monday. While it is not on SUBOG to make sure students don’t skip class, the popularity of their Spring Concert is becoming far too tempting for the average student to prioritize a class ahead of the tradition that is the Spring Concert or the allure of headliner Kendrick Lamar. This is not meant to be a criticism of SUBOG. The Spring Concert’s popularity is nothing but a positive element of the UConn experience. The issue here is that there was a problem with this year’s efficiency in that it did not match the level of eagerness by the students. As a result, many of the people looking to attend the concert, who went through the proper means, were subject to a frustration that should have been avoidable.
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Well, the Fight Song does say, ‘’UConn Husky, a symbol of MIGHT to the foe...’’, not CUDDLES. Why exactly do we need to rebrand ourselves with a new logo? I’m pretty sure UConn’s brand of 10 National championships is pretty good. I’m a graduating senior, and I figured it would take at least 10 years before I’d be wearing outdated UConn stuff to games like all the other alumni. Didn’t realize it would be this fall instead. Why do we need a “meaner” logo? Maybe Huskies just like to dominate with a smile on their face. If UConn changes the Jonathan logo so help me I’ll... still follow the teams and probably buy all the new merchandise. All I can say is, this new logo better be REALLY good for them to even think about changing Jonathan. Hey, they finally put new batteries in the clock in the B level computer lounge at the library. it’s been like 3 years. Skylar Diggins is like the bully blonde dude in every 80s movie. You will fail, little girl. Notre Dame’s Big East Championship is going to matter so much where they’re headed. Don’t touch me. Asking for a Motorola phone charger in a group of UConn students is like asking for a Syracuse hoodie.
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Katniss Everdeen is the hero ‘Potter’ fans want I’m not a big fan of “popular literature.” I don’t read something because everyone else has read it. When “Harry Potter” was first introduced to me (way back in fifth grade) I had no desire to read it. Today, I still have no desire. Even after seeing the movies, they’re nice. They’re pretty. I think they have great direction and decent casting. But the movies are enough. I don’t feel like I have the time or energy to expend on “Harry Potter.” But last week I watched “The Hunger Games” and suddenly felt an overwhelming need to run to my local By John D. Nitowski library and pick up a copy. What? Weekly Columnist Why? When “The Hunger Games” first became popular (last summer when the movie was coming out and it was “the” new thing to read) I rolled my eyes and told people to leave me alone, I have big boy books to read (my reading list last summer concerned ancient Chinese literature and the Secret History of the Mongols, for any one interested). But now I feel guilty for pigeon-holing Suzanne Collins. And like any good English Major, I deconstructed “The Hunger Games” to figure out what makes it different from “Harry Potter.” Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of “The Hunger Games,” is relatable, Harry Potter is only half-so. Here’s what I mean: how many
of you are The Chosen One? How many of you have been chased down by a dark wizard because of a prophecy given while your mother was pregnant? No? No one? For a while before the Seventh Book there was speculation that the prophecy from “HP and the Order of the Phoenix” was actually about Neville Longbottom, and that ultimately, Neville was going to be The Chosen One. What a twist! I became the most avid supporter of this theory (despite not reading the books), and in fact, if that had been the case, I would have probably gone back and read them. Think of the implications: Harry spends seven years thinking he’s working up to some destiny, fighting magical Hitler who is so focused on killing him, he can’t realize that the true threat is being raised in herbology and playing with a prehensile cactus at the back of the class. But spoiler alert, it doesn’t happen. Harry Potter is a special little flower and that’s the story. Real life isn’t really like that. Sure, real life doesn’t have wizards and wands either. But part of what makes “Harry Potter” so marketable is the fact that it has something we all understand (tests, professors, relationship difficulties, family problems) and mixes it with something we all desire (the ability to teleport, to do laundry with the flick of a wand, to torture people indefinitely). The universe of “Harry Potter” is basically our universe with all its problems (racism, but magic), combined with something we all want (magic wands). Suzanne Collins, on the other hand, didn’t write “Katniss Everdeen and the Hunger Games.” She wrote “The Hunger Games.”
Katniss’ survival is never assured. What do we think about all those other students at Hogwarts? Extras. In “The Hunger Games,” Katniss never wanted to or expects to be the big hero. She just wants to get home, to protect and feed her family. The movie doesn’t start with, “Hey Katniss, big things here, you’re actually super special and we all need you to defeat big bad 100% evil thing!” No, it begins with her little sister being selected for near-certain death. For the love of her sister (something that is empathetic, if not sympathetic) she rushes forward and volunteers in Primrose’s place. Panem, a dystopic future world shockingly reflects the current United States in our entertainment (exploiting personal tragedies for television) and our economics (poverty stricken coal miners of West Virginia while the major cities live in exquisite luxury) and presents an every man that shivers, and cries, and bleeds just like us. Harry is a special flower living in a truly fantastic universe. That’s the meaning of “fantasy:” a world where everything goes right. Harry appears to suffer, but he wins. He achieves a prophesied victory. He’s The Chosen One. What reader can compare with that? But Katniss is you and me. She is utterly mortal in an persistent struggle for survival in an increasingly harsh world. Katniss is us. And that’s why I’d rather read “The Hunger Games.”
Weekly columnist John D. Nitowski is an 8thsemester English major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.
Black History Month draws wrong type of attention
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ebruary is not just the shortest month of the year; it is Black History Month in which many African Americans are recognized for the achievements they made to their race and society at large. B l a c k By Lashay Lawson H i s t o r y Staff Columnist Month is in February to mark the birthdays of the two most notable people significant to Black History: Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. But everyone has a different view on Black History Month. On a discussion on elegancy101.com, some think that the month is racist because “it rehashes what white people did to the blacks and it made white people feel guilty.” Others think that we should just put what happened in the past behind us and move on. However, we all know that when it comes to anything racial, having perfect racial harmony between every race is not that simple and may be completely impossible because of the older generations, and the traditions they still carry on from the
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past that they teach to their children. Is Black History Month racist? No it is not. And I am not saying this because I am African American myself. I think it’s good that we recognize people, holidays and traditions that we will otherwise not know about or pay little if any attention to it. Black History Month is not about making white people feel guilty. It is about trying to tell the story of the unknown heroes and voices that are forgotten in most history textbooks that made significant changes to American history. However, there are some issues with Black History Month. Black History Month is supposed to draw attention to the overlooked accomplishments of African Americans but often draws attention to the major figures that we already hear about. It is time we stop focusing so much on Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglas. I feel as though they are the poster children of Black History Month and all I ever learned about in school. While they were very prominent people within their time and are very important to
African American history as a whole, people need to learn more about Ida B Wells Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, and many others. Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman made some controversial comments on Black History Month. He said that it is “ridiculous.” In a 2005 interview on CBS “60 Minutes,” Freeman said, “You’re going to relegate my history to a month? I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.” Not to be funny, but Mr. Freeman has lived through the Civil Rights Movement and probably seen some of the struggles and victories personally. Freeman should be happy to have Black History Month, but I can understand his view. To me, Black History should remain its own separate subject. I understand that African American History plays a huge part in American History. If it is ever integrated into American history, it will be forgotten and buried deep into the pages until it is erased. It’s like going into a book store looking for an urban fiction novel, but instead of having an African American fiction section, you now have
to browse around the whole entire American fiction section to find that book. You will be searching for quite a while. Some might ask why there is not a white history month. There is no white history month because a lot of accomplishments that whites make are acknowledged and appreciated everyday, throughout the whole year. If there was a white history month, it would probably be seen as racist. But would it be racist if white history month is never allowed? That is a difficult question to answer. After all, there is no calendar date to remember the victims of the Holocaust, and that was a mass genocide. While many still have problems with Black History Month, it is indeed not racist. It is not calling anyone from any race, religion or ethnicity out in any negative manner. Nor is it stereotyping. Black History Month is here to stay.
Staff Columnist Lashay Lawson is a 5th-semester actuarial science major. She can be reached at Lashay.Lawson@UConn.edu.
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Curing cancer with the power of music Benefit concert supports Relay for Life UConn in SU Theater
The hickey: ‘gross’ problem or ‘badge of honor’?
By Cole von Richthofen Campus Correspondent The rainstorm on Tuesday evening didn’t deter the audience for UConn Relay for Life’s “Rock Out for Relay” awareness concert and fundraiser, which took over the Student Union Theater. “Rock Out for Relay” was held to raise awareness for the upcoming annual Relay For Life on Wednesday, April 5. Tee shirts and ribbons in shades of purple, a staple of the cancer cause, were given out to attendees, and were worn by several performers. Chordials singer and American Cancer Society representative Shannon Hughes, a fourth-semester communications disorder major, has been involved with the cancer cause since her freshman year of high school. “There’s a long history of cancer [in my family]… and I wanted to make a difference,” she said. The Rolling Tones kicked off the first annual awareness “concert for the cure,” which featured a variety of UConn musical acts, with a co-ed a cappella rendition of Train’s “Drive By.” Subsequent a cappella groups also featured lively tunes by contemporary pop artists – the co-ed Notes Over Storrs sang the Plain White Tees’ “Rhythm of Love” – but several other genres graced the stage through the night. Not only did the allfemale Chordials present a collection of country and folk-influenced songs a la Mumford & Sons and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, but every group featured a 1960s classic rock song. Later in the night, the blazer-clad men of Completely Different Note wrapped up as the final a cappella group. Between the mix of singing groups was UConn’s Rock Ensemble. The Ensemble, a club comprised of brass musicians, vocalists, guitarists, a key-
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UConn a cappella group The Chordials perform at Tuesday night’s ‘Rock Out for Relay: A Concert for the Cure,’ held in the Student Union Theater. Proceeds from the benefit concert went to Relay for Life UConn before their main event is held April 5.
boardist and a drummer, threw a theatershaking cover of Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” followed by duet versions of songs by Bruno Mars and Pat Benatar. At several brief intermissions throughout the night, drummer Jonathan Singngam entertained the crowd with stand-up comedy. The UConn Marching Band’s Funky Dawgz, a New Orleansstyle brass band, brought additional instrumental funk later in the night. Also in the performing mix was the multi-cultural dance team Alima. Team President Michaela McCormick, a sixth-semester healthcare management
student, said that the team routinely performs at, and participates in, the Relay for Life at UConn. “We were gonna make our own [relay] team, but we ended up joining with another team,” she said. “There are a good amount of us participating this year.” Whitney Washburn, a sixth-semester physiology and neurobiology major, formed her relay team “Keep on Smiling” amongst her group of friends. “Pretty much everyone I know knows a cancer survivor,” she said, and encouraged any interested students to sign up right away.
Shannon Hughes recommended that any student wishing to get involved should visit relayforlife.org/UCONN, and “sign up!” The projected fundraising goal for 2013 is $70,000, and the April event will feature even more musical entertainment. Relay for Life UConn is a branch event of a national arm of the American Cancer Society, which diverts funds raised by relays and other events towards cancer research and cure development.
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By Kyle Constable Staff Writer More than two-dozen students passed through the Class of 1947 Room in the Homer Babbage Library as Rising Green hosted a coffee social to facilitate internship and job opportunities for students on Tuesday. “Our goal was to get at least 20 students in the room, and we definitely had more than that,” Rising Green’s founder and CEO Adrian Dahlin said. “We had one much smaller event, but this is the first one of this size.” Green organizations from across Connecticut and the region were present for the event, including The Farmer’s Cow, Next Step Living, Blue Lion Training, Clean Water Action, Neighbor-to-Neighbor Energy Challenge, U.S. PIRG, SavATree and SavALawn. Representatives of the organizations talked with students in attendance about internship
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Interested students learn about job and internship opportunities at Tuesday’s Green Careers coffee social, which featured representatives from many green Connecticut companies and organizations.
and job opportunities in green career fields. UConn Rising Green campus liaisons Kerrin Kinnear and Morgan McCabe also talked with students, answering any questions and informing them about future Rising Green events on campus. Students in attendance were offered free cookies, brownies and coffee – furnished by The
Farmer’s Cow in Mansfield – in addition to handouts from the organizations while they went from table-to-table and talked with one another. Dahlin, a 2010 graduate of Tufts University in political science and environmental studies, founded Rising Green in September 2011. He made a presentation to the group about his background and
how Rising Green came into existence, sharing his hope of the organization eventually becoming “a ‘green LinkedIn’ plus the real world.” “The inspiration was seeing a need for facilitation of connections between job seekers and employers in, specifically, the green job and sustainability space,” Dahlin said of the driving force that led him to
found the organization. “That was the need that was identified, and I won a grant on the very broad idea of building a website that would be resource for students finding career opportunities.” Since being founded in 2011, Rising Green has expanded its presence to four campuses in New England, including Tufts, UConn, UMass and Boston University. Dahlin expressed a desire to expand their presence onto more campuses in the near future while continuing to develop the website. Rising Green plans to host another event on the UConn campus following spring break, though a specific date has not yet been set. The event, a networking luncheon, will be more targeted than the coffee social, specifically focusing on solar energy opportunities for students seeking employment in that field.
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PRIZE-WINNING POET G.C. WALDREP READS ON CAMPUS
The issue of the hickey started circling around in high school, when I saw one of my friends carefully pulling up the collar of her shirt over a huge red mark on her neck. She told me loudly that hickies were “super gross,” but I saw her poking at it with a measure of pride later. Hickies, to any sort of student, are part of a conflicting, confusing system. The hickey in and of itself was seen as being disgusting and archaic (with the sense of claiming that went along with it), but was also a way to broadcast to people that you were actually sexually active and therefore you are an attractive person to be immediately approached. “I don’t try to give them, but it happens,” one student told me thoughtfully, “but if I saw a girl in class with one I’d be like, why didn’t you cover that up? Put some makeup on that.” She then added that proof of a love-bite was like a “badge of honor.” It’s interesting that, despite being something to be proud over, it has to be hidden away. If hickies display to everyone your raw sexuality, and the discussion of sex is - or should be - “no big deal” (as Tessa O’Leary, a junior, explained to me), then why does it need to be concealed? They seem to be purely by accident, and yet there is a need to layer foundation on top of it so that it will not be glimpsed by anyone you associate with. However, a male student I asked denied the possible attractiveness of a love-bite— where they could be seen, at least. He declared that he was not opposed to them, unless they were on a visible spot on his neck because “that’s trashy. I don’t need to know what’s going on in some stranger’s love life, and I don’t really want anyone I walk by to know what’s happening in mine.” There is, unfortunately, a degree of privacy that is not guaranteed when you have a visible hickey. I’m sure most have you have gone through the rigmarole of being slightly humiliated by your jeering friends, or a mortifying trial where your parents stared fixedly at it and made pointed comments about maybe “taking it a little slower.” The social stigma behind love-bites is a simple case of making a mountain out of a mole hill; they’re truly not as big of a deal as they are painted. Lulu Benjamin, a junior, commented that while she never gave them herself, she was not opposed to receiving them. “It hints at your craziness in bed. It shows that someone felt passionate and horny enough to want to gnaw on your neck, and then you see it and remember the moment fondly.”
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G.C. Waldrep, the Aetna Writer-in-Residence for Spring 2013, reads from his works Tuesday night at the Dodd Center’s Konover Auditorium. The author of five books of poetry, Waldrep teaches creative writing at Bucknell University. Waldrep has received prizes from groups including the Poetry Society of America and the North Carolina Arts Council.
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Lara Croft, one of gaming’s most famous heroines, is reborn in Eidos and Square Enix’s new game ‘Tomb Raider,’ a reboot of a franchise that initially debuted in the mid-’90s. With an impressive single-player experience, Lara’s latest trek for treasure is one of the series’ finest.
By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent “Tomb Raider,” the 2013 reboot of the long running, action adventure series is an astounding achievement, without a doubt marking Lara Croft’s best outing since the original “Tomb Raider” back in 1996. True to the games tagline, a survivor has indeed been reborn. Featuring a young Lara right out of college, “Tomb Raider” immediately thrusts the heroine from a shipwreck onto a mysterious island where she must do one thing: survive. No longer an idealized sex symbol for the masses, this Lara Croft is frightened, yet fearless in the face of adversity, indeed
instantly jettisoning herself to the very top tier of all video game heroines with the possible exception of Samus Aran. The gameplay in “Tomb Raider” is a blast. If you have ever played the “Uncharted” series, you’ll feel right at home. The game mixes up platforming and exploration with occasional firefights. Whether it’s a gun or the games’ trademark bow, the third person duck and cover mechanics work extremely well and are complimented by fantastic enemy AI. The ability to fire from the hip is lacking, but is rarely missed. If you prefer, the game allows (even encourages) you to use stealth to sneak around most
enemies, effectively turning Lara into a female Solid Snake. The games’ optional hidden tombs provide classic “Tomb Raider” gameplay, featuring puzzles and a treasure to be claimed at the end of each. Loads of amazing set pieces (rivaling those seen in “Uncharted”) often accompanied by quicktime events will blow you away in “Tomb Raider. Amazingly, the 14+ hour core campaign (add another seven or so hours if you decide to complete the optional side quests) never lags and always keeps you on the edge of your seat, right until the jaw dropping finale. There are next to no
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weak points. The game (wisely) takes numerous cues from “Batman: Arkham Asylum.” All weapons and many skills can be upgraded with XP as in the “Batman” games. Tomb Raider’s “Survival Mode” conveniently highlights objects and enemies in the environment much like Arkham’s “Detective Mode”. Like “Arkham,” the game provides a quasi-open world environment which progresses linearly, yet with locations that can be returned to discover hidden objects later in the game, including voiced diaries which reveal the mysterious island’s dark history. A fantastic musical score compliments both set pieces and the general environment with
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Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire Game Boy Advance The first two ‘Pokemon’ games on the Gameboy Advance, ‘Ruby’ and ‘Sapphire,’ turn ten years old this month. A lot of negativity surrounded the games at launch; many gameplay innovations introduced in ‘Pokemon Gold and Silver,’ such as the changing day/night system and special events occurring on specific days of the week, were sadly abandoned and worst of all, Pokemon from older titles could not be imported into the GBA games, and most of the older Pokemon creatures were unobtainable! However, the titles were strong in their own right: The Hoenn region was home to many wild weather environments from sandstorms to heavy rainfall. Double battles brought a whole new level of strategy to the series. Of course, the introduction of some of the coolest Pocket Monsters to date, including Kyogre, Groudon, Blaziken, Absol, Latios and Latias, among countless others, made 347 hours of my life well spent. -Alex Sferrazza
Developers of baseball games have a difficult job, as there’s an important balance between pitching and batting that needs to be reached. If the focus lies too hard on one or the other, the game becomes skewed, either an offense-happy slugfest or a scrappy, National League-esque pitching duel. Directly competing with Sony’s “MLB: The Show 13,” 2K Sports’ yearly baseball effort “MLB 2K13” isn’t too different from last year’s “MLB2K12,” though there are some marked improvements. It’s mildly fun and incredibly frustrating, much like the average Mets season. Unfortunately, “2K13” fails from the beginning because it can’t bridge the hitting-pitching divide. Fans of small-ball can take solace that the game’s pitching mechanics are more than solid. Like last year, pitchers have between three and five choices in their throws, which players hurl by drawing patterns with the right control stick in rhythm with onscreen markers. Though the strike zone is a bit small in some camera angles (namely the usual singleplayer camera, a centerfield shot over the pitcher’s shoulder), it can easily be changed; otherwise, the pitching’s done well and has a very easy learning curve. Signature pitches are there, too: Yu Darvish’s slurve is one of the meanest pitches ever thrown in a video game. Of course, on the bottom half of the inning in “2K13,” the
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Tampa Bay Rays ace David Price, this year’s cover athlete for 2K Sports’ ‘MLB 2K13,’ winds up on the mound of a virtual Fenway Park. Unfortunately, ‘2K13’ is underwhelming at the plate and on the basepaths.
messy-at-best batting system is infuriating. Also using only the right control stick, there are three kinds of swings for hitters: power swings (back then forward), contact swings (straight forward) and defensive swings. Thing is, either the game reads every controlled hit not pulled straight forward as a defensive swing or, more likely, the batting mechanics are shaky at best. Reading pitches seems almost as difficult in-game as it can be for actual baseball players with two caveats: baseball players get paid a lot of money and while they’re oneninth of a lineup, players have to take every at-bat, leading to lowscoring, blood-pressure-spiking defensive battles that sometimes rely on the uncertain hands of fielders. When contact is made, to make things worse, somewhere
between 80 and 90 percent of balls go directly to fielders on laser rocket paths. The game’s fielding and baserunning mechanics are its most slipshod, which makes any ingame lead a fragile one. While running, players act like they’re mired in molasses, with unpredictable moves up and down the baseline; while players usually make it to balls they had some feasible way of fielding, it’s a tight, hold-your-breath experience on nearly every play. Throws are dependant on a system where each player has their own special button-press timing; it’s only a problem in the one or two plays a game where a split-second mistake can send a Chuck Knoblauch special into the third row of the stands. If it happens in the ninth inning, expect a controller to follow suit
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into a bedroom wall (or bed, for those who are aware how expensive controllers are these days). While it features all of the pre-requisite sports game modes, such as My Player or controlling teams for seasons or playoffs (stripping an Online League feature from last year’s outing), “2K13” is only as good as its fundamentals allow. When two of those three fundamentals are shaky at best, things aren’t exactly peaches and cream at Fenway, Yankee Stadium or any other of its (graphically-improved upon last year) twenty-eight ballparks. 360 fans desperate for a fix won’t hate themselves if they pick up the latest ball-and-stick release, but PS3 owners should definitely rely on “The Show” for their diamond-based major league sports games.
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One of the best parts of gaming is finding hidden treasures. Whether they’re in the back of a bin or shelf, on sale for a huge discount on an online store or they’re naturally cheap due to low development costs, the gems are everywhere; it just takes a keen eye and an open mind to check out something new. Exploring the bargain bins can lead to some finds like the ones below. For instance, there’s “Kersploosh!” a goofy little game that just popped up on the Nintendo 3DS online store. There’s not much to it; it’s about dropping things into a well and guiding them down to the water below (where the title comes into play once they hit). The gameplay somehow manages to be addicting though, as the well fills with imaginary obstacles for players to dodge, starting with planks and rocks but progressing to balloons, donuts and even cookies. Plus, the incredibly strange plot hasn’t been localized well, meaning the plot’s incoherent and surprisingly enjoyable. It’s on sale for a cheap $2.99. While everyone won’t love it, it’s a decent chunk of fun. Some games are more interesting than good, per se, such as the strange “Sonic the Fighters,” recently on sale on Xbox Live Arcade for just $2. Turns out the first 3D Sonic game was actually a “Virtua Fighter” one-off goof that features ridiculously cartoony brawling. It was originally released in 1995, but only in arcades as a niche title (also included in a PS2/Gamecube compilation in 2005). It’s a fun piece of gaming history, but it’s not exactly a fighting classic, as it has three buttons and five attacks. The character roster is more interesting than good; Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy are there, but they’re joined by one-off jokers like Fang the Sniper and Bean the Dynamite (though he’s actually a duck). Two pluses: the game’s 400 achievement points can be had in less than half an hour on the 360 and a character that never appeared in the original can be unlocked with a cheat. The best part about bargain hunting is when the completely off-the-wall games that would be robbery at full price suddenly become affordable years after their initial release. “Def Jam Rapstar” was one of those for me; when I saw it on sale for more than $60 in 2010, I knew it’d eventually hit the basement like most other nonfranchise music games. What I didn’t know was that for $8, it was worth much more than a lark, and is a quite enjoyable rapping game. Think “Karaoke Revolution,” but with rap. Any game whose introductory song is “It Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube and makes players whine like Soulja Boy in “Turn My Swag On” is a hit in my book.
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$20 in my pocket: Celebs also hit the thrift shops NEW YORK (AP) — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis aren’t the only ones poppin’ tags at thrift shops. In light of the hip-hop duo’s multiplatinum, No. 1 smash “Thrift Shop,” musicians including Debbie Harry, Miguel and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder discuss their adventures buying used clothes, even after their careers took off. HARD TIMES FOR A ROCK STAR Debbie Harry loves to search for unique items at thrift shops, but sometimes the Blondie frontwoman had to do it because times were hard. “At various times in my life (it has) been really necessary to shop like that,” she said in an interview. Harry, 67, said she also hit up thrift shops to fuel her creativity when deciding what to wear to an event or photo shoot. Her favorite used item? A silver 1960s Betsey Johnson jumpsuit. “Let’s face it, when you don’t have a lot of money and have to dress cool, it’s the best way to go,” she said. The singer says she loves thrift shops in Florida and that as a kid her bargain shopping annoyed her father. “My dad was horrified when I was in high school and I would come home with something from Salvation Army,” she said. “He was terrified that I would be bringing a large population of bugs.” She also enjoys thrift shopping because it’s somewhat of an adrenaline rush. “In a way it’s a sense of adventure too because you’re not walking in and seeing a rack of clothing,” she said. “You have to go in and hunt and it can be very entertaining.” INTERNATIONAL SINGER — AND THRIFT SHOPPER While on his latest international tour, Los Angeles-born Miguel was happy to meet his fans with different accents. He was also hype about his fans’ thrift shops. “I tried to do it while we were on tour in Europe. I did a little bit in Stockholm, Sweden, a little bit in London,” recalled Miguel, who was sporting his favorite rag — a red one from a thrift store — in his back pocket. The pint-sized R&B singer is known for his smooth sound and chic style. His look is mostly clean — fitted blazers and tight jeans are his forte. He’s also an accessories guy. The Grammy winner says he prefers clothes from thrift shops because “it’s like clothes with character.” THE THRIFT QUEEN
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In this Feb. 10, 2013 file photo, Miguel performs at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
When Elle Varner made her debut to the music world with her first music video, she did so in a hand-me-down. “The jacket I’m wearing in the ‘Only Wanna Give It to You’ (music video) was $4 at Good Will,” she said of the bright orange blazer that got attention on urban blogs when the video was released in 2011. “It’s hot — and wasn’t everyone wearing colored blazers after that?” she asked happily, giving herself credit for helping to push the trend. Grammy-nominated Varner, a rising R&B singer who counts first lady Michelle Obama as a fan, says she loves to thrift shop. She even called herself “a thrift queen.” Her favorite spot for “thrifting” in New York is Beacon’s Closet. In Los Angeles, the singer “used to love Jet Rag, but it’s so crazy now on Sunday mornings.” TEENAGE T-SHIRT SWAG How old are Ryan Tedder’s favorite T-shirts? Super old. The 33-year-old OneRepublic singer and songwriter says his favorite shirts are the ones he bought when was a teenager — and they’re from thrift shops. “I’ve thrift shopped since I was 13 and half of my wardrobe to this day are still the same shirts I had when I was 17, 18,” he said, looking down to see if he was wearing one of his classics under his leather
jacket. He wasn’t. But for the producer behind hits for Beyonce and Adele, thrift shops aren’t just about clothes. They serve as gift shops, too. “Me and my best friend back in Colorado, as a joke every year we’d go to the DAV, Disabled American Veterans, thrift shop and pick out the nastiest trophy and that would be the Christmas present we’d give each other,” he recalled, smiling. “The African American Junior League Bowlers Association — stuff like that.” YOU CAN’T JOCK HER STYLE You can’t deny the uniqueness of Janelle Monae: Her sound is a mixture of rock, funk and R&B beats; her songs sound space-like and are inspired by things like Muhammad Ali’s fists and Walt Disney; and she rocks a pompadour. But her onstage ensemble is a familiar one: the tuxedo. But that’s not always the case. Monae says she’s an avid thrift shopper, namedropping stores like Rag-O-Rama and Poor Little Rich Girl as favorites in her Atlanta hometown. But when she’s not working, she loves to rock used clothes simply because others can’t jock her style. “I like one-of-a-kind pieces,” the singer said. “I don’t like everybody walking around in stuff that I have on.”
tones reminiscent of “Arkham.” This is an M rated game, a first for the series. Lara is truly on a struggle to survive and the developers don’t let you forget it. But while some of the games’ most brutal moments truly add significance to the story, there are multiple overly gruesome character death animations for Lara needlessly included. The game does feature a bare bones competitive multiplayer component, which is average at best. As was the case with games such as “Metroid Prime 2: Echoes” and “Grand Theft Auto IV”, the multiplayer mode may provide some amusement but it is needlessly added to a fantastic core single player experience. Multiplayer is not the reason to play this game. “Tomb Raider” is a fantastic and engrossing single player experience, the mere existence of the multiplayer mode should not detract from that in any way. Also disappointing is the under utilization of the game’s survival mechanics. Hunting and foraging are introduced early in the game, but are never utilized again and do next to nothing to advance your character. Unlike sim-
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Lara Croft is attacked by a wolf in this screenshot from the new ‘Tomb Raider.’’
to engage in these activities at all. While the core plot and character development of Lara Croft herself are fantastic, unfortunately the title flounders in its representation of the supporting cast which is mostly forgettable. Barring an exception or two, most of Lara’s comrades come across as stale, unremarkable, run of the mill archetypes, none of whom are as intriguing, interesting or well developed as Lara herself. Filled with an awesome combat system, and grandiose set pieces that would make even Naughty Dog’s best efforts blush, “Tomb Raider” blows away all expectations out of the water and raises the bar for future titles exceptionally high. Developer “Crystal Dynamics” deserves high praise. Despite a few shortcomings, “Tomb Raider” stands as an outstanding action adventure game, the best in the “Tomb Raider” series, and much like “Uncharted Drake’s Fortune”, has sown the seeds for what has the potential to be a genre-defining sequel. Make no mistake, Lara Croft is most definitely back.
ilar mechanics in other games, such as “Red Dead Redemption,” there is little to no incentive for the player
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the Web like evidence of a star’s real nature: guileless snapshots of their innate coolness. Internet videos are known for elevating anonymous people to renown, but they can greatly enhance the reputations of the famous, too. Kunis went viral because the interview confirmed her image: She’s funny, sarcastic and game. She banters just as well in real life as she does in the romantic comedies she stars in. It was the same when, in 2011, Ryan Gosling was captured in a cell phone video on a New York City intersection helping to stop a fight in the street. There was Gosling, wearing a baseball hat and carrying groceries, humbly playing the role of hero, just as he sometimes does in the movies. Stars aren’t just like us, we think; they’re just like their screen personas. Jennifer Lawrence most recently experienced a similar surge after her best actress Oscar win. You would expect the award — a mountain peak for any actress — would have been the dominant conversation the next day about the 22-yearold Lawrence. But more than the Academy Award, she was lauded online for her backstage demeanor. Facing reporters, she confessed to taking a shot beforehand, flashed the middle finger and laughed at herself for falling on the stairs on her way to the stage. She was perfectly self-deprecating and unpolished. Millions watched videos of her backstage, and more than 5 million viewed an ABC News interview with Lawrence from later than evening. It captured Lawrence’s astonished reaction when Jack Nicholson introduced himself to her. A Lawrence mythology was in full flourish. Another Oscar-winner, the director Ang Lee, was captured after the Academy Awards in
an Instagram photo. The tuxedo-clad director of “Life of Pi” was candidly spied clutching his statuette in one hand, and chomping on an In-N-Out burger in the other. Vanity Fair declared “Even housing an In-N-Out Burger is adorable when Ang Lee does it.” Seemingly candid moments have long been manufactured for good publicity, and it’s likely some stars will try to take advantage with their own fake Zapruder-like videos. And for every genuine video that stokes a star’s image, there are dozens of embarrassing cell phone clips and TMZ “gotcha” moments that make most celebrities more cautious. Becoming a meme holds a lot more risk than reward. Certainly, Tom Cruise would rather certain Scientology videos hadn’t hit the Internet. It’s unlikely Angelina Jolie was pleased her right leg became a star in its own right after the 2011 Oscars. Alec Baldwin detested that private phone messages from him to his daughter leaked online. (Charlie Sheen appeared to love every bit of his “Winning,” but few stars desire the same kind of publicity.) Even Gosling, who also became a meme that flaunted his sensitivity with photo captions beginning “Hey Girl,” is ambivalent about the Internet. In a recent interview, he said the experience of the street video made him hesitant to get involved, “even if it’s the right thing to do.” “The Internet has just become a bit of a minefield,” he said. “I try not to go in there. It’s funny, I think about that time Fabio was on a rollercoaster and got hit in the face with a pigeon. I think about that a lot. I feel like that pigeon. I’m the pigeon and the Internet is Fabio’s face.”
Viral videos stoke celebrities’ images
NEW YORK (AP) — Mila Kunis’ stardom went up a notch last week, and you would think it’s because she stars in the biggest movie of the year so far. But “Oz the Great and Powerful,” which debuted with $79.1 million at the box office, had little to do with the sudden rush of adulation that engulfed Kunis. Instead, it was a sevenminute viral video that’s been watched more than 10 million times and blogged about the world over. The “Great and Powerful” isn’t Oz, but the Internet, which can burnish a star’s image just as it can destroy it. The video, you’ve surely seen by now, is from a press junket interview for “Oz” with a young BBC radio personality, Chris Stark. Stark begins by announcing he’s “petrified” at doing such an interview for the first time. But he’s obviously quite comfortable as his own version of Hugh Grant, charmingly peppering Kunis with questions about pub drinking, his local soccer club in Watford and a theoretical day out together. He expects to earn “massive lad points,” he says. Kunis is exceptionally winning: She happily goes along, eager for a break from a day of monotonous TV interviews promoting the film. When Stark moves to return to more normal questions, she protests: “Why? This is such a better conversation.” The clip was roundly greeted online as proof of Kunis’ “awesomeness.” (Google “Mila Kunis is awesome” and you’ll get countless links rhapsodizing about the interview.) New York Magazine’s Vulture blog hailed “a brand-new inductee into the most-adored-actress-ever club.” What’s emerging is a new kind of stardom propelled by glimpses of authenticity circulated on
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -Consult with experts over the next few days. Tap into the latest news on the subject. No need to decide immediately. Get multiple opinions, and then consider your options. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Dig into a big job. Start by learning the rules for the most difficult task first. Get into creative work, and bring home the bacon. This satisfies on multiple levels. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Schedule for success. Include romance, and block out time for the unexpected. Prioritize children, creativity, social life and your sweetheart. Indulge. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Make sure you know what’s requested before doing the work. Get into home projects for the next few days. Nesting feels especially nurturing. Discover hidden treasure. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Get the facts before you jump to conclusions. Your powers of concentration are sharp for the next two days, and research suits you fine. Get into study, and solutions flow. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easy to spend money for the next two days. It’s also easier to earn it, so focus on that. There’s no reason not to budget for what you want. Get into the leisure life. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- A quiet day might suit you just fine, if it can be arranged. A conflict of interests could leave you with a tricky choice. You know in your heart which path is best. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Check the blueprint, and then proceed. Clear communications create new opportunities. Get in touch with old friends who can help. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You have more than you think. Procrastinate another day. Take action to improve the quality of your community and environment. When everyone wins, you win. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- It’s an excellent time to travel now. Don’t be afraid to take the path you haven’t taken before. You’ll find what’s needed along the way. Just go. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s a great time to complete your tax return. You’re more patient with finances and with others. Try to be just as patient with yourself. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Clear out the clutter, and give it away to others who’ll appreciate it more. You’re learning to let go of things you don’t need. Less is more.
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John Thompson III named the Big East Coach of the Year
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Georgetown head coach John Thompson III goes to cut the net after Georgetown beat
NEW YORK (AP) — John Thompson, the first of the Georgetown coaches with that name, was sitting on a raised area just feet from where John Thompson III was accepting the trophy for Big East Coach of the Year. Tuesday's presentation brings JT III, as he is known, within two seasonal awards of his Hall of Fame father. It almost seemed like closure when the award was presented. John Thompson won the award after the Big East's first season in 1979-80. John Thompson III won it for the season that will be the last of the Big East as we know it. Seven Catholic members have left with others leaving in a year or two. The surviving Big East football schools will play on with others schools joining over the next few years. JT III doesn't care about any of that now. "I wish you guys would stop writing obits and start looking to the future," he said. "We are looking forward and we will have Big East basketball next season and the postseason tournament will be played at Madison Square Garden with some of the best teams in the country, some of the best coaches in the country. "This will be a very good league, a league (the late Big East founder) Mr. (Dave) Gavitt will look down and smile upon. It will be a conference my dad and the other great coaches like Lou
Carnesecca and Rollie Massimino will smile upon and (Connecticut coach Jim) Calhoun and (Syracuse coach Jim) Boeheim will begrudgingly smile about it." The Hoyas shared the regular season title with Louisville and Marquette with 14-4 records. A lot of their success, which included a school-record 11 straight Big East wins, can be attributed to 6-foot-8 sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr., who was the unanimous choice as Big East Player of the Year. Porter was second in the league in scoring (18.1), fifth in rebounding (7.3), tied for third in steals (1.8) and second in 3-point shooting (44.1 percent). He said he never thought about winning the award but he has looked at the list of names he joins, including six former Hoyas who took home seven trophies — the last being Jeff Green in 2006-07. "It's a big advantage having Coach Thompson around," Porter said, referring to the father. "It's so great that he and others around the program help us so much and teach us so much. We are always ready to listen to him." The elder Thompson said his half of the father-son combination doesn't matter to him. "As his father this is significant to me," he said. "Everything he accomplishes means an awful lot to me and makes me proud. I don't think as much as me win-
ning than as him. With me it was such a job. "He's a modest person. He wouldn't feel any accomplishment if he was successful and the team wasn't. I think of him more as an individual than he does himself and I feel good about that." John Thompson won six Big East tournaments, one behind Calhoun's record. His son had one (2007) and his team starts play in this year's tournament Thursday as the No. 1 seed. JaKarr Sampson became the second straight St. John's player to be selected Rookie of the Year. The 6-8 forward is the conference's top freshman scorer (14.9) and rebounder (6.6). He follows Moe Harkless as rookie of the year. "The Big East Rookie of the Year award was one of the individual goals I set for myself," Sampson said. "This is a big moment for me. I'm proud of myself for achieving my goal." Sampson becomes the second straight St. John's player to earn Big East rookie honors and the third overall. Harkless took home the league's top freshman honor in 2011-12, while David Russell earned the award in 1979-80. St. John's coach Steve Lavin said Sampson "probably has as much enthusiasm as any player I've coached. Energy is one of his gifts, he brings electricity and energy to the game, that separates or distinguishes him from other players."
Bobcats snap their 10 game losing streak CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Gerald Henderson had a career-high 35 points, and the Charlotte Bobcats snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 100-74 win over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Henderson was 11 of 19 from the field and knocked down all 12 of his foul shots. Ben Gordon scored 17 points and new starting forward Josh McRoberts had his first double-double for Charlotte with 13 points and 10 rebounds. The Bobcats (14-50) doubled last season's win total and posted their largest margin of victory this season. The Celtics, playing without Paul Pierce, looked like a team that has played nine of its last 11 games on the road. Jeff Green and Jordan Crawford each had 14 points for Boston. Kevin Garnett needed nine points to pass Jerry West and move into 15th place on the NBA's career scoring list, but was
held to five points on 2-of-10 shooting. The Celtics looked out of sync early on without Pierce, who received a night of rest from coach Doc Rivers. It looked as if most of the other Celtics had taken the night off, too. Henderson went to work in the first half, scoring 21 points to help Charlotte to a 49-46 lead at the break. Henderson stayed with his biggest strength playing against Courtney Lee and Jason Terry, driving to the hole and drawing contact. He was 8 of 13 from the field in the first half and made all five of his free-throw attempts. He continued his solid play in the third. He knocked down a 3-pointer from the wing and then came up with a huge effort play to give the Bobcats a doubledigit lead. He drove the lane and got blocked, but corralled the rebound after put in back in while drawing a foul. The Bobcats poured it on in the fourth quarter, opening a 24-point lead with
six minutes left when Gordon threw an alley-oop pass to McRoberts, who slammed it home with his left hand. The Celtics probably should have been expecting more of a game from the Bobcats after losing in Charlotte earlier in the season. But Rivers decided to sit the 35-yearold Pierce with Boston in the midst of a difficult part of the schedule. He pondered sitting Pierce, Garnett or Terry while on the flight to Charlotte from Oklahoma City. He chose Pierce. "I don't get a lot of kickback right now when I say I'm sitting one of them," Rivers said with a laugh before the game. NOTES: The Celtics and Bobcats play again Saturday night in Boston. ... AP Bobcats center Byron Mullens, who has been benched for McRoberts, played Boston Celtics' Jeff Green (8) stretches for the block as Charlotte Bobcats' Michael Kiddonly 11 minutes before leaving with a Gilchrist (14) looks to shoot during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, strained back.
Capitals take down the Hurricanes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Riley Nash scored twice, Joe Corvo put one in off the goaltender's mask, and Justin Peters got his second career shutout Tuesday night as the surging Carolina Hurricanes beat the slumping Washington Capitals 4-0, taking the first leg of a key home-and-home series between the Southeast Division rivals. Patrick Dwyer added an empty-net goal, and Peters made 26 saves for the Hurricanes, who have won six of seven and have a 10-point lead over the Capitals, whose struggles are one of the big surprises of the lockout-shortened season. The division is essentially becoming a two-team race between Carolina and the Winnipeg Jets. The Capitals lost their third straight — all by at least a three-goal margin. They were hoping to get back in the race with a sweep of the Hurricanes this week. Instead, the best they can do is a split when they visit Carolina on Thursday. The Hurricanes' blue line
was injury-depleted when they were shut out 3-0 by the Capitals on Feb. 26. The reverse scenario played out Tuesday, with injuries forcing Washington to use three defensemen who began the season in the minors. Bad penalties haunted Washington in its last two losses, but all of the Hurricanes' scoring came at even strength. The first one involved a pair of former Capitals — Corvo and Alexander Semin. Corvo was near the boards when his shot along the goal line struck goalie Braden Holtby in the back and went in. Semin, booed throughout the game by fans frustrated by his moody play during seven seasons in Washington, had the primary assist. Semin went down twice early in the second period but stayed in the game. The first time came when he was struck by good friend Alex Ovechkin, who was taking a shot and hit Semin in the face with his stick during the follow-through. Nash deflected Jay Harrison's shot from the
edge of the left circle to make it 2-0 in the second period. Nash got his second goal later in the period after Dwyer outhustled Capitals defenseman Jeff Schultz to the puck to prevent an icing call. Nash trailed the play and was in the slot to take Dwyer's pass for the easy shot past Holtby. Peters, who is sharing duties with Dan Ellis while Cam Ward is out with a knee injury, was on the top of his game. He made a reflex pad save on Marcus Johansson in the second period and later stymied Troy Brouwer on a short-handed breakaway. NOTES: Washington D Tom Poti missed the game with an upper body injury, while D John Erskine (upper body) and D Mike Green (groin) remained sidelined. The Capitals recalled D Cameron Schilling from Hershey of the AHL. Schilling made his NHL debut and joined Tomas Kundratek and Steve Oleksy as the Washington blue liners who started the season in Hershey. ... Oleksy delivered a rarity — a good punch in a hockey fight. He rattled Drayson Bowman with a right hand to the face in the third period. ... Peters' only previous shutout also came against the Capitals, a 5-0 win on Feb. 20, 2012.
Kruger signs with the Browns CLEVELAND (AP) — Paul Kruger rushed his way to a Super Bowl win, and on to a huge payday. Baltimore's sacks leader last season agreed to terms Tuesday on a five-year, $40 million contract with the Cleveland Browns, who with their first move in free agency added a proven pass rusher and weakened the defending NFL champions. The 27-year-old linebacker will sign his deal on Wednesday before he's introduced at the team's training complex in suburban Berea. The Browns officially announced the agreement with Kruger on Tuesday night, a few hours after it was reported by The Associated Press and other media outlets. ESPN was the first to report Kruger was leaving the Ravens to join the Browns. "We are very excited about the addition of Paul Kruger to our team," new Browns coach Rob Chudzinski said in a release. "He is a talented linebacker who is going to make an immediate impact on our defense. When you put on the film you see physicality, explosive pass rush and a high motor. He has been very productive for the Ravens, and proved it at the highest level last season in the playoffs." Entering free agency with over $47 million in salary-cap space, Browns CEO Joe Banner and general manager Mike
Lombardi wasted little time landing Kruger, considered one of the top outside rushers in this year's free-agent class. He had 13½ sacks last season — 4½ in the playoffs — and will strengthen a young Cleveland defense transitioning from a 4-3 defensive scheme to a 3-4 multifront formation under new coordinator Ray Horton. "Paul is the type of player we were looking to bring on at the outset of free agency, and we are thrilled that we were able to sign him," Banner said. "Not only do we feel strongly about his ability as a football player, but he will add a great deal from a leadership standpoint as well. He has exhibited marked improvement each year of his career and we believe he can help the Cleveland Browns for many years to come." Kruger's signing supports new Browns owner Jimmy Haslam's pledge to turn around a franchise that has lost at least 11 games in each of the past five seasons and made the playoffs once since 1999. And now that they've addressed one of their biggest needs, the Browns may target a tight end, cornerback and perhaps a quarterback in free agency to bring in as competition for Brandon Weeden. During the recent three-day negotiating window, the Browns reportedly talked to agents for players at all three positions, but with teams releasing players in the early hours of free agency, the market has already changed. It's not known if the Browns have had any contact with the representatives for Pro Bowl kicker Phil Dawson or return specialist Josh Cribbs, the club's two longest tenured players. Dawson, who has spent 14 seasons with Cleveland, left in December thinking his days with the Browns were over. Cribbs has reportedly drawn interest from several teams including the Arizona Cardinals. Kruger had a breakout season for the Ravens in 2012. After getting nine sacks during the regular season, he was a disruptive force in the postseason
and twice sacked San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the Super Bowl as Baltimore held off the 49ers to win the title. It was a fitting finish for the 6-foot-4, 270-pounder, who started a career-high five games after starting just one in his first three NFL seasons. Drafted in the second round (No. 57 overall) in 2009 from Utah, Kruger, who was a quarterback in high school, was slow to develop and initially found it difficult to get playing time on a star-studded Ravens team with talented linebackers and pass rushers. However, with linebacker Terrell Suggs sidelined last season with a torn Achilles tendon, Kruger got a chance to play more and became the team's most efficient rusher. He made $615,000 last season, the final one of his original deal with Baltimore. In getting Kruger, the Browns are not only hoping to bolster their defense but take another piece away from the Ravens, who are undergoing a massive makeover after signing quarterback Joe Flacco to a new contract. Baltimore traded wide receiver Anquan Boldin to San Francisco, and the AFC North champs also reportedly lost inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbee in free agency to Miami. Perennial Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed could be next. Kruger recorded 69 tackles and 15½ sacks in 51 games for the Ravens. He joined them with a tough-guy reputation after he survived being stabbed by a gang member in Utah while hosting his younger brother on a recruiting visit. Kruger suffered a collapsed lung and punctured artery in the attack. He overcame a back injury last season, when he had just 1½ sacks in Baltimore's first seven games. But Kruger picked it up and had sacks in five straight games — tying the franchise record — beginning with two against Oakland Nov. 11. He had 7½ sacks in the final eight games, and finished with career-highs in tackles (42) passes defensed (6) and forced fumbles (1).
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Breanna Stewart has breakout game By Matt Stypulkoski Senior Staff Writer As demoralizing as their last second loss to Notre Dame may have been, perhaps – just maybe – if the Huskies search for it, they’ll find one great big silver lining. Breanna Stewart, the No. 1 recruit in the nation when she came out of high school a year ago, absolutely exploded on the offensive end. Her 16 points – 12 of which came in the second half – were instrumental in helping UConn stay with the Irish. “She played amazingly,” UConn junior center Stefanie Dolson said of her teammate. “You know, I’ve been extremely proud of her this whole Big East Tournament, she really just came out of her shell and just has not second-guessed herself and just has been playing basketball. You know, she’s done a great job of catching the ball, squaring up and just driving – not thinking about it.” Over-thinking things is what got Stewart – who started her freshman season on an absolute tear – into trouble during the dog days of the regular season. She simply hit a wall and nothing seemed willing to go her way. And the fact that she wasn’t willing to help herself, often playing tentative, scared basketball, didn’t help. But in the past three days, she has rededicated herself to an aggressive, act-firstthink-second approach that
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has paid off in a big way. During the Big East Tournament, Stewart averaged 17 points per game, her best average over any three-game stretch since Dec. 19-29, when she put up 19 per game against Oakland, Hartford and Stanford. “I think that things are starting to actually show,” Stewart said about her game. “I think there were things that I wasn’t showing as a player and now I’ve put
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Notebook them out on the court.” Unfortunately, the one time she wasn’t aggressive was when the game was on tied on the last possession. After leaping and spreading out as far as she could to make an athletic one-handed grab on a wayward inbounds pass, Stewart dished it off to a cutting Kelly Faris rather than look to make the play herself. “[Stewart] made a great catch and next time she is in that situation after she catches it she is going to square up and catch it and attack the basket and get the foul,” Coach Geno Auriemma said about the game’s last play. “She is too young to understand that right now.” Growing pains are what this season has been all
about for Stewart. But even in the face of what might have been a late-game mistake, she felt the positive from this three day stretch has far exceeded the negative. As far as her teammates are concerned, the past few days have instilled a sense of trust in her ability to play in tight spots – a vote of confidence that could help make the difference in a close game down the line. “She made huge shots tonight,” Dolson said, “and that definitely gives us all, I think, a lot of trust and confidence in the fact that she’ll make them in the tournament The Big East is kind of like a mini NCAA Tournament and the fact that she played the way she did in this, I think that all gives us a lot of confidence that she’ll do the same in [the NCAA Tournament].” If nothing else, she certainly earned the respect of her rivals tonight. “She had a great game,” Notre Dame forward Natalie Achonwa said. “I think her ability to play on the inside as well as the outside and the length of her arms and her wingspan just help incredibly. I think she had a great game today.” UConn lost the battle against Notre Dame, but perhaps – just maybe – they are winning the war to build Stewart into an elite player. And next time these two teams play – if there is a next time – that may make all the difference.
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Chiefs to acquire Smith KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs finally have their new quarterback. The Chiefs officially traded for Alex Smith on Tuesday, the first day of the new league year — and nearly two weeks after the San Francisco 49ers agreed to the deal. All that's left is for Smith to pass a physical and the paperwork to be filed with the league. That business is expected to be finished Wednesday. The 49ers will receive the Chiefs' second-round pick, 34th overall, in this year's draft and a conditional pick in next year's draft, a person familiar with the terms told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the terms were not disclosed. Kansas City also agreed Tuesday to a fouryear, $16 million deal with former Dolphins tight end Anthony Fasano, a three-year, $12.6 million contract with defensive tackle Mike DeVito, and a three-year deal with former Saints backup quarterback Chase Daniel. The moves continue what's been a busy offseason for the Chiefs under new general manager John Dorsey and coach Andy Reid. Last week, they signed wide receiver Dwayne Bowe to a five-year, $54 million deal, punter Dustin Colquitt to a five-year, $18.75 million deal, and placed the franchise tag on left tackle Branden Albert, promising him $9.83 million for the 2013 season. Dorsey and Reid were not available to comment on Tuesday's moves. "Part of this movement was from a philosophical belief that has been ingrained in me," Dorsey told AP in an interview last week, when asked about how quickly he's hit the ground running. "Winning organizations," he said, "do moves like this." Under the three-year contract he signed last March, Smith is guaranteed $8.5 million for the 2013 season, though it's possible the Chiefs will attempt to sign him to a new deal. The Chiefs' big spending was made possible by carving out space under the salary cap. The new regime has released right tackle Eric Winston, wide receiver Steve Breaston and tight end Kevin Boss, and restructured the mammoth contract of defensive end Tyson Jackson. The Chiefs are also expected to release incumbent quarterback Matt Cassel in the coming days. The poor play of Cassel, who has two years left on a six-year, $63 million deal, is one of the reasons the Chiefs went 2-14 last year and have
the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, and why the new front office targeted Smith in the days and weeks after their arrival. Smith had eight up-and-down years with the 49ers, but thrived under coach Jim Harbaugh. He went 13-3 as the starter two years ago, and was 6-2 at the midway point this past season, completing 18 of 19 passes with three TDs in a Monday night win over Arizona on Oct. 29. He then sustained a concussion in the second quarter of a 24-24 tie against St. Louis on Nov. 11, saying later he threw a touchdown pass with blurry vision. Smith sat out the next game, Colin Kaepernick dazzled in his debut as an NFL starter — and Smith never started again. Kaepernick led the 49ers to the Super Bowl and Smith became expendable. Smith approached the delicate situation with grace, and said in response to questions about it, "I feel like the only thing I did to lose my job was get a concussion." "We would like to thank Alex for his contributions to the 49ers organization over the past eight years," 49ers GM Trent Baalke said in a statement Tuesday. "He is a true professional who represented the 49ers with class on and off the field." Smith will try to settle a Chiefs quarterback situation that's been shaky for years. After leading Kansas City to the playoffs in 2010, Cassel struggled to perform at the same level. He injured a hand in 2011, forcing Tyler Palko and Kyle Orton to finish out the year, and a head injury this past season cleared the way for Brady Quinn to step in. Quinn fared little better in eight games and became a free agent. The only other quarterbacks on the Chiefs' roster were former fifth-round draft pick Ricky Stanzi and journeyman Alex Tanney, so Dorsey and Reid targeted Daniel to provide some depth. Daniel has spent the past three years backing up Drew Brees in New Orleans. Fasano, who spent the past five seasons with Miami, has proven to be a solid pass-catching tight end. He had 41 catches for 332 yards and five touchdowns last season, and has 205 catches for 2,373 yards and 24 touchdowns in 108 career games. DeVito, a run-stuffing defensive tackle, started 15 games for the Jets last season. He'll be expected to solidify a defensive line that struggled to stop the run last season.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish set to join ACC at season's end
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Goodbye Madison Square Garden, Georgetown and Villanova. Hello Greensboro Coliseum, North Carolina and Duke. A year from now, Notre Dame men's basketball team will be preparing for the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament instead of its annual trip to New York, where the Irish are a frustrating 9-17 all-time in the Big East tournament and have never made it to the league title game. The school announced Tuesday it is leaving the fractured Big East a year sooner than originally anticipated for the ACC in all sports except football and hockey. The switch was approved in a vote by Big East university presidents in the wake of a split announced last week of the league's football schools and seven other Catholic schools that next season are forming their own basketball-focused conference with the Big East name. The vote means Notre Dame coaches can move forward with scheduling for the 2013-14 school year.
"It removes the uncertainty that made it hard for our coaches and athletes, so we're very happy to resolve that for them," athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a telephone interview. The move means stability for all Notre Dame sports and has some familiarity to Irish fans, with Syracuse and Pittsburgh joining the Irish in moving to the ACC next season and former Big East teams Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech already part of the ACC. If the Irish had opted to stay in the football-centric league, they would have faced some not-so-familiar opponents in Memphis, Central Florida, Houston, Tulane and SMU, along with returning members Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida, Louisville and Rutgers. Louisville joins the ACC after next season, while Rutgers joins the Big Ten. If the Irish had chosen to align with the Catholic schools, they would have faced DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, St.
John's, Seton Hall, Providence and Villanova. Butler, Xavier and Creighton have been mentioned as potential members. The ACC will provide some Notre Dame's non-revenue sports with more challenging opponents. North Carolina's women's soccer team has won 21 national championships; four different men's soccer teams from the conference have won national championships in the past six years; Virginia and Maryland played for the national title in men's lacrosse in 2011; and Duke has won four national championships in golf in the past 11 years. "It's a better situation than the consequence of having the Catholic 7 and the Big East split," Swarbrick said. The move comes six months after Notre Dame announced it was opting to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey. Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco said the move made sense for the league. "The Big East can now focus fully on its future alignment and rebranding efforts," he said.
ACC Commissioner John Swofford said the league welcomed the early arrival of the Irish, saying the additions of Syracuse and Pitt this year and Louisville next year will make the league's basketball schedule "brutal, which is a great thing for our league and fans." Swarbrick said the decision to join the ACC early evolved over time, saying Notre Dame had been in constant touch with the ACC. At a news conference later, before the Big East women's basketball title game, he gave few details of the financial deal that made Notre dame's early exit possible. "The easiest way for me to describe it is that the deal struck by the Catholic 7 did provide a template that made a lot of sense to follow," he said. "We're a school that's essentially the same. Our participation in the league was under the same terms. Our withdrawal under the mutual commitment agreement was the same, so it made sense to follow their deal in form."
As recently as last month it appeared Notre Dame would remain in the Big East for one more season, with Swarbrick telling coaches to proceed with scheduling for next season under the assumption the Irish would be in the Big East for a 19th season. That was based on the assumption the seven Catholic schools would not be able to form their own league in time for next season. Last week, Aresco said the seven Catholic schools were leaving effective July 1 and taking the Big East name with them. A person familiar with the negotiations last week told The Associated Press the football members, which do not include Notre Dame, will receive a payment of about $100 million from the conference and NCAA men's basketball tournament funds, with the bulk of the money going to holdover members Cincinnati, Connecticut and South Florida. Swarbrick said it was best for Notre Dame to join the ACC as soon as possible. "Once we made a decision like
we made, everybody psychologically moves on. You're better off getting there," he said. The ACC has already announced a basketball scheduling model for Notre Dame's arrival. In October, the league said the men would stay with an 18-game slate that would pair each team with two scheduling partners that each team played twice a year. Notre Dame's scheduling partners are Boston College and Georgia Tech. On the women's side, the league is going back to a 16-game schedule. Scheduling partners have yet to be determined. The decision to join the ACC early had no impact on Notre Dame's commitment to play five games a year against ACC teams starting in 2014, when it also will have access to the league's non-BCS bowl tie-ins. For the 2013 season, Notre Dame has no bowl tie-ins, meaning that if the Irish don't earn a BCS berth and are bowl eligible they will have to wait to see what bowls have unused spots to see where they will play.
Percy Harvey dealt to Seattle Seahawks for first round selection
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The way John Schneider views the decision, the Seattle Seahawks spent the 25th pick in the 2013 draft on Percy Harvin and not an unproven player coming out of college. His logic is understandable when one of the most dynamic offensive players in the NFL joins a potential Super Bowl contender. "I understand why you would look at the compensation, but this is a highly unique player," said Schneider, Seattle's general manager. "For us to be able to, if
you place Percy in this draft there would be some pretty strong argument how high he would go and it would be pretty darn high. ... Really this is kind of a slam dunk for us." The trade between Seattle and Minnesota that brought Harvin to the Seahawks became official once the NFL's league year began Tuesday. The Seahawks gave up a trio of draft picks, including the first-round pick in 2013. Harvin's relationship with the Vikings quickly grew from one of trust and respect for drafting
Morrissey: Halfway to the title from HALFWAY, page 12 is much more skilled than the teams that have hit the Air Canada Centre ice for the past few seasons. While it’s possible that the Leafs will make the playoffs, I don’t see them ending their 44 season Stanley Cup drought as Toronto does not have enough depth in their lineup. Even in a shortened season, the team with the most depth and the ability to roll four solid lines at their opponent will have the most success come late spring.
A lot can happen between now and the end of the regular season of the NHL. With most division races separated by less than 10 points, it’s anybody’s guess which 16 teams will ultimately make the postseason. One thing that’s for certain, hockey fans are glad to have their sport back because so far this shortened season has not been short on thrilling moments or lasting memories. Follow Tyler on Twitter @ TylerRMorrissey
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him after he plummeted down the board in 2009 to much more volatile heading into last season. He requested a trade in June because he was not pleased with his contract and his role in the offense. Coach Leslie Frazier was able to smooth things over before training camp began, but Harvin quickly grew upset during the season with quarterback Christian Ponder's erratic passing and the team's inconsistent play on offense. But Harvin had nothing but praise for the Vikings organization on Tuesday as he closed one chap-
ter and looked forward to his time with the Seahawks. "I have great respect for everybody in that program from top to bottom. Yes we had some bumps in the road, but I respect them and I feel they respected me," Harvin said. "Me and Coach Frazier was in direct contact through this whole time, so me and him to this day have a great relationship. It was a good four years but I'm excited to be here." Seattle will send its first-round pick — No. 25 overall — this season to the Vikings, along with one
of three seventh-round selections and its third-round pick in 2014. With the Vikings, Harvin was producing at an All-Pro level until badly spraining his left ankle last Nov. 4 in a game at Seattle. He was placed on injured reserve a month later, abruptly ending a season that began so strongly. He led the NFL in total yards, including rushing, receiving and returning, at the time of his injury. Harvin finished last season with 62 receptions for 677 yards and three touchdowns in nine games. In 2011, when Harvin was selected
to the Pro Bowl, he had 967 yards receiving, 345 yards rushing and eight total touchdowns. Now he joins an offense that already features quarterback Russell Wilson, former teammate Sidney Rice, Marshawn Lynch, Golden Tate, Zach Miller, Doug Baldwin, and his former offensive coordinator in Minnesota, Darrell Bevell. And he'll join the Seahawks with a huge new contract. ProFootballTalk.com reported Harvin's new deal with the Seahawks is for $67 million over six years.
Heat look to break record for longest win streak from HEAT, page 14 Week seven days ago. Moreover, Milwaukee is doing everything in its power to upgrade its playoff positioning in order to avoid Miami in the first round and the Bradley Center is hardly an easy venue to win in. Miami will get a scare from Milwaukee, but the Heat will come out on top for the 21st straight time. Miami travels across the border to Toronto on St. Patrick’s Day, which will most likely be a win because the Heat are
quite superior and the Raptors are gearing up for Tank Season. On the very next night, the Heat will go into Boston for the second time this season. The Celtics always seem to bring their best out when the Heat come to visit; also, the Celts have already beaten the Heat sans Rondo in January, so if anything, Boston will be even more prepared. There’s a fair chance the win streak could fall here. If Boston can’t topple Miami, I foresee two other legitimate opportunities for a Miami
loss in March: At Chaicgo on March 27 (the Bulls only scored like 12 points against Heat a month ago) and at San Antonio of March 31. The Spurs are the only title contender that have yet to face the Heat on its winning streak and came within a late Ray Allen corner triple from defeating the Heat earlier this season in the infamous “Popovich sits everybody and gets fined” game. Although Tony Parker will be shelved, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili will take great pleasure in knocking off
the defending NBA champions. Coincidentally enough, if Miami is able to get by Chicago, San Antonio and all of the teams in-between, it could come down to Miami having to beat Milwaukee to win its 34th game in a row. The Lakers weren’t able to do it over 30 years ago, so it’s only fitting that the Heat will have to overcome the Bucks in order for LeBron and company to go down in the history books.
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March 15 March 16 March 17 Presbyterian Presbyterian Presbyterian 3 p.m 6 p.m 1 p.m.
March 19 College of Charleston 6 p.m.
Softball (8-6) March 16 March 16 Central Hofstra Connecticut 1:30 p.m. 4 p.m.
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April 5 Rutgers 3 p.m.
April 7 Villanova 1 p.m.
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April 2 Bryant 3 p.m.
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Auriemma used the pause in the action to take a timeout. With no shot clock, the Huskies had 18.4 seconds to score a basket that could eliminate a first half so lousy that Auriemma couldn’t even describe it. “I can’t think of any scenario that I thought we would play that first half the way we played it,” Auriemma said. “I wasn’t prepared for that.” As awful as it might have been, UConn still had a chance. After the timeout, UConn ran a play that the Huskies went through as recently as Tuesday morning. Faris had the ball on a misdirection play and was faced with a decision. One option was to pass to forward Kaleena Mosqueda Lewis on the top of the circle—the wide-open Mosqueda-Lewis hadn’t made a three-pointer all game—another option was to pass to Breanna Stewart underneath the basket. Faris chose to pass it to Stewart. Auriemma didn’t think Faris made a mistake with her pass. “Next time in the next situation if she makes that choice, I’m okay with that too,” he said. The pass from Faris was way too high but the 6-foot 4-inch Stewart was able to get up there to bring the ball down with one outstretched hand. Here’s where the mistake happened. Rather than square up and drive to the basket to either draw contact or make a layup, as Auriemma would have liked, Stewart brought the ball back and passed back to Faris. “She is too young to understand that right now,” Auriemma said. But once Stewart brought the ball back and passed it, Auriemma said he should have called a timeout. He took responsibility for the second mistake. Once Faris got the ball on the pass from Stewart, she dribbled along the baseline to Mosqueda-Lewis on the side line. With a defender bearing down on her, she tried passing it to Hartley. In stepped Diggins. The Notre Dame guard tried her best to avoid Hartley and Faris who all but tried to gang tackle her and yet she somehow got away. “I think we fouled her three times,” Auriemma said. “I guess it took a long time for them not to call fouls on us. But they picked the worst timing...As it turned out, we would have had to tackle her for them to call it but we tried.” On the ensuing five-on-one breakaway Diggins found a wide open Natalie Achonwa under the basket for a layup. AP 61-59 Notre Dame.
Gonzalez, who has more catches than any tight end in NFL history, announced Tuesday, March 12, that he is returning to the Falcons for the 2013 season. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
THE Storrs Side Lacrosse nationally ranked for the first time since 2007 By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer The UConn women’s lacrosse team has been hot to start the 2013 season, and their quick start has resulted in their first national ranking since 2007. UConn is No. 20 in the latest deBeer Women’s Media Poll after starting the season 5-0, the team’s best start since the 2000 season. The Huskies’ historic start includes only one victory at home. UConn is 4-0 on the road so far this season. To this point, the Huskies’ biggest win came in Chapel Hill, Mass, when UConn defeated No. 15 Boston College 13-8. With 11 games to play, UConn is already halfway to matching its total number of wins from the 2012 season when it went 10-6. The Huskies have outscored their opponents 67-39 on the season. Lauren Kahn (14) and Kacey Pippitt (12) are the only two Huskies in double digits for goals this season and have carried the
offense for the most part. Kahn is third in the Big East in goals and second and assists. She is No. 1 in the conference in points per game through her first six appearances. Defensively, goaltender Marya Fratoni is third in the conference in save percentage. She has played in half of UConn’s games so far. After four seasons at American University, where she won 26 games and brought her team to two Patriot League championship games, UConn Coach Katie Woods is now 24-13 during her career with the Huskies. The Huskies have four ranked teams on its remaining schedule – No. 6 Notre Dame, No. 7 Syracuse, No. 8 Georgetown and No. 19 Rutgers. The Huskies will play the Orange on March 22 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
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THE Pro Side Manny Ramirez signs with Taiwanese pro baseball team By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer After receiving zero interest from MLB clubs in recent weeks, 40-year old Manny Ramirez has signed a short-term contract to play with the EDA Rhinos of the Taiwan professional baseball league. Ramirez will earn $25,000 per month over the course of the season, which lasts from March until November. The former all-star has now concluded a 19-year career in the United States that saw major stops in Cleveland, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. In 2011, Ramirez saw his final major league at-bats with the Tampa Bay Rays, with whom he went 1-17 from the plate. Last season, the Dominican native hit .302 as a member of the Oakland A’s Triple-A affiliate, while serving out the remainder of a 100-game suspension for PED use. After completing his sentence through the end of last May, Ramirez was not recalled by the A’s to their pro club and later released. The league Ramirez now will be competing in, the Chinese Professional Baseball League,
consists of four teams, all of which play on the island of Taiwan. The CPBL absorbed the original Taiwan Major League in 2003, but was forced to shrink from nine clubs down to four in recent years after being marred by game-fixing scandals. Low attendance figures have kept the average salary for a CPBL player typically within the range of $12-15,000. Ramirez will earn double for the upcoming season, in efforts by the Rhinos owner to boost revenue and league popularity. Since the best native baseball talent from China and Taiwan is usually lost to the major leagues, the CPBL largely consists of players of Double-A and Triple-A ability. Ramirez’ career MLB totals figure to land him in Cooperstown one day, though his proven drug use will affect eventual voting. He finished with 555 home runs, 1,831 RBI, a career .314 batting average and OPS mark of .996. The eccentric outfielder will first be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Halfway to the cup
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Huskies lose heartbreaker By Dan Agabiti Sports Editor
Tyler Morrissey After enduring a lockout that seemed like an eternity the National Hockey League is officially past the halfway point of a 48 game shortened season. From the first drop of the puck back in Jan. the hard hitting action of the NHL has been almost nonstop with teams playing just about every night of the week. One team that has garnered the lion’s share of attention from the sports world is the Chicago Blackhawks. During the first 24 games on the season, the Blackhawks secured at least one point and did not lose in regulation, good for an NHL record. Chicago’s point streak was snapped by the Colorado Avalanche last weekend when the Aves took down the Blackhawks were routed 6-2. The only two groups of people happy to see Chicago’s streak come to an end are fans of any team in the Western Conference and the folks at ESPN, who no longer have to pretend they care about hockey. All kidding aside, what the Blackhawks accomplished during the first half was quite impressive. In hockey, it’s rare that you see a team display such consistently night in and night out. Everybody has to have a bad game once in a while, but for those 24 games, Chicago didn’t. Even when the Hawks were trailing a goal in the third period they found a way to score the equalizer, often in dramatic fashion. What’s just as impressive, the Anaheim Ducks are only six points behind the Blackhawks for the Western Conference lead. Regardless of who the No. 1 team in West is when the playoffs start, Chicago is without a doubt one of the teams to beat and is a prime contender for the Stanley Cup. With power forwards like Patrick Kane, Toews and Marian Hoassa, NHL defensemen will be quite busy trying to prevent what looks like a long playoff run for the Windy City. In the East, two of the game’s biggest rivals, Boston and Montreal have been battling it out for the top spot in the Northeast division as well as the conference lead. The Habs have been one of the most improved teams from a year ago after finishing dead last in 2012. American born captain Brian Gionta has recorded 16 points on the season (nine goals, seven assists) which is already more than his entire 2012 point total of 15, in what was a season to forget for one of the NHL’s most storied franchises. Before this season started I wrote that even the Toronto Maple Leafs had a shot at the Stanley Cup if they got off to a good start in this shortened season. And to my surprise and the entire hockey worlds surprise, the Maple Leafs are in 5th place in the East and have a shot to make the playoffs for the first time since 2004. After Boston’s recent victory over Toronto, Bruins head coach Claude Julien called the Maple Leafs a “legit contender” for the postseason. I happen to agree with Julien, I think that this Toronto team
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Last night, UConn’s 61-59 loss came down to one bad possession after two minutes of brilliance. With 1:59 remaining in the game, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma called a 30-second timeout after a Breanna Stewart layup assisted by Bria Hartley. At that point, the Huskies were down 59-55. The first Notre Dame possession after that timeout ended in a turnover by Notre Dame freshman Jewell Loyd after Hartley Notebook stole the ball from her. The Huskies responded with a Hartley pull-up jumper on a fast break. 59-57 Notre Dame. Then the redhot Kayla McBride—a bona fide Husky killer who finished the game with 23 points—missed a layup. UConn then took the ball down the floor and scored on a Stefanie Dolson layup. Game tied at 59. When the Irish took the ball up the court, guard Skylar Diggins attempted a wild, contested shot that didn’t go in. All of a sudden UConn had the ball with 37 seconds to go and a chance at a win. Coming up the floor, UConn guard Kelly Faris dribbled her way out of trouble and took a wild layup but got her own rebound. Play stopped with 18.4 seconds to go and
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Freshmen Breanna Stewart dribbles around the perimeter in the Big East Championship game last night as the Huskies fell to the No. 2 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Hartford
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Miami Heat continue to tear up the league
By TJ Souhlaris NBA Columnist
Besides winning championships, there aren’t many things in sports that get fans as happy as a prolonged, enjoyable winning streak. Everybody, from the star players with maximum-level contracts to the random “wait, that guy’s still in the league?” fill-ins at the end of the bench that are about to see their 10-day contracts expire, is playing at the top of their game and the team has a palpable buzz about it in the city (unless that city is Miami, of course). With Miami’s evisceration at home against Indiana on Monday, the Heat have now strung together an 18-game winning streak. Only 12 teams in NBA history including Miami-have accomplished this feat since the Association was created in 1946. Two of those streaks happened during the Truman administration, when the
Washington Capitols-yes, this was once an NBA franchise-rattled off 20 in a row in 1947, and then when the Rochester Royals (whoever decided putting an NBA team in Rochester was a good idea deserved to get fired) won 18 consecutive games in 1949. More impressively, Miami became just the sixth team since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976 to win 18 games in a row. Led by the best duo in Illinois not named Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows, the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls captured a title and won a NBA-record 72 games when they reached 18 straight. Also winning 18 in a row was the 198182 Boston Celtics, keyed by your father’s Big 3-Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Chief Robert Parish. Assuming the Heat don’t lose to the Hawks on Tuesday night, Miami will be on a 19-game winning streak, which will tie it for second-most all-time with the
Shaqobe Lakers of 1999-2000, and the defending NBA champion Big 3 Celtics of 2008-09. Only the 2007-08 Houston Rockets, led by Tracy McGrady in his final season as an explosive, all-star caliber player, reeled off more regular season victories in a row when they scored more points than the other team in 22 straight games. Interestingly enough, the Rockets didn’t even make it out of the first round of the playoffs, while any team that has won at least 19 games in a row (postmerger) has gone on to win the NBA title. (It should also be noted that last season’s San Antonio Spurs won 10 in a row to end the regular season and then began the postseason winning 10 straight as well.) Needless to say, sans the Rockets fluky blip on the historic NBA radar, the Heat are in pretty solid company. Miami has already clinched a playoff spot
with 20 games left on the regular season schedule. Also, they are currently sitting at 47-14, nine games ahead of Indiana and New York for the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Can the Heat actually break the NBA-record of 33 straight victories set by the 197172 Lakers? Los Angeles was led by Hallof-Famers Gail Goodrich, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and firstyear coach Bill Sharman. Thirtyfive-year-old legend Elgin Baylor hung it up nine games into the season; after the Hall-of-Famer retired, the Lakers were victorious in 33 straight games before finally falling to Kareem AbdulJabbar’s Milwaukee Bucks on Jan. 9, 1972. The Logo won his first and only NBA title in 1971-72, as his Lakers beat Knicks in five games in the finals. Now that the little history lesson is completed, let’s take a look at Miami’s upcoming schedule and
see if they can make a run at NBA folklore. They played Atlanta on Tuesday night. This column was already written by the time the teams squared off, so I’m just going to believe that the Heat won by about 15 because they’re playing at home and the Hawks are dreadful. Things get tricky after the Hawks, however, because the Heat will be playing 9 of their next eleven games on the road. They start in Philly on Wednesday night, which should be an easy victory even on the tail end of a back-toback. If they top the Sixers, that’ll be 20 in a row. Although I’m not sure it’s going to happen, there’s a fair amount of chatter in the blogosphere saying the Heat will fall to the Bucks on Friday. Milwaukee is 6-2 since acquiring J.J. Redick at the trade deadline and Monta Ellis was just named NBA Player of the
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Los Angeles Galaxy top MLS power rankings
By Miles Degrazia Soccer Columnist
The second week may be a tad too early to start predicting MLS Cup finalists, but talking about the MLS top ten certainly won’t hurt anyone. So far we’ve seen why we all love MLS, including some great goals from Fabian Espindola, Robbie Keane and Federico Higuaín and wonderful crowds in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver. 10 – New York Red Bulls (W-L-T) (0-1-1) 9th in Eastern Conference. New York may be sitting just one place above the Chicago Fire and dead last in the East, but two strong away performances against Portland and San Jose show that New York has the pieces to be a good team. 9 – Seattle Sounders (0-1-0) 9th in Western Conference. Seattle currently sit in dead last in the West but a strong performance in the CONCACAF Champions Leagues against Tigres de la UANL shows that once Seattle gets more focused on MLS, they will skyrocket up the standings in the West. 8 – Real Salt Lake (1-1-0) 4th in Western Conference. Real Salt Lake started the season flying high with an impressive 2-0 victory over San Jose at Buck Shaw cour-
tesy of an Alvaro Saborio and played DC tough in another away match last weekend. Their season starts with five of their first seven matches on the road, but once RSL gets back to the friendly confines of Rio Tinto they should be in good shape. 7 – Sporting Kansas City (1-1-0) 3rd in Eastern Conference. Sporting Kansas City may have lost to Toronto last week, but the team is continuing to gel and once the attack gets on the same page SKC should be back near the top of the East. 6 – San Jose Earthquakes (1-1-0) 5th in Western Conference. San Jose was looking at starting the season with backto-back losses until some late drama and a stunning comeback against the New York Red Bulls. The win should definitely give the defending supporters shield champions some confidence with an away trip to Columbus coming next weekend. 5 – DC United (1-1-0) 8th in Eastern Conference. DC United put up a gutsy performance against Real Salt Lake last weekend showing that the team is continuing their form of last season, and this weekends away trip to face the hated New York Red Bulls will be a big early season test for Ben Olsen and United. 4 – Montreal Impact (2-0-0) 1st in Eastern Conference. Montreal and Vancouver are flying the Canadian flag
proudly in MLS starting a combined 4-00. Montreal has started the season with two big away wins to Seattle and Portland, something teams can rarely achieve. This week Montreal face off with Toronto with Canadian bragging rights on the line, and a chance at a perfect 3/3 start. 3 – Vancouver Whitecaps (2-0-0) 1st in Western Conference. Despite losing Jay Demerit to an injury Vancouver has started with back-to-back wins and two strong performances. Oddly enough Vancouver’s fullbacks Young-Pyo Lee and Alain Rochat have been big offensive weapons and strikers Darren Mattocks and Kenny Miller have both scored showing the attacking versatility of the Caps. 2 – Houston Dynamo (1-0-0) 5th in Eastern Conference. The Dynamo have only played one MLS match, but put up a strong performance against DC United coming out with a 2-0 home win. In the CONCACAF Champions League Houston came out with a 1-0 win against Santos Laguna and will look to advance to the quarter 1 – Los Angeles Galaxy – (1-00) 2nd in Western Conference. Simply put the Los Angeles Galaxy are still the team to beat in MLS.
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In this March 7, 2013, file photo, Levante’s Obafemi Martins (24), of Nigeria, competes for the ball