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BY JOSEPH RUSSELL Sports Editor After months of hype and speculation about how close The University of Memphis men’s basketball team will get to a national championship next season, the Tigers finally know the competition that they must face in order to get there. During the weekend coach Josh Pastner announced the team’s 2010-2011 nonconference schedule, which is highlighted by a neutralsite rematch against Kansas in the Jimmy V. Classic on Dec. 7, home contests against Miami (Fla.) on Nov. 15 and Georgetown on Dec. 23, along with away games against Tennessee on Jan. 5 and Gonzaga on Feb. 5. “I think it’s a challenging schedule,” Pastner said. “It’s a good schedule. But we have to remember that we’re young. Are we talented? Yes. But we’re still young.” The Tigers will also play LSU in Tupelo, Miss., on Nov. 21 and Atlantic Sun favorite Lipscomb University Dec. 30 at FedExForum. “We’ve done research on what we feel these teams will be, heading into the future,” Pastner said. “You’re doing a lot of projecting and predicting when you’re scheduling teams.” One alarming fact with The U of M’s schedule, though, is that they must play games against Ratings Index Percentage cellar-dwellers Northwestern
State, Tennessee-Martin and Centenary – who is even predicted to drop to Division-III next year. The RPI, which is used by the NCAA to determine postseason tournament selections and seeding, was one of the reasons the Tigers were forced into the NIT a season ago. After playing a relatively weak schedule compared to years in the past, The U of M sat at 61st just outside the selection bubble and didn’t make it to the NCAA Tournament. “The biggest thing with the RPI is that the teams you play need to win 18 to 24 games,” Pastner said. “It doesn’t matter who they play, as long as it’s Division-I opponents. Whether we win or lose, that is the most important thing.” Although the exact schedule has yet to be released, The U of M will begin C-USA competition in the second half of the season. They will play East Carolina, Marshall, Southern Miss, Alabama-Birmingham and Central Florida twice in home-and-home match-ups, while they will play Houston, Rice, Southern Methodist, Tulane, Tulsa and Texas El-Paso each once. “The schedule is challenging enough and will give us a lot of good tests throughout the season,” Pastner said. “I think it’s going to ready us for an improved Conference USA, and it’s a good balance from top to bottom.”
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Tigers announce 2010-11 non-conference schedule
Senior forward Will Coleman and The U of M men’s basketball team will face Kansas in nonconference action on Dec. 7 as part of the Jimmy V. Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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UM student heading to ‘American Idol’
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BY BETH SPENCER News Reporter
“American Idol” hopefuls watch the competition perform as the heat soars past 90 degrees on in Collierville on Tuesday. Auditions kicked off in Nashville last weekend where an estimated 10,000 people lined up early to register for a spot in front of “Idol” producers.
First in line for Monday’s “American Idol” auditions in New Orleans? No problem. More than 150 local aspiring stars flocked to The Avenue Carriage Crossing in Collierville this week praying for that frontof-the-line spot, a free hotel stay and the accompaning $500 stipend. After hours of 30-second song sections, six judges chose University of Memphis junior Blake White, who sang “The StarSpangled Banner,” from among more than 150 competitors.
Chosen in April as a “Glee” finalist as well, White said at the time that he “felt singing was a true gift from God.” “Whenever opportunities like this come along, you can’t take anything for granted,” he said. “I feel blessed to be where I am today.” FOX13 associate producer Amy Hanford said she was excited to see the soaring temperatures didn’t dwindle contestants’ enthusiasm. “Some waited since 7 o’clock this morning,” she said. “They haven’t let the heat or the com-
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Before the Tigers open regular season play against Centenary at 11 p.m. on Nov. 12, they will face a play a pair of exhibition contests against LeMoyne-Owen on Nov. 3 and Christian Brothers University on Nov. 8 or 9, depending on the Memphis Grizzlies’ NBA schedule. The U of M will begin prac-
ticing on Aug. 2, and they will have 10 days to practice, per NCAA rules, before leaving to play two contests in the Bahamas on Aug. 14-18. “Obviously we won’t have our system put in place,” Pastner said. “The August time period will give me an opportunity for me to really see them, their strengths and weaknesses, where we need to get better and for them to get used to me, for the new guys.”
Although the expectations for next year ’s team are high, especially compared to last summer, Pastner added, winning won’t be an overnight process. “We were drowning last year before we even stepped on the court,” he said, “We reached a buoy and hung on. Now the ship’s here, but we haven’t gotten to land yet. We still need to produce on the court, and it’s going to take time.”
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Jolie slings the pepper in ‘Salt’ BY COLIN COVERT Star Tribune
“Salt” is a throwback to pre”Bourne” spy movies where a subterranean level of stupidity was acceptable so long as there was plenty of mayhem. But despite enough hand-tohand combat to glut an MMA marathon, this movie is about as much fun as getting slugged in the head. Angelina Jolie plays CIA spook Evelyn Salt as a doting wife, dog lover and nononsense careerist in the traditionally masculine world of spycraft. Then a walk-in defector fingers her as a longdormant Brezhnev-era Russian mole and she bolts, becoming a blank-faced killing machine. In clunky flashbacks we learn that a Russian spy program replaced Lee Harvey Oswald with a clone and that legions of similar undercover ops are scattered across the free world, awaiting the signal to strike. A cadre of Communist no-goodniks plans to drive the United States and Russia to the nuclear brink. Salt’s highly lethal race from Washington, D.C. to New York City maybe her attempt to launch the plot _ or quash it. The film’s slender claim on our attention is the protagonist’s ambiguous identity. Is she a Soviet asset activated by Cold War diehards or a falsely accused American patriot trying to protect her unsuspecting husband? On the one hand, she terminates armies of U.S. agents and policemen aiming to capture her. Then again, she puts the havoc on hold to rescue her adorable terrier from her ransacked apartment and place it with an even more adorable neighbor kid before proceeding with her getaway. So how bad could she be? Innocent, insists her CIA team leader Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber, a smug, lunkish actor of limited resourc-
es). Guilty, declares counterintelligence officer Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who can deliver a convincing, vital performance even as a character no one wanted to develop). Fakeouts and red herrings abound before this germ of an idea begins to induce dizziness and lethargy. The movie’s Big Secret dwindles to BS. Director Phillip Noyce, who made the Tom Clancy potboilers “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger,” puts us through an ordeal, not an adventure. He demonstrates a talent for slickly choreographed turmoil (and a deep-seated hatred for police cars: blammo!) but little interest in characterization or emotion. If you like to watch your Oscar winners bounding across speeding trucks on a highway rather than acting, look no further. If you’re after an engrossing action movie, keep looking.
Idol from page 1 petition hurt them in any way. Memphis is a very talented city and we’ve seen a lot of people come out here today who really brought their game.” Bro James, who sang Michael Jackson’s “You are Not Alone,” was the fourth contestant to take the stage at 10 a.m. “People were telling me I channeled (Jackson) spiritually,” the LeMoyne-Owen business major said. “If you’re going to sing a song, you need to feel it. If you can’t feel it, the people around you can’t feel it.” Kayla Puckett, who arrived at 4:30 a.m. to sing The Dixie Chicks’ “Let Her Rip,” said her stomach filled with butterflies seconds before she hit the stage. “You get kind of dumbfounded, because you’re the only one under that red tent and all the shoppers can see you sing and everyone’s watching you,” she said. “There were two people who got up there, sang two words and then stopped because they were too nervous.” Puckett said her anxiety melted away once the microphone was in her hands, which gave way to what she hoped was a
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Friends and family poured in to encourage potential “American Idol” contestants. promising performance. “I got up there and just started singing,” she said. “The judges started nodding, so that’s a good sign. Even though I messed up at the end, one of the judges gave me a thumbs up.” Some attendees, like University of Memphis dental
hygiene major Joanna Nelson, opted to watch contestants instead of participate. “I’m too shy to sing in front of people,” she said. “I usually don’t watch the show, but this is better because it’s live. It’s exciting that we could be watching the next big “American Idol” star.”
A Weekly Devotional For You Don’t Go to the Edge The story is told of a wealthy man in old England who was in the process of hiring a carriage driver. One prospect took him out for a trial drive. As the carriage approached a sharp curve on a mountain road, the prospective driver, wishing to impress his proposed employer with his driving skill, took the carriage right to the edge of the road for a view of the ravine thousands of feet below. In a short while, another prospective driver took the wealthy man for a trial drive. This man was very cautious. When he approached the mountain curve, he slowed down and steered the carriage as far from the edge as possible. Which driver do you think got the job? Right you are, the cautious driver was hired. The skills of the first driver did not impress the employer nearly as much as did the caution of the second. There is a profound lesson in this. We should stay as far away as possible from potential self-destructive and sinful behavior. The individual who doesn’t take that first drink will never wind up in the gutter. The person who is chaste before marriage and who is faithful in marriage will never have to worry about STDs. The apostle Paul put it well long ago when he wrote “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
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