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Tear down this wall
by Casey Hilder
Campus Construction
by Brian Wilson
Renovations to the Central Avenue parking lot will require its closure during summer.
Construction of the Wall of Hate begins outside the student plaza Wednesday as part of the Student Activity Council’s upcoming “Why Do You Hate Me Week.”
BY Kyle LaCroix News Reporter Next week, University of Memphis students will likely see and hear more derogatory words and racial slurs than usual on campus. The Student Activity Council will host its eighth annual “Why Do You Hate Me?” week on campus April 4-8.
Tunnel of Oppression, which gives students an opportunity to witness and experience hateful words firsthand. “You get put with a guide as they take you through the tunnel,” Goodwin said. “It’s sort of an interactive play. You see acts of oppression in front of you, and some are directed at you. It’s kind of hard to explain.”
The five-day event aims to raise awareness of hatred and bigotry in the world today. “It’s an opportunity for people on campus to discuss why we don’t like each other and why we use derogatory terms,” said Rachel Goodwin, ideas and issues chair for SAC. “It’s a chance to look at why we do things.” Among the week’s events is the
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There can be only one FACE party’s campaign video counts down to SGA election finale BY Chelsea Boozer News Reporter
courtesy of FACE, via YouTube
The Finding Answers Concerning Everyone party used more than flyers
and campaigning booths to attract voters in this year’s Student Government Association election. For the second year in a row, FACE promoted itself on the web, using
Incumbent SGA presidential nominee Hunter Lang hoists a katana above his head in a YouTube video promoting his candidacy.
YouTube and social media sites in the hope of taking the party’s views viral. In a video posted to Facebook and YouTube on Tuesday night, several members of The University of Memphis men’s basketball team endorsed the FACE party and its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Hunter Lang and Courtney Milton. Men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner is also featured, saying that he supports the SGA. FACE posted a similar clip on the web last year. That video premiered the rap song “Vote for FACE” and featured dance moves by Lang and basketball player Will Coleman. This year’s video featured ‘80s glam rock hit “The Final Countdown” by Swedish band Europe as background music. “That’s an epic song, and I thought it would be funny because it’s the final countdown to the election and my pres-
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Extreme campus makeover Central parking lot edition BY Chris Daniels News Reporter
The Central Avenue parking lot on The University of Memphis campus will be closed during the summer for renovations scheduled to begin after the spring semester. Tony Poteet, assistant vice president of campus planning and development, said renovations will include new asphalt, drainage systems, lighting, landscaping and sprinklers. Parking spaces will be repainted, new curbs and cameras will be installed, and more visitor and handicap-accessible spaces will be added, he said. Rows of parking spaces in the lot currently run east to west. Poteet said after renovations, the spaces will run north and south — perpendicular to the street — which will provide “safer pedestrian walking” and “better vehicular circulation.” Funds designated for “parking renewal and replacement” will pay for the renovations, estimated to cost between $2 million and $2.5 million, Poteet said. The number of spaces in the lot will remain the same, he noted. He said students and faculty with general parking lot access can park in any of the other general parking lots on campus during the summer. The renovations, part of the planned Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project, will make a great change in the safety and functionality of the area, Poteet said. “With the tremendous amount of both pedestrian and vehicular movements, the need for safe, secure parking, and the need to have a positive visual image of The University along its major front corridor, the design that is being planned is responsive and will provide long-lasting solutions,” he said. Future phases of the project include construction of a median on Central and the addition of bike lanes on the north and south sides of the street. Two major crosswalks, one leading to the Herff College of Engineering buildings near the northeast corner of campus and the other at the intersection of Central and Zach Curlin, could also be added, Poteet said. An information session for faculty, staff and students will be held April 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the University Center Fountain View Suite to discuss the project.
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Entertainment
Fun, fun, fun, fun BY Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times When responses such as “abomination” and “worst song ever” are the most printable comments about a hit record like Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” you know it’s fully entered the realm of pop phenomenon. But for anyone who’s surprised that this simple ditty has connected in a big way – the 13-year-old’s relentlessly chipper YouTube video is about to cross the threshold of 66 million hits – don’t be. Patrice Wilson, the entrepreneurial musician who wrote and produced Black’s record and created the video that quickly went viral, has been both praised as a pop genius and vilified as the worst sort of exploiter of youthful dreams for charging Black and her family $2,000 for the whole package. But if nothing else, this tune demonstrates unequivocal songwriting savvy: He tapped a song structure that’s embedded in our collective DNA, one that’s been the foundation of dozens, even hundreds of hit records over the last half a century. “Friday,” you see, is “Heart and Soul” revisited. It uses that fundamental four-chord progression almost anyone who’s ever touched a piano keyboard has learned. It’s the basis of the mostplayed pop radio hit of all time, the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody.” It’s the same progression that Sam Cooke used in “You Send Me.” And “Chain Gang.” And “Twistin’ The Night Away.” It’s also the cornerstone of the Penguins’ “Earth Angel” from 1955, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers’ 1956 classic “Why Do Fools Fall In Love,” Skip & Flip’s 1960 hit “Cherry Pie” and countless other doo-wop, R&B, pop and rock hits that surfaced in the 1950s and ‘60s – before a couple of fellows from Liverpool came along
and knocked down the fences hemming in pop music’s structural vocabulary. And even the Beatles weren’t immune to its pull: Ringo Starr’s contribution to the “Abbey Road” album, “Octopus’s Garden,” used the same formula. It’s resurfaced regularly since – sometimes with just the slightest variations – in the chorus to Don McLean’s 1972 anthem “American Pie,” in Alicia Keys’ 2007 megahit “No One,” and we’ve heard it somewhere in nearly every season of “American Idol.” Wilson surely knows how easy it is to apply the simplest of melodies over that sure-fire progression, and that’s exactly what he did for Black, giving her a lead line that requires the barest minimum of a vocal range to handle. You can sing a single note over this progression – which is what Black does with her limited voice for most of the song – and it still sounds musical. It spans hardly more than half an octave. Anyone can sing this in the shower, and millions undoubtedly have been of late. It’s also easy to play on any keyboard or guitar. Thousands of songs have been written using the basic three-chord blues progression, in musical terms referred to as the I-IV-V progression, based on the spot on the conventional Western musical scale where you’ll find the root notes of each of those chords. The reason it’s so ubiquitous is because of the palpable sense of resolution created when the progression returns to that home chord. Celebrated country songwriter Harlan Howard famously defined a great song as one consisting of “three chords and the truth,” a phrase Bono latched onto in one of U2’s most celebrated songs. Howard, the composer of thousands of songs, showed how successful that combination could be on a red, white, blue, yellow or black guitar.
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Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’: There are a million good reasons you can’t get it out of your head
Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Black and her music video have gone viral on YouTube. She made a video for simple and catchy song called “Friday” that went up on the site Feb. 10, but a month later, the video went viral and has now garnered about 10 million views. The video was passed around on blogs and labeled “the worst song ever.” The “Heart and Soul”/”Friday” variation on that progression simply drops a minor chord into the mix after the opening major chord, an addition that creates an extra measure of tension and drama that heightens the roundingthird-and-coming-into-home feeling of satisfaction when the entire I-vi-IV-V chord cycle finishes. The triangle becomes a
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self-contained, geometrically perfect square. Lyrically speaking, “Friday” carries the illusion of simplicity in giving voice to one teenager’s big dilemma: whether to kick it with her friends in the front seat
or the back seat. Even those who abhor “Friday” – and there are plenty of them – will probably have to confess that they have a hard time getting it out of their heads. It’s stuck there for good reason.
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Campus Activities
Stonewall Tigers to screen documentary on bullying Throughout his middle and high school career, Wisconsin teen Jamie Nabozney was harassed physically and verbally for being gay. He later sued the school system and successfully
won a federal court case that ensures a safe environment for all students. The University of Memphis Stonewall Tigers will host a screening and discussion of the documentary “Bullied,” which tells Nabozney’s story, tonight at 7 in the Senate Chamber of the
High schoolers flaunt their fluency Saturday BY Melissa Wray News Reporter From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, hundreds of area teenagers will show they have a certain je ne sais quoi for learning foreign languages as part of the 20th annual Language Fair at the University Center. Errol O’Neill, fair director and chair of the Language Fair committee, said the event is geared toward high school students. “One of our main goals is to provide high school students an
The University of Memphis Naval ROTC unit will host the Fourth Annual Reserve Officers Training Corps Drill Meet, a national drill team competition, on campus and at Shelby Farms from 8 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Navy ROTC midshipmen from schools across the country, including Ohio State, Illinois State, Savannah State, Purdue, University of California at Berkeley and Vanderbilt, will participate. Captain Robert Wickham, Marine office instructor for U of M ROTC, said the event at Shelby Farms, which will run
president of Stonewall Tigers, said she and other Stonewall members first saw the film at the Mississippi Safe School Coalition Conference last year. “I hope (the film) will change (people’s) perspectives and cut down on the bullying,” she said. McAuliffe said she has never
personally witnessed the physical violence displayed in the film but often experiences verbal harassment. “This is not only for the LGBT community but for everyone, and that is why we have opened this up to anyone who is willing to participate.”
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opportunity to participate in a variety of events related to the culture they are learning about,” he said. “It also serves as a great way to recruit someone to The University of Memphis.” The fair will include poetry recitations, folk dances and a culture bowl, in which teams of students from different schools answer questions about world culture and current events. “(If students) come and have fun participating in the events and still get something out of it, then the fair will still be a success,” O’Neill said.
UM to host national ROTC competition BY Timberly Moore News Reporter
University Center. The event is free and open to the public. Lecia Brooks, director of outreach for the Southern Poverty Law Center, will lead a discussion after the showing of the film, which was produced by SPLC. M.J. McAuliffe, sophomore creative writing major and vice
from 8 to 11 a.m., consists of three major four-person team events, including the two-mile sand bag run and the two-mile 100-pound log run. The events at The U of M will begin at 9 a.m. on Memorial Field, in front of Elma Neal Roane Fieldhouse, and at the Ellipse, behind Ned R. McWherter Library. The color guard competition, two-man and individual exhibitions, squad and platoon drills, and uniform inspections will take place on campus. “Although all these elements are demanding, I would have to say the endurance part (at Shelby Farms) is the most mentally and physically challenging by far,” Wickham said. I have a double major in Marketing Mgmt. and Fashion Merchandising with a minor in Spanish. The New Olivet is the place to be for U of M students because it is in walking distance so there is no excuse for transportation; Olives are ready and willing to help you through anything that comes your way on your journey with Christ; and the word is put forth straight/uncut/ no-chaser so we can understand it. ~ Cassidy Brown
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BY daVid s. CloUd Tribune Washington Bureau The Pentagon said it would soon withdraw fighters and ground attack planes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led air campaign in Libya, a move that U.S. lawmakers warned could make the airstrikes less effective in preventing Col. Moammar ’s Gadhafi’s forces from attacking opposition-held areas. But the U.S. is keeping combat aircraft, including AC-130s and A-10 ground attacks planes, on “standby” in case the operation’s Canadian commander, Lt Gen Charles Bouchard, requests U.S. help, said Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs Thursday. Mullen said the U.S. is not ruling out sending U.S. warplanes back into the air over Libya if NATO proved ineffective at halting Gadhafi’s forces from advancing. Since the air campaign began two weeks ago, the Obama administration has planned for U.S. forces to shift to a support role, while warplanes from European allies assume the bulk of the combat sorties. But with Gadhafi’s troops regaining the offensive against beleaguered rebels, it has deepened questions about whether NATO can handle the mission
without U.S firepower. “Your timing is exquisite,” a sarcastic Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., warned Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at an Armed Services Committee hearing. “At a time when the Gadhafi forces have literally, tragically, routed the antiGadhafi forces, that’s when we announced that the United States was abdicating its leadership role and is removing some of the most valuable assets that could be used to great effect.” Gates replied that “it remains to be seen” whether NATO will prove capable of handling the combat mission without U.S. participation and of sustaining the number of strike sorties against Gadhafi’s forces. Gates and Mullen were testifying at daylong hearings on Libya, during which lawmakers from both parties complained that the White House had failed to set clear goals for the air operation and could be facing a protracted stalemate if Gadhafi is able to hold on to power. Gates conceded that a stalemate is one possible outcome and he acknowledged under questioning that the U.S. “has no contingency plan” other than “keeping the pressure on” if Gadhafi continues to consolidate his position. In his strongest language since the U.S. deployed warplanes to protect
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Pentagon says it will withdraw fighters and attack planes from libya campaign
A pair of rebel fighters sit outside a trash-strewn, bullet-riddled guardhouse at the western gate to Ajdabiya, Libya, where opposition forces wait for another push by loyalist forces. Libyan civilians, Gates ruled out sending any U.S. forces to Libya “as long as I’m in this job” – a viewpoint that he said President Barack Obama shared. A U.S. official confirmed Thursday that Obama signed a secret finding authorizing the CIA to coordinate with and help the rebels. CIA operatives have been on the ground for weeks, gathering intelligence and providing non-lethal aid to the rebels. Gates acknowledged the administration is still considering whether to provide arms to the rebels, but he argued that what the opposition forces need most to withstand the assault from Gadhafi’s forces is training and other forms of assistance. “What the opposition needs as much as anything right now is some training, some command and control and some organization,” Gates said. “That’s not a unique capability for the United States, and as far as I’m concerned, somebody
else can do that.” But, in a sign of the hurdles that the opposition force faces without outside assistance, Mullen estimated that the rebel forces had only 1,000 fighters with formal military training, the rest being untrained civilians. He said that Gadhafi’s outnumbered them tenfold in tanks, artillery and heavy weapons. Mullen said that the NATOled air campaign had been hampered in recent days because bad weather had reduced the coalition’s ability to carry out airstrikes. He also said that there were tensions within the 28 members of NATO and other governments involved in the air campaign over whether to escalate the military effort to drive Gadhafi from power. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking in Stockholm, suggested that there was no agreement within NATO on whether to arm the rebels, despite statements by U.S. and British officials that the U.N. resolution
authorizing international intervention allows arming Libyan rebels.
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Medical marijuana industry rapidly grows mainstream BY Tony Pugh McClatchy Newspapers The medical marijuana industry is beginning to show its age. After humble California beginnings in 1996, 15 states and the District of Columbia now have legalized marijuana use for ill patients who have a doctor’s recommendation. Medical marijuana has been found to help with chronic pain, nausea and other symptoms of diseases including cancer, muscular dystrophy and AIDS. Nearly 25 million Americans are medically eligible to buy marijuana. Sales are expected to hit $1.7 billion this year. Just last week, a San Francisco-based outfit, the ArcView Group, formed the industry’s first investment network to link cannabis entrepreneurs to qualified investors with “seed” money. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this industry is growing and that there are untold riches to be made here,” said Troy Dayton, the chief executive of the ArcView Group. In coming months, Arizona, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia will launch programs, joining eight states where medical marijuana is sold legally. Those states are California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Washington and New Mexico.
Wall
from page 1 The tunnel will be open Wednesday and Thursday in the University Center Ballroom. Another of the week’s features is the Writing on the Wall project, which will open Monday. Over the last month, students painted derogatory slurs and hurtful words onto bricks that were assembled this week into a Wall of Hate. Sydney McGhee, president of SAC, called the project “a physical representation of the words we use to build walls between us.” “People were pretty positive and serious about the project,” McGhee said. “And people took the opportunity to show how hateful words do affect us.” Students will tear the wall down Friday at noon by pulling
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from page 1 idency,” said Lang, reigning SGA president. “This is the last year I’ll be able to do anything like that (because I’m a junior), so it is my final countdown. I thought the song fit the circumstances.” In the video, Coleman and teammate Drew Barham work out in the Larry O. Finch Recreational Facility and read newspapers available on campus thanks to the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program, implemented by the SGA and spearheaded by Lang. “Well you know, if you vote yes on the referendum (concern-
With more than 1,500 growing operations and dispensaries nationwide, the medical marijuana industry has defied the recession and prospered even as the broader economy stalled. This month, Maine began allowing dispensaries to provide cannabis to seriously ill patients. One of the new operators, Maine Organic Therapy, has been making home deliveries to more than 20 patients for about three weeks, said chief executive Derek Brock. Patients in Maine can purchase as much as 2.5 ounces every two weeks, or a maximum of 5 ounces a month. Strong public support has helped fuel the industry’s eastward expansion, but that growth has also brought growing pains. Industry reps say section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code unfairly bars legal medical mari-
juana operations from deducting business expenses from their income taxes. Dispensaries nationwide are facing Internal Revenue Service audits over the measure. Other dispensaries have found that banks won’t maintain their business accounts, fearing federal scrutiny over reporting requirements for ties to businesses that violate federal law. The National Cannabis Industry Association was formed late last year to help address these concerns. On Wednesday, the trade group held its first national lobby day, visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of a push for greater legislative clout. “These kinds of days are necessary, because it puts a face on the industry,” said Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., one of the indus-
on ropes attached to the wall until it topples. The same project was on campus two years ago, and McGhee said there are currently no plans for the wall to return sooner than 2013. McGhee said in the past, people’s opinions about the project have been mixed. “There were some people who didn’t agree with it, and some people think that the project doesn’t have value because we’re giving these words power by acknowledging that these words can be harmful,” she said. “However, we’re recognizing these words so people can understand how they are affecting people and talk about why they affect them like that.” Other events of the week include a talk by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, titled “Lessons Learned from My Grandfather” at 7 p.m. Monday
in the Michael D. Rose Theatre and a discussion and workshop, “Homosexuality for Sale,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the University Center Memphis Room. “(The workshop will) be a discussion of LGBT terms and what they mean, and confidentiality contracts will be signed so people don’t have to worry about anything leaving the meeting,” Goodwin said. “They’ll split into groups and be giving a list of privileges that heterosexual married couples have and, using the money their group is allotted, buy some of the privileges and discuss them.” Criminal justice junior Laney Kelley said she thinks the week is “wonderful.” “Anything to better our school in regard to hatred, whether it be racism or homophobia — I think everyone should get involved and help,” she said.
ing a $5 increase in the Student Activity Fee) and vote for Hunter Lang and Courtney Milton, it could definitely maximize the potential of this weight room and get more money for student activities and keep getting these wonderful papers on campus for free,” Coleman tells Barham as they lift weights. In the next scene, Lang and Milton cast their votes for FACE in the Ned R. McWherter Library, a designated polling station during the election, which ended Thursday. “I wanted to shed a light on all of the campaigning and make something comical and put information in it at the same time,” Lang said.
Basketball player Tarik Black also guest-stars in the video and endorses FACE. Lang wrote the storyboard for and directed the video, but the basketball players’ lines were improvised, he said. Pastner walked into the Finch Center during filming and agreed to support SGA as a whole at Lang’s request. Freshman civil engineering major Joey Clark served as the project’s videographer, and junior communications major Cameron Mitchell edited the piece, which was shot and edited in one day and posted online. The clip, titled “FACE Campaign Video,” can be found on YouTube.
try’s staunchest supporters. While 76 percent of medical marijuana sales nationally are generated in California, Colorado has the nation’s fastest-growing market. More than 131,000 Coloradans are registered marijuana patients, up from only 7,000 in 2008. Colorado Dispensary Services, which operates three dispensaries and three commercial growing operations, has had five different bank accounts in threeand-a-half years, owing to state regulatory friction. Owner Jill Lamoureux said it’s impossible to manage nearly 50 employees and $120,000 in monthly payroll without a bank account. State regulators have taken notice. “These regulators need to see our bank accounts, and if we do not have access to banking, it makes it impossible for them
to regulate,” Lamoureux said. “Frustrating is an understatement to say how difficult it is to run a business” without banking services. Last year, Polis and seven other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter asking the U.S. Treasury to declare that it wouldn’t target banks with account holders that operate in compliance with state medical marijuana laws. Federal regulators deferred, arguing that banks must make those calls themselves. Polis said he’ll introduce legislation soon that clarifies banks’ responsibilities when dealing with marijuana dispensaries. He said support for the issue is bipartisan, citing Republican Reps. Ron Paul of Texas and Dana Rohrabacher of California as sympathetic to the industry’s plight.
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Opinion
Welcome to a most diverse Final Four My prognosticator side detests this Final Four. VCU and Butler exited early on my bracket, Kentucky and Connecticut in the regional semifinals. Ditto for 2006 when George Mason intruded. I had the Patriots losing to Michigan State in the first round. But my storyteller side — OK, my fan side, too — adores this Final Four. It’s unfathomable, unpredictable and, with nary a No. 1 or 2 seed, unprecedented. Most appealing, it’s as diverse as Greenwich Village. While VCU, Kentucky and UConn are large public schools, Butler is a small (4,600 enrolled) private. Spoiled by nationalchampionship tradition, Wildcats and Huskies fans expect to be here; Rams and Bulldogs faithful fantasize about it. Yes, VCU and Butler produced first-round NBA draft choices last year in Larry Sanders and Gordon Hayward, respectively. But Kentucky had a record five, breaking by one a mark set by Duke in 1999 and matched by North Carolina in 2005 and UConn in 2006. Now consider the schools’ basketball expenses and revenue, as reported to the U.S. Department of Education. During the 2009-10 academic year, VCU spent $2.324 million on hoops, Butler $2.822 million. UConn tripled VCU at $6.940 million, with Kentucky goosing the ante to $11.573 million. Not to disparage anyone’s priorities. VCU and Butler’s expenditures matched their revenue — if only Congress were as responsible. Meanwhile, UConn and Kentucky cleared serious profit with revenue of $7.745 million and $16.781 million, respectively. “You’re comparing two different things,” Butler coach Brad Stevens said. “You’re comparing
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Virginia Commonwealth University forward Juvonte Reddic celebrates the team’s Elite Eight victory over the University of Kansas on Sunday. With the victory, VCU joined 2006’s George Mason University and 1986’s Louisiana State University as the lowest-seeded teams to advance to the Final Four in tournament history. budgets and then you’re comparing teams that are on the court. Only five guys play in basketball at a time. You may have 13 McDonald’s All-Americans, but you can only play five at once. As deep as you are and everything else, you still have to play and be good with those five, and they have to play as a team. “I think that’s something that VCU, Butler, teams that have made these runs, they really understand that. They’re trying to better their programs in a lot of ways, we’re all trying to maxi-
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mize our resources that are available, and hopefully continue to grow in that area. ... “We’re not where we are because of dollars spent on practice facilities and those type of things. We’re where we are because we have unbelievable people. People are greater resources than any amount of dollars.” Butler lost to Duke — basketball expenses of $12.286 million — in last season’s championship game and is the first program since UNLV in 1990 and ‘91 from
outside the power conferences to reach consecutive Final Fours. But Jerry Tarkanian’s Runnin’ Rebels were anything but underdogs, and the same applies to Cincinnati of the Missouri Valley in 1961 and ‘62 and San Francisco of the West Coast Conference in 1955 and ‘56 with Bill Russell. So what Butler has attained is truly unrivaled. “It shows how the mid-majors have come along in recent years,” VCU guard Bradford Burgess said Thursday of Saturday’s Rams-Bulldogs semifinal here at
Reliant Stadium. “It shows that top recruits don’t have to go to the big-name programs to make a name for themselves.” Some suggest that Butler and VCU taint college basketball’s one-and-done postseason and curb interest in the Final Four. Please. Dating to last year, the Bulldogs’ last eight NCAA tournament wins have been by a combined 25 points. That speaks to astonishing composure and sage coaching. The Rams needed five victories in 12 days to reach Houston, and four were one-sided. That speaks to undeniable talent and supreme confidence. In short, VCU and Butler earned their ways here. Contrast this tournament and Final Four to college football’s Bowl Championship Series, which annually denies a Boise State or Texas Christian a title shot. Southeastern Conference teams have won five consecutive national championships, a numbing streak that basketball has witnessed just once, when the Pacific 10’s UCLA won seven straight NCAA tournaments from 1967-73. But during their dynasty, the Bruins encountered outsiders such as Jacksonville and Dayton in the title contest. Since 1992’s creation of the Bowl Alliance, which morphed into the BCS, no interloper has reached the championship game. Butler did last basketball season, and either Butler or VCU will compete for the title Monday night. Annual occurrence? No. More to come? Absolutely. So deal with it. Better yet, embrace it, tattered bracket notwithstanding.
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U of M strength coach leaves program University of Memphis men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach Richard Hogans is leaving the program to “explore other opportunities,” basketball coach Josh Pastner said Thursday. According to a source close to the
situation, Hogans, who has been in charge of conditioning since the 2004‘05 season, made his decision earlier this week. The players were informed of the move during a meeting Monday. Attempts to reach Hogans for comment were unsuccessful. “We wish (Hogans) nothing but the very best,” Pastner said. “We continue to be behind him and support him.”
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Yankees defeat Detroit Tigers BY Howie Rumber Associated Press
Hogans, who played football for The U of M, was one of the few staff members who remained at The U of M after former coach John Calipari left for Kentucky in 2009. Under Hogans’ offseason workouts, Chris Douglas-Roberts added 30 pounds of muscle during his three years at The U of M. Douglas-Roberts was ultimately selected in the second
round of the 2008 NBA Draft. Hogans was also largely responsible for Pierre Henderson-Niles’s 90-pound weight loss. Hogans’ departure now leaves Pastner with two vacancies to fill this offseason, as former assistant coach Willis Wilson took the head-coaching job at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last week.
Braves beat Nationals, 2-0 BY Howard Fendrich Associated Press Coming off major knee surgery, and coming up on his 39th birthday, Chipper Jones came back to baseball in a big way. At the plate in a real game for the first time since August, the Atlanta Braves third baseman doubled for the first hit by anyone in the 2011 season. He legged it out, even, beating a throw from new Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth. “I was busting it out of the box,” Jones said. “Didn’t necessarily want to slide, but I had to.” He went on to score the season’s first run, Jason Heyward added a solo shot, and Derek Lowe allowed three singles in 5 2-3 innings on a chilly, damp opening day, helping the Braves beat the Nationals 2-0 Thursday to make Fredi Gonzalez a winner in his debut as Atlanta’s manager. The Braves played their first regular-season game since Bobby Cox retired at the end of 2010 after two decades — and 15 playoff appearances — as their skipper. “It doesn’t feel any different. A win’s a win,” said Gonzalez, who previously managed the Florida Marlins. “I’m wearing this uniform and, hopefully, I’m wearing it for a long time and get a lot of wins.” With his sinker in fine, darting form, Lowe (1-0) struck out six and walked two. Lowe needed plenty of pitches, 105, and left after walking Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman in the sixth. Adam LaRoche followed by singling off lefty Eric O’Flaherty, who got out of it by getting Michael Morse to ground out.
A healthy Curtis Granderson helped give the storied New York Yankees their earliest home win ever. Granderson hit a go-ahead homer leading off the seventh inning and Mark Teixeira had a three-run shot off Justin Verlander, lifting New York over the Detroit Tigers 6-3 Thursday in the first March opener in the Bronx. “It was great — except for the weather,” said Granderson, who arrived in New York around 11 p.m. Wednesday after playing in a rehabilitation game with minor leaguers in Tampa, Fla., earlier in the day. CC Sabathia pitched six workmanlike innings, Derek Jeter added a sacrifice fly in the seventh using his new stride-less swing and Mariano Rivera, wearing his socks high for perhaps the first time, earned his first save and 560th of his career. Newcomers Russell Martin and Rafael Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Derek Lowe (32) works in the fourth inning Soriano did their part as the Yankees got off to against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., a quick start on a gray, blustery, 42-degree day. on Thursday. “Their bullpen and the long ball is what “There was a lot of trying to figure him for most of 2011. did us in today,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland each other out. I couldn’t go after In front of a non-sellout crowd of said. “I thought it was actually a decent game them the same exact way I did last 39,055, neither starting pitcher was for the conditions. It was pretty rough.” time, because with technology you bothered one bit by the cold — it was Sidelined with a strained side since March can figure each other out,” Lowe said. 41 degrees — or by the misty drizzle 22, Granderson made two spectacular catches “It was a cat-and-mouse game. That’s that came and went. against his former team and homered for the probably why I threw so many pitches After giving up Heyward’s homer third straight opener — off a lefty, no less. He in a short amount of time.” on a hanging slider, Nationals pitcher connected against former Yankee Phil Coke Four relievers got the last 10 outs. Livan Hernandez retired 16 of 17 bat(0-1) as New York embarked on its first full Craig Kimbrel worked a 1-2-3 ninth ters the rest of the way, including 15 in season without George Steinbrenner as owner for the save, his second in the majors. a row. Making his ninth opening day since 1973. The Nationals were without their start, Hernandez allowed four hits in Teixeira, who didn’t get his first hit last most prized young player, pitcher 6 2-3 innings. season until his fifth game, connected off Stephen Strasburg, who flew back to “Both clubs pitched good,” Verlander in the third inning. 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