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State hospitals are looking to health officials in order to resolve a year-long dispute over what they feel is a lack of regulations placed on the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. The medical center must receive state approval prior to engaging in any construction projects or purchasing any expensive, high-tech equipment. The approval must be based on a regional need demonstrated by the medical center. This decision comes after an opinion was released two weeks ago by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s office. However, the Health Department may grant UMMC permission to purchase equipment or carry out construction projects on a case-bycase basis. The requests may be approved even if UMMC cannot provide a regional need for the equipment. This contradicts a standing state law requiring that regional need be displayed prior to constructing additional facilities or purchasing state-of-the-art equipment. The aim of this law is to prevent costs to the state government for the unnecessary duplication of resources. The issue came to the forefront of the Health Department’s agenda last year when UMMC requested radiation equipment used to treat cancer patients. Area hospitals opposed this acquisition, stating that UMMC could not provide a regional need for the equipment. Attorneys for several state hospitals, especially those in the Jackson area, argue that exempting the medical center from the law provides an unfair advantage in the state’s medical field. In a statement, Tom Kirkland, attorney for Health Management Associates, which includes several medical centers in the Jackson area, relayed the concerns of area hospitals. “If UMMC were allowed to do that, it could saturate the market and prevent us from being able to expand or offer services,” Kirkland said. However, Dr. James Keeton, UMMC ViceChancellor for Health Affairs, said he does not view the acquisition of high-tech equipment as
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THE KING AND I In this rich Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, English widow Anna Leonowens comes to Siam in the 1860s to tutor the many wives and children of the country’s king. She soon discovers that she and the king live in two different worlds headed for a collision. Part of the 2010 Oxford Shakespeare Festival’s A Royal Season. $14-$18, starts at noon. UMMC.EDU
providing the center with a competitive edge, but rather as a successful training tool for its students. “As the state’s only academic health sciences center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center is obligated, and is required by its accrediting bodies, to train future physicians, nurses, dentists, and allied health professionals in modern facilities using state-of-the-art technology,” Keeton said. This is not the first time that UMMC has been reviewed by the state attorney general’s office in regards to certificate-of-need requirements, or CON laws. In 2000, then Attorney General Mike Moore determined UMMC to be exempt of the CON laws. Attorney General Hood’s office revisited this decision after attorneys opposed to the decision met with Hood in March. In the new decision Hood states that the UMMC is not exempt and must comply with CON laws. However, it still leaves the final decision in the hands of the state Health Department. After acknowledging that there is no express exemption from the CON laws, Hood said,
“However, it is the opinion of this office that the Department of Health has the statutory discretion to make determinations of reviewability and/ or provide in the State Health Plan that services or activities provided by the UMCC, including UMCC’s request for this particular equipment, are exempt from certain provisions of the CON laws, when the request is necessary or desirable for UMCC’s teaching or research mission.” When asked for further comment or a statement on the decision, Jan Schaefer, Hood’s Public Information Officer, said that the policy of their office was that the opinions speak for themselves, and declined further comment on the issue. “Our health-care professionals serve the state’s population and work in its medical establishments by providing modern settings, highquality equipment and top-notch instruction; UMMC can give its students the best training possible,” Keeton said. “Those factors help our graduates give patients better care and be competitive in the job market. As well, they are integral to our mission and to the continued health improvement of all Mississippians.”
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POWER OUTAGE St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church gets HITS OLE MISS “green light” to begin expansion CAMPUS TUESDAY BY ELLEN TICHNELL
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Students and faculty found themselves working in the dark Tuesday morning. The entire University of Mississippi Oxford campus lost electricity due to the outage. The outage occurred as a result of a cooling failure on one of the transformer fans at the Rebel substation, said Russ Buchholz, interim associate director at the Physical Plant. Crews were on the job immediately to correct the problem and were able to restore service to the transformer quickly, Buchholz said. Buchholz said the power was out for approximately 45 minutes.
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St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church has received the go-ahead to construct a new education building. The Office Education Complex is designed to be two stories and 10,000 square feet. The lower level will provide classrooms for Sunday school classes for all ages, and the upper level will hold offices as well as multipurpose rooms that can be used for meetings. The church was glad to receive the building approval from the Oxford Planning Commission so members will have new space to work and grow as a church as well as gain a building that matches the sanctuary and welcomes the surrounding neighborhood, Rick Addy, president of the church’s building commission, said.
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Addy said they hope to begin construction in late fall. The completion of this project will provide additional space to be used by the church as they seek to teach others about Catholicism and reach out to the community. In September 2009, Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church announced on their website that they were officially debt-free after completing the construction of their new sanctuary. Upon achieving this goal, they
also announced building plans for their Office Education Complex were being finalized for them to begin the process of presenting them to the OPC for approval. The building has been designed by Ronald Garner of Ronald Garner Architects, who attended the OPC’s meeting held first on February 10, 2010. The church is accepting donations to aid in the costs of constructions. To contribute to this fund, visit stjohnoxford.org.
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Brown University does not have a core curriculum. English majors aren’t forced into taking math and science classes that won’t do them any good in their futures. Biology lovers aren’t required to have two semesters worth of a foreign language. It all works out. I was wait-listed for Brown University and chose to give up my spot to attend Ole Miss. I knew Ole Miss was where I wanted to be with our gorgeous campus, school of journalism and southern hospitality. But on days like today, I wonder if I made a mistake. I know I did no such thing; I love Ole Miss with a passion. Math... not so much. Today, I’m taking my college algebra midterm, and I am petrified. Well, first of all, I’m a perfectionist, so I hate to make less than an A on anything, but secondly, I loathe mathematics with a passion that competes with my perfectionism. Last night, I lay in my bed studying and working on math problems, hoping that I would suddenly just know it all. I worked the first practice exam and came out with 60 percent. I about died right
there. Forcing myself to go back through the problems and retake another practice test was almost worse than learning that I only know how to work 60 percent of the problems on the night before my midterm. I sucked it up and got back to work. I finally ended the night with 90 percent on the practice exam after hours of intense and brutal studying. Now, I’m not a fan of science either, but I can handle that. Algebra, on the other hand, fills me with pain. The moment I start a problem, I get a headache. The first time my calculator messes up, I have a meltdown. The worst part is that I’m not incapable at all. I made A’s in all of my high school math classes including calculus, even though I hated every second of it. I resented it. I came to resent all forms of math. I understand the necessity of taking those classes in high school, but I cannot come to terms with the idea that as college students, we aren’t able to make our own decision on whether a class will benefit us in the future or not.
Brown’s “open curriculum” allows students to develop their own core classes, and in the end, all students end up with a well-rounded liberal arts education. They’ve had success for years with their approach, yet they are basically the only college that follows it. I know there is no way that Ole Miss will drop all their requirements and give students free reign, but I think there is something to be said for academic freedom. I, as a journalism student, feel like I am wasting my time in college algebra, biology and geology. I know that I need more than just journalism classes; I’m taking psychology, theatre and French classes. I think that would be considered well-rounded by most. So, as I get ready to take my college algebra midterm, I can’t help but wonder what it’d be like if I were at Brown. I wouldn’t have the same amazing friends, experiences or classes that I have now at Ole Miss. I guess I can battle four more weeks of math so I never have to deal with it again, but if anybody is looking to make money tutoring, you know where to find me.
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There are rare times in sport when athletes create a competitive anomaly - when the world sees something for the first time, and we know it will be the last. At Wimbledon on Wednesday, the world saw one of those shooting stars. This was Joe Dimaggio’s 56-game hit streak, Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, Georgia Tech’s 222-0 win over Cumberland in 1916, and Lance Armstrong’s seven consecutive Tour de France wins all wrapped up in one. And it’s still not over. When John Isner (U.S.) and Nicolas Mahut (France) stepped onto the court at Wimbledon Wednesday morning, they had only to finish a match that was postponed after four sets Tuesday night due to darkness. More than seven hours and 118 games later, the match was once again called due to fading light with the two tied 59-59 in the fifth set. The fifth set alone, which has lasted seven hours and six minutes, was more than twice as long as the previous set record and longer than the previous record for longest match 6 hours and 33 minutes set in 2004.
Isner broke the record for aces in a match with 98, and the two have combined for a record 193 aces. It is a perfect storm, a perfect match. These two men could not be any more evenly matched. Neither could steal a game from the other, as the two have combined for 435 winners - 218-217. After tie breakers in the third and fourth sets, any extra games in the fifth would make the match relatively long. In comparison, the winner will take on Thiemo De Bakker who defeated Santiago Giraldo 16-14 in the fifth set - the secondlongest set of the first round of Wimbledon. And that was an exceptionally long match, if Isner and Mahut’s match is not considered. Tennis has never pushed two men or their audience to their physical brink like this before. It is truly a shame someone has to lose, though it may take the whole summer. Unfortunately, when most attention in the sporting world is focused on the final matches of World Cup group play, many
may not have seen the battle that simply will not end. Not that most people have 7 hours of their day to watch a single tennis match. Let’s put things into perspective. These athletes know the winner will have two more matches to win before having to face No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal in the fourth round. And this is Wimbledon, and Roger Federer is still that most dominant player on grass the world has ever seen. These men are not battling for the cup. They are not playing for bragging rights; mutual respect between opponents has probably never been so high. They are simply playing to get off the court with an invitation to return for another round. These two athletes pushed their bodies for more than 7 hours Tuesday without giving up the slightest amount of ground or even taking a break. Performances like this are exactly what sport, individual sport especially, is all about. So enjoy it while it lasts, however long that may be, because it will certainly never happen again.
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I love a good boycott. There are few things more satisfying than fully expressing yourself in the only way that most people — who actually have power in America — care about; that is to say, we stop buying their products. Boycotts have somewhat digressed from their muckraking heyday (I mean, this country was more or less founded on them), but they gain traction from time to time. It’s no surprise that one such boycott has been leveled against BP. The British just don’t seem to get anything right, do they? And while I wholeheartedly support the use of economic force against BP for the events that have unfolded over the last two months, we need to make sure that how we respond is effective and that we’re not causing collateral damage ourselves. There’s more than enough of that currently going on in the Gulf. Two weeks after the spill, as I was driving along, I realized my tank was low. The sign on the first gas station I saw was emblazoned with a big, shiny BP flower. So I kept driving. After finally finding a non-BP-stamped gas station — which was far more difficult than you’d think it should be — I happily filled the tank and was on my way.
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In the immortal words of Borat, “Great success.” Right? Not so much. It wasn’t until after I got home and started surfing across Internet sites that I began thinking about what just happened. After some research, I stumbled upon an unfortunate reality: BP doesn’t directly own any of the 11,000 gas stations here in the United States that sell its petroleum. What’s worse is that it supplies oil to a good number of gas stations that don’t even have a big, flowery sign announcing that station’s affiliation with BP. On top of all that is the crude fact that oil, as a traded commodity, can easily switch hands many times before winding up at a gas station. Needless to say, I went from feeling triumphant to duped pretty fast. It was disappointing. (Though, now that I think about it, that’s happened kind of a lot since November 2008.) The question, then, becomes one weighing costs against benefits. The fact of the matter is that, economically, a BP boycott hurts the independent local station owners much more than it does the corporation. Even though BP might take a negligible loss in profit, it will still sell
refined petroleum to non-BP affiliated gas stations, and it will continue selling crude on the open market. Thus, even though BP cut corners in pursuit of profit and left us to pay the price, this spill was ultimately avoidable. And despite assurances it would never happen, a boycott is not particularly productive solution (even if it does help us sleep better at night). The real way to hold BP accountable isn’t an ineffectual boycott that will affect local business owners far more than hold the overseers responsible. This doesn’t actually address the problem; similarly, neither does an escrow fund or an Oval Office reprimand. There is no short-term solution. There is only a long-term necessity: that we stop burning fossil fuels. So before we rush to boycott local BP-affiliated gas stations, let’s encourage them to switch suppliers. Before we take to the streets, let’s ride the bus and carpool. Before we can demand an energy revolution, we have to throw our Boston Tea Party. And although the images of a poisoned Gulf of Mexico and a stained Boston Harbor may look similar, as a nation, we aren’t ready to throw in the crates just yet.
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OHS NATIONALLY RANKED BY KATE NICOLE COOPER The Daily Mississippian
Oxford High School, a Level 5 Superior school, has been ranked in the top 6 percent of high schools across the nation. This annual ranking is based on the number of students who take the Advanced Placement (AP) test, the performance of those who take the test, and the number of students who receive free and reduced lunches. All of these are factored together to result in a placement number based on fellow high schools in the nation. “To even be eligible for this award, you have to have more students taking the Advanced Placement test than graduate in a class,” said Bill Hamilton, director of curriculum and instruction of the Oxford School District. “We’re actually ranked in the top 1,200 high schools in the country.” There are approximately 26,400 public high schools in the United States, and for Oxford to stake its claim somewhere in the first 1,200 is an outstanding honor not only to the school but to the state of Mississippi as well. “I think it’s a great honor to be considered in the top six percent of anything, whether we moved up or moved down, we’re happy to be considered in the list and as one of the groups,” Brian Harvey, assistant superintendent of the Oxford School District, said. “We’re certainly happy to achieve the award.” Oxford’s rank in the top 6 percent for the 2009-2010 school year is an increase even from the 2008-2009 academic year. Both Harvey and Hamilton agreed that it was an effort of everyone in the school system working together to be even
better. “It really is a credit to our students, our parents and our teachers because they’re the ones who allow us to achieve this honor,” Harvey said. “It’s great that we have the resources here to put us in place, and our board has supplied students who are enrolled in AP classes to have the advantage of taking those classes,” Harvey attributes the success of the school to the community that supports public education, and it is because of this that they were able to achieve the award. According to Hamilton, the District is looking forward to increasing the number of students who take the advantage of the opportunity to take Advanced Placement courses so that Oxford’s rank will continue to increase. “We’re pleased to be in the top six percent, but there are parts of our program we want to improve,” Mike McLarty, a guidance counselor at the high school, said, We want to be even better than that… There are always places in our Advanced Placement area that we can improve.” Administrators and faculty at Oxford High will not use the award as a reason to slack but instead, intend to continue climbing their way to the top of the rank. “It’s a high school award, but the preparation for it is done from kindergarten,” Harvey said. “We’re going to continue to press our teachers and students to be the best that they can be in the classrooms, and hopefully these kinds of awards and recognition will keep coming.”
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Engineers uncap broken oil well in Gulf of Mexico NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engineers had to completely uncap the broken oil well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped into machinery being used to collect the spilled fuel. Hundreds of thousands of gallons more poured into the water as crews scrambled to replace a critical component. The mishap left nothing to stem the flow of oil at its source. A camera recording the well showed huge clouds of black fluid coming out of the sea floor. It was not clear how long workers would need to replace the cap, which took weeks to install. Bob Dudley, the managing director of BP who is taking over the spill response, said engineers expected to replace the cap in less than a day. Without the cap, the only means of collecting the oil was a ship at the surface that is sucking up oil and burning it. The problem, yet another in the nine-week effort to stop the gusher, came as thick pools of oil washed up on Pensacola Beach in Florida, and the Obama administration sought to resurrect a sixmonth moratorium on deepwater drilling. The current worst-case estimate of what’s spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day. Anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons have spilled since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and blew out the well 5,000 feet underwater. BP PLC was leasing the rig from owner Transocean Ltd. When the robot bumped into the equipment just before 10 a.m., gas rose through a vent that carries warm water down to prevent icelike crystals from forming in the machinery, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said. Crews were checking to see if the crystals called hydrates had formed before attempting to put the cap back on. Ed Overton, a professor emeri-
tus of environmental science at Louisiana State University, said he suspects crews are pumping air into the line to flush out any water before they try to reattach the cap. He speculated doing so would take less than two days. “I certainly would be surprised if it took any longer than that,” he said. “It sounds pretty easy and straightforward, but nothing is easy and straightforward when you’re doing it remotely from a mile away.” Before the problem arose, the containment cap had collected about 700,000 gallons of oil in 24 hours and sucked it up to a ship on the surface. All of that oil — about 29,000 gallons an hour — is now gushing into the Gulf again. In May, a similar problem with a cap doomed the effort to put a bigger containment device over the blown-out well. BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals clogged it, threatening to make it float away. The smaller cap, which had worked fine until now, had been in place since June 4. To get it there, though, crews had to slice away a section of the leaking pipe, meaning the flow of oil could be stronger now than before. In Florida, thick pools of oil washed up along miles of national park and Pensacola Beach shoreline as health advisories against swimming and fishing in the oncepristine waters were extended for 33 miles east from the Alabama/ Florida border. “It’s pretty ugly, there’s no question about it,” Gov. Charlie Crist said. The oil had a chemical stench as it baked in the afternoon heat. The beach looked as if it had been paved with a 6-foot-wide ribbon of asphalt, much different from the tar balls that washed up two weeks earlier. “This used to be a place where you could come and forget about all your cares in the world,” said Nancy Berry, who fought back tears as she watched her two grand-
sons play in the sand far from the shore. Ranger Bobbie Visnovske said a family found the dolphin Wednesday, and wildlife officers carried it into shallow water for immediate resuscitation. They later transported it to a rehabilitation center in Panama City, about 100 miles to the east. Meanwhile, the Obama administration was plotting its next steps after U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans overturned a moratorium on new drilling, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too. The White House promised an immediate appeal of his ruling. The Interior Department imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the BP disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells. Several companies, including Shell and Marathon Oil, said they would await the outcome of any appeals before they start drilling again. Asked about it Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley said his company will “step back” from the issue while it investigates the rig explosion. BP said Wednesday that Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the spill. He takes over from BP CEO Tony Hayward, who has been widely criticized for his handling of the crisis. In Florida, dozens of workers used shovels to scoop up pools of oil that washed up overnight, turning the sand orange. Tar balls have been reported as far east as Panama City, Fla., and heavier oil is predicted to wash ashore further east along the coast line in the coming days. Oil has also washed up on beaches in Alabama and coated wetlands in Louisiana.
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PART 3: THE KING AND I Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” is set to open tonight as the third production in this summer’s Oxford Shakespeare Festival. The musical is set in early-1860s Siam. It is based on an autobiographical book written by Anna Leonowens about her time spent as the English governess to the royal children of Siam. When widowed Anna arrives in Siam, she first runs into opposition with the king and his broken promise of a house outside the palace walls. Later, the king’s eldest son refuses to believe that Siam is such a small place. Anna feels as if she is in a country where a promise has no meaning. As the plot moves forward, Anna’s friendship with the king grows and his respect for her does as well. Christopher Young, a guard and dancer in the ballet, said “The King and I” is an epic, beautiful romance. “It’s an exciting look into a culture so different from our own. They (Rodgers and Hammerstein) were able to use music and dance to
bring you into this world. They wove song and dialogue so well, in a way that songwriters today can’t.” He said it would be an exciting production because it is the first time the festival has used a Broadway-style musical. He said “The King and I” is one of the greatest musicals ever written. The musical casts 26 young Oxonians. Demetrius Plaxico, who plays the crowned prince, is performing in his first year of the Oxford Shakespeare Festival. “I like doing it because it’s really fun. I’ve enjoyed working with all of the people.” The crowned prince is the king’s eldest son. “I look forward to rehearsal every night. The cast is awesome and it’s a lot of fun,” Ben Lilly said. Lilly plays Anna’s son, Louis. The lead, Anna, is played by Lenena Brezna, a twelfth-year opera singer. She said, “It’s awesome to be able to work with these people whom I really like. It’s different coming from the opera world—it’s a lot of fun.” This is Brezna’s first musical.
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Age: 21 Year: Senior Major: History Hometown: Slidell, La. Birthday: May 4 HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Hunting terrorists on the Afghan border, road trips, movies and concertgoing. GOALS (CAREER AND PERSONAL): To make it out alive. GREATEST FEAR: “Birds, man. I HATE birds.” GREATEST INFLUENCE: My dad.
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RESTAURANT: Commander’s Palace, New Orleans FOOD: The Bonnie Meets Clyde at The Blind Pig SEASON OF THE YEAR: Football Season CHILDHOOD HERO: Huey P. Long
BEST CONCERT EVER ATTENDED: Big Sam’s Funky Nation at the Maple Leaf in NOLA CLASS EVER TAKEN: Daphne Chamberlain’s American History since 1945 CHILDHOOD MEMORY: Vacationing in Kiawah Island, S.C. with his family WHAT DAVID LOOKS FOR IN A GIRL: “She must be a minx. That is all.” DAVID’S IDEAL DATE: Dinner— it offers an opportunity for discussion and decisionmaking. Putt Putt-shows competition and provides and opportunity for flirting. Night cap- because who doesn’t love night caps? INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DAVID: He was the Ole Miss version of JT Bowtie and is the Apple Campus Rep at Ole Miss. IN FIVE YEARS DAVID SEES HIMSELF: Teaching or in Law School SOMETHING DAVID WOULD LIKE TO TRY THAT HE NEVER HAS: Run for public office Quote: “I want to make a policy statement...I am unabashedly in favor of women.” -LBJ
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THE OXFORD INTERNATIONAL SKATE JAM Saturday, June 26th / Oxford Skatepark / 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
The Oxford Park Commission is hosting a Skate Jam in honor of International Go Skate Day. The all day event will include contests for street, bowl and best trick. There will be free food provided by Tallulah’s Kitchen, Honey Bee Bakery, Main Squeeze and other local restaurants. At least five different bands will be playing all day for the event with a special performance by Guelel Kumba from Afrissippi. The main feature for the day’s events will be an appearance by pro skater Steve Bailey. For more information, listen to Rebel Radio today at 11 a.m.
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REBEL BASKETBALL WITHOUT WHITE THIS IS PART THREE OF A THREEPART SERIES ON TERRICO WHITE AND THE NBA DRAFT, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE TONIGHT. BY ERIC BESSON Sports Editor
The Ole Miss basketball team carried high expectations into last season and did not live up to all of them. After the season, the Rebels lost three starters, so the expectations will be tempered when the 2010-11 season tips off. But it may not be a bad thing. “We want people to think that, you know, ‘we’re not going to do this- we’re not going to do that’ because that just gives us more leverage to surprise people,” senior guard Zach Graham said. “I think it’s easier to go out when you feel like people aren’t expecting much out of you. I think with the absences of Terrico (White), EP (Eniel Polynice), DeAundre (Cranston) and Murphy (Holloway) that people have to step into new responsibilities and adjust to the new demands.” Along with Graham, the Rebels’ key returnees include 2009-10 All-SEC Second Team member Chris Warren, Trevor Gaskins, Terrance Henry, and Reginald Buckner, but five new faces will join the 2010-11 roster. The Rebels will welcome three freshmen who are ex-
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Senior guard Zach Graham is prepared to accept ownership of the 2010-11 Ole Miss basketball team in a year of transition. The Rebels lost four players and are set to welcome five new players to the team.
pected to contribute right away: center Demarco Cox, point-guard Dundrecous Nelson and Isaiah Massey, a forward from TAAG Academy in Tampa, Fla. who signed in the late period. Junior college transfers Steadman Short and Donald Williams, who signed with Kentucky in 2008, will also have eligibility available for the upcoming season. “Chris and I, we’re seniors,” Graham said. “This is our team now. So on and off the court, we have to be leaders as seniors of this team and know that more is going to be expected of us. We’re preparing now - in the summertime - to do that.”
White said he definitely plans to keep up with the Rebels next season and hopes to make it back to Oxford for some games at the Tad Pad. “The whole time I was there at Ole Miss was fun,” he said. “If I was in class, playing in a game, or just walking on campus, it was fun. I think they (Ole Miss) can surprise some people next year. They just have to work hard and put in the work.” White did just that everyday during his two-year stint at the University of Mississippi, and it paid off. Today, his childhood dream will become a reality. Thanks for the memories, No. 24.
SEC RANKINGS: SPECIAL TEAMS
Each Thursday the DM’s Paul Katool will rank SEC teams by position. Next week: Offensive Line 1. Auburn: The Auburn Tigers have it going on in the special teams department with senior Wes Byrum booting field goals through the uprights. Byrum nailed 15-16 field goals last season for the Tigers. Kick returner Demond Washington – a one time Ole Miss commit – had the highest kick return average (31.1 yards) of any player in the Southeastern Conference with a reasonable number of reps. 2. Georgia: Junior Blair Walsh converted 20-22 field goal attempts last year en route to becoming a Lou Groza Award finalist. Expect Walsh to contend for the award in 2010. Georgia’s Brandon Boykin, who
totaled 988 return yards, was one of two SEC players to return three kicks for a touchdown last season. 3. Florida: Brandon James worked double duty for the Gators last year when he returned both punts and kickoffs. James was more effective as a kick returner where he gained 756 yards and scored a touchdown at the position. Place Kicker Caleb Sturgis returns and should be dependable (20-30 last season). 4. Vanderbilt: Kick returner Warren Norman was a lowly two-star recruit on Scout.com and a bit better – three stars – on Rivals.com out of high school, but Vanderbilt coach Bobby Johnson again found value
in an underrated player. Entering his sophomore campaign, Norman is the league’s top returning kick returner. Try Norman’s freshman stats on for size: 1,050 return yards and three scores. 5. LSU: Trindon Holliday is another guy who seems to have exhausted his eligibility, oh, maybe a decade ago. Well, he’s finally gone, and the Tigers are going to have to find another guy to return punts. Josh Jasper was an accurate 17-20 last season in the field goal department. 6. South Carolina: Field goal kicker Spencer Lanning stepped in last year after Ryan Succop’s gradu-
ation and had an admirable campaign as he converted 17-20 kicks and handled punting duties. 7. Ole Miss: The Rebels have the kickoff and punting jobs nailed down, but field goal kicker Bryson Rose is a big question mark for Ole Miss after having the security blanket of Joshua Shene for the last four years. Kick returner Jesse Grandy, a rail-thin, lightning-in-a-bottle type player, emerged midseason as a playmaker for the Rebels at the position. 8. Arkansas: Oh the troubles of Arkansas senior field goal kicker Alex Tejada, whose up-and-down career included big kicks and even bigger misses. Dennis Johnson was one of three SEC players to have over 1,000 yards while returning kicks. 9. Alabama: Freshman Cade Foster, one of the top kickers in the nation out of high school, takes over for Leigh Tiffin, who seemingly spent half a century in Tuscaloosa as Alabama’s place kicker. The Crimson Tide also lost one of the SEC’s all-time special teams greats in Javier
Arenas, now with the Kansas City Chiefs. 10. Mississippi State: The Bulldogs plucked athlete Leon Berry from the junior college ranks in their 2009 recruiting class. Berry plays receiver, but has moon-lighted as a productive option at kick returner, where he churned out more than 1,000 yards and a touchdown on special teams. 11. Kentucky: Randall Cobb wears many hats for the Wildcats, and special teams isn’t below the jack-of-all-trades. Cobb is the top returning punt returner in the SEC after returning 24 punts for 308 yards and a touchdown in 2009. The Wildcats have issues at place kicker, with Ryan Tydlacka only converting 3-6 kicks last year. 12. Tennessee: Daniel Lincoln is another one of the veteran kickers in the SEC, but he’s not as spectacular as some of the others. Lincoln started off his career as a freshman by converting 21-29 field goals, but everything has gone downhill since then (Lincoln went 10-16 in 2009).