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Fresno and Clovis residents camped out overnight to win free wings for a year. Buffalo Wild Wings responded by providing food, electricty and television for those who waited.

By Dana Hull The Collegian Excitement was in the air as Fresno and Clovis residents young and old camped out in front of Buffalo Wild Wings for the highly anticipated grandopening of the restaurant.

The first 100 customers in line will win free chicken wings for an entire year today when the restaurant opens at 11:00 a.m.

Several vehicles passing by the restaurant honked their horns at those

who waited, which generated even more enthusiasm.

Among the youngest was 3-year-old Aaliyah, the first person in line. She and her grandparents have been waiting in front of the restaurant since 5 p.m. Saturday night.

Her grandmother, who wished to remain anonymous, was excited about the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant opening in Fresno. She raved about the food and the variety of choices the restaurant offers.

“They have good burgers, wings, sal-

ads, even fish,” she said.

Several others showed up with nothing but the clothes on their back, as they ventured over to the establishment from the Save Mart Center’s Freestyle Motocross event on Saturday night.

“I came out of the Save Mart Center last night from motocross and I saw the line” Ronald Woodard said. He has been waiting in line since 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. “I came out here with nothing, basically. I slept on the ground with no blanket until three in the morning.”

Woodard became a fan of Buffalo

Wild Wings during a visit to one of the restaurants in New York.

While some spent the night in the cold weather and fog, the majority of the people waiting outside arrived after noon today. Most came prepared with tents, blankets and entertainment, including board games, video games, laptops and guitars. One group even brought a couch with them.

“We knew we were going to come because we saw the signs,” Meaghan See WINGS, Page 3

Fresno State professors fail to meet office hours requirement

By Christian Walker and Leonardo Valerio The Collegian According to section 338 of the teacher’s policy manual, each full-time professor at Fresno State is required to have at least five posted hours available.

However with resources such as Blackboard, e-mail and some teachers even using Twitter and Facebook office hours may not be as important to students anymore.

When visiting office hours was the easiest and quickest way of contacting teachers, office hours were strictly enforced. Dr. Robert Maldonado, a professor in the philosophy department, said that teachers used to be checked on to make sure they were in their offices.

“They used to actually check more because it used to be the case that if you put ‘by appointment’ they didn’t like that,” said Maldonado. “They don’t seem to be policing it the way they used too.”

The policy states “All full-time faculty shall schedule and maintain at least five office hours per week in their assigned offices. The five-hour requirement shall be a minimum amount of time, specifically posted, when students know that the professor is available for consultation without an appointment.”

In a random sampling of teachers office hours, 80 percent of teachers were in their office during posted times.

“I’m actually not so surprised,” Maldonado said of the results. “The majority of faculty want to help and want to be available.”

Students seem to have mixed feelings about the minimum amount of office hours.

Senior marketing major, Albert Tello, doesn’t feel his teacher’s office hours fit into his schedule. Tello said it is difficult to make time to meet with See HOURS, Page 3

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BHS wrestler right to be expelled

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n Jan. 19, the Clovis Unified School District expelled 17-yearold Preston Hill, a senior at Buchanan High School and captain of the wrestling team.

His crime: performing a “butt drag,” a wrestling move, on a freshman teammate. His charges: sexual battery and bullying. The consequences: expulsion and possibly jail time.

A “butt drag” is a wrestling maneuver where the wrestler grabs his opponent’s buttocks in an attempt to gain leverage over him.

Hill told the Fresno Police Department that this is the move he did during

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practice. The plaintiff alleged that Hill inserted his fingers in his anus.

Though the “butt drag” is a legal wrestling move, Hill’s application of it — he admitted to inserting his fingers in the alleged victim’s anus to get him to wrestle, a doctor found bruising on the boy’s anus and Hill was accused of bullying the boy beforehand — was definitely wrong.

Hill, who was suspended from Buchanan High in August 2010, was a star wrestler for Buchanan, and his coach and fellow teammates thought he would “never intentionally hurt another teammate.”

However, in this incident, Hill appeared to take the move too far, and the added charge of bullying

only makes the case that much more serious.

While The Collegian doesn’t think that harmless hazing should be severely punished — the classic case is dumping the “newbie” in a trash can — any mention of sexual abuse drastically changes the terms of the debate.

There’s something to be said for the “sissifying” of America, but a freshman refusing to tattle on a senior who jams his fingers into his anus is not the exemplar of a “tough guy.”

As captain of the wrestling team, Hill should have set an example for his fellow teammates by welcoming his new freshman teammates into the program, not by taking the “butt

drag” a step too far. As an athlete who was eligible for several college scholarships, he should’ve been leading his team on the wrestling mat and contemplating his supposedly bright future. Instead, he now has to wonder “what if ?” and live with the consequences of his actions. Clovis Unified’s decision to expel him was the right one, and hopefully the action will curb any potential abuse of the wrestling move in the future.

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In your article, you wrote, “However, it does not ask for sexual preference, so identifying LGBT+ students is not an easy task.”

I believe the correct term, which you should have used, is “sexual orientation.” The term “sexual preference” is an antiquated term which implies that one’s sexuality is a choice. This is the basis for misunderstanding and fear of the gay community. If people understood that one’s sexual

orientation is predetermined just as one’s skin color is, there would be a lot more acceptance of the gay community.

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Pedro in the news Your article regarding Pedro Ramirez is an obvious attempt to sway public opinion in the favor of an admitted illegal alien. Simply because of The Collegian’s collective liberal stance in favor of open

borders you once again ignore the fact that he has broken the law by registering to vote. You also ignore the documents that Mr O’Neil has gathered by quoting an article in the Bee instead of looking at them yourself. You also ignore the fact that if Pedro Ramirez weren’t enrolled in Fresno State there would be one more spot open for a United States citizen. Your journalistic credibility is on par for the rest of the publications in this country today in that you don’t look at facts that you dont agree with. Therefore I say, you are nothing more than a tabloid and have zero credibility.

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HOURS: Teachers WINGS: Customers await the turning to technology grand opening of Buffalo Wild to communicate with Wings students if it’s really important I just talk to them after class.”

Maldonado believes that at least in his department students might be intimidated to meet with teachers.

“It’s difficult to know comparatively but I think I get fewer students than some of my colleagues,” Maldonado said. “I think some students get intimidated by their own text.”

Llorente is one of the students that may get intimidated. “I prefer to contact teachers by e-mail because I don’t like talking to my teachers face to face, one on one,” Llorente said.

Llorente added that he often uses Blackboard to get help from other classmates and finds it to be very effective.

Maldonado said that

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“I never use the instructor’s office hours. I feel like their office hours are not set up well. They typically always conflict with the rest of my classes,” Tello said.

Kinesiolgy major, Lorenzo Llorente has mixed feelings about officer hours.

“Some teachers seem to have enough officer hours and others seem to never be there when you actually need them,” Llorente said.

Some students prefer avoid officer hours all together and use other means of contacting professors or getting help with assignments.

English major Daylen Prinz said she prefers not going to a professors office

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hey used to actually check more because it used to be the case that if you put ‘by appointment’ they didn’t like that. They don’t seem to be policing it the way they used to.

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despite some misconceptions, teachers are willing and are available to help. “It’s just up to the students to benefit from their assistance.”

hours and has never had a problem getting help when she needs it.

“I have never used a professors office hours before,” Prinz said. “I think e-mail is proficient enough or

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She and her friends, who brought a couch and some board games at the last minute, had been waiting since around noon on Sunday. “Broke college students love free stuff. We won’t have to spend money on groceries for a while.”

The restaurant staff went above and beyond to accommodate those who were anxiously waiting for opening day. On Saturday night, the restaurant prepared tacos for the first families who were waiting outside and turned on the electricity so customers could plug in their portable heaters to stay warm.

On Sunday the staff turned their outside TVs on so patrons could watch the NFL playoff

games. There was even word that they were going to prepare more food for last night’s waiting crowd, and that a representative from Red Bull would be stopping by.

The mood of the crowd was highly spirited, and no one interviewed reported any problems. Those who have eaten there say it’s definitely worth the wait.

“I became familiar with Buffalo Wild Wings when I was based at Fort Bragg,” Matthew King said. “My buddy knew about it, so we decided to come camp for it and get the free wings.”

King has been waiting since 10 a.m. on Sunday.

The restaurant is opening across the street from the Dog House Grill, whose only competition before Buffalo Wild Wings was Jack in the Box.

Matt Billingsley, general manager for Dog House Grill, is not only unconcerned about the competition, but is very enthusiastic about it.

“We definitely have to stay on our toes,” he said. “But we’re excited about the competition.”

Billingsley says that busin e ss u su al ly stays pre tty steady, even during winter and summer break when students are not on campus.

The restaurant generated excitement in December when they first began the hiring process. Nearly 3,000 applied for positions, but the restaurant was expected to hire only a staff of between 100 and 150.

Buffalo Wild Wings, which opened its first store in Columbus, Ohio in 1981, currently has more than 700 restaurants nationwide. Before the Fresno restaurant was built, the closest establishment was located in Modesto.

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New Year's resolution keeps Student Recreation Center busy

By Janessa Tyler The Collegian New year, new semester, new resolutions.

One New Year's resolution has students checking into the Student Recreation Center or a local gym more than usual.

Winter break, with all of the holiday foods that we eat, may have caused some students to induldge in foods that are high in calories. The new year is a time for students to look at the past year and change what they didn't like.

“I think a lot of people are noticing now that being

ing weight is the No. 1 New Year’s resolution for people of all ages, but a lot of people don't have the time or money to buy a gym membership.

The SRC is located next to the Save Mart Center — giving students, faculty and staff a convenient place to fulfill their New Year’s resolution.

“I think people are taking advantage of what they pay for, instead of paying for Gb3 or Bally [Total Fitness],” Bayne said.

Students have an opportunity to interact with faculty and staff, as well as other students in group-fitness classes and throughout the SRC."

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veryone wants to get back into shape for spring break and get back into bathing-suit season.”

— Nick Springer, Recreation administration major

healthy isn't just about looks, but it's also for your health,” Deirdre Bayne, a biolo g y major, said.

Bayne has been working at the front desk of the SRC for three years. She said the busiest time of the day at the SRC is around 7 p.m., but the busiest time of the year is January and the start of each semester.

“Usually the start of every semester we're always busy because we always have new students and a lot of people who want to come in, check it out and see what they're paying for,” Bayne said. “It's always really busy here.”

According to Customer Relations Coordinator Amy Allen, 8,765 people checked-in to the SRC during the first full week of classes for the spring 2010 semester. The numbers dropped by almost 1,000 at the start of the fall 2010 semester. During the last full week of classes last semester, only 4,793 people checked-in to the SRC. “How you take care of yourself is how you are going to lead your life when you're older,” Bayne said. “Muscle has memory, so when you do it when you're young, you'll be able to take care of yourself a lot easier then you're older.”

Recreation administration major Nick Springer has been working at the SRC front desk for two years and said a lot of people lose track of their weight over the Thanksgiving holiday and winter break.

“There would be times at the end of last year when there would be two or three people in here,” Springer said.

“At the beginning of this year, there's never a time where there's probably less than 40 or 50 people in here.”

Springer also said the start of the year is only a couple of months away from spring break in April.

“Everyone wants to get back into shape for spring break and get back into bathing-suit season,” Springer said.

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“We're younger, we're on the same boat here,” Bayne said.

“We can help each other.”

The new year has just begun and the spring 2011 semester is a great time to start achieving goals that weren't reached last year.

“Be consistent, don't set goals that aren't achievable,” Bayne said. “Always start with a goal that's really small; that way when you do achieve it, you feel more satisfied with the things you are doing.”

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Despite national numbers, local college kids keep reading Local booksellers optimistic about college reading levels, disagree with decline in college reading

The Social Science Research Council, in a new study released last week, found that 36 percent of college students don’t show increased critical thinking skills after four years of postsecondary schooling.

Part of this trend is the decreasing number of collegeaged kids who read for pleasure or for class.

While the numbers might promote the conclusion that there is less of an interest in reading among college students, local booksellers take an opposite stance.

“I wouldn’t say that college students are necessarily reading less,” Kelly Mills, who is the assistant manager at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Fresno, said. “We get quite a few college students who come in to get required reading, and we get a big spike in college students during the summer months who look for summer reading.”

The study, which tested thousands of college students at universities across the country, found that 45 percent of college students showed no increased critical thinking skills after two years of college, and 36 percent showed no improvement after four years of college.

Authorities at Borders Bookstore in River Park credit location as a factor in the amount of college students they cater to.

“We get a lot of college students in here who are looking at movies, and come in here to browse the selection we have,” Borders employee Dale Drunhardt, said.

“Usually they look for things they can’t get at the Fresno State bookstore, like literature and mysteries.”

When it comes to required reading, however, some students choose to forgo reading books for class.

“I read for fun every day, but I never read for class,”Erik

Williams, an English major at Fresno State said. “The text rarely interests me.”

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Despite low numbers in the amount of college students who read for fun, local college students still love their books.

Bono sings, fond memories flow at Shriver funeral

By Brett Zongker Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — His 19 grandchildren read short remembrances, U2 frontman Bono led mourners in singing “Forever Young” and fond memories and laughter filled a funeral service for R. Sargent Shriver, the 95-year-old statesman laid to rest this weekend.

Shriver, the Peace Corps’ first director who also ran the 1960s War on Poverty and served as a running mate on an ill-fated Democratic presidential ticket, was buried Saturday evening in a Massachusetts cemetery just hours after his funeral in suburban

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Shriver, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died Tuesday in his native Maryland where a funeral Mass was held in Potomac.

At Shriver’s service, mourners from Bono to Vice President Joe Biden to for mer President Bill Clinton paid tribute to the man affectionally known as “Sarge,” talking of a life spent serving others.

First lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey attended. Wyclef Jean played the piano and sang “All the Ends of the Earth” as guests — and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington — clapped along. Later, Vanessa Williams performed “Soon and

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Very Soon.” Bono and Glen Hansard, who starred in the movie “Once,” sang “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace.”

“I was a student really of the Sarge way of doing things,” Bono told The Associated Press after singing at the service. U2’s lead singer founded the Red Campaign with Shriver’s eldest son Bobby to fight AIDS in Africa.

“It’s a rare combination of grace and strategy,” Bono said of Sargent Shriver.

Clinton spoke of Shriver’s legacy of public service.

“Fifty years ago, President Kennedy told us we should ask what we can do for our country,” Clinton told the crowd at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church.

“A whole generation of us understood what President Kennedy meant by looking at Sargent Shriver’s life.”

Shriver grew up during the Great Depression, attended Yale University on a scholarship and served in the Navy in World War II. Then, he fulfilled his brother-in-law John F. Kennedy’s campaign promise by developing the Peace Corps into a lasting international force.

One by one, many of Shriver’s 19 grandchildren read brief remembrances about their grandfather, recalling his passion for helping people, his hugs and his love of baseball.

Maria Shriver, the former NBC reporter and wife of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said her family took comfort in “knowing that Daddy is in heaven with God and with Mummy.”

Shriver was buried later Saturday alongside his wife Eunice Kennedy S h r ive r, t h e f o u n d e r o f S p e c i a l Olympics. The private burial was held at a cemetery in Barnstable, Mass., where family members carried candles as they stepped off a bus under a darkening sky.

Sargent Shriver was a businessman

and lawyer descended from a prominent Maryland family. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the past eight years. His wife died in 2009 at age 88.

Mark Shriver recalled some of his father’s final years in the Potomac funeral service.

“Alzheimer’s robs you of so much. In Dad’s case, it stripped him to the core,” he said. Still, he “would shake your hand and smile, look you in the eye and tell you you were the greatest and that he loves you.”

Sargent Shriver was former Sen. George McGover n’s running mate in the 1972 presidential election, but the Democrats lost in a landslide to President Richard M. Nixon. Still, Shriver campaigned until the end, even when it was most difficult.

“Sargent Shriver was going to go out with his head held high,” Clinton said.

Biden credited Shriver for helping him win his own Senate seat in Delaware during a tough race the same year.

A last-minute visit from Shriver put him over the top in a heavily Republican state at the time. “That’s when the sun rose for me,” Biden said.

In 1994, Shriver received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. His son Anthony recalled the day his father received that honor, addressing Clinton.

“I’ll never forget him there in the White House and you looking at him and giving him one of those big Bill Clinton hugs,” he said. “Wow was he high that day.”

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The daily crossword ACROSS 1 Speck 5 Snake with venom 10 Subtle “Over here!”

14 Bear up above 15 Order to someone moving away 16 Swabby’s greeting 17 Emergency tool 19 Unit of pressure 20 Dessert cake 21 Place to fish from 22 Von ­Bismarck or Klemperer 23 Word over a slot 25 ___ of Capricorn 27 Usual trunk location 29 Tiny spot in the water 32 Broadway’s “___ Yankees” 35 Well-built 39 Mine discovery 40 Word between I’s in a famous palindrome 41 What seeds may be found in 42 U.S. ­undercover outfit 43 Work between the wings 44 Acquire 45 Scrapes by (with “out”) 46 Warm alpine wind 48 Was unable to keep a secret 50 “From ___ With Love” (Bond flick) 54 Forces out of the sack

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0 Composer Erik 7 71 Table scraps DOWN 1 Civilian clothes, for a soldier 2 Lightweight synthetic fabric 3 Some ­Russian rulers 4 New York’s time zone 5 Sharp punch

6 Faucet annoyance 7 Zip code component 8 Former anesthetic 9 Fashionably nostalgic 10 Vernacular 11 Pacer pacer?

12 Do mail-room work 13 Bush leaguer 18 Wherever you are 24 Deck for divining 26 Feeling for the unfortunate 28 Win in a runaway 30 Great Lake 31 Oolong and others 32 Like most users of sign language 33 With the bow, in music 34 Ticket issuer 36 Women’s wear daily?

37 Motel room 38 Address south of the border 41 Gets some sun 45 Perez of baseball 47 Shake a leg 49 Like a ­hippie’s hair 51 Some parlor pieces 52 ___ roll (experiences good luck) 53 Wide tie 55 Search every inch of 56 Word on a quarter 57 Ninth mos.

58 October birthstone 59 White knight, stereotypically 61 German car company 65 “Understand?”

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The cast of “Bye Bye Birdie,” the first musical in Fresno State’s history, rehearses for their first performance. This photo ran in the Friday, April 5, 1963 issue of The Collegian.

News Briefs Brief news for the brief attention span

CLINTON, Iowa (AP) — Rapper and reality TV star Flavor Flav is bringing the flavor of chicken to Iowa.

Flav’s Fried Chicken opens Monday in Clinton, Iowa. Flav has been there preparing for the launch and told the Clinton Herald he’ll visit often for promotions and even work the fryer.

Flav says it’s the first in a chain that stemmed from the 99 cent wings he served at Mama Cimino in Las Vegas. His business partner is the brother of that restaurant’s owner.

Flavor Flav, whose real name William Drayton Jr., founded hip-hop group Public Enemy

in the ‘80s. He found fame anew in 2004 on the third season of VH1’s “The Surreal Life.” He also starred in the network’s “Flavor of Love.”

He has a culinary degree and restaurant experience.

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TODAY AT 8:00 P.M., SAVE MART CENTER

Bulldog Game Day Fresno State Bulldogs (7-10, 3-4 WAC)

vs. Seattle University Redhawks (8-12)

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Breakdown: Bulldogs If there was ever a time Fresno State was in a “mustwin” situation, that time is now.

Fresno State has dropped fo u r s t r a i g h t c o n f e re n c e games, but step out away from Western Athletic Conference o p p o n e n t s t o n i g h t wh e n it takes on Seattle at home tonight.

Head coach Steve Cleveland’s team opened WAC play with a flurry, winning its opening three games and eclipsed the .500 mark for the first time all season.

But after last Thursday’s heartbreaking loss to lowly Hawaii, the ‘Dogs were left searching for answers. In the loss, Fresno State had three players score in double figures, but got little production from the other starters and the bench.

Fresno State does have a winning record at home this year (5-4) but desperately needs a late-season turnaround to

avoid finishing without a winning record for the fourth consecutive year.

G r e g S m i t h w i l l h av e the tall task of containing Seattle’s leading scorer Aaron Broussard in the paint. Smith has struggled lately with interior defense after giving up 13 points and 10 rebounds to Hawaii’s Vander Joaquim and 18 points to Idaho’s Kyle Barone.

The ‘Dogs will look to get solid perfomances from their backcour t combination of Kevin Olekaibe (10.2 points per game) and Garrett Johnson (8.6 points per game), who have had recent shooting slumps.

Breakdown: Seattle Unlike Fresno State, the Redhawks have played relatively well in their recent games.

Seattle has won four of its last six games, a decent performance for a squad that opened the season 3-8.

Lead by 6-foot-5-inch junior big man Aaron Broussard, Seattle has the chance to put together back-to-back wins for just the second time this season.

Head coach Cameron Dollar is in his second season leading the Redhawks, but has a struggling squad this year that hasn’t quite lived up to last season’s squad that went 17-14.

In his first season as head coach last year, Dollar took down the ‘Dogs in a thrilling finish 85-84, but had a difficult time containing Fresno State’s Greg Smith who scored 24 points and snagged 10 rebounds.

Seattle has four players averaging double-figure scoring

this season, but are really led

by Broussard’s play on the block.

Dollar’s team is just 2-9 on the road this season, including three losses in California.

But when the Redhawks lose, it typically isn’t pretty. In Seattle’s 12 losses, it has been outscored by an average of 16.

When the team wins, however, it is only by an average of six points per game.

Seattle, who does not belong to a conference, is just two years removed from posting a 21-8 record, but still lost to Fresno State 79-58.

Keys to Victory 1. Play a full 40 minutes Fresno State has had trouble putting together a full game.

Consistent play for both halves will be crucial for the Bulldogs to get back on the winning track.

2. Points in the paint Greg Smith had a huge game against Seattle last year (24 points, 10 rebounds. If he can put up numbers like those, the ‘Dogs should have little trouble with Seattle.

3. Forget the past What’s done is done. Steve Cleveland needs to convince his team it is now 0-0 and a new season has begun. The next 14 games will tell a lot about what direction the Fresno State basketball program is headed.

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Player to watch: Greg Smith, center

Steelers advance to eighth Super Bowl, will take on Packers

By Barry Wilner Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers found a fitting way to shut down the New York Jets’ season.

What started with “Hard Knocks,” ended with hard knocks.

For the third time in six seasons, Terrible Towels will twirl at the Super Bowl. The Steelers silenced Rex Ryan’s wild bunch with a fumble return for a touchdown and a goal-line stand in a 24-19 victory for the AFC championship Sunday. They will face Green Bay in Dallas in two weeks.

Look out Big D, here comes another Big D — in black and gold, and with an unmatched history of carrying off the Lombardi Trophy.

You can bet that unit led by James Harrison, which shut down the Jets’ comeback in the fourth quarter, will test Aaron Rodgers. That overwhelming defense set the tone for most of a frigid night at Heinz Field to end the Jets’ stunning postseason run.

Ryan slammed down his headset when Antonio Brown, also a hero last week, caught a pass for a first down that allowed

Pittsburgh to hang on and run out the clock.

And the Steelers (14-4) will challenge the Packers’ defense with a versatile attack led by running back Rashard Mendenhall and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

The Steelers ended the Jets’ season with a dominant first half for a 24-3 edge.

Mendenhall had 95 of his 121 yards and a touchdown.

“We knew we were going to have a chance to run the ball well,” Mendenhall said. “The offensive line, they controlled the line of scrimmage all game.”

Roethlisberger has moved on from a four-game suspension at the beginning of the season to take Pittsburgh to its eighth Super Bowl; the Steelers own the most titles, six. He scrambled time and again for key gains, often against shoddy tackling.

At game’s end, he kneeled on the field, his face buried in an AFC championship T-shirt.

The cocky Jets seemed to have left everything they had in New England last Sunday.

There was little trash talking all week and even less fire early in their biggest game since winning the champion-

ship 42 years ago. They haven’t been back to the Super Bowl.

The Steelers are regulars, including titles for the 2005 and 2008 teams, both led by Roethlisberger and a fierce defense sparked by playmaking safety Troy Polamalu.

Polamalu, his hair pouring from under his helmet as the black-and-gold signature towels flowed throughout Heinz Field, didn’t have to do a whole lot this time. Not with the way his teammates whipped the Jets at the line of scrimmage before a spirited New York surge in the second half.

And too often, New York’s defense was like a swinging gate that Roethlisberger and Mendenhall ran through with ease.

New York (13-6) failed for the fourth time in the AFC title game since 1969, when the Jets won perhaps the most significant of all Super Bowls. It was a devastating finish, particularly after the Jets beat Peyton Manning and the Colts, then Tom Brady and the Patriots on the road to get to Pittsburgh.

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Fresno State swims to second A late, second-half surge in day-two of the Valley Invitational gives seniors a victory over San Diego in their final home meet

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian It has been three years since the swimming and diving team first splashed onto the scene at Fresno State, giving head coach Jeanne Fleck plenty of exposure to the ups and downs of building a collegiate program.

And Friday and Saturday’s three-team Valley Invitational swim meet had its fair share of just that.

Friday’s six-event portion of the meet left Fleck ecstatic

finish in the three-meter dive with a career-best score 283.75.

Prigge also dominated the onemeter dive the previous day with a score of 269.70.

“I felt really good,” Prigge said. “I went in and hit sixfor-six on my dives. I just felt really confident and relaxed.”

Alongside Prigge, diving teammates Stacey Luke and Kendra Weeks rounded out Fresno State’s top-three finishes. Three events later, Yoho concluded her excellent invitational with a winning performance in the 100-yard free-

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little mistakes. I felt like our race strategies were really good and we’re a little tired.

But we’ve been training for three-and-a-half weeks. While everybody else was on break, we were training twice a day, every day. So I think they’re a little broken down. I think that with rest we’ll be great.”

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e’ve been training for three and a half weeks.

While everybody else was on break, we were training twice a day, every day.”

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Freshman Hannah Prigge had a career meet in the Valley Invitational, taking home first place in both the one and three meter dive.

Super Bowl: SteelersPackers matchup set CONTINUED from page 7 the outcome of this game and that’s the only thing I would change. We don’t need to apologize to anybody. We’ll be back, you’ll see.”

The Steelers snapped New York’s hopes of making the Super Bowl a sixth-seed spectacular; the Packers are the NFC’s No. 6 seed.

Coach Mike Tomlin had his Steelers eager for the fight from the outset, while Ryan’s guys were flat until it was too late. The Jets did get a 45-yard TD pass from Mark Sanchez to Santonio Holmes — the hero of Pittsburgh’s Super Bowl victory two years ago — and a safety after Pittsburgh’s goalline stand.

But the early hole was too deep, even after a 4-yard TD pass to Jer richo Cotchery made it 24-19 with 3:06 remaining. The Jets never got the ball back.

Pittsburgh set the early tone with a 66-yard march that took up the first nine minutes, with Roethlisberger displaying his scrambling skills on

several plays, including a key 12-yard run on third-and-12.

Mendenhall reached the ball over the goal line from the 1, the final of a 15-play drive in which the Steelers pushed around Ryan’s pride and joy.

But Pittsburgh also lost outstanding rookie center Maurkice Pouncey with an ankle injury, leaving it with just one backup offensive lineman.

It was the Jets who were struggling to block, though.

And catch, with the usually sure-handed Cotchery making a key third-down drop.

Or tackle. Mendenhall found seams to the left, right or up the middle. His 35-yard sprint in the second quarter led to Shaun Suisham’s 20-yard field goal and a 10-0 lead that was insurmountable the way the Jets were whiffing.

It became 17-0 as Roethlisberger, who was not prosecuted after being accused in March of the sexual assault of a 20-year-old college student, scooted into the end zone from the 2. Just 47 seconds later, Ike Taylor sacked Sanchez, forcing a fumble that William Gay ran 22 yards for a 24-0 lead.

after her team recorded three event victories and sat just 12 points behind meet leader Loyola Marymount and four points in front of San Diego.

But a slow start followed by a late surge during the latter portion of the meet on Saturday left Fleck with mixed emotions when it was all said and done.

“I was pretty happy Friday night was really, really good,” Fleck said. “I would say our second session in the morning during the first part of the meet we were a little sluggish.

We came back better at the end, but it’s a long meet.”

At the end of the meet, Loyola Marymount won with a score of 354, followed by Fresno State’s 268 and San Diego’s 257.

Friday was highlighted by a meet-opening 200-yard medley relay victory anchored by sophomore sensation Dani Yoho’s strong finish. Yoho then followed up with a first place finish in the 50-yard freestyle in 23.67. Her time was just nearly four-tenths of a second shy of the school record that Yoho set last year.

But the ‘Dogs saw the following morning derail somewhat as Fresno State recorded just two victories through the first seven events, a start Fleck wasn’t exactly looking for.

“I was happy in some spots, disappointed in a little bit of others,” Fleck said.

Fresno State’s poor start to the day finally caught a breath of life during the diving portion. The ‘Dogs recorded a first place, second place and third place sweep of the competition with a strong performance from injured freshman Hannah Prigge.

Prigge dove through a shoulder injury to her first-place

style, the Bulldogs’ final event win of the meet.

The Valley Invitational also marked the final home meet for Fresno State’s four seniors.

S w i m m e r s C i n d y E n g l e, Stephanie Hatayama, Lacey Payne, along with Weeks, a diver, were honored during a memorable pre-meet ceremony for Fleck.

“It is really emotional,” Fleck said. “Cindy [Engle], with the improvement that she’s had, and Stephanie Hatayama, I can’t even tell you how much they have improved since they got here. And Lacey [Payne] has been a great addition this year coming in from Bakersfield and doing great things.”

Up next for Fresno State is a dual meet at San Jose State on Feb. 5. The dual meet will be the Bulldogs’ final tune up before they head to the Western Athletic Conference Championships in San Antonio, Texas, a meet Fresno State placed eighth in last season.

But despite the Bulldogs’ struggles in the championships last year, Fleck is confident that with a little downtime and a few cor rections, her team has a great chance to improve.

“We’ve got to get the little things corrected,” Fleck said. “ We ’ r e m a k i n g

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— Jeanne Fleck, head coach