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The Wausau School Board agreed Monday night to accept $100,000 over two years from Coca-Cola and Pepsi to keep the award-winning Dream Flight program operating.

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NEW YORK — Two planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart this morning in what President Bush said was an apparent terrorist attack, blasting fiery, gaping holes in the 110-story buildings and causing both to partially collapse. There was no immediate word on the death toll.

In Washington, a plane crashed near the Pentagon, and all major government buildings were evacuated.

About 90 minutes after the first crash in New York, senior law enforcement officials said that a car bomb had exploded outside the State Department in Washington.

The president ordered a full-scale investigation to “hunt down the folks who committed this act.”

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■ Stock trading delayed: Trading on Wall Street was delayed this morning after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center.

■ Air traffic shut down: The Federal Aviation Administration shut down all airplane traffic nationwide.

■ Phone lines: Verizon Communications said long- Smoke and fire surround the upper floors of the World Trade distance service was inter- Center in New York City this morning after a second plane crashed into the building. Planes crashed into the upper floors rupted nationwide.

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of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart this morning in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings.

Few parents aware of huffing

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When her son died from sniffing butane, Laurie Culp learned the hard way that inhalants can be just as dangerous as any other substance abuse among young people.

Aaron Wake, 24, died on July 29, leaving behind a grieving mother who kept herself busy on Monday by writing thank you notes to people who have comforted her.

“It’s such a shock because we don’t expect our kids to be doing these things,” said

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Culp, a former Stevens Point resident who now lives in Sister Bay. “I think that we’re really ignorant about it.”

Three Wausau teenagers also discovered the dangers of inhaling aerosol fumes, or huffing, when they were burned in an explosion Friday night while sniffing Glade air freshener inside a car at Marathon Park, police said.

Ignorance can be part of the problem, experts say.

More than 90 percent of parents surveyed nationally did not believe that their child would use inhalants, according to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Meanwhile, another survey showed that about 18 percent of all students will have experimented with inhalants by the time they graduate.

Each year, the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition records more than

Whooping cough stages comeback, prompts hunt for booster shots

By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Whooping cough is one of those diseases most people think is history — but the dangerous germ that can leave sufferers gasping for air is making a comeback.

The cough so strong it can break a rib once hit mostly babies and toddlers, but now it’s striking more and more teenagers and young adults.

Apparently the whooping cough vaccinations Americans get as babies eventually can wear off.

Here’s the real risk: While older people usually recover, they can easily

spread the illness to infants too young for vaccinations. Whooping cough can kill babies.

So experts warn new parents to keep infants away from anyone who’s coughing, even as scientists study whether millions of Americans should start getting booster doses of whooping cough vaccine just as many get regular tetanus shots.

The goal is to develop boosters for older children and adults so there’s “a wall of protection around the newborn baby,” explains Dr. Michael Decker, a Vanderbilt

University professor who has studied whooping cough, also called pertussis, for 20 years.

He just joined vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, which is working to bring a booster shot sold in Canada to this country.

Pertussis is a bacterial infection that at first seems like a cold: a runny nose and hacking cough, first at night and then during the day. Coughing fits begin a week or two later, up to 15 coughs in a row followed by a high-pitched “whoop” as patients gasp for air.

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Disturbance of the Repeated inhaling heart rhythm from of spray paint inhalant use can result in may cause lung Heart “Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.” damage.

Lungs Components found in aerosol paint and correction fluid have been linked to liver damage.

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Benzene, found in gasoline, is known to cause leukemia.

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Dairy prices set new record

By Juliet Williams The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Say cheese.

Increased demand for Wisconsin’s famous export, coupled with bad weather and poor feed quality this year, have boosted milk prices and put a smile on the faces of dairy farmers.

After a miserable 2000, prices started rising again in the spring and continued to climb, said Stacy Chrislaw, a dairy statistician with the Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics Service.

“They’re staying fairly high — the cheese market is pretty stable right now and the butter market is pretty strong,” she said.

Prices for all milk — which includes drinking milk and milk used for cheese — have

increased to a July-August average of $16 per hundredweight, more than $4 higher than the same period last year, Chrislaw said. July’s price was a Wisconsin record.

Prices bottomed out at $11.20 per hundred pounds last spring, with an average price of $11.70 in 2000, one of the worst years for dairy farmers in 20 years. A hundredweight is about 12 gallons.

Poor feed quality across the Midwest and Northeast, California’s bad weather and electricity problems, and the state’s July heat wave all have decreased milk supplies, which drives up the price, said Tom Thieding, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.

“Consumption is still running very strong, and that’s

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resulting in a real favorable situation for dairy farmers,” Thieding said. “Fast food restaurants have been expanding their use of cheese.”

Milk prices could climb again this month as students return to school, he said.

“Kids are going to drink less Mountain Dew and drink more milk.”

Cheese prices are up about 20 cents a pound at the grocery store, while a gallon of milk costs 5 to 10 cents more than last winter, he said.

But the boost in prices hasn’t persuaded all farmers to keep milking.

The state lost 1,600 dairy farms in the past year — more than four a day, Chrislaw said.

Wisconsin had 18,053 milkproducing dairy herds Sept. 1, down from 19,656 at the same time last year, she said.

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Cough: Comeback prompts hunt for booster shots From Page 1A Infants are more likely to turn bluish than whoop as they run out of air. They can get pneumonia and become dehydrated and malnourished.

For teens or adults, the severe coughing can cause vomiting or a hernia, even break a rib.

Consider Decker’s own experience. “I got it off my 15-year-old this January, and I was coughing for three months,” he said. “I could feel my throat closing up and tightening, and I started choking and gagging. It was a revelatory experience for someone who’s written the words and not experienced the feeling.”

Often, though, older patients have a milder illness, just a nagging cough.

So they don’t see a doctor, or it’s misdiagnosed as bronchitis, because pertussis testing is very difficult. Indeed, a Vanderbilt study found about onefourth of teens and adults with prolonged coughs unknowingly have per-

“I could feel my throat closing up and tightening, and I started choking and gagging. It was a revelatory experience for someone who’s written the words and not experienced the feeling.”

— Dr. Michael Decker,Vanderbilt University professor tussis. It’s most contagious during the first three weeks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 56,775 whooping cough cases during the 1990s, a 51 percent increase from the 1980s — and a rise that’s continuing.

Last year, CDC had reports of more than 7,000 cases, and “we suspect there may be 10 times that amount” because of underdiagnosis in teens and young adults, Dr. Kris Bisgard, a CDC epidemiologist, said.

That’s still a far cry from the 250,000 Americans who once got pertussis annually before vaccina-

tions began in the 1940s. But it’s far worse than 1980, when there were only about 1,000 cases a year.

The biggest rise: CDC figures show for every 1 million 10- to 19year-olds, three got pertussis in 1980 vs. 70 cases per million older children last year.

They in turn can infect vulnerable infants. Pertussis rose 37 percent among babies in the 1990s, almost exclusively among those younger than 4 months. That’s when infants get their second dose of pertussis vaccine, and protection begins kicking in.

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dose of pertussis vaccine by age 6.

Studies show that giving onethird of the youngster’s dose to teens and adults boosts their immunity nicely, CDC’s Bisgard said.

Canadians already can get just such a booster dose.

Americans can get booster doses of tetanus and diphtheria vaccine every 10 years. (You call it a tetanus shot, but the two almost always come together.) The idea: Just add a pertussis booster to that shot. After all, babies today get diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine in the same shot, called DTaP. Aventis and a competitor, GlaxoSmithKline, both are studying boosters, Bisgard says, and experts expect one will hit the market in about two years.

For now, what’s the advice?

Keep infants away from people who have any cough illness, Bisgard said — and make sure they’re vaccinated on time. DTaP doses are given at ages 2, 4 and 6 months.

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Terrorism: Bombings Huffing: Ignorance can be part of problem From Page 2A were suspended, stranding some travelers at Central Wisconsin Airport. Trading on Wall Street never opened. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated.

The FBI office in Wausau and all FBI offices across the country have been placed on alert and warned of possible terrorist activity.

Every National Guard installation in Wisconsin has been placed on heightened alert to protect personnel and installations from possible attack, said Lt. Col. Tim Donovan, director of public affairs for the state National Guard. The twin disasters occurred shortly before 8 a.m. Wausau time and then right around 8 a.m.

At CWA, a Wisconsin Rapids businessman said he canceled his flight plans after learning about the attacks.

“I’m not going to fly today.

There’s too much risk,” said Mark Hines, 37, sales manager for Hercules Corp. of Wisconsin Rapids. “Family is more important than business.”

Hines, who flies more than 100,000 miles a year, said he would return to the skies on Wednesday “if everything is taken care of.”

Inside the airport, about 20 people waited in lines and the gates to all terminals were closed. Mosinee police kept watch, but there were no planes visible on the tarmac or in the air.

In Washington, officials said the FBI was investigating reports of a plane hijacking before the crashes. About an hour after the crash, one of the towers collapsed and portions of the second tower fell about 30 minutes later.

Heavy black smoke billowed into the sky above the gaping holes in the side of the 110story twin towers, one of New York City’s most famous landmarks, and debris rained down upon the street, one of the city’s busiest work areas. When the second plane hit, a fireball of flame and smoke erupted, leaving a huge hole in the glass and steel tower.

John Axisa, who was getting off a train to the World Trade Center, said he saw “bodies falling out” of the building. He said he ran outside, and watched people jump out of the first building, and then there was a second explosion, and he felt heat on the back of his neck.

WCBS-TV, citing an FBI agent, said five or six people jumped out of the windows.

People screamed every time another person leaped.

People ran down the stairs in panic and fled the building.

Thousands of pieces of what appeared to be office paper came drifting over Brooklyn, about three miles away.

Within the hour, an aircraft crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the Pentagon, and the West Wing of the White House was evacuated amid threats of terrorism. And another explosion rocked New York about an hour after the crash.

“Today we’ve had a national tragedy,” Bush said in Sarasota, Fla. “Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.” He said he would be returning immediately to Washington.

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Terrorist bombers struck the World Trade Center in February 1993, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

“A second occurrence is just beyond belief,” said Ira Furber, former National Transportation Safety Board spokesman.

Several subway lines were immediately shut down Tuesday. Trading on Wall Street was suspended.

“We heard a large boom and then we saw all this debris just falling,” said Harriet Grimm, who was inside a bookstore on the World Trade Center’s first floor when the first explosion rocked the building.

Within about an hour after the disaster, phone calls to Washington, D.C., and New York City were greeted with the recorded message that all circuits were busy.

“I don’t think this is an accident,” Furber said on CNN. “You’ve got incredibly good visibility. No pilot is going to be relying on navigational equipment.”

“It’s just not possible in the daytime,” he added. “A second occurrence is just beyond belief.”

The towers were struck by terrorist bombers in February 1993, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog.

“The plane was coming in low and ... it looked like it hit at a slight angle,” said Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported.

“I was watching TV and heard a sonic boom,” Jeanne Yurman told CNN. “The side of the World Trade Center exploded. Debris is falling like leaflets.

I hear ambulances. The northern tower seems to be on fire.”

Thousands of pieces of what appeared to be office paper came drifting over Brooklyn, about three miles from the tower.

A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the agency is pursuing reports that one or both of the planes were hijacked and that the crashes might have been the result of a suicide mission.

The source stressed that the reports are preliminary and officials do not know the cause of the crashes.

“It certainly doesn’t look like an accident,” said a second government official, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

In Wausau, Steve Sirianni, a stockbroker with David A. Noyes & Co., was watching with horror television news coverage.

“The second (crashing pilot) actually turned and went for the building,” Sirianni said.

“I’m a pilot, and you could see him bank right into the building to make a firm hit to the center.”

In Sarasota, Fla., Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned somber before he resumed reading. He addressed the tragedy about a half-hour later.

— Wausau Daily Herald reporters Peter J. Wasson and Andy Napgezek contributed to this report.

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According to police, the 1991 Toyota Corolla exploded when the girl lit a cigarette. The 15-year-old, along with a 16-year-old girl and 18-year-old Shang Her, had sprayed Glade into towels and inhaled it, unknowlingly filling the car’s interior with flammable fumes.

Although the average age of first use is 12, it’s not unusual to hear about 7- or 8-year-olds trying it, said Harvey Weiss, executive director of the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition. Because inhalants are cheap and available — some are found under the family’s kitchen sink — they often are the first substances a person will experiment with, before even tobacco or alcohol, Weiss said.

Cousins Plia Yang, 12, and Der Yang, 14,don’t know if any of their John Muir Middle School classmates have tried huffing, but they haven’t done it and say they don’t plan to. They hadn’t heard about the Friday night explosion and said they were surprised that kids their age would abuse inhalants.

Many parents don’t talk to their kids about huffing because they’re afraid if they explain it, they will put the idea in kids’ minds, Culp said.

“I think that’s like putting our heads in the sand and saying, ‘Well, if we won’t tell them, it won’t happen,’” she said.

“Kids don’t really understand the potential dangers,” Weiss said.

“Everything else gets a lot more

attention than inhalants. Think about all the attention ecstasy is getting right now. And more people are using inhalants than are doing ecstasy.”

Culp’s son experimented with ecstasy and other drugs including marijuana and cocaine for years.

He would tell his parents about it, always saying he didn’t like it.

“I think sometimes in his telling us, that also gave us a false sense that, ‘Oh, sure, he tried but he didn’t use,’” Culp said. “It was kind of a mask. I don’t know that I could’ve done anything differently.”

Looking back, Culp said she would have asked more questions and pushed harder to learn why Wake was experimenting. She remembers finding glue in Wake’s room when he was 11 or 12, and she talked to him then about the dangers of drug use. He was in junior high school.

“Never would I ever have expected him to be doing it at this age,” she said.

It’s largely up to parents to communicate with their kids because there’s little recourse for law enforcement, Marathon County Sheriff Randy Hoenisch said.

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track locally because there’s no law against it in Wisconsin, so there’s no arrest data, Hoenisch said. Those who are discovered huffing often are committed for

trying to harm themselves.

“I don’t know how widespread it is,” he said. “It’s prevalent enough that we should be concerned about it.”

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In Brief Board denies ESL parents STEVENS POINT — Hmong-American parents hoping to save the English as a Second Language program Monday were denied the chance to present their views and a petition.

The Stevens Point School Board cut back the program by 60 percent on Aug. 27, then voted 5-4 on Monday not to reopen the discussion.

Members of the Southeast Asian community stood outside the board room and comforted each other as many cried after they were denied the chance to present a petition with 85 signatures.

“This meeting, it’s too politically involved,” said Neng Vue Thao, mother of six students at Madison Elementary School. “I believe they should allow the Hmong people to raise an opinion on these issues.”

“I feel hopeless because I still need my ESL teacher to help me,” said Wendy Thao, a Stevens Point sixth-grader.

She said she views her ESL teacher as a second parent and as a liaison between her folks and her school.

Student strangled while weightlifting WAUPACA — A high school hockey player was killed Sunday night when a home-made weightlifting device accidentally strangled him.

Chester Papineau, 15, was working to strengthen his neck muscles at his home near Waupaca when he died, Waupaca County Coroner Barry Tomaras said. The cause of death was asphyxiation.

Grief counselors came to Waupaca High School on Monday to help students deal with Papineau’s death.

He was a sophomore and played on the school’s hockey team.

Hide-and-seek sets off search STRATFORD — A 6year-old town of Cleveland boy was found under a bed after family members and rescue teams searched the area for two hours Monday.

The boy was reported missing at about 6 p.m. after family members had searched for the child for an hour.

After family members noticed the boy’s shoes still were in the house, the boy was discovered.

He had been playing hide and seek with his grandparents, Stratford Fire Chief Doug Schoenfuss said.

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Cola cash saves Dream Flight Board OKs partnership with Coca-Cola, Pepsi

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Dream Flight Wausau will continue to soar, fueled by financial support from the top guns of the cola world.

Wausau School Board members unanimously approved an agreement with local distributors of Pepsi and Coca-Cola that allows the two companies to pay a

total of $100,000 over the next two years to keep the award-winning program going.

The School Board cut the program from the district’s general budget last year as part of an effort to wipe out a $2.3 million deficit. Board members and administrators hoped to find an alternative way to pay for the program, which uses a mock space

shuttle mission to teach students about science.

Pepsi and Coca-Cola will pay $25,000 each for the 2001-02 and 2002-03 school years. Still, district officials estimate they need an additional $50,000 over the next two years to pay for Dream Flight.

Superintendent Charles Skurka said administrators have approached two founda-

tions and another private company to make up the difference, and he hopes the program will be fully funded soon.

Board member Don Bric lauded the partnership between private companies and education.

“I’m very happy to see this,” he said. “I hope this is the tip of the iceberg.”

The deal has strings

attached. The two cola companies have asked that their logos be placed on the space shuttle and that they will be identified as sponsors of the program in all relevant materials. They also asked that both companies be provided equal access and representation in all school buildings.

Board member Jeffrey Lamont said the district needs to maintain control over the program no matter who funds it.

Dream Flight Wausau will undergo dramatic changes, shifting from fifth grade to the middle schools, where administrators say it better suits the science curriculum.

Eventually, the district hopes to set up a summer space camp, which potentially could be a money maker for the entire program.

Deputy Superintendent Berland Meyer said both companies have offered their expertise to help the district market that program.

Trick-or-treat 10-time drunken driver 1 will be Oct. 28 gets 3 ⁄2 year prison term in metro area

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A 10-time drunken driver was sentenced Monday 1 to 3 ⁄2 years in prison.

Gene Hilber, 36, of Schofield faced five years in prison after a May traffic stop. A Marathon County sheriff ’s deputy had to swerve onto the shoulder of Old Highway 51 to avoid hitting Hilber head-on, according to court records.

Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Raymond Thums sentenced Hilber to 18 months of extended supervision in addition to the prison time.

“I’ve got to keep you off the streets as long as I can,” Thums told Hilber.

“The next time you drive while you’re under the influence, who knows what’s going to happen?

Maybe somebody’s going to get hurt or killed.”

Thums said the system hasn’t helped Hilber, who in his presentence investigation said, “I was drunk. I got caught. People drive drunk every night. I just get caught more.”

Assistant District Attorney Patricia Cal Baker had asked the court to sentence Hilber to three years and nine months in prison.

“We need to get him off the road for the protection of everyone in the county and everyone in this state,” she said.

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Families in the Wausau area should be ready to pass out their candy and dress up little trick-or-treaters three days before Halloween this year.

Police chiefs and elected officials in Wausau, Rothschild and Schofield recently agreed to hold trickor-treat hours on Sunday, Oct. 28, instead of on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Last year, Wausau’s decision to hold trick-or-treat hours Sunday evening rather than on Halloween brought more calls to Police Chief William Brandimore’s office than any department action taken in the 12 years he’d been in Wausau.

“When all was said and done last year, we got a lot more positive feedback after the event,” Brandimore said. “Then people were commenting on how family-oriented it was.

“In the final count, parents said it works better for families, and that’s what we want to support.”

The problem last year was short notice of the decision, which left parents scrambling to alter their schedules, Brandimore said. This year, municipalities are trying to get the word out early enough to prevent that.

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Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Raymond Thums on Monday sentenced Gene Hilber 1 (photo at left) to 3 ⁄2 years in prison and 18 months of extended supervision.

Report: Man taunts cops, then rolls ATV

By Paul Chronis Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

TOWN OF DEWEY — A Stevens Point man harassed campers from his all-terrain vehicle and challenged sheriff ’s deputies to find him before he rolled the vehicle and suffered a skull fracture, a report says.

Matthew J. Klismith, 26, was reported in fair condition at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield on Monday.

He was cited with operat-

Department has an annual party the Sunday before the holiday, and the village of Rothschild usually follows Everest’s lead, Brandimore said. Wausau’s party also will be held Sunday afternoon, followed by 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. trick-or-treat hours in the three municipalities.

Trick-or-treat hours have not yet been set in most other local municipalities.

On weekdays, it’s more difficult to find an open facility for the parties, Brandimore said. And there aren’t enough after-school hours to hold a party and still allow time for trick-or-treating.

Jane and Wally Streich of Wausau prefer the Sunday hours because they’re home then to give out candy. They don’t have young children anymore, but last year about 150 little ghouls and goblins came to their door for treats.

They would’ve missed it, had it been held the Tuesday night of Halloween, Jane Streich said.

“We definitely feel the weekend is a much better time,” she said. “The children are out of school and they can come to your home earlier. It’s definitely better for them.”

Brandimore said he expects that Wausau will hold trick-or-treat hours the Sunday before Halloween every year.

Nursing home meets standards

By Lisa Nellessen-Lara

Chase charge plea entered WISCONSIN RAPIDS — A 39-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of first-degree recklessly endangering safety.

Shayne S. Titze of Wisconsin Rapids allegedly chased another vehicle at high speeds through city streets on July 28, then rammed the vehicle with his pickup truck and fired shots at it.

He was arraigned in Judge Edward Zappen’s Branch 3 Circuit Court and will appear next on Oct. 30.

Titze was released on a $2,500 cash bond.

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ing while intoxicated and operating an ATV on a roadway after the crash in the town of Dewey on Saturday morning, according to a Portage County Sheriff ’s Department report.

Klismith was first seen by a manager at the River’s Edge Campground at 8:59 a.m. A report said Klismith was driving the six-wheel ATV around the campground at a high rate of speed and unleashed a torrent of

obscenities at the manager and an elderly man after the manager threatened to call authorities. Klismith then accelerated and left, the report said.

While deputies were on their way to the campground, Klismith used a cellular phone to call the dispatch center several times.

Klismith told dispatchers he would meet with officers “if they can find me,” but deputies were unable to find

him when they arrived at the campground, the report said.

Deputies were then called to the intersection of Highway EB and Sunset Drive, where they found Klismith lying under his ATV in the roadway at 10:10 a.m.

Because he was still conscious and threatening emergency personnel, deputies decided to leave the ATV on top of him until he calmed down, a report said.

STEVENS POINT — River Pines Center is back in compliance with state and federal regulations, and administrators intend it to stay that way.

Auditors slapped the nursing home for 20 federal deficiencies and 12 state deficiencies in February and linked substandard care to the deaths of four patients over a 38-day period.

Administrators say they not only corrected the problems but found long-term solutions to prevent similar violations.

“I think the process for any home that goes through this is it forces them to look at themselves,” said Administrator Scott Rusch. “Other than that, we learned a few things about ourselves.”

The appointment of Rusch as head administrator and Kristy Davis as director of nursing were among the first changes. Rusch replaced former Administrator Sarah Mahoney, who resigned after the survey. River Pines had been without a nursing

administrator for several months before the survey.

“I’ve been very pleased with the process I’ve seen River Pines go through to work on improving their quality care,” said Christy Daley, regional long-term care ombudsman for the state. “They’ve worked diligently to improve care for the residents who live there.”

The survey found that many of the center’s deficiencies were the result of failure to follow up with doctors on changes in medical conditions. In the February report, surveyors noted that the third-floor dementia care unit had a strong odor of urine, several residents were in bed until noon or later, residents were observed calling out for assistance and some were seen fighting without staff intervention.

Until the nursing home’s deficient-free survey last month, federal payments were denied and can’t be recouped.

Administrators have since increased the ratio of staff to patients.

McDonald’s regular wins $100,000 with McMeal; hold the hype, please

By Ann Schottman Knol Wausau Daily Herald aschottm@wdhprint.com

TOMAHAWK — Richard Parker simply had to be in the right place at the right time to win $100,000 from McDonald’s.

The right place was Tomahawk’s Golden Arches.

The right time was Labor Day, only days after the FBI accused several people of operating a crime ring that stole millions of dollars in cash prizes intended for McDonald’s customers.

Parker, 54, is one of 55 people who benefited from McDonald’s Corp.’s efforts to give the public an opportunity to win back the stolen prize money.

“I happened to be the one who walked through the door,” Parker said on Monday, after McDonald’s confirmed his winnings.

“Whoever came through that door at that time would have won. I was the lucky one.”

McDonald’s gave away $10 million between Aug. 30 and Sept. 3, including five $1 million prizes and 50 prizes of

Page 5A ■ 21 people indicted in Monopoly scam. $100,000. The fast-food chain and the FBI announced last month that the security director for Simon Marketing Inc., the company responsible for McDonald’s game security, was accused of leading a ring that stole high-level game pieces.

“As soon as the FBI cracked this case, we made a commitment to give our cus-

tomers an opportunity to win back these stolen prizes,” said Walt Riker, McDonald’s spokesman.

The previous giveaway, which involved Monopoly game pieces distributed by McDonald’s restaurants, was suspended after the crime scheme was discovered. An “Instant Giveaway” then used random selection to pick winners in person among customers at McDonald’s restaurants across the nation.

Barbara Igl, owner of the Tomahawk McDonald’s, said

Parker didn’t seem at all rattled by his windfall.

“You wouldn’t believe it, but he was very, very calm. I think the store employees were more hyper,” she said. “Maybe he was just so shocked.”

Some of the other customers in the restaurant at the time were “mad because it wasn’t them,” but most were happy for Parker, Igl said.

Igl said she’s pleased the prize went to a regular customer.

“It could have been people just passing through

(Tomahawk),” she said, noting that Labor Day is a popular tourist holiday in the Northwoods. “This customer comes in every day, and he’s local. I’m very happy about that.”

Parker said he planned to give some of the money to his three daughters and son, who are all grown, “even though they said they didn’t want it.” He has operated a motorcycle parts business for 20 years, and he said he also might use some of the money to expand the business.

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Philanthropist Pettit dies at 82

By Carrie Antlfinger The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — The city lost its most generous philanthropist in history with the passing of Jane Pettit, who died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She donated more than $250 million in the last 16 years in support of sports, arts, education and social services.

“I think her legacy of philanthropy is one that is not going to be matched for a long, long time to come,” said Christopher Goldsmith, executive director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Pettit recently donated $13 million to the museum’s $100 million Calatrava expansion.

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Pettit’s attorney, Francis Croak, said Pettit, a member of the Christian Science church, died Sunday evening at her River Hills home. She was 82.

Jane The Milwaukee Pettit Journal Sentinel Web site said she had reportedly declined aggressive medical treatment since February.

John Gurda, Milwaukee historian and author of “The Making of Milwaukee,” said no one in the city’s history has come close to matching Pettit’s donations to the community.

Obituaries Alex Brzezinski

Jane C. Jackson, 45, Madison, formerly of Wittenberg, died Friday, Sept. 7, 2001, of injuries suffered in an automobile/pedestrian accident in Madison.

Survivors include her father, Gerald Jackson, Wittenberg; two brothers, Daniel (Celeste) Jackson, Spencer, and Michael Jackson, Weston; one sister, Kay (John) Balzano, Bellevue, Neb.; maternal grandmother, Dorothy Burke, Boyd; and a niece and nephew.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Wittenberg. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery, rural Boyd.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Schmidt-Schulta Funeral Home, Wittenberg, and at the church from 9:30 a.m. Thursday until the time of services.

Patricia Hoffman Patricia A. Hoffman, 73, West Allis, formerly of Rothschild, died Friday, Sept. 7, 2001, at Froedert Memorial Hospital, Milwaukee.

Patricia taught Spanish at Newman High School and D.C. Everest High School.

Survivors include Patricia four sons, James Hoffman (Wherly) Hoffman, Indianapolis, Daniel (Sheila) Hoffman, Oklahoma City, Thomas Hoffman, Milwaukee, and Michael (Mary) Hoffman, Muskego; 15 grandchildren; and a sister, Colleen Corey, Peoria, Ill. Services will be at 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday at St. Mark Catholic Church, Rothschild. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Kronenwetter. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, 1302 Sixth St., Wausau, and again on Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. until the time of services at the church. There will be a parish prayer service at 7 p.m. today at the Sixth Street funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund is being established.

Roger Tholl Roger Tholl, Merrill, died Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, at Good Samaritan Health Center, Merrill.

Arrangements are pending at Waid Funeral Home, Merrill.

Mary Van Prooyen Mary E. Van Prooyen, 90, formerly of Birnamwood, died Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, at the Homme Home of Wittenberg.

Arrangements are pending at Schmidt/Schulta Funeral Home, Birnamwood.

Alex L. Brzezinski, 78, Bevent, died Saturday, Sept. 8, 2 0 0 1 , under the care of Comfort Care and Hospice Services at Community Health Care Wausau Hospital.

Alex Alex farmed in Brzezinski the town of Bevent until their retirement in 1984.

He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran, serving in the Asian Theater.

Survivors include his wife, Eleanor (Goskowicz) Brzezinski; four daughters, Joanne (Henry) Filtz, Custer, and Loretta (Stephen) Stoltz, Chanhassen, Minn., Francine “Tina” (Terry) Filtz, Galloway, and Joyce (John) Morien, Weston; two sons, Andrew (Marlene) Brzezinski, Wausau, and Leon (Karen) Brzezinski, Bevent; 14 grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; one stepgreat-granddaughter; four sisters, Lucille (Ed) Stankowski and Agnes (Eddie) Gliniecki, all of Mosinee, Mary Ann (Harley) VanderKooy, Weston, and Sister M. Veronica, Chicago; five brothers, Anthony Brzezinski, Amherst, Carl Brzezinski and James Brzezinski, both of Wausau, Bernard (Dolores) Brzezinski, Mosinee, and John (Chesterine) Brzezinski, Muskego.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday at St. Ladislaus Catholic Church, town of Bevent. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, and also Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until time of services, all at the church. There will be a St. Ladislaus Men’s Society Vigil at 7 p.m., and a Parish Prayer Vigil at 7:30 p.m., today at the church.

Schmidt-Schulta Funeral Home, Wittenberg, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Memorials in Alex’s name may be given to Comfort Care and Hospice Services, Wausau, or the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation.

“Jane Pettit could have spent her life and her fortune in thousands of ways, but she dedicated them both to improving Milwaukee,” Mayor John Norquist said in a statement.

“She made our community her priority and the city and its citizens are immensely better for it.”

Pettit donated more than $250 million to the community personally and through the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation, Croak said.

Worth Magazine, which in 1999 ranked her 27th among “the 100 most generous Americans,” said the heir to the Allen-Bradley Co. fortune has been credited with well over $160 million in grants during her lifetime.

In 1903, her late father, Harry Bradley, and late uncle, Lynde Bradley, founded the AllenBradley Co., which is now Rockwell Automation. The privately held company was sold to Rockwell International in 1985 for $1.6 billion.

“Jane had a vision of what our communities could and should be,” Don H. Davis, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, said in a statement. “She was a catalyst in developing partnerships across the communities for important initiatives.”

Pettit also owned the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.

Paid obituaries John J. Akey John J. Akey, 62, Eagan, Minn., a former Wausau resident, died Saturday, September 8, 2001, at Merit Care Hospital, North

Fargo, Dakota.

He was born September 6, 1939, in Wisconsin Rapids, son of the late Carl and M i l d r e d (Lambrecht) Akey. John John married Darlo Akey Graveen on October 29, 1960, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Wausau. She survives.

John graduated from Wausau High School. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy serving on the submarine USS Sirago. He was later employed with the Milwaukee Railroad, then was employed with the U.S. Postal Service for 34 years.

During that time he was Wausau Area Local President for 21 years and was President of the Wisconsin APWU for 12 years. For the past five years he had been a National Business Agent for the American Postal Workers Union. As National

Business Agent he represented four states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

He also was on the United Way Committee and the Past President and treasurer of the Wausau Area Labor Council.

Survivors besides his wife, Darlo, include his children, Sara Schmidt, Dubuque, Iowa, and her children, Andrew and Brittany, John (Nancy) Akey, Cottage Grove, Minn., and their daughter, Emily, and Lori (Mark) Plunkett, Wausau; one brother, Michael (Cheryl) Akey and family, Roben, Jill and Carl, Arbor Vitae.

The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday, September 13, 2001, at The Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Wausau. The Rev. Stephen Gross will preside. Friends may call on Wednesday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, 1302 Sixth Street, Wausau, and again Thursday from 10 a.m. until the time of services at the church. There will be a parish vigil service at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday at the Sixth Street funeral home.

Police log Wausau

Disorderly conduct: Charles A. Vehlow, 45, 2406 N. 18th St., Wausau, was arrested early Sunday morning on preliminary charges of disorderly conduct and a Division of Community Corrections warrant after a 43year-old woman told police he became enraged and ripped the phone cord out of the wall and wires from her truck when she walked in on him in bed with another woman.

Battery: Timothy A. Zahurones, 42, 4105 W. Stewart Ave. No. 15, Wausau, was arrested early Saturday morning on a preliminary charge of battery after police responded to reports of a man and woman fighting at his residence.

Warrant arrest: Robert O. Kurth, 22, 1705 Garfield Ave., Wausau, was arrested Friday on an unspecified warrant when Gilbert Anderson police stopped the car in which he Gilbert V. Anderson, 91, was a passenger for failing to stop Wausau, died Sunday, Sept. 9, at a stop sign at Eighth Avenue 2001, at Mount View Care Center, and Cedar Street.

Wausau.

Services are tentatively sched- Marathon County uled for 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Driving while intoxicated: Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Matthew J. Hildebrandt, 21, 212 Home, 1302 Sixth St., Wausau. Prospect Ave., Wausau, was Visitation will be from 1:30 p.m. arrested early Thursday morning Thursday until the time of ser- on a preliminary charge of secondvices at the Sixth Street funeral offense driving while intoxicated, home. after police stopped him on Grand

Avenue for driving recklessly and failing to stop at a stop sign.

Driving while intoxicated: Steve J. Heidmann, 30, 700 Modge St., Edgar, was arrested early Saturday morning on preliminary charges of fleeing an officer and second-offense driving while intoxicated after police tried to stop him for speeding on Highway H near Fairview Road. According to reports, police chased him by car for more than 16 miles and on foot for 170 yards.

Lincoln County Warrant arrest: William L. Carter, 39, of Tomahawk, was arrested Friday on a warrant for criminal damage to property and bail jumping.

Merrill Driving while intoxicated: Matthew J. Lemmer, 37, N3775 Highway E, was arrested early Sunday morning on a preliminary charge of driving while intoxicated after police responded to a report of an argument in the 1700 block of Logan Avenue.

Probation hold: Jeffrey A. Nitsch, 17, 208 E. Wisconsin Ave., Tomahawk, was arrested Friday on a probation hold and cited for underage drinking, possession of tobacco and a curfew violation after he was stopped at Ninth and North Mill streets.

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Paid obituaries Donald L. Kottke Donald L. Kottke, 64, Rib Mountain, was called Home on September 9, 2001, after a courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by family under the care of Comfort Care and Hospice Services.

Don was born on April 8, 1937, to Walter and Adelia ( K l e i n s c h m i d t ) Donald Kottke and was Kottke raised in Hamburg, Wis. He graduated from Merrill Senior High School in 1957, and served in the United States Army, stationed in Germany during the Berlin Crisis. Don was united in marriage to Virginia Hahn on June 19, 1971, in Wausau.

He was a member of Operating Engineers Local 139 and worked for a number of construction companies as a heavy equipment operator.

Don is survived by his wife, Virginia “Ginny;” his mother, Adelia, Merrill; three brothers, Lavern (Phyllis) Kottke and Wayne (Evelyn) Kottke, all of Hamburg, and Wallace (Judy) Kottke of Merrill; six sisters, Phyllis (Gilbert) Krause, Carol (Phillip) Krause and Marlene Kottke, all of Merrill, Betty and Kathy Kottke, and JoAnne (Roger) Ruehs, all of Wauwatosa. He is also survived by 29 nieces and nephews, 40 greatnieces and nephews, and two greatgreat-nieces, along with uncles, aunts, cousins and treasured friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Walter; a brother, Loyd (Marion) Kottke; and a sister, Marjorie (Delmar) Zocher.

Don served his church as an Elder for many years and as a member of the Board of Trustees.

He enjoyed hunting and fishing while still in good health. He liked card playing, working on maple syrup production, helping on family farms and logging with his family.

He enjoyed watching football and baseball games, and taking long walks to his woods with his trusty four-legged companion, Max. Don was strong in his faith and put his trust in the promise of the resurrection.

The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 13, 2001, at Rib Mountain Lutheran Church, Wausau. Pastor Thomas Hoelter will officiate. Burial will be in the veteran’s section of Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, where a graveside military service will be held. Visitation is from 4 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at Brainard Funeral Home, Wausau, with a Prayer Service at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a visitation from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. Thursday at the church.

Don will be deeply missed by his family and friends, but are comforted with wonderful memories and the assurance that Don has found peace with his Lord and Savior.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial is being established in Don’s memory.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven. Ecclesiastics 3:1

Barbara J. Adamski Barbara Jean Adamski, 63, 1805 Fairmount St., Wausau, left this world on September 9, 2001, at Mount View Care Center, under the Care of Comfort Care and Hospice Services.

She left this world surrounded by her family who were so Barbara important to her.

Adamski She was born February 2, 1938, in Wausau, daughter of Viola (Luedtke) Adamski, Wausau, and the late Charles Adamski Sr. Barbara graduated from Newman High School in 1956. She worked as a document-processing supervisor for Wausau Insurance Company for 33 years. Barb’s life revolved around her family and many friends. She was a very kind and generous person to all those who knew and loved her.

We now know she is free from pain, but we will greatly miss her.

Survivors, besides her mother, Viola, include two sisters, Caroline (Dave) Graefe, Wausau, and Shirley (David) Ness, Fond du Lac; one sister-in-law, Henritta Adamski, Plover; many nieces and nephews; great nieces and nephews; and Sandy, her dog, a loyal and faithful companion of 11 years. Barbara had so many friends who loved her but we would like to mention two special ones, Shirley (Ron) Johnson and Helen Garski, all of Wausau.

Besides her father, she was preceded in death by one brother, Charles Adamski Jr. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at the Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord

Jesus Christ, Wausau. The Rev. Stephen Gross will preside. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park, Wausau. Friends may call on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, 1302 Sixth St., Wausau, and again on Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. until the time of services at the church. There will be a parish vigil service at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sixth Street funeral home.

To my family and friends: I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave only treasured memories, smiles and good thoughts.

Do not grieve for me for I am free.

I am following the path God has laid for me.

I took his hand when I heard Him call.

I turned my back and left it all.

I’ve found peace at the end of the day.

I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

My life’s been full, I savored much — good times, good friends and a loved one’s touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.

Lift up your hearts and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free.

I love you all and will miss your smiling faces, BUT DO NOT GRIEVE FOR ME, FOR I AM FREE.

Fire/medic calls Wausau Sept. 4 6:59 p.m., fire call, Sixth and McIndoe streets, traffic accident.

Thursday 3:55 p.m., medic call, Jasper 1 Ingalls, 1, from 1806 ⁄2 N. Fourth Ave. to Community Health Care Wausau Hospital.

5:33 p.m., fire call, 1320 Grand Ave., false alarm.

5:48 p.m., fire call, N. Tenth and Forest streets, transformer fire.

5:49 p.m., fire call, Horseshoe Spring Road and Tenth Street, false alarm.

6:04 p.m., fire call, 1315 N. Third St., service call.

8:09 p.m., medic call, Tina Fitzke, 36, from 1020 N. Seventh Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

11:03 p.m., medic call, Mary Redeen, 74, from 1710 Woodland Ridge Road to Wausau Hospital.

Friday 2:04 a.m., medic call, Raymond Brinkmann, 81, from 1122 S. 12th Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

7:11 a.m., fire call, 1200 W.Wausau Ave.,unintentional false alarm.

12:15 p.m., medic call, Floyd Ganther, 52, from 2727 Plaza Drive to Wausau Hospital.

2:04 p.m., medic call, Sophie Seubert, 94, from 1815 N. Sixth Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

2:06 p.m., medic call, Viola Wick, 95, from 801 Parcher St. to Wausau Hospital.

2:11 p.m., fire call, 28th and Stewart avenues, traffic accident.

2:12 p.m., medic call, Jason Bickford, 27, from 28th and Stewart avenues to Wausau Hospital.

3:40 p.m., medic call, Christine

Ormond, 65, from 333 Pine Ridge Blvd. to 818 S. Sixth Ave. 4:13 p.m., medic call, Sophie Seubert, 94, from 333 Pine Ridge Blvd. to 1815 N. Sixth Ave. 6:02 p.m., medic call, Katherine Szmanda, 21, from 4706 N. 19th St. to Wausau Hospital.

8:45 p.m., medic call, female, 15, from 1201 Stewart Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

8:45 p.m., medic call, female, 16, from 1201 Stewart Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

8:45 p.m., medic call, Shang Her, 18, from 1201 Stewart Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

8:46 p.m., fire call, 1201 Stewart Ave., Marathon Park, explosion.

8:53 p.m., medic call, Lanore Imm, 70, from 5620 Hillcrest Drive, town of Maine, to Wausau Hospital.

8:57 p.m., fire call, 144 Rosecrans, lightning strike.

Saturday 12:57 a.m., medic call, Anthony Brown, 25, from 201 N. 17th Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

5:30 a.m., medic call, Gary Berzill, 52, from 1603 N. 13th St. to Wausau Hospital.

7:24 a.m., fire call, 2400 Marshall St., false alarm.

12:43 p.m., medic call, Stephanie

Teske, 23, from 2727 Plaza Drive to Wausau Hospital.

1:31 p.m., fire call, 2901 N. Seventh St., false alarm.

2:25 p.m., medic call, Ernest Schroeder, 83, from 2727 Plaza Drive to Wausau Hospital.

2:41 p.m., medic call, Ronald Barwick, 56, from 2116 Zimmerman St. to Wausau Hospital.

Sunday 12:03 a.m., medic call, Michelle Klatt, 30 from 1929 Zimmerman St. to Wausau Hospital.

1:38 a.m., medic call, Darcia Garinger, 38, from 4105 Stewart Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

4:20 a.m., medic call, Corienne Mason, 39, from 523 E. Wausau Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

6:25 a.m., medic call, Stacy 1 Beese, 31, from 302 ⁄2 N. Second Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

12:04 p.m., medic call, Joyce Monday, 79, from 500 E. Thomas St. to Wausau Hospital.

4:16 p.m., medic call, Irvin Kufahl, 88, from 4301 N. 69th St. to Wausau Hospital.

10:33 p.m., fire call, 4103 Stewart Ave., structure fire.

11:45 p.m., medic call, Elmer Plautz, 86, from 1010 E. Wausau Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

Monday 5:08 a.m., medic call, John Tobakos, 79, from 233 N. 12th Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

7:09 a.m., medic call, Chase Sanders, 1 month, from 1105 N. Third Ave. to Wausau Hospital.

Merrill Thursday 1:54 a.m., medic call, Henry Kriewald, 92, from Pine Crest Nursing Home, 2100 E. Sixth St., to Good Samaritan Health Center.

12:06 p.m., medic call, Alice Cortright, 58, from Good Samaritan Health Center to Community Health Care Wausau Hospital.

5:49 p.m., medic call, Elizabeth Rawski, 86, from Pine Crest Nursing Home, 2100 E. Sixth St., to Good Samaritan Health Center.

Friday 1:20 p.m., medic call, Jay Nyman, 29, from Good Samaritan Health Center to Wausau Hospital.

8:45 p.m., medic call, Theresa Schwartz, 42, from 1804 E. Eighth

In the hour of saying good-bye, we were again privileged to experience the affection, recognition and friendship bestowed upon our beloved deceased.

We would like to convey our sincere thanks to all who felt for us during these sad times and who have expressed their sympathy in loving and varied ways.

By the family of Albert Method

St. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

Saturday 3:06 a.m., medic call, Mary Jo Beyer, 35, from 1007 Jefferson St. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

4:14 a.m., medic call, Kyle 1 Massey, 20, 607 ⁄2 Douglas St. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

6:14 a.m., medic call, Mary Clemente, 89, from 304 W. Riverside Ave. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

11:28 a.m., medic call, Beyrnelle Manthei, 69, from 804 N. Adams St. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

6:21 p.m., medic call, Dorothy Lindstrom, 78, from Pine Crest Nursing Home, 2100 E. Sixth St., to Good Samaritan Health Center.

Births Wood County Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield KRAUS, Kathy and Mark, Stratford, son, Derek Kenneth, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2001.

Committed to the highest degree of service to all those we come to serve.

Sunday 6:03 a.m., medic call, Rachelle McCormick, 22, from N2660 ROW Road to Good Samaritan Health Center.

10:05 p.m., medic call, Denise Zierahn, 42, from 406 N. Prospect St. to Good Samaritan Health Center.

To the beautiful memory of our dear Mother & Grandmother

Margie Benzinger

who passed away 1 year ago Sept. 11, 2000.

We miss you so, Grandma and Mother dear, and life is so lonely since you are not here. How we all loved you. Bless your heart. Sad was the day you had to depart.

Sadly missed by Children and Grandchildren

Peterson Kraemer Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc.

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Thieves take $69,100 in jewelry, cash JANESVILLE — Authorities were investigating the theft of more than $51,000 in jewelry, $18,100 in cash and a gun that were reported stolen from a home.

The burglar or burglars damaged a door to enter the house through its garage sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight Sunday, Janesville Police Inspector David Moore said.

“The suspect apparently knew how to enter the residence once in the garage,” Moore said.

He said he could not speculate on whether the thief targeted the home because it contained large amounts of cash and valuables.

Police said $2,500 of the cash was in dollar coins. A Beretta pistol, gold Gucci watch and satin jewelry box containing a lot of “expensive, assorted” jewelry were also reported stolen.

Use of OxyContin restricted by program MILWAUKEE — Use of the painkiller OxyContin has been restricted by a Milwaukee County health care program for the poor because of concerns about costs and abuse of the drug.

Officials with the county’s General Assistance Medical Program told doctors and pharmacies it will no longer pay for OxyContin unless the use has been approved by the program’s medical consultant.

They also said it will be allowed for only for up to four months at a time when it is approved.

Paula Lucey, director of the county’s health-related programs, said the changes took effect Sept. 1.

“The street value (of the drug) has risen to $30 to $60 per pill.

OxyContin is now the most abused pharmaceutical opiate in the country,” GAMP’s medical consultant, M. Eugene Pruitt, wrote in explaining the new policy to providers.

Wrong man released on bail from jail MILWAUKEE — Authorities sought a 20-year-old inmate Monday after he was accidentally released on bail last week.

Capt. Eric Roberson of the Milwaukee County Sheriff ’s Department said Lemar Howze was released from the House of Correction in Franklin instead of Andrew Donerson, 34.

Authorities said the two switched identification bracelets while Donerson was being held on $100 bail on accusations of retail theft and Howze was held on $5,000 bail for accusations of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

After Donerson’s bail was posted Friday afternoon at the Milwaukee County Jail, Roberson said officials released the man they believed was Donerson. Instead, they released Howze, Roberson said.

Officials were investigating the incident.

Lorge wants to go back to Legislature LAKE MILLS — Former state Rep. Bill Lorge said he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 42nd District state Assembly seat vacated by the resignation of Rep. Joan Wade, R-Montello.

Lorge, 41, said he was gathering signatures to get on the ballot for the Oct. 9 primary. The deadline for filing nomination papers is today.

He represented the 40th Assembly district from 1988 to 1998, when he left office after being defeated.

Lorge, who had lived in Bear Creek when he represented the 40th District, said he now lives in the 42nd District. He has worked as a real estate broker.

J.A. “Doc” Hines of Oxford, Lance Burri of Baraboo, Bob VanAbel of Endeavor and Dave Ament of Baraboo have also said they will seek the Republican nomination.

Amtrak drops plans for Fond du Lac route MILWAUKEE — Amtrak did not find enough financial support for a daily trip from Milwaukee to Fond du Lac and has dropped plans for the route, an Amtrak spokesman said.

The round-trip train route would have run once a day and might have included stops in Brookfield, Elm Grove, Slinger and Lomira.

The route was part of a plan that aims to help Amtrak operate with fewer dollars in federal aid. It was one of many routes that would have used revenue from carrying mail and express freight to help pay for passenger service.

— The Associated Press

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

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Israeli troops surround town; talks delayed

By Mark Lavie The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israeli tanks ringed the West Bank town of Jenin early today, moving into Palestinian territory and triggering a firefight that injured seven Palestinians. Israel said Jenin has been the staging ground for attacks

by Palestinian militants, including a weekend suicide bombing.

The Palestinians, meanwhile, said truce talks between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would not be held this evening — as initially envisioned — because of the Israeli incursion into Jenin and continued disagreement over the venue.

Also today, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli border police officers sitting at the entrance to their base in Israel, on the edge of the West Bank, police said. Later in the day, an Israeli telephone company employee was lightly injured in a shooting ambush at the entrance to an industrial zone in the West Bank.

The Jenin incursion began sometime after midnight today when Israeli tanks entered open fields around the town of 50,000 in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian witnesses said about two dozen Israeli tanks took up positions outside Jenin and an adjacent refugee camp, advancing to the first row of buildings.

Dozens of gunmen fired at the

Israelis, drawing return fire, including several tank shells, witnesses said. Seven Palestinians were wounded, doctors said.

The army confirmed that troops were operating in Palestinian territory. It said soldiers fired small arms and one tank shell.

Arafat called his security chief in Jenin early today and asked residents there to show “steadfastness and tenacity in the face of this aggression,” Palestinian officials said.

In nearly a year of fighting, Israeli troops have repeatedly entered Palestinian territory, but usually pulled out quickly. The incursion near Jenin marked the fourth time that Israeli forces

Rocker fights the power

IN BRIEF

By Ellyn Ferguson Gannett News Service

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Andy Jungwirth plays guitar in the basement of his apartment house in Green Bay. Jungwirth is battling the city to be allowed to keep putting on band performances in his basement despite municipal efforts to stop them. a public nuisance. No noise or public nuisance complaints had previously been directed toward him.

The city claims the concerts are a business because Jungwirth advertised the parties and asked for donations.

“I don’t charge my friends. The fliers say a $3 donation for gas money for the bands. I never, ever, ever made someone pay to get in. I’m

not running a business,” he said.

Jungwirth pleaded innocent at an Aug. 29 appearance and lawyers are scheduled to hold a pretrial conference before a trial date is set.

He is not planning any more parties and said he doesn’t know where his friends will perform.

“We’re really into rock ’n’ roll. We just want a place to do it,” Jungwirth said.

Congress works hard, plays hard on break The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For most members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation, it wasn’t an average summer vacation.

Some representatives said they found time in August to escape with family and friends during a monthlong break from Washington duties, but most were also busy meeting with voters and preparing for their return to work.

This August was a nonelection year, giving most representatives extra time that’s usually spent on the campaign trail, said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Brookfield.

“This is about the only time when members of Congress can be guaranteed some quality time with their families during the entire two-year term,” he said.

But Rep. Tom Barrett, DMilwaukee, did spend time on his gubernatorial campaign, and Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, and Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold flirted with their own possible campaigns for governor and president, respectively.

Sensenbrenner’s congressional

duties took him to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, where upon leaving he said he remained opposed to drilling for oil on the land. He also went to Africa, where he spent eight days investigating how $350 million in U.S. aid to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees was being spent.

“This was not a co-del trip in a glittering hotel,” he said of the congressional delegation journey to the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

After his trip, Sensenbrenner said he believes the United States should give more aid to nongovernmental organizations instead of the U.N. Kind went with members of the House Energy and Minerals Resources Subcommittee, also on a taxpayer-financed trip, to Iceland, Denmark and Norway, where they studied alternative fuel sources.

Norway has 100 percent hydropower, Denmark is close to 100 percent wind power and Iceland operates 100 percent on geothermal power, Kind reported.

Other representatives stayed closer to home for vacation, fishing,

mountain climbing or enjoying rare time with friends.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, said he climbed 14,000-foot peaks in the Colorado Rockies, Barrett said he took time off for fishing with his family in Ontario, and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said she vacationed with a college friend in Searsmont, Maine.

Rep. Jerry Kleczka, D-Milwaukee, talked with voters in his district, relaxed at a lake home on Washington County’s Little Cedar Lake and took his wife to Las Vegas.

Feingold took his wife to Hawaii, where he visited the Pearl Harbor Navy base and memorial, and also spent two nights with staffers in an 1891 lighthouse on Devils Island in the northernmost part of Lake Superior’s Apostle Island National Lakeshore.

Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl took basketball coaches George Karl, Terry Stotts and Rick Majerus for rides at his mountain-lined horse ranch in Jackson, Wyo., but made it back for an appearance at his Wisconsin State Fair milk house and several listening sessions.

Japan reports first suspected mad cow case

By Eric Prideaux The Associated Press

TOKYO — Japan’s government announced Monday it has found the country’s — and Asia’s — first suspected case of mad cow disease and blamed imported feed as the likely cause.

Japanese health experts had previously asserted the high standards of cleanliness in Japanese cattle ranches would keep the country free of the brain-wasting disease, which has ravaged herds in Britain and elsewhere in Europe and is believed linked to a fatal human disease.

But officials were alarmed last month when a cow in Shiroi in Chiba prefecture mysteriously lost the ability to stand. The animal was slaughtered and tests of its brain indicate signs of the illness, according to a statement issued Monday by the Ministry of Agriculture.

“We must now ask ourselves if our previous way of thinking was wrong, if there were factors we hadn’t foreseen,” said Kiyoshi Onodera, deputy division chief at

is ensuring that terrorists do not come out of Jenin.”

The Israeli government said dozens of suicide and car bombings as well as shooting attacks on Israelis have been launched from Jenin.

Since the violence erupted last September, 611 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and 172 on the Israeli side.

The Peres-Arafat talks would be aimed at stopping the violence, but both sides said at least three meetings would be needed. Even if the two men can settle their disagreements over the venue — Peres wants the Erez crossing near Gaza, Arafat prefers Egypt — expectations are low.

Congress Nation/World says it downed moves to Iraq U.S. spy plane extend ban on Net tax

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GREEN BAY — A man who invites friends and bands to perform in his basement is battling municipal efforts to stop the music.

Andy Jungwirth, 21, and his housemates used to host parties about twice a month, inviting bands to play in their basement and announcing the parties on a Web site and in fliers. Usually, 20 to 40 people showed up at the allages shows, he said.

But now the basement is quiet, as the city of Green Bay claimed Jungwirth was operating an illegal home-based business and charged him with violating municipal code. Police shut down a July 30 party.

“I knew the city was going to (mess) with house parties. It’s inevitable,” Jungwirth said. “They just showed up, cuffed me and took me away.”

The home’s basement is not designed to hold those kinds of concerts, said assistant city attorney Lanny Schimmel.

“If there were a fire or some type of accident, I think we would have had a tragedy,” Schimmel said. He said officers had a hard time getting into the July 30 party and estimated there were about 75 people there.

Schimmel said the house is in a residential neighborhood.

Jungwirth could face up to $831 in fines for charges he maintained an entertainment facility without a license, allowed alcohol consumption at an entertainment facility without a license, and maintained

remained in position for more than just a few hours.

Israeli military commentator Zeev Schiff, writing in the Haaretz daily, suggested that the incursion “won’t be so quick to end,” as Israel is intensifying its response to attacks by Palestinian militants.

A month ago, Israeli troops entered Jenin and demolished the main security building, but pulled out after several hours. At the time, Israeli security officials said Jenin had turned into a stronghold for Palestinian militants.

Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Yarden Vatikay said, when asked about the duration of the Tuesday’s incursion: “I have no answer because all we care about

the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health division.

The government said more tests were necessary to determine conclusively whether the cow was infected with the disease. Earlier testing in August had come up negative.

Milk produced by the 5-year-old Holstein had already been sold on the market before the slaughter, but scientists believe milk is unlikely to spread the disease.

Norio Tsuruoka, an official at the Chiba prefectural office’s stockbreeding sanitation section, said about 4,160 gallons of milk from the suspect cow were sold.

He said it was not immediately clear where the milk had been marketed. However, Chiba is a main supplier of agricultural products to Tokyo, which borders it on the west. The cow was destroyed and its meat was not sold.

Some 30 other cows were being bred at the same farm as the suspect cow and there are about 100 cattle in Shiroi in total — but the other animals are not thought to carry the disease, said Tsuruoka.

Many have been quarantined, but

officials have not yet decided whether to slaughter them.

The suspect Holstein is believed to have been infected by feed that contained contaminated animal parts, said Katsuaki Sugiura, another official at the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health division.

WASHINGTON — That book or sweater you buy over the Internet is sales tax-free, and likely will stay that way for five more years.

A three-year moratorium on taxing Internet business operations and retail sales expires Oct. 1, but Congress is gearing up to keep it in place, at least temporarily.

State officials would have to wait until 2006 before they could take another shot at taxing Internet retail sales under legislation a House committee is expected to approve this week.

The Senate is considering a similar time frame, but would keep the door open for future taxation by authorizing states to form a compact to develop a uniform system for taxing sales and Internet usage.

The stakes are enormous.

The General Accounting Office, a federal investigative agency, estimates states could lose out on close to $1 billion to as much as $12 billion in sales taxes on goods sold over the Internet. The big range reflects a lack of data and the developing nature of online retail sales, the agency said.

In an August letter to congressional offices, governors of 42 states and two U.S. territories said they would accept a ban on taxing access fees consumers pay for Internet service in return for authority to levy taxes on retail sales if states simplify the existing sales tax system.

Simplifying that system — with 7,500 different taxing jurisdictions — could take some doing.

The National Governors Association uses orange juice as an example of the tax jungle. In one state, the juice is considered a beverage and not taxed but in an adjoining state it might be defined as a fruit and taxable.

Then there is the question of which state could levy a tax in a transaction in which the buyer lived in one state, ordered a product from a company in another state and had the item shipped to an address in a third state.

The governors say it’s a matter of fairness: Non-Internet businesses have to pay sales taxes and states rely on that money for up to 40 percent of their revenues.

It’s “absurd to have in effect two systems” for Internet and nonInternet transactions, said Frank Shafroth, state-federal relations director for the National Governors Association.

In the Internet industry, the governors’ plea for tax fairness is seen as a power grab.

The governors are pinning their hopes for a future Internet sales tax on the Senate, where 10 former governors serve. Senators earlier this year rejected a proposal to make the tax moratorium permanent.

Sen. Byron Dorgan’s Internet legislation would extend the moratorium until Dec. 31, 2005, but would authorize states to form a compact to develop a uniform system for taxing sales and Internet usage after the moratorium lifts.

A spokesman for the North Dakota Democrat, Barry Piatt, said there is a consensus in the Senate to extend the moratorium, but a willingness to leave the door open for states to tax.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq claimed today to have shot down a second U.S. spy plane in less than a month. A U.S. military spokesman said an unmanned plane is missing and its loss was being investigated.

Maj. Brett Morris, spokesman for a U.S.-British military task force in the Persian Gulf, said the coalition force had lost an unmanned aircraft today similar to a U.S. spy plane lost last month.

“We have lost contact with our unmanned observation aircraft,” Morris told The Associated Press in Manama, Bahrain.

“There is an investigation going on ... with regard to the Predator’s disappearance,” he said. “We are working with the assumption that the plane has gone and are trying to figure out why it went down and how it went down.”

21 indicted for roles in McDonald’s scams JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Twenty-one people were indicted Monday on charges they were part of a ring that allegedly fixed $1 million winners in McDonald’s popular Monopoly and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” games.

The indictment alleges that since the late 1980s Jerome Jacobson, director of security for Simon Marketing Inc., embezzled more than $20 million worth of winning McDonald’s game pieces from his employer.

Jacobson distributed the winning game pieces to accomplices who redeemed them or recruited others to redeem them for prizes, some worth as much as $1 million, the indictment says.

Powell to attend OAS meeting during trip LIMA, Peru — Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday he has “the expectation and hope” that the United States will resume drug surveillance cooperation with Peru and Colombia.

The cooperation has been suspended since April 20, when a plane carrying American missionaries was misidentified as a possible drug flight and shot down by the Peruvian air force. A woman and her infant daughter died.

Powell spoke to reporters on his plane shortly before arriving in Peru to attend an Organization of American States foreign ministers meeting. .

Lott urges cuts in payroll tax WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Republican suggested Monday that Congress consider coupling a reduction in the Social Security payroll tax with a cut in capital gains taxes to give the struggling economy a fresh infusion of cash.

“There are people, at the entry level, who are hit very hard by the payroll tax,” Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott told reporters.

“If you’re trying to get money into working people’s pockets quickly, that’s one option you could consider.”

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■ Opinion Editor Tom Berger, 845-0664

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tribute Involved parenting combats huffing Publisher well deserved T I hree teenagers parked at Marathon Park last weekend to get high.

But while blowing their minds, they blew out the windows of their car, and a 15-year-old girl was critically burned.

The three young women were spraying Glade air freshener onto towels and inhaling it when one lit a cigarette. Fumes exploded. All three were burned. The 15year-old is being treated at the University of Wisconsin Hospital burn center in Madison.

This is just the latest tragedy caused by “huffing,” or inhaling household products in an attempt to get high.

According to studies, one of every five eighth-graders admits huffing. Inhalants are as popular among middle-school students as marijuana.

The results are disastrous.

Huffing causes brain damage, memory loss, permanent personality changes, learning disabilities, slurred speech, hearing loss, tremors, heart irregularities ... and death.

There’s even a term for it, sudden sniffing death, or SSD. And if a sudden heart stoppage doesn’t kill

Subject: Substance abuse Threat lurks under kitchen sink

a huffer, suffocation can if the bags often used to contain the chemicals are inhaled.

Drivers high on inhalants take risks, causing traffic crashes. Suicides increase.

Until there’s an incident such as the explosion at Marathon Park on Friday night, huffing doesn’t get much attention in central Wisconsin.

It’s as if huffing doesn’t exist here, and our teens aren’t huffing right along with their peers across the nation.

A few people have taken notice. Wal-Mart won’t sell large quantities of common inhalants — permanent felt-tip markers, lighter fluid, glues, spray paint, paint thinner, typewriter correction fluid, aerosols, butane, etc. — to youths.

At some other stores, clerks don’t ask questions.

And the three teenagers hurt when the car exploded only had one can of air freshener each. That won’t set off alarms.

Prevention, thus, is parents’ job.

There are warning signs. If a child or teen is huffing, there often are chemical odors on clothes or breath, dazed or drunken-appearing behavior, rashes or sores on the mouth or nose, paint or marker stains, empty spray cans or rags, used plastic bags, nausea or loss of appetite or problems in school.

An area police officer found a lot of discarded plastic gloves in a secluded area, possibly used for huffing.

A media campaign begs adults to be nosy parents, to ask who their child will be with, what they’ll be doing, where they’ll be going and when they’ll be home.

Call to make sure your child is where he said he’s going. That’s not meddling. It’s caring.

Unfortunately, a 15-year-old girl has been seriously hurt while huffing. Any warnings or advice are too late for her.

For other Wausau-area teens, there’s time. But the clock is ticking.

Notable quotes

People weren’t told about tax increase

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“There was nothing but a big wall of fire. There was nothing that I owned that didn’t have flames on it.”

— Kenneth Renfrow, whose home and car were consumed by a raging wildfire in Northern California.

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DITOR: Regarding the 6.1 percent Merrill school tax levy increase, first let us thank you for alerting the public about what can get passed at the School Board’s annual meeting.

But it’s wrong to imply that people don’t care or they didn’t go to the meeting for that reason. If you took a survey, you would find that most people don’t know the School Board has that much power. If people knew their taxes could be

“I want the American people to know we’re deeply conc e r n e d about the unemployment rates, and we intend to do something about it.”

— President Bush following a Labor Day report that the nation’s unemployment rate had risen to 4.9 percent, a 0.4 point increase that was the largest in six years.

“This was a modest and important step in a global journey toward human rights for all.”

— Wade Henderson, executive director of the U.S.-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, at the world racism conference in South Africa.

“It was an elegant and beautiful victory.”

— Alexander Lukashenko, after claiming a sweeping win Sunday in Belarus’ presidential elections.

“At this time we don’t know the motive for the shooting. Obviously this person is probably not in a right frame of mind.”

— Sacramento Police spokesman Sgt. Daniel Hahn after a suspended security guard allegedly killed three co-workers and a fourth man.

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t was a nice touch when the Wisconsin Newspaper Association honored former Wausau Daily Herald publisher Frank Plano last week.

Frank died last year at age 80.

He had retired in 1983 after 36 years at the Daily Herald, after joining the company as a Frank reporter.

Plano During his career, Frank was among the business people who helped shape the community’s future by their involvement in civic betterment.

His name has been added to the newspaper group’s memorial pylon at Trees for Tomorrow near Eagle River.

But it was already on the list of Wausau people who had made a positive difference.

Letters going up, they would be there in force.

After a huge increase in property taxes last year, and this projected 6.1 percent increase, some people won’t be able to afford to keep their land. A banker has said land values are weakening already.

Why wasn’t more said about this before the Merrill School Board’s annual meeting?

Joni Jackson, Merrill

School funding, teacher pay lag

Money blurs lines between advertisements, literature B OSTON — Now from the land of Shakespeare, Milton and Bridget Jones comes a literary breakthrough that gives new meaning to the phrase “commercial fiction.” The Brits have given us a work of fiction that is a commercial.

Not long ago Bulgari, the maker of fine jewelry, went out in search of a novel (literally) way to place its products. Bulgari’s idea was dropped, along with a trademark perfume, on Fay Weldon’s London doorstep.

Weldon, a member of the brazen hussy school of feminist satirists, happily adopted the concept of “product placement.” She liberally sprinkled the crown jewels of her patron into a thriller and named it “The Bulgari Connection.”

This cross-fertilization of Weldon’s pen and Bulgari’s coin created an entirely new genre which I may dub “literatisement,” or “litad” for short.

The bad girl lives on in this 69-yearold woman. After a British and an American publisher both decided to mainstream the fiction originally written for Bulgari customers, the more sober of her literary peers call the litad “tacky ” and criticized her as the first brand-name author to cross — or erase — the line between literature and advertising.

Weldon responded: “Have I betrayed the sacred name of literature? Well, what the heck.”

This isn’t the first such line to disappear.

Remember the moment in “Broadcast News” when the anchor played

by William Hurt was accused of crossing the line between news and Ellen entertainment? How would you know, he Goodman asked, they keep moving the little sucker. Now we have infotainment.

The line between editorials and advertising also has been dusted over with advertorials. Soon ExxonMobil will be submitting its columns to the Pulitzer committee.

Infotainment. Advertorials. Literatisement might be as new as a Bulgari watch. But for a long time, they’ve been moving the little sucker between fiction and advertising as well. Storytelling and product placement are now joined at the hype.

We’ve had product placements in movies since James Bond’s producers convinced the Aston Martin folks to let them use the car. “E.T.” sold more Reese’s Pieces than phones. “Castaway” turned out to be a full-length feature for FedEx. Last spring’s teen flick, “Josie and the Pussycats,” was a satire on subliminal advertising that had more products than plot line. At least Weldon’s litad isn’t subliminal; it isn’t even subtle.

I abide by the creed of another

English author, Samuel Johnson, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Writers get paid by publishers. None of the continually merging publishing houses yet sells jewelry, but editors talk about books as “merch” and novels as “the product.”

Is it really hard to imagine a deal between Bridget and Jenny Jones? Or Philip Roth and Viagra? This summer a couple offered naming rights to their son to a corporate sponsor. He ended up Zane, not Bulgari, but from infotainment to advertorials to literatisement, we’re turning out one giant commercial.

Weldon once wrote “Letters to Alice,” a defense of reading, to an imaginary 18-year-old niece. “You must read, Alice, before it’s too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past; the more the better. These images, apart from anything else will let you put the two and twos of life together.”

What should she tell Alice about the litad?

Literatisement is not a crime. If I may risk sounding too stuffy for the bad girl, the best part of fiction is the author’s imagination. A good novel asks us to suspend disbelief. An ad forces us to suspend belief.

And “The Bulgari Connection” is just another word from a sponsor.

Write to Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe, Boston MA 02107 or e-mail ellengoodman@globe.com.

Newspapers quoted Gov. Scott McCallum as saying Wisconsin’s schools are “fully funded” and our teachers among the most highly paid in the nation.

These grossly inaccurate statements must be corrected.

Wisconsin teachers have lost purchasing power to inflation since 1993, and average salaries have declined from 13th in the nation in 1992 to 16th in 2000, and an estimated 20th in 2001. The profession has fallen 25 percent behind gains in the state’s median income and 38 percent behind gains in Wisconsin’s per capita income since 1987.

Schools are not “fully funded” simply because costs have slightly outpaced the record-low inflation of the last three years. Throughout the state, budget constraints are forcing increases in class sizes; the elimination of cal-

culus, French, Spanish and consumer education courses; the limiting of gifted and talented and at-risk programs; and delays in hiring staff and purchasing textbooks and computers.

School costs are driven by demographics and policies, not inflation. The number of students in our public schools with limited English proficiency increased from 10,007 in 1988 to 25,382 in 1999. Special needs students increased from 78,046 to 120,598.Also, schools are investing in new technology, revamping curricula to meet new statewide standards and tests, and reducing class sizes in grades K-3.

The governor’s comments suggest that he is in a state of denial about Wisconsin’s crisis in school funding.

Stan Johnson, president, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Madison

Blame owners if wolves injure dogs As a longtime observer of dairy farms and wolves, I want to voice sincere support for two viewpoints expressed in the Daily Herald on Tuesday, Sept. 4. The voice of common sense becomes ever more important as it continues to become more scarce.

We especially need to reconsider the recompense

for hunting dogs lost on public property to wolves defending their territory. Any use of hounds on public property must come at the owner’s risk, and not at the expense of the Endangered Species Fund if the owner is so stupid as to train hounds in pack den areas.

Gordon King, Merrill

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No-kill animal shelter won’t solicit local government funds

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ew Life Pet Adoption Center is a nonprofit, private organization backed by community people in and around the Wausau area. We feel that additional education, resources and facilities are needed for animal welfare in the growing Wausau community.

There are currently 700 no-kill facilities in the United States, many that are in communities with a population similar to that of the Wausau area. The words “New Life” were chosen because we believe that all adoptable pets deserve a chance at a new life. New Life Pet Adoption Center clearly states what we are.

No-kill facilities are a new concept for north central Wisconsin and there are many misconceptions about what a no-kill facility is. It is not true that no-kill facilities will not euthanize any pet regardless of

New Life Pet Adoption Center Board the circumstances.

Our no-kill philosophy and goals are stated in our mission statement, which is: “To be a no-kill shelter and place of safety for all animals. To provide our community with good, healthy, adoptable animals and strive to maintain maximum animal control through education, training, and a spay and neuter policy. No-kill shall be defined as noneuthanization of all animals that are deemed healthy, treatable medically and behavior trainable. The only animals that will be euthanized will be those that are terminally ill and in pain, where it is an act of kindness to bring an end to their suffering, or those that are a threat to public

safety and welfare.”

New Life will have protocols in place to provide the treatment and training needed so that all pets in our care can find permanent, loving homes. We will have an aggressive adoption policy to limit the stay at New Life Pet Adoption Center. We will have an extensive foster program for those pets that need some extra time before adoption. All pets will be spayed or neutered before leaving the pet adoption center to help in the No. 1 problem of overpopulation everywhere. We also will have many community-based services offered, such as a library and resource center, to name a few.

We are in the final stages of developing a feasibility study to determine how to make New Life Pet Adoption Center become a reality. Currently, this includes organizing a series of community informational meetings

with key business and community leaders, and informational meetings for the public will be coming soon.

Earlier we completed two focus group meetings with community business leaders to gain their advise and counsel. We sincerely hope that the community will offer their support to build and maintain New Life Pet Adoption Center.

We do not intend to compete with existing animal welfare and control organizations or private businesses.

Rather we hope to complement their work by providing an additional resource for education and information. Each organization or business has a separate emphasis and niche. By working together we can increase the flexibility and availability of services and resources offered to our community.

This in turn will only benefit the well-being of all of our pets.

We believe that to properly manage a no-kill facility, it has to be operated as a “private” organization, not under any municipal control and influence. Additionally, New Life has not, nor does it intend to, solicit money from any municipal unit.

We sincerely hope that the community will offer their support to build and maintain New Life Pet Adoption Center. We can be contacted through our Web site at www.newlifepets.org, or through the mail at P.O. Box 1261, Wausau WI 54402.

Ronald Stephens, John Kuester, Karla Sathre, Amy Lepak, Shelly Wells, Dwayne Maroszek, Yvonne Prey, Sue Lipsman, Barry Brigham, Sherry Przyblski and Patrick Walsh are members of the New Life Pet Adoption Center Inc. board of directors.

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DILBERT

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Gas prices increase 5 cents in 2 weeks CAMARILLO, Calif. — Gas prices rose about 5 cents a gallon nationwide in the past two weeks as refiners retooled some facilities to start producing home heating oil.

The average price of gasoline Friday, including all grades and taxes, was $1.56 per gallon, up 5.47 cents since Aug. 24, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide. Prices rose by a similar amount in mid-August.

Prices rose because a miniglut of gasoline dried up as some refineries shut down for repairs and to prepare for the fall and winter heating oil season, said analyst Trilby Lundberg.

Prices declined for most of the summer after peaking on May 18 at $1.76. They bottomed out in August at $1.45.

Gasoline costs about a nickel less than it did a year ago. Gas prices are highest in the Midwest and lowest in the East.

The West saw the greatest increases in the last two weeks.

Telecommunications firm cuts 4,000 jobs DENVER — Qwest Communications International said Monday it was cutting 4,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, and lowered its financial forecast, citing deteriorating economic conditions.

The telecommunications company said it expected 2001 revenue of approximately $20.5 billion and earnings of about $8 billion. Qwest had forecast revenue of $21.3 to $21.7 billion for 2001.

Qwest earned $995 million on revenues of $18.95 billion last year.

To help offset the expected declines in revenue and income growth, Qwest said it would reduce its work force from 66,000 to 62,000 by the end of the first quarter of 2002. It also will eliminate 1,000 staff positions while adding 1,000 sales executives in its global business unit.

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By Norm Heikens Gannett News Service

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — No. 7 blast furnace is a source of pride at Ispat Inland’s steel mill here.

Built in 1980, it’s North America’s newest blast furnace.

It’s also the largest. The kettle of fire towering over Lake Michigan’s shoreline can process 10,500 tons of iron ore a day, separating iron from slag with relentless, searing heat.

But the furnace is troubled, and its problems symbolize the condition of the steel industry, especially in Indiana, where 30,000 workers churn out enough steel to make the state the nation’s largest producer.

Ispat Inland is so financially strapped it can’t afford routine maintenance.

A multimillion-dollar relining of refractory brick in the hearth is six years overdue. Now, like geologists monitoring an irritated volcano, managers plan to install extra heat sensors in the hope of predicting a disaster in time to shut down the furnace.

“It’s an interesting debate, whether blowing off the top or the

hearth breaking is a bigger deal,” cracked Eric Knorr, who oversees the feeding of iron ore and coke into the furnace. “Now that would be exciting if that happened.”

Low prices have thrust steelmakers into one of their worst crises since World War II — worse, some say, than the 1980-81 recession that led to the Midwest being labeled the Rust Belt.

However the scenario plays out, northwest Indiana has a lot to lose: ■ East Chicago is so short of tax revenue that mayor Robert Pastrick tapped health commissioner Dr. Tim Raykovich as a crisis czar to find ways to keep the city operating.

After searching for savings, Raykovich concluded, “This is one of the most serious financial issues we’ve had to face in the history of the city.”

■ Hammond, which has no mills but is home to many steelworkers, is in much the same predicament.

The district has boosted contracts with collection agencies to squeeze money from low-income parents who pay other bills ahead of fees for labs and textbooks, said superintendent David Dickson.

■ What’s more, just as imports wane and steel prices show signs of renewed life, several big compa-

nies want their property taxes lowered.

If the companies are successful in getting their tax assessments reduced significantly, there are worries that a shift in the tax burden to homeowners could slow the migration of residents from the Chicago suburbs. Then the flow of new money would slow or stop.

Twenty-three American steelmakers have fled to bankruptcy courts, seeking refuge from creditors while they reorganize.

The crisis began in 1997 just as steelmakers were returning to profitability after a rough stretch in the early ’80s, when global currencies began collapsing.

Thailand and then other Southeast Asian nations suffered economic downturns that eroded the demand for steel in those countries.

Shutting down mills would have compounded their misery, so they began shipping subsidized, lowpriced steel to the United States.

The shipments sparked complaints among domestic steelmakers that their foreign competitors were dumping their product below the cost of production. Prices hit the basement. A ton of flat-rolled sheet that sold for $360 in June 1997 plummeted to $220 by January of this year, according to Purchasing magazine.

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Slowing foreign travel takes toll on airlines Already bleeding from domestic travel cutbacks, U.S. airlines now are suffering from slowing international business travel, too.

Just like U.S. business fliers, more of those elsewhere are staying put.

“It’s adding insult to injury,” says Goldman Sachs airline analyst Glenn Engel. He expects the U.S. airline industry to lose more than $2.5 billion this year.

After growing for 17 of 18 months, at an average 6.6 percent a month, passenger traffic on U.S. carriers’ international flights dipped in July — by 0.6 percent — from a year ago, the Air Transport Association says.

At the same time, their foreign partners are being hit by weakening overseas economies and deep corporate travel cutbacks.

Airlines around the world have formed alliances to share passengers, revenues and sometimes expenses on certain flights.

Some U.S. airlines, such as American, Northwest and United, are coping by trimming international flight schedules and discounting international fares.

Fares paid by international business travelers fell 5 percent in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to the most recent American Express Business Travel Monitor, released last week.

Declining international travel is forcing some airlines to: ■ Remove business-class seats.

With more business-class seats going empty, Air Canada plans to replace some with lower-priced economy-class seats.

Air Canada, a United Airlines partner, lost $70.1 million in the second quarter.

Chief executive Robert Milton blames higher fuel prices and “the dramatic decline in business demand.”

■ Rethink expansion. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific — a partner of American Airlines — postponed the September launch of its nonstop New York-Hong Kong flight.

Poor sales forced United Airlines to discontinue its nonstop service on the same route Aug. 30, after five months of operation.

Cathay Pacific’s profit fell 40 percent for the first half of 2001 compared to the same period last year.

“The slowdown in the United States, Japan and other major economies has been more severe than originally foreseen, affecting markets throughout the rest of Asia,” says Cathay Pacific Chairman James Hughes-Hallett.

■ Eliminate weak routes.

Germany’s Lufthansa, another United partner, is pruning moneylosing service as demand for its intercontinental services continues to fall.

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BY GREG WRIGHT GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

Scanner at your fingertips The C-Pen 800C, which is about the size and shape of a regular pen, contains an optical character recognition (OCR) scanner that reads type.

When you drag the pen across text on a business card or other printed material, the scanned image is converted to text you can edit in a word processing document or add to a program that manages addresses and phone numbers.

You can edit the text in the pen itself or send it to a personal digital assistant (PDA) or PC via an infrared connection.

The C-Pen 800C can store about 3,000 pages and 1,000 addresses. It costs $199.

Like any artist, Cassandra Cholaki wants her work to get recognition, but for more practical reasons, she wants to sell it too. She has discovered the Internet is the best place to do it.

So, in August, Cholaki put her art supplies down for a weekend and paid $25 to enroll at an eBay University workshop in nearby San Francisco. By the end of the twoday program, her head was spinning from information overload, but Cholaki said she learned how to push her collages and acrylics on the Web.

“It’s like a small miracle to have the Internet because, like a lot of artists, I’m into the work but not very good at promoting,” she said.

EBay is hosting more than 20 eBay University workshops this year to help people like Cholaki sell their wares. Besides San Diego, upcoming programs are scheduled in Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, N.M., and Kansas City, Mo. To see a complete list, go to www.ebay. com/university.

Attendance at the programs has ranged from a few hundred to more than 1,000 people, said Jim Griffith, an eBay employee who teaches at the workshops.

EBay was the seventh most popular Web site in the United States during the week ended Aug. 19, getting almost 8 million hits, according to the latest data from Nielsen/Net Ratings. And despite the recent dot-com slump, eBay remains the No. 1 auction site on the Web, and one of the most profitable Web sites, reporting $5 billion in sales in 2000.

So, why do people need to go to school to learn to use eBay? Griffith said many people need advice on taking digital photos and posting them on the Web site. Others need help with HTML (hypertext markup language), computer

coding needed to set background colors and letter sizes on eBay advertisements.

And participants glean tips that they said are invaluable, such as not including audio messages in ads because eBay users don’t appreciate having to wait for them to download. What’s more, they learn to always spell check ads before posting them because misspelled words look unprofessional.

“You just pick up a lot of little pointers that add up to something big,” said Mark Suriani, a Sarasota, Fla., businessman who attended eBay University in Sacramento, Calif.

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Compact storage device You can store and share files with floppies, Zips and CDs, but none of these media look as cool as the itsy-bitsy EasyDisk, a portable Universal Serial Bus (USB) hard drive that’s about the size of a thin pack of gum.

The EasyDisk functions like a removable hard drive whenever you plug it into a PC’s USB port.

The EasyDisk comes with a 3-foot USB cable and a carrying case. Suggested retail prices depend on the amount of memory: A 16 megabyte version costs $59; 32 megabytes, $89; 64 megabytes, $139; 128 megabytes, $189 and 256, $399.

It requires Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Mac OS 8.6 or higher. www.EasyDiskUSA.com

Electrical power in a box When there’s no power — either because of an outage or the fact that you’re camped out in the middle of nowhere — you can turn on the xPower 1500, a compact device with a 12-volt battery pack and an inverter that produces AC power.

The $379.95 xPower, which resembles an airline tote on wheels, works both indoors and out. It can power an 18-cubic-foot refrigerator for about four hours, a 27inch TV for five hours, a laptop for 18 hours or a microwave for half an hour. www.xantrex.com

COMING NEXT WEEK IN Cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) remain the most popular ways to get highspeed Net access. But some people are using satellites for broadband Web surfing.

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ersonal digital assistants — those clever little handheld PCs millions of Americans rely on to keep track of phone numbers, addresses and appointments — remain hot sellers despite slowdowns in the technology world. More than 85 million are expected to be in use by 2006, according to an August report from the research firm Strategy Analysis. That’s five times as many as are in use today.

So what’s driving the popularity of PDAs? Scott Baker, chief researcher with NPD Intelect, a firm that tracks mobile computing devices, said the success of PDAs has been driven by people’s desire to take information from their desktop PCs with them wherever they go. That’s why you might see PDAs in the hands of students and parents, as well as professionals. Here are some of the ways Baker said PDA users are pushing the limits of their devices.

• As a laptop replacement. Software has emerged that lets corporate types use the devices to write and edit complex reports, calculate spreadsheets and even give presentations right from the handheld. PDA users can also print their work with special add-ons via infrared signals.

• As a compact Internet terminal. Even if you don’t have a modem for your PDA, you can browse information from the Web on your handheld, as well as send and receive e-mail. With a modem — either wired or wireless — you can look at images and even videos on your PDA’s screen.

• As a portable entertainment console. Handheld gaming has exploded with thousands of titles — Pocket PC: This many featuring dazzling 3-D color graphics.

Compaq iPAQ Games? Wireless Internet? Real productivity? uses a miniature If you never realized that you could take advanversion of Mitage of these features on your PDA, this guide is crosoft Windows. for you. Inside, learn about software that makes your handheld — whether it’s a Palm or a Pocket PC — more useful and fun, as well as accessories that let you listen to MP3 tunes, take digital snapshots, surf the Web wirelessly and more. And if you don’t own a PDA yet — or are thinking of upgrading to a more sophisticated model — there’s also a buyer’s guide to the newest models.

On Page 2 Software Read about 20 fun, useful programs for Palm and Pocket PC handheld computers.

Buying guide Don’t own a PDA or want to upgrade to a newer model? Check out these tips.

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Palm V and m500 series devices have been among the most popular PDAs sold

by Palm Inc. because they are light and thin.

Consider adding a keyboard, digital camera, MP3 player or other PDA accessory.

Wireless technology spreads new privacy worries

BY JOHN YAUKEY GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

If you think privacy is a nettlesome issue now, wait until the next wave of wireless technology and services washes ashore.

Consider the goal of wireless: to become ubiquitous so any data can move to and from virtually any device anywhere.

Experts say that as this happens — and it is already well under way — reams of personal information from credit card numbers to medical records and potentially your location at all times will be flying through the air for anyone with the right equipment and technical savvy to intercept.

“Anyone today who thinks the privacy issue has peaked is sadly mistaken,’’ a recent report titled

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by Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., concluded. “We are in the early stages of a sweeping change in attitudes that will fuel years of political battles.’’

Experts say part of the problem is the unprecedented speed of wireless innovation.

“We’re rolling this technology out without adequate precautions in place,’’said Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Denverbased Privacy Foundation. “We’re retrofitting security, and that usually doesn’t work well.’’

One scenario that privacy advocates find especially disturbing involves a looming federal mandate requiring all mobile phones to have 911 location capability — essentially a chip that tracks the where-

abouts of the phone via satellite in the event it’s used to summon help.

“It’s not hard to imagine the police going to a cellular provider and telling them they want to use the location-tracking capability of the phone to run a ‘location tap’ on an individual,’’ Smith said.

Currently, analysts say, the law is not clear on who should and shouldn’t have access to this data.

“These questions are all going to get hashed out in the courts,’’ said Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.

Poor wireless network security also raises red flags among privacy watchdogs.

At a recent hackers’ conference in Las Vegas, one speaker demonstrated how easy it is to crack security for the short-range 802.11b, or WiFi, wireless technology now

becoming popular with consumers for networking their homes.

Experts say it’s not clear how industry or government will address all this.

Consumers can obviously choose not to use this new technology, but it’s clear the wireless revolution is already well under way. Eventually, government regulation will enter the picture, but bureaucrats have typically trailed the technology play.

In the meantime, the best advice for consumers concerned about privacy is caution. Understand the services you’re using and where the information you’re putting on them is going.

“Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware),’’ said Golvin. “What else can you say?’’

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BY GREG WRIGHT GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

College and university students have returned to campus for the fall semester to find that it’s often tougher to download music from the Web using their school’s high-speed Internet connections.

College students download more music off the Internet than any other group, according to Webnoize, a Cambridge, Mass., company that tracks Internet usage. It’s a pastime that irks some campus officials because students who download music clog the schools’networks, slowing Web access to a crawl for campus employees and students who just want to study.

That’s why some schools have installed special software to limit music downloads or minimize their effects on network speed. Students say such efforts are in vain because savvy users eventually will figure ways around the software.

“As long as there is a demand for the MP3s there will be a way to supply them,” said Jake Oakman, 21, a senior and student body president at Indiana University.

Before Napster — the site that popularized online music sharing — was shuttered in June, more than 85 percent of college and university students were downloading music from the Web, said Lee Black, a Webnoize analyst. That figure raised the ire of recording artists Metallica and Dr. Dre, who sued Indiana University and two other schools for copyright infringement. The suits were dropped when the universities — and at least 14 others — blocked Napster with special firewall software, according to the Stamford, Conn., Gartner Group, which surveyed the schools.

But the attempts to thwart music downloads haven’t been long-lived because students switched to alternative services based on FastTrack and Gnutella technology, which are impossible to block, because they don’t use a central Internet address like Napster.

Still, colleges, universities and the recording industry are taking steps to prevent music downloading, which Webnoize estimates is still popular with at least 50 percent of students. Here are some examples: • 277 of more than 4,000 U.S. colleges and universities report using software from Packeteer in Cupertino, Calif., which gives priority to Internet activities, such as Web browsing and e-mail, instead of high-bandwidth activities such as music and video downloads.

With the software installed, students who try to download music might get frustratingly slow connections, depending on how many others are on the line.

• Indiana University installed separate Internet lines for student housing to keep academic channels free.

The university will let students manage how much music downloading goes on in dorms.

“We’ve gotten the university out of the position of being a police officer,” said Brian Voss, IU’s associate vice president of telecommunications.

• The Recording Industry Association of America is running the Soundbyting educational campaign at colleges and universities to make students aware that downloading copyrighted music is stealing.

• The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched an education campaign to let dorm residents know music downloading eats up valuable bandwidth, communications manager Brian Rust said.

Still, some schools, such as MIT, don’t limit students’access to music sharing, maintaining that it’s a form of censorship.

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Whether you’re new to handheld PCs or you have owned one for a while, you’ll want to take advantage of the software that’s available.

Here are some essentials. Many of the programs are free, and you can download demonstrations of almost all of the commercial titles.

10 must-have handheld programs

By Leonard Fischer | Gannett News Service

4 types of add-ons boost PDA power, fun

PROGRAMS FOR PALM HANDHELDS

1 AvantGo

(free for noncommercial use; www.avantgo.com) lets you download information from the Internet without a modem when synchronizing with your desktop computer. More than 400 “channels” are available from sources such as diverse as USA TODAY, CNET News.com, Expedia, MapQuest, Yahoo Mobile, ESPN, Consumer Reports, MySimon.com and EMAZING Health and Fitness.

Thanks to a variety of add-ons, PDAs have evolved into devices that deliver powerful multimedia, productivity and communications capabilities. Here are a few to consider.

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2 Vindigo

(free; www.vindigo.com) tells you great places to “eat, shop and play” for more than 20 major cities in the United States. It includes maps, directions and reviews.

3 Documents To Go 4.0

($49; www.dataviz.com) is a suite of programs that lets you read and edit documents created with desktop versions of Microsoft Word and Excel. The latest version also lets you load PowerPoint presentations into your handheld for review or display while traveling.

($39.95; www.bluenomad.com) is sophisticated word processing software for Palm handhelds. It can create documents with a variety of type sizes and styles, as well format tables and bulleted lists. It works well with add-on keyboard options. It also doubles as an e-book reader.

Vindigo provides maps and directions for 20 cities.

Take digital photos anywhere with Album To Go.

PocketTV lets you watch video on Pocket PCs.

Pocket Streets downloads maps from the Internet.

Take snapshots — and in some cases record short movies — with digital camera accessories for both Palm and Pocket PCs. These attachments are pretty basic, capturing images with only enough resolution for display on Web pages. The EyeModule2 ($199; www.handspring. com) is designed to plug into the Springboard expansion slot on Handspring Visors, while the Kodak PalmPix camKodak era line ($99 to $129; www.kodak.com) provides similar capabilities for the Palm III, VII, m100 and m500 series hand- PalmPix helds. On Pocket PCs, two cameras are available. One works with Casio Cassiopeias ($199; www.casio.com) , while the other is designed for HewlettPackard Jornadas ($169; www.hp.com).

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4 WordSmith 5 BugMe!

and BugMe! Messenger ($19.95 for BugMe!, $29.95 for Messenger; www.electricpocket.com) are tools that let you create electronic sticky notes in your own handwriting (and in color-on-color devices) that you can exchange with friends and colleagues via e-mail. A Pocket PC version also is available.

MP3 players While Pocket PCs can play MP3 tunes straight out of the box, you’ll need to add a player to hear them on a Palm device. Two of the most popular models for Handspring Visors — the InnoGear MiniJam ($199; www.handspring. com) and the Good Technology SoundsGood ($149; www.handspring.com) — plug into the Springboard expansion slot. Both provide enough memory to listen to an hour of CD-quality music, as well as external headphones. The Good Technology SoundsGood Porteson MP3 player ($149; www.porteson.com) clips on to the bottom of Palm m100-series PDAs.

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SkipWire 6 skipwire.com

(free and subscription-based versions available; www. ) is a service that includes software so you can easily browse and buy programs and e-books, and download them right to your handheld device. It’s optimized for devices with wireless connections.

7 Album To Go

(free; www.clubphoto.com) works in conjunction with the Club Photo Web photo sharing service that allows you to load images from a desktop PC into your Palm so you can view them anywhere. Includes a slide show feature, and you can annotate images with notes and sounds.

Keyboards If you’re not a fan of the handwriting recognition built into PDAs, you can use the “soft” keyboards that pop up on screen. But if you regularly need to type a lot of text into your handheld, try the Stowaway keyboard, which has a unique design that unfolds from PDA size for storage to full size for typing. Palm sells its own version ($99; www.palm.com), while you can buy nearly identical models for Handspring Visors, Sony Clies, Compaq iPAQs and HP Jornadas through Targus ($99; www.targus.com).

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8 Pocket Quicken

($39.95; www.landware.com) lets you use this popular personal finance manager on the go. Use it to track expenses or reconcile checkbook and credit card statements.

9 Adobe Acrobat Reader

(free; www.adobe.com) gives you the ability to read Acrobat documents on your Palm device, complete with photos and graphics.

10 Games

(prices vary, check manufacturers’ Web sites). There are hundreds of engaging titles available for Palm. Some of the best include sci-fi shoot ’em-ups “Galax” (www.pilotfan.com) and “Zap!2000” (www. astraware.com), Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf (www.easports.com) and “Bejeweled,” a colorful puzzler.

PROGRAMS FOR POCKET PC HANDHELDS AvantGo (free; www.avantgo.com) lets you read content from the Internet without having to use a modem connection. It works the same way as the Palm version by downloading “channels” of information to your device during synchronization or over wireless connections.

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Windows Media Player 7.1 (free; www.microsoft.com) is an update to the Windows Media Player that is included with all Pocket PC devices. The new version lets you play more audio and video types, as well as supports the latest versions of Windows Media Audio files that compress more music into less space.

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3 PocketMoney

(free; www.microsoft.com) is a version of the Microsoft Money personal finance suite that runs on your handheld. You can use it to track expenses and reconcile accounts while on the go and then synchronize your updates with the desktop version of Money later.

PeaceMaker ($14.95; www.conduits.com) is a tool that lets you “beam” address book and appointment information to friends and colleagues that use Palm devices via the infrared receivers that are built into both types of devices.

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5 PocketStreets

(free; www.microsoft.com) provides maps, driving directions and travel information, such as hotel and restaurant addresses, for any location in the United States. Works in conjunction with Microsoft Streets and Trips software for Windows or by itself.

CNetX Pocket SlideShow ($19.95; www.cnetx.com/SlideShow) lets you view and PowerPoint presentations while traveling. This software is more powerful than Pocket PowerPoint because it will display slide shows with transitions and animations, as well as let you review slide thumbnails and speaker notes.

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7 Photogenics

($49.95; www.idruna.com) is powerful software for working with digital images on your Pocket PC. It has drawing and painting tools that rival those found in desktop programs to enhance images.

8 PocketTV

(free; www.pockettv. com) lets you watch video in the popular MPEG format on your Pocket PC. While it’s similar to Windows Media Player, PocketTV provides a wide-range of movie trailers, TV ads and other video clips at its related Web site, www.pocketmovies.net.

—Leonard Fischer | GNS

WHERE TO LOOK FOR MORE SOFTWARE, ACCESSORIES

Hundreds of sites for Palm and Pocket PCs provide news, reviews of software and accessories, as well as links so you can download more software titles. Here is a list of some of the most useful.

• http://my.palm.com: This is Palm Inc.’s portal site for Palm users. Registered users can sync their handhelds with Internet calendars and address books.

• www.infosync.no/en/: Norwegian site often beats competitors with latest information about Palms, Pocket PCs and wireless accessories.

• www.palmgear.com: Try and buy more than 2,000 downloadable programs.

• www.pocketgear.com: Try and buy more than 1,000 downloadable programs.

• www.wiredguy.com: Young Web site creator, Richard Kettner, provides fun video reviews of Palm and Pocket PC accessories.

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10 ”Chopper Alley”

($19; www.amazinggames.com) shows off a Pocket PC’s graphics capabilities. As the pilot of one of six military helicopters, you’re charged with destroying enemy targets using up to eight weapons.

Graphics are rendered cinema-style in complete 3-D.

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Don’t diet, try hornet juice re you overweight? Take this simple medical test to find out: Stand with your arms hanging by your sides and your feet slightly apart. Now look out the window. If you see the United States of America, then you are overweight, because everybody here is. That’s why your arms are hanging by your sides at a 45-degree angle.

We are in the midst of a national weight-gain epidemic, as indicated by the Surgeon General’s justDave released “Report on Obesity Barry in America,” which is virtually unreadable because of Haagen-Dazs stains. And the situation is getting worse. This summer, for the first time, Walt Disney World was forced to close for two consecutive days because of vacationers getting wedged in the turnstiles.

The national weight problem is especially troubling for our young people, because as they have become fatter, their role models have become skinnier. Your modern pop stars — your Britney Spears, your Christina Aguilera, your Britney Aguilera, your Christina Spears and your Back N’ Street Sync Boys — have the body fat of a Bic pen.

These stars have to be in superb shape because their musical acts consist of sprinting frantically back and forth across the stage, as if pursued by invisible jackals, so as to distract attention from the fact that their music — and I don’t mean this as a criticism, just an observation — bites.

When I was a youth, it was easier to relate, physically, to the pop stars, who tended to be less-mobile, larger-dimensioned artists such as Elvis Presley, Fats “Fats” Domino, and Luciano “Really Fats” Pavarotti. These artists did not sprint.

Sometimes they took actual naps on stage.

Even when the pop stars of the past moved around, they stuck to movements that did not require superb physical conditioning, or even a central nervous system. A good example is a dance called “The Freddy,” which was popularized briefly in 1965 by Freddy and the Dreamers, a British Twit Invasion band that, when it performed this dance, strongly resembled a group of men failing a roadside sobriety test. (If we really want to gauge the character and judgment of today’s politicians, we should stop asking them if they ever took drugs, and instead ask them if they ever did “The Freddy.”)

But my point is that today, we are a fat nation, and we have low self-esteem because our role models are thin. Something needs to be done about this. The simplest solution, of course, would be to put Britney Spears in a room filled with Moon Pies and refuse to let her out until she ate them all. That way, when she gave a concert, the stage would collapse, and our kids would feel better about themselves. I know I would.

But that would be wrong. So instead we must embark on a national program to lose weight. There is only one safe, sane way to do this: Eat less, and exercise more. So we can rule THAT out. Which leads us to the only other option: hornet juice.

I am not making hornet juice up. There’s a Japanese company called Meji that is selling a product (check it out for yourself at hornet-super-juice.com) derived from the larvae of “giant killer hornets.” The company says that these hornets, which “grow up to five times the size of a typical wasp” and “kill about 40 people every year,” feed their young by killing other insects and then “chewing the meat into a ball.” The hornets feed these meatballs to their larvae, which then regurgitate a clear liquid, which the adult hornets drink. This gives them enough energy to fly 50 miles a day, which is more than you can say for some major airlines.

The company states that Japanese hornet scientists first tested the hornet juice on — I am still not making this up — “swimming mice.” The scientists found that the juice enabled the mice to turn fat into energy, and thus swim longer. The hornet juice was then tested on students riding exercise bicycles; sure enough, in a short time, these students were stinging people to death.

No, really, the students also converted fat to energy. And so now Meji has put this juice into a drink for you, the consumer. It’s being sold under the name “VAAM,” which is smart marketing, because it has more consumer appeal than “Hornet Larvae Puke.”

But whatever you call it, this is a product that America NEEDS. I could use some right now, to wash down these meatballs.

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Time capsule Today’s birthdays: Actress Betsy Drake is 78. Actor Earl Holliman is 73. Movie director Brian De Palma is 61. Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead) is 58. Singer-musician Leo Kottke is 56. Actor Reed Birney is 47. Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) is 44.

Rock musician Mick Talbot (The Style Council) is 43. Actress Kristy McNichol is 39.

Actress Virginia Madsen is 38. Actress Roxann Dawson is 37. Musician-composer Moby is 36. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 34.

Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeluw (K’s Choice) is 33. Actress Laura Wright is 31.

Singer Brad Fischetti (LFO) is 26. Rapper Mr. Black is 24. Actor Ryan Slattery is 19.

Thought for today: “While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you.” — Arab proverb.

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Veteran actors, Oscar winners dot new shows

By Lynn Elber The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A few years ago, when “Seinfeld” and other comedies ruled television, a seasoned producer airily dismissed concerns that TV dramas might be dead.

“Cyclical,” he said. “It’s a cyclical business. They’ll be back.”

The dramatic renaissance might be hitting its peak during the 20012002 season. Combine that with the flood of reality shows and it’s sitcoms that are looking lifeless these days.

At the six broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB and UPN), new dramas and reality shows total 19, compared with 16 new half-hour comedies. That’s 19 hours of angst and adventure vs. eight hours of laughs — or, at least, laugh tracks.

What drama queens those networks are!

The success last year of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” on CBS helped fuel the trend, especially toward cops-and-crooks shows.

There are four new series featuring federal agents (“The Agency,” “24,” “Alias” and “UC: Undercover”), one about a small-town sheriff (“Wolf Lake”), another about a

crime-busting medical examiner (“Crossing Jordan”) and yet another that shares the villain’s perspective (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”).

Even the cartoonish “The Tick” is about crime-stoppers.

“They all appeal to different levels of viewers, but everyone’s got one on the schedule this year,” said industry analyst Stacey Lynn Koerner of TN Media in New York.

Among both new and returning shows on the six networks, there are 21 hours of comedy compared with more than 50 hours of drama and reality. In 1993, when “Seinfeld” was making its ratings mark, dramas totaled a scant 24 hours.

There’s been favorable buzz for more than a few entries, most notably “Alias” on ABC and “24” on Fox, and for the noncrime drama “The Education of Max Bickford” with Richard Dreyfuss. The Fox comedy “Undeclared,” from “Freaks and Geeks” creator Judd Apatow, also has drawn praise.

“Max Bickford” even boasts two Oscar winners, its star (for “The Goodbye Girl”) and Marcia Gay Harden (for “Pollock”).

“When I look at the new show offerings, there’s more than one on each network that I think has a shot. That is unusual,” said Koerner.

Networks haven’t totally forsaken sitcoms, and some well-known performers are getting the chance to ignite a new comedy boom. Among them: singer Reba McEntire and sitcom veterans Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) and Bob Saget (“Full House”).

WB, seeking its first comedy hit, is making the biggest investment by far with five new entries.

Reality series, which have proven not only reliable ratings-getters but an economical short-term solution for schedule holes, continue to be hot. Besides four new shows, there are further helpings of “Survivor,” “The Mole” and “Temptation Island.”

Viewers are likely to applaud one trend: There’s been relatively little juggling of returning shows outside of a few high-profile exceptions (including “NYPD Blue” from Tuesday to Wednesday, “Touched by an Angel” from Sunday to Saturday, and “20/20” from Friday to Wednesday).

There’s also a heartening move toward using veteran actors to enrich series. Cloris Leachman, Robert Klein, Dabney Coleman,

Ken Howard, Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin are among the familiar and welcome faces.

Behind-the-camera talent is on hand as well. TV producers Dick Wolf (“Law & Order”) and Steven Bochco (“NYPD Blue”) have new series, and filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (“The Perfect Storm”) is visiting the small screen.

A final bit of good news: If you get attached to a new series the odds are increasing that it will stick around for more than a season.

Forty-one percent of series that debuted last year were renewed, double the percentage for the 19971998 season, according to Koerner.

Reality shows and dramas rule network lineups With a reducedRegis lineup (“Who Wants to be a Millionaire” is halved to twice a week), ABC is trying to coax back younger viewers who drifted away from the quiz show and network. Are its two freshman comedies and a trio of new dramas the final answer?

“Philly,” a new drama from “NYPD Blue” producer Steven Bochco and starring its alumna Kim Delaney, debuts 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

18. Delaney plays a defense attorney plying her trade in Philadelphia.

John Stamos (“Full House”) switches to light drama in “Thieves,” in which he and co-star Melissa George are burglars reluctantly helping the government retrieve stolen property. It bows 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21.

Jason Alexander becomes the second “Seinfeld” graduate to try for his own hit (Michael Richards failed last year). He plays a self-help guru in need of advice in “Bob Patterson,” 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 25.

“According to Jim,” bowing 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

26, stars Jim Belushi as a loving family man who married well (Courtney ThorneSmith) and still gets to play in his garage blues band.

Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is living a double life in “Alias”: Grad student and spy for a top-secret government agency. The drama, from “Felicity” creator J.J. Abrams, debuts 8 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30.

The network is home to the crown jewel reality series “Survivor,” which returns with its third edition (from Africa) in October, and the new “The Amazing Race.” But CBS isn’t just pandering to reality junkies: Five new dramas and two sitcoms also are joining the schedule.

“The Amazing Race” jumped out to an early start with its debut at 8 p.m. last Wednesday. Eleven teams make their way around the world and meet various challenges for a $1 million prize.

A town with a secret is at the center of “Wolf Lake,” where the residents have real animal attraction. Lou Diamond Phillips, Graham Greene and Tim Matheson star in the drama debuts 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Ellen DeGeneres trades in city life to return to her hometown and her eccentric mom, Cloris Leachman, in “The Ellen Show.” It previews 8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, then moves to its 7 p.m. Friday home on Sept.

21.

“The Guardian,” debuting 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, stars Simon Baker as a successful young lawyer forced to perform community service at a child-advocacy firm after he’s busted for drug use.

Gil Bellows and Rocky Carroll star in the CIA drama “The Agency,” which boasts director Wolfgang Petersen (“Das Boot”) as executive producer. The series debuts 9 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 20.

“Danny,” bowing 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 21, stars Daniel Stern as a recently divorced dad who’s juggling fatherhood, his job running a struggling community center and various neuroses.

“Citizen Baines,” from “ER” producer John Wells, stars James Cromwell (an Oscar nominee for “Babe”) as a U.S. senator who loses his re-election bid and must adjust to a new life. It begins 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22.

Richard Dreyfuss (“The Goodbye Girl”) stars in “The Education of Max Bickford” as a college history professor coping with life changes, including his best friend’s gender switch. The drama, co-starring Marcia Gay Harden, debuts 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 23.

Expected to repeat as the leader among advertiserfavored 18-to-49 viewers, NBC is adding a trio each of new comedies and dramas. Its once-bare reality shelf remains stocked, with the returning “Weakest Link” and the new “Lost.”

“Lost,” which debuted 7 p.m. last Wednesday, sets three pairs of teammates on the road with survival gear and a few bucks and challenges each to get to the Statue of Liberty first for a $200,000 prize.

Jill Hennessy (“Law & Order”) stars in “Crossing Jordan” as a Boston medical examiner with a checkered career and a major unsolved case in her past: Her mother’s murder.The drama debuts 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17.

“Emeril,” starting 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 18, stars chef Emeril Lagasse of Food Network fame in a baked-toorder role:As a chef with a popular TV cooking show.

Lisa Ann Walter and Sherri Shepherd co-star.

“Inside Schwartz” focuses on an aspiring sportscaster (Breckin Meyer) whose thoughts on life and love are revealed through fantasy conversations with sports celebrities. It bows 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 20.

In the comedy “Scrubs,” debuting 8:30 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 25, a wide-eyed medical intern (Zach Braff) learns the ropes in a hospital where both the staff and patients have their quirks.

Two dramas debut on Sunday, Sept. 30.“Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” NBC’s third legal drama from “Law & Order” producer Dick Wolf, looks at crime from the bad guy’s point of view. It airs at 8 p.m.“UC: Undercover,” at 9 p.m., is an action drama about a Justice Department crime-fighting unit that targets the deadliest lawbreakers. Oded Fehr (“The Mummy”) and Jon Seda star.

With postseason baseball all

to itself, Fox is forced to bump some series starts to as late as November.

The network is remaining true to its audience of young men and women with two new dramas, three comedies and a racy reality show.

“Love Cruise” sets sail with singles in search of romance.

The series debuts 8 p.m. tonight with host Justin Gunn.

College is a wild trip for a freshman (Jay Baruchel), but he’s not alone: His newly single dad (Loudon Wainwright III) is digging the dorm scene with him in “Undeclared.”

The comedy bows 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 18.

“Pasadena” revives the nighttime soap opera, with a backstabbing and, of course, wealthy family providing the hijinks. Dana Delany stars in the drama debuting 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 21.

There’s a big twist to “24”: Each episode takes place during successive hours in a single day — a day in which a presidential candidate faces assassination.The drama starring Kiefer Sutherland debuts 8 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 30.

“The Tick,” based on a satirical comic book series, is a live-action show about a clutch of oddball superheroes, including the title character (Patrick Warburton of “Seinfeld”). It begins 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Nov. 1.

Bernie Mac, part of “The Original Kings of Comedy” tour and film, plays a comic who becomes an instant family man when he takes in his sister’s three children.“The Bernie Mac Show” debuts 8:30 p.m.Wednesday, Nov. 7.

The network surrendered “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Roswell” to UPN but it’s not conceding the war for 18-to-34-year-old viewers.

WB is coming out swinging with five new comedies, one reality series and a drama.

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14, with “Maybe It’s Me,” about a teenage girl’s coming of age, leading the way at 7:30 p.m.“Reba,” starring Reba McEntire as a beleaguered mom, following at 8 p.m., then “Raising Dad” at 8:30 p.m. in which Bob Saget plays a widower raising two daughters.

Two comedies debut Sunday, Oct. 7.Adventures in dating and dog ownership are the focus of “Men,Women & Dogs,” airing at 7:30 p.m.

“Off Centre,” at 8:30 p.m., from “American Pie” filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, is about the sex lives of mismatched roommates in Manhattan.

Reality series “Elimidate Deluxe,” beginning 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 11, sends a man or woman out on a dream date with not one, not two, not three but four potential dream dates.

“Smallville” puts a twist on the Superman comic book tale, with the young superhero (Tom Welling) coping with adolescence and discovering his amazing powers.

The drama debuts 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 16.

Seeking to add more women to its young, male-skewing audience, UPN poached WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and paired it with “Roswell” for its Tuesday lineup. On the new series front, the network is adding one comedy and a drama.

“One on One,” which debuted 8 p.m. Monday, Sept.

3, keeps UPN’s black-oriented comedy lineup intact.A sportscaster (Flex Washington) with an active social life takes on the job of raising his daughter.

The “Star Trek” franchise continues with “Enterprise,” a prequel set a century before the original series.

Scott Bakula is in charge in the pioneering days of deep space exploration. The drama begins 7 p.m.

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Future bright for astrologers

Wednesday’s horoscope

By Joyce Jillson Creators Syndicate

Aries (March 21-April 19).

Don’t give up. A lump sum of money lands in your lap when you least expect it. Dining out with the family is favored this evening. Those who work in public relations have extra luck. Your love life needs a re-examination.

Taurus (April 20-May 20).

Make the first move in a romantic situation, but don’t make the second and third one, too. Take turns putting the moves on each other. Work projects take off successfully. You have an opportunity to sell merchandise from your home.

Gemini (May 21-June 21).

Technical wizardry saves the day, and you’re the only one who knows how to make things work. Start teaching others how to solve problems, or you’ll be constantly bailing them out in the months to come. Don’t be a security net.

Cancer (June 22-July 22).

Strategy is the magic word in several areas of your life. Renegotiate sales deals this afternoon; new financial arrangements make life a lot easier. Your mate’s devotion is apparent, so don’t test the boundaries or ask him or her to give more.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22).

Explore the past. Those you grace with your charming presence will lighten up.

You express your artistic talent beautifully. Take every opportunity to share it, especially at work.

You’ll find what was lost when you aren’t even looking!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Place family first on your list. Others wish they could be as disciplined as you! Take time out to get some fresh air and exercise. Tend to all the mundane tasks that make the world go round after dark — try doing it over the Internet.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Being constantly frustrated over petty things is not the way to go. You have a sharp vision of the future, and breaking things down into smaller chunks will help you overcome obstacles without trouble. Spruce up your home.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Call on your friends for assistance at work, and use other resources, too. A sexy Gemini illuminates your evening.

Hard work and optimism make you rich. Dress up; making a good impression on a new business associate is critical.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Business shapes up in the morning, when the

world responds to your new, more relaxed state of mind. Face-to-face meetings are a waste of time before noon. Make conference calls or e-mail correspondence instead.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Loving relationships need nourishment. Don’t be afraid of sounding corny, since everyone needs a little sugar sometimes. The pursuit of profit goes exceedingly well this afternoon. Swap stories with your closest buddies tonight.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Romance, exciting plans for creative projects, and profit made through an artistic venture are all on the horizon. Doing your chores takes up most of the day, but planning is everything at this crucial time. Don’t get distracted now.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Tend to a loved one who needs it most. Highminded issues, group projects, political and social events are all lucky. Disapproving people try to keep you from doing what you want. Don’t get discouraged — press on with your goals.

Write Joyce Jillson, Creators Syndicate, 5777 West Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles CA 90045.

Celebrities ‘Matrix’ stars in training for sequels NEW YORK — Carrie-Anne Moss won’t be able to cruise through the sequels to “The Matrix” by relying on the martial-arts moves she learned for the original movie.

“They want more intense fighting, more complicated moves,” Moss said in Australia, where two sequels to “The Matrix” are being filmed.

Moss and her co-stars in the sequels, Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne, are going through intensive training to improve their martial-arts skills, she told USA Today.

“I get up, train, eat dinner, go to bed and start over the next day,” she said.

The first sequel, “The Matrix Reloaded,” is expected to be released in the summer of 2003; the release date of the second sequel is uncertain.

Student loans now available at school for seers

By Charles Kelly Gannett News Service

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For a classroom in which people are being taught how to chart mysterious forces in the sky, the surroundings are mundane, a few Indian-pattern wall hangings, a line of computers in a corner, folding tables, mismatched chairs.

Only the planetary sketches scribbled on a felt-tip marker board by instructor Malcolm Schenot hint that this class is part of the curriculum of the Astrological Institute, which recently became what is believed to be the country’s first accredited school of astrology.

Schenot, a bearded, mustachioed man with a jocular teaching style, warns them that it’s difficult to absorb the complexities of the universe.

“This is not easy stuff, believe me,” he says. “If you get it, just thank your lucky stars.”

The students might also thank the job market for astrologers, one of the things that apparently led the Arlington, Va.-based Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of

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Joyce Jensen, head of the Scottsdale, Ariz., Astrological Institute Inc., says her students learn a valid body of knowledge that will enable them to teach astrology, serve as business and stock-market consultants in addition to having their own clients.

Technology to accredit the Scottsdale school, making its students eligible for federal education grants and loans.

Students’ hopes of earning a living through astrology are wellfounded, says Carrollton, Texasbased North Texas Skeptics, which debunks pseudosciences and unfounded paranormal claims.

Though astrology is considered invalid by traditional scientists, an “Astrology Fact Sheet” at the Skeptics Web site (www.ntskeptics.org) says there are more than

10,000 practicing astrologers in the United States and that Americans spend more than $200 million annually consulting astrologers.

The institute has graduated only seven students, but 32 people are taking courses, Jensen says, and it prides itself on solid course work.

Such a rigorous approach is rare in a field in which there are many untrained practitioners, she says.

“The lack of education has given astrology a bad name,” Jensen says.

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Singer meets patients BOSTON — Howie D of the Backstreet Boys spent some time with patients at Children’s Hospital to help raise awareness of the disease lupus.

Howie D joined patients and doctors on Sunday to promote a newly formed alliance that will make it easier for patients to participate in medical research. The singer founded the Dorough Lupus Foundation after his sister, Caroline, died from the disease.

The foundation has teamed up with Veritas Medicine, an online resource providing information on clinical trials and treatment for lupus and more than 50 other diseases.

The singer signed autographs and talked to patients, some of whom were overwhelmed with emotion.

“It just brings a good feeling to my heart to come back out here and visit these sometimes-sick patients and bring a

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Carrie-Anne Moss is going through intense martial-arts training for the sequels to “The Matrix.” “They want more intense fighting, more complicated moves,” Moss said. little happiness to their lives,” he said.

Lupus is a disease that causes the immune system to attack the body’s own tissue. It mostly affects women between the ages of 15 and 44.

Singer stars in sitcom NEW YORK — Reba McEntire’s new TV show is a sitcom, but some of the subject matter — including teenage pregnancy and adultery — is no joke.

“That’s what appealed to me,” the country music star said in the issue of Newsweek that hit the newsstands

Monday. “Country songs are about divorce, trauma, death.

It’s not all apple pie.”

The new show, called “Reba,” debuts on the WB network Friday. It’s about a woman whose teenage daughter gets pregnant, and whose husband gets his dental hygienist pregnant.

McEntire says, however, “It’s not really about two people getting pregnant. It’s how the family deals with it. Do they fall apart? The message is: no matter how bad things seem, you can get through it.”

— The Associated Press

ear Ann Landers: I have enjoyed your column since I was in high school, and now I’m a grandmother of three. It’s time for me to “give something back.” I hope you will print my letter.

Tell your readers that when they are hospitalized, they should leave their jewelry at home. I had minor surgery a few days ago, which required an overnight stay in one of Boston’s finest hospitals. I placed my gold earrings and pearl necklace in the drawer of the nightstand. When I returned from surgery, the earrings and necklace were gone.

I reported the loss to the head nurse at once. She said, “Sorry, but we cannot be responsible for such losses. We tell our patients to leave their jewelry at home, but when they don’t listen, there’s nothing we can do.” Please, Ann, if you’ve told them before, do so again. — Boston Reader Dear Boston: Thanks for your letter. The same advice holds true for those who go to the hospital for mammograms or other procedures. I’m putting the message in all capital letters to make sure nobody misses it: WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL, LEAVE YOUR JEWELRY AT HOME. Dear Ann Landers: My husband, “Bill,” and I divorced 12 years ago, after 25 years of marriage. We made a pledge to each

other that we would set aside our differences and always do what was best for our children. We have kept that pledge.

Bill was more Ann than fair with his money and Landers extremely generous with his time. He helped me guide our three teenagers into adulthood. All three children love and respect us. Over the years, we have both dated but never remarried.

Three months ago, I learned I am terminally ill. Bill continues to stand by me, and I know he will until the end. When the time comes, I want Bill to be listed as “a special friend” in my obituary — not necessarily as a husband or even an ex-husband. Some family members say it would be inappropriate. I’m sure our children would not object. What do you think? — Just Asking in Tennessee Dear Tennessee: This must be a terribly difficult time for you. By all means, name Bill in your obituary as “former husband and special friend.” He is both. As for those family members who feel it would be inappropriate, ignore them. Their opinions don’t count, and they should butt out.

Dear Ann Landers: Thank you for printing the letter from “Cindy

in Wisconsin,” who wanted to stay friendly with her ex-stepmother’s family. You were absolutely right to tell her she should keep in touch if she wants to.

Both my parents have been married three times, and I have had a series of revolving-door siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents.

Every time someone remarries, I am expected to welcome the new relatives with open arms. Whenever someone divorces, I am expected to disown my step-siblings and act as if they never existed. It is painful to ignore people who treated you as a close relative for years.

I decided early on that just because my parents couldn’t get their lives straight didn’t mean mine should be torn to pieces. I have excellent relationships with my ex-step-siblings, ex-step-grandparents and other family members. Children should not be expected to turn their feelings on and off whenever an adult relationship sours. No one can tell me who to love. — Red-Headed Stepchild in Kentucky Dear Red-Head: You’re my poster child for good sense.

Personal relationships should be based on what transpires between the individuals involved. Grudges should never be “inherited.”

Send questions to Ann Landers, Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles CA 90045.

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Tech colleges share programs tudents in NTC’s dental hygiene classes are joined via TV by students at technical colleges in Eau Claire and La Crosse.

Students elsewhere on campus are taking programs like pharmacy technician and practical nursing here from technical colleges in Manitowoc and Appleton. What’s going on?

It’s a new spirit of cooperation and it’s taking the whole state by storm. No longer are colleges squabbling about program infringement and turf. The new approach is shared programs. In fact, NTC has several of these in effect right now. It shares its dental hygiene program with colleges in Eau Claire, La Crosse, Appleton and even Colby, Kansas.

And just as we give, we also receive. The college benefits from shared programs like the pharmacy and practical nursing programs, and has plans to receive even more in the future. What has happened is that technology has made it possible to link colleges via fiber-optics, creating a wired classroom. The classroom of today allows students to participate in classes halfway across the state or halfway across the world.

“It has really opened up opportunities for our students,” said Peg Gross, NTC curriculum coordina-

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tor, about the shared programs.

“They no longer need to travel great distances to take programs, they can do it right in their own communities.”

Gross says that Chuck although technology Brown has certainly been a factor in the growth of shared programs, there’s another factor: cost. It’s much less expensive to borrow a program that’s already in place than to start your own, hire staff and allocate space.

“At some point it may be cost effective to start your own program if the demand is there,” said Gross, “but until then the shared program will often suffice.”

So popular is the shared program concept that NTC is working with Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin Rapids to import its medical assistant and respiratory care programs. The college also is planning to bring in a central services program from Waukesha that focuses on supply and inventory for the health care industry.

In every case, Gross said, the addition of a shared program is based on need.

“We simply must demonstrate that there is a demand in the field

in our region, she said. “We don’t start any program, whether shared or not, without looking at labor market trends. That’s a critical part of our educational plan.”

Typically, as in the case of dental hygiene, lecture-type classes are shared via a fiber-optic television link. The laboratory or handson portion of the program is done through each respective campus, often at off-site locations like clinics and hospitals.

And although program sharing might be the most visible sign of intercollege cooperation, there are other examples. NTC is sharing an administrative computer software system with the technical college in Rhinelander. Many of the colleges have teamed up to purchase insurance, with the result being reduced rates. And several area technical colleges do joint marketing.

Do you sense a trend here? With limited resources, the technical colleges are finding new ways to do things better, faster and more cost-effective. It’s the wave of the future. And in the end, our customers will benefit.

Chuck Brown is director of marketing and public relations at Northcentral Technical College.

His columns appear every other week. You can reach him at brownc@northcentral.tec.wi.us.

Arts/events Metro Club: Noon at the Wausau Club.

Guest speaker is Cindy Damrow, Twin Oaks Environmental Center, D.C. Everest School.

Lakeview Senior Center Body Recall: 9:30 a.m. Join in at anytime. Classes are $25 for a 10-week session.

Game Hour: 10:30 a.m. No cost.

Lakeview Senior Center Tours: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with lunch to follow. To register, call 261-6050 at least two days in advance. No fee for first-timers older than 60. People younger than 60 must pay for their lunch.

All events take place at the Lakeview Center, 1000 Lakeview Drive. For more information on any of the events, call 2616050.

Community groups Metro Club: Noon at the Wausau Club. $12 includes lunch and program.

Reservations due the Friday prior to the meeting. Call Jay Haering at 675-5567.

Wausau Morning Toastmasters: 6:30 a.m. at Midway Motor Lodge, Rib Mountain, 848-3853, new members always welcome.

Kiwanis Club: Noon at Les & Jim’s, Merrill.

Merrill Optimists: Noon at Club Modern, Merrill.

Wausau Metro Club: Noon at Terrace room, Wausau Club.

Red Cross Volunteers: 2 p.m. at Pine Crest Nursing Home, Merrill.

Skills for positive parenting: LEAP for parents of teens, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Wausau Family Resource Center, 705 S. 24th Ave., Suite 400. For more information, call 845-6747.

Writers of Wausau: 12:30 p.m. at

Marathon County Public Library. For more information, call 845-9183.

Meeting (Sept. 10) immediately following the game.

Bookmobile

Kids’ stuff

Bus 1 ■ 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Steidinger’s Store, Little Chicago.

■ 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., People’s State Bank, Rib Mountain.

Preschool Storytime: This half-hour program for children ages 3 and 4 and those 5-year-olds not yet in kindergarten will be held at the following locations: 10 a.m. at Joseph Dessert Branch Library, Mosinee.

10:30 a.m. at Marathon Branch Library.

10:15 a.m. at Rothschild Branch Library.

10:15 a.m. at Stratford Branch Library.

Cable television Public Access-Channel 10:Wausau ■ 8:30 a.m. Conservative Roundtable.

■ 9 a.m. Fiftieth Anniversary National Day of Prayer.

■ 3 p.m. St. Peter Lutheran Sunday Services.

■ 4:30 p.m. Staying Fit with Jim. ■ 5 p.m. The New Testament Ministry Hour.

■ 6:30 p.m. Mosaic.

■ 7 p.m.Your Life at The Crossroads.

■ 8 p.m. Immanuel Lutheran Church Services.

■ 9 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church Services.

■ 10 p.m. Ride the Planet with Phillip T. Watchwell.

■ 10:30 p.m. RockWater Promo.

Public Access-Channel 3:Wausau ■ 8 a.m. On A Positive Note.

■ 8:30 a.m. Social Security.

■ 9 a.m. Wausau School Board Meeting (Sept. 10).

■ Noon. Simply ABC A Broadcast Group.

■ 12:30 p.m. NASA: Destination Tomorrow.

■ 1 p.m. Wausau City Council Meeting (Sept. 11).

■ 5:30 p.m. Tempo with Dr. John Mahlmann.

■ 6 p.m. On A Positive Note.

■ 6:30 p.m. Wausau High School Football West vs. Rhinelander.

■ 8:30 p.m. Wausau School board

Medical Health Screenings: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at STAR Clinic Waiting Area, Merrill. Blood pressure check is free. Blood sugar test is $1.

Sleep Matters: Obstructive Sleep Apnea 7 p.m. at Good Samaritan Health Center Cafeteria, Merrill. A sleep screen test, along with information on sleep disorders and sleeping tips will be presented by David Sazama of the Wausau Hospital Regional Sleep Disorders Lab. Free, but registration required. For more information, call Carol at 539-5075.

Marathon County Immunization Clinic: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Rothschild Village Hall.

American Red Cross Marathon County Chapter Free Blood Pressure Screening (18 and older): 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Stratford Community Hall; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Colby City Hall.

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Volleyball league to hold meeting WESTON — The RSW Wednesday Night Volleyball League will have its organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Kelly Club.

For more information, call Mic Wendorf at 3552229 or 359-8556.

East parents night is Friday WAUSAU — It will be parents night when Marshfield travels to Wausau East for a 7 p.m. football game Friday at Thom Field.

All parents of players and dance team members will receive a letter this week to present at the gate to be admitted free of charge.

Parents of sophomores through seniors and the dance team will be introduced at halftime.

Five earn their black belts WAUSAU — Five members of Likes’ Black Belt Academy received their black belts recently.

Bob Fromm earned his first-degree black belt.

Junior black belts went to Crystal Anderson, Seth Schmidt, Vince Bertram and Ethan Plautz.

Evergreen meet is at Nine Mile RIB MOUNTAIN — Seventeen teams will participate in the Evergreen Invitational Cross Country Meet today at Nine Mile Forest.

Competing in Division I are Antigo, D.C. Everest, Marshfield, Menasha, Rhinelander, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids.

Competing in Division II are Amherst, Crandon, Marshfield Columbus, Menominee Indian School, Pittsville, Port Edwards, Rosholt, Stevens Point Pacelli, Wisconsin Rapids Assumption and Wittenberg-Birnamwood.

The varsity girls start at 5:45 p.m., followed by the varsity boys at 6:10 p.m.

Hockey banquet scheduled Oct. 10 WAUSAU — The 10th Annual High School Hockey Unlimited banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 10 at The Rose Garden in Wausau.

The fund-raising event provides support for the Wausau East, Wausau West and D.C. Everest hockey teams and includes a dinner, silent auction, raffles, door prizes and live auction.

For more information, call Cheryl Howe at 8420346.

Timberwolves holding tryouts WESTON — Boys and girls in the D.C. Everest School District between the ages of 8 and 18 as of Aug. 1, 2001, are eligible to sign up for the Timberwolves’ competitive soccer teams.

Sign-ups will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept.

23 and 30 at the Greenheck Field House.

For more information, call Mike Kessel at 3558152.

Tide Swim club to hold meeting WAUSAU — The Wausau Tide Swim club will hold a parent informational meeting at 7 p.m. today.

The meeting will be held at the State Farm Insurance Service Center, 500 17th Ave., Wausau.

The team will be coached by Abby TeschDunham and will begin the fall season in October.

Swimmers of all ages are welcome to join.

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Wisconsin’s Alvarez has a couple of options at quarterback

By Jay Lillge Wausau Daily Herald jlillge@wdhprint.com

Are two heads better than one?

In the case of the University of Wisconsin football team, maybe so.

Western Kentucky could become the first opponent to see both Jim Sorgi and Brooks Bollinger play quarterback for the Badgers Saturday afternoon at Camp

Randall Stadium.

“To my knowledge, I’m still the Badgers starting notebook quarterback,” Bollinger said. “No one has told me any differently.”

While Bollinger has been sidelined with a bruised liver,

Sorgi has earned mixed reviews, completing 34 of 74 passes (.459) with five touchdowns and three interceptions.

“I’ll just go out this week and prepare as if I am going to be the starter,” Bollinger said. “Whatever happens with the decision Coach (Barry Alvarez) makes, then I just have to take it in stride and do the best I can.”

If winning is paramount, Bollinger has a better track record than Sorgi. Wisconsin is 18-3 in games he has started — 1-3 when Sorgi is in command.

■ A favorite target: Either quarterback would be wise to look for No. 3, Lee Evans, who leads the nation with 485 receiving yards.

He’s only the third player in UW history to record three straight 100-yard receiving

efforts — the others being Pat Richter and Al Toon.

With 1,195 career receiving yards, the junior already is 12th on the school’s alltime list, 56 yards behind Tom McCauley (1966-1968) and 71 back of Michael Jones (1981-1984).

Evans’ eight touchdown catches are only one out of the No. 9 spot in school history, shared by tight ends Michael Roan (1991-1994)

Bowhunting opener Saturday Sport began in California 90 years ago

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The current popularity of bowhunting in Wisconsin and the rest of the United States can be traced to 1911, when an Indian named Ishi stumbled out of the mountains of northern California, exhausted from 50 years of hiding from white people.

Ishi was brought to live at the University of California and was soon befriended by a surgeon, Dr. Saxton Pope, who was eager to learn Ishi's outdoor talents, including bow construction and bowhunting.

Pope learned well and he was a good writer, enabling him to spark the birth of recreational bowhunting through adventures with his friend Arthur Young.

Just 20 years after Ishi's emergence, in 1931, the

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pparently, three years is not enough time for the state of Wisconsin to debate a dove hunt.

From its quiet introduction as a citizen’s resolution in 1998 to the effective cancellation of the season by a Dane County Circuit Court judge on Aug. 28, we’ve gone over this issue again and again.

Many hunting-rights supporters are focusing their frustration and anger on Judge Daniel Moeser. It was he who granted an injunction so that he could further examine the merits of a lawsuit filed by Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Cranes and Doves (WCCCD).

Moeser is just doing his job. He deals in legal arguments, and it shouldn’t shock us that he is willing to consider the WCCCD lawsuit, which challenges the authority of the state Department of Natural Resources to establish a dove hunt.

The real issue here is whether humans should have the option of killing animals with the intent to

and Matt Nyquist (19921995).

■ Another national leader: Running back Anthony Davis leads the nation with 414 rushing yards.

That total is sixth in school history for freshmen, only 12 yards behind Jimmy Henderson (1989), who later transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

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harvest meat.

Period. The rest is clutter.

The dove hunt debate became a referendum on hunting.

A record number of people (27,000) Scott attended the state Spring Fish and Heiberger Wildlife Hearings in April 2000, where the vote was more than 3 to 1 in favor of the hunt. Many who voted yes said they did so not because they planned to hunt doves, but because they were troubled by the anti-hunt mobilization.

An arrogant segment of our population believes that we humans, based on our highly evolved intellects, should be above hunting. In our enlightenment, the antis reason, we should no longer participate in the food chain. We’re too good for that.

Don’t the antis find it ironic that the species hunted most — deer, wild turkey and waterfowl — are thriving in numbers, fueled

by hunters’ dollars?

Meanwhile, the yellow-throated warbler is on the endangered list and the Blanding’s turtle is threatened. Why? Because of habitat destruction by humans — some nonhunters — and, unfortunately, because these nongame creatures have too few human supporters.

Hunted species have constituencies. The latest issue of Ducks Unlimited magazine features a story about how DU bought 8,500 acres of native prairie and wetlands in South Dakota. The region is a vital nesting area for waterfowl, as well as shorebirds such as godwits, sandpipers and the threatened piping plover.

Closer to home, central Wisconsin conservation clubs routinely plant food plots, build nesting boxes, sink fish cribs and work with landowners to enhance fish and wildlife habitat.

And Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Cranes and Doves has done, what, exactly, besides derail efforts of conservationists

with whom they disagree?

An estimated 30,000 people were expected to try dove hunting in a season that was to start Sept. 1.

Based on harvest data compiled from other states, a total kill of 150,000 was expected out of a state fall population of 4 to 5 million doves.

Approximately six out of 10 doves do not survive from one year to the next, even without hunting, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Mortality factors include predators, disease, accidents and weather extremes. So what’s wrong with taking a small percentage for the table if more than half are going to die within a year anyway?

“We believe DNR has the authority to hold a state mourning dove season, that the population is strong and our legal arguments are sound,” said Keith Warnke, DNR upland wildlife ecologist.

Now, it’s in the hands of the courts.

Scott Heiberger is a Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers columnist.

Broncos topple Giants, lose McCaffrey to injury

By Aaron J. Lopez The Associated Press

DENVER — It was a bittersweet celebration for the Denver Broncos.

Playing their first game in a Denver 31 n e w N.Y. Giants 20 s t a d i um, the Broncos welcomed back former MVP Terrell Davis and showed why they are considered Super Bowl contenders with a 31-20 victory over the New York Giants on Monday night.

While Davis proved healthy with 101 yards on 21 carries, Denver lost starting wide receiver Ed McCaffrey to a broken leg.

McCaffrey, who caught a team-record 101 passes last year, is scheduled to have surgery and will miss the rest of the season.

“Everybody wanted to AP photo Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey (left), is congratulated by do well, and then one of Rod Smith after McCaffrey’s 16-yard touchdown catch in the second your best guys goes quarter of Monday night’s game with the New York Giants in Denver. down,” said McCaffrey’s replacement, Eddie McCaffrey later broke his leg.

Kennison. “I’ll say it for all the guys, this victory was for Eddie Mac.” The devastating injury to McCaffrey seemed to inspire the Broncos, particularly Rod Smith, who caught a 25-yard touchdown pass that gave Denver a 21-14 lead three plays after McCaffrey was injured midway through the third quarter.

The Broncos also scored on their first two possessions of the fourth quarter, ensuring they would open $400 million Invesco Field at Mile High on a winning note.

“The intensity level picked up 100 percent,” said Kennison, who had a 36-yard catch that set up Denver’s final touchdown.

Smith, one of McCaffrey’s best friends, finished with nine catches for 115 yards, and Brian Griese, eight months removed from reconstructive shoulder surgery, was

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21-of-29 for 330 yards and three touchdowns.

“Rod is an intelligent receiver,” Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said.

“He’s a guy that you count on to step up in adversity.”

The Giants, still seeking respect after winning the NFC title last year, had trouble running the ball and were hampered by the absences of starting cornerback Jason Sehorn (sore knee) and starting receiver Ike Hilliard (sore foot).

New York had 308 yards total offense — 90 coming in the final five minutes.

Amani Toomer had a big night with two touchdown catches for the Giants, who lost their season-opener for the first time in five years under coach Jim Fassel.

The Broncos pulled away on a 37-yard field goal by Jason Elam and a 6-yard scoring run by Mike Anderson in the fourth quarter.

In one afternoon, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila went from an unknown entity to a marked man.

After a three-sack performance in the Green Bay Packers’ 28-6 season-opening victory Sunday over the Detroit Lions, the second-year defensive end — who a year ago was cut by the Packers coming out of training camp — will no longer be able to use the element of surprise to his advantage.

“Any time you have results, people are going to target you,” Packers’ defensive coordinator Ed Donatell said. “But you’ve got to raise the bar. Other people are going to do things to counter what he does, and that’s where we’ve got to look to our whole group to come together and offset that.”

G b a j a Biamila’s performance was part of a sevensack day from the Packers’ defensive front. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, Gbajawho played only Biamila in obvious passing situations, was able to dump Detroit quarterback Charlie Batch because he was quick enough to blow by rookie tackle Jeff Backus.

Speed is the major component in Gbaja-Biamila’s game.

At 6-foot-4 and only 253 pounds, he’s undersized. But the Packers believe he can be a factor because he’s not only quick, but he knows how to use his speed effectively.

“He’s extremely powerful because he has great leverage,” Packers’ coach Mike Sherman said. “A big guy that has lousy leverage doesn’t match up as well as a smaller guy that has great leverage.

He can walk people back to the quarterback, believe it or not.

“The thing he’s going to have to deal with is people banging him and chipping him as they go out into their routes. But if that’s happening, then we’ve served a purpose that people are not getting out. I think people will be aware of his speed.”

Gbaja-Biamila said he’s prepared for that because it happened to him in college.

“They’re going to try to chip block or use the tight end or do whatever they can to slow my rush,” he said. “I hope they do it because it’s going to make me a better pass rusher. I’m not going to get a sack every game, but I’m going to get better each game.”

The Packers certainly can’t count on Gbaja-Biamila for three sacks a game or its defense for seven, but they believe teams will have to respect him and its front more than last year, when they had only 38 sacks all year.

The former fifth-round draft pick from San Diego State was basically a non-factor last season because he hadn’t figured out how to use his speed and moves on NFL linemen. In practice, he couldn’t consistently beat linemen to the outside. In games, he’d stick to them like Velcro.

“Kabeer’s just understanding his body a little bit more,” Packers’ defensive line coach Jethro Franklin said. “He’s more aware of situations. He’s bringing it all together — the knowledge and understanding what he can and cannot do.”

“Opportunity, I think, has a lot to do with it,” Sherman said. “One year in the system is another reason why.”

“Kabeer was a very raw player when he came in here,” Donatell said. “It was definitely mixed (feelings about him last year). That happens with some players.”

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Calendar Local events

Today ■ 4 p.m. — Prep tennis, D.C. Everest at Wausau West.

■ 4:15 p.m. — Prep cross country, at Evergreen Invitational at Nine Mile Forest Area.

■ 4:30 p.m. — Prep tennis, Merrill at Stevens Point.

Prep cross country, Tomahawk at LJC No. 1/Park Falls.

■ 5 p.m. — Prep soccer, Wisconsin Rapids at Marshfield; D.C. Everest at Wausau East; Wausau West at Merrill; Antigo at Rhinelander.

■ 5:30 p.m. — Prep swimming, D.C. Everest at Medford.

■ 6 p.m. — Prep volleyball, Northland Lutheran at Elcho; Marshfield at Wausau West; Merrill at Rhinelander; Wausau East at Stevens Point; Wisconsin Rapids at Antigo.

■ 7:30 p.m. — Prep volleyball, Abbotsford at Marathon; Athens at Prentice; Granton at Stratford; Pittsville at Marshfield Columbus; Rib Lake at Edgar; Spencer at Auburndale.

■ 8 p.m. — Prep volleyball, Witt-Birn at Marion.

■ TBA — Prep volleyball, Park Falls at Tomahawk.

Thursday ■ 4 p.m. — Prep tennis, Wausau East at Merrill; Antigo at D.C. Everest.

■ 4:30 p.m. — Prep tennis, Wisconsin Rapids Assumption at Wausau Newman.

■ 5 p.m. — Prep soccer, Antigo at D.C. Everest; Merrill at Stevens Point; Wausau East at Marshfield; Wausau Newman at Marshield Columbus.

■ 5:30 p.m. — Prep swimming, Marshfield at Merrill; Wausau West at Stevens Point; Colby at Tomahawk; D.C. Everest at Wausau East.

■ 7 p.m. — Prep soccer, Rhinelander at Wisconsin Rapids. Prep volleyball, Chippewa Falls at Wausau East; D.C. Everest at Eau Claire Memorial.

■ 7:30 p.m. — Prep volleyball, Abbotsford at Spencer; Athens at Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Loyal at Mosinee; Marathon at Granton; Oneida Nation at Northland Lutheran; Prentice at Auburndale; Rib Lake at Pittsville; Wausau Newman at Marshfield Columbus. Prep soccer, Waupaca at Mosinee. ■ 8 p.m. — Prep volleyball, Manawa at Witt-Birn.

On the air

Sports on TV Today ■ 1:30 p.m. — Pro soccer, UEFA Champions League, group phase 1, matchday 1, teams TBA (ESPN).

■ 6:30 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves (TBS).

■ 7 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers (FSNW). Soccer, Women’s, Nike Cup, U.S. vs. Japan (ESPN).

Wednesday ■ 1:30 p.m. — Pro soccer, UEFA Champions League, group phase 1, matchday 1, teams TBA (ESPN2).

■ 2 p.m. — Pro golf, USGA, U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, semifinals (ESPN).

■ 6 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, teams TBA (ESPN, ESPN2).

■ 7 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers (FSNW).

■ 9 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, teams TBA (ESPN, ESPN2).

Thursday ■ 10 a.m. — Pro golf, USGA, U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, championship match (ESPN).

■ Noon — Pro golf, PGA-WGC, American Express Championship, first round (ESPN).

■ 6 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, Chicago White Sox at N.Y.Yankees (FOXFAM, WGN).

■ 6:30 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves (TBS). College football, Penn St. at Virginia (ESPN).

■ 7 p.m. — Pro golf, PGA, Tampa Bay Classic, first round (same-day tape, TGC).

■ 9 p.m. — College football, Texas Tech at UTEP (ESPN2).

Sports on radio Today ■ 6:30 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers (550 AM).

Wednesday ■ 6:30 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers (550 AM).

Thursday ■ 12:30 p.m. — Pro baseball, Major league, St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers (1390 AM).

Mosinee runners sweep invitational Wausau Daily Herald

NEILLSVILLE — The Mosinee boys and girls cross country teams both finished first Monday at the Neillsville Invitational.

The boys, ranked third in the state in Division 2, scored 43 points to beat runner-up Stanley-Boyd with 67.

The girls, ranked ninth, scored 60 to beat runner-up Neillsville with 71.

“We’re happy to come away with a double win,” Indians coach Jerry Zoltowski said.

“We’ve got a meet again on Thursday, so I hope we saved something for that.”

Cross country Matt Hall (17:53) finished third overall to lead the Mosinee boys.

Mike Leiterman (18:01) followed in fourth, Travis Nechuta (18:24) sixth, Mike Stefonik (19:09) 12th and Matt Dain (19:33) 18th.

Tara Rzentkowski (17:44) finished sixth to lead the girls. Molly Warner (17:55) was seventh, Laura Kosloski (18:01) 10th, Kasey Brown (18:54) 18th and Kristi Ziolkowski (19:11) 19th.

Mosinee travels to Bay Port on Thursday.

PGA Tour Money Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trn Money 1. Tiger Woods . . . . . . .17 $5,517,777 2. Phil Mickelson . . . . . .23 $4,403,883 3. Vijay Singh . . . . . . . .22 $3,151,100 4. Scott Hoch . . . . . . . .20 $2,794,319 5. David Toms . . . . . . . .23 $2,677,267 6. Sergio Garcia . . . . . .16 $2,513,635 7. Scott Verplank . . . . . .22 $2,428,605 8. Davis Love III . . . . . .16 $2,360,263 9. Jim Furyk . . . . . . . . .19 $2,308,539 10. David Duval . . . . . .17 $2,255,294 11. Joe Durant . . . . . . .22 $2,245,017 12. Ernie Els . . . . . . . . .17 $1,951,456 13. Mark Calcavecchia .20 $1,886,712 14. Brad Faxon . . . . . . .24 $1,860,932 15. Frank Lickliter II . . . .23 $1,833,311 16. Mike Weir . . . . . . . .20 $1,790,139 17. Chris DiMarco . . . . .24 $1,679,428 18. Jeff Sluman . . . . . . .24 $1,663,312 19. Bernhard Langer . . .15 $1,659,399 20. Hal Sutton . . . . . . . .23 $1,624,583 21. Steve Lowery . . . . .23 $1,608,603 22. Steve Stricker . . . .19 $1,588,229 23. Stewart Cink . . . . . .24 $1,534,116 24. Billy Mayfair . . . . . .23 $1,516,752 25. Robert Allenby . . . .24 $1,494,232 26. Bob Estes . . . . . . . .22 $1,489,610 27. Jerry Kelly . . . . . . .25 $1,467,081 28. Kenny Perry . . . . . .22 $1,447,601 29. Paul Azinger . . . . . .16 $1,395,910 30. Scott McCarron . . . .21 $1,387,598 31. Jesper Parnevik . . .21 $1,384,241 32. Shigeki Maruyama .22 $1,351,942 33. Tom Lehman . . . . . .20 $1,337,926 34. Kevin Sutherland . .25 $1,318,923 35. Billy Andrade . . . . . .22 $1,295,227 36. Tom Pernice, Jr. . . .28 $1,273,902 37. Brian Gay . . . . . . . .26 $1,156,494 38. Rocco Mediate . . . .17 $1,152,982 39. Justin Leonard . . . .25 $1,135,711 40. Retief Goosen . . . . .10 $1,126,985 41. Dudley Hart . . . . . . .23 $1,035,710 42. Bob Tway . . . . . . . .23 $1,026,869 43. Joel Edwards . . . . .25 $1,014,811 44. Robert Damron . . . .22 $1,009,398 45. Fred Funk . . . . . . . .26 $980,168 46. Nick Price . . . . . . . .16 $965,047 47. John Cook . . . . . . .20 $960,661 48. Kirk Triplett . . . . . . .22 $952,954 49. Steve Flesch . . . . . .27 $936,536 50. Tim Herron . . . . . . .25 $916,551 51. Mark Brooks . . . . . .20 $880,758 52. Chris Riley . . . . . . .25 $880,002 53. Stuart Appleby . . . .25 $874,254 54. Chris Smith . . . . . . .24 $848,000 55. Brett Quigley . . . . . .18 $817,009 56. Jose Coceres . . . . .15 $801,172 57. Dennis Paulson . . . .22 $787,124 58. Harrison Frazar . . . .23 $785,180 59. Lee Janzen . . . . . . .23 $766,452 60. Olin Browne . . . . . .24 $744,549 61. Briny Baird . . . . . . .25 $728,628 62. K.J. Choi . . . . . . . . .25 $711,363 63. John Daly . . . . . . . .22 $686,619 64. David Gossett . . . . . .9 $674,501 65. David Berganio, Jr. .22 $671,482 66. Garrett Willis . . . . . .27 $667,912 67. Joey Sindelar . . . . .23 $654,864 68. Paul Stankowski . . .23 $641,535 69. Glen Day . . . . . . . . .23 $632,317 70. Rory Sabbatini . . . .18 $627,346 71. Greg Chalmers . . . .24 $625,370 72. J.P. Hayes . . . . . . .23 $622,964 73. Paul Gow . . . . . . . .24 $608,382 74. Brent Geiberger . . .21 $603,680 75. J.J. Henry . . . . . . . .23 $594,793 76. Jonathan Kaye . . . .28 $568,990 77. Chris Perry . . . . . . .24 $568,391 78. Brandel Chamblee .20 $565,722 79. Edward Fryatt . . . . .26 $565,032

80. Jeff Maggert . . . . . . . .22 $549,217 81. Stephen Ames . . . . . .23 $543,201 82. Skip Kendall . . . . . . .27 $526,551 83. Geoff Ogilvy . . . . . . . .19 $525,338 84. Matt Gogel . . . . . . . . .23 $511,233 85. Grant Waite . . . . . . . .23 $499,323 86. Mike Sposa . . . . . . . .24 $491,036 87. Scott Simpson . . . . . .18 $477,862 88. Loren Roberts . . . . . .20 $465,459 89. Miguel Angel Jimenez 15 $464,457 90. Jay Haas . . . . . . . . . .18 $460,355 91. Jose Maria Olazabal .15 $458,678 92. Corey Pavin . . . . . . . .18 $449,425 93. Bob May . . . . . . . . . . .22 $445,099 94. Brian Watts . . . . . . . .14 $445,083 95. Esteban Toledo . . . . .30 $435,828 96. David Peoples . . . . . .25 $432,080 97. Frank Nobilo . . . . . . . .22 $430,552 98. Len Mattiace . . . . . . .24 $418,426 99. Scott Dunlap . . . . . . .22 $415,665 100. Craig Barlow . . . . . . .23 $414,139 101. Duffy Waldorf . . . . . .22 $406,581 102. J.L. Lewis . . . . . . . . .25 $399,110 103. Bradley Hughes . . . .27 $393,083 104. John Huston . . . . . . .17 $391,137 105. Spike McRoy . . . . . . .25 $380,599 106. Cameron Beckman . .23 $380,491 107. Brad Elder . . . . . . . . .29 $377,335 108. Brandt Jobe . . . . . . .23 $372,865 109. Craig Parry . . . . . . . .17 $368,361 110. Per-Ulrik Johansson .23 $368,158 111. Carlos Franco . . . . . .23 $364,848 112. Jay Don Blake . . . . . .25 $359,626 113. Greg Kraft . . . . . . . . .26 $357,288 114. Fred Couples . . . . . .17 $354,066 115. Rich Beem . . . . . . . .26 $352,535 116. Ian Leggatt . . . . . . . .22 $352,227 117. Mark O’Meara . . . . . .17 $351,220 118. Paul Goydos . . . . . . .22 $348,646 119. Craig Perks . . . . . . . .23 $341,435 120. Dan Forsman . . . . . .21 $334,328 121. Franklin Langham . . .22 $332,538 122. Pete Jordan . . . . . . . .29 $327,964 123. Brent Schwarzrock . .20 $322,336 124. David Frost . . . . . . . .21 $321,710 125. Woody Austin . . . . . .28 $314,833 Statistical Leaders Scoring Average 1, Tiger Woods, 68.61. 2, Vijay Singh, 68.98. 3, Sergio Garcia, 68.99. 4, Davis Love III, 69.05. 5, Phil Mickelson, 69.21. 6, Scott Hoch, 69.49. 7 (tie), Nick Price, Scott Verplank and Jim Furyk, 69.70. 10, Bernhard Langer, 69.73.

Driving Distance 1, John Daly, 306.3. 2, Brett Quigley, 299.0. 3, Davis Love III, 297.6. 4, Tiger Woods, 296.8. 5, David Duval, 296.5. 6, Emanuele Canonica, 295.0. 7, Chris Smith, 294.8. 8, Phil Mickelson, 293.9. 9, Joey Sindelar, 293.1. 10, Charles Howell III, 292.6.

Driving Accuracy Per 1, Nick Faldo, 81.1%. 2, Joe Durant, 81.0%. 3, Glen Hnatiuk, 78.0%. 4, Billy Mayfair, 77.4%. 5 (tie), Olin Browne, John Cook and Fred Funk, 76.7%. 8, Mark Brooks, 76.4%. 9, Hal Sutton, 76.2%. 10, 2 tied with 75.6%.

Greens in Regulation 1, Tom Lehman, 73.1%. 2, Joe Durant, 72.1%. 3, John Cook, 71.6%. 4, Tiger Woods , 71.5%. 5, Donnie Hammond, 71.4%. 6 (tie), Bob Tway and Charles Howell III, 71.3%. 8, Hal Sutton, 71.0%. 9, David Toms, 70.9%. 10, 2 tied with 70.8%.

Total Driving 1, Brent Schwarzrock, 45. 2, Frank Lickliter II, 71. 3, Donnie Hammond, 78. 4, Kenny Perry, 79. 5 (tie), David Berganio, Jr. and Scott McCarron, 80. 7, Sergio Garcia, 83. 8, Charles Howell III, 89. 9, Phil Mickelson, 91. 10, Joe Durant, 99.

Putting Average

A couple of late goals lifted Wausau Newman to a 5-3 Mid-State Soccer Conference victory over Mosinee on Monday.

The host Cardinals built a 3-0 lead, only to see the Indians rally to tie it before Adam Siewert and Brady Mesenberg scored near the end.

It was Mesenberg’s second goal. Other Newman scores came from Pat Stephan and Chuck Bergs. Stephan also had two assists and Kevin O’Heron had one.

Winning goalie Adam

Prep soccer Seybold had five saves.

Greg Singkofer had two goals for Mosinee and David Kawatski the other.

“I was pretty concerned from the second minute of the game,” Newman coach Mike Switalski admitted.

“Mosinee deserved this win.

We escaped by accident.

“I think we were still fatigued coming off a weekend tournament,” he continued. “We were very unfocused. Mosinee was constantly getting to the ball and we weren’t.”

LPGA Tour Money Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trn Money 1. Annika Sorenstam . .21 $1,608,941 2. Se Ri Pak . . . . . . . . .18 $1,329,509 3. Karrie Webb . . . . . . .18 $1,215,349 4. Maria Hjorth . . . . . . .23 $753,948 5. Dottie Pepper . . . . . .20 $722,607 6. Mi Hyun Kim . . . . . . .26 $704,917 7. Laura Diaz . . . . . . . .24 $701,895 8. Lorie Kane . . . . . . . .21 $692,769 9. Rosie Jones . . . . . . .19 $691,442 10. Catriona Matthew . .23 $675,814 11. Wendy Ward . . . . . .23 $646,172 12. Rachel Teske . . . . . .23 $643,760 13. Sophie Gustafson . .19 $490,033 14. Michele Redman . . .22 $473,104 15. Dorothy Delasin . . . .22 $444,199 16. Janice Moodie . . . . .22 $441,101 17. Emilee Klein . . . . . .26 $413,715 18. Kelly Robbins . . . . .19 $401,428 19. Juli Inkster . . . . . . . .17 $394,175 20. Beth Daniel . . . . . . .18 $390,516 21. Nancy Scranton . . . .25 $387,515 22. Mhairi McKay . . . . . .24 $378,426 23. Meg Mallon . . . . . . .19 $376,688 24. Cristie Kerr . . . . . . .22 $361,947 25. Pat Hurst . . . . . . . . .23 $357,803 26. Wendy Doolan . . . . .22 $348,420 27. Carin Koch . . . . . . . .19 $344,420 28. Laura Davies . . . . . .15 $340,766 29. Grace Park . . . . . . .23 $340,642 30. Moira Dunn . . . . . . .22 $313,657 31. Jill McGill . . . . . . . . .24 $301,240 32. Betsy King . . . . . . . .23 $293,079 33. Gloria Park . . . . . . .25 $279,821 34. Kelli Kuehne . . . . . .22 $278,951 35. Brandie Burton . . . .19 $265,853 36. Sherri Turner . . . . . .24 $253,724 37. V. Goetze-Ackerman 23 $252,643 38. D. Ammaccapane . .23 $250,453 39. Donna Andrews . . . .23 $249,833 40. Kris Tschetter . . . . .20 $248,441 41. Marisa Baena . . . . .21 $240,291 42. Akiko Fukushima . . .16 $239,414 43. Becky Iverson . . . . .25 $233,602 44.Daly-Donofrio . . . . . .20 $230,356

45. Yu Ping Lin . . . . . . . .24 $226,598 46. Leta Lindley . . . . . . .25 $224,105 47. Helen Alfredsson . . .24 $223,745 48. Heather Bowie . . . . .24 $216,200 49. Michelle McGann . . .26 $209,224 50. Gallagher-Smith . . . .25 $205,840 Statistical Leaders Scoring 1, Annika Sorenstam, 69.28. 2, Se Ri Pak, 69.76. 3, Rosie Jones, 70.06. 4, Karrie Webb, 70.08. 5, Dottie Pepper, 70.20. 6, Lorie Kane, 70.37. 7, Mi Hyun Kim, 70.38. 8, Laura Diaz, 70.56. 9, Michele Redman, 70.73. 10, Meg Mallon, 70.78.

Rounds Under Par 1 (tie), Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb, .703. 3, Lorie Kane, .680. 4, Se Ri Pak, .677. 5, Meg Mallon, .623. 6, Michele Redman, .610. 7, Rosie Jones, .609. 8, Dottie Pepper, .606. 9, Laura Diaz, .605.

10, Mi Hyun Kim, .587.

Eagles 1 (tie), Laura Diaz and Sherri Turner, 12. 3, Michele Redman, 11. 4, Sophie Gustafson, 10. 5 (tie), Dorothy Delasin, Catriona Matthew and Michelle McGann, 9. 8 (tie), 4 tied with 8.

Greens In Regulation 1, Annika Sorenstam, .802. 2, Karrie Webb, .747. 3, Se Ri Pak, .743. 4, Sherri Steinhauer, .727. 5 (tie), Kelly Robbins and Donna Andrews, .723. 7 (tie), Mhairi McKay and Lorie Kane, .722. 9, Wendy Ward, .721. 10, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, .715.

Top-10 Finishes 1, Annika Sorenstam, .714. 2, Karrie Webb, .556. 3, Rosie Jones, .526. 4, Se Ri Pak, .500. 5, Lorie Kane, .476. 6, Mi Hyun Kim, .462. 7, Laura Diaz, .458. 8, Dottie Pepper, .450. 9 (tie), Catriona Matthew and Wendy Ward, .391.

Driving Distance 1, Wendy Doolan, 263.8. 2, Akiko Fukushima, 263.5. 3, Maria Hjorth, 261.1.

4, Annette DeLuca, 260.0. 5, Sophie Gustafson, 259.8. 6, Sherri Turner, 259.6.

7, Michelle McGann, 259.2. 8, Kelly Robbins, 259.1. 9, Kris Tschetter, 258.8.

10, Smriti Mehra, 258.3.

Sand Saves 1, Karen Pearce, .613. 2, Becky Morgan, .575. 3 (tie), Lisa Hackney and Carin Koch, .531. 5, Mi Hyun Kim, .526. 6, Leslie Spalding, .521. 7, Yu Ping Lin, .518. 8, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, .517. 9, Rachel Teske, .515. 10, Danielle Ammaccapane, .506.

Birdies 1, Mi Hyun Kim, 337. 2, Annika Sorenstam, 318. 3, Laura Diaz, 308. 4, Nancy Scranton, 295. 5, Maria Hjorth, 289. 6 (tie), Pat Hurst and Mhairi McKay, 288. 8, Jill McGill, 276. 9, Lorie Kane, 274. 10, Catriona Matthew, 271.

Driving Accuracy 1, Donna Andrews, .851. 2, Amy Fruhwirth, .814. 3, Patti Liscio, .807. 4, Luciana Bemvenuti, .806. 5, Mar nie McGuire, .796. 6 (tie), Nanci Bowen and Dodie Mazzuca, .792. 8 (tie), Suzy Green and Joan Pitcock, .789. 10, Rosie Jones, .786.

Putting Average 1, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, 28.61. 2, Laura Davies, 28.67. 3, Rosie Jones, 29.11. 4, Dottie Pepper, 29.17. 5 (tie), Leta Lindley and Mi Hyun Kim, 29.21. 7, Terry-Jo Myers, 29.25. 8, Tammie Green, 29.27. 9, Leslie Spalding, 29.29. 10, Deb Richard, 29.30.

Prep football State poll MILWAUKEE (AP) — Here is the first Associated Press state prep football poll of the season, coordinated by Eric Anderson of the Wisconsin State Journal.

Using this year’s enrollments, teams are placed in one of six divisions based on the enrollment breakdowns for last year’s WIAA playoffs. First-place votes are in parentheses, followed by records and total points. Records are through Sunday.

DIVISION 1 (Enrollments 1,285 and higher) 1. Marshfield (9) 3-0 116 2. Oak Creek (1) 3-0 86 3. Fond du Lac 3-0 80 4. Hartland Arrowhead (2) 3-0 73 5. Sun Prairie 3-0 64 6. Milwaukee Vincent 3-0 61 7. Janesville Parker 3-0 47 8. D.C. Everest 2-1 38 9. Milwaukee Marquette 3-0 27 10. Bay Port 3-0 25 Also receiving votes: Waukesha West (3-0) 16; Wausau East (3-0) 12; Hudson (3-0) 10; Mequon Homestead (3-0) 2; Oshkosh North (2-1) and Madison La Follette (2-1) 1.

DIVISION 2 (818-1,284)

1. Ashwaubenon (8) 3-0 116 2. Menomonie (4) 3-0 107 3. Waunakee 3-0 75 4. Cudahy 3-0 71 5. Whitefish Bay 3-0 56 6. Waupaca 3-0 54 7. DePere 3-0 51 8. Port Washington 3-0 39 9. Greendale 3-0 33 10. Waukesha Cath. Memorial 2-1 28 Also receiving votes: Monroe (2-1) 9; Rice Lake (2-1) 8; Germantown (2-1) and Wilmot (3-0) 6; Medford (3-0) 1.

DIVISION 3 (480-817) 1. Sheboygan Falls (10) 3-0 118 2. Watertown Luther Prep (2) 3-0 99 3. Mauston 3-0 83 4. Appleton Fox Valley Lutheran 3-0 68 5. Black River Falls 3-0 64 6. Monona Grove 3-0 54 7. Osceola 3-0 44 8. Madison Edgewood 2-1 37 9. McFarland 2-1 34 10. Lodi 3-0 31 Also receiving votes: Winneconne (21) 15; Ashland (3-0) 6; Mayville (2-1) 2; Wittenberg-Birnamwood (2-1) 1.

DIVISION 4 (326-479) 1. Lancaster (8) 3-0 114 2. Fond du Lac Springs (2) 3-0 87

3. Cadott (1) 3-0 70 4. Kewaunee (1) 3-0 68 5. Ladysmith 3-0 56 6. Weyauwega-Fremont 3-0 44 7. Laconia 3-0 41 8. Poynette 3-0 36 9. Algoma 3-0 28 10. Markesan 3-0 27 Also receiving votes: Bloomer (3-0) 23; Mondovi (3-0) 16; Palmyra-Eagle (3-0) 13; Random Lake (3-0) 12; Gale-EttrickTrempealeau (3-0) 11; Maple Northwestern (2-1) and Peshtigo (2-1) 7.

DIVISION 5 (229-325) 1. Osseo-Fairchild (6) 3-0 110 2. Hilbert (3) 3-0 92 3. Edgar (2) 2-0 89 4. Stratford (1) 3-0 81 5. Spring Valley 3-0 72 6. Flambeau 3-0 60 7. Kenosha St. Joseph 3-0 35 8. Wausaukee 3-0 26 9. Elk Mound 3-0 25 10. Mineral Point 3-0 21 Also receiving votes: Oostburg (3-0) 20; Boyceville (2-1) 9; Montello (3-0) 6; Rosholt (3-0) and Glenwood City (1-2) 5; Burlington Catholic Central (2-1) 4.

DIVISION 6 (228 and lower)

1. Stevens Point Pacelli (5) 3-0 102 2. Black Hawk (1) 3-0 82 tie Thorp (4) 3-0 82 4. Necedah 3-0 58 5. Ithaca 3-0 57 6. New Auburn (1) 3-0 53 7. Luck 3-0 44 tie Randolph 2-0 44 9. Elmwood 3-0 43 10. Seneca (1) 3-0 39 Also receiving votes: Owen-Withee (21) 30; Johnson Creek (2-0) 15; Greenwood (2-1) 9.

Monday’s moves AUTO RACING INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY CORPORATION—Named Jeff Fernandez assistant vice president of mar keting par tnerships for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX—Placed INF Mike Lansing on the 60-day disabled list.

Recalled RHP Todd Erdos from Pawtucket of the International League.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Called up OF Milton Bradley and recalled RHP Tim Drew and RHP Roy Smith from Buffalo of the International League.

DETROIT TIGERS—Recalled 1B Eric Munson from Erie of the Eastern League.

Purchased the contract of C Mike Rivera from Erie. Transferred 3B Dean Palmer from the 15-day to the 60-day disabled list.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Recalled RHP Mike Fyhrie, RHP Chad Harville, C Tom Wilson, INF Mark Bellhorn, OF Eric Byrnes, OF Andy Abad, and OF Rob

Ryan from Sacramento of the PCL. Transferred OF Billy McMillon from the 15-day to the 60-day disabled list.

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Recalled RHP Joey Hamilton from Louisville of the International League.

California League SAN JOSE GIANTS—Announced RHP Randy Goodrich has been assigned to Shrevepor t of the Texas League.

Recalled RHP Jesse Fopper t from Salem-Keizer of the Northwest League.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS—Re-signed F Brian Cardinal to a multiyear contract.

Signed F-C Victor Alexander.

ORLANDO MAGIC—Re-signed G Troy Hudson.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS—Named Mike Woodson assistant coach.

National Basketball Development League COLUMBUS RIVERDRAGONS— Named Robert Werdann assistant coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS—Reached an

injury settlement with DL John Copeland.

Waived QB Scott Covington.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed CB Brock Williams and placed him on injured reserve.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Agreed to terms with WR Hines Ward on a four-year contract extension through 2005.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed DE Ron Warner to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES—Named Al MacNeil special assistant to the general manager.

DALLAS STARS—Signed Ken Hitchcock, coach, to a contract extension through the 2003-04 season.

LOS ANGELES KINGS—Signed G Felix Potvin to a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS—Signed D Michal Rozsival to a one-year contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Announced D Christian Ehrhoff, C Marcel Goc and G Dimitri Patzold have been returned to their clubs in the German League.

Central Hockey League WICHITA THUNDER—Signed C Josh Tymchak and D Vladimir Hartinger.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis...........1 0 0 1.000 45 24 Miami ....................1 0 0 1.000 31 23 Buffalo...................0 1 0 .000 6 24 New England.........0 1 0 .000 17 23 N.Y. Jets ................0 1 0 .000 24 45 Central W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore...............1 0 0 1.000 17 6 Cincinnati ..............1 0 0 1.000 23 17 Jacksonville...........1 0 0 1.000 21 3 Cleveland ..............0 1 0 .000 6 9 Pittsburgh..............0 1 0 .000 3 21 Tennessee.............0 1 0 .000 23 31 West W L T Pct PF PA Oakland ................1 0 0 1.000 27 24 San Diego .............1 0 0 1.000 30 3 Seattle ..................1 0 0 1.000 9 6 Denver ..................1 0 0 1.000 31 20 Kansas City...........0 1 0 .000 24 27 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Arizona..................0 0 0 .000 0 0 N.Y. Giants ............0 1 0 .000 20 31 Dallas....................0 1 0 .000 6 10 Philadelphia ..........0 1 0 .000 17 20 Washington ...........0 1 0 .000 3 30 Central W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay ............1 0 0 1.000 28 6 Tampa Bay ............1 0 0 1.000 10 6 Chicago.................0 1 0 .000 6 17 Detroit ...................0 1 0 .000 6 28 Minnesota .............0 1 0 .000 13 24 West W L T Pct PF PA Carolina ................1 0 0 1.000 24 13 New Orleans .........1 0 0 1.000 24 6 San Francisco .......1 0 0 1.000 16 13 St. Louis ................1 0 0 1.000 20 17 Atlanta ..................0 1 0 .000 13 16 ——— Sunday’s Games Baltimore 17, Chicago 6 Green Bay 28, Detroit 6 Tampa Bay 10, Dallas 6 Indianapolis 45, N.Y. Jets 24 Oakland 27, Kansas City 24 New Orleans 24, Buffalo 6 Cincinnati 23, New England 17 Seattle 9, Cleveland 6 Jacksonville 21, Pittsburgh 3 Carolina 24, Minnesota 13 San Francisco 16, Atlanta 13, OT St. Louis 20, Philadelphia 17, OT San Diego 30, Washington 3 Miami 31, Tennessee 23 Open: Arizona Today’s Game Denver 31, N.Y. Giants 20 Sunday, Sept. 16 Buffalo at Miami, noon Denver at Indianapolis, noon Dallas at Detroit, noon Arizona at Washington, noon Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, noon New England at Carolina, noon Cincinnati at Tennessee, noon San Francisco at New Orleans, noon Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, noon Atlanta at St. Louis, 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 3:15 p.m.

Jacksonville at Chicago, 3:15 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 3:15 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Open: San Diego Monday, Sept. 17 Minnesota at Baltimore, 8 p.m.

Monday’s summary

East Coast Hockey League PEE DEE PRIDE—Traded F Ryan Petz to Columbia for future considerations.

United Hockey League QUAD CITY MALLARDS—Announced the sale of the franchise from United Sports Ventures to Victory Sports Group.

Signed C T.J. Guidarelli.

COLLEGE CONCORDIA, N.Y.—Named Anthony Sabatello assistant baseball coach.

LOYOLA OF CHICAGO—Named James Farr men’s assistant basketball coach.

MAINE—Named Randy Lee men’s assistant basketball coach.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY—Named Kornel Udvarhelyi men’s and women’s assistant fencing coach.

STANFORD—Signed Tara Vanderveer, women’s basketball coach, to a five-year contract extension through March 2007.

STETSON—Announced the resignation of Maria Zavala, women’s tennis coach.

TEXAS A&M—Named Amanda Ballinger women’s assistant tennis coach.

BRONCOS 31, GIANTS 20 New York ............0 7 7 6 — 20 Denver ................7 7 7 10 — 31 First Quarter Den—Hape 1 pass from Griese (Elam kick), 1:09.

Second Quarter NYG—Toomer 43 pass from Collins (Andersen kick), 12:55.

Den—McCaffrey 16 pass from Griese (Elam kick), 9:35.

Third Quarter NYG—Toomer 11 pass from Collins (Andersen kick), 10:43.

Den—R.Smith 25 pass from Griese (Elam kick), 8:04.

Fourth Quarter Den—FG Elam 37, 13:49.

Den—M.Anderson 6 run (Elam kick), 9:10.

NYG—Rivers 1 pass from Collins (kick blocked), 1:56.

A—75,244.

——— NY Den First downs . . . . . . . . . . . .17 25 Rushes-yards . . . . . . . .19-63 36-143 Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245 330 Punt Returns . . . . . . . . .3-24 3-54 Kickoff Returns . . . . . . . .4-89 2-47 Interceptions Ret. . . . . . . .0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int . . . . . . .19-34-0 21-29-0 Sacked-Yards Lost . . . . .3-13 0-0 Punts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-55.1 4-50.3 Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . . . . .1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards . . . . . . .7-35 6-36 Time of Possession . . .25:21 34:39 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New York, Dayne 6-30, Barber 10-28, Collins 3-5. Denver, Te.Davis 21-101, R.Smith 2-24, M.Anderson 6-10, Griese 5-8, Hape 2-0.

PASSING—New York, Collins 19-340-258. Denver, Griese 21-29-0-330.

RECEIVING—New York, Toomer 578, Jurevicius 5-76, Barber 3-53, Comella 2-13, Th.Davis 1-20, Dixon 119, Rivers 1-1, Collins 1-(minus 2).

Denver, R.Smith 9-115, McCaffrey 6-94, Clark 2-55, Kennison 1-36, Carswell 125, Te.Davis 1-4, Hape 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New York, Pochman 63 (WR). Denver, Elam 65 (WL).

Southern Miss. at Alabama, 4:45 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at James Madison, 5 p.m.

West Virginia at Maryland, 5 p.m.

Norfolk St. at S. Carolina St., 5 p.m.

Louisiana-Lafayette at UCF, 5 p.m.

The Citadel at W. Carolina, 5 p.m.

Clark Atlanta at Morris Brown, 6 p.m.

North Alabama at Murray St., 6 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Northwestern St., 6 p.m.

Bowling Green at South Carolina, 6 p.m.

S. Utah at South Florida, 6 p.m.

Appalachian St. at Troy St., 6 p.m.

Georgia Southern at Wofford, 6 p.m.

BYU at Mississippi St., 6:30 p.m.

Georgia Tech at Florida St., 6:45 p.m.

McNeese St. at Jacksonville St., 7 p.m.

Alabama A&M at MVSU, 7 p.m.

Prairie View at Southern U., 7 p.m.

Jackson St. vs. Tennessee St. at Memphis, Tenn., 7 p.m.

Auburn at LSU, 8 p.m.

MIDWEST Louisville at Illinois, 11 a.m.

W. Michigan at Michigan, 11 a.m.

San Diego St. at Ohio St., 11 a.m.

Wyoming at Kansas, 11:30 a.m.

Missouri at Michigan St., noon Navy at Northwestern, noon Wis.-Eau Claire at Valparaiso, noon W. Kentucky at Wisconsin, 1 p.m.

S. Illinois at Ball St., 1:30 p.m.

Maine at N. Dakota St., 1:30 p.m.

Iowa at Iowa St., 2:30 p.m.

Notre Dame at Purdue, 2:30 p.m.

Kentucky at Indiana, 3 p.m.

E. Michigan at Akron, 5 p.m.

Miami (Ohio) at Kent St., 5 p.m.

Louisiana-Monroe at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.

Austin Peay at Dayton, 6 p.m.

Louisiana Tech at Kansas St., 6 p.m.

Rice at Nebraska, 6 p.m.

SW Missouri St. at SE Missouri, 6 p.m.

Youngstown St. at Toledo, 6 p.m.

E. Illinois at Illinois St., 6:30 p.m.

W. Illinois at Indiana St., 6:30 p.m.

Baylor at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST CS Northridge at SW Texas, 3 p.m.

N. Arizona at Oklahoma St., 5 p.m.

North Texas at Arkansas, 6 p.m.

Nicholls St. at Arkansas St., 6 p.m.

Marshall at TCU, 6 p.m.

Alcorn St. at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 6:30 p.m.

Tulsa at Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m.

N. Iowa at Stephen F.Austin, 7 p.m.

Alabama St. at Texas Southern, 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Utah at Air Force, 2 p.m.

Idaho at Montana, 2 p.m.

Colorado at Washington St., 2:30 p.m.

Hawaii at Nevada, 3 p.m.

Montana St. at Oregon St., 3 p.m.

Cal Poly-SLO at St. Mary’s, Cal., 3 p.m.

Cent. Michigan at Boise St., 7 p.m.

New Mexico St. at New Mexico, 7 p.m.

E. Oregon at Weber St., 7 p.m.

E. Washington at Idaho St., 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento St. at Portland St., 8 p.m.

Stanford at San Jose St., 8 p.m.

Utah St. at Fresno St., 9 p.m.

Brown at San Diego, 9 p.m.

Arizona St. at UCLA, 9:15 p.m.

Monday’s scores Alma Center Lincoln 33, Whitehall 30 Appleton North 3, Appleton East 0 Appleton Xavier 28, Hortonville 21, OT Cambria-Friesland 14, Oshkosh Valley Christian 6 Fall River/Rio 3, Princeton 0 Fox Valley Lutheran 39, Freedom 13 Green Bay Preble 21, Green Bay Notre Dame 16 Neenah 35, Menasha 6 Randolph 49, Green Lake 0 Valders 40, Chilton 10

Transactions

College football AP poll

By The Associated Press The Top Twenty Five teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through one point for a 25th place vote and previous ranking: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami (40) . . . . . . . .2-0 1,749 1 2. Florida (14) . . . . . . .2-0 1,715 2 3. Oklahoma (11) . . . . .3-0 1,638 3 4. Nebraska (2) . . . . . .3-0 1,521 5 5. Texas (4) . . . . . . . . .2-0 1,490 4 6. Florida St. . . . . . . . .2-0 1,426 6 7. Oregon . . . . . . . . . . .2-0 1,294 7 8. Tennessee . . . . . . . .2-0 1,263 8 9. Virginia Tech . . . . . .2-0 1,227 9 10. Georgia Tech . . . . .3-0 1,092 10 11. Fresno St. (1) . . . . .3-0 973 19 12. Kansas St. . . . . . . .1-0 970 12 13. Washington . . . . . . .1-0 947 15 14. UCLA . . . . . . . . . . .2-0 895 14 15. LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-0 856 13 16. Northwestern . . . . .1-0 676 16 17. Mississippi St. . . . . .1-0 615 18 18. South Carolina . . . .2-0 580 21 19. Clemson . . . . . . . . .2-0 536 20 20. Michigan . . . . . . . . .1-1 510 11 21. Ohio St. . . . . . . . . . .1-0 258 24 22. Oregon St. . . . . . . .1-1 212 22 23. Notre Dame . . . . . .0-1 211 17 24. BYU . . . . . . . . . . . .3-0 148 — 25. Louisville . . . . . . . . .3-0 129 — Others receiving votes: Purdue 98,

Toledo 87, Colorado 49, Aubur n 46, Michigan St. 30, Georgia 22, Wisconsin 19, Iowa 18, Stanford 16, Illinois 15, Maryland 11, N.C. State 11, Southern Miss. 11, Southern Cal 9, Texas A&M 8, Alabama 7, East Carolina 5, Washington St. 4, Arizona St. 3.

Schedule Thursday SOUTH Ohio at N.C. State, 6:30 p.m.

Kentucky Wesleyan at Tenn.-Martin, 6:30 p.m.

Penn St. at Virginia, 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Texas Tech at UTEP, 9 p.m.

——— Friday FAR WEST Colorado St. at UNLV, 7 p.m.

——— Saturday EAST Northeastern at Rhode Island, 11 a.m.

East Carolina at Syracuse, 11 a.m.

Connecticut at Temple, 11 a.m.

Siena at Stony Brook, 11:30 a.m.

Buffalo at Army, noon Albany, N.Y. at Cent. Connecticut St., noon Dartmouth at Colgate, noon Bucknell at Cornell, noon Columbia at Fordham, noon Wagner at Georgetown, D.C., noon Harvard at Holy Cross, noon Duquesne at Iona, noon

Cards outlast Indians Wausau Daily Herald

1, Brian Gay, 1.714. 2, Jeff Sluman, 1.716. 3 (tie), Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, 1.717. 5, Frank Lickliter II, 1.719. 6, Scott Hoch, 1.720. 7, Jerry Kelly, 1.721. 8, David Frost, 1.722. 9 (tie), Steve Stricker and Jim Furyk, 1.728.

Birdie Average 1, Phil Mickelson, 4.54. 2, Tiger Woods, 4.37. 3, Mark Calcavecchia, 4.31. 4, David Duval, 4.23. 5 (tie), Jeff Sluman and David Toms, 4.20. 7 (tie), Kenny Perry and Frank Lickliter II, 4.16. 9 (tie), Scott Hoch and Davis Love III, 4.14.

Eagles (Holes per) 1, Phil Mickelson, 72.9. 2, Fred Couples, 81.7. 3, Ernie Els, 88.4. 4, Brad Faxon, 88.9. 5, Tiger Woods, 94.2. 6, Mike Weir, 95.1. 7, Vijay Singh, 108.0. 8, Frank Lickliter II, 110.6. 9, Shigeki Maruyama, 112.5. 10, Andrew Magee, 116.2.

Sand Save Percentage 1, Franklin Langham, 68.9%. 2, Bob Burns, 68.4%. 3, Scott Verplank, 65.8%.

4, Brad Faxon, 65.7%. 5, Ronnie Black, 64.3%. 6, Naomichi Joe Ozaki, 64.2%. 7, Edward Fr yatt, 63.3%. 8, Kevin Sutherland, 63.0%. 9, Paul Gow, 62.5%.

10, Nick Price, 62.4%.

All-Around Ranking 1, Phil Mickelson, 177. 2, Scott McCarron, 215. 3, Frank Lickliter II, 239.

4, Sergio Garcia, 247. 5, Vijay Singh, 280.

6, Billy Mayfair, 288. 7, Kenny Perry, 291.

8, Jeff Sluman, 301. 9, Mark Calcavecchia, 319. 10, Scott Hoch, 358.

Pro football NFL standings

La Salle at Marist, noon Robert Morris at Monmouth, N.J., noon St. John’s, NY at St. Francis, Pa., noon Yale at Towson, noon.

UAB at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.

Canisius at Sacred Heart, 1 p.m.

New Hampshire at Hofstra, 5 p.m.

Lehigh at Penn, 5 p.m.

West Chester at Delaware, 6 p.m.

Richmond at Massachusetts, 6 p.m.

Lafayette at Princeton, 6 p.m.

California at Rutgers, 6 p.m.

SOUTH Tennessee Tech at Samford, 11 a.m.

Vanderbilt at Mississippi, 11:30 a.m.

Duke at Clemson, noon Drake at Davidson, noon Houston at Georgia, noon Morehead St. at Jacksonville, noon ETSU at VMI, noon Villanova at William & Mary, noon W. Virginia St. at Charleston Southern, 12:30 p.m.

Kentucky St. at Chattanooga, 12:30 p.m.

Florida A&M vs. Grambling St. at Cincinnati, 12:30 p.m.

Delaware St. at N. Carolina A&T, 12:30 p.m.

SMU at North Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

E. Kentucky at Elon, 1 p.m.

Virginia St. at Hampton, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Florida, 2:30 p.m.

Furman at Liberty, 2:30 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 2:30 p.m.

Savannah St. vs. Bethune-Cookman at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 4 p.m.

Major League Baseball AL players of the week April 9 — RHP Hideo Nomo, Boston, and 1B Carlos Delgado, Toronto April 16 — SS Alex Rodriguez, Texas A p r i l 2 3 — O F M a n ny R a m i r e z , Boston April 30 — RHP Kazuhiro Sasaki, Seattle May 7 — RHP Mike Mussina, New York, and OF Raul Mondesi, Toronto M ay 1 4 — O F M a n ny R a m i r e z , Boston May 21 — C Jason Varitek, Boston May 28 — 2B Ray Durham, Chicago June 3 — 1B Jim Thome, Cleveland June 10 — DH Greg Vaughn, Tampa Bay, and OF Bernie Wiliams, New York June 17 — OF Magglio Ordonez, Chicago White Sox Ju n e 2 4 — D H - O F E l l i s B u r k s, Cleveland July 1 — 1B Mike Sweeney, Kansas City July 8 — OF Matt Lawton, Minnesota Ju l y 1 5 — O F B o bby H i g g i n s o n , Detroit

July 22 — 1B Jim Thome, Cleveland July 29 — OF Paul O’Neill, New York Aug. 5 — SS Derek Jeter, New York Au g . 1 2 — L H P M a r k M u l d e r, Oakland Aug. 19 — OF Mike Cameron, Seattle Aug. 26 — OF Carlos Beltran, Kansas City, and RHP Kelvim Escobar, Toronto Sept. 2 — RHP Mike Mussina, New York Sept. 9 — OF Juan Gonzalez, Detroit

NL players of the week April 9 — 3B Phil Nevin, San Diego April 16 — RHP Chris Rietsma, Cincinnati, and OF Gary Sheffield, Los Angeles A p r i l 2 3 — O F R e g g i e S a n d e r s, Arizona A p r i l 3 0 — O F G e o f f J e n k i n s, Milwaukee M ay 7 — 3 B A ra m i s R a m i r e z , Pittsburgh May 14 — RHP A.J. Burnett, Florida, and LHP Randy Johnson, Arizona M ay 2 1 — O F B a r r y B o n d s, S a n

Francisco M ay 2 8 — R H P C u r t S c h i l l i n g , Arizona Ju n e 3 — O F B o bby A b r e u , Philadelphia Ju n e 1 0 — O F R o n d e l l W h i t e, Chicago Ju n e 1 7 — R H P To d d R i t c h i e, Pittsburgh Ju n e 2 4 — O F L u i s G o n z a l e z , A r i zo n a , a n d O F L a n c e B e r k m a n , Houston Ju l y 1 — O F V l a d i m i r G u e r r e r o, Montreal Ju l y 8 — R H P R ya n D e m p s t e r, Florida July 15 — OF Kevin Millar, Florida July 22 — OF Cliff Floyd, Florida, and RHP Greg Maddux, Atlanta Ju l y 2 9 — S S R i c h Au r i l i a , S a n Francisco Aug. 5 — RHP Curt Schilling, Arizona Au g . 1 2 — 3 B S c o t t R o l e n , Philadelphia Aug. 19 — RHP Matt Morris, St. Louis Aug. 26 — OF Sammy Sosa, Chicago S e p t . 2 — 1 B R ya n K l e s ko, S a n Diego Sept. 9 — LHP Bud Smith, St. Louis

Players of the month Player, Pitcher and Rookie of the Month American League April Player — OF Manny Ramirez, Boston Pitcher — RHP Brad Radke, Minnesota Rookie — OF Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle National League Player — OF Luis Gonzalez, Arizona Pitcher — RHP Wade Miller, Houston Rookie — INF Albert Pujols, St. Louis May American League Player — 1B Jason Giambi, Oakland Pitcher — RHP Pedro Martinez, Boston Rookie — OF Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle National League Player — OF Barr y Bonds, San Francisco Pitcher — RHP Curt Schilling, Arizona Rookie — INF Albert Pujols, St. Louis June American League Player — 1B Mike Sweeney, Kansas City

Pitcher — RHP Roger Clemens, New York Rookie — RHP Josh Towers, Baltimore National League Player — OF Luis Gonzalez, Arizona Pitcher — RHP Greg Maddux, Atlanta Rookie — RHP Ben Sheets, Milwaukee July American League Player — 1B Jim Thome, Cleveland Pitcher — LHP Mark Mulder, Oakland Rookie — LHP C.C Sabathia, Cleveland National League Player — 1B Jeff Bagwell, Houston Pitcher — RHP Greg Maddux, Atlanta Rookie — 3B Pedro Feliz, San Francisco August American League Player — OF Jermaine Dye, Oakland Pitcher — LHP Barry Zito, Oakland Rookie — OF Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle National League Player — OF Sammy Sosa, Chicago Pitcher — RHP Javier Vazquez, Montreal Rookie — OF Adam Dunn, Cincinnati and RHP Roy Oswalt, Houston

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Standings

National League W Atlanta ....................78 Philadelphia ............75 New York ................71 Florida ....................66 Montreal..................61 W Houston ..................84 St. Louis ..................79 Chicago ..................78 Milwaukee..............63 Cincinnati ................58 Pittsburgh................55 W Arizona....................81 San Francisco ........80 Los Angeles............78 San Diego ..............70 Colorado ................62

East Division L Pct GB L10 64 .549 — 6-4 68 .525 31⁄2 4-6 73 .493 8 z-8-2 77 .461 121⁄2 4-6 1 82 .427 17 ⁄2 z-4-6 Central Division L Pct GB L10 59 .587 — z-6-4 64 .552 5 z-7-3 65 .545 6 z-4-6 1 81 .438 21 ⁄2 3-7 86 .403 261⁄2 4-6 88 .385 29 z-6-4 West Division L Pct GB L10 62 .566 — z-4-6 64 .556 11⁄2 6-4 65 .545 3 z-6-4 73 .489 11 4-6 1 80 .437 18 ⁄2 z-4-6

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 8, Cincinnati 2 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 0 Today’s Games N.Y. Mets (Leiter 11-10) at Pittsburgh (Ritchie 11-12), 6:05 p.m.

Montreal (Thurman 8-10) at Florida (Beckett 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Person 14-6) at Atlanta (Burkett 11-10), 6:35 p.m.

Cincinnati (Acevedo 4-6) at Chicago Cubs (Cruz 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Ortiz 14-9) at Houston (Mlicki 5-1), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (W.Williams 12-9) at Milwaukee (Coppinger 1-0),

American League Str W-3 W-2 L-1 W-1 L-2

Home 34-38 41-30 40-32 40-30 31-40

Away 44-26 34-38 31-41 26-47 30-42

Intr 9-9 7-11 10-8 12-6 8-10

W New York ................86 Boston ....................72 Toronto ....................70 Baltimore ................55 Tampa Bay..............50

Str W-1 W-3 W-1 L-2 L-1 L-1

Home 41-31 47-26 42-29 32-40 24-48 35-36

Away 43-28 32-38 36-36 31-41 34-38 20-52

Intr 9-6 8-7 9-6 5-10 4-11 8-7

W Cleveland................82 Minnesota ..............76 Chicago ..................74 Detroit......................57 Kansas City ............57

Str W-2 W-2 L-2 L-2 L-2

Home 41-31 46-26 41-30 32-40 34-37

Away 40-31 34-38 37-35 38-33 28-43

Intr 7-8 10-5 6-9 6-9 2-10

7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Neagle 9-7) at Arizona (Schilling 20-6), 8:35 p.m.

Los Angeles (Adams 12-6) at San Diego (Middlebrook 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 12:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 6:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:05 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 8:35 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.

3C

W x-Seattle................104 Oakland ..................87 Anaheim..................73 Texas ......................66 x-clinched playoff spot z-first game was a win

East Division L Pct GB L10 57 .601 — z-9-1 69 .511 13 1-9 73 .489 16 5-5 87 .387 301⁄2 1-9 93 .350 36 2-8 Central Division L Pct GB L10 62 .569 — z-6-4 68 .528 6 z-6-4 70 .514 8 z-6-4 1 86 .399 24 ⁄2 2-8 86 .399 241⁄2 z-4-6 West Division L Pct GB L10 40 .722 — 8-2 57 .604 17 z-9-1 71 .507 31 4-6 78 .458 38 z-6-4

Monday’s Games Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 1 Seattle 5, Anaheim 1 Oakland 7, Texas 1 Boston at N.Y.Yankees, ccd., rain Today’s Games Minnesota (Radke 12-9) at Detroit (Weaver 11-14), 6:05 p.m.

Toronto (Escobar 6-6) at Baltimore (Johnson 10-11), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Garland 6-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Clemens 19-1), 6:05 p.m.

Boston (Fossum 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Sturtze 8-11), 6:15 p.m.

Str W-4 L-4 W-1 L-8 L-4

Home 46-26 37-34 34-38 27-43 29-41

Away 40-31 35-35 36-35 28-44 21-52

Intr 10-8 10-8 8-10 6-12 10-8

Str L-1 W-3 W-1 L-2 L-1

Home 39-33 42-30 40-32 33-39 30-41

Away 43-29 34-38 34-38 24-47 27-45

Intr 7-11 9-9 12-6 10-8 8-10

Str W-5 W-8 L-3 L-1

Home 50-21 45-28 38-34 37-36

Away 54-19 42-29 35-37 29-42

Intr 12-6 12-6 10-8 8-10

Cleveland (Finley 6-6) at Kansas City (Durbin 7-14), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Helling 11-9) at Oakland (Lidle 10-6), 9:05 p.m.

Seattle (Sele 13-5) at Anaheim (Schoeneweis 10-9), 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:15 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Anaheim, 9:05 p.m.

Texas at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

National League

Cubs 8, Reds 2

Cardinals 8, Brewers 0

CHICAGO — Roosevelt Brown drove in four runs, and Jon Lieber won his 18th game as the Chicago Cubs stopped their five-game losing streak with a victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Ron Coomer and Joe Girardi each had two RBI for the Cubs, 1 who closed within 1 ⁄2 of games of San Francisco, the NL wild card leader.

Lieber (18-6) allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings, and Jeff Fassero and Kyle Farnsworth finished the six-hitter.

Chris Reitsma (7-15) gave up six runs — five earned — and seven 1 hits in 2 ⁄3 innings.

MILWAUKEE — Mark McGwire hit a two-run homer and Darryl Kile won for the first time in almost a month to lead the St. Louis Cardinals over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night.

Kile (14-10) scattered nine hits over six innings to win for the first time since Aug. 12 against the New York Mets. He had been 0-3 in his previous four starts.

St. Louis (79-64) closed within a half-game of San Francisco (8064), the NL wild card leader, and moved within five games of Houston, which leads the NL Central. The Cardinals play their remaining 19 games against division opponents, including six games with the Astros.

Kile pitched out of trouble in each of the first five innings. He stranded runners at second and third in both the first and second innings, and left the bases loaded in the fourth. In the third, right fielder J.D. Drew threw out Geoff Jenkins at home for the final out.

Mike Matthews finished for his first career save, his first in four chances this season.

Jamey Wright (9-11) was rocked for eight runs on six hits in 32⁄3 innings.

McGwire hit his 24th homer in the second, a 445-shot off the bottom of the scoreboard in straightaway center. Half of McGwire’s 48 hits are home runs.

Placido Polanco’s bases-loaded single keyed a six-run fourth inning as the Cardinals pushed the lead to 8-0.

Drew, Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds opened the fourth with consecutive singles to make it 3-0.

American League White Sox 7, Indians 1 CLEVELAND — Rookie Dan Wright pitched seven strong innings to lead the Chicago White Sox over the Cleveland Indians.

Wright (4-2) allowed one run — a homer by Jim Thome — and six hits for the White Sox, who likely won’t repeat as AL Central champions but defeated Cleveland 10-9 in the season series.

Jeff Liefer homered off Bartolo Colon (12-11) shortly after replacing injured right fielder Magglio Ordonez, who injured his wrist on a check-swing strikeout. Pinch-hitter Tony Graffanino had a two-run single in the eighth.

Jim Thome hit his AL-leading 47th homer for the Indians, whose division lead slipped to six games over second-place Minnesota.

Twins 3,Tigers 2 DETROIT — Torii Hunter tripled off Luis Pineda (0-1) in the ninth inning and scored the tiebreaking run on Matt LeCroy’s sacrifice fly

as Minnesota won its third straight win and improved to 11-2 against Detroit this season.

Joe Mays (15-13) got the win by allowing two runs — one earned — and four hits in eight innings, and Eddie Guardado finished for his sixth save in eight chances.

Athletics 7, Rangers 1 OAKLAND, Calif. — Barry Zito pitched a four-hitter and struck out 10 as the Oakland Athletics kept running away with a playoff berth, beating the Texas Rangers for their eighth straight victory.

With a four-run first inning and another overwhelming start by Zito, the A’s cruised to their 14th win in 15 games. After sweeping Baltimore and Tampa Bay last week, they’ve taken all the drama out of the AL wild card race.

The A’s are 11 games ahead of Minnesota for the final playoff berth, and with the Yankees rained out against Boston, Oakland moved a half-game ahead of New York for the majors’ second-best record.

Zito retired the first 10 hitters and improved to 7-1 with an 0.83 ERA and 61 strikeouts since July 29.

Jeremy Giambi hit a two-run homer to lead Oakland’s 12-hit attack.

Mariners 5, Angels 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Freddy Garcia allowed three hits in eight shutout innings as the Seattle Mariners beat the Anaheim Angels to clinch at least a tie for the AL West title.

Garcia (16-5) matched his season high with eight strikeouts and walked none.

David Bell keyed Seattle’s 13-hit attack by driving in three runs, including two with a double in the second inning.

Monday’s box scores National League CARDINALS 8, BREWERS 0 ST. LOUIS MILWAUKEE ab r h bi ab r hbi Vina 2b 4 1 0 0 DWhite cf 3 0 1 0 Sturria cf 0 0 0 0 Gndrlls p 0000 Planco 3b 5 0 2 2 Levis c 0000 Drew rf 4 1 1 0 Loretta 2b 3 0 1 0 Cairo 2b 1 0 0 0 EPena 2b 1 0 0 0 Pujols lf 4 1 2 0 Jenkins lf 4010 MMthw p 0 0 0 0 Sexson 1b 4 0 1 0 Edmnd cf 3 2 1 1 MPSwy 1b 0 0 0 0 Mrrero rf 0 0 0 0 Burnitz rf 4010 McGwr 1b 2 1 1 2 JHrndz ss 3 0 2 0 Pquette 1b 0 0 0 0 Clbugh 3b 1 0 0 0 Rnteria ss 4 1 0 1 LLopez 3b 4 0 0 0 Mtheny c 4 1 2 1 KLBrn c 3010 Kile p 1 0 0 0 RKing p 0000 Rbnson lf 1 0 0 0 JAWrht p 1000 Buddie p 0000 Echvrr ph 1 0 0 0 Levrt p 0000 Snchez cf 2 0 1 0 Totals 33 8 9 7 Totals 34 0 9 0 St. Louis......................020 600 000 — 8 Milwaukee...................000 000 000 — 0 DP—St. Louis 1, Milwaukee 2. LOB— St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 11. 2B—Jenkins (18). HR—McGwire (24). S—Kile.

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis Kile W,14-10 6 9 0 0 1 5 MMatthews S,1 3 0 0 0 2 4 Milwaukee 2 JAWright L,9-11 3 ⁄3 6 8 8 3 2 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Buddie Levrault 2 0 0 0 1 2 Gandarillas 2 2 0 0 1 0 RKing 1 1 0 0 0 0 HBP—by Kile (DWhite). WP—Kile, Buddie.

Umpires—Home, Tschida; First, Carlson; Second, Guccione; Third, Davis.

T—2:42. A—31,780 (42,500).

——— CUBS 8, REDS 2 CINCINNATI CHICAGO ab r h bi ab r hbi TWalkr 2b 4 0 0 0 EYung 2b 5 1 1 0 Piersl p 0 0 0 0 Gterrez ss 3 2 2 0 BClark ph 0 0 0 0 SSosa rf 4110 DYong 1b 4 0 0 0 RBrwn lf 4234 Grf Jr cf 3 0 0 0 Fssero p 0000 Dunn lf 3 0 1 0 Frnswr p 0000 ABoone 3b 3 0 0 0 Coomer 3b 4 1 2 2 Jnnings rf 3 1 1 1 Ojeda 3b 0000 RMRva rf 1 0 0 0 Tucker cf 3100 JCastro ss 4 1 2 1 Stairs 1b 4010 LaRue c 4 0 2 0 Girardi c 4012 Ritsma p 1 0 0 0 Lieber p 2000 Mrcdo p 1 0 0 0 CPttson cf 1 0 0 0 WGrero 2b 2 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 6 2 Totals 34 811 8 Cincinnati ...................010 100 000 — 2 Chicago ......................105 200 00x — 8 E—JCastro (7). LOB—Cincinnati 9, Chicago 7. 2B—Dunn (13), LaRue (19), EYoung (40), Coomer (19). HR—Jennings (2), JCastro (3), RBrown (2). S— Gutierrez, Lieber.

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Reitsma L,7-15 21⁄3 7 6 5 2 0 2 Mercado 3 ⁄3 3 2 2 0 3 Piersoll 2 1 0 0 1 0 Chicago

Lieber W,18-6 7 4 2 2 2 7 Fassero 1 1 0 0 0 2 Farnsworth 1 1 0 0 1 1 HBP—by Lieber (Dunn), by Lieber (DYoung). WP—Mercado.

Umpires—Home, Higgins, Scott; First, Cousins; Second, Hollowell; Third, Diaz.

T—2:35. A—35,159 (39,059).

NL leaders BATTING—LWalker, Colorado, .342; Alou, Houston, .336; Pujols, St. Louis, .333; Berkman, Houston, .333; Helton, Colorado, .331; LGonzalez, Arizona, .330; Aurilia, San Francisco, .327.

RUNS—SSosa, Chicago, 121; Helton, Colorado, 113; LGonzalez, Arizona, 113; Floyd, Florida, 112; Bonds, San Francisco, 110; Bagwell, Houston, 109; SGreen, Los Angeles, 108.

RBI—SSosa, Chicago, 139; Helton, Colorado, 128; LGonzalez, Arizona, 1 2 6 ; B o n d s, S a n Fra n c i s c o, 1 2 1 ; SGreen, Los Angeles, 116; Bagwell, Houston, 115; Pujols, St. Louis, 111; B e r k m a n , H o u s t o n , 1 1 1 ; LWa l ke r, Colorado, 111.

HITS—Aurilia, San Francisco, 182; LGonzalez, Arizona, 176; Pujols, St. Louis, 174; Vina, St. Louis, 173; Pierre, Colorado, 171; Helton, Colorado, 169; Berkman, Houston, 168.

DOUBLES—Helton, Colorado, 47; Berkman, Houston, 44; Floyd, Florida, 41; Kent, San Francisco, 41; Pujols, St. Louis, 40; VGuerrero, Montreal, 40; A b r e u , P h i l a d e l p h i a , 4 0 ; E Yo u n g , Chicago, 40.

TRIPLES—Rollins, Philadelphia, 11; Pierre, Colorado, 9; LCastillo, Florida, 9; NPerez, Colorado, 8; Vina, St. Louis, 8; O c h o a , C o l o ra d o, 7 ; O C a b r e ra , Montreal, 6; BGiles, Pittsburgh, 6; Kent, San Francisco, 6; LGonzalez, Arizona, 6.

HOME RU N S — B o n d s, San Francisco, 63; SSosa, Chicago, 54; LGonzalez, Arizona, 51; SGreen, Los Angeles, 46; Helton, Colorado, 41; Sexson, Milwaukee, 36; Nevin, San Diego, 36; Bagwell, Houston, 36.

S TO L E N B A S E S — R o l l i n s, Philadelphia, 43; Pierre, Colorado, 38; A b r e u , P h i l a d e l p h i a , 3 5 ; L C a s t i l l o, Florida, 33; VGuerrero, Montreal, 31; E Yo u n g , C h i c a g o, 3 0 ; G l a nv i l l e, Philadelphia, 27.

PITCHING (16 Decisions)—Oswalt, Houston, 14-2, .875, 2.50; Schilling, A r i zo n a , 2 0 - 6 , . 7 6 9 , 2 . 8 5 ; L i e b e r, Chicago, 18-6, .750, 3.67; RDJohnson, Arizona, 18-6, .750, 2.37; MMorris, St. L o u i s, 1 9 - 7 , . 7 3 1 , 3 . 1 6 ; Pe r s o n , Philadelphia, 14-6, .700, 4.10; WMiller, Houston, 16-7, .696, 3.54.

STRIKEOUTS—RDJohnson, Arizona, 336; Schilling, Arizona, 257; Vazquez, Montreal, 206; Park, Los Angeles, 204; Wood, Chicago, 189; Burkett, Atlanta, 172; Armas, Montreal, 166.

SAVES—Nen, San Francisco, 39; Shaw, Los Angeles, 39; Benitez, New Yo r k , 3 8 ; H o f f m a n , S a n D i e g o, 3 6 ; M e s a , P h i l a d e l p h i a , 3 6 ; B Wa g n e r, Houston, 34; Gordon, Chicago, 27.

NL wild card race W San Francisco ..........80 St. Louis....................79 Chicago ....................78 Los Angeles..............78 Philadelphia ..............75

L 64 64 65 65 68

Pct .556 .552 .545 .545 .525

GB — 1 ⁄2 11⁄2 1 1 ⁄2 41⁄2

American League TWINS 3, TIGERS 2 MINNESOTA DETROIT ab r h bi ab r hbi Rivas 2b 5 1 1 0 Cedeno rf 3 0 0 0 CGzmn ss 4 0 1 0 Macias 3b 4 0 0 0 Mntkw 1b 3 0 1 0 Hggnsn lf 4 0 0 0 Koskie 3b 4 1 2 1 TClark dh 4 0 1 0 Bchnan rf 1 0 0 0 Simon 1b 4 0 0 0 Kielty rf 1 0 0 0 Halter ss 4000 DOrtiz dh 3 0 0 1 Easley 2b 3 2 2 0 THuntr cf 3 1 2 0 Magee cf 3010 JJones lf 2 0 0 0 Inge c 1001 LeCroy c 1 0 0 1 Fick ph 0000 Przyns c 2 0 1 0 JEcrcn pr 0 0 0 0 Hcking ph 1 0 0 0 Crdona c 0000 Mohr lf 1 00 0 Totals 31 3 8 3 Totals 30 2 4 1 Minnesota...................010 000 011 — 3 Detroit .........................001 010 000 — 2 E—CGuzman (18), Koskie (13). DP— Minnesota 1, Detroit 1. LOB—Minnesota 7, Detroit 4. 2B—Pierzynski (28), Magee (11). 3B—Koskie (2), THunter (4). S— Cedeno. SF—DOrtiz, LeCroy, Inge.

IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota Mays W,15-13 8 4 2 1 1 5 Guardado S,6 1 0 0 0 0 2 Detroit 1 SWSparks 6 ⁄3 5 1 1 3 6 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Miller 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 DPatterson Perisho 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Pineda L,0-1 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 2 Perisho pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

HBP—by DPatterson (Mientkiewicz).

WP—Mays. Balk—SWSparks.

Umpires—Home, McClelland; First, Rapuano; Second, Emmel; Third, Van Vleet.

T—2:48. A—19,456 (40,120).

——— WHITE SOX 7, INDIANS 1 CHICAGO CLEVELAND ab r h bi ab r hbi Drham 2b 5 0 1 0 Lofton cf 4000 JAVltin 3b 4 0 1 0 JolCbra cf 0 0 0 0 MOdnz rf 1 0 0 0 Vizquel ss 3 0 0 0 Liefer rf 2 1 1 1 RAlmr 2b 4010 HPerry ph 1 0 0 0 JGnzlez rf 4 0 1 0 Paul c 0 0 0 0 Thome 1b 3 1 1 1 Knerko 1b 4 1 0 0 Burks dh 4010 Cnseco dh 3 3 2 0 KGarca lf 3000 CNLee lf 4 1 2 0 MCdva ph 1 0 0 0 Snglton cf 3 1 1 1 Frymn 3b 2010 Clayton ss 4 0 1 1 EADiaz c 3010 MLJsn c 2 00 1 Grffnno ph 1 0 1 2 Rownd rf 0 00 0 Totals 34 7 10 6 Totals 31 1 6 1 Chicago ......................011 001 022 — 7 Cleveland....................010 000 000 — 1 DP—Chicago 2, Cleveland 1. LOB— Chicago 10, Cleveland 6. HR—Liefer (17), Thome (47). S—Singleton, MLJohnson.

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago DWright W,4-2 7 6 1 1 3 1 Embree 2 0 0 0 0 3 Cleveland 1 Colon L,12-11 5 ⁄3 7 3 3 3 4 1 Rincon 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 4 1 ⁄3 0 2 2 2 1 Smith 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 2 1 RRodriguez 1 Westbrook 1 ⁄3 2 2 2 1 0

Smith pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.

WP—DWright. Balk—Colon.

Umpires—Home, Welke, Tim; First, Cederstrom; Second, Hudson; Third, Iassogna.

T—3:26. A—38,244 (43,368).

——— ATHLETICS 7, RANGERS 1 TEXAS OAKLAND ab r h bi ab r hbi MYong 2b 4 1 1 1 Damon cf 4 2 1 0 Kapler cf 4 0 2 0 JeGmb 1b 3 2 1 2 ARdrgz ss 4 0 0 0 Abad 1b 1000 RPlmo 1b 3 0 1 0 JaGmb dh 4 1 2 1 Sierra dh 3 0 0 0 BRyan dh 1 0 0 0 Hslman c 3 0 0 0 Dye rf 4111 Sheldon 3b 3 0 0 0 EChavz 3b 4 1 2 1 Monroe rf 3 0 0 0 Long lf 4011 Mgrder lf 3 0 0 0 Tejada ss 3 0 1 1 RJHdz c 4030 Mnchno 2b 3 0 0 0 Totals 30 1 4 1 Totals 35 712 7 Texas...........................000 000 001 — 1 Oakland ......................420 000 10x — 7 E—Myette (1). DP—Texas 1, Oakland 1. LOB—Texas 4, Oakland 8. 2B— RPalmeiro (30), Dye (24), EChavez (38), RJHernandez (23). HR—MYoung (11), JeGiambi (12). SF—Tejada.

IP H R ER BB SO Texas 2 Myette L,3-4 1 ⁄3 6 6 6 2 3 1 Michalak 4 ⁄3 4 0 0 1 2 Petkovsek 2 2 1 1 0 2 Oakland Zito W,13-8 9 4 1 1 2 10 Umpires—Home, Layne; First, Montague; Second, Randazzo; Third, Schrieber.

T—2:35. A—12,115 (43,662).

——— MARINERS 5, ANGELS 1 SEATTLE ANAHEIM ab r h bi ab r hbi Suzuki rf 4 0 0 0 Erstad cf 4010 Mclmre ss 3 0 2 1 Eckstin ss 4 0 0 0 CGuilln ss 2 0 1 1 GAndsn lf 4 1 2 0 BBoone 2b 3 0 1 0 Glaus 3b 4011 EMrtnz dh 3 0 0 0 Spiezio 1b 4 0 1 0 Olerud 1b 5 1 2 0 Salmon rf 4 0 1 0 Cmeron cf 5 1 2 0 AKndy 2b 3 0 0 0 Javier lf 4 1 2 0 BMolna c 3000 Gipson lf 0 0 0 0 DVann dh 3 0 0 0 DaBell 3b 4 1 2 3 DWilsn c 5 11 0 Totals 38 5 13 5 Totals 33 1 6 1 Seattle.........................020 010 020 — 5 Anaheim .....................000 000 001 — 1 E—DWilson (1), Weber (2). DP— Anaheim 1. LOB—Seattle 13, Anaheim 5.

2B—McLemore (12), DaBell 2 (28), GAnderson (32). SB—McLemore (35), Eckstein (20), GAnderson (12), Salmon (9).

IP H R ER BB SO Seattle FGarcia W,16-5 8 3 0 0 0 8 Rhodes 1 3 1 1 0 0 Anaheim 2 Valdes L,9-10 6 ⁄3 9 3 3 2 3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Holtz 2 ⁄3 3 2 2 1 0 Weber Cooper 11⁄3 1 0 0 2 1 HBP—by Valdes (EMartinez), by Valdes (BBoone). WP—Rhodes.

Umpires—Home, Young; First, Fletcher; Second, Barksdale; Third, Culbreth.

T—3:08. A—20,311 (45,050).

AL leaders BATTING—Suzuki, Seattle, .347; JGonzalez, Cleveland, .343; JaGiambi, Oakland, .336; RAlomar, Cleveland, .335; BBoone, Seattle, .329; Mientkiewicz, Minnesota, .318; Stewart, Toronto, .315.

RUNS—ARodr iguez, Texas, 121; Suzuki, Seattle, 114; BBoone, Seattle, 107; RAlomar, Cleveland, 100; Jeter, New York, 99; JaGiambi, Oakland, 96; Damon, Oakland, 95.

RBI—JGonzalez, Cleveland, 138; BBoone, Seattle, 128; ARodr iguez, Texas, 120; Thome, Cleveland, 118; MRamirez, Boston, 116; RPalmeiro, Texas, 110; GAnderson, Anaheim, 109.

HITS—Suzuki, Seattle, 217; BBoone, Seattle, 186; Stewar t, Toronto, 178; ARodr iguez, Texas, 175; RAlomar, Cleveland, 174; Jeter, New York, 173; GAnderson, Anaheim, 170.

DOUBLES—MJSweeney, Kansas City, 44; JaGiambi, Oakland, 40; Mientkiewicz, Minnesota, 38; EChavez, Oakland, 38; Stewart, Toronto, 38; Long, Oakland, 36; MOrdonez, Chicago, 36; Durham, Chicago, 36; EMartinez, Seattle, 36.

TRIPLES—CGuzman, Minnesota, 14; RAlomar, Cleveland, 12; Cedeno, Detroit, 11; CBeltran, Kansas City, 10; Suzuki, Seattle, 8; Vizquel, Cleveland, 8; JEncar nacion, Detroit, 7; Stewar t, Toronto, 7; Durham, Chicago, 7; Easley, Detroit, 7.

HOME RUNS—Thome, Cleveland, 47; ARodriguez, Texas, 44; RPalmeiro, Texas, 41; MRamirez, Boston, 39; Glaus, Anaheim, 38; CDelgado, Toronto, 38; BBoone, Seattle, 35; JGonzalez, Cleveland, 35.

STOLEN BASES—Cedeno, Detroit, 55; Suzuki, Seattle, 47; Soriano, New Yor k, 41; Knoblauch, New Yor k, 36; McLemore, Seattle, 35; Cameron, Seattle, 30; Jeter, New York, 27; Mondesi, Toronto, 27; RAlomar, Cleveland, 27.

PITCHING (16 Decisions)—Clemens, New York, 19-1, .950, 3.44; PAbbott, Seattle, 15-3, .833, 4.13; Sabathia, Cleveland, 15-4, .789, 4.62; Moyer, Seattle, 17-5, .773, 3.35; FGarcia, Seattle, 16-5, .762, 2.98; Milton, Minnesota, 14-5, .737, 4.11; Sele, Seattle, 13-5, .722, 3.71.

STRIKEOUTS—Nomo, Boston, 193; Clemens, New York, 191; Mussina, New York, 187; Zito, Oakland, 183; Colon, Cleveland, 172; Hudson, Oakland, 164; PMartinez, Boston, 163.

SAVES—MRivera, New Yor k, 45; Sasaki, Seattle, 41; Foulke, Chicago, 38; Percival, Anaheim, 38; Koch, Toronto, 31; Wickman, Cleveland, 29; Isringhausen, Oakland, 28; Hawkins, Minnesota, 28.

Active HR leaders Through Sept. 10 1. Mark McGwire..........................578 2. Barry Bonds ............................557 3. Jose Canseco ..........................461 4. Ken Griffey Jr. ..........................457 5. Fred McGriff ............................441 tie. Rafael Palmeiro ......................441 7. Sammy Sosa............................440 8. Cal Ripken Jr. ..........................429 9. Juan Gonzalez ........................397 10. Harold Baines ........................384 11. Andres Galarraga ....................376 12. Matt Williams ..........................361 13. Frank Thomas ........................348 14. Jeff Bagwell ............................346 15. Greg Vaughn ..........................344 16. Gary Sheffield ........................313 17. Mike Piazza ............................309 tie. Ellis Burks ..............................309 19. Jay Buhner..............................308 20. Larry Walker ..........................304

Today in baseball Sept. 11 1912 — Eddie Collins set a major league record with six stolen bases for the Philadelphia Athletics in a 9-7 win over the Detroit Tigers.

Collins stole six more in a game Sept. 22.

1918 — The Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 behind the three-hit pitching of Carl Mays to win the World Series in six games.

1956 — Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds tied a rookie record for home runs in a season with his 38th homer. The blow came off Steve Ridzik of the New York Giants and the Reds won 11-5.

1959 — The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4, ending reliever Roy Face’s 22-game winning streak. It was his only loss of the season as he finished with an 18-1 record.

1974 — It took the St. Louis Cardinals 25 innings — 7 hours, 4 minutes — to beat the New York Mets. A record 202 batters went to the plate, with Felix Millan and John Milner making 12 appearances apiece.

1985 — Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds became the all-time hit leader with his 4,192nd hit to break Ty Cobb’s record. Rose lined a 2-1 pitch off San Diego’s Eric Show to left-center for a single in the first inning. It was the 57th anniversary of Cobb’s last game in the majors.

1987 — New York Mets third baseman Howard Johnson, with 34 homers, became the first NL infielder to reach 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season.

1996 — San Diego’s Ken Caminiti broke his own major league record by homering from both sides of the plate in a game for the fourth time this season.

Today’s birthdays: Junior Herndon, 23; Tom Davey, 28; Ellis Burks, 37.

Bonds begins 3-game series at hitter friendly Enron

By Michael Lutz The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Barry Bonds put up some impressive numbers at brand new Enron Field last season.

His only appearance there this year starts tonight and it finds the San Francisco slugger with a real chance at Mark McGwire’s Major League home run record.

Bonds went 7-for-16 with four home runs and five RBIs in the Astros’ downtown stadium in 2000.

Those numbers would make the chase very interesting as Bonds has 63 home runs — including three Sunday at Coors Field in Denver — seven off McGwire’s mark set three years ago.

Astros and opposing batters have hit 206 homers at Enron this season, second among all Major League stadiums to Coors, which has yielded 239.

Bonds left his mark on Enron last season in two visits. His most significant homer was the longest one hit at Enron, 458 feet over the center-field fence.

With the Giants chasing a playoff spot, Bonds deftly diverts most talk about the home run record to his team’s playoff chances.

“Everything is important right

now,” Bonds said.

“Every at-bat means something.

You try not to watch the scoreboard. But it’s hard not to. The intensity level is a lot higher than nor- Barry Bonds mal.”

But the home run race has intensified with the fans, especially since Bonds’ weekend performance at Coors.

Fans in Denver gave Bonds standing ovations for home runs 61, 62 and 63, demanding a tip of the hat from Bonds, who surprisingly obliged.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a visiting player take a curtain call,” teammate J.T. Snow said.

“They were awesome. They knew they might be seeing history and they knew they were a part of it.”

Astros fans might not be as friendly. Unlike the last-place Rockies, the Astros are fighting to stay atop the NL Central ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals.

“I’d say we’ll be at capacity or near it for all three games,” Astros ticket manager John Sorrentino said. “With the pennant race and of course Bonds being here, I think we’ll be near it.”

Bonds will be comfortable at

Enron regardless of the mood of the fans. He’s hit 31 homers at the Giants’ Pacific Bell Park and 32 on the road. His 32 road homers equals the Major League record shared by Babe Ruth and McGwire.

Bonds walked nine times during the three-game weekend at Coors, expanding his Major League lead to 149 for the season.

Ruth holds the record with 170.

Bonds is the fastest to reach 63 homers. He did it in 144 games and is eight games ahead of McGwire’s record pace in 1998.

The Astros say they won’t consider Bonds’ home run chase during the series.

“I’m not concerned about Barry Bonds’ home run chase,” Houston catcher Brad Ausmus said. “If he breaks the record

that’s great.

“But we have to be concerned with getting to the playoffs. He’s a home run threat when he steps in the box and if we have to pitch around him we’re going to pitch around him.

“We have to win the ballgame. If we don’t have to pitch around him, then we’re going to go after him and if he hits a home run, that’s the chance we’re going to take.”

The Astros will try to stall Bonds with Dave Mlicki, followed by Shane Reynolds and Wade Miller to complete the three-game series.

Bonds has been successful against all three although Miller has just faced him for five atbats. Bonds is 1-for-4 against Miller but that one hit was a solo homer.

Against Mlicki, Bonds is 10for-21 with two homers and three RBIs. Reynolds has allowed two homers and two RBIs to Bonds, who has eight hits in 34 at-bats against Reynolds.

“Obviously he’s a dangerous hitter but I’m not about to change anything I’m doing,” Miller said. “You’ve got to stay aggressive and go after him.

You don’t want to put the runner on.

“That can lead to problems.

We’ll be careful with him but we’re going to try to get him out.”

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Jordan appears to be returning

Badgers From Page 1C should also surpass No. 4 Terrell Fletcher (446 yards in 1991) and Bollinger (454 in 1999).

■ Closing in: Senior Nick Davis is now within 111 yards of the school’s all-time kick return yardage record, set by Fred Owens (1986-1989).

His all-purpose yardage total of 3,029 ranks ninth, 298 yards behind Larry Emery (19831986).

■ Some name relatives: If Western Kentucky head coach Jack Harbaugh’s name sounds familiar, he is the father of National Football League quarterback Jim Harbaugh, who played at the University of Michigan.

Jack Harbaugh’s son-in-law is Marquette University head basketball coach Tom Crean.

■ Topping the league: Wisconsin leads the Big Ten Conference with eight quarterback sacks.

Erasmus James has four, Wendell Bryant two and Delante McGrew two.

■ Sure-handed tackler: Senior middle linebacker Nick Greisen again tops the team with 35 tackles.

By Jim Litke The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Michael Jordan all but confirmed Monday he would return to play in the NBA and said the world will know for sure within 10 days.

In a 30-minute conversation with The Associated Press and reporters for the Chicago SunTimes and cnnsi.com, Jordan said the news conference to announce his decision would be held in Washington, D.C., by the middle of next week.

Asked whether he was definitely coming back, Jordan smiled slyly. A moment later, he looked up and said, “I’m doing it for the love of the game. Nothing else.”

Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six championships, has worked out all summer preparing for the expected comeback with the Washington Wizards. He is president of basketball operations for the team and a part owner, meaning he has to divest his ownership under NBA rules before returning to the court.

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Wisconsin junior wide receiver Lee Evans (3) shredded the Fresno State defense for 182 yards last Saturday.

Jordan has tested himself and his game repeatedly in scrimmages against top-caliber NBA players, with league referees officiating. The only question remaining is whether the tendinitis in his right knee would limit his effectiveness.

Jordan, however, said the knee was sound. If it remains that way over the next few days, he said, “I’ll be ready to go.”

This would be the second comeback for the 38-year-old Jordan.

He stunned the basketball world by retiring in October 1993, saying he had nothing left to prove in basketball and wanted to give baseball a try. He played a season of Double-A ball for the Chicago White Sox team in Birmingham, Ala., but returned to the Bulls in March 1995.

In the half-hour conversation on a curb outside his restaurant, Jordan dropped the conditional tense for the first time since acknowledging in April that he was serious about coming back.

“I want to play for years,” he said.

NFL teams decided not to follow the script on opening weekend

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ne Sunday in the NFL. What can just one Sunday do?

It can cause concern in Tennessee, and unrest in Buffalo.

Alarm in Minnesota.

Worry in New England.

Panic in Washington.

One Sunday, and the NFL already had the texture of seafood gumbo. Some of the good teams looked bad. Some of the bad teams looked good.

And the Redskins looked like a train derailment.

One Sunday, and the San Diego Chargers already had as many wins as they had in 16 games last year.

The Tennessee Titans already had matched their all-time total of

home defeats.

The Cincinnati Bengals had a victory before October. A rare sighting. They have had only seven others in 10 years.

How much can be Mike deduced from one Sunday?

Lopresti Not as much as the talk shows would have us believe, filled as they will be this week with either giddy hopes or hair-trigger doom or can-the-coach ad hoc committees.

No one is finished after one Sunday.

But here is one fact: Since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, teams that start 1-0 are

twice as likely to make the playoffs as teams that start 0-1.

And here is another: Only one of the last 14 Super Bowl champions lost its opener, and that was Dallas in 1993 as Emmitt Smith sat in his living room with a contract dispute.

One Sunday, and a league that has sent 11 different teams into the last six conference championship games looked no more orderly.

Tampa Bay still can’t seem to score much. Suggesting this again will be the season’s burden, giving up only six points and barely hanging on.

Neither can Baltimore. The Ravens apparently will have to “17-6” their way back to the Super Bowl.

The Minnesota Vikings, full of

seasoned weaponry, were gunned down by a 29-year-old rookie quarterback from Carolina.

The New England Patriots, hoping a $100-million contract makes quarterback Drew Bledsoe comfortable enough to lead a revival, lost to the Bengals.

Seattle, wishing for better defense, gave up only six points to Cleveland, but nearly lost anyway.

The St. Louis Rams scored 20 points, for them usually a good quarter. And needed overtime to total that.

The West Coast offense, that exotic passing playbook advertised to cure an underactive scoreboard, turned out to be no miracle cure. It was not even aspirin.

Detroit’s new coach tried it and lost 28-6.

Detmer replaces Batch as Detroit’s starting QB

By Mike O’Hara Gannett News Service

PONTIAC, Mich. — Charlie Batch’s tenure as the starting quarterback in Detroit Lions coach Marty Mornhinweg’s regime is over after one game.

Ty Detmer, acquired in a trade with Cleveland Sept. 2, will start Sunday’s home game against the Dallas Cowboys in place of Batch, who was demoted to the backup position Monday.

Mornhinweg made the stunning announcement after talking to both quarterbacks and a group of veteran Lions who make up the team’s players committee.

“The move was made in the best interests of this football team to win games,” Mornhinweg said.

Asked what made up his mind, he said: “The quarterback play yesterday in Green Bay.” Although Batch did not play well in Sunday’s 28-6 loss in Green Bay, the swiftness of the move is surprising. Batch completed 20 of 39 passes for 276 yards.

He did not throw a touchdown pass and was intercepted twice.

He was sacked seven times.

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Mornhinweg was not happy with Batch’s decision-making and accuracy. Although he was rushed hard by the Packers, Batch was hesitant at times to release the ball, something that has troubled him since the start of training camp.

Batch, in his fourth season as the Lions’ starter, was shocked by the news.

“There’s nothing really I can say,” he said. “The only thing I can do is still prepare as if I’ll start.

“I can’t prepare any other way. I don’t know any other way. I’ve always been a starter.”

Not any more.

Detmer, 33, has had a spotty NFL career, starting only 21 games in nine seasons with five teams.

He has spent seven seasons in the West Coast offense.

Mornhinweg was an assistant coach in two of Detmer’s stops — Green Bay in 1995 and San Francisco in 1998.

Detmer has thrown 795 career passes with 31 touchdowns, 25 interceptions and a career completion rate of 57.1 percent.

Buffalo’s new coach tried it and lost 24-6.

“I don’t even know what the West Coast offense is anymore,” said one of its early gurus, Denver coach Mike Shanahan. “It seems like anytime someone is having a hard time on offense, they say they’re running the West Coast offense. I would like somebody to explain to me exactly what that is.”

He might not want to ask the Bills. Rob Johnson threw three interceptions and was sacked five times, and finished the day with a lower passing rating than his punter, who had an incompletion on a fake.

Then, there was Washington.

The Redskins were blown away by a San Diego team that went 115 last season.

Their defense gave up 113 yards to LaDainian Tomlinson, a rookie who had only five carries during the preseason.

Quarterback Jeff George was benched before the end of the third period, and not happy about it.

And after the bloodshed was over, the Chargers gave the game ball to their offensive coordinator, Norv Turner, who was fired as Washington’s head coach last season.

Is it possible for a team to have a worse first game? Unless a meteor falls on the team bus?

So there is already a crisis in one place, anxiety in others, new hope in others. The NFL signs suggest many curves ahead. All that after one Sunday.

Mike Lopresti is a Gannett News Service columnist.

Newman stays unbeaten Wausau Daily Herald

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Detroit Lions’ quarterback Charlie Batch is hit by Green Bay Packers’ safety LeRoy Butler as he throws a pass in the first half Sunday in Green Bay.Ty Detmer will replace Batch as starting quarterback.

The Wausau Newman girls tennis team improved to 6-0 overall with a 6-1 victory over Stevens Point Pacelli on Monday.

At No. 1 singles, Janet Kim avenged an earlier loss to Ashley Jurgella, while Sarah Johnansen defeated Aerin Janet Spitz at No. 2 sin- Kim Newman gles.

“Sarah Johansen played a girl who had beaten her at least a couple times last year, and she came through with a big win,” Newman coach Randy Juley said. “Everybody played a big part in our win tonight.

Little by little, everybody is getting better each week. That’s the way it should be, and hopefully it will pay off.”

Juley said Christine Zeger played a patient, strategic match to win at No. 3 singles, while Emma Ahles won her singles match in straight sets.

Newman’s No. 1 doubles team of Jessica Mero-Hartley Kurtz won to stay unbeaten in dual meets.

Katie Hoida-Katie Kieffer sur-

Prep girls tennis vived a first-set tiebreak to win its No. 3 doubles match.

Pacelli’s only win came at No. 2 doubles.

NEWMAN 6, PACELLI 1 Singles: No. 1—Janet Kim (N) def. Ashley Jurgella 7-5, 6-4; No. 2—Sarah Johansen (N) def. Aerin Spitz 6-4, 6-3; No. 3—Christine Zeger (N) def. Denise Lukaszewski 3-6, 7-5, 60; No. 4—Emma Ahles (N) def. Maddie DeBot 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles: No. 1—Jessica Mero-Har tley Kurtz (N) def. Jennifer Mitchell-Emily Swenson 6-1, 5-2. No. 2—Mandy Clifford-Erin McCann (P) def. Nicole Gassner-Paula Buntin 6-4, 6-4.

No. 3—Katie Hoida-Katie Kieffer (N) def. Nikki Houck-Valerie Glodowski 7-6 (7-3), 6-0.

Marshfield 6, West 1 MARSHFIELD — Senior Lindsay Garbacz gave the Warriors their only victory, beating Jessica Dommer 6-3, 6-3 at No. 3 singles.

Marshfield’s Brittnay Snider, Kate Coleman and Jenny Campbell won the other three singles matches and the Tigers went on to sweep the doubles.

TIGERS 6, WARRIORS 1 Singles: No. 1—Brittany Snider (M) def.

Patti Koth 6-2, 7-5; No. 2—Kate Coleman (M) def. Megan Her tz 7-5, 6-2; No. 3—Lindsay Garbacz (W) def. Jessica Dommer 6-3, 6-3; No. 4—Jenny Campbell (M) def. Caroline Alden 6-3, 6-0.

D o u bl e s : N o . 1 — B e ck y M a r t e l l - C a s ey VanOudenhoven (M) def. Allison McCool-Katie Manowski 6-0, 6-1; No. 2—Emily Buss-Jamie B e r l i ck ( M ) d e f. B e t h D e Ko n i n g - A l i c i a Charleston 6-4, 6-2; No. 3—Megan DavisBecky Raine (M) def. Katie Wenninger-Shelby Grote 6-3, 6-4.

Bowhunting: State season begins on Saturday

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Tom Loucks/Wausau Daily Herald

Rick Richmond caught this smallmouth bass Thursday on the 1 Wisconsin River. The 20 ⁄2-inch fish was caught on a worm.

first legal bow hunt took place in Wisconsin, and our state soon became one of the nation’s bowhunting hotbeds.

The tradition continues as the first segment of the 2001 bowhunting season will begin Saturday and run through Nov. 11, followed by a Dec. 1-31 segment. Archery hunting will also be allowed Nov. 12-15 in Zone T Deer Management Units.

Archery season will remain open in Zone T units during the periods Oct. 25-28 and Dec. 6-9, but archers will be limited to the harvest of antlerless deer.

The deer population

remains high, approximately 1.65 million animals. These numbers have triggered another year of special herd control seasons, with 76 Deer Management Units (DMU’s) requiring Zone T status. Some of this year’s Zone T DMU’s will have been Zone T for two or three years.

Hunters might wonder why Wisconsin, which set a national record with a combined archery and firearm harvest of 618,274 deer in 2000, still needs to implement extra antlerless hunting opportunities.

There are at least several reasons for this continuing trend, said Bill Mytton, lead deer and bear ecologist for the Wisconsin Department of

Natural Resources, including: ■ A record high statewide deer population.

■ The fact that the average deer hunter hunts just a few days.

■ The drop in venison consumption of most families, partly due to diminished freezer space.

These are but some of the reasons why Wisconsin hunters can continue to expect to see changing deer season structures and increased emphasis on harvesting large numbers of antlerless deer, Mytton said.

Last year, 86,799 deer were killed by a record 258,230 licensed bowhunters. Nearly 40,600 (47 percent) were bucks.

It marked the fifth time in the last decade that antlerless deer made up the bulk of the harvest.

Only the harvest of 1999 was higher, at 92,203 deer.

Marathon County posted the state’s highest archery harvest with 3,791 animals.

Other central Wisconsin counties included: Waupaca, 2,886; Wood, 2,029; Adams, 2,005; Clark, 1,957; Portage, 1,889; and Waushara, 1,583.

Getting back to Pope, his book “Hunting with the Bow and Arrow,” originally published in 1923, was reprinted in late 2000. Regarded as the bible of modern bowhunting, it is available from Barnes & Noble, at www.bn.com.

Kieffer, Bendickson and Schwantes move into top ranks of Master Angler contest Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

A 10-year-old Appleton angler is leaving the adult competition in his wake in the catch-and- release walleye division of the Master Angler contest.

On an outing with his father in Green Bay, Devon Mischler, who earlier in the season held down 1 the top spot with a 26 ⁄2-inch wall3 eye, boated fish measuring 28 ⁄4 inches and 29 inches. Devon bumped Cal Steward of Appleton

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down to third place. Steward had been in first place with a 28-inch fish.

Devon also caught a third wall1 eye, measuring 27 ⁄4 inches, on his latest Green Bay outing. He registered all of his catches through The Sportsman in Appleton.

Todd Hudy of New London, fishing in the Wolf River, caught and released a 43-inch northern, good for first place in that division. He bumped Marlyn Dey of Shiocton, into second place. Dey caught a

41-incher in the Wolf. Hudy registered his fish through Van Straten Oil Co., Shiocton.

Another Shiocton angler, Scott Young, also fishing in the Wolf, 1 caught and released a 38 ⁄2-inch catfish, good for second place. On the same day, Young caught and kept a 50-pounder. He registered both catches at Van Straten Oil. He holds second place in the catfish category with a 53-pounder he caught earlier in the season. Nick Knuth of New London is in first

place with a 55-pound fish.

Fishing with Young, Bill Schuh, Shiocton, caught and released a 37-inch catfish, good for third place.

Rick Nikolai, Marshfield, moved into second place in the largemouth catch-and-release division 3 with a 22 ⁄4 -inch fish.

Andy Kieffer of Wausau now holds third place in the musky division with a 23-pound, 9-ounce fish he caught in Lake Wausau and registered at Outdoors

Unlimited, Rothschild.

Larry Bergner of Manitowoc moved into third place in the chinook salmon division with a 30pound fish he registered at Reggie’s Riverfront, Two Rivers.

Other anglers registering fish in the Master Angler contest, sponsored by Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers and Mills Fleet Farm, included: ■ Scott Bendickson, Rothschild, walleye, eight pounds, six ounces, Outdoors Unlimited.

■ Paul Schwantes, Rothschild, catfish, 11 pounds, three-ounces, Outdoors Unlimited.

■ Jake Brucks, Winneconne, largemouth bass, four pounds, Captain’s Cove, Winneconne.

■ Sandra Neerhof, Green Bay, perch, one pound, five ounces, Bob’s Bait & Tackle.

■ Barb Lautenslager, Green Bay, perch, one pound, eight ounces, Bob’s.

The fishing contest ends Sept.

30.