The Daily Dispatch - Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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THAWING OUT

Another snow day: Area schools will remain closed today

State of Emergency: Vance County remains under State of Emergency

Roads: Public Works director says all roads scraped by today

More snow coming: The NWS has rain and snow in weekend forecast

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Tow trucks from Fred’s Towing and Recovery prepare to remove a tractor-trailer and pickup truck from the side of Interstate 85 in the southbound lane just south of NC 39 Monday morning.

The vehicles apparently wrecked overnight and were left on the side of the road until weather conditions improved enough for the wreckage to be cleared. Below: Albert Siplen, left, throws a shovel full of snow and ice across the parking lot as his brother, Karon, gets another shovel load Monday morning. The pair were helping clear the parking lot at Ultra Sounds, Inc. on Garnett Street. To view or purchase photos, visit us on the Web at www.hendersondispatch.com.

Black ice could be trouble as temps drop below freezing

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The Tri-County may be thawing from Saturday’s winter storm, but officials warn that ice and snow remain a problem.

“Temperatures are expected to fall into the 20s again tonight. With rain in the forecast this will likely result in the formation of black ice. This coupled with already frozen roads is expected to create extremely hazardous driving conditions,” Emergency Operations Director Brian Short said in a news release. “Even though things are starting to return to normal, we are still encouraging our citizens to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary, especially at night and in the early morning hours when the temperatures drop below freezing.”

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for the area until 10 a.m. today. The lingering snow and ice that melted Monday will refreeze this evening as temps fall below freezing. Many secondary streets and roads will have a combination of hardening snow and ice pack along with black ice.

There will be a period of time early today when temps will still be below freezing with precipitation occurring.

This will result in light freezing rain.

A gradual improvement is expected by 10 a.m. today.

Henderson City Manager Ray Griffin said crews will probably be scraping roads for several more days.

“Essentially, our primary energy has been spent on major highways Please see STORM, page 3A

City unhappy with ABC revenue share Henderson considering

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

The City Council has agreed to examine the possibility of re-negotiating the Alcoholic Beverage Commission (ABC) revenue split with Vance County.

“I just don’t feel like we are getting what we should be getting,” Councilwoman Sara Coffey said in taking the lead in discussing the subject at an annual municipal governmental retreat.

Coffey said she believed the county receiving 85 percent of the profits to the city’s 15 percent to be unfair, particu-

larly when the police department has to respond to calls regarding any trouble at the new ABC store.

The store opened in August at 874 S. Beckford Drive, adjacent to the municipal operations and service center. The location replaced a store off William Street and a store off Norlina Road.

Coffey told fellow council members she spoke with County ABC Administrator David Parham and reviewed documents of the agreement, which dates back to the mid 1930s, along with financial records.

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Henderson Today Jerry T. Johnson, 80 Loretta W. Hargrove, 65 Rain Oxford High: 36 Elsie R. Harris Low: 27 Warren County Louise B. Valentine, 79 Warrenton Wednesday Curley Copeland, 69 Evelyn J. Garner, 101 Moses Levister, 99 Sunny Mamie E. Lloyd, 55 High: 50 Cora Parham, 77 Low: 28

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going to staggered terms

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

The City Council has requested that City Attorney John Zollicoffer write a proposal to move to staggered terms for Henderson’s elected officials.

If approved by the council and the federal government, this would do away with citizens electing the mayor and each of the eight council members every two years.

“The benefit of a staggered term is that you don’t have the threat of a complete turnover on council at the same time, so it adds some stability to the organization,” City Manager Ray Griffin told the council recently.

“And many cities have gone this way and there’s still communities that have the two-year terms. So, it’s truly a matter of local option in terms of what you

feel is best for the community as it goes forward,” Griffin said.

Councilman Garry Daeke said that, “I think it’s a really good idea” because he does not believe overturning the elected body at one time is good for municipal staff working on matters brought forward by council members or for the citizenry.

Griffin said that, in the past, the General Assembly had to be approached about approving a local act, but that now a change can be made locally under certain legal criteria.

The council would pass a resolution of intent, with a 45-day Ray Griffin waiting period for a public hearing, probably followed by a layover to a meeting in which the council would approve an ordinance, Griffin said.

Such action would require U.S. Justice

“The benefit of a staggered term is that you don’t have the threat of a complete turnover on council at the same time.”

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Daily Meditation For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].

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Winter storm could have been worse The great snowstorm of 2010. Maybe that’s how everyone will remember Saturday’s tempest. The latest snowfall may replace 2000’s storm as the ‘great one.’

While we didn’t receive as much snow as predicted, some areas did receive as much as eight inches. That’s enough to cause a myriad or problems, but surprisingly, there were very few problems reported.

There were the usual traffic accidents and a couple of water main breaks, but for the most part, we were fortunate.

That’s in part to the dedication of the Public Works Department, the Vance County Office of Emergency Operations and other public safety officers. Crews worked night and day (and still are) clearing roads of snow and ice. When a water main broke, they were there in the freezing temperatures repairing it.

Police officers, sheriff’s deputies and fire department personnel all worked through the ice and snow to make sure the community was safe.

Sure, it’s what they are paid to do, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy or enjoyable.

It’s wet, bone-chilling work that most people aren’t willing to do. If you were able to drive to work today, you probably should thank the crew that scraped the roads.

And though every street in the city has yet to be cleared, it isn’t from a lack of effort. Public Works Director Linda Leyen said after focusing most of her department’s energy on main thoroughfares so far, all roads in the city would be scraped by this afternoon.

Regular, every-day folks also contributed. A snowed-in car with two or three helpers giving a push was a common sight over the past couple of days. The young were out shoveling snow for the old. Those with four-wheel drive provided transportation and a much-needed pull for those that got stuck. Neighbors were helping neighbors when they needed it most.

When we look back in 10 years, maybe that’s what we will remember about the great snowstorm of 2010.

Quotable “We determined that we can resume these critical flights. Patients are being identified for transfer, doctors are making sure that it is safe for them to fly, and we are preparing specific in-flight pediatric care aboard the aircraft where needed.”

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor in a statement announcing that the U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment on Monday, ending a suspension that lasted several days.

“The instinct to swoop in and rescue children may be a natural impulse but it cannot be the solution for the tens of thousands of children left vulnerable by the Haiti earthquake. The possibility of a child being scooped up and mistakenly labeled an orphan in the chaotic aftermath of the disaster is incredibly high.”

Deb Barry, a protection expert at Save the Children in a statement after 10 U.S. Baptists were arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti.

When someone told me J.D. Salinger had died, I jokingly asked, “How do they know?”

It was dark humor and a tad disrespectful. But I was trying to be complimentary.

Salinger, who was even more passionate about his privacy than his writing, had managed, at age 91, to die a legend in both areas.

That’s right, kids: This man actually tried NOT to be famous.

Salinger wrote one book that people talk about, one book above the handful of others he penned. It was called “The Catcher in the Rye.” Chances are you read it sometime during your adolescence.

If you’re in your 70s now, you might have read it on your own, as a rite of passage, a book that spoke to you of the angst and restlessness of youth.

If you’re in your 30s, 40s or 50s, you likely read in high school, as an assignment.

If you’re in your 20s or younger, you might have studied it in English class, or maybe downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about.

“Catcher in the Rye” spoke to a Cold War America about values, life and youthful identity. Its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager expelled from prep school, and the book, told in his uniquely sad, caustic, sensitive voice, Mitch talks about Albom dreams, “phony” Tribune Media people, Services distrusting adults, and one day wanting to build “a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made and live there for the rest of my life” away from “stupid conversation with anybody.”

Which is exactly what J.D. Salinger did.

Keeping out of public view Now, it’s hard for the young to imagine a writer selling 60 million copies of a book and NOT wanting to do “The Catcher in the Rye, Part II” or “Catcher! The Video Game.” But Salinger,

who had been ambitious as a young man, quickly lost his taste for it. After a while, he ordered his photo removed from copies of his book. He told his agent to burn all his fan mail. He eventually moved to the woods of New Hampshire, on a 90-acre spread, and resisted all attempts to contact him. His life became one big “No Trespassing” sign.

Ironically, that only made him more legendary. Reporters tried and inevitably failed to get an interview. Publishers tried and inevitably failed to entice him to put out more books.

And hearing that he died this past week without ever giving in makes me admire him all the more. Salinger never swallowed this capitalize-on-your-fame command that Simon Cowell and YouTube have turned into an American birthright. He never even sold the movie rights to his most famous work. The more fuss people wanted to make, the less interested he was. The last written work to carry his name was in 1965.

Then he stopped.

He was 56.

Writing but not publishing Because of this, some people saw him as nuts, a kook, a whack job. I didn’t.

He never told anyone not to read his books. On the contrary. That’s ALL he wanted them to do.

On the other hand, many of us now think if you sing a song nicely, there needs to be a reality show about your life.

You tell me. Who’s the crazy party?

Salinger once told a reporter he loved to write and continued to do it, but publishing was an invasion to him. “I write just for myself and my own pleasure,” he said.

If so, he is a truer artist than most.

There’s a line that Holden Caulfield says in the book. He says, “People always clap for the wrong things.”

Salinger wanted people to clap for the right things, his stories, not his private life, his interviews or the movie version of his work. I admired him for that. And every time I see a Paris Hilton story or an “American Idol” audition, I admire him even more.

Our gaffe and ‘gotcha’ culture I was not surprised when MSNBC host Chris Matthews mused on-air right after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address that “I forgot he was black for an hour.”

After all, I’ve known Chris for years and I often forget that he’s white.

Just kidding. Let’s lighten up, please. Matthews meant no offense. He was caught up in the moment, he told me the next day, with his excitement at how much our first black president has “taken us beyond black and white in our politics, wonderfully so, in just a year.”

Indeed, Matthews was paying Obama a compliment — much like Harry Reid was when the Senate’s majority leader was quoted as saying Obama’s light complexion and “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” enhanced his racial crossover appeal.

Reid was merely telling an uncomfortable truth about the lingering role of race in our nation’s politics. Unfortunately for Reid, in our nation’s politics revealing uncomfortable truths is also a sure-fire way to get into deep youknow-what.

Before you ask, no, I am not giving Matthews or Reid a special break because of friendship or sympathy with their political views. Don Imus was a friend, too, when

I urged him on his show to ease up on his insults to groups that could not defend themselves. Eventually he famously went a gaffe too far for his own TV and radio network employers to tolerate.

I also defended Rush Limbaugh’s right to broadcast the satirical “Barack the Magic Clarence Negro” Page during the 2008 Tribune Media primaries.

Services Whether you agree with the sentiments of the song or not, sung to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon,” it fully qualifies as fair political comment that the First Amendment was written to protect.

And I defend my conservative friend Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist who recently described Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown as a “regular guy, looks like an American....” on MSNBC. Peggy meant no offense, I am confident, even if her observation did cause me to wonder: What is “an American” supposed to look like?

Noonan is white and

therefore denied enlightening experiences of black Americans like, for example, Teresa Wiltz, a writer for The Root Web site. Wiltz writes that Noonan’s remarks reminded her of episodes like the time she was “waiting in line at the Islamabad Airport, and the Customs official, apparently disregarding my U.S. passport, asked me if I’m Pakistani.” That’s one reason to be happy that Americans elected a president of visibly African descent. He can help expand the world’s idea of what “an American” looks like.

Yet, as much progress as we Americans have made in our racial perceptions, our language has a tough time keeping up. Our cross-cultural misunderstandings, cynical politics and heat-seeking media have grown a gaffeand-”gotcha” culture — complete with elaborate umbrage, scolding, apology and imagerehabilitation rituals like Obama’s “beer summit” after a famous gaffe of his own.

Our gaffe culture has turned high-profile race leaders like the Rev. Al Sharpton into go-to guys for symbolic versions of racial dispensation, a forgiveness that Sharpton told me he was happy to give Matthews after having talked to him. Ah, I’m sure Chris didn’t forget Rev. Al was black, even for a minute.

At best, a statement like “I forgot he was black” strikes some ears as offensive because it sounds incomplete. The speaker is acknowledging old baggage of timeworn stereotypes and prejudices that we carry around in our heads without quite discarding it.

As blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates observed in The Atlantic’s site, imagine you’re a guy who tells a female sports fan after a spirited Super Bowl discussion, “Wow, I forgot you were a woman.” Even a recovering sexist pig like me knows better than to try that one.

“It’s so hard to even talk about it,” Matthews said onair about Obama’s race and our nation’s racial odyssey.

“Maybe I shouldn’t talk about it, but I am.” That’s OK. I’m glad he brought up what I am sure many others felt but were afraid to say. Media commentators are sort of like film critics who see the bad movies so you don’t have to. We aren’t doing our jobs in my view unless we risk embarrassment from time to time so our audiences can learn things.

Like what a real American looks like.

E-mail Clarence Page at cpage(at)tribune.com, or write to him c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.

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DEAR WISCONSIN R.N.: I’m printing your letter verbatim. As traumatic as sending a child into surgery can be for both parent and child, the words a child needs to hear are, “You’ll be going to sleep, and when you wake up, Mommy will be right here. I love you. Now give me a kiss.”

For the will fillchild’s sake, venting for stress relief should be saved for the waiting room.

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DEAR ABBY: I’m a 73-year-old man in reasonably good health who would like to own a dog. However, I have two concerns: A dog might outlive me, or I might outlive the dog — which would be traumatic for me. I’d appreciate your opinion. — THINKING OF ADOPTING IN LAS VEGAS client DEAR THINKING: It is well known that pets lower

DEAR ABBY: I am writing this as a mother of four and an operating room nurse for 30 years. Once again, I had to pull a crying mother from her child so I could take the child into the operating room.

I understand that a child having surgery is upsetting and stressful. My own children have had to have surgical procedures done, so I know the feeling. But if I can help parents understand one thing, it would be that the child looks to the parent for support. If the mother is crying and clinging at the bedside, the message the child receives is: If Mom is that upset, something bad must be about to happen to me.

No one is implying that you do not love your child or you are not worried about him or her, but it does no one any good if you have to be peeled off your child. Please send your little one off with kisses and encouraging words, and the child will be a little less frightened. — WISCONSIN R.N.

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levels of stress and depression.

Adopting a dog could give you a new “leash” on life because responsible pet owners must establish a regular routine and exercise their animals.

However, before you take the plunge, consult your doctor about whether you’re healthy enough to have one, and ask a veterinarian about the care it will require and whether you should adopt an adult dog rather than a puppy. Then talk to your lawyer about ensuring that, in the event of your death, your faithful companion will be cared for until it joins you in the Great Puppy Park in the sky.

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DEAR ABBY: Shortly before my wedding, I decided to have my teeth fixed. The dentist quoted me a price of $4,000, which my husband and I could not afford since we were paying for our entire wedding.

My parents agreed to pay the dental bill as soon as it arrived.

However, there is now a “stipulation.”

They are demanding the full list — including Dear exact dollar Abby amounts — of what Universal Press EACH of Syndicate our guests gave us for wedding gifts. If I refuse, my parents now say our previous verbal agreement is worthless, and my husband can cover my dental bill.

Am I wrong for not wanting to give them the dollar amount or tell them what each guest gave at our wedding? They call me at work and insist I tell them because they “must” know if their family and friends “disrespected” them. I feel that whatever people gave us is whatever they could afford, and my husband and I are very happy with the gifts we received. — NEWLYWED IN DARIEN, CONN. DEAR NEWLYWED: Your parents are wrong to attempt to blackmail you into sharing the list with them.

That information is none of their business. I hope you stand firm, call your dentist and work out a payment plan.

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Thought For Today: Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always — Albert Schweitzer, German-born missionary and Nobel laureate (1875-1965).

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Today’s Birthdays: Eleanor (Nell) Gwyn, English actress (1651-1687); James Joyce, Irish author (1882-1941); Jussi Bjoerling, Swedish tenor (1911-1960); Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador, foreign minister and author (1915-2002); Valery Giscard d’Estaing, former French president (1926—); Graham Nash, British pop singer (1942—); Farrah Fawcett, U.S. actress/model (19472009); Christie Brinkley, U.S. model (1954—); Shakira, Colombian pop singer (1977—).

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Today’s highlights: 1535 — Argentine city of Buenos Aires is founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.

1653 — New Amsterdam — now New York City — with a population of 800, gains a city charter from the Dutch.

1808 — French force occupies Rome after Pope Pius VII refuses to recognize Kingdom of Naples and to join alliance against Britain.

1848 — Mexico signs the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending a U.S. invasion and ceding Texas, New Mexico and California to the United States, and receives $15 million in return.

1878 — Greece declares war on Turkey.

1943 — German troops surrender to Russians in Stalingrad after losing 200,000 men.

1953 — United States announces that it no longer will block Chinese Nationalist raids against mainland China.

1971 — Idi Amin assumes power in Uganda following a coup that ousted President Milton Obote.

1974 — Khmer Rouge bombard Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, killing 17 people.

1979 — After 14 years in exile, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns from Paris and becomes the de facto leader of Iran.

1980 — Reports surface that the FBI had conducted a sting operation targeting members of U.S. Congress using phony Arab businessmen in what became known as “Abscam,” a codename protested by Arab-Americans.

1990 — South African President F.W. de Klerk lifts ban on African National Congress and promises to release political prisoner Nelson Mandela.

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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2010. There are 332 days left in the year.

1994 — U.S administration headed by President Bill Clinton praises Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for showing an inclination to promote peace in Northern Ireland.

1995 — The leaders of Israel, Jordan, the PLO and Egypt sit down together for the first time in Cairo in an attempt to revive Israel’s troubled accord with the Palestinians.

1999 — Hugo Chavez takes office as Venezuela’s president, seven years after he tried to overthrow the government in a military coup.

2004 — Australia’s Defense Minister Robert Hill says his country doesn’t need another inquiry into its intelligence on Iraq — despite the U.S. decision to probe its own possible intelligence failures.

Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard was earlier on record as saying that most of Australia’s intelligence in the Iraq war came from Washington and London.

2007 — A U.N. envoy unveils a long-awaited plan for Kosovo recommending internationally supervised statehood for the contested province. The plan is quickly rejected by Serbian President Boris Tadic.

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Granville seeking $19M loan for hospital expansion

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — Granville County is seeking a longterm, low-interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for an expansion and upgrade of the Granville Health System hospital.

County Finance Director Michael Felts on Monday evening told the County Commission the project is a doable candidate for financing, which, if approved, would be at 4.25 percent interest and possibly over a 40-year period.

Felts said the loan is being sought through the USDA’s Henderson office, with the request to be for at least $19 million.

“We expect to get the packet to the USDA by the end of this week,” Felts said, adding that “we would hope to hear back from them” by the end of the month.

The loan would have to be tentatively approved before bidding and construction, Felts said.

Terms would not require a prepayment, “meaning we can refinance it or repay it at any time,” Felts said.

The loan, if approved, would be through the stimulus program because improving the countyowned hospital would be considered economic development, Felts said.

The hospital needs an expansion and upgrade in part because the emergency room is too small to

meet today’s demands.

Granville Health System Chief Executive Officer Lee Isley has said that, over the last three years, the volume in the emergency department increased from 14,000 to more than 18,000 patients.

Granville Health System wants to increase the emergency department from 3,200 square feet to 18,000 square feet and from five beds to 14 beds.

And plans call for expanding the lobby, the laboratory and surgical services. Plans additionally call for a new central energy plant building.

The N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation already approved a certificate of need for the hospital.

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Conditions force more postponements

By DAILY DISPATCH STAFF

Snowy and icy road conditions across the area have forced more postponements for local sporting events.

With Vance County schools closed for Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday, many games be rescheduled.

Northern’s basketball games with Chapel Hill scheduled for Tuesday night will be moved.

Southern Vance’s basketball games against Cardinal Gibbons have been rescheduled to Thursday in Raleigh.

Kerr-Vance’s home matchups with St. David’s

for Tuesday have also been postponed.

Wednesday games subject to change include: Southern Vance at J.F. Webb basketball, Granville Central at KVA wrestling, Cardinal Gibbons at Webb wrestling, and Northern at Southern wrestling.

Southern Athletic Director Ed Wilson said that if Southern and Webb do not play basketball on Wednesday, the games will be played on Saturday in Oxford.

The Dispatch will continue to monitor the schedule changes and will print the new dates when they are established.

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Virginia guard Mustapha Farrakhan shoots over North Carolina defenders Marcus Ginyard and Deon Thompson during the second half in Chapel Hill Sunday. Virginia won 75-60.

‘How can we go any lower?’

Williams and UNC continue searching for answers

By Briana Gorman The Herald Sun

CHAPEL HILL — After North Carolina’s 75-60 loss to Virginia at the Smith Center on Sunday, Coach Roy Williams had to stop and collect himself a few times during his postgame news conference.

The Cavaliers’ first win in Chapel Hill since Jan. 12, 2002, gave the Tar Heels a 2-5 record in the month of January and put UNC 10th in the conference standings.

"How can we go any lower?" Williams said. "I mean, be honest. How can it be any worse than it is right now?"

UNC (13-8, 2-4 ACC) seemed to be back on track after beating N.C. State in Raleigh to end a threegame losing streak, but now it looks like the Tar Heels are in jeopardy of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2002-03 season. UNC needs to win at least five of its remaining 10 ACC games to have a shot at making the Tournament, and six of those games are on the road.

Sophomore Larry Drew II said

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

North Carolina coach Roy Williams disputes a call by the officials during the second half of Sunday’s game against Virginia.

AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds

the Tar Heels are not playing like an NCAA Tournament team right now, but he thinks the potential still is there and the team is not going to give up.

"I think it’s clear that we took a step back from when we played against State," Drew said. "It’s just frustrating. It’s like we’re taking one step forward and making three steps back. We take another step and make two more steps back."

Williams took most of the blame after the loss to Virginia, saying he has gotten "dumber" the past six

months and is not coaching well.

The Tar Heels turned the ball over 17 times against the Cavs and allowed them to shoot 51.9 percent from the floor compared to UNC’s 35.7 percent.

"We’re not playing very well right now, so I’ve got to do a better job," Williams said. "Things that I’ve always done my entire life are not working with this group, so I’ve got to find something different to do."

Seniors Deon Thompson and Please see HEELS, page 3B

‘Who Dats’ come from humble beginnings Saints overcome decades of obscurity

By BEN WALKER AP National Writer

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They were an odd aggregation, a collection of misfits, nomads and newcomers eager to show off football, New Orleans-style.

Those early Saints of the late 1960s and ’70s didn’t win a lot. No more than a little, actually. But give them credit: They sure jazzed up the NFL long before reaching the Super Bowl.

A trumpet great blew “Charge!” calls from a bandstand at the 50yard line. Fans dressed in starched white shirts and ties. Oh, and the ostrich races.

Such fun names, too. Jubilee Dunbar scored, Happy Feller kicked and Wimpy Winther blocked.

“Those were crazy days,” recalled Dunbar, aka Allen Dunbar. “They were searching for themselves back then. We knew that one day it would get better.”

The franchise long known for losing actually got off to the greatest start in league history. In the Saints’ very first game, they returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. A few years later, a kicker born without toes on his right foot booted a record field goal.

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New Orleans’ Drew Brees and Indianapolis’ Peyton Manning are seen during the NFL football Pro Bowl Sunday.

“We weren’t the greatest football team in the world,” said Tom Dempsey, who made that gamewinning 63-yarder with a specially made black shoe shortened to accommodate his foot. “There were a lot of big plays, but just not enough of them.”

For a while, Dempsey was annoyed with all the attention he attracted.

“It used to bother me a bit. I wanted to be known as a good kicker, more than for one kick,” he said.

“But I found out that if you’re going

to set a record, there’s only one place to set it in — New Orleans!

“It was a love affair between the city and the Saints from Day One,” he said. “When we’d win on the road, the fans would be out on the runway at the airport to greet us. Now, I have my daughter and grandson carry on the tradition.”

Dempsey still lives in the area, and the first floor of his town house was flooded by Hurricane Katrina.

On Sunday, he’ll be at home rooting hard for his old team when the Please see SAINTS, page 3B

Roger Federer celebrates after beating Andy Murray to win the Men's singles final match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday.

Federer celebrates Australian Open win JOCELYN GECKER ,Associated Press Writer

MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer stayed up all night, drinking champagne with friends and returned to his hotel room as the sun rose to cap the celebration of his Australian Open victory by holding one of his baby girls in his arms.

Looking remarkably refreshed Monday after a couple of hours sleep, Federer said that winning his 16th Grand Slam title was different from the past 15. He's now married with 6-month-old twins and everything — including his tennis — feels more meaningful.

"I'm excited about life, and there is not only tennis," Federer said the day after defeating Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) to win his fifth Australian Open.

"Having kids and being a father now and being married enhances everything," he said, tanned and relaxed in jeans and a gray T-shirt. "I'm such a happy person today to see how well everything is working out for me. It just makes me extremely happy, extremely relaxed and it allows me to play good tennis, and I couldn't ask for more."

By Federer's own accounting he played some of the best tennis of his career in the past two weeks, particularly in the final against Murray, who dashed Britain's hopes of winning the first men's Grand Slam title since 1936.

And that was just the beginning of his night.

Federer is a gifted and willing orator off the court and held more than two hours of news conferences in English, French and Swiss German, which lasted until 1:30 a.m. He

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

Federer poses with the Australian Open trophy in MelbourneMonday. then headed back to his hotel and was joined by an entourage of 30 or 40 people.

"We stayed at the hotel — had a nice DJ, bar, restaurant, it was a good atmosphere. It was nice," said the 28-year-old Swiss star, who is known for his discipline. "We went to have some drinks, have some dinner, celebrate the victory but more or less hang out."

Federer's drink of choice?

"Champagne, obviously."

He doesn't remember what time he went to bed.

"When's sunrise here?

Six or 7 o'clock?"

One of the twins, Myla, was awake when he got back.

"That was nice," he said, smiling. "I quickly was able to see her, even though she's got obviously no clue what's happened.

She couldn't care less, but I still felt it was a special moment to hold her in my hands, in my arm after what happened, and it was nice. I read the papers here in Australia and went to bed, extremely tired."

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Two-minute drill Kobe passes West in Lakers’ loss to Memphis Local Sports Tri-County Umpires Association to hold clinic The Tri-County Umpires Association will hold a baseball/softball clinic at the Thompson Building in Creedmoor beginning Wednesday at 6 p.m.

All returning and new umpires must obtain registration with one of the following associations: NCHSAA, Babe Ruth, Dixie Youth or the ASA. For more information, contact Ronald Edwards, supervisor of officials, at (919) 575-4334, or Darnell Gladden, umpire in chief, at (252) 432-8122.

Tennis clinic to be held at the YMCA Northern Vance tennis coach Jeff Arthurs and Kerr-Vance tennis coach Dave Donaldson will be holding a tennis clinic at the Henderson YMCA on Saturday, Feb. 6 from 2 until 4 p.m.

The clinic is for ages 8-14, and the cost is $20.

YMCA members and non-members can participate.

Those interested should sign up at the YMCA by Friday.

Aycock Center to hold hoops camps A basketball camp for ages 5-7 will be held at the Aycock Recreation Center on Feb. 6, 13 and 27 from 2 until 4 p.m.

Campers will learn the basic basketball skills and receive a reward at the end of camp.

Registration is $10. Campers can sign up now, and money is not due until the first day of camp.

NBA Brown named coach of month CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte’s Larry Brown is the NBA’s Eastern Conference coach of the month after the Bobcats doubled their win total in January.

Entering 2010 at 12-18, the Bobcats went 12-4 to move into playoff contention. The month included a win at Cleveland, a franchise-tying six consecutive victories overall, and nine in a row at home.

Charlotte ended January with three straight road wins after beginning the month 1-14 away from home.

The 69-year-old Brown is in his second season in Charlotte after a two-year hiatus from coaching. The Hall of Famer is in his record ninth NBA head coaching job.

Denver’s George Karl was the Western Conference coach of the month.

Arenas writes op-ed piece for Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Gilbert Arenas insists he now understands that “guns and violence are serious problems, not joking matters.”

In an op-ed piece written for The Washington Post and put on the newspaper’s Web site Monday, the suspended Washington Wizards guard pledges to be a better role model and says a “message of nonviolence will be front and center as I try to rebuild my relationship with young people in the D.C. area.”

He continues: “I know that won’t happen overnight, and that it will happen only if I show through my actions that I am truly sorry and have learned from my mistakes. If I do that, then hopefully youngsters will learn from the serious mistakes I made with guns and not make any of their own.”

Wizards coach Flip Saunders supported Arenas’ decision to address the issue this way.

“If he wants to get active in his community and try to help out kids, then he probably needed to say something. ... He’s got to go with what he feels in his heart,” Saunders said before his team hosted the Boston Celtics on Monday night.

“In talking to him, I think he understands the seriousness of what he did,” Saunders said. “He’s trying to let people know — kids, especially — that he had done something wrong and try to take what was really a negative and try to somehow have a positive impact.”

Arenas pleaded guilty Jan. 15 to a felony charge of carrying a pistol without a license. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 26.

College Hoops Junior F DeMercy leaves Florida State TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Junior forward Jordan DeMercy has left the Florida State basketball team after a recent drop-off in playing time.

DeMercy said in a news release issued by the school that he plans to “seek opportunities at a different institution.”

Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton said in the release that DeMercy was leaving for personal reasons.

The 6-foot-6 native of Norcross, Ga., scored six points in 10 minutes during Florida State’s 61-57 victory at Boston College on Saturday. He was averaging 3.7 points per game this season.

DeMercy was averaging 14.2 minutes a game, but only 6 minutes over the last five games.

Sports on TV Tuesday, Feb. 2 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. n ESPN — Mississippi at Kentucky n ESPN2 — Miami at Wake Forest 9 p.m. n ESPN — Michigan St. at Wisconsin

NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. n VERSUS — Minnesota at Dallas PREP BASKETBALL 11 p.m. n ESPN2 — Jefferson (Ore.) vs.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Kobe Bryant scored 44 points, passing Jerry West as the Los Angeles Lakers’ career scorer, but it wasn’t enough as the Memphis Grizzlies got 22 points and 17 rebounds from Zach Randolph to defeat the Lakers 95-93 on Monday night.

Rudy Gay led Memphis with 25 points, and his 3-pointer with 29.5 seconds left helped Memphis end its two-game losing streak.

Ron Artest’s 3-point attempt from the right side bounced high off the rim as the horn sounded, snapping the Lakers’ four-game winning streak.

Bryant passed West’s mark on a breakaway dunk

Marc Gasol finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds for Memphis.

Memphis 95, L.A. Lakers 93

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Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant drives to the basket against Memphis’ Zach Randolph during the first half of Monday’s game in Memphis, Tenn. in the third quarter. Bryant made 16 of 28 shots, including 4 of 7 outside the arc. Artest added 18 points,

while Pau Gasol had 10 points.

Lester Hudson had 13 points for Memphis, and

L.A. Lakers: Artest 6-9 4-5 18, P.Gasol 4-7 2-5 10, Bynum 1-3 3-4 5, Fisher 1-6 0-0 2, Bryant 16-28 8-13 44, Odom 2-9 0-0 4, Farmar 2-7 0-0 5, Mbenga 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 1-3 0-0 3, Walton 1-1 0-0 2, Powell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-73 17-27 93.

Memphis: Gay 10-19 3-4 25, Randolph 9-18 4-5 22, M.Gasol 2-5 7-12 11, Conley 3-9 1-4 7, Mayo 3-11 2-2 9, Tinsley 1-4 0-0 2, Thabeet 1-1 0-0 2, Carroll 1-4 0-0 2, Hudson 4-10 3-3 13, Haddadi 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 34-82 22-32 95.

-----------------------------------L.A. Lakers 24 26 21 22 — 93 Memphis 24 28 18 25 — 95 -----------------------------------3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 8-20 (Bryant 4-7, Artest 2-3, Brown 1-1, Farmar 1-5, Odom 0-1, Fisher 0-3), Memphis 5-17 (Hudson 2-5, Gay 2-5, Mayo 1-4, Haddadi 0-1, Tinsley 0-1, Conley 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 52 (P.Gasol, Odom 9), Memphis 55 (Randolph 17). Assists—L.A. Lakers 17 (Farmar 5), Memphis 14 (Conley, Tinsley 4). Total Fouls— L.A. Lakers 24, Memphis 21. Technicals—Mayo, Randolph. Att.—18,119 (18,119).

Freshman Hamilton leads No. 9 Texas past OSU

By JEFF LATZKE AP Sports Writer

STILLWATER, Okla.

— Freshman swingman Jordan Hamilton scored a career-high 27 points and No. 9 Texas finally slowed down James Anderson in the second half

to beat Oklahoma State 72-60 on Monday night.

The Longhorns (19-3, 5-2 Big 12) had lost three of their previous four games after reaching No. 1 in the nation for the first time in school history.But they got back on track Monday, winning

in a building that’s been a house of horrors for Texas teams with top-10 rankings.

Texas had lost the last three times it brought a top-10 ranking into Gallagher-Iba Arena.

This time, the Longhorns fell behind by 11 in the

first half before Hamilton got going.

He scored all but two of his points in the final 22 minutes and put the game away with a 3-pointer from the right wing with 2:19 remaining that gave Texas a 13-point lead.

Caldwell making backup plans for Freeney

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The hope is that Dwight Freeney will play in Sunday’s Super Bowl for the Indianapolis Colts.

The plan is to play the game without him.

After Freeney missed all four practices last week, Coach Jim Caldwell said Monday the team was preparing to play without the injured All-Pro defensive end.

“He hasn’t been practicing, so if he’s not practicing, we are preparing to not have him,” Caldwell told reporters after arriving in South Florida. “If he can’t go, we’ll do some rotations, and Raheem (Brock) will be a big part of that.”

Freeney is listed as questionable on the team’s injury report with a sprained right ankle. Caldwell

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Indianapolis defensive end Dwight Freeney gestures during a Dec. 13, 2009 game between the Colts and Denver in Indianapolis. reiterated the team’s position, saying Freeney has a third-degree, low-ankle sprain and is improving.

A week after team president Bill Polian said Freeney would play, he now says the player’s chance of seeing action was 50-50.

One report indicated Freeney had torn a ligament and a person close to Freeney told The Associated Press on Sunday that the ankle was “really bad.”

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because his information differed from the team’s.

However, the Colts remain optimistic.

“I’m very hopeful he will play,” quarterback Peyton Manning said. “He has special characteristics about him and I’m counting on those this week.”

Freeney also has a penchant for disproving conventional wisdom. From the moment the Colts drafted him with the No. 11 pick in 2002, some criticized the team for reaching on a player that had been described as a situational pass rusher. Freeney came off the bench for the first eight games his rookie

season and finished with 13 sacks. He became the first Indy player to win the league sacks title in 2004, with 16, and has produced at least 10 sacks in six of eight NFL seasons.

Freeney has a rare combination of speed, leverage and uncanny spin moves, which makes life difficult for opponents.

That’s why the Saints would prefer seeing as little of the five-time Pro Bowler as possible.

“Obviously, Dwight Freeney is a great player.

Obviously, we would love for him not to play in the game,” New Orleans running back Reggie Bush said. “But we’re going to prepare like he’s playing in the game. We’re going to continue to chip block.

We’re going to continue to do whatever we can to keep the pressure off (Drew Brees).”

McCarron refuses to back down from ‘cheating’ comments

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

SAN DIEGO — Ping chairman John Solheim reminded the PGA Tour on Monday that it cannot make a separate rule to ban Ping Eye2 wedges, the 20-year-old clubs that led Scott McCarron to claim Phil Mickelson is “cheating” by using them.

Hours after McCarron said he would “not be silenced” over the grooves controversy, the PGA Tour’s situation became a little more muddled with Solheim’s gentle reminder.

Mickelson was among at least four players at Torrey Pines who used the Ping wedges, which have square grooves.

The USGA has a new regulation this year that shrinks the volume and softens the edges of the grooves. However, the Ping wedges made before April 1, 1990, are approved for competition because of a 1990 settlement from Ping’s lawsuit against the USGA. The PGA Tour said in a statement over the weekend that it would monitor the situation, noting it could adopt a “local rule” for tournaments that would ban the Ping wedges.

Solheim, however, said under the 1993 agreement with the PGA Tour, the tour could not adopt a separate rule if it differed from the USGA.

“The recent statement from the PGA Tour and several PGA Tour players that they could invoked a ’local rule’ required us to remind the PGA Tour of the terms of the agreement,” Solheim said in a statement.

Then, the chairman and CEO of Ping appeared to leave room for a compromise.

“While I fully expect the PGA Tour to honor this agreement, I’m willing to discuss a workable solution to this matter that would benefit the game and respect the role innovation has played over the long history of golf,” Solheim said.

Solheim is the son of Ping founder Karsten Solheim, one of golf’s foremost innovators who spent millions battling the USGA and PGA Tour over the square grooves in its popular Ping Eye2 model.

PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw declined comment, noting commissioner Tim Finchem would have a press conference Tuesday in Los Angeles after a players meeting.

McCarron and Mickelson, meanwhile, struck no conciliatory tones.

McCarron, who has won three times in his 16-year career, issued a statement Monday in which he wanted to clarify that while he believes “it’s cheating” for Mickelson or anyone else to use the Ping wedges, “I never called Phil Mickelson a cheater.”

“That being said, I want my fans, sponsors and most importantly, my fellow players, to know that I will not be silenced and I will continue my efforts to get the groove issue resolved,” McCarron said.

Mickelson, the world’s No. 2 player, had said over the weekend he felt “publicly slandered” and hinted at legal action if the PGA Tour does not discipline McCarron for his choice of words.

“Again, everybody has their opinions and so forth, and it’s healthy to talk about it,” Mickelson said Saturday.

“But when you cross that line and slander someone publicly, that’s when the tour needs to step in — or someone else.”

John Daly and Dean Wilson were the first players to use the Ping wedges this year, at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Others who have had the Ping wedge in play include Hunter Mahan,

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whose caddie found a copper wedge with square grooves.

An industry official said three-time major winner Padraig Harrington showed up at Riviera on Monday with two sets of Ping wedges, including one set that was made before 1990 and would be approved for play. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on Harrington’s behalf.

Mickelson did not say if he would continue to play the wedge, although he made it clear at Torrey Pines the decision would not be based on what other players think.

Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site Monday that Randy Peterson, Callaway Golf’s director of fitting and instruction, said Mickelson’s Ping wedge imparted as much as 25 percent more spin than any of the Callaway wedges with new grooves.

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Wall backs off Calipari comments LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky star John Wall insists he “loves” coach John Calipari and the freshman guard says his complaint following a win over Vanderbilt last weekend that he wasn’t having any fun was simply a sign of frustration.

Wall received pointed criticism from Calipari following a 68-62 loss at South Carolina last week, even though Wall said he didn’t think he played that badly.

His frustration spilled over after scoring 13 points to go with nine assists and seven turnovers against the Commodores.

“I just try not to listen to him and go out and play basketball and try

and help my team win,” Wall said Saturday.

Two days later Wall quickly backpedaled, saying he met with Calipari and “everything is OK.” “When you are frustrated you say things you don’t mean,” Wall said.

“We sat down and talked about it and I realized after I watched the film that I did play bad. I had a lot of turnovers and didn’t lead the team like I was supposed to.”

Calipari told Wall that every point guard — including former college stars Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans, both of whom played for Calipari at Memphis — struggled at some point during their careers.

“The main thing is to listen to Coach. He knows what he is doing,” Wall said. “Derrick and Tyreke are doing great in the NBA. He said for me to call those guys if I need some advice, since they have been through the same thing.”

Calipari called Wall’s small outburst “a teaching point” and said he’s not worried about their relationship becoming strained.

“A lot has been thrown at him, (the) league has gotten harder and there aren’t as many easy plays,” Calipari said.

“Now there is a frustration level of, ‘Now it’s time to step up, you’re the marked man, and

they’re coming at you.”’

Wall has tailed off a bit after a spectacular start. He leads the fourth-ranked Wildcats (20-1, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) in scoring and assists but is also averaging 4.1 turnovers per game.

Calipari isn’t worried about the turnovers as long as Wall continues to try and make the right plays while learning to relax and enjoy the ride.

“If we can teach him now how you have to respond in these kinds of situations, it’s going to be good for him,” Calipari said.

The Wildcats host No. 25 Mississippi (16-5, 4-3) on Tuesday.

Hatchell’s No. 9 Heels fall to No. 19 Seminoles

closer than six in the final seconds.

It was a memorable way to finish what had been a forgettable trip to the state of North Carolina for the Seminoles. On Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium they fell behind 20-2 to start the game, then 30-13 at halftime before losing 73-43 to the league-leading Blue Devils. The numbers were ugly all around for the Seminoles; they committed a season-high 27 turnovers, shot a seasonlow 30 percent and were

outrebounded 51-30.

But they got off to a good start against a Tar Heels team that looked a step slow early. The Seminoles frustrated North Carolina with zone defense and turned the game into a grind-it-out halfcourt pace, exactly the opposite of what North Carolina likes to play. And with the Tar Heels missing shot after shot, they couldn’t set up their full-court pressure defense, either.

Florida State led most of the first half, then ran off seven straight points to take a double-digit lead.

The Seminoles led 36-24 at the break, then scored on four straight possessions early in the second half to take their biggest lead when Monroe drove

by Chay Shegog to make it 47-28 with 17:09 left.

But that’s when the Tar Heels finally snapped out of their funk. They put together a 17-2 run behind Shegog, who scored 10 points in the 6 1/2-minute spurt before closing it with two free throws to cut the deficit to 56-54 with 8:41 left.

right now.

Everyone also agreed that the practices leading up to the Virginia game did not have the same intensity as the workouts before the N.C. State game, and that lack of focus translated onto the court.

And this isn’t the first time the Tar Heels have

talked about their lack of focus this season.

"I’m pretty sure Coach will be up all night trying to figure out what is next," Thompson said after the game. "I’ll be up all night trying to think what is next. I’ve got four more home games. … I really don’t know what is next."

ing stanza to “When the Saints Go Marching In.” “They loved us. You couldn’t go into any restaurant without someone buying you a meal. I remember walking down Bourbon Street and a man in a shoe store recognized me and came out and gave me a free pair of shoes.”

Gilliam said training camp that summer was nuts.

“It was like everyone wanted to be part of the Saints. I think there were 300 players there. I remember I was getting dressed next to a guy who said he was a bus driver.

He didn’t play football, he didn’t know how to put on the pads,” he said. “A coach came by and told him to start up his bus and take a bunch of guys with him.”

Among those early Saints was Jim Taylor. A punishing running back, he’d built a Hall of Fame career with the Green Bay Packers and had scored a touchdown a few months earlier in the first Super Bowl. A former star at LSU, his move to the Saints was so heralded that he signed his

contract in the governor’s office.

The Saints went 3-11 in that first year, and Taylor retired.

“It was a little bit difficult,” Taylor said. “We’d had such great teams under Vince Lombardi.

You just had to accept you were an expansion team.”

Danny Abramowicz was a New Orleans rookie in 1967 and quickly established himself as a sure-handed pass catcher.

He played several years with the Saints, coached for them and was on their broadcast team.

“It didn’t take much to excite those fans, even when we weren’t winning.

I think half of them were oiled up at the games, and they loved the Saints,” he said.

“I’ll tell you what I remember: the halftime shows. They were like Super Bowl spectaculars.

Bands and balloons and ostrich races, everything.

We hated to go to the locker room because we’d miss them,” he said. “I once came back onto the field to warm up and a Roman chariot almost ran me over. Those were wild days.”

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer

CHAPEL HILL — Jacinta Monroe scored 16 points and No. 15 Florida State held on to beat No. 9 North Carolina 83-73 on Monday night after nearly blowing a 19-point lead.

Courtney Ward added 13 points for the Seminoles (19-4, 5-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who had their big second-half lead whittled all the way down to a point three times in the final minutes. But Florida State put together an eight-point spurt in the final 3 minutes to finally pull away, sealing their first win in Chapel Hill since the 2000-01 season.

It was quite a way to bounce back from a humbling 30-point loss at Duke on Friday night, a game in which the Seminoles fell way behind in the opening minutes and never mounted a challenge.

Italee Lucas scored 20 points to lead the Tar Heels (16-4, 4-2), who dug a big hole for themselves early in the second half.

Monroe was huge for

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North Carolina's head coach Sylvia Hatchell talks to Cetera DeGraffenreid during the second half against Florida State in Chapel Hill Monday. the Seminoles all night, finishing with 17 rebounds and two blocked shots in 34 minutes. She hit a pair of free throws with Florida State clinging to a 66-65 lead with 3:04 left to start the decisive run. Ward followed by assisting on Cierra Bravard’s layup, then scoring her own driving basket on the next possession with about 2 minutes remaining.

Angel Gray followed with a long jumper to make it 74-65 with 1:28 left. North Carolina got no

HEELS, from page 1B Marcus Ginyard, who appeared just as despondent as their coach after the game, said they never have seen Williams like this before. Ginyard said Williams is equal parts angry, upset, disappointed and perplexed.

"He tries to put a lot on himself, but it’s not him at all," Thompson said.

"He wouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame and have such a record that he has if what he teaches wasn’t true. It’s us, and we have to make a change and buy into what he’s trying to teach us."

Thompson said the players need to care more, and Drew said the heart is missing from the team

SAINTS, from page 1B Saints go to their first Super Bowl and play the Indianapolis Colts.

The Colts are led by MVP Peyton Manning.

In a neat twist, it was his father, Archie, who for years was the very symbol of the Saints’ futility, the quarterback who was always on the run.

It took a while for the Saints to scramble this far. The NFL officially welcomed them to the league on All Saints Day in late 1966, with famed trumpeter Al Hirt as part owner. They went more than two decades before managing a winning season and waited another dozen-plus years for their first playoff victory.

New Orleans heads into Sunday’s Super Bowl with an all-time record of 275-378-5, not counting playoffs. Even if the Saints made the playoffs for the next 25 years in a row by going 10-6 each season, they’d still be a below-.500 franchise.

Things got so bad that in 1980 a popular local broadcaster urged people to show up at the Superdome with brown paper bags over their heads. As in, fans were embarrassed

to be seen at the stadium.

That day, the “Aints” took hold.

“That was tough — knowing you’re out there giving your all and coming up short,” Tony Galbreath, among the team’s top runners and receivers that year, said Monday. “You couldn’t go anywhere — McDonald’s, Walmart, anywhere — without hearing it.”

John Gilliam knows it all too well. He was there at the start, and scored on that 94-yard kickoff return in the Saints’ first game ever on Sept. 17, 1967, against the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium, their home before the dome.

“Flea Roberts and I were back there waiting, and here comes the kick,” Gilliam remembers. “Flea is the veteran and I’m the rookie, so I say, ’You take it.’ He goes, ’No, it’s yours.’ I say, ’Oh, Lord.”’

Gilliam then dashed into the end zone and threw the ball into the frenzied crowd.

“Al Hirt starts playing his trumpet over and over. It was wild,” he said this weekend, laughing while singing the open-

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Canes try to dig out road win Carolina’s Joni Pitkanen hits Edmonton’s Gilbert Brule into the boards during the first period in Edmonton Monday. At press time, the Oilers led 4-2 heading into the third period.

Martz hired as offensive coordinator in Chicago

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO — Mike Martz, the headstrong coach who orchestrated the “Greatest Show on Turf” while molding Kurt Warner into a Pro Bowl quarterback with the St. Louis Rams, is the Chicago Bears’ new offensive coordinator.

Martz’s hiring on Monday ended a nearly monthlong search to replace the fired Ron Turner. His job is to turn around a struggling offense and get the most out of Jay Cutler after the quarterback and team failed to meet high expectations this season.

Cutler threw a league-leading 26 interceptions after a blockbuster trade with Denver. The Bears went 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the third straight year since the 2006 team’s Super Bowl run, leading to a major coaching shake-up in which Turner and five other assistants were let go.

The Bears are still looking for a defensive coordinator, but they finally settled a big issue on the offensive side.

Martz seemed like a logical choice, considering he hired Smith as the Rams’ defensive coordinator in 2001 when he was the head coach and he was burnishing his reputation for developing quarterbacks. His history with Warner, who went from stocking grocery store shelves to thriving in one of the most prolific offenses in NFL history, is well-documented.

With Martz in his first year as offensive coordinator under

Dick Vermeil, the 1999 Rams won the Super Bowl and produced the first of a record three straight 500-point seasons. Warner, meanwhile, threw for 4,353 yards and 41 touchdowns while starring alongside Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt in “The Greatest Show on Turf.”

Martz replaced Vermeil as head coach in 2000 and went on to produce a 56-36 record in five and a half seasons, leading the 2001 team back to the Super Bowl. But while making a name for himself with the Rams, Martz became known for a confidence that bordered on arrogance. He allegedly clashed with the front office there, and while on leave for a heart ailment in 2005, he announced he would miss the rest of the season before getting fired that January.

He spent the next two years as the Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator, coaxing the first 4,000-yard season out of Jon Kitna, and held the same job with the San Francisco 49ers in 2008. In both cases, he got sent packing for his pass-happy ways.

Now, after spending last season as an NFL Network analyst, Martz is reuniting with Smith, who has often said he likes “to get off the bus running.”

He’ll also be on the same staff as former Lions coach Rod Marinelli, who’s now working with the Bears’ defensive line. And he’ll be working with a quarterback in Cutler whose demeanor he criticized this season.

FEDERER, from page 1B energetic about tennis.

He said he's not tempted at this point to take an extended break and then comeback, as did Belgian women Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin — runnerup this year.

"I don't think that's realistic or feasible for me. I think I'd just say maybe take a few months off but that doesn't mean take a half a season off.

I just think it's too tough to come back after that.

I don't know, the men's game is different I think.

It's brutal. The margins are so small."

From the start, Federer says he has been mindful about keeping a good balance between life and work.

"I feel like I've always had a good distance from the game," he said. "You don't want to feel like you have to play tennis, because it's something that was an opportunity, and now that I have it I

want to savor it as long as I can."

So far, juggling tennis and family has been easy. His wife, Mirka, and the twins, Myla and Charlene, travel with him and Federer says he hasn't spent a night apart from the babies since they were born July 29.

Reflecting back to his first Australian Open win in 2004, Federer says he feels fitter now and despite aging feels free of the post-Grand Slam aches and pains he got as a younger player.

"As time goes by and I get a bit older, I start to understand my body a bit more," he said. "I remember in the beginning here in 2004 when I won the first time I couldn't move the next day. I was so tired."

"It's very different now," Federer said. "I'm like wow, it's over. Perfect. What's next?"

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