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A quiet New Year’s Eve Law enforcement officials report few holiday issues

BY MELANIE YINGST intoxicated (OVI) arrest was made by county Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com deputies during the early morning hours of New It seemed like more peo- Year’s Day. “It was pretty quiet,” ple were resolving to spend the New Year’s holiday McCartney said of the holiwith a designated driver, day blitz.

The lone OVI arrest by according to law enforcecounty sheriff officials was ment officials.

According to Miami made in Troy at Main and County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Count Streets at 2:30 a.m. cited Ryan Lee McCartney, only one Officials operating a vehicle while Goodin, 32, of Troy, for OVI.

Do gays need own church?

On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister’s robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.

Perry’s Metropolitan Community Churches was then a lone spiritual refuge for openly gay Christians, an idea so far from the mainstream that the founders were often chased from places where they tried to worship. Four decades later, some of the most historically important American denominations, which had routinely expelled gays and lesbians, are welcoming them instead. See

MIAMI COUNTY No other details were available as of press time.

The Piqua post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported no OVI arrests and two minor crashes in the area.

“We even had overtime posted, but no OVIs is good,” said Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Sgt. Brian Aller. “We made a lot of stops, but most were designated drivers, so the word is getting out.”

A single vehicle accident

occurred on Interstate 75 at State Route 55 at mile post 6, with minor — yet unknown — injuries in the early morning hours on Tuesday, Aller said.

McCartney also said accidents around the county were minimal, with a car and deer strike on State Route 66 and a minor traffic incident due to road conditions at the intersection of Washington and Farrington roads. In both cases, no injuries were reported.

McCartney said he believes many people are

choosing to celebrate the holidays by designating a driver or simply staying home.

“In my opinion, especially around the holidays, it appears that OVIs are going down,” McCartney said. McCartney said incidences of OVIs appear to be on the rise more often during the work week, especially Thursdays, but people are becoming more vigilant during the holidays.

“We had zero OVIs during New Year’s — that’s good,” Aller said.

Conover man killed in accident Staff Reports The Springfield post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Clark County and resulted in the death of Conover area man.

On Sunday at approximately 10:50 a.m., troopers from the Springfield Post

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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., following a closed-door GOP meeting as the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Senate Monday night waits for a vote in the Republican-controlled House.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Connor Shaw led No. 11 South Carolina to the brink of victory and Dylan Thompson carried the Gamecocks over the hump in the Outback Bowl.

Thompson came off the bench to throw a 32-yard touchdown pass with 11 seconds remaining Tuesday, enabling South Carolina to match a school record for victories in a season with a 33-28 win over No. 19 Michigan. See Page 14.

Not solved yet GOP wants more cliff spending cuts

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency legislation to avoid the economy-threatening fiscal cliff ran into vehement New Year’s Day opposition from House Republicans, casting doubt on the divided government’s ability to prevent widespread tax increases and painful, across-theboard federal spending cuts.

“I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the best path forward,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declared after a closed-door meeting of his party’s rank and file.

As the extraordinary New Year’s session wore on into the evening, the clamor to add spending cuts to the measure became tempered by concerns that the Senate would refuse to consider any changes, sending the bill into limbo and saddling Republicans with the blame for a whopping middle class tax increase.

One Senate Democratic leadership aide said Majority Leader Harry Reid “will absolutely not take up the bill” if the House changes it. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity, citing a requirement to keep internal deliberations private.

The legislation cleared the Senate hours earlier on a pre-dawn vote of 89-8. White House aides met at the White House to review its progress.

Despite Cantor’s remarks, Speaker John Boehner took no public position on the bill as he sought to

negotiate a conclusion to the final crisis of a two-year term full of them.

It wasn’t the first time that the tea party-infused House Republican majority has rebelled against the party establishment since the GOP took control of the chamber 24 months ago. But with the two-year term set to end Thursday at noon, it was likely the last. And as was true in earlier cases of a threatened default and government shutdown, the brinkmanship came on a matter of economic urgency, leaving the party open to a public backlash if tax increases do take effect on tens of millions.

Economists have warned that without action by Congress, the tax increases and spending cuts that technically took effect with the turn of the new year at midnight could send the economy into recession.

Even with enactment of the legislation, taxes are on the rise for millions.

A 2 percentage point temporary cut in the payroll tax, originally enacted two years ago to stimulate the economy, expired with the end of 2012.

Neither Obama nor Republicans have made a significant effort to extend it.

The Senate-passed bill was designed to prevent that while providing for tax increases at upper incomes, as Obama campaigned for in his successful bid for a second term.

It would also prevent an expiration of extended unemployment benefits for an estimated two million jobless, block a 27 percent cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients, stop a $900 pay increase for lawmak-

ers from taking effect in March and head off a threatened spike in milk prices.

At the same time, it would stop $24 billion in spending cuts set to take effect over the next two months, although only about half of that total would be offset with spending reductions elsewhere in the budget.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would add nearly $4 trillion over a decade to federal deficits, a calculation that assumed taxes would otherwise have risen on taxpayers at all income levels. There was little or no evident concern among Republicans on that point, presumably because of their belief that tax cuts pay for themselves by expanding economic growth and do not cause deficits to rise.

The relative paucity of spending cuts was a sticking point with many House Republicans. Among other items, the extension of unemployment benefits costs $30 billion, and is not offset by savings elsewhere.

“I personally hate it,” said Rep. John Campbell of California. “The speaker the day after the election said we would give on taxes and we have. But we wanted spending cuts.

This bill has spending increases. Are you kidding me? So we get tax increases and spending increases?

Come on.”

Others said unhappiness over spending outweighed fears that the financial markets will plunge on Wednesday if the fiscal cliff hasn’t been averted.

“There’s a concern about the markets, but there’s a bigger concern,

responded to a f a t a l c r a s h t h a t occurred on North Hampton R o a d north of Jo h n s o n PRINCE Road. A 2005 Chevy Silverado driven by Brian Michael Blanton, 19, of Springfield, was northbound on North Hampton Road and struck Richard Prince, 78, of Conover, who was standing in the roadway unloading a piece of machinery from a tractor-trailer parked along North Hampton Road.

Prince was pronounced dead at the scene by the Clark County coroner.

Blanton was not injured in the crash.

The Clark County Sheriff ’s Office and the Pike Township Fire and Rescue assisted at the scene. The crash remains under investigation.

Fructose may spur overeating By the Associated Press

This is your brain on sugar for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.

After drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn’t register the feeling of being full as it does when simple glucose is consumed, researchers found.

It’s a small study and does not prove that fructose or its relative, highfructose corn syrup, can cause obesity, but experts say it adds evidence they may play a role. These sugars often are added to • See CLIFF on Page 2 processed foods and bever• See EATING on Page 2

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Cliff • CONTINUED FROM A1 which is getting this right, which is something we haven’t been very good at over the past two years,” said Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio.

House Democrats met privately with Biden for their review of the measure, and the party’s leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, said afterward that Boehner should per-

mit a vote.

“That is what we expect. That is what the American people deserve,” she said.

For all the struggle involved in the legislation, even its passage would merely clear the way for another round of controversy almost as soon as the new Congress convenes.

With the Treasury expected to need an expan-

sion in borrowing authority by early spring, and funding authority for most government programs set to expire in late March, Republicans have made it clear they intend to use those events as leverage with the administration to win savings from Medicare and other government benefit programs.

McConnell said as much moments before the 2 a.m. Tuesday vote in the

Senate two hours after the advertised “cliff” deadline.

“We’ve taken care of the revenue side of this debate. Now it’s time to get serious about reducing Washington’s out-ofcontrol spending,” he said.

“That’s a debate the American people want. It’s the debate we’ll have next.

And it’s a debate Republicans are ready for.”

The 89-8 vote in the

Senate was unexpectedly lopsided.

Despite grumbling from liberals that Obama had given way too much in the bargaining, only two Democrats opposed the measure.

Among the Republican supporters were Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, an ardent opponent of tax increases, as well as Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, elected to his seat two

years ago with tea party support.

It marked the first time in two decades that Republicans willingly supported higher taxes, in this case on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.

Taxes also would rise on estates greater than $5 million in size, and on capital gains and dividend income made by the wealthy.

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In this Sept. 15, 2011, file photo, high fructose corn syrup is listed as an ingredient on a can of soda in Philadelphia. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.

Eating • CONTINUED FROM A1 ages, and consumption has risen dramatically since the 1970s along with obesity. A third of U.S. children and teens and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight.

All sugars are not equal even though they contain the same amount of calories because they are metabolized differently in the body. Table sugar is sucrose, which is half fructose, half glucose. Highfructose corn syrup is 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose.

Some nutrition experts say this sweetener may pose special risks, but others and the industry reject that claim. And doctors say we eat too much sugar in all forms.

For the study, scientists used magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans to track blood flow in the brain in 20 young, normalweight people before and after they had drinks containing glucose or fructose in two sessions several weeks apart.

Scans showed that drinking glucose “turns off or suppresses the activity of areas of the brain that are critical for reward and desire for food,” said one study leader, Yale University endocrinologist Dr. Robert Sherwin. With fructose, “we don’t see those changes,” he said. “As a result, the desire to eat continues it isn’t turned off.”

What’s convincing, said

Dr. Jonathan Purnell, an endocrinologist at Oregon & Science Health University, is that the imaging results mirrored how hungry the people said they felt, as well as what earlier studies found in animals.

“It implies that fructose, at least with regards to promoting food intake and weight gain, is a bad actor compared to glucose,” said Purnell. He wrote a commentary that appears with the federally funded study in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

Researchers now are testing obese people to see if they react the same way to fructose and glucose as the normal-weight people in this study did.

What to do? Cook more at home and limit processed foods containing fructose and high-fructose corn syrup, Purnell suggested. “Try to avoid the sugar-sweetened beverages. It doesn’t mean you can’t ever have them,” but control their size and how often they are consumed, he said.

A second study in the journal suggests that only severe obesity carries a high death risk and that a few extra pounds might even provide a survival advantage. However, independent experts say the methods are too flawed to make those claims.

The study comes from a federal researcher who drew controversy in 2005 with a report that found

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The problems created by the study’s inclusion of smokers and people with pre-existing illness “cannot be ignored,” said Susan Gapstur, vice president of epidemiology for the American Cancer Society.

A third critic, Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, was blunter: “This is an even greater pile of rubbish” than the 2005 study, he said. Willett and others have done research since the 2005 study that found higher death risks from being overweight or obese.

Flegal defended her work. She noted that she used standard categories for weight classes. She said statistical adjustments were made for smokers, who were included to give a more real-world sample.

She also said study participants were not in hospitals or hospices, making it unlikely that large numbers of sick people skewed the results.

“We still have to learn about obesity, including how best to measure it,” Flegal’s boss, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, said in a written statement.

“However, it’s clear that being obese is not healthy it increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and many other health problems. Small, sustainable increases in physical activity and improvements in nutrition can lead to significant health improvements.”

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Many experts criticized that work, saying the researcher Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention painted a misleading picture by including smokers and people with health problems ranging from cancer to heart disease.

Those people tend to weigh less and therefore make pudgy people look healthy by comparison.

Flegal’s new analysis bolsters her original one, by assessing nearly 100 other studies covering almost 2.9 million people around the world. She again concludes that very obese people had the highest risk of death but that overweight people had a 6 percent lower mortality rate than thinner people.

She also concludes that mildly obese people had a death risk similar to that of normal-weight people.

Critics again have focused on her methods.

This time, she included people too thin to fit what some consider to be normal weight, which could have taken in people emaciated by cancer or other diseases, as well as smokers with elevated risks of heart disease and cancer.

“Some portion of those thin people are actually sick, and sick people tend to die sooner,” said Donald Berry, a biostatistician at the University of Texas MD

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“I have just seen all the bodies, but I cannot find my son,” said a tearful Sanogo.

“I don’t know what to do.”

State TV showed a woman sobbing in the back of an ambulance; another was bent over on the side of the street, apparently in pain; and another, barely conscious and wearing only a bra on her upper body, was hoisted by rescuers. There were also scenes of small children being treated in a hospital. One boy grimaced in pain and a girl with colored braids in her hair lay under a blanket with one hand bandaged. The death toll could rise, officials said.

After the sun came up, soldiers were patrolling the site that was littered with victims’ clothes, shoes, torn sandals and other belongings. President Alassane Ouattara and his wife Dominique visited some of the injured in the hospital.

Mrs. Ouattara leaned over one child who was on a bed in a crowded hospital ward and tried to console the youngster. The president pledged that the government would pay for their treatment, his office said.

The government organized the fireworks to celebrate Ivory Coast’s peace, after several months of political violence in early 2011 following disputed elections.

This is not Ivory Coast’s first stadium tragedy. In 2009, 22 people died and over 130 were injured in a stampede at a World Cup qualifying match at the Houphouet Boigny Stadium, prompting FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, to impose a fine of tens of thousands of dollars on Ivory Coast’s soccer federation.

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Thousands had gathered at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan’s Plateau district to see the fireworks. It was only the second New Year’s Eve fireworks display since peace returned to this West African nation after a bloody upheaval over presidential elections put the nation on the brink of civil war and turned this city into a battle zone.

With 2013 showing greater promise, people were in the mood to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. Families brought children and they watched the rockets burst in the nighttime sky. But only an hour into the new year, as the crowds poured onto the Boulevard de la Republic after the show, something caused a stampede, said Col. Issa Sako of the fire department rescue team. How so many deaths occurred on the broad boulevard and how the tragedy started is likely to be the subject of an investigation.

Many of the younger ones in the crowd went down, trampled underfoot. Most of those killed were between 8 and 15 years old “The flood of people leaving the stadium became a stampede which led to the deaths of more than 60 and injured more than 200,” Sako told Ivory Coast state TV. Desperate parents went to the city morgue, the hospital and to the stadium to try to find missing children.

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• MOM AND BABY: A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for breastfeeding mothers is offered weekly on Thursdays at Upper Valley Medical Center. The meetings are 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Farmhouse located northwest of the main hospital entrance. The meetings are facilitated by the lactation department.

Participants can meet other moms, share about being a new mother and learn more about breastfeeding and their babies. For more information, call (937) 4404906.

• QUARTER AUCTION: The Piqua Optimist Club’s annual quarter auction fundraiser will be at 7 p.m. at Z’s Second Floor Lounge. Doors open at 6 p.m. A limited supply of tickets are available for $3 each, and must be purchased in advance to enter the quarter auction. They are available from any Piqua Optimist member, or at John Bertke State Farm Insurance, 520 N. Main St., Piqua.

• TACO SALAD: The American Legion Auxiliary, Tipp City, will offer taco salad for $4 from 6-7:30 p.m. Euchre will start at 7 p.m.

• BAKED STEAK: American Legion Post No. 43, 622 S. Market St., will offer dinner from 5-7:30 p.m.

The meal will include baked steak, mashed potatoes and green beans or corn, for $8.

• DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

FRIDAY • RESERVATION DEADLINE: Today is the last day for those 60 and older and living in the Miami East School District to register for the school’s annual senior citizens’ Christmas dinner.

The meal will be at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in the high school’s cafeteria. Parking will be in the back of the building and enter through the back door. For reservation, call 335-7070, Ext. 3001.

• FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108.

• SEAFOOD DINNER: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, a threepiece fried fish dinner, 21piece fried shrimp, or a fish/shrimp combo with french fries and coleslaw for $6 from 6-7:30 p.m. Frog legs, when available, are $10.

• HOLIDAY CONCERT: The Tippecanoe Community Band, directed by Gail Ahmed, will present its first free concert of the Christmas season at 7:30 p.m. at Tipp City’s Zion Lutheran Church, corner of Main Street and 11 N. Third Street. Enter at the north doors to the fellowship hall.

Santa arrives in a real velvet suit. Light refreshments will be offered. For more information, call 335-1178.

• INFORMATION FAIR: An Edison Community College Nursing Program and Upper Valley Medical Center RN to BSN information fair will be offered from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Emerson Center of the Piqua campus.

• BAKED TENDERLOIN: The American Legion Auxiliary, Tipp City, will present a baked tenderloin dinner with au gratin potatoes, whole kernel corn, salad, rolls, butter and dessert for $7 from 6-7:30 p.m.

• BAKED STEAK: The Sons of AMVETS will offer a baked steak and shredded chicken meal with french fries for $6 from 5:30-8 p.m. at 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy.

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SATURDAYSUNDAY • OPEN HOUSE: The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., will present its 36th annual Holiday Open House from 1-5 p.m.

All activities are free and open to the public. The TroyHayner Cultural Center Holiday Open House will present nine designer holiday showrooms, music in the house, refreshments and a full day of children’s programming. Visit www.TroyHayner.org for complete details.

SATURDAY • ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW: Brukner Nature Center’s annual Winter Arts & Crafts Show will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Brukner. Admission is free. The event will include juried artisan projects from jewelry to soy candles and everything in between, including a Pies for Possums booth. All proceeds will benefit the wildlife ambassador and rehabilitation programs.

• PRAYER BREAKFAST: The Troy Men’s Community Prayer Breakfast will be offered at 7:30 a.m. at First United Church of Christ, Canal and Market streets, Troy.

• SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post No. 43 baseball will offer an all-you-caneat spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or coffee. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

• PORK CHOPS: The VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a stuffed pork chop dinner and mashed potatoes and gravy and a side for $9 from 5-7 p.m.

• TENDERLOIN OR WINGS: The Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St., will offer a Texas Tenderloin or wings dinner with fries and coleslaw for $8 from 5:30 -7 p.m.

• PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ will hold its final monthly pancake and sausage breakfast from 8-11 a.m. At the church, one block west of the intersection of State Route 48 and State Route 718. The meal will be complementary, but donations will be accepted for Sierra Flanary. The menu will include pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, toast, juice, and coffee, tea and milk. The meal will be allyou-can-eat pancakes with live music. Contact the church office at (937) 6763193 for more information.

• KARAOKE: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will present Papa D’s Pony Express karaoke for free from 7 p.m. to close.

• COOKIEWALK: A Cookiewalk will be offered beginning at 9 a.m. at the Tipp City United Methodist Church, 9 W. Main St., Tipp City. Homemade cookies and candy will be sold by the pound. All profits go to local charities.

• MEMBERSHIP SALE: Memberships to the Miami County Agricultural Society, at $25 each, go on sale

today at the Miami County Fairgrounds. Through May, office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

Membership sales end Aug. 8.

• LOLLIPOP PROJECT: School-age children and their families are invited to come by the Troy-Miami County Public Library anytime between 1-3 p.m. to make cute snowmen using a plastic spoon, a lollipop and some craft supplies.

Each person will make one to keep and three or four to be distributed at the UVMC Emergency Room during the holidays. No registration is necessary.

• EMPTY BOWLS: Artists Against Hunger will offer a free Empty Bowls event, where participants, for a suggested donation of $10, can purchase a ceramic bowl, made by local students and artists, and fill it with donated soup and also enjoy pizza, breads, sandwiches, cheese, desserts and beverages at no additional cost. The events will be from 5-8 p.m. at Troy Christian High School and there is no obligation to buy a bowl. The meals are free.

One hundred percent of the proceeds will stay in Miami County to support programs that help fight childhood hunger. Interested parties may go online at http://artistsagainsthunger.w eebly.com or may contact Steven Kiefer at (937) 2166759 for more information.

• TIME OUT: A Parents Time Out, which includes free babysitting, will be offered from 1-4 p.m. by the Troy View Church of God Sunday school at the church, 1770 N. County Road 25-A Troy. There will be games, crafts and snacks for the children while parents get shopping done or just take a break.

Ohio traffic deaths rise in 2012 after record low COLUMBUS (AP) — The number of people killed on Ohio roads increased in 2012 compared with the previous year’s record low, even as troopers from the State Highway Patrol made thousands more stops for drug violations, impaired driving and other problems.

The patrol reported at least 1,056 deaths in 962 fatal crashes during the past year, up from 1,015 deaths in 2011, which was the lowest total since record-keeping began in 1936. Hamilton, Mercer, Trumbull and Warren counties each had at least 10 more traffic fatalities in 2012 than in the previous year, according to preliminary data.

Patrol spokeswoman Lt. Anne Ralston said it’s too soon to understand the reasons for the increase in deaths, though she noted that an increase during the first half of the year reflected a similar trend at the national level.

Ohio also has at least 45 unconfirmed crash fatalities, which include those that remain under investigation and may not ultimately be ruled traffic

COLUMBUS (AP) — There were at least 1,056 traffic deaths in Ohio in 2012, according to preliminary figures. The number over the previous decade: 2011: 1,015 2010: 1,080 2009: 1,022 2008: 1,191 2007: 1,257 2006: 1,239 2005: 1,328 2004: 1,285 2003: 1,278 2002: 1,417 — Source: State Highway Patrol

deaths. That makes the potential total about 1,100 fatalities for the year. The final number, to be released later after ongoing investigations wrap up, is likely to fall somewhere between the number of confirmed deaths and the possible total.

“If one person is dying on our roadways, we still have work to do,” Ralston said.

Compared with 2011, troopers made about 1,500

all-you-can eat breakfast from 8-11 a.m. for $6. Items available will be eggs, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, pancakes, waffles, french toast, toast, biscuits, hash browns, fruit, cinnamon rolls and juices.

• BREAKFAST OFFERED: An all-you-caneat breakfast will be offered from 8:30-11 a.m. for $6 at 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy.

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investigating the death of a man found shot in a home, with his friends WHIO-TV in telling Dayton that he had been seen celebrating New Year’s as late as 2 a.m.

Columbus police were investigating two separate shootings early Tuesday in the city that wounded three, while Toledo police were investigating the death of a 23-year-old woman stabbed in the neck during a large fight at a bar shortly before 2 a.m.

shooting death occurred about an hour later after someone apparently opened fire at a crowded gas station in Lorain.

WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported that four people were struck in the Lorain shooting.

Cuyahoga County Coroner spokesman Powell Caesar said one of them, a 33year-old man, was pronounced dead after being taken to a Cleveland hospital.

In Dayton, police were

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more arrests for drug violations and over 800 more arrests for impaired driving in 2012, according to preliminary data.

They also issued about 7,500 more citations for seat belt use and used three regional squads to specifically target crashcausing violations.

Col. John Born, the patrol’s superintendent, said the agency was “seeing positive results” from troopers’ work to get dangerous drivers off the roads.

Hoping to lower the number of traffic fatalities below 1,000, the patrol this year plans to continue its focus on impaired driving and high-visibility enforcement efforts, such as checkpoints targeting impaired drivers and “All-Out” days that send all its officers on patrol for a day.

Ohio also plans to steps up its investigations into the source of drugs or alcohol suspected of causing serious wrecks. Troopers will aim to identify impaired drivers, and state investigative agents will be looking for possible criminal violations stemming from the source of the drugs or alcohol involved.

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Contact us David Fong is the executive editor of the Troy Daily News. You can reach him at 440-5228 or send him e-mail at fong@tdn publishing.com.

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PERSPECTIVE

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

EDITORIAL Tampa (Fla.) Tribune on the Mortgage Debt Relief Act: As Washington and the nation focus on the “fiscal cliff,” a critical protection for underwater homeowners also is about to go over the edge.

The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.

The legislation allows borrowers to avoid paying income taxes on the amount of principal that is being forgiven as part of a loan modification or a short sale.

If the law expires, homeowners will have to pay taxes on the debt reduction. This is ridiculous.

Consider: an individual buys a home for $150,000. The economy tanks, he loses his job and faces foreclosure. He manages a short sale of the home for $80,000. Unless the law is extended, he would be taxed on the $70,000 debt that is being forgiven, as if the value that doesn’t exist were personal income.

The tax also would be imposed if the bank modified the loan, reducing the principal so that the homeowner could better manage payments.

This would be devastating to struggling homeowners…

As I Slapping a tax on borrowers trying to get back on See It sound financial ground is no way to revive the econ■ The Troy omy or the housing market. When the law was writDaily News ten, it was widely expected that housing, and the welcomes broader economy, would be back to normal by now. columns from Today, the reasons for passing the act in 2007 our readers. To remain painfully evident in many communities. submit an “As I Measures in Congress would extend the tax See It” send break and spare Americans paying taxes on “assets” your type-writthat don’t exist. ten column to: The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, on GOP ■ “As I See It” attacks on Secretary of Defense candidate: c/o Troy Daily It’s a depressing reminder of just how messed up News, 224 S. Washington is when Republicans get angry at a Market St., Troy, OH 45373 Democratic president who might hire a Republican to head the Pentagon.

■ You can also e-mail us at But the Obama administration, facing a fiscal crieditorial@tdnpu sis fomented by unyielding Republicans, had to blishing.com. waste valuable time to defend retired Nebraska Sen. ■ Please Chuck Hagel, a Republican. include your full Hagel is among candidates President Barack name and teleObama is considering to replace the retiring Leon phone number.

Panetta as Secretary of Defense. Twice wounded in Vietnam, Hagel served two terms in the Senate before retiring a decade ago.

A rarity in his pragmatism and political moderation, Hagel endorsed Obama’s candidacy in 2008 and now serves on the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

His views and credentials make him a good fit for the task ahead, which is to persuade Congress to slash a staggering Pentagon budget bloated by billions of dollars of projects, personnel and equipment congressmen want for their districts but the Pentagon doesn’t want or need.

What has certain Republicans in a tizzy are Hagel’s foreign policy positions. As a senator, he referred to “the Jewish lobby” and its power to dictate U.S. Middle East policy in Israel’s favor, be it at the expense of the Palestinians’ legitimate claims or U.S. security. …

As confirmation of his observation that pro-Israel lobby groups dictate U.S. policy, the Emergency Committee for Israel says it’s planning to air attack ads in the U.S. denouncing Hagel’s possible nomination.

Republicans used the same smear tactics to derail U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s elevation to Secretary of State even before Obama nominated her.

There is a difference between being anti-Israel and being Israel’s pawn.

Chuck Hagel apparently thinks that’s the way it should be. And most Americans, weary of Middle Eastern countries’ blood-drenched squabbles, agree.

LETTERS

Please respect the dead To the Editor: Do people respect the dead anymore?

The reason I am asking is because my aunt’s funeral was 12-22-12. We left Baird Funeral Home to go to Covington. We got an escort to Washington Road, that was it.

Some people did not stop or pull over for us on 41.

When we got to Covington, we did not get an escort. When we got to 36 and 48, the cars on 36 did not stop, even though Baird Funeral Home had their lights on. We had to wait till the light turned green before we could go on.

I was always taught that when you see a funeral, you stop and pull over until it passes. I respect the dead, why can’t other people.

I would like to say thank

you to Baird Funeral Home and the Troy Police Department for the escort. And to Pastor Lauren Allen for her services. And, thank you to the cars who stopped and pulled over.

To the ones who did not stop and pull over, maybe you need a refresher course in respecting the dead.

— Jennifer James, Troy, and Linda Payne, Piqua

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Taxes turn heroic actor into the enemy Troy Troy Daily News French actor Gerard Depardieu has learned how to go from a beloved symbol of a nation to enemy of the state in one easy step. All it takes is wanting to keep some meaningful portion of his income.

Depardieu is a quintessentially French figure. Appearing in more than 150 films, he has played Cyrano and Obelix. He is a Chevalier du Legion d'honneur. He eats and drinks — a lot. He rides a scooter. It would take a diagram to follow his romantic entanglements with models and actresses.

It's all very French, except for the fact that he has earned too much money.

At least he has according to the accounting of the Gradgrind socialists who govern France. Elected earlier this year, President Francois Hollande has imposed a 75 percent marginal income tax on top earners.

To this prospect, Depardieu said, "Non, merci." He announced his intention to move to a little village over the border in Belgium where the government imposes plenty of taxes but doesn't aim to impose a punishing tax rate on the wealthy as a matter of justice.

For his offense, Depardieu has been denounced from the com-

Jay Lowry Guest Columnist manding heights of the French state. The prime minister called him "pathetic." The budget minister sniffed that his move would be a boom to Belgian cinema.

Hollande urged "ethical behavior" on the part of French taxpayers.

They all agree that it's wrong of Depardieu not to stand still so that the government can drastically lighten his wallet.

The "temporary supertax" applies to incomes of more than 1 million euros (roughly $1.3 million). It is said to be no big deal since it hits only about 1,500 people and is set to last for only two years. But it comes on top of an already- onerous tax burden and is shocking in its own right.

American actor Will Smith had a common-sensical reaction when

he was in France to promote a movie and asked by an interviewer if he would be willing to pay higher taxes. Of course, he said.

Then he was told of the top French rate. "Seventy-five?" he gulped.

"Yeah, that's different, that's different. Yeah, 75. Well, you know, God bless America."

The tax is less fiscal policy than confiscatory policy motivated by unabashed disdain for the wealthy.

Hollande is on the record saying, "I don't like the rich."

One wonders what they have ever done to him. Hollande believes that the wealthy owe the state. He is like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on steroids, in a political culture with a much higher tolerance for leftist class politics. For a perpetual creature of the state like the career-politician Hollande, the natural order of things is that he gets to live off the government and Depardieu gets to fund it. That's the definition of "fairness."

Depardieu's critics bash his patriotism. But why is it patriotic to accept financial chastisement by a government headed by someone who is avowedly driven by animus toward you as a member of a targeted class?

It's not as though Depardieu is a scofflaw. He claims that he has paid 145 million euros in taxes during the course of his career and paid an 85 percent rate in 2012.

Maybe Hollande should go all the way in the tradition of his hero President Francois Mitterrand — the old school socialist who brought the French economy to its knees in the 1980s — and nationalize Gerard Depardieu.

The French constitutional court ruled against the supertax the other day on technical grounds.

The government promises to make adjustments and forge ahead. It can shame Depardieu all it likes, but that won't stop the flow of other, less-famous tax exiles.

Hollande doesn't like rich people, and he will duly rule a country with fewer of them. Gerard Depardieu wrote the prime minister to say he's leaving "because you believe that success, creation, talent -- difference, in fact -- must be punished."

He's right. May he — dare we say it? — prosper in his new home.

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Catherine M. “Kay” Hynes-Egger

Labrador cuts down victims’ court anxiety IONIA, Mich. (AP) — When Jeannie Wernet interviewed last year for her job as crime victims services coordinator in Ionia County, she asked her boss, the county’s prosecuting attorney, Ron Schafer, what he thought about bringing a dog to work.

Wernet had heard about a program in which highly trained canines are used to help child victims make it through the often overwhelming experience of court proceedings. Thirty such programs exist in the country, but the first of its kind in Michigan is the Canine Advocacy Program (CAP), a non-profit organization launched in 2010 by Dan Cojanu, the supervisor of Victim Services in the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office for 10 years and before that with the Oakland County Juvenile Court for 20 years. “(Schafer) was open to it,” she recalled. “Then we ran into Dan at a crime victims’ vigil at the state capitol, and the rest is history.”

The program intrigued Schafer because its focus is on assisting victims, particularly children.

“Anything we can do that would help a victim through what is usually a new, confusing, traumatic experience is something we should endeavor to undertake,” he said. “Having looked at the program and how it was working, it was an easy decision. It works.”

Cojanu’s first canine advocate was a brown Labrador retriever named Amos, who works in Oakland County and in surrounding counties when requested. Besides his courtroom work, Amos also works in a survivor group at the Oakland County Children’s Village.

Some of the dogs provide services both in the court and in residential placement settings. Eros, a Leonberger, makes weekly visits to the Children’s Village Shelter Care unit called “Mandys Place.”

After Amos came Dodger, a yellow lab and the first advocate dog sponsored by a prosecuting attorney in Michigan. Dodger works and lives in Bay County.

Canine advocates are hand-selected by Leader Dogs for the Blind in Rochester Hills, Mich.

“They know the program and what temperament we need,” said Cojanu, who is partial to labs because they have “a wonderful disposition and are cuddly for kids.

“If Leader Dogs has six dogs to look at, they look at each one individually and then pick out the right dog for our program,” he added.

“They have been spot on.

They are a wonderful partner.”

Patty, a black lab who turned 5 in September, belonged to an older woman who, due to health issues, could not afford to care for her any longer. Leader Dogs matched her with Ionia County’s new program. In August, Patty started a new career as the state’s third canine advocate, working with Schafer and Wernet in the prosecutor’s office. Patty is owned and handled by

In a photo from Novmber 2012, Patty, Ionia County’s first canine advocate is seen in Ionia, Mich.

Wernet.

“The woman was very happy to hear that Patty is working and still being useful,” Wernet said.

The job of the canine advocate is to provide support to children who have been neglected, abused or sexually assaulted when they are preparing to testify in court, which is the most anxiety-producing time, Cojanu said.

“It’s not about getting the kids to testify. It’s about doing a little less harm in a system that is not childfriendly,” he said. “Our judicial system is the best in the world, but we don’t make enough accommodations for children.”

Children have to sit and wait, sometimes for up to three hours, said Cojanu.

They have to see a judge they have never seen before, sitting 20 feet away from the person who abused them, and tell people “the most horrifying things that have happened to them,” he said.

“It’s a lot to expect from an adult. To think of kids 6, 7 and 8 to be able to do that — it’s terrifying for these kids,” he said. “The dog gives the kid a new focus other than being scared to death about going into the courtroom. They don’t have to worry about what is on the other side of the wall.

They have this wonderful dog, and it is theirs for the day. They resume control over their situation.”

Cojanu said he has an “Amos rule” when working with young victims.

“I tell them, ‘Amos needs a hug before he goes in there, because he is proud of you for doing this.’ Then another hug, ‘because he’ll miss you when you’re gone,’” he said. “Kids have a rough time in court, and there is always crying, so it helps to have a big, fluffy dog waiting for them to wipe their tears on. Dogs respond to kids like something you’ve never seen. The impact is huge.”

Patty has a similar rapport when she attends hearings and meetings with children, and even sits in the witness stand when they testify.

“She alleviates stress and anxiety for the little ones. They light up when they see her,” Wernet said.

“They don’t want to talk about what happened to them, but she changes how they look at their experience. They are happy to come back. They are not afraid, and they don’t dread it.”

CONOVER — Mr. Richard Prince was known as the man who loved his land, his farm, and the rocks that dwelled within them.

On Sunday, Dec. 27, 2012, at the age of 78, he was taken away from his family and community all too soon by a PRINCE tragic accident.

Born on June 30, 1934, he maintained and grew the Prince Farm Homestead into a flourishing and vibrant grain and livestock operation, while farming more than 3,500 acres of land.

Known for his love of restoring and refurbishing antique tractors, he relished his collection of more than 50 tractors and accompanying machinery. Richard spent a great deal of time frequenting antique tractor shows and farm sales poking around for objects and stove lifters — items others would consider as junk. In fact, he was known for turning junk into treasure. He could always envision the end product when others would simply turn their heads.

His strong work ethic and never-ending passion for the planting and harvesting season was further exemplified by his commitment to helping others at all costs.

Richard would most likely describe himself as “just a farmer” but those who frequented his home or accompanied him to tractor shows knew he was a curious observer and a great guy with an infectious laugh. He was proud of his family and supplied them with the means and opportunity to become successful and productive contributors of our world.

One of his life goals was to drive a newly built 9320 4W drive articulating tractor off the assembly line and in 2006, he accomplished this in Waterloo, Iowa at the John Deere Manufacturing Plant. A member of five antique tractor associations, Dick (as he is known by many) hosted more than 100 people at his home this past summer when he showcased more than 30 restored tractors and entertained numerous members of the association from Ohio and beyond.

A cornerstone of the community, Richard would often be found driving around in his red pickup truck or working on refinishing collectibles late at night in his shop, laughing with friends, and sharing stories with his fellow “tractor buddies.”

He was the salt of the Earth and leaves a legacy of genuine comradery.

His love of his life, Joan Prince, died in 1996. He will be greatly missed by his best friend and companion, Marcella Rose of Conover; three children, Tom Prince and his wife Janet of Sidney, Ann Grieser and her husband Mark of St. Paris, and Maryjo Prince-Paul and her husband Curt of Shaker Heights; 11 grandchildren, Phil and wife Paulette, Katie, Jessica, and Jim Prince and Daniel and Sarah Pfledderer of Sidney, Emily, Abby, and Maggie Grieser of St. Paris and Logan and Brendan Paul of Shaker Heights; one great-grandchild, Cameron Prince of Conover; one sister Janet Duer of Fletcher; and numerous nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Massey Harris Ferguson Club of Ohio 8041 Salineville Rd., Mechanicstown, OH 44651 in memory of Richard Prince.

Funeral services will conducted Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S Main Ave. in Sidney, with Pastor Mark Atterholt officiating.

The family will receive friends on Friday from 1-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

A celebration of his life will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy may be made to the Prince Family at

James E. Nill PIQUA — James E. Nill, 80, of Piqua, died at 1 a.m.

Monday Dec. 31, 2012, at his residence.

He was born Jan. 15, 1932, in Piqua, to the late Harrison and Frances (Beuhler) Nill.

He married Anita M. Evans on May NILL 4, 1957 in Piqua; she preceded him in death April 28, 2008.

Survivors include a son Mark Nill of Piqua; a daughter Tamara Baldwin of Piqua; three

grandchildren, Chad (Beth) Nill, Kevin Nill, Bobby Baldwin; and a sister Florence Foster of Piqua.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Tom and Bob Nill.

Mr. Nill was a graduate of Piqua Central High School and was a United States Air Force veteran, having serviced during the Korean War. He retired from Chrysler AirTemp of Dayton. He was a member of the VFW Post No. 4874, American Legion Post No. 184, AMVETS Post No. 72,

Piqua Fish and Game Club and the former Fraternal Order of the Eagles Lodge No. 614.

A service to honor his life will begin at 10 a.m. Friday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with the Rev. Michael Milthaler officiating.

Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery where full military honors will be provided by the Veterans Elite Tribute Squad.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

Jane E. Greene

A service to honor her Beach, Fla. She was prePIQUA — Jane E. life will begin at 1 p.m. ceded in death by a Greene, 97, formerly of brother, Frank Albright Jr. Thursday at the 720 N. Downing St., Jamieson & Yannucci Mrs. Greene was a Piqua, died at 6:20 a.m.

Funeral Home with Rabbi 1933 graduate of Piqua Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, Yoseph Zylberberg preCentral High School, at the Piqua Manor siding. Burial will follow at graduated King-Smith Nursing Home.

Forest Hill Cemetery.

Finishing School of She was born March Visitation will be from 1222, 1915, in Marion, Ind., Washington, D.C., and WELLINGTON, New 1 p.m. Thursday at the the Schuster-Martin to the late R. Frank and Zealand (AP) — Oscarfuneral home.

School of Drama of Frances L. (Netter) winning sound editor Mike Albright. She married Memorial contributions Cincinnati. She continued Hopkins, who worked on may be made to Temple her studies with the Frank Greene on April the “Lord of the Rings” Anshe Emeth c/o famous opera singers, 26, 1945, in New York trilogy and other Peter Jamieson & Yannucci, Marta Wittkowska of City, New York; and he Jackson films, has died in preceded her in death 333 W. High St., Piqua, Chicago and Estelle a rafting accident in New Liebling of New York and OH 45356, the YWCA of July 16, 2003.

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Piqua, 418 N. Wayne St., she traveled with the Survivors include a He was 53.

Piqua, OH 45356; or the Clare Tree Major daughter, Victoria Miller Hopkins drowned on Piqua Public Library, 116 Children’s Theater. She of Newington, Conn.; a Sunday when his inflatW. High St., Piqua, OH had been a member of grandson, Booth able raft capsized during a (Suzanne) Daniels; a 45356.

Temple Anshe Emeth, flash flood in a river on Guestbook condolences board of directors for the great-granddaughter, New Zealand’s North and expressions of symAbigail Daniels; and three YWCA of Piqua, the Island, police senior Sgt. pathy, to be provided to Piqua Players for 40 nephews, Steven R. Carolyn Watson said. His the family, may be years, and volunteered (Karen) Albright of Troy, wife survived. for the Girl Scouts and as expressed through Randy (Lois) Albright of The New Zealand jamiesonandyannucci. a grey lady for Piqua Piqua and Doug (Rosie) Herald newspaper quoted Albright of Daytona Memorial Medical Center. com.

“Rings” director Peter FUNERAL DIRECTORY Jackson as saying many actors, directors and film crew members who were Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at her residence.

• Margaret M. Stafford lucky enough to work with Arrangements are pending through PIQUA — Margaret M. Stafford, 92, of Hopkins would miss him Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua.

Piqua, passed away at 6:01 p.m. deeply.

“Mike was a very genOBITUARY POLICY uine, caring and warmhearted guy with a great In respect for friends and family, the Troy and more detailed obituary information pubsense of humor,” Jackson said.

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In a photo from November 2012, the Canine Advocacy Program court dogs pose with their handlers in Ionia, Mich. From left, Dodger poses with Cindy Howell, a victim advocate from Bay County; Patty is seen with Jeannie Wernet, crime victims services coordinator in Ionia County; and Amos sits with Dan Cojanu, program director for CAP. The highly trained canines are used to help child victims make it through the often overwhelming experience of court proceedings.

SPRINGFIELD — Catherine M. “Kay” HynesEgger, 93, of Springfield, died Dec. 27, 2012, in Pathways at the Ohio Masonic Home.

She was born Jan. 13, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Anthony and Marie Szempruch.

Kay was employed as a Registered Nurse with Dr. James F. Harley for 23 years, and prior to that worked for Mercy Hospital.

She was a member HYNES-EGGER of St. Teresa Catholic Church and a member of the C.L. of C. Survivors include three children, Dr. Michael (Beverly) Hynes, Olathe, Kan., Thomas (Shirley) Hynes of Troy and Kathleen (Douglas) Roberts of Leavenworth, Wash.; two grandsons, Christopher and David (Gaily) Hynes; a greatgrandson, Andrew Michael Hynes; five step grandchildren, Greg Welker, Tammy Walkup, Rusty Welker, Toni Kay Roberts and Eric Roberts; eight step-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Amelia Leonard of Plano, Texas, Frances Bruney of Westerville and Mary Schwartz of Springfield; three brothers, Joseph (Dorothy) Szempruch, Edward (Martha) Szempruch, Springfield and Thomas Szempruch of Napels, Fla.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Frank Hynes; her second husband, Harry O. Egger; four brothers, Walter, August, Anthony and Robert; and two sisters, Helen Wulfekuhl and Josephine Walsh Vineyard.

Friends may call from 57 p.m. Thursday in the Conroy Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Teresa Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Do gays need a church of their own anymore?

By the Associated Press

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In this Dec. 2 photo, the Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo, foreground center, shares a moment of personal prayer with members of the congregation during Communion at the Sunday worship service at Metropolitan Community Church of New York in New York. Since 1968, Metropolitan Community Churches have been a spiritual refuge for openly gay Christians. never been gays-only. But for a long time, straight allies were scarce.

The founding congregation, MCC of Los Angeles, opened a year before the Stonewall riots in New York. Few people had ever heard the argument that the Bible sanctioned samegender relationships and no one of any influence in the religious world was saying it. MCC congregations became targets of arson, violence, pickets and, in at least one case, a vice squad.

Al Smithson, a founder

in 1969 of the fellowship’s San Diego church, said his pastor would point to Orange County’s famous Crystal Cathedral and joke that he was praying for a bulletproof version.

The church today is a bit more diverse. MCC pastors say they see a growing number of straight friends and relatives of gays and lesbians among their new congregants, along with heterosexual parents who want their children raised in a gay-affirming environment. While some MCC

haven’t congregations changed much over the decades, Wilson said, many are emphasizing a broad social justice agenda including serving the homeless and poor.

“We don’t have a rainbow flag on our website, nor do we have it on our building,” said the Rev. Dan Koeshall, senior pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of San Diego, which draws about 220 people for Sunday services.

“It wasn’t a decision that

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caused any controversy or split. It’s just been moving in that direction. We know that our target audience is the LGBT community. But we’re also attracting people who are saying, ‘Yes, I stand in solidarity with you and I want to be part of this.’”

It’s remarkable the denomination has endured at all.

Metropolitan Community Churches brings together many different Christian traditions under one banner that often struggle to stay friendly in the outside world. Perry, now 72 and retired, is a Pentecostal who started preaching when he was just a teenager in rural Florida. The Rev. Mona West, the fellowship’s director of clergy training, graduated from the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. But a large number of MCC clergy train in liberal Protestant seminaries. The common denominator is a belief that Christians can be in a same-sex relationship and still be faithful to Scripture.

“You can go from one MCC to another and have a radically different flavor, depending on the region, the clergy and congregants,” said Scott Thumma, a Hartford Seminary sociologist and co-editor of the book “Gay Religion.”

The fellowship expanded relatively quickly from its humble beginnings. Within months of founding the first congregation in Los Angeles, Perry started receiving letters and visits from people hoping to establish MCC churches in other cities. Two years later, new congregations had formed as far away as Florida. Within five years, the church had spread overseas.

Then, the 1980s arrived and with it, the AIDS crisis.

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On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister’s robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.

Perry’s Metropolitan Community Churches was then a lone spiritual refuge for openly gay Christians, an idea so far from the mainstream that the founders were often chased from places where they tried to worship. Four decades later, some of the most historically important American denominations, had routinely which expelled gays and lesbians, are welcoming them instead.

MCC now has a presence in dozens of U.S. states as well as overseas, reporting a total membership of more than 240 congregations and ministries. But as acceptance of same-sex relationships grows gay and lesbian clergy in many Protestant traditions no longer have to hide their partners or lose their careers, and Christians can often worship openly with their same-gender spouses in the mainline Protestant churches where they were raised the fellowship is at a crossroads.

Is a gay-centered Christian church needed anymore?

“There are many more options than there used to be,” said the Rev. Nancy Wilson, moderator, or leader, of the Metropolitan Community Churches. “But there is not a mass exodus.”

The denomination has

grieving. The fellowship lost several thousand members and clergy to the virus, and the business of starting new churches slowed. As a result, Wilson and others say the denomination missed out on crucial period for potential growth.

But the church has also lost some congregations, including its biggest, to other denominations. The Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, a megachurch with about 4,200 members, split off around 2003, and eventually joined the United Church of Christ.

Cathedral and MCC officials say the break resulted from disagreements between local church members and local leaders, not a rejection of MCC’s mission.

The Cathedral maintains its focus on reaching out to gays, lesbians and transgender people.

Still, the United Church of Christ, which has more than 5,000 congregations and roots in colonial New England, can offer much that the MCC cannot, including more resources, greater prominence and a broader reach. In some communities, local churches are affiliating with both the Metropolitan Community Churches and United Church of Christ.

But at least one other MCC congregation broke away in years: The recent Columbia, S.C., church became the Garden of Grace United Church of Christ.

“It makes us more than a one-issue church,” the Rev. Andy Sidden, the church’s pastor, told The newspaper of State Columbia, in a 2006 interview.

Like many other churches coping with a weak economy, the MCC has cut or restructured staff jobs in the last five years and reduced the annual payment congregations pay the national office, Wilson said.

Some smaller MCC churches have closed.

Yet, despite the losses, Wilson and others see a continuing role for Metropolitan Community Churches, given the wide range of responses to gays and lesbians in organized religion, even in the more liberal churches that have moved toward accepting same-gender relationships.

Of the mainline Protestant groups, only the United Church of Christ supports gay marriage outright.

The Episcopal Church last month released a provisional prayer service for blessing same-sex unions.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have eliminated barriers for gay clergy but allow regional and local church officials to decide their own policies. One of the largest mainline groups, the United Methodist Church, with about 7.8 million U.S. members, still bars ordination for people in same-sex relationships, although many individual Methodist churches openly accept gay and lesbian clergy.

“There’s ‘Come and don’t say anything,’ ‘Come, but we won’t marry you,’ or ‘Come and be fully accepted,’” said the Rev. Jo Hudson, senior pastor of the Cathedral of Hope.

“We’re always glad when churches welcome gay and lesbian people, but it’s just a different experience in a church that is historically and predominantly led by heterosexual people.

Everyone is going to find the church where they most fit in.”

Wilson said a large percentage of newer MCC members are from conservative Christian churches teaching that gay and lesbian Christians should try to become heterosexual or remain celibate. Koeshall was a pastor in the Assemblies of God, one of the largest U.S.-based Pentecostal groups, until 1997, when he says, “I came out and I got kicked out.”

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Behalt: The Painting of a People’s History More Amish—54,000 residents—live in Ohio than anywhere else in the world. One of the best ways to learn about their lifestyle is to visit Holmes County’s Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin to look at Behalt.

The huge painting is a cyclorama 10 feet high by 265 feet long that tells the history of Amish and Mennonites who have been killed and persecuted for their beliefs. Like some of the people it shows, Behalt has been to jail.

Behalt—the name means “to remember” in German—is one of just three cycloramas in the United States and the only one completed by one man. Heinz Gaugel, a German painter who first visited Holmes County in the1960s, was captivated by the Amish.

He moved to live among them and in 1978 started painting their history.

A year and 100 feet into the project, the first setback occurred.

The woman financing Gaugel’s work died. A court battle to determine who owned Behalt began, and the painting was locked in the Holmes County jail. Two years later, Gaugel won the fight and got it back. Then he suffered a heart attack. He didn’t seriously work on it again until 1988. Four years later, he finally finished. Later, when asked how long it took to paint Behalt, Gaugel would say, “about five and a half years of actual painting time, but 14 years start to finish.”

Behalt begins with a scene of Christ’s resurrection, followed by images of Christian history and the adult baptisms of the first Anabaptist believers in 1525. Other scenes portray Menno Simons, a founder of the Mennonites; Jakob Ammann, whose Amish followers split from the Mennonites; and Jonas Stutzman, who led the first Amish to Ohio in 1809. The struggles and day-today activities of their followers are painted in vivid detail.

Each year, about 20,000 people view the cyclorama. About 20 percent of the visitors are Amish or Mennonite. The Amish say the painting reminds them how faithful their ancestors were, and challenges them to be the same.

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There is help for you out there; do not give up Dear Annie: I was diagnosed with depression more than 20 years ago. When I was in high school, I was hospitalized for close to a year. Because money and insurance have been sporadic, I have been on and off of medication.

Plus, once I get on a good medication, I start feeling that I don't need it anymore. Last year, my husband lost his job, so I have no insurance and have been off of medication since.

Annie, my depression feels like it is crushing me. I am tired all the time and not interested in doing anything. I interpret everything my husband says as insulting or angry, although I know it isn't.

Part of the problem is, we haven't had sex in three years. He says he just doesn't want to. So I feel pretty worthless.

I fantasize about dying. I feel this dark cloud hanging over me. I try to put on a happy face, but it doesn't help much. My husband knows about my depression, but there isn't much we can do without money. Please help me. — Tired of It Dear Tired: There are resources for you. First contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness (nami.org) at 1-800-950-NAMI. You also can find a listing of free or low-cost health centers in your area through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (hhs.gov) and the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (pparx.org), which also can help with medication. And don't overlook your local community centers and nearby medical schools for low-cost counseling services. Just writing us shows your commitment to getting well. Hang in there.

Dear Annie: My husband and I have a friend who was given an award a few years ago. Many of us attended the event, and friends from afar sent congratulations and accolades. Since then, however, "Ralph" brings up the award at every occasion, showering everyone with photos and bragging to the skies.

This is getting rather tiring to the rest of us. Some people have made a few comments to him, saying it's time to "let it go," but it doesn't help. Ralph thinks he's truly hot stuff now, and it's become unbearable to be around him. We all enjoy the company of his wife, who unfortunately doesn't try to curtail his boasting, but we certainly don't wish to be around Ralph anymore.

Is there any polite statement we could make to get him to stop the ego talk? — Had It Dear Had It: Poor Ralph. This is obviously the only thing he has to brag about, and he's not going to stop as long as he thinks he can still get mileage out of it. Try to be tolerant. When he mentions his award, plaster a fake smile onto your face, pat his arm and say, "Yes, Ralph, we know," and then change the subject or walk away.

Dear Annie: This is in response to "Some Talk, Please," who reports that her husband is otherwise a good guy, but rarely talks to her and sulks for sex. She also said that one of her children has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

I would like to remind her that the apple does not fall far from the tree.

If they have a child with Asperger's, it is possible that her husband may have the same diagnosis. This was the case with my son and my husband. I strongly suspected my husband had some form of autism. He was gracious enough to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with Asperger syndrome and schizoid disorder. My husband truly is clueless about intimacy.

There are resources available on the Internet for spouses of people with Asperger's and also for those who want to learn how to be intimate. I let my hubby know I am grateful for all he does. I also let him know that when my emotional needs are met, then I will engage in sex. — Been There, Done That Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Leftover rice twice as nice when you add it to soup Dear Heloise: I live alone and cook for myself. I often have leftover cooked rice in the freezer or refrigerator. I usually open a can of soup for lunch.

Depending on the type of soup, I stir a couple of tablespoons into the soup before I put it on the stove. I’ve also added leftover whole-kernel corn for flavor and a bit of crunch.

— Perry C., Winchester, Va. This is one of the many reasons why I love soup so much!

It is a quick-and-easy meal to fix, and you can add leftovers to enhance the soup and save money, too, since you aren’t throwing away spoiled food.

For some delicious and low-cost

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The soup slides right out!

— Heloise CHEESE MARKERS Dear Readers: I have discovered that cheese markers are not just for labeling cheese (I have ceramic markers in the shape of mice with names of cheese on them). When entertaining or having a potluck dinner, I label dishes by name, and also list the ingredients for friends who are vegetarian, may be on a diet or are allergic to certain ingredients.

There are cheese markers that you can write on with crayon or special pen and just wash off. — Heloise WHIPPING CREAM Dear Heloise: When you purchase whipping cream and don’t use it all, whip it like you would for whipped cream (adding sugar and vanilla).

Then, drop by spoonfuls into mounds on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper and freeze.

When they are frozen, transfer the mounds into a covered freezer container. Use them whenever you want a mound of whipped cream. — Joy H., via email

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be careful when dealing with authority figures today, because you are a bit rebellious! Don’t do or say anything that you will later regret. (Who wants egg on their face?)

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Travel plans might be changed, delayed or interrupted today; be prepared for this. Similar interruptions will affect anything related to medicine, the law and higher education. Be prepared.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Make friends with your bank account.

Check matters related to shared property, taxes and debt in order to avoid scary surprises. Oh yeah!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Relations with others are a bit bumpy today, because people feel highly independent. Someone might demand more freedom or space in the relationship.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Something to do with your day job will go sideways today. Canceled meetings, power outages, computer crashes and staff shortages are just some examples.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an accident-prone day for your kids, so parents should be extra vigilant. Romance is a bit rocky as well.

(People are touchy!)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Small appliances might break down at home today, or minor breakages could occur. Be patient with family members so as to avoid minor arguments.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is an accident-prone day for your sign, so slow down and take it easy.

Allow extra time and wiggle room in all your plans. Expect things to zig when they should zag.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might find money today; you might lose money. Guard your possessions against loss or theft. If shopping, keep your receipts and count your change.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’re restless today! You want something different to happen, because you want a little adventure. You’re tired of the same old, same old. You want to shake it up a little!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You have that feeling like you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Don’t worry about this, because many people feel the same way. Just carry on — business as usual. Allow extra time for everything.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Meetings might be canceled today, or a friend might say or do something that shocks you. All your dealings with other people will be a bit erratic. Expect detours and unusual suggestions.

YOU BORN TODAY You have a vivid imagination. You’re devoted to whatever you embrace. You believe in giving everything you’ve got, because you feel rewarded by giving service. You also can be highly persuasive and stubborn. (This sometimes draws criticism from others.) In business matters, you’re fair-minded and just. Your year ahead is the beginning of a fresh new cycle. Open any door!

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2013. There are 363 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

On this date: In 1893, the U.S. Postal Service issued its first commemorative stamp to honor the World’s Columbian Expedition and

the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus’ voyage.

In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour. (Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995).

In 2006, 12 miners died in a methane gas

explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia, W.Va., but one miner, Randal McCloy Jr., was eventually rescued.

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, seeking to counter Democratic criticisms that his economic policies favored the rich, said the economic stimulus plan he was going to unveil the following week would focus on jobs and the unemployed.

Sandy Hook students, teachers head back to school NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Since escaping a gunman’s rampage at their elementary school, the 8year-old Connors triplets have suffered nightmares, jumped at noises and clung to their parents a little more than usual.

Now parents like David Connors are bracing to send their children back to school, nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. It won’t be easy for the parents or the children, who heard the gunshots that killed 20 of their classmates and six educators.

“I’m nervous about it,” Connors said. “It’s unchar-

tered waters for us. I know it’s going to be difficult.”

Classes are starting Thursday at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students’ desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. Families have been coming in to see the new school, and an open house is scheduled for Wednesday.

An army of workers has been getting the school ready, painting, moving furniture and even raising the floors in the bathrooms of the former middle school so the smaller elementary

school students can reach the toilets.

Connors, a 40-year-old engineer, felt reassured after recently visiting the new setup at the former Chalk Hill school in Monroe.

He said his children were excited to see their backpacks and coats, and that the family was greeted by a police officer at the door and grief counselors in the hallways.

Teachers will try to make it as normal a school day as possible for the children, schools Superintendent Janet Robinson said.

“We want to get back to teaching and learning,” she

said. “We will obviously take time out from the academics for any conversations that need to take place, and there will be a lot of support there. All in all, we want the kids to reconnect with their friends and classroom teachers, and I think that’s going to be the healthiest thing.”

Teachers are returning as well, and some have already been working on their classrooms. At some point, all those will be honored, but officials are still working out how and when to do so, Robinson said.

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they could,” she said.

“Almost everybody did something to save kids.

One art teacher locked her kids in the kiln room, and I got a message from her on my cellphone saying she wouldn’t come out until she saw a police badge.”

After the evacuation, teachers grouped their children at a nearby fire station, Robinson said.

One sang songs, while others read to the students, she said.

Julian Ford, a clinical psychologist at the University of Connecticut who helped counsel families in the days immediately following the shooting, recommended addressing it as questions come up but otherwise focusing on regular school work.

“Kids just spontaneously make associations and will start talking about something that reminds them of someone, or that reminds them of some of the scary parts of the experience,” Ford said. “They don’t need a lot of words; they need a few selective words that are thoughtful and sensitive, like, ‘We’re

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going to be OK,’ and ‘We really miss this person, but we’ll always be able to think about her or him in ways that are really nice.’”

It will be important for parents and teachers to listen and be observant, Ford said.

“Each of the boys and girls are going to have different reactions to different aspects of the environment, different little things that will be reminders to them,” he said.

Parents might have a harder time with fear than children, Ford said.

Before the shooting, a baby sitter would take Connors’ children to the bus stop. But Connors said he’ll probably take the third-graders to the bus the first few days.

“I think that they need to get back into a normal routine as quickly as possible,” Connors said. “If you’re hovering over them at all times, it almost intensifies the fear for them.”

His children, who escaped unharmed, ask questions about the gunman.

“It’s hard for us to say why,” Connors said. “That’s kind of what we tell them.

This person wasn’t well, was sick and didn’t get the help he needed.”

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TODAY’S TIPS

■ College Football Bowl Roundup

• COACHING SEARCH: Troy Christian Schools have two coaching positions available. It is looking for a head varsity softball coach and is accepting applications until Jan. 16 for the position, as well as a head varsity volleyball coach with an application deadline of Feb. 20. Applications can be found on the Troy Christian Schools website at http://troychristianschools.org/fileadmin/content/athletics/documents/Empl oyment_Application.pdf. A resume and references should be attached with the applications. For more information, contact Athletic Director Mike Coots at mcoots@tcmail.org or (937) 339-5692.

• COACHING SEARCH: Newton High School is looking for a reserve and varsity volleyball coach for next year. If interested, please contact Bob Huelsman or Larry Powell at Newton High School at (937) 676-5132, or by e-mail at bob_heulsman@newton.k12.oh.us or larry_powell@newton.k12.oh.us.

S. Carolina gets by Mich.

Thompson’s late TD decides Outback Bowl

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South Carolina wide receiver Ace Sanders (1) pulls in a touchdown reception in front of Michigan safety Thomas Gordon (30) during the second half of the Outback Bowl Tuesday in Tampa, Fla.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Connor Shaw led No. 11 South Carolina to the brink of victory and Dylan Thompson carried the Gamecocks over the hump in the Outback Bowl.

Thompson came off the bench to throw a 32-yard touchdown pass with 11 seconds remaining Tuesday, enabling South Carolina to match a school record for victories in a season with a 33-28 win over No. 19 Michigan.

Thompson replaced Shaw during the winning drive, covering the final 43 yards after Shaw begin the march from his own 30. Devin Gardner’s third TD pass of the game had given Michigan a 28-27 lead.

Shaw threw for 227 yards and two touchdowns after missing South Carolina’s regular season finale with a left foot sprain. Thompson led the Gamecocks

(11-2) to a victory over their archrival, and threw for 117 yards and two TDs a backup Tuesday.

Gardner threw for 214 yards in his fifth start for Michigan (8-5) since Denard Robinson injured his right elbow late in the season. Robinson took some snaps at quarterback and even attempted his first passes in a game since Oct. 27, but lined up mostly at running back and rushed for 100 yards on 23 carries.

Ace Sanders caught TD passes of 4 yards from Thompson and 31 yards from Shaw, who completed 18 of 26 passes before limping off on the final drive. The speedy receiver had nine catches for 92 yards and also scored on a 63-yard punt return one of four plays over 50 yards that

■ See BOWL ROUNDUP on 16

■ Rose Bowl

■ Legal

Gov. will sue NCAA over PSU sanctions

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Wrestling Piqua at Sidney (5:30 p.m.)

THURSDAY Girls Basketball Tippecanoe at Carroll (7:30 p.m.)

Miami East at Ansonia (7 p.m.)

Covington at Bethel (7 p.m.)

Tri-County North at Newton (7 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Yellow Springs (7:30 p.m.)

Fort Loramie at Lehman (6 p.m.)

Bowling Tippecanoe, Indian Lake at Bellefontaine (4 p.m.)

FRIDAY Boys Basketball Troy at Trotwood (7:30 p.m.)

Springfield Shawnee at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

Waynesville at Milton-Union (7:30 p.m.)

Miami East at Bethel (8 p.m.)

Twin Valley South at Newton (8 p.m.)

Piqua at Greenville (7:30 p.m.)

Franklin Monroe at Lehman (7:30 p.m.)

Bowling Tecumseh at Tippecanoe (4 p.m.)

Swimming Piqua at Troy (6:30 p.m.)

SATURDAY Boys Basketball Milton-Union at Covington (8 p.m.)

Miami East at Troy Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Newton at Xenia Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Bradford at Franklin Monroe (7:30 p.m.)

Catholic Central at Lehman (7:30 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Troy at Butler (1 p.m.)

Kenton Ridge at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

Tri-Village at Miami East (1:30 p.m.)

Covington at Jackson Center (2:30 p.m.)

Mississinawa Valley at Troy Christian (1 p.m.)

Piqua at Sidney (12:30 p.m.)

Houston at Bradford (1:30 p.m.)

St. Marys Memorial at Lehman (1 p.m.)

Wrestling Tippecanoe, Milton-Union, Miami East, Covington at Troy Invite (9:30 a.m.)

Troy Christian at Detroit Catholic Central Invite (10 a.m.)

Lehman at Plymouth Invite (10 a.m.)

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Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland, bottom, brings down Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor during the second half of the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game Tuesday in Pasadena, Calif.

Cardinal tops Badgers Stanford grinds out 20-14 Rose Bowl victory PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Although Stanford didn’t score many style points in the 99th Rose Bowl, the Cardinal could celebrate because they didn’t let Wisconsin score any points at all after halftime.

Stepfan Taylor rushed for 89 yards and an early touchdown, Kevin Hogan passed for 123 yards and No. 8 Stanford won its first Rose Bowl since 1972, beating the Badgers 20-14 on Tuesday night.

Usua Amanam made the decisive interception near midfield with 2:30 to play as the Pac-12 champion Cardinal (122) ended their four-decade drought in the Granddaddy of Them All with arguably the biggest bowl win yet during the long-struggling program’s recent renaissance.

“We knew this was going to be a battle, and we wouldn’t expect it any other way,” Stanford coach David Shaw

said. “We know it’s going to be tight, it’s going to be close, and we’re going to find a way to win.

That’s the way it’s been all year.”

Stanford clamped down on the Big Ten champion Badgers (8-6), who lost the Rose Bowl in heartbreaking fashion for the third consecutive season.

Montee Ball rushed for 100 yards and his FBS-record 83rd

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

The Republican governor scheduled a news conference for today on the Penn State campus in State College to announce the antitrust filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.

The sanctions, which were agreed to by the university in July, included a $60 million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants. The sanctions also included a four-year bowl game ban for the university’s marquee football program, reduced football scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins but didn’t include a suspension of the football program, the socalled death penalty. governor’s office The announced the news conference late Tuesday afternoon. His spokesman did not respond to repeated calls and emails seeking to confirm a Sports Illustrated story that cited anonymous sources saying a lawsuit was imminent.

Corbett’s brief statement did not indicate whether his office coordinated its legal strategy with state Attorney General-elect Kathleen Kane, who is scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 15.

Kane, a Democrat, ran on a vow to investigate why it took state prosecutors nearly three years to charge Sandusky, an assistant under former football coach Joe Paterno. Corbett was the attorney general when that office took over the case in early 2009 and until he became governor in January 2011.

State and congressional lawmakers from Pennsylvania have objected to using the Penn State fine to finance activities in other states. Penn State has already made the first $12 million payment, and an NCAA task force is deciding how it should be spent.

■ National Football League

Bengals trying to get up-and-running

Broncos’ Osweiler learning from Manning All eyes were on Peyton Manning this season, especially Brock Osweiler’s.

He’s the Denver Broncos’ OTHER firstyear quarterback, a 6-foot-8 passing project from Arizona State who’s the first signal-caller ever drafted with the intention of one day succeeding the league’s most decorated passer.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — BenJarvus Green-Ellis didn’t suit up for the Cincinnati Bengals’ practice on Tuesday. He wore black sweatpants and a gray hooded sweatshirt, running by himself at one end of the University of Cincinnati’s covered football field while everyone else ran plays.

It’s another challenge for an offense that’s hit the wall.

Green-Ellis had a sore hamstring during pregame warm-ups and sat out a 23-17 win over Baltimore on Sunday, leaving Cincinnati with questions about its top runner heading into a playoff game Saturday at Houston.

Coach Marvin Lewis wouldn’t discuss his top running back’s sta-

tus. Green-Ellis spent most of the open locker room period in the trainer’s room away from the media.

“We’re going to prepare to run the ball like we do every week and hopefully BenJarvus is healthy,” offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said after practice. “He’s got a little twinge right now, but it looks like he’s going to be fine. It will be important to us.

“We have other backs also that can run the ball. We’re not going to change our plan at all. It never varies. We have a good run plan going in, but Houston’s a good run defense as we all know. It’s going to be important to try to force the issue.”

Lately, other defenses have forced the issue and forced the Bengals to find other ways to score.

The Bengals managed only 14 yards on 16 carries during a 13-10 win in Pittsburgh, one of the most feeble showings in franchise history. With Green-Ellis watching from the sideline on Sunday, Cincinnati ran for only 47 yards during the win over a Baltimore team resting most of its stars for the playoffs.

Asked about the state of the running game on Tuesday, left tackle Andrew Whitworth paused a few seconds before answering.

“Well, I think we’ve made strides throughout the year to

make it better, and we’ve had ups and downs with it,” Whitworth said. “But that’s the nature of the NFL. I think every week every team has ups and downs with it.

“I think the key in the playoffs, honestly, is to score points. I don’t care if it’s the running game, the passing game or running the ball backward. That will be the ultimate goal: Be able to run the ball efficiently and throw and catch the ball and be able to put up enough points to win.”

Cincinnati doesn’t want to repeat what happened in its playoff game at Houston last year. The Bengals had to rely heavily on then-rookie quarterback Andy Dalton during a 31-10 loss. Dalton

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(NBC) Minnesota at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

(NBC) Sunday, Jan. 6 Indianapolis at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

(CBS) Seattle at Washington, 4:30 p.m.

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Michigan State 17, TCU 16 Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt 38, N.C. State 24 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech 21, Southern Cal 7 Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Tulsa 31, Iowa State 17 Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Clemson 25, LSU 24 Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At Dallas Oklahoma State 58, Purdue 14 Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Northwestern 34, Mississippi State 20 Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia 45, Nebraska 31 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina 33, Michigan 28 Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14 Orange Bowl At Miami Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (102), 8 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (9-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami

Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, TBA (NFLN)

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Rose Bowl Winners Jan 1, 2013 — Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14 Jan. 2, 2012 — Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Jan. 1, 2011 — TCU 21, Wisconsin 19 Jan. 1, 2010 — Ohio State 26, Oregon 17 Jan. 1, 2009 — Southern Cal 38, Penn State 24 Jan. 1, 2008 — Southern Cal 49, Illinois 17 Jan. 1, 2007 — Southern Cal 32, Michigan 18 Jan. 4, 2006 — Texas 41, Southern Cal 38 Jan. 1, 2005 — Texas 38, Michigan 37 Jan. 1, 2004 — Southern Cal 28, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 2003 — Oklahoma 34, Washington State 14 Jan. 3, 2002 — Miami 37, Nebraska 14 Jan. 1, 2001 — Washington 34, Purdue 24 Jan. 1, 2000 — Wisconsin 17, Stanford 9 Jan. 1, 1999 — Wisconsin 38, UCLA 31 Jan. 1, 1998 — Michigan 21, Washington State 17 Jan. 1, 1997 — Ohio State 20, Arizona State 17 Jan. 1, 1996 — Southern Cal 41, Northwestern 32 Jan. 2, 1995 — Penn State 38, Oregon 20 Jan. 1, 1994 — Wisconsin 21, UCLA 16 Jan. 1, 1993 — Michigan 38, Washington 31 Jan. 1, 1992 — Washington 34, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 1991 — Washington 46, Iowa 34 Jan. 1, 1990 — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10 Jan. 2, 1989 — Michigan 22, Southern Cal 14 Jan. 1, 1988 — Michigan State 20, Southern Cal 17 Jan. 1, 1987 — Arizona State 22, Michigan 15 Jan. 1, 1986 — UCLA 45, Iowa 28 Jan. 1, 1985 — Southern Cal 20, Ohio State 17 Jan. 2, 1984 — UCLA 45, Illinois 9 Jan. 1, 1983 — UCLA 24, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 1982 — Washington 28, Iowa 0 Jan. 1, 1981 — Michigan 23, Washington 6 Jan. 1, 1980 — Southern Cal 17, Ohio State 16 Jan. 1, 1979 — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10 Jan. 2, 1978 — Washington 27, Michigan 20 Jan. 1, 1977 — Southern Cal 14, Michigan 6 Jan. 1, 1976 — UCLA 23, Ohio State 10

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NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 24 Wagner 31, Colgate 20 Coastal Carolina 24, BethuneCookman 14 South Dakota State 58, Eastern Illinois 10 Stony Brook 20, Villanova 10 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 1 Wofford 23, New Hampshire 7 Georgia Southern 24, Cent. Arkansas 16 Old Dominion 63, Coastal Carolina 35 Illinois St. 38, Appalachian St. 37, OT North Dakota State 28, South Dakota State 3 Sam Houston State 18, Cal Poly 16 Eastern Washington 29, Wagner 19 Montana State 16, Stony Brook 10 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 7 Sam Houston State 34, Montana State 16 Saturday, Dec. 8 Georgia Southern 49, Old Dominion 35 North Dakota State 14, Wofford 7 Eastern Washington 51, Illinois State 35 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20 Saturday, Dec. 15 Sam Houston State 45, Eastern Washington 42 Championship Saturday, Jan. 5 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco,Texas North Dakota State (13-1) vs. Sam Houston State (11-3), 1 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 21 10 .677 Brooklyn 16 15 .516 Boston 14 16 .467 Philadelphia 14 17 .452 Toronto 11 20 .355 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 21 8 .724 Atlanta 20 10 .667 Orlando 12 19 .387 Charlotte 8 23 .258 Washington 4 25 .138 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 18 13 .581 Chicago 16 13 .552 Milwaukee 16 13 .552 Detroit 12 22 .353 Cleveland 7 25 .219 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 25 8 .758 Memphis 19 9 .679 Houston 17 14 .548 Dallas 13 19 .406 New Orleans 7 24 .226 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 24 6 .800 Portland 16 14 .533 Denver 17 15 .531

GB — 5 6½ 7 10 GB — 1½ 10 14 17 GB — 1 1 7½ 11½

GB — 3½ 7 11½ 17 GB — 8 8

AND SCHEDULES

TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Sugar Bowl, Louisville vs. Florida, at New Orleans MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Duke at Davidson SOCCER 2:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Sunderland at Liverpool

THURSDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Fiesta Bowl, Oregon vs. Kansas St., at Glendale, Ariz.

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Michigan at Northwestern NBCSN — Northeastern at George Mason 11 p.m. FSN — California at UCLA

FRIDAY BOXING 10 p.m. ESPN2 — Junior lightweights, Rances Barthelemy (17-0-0) vs. Arash Usmanee (20-0-0), at Miami COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. FOX — Cotton Bowl, Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma, at Arlington, Texas GOLF 5:30 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, first round, at Kapalua, Hawaii MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Memphis at Tennessee MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Colorado College at NebraskaOmaha NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — Chicago at Miami 10:30 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers PREP FOOTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN — All-America Game, at St. Petersburg, Fla.

SATURDAY AUTO RACING 2:30 a.m. NBCSN — Dakar Rally, stage 1, Lima to Pisco, Peru (delayed tape) COLLEGE FOOTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — Compass Bowl, Pittsburgh vs. Mississippi, at Birmingham, Ala. ESPN2 — NCAA, FCS, playoffs, championship, North Dakota St. vs. Sam Houston St., at Frisco, Texas GOLF 5:30 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, second round, at Kapalua, Hawaii MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Pittsburgh at Rutgers 4 p.m. ESPN2 — NC State at Boston College 5 p.m. NBCSN — Lehigh at VCU 11 p.m. FSN — California at Southern Cal NFL FOOTBALL 4:30 p.m. NBC — Wild Card Game, teams TBD 8 p.m. NBC — Wild Card Game, teams TBD PREP BASKETBALL 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Simeon (Ill.) vs. Montverde (Fla.), at Wheeling, W.Va. PREP FOOTBALL 1 p.m. NBC — All-American Bowl, at San Antonio SOCCER Noon FOX — FA Cup, third round, West Ham vs.

Manchester United, at London WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1:30 p.m. FSN — Oklahoma at Texas 2 p.m. CBS — National coverage, Purdue at Nebraska 4 p.m. CBS — National coverage, Notre Dame at UConn 14 13 .519 8½ Minnesota 15 17 .469 10 Utah Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 25 6 .806 — 21 10 .677 4 Golden State 15 15 .500 9½ L.A. Lakers 11 20 .355 14 Sacramento Phoenix 11 21 .344 14½ Monday's Games Charlotte 91, Chicago 81 Indiana 88, Memphis 83 Miami 112, Orlando 110, OT Houston 123, Atlanta 104 San Antonio 104, Brooklyn 73 Oklahoma City 114, Phoenix 96 Tuesday's Games Dallas 103, Washington 94 Portland 105, New York 100 Detroit 103, Sacramento 97 Atlanta 95, New Orleans 86 L.A. Clippers at Denver, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday's Games Sacramento at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Portland at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Minnesota at Utah, 9 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday's Games San Antonio at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 30, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ............................Record Pts Pvs 1. Duke (30).............12-0 774 1 2. Michigan (1) ........13-0 744 2 3. Arizona ................12-0 692 3 4. Louisville..............12-1 678 3 5. Indiana.................12-1 654 5 6. Kansas ................11-1 643 6 7. Syracuse .............11-1 575 7 8. Ohio State ...........10-2 530 10 9. Florida....................9-2 451 11 10. Gonzaga............12-1 439 13 11. Creighton...........12-1 436 12 12. Missouri.............10-2 420 9 13. Minnesota..........12-1 417 14 14. Illinois.................13-1 358 15

15. Cincinnati...........12-1 352 8 16. Georgetown.......10-1 281 18 17. San Diego State11-2 242 16 18. Michigan State ..11-2 228 19 19. Notre Dame.......12-1 201 20 20. Butler .................10-2 194 21 21. Oklahoma State 10-1 146 22 22. Pittsburgh ..........12-1 124 24 23. New Mexico.......13-1 109 — 24. UNLV .................11-2 100 17 25. N.C. State ..........10-2 95 25 Others receiving votes: VCU 36, Kansas State 35, North Carolina 34, Kentucky 31, Wyoming 30, Wichita State 7, Colorado 6, Maryland 5, UConn 3, UCLA 2, Bucknell 1, Colorado State 1, Temple 1.

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 30, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ............................Record Pts Prv 1. Duke (63).............12-0 1,623 1 2. Michigan (2) ........13-0 1,547 2 3. Arizona ................12-0 1,474 3 4. Louisville..............12-1 1,434 4 5. Indiana.................12-1 1,378 5 6. Kansas ................11-1 1,313 6 7. Syracuse .............11-1 1,197 9 8. Ohio St. ...............10-2 1,079 10 9. Minnesota............12-1 978 11 10. Gonzaga............12-1 946 13 11. Illinois.................13-1 929 12 12. Missouri.............10-2 912 7 13. Florida..................9-2 810 14 14. Cincinnati...........12-1 761 8 15. Georgetown.......10-1 718 15 16. Creighton...........12-1 629 16 17. Butler .................10-2 591 18 18. Michigan St. ......11-2 447 19 19. San Diego St.....11-2 437 17 20. New Mexico.......13-1 389 — 21. Notre Dame.......12-1 361 21 22. Oklahoma St. ....10-1 333 22 23. NC State............10-2 270 23 24. Pittsburgh ..........12-1 219 24 25. Kansas St..........10-2 149 25 Others receiving votes: UNLV 52, North Carolina 38, Wyoming 28, Temple 21, VCU 15, Kentucky 13, Wichita St. 11, UConn 9, UCLA 6, Maryland 5, Oregon 3.

USA Today/ESPN Women's Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN Women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 31, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:

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Pts Pvs ............................Record 1. Connecticut (31)..12-0 775 2 2. Baylor...................10-1 732 3 3. Stanford...............11-1 707 1 4. Duke ....................11-0 691 4 5. Notre Dame.........11-1 654 5 6. Kentucky..............12-1 623 6 7. California .............10-1 579 8 8. Maryland .............10-2 548 9 9. Penn State...........10-2 501 10 10. Louisville............12-2 461 12 11. Georgia..............12-1 459 7 12. Oklahoma State 11-0 434 13 13. Tennessee ...........9-3 408 15 14. Purdue...............11-2 365 11 15. South Carolina ..12-1 349 16 16. Oklahoma..........10-2 290 17 17. UCLA...................9-2 252 18 18. Dayton ...............12-1 214 14 19. Nebraska...........10-3 183 19 20. Kansas ................9-2 166 20 21. Florida State......11-1 140 25 22. Texas A&M ..........9-4 134 22 23. North Carolina...13-1 101 23 24. Ohio State .........10-3 99 24 60 NR 25. Colorado............11-0 Others receiving votes: Iowa State 39; Syracuse 25; Arkansas 23; Miami (Fla.) 17; Toledo 10; Texas-El Paso 9; Vanderbilt 7; Kansas State 6; Iowa 4; Texas 3; DePaul 2; South Florida 2; West Virginia 2; Gonzaga 1.

The Women's Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 30, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Prv ............................Record 1. UConn (37)..........11-0 997 2 2. Baylor (3).............10-1 948 3 3. Duke ....................11-0 904 4 4. Stanford...............11-1 899 1 5. Notre Dame.........10-1 841 5 6. Kentucky..............11-1 799 7 7. California .............10-1 724 8 8. Maryland................9-2 703 9 9. Penn St................10-2 664 10 10. Georgia..............12-1 600 6 11. Louisville............11-2 563 12 12. Tennessee ...........9-3 557 13 13. Oklahoma St. ....10-0 504 14 14. Purdue...............11-2 444 11 15. North Carolina...13-1 403 16 16. UCLA...................8-2 350 17 17. Oklahoma..........10-2 312 18 18. South Carolina ..12-1 309 19 19. Florida St...........11-1 259 21 20. Colorado............11-0 224 23 21. Kansas ................9-2 183 22 22. Dayton ...............12-1 177 15 23. Arkansas ...........11-1 165 25 24. Texas A&M ..........9-4 135 24 81 — 25. Nebraska...........10-3 Others receiving votes: Miami 52, Iowa St. 50, Ohio St. 36, Vanderbilt 23, West Virginia 22, Syracuse 15, Michigan 13, Michigan St. 12, Iowa 10, Duquesne 9, UTEP 8, Texas 4, Villanova 1.

BASEBALL Baseball Calendar Jan. 9 — Hall of Fame voting announced.

Jan. 9-10 — Owners meeting, Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Jan. 15 — Salary arbitration filing.

Jan. 18 — Salary arbitration figures exchanged.

Feb. 1-21 — Salary arbitration hearings, Phoenix.

Feb. 12 — Mandatory reporting date for players participating in the World Baseball Classic in Asia. Mandatory reporting date for all other pitchers and catchers participating in the WBC. Voluntary reporting date for pitchers and catchers not participating in the WBC. Feb. 15 — Mandatory reporting date for WBC players not participating in Asia. Voluntary reporting date for position players not participating in the WBC. Feb. 20 — Mandatory reporting date for players not participating in the WBC. March 2-11 — Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players.

March 2-19 — World Baseball Classic.

March 13 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days.

March 27 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2013 salary.

March 31 — Opening day. Active rosters reduced to 25 players.

June 6 — Amateur draft.

July 12 — Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign.

July 16 — All-Star game, Citi Field, New York.

July 28 — Hall of Fame induction, Cooperstown, N.Y. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.

Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players.

Oct. 23 — World Series begins.

November TBA — Deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to their eligible former players who became free agents, fifth day after World Series.

November TBA — Deadline for free agents to accept qualifying offers, 12th day after World Series.

Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer 2014 contracts to unsigned players.

Dec. 9-12 — Winter meetings, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. 2014 July 15 — All-Star game, Minneapolis.

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday's Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS_Promoted Russ Brandon to president and chief executive officer.

CINCINNATI BENGALS_Signed WR Justin Hilton to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS_Signed DL Tracy Robertson to the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS_Signed K Billy Cundiff.

HOCKEY American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS_Recalled F Philippe Lefebvre from Wheeling (ECHL).

NORFOLK ADMIRALS_Announced F Corey Elkins was reassigned to Fort Wayne (ECHL). Announced F Luca Caputi and D Nick Schaus were returned to Fort Wayne. Signed G Jeff Deslauriers and F Dan Sexton to professional tryout contracts.

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■ College Football

Oregon’s Kelly a top NFL target once again SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.

(AP) — One of the first questions Oregon coach Chip Kelly was asked after arriving in Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl was about the possibility of coaching in the NFL. The are-you-going-to-theNFL questions haven’t let up in the five days since and only figure to pick up after seven coaches were fired Monday.

Deflection has been Kelly’s defense since the rumors started and it was no different after all those NFL openings cropped up.

“I’ve got a game to play,” Kelly said during the Fiesta Bowl’s media day on Monday.

“We’re playing in the Fiesta Bowl. That’s the biggest thing in my life. If I allowed other things to get into my life, then they would be distractions, but there aren’t.

Our focus 100 percent is on the Fiesta Bowl.”

Kelly has been an intriguing candidate for NFL teams for a few years.

The 49-year-old coach is known as an offensive innovator and his fast-paced, high-scoring offense has led to the most successful stretch in Oregon’s history.

The fifth-ranked Ducks have gone to four straight BCS bowl games, a run that includes a trip to the 2011 national championship game, Oregon’s first Rose Bowl win in 95 years last season and Thursday night’s Fiesta Bowl against No. 5 Kansas State at University of Phoenix Stadium.

The speculation over the past few years has been that Kelly has his eye on an NFL job and he even talked to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year before saying he had unfinished business in Eugene.

■ MLB

Indians ink RHP Myers CLEVELAND (AP) — Free agent Brett Myers is getting a fresh “start” with the Indians.

The veteran right-hander has agreed to a oneyear contract with a club option for 2014 with Cleveland, which will give him a chance to win a starting job after he pitched in relief last season for Houston and the Chicago White Sox. Myers’ deal is contingent on the 32-year-old passing a physical.

The Indians have several openings in their rotation with Justin Masterson and Ubaldo Jimenez appearing to be the only locks. Zach McAllister, David Huff, Trevor Bauer, Jeanmar Gomez and Carlos Carrasco are among the pitchers who will compete for the other spots.

Also, the Indians recently invited left-hander Scott Kazmir to spring training camp on a minor league deal.

Myers, who has started for most of his career, went a combined 3-8 with a 3.31 ERA and 19 saves in 70 games all in relief last season.

He made 33 starts in both 2010 and 2011 for the Astros, who moved him to the bullpen last season before trading him to the White Sox in July. Myers started on opening day in 2011 and went 7-14 while pitching 216 innings. He won 14 games in 2010.

Myers has a 97-93 career record with a 4.20 ERA in 249 starts. He also has 40 saves, and his versatility could give the Indians other options if he’s unable to win a starting job. He closed for Philadelphia in 2007 and had 21 saves.

The 6-foot-4, 240pounder spent eight seasons with the Phillies before signing as a free agent with Houston in 2010.

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SPORTS

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■ College Football

Florida insists Sugar Bowl foe Louisville is legit NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Florida seniors Jon Bostic and Omar Hunter are done dwelling on what might have been if not for their lone loss to Georgia.

After finishing third in the BCS standings, one spot too low to play for a national title in Miami, the Gators asserted they remain highly motivated heading into tonight’s Sugar Bowl against twotouchdown underdog Louisville.

Hunter even suggested a victory for fourth-ranked Florida (11-1) over No. 22 Louisville (10-2) would be a “program changer,” because Florida has not been to a BCS bowl game

since Tim Tebow left after the 2009 season.

Last year, the Gators nearly missed out on the postseason, finishing the regular season 6-6 before posting a 24-17 victory over Ohio State in the Gator Bowl. This season, only a 17-9 loss to Georgia on Oct. 27 got in their way.

“Being able to get this program back to a BCS game and possibly winning the game is big for our program,” Hunter said. “Being able to say that you brought Florida back to the top before you left is going to be special for these seniors.”

The Gators are hesitant to buy into the idea they’ll

just roll over the champions of the Big East without much resistance.

One reason is their familiarity with Louisville coach Charlie Strong, who was Florida’s defensive coordinator from 2003-09, a period that included national championships in the 2006 and 2008 seasons.

“I played for his defense and I know how he talked to us and got us ready for games and I know their defense is going to be ready,” Hunter said. “Coach Charlie Strong is a great coach. He’s going to give everything he has to those guys and those guys are going to come out ready.”

Strong has sought to

motivate his players by playing up their underdog status.

“Nobody really gives us a chance,” Louisville defensive end Marcus Smith said. “We kind of take that to heart and want to show everybody what we can do.”

Cardinals safety Calvin Pryor said he believes Louisville will “shock the world.”

“I have confidence in my team and the guys who I play with and I feel like this is a big statement game for us,” Pryor said. “I feel like we’re going to make big things happen on Wednesday.”

Strong said he may get

a little sentimental when he walks onto the Superdome field and sees some of the players he recruited on the other sideline and hears the Florida band play the fight songs with which he became so familiar over the years.

Yet the importance of the game for Strong has more to do with matching his team against an opponent from the Southeastern Conference, home to national title winners the past six years, than the fact he used to coach in the Swamp.

“It’s going to be key for our program because we have a chance to go play a Southeastern Conference

opponent, an opponent that’s one game away from playing for a national championship,” Strong said. “If you look at the Southeastern Conference, look at the national championships over the last few years, it speaks for itself. … Our team, they’re really excited about it.”

Strong had a chance to rejoin the SEC as Tennessee’s head coach, but chose instead to remain at Louisville, an indication of how far he believes he can take Cardinals football, particularly if he keeps prolific sophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewater around the next couple seasons.

■ National Football League

■ College Football Bowl Roundup

Peyton’s protege

Bowl Roundup

Osweiler: Nothing better than being Manning’s No. 2 ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

(AP) — All eyes were on Peyton Manning this season, especially Brock Osweiler’s.

He’s the Denver Broncos’ OTHER first-year quarterback, a 6-foot-8 passing project from Arizona State who’s the first signal-caller ever drafted with the intention of one day succeeding the league’s most decorated passer.

Osweiler bears a striking resemblance to “Twilight” actor Robert Pattinson, but what he really wants is to look more like Manning.

So, he’s taken advantage of his apprenticeship by watching Manning’s every move, scribbling copious notes and mimicking his mentor’s notorious work ethic and preparation.

“There’s no greater blueprint,” said Osweiler, who also hopes to pick up some pointers from another preeminent passer this offseason in Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, who waited in the wings for three years behind Brett Favre.

Osweiler said he’s thrilled to be in Manning’s shadow and insists he’ll gladly bide his time while learning as much as he can from one of the game’s greats.

Still, he says he’s ready if needed.

“With my experience that I took being the backup at ASU, I understand what it’s like to be thrown into the middle of a game,” Osweiler said. “So, I just study that game plan inside and out and prepare like I’m the starter so if anything ever did happen, I’m ready to go.”

If, heaven forbid, something should happen in the playoffs to the league’s only four-time MVP, the next man up is a guy who’s thrown all of four passes as a pro.

All of those throws came Sunday when Osweiler played the fourth quarter of Denver’s 38-3 blowout of Kansas City, his fifth NFL game but the first in which he didn’t just hand the ball off or line up in victory formation.

Osweiler, who handed off

Capitol One Bowl No. 6 Georgia 45, No. 23 Nebraska 31

AP PHOTO

Denver Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler warms up before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders Dec. 6 in Oakland, Calif. a dozen times before taking a knee three times, completed two passes for 12 yards in his three series of work Sunday.

“I’m not just here to hand off,” he said.

Or take a knee, although he admits he’s getting pretty good at that.

“I’ve got it down to where I’m taking only 1-yard losses,” he joked. “At first, I was taking 2-yard losses.”

All kidding aside, “those are game reps and those are hard to come by,” said Osweiler, who knows he might be called upon at some point to make sure Denver’s Super Bowl aspirations aren’t derailed.

Nobody, not even Osweiler himself, knows how he would handle the playoff pressure.

“I have confidence in

how he prepares, I have confidence in how he conducts himself in meetings. I have confidence in how he conducts himself in this locker room, on this field,” John Fox said. “But as a coach, until you see a guy play live in a game, you don’t know.

That’s not any kind of indictment, by any stretch.

But until he gets out there and you watch him operate, you won’t know. And neither will he, really.”

Osweiler takes no offense.

“Throughout the season I’ve made a great point to study the game plan each week inside and out so if anything did happen to him they could dial up whatever play they needed to and we wouldn’t skip a beat. Now, would that happen? Shoot, we would only know if I get

thrown into that situation,” Osweiler said.

As Manning’s backup, Osweiler only gets a handful of throws each week at practice, but he does get to pick the perfectionist’s brain while Caleb Hanie runs the scout team.

Osweiler doesn’t just stay on the sideline, either; he stands behind the offense “so I can try to see what Peyton’s seeing and I use that as a mental rep and put myself through the play.”

Manning quickly answered all questions about his arm strength after missing all of last season while dealing with a nerve issue in his neck, putting up numbers this season worthy of a fifth MVP award while guiding the Broncos (13-3) to the top seed in the AFC.

■ College Athletics

Big East ‘unwilling’ to accomodate Boise NEW YORK (AP) — Big East tried to work a deal to keep Boise State on board, but was “unwilling” to give the Broncos the deal that kept them in the Mountain West.

“We worked hard with Boise,” Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday. “We explored a lot of different ways to keep them.

No question.

Ultimately, we were unwilling to do the things they wanted. Our membership was unwilling to make the deal the Mountain West made with them.”

Boise State had committed to play football in the

■ CONTINUED FROM 14 Michigan yielded.

Gardner was 18 of 36, including TD passes of 5 yards to Drew Dileo and 10 and 17 yards to Jeremy Gallon, who gave Michigan its late lead and finished with career bests of nine receptions and 145 yards.

Robinson set the NCAA record for career yards rushing by a quarterback, hiking his four-year total to 4,495.

Big East, starting in 2013.

But the school announced Monday it was reversing course and staying in the Mountain West.

The Mountain West recently reworked its television contract with CBS Sports Network to allow the conference to sell packages of its games to other networks. The deal will allow teams that appear on national TV more often to make more money. Also, the league agreed to sell Boise State home games in a separate package.

The Mountain West also agreed to allow teams in its conference that play in BCS games and the equivalent when the new post-

season system starts in 2014 to keep half the money. The rest of the conference will split the other half. In most leagues, all bowl money is shared equally.

That deal, added to the most recent defections from the Big East that caused even more instability in that league, caused Boise State to change course.

San Diego State, another Mountain West team currently committed to play football in the Big East in 2013, also is reconsidering.

“I don’t know the deal with San Diego State,” Aresco said. “That could come clear in the next few

days. We’re in close touch with them.”

Without San Diego State, the Big East has 10 schools committed for next season: Current members Connecticut, Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple, Louisville and Rutgers, plus newcomers Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston. Louisville (ACC) and Rutgers (Big Ten) have announced they are leaving. While the departure date for each is uncertain, it would be surprising if either is in the conference beyond 2013.

The Big East had hoped to have a 12-team, coast-tocoast football conference, with a championship game.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Aaron Murray threw five touchdown passes to set a Georgia bowl record, including two in the fourth quarter, and the sixth-ranked Bulldogs beat No. 23 Nebraska 45-31 in the Capital One Bowl on Tuesday.

Murray shook off a pair of first-half interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, and passed for 427 yards also a Bulldogs bowl record against the nation’s top-ranked passing defense. He was named the game’s most valuable player.

Georgia (12-2) reached 12 wins for the third time in school history.

Nebraska (10-4) lost its third consecutive bowl game, and finished the season with two straight woeful defensive performances. The Cornhuskers lost the Big Ten championship game 7031.

The Cornhuskers led 2423 at the half, but committed two of their three turnovers in the final 30 minutes. Taylor Martinez had two interceptions and two touchdown passes for Nebraska and Rex Burkhead rushed for 140

yards in his final college game.

Gator Bowl No. 21 Northwestern 34, Miss. St. 20

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Behind huge interceptions early and late, Northwestern beat Mississippi State 34-20 in the Gator Bowl and snapped college football’s longest postseason losing streak.

The Wildcats (10-3) earned their first bowl win since 1949, ending a ninegame losing skid that was tied for the longest in NCAA history. They also celebrated double-digit victories for the first time since the 1995 Rose Bowl season.

Heart of Dallas Bowl Okla. St. 58, Purdue14 DALLAS — Clint Chelf threw three of Oklahoma State’s five touchdown passes and the Cowboys shook off a disappointing Big 12 finish by dominating Purdue 58-14 in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

The Cowboys, a year removed from a Fiesta Bowl win that capped the best season in school history, forced five turnovers and had another short TD drive after a 64-yard punt return from Josh Stewart.

It was the biggest bowl win for Oklahoma State since coach Mike Gundy was the quarterback in a 62-14 rout of Wyoming in the 1988 Holiday Bowl. The Cowboys (8-5) missed out on uppertier bowls after narrow losses in their last two Big 12 games.

• Discover Orange Bowl

Florida State led Northern Illinois 14-3 at halftime Tuesday night. The game was not complete at time of press.

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With impressive defense of its own, Wisconsin still stayed in position for an upset in the one-game return of Hall of Fame coach Barry Alvarez, who was back on the Badgers’ sideline in his red sweater-vest seven years after hanging up his whistle.

“This group of kids has been through a lot, and they competed extremely hard against a very highquality team,” Alvarez said. “We’ve played three very good football games (at the Rose Bowl). These guys played hard. In fact, most people would like to get here once. But we just didn’t get it done.”

Kelsey Young rushed for a score on Stanford’s opening possession, and Taylor scored on the second. Wisconsin kept the Cardinal out of the end zone for the final 51 minutes, holding them to three points in the second half, but Stanford’s defense didn’t need any more help in the Cardinal’s eighth straight victory.

“We knew coming in, it was going to be a physical game,” Taylor said. “We

knew they know how to play against power as well as us. They did a great job.

It was our defense keeping us in the game that enabled us to get this win.”

After winning the Orange Bowl two years ago and losing the Fiesta Bowl last season, Stanford earned its first conference title and its first Rose Bowl berth in 13 years.

The Cardinal finished with 12 victories for just the second time in school history and the second time in the last three years.

The Cardinal ousted top-ranked Oregon on the way to the biggest season yet in the improbable surge of success started by Jim Harbaugh and Andrew Luck. Many Pac12 observers expected a sharp decline at Stanford this season but Shaw and Hogan, who took over as the starting quarterback in November, have accomplished something even Harbaugh and Luck couldn’t manage.

“I think it served as some motivation for us throughout the year,” Amanam said. “I think it’s just a testament to our program and how we train and prepare every season.”