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UK 68, UNC 66
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UK students celebrate during the Cats 68-66 victory over North Carolina. Many fans painted up, displayed signs and wore festive headwear.
Heel of a good time LAST TIME UK BEAT UNC Year: Jan. 3, 2004 Score: 61-56 Head coaches: UK: Tubby Smith UNC: Roy Williams Leading scorer that game: UK: Gerald Fitch (21 points) UNC: Melvin Scott (16 points) The No. 8 Cats beat the visiting No. 9 Tar Heels 61-56 to improve to 9-1 on the season. Fitch scored 15 of his game-high 21 points in the second half. Fitch scored 25 points in the two teams’ previous meeting. UNC led 28-20 at halftime and had held Fitch to 2-of-8 shooting in the half. In the second half, with Fitch heating up, the Cats’ Chuck Hayes and Erik Daniels were able to cash in down low in the paint. UNC guard Raymond Felton hit a 3-pointer with 56 seconds left to cut UK’s lead to 57-56. Fitch then answered with a 23-foot 3-pointer with just four seconds remaining on the shot clock to make it 60-56. The Cats ended up winning the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division, and the SEC Tournament. They earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament but lost in the second round to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 75-76.
Victory over North Carolina provides Cats, Wall with a ‘foundation win’ John Calipari doesn’t want you to forget all his team’s shortcomings. “Oh, we’re not back. We’re not very good,” said Calipari, pointing out some silly turnovers and apparent confusion out of timeouts. But UK, without Do-ItAll John Wall for a large chunk in the second half, withstood a late charge by JAMES the mighty North Carolina PENNINGTON — defending national chamKernel pions, lest we forget — and columnist defeated the Tar Heels for the first time since Chuck Hayes and Kelenna Azubuike were wearing Kentucky blue. Whether or not UK is “back,” we still don’t know. But Saturday’s win validated the Cats’ top-five ranking. Young still, but as Calipari put it: “We have a will to win.” UK had to face an opponent unlike any it had seen so far under Calipari. Each Tar Heel player entered and exited the arena wearing a suit. Coach Roy Williams didn’t sport a suit because of his injured shoulder, but his freshly fitted national championship ring sure did shimmer under the Rupp Arena lights. For the first time this season, the Cats had more reason to feel intimidated than their opponent. And despite all that, and despite falling behind 9-2 early on, the Cats put a little faith behind the voters confident enough in their talent to rank them No. 4 in the Associated Press poll.
By the end of its blinding run, UK turned a seven-point deficit into a 19-point lead, a 31-5 spree that spanned just under nine minutes. Quite a will to win. But who knew what to expect when UK’s lead slowly dwindled down to a single possession? This year’s team had played just one game against a major-conference team, and it certainly had never felt the pressure of weathering the storm against a giant like North Carolina. Methodically working throughout the second half, the Tar Heels closed the gap to two points — the closest they had been since early in the first half — with 32 seconds left. Immediately to be tested was UK’s free-throw shooting which had been, kindly put, awful. But don’t forget about that will to win. Bledsoe, sitting on the bench, didn’t ask Calipari to go in the game so he could hit free throws. He told him. “I’m really comfortable and don’t get distracted shooting free throws,” Bledsoe said. “I know I’m going to knock them down.” Indeed, Bledsoe hit 3-of-4 foul shots in the final 30 seconds to help seal the win. “We’re a young team but no matter how bad we play, we know how to win,” he said. With UK’s uncanny team speed and knack for feeding off emotion, it’s likely the Cats will continue to open up big leads early in games the rest of the year. And no matter how much film a team watches, it may take a few minutes to get a real-life gauge on just how explosive Wall is with the ball. But what the Cats proved against North Carolina is what will matter more come postseason play. Against a brand-name opponent and maybe without a key player — Wall, for instance — how will the team react? Will players See Pennington on page 4
Explaining John Wall’s muscle cramps What to do when a muscle cramps When a muscle is stretched beyond its normal range or suddenly tightened, it may go into a painful spasm – a cramp.
The classic cramp A person is sleeping in bed or just awakening and moves or stretches Suddenly her calf muscle contracts violently A hard knot can be clearly seen in the center of the calf muscle; it feels hard and tense
Cramped quarters A person sits in an awkward position, and a muscle suddenly cramps
Over-exertion A person not accustomed to vigorous exercise gets leg cramps after a brisk walk Massaging the muscle and stretching it gently helps reduce the pain and end the spasm
Usually not a cause for concern These common sorts of cramps normally last only a few minutes and are not a cause for concern If other symptoms accompany it, the cramp may be caused by an underlying medical problem; these are some possibilities: Heat exhaustion brought on by exposure to extreme heat; person’s skin becomes pale and clammy; dizziness, faintness, rapid breathing and cramps follow Circulatory disorders can cause repeated cramps after walking
SOURCE: AMA Family Medical Guide; American Red Cross
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Caring for the young: Student Studio opens doors for art majors starts club to help kids, puppies By Maria Jennings
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When elementary education sophomore Logan Bright transferred to UK from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, she brought an idea with her. While attending Wittenberg, Bright saw something she liked — 4 Paws For Ability, an organization that allows offcampus students to take in a puppy while helping children in need. Now, Bright is trying to start the program at UK. The organization, based out of Xenia, Ohio, works with families or students to train and place service dogs where they are needed, according to the organization’s Web site. Bright said as of now, she and another girl are the only people who have committed to the project, and at least five people are needed to form an organization at UK. Bright said she wanted to get involved with the program because she is compassionate about community service. “It’s kind of a way to show people
that community service is more than just work,” she said. “It can be fun as well.” Bright said all expenses, including dog food, toys and shots would be paid for by the 4 Paws For Ability organization and over breaks she would be taking the dogs to stay at the headquarters in Xenia. Karen Shirk, executive director of the organization, said the headquarters usually gives volunteers enough supplies for about three months. After the first three months, the volunteers will have to bring the dog back, show how the dog is doing and then they will get more supplies. Shirk said the dogs receive toys, food, a crate, medicine and necessities. Dogs that students would be getting would be between five and six months old and potty-trained and know basic commands, Bright said. Shirk said the purpose of having foster parents serving as trainers for the puppies is to get the dogs used to being around people. “They’re responsible to take the puppies out to stores and live with the
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About 1,000 people gathered together at the Reynolds Building Friday for the College of Fine Arts’ 20th annual open studio. The studio showcased a multitude of student art projects that included printing, performance art, installation art, fiber art and ceramics, while providing entertainment that included live portrait paintings, ceramic bowl sales and live jazz. Nicci Gilland and Erica Sanko, both art seniors specializing in photography, said the open studio is
a payoff for all the hard work they do throughout the semester. Gilland displayed 19 photos of men and women to promote healthy body images. The photos represented how people want others to see them and how they see themselves. “I personally feel strongly about body image. Young women’s hair, clothes and body should be trivial,” Gilland said. “But it shows how people treat you and how you treat yourself.” Like Gilland, Sanko used her art to try and See Art on page 2
Film to promote living sustainably “No Impact Man,” a documentary about a family that attempts to reduce its carbon footprint over a one-year period, will be shown at Worsham Theatre Monday at 7 p.m. In the film, Colin Beavan attempts to decrease his and his family’s use of resources by giving up things like TV, taxis and takeout, and turns to more greenfriendly options like walking and bicycling. The most important lesson students can learn from the film
is that habit change is within their power, said Ellen Usher, assistant professor in educational and counseling psychology, in an email to the Kernel on Sunday. “Changing our habits may not be easy, but it is essential to a better way of life,” she said. The Student Sustainability Council and UK Greenthumb will host the showing, and a post-film discussion will take place to address ways to live sustainably in Lexington. To view the documentary
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Williams back with more heart After heart surgery comes rehab, walking, then maybe some laps in the pool, slowly regaining strength and stamina. For Robin Williams, who had heart surgery in March, rehab meant more than time on the treadmill. The famously manic comic also needed to regain his strength on stage, to make sure he had the stamina for a full set, and maybe even to reassure himself that he was still funny. Williams, 58, was in the middle of the "Self Destruction" tour, in Florida, when he had trouble breathing and was hospitalized. He later underwent replacement of his aortic Williams valve, an operation that felt less routine because his older brother Robert had died after heart surgery in 2007. By July, when Williams met with TV critics in Los Angeles to talk about his new HBO special, the surgery had become a series of punch lines. "I had the surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, and I woke up going, 'Where am I?' And they said, 'Cleveland.' And I kept going, 'Why?'" "You go in, and they really tell you that you're going to get a cow valve." No problem: "The grazing is easy." But Williams acknowledged that the experience changed him, and he seemed thoughtful and unusually subdued during a half-hour Q&A session, joking a lot but going off on few wild tangents. Recent years have been especially turbulent for Williams. In addition to his surgery and his brother's death,
he entered treatment in 2006 for a relapse of alcohol abuse, and his marriage of almost 20 years broke up last year. Then, the heart surgery, which "really opens you up, literally." During an appearance afterward with David Letterman, whose "quintuple bypass trumps me big time," Letterman leaned over during the break and asked, "Do you find yourself getting emotional?" Williams' response: "Oh, yeah." The recuperation, which meant taking three months off, wasn't all smooth sailing. "Coming back out of it, you think, 'I'm going to be fine,'" he said. "And then the first few months, you're like, 'Not really.'" Eventually, "You really do appreciate the simplest things like breath and friends," and you decide, "Yeah, I've got to keep going, just take it a little slower." Williams has been back on the road, updating and polishing the act, since summer. But asked about his biggest personal accomplishments, he said, "My three children. All of them astonish me." Contrary to the title of his recent movie, "I'm not the world's greatest dad. I'm a work in progress. But I'm so proud of them." Son Zak, 26, "graduated from NYU with a degree in linguistics." Daughter Zelda, 20, "has been acting and doing mainly horror movies, which is always great. 'We loved it when you got slashed. It was so good.' And my other son (Cody, 18) is writing, studying poetry and literature and art history. All of these things, to me, that's the ultimate production deal." COPYRIGHT 2008 US WEEKLY
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puppy would go through an application process. She said a trainer responsible for the program would then go over the application, meet with the applicant and determine whether or not he or she is capable of handling a puppy and has enough time for the puppy. “As long as she (the trainer) feels that they’re a good candidate, then they can become a provider,” Shirk said. Applications for UK’s startup program are due to Bright Friday, Dec. 11. To learn more about how to get involved with UK’s organization, e-mail her at brightl02@uky.edu.
of the Reynolds Building. “My project isn’t political or about waste problems. It’s about visuals,” Sanko said. “About getting people out of the box — not all art is black and white and hanging from white walls. I want to push my peers to think in new ways.” Travis Shaffer, third year
fine arts graduate student, said organization of the event began in the beginning of the school year. Shaffer said participants met biweekly to prepare the exhibit. “This exhibition gives students exposure,” he said. “Some have even sold work to exhibition in Chicago.”
CORRECTION In a Kernel brief Friday, the Kernel wrote that the shuttle running from campus to Fayette Mall would be operating on Dec. 14. The shuttle will be running on Sunday, Dec. 13.
Horoscope To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — People are drawn to you like magic. Do you know what to do with that energy? Choose constructive change every time. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — How many irons do you have in the fire? Probably too many. Choose wisely and you'll get a lot done. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — You may get more done today than all of last week. You have brilliant ideas, practical means, and people with whom to share ideas. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Pressure is applied
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — This is going to be a busy day. Convince others to work with you. Show results to a superior by day's end.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — You get a feel for how to bring an idea into the real world. Words and a little bit of elbow grease accomplish the desired result. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — You may have to give up your independent attitude so that detailed work gets done. Then, do the writing in seclusion if possible. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Apply yourself to the task of understanding what others really mean. This requires patience and good questions. (C) 2009 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
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Dean to hold new position By Nick Rhodes news@kykernel.com
One of UK’s own, Stephen Wyatt, has been chosen as the new president of the Council on Education for Public Health. Laura Rasar King, executive director of CEPH, said Wyatt was elected because of his experience on the board and his skill. “He’s a good leader who focuses on relationships. It’s a combination of his three years of experience and skill,” King said. Wyatt, who now serves as the dean of the College of Public Health, will take office on Jan. 1. “The board assures the quality of education. Students invest substantial amounts of time and money into school.” Wyatt said. “It is important for us to insure they are getting the best education possible.”
Cats and Tigers face off in Music City bowl for second time By Ben Jones bjones@kykernel.com
For the second time in four years, UK (7-5, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) will face the Clemson Tigers (8-5, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) in the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, as announced Sunday night. It is UK’s third Music City Bowl appearance in the last four years and fifth appearance overall in the game, the most of any school. “It definitely could have been a lot worse,” said UK head coach Rich Brooks about his team’s bowl destination. “Just ask a few of the other teams that are going other places, they’re upset they aren’t going where we are. We’re upset that we aren’t going where somebody else is going.” UK defeated Clemson 28-20 in the 2006 Music City Bowl. Playing in the 2006 and 2007
Music City Bowls, against Clemson and Florida State, respectively, gives UK a unique advantage most teams don’t experience when they arrive in a strange city to prepare for a bowl game. Brooks said the team is already familiar with the practice facilities, hotel and meeting areas. The Cats will hold their first team meeting in Nashville on Dec. 22 and remain in the city in preparation for the Dec. 27 game, which will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. CDT. The team will remain in Nashville on Christmas Day as it prepares for the Tigers. “I don’t know if they’ve got a
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Santa costume that fits me or not, but I know my players don’t think I’m Santa anyway,” Brooks said. Clemson, which lost to Georgia Tech on Saturday night in the ACC Championship game, features one of the nation’s top tailbacks in senior C.J. Spiller. Spiller has rushed for more than 1,100 yards this season and piled up more than 2,500 all purpose yards while helping out on kickoff and punt returns. Spiller had five carries for 24 yards in the 2006 Music City Bowl. “He’s extremely fast. We saw him a little bit his freshman year,” senior defensive tackle Corey Peters said. “It’s going to be a challenge. Hopefully, practicing against (junior tailback ) Derrick (Locke) all week will get us prepared for it, but it’s definitely going to be a challenge. He’s one of the premiere backs in the country.”
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KERNEL EDITORIAL BOARD Kenny Colston, editor in chief Austin Schmitt, asst. opinions editor Melissa Vessels, managing editor Ben Jones, sports editor Allie Garza, managing editor Megan Hurt, features editor Wesley Robinson, opinions editor The opinions page provides a forum for the exchange of ideas. Unlike news stories, the Kernel’s unsigned editorials represent the views of a majority of the editorial board. Letters to the editor, columns, cartoons and other features on the opinions page reflect the views of their authors and not necessarily those of the Kernel.
UK athletics, students win with scholarship donation KERNEL EDITORIAL One of UK's more honorable scholarships recently received an extra boost from athletics, in a move that will quell some of its critics. Too often UK athletics takes heat for the cost of facilities, the money it brings in and what it is dedicated to, and the priority it takes over the rest of the university. Moreover, most of the criticism is understandable, as it is tough to explain a highly-compensated coach, proposed new arenas and a new dorm to students as tuition incrementally increases, fees are added and dorms are in disrepair. However, in this case UK athletics is making a substantial, much-needed donation to the Robinson Scholars Program — adding to the $1.2 million it gives to various UK scholarship initiatives. According to a Dec. 1 Kernel article, UK athletics pledged $500,000 annually to expand the Robinson Scholars Program and other scholarships for students from eastern Kentucky. The Robinson Scholars Program, founded in 1996, serves first-
generation, college-bound and college students who might encounter economic, cultural or institutional obstacles to four-year college degrees, according to the program’s Web site. Provost Kumble Subbaswamy said the commitment from UK athletics would help increase the number of eastern Kentucky students able to enter the program as eighth-grade students and complete the college preparatory portion of the program. It will also provide additional needbased scholarships for other Appalachian students. “This gift from athletics will help ensure that when these scholarships are competitively awarded in the senior year of high school, the funds will be there,” Subbaswamy said. Everyone wins here as a group of students is able to have the best experience possible at UK, athletics’ goodwill gesture receives good publicity and UK looks like a university that cares about all of its populations. It doesn't fix the imperfect system that prioritizes certain things over others, but the small steps count.
WILLIAM KILUBA, Kernel cartoonist
Cats sweep Oregon, advance to Sweet 16 By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
PHOTO BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFF
Ramon Harris celebrates with John Wall, who led the Cats for most of the game despite being sidelined with cramps.
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forget about aches, pains or cold shooting nights and find a way to win? Based on Saturday’s game, on a CBS-televised stage as big as any between now and March, the Cats’ will to win is in pretty good shape. If Wall’s feeling good, I’m not sure anyone
this side of Dwight Howard standing in front of a brick wall could stop him. But if Wall has to sit for a few minutes, a half or even a whole game, Calipari isn’t out of luck. In fact, he’s still in pretty good shape. Even if he thinks his team has a lot to work on, a win against North Carolina is as solid a foundation as one could have. James Pennington is a journalism senior. E-mail jpennington@kykernel.com.
The UK volleyball team broke through a wall that was built in five years of frustration and futility with three sets of dominant defense and opportunistic offense. The Cats, ranked No. 13 but not seeded in the NCAA tournament, swept 14-seeded Oregon 3-0 (25-20, 25-22, 2517) to move into the Sweet 16 of the tournament. UK had never advanced beyond the second round in any of the five seasons under UK head coach Craig Skinner. The victory is just the third time the Cats have ever reached the Sweet 16, and it’s their first since 1992. “It’s a great feeling to be where we’re at,” senior setter Sarah Rumely said. “We didn’t accomplish one goal (winning the SEC championship), but it’s a whole new tournament time.” UK’s defense showed up at an opportune time. The Cats tallied a season-high 17 blocks as defense shaded toward the middle of the court to shut down Oregon AllAmerican Sonja Newcombe. “Our blocking has been OK, but it really turned out tonight, and that is critical in the NCAA tournament,” Skinner said. “We work on defense every single day and it was bound to come through.”
Oregon managed just a .143 hitting percentage and committed 26 errors. “Our defense was late to bloom, but it started at the right time,” junior middle blocker Lauren Rapp said. Rapp anchored the wall of hands that turned away the Oregon attack, totaling a career-high 10 blocks. The defense blocked three straight shots during the third and final set to propel UK to a threepoint cushion they wouldn’t relinquish on the way to victory. “Blocking shots are the biggest momentum booster,” Rapp said. “That string of three blocks was so much fun and gave off so much energy.” Behind the sudden and drastic improvement of the defense, the offense simply needed to be solid rather than spectacular. The Cats ran an efficient offense that collected 42 kills to go along with a .280 hit percentage. Junior outside hitter Sarah Mendoza led the charge with 14 kills. Five other players had at least four kills in a balanced attack. “We set up really well,” Skinner said. “We were assertive and aggressive. We stayed very structured and disciplined in the game plan.” Despite their disappointing end to the regular season, the Cats were all smiles all the way through Becky Pavan’s spike that sealed the win and sent the players into a hud-
Off the Wall: Cats squeeze past Carolina By Metz Camfield mcamfield@kykernel.com
John Wall got the rebound off a missed 3-pointer by North Carolina senior guard Marcus Ginyard. He raced down court with the ball, eyes looking in every direction like a running back trying to find the hole to get into the endzone. He did a quick cross over to fake the defender out and soared into the air for a two-handed slam dunk. The Rupp Arena record crowd of 24,468 fans in attendance broke out into euphoria. Seven minutes and 43 seconds later, UK had scored 26 more points, and UNC had only scored two. It was less than four minutes into the game and it only put UK to within five points of the visiting No. 10 Tar Heels. But Wall’s dunk became the catalyst to a 28-2 run that would give UK a 30-11 lead and propel the Cats to a 68-66 victory over the defending national champions. “I thought (Wall) was terrific,” UK head coach John Calipari said. The freshman from Raleigh, N.C. scored 13 points in the first half and dished out five assists. But just over one minute into the second half, Wall called a timeout and limped off the floor cramping all over his body. As Wall limped off, as did the Cats’ lead. What was once a 19-point lead in the first half got trimmed down to a seven-point lead as the Tar Heels immediately went on an 8-0 run before Calipari called timeout. Earlier in the season Calipari said he was happy that UK had played in some close games before and had played from
behind. Now, after playing without their lead guard for just over seven minutes, Calipari said he was happy his team got the experience of playing in his absence.
“It doesn’t matter if you turn it over and play awful, at the end of the day, you win.” JOHN CALIPARI UK head coach
“We had to play without John against a good team and we had to just figure it out,” Calipari said. “When another team makes a run at us, let’s see what we do. You have to understand how to play to finish it off.” Standing in the Cats’ way of getting Wall back onto the court was a needle. Wall, who admittedly does not like needles at all, was in the locker room for awhile trying to get an IV to put extra fluids into his body. There were conflicting stories after the game as to why it took so long. “They had to go to the crowd to get his mom so that she could talk to him and rub his head a little bit and they could put the IV in,” Calipari said. “That’s why it took so long.” Wall disagreed. “No, my mom was not back there,” Wall said. “They just had trouble finding a vein.” With Wall not playing at 100 percent upon coming back into the game, fellow freshman guard Eric Bledsoe had to step up. Bledsoe, who had struggled with his
shot and decision making for the majority of the game, told Calipari to put him back in as Calipari walked down the bench. With under two minutes to play, Bledsoe hit a layup to put the Cats back up by seven, and went five of six at the free throw line in the final 2:31. “What Eric did is a lesson for all of them,” Calipari said. “It doesn’t matter if you turn it over and play awful, at the end of the day, you win.” In what looked like a blowout early, a feisty UNC squad kept fighting and trimmed the lead to two with 32.4 seconds remaining. UNC head coach Roy Williams said he believed at halftime his team would be in it at the end of the game and if they could get over the hump with one possession that they would have a chance. Wall and the Cats said they too knew UNC wasn’t over yet. “Basketball is based on a couple of runs,” Wall said. “… We knew the game wasn’t over because there was 20 minutes left and anybody can make a run and it sounded like they knew they were going to make a run back at us.” Much was made prior to the game about the lack of recruitment on UNC’s part toward Wall, the No. 1 point guard prospect in the country. With a victory in hand over the Heels, Wall said the win was special, but it doesn’t necessarily mean UK is back on the national scene. “(This win over UNC) doesn’t mean we’re back,” Wall said. “We still have a lot of work to do. When we get back into the gym, we have to keep going hard in practice and listen to what Coach Cal is saying. But it just shows that we keep maturing and we keep getting better.”
Members of the UK volleyball team celebrate after sweeping Oregon in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN STAFF
dled, dancing frenzy. “The team deserves a lot of credit for how they responded,” Skinner said. “We don’t want to just participate [in the tournament]. It’s very difficult to get to the point where players believe you can get to regionals.”
UK now moves on to play third-seeded Florida State on Dec. 11 in Minneapolis. “The Mall of America was a big enough motivation,” Skinner said. “But this is a team that is never satisfied, and I don’t anticipate that changing anytime soon.”