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Cats continue to work out imperfections despite perfect record >> PAGE 3
UK POINT GUARD TYLER ULIS GOES UP FOR A FLOATER DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE UK VS. MISSOURI GAME ON JANUARY 13, 2015. PHOTO BY CAMERON SADLER
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 an 8 — Opposites attract, big time. Abundance is available, if you work for it. Avoid a conflict of interests at work. Nurture family while expanding your career. Taurus ( April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — It's getting easier to advance now. Don't rock the boat, deplete savings or forget a deadline. Be cautious when others get impetuous. An important message arrives from afar. Gemini ( May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Stick with a tough domestic beautification job and see it through. Clean up a mess. Don't overlook what your partner needs. Consider unspoken desires. Anticipate a fuss, and offer a compromise. Wait to see what develops. Cancer ( June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Financial messes could get expensive. Hold onto what's most important. Watch for hidden agendas. Others are encouraging, but don't launch until you're ready. Brainstorm with co-workers. Outside obligations could interfere with private time. Rest later. Leo ( July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Cash rolls in. Save more than you spend. You don't have as much as you'd like yet. Avoid unnecessary quarrels. Present your moneymaking ideas with compassion. Anticipate some disagreement. Avoid provoking jealousies. Entertain suggestions. Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Carefully complete your work before deadline. Associates help out. It's a good time to buy or make objects of art or beauty. You have romantic confidence, but someone else may be shy. Patiently offer kindnesses.
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SUDOKU
Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Today is good for laying low in contemplation. Avoid frivolity and fuss. Do constructive dreaming, picturing a particular job completed perfectly. Meet confrontation with generosity, in a disagreement about priorities. Scorpio ( Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Don't let an argument among friends slow the action. Calmly stand up for yourself (or another). Let your thoughts settle before blurting out. There may be hidden elements. Sagittarius ( Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — A new rung on your career ladder looks possible, but may take time to achieve. Go for it, even if you don't know how. Patiently resolve a communications breakdown. Learn from an expert, without rushing. Capricorn ( Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Travels could stall over a financial matter. Pad the budget for extra expenses, and spend carefully. Your work assignment is unclear, possibly changing. Protect your reputation by keeping deadlines. Stay out of someone else's argument. Aquarius ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — File papers and double-check reservations and financial statements. Organization saves time later. Venture farther afield, carefully. Your partner may have other plans... stay in communication to avoid silly arguments. Pisces ( Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Settle into some quiet time with your mate. Brainstorm and speculate different possibilities. Write down the best ideas. List what you would love to learn. They may not want the same things. Compromise gracefully. MCT
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SPORTS
Perfection expected from imperfect Cats KEVIN ERPENBECK kerpenbeck@kykernel.com
With a perfect record come high expectations. The No. 1 team in the nation still has a zero in the loss column with nine games remaining in the regular season. But the unblemished record doesn’t mean UK will play perfectly every game, head coach John Calipari said. “‘You need to be perfect. You’re Kentucky,’” Calipari said, imitating the scrutiny he’s heard towards UK. It also does not mean the Cats are as bad as the scrutiny suggests. “A friend called me this morning and said, ‘Someone went on a show and said Kentucky is not that good offensively.’ Really?” Calipari said. “We’re like ninth in the country in efficiency, and that’s our issue. I’m happy if that’s our issue.” UK sits near the top of the conference in several statistical columns before its game against Florida Saturday. The Cats have 848 rebounds this season, just one away from LSU’s SEC-leading 848. They’re also .01 away from leading the conference in assistsper-turnover. That will not stop people from overanalyzing the team though, Calipari said. “We’re not shooting 88 percent (from the floor), 99 percent from the free throw line,” Calipari said. “We don’t rebound every missed shot, which is crazy. I don’t know why we don’t; I’m on these guys about it.” For UK, it’s about playing consistent basketball for an entire game. In Tuesday’s win
over Georgia, the Cats’ biggest lead was 18 points early in the second half. But the Bulldogs battled back, trailing by just five points with two minutes remaining before UK pulled away. Freshman guard Tyler Ulis said the team has to keep its focus throughout the game if it’s going to improve on its few imperfections. “I feel like we’re playing good in the first half,” Ulis said. “We just have to extend that
UK softball won its season opener against Florida A&M with a 4-2 final and is now 7-1 in season openers under head coach Rachel Lawson. The Cats opened up the game in the first inning after senior catcher Griffin Joiner hit a sacrifice fly into leftfield, sending junior outfielder Sylver Samuel home after she got on base with a triple. Florida A&M tied the game up in the second inning with a run-batted-in-single, but UK regained the lead in the third inning after Samuel hit an RBI-single of her own.
After extending their lead in the fifth inning, junior third baseman Nikki Sagermann connected for a home run in the sixth inning, giving the Cats a 4-1 lead with the first homer of the year. The blast was Sagermann’s 21st of her career, moving her into eighth place in UK’s career home run list. The Rattlers cut into the Cats’ lead in the bottom of the sixth inning thanks to an RBI-double, but ultimately did not have enough to rally for the win. UK sophomore pitcher Meagan Prince pitched the entire game and had a career-
Hoops seek back-to-back victories Cats need focus for second half KEVIN ERPENBECK kerpenbeck@kykernel.com
UK guard Tyler Ulis defends against Georgia guard Taylor Echols at Rupp Arena on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 in Lexington, Ky.
and try to do our best for both halves of the game and don’t come out the second half slowing the game down.” Ulis also said it’s about coming into a game expecting to get the best from their opponents, even from a 12-10 Florida team. “I expect them to come out playing the best they’ve ever played, hitting shots, making threes,” Ulis said. “We just have to come out ready to play no matter what their record is.
UK Hoops has not lost back-to-back games all season. Conversely, it has not won back-to-back games in a month, either. Consistency has been a hard thing for the Cats to achieve. In Sunday’s win over Georgia, the Cats had a 17-point first-half lead. But they squandered it in the second half, giving the Bulldogs the lead with less than nine minutes remaining. Part of the reason why UK surrendered such a huge lead in the second half was that they allowed Georgia to shoot 55 percent from the floor. After holding the Bulldogs to a 38 field goal percentage in the first half, the Cats came out with “low-energy plays” and looked out of focus defensively, according to head coach Matthew Mitchell. That kind of one-half basketball can’t continue if the Cats want to win consistently, SEE HOOPS PAGE 5
UK Softball defeats Florida A&M in season opener high 11 strikeouts on the night. She allowed just one earned run in five hits and a walk. The complete game was Prince’s second of her career in nine total starts. In total, the Cats collected seven hits and were walked three times by Florida A&M freshman pitcher Kenya Pereira. UK will remain in Tallahassee, Fla. to play No. 5 Florida State and Georgia Southern on Saturday as part of the Renegade Classic road trip. The Cats will play both teams again on Sunday as well.
NEXT GAME Who: Kentucky vs. Florida State When: Saturday at 12 p.m. Where: Tallahassee, Fla.
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SPORTS
Back injury forces Tiger Woods to withdraw CHRIS DUFRESNE Los Angeles Times
LA JOLLA, Calif. — The Tiger Woods saga continued Thursday when a back injury forced him to withdraw from the Farmers Insurance Open. Woods called it quits after hitting his tee shot on the par-three third hole on the North Course. Woods had started his round on the 10th hole and was two over par through 11 holes before walking off after shaking hands with playing partners Billy Horschel and Rickie Fowler. It was the third withdrawal in the last eight starts for Woods, who recently turned 39. Woods was whisked away in a golf cart and taken directly to his car in the parking lot. There, surrounded by cameras and reporters, he said he aggravated his back during the morning fog delay.
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“It just never loosened back up again,” Woods said. “And when we went back out, it just got progressively tighter.” His tee time of 9:20 a.m. was pushed to 11:40. Woods said he was unable to "activate his glutes," a reference to the muscles in his back side. “It's just my glutes are shutting off,” he said. “Then they don't activate and then, hence, it goes into my lower back.” Woods bogeyed two of his first three holes but had worked back to even par for the round before he made double bogey on the par-four second hole. Woods was hoping to beat back naysayers after last week's 11-over round of 82 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. It was the worst round of his pro career and dropped him to No. 56 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Woods is a seven-time winner of the Farmers, and also claimed his 14th major — the 2008 U.S. Open — at Torrey Pines.
PHOTO BY ED SUBA JR. | AKRON BEACON JOURNAL/MCT
Tiger Woods reacts to a bad tee shot on the 5th hole during the final round of the World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament August 3rd, 2014.
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Mitchell said. “I don’t know why some people won’t play really hard,” Mitchell said after the game. “We’re working a large portion of practice in giving them a chance to get better defensively with their footwork and their positioning. We’re into the 22nd game of the year and I am teaching things that really need to start taking hold.” A second-half lapse was also seen in the prior game, a 73-72 loss to Tennessee. UK surrendered a seven-point halftime lead after allowing the Lady Volunteers to shoot for 60 percent from the field in the second half. Senior guard Jennifer O’Neill is just glad the Georgia game did not end the way the Tennessee one did. “We wanted to get a win after the tough loss against Tennessee,” O’Neill said. The 5foot-6-inch guard hit a clutch three-pointer in the closing minutes of the game to give UK the final lead in the 80-72 win. “Matthew brought it up to us after the Georgia game, saying ‘We can’t have mental lapses like that. It’s going to catch up with us,’” she added. “We could have lost that game because of the lapses we had on de-
fense. As a team, we have to take responsibility for that, knowing we cannot do that going further in the season.” The Cats had a bye week after the win, using the extra practice time to work on keeping focus throughout a game before their matchup against Vanderbilt on Sunday. O’Neill said the bye couldn’t have come
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The team is cherishing the off days we have, resting up our bodies that have ... wear and tear.” JENNIFER O’NEILL UK Hoops senior guard
at a better time as the team strives for its first two-game winning streak in quite some time. “The team is cherishing the off days we have, resting up our bodies that have a lot of wear and tear,” O’Neill said. “But we’re also focusing on communicating with each other better and focusing on the keys to win against Vanderbilt.”
PHOTO BY BEN RICKARD | STAFF
UK senior guard Jennifer O’Neill drives the ball during the game against Georgia at Memorial Coliseum on Feb. 1, 2015.
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SPORTS
weekend In sports Women’s Basketball Feb. 8
1 p.m.
vs. Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tenn.
Men’s Basketball
Feb. 7
9 p.m.
vs. Florida
Gainesville, Fla.
Softball Feb. 7
Tallahassee, Fla.
2:30 p.m.
vs. Georgia Southern
12 p.m.
Feb. 8
10 a.m
vs. Florida State
Tallahassee, Fla.
vs. Georia Southern
12:30 p.m. vs. Florida State
Men’s Tennis
Feb. 6
6 p.m.
vs. Illinois
Champaign, Ill.
Women’s Tennis Feb 6-8 TBA
ITA Team Indoors
Charlottesville, Va.
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UK Law works on its figure NEWS
A College of Law wellness challenge is encouraging students to improve their mental and physical health throughout February. The College of Law Dean’s Challenge, which began Monday and runs through Feb. 27, allows students to earn points by exercising, meditating, eating healthy and turning off their cell phones for an hour each day, according to Whitney Harder of UKNow. Participants with the most points at the end of the month will receive prizes like water bottles, headphones, t-shirts, electronics and gift cards. The participants can also earn points by attending scheduled events like a cooking demonstration on Tuesday and a mental
health awareness lunch on Thursday, according to the UK College of Law’s Facebook page. Other activities include run/walks, free yoga classes, events at the Johnson Center and a meditation class, according to UKNow. Meditation, a sort of guided thought and method of clearing the mind, can help relieve stress, according to UK HealthCare’s website. While it is not necessary to sit or lie down while doing so, HealthCare noted that deep, relaxed breathing can also help to relieve stress, and the two activities are often paired. The Dean’s Challenge offers double the points for exercise done with a partner, ac-
cording to UKNow. According to UK Health Care’s online resources, the key to maintaining an exercise program is making exercise a priority. It is easier for someone to stay motivated when they find a partner to train with, track workouts on a calendar or join a class or long-distance race, according to the webpage. University HealthCare also suggests that people looking to improve mental and physical health pay attention to the nutritional components of food, as well as the calorie count, which should be no higher than what the person is able to use each day. STAFF REPORT
Veteran kills herself, children BRAD SCHRADE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA — One aunt pondered the devastating loss of Kisha Holmes and her children. Another expressed frustration at the VA's response before and after the deaths of Holmes, a veteran with mental health problems, and her kids. And another wondered how the family will manage funerals for so many at once. Holmes' aunts have struggled to understand how Holmes, who moved to Atlanta more than four years ago to become a state trooper, drifted into depression and then tragedy. The family questions if the VA and its mental health officials did enough to help Holmes, a combat veteran who had recently become pregnant and was struggling with suicidal thoughts and post-traumatic stress disorder. Holmes, her two sons — Justin, 10, and Kai, 4 — and her 9-month-old daughter, Faith, were discovered Jan. 27 by an a maintenance worker in Austell, west of Atlanta. Holmes had just completed a program for homeless veterans a year ago and had been trying to get back on her feet through a housing voucher program for veterans. But she had missed a pair of mental health appointments in December and the VA had identified her as a high risk for suicide. An immediate concern for the family is
PHOTO COURTESY OF HOLMES’ FAMILY | ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/TNS/MCT
Kisha S. Holmes, middle, a Marine veteran who killed her children and took her own life in her Austell, Ga., apartment.
how they will cover the funeral arrangements for Holmes and two of her children. Her oldest was buried Monday at a service in Virginia handled by his father. As of Wednesday, the VA had not contacted the family, the aunts said, so they reached out to the agency themselves. The aunts thought the VA would cover the costs but they
are not so sure now, according to Stella Holmes-Hughes, a maternal aunt from Brooklyn. The Atlanta VA declined comment Wednesday. In a statement last Friday, VA officials said they were “deeply saddened” by the veteran's death and offered prayers for her family.
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