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LAWRENCE RESIDENT LANCE FAHY, WHO IS VISUALLY IMPAIRED, LEANS IN CLOSELY to see the labels on packages of ground beef while doing his shopping on Thursday.

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s Lance Fahy does his grocery shopping, there is hustle in his step. He leaves his cart behind as he surveys the length of a meat cooler, stopping his lateral shuffle along its edge here and there to check prices.

He’s got two oversized cloth grocery bags to fill and only about 20 minutes to do it. But he doesn’t check his watch. Fahy says he has the time in his head. It’s a trip he does often — at least twice a week — holding his grocery shopping to 20 minutes so that he doesn’t have to wait another 30 for the next bus.

“It always is close, getting in and out in 20 minutes,”

a couple times when I have walked out that door and seen the bus pulling away.”

Fahy, who is visually impaired, has to get a ride or take the bus to the store from his home in the Pinckney Neighborhood. When he misses the bus home, it makes the nearly two-hour grocery trip even longer.

Fahy is likely one of many residents for whom a convenient stop at the grocery store is elusive. Citywide, more than one-fourth of all Lawrence residents live within a federally designated food desert, a lowincome district where the majority of residents live more than 1 mile from a fullservice grocery store.

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It’s not just my situation. I observe a lot of people that are having to spend more time and energy to access healthy food than they really should have to.”

— Lance Fahy, of Lawrence

FAHY TAKES THE BUS on his biweekly grocery store run.

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City of Lawrence tightens policy on holiday gifts

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

It’s the season of tri-section popcorn buckets and gift baskets, but under a new policy, the City of Lawrence will not be accepting many of those gifts.

City departments sometimes get holiday gifts from vendors with which they do

business, but the city manager’s office has let it be known that the policy applies to those gifts as well, said city spokeswoman Megan Gilliland. For the first holiday season under the policy, the city has been donating holiday gifts it receives to local charities.

The city gets everything from popcorn to fruit baskets to poinsettias, and when

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applicable, will be donating the items to food pantries or other local organizations.

“We get a big box of apples every year,” Gilliland said. “… We donated those to Just Food, since they’re perishable.”

In addition to gifts from vendors, employees sometimes get gifts from residents.

Gilliland said employees who

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work in public safety and solid waste tend to get the most gifts from residents, and they are allowed to keep some of those — such as cookies that could be shared throughout the department. But Gilliland said they aren’t allowed to accept cash, gift certificates or alcohol.

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hen it comes to the idea of “nonprofit,” I have always found the “non” is the easiest part of that equation. A unique nonprofit retailer in downtown Lawrence indeed has found the “profit” is hard to come by, and is closing by the end of January.

The retailer Ten Thousand Villages is closing its store, at 835 Massachusetts St., after about four years in business.

“It is just very expensive to operate downtown,” said Scott Stutler, store manager. “We just weren’t making enough to support the business operations down here.”

The closing will create more than just a vacant space in downtown Lawrence’s retail scene. The closing also is a hit to the fair trade movement in Lawrence. In case you have forgotten, Ten Thousand Villages is unique because it is a certified Fair Trade Retailer.

That means it carries only goods that have been produced in a way that allows them to be labeled as fair trade-friendly. Those requirements include that the people who produce the product are paid a fair living wage, work in safe conditions and that no free or child labor is used in the production of the product.

Promoting the idea of fair trade really was the overriding mission of the store. The business was set up as a nonprofit entity and is governed by a local board of directors, Stutler said. The organization will remain active, and will continue to promote the importance of fair trade, but without the store it will lose one of its most visible selling points.

However, the good news is that more Lawrence shoppers are aware of fair trade than before the store opened, Stutler

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In areas designated as low-income, more than 20 percent of people live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, according to the data. For instance, a family of four living below 200 percent poverty will earn less than $48,600 in 2016.

Interwoven with the distance and socioeconomic element is the aspect of time — like the two hours it took Fahy to get food for a few meals.

Bryan said that especially for people with low income, time can become another barrier.

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Fahy’s trip this day is to Checkers grocery store, and requires a bus transfer downtown. Each way door-to-door is about 40 minutes. There are grocery stores closer to his house than Checkers, but Fahy, a father of three, said the low-cost grocery is worth the extra bus time for the particular list of items he has today.

Food desert Fahy is 1 of about 13,000 people in northeastern Lawrence who live in a federally designated food desert, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department data.

The other two areas with the designation are in southeast and southwest Lawrence.

Combined, there are about 24,000 people in Lawrence living in a food desert, according to the data. Of those, more than 10,000 live below poverty level.

Though many people think the food desert designation only regards a neighborhood’s distance from a grocery store, health department staff say the income element is just as important.

“It’s particularly hard for people that maybe make less money,” said Charlie Bryan, community health planner. “...

Everything is just kind of magnified, in terms of the impact on their lives.

You’re more likely to not have a car, or if you do, it’s in bad shape or you’re sharing a car.”

Fahy’s house, for instance, is more than a mile from Dillons grocery store on Sixth Street and nearly 4 miles

A waiting game Time for Fahy, his 20 minutes in the store, is nearly up.

Though Fahy said it’s “not the end of the world” if he has to wait another 30 minutes for the next bus, he does have a schedule to keep. He does residential cleaning by the hour, and he has an appointment.

Fahy seems to have his tactics down, and he has tips. He says it’s all about having a plan to follow before you walk into the store. He moves casually around his idling coshoppers, traversing the aisles with minimal backtracking. This day, Fahy makes it to the bus stop with about four minutes to spare.

In the short time in the store, he’s purchased two bundles of kale, bananas, cooking oil, pumpernickel rolls, a dozen eggs, tortillas, a red onion, dry beans, canned tomatoes, ground hamburger, club soda and three bags of shredded cheese — comparing prices all the while.

He’s overshot his two cloth bags, and has a plastic one looped through

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A “We are sad for our artisans, though,” said Shannon VanLandingsaid. He said the idea has ham, a part-time employspread to other shops as ee at the store and one of well. The Merc carries about 50 volunteers for items that meet the fair the local nonprofit. trade definition. So does In terms of the types of the downtown store products you can find at Third Planet, as well as a the store, they are varied. few other retailers.

Chocolate and coffee, Lawrence’s Ten Thouhowever, are among the sand Villages store worked largest sellers, in part bewith about 40 artisans, cause the public has begun mainly from developing to learn how brutal the nations in Africa and South working conditions can be America. Stutler said it is in the coffee and chocolate important for the public to industries, Stutler said. know that none of those Other items include clothartisans will get left holding ing, baskets, home decor the bag as a result of the

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The city’s Gifts and Gratuities Policy was updated in December of last year, and it doesn’t reference holiday gifts specifically. But City Manager Tom Markus, who began his position in March, provided specific direction on how the policy would apply.

“We updated it knowing that whoever was named city manager,

we’d want to come back and ask them to give us their direction specifically on this,” Gilliland said. “And so, that came this year.”

Those who do send their season’s greetings in the form of a present will get a thank-you note and will have their gift returned if practical, according to Assistant City Manager Casey Toomay.

Toomay said the note will also ask that they refrain from sending gifts to the city in the future and instead consider a donation to a charity of their choice.

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his fingers as he waits at the bus stop along 23rd Street in weather that he says could be worse. It’s 25 degrees, but he says it’s better than summer, when refrigerated items heat up quickly.

A downtown grocery Fahy recognizes he’s not alone in his cumbersome grocery trips, and though he is visually impaired, he noted he can still get around quickly and easily compared to some. When people get on and off the bus, he greets some by name, makes small conversation.

“It’s not just my situation,” Fahy said. “I observe a lot of people that are having to spend more time and energy to access healthy food than they really should have to.”

Fahy said that for him, the healthy aspect is key, especially when feeding his three kids, ages 8, 12 and 15. He said if he wanted to buy packaged food, there are a few gas stations or convenience stores within walking distance from his house.

“If I were just eating junk, I could go down to the gas station,” Fahy said.

But that’s not what he wants.

As communication coordinator for the Pinckney Neighborhood Association, Fahy has been representing the area on a downtown grocery store committee for the past year. The committee has been meeting for four years in an effort to get a full-service grocery — with meat, dairy and fresh produce — to locate downtown.

The committee has representatives from several neighborhoods surrounding downtown, East Lawrence, Brookcreek, and a lot of jewelry.

Stutler said the store doesn’t have any plans to reopen in another location downtown. Instead, it is just focusing on selling its remaining inventory.

The store will close when inventory levels become sufficiently depleted, but no later than the end of January, he said.

There also is a Ten Thousand Villages store in downtown Overland Park. It will remain open.

It is run by a separate nonprofit board, Stutler said.

In other news and notes from around town: l Some of you may have noticed there is a

The policy is part of the city’s employee handbook, and states that employees are prohibited from accepting gifts and gratuities at any time.

The policy states that accepting pens, calendars or other “incidental items” used for advertising is OK. Meals or other meeting-related items for the purpose of conducting or discussing official business are also acceptable.

Gilliland, though, said appropriate gifts from residents are still appreciated.

Old West Lawrence and North Lawrence. Representing the latter is North Lawrence Improvement Association president Ted Boyle.

Boyle has lived in North Lawrence his entire life and remembers the days when there was a grocery store in his neck of the woods, when people could walk if they had to or wanted to. A grocery store downtown would help, he said.

“So, this will enable all residents — handicapped, bicyclists, walkers — to be able to get healthy, affordable food in any mode of transportation,” Boyle said.

Boyle said the committee, which meets weekly, acts as the “go-between” with downtown grocery store developers and residents of the various neighborhoods that surround downtown.

Though the idea of an upscale grocery story has been talked about, Fahy says he is supportive of a downtown location with a full-service grocery store and pharmacy that would be affordable for everyone.

“I think it would be for the greater good of the community,” Fahy said.

No easy task Though downtown groceries were commonplace decades ago, getting a developer to locate a grocery store downtown has not moved quickly.

A local development group has been working on the concept for years, but a project has yet to make a development filing with the city.

Plans to redevelop the former Allen Press property at the northeast corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets failed to solidify a couple years ago.

L awrence J ournal -W orld Now the plan is to convert the former Borders bookstore site at 7th and New Hampshire streets into a multistory building that would house a grocery store on the ground floor. But not everyone is behind that idea, in part because the developers are hoping to build much more than a grocery store.

One group has taken the disagreement to the courtroom.

The development group, led by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor, is being sued by residents of the adjacent Hobbs Taylor Loft building. A main element of the lawsuit is the expansiveness of the project, which would roughly double the size of the former bookstore site. In addition to a grocery store, the developers are hoping to add two levels that would accommodate 82 apartments.

The grocery store project would require multiple city approvals, and it is expected that the development will seek economic incentives from the city.

The city is in the process of overhauling its incentives policy after some public disapproval of past incentives agreements, some of which went to apartments and commercial projects led

by Compton.

The downtown grocery committee meets at 9 a.m. on Thursdays in the meeting room at Capital City Bank, 740 New Hampshire St. The committee’s fourth meeting of the month is held at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. — City Hall reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314. Follow her on Twitter: @RochelleVerde

“for lease” sign in front — which also has a store of the sporting goods in downtown — remains retailer Jock’s Nitch at committed to the Law1116 W. 23rd St. That is rence market. The sportnot an indication that the ing goods store, which company is closing down stocks a lot of apparel, its Lawrence store, but it does strong business indeed may move. in the uniform market, Jock’s Nitch executive selling to many area high Ryan Owens told me the schools and other teams. landlord of the 23rd Street — This is an excerpt from building — which is just Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk a bit east of 23rd and Naicolumn, which appears each smith — has an interest weekday on LJWorld.com. in subdividing the space.

Owens said Jock’s Nitch is still determining whether it wants to be part of the reconfigured space or BIRTHS whether it wants to find a Gaurav Garg and new location.

Minakshi Bansal, Lawrence, Owens, though, a boy, Friday. said business remains Anthony Sherrill and good, and the company Annie Elder, Lawrence, a girl, Saturday.

“We’re grateful for the appreciation of our residents for what we do,” Gilliland said. “We’re public servants and we want to provide a great public service. We appreciate them saying thank you or giving the crews or public safety a basket of cookies or something like that. We just really want to be very clear about gifts that are cash, gift cards and, specifically, alcohol.”

— City Hall reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314. Follow her on Twitter: @RochelleVerde

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School drug testing policy changed climate, culture

Land donation could provide millions in scholarships at KU, K-State James F. Lindley’s trust specifies that profits from sshepherd@ljworld.com his land be shared equally between the two universities and used for scholarships — specifically, for School of Topeka — A Jefferson Engineering students at KU and College of Agriculture County man left more than students at K-State.

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1,300 acres of land to the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, with the stipulation that income from the land’s sale go toward scholarships.

James F. Lindley, of Grantville, died in 2015 at age 88, according to his obituary. Lindley, a KU alumnus, was a World War II Army veteran and an engineer, and he also farmed and raised cattle.

Lindley left 10 tracts of land in Shawnee and

Michelle Tevis of KU Endowment.

Lindley made annual donations to the KU School of Engineering from 1982 to 2014, Tevis said. KU Endowment staff began working with him in 1998 on his estate plans to support engineering scholarships.

Once income from the donated land becomes available, she said, it will establish a new scholarship fund for engineering students at KU.

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Topeka — As the Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 board of education begins to consider a random drug testing policy for the district’s middle and high school students, Seaman USD 345 has nearly a year and a half worth of results from its own policy — KU and higher ed reporter Sara of testing students for ilShepherd can be reached at 832-7187. legal substances.

Follow her on Twitter: @saramarieshep “It’s gone better than even what I would have imagined,” said Mike Monaghan, principal at Seaman High School who also instituted a similar policy while he was principal at Hayden High School in 2012. “I’ve been through this once before and noticed huge gains in achievement, across the board academically, extracurriculars and athletics.”

Monaghan said he has seen similar success since August 2015 when USD 345 began randomly testing students who participate in athletics and activities sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association and who have a parking permit.

“Behaviors have improved,” he told the Topeka Capital-Journal.

“We had an 18 percent in the first year decrease in disciplinary reports. We had a 70 percent decrease Elvyn Jones/Journal-World Photo in hearings related to SIX-MONTH-OLD BROOKLYN BENSON REACHES TO INVESTIGATE the beard of Phil Bradley, as Santa Claus, while her drug offenses.” sister, Peyten Benson, 7, watches. The girls were among the children who visited Santa on Sunday at the Oread, 1200 “We’re not hiding our Oread Ave. heads in the sand and saying we don’t have a Jefferson counties totaling approximately 1,352 acres to KU and K-State, according to the Kansas Board of Regents, which on Wednesday approved transferring the land to charitable arms of each university, KU Endowment and the KSU Charitable Real Estate Foundation. According to the Regents, the property’s total appraised value is

$4.3 million.

Lindley’s trust specifies that profits from his land be shared equally between the two universities and used for scholarships — specifically, for School of Engineering students at KU and College of Agriculture students at K-State.

Lindley was a 1949 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, said

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problem here,” Brad Dietz, Seaman High School assistant principal and athletic director, said in August 2015 as the testing policy was set to take effect. “Parents like this policy and they want their child involved in it.”

One such parent was Pam Anderson, the mother of twin daughters Michelle and Marcy Anderson, who have since graduated from Seaman High School.

“It’s about time,” Anderson said last year. “I knew there was a problem and there was no getting a handle on it. I thought (the administration) needed some leverage to put a little bit of fear of stronger repercussions (for drug use by students).”

Monaghan, more importantly, said the overall “climate and culture” of the Seaman student body has improved, with gains seen in the performance of athletes and other participants in the KSHSAAsponsored programs, a sentiment shared by Katie McLaughlin, Seaman High School student council president.

“We did have a big drug problem,” she said.

“I think it’s positively impacted us. It keeps involvement up.”

McLaughlin said she agrees with what administrators and other supporters of the testing policy have claimed: that having the random testing policy gives her peers

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Protesters won’t change outcome Electoral College protesters’ time would be better spent focusing on the election that’s four years away.

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hen the six members of Kansas’ Electoral College gather at the statehouse today to cast the state’s electoral votes, surely they will cast all six for Republican Donald Trump.

That’s as it should be — it reflects how the state of Kansas voted.

Similarly, Electoral College representatives in states throughout the country should cast their ballots for the candidate who won their states, with the notable exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electoral votes by congressional district.

Despite the lobbying and protesting, today’s outcome should be 306 electoral votes for Republican Donald Trump and 232 for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

There is a chance that an elector will flip his or her vote. It hasn’t happened since 2004, but one Republican elector in Texas, a state Trump won, has said he will not cast his ballot for Trump. Still, even if more electors do switch, it is unlikely to affect the outcome of the election. That hasn’t happened since 1836.

In most states, electors are bound by law to cast their Electoral College vote for the candidate voters have selected.

Electors who vote differently face misdemeanor charges and fines.

But 15 states, including Kansas, do not bind electors. The others are Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

Electors in those states are being lobbied to “go faithless” and change their votes. A group calling itself the December 19 Coalition is expected to hold protests in all 50 state capitals today.

“The electors have both the Constitutional right and the moral responsibility to stop Trump,” said Daniel Brezenoff, a part of the coalition of protesters. “He lost the popular vote and he should lose on December 19 at the Electoral College.”

Kelly Arnold, Kansas Republican Party chairman and one of the state’s six electors, said there is no chance that any Kansas electors will change their votes.

“I represent the state of Kansas and here, we voted overwhelmingly to elect Donald Trump and I will hold to what the people of Kansas asked me to do,” Arnold said.

Arnold is spot-on. Both candidates understood well the path to getting elected president. They knew the rules of the Electoral College and focused their campaigns in that approach.

Instead of wasting time and money on a futile effort to switch the Electoral College outcome, protesters’ energy would be better spent on building coalitions that can deliver an Electoral College victory in four years.

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Shenzhen, China — While Donald Trump has been deciding whether to go mano a mano with China’s leaders, I’ve been traveling from Beijing to Shanghai to this southern city, with a stop at China’s technology capital in Shenzhen.

I’ve seen an infrastructure network of bullet trains, glistening new rail stations and airports — all of them with clean toilets — that Americans can only dream of. Especially if they have to travel through New York City’s Penn Station or Kennedy airport.

Like presidents before him, Trump has promised to produce an infrastructure bonanza, but we have no idea what he will deliver.

According to a June study by the McKinsey Global Institute, infrastructure investment has fallen in 10 major economies, including the United States, since the 2008 financial crisis, while China is building like crazy.

“China spends more on economic infrastructure annually than North America and Western Europe combined,” the report said. After my experience of Chinese trains, planes and automobiles, that’s easy to believe.

The massive Beijing South Railway Station, built in 2008, is bullet-train only with hundreds of people seated in an enormous waiting room before departures to several major cities. Somehow, the crowds are amazingly orderly, surrounded by neon billboards and all manner of eateries, with a busy Starbucks at one end. The 909-mile trip from Beijing to Shanghai takes five to six hours, with plush red seats and young women attendants wheeling

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We should be able to do better. We must do better, for American morale and to remain a global leader.” service carts with food down the aisles.

Shanghai itself is a massive infrastructure project.

When I first visited in 1986, the Pudong district — east of the Huangpu River and across from the historic city center — was little more than a marsh, and Shanghai was a city of bicycles with hardly any cars. Today, Pudong has morphed into China’s financial center and looks like New York on steroids, with elegant high-rises lit up in neon at night in bright colors as a backdrop to the river.

Shanghai’s main international airport, in Pudong, opened in 1999. But what fascinated me was the Shanghai Hongqiao airport, mainly for regional flights, from which I flew to Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. I expected something modest, but this airport was massively expanded for the Shanghai Expo in 2010 and is still gleaming. It is filled with high-end shops such as Hermes and Coach — aimed at local Chinese — along with Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.

And the huge crowds are channeled into numerous parallel security lines that pass through in surprisingly little time.

Shenzhen’s Bao’an International Airport also has undergone major expansion in the last five years.

This city, located just north of Hong Kong, is a Chinese hub of technology and innovation and home to the massive campus of Huawei, the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, with 170,000 employees. Walking through the leafy setting, watching young employees on compulsory lunch break (50,000 of them pass daily through multiple cafeterias with good looking, fresh food), I could have been strolling through a U.S. university campus.

Shenzhen, with a population of 10 million, is also a high-rise business hub and shopping destination.

I couldn’t help remembering my previous visit in 1986, when it was little more than a muddy small town of about 50,000.

Of course, China’s infrastructure splurge can’t be viewed as a model for upgrading America’s woefully underfunded roads, bridges, airports and train stations.

The Chinese government made a decision to direct a massive investment of funds, and propelled provincial government spending, in ways that will never happen in the United States.

According to Bloomberg, China spent more than $10.8 trillion in infrastructure in the last decade alone. Government and foreign investment, bonds, local taxes and vehicle purchase taxes helped pay for construction

(gasoline taxes have been resisted by the public).

China’s now completed national expressway network is almost all toll roads, with a nationwide E-Z pass-type system, and tolls help pay back construction costs.

However, the Chinese infrastructure splurge was meant in part to offset weak economic growth. Some studies argue that much of it may not have been cost effective. Yet, as I travel through China’s train stations and airports, there seems to be a lesson here.

Perhaps the Chinese government has built overcapacity (for now). Perhaps money was wasted. But attractive train stations and airports, along with decent roads, help Chinese travel in comfort and safety, help businesses grow and convince ordinary citizens their country is on the right track.

Riding a bullet train smoothly from Beijing to Shanghai makes me cringe at the creaky shaky Amtrak Acela Express. Passing quickly through security at Shanghai’s airport makes me wonder why lines at Kennedy or Philadelphia move so slowly. Visiting spotless restrooms makes me despair over the crummy bathrooms at just about every American train station I pass through.

We should be able to do better. We must do better, for American morale and to remain a global leader. And doing better will require a coherent plan from the White House, not just helter-skelter private projects.

Over to you, Presidentelect Trump.

— Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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The Donald Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies Washington — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our principal geopolitical adversary. Yet today the Dems are in high dudgeon over the closeness of secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson to Vladimir Putin.

Hypocrisy aside, it is true that, as head of Exxon Mobil, Tillerson made major deals with Russia, received Russia’s Order of Friendship and opposed U.S. sanctions. That’s troubling, but not necessarily disqualifying. At the time, after all, Tillerson was acting as an agent of Exxon Mobil, whose interest it is to extract oil and make money.

These interests do not necessarily overlap with those of the United States. The relevant question is whether and how Tillerson distinguishes between the two and whether as agent of the United States, he would adopt a tougher Russia policy than he did as agent of Exxon Mobil.

We don’t know. We shall soon find out. That’s what confirmation hearings are for.

The left has been in equally high dudgeon that other Cabinet picks appear not to share

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the mission of the agency which they have been nominated to head. The horror! As if these agency missions are somehow divinely ordained. Why, they aren’t even constitutionally ordained. The Department of Education, for example, was created

by President Carter in 1979 as a payoff to the teachers’ unions for their political support.

Now, teachers are wonderful. But teachers’ unions are there to protect benefits and privileges, not necessarily to improve schooling. Which is why they zealously defend tenure, protect their public-school monopoly and reflexively oppose school choice.

Conservatives have the odd view that the purpose of schooling — and therefore of the Department of Education — is to provide students with the best possible education.

Hence Trump’s nominee, Betsy DeVos, a longtime and passionate proponent of school choice, under whom the department will no longer be an arm of the teachers’ unions.

She is also less likely to allow the department’s Office for Civil Rights to continue appropriating to itself the role of arbiter of social justice, micromanaging everything from campus sexual mores to the proper bathroom assignment for transgender students. If the mission of this department has been to dictate policy best left to the states and localities, it’s about time the mission was changed.

The most incendiary nomination by far, however, is Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. As attorney general of Oklahoma, he has joined or led a series of lawsuits to curtail EPA power.

And has been upheld more than once by the courts.

Pruitt has been deemed unfit to serve because he fails liberalism’s modern-day religious test: belief in anthropogenic climate change. They would love to turn his confirmation hearing into a Scopes monkey trial. Republicans should decline the invitation. It doesn’t matter whether the man believes the moon is made of

green cheese. The challenges to EPA actions are based not on meteorology or theology, but on the Constitution. The issue is that the EPA has egregiously exceeded its authority and acted as a rogue agency, unilaterally creating rules unmoored from legislation.

Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it is a direct attack on the insidious growth of the administrative state. We have reached the point where EPA bureaucrats interpret the Waters of the United States rule — meant to protect American waterways — to mean that when a hard rain leaves behind a pond on your property, the feds may take over and tell you what you can and cannot do with it.

(The final rule excluded puddles — magnanimity from the Leviathan.)

On a larger scale, Obama’s Clean Power Plan essentially federalizes power generation and regulation, not coincidentally killing coal along the way.

This is the administration’s end run around Congress’ rejection of Obama’s proposed 20092010 cap-and-trade legislation.

And that was a Democratic Congress, mind you.

Pruitt’s nomination is a dramatic test of the proposition that agencies administer the

law, they don’t create it. That the legislative power resides exclusively with Congress and not with a metastasizing administrative bureaucracy.

For some, this reassertion of basic constitutionalism seems extreme. If so, the Obama administration has only itself to blame. Such are the wages of eight years of liberal overreach. Some legislation, like Obamacare, will be repealed.

Some executive orders will be canceled. But most important will be the bonfire of the agencies. We may soon be secure not just in our puddles but our ponds.

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chemistry is dangerous.

“We’re able to counteract all the national hype about legalization efforts and that type of thing and people who believe it’s not bad for you. We can actually do something in our community, which we have done.”

A key aspect of the random testing policy, Monaghan said, is that a positive test result doesn’t lead to punitive sanctions automatically, rather, first a referral to Shawnee Regional Prevention and Recovery Services, better known as PARS, a nonprofit, voluntary drug and alcohol evaluation program in Topeka.

“The evaluation consists of a 2-1/2 hour session with a licensed addictions counselor,” according to the PARS website. “A parent or guardian is required to attend if the youth is under 18 years of age. After carefully considering all information learned during the evaluation process, the counselor makes individualized recommendations regarding next steps for the youth and family.”

In addition to Shawnee Heights, Monaghan said he has been approached by the principal at Wamego High School, and representatives from several other Centennial League schools have inquired about how Seaman has implemented its random drug testing policy.

Doug Bonney, the legal director of the Americans Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Kansas and Missouri since 2008, said he often fields calls when school districts begin talking about instituting a random drug testing policy.

“Often I hear from

parents and reporters when this comes up,” he said. “I give them a little history of this issue and the Supreme Court.”

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that students who voluntarily participate in school-sponsored athletics and activities can be required to participate in a random drug testing policy. Bonney said he believes the high court was wrong in that decision.

Instead, he said the ACLU believes children should have the same rights as adults under the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

“We’ve lost that battle, there’s no question about it,” Bonney said. “But we think that’s wrong, but the districts are correct.

They have the constitutional authority.”

The students who are least likely to be involved in drugs are the athletes and students involved in extracurricular activities, Bonney said. He said districts’ limited funds would be better used someplace else.

“Spending that money makes little sense,” he said. “The incidence of positive tests is extremely low. It’s usually not that big a problem. If a student has a drug problem, there are other signs, like dropping grades, not showing up to class.”

Bonney said the chance the tests can reveal much more information about an individual student, well beyond whether he or she is using illegal drugs, is a violation of privacy.

“Ultimately, they could do genetic testing,” he said. “They’re quite invasive in what they show.”

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the ability to say “no” to drugs in the first place for fear they may be tested.

“It doesn’t necessarily get them in trouble,” she said of the policy. “They don’t want to go down that road. We’ve had so many kids go down that road. It really does keep our student body safe.”

Students are randomly chosen by the drug testing company, Psychemedics, through a number system. Hair samples are taken from the student and then tested for marijuana, heroin, cocaine and various types of opiates or prescription drugs. When the student is in the high school administration office during the taking of the hair sample, Monaghan said, they are asked by him and other administrators how they’re doing with their academics, extracurricular activities and how they’re doing in general.

McLaughlin said the fact that administrators try to make the time while the student is in the office for the test a positive experience has made a noticeable difference.

“I think there’s more of a connection between the administrators and the students as a result of the drug testing,” she said.

“It’s been good.”

Monaghan said although he can point to successes with the testing policy at Seaman High School, it’s an ongoing and increasingly more difficult battle to get students to understand the dangers of drug abuse.

“Well, they really are bad, especially for teenagers,” Monaghan said, citing research that adolescent minds are still developing and that any altering of their brain

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surviving on army rations. “We don’t have water — the water main pipelines were destroyed during the clashes,” he said. “We live on what the special forces are offering us.”

He remained optimistic that the government would eventually dislodge the militants, plus he doesn’t want to risk moving his children to a refugee camp during this particularly cold winter. “Iraqi forces told us to stay. We are

WASHINGTON Aides to President-elect Donald Trump accused their critics Sunday of trying to use the upcoming Electoral College vote as part of an effort to delegitimize the president-elect’s victory.

“The whole thing is a spin job,” incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told Fox News Sunday. “And I think what the Democrats ought to do is look in the mirror and face the reality that they lost the election.”

Citing attempted recounts in key states as well as efforts to get Trump electors to vote for someone else, Priebus said antiTrump political groups are “doing everything they can to delegitimize the outcome of the election. ... Nothing is going to change.”

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, speaking on CBS’ Face The Nation, denounced the “nonsense” surrounding Monday’s vote of the Electoral College and said those who are urging electors to vote against Trump are undermining a democratic election.

Priebus and Conway, like Trump himself, also continued to dispute the conclusion of intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in an effort to help Trump win, a cyberattack project probably approved by President Vladimir Putin.

Different agencies are saying different things about the plot, Priebus said, and there is no evidence Russian activity changed the results of the election.

Members of the Electoral College and others — almost all of them Democrats — are calling for at least a delay of Monday’s vote, citing reports that Russia intervened in the election by hacking the emails of Democratic officials.

A group of electors has requested a classified briefing on the Russia allegations before the Electoral College vote, though there is no sign there will be a delay.

“This is about protecting democracy,” said Rhode Island Democratic elector Clay Pell, also speaking on Fox News Sunday.

Pell added, though: “Donald Trump will be re-elected as president tomorrow.”

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Two months into the battle for Mosul, more than 100,000 people have fled Iraq’s second-largest city as the military makes slow progress against entrenched Islamic State fighters, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.

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Iraqi military forces in the tens of thousands have seized control of about a quarter of the city since the operation began Oct. 17, but they still encounter pockets of stiff resistance from the militant group that seized Mosul two years ago.

The migration organization said the city, home to more than 1 million people before the offensive started, has seen at least 103,872 Iraqis leave since then, the Associated Press reported.

But recent advances by Iraqi government forces have prompted some residents to stay. Abo Saif, in his Al-Zuhur neighborhood of northeastern Mosul, had tried to figure out a way to leave without his family getting killed but now says he has no desire to go anymore.

The Islamic State “fled our neighborhood, and now we live under the government’s power,” Saif said. “The Islamic State was saying Iraqi forces would never be able to retake the city. But they did take our area and will keep going, deeply into the city.”

Saif said he and his family are

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“I think what the Democrats ought to do is look in the mirror and face the reality that they lost the election.”

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Chilly temperatures may feel unseasonably warm by Wednesday when the forecast returns to normal after a weekend blast of frigid air and scattered snowstorms across the Upper Plains, Midwest and East Coast.

Dramatic temperature gains

forecast from Monday to Tuesday afternoon include Oklahoma City jumping from freezing to nearly 50 degrees, according to AccuWeather.com. Chicago will leap from the teens to nearly 30.

The East Coast will take a little longer to shake off the chill after a storm front moved out to sea Sunday. But New York and Boston should each reach highs in the 40s by Wednesday, according to AccuWeather.

“After a few days of below-normal temperatures in the Midwest and eastern U.S. early in the week, highs will return to near average by Wednesday,” Accu-

Weather meteorologist Max Vido said.

The relative warmth makes new snow unlikely for Christmas on the I-95 corridor. “For those dreaming of a white Christmas, they’ll have to rely on unmelted snow cover from previously fallen snow,” Vido said. “This area will be across the interior Northeast, lake-effect snow regions and throughout the Midwest.”

The Midwest and Upper Plains may appreciate the calm.

Record-low temperatures were recorded across South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota during the weekend, and a blizzard shut

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down parts of Interstate 90 in Montana. Huron, S.D., and Marshall, Minn., each set a record for Sunday’s date at 31 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service.

The arctic blast led to numerous highway accidents and at least six storm-related fatalities.

Indiana had dozens of crashes because of freezing rain and ice.

The roads were so slick that authorities had to move motorists stranded on an overpass with a ladder.

Airlines canceled more than 1,100 flights by 3 p.m. Sunday, according to Flightaware.com.

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not and testified against Sessions at his 1986 confirmation hearing.

Figures, who also claimed that Sessions referred to him as “boy,” died last year. Sessions denied that he used the term.

“There are some people trying to deflect this nomination, but I don’t think they can prevent it,” Ashcroft said.

Ashcroft knows something about the confirmation process.

Like Sessions, Ashcroft distinguished himself as a stridently conservative member of the Senate, who as attorney general nominee, raised hackles from Democrats about his handling of racially sensitive matters.

Ashcroft survived confirmation though the process was unusually bruising and still stings the former attorney general, 15 years later. “How did you like the deference they gave me?” Ashcroft said of his former colleagues.

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They were an unlikely pair by any measure.

A black man from Georgia and a white man from Alabama, thrust together as federal prosecutors in the deep South where race and justice remain a combustible mix.

Larry Thompson, the former chief prosecutor in Atlanta, said he was first drawn to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, his colleague from Mobile, in the early 1980s as partners in an organized crime and drug enforcement task force across the southeast.

In a bid to make their modest government per diem go further, they shared hotel rooms on the road, a strategy that allowed them to both splurge for dinner at such places as New Orleans’ K-Paul’s and cement a friendship now more than three decades old.

Thompson, who went on to serve as deputy U.S. attorney general, also was there at perhaps the lowest point in his friend’s professional life when in 1986 the Senate not only rejected, but scathingly dismissed, Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship. Citing in part a series of racially charged remarks, including one in which Sessions referred to the Klu Klux Klan as “OK until I found out they smoked pot,” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called him “a disgrace” before sending the chastened nominee back to Alabama.

Kennedy is gone, yet Thompson knows perhaps more than anyone the daunting challenge Sessions faces as he prepares for confirmation hearings next month as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the 84th attorney general of the United States.

“It will be grueling,” Thompson said of Sessions’ scheduled appearance next month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he now serves as a senior member. “I don’t see anything that would cause him not to be confirmed. But will he be dirtied up to the point where it could be hard to do his job? I guess we’ll see soon.”

Already, Democratic members of the Senate panel and Sessions’ current colleagues are promising no senatorial deference on the old questions of racial tolerance, hisunstinting support of anti-immigration measures, opposition to gay rights and his embrace of harsh interrogation tactics, which Trump has suggested could be reinstated.

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Sen Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., attorney general nominee, was rejected in 1986 for a federal judgeship. firmation, even in a Republican controlled Senate, will be laborious and contentious. Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has scheduled two days of hearings to begin Jan. 10, while Democrats have called for at least four days to fully examine Sessions’ long pubic record as a federal prosecutor, Alabama attorney general and a Senate career of nearly two decades. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the current schedule does not allow sufficient time for the panel to review more than 150,000 pages of materials submitted so far detailing the nominee’s public record. Still more documents — including transcripts of speeches to private groups — are needed to engage in a full vetting, she said.

women and racial justice to voting rights and criminal justice.

Among those potential witnesses, former Justice Department civil rights lawyer J. Gerald Hebert, is someone who has made no secret about his disdain for the Alabama senator and whose testimony three decades ago helped sink Sessions’ nomination. Hebert told the panel about conversations he had with then-U.S. attorney Sessions in which the prosecutor referred to the NAACP and ACLU as “unAmerican.”

“Given his record, his nomination as the chief law enforcement officer for the country should send a shiver up the spine of every American,” Hebert said, reciting the senator’s support for

“I don’t see anything that would cause him not to be confirmed. But will he be dirtied up to the point where it could be hard to do his job?

Larry Thompson, former chief prosecutor in Atlanta

“When our country is struggling with so many divisions, the committee and the entire Senate must ask whether Sen. Sessions is the right man to lead the agency charged with securing and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of all Americans,” Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the panel’s outgoing ranking member and other panel Democrats wrote to Grassley.

Leahy is one of just three members and the only Democrat left on the panel that considered Sessions’ judicial nomination.

“The committee should hear from outside witnesses for, at a minimum, each of the following areas,” Leahy wrote, before ticking off an all-inclusive list of potential flash-points, from immigration, violence against

restrictive voter identification laws, his vote against the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act and opposition to the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.

At the time of his 1986 testimony, Hebert stopped short of saying that Sessions’ conduct amounted to racism. But Hebert says Sessions’ record then, coupled with his work since, has moved him to form a darker assessment.

“He’s just not a Republican conservative,” Hebert said. “He’s a racist.”

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Sessions has repeatedly, and strongly dismissed such claims, once issuing a declaration before the 1986 committee: “I am not a racist; I am not insensitive to

blacks. I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.”

And since Sessions’ nomination last month — among the first group of Cabinet posts announced by Trump — transition officials and Republicans have been busy building a rapid response team to include a roster of high-profile surrogates.

Among them: John Ashcroft and Michael Mukasey, former attorneys general in the George W. Bush administration; former FBI Director Louis Freeh, appointed

by President Bill Clinton; and Thompson, who served as Ashcroft’s top deputy at Justice for slightly more than two years.

All rejected any link between Sessions and racist conduct. Mukasey called such claims “outrageous;” Freeh described him as “committed to civil rights”; while Ashcroft characterized the effort to portray the senator as a racist was akin to “drive-by political assassination.”

Ashcroft urged a closer inspection of the nominee’s pursuit of Klu Klux Klan members as a federal prosecutor, specifically the 1981 murder of Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man from Mobile who was found brutally slain and his body hanging from a tree.

Barry Kowalski, then a lawyer at Justice, said Sessions “could not have been more agreeable,” moving to open a federal inquiry.

That inquiry led to the guilty plea of a local Klansman, and the state prosecution of another who was later executed for his role in the murder. The same case, ironically, served as the backdrop for Sessions’ disputed comments about the Klan.

Kowalski said he regarded the comment as “clearly a joke,” but fellow prosecutor Thomas Figures, an African-American, did

Sessions’ allies also are gearing up to defend his actions in a failed Perry County, Ala., voter fraud prosecution that became another focal point of the 1986 confirmation hearing. Some opponents alleged the acquittal of three black voting activists on charges of ballot tampering proved that Sessions’ office was launching investigations designed to intimidate minority voters.

Sessions and others have denied the case was racially motivated, highlighting that local black officials were among those complaining about tampered ballots. Sessions has identified the case as one of his 10 most significant. A witness in the case who was among a busload of black residents bused to Mobile to testify before the grand jury empaneled

by Sessions’ office, offered a different interpretation at the time.

“It was the most degrading time of my life,” the Rev. O.C. Dobynes told the Los Angeles Times in 1985.

Richard Cohen, president of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center which closely tracks hate crimes and hate groups across the country, credited Sessions’ efforts as “extremely helpful” in the KKK murder case.

Yet the senator’s staunch opposition to proposed immigration reform legislation and his association with extreme parts of the anti-immigration movement, Cohen said, are areas of concern.

“I can understand him taking a position, but I don’t think he should lend his credibility to groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and the Center for Security Policy,” Cohen said. Both organizations are regarded as hate groups by the SPLC, which has specifically called out the center for fanning anti-Muslim stands.

Last year, Sessions was awarded the group’s “Keeper of the Flame.”

“That is a bridge too far for us,” Cohen said.

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not planning on leaving the city,” Saif said.

Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah said the Iraqi army, allied militias and the U.S.-led coalition were making slow but sure progress on the eastern side of Mosul but were facing more resistance from the southeast.

“We retook the Al Allam neighborhood from Islamic State control, and we caused them big losses,” said Yarallah, of Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service, a special office coordinating the fight against the Islamic State.

“We lost many men in the Salam neighborhood,” he said. “We are trying to get the control of the hospital that the Islamic State used as a headquarters. We have soldiers stranded in this location, and we are planning to send special forces to end the siege.”

Yarallah noted that Islamic State fighters have entrenched themselves, planted land mines and erected other barriers in anticipation of the government’s assault.

The London-based Conflict Armament Research group recently reported that the Islamic State had created a sophisticated supply chain and accounting system for making weapons, producing tens of thousands of rockets and mortar rounds.

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Children flash the sign of victory Sunday in al-Barid, east of Mosul, during an ongoing operation against the Islamic State. progress against the Islamic State. “This operation would challenge any army,” Townsend said, adding that the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, was losing its capacity to fight a war.

“We have conducted hundreds of strikes to destroy ISIL oil infrastructure. We assess these efforts have cost ISIL between $4.5 million and $6.5 million a month,” Townsend said. “The liberation of key population centers and oil fields has further limited the enemy’s access to taxes and oil revenue.”

Nabeel reported from Istanbul.

“The liberation of key population centers and oil fields has further limited the enemy’s access to taxes and oil revenue.”

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A coalition of outside groups are financing a half-million-dollar ad buy over the weekend, seeking to pressure Republican electors to vote for someone other than Trump.

Some are not urging a vote for Clinton but for another Republican such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

An organization called Hamilton Electors said in a statement Sunday it wants college members “to either vote for an alternative Republican candidate or abstain from voting” in order to send the vote to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Still, the House has a Republican majority.

Whatever happens, it’s hard to imagine Trump losing at this stage.

Thanks to victories in onceDemocratic-leaning states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Trump — while losing the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes — racked up 306 electoral voters, well over the 270 majority needed to win.

While critics are trying to get electors to change their votes, some states forbid the practice of “faithless electors.”

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NEW YORK Tech insiders heading to CES early next month are likely to be forewarned they better not bring Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones onto their Las Vegasbound flights. Not exactly the kind of messaging Samsung wants attendees to hear in advance of the annual consumer electronics shindig.

“It reinforces the negative publicity that dominated people’s view of Samsung during 2016,” says industry analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies.

That negative view was reinforced after numerous incidents of overheated batteries inside the phablet-sized handsets caused them to burst into flames, necessitating not one but two recalls of the devices, before Samsung in October pulled the plug on the Note 7 altogether. In all, 2.5 million phones were recalled globally, and Samsung indicated the financial hit would amount to at least $5.3 billion.

Then in November, Samsung’s image was scorched again when the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of 2.8 million top-loading washing machines because the upper portion of the washer could “unexpectedly detach” from the machine’s chassis during use, posing a risk of injury from any potential impact.

Samsung doesn’t typically launch any of its flagship phones at CES, and it isn’t expected to do so this time around. But the South Korean behemoth is the highest-profile exhibitor at CES, with a 28,000-square-foot booth that showcases appliances alongside brand-new televisions and other home and mobile electronics.

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Samsung is the top-profile exhibitor at CES. Above, a visitor at the Korea Electronics Show. of 2016 done to the Samsung product portfolio and the Samsung brand? The company could use the public forum, with large press corp, to offer a public mea culpa and address the issues head on. Then again, it could ignore it.

Samsung did not make any of its executives available for an interview for this article, and it wouldn’t comment on plans to address the recalls during the show. Samsung Electronics America President and COO Tim Baxter noted in a statement the company’s “long history of intro-

ducing technologies that break new ground” at CES and said, “It is our intent, always, to do what is in the best interest of consumers.”

None of Samsung’s top brass are giving keynote speeches during the upcoming show, as they have at times in the past.

Some Samsung executives will speak at smaller events during the proceedings or participate in panel discussions. And Samsung will conduct its customary press conference the day before the show opens before hundreds of

journalists from around the world.

Bajarin believes Samsung would be wise to say something about having its quality-control problems under control.

There are other options. “One is a humble approach that stays relatively quiet and mostly shows off existing products, as a show of contrition in the wake of the Note 7 recall,” says chief analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research.

The alternative? “Make as much noise as possible about everything that isn’t phones or

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For his part, Matthew Quint, director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School offers this advice to Samsung: “If you’re not launching a new mobile product, I wouldn’t mention the (Note 7).”

But Quint says if Samsung is trying to drum up interest in new washing machines, then the company should acknowledge the problem with the earlier washers, and be as specific as possible as to what went wrong.

The company recently reported that 93% of the recalled Note 7 devices have been returned.

In its statement to USA TODAY, Baxter urged the remaining Note 7 owners to power down and turn in the devices. “(We) will continue to listen to our customers, learn and work to renew trust and confidence in our brand and our products. This is our top priority.”

Samsung’s reputation seems to have been damaged most among people with little experience of their products, and not so much among their loyal customers, Dawson says.

“This will put a dent in their efforts to win new customers at least in the near term, but shouldn’t hamper upgrades from existing customers,” he said, adding that the impact mostly seems to be limited to the phone business, since the Note 7 recall had a much higher profile than the washing machine problems.

Quint at Columbia points out that investors have shrugged off Samsung’s problems. Though Samsung’s stock nosedived in the midst of the Note 7 crisis in September, it has mostly been on the rise since.

One thing most everyone agrees on is that there cannot be any repeat damage associated with whatever new products Samsung introduces during CES. That, says, Bajarin, would be “almost insurmountable.”

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will arrive on time.

With online shopping surging this holiday season, FedEx and UPS, the two biggest parcel carriers in the world, have increased their facilities, tapped into technology, and hired tens of thousands of additional workers to help usher the hottest toys, and even items like mattresses and tires, to doorsteps.

UPS is anticipating that it will deliver more than 30 million packages a day this week, almost twice the 16 million deliveries made during a more typical 24hour period, said company spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg.

Meanwhile FedEx, which has projected deliveries to be roughly 10% higher during the peak holiday shipping season than those weeks in 2015, expects the four Mondays between Thanksgiving and Christmas to be “amongst the busiest days in the history of the company,” said spokesman Patrick Fitzgerald.

Yet so far, both shippers are getting most deliveries to recipients’ homes on schedule.

ShipMatrix Inc. found that between Dec. 4 and Dec. 10, 96.2% of packages shipped via FedEx Ground were dropped off on time, slightly above the rate of 95.3% during that week last year.

And UPS Ground had an on-time delivery rate of 93.1% vs. 93.2% during that period in 2015.

“It needs to be kept in perspective that this is not a few thousand packages moving around the country,’’ said ShipMatrix president Satish Jindel. Given the volume of items, he said, the on-time rate “is, in my view, remarkable.”

From Nov. 1 through Dec. 13, shoppers spent $66.91 billion online, an 8.31% leap over last year, according to Adobe Digital Insights.

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Both UPS and FedEx are breaking reacords this year.

And when it comes to delivering those parcels purchased on a computer, tablet or smart phone, UPS is second, and FedEx is third only to the U.S. Postal Service, Jindel said.

“The rise and rapid growth of e-commerce ... is certainly driving the demand in residential deliveries,” Fitzgerald said.

Not only are consumers spending more online, but the items that they are willing to have dropped off at their front door has also changed.

FedEx opened six facilities this year, bringing the total number to eight, specifically to handle bulkier packages containing items like tires, mattresses and home gyms.

Unlike previous years, those items are increasingly becoming part of the e-commerce supply chain, Fitzgerald said.

Offers of free shipping to entice shoppers, and the influence of online behemoth Amazon, are also spurring more people to pick out items on their laptops or smart phones, and then wait for them to arrive.

“Amazon has probably singlehandedly done more to draw people onto e-commerce than all of the other retailers combined ... proving to people you can get things in one day or two days that historically used to be five or six days’ delivery time,” Jindel said.

Major shippers gear up for the holiday season months in advance.

UPS opened 15 new or expanded hubs, enlisted technology that allows staffers to better discern items inside trailers that they need to sort through, and planned to hire more than 95,000 temporary employees. FedEx expanded the ranks of drivers, package handlers and other workers with roughly 50,000 new positions.

But expectations of high-speed deliveries, coupled with the growing number of packages in the pipeline and the wild card of weather, increases the burden on shippers.

“With growth rates above 20% in the coming weeks,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst and director for Adobe Digital Insights, “if they have not planned or get caught by large storms, shipping delays could become a problem.”

Rosenberg of UPS said that this year “there have been a few locations where volume surged beyond expectations for that site, or weather caused some delay.”

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Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99 Zsa Zsa Gabor, the 99-yearold former beauty queen and actress, died Sunday in Los Angeles.

Her friend and former publicist, Edward Lozzi, confirmed the news to USA TODAY. She was ahead of her AP time. In the Zsa Zsa Hollywood Gabor Golden Age, Gabor, or simply Zsa Zsa to most, was perhaps the first celebutante.

She had been in ill health since being hospitalized after a fall in July 2010.

Through the 1980s, Gabor was a guest on television series as diverse as Playhouse 90 and the Colgate Comedy Hour to F Troop and Batman.

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Mark Wahlberg was initially wary in 2015 about the reaction he might receive when signing on to star in and produce a movie about the Boston Marathon bombing.

The Dorchester native was sure he had a profound story to tell. But attending a Boston Celtics game after the movie news broke, Wahlberg feared the project focusing on the 2013 tragedy that killed 3 and injured 264 might provoke barbs from the TD Garden crowd. Especially when he was featured on the Jumbotron.

“But people started going crazy, they started chanting ‘Boston Strong! Boston Strong!’ ” Wahlberg recalls, adding that the crowd and chants continued in the parking lot.

“My car was shaking back and forth. I got out of the car, and people were still chanting ‘Boston Strong!’ It was amazing,” Wahlberg says. “Seeing that obviously reaffirmed my instinct of just how important it was to tell this story. And that it was just as important for me to be the guy to do it.”

Wahlberg and director Peter Berg unveil Patriots Day in a Boston, New York and Los Angeles Friday (before a national release Jan. 13) casting light on the finish-line bombings by home-grown radicalized brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

But, just as important, it focuses on the real-life heroes who emerged from the events, from injured spectators such as newlyweds Jessica and Patrick Downes (played by Rachel Brosnahan and Christopher O’Shea) to the federal, state and local authorities who coordinated the 105-hour manhunt for Dzhokhar (Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout).

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Terror hits home for Sgt. Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) at the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15, 2013.

Tommy Saunders, based on three police officers, is quick with selfeffacing jokes during an interview at Los Angeles’ Four Seasons Hotel. He can laugh at the recordlong hair he sports shooting the new Transformers movie (“I stare at women now and think,

‘How do you do it?’ ”).

But he grows dead serious when discussing arriving in Boston the day after the bombing.

“I had never seen the city like that, pretty much deserted,” he says. “It was just such an eerie feeling.”

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Wahlberg wanted to be the one to show his city coming to life with the slogan “Boston Strong.”

“It was the enormous pride I felt in seeing how people responded in the face of this tragedy.

And those are my people. I wanted to show the world who they are and what ‘Boston Strong’ really means.”

Berg, who has tackled true-life bravery with Wahlberg in Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon, says his star producer showed “a whole other gear” in his hometown. Wahlberg used his local pull to dial up David Ortiz for a cameo honoring the Red Sox star’s famed inspirational Fenway Park speech.

He believes the undefeatable attitude heard in Ortiz’s word and the film carries meaning for a whole nation in troubled times.

“This is not just about Boston, it’s about all of us. Bad things will to continue to happen, But good people will always come together and fight for what’s right. And love will always win. I want everyone to hear that message.”

The box office has gone galactic once again.

Following Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ record-setting $248 million opening a year ago, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story obliterated the competition with a $155 million debut, according to studio estimates from comScore. The haul makes it the second-best December start in history, the 12th-largest opening of all time and the third-biggest this year behind Captain America: Civil War ($179.1 million) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166 million).

“If not for The Force Awakens, our minds would be absolutely blown by a $155 million opening in December,” says comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, who notes

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On their way to destroying the Death Star, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and her pals took down all competition to Rogue One. that before last year, no December movie had ever opened with more than $100 million. (The previous Christmastime champ was 2012’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with $84.6 million.)

Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars film, follows a scrappy Rebel Alliance unit stealing the plans for the Empire’s Death Star — leading up to the events of George Lucas’ original 1977 movie. Rogue got a boost from critical support (84% positive reviews at aggregate site Rotten

Tomatoes) and played well with audiences (who gave it an A grade at CinemaScore).

Analysts wondered how well Rogue One would do, especially compared with The Force Awakens, but the film’s quality proved it was more than marketing hype, Dergarabedian says.

Disney also had the No. 2 movie with another strong outing for animated adventure Moana, which earned $11.7 million ($161.9 million to date). The T.J. Miller holiday comedy Office

Christmas Party was third with $8.5 million.

The drama Collateral Beauty, which features Will Smith as an advertising executive visited by Love, Time and Death, was a bust, mustering only $7 million. While moviegoers approved (giving it an A-minus at CinemaScore), critics weren’t as kind (just 14% liked it, according to Rotten Tomatoes).

Warner Bros. released the tearjerking Beauty as “total counterprogramming,” Dergarabedian says, “but how do you rise above the positive noise (around) Star Wars? Everything else played second fiddle.”

The magical Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them rounded out the top five with $5 million ($207.7 million to date).

Among awards season fare, Manchester By the Sea went nationwide and pulled in $4.2 million ($14 million total since last month’s limited release), and the musical La La Land racked up $4 million as it expanded to 200 locations.

After the movie opens nationally Christmas Day, “suddenly it’s going to become part of the culture and the conversation,” Dergarabedian says.

Final figures are due Monday.

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Dear Annie: My now-ex-husband and I got married and had a baby right after high school. We had a beautiful baby girl, “Sophia.”

Caring for a newborn while all my friends were going off to college was challenging, but I would not trade the experience for the world. Sophia is my light and love.

The problem is with her father.

He felt a great deal of resentment at having to care for a baby when he was only 19.

He preferred going out with the guys to spending time at home with Sophia and me. The tension and resentment built until one day, he left us, saying it was too much for him. He said he would be going to community college to start over. I was devastated. He didn’t want

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any major responsibilities, so I was awarded sole custody.

Now Sophia is 5 years old. As hard as it is for me, I know that he is her father, so I allow him to see her when he has time. Last week, he picked her up to go to the movies. She came back with stars in her eyes from getting to spend the afternoon with Daddy. The problem is that she wants to see him every weekend.

When I told him this,

A Holiday Spectacular of talent NBC goes back to the future with an “America’s Got Talent: Holiday Spectacular” (8 p.m., TV-PG). Host Nick Cannon and judges Mel B, Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel crack wise for the holidays.

Winners and standouts from seasons past will be on hand to sing carols and holiday pop standards, including this season’s champ, Grace VanderWaal, and fan favorites The Clairvoyants, Brian Justin Crum and the Olate Dogs. Look for Penn & Teller and retrocrooner Sal Valentinetti, who joins Heidi Klum in a duet performance of ‘‘Santa Baby.’’

Just to keep the variety show meets vaudeville theme going, daredevil Professor Splash will attempt to dive into a pool of eggnog. And season 5 sensation Jackie Evancho performs as well.

Talent contests like ‘‘Talent,’’ ‘‘American Idol’’ and ‘‘The Voice’’ have been seen as the new variety show, reawakening a TV genre that had lain dormant since the days of ‘‘The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.’’ Christmas specials featuring that duo and the Osmonds were once a seasonal staple. So it’s nice to see ‘‘Talent’’ take a stab at the old tradition. I always thought ‘‘Idol’’ was missing its chance to reunite its winners and contestants for the holidays. I had put it down to Simon Cowell’s Scrooge-like public image. But he’s here tonight.

Holiday spectacles grow rather organically out of variety series.

Perhaps their absence from the prime-time schedule explains the rarity of suitably celebratory shows. Each network recognizes the holidays in its own way. ABC, rather heavy on family comedies, has had a lot of holiday-themed episodes. For two years running, Fox has used the holidays as a showcase for its breakout music industry melodrama ‘‘Empire’’ with the star-studded ‘‘White Hot Holidays’’ specials, starring Taraji P. Henson.

O The 2016 documentary “Risky Drinking” (8 p.m., HBO, TV-MA) examines the widespread effects of problem drinkers. According to medical experts interviewed here, nearly 1 in 3 Americans go through a period of mild to severe alcoholism in their lives. ‘‘Risky’’ follows several subjects, from workaholic binge-drinkers to a single mother whose ‘‘social’’ drinking has resulted in antisocial behavior. Directed

by Ellen Goosenberg Kent (‘‘Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1.’’).

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he said he just doesn’t have the time and can’t commit to every Saturday or even every other Saturday.

I hate to see her so disappointed each Saturday when I have to tell her that Daddy won’t make it today.

His inconsistency is breaking her heart.

I have allowed him to come and go as he pleases because I don’t want her to have zero relationship with her father. Is this type of inconsistency OK for a child, or should I just cut him off entirely? — Confused Mom Dear Confused: This man is giving you only crumbs while you and your daughter deserve the whole cake. What he’s doing to Sophia — and to you — is terrible and selfish, and no, this kind of inconsistency is not OK for a child.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Monday, Dec. 19 This year you witness several important events. If you are single, you are likely to attract someone who can handle the changing dynamic of your personality. If you are attached, you and your sweetie could get into the habit of kissing and making up.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ++++ You’ll be determined to finish all of your holiday errands. You easily could hit a problem with your schedule. Tonight: Out until the wee hours.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ You seem to be too focused on achieving a certain goal. Tonight: Take a deep breath, and walk away from tension.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++ You have had a lot on your plate lately. You certainly don’t want to overwhelm yourself.

Tonight: Be good to yourself first.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Reach out to a loved one at a distance. This person often shares original ideas and thoughts.

Tonight: Enjoy wherever you are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++ Keep a close eye on your funds. You might not be seeing eye to eye with someone else.

Tonight: Finish your chores early!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ How you deal with a personal matter could change

It’s time to sit him down for a long, serious heart-to-heart and lay it all out. Express your concerns about the effect his unpredictability is having on your daughter. Ask him whether he could pledge to see Sophia for one Saturday a month without any ifs, ands or buts. That commitment should be small enough even for his stunted sense of responsibility, and your daughter would at least have one Saturday a month that she could safely look forward to.

But also let him know upfront that if he were to stand her up even once, that would be it.

Sophia’s little heart deserves to be treasured, not broken.

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substantially, as a loved one demonstrates how hostile he or she can be. Tonight: Try to keep the peace.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ A loved one might be difficult to deal with right now.

Process rather than indulge your angry feelings. Tonight: Pace yourself for the holidays.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ You might feel as if a partner or loved one is not being understanding, which will increase your frustration level. Tonight: Get into the moment.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++ You might note an energy sag as you attempt to complete certain projects. A partner or loved one adds an element of confusion. Tonight: Out late.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ You could be off-kilter with the pressure of the holidays.

Slow down your pace and face facts. Tonight: Consider revamping your gift list.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You will make an enormous effort to meet this person’s needs, but the cost might be too high. Tonight: Enjoy a loved one.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++++ Be more forthright with a loved one, but still try not to hurt his or her feelings. Tonight: Be as diplomatic as possible.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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44 One-one, for one 45 Indy round trips 46 Human hotdog 50 Doddering 53 Chills, as a beverage 54 The zodiac’s carnivore 55 Suitable for an ink-jet 58 Like some circles 59 “It’s ___ cry from ...”

60 Scrabble piece 61 Small, to a child 62 Where many pull their own weight 63 Be all ears DOWN 1 Typical opera villains 2 Military scout’s job, for short 3 Emirate emigres 4 “___ Quixote” 5 Franklin’s stock in trade 6 Hue 7 Copies Bessie 8 Tall flightless bird 9 Fad follower (with 61-Across) 10 “May I show you your seat” speaker 11 Clickable PC item 12 Wishing one had left sooner

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Hutchinson man keeps singing, finds new life after stroke

By Kathy Hanks The Hutchinson News

Hutchinson — After the stroke, Robert Calhoun thought his life was over.

A popular vocalist around Hutchinson over the years, Robert’s left side was paralyzed.

Doctors didn’t believe he would walk, talk or ever sing again. But his determination to recover was so strong that five months later he was singing at Hutch Fest. Then eight months later he was singing the national anthem to kick off a Kansas City Royals game during “Strike-out Stroke Sunday.”

“Singing became my therapy,” Robert told The Hutchinson News. “It was my ticket out and it continues to be.”

The stroke happened 22 years ago when Robert was 38. Thanks to his drive to continue to sing and remain open to love, he leads a very full life today.

Back in 1994, at the time of the stroke, he had been divorced for eight years. As he became more active, he doubted a woman would ever want to have a relationship with him because of his disability.

“It’s one thing if you are married to someone who has a stroke,” Robert said, but he didn’t believe a woman would choose to start a relationship with a stroke victim.

He moved on with his life and joined the choir at Park Place Christian Church. Once again, music became his saving grace.

Before long, he was mesmerized by Rochelle Berkley, the church organist. Their paths had crossed over the years when they would sing together at weddings and funerals.

By the time he joined the choir, Rochelle’s husband, Clay Berkley, had died, leaving her a widow for several years. She

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ROBERT AND ROCHELLE CALHOUN SHARE A LOVE FOR MUSIC, one of the things that brought them together and has kept them growing together through eight years of marriage. A popular vocalist around Hutchinson over the years, Robert’s left side was paralyzed. Doctors didn’t believe he would walk, talk or ever sing again. But his determination to recover was so strong that five months later he was singing at Hutch Fest. had dated, but the Hutchinson Middle School music teacher was becoming content with her single life.

That was until Thanksgiving dinner at the church in 2007. Rochelle was looking for a place to sit and there was only one seat left next to Robert.

“I had been working up my nerve to ask her out,” he said.

“She was very special.”

The moment arrived as she sat next to him. She said yes; after all, they had the common interest of music. He invited her to a junior college game and other dates followed. They had lots of fun together. But she thought she wanted to remain single.

“I was persistent,” Robert said.

The Rev. Kim Biery, who was pastor at Park Place Christian Church at the time, could see what was happening.

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“He had his eye on her. It was a match made in heaven,” Biery said.

“Music is the expression of their souls and they are great performers.

They share this love of music and the Lord; they really hit it off.”

Biery married the couple on Sept. 20, 2008. She admits as a pastor she doesn’t always see older couples so smitten with each other. More often she sees marriages of convenience. Two people find themselves single and decide they might as well get together. But that’s not the case here.

“There’s a gleam in their eyes when they look at each other,” Biery said. She considered it an honor to be part of this special union.

They sang to each other on their wedding day and for the past eight years have been performing together.

Rochelle was content behind

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the piano, but Robert was persistent that he wanted her out front singing with him. She continues accompanying and coaching at Prairie Hills Middle School and remains the church organist.

Now on Sundays they go separate ways. She is at the organ at Park Place Christian Church and he is the music director at Countryside Baptist Church.

Robert is grateful she was open to loving him despite his disability. He believes God brought them together at the right time in their lives.

“The man is supposed to be the strength of the family,” Robert said. “I wake up and she has to tie my shoes. It’s humbling.

But it’s life.”

Rochelle says she forgets her husband has a disability.

There was a time he would wear a stroke T-shirt. Rochelle tossed it out. She didn’t want him to feel like a victim. Because of her, he says, his days are better.

They blended their families and children and great grandchildren are learning that not everyone has two arms and legs that work, Rochelle said.

Their love continues to grow.

“Every time she plays the piano I fall in love all over again,” he said.

“He is such a romantic,” she said, adding he writes her poetry.

For the past four years, Robert has once again become a familiar voice singing the national anthem at Hutchinson Community College sporting events and Monarch games. Just recently he made a career change, leaving Commercial Sound after 20 years and is now with Strategic Financial Concepts Inc., helping others plan their futures.

Their singing together just gets better, just like their life.

“She has a wonderful ability to blend,” Robert said. “I am amazed at how smooth the harmonies are, just like silk.”

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Foreclosures The Douglas County sheriff holds a public auction of foreclosed property every Thursday. The auction is at 10 a.m. in the jury assembly room of the Douglas County Courthouse. Anyone can bid, including the previous owner.

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Jackson helps keep Kansas immune to upsets

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ou can believe almost everything you read in sports sections across America, but there is one recurring exception: When a college basketball headline includes the word “upset,” check the betting line from the previous day’s paper before believing it.

If the score upsets you, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an upset.

For example, when Kansas travels to Morgantown to play West Virginia on Jan. 24, KU likely will rank ahead of the Mountaineers in the top 25. But if the Jayhawks are favored, it only will be by a point or two. Still, if WVU wins, many headlines erroneously will call it an upset.

As for genuine upsets, Kansas is even more immune to those than in most seasons.

Freshman Josh Jackson is as big a reason for that as anyone. His defensive versatility — pressure a point guard on one possession and rattle him into throwing a pass that gets intercepted, help off his man to swat a post player’s shot the next time down the floor, follow that with a deflection of a pass that when released seemed bound for a clear, safe path — tends to make opponents skittish.

Jackson doesn’t save his defensive intensity for big games because his approach is such that he doesn’t just treat all opponents alike, but all possessions as well, each one representing an opportunity to win a battle.

Offensively, Jackson takes over when needed, such as during the second half of Saturday’s 89-71 victory against Davidson in Sprint Center, a game KU trailed at the half, 43-42. His 3-pointer from the left corner sent the Jayhawks on a run, but his drives down the left side of the lane, one that resulted in two points, the other in three, took more out of Davidson.

Jackson’s blind loyalty to making winning plays enables him to work close to the hoop when others in his situation might prefer to audition for scouts.

Blend a freshman who plays with the confidence, smarts and unselfishness of an upperclassmen with similarly aggressive guards, senior Frank Mason III and junior Devonté Graham, and it makes it so tough for opponents to pull off an upset.

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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS WIDE RECEIVER TYREEK HILL (10) fumbles but recovers a punt during the first half of an NFL game against the Tennessee Titans Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.

Succop’s 53-yard field goal gives Titans win over KC

By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Titans 19, Chiefs 17 Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — Ryan Succop kicked a 53-yard field goal into the wind as time expired to give Tennessee a 19-17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on a frigid Sunday and keep the Titans tied with Houston atop the AFC South.

Succop, who began his career with Kansas City, came up short on his first try at the winner, but Chiefs coach Andy Reid had called a

timeout just before the snap.

Given a second chance, Succop knocked it through with a couple feet to spare as the Titans poured off the bench to celebrate.

The Titans (8-6) had rallied from a 17-7 hole, and Derrick Henry’s second touchdown run got them within 17-16 with just more than three minutes left. But coach Mike Mularkey went for a 2-point conversion and the lead, and Marcus Mariota was pressured immediately and his pass never reached the end zone.

The Chiefs (10-4) came in tied with the Raiders for first in the AFC West and could have clinched a playoff spot.

Kansas City was unable to pick up a first down to clinch the game, and Tennessee got the ball back with a minute left. With no timeouts, Mariota calmly found Rishard Matthews for 19 yards and Delanie Walker twice to set up Succop’s field-goal attempt.

“You can sit here and point fingers and all that stuff that bad teams do, or you can fix it,” Reid said, “and I have

total trust in this team to do that.”

The dramatic late-game turn came after Tennessee squandered plenty of chances early.

Matthews fumbled within sight of the goal line in the first half, ending the Titans’ streak of four straight games without a turnover. And Mariota, a Hawaii native, had plenty of trouble dealing with the cold weather, fumbling the ball away and throwing an interception to Ron Parker. > CHIEFS, 3C

Azubuike’s impact could fluctuate from game to game

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

At times Kansas center Udoka Azubuike, who started his sixth consecutive game for the No. 3-ranked Jayhawks on Saturday night at Sprint Center, looks more like an unstoppable post presence than a 17-year-old adolescent still learning the demands of playing for one of the nation’s elite college basketball programs.

When, less than two minutes in against Davidson, Azubuike launched his

7-foot, 280-pound frame skyward in order to finish a lob pass from Frank Mason III by crushing a twohanded slam, the young big appeared on his way to another promising night.

However, he committed two personal fouls before the first media timeout, prompting coach Bill Self to invite him to the bench for the remainder of the half. By the conclusion of KU’s 89-71 victory, Azubuike had barely spent any more time on

KANSAS CENTER UDOKA AZUBUIKE (35) fights for position over Davidson forward Nathan Ekwu (1) during the second half, Saturday at Sprint Center.

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By Rob Maaddi AP Pro Football Writer

Tom Brady and the Patriots clinched another division title and helped the Dolphins jump into a postseason position while Oakland snapped a 13-year playoff drought.

New England secured its eighth straight AFC East title and 13th in 14 years and earned a first-round bye with a dominant defensive performance in a 16-3 win at Denver.

The Patriots’ victory allowed Miami to leapfrog the Broncos for the second wild-card position in the AFC. The Raiders beat the Chargers to earn their first trip to the playoffs since losing the 2003 Super Bowl.

In the early games Sunday, the NFC’s playoff picture got more jumbled and the Chiefs lost control of their division championship hopes.

The Packers got right back in the mix for an NFC North title thanks to a last-second win over the Bears and help from the Giants, who beat the Lions and put pressure on the Cowboys in the NFC East.

Kansas City lost to Tennessee and then fell out of first place in the AFC West following Oakland’s victory. In the AFC South, all three teams vying for first place got big wins.

The Seattle Seahawks kicked off Week 15 by securing another NFC West title on Thursday night.

Dallas, which already got in, beat Tampa Bay 26-20 on Sunday night to maintain a twogame edge over the Giants.

Here’s a closer look at the teams and scenarios:

AFC East New England Patriots (12-2) Remaining schedule: vs.

New York Jets on Dec. 24, at Miami on Jan. 1.

Division record: 3-1. Conference record: 9-1.

Clinched division and firstround bye with impressive win over the Broncos. Need one win or loss by Raiders to lock up No. 1 seed.

Miami Dolphins (9-5) Remaining schedule: at Buffalo on Dec. 24, vs. New England on Jan. 1.

Division record: 3-1. Conference record: 6-4.

Their win over the Jets coupled with New England’s win at Denver gave the Dolphins control of the second wild-card spot.

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No. 8 Gonzaga 86, Tennessee 76 Nashville, Tenn. — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 20 points, and No. 8 Gonzaga remained undefeated by holding off Tennessee 86-76 on Sunday.

Gonzaga (11-0) hadn’t played since Dec. 10 and looked strong as the Bulldogs scored the first eight points and never trailed.

They led 27-6 on a jumper by Zach Collins with 12:06 left, 4329 at halftime and 64-48 midway through the second half.

Tennessee (6-5) went on a 10-3 run and got to 75-71 on a jumper

by Robert Hubbs III with 2:26 left.

Josh Perkins then hit a jumper as Gonzaga held on for its fourth straight win in the five games between these teams.

This was billed as the Battle of Broadway played at Bridgestone Arena, so technically it was a neutral court — except for all the fans wearing Tennessee orange in the seats.

Perkins finished with 15 points, and Jordan Mathews added 13 for Gonzaga. Detrick Mostella led Tennessee with 17 points.

HIGH SCHOOLS HUB:

GONZAGA (11-0) J.Williams 1-3 1-2 4, Karnowski 3-6 4-5 10, Perkins 4-5 5-6 15, Williams-Goss 7-12 6-7 20, Mathews 4-9 1-3 13, Collins 2-3 6-6 10, Tillie 1-2 2-2 5, Alberts 0-0 0-0 0, Melson 3-6 2-2 9. Totals 25-46 27-33 86.

TENNESSEE (6-5) G.Williams 2-4 6-10 11, Evans 1-8 5-6 8, Bowden 2-4 4-4 9, Hubbs 4-10 1-3 10, Phillips 1-7 0-0 2, Alexander 1-3 0-1 2, Schofield 1-5 4-4 7, Turner 2-10 2-2 8, Parker 1-3 0-1 2, Mostella 6-15 2-2 17. Totals 21-69 24-33 76.

Halftime-Gonzaga 43-29. 3-Point GoalsGonzaga 9-20 (Mathews 4-9, Perkins 2-3, Tillie 1-2, J.Williams 1-2, Melson 1-3, Williams-Goss 0-1), Tennessee 10-29 (Mostella 3-10, Turner 2-5, G.Williams 1-1, Bowden 1-1, Hubbs 1-2, Schofield 1-3, Evans 1-4, Alexander 0-1, Parker 0-1, Phillips 0-1). Fouled Out-Bowden, Melson, Collins. Rebounds-Gonzaga 40 (WilliamsGoss, Karnowski 9), Tennessee 35 (G.Williams 7). Assists-Gonzaga 13 (Williams-Goss 6), Tennessee 11 (Turner, Parker 4). Total Fouls-Gonzaga 30, Tennessee 26. TechnicalsGonzaga coach Mark Few. A-13,784 (19,395).

Big 12 No. 4 Baylor 107, John Brown 53 Waco, Texas — Johnathan Motley had 20 points and nine rebounds in Baylor’s victory over overmatched NAIA school John Brown.

The Bears (11-0) shot 59 percent from the floor despite missing their first five shots, dominated on the boards by a 51-15 margin and forced 18 turnovers that turned into 19 points on the other end.

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Baylor (11-0), Jo Lual-Acuil and Wendell Mitchell had 11 apiece, and Terry Maston finished with 10. Josh Bowling led the Golden Eagles (9-5) with 14 points.

JOHN BROWN (0-2) Martinez 2-3 0-2 4, Bowling 5-10 0-0 14, Roberts 0-4 0-1 0, Caudle 3-8 0-0 9, English 1-6 0-0 2, Smith 2-5 0-2 6, Toussaint 3-5 0-0 6, Hart 0-1 0-1 0, Egedi 0-0 1-2 1, Rhodius 0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 0-2 0-0 0, Waller 4-7 1-3 9, Ledford 1-2 0-1 2. Totals 21-53 2-12 53.

BAYLOR (11-0) Lual-Acuil 5-8 1-1 11, Motley 8-11 3-5 20, Freeman 6-9 0-0 16, Wainright 1-4 0-0 3, Lecomte 1-4 0-0 3, Davis 2-2 4-4 9, Maston 4-7 2-2 10, Omot 2-5 2-3 6, Lindsey 2-3 2-2 7, McClure 3-6 2-2 9, Mitchell 5-7 2-2 13. Totals 39-66 18-21 107.

Halftime-Baylor 53-28. 3-Point Goals-John Brown 9-25 (Bowling 4-6, Caudle 3-8, Smith 2-4, Waller 0-1, Joseph 0-2, English 0-4), Baylor 11-21 (Freeman 4-6, Wainright 1-1, Davis 1-1, Motley 1-1, Lindsey 1-2, Mitchell 1-2, Lecomte 1-3, McClure 1-3, Omot 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-John Brown 14 (Toussaint 3), Baylor 44 (Motley 9). Assists-John Brown 13 (Roberts, Waller 3), Baylor 22 (Motley 5). Total FoulsJohn Brown 21, Baylor 18. A-5,045 (10,284).

TCU 96, Texas Southern 59 Fort Worth, Texas — Chris Washburn and the TCU Horned Frogs passed their post-exams test on the court.

Washburn had 15 points and nine rebounds in only 11 minutes, leading four TCU players scoring in double figures, and the Frogs beat Texas Southern in their first game in eight days.

Alex Robinson added 13 points, while Jaylen Fisher and

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Conference record: 7-2.

Conference record: 7-3.

• Men’s basketball at Missouri Oakland clinched its first A loss to the Giants plus Western, 7 p.m.

AL CENTRAL Pittsburgh Steelers (9-5) playoff spot in 14 years with Green Bay’s win is setting up a • Women’s basketball vs.

Remaining schedule: vs. Bal- a win over the Chargers. The winner-take-all home game vs.

Northwestern College timore on Dec. 25, vs. Cleve- Raiders must finish one game the Packers in Week 17. The Liland on Jan. 1. ahead of the Chiefs to win AFC ons still have a one-game lead, Division record: 3-1. Confer- West because they lost to them SPORTS ON TV but their schedule is daunting.

AL WEST ence record: 7-3. twice.

TODAY Their comeback win over Green Bay Packers (8-6) the Bengals set up a showdown Kansas City Chiefs (10-4) Time Net Cable Remaining schedule: vs. Pro Football Remaining schedule: vs. for the division at home on Panthers at Redskins 7:15p.m.

ESPN 33, 233 Christmas Day vs. the Ravens. Denver on Dec. 25, at San Di- Minnesota on Dec. 24, at DePittsburgh already lost at Balti- ego on Jan. 1. troit on Jan. 1.

College Basketball Time Net Cable Division record: 4-0. Confermore so it must win that game.

Division record: 3-1.

ConferAFC TEAM LOGOS 081312: Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m. ence record: 7-3.

W. Illinois at Purdue 5 p.m. BTN 147,237 ence record: 6-4.

Baltimore Ravens (8-6) Missed opportunity to 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 The Packers gained control Tenn. St. at Duke Remaining schedule: at Pitts- clinch a playoff spot and lost of their playoff hopes with a E. Mich. at Syracuse 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 burgh on Dec. 25, at Cincinnati control of division race, but win and Detroit’s loss. If they St. Francis at Marquette 6 p.m. FS1 150,227 on Jan. 1. hold a tiebreaker over the Delaware St. at Indiana 7 p.m. BTN 147,237 Division record: 4-0. Confer- Raiders because of a series win out, they take the North.

Stanford at SMU 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 ence record: 7-3. sweep.

S. Miss. at Miss. St. 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Minnesota Vikings (7-7) They win the division if they SE Mo. St. at DePaul 8 p.m. FS1 150,227 Remaining schedule: at Denver Broncos (8-6) win out.

Remaining schedule: at Kan- Green Bay on Dec. 24, vs. Chi- Bradley at Mississippi 8 p.m. SEC 157 Eliminated: Cincinnati Ben- sas City on Dec. 25, vs. Oakland cago on Jan. 1. gals (5-8-1), Cleveland Browns on Jan. 1.

Time Net Cable Division record: 1-3. Confer- College Football Division record: 1-3. Confer- ence record: 4-6.

(0-14).

Miami Beach Bowl: ence record: 5-5.

A blowout loss at home to Cent. Mich. v. Tulsa 1:30 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 They lost control of their the Colts leaves Minnesota on AFC South playoff future and their schedthe brink of elimination.

Soccer Time Net Cable Houston Texans (8-6) ule is brutal.

Everton v. Liverpool 1:55 p.m. NBCSP 38, 238 Remaining schedule: vs. CinEliminated: Chicago Bears cinnati on Dec. 24, at TennesEliminated: San Diego Char(3-11). see on Jan. 1. gers (5-8).

Pro Hockey Time Net Cable Division record: 5-0. ConferOilers at Blues 7 p.m. FSN 36, 236 ence record: 6-4.

NFC East NFC South They might have a quarterTUESDAY back controversy, but Tom Dallas Cowboys (11-2) Atlanta Falcons (9-5) College Basketball Time Net Cable Remaining schedule: vs. DeSavage led them to a comeback Remaining schedule: at Car5:30p.m. FS1 150,227 win that keeps them in first troit on Dec. 26, at Philadelphia olina on Dec. 24, vs. New Or- E. Wash. v. Xavier Charlotte v. Maryland 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 place. Houston is tied with the on Jan. 1. leans on Jan. 1.

Division record: 3-2. ConferTitans, so their New Year’s Day Division record: 3-1. Confer- Georgia at Ga. Tech 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 rematch at Tennessee could be ence record: 8-2.

N. Dakota St. at Arkansas 6 p.m. SEC 157 Their magic number to win ence record: 7-3. for the division.

Creighton at Ariz. St. 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Their win over San Francisthe division and secure the No. Charl. So. at Va. Tech 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 co coupled with Tampa Bay’s Tennessee Titans (8-6) 1 seed is one.

North Dakota at Iowa 8 p.m. BTN 147,237 loss put them in control in the Remaining schedule: at Jackdivision race. sonville on Dec. 24, vs. Hous- New York Giants (10-4) Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable Remaining schedule: at ton on Jan. 1.

Notre Dame at Mich. St. 6 p.m. BTN 147,237 Division record: 1-3. Confer- Philadelphia on Thursday, at Tampa Bay Buccaneers Washington on Jan. 1. ence record: 5-5.

(8-5) Time Net Cable Division record: 3-1. ConferAn impressive comeback Remaining schedule: at New College Football win at Kansas City allows them ence record: 7-3.

Orleans on Dec. 24, vs. Caro- Boca Raton Bowl: Suddenly the division title to control their playoff posMemphis v. W. Ky. 6 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 sibilities. If they win out, they isn’t entirely out of reach, lina on Jan. 1.

Division record: 3-1. Conferearn a division crown. The Ti- but they need to win out and Soccer Time Net Cable tans would lose a tiebreaker the Cowboys have to lose ence record: 6-4.

Bor. Dort. v.

Augsburg 1 p.m. FS1 150,227 Fell one game behind the with Houston, so they can’t two more games. They’re fall behind the Texans going also closing in on a wild-card Falcons and lost their grip on Time Net Cable into Week 17. They hold head- berth, but they have only road the second wild-card position. Pro Hockey to-head tiebreakers over the games remaining.

St. Louis at Dallas 7:30p.m. FSN 36, 236 Broncos and Dolphins, so a Need a miracle: New Orwild-card berth is still in play. Washington Redskins (7-5-1) leans Saints (6-8), Carolina Remaining schedule: vs. Car- Panthers (5-8).

LATEST LINE Indianapolis Colts (7-7) olina on Monday, at Chicago NFL Remaining schedule: at Oak- on Dec. 24, vs. New York GiFavorite.............. Points (O/U)........... Underdog land on Dec. 24, vs. Jackson- ants on Jan. 1.

NFC West Week 15 ville on Jan. 1.

Division record: 3-2. ConferWASHINGTON.................... 7 (51)............................Carolina Seattle Seahawks (9-4-1) Thursday Division record: 2-3. Confer- ence record: 5-4.

Week 16 Remaining schedule: vs. AriThey gained control of their ence record: 4-6.

NY Giants...........................3 (42)................PHILADELPHIA zona on Dec. 24, at San FranA big win at Minnesota keeps playoff future thanks to Dallas’ Saturday them alive, but they have the win over Tampa Bay. If they cisco on Jan. 1.

Washington................... 3 1/2 (44).......................CHICAGO win out, they’re in. tough Raiders and need help.

Division record: 2-1-1. Con- BUFFALO.......................3 1/2 (43.5)...........................Miami NEW ORLEANS..................4 (49).....................Tampa Bay ference record: 5-4-1.

Atlanta............................ 3 1/2 (47).....................CAROLINA Eliminated: PhilaEliminated: Jacksonville JagThe first team to clinch a di- GREEN BAY......................7 (43.5)......................Minnesota delphia Eagles (5-9). vision title, Seattle jumped up NEW ENGLAND.................15 (44)............................NY Jets uars (2-12).

Tennessee..................... 4 1/2 (44)...........JACKSONVILLE to the No. 2 seed following De- San Diego..........................6 (44).....................CLEVELAND AFC West NFC North OAKLAND...........................4 (52)....................Indianapolis troit’s loss.

AFC North

Need a miracle: Buffalo Bills Oakland Raiders (10-3) Detroit Lions (9-5) Eliminated: Arizona Cardi(7-7) Remaining schedule: vs. InRemaining schedule: at Dalnals (5-8-1), Los Angeles Rams dianapolis on Dec. 24, at Den- las on Dec. 26, vs. Green Bay on (4-10), San Francisco 49ers (1Eliminated: New York Jets ver on Jan. 1.

Jan. 1.

(4-10).

Division record: 2-2.

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Kenrich Williams each had 12 for the Horned Frogs (10-1). The only better start in school history was 13-0 two seasons ago, and they were also 10-1 in 199798 — the last time they went to the NCAA Tournament.

Demontrae Jefferson had 15 points and Jalan McCloud 13 for the Tigers, who played the 12th of 16 consecutive road games to start the season. They lost for the second time in a span of about 24 hours, after an 88-80 loss at LSU on Saturday night.

Texas Southern’s only lead came when Derrick Griffin scored the first basket of the game.

TEXAS SOUTHERN (4-8) Griffin 3-4 0-1 6, Bennett 0-0 1-4 1, Lofton 2-9 4-5 8, D.Robinson 2-4 0-0 6, Jefferson 4-19 6-6 15, Rutherford 1-2 0-0 3, Jones 1-3 0-0 2, Bynum 1-2 0-0 3, Scott 1-6 0-0 2, McCloud 5-10 3-4 13.

Totals 20-59 14-20 59.

TCU (10-1) Brodziansky 3-5 2-3 8, Miller 3-8 2-2 9, A.Robinson 5-9 1-2 13, K.Williams 5-7 1-2 12, Fisher 4-7 2-2 12, Shepherd 2-4 2-2 6, Washburn 5-8 5-6 15, Sottile 1-1 0-0 2, M.Williams 1-4 0-0 3, Dry 0-1 0-2 0, Trent 2-5 0-0 4, J.Parrish 2-2 1-2 6, B.Parrish 0-2 0-0 0, Bane 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 36-68 16-23 96.

Halftime-TCU 40-26. 3-Point Goals-Texas Southern 5-22 (D.Robinson 2-2, Bynum 1-2, Rutherford 1-2, Jefferson 1-9, Lofton 0-2, Scott 0-2, McCloud 0-3), TCU 8-20 (A.Robinson 2-3, Fisher 2-4, K.Williams 1-1, J.Parrish 1-1, M.Williams 1-3, Miller 1-4, Trent 0-1, Bane 0-1, B.Parrish 0-2). Fouled Out-Jones. ReboundsTexas Southern 27 (Griffin 7), TCU 47 (Washburn 9). Assists-Texas Southern 10 (Jefferson 4), TCU 20 (A.Robinson 5). Total Fouls-Texas Southern 19, TCU 20. A-6,081 (7,201).

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By Chris Duderstadt cduderstadt@ljworld.com

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BAKER FOOTBALL PLAYERS ADAM NOVAK (84), Damon Nolan (9) and Josh Kock (97) run out on to the field before the Wildcats’ 38-17 loss Saturday in the NAIA football championship game at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Fla. penalties called on us, and we don’t do that.

We’re not that type of football team.”

A much more mildmannered Grossner appeared before the media with junior Cornell

All-Area athlete

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ALL-AREA CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER LANDON SLOAN, a Free State High sophomore, saved his best running for the end of the season, pacing the Firebirds with a seventh-place finish at regionals to help them qualify for state. Sloan’s photo was inadvertently left out of the 2016 All-Area boys cross country team photos found in Sunday’s Journal-World.

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the court. Self elected to start senior Landen Lucas to open the second half, and Azubuike only logged seven total minutes, contributing five points and no rebounds.

Even so, his coach didn’t fume while discussing the freshman center’s mostly forgettable evening.

“You know what? Dok didn’t play bad,” Self offered, shortly after Kansas improved to 10-1 on the season. “He just got two fouls early. And if you start Dok the second half, he gets his third, he’s done for a while. I just thought we’d at least delay him getting his third foul, at least a couple minutes. And of course it only took two minutes

after he got in there to get the third one.”

As the smirking 14thyear KU coach referenced, Azubuike, after spending more than 20 game minutes on the bench, didn’t return to the court until 14:36 remained in the second half. The gargantuan teenager made one of two free throws, turned the ball over and committed his third foul in his two second-half minutes, before sitting for the final 12:20.

The same player who finished two dunks in the first five minutes turned into a non-factor.

Asked if Azubuike needs to do something in particular to see extended minutes, Self said he wasn’t opposed to using his starter against Davidson (5-4).

The game just led him in another direction.

“We could’ve played him some the first half

Brown and senior Nick Becker after the Wildcats’ loss to the Cougars on Saturday.

“Nobody likes to get second,” Grossner said.

“It’s a tough feeling, but my philosophy is that we

didn’t play well enough to win and make enough plays, we accept it and we got beat and that’s what happened.”

The Wildcats have made the playoffs in four of the past five seasons,

Saturday. Junior quarterback Logan Brettell — who was named the NAIA Player of the Year on Friday — completed 34 of 50 passes for 263 yards.

“I think that we were worried to go deep with it and get him beat up, and I think that changed what we were doing mid-stride,” Grossner said. “When you have a great D-line — and I think our D-line is pretty darn good — and you can get pressure with your front without having to bring extra, you’re going to dictate to the offense what you want to do. That happened to us for a long period there in the game.”

Despite the dream of an undefeated 15-0 season coming up just short, Grossner beamed with pride about his team following the title-game loss. “(It is) fantastic for these guys and what they accomplished,” Grossner said. “Look out at the crowd, look at the following that came all the way to Florida for us. You’ve got to reflect on the season as a whole, and really look at it as a great year for these young men and what they accomplished.”

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It was 1 degree at kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium, with a wind chill of minus-19, making it the coldest game in Kansas City since the franchise began keeping records in 1994.

The Chiefs nevertheless got off to a hot start when Tyreek Hill faked like he was running an option play and took an inside handoff instead, running untouched 68 yards for a first-quarter touchdown.

It was the sixth touchdown for the dynamic rookie in the last four weeks.

Alex Smith added a TD run later in the half, and Cairo Santos knocked through a field goal, but the Chiefs also blew a couple of opportunities. They were repelled twice at the 1-yard line and came away without points, and Smith threw an interception in the end zone early in the second half.

“I thought we were awful on third down and we didn’t capitalize in the red zone,” Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said.

“We had an opportunity to put the game away and didn’t get it done.”

Succop hit from 39 yards early in the fourth quarter to make it a onepossession game, and the Titans promptly got the ball back and marched the (with two fouls),” Self said. “But if we’re gonna play four guards, which we knew we were going to this game because of matchups and what (the Wildcats) like to do offensively, then to me there was really no reason to put him back in there unless Landen and Carlton (Bragg) got in foul trouble.”

Therein lies the tricky part of Kansas utilizing what have proven to be effective perimeter-oriented lineups, featuring just one traditional frontcourt player. When Self scanned the box score after the victory, he didn’t see Azubuike’s stat line of 2-for-2 field goals, 1-for-2 free throws, no rebounds, three fouls, five points and one turnover in seven minutes. The coach lumped that output together with the numbers produced by Lucas, Bragg

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TENNESSEE TITANS TIGHT END DELANIE WALKER (82) is tackled by Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Ron Parker (38) during the second half of an NFL game Sunday against Tennessee. The Titans won 19-17. other way, twice converting third down and once on fourth to set up Henry’s 1-yard TD plunge. The conversion attempt was a disaster, but it wound up being moot.

The Titans’ defense and Succop’s strong right leg made sure of it.

Chiefs TE Travis Kelce had three catches for 41 yards, snapping his streak of four straight 100-yard games. ... Reid fell to 1-6 in his career against the Titans.

Up next Chiefs play Denver on Weather woes Christmas night.

The record for coldest Titans visit Jacksongame at Arrowhead Sta- ville on Saturday. dium had been 9 degrees 0 7 0 12 — 19 before Sunday. It was so Tennessee City 14 3 0 0 — 17 cold that the fuses in the Kansas First Quarter west scoreboard froze, KC-Hill 68 run (Santos kick), 11:43.

KC-A.Smith 10 run (Santos kick), blanking out a large sec4:24. tion of it for much of the Second Quarter Ten-Henry 4 run (Succop kick), game.

Stats and streaks The Chiefs had been 21-0 under Andy Reid with a turnover margin of plus-two or better. ... Tennessee has won three straight for the first time since Weeks 2-4 of the 2011 season. ... Injury update The Titans lost safety The Chiefs had won seven straight December Da’Norris Searcy to a congame dating to 2014. ... cussion and cornerback and Mitch Lightfoot, and arrived at 22 points and 16 rebounds in 50 minutes.

“We’re gonna be pretty good if we can get that production,” Self said, while crediting Lucas and Bragg for doing most of the damage — combining for 15 points and 16 boards in 39 minutes.

The reality for KU post players such as Azubuike is they likely will have to live with their productivity and overall impact fluctuating from game to game.

Still, another one of KU’s veteran guards, Mason, said Azubuike could safeguard himself against extended time on the bench by focusing on providing the team with some big-man essentials: “Rebounding the ball, blocking shots, altering shots, just sprinting, running the floor every

Jason McCourty to a chest injury in the first half. Defensive tackle Karl Klug left with an ankle injury in the second half.

possession and getting angles,” the senior leader said. “We need him to do those things first.”

With the encouragement of teammates and coaches, Mason added, Azubuike picks up on those elements of the game daily and continues to improve.

While the massive freshman works to grow his

11:58.

KC-FG Santos 34, :13.

Fourth Quarter Ten-FG Succop 39, 11:54.

Ten-Henry 1 run (pass failed), 3:12.

Ten-FG Succop 53, :00.

A-68,084.

repertoire, there figures to be days when he provides the Jayhawks with exactly what they need. And other days he might not.

As Self said after Azubuike played single-digit minutes for the first time as a starter: “I thought Dok did fine. I just thought the other guys were a little bit better.”

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Daytona Beach, Fla. — One loss to a familiar opponent was all that kept everything from coming full circle for Baker University football coach Mike Grossner, as his Wildcats fell to St. Francis (Ind.), 38-17, Saturday in the NAIA national championship game at Municipal Stadium.

Although there were not any players from the current Baker squad that suited up against St. Francis in the first round of the 2012 playoffs, the road matchup against the Cougars in Fort Wayne, Ind. marked a beginning of a four-year stretch full of ups and downs for Grossner.

Grossner’s 2012 squad made Baker’s first appearance in the NAIA playoffs since 2008, but suffered an early exit after a penalty-plagued 22-17 loss in which the Wildcats were flagged a season-high 13 times.

The BU head coach did not take that loss well during his postgame interview.

“The better team lost, no doubt about that,” Grossner said. “We had to play against the 12th man today. We had 13

but it was the 2014 campaign in which they missed the postseason that Grossner has credited to making himself and his team stronger.

Grossner’s toughest opponent that he has faced has actually been off the field, as he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma — a cancer that had formed in his neck.

Grossner continued to coach the Wildcats while fighting the disease, and led Baker to a 7-0 start and the No. 2 ranking in the nation.

The Wildcats went on to lose three of their last four, though, and had to cope with the passing of Sione Maumau with three weeks remaining in the regular season.

“That was hard for us,” Baker wide receiver Clarence Clark said of the 2014 season after the Wildcats’ 45-41 win over Eastern Oregon in the NAIA semifinals on Dec. 3. “Last year was our building year, and this year we finally did it (reached title game).”

Clark’s 77-yard gamewinning touchdown catch sent Baker to the NAIA title game for just the second time in school history. The Baker receiving corps was held in check, though, on

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Jags loss seals coach’s fate Oct. 12, 2003, against the the defending champions Giants. But he came back at a place where they’re Texans 21, Jaguars 20 to lead the Patriots (12-2) right at home.

Houston — Tom Sav- to a record eighth con3 6 6 9 — 24 age threw for 260 yards secutive division title and Pittsburgh Cincinnati 10 10 0 0 — 20 after Brock Osweiler was a first-round bye. benched in the second England 3 7 3 3 — 16 Ravens 27, Eagles 26 quarter, and Lamar Miller New Denver 3 0 0 0 — 3 Baltimore — Baltimore scored Houston’s only survived a desperate cometouchdown with less than Packers 30, Bears 27 back bid by Philadelphia, three minutes remaining.

Chicago — Aaron Rod- stopping a 2-point converJacksonville fired gers hit Jordy Nelson sion with 4 seconds left. coach Gus Bradley after with a 60-yard pass to set On a wet and windy the game. up Mason Crosby’s 32- day, the Ravens mainThe win was Houston’s yard field goal as time ex- tained control of their 10th straight in the divi- pired in one of the cold- playoff possibilities. If Balsion and left the Texans est games ever played in timore defeats Pittsburgh (8-6) tied with Tennessee Chicago. on Christmas Day and for the AFC South lead.

Wide receiver-turned- Cincinnati in the regularBut Houston controls its running back Ty Mont- season finale, the Ravens playoff future with a 5-0 gomery ran for a career- will enter the postseason mark in the division. high 162 yards and two as AFC North champions. touchdowns, and the Jacksonville 0 13 7 0 — 20 3 11 0 12 — 26 (8-6) earned Philadelphia Houston 0 5 6 10 — 21 Packers Baltimore 10 10 0 7 — 27 their fourth straight vicRaiders 19, Chargers 16 tory despite blowing a Giants 17, Lions 6 San Diego — Sebas- 17-point lead in the fourth East Rutherford, N.J. tian Janikowski kicked quarter.

— Odell Beckham Jr. made a 44-yard field goal with Green Bay 7 3 17 3 — 30 another one-hand touch2:40 left, his fourth of the Chicago 0 10 0 17 — 27 down catch to delight regame, and Oakland beat play fanatics, the defense San Diego in the Relo- Bills 33, Browns 13 turned in another stifling cation Bowl Sunday to Orchard Park, N.Y. — performance and New clinch a playoff berth for Bumbling Cleveland is two York inched closer to its the first time since 2002. losses short of becoming first playoff berth since 2011.

Playing before what the NFL’s second team to NFC North-leading looked like a home crowd go 0-16 in one season.

Detroit (9-5) had won at 70,000-seat Qualcomm LeSean McCoy had five in a row.

Stadium, the visiting a season-best 153 yards The win was the eighth Raiders (11-3) earned a rushing and scored twice, in nine games for the Giplayoff nod on the same and the Bills kept their ants (10-4) and it gave field where they made slim playoff hopes alive. them their best record their last postseason apthrough 14 games since pearance, an embarrass- Cleveland 3 0 10 0 — 13 2008, when they were 11-3. ing 48-21 loss to Tampa Buffalo 10 7 7 9 — 33 Detroit 0 3 3 0 — 6 Bay in the Super Bowl on Steelers 24, Bengals 20 N.Y. Giants 7 3 0 7 — 17 Jan. 26, 2003.

Cincinnati — Chris BoOakland 3 7 3 6 — 19 swell tied the club record Falcons 41, 49ers 13 San Diego 7 3 6 0 — 16 with six field goals, and Atlanta — Devonta Ben Roethlisberger threw Freeman ran for three Patriots 16, Broncos 3 a touchdown pass in the touchdowns, Matt Ryan Denver — Tom Brady fourth quarter. passed for two more and overcame a slow start to The Steelers (9-5) have Atltanta clinched its first lead New England to a rare won five straight and can winning season since 2012. win in Denver, dealing a clinch the AFC North tiFreeman rushed for 139 crushing blow to the latter tle with a victory at home yards and capped his big team’s playoff hopes. next Sunday against Bal- day with a 34-yard touchBrady missed his first timore (8-6). As a first down run. Ryan completsix passes for just the sec- step, they rallied from a ed 17 of 23 passes for 286 ond time in his career; 14-point deficit — kick yards, including a pair of the first was way back on by kick — and eliminated 9-yard scoring tosses to The Associated Press

Taylor Gabriel and Austin Hooper.

San Francisco 0 13 0 0 — 13 Atlanta 21 7 10 3 — 41

Saints 48, Cardinals 41 Glendale, Ariz. — Drew Brees snapped out of a two-game funk to throw for 389 yards and four touchdowns in the highest-scoring game in the NFL this season. Brees, who had no TDs and six interceptions his previous two games, completed 37 of 48 with no picks.

Brandin Cooks caught seven passes for a careerbest 186 yards for the Saints (6-8), including touchdown plays of 65 and 45 yards.

New Orleans 10 14 3 21 — 48 Arizona 7 13 7 14 — 41

Colts 31, Vikings 6 Minneapolis — Andrew Luck threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns, Robert Turbin rushed for two touchdowns, Mike Adams forced a fumble and added an interception for Indianapolis.

Indianapolis 10 17 0 Minnesota 0 0 3

7 — 34 3 — 6

Cowboys 26, Buccaneers 20 Arlington, Texas — Ezekiel Elliott celebrated a short touchdown run by jumping into an oversized Salvation Army red kettle and Dallas closed in on home-field advantage in the playoffs with a victory over Tampa Bay. The Cowboys (12-2) bounced back after their franchise-record 11-game winning streak ended, hanging on after what looked to be a festive night following Elliott’s antics turned tense when Jameis Winston rallied the Bucs from a 17-3 deficit to a 20-17 lead.

Tampa Bay Dallas

3 3 14 0 17 0

0 — 20 9 — 26

NBA Roundup The Associated Press

76ers 108, Nets 107 Philadelphia — Joel Embiid scored 17 of his career-high 33 points in the third quarter and hit a pair of free throws with 12.5 seconds left to lead Philadelphia over Brooklyn in a matchup of two of the league’s worst teams.

Embiid added 10 rebounds and Ersan Ilyasova had 22 points for the 76ers.

BROOKLYN (107) Booker 2-7 1-2 5, Lopez 6-14 9-10 22, Whitehead 3-6 3-4 11, Kilpatrick 2-5 3-4 7, Bogdanovic 5-13 2-2 14, Scola 2-4 0-0 4, Bennett 0-1 0-0 0, Lin 5-10 4-5 16, LeVert 1-3 0-0 2, Harris 7-13 0-0 19, HollisJefferson 3-5 1-4 7. Totals 36-81 23-31 107.

PHILADELPHIA (108) Covington 5-11 4-4 15, Okafor 0-10 3-4 3, Embiid 12-17 7-8 33, Rodriguez 3-11 0-0 9, Henderson 4-6 1-1 10, Thompson 0-3 1-2 1, Ilyasova 7-12 4-4 22, Saric 3-10 0-0 7, McConnell 4-9 0-0 8. Totals 38-89 20-23 108.

Brooklyn 32 25 29 21 — 107 Philadelphia 30 24 29 25 — 108 3-Point Goals-Brooklyn 12-34 (Harris 5-9, Whitehead 2-3, Lin 2-7, Bogdanovic 2-7, Lopez 1-3, Booker 0-1, LeVert 0-1, Hollis-Jefferson 0-1, Kilpatrick 0-2), Philadelphia 12-28 (Ilyasova 4-7, Rodriguez 3-5, Embiid 2-3, Henderson 1-1, Covington 1-4, Saric 1-5, McConnell 0-1, Thompson 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Brooklyn 43 (Lopez 9), Philadelphia 48 (Okafor 11). AssistsBrooklyn 26 (Lopez 8), Philadelphia 23 (McConnell 6). Total Fouls-Brooklyn 20, Philadelphia 18. A-16,460 (20,328).

How former Jayhawks fared Cheick Diallo, New Orleans Min: 10. Pts: 6.

Reb: 4. Ast: 0.

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Min: 27. Pts: 33.

Reb: 10. Ast: 1.

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Min: 27. Pts: 5.

Reb: 3. Ast: 2.

Markieff Morris, Washington Min: 33. Pts: 23.

Reb: 9. Ast: 3.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Did not play (concussion).

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Did not play (coach’s decision).

Jeff Withey, Utah Did not play (coach’s decision).

Wizards 117, Clippers 110 Washington — Bradley Beal scored 41 points, Markieff Morris had 12 of his 23 points in the fourth Jazz 82, Grizzlies 73 quarter, and Washington Memphis, Tenn. — GorWizards beat Los Angeles. don Hayward scored 22 points and Rudy Gobert L.A. CLIPPERS (110) Mbah a Moute 2-4 2-2 6, Griffin 10-21 had 21 points, helping Utah 6-8 26, Jordan 5-6 3-6 13, Paul 6-15 0-1 win a defensive battle.

13, Redick 7-14 1-2 17, W.Johnson 1-2

0-0 2, Speights 4-7 4-4 14, Felton 0-3 0-0 0, Crawford 2-6 1-1 6, Rivers 6-9 0-0 13.

Totals 43-87 17-24 110.

WASHINGTON (117) Porter 3-7 3-4 9, Morris 10-17 2-3 23, Gortat 4-8 1-1 9, Wall 7-16 4-8 18, Beal 13-23 9-11 41, Ochefu 0-1 0-0 0, Nicholson 1-2 1-1 3, Burke 2-3 1-2 7, Satoransky 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 3-4 0-0 7. Totals 43-81 21-30 117.

L.A. Clippers 27 28 32 23 — 110 Washington 28 24 33 32 — 117 3-Point Goals-L.A. Clippers 7-23 (Speights 2-5, Redick 2-6, Crawford 1-3, Rivers 1-3, Paul 1-5, Mbah a Moute 0-1), Washington 10-19 (Beal 6-10, Burke 2-2, Thornton 1-1, Morris 1-2, Wall 0-2, Porter 0-2). Fouled Out-Rivers. Rebounds-L.A. Clippers 40 (Jordan 17), Washington 33 (Morris 9). Assists-L.A. Clippers 28 (Paul 12), Washington 24 (Wall 11). Total Fouls-L.A. Clippers 23, Washington 24.

Technicals-Rivers, L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers 2, Washington defensive three second, Washington team, Wall.

A-17,380 (20,356).

UTAH (82) Hayward 5-13 8-9 22, Gobert 9-9 3-7 21, Diaw 4-5 2-2 11, Exum 0-3 0-0 0, Hood 5-16 0-0 10, Ingles 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 1-6 0-0 3, Lyles 0-2 0-2 0, Favors 2-4 1-2 5, Mack 4-7 0-3 10. Totals 30-66 14-25 82.

MEMPHIS (73) Green 5-11 0-0 10, Gasol 4-22 0-0 8, Conley 3-16 7-9 14, Daniels 0-1 0-0 0, Allen 4-7 1-1 9, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Ennis 1-3 3-4 5, Randolph 5-13 2-2 12, Martin 3-7 1-1 7, Harrison 1-7 0-0 2, Carter 2-6 1-1 6. Totals 28-93 15-18 73.

Utah 18 16 27 21 — 82 Memphis 18 17 23 15 — 73 3-Point Goals-Utah 8-27 (Hayward 4-7, Mack 2-2, Diaw 1-1, Johnson 1-4, Ingles 0-1, Exum 0-2, Lyles 0-2, Hood 0-8), Memphis 2-23 (Carter 1-2, Conley 1-9, Harrison 0-1, Martin 0-1, Randolph 0-2, Green 0-3, Gasol 0-5). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Utah 42 (Gobert 12), Memphis 48 (Green, Randolph 11).

Assists-Utah 18 (Hayward 6), Memphis 12 (Conley, Gasol 4). Total Fouls-Utah 20, Memphis 28. A-15,862 (18,119

Spurs 113, Pelicans 100 San Antonio — LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 points and San Antonio paid tribute to Tim Duncan on his jersey retirement night with a fundamentally strong performance.

NEW ORLEANS (100) Davis 5-12 2-4 12, Ajinca 8-12 0-0 16, Holiday 2-8 0-0 5, Moore 2-5 0-0 5, Hield 6-11 0-0 14, Cunningham 2-5 1-2 6, Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 3-5 3-6 9, Diallo 3-4 0-0 6, Frazier 4-7 0-0 11, Galloway 4-10 2-2 12, Evans 2-9 0-0 4.

Totals 41-89 8-14 100.

SAN ANTONIO (113) Leonard 5-10 2-2 13, Aldridge 6-15 10-10 22, Gasol 3-7 1-4 7, Parker 6-12 0-0 12, Green 3-5 0-0 9, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, Bertans 0-3 0-0 0, Lee 2-3 0-1 4, Dedmon 3-7 0-0 6, Laprovittola 0-1 0-0 0, Mills 3-7 3-3 11, Simmons 5-6 0-0 12, Ginobili 6-9 2-2 17. Totals 42-86 18-22 113.

New Orleans 26 23 22 29 — 100 San Antonio 30 31 31 21 — 113 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 10-26 (Frazier 3-5, Hield 2-4, Galloway 2-6, Moore 1-1, Holiday 1-2, Cunningham 1-3, Ajinca 0-1, Evans 0-4), San Antonio 11-22 (Green 3-5, Ginobili 3-5, Simmons 2-2, Mills 2-4, Leonard 1-3, Aldridge 0-1, Bertans 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-New Orleans 37 (Ajinca 8), San Antonio 49 (Gasol 14). Assists-New Orleans 29 (Frazier 7), San Antonio 31 (Mills 7). Total Fouls-New Orleans 17, San Antonio 15. Technicals-San Antonio defensive three second, San Antonio team. A-18,615 (18,418).

Raptors 109, Magic 79 Orlando, Fla. — DeMar DeRozan scored 31 points and Jonas Valanciunas added 16 points and 13 rebounds, helping Toronto beat Orlando.

TORONTO (109) Carroll 3-4 2-5 8, Siakam 2-4 2-2 6, Valanciunas 8-15 0-0 16, Lowry 3-9 8-8 16, DeRozan 13-21 4-4 31, Ross 4-13 0-0 11, Caboclo 0-1 0-0 0, Patterson 1-4 0-0 3, Poeltl 0-1 0-2 0, Nogueira 3-4 0-0 6, VanVleet 2-5 0-0 4, Powell 4-6 0-0 8.

Totals 43-87 16-21 109.

ORLANDO (79) Fournier 6-10 3-3 15, Ibaka 5-9 0-0 10, Gordon 3-9 0-0 7, Biyombo 3-5 2-2 8, Augustin 0-4 0-0 0, Green 1-7 1-2 3, Rudez 1-2 0-0 3, Onuaku 0-2 0-0 0, Vucevic 5-12 0-0 10, Watson 1-4 0-0 3, Payton 6-10 1-1 13, Hezonja 2-3 1-1 5, Meeks 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 34-83 8-9 79.

Toronto 23 32 29 25 — 109 Orlando 30 21 13 15 — 79 3-Point Goals-Toronto 7-27 (Ross 3-8, Lowry 2-7, DeRozan 1-3, Patterson 1-3, Carroll 0-1, Siakam 0-1, Caboclo 0-1, VanVleet 0-1, Powell 0-2), Orlando 3-21 (Rudez 1-2, Watson 1-3, Gordon 1-4, Augustin 0-1, Ibaka 0-1, Fournier 0-2, Payton 0-2, Meeks 0-2, Green 0-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Toronto 47 (Valanciunas 13), Orlando 42 (Biyombo 12). Assists-Toronto 20 (Lowry 10), Orlando 13 (Fournier, Payton 3).

Total Fouls-Toronto 16, Orlando 17.

Technicals-Toronto defensive three second, Toronto team. A-17,251 (18,846

SCOREBOARD NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 2 0 .857 365 233 Miami 9 5 0 .643 315 314 Buffalo 7 7 0 .500 358 314 N.Y. Jets 4 10 0 .286 242 358 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 8 6 0 .571 250 294 Tennessee 8 6 0 .571 340 323 Indianapolis 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 260 359 North

W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 341 276 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 306 263 Cincinnati 5 8 1 .393 288 293 Cleveland 0 14 0 .000 220 408 West

W L T Pct PF PA x-Oakland 11 3 0 .786 377 336 Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 319 274 Denver 8 6 0 .571 299 258 San Diego 5 9 0 .357 366 366 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA x-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 258 N.Y. Giants 10 4 0 .714 272 250 Washington 7 5 1 .577 330 317 Philadelphia 5 9 0 .357 316 299 South

W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 469 358 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 313 322 New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 406 392 Carolina 5 8 0 .385 311 337 North

W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 363 339 Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 264 259 Chicago 3 11 0 .214 248 320 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 Arizona 5 8 1 .393 340 325 Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 San Francisco 1 13 0 .071 264 434 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Seattle 24, Los Angeles 3 Saturday’s Games Miami 34, N.Y. Jets 13 Sunday’s Games Indianapolis 34, Minnesota 6 N.Y. Giants 17, Detroit 6 Buffalo 33, Cleveland 13 Tennessee 19, Kansas City 17 Baltimore 27, Philadelphia 26 Green Bay 30, Chicago 27 Pittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 20 Houston 21, Jacksonville 20 Atlanta 41, San Francisco 13 New England 16, Denver 3 New Orleans 48, Arizona 41 Oakland 19, San Diego 16 Dallas 26, Tampa Bay 20 Today’s Games Carolina at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 22 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 24 Atlanta at Carolina, noon Washington at Chicago, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Indianapolis at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 25 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 26 Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

NBA

Celtics 105, Heat 95 Miami — Isaiah Thomas scored 23 points before getting ejected, Avery Bradley added 20 and Boston built a huge early lead on the way to beating Miami.

BOSTON (105) Crowder 4-10 4-6 15, A.Johnson 4-5 0-0 9, Horford 7-16 3-3 17, Thomas 9-15 2-2 23, Bradley 9-17 0-0 20, Brown 1-2 0-0 2, Jerebko 2-7 0-0 4, Olynyk 1-5 2-4 4, Zeller 0-2 0-0 0, Smart 2-8 2-2 6, Rozier 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 41-90 14-19 105.

MIAMI (95) McRoberts 3-5 0-0 8, Whiteside 9-13 5-9 23, Dragic 12-21 2-4 31, McGruder 2-3 2-2 7, Richardson 3-10 0-0 6, Winslow 2-4 4-8 8, Babbitt 0-2 0-0 0, J.Johnson 3-4 0-0 7, T.Johnson 2-7 1-2 5. Totals 36-69 14-25 95.

Boston 37 21 19 28 — 105 Miami 19 22 30 24 — 95 3-Point Goals-Boston 9-28 (Thomas 3-5, Crowder 3-6, Bradley 2-5, A.Johnson 1-1, Smart 0-1, Zeller 0-1, Olynyk 0-2, Jerebko 0-2, Horford 0-5), Miami 9-24 (Dragic 5-6, McRoberts 2-3, J.Johnson 1-1, McGruder 1-1, Winslow 0-1, Babbitt 0-1, T.Johnson 0-5, Richardson 0-6). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Boston 37 (Horford 7), Miami 42 (Whiteside 17). AssistsBoston 21 (Horford 8), Miami 23 (Dragic 7). Total Fouls-Boston 16, Miami 21. Technicals-Miami coach Erik Spoelstra, Winslow.

Mavericks 99, Kings 79 Dallas — Rookie Dorian Finney-Smith scored a season-high 17 points, leading six Dallas players in double figures.

SACRAMENTO (79) Koufos 3-3 0-0 6, Cousins 12-24 7-10 33, Collison 1-8 0-1 2, McLemore 2-5 0-0 5, Temple 1-10 2-2 5, M.Barnes 3-7 0-0 7, Labissiere 0-0 0-0 0, Tolliver 2-6 2-2 7, Cauley-Stein 2-4 0-2 4, Lawson 4-9 0-0 10, Richardson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-76 11-17 79.

DALLAS (99) Finney-Smith 5-9 4-4 17, H.Barnes 5-15 4-6 15, Mejri 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 5-10 4-4 15, Matthews 6-13 0-0 15, Brussino 0-1 0-0 0, Powell 3-4 2-2 8, Hammons 0-4 0-2 0, Curry 5-10 0-0 13, Gibson 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 5-10 2-2 14, Anderson 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 34-77 18-22 99.

Sacramento 21 23 14 21 — 79 Dallas 28 27 21 23 — 99 3-Point Goals-Sacramento 8-31 (Lawson 2-4, Cousins 2-6, McLemore 1-2, Tolliver 1-4, M.Barnes 1-4, Temple 1-8, Collison 0-3), Dallas 13-33 (Curry 3-6, FinneySmith 3-6, Matthews 3-8, Harris 2-5, H.Barnes 1-2, Williams 1-4, Brussino 0-1, Hammons 0-1). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Sacramento 43 (Koufos 9), Dallas 44 (H.Barnes 9).

Assists-Sacramento 16 (Temple 7), Dallas 20 (Williams 7). Total Fouls-Sacramento 21, Dallas 13.

Technicals-Dallas defensive three second 2, Dallas team 2.

All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 19 8 .704 — Boston 15 12 .556 4 New York 14 13 .519 5 Brooklyn 7 19 .269 11½ Philadelphia 7 20 .259 12 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Charlotte 15 13 .536 — Atlanta 13 14 .481 1½ Washington 12 14 .462 2 Orlando 12 17 .414 3½ Miami 9 19 .321 6 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 19 6 .760 — Milwaukee 13 12 .520 6 Indiana 14 14 .500 6½ Chicago 13 13 .500 6½ Detroit 14 15 .483 7 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 22 5 .815 — Houston 21 7 .750 1½ Memphis 18 11 .621 5 New Orleans 9 20 .310 14 Dallas 7 20 .259 15 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 18 10 .643 — Oklahoma City 16 11 .593 1½ Portland 13 16 .448 5½ Denver 11 16 .407 6½ Minnesota 7 19 .269 10 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 24 4 .857 — L.A. Clippers 20 8 .714 4 Sacramento 10 17 .370 13½ L.A. Lakers 11 19 .367 14 Phoenix 8 19 .296 15½ Saturday’s Games Oklahoma City 114, Phoenix 101 Indiana 105, Detroit 90 Charlotte 107, Atlanta 99 Cleveland 119, L.A. Lakers 108 Houston 111, Minnesota 109, OT Denver 127, New York 114 Golden State 135, Portland 90 Sunday’s Games Washington 117, L.A. Clippers 110 Dallas 99, Sacramento 79 Boston 105, Miami 95 Philadelphia 108, Brooklyn 107 Toronto 109, Orlando 79 Utah 82, Memphis 73 San Antonio 113, New Orleans 100 Today’s Games Washington at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Denver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 7 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Portland at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Utah at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Big 12 Men

Baylor Kansas Kansas State TCU Texas Tech West Virginia Oklahoma State Iowa State Oklahoma Texas

League Overall 0-0 11-0 0-0 10-1 0-0 10-1 0-0 10-1 0-0 10-1 0-0 9-1 0-0 9-2 0-0 7-3 0-0 6-4 0-0 5-5

Saturday’s Games Kansas 89, Davidson 71 Memphis 99, Oklahoma 94 Texas Tech 79, Richmond 72 West Virginia 112, UMKC 67 Arkansas 77, Texas 74 Kansas State 89, Colorado State 70 Baylor 82, Jackson State 57 Oklahoma State 93, Wichita State 76 Iowa State 97, Drake 80 Sunday’s Games Texas Southern 59, TCU 96 John Brown 53, Baylor 107 Tuesday’s Games Radford at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Mississippi Valley State at Iowa State, 6 p.m.

Big 12 Women

League Overall West Virginia 0-0 11-0 Oklahoma State 0-0 8-0 Baylor 0-0 11-1 Kansas State 0-0 10-1 Iowa State 0-0 8-2 Oklahoma 0-0 7-2 TCU 0-0 7-3 Texas Tech 0-0 7-3 Texas 0-0 5-4 Kansas 0-0 5-5 Saturday’s Games Kansas 75, Arizona 51 West Virginia 107, Longwood 40 Texas 76, UTSA 43 Sunday’s Games Princeton 42, Kansas State 60 Texas Southern 48, TCU 77 Delaware State 57, Iowa State 88 Alcorn State 37, Texas Tech 90 Today’s Games Xavier at Oklahoma at Las Vegas, 2:15 p.m.

Santa Clara at Oklahoma State at Las Vegas, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Oklahoma State at TBA at Las Vegas, TBA Alcorn State at TCU, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Texas, 7 p.m.

California at Oklahoma at Las Vegas, 8:45 p.m.

Kansas Men

Nov. 11 — vs. Indiana, at Honolulu, L 99-103 OT (0-1) Nov. 15 — vs. Duke, at New York, W 77-75 (1-1) Nov. 18 — vs. Siena, W 86-65 (2-1) Nov. 21 — vs. UAB, at Kansas City, Mo., W 83-63 (3-1) Nov. 22 — vs. Georgia, at Kansas City, Mo., W 65-54 (4-1) Nov. 25 — vs. UNC Asheville, W 95-57 (5-1) Nov. 29 — vs. Long Beach State, W 91-61 (6-1) Dec. 3 — vs. Stanford, W 89-74, (7-1) Dec. 6 — vs. UMKC, W 105-62, (8-1) Dec. 10 — vs. Nebraska, W 89-72 (9-1) Dec. 17 — vs. Davidson, at Kansas City, Mo., W 89-71 (10-1) Dec. 22 — vs. UNLV, at Las Vegas, 8 p.m.

Dec. 30 — at TCU, 8 p.m.

Jan. 3 — vs. Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 7 — vs. Texas Tech, 6:15 p.m.

Jan. 10 — at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

Jan. 14 — vs. Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.

Jan. 16 — at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 21 — vs. Texas, 1 p.m.

Jan. 24 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 28 — at Kentucky, 5 p.m.

Feb. 1 — vs. Baylor, 8 p.m.

Feb. 4 — vs. Iowa State, 5 or 7 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 11 — at Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

Feb. 13 — vs. West Virginia, 8 p.m.

Feb. 18 — at Baylor, noon Feb. 22 — vs. TCU, 6 p.m.

Feb. 25 — at Texas, 5 or 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — vs. Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

March 4 — at Oklahoma State, 5 p.m.

Big 12 Championship, at Kansas City, Mo. March 8 — First Round March 9 — Quarterfinals March 10 — Semifinals March 11 — Final

Kansas Women

Nov. 13 — vs. Missouri State, L 64-87 (0-1) Nov. 16 — vs. SMU, L 63-75 (0-2) Nov. 20 — at Memphis, W 68-58 (1-2) Nov. 23 — vs. Oral Roberts, W 64-56, 2 OT (2-2) Nov. 27 — vs. North Dakota, W 76-71, OT (3-2) Nov. 30 — at Creighton, L 49-69 (3-3) Dec. 4 — at Alabama, L 65-71, OT (3-4) Dec. 7 — vs. Harvard, L 59-69 (3-5) Dec. 11 — vs. Rhode Island, W 72-36 (4-5) Dec. 17 — vs. Arizona, W 75-51 (5-5) Dec. 21 — vs. U.C. Riverside, 7 p.m.

Dec. 29 — vs. Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Jan. 1 — at Baylor, 2 p.m.

Jan. 4 — vs. Texas, 7 p.m.

Jan. 8 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m.

Jan. 11 — at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 15 — vs. Baylor, 1 p.m.

Jan. 18 — vs. West Virgina, 7 p.m.

Jan. 22 — at TCU, 6 p.m.

Jan. 25 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 28 — vs. Texas Tech, 11 a.m.

Feb. 1 — at Oklahoma, 10:30 a.m.

Feb. 5 — vs. TCU, 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 8 — vs. Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 11 — at Texas, 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 18 — at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.

Feb. 21 — vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 25 — vs. Kansas State, 2 p.m.

Feb. 27 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Big 12 Championship, at Oklahoma City March 3 — First round March 4 — Quarterfinals March 5 — Semifinals March 6 — Final

BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with 1B Jose Abreu on a oneyear contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Assigned F Paul Zipser to Windy City (NBADL) and then recalled him.

DETROIT PISTONS — Recalled F Henry Ellenson and G Michael Gbinije from Grand Rapids (NBADL).

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Recalled G Sheldon McClellan from Delaware (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Mario Alford from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed T Chaz Green on injured reserve. Signed DE Zach Moore from the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed CB Adairius Barnes to the practice squad.

Released LB Brandon Chubb from the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed QB Joe Callahan from the practice squad.

Released LB Carl Bradford.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed LB Derrick Johnson on injured reserve.

Signed DL David King from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived DT Toby Johnson. Activated RB Adrian Peterson from injured reserve.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Fired coach Gus Bradley.

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Case No. 16CV467 Court No. Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60

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tor of the Estate of Doris I. Nottingham, deceased, and petitioner be released from further liability.

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You are required to file written defenses THE STATE OF KANSAS TO your thereto on or before the ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: 12th day of January, 2017, You are hereby notified at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the that on December 6, 2016, District Court in Lawrence, a Petition for Final Settle- Douglas County, Kansas, at ment was filed in this which time and place the will be heard.

Court by David Notting- cause ham, duly appointed, qual- Should you fail therein, ified and acting executor judgment and decree will of the Estate of Doris I. be entered in due course Nottingham, deceased, upon the Petition. praying petitioner’s acts be approved; account be DAVID NOTTINGHAM, settled and allowed; the Petitioner heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the COLLISTER & Estate be assigned to the KAMPSCHROEDER person entitled thereto; Attorneys at Law the Court find the allow- 3311 Clinton Parkway Ct. ance requested for Lawrence, Kansas attorney’s fees is reasona- 66047-2631 ble, should be allowed and Phone: (785) 842-3126 ordered paid; the court Fax: (758) 842-3878 costs be determined and E-mail: ordered paid; the adminis- collkamp@sbcglobal.net tration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of ATTORNEYS FOR receipts, petitioner be fi- PETITIONER _________ nally discharged as Execu-

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December 5, 2016) You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the DisIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, trict Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreKANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT close a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate: Capitol Federal Savings Bank formerly LOT 17, IN BLOCK 3, IN HOLIDAY HILLS NO. 12, AN ADCapitol Federal Savings and Loan Association DITION TO THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, AS SHOWN BY THE Plaintiff, RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, commonly known as 1032 Parkview Road, Lawvs. rence, KS 66049 (the “Property”) Helen Diann Clark a/k/a Helen D. Clark; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant); and all those defendants who have not otherwise been State of Kansas, Department of Revenue; served are required to plead to the Petition on or before Capitol Federal Savings Bank; the 16th day of January, 2017, in the District Court of Unknown spouse, if any, of Helen Diann Clark, Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment Defendants. and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Case No. 16CV457 Court Number: NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collecNOTICE OF SUIT tion of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants the express permission of a court of competent jurisand the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, de- diction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a visees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased debt and any information obtained will be used for that defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; purpose. the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dis- Prepared By: solved or dormant corporations; the unknown execu- SouthLaw, P.C. tors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, suc- Courtney George (KS #26186) cessors and assigns of any defendants that are or were 13160 Foster, Suite 100 partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, Overland Park, KS 66213-2660 conservators and trustees of any defendants that are (913) 663-7600 || (913) 663-7899 (Fax) minors or are under any legal disability; and the un- Attorneys for Plaintiff known heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trus- (196451) _______ tees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be

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2016 ADOPTED BUDGET

Fund General

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2016 Proposed Amended Expenditures

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198,087

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