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KDOT: No toll for South Lawrence Trafficway

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

The Kansas Department of Transportation has decided against making any portion of the South Lawrence Trafficway a toll road, the agency announced Thursday.

KDOT leaders were exploring making the SLT, which if completed will connect Interstate 70 west of Lawrence with Kansas High-

Survey finds charge would deter motorists from SLT way 10 east of Lawrence, a toll road.

But KDOT said a survey of area motorists found that even a minimal toll would have reduced the number of motorists who would have used the bypass. In fact, KDOT determined that the number of users of the SLT would drop to the point that

a new environmental impact statement would be required for the western half of the trafficway, which is scheduled to begin construction in fall 2013, if the state prevails in a lawsuit regarding the route of the road through the Baker Wetlands.

“Reopening the EIS would require that the scheduled

letting date in the fall of 2013 be put on hold indefinitely, resulting in significant delay to the project and substantial increases in construction costs,” said Acting KDOT Secretary Barb Rankin.

“KDOT is committed to delivering this project on time and on budget.”

KDOT had proposed using

toll money to fund an interchange for the SLT where it intersects with Bob Billings Parkway. KDOT leaders said they will work with Douglas County and the city of Lawrence to develop an alternate funding package for that interchange. But Josh Powers, a spokesman for KDOT said that local and state of-

ficials haven’t yet come up with ideas on how to fund the interchange, which has an estimated price tag of $17 million. Powers confirmed that KDOT learned in midDecember that the project was not selected for a federal grant program that would have paid for much of the project.

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Trash task force sets recycling goal, public forum

Holding the line

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Photo by John English/Special to the Journal-World

THIS AERIAL PHOTO shows crews fighting a grass fire Thursday south of Clinton Dam.

Health advocates alarmed at Medicaid overhaul plan

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Health care advocates on Thursday criticized a plan by Gov. Sam Brownback to turn over management of services for those with disabilities to for-profit companies.

“We really need to have this process slow down,” said Sharon Spratt, chief executive officer of Cottonwood Inc. Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer are moving to overhaul Medicaid, which

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is the state and federally funded health program for those with disabilities, the elderly and low-income resi-

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Medicaid covers about 350,000 Kansans at a cost of nearly $2.8 billion.

Brownback wants to contract with private managedPlease see MEDICAID, page 2A

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City’s sales tax collections on upswing

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Forget about that Orange Bowl win. Forget about that National Championship.

2011 was a better year than 2008.

At least from a sales tax perspective.

According to a new report from City Hall, Lawrence sales tax collections in 2011 grew by 4.3 percent — or about $1.08 million — compared with 2010.

The growth rate is the best showing for Lawrence retailers in more than a half a decade, and ends a twoyear decline in sales tax collections.

“We’re cautiously optimistic,” City Manager David Corliss said. “Strong may be too strong of a word to describe the retail activity we’re seeing, but we maybe haven’t seen the downturn that some other communities have seen.”

You have to go all the way back to the heady days of 2004 to find a time when Lawrence sales tax collections increased at a rate greater than 4 percent.

The reasons behind the significant increase are unknown, but theories range from everything from increasing prices for necesPlease see SALES, page 2A

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Lawrence, get ready to recycle and get ready to talk about it.

The city’s Solid Waste Task Force at its Thursday evening meeting made a last-minute decision to recommend a new over-arching goal for its trash service: increase the city’s recycling rate to 50 percent by the year 2020.

“We have talked about the importance of increasing recycling for quite a while now,” said Mayor Aron Cromwell, who chairs the task force.

“But we need to have something specific in mind that we’re trying to achieve. And I think this is very achievable.”

Now, city leaders want to hear what residents think about that goal and other proposed changes to the city’s trash and recycling system. Task force members agreed to host a public forum Jan. 19 to receive comments about the task force’s draft plan that will be delivered to city commissioners.

The time and location for the meeting haven’t yet been set. Task force members plan to release the draft plan on the city’s website in about a week once staff members finish making revisions to the document.

But at Thursday’s meeting, task force members reviewed several of the major elements of the plan. They included:

Increasing the communitywide recycling rate to 50 percent by 2020. Currently, the city’s recycling rate is 34 percent, although the city’s auditor has questioned how that rate is figured.

For much of the 10 months that the task force has been meeting, city staff members have recommended against creating specific numerical goals and noted that a recycling rate could be particularly problematic because it can be rather

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LISA SANDERS, manager at Bloom, 704 Mass., arranges a display Thursday at the store. A new report from City Hall says that sales tax collections in 2011 grew by 4.3 percent.

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DEATHS MARIA D. WELLS Services for Maria D. Wells, 88, Topeka, formerly of Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by the Rumsey-Yost Funeral

Home.

Mrs. Wells died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at Midland Care, Topeka.

Feds reject Kansas request for health care waiver

WICHITA (AP) — Federal health care regulators have rejected a request from Kansas for a waiver of regulaYLER tions on the amount of money insurance companies must County. earmark for health care.

Friends may call at her The Wichita Eagle reportdaughter JoAnne Shuck’s ed that the Department of home from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Health and Human Services Sunday. Rumsey-Yost on Wednesday denied KanFuneral Home in charge of sas’ request regarding the arrangements. amount of premiums that individual and small-group insurance companies must spend on health care and imIBSON proving health care.

A provision of the 2010 day, Jan. 5, 2012, at Lawrence federal health care act reMemorial Hospital. quires companies to spend Online condolences may 80 cents of every dollar on be sent at rumsey-yost.com. health care activities. The law requires companies that fail to meet that mark to make rebates to policyholdINKELMAN ers. Companies that provide coverage to groups of 50 or at the Ellinwood District more must spend 85 percent Hospital. of premiums on health care.

Friends may call from Kansas Insurance Com1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday missioner Sandy Praeger said and Sunday at the Kimple the state sought the adjustFuneral Home in Ellinwood, ment to prevent damage to where the family will receive the insurance market. friends from 2:30 p.m. to 4 Four companies, Coventry, p.m. Sunday.

Humana, Time and Golden Rule, may have to provide rebates this year.

ESTHER E. O Funeral services for Esther E. Oyler, 98, rural Baldwin City, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Willow Springs Old German Baptist Brethren Church. Burial will follow at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Douglas

WALTER R. G Services for Walter R. Gibson, 86, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced at a later date.

Mr. Gibson died Thurs-

MAURICE W Services for Maurice Winkelman, 89, Ellinwood, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John Lutheran Church in Ellinwood. Burial will be in the Lakin-Comanche District Cemetery, Ellinwood.

Mr. Winkelman, the father of Lois Sierra of Lawrence, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012,

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“Whenever you’re implementing new policies that can potentially have a negative impact, you don’t want to leave any stone unturned,” Praeger said.

Praeger said she agreed with HHS that the insurance companies didn’t prove that the rule would be harmful and that Kansas wasn’t likely to appeal the decision announced Wednesday. HHS also denied a request from Oklahoma.

Steven Larsen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight in HHS, said that any company doing business in Kansas that didn’t meet the 80-20 rule in 2011 would have to give rebates to its customers this August. Using numbers from 2010, Larsen said about 35,000 people would be owed $6 million.

The rule took effect in 2011 and Larsen said the amount of rebates may not be that high because companies have been working to comply with the rule.

Larsen said the government has already seen benefits of the requirement in states where companies have changed their business models.

“Insurance consumers will get lower premiums” because of it, he said.

According to HHS, Coventry spent 72.6 percent on health care, Humana 70.8 percent, Time 68 percent and Golden Rule 62 percent.

He said those companies are profitable and could afford to pay the rebates.

Four other companies, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, Aetna and Reserve all were at or above the 80 percent level.

The provision allows 20 percent of premium dollars to be spent on administrative costs, including marketing, advertising and agents’ commissions.

Praeger said some the companies will be able to prove that some of the administrative costs do improve health care and will be able to receive credit for the expense.

Larsen said one way companies could meet the mandate would be to cut agent commissions, but he said the federal agency didn’t have any evidence that would hurt access to insurance.

“We value the role agents play,” he said.

of crew members on a trash truck from three to one.

The report, however, suggests that residents be given some leeway to occasionally set out trash bags on those weeks when they have more trash than can fit into the mandated carts. The report states that city staff members will have to decide how large the carts should be — likely either 65 gallons or 90 gallons.

The report recommends the city receive proposals from private companies to run a new citywide curbside recycling program. The report recommends that a new curbside recycling program be created but recognizes it must be fiscally feasible.

The report recommends any curbside service be offered on a weekly basis.

Residents would be required to pay for the curbside recycling service, regardless of whether they choose to use the service. The curbside service simply would be included as part of the city’s standard monthly trash rate.

The report doesn’t predict how much curbside recycling may add to a resident’s monthly trash bill. Cromwell previously has said he’s confident total monthly trash bills will be less than $20 per

month under any new service.

City Manager David Corliss said Thursday he believes it is possible that people who currently pay a city trash bill plus pay for a private recycling service will pay less under a new system than what they pay today.

Residents of apartment complexes largely will have to wait and see what changes may be in store for their trash service. The task force essentially said it ran out of time before it was able to discuss possible changes to the city’s multi-family and commercial trash services. But the report indicates that changes to those services are possible in the future.

Task force members are expected to finalize their report after hearing public comments Jan. 19. The report then will be forwarded to the Lawrence City Commission, which will have the final say on any changes that will be made to the trash service.

Cromwell said he expects having much of the trash discussion completed by April.

tonwood that provide services to people with developmental disabilities.

Spratt and other service providers spoke with members of the Douglas County legislative delegation. The meeting was being held in preparation for 2012 legislative session that starts Monday.

Spratt said there is no model in the nation where managed care companies have succeeded in meeting the long-term needs of people with severe disabilities.

“These individuals are not ‘sick,’ but have life-long disabilities, and with adequate supports can enjoy a full and meaningful life,” she said.

State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, and other legislators said they have heard numerous questions about the Medicaid proposal and planned to seek answers at

hearings during the session.

“Everybody is concerned,” Ballard said.

Representatives of other area organizations said they hoped that with state revenues running about $300 million more than projected, legislators would help restore funding for services that have been damaged by budget cuts over the past couple of years.

Stacey Hunter Schwartz, executive director of Independence Inc., said there are 3,369 people with physical disabilities on a waiting list to receive assistance that would keep them in their homes and avoid having to place them into more expensive nursing home care.

“In the name of saving money, we are actually spending more,” she said.

JOAN KNOWLES TROELSTRUP A Celebration of Life service for Joan Knowles Troelstrup, 82, Tallahassee, Fla., formerly of Lawrence, Kan., was Wednesday at Culley’s MeadowWood Funeral Home in Tallahassee. Burial was at Culley’s MeadowWood Memorial Park.

Mrs. Troelstrup died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Tallahassee.

She was born Oct. 23, 1929, in Columbia, Mo., the daughter of Sam and Nadine Knowles.

After graduating from Stephens College in Columbia, Mrs. Troelstrup worked as an administrative assistant for the Florida Senate and later was a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker.

She was an avid bridge player and enjoyed photography.

Survivors include two sons, Troelstrup William W. Troelstrup and Mike and wife Lynne Troelstrup, all of Tallahassee; a daughter, Terry Edmondson, Lawrence; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, former Lawrence Police Chief William A. Troelstrup. They shared 61 years of marriage.

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greater appreciation for what we have in our lives, and I think a lot of people wanted to make Christmas still feel like Christmas.”

The new numbers from City Hall don’t yet fully reflect all the sales made during the holiday season.

The city receives a sales tax check each month from the state, but that check reflects taxes collected on sales made 30 to 45 days earlier.

Thus, it will be January or February’s check that gives a better indication of how December holiday sales fared in Lawrence.

But the numbers did show increased spending was taking place in October and November 2011. The city’s tax collections during that early part of the holiday season were up 9.4 percent from the same time period in 2010.

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sities such as food (gasoline, however, is not subject to the sales tax) to just a general mood improvement on the part of consumers.

“Our holiday season went well, and really the year has gone well, too,” said Earl Reineman, vice president at Weaver’s department store downtown.

City Commissioner Hugh Carter, who works in the financial services industry, is subscribing to the pent-up demand theory. Carter thinks shoppers became more willing to spend during the holiday season, in particular.

“There has been a lot of uncertainty, and people have responded by saving their money,” Carter said. “But I think some people realized that this is what they’ve been saving for. I think there is a

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be an important interchange,” Powers said. “That is the direction growth is heading, and it is absolutely a gateway area.”

The KDOT survey did show some support for tolls.

In fact, one question found that 67 percent of respondents would be willing to pay a toll to use the SLT, if the toll were the same as charged by the Kansas Turnpike. Another question found 71 percent would be willing to pay a toll of around 50 cents. But the survey also found that without the toll 86 percent of respondents would have used the trafficway.

Powers said the potential reduction in motorists using the SLT was a key consideration in not moving forward.

One of the justifications for the $150 million bypass project is to reduce the amount of traffic on 23rd and 31st streets in Lawrence. If a toll

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made it more likely that motorists would remain on the local streets, a legal argument could be made that the Environmental Impact Statement for the project would have to be reopened.

“We have to be very sensitive to that,” Powers said.

Currently the western half of the project, the portion from Iowa Street to the Lecompton interchange on the Kansas Turnpike, is built. But the eastern half of the project is unbuilt and the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Environmentalists and Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit arguing the federal government erred in issuing permits to allow the road to be built through the Baker Wetlands. The permit process has been upheld by a federal court, but the case currently is on appeal at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. Oral arguments in that case are scheduled for mid-January.

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imprecise.

But as task force members were concluding Thursday’s meeting, a majority said they believed a specific goal should be included in order for the public to better grasp what the city is trying to accomplish by changing its trash system.

“I don’t understand why we’re being so squishy on this,” said Sam Porritt, a task force member. “We’re recommending curbside recycling. What do we hope to get out of that? What is the fear of putting a goal out there?”

Mandatory usage of carts for both trash and recycling continue to be a major part of the recommendations.

The city would provide two carts to every single-family household. One would be for recycling and one would be for trash. The carts would be compatible with hydraulic lifts on the city’s trash trucks, reducing workers’ compensation costs. The report also leaves open the possibility that the city could switch to fully-automated trucks that would reduce the number

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care companies to handle the program, calling it KanCare.

Companies are scheduled to submit their bid proposals by the end of the month.

The Brownback administration has promised that KanCare “will improve coordination of care and services to achieve better outcomes and long-term savings without reducing benefits or eligibility while safeguarding reimbursements for providers.”

But unlike most other states that have adopted the managed care model, Brownback also wants to add services for those with developmental disabilities.

That has raised alarms in organizations such as Cot-

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter. com/clawhorn_ljw.

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

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Coffee cups carried warning to Rainier campers

SEATTLE (AP) — As scores of heavily armed officers scoured the woods south of Mount Rainier, hunting for the man who gunned down a national park ranger on New Year’s Day, Natalia Martinez Paz and three friends were enjoying a long weekend of snowshoeing and camping.

It wasn’t until coffee cups dropped out of the blue Monday morning sky that they realized the danger they’d been in.

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ing for 24-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes spotted the campers as they slept under their tarp near Reflection Lakes, not far from where Barnes headed into the woods after killing Ranger Margaret Anderson. Unsure whether the group could understand what they said over a loudspeaker, one of the pilots reached for a paper cup from a drive-thru espresso stand, swilled the rest of his coffee, scribbled a message and dropped it down.

“A ranger has been shot.

Shooter at large,” it read.

“Call on cell if able to Pierce Co sheriff.”

As the campers gathered their gear, the chopper dropped another cup: “Take road to falls and sheriff deputies. We will keep an eye on you. Do not drive from Paradise w/o armed escort.”

As promised, the helicopter escorted them down a road — flying just ahead of them — to a team of camouflaged searchers armed with assault rifles. Just as Paz’s group arrived, the search team received a radio call: Barnes had been found dead,

face-down in a stream, Paz wrote in a posting on the nwhikers.net message board.

After escorting the campers to safety, one of the pilots, Chris Rosen, shook their hands and spoke with them briefly.

“I asked them, ‘Hey, did you guys pack out our trash?’”

Rosen said.

Indeed, the campers kept the coffee cups. They told him they would plant seedlings in them, and return the trees to the park as a memorial to Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two.

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Obama launches reshaping of military Looking beyond the wars he inherited, President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military. He vowed to preserve U.S. pre-eminence even as the Army and Marine Corps shed troops and the administration considers reducing its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

The changes won’t come without risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. But he called it acceptable and, because of budget restraints, inevitable.

In a presentation at the Pentagon, Obama said the U.S. is “turning a page” after having killed Osama bin Laden, withdrawn troops from Iraq and begun to wind down the war in Afghanistan. He outlined a vision for the future that some Republican lawmakers quickly dubbed wrong-headed.

“Our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority,” Obama said with Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, at his side.

In a presidential election year the strategy gives Obama a rhetorical tool to defend his Pentagon budget-cutting choices. Republican contenders for the White House already have attacked him on national security issues including missile defense, Iran and planned reductions in ground forces.

Topeka man’s body found in wooded area

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The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the Topeka Police Department are investigating the death of a 39-year-old Topeka man, whose body was discovered in a wooded area Thursday morning, west of Lecompton.

Douglas County Undersheriff Steve Hornberger Thursday afternoon identified the man as Corey Brown. Hornberger

said a passerby discovered the body about 10:45 a.m. Thursday.

Hornberger said the case is currently a “suspicious death” investigation, but he offered few other details about the case.

Brown’s body was found near the BNSF railroad tracks in northwest Douglas County near the Kansas River, west of Lecompton.

According to published reMike Yoder/Journal-World Photo ports, Brown was first reported missing Tuesday, after his car A DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICER blocks North 2190 Road, also and cell phone were located at a known as the River Road, to investigate the death of a 39-year-old Topeka man Thursday.

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More regs sought for face transplants The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants just as it does now with kidneys, hearts and other organs, with waiting lists, a nationwide system to match and distribute body parts and donor testing to prevent deadly infections.

It’s a big step toward expanding access to these radical operations, especially for wounded troops returning home. A dozen U.S. hospitals already do face or hand transplants and more are preparing to offer the operations. More than 1,000 troops have lost an arm or leg in Afghanistan or Iraq, and the government estimates that 200 troops might be eligible for face transplants.

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Prosecution seeks death for Mubarak Prosecutors on Thursday called for Hosni Mubarak to be hanged, saying he bore full responsibility for the killing of protesters during the uprising against him, in a courtroom moment unthinkable barely a year ago when the longtime leader held unquestioned power.

The demand for the death penalty at the 83-yearold former president’s trial played to the widespread resentment of Mubarak among Egyptians who hoped that punishment for his oppressive rule would be fruit of the Arab Spring.

Still, some of the activists who helped topple him are skeptical the sentence would ever be carried out, if he is convicted. A conviction would be followed by a possibly lengthy appeals process that the ailing Mubarak’s lawyer would likely draw out, and Egypt’s new rulers — the military — have the power to veto a death sentence.

Mubarak has been brought to every hearing since his trial began on Aug. 3 on a hospital gurney, wheeled into the courtroom cage where defendants are held, alongside his two sons, former security chief and six top police commanders.

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Questions loom after school shooting On a doorstep outside a family home, a father wondered why police had to shoot his son in the hall of the boy’s middle school. In an office across town, a police chief insisted that his officers had no choice.

And scores of others in this Texas border city wondered: Could the death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez have been prevented?

A day after police fatally shot an eighth-grader who was brandishing a realistic-looking pellet gun, his anguished parents pleaded for answers, demanding to know why police didn’t try a Taser or beanbag gun before resorting to deadly force.

In front of the family home, the father lamented his loss and called on authorities to explain their actions.

“Why three shots? Why one in the back of the head?” asked Jaime Gonzalez Sr. Some standoffs with police last three or four hours, he said. This one “took not even half an hour.”

But Brownsville interim Police Chief Orlando Rodriquez said the preliminary autopsy report showed the boy was not shot in the back of the head.

There was broad agreement among law enforcement experts: If a suspect raises a weapon and refuses to put it down, officers are justified in taking his life. The shooting also raised questions about whether pellet guns should be marked in a way that would easily distinguish them from real handguns.

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THURSDAY’S WARM TEMPERATURES made people head outside, and some, like Al Stuber, even took to the sky. Stuber took his experimental home-built airplane, which runs on regular gasoline, out for a spin. See the video at LJWorld.com

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Kansas GOP expecting some national attention

By John Hanna Associated Press

TOPEKA — Kansas has attracted a larger-than-expected field of candidates for the presidential caucuses in March, and Republican leaders hoped Thursday that the race remains competitive enough to draw some of the hopefuls — and national attention — to the state.

The state GOP scheduled the caucuses for March 10, the Saturday after Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in 11 other states. Kansas officials said the National Republican Party’s rules, which discourage states with contests before April from awarding delegates on a winner-takes-all basis, should help prevent the party’s nomination from being settled.

Second email derides Michelle Obama

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, on Thursday issued an apology for an email he forwarded to fellow House Republicans that refers to first lady Michelle Obama as “Mrs. YoMama” and compares a photograph of her to a picture of the Grinch.

“Twins separated at birth?” the subject line of the email says.

The email includes a picture of Mrs. Obama next to one of the Grinch. It has been making the rounds on the Internet. Mrs. Obama’s hair appears to be swept up by the wind, and O’Neal writes, “Sorry, just had to forward this latest holiday message!

I’ve had worse hair days but this is pretty funny.”

The forwarded portion of the email also states, “I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful,

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Benefit for Jerod Nieder Saturday, January 7, 7:00 p.m. at the Oread

Support of Jerod’s road to recovery. Visit with Jerod’s friends and family, see videos of Jerod at his rehab facility, get a chance to record a video for Jerod.

His “Never Give Up” bracelets are avail. for purchase.

For more information, and to check updates on his progress, please check Jerod’s Caring Bridge website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jerodnieder Donations can be made to: the Benefit for Jerod Nieder at Douglas County Bank in Lawrence, KS. Mail-in donations can be sent to: Douglas County Bank, Attn: Benefit for Jerod Nieder, P.O. Box 429, Lawrence, KS 66044

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long Hawaii Christmas vacation — at our expense, of course.”

The Obamas spent the holidays O’Neal in President Barack Obama’s home state of Hawaii.

O’Neal said he forwarded the email “too quickly missing the text included in the body of the email.” He added, “To those I have offended, I am sorry. That was not my intent.”

Earlier on Thursday, however, Alyson Rodee, who is O’Neal’s communications director, defended O’Neal.

“Political cartoons are a part of American culture.

It’s hard to see how Mike O’Neal poking fun at himself and forwarding a lighthearted political cartoon about the first lady’s extravagant

spending of taxpayer funds during a time when many Americans are financially struggling is newsworthy,” Rodee said.

But Kansas Democratic Party Chair Joan Wagnon said the email forwarded

by O’Neal was “highly offensive, disrespectful and unacceptable.” She added, “Regardless of how he feels about President Obama’s politics, Speaker O’Neal’s decision to promote language demeaning Mrs. Obama is simply wrong. The fact that his communications director thinks this is just ‘a light-hearted political cartoon’ is appalling.”

Earlier this week, the Lawrence Journal-World was sent an email that O’Neal had forwarded to House Republicans that referred to President Obama and a Bible verse that says, “Let his days be few and brief.”

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Man to face additional battery charges at trial A 33-year-old Lawrence man was ordered on Thursday to stand trial on two additional aggravated battery charges in addition to the three separate charges he initially faced in connection with a Dec. 7 domestic incident involving a knife.

The man, Willie James Richardson, COURTS originally was charged with aggravated battery, making a criminal threat and domestic battery, a spokeswoman for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office said.

Richardson was charged after his 33-year-old girlfriend alleged he hit her and threatened her with a knife.

The victim’s testimony at a preliminary hearing gave rise to the two additional charges, the spokeswoman said.

An arraignment hearing in the case is set for 9 a.m. Jan. 20.

Man charged with rape, sexual battery A 26-year-old Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with rape and aggravated sexual battery.

He was arrested Wednesday night after a 21-year-old Lawrence woman had earlier reported a sexual assault, according to Lawrence Police Sgt. Matt Sarna.

Sarna said the woman reported the assault on Monday, alleging it occurred Dec. 31 in a residence in south-central Lawrence. He said the victim did not receive any life-threatening physical injuries. The investigation into the case is ongoing.

The defendant is next scheduled to appear in court Jan. 12.

The Journal-World does not generally identify people accused of sex crimes unless they are convicted.

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. Perry received an early endorsement from Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who campaigned for him in Iowa.

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Georgia businessman Herman Cain also filed, but they have suspended their campaigns. The Kansas GOP’s rules committee has not decided whether their names will remain on the ballot.

Kansas GOP Chairwoman Amanda Adkins noted that ahead of the Kansas caucuses, only about 40 percent of the 2,286 delegates to the Republican National Convention will have been allocated.

“The GOP delegate count will build very slowly,” she said. “I think we are wellpositioned in the schedule.

We have a decent number of delegates, and so the interest should be there on the part of the presidential candidates to come to our state.”

The candidate with the most votes statewide in Kansas will pick up three delegates — party officials who go to the convention automatically. The top vote-getter in each of the state’s four congressional districts will receive three delegates. The remaining 25 delegates will be allocated among the candidates proportionally.

The caucuses are scheduled for 99 sites in 93 of the state’s 105 counties.

Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political scientist, said Kansas’ caucuses will be more significant if a single “non-Romney” candidate gains momentum after Tuesday’s GOP primary in New Hampshire. Beatty also expects Paul, with a solid base of support in many states, to remain in the race for months.

“For Kansas, the best scenario in terms of having a vibrant caucus would be Romney, probably one alternative and Ron Paul,” Beatty said.

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THIS MURAL IN THE ALLEY between 716 and 718 Mass., called “The Guardian of the Arts,” was organized by local artist Dave Loewenstein in 1993. Repairs on the wall recently covered up the mural, but Loewenstein and local business owner Clay Belcher are exploring options to possibly recreate the mural.

Chamber of Commerce raises $1,000 to help replace mural

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Plans to replace a longstanding downtown Lawrence mural received a big boost Thursday from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.

One day after a JournalWorld article highlighted plans to replace a mural that was in the walkway between 716 Mass. and 722 Mass., the chamber helped raise $1,000 for a future mural project, said

Hank Booth, interim director.

Booth said he saw the Journal-World story, consulted with some chamber board members, and decided to help restore the mural that was recently covered up during repairs to the building that houses Signs of Life, 722 Mass.

“We said, ‘Let’s get this done today,” Booth said.

The money was raised by a variety of individuals and downtown businesses, Booth said.

Local artist Dave Loewenstein organized the original mural, named “The Guardian of the Arts,” with dozens of others in 1993.

Loewenstein and Clay Belcher, owner of Signs of Life, both said they hoped to restore the mural but were looking for ways to finance the project.

— Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173. Follow him at Twitter.com/shaunhittle.

Officials investigate case of deported Texas teen

EL PASO, TEXAS (AP) — The grandmother of a Dallas teen who was deported to Colombia is hoping the 15-year-old can come back soon and says KDHE offers free U.S. officials should have done more to identify the girl walking program after she gave a fake name The Kansas Department of and claimed to be an adult.

Health and Environment has U.S. immigration officials teamed up with the Arthritis say they’re investigating the Foundation to offer a free circumstances of the case walking program for Kansans. involving Jakadrien Lorece The Walk with Ease proTurner, but that they followed gram is a six-week, structured procedure and found nothing program that teaches particito indicate she wasn’t who she pants how much they should claimed to be — an illegal imwalk, how to increase walking migrant from Colombia. pace and endurance, and how The girl, who ran away physical activity can be a part from home more than a year of daily life. ago, was recently found in The program is available Bogota, Colombia, by the to anyone with or without Dallas Police Department arthritis and can be modified to with help from Colombian meet individual needs, so each and U.S. officials. person can develop an exerThe Colombian governcise routine that fits his or her ment said the U.S. embassy unique goals. on Thursday submitted the A group format of Walk necessary documents for with Ease is also available Jakadrien to return, but it to individuals and organizawasn’t clear exactly when tions interested in hosting a she might be back in the U.S. walking class. A class meets U.S. immigration officials three times a week for six deferred questions about weeks and is led by a certiwhen the teen might return to fied instructor. the State Department, which For additional information said it was aware of the case on the program or to enroll, but declined to comment furvisit kdheks.gov/arthritis or ther, citing privacy reasons. call Misty Lechner at 785-296According to the Colombian 1917.

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She looks like a kid, she acts like a kid. How could they think she wasn’t a kid?”

— Lorene Turner, grandmother of Jakadrien Lorece Turner girl was enrolled in the country’s “Welcome Home” program after she arrived there.

She was given shelter, psychological assistance and a job at a call center, a statement from the agency said. When the Colombian government discovered she was a U.S. citizen, it put her under the care of a welfare program, the statement said.

Her grandmother, Dallas hairstylist Lorene Turner, called the deportation a “big mistake somebody made” and said U.S. officials need to do better.

“She looks like a kid, she acts like a kid. How could they think she wasn’t a kid?” Lorene Turner asked on Thursday.

Jakadrien’s family says she left home in November 2010.

Houston police said the girl was arrested on April 2, 2011, for misdemeanor theft in that city and claimed to be Tika Lanay Cortez, a Colombian woman born in 1990.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said

Thursday that the teen claimed to be Cortez throughout the criminal proceedings in Houston and the ensuing deportation process in which an immigration judge ultimately ordered her back to Colombia.

The ICE official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to not being authorized to discuss additional details of the case, said the teenager was interviewed by a representative from the Colombian consulate and that country’s government issued her a travel document to enter Colombia. The ICE official said standard procedure before any deportation is to coordinate with the other country in order to establish that person is from there.

The girl was given Colombian citizenship upon arriving there, the ICE official said.

The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Jakadrien was issued travel documents at the request of the U.S. National Security Agency and with information submitted by U.S. officials.

Colombian officials are investigating what kind of verification was conducted by its Houston consulate to issue the temporary passport.

It was not clear if the teen might be charged upon her return for falsifying her identity in a criminal process.

Results from Iowa’s firstin-the-nation caucuses Tuesday also gave them some hope that the race would remain competitive. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney maintained his status as the leading national candidate, but he was only a handful of votes ahead of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul also had a strong showing.

Eight candidates met the Dec. 31 filing deadline for the Kansas caucuses. Kansas GOP officials said they would have been pleased with four or five candidates on the ballot. Kansas will have 40 delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.

“I’m still convinced that it could be very competitive,” said Randy Duncan, GOP chairman for the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas. “Will Kansas make a difference? I would say yes. Will Kansas stand out? I would say yes.”

Kansas GOP officials also are hoping to attract presidential candidates by scheduling a statewide convention Feb. 17 and 18 in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. The Missouri Republican Party is having its annual Lincoln Days event at the same time in Kansas City Kansas officials said they’re hoping presidential candidates will see it as convenient to meet with party activists and supporters on both sides of the state line in one trip. Missouri is having a non-binding primary Feb. 7 but also caucuses March 17.

The campaigns for Romney, Santorum and Paul all paid the $10,000 necessary for them to get on the ballot in the Kansas caucuses.

So, too, did the campaigns of former U.S. House Speaker

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ing in the investigation, said Kristen Veverka, department spokeswoman.

Officers have blocked off a portion of North 2190 Road — also known as the River Road — which runs parallel to the railroad tracks and the Kansas River.

Check LJWorld.com for more updates as they become available.

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Topeka restaurant.

Brown was also one of the managers at Hudson Liquor in Topeka, which was the scene of a robbery and homicide on Dec. 24.

Matt Hill, 41, an employee at Hudson Liquor, was shot and killed during the robbery. A 44-year-old Topeka man, Matthew Myers, was arrested last week in connection with the crime, according to published reports.

Topeka police are assist-

— Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173. Follow him at Twitter.com/shaunhittle.

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let others step forward to replace him.”

The email states: “At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN? AMEN!!!!!!”

Both of the forwarded emails were sent from O’Neal’s private email address.

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Rodee said that email was referring to the president’s days in office.

The email, which has been posted in various places on the Internet, refers to a bumper sticker that reads “Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8.”

Psalm 109:8 says, “Let his days be few and brief; and

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

HAWKER BEECHCRAFT

Air Force suspends work on $354M contract

By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

WICHITA — The U.S. Air Force has halted work on a $354 million contract for light air-support turboprops after Hawker Beechcraft Corp. filed a lawsuit claiming its own aircraft was wrongly excluded from the selection process.

The contract was awarded Dec. 22 to Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp., which was to work with Brazil-based Embraer, which makes the single-engine Super Tucano turboprop. Hawker Beechcraft sued last week after the government dismissed its protest over being blocked from the contract.

“The Air Force is confident in the merits of the contract award decision and we expect the litigation will be quickly resolved,” Lt. Col Wesley P. Miller told The As-

sociated Press on Thursday.

“We are trying to do everything we can to do this right and make sure that it is done because the thing to keep in mind is that this contract is a wartime support contract for a partner in conflict — and so involves a sense of urgency and mission accomplishment.”

The Air Force said Thursday it does not know how long the temporary stop order, issued Wednesday, would stay in effect. It said that is predicated on what happens at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where Hawker Beechcraft filed suit.

At stake is what company will build the light air-support (LAS) aircraft, a singleengine turboprop supporting the security effort in Afghanistan. The Air Force said that the competition and evaluation process were “fair, open and transparent.” Sierra Ne-

vada plans to do the work in Sparks, Nev., and Jacksonville, Fla. Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft contends its AT-6 aircraft was wrongly excluded from the competition.

“If this will lead to a more transparent process, then it’s a step in the right direction,” Hawker Beechcraft said in a statement Thursday in response to the Air Force decision to halt work on the contract. “We strongly believe we have a more capable and lower-cost aircraft. Importantly, it is also built right here in the United States.”

Sierra Nevada said in a statement Wednesday that it was excited to have been awarded the contract as a result of a “fair and open competition” and after a favorable review by the Government Accounting Office.

“We remain confident that the issue will be resolved ex-

peditiously,” Sierra Nevada said. “These critical LAS capabilities need to be made available soon in order to support our men and women in uniform and our partners in Afghanistan. The A-29 Super Tucano, built in America, is the right solution for the LAS mission.”

Embraer declined to comment on the suspension of work.

Hawker Beechcraft CEO Bill Boisture and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo planned a news conference today to talk about the developments.

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts said Hawker Beechcraft deserves more answers as to why it was excluded from the competition. “On every turn, the Air Force has denied the company and the congressional delegation the opportunity to understand why it made the decision,” Roberts said in a statement.

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No charges to be filed in student’s death GARDEN CITY (AP) — A southwest Kansas prosecutor says no charges will be filed in last fall’s fatal shooting of a star wrestler from Garden City High School.

Eighteen-year-old Braxston Medina was killed Sept. 6 after going into a house to retrieve personal items he had loaned to someone.

Finney County investigators COURTS said at the time that Medina had entered the home illegally.

A 17-year-old inside the house shot Medina once in the chest.

KWCH-TV reports that Finney County Attorney John Wheeler said Thursday the shooting was a case of legal self-defense under Kansas law.

Authorities said the 17-yearold did not know Medina, only that someone was entering the house illegally.

Medina had just begun his

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LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT • Lawrence police arrested a man early Thursday morning after a string of auto burglaries at an apartment complex in the 1700 block of West 24th Street.

A caller told police about auto burglaries in progress in the area, and police arrived and found the suspect, a 23-yearold Lawrence man, in the area, said Lawrence Police Sgt. Matt Sarna.

The man fled on foot when officers tried to talk to him, Sarna said. After a foot pursuit, officers arrested him near 24th Street and Ousdahl Road.

Sarna said several cars were entered or damaged, and police are still investigating the incident.

The man is scheduled for a first appearance in Douglas County District Court today.

TOPEKA (AP) — The state has approved a wastewater permit that will allow Seaboard Farms to continue plans to build a hog farm in west central Kansas that would house as many as 144,000 hogs.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment approved the permit for Seaboard Foods’ facility in Greeley County.

The Garden City Telegram reported Wednesday that the department announced the decision in a letter to those who attended a public hearing on the proposal.

Christy Hopkins, community development director for Unified Greeley County, said some county residents oppose the project, but she believes it will bring needed economic growth.

In October 2010, Greeley County residents approved a referendum to allow major hog farms in the county. The vote

The car entered a ditch, vaulted over a driveway and struck a tree head-on, the report said.

Rhodelander was not wearing a safety belt, the report said.

CONDITION UPDATE • Two passengers in a van involved in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 56 in Douglas County on Tuesday were both listed in serious condition at Kansas University Hospital on Thursday, a hospital spokesman said.

Jamie Ullery, 47, of Overbrook, and Alice Beatty, 51, of Independence, Mo., were both taken by air ambulance to KU Hospital after the crash.

The two were passengers in a van driven by Joann O’Brien, a 76-year-old Overbrook woman, which drifted left of the center line and struck a pickup truck.

O’Brien remained in fair condition on Thursday at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed.

The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name. • The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged. • Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported. • Holdups and robberies.

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reversed a 12-year ban of hog farms in the county.

Kansan receives Iowa sentence for shooting SIOUX CITY, IOWA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An Iowa court has given a Kansas man 17 years in prison for a downtown Sioux City shooting.

Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Johnson, of Kansas City, Kan., had already been given 10 years in a federal prison for the April incident.

The Sioux City Journal reports Johnson was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years on Iowa charges of aggravated assault, intimidation with a dangerous weapon and going armed with intent. The Iowa sentence is to be served at the same time as Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s federal sentence.

In federal court, Johnson was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The charges stem from an April 22 incident in which Johnson shot at a car driven by a man with whom he had an ongoing dispute. The car driver escaped.

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Marco Mora and Dafne Vargas, Lawrence, a girl, Thursday.

Luxi Chai and Wanbo Liu, Lawrence, a boy, Thursday.

Ashli Harjo and Saul Jenkins, Lawrence, a boy, Thursday.

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Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

By Maria Cheng Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease when he was a 21-yearold student at Cambridge University.

Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neurone Hawking disease in the U.K. On Sunday, Hawking will turn 70.

“I don’t know of anyone who’s survived this long,” said Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London. He does not treat Hawking and described his longevity as “extraordinary.”

“It is unusual for (motor neurone disease) patients to survive for decades but not unheard of,” said Dr. Rup Tandan, a neurology professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Still, Tandan said many longtime survivors had ventilators to breathe for them — which Hawking does not.

Hawking first gained attention with his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time,” a simplified overview of the universe. It sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

His subsequent theories have revolutionized modern understanding of concepts like black holes and the Big Bang theory of how the universe began.

To mark his birthday Sunday, Cambridge University is holding a public symposium on “The State of the Universe,” featuring talks from 27 leading scientists, including Hawking himself. For 30 years, he held a mathematics post at the university previously held by Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking retired from that position in 2009 and is now director of research at the university’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

Hawking achieved all that despite being nearly entirely paralyzed and in a wheelchair since 1970. He now communicates only by twitching his right cheek. Since catching pneumonia in 1985, Hawking has needed around-the-clock care and relies on a computer and voice synthesizer to speak.

A tiny infrared sensor sits on his glasses, hooked up to a computer. The sensor detects Hawking’s cheek pulses, which select words displayed on a computer screen. The chosen words are then spoken by the voice synthesizer. It can take up to 10 minutes for Hawking to formulate a single sentence.

“The only trouble is (the voice synthesizer) gives me an American accent,” the Briton wrote on his website.

It took Hawking four years to write his last book, “The Grand Design,” missing his publisher’s original deadline.

Hawking declined requests from The Associated Press for an interview, but his personal assistant, Judith Croasdell, spoke to the AP. She described her boss as remarkably patient.

“The way he communicates can seem frustratingly slow to most people but he doesn’t let that impede his thinking,” she said.

After a brief hospital stay, Hawking told her that he spent the time thinking about black holes.

Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks motor neurons, cells that control the muscles. Patients typically suffer muscle weakness and wasting, become paralyzed and have problems talking, swallowing and breathing. Only about 10 percent of patients live longer than a decade.

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Conservatives: Time to rally around a not-Romney

By Laurie Kellman Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Prominent conservative leaders want their rank and file to quickly get behind a single presidential candidate — Rick Santorum now seems the likeliest — fearful that persistent splits will help Mitt Romney win the Republican nomination.

“While no political candidate, or human being for that matter, is perfect, Rick Santorum’s baggage contains his clothes,” CatholicVote.org president Brian Burch said Thursday, after Santorum’s virtual tie with Romney in Iowa won the support of the 600,000-member online organization.

“Republicans hoping to win back the White House in November must unite behind the candidate most dedicated to the foundational issues of faith, family and freedom.”

Romney narrowly won the Iowa caucuses when conservative voters split their support among several challengers, and the worry is that the same thing will happen in South Carolina, Florida and

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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at a campaign town hall Thursday in Northfield, N.H. beyond if Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry all stay in the race.

“Conservatives are still divided among a number of different candidates, but the field is winnowing,” said former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer. And, he said: “I certainly think that Senator Santorum is in a good position to inherit a lot

of that support.”

In the afterglow of Santorum’s unexpectedly narrow loss to Romney in Iowa, leaders on the right who have been scarcely engaged in the rollicking Republican contest began buzzing about the prospect of endorsing the former Pennsylvania senator with the solid conservative credentials — or someone else such as Gingrich who has deep conservative roots.

To discuss how to proceed, some of those leaders have set up meetings from Washington to Texas before the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary. That vote could prove pivotal, given that the Republicans who have won the state for decades have eventually become the party’s nominees.

“There is movement, even members of Congress who are weighing this now who are looking to make a move,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who said he’s spoken with more than eight leaders with conservative constituencies, including lawmakers. He declined to name them but

added: “I do think you’ll see growing momentum toward Rick Santorum.”

Indeed, interviews with a number of leaders, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid, indicated that Santorum was emerging as the preferred alternative to Romney, though a few still are watching Gingrich. Not one mentioned Perry, who announced he would reassess his campaign in light of a fifth-place showing in Iowa only to say a day later he would press on in South Carolina.

Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who is a favorite of evangelicals and the tea party, took the opposite route, abandoning her bid after coming in last in Iowa. That’s left her backers up for grabs and looking for someone to rally behind.

It’s unlikely to be Romney.

Many conservatives have long viewed him skeptically.

These voters complain that he’s reversed himself on a series of social issues. They also don’t like his record of support for government health care and exceptions to abortion re-

strictions. And, with conservatives making up the base of the party, the skepticism has kept his support under 25 percent in most national surveys and in some early primary states despite his front-runner status, strong organization and big bank account.

“You’ll eventually come down to one conservative and Governor Romney,” Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, predicted Thursday in New Hampshire. “And he’ll continue to get 25 percent. By definition at some point in that game somebody is going to start getting a lot more votes than Governor Romney.”

The hand-wringing on the right over Romney as the nominee has produced a deeply unsettled nomination fight.

Conservative voters have spent much of the year flitting from Bachmann to Perry to Gingrich in search of someone to back.

In Iowa, they finally ended up rallying behind Santorum, making him the latest candidate to emerge as the more conservative alternative to Romney.

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Scores killed in bombings targeting Shiites in Iraq

By Adam Schreck Associated Press

BAGHDAD — An apparently coordinated wave of bombings targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least 78 people in Iraq on Thursday, the second large-scale assault by militants since U.S. forces pulled out last month.

The attacks, which bore the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents, come ahead of a Shiite holy day that draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from across Iraq, raising fears of a deepening of sectarian bloodshed.

Rifts along the country’s Sunni-Shiite fault line just a few years ago pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war.

The bombings in Baghdad and outside the southern city of Nasiriyah appeared to be the deadliest in Iraq in more than a year.

Thursday’s blasts occurred at a particularly unstable time for Iraq’s fledgling democracy. A broad-based unity government designed to include the country’s main factions is mired in a political crisis pitting politicians from the Shiite majority now in power against the Sunni minority, which reigned supreme under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

Some Iraqis blame that political discord for the lethal strikes.

“We hold the government responsible for these attacks. They (the politicians) are bickering over their seats, and these poor people are killed in these blasts,” said Baghdad resident Ali Qassim not long after the first bomb went off.

The attacks began during Baghdad’s morning rush hour when explosions struck the capital’s largest Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City

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MOHAMMED ALI GRIEVES OVER THE COFFINS of his son, Abbas Mohammed, 9, and his daughter, Fatima Mohammed, 15, before burial Thursday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad. Wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks after the U.S. troop withdrawal that was completed last month. and another district that contains a Shiite shrine, killing at least 30 people, according to police.

Several hours later, a suicide attack hit pilgrims heading to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing 48, police said. The explosions took place near Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Hospital officials confirmed the causalities. Authorities spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release figures of the dead and wounded, who numbered more than 100.

The blasts occurred in the run-up to Arbaeen, a holy day that marks the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered Shiite figure. During this time, Shiite pilgrims — many on foot — make their way across Iraq to Karbala, south of Baghdad.

Baghdad military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim alMoussawi said the aim of the attacks is “to create turmoil among the Iraqi people.” He said it was too early to say who was behind the bombings.

Coordinated attacks aimed at Shiites are a tactic frequently used by Sunni insurgents.

The last U.S. combat troops left Iraq on Dec. 18, ending a nearly nine-year war. Many Iraqis worry that a resurgence of Sunni and Shiite militancy could follow the Americans’ withdrawal.

In 2006, a Sunni attack on a Shiite shrine triggered a wave of sectarian violence that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

“People have real fears that the cycle of violence might be revived in this country,” said Tariq Annad, a 52-yearold government employee in Sadr City, after Thursday’s bombings.

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

Notable HBO fired a shot across Netflix’s bow this week, confirming it will no longer sell discounted DVDs of hit shows like “Boardwalk Empire” to the subscription video service.

The move by Time Warner Inc.’s pay TV channel is more antagonistic than damaging.

Netflix Inc. can maintain its mail-order movie rental offerings by buying HBO discs from other sources — even retail stores.

HBO’s jab heightens the rivalry that has steadily grown between the companies.

In December, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told an investors conference that HBO’s online viewing service, HBO GO, was “the competitor we fear the most.”

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Holiday discounts crimp retailers’ profits

By Anne D’Innocenzio Associated Press

NEW YORK — The 2011 holiday shopping season will go down in the record books as the year the Grinch stole stores’ profits.

Many retailers sacrificed their bottom lines by pushing heavy discounts to shoppers bent on getting a good deal in a challenging economy.

That created a sharp divide between stores that won the battle for wallets and those that didn’t.

The big winners? Shoppers who held out for deals late in the season.

Retailers collectively reported a 3.5 percent increase in revenue at stores open at least a year for December, according to a tally of 25 merchants compiled by the International Council of Shopping Centers. For November and December combined, the figure rose 3.3 percent, a solid increase but still behind last year’s 3.8 percent pace.

The figures are based on revenue at stores open at least a year. That is considered a key indicator of a retailer’s health because it excludes results from stores recently opened or closed.

Retailers depend on the holidays, when they bring in as much as 40 percent of their annual revenue. The season also gives give valuable insights into what it takes to get Americans to spend in the weak economy. Clearly, the rich kept spending, but for everyone else, it took a hot item

like Apple’s iPad or right-on exclusive fashions — or a lot of “50 percent” off signs.

Winners included Limited Brands Inc., Macy’s Inc., TJX Cos. and Nordstrom Inc., which posted strong revenue gains that beat analysts’ estimates. Macy’s, Ross and Limited even boosted their earnings outlooks.

On the losing side, Target Corp., Kohl’s Corp., and J.C. Penney Co. cut their fourthquarter earnings projections after reporting weaker-thanexpected sales. Gap had a big sales decline.

“There’s no question that the divide is getting wider, and will get even wider this year as the winners continue to take share away from rivals,” said Joel Bines, managing director in the retail practice of AlixPartners. “Consumers have limited time, money and attention, and they’re investing in a smaller subset of retailers.”

Retailers will report fourthquarter earnings next month.

The fullest picture of holiday spending will come in next week’s government retail sales report, which captures more categories like home improvement and electronics.

Heading into the season, stores knew it would be challenging to lure shoppers dealing with high unemployment, paltry wage growth and higher basic household costs.

So retailers plied customers with free shipping and promised to match rivals’ prices.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. resurrected layaway to help shoppers finance their purchases.

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Swank sushi: Tuna fetches $736K TOKYO (AP) — This tuna is worth savoring: It cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars.

A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000, Thursday in the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market.

The price for the 593-pound tuna beat last year’s record of 32.49 million yen.

The price translates to 210,000 yen per kilogram, or $1,238 per pound — also a record, said Yutaka Hasegawa, a Tsukiji market official.

Though the fish is undoubtedly high quality, the price has more to do with the celebratory atmosphere that surrounds the first auction of the year.

The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said he wanted to give Japan a boost after last March’s devastating tsunami.

“Japan has been through a lot the last year due to the disaster,” a beaming Kimura told AP Television News. “Japan needs to hang in there. So I tried hard myself and ended up buying the most expensive one.”

Kimura also said he wanted to keep the fish in Japan “rather than let it get taken overseas.”

Last year’s bid winners were Hong Kong entrepreneur Ricky Cheng, who runs the Hong Kong-based chain Itamae Sushi, and an upscale Japanese restaurant in Tokyo’s Ginza district.

This year’s record tuna was caught off Oma, in Aomori prefecture and just north of the tsunami-battered coast.

KIYOSHI KIMURA, PRESIDENT OF KIYOMURA CO., left, cuts a bluefin tuna Thursday in front of his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.

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The escape of nine family members from a rural Douglas County fire is a strong endorsement for family fire drills.

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rural Douglas County family lost its home to fire last week, but, thanks to a little advance planning, all 11 members of that family are alive to tell the tale.

At about 1 a.m. last Friday, Roger Guillory was awakened by his 9-year-old daughter who alerted him to smoke that was filling the family’s home. While his wife, Camay, fled the house with the couple’s 19-month-old son, Roger and his daughter headed upstairs to help five other children escape. One by one, the children climbed out a second-story window and were dropped 10 feet to Camay, who was waiting to catch them on the patio below.

By the time firefighters arrived, it was too late to save the family’s home, but all nine family members who were home at the time, were out of the house and safe. Two other children were staying with their grandparents that night.

Roger Guillory, who works in safety at the ICL Performance Products plant, is convinced that practicing fire drills with his family made the difference in them being able to escape quickly and safely. He said he had taught the children how to react to various dangerous situations. Their practice fire drills had even included rehearsing the same second-story route that helped them escape from the fire last Friday.

“You don’t have time to think,” Guillory said. “It was just a natural reaction for something that we practice.”

Having a plan in place allowed both parents and children to react but not panic. They knew what to do; they had practiced it before.

As a local Red Cross official pointed out, their practice sessions may have made the difference in the Guillory family being able to escape safely, while five family members, including three children, perished in a Stamford, Conn., house fire just a week earlier.

Fire departments are well aware of the lifesaving potential of planning and practicing how to escape from a burning home, and they make repeated efforts to share that knowledge with school children and through public service announcements. We’ve all heard them, but how many of us have actually made a plan let alone practiced it with family members?

The story of two parents and seven children escaping from their burning home in the middle of the night because they were able to react quickly and follow the escape plan they had put in place and practiced is a strong endorsement for adding fire safety planning to your family’s New Year’s resolution list.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 9, 1912: “The announcement that the JournalWorld made Saturday evening that if the YEARS present cold weather continued, the well AGO water would give out, was only too true, IN 1912 for Manager Sauer this morning stated that in all probability there will be no well water left on Wednesday. In that event it will be necessary to pump from the river. The two big fires Saturday night surely were a drain on the well water supply.”

Iowa helped clarify issues in GOP race Iowa settled nothing. What happened Tuesday night on the plains and in the countless small farm communities and small towns of America’s great crossroads state — the place, in pioneer days as in our modern political calendar, that Americans traversed on their way to someplace else — was not an act of futility, but it wasn’t one of finality either.

In the freezing temperatures of early January, Iowa did what it almost always does. In a year when the Republicans alone hold contested caucuses, with a right-leaning politics that doesn’t reflect the rest of the party or country, Iowa didn’t an-

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In a year when the Republicans alone hold contested caucuses, with a right-leaning politics that doesn’t reflect the rest of the party or country, Iowa didn’t answer questions; it posed them. It didn’t respond to important unknowns, it raised them.”

swer questions; it posed them. It didn’t respond to important unknowns, it raised them.

Iowa didn’t resolve things when it presented victories to candidates like Sen. Tom Harkin in 1992 or former Gov. Mike Huckabee in 2008, who had strength but not stamina, and soon vanished. It didn’t bring things to a conclusion when it sent plausible nominees like Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1980 and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt and Sen. Bob Dole in 1988 onto New Hampshire, where they all lost.

It didn’t do much when it elevated Sen. Paul Simon and the Rev. Pat Robertson, whose strong second-place showings in 1988 infused them with confidence if not long-term political credibility. It didn’t even settle things when it gave early triumphs to eventual nominees Walter F. Mondale in 1984 and Barack Obama in 2008, both of whom required months more of struggle to capture their nominations.

So what did all of those negative ads, those endless afternoons of coffee shop and legion hall encounters, those cloying appeals to Iowa ego, accomplish?

They were not wasted, except for maybe the Iowa chauvinism, which over the years has given us subsidies for ethanol, which expired over the weekend, and a national focus on an electorate that is more conservative, more white and more educated than the country at large. Because now we can adjust our focus and, in New Hampshire next Tuesday and beyond, examine these questions:

Just how strong is Mitt Romney anyway?

The former Massachusetts governor got about a quarter of the vote, which is what he has been polling for months — and what he captured four years ago in a losing effort. That quarter slice was enough, in a deeply split field, to allow him to put on a brave face Tuesday night, but it was far from the decisive verdict he hoped to win. He and his Republican-establishment supporters have to worry that a candidate who has the experience of an earlier presidential campaign and massive financial advantages seems stuck at about a quarter of the vote of his own party.

Now Romney moves into friendlier territory in New Hampshire, where nearly every Massachusetts presidential candidate running in an open contest has prevailed since the 1960s. On paper, Romney now has to be considered the favorite, even a strong favorite. And if Romney prevails next Tuesday, Iowa could be but a distant memory and he could be hard to stop.

Just how enduring is Rick Santorum?

He has won a triumphant pass into the next round, New Hampshire, and perhaps into the one after that, South Carolina, where his enhanced position makes

him a formidable contender among the religious conservatives who are such a visible part of the state’s Republican scene.

But the Palmetto State hasn’t rolled over for social conservatives: Huckabee was upended there by Sen. John McCain four years ago, and the Rev. Robertson did not prevail against Vice President Bush in 1988.

Santorum has spunk, spirit and, now, serious political bona fides. His is one of the more remarkable political stories of recent times — with a stunning presidential-caucus performance in Iowa more than five years after losing his Senate reelection bid in Pennsylvania by 18 percentage points.

Right now his campaign is cloaked in romance and stardust. But he lacks money and organization, which are more prosaic but often more powerful in presidential politics. Besides, he may be susceptible to the forces that elevated five other nonRomney contenders to the fore only to see them all falter under greater scrutiny and formidable negative attacks from others, including forces associated with Romney.

Until now, Santorum has been regarded as an innocuous, well-meaning afterthought in a V-neck sweater. That status ended last night, and the barrage against him almost certainly will begin this morning.

Just how powerful a force is Ron Paul?

Paul is today what he was yesterday, a candidate with a loyal cadre of supporters but almost no chance of substantially expanding his coalition. It is true that the physics of the issues have moved in Paul’s direction; he no longer is the lone voice in expressing skepticism of the

Federal Reserve Bank and rethinking America’s far-flung international involvements.

But his association with supporters who have fringe ideas with odious overtones limits his ability to reach moderates and undecided voters whom Republicans know they will need to prevail against Obama in November. In entrance polls last night, they showed they want to choose a winner, not only someone whose ideas they consider winning.

The danger to the Republicans is not in Paul’s resilience and determination to remain in the GOP field after New Hampshire and South Carolina; it’s in the possibility that results like last night’s might embolden him to bolt the party and undertake a third-party candidacy that could siphon off support from the eventual Republican nominee.

What about Newt Gingrich?

He was the great phenomenon of December but in the new year went from presidential timber to political tinder and from first place to fourth in Iowa. He remains the great idea machine of the Republican Party and, unlike Rep. Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry, very likely will continue to be a factor in the campaign, perhaps with a comeback, but almost certainly with the sort of debate performances that define the Republican conversation going forward.

He didn’t flounder because of a bad Iowa performance. He had a bad Iowa performance because he floundered. In that regard, the candidate of big ideas is proof of the big truth emerging from Tuesday night: Iowa didn’t matter. It only clarified what does matter.

— David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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Thank you for your continued support, and please keep those aluminum cans coming!

To the editor: Linda Klinker, Does it really make a differCans for the Community, ence to recycle? In Lawrence, Lawrence Kansas, it does! That is because when you make the effort to recycle a small or large bag of aluminum cans at one of the Cans To the editor: Ready, fire, aim (RFA)! Emfor the Community blue “can houses” you are giving back to peror Brownback and his outothers right here in our commu- of-state mercenaries charge once more into the fray in this nity.

Lawrence residents have new year! So what did they do made it possible for Cans for the in 2011?

RFA, Brownback abolished Community to recycle a total of 6.3 million aluminum cans. One the Kansas Arts Council. Federal hundred percent of the proceeds funding was pulled. Oops, no arts raised from recycling those cans funding! RFA, Brownback rehave gone to local nonprofit or- fused the federal health care exganizations, and we are pleased change grant. Kansas has to fund to announce that we just donat- its own exchange. Oops! RFA, ed $1,000 to the Willow Domes- the emperor announced the tic Violence Center bringing the closure of numerous SRS oftotal given away since 2005 to fices. “They can travel to offices in Topeka and Kansas City.” Not $85,000!

Recycling is a hot topic right so, we learned. Instead, local now. The city of Lawrence is taxpayers had to pick up the studying new ways to deal with bill for services we had already trash pickup. We support re- paid for through our state taxcycling of all materials but we es. Oops! RFA, the emperor anhope that whatever is decided, nounced a plan to move juvenile you will continue to make the ef- justice services to SRS. A big fort to take your aluminum cans mistake, said the juvenile justice to one of our can house loca- folks. Oops!

What’s in store for 2012? RFA, tions so we can continue to help the emperor announced he non-profits in need of funds.

Check out our website, www. wants to open Kansas lands to cansforthecommunity.org, for the oil companies for “fracking” our can house locations and to of natural gas. The oops? Do a see the list of non-profits who quick Google on fracking and read about the poisoned wells have received donations.

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and flammable tap water in New York, Oklahoma and Texas. RFA, revamp school financing. The oops, small rural school districts will go broke. RFA, soon we will learn the emperor’s plan for revamping the state tax system. The oops, lower taxes for big business and wealthy folks, higher taxes for the middle class and the poor, count on it!

Ready, fire, aim! Perhaps it’s time to tie down these loose cannons? Perhaps it’s time to review the options for recall of the emperor?

Doug Burger, Lawrence

War profits To the editor: In late December, the Obama administration announced a $30 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. This is part of a $60 billion ten-year deal to arm Saudi Arabia with some to the top fighter jets available to regenerate the U.S. war machine after the occupation in Iraq which just concluded. This deal will exacerbate our growing tension with Iran and could cause a backlash from Israel, further upsetting the climate in the Middle East.

Our alliance with Saudi Arabia also links the United States with supporting a regime with some of the worst human rights practices in the world. While vociferously supporting the uprising that have led to regime

change in Libya and Egypt, the current administration has been mute regarding Saudi Arabia.

Free speech is muffled, demonstrations are banned and the treatment of women is as abominable as anywhere in the world.

Women are not allowed to drive, travel, work, study abroad, marry, divorce or gain admittance to a public hospital without the consent of a male guardian.

The U.S. is also entering into a new arms deal with Iraq worth $11 billion for our arms manufacturers. Iraq is an unstable government drifting into the sphere of Iranian influence. China recently loaded 650,000 barrels of oil from Iraq from their new deal at the expense of private oil companies, as well as importing electricity from Iran. Does any of this make sense or is it just billions of dollars and cents for the profiteers from war?

Ace Hickey, Lawrence

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY

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TUESDAY

MONDAY

6 TODAY

Partly sunny and cooler

Mostly sunny

Mostly cloudy

Partly sunny and mild

Sunny and mild

High 53° Low 26° POP: 5%

High 47° Low 22° POP: 5%

High 46° Low 19° POP: 10%

High 50° Low 24° POP: 0%

High 52° Low 29° POP: 5%

Wind NNW 7-14 mph

Wind NNE 3-6 mph

Wind ENE 6-12 mph

Wind SW 6-12 mph

Wind WSW 7-14 mph

POP: Probability of Precipitation

Kearney 46/17

McCook 48/17 Oberlin 50/20 Goodland 46/22

Beatrice 50/22

Oakley 50/21

Russell Salina 52/20 52/23

Manhattan 54/20 Topeka 54/25 Emporia 54/26

Great Bend 54/20 Dodge City 52/22

Garden City 50/21 Liberal 50/20

Kansas City 53/31

Chillicothe 55/28 Marshall 54/30

Lawrence Kansas City 54/30 53/26

Sedalia 55/31

Nevada 59/31

Chanute 58/30

Hutchinson 54/21 Wichita Pratt 56/25 54/26

Centerville 49/27

St. Joseph 54/23

Sabetha 51/23

Concordia 54/21 Hays 51/20

Clarinda 50/23

Lincoln 50/17

Grand Island 48/18

Coffeyville Joplin 60/33 60/33

Springfield 64/33

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

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REGIONAL CITIES

High/low Normal high/low today Record high today Record low today

67°/24° 38°/19° 66° in 1939 -12° in 1912

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date

0.00 0.01 0.17 0.01 0.17

Seattle 44/34

SUN & MOON Today

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Full

Sat.

7:40 a.m.

5:13 p.m.

3:05 p.m.

5:21 a.m.

Last

7:40 a.m.

5:14 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

6:12 a.m.

New

First

NATIONAL FORECAST Billings 42/23

San Francisco 56/42

Chicago 48/31

Jan 16

Jan 23

Jan 30

LAKE LEVELS

As of 7 a.m. Thursday Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

Level (ft)

873.69 891.49 973.28

Discharge (cfs)

9 43 15

Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Today Hi Lo W 88 70 s 44 41 pc 57 48 r 63 41 s 90 76 s 28 18 s 35 28 c 44 33 pc 97 66 s 60 46 s 34 15 s 50 41 pc 45 28 sh 61 57 pc 52 38 sh 27 11 sn 48 41 pc 57 36 s 70 39 pc 21 21 sn 34 30 sf 68 45 t 36 23 s 47 40 s 85 73 t 53 31 s 34 14 s 86 75 t 36 27 pc 75 61 c 48 36 pc 44 33 c 43 33 c 38 29 pc 36 22 c 34 12 sn

Hi 88 43 49 63 92 28 37 48 86 62 28 48 40 64 58 39 48 54 72 36 35 70 24 52 83 53 36 86 32 84 48 38 42 39 32 25

Atlanta 62/49 El Paso 61/36

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for today.

Cold

INTERNATIONAL CITIES

Sat. Lo W 72 s 39 r 41 sh 41 s 74 pc 19 pc 32 r 30 r 70 pc 48 s 27 pc 39 pc 39 r 59 pc 40 s 11 s 37 pc 34 s 46 s 14 sf 30 sn 37 pc 19 sn 40 r 71 t 34 s 18 s 75 t 27 c 68 pc 36 s 21 sf 39 c 35 sh 32 sf 14 c

New York 56/40 Washington 56/39

Kansas City 54/30

Houston 72/57

Fronts

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Detroit 44/31

Denver 45/21

Los Angeles 74/52

Jan 9

Minneapolis 40/23

Warm Stationary

Miami 73/57

Precipitation Showers T-storms

Rain

Flurries

Snow

Ice

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: The nation will continue to be free from major storms as well as mild today. Clouds and light rain will dot the Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. Flurries will dust the northern Rockies, the northern Great Lakes and part of northern New England.

Today Sat. Today Sat. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 66 51 s 59 42 pc Albuquerque 54 32 s 54 29 s 73 57 s 77 61 pc Anchorage 11 0 pc 16 11 sn Miami Milwaukee 46 28 pc 40 26 pc Atlanta 62 49 s 64 51 c 40 23 pc 34 18 pc Austin 72 45 pc 63 34 pc Minneapolis 62 48 s 58 37 pc Baltimore 58 35 pc 54 33 pc Nashville New Orleans 72 56 c 73 58 c Birmingham 64 53 pc 65 53 c 56 40 pc 51 37 pc Boise 42 29 pc 40 28 pc New York Omaha 50 23 pc 43 21 s Boston 44 36 pc 50 32 c Orlando 71 48 s 73 50 pc Buffalo 43 32 c 40 28 c Philadelphia 52 38 pc 53 36 pc Cheyenne 40 21 pc 40 13 c 74 47 pc 74 47 s Chicago 48 31 pc 40 27 pc Phoenix 52 34 pc 41 29 c Cincinnati 56 34 s 48 29 pc Pittsburgh Portland, ME 32 30 sn 45 27 c Cleveland 46 33 pc 40 29 c Dallas 69 43 s 59 36 pc Portland, OR 42 35 pc 44 31 pc 51 26 pc 44 21 pc Denver 45 21 pc 42 16 pc Reno 64 38 s 62 39 pc Des Moines 50 26 pc 44 26 pc Richmond 58 35 pc 60 31 s Detroit 44 31 pc 40 28 pc Sacramento St. Louis 62 36 s 49 32 pc El Paso 61 36 s 62 40 s 39 21 sf Fairbanks -15 -37 c -25 -29 pc Salt Lake City 41 30 s San Diego 68 50 pc 60 49 pc Honolulu 81 64 s 79 66 s Houston 72 57 r 76 53 pc San Francisco 56 42 pc 60 40 s 44 34 c 44 38 pc Indianapolis 54 32 pc 45 29 pc Seattle Spokane 36 23 pc 33 24 c Kansas City 54 30 pc 47 28 s Tucson 72 45 pc 70 42 s Las Vegas 68 42 s 62 42 s 64 35 s 54 32 pc Little Rock 68 48 s 57 39 pc Tulsa 56 39 pc 56 34 pc Los Angeles 74 52 pc 67 49 pc Wash., DC National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Lake Forest, CA 88° Low: Moose, WY -4°

WEATHER HISTORY

On Jan. 6, 1983, all 50 states had at least one reporting point with abovefreezing temperatures, which is very rare for winter.

Q:

WEATHER TRIVIA™ What is the snowiest region in the lower 48 states?

The Cascade Mountains in Washington.

Temperature

Today Sat. Today Sat. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 60 32 s 51 27 s Atchison 52 24 pc 46 22 s Fort Riley 54 20 pc 47 18 s Belton 53 31 pc 47 28 s Olathe 54 29 pc 47 28 s Burlington 54 31 s 48 25 s Osage Beach 59 32 s 50 28 pc Coffeyville 60 33 s 51 26 s Osage City 52 25 pc 47 24 s Concordia 54 21 pc 46 25 s Ottawa 54 30 pc 47 27 s Dodge City 52 22 pc 47 21 s Wichita 56 25 s 48 23 s Holton 54 25 pc 47 24 s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS

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Through 8 p.m. Thursday.

Friends of Sesquicentennial Point meeting, 1 p.m., Lawrence Parks and Recreation offices, 10th and New Hampshire streets.

Opening: “Un-Juried” Art Exhibit, 6-8 p.m., Lumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St., Baldwin City.

Lawrence Area Catbacker Watch Party for Cotton Bowl, 7 p.m., Wayne and Larry’s Sports Bar, 933 Iowa.

Epiphany Concerts presented by The Motet Singers and the Saxophonia Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt.

7 SATURDAY

Red Dog’s Dog Days, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelry, Ninth and Vermont streets.

Book signing by Bill Wilson, of new novel “One Hand Clapping” as well as “Majesty,” 1 p.m., Hastings, 1900 W. 23rd St. Great Books Discussion Group: Dante’s “Inferno,” 2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Ragtime Piano Rehearsal / Jam Session, 2-4 p.m., Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Mass.

8 SUNDAY

Lawrence Bridal Extravaganza, noon-4 p.m., Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald Drive.

Allégresse. Flute, oboe and piano trio playing music of the classical masters. Unitarian Chamber Series, 2:30 p.m., Unitarian Fellowship, 1263 N. 1100 Road.

Free State Junior Firebird Dance Clinic, 3-5 p.m., Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive.

O.U.R.S. (Oldsters United for Responsible Service) dance, 6-9 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Poker tournament, 7 p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 410 N. Second St. Smackdown! trivia, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Acoustic Open Mic Night, free entry, signup at 9 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

Karaoke Sunday, 11 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

9 MONDAY

Women’s Entrepreneur Group, 9 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. North Lawrence Improvement Association monthly meeting, 7 p.m., Peace Mennonite Church, 615 Lincoln St. Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

Lawrence Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.

Eudora City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Eudora City Hall, 4 E. Seventh St.

10 TUESDAY

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Sixth St. Free salsa lessons, 8:309:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

12 THURSDAY

DJ G Train It’s the first Friday of the year and while that means artwalks and open exhibits in Kansas City, here it means great music with one of Lawrence’s hottest DJs, DJ G Train. Swing by the Replay Lounge, 944 Mass., tonight after 10 p.m. for G Train’s set, which features funk and soul classics as well as contemporary hip-hop, rock, pop and just about anything else he feels like spinning. The cover for tonight’s show is $3 and as always, you must be 21 to enter.

winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Computer Troubleshooting, 10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Blood drive, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway.

Blood drive, noon-6 p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 Bob Billings Parkway.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers.

For more information, call 843-7359.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Talk on “Music Matters”

by Dr. Trilla Lyerla, 7 p.m., Lumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St., Baldwin City.

Herbs study group, 7 p.m., Unitarian Fellowship, 1263 N. 1100 Road.

Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Trivia Night at the Jayhawker, 8-10 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Teller’s Family Night, 9 p.m.-midnight, 746 Mass.

Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa.

Live jazz at The Casbah, 9 p.m., 803 Mass.

Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Reader Resources on the Web, 10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Lawrence Arts & Crafts group, 7-9 p.m., Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

ONGOING

Watkins Community Museum of History exhibit: “It Happened on Mass Street: 150 Years in Lawrence,” featuring historic photographs and objects illustrating the growth of downtown Lawrence, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 1047 Mass.

Freedom’s Frontier exhibit, Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. Lawrence Arts Center exhibits: Yesnomaybe Exhibition, collaborative works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam, through Jan. 14; Lived: Living, works by Isadora Stowe and Jordan Schranz, through Jan. 14; Learning is Remembering, works

by Amber Hansen, through Jan. 14; Constellation, an aerial installation by Juniper Tangpuz; 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 940 N.H. Lumberyard Arts Center exhibit: “Un-Juried” Art Exhibit, an eclectic collection of 2-D pieces submitted by artists from the Baldwin City and Lawrence areas, 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, through Jan. 28, 718 High St., Baldwin City.

11 WEDNESDAY

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers. For more information, call 8437359.

Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W.

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ONE WEEK ONLY! JANUARY 6-13

100? No big deal!

DOROTHY E. SHANER, LECOMPTON, LEFT, CELEBRATED her 100th birthday at Hickory Pointe Nursing Home in Oskaloosa. Her daughter Beth, grandson Kevin and wife Roseanne traveled from New Jersey to join in on the fun Nov. 12. Of the milestone, Shaner remarked that it was “no big deal.” Joe LaCava submitted the photo.

“I am enjoying my improved hearing aids which I got at Lawrence Hearing Aid Center.

The sounds quality is more clear and telephone conversation is enhanced without any whistling.

Come see the good folks at Lawrence Hearing Aid Center today.”

-Max Falkenstien

KU MEN’S BASKETBALL: Releford embraces defensive role. 3B WAT A GAME Christian Watford’s 25 points helped No. 12 Indiana defeat No. 16 Michigan on Thursday.

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Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Recruits reflect faith in Weis

After the season Russell Wilson had as a one-year, playright-away transfer for Wisconsin, after leaving North Carolina State, it had to be extremely difficult for Dayne Crist to say no to the Badgers.

Think about it: At Wisconsin, Crist would have been the favorite to win the starting job for a team that can’t be counted out of national-title contention, joining a program that has fresh proof it knows how to incorporate a new leader of an offense seamlessly.

Crist chose to join a program that finished two games out of ninth place in a 10-team Big 12, instead of making the same choice Wilson made, which led to him finishing ninth in the Heisman Trophy voting.

Why did Crist bypass the obvious choice? Two words: Charlie Weis.

The faith Crist showed in Weis in committing to Kansas has a shot at helping KU football for longer than the one year of eligibility Crist has remaining. The fact he made the decision at the age of 22, not 18, and having practiced two years under Weis at Notre Dame makes it a more informed decision than most players make in choosing a college.

Crist obviously believes in Weis’ ability to make him better, believes in Weis’ offense and trusts the coach’s expertise.

After signing with Notre Dame out of Notre Dame High in Southern California, Crist practiced as a redshirt in 2008, played sparingly as a backup in 2009, attempting 20 passes, and suffered his first torn ACL. In 2010, he started the first nine games of coach Brian Kelly’s first season.

One day shy of the one-year anniversary of his first ACL injury, Crist suffered another. Kelly benched him in the first game of this season and stubbornly didn’t go back to Crist when things didn’t work out so well at the quarterback position.

Weis recruited Crist because he believed he would fit his pro-style offense ideally. That’s the same reason he recruited him to Kansas. A 6-foot-4, 235-pound pocket passer, Crist had mixed results at Notre Dame (59-percent completion rate, 6.9 yards per attempt, 16 touchdowns, nine interceptions in 338 passes) but no question represents an upgrade at the position for Kansas.

The buzz created with the selection of Weis grew louder with the commitment of Crist, louder still when Brigham Young transfer Jake Heaps, a similarly touted high school sensation, announced his decision to come to Kansas shortly after Crist did.

Heaps, a 6-1, 205, pocket passer, must sit out the 2012 season, which gives him time to get acquainted with the offense.

But has the excitement translated to ticket sales? Yes. “Without sending the (renewal) form out yet, we’ve sold 2,500 season tickets and half of them are people who didn’t have them before,” KU associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said. “And we’ve had at least one person just walk into the Williams Fund and hand us a $5,000 check and say, ‘This is for hiring Charlie Weis.’ And the fact that he was able to recruit the players he’s recruited already, I think that’s definitely added to the excitement.”

If Weis’ teams can bring the same football mentality to the gridiron as Bill Self’s teams bring to the hardwood, things could get pretty interesting around here.

Making a splash

Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo

FREE STATE SOPHOMORE KYLE YODER SWIMS in the 200-yard medley relay Thursday at the Free State swim meet.

Strong debuts by FSHS newcomers turn tables on LHS

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

A pair of new additions made an immediate impact for Free State High’s boys swimming team Thursday.

With the help of junior Ben Sloan and sophomore Canaan Campbell, who made their season debuts at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center, the Firebirds took first place and held off rival and runner-up Lawrence at their home meet.

Free State coach Annette McDonald said the two swimmers — who both compete on club teams year-round — had attended previous meets to support their fellow Firebirds before helping FSHS out even more with their first-place finishes.

“What’s nice about it is they just got in there and became part of the team,” the coach said.

Campbell took first place in the 200-yard freestyle and 500 freestyle, while Sloan won the 200 medley and 100 butterfly events.

They both were a part of Free State’s winning 400 freestyle relay team with Connor Munk and Hunter Robinson. And the trio of Munk, Campbell and Sloan swam to a first-place finish with Kyle Yoder in the 200 medley relay.

McDonald said the Firebirds’ 400 freestyle relay team already had a state consideration time before Campbell and Sloan came on board.

“These two guys helped push it way over the edge,” she said of the team’s 3:29.25 finish.

Campbell complimented the rest of his team on a day that many Firebirds swam to new personal bests.

“We improved a lot over break, and I think that really showed at this meet,” he said.

Sloan said the home meet marked a great start to Free State’s post-winter break schedule.

“We came into the meet wanting to win and obviously we accomplished that,” he said.

With the new guys helping Free State take first place in eight events (Munk won the 100 backstroke and Dan Krieger was the top performer in 1-meter diving), the Firebirds scored 597 team points — 77 more than LHS, which had finished ahead of FSHS at two previous meets.

The Lions, coach Kent McDonald said, had discussed Free State’s newcomers before the meet. They knew it wouldn’t be easy to duplicate their recent success against Free State, even with senior Zach Andregg making a habit of setting school records.

“They’ve got essentially two, maybe three Zachs,” the LHS coach said of the Firebirds.

Andregg broke his own LHS record in the 100 freestyle, with a first-place time of 47.72. Victorious in the 50 freestyle as well, Andregg also swam with Adam Edmonds, Nathan Evers and Dylan Orth on Lawrence’s winning 200 freestyle relay team.

And he did all of that with a broken bone in his right hand.

The Lions’ senior standout said he injured the hand about four weeks ago. He wears a brace on it when he isn’t swimming. But Andregg has refused to let the injury hold him back.

“I just don’t think about it at all,” he said.

In fact, he was disappointed that he didn’t set a new record in the 50 freestyle. He missed it by roughly three-tenths of a second.

“I’ll get that some other time,” he said.

Please see SWIMMING, page 3B

KANSAS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Goodrich leads Jayhawks to strong Big 12 start

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

John Young/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS GUARD ANGEL GOODRICH SCORES on a breakaway during against Sam Houston State on Dec. 28, 2011 in Allen Fieldhouse.

Goodrich scored a career-high 22 points in a victory at No. 23 Texas on Wednesday.

Kansas University women’s basketball player Angel Goodrich first arrived in Lawrence in the fall of 2008.

Since that time, the oft-injured point guard has been part of a couple of disappointing seasons and 72 KU victories.

With that in mind, Goodrich was asked on Thursday if Wednesday’s 72-67 road win against No. 23 Texas was the biggest of her career to date. She answered without hesitating.

“Probably,” she said. “Being on the road made it really big and exciting.”

In terms of what it meant to this year’s squad, Wednesday’s victory, though enormous for the Jayhawks’ confidence, was just the first of an 18-game conference grind that continues at 7 p.m. Saturday, when the Jayhawks (12-1 overall, 1-0 in Big 12 play) welcome Kansas State (103, 1-0) to town.

“

We came together and we stayed together and that’s the most important thing to have on the road.

It’s the first step to where we want to go.”

— Kansas University guard Angel Goodrich on the Jayhawks’ win against No. 23 Texas on Wednesday In terms of the big picture, KU’s victory against UT — its first road win against a ranked team since 2000 — provided a huge lift for a club trying to escape the shadows of serious struggles during conference play under coach Bonnie Henrickson. During her first seven seasons at KU, Henrickson’s teams never have won more than six Big 12 games in a single season. Although they’ll have two extra chances to eclipse that win total this season — with each Big 12 team now play-

ing a home-and-home against the nine others — their win against Texas in this season’s conference opener has the Jayhawks hungry for more.

“We prepared for a week,” Goodrich said. “I think we were more prepared for (that) game than we’ve been in a while. We came together and we stayed together and that’s the most important thing to have on the road. It’s the first step to where we want to go. And right now we just have to take it game by game, and we can’t look past the game we’ve got coming up.”

Goodrich, who led Kansas with a career-high 22 points on 6-of-11 shooting, also added nine assists and seven rebounds in what had to be considered one of the best games of her career.

The junior point guard has been so good so far this season that some have called her the best player in the Big 12 not named Brittney Griner.

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KSU right at home in Cotton Bowl ARLINGTON, TEXAS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For coach Bill Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second Wildcat turnaround and 11th-ranked Kansas Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprising season, the Cotton Bowl is an appropriate ending.

When the Wildcats first played in the Cotton Bowl 15 years ago, that New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day game was a watershed moment for a program that had evolved from consecutive winless seasons just before Snyder arrived. They went again at the end of the 2000 season, during a stretch of six 11-win seasons in seven years before the coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brief retirement.

Seventh-ranked Arkansas, meanwhile, gets another game at Cowboys Stadium, where a stunning second-half comeback against Texas A&M three months ago was a catalyst in a season where the Razorbacksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only losses are to No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Ala-

bama, the two teams playing in the BCS national championship game next week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the game we played here this year really helped us throughout our season. We came into halftime and we were down 18 points, but our team rallied together.

Our Snyder leadership really showed up,â&#x20AC;?

Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to really bring out the competitive spirit that our team showed from that point on, I think carried us throughout the season.â&#x20AC;?

The Cotton Bowl match-up of 10-2 teams Friday night is the only postseason game featuring the

Big 12 vs. the SEC, which expands next season with the addition of outgoing Big 12 members Texas A&M and Missouri. No other non-BCS bowl had both teams ranked even in the top 15 of the Bowl Championship Series standings, much less the top eight.

While Arkansas came into the season with 18 seniors and some big expectations after playing in the Sugar Bowl last season, KState was picked eighth in the preseason Big 12 poll and then needed a fourth-quarter comeback to win its season opener against Eastern Kentucky.

The Wildcats, with the emergence of hard-nosed running quarterback Collin Klein and a record number of close victories, went on to finish eighth in the BCS standings, two spots behind Arkansas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being here five years and see-

ing where the program was and where Coach Snyder has taken it means a lot to me, especially my last year, my last go-around,â&#x20AC;?

Wildcats safety Tysyn Hartman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re certainly a young group that has exceeded whatever the expectations may have been,â&#x20AC;? said Snyder, wrapping up his 20th season coaching K-State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably come as far as any football team weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had up to this point.â&#x20AC;?

During the three seasons Snyder was away, the Wildcats went 17-20 under Ron Prince. When Snyder came back three years ago, that still wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly as bad as things were when he first got to Manhattan in 1989 Kansas State was 13-12 in Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first two years this time around before a 7-0 start this season.

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Reports: Penn State taps Pats aide Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien STATE COLLEGE, PA. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien has agreed to replace Joe Paterno as Penn Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach, according to multiple reports.

ESPN, citing unnammed sources, first reported Thursday night that an official announcement would be made Saturday, and that Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien would continue on as an assistant with the Patriots the rest of the postseason.

Penn State coaches contacted by The Associated Press said they had not received any word late Thursday night about Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien or anything else related to the two-month long search to replace Paterno. He was fired Nov. 9 in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Spokespersons for Penn State and the Patriots both declined comment on the report.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien interviewed on Thursday, his agent said. In fact, Joe Linta told The Associated Press, earlier Thursday, that Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien was â&#x20AC;&#x153;flattered by the interest.â&#x20AC;?

USA Today first reported that Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien was scheduled to interview, citing an unidentified person with knowledge of the situation.

This was Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first year coordinating the Patriotsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; high-scoring offense, but he coached star quarterback Tom Brady since 2009. He spent 2008 coaching receivers.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien first joined New England in 2007 following 14 seasons on the collegiate level, including stops at Duke, Maryland and Georgia Tech. He played college football at Brown â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joe Paternoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alma mater.

Paterno, Division Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winningest coach with 409 victories, coached 46 seasons before trustees ousted him Nov. 9.

Penn State officials had termed the search â&#x20AC;&#x153;methodical and deliberate.â&#x20AC;? Acting athletic director David Joyner had said he would like to give Paternoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s replacement at least a few weeks to recruit before high school seniors can begin to announce their official intentions to attend college on Feb. 1.

By Tim Dahlberg Associated Press Sports Columnist

It was fun in a way the NFL often isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, a midseason diversion that sent fans into a frenzy in Denver and prompted people around the country to drop to a knee.

Even if you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in Tim Tebow, it was hard to take your eyes off him as he found ways to win despite passes that fluttered about like balloons on a windy day.

That it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pretty hardly mattered.

Somehow, some way, Tebow got the Denver Broncos an invitation to the playoffs for the first time in six years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something that seemed unimaginable after the team sputtered to a 1-4 start.

Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to do something even more unimaginable. Find a way to regroup after finishing the season in a funk and beat the banged-up but still intimidating Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday in Denver.

Do it, and the cult of Tebow grows.

Kids will be Tebowing at recess, while their fathers practice the art in their offices.

Fall short, and maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to start facing reality.

Tebow is not just the worst quarterback in the playoffs, leader of a team that scored the least points of any team in the postseason. He may be the worst quarterback in the NFL. OK, maybe not worse than Curtis Painter, who had the unfortunate task of filling in for Peyton Manning in Indianapolis. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that Blaine Gabbert was atrocious this year in Jacksonville.

But you get the picture. If not, the NFL Network is likely running a replay of the New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day debacle in Denver when the Broncos could manage only three points against Kansas City.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother looking for the highlights.

There werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any.

In a game the Broncos figured they had to win to make the playoffs, Tebow was beyond awful. He completed just 6 of 22 passes for just 60 yards, fumbled with his team inside the red zone and threw a late interception.

More troubling for the Broncos, though, has to be that Tebow seems to be regressing. Teams are forcing him to stay in the pocket more, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly a place heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not comfortable.

His touch on short passes is awful, and he slings the ball on long ones as though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing street ball with the neighbors before heading inside to eat dinner.

Worst of all, the magic seems to be gone. And without that, Tebow is pretty much what he was when the Broncos started the season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a third-string quarterback with a skill set that worked magic in college but isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t well suited for the NFL. John Elway understood that early in Tebowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkable run when he dismissed suggestions that the Broncos had found their quarterback of the future.

The Broncosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; boss has changed his tune some since then, but his ride on the Tebow bandwagon has been a cautious one at best. Tebow has never been in the playoffs, and his first trip there figures to be a short one. The Broncos are 120-1 underdogs in Vegas to win the NFL title, a line that was inflated simply to try to get some Tebow believers to back their man with hard cash. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No chance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; absolutely no chance,â&#x20AC;?

Cantor Race & Sports Director Mike Colbert said, referring to Denverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances of winning it all.

SATURDAY â&#x20AC;˘ Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball vs. Kansas State, 7 p.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Track at Easton Classic, 1 p.m.

NBA

Westphal out as Kings coach SACRAMENTO, CALIF. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Sacramento Kings fired coach Paul Westphal on Thursday, cutting ties after two-plus seasons amid a slow start and an escalating dispute with young center DeMarcus Cousins.

Kings president of basketball operations Geoff Petrie made the announcement ahead of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home game against Milwaukee on Thursday night.

Assistant Keith Smart, let go by the Golden State Westphal Warriors this summer after one season, signed a deal to become the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Westphalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blessing.

Looking to build momentum for a new arena project, Sacramento stumbled at the start again this year. A talented and athletic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; albeit raw â&#x20AC;&#x201D; roster led by Westphal was 2-5 and in last place in the Pacific Division.

BASEBALL

Rangers raising railings ARLINGTON, TEXAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The new raised railings at Rangers Ballpark have beveled tops and lean slightly inward, making it safer for fans in front-row seats throughout the stadium.

Rangers officials showed off one of the first sections of new protective railing Thursday during a tour of renovations at the stadium.

The team announced plans to make all front-row railings 42 inches high after the July death of Texas firefighter Shannon Stone, who fell about 20 feet after reaching out to grab a ball tossed his way by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton.

Sooners QB Jones returning NORMAN, OKLA. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Quarterback Landry Jones has decided to come back for his senior year at Oklahoma, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is still a lot more to do.â&#x20AC;?

Jones said Thursday that it would be a great honor to play in the NFL, but with most of the offensive line, several receivers and defensive players returning, the team hopes to get another shot at a national championship.

Jones is the Soonersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; all-time leading passer with 12,389 yards. Coach Bob Stoops said Jones has had a positive influence on and off the field with his teammates and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pleased with Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision.

Sooners defensive end Ronnell Lewis, meanwhile, said he plans to skip his senior year and enter the NFL draft. Lewis had 60 tackles in 10 games, including 13 for a loss, and 5.5 sacks. Over the past three seasons, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played in 34 games and collected 119 tackles and 10 sacks.

SAN DIEGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The San Diego Chargers fired defensive coordinator Greg Manusky on Thursday after just one year on the job and replaced him a few hours later with linebackers coach John Pagano.

The shake-up came four days after the Chargers finished 8-8 and out of the playoffs for the second straight year, and two days after coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith were notified by team President Dean Spanos that they will return next season.

Rams talking to Fisher ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jeff Fisher is interviewing for the St. Louis Rams coaching job after previously meeting with the Dolphins.

The team said Thursday that initial interviews are taking place in Denver, with owner Stan Kroenke an active participant. Kroenkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family also owns the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.

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TODAY â&#x20AC;˘ Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball at Warner Southern (Fla.) SATURDAY â&#x20AC;˘ Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball at Northwood (Fla.)

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Washington v. Utah 1 p.m.

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Notre Dame v. Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ville 3 p.m.

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Releford happy to set defensive tone for KU

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Travis Releford completed a post-game interview with ESPN.com at center court of Allen Fieldhouse, then walked through the building’s fabled northwest tunnel with another reporter 45 minutes after scoring a career-high 16 points and grabbing a careerbest 11 rebounds in Wednesday’s 67-49 Big 12 opening victory over Kansas State.

“To be able to put on the Kansas jersey and run out of this tunnel is what I always wanted to do. I’m having a lot of fun,” said Releford, a 6-foot-6 junior forward out of Roeland Park’s Bishop Miege High School. “I’m trying to do whatever I can to give us the best chance to win,” Releford added.

For the past three games, that’s meant playing — and playing well — despite some discomfort in his right foot, one he bruised in KU’s 63-47 victory over USC on Dec. 22 in Los Angeles.

He’s been wearing a walking boot the past week or so as the bruise heals.

“I did something to it in the (SC) game. I don’t even remember (how it happened),” Releford said. “It’s just a little bruise. I have to wear this boot

D-tackle commits to KU football

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS UNIVERSITY FORWARD TRAVIS RELEFORD (24), LEFT, AND KANSAS STATE FORWARD JAMAR SAMUELS (32) BATTLE for a loose ball during the Jayhawks’ opening game of the Big 12 season against the Wildcats on Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse. to take pressure off it. It’s not bad at all. I’ll probably be in the boot a couple more days.”

Last Jan. 9, Releford suffered a severe left ankle sprain at Michigan.

That injury that forced him to miss five games and pretty much took him out of the ro-

tation the remainder of his sophomore season.

Releford was expendable a season ago thanks to a deep KU roster. This year, he’s been counted on for 29.6 minutes a game and relied upon for his defense.

“That’s my role,” he said

of guarding standouts like K-State’s Rodney McGruder, who hit five of 14 shots Wednesday en route to 15 points. “I feel if I come out and do that, it gives my team a better chance to win.”

His secret to success on ‘D’?

“Will and effort — wanting to stop the other team’s offensive scorer is something I just want to do, and I’ve been doing that this year,” he said.

He’s been on somewhat of a roll offensively.

Releford, who averages 8.8 points and 4.3 rebounds a game, tied a career-high with 14 points off 5-of-10 shooting (1-4 threes) last Saturday against North Dakota, then improved on his career-best mark with 16 points off 6-of11 shooting (2-4 from three) against the Wildcats.

“It’s a long season. I don’t really pay attention to that,” Releford said of numbers.

“Scoring and rebounding ... I just go out there and play and give it my all and that happens.”

It was suggested he might be more fired up than usual playing rival K-State.

“It’s one of our bigger rivals, but I was motivated because it’s the first game of conference,” Releford stated.

Of Releford, KU coach Bill Self said: “Travis set the tone the first half. He got on the floor twice (diving for the basketball). That was our whole deal, first one on the floor.

“He did a great job defending Rodney the first half (2-7 shooting, six points in 20 minutes); stealing us some extra

possessions. He got five (of KU’s first seven) points off the bat which got his confidence going. He has not scored consistently, but tonight he was a factor on both ends.”

Next up for (11-3, 1-0) KU is a 1 p.m., tip Saturday at Oklahoma. The (10-3) Sooners are 0-1 in the league following Tuesday’s 87-49 loss at Missouri.

O Vitale lauds TRob: ESPN’s Dick Vitale has named KU’s Thomas Robinson his leading candidate for college basketball’s player of the year.

Vitale writes: “When the Morris Twins declared for the NBA draft, coach Bill Self knew he would need Robinson as a dominant force and he has not disappointed.

He has been a double-double man despite opponents knowing he would get the ball down low. His 30-point, 21-rebound game vs. North Dakota made him the third player in the illustrious history of Jayhawk basketball to put up a 30-20 performance.”

Vitale has UConn’s Jeremy Lamb his No. 2 candidate for midseason player of the year, followed by Jared Sullinger, Ohio State; Marcus Denmon, Missouri; Anthony Davis, Kentucky and Doug McDermott, Creighton.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Seabury girls use height to grab easy 56-23 victory

By Corey Thibodeaux cthibodeaux@ljworld.com

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

The Kansas University football team picked up another commitment on the defensive line on Thursday night, when Tyler Holmes, a 6-foot-3, 270-pound defensive tackle from Sachse, Texas, orally committed to KU. Holmes recorded 104 tackles during his senior season at Sachse High near Garland, Texas. Like a few other defensive linemen who recently have committed to Kansas, Holmes said he was impressed by both KU defensive line coach Buddy Wyatt and Weis.

In an interview with JayhawkSlant.com’s Jon Kirby, Holmes made it clear what he expects from KU. “I think the program can turn around fast,” Holmes said. “I wanted to be a part of something new. I think Kansas can win and start getting to bowl games.”

Blasko a name to watch As Weis’ coaching staff begins to fill in, Jeff Blasko has emerged as a name to watch for KU’s still-vacant tight Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo ends coaching position.

BISHOP SEABURY JUNIOR COURTNEY HOAG (25) WORKS Blasko worked with Weis PAST the defense of a Hyman Brand Academy player on at Florida during the 2011 seaThursday at Seabury. Seabury defeated Hyman, 56-23. son, serving as an offensive intern on the Gators’ coaching staff. Following Weis’ departure from UF in Decemwe were competitive,” the ber, Blasko became Florida’s coach said. interim quarterbacks coach.

Annette McDonald, meanwhile, praised a couple FSHS Gill hires ex-KU coaches CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B swimmers for improving their The Liberty Flames foottimes and contributing to the ball program will have a KanStill, Andregg wasn’t the team points title. Yoder imsas University flavor to it only Lion to make strides at proved his 100 breaststroke next season. the meet. Edmonds, a junior, time by about two seconds Former KU coach Turner dropped his times in the 50 and took second place. Munk, Gill, fired by Kansas in No- freestyle (third place), while who finished behind only vember and hired by Liberty Reid Hildenbrand’s times Andregg in the 100 freestyle, two weeks later, announced in the 500 freestyle (third) shaved nearly two seconds off on Thursday that six members and 200 freestyle (second) his previous best time. of his KU staff would join him lowered and Joshua Shump “All the swims were good,” at his new school. got closer to a state considFree State’s coach said. “Even Robert Wimberly will serve eration time in the 100 backthe guys who scored later. It’s as Liberty’s defensive coor- stroke (second). not just the top guys that win dinator and safeties coach.

Kent McDonald noted the the race, it’s everybody else.”

Vantz Singletary will coach real difference in the meet Next up for the Firebirds the defensive line and serve came with Free State’s divand Lions is a Saturday trip as co-defensive coordinator. ers, as Krieger, Trevor Hillis to the Shawnee Mission And former KU defensive co- and Austin Neidow secured Northwest Invitational. ordinator Carl Torbush, who first through third in 1-meter retired in the spring of 2011 diving.

O Full results on page 5B to fight cancer, will return to “Other than that, I thought the sidelines as Liberty’s assistant head coach and will be in charge of linebackers. so far this season, junior On the offensive side of the guard Monica Engelman, ball, Aaron Stamn will coach who scored a season-high 19 the tight ends and serve as CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B points and added eight reco-offensive coordinator. Joe bounds in the victory against Dailey, who worked under “I think (she is),” Henrick- UT, added: “Not really. I Gill at KU in 2010, will coach son said. “I mean, who else would be surprised if she the quarterbacks. impacts the game as much as didn’t play how she plays evIn addition, Adam Morris, she does?” ery game. She brings it offenwho served as the quality When asked if she was sively and defensively, and control coordinator for KU’s surprised by how well her I couldn’t ask for any more special teams, was named ofbackcourt mate had played from her.” fensive quality control coach.

The Bishop Seabury Academy girls basketball team had a game plan based on simple math.

The tallest player on Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is 5-foot-9, four inches taller than her next teammate. The tallest player on Seabury is 6-foot-3 junior Courtney Hoag.

“She had a little bit of an advantage,” coach Becky Bridson said.

Hoag dominated the post with 22 points and helped lead Seabury to a 56-23 victory against Hyman Thursday.

She saw the scouting report, so she knew the ball was going to come her way plenty of possessions.

“Definitely, because we heard that they were only going to be like 5-3,” Hoag said.

“That’s their average height.”

The Seahawks (2-0) scored a quick eight points to start the game, and the Rams were forever in a hole. If it wasn’t Hoag getting an uncontested layup, it was either Alexa Gaumer or Maddie McCaffrey running the fast break into an easy score. Gaumer finished with eight points, McCaffrey with nine.

Bridson said the team

chemistry is flowing right now, even after two games.

Other than a few minor flaws, the Seahawks are looking like a well-rounded team. A lot of it has to do with the veterans jelling with the young players.

“They look like they’ve been playing together for a lot longer than they actually have,” Bridson said.

Hoag added that the captains are leading the way they need to lead, which gains their teammates’ respect.

Seabury hasn’t played a game in almost a month because of holiday break.

Aside from rushing their offense from time to time, the Seahawks looked polished Thursday night. Bridson didn’t let her team go soft during the layoff.

“We did a lot of conditioning,” she said. “I don’t think they liked that too much. But I feel like with the conditioning comes a lot of discipline.”

That discipline helped Seabury not only get a huge lead, but sustain it. The Seahawks outscored the Rams in each quarter and kept attacking on both sides of the ball. Bridson said her team’s half-court trapping worked to perfection as Hyman struggled to find a decent shot.

Anytime a ball was on the ground, a Seahawk was div-

ing for it like it was the last game of the season. Hoag couldn’t speak for the spark in her teammates, but hers was more a factor of anticipation.

“I was just so excited to play again because it’s been so long,” Hoag said.

The Seahawks will play host to Wichita Word of Life at 6 p.m. on Jan. 13.

Seabury 12 19 17 8—56 Hyman 6 5 7 5—23 SEABURY (56) Courtney Hoag 11-22 0-0 22, Maddie McCaffrey 4-9 1-2 9, Alexa Gaumer 2-2 4-5 8, Padget Sutherland 2-5 0-0 4, Alyson Oliver 0-2 0-0 0, Reilly Malone 1-4 0-2 3, Sarah McDermott 2-6 0-0 4, Hannah Spomer 0-1 0-2 0, Raquel Dominguez 2-4 0-0 4, Elizabeth Padgett 0-1 2-2 2, Emilie Padgett 0-2 0-0 0; Seabury Academy – 24-58 7-13 56.

HYMAN (23) Hannah Caplan 6-9 2-2 14, Alex Sher 2-12 0-0 4, Sarah Herman 1-8 0-1 3, Adena Goldberg 0-1 2-2 2, Kara Kahn 0-2 0-0 0, Moriah Abrams 0-4 0-1 0, Anna Kaseff 0-2 0-0 0; Hyman – 9-38 4-8 23.

Three points: Bishop Seabury Academy: Malone. Hyman: Herman. Turnovers: Bishop Seabury Academy -16, Hyman 23. Shooting Percentage: Bishop Seabury Academy: 41 Hyman: 24.

Hyman Academy boys 51, Seabury Academy 45 Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy boys basketball team defeated Bishop Seabury Academy, 51-45, on Thursday at Seabury.

Aaron Lock led the Eagles with 15 points and Marcus Allen scored 13.

Seabury (4-2) will play host to St. James Academy on Saturday.

Swimming

Goodrich

Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo

LAWRENCE HIGH SOPHOMORE SWIMMER DARREN RAWLINGS TURNS THROUGH THE WATER in the 200-yard freestyle Thursday at the Free State swim meet.

While the final outcome was all that mattered, Henrickson said she was pleased with the way the Jayhawks attained the victory against UT. After racing out to a 30-20 halftime lead, despite 1-of-7 first-half shooting from leading scorer Carolyn Davis, the Jayhawks led by as many as 23 points in the second half, only to see Texas close the gap to

69-67 with 15 seconds to play.

Though things got tight down the stretch, KU iced the game from the free throw line and let loose afterwards.

“We feel great about it,” Goodrich said. “It was crazy in the locker room, everyone was yelling, screaming, hitting hands. But today’s a different day, and we gotta look forward to the next game.”

Added Henrickson: “The toughness, the togetherness, the teamwork. You gotta be willing to do your job and emotionally handle teams when they make a run, and you gotta make a run back at ‘em. We did all those things.

We celebrated it. You’ve got a 24-hour window. And whether it’s a win or a loss, you gotta move on.”

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Philadelphia Boston Toronto New York New Jersey

W 3 4 3 2 1

L 2 3 3 4 6

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GB — — 1⁄2

11⁄2 3

L10 3-2 4-3 3-3 2-4 1-6

Str W-2 W-4 W-2 L-2 L-6

Home 0-0 3-0 1-1 1-2 0-2

Away 3-2 1-3 2-2 1-2 1-4

Conf 0-0 4-2 3-2 1-2 1-6

Southeast Division Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

W 7 5 4 2 0

L 1 2 3 4 6

Pct .875 .714 .571 .333 .000

GB — 11⁄2 21⁄2 4 6

L10 6-1 5-2 4-3 2-4 0-6

Str W-2 W-1 L-2 W-1 L-6

Home 3-1 4-0 2-1 1-2 0-2

Away 4-0 1-2 2-2 1-2 0-4

Conf 5-1 4-1 4-2 2-4 0-6

L 1 2 3 4 4

Pct .857 .667 .500 .333 .333

GB — 11⁄2 21⁄2 31⁄2 31⁄2

L10 6-1 4-2 3-3 2-4 2-4

Str W-5 L-1 L-1 L-1 L-3

Home 2-0 2-0 2-1 2-2 2-0

Away 4-1 2-2 1-2 0-2 0-4

Conf 2-0 4-2 3-3 2-4 1-1

Central Division Chicago Indiana Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

W 5 3 3 2 2

L 2 3 5 4 4

Pct .714 .500 .375 .333 .333

GB — 11⁄2 21⁄2 21⁄2 21⁄2

L10 4-2 3-3 2-5 2-4 2-4

Str W-2 W-2 L-1 L-2 L-4

Home 5-0 2-1 3-2 2-0 1-2

Away 0-2 1-2 0-3 0-4 1-2

Conf 5-2 3-2 2-4 1-3 1-3

L 1 2 2 3 4

Pct .833 .714 .714 .500 .333

GB —

L10 5-1 5-2 5-2 3-3 2-4

Str W-2 W-3 L-2 W-2 L-1

Home 4-0 4-0 3-1 3-0 2-3

Away 1-1 1-2 2-1 0-3 0-1

Conf 4-1 4-2 4-2 1-3 2-2

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Pct .600 .500 .375 .333 .333

GB —

Northwest Division Portland Denver Oklahoma City Utah Minnesota

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Pacific Division L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Sacramento Phoenix Golden State

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Thursday’s games

Miami 116, Atlanta 109,3OT San Antonio 93, Dallas 71 Sacramento 103, Milwaukee 100 Portland 107, L.A. Lakers 96

Today’s games

Atlanta at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 6 p.m.

New York at Washington, 6 p.m.

The Associated Press

Heat 116, Hawks 109, 3OT ATLANTA — Chris Bosh scored 33 points and the Miami Heat, playing without injured stars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, beat the Atlanta Hawks in tripleovertime on Thursday night.

Mario Chalmers had 22 of his 29 points after the third quarter for the Heat, including five in the third overtime.

Wade missed his second straight game with a sore left foot and James was held out after he turned his left ankle late in the third quarter of Wednesday night’s 118-83 win over Indiana. Neither star was in uniform.

Bosh hit a last-second, tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation to force the first overtime.

Miami 22 32 14 25 6 10 7—116 Atlanta 19 30 21 23 6 10 0—109 MIAMI (116) Battier 3-10 1-2 9, Bosh 14-27 4-4 33, Anthony 1-1 1-1 3, Chalmers 10-21 6-6 29, Jones 2-7 0-1 5, Harris 3-9 2-4 9, Cole 4-8 1-1 9, Haslem 6-16 2-2 14, Pittman 2-3 1-2 5, Howard 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 45-102 18-23 116.

ATLANTA (109) Williams 2-10 2-2 7, Smith 6-17 5-9 17, Horford 5-7 0-0 10, Teague 1-12 4-8 6, J.Johnson 7-20 5-6 20, Pargo 1-1 0-0 3, McGrady 4-8 5-8 14, Pachulia 0-2 0-0 0, Radmanovic 0-4 5-6 5, Green 5-6 2-2 14, Collins 0-0 0-0 0, I.Johnson 5-7 3-5 13. Totals 36-94 31-46 109.

3-Point Goals-Miami 8-28 (Chalmers 3-11, Battier 2-5, Bosh 1-3, Jones 1-4, Harris 1-5), Atlanta 6-22 (Green 2-2, Pargo 1-1, McGrady 1-1, Williams 1-2, J.Johnson 1-7, Smith 0-1, Radmanovic 0-4, Teague 0-4).

Fouled Out-I.Johnson, Horford. ReboundsMiami 65 (Harris, Bosh 14), Atlanta 70 (Smith 13). Assists-Miami 25 (Chalmers 8), Atlanta 22 (Teague 7). Total Fouls-Miami 35, Atlanta 24. Technicals-Miami defensive three second 2, Atlanta defensive three second. A-18,371 (18,729).

Kings 103, Bucks 100 SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Tyreke Evans made four free throws in the final minute to finish with 26 points, and Sacramento overcame a 21-point halftime deficit to stun Milwaukee hours after the Kings fired coach Paul Westphal.

Evans hit the go-ahead Detroit at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. free throws with 18.1 seconds Indiana at Boston, 6:30 p.m. remaining and followed with Houston at Oklahoma City, 7 two more to make former p.m. assistant and Golden State Denver at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Warriors coach Keith Smart Cleveland at Minnesota, 7 p.m. a winner in his Kings head Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m. coaching debut.

Memphis at Utah, 8 p.m.

Marcus Thornton scored Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 27 points and DeMarcus p.m.

Cousins finished with 19 Portland at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

L10 3-2 4-4 3-4 2-4 2-4

Str W-2 L-1 W-1 L-1 L-3

Home 2-1 4-1 3-2 1-2 2-2

Away 1-1 0-3 0-3 1-2 0-2

Conf 3-1 3-3 2-3 2-3 0-3

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

Roundup

How former Jayhawks fared Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 29. FGs: 10-21. FTs: 6-6.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Pts: 18. FGs: 6-13. FTs: 6-10.

points and 15 rebounds for the Kings, completing a stretch of three games in three nights at 1-2.

Brandon Jennings scored 31 points, and Drew Gooden had 18 and nine rebounds for the Bucks.

Milwaukee 30 28 24 18—100 Sacramento 25 12 31 35—103 MILWAUKEE (100) Jackson 4-10 3-3 13, Ilyasova 2-3 0-0 4, Gooden 6-13 6-10 18, Jennings 12-23 1-4 31, Delfino 1-2 2-2 5, Livingston 3-5 0-0 6, Sanders 4-7 0-0 8, Udrih 4-8 0-0 8, Leuer 3-5 1-2 7. Totals 39-76 13-21 100.

SACRAMENTO (103) Salmons 5-13 3-4 13, Hayes 0-2 2-2 2, Cousins 8-18 3-6 19, Evans 8-18 9-9 26, Thornton 10-23 5-5 27, Hickson 2-5 3-4 7, Thompson 1-1 0-0 2, Fredette 3-8 0-0 7, Garcia 0-2 0-0 0, Outlaw 0-1 0-0 0, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-91 25-30 103.

3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 9-19 (Jennings 6-10, Jackson 2-5, Delfino 1-2, Udrih 0-2), Sacramento 4-21 (Thornton 2-6, Fredette 1-4, Evans 1-5, Garcia 0-1, Salmons 0-5).

Fouled Out-Cousins. Rebounds-Milwaukee 44 (Gooden 9), Sacramento 60 (Cousins 15). Assists-Milwaukee 26 (Jennings 7), Sacramento 16 (Evans 5). Total FoulsMilwaukee 27, Sacramento 18. A-11,813 (17,317).

Spurs 93, Mavericks 71 SAN ANTONIO — Matt Bonner scored 17 points and San Antonio limited Dirk Nowitzki to just six in a win over Dallas.

Richard Jefferson scored 16 points and Gary Neal added 12 for the Spurs, who held Nowitzki to his lowest scoring output since he had five points in a Dec. 18, 2009, game that he left early because of injury.

Jason Terry scored 12 points and Delonte West had 10 to lead Dallas, which lost point guard Jason Kidd to a lower back injury with 24.7 seconds remaining in the first quarter.

Dallas 17 12 13 29—71 San Antonio 31 24 11 27—93 DALLAS (71) Marion 1-6 0-0 2, Nowitzki 3-11 0-1 6, Haywood 2-4 2-4 6, Kidd 0-2 0-0 0, West 4-6 2-2 10, Odom 3-10 0-0 6, Terry 4-14 3-4 12, Mahinmi 2-3 3-4 7, Carter 2-5 2-2 6, Beaubois 1-8 2-2 4, Jones 2-4 2-2 6, Cardinal 0-1 0-0 0, Wright 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 27-77 16-21 71.

John Bazemore/AP Photo

MIAMI HEAT POWER FORWARD CHRIS BOSH (1) GOES TO THE BASKET as Atlanta Hawks forward Ivan Johnson (44) defends in the second half on Thursday in Atlanta. Miami won 116-109 in triple overtime.

SAN ANTONIO (93) Jefferson 5-12 3-3 16, Duncan 4-13 2-6 10, Blair 0-3 0-0 0, Parker 5-12 1-3 11, Neal 4-10 0-0 12, Green 3-10 0-0 8, Bonner 6-10 0-0 17, Leonard 2-4 0-0 4, Ford 3-7 0-0 7, Splitter 0-2 3-4 3, Anderson 2-2 0-0 5, Diogu 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 34-86 9-16 93.

3-Point Goals-Dallas 1-19 (Terry 1-5, Carter 0-1, Cardinal 0-1, Kidd 0-2, Nowitzki 0-3, Beaubois 0-3, Odom 0-4), San Antonio 16-33 (Bonner 5-9, Neal 4-7, Jefferson 3-7, Green 2-5, Anderson 1-1, Ford 1-2, Leonard 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Dallas 59 (Mahinmi 9), San Antonio 55 (Jefferson 7). Assists-Dallas 11 (Kidd, West 3), San Antonio 22 (Parker 8). Total Fouls-Dallas 13, San Antonio 17.

Technicals-Mahinmi, San Antonio defensive three second. A-18,581 (18,797).

Trail Blazers 107, Lakers 96 PORTLAND, ORE. — Gerald Wallace had 31 points and sparked a key third-quarter run to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a fast-paced victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

LaMarcus Aldridge added 28 points and 10 rebounds for Portland, which led by as many as 14 points. The Blazers had just four turnovers

despite pushing the tempo for the entire game.

Kobe Bryant scored 30 points despite a torn ligament in his right wrist, and Andrew Bynum had 21 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers.

L.A. Lakers 31 25 18 22—96 Portland 27 25 32 23—107 L.A. LAKERS (96) Barnes 1-3 4-4 6, Gasol 7-10 5-5 19, Bynum 9-16 3-6 21, Fisher 2-2 2-2 6, Bryant 13-24 4-5 30, Blake 2-9 0-0 4, World Peace 0-5 0-0 0, Murphy 0-1 0-0 0, Kapono 2-4 1-1 5, Ebanks 1-5 3-4 5. Totals 37-79 22-27 96.

PORTLAND (107) Wallace 13-19 4-7 31, Aldridge 11-20 6-7 28, Camby 0-2 0-0 0, Felton 3-14 2-2 8, Matthews 6-11 1-1 16, Batum 0-5 2-2 2, Crawford 6-15 4-5 17, Thomas 1-1 1-2 3, C.Smith 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 41-89 20-26 107.

3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 0-11 (World Peace 0-1, Kapono 0-1, Bryant 0-4, Blake 0-5), Portland 5-12 (Matthews 3-4, Crawford 1-2, Wallace 1-2, Batum 0-1, Felton 0-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 56 (Bynum 12), Portland 45 (Aldridge 10).

Assists-L.A. Lakers 15 (Fisher 6), Portland 20 (Felton 10). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 20, Portland 20. Technicals-L.A. Lakers defensive three second 2, Portland defensive three second. A-20,444 (19,980).

TOP 25 COLLEGE MEN’S ROUNDUP

No. 12 Indiana edges No. 16 Michigan, 73-71 The Associated Press

No. 12 Indiana 73, No. 16 Michigan 71 BLOOMINGTON, IND.— Christian Watford scored 25 points, and Verdell Jones broke a late tie with four straight points to help Indiana beat Michigan on Thursday.

Indiana (14-1 2-1 Big Ten) stayed perfect at Assembly Hall and beat a third ranked team this season — its most in one season since 2005-06.

Tim Hardaway Jr. had 19 points for Michigan (12-3, 2-1) while Jordan Morgan added 12. The Wolverines have lost 14 of their last 15 at Indiana since 1996.

Hardaway converted a turnover into a dunk to tie the score at 68 with 3:07 to go, Jones broke the tie with four straight points. Watford then made 1 of 2 free throws and Zack Novak’s long heave was off the mark.

Halftime-San Diego St. 44-26. 3-Point Goals-San Diego Christian 10-25 (Rubino 4-5, Prieto 3-4, Delbene 2-5, Sanders 1-1, Chung 0-1, Patterson 0-1, Seaberry 0-1, Arvizu 0-2, Rodriguez 0-2, Dawson 0-3), San Diego St. 5-17 (Tapley 2-5, J. Franklin 2-5, Rahon 1-3, Douglas 0-1, Ebrahimian 0-1, Williams 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-San Diego Christian 16 (Seaberry 6), San Diego St. 37 (Stephens, Williams 8). Assists-San Diego Christian 16 (Seaberry 6), San Diego St. 13 (Tapley 5). Total Fouls-San Diego Christian 24, San Diego St. 12. A-10,857.

No. 25 Gonzaga 73, Pepperdine 45 SPOKANE, WASH. — Freshman Gary Bell Jr. scored 15 points and Gonzaga beat Pepperdine for the 21st consecutive time.

Robert Sacre and Kevin Pangos each scored 11 points for Gonzaga (12-2, 2-0 West Coast Conference), which has won seven straight since consecutive losses to Illinois and Michigan State. They have not lost to the Waves since 2002, their longest current streak against a WCC rival.

Jordan Baker scored 10 points to lead Pepperdine (77, 1-2).

Darron Cummings/AP Photo The Waves, who came MICHIGAN (12-3) INDIANA’S CHRISTIAN WATFORD (2) WORKS AGAINST Michigan’s Jordan Morgan, left, and Evan Smotrycz for a rebound during the in averaging 60 points per Smotrycz 3-6 0-0 8, Morgan 6-7 0-0 12, game, never led in the game Novak 3-5 0-0 8, Burke 4-15 0-3 10, Hardaway first half on Thursday in Bloomington, Ind. Jr. 7-19 5-6 19, Douglass 3-5 2-2 11, Vogrich and shot just 28.3 percent 0-0 0-0 0, McLimans 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 27-58 points and UNLV won its best record in school history, from the field. Their season7-11 71.

UNLV (16-2) INDIANA (14-1) No. 24 SDSU 83, seventh straight game. low had been 39 points in a 34-3.

Bellfield 5-8 2-2 13, Marshall 6-9 0-1 12, Watford 8-11 6-8 25, Zeller 8-10 2-2 18, Moser had 11 rebounds for San Diego State led 44- loss to UCLA. Lopez 3-4 1-2 7, Stanback 2-12 1-2 7, Moser San Diego Christian 52 Hulls 1-4 0-0 3, Oladipo 2-10 1-2 5, Jones III 3-6 2-4 8, Etherington 0-0 0-1 0, Abell 1-3 0-0 the Rebels (16-2), who out- 6-11 4-4 17, Thomas 2-3 4-6 8, Wallace 1-5 SAN DIEGO — Junior guard 26 at halftime. The Hawks 0-0 3, Smith 0-1 2-2 2, Mashour 1-3 1-2 3, 3, Pritchard 0-0 1-2 1, Roth 2-2 0-0 5, Elston (7-7) scored the Roadrunners (7-9) Hawkins 6-10 1-2 17, Norman 0-0 0-0 0. DeShawn Stephens scored a showed some life in the sec- PEPPERDINE 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 27-49 12-19 73.

Harold 1-7 1-2 4, Darby 1-6 2-3 4, Moore 3-4 Totals 32-66 16-23 89. career-high 18 points for San ond half with a 9-3 run that 1-1 8, Lowery 1-4 0-0 3, Willis 0-2 6-8 6, Baker Halftime-Indiana 39-32. 3-Point Goals- 51-30 in the second half.

BAKERSFIELD (7-9) 2-2 10, Eaton 2-6 4-6 8, Skouen 0-3 0-0 Michigan 10-24 (Douglass 3-5, Novak 2-3, Oscar Bellfield had seven CSWhite pulled them to 55-39 with 4-12 1-8 0-0 3, Grayson 1-6 2-2 4, Young Diego State.

0, Ochenje 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 13-46 16-22 45.

Smotrycz 2-3, Burke 2-5, McLimans 1-1, Garrett Green added 14 13:37 to play before the Az- GONZAGA (12-2) Hardaway Jr. 0-7), Indiana 7-11 (Watford points and two assists in 1-4 0-0 2, Savage 0-4 3-4 3, Carter 6-9 1-2 13, Harris 4-9 0-2 10, Sacre 2-4 7-9 11, Pangos 3-4, Elston 1-1, Abell 1-1, Roth 1-1, Hulls UNLV’s 16-2 run to open Pearson 0-1 0-0 0, Lamb 7-11 0-0 16, Matip points, Chase Tapley and tecs opened it up again.

0-0 0-0 0, Hughley 2-7 2-6 6, Hayes 1-3 2-5 5, 4-10 1-1 11, Bell 5-9 2-2 15, Hart 0-1 0-0 1-1, Oladipo 0-3). Fouled Out-Douglass.

0, Carter 0-3 1-2 1, Landry Edi 0-4 1-2 1, Rebounds-Michigan 30 (Morgan 9), Indiana the second half that gave the Johnson 0-2 2-2 2, Jackson 1-2 1-4 3. Totals Jamaal Franklin had 11 each, DIEGO CHRISTIAN (4-6) Stockton 1-4 0-0 2, Spangler 1-3 0-1 2, 31 (Watford 7). Assists-Michigan 13 (Burke Rebels a 54-29 lead with 16:08 20-57 13-25 57. and Alec Williams scored 10 SAN Seaberry 0-3 0-0 0, Sanders 3-3 0-0 7, Monninghoff 3-4 0-0 9, Keita 1-5 0-0 2, Dower Halftime-UNLV 38-27. 3-Point Goals-UNLV 8), Indiana 15 (Jones III 6). Total Foulsfor the Aztecs (13-2). to play.

Delbene 3-9 0-0 8, Arvizu 0-2 2-4 2, Dawson 4-5 1-2 9. Totals 25-61 13-21 73.

9-32 (Hawkins 4-7, Stanback 2-10, Bellfield Michigan 17, Indiana 15. A-16,020.

3-7 0-0 6, Patterson 1-4 0-0 2, Chung 0-2 1-2 1, Halftime-Gonzaga 38-20. 3-Point GoalsMoser 1-4, Wallace 1-5, Mashour 0-1, Ryan Rubino had 13 points Zachary Lamb scored 16 1-4, Rodriguez 1-3 0-0 2, Prieto 3-5 0-0 9, Rubino Pepperdine 3-11 (Moore 1-1, Lowery 1-1, Marshall 0-1), CS Bakersfield 4-12 (Lamb 2-2, points on 7-of-11 shooting for Hayes 1-2, White 1-6, Young 0-1, Grayson for the Hawks (4-7).

4-5 1-3 13, Garcia 0-1 0-0 0, Riahi 1-3 0-0 2. Harold 1-5, Skouen 0-1, Baker 0-3), Gonzaga No. 17 UNLV 89, 19-47 4-9 52.

10-27 (Monninghoff 3-4, Bell 3-6, Harris 2-4, 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-UNLV 48 The Aztecs are off to the Totals Bakersfield.

SAN DIEGO ST. (13-2) Pangos 2-7, Carter 0-1, Keita 0-1, Stockton Cal St. Bakersfield 57 11), CS Bakersfield 33 (Hughley, second-fastest start in school UNLV outrebounded (Moser Green 2-4 10-14 14, Stephens 6-8 6-8 18, 0-2, Landry Edi 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Savage 9). Assists-UNLV 18 (Bellfield, Smith BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. — 3-7 0-0 7, J. Franklin 4-10 1-2 11, Tapley Rebounds-Pepperdine 37 (Baker, Darby 6), the Roadrunners 43-28 and 5), CS Bakersfield 9 (Grayson 5). Total Fouls- history. Last season’s team Rahon 4-8 1-2 11, Williams 4-8 2-2 10, L. Franklin 2-2 Gonzaga 41 (Sacre 9). Assists-Pepperdine Mike Moser and Justin UNLV 18, CS Bakersfield 16. Technicalopened 15-0 en route to the 0-0 4, Staten 1-1 1-2 3, Ebrahimian 2-3 0-0 4, 4 (Willis 2), Gonzaga 16 (Carter 4). Total forced 14 turnovers.

Jackson. A-3,325.

Hawkins both scored 17 Douglas 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 28-52 22-32 83.

Fouls-Pepperdine 17, Gonzaga 16. A-6,000.

SCOREBOARD

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

DRESS REHEARSAL

College Bowls

Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Ohio 24, Utah State 23 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego State 30 Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall 20, FIU 10 Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Southern Mississippi 24, Nevada 17 Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Missouri 41, North Carolina 24 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Purdue 37, Western Michigan 32 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State 31, Louisville 24 Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Toledo 42, Air Force 41 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas 21, California 10 Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State 18, Notre Dame 14 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor 67, Washington 56 Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas BYU 24, Tulsa 21 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Rutgers 27, Iowa State 13 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17 Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma 31, Iowa 14 Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Illinois 20, UCLA 14 Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Auburn 43, Virginia 24 Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Houston 30, Penn State 14 Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. South Carolina 30, Nebraska 13 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Michigan State 33, Georgia 30, 3OT Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida 24, Ohio State 17 Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38, OT Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20, OT Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia 70, Clemson 33 Today Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m., (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 3 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 1 p.m. (CBSSN)

NFL Playoffs

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 7 Cincinnati at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

Detroit at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 8 Atlanta at New York Giants, noon Pittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta, N.Y. Giants or New Orleans at San Francisco, 3:30 p.m.

Cincinnati, Pittsburgh or Denver at New England, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh, Denver or Houston at Baltimore, noon Detroit, Atlanta or N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:30 p.m.

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 22 TBD Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 29 At Honolulu NFC vs. AFC Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5 At Indianapolis

NFL Injury Report

New York — The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited participation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice): DETROIT LIONS at NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — LIONS: DNP: WR Calvin Johnson (Achilles). LIMITED: CB Aaron Berry (shoulder), S Louis Delmas (knee), DT Nick Fairley (foot), S Chris Harris (back), CB Chris Houston (hand, knee), CB Alphonso Smith (foot), RB Kevin Smith (ankle, knee). FULL: DE Cliff Avril (back), DT Corey Williams (hip), DE Willie Young (ankle).

SAINTS: DNP: LB Jonathan Casillas (knee), TE John Gilmore (toe), WR Lance Moore (hamstring). LIMITED: LB Jonathan Vilma (knee). FULL: S Jonathon Amaya (shoulder), S Malcolm Jenkins (neck), WR Robert Meachem (knee).

CINCINNATI BENGALS at HOUSTON TEXANS — BENGALS: DNP: T Anthony Collins (not injury related), QB Andy Dalton (illness), S Taylor Mays (hamstring), LB Dontay Moch (illness), DE Frostee Rucker (shoulder). LIMITED: RB Cedric Benson (foot), C Kyle Cook (foot), S Chris Crocker (knee). TEXANS: DNP: LB Bryan Braman

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Wisconsin, W 73-44 (8-1) UMKC, W 77-52 (9-1) Oral Roberts, W 85-68 (10-1) Sam Houston State, W 87-59 (11-1) at Texas, W 72-67 (12-1) Jan. 7 — Kansas State, 7 p.m. (Metro) Jan. 11 — Iowa State, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 15 — at Missouri, 11:30 a.m. (FSN) Jan. 18 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 — Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 25 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 28 — at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Jan. 31 — Oklahoma, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 4 — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Feb. 8 — Texas, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 12 — at Kansas State, noon (FSN) Feb. 15 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 — Missouri, 1 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 21 — at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSN) Feb. 29 — Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. (Metro) March 4 — at Oklakhoma, TBA March 7-10 — Big 12 championship at Kansas City, Mo.

High School

Sophomore Boys Thursday at Free State Free State 62, Olathe East 48 FSHS highlights: Saxson Mingus 16 points; P.J. Budenbender 15 points; John Gregory 10 points; Innocent Anavberokhai 9 points.

FSHS record: 7-0. Next for FSHS: Wednesday vs. SM South.

Freshman Boys Thursday at Free State Olathe East 37, Free State 29 FSHS highlights: Andrew Keating 7 points; Cole Stallard 6 points.

FSHS record: 3-2. Next for FSHS: 7 tonight vs. Blue Valley Northwest at Blue Valley West Tournament.

College Men

Dave Martin/AP Photo

ALABAMA OFFENSIVE LINEMEN GO THROUGH A DRILL during practice for the BCS championship game Thursday at the Superdome in New Orleans. The Crimson Tide will meet LSU for the national title on Monday.

(neck). LIMITED: CB Jason Allen (back), G Mike Brisiel (ankle), TE Owen Daniels (knee), CB Johnathan Joseph (Achilles), T Derek Newton (hip), S Troy Nolan (ankle).

FULL: G Antoine Caldwell (ankle), RB James Casey (knee), NT Shaun Cody (knee), TE Joel Dreessen (knee), RB Arian Foster (knee), WR Andre Johnson (hamstring), WR Bryant Johnson (thigh), CB Sherrick McManis (ankle), C Chris Myers (knee), S Glover Quin (ankle, elbow), T Eric Winston (calf), QB T.J. Yates (left shoulder).

ATLANTA FALCONS at NEW YORK GIANTS — FALCONS: DNP: DE John Abraham (not injury related), WR Harry Douglas (groin), TE Tony Gonzalez (not injury related), CB Brent Grimes (knee), C Todd McClure (not injury related), WR Kerry Meier (groin), S William Moore (groin), LB Stephen Nicholas (toe), TE Michael Palmer (knee), RB Michael Turner (groin), LB Sean Weatherspoon (head). LIMITED: DT Peria Jerry (calf), WR Julio Jones (thumb), TE Reggie Kelly (back), LB Curtis Lofton (ankle), RB Jason Snelling (knee), WR Roddy White (hip). FULL: DT Jonathan Babineaux (hamstring), RB Mike Cox (finger), CB Christopher Owens (hand).

GIANTS: DNP: RB Ahmad Bradshaw (foot), LB Mark Herzlich (ankle). LIMITED: TE Jake Ballard (knee), RB Da’Rel Scott (knee), DE Osi Umenyiora (ankle, knee).

PITTSBURGH STEELERS at DENVER BRONCOS — STEELERS: DNP: CB Cortez Allen (shoulder), LB James Harrison (toe), DE Brett Keisel (groin), RB Mewelde Moore (knee), S Troy Polamalu (calf).

LIMITED: C Maurkice Pouncey (ankle), QB Ben Roethlisberger (ankle). FULL: C Doug Legursky (shoulder), LB LaMarr Woodley (hamstring). BRONCOS: DNP: S Brian Dawkins (neck), RB Spencer Larsen (knee), WR Eddie Royal (toe). LIMITED: S David Bruton (Achilles). FULL: LB Von Miller (thumb).

NFL Calendar

Jan. 7-8 — Wild-card playoffs.

Jan. 14-15 — Divisional playoffs.

Jan. 22 — Conference championships.

Jan. 29 — Pro Bowl, Honolulu.

Feb. 5 — Super Bowl, Indianapolis.

Feb. 22-28 — NFL combine, Indianapolis.

High School

Free State Home Meet Thursday at Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center Team points: 1. Free State, 597; 2.

Lawrence, 520; 3. Shawnee Mission North, 486; 4. Bishop Miege, 281; 5. Leavenworth, 154.

Lawrence and Free State results 200 medley relay: 1. FSHS, Connor Munk, Kyle Yoder, Ben Sloan, Caanan Campbell, 1:43.6; 2. LHS, Adam Edmonds, Jacob Pfeifer, Nathan Evers, Zach Andregg, 1:50.12; 4. LHS, Joshua Shump, John Eakes, Noel Fisher, Dylan Orth, 1:53.31; 7.

FSHS, Josh Saathoff, Nick Becker, Noah Benham, Cooper Schmiedeler, 1:59.45; 8.

FSHS, Andrew Roman, Venkata Malladi, Jon McClees, Jack Ziegler, 2:06.28; 9. LHS, Caleb Axlund, Nathan Stringer, Patrick Bennett, Tanner Click, 2:08.09; 13. FSHS, Nolan Stoppel, Connor Thellman, Fletcher Koch, Eric Wang, 2:26.69.

200 free: 1. Caanan Campbell, FSHS, 1:52.41; 2. Reid Hildenbrand, LHS, 2:00.71; 5. Evan Barnes, FSHS, 2:14.49; 7. Tyler Bradfield, LHS, 2:18.35; 8. Fletcher Koch, FSHS, 2:21.61; 10. Jeffrey Xu, LHS, 2:26.95; 11.

Darren Rawlings, LHS, 2:31.93; Kaleb Farley, LHS, 2:34.36.

200 IM: 1. Ben Sloan, FSHS, 1:58.16; 2. Tim Schraad, LHS, 2:24.24; 4. Andrew Roman, FSHS, 2:33.5; 6. Josh Saathoff, FSHS, 2:34.53; 10. Caleb Axlund, LHS, 2:46.46.

50 free: 1. Zach Andregg, LHS, 22.33; 3.

Adam Edmonds, LHS, 23.59; 4. Kyle Yoder, FSHS, 24.7; 7. Hunter Robinson, FSHS, 25.0; 8. Jon McClees, FSHS, 25.34; 9. Tanner Click, LHS, 25.74; 11. Nick Becker, FSHS, 26.23; 15.

Nolan Stoppel, FSHS, 26.4; 17. Jacob Pfeifer, LHS, 27.71; 19. Jack ZIegler, FSHS, 28.18; 20.

Alder Cromwell, FSHS, 28.55; 24. Connor Thellman, FSHS, 29.55; 27. Kolbe Murray, FSHS, 30.18; 31. Tommy Finch, FSHS, 31.03; 33. Blake Fox, LHS, 32.54; 36. Clayton Pfeifer, LHS, 34.66; 37. Daniel Wrigley, LHS, 34.76; 38.

Eric Wang, FSHS, 35.35.

1-meter diving: 1. Dan Krieger, FSHS, 185.25; 2. Trevor Hillis, FSHS, 157.6; 3. Austin Neidow, FSHS, 151.8; 5. Wyatt Ohse, FSHS, 142.3; 8. Noel Fisher, LHS, 106.85; 9. Matthew Day, LHS, 100.85.

100 fly: 1. Ben Sloan, FSHS, 51.71; 2. Nathan Evers, LHS, 1:00.6; 3. Hunter Robinson, FSHS, 1:02.63; 4. Jon McClees, FSHS, 1:03.78; 5.

Noah Benham, FSHS, 1:04.53; 8. John Eakes, LHS, 1:08.8.

100 free: 1. Zach Andregg, LHS, 47.72; 2.

Connor Munk, FSHS, 50.73; 4. Dylan Orth, LHS, 54.4; 7. Evan Barnes, FSHS, 1:00.76; 8. Joshua Shump, LHS, 1:00.91; 10. Jack Ziegler, FSHS, 1:02.27; 11. Tyler Bradfield, LHS, 1:02.54; 14. Alder Cromwell, FSHS, 1:06.67; 17. Venkata Malladi, FSHS, 1:08.99; 19. Tommy Finch, FSHS, 1:16.66.

500 free: 1. Canaan Campbell, FSHS, 4:55.87; 3. Reid Hildenbrand, LHS, 5:34.66; 4. Cooper Schmiedeler, FSHS, 5:50.64; 5.

Andrew Roman, FSHS, 6:04.36; 6. Patrick Bennett, LHS, 6:18.19; 9. Nathan Stringer, LHS, 6:39.04.

200 free relay: 1. LHS, Adam Edmonds, Nathan Evers, Dylan Orth, Zach Andregg, 1:34.47; 3. FSHS, Nick Becker, Noah Benham, Kyle Yoder, Hunter Robinson, 1:40.82; 5. LHS, Tanner Click, Tyler Bradfield, Jacob Pfeifer, Reid Hildenbrand, 1:44.65; 6. FSHS, Evan Barnes, Fletcher Koch, Venkata Malladi, Jon McClees, 1:49.9; 7. LHS, Jeffrey Xu, Kaleb Farley, John Eakes, Patrick Bennett, 1:52.4; 9. FSHS, Tommy Finch, Nolan Stoppel, Kolbe Murray, Trevor Hillis, 1:57.61; 13. FSHS, Connor Thellman, Alder Cromwell, Eric Wang, Jack Ziegler, 2:04.06; 14. LHS, Darren Rawlings, Matthew Day, Clayton Pfeifer, Blake Fox, 2:06.14.

100 back: 1. Connor Munk, FSHS, 57.76; 2.

Joshua Shump, LHS, 1:02.81; 4. Tim Schraad, LHS, 1:06.46; 6. Josh Saathoff, FSHS, 1:08.36; 8. Caleb Axlund, LHS, 1:10.1; 9. Cooper Schmiedeler, FSHS, 1:11.33; 11. Nolan Stoppel, FSHS, 1:19.09; 16. Daniel Wrigley, LHS, 1:44.84.

100 breast: 2. Kyle Yoder, FSHS, 1:06.26; 4. Noah Benham, FSHS, 1:12.03; 5. Jacob Pfeifer, LHS, 1:13.65; 6. Nick Becker, FSHS, 1:15.86; 7. John Eakes, LHS, 1:15.98; 10.

Fletcher Koch, FSHS, 1:18.09; 13. Jeffrey Xu, LHS, 1:21.61; 14. Nathan Stringer, LHS, 1:21.92; 16. Connor Thellman, FSHS, 1:25.64; 19. Blake Fox, LHS, 1:30.56; 20. Darren Rawlings, LHS, 1:31.13; 21. Venkata Malladi, FSHS, 1:33.17; 22. Eric Wang, FSHS, 1:33.57; 24. Clayton Pfeifer, LHS, 1:35.6.

400 free relay: 1. FSHS, Canaan Campbell, Connor Munk, Hunter Robinson, Ben Sloan, 3:29.25; 2. LHS, Adam Edmonds, Reid Hildenbrand, Nathan Evers, Dylan Orth, 3:40.2; 5. FSHS, Evan Barnes, Andrew Roman, Josh Saathoff, Cooper Schmiedeler, 3:53.1; 6. LHS, Noel Fisher, Tanner Click, Joshua Shump, Tim Schraad, 3:54.15; 7. LHS, Tyler Bradfield, Kaleb Farley, Caleb Axlund, Patrick Bennett, 4:16.98.

High School

Santa Fe Trail 60, Hiawatha 16 SFT results: 120 — open/Lemkuhl. 126 — Wilson/open. 132 — Pawley/open. 138 — Bame/open. 145 — Boudeman pinned Nick Babel. 152 — Wechsler def. Boyer.

160 — Forbes pinned Breintnill. 170 — Call pinned Meyer. 182 — Wilkerson/open. 195 — Purvis/open. 220 — Torres pinned Davis.

285 — open/Muse Santa Fe Trail, 43 Jefferson West 18 SFT results: 106 Zaldivar pinned Schreiner. 113 — West pinned Cowan. 126 — Dennison pinned Branson. 132 — Pawley pinned Wisner. 138 — Warren /open. 145 — Wright lost to Best. 152 — Wechsler lost to Holmes. 160 — Forbes def. Dowding.

170 — Call def. Bird. 182 — Wilkerson def.

Edwards. 195 — Purvis lost to Flint. 220 — Fitzgerald lost to Scott.

Qatar Open

Thursday At The Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex Doha, Qatar Singles Quarterfinals Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (3), France, def. Albert Ramos, Spain, 6-2, 6-1.

Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def.

Andreas Seppi (8), Italy, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Mikhail Youzhny (7), Russia, 6-4, 6-4.

Gael Monfils (4), France, def. Viktor Troicki (5), Serbia, 6-2, 6-3.

NHL

Thursday’s Games Boston 9, Calgary 0 Toronto 4, Winnipeg 0 N.Y. Rangers 3, Florida 2, OT Philadelphia 5, Chicago 4 Ottawa 4, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 4, Edmonton 3 Dallas 4, Nashville 1 San Jose 2, Columbus 1 Los Angeles 1, Phoenix 0, OT Today’s Games Florida at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB-Suspended Washington (SyracuseIL) RHP Zechry Zinicola 50 games after a second violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS-Named Mike LaCassa manager of minor league operations.

NEW YORK YANKEES-Named Justin Pope manager and Carlos Chantres piching coach for Staten Island (NYP).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS-Agreed to terms with OF Coco Crisp on a two-year contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS-Named Mark Lummus national cross checker and Jeremy Booth midwest supervisor. Signed RHP Hisashi Iwakuma to a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS-Named Paul Hoover manager for Rays (GCL) and Kyle Snyder pitching coach for the Hudson Valley Renegades (NYP).

TEXAS RANGERS-Named Michael Dean Chadwick special assistant.

National League CHICAGO CUBS-Acquired RHP Chris Volstad from Miami for RHP Carlos Zambrano and cash considerations.

COLORADO ROCKIES-Acquired INF Chad Tracy from the Texas Rangers for RHP Greg Reynolds.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Agreed to terms with RHP Mike MacDougal on a one-year contract.

MIAMI MARLINS-Designated RHP Elih Villanueva for assignment.

American Association EL PASO DIABLOS-Signed RHP Colin Allen.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS-Signed OF Mike Massaro and INF Chris Carrera.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS-Released OF Gavin Dickey and OF Rafael Alvarez.

SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS-Signed RHP Josh Walker.

WICHITA WINGNUTS-Signed LHP Nick Walters.

Frontier League ROCKFORD RIVERHAWKS-Signed 1B R.J. Harris.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS-Signed RHP Alan Gatz.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS-Named Susan Goodenow vice president, branding and communications. Promoted John Viola to vice president, corporate sales.

SACRAMENTO KINGS-Fired coach Paul Westphal. Named Keith Smart coach.

Women’s National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS-Named Carol Ross coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS-Re-signed C Ryan Bartholomew, CB Korey Lindsey, DT Ricky Lumpkin, RB William Powell, TE Steve Skelton and LB Quan Sturdivant from the practice squad. Signed LB Antonio Coleman, G Chris Stewart and TE Martell Webb.

NEW YORK JETS-Fined LB Bart Scott $10,000 for an obscene gesture he made toward a photographer in the team’s locker room on Jan. 2.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS-Fired defensive coordinator Greg Manusky.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS-Signed WR Charly Martin and DTe Adrian Taylor.

Canadian Football League BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS-Named Rich Stubler offensive coordinator.

EDMONTON ESKIMOS-Announced the resignation of offensive coordinator Rich Stubler.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS-Named Barron Miles defensive backs coach.

Retained defensive coordinator Richie Hall, linebackers coach Alex Smith and defensive line coach Mike Walker.

TORONTO ARGONAUTS-Signed RB Andre Durie and LB Jordan Younger to contract extensions.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS-Named Garth Buchko president and chief executive officer, effective March 1.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Suspended Florida F Krystofer Barch one game for an inappropriate comment directed at P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens at the end of the first period in a game on Dec. 31.

CAROLINA HURRICANES-Recalled F Brett Sutter from Charlotte (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS-Recalled F Tommy Wingels from Worcester (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS-Recalled F Patrice Cormier from St. John (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLORADO RAPIDS-Named Oscar Pareja coach.

FC DALLAS-Named Marco Ferruzzi coach.

LA GALAXY-Loaned D Omar Gonzalez to FC Numberg (Bundesliga).

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION-Named Jay Miller assistant coach, Nick Downing strength and conditioning coach, and Scott Emmens equipment manager.

NEW YORK RED BULLS-Signed D Jonathan Borrajo.

COLLEGE ARKANSAS STATE-Named Keith Patterson defensive coordinator .

CARLETON-Announced the resignation of football coach Kurt Ramler.

EAST CAROLINA-Named Brian Overton director of football operations/player personnel.

GOUCHER-Named Megan Williams field hockey coach.

MISSISSIPPI-Dismissed G Dundrecous Nelson and G Jamal Jones from the basketball team for violating team rules.

NEW JERSEY CITY-Named Kevin Rodgers men’s volleyball coach in addition to his duties as women’s volleyball coach.

SOUTH CAROLINA-Announced WR Alshon Jeffery and CB Stephon Gilmore are entering the NFL draft.

SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI-Named Steve Buckley assistant head football coach and running backs coach, Rickey Bustle offensive coordinator and Tommy West defensive coordinator.

MLB Calendar

Jan. 9 — Hall of Fame voting announced, New York.

Jan. 11-12 — Owners’ meetings, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Jan. 13 — Salary arbitration filing.

Jan. 17 — Exchange of salary arbitration figures.

Feb. 1-21 — Salary arbitration hearings, St. Petersburg, Fla. Feb. 19 — Voluntary reporting date for pitchers, catchers and injured players.

Feb. 24 — Voluntary reporting date for other players.

March 2 — Mandatory reporting date.

March 2-11 — Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players.

March 19 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days.

March 28-29 — Seattle vs. Oakland at Tokyo.

April 2 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2012 salary.

April 4 — Opening day, St. Louis at Miami.

Active rosters reduced to 25 players.

June 4 — Amateur draft.

July 10 — All-Star game, Kansas City, Mo. July 13 — Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign.

July 22 — Hall of Fame induction, Cooperstown, N.Y.

July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.

Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players.

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

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

Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer 2013 contracts to unsigned players.

Dec. 3-6 — Winter meetings, Nashville, Tenn.

Big 12 Men W 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

Conf.

L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1

Overall W L 14 0 14 0 11 3 11 3 8 6 11 2 10 3 10 4 9 4 7 6

W 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

Conf.

L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1

Overall W L 14 0 13 0 12 1 10 3 9 3 10 2 8 2 10 3 9 3 9 3

Baylor Missouri Kansas Iowa State Oklahoma State Kansas State Oklahoma Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Wednesday’s Games Kansas 67, Kansas State 49 Oklahoma State 67, Texas Tech 59 Iowa State 77, Texas 71 Saturday, Jan. 7 Kansas at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

Baylor at Texas Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Missouri at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

Iowa State at Texas A&M, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Texas, 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 9 Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 10 Baylor at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 11 Kansas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Missouri at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Texas A&M at Texas, 8 p.m.

Big 12 Women

Baylor Texas Tech Kansas Kansas State Oklahoma Missouri Oklahoma State Texas Texas A&M Iowa State Wednesday’s Games Kansas 72, Texas 67 Kansas State 71, Texas A&M 69, OT Baylor 90, Missouri 46 Texas Tech 58, Oklahoma State 53 Oklahoma 80, Iowa State 51 Saturday, Jan. 7 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Texas at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Texas Tech at Missouri, 4 p.m.

Baylor at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 8 Oklahoma at Texas A&M, 2 p.m.

Kansas Men

Exhibition Pittsburg State, W 84-55 Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 101-52 Regular season Towson (first-round Maui Invitational), W 100-54 (1-0) Kentucky in New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden), L 65-75 (1-1).

Georgetown (Maui Invitational), W 67-63 (2-1) UCLA (Maui Invitational), W 72-56 (3-1) Duke (Maui Invitational), L 61-68 (3-2) Florida Atlantic, W 77-54 (4-2) South Florida, W 70-42 (5-2) Long Beach State, W 88-80 (6-2) Ohio State, W 78-67 (7-2) Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), L 74-80 (7-3) USC, W 63-47 (8-3) Howard, W 89-34 (9-3) North Dakota, W 84-58 (10-3) Kansas State, W 67-49 (11-3) Jan. 7 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 11 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 14 — Iowa State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Jan. 16 — Baylor, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 21 — at Texas, 3 p.m., CBS. Jan. 23 — Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 28 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m., ESPN/ ESPN2.

Feb. 1 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Feb. 4 — at Missouri, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 8 — at Baylor, 6 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2.

Feb. 11 — Oklahoma State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 18 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 22 — at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Feb. 25 — Missouri, 3 p.m., CBS. Feb. 27 — at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 3 — Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 7-10 — Big 12 championship, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas Women

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0) SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1)

EAST Albany (NY) 89, UMBC 72 CCSU 69, St. Francis (Pa.) 58 Concordia (N.Y.) 75, Caldwell 74 Dominican (NY) 74, Post (Conn.) 73, 2OT Elms 84, Castleton St. 77 Hartford 56, New Hampshire 49 LIU 87, Sacred Heart 81 Loyola (Md.) 61, Manhattan 60 Monmouth (NJ) 73, Mount St. Mary’s 59 Penn St. 65, Purdue 45 Robert Morris 84, Bryant 53 South Florida 74, Villanova 57 St. Francis (NY) 73, Quinnipiac 72 St. Joseph’s (LI) 94, NY Maritime 93 St. Peter’s 65, Canisius 61 Stony Brook 60, Binghamton 54 UMass 80, Fordham 76 Vermont 83, Boston U. 69 Wagner 88, Fairleigh Dickinson 64 SOUTH Appalachian St. 68, Samford 63 Barton 75, Coker 63 Charleston Southern 91, Campbell 73 Chattanooga 78, W. Carolina 62 Davidson 92, UNC Greensboro 63 FAU 58, Louisiana-Monroe 30 Furman 77, The Citadel 45 Georgia Southern 69, Elon 63 High Point 63, Presbyterian 57 Louisiana-Lafayette 72, W. Kentucky 70, OT Morehead St. 63, Jacksonville St. 55 N. Kentucky 76, William Jewell 72, OT Pikeville 72, Campbellsville 71 Reinhardt 68, Milligan 58 SE Missouri 73, UT-Martin 71 St. Augustine’s 60, Lincoln (Pa.) 56 Tennessee Tech 92, Tennessee St. 86 UNC Asheville 94, VMI 85 Winthrop 70, Radford 54 Wofford 75, Coll. of Charleston 58 MIDWEST Ashland 94, Findlay 80 Cleveland St. 73, Ill.-Chicago 56 Concordia (Ill.) 75, Wis. Lutheran 59 DePaul 84, Pittsburgh 81 Ferris St. 64, Lake Superior St. 58 Grand Valley St. 53, Saginaw Valley St. 39 Hillsdale 57, Wayne (Mich.) 48 IPFW 72, IUPUI 67 Michigan Tech 70, N. Michigan 64 Spring Arbor 70, Indiana Wesleyan 64 Tiffin 86, Ohio Dominican 78 W. Illinois 71, Oakland 61 Youngstown St. 68, Loyola of Chicago 64, OT SOUTHWEST Denver 53, Arkansas St. 50 E. Texas Baptist 89, Howard Payne 66 Mary Hardin-Baylor 90, U. of the Ozarks 78 Oral Roberts 89, N. Dakota St. 80 Prairie View 55, Alcorn St. 47 Texas Southern 73, Southern U. 39 FAR WEST BYU 73, Loyola Marymount 65 Colorado 87, Washington 69 Gonzaga 73, Pepperdine 45 Montana St. 73, Idaho St. 69 Oregon 78, Stanford 67 S. Dakota St. 75, S. Utah 68 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 78, San Diego 72 Utah 62, Washington St. 60, OT Utah St. 72, Fresno St. 53 Weber St. 76, E. Washington 69

College Women

EAST Albright 71, Wilkes 64 Delaware 74, Towson 51 Hofstra 76, Drexel 65 Holy Family 88, Wilmington (Del.) 42 Lycoming 66, Marywood 62 New Hampshire 64, Hartford 45 Post (Conn.) 65, Dominican (NY) 63 Virginia Tech 38, Boston College 35 W. Connecticut 64, CCNY 44 SOUTH Alabama A&M 76, Grambling St. 64 Alabama St. 52, Jackson St. 49 Auburn 65, Alabama 55 Barton 72, Coker 68 Blue Mountain 85, Freed-Hardeman 40 Campbellsville 92, Pikeville 52 Drury 70, Kentucky Wesleyan 60 Florida 59, Mississippi 55 Florida St. 59, Clemson 47 Howard 58, NJIT 31 James Madison 64, VCU 43 Kentucky 84, Arkansas 72 King (Tenn.) 64, Converse 38 LSU 53, Mississippi St. 48 Louisiana College 80, Hardin-Simmons 68 MVSU 79, Rust 44 Memphis 61, Tulane 59 Miami 78, NC State 68 Mid-Continent 60, Trevecca Nazarene 58 Middle Tennessee 72, Troy 66, OT Mount Olive 79, Pfeiffer 73 N. Kentucky 73, William Jewell 41 North Carolina 78, Virginia 73, 2OT Rockhurst 57, Bellarmine 55 South Carolina 65, Vanderbilt 55 St. Augustine’s 81, Lincoln (Pa.) 66 Tennessee 80, Georgia 51 Tuskegee 74, LeMoyne-Owen 54 UAB 60, Rice 45 UCF 59, East Carolina 53 UNC Wilmington 60, Northeastern 53 Union (Tenn.) 67, Bethel (Tenn.) 47 William & Mary 76, George Mason 66 MIDWEST Ashland 76, Findlay 52 Ball St. 54, E. Michigan 51 Benedictine (Kan.) 81, Culver-Stockton 53 Bradley 72, S. Illinois 59 Butler 73, Youngstown St. 64 Cent. Michigan 86, N. Illinois 67 Cleveland St. 49, Valparaiso 45 Ferris St. 65, Lake Superior St. 56 Grand Valley St. 50, Saginaw Valley St. 48 Grinnell 59, Beloit 47 Huntington 60, Mount Vernon Nazarene 59 Ill.-Chicago 66, Detroit 59 Minnesota 68, Northwestern 60 N. Iowa 61, Evansville 51 N. Michigan 66, Michigan Tech 60 Purdue 63, Wisconsin 52 Tiffin 66, Ohio Dominican 44 W. Michigan 70, Toledo 67 Wayne (Mich.) 52, Hillsdale 49 Wichita St. 63, Drake 41 Wright St. 64, Loyola of Chicago 62 SOUTHWEST Alcorn St. 59, Prairie View 54 Howard Payne 80, E. Texas Baptist 45 Marshall 65, Houston 41 Southern U. 49, Texas Southern 39 Texas-Dallas 52, Concordia-Austin 47 Texas-Pan American 56, TCU 54 Tulsa 68, Southern Miss. 57 U. of the Ozarks 73, Mary Hardin-Baylor 63 UTEP 64, SMU 53 Wayland Baptist 73, St. Gregory’s 68 FAR WEST BYU 80, Loyola Marymount 47 San Jose St. 57, Utah Valley 45

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Oak & hedge cords slightly more. 35 years in business.

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Academy Cars

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Crossovers

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Cars-Imports

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Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

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Volkswagen 2009 New Beetle 42K, Candy White, Now More Than Ever, Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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All packages include AT LEAST 7 days online, 2 photos online, 4000 chracters online, and one week in top ads.

Days in print vary with package chosen.

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Auctioneers

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Computer Questions, Advise?

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On-Site Cooking Available

- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

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Financial Guttering Services

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Let Us Help With The Holidays

Gift Certificates Avail.

Family owned and operated since 1992 For Your Holiday Cleaning Needs

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

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Music Lessons

Decks Drywall Siding Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors Trim

KEYS of JOY

Instruction and Tutoring

WorldClassNEK.com Heating & Cooling

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665

Origins Interior Design

“where simple ideas become inspiring realities”

• Color & Design • Space Planning • Furniture Layouts • Trade Discounts • Project Management 785-766-9281 originsinteriordesign.com

Recycling Services

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Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

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Full Service Grooming All Breeds & Sizes Including Cats!

Flea & Tick Solutions

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Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

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For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

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Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Call Calli 785-766-8420

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

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Complete Roofing

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Painting A. B. Painting & Repair

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Salon & Spa

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Inside - Out Painting Service Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

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• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Travel Services Lawrence First Class Transportation

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com Interior/Exterior Painting

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarketpla ce.com/primecoat

Recycling Services

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Tree/Stump Removal

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

Chris Tree Service 12th & Haskell 20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, Recycle Center, Inc. cut down, hauled off.

No Monthly Fee - Always Free Est. Ins. & Lic. been FREE! 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659 Cash for all Metals Fredy’s Tree Service We take glass!

1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence cutdown• trimmed• topped Licensed & Insured.

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Lawn, Garden & Nursery Green Grass Lawn Care

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Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Riffel Painting Co. Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

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Fast Quality Service

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

Piano Lessons 4704 W. 24th St Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year!

Landscaping

We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

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Eagles Lodge

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarketpla ce.com/Eagles_Lodge

Breathe Holistic Life Center

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Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

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Pet Services

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Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

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Insured 20 yrs. experience

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• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

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Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

FOUNDATION REPAIR

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

Moving-Hauling

Air Conditioning Heating/Plumbing

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Buckingham Palace Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services “The Greener Cleaner”

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ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems

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Grandpa with dementia upsets family members Annie’s Mailbox

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell anniesmailbox@comcast.net

that table owes my son and me an apology. I want my husband to be as angry as I am. I no longer wish to attend family gatherings, because I want to make it clear that their behavior was hurtful.

What is a good compromise that would allow me a little dignity (so they know I’m not a doormat) but still permit my husband and children to be with the family? — Furious in Florida Dear Furious: We are not excusing the family’s behavior, but they have been living with an angry Grandpa for years. Their response implied self-preservation rather than “not loving.” Consider this an opportunity to teach them how to react appropriately to such outbursts. Have a family powwow. Tell them how upset you were that they didn’t protect your son, and then explain exactly how

IFC doubles down on silly Now in its second season, “Portlandia” (9 p.m., IFC) has become the “30 Rock” of cable. And that’s good or bad, depending on how you look at it. Like “30 Rock,” “Portlandia” stars an “SNL” regular and is produced by Lorne Michaels. It also gets more “buzz” than ratings. And its cult appeal attracts a large number of famous guest stars.

Both shows place a high premium on silly gags that rely on arcane pop culture references. And at their best, both series are remarkably smart, funny and refreshingly free of the anger that permeates so much stand-up-driven comedy.

Co-creators Fred Armisen (“SNL”) and Carrie Brownstein began as musicians (Brownstein is currently a member of Wild Flag) and still approach entertainment as improvisation, acting as a merry band of pranksters who goof on the foibles of the terminally hip. They star in every short sketch, in a peculiar array of odd types who are variations on each performer’s persona. It’s rarely clear if the characters are romantically linked, related or just pals. And that adds to the contemptuously casual “Portlandia” vibe.

Among the favorites returning from last season are perky crafters who think everything can be improved if you just “put a bird on it,” and Toni and Candace, the humorless owners of the feminist bookstore whose vehement insistence on tolerance does not extend beyond themselves.

Season two introduces some new, instantly memorable couples, including Doug and Claire, two people addicted to “Battlestar Galactica” in the very worst way. There’s also at least three generations of helicopter parents as well as Spyke and Iris, self-described “punks” who decide to tie the knot after nine years together, but not before torturing a cheerful wedding planner. Tonight, look for “SNL” regular Andy Samberg as a bartender “mixologist” who lures Fred and Carrie to Los Angeles.

Equally silly, if more conventionally plotted, “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” (9:30 p.m., IFC) also returns for a second season. David Cross stars as the delusional title character, in way over his head as the president of a soft drink company’s London division.

Todd combines an ignorance of general knowledge (he thinks the Houses of Parliament are an apartment complex) with a lack of perspective (he believes he can pass himself off as British) and a penchant for serial lying that land him in one ridiculous situation after another.

Like “Portlandia,” “Todd Margaret” attracts a wealth of guest stars, including Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Cross’ fiancee, Amber Tamblyn (“House”), and her dad, Russ Tamblyn (“West Side Story”).

Tonight’s other highlights

Michael becomes a patient on “A Gifted Man” (7 p.m., CBS).

A wee Irish trickster infiltrates the hip-hop scene in the 2000 sequel “Leprechaun in the Hood” (7 p.m., BET), starring Ice-T and Coolio.

Scheduled on “Need to Know” (7:30 p.m., PBS): Unemployment figures and the New Hampshire primary.

A mysterious fire forges connections on “Grimm” (8 p.m., NBC).

A vital rig gets stuck in the river on “Gold Rush” (8 p.m., Discovery).

Erin feels responsible for an informant’s death on “Blue Bloods” (9 p.m., CBS).

you wish they would have behaved instead. Also speak to your son. He’s old enough to understand that Grandpa isn’t quite himself and these rants are beyond his control.

Dear Annie: Here’s how I solved the problem of kids who don’t appreciate what you give them. My nephew is like that. I thought he received too many toys for his birthday and Christmas, so I always bought him clothes.

One time, he reluctantly tore the paper off my gift, peeked inside and casually tossed it aside, barely managing to squeeze out a “thank you.”

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Cancer (June 21-July 22) Feeling a little out of sorts isn’t that surprising. Instead of taking care of your immediate universe, try taking care of yourself. Tonight: Take a deep breath.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Conversation is important, as is authenticity. Bring those skills into a meeting. Someone might be a little too direct in the way he or she tells you he or she is not interested in your ideas. Tonight: Enjoy the evening with friends.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) You might want to attempt to deal with a situation but could come off as hostile and difficult.

Step back rather than step in. Tonight: Don’t push.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Rather than be driven by your emotions, consciously make an effort to detach. Use your mind as well. Tonight: Opt for a different activity for a Friday night.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Dealing with quirky people easily could become a specialty, if it isn’t already! You have humor and the ability to get past a problem. Tonight:

Be with a favorite person.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) Others come toward you. You are generally the one who is energized.

Tonight: Though you might not make the suggestions, you do get to choose!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Follow through on what you feel is important to handle. You could feel out of sync when dealing with others. Tonight: Clear your desk, and return a last-minute call before going out.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your playfulness still dominates your actions. A partner or associate isn’t too pleased with his or her perspective of your mischievousness.

Tonight: Be sensitive to a close friend or loved one.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Tension builds internally, but a lot of it comes from your idea of what you should do. Instead, drop some of your judgments, and tension will drop to a lower key. Tonight: Some time at home.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Pollster Louis Harris is 91. Bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs is 88. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 63. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 62. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabu-

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That was the last Christmas he received a wrapped gift from me. From that time forward, I took the money I would have spent and put it in a savings account. I would place the deposit slip with the balance inside the birthday or Christmas card. For his high school graduation, he will receive a check for $600. — Not Frustrated Anymore in Virginia

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Friday, Jan. 6: This year you grow and evolve in new ways. Others clearly are drawn to you.

Open up to new possibilities. If you are single, you could be very attracted to someone, and he or she to you. On the same plane, there could be a lot of fighting. If you are attached, the two of you will tend to risk more but in different areas of your life. Cancer can be challenging.

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 have the possibility of a new beginning. Be willing to express your vulnerability. Make a point of getting together with more open people.

Tonight: Hang out.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Note how much you need to do to make a difference with a key person. Avoid competition, like keeping up with the Joneses. Tonight: Treat yourself well.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Open up to new possibilities. You see what many people cannot. Be affectionate with a friend or loved one. Tonight: Use care with a volatile friend.

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Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 57. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 55. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 52.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 52. Movie

ACROSS 1 Summer month 7 Tides favored for boating departures 11 Automated computer program 14 Site of much horsing around?

15 Moe Howard move 16 Unspecified quantity 17 Worthy of a TV movie, perhaps 18 Kind of proprietor 19 Fifteen percent, often 20 Track star’s purchase 23 “Hey you, c’mere!”

26 Wintertime on Cape Cod 27 Be in limbo 28 Greek wine 31 1952 Winter Games site 34 Zeta-theta link 35 Still-life centerpiece 37 Canadian buck 41 It can improve circulation 44 A baseball, but not a football 45 ___ En-lai (Chinese premier) 46 UPS delivery (Abbr.)

47 Abnormal body sac

49 Affluent 51 Singer’s range 54 Activate, as a bomb 56 Ancient road to Rome 57 “Cinderella” clue 62 A Bobbsey twin 63 Crab’s sensor 64 Feeling during an upheaval 68 “Ammonia” has two 69 Additive in skin lotions 70 Word in a Nicole Kidman film title 71 Thoroughfare 72 Darned right?

73 Act the aide DOWN 1 Remains of the tray?

2 Sport ___ (off-road vehicle) 3 Fish with bill-like jaws 4 Submerged threats of WWII 5 Thin incision 6 Georgia ___ (Atlanta univ.)

7 “Sissy,” mostly 8 Stewed 9 “___ Ha’i” 10 Project detail, for short 11 Take to the tub 12 Bermuda or Vidalia 13 What blood has to be, before a

transfusion 21 “... to say the ___” 22 Frighten, as a horse 23 Weightlifting maneuver 24 Trap 25 Dangerous bacteria (Abbr.)

29 “99 and 44/100 percent pure” soap 30 Blow holes?

32 Single-masted sailing vessel 33 Scene of any event 36 Computer “panic” key 38 Bite playfully, as a puppy might 39 Linen tape used for trimmings 40 Hamand-___ (average Joe)

42 Legendary cowboy Bill 43 Sound from a poltergeist 48 Candle material 50 Wispy cloud 51 Veep who resigned in 1973 52 Andean source of milk and wool 53 Aster family perennial 55 Age 58 Health retreats 59 Bargain event 60 Adidas alternative 61 Adam’s grandson 65 “The Book of ___” (Denzel Washington film) 66 “Boom-bah” lead-in 67 Dynamite alternative

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Dear Annie: Seven years ago, I married into a wonderful family. It was my second marriage, and the family accepted my 10-year-old son as their own.

My father-in-law has always been nice to me, but I’ve been told there was a lot of verbal abuse when my husband and his siblings were growing up. In the past couple of years, Grandpa has shown some symptoms of dementia.

At the last family gathering, my son, now 17, went into the kitchen to talk to Grandpa. From the dining room, we all heard Grandpa scream at my son, some nonsense about never returning a book. My husband’s family just sat there behaving as if nothing was happening, so I went in to rescue my child.

I know Grandpa won’t remember how he acted, but I am having a problem dealing with the rest of my husband’s family. Not one of them said a thing or offered my son a word of comfort or sympathy. I stood there crying as the whole family sat at the table with eyes downcast.

My husband apologized for not handling it better, but doesn’t want to do anything to damage the relationship with his siblings. But they are not the loving family I thought they were. I feel everyone at

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NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, by 66 Federal Credit Union, praying for foreclosure of a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate, to wit: Lot Sixteen (16), in Block Two (2), in Edgewood Park Addition No. 4, and Replat of Tract A, and Blocks 4 and 5, Edgewood Park No. 3, an Addition to the city of Lawrence, as shown by the recorded plat thereof, in Douglas County, Kansas.

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 30, 2011) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP Plaintiff, vs.

James Alder, Jr. and Gail E. Alder, et al.

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Case No. 11CV391 Court Number: 1

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Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of the Courthouse at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, on January 26, 2012, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate:

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and The unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, creditors, trustees, and assigns of such of the defendants as may be deceased; the unknown spouses of the defendants; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors, and assigns of such defendants as are or were partners or in partnership; the affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, or parent corporation(s) of the defendants; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or in any wise under legal disability, or any other party who may assert an interest in the property or claim described herein, Defendants.

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JOSEPH H. LOKAY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS

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TO: Jason Carpenter and his parents and adult relatives, and any person claiming paternity or other legal right to custody of the child and all other persons who are or may be concerned

2012, beginning at 2:00 p.m., the parents and any person claiming legal custody of the child must appear for a formal hearing before the District Court, Division 6 at the Douglas County Law Enforcement and Judicial Center, 111 E 11th Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Prior to that time, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of the Court.

an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas, has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the child.

A petition pertaining to the parental rights to the children identified above has been filed in this Court requesting the Court find each child is a child in need (First published in the Law- of care. The Court may also rence Daily Journal-World make other orders including but not limited to reJanuary 6, 2012) quiring a parent to pay IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF child support.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS On the 31st day of January 66 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Plaintiff, vs.

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JACKSON CARPENTER DOB: xx-xx-2005, a male Case No. 2011-JC-0056 NOTICE OF HEARING

Each of the child’s parents has a right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney. Each parent has the right to be represented by an attorney. If a parent is unable to hire an attorney, the Court will appoint one if the parent submits an application for appointed counsel. Rebekah Gaston

Each party is hereby notified that, pursuant to K.S.A. 60-255, a default judgment will be taken against any parent (or other person entitled to custody) who fails to appear in person at the hearing or by counsel with whom the party has had contact and provided specific instructions on how to proceed at the hearing.

Wade H. Bowie, Jr. Assistant District Attorney Office of the Douglas County District Attorney 111 East 11th Street Unit 100 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-2909 ________