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The Mavericks are ranked No. 2 in this weekend’s Central Region bracket

KEVIN KORBEL Staff Writer Selection Sunday came and went for the Minnesota State Women’s soccer team, as they earned a second seed into the 2017 NCAA Division-II Tournament.

The women’s soccer team punched its ticket into the tournament after defeating Augustana 2-0 on Sunday.

Minnesota State will face off against the winner of the game between sixth-seeded Southwestern Oklahoma State and third-seeded Missouri Western State in the second round of the 2017 NCAA Division-II Women’s Soccer Central Region

Tournament at 1:00 p.m., on Sunday at The Pitch.

Minnesota State (172-2) clinched its sixth Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Tournament title to earn an automatic qualifier into the NCAA Tournament.

Going into the tournament, Minnesota State’s defense has been one of the most proficient at shutting down opposing offenses in all of NCAA D-II this season.

Minnesota State is tied for second in the nation in shutout percentage (.762) and shutouts (16), and fifth in goals against average (0.369).

Earlier this season, Minnesota State recorded a new program record, recording 11 consecutive shutouts, which tied for the seventh-longest shutout

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Greg Wilkins lucky to be alive after car accident Student Activities associate director believes distracted driver could have taken his life

GABE HEWITT Editor in Chief It was a normal Monday evening on Sept. 18. Student Activities Associate Director Greg Wilkins was driving down Highway 22 toward Saint Peter to deliver some of his art to the Art Center of Saint Peter. He said there was a “spitting” rainfall.

It was 5:53 p.m.

As Wilkins was nearing Kwik Trip on 22, a 16-yearold female driver in an SUV merged onto the highway without yielding and t-boned

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his Audi TT. Wilkins doesn’t remember anything between the collision and waking up at the Mayo Clinic in Mankato to staff trying to address his mangled body and remove glass from his face.

“At that point, I was cold but I didn’t realize they had cut off all my clothes to see if I had any injuries,” he said.

“They thought my neck and back were broken.”

He had severe facial lacerations, a broken sternum and a collapsed lung.

A message to all drivers The collision sent his Audi into a spin until it was stopped by another SUV driven by 35-year-old Matthew Bowron.

Wilkins’ car was totaled.

Wilkins and his attorney believes the driver was using

her cell phone just before she collided with his car.

“I hope, for her sake, she wasn’t on her phone,” he said.

Nearly two months after the accident, Wilkins is still hurting both physically and emotionally. His body aches and everyday tasks he used to do have become strenuous, such as creating art. He said not being able to continue this has resulted in a loss of income. Additionally, medical, insurance and other expenses have sometimes become overwhelming.

“By the time you get picked up and put into an ambulance, you start seeing dollar signs,” he said. “The bills start coming in and everybody wants to get paid.”

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He gets anxious at fourway stop signs and dreads the time between a green and red stop light signal.

“I still have dreams of being hit,” he said. “I see that I’m driving and see someone else on their phone and they attack me.”

Wilkins and law firm Knutson+Casey are in the

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middle of a lawsuit against the 16-year-old driver. The two are claiming the driver was using her phone prior to the accident and are currently trying to retrieve phone records to prove it.

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Continued from page 1 “When you’re on your phone while driving, it’s like driving drunk,” he said.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nine people are killed every day from a distracted driver and over a 1,000 are injured. In Minnesota alone, at least 70 people are killed every year from a distracted driver.

Wilkins calls the fine for cell phone use while driving in Minnesota “laughable.”

According to Minnesota statute, the base fine is $50 and a petty misdemeanor for

drivers under the age of 18.

Following the accident, Wilkins has been more in tune with the amount of people using their phones while driving. He urges them to put their phones down.

“It’s not worth the personal loss of life or the loss of life of someone else,” he said.

Support in the aftermath Wilkins has been with Student Activities at the university since 2009. He’s from the Southeast and has no family in Minnesota.

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Wilkins’ Audi TT after the accident. Paramedics had to remove the door in order to lift him out.

Director Mark Constantine was one of Wilkins’ emergency contacts the hospital called first on Sept. 18.

“They made it sound like the accident was pretty serious,” he said. “You want to be there to help out a friend for sure.”

Among others called was John Bulcock, assistant director of Greek Life and off-campus housing. He and Constantine stayed with Greg the night of the accident until midnight. He arrived just before Wilkins went into surgery to remove glass from his face.

“The blood wasn’t a pretty sight,” he said, “but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.”

The accident put Wilkins out of work for nearly a month.

Those who know him noticed a significant difference in the air without his presence.

“There’s a different

energy with Greg around. It’s contagious,” Bulcock said.

“Most people know that he’s a go-go-go, high energy person.”

Wilkins said he received a tremendous amount of support while away from work and upon his return.

Countless people sent him messages over Facebook and came to see him at the hospital and his home. Dining Services also sent Wilkins care packages with microwavable meals.

Constantine often dropped by his home to touch base and see if he needed anything.

On multiple occasions, he went and got his pharmacy prescriptions for him.

“If you care about people and people don’t have family, you are their family in some ways,” Constantine said. “I care about my friends and colleagues and wanted to

make sure he was getting the care he deserved and needed.”

Lucky to be alive Wilkins said learning is a lifelong process. It’s this kind of attitude and positivity that’s helped him post-accident.

“The doctors are shocked that I’m up and at ‘em already,” he said.

He’s thankful he’s able to return to the work he’s passionate about and be around the people he loves.

He wants people to know that when they’re driving a car, they’re putting their life and the lives of others into jeopardy. This is only escalated when they become distracted by a phone.

“There’s a time and place for everything and being on your phone in your vehicle is not the time or place,” he said.

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Majors in Minutes a major hit for the second year in a row

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer The Majors in Minutes event organized by the Office of New Student and Family Programs on Monday, Nov. 6th in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom was a superb, colloquial, socioeducational event.

The event was open to all students and ran from 7 to 9 p.m.

The turnout for the event was incredible and the room was buzzing with activity the entire time. Popcorn and light refreshments were also offered at the door during the enticing event. The main purpose of the event was for students with undecided majors to connect with upperclass students who were representing their various majors in a comfortable environment.

The event allowed the undecided students to ask any questions they had and for them to collect relevant information that will aid them in deciding what degree they want to pursue at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The event was well organized and had the concept of speed dating, where the event was

governed by the sound of a gong. The upperclass students that were recruited from various majors were stationed at different tables with their majors clearly outlined. Students could move from table to table interacting with them.

On each table with a specific major there were documents including a conversation starter and information from the ‘what can I do with this major’ website. Undecided students sat across from upperclass students and had a brief conversation, asking any questions they had about the given major on the table.

After the gong sounded, which was at an interval of every five minutes, undecided students could either choose to move to the next table with a different major or continue the conversation, learning more about a specific major.

The event was epic and students from all majors got to learn quite a bit from each other during the course of the night.

This was the second time around the Majors in Minutes event was scheduled because of positive feedback from last year’s successful initial event.

Sara Granberg-Rademacker, the assistant director for Academic Advising Services in the Office of New Student and Family Programs stated that the event is a great forum for undecided students to be blunt if needed and acquire

information from upper-class students on why they chose to pursue their given majors.

Rademacker was one of the main facilitators of the event and her job mainly entailed coordinating advising, as well as related programs for students with undecided majors.

“One of the key motivators to actually put on this event again this year was the extraordinary atmosphere created by all participants last year which was just fabulous,” Rademacker said.

The evaluations of the initial event also affirmed what the Office of New Student and Family Programs intended to achieve.

“The New Student and Family Programs Office hopes students got more of an insight toward various majors and perhaps connected with an upper-class student they felt comfortable talking to at the event,” Rademacker said.

Majors in Minutes stemmed from the Majors Fair, which took place for over a decade. It was an event primarily staffed by teaching and service faculty giving more information from their vantage on the different majors offered on campus.

Majors in Minutes is a unique aspect of the same concept as the Majors Fair, but breaks down the formalities that might have gotten in the way of genuine conversations by allowing students to converse and interact freely.

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“This is one of the biggest scale events that is organized by the Office of New Student and Family Programs as a lot of effort is put in to recruit and train the upperclassmen sitting opposite of the undecided students,” Rademacker said.

Rademacker also stated that, historically, there has always been a ‘major’ event in the fall, as it is the opportune time to get students to really reflect on what major they truly connect with as class registration for spring draws closers.

The event was highly beneficial to all participants, even the upper-class students. It acted as a platform for them to really affirm that they are where

they need to be by talking about why they chose to pursue that particular major.

“Students all over campus are always in a learning mode throughout their college experience, thus events like the Majors in Minutes are always enlightening,” Rademacker said.

Rademacker is very passionate about informing students that everyone has a different way of obtaining the same goals and objectives, not only in college but in life as well. The Majors in Minutes may not have covered all the majors offered at MNSU but it is acting as a significant manifesto in informing undecided students about various majors from other fellow students’ perspectives.

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What we want to know is will Tuesday evening’s results show continued and growing momentum for change in Minnesota’s political arena?

What will the voter turnout and exit polling tell us?

Most folks are still asking themselves, what does it matter? It matters because these are the races every political action cause or activist should be looking at for winnable battles. In races like these, which draw so few voters, well-organized voter turnout efforts can magnify their impact dramatically, winning c re dibilit y and support. They are opportunities waiting to be harvested for budding young activists used to dealing with tight budgets. Cutting risk of failure is what it is all about in business, finance, marketing, college and in politics.

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elections here on campus are also taking place. These elections tend to do one of two things: maintain the status-quo or replace someone who is graduating this coming spring. These elections also tend to draw

a large percent of those involved within a given organization. While these elections have little effect on the world, they do create the opportunity to serve and test our abilities to work with others of like mind.

“While these elections have little effect on the world, they do create the opportunity to serve and test our abilities to work with others of like mind.”

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most people as the everyday aspects of life overwhelm them with choices and decisions that must be made now. We keep hoping the world will change itself for the better as we see it steadily worsening. We want someone else to do the heavy lifting, the organizing, the monotonous repetitive efforts that are required of political involvement. It is ever so much easier to watch safely from the couch on that 60-inch screen while munching on your favorite snack and sipping that favorite beverage. That is why it is so encouraging to

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EMMANUELLA SHOKARE Staff Writer Yes, the winter season is almost here and this could be someone’s favorite time of the year.

Just to note, we have less than two months before we celebrate New Year’s and I am sure that we want to celebrate it with our friends and family. In order to be alive and well during that time, there are differences between driving during the summer, spring and fall than when driving in the winter that one must take into consideration. Here are some safety tips on how to drive safely for this winter: 1) First of all, check the weather forecast before heading out, especially if you are driving long distances over the Thanksgiving and winter breaks.

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2) Clear snow and ice from your windows, side mirrors, lights, hood and roof before driving and drive with your headlights on so that oncoming traffic notice you.

3) You should try to get a proper amount of rest before driving during the winter; do not drive when you are fatigued as this can cause you to nod off at the wheel.

4) Do not warm up your car in an enclosed area such as the garage. Exhaust fumes are deadly and can cause you to pass out. It is better to warm in outside or to open your garage door to allow

the fumes an area to go.

5) Always keep your gas tank at least half full to avoid gas line freeze up. This is also good in case you get stuck someplace—you will at least be able to keep yourself warm inside your vehicle while help comes.

6) Do not forget that sometimes the road becomes slippery during snowy and rainy weather, so it is advisable not to use the cruise control during these conditions.

7) Don’t forget to always use your seat belt when driving and be aware of the

changes of the weather. Put your full attention on the road.

8) Don’t drive in a hurry.

When accelerating or decelerating, do it slowly; the best way to avoid skids and to regain traction is to apply gas slowly when accelerating.

Do not power up a hill.

9) It is advisable to stay at home if you do not really need to go anywhere, even if you are good at driving in the snow.

10) Drive slowly;

accelerating, stopping, and sometimes turning takes longer on a snow-covered road. Give yourself time to maneuver by driving slowly.

Do not try to out drive the weather condition and do not forget that the speed limits posted for dry pavements.

This is not the advisable limit during the winter.

11) Look further ahead in traffic than you normally do when driving during the warmer months.

12) Be more cautious when driving on a bridge as they are the first areas to become icy.

13) If your car breaks down unexpectedly or you get caught in a snowstorm, if your car is out of harms way, it is advisable to stay in your vehicle if there is no other shelter around. You can run your car every 10 minutes so as to keep warm, but make sure that your exhaust pipe is clear of snow. Open your car window slightly to avoid carbon monoxide build up if snow blocks your car exhaust pipe.

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Window decorations in dorms subject of controversy TAEHUI PARK Staff Writer The controversy between Cleveland State University, Ohio students and department of residence life eventually has come to an end.

Cleveland State students have used their dormitory windows as another way for expressing their opinions or thoughts by posting sticky notes – from political slogans to marriage proposals – over the past couple of years.

The issue about regulating dormitory windows has been contentious in the past.

However, the university has recently changed the policy, which prohibits posting or hanging signs or materials in or on residence hall windows. Along with that, the new rule specifies windows must remain clear from obstruction, according to the university’s residential living updated handbook.

“Most believe we as students have the right to express our opinions freely.

I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but most of the opinions, which I have heard, support the statement of the undergraduate student government,” Cleveland State first-year student Cole Wallis said.

The overall reaction has been pretty negative towards the campus policy.

“Personally, I don’t agree with it. I think this is the

violation of First Amendment in terms of abridging the freedom of speech. The main subjects, who own the rights to freely express their opinions, are students not the university. I feel as long as it’s within the student code of conduct, it should be allowed to be out there,” Sohee Kim, a second-year student from Minnesota State University, Mankato said.

realize there are limits to what they can do.”

In response to the criticism from students, Cleveland State university spokesman, David Isaacs, released the following statement: “We annually review our Residence Hall Handbook.

We have similar guidelines for Gateway and we are rolling it out to other Columbus campus residence halls. We

“‘As long as it’s not inappropriate or causing any safety hazards, students can do displays on their windows,’ one of MNSU residential life staff members said.”

However, there was a sharp division of opinions between those who agree and disagree about the issue, even in Mankato.

“I agree with the new policy because the dormitory technically belongs to the campus’ property,” said Sophia Yunk, a third-year MNSU student. “Students are renting that space, not owning it. If they agree to live in the dorm, they should

have also benchmarked other schools’ guidelines and have found this to be a common approach to windows and window coverings.

The university maintains the discretion and right to determine the use of windows, walls, doors and other university spaces.”

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According to MNSU’s Residential Life, campus guidelines states that the “Department of Residential Life has the right to require the removal of signs or other inappropriate displays from residence community windows.”

“I’d suggest that students need to talk first to their student dormitory manager staff before decorating windows, but, as long as it’s not inappropriate or causing any safety hazards, students can do displays on their windows,” one of MNSU residential life staff members said.

MNSU includes rules regarding window decorations in the residential life guidelines book. In general, students are prohibited from: • Tampering or removal of window screens

• T hrowing or dropping items from their windows • Not having a screen in an open window • Leaving windows open for extended periods of time when the temperature is below freezing may cause radiator pipes to freeze and burst.

The Cleveland State Undergraduate Student Government recently released a statement to their school, stating students’ opinion that the policy should be revoked.

“I think the campus has the right to take necessary action on preventing inappropriate actions such as hate speech or hate symbols, but I also hope for the implementation of a fair policy that does not outwardly ban the window art,” Cleveland State secondyear student Maria Humayun said.

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Twitter ups character limit count from 140 to 280

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer After years consistency, Twitter, a company known for its constancy, is making a change by extending tweets from 140 characters to 280.

On Wednesday, Nov. 8, Twitter will start the move to 280 characters for most languages, with only a few staying at 140. Japanese, Chinese and Korean will stay at the original mark because of the ability to convey more information with a single character.

The move is in response to the problem people have had keeping their messages to 140 characters. The company wanted to still maintain the brevity that is special to the Twitter app, but wanted to keep people tweeting.

The company released plenty of stats after testing the upped character count since September, which suggested that the upped count will help people enjoy the app more without too many users clogging up feeds with perpetually long

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tweets. Twitter found that nine percent of users used their maximum character count with 140, compared to only one percent that used the full 280 available to them.

During the test phase, only five percent of those tested went over 140 and only two percent went over 190.

While the change has widespread concern about more characters, the theory Twitter has is that it will increase the overall amount of interaction on the site if more people can get out the message they wanted to convey without feeling

restrained to 140 characters.

“If you need more than 140 characters then go for it, more power to you, but it did not feel like a necessity to have more characters,” said Gregory Wilkins, associate director of the Centennial Student Union and Student Activities.

With the events, school plays and other activities hosted at Minnesota State University, Mankato that Wilkins oversees, public relations is part of the job and one of the many tasks he manages.

“In theory, it allows you to

add more to a message that you wanted to communicate, but the job could be done with the old character count, and was getting done,” said Wilkins on the Twitter

changes. “When we put a tweet together, there would be an air of creativity to slim down a message to the parameters and some of that creativity is gone with the higher character count.”

While it could have some uses, Wilkins noted that the brevity was “something unique to Twitter” and that made it a desirable product.

There could be negative additions with the change, not only from a business perspective but also from a personal side.

“It could be a bummer to have some people able to run on longer on twitter.

Can you imagine Trump with longer tweets?” said Wilkins on drawbacks of a longer tweet from various places.

Love it or hate it, get ready Twitter users because the change is in the process of switching over now.

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Minneapolis elects two black transgender City Council members ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis has elected two black transgender representatives to its City Council, adding to what advocacy groups have described as a banner election for transgender people in public office.

Andrea Jenkins easily won the race Tuesday night for an open seat in south Minneapolis, with roughly 73 percent of the vote. Jenkins, a 56-year-old poet and historian who transitioned in her 30s, spent years as a policy aide to two previous council members in the same ward.

Phillipe Cunningham’s victory took longer because of Minneapolis’ instantrunoff voting system. But by Wednesday afternoon, the city announced Cunningham — a 29-year old transgender man who had worked in the mayor’s office — had unseated the seat’s longtime incumbent and current council president, Barb Johnson.

Neither candidate made their gender identity a focal point of their campaigns. But Jenkins said their victories will “encourage young transgender people to keep on fighting, to keep on living, because we can be active and productive members of our community.”

Their victories came as transgender candidates made history elsewhere, too. Danica Roem became the nation’s first openly transgender state lawmaker by winning a Virginia Statehouse seat. Roem, a transgender woman, soundly defeated Bob Marshall, a longtime Republican delegate who sponsored legislation that would have restricted transgender bathroom use and who called himself the state’s “chief homophobe.”

“People are saying no to hate and yes to love,” Jenkins said.

Victory Fund, a group that advocates for LGBT candidates, called Jenkins

the first openly transgender candidate elected to the city council of a major U.S. city.

Cunningham followed soon after.

“Americans are growing increasingly aware of trans equality and people, and this win will surely inspire other trans people to run for office and further inclusion in their communities,” group president Aisha Moodie-Mills said in a statement, referring to Jenkins’ win.

Their wins set a new bar for transgender politicians in a region where the community has been visible for decades.

In neighboring St. Paul, Susan Kimberly ran unsuccessfully for a second term on the City Council in the 1990s after serving a single term starting in 1974 — then as Bob Sylvester. She also ran unsuccessfully for the local county commission, but was later chosen by then-mayor Norm Coleman, a Republican, to serve as St. Paul’s deputy mayor.

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Gleeful Democrats see political wave; GOP says not so fast NEW YORK (AP) — Jubilant Democrats across America are declaring their big election victories in Virginia and New Jersey — their first of the young Trump era — mark the beginning of an anti-Trump surge that could re-shape the balance of power in Congress in 2018.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he can “smell a wave coming.”

Not so fast, Republicans said Wednesday. But they acknowledged that setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere on Tuesday created new urgency for the GOP to fulfill its list of campaign promises before voters head back to the polls next year.

They, along with President Donald Trump, have failed to demolish “Obamacare” and now are straining to approve a far-reaching tax overhaul despite controlling the White House and both houses of Congress.

“If anything, this just puts more pressure on making sure we follow through,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said at an event hosted by the Washington Examiner.

He added, “I think it simply means we’ve got to deliver.”

Whether the president’s party delivers or not, there is clear cause for concern for a Republican Party that would lose its House majority if Democrats gained 24 seats next fall.

Tuesday’s results left little doubt that Trump’s dismal approval ratings can drag down Republican allies, particularly those serving in states he lost last November.

And even if his ratings show signs of improvement, history suggests that the first midterm elections for any new president often lead to major gains for the opposing party.

An early string of Republican retirement announcements in competitive districts across Florida, New Jersey and Arizona adds to the GOP’s challenge.

“We’re taking our country back from Donald Trump one election at a time,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said in a Wednesday conference call. “This is not just one night. It is a trend.”

Added Schumer, the New York Democrat: “Our Republican friends better look out.”

Trump declared that the blame for Tuesday’s losses was not his.

“Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for,” the president tweeted as he

toured Asia.

Actually, Gillespie, a mainstream Republican who lost the Virginia governor’s race, had taken up Trumplike positions on such issues as Confederate monuments, NFL players’ national anthem demonstrations and the dangers of Hispanic gangs.

Trump endorsed him but was not invited to campaign in the state in recent weeks.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel had a different view from Trump’s.

“I absolutely think any candidate should be embracing the president,” she said, “and I think Ed did.”

As for Tuesday’s longerterm significance for the Democrats, both parties’ leaders know that much can change in the year before voters decide the 2018 midterm elections.

And Republicans enjoy a redistricting advantage that limits the number of truly competitive House races, thanks in large part to GOP routs during Barack Obama’s eight years in office.

Also, Democrats wrestle with their own party strife, pitting the Bernie Sanders’ wing against the more mainstream.

The liberal group Democracy for America had abandoned Virginia’s gubernatorial candidate, Ralph Northam, over immigration policy, then celebrated his win days later.

“The plus of a tidal wave like this is it washes away the stains of all the campaigns,” Charles Chamberlain, DFA’s executive director, said in an interview.

Republican Party leaders also expect their political outlook to improve dramatically once the GOPled Congress takes action on taxes or health care.

Based on Tuesday’s results, they need to act quickly.

Governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey — where Phil Murphy will replace Republican Chris Christie — were perhaps the most consequential, but Democrats also celebrated victories in Maine, where voters slapped the state’s Republican governor, a Trump ally, by backing a measure to expand Medicaid coverage under Obama’s health care law. Manchester, New Hampshire, elected its first Democratic mayor in more than a decade. And Virginia voters sent a large and diverse group of new Democrats to the statehouse, including a transgender heavy metal singer, a member of Democratic Socialists of America and a former news anchor whose journalist girlfriend was fatally shot while on-air in 2015.

The results were particularly troubling for Republicans serving in suburban districts in states Trump lost last fall.

Schumer singled out by name one of the most

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vulnerable House Republicans in the nation: Rep. Barbara Comstock, whose northern Virginia district lies just west of Washington.

Roughly two of three voters in the counties that primarily make up Comstock’s district backed the Democrat in this week’s governor’s race.

Sensing opportunity, more than a half dozen Democrats have already lined up to challenge her.

A spokesman for Comstock said that Democrats have regularly underestimated the two-term congresswoman.

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Trump’s team concedes the Republican Party’s suburban challenges but predicts voters will bounce back once Congress begins to enact his agenda. Embedded in that diagnosis, however, is a warning for Republican lawmakers that continued inaction could be disastrous.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina acknowledged the urgency for his party to produce results.

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Super Dark Times is a hyper-realistic teenage drama

LUCAS TORBORG Staff Writer

The best way to describe the new independent film “Super Dark Times” may be painfully obvious, but it’s super dark.

From a distance the film may appear as a middle school adventure/horror genre film in the likeness of “Stranger Things” or this year’s “IT”, but in reality, it could not be more different.

“Super Dark Times” premiered at various film festivals earlier this year and was swept under the rug until it was recently released on video and de-

mand. Since then the film has been getting deserved recognition and robust critical acclaim.

The movie is directed

by Kevin Phillips in his impressive directorial debut and is masterfully written by writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.

The script and overall direction create a statement about corruption, teen angst and the current age of violence our society is in and has been in for some time now.

In fact, Piotrowski has admitted to choosing the 90s setting to relate it to the mood of fear and panic relevant to the time of the 1999 Columbine shootings.

The story takes place sometime in the mid to late 90s on the east coast.

Zach (Owen Cambell) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) are

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SUPER DARK TIMES ninth graders who have been best friends for quite some time. They spend their time after school biking around town occupying themselves by basically doing nothing, as kids do.

One day Zach and Josh

decide to hang out with their obnoxious and loudmouthed acquaintance Daryl. Josh finds his older brother’s samurai sword and the three of them decide slash gallons of milk with the sword for fun--

you probably can start to see where it’s going to go from here.

Josh then sees that Dar-

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Trevor Noah’s autobiography has both heart and humor Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is stunning

HOLLY BLOOFLAT Staff Writer

Trevor Noah is a comedian most known for his role as the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central but in his book “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” a gripping and oddly comedic autobiography, he tells his story of growing up as a mixed-race child in South Africa during apartheid and the struggles his mother faced in raising him.

Through a series of short, humorous stories of his antics we see the

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life.

We follow him from his early childhood, in which he could only see his father in secret, to his first crush, to being a mildly successful local DJ, and even to the trauma

caused by the people that tried to tear his family apart.

Together, Noah and his mother face racism, elitism, unjust laws, poverty, harassment, and abuse, but they stick together

through it all.

The delivery of his story is real and honest, showing the light in the darkest of times. He manages to make people, events, and places so foreign to readers like myself feel so relatable.

Noah is successful in making you feel that you are there with him throughout the entire book while he shares with you the stories of his life as if you were his closest friend.

“Born a Crime” left me truly speechless. I found myself crying from laughter and absolutely stunned by the end.

Though humorous, the message of the stories shines through. Not even apartheid could break the bond between Trevor Noah and his mother.

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MSU Theatre’s politically charged season continues These Shining lives dives into unsafe working conditions MANKATO – They got it on their clothes, on their skin, and even in their mouths. And all along, they were told this radium they were working with was harmless – even beneficial – to their health.

Up next in Minnesota State Mankato Theatre & Dance’s Studio Season is “These Shining Lives,” which chronicles the experiences of four women working in an Illinois watch factory in the 1920s and 1930s.

Written by Melanie Marnich, the play is based on the true story of the women whose job it was to paint the hour markings onto watch dials using a radium compound that glowed in the dark. The company, Radium Dial, did not show

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From left to right: Pearl (Samantha Fairchild), Catherine Donohue (Ashley Ziegler), Charlotte (Zoe Hartigan) and Frances (Sarah Thomas)

any concern when their hands began to glow in the dark or when jaw infections

and bone pain set in due to radium poisoning.

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the movie honestly made me want to stop watching at times. Fortunately, the movie begins to pick up again near the third act as more begins to happen.

However; the very end of the movie leaves the viewer with many questions and somewhat unsatisfied.

Overall, “Super Dark

Times” is one of those rare movies that are really wellmade and acted, but not very enjoyable. Honestly, I would not be surprised if this movie gets nominated for any Oscars for this upcoming year’s Academy Awards. The script, the direction, and the acting are excellent, but the story

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More about the show: Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.

Directed by Kristin Fox, tickets are $10 regular; $9 for seniors ages 65 and older, children under 16 and groups of 15 or more; and $8 for MSU students.

Contact Amanda Dyslin at 507-389-6663, or amanda.dyslin@mnsu.edu for more information.

DARK TIMES Continued from page 11 yl stole “weed” from his older brother’s room. Josh gets upset and the two begin to fight. Josh grabs the sword and Daryl tackles Josh, accidentally falling on the sword in Josh’s hand. Filled with fear and misbelief Zach and Josh bury Daryl under a bed of fallen leaves.

The murder causes Josh to go down a deep and dark descent of madness, while Zach is haunted by his guilt and reoccurring nightmares of the incident.

The two must hide the truth from coming out while also balancing school and relationships at the same time.

The highest praise I can give “Super Dark Times” is its spot-on depiction of youth.

The high schoolers talk and act exactly like high schoolers do, profanity flows sentence to sentence as young adults usually talk. The acting in this film is incredible. Campbell and Tahan do an excellent job at portraying their awkward and naïve characters so much so that it’s almost hard to watch. Tahan is the standout as he makes the viewer empathize with his bizarre character.

Each scene oozes with remorse and despair due to the cold and barren atmosphere of the story. The

film is so surreal and hyper-realistic that it is almost hard to watch because it feels as if you are experiencing what the characters are.

“Super Dark Times” begins great, but it begins to drag as it seems as if nothing is really happening. The dark and ominous tone of

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I recommend this movie to anyone who truly loves movies, but be aware that it may leave you feeling depressed by the end.

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Natalie Portman honored with ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’

Portman is the fifth winner and first woman to receive award JERUSALEM (AP) — Natalie Portman has been awarded Israel’s 2018 Genesis Prize in recognition of her commitment to social causes and deep connection to her Jewish and Israeli roots, organizers of the prize announced on Tuesday.

The $1 million award, known as “the Jewish Nobel Prize,” is granted each year to a person recognized as an inspiration to the next generation of Jews through professional achievement and commitment to Jewish values.The Oscar-winning actress said she was “deeply touched and humbled” by the recognition.

“I am proud of my Israeli roots and Jewish heritage.

They are crucial parts of who I am,” she said in a statement released by the organizers. She said she would use the prize money to “make a difference in the lives of women in Israel

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and beyond.”

Portman was born in Israel and moved to the United States as a young girl, evolving from a child actress into a widely acclaimed A-list star. She won the 2011 Best Actress Academy Award for her work in “Black Swan,” and in 2015, she directed and starred in “Tale of Love and Darkness,” a He-

brew-language film made in Israel based on an Amos Oz novel.

The Genesis Prize noted Portman’s social activism in areas such as gender equality, combatting poverty, microfinance and animal rights.

“She exemplifies the core traits of the Jewish character and values of the Jewish people — per-

sistence and hard work, pursuit of excellence, intellectual curiosity, and a heartfelt desire to contribute to make the world a better place,” said Stan Polovets, co-founder and chairman of the prize’s foundation. He called her a “role model” for millions of young Jews worldwide.

The foundation said Portman’s award money

would go to a number of women’s causes, promoting education, economic advancement, health and political participation. It said a “significant portion” of the funds would advance women’s equality in Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present the award to Portman at a ceremony in Jerusalem next June.

The Genesis Prize was inaugurated in 2014 and is run in a partnership between the Israeli prime minister’s office, the private Genesis Prize Foundation and the chairman’s office of the Jewish Agency, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Israeli government. It is funded by a $100 million endowment established by the foundation.

Portman is the fifth winner and first woman to receive the prize.

Rapper Meek Mill sentenced for probation violations Judge ignores rapper’s recommendation due to criminal history

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in prison on probation violations Monday by a Philadelphia judge who said the musician had wasted several chances to clean up his act following a 2009 gun and drug case.

The sentence rounded out a roughly decade-long back and forth between the 30-year-old musician and Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley that has dogged Mill’s career as he had been jailed and called to court multiple times on various infractions.

“I’ve been trying to help you since 2009,” Brinkley said, citing a failed drug test, failure to comply with a court order restricting his travel and two other unrelated arrests. “You basically thumbed your nose at me.”

The handing down of the sentence came af-

ter a prosecutor recommended that Mill not be imprisoned for the violations, saying that he has been clean since January and that he has grown as a person since his original crime. Brinkley said the prosecutor was too new to the case to understand how Mill just “does what he wants.”

Mill owned up to the violations in his only statement during the hearing and said that jailing him would likely end his musical career. He said that he has battled addiction

to the prescription painkiller Percocet and that he has only tried to escape a life of crime.

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as Mill emptied his pockets and removed jewelry from his wrists. With a court officer looming behind him, Mill turned his head and looked backed in the direction of his mother before standing

up and being led out of the room by the officer.

McMonagle vowed to appeal the decision as more than a dozen friends and family members stormed out of the courtroom.

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Tate Modern explores Russian revolutionary art Exhibition is to mark the centenary of the October Revolution LONDON (AP) — The Soviet Union is gone, but the imagery it inspired lives on.

The visual vocabulary of red stars, scarlet banners, Cyrillic exclamations and cut-and-paste imagery is still very much with us. In a historic irony, it now forms part of the capitalist advertising toolkit, used to sell everything from vodka and fast food to rock music.

Matthew Gale, co-curator of an exhibition of Soviet revolutionary art that opened Wednesday at London’s Tate Modern gallery, says it’s evidence that ideals pass on with the people who hold them, but “imagery is surprisingly tenacious.”

Tate Modern is marking the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, which erupted a century ago this week, with an exhibition of posters, paintings, photos and publications created to inspire Russians with revolutionary fervor.

The show begins with a blast of excitement, in rooms lined with works by artists including El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, his wife Varvara Stepanova and another married cou-

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A woman looks towards a painting by Aleksandr Deineka called “Stakhanovites.”

ple, Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina.

Inspired by the revolutionary upheaval, they used avant-garde techniques including brightly colored geometric shapes, striking typefaces and photo montages to create instantly memorable images for advertisements, information campaigns and mass rallies.

Gale said the show tries to convey a sense of the “visual culture” of the early years of the USSR — “to show what people would encounter every day —

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In a confusing and fast-changing era, Gale said artists created work that was both propaganda and art, inspired by a mix of motives.

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The later rooms come as a sobering slap in the face, as the country descended into paranoia and purges, and millions were killed or

sent to gulags.

The victims included many of the country’s artists. Klutsis, one of the most influential, is represented by vibrant works including a collage-style poster for an international sports competition and a scarlet mural of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

In the next room, visitors see his grim mug shot, taken before his execution in 1938 on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

The exhibition includes dozens of other photos of victims of Stalin’s Great

Terror, and also shows how revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky and other political opponents were literally erased from images during Stalin’s rule.

Soviet art grew more conservative as repression increased and artists were encouraged to embrace the idealized imagery of “socialist realism.”

The exhibition includes large studies for Aleksandr Deineka’s murals of heroic peasants, white-clad youth and stalwart soldiers — the kind of images that became dominant in the years before Stalin’s death in 1953.

The show is drawn from the collection of the late British graphic designer David King, who amassed a quarter of a million artifacts from the Soviet Union.

Gale said the huge trove — acquired by Tate before King’s death last year — will be a goldmine for art historians for years to come.

“People are still going back and seeing how extraordinarily experimental it was,” he said. “It still has things for us to learn, simply in terms of how to construct images.”

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Led by Ziegler, women’s basketball primed for 2017-2018 The Mavericks have had a winning record in the last five out of six seasons

JAKE RINEHART Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks Women’s Basketball team begins play this week in Kansas City, Missouri. The Lady Mavs will play the Washburn Ichabods on Nov. 10 at 6:45 p.m. and Pittsburgh State on Nov. 11 at 6:45 p.m. as well. The Mavericks finished last season with a 16-11 overall record, while going 12-10 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). The Mavs were eliminated in the NCIS Tournament last season with a loss to Minnesota – Duluth and hope to improve from that loss this season.

The Mavericks enter the 2017-2018 basketball season losing only three players from last season, all of them being seniors. Britney Scherber averaged 11.7 points per game and 2.3 assists per game, while posting a 0.851 free-throw percentage

lasts season. Sammie Delzotto averaged 10 points per game, 1.9 assists per game, and 3.7 rebounds per game, while shooting 37.1 percent from the three-point line and leading the Lady Mavericks in steals on the season.

Karina Schroeder averaged 11 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game, while leading the team in blocked shots and finishing second in steals on the season.

Even with the loss of three leading scorers that bring valuable components of knowledge and skill as seniors, Mavericks head coach Emilee Thiesse is looking for production by committee this season.

“We don’t look for any one or two players to shoulder that responsibility this season. We need each and every player to step-up for us to help us continue to build from where we finished last season,” stated Thiesse.

The Lady Mavs are ranked No. 7 in the NSIC Pre-Season Coaches Poll, but Thiesse believes they are better than that, citing their chemistry as the largest contributing factor.

“This team is as close of a group as we have ever had.

Team chemistry is something

that really sets our program apart and makes each and every day so much fun. Our leadership is largely to credit for developing that bond between our returning players and the newcomers so quickly,” said Thiesse.

Claire Ziegler Claire Ziegler will certainly be a point of emphasis for opposing teams this season, as she returns as a senior.

Ziegler averaged 11.9 points per game while grabbing 7.8 rebounds per game just a year ago.

The Lady Mavs are known to play an up-tempo style, but Thiesse is hoping to expand on that much more this season.

“We are implementing a brand-new motion offense this season as well as imple-

menting a pressure defense that will pick-up the pace of the game significantly,” noted Thiesse.

This Maverick team is traveling a little bit further than most of Minnesota State’s teams will be this season. The team had already played an exhibition game in Lincoln, Nebraska, when Minnesota State faced off against the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Ten. This game against Nebraska was special for a couple of reasons. First, it allowed for the MSU Women’s Basketball team to compete against Division-I athletes.

The exhibition game against Nebraska was also a personal battle for Thiesse, as she squared off against her sister, Amy Williams. Williams is in her second season as head coach of the Cornhuskers, previously coaching for the University of South Dakota.

This is not the first meeting between the siblings, as they previously coached against each other when Thiesse was an assistant coach at South Dakota State University and Williams was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State University. Thiesse described the game as unique and a fun opportunity to coach against her sister, but she is happy

that the game ended.

“It is a little awkward coaching against my sister.

We are extremely competitive individuals and there wasn’t any part of us doing anything than our very best,” added Thiesse.

Nebraska ended up defeating the Mavericks by a final score of 88-55. The Lady Mavs are scheduled to also play a tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii over Thanksgiving break. The Mavericks begin play in Hawaii on Nov. 22 against Hawaii Pacific, while playing against Chaminade University on Nov. 23.

“The Hawaii tournament has been a long-awaited trip for our program. We have been fundraising for the past few years to make this opportunity a reality. We are very fortunate to provide our players with a memorable and exciting trip that will impact their overall experience” noted Thiesse about the games in Hawaii.

Before they make the trip to Hawaii, the Mavericks will open their season at home against Black Hills State on Nov. 14 at 6:00 p.m. at the Taylor Center.

Minnesota State pitted tough matchup at Bemidji State The men’s hockey team will look to capture a series win this upcoming weekend

SEAN MORAWCZYNSKI Staff Writer For the second time this season, the Mavericks men’s hockey team will play the latter of back-to-back road series. WCHA rival Bemidji State University is slotted to host MSU over this Veteran’s Day weekend.

The Mavericks’ 2016-2017 season series against the BSU Beavers did not go in MSU’s favor, but the competition was fierce. With two of the four games going into over-

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time, the Mavs finished with a 1-2-1 record when playing the Beavers last year. The Mavericks’ one win against BSU was

on the road just as the team is this weekend.

The Beavers finished last season with an overall record

of 22-16-3 and a WCHA record of 20-6-2. The team’s performance earned 64 points in the conference

standings; the most in the WCHA by 10 points to the second-place Michigan Tech which had 54.

Minnesota State falls one spot from No. 9 to No. 10 in the USCHO.com national poll this week. Bemidji State remains unranked in the poll but did receive 41 points in the voting. The last-place team in the 20-team poll received 61 points.

This far into the 2017-2018 season, Bemidji holds a 4-22 overall record and a 2-1-1 WCHA record. The Mavericks will be the second ranked opponent the Beavers will have faced this year. The Uni-

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NFL week 9: Wentz, Eagles flying higher than others A former NDSU quarterback leads an interesting group to the best record in the NFL

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer It took nine whole weeks, but one team has finally separated from the rest of the pack in the NFL: The Philadelphia Eagles.

This is not how plenty of teams are bad (which is true) or that there are a bunch of teams that are good but have a big flaw (also true). This is

about one team that has finally established themselves as the best team in the NFL, putting themselves ahead of everyone.

This is a strange team because of the characters on this “Top Dog” squad, along with the fact this is the first time in forever that it took nine weeks to find one team that was truly apart from the rest of the pack.

Why The Eagles Are The Team To Beat The Eagles are fifth in the league in total yards, averaging 377 per game while second in scoring with 31.4 points per game.

Quarterback Carson Wentz

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has looked phenomenal all season, racking up 2,262 yards through the air with 23 touchdowns, completing 60 percent of his passes and 26 passes of 20 yards or more. He is also good at not only running the ball when he needs to, but extending plays, stretching the time the coverage has to stay in place and staying allusive from the pass rush.

While Wentz has performed admirably, their offense is incredibly complete, from having an array of running backs to a diverse group of receivers. With the addition of Jay Ajayi to give the backfield a burst with the big bulldozer in Legarrette Blount. At receiver, they have a great safety net at tight end Zach Ertz, with the stud receiver Alshon Jeffery who pairs nicely with role players in Nelson Agholor, Mack Hollins and Torrey Smith. The entire offense has refused to look broken in any big ways this season, not showing a major crack to date.

On the defense, the eagles have racked up 25 sacks and four forced fumbles from the front and are tied for second in the NFL with 11 interceptions. They are also one of the stoutest defenses in the league, giving up only 19.9 points per game and 315.9 yards per game. The defense has been great, getting the ball to their offense and mak-

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ing sure they preserve leads that Wentz and company create.

Can It Go On? The rest of the season includes the next four of five on the road: Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, L.A. Rams, and the New York Giants. The Bears will be the only home game. After that, they finish with two home games against Oakland and Dallas.

Even if they drop off and play poorly, the Eagles can go 4-3 the rest of the way at worst, which would put them at 12-4 this season. That should be enough to not only grab the NFC East division, but also to secure the No. 1 seed in the NFC Conference.

This team has seen great play on both the offensive and defensive line, and they have a great quarterback and can run the ball effectively with their running backs.

These are the things that travel and in the playoffs, when the elements could get nasty and the teams tighten up, it is what wins games.

Can it go on? Absolutely, this team is very well built and rolling over teams. As we have covered already, even teams like New England and Pittsburgh have major flaws.

This is maybe the only team that does not have a massive flaw to exploit, which is what makes them the most dangerous.

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PACKERS @ BEARS

BROWNS @ LIONS

STEELERS @ COLTS

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BENGALS @ TITANS

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Vikings add Bridgewater to roster, put Bradford on IR Head coach Mike Zimmer is still sticking with Keenum as the starter going forward EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Vikings’ seemingly constant search for long-term success and stability at quarterback took another turn on Wednesday.

Sam Bradford’s future was cast in further doubt because of another knee surgery.

And Teddy Bridgewater finally made his way back to the active roster from his devastating knee injury.

Meanwhile, coach Mike Zimmer announced Case Keenum will make his seventh start of the season for the game at Washington on Sunday. “Case has done great,�

Zimmer said. “So we just keep going from there and see how this thing plays out.�

The Vikings (6-2) activated Bridgewater from the physically unable to perform list, adding him to the active roster for the first time in more than 14 months since his left knee was dislocated during practice. The freak injury re-

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sulted in ligament tears and an ambulance ride to the emergency room to save his leg.

The Vikings faced a deadline on Wednesday at the end of the three-week window that opened when Bridgewater resumed practice with the team.

To make room on the 53man roster, Bradford was placed on injured reserve after having arthroscopic surgery the day before on his left knee, which had ACL tears in 2013 and 2014.

Zimmer said “no one knows� when asked if Bradford will play again. “When they went in there, they just cleaned it out,� Zimmer said. “It’s not bone on bone. There’s a lot of good things, but who knows? We didn’t expect it would be this long.�

Bradford, who will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, led Minnesota to a victory in the season

opener over New Orleans by completing 84.3 percent of his passes for 346 yards and three touchdowns.

However, he injured the knee during the game and woke up in pain the next day.

He played only one half of one game since then, on Oct. 9 at Chicago when he hobbled around and took four sacks before Keenum came back in to lead the Vikings to a victory. “It’s disappointing,� Zimmer said. “The guy worked extremely hard trying to get back, spent a whole bunch of his own money trying everything and it just didn’t work out. Hopefully we’ll be able to get him back when he gets healthy.�

Enter Bridgewater, the 2014 first-round draft pick who was on track to take over as the franchise quarterback after passing for 3,231 yards, 14 touchdowns and nine interceptions while helping the Vikings win the NFC North in

2015. Bridgewater was an injury replacement pick for the Pro Bowl that year.

But then he was hurt dropping back during a routine non-contract drill two weeks before the start of last season, leading to the arduous, lengthy rehab and prompting general manager Rick Spielman to trade first and fourthround draft picks to Philadelphia for Bradford.

Already a popular player in the locker room, Bridgewater’s reputation was further cemented throughout the process of his comeback.

Wide receiver Jarius Wright said the only person he’s ever seen as determined as Bridgewater was former teammate Adrian Peterson, who returned from ACL surgery in nine months to start the 2012 opener. “I know he’s going to be great when he gets his opportunity,� Wright said. “We all witnessed a miracle.�

Zimmer said Bridgewa-

ter, who has not played in a non-preseason game in 22 months, will dress for the game this week as Keenum’s backup. Rookie Kyle Sloter is also on the roster as the third-stringer. Zimmer declined to speculate about when Bridgewater might become the starter again. “He’s done excellent,�

Zimmer said of Bridgewater’s practice performance. “He’s moved well, thrown the ball well.�

The only victory of the Vikings that Keenum didn’t have a hand in was the opener. He’s completed 63.9 percent of his passes and thrown seven touchdowns to just three interceptions. “Whether or not it’s Sam or Teddy or whoever else, I’ve been prepared for these types of situations,� Keenum said of the uncertainty of the team’s week-to-week decisions on the starter. “Just kind of water off my back.�

records this season. Three of the Griffons’ four losses have come against unbeaten Central Missouri, which may be a key factor going into this matchup.

The Griffons are paced on offense by junior forward Cassidy Menke, who leads the team in goals (15), points (33) and shots (119). Senior forward Sydney Cluck leads the team with eight assists, while adding nine goals for 26 points.

in goals (27), assists (12) and points (66). The Bulldogs’ second-leading scorer is sophomore forward Sandra Nabweteme, who has tallied 13 goals and four assists for 30 points.

Whichever ever team ends up facing off against the Mavericks after winning this matchup will have a tall-task in front of them, especially with the amount of talent on Minnesota State’s team.

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streak in NCAA D-II women’s soccer history.

From the second goal of the match with then-No. 14 ranked Grand Valley State on Sept. 10, to when University of Mary scored against the Mavericks on Oct. 21, the Mavericks played over 1,045 minutes without allowing a goal.

The Mavericks will be led with a balanced attack on both offense and defense. During the NSIC

Tournament, there were six Mavericks that were named to the NSIC All-Tournament team: senior midfielder Lexi Pszanka, sophomore forward Morgan Cottew, freshman forward Molly Sarafolean, junior defender Abby Hausken, junior goalkeeper Taylor Livermore, and the NSIC Tournament MVP, sophomore midfielder Alesha Duccini. These players and the rest of the team will be the ingredients for success

going forward.

The third-seeded Missouri Western State Griffons (17-40) are making the first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history. Missouri Western State, who lost to Central Region No. 1-seed Central Missouri 4-1 in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic s Association Tournament championship match, has had an amazing year, breaking more than 30 individual and team

The Southwes ter n Oklahoma State Bulldogs (12-4-3) are making only their second NCA A Tournament appearance in program history after winning the Great American Conference Tournament.

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Roy Halladay was among first to fly model of plane he died in The future Hall-of-Famer had a heavy passion for flying and owning an ICON A5 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The tiny sport plane Roy Halladay was flying when he fatally crashed into the Gulf of Mexico was made for entry-level pilots like him, though the plane’s chief designer and test pilot died while flying one earlier this year, officials and experts said.

Halladay, the 40-year-old former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher, had been the proud owner for less than a month of his ICON A5, and was among the first to fly it, with only about 20 in existence, according the website for ICON Aviation.

In one of many enthusiastic tweets about the plane, Halladay said it felt “like flying a fighter jet.”

Rolled out in 2014, the A5 is an amphibious aircraft meant to be treated like an

ATV, a piece of weekend recreational gear with folding wings that can easily be towed on a trailer to a lake where it can take off from the water.

“The way that a lot of people described it is a Jet Ski with wings,” Stephen Pope, editor-in-chief of Flying magazine, told The Associated Press. “It’s really a play thing.”

The man who led the plane’s design, 55-year-old John Murray Karkow, died while flying an A5 over California’s Lake Berryessa on May 8, in a crash the National Transportation Safety Board blamed on pilot error. The NTSB also will investigate Halladay’s crash to determine the cause.

In other tweets, Halladay said he had dreamed about owning one of the planes,

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and said in video on the company’s website that he had to talk his wife into letting him get one. The son of a corporate pilot, Halladay had been forbidden to take up aviation until he retired from baseball at the end of 2013.

Pope said “the plane itself is great,” but he had concerns about Halladay, a new pilot with little flying time, taking the craft out over water at low altitude, though the plane was marketed as a craft that could do that.

“They still think that that’s the way the airplane should be flown, and there are people in aviation who completely disagree with that,” Pope said. “They think you should not have a low-time pilot flying low over water. That’s a recipe for disaster.”

Low flying was part of the

problem when Karkow, the designer, crashed, according to federal investigators.

Karkow was killed along with passenger Cagri Sever, the company’s newly hired director of engineering.

The NTSB blamed pilot error for the crash, saying Karkow mistakenly entered a canyon while flying too low, causing the plane to strike the canyon wall.

Another A5 crashed in April, making a hard landing in the water off Key Largo, Florida, injuring the pilot and his passenger. The pilot told investigators the plane descended faster than he expected.

Halladay’s ICON A5 went down around noon Tuesday off the coast of Florida, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said.

The sheriff’s office marine unit responded and discovered Halladay’s body in shallow water near some mangroves. No survivors were found.

Police said they couldn’t confirm if there were additional passengers on the plane or say where it was headed.

ICON Aviation said in a statement that the company would assist the NTSB in every way possible with its investigation, and that its executives and employees were “devastated” by Halladay’s death.

“We have gotten to know Roy and his family in recent months, and he was a great advocate and friend of ours,” the statement said.

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“Bemidji State boasts the top penalty-killing unit in the league. All but one of the team’s 28 penalties have been killed off successfully and the team also has one short-handed goal. Minnesota State’s special teams play will be challenged against the enduring Beavers’ penalty kill.” versity of Minnesota – Duluth Bulldogs was No. 9 in the polls when they played BSU to start the Beavers’ season on Oct. 13. The Beavers won their first game that Friday 5-2 in Bemidji, then ‘tied’ at zero in Duluth on that Saturday before a shootout win.

There are no common opponents between MSU and BSU at this point in the season but there will be plenty by the time these two teams meet again in February. Both teams fair well on the power play this season; Minnesota State has 10 power play goals on 41 opportunities in its nine regular season games.

Bemidji State boasts the top penalty-killing unit in the league. All but one of the team’s 28 penalties have been killed off successfully and the team also has one short-handed goal. Minnesota State’s special teams play will be challenged against the enduring Beavers’ penalty kill.

The Mavericks have committed 45 penalties in the 2017-2018 season, 39 of those were killed without allowing a goal. Minnesota State’s penalty kill ranks 14th in Division-I men’s hockey while Bemidji’s power play has scored on nine of its 33 chances, good for ninth-best in the league.

Maverick goalies Connor LaCouvee and Jason Pawloski have split time in the

crease this season in contrast to BSU’s goalie Michael Bitzer who has played in every period this season except for one. He has a .926 save percentage in Bemidji’s eight games played according to collegehockeystats.net. Bitzer’s save percentage does

drop a considerable amount to .908 when facing WCHA opponents this year, which has happened four times.

Minnesota State’s goalies combine for a .923 save percentage after facing 273 shots by opponents. The Mavericks are also outshooting their ad-

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versaries with an average of 33.3 shots-per-game to opponents’ 23.9 according to the team’s website.

Bemidji State sits four points behind the Mavericks in WCHA standings with eight points to MSU’s 12.

Minnesota State is in compe-

tition with Bowling Green for the pole position in the conference. Bowling Green also has 12 points with one less loss than the Mavericks with a record of 3-1-2.

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Twins among teams that could sign Otani The highly-touted pitcher/outfielder will be sought after by the Rangers and Yankees also

NEW YORK (AP) — Texas, the New York Yankees and Minnesota can pay the most to a young international amateur free agent as highly touted pitcher-outfielder Shohei Otani prepares to enter the market, and Major League Baseball and its Japanese counterpart have agreed to the outlines of a deal to keep the old posting system for this offseason.

The Rangers can agree to a maximum $3,535,000 signing bonus from their pool that covers July 2 through next June 15, according to figures compiled by Major League Baseball and obtained by The Associated Press. New York can pay $3.25 million and the Twins $3,245,000.

Just three other teams can give him a seven-figure signing bonus: Pittsburgh ($2,266,750), Miami ($1.74 million) and Seattle ($1,570,500).

After that comes Philadelphia ($900,000), Milwaukee ($765,000), Arizona ($731,250), Baltimore ($660,000), Boston ($462,000) and Tampa Bay ($440,500).

Twelve teams are capped at $300,000 as penalties for exceeding their signing bonus pool under baseball’s previous collective bargaining agreement, which did not have a cap: Atlanta, the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, Cincinnati, Houston, Kansas City, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland, St. Louis, San

Diego, San Francisco and Washington.

Other clubs have even less available: Detroit ($159,500), the Los Angeles Angels ($150,000), the New York Mets ($105,000), Toronto ($50,000), and Cleveland and Colorado ($10,000 apiece).

Each team started with a pool of $4.75 million, $5.25 million or $5.75 million, and amounts could be traded.

Most of the pool money already has been spent on Latin American prospects.

Under baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement, the 23-year-old Otani can only agree to a minor league contract that is subject to signing bonus pools.

If added to a big league roster, he would have a salary for about the minimum $545,000 next season and not be eligible for salary arbitration until 2020 at the earliest.

If he waits until he is 25 to enter MLB, there would be no restrictions and he likely would get a deal for more than $100 million. MLB has warned of severe penalties if a team attempts to sign Otani to a secret long-term contract, then announce it in future years.

Otani chose the Creative Artists Agency’s Nez Balelo to represent him, a person familiar with the decision told the AP this week, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.

While the posting agreement between MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball has expired, the sides agreed several weeks ago to the outlines of a deal that would for this offseason continue the rules of the previous agreement, a person familiar with that negotiation said, also speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement was made. The rules call for the Japanese club to set a maximum $20 million posting fee, and any MLB club willing to bid that amount would be able to negotiate with Otani for 30 days.

Starting next offseason, the fee would be 15 percent of the guarantee of a major league contract and 20 percent of the signing bonus if a player is subject to bonus pools, the person said. MLB is waiting for the players’ association to approve the agreement before submitting it to MLB owners for their ratification, the person said.

Otani is the reigning Pacific League MVP and is 3-2 with a 3.20 ERA this year for the Nippon Ham Fighters, limited because of thigh and ankle injuries. He is batting .332 in 65 games with 16 doubles, eight homers and 31 RBIs. He has a 42-15 record with a 2.52 ERA and 624 strikeouts in 543 innings over five seasons, and a .286 batting average with 48 homers and 166 RBIs.

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