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District 13 candidates contend for votes with election 9 weeks away BY MATT RICE STAFF WRITER
ter said. The city of Urbana was forced to cancel the annual Labor Day parade and postpone the Labor Day picnic due to unfavorable ground conditions caused by heavy rainfall. The picnic has been rescheduled for Saturday. “I was hoping to march with a group of my own volunteers and to show solidarity with many of our members in the area,” said Charlie Smyth, alderman for Ward 1. Back on campus, the University made preparations for the inclement weather prior to the storm, said Andy Blacker, manager of external relations for facilities and services. “We’re basically trying to secure the
The race to fi ll outgoing Rep. Tim Johnson’s seat in the new 13th District will be over in nine weeks, and local candidates are gearing up for the fi nal stretch of election season. On Election Day, the district’s voters will see three candidates on their ballots: Democrat David Gill from Bloomington, Republican Rodney Davis from Taylorville, and independent candidate John Hartman from Edwardsville. The three candidates are competing to represent the district that stretches from Champaign County to as far west as the state border along the Mississippi River. On April 5, Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, citing personal reasons involving his family. Davis was chosen by Illinois Republican Party leaders on May 19 to fi ll Johnson’s vacant spot on the ballot. Davis said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the decision, which he was notified of via text message while coaching his twin sons’ baseball team. Gill, a physician, ran and lost to Johnson three times in the 15th District before the redistricting but is now facing a potentially lessRepublican-leaning district. “This is a lean Democratic district, and David is the only candidate chosen by
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Students participating in the university’s Panhellenic Council’s Formal Recruitment, or Rush, walk past Foellinger Auditorium on Monday. In addition to the weather precautions for the football game, Saturday’s sorority recruitment was cancelled and moved to Monday.
Rainfall from Isaac remnants less than expected BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER
All eyes turned to the sky this past weekend as the National Weather Service warned that the remnants of Hurricane Isaac were forecasted to drop around 10 inches of rain on the Champaign-Urbana area. But despite causing localized flooding, the storm that blew in over the Labor Day weekend fell short of the most drastic expectations. Eric Snodgrass, professor of atmospheric sciences, said the region was hit with 3.6 inches of precipitation over the weekend. That was 6.4 inches less than the National Weather Service’s forecast that prompted a mass email from Chancellor Phyllis Wise warning of the possibility of dangerously high water.
Snodgrass set up a rain gauge in his backyard to track precipitation over the weekend, and said that as Isaac moved closer to central Illinois from the Gulf Coast, the rain that fell was a result of the system slowing down and stalling over one area of land. “It’s been (Isaac’s) rain that’s been the big story,” Snodgrass said. “And that’s the story for us here this weekend.” Kris Koester, administrative services supervisor of Champaign Public Works, said crews were sent out Friday to prepare for the storm and continued to work through 11 a.m. Sunday morning. Before the storm was scheduled to hit, service trucks carried “portable barricades, lights, rain gear and other tools that can be used to help clear clogged inlets and address flooding and crews left barricades
in areas prone to flooding to provide them the ability to quickly block off an area as needed,” according to a Public Works press release. Koester said the storm did not leave much damage, as it “drastically diminished over initial reports.” However, there were still a few places around the city that did experience flooding. “There was a section of South Second Street near Armory that flooded during the Aug. 9 storm that flooded again this weekend,” Koester said. “We aren’t sure what caused it, but will look into it with our environmental engineers this week.” Other areas that ended up flooding around the city included intersections at State and Springfield, Bradley and McKinley and the Washington St. viaduct, Koes-
Provena gives award to ambulance, SWAT teams actually part of our team.” The paramedics of the unit were invited Saving lives is a daily routine for the to Friday’s ceremony to recognize their members of Provena Covenant Center’s accomplishments. PRO Ambulance team working with Tim Compton, director of the PRO the Metropolitan Emergency Tactical Ambulance Service Team, said his team Response Operations SWAT team. successfully handled dangerous situations To recognize the group’s efforts in with the SWAT team. “It was actually very seamless. (The responding to high-risk situations, the Provena Covenant Medical Center pre- SWAT team) gives us a call, they let us sented the emergency responders with know where they want us staged, we send the Guardian Angel the unit right away,” Compton said. award on Friday. The M ET RO “(We) dispatch SWAT team unit them by radio and we have them consists of police staged and they officers from the University, Urbana, communicate Mahomet, Parkland directly with the College and Rantoul ambulance.” police departments, At the event, Conas well as the Chamnolly spoke of the JIM LIEVANO, paign County sherparamedics’ value paramedic iff’s office. to the SWAT team. This special unit Jim Lievano, handles situations such as hostage crises, a paramedic with the PRO Ambulance barricaded armed subjects and high-risk Team, said he felt proud being part of the search warrants. But when they’re called team recognized by the award ceremony. “I think through the years, we have to an emergency, paramedics from PRO Ambulance have to be on site to make sure proven ourselves as being one of the most the victims of the crime are transported professional ambulance services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the safely to the hospital. Patrick Connolly, Urbana police chief, country,” Lievano said. “For those of us said the PRO ambulance center work close- that are standby with the SWAT teams, ly with the SWAT team on two seperate it is an amazing opportunity to just be tasks. able to mingle with two different disci“First, they stage an ambulance for us in plines of emergency services and law the event when the police officer gets shot enforcement.” or injured,” Connolly said. “In addition to that, they also, on a voluntary basis, pro- Carina can be reached at lee713@dailyvide expertise with paramedics who are illini.com BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
“I think through the years, we have proven ourselves as being one of the most professional ambulance services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the country.”
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Farmer Chris Wise climbs out of a combine as he scrambles to harvest corn just south of Champaign on Friday ahead of the heavy rain expected from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac. Parts of Illinois were expected to get 6 or 8 inches of rain after weeks of drought.
Crop insurance in high demand after drought BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER
Despite the rain this weekend, Midwestern farmers will have to rely on insurance, rather than rain, to make up the losses from their drought-stricken crops. Ed Dunn, insurance agent and broker at Strategic Farm Marketing in Cham-
paign, said about 80 percent of farmers in the Champaign area are covered by insurance. The most common type of farm insurance guarantees to pay back 85 percent of the farmer’s yield at market value. He said if the farmer’s yield was supposed to be 170 bushels and they only produced 100, through an insurance claim, that farmer would be able
to get the 70 bushels back. “It’s been 1988 since a drought like this happened, so the farming community felt bulletproof,” Dunn said. “Farmers that don’t have insurance have called and are very scared. They won’t make that mistake again.”
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Champaign Burglary from motor vehicle was reported in the 400 block of South Fourth Street around 2 p.m. Friday. According to the report, the victim reported an unknown offender stole one of her license plates. ! Residential burglary was reported in the 500 block of South Sixth Street at 11 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s locked, first-level apartment and stole a laptop computer and a flat screen television. ! A 24-year-old female was arrested on the charge of aggravated battery at Chester Street Bar, 63 East Chester Street, around 2 a.m. Monday. According to the report, officers were dispatched to !
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a fight in progress and observed the suspects fighting in the street. ! Aggravated battery was reported near South Fifth Street and John Street around 1 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, the victim was battered by an unknown male offender. ! Burglary from motor vehicle was reported in the 400 block of South Prarie Street at 5 p.m. Sunday. According to the report, the victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered by an unknown offender and several items were taken. ! Telephone threat was reported in the 400 block of West Vine Street just after midnight on Monday, Aug. 27. According to the report, a female victim has been receiving threats via text messages from an unknown of-
fender regarding her baby’s father.
Urbana ! Robbery and criminal damage to property were reported in the 1000 block of West Clark Street around 9 p.m. Sunday. According to the report, several offenders approached the victim and demanded money. One of the offenders also punched the victim. All four offenders fled from the scene prior to the police’s arrival. !" Theft was reported in the 2000 block of Vawter South Street around 6 a.m. Monday. According to the report, an unknown offender took a bicycle from in front of the victim’s apartment.
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RAIN FROM PAGE 1A campus as best as possible,” Blacker said. The University’s Facilities and Services department sent employees to check windows and window wells on campus buildings to make sure they were closed, as well as sandbagged certain areas. Facilities and Services also cleaned out street drains to “reduce any potential flooding,” Blacker said. In the Massmail, Wise advised students to use caution when traveling around campus, and assured that the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics department was “prepared with evacuation plans” for any athletic events held on campus. Although Saturday’s outdoor soc-
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cer match against University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was rescheduled for Monday, the athletic department had not planned to reschedule Saturday’s football game against Western Michigan, said Kent Brown, Illinois Sports Information Director. “We (were) looking at a large rain event, and it’s not unusual to be rained on during outside events,” Brown said. “We (had) a normal plan in place in case there is lightning, and then the game would (have been) suspended.” Brown said outdoor grass parking lots were also being monitored on Saturday, as some were susceptible to rain damage. Remnants of Isaac brought 1.5 inches of rain Saturday morning, but stopped during the football game because the area was underneath a rainband, or a break in the storm,
Snodgrass said. “It was great to see that the rain stopped briefly for the football game,” he said. In addition to the weather precautions for the football game, sorority recruitment, which was originally scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was also affected. As a result of the National Weather Service’s warnings, Saturday’s recruitment was cancelled and moved to Monday, said Melanie Kuta, junior in Media. Kuta, who serves as a “Gamma Chi,” or Greek counselor, during recruitment, said the “storm was not as bad as we expected” and was glad that “recruitment was able to be resumed the following day.”
Gordon Utendahl contributed to this report.
INSURANCE FROM PAGE 1A Speakers from the Illinois Farm Bureau visited the Champaign County Farm Bureau earlier this month to answer questions about crop insurance and how to prove yield amounts to insurance companies. Farmers won’t start to file claims until after this season’s harvest. “(Farmers) would much rather have yields than depend on insurance, for heaven’s sakes,” said Susie Harbaugh, assistant manager at the Champaign County Farm Bureau. “You just work hard and invest a lot of yourself in those crops. And you know, it’s been pretty darn stressful for these guys.”
Receiving insurance money is dependent on what kind of coverage farmers have or if they have coverage at all. “The most important thing is that (farmers) have to work very closely with their insurance agent and their accountant,” Harbaugh said. “It will be important that they have the right production evidence so they can indeed make an appropriate claim if they have a loss.” Adam Tallcott, senior in ACES, lives on a corn, soybean, wheat and cattle farm in western Illinois. His family has crop insurance, but he said it’s still stressful because the compensation insurance companies grant is based on average yields. “This year, we’re going to
ELECTION FROM PAGE 1A real people,” said Gill spokesman Mike Richards in a previous interview. On his campaign website, Gill said he’s running because “Congress just isn’t working for working people anymore. I’m ready to fi x that. I’m tired of seeing the wealthiest few — the millionaires and the multinational corporations — rig the system and force middle-class families, students and retirees on fi xed income to pay the price.” However, America’s deficit takes precedence for Hartman. “I know students are very concerned about getting a job once they get out of college, and I share that concern,” said Hartman, CFO of DNA Polymerase Technology Inc. “We have the ability in Washington to do more harm than good, and I’m afraid that we are doing harm to their
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be OK,” Tallcott said. “But the more yields you have that are low like this, essentially you’d get paid a lot less as time goes on.” Harbaugh said the upcoming rainfalls will not help the corn that had been damaged by the drought this year. “I think everybody at this point is trying to use a very common-sense approach as to what they do have out there,” she said. “(Everyone is) looking forward to next year and hoping that we certainly have the replenishment of the moisture in the soil so we can start out a little better.”
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economic prospects by running these massive deficits.” Davis, a former congressional aide to Rep. John Shimkus, R-19, is also campaigning on economic issues, with one of his top priorities being to re-establish bipartisanship in American economic policy. According to Davis, “I wanna go to Washington and score some touchdowns, address some major issues that need to be addressed. I think the only way to do that is to work with both parties, Democrats and Republicans, because frankly both of them are to blame.” As Election Day approaches, all three candidates expect to do a lot of campaigning across the entire district, with several events in the ChampaignUrbana area. Details and dates for these events have yet to be announced.
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DAVID J. PHILLIP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenny Melkin, right, and his wife, Becky, return home to see the flood damage caused by Isaac in the West End Park neighborhood along Lake Pontchartrain on Friday in New Orleans. Isaac crawled into the central U.S. on Friday, leaving behind a soggy mess in Louisiana.
Remains of Isaac still apparent Miss., La. work to control floodwater and restore order BY CAIN BURDEAU AND KEVIN MCGILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Much of a fi nger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. “My family is split up,” said Angela Serpas, from severely flooded Braithwaite in Plaquemines Parish. Serpas and her daughter were staying with her in-laws while her husband and son were staying in Belle Chasse, a suburban area of the parish. “This is the second time we’ve lost our home. We lost it in Katrina,” she said. At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. — five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi. More than 2,800 people were registered at various state, local and Red Cross shelters in the state, down from around 4,000 earlier. State officials were uncertain how many people would eventually need longer-term temporary housing. Kevin Davis, head of the state’s emergency office, said that housing would likely include hotels at first, then rental homes as close as possible to their damaged property. President Barack Obama was to visit Louisiana on Monday, a day ahead of the Democratic National Convention. He will meet with local officials, tour storm damage and view response and recovery
efforts before addressing reporters at Saint John the Baptist Parish, the White House said. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the state Friday. Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, visited Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Slidell, La., on Sunday. “We are part of a team to make sure Hurricane Isaac is put to rest as soon as we can for all those affected,” Napolitano said. “In the meantime, please know all of us are thinking about those in Louisiana who are without their homes or without their businesses.” Progress was evident in many places. Workers continued their return to offshore oil and gas production platforms and drilling rigs, electricity came on for hundreds of thousands of people and the annual Southern Decadence Festival, a gay pride celebration, carried on in the French Quarter. In Baton Rouge, thousands of gamblers even gathered for the opening of Louisiana’s newest riverboat casino— an opening that was delayed three days by Isaac. Crews in the town of Lafitte intentionally breached a levee Sunday night in an effort to help flooding there subside, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told The Times-Picayune. In the New Orleans region, there were signs of a slow recovery. Workers continued to deal with toppled trees and downed power lines, driving remained hazardous in areas without
working traffic lights, and New Orleans opened two cooling shelters so those with no electricity could escape the heat. Much of Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable finger of land that juts into the Gulf of Mexico, remained under as much as 5 feet of water, Parish President Billy Nungesser said. The Category 1 hurricane walloped the parish, and for many, the damage was worse than that from Katrina in 2005. “I’ve never seen water come up this quick this fast,” he said. Nungesser said there were reports that cattle in the largely rural parish took refuge on porches. In one instance, cattle broke through a window and lumbered onto furniture to stay above water. Controlled breaches of one overtopped levee and additional pumps are being used to get rid of the water. Business owners and residents who evacuated from the west river bank of flooded south Plaquemines Parish will be allowed to return temporarily with police escorts on Monday. Suburban communities farther north also had problems. Near Lake Pontchartrain, St. Tammany Parish officials kept watch over potential trouble spots along Isaac-swollen waterways. An evacuation near the community of Bush was dialed back Sunday after authorities stabilized a lock in danger of failing on the Pearl River Diversion Canal. But St. Tammany authorities also were keeping an eye on the West Pearl River. Parish spokeswoman said about 5,000 homes near that waterway could be affected if it floods. But St. James Parish officials ordered a curfew until 6 a.m.
Monday as the Blind River stayed at a 5.6-foot crest for 24 hours, and about 20 houses flooded. A state news release said 10 buses had been sent to the parish in case evacuation was necessary, and that about 150 National Guard soldiers had also been directed there. In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant reported 125,000 people were evacuated, though most returned home Sunday. Less than 100 people remained in shelters. Bryant said 924 people had to be rescued during Isaac. Entergy, which provides power to most of the people who lost it, was under fire over the weekend from local government officials for what they said was a slow pace of restoration. Jefferson Parish President John Young said widespread outages were hampering businesses’ recovery from the storm and he would ask the state Public Service Commission to investigate. Entergy spokesman Chanel Lagarde noted that Isaac had lingered over the state after Tuesday’s landfall and said Friday was the first day the corporation could get restoration efforts into high gear. “We do have a good plan and we’re going about it in an approach that we think is going to be effective,” Lagarde said. In Mississippi, about 1,600 Entergy customers awaited power. Roughly 5,000 served by notfor-profit electric associations also had no service. Napolitano met with Mississippi emergency officials and Bryant at a fire station in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which was protected by a new seawall built after Katrina devastated the city seven years ago.
Twitter more popular than TV during GOP convention BY BETH FOUHY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When it comes to following political conventions, Twitter may soon trump television. TV viewership for last week’s Republican National Convention dropped sharply from 2008, suggesting interest in this presidential race falls short of some past contests. But the convention was a hit online and on social networks, the latest evidence of the political conversation’s gradual migration from traditional media to the Web. The Nielsen Co. estimates that about 30.3 million viewers across 11 television networks watched convention coverage Thursday night when Mitt Romney delivered his prime-time speech accepting the GOP presidential nomination. That’s a 23 percent plunge from the same night four years ago when nearly 39 million people tuned in to watch then-GOP nominee John McCain address the convention and the nation. The Republican convention drew an older audience on TV.
Of the 22 million who watched Ann Romney speak on Tuesday night, Nielsen found that nearly 15 million were 55 or older. Only 1.5 million were age 18-34. There are many reasons the 2012 conventions may be less must-see TV than in 2008 — a historic election in which Democrat Barack Obama became the first African-American presidential nominee and Palin emerged as a Republican star. Hurricane Isaac drew at least some attention from last week’s GOP gathering in Tampa, Fla., a highly scripted affair that offered little in the way of news or surprises. Little news is expected at this week’s Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., where Obama will be nominated for a second term. But even as conventions lose viewers on television, they are thriving online and in social media, where many younger voters get their news. “It’s not always easy to sit in front of a TV and watch a convention unfold when you can watch it online, on demand or whenever you care to do so,” said Cos-
tas Panagopoulos, a Fordham University political science professor who has studied political conventions. “The changing media landscape has given people a chance to gather convention information relevant to them through social networks and other nontraditional sources.” Now, thanks to technology, those images are fi nding their way onto screens other than just the TV set. Both parties have offered live streaming feeds of the conventions online, and the RNC’s convention YouTube channel received 2.8 million video views. Several TV and print news organizations are also providing streaming video and opportunities for online engagement around the convention through their websites and Facebook pages. The GOP convention was one of the most talked about news events of the year on Facebook, according to data analysis provided by the company. But even there, the average audience was older — the speeches by Mitt Romney, Ann Romney and actor
Clinton Eastwood drew the most buzz among people over 55. Only Ryan’s speech drew a younger discussion on Facebook. Twitter has become an influential media force in the convention after being little more than a blip in 2008. That year, the two conventions together drew just 365,000 tweets. This year’s Republican convention alone drew 5 million tweets. Romney’s acceptance speech peaked at 14,300 tweets per minute to make it the most tweeted political event of 2012. The speech eclipsed Obama’s State of the Union address in January, which drew about 14,100 tweets per minute. Obama oddly got the last laugh on Twitter as the Republican convention wound down. On Thursday, after Eastwood conducted his rambling monologue with an empty chair intended to be Obama, the president’s campaign tweeted a photo showing the president seated in the Cabinet room with a caption that read, “this seat’s taken.” It was the most retweeted item of the GOP gathering.
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Mine workers celebrate their release at Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday.
Inequalities after apartheid spark miner strike, clash with police in South Africa BY MICHELLE FAUL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG — South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said. Police said four people were wounded at the mine, which used to be partially owned by the president’s nephew. The clash at the Gold Fields mine east of Johannesburg, reported by police and Neal Froneman, the CEO of Gold One International, was the latest violence to hit South Africa’s mines in months of unrest. Company spokesman Sven Lunsche said some 12,000 of the company’s workers “continue to engage in an unlawful and unprotected strike” that began Wednesday. He said it involved an internal dispute between local union leaders and members of the National Union of Mineworkers, the country’s largest union. After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa pressed to share the country’s vast mineral wealth with its impoverished black majority. But the hoped-for result has not occurred. A small black elite has become billionaires off mining while most South Africans continue to struggle against mounting unemployment, deeper poverty and a widening gap between rich and poor that makes the country one of the most unequal on Earth. The mine where the violence took place Monday has previous business ties to relatives of Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma — and was the site where firebrand politician Julius Malema, an avowed enemy of Zuma, pledged last week to make the nation’s mines ungovernable. South Africa’s mining unrest reached a bloody climax on Aug. 16 when police shot 112 striking workers, killing 34 of them, at a platinum mine at Marikana, northwest of Johannesburg. The state violence was reminiscent of apartheid days and has seriously damaged the government’s image. Outrage at the police killings was exacerbated by prosecutors, who last week charged some 270 miners arrested at the scene with the murders and attempted murders of their striking co-workers — people who were killed by police. The National Prosecuting Authority was forced to retract Sunday, withdrawing the charges made under an apartheid-era law. On Monday, 91 arrested min-
ers were released, much to the joy of their ululating and singing family members and supporters. But there were tears for the many more who remained in custody. The Independent Complaints Police Directorate has reported receiving complaints from more than 140 miners that they were beaten up in custody by officers trying to get them to name the strikers who hacked to death two policemen who were among 10 people killed in violence that led up to the shootings. The directorate also is investigating police officers on 34 murder charges and 78 attempted murder charges in the shootings, although no officers have been suspended. A judicial inquiry is to report to the president by January. Policy say they acted in selfdefense. No officer was hurt during the Marikana shootings. Also Monday, the Khulumani Support Group of some 80,000 survivors of human rights violations under apartheid said it filed an urgent appeal for a U.N. special rapporteur to assess what happened to the miners killed at Marikana, after reports that autopsies showed that many had been shot in the back. In Monday’s violence at Gold Fields, miners dismissed after a wildcat strike in June joined miners who lost their jobs two years ago to try to stop other workers and managers from reaching the mine. Froneman said as police were called to disperse them, the protesting miners stoned a vehicle carrying people to work. “Our security had to intervene — they used rubber bullets and police used rubber bullets and tear gas,” Froneman told The Associated Press. “Four people were slightly wounded and all have been released from the hospital.” But police spokeswoman Pinky Tsinyane said one of those wounded was in critical condition. The different versions could not immediately be reconciled. Tsinyane also said four people were arrested for public violence. The Gold Fields mine was bought two years ago by a group including Zuma’s nephew and a grandson of anti-apartheid icon Mandela. The two allegedly never paid for the mine but stripped it of most assets and now are being sued by liquidators. They have also failed to honor court orders to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the miners who were thrown out of work.
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An end to an era: A year without Harry Potter
LANGSTON ALLSTON THE DAILY ILLINI
Politicians’ statements make it impossible for the truth to reign over lies and deceit
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lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” once quipped Mark Twain. This is an astute observation and a point illustrated over and over in an age where technology moves messages halfway around the world in the blink of an eye. But many of these claims will never have the privilege of going through a fair journalistic review. Enter the characters in the 2012 presidential campaign: Gov. Mitt Romney’s camp putting out an ad saying President Barack Obama had put forth legislation in July to take a work requirement out of welfare. However, when examined by the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, it received a rating of “four Pinnochios” for the claim’s untruthfulness. Then, as widely noted by various news sources, Neil Newhouse, a pollster for Romney, said last week, “Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.” True, it’s impossible for a journalist to be completely objective, as he or she is human with unique experiences and world views. But journalists — at least the good ones — aim to seek truth and report it in a manner that’s fair and balanced. The basic standard of journalism is checking facts, which has now been pitted against the lies and halftruths of politicians like never before. But while propaganda spews all over the nation from both sides, the voices of fact checkers are often much too weak to clean up the mess already made. While fact-checking a Washington Post piece about vicepresidential hopeful Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention last week, columnist Ezra Klein could only find two truthful claims amid six absolutely false and three misleading statements. Propaganda has steered the world in many directions in history. Human emotion can be more effective at persuasion than straight reporting of the facts. But in a world where we want our coffee in two minutes and our news even faster, not many are going to be checking every claim Ryan made, which may be what he desires anyhow. Some swing voters may be doing their homework right up until the moment they enter the voting booth, but a greater majority will go with the candidate that makes the most emotional appeals, devoid of fact-checking roadblocks. Journalists and news consumers have to fact-check their way through an increasingly convoluted world of post-truth politics. While one fact is verified, exponentially more lies have migrated around the world. The political arena may be a dismal environment for both journalists and people who care about the facts: The lies of political campaigns have become too much to handle.
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cent of our students study abroad — roughly 10,000 kids. There can’t be 10,000 kids who have escaped to Spain or France or China without gaining some sort of learning: academic, intrapersonal or both. And then there’s me. I’m somewhat wary to compare experience to other students’. My time in Turkey was more of a bite-sized journey because I only stayed there for 17 days in the summer. I didn’t even enroll in a different university. However, I went with a University journalism class, and I worked my butt off to produce stories for The New York Times’ international blog, the International Herald Tribune. I may not have taken a micro course to get rid of that pesky econ credit, but I talked to all sorts of people, interviewed jailed journalists, went to the Turkey-Syria border — and along the way got published. Not only was it an amazing trip, but it was the biggest learning experience I’ve ever had and one I would have missed out on if I didn’t leave C-U. Wherever you go, you learn. If you make the most of your activities, you learn. It doesn’t matter what university you go to, where you are or how hard your class is — you’re going to soak up knowledge how you want to soak it up, regardless if you’re doing nonprofit work in Chicago, taking a class on child development in Ecuador or comforting refugees in Hatay, Turkey.
orget, for a moment, your own notions about the boy wizard, about whether his story is compelling or moving or drivel. Put aside your ideas about J.K. Rowling, her writing, her ability to tell a coherent story. They don’t matter. Regardless if you enjoyed the seven books and eight movies, the “Harry Potter” franchise has had an impact on the world like no other. This past weekend marked the 14th anniversary of the United States’ publication of the first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Since that release date, 2012 is the first year that something Harry Potter-related has not been delivered to the world. The popularity of the series cannot be debated. The sales of the book are estimated to be over four million in just the United Kingdom. More than 100 million copies are in print in the United States alone. Five of the eight films rank in the top 20 highest ranking movies of all-time. It has spawned fan sites, fan fiction, clothing, an entire subculture of wishful Hogwarts alums. But even looking beyond popularity, as popularity doesn’t necessarily signify merit, it is still difficult to dispute the importance and the power the franchise has had on the world. Literacy rates mark the most obvious area affected. Over half of “Harry Potter” readers between 5 and 17 years old said they did not read books for fun before they started the series. More than 75 percent noted “Harry Potter” has made them more interested in reading other books. Harry Potter impacted scholastic performance as well as self-esteem in school: Post-Harry Potter, students reported doing better in school, seeing themselves — many for the first time — as “smart.” Almost half began to see themselves as leaders. Harry Potter has also changed the film industry dramatically. The films helped to advance the resurgence of 3-D, bringing a medium generally reserved for animated comedies to the forefront of film. Not only that, it also allowed for the U.K., known for small, lowcost films, to become recognized as a leader in acting as well as special effects. Potter’s most intriguing contribution to the film industry comes through its release style. Because the initial film deal included all seven books, Warner Brothers had built-in sequels sure to have an audience. Not only that, but “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was split into two parts, a model perfectly fitted to increasing revenue, and a model now followed by the Twilight series, as well as “The Hobbit.” Harry’s impact and influence over cultural and societal trends has been perhaps most powerful, or at least most shocking. University courses are taught on the books, and academic conferences held, looking at class, race, law, sexuality, as they are represented in Potter. Quidditch teams spring up on college campuses, and social scientists treat the Harry Potter series as “a cultural phenomenon worthy of serious academic inquiry,” going so far as to diagnose characters in the books, using the series for research and education. For me, this year without Harry Potter is scary. It marks — finally, resolutely — the end of my childhood. I can no longer cling to those long nights on my parents’ bed, listening to my sister ask who Hagrid is for the millionth time, my dad mimicking the gravely voice of Snape and the squeaks of Dobby. It’s a giant part of my childhood, of my life, that has come to a conclusion. I have grown up with Harry Potter, as Harry Potter. I have struggled as he struggled, fought as he fought, lived as he lived. Now all I can do is find solace in the fact that millions of others too are still trying to hold on to Harry for as long as they can. Lisa Lowe, a professor of American Studies at Yale, puts it best: “What (Rowling’s) really done is come up with a mode of captivating a whole generation: it’s a form of captive concentration that took place over a course of nearly 10 years. As an adult, you’ll be thinking, ‘What would Harry have done?’” Here’s to the Boy Who Lived, who continues to live in all of us who have stuck with Harry until the very end.
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Bottled convenience beats recycling RENÉE WUNDERLICH Opinions columnist
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he Students for Environmental Concerns has plans to launch a campaign this fall against buying bottled water. I’d like to commend SECS for their effort to change the destructive consumer habits of the student body. Well done. Now I’m going to tell you why it’s not going to work. Americans have known about the number of plastic bottles that clutter landfi lls and wash up on beaches since bottled water first became popular. SECS’ campaign reminds me of the Polaris Institute’s “Inside the Bottle,” which proclaims itself to be “the people’s campaign on the bottled water industry.” Inside the Bottle was started in 2007, and the reaction was quite similar to the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 — or so I’m told. The campaign and the day experienced initial hype but fizzled out in following years I wasn’t alive to witness the original tree huggers in all their hippie glory. I’m sure it was heartwarming and majestic as the delicate fragrance of fresh compost fi lled the
air. But even with Earth Day, climate change awareness and registered student organizations such as SECS, deforestation is still happening. Endangered species are still endangered, and a few have gone extinct. People still buy bottled water. This is not to say that the “Save the Earth” movement was for nothing. It got the country thinking about recycling, put a meaning behind the term “carbon footprint” and forever revolutionized industry. Today, it is not enough to produce a reputable product — it has to “give back,” without taking much if anything away from the environment. Dasani water bottles now boast a tiny green leaf below and left of the company’s logo that reads: “plant bottle, redesigned plastic, recyclable as ever.” Now the consumer of said plastic water bottle can be confident that, while that water bottle will eventually be drained, discarded and, with any hope, fi nd itself in the nearest blue Feed The Thing recycling bin that were instituted throughout campus in 2010. Without delving into the health risks posed by BPA and other carcinogens, we know that bottled water is bad for the environment. So why do we still buy it? Reasons range from forgetting a reusable water bottle at home to liking the taste of a particu-
lar brand of filtered H2O. Regardless, consumer culture demands that bottled water be sold at gas stations, megamarts and, yes, even campus bookstores. Water is biologically essential, and bottled water is convenient — the human body can only be sustained for about one week without water. But SECS brings up another interesting fact in support of their campaign: Illinois tap water is (relatively) safe to drink. In countries such as India or Morocco, residents think twice before ingesting untreated water, and experienced travelers know that they will spend more money in these countries on drinking water than souvenirs, transportation and food combined. My guilt generated by buying a 2-liter bottle of water for my trek through Marrakesh only held until I realized that the Sahara is freaking hot and falling off a camel dehydrated was not exactly an option for me. So I bought the bottles and (gasp) didn’t recycle them. My catharsis takes the form of a Nalgene bottle that I will faithfully tote with me to the gym, as I have for years. So good luck, SECS – just know that those who listen may not be the ones you’re trying to reach.
Renée is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.
Study abroad helps education and mojo TOLU TAIWO Opinions columnist
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he Daily Illini published “Study abroad can take away from education” on the negative educational impact going abroad has. As someone who’s gone overseas, I’m majorly biased. I’m also majorly in disagreement. Just to be clear: I’m not here to fight the writer, Ryan Weber, to the death with my words or blast him in some kind of weird columnist duel. Besides the fact that he’s entitled to his own thoughts, I do agree with him on something interesting that he said: There are tons of ways to gain diversity in other areas of the United States. We’re lucky to be around a city, like Chicago, that gives us a rich learning base. Still. I can’t imagine that studying abroad takes away from education in the least bit because I’ve seen so many examples of success stories. Take, for instance, one of my best friends. A true travel junkie, she studied abroad for a year. Besides learning how to appreciate Swedish cuisines and snuggling up in five blankets a night (apparently Sweden is cold?), she took some interesting classes for her major. From learning about food sustainability, to hearing about the KONY 2012 debate from someone close in the movement, she was able to fi ll her
head with awe-inspiring things and take some challenging classes that gave her University credit. Education, check. I don’t know if her university was any better or worse than this University, but it doesn’t matter. She went. She learned. She conquered. In addition to the academic side, there’s also the personal change that can happen when people leave here. Not the “dear God, he just came back from Cambodia, and now he thinks he’s the most interesting man in the world” change. But the fascinating change that allows you to learn something about yourself. One of my other best friends left, just for a semester. An already awesome guy, he came back kind of different. I couldn’t put my fi nger on it, until one day, I saw him interact with others at a party. It wasn’t that his clothes were too different or that his humor had changed. He came back with confidence. He was packing swag. One of the most amazing things to me is how people can come back changed for the better. Now, one could argue that you could have a total “ah-ha!” moment in one of your classes here or experience a confidence boost in C-U. But the thing is, the point of study abroad is that it gets you out of your comfort zone. Once you get past that point, you can truly examine yourself and other ways of learning. There’s got to be a reason why we’re ranked 14th in sending students across the ponds — it’s good for the mind and soul. Plus, 27 per-
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EMAIL FROM PAGE 6A conversation will be,” DiVietro said. After writing a specific subject line and beginning an email with a professional opening, the content of the email can come through. It is important that requests and inquiries are made with absolute professional etiquette. Robinett recommended that students have an etiquette guide bookmarked on their web browser for easy reference. Find an etiquette guide that is easy to understand and refer to it whenever necessary. “There are certain guidelines that should be followed, and if
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you don’t know something, ask someone,” Robinett said. The content of your email should always be finished off with an appropriate closing. This is important because an email might be printed out and referenced by a professor or employer. In this case, a student’s name should be at the bottom so can be easily found and recognized. Many emailing systems allow users to set a closing block to repeat at the end of each email. “A tastefully done signature block can be really nice because it lets people know what you’re involved in and what year you are,” Robinett said. It is important that a signature block for a professional email is kept very formal. Though some people find it fun to add a quote
or emoticon after their name, this should be reserved for only personal emails. While students might understand the importance of being grammatically and professionally conscious, it is also necessary to remember that emails should never be sent in the midst of emotion. “No matter how much you feel you should tell your professor your thoughts at three o’clock in the morning, you shouldn’t,” Robinett said. Students should sleep off the emotion and liquid courage in order to avoid embarrassment. Once an email is sent, it cannot be taken back.
Becky can be reached at zilis1@dailyillini.com.
DISH OF THE WEEK
The Bread Company serves a savory treat Fried goat cheese can be enjoyed as an appetizer or dessert any time
BY CHRISTEN MCGLYNN STAFF WRITER
When searching for a meal close to the Quad, students can fi nd what some believe to be a combination of good atmosphere and quality entrees at The Bread Company. Located on 706 South Goodwin, The Bread Company is a family-run business where “the food pretty much sells itself,” according to Aleks Dragas, head chef and manager of the restaurant. The restaurant has two main operation times, he added: daytime, when soups, salads and sandwiches are served ; and the nighttime operation when the menu expands to include dishes ranging from pastas and seafood to elaborate pizzas. The atmosphere also makes a change from a casual, relaxing scene during the day, to formal dining with linen tablecloths during the evenings. Dragas took over as head chef for the restaurant three months ago. He said he always strives for perfection in each of his dishes and feels that “it could always be better.” While many of The Bread Company’s meals are very popular among students and faculty, one in particular stuck out to Dragas: the fried goat cheese. This dish is usually served as an appetizer and is doused in a tempura batter with two eggs, salt, water and fl our to thicken, then lightly coated in Panko fl akes, which are Japanese-style breadcrumbs. After the goat cheese is fried, it is then served with honey and strawberries to create a saltysweet treat that can act as an appetizer or dessert. For those having a bad week, the goat cheese pairs well with
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As the beginning of the semester progresses, students scramble to fi nd out more about the professors teaching their classes: What are their tests like? How important is class participation? Do you really need to read the assigned material? Student review websites such as Koofers (Koofers.com) or Rate My Professors (ratemyprofessors.com) are popular ways to fi nd this information. These sites allow students to provide feedback on past courses and professors. Katherine Meehan, freshman in Engineering, used Rate My Professors to look up all of her professors for her fi rst semester of college. When she read that one of the instructors was so difficult that it was hard to get a high grade in the class, Meehan decided to drop it. “As with any review, I realize when I am reading that this person (writing the review) is different from me ... but I can figure out the general advantages and disadvantages of a professor,” Meehan said. Though Catherine Mesyef, senior in LAS, said she also checked reviews on Rate My Professors while registering for classes, she took them with a grain of salt. “I never listen to the statistic ratings,” Mesyef said. “I read the individual comments ... to hear what types of experiences former students have had, while keeping in mind how circumstantial those could be.”
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Dr. Susan Curtis, an account- ICES reports that students fi ll ing lecturer, questions the legit- out at the end of the semesimacy of reviews on Rate My ter. Fireman pays attention to Professors as well. reviews from both sources, and “Although (I have) over takes them to heart. 150 reviews on (Rate My ProMesyef also recognizes the fessors), I have taught over potential for professors that 150,000 students over the past these websites offer, even if 15 years,” Curtis said. “The size reviews come from students of the sample, along with the who “love you or hate you.” self-selection of students who “If the same negative reviews choose to make postings renders have been posted for multiple the data on (Rate My Profes- semesters, then yeah, hopefulsors) or any other similar web- ly a professor would have the sense to switch up some stuff,” site questionable.” Mesyef and many other stu- she said. dents, however, still trust the Whether the reviews on webwebsite to give them an idea of sites like Rate My Professors a professor’s teaching style and are a fair representation of a whether they can do well in the sample or not, they offer students more inforclass. mation when “The key is to fi nd the tone of choosing classes. “ T he more the comments information the most si mi la r students have to your own,” Mesyef said. access to about Though the their classes, the website Rate My better,” Fireman Professors is utisaid. lized mostly by To combat the limited reviews students, some professors take a these websites CATHERINE MESYEF, peek at their prohave, Fireman senior in LAS fi les from time to offered another time. alternative. Dr. Ellen Fireman, a statis“A more extreme direction tics lecturer, often checks the would be for the University to reviews students write for one release ICES scores and grade of her largest classes, Statis- distributions of the instructors tics 100. and courses,” she added. “If we Though Fireman agrees that did that, students wouldn’t have reviews are usually written by to resort to tabloid websites for students who “either love you information.” or hate you,” she noticed a correlation between her reviews Zefan can be reached at araya1@ on Rate My Professors and the dailyillini.com.
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the restaurant’s sangria bought from Glunz Family Winery located in Lincolnwood, Ill . “The preparation requires the most skill and practice. It is an aspect of cooking that is just as important as knowing the science behind it,” Dragas said. Many of the restaurant’s cheeses are specially imported from European Imports, Ltd . to ensure top quality for their customers. All their breads are made fresh daily from scratch with no MSG or preservatives, Dragas said. According to Dragas, the key
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SITTING DOWN WITH
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lthough the Alma Mater is but an empty space on campus this year, she stays present by communicating to the campus through her Twitter @Illinois_Alma. Alma took some time out of her hectic schedule to have a conversation with the Daily Illini to answer some of the questions we’ve always wondered.
DI: What is your favorite time of the year and why?
Alma Mater: It’s a sort of spa for sculptures - Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio, based in Forest Park, Ill., near Chicago.
AM: Oh, there are so many! I defi nitely love the start of a new school year when my students and faculty return to campus. Homecoming is fantastic, because so many of my alumni come home to visit. But graduation might be my absolute favorite. All of my happy children take pictures with me as they prepare to go out into the world and make a big impact. And I often recognize their parents, grandparents and siblings too from their days as students! I’m already looking forward to being back on campus this spring for the class of 2013.
DI: Who is your closest group of friends on campus?
DI: A lot of people tend to climb all over you. How does that make you feel?
Daily Illini: So Alma, I see that you have left campus for a little vacation. Where did you go?
AM: That’s a tough one. I love all of my students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, friends and fans, but Red Grange, Grainger Bob, Labor, Learning and I have a lot in common.
AM: Nervous! A mother is always worried that her children will fall! But I just consider people climbing on me to be their version of hugs. And hugs are awesome.
DI: What is your favorite thing about University students?
AM: Their youth! But seriously, I love their ambition. They are all ready to take on the world. Nothing makes me more proud.
DI: What do you like to do in your free time? AM: A mother never has any free time, dear, but I do love to people watch!
DI: What is your arm work out? Because you can really hold those suckers out and extended for a long time. AM: I have my secrets!
DI: Why do you love the University’s campus?
AM: There is a great balance of timehonored tradition mixed in with the state-of-the-art here. And the change of seasons (trust me, I’ve seen quite a few!) is beautiful in this Midwestern setting.
DI: What is your relationship with the many squirrels on campus like?
AM: Sometimes I have to remind them to share and be nice, but mostly, they are wonderful. And they — Quad Oskee in particular — love to entertain me with stories about the things they see (and eat) on campus.
DI: Where did you get your name “Alma Mater”? AM: From my stylist, Lorado Taft, when he made me, Learning, and Labor in 1929.
DI: What is your best advice to students?
AM: Oh, I give advice all year long: study hard, use your hand sanitizer, look both ways before crossing the street, iron that gown before graduation, call your parents...
Haley can be reached at jones39@dailyillini.com.
Email etiquette a must when contacting professionals BECKY ZILIS Staff writer
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he professional world has evolved so that email conversations are not only convenient means of communication but often preferred over more time consuming ways of correspondence. Though email began as a more casual way of contact, students now need to remember the importance of upholding a professional attitude via email, even though their voice is
heard only through Times New Roman and viewed on a computer screen. Whether a student is corresponding with a professor, administrator or employer, the subject line is vital and should be as specific as possible. “I love it when someone uses a good subject line because when it is too general, it doesn’t tell me anything about the email,” said Susan Curtis, lecturer in Business. Subject lines should be updated as a chain of emails jumps from topic to topic and should include a student’s name and a few searchable words.
Then comes the actual message. Beginning an email to a professor or potential employer can be confusing, as the level of professionalism may not always be known. The key to avoiding looking unprofessional is to always start a conversation as formally as possible, said Jeremy Robinett, an assistant professor in Recreation, Sports and Tourism. “If you’re overly formal with someone in the first contact, you’re always safe,” he said. Students should always begin formally and let their authoritative figures dictate how professional the conversation will be.
Marianna DiVietro, assistant director of Student Outreach at the Career Center, explained that the greeting in a professional email should always end with a colon. If an employer is being addressed, students should start with “Dear” or “Hello,” and in no case is “Hey” appropriate. The greeting of an email can be confusing as students might not always be sure who will be responding to the message. When contacting a corporation, students should do their best to research the title of whom they might be contacting. DiVietro encourages students to build relationships with pro-
fessionals whenever possible. When emailing potential employers, remind them of your first interaction before you inquire about an internship or job. If following up on a conversation at a career fair via email, DiVietro suggested starting with something specific that might have been brought up, like a sports game or hobby that a student and employer brought up in conversation. “Add a little rapport before you ask or demand something,” she said. Curtis suggested including a small line at the beginning of an email that shows some person-
ality. Instead of delving into the informative content of an email, students should start a correspondence with something that shows courteousness. If an email is stripped down to the bare minimum, all personality can be lost. “I think email is horrible for conveying emotion, ” Curtis said. Students should spend an ample amount of time researching a company in order to make the email flow with both professionalism and emotion. “The more information you have to go off of, the better your
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Illinois' Ryan Lankford runs with the ball during the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Lankford turned his only catch into a 64-yard touchdown.
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Coach Beckman relies on Illinois defense in 24-7 win over Western Michigan on Saturday BY JAMAL COLLIER STAFF WRITER
Tim Beckman walked into the room for his postgame press conference proudly holding the game ball athletic director Mike Thomas and the Illinois football team presented him after Saturday’s 24-7 victory against Western Michigan. However, he didn’t have plans to accept it, saying that this was the “team’s game ball,” with plans to frame it as the first victory of the new era. “All the guys in the locker room love him and we really feel like he’s bringing in a new era,” defensive end Michael Buchanan said. “We wanted to get (the win) for him.” It only took four plays for the Illini’s new spread offense to strike. Wide receiver Ryan Lankford turned a pass from quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase into a 64-yard touchdown
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Meyers Leonard now drives a Porsche. When asked if he splurged with his NBA signing bonus, the former Illini center turned Portland Trail Blazer prefaced his response by saying that he plans to invest and save the rest of his money. Leonard met with the media during halftime of the Illinois football team’s 24-7 victory over Western Michigan on Saturday. The Robinson, Ill., native said returning to campus as an NBA player has a slightly different feel than when he was a student-athlete. “People defi nitely notice me everywhere I’m at,” he said. The Trail Blazers selected Leonard with the No. 11 pick in this spring’s NBA Draft. The 7-foot-1 center led the Illini in rebounding (8.2 per game) and was second in scoring (13.6 per game) as a sophomore last season. Leonard said he also plans to buy a new home for his mother in Robinson rather
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to give Illinois the early lead. It was the perfect start to Saturday’s game in front of a crowd of 43,441 at Memorial Stadium, and co-offensive coordinator Chris Beatty said it worked exactly how Illinois planned it. The Illini saw the Broncos tendency to bring their safeties up, and Beatty said he knew “last Tuesday or Wednesday” the play would work. The largest cause for concern for the Illini came in the third quarter. Leading 17-0 and poised to extend its lead, Scheelhaase had his pass, which was intended for receiver Spencer Harris, intercepted in the end zone. It proved to be costly not only because it thwarted the Illini’s scoring chance, but Scheelhaase would leave the game with an injury to his left ankle. Scheelhaase finished the
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than moving her to Portland with him. “I’m going to leave her in Robinson, get her a new house, get her comfortable. I thought with me being away so much on the road and things like that, it was the best idea to leave her at home.” Leonard said he has worked out with his former teammates a few times throughout the offseason, adding that he’s much stronger than he was during his two seasons in orange and blue. He said his current weight fluctuates from 250 to 254 pounds. “When I talked to the trainers out there, they were saying you don’t want to put on the weight too quick because if you start favoring one thing you can hurt another thing,” he said. “Obviously they have had some bad luck with big men, so I’m just trying to keep my body healthy and just be me.”
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Scheelhaase practices Sunday after hurting ankle, but status unknown for Arizona State BY CHAD THORNBURG STAFF WRITER
Co-offensive coordinator Chris Beatty said last week that the Illini had no plans to play more than one quarterback in the season opener against Western Michigan. Those plans changed when starter Nathan Scheelhaase went down with an ankle injury in the third quarter. Sophomore Reilly O’Toole replaced Scheelhaase, who, after being looked at by trainers on the sideline, was carted off the field. “We’ll continue to evaluate it,” head coach Tim Beckman said after the 24-7 victory. “But you all know Nathan Scheelhaase. Nathan Scheelhaase will do whatever he can to make sure he’s prepared and ready for next week.” The junior quarterback appeared to injure his left ankle on a read-option play with about 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter. Western Michigan linebacker Kyle Lark landed on Scheelhaase’s left ankle, twisting it out-
ward. Scheelhaase remained on the field for the remaining three plays of the drive, which ended on an interception in the end zone. Beckman confi rmed Monday that Scheelhaase did injure his ankle, but did not elaborate except to say that it wasn’t a high ankle sprain. He said Scheelhaase was at practice Sunday but was “defi nitely not full go,” adding that he believes a player needs at least some practice — particularly Wednesday’s full practice — before playing in a game. Prior to exiting the game, Scheelhaase was 11-for-18 passing for 126 yards with one touchdown and an interception, also adding a 4-yard rushing touchdown. The offense was stagnant in Scheelhaase’s absence, while O’Toole was just 2-for-3 for 7 yards in his place. “Reilly was kind of up and down,” Beckman said. “We’ve got to make sure that we’ve got
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The Portland Trailblazers' Meyers Leonard watches the game from the sideline during the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Illinois volleyball splits weekend with Iowa State BY DANIEL MILLER-MCLEMORE STAFF WRITER
The Illinois volleyball team continued riding the emotional roller coaster last weekend. The No. 20 Illini rolled through No. 18 Iowa State during Stuff Huff on Friday night, winning 25-16, 25-22, 25-16. Illinois earned its fi rst straight-set victory of the season in front of the largest opening night crowd in school history; 3,770 fans were in attendance to watch the unveiling of the 2011 NCAA runner-up banner and the beginning of a new era. The youth and inexperience of that new era showed as the two teams squared off again Satur-
day. The Illini came up short in their first five-set match of the season, losing 28-26, 19-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-10. Friday night was the high point of the weekend, as the crowd gave a huge ovation to last year’s seniors, Rachel Feldman, Hannah Deterding and Michelle Bartsch, when they pulled the cover off the 2011 banner. The resultant atmosphere and energy in Huff Hall buoyed Illinois to victory. “It’s amazing playing at Huff,” sophomore Morganne Criswell said. “The amount of energy that comes from the crowd is indescribable when you’re on the court. It’s awesome.”
Criswell was part of a balanced Illini attack Friday, fi nishing with 10 kills and a .500 hitting percentage. Early in the first set, it appeared as if Illinois’ struggles from a week ago would continue as Iowa State jumped out to a 15-12 lead. But the Illini closed the set on a 13-1 run, winning nine straight points off the serve of redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks. “Halfway through that fi rst set (the Cyclones) were scoring at a pretty high rate, and then our defense started to play Illinois style of defense where we’re blocking balls and creating deflections and getting a lot
of swings,” Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly said. “This looked much more like a team that I like to coach and a team that I like to be around because we’re defensive minded.” From that point on it was all Illinois. A Criswell kill secured a tight second set and the Illini led wire-to-wire in the third set for the sweep. “I think that we finally just figured out how to play effectively as a team,” sophomore middle blocker Anna Dorn said. “It takes some time with all the new players that we have on the court to kind of develop a little groove to go with.” Helping Illinois find that groove
was the return of Ali Stark to the starting lineup. Stark sprained her ankle during the Illini’s season opener and was a question mark all week. The answer was provided instantly Friday night as Stark stepped to the line for the first serve of the game, something Hambly had no qualms about. “Ali’s a good volleyball player. She’s one of the better allaround volleyball players I’ve coached,” Hambly said. “I’m not saying she’s the best attacker or the best blocker, but she just can play the game.” Hambly cited Stark’s passing
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“This looked much more like a team that I like to coach and a team that I like to be around because we’re defensive minded.” KEVIN HAMBLY, head coach
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VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 1B as a key to the team’s improvements from a week ago. As a whole, the Illini passed significantly better, resulting in a .343 hitting percentage. Birks led the team with 13 kills and sophomore right side hitter Liz McMahon chipped in 11 of her own. The allaround performance left Illinois on a high note heading into Saturday’s match. By Saturday night, however, the good feelings had evaporated after Iowa State used a 7-1 run in the fifth set to earn a weekend split. Early in the match, it appeared Illinois would continue to dominate the Cyclones. The Illini jumped out to a 24-19 lead, but Iowa State managed to claw back to a 24-24 tie before Illinois setter Annie Luhrsen put away a kill to give Illinois the 28-26 win. “The funny thing about volleyball is that momentum shift,” Hambly said. “The funny thing about momentum is that it doesn’t really exist, it’s just in your mind. And we’ve got some young minded kids right now that need to be tougher. They were affected by that push that they made and we need to be tough and understand that doesn’t really exist.“ Existing momentum or not, Iowa State continued playing at a high level and went on to take the next two sets with relative ease, although the Illini made a late push in the third. Illinois forced a fifth set with a 25-23 win in the fourth set but were unable to seal the deal. “I think they just had more fight and they played a little bit more consistent all over,” Luhrsen said. “I think we’re still figuring a lot of stuff out and we’re figuring stuff out in the fifth game and we didn’t fight as hard as they did.” Freshman Mackenzie Bigbee slammed the winning kill into the opposite corner to claim the victory for the Cyclones. It was a fitting end after Illinois was unable to control the southpaw outside hitter all game long. Bigbee finished with 25 kills and a .409 hitting percentage. “She did everything,” Hambly said. “When kids are moving it around that much with that much range, she’s gonna be special.” In addition to Bigbee’s dominance, the Illini made errors all night long that hurt their cause. The most glaring mistakes came on their serves, where Illinois made 13 errors, and in serve receive. Hambly shuffled the backline multiple times in an effort to find the answer, but ultimately nothing worked. For a young team early in the season, the experiences learned from games like this are plentiful. “The list is ridiculous,” Hambly said after citing a few, including the team’s bench play. “I could go on and on.” McMahon added that losing was another part of the learning process. “We’re working on figuring out a new identity and what we’re gonna have to play like,” McMahon said. “Sometimes you really don’t realize what the seniors, or the team last year, what they had to carry on their backs.” The young Illini are experiencing a baptism by fire in that field, and as such, ups and downs of the early season roller coaster are to be expected.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Illini win in Paralympics’ 1st weekend BY MICHAEL WONSOVER STAFF WRITER
After the first weekend of 2012 Paralympic competition, two Illini athletes have already earned gold medals, with Ray Martin taking home two. Martin, an incoming freshman at Illinois, dominated his competition in both of his events so far. He won his first career final — the men’s 100-meter dash of the T52 classification — Sunday. Martin looked like a veteran, finishing with a time of 17.02 seconds. Hernandez Mondragon Salvador of Mexico finished second in 17.64. Sunday was just the beginning for Martin. The 18-year-old won another gold Monday in the final of the men’s T52 400 meters, a classification for athletes with spinal cord injuries. Martin finished the race in 58.54 seconds, beating out Japan’s Tomoya Ito, who finished in 1:00.40. Martin will try to earn his third gold medal when he competes in the T52 800 Friday. Tatyana McFadden, a junior at Illinois, won her first gold medal Monday in the final of the women’s T54 400. McFadden beat Hongjiao Dong of China, finishing with a personalbest time of 52.97. In 2008, McFadden earned a silver medal in the 400. Her next event will be the prelims of the T54 800 on Tuesday. McFadden’s personal best of 1:46.97 is better than any of the 20 competitors in that event. Four other Illini competed in three track and field events Sunday. Josh George finished fifth in the men’s T53 400 in 51.14. He won a bronze medal in 2004 in the same event. Jessica Galli and Anjali Forber-Pratt finished fourth and sixth, respectively, in the final of the women’s T53 100 on Sunday. Galli finished with a time of 17.42, compared to ForberPratt’s 17.67. Amanda McGrory finished seventh in the final of the women’s T54 5,000 on Sunday. She finished with a time of 12:29.07 in the final after finishing first in her qualifying heat. She won a gold medal in the same event in 2008. McGrory said Tuesday that participating in so many races could be tiring. “It’s a lot of events, a lot of time spent on the track,” McGrory said. “(The races) don’t end up being that long. The longest I’m on the track is the 5,000, which only takes 11 or 12 minutes. To do that event, you end up being at the track for somewhere between six or seven hours.” McGrory has a strategy to avoid the fatigue that will come
FROM PAGE 1B him doing a little bit more of what we want to do instead of letting him make some of those checks.” O’Toole said he noticed Scheelhaase limping a few plays prior to exiting the game and was prepared to take the field. “Nate’s a reckless player,” O’Toole said. “He’ll lower his shoulder. Just the way he plays, he plays all out, plays every down like it’s his last. With that being said, you’ve got to be ready (as his backup) at any point in the game.” While Scheelhaase is a more accomplished rusher — he led the team in rushing yards last season with 624 — Beckman said the offensive game plan won’t change much if O’Toole is the starter. “We believe in what we’re doing offensively,” Beckman said. “We’ll still run the same stuff that we were running with Nathan. Coach Beatty does a great job with the quarterbacks and has them prepared.” O’Toole runs with the secondteam offense in practice, but said he receives the same number of reps and runs the same plays as Scheelhaase with the first team. Versatile third-string quarterback Miles Osei also saw action in Saturday’s win but didn’t attempt a pass. Beckman said Osei will see more time this week, if not at quarterback then at wide receiver or running back. Beatty said he’s comfortable going into Tempe, Ariz., with O’Toole and Osei in the event Scheelhaase can’t go against Arizona State on Saturday. “I feel like those guys can win games in this league,” Beatty said. “We’ll get those guys ready if we have to.”
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from competing in three more events. “The most important thing is being relaxed,” the Illinois graduate said. “There’s a lot of excitement, there’s a lot of different personalities and all sorts of things going on. I think the most important thing for me is just to remember why I’m here, and that is to compete. Along with Martin and McFadden competing Monday, three other Illini participated in events. Brian Siemann placed sixth in the final of the men’s T53 100, finishing in 15.39. Round One of the men’s T54 1,500 also began Monday. Aaron Pike finished seventh in his heat, failing to qualify for the finals. George also did not qualify, finishing fifth in his heat. With the men’s wheelchair basketball quarterfinals beginning Wednesday, the last preliminary games were played Monday. The men’s Canadian and Australian teams, featuring a combined five Illini, will enter the quarterfinals as the favored teams after going undefeated in the preliminary round. Australia, which won its group, went a perfect 3-0 on the weekend. After defeating Turkey 71-64 Friday, Australia defeated Spain, U.S. and Italy the next three days. Australia has outscored its opponents by an average margin of 22.6 points per game. The two Illini on Team Australia, Dylan Alcott and Grant Mizens, did not score Monday. While the two Illini were modest contributors to the Australian effort, Patrick Anderson of Canada wasn’t only the best player on his team, he’s been the best player of the tournament thus far. Anderson, a former Illini, had a triple-double Friday in a win against Great Britain. He nearly had another triple-double Saturday in a victory over Poland, finishing with 34 points, nine rebounds and 12 assists. And on Sunday, in a victory over Germany, Anderson recorded his second tripledouble of the tournament with 25 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists. Canada finished off the weekend with a 68-42 victory over Colombia on Monday. Anderson played only 10 minutes in the game, scoring 13 points while grabbing four rebounds and dishing out two assists. After a 21-8 first-quarter lead, Anderson sat out for the rest of the game. Former Illini Adam Lancia contributed two points, five rebounds and four assists to the game while another Illini, Brandon Wagner, had two points and two rebounds in the win. Two Illini contributed in a
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Illini Tatyana McFadden celebrates as she wins gold in the women’s 400m T54 final at the 2012 Paralympics on Monday in London. The junior will also compete in the 800m T54. huge 63-55 win for the U.S. against Spain on Monday. Will Waller, former Illini and team captain, finished with six points and two rebounds, while Steven Serio, also of Illinois, recorded six points, three rebounds and five assists. The U.S. was led by Jason Nelms, who finished with 21 points. The win moved the Americans ahead of Spain in their group, avoiding having to play Canada. The U.S. will now play Germany in the quarterfinals. On the women’s side, Germany and the U.S. are the two top teams. Germany finished preliminary competition with a perfect 4-0 record, outscoring opponents by 24 points per game on average. Former Illini Edina Mueller contributed two points and six assists to Germany in a 68-28 victory over Mexico on Monday. Germany is the only undefeated team on the women’s side. The secondbest team — the U.S. — had a bit of an unlucky draw. If the U.S. was part of Australia’s group, it would be in first place with a record of 3-1. Unfortunately for the Americans, who have a 70-point combined differential, they are in second place to Germany. Instead, Australia will enter the quarterfinals with a higher seed than the U.S. despite both squads having the same record. Australia only has a 31-point combined differential. The Americans only loss came Friday, 54-48, to firstplace Germany. The U.S. led for
2012 Paralympics medal count as of Monday 1. China — 112 total, 46 gold, 31 silver, 35 bronze 2. Great Britain — 63 total, 19 gold, 25 silver, 19 bronze 3. Russia — 49 total, 16 gold, 20 silver, 13 bronze 6. US — 40 total, 12 gold, 11 silver, 17 bronze
Illini track and field athletes compete overseas Sunday Women’s T54 5,000 meters final
Amanda McGrory of the U.S. finished seventh with a time of 12 minutes, 29 seconds. Edith Wolf of Switzerland finished first with a time of 12:27.87. Men’s T53 400 final
much of the game before being outscored 21-12 in the fourth quarter. The U.S. rebounded by dominating Mexico 67-33 on Saturday, with team captain and Illini Sarah Castle finishing with four points, six rebounds and five assists. Jennifer Chew, another Illini, scored a point and assisted on two baskets. After having a day off Sunday, the U.S. ended preliminary play with a 68-65 overtime victory against China. The Americans were down by 11 heading into the fourth quarter and stormed back, outscoring the Chinese 26-15 in the final frame to force overtime. Rebecca Murray of the U.S., who finished with 30 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists, made the game-winning field goal with 39 seconds remaining. Chew and Castle did not score. The women’s wheelchair basketball quarterfinals begin on Tuesday.
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Joshua George of the U.S. finished fifth with a time of 51.14. Li Huzhao of China finished first with a time of 49.70. Men’s T52 100 final
Ray Martin of the U.S. finished first with a time of 17.02. Hernandez Mondragon Salvador of Mexico finished second with a time of 17.64. Women’s T53 100 final
Jessica Galli of the U.S. finished fourth with a time of 17.42. Anjali Forber-Pratt of the U.S. finished sixth with a time of 17.67. Lisha Huang of China finished first with a time of 16.42. Monday Men’s T53 100 final
Brian Siemann of the U.S. finished sixth with a time of 15.39. Mickey Bushell of Great Britain finished first with a time of 14.75. Men’s T52 400 final
Martin finished first with a time of 58.54. Tomoya Ito of Japan finished second with a time of 1:00.40. Women’s T54 400 final
Tatyana McFadden of the U.S. finished first with a time of 52.97. Hongjiao Dong of China finished second with a time of 55.43.
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Paralympians deserve more attention from media, you EMILY BAYCI
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ver the weekend I asked my friends, family members and random strangers about their thoughts on the Paralympics. Let’s take a look at some of the responses: “Yep, those are cool, but not exactly my thing.” “The Para-what?” “Yeah, I don’t even watch the Olympics. You really think I’m going to watch the Paralympics?” “Oh you mean the Special Olympics, right?” “Bayci, the Olympics were over two weeks ago, chill out for another four years.” These answers got me pretty upset, though I can’t really blame anyone. The Paralympics are barely covered by the media, especially in the U.S. These star athletes are not taken seriously and not given nearly enough of the respect they deserve. Have you ever heard the names Tatyana McFadden, Joshua George or Amanda McGrory? These are current and former Illinois athletes representing Team USA in the
RECAP FROM PAGE 1B game 11-for-18 with 126 yards and a touchdown and added a rushing touchdown. Backup quarterback Reilly O’Toole came into the game and was unable to effectively move the Illini offense down the field, completing two of his three passing attempts for seven yards. Beckman said the Illini will continue to evaluate Scheelhaase and harped on his quarterback’s competitiveness in wanting to get back into the game. However, Beckman wasn’t sure if he
Paralympics — some of the best Paralympians out there. You’ve probably seen them rolling around campus and have had no idea that they are some of the best athletes at Illinois. McFadden has won six Paralympic medals, while George and McGrory have won four each. These track stars are at the forefront of Illinois’ domination on Team USA’s Paralympic team; 29 Illinois athletes are competing in the Paralympics. The sad thing is no one knows who they are or what they represent. A change needs to happen now with the amount of respect and recognition these Paralympians receive. This can kickoff with the 2012 London Games, which began Aug. 29 and will conclude Sept. 16 at the same venues where the Olympics were held. Don’t worry, it’s OK if you don’t know much about the Paralympics. I’m here to give you a crash course on everything you need to know so you can be Paralympic savvy for the final two weeks of competition. The Paralympic Games is an exclusive and competitive athletic competition for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, including amputations, cerebral palsy, intellec-
tual disabilities, visual impairment and spinal injuries. The athletes are sorted into six classification groups based on the nature and severity of their disabilities. Athletes must fulfill criteria and meet qualifying standards determined by the International Paralympic Committee to compete in the games. There are 20 Paralympic sports during the summer games and five in the winter. The events are held weeks after each Olympics in the same location and medals are awarded in the same manner. The Paralympics are more competitive than the Special Olympics, which are designed with the purpose of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities. People with physical disabilities can also participate. The Paralympics are important because these are some of the best athletes in the world that just happen to be competing with a disability. Not only do these individuals dedicate their lives to training as elite athletes but they also overcome disabilities. Usain Bolt won the 200-meter dash this year with a time of 19.32 seconds. Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira of Brazil won the T44 200 meters in 21.45 on
Sunday. That’s not much of a gap. T44 represents single belowknee amputees, or athletes who can walk with moderately reduced function in one or both legs. These athletes are nearly as talented as the Olympians and the events are just as thrilling to watch. It would be better if the Paralympics were before the Olympic Games instead of after. Then the Paralympics could serve as a precursor to the Olympics and help people get excited for the Olympics. What would be even better is if the Paralympics were held in conjunction with the Olympics. Imagine watching Ellie Simmonds win the Paralympic gold in the 400-meter free S6 (a swimmer with full use of arms and hands, but no useful leg muscles) and then watching Rebecca Adlington and Allison Schmitt in the 400 free. That would be phenomenal. That’s just wishful thinking, though; for now, we have to take what we can get. This year marks the first time the Paralympics are broadcast on American television. NBC Sports Network will air onehour highlight shows on Sept. 4, 5, 6 and 11 at 6 p.m. CST. NBC will also air a 90-minute Para-
would’ve been able to return had the score dictated he needed too. So the Illini defense, the staple of last year’s team, took it upon themselves to ensure that the Illini came away with a victory. Buchanan said the Illini were fired up on the sideline, saying, “We got to make a play, we got to make a play.” “We knew our leader was down and we knew the defensive had to step up and make a play,” Buchanan said. That man was star Ashante Williams. With Western Michigan driving down the field, the lead narrowed to 17-7, Williams saw a play he’d seen all week long in
practice. Once he recognized the routes, he baited Western Michigan quarterback Alex Carder’s throw for an easy interception that he returned 60 yards for a touchdown, all but sealing the Illinois victory. “The momentum kind of swung to our side after that pick,” said Beckman, who has praised Williams’ work ethic. “It did not surprise me when he made that play.” Beckman wanted to emphasize takeaways since the Illini didn’t think they garnered enough last year, and cornerback Terry Hawthorne said the team set the goal of eight — the same number they’d been getting in prac-
tice. They didn’t get eight, but the four turnovers, including three interceptions of Carder, proved to be enough. Carder struggled all game long with the Illini pass rush, especially from defensive linemen Akeem Spence and Buchanan, who had a sack and an interception. But the Illini players and coaches didn’t seem satisfied with its defense; they all mentioned the areas the team could’ve improve on or mistakes the team made. “I guess I’m a perfectionist. I’ll give them a B,” Beckman said. That B-graded defense held Carder to 24-of-39 for 214 yards, sacking him twice after hearing
lympic special at 1 p.m. on Sept. 16. Additionally, Paralympic.org has extensive live coverage with more than 1,000 hours of live and delayed coverage available on its website. Considering the 5,535 total hours of NBC Olympic coverage, this seems like a needle in a haystack. But every little bit counts, and this is better than ever before. Now is your chance to take advantage of this coverage. You can make a difference by tuning in for just a little bit and proving to the NBC executives that, yes, it is a good idea to devote more coverage to the Paralympics in the future. I know you’re busy, I know syllabus week killed your productivity level and I know you might be America-ed out after watching a million hours of the Olympics, but give it a chance. Turn on NBC Sports Network on Tuesday and watch the highlights show. Take an hour to appreciate these athletes and how they are representing our country. Make a difference in the future of Paralympics coverage because these athletes deserve our respect and admiration. Emily is a graduate student. She can be reached at bayci1@illinimedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyBayci.
all week about his seven touchdown outburst against Beckman’s Toledo team last year. For now, Beckman can celebrate his first victory with the team during its Sunday victory meal of steaks, cake and shrimp. The new era couldn’t be off to a better start record-wise. “When we win, we’re going to celebrate,” Beckman said. “They’ll be pampered because I want them to understand that winning is, not necessarily a fragile thing, but it’s something you’ve got to cherish.”
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NUMBERS TO KNOW
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Scheelhaase’s 64-yard touchdown pass to Lankford in the first quarter was his seventh career touchdown pass of more than 50 yards, which is more than any other Big Ten quarterback since 2009.
The number of rushing yards the Illinois defense allowed Saturday, making them the nation’s top run defense.
Michael Buchanan, Earnest Thomas and Ashante Williams each recorded their first career interceptions.
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The number of passing yards Scheelhaase had without his 64-yard touchdown pass to Lankford in the first quarter.
How many yards the offense gained after Scheelhaase left the game with an injury in the third quarter.
BY SEAN HAMMOND
M STAFF WRITER
ichael Buchanan added another sack to his career mark against Western Michigan on Saturday, but what brought the biggest smile to the defensive end’s face after the game was a feat he had never accomplished before. “I got my fi rst pick today,” Buchanan beamed. “I read the quarterback’s eyes and was able to tip it. Luckily, I was close enough to be able to catch it.” Buchanan recorded a sack along with his interception in keeping Western Michigan quarterback Alex Carder in check to usher in the fi rst victory of the Tim Beckman era at Illinois. The defensive line didn’t give Carder any chance to get comfortable in the pocket. Carder was sacked twice and threw three interceptions, but what was more impressive was holding Western Michigan to negative six rushing yards. Buchanan, Akeem Spence, Tim Kynard and Glenn Foster rendered the Bronco ground game ineffective. The four combined for 3.5 tackles for loss while Spence teamed with linebacker Jonathan Brown for the other sack of Carder.
ILLINI STAT LEADERS
Passing Nathan Scheelhaase 126 yards
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Rushing Jon Davis 54 yards
Receiving Ryan Lankford 64 yards
GAME TO REMEMBER Senior star Ashante Williams Tim Beckman acknowledged the last 8 months of work has put Williams in a position to be successful this season. Williams was a game captain and his hard work culminated with a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown that sealed that fate of the Broncos.
GAME TO FORGET Sophomore quarterback Reilly O’Toole Forced into the game on short notice, O’Toole struggled to move the offense with the injury to Nathan Scheelhaase. While many thought he could’ve won the starting job in the summer, he acknowledged he did not play well, finishing 2 for 3 for 7 yards.
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“Me and Spence got a pretty good hit on him. All I know is I looked back and the crowd was cheering and Ashante had the ball,” Buchanan said. “Our leader was down and our defense stepped up and made a play.” The only time Carder was able to get in any type of rhythm was at the start of the third quarter, when Western Michigan drove 48 yards in seven plays but missed a 45-yard field goal. “Western Michigan is probably one of the more talented teams in terms of throwing the football,” Banks said. “We just wanted to make sure that we gave them a lot of different looks and make sure that we weren’t predictable. Because if you’re predictable, those type of guys will eat you alive.” Beckman, a self-proclaimed perfectionist, gave his defense a B. The Illini’s performance on fi rst down was key in forcing Western Michigan into long second- and third-down situations. “Coach Banks made the game plan real simple,” Spence said. “Some of the stuff we did today was some of the stuff we did last year. We’ve been running these blitzes since camp, so it was just another dress rehearsal for us.”
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Passing Nathan Scheelhaase Reilly O’Toole
C-A 11-for-18 2-for-3
Yds 126 7
TD 1 0
INT 1 0
Rushing Jon Davis Josh Ferguson Nathan Scheelhaase
No. 6 11 7
Yds 54 38 21
Avg. 9.0 3.5 3.0
TD 0 0 1
Receiving Donovonn Young Spencer Harris Ryan Lankford Eddie Viliunas
No. 6 3 1 1
Yds 24 19 64 12
TD 0 0 1 0
Long 12 8 64 12
Defense Ashante Williams Earnest Thomas Michael Buchanan Jonathan Brown Akeem Spence
Tackles 9 6 2 6 3
Sacks 0 0 1 0.5 0.5
TFL 0 0 2 0.5 0.5
INT 1 1 1 0 0
C-A 26-for-43 2-for-3
Yds 239 26
TD 1 0
INT 3 0
Rushing Tevin Drake Dareyon Chance Antoin Scriven
No. 8 5 1
Yds 29 7 1
Avg. 3.6 1.4 1
TD 0 0 0
Receiving Jamie Wilson Eric Monette Josh Schaffer Justin Collins
No. 8 4 4 3
Yds 59 53 49 50
TD 1 0 0 0
Long 24 22 20 25
Tackles 18 11 7 7 6
Sacks 0 0 0 0 0
TFL 0 1.5 0 1 1.5
INT 0 0 1 0 0
Western Michigan Passing Alex Carder Tyler Van Tubbergen
Defense Johnnie Simon Terry Easmon Donald Celiscar Justin Currie Trevor Ishmael
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Team statistics:
WMU
24
Final score
7
115
Rushing yards
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41
Rushing attempts
19
133
Passing yards
265
13-21
Passes Comp-Att
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13
First downs
13
248
Total offense
259
5-of-16
Third-down conversions
6-of-17
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Turnovers
4
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Time of Possession
24:58
2
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Scoring by quarter:
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10
1st
0
7
2nd
0
0
3rd
7
7
4th
0
24
Final
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Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman fires up his team before the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Illinois’ Jon Davis runs the ball. Davis, a tight end last season, ran the ball for 54 yards against the Broncos. Nathan Scheelhaase stretches across the goal line for a touchdown during the second quarter. Scheelhaase scored both a rushing and passing touchdown during the game. Illinois’ Donovonn Young breaks a tackle while running with the football. Michael Buchanan is tackled after picking off a pass during the first quarter. The interception was the first of Buchanan’s career. Illinois fans hold a “W For the Illini” flag as students exit behind them after the 24-7 Illini victory.
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Soccer wins rescheduled match Illinois hockey coming together after 1st practice
BY GINA MUELLER STAFF WRITER
While students celebrated Labor Day barbecuing with friends and enjoying the warm weather, the Illinois soccer team spent its holiday earning a 3-1 victory against UW-Milwaukee at Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium. The game was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday afternoon, but was rescheduled due to the weather conditions. The few extra days allowed the Illini to be more than prepared for their match against UW-Milwaukee. “It definitely changed our rhythm a little bit,” interim head coach Jeff Freeman said. “At the same time, it was a benefit because the players got an extra day off and a chance to get their legs underneath them. Really, the only change is what we do moving forward from here.” Illinois began the game with a burst of energy from the extra day off, putting the first goal on the board in the 20th minute. Senior Nicole Denenberg recorded her first goal of the 2012 season, performing some impressive one-on-one dribbling and splitting multiple defenders for an open shot. Being the first team to score is something that Freeman has been stressing in practice since the beginning of the season. “To get that first goal is a huge confidence builder,” Freeman said. “We’ve talked a lot about trying to score goals after we’ve scored goals. We really had that energy today and that will-power in terms of really wanting to stay on the attack and keep Milwaukee on their heels.” Though Illinois was ahead at halftime, senior Marissa Holden said a small lead can prove to be dangerous. “We were really just talking about a 1-0 lead being dangerous because the opposing team still has confidence and they can still come back and tie it up,” Holden said. “We really just wanted to put another one in quickly and leave it all out there on the field.” Freshman Taylore Peterson didn’t waste much time earning the Illini’s second and her first collegiate goal in the first two minutes of the second half.
the exhibitions. “Tryout games are one thing, but it’s tough to With tryouts and cuts nearly fin- really evaluate players until we’re ished, the surviving players of the at full speed and in a real game.” Illinois hockey team got to experiIn the exhibitions, Fabbrini said ence their first practice under new the Springfield Junior Blues will head coach Nick Fabbrini. be “one of the best teams we face The players were greeted to an all year.” Rather than have a few ominous fog hanging over the ice tune-up games against cupcake because of a broken dehumidifier, opponents, Fabbrini likes the fact making it difficult to see from one that the Illini will be tested from end to the other. As for the prac- the first drop of the puck. tice itself, junior forward AusHowever, being only exhibitin Bostock was tions, the result pleased with the at the end isn’t effort. necessarily “It’s just a difas important ferent kind of as the experipractice,” Bosence and learntock said. “Today, ing that goes it was a little on during the out of left field. games. Fabbrini made it clear he We didn’t realAUSTIN BOSTOCK, hates losing but ly know what to junior forward expect. But it was acknowledged a good up-tempo that there are practice, and I think everyone more important things than exhienjoyed it.” bition wins in September. Being just the first practice, “I hate losing at anything,” Fabthere wasn’t much implementa- brini said. “I’m really more wortion of Fabbrini’s new system, ried about the process. Even the but that doesn’t mean the play- first semester. Obviously we want ers aren’t showing that they’re to win every game, but it’s about ready to go. In addition to prac- getting better every day and maktices, players will have off-ice ing sure we’re playing our best in workouts, something that wasn’t March.” done in the past, to help prepare Playing their best at the end of the year was something that for the season. “We’ve been working hard the the 2011-12 Illinois team did not past week with tryouts and every- do, finishing under .500 for the thing,” Bostock said. “We want to year with a first-round exit in the make sure we have a tight-knit ACHA national tournament. group. ... I think guys are starting The road back to the glory years to come together already, and we of the mid-2000s starts this weekhaven’t even had our first game end for the new coach and his yet.” players. “We just want to be playing our The roster currently sits at 30 players, down from the initial 55 best hockey in March,” Fabbrini who showed at tryouts last week. said. “I think the best way to preAll 30 will make the trip down to pare for that and the best way to Springfield for a pair of exhibi- prepare for the good team that tions from Sept. 7-8, and Fabbrini we’ll play in the playoffs is to play said the roster will shrink again those good teams all year long.” down to 27 after the games. “We’re really just looking to see Stephen can be reached at sbourbo2@ what we have,” Fabbrini said of dailyillini.com and @steve_bourbon. BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER
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Illinois’ Marissa Holden shoots the ball against Wisconsin-Milwauke. Holden scored a goal in Monday’s game. Holden notched the final goal for Illinois with 27 minutes left in the game, but UW-Milwaukee didn’t end the game without putting up a fight. The Panthers recorded their only goal of the game with 15 minutes left. Freeman said the laxity of Illinois allowed the opportunity to be presented for Milwaukee. “Players started to relax when we were up 3-0 and good teams are going to punish you for that,” Freeman said. “It was a good lesson learned today and we need to keep our foot on the gas and keep going at teams when we have a lead like that.” Before the goal was scored by UW-Milwaukee toward the end of the game, it looked as if Illinois
might earn its third shutout of the season. With that accomplishment in its sights, it was a disappointment when the Panthers put one in the back of the net. “I think as a whole and as a team we are definitely disappointed we didn’t get that shutout,” senior Kristen Gierman said. “It just gives us a wakeup call that even if we are scoring goals, we can’t have that defensive lapse as a team throughout the game. Defending starts from the front all the way to the back to Steph (Panozzo) in the net — this is a really good lesson to learn now that when we are able to create chances and score goals that we can’t forget we need to defend. Sometimes, the best offense is a good defense.”
In spite of not earning the shutout, the Illini earned their first multi-goal victory of the season. The three goals earned in the game against the Panthers are the most goals scored so far in a game this season. “Certainly today was the best performance we’ve had this year,” Freeman said. “We’ve really been working hard on our possession and our offensive chemistry and trying to go at teams lots of different ways and we did that today. We created more than enough chances to win the game and show our ability to finish and score three nice goals today.”
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Cross-country looks to build on Illini Challenge for future BY CHARLIE MANIATES STAFF WRITER
The last time the Illinois men’s cross-country team failed to place first in the Illini Challenge, gas prices were hovering around $2 per gallon. That streak was extended Friday, as the Illini won the event for the eighth straight season behind a strong performance by redshirt freshman Tommy King. He placed second overall in the race, which was best for the Illini. They fielded five of the top-10 finishers. “I thought we ran very composed early on in the race, the guys were pretty nervous for their first race in an Illinois jersey,” head coach Jake Stewart said. The team raced with a roster consisting of only one runner, sophomore Mark Donohue, who had competed for
the Illini in the past. “They ran with good composure and didn’t let anything distract them from the task at hand,” Stewart added. While this competition has been referred to in the past as a “glorified workout” for the Illini, they felt it served as a quality team effort as well as a great way to kick off their season. “I don’t think pointing out one guy for what he did would do justice for the fact that everybody showed up on Friday and ran well in the middle of a very hard training cycle,” Stewart said. King felt the same way and suggested that running near his teammates for the whole race allowed him to push himself to achieve his secondplace finish.
Still, King was very pleased with how he performed individually. “It feels great, it’s something I’ve been motivating myself all summer to sort of be one of the guys that helps lead the team,” King said. “It was really fulfilling to be the guy who took the lead and took charge of the race.” High levels of humidity tested the team and its ability to adjust to its surroundings. To compensate, Stewart’s runners ran more controlled during the first one-third of the race to avoid exhaustion due to the humidity. Exhaustion is always a big factor in the sport of cross-country, but it is only going to grow as the Illini look to get into their top racing shape. The Illini Challenge was only a 6K race — their shortest of the season. “It gives the guys a little bit of expe-
rience going above the 5K distance, which is the distance they run in high school,” Stewart said, “But we have to get ourselves ready to run a really good 8K at the end of October and a really good 10K at the beginning of November.” Regular-season races are usually 8K, while postseason races are 10K. The Illini said this was a nice introduction and they will look to build on it when they compete on Sept. 14 in the Illinois Intercollegiate in Normal, Ill. “It’ll give us a chance to run the 8K distance in a meet that — I hate to say low-pressure situation — but one we’re certainly not circling our calendar and really getting ready for,” Stewart said.
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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joe Kelly throws in a game against the New York Mets on Monday in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 5-4.
ST. LOUIS — Rookie Joe Kelly pitched 6 2-3 effective innings and also doubled, and the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage of a baserunning mistake to beat the New York Mets 5-4 Monday. Andres Torres led off the Mets ninth with an apparent double, but was called out by fi rst base umpire Dave Rackley on an appeal for missing fi rst base. Kelly (5-6) allowed five hits and two runs. He made his second start after a brief stint in the bullpen, and turned in his longest outing of the season. Edward Mujica got the last out of the seventh, giving him 16 straight scoreless appearances since coming over from
Miami at the trade deadline. Jason Motte recorded five outs for his 33rd save in 38 chances. Skip Schumaker hit a solo homer, and Matt Carpenter drove in two runs for the NL wild card-leading Cardinals. Yadier Molina and Allen Craig added RBI singles and Kelly scored a run. Daniel Murphy and Kelly Shoppach hit two-run homers for New York, which had won three straight and seven of eight. Collin McHugh (0-1), recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to make the start, lasted just four innings and gave up four runs. McHugh blanked the Colorado Rockies for seven innings Aug. 23 in his major league debut.
It took the Cardinals just two batters to give McHugh an ERA. Jon Jay led off with a triple into the left-field corner, and Carpenter followed with an RBI groundout. The Cardinals got two more in the third, and Schumaker’s fi rst home run leading off the fourth made it 4-0. Kelly had retired 10 batters in a row before walking Mike Baxter and then allowing Shoppach’s homer in the seventh. New York closed within a run on Murphy’s homer off reliever Mitchell Boggs in the eighth. The Mets had the tying run at second with one out later in the inning when Motte got Scott Hairston on a soft liner and struck out Shoppach.
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Chicago Cubs’ Starlin Castro keeps his foot on the bag as Washington Nationals shortstop Ian Demond applies a late tag after Castro doubled to right field at Nationals Park on Monday in Washington. The Nationals won 2-1.
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straight. “You love playing against these kind of teams. When you’re a team in our situation, any time you can play these first- or second-place teams where they’re still playing for something, it means a lot, and they’re fun games,” Samardzija said. Sveum was pleased with Samardzija’s performance. The former Notre Dame receiver has shown a lot to the first-year manager. “I think that’s what we expect of him as far as big games, big competition. He’s a horse, and like I said, the football mentality, when you’re playing in front of 100,000 people on national TV, you’ve got it in you to be that kind of big-game pitcher and competitor against the best of baseball.” Ryan Zimmerman’s RBI double scored Bryce Harper in the eighth for the second run. Drew Storen pitched a perfect eighth. Tyler Clippard allowed two hits and a two-out RBI single to Welington Castillo in the ninth. Clippard threw the ball away for an error and allowed pinchrunner Tony Campana advance to second before striking out Josh Vitters for his 30th save in 33 opportunities.
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Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher wipes his face as he watches teammates practice during training camp in Bourbonnais, Ill., on July 27. The Bears believe they have the talent and depth to make a big run after being derailed by injuries last year.
LAKE FOREST, Ill. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher returned to practice Monday for the first time since July 31, hoping to play in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season opener. Urlacher did not stop to talk to reporters, but coach Lovie Smith said the eight-time Pro Bowl player looked good considering he had arthroscopic surgery to his left knee Aug. 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had a good first day back,â&#x20AC;? coach Lovie Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to get in shape. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you that and a few other things like that. But we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any trouble with him today. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right on schedule.â&#x20AC;? Urlacher did talk to Fox TV before Monday about his condition and said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m playing Sunday. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a done deal.â&#x20AC;? However, Urlacher also said the knee will not be 100 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will be as close to it as I can be,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been doing some things. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in the pool. I have been running with our trainers and stuff on the side. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get in shape in a week of practice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not possible. But I will get as close as I can to it.â&#x20AC;? Bears players liked what they saw of Urlacher in practice.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back in the flow,â&#x20AC;? linebacker Nick Roach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still a long way away from Sunday, but just having him back is definitely positive.â&#x20AC;? With Urlacher back, defensive players returned to their normal routine. Roach moved from the middle back to his regular starting spot on the strong side. Beyond Urlacher, the Bears also had starting defensive tackle Stephen Paea back from an ankle injury and starting safety Chris Conte returning from a shoulder injury. Defensive tackle Amobi Okoye, who signed early Monday, worked, and defensive tackle Brian Price was cut when Okoye signed. Okoye had four sacks for the Bears last year but left in free agency for Tampa on a one-year, $2 million contract. He had arthroscopic knee surgery in June and reached an injury settlement when he was cut by the Bucs on Friday. The Bears gave him a physical and are convinced he can help as a backup to Henry Melton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amobi is one of our guys,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was disappointment when he signed with the Bucs. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a young football player. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody was excited about getting him back. I know heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been injured
before down there, but he had a good day of practice today.â&#x20AC;? Okoye said his knee has healed completely after he tried to come back too soon. He immediately felt a part of the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It fits like a glove,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being here last year and knowing what I like to do, and what this defense asks of me to do, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect.â&#x20AC;? The Bears had acquired Price from Tampa Bay in July for a 2013 draft pick. But he struggled coming off a leg injury and sustained a head injury in the final preseason game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the latest blow for a player whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a rough time. Two brothers were killed in shootings in Los Angeles while he was growing up. His sister died in a car accident in May, and he and his wife decided to adopt her children. There were also reports of a fight with rookie safety Mark Barron â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a first-round pick this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a team meeting room, an altercation that occurred a few weeks after Price was hospitalized for several days for mental and physical exhaustion following his sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. A second-round pick in 2010, Price, 23, played in 20 games with the Bucs, producing 27 tackles and three sacks.
No. 1 McIlroy adds his 3rd win this year at TPC Boston BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORTON, Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rory McIlroy got the start he wanted Monday at the Deutsche Bank Championship, erasing a three-shot deficit in just five holes. The finish was hardly a masterpiece, except for the part when golfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 player posed with the trophy. Boy Wonder didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it easy on himself on Labor Day at the TPC Boston. He tore up the turf on a tee shot that traveled 170 yards, and that was the only fairway he hit over the last five holes. He had to make a 6-foot putt to save par from a bunker, and a 5-foot putt to save bogey after a pitch sailed from one side of the green to the other. And he had to wait as Louis Oosthuizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birdie putt to force a playoff slid below the hole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a couple of wobbles coming in, but I obviously did enough and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very excited to get a victory,â&#x20AC;? McIlroy said. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all anyone will remember. On a leaderboard packed with some of the biggest names in golf â&#x20AC;&#x201D; McIlroy, Oosthuizen, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland took a giant leap toward establishing himself as the best in the game. With four birdies in six holes at the start and limiting the damage from his mistakes at the end, McIlroy closed with a 4-under 67 for a one-shot victory over Oosthuizen, joining Woods as the only threetime winners this year on the PGA Tour. McIlroy goes to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup. And with one of his wins being the PGA Championship, that might be enough for his peers to vote him PGA Tour player of the year. He also has a comfortable gap in the world ranking, and could be tough to catch the rest of the year unless Woods were to win the next two FedEx Cup events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not No. 1 in the world for nothing,â&#x20AC;? Oosthuizen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great young talent, a lot of majors left for him to win. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a cool kid on the course. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great playing with him. He makes tough shots look really sometimes, especially long irons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the back nine he hit the ball that great after what he did
on the front nine, but he did what he had to do.â&#x20AC;? Woods made an early charge to get back in the hunt, though he never got closer than three shots until a two-putt birdie on the par-5 18th gave him a 66. He finished in third place, two shots behind, and earned enough money to become the first player to surpass $100 million in PGA Tour earnings. Woods attributed that to higher purses, though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsible for those. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we got some interest in the game of golf,â&#x20AC;? Woods said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot more youth, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure.â&#x20AC;? One of those kids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; McIlroy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; keeps winning. The Honda Classic in March. The record eight-shot win in the PGA Championship. And now a FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three is a great number,â&#x20AC;? McIlroy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to make it four â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or five â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after the FedEx Cup.â&#x20AC;? Phil Mickelson also had a 66 and tied for fourth, along with Dustin Johnson, who had a 70 and likely played his way onto the Ryder Cup team. Brandt Snedeker made MICHAEL DWYER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a strong case for a captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pick Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, lines up a putt on the fourth hole during the final round of the Deutsche Bank with a 65-67 weekend to finish sixth. Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., on Monday.
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