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Catching up with Burns Hargis Bella Casey News and Lifestyle Assistant Editor

Q&A Burns Hargis, former OSU president, retired in 2021, but he does not consider himself retired. Hargis said to him, retirement is a word that means sitting on your front porch, watching children ride their bicycles in the front yard. That is not what he is doing. From law to leadership, Hargis remains involved in his community and at OSU. He said this is not retirement, but a new chapter. Q: I heard a rumor you were bored in retirement. Is that true? A: I’m as busy as I’ve ever been. Q: What have you been doing in retirement? A: Well, I have the Leadership Institute in Stillwater and you work on that, and then I’ve got my own law firm. McAfee (&) Taft. Right now is at counsel, and I just have a lot of balls in here. I could always say, when I was at OSU, ‘I just don’t have time to take that on,’ but now I don’t have the excuse. See Hargis on 6

File Photo Burns and Ann Hargis remain active within the OSU community through the Hargis Leadership Institute and Pete’s Pet Posse.

The lost art of celebrating the great outdoors Kennedy Thomason News & Lifestyle Editor

the movie “Barbie” with misogynistic jokes, right in front of the cast and crew who worked to bring awareness to issues related to sexism. “Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prizewinning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies,” Koy said. “The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet. Or what casting directors call character actor!” In the history of awards, hosts such as Ricky Gervais have turned a night of recognition into tension. And with Koy, it wasn’t different. After unimpressed reactions, Koy did not give up.

headphones in, blocking out the rest of the world. But when you’re sitting behind the steering wheel with 182 miles of barren interstate laying in front of you, or climbing over the sandy rocks Column that are blocking the trail, you can’t distract yourself with the latest happenings of the internet. All you have is your thoughts, five senses and your It’s time to return to the traveling buddies to keep you great outdoors. company. Over the last six months, And I have to say, it’s I have had the pleasure of refreshing. visiting seven national parks. Although I feel confiEach was a rewarding trip. dent my overuse of TikTok has I saw towering mountains, shortened my attention span, powerful rivers, wandering a few days hiking and travelvalleys, gravity-defying arches ing through some of the most and enough squirrels to last a beautiful spaces the country lifetime. has seemed to correct it. Seeing little pockets of Most people my age roll nature scattered throughout their eyes when older generathe nation has given me a tions criticize technology or greater appreciation for what tell tales of a time when being the world holds. Despite the outside was their entertaindigital world that I so often ment. Well, I’m here to tell find myself consumed with, a you as a fellow 20-year-old, real world lies just beyond the there is some truth to the stoscreens that I’ve placed like a ries you’ve heard. barrier in front of my face. Roaming a quiet trail or Driving endless hours climbing the biggest pile of through the often bland land- rocks you can find has ignited scape to reach parks such as a sense of adventure that I Arches or Canyonlands has haven’t felt since I was a kid. given me time to reflect on the Finding myself in the juxtaposition of technology middle of acres of preserved and nature. park, I realized why these When I’m at school, and places have been protected for even at home, background so long. They are little escapes noise constantly buzzes from our day-to-day, remindaround me. Even on my walks ing us of what our world has to and from class, I have evolved from.

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Tribune Content Agency Jo Koy attends the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 7, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California.

Jo Koy delivers uncomfortable monologue at Golden Globes Luisa Clausen Editor-in-Chief

I thought I was on the wrong side of the team. But on Sunday, the 81st Golden Globes edition proved me wrong. Or at least its host did. Jo Koy, who was announced at the Golden Globes’ last-minute pick just two weeks before the ceremony, made a room filled with writers and artists bury their Award season is upon faces into their hands and us. And so are the unnecesstare blankly at the space. sary jokes. Koy started off the night For years, when I with a profoundly uncomfortwatched the Golden Globes, able monologue, targeting the Oscars, Grammy or several people in the room, Emmy, I thought I didn’t from Meryl Streep to Taylor understand the hosts’ jokes Swift. After a year filled with because of a cultural differimportant conversation startence (I was born and raised in ers for the way women are Brazil). treated, Koy decided to target

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Many people around Stillwater might not have realized what Teague Travis was capable of before his 7-6 win over NC State’s No. 5 Ed Scott, but not everyone has seen him in the wrestling room like John Smith has. And Smith had big words to describe Travis at Wednesday’s weekly press conference. “He’s a kid that probably in the last two years is the hardest-working athlete I had on the team,” said Smith, OSU’s wrestling coach. “You talk about somebody that does all the extras putting in just some serious hours into his conditioning.” Travis, a redshirt sophomore, has bounced around weights for the Cowboys, making appearances at 141, 149 and 157. He started at 149 in the Cowboys’ season opener against Bucknell, then has started at 157 since. Jalin Harper started at 157 against Bucknell but is injured. Smith considered moving Travis back to 149 to give his squad more depth, but with Harper’s absence and Travis stepping up like Smith said he wanted to see, he decided to keep him at 157. But he had a message for his hard-working 157-pounder. “I basically told him, ‘You gotta reward yourself for this effort,’” Smith said. “And you reward yourself by performing well and going out and doing what you’re capable of doing and really taking advantage of your conditioning. I think it kind of sunk in with him a little bit over the last two or three weeks. “And for him, I think it’s just a matter of, ‘I’ve been working hard, I’ve been busting my ass, I’m gonna go win.’ And I think finally that just kind of sunk in.” Travis jumped out to a 5-1 lead against Scott then held on for a 7-6 win. Travis is now 10-1 on the season and No. 20 at 157 pounds in the latest InterMat rankings. Seeing this surge from Travis, who didn’t make his first dual start until this year – his third season – is no surprise to Daton Fix. Fix, OSU’s 133-pounder, wrestled Travis a lot in practice last season, and he gave Fix some tough spars. “He’s just a tough competitor,” Fix said. “He’s not gonna get tired in matches. He’s gonna fight you. He’s gonna do whatever he can to score points.” Cowboys winning, and doing so with youth Maybe the most impressive part of OSU’s win against a Top-5 NC State team was that the Cowboys did it with such a young lineup. OSU started five freshmen – Troy Spratley (125), Tagen

Bryson Thadhani OSU coach John Smith said Teague Travis is the hardest-working athlete on the roster the past two seasons, and now Travis is being rewarded for it.

Jamison (141), Jordan Williams (149), Brayden Thompson (174) and Jersey Robb (197) – and a sophomore (Travis). “That’s the youngest team I’ve ever taken to a big dual meet like that,” Smith said. “So, what does that mean? It just means, hey, we’re freshmen and we’re winning. That’s good – real good.” The Cowboys got wins from Spratley, Thompson and Travis – each against ranked opponents – and the only big loss was Robb’s tech-fall loss to No. 4 Trent Hidlay. Jamison, ranked No. 7 at 141, lost a close 6-4 decision to No. 4 Ryan Jack, and Williams lost to No. 3

Jack Arrington. Even in the losses, it’s hard for Cowboy fans to be unsatisfied. Taking a lineup of 60% underclassmen on the road and getting the program’s first top-5 win since 2019 is no small feat and bodes well come March and into the future. “They’re a young group, but they’re pretty mature for how young they are,” Fix said. “And I think that obviously plays a factor into why we’ve been wrestling pretty good the last couple of weeks. I think that we’re just going to continue to grow, and I definitely don’t think we’ve seen our best wrestling. I think they have a lot to

improve on, and the sky’s the limit for us.” Luke Surber nearing return, traveling to Pitt The Cowboys could soon be getting back a key piece of the lineup. Luke Surber, OSU’s 197-pound starter, has been out since early December. He recorded a win against Bucknell in the season opener, then won his bracket at the Lindenwood Open. But at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, Surber injured a pectoral muscle and has been out of the lineup since. On Wednesday, Smith said that could be close to changing as OSU heads to the

East Coast for duals against Pittsburgh on Friday night and West Virginia on Sunday. “Surber will be with us the whole trip,” Smith said. “I think he’s fine to wrestle, ready to go.” Smith said they would continue to monitor Surber the rest of the week, but Surber worked out the past week and got some live wrestling action. “A lot of things that you have to test before you go, and the tests, he passed pretty good,” Smith said. “I think anything like (a pectoral/upperbody injury), maybe it’s still a little bit weak, but I’m not too worried about him.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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The Draw

Cowgirls take Tech, GOAT retires Gabriel Trevino Staff Reporter

News Wednesday afternoon shook not just college, but the sports world, OSU plays Texas Tech immediately after losing to them and the Cowboys get another portal addition. Welcome to The Draw! Continued dominance The Cowgirls haven’t lost to Texas Tech since 2020 — four years ago if you can believe it. The Cowboys lost to the Red Raiders in Lubbock yesterday, but the women made it nine-straight against Tech, 71-58. As predicted on Tuesday’s The Draw, Hannah Gusters and Stailee Heard were great. The LSU transfer, Gusters, dropped 19, while Heard, a freshman, had 12 points, four rebounds and four assists. The starting lineup has still stayed its course while the bench seldom is used. It’s working so far, but by late February, there could be some wrinkles. The best to ever do it For the first time since Forrest Gump left school, Alabama fans are crushed. On Wednesday afternoon, it was reported legendary coach Nick Saban retired. In 17 years with the Tide, he won more than 200 games, won six national champions, and produced 49 first-round picks and four Heisman winners. Saban is without question the best college football coach of all time and is arguably the best coach in any American sport of all time. Fans in Tuscaloosa are mourning as if the coach died rather than retired.

There are gifts at his statue where fans are also congregating to sing songs and chant who they don’t want to be the next coach. That begs the question: who can replace Saban? Some candidates appear to be Oregon’s Dan Lanning, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian, among others, but my feeling is it’ll be someone unexpected. Probably from the NFL, too. Another one in Stillwater Also on Wednesday but before the chaos, AJ Green announced he’d be transferring to OSU. No, not the former Cincinnati Bengals receiver and also no, not the former OSU cornerback and future NFL player. Green, the Arkansas transfer running back from Tulsa. In three years with the Razorbacks, he totaled 220 touches for 1,137 yards and eight touchdowns. Averaging 4.7 yards per carry and 10 per catch on less than 100 touches per season, the senior’s workload won’t increase coming to Stillwater. There’s still Ollie Gordon II. But he’ll be a change of pace back to the patient, more methodical Gordon. Orlando was a great choice The night after Iowa State upset No. 2 Houston at home, UCF, in its first home Big 12 game, upset No. 3 Kansas, 65-60. Fans stormed the court and it can’t be understated what a great add the Knights were to the conference. Projected to finish last, UCF beat the team projected to finish first. And that team isn’t no ordinary team. It’s Kansas. One of, if not the greatest, college basketball program of all time. Not just in football, but UCF will do wonders in this conference. It’s easy to tell six months in. sports.ed@ocolly.com

Rich Janzaruk/Herald-Times OSU announced Paul Randolph as the new defensive line coach Thursday afternoon.

OSU announces Paul Randolph as the new defensive line coach Ashton Slaughter Assistant Sports Editor

Payton Little The Cowgirls beat Texas Tech for the ninth time in a row on Wednesday night, with freshman Stailee Heard scoring 12 points along with four rebounds and four assists.

Big 12, coaching the defensive line at Texas Tech for three seasons before heading to Indiana for two seasons. Randolph’s collegiate football coaching experience spans 26 years and multiple programs — Indiana, Texas Tech, Memphis, Arizona State, OSU did, in fact, make a coach- Pittsburgh, Tulsa, Rice, Alabama, ing change this offseason. West Virginia, Toledo, Illinois State, It was announced Thursday af- Valdosta State and UT-Martin. ternoon that Paul Randolph, who was Randolph is taking over for previously the defensive line coach at Greg Richmond, whose departure Indiana, will coach the Cowboys in from the program was announced the same role. along with Randolph’s arrival. Randolph is familiar with the sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Andy Crown For the first time in Daton Fix’s college career, he dealt with injuries that set him back and kept him out of matches early in the season. Now, he’s back and as focused as ever.

Fix refocused, motivated after rough stretch of setbacks. He proved it against NC State Braden Bush Sports Editor

around the team,” Fix said. “It wasn’t, easy being off for a little bit, but I’m glad to be back.” It was an unusual time for Fix. Smith can’t remember Fix not being available for a match because of injury John Smith sat in a chair in his in the senior’s seven seasons with the usual spot at the corner of the mat with Cowboys. assistant coaches around him. Fix missed matches against No. 1 As he coached his young team, Ryan Crookham of Lehigh and No. 27 maybe the youngest team he’s ever Jace Koelzer of OU, which was tough wrestled with, against a top-five oppofor someone as competitive as Fix, who nent, he had an extra coach beside him. is a three-time national runner-up and One who also wrestled that day and who four-time All-American. Smith is happy to have back. “He had a tough time. He strugDaton Fix, OSU’s 133-pounder, gled a little bit, you know, just trying sat beside him and yelled advice to to figure everything out,” Smith said. teammates after he had just recorded a “And he had a week where it was a little win of his own. bit rough. He’s never experienced this. “Felt good having him there next Here he is, just got two matches under to me,” Smith said. “There’s things that his belt, and he’s injured again. He goes he wants to get across to his teammates, to Vegas, and we expect him to wrestle, you know, and it’s good to see.” and he gets injured. For a guy that’s got Fix wrestled in OSU’s season a lot of success, he’s had a lot of success opener, then was scratched out of the wrestled all over the world, it was pretty Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on frustrating.” Dec. 1 because of injury. He missed the When Fix returned against WyoLehigh and Oklahoma duals, then reming, he won an 8-2 decision. Fine, but turned against Wyoming but was shak- not good enough for Fix. He expects ing off some rest. Now, as OSU heads to stretch scores and earn bonus-point to Pittsburgh and West Virginia this wins. weekend, Fix is back after one of the He also dealt with an illness on toughest stretches of his college career top of the injury, which kept him from and nearing old form. full strength and made it difficult to “It feels really good. I was defimaintain his weight and stay in competnitely missing competing and just being ing shape.

“It just felt like one thing after another was hitting me and a lot of unfortunate events that were happening back-to-back,” Fix said. “Whenever you’re not making weight, it’s kind of hard to keep your weight down. And you can try to keep it down as much as you can, but whenever you really can’t actually work out and do things, it’s hard to keep it down.” Smith could see Fix struggling with one of the roughest stretches of his career. “I think the match that he got in at Wyoming didn’t do much for him,” Smith said. “It was disappointing a little bit. Basically, ‘Hey, it’s the second time you made weight. Just get your weight under control a little bit better, and I think you’re gonna find the energy and the effort that you really want for herself,’ and he gave that last week.” But against NC State, Fix was back to form. He scored a major-decision win against No. 5 Kai Orine and showed that after the setbacks he’s still a problem at 133. And, as he sat next to Smith by the mat, Fix showed he’s back to lead his surging team. The time away from the mat helped him reset and refocus, and now he’s as hungry as ever as the Cowboys head into the heart of the schedule. “Whenever you start to kind of be away and you’re not competing, you definitely start to miss it,” Fix said.

“And it’s helped me get motivated to get my weight where it needs to be so I can compete at my best.” No. 5 OSU (5-0) vs. No. 15 Pittsburgh (7-3) When: 6 p.m. Friday Where: Fitzgerald Fieldhouse (Pittsburgh) TV Info: ACC Network Extra Radio: 93.7 FM Series: 6-1, OSU Last: 30-10, OSU (Jan. 18, 2020) Matchups to watch: 165: No. 2 Izzak Olejnik (15-0) vs. No. 8 Holden Heller (7-2) 174: No. 2 Dustin Plott (15-1) vs. No. 12 Reece Heller (11-3) HWT: No. 11 Konner Doucet (9-2) vs. No. 9 Dayton Pitzer (8-2) No. 5 OSU (5-0) vs. No. 20 West Virginia (8-1) When: Noon on Sunday Where: WVU Coliseum (Morgantown, WV) TV Info: Big 12 Now (ESPN+) Radio: 93.7 FM Series: 16-0, OSU Last: 28-7, OSU (Jan. 22, 2023) Matchups to watch: 141: No. 8 Tagen Jamison (12-3) vs. No. 9 Jordan Titus (17-0) 165: No. 2 Izzak Olejnik (15-0) vs. No. 9 Peyton Hall (20-3) sports.ed@ocolly.com

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File Photo Burns Hargis said he does not view his current status as retired, but as a new chapter.

Hargis . . .

we’re basically training people to be trainers. So, upper class upper division students can train 10 to twelve lower division students. President’s LeaderContinued from 1 ship Council has maybe 125 students, and we probably have over a thousand applications. And so, then you’ve got Q: Are you mentoring anyone the McKnight Scholars, and there’s only on campus or through the Leadership 50 of them. And some students get some Institute? leadership hands on training with SGA A: Yeah. What we’re trying to do or maybe in the Greek system and the is really scale it up (at the Hargis Lead- ResLife system. To really sit down and ership Institute) so that a lot more of our think about what is important in leaderstudents get formal leadership training. ship (and) what makes a good leader, And to do that, it certainly requires how to think like a leader and kind money, but we also have partnered with of picture yourself as a leader, (it’s) a a firm, and we’re the first university and challenge for a lot of people. And we’re

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trying to help them make that leap to be able to make a difference in their communities or the university or their families. You name it. Q: What about Ann (Hargis)? What is she doing after OSU? A: She still is very involved in the pet therapy program. We just had the tenth anniversary in October, and so she’s working with Kendria Cost, who is the director of the program. And farther than that, she’s a yoga instructor. She’s instructing now, but she’s doing yoga and she’s a golfer. Q: Where have the two of you traveled after OSU? A: Probably the most fun thing

we did involved in OSU graduate was in 2022. We have an alum in London. He runs a company called Bradley, which I think is kind of a coach handbag sort of company. But anyway, he invited us to come to London and go to Ascot, the horse races. The queen goes, and the king, and we did it. Ann had an OSU graduate student in fashion design her hat, which was fabulous, and I had a top hat and tails that I rented, and we were in the royal enclosure. So, we were right across the hall from the Royal Family. And we were facing the paddock where they come in in the carriages. It’s really fabulous. It was a great experience. news.ed@ocolly.com

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Courtesy of Creative Commons The National Park Service maintains 63 national parks.

Outdoors . . . Continued from 1

Gen Z has become so fixated on creating the next viral video that we’re not seeing the world in front of us. When I’ve entered a never-ending scroll through my stream, I don’t notice the actual things around me. I miss the campus ducks puttering around the pond and barely acknowledge the

people I pass. Visiting the parks has realigned my natural senses to be more curious and observant of the world around me. Without a phone to distract me, I can place my full attention to the task at hand. It’s a habit that I have long been rid of, but I’m glad to see it come back.

At the end of the day, I would take a trip to a national park over an extra few hours of screen time any day. My advice to you: put down the phone, pick the nearest park and start an adventure. news.ed@ocolly.com

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Courtesy of Tribune The crowd’s reaction after Jo Koy’s unnecessary joke about the ‘Barbie’ movie.

Monologue . . . Continued from 1 “I got the gig 10 days ago!” Koy yelled at the crowd. “You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You’re kidding me, right? Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.” He made another shot, trying to joke with Taylor Swift.

“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift” The camera caught Swift’s reaction, staring unblinkingly at him while taking a sip of champagne. The relief when the monologue was over was unanimous. Everyone was happy to see Jared Leto present the first award. Although the night was filled with deserving wins and great speeches after a long year with the SAG strikes, Koy’s jokes echoed through the next few days

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and viewers did not let him off the hook easily. Barbie ended the night with some statues in hand—one for Billie Eilish and Finneas’ song “What Was I Made For?” and another for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement—a decent if not triumphant showing for 2023’s biggest release. And Koy told Variety he had 10 days to write the monologue. “It’s a tough room. It was a hard job, I’m not going to lie…I’d be lying if (I said) it doesn’t hurt. I hit a moment there where I was like, ‘Ah.’ Hosting is

just a tough gig,” Koy said. “Yes, I’m a stand-up comic but that hosting position it’s a different style. I kind of went in and did the writer’s thing. We had 10 days to write this monologue. It was a crash course. I feel bad, but I got to still say I loved what I did.” Aside from the monologue disaster, speeches from Kieran Culkin, who won Best Television Male Actor, and Lily Gladstone, who won Best Female Actor, brought up the mood and focused on what the night was made for: recognition of great storytelling. news.ed@ocolly.com

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By Emma Oxford

DOWN 1 Pet food brand 2 Form of nonviolent protest 3 Jedi voiced by Tom Kane on “The Clone Wars” 4 Seize 5 “What __ thou?” 6 Pt. of USA 7 First name of two Spice Girls 8 Reflexive pronoun 9 __ Khan 10 Paul Newman hockey film 11 Sopping 12 Decree 13 Ancient Greek marketplace 14 Hero in operas, typically 19 __ oil 20 Key spot 25 Juilliard deg. 27 Gasohol, e.g. 28 Division word 29 Yummy 30 “Sons of Anarchy” actor Perlman

Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Linda Black Horoscopes Today’s Birthday (01/12/24). You’re especially lucky in love, creativity and romance this year. Strengthen growth with coordinated communication. Respond proactively to springtime career challenges for summertime harmony at home. Adapting communication strategies for autumn changes leads to a professional growth phase next winter. Romance, fun and creativity flower. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Friends provide support with a challenge. Seize opportunities for fun and collaboration. Teamwork wins. Strengthen foundations to develop your shared performance. Practice makes perfect. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Take advantage of a lucky professional break. Conditions favor action, so get moving! Grab a chance to advance. Make a motion with lasting value. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Your wanderlust intensifies. Develop an intriguing idea. Explore various options and potential destinations. An exploration reveals new possibilities. Follow clues leading to buried treasure. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Manage finances and collaborate intuitively. Trim unnecessary expenses like unused subscriptions. Plan your next move together. Contribute to shared savings for lasting benefits. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Pull together for a shared vision. Collaborate with someone who understands your situation. Action gets lasting results. Build foundational structures. Share your gratitude. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Prioritize health and fitness. Find a way to maintain practices despite busy work and demands for your attention. Grab a chance to get outside. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Creative and romantic projects surge ahead. Your flexibility is your superpower. Prioritize fun and enjoy surprises. Share special connections. Relax and enjoy the process. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Clean house and make repairs. Clearing clutter opens new possibilities. Out with the old to create space for the new. Cook up something wonderful. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Monitor the latest news. Solve intellectual puzzles. Opportunities hide under changes, and in unexpected places. Seek and find clues, resources and hidden solutions. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Keep an open mind. Develop lucrative possibilities from unexpected sources. Try new tactics and discover profitable opportunities. Saved pennies add up over time. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Consider personal changes. Physical action wins lasting benefits. Work your muscles while getting lost in thought. You’re gaining an advantage. Try a new style. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Notice hidden beauty. Avoid noise, chaos, or confusion. Savor peaceful privacy for productive organization and planning. Put things away and prepare for what’s ahead.

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

31 Furthermore 35 Univ. lecturer 36 iPad speaker 37 Gridiron unit 39 Wind up with 40 Getting some air 41 “One __ time!” 42 Foray 44 Call from a coach 45 Wt. units 48 Coup d’__ 49 Is unacceptable 50 Mavericks city

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51 Do a favor for 52 Unlikely heroines in operas, typically 53 Get to 54 Creative sort 59 Cry of delight 60 “That’s my cue!” 61 __, zwei, drei 62 Eye affliction 64 Mer contents 65 Fight-ending letters

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Solution to Thursday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk