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Through the ups and downs of his senior season, Leyton Hammonds’ leadership never wavered.

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Along with Leyton Hammonds’ family, friend and girlfriend, a teammate made the walk through the tunnel of Oklahoma State players on Senior Day. In warmups, Jeffrey Carroll approached Hammonds, a senior on the OSU basketball team, and asked what time the ceremony started, not knowing he would be a part of it.

“You’re gonna walk with me,” Hammonds told him.

Hammonds has had an up-and-down year in his final season with the program. However, through all the turmoil, Hammonds’ demeanor hasn’t changed. Carroll remains his best friend. Hammonds is still positive, goofy and, most importantly, a leader.

Carroll, a redshirt junior, played AAU ball with Hammonds on the Dallas Mustangs, starting when they were juniors in high school.

Hammonds committed to OSU on July 23, 2012.

Carroll did the same about two months later.

“He’s a part of my family,” Hammonds said.

“He’s like a brother to me.”

Hammonds said he and Carroll didn’t talk about recruiting much, but the pair just happened to choose the same school.

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Leyton Hammonds celebrates after the Cowboys’ victory against the Sooners this season.

“That was kinda our ‘Step Brothers’ moment: ‘Did we just become best friends?’ ‘Yup,’” Hammonds said.

Since, Hammonds and Carroll have been roommates in Stillwater the past four years. In that time, the two shared plenty of stories.

Hammonds is known as a jokester, and when asked what his funniest Leyton Hammonds story is, Carroll sits back and giggles to himself for about 30 seconds as he recalls all the times Hammonds has brought a smile to his face.

Eventually, Carroll finds a particular story that stands out. The two were in Manhattan,

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Kansas, celebrating Hammonds’ birthday with Hammonds’ girlfriend, Bailey Shurbet, who played volleyball at Kansas State at the time.

About 2 a.m., Carroll was ready to get some sleep on the couch when he heard a door open.

“Jeff, where you at?”

Hammonds said.

“In here. Why?” Carroll replied.

Then, Hammonds, in only a towel, chased Carroll around the room until Carroll went outside. That didn’t stop Hammonds, who continued his pursuit in his towel.

“I was running full sprint from him,” Carroll said. “He’s determined to catch me. He never caught

me. It’s just how random he is. He’ll do anything at any moment.”

Carroll said he tells Hammonds every day how weird it will be without him next year. Carroll said it will be weird not hearing his goofy laugh.

He said he’ll miss waking up to Hammonds blasting his music throughout their home.

Carroll still has time with his best friend, though. The Cowboys’ success this season has led to more basketball to be played, basketball Hammonds is determined to take advantage of.

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Brad Underwood called to Hammonds.

During the Oklahoma State basketball team’s open practice Oct. 8, Underwood took Hammonds out of a drill. They spoke near midcourt with Underwood gesturing to certain areas on the court.

Then, it was Hammonds’ time to lead.

Hammonds, from North Richland Hills, Texas, shouted to his teammates, pointing them into the correct spots and explaining the next drill, and the Cowboys fell in line. “(Underwood has) kind of put the ball in my court now, just trying to be a vocal leader, me and Phil (Forte),” Hammonds said in the fall. “Just trying to keep these guys in the right area on the court in practice, when coach isn’t looking and outside of practice, when coach isn’t around just drilling into their heads that we gotta play hard every time.”

Later in the practice, each member of the team had to shoot a free throw.

The team lined up on the baseline under the basket, and one by one, players stepped to the free-throw line. A make meant the next teammate came up for his attempt. A miss and the team had to run across the floor and back three times.

Hammonds was one of the first few to go. He made it.

After all 14 players shot a free throw, only two

missed.

After six runs of the floor, the Cowboys thought their practice was over, but a member of the team wasn’t at the practice. Forte, Hammonds’ fellow senior, was home with flu-like symptoms.

“Someone’s gotta shoot for Phil,” Underwood said.

Hammonds stepped to the foul line for a second time. Assistant coach Lamont Evans heckled Hammonds from the sideline, as he did with everyone who shot.

Hammonds, at 6-foot-8, calmly brought the ball up and shot; the ball coolly caught nylon net after going straight through the hoop.

The practice was over, but the banter wasn’t.

After the ball went in, Hammonds, holding his follow-through, looked over to Evans on the sideline.

Evans, cutting his losses, jogged toward the team huddle at the center of the court, but Hammonds, holding his follow-through, gave chase.

Hammonds bumped Evans before he could make it to the team huddle. Evans patted Hammonds on the back, and they joined the huddle.

That goofiness is a part of Hammonds’ leadership.

Lindy Waters, a freshman on the team, said he has witnessed Hammonds’ randomness.

“Every day, he’ll always

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say one word that’s kind of out of the blue, and it’ll just make everyone laugh,” Waters said in November. “Every day it’s a different word.

One day it was ‘blankie.’ It just made everyone laugh.

We’ll all be in the locker room, and he’ll be walking by and just be like ‘blankie.’

“It’s weird, but it’s funny.”

Words aren’t always needed with Hammonds’ unique sense of humor. Carroll said Hammonds will sometimes open the door to Carroll’s room and blankly stare at him for about 30 seconds.

“I’m like, ‘What? What?

What are you looking at?’ and he’ll slam the door and run off,” Carroll said. “It’s so funny.”

Hammonds, in his second season as a team captain, said it’s good to joke around with his teammates off the court to remind them basketball is only a game.

Hammonds said often, young basketball players try to look at the game as a job.

He said he tells the freshmen this is going to be the best four years of their lives and to enjoy it as such.

Carroll said Hammonds has always been a leader, but with Hammonds entering his final year, Carroll said his roommate has embraced that role even more.

“I think that’s something special, how he can talk to people, motivate ’em, get ’em going,” Carroll said. “He makes it about the team more than himself.”

Three days before the team’s season opener against Campbell, the Cowboys’ Nov. 8 practice started slowly.

After taking Underwood’s prompt to lead during the

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Leyton Hammonds and Brad Underwood hug during the Senior Night festivities Saturday before the Kansas game.

It’s amazing what happens sometimes with seniors at the end.”

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team’s open practice, Hammonds didn’t wait on anyone’s go-ahead as his senior season drew closer.

Hammonds called the team together in the middle of practice.

“He called them all together, rallied ’em, got ’em going and practice picked up,” Underwood said in November. “That’s what leaders do.

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They help their teammates out. It’s not always about being liked. It’s about being respected.”

Hammonds said he tries to use his experience to guide the team’s seven freshmen.

“I know how college is,” Hammonds said in the fall. “I understand about basketball and what it needs from you, how it affects your body, how

it affects your mind. I’ve seen it all since I’ve been here, so just trying to help these young guys understand that it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

“You can’t get too high, and you can’t get too low.”

‘I’m just trying to be the best Leyton I can be’ The start of Hammonds’ senior season didn’t exactly go to plan.

After averaging about 11 points a game as a junior, Hammonds’ transition to Underwood’s more aggressive defense, as well as officials tightening up on touch fouls heading into the season, put Hammonds in foul trouble in most games during the early part of the season.

During the Cowboys’ third-place run in the Maui Invitational in November, Hammonds fouled out of all three of OSU’s games and

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averaged only five points a game.

Hammonds had some good games early in the year, but the foul trouble always limited him.

Carroll said Hammonds was able to stay positive throughout the downs of his season. In the Cowboys’ 6157 loss at Baylor on Jan. 7, Hammonds fouled out after scoring only six points. Carroll said he could’ve hung his head, but Hammonds went back to work.

When the team returned to Stillwater about midnight, Carroll saw Hammonds leaving. Hammonds was heading to the gym.

“A normal person after a bad game would just go home and talk crap, kinda be down, but he would take that, feel it, remember it,” Carroll said.

Throughout his struggles,

Underwood said his faith in Hammonds has never wavered. Hammonds is the only OSU player to start all of the team’s 31 games.

As of late, things have started to click for Hammonds. During the past six games, he is averaging about 13 points a game, including a team-high 21 points against TCU on Feb. 15.

“It’s amazing what happens sometimes with seniors at the end,” Underwood said.

“He’s been so positive. He’s been so upbeat. … I have tremendous respect for him as a person.”

Hammonds said this is the most excited he has been heading into a postseason, with the Big 12 tournament and an NCAA Tournament bid looming, and he wants to do everything he can to make his last postseason a memorable one.

Hammonds said he has stayed up late discussing his ups and downs with Carroll.

He has talked with his parents and with Underwood.

He has talked with God and even himself.

“I just told myself I need to give everything I got because this is my last time playing in this uniform,” Hammonds said. “I don’t wanna go out saying ‘Man, I coulda did this,’ or ‘I coulda played harder.’ I’m just trying to be the best Leyton I can be for my teammates, and I want to end it on the way I want to end it.

“I wanna look back and know I did everything I could to be the best Leyton I could be.”

Marshall Scott is sports media junior from Madill.

He can be reached at copydesk@ocolly.com.

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The times have changed but the Cowboys’ goal hasn’t.

Ahead of playing in the Big 12 tournament Thursday morning, the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team’s Tuesday practice looked similar to the team’s open practice at the beginning of the season. The only thing different — Tuesday’s squad was more disciplined.

The Cowboys (20-11 overall, 9-9 Big 12) were still fresh, still conditioned, still running up and down the white maple court of Gallagher-Iba Arena with

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abandon. From the coaches on the sideline, the message was the same: run, play defense, rebound, work hard and the team will be OK. “Even when (the hard work) doesn’t pay off, I’d rather go out workin’ hard and losin’ than going out just not caring and losing,” senior forward Leyton Hammonds said. “At least we’re giving it all we got, and as you can see, it’s working out for us.”

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First-year coach Brad Underwood said he credits the team’s attention to detail, strength and conditioning coach Jake Manzelmann and the team’s weight training and nutrition programs for keeping the Cowboys fresh late into the season.

“We take a lot of pride in it,” Underwood said. “We talk about it a lot, being the best team in February and March. We’re right there. …

Teams quit lifting. Teams quit practicing as hard.

“We don’t.”

Before Underwood got to Stillwater in March 2016, Jawun Evans said he never knew he could practice so hard.

Evans, OSU’s point guard,

has reaped the benefits of the Cowboys’ consistent program firsthand. Monday, he was named to Sporting News’ All-American third team, after finishing the season as the Big 12’s leading assister and second leading scorer behind Kansas’ Frank Mason, a candidate for multiple Player of the Year awards.

“I’ve seen us grow mentally and physically,” Evans said. “We out there fighting, fighting hard. Every day we come to practice ready.

We practice now like we practiced at the beginning of the year when we first got here. Nothing has changed, and I feel like that’s making us better every day.”

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The improvement is visible to outsiders, too. OSU started conference play 0-6 then rattled off 10 wins in its next 13 games, improving in almost every statistical category during that stretch.

When the fifth-seeded Cowboys take on fourthseeded Iowa State at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, they will do so as the “everyday guys” Underwood has coached and demanded them to be, Hammonds said.

“For me, I kinda clamped on to that,” Hammonds said.

“That makes sense. Regardless of what happens, you’ve gotta be an everyday guy.

You can only control how you act. That kinda grew on

me.”

Hammonds said winning the conference has been a team goal since the beginning of the season. When he looks at the bracket now with matchups against the Cyclones and likely Kansas — two of the three teams that swept OSU in conference play — looming, he said he sees no reason the team can’t finish what it set out to do.

“That’s just how we think, how we do,” Hammonds said.

“We dream big.”

Sam Grubenhoff is a sports media senior from Mansfield, Texas. He can be reached at sports.ed@ ocolly.com.

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Christian Thomas Peck died as a result of a drugrelated shooting, but friends are fighting for him to be remembered in a different light.

Peck, 21, from Stillwater, died Sunday after being shot Saturday night in a triple shooting in the 200 block of West Third Avenue.

Peck’s friends acknowledge he may have been caught up in some crime but said that doesn’t negate the love they feel for his memory.

Shane, Dylan and Tyler Taff are among Peck’s foster

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brothers.

Shane said Peck’s personality was lovable; he was always the funny guy in the room and the most outspoken.

“He tells you how he

feels,” Dylan said. “And I like that because most people will not tell you how they feel.”

Peck is also remembered for his love of football.

Shane said Peck was a line-

backer for the Perkins-Tryon High School football team.

After high school, Peck played on a minor league football team in Ponca City called the Northern Oklahoma Executioners with Shane. Tyler said Peck had continued to train in hopes of playing for the University of Oklahoma someday.

Peck’s football training influenced the way he dressed. Dylan said Peck’s go-to outfit was a “bro tank” and cowboy boots.

“He’d ask if his arms looked bigger every time he wore (a bro tank),” Dylan said. “(He would say,) ‘Have they gotten any bigger, bro?’”

Beyond football and style,

Eliza Prather, Peck’s girlfriend, said she remembers him for his contagious laugh and smile.

“Anyone who knows Chris knows his laugh,” Prather said. “He just always had that goofy little smile on his face. No matter what seemed to go wrong, he was the happy one.”

Shane said considering Peck’s background, his positivity was impressive.

Peck didn’t have much of a relationship with his biological family, Prather said.

Some biological family members have spoken out on Facebook. Dena Peck, who said she was Peck’s grandmother, said she wanted everyone to know

she and Peck’s grandfather “dearly loved” him.

Shane said Peck’s mother abandoned him when he was 4, signing him over to a childhood in the Oklahoma foster care system.

When he was about 14, Peck was moved to a foster home in Perkins, under the care of foster parents Troy and Robin Cundiff, where he met Shane, Dylan and Tyler.

Shane said Peck’s life in the Cundiffs foster home was full of boxing matches in the backyard and fishing.

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A Stillwater man was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder in connection to Saturday’s triple shooting.

Shakeem Rachid Carter, 23, was arrested at 12:17 p.m. at a mobile home south of Stillwater in rural Payne County, according to a Stillwater Police Department press release. He is in custody at the Stillwater City Jail.

An anonymous source notified Stillwater police about Carter’s location, where the suspect was arrested without incident, according to the release.

Carter is one of two suspects wanted after Saturday’s shooting at a house in the 200 block of West Third Avenue.

Rodriquez Cortez Johnson Jr. is still at large, though Stillwater police believe after interviewing Carter, the second suspect will be located soon, according to

the press release.

Johnson Jr. faces charges of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill.

Christian Thomas Peck, 21, died as a result of his injuries from the shooting.

He was shot in the torso and head and was flown to St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa, where he died.

Kaylee Mullins and LeeAnn Dotter, both 20, were living at the house where the shooting took place and suffered gunshot wounds, according to a court affidavit.

Mullins was shot in the shoulder, face and head and was flown to the OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City where she was treated and released, according to the affidavit.

Dotter was shot through the hands after raising them to defend herself.

She was treated at Stillwater Medical Center and released.

The incident took place after Peck reportedly

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arrived at Dotter and Mullins’ home with a duffle bag full of marijuana, according to the affidavit. Carter was visiting the house at the time.

Mullins said Peck told her he intended to sell the marijuana in Stillwater, but a deal had fallen through, according to the affidavit.

During this conversation, Carter reportedly borrowed Mullins’ phone to make several calls in her backyard.

After the last phone call, Carter walked in with Johnson Jr. and talked about the bag of marijuana with Peck, according to the affidavit. Then, Johnson Jr. reportedly revealed a semiautomatic pistol and began shooting. The two men fled the scene with the bag.

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could master the sport.

Jake Gould, an Oklahoma State University animal science freshman, played high school football with Peck. He said Peck and his foster brothers were constantly smack-talking and wrestling in the locker room.

“They were the rowdy bunch at Perkins,” Gould said. “But (Peck) had a good heart. He was always smiling. You couldn’t ever get under his skin.”

Gould said Peck had an “I got your back, you have mine” attitude that probably developed from the love he and his foster brothers shared.

Despite his beginnings, Peck was self-motivated

when it came to his future, Shane said.

At 14, Peck decided on his career goal. He wanted to own a heating, ventilation and air conditioning business. It might seem like an unusual dream job, but Shane said Peck was committed to making it happen.

Peck attended Meridian Technology Center in Stillwater and had recently started an HVAC apprenticeship in Oklahoma City.

“No matter the background, how he was raised or where he came from, he was definitely going somewhere, and he wasn’t going to let anything stop that,” Prather said.

Shane, Dylan and Tyler, along with Prather and other friends, now seek justice for Peck’s death.

Dylan and Tyler recognized Peck was involved in criminal activity but said Peck’s life was worth far more than the marijuana he was killed over.

“Strictly speaking, there are a lot of people who (sell marijuana) just to get by, and you never think of that type of consequence,” Dylan said.

Peck reportedly arrived at the home of Kaylee Mullins and LeeAnn Dotter, both 20, on Saturday with a duffel bag full of marijuana, according to a court affidavit. Shakeem Rachid Carter, 23, was visiting the house at the

time.

Carter borrowed Mullins’ cell phone and made several calls in the backyard. After the final phone call, Carter came back inside with Rodriquez Cortez Johnson Jr., 20, and spoke with Peck about the marijuana, according to the affidavit.

Then, Johnson Jr. reportedly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and started firing.

Mullins and Dotter, who have since been treated and released, suffered gunshot wounds.

Peck died from his injuries after being flown to St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa.

“I’m not saying that (Peck) should have been

doing that, but to get killed over some marijuana?” Tyler said. “They took our brother out of our lives over a drug.”

Carter and Johnson Jr. allegedly fled the scene with the bag, according to the affidavit. Both have been charged with first-degree murder, and Johnson Jr is facing two counts of shooting with intent to kill.

Stillwater police arrested Carter on Tuesday at a mobile home south of the city. After interviewing Carter, police expect to arrest Johnson Jr. soon, according to a police press release.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Stillwater Police

Department at 405-3724171 or the TIPS line at 405-372-8327.

Prather said the date of Peck’s funeral has not yet been determined because she is waiting for the medical examiner’s report. She has chosen Palmer Marler Funeral Home to conduct the service.

Prather has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help with Peck’s funeral costs.

As of Tuesday, more than $2,200 of the $10,000 goal had been raised.

Kelsy Schlotthauer is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Edmond.

She can be reached at kelsyas@okstate.edu.

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Notes from the o’colly crime desk K elsy Sch lot t h au e r staff reporter @ocolly

Arrest at massage parlor

A Stillwater masseuse was arrested Feb. 21 on a charge of offering to engage in prostitution at OK Massage at 602 W. Sixth Ave. Stillwater police conducted an undercover operation at the business after receiving reports of a female employee offering to perform sex acts on customers at the end of their massages, according to a police report.

An undercover officer made a massage appointment with the employee and confirmed the reports.

The officer declined the offer, left the building and gave a visual signal for other officers to arrest her.

The report states she spoke limited English and was provided a Chinese translator at the jail.

The owner of OK Massage was out of town during the undercover operation and later said she was unaware the employee was performing sex acts on customers for extra money.

The case was dismissed Feb. 24 because the employee appeared to be a human trafficking victim, according to court records.

sex acts in hot tub

At 2:30 a.m. Feb. 28, Stillwater police responded to reports of two people having sex in the Progress405 apartment complex hot tub.

Police found a man and

woman nude and engaged in sex acts on a chair near the hot tub, according to a police report.

The two, who are OSU students, were placed under arrest for public intoxication and outraging public decency, the report stated.

The man is already serving a five-year deferred sentence in Payne County and is under the supervision of Oklahoma Court Services. He was arrested in June and charged with unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia.

His probation had started at the beginning of February.

‘Extremely, extremely high’

Stillwater police responded at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 24 to the 1800 block of Perkins Road in reference to an unresponsive man.

Police and paramedics from the Stillwater Fire Department arrived at the apartment and found, along with marijuana and other controlled dangerous substances, one man asleep in his room and another man unresponsive in the bathroom, according to a police report.

LifeNet transported the unresponsive man to Stillwater Medical Center, and the responsive man, identified as OSU student George Grant Davis, was taken to the Stillwater City Jail.

Reports stated Davis was “extremely, extremely high” and officers watched

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for several minutes as he attempted to wear a pair of pants as a shirt.

He was charged with one count of unlawful possession of marijuana and one count of drug paraphernalia, according to court records.

He will appear in court in April to schedule a preliminary hearing.

‘Black and Milds on the hay bales’ About 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26, a Stillwater police officer on a premises check at Stillwater Regional Airport discovered four men trespassing beyond the perimeter fence.

A police report states upon seeing the officer, the men crawled back through a gate and fully cooperated.

Each acknowledged he saw the signs, which stated “Airport Operations Area, No Unauthorized Persons Beyond this Point,” and all four said they were trespassing on airport land.

When asked what they were doing, one man said they were “looking at stars and smoking Black and Mild’s on the hay bales,” according to the police report.

All four men are OSU students and members of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.

No charges were filed for the incident.

Kelsy Schlotthauer is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Edmond.

She can be reached at kelsyas@okstate.edu.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 __-pedi 5 Like many snowbirds: Abbr.

9 Golden Arches pork sandwich 14 __ jacket 15 Part of a plot 16 Muse for Millay 17 Ambitious aspiration 19 Industry bigwig 20 Hotel breakfast buffet offering 21 “Evita” role 23 River near the Sphinx 24 Hush-hush govt. org.

25 “We’re off to a strong start” 28 Lauren of fashion 30 Mystery man John 31 Uninteresting 33 “Yippee!”

36 Flapper’s accessory 39 A city council is part of it 43 Typical “Blue’s Clues” watcher 44 Davenport resident 45 Gossip column twosome 46 Stop 47 Stop 50 Aphrodite or Venus 55 __ King Cole 58 “Not sure yet” 59 Road cover 60 Sole role in the play “Tru” 62 Place for short cuts 64 Word lover who’d especially enjoy the four longest answers in this puzzle?

66 Pointed remark?

67 Always 68 Persia, today 69 Totally filled 70 Email status 71 What a successful dieter weighs DOWN 1 Fruit served in balls 2 Matter makeup

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3 2002 legislation that protects whistleblowers, familiarly 4 Like some waters: Abbr.

5 Convertible, in slang 6 Prefix with friendly 7 Song on a CD 8 Indian metropolis 9 Got together 10 Shrink in fear 11 Probability expression 12 Author Calvino 13 Like fillets 18 Cry out 22 Home of the Ewoks 26 “I’m impressed!”

27 Hired hood 29 Puzzle solver’s cry 31 Lunchtime fave 32 John of the U.K. 34 Gardner of the silver screen 35 Start of a conclusion 36 Bane 37 Cardinal Ozzie Smith’s retired uniform number

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38 Spot to check your balance 40 Lisa who hosts CNN’s “This Is Life” 41 Beckett no-show 42 Leading lead-in 46 Friend of Pooh and Roo 48 Go along with 49 PDQ 50 Leans while sailing

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51 D-Day beach 52 Lot attendant 53 Lowlands 54 Used the car 56 Book with roads 57 After-school jobholders 61 One of the Everly Brothers 63 Actor Beatty 65 High-ranking off.

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By Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Today’s Birthday (03/08/17). Shared investments, property and family accounts rise in value this year, especially between May and October. Career growth takes steady focus. Rest and play in August, inspiring your health and work. Plot an October educational launch. After December, community activism pays.

Realize a vision together.

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 a 5 -- Don’t go yet. Take time for romance, fun and games over the next two days. Hold your temper if frustrated. Savor relaxation with friends and family.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Home projects inspire you today and tomorrow. Don’t be rushed into buying anything. Plan and budget carefully. Ask family for feedback.

Make a Pinterest board.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Write your latest discoveries. Share information and data today and tomorrow.

Obstacles block the road; wait to take major actions. Don’t disturb a watchdog.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Make plans and estimates for profitable upcoming efforts. Today and tomorrow are good for making money. Launch after laying the groundwork. Otherwise, things could get expensive.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re getting stronger today and tomorrow. Wait to jump into action. Potential barriers diminish later. Wait for confusion to pass. Consider personal matters.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Look back for insight on the road ahead. Notice your dreams over the next few days.

Settle somewhere peaceful to rest and recharge your batteries.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Develop a team strategy through tomorrow. Proceed with caution, to avoid accidents or errors. Discuss priorities and who will do what.

Organization saves time and resources.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- A career opportunity arises over the next few days. Stay objective in a tense situation. Polish your presentation for an upcoming pitch. Keep things simple.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Plan your trip before dashing off. Travel and adventure calls to you today and tomorrow, but traffic may be fierce (especially today). Consider alternative routes.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Discuss financial strategies with your partner over the next two days. Expect delays and obstacles. Don’t take action until plans are clear and coordinated.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Let someone else direct the show today and tomorrow. Consult a good strategist.

Today is better for talk than action. Work out priorities. Support each other.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- There’s plenty of work today and tomorrow, with possible chaos or busy flurries.

Allow extra time for traffic or avoid it to begin with.

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