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Meet Dorial Green-Beckham of Missouri—and the rest of the 2012 PARADE All-America team.

Record-breaking receiver Green-Beckham, 18, in the Hillcrest High locker room in Springﬁeld, Mo.

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Q: Whatever happened to Ordinary People’s Elizabeth McGovern? —J. B., Los Angeles

A: The actress, 50,

moved to England nearly two decades ago to raise a family with British producer Simon Curtis. She’s up for a Golden Globe tonight for Downton Abbey (season two is now airing on PBS). Find out what she misses most about living in America at Parade.com/mcgovern.

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Q: On his Twitter page, Patton Oswalt mentions having been a wedding DJ. True? —Raymond C. Quon, Westwood, Calif.

A: “Oh yes,” Oswalt, 42,

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My wife makes the best chocolate chip pancakes, and my son and I are only too happy to stay home and eat them. Sometimes David plays soccer or football. I played rugby, so David has that in his blood. He’s a very rambunctious, energetic boy, a natural linebacker. I have also fallen in love with the NFL and the New York Giants. I watch the games and my wife lets me, and that’s love. What about Sunday supper?

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast. Over the years Paige has picked up tips, and on Sundays, no matter what happens, we eat together. She learned how to make Yorkshire pudding and Irish soda bread. She nailed the gravy, too—essential!

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He loves dinosaurs, soo I let him watch most of the episodes. There are things in the show that he loves, but whenever I show affection to my [onscreen] wife or kids, it’s like, “Dad, what are you doing? I’m your son.”

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No. I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I’d been arrested, maybe that wouldn’t have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

What do you miss about Ireland?

My son. Just this morning he had a class assignment about life in colonial times, and he illustrated it with ninjas. Colonial children are cool, but ninjas are cooler! He cracks me up.

I suppose it’s just a vibe on the street. It’s small, so there’s a deﬁnite sense of safety. It’s cozy. Everybody knows everybody The Irish have a grand musical else. Those are also the reasons I heritage. Is singing one of your needed to get out. I didn’t want talents? to feel that safe; I I don’t sing. If I could wanted to take risks The star shares sing or dance, I would and see the world. his recipe for have done someIrish soda bread at Parade.com/omara What frightens you? thing really gross in Sometimes the things a G-string by now— that scare me are the things I’m when I wasn’t working and was drawn to: moving to London, desperate—and ruined my career. L.A., New York; marrying, [My lack of talent] saved me.

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hatever it takes to be a cop, casting directors agree that Jason O’Mara has it. The Terra Nova star on dinos, risk taking, The square-jawed, Irish-born actor, 39, has played time-travand becoming an American citizen eling lawmen on both the shortlived series Life on Mars and Fox’s sci-ﬁ adventure Terra Nova, which “IN ORDER recently had its TO LIVE A FULL LIFE, season ﬁnale. He’ll SOMETIMES next be seen as a YOU HAVE TO DO former vice cop and THINGS THAT murder suspect in the SCARE YOU.” big-screen caper One for the Money, in theaters Jan. 27. Thelma Adams learns what makes O’Mara so arresting.

6 • January 15, 2012

Ask Marilyn By Marilyn vos Savant

My husband says that a light fixture with six 60-watt bulbs is as bright as a fixture with one 360-watt bulb. To me, this is like saying that if you harness together six horses, each of which can run 40 miles per hour, the team could run 240 miles per hour. I think my husband might be wrong for the first time in his life. Am I right? —Elizabeth Moore, Bowling Green, Ky.

Your husband’s record remains unblemished—almost. Watts are a measure of energy consumption, not light output.

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To compare the latter, you must add up the lumens (a measure of light emission) that are produced by each bulb, and lower-wattage bulbs tend to be less efﬁcient. I found an example in my closet—a 40-watt bulb that produces 475 lumens and a 200-watt bulb that produces 3,300 lumens. So ﬁve of my 40-watt bulbs would produce 2,375 lumens, only about 72 percent of the output of the large bulb.

“Dorial is so fast—and, at 6-6, so big—that he can make any kind of catch— high, low, you name it,” says Sporting News’ Brian McLaughlin, who selected this year’s All-America team for PARADE.

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RECORD-BREAKING RECEIVER DORIAL GREEN-BECKHAM TOPS OUR 49TH ANNUAL PARADE ALL-AMERICA LIST, BUT HE’S HAD TO OVERCOME SOME HUGE OBSTACLES ALONG THE WAY By BRIAN MCLAUGHLIN

Cover and opening photograph by JENNIFER SILVERBERG

orial Green-Beckham, an 18-year-old wide receiver at Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo., has a smile almost as wide as his barn-broad shoulders, but you won’t see it when he’s talking about his childhood. “Growing up, there weren’t a lot of choices,” he says. Sometimes not even the choice of where to sleep at night. The third of six kids born to a struggling single mother, he bounced from motel rooms and vans to living in foster homes and with relatives, shuttling between his native St. Louis area and Springfield. That all changed in 2006, when Hillcrest head football coach John Beckham and his wife, Tracy, opened their home to Dorial and his younger brother Darnell. John and Tracy have fostered 20 or so children over the years, including Dorial’s older brother Sam, whom they’d taken in just a few months earlier. And even though they were raising five other kids at the time and Tracy was battling thyroid cancer, they made room. “When you’ve been in the [foster] system long enough, you know there is not another person waiting in line behind you,” says Tracy. Things were rocky at first. Dorial was “withdrawn,” says John. “He didn’t have a whole lot of confidence in himself.” He found his stride his sophomore year, winning state track championships in both the 100-meter dash and the triple jump and leading his basketball team to a state title. But it was on the

football ﬁeld that the 6-foot-6, 225-pound senior known as DGB really shone, shredding records almost as fast as he went through boxes of breakfast cereal. In the fall, he wrapped up his high school career with 6,447 total receiving yards, breaking a national record nearly as old as he was. It’s the kind of talent that inspires comparisons to NFL greats like Randy Moss and sputtering from scouts and recruiters: “Stunning.” “Scary good.” “Arguably the best athlete in the country.” CBS Sports prep analyst Tom Lemming says that Dorial is among the greatest high school players he’s ever seen. No wonder he topped our 49th annual list of the best seniors in high school football, chosen in partnership with Sporting News. Suddenly, there are choices. Lots of them. Twelve plastic buckets at the Beckham home are bursting with letters from college football programs. Dorial, whom the Beckhams formally adopted in 2009 (along with Darnell), is mulling the options, among them Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Texas (at press time, he was uncommitted). But he’s chosen to stay put recently and eschew several recruiting trips, wanting to remain close to home and the family he cherishes. “They’re great people,” he says. Catch Dorial in action and weigh It’s a decision that makes even more sense in light in on our selections of the devastating news he received last February: at Parade.com /all-america Darnell, also a gifted athlete, continued on page 11 January 15, 2012 • 9

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STANDOUT PLAYERS OF

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JOHNATHAN GRAY Running Back

ALEDO, TEX. For Johnathan Gray, just setting a national record wasn’t enough. In December, the running back did so in Hollywood-worthy fashion—with less than seven minutes left in the state championship game, and with 43,000 fans screaming in the stands of (where else?) Cowboys Stadium. That’s when he scored his 205th touchdown, eclipsing a seven-year-old mark. Johnathan caught the eye of coach Tim Buchanan as a freshman. “He’d outrun everybody, going back 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage and still scoring,” Buchanan says. That speed is an asset on the school’s track team, where Johnathan is a sprinter. While hopes for the UT-bound phenom are sky-high—a scout calls him “one of the most productive backs in high school history”— Johnathan remains focused on school and football. “He’s the type of kid you’d want your daughter to date,” Buchanan says.

MATY MAUK Quarterback KENTON, OHIO New Orleans counts the Manning brothers—NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli—among its hometown heroes, but Kenton, Ohio, has its own pair of QB star sibs: Ben and Maty Mauk. In 2002, Ben ﬁnished his high school career with a national record 17,364 passing yards. That mark seemed unreachable— until little brother Maty surpassed it in November, ending up with 18,932 yards. Maty, who has verbally committed to Missouri, also set career records for passing attempts, completions, and touchdown passes. The Mauk boys’ excellence could owe to the fact that they’ve basically been Kenton Wildcats since birth—their dad, Mike, whose take on the spread offense paved the way for his sons’ mind-boggling stats, has been the Wildcats head coach since 1983. From a ball boy at age 6, Maty has evolved into a true leader. “He’s always out there with our guys throwing or doing something to make them better,” his proud father says. “That can’t be replaced.”

THE PARADE ALL-AMERICA TEAM Name

School

City

Ht.

Wt.

QUARTERBACK MATY MAUK

Kenton

Kenton, Ohio

6-2

200

BRENDAN NOSOVITCH

Allentown Central Cath.

Allentown, Pa.

6-3

205

FREDI KNIGHTEN

Pulaski Academy

Little Rock, Ark.

5-11

190

PATRICK TOWLES

Highlands

Fort Thomas, Ky.

6-6

240

JAMEIS WINSTON

Hueytown

Hueytown, Ala.

6-4

205

RUNNING BACK JOHNATHAN GRAY

Aledo

Aledo, Tex.

5-11

200

D.J. FOSTER

Saguaro

Scottsdale, Ariz.

6-0

190

TREY WILLIAMS

Dekaney

Houston

5-10

175

TREY EDMUNDS

Dan River

Ringgold, Va.

6-2

205

BARKLEY HILL

Cedar Falls

Cedar Falls, Iowa

6-0

210

SHAQUILLE POWELL

Bishop Gorman

Las Vegas

5-11

205

RANDY “DUKE” JOHNSON

Miami Norland

Miami

5-9

190

WIDE RECEIVER DORIAL GREEN-BECKHAM

Hillcrest

Springﬁeld, Mo.

6-6

225

DEONTAY GREENBERRY

Washington Union

Fresno, Calif.

6-3

190

QUINSHAD DAVIS

Gaffney

Gaffney, S.C.

6-4

190

GEHRIG DIETER

Washington

South Bend, Ind.

6-3

210

SHAQ ROLAND

Lexington

Lexington, S.C.

6-2

180

BRYCE TREGGS

St. John Bosco

Bellﬂower, Calif.

6-1

170

LINEMAN ARIK ARMSTEAD

Pleasant Grove

Elk Grove, Calif.

6-8

290

ANDRUS PEAT

Corona del Sol

Tempe, Ariz.

6-7

305

KYLE KALIS

St. Edward

Lakewood, Ohio

6-5

305

JESSAMEN DUNKER

Boynton Beach

Boynton Beach, Fla.

6-6

315

BROCK STADNIK

Western Guilford

Greensboro, N.C.

6-5

295

SHANE CALLAHAN

Chaparral

Parker, Colo.

6-6

285

JOHN THEUS

Bolles

Jacksonville, Fla.

6-6

300

TY DARLINGTON

Apopka

Apopka, Fla.

6-3

275

JORDAN DIAMOND

Simeon

Chicago

6-6

290

AZIZ SHITTU

Buhach Colony

Atwater, Calif.

6-3

275

NOAH SPENCE

Bishop McDevitt

Harrisburg, Pa.

6-4

245

EDDIE GOLDMAN

Friendship Collegiate

Washington, D.C.

6-4

315

ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON

Taft

Cincinnati

6-4

260

DREW OTT

Giltner

Giltner, Neb.

6-4

245

KYLE KELLEY

Woodbridge

Irvine, Calif.

6-3

230

GIMEL PRESIDENT

Wando

Mount Pleasant, S.C.

6-3

255

MARIO EDWARDS JR.

Ryan

Denton, Tex.

6-4

275

DARIUS ENGLISH

McEachern

Powder Springs, Ga.

6-6

225

LINEBACKER VIN ASCOLESE

North Bergen

North Bergen, N.J.

6-2

220

RICHIE BROWN

Long Beach

Long Beach, Miss.

6-2

230

VINCE BIEGEL

Lincoln

Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

6-3

220

PRESCOTT LINE

Oxford

Oxford, Mich.

6-1

220

NATHAN RICKETTS

Holland

Holland, Mich.

6-3

220

TAJARVIS FULLER

Dunbar

Fort Myers, Fla.

6-1

200

KEVIN DAVIS

Fountain-Ft. Carson

Fountain, Colo.

6-3

220

DEFENSIVE BACK ALEX CARTER

Briar Woods

Ashburn, Va.

6-1

190

LANDON COLLINS

Dutchtown

Geismar, La.

6-0

210

SHAQ THOMPSON

Grant Union

Sacramento

6-2

210

LADARRELL MCNEIL

Wilmer-Hutchins

Dallas

6-2

190

DANNY LARKINS

Madison

Madison Heights, Mich.

6-1

185

6-3

190

KICKER COLBY COOKE

Goochland

Goochland, Va.

ALL-PURPOSE CYRUS JONES

Gilman

Baltimore

5-11

185

DAVONTE NEAL

Chaparral

Scottsdale, Ariz.

5-10

175

OSHAY DUNMORE

Newport

Newport, Ore.

6-2

200

CHASE HANSEN

Lone Peak

Highland, Utah

6-4

210

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has leukemia. Says Dorial, “I told him to keep fighting and that we’re all going to be there for him.” Darnell’s prognosis is good, but the news has tempered some of Dorial’s own excitement. Though perhaps not all. In a nationally televised game on ESPNU in August, Dorial caught 18 passes for 284 yards and three touchdowns in Hillcrest’s 48-26 win over Seneca High School. Among those watching was Philadelphia Eagles receiver Jeremy Maclin, who tweeted, “dude is a ﬂat-out beast.” Reminded of this, Dorial’s

AT THE END OF EVERY NOODLE, THERE'S A SMILE. Dorial with adoptive parents John and Tracy Beckham. “They’re great people,” he says.

big smile appears. “I didn’t even know about it until people told me, ‘People are blowing you up on Twitter!’ It’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me.” If you’re thinking that Dorial’s life with the Beckhams sounds like Michael Oher’s in The Blind Side, you’re right. “What I liked so much about [the movie] is that that family said, ‘We’re going to fix this,’ ” Tracy says. But the comparisons end there. “Dorial doesn’t make his bed,” says John. “The kid in The Blind Side, he makes his bed.” It’s a choice the Beckhams are only too happy to let Dorial have.

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½ tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 egg ½ cup fat-free buttermilk FOR THE GLAZE

1 cup confectioners’ sugar 1 tsp melted butter 2 Tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch square or a 9- or 10-inch round baking pan with cooking spray and dust with flour. 2. In a small bowl, combine cranberries, walnuts, and orange rind. In a small saucepan, melt 2 Tbsp butter over medium. Stir in brown sugar, orange juice, and cinnamon. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour into pan. Sprinkle with cranberry mixture. 3. Whisk flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl. 4. In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer set on medium, beat granulated sugar and remaining butter until creamy. Add vanilla, egg, buttermilk, and flour mixture. Spoon over cranberries. 5. Bake 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a rack to finish cooling. Beat glaze ingredients. Drizzle over cake. Slice. SERVES: 9 | PER SERVING: 350 calories, 56g carbs, 4g protein,

13g fat, 50mg cholesterol, 290mg sodium, 2g ﬁber

PHOTOS, CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: COURTESY OF THE MARSHALL FAMILY (2); KAT TEUTSCH, FOOD STYLING BY VICTORIA ESCALLE, PROP STYLING BY MEGAN HEDGPETH; NEWSCOM. NUTRITION ANALYSIS/CONSULTING BY JEANINE SHERRY, M.S., R.D.

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