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HSC professors discuss Zika virus

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

The Zika virus is spread from mosquito bites and, as recently discovered, from sexual intercourse, according to the Centers for Disease Control website.

The Zika virus is a member of the Flaviviridae family and is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. It is related to West Nile virus, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website.

In April 1947, the Zika virus was found in a forest in Uganda in a monkey, and the first human infected was in 1952, Dr. Richard Lampe, professor and pediatrics department chairperson of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said.

There are more than 30 countries that are endemic currently, Lampe said. Zika is mainly in South America but is also in Cape Verde, which is

in Africa.

Dr. Fatma Levent, associate professor at HSC, said women who are pregnant or who are trying to become pregnant should

avoid traveling to areas where Zika is currently in outbreak, because it causes a birth defect called microcephaly. This defect can causes babies

to be born with unusually small heads.

Microcephaly occurs because the baby’s brain has not developed properly during the pregnan-

cy, or the brain stopped growing after birth. Microcephaly is linked to mental disabilities and numerous other problems, Levent said.

There are two known cases of the Zika virus being transmitted sexually in the U.S. One of the cases was in Texas, Levent said. While this is rare, it is still something of which people should be wary.

The man was visiting an area where the Zika virus is currently infectious and then had sexual intercourse with his wife, who was then infected with the Zika virus, Lampe said.

The Zika virus is transmitted through the blood, which then can be transmitted to other bodily fluids, such as semen, he said.

“People should take all the precautions necessary to make sure they do not get the virus,” Lampe said.

“People who traveled to places infected with the Zika virus should refrain from having sexual intercourse. If they do have sexual intercourse they should make sure to use condoms and to not have sex with someone who is pregnant.”

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Harlem Globetrotters stop in Lubbock during 90th anniversary tour

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he Harlem Globetrotters returned to Lubbock on Tuesday night to play against the World All Stars in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Harlem Globetrotters have been entertaining crowds from around the world for nine decades.

The team’s performance is a mix of basketball skill and tricks while playing a 40-minute game against another team.

“Its just good family fun,” Connie Walther, an attendee of the event who has seen the Globetrotters several times before, said. “You don’t have to be worried about what the kids are going to be exposed to, and they are very entertaining.”

The players used their fast footwork and tricky passes to confuse the opposing team and get their man open for the finishing dunk.

They also took timeouts in between several plays to add some comedic acts to their show that allowed audience members to participate in the fun.

Walther said the Globetrotters are not only enjoyable to watch, but they also set a good example for all of the kids in the audience, more so than actual NBA players.

“They obviously have the same skill or better than NBA players,” she said.

“They have a certain character that they hold themselves up to.”

This character is displayed in the work the players do off the court, and they visit schools to give anti-bullying talks in addition to other community outreach events.

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1. Ant, a Harlem Globetrotter, entertains the crowd with a humorous run during the Harlem Globetrotters’ 90th Anniversary Celebration Tour on Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. 2. Harlem Globetrotter member Smooth makes a slam dunk during the Harlem Globetrotters’ 90th Anniversary Celebration Tour on Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. 3. The Harlem Globetrotters mascot, Globie, challenges a group of kids to a game of musical chairs during the Harlem Globetrotters’ 90th Anniversary Celebration Tour on Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. 4. Bull, a Harlem Globetrotter, hangs by his feet from the rim during the Harlem Globetrotters’ 90th Anniversary Celebration Tour on Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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Student vegetarians discuss dining options

By JOHN BOWLES Staff Writer

While vegetarians and vegans on campus of ten find their lifestyle rewarding, some find it difficult as well. Some vegetarian students say even though there are o p t i o n s o n t h e Te x a s Tech campus, there is room for improvement.

“Since I’m living in the dorms, I have to eat the dorm food, and they have some options but you can’t always be sure that what you’re eating doesn’t have animal products in it,” Mary Hart, a freshman communication studies major from Houston, said.

Hart has been a vegan for four months and is allergic to dairy. A few times, there had to have been butter in the food a few times because she ended up sick, she said. “I don’t want to say there’s not a lot of options, because there are,” Jordan Barringer, a freshman education major from

Houston, said. “You can request no meat on almost anything, but there’s not a lot of stuff where you don’t have to request it.”

Barringer made the decision to change her lifestyle to being a vegan seven months ago, and she said she would like more tofu options on campus.

To f u i s a v a i l a b l e a t the Commons and Fresh Plate at Bledsoe/Gordon, Mindy Diller, the registered dietician with Tech Hospitality Services, said.

“Lubbock is definitely more difficult, just because we do have such a strong meat industry here,“ Kylie Boyd, a junior communication studies major from Lubbock, said. “Overall it is possible, you just have to be careful where you eat, and there are places that are very accommodating.”

Being meat free is a better option, Boyd said, and she has been meat free for one year.

Hart said people can be judgmental, but it is her

choice to be a vegan, and being vegan is not as hard as people think.

“Honestly it’s not too hard,” Roehm Poet-Galvin, a freshman public relations major from Houston and vegetarian, said.

“I’m used to going to a restaurant and just, you know, finding what I’m able to eat, I guess. So it’s not much different than when I’m at home.”

Both she and her siblings were raised by their mother as a vegetarian, Poet-Galvin said, but her brothers started eating meat later in life.

It was strange being a vegetarian in the beginning, Barringer said.

“I was at, like, my uncle’s house, because we had gone every Sunday and he had this piece of sausage laying on the table,” Barringer said. “I started eating it and it was really good, and I was like, ‘Oh what is this?’ and he goes ‘It’s venison,’ and I was like, ‘What’s venison?’”

POLICE BLOTTER

Police investigate bike theft Monday 2:29 p.m. — A Texas Tech police officer investigated theft in Holden Hall.

A Specialized Vita bicycle was taken.

11:34 p.m. — A T e c h officer issued a student a

Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia in Bledsoe Residence Hall. The student signed the citation and was released.

2:17 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in the Tech

Library. A student had a seizure and was transported to the University Medical Center Emergency Room by Emergency Medical Services.

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by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

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Trump wins New Hampshire primary NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump nailed down a solid first electoral win in New Hampshire’s presidential primary Tuesday, demonstrating his unorthodox campaign can translate large crowds at rambunctious rallies into the votes that determine delegates. His Republican rivals battled for second place, looking to break from the pack and ensure the survival of their campaigns.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, an afterthought in Iowa, was vying for second against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. All were hoping a credible showing would lead to an influx of new donor money and attention as the election moves on to South Carolina. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had dedicated a significant amount of time to New Hampshire, lagged behind early in the vote count.

Trump, stung by his secondplace showing in Iowa last week, had been determined to make New Hampshire his proving ground for a campaign that has defied convention wisdom from the start. Early exit polls showed he drew support from voters looking for an outsider and from those who made up their minds a while ago. Word that he’d snagged first place in New Hampshire prompted supporters at Trump headquarters in Manchester to wave foam fingers declaring, “You’re Hired.”

Count car salesman Val Goldenberg as a Trump voter.

At a Nashua polling place, Goldenberg said he voted for the billionaire because he likes the business mogul’s “nonpolitician” credentials.

“I think America really needs a good shake-up,”

Goldenberg said.

New Hampshire seemed unlikely to give much clarity to the search for a strong GOP alternative to Trump.

Cruz claimed a strong victory in Iowa, but his rivals set out to slow his momentum in the second nomination contest. Rubio had arrived in New Hampshire with a burst of momentum following his better-than-expected third-place finish in Iowa last week, but a shaky debate performance Saturday sparked criticism from his rivals that the 44-year old freshman senator lacks the experience to lead the nation A strong performance in New Hampshire was critical for Kasich, who all but skipped Iowa’s caucuses to grind out town hall after town hall in New Hampshire. During a visit to a Concord polling place Tuesday, the Ohio governor said a Kasich win with a positive message could open up a “new chapter” in American politics.

He closed the deal with voter Miranda Yeaton, a mother of two young daughters in Concord who said that Trump scared her and that she liked Kasich’s record as governor.

“If he can do it for Ohio he can probably do it for the rest of America,” she said.

Overall, Republican voters were very negative about how things are going in Washington these days, according to early results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research for the Associated Press and the television networks. Nearly half of Republicans said they were dissatisfied and 4 in 10 were angry.

Trump did best with voters who were angry; dissatisfied voters were somewhat less likely to break for Trump.

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Daniel Blake, a junior environmental engineering major from San Antonio, purchases a banana and an apple at Sam’s Place at Murray Residence Hall on Monday. Despite the name, vegetarians are not limited to only fruits and vegetables. Their diet also includes, but is not limited to, legumes, tofu, nuts and whole grain products.

H e r u n c l e t o l d h e r, “You’re eating Bambi,” Barringer said. That event prompted her to explore and adopt a vegetarian lifestyle.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Zika is an arthropodborne virus meaning it is transmitted through insects, Lampe said. It is also a virus in which the genetic information is stored in the form of ribonucleic acid.

“Which means the virus does not hang out in the body for years, it comes and goes. It does not lay dormant in the body,” Lampe said. “We are not too sure how long the virus stays in the blood system yet. Usually viruses only stay in the blood for about a week, but for precaution, we

“I’m not going around trying to make people become vegetarian. I think it’s a good lifestyle, and I think it’s, like, I think it’s pretty healthy,” Poetwould recommend waiting at least a month before having sexual intercourse if infected.”

Sex-education classes would help inform people of the risks they are taking when not being cautious when having sexual intercourse, Lavent said.

Generally, education will help with all sexually transmitted diseases.

“When compared to other STDs like herpes, Zika is low on the list, but it is still important for people to be educated on it. More open and diverse sex education classes would be a good thing. The same STD education should be applied when dealing with

Galvin said. “I don’t think everybody needs to be vegetarian or not. I think everybody should eat the way they want to.” @DailyToreador

Zika,” Lavent said. “Either abstinence or condoms will keep you from getting the Zika virus or other STDs.” According to the CDC, symptoms of the Zika virus include fever rash, joint pain and red eyes.

“Symptoms can last anywhere from two to seven days,” Lavent said.

“We are expecting a very limited spread of the virus, if any.”

There is currently no vaccine, but if there is only one type of Zika virus out there, then if someone were to be infected, that person will only get the virus the one time, Lampe said. @MbaysingerDT

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Sanders wins big over Clinton in New Hampshire primary MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders won a commanding victory Tuesday over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, giving him a crucial win over the onetime front-runner who narrowly beat him in Iowa last week.

Sanders garnered a majority of support from men, women and independents and surged past Clinton in a state she won eight years ago against then-candidate Barack Obama. Near-record turnout and a recent shift in political ideology among Democrats helped buoy Sanders’ early electoral feat.

His win will likely prompt rank-and-file Democrats — and some major campaign donors — to give his candidacy a second look as the race shifts to contests in Clinton-friendly states like Nevada and South Carolina. Most polls in the state closed at 8 p.m. EST, except for a handful in a few tiny towns.

“We started off here in New Hampshire 30, 40 points behind. That’s not the case today,” the Vermont senator told cheering supporters in Derry, New Hampshire, on Monday. He said a “good night” from his campaign would “show the American people that the voters in New Hampshire understand

that this country needs a political revolution.”

While Sanders’ victory means he’s assured of a majority of the state’s pledged delegates, Clinton remains ahead in the overall delegate count due to support from superdelegates — the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice.

Clinton has amassed at least 392 delegates and Sanders at least 42; the magic number to clinch the nomination is 2,382.

Once labeled a “fringe candidate” by his detractors, Sanders received majority support from younger voters and those who called themselves moderate or political liberal. He was also narrowly favored by women. Clinton, meanwhile, was backed by a majority of voters 65 and older, according to preliminary exit poll data compiled by Edison Research for The Associated Press and the television networks.

Clinton had braced for a potential loss in New Hampshire, the site of her 2008 comeback. She traversed the state’s snow-covered highways with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, in a push to maintain her edge in national polls and reassure the Democratic establishment

backing her campaign.

“This is a great process and as I have said over the last couple of days we’re going to keep working literally until the last vote is cast and counted,” she said Tuesday morning while visiting a Manchester polling station.

In the week since her slim victory in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, Clinton’s campaign has tried to lower expectations for New Hampshire, where Sanders has maintained a steady lead despite her family’s longstanding ties.

Sanders’ gains come amid shifting political ideologies in the state, with two-thirds of Democratic voters on Tuesday identifying as politically liberal.

During the 2008 primary, only 56 percent of Democratic voters said the same, exit poll data show.

Sanders, well-known to voters along the state’s Vermont border, stuck to core campaign themes this week in an effort to avoid upsetting a race trending his way.

“I felt like he was the most honest,” said Nicole Reitano, a 24-year-old from Nashua, New Hampshire, who voted for Sanders on Tuesday. “He’s had the same views forever, and he’s never budged.

That makes me feel confident in him.”

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Salinas Valley, Calif shows need Lubbock shoppers should make for computer science education effort to support small business

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ver since John Steinbeck wrote “East of Eden,” the Nobelwinning novel prominently set in Salinas Valley, many Americans see Salinas Valley as the poster child of workingclass Americans. The novel describes the toil and strife of the families in the Salinas Valley (reminiscent of the Biblical land of Nod, the land east of Eden), showing the struggle of California farmers and how quickly society changes.

Steinbeck showed the lives of people in Salinas Valley from the end of the 18th century until the beginning of the First World War. Now that the residents of Salinas Valley are launching great efforts to teach computer programming and turn their home into the agricultural technology center of California, the valley shows just how important computer programming is becoming in the American workplace.

According to the Friday L.A. Times article, “Salinas hopes to turn farm workers’ children into computer scientists,” city planners and private investors alike are working toward increasing computer programming facilities and educational resources.

Instead of trying to become like Silicon Valley, an area which hosts a large number of high-tech corporations and startup companies, Salinas Valley residents will try to focus on agricultural technology.

“We’re not trying to reinvent ourselves,” Andrew Myrick, the city’s economic development manager, said in the L.A. Times article. “There’s cities all across the country that are trying to attract Google to come and build their headquarters. That’s not who we are. We’re agriculture.”

The actions of the people of Salinas Valley shows the direction of the American job market and shows the need for more computer science curriculum in public schools.

President Barack Obama has been outspoken in promoting computer science education, stating in his final State of the Union address, “In the

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

coming years, we should build on that progress, by providing pre-K for all, offering every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them job-ready on day one, and we should recruit and support more great teachers for our kids.”

As computer programming and software development is becoming relevant in all industries, it is time we rethink computer programming as a career anyone should pursue.

The president of the U.S. is not the only one promoting increased computer science education. According to a Jan. 13 NPR article, New York City and Los Angeles Unified, two of the biggest public school systems in the country, have both announced they are increasing student exposure to computer science. The U.K. and Australia have both included computer science in their national curricula.

While New York City and Los Angeles schools have stressed the need for increased computer science education, Salinas Valley shows the opportunities for computer science in smaller, agriculturally based cities. While computerprogramming jobs were once restricted to larger cities such as Seattle or Austin, this shows there is logic behind teaching computer science in agriculturally-driven cities like Lubbock.

According to the L.A. Times article, innovators in the Salinas Valley area, called the Western Growers Association, hope to soon of-

fer drone and satellite-based imaging, soil sensors, appbased data management and plenty of other technologydriven tools for local farmers.

While this movement may originate in Salinas Valley, programmers could create agricultural technology startups from anywhere.

Furthermore, while small towns could benefit from teaching students programming via improved farming practices, students would not be limited to agriculturetechnology jobs. The demand for programmers is exploding in the U.S. right now, and teaching more students programming would give them countless career opportunities.

According to the ITworld article, “Computer science students are in demand and they know it,” reporter Phil Johnson says computer science graduates had the second highest post-graduation full-time employment rate in 2014 (61 percent), right below military science majors (62 percent). Students studying in computer science had the highest average starting salary, according to the article, followed by engineering, math, statistics and economics.

The days of viewing computer programmers exclusively as computer whiz kids programming video games in basements is a thing of the past. Salinas Valley shows not only how the job market has changed, but also where it is going. As computer programming and software development is becoming relevant in all industries, it is time we rethink computer programming as a career anyone should pursue.

Salinas Valley was used in Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” to depict a vital period of American history, and now it can be used to depict the future of American workers. Computer science is a rapidly growing job market, and public schools should push for increased computer programming education, whether they are in Silicone Valley or Lubbock, Texas. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Pentagon seeks funding for Africa military operations WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is seeking $200 million in the 2017 budget for counterterrorism operations in Libya and other portions of North and West Africa, but Defense Secretary Ash Carter said

Wednesday that Libyans must take the lead in eliminating the Islamic State threat in their country.

The new funding provides the first concrete indication of what the U.S. military may do to battle the threat,

including expanded drone and surveillance flights, strikes and other operations.

And it is the first time that the Pentagon has included a separate increase for operations against the Islamic State in Africa.

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ubbock has played a pivotal role in the West Texas economy while supporting local and independent businesses, with Texas Tech helping to bolster new businesses through its research and programs to fund small businesses, according to a CNN Money report on “Best Places to Launch.”

One has only to visit 34th Street, which boasts more than four miles of mostly locally owned mom-and-pop shops.

However, while the City of Lubbock has invested in revitalizing 34th Street and other areas, it has not done enough to encourage its residents to support the local economy. Just ask yourself this — where do the majority of Tech students shop for their household items?

Taking into consideration that most of us operate on a student budget and that many new students are unfamiliar with the layout of the city, it is not surprising most students end up at WalMart for buying just about anything they need.

But this is no coincidence.

Lubbock houses a total of four Wal-Mart Supercenters, with two others in nearby towns, all of which had to be deliberately approved for development by the city governments. For a city with a population of less than 250,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 population estimate, four Wal-Mart Supercenters is quite excessive.

Aside from taking customers away from local businesses, there is a more troubling side to Wal-Mart, which is the largest private employer in the U.S. To begin with, many of the workers depend on government assistance, such as health care and food stamps, to meet their basic needs, according to the

Leila Forouhi is a mass communication graduate student from San Jose, California.

Wal-Mart workers’ advocacy group OUR Walmart in its post, “The Declaration.”

Yahoo’s 24/7 Wall Street categorized Wal-Mart as one of the nation’s worst-paying employers in the article, “10 companies paying Americans the least.” This is while its CEO, Doug McMillon, made approximately $25.6 million in 2015, according to a Feb. 19, 2015, Fortune article.

In fact, one store in Canton, Ohio, hosted an annual Thanksgiving food drive to collect canned food for its Wal-Mart workers because they do not make enough to support their families, Forbes reported in the article, “Walmart Store Holding Thanksgiving Charity Food Drive — For Its Own Employees!”

Taking into consideration that most of us operate on a student budget and that many new students are unfamiliar with the layout of the city, it is not surprising most students end up at Wal-Mart for buying just about anything they need.

While Wal-Mart keeps its wages low and many of its workers are dependent on government and community assistance, guess who has to

foot the bill — the taxpayers.

This is because when people work for less than a living wage, the federal government is forced to spend more to support those who cannot afford health care or who are dependent on food stamps and other assistance programs. At the same time, Wal-Mart is raking in billions while they sell us products made in other countries that have questionable labor practices.

In addition, according to a Jan. 24 article in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, states such as Texas have been hit harder by the downturn in oil prices.

The economic downturn has impacted smaller retail businesses because workers that have been laid off have less disposable income to spend, and therefore will turn to big retail stores such as WalMart in order to purchase goods at cheaper prices.

Aside from cost, shopping at Wal-Mart has mostly to do with convenience. There are alternatives to Wal-Mart, especially in Lubbock, which more students should consider, especially since buying from Wal-Mart will only increase economic problems locally and globally. On Lubbock’s 34th Street alone, you can find almost anything you want, including furniture, plants, clothing or fast food.

The owner of Tom’s Tree Place on 34th Street, Kevin Watson, has encouraged people to shop at local retailers in an interview in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal article, “Local diversity: 34th Street offers 4 1/2 miles of locally owned shops, restaurants,” and we should take heed. He stated, “We’ve got to stick together, because there are enough people going to Wal-Mart.” opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Md. legislature overrides veto on felon voting ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly on Tuesday overrode Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill with the help of a lawmaker who was allowed to vote twice: once as a member of the House and again as a senator.

The vote on the bill to restore voting rights to felons before they finish parole or probation happened with the tightest of margins amid debate about whether it was proper for one

lawmaker to vote twice.

The vote, which became snagged in some confusion Tuesday before it was finally passed, already had been delayed for weeks because the Senate was one vote short of the three-fifths majority needed to pass it after a vacancy was created by a retiring senator. Hogan appointed Del. Craig Zucker, a Democrat first chosen by Democratic officials, to fill the Senate seat. As a member of the House, Zucker

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Students create local food delivery app

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

OrderUp, a food delivery service available in 22 states and numerous cities, and Favor Delivery, which serves 21 cities across the country, have one commonality: they do not deliver in Lubbock.

While still a student in high school, Brandon Wasson, a sophomore business management major from San Antonio, said he had conceived the idea of starting his own food delivery service.

He said he noticed there were several food delivery apps that were in other bigger cities across Texas, and once he was in Lubbock, he realized the potential to start almost from scratch.

This was the beginning of a new food delivery service for Lubbock, called Caddy Delivery.

“I figured, wow, why wouldn’t Lubbock want a food delivery service, you know, that can bring any restaurant to you that doesn’t deliver,” Wasson said. “So that was basically the idea.”

Even though the concept sounded great on paper, he said there was still a long way to go as far as creating it for public use.

In order to have an app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Play Store, there needs to be a web developer of some sort and the proper permits and business paperwork done.

Wa s s o n h a d m a d e the idea public and was reached out to by a software development company that was willing to help him out for a certain price, he said. However, to work with them the startup cost was resting at an estimated $80,000, so that was off the table.

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Austin Turner, a senior computer science major from Trophy Club, and Brandon Wasson, a senior business management major from San Antonio, started their own business, “Caddy Delivery,” which is a smart phonebased app that provides a food-delivery service to Lubbock area residents.

Wasson was curious to see if there was anyone on the Texas Tech campus who was both able and willing to help him out, he said, and after seeing a Facebook post from the Tech Software Development Club, he found his guy.

Austin Turner, a senior computer science major from Trophy Club, said he had put contact information on the site while he was teaching iOS classes for the club, and he was offering his assistance to anybody who needed it, and Wasson pounced on the opportunity.

“Actually, whenever he protruded the idea, I had a lot of other people coming to me with business ideas and apps that they wanted made,” Turner said, “but none of them were really that great of an idea.”

During an internship, Turner taught himself iOS development, he said, so it was relatively easy to use Apple Xcode software, a

free service that hosts any type of database.

Developing the app took Turner about 10 months, he said, and in other circumstances it would usually take a team of six to eight people to develop an app with a similar or shorter time frame.

During the development process, the two were still full-time students going to class and doing homework, Wasson said. While Turner was developing the software, Wasson was getting the legal business done in his dorm at Weymouth Residence Hall.

They were both focused on the potential this business had, Wasson said, and that was what got them through the tough times they experienced.

“I actually come from an area where a lot of people have started their own business, parents, their grandparents and stuff,” Wasson said. “So that’s kind of how I got

inspired, and it was like, ‘well if I wanted to have something good for me, I’m going to have to make it happen.’”

The partners also got help from personal investments and savings from the past, Wasson said.

There was not another person who was being paid to build the app, Turner said, so there was a relatively low startup cost.

Once Caddy Delivery was close to being ready for public use, they had to find a way to be able to make proper transactions through the app while simultaneously keeping people’s credit card information safe, he said.

“The way we do this (is) actually through a third-party service called Stripe,” Turner said, “so they handle all the transactions, holding that information, so we actually don’t know any of the users’ information whatsoever.”

According to the Caddy

Delivery website, the app officially launched in January, and now people can get anything they want delivered as long as it is not tobacco or alcohol related.

The app contains a few default restaurants and menus, Wasson said, and once an order is selected, a driver is connected and off they go.

The app does not just apply to restaurants, as groceries are also an option, he said. The delivery service only goes to restaurants that do not already deliver, Wasson said, so once the driver is given an assignment they just walk into a restaurant like a normal customer.

The app does not just apply to people who want to save time, he said, but it also aids in helping deter drunken driving. “(Students) make a conscious decision to drive drunk a lot just to go get Whataburger, and that might result in a fatality,” Wasson said.

“That’s one big thing that we saw that we could maybe prevent, for students that want to drink and drive late at night.”

If drunken people can use the app with ease, it also speaks for how easy it is to use the app for the general user, Turner said.

Drivers who work with Caddy Delivery generally work through a separate app that shows if they are on or offline and available to deliver, he said. Now the service is up to nearly 20 people who have applied to be drivers.

If there are last-second changes to an order, users have the option to contact drivers to notify them of that change, Wasson said.

The obligation to make deliveries is on the drivers, he said, so if weather con-

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ditions seem unfavorable, they have the option of declining an offer. All drivers are also discouraged to use their phones while they are driving.

The process updates people on where the drivers are and includes pictures of receipts, Turner said, but none of the process requires the customers to leave their homes.

“It’s a little weird, actually,” Turner said, “using my own system and working for it.”

The food delivery market is fairly new, especially for Lubbock, he said.

The partners are ready to ward off any competition that might come their way, and because no one is trying to hit the smaller markets, they already have an advantage.

Once they have mastered the system, they plan on taking the business to other cities, Wasson said. This also includes putting the app on Android’s Google Play in the near future, as it is only available for Apple products right now.

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New Orleans celebrates Fat Tuesday NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dressed in elaborate costumes, dancing to the beat of brass bands and clamoring for beads from passing floats, thousands of people gathered in the streets of New Orleans to mark the culmination of the famous Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday.

The last day of parades rolled along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street, float riders throwing beads to bystanders as revelers in other parts of the city like the French Quarter and the Marigny partied in the streets in elaborate costumes.

Fat Tuesday is the last day of the Carnival season before Lent, a period of spiritual renewal and penance, begins Wednesday.

“It’s fun. You see all the people. You see everybody dressed up, and you have a good time. I love New Orleans,” said Barbara Tate, who came down from Mary-

land for the holiday.

The Costumes When it comes to Mardi Gras, anything goes for costumes. Caroline Thomas, from New Orleans, spent weeks creating her elaborate costume featuring a massive feathered headdress so striking that bystanders wanted to take photos with her.

“I’m not anything specific because I think the beauty of Mardi Gras is that you don’t have to be a thing.

You just have to look cool,” she said. “I just wanted to be my own Mardi Gras priestess.” Others costumes included an man wearing a Steve Harvey mask standing with two women wearing beauty queen sashes that read “Miss Colombia” and “Miss Philippines,” in homage to Harvey’s blunder at the Miss Universe contest.

One woman dressed as a jellyfish while others dressed as dragons.

The Parades The Krewe of Zulu parade

is put on by the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a historically black organization in New Orleans. Their parade dates back to roughly 1910, and is followed by the Rex Organization’s parade, which dates back to 1872.

Rex’s history is closely tied with Mardi Gras traditions.

For example, Rex’s colors — purple, green and gold — have become the symbolic colors of Mardi Gras as well.

The two truck parades that follow Rex mark the end of the major parades in the city until 2017.

After the parades, the street party generally moves to the French Quarter, where revelers pack Bourbon Street and the celebration gets a bit more risque. The festivities come to an end at the stroke of midnight when a wedge of mounted police officers rides down Bourbon to clear it of revelers and declare the party over.

The “Throws” Riders on the floats gen-

erally wear masks and throw beads or other specially made trinkets to people along the parade route. One especially prized “throw” is the coconuts given out by members of Zulu. The coconuts have been hollowed out, and the outside hair is removed; they’re then decorated with glitter or elaborate designs. Riders in the Zulu parade also threw out small stuffed animals, specially decorated beads and hats with the words “Zulu” emblazoned in yellow.

The Family Despite Mardi Gras’ reputation as being a raucous, adults-only party, much of the celebration is actually family-friendly. Families lined up early along the side of the streets or on the median — called the neutral ground in New Orleans — to get a good seat, often bringing ladders with specially designed seats on top for kids to sit in and catch beads or throws.

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Cutler’s brother-in-law death accidental SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A medical examiner has determined NFL quarterback Jay Cutler’s brotherin-law’s death was accidental, saying Michael Cavallari died of hypothermia after he crashed his car during a frigid temperatures while passing through a rocky and rural part of southern Utah.

Grand County Sheriff officials announced the findings Tuesday in a news release. The 30-year-old Michael Cavallari is the brother of reality TV personality Kristin Cavallari.

Grand County Sheriff Steven White said they are

waiting on toxicology reports to find out if Michael Cavallari had any drugs in his system. White said the autopsy report closes the case, but questions may forever linger about what exactly happened.

His body was found at the bottom of a steep hillside filled with boulders on Dec. 10, about two weeks after his abandoned car was found with the engine running and the air bag deployed about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Temperatures in the area were at or below freezing every night in the days after

the car was found up against a small embankment.

“I don’t know if he thought he saw lights or something and started walking?” White said. “We just don’t know.”

Investigators believed he was just passing through Utah, but they don’t know where he was headed or what he was doing in Utah.

Cavallari’s family was notified earlier this week, White said.

Kristin Cavallari declined comment through her publicist.

Michael Cavallari had been arrested in California four days before his car

was found on allegations that he acted threateningly toward a woman and had a gun.

He bailed out of jail Nov. 25. Two days later, a rancher discovered the car near a dirt road about 5 miles from Interstate 70.

He was single and had no children.

Kristin Cavallari rose to fame in the mid-2000s when she appeared in the MTV reality series “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills.” She is married to Cutler, who starred at Vanderbilt University and now plays for the Chicago Bears. The couple has three children together.

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Military, Veterans Program makes campus veteran-friendly

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Texas Tech works to accommodate students from all walks of life, whether they are freshmen straight from high school, non-traditional students, international students or veterans.

Military and Veterans Programs was created in 2010 to help veterans and their families transition into college life, according to the MVP website, and it has helped Tech win national recognition as a military friendly campus.

Debra Crosby, associate director of MVP, said the office aims to help members of the military with adjusting to life at Tech.

“Our focus is on helping veterans, military members and their families transition from the service into civilian life on campus,” she said.

“We help them get their educational benefits started.”

Tech has been ranked in a number of different publications including ones by USA Today, Military Advanced Education and Transition, GI Jobs and Military Times, starting in 2010.

Bridget Morgan, a senior psychology major from Tus-

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cola and an MVP program specialist, said she helps veterans get their paperwork together and sent to the Department of Veterans Affairs so they can receive their benefits.

“They can call our office for anything they need and we can direct them where to go if we can’t help them directly in our office,” she said. “It’s not just doing their paperwork.”

In Military Advanced Education and Transition’s 2016 Guide to Colleges and Universities, Tech was ranked highest in its military culture and oncampus support.

The MVP runs many programs to help make the campus experience a good one for veterans, and Crosby said the Green Zone Program trains faculty and staff members how to help veterans with their needs as well.

“Our ultimate goal is to help them graduate,” she said. “We have a graduation recognition stole ceremony for veterans and their families.”

Tech has more than 2,000 veterans attending the university, and according to Military Times, these stu-

dents have a 72 percent graduation rate as of 2015.

MVP also designated veteran liaisons in every academic and student service department to help veteran students, Crosby said, and Tech is one of the few universities to have these liaisons.

“Our biggest thing is helping veterans transition from the military lifestyle to an academic lifestyle,” Morgan said. “I know that it’s really hard, just transferring from high school to college was a huge transition for me, so I can only imagine going from something far more extreme like the military to an academic setting.”

T h e Te c h Ve t B o o t Camp was started in the fall, and veteran students come to campus two days before classes start to meet other veterans on campus and learn about the resources that are available on campus.

Morgan’s grandfather served in the military, and she said she enjoys getting to help other veterans who come to learn at Tech.

“Probably the most rewarding thing is getting a thank you from a veteran because I don’t even know how to say thank you

enough, and so just getting appreciate from them means the world to me,” she said.

“I love helping them in any way I can. It’s more rewarding than it is work.”

Many veterans already have families and are older than the average college student, Crosby said, and they may have been out of school for awhile and feel like they need help to succeed at Tech.

Every year MVP reevaluates its programs, she said, and it wants to continue to develop the resources veterans need.

Tech wants to be the choice for veterans to come to school, Crosby said, and the Lubbock community is very supportive of veterans and is willing to help them succeed.

“I think that the veterans

know they are welcome in (the office) and can come in with any questions or concerns they have,” Morgan said. “That probably has a lot to do with how we got ranked so high because we show them that we care. We don’t just want to get them their benefits, we want them to know that we do care about them.”

getting the crowd wet instead, and they also allowed the kids to go on the court to dance the YMCA. Jerry Redding, an attendee of the game from Ralls, said he believes the Globetrotters are a team that is easily recognizable

and loved.

“They are the national team,” he said. “They stand for red, white and blue just like the flag.

You know they are the Globetrotters, everybody knows them.”

The excitement roared

throughout the entire arena as the players ran up and down isles, talked to audience members and hyped everyone up as the final seconds of the game approached.

The players also kept lead in the game by mak-

ing back-to-back 4-point shots and dunking the ball in a stylish fashion whenever they could.

The Globetrotters were in the lead until the All Stars coach cheated and changed the score, which was just one of the many

acts he attempted in order to cause the Globetrotters to lose.

In the end, however, the Globetrotters came out victorious and lined up to sign autographs at the end of the game.

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repeatedly objected to Bridwell’s testimony about the items that were part of the previous case that resulted in Soiu being sent to a mental institution for several years.

The current case focuses on Soiu’s recent messages to Paltrow. He is accused of sending Paltrow 66 letters and packages between 2009 and 2015, with some containing messages about religion, his desire to marry her and her death.

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Ex-bodyguard testifies about lewd messages LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury hearing a case against an Ohio man charged with stalking Gwyneth Paltrow heard testimony Tuesday about pornographic messages and sex toys he sent her earlier in her career.

Paltrow’s former bodyguard Dennis Bridwell read some of the explicit messages he said were sent by Dante Soiu to the Oscarwinner roughly 17 years ago.

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Woman finds artwork by father killed in Vietnam

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Erika Colligan spent three decades searching for her father’s artwork — paintings the South Vietnam pilot made for the U.S. Air Force aviators who trained him during the Vietnam war.

The 50-year-old San Diego software consultant was only 1 when her father died in a plane crash in his native country in 1966.

At age 10, her family fled Vietnam and came to the United States, leaving behind their belongings and his artwork. Colligan believes most of his paintings were destroyed after the Communist government took power, but she kept faith some of the

artwork Phan Khoi made for his American friends was still out there, offering a tangible sliver of the father she never got the chance to know.

For decades she showed veterans a faded photograph of Khoi sitting with a paintbrush and two portraits in his room at a U.S. Air Force base.

She posted the image repeatedly online, asking if anyone recognized the American pilot in one of the portraits.

Her search paid off about three months ago when it led her to Khoi’s former Air Force instructor, retired Col. Billy Mobley.

Mobley told her in an email that Khoi had given him a painting — a serene

landscape that has hung on his wall for more than 50 years. Colligan immediately drove to Mobley’s house in Stephenville, Texas.

“He grabbed hold of my face and said, ‘Yep, you’re Phan Khoi’s daughter all right,’” Colligan said.

He then handed her the painting.

“I took the painting and cradled it for half an hour and cried a lot,” she said.

She ran her finger over her father’s signature on the back. She and Mobley talked well past midnight that cold December day. She learned her father was a quiet, serious man, a surprise to the outgoing woman with an

easy laugh.

“It did not bring me closure, instead it marked a beginning for me,” she said later.

Mobley, now 83, was overwhelmed as well.

“That hit me right in the heart,” he said of Colligan’s visit. “Phan Khoi gave me that painting in 1962 and then here was his daughter standing in front of me.”

Khoi was among more than 1,500 Vietnamese pilots sent to the United States for training.

The U.S. military helped build the South Vietnam Air Force to be among the ten largest air forces in the world in 1974.

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Judge, not armchair ‘Serial’ detectives, to decide retrial BALTIMORE (AP) — Prompted by a podcast that turned millions of listeners into armchair detectives, a judge will now decide whether to grant a new trial to a man convicted as a teenager of murdering his high school girlfriend.

A defense lawyer argued Tuesday that evidence brought to light by the “Serial” podcast and presented in court shows Adnan Syed had an unfair trial after the 1999 strangling death of Hae Min Lee. “We proved our case. We did exactly what we said we would. I believe we met our burden and that Mr. Syed deserves a new trial,” defense attorney Justin Brown told Judge Martin Welch.

Brown cited numerous issues raised by the podcast, such as a key alibi witness who was never called and some cellphone data misrepresented as reliably linking his client to the crime scene.

Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah coun-

tered that the evidence remains “overwhelming” that Syed was properly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for killing Lee and burying her body in a wooded park on the northwestern edge of Baltimore.

“This is not a popular position, but the state’s role is to do justice,” the prosecutor said.

He acknowledged the interest generated by “Serial,” a public radio podcast that extensively re-examined the long-closed case, but told the judge that Syed had a “passionate, vigorous defense” at trial, and was convicted not because of ineffective counsel or faulty evidence, but because “he did it.”

Brown said cell tower data linking Syed to Lee’s burial site was misleading because prosecutors presented it without a cover sheet warning that the information about incoming calls was unreliable.

Moreover, Brown said

Syed’s trial lawyer, Christina Gutierrez, was ineffective because she didn’t contact Asia McClain, now Asia Chapman, who said Syed was with her at a public library during the time Lee was killed. She took the stand this time, vouched for Syed, and accused a prosecutor of twisting her words years ago to keep her away.

“A mistake was made not to talk to an alibi witness who could have turned this trial around,” Brown later told the judge, calling her “earnest,” ‘’compelling” and “extremely credible.”

“If Mr. Syed was with Ms. McClain at the library on Jan. 12, 1999, he didn’t kill Hae Min Lee. He couldn’t have,” Brown concluded.

The prosecutor countered that a pair of letters Chapman sent to Syed shortly after his arrest contained information that must have been funneled to her in a failed effort to construct Syed’s alibi. He said records show Gutier-

rez had in fact investigated her, and determined that “Asia McClain wasn’t a weapon for the defense; she was a potential weakness.”

Vignarajah also presented to the judge a document showing that Syed’s defense attorneys interviewed a security officer at the Woodlawn Public Library three days after Syed’s arrest, proving that his defense team was pursuing the possible library alibi.

“I think Asia McClain was a very charming witness. But what Asia McClain presented in 1999 were two letters that were, at best, confusing and, at worst, doctored. And a defense attorney like Cristina Gutierrez would have seen right through them,” Vignarajah said.

Vignarajah said Syed already had an alibi: Jay Wilds, who Syed said was with him the day Lee was killed. But Wilds ultimately testified for the state that he helped Syed bury Lee’s body.

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Red Raiders prepare for No. 14 Iowa State

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Only eight more games remain in the regular season for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team. In a scramble to make a postseason tournament, the Red Raiders begin a gauntlet of matchups against ranked opponents, beginning with No. 14 Iowa State Cyclones in a home game at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Against ranked opponents, with the exception of Oklahoma, Tech has lost upset bids by a margin of 10 points or fewer. Having faced a thenranked No. 13 Cyclones team in early January, Tech’s defense knows what to expect from a relentlessly attacking Iowa State offense.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said slow starts and a reduction in points off the bench has limited Tech in building momentum.

“I think we’ve really had a problem with bad shot selection in most of the early droughts that we’ve had,” Smith said. “We’ve looked

at our pre-game routine to see what effect that has had, I’m not sure that is it or not.”

Against the Longhorns, the Red Raider bench scored 20 points, nine fewer than the Longhorn reserves, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

In its 23 games of the season, Iowa State posts a conference-leading .498 shooting percentage from the field, according to a Big 12 release. Leading Iowa State’s offense in scoring, senior George Niang is averaging 19 points per game.

Last time Niang faced the Red Raiders, the senior guard scored 14 points in 23 minutes of play in Iowa State’s 79-69 victory. Against Tech, the Cyclones expect another solid performance from Niang, but they will not count on senior forward Jameel McKay for Wednesday’s contest. After an undisclosed incident in a team practice, coach Steve Prohm suspended McKay prior to the Cyclones away game against Oklahoma State on Saturday, according to a Des

Monies Register article.

McKay’s absence gives the Red Raiders a defensive break as he scored 19 points at home against Tech and grabbed 11 rebounds in the teams’ last matchup. The Cyclones pulled out a win against Oklahoma State, but the game’s small margin of victory displayed how McKay’s presence was missed by Iowa State.

Without McKay, Smith said Tech has more room to work with on the inside.

“They’ll probably miss the rim protector, which he was,” Smith said. “He’s one of the best shot blockers in the league and in the country, so that may open up some opportunities on the inside.”

Tech, who previously lost to a then-unranked Texas Longhorns team 69-59, has an injury bug at the center position as junior center Matt Temple left after only eight minutes of play because of an injury to his right eye during the game against UT. Temple, who came in for sophomore center Norense Odiase after Odiase broke

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Darvish feeling strong, eager to rejoin Rangers ARLINGTON (AP) — Yu Darvish is feeling stronger than he did before elbow surgery, and has a renewed passion for the game after missing all of last season as the Texas Rangers were winning the AL West.

While the right-hander feels good in rehabilitation, the Rangers and Darvish are taking their time with the pitcher who hopes to start throwing bullpen sessions again next month in Arizona.

He plans to be back on the mound for Texas by midMay or early June.

“I have no problems at all right now, I have no concerns at all,” Darvish said Tuesday through his translator. “I feel like I can throw 95 (mph) right now, but they’re telling me not to, so I’m still taking my time. But I feel really good right now.”

Darvish was an All-Star in his first three years with the Rangers before missing all of last season following Tommy John ligament replacement surgery in his right elbow. He was 39-25 with a 3.27 ERA and 680 strikeouts in 83 starts for

Texas from 2012-14, after the previous seven seasons in Japan.

“For 10 years, I’ve been throwing in my career. ...

It’s kind of like it became routine and I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I used to when I first started my career,” the 29-year-old pitcher said. “But having that time (away), I feel like I’m enjoying throwing the ball right now.”

Darvish said he has envisioned himself being back on the mound, imagining “how hard can I throw, how much better I

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can be on the mound.”

His rehab schedule now includes throwing six days a week, doing long toss Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday, and then 20-25 pitches off flat ground from 60-75 feet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with some light throwing on Saturdays. He is not throwing any breaking pitches, only mixing in a few cutters, changeups and two-seamers.

Darvish plans to be in Arizona with other Rangers pitchers for their spring training reporting date Feb. 18, which is a week

from Thursday. He’s not sure yet if he will be working out with the team, but his plan is to build up as much as he can for bullpen sessions in March.

During a conversation of about 20 minutes with a small group of Rangers beat writers, Darvish also addressed a couple of questions about the October arrest of his brother in Japan for allegedly running an illegal betting ring. Sho Darvish reportedly took about 1,850 bets on MLB games as well as professional baseball games in

Japan. His arrest came after a police investigation lasted more than a year.

Darvish issued a statement last month saying he was certain that Major League Baseball would find that he had no involvement in the matter. Just days after that, MLB cleared the pitcher.

“I really have nothing to do with what he’s done, and that doesn’t affect me performing or about what I’m doing right now,” Darvish said. “They say people make mistakes. My brother made one.”

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US women start quest for 4th Broncos parade through Denver, straight Olympic gold medal leave fan questions unanswered

The United States starts its pursuit of a fourth straight gold medal in women’s Olympic soccer over the next two weeks at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Texas.

Coming off their first World Cup title since 1999, the Americans face Costa Rica on Wednesday night in Frisco, Texas, to open the group stage, then play Mexico and Puerto Rico in Group A. Group B includes Canada, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

Winners of the semifinal winners on Feb. 19 will represent the North and Central America and Caribbean region at this year’s Olympics

in Brazil. Additional matches will be played in Houston.

Ranked No. 1 in the world, the U.S. has won three straight gold medals and four of the five women’s tournaments, including the inaugural competition at home in 1996. The only other nation to win a gold medal was Norway in 2000.

“I think we’ve got enough experience here and playing in big events, these players understand on any given day this game can go upside down,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. “So it really is about our preparation and focus in the match and execution at this point.”

Just 13 of the 20 players on the youthful U.S. roster

were on last year’s World Cup squad.

“We’re re-energized. We’re ready to go; we’re ready to start the tournament,” American defender Ali Krieger said. “A lot of our families are able to come travel here, so that’s nice to have the tournament in the U.S.” Last week, the U.S. Soccer Federation sued the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association, asking a federal court to rule the sides have a collective bargaining agreement in place through this year.

The union says that under the memorandum of understanding agreed to in 2013, the deal can be terminated at any time.

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fans — according to an estimate from the city’s mayor — showed up to cheer on the Super Bowl champions after beating Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers 24-10 on Sunday.

The supporters held up signs and screamed “Thank you, Peyton!” at the top of their lungs as they soaked in the sun while basking in the glow of the Broncos’ third Super Bowl title — and first in 17 years.

Fans packed in tightly along the route, while others watched from balconies, rooftops and even the branches of trees as the players rode by on a series of fire trucks.

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DENVER (AP) — From the top of a fire truck, Von Miller thrust the Super Bowl trophy into the air again and again as the Denver Broncos convoy made its way through streets lined with blue-andorange clad fans.

Behind Miller, the Super Bowl MVP, stood Peyton Manning and DeMarcus Ware. Behind them, the architect of this team and Hall of Famer John Elway.

Fittingly, the group traveled the route, which was a bit longer than a mile, in fire truck No. 18 — Manning’s number. Will he be back with the Broncos?

A question for another time. Because Tuesday was parade day and a million

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By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The 2016 season begins for the Texas Tech softball team in Las Vegas at 8 p.m. on Thursday at Eller Media Stadium in the opening round game of the 2016 Sportco Kick Off Classic against the UNLV Rebels.

Tech’s opening round game begins a 16-game stretch of away games for the Red Raiders.

Thursday’s game against UNLV marks only the 10th meeting between nonconference opponents. The Rebels hold the lead of the series with five wins in nine games.

Last time the teams met, Tech grabbed a 7-2 win on neutral ground.

The hosting UNLV Rebels enter the 2016 season after coming off of a 25-30 season, where they posted an all-time high combined ERA of 5.52.

For the Red Raiders, the season opener presents the team with the opportunity to build off the high note it finished the 2015 season with.

Tech’s other four opponents in the Sportco Kick Off Classic include Long Beach, Utah Valley, Minnesota and Washington. The Red Raiders post a winning record against Utah Valley and Min-

nesota, but have only one win in the record books against Long Beach and Washington.

Only Minnesota, Long Beach and Washington finished the 2015 season with an overall winning record.

Of its five opponents in the tournament, the Red Raiders have played the Washington Huskies the most, and trail the series 1-10, with its most recent matchups dating back to last season in a two-game sweep played on the Huskies home field.

Last season, the Huskies took the first game of the series, 7-1, and the second, 8-5.

Softball head coach Adrian Gregory said she expects the game to come down to the team’s pitching.

Only one pitcher returns from last season, with three new right-handers filling in the vacant spots. Entering the season, Gregory said the team plans to take a pitcherby-committee approach for its new rotation.

“We’ve said that from the beginning, and we’re looking for kids to go out there and want the ball,” Gregory said.

“We’re looking for tenacity and then to make sure we use our entire staff.”

Looking at the competition, Gregory said the tour-

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Texas Tech right handed pitcher Mattison Maisel starts her windup at the Tech softball practice on Tuesday at Rocky Johnson Field.

The Red Raiders open their season Thursday against UNLV in Las Vegas. nament gives the Red Raiders a mix of team of all levels.

“You don’t have a top

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power 20, only that you’re only going to get hit up by whoever,” she said. “You have

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Mattison Maisel pitches during practice on Tuesday at Rocky Johnson Field. During the 2015 season Maisel had an ERA of 6.48 and made four starts in the circle. some games that we should win and we have some games

that we should play with.” @DGaytanDT

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With Williams sick, UNC beats BC New rotation looks to improve BOSTON (AP) — Playing most of the second half without coach Roy Williams, who left the bench after complaining of vertigo, No. 9 North Carolina rallied to beat Boston College 68-65 on Tuesday night thanks to 20 points from Justin Jackson.

The Eagles, who have not won an Atlantic Coast Conference game this season, led the whole way until Theo Pinson hit two free throws with under 4 minutes

remaining. After BC retook the lead, Marcus Paige hit a 3-pointer to make it 62-60.

The Tar Heels (20-4, 9-2) snapped a two-game losing streak.

Dennis Clifford had 14 points and 13 rebounds for BC (7-17, 0-11).

BC’s Matt Milon hit a 3-pointer with 5.6 seconds left to make it a one-point game. But after Paige made two free throws, Eli Carter’s 3-point attempt from half-

court at the buzzer bounced harmlessly off the backboard.

Carter scored 26 points.

Carolina spokesman Steve Kirschner said Williams, 65, who has suffered from vertigo in the past, felt dizzy and returned to the locker room but was OK. Assistant Steve Robinson took over the coaching, and the Tar Heels eventually came around after falling behind by nine points in the first half.

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The Texas Tech softball team’s pitching rotation endured a shakeup going into 2016, losing its best two starting pitchers, Cara Custer and Chandler Moore, to graduation.

This year, with junior Mattison Maisel returning and two new transfer students, the rotation looks to be better than it was last year.

Ranking last in earned run average with 5.07 in 2015, Tech looks to Maisel, the only veteran, for better performances out of the pitchers.

According to the softball pitching coach, Amanda Locke, Maisel is leaps and bounds better than she was last year.

Maisel is learning to locate pitches better and manipulate them so they can go where she wants them to go, either in the corner, three balls off or in the dirt.

“She’s becoming a very smart and knowledgeable pitcher,” Locke said. “She threw some innings for us last year and brings more off-speed and more movement to the

ball. She’s gaining confidence in herself and in her pitches.”

Adrian Gregory, the head softball coach, also sees the leadership ability in Maisel, she said.

“I think that Maisel is a great teammate,” Gregory said. “She works hard and is in the bullpen all the time.

She’s just a really great kid that you want as a part of your program. I think that she is meeting all of our expectations and we are excited to have her back.

Along with Maisel, the pitching rotation added two new pitchers, Cheyenne Powell, a sophomore transfer from the University of Oregon and Dominique Alcocer, a junior transfer from Mexico City, Locke said.

Powell transferred from the Oregon Ducks team that won the PAC-12 championship last year and made an appearance in the College World Series.

Powell held batters to a .308 batting average in her three innings of play.

There are differences between these pitchers, Locke said. Alcocer moves the ball around and Powell brings it

more. They are both doing well so far and they have grown since the fall season.

“Both Powell and Alcocer have taken steps since the fall,” Locke said. “They have better command of their pitches. They are more confident in themselves.”

Gregory is looking for pitchers who go out and want the ball, she said. The team is looking for tenacity and fighters out of these pitchers.

Locke thinks all the pitchers are in about the same spot right now, she said. The pitchers have to practice by just getting them out there for innings and getting game experience.

“All the pitchers have a great presence on the mound,” Locke said. “I don’t think that anyone is more dominant than the other. They all bring great things to the table.”

Each pitcher has her good days and bad, Gregory said.

The team is still trying to figure out which pitcher will take the bull by the horns.

“I think that they have an array of talent,” Gregory said.

“We can use them consistently to be productive.” @DavidGayDT

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PHOENIX (AP) — Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro became the first player to lose in salary arbitration this year.

Castro was awarded $5 million on Tuesday by arbitrators Matt Goldberg, Gary Kendellen and James Old-

ham , who heard arguments a day earlier. Castro had asked for a raise from $4 million to $5.25 million.

The 28-year-old was an All-Star in 2013. He hit .211 last season, his lowest average since his rookie season in

2010, and had 11 homers and 31 RBIs. He made 102 starts at catcher and threw out 36 percent (24 of 66) of runners attempting to steal.

Castro started all six of Houston’s postseason games and hit .063 (1 for 16).