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Lady Antebellum to stop in Lubbock On May 1, Lady Antebellum will stop in Lubbock during its 2015 tour, according to a United Supermarkets Arena news release. The concert will take place in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The concert will be the kick-off to the North American leg of Lady Antebellum’s tour, according to the band’s website.

The tour includes special guests Hunter Hayes and Sam Hunt. Tickets for the concert will go on sale 10 a.m.

Friday, according to the release.

Tickets will be available through Select-A-Seat. For additional information, contact Cindy Harper, associate director of the United Supermarkets Arena.

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Millions try to avoid health coverage penalty FORT WORTH (AP) — Stephanie Daugherty earns too much from her parttime job at a doctor’s office to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to comfortably afford one of the health plans for sale through the federally-run insurance exchange that Texas and many states use.

So the 26-year-old nursing student and mother paid a $180 tax penalty — 1 percent of her annual income — to spend another year uninsured.

“I just figured it was cheaper than signing up for health insurance,” said Daugherty, whose 4-year-old son is covered by Medicaid and who limits doctor visits to an annual exam at a Planned Parenthood clinic.

With Sunday’s deadline to enroll through the exchange looming, Daugherty met with an exchange adviser, or navigator, at her Fort Worth community college to see if she might qualify for federal subsidies.

She doesn’t, but she also learned she may not have had to pay the penalty, after all.

Daugherty and millions of other lowincome, working adults who fall into a so-called coverage gap — ineligible for either federal subsidies or Medicaid — may qualify for an exemption to the penalty. In Texas and nearly two dozen other conservative states that chose not to expand their Medicaid coverage under the federal health care overhaul, nonprofit groups and volunteer tax advisers are trying to help people avoid the penalty for not having insurance.

“If the people who can’t afford the federal marketplace pay the penalty, that’s like being hit twice,” said Mimi Garcia, Texas director of Enroll America. Garcia said she advises navigators to make sure that people who can’t even afford the marketplace’s cheapest plans file for an exemption on their tax returns this year.

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The No. 5 Texas Tech baseball team started the 2015 season with a 9-7 win over San Francisco in front of a record Opening Day crowd of 4,375 fans. The previous high was set in 2003.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the recordbreaking crowd was exciting to see and was huge for the team.

“We are always excited and fired up about them yelling ‘raider power’ and supporting our

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The weather in Lubbock has changed frequently in recent weeks, and temperatures have ranged anywhere from the 30s to the 70s.

It was a sunny day for the annual Polar Bear Swim, which took place at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

James Lanning, a junior multidisciplinary education major from Cedar Park, said he participated in the swim last year as well.

“My brother wasn’t able to come this year, but I’ve got a bunch of friends who do it every year,” he said. “It was a little colder last year, which was both worse and better at the same time.”

The Rec Center staff let small groups of students into the lazy river to swim laps, and they moved slowly through the cold water.

Abigail Brinker, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Austin, said she came to the event with her roommate who works at the Rec Center.

“I came to support her,” she said. “It was really cold. We went against the current, which we thought they were joking about.”

HSC students reach out to local residents

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Several Texas Tech Health Sciences Center students spent their Saturday morning at barbershops and hair salons in the Lubbock area promoting the need for healthy blood pressure.

Students in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences checked for hypertension and other blood pressure issues during the Barbershop Health Check event, according to an HSC news release.

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MICHAELA MORGAN, A junior graphic design major from San Antonio, Christa Bates, a junior graphic design major from Austin, and Brynn Torres, a freshman pre-pharmacy major from Sweetwater, get splashed while doing a lap during the Polar Plunge on Saturday at the Leisure Pool.

CEO of Total Frat Move to visit Tech on Thursday

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LEFT: TEXAS TECH outfielder Stephen Smith hits a foul ball during game four against San Francisco on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park. Tech defeated San Francisco 9-7 to sweep the series. RIGHT: TECH INFIELDER Tim Proudfoot helps turn a double play while San Francisco catcher Justin McCullough tries to beat out the throw to second during game two against San Francisco on Saturday at Rip Griffin Park.

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guys,” he said. “Raider nation is special, no doubt.”

The Dons connected for two hits and were helped by a Tech error in the top of the third inning to take a 3-0 lead.

The Red Raiders quickly responded with three-straight doubles and claimed a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the third.

Sophomore right fielder Stephen Smith hit his second career home run in the following inning to give Tech a 7-3 lead.

Total Frat Move is an online college comedy website available in various app forms, and it is a news and entertainment brand known across the country.

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and Alpha Kappa Psi will host an entrepreneurship conference featuring Madison Wickham, the Chief Executive Officer of Grandex and Total Frat Move, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in room 281 of the Media and Communication building.

Javier Martinez, a senior international business, marketing and management major from Houston and president of CEO, said the event is open to the public.

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“We’re going to bring him out and he’s going to be on stage for an hour and a half,” he said. “We’re actually taking questions via Twitter right now. We’ll be asking him about 20 WICKHAM to 25 questions.”

The questions will be centered on how Wickham founded his company and the various struggles he went through during the process.

Wickham is involved throughout Texas and in Greek life in general, Martinez said, and Wickham has spoken frequently at other colleges in Texas.

“I know he’s a Texas native,” Martinez said.

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“He was born in Austin, went to Texas State and graduated from Texas State. Now he’s working in Austin.”

The conference is free, but a maximum of 400 people can attend because of the capacity of the room.

Evan Hewett, a senior agricultural economics major from Houston and business coordinator for CEO, said the conference can unite all areas of Greek life because Wickham is the speaker.

“It’s cool to have this event because we have a pretty big Greek life here at Tech,” he said. “It incorporates a lot of people. If they really want to come in and learn what entrepreneurship is, it gives them a good opportunity to come out.”

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Muslim students reflect on Chapel Hill deaths News editor

Following the deaths of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Muslims across the country and at Texas Tech have reacted.

Craig Stephen Hicks al legedly shot and killed Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Mohammad AbuSalha on Wednesday, according to an Associated Press article.

Hicks is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, according to the article.

Barakat was a second-year dental student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to the article. Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha intended to attend the same school in the fall while her sister studied architecture at North Carolina

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Margaret O’Neal, a secondyear medical student from Denver, is the co-chair of the Barbershop Blood Pressure Clinic student organization and said the students volunteer once per month at 12 area barbershops and beauty salons to take the blood pressure of patrons while they get their hair cut.

“We go out and talk with the patrons and barbers about what high blood pressure is, ways to manage their blood pressure, lifestyle changes they can make,” she

State in Raleigh.

The deaths of young students hit close to home, even thousands of miles away in Lubbock, Abdul HAMOOD H a m o o d , Te c h Muslim Student Association adviser and professor in the Tech Health Sciences Center Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology, said.

“It’s really unfortunate. It’s taken the lives of young people in the prime of their lives, and they could’ve done so much,” Hamood said. “They were in dental school, and they could have contributed so much to this country.”

Once news of the deaths broke out, MSA members met to discuss the incident and their emotions, Hamood said.

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said, “as well as taking the blood pressures of patrons.”

Former medical students at HSC started the monthly event, O’Neal said, and students have carried on the mission.

Fizza Naqui, a first-year medical student from Plano, said she became involved after she received an email sent out to her class.

“I’m a huge advocate of preventive health care, and a lot of people don’t really get exposed to their blood pressure and the risks,” she said. “They don’t want to go to the doctor because they’re afraid, they don’t have time or whatever, so this is easy for them.”

Most people are responsive to getting their blood pressure checked, Naqui said.

The students ask each patron a few questions, she said, and check their blood pressure in a laid-back environment.

“Some people will say no at first,” she said, “but they respond once they know how much (blood pressure) affects their health.”

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, can lead to heart disease, a heart attack or a stroke, according to Mayo Clinic.

The students let people know if they are at risk for any future health issues based on his or her

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(The shooting) is really unfortunate.

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POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 10:06 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft in the 2500 block of Main Street. A secured road bike was taken.

10:08 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident, without injuries, in the R14 parking lot.

11:29 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to a fire in the Market at Stangel/Murdough dining hall.

A stove caught fire.

3:35 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of marijuana and a Lubbock County citation for possession of a fictitious driver’s license after a traffic stop in the Flint Avenue Parking Garage. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The non-student’s

vehicle was impounded.

1:52 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in Murdough Residence Hall.

Obscene images were scratched into the wall.

2:44 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and possession of a fictitious license in the 1700 block of Akron Avenue. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Thursday 10:57 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Carpenter/Wells Residence Complex. A Tech student I.D. card was taken.

12:34 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Architecture building. A pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses was taken.

1:17 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident, without injuries, in the R3 parking lot.

1:43 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Education building. A Samsung Galaxy cell phone was taken.

1:46 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall. A shirt was taken.

9:08 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. An iPhone 6 was taken.

10:08 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Clement Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

Trial leaves boy’s parents mixture of relief, loss HOUSTON (AP) — The parents of a man who died just short of his 21st birthday, 13 years after a teenage boy set fire to him, say they’re relieved by the attacker’s capital murder conviction and 40-year prison sentence.

Bobby and Colleen Middleton said that relief is tempered by a renewed sense of loss the trial of Don Collins left them over the death of son Robbie.

The burns Robbie suffered on his eighth birthday led to a lifetime of pain and surgeries before cancer blamed on his burns killed him just

short of his 21st birthday.

“So much was stolen from us,” Colleen Middleton told the Houston Chronicle.

Collins, who’s now 29 but was 13 at the time of the attack, received the maximum sentence allowed juvenile offenders for capital murder after trial in Galveston last week.

According to trial evidence, Collins poured gasoline on young Middleton and set fire to him in 1998 near Splendora, about 35 miles northeast of Houston. Prosecutors have said Collins burned Robbie to

silence him after earlier sexually assaulting the child.

Middleton endured years of physical therapy before he died in 2011 from skin cancer blamed on his burns.

Doctors who treated the child for his burns hadn’t expected Robbie to survive, but he did.

“He was quite the ladies’ man,” Heather Middleton, Robbie’s sister, told the Chronicle. Some of his girlfriends had been burn patients with him at the Shriners burn hospital in Galveston, but others had no health problems, she said.

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blood pressure, O’Neal said.

From there, the future health care professionals offer advice and suggestions on how individuals can further protect their health, she said. The students suggest Lubbock physicians people can see if they do have hypertension or another blood pressure issue.

“I love being able to come out into the community, just talk with people and just possibly give them an insight into their health they might not have had,” O’Neal said. “There are some people we see who are seeing people for hypertension and other people who only go

and he believes good can come out of a negative situation.

“Any death is unfortunate.

H o w e v e r, w e ’ v e d e f i n i t e l y worked really well in handling it and thinking over it with rationality,” he said. “I really like how quickly we moved, and I definitely like the direction that everyone in the MSA and in the Muslim community is taking it.”

MSA and other Muslims at Tech have received support and kind words from the Lubbock community since the shootings, Hamood said.

Hamood has faith in the justice system to punish Hicks appropriately, he said, and hopes people learn more about Islam and do not let stereotypes influence their judgment of all Muslims.

“It’s very important to separate the religion and people who do something within the name of that religion,” he said. “This is

very critical. There are billions of Muslims around the world who are very decent people, and among them, there are several million law-abiding citizens in this country.”

The Chapel Hill shootings have resulted in outrage across the country, Telfah said, and show people working to make a difference instead of just talking about it.

The deaths of the Muslim students, whether based on religion or not, were preventable and serve as a lesson to the rest of the nation, Hamood said.

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HEALTH CHECK

• Hosted each month by Texas Tech Health Sciences Center students in the Barber Blood Pressure Clinic organization • Hosted at local barbershops, beauty salons • Students check blood pressure, give advice to the doctor when they’re sick.

It’s kind of a hodgepodge of everybody coming in.”

The organization and its monthly events provide realworld experience, Naqui said.

The students are exposed to Lubbock residents, she said, and have the opportunity to impact people’s lives.

“Hypertension is a silent killer,” Naqui said, “so it’s better if you catch it earlier on. You can do something before you have to take medication.”

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Researchers join government project Texas Tech National Wind Institute researchers will participate in a government research project to improve wind forecasting.

According to a Tech news release, the $2.5 million project is part of a U.S. Department of Energy project to advance wind energy.

Through the funding, researchers will use innovative technology and analyze wind

patterns in the Columbia River Gorge, according to the release.

“This project could not only enhance wind forecasts but could lead to improved weather prediction models more generally,” Brian Ancell, an assistant professor of atmospheric sciences, said in the release. “This is because the atmospheric layer near the ground influences a number of

important phenomena, such as severe thunderstorms and winter storm precipitation type such as snow or freezing rain.”

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Tech to host screening of Spanish film The film “El Regresso” will be the first screening of the Texas Tech International Film Series’ Spanish Film Club Series this season at 5 p.m. today in room 169 of the Human Sciences building.

The screening of the film, also known as “The Return,” is sponsored by the Tech Inter-

national Film Series as well as the Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication and the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literature, according to a Tech news release.

Future screenings include “Un Cuento Chino” on Wednesday, “Wilaya” on Friday, “Zona

Sur” on Feb. 23 and “Post Mortem” on Feb. 24, according to the release.

Each film will be shown in room 169 of the Human Sciences building, according to the release, and seating is limited.

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Health centers sign up last minute consumers SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Despite drizzling weather, people seeking health insurance under the Affordable Care Act streamed into some Texas enrollment centers Sunday, the final day they could sign up this year.

Enrollment SA, a coalition of San Antonio health professionals, nonprofits and government agencies, kept three centers open to help people navigate the exchanges and find insurance. By mid-afternoon, the centers had attended to some 70 families, with more still expected, though organizers said they were unlikely to see the long lines of 2014.

“It’s definitely less than last year

that we are helping in person,” said Joe A. Ibarra, a South Texas regional organizer for Enroll America.

“But enrollment numbers across the board are up.”

He said that the coalition anticipates that about 46,000 new consumers will have signed up for insurance during this enrollment period, which means that more than 100,000 people in and around Bexar County will have received insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Ibarra estimates the number of uninsured in Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, at between 200,000 and 300,000.

Latinos have been intensely

targeted by the coalition through Spanish-language newspaper ads along with radio and TV spots.

More than 75 percent of uninsured people in Bexar County are Latino, said Andrea Guajardo, director of community health at Christus Santa Rosa Health System. Latinos here suffer high rates of chronic illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease.

When these are left untreated, health care costs can skyrocket as drastic interventions such as amputations or vascular surgery may be needed.

“The more people we can get access to regular care,” said Guajardo, “the less will be their need to come into the emergency rooms when they are in crisis.”

But prevention is not always an easy sell. Camilo Ramos, a 48-yearold construction worker, needed to be convinced that he, his wife and their 19-year-old son would benefit from signing up for a plan costing them $22 a month.

“It’s super affordable,” said Cynthia Delapena, who was helping sign them up at an enrollment center northeast of San Antonio.

“But it was like I practically had to sell them a new car.”

Others were happy to have help navigating the intricacies of the plans and their pricing. At San Antonio College, 29-year-old Daniel Urrutia, who works a part-time job sorting packages for UPS, said that he had tried signing up on his own but had shaved about $100 from his monthly rate with the help of a coalition member. “This is actually the first time I’ve ever had insurance,” he said.

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Depression among college students at all-time high

By SARAH WILSON Staff Writer

According to The Washington Post, in 2014, student’s self-rated emotional health dropped to 50.7 percent, its lowest level ever.

In 2012, a study by the American College Counseling Association reported a 16 percent rise in mental health visits since 2000. According to the study, 44 percent of college students had symptoms of depression. Depression remains a leading condition among college students.

“We have six counselors, and we provide individual, couple and family counseling,” Alan Korinek, and the associate director of the employee assistance program at Texas Tech Health Sciences Cen-

ter, said. “Most of what we see in the HSC is anxiety.”

Korinek helps students, employees and their families at the HSC. Korinek said students and employees are given five sessions in a September to August school year.

“At the HSC we have a lot of med students and graduate programs with stressful demands,” Korinek said, “but we certainly get some with both depression and anxiety. They’re so closely related, many are depressed and discouraged because they can’t manage their anxiety.”

Most students at HSC are medical and graduate students, Korinek said. Stress is natural, and it is something not many people know how to manage, Korinek said.

“Occasionally we get asked to

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JOE NORTON, A sophomore accounting major from Granbury, does a front flip into the pool during the Polar Plunge in the Student Leisure Pool at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreational Center on Saturday.

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When CEO spoke with Wickham about the conference, he strongly encouraged those who will be attending to have questions ready to ask him.

Ty Chavez, a junior finance major from Amarillo and treasurer for CEO, said the conference will help aspiring entrepreneurs see what they can accomplish.

“There’s a lot of untapped potential, especially in the business school,” he said.

“There’s a lot of bright minds. Just to have someone come down to their level and see where they started from, that can reach someone sitting in the room who’s going to be the next best thing and they

Modified apples receive federal approval WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t expect to see them too soon, but they could be coming to your local grocery store — two types of apples genetically modified to resist turning brown after they’re bruised or sliced.

The development could boost sales of apples for snacks, salads and other uses.

Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny Smith are being developed by a Canadian company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. of Summerland, British Columbia.

The Agriculture Department gave its OK on Friday — saying the apples aren’t likely to pose a plant pest risk and or have “a significant impact on the human environment.”

The first Arctic apples are expected to be available in late 2016 in small, test-market quantities.

It takes apple trees several years to produce significant quantities, so it will take time before the geneticallymodified apples are widely distributed.

“We can’t wait until they’re available for consumers,” said the company’s president and founder, Neal Carter.

Apples brown quickly after they are cut open and exposed to air. The browning-resistant varieties are considered especially desirable for use as pre-sliced apples, in fruit salad and salad bars, and in the manufacturing of juice.

The company said it is working on developing other browning-resistant apple varieties as well.

The nonprofit Center for Food Safety questioned whether browning-resistance will mask apples that no longer are fresh. The Environmental Working Group said the government’s decision to allow marketing of the apples shows the need for mandatory, clear-labeling of genetically modified foods.

don’t even know it yet.”

The Rawls College of Business and both hosting organizations have been advertising the conference through different methods, Hewett said.

Wickham revolutionized Greek life terms, Martinez said, and Wickham has made TFM known throughout the U.S. because he has done a great job at marketing the company.

“This guy has a lot of experience starting up his own company, and it’s a huge company,” Hewett said. “I look forward to getting his knowledge and hearing about how he started from where he was at Texas State and how he decided to start up TFM and other companies.”

speak at group meetings,” Korinek said. “We give presentations on stress management and tell students and employees what we have to offer.”

The New York Times reported the economy has added to the stress college students are feeling. The uncertainty of the future makes many students anxious.

“Several of my friends who have had clinical depression prior to college, their symptoms have elevated because of the pressure they feel during college,” Katy Broadwell, a senior physiology major from Wichita Falls, said. “I know that the rigor and intensity of college courses forces some students into isolation from friends, which can lead to depression.”

Texas Tech has a counseling

center on campus, located upstairs in the Student Wellness Center. According the website, the center includes a massage chair, yoga and meditation audio recording, computer games to teach you to manage your stress and an Xbox to help students reach full creative potential.

“My hopes, my personal desires of being a counselor, are to bring a deeper awareness and public understanding of what depression is, what to look for in symptoms and how life stresses play into it,” Broadwell said. “With that knowledge people can better understand themselves, seek help if needed and learn how to cope with depression or depressive symptoms on top of the stresses of life that college brings.”

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Rec Center was also charitable as students were encouraged to donate the clothes they took off to Lubbock Impact, a local organization that provides clothes to those in need.

“Our method was not to get our hair wet so the wind wouldn’t make us colder,” Brinker said. “The hot tub really helped too.”

The Rec Center provided free donuts for everyone who got into the pool, and many students relaxed in the hot tub to warm up.

At 1:30 p.m., there were two races around the lazy river and the winning students received free T-shirts.

“It was fun, I did a lot better,” Lanning said. “I learned that you don’t jump and try to swim because you can’t breathe and your face hurts when you try to swim.”

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During this time, they could also dive off the diving board into the deeper water.

“They actually added a new thing, the Polar Bear Plunge, where you jump into the deep end,” Lanning said. “I think everyone was having fun.”

The Polar Plunge is a national event, according to the Special Olympics website, and many of the events across the country are used to raise money for local Special Olympic chapters.

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hosted its Polar Plunge event on Jan. 31 in Lubbock, according to its website, and it raised money for the local chapter by charging registration fees for those who participated in the event.

About 30 students attended the free event at the Rec Center, and the clothes they donated filled up a large trash bag.

After the students were done swimming, the lifeguards at the Rec Center also did laps in the cold water.

“It gets people involved,” Lanning said. “Instead of sleeping in and just sitting down and not doing anything, it gets people involved in something. You’re here for education first, but you have all this free stuff and you have to take advantage of that.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is readying rules largely favorable to companies that want to use small drones for commercial purposes, according to a federal analysis, potentially leading to the widespread flights by unmanned aircraft performing aerial photography, crop monitoring, inspections of cell towers and bridges and other work.

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many times have you heard, “He must be really intelligent to have gotten where he is,” or “She is just such a talented doctor,” from someone? After all, it’s much easier to put these people on a pedestal of talent than to realize they just did it by hard work and, by extension, salve our egos by blaming our comparative non-success as a lack of talent.

You may be wondering at this point, among my ranting and raving, what this has to do with society as a whole. More importantly, you may be wondering what this has to do with the reader. You are part of society, and your opinion joins with the aggregate of the rest of society to make up the overall opinion of society, and more specifically the opinions of the demographic labels (or profiling) society tries to assign you.

Marketing companies and teams buy metadata from the Internet sites you visit and use this to understand what they think you want. They then try to convince you that something else packaged like what you want is actually what you want. They then spam this into the very Internet that is currently the backbone of our society. They purposely distort reality to sell you a fairy tale.

Like Mike Rowe once said, “The one thing TV is bad at is preaching.

There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into a hero, and both these things suck, because most people are neither in real life.”

What does this mean? You’ve been sold a bill of goods. You’ve been told you aren’t pretty enough, you aren’t smart enough, you aren’t

How many people notice the guy with the amazing talent that seems to come naturally? How many notice the guy whose talent is actually from hard work?

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a good enough speaker, you’re too weak, your hands are too shaky and you will never be good enough.

What are they actually saying? You aren’t marketable.

To the marketing industry, talent is marketable. Put somebody on a pedestal because they seem extraordinary and cast them off when they fall. Hard work, on the contrary, is usually not marketable in their eyes. They’ll talk about it, but they won’t show it. It’s not glamorous.

That’s why “Duck Dynasty” shocked everyone when it became a success. It proved hard work is indeed marketable and brings a result. More importantly, it made people believe they could make it in life on hard work. So what happened is society — that means you — made hard work marketable temporarily.

As Rowe said, “We’ve waged war

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How many talent shows are there on television? How many hard work shows are there on television? Exactly.

Society has been glorifying what it calls talent over steady work and virtually guaranteed success. Why? That’s the narrative society has bought. How many people show up to a job fair compared to a talent search?

Not that many.

Rowe also said, “You’ve got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for someone else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.” Mainly he’s talking about the thousands of open trade-skills jobs that need workers and the economy.

But, you can also think of it this way: How many people are standing around, thinking that they aren’t good enough, when they are? Society has convinced itself that few are good enough to do anything in this downward spiral of self-loathing, that talent is more important than hard work, and that only a few are talented enough to make it.

You don’t like the narrative?

Change it. Make hard work marketable again. Support the work people do. That reminds me that I need to hit the gym, because it’s time to take back my narrative as well.

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he desire to work hard is the single most crucial attribute to a person’s success. Even those who are lacking in talent in a certain area can perform with reasonable competency provided they work tirelessly to improve. This is true in the workforce, in the classroom and indeed in every other aspect of our lives.

These days, employers in every field are looking for versatility. Since a person cannot be inherently gifted at everything they might be asked to do in the modern workforce, a measure of hard work is clearly needed. It is not uncommon for a person to be asked to perform tasks far outside of their college major or training, and the only way to improve on the job is to be diligent and selfdisciplined about improvement.

By showing that we are able to work hard and adjust to a new task, we can set ourselves up to be promoted to yet another new job down the road, even if it is in a different area of skill.

Here at Texas Tech, I’m sure all of us have been required to take classes we don’t particularly enjoy

or in subject matter areas we aren’t particularly adept at. However, in either case, the best way to have success is to work hard and be diligent about improving, or selfdisciplined about doing work that we don’t particularly enjoy.

Essentially, by working hard, we take away some of the sting from the class being very difficult or very annoying. Most professors would probably agree that hardworking students will succeed more often than students who are naturally talented yet don’t work hard, especially in these types of “grind” classes.

Finally, we can benefit from hard work in other aspects of our lives as well. It takes a great deal of work to achieve success in almost any field, from our athletic endeavors, to our volunteer work, to our daily relationships, both romantic and platonic. Most relationships require hard work at times, as does athletic success and meaningful volunteer work. In fact, even religion requires us to work hard to abandon “worldly” desires for spiritual ones.

Many of America’s greatest citizens have commented on the value of hard work in our society. Thomas Edison listed hard work as the most important attribute in anyone who achieves “anything worthwhile.”

Theodore Roosevelt said the “best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Will Rogers, whose statue graces our campus, noted, “even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there,” meaning that without a continuing

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drive to succeed, we will not be able to take advantage of even the best opportunities our talent can provide us.

It is also important to note that we cannot necessarily control our natural “talent” in a certain field, or how much money our family has or how many opportunities we get to succeed, but we can all control how hard we work.

Every person starts the day with the same amount of time, and g e n e r a l l y, the ones who spend their time wisely and work hard to put each minute to good use are the ones who achieve long-term success. People with the spirit to keep going when the going gets tough, and to work even harder to overcome adversity, are the ones who will be able to rebound from failure.

Pure talent isn’t generally enough to keep us motivated to succeed.

Although an innate talent might make the road easier for some people, it is most certainly not enough to succeed in itself.

The talented person might succeed for a time, but without working hard to adapt and improve, he or she will be consumed by failure.

On the other hand, a hardworking spirit leads to numerous desirable characteristics, such as adaptability, versatility and perseverance. These traits can serve us well in the workplace, in the classroom and in our daily lives.

We cannot achieve true, longterm success in any field or in life in general without working as hard as possible to maximize our talents and improve upon them.

Although an innate talent might make the road easier for some people, it is most certainly not enough to succeed in itself.

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alent is more important in the minds of today’s society than hard work.

That’s what society itself has made more important. I would also propose that with the Internet and society so seamlessly connected these days, it is rather simple to point this out in a way everyone with a smartphone or Internet-capable computer can understand: Google.

First off, let us do a cursory search of Google to set the stage.

“Hard Work” yields 188 million results in .41 seconds.

“Talent” yields 560 million results in .5 seconds. Well, that was simple enough wasn’t it? Humor me as I dig a little deeper to make a more interesting, and more uncomfortable point.

“Celebrities” yields 472 million results in .48 seconds, “Talented” yields 217 million results in .33 seconds and “Hard Workers” yields 573,000 results in .38 seconds.

What does this mean? It means that today’s society puts talent on a pedestal above hard work.

How many people notice the guy with the amazing talent that seems to come naturally? How many notice the guy whose talent is actually from hard work? Be an ace at beer pong and you’re invited to every party, regardless of the fact that beyond some networking contacts it isn’t going to do much for you later in life. Work your tail off every day making grades and sacrificing every day to make it in this world and no one will notice you until you’re the guy on television as a success.

What do the same partygoers later in life ascribe this to? Talent. How

Freedom of press necessary in free society

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he First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, arguably the most important part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees five basic freedoms to Americans, all of which are necessary to the success of a free society. Freedom of speech is probably the most frequently discussed of these five, partially because it’s always in danger of being infringed upon.

Yet freedom of the press is also in danger, although it may not be readily apparent. With news being shared instantly thanks to social media, and also to the pervasiveness of tabloid “journalism,” the press may seemingly exercise unlimited freedom.

However, last week, an example of how the press can be silenced showed itself at Tulsa University. According to a Huffington Post article, editors of the Tulsa student newspaper, The Collegian, received some thinly-veiled threats from school administration in response to The Collegian’s investigation into the school’s handling of the suspension of a student.

According to an editorial in The Collegian, the student in question was suspended without a hearing for threatening Facebook posts he claims were made by a third party. The student gave documents to The Collegian purporting to show his innocence, and when editors contacted school administrators for a response, they initially made no comment, but then turned to threatening the editors with disciplinary action for violating university policies, though no mention of any specific

Andrew Gleinser policies was ever made.

The basic message was, according to the Huffington Post article, “Stop investigating news we don’t want you to cover or you will be punished.”

Now I’m no expert, but I do know that when someone tells you to stop investigating something, it usually means there’s something they don’t want you to find. Time will tell if that turns out to be the case at Tulsa.

This one case may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but it illustrates the necessity of protecting the press.

In spite of the Constitution, people in power have often tried to keep the press from doing its job, mainly because they’re hiding something.

Generally when someone gets caught doing something they’re not supposed to be doing, they try to shoot the proverbial messenger.

Often, that messenger happens to be the media, which is why guaranteeing freedom of the press is so important. The Founding Fathers knew this, which is why they specifically included the press in the First Amendment.

If an attempt at strong-arming the press into silence can happen at Tulsa University, it could happen anywhere — including here at Texas Tech.

Yes, the press often gets a

bad rap. Tabloid media makes a mockery of the profession, and networks like MSNBC and Fox News regularly report with a slant. The recent lying scandal involving NBC’s Brian Williams certainly doesn’t help either.

But we’re all human, and sometimes people’s selfish desires get in the way of them doing their jobs correctly. By and large, the vast majority of journalists care about the truth and take their ethical obligations seriously, and it’s a shame that the actions of a few cast a shadow over the entire profession.

No group of people is entirely perfect, but without the press there would be virtually no watchdog on the actions of the powerful. It was the press that broke open the Watergate scandal and countless others throughout this country’s history. Leaders must answer to the people, and the press makes sure the leaders are held accountable.

Many people today don’t like the media, don’t trust the media or simply don’t pay attention.

But we as a society must continue to recognize the vital role the press plays in ensuring a fair and democratic society. So the next time someone tries to silence the media, we should remember that the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press may be the most important thing that keeps this country from degenerating into an oligarchy.

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Sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley was the Opening Day starter for the Red Raiders and went four innings, allowed two hits and two earned runs with five strikeouts.

After using two freshman pitchers following Moseley, senior right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno closed the game and held off San Francisco for the win.

Moreno said even though his role has changed from past years, he still enjoyed being on the mound and helping his team.

“It’s a little bit different, obviously, the last two years I started this day, and this year I came out of the bullpen,” Moreno said. “All in all, it’s not just another game but it was a great time.”

The Red Raiders had two more explosive innings in the first game on Saturday with five runs in the fourth and seven runs in the eighth. They had eight doubles in the game, the most in a game since 2010, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tadlock said he thought his team looked sharper on the second day of the season than the first, and he was impressed with the way the players competed.

“I thought the guys did a really good job today of coming out and

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NEWS competing,” he said, “and basiRed Raider left-handed pitchcally dealing with it one inning er Dylan Dusek picked up his first at a time like we’ve talked about.” win of the season after throwing After playing designated hit- six innings, allowing two runs ter on Opening Day, junior right- and striking out five batters. handed pitcher Quinn Carpenter Junior second baseman Cory made his career debut as a start- Raley also made his career debut ing pitcher. He ended up with a in the second half of the doubleno decision after allowing four header and went 3-for-5. Smith runs on four hits in three innings. was able to reach base safely Freshman third baseman Mi- in five of his six plate appearchael Davis started his college ances, including a career-high career on a high note in the game four walks. when he hit a Ta d l o c k home run in his said playing first at-bat as a in the midRed Raider. dle of the In the second infield like game of the day, Raley did San Francisco’s takes some starting pitcher experience, Sheldon Lee but he was could not figure proud of the out the Tech way the inhitters, and he fielders comwas pulled after peted. allowing seven “Those runs and only reguys have cording one out. shown the The Red ability to DOMINIC MORENO Raiders did play at a PITCHER not look back high level,” TEXAS TECH after taking he said. a 7-0 lead in “We’ve just the first inning got to come and went on to complete the out every day and keep plugwin 13-5. ging and find some rhythm and By sweeping the Dons on Sat- timing.” urday’s doubleheader, Tech won The two teams concluded the its first series of the 2015 season. Opening Weekend series with a The team totaled 32 hits in the fourth game on Sunday. doubleheader.

The Dons built an early lead

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It’s a little bit different, obviously, the last two years I started this day, and this year I came out of the bullpen.

by scoring a single run the second, third and fourth innings.

Tech was able to put together another big offensive inning in the fifth with four runs, which gave them a 6-3 lead.

Once the bases were loaded, Davis, Smith and junior catcher Tyler Floyd all hit singles and knocked in runs.

The Dons were held scoreless after the fourth inning until the ninth inning. They scored four runs in the final inning, including a three-run home run, but Tech was able to escape with a 9-7 victory.

Junior first baseman Eric Gutierrez gave the opposing pitchers trouble all weekend as he reached base safely in 16 of his 19 plate appearances and hit .750 in the series.

The preseason All-American said he was just waiting on a good pitch every time at the plate.

“I was feeling pretty good, I was seeing the ball really good,” he said. “The guys in front of me and back of me helped a lot.”

The Red Raiders have now won 20 consecutive home games, according to the release, which is the longest active streak in the nation.

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TOP: TEXAS TECH infielder Bryant Burleson helps turn a double play while San Francisco infielder Brendan Hendriks tries to bet out the throw to second during game two against San Francisco on Saturday in Rip Griffin Park. BOTTOM: TEXAS TECH infielder Tim Proudfoot gets Blake Valley, an outfielder for San Francisco, out during Techs 8-7 win over San Francisco on Friday at Rip Griffin Park.

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Longhorns hold on to beat Tech basketball Softball team wins 3 in weekend tournament The Texas Tech men’s basketball team stretched its away game record to 0-8 after losing 56-41 to the Texas Longhorns Saturday night in the Frank Erwin Center.

Tech kept the game close throughout the first half. After nearly 10 minutes of play in the first half, redshirt junior guard Toddrick Gotcher gave Tech its biggest lead of the first half and of the game when he scored a 3-pointer to put Tech up 12-7.

Sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor then retook the lead for the Longhorns with a layup. The Longhorns

went on to keep their first half lead, finishing the half leading Tech 29-19.

In the first three minutes of the second half, Tech chipped away the Longhorns’ lead by going on an 8-2 run to trail 31-27. Freshman forward Myles Turner ended Tech’s run by scoring two straight jumpers to put the Longhorns up 35-27.

The Red Raiders continued to threaten the Longhorn lead and trailed 47-41 after a 3-pointer from junior guard Devaugntah Williams with less than six minutes left.

The Longhorns closed out the game with a 9-0 run in the last five minutes of the game and handed Tech its third-straight loss to move Tech’s record to 12-14 overall and 2-11 in the Big 12.

Myles Turner finished as the game’s leading scorer with 25 points, and senior guard Robert Turner ended the game leading Tech in scoring with 10 points.

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No. 9 Louisville overcomes No. 17 North Carolina, 75-66 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ninthranked Louisville was so proficient shooting free throws against No. 17 North Carolina on Sunday that it was easy to forget that the Cardinals are rock bottom in the Atlantic Coast Conference in that category.

Cardinals freshman forward Mariya Moore hasn’t had those issues at the line, and her accuracy set an example that teammates successfully followed in rallying the past the Tar Heels.

Moore scored a career-high 28 points, including 13 during Louisville’s second-half comeback that overcame North Carolina 75-66. She made 11 of 12 free throws including all six after halftime to lead an impressive

performance for the Cardinals. It was the most free throws by a freshman in program history.

Averaging just 63 percent from the line coming in, Louisville made 26 of 30 (87 percent) for its most productive day since sinking 28 against Providence on Jan. 31, 2009. Then again, North Carolina’s foul problems provided them plenty of opportunities and Louisville finally took advantage.

“I take pride in my free throw shooting, so whenever I miss one or two, I’m so upset because I’m trying not to miss any,” said Moore, whose 76 percent average leads the Cardinals. “I was a little upset when I missed that one (in the first half), but I had to focus on the game.”

Louisville’s second-half concentration was definitely better after it committed 14 turnovers in the first and generally looked out of sorts. The Cardinals (22-3, 10-2 ACC) turned it over just seven times after halftime, helping them wipe out a nine-point deficit and eventually get past the Tar Heels (20-6, 7-5).

Trailing 45-36 early in the second half, the Cardinals took advantage of the Tar Heels’ foul trouble to forge several ties. They finally led 63-62 with 4:11 left on Sherrone Vails’ free throw in place temporarily-injured Myisha Hines-Allen, part of a parade to the line resulting 16 of 18 attempts made in the second half.

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The Texas Tech softball team went .500 in the weekend’s games, winning three times at the CenturyLink Classic in San Marcos, according to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Tech’s opening game in the tournament was a win against the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to the release, and was led by a five-run sixth inning that included two Red Raider home runs.

The Red Raiders won again Friday night at Bobcat Softball Stadium against Texas State.

The win in game two was mostly because of senior infielder Lea Hopson’s connection for her first career

grand slam.

The Red Raiders’ first loss in the tournament came Saturday morning to Grand Canyon University.

In the top of the sixth inning, Grand Canyon was able to open up the scoring with four runs, according to the release, and held on to the lead for a 7-4 win.

Game two on Saturday went even poorer for the Red Raiders, according to the release, with the team recording only two hits in a 2-0 loss to Texas State.

Bobcat pitcher Randi Rupp had seven strikeouts in the performance, according to the release, and did not walk a single batter.

Tech was able to secure the season

series win against UTSA in game five of the tournament, routing the Roadrunners 7-2.

Sophomore infielder Brittany Warnecke opened the scoring with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning, according to the release, which was her third of the season.

In the final game of the tournament, Tech was again shut out by Texas State, 3-0, which gave the Red Raiders as many wins as they had losses in San Marcos.

Tech will be traveling again next weekend, according to the release, as it competes in the University of Texas at Arlington Hilton Invitational.

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Lady Vols overcome injuries, top Kentucky 72-58, Carolina 75-66 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee found a way to beat a top-10 team and remain unbeaten in Southeastern Conference competition even after losing its best player.

The sixth-ranked Lady Vols may need to show similar resourcefulness for some time to come.

Ariel Massengale scored 17 points to end her slump and Tennessee overcame the loss of starting center Isabelle Harrison to beat No. 10 Kentucky 72-58 on Sunday.

Harrison, the Lady Vols’ top scorer and rebounder, was carried off the court early in the second half after her right leg and right knee twisted awkwardly as she battled for a rebound. Tennessee also lost

guard Jordan Reynolds, who was hit in the nose Thursday in a victory at Mississippi. She started Sunday, but left two minutes into the game and didn’t return.

“We’ve faced adversity before this season,” said Tennessee forward Cierra Burdick, who had 14 points and nine rebounds. “We’ve taken some blows, and we continue to get up. We’ve got to get up together and come together as one and just play tough, play hard and play for our injured sisters. We’ll continue to work. Everyone goes through tough times during the season. You can let it break you or you can let it make you.

We’ve just got to let it make us.”

Tennessee coach Holly Warlick had no immediate update on Harrison’s

condition but said Reynolds “got a little dizzy” early in the game. Harrison has been wearing a brace on her right knee since spraining it in Tennessee’s season opener, an injury that caused her to miss five games.

The Lady Vols (22-3, 12-0 SEC) won their 18th straight home game and 19th consecutive SEC contest by holding Kentucky (19-6, 8-4) to its lowest point total of the season. Tennessee hasn’t lost a home game or an SEC matchup since falling 75-71 to Kentucky on Feb. 16, 2014.

“We just weren’t tough enough,” Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell said.

“It’s a tough game out there. I thought they were a little bit tougher than us.”

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Tech tennis improves to 10-2

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Following its Friday 4-0 home season opener win over East Tennessee State, the No. 36 Texas Tech men’s tennis team defeated Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders 4-0 Sunday afternoon at the McLeod Tennis Center.

In Sunday’s matchup, Tech coach Tim Siegel faced Islander head coach Steve Moore, who formerly served as assistant coach under Siegel until he left Tech to coach the Islanders in 1998.

Coming into the match, Siegel said he felt nervous facing a strong Islander, but overall felt pleased with the results.

“Corpus Christi has a bunch of fighters, I know their team well because I know their coach well,” Siegel said. “We played good doubles, we needed to because that was their weakness.”

Tech opened the day by winning the doubles points to take a 1-0 lead over the Islanders. Senior Francisco Zambon and sophomore Jolan Caileau earned Tech’s first doubles win by besting Corpus Christi’s juniors Guillaume Rauseo and Mitchell Cook 6-1.

The Red Raiders picked up their second doubles win after juniors Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas topped the Islander duo of senior Peter Nagy

and freshman Arthur Bedel 6-3, and closed out doubles competition for Tech with a victory.

In singles matches, freshman Alex Sendegeya added another point for the Red Raiders by winning both sets versus Corpus Christi junior Ricardo Mayagoitia 6-1, giving Tech a 2-0 lead over the Islanders.

Tech senior Francisco Zambon matched Sendegeya by beating his opponent, junior Javier Pujols, 6-1 in both sets to take his match.

Zambon’s win gave Tech a 3-0 lead with four singles matches still in play.

After Tech’s win, Zambon said the match helped the team come together and prepare for future competition.

Corpus Christi, who lost 4-2 versus Eastern Tennessee State, got used to Lubbock’s wind conditions prior to facing Tech, Siegel said.

“They were ready for what we had,” Siegel said. “The conditions were perfect and we wanted a little bit of a breeze.”

“Our season’s been good so far, so it was another test to keep playing hard, playing for each other and getting closer to our teammates,” Zambon said. “I think it was very important so we could get closer to each other.”

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WACO (AP) — Nina Davis scored 22 points with eight rebounds and No. 3 Baylor stretched its winning streak to 23 games with a 79-51 victory over West Virginia on Sunday.

The Lady Bears (24-1, 13-0 Big 12) led 12-0 only 3½ minutes into the game, a stretch when Alexis Prince had the first two baskets and Davis had a pair of layups.

West Virginia never got closer than nine points after that.

Teana Muldrow had 16 points and Bria Holmes 15 for the Mountaineers (15-10, 5-8), the last opposing team to win in Waco.

Dekeiya Cohen had 10 points and seven rebounds for the Lady Bears. Niya Johnson, the national assists leader at 9.4 per game, had 13 more after a Big 12 single-game record 17 assists in her last game, along with seven rebounds.

Baylor stretched its home winning streak to 17 games since a 71-69 loss to West Virginia last March. That was the first conference home loss for the Lady Bears in four years.

West Virginia and Baylor shared the Big 12 regular-season title last season. They then met in the conference tournament

championship game that the Lady Bears won by three points.

But Baylor is well on its way to a fifth consecutive Big 12 regularseason title, the fourth outright in that stretch. With five conference games left, the Lady Bears have a three-game lead over secondplace Oklahoma, who they beat 89-66 on Wednesday after an early 20-0 run.

Baylor led 49-28 at halftime Sunday, then opened the second half with Davis scoring 12 points in a 16-1 run. The Lady Bears led 63-29 when Prince made two free throws with 13:53 left.

West Virginia: Holmes entered the game as the Big 12’s secondleading scorer at 20 points a game, trailing only Davis at 21.4.

Baylor: The Lady Bears scored 58 points in the paint, seven more than West Virginia’s total points. ... Sune Agbuke had nine rebounds and three blocked shots.

Two of her blocks came in the first 3 minutes before WVU had scored a point. .. Baylor had 30 assists on 35 field goals.

West Virginia hosts Oklahoma State on Wednesday.

Baylor plays at Texas Tech on Wednesday.

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Brandt Snedeker broke his own scoring record and won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the second time in three years.

Snedeker played bogey-free in the final round Sunday and left the mistakes to everyone else. He closed with a 5-under 67 and a three-shot victory over Nick Watney, and the timing could not have been better.

Snedeker fell out of the top 50 at the end of last year for the first time since 2011 and was guaranteed of playing only one major and no World Golf Championships unless he turned his game around. One great week at one of his favorite spots in golf changed everything.

The victory assures him a spot in the Masters and PGA Championship (he already was eligible for the U.S. Open). And he moves

to No. 31 in the world ranking, which most likely gets him into all the WGCs, starting with Doral in three weeks.

“I’m just so excited about what’s next,” Snedeker said.

He made only one bogey in 72 holes of glorious weather, as good as it gets at Pebble Beach. And when he finally took the lead after Watney made his worst swing of the week — a 4-iron right of the sixth fairway and into Stillwater Cove — Snedeker pulled away, taking all the drama out of the final hour.

A conservative par on the final hole gave him a 22-under 265, breaking the scoring record by two shots that he set in 2013. He also broke by two shots the score to par previously held by Phil Mickelson (2007) and Mark O’Meara (1997) when the par-72 Poppy Hills was still in the rotation.

Watney opened with four straight birdies, but it was three bogeys in a five-hole stretch at the turn that cost him. He rallied with a pair of birdies for a 69 to secure second place alone, a good step for him getting his game back in order.

Charlie Beljan closed with a 66 and finished third.

Jim Furyk, the 54-hole leader, didn’t make his first birdie until the 11th hole. He missed three birdie putts inside 10 feet on the front nine, went out in 38, and was out of the hunt halfway through the final round. It was the ninth time Furyk failed to convert when he had at least a share of the 54-hole lead since his last victory at the 2010 Tour Championship. Then again, this was his first competition in five months.

“I only made two birdies today and I hit the ball way better than

that,” Furyk said. He tied for seventh, six shots behind, along with Jordan Spieth and Matt Jones.

With a big crowd celebrating one of the most beautiful weeks ever at Pebble, the final round quickly turned into a battle between Snedeker and Watney.

Watney, thrilled at the chance to play with San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey, opened with four straight birdies to build a twoshot lead. But on the par-3 fifth, a photographer shot his camera at the top of Watney’s swing and he flinched, coming up well short and in a bunker. Watney made bogey, and Snedeker rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt for a two-shot swing to tie for the lead.

It was a big putt for Snedeker, and it was evident by the abrupt fist pump when it dropped. He took the lead on the next hole when Watney pushed his approach over the edge of the cliff and made bogey.

Watney never caught up.

They matched birdies on the seventh and 11th holes, and then Snedeker pulled away with pars.

Watney made bogey from a fairway bunker on the 13th, and from behind the green on the 14th to fall four shots behind.

“I thought Brandt handled himself really, really well,” Watney said. “Maybe in trouble one time, but very solid. So that’s what I need to be like next time.”

Torrey Pines winner Jason Day, who opened with a 72 at Pebble Beach in great scoring conditions, got within two shots of the lead until the putts stopped falling. He closed with a 67 and tied for fourth with Pat Perez (68) and Dustin Johnson, who closed with a 66.

It was the second tournament for Johnson since he returned from a six-month leave of absence for what he described only as a personal challenge.

Perez and Michael Lund, the co-founder of Pandora Jewelry, won the pro-am competition at 42 under.