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exas Tech’s offense started off slow against Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Red Raiders made some gains in the second half of the game as they attempted to push ahead of the Cowboys, but they were unsuccessful and trailed Oklahoma State by one in the final score, 45-44.

Tech had 518 yards of total offense on Saturday and was flagged only three times for 15 yards.

Toward the beginning of the game, Tech took a while to warm up and had several back-to-back three-andouts, which is unlike the offensively dominant team, junior wide receiver Cameron Batson said.

“We played an OK game,” Batson said. “Three three-and-outs in the beginning of the game. That obviously hurt, something that this offense is not used to. We had some mistakes in there, but overall we played a good game. We kept fighting all the way up until the end. We just didn’t get it done.”

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Texas Tech wide receiver Dylan Cantrell catches the pass and lands in the end zone during the Red Raiders’ game against Oklahoma State on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium.

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Allens use each other as inspiration Willie Nelson cancels Lubbock throughout national artistic career stop because of medical issues Willie Nelson canceled his Lubbock concert, which would have been on Tuesday in the City Bank Auditorium.

According to an article in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Nelson is ill and will not be able to perform his show. Nelson also canceled his show on Sunday in Midland because of the illness.

There has not been a date rescheduled for Nelson’s show, according to the article. AEG Live, the promoter of the show, is hoping to announce a replacement date.

Select-A-Seat is offering refunds for the canceled show but no specifics have been announced yet, according to the article. @DavidGayDT

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Jarrett Atkinson considered for city manager position

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Terry Allen performs to audience members inside the Allen Theatre during the second annual production of Lubbock Lights in February.

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Growing up in Lubbock is a different experience for different people. For Terry Allen, he found inspiration for many of his works growing up in Lubbock and West Texas.

Allen, a songwriter and artist, has experimented with different

mediums of art throughout his 50-year career. According to his website, Allen has used sculpture, paintings, songs and different theater performances to convey his artistic vision.

Growing up in Lubbock, Allen said, helped give his art a unique voice. The geography and the flatland horizon contribute to that unique musical voice.

Allen said this sound addresses an attitude and climate that is unique to Texas and unique to the time period.

Allen did not notice the effect Lubbock had on his sound. It was not conscious but was a combination of where he lived and the people he was around, Allen said

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On Thursday, the Lubbock City Council will discuss a resolution to hire Jarrett Atkinson as the new Lubbock city manager. The announcement comes prior to current city manager James Loomis’ retirement, which will go into effect on Friday.

With 20 years of experience, Atkinson has worked in public service for various entities, according to a City of Lubbock news

release. Since 2010 Atkinson has been Amarillo’s city manager, directing more than 2,100 full-time employees and managing a budget of approximately $336 million.

Atkinson received his bachelor’s degree in police science from Sam Houston University and got his master’s degree in public administration from Texas Tech, according to the release. @MichaelCantuDT

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Minorities gather for State of Black Students Address

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Bryan K. Hotchkins, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, opens the State of Black Students Address at 7 p.m. Monday in the Student Union Building Red Raider Lounge.

Hotchkins encouraged black students in attendance to come forward and share their thoughts.

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To address problems that all minority students face on campus, a coalition of black, African-American and African students on campus hosted the State of Black Students Address at 7 p.m. Monday in the Student Union Building Red Raider Lounge.

There was no organization attached to this event, making it more student-oriented, Markicia Horton, a sophomore geoscience major from Beaumont, said. Through this there was the chance of voicing grievances not only for the minority population at Tech, but more so for the black student population.

“Basically, tonight was just something to where we as students could come together,” Destyni Rogers, a sophomore media strategies major from Allen, said. “Being black students of Texas Tech could voice our thoughts on things that we have concerns about and bring more unity to our campus.”

Mostly through word of mouth, the students attracted more than 100 people to the Red Raider Lounge, Horton said. They also spoke to leaders of various Tech organizations to attract more people to the event.

The purpose of the address was to reach out not only to students involved in predominantly black organizations but also to the black community as a whole, Horton said. Though the night was not solely focused on the black community — but rather on minorities as a whole — the address, nonetheless, attracted a lot of black people to the event.

It is more of a thing to get people together to speak about issues they all agree on, Rogers said.

“It is just coming together and joining in on something that we all agree on, issues that we all see.

They’re not following any particular individual. That’s why we didn’t attach it to

an individual organization,” Rogers said. “It is coming together in one place, having some insight, learning from different people and just gaining understanding.”

Among those invited was President of the Student Government Association Ben Sharp, so he would be able to hear, firsthand, issues facing Tech’s minority and black population, Horton said.

“We told them to come and get insight on how we feel, because there’s a lot of misunderstanding within both sides and this is just the perfect forum,” Horton said.

“We just felt like within us there are a lot of things that need to be addressed within administration, so before we went on our own to administration, we wanted to get overall insight, so it wouldn’t just be our opinions.”

One of the biggest topics of the event was based on how Tech administration can improve to better serve black students. Standing in as the emcee for the event, Bryan Hotchkins, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, spoke on how powerful student’s voices can be to university administration when nothing is done about unfair treatment.

We live in a society today that is diverse, and so, you don’t really see that on the Texas Tech campus.

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It has been nearly one year since students incited protest on the campus of University of Missouri because of racist acts and threats against black students that were going unpunished, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune. Many of the threats were made through social media, and in one

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Symposium for veterans to be hosted Saturday at NRHC The Military & Veterans Programs and the National Ranching Heritage Center will host a symposium entitled “Exploring the Frontier of the Arts, Innovation and Medicine – In Support of Veterans,” on Thursday.

The symposium will be from 1-5:30 p.m. in National Ranching Heritage Center at 3121 4th St., according to a Tech news release.

The symposium uses both arts and humanities to help veterans heal, reintegrate into society, according to the release.

The symposium will include lectures from Kelli Frias, as-

sistant professor in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration; Alexandra Protopopova and Nathaniel Hall, faculty members from the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources; and Jacqueline Kolosov, professor in the Department of English, according to the release.

Other speakers include Kimberly Gramm, director of the Tech Innovation Hub at Research Park, and Charlotte Dunham, director for Women’s Studies Program. @MichaelCantuDT

instance, someone wrote a racial slur using human feces on the wall inside of a residence hall.

It was through the students’ protest that higher administrative officials such as University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin resigned, according to The Tribune.

“Because of that, presidents all over the United States are listening and are ready to respond to black-student issues,” Hotchkins said.

“That’s why we’re having this gathering tonight, because we need to think about what we need for black students.”

Throughout the event Hotchkins invited guests, mostly students, to speak of complaints they had about the university. Most of the grievances revolved around a lack of black faculty across the campus. One student went on to speak on the difficulty students faced with white faculty not understanding the proper use of racial terms, saying it is important to know and care who identifies as black, African-American and just African.

Tech has grown to have a little more than 5 percent of its students who are black, Horton said, so there needs to be more representation for those students.

When it comes to problems of the black students, many times there is no one to voice that opinion in upperlevel administration.

“We live in a society today that is diverse, and so, you don’t really see that reflection here on the Texas Tech campus. That’s unfortunate,” Rogers said. “Texas Tech is becoming a predominately Hispanic(-serving) institution, and you don’t really see the Hispanic voice very prominently in the spotlight.

So, that’s what we want to change and want to motivate minorities to speak up and take part in issues that affect all of us on Tech’s campus.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Austin band to perform Friday at LHUCA

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

The Battlin’ Nelsons, a folk-rock band from Austin, will perform in Lubbock at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts to support the local music community.

Tori Vasquez, vocalist and guitar player, started the band along with her husband, Shannon Smith, three years ago. The band’s name comes from a distant relative of Smith’s who used to be a boxer, Vasquez said, and Battling Nelson was the name he used in the ring.

Vasquez’s and Smith’s parents were both musicians, and they both grew up surrounded by music.

It has always been a big part of their lives, Vasquez said. Originally from Lubbock, Vasquez and her husband moved to Austin and started writing songs and performing together.

The message behind

The Battlin’ Nelsons’ music is self-encouragement, Smith said.

The band wants to inspire young musicians to get out of their comfort zones and follow their passion, he said.

“Everybody has got a dream, and you don’t have to wait for the dream to come to you, but you just have to make it happen,” Smith said.

The song “South Side,” an original track, has a special meaning for this band, Vasquez said. The song was written because they both live south of Austin, and its purpose is to highlight the different sections of the city.

Members of The Battlin’ Nelsons are excited about the concert this Friday.

They will play with a full band, Vasquez said, and hope people have fun.

“There is something special in the music scene in Lubbock,” Vasquez said.

The key to their musical success is persistence,

Smith said. The right attitude is to never give up, not even in the face of failure, and to never take “no” for an answer.

Brady Marchand, bass player and audio engineer for the band, said he has been recording as a hobby and helped produce the first album for The Battlin’ Nelsons. The hardcopy is going to be for sale at the concert.

Now working on its second album, the band has a strong presence in Austin. With the concert on Friday, the members hope to expand their audience.

Marchand said he has been collaborating with Vasquez and Smith because of their passion for music.

“The three of us will be lost without music,” Marchand said. “Music has been a way for us to come together, and we wouldn’t be anywhere without it.”

For The Battlin’ Nelsons, music is a social and spiritual experience. A lot of people play for musical

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Tori Vasquez, Shannon Smith and Brady Marchand perform as the Battlin’ Nelsons, a folk-rock band from Austin. The Battlin’ Nelsons will perform at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Friday. ego or money, Marchand said, but The Battlin’ Nelsons produce music for music’s sake.

The Battlin’ Nelsons will perform in the Firehouse

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Man convicted of killing policeman, dissolving body died accidentally during sadomasochistic sex in April. But prosecutors said the IT developer strangled Semple, dismembered his body and tried to dissolve his flesh in an acid bath.

Prosecutors said Brizzi,

a crystal meth addict, was obsessed by the drug drama “Breaking Bad.” In one episode, a body is dissolved in acid, and Brizzi said he was “inspired by the idea.”

Brizzi will be sentenced on Dec. 9.

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Vandals break tusk of Bernini elephant statue in Rome ROME (AP) — Police in Rome are investigating the apparent vandalism of the famed Elephant and Obelisk statue designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Piazza della Minerva near the Pantheon in Rome.

Rome cultural authorities said Monday that vandals overnight broke off the tip of the elephant’s left tusk, which authorities recovered at the foot of the statue.

Police were checking

video in the area to identify the vandals.

The statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk on its back was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII. It was placed in the square in front of the Santa

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PBS ‘NewsHour’ anchor Gwen Ifill dies of cancer

The moon rises in the distance behind the Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue on campus near Memorial Circle on Monday. According to the NASA website, Monday’s Supermoon was the closest the moon has gotten to the Earth since 1948, and it will not be as close again until 2034.

Jurors at London’s Central Criminal Court found Stefano Brizzi guilty Monday of killing Constable Gordon Semple, whom he had met on the gay dating app Grindr.

Brizzi claimed Semple

tickets can be purchased through LHUCA’s website.

The doors will open at 7 p.m., and the concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.

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LONDON (AP) — A British jury has convicted an Italian man of murdering a policeman he met online and trying to dissolve his body in acid, a technique used in the TV show “Breaking Bad.”

Theatre of the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts on Friday from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Regular admission is $15 and student tickets are $5, and all

Maria Sopra Minevra Basilica in 1667.

Another Bernini statue, the La Barcaccia fountain at the bottom of the Spanish Steps in Rome, was vandalized by Dutch soccer fans in 2015.

NEW YORK (AP) — Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS’ “NewsHour” with Judy Woodruff and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said.

She was 61.

A former reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Ifill switched to television in the 1990s and covered politics and Congress for NBC News.

She moved to PBS in 1999 as host of “Washington Week” and also worked for the nightly “NewsHour” program. She and Woodruff were named co-anchors in 2013.

She moderated vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008 and authored the book, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

The president on Monday praised Ifill for informing today’s citizens while also inspiring a young generation of journalists.

“I always appreciated Gwen’s reporting, even when I was on the receiving end of one of her tough interviews,” Obama said.

Ifill took a leave from “NewsHour” for a month this spring for health reasons, keeping details of her

illness private. Her health failing, she left “NewsHour” again shortly before an election night that she and Woodruff would have covered together.

“Gwen was a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity in an industry going through seismic change,” said Sara Just, PBS “NewsHour” executive producer. “She was a mentor to so many across the industry and her professionalism was respected across the political spectrum. She was a journalist’s journalist and set an example for all around her.”

NBC News’ Pete Williams, a former colleague, struggled to keep his composure Monday when announcing Ifill’s death on MSNBC. “She had so many awards in her office you could barely see out the window,” Williams said.

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, said he was a member of the Maryland state legislature when Ifill worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun. “She always demonstrated thoughtful intelligence, determination to uncover the facts, and an innate talent for knowing what truly interested the public,” Cummings said.

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Americans must not lose hope in face of injustice

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fter the election results broke last Wednesday, I had completely given up hope in America.

A very depressing message is found in my column which was published in The Daily Toreador after election night, on Wednesday.

I felt like the U.S. was falling apart and I couldn’t do anything about it.

I’m not going back on anything I wrote in that column.

I still stand by it. The 2016 election is a grave omen for the future of our country.

H o w e v e r, t h e t o n e throughout that column was one of hopelessness.

When I found out the results of the election the day after I wrote that column — it was written before the election results were finalized — things only got worse for me.

I couldn’t handle the topic well. Thinking about the elec-

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tion made me more depressed.

Later, I discussed the election with my father, and I offered the viewpoint that I had given up on the U.S. I was completely done with this country.

I wrote in a text, “It’s clear to me the America of today is not the one it was once.

The America our forefathers dreamt of is dead.”

“Only when good men do nothing,” my father replied, “that’s when hope is lost.”

I didn’t see it at the time, but he’s right. Sitting around and proclaiming the end of the world doesn’t get anyone anywhere.

Deep down, I knew this when I wrote last Wednesday’s

in line with that intention.

As I mentioned earlier, I’m not retracting anything I wrote, but I am retracting the tone in which I wrote.

Whether Donald Trump becomes the greatest president our country has seen, the most mediocre president we’ve ever had or the Antichrist, we must not lose hope.

There are a great many things wrong with this country, but if we simply give up on the U.S. — as I was so ready to do last week — we can’t expect anything to get better.

Throughout our nation’s history are examples of citizens rising up against injustice and creating a better nation as a result.

Martin Luther King Jr. took on an impossible-seeming task but led the way for an entire race of people to receive their equal rights.

Susan B. Anthony helped

lead a successful movement for women’s suffrage. Just recently, LGBT groups won the same-sex marriage debate on a federal level.

It may seem like the odds are against us or there are far too many issues to tackle. But if we give up hope and never try to change anything, are we any better than those who carry out the injustices around us?

Of course, we should all be cautious around others in regard to the recent election. It is still a sore topic for many, and it hasn’t been a week since the results broke loose.

However, as we heal, don’t remain silent. Don’t sit on the sidelines; if we do, then it really will be the end of the world for the United States.

To paraphrase my father, when good men and women do nothing, then hope will truly be lost. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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Democratic Party must rebuild with strong economic policies

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t’s been a week since the 2016 presidential election in which Donald J. Trump was named the United States’ president-elect.

It was purely wishful thinking to hope everyone would start to accept that reality because clearly people are not done posting about it. Whether you were rooting for Trump or not, we can all agree on one thing: It looks like he’s here to stay.

Everyone is moving on in his or her own way: protesting, researching moving abroad, celebrating or otherwise.

Everyone is moving on, even the Democratic Party.

Polls, pundits and predictions alike were all wrong and everyone — including Hillary Clinton — was absolutely stunned.

However, they realize there’s

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nothing more they can do.

Trump won. Clinton lost. Now, it’s time to move on.

The Democratic Party realizes this and has already begun to recognize the flaws that may have cost the party this election in this first place.

The Democratic Party spent too much time focusing on social issues and not enough time focusing on economic or national security issues.

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I am a big believer in respecting the reader by allowing them access to my personal thoughts and emotions. This isn’t inherently a problem; this is the opinions page, after all.

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the left on social issues, the Democrats will not be able to win without strengthening their focus on economic issues.

The biggest conversation that has been taking place over the last year and a half has been on issues like gender equality, same-sex marriage, racial tensions and other topics that fall into the social-issue camp.

There’s nothing wrong with talking about these things; they’re important and certainly have a place at the table. Was there even a chance these topics wouldn’t be at the forefront of this year’s campaigns?

Clinton had it made talking about those issues. She’s a woman. So, she claimed to have plenty of first-person experience regarding gender equality.

When you compared her

to someone who was talking about building a border wall and proposed to ban Muslims from entering the country — which, by the way, has been removed from his website — she was making a good case for herself with her supporters.

This may come as a surprise to a lot of people, but social issues don’t make jobs.

Forming a city-on-a-hill proposal to ensure gender equality doesn’t ensure sound economic policies. That’s the problem Democrats are seeing: They spent too much time on social issues and not enough on fiscal issues.

Clinton was so busy fighting Trump’s sexual abuse claims and insensitivity that she didn’t focus enough on another worry Americans have: the economy.

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explained where the Democrats went wrong by looking at people through channels like interest groups. It’s easy to say Trump won this election because racist, sexist bigots got him into office.

I’m not saying there weren’t racists or sexists who voted for him. In fact, I’m positive that there were.

Clinton was having too much fun playing the opposition to his wild remarks, which is understandable given how much material she had to work with.

But in the end, it just wasn’t enough. Now, the Democratic Party sees that clear as day.

There has to be more to a campaign than social issues.

The question I have for the Democrats now is: What next? hbritzky@dailytoreador.com

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “My own situation was that my mother was a musician, so I grew up hearing her play the piano,” Allen said. “I think the radio, especially after rock ‘n’ roll came out, opened up a whole world that kind of didn’t exist before. All of this incredible music started coming in that no one had ever heard before. I think that had a big impact. More than anything, I think the music opened the doors to the world and made you want to leave. It made me want to go out into the world.”

Allen said he and his wife Jo Harvey Allen then traveled to Los Angeles after living in Lubbock.

When they were in Los Angeles, they produced a radio show on the first underground rock station in Los Angeles, Jo Harvey Allen said. “(Terry Allen) would select the music, and it was a theme show,” Jo Harvey Allen said. “I did all the talking on the air, and we had guests on. We had this incredible radio show on the first underground rock station in the country. I

didn’t know of any women in radio, so it was unique in the fact that I was a woman on air and I was mostly telling stories on the air about Lubbock and my family and friends.”

Living in Los Angeles at that time was influential to Terry Allen and his music. Music represented the changes that were happening in the 1960s, Terry Allen said.

“That (time) forged my ideas of wanting to play music and what I thought music could do,” he said.

“I think Lubbock gave me the springboard, but it was after I left that I got very involved in playing music and making art.”

After his first album “Juarez” was released, Terry Allen said he started compiling and writing different songs. Most of those songs were about West Texas and eventually became “Lubbock (On Everything),” a double album released in 1979.

Working on that body of work for about five years, Terry Allen said he did not make a conscious decision of writing about West Texas. “(The songs) were about West Texas people

and growing up there,” Terry Allen said. “It was never a conscious decision to write about that part of the country. These songs just happened to appear.

They became the genesis for ‘Lubbock (On Everything)’ and putting that record together.”

Terry Allen said this album helped him think about how other types of art could tell the story other than the album. Music could tell one aspect of the story and pictures or objects could tell other aspects of the story. Together, it could do something he did not think of.

Through this combination, Terry Allen said he helped establish what his future work would look like.

“The things that I have discovered with that work kind of set a precedence for me of how to work and how to think about approaching ideas and images, whether it was songs, sculpture, drawings or a theater piece,” Terry Allen said. “All the possibilities of what making art might be.”

Terry Allen has also been an influence on his wife’s work. Jo Harvey Allen said while she was

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working on her poetry and her theater pieces, Terry Allen helped her and encouraged her.

Jo Harvey Allen said she uses him as an editor as she writes one-woman shows or different theater pieces. Terry Allen helped her with her original works.

It was never a conscious decision to write about that part of the country.

These songs just happened to appear.

TERRY ALLEN LUBBOCK ARTIST “When I wrote (my) first performance, I showed Terry the script a n d Te r r y s a i d , ‘ Yo u should half it,’ and there were a lot of things that I really liked and Terry liked,” Jo Harvey Allen said. “Editing is so important. I listened to him and halved it. We set up this really wonderful way of trusting each other so that we are each other’s editors in a certain way.

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The new touring show “Circus 1903,” which makes its American debut next year, features two life-size elephants — one baby, one massive mamma — created by the puppeteers and model makers of Significant Object, who made the lifelike horse featured in the hit play “War Horse.”

“These puppets feel real.

They’ve been built in a way, even when they’re just standing there doing nothing, they’re just breathing, they absolutely feel real. That’s what we wanted to capture,” said creative and executive producer Simon Painter.

The pachyderms will be part of a show that attempts to capture the magic of circuses at the dawn of the last century, with foot jugglers, contortionists, acrobats, knife throwers, teeterboarders, high-wire performers and a bicycle stuntman.

The show makes its U.S. bow in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theater on Feb. 14 and then makes stops in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Denver and New York City.

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Painter, who has had great success with his magician supergroup franchise “The Illusionists,” said he’s hoping to revive the panache and bravery of the past, “where showmanship was front and center.”

to speak as the imperious Duchess of Krakenthorp.

Her character, a nonsinging role in Donizetti’s frothy 1840 comedy, had come to find out whether the title character, Marie, was worthy of marrying her nephew.

Looking frail but determined and wearing an elegant acid green silk dress, the 83-year-old justice read from a crib sheet a series of qualifications that sounded very much like requirements for high political or judicial office. Her deadpan delivery was boosted by

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Ricardo Ruiz, a freshman computer science major from Mexico City, and Leo Creger, a sophomore finance major from Newbury Park, California, play a game of chess outside of the Library. Both Ruiz and Creger are members of the Texas Tech Chess Program.

WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — The curtain rose on Act 2 of “The Daughter of the Regiment,” revealing the figure of a tiny woman barely visible in a large dome chair with her back to the audience. Suddenly, she swiveled around — and there was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Cheers and prolonged applause rang out from the crowd at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night even before Ginsburg, a life-long opera lover who was making her official operatic debut, opened her mouth

set, Terry Allen said he has had the chance to produce art he never thought he would be able to, like bronze sculpture and other publicwork projects.

Terry Allen said he does not have a fixed process of developing ideas for upcoming projects. It is about whatever inspires him.

“I don’t think you know where an idea comes from,” Terry Allen said.

“You can be sitting in a café and watch someone turn around, and it makes you think of something.

There is no telling what might inspire a whole idea or body of work. I don’t think that way. I think it is where your curiosity takes you.”

Jo Harvey Allen said even though they have collaborated on numerous projects, both she and Terry Allen support each other throughout all projects they are part of.

“We are really happy for the other person’s accomplishments,” Jo Harvey Allen said. “When something good happens, we don’t have a competition with each other really. I think that has been a good thing.”

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We tell each other what we really think. We don’t hold back on anything. We are both really opinionated, but we are both really confident that what we choose to care about most is that the work is good.”

Jo Harvey Allen said he has encouraged her to do her own work. But, they also collaborate on different projects.

“We have both written the same amount of plays separately that we had together in collaboration,” Jo Harvey Allen said. “In all of those, there was some crossover. Every play that I have ever done, Terry has had music in it or has been a part of it in some way. I have performed in all his theater pieces. We work together very well like that.”

The Allens have traveled around the United States and have shown different art pieces and played music for a long time, Terry Allen said.

The work he has developed is not geographically rooted anywhere.

The work depends on the circumstances and the necessity of what he wants to do with it.

Through that open mind-

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a microphone, although laughter from the audience occasionally drowned her out.

Some samples: —”The best of the house of Krakenthorp have open but not empty minds. The best are willing to listen and learn. No surprise, then, that the most valorous Krakenthorpians have been women.”

—”Applicants seeking a station so exalted must have the fortitude to undergo strict scrutiny.

Their character must be beyond reproach.”

E L PA S O ( A P ) — Munchkin thinks she’s a mastiff, and nobody has bothered to tell her otherwise.

The 4-month-old sandy blond Chihuahua mix, who needs a wheelchair to support her hind legs, is like any other puppy.

She’s playful, friendly and thinks fingers are treats.

And thanks to specialists and occupational therapists at the Las Palmas LifeCare Center, Munchkin can continue playing, even with a damaged spine.

“She loves people, and she’s not afraid of anything,” Brandy Gardes told the El Paso Times.

Gardes is founder of From the Heart Animal Rescue, an El Paso-area shelter that helps injured and disabled dogs.

Munchkin was found in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in a dumpster when she was only 3 weeks old. She was blind, with a compression fracture in her spine. The vet said it appeared as if someone either stomped on Munchkin or threw her on her back.

Last month, she had surgery to remove parts of

her vertebrae in the hope that her spinal cord would heal better. She then began therapy with From the Heart Animal Rescue. She was fostered with two giant mastiffs, who helped socialize her. A volunteer at From the Heart made Munchkin a custom wheelchair, and up until week, she wore a child’s shin guard as a “turtle shell” for her mending spine.

“Brandy’s the master of making anything she needs,” said Dr. Callenda Hacker, the medical director at Las Palmas Rehabilitation Hospital in West El Paso.

For a week and a half, Munchkin stayed with Hacker. Hacker then got in touch with specialists at Las Palmas, and now, Munchkin has been fitted with a new custom spine protector made of the same materials used on patients at Las Palmas during rehab after surgery. She was fitted for her shell, which looks like a raw chicken cutlet, and soon it was customized with a swatch of heartpatterned fabric from a child’s legging.

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By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

On Monday, sophomore offensive lineman Justin Murphy announced via Twitter his retirement from Tech football because of injury and is no longer on the team.

Senior offensive lineman Baylen Brown said although Murphy’s exit is not good for the team, it provides more opportunities to the younger players to play in the game.

“It’s tough, he was one of my good friends. He’s a starter, one of our better offensive linemen. He was a solid right tackle this year,” Brown said. “I understand his knee injury, couldn’t come back from it, and it’s rough on us since it’s one of our guys, but we’ll move on.”

Te c h p l a y e d w i t h o u t Murphy against the Cowboys on Saturday, and in his place, freshman offensive lineman Bailey Smith played in the trenches.

Against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, the Tech offensive line allowed two sacks for 14 yards in a 45-44 loss in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It also allowed four quarterback hurries in the game.

Brown said Smith did a good job in filling Murphy’s spot in the offensive line.

“He did well, tough to come in, in a game like that as a freshman, really hasn’t played since (Stephen F. Austin),” Brown said. “I think he did well knowing his assignments and just getting where he needed to be.”

The game against Oklahoma State was one of the few games Tech played without Murphy this year. After Murphy was ejected for targeting in the game against West Virginia on Oct. 15,

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Texas Tech offensive linemen strategize before the next play during the Red Raiders’ 45-44 loss to the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Tech freshman offensive tackle Bailey Smith replaced Justin Murphy in the game, who was out because of an injury. he was suspended for one half in the game against Oklahoma on Oct. 22.

Murphy also faced an injury last year in the game against Baylor and was out for the season after sustaining the injury.

“Obviously, he was a good player for us,” Kingsbury said. “Brings good size in there, and we’ll have to move forward. We played without him on Saturday and have to keep finding ways to be efficient on offense.”

Now that one of Tech’s better offensive linemen, as described by Brown, has retired early in his collegiate career, Kings-

bury must now turn to scouting to look for more offensive linemen for depth, Brown said.

Kingsbury said losing players, such as Robert Castaneda and Trace Ellison — who were both arrested for burglary of a habitation around June, according to ESPN — is tough but he feels a good set of players will arrive next year.

Kingsbury said he thinks they are scouring the country for more players to add more depth so they can have some competition in the spring.

“Yeah, that’s tough,” Kingsbury said. “You have a bunch of guys that we

thought would be playing for us this year and are no longer with the program.

So, we’re going to have to take some more guys moving forward. We feel like we have a good class coming in this next year, a lot of guys at mid-year. And hopefully have four new bodies on campus mid-year and go from there.”

Despite Murphy leaving, junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II said he had a lot of praise for the younger players on the offensive line who have had to fill that gap against Oklahoma State.

“Murphy’s a great guy, a great leader, and I hated

for him that he had to be gone. But those young guys have stepped up, and they’re playing,” Mahomes said. “And I’m just going to trust in them, try to get the ball out fast, try to help them out a little bit. And at the same time, they played their best game probably this last week, and so hopefully, it just carries on.”

At an overall look at the offensive line against Oklahoma State, Brown said the offensive line played decently, but not great. He said Tech battled and fought, but came short at the end.

However, Brown said,

the offensive line has been consistently improving, especially the younger players.

“Every week we’re getting better, every week we’re learning more,” Brown said. “The young guys are learning the game better. So, I think this was a good week.

They’re a physical team, and we came out and fought with them.”

Tech will play against Iowa State, ranked second to last in the Big 12 Conference standings, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. The game will be nationally televised on FS1. @JackDensmore_DT

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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State coach Steve Prohm said last month that forward Deonte Burton’s goal should be to get a double-double every game.

Burton got his first one out of the way Monday night, helping the 20thranked Cyclones through their first bout of minor adversity this season.

Monte Morris scored 18 points, Matt Thomas added 13 and Iowa State beat Mount St. Mary’s 73-55.

Burton had 10 points

FRISCO (AP) — The issue is no longer whether Dak Prescott will start ahead of a healthy Tony Romo for Dallas.

Now the question is how far the Cowboys can go with a rookie quarterback after they tied a franchise record with their eighth straight win and a few hours later ended up with the NFL’s best record when New England lost to Seattle.

Prescott’s performance in the fourth quarter of a wild 35-30 win at Pittsburgh stole any of the surprise there might have been with owner and general manager Jerry Jones declaring afterward that Romo would be the backup Sunday at home against Baltimore (5-4).

It will be a few days shy of a year since the last time the 36-year-old Romo was active for a game. And it has been 10 years since Romo, who broke a bone in his back in a preseason game, wasn’t the Dallas starter.

The team’s longest sameseason winning streak since Roger Staubach took Dallas to the Super Bowl 39 years ago makes the decision easy.

“It’s just going with the

and 13 rebounds for the Cyclones (2-0), who’ve won their first two games by an average of 30 points.

“He’s made such great strides. I’m very, very proud of him. But now he’s got to continue to push himself to make the next step,” Prohm said.

Mount St. Mary’s (02) got within 10 early in the second half, but six Cyclones scored during a 15-1 run that put the game out of reach.

Iowa State outrebound-

ed Mount St. Mary’s 50-38, but it also shot an uncharacteristic 4 of 16 from 3-point range.

Nick Weiler-Babb scored 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting and pulled down five rebounds for the Cyclones.

“It was a win. It probably wasn’t our best performance offensively. At times defensively also,” Morris said.

Elijah Long, the brother of Iowa State’s Naz MitrouLong, had 19 points to lead the Mountaineers.

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Bears fading into final home game unranked WA C O ( A P ) — This is not how Baylor seniors wanted to be preparing for their final home game on the banks of the Brazos River.

There is the three-game losing streak that has the Bears unranked for the first time in three years.

Starting quarterback Seth Russell will soon have surgery after a gruesome left ankle injury.

And there is no longer the chance of a third Big

12 title in four years.

“I’m going to go out to practice tomorrow like my hair is on fire,” senior cornerback Ryan Reid said Monday. “We have to get this team going. We have to get this win. We have to.”

As freshman receiver and now part-time running back Blake Lynch put it: “Mindset? Get back on the right track. Win.” The Bears (6-3, 3-3

Big 12), who have gone a month since their last victory that got them to 6-0 and bowl eligible, play their home finale Saturday against Kansas State (5-4, 3-3).

Before Russell got hurt in the third quarter of a 45-24 loss at Big 12-leading Oklahoma on Saturday, the Bears had consecutive losses that followed off-field distractions before the game.

obvious,” Jones said. “I get asked about it every time I open my mouth. It’s not hard. It’s not hard at all. Tony would make the same decision.”

Prescott directed two 75-yard touchdown drives in the fourth quarter with the Cowboys (8-1) trailing the Steelers by a point each time. While fellow standout rookie Ezekiel Elliott finished both with touchdown runs, Prescott made several big throws.

On the winning drive that started with 42 seconds left after the Steelers went ahead, Prescott completed a 13-yarder to Jason Witten one play before another completion to the tight end ended with a facemask penalty that put the Cowboys in field-goal range before Elliott’s winning run with 9 seconds remaining.

Dallas trailed most of the game in part because of a lost fumble by Prescott early.

“That’s one of the most important parts of that position is to be able to handle the adversity of it,” coach Jason Garrett said.

“From series to series, from

quarter to quarter, half to half and throughout the ballgame, you’ve just got to keep banging away.”

Elliott’s numbers are getting more attention because he’s the NFL rushing leader (1,005 yards) and has a shot at Eric Dickerson’s rookie record (1,808 yards in 1983). But Prescott is completing 67 percent of his passes with 14 touchdowns and two interceptions.

The 23-year-old from Mississippi State — a fourth-round pick after the Cowboys couldn’t pull of a trade for Paxton Lynch, who went to Denver in the first round — has road wins over a pair of Super Bowl champions in Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger.

And Prescott essentially outdueled Roethlisberger, who threw for 408 yards and executed a fake-spike touchdown pass to put the Steelers ahead in the final minute.

“You see what a veteran quarterback can do,” Jones said. “But you also see what Dak can do. That was a pretty nice little template to look at right there.”

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — UConn’s winning streak remains alive, just barely.

Napheesa Collier scored 28 points and had a big block down in the final few seconds to lead the third-ranked Huskies to a 78-76 win over No. 12 Florida State on Monday night. UConn extended its winning streak to 76 games, the third longest streak in college basketball history.

Florida State had a chance to beat the third-ranked Huskies at the end, but Imani Wright’s 3-pointer was short allowing the four-time defending national champions to hold on in their opener.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The beginning of the game might have been a challenge for Tech, but Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said the offense’s performance in the beginning of the game did not have a mental effect on the players.

He said the players stuck with it and continued to fight to stay in the game.

“I thought nobody got frustrated,” Kingsbury said. “We went three-andout the first three drives, which I don't think I've ever done as a play caller since I've been calling plays. And nobody freaked out. Everybody hung in there and got it figured out and kept battling the rest of the day.”

Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II passed for 154 yards and three touchdowns at the end of the half. At the end of the game, Mahomes completed 34 passes on 51 attempts for 361 yards and three touchdowns.

Oklahoma State was well prepared, coming into the matchup on Saturday, Mahomes said, and it took him a while to get comfortable in his game and see the gaps.

“They just had a good game plan coming in,” Mahomes said. “And it just took a little bit to kind of see where those holes

were. And a lot of it was me not just trusting in those.

The windows weren't big.

I have to trust in myself and my receivers to throw them in there, and the receivers have to make some tough catches.”

Throughout the game, Te c h r e c e i v e r s d r o p p e d passes on key plays.

Sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Giles said the couple of balls he dropped were on him. He said he needs to work on his game to make it perfect so that dropped balls do not become a normal occurrence.

In the second quarter, Giles passed the 1,000 receiving-yard mark and finished the game with five catches for 94 yards, giving him a total of 1,076 yards this season, according to Tech Athletics.

“I think it was just bad execution, especially on my part,” Giles said. “I think I had three drops, which is not an excuse. I just got to work harder, stay late, catch more balls in practice.”

Tech’s game plan was a little different this time around than in the previous games, Mahomes said.

The way Oklahoma State was set up did not allow Mahomes to scramble as often because there were a number of players in the back that limited Tech’s ability to become open.

“Yeah, we had a better

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Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II looks down the field for the pass opportunity during the Red Raiders’ game against Oklahoma State on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. game plan, I feel like,” Mahomes said. “Going into it, coach Kingsbury told me to take the little ones quick and don't try to make (something happen), scramble around, because they have eight guys back there, not a lot of stuff is going to get open. So, just take those under, take those stops, and it worked out well.”

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While Tech improved its game offensively as the game progressed, it was not enough to win the game.

Giles said Tech’s inability to finish all the way through is frustrating to him, but the loss was not based entirely on one person’s performance.

“It is frustrating,” Giles said. “It’s very frustrating,

but the thing we saw on film was that it was bad execution as a whole. It wasn’t just one person.”

Senior offensive lineman Baylen Brown said he feels optimistic going to the next game against Iowa State.

He said the players are looking forward to and working every day toward

appearing in a bowl game.

“You just got to know that you got to fight every game,” Brown said. “It doesn’t always go our way.

We always have next week.

Right now, our mentality is that we got two more games to get to a bowl game. We got to fight every day, every play to win a game.” @A_HernandezDT

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Michael Barden named Big 12 After suspension, Mack powers Special Teams Player of Week No. 23 Texas over ULM 80-59 During Tech’s 45-44 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday, sophomore punter Michael Barden recovered his own onside kick and threw a 15-yard pass off a fake punt.

For his performance, Barden was named the Big 12 Special Teams Player of

the Week on Monday. Barden is the first Red Raider to be named special teams player of the week since former Tech and now Miami Dolphins receiver Jakeem Grant, who earned the award last year, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Grant had earned the

award for returning a kickoff for 100 yards for a touchdown against Oklahoma State.

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AUSTIN (AP) — Tevin Mack returned from a onegame suspension with 14 points as No. 23 Texas used a big second half to roll over Louisiana-Monroe 80-59 on Monday night.

The Longhorns were back to full strength with the return of Mack and guard Kerwin Roach Jr., giving Texas

(2-0) some of the muscle, speed and depth it lacked in a sloppy season-opening win over Incarnate Word.

Louisiana-Monroe (1-1) cut Texas’ lead to 46-40 on a 3-pointer from Jordan Harris before the Longhorns responded with a 16-4 run.

Kendal Yancey scored five straight points, made a

3-pointer and threw down a dunk in transition that made it 62-44 with just under 8 minutes left.

Mack and Roach sat out the first game because of an offseason rules violation.

Neither player started Monday night, but both were on the court within minutes after the opening tip.

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Kalani leads No. 2 Baylor women Harden’s big first propels Rockets with 25 points to beat No. 9 UCLA over Sixers on Monday, 115-88 WACO (AP) — Kalani Brown is 20 pounds lighter this season, and Baylor’s 6-foot-7 sophomore post player is moving smoothly up and down the court. And she’s dominating on both ends for the second-ranked Lady Bears.

Brown set career highs with 25 points, 19 rebounds and six assists and Baylor took over after halftime on way to an 84-70 victory over ninth-ranked UCLA on Monday night.

“My game is elevated,” said Brown, the Louisiana native who said she ate healthier and worked extra throughout the offseason.

“Being able to take off getting my second wind, it feels really good.”

UCLA coach Cori Close put it simply: “Kalani Brown

was a hand full.”

Baylor had trailed 48-41 at halftime, but got even in the first 2 minutes of the third quarter. Alexis Prince hit a 3-pointer before Alexis Jones and Brown each had baskets, and assisted each other.

Up by only two going to the fourth quarter, a layup by Jones soon after that started a 14-0 run over a 5-minute span for the Lady Bears (2-0). That spurt included a 13-foot straight-up jumper for Brown, who finished 12of-15 shooting.

Asked if it was the kind of overall game she expected of Brown, who also matched her career high with five blocked shots, Baylor coach Kim Mulkey responded, “Yes, quite frankly. ... Kalani was one of the guys in the Oregon

State game at the end of the year that wasn’t afraid to get in there and bang with you.

Yeah, that’s why she stayed on the floor.”

Jordin Canada led UCLA (1-1) with 23 points, while Monique Billings had 16 points with 10 rebounds.

Kari Korver had 13 points.

Preseason All-America forward Nina Davis, Prince and Jones each had 15 points for Baylor. All played the entire second half, when Baylor outscored UCLA 43-22, and Kristy Wallace played the entire game.

“Our defense, not only picked it up in intensity, we just had positioning where we were smarter,” Mulkey said. “And I just think that you went with the most experienced, veteran players that could produce in a big game.”

HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 23 of his 33 points in the first quarter, and the Houston Rockets cruised to a 115-88 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

Harden, who posted a triple-double in his last two games, added nine assists and seven rebounds.

The Rockets had a threepoint lead with five minutes left in the first quarter when Harden took over, scoring all of Houston’s points in a 17-9 run to make it 35-24.

Harden, who was named Western Conference Player of the Week on Monday, made a pair of 3s, all three shots after being fouled on a 3-pointer and a nifty reverse layup in that span.

He made each of the eight shots he attempted in the

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NOV. 15, 2016

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Tech hosts North Texas in midweek game

By TOBIAS BASS Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Red Raiders take on the North Texas Mean Green at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. The game will also be Hispanic Heritage Night.

Tech has not played the Mean Green since the 2010-2011 season, when Tech lost in overtime, 92-83, in Denton.

Last season, the Mean Green finished with a record of 12-20, with a 7-11 Conference USA record, but it looks to improve the record this season.

North Texas brings back its top three scorers from last season in Jeremy Combs, J-Mychal Reese and Deckie Johnson, all of whom averaged 14 points per game.

Both teams started off the 2016-2017 season by winning their season openers at home.

The Tech defeated the Huskies, 93-67, led by junior guard Keenan Evans’ 28 points.

“Just overall, coach Beard and the staff are helping us understand the offense,” Evans said. “Last year, I felt like it could be anybody’s night, and this year, I feel like there is an even bigger chance to be anybody’s night.”

Tech also had five players in double figures and 20 as-

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Texas Tech junior guard Keenan Evans defends his opponent during Tech’s 93-67 win over the Houston Baptist Huskies on Friday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Evans scored 28 points during the game. sists on 33 baskets.

“It was a nice balance (Friday night) with five guys in double figures. Everyone contributed in the game.” Tech

coach Chris Beard said. “This should be a fun team to coach because we have a lot of experienced individual players.”

Despite the Red Raiders’ win,

they will need to clean up their turnovers and foul count before Tuesday’s game, Beard said.

The team needs to start making plays as individuals,

Beard said.

“Too many turnovers, too many fouls, we just got to continue to get better,” Beard said. “I thought we were just

trying too hard in the first half, especially defensively.

There’s an effectiveness to patient defense. People associate patience with offensive basketball, but on defense you have to be patient.”

The Red Raiders also need to improve their free-throw shooting, Beard said. They shot 69 percent in the first game against Houston Baptist.

Another weapon for the Red Raiders in their first game was the three-point shot. They shot 10 for 17 from the 3-point line.

Evans contributed the most from behind the arc by making all five of his 3-point attempts.

“The 3-point shot was a real weapon,” Beard said. “That’s not something you can always depend on every night. But I’ll say this: I think there’s a relationship between work and shooting.”

The Mean Green defeated the Sul Ross State Lobos, 85-77, led by Johnson who scored 24 points.

Both teams will look to gain their second win of the season. For the Mean Green, it will return home to host Drexel on Sunday.

The Red Raiders will stay at home to host Eastern Kentucky at noon Saturday in the Cancun Challenge Regional Round. @TheDT_Sports

FOOTBALL

Murphy announces departure Texas Tech sophomore offensive lineman Justin Murphy announced on Monday via Twitter that he will no longer be a member of the football team because of injuries.

The sophomore from Belton was a leader to his teammates, junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II said, and he will be missed.

“This last game we didn’t have Murphy. And, I mean, Murphy’s a great guy, a great leader, and I hated for him

that he had to be gone,” Mahomes said. “But those young guys have stepped up, and they’re playing. And I’m just going to trust in them, try to get the ball out fast, try to help them out a little bit.”

Murphy earned a starting role on offense this season after his 2015 season came to an abrupt end because of a knee injury.

This was Murphy’s second ACL injury in his career at Tech which helped make his decision to retire from football, according to

Tech Athletics.

During the 2015 season, Murphy appeared in five games and started four times at right guard. In his five games, Murphy was a part of the offensive line that allowed just one sack. His season was cut short against Baylor when he suffered an injury and was sidelined for the rest of the season.

This season, Murphy appeared in nine games, until he was injured for the second time after the win over TCU on Oct. 29,

which the Red Raiders won in overtime, 27-24.

When it comes to the remainder of the season, Kingsbury said the team will have to find a way to compete without him on the field.

“Obviously he was a good player for us. Brings good size in there, and we’ll have to move forward,” Kingsbury said.

“We played without him on Saturday and have to keep finding ways to be efficient on offense.” @ABoutwellDT

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Adrian’s first double-double lifts No. 19 WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Nathan Adrian will have to be West Virginia’s best player if the Mountaineers are going to make a deep March

Madness run this season.

Adrian had 15 points and 14 rebounds for his first career double-double, helping No. 19 West Virginia cruise

past Mississippi Valley State 107-66 on Monday night.

“Nate just can’t get hurt,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. “I don’t know

what we’d do without him.

We run everything through him. You watch him and then you watch everybody else, it looks like everybody else has their feet in cement. He wants to win, he wants to do things right.”

Adrian set a career high for rebounds in this one, and his point total was his highest since getting 16 on Dec. 29, 2013 against William & Mary.

“I’m just listening to coach and what he has to teach me and doing the best I can,” the 6-foot-9 forward said. “I don’t expect to be the leading scorer on the team. It doesn’t matter who does. Whoever can score points to help us win the game.”

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