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Lady Vols beat Vandy, support cancer awareness Thomas Duggins Staff Writer In front of a host of pink-clad fans, the Tennessee Lady Vols (20-5, 11-1 SEC) beat visiting Vanderbilt (16-9, 6-6) Sunday evening at Thompson-Boling Arena, 83-64. “Any win is a great win for us,” Tennessee head coach Holly Warlick said. “I thought we fought hard, we had a couple lapse(s), but we got the job done.” Beating Vanderbilt at home is nothing new for the Lady Vols, as they now have an alltime record of 28-0 versus the Commodores in ThompsonBoling Arena. What made Sunday evening’s game unique is that it was the breast cancer awareness game, for which both Vanderbilt and the Lady Vols wore pink uniforms. It was the highest attended Lady Vols game of the year at 14,716 fans. The game carried special meaning for Warlick as she presented her sister, a breast cancer survivor, with an autographed ball before the game. “We’re here raising awareness for breast cancer, and then

when my sister had to battle that, it is difficult and to see her there and to see her, that’s a survivor, I gave her a ball and said she’s my greatest hero,” Warlick said. “As we’re battling a game and we’re concerned about a game, that is a battle of life. We’re going to do all we can to find a cure. Awareness, research, whatever we have to do.” The Lady Vols built a 39-29 halftime lead and were paced by sophomore Ariel Massengale and freshman Jasmine Jones. Massengale and Jones had eight and 10 points respectively in the opening period. Freshman Bashaara Graves and junior Meighan Simmons stepped up in the second half to carry the Lady Vols down the stretch. Graves scored 11 of her 13 points in the closing period and Simmons scored 11 of her 17 points in that same frame. Their efforts helped the Lady Vols maintain distance from the Commodores each time they made a run. “Vanderbilt’s always going to come into Knoxville and try to prove a point, we just had

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The crowd supports ‘Live Pink’ with pink and white shirts during the Lady Vols game on Sunday. to come out there, play twice as hard and give it our all out there on the court,” Simmons said. The Lady Vols had a balanced scoring effort with five players reaching double figures. In addition to Graves’ and Simmons’ efforts, Massengale (14), Jones (12) and Taber Spani (12) all scored in double

figures. As a team, the Lady Vols shot 55 percent from the field. “We had balanced scoring and that’s huge for us offensively,” Warlick said. Although the Lady Vols maintained a double-digit lead for most of the second half, Warlick was not pleased with the Lady Vols’ effort

Golden leads UT past ‘Cats Austin Bornheim

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Kenny Hall celebrates during the Vols’ 30-point thrashing of Kentucky. Hall scored 12 points off the bench in only 17 minutes of play.

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Around the time that Butch Jones starts his makeover of the UT football program in the fall, renovations will also begin on another UT staple. Cumberland Avenue, or the Strip as it is popularly known, is set to undergo a massive revamping beginning in the fall that will take an estimated three to four years to fully complete. “The idea is to shift it from being a ‘through street’ of people using that street to get to points west or east, to a ‘to street,’” Cumberland Avenue project manager Anne Wallace told the student senate in the University Center last week. “We want people coming there, parking their car, getting out and walking around enjoying the shops and other amenities there — then it’s okay if it slows down just a little bit.” Construction will start on Cumberland at 22nd Street going westbound, narrowing the road to two lanes with one going in each direction, and will go down to the Baker Center, which sits between 16th and 17th streets. All the side streets that currently allow only one-way travel will be modified to become two-way streets. “It’s to allow for more pedestrian space, to make a more pleasant pedestrian environment and also to change the shape and the feel of Cumberland Avenue,” Wallace said. The planning process for the project began in 2006 with meetings held on the UT campus discussing the possibility of revamping the street. Seven years later, the actual process is close to beginning, but Wallace acknowledged that the project could cause additional traffic for those who

rely on the street for everyday vehicular travel. “One of the major concerns was just the time that we’ll have delay,” she said, “especially in the afternoon peak.” To compensate, 15 to 20 percent of traffic will be routed to Neyland Drive. Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero was also present at the meeting and spoke up to offer her sympathy to students that may be inconvenienced by the project, which will occur simultaneously with a number of construction endeavors on the UT campus. “We are making every effort for it to go smoothly, but people will be inconvenienced,” Rogero said. “I live in South Knoxville, and the Henley Street Bridge is closed and will continue to be closed for another year, unfortunately. People will be inconvenienced, just like you all are now with the construction. But it’s something that if we live through, the next students in these seats will really be enjoying it.” The remodeled version of the Strip will feature a standing median rather than the current center turn lane, which runs for most of the street’s length. Although that addition will prevent some left turns directly into businesses, it’s all part of the goal of making the Strip more pedestrian friendly. “What we came up with is using a median to direct left-turn movements,” Wallace said. “So you’ll be able to make left turns at all the side streets, but you might not necessarily be able to cross Cumberland Avenue into the McDonald’s location, specifically. You might have to loop the block, use the alley or a side street.” More information on the project can be found online at cumberlandconnections. blogspot.com.

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junior guard Jasmine Lister, who put up 24 points on 9-of21 shooting, including going 5-of-11 from the 3-point range. “As long as I went slow and read the defense I could have got whatever I wanted, if they didn’t close out soon enough I could shoot, if they closed out I could go to the basket,” Lister said.

Renovations on Strip to begin in fall David Cobb

With a 33-point second half lead and thunderous applause raining down from the stands in Thompson-Boling Arena, point guard Trae Golden paced the floor telling the crowd, “I told you.” Kentucky didn’t seem to have been told either as Tennessee dominated the Wildcats from start to finish Saturday afternoon in Knoxville. Kentucky took an early 5-3 lead but it was all Vols after that, culminating in an 88-58 beatdown of the No. 25 team in the country. The 30-point win is the largest margin of victory for the Vols over Kentucky in program history. “Great win,” head coach Cuonzo Martin said. “Guys did a good job of competing out of the gates, from start to finish. Just a tremendous effort on both ends of the floor.” Golden led the way with 24 points and was joined by Jordan McRae (15) and Kenny Hall (12) in double figures. The Vols used a 19-2 run midway through the first half to increase their lead to 22 points by the 7:22 mark, and from there the Wildcats couldn’t recover. The closest UK would get to Tennessee for the remainder of the game was 19. “They went on a few runs where they would score a few baskets, but we did a good job of then being able to get some stops of our own and then hit a basket,” senior Skylar McBee said. Tennessee (14-10, 6-6 SEC) shot an impressive 56.7 percent from the floor in the first half and went into the break leading the Wildcats (17-8, 8-4) by 24. UT’s 50 first half points were the most scored in any half by the Vols this season. “We were playing real well and shots were going for us,” McRae said. “Trae was playing his best ball and it really showed with the way he was able to drive and hit layups.” See MENS RECAP on Page 6

on the defensive end. The Commodores shot 44 percent for the game, including 50 percent in the second half. “I thought at times we got good stops and then we gave up easy drives to the basket. We got to keep getting better,” Warlick said. The Commodores’ lone bright spot was the play of

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THIS DAY IN 1885 — Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

On this day in 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous-and famously controversial-novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Though Twain saw Huck’s story as a kind of sequel to his earlier book, the new novel was far more serious, focusing on the institution of slavery and other aspects of life in the antebellum South. At the book’s heart is the journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on a raft. Jim runs away because he is about to be sold and separated from his wife and children, and Huck goes with him to help him get to Ohio and freedom. Huck narrates the story in his distinctive voice, offering colorful descriptions of the people and places they encounter along the way. The most striking part of the book is its satirical look at racism, religion and other social attitudes of the time. While Jim is strong, brave, generous and wise, many of the white characters are portrayed as violent, stupid or simply selfish, and the naive Huck ends up questioning the hypocritical, unjust nature of society in general. Even in 1885, two decades after the Emancipation Jaylnn Baker • The Daily Beacon Proclamation and the end of Dr. Gene Paterson conducts the UT Concert Choir on Feb. 12 as a part of the Choral the Civil War, The Adventures Arts Concert that also included UT Chamber Singers, a capella groups and area high of Huckleberry Finn landed with a splash. A month after schools. its publication, a Concord, Massachusetts, library banned the book, calling its subject matter “tawdry” and its narrative voice “coarse”

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and “ignorant.” Other libraries followed suit, beginning a controversy that continued long after Twain’s death in 1910. In the 1950s, the book came under fire from AfricanAmerican groups for being racist in its portrayal of black characters, despite the fact that it was seen by many as a strong criticism of racism and slavery. As recently as 1998, an Arizona parent sued her school district, claiming that making Twain’s novel required high school reading made already existing racial tensions even worse. Aside from its controversial nature and its continuing popularity with young readers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been hailed by many serious literary critics as a masterpiece. No less a judge than Ernest Hemingway famously declared that the book marked the beginning of American literature: “There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” 2001 — Dale Earnhardt killed in crash

the Daytona 500 in 1997, when his car flipped upside down on the backstretch. He managed to escape serious injury and went on to win Daytona in 1998, his first and only victory in that race after 20 years of trying. The 200lap, 500-mile Daytona 500, which was first run in 1959 at the newly opened Daytona International Speedway, is one of NASCAR’s premiere events as well as its season opener. Earnhardt, whose father was a race car driver, was born on April 29, 1951, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and dropped out of high school to pursue his own racing career. He went on to become one of NASCAR’s most successful and respected competitors, winning 76 Winston Cup (now known as the Sprint Cup) races in his career and taking home a record seven Cup championships, a feat achieved by just one other driver in his sport, Richard Petty. In addition to his legendary accomplishments as a driver, Earnhardt was also a successful businessman and NASCAR team owner. The 2001 Daytona race which cost Earnhardt his life was won by Michael Waltrip, who drove for Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI). Earnhardt’s son, Dale Jr., also a DEI driver (until 2008, when he began driving for the Hendrick Motorsports team), took second place in the race. Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s death in 2001 made him the fourth NASCAR driver to die within a nine-month period and eventually prompted NASCAR officials to implement a series of more stringent safety regulations, including the use of head-and-neck restraints.

On this day in 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr., considered one of the greatest drivers in National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) history, dies at the age of 49 in a last-lap crash at the 43rd Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Earnhardt was driving his famous black No. 3 Chevrolet and vying for third place when he collided with another car, then crashed into a wall. After being cut from his car, Earnhardt, whose tough, aggressive driving style earned him the nickname “The Intimidator,” was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead of head injuries. — This Day in History is Earnhardt had been courtesy of history.com. involved in another crash at

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UT students meet up for Harlem Shake Emily DeLanzo Managing Editor

RJ Vogt News Editor On Friday, the historic lawn of Ayres Hall was overrun by scantily-clad, masked students bumping and grinding for the production of UT’s Harlem Shake video. The director of the video, Isabel Tipton, led the charge of ridiculous dance moves and charades. Tipton, a sophomore in music and theater, discovered the Harlem Shake with friends after surfing YouTube. The popular Internet meme exploded across pop culture last week, as seemingly every group of people imaginable filmed themselves dancing to the beat by New York producer Baauer. The typical video begins with one person dancing to the song while everyone else in the scene seemingly pays no attention. Then, at the climactic drop of the beat, the video cuts to a scene of wild dancing and even wilder costumes, with all the formerly uninterested participants joining the initial dancer. After watching countless videos of obscure and slightly inappropriate dance moves, Tipton saw an opportunity for UT students. “This campus has a ton of community spirit,” Tipton said. “We knew it would be awesome to get a ton of students together for our own Volunteer take.” Tipton created a Facebook event titled “UT Does the Harlem Shake,” and over 550 students said they planned to attend. Tipton expected far less due to an unexpected downpour of cold rain, but the weather didn’t discourage everyone. More than 200 students braved the dreary weather to star in the video. An Alice in Wonderland, several baseball players and a few spandex-clad students brought new meaning to the phrase “dancing to the beat of your own drum” after the imaginary bass was dropped in front of Ayres. Music wasn’t played, but the students attending knew the general idea and prepared dances beforehand. The instigator dancer was none other than UT’s mascot, Smokey, wearing a bright orange suit. Matt Deyo, a senior in animal science, also decided to wear orange in an effort to showcase his Volunteer spirit. He admitted to honing some of his favorite dance moves before the shoot started. “I looked sexy in my orange halter top and short shorts,” Deyo said. “For the dance, I did a lot of belly-dancing and Gangnam Style.” Many other recent dance trends were showcased, from the dougie to Gangnam to breakdancing. Overall, there seemed to be a lot of pelvic thrusting. “The most memorable moment was when I told

everyone to dance and then everyone went insane,” Tipton said. “I cannot stress enough how impressed I am with the enthusiasm of the people who showed up.” Making a Harlem Shake video without music seemed strange, as it required 200 people to dance with no audi- Students perform the Harlem Shake in front of Ayres Hall on Friday, February 15. ble beat. For Deyo, however, the strangeness of production was alleviated by the video’s debut on YouTube. At the time of printing, the video had been viewed more than 37,000 times. “Actually making the video wasn’t too exciting because there was no music to dance to, but after seeing the final product I was happy to see how perfect it turned out,” Deyo said. To find the final product, people can search “University of Tennessee does the Harlem Shake” on YouTube. Other popular UT versions include those made by the men’s swim team, Hess Hall, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and another by the student section at Saturday’s men’s basketball game against Kentucky. Former UT standout Tobias Harris, a current forward for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, cameoed as the initial dancer.

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Views Volunteered Feminism not adequately represented in term Katy Perry has become the most recent female in a rapid succession of popular media stars who has openly announced that she is not a feminist. She stated, “I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.” Something in our culture has made it terrifyingly negative to state that you are a feminist. Suzanne Venker of Fox News has all but declared warfare against feminism, citing it as destroying marriage and ruining the happiness of women. An interesting fact about these women’s apparent dislike is that both have benefited significantly from feminist principles. Katy Perry has the power to control her monetary gains as well as having negotiation power in her recent divorce with Russell Brand. Suzanne Venker is a successful author who voices her opinion on various matters to an international audience — she has a sizable income and career of her own for someone who repeatedly encourages women to leave their jobs and watch their children instead. The simple fact that Venker is able to voice her opinion, even if it is against feminism, demonstrates that the feminist movement of pushing for the perspectives and opinions of women to be heard has assisted her in her career. Women everywhere who have benefited and are benefiting from feminism every day openly oppose and denounce it. “Feminism” has become an unspeakable and negative word. Not only does this dislike have little to do with the actual principles of feminism when properly understood, it is encouraged by a historical, purposeful misrepresentation of feminism. Throughout history, cultural and economic forces have been fundamentally opposed to feminism, and have had a vested interest

in giving the movement a bad name. One example of these deliberate attempts to discredit feminism is the “bra-burner” moniker often given to feminists, supposedly as an allusion to feminist protesters in the 1970s who literally burned bras. In fact, according to NPR, bra-burning was entirely invented by journalists in an attempt to make feminists appear more radical, and to associate them with their draft card-burning contemporaries as a threat to patriotism. As suggested by this example, this type of press has dogged feminism since its inception. Many of the negative connotations that continue to surround the word “feminism” are merely echoes of these past negative associations. However, it is important to note that the forces that incentivize the marginalization of feminism have not gone away in the 21st century. Large portions of society still have a vested interest in keeping feminism unattractive to modern women. This serves to keep these connotations from dying away. Some activists for gender equality have suggested abandoning the word “feminist” altogether and choosing a different one to shed the term’s historical baggage. The true solution, however, is to question the negative connotations while preserving the word that has meant so much to so many people. The fact that feminism has been such a powerful movement as to inspire blowback from the system it challenges is a testament to the strength of the word, not a reason to abandon it. —Lisa Dicker is a junior in political science. She can be reached at ldicker@utk.edu. Kathleen Connelly is a junior in philosophy and contributed to this column.

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Julia Ross I think by now it is clear that the “Big Orange, Big Ideas,” no matter how beautifully branded, has not won over the student body. Surely, this isn’t news. Derogatory Twitter accounts like @TheBigOrangeScrew and @ TheJimmyCheek together have more than 1,600 followers. “Big Orange, Bad Ideas,” is, if not a clever phrase, a rather common one, and as we all know, the sign itself was stolen last month and hung upside down on the side of the Clarence Brown Theatre. “Big Orange, Big Ideas,” through no fault of its own, has come to be associated with tuition hikes, the poorly-designed 120-hour HOPE cap, a number of poorly-timed fire drills, bad football, inconvenient construction projects, too many emails, and parking tickets. Most of the conditions students complain about -- the weather, parking, bad advising, and so on -- could be improved through a little effort on our part or could otherwise be written off as unlucky. We are young; we are resilient. Those things are not real issues. However, if students think “Big Orange, Big Ideas” is ridiculous, it is no fault of our own. In fact, of all the things for which we blame the administration, this might be the only one of which they are actually at fault. The university has decided that holistic improvement throughout campus, not simply in undergraduate education, is the best path toward the Top 25 goal. This is very well and good, except that the metrics they have decided to focus on in undergraduate education actually have little to do with how undergraduates perceive their education and everything to do with how higher education officials rate undergraduate programs. So while the three point gain in our six year graduation rate might help us rise in the rankings, it will not

inspire the cultural change that would lead to students buying into not only the “Big Orange,” but their responsibility to use their own intellect and the resources available on this campus to generate big, world-improving ideas. Part of the problem is that “Big Orange,” which we all associate with our university’s athletics, comes before “Big Ideas,” the academic component of the university. Though athletics are a financial help, and our student athletes and their coaches are wonderful individuals and we should all be proud of their accomplishments, this is a university. Until Chancellor Cheek stops doing things like talking about the football program when addressing Haslam Scholar finalists, UT as a whole is going to continue to struggle to recognize academic and creative achievement on the same level as athletic achievement. “Big Ideas” will remain a joke. It would be a gross over-simplification, however, to say that the importance placed on athletics at UT is the reason the slogan and the Top 25 challenge are jokes within the student body. The fact of the matter is that, although the university is hiring more lecturers and allotting more money to research, students are not experiencing a more rigorous academic environment. In my experience and in that of many of my peers, we have not being asked to perform at a high level in the classroom. We came to this university to get an education that would add value to our lives and our resumes, and somehow, despite the big talk and the big signs, our experience has fallen short. Until academic rigor becomes a priority on this campus, students will not feel ownership over “Big Orange, Big Ideas.” It is the responsibility of the administration to incentivize their professors to raise the bar, so it is also the fault of the administration if “Big Orange, Big Ideas” remains ridiculous. —Julia Ross is a sophomore in microbiology and political science. She can be reached at jross26@utk.edu

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Kayla Graham One of the most beautiful parts of life has to be when an absolutely unexpected but awesome thing happens. After a ridiculously long, major assignment-laden week, I wasn’t expecting much out of this weekend. I hoped for the UT versus Kentucky game to pass quietly. I had hopes for a victory of course, by any margin. So many people had trash-talked our team over the last few weeks when I brought up this game, but my relentless belief in the team never failed. Sometimes, it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when your favorite team has had a bumpy season. That light can be revealed little by little when you attend a game such as the one we had in Thompson-Boling Arena this weekend. Sports can have an interesting impact on the human psyche. Some people couldn’t care less, but other people, like myself, return to some sort of primitive state. I’ve been lucky to have had several conversations with one of the men’s assistant coaches. I’ve also talked to several players in passing, and every time I can’t help but tell them how much faith I have in them. Win or lose, they’re always going to have a fan in me. Having that somewhat personal connection to the team definitely causes me to feel a lot more involved while I’m watching a game. We might not be a basketball school, but I wished more people on campus realized what a great program we have under Coach Martin. There’s also this fascinating aspect of sports

that brings in kids. For the most part, proleague stars find most of their stardom during college. In order to gain a fan base, they have to really produce and prove themselves as individuals. From there, students, alumni and general fans spread the word about how a certain player is performing and this huge network is created, with both a negative and positive side that eventually developed. I happened to be in the store in the UC last week, trying to find a sweet deal for one of my nephews’ birthdays and I found a Tobias Harris jersey on sale. How perfect, I thought. This kid was known as “all business” and now he’s a professional player. As someone trying to be a role model to my nephew, I thought about how great it would be to tell him Harris’ story. Hopefully, he will love it and find a little inspiration from it. That’s the beauty of sports: the possibility of inspiration. Sports can take kids out of the projects, out of bad family situations. They can create an entire fan base, which, in turn, manages to keep a whole city (like Knoxville) from feeling the worst of the most recent recession with their continual input into the local economy. Sports can be riveting. They can give you a reason to get out of your chair and scream at the top of your lungs. They can give you a reason to take a little pride in where you are or where you are from. Please go to a basketball game and stay the whole time. Traffic’s going to be bad no matter how early you leave. Support both of our basketball teams. They are both made up of a bunch of fighters who are playing a game they love. Love them back for it. —Kayla Graham is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at kgraham7@ utk.edu.

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New ‘Die Hard’ disappoints fans My Morning Jacket frontman Preston Peeden Associate Editor In some form, movies are meant to be representations of real life. They’re supposed to show the love, hate and fear that people experience outside of the theater’s four walls. “A Good Day to Die Hard� accomplishes this feat, just not in the artistic representation of the human condition kind of way, but rather the wow-thatguy-really-needs-to-retire-or-atleast-do-something-new way, much like public opinion toward Brett Favre, Ron Paul and Jose Canseco has been in the past decade. In his fifth turn as the tough guy New York detective John McClane, the aging Bruce Willis headlines this flimsy action flick with support from the Australian Jai Courtney (as a side note, why are all Australian actors incredibly muscular? Is there something in the water Down Under that churns out incredibly buff men who, though they can’t carry a scene, can tote a machine gun) as McClane’s estranged son Jack. The plot is as simple as the dialogue. The elder McClane hasn’t seen his son in over three years, and when he gets wind of his incarceration in a Russian prison for murder he immediately jumps on a plane to Moscow to try and plead for his son’s freedom. From there McClane realizes that his son is not a burnout loser, but instead a “super spy� working for the CIA on a long-term undercover mission to gain the confidence of an incarcerated whistleblower who has invaluable information on a seedy Russian politician’s

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debuts unique solo album Spencer Hall Staff Writer Far too many artists reach a point in their career where they’re content with their success and put out a mediocre album every few years; but then again, few artists are as ambitious as Jim James. After over a decade of success with his band, My Morning Jacket, James has set out on the next chapter in his career by releasing his solo debut album, “Regions of Light and Sound of God.� As the front man of one of rock’s most ambitious bands, James has always tried to push his artistic abilities to the limit. “Regions of Light and Sound of God� may be his solo debut, but it is not the first time he has set himself apart from the My Morning Jacket threshold. Performing under the pseudonym Yim Yames and as a founding member of the folk super-group Monsters of Folk, James has gained the reputation as one of folk rock’s most dimensional artists in the business. Just as Jack White has done in the past year with his first solo album, “Blunderbuss,� “Regions of Light and Sound of God� gives James the opportunity to build on his already distinct style in a fresh new way. By going solo, James has the ability to showcase a collection of songs more personal than ever before. Similar to past My Morning

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Monday, February 18, 2013 Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell

SPORTS Vols take success in stride

Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor On Saturday, Tennessee dismantled Kentucky in front of a crowd of over 21,000 and a national audience on CBS. The 88-58 victory was the largest margin Tennessee has beaten UK by in the history of the series. Both teams are on shaky ground when it comes to qualifying for the NCAA Tournament but are going in opposite directions. UK is down Nerlens Noel – who injured his ACL against Florida last week – and is struggling to survive the remainder of the season. Three weeks ago Tennessee was abysmal to watch. They lost at Alabama, won backto-back games by one point, then lost at Arkansas and at

home to Georgia. They failed to break 60 points three times during the five game stretch, too. But with three weeks left in regular season, the Volunteers are starting to play their best basketball of the year. “This is Tennessee basketball at the level we expect it to be,” head coach Cuonzo Martin said. To the Volunteers’ credit, they have stuck it out and things are turning around. “It was tough at times,” Trae Golden said. “We weren’t playing well, I wasn’t playing well. It was hard coming to practice each day, but we told ourselves to stick with it and see where we go. And now here we are.” Sticking with the process of playing solid defense and hard-nosed offense, Tennessee has seen the payoff the last few games. They’ve reeled off three straight wins – including the first two true road wins of the year – and playermakers are starting to live up to their potential. “Now we have guys playing as advertised,” Martin said. Golden is playing as well

offensively during this stretch than he has at any point during the year, Jordan McRae continues to score the basketball consistently, and Jarnell Stokes is dominating opposing forwards in the paint. For the first time all season the players that Martin and the Vols rely on are all producing at the same time. And these are the results. Tennessee might be on the outside looking in at the tournament field when the committee makes their decisions, but the team is hardly concerned with that. They are approaching the recent success the same way they took on their early season struggles, by working each day to continue to improve and grow. “It’s a great win but we still have work to do,” Stokes said. “We’ll be in the gym on Monday preparing for the next game.” — Austin Bornheim is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at abornhei@utk.edu or followed on Twitter at @ABornheim.

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Students taunt the Wildcats with their keys during Saturday’s game.

MEN’S RECAP continued from Page 1 Tennessee extended the lead to as many as 39 points with 2:28 left to play in the game, but Kentucky ended the contest on an 11-2 run to cut the deficit to 30. With the absence of Nerlens Noel in the post, Tennessee dominated Kentucky inside. The Vols outscored UK 40-22 in the paint and out-rebounded the Big Blue 39-21. “When you’re so used to having a guy behind you and you have a breakdown on the perimeter, it’s OK because you have a guy who can block the

shots,” Martin said. “You can’t all of a sudden switch your mind 20-plus games and say ‘OK, he’s not back there,’ and like that you’re down 15, you’re down 20 and that’s the ballgame.” Jarnell Stokes’ streak of sixstraight double-doubles ended as the forward finished with nine points and nine rebounds. That didn’t seem to bother the sophomore forward too much. “I’ll take a 30-point win over a double-double any day. Especially against Kentucky,” Stokes said. The rivalry game got chippy at times with pushing and shoving from both sides. Kentucky saw Willie Cauley-Stein and Archie Goodwin draw technical

fouls as well as assistant coach John Robic’s ejection with 11:17 left in the first half. The Volunteers’ Brandon Lopez was given a technical foul as well. “In a rivalry game things are always going to be a little chippy,” McRae said. “And when you get down by a whole lot you can get upset. It’s basketball though. It happens.” By picking up the program’s 67th win over the Wildcats, the Vols snap a six-game losing streak to UK and now have more wins over Kentucky than any other program in college hoops. Tennessee hosts LSU on Feb. 19 and looks to extend its winning streak to four games. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

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Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Reese paves path to Rocky Top Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer While freshman Derek Reese is just starting to make his name known on Rocky Top, this lanky 6-foot-8 forward has had his ups and downs, such as his stint on the Puerto Rican U19 team and offseason shoulder surgery. As a three-sport letterman (football, track and basketball) at Olympia High School in Orlando, Fla., not to mention a baseball player in middle school, it is obvious that Derek is a natural-born athlete, but he believes that he was built to play the game of basketball. “I always played basketball year-round,” Reese said. “I played it all the time, even during football season. Basketball has always been there and I always just loved it. I guess I was just built for it, I’m 6-foot8, at my size you don’t see to many football players that tall so I decided that I should focus on basketball.” Even though UT is a long way from Reese’s home in Orlando, he said that the team felt like a family and that’s why he wanted to be a Volunteer. “It felt like a family here,” Reese said. “I love coach Martin’s philosophy, that’s the way I was taught, always gotta play hard, always gotta play defense nonstop, and at other schools it didn’t feel like a family, but here it felt like everyone was together. It feels like these are relationships I will have for the rest of my life. It’s not just about basketball, it’s more of a family, and I felt like coach Martin was going to improve me on how to be a better player as well as a better person in life, and that’s what I liked a lot.” Prior to attending Tennessee this fall, Reese was invited to play for the Puerto Rico U19 team (Reese was eligible due to his grandparents Puerto Rican descent) in the 2012 Nike Global Challenge in Washington, D.C. “Before I left to come here, they (the Puerto Rican U19 team) had a tryout in

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Freshman forward Derek Reese shoots a jumper against Xavier on Dec. 29, 2012. Orlando,” Reese said. “At first, when they called me they were like ‘you made the team,’ but they wanted us to come during the summer and practice and I was little iffy because I just got here, I was having so much fun. I was working hard and I didn’t want to miss out on this but coach was telling me that I may never get another chance like this and that made me decide to go, and I’m glad I did because it opened a lot of doors for me.” Reese went on to average 21 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals in the four tournament games and was also named to the International All-Tournament Team. “It was a good feeling, “ Reese said. “It was a dedication to all the hard work I put in and I just had so much fun playing. We only won one game, but I had so much fun and it was a great experience.”

But this year hasn’t been perfect for the freshman. Coming into the season he suffered a torn labrum in his right shoulder that required surgery and forced him to miss the first 10 games of the season. “The rehab was tough,” Reese said. “It was a slow process, the first six weeks I couldn’t write, I couldn’t do anything with my right arm and it was really tough. I just worked hard and I actually came back two months ahead of schedule than I was supposed to.” Reese has come back from the injury to average 4.3 points this season, but as junior guard Jordan McRae said, he’s as good a person off the court as he is on it. “Derek is (a) cool man,” McRae said. “Derek is the kind of guy that if he has five dollars and you ask him for four, he’ll give you all five.”

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