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Monday
Herald-Citizen
The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland
113th Year — No. 8
Weather
Tonight
Cookeville, Tennessee, January 11, 2016
Smithville man arrested after 125-mph chase, crash
Tomorrow
By TRACEY HACKETT
that reached speeds up to 125 mph.
Aubrey Glenn Rigsby, 36, of Bethel
Road in Smithville, was arrested on
ALGOOD — A Smithville man was multiple charges following the inciarrested on Saturday after taking Al- dent.
good police officers on a 35-mile chase According to reports on file by AlHERALD-CITIZEN Staff
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good Police Officer Johnny Cyrus, the
incident began when he noticed the occupants of a black Pontiac Grand Am
acting suspiciously as they pulled in to
Taco Bell.
“The four occupants hid their faces,”
Officer Cyrus reports.
A check on the vehicle’s registration
showed that its owner had previously
been convicted of robbery, and the man
to whom the vehicle was registered reSee CHASE, Page 2
Complete forecast, Page 2
Sports
Holding on
Tech men holding onto
first place in the OVC /B1
Buried treasure
Sisters
charged
with
hitting
woman
with car
Local
cavers
stress
cave care
By LINDSAY
McREYNOLDS
By TRACEY HACKETT
HERALD-CITIZEN Staff
Local
Veterans helped
Group sells handcrafted
pens to aid veterans /A6
Nation
WHITE COUNTY — On private property owned by Lonnie
Carr in White County, east of
Highway 111, is a treasure beneath the wooded surface,
formed by the Calfkiller River.
At 38 discovered miles, Blue
Spring Cave is the longest known
cave in Tennessee, possibly the
9th longest in the United States.
During Sunday’s chilly weather,
Upper Cumberland Grotto President Natasha Moseley along with
UCG members Chuck Sutherland, Brandon Phillips, Stephen
Bryant and his daughter, Carrie
Bryant allowed a member of the
Herald-Citizen staff to tag along
on the trip to the unique cave as
an effort to emphasize the importance of caring for caves.
The common backpacking
mantra of “leave nothing but
footprints” goes a step further
with cavers.
“We don’t even want footprints,” said Sutherland, an environmental science graduate
student at Tennessee Tech, who
wishes to pursue a doctorate in
conservation.
“In any other cave, there would
be trash, cans everywhere,”
Sutherland said. “You have to be
a caver in good standing to even
get in here,” Sutherland said of
Chuck Sutherland
COOKEVILLE — Two sisters
were arrested on Saturday after
reportedly threatening another
woman with a knife and hitting
her with a car.
Ruth Milagros Melendez, 28,
of Cookeville, and Adela Melendez, 22, of Jamestown, were
both charged with aggravated
assault and aggravated burglary
in the incident.
Cookeville Police Officer
Glen Ramsey was dispatched to
a possible disturbance at a Pine
Avenue residence shortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday.
When he arrived, he found
that the Melendez sisters had
fled from the scene, but prior to
that, they had been there and
banged on the door.
“When the door was opened,
the two sisters pushed their way
in,” Officer Ramsey reports.
Adela Melendez had reportedly been brandishing a kitchen
knife upon her entry into the
house and used it to threaten the
resident there.
The two women took the resident’s key fob holding both the
house and car keys, then they
ran back outside and got into a
Silver Nissan car belonging to
Ruth Melendez.
Upper Cumberland Grotto President Natasha Moseley looks at rock formations in
See CARE, Page 2 Cedar Ridge Crystal Cave in Marion County.
See ASSAULT, Page 4
Union fees
Supreme Court to hear
public sector case /A10
Index
Abby............................A6
Calendar......................A4
Crossword ...................A7
Living ..........................A6
Obituaries ...................A5
Buddy Chaffin
Linda Fox
Richard Lee
Glenda Deweese
Winnell Guinn
Sports ..........................B1
Sudoku ........................A7
Weather ......................A2
Traffic stop leads
to multiple charges
after suspect runs
By TRACEY HACKETT
COOKEVILLE — A traffic
violation led to the arrest of a
Cookeville man on multiple
charges on Saturday afternoon.
Randall Casey Dewitte, 31,
of Clay Avenue in Cookeville,
was charged for various offenses in connection with the
incident, include evading arrest, theft and possession of a
firearm by a convicted felon.
According to reports by
Cookeville Police Officer
Heather Marshall, the incident
began on West Broad Street
when she noticed that the tag
on a silver Toyota Solara was
both expired and improperly
displayed.
“I conducted a traffic stop on
the vehicle and identified the
driver as Randall Dewitte,”
she reports.
The officer conducted an initial pat-down and initiated a
records check of the man,
which ultimately found that
Dewitte had been driving on a
revoked license.
Dewitte’s license had reportedly been revoked in Putnam
County for failure to pay
fines.
After the officer’s initial patdown, the man ran from her
and was found later only a
short distance away, behind
some apartments on West
See CHARGES, Page 2
Cold fish
Ty Kernea | Herald-Citizen
Brothers Michael Frost, left, and William Frost spend a cold morning fishing at Cane
Creek Park.
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The Middle Tennessee Woodturners donated $1,360 to the Cookeville Disabled American Veterans, proceeds from
the sale of handcrafted-wooden ballpoint pens. Presenting the donation, from left, are Kenneth Walker, outgoing
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CARE: Cavers stress care,
preservation of area caves
From Page 1
the Blue Spring Cave.
“This cave is in good condition because it
has a good caretaker,” Sutherland said. “The
landowner (Lonnie Carr) is a caver who
cares deeply about this cave.”
During Sunday’s tour of Blue Spring Cave,
Sutherland pointed out a few places where
forms in the cave had been damaged, such
as a small area where the patina had been
broken simply by someone stepping too
hard or departing from the designated path
built by volunteers.
There were few areas of where formations
had been broken, and Sutherland emphasized the importance of “floating” through
the cave, touching as little as possible.
“Don’t touch anything,” Sutherland, who
has been in 237 unique caves, instructed the
group. “Don’t break anything.”
During Sunday’s tour, Stephen Bryant
asked if there is an acceptable etiquette for
building a fire in a cave.
“Yeah, don’t,” Sutherland responded.
Just as crushing the butterfly in Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Sound of Thunder,”
altered the future. Changes, intentional or
not, to the structures of underground world
leave a lasting effect as well in terms of broken formations that aren’t able to be repaired.
“The reason we want to preserve it, if we
don’t make it a priority, formations get broken,” Sutherland said. “We try to prioritize
the preservation of the cave environment as
much as possible. Every person has an impact. We try to minimize that as much as
possible.”
Moseley, who works as an elder abuse investigator for the State of Tennessee with
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Elmore noted that important cave discoveries have been made in recent years, including the majority of the miles within
Blue Spring and Rumbling Falls, which carries some of the water from Fall Creek Falls
under Spencer Mountain.
“One thing people don’t realize is almost
all cavers act as scientists,” Elmore said.
“They’re always collecting information,
pictures, hearsay. It’s a lot different from
other sports. Lately, it’s been more about exploration for me.”
Elmore said White County has more documented caves per square mile than anywhere in the world.
“It takes 50 feet to document one,” said Elmore, who believes there are many more
caves to be discovered.
According to Moseley, Tennessee is home
to more than 10,000 caves with new caves
being discovered regularly.
“Most caves are on private property, and
we always encourage our members to develop a relationship with the landowner before entering a property.”
The Upper Cumberland Grotto is an officially recognized member of the National
Speleological Society, which consists of
10,000 members and 250 grottos or chapters
nationwide. Membership in the UCG is $12
annually, and the group schedules numerous
caving trips each year as well as provides
public education on caring for caves and
volunteers in cave clean up, watershed conservation and cave management.
For more information about caving or cave
conservation, contact the Upper Cumberland Grotto at [email protected] or visit the group’s Facebook
page.
CHARGES:
Traffic stop
leads to
charges
From Page 1
Broad Street.
An inventory of the vehicle Dewitte had been driving incident
to his arrest uncovered a total of
three firearms — two handguns
and one shotgun.
One of those handguns was
found to be stolen.
As a convicted felon, Dewitte is
prohibited from owning and carrying any form of firearm.
He was charged with improper
display of registration, expired
plates, driving on a revoked license, theft, evading arrest and
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Dewitte was transported to the
Putnam County Jail, where he
was booked on a total bond of
$7,000.
He is expected to make his initial appearance in Putnam
County General Sessions Court
today.
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Buddy Pearson
Managing Editor
Adult Protective Services, told the HeraldCitizen that mistreating caves can not only
change the appearance of a cave, but also its
ecology.
“For us, caving is a recreational activity;
however, for many animals, caves act as
their homes.”
Moseley said it’s common to see caves
used as dumping areas.
“Perhaps it’s the out of sight, out of mind
mentality,” Moseley said. “Caves are also
vandalized and even defaced as people have
been known to take Speleothems as souvenirs. I have, on more than one occasion,
come across these treasures for sale at flea
markets or yard sales. Spray paint is also a
huge issue in our area. Writing ‘John Doe
was here,’ is not only unethical behavior but
is also illegal behavior which is being
closely monitored and reported to appropriate law enforcement agencies when found.”
Cave vandalism can be reported to the
Cave Vandalism Deterrence Commission at
(502) 889-1236.
The Upper Cumberland Grotto group encountered another caving group Sunday
who was assisting The Discovery Channel
in filming the cave, next to a ladder that
leads to the original entrance of Blue
Spring. Among that group was Clinton Elmore, a Cookeville native who’s now a
graduate student geologist at East Tennessee
State University, has been a member of the
National Speleological Society since he was
12 years old, but has actually been in commercial caves since he was an infant.
Elmore said more work really needs to be
completed on Blue Spring.
“The water hasn’t been dye traced yet,” Elmore said of Blue Spring Cave. “The
Calfkiller River formed it under the water
From Page 1
sembled the driver, Officer
Cyrus notes.
“After stopping the vehicle on
West Main Street, the driver
was identified as Aubrey
Rigsby, who had a Florida nondriver’s identification,” the officer said.
While the officer performed a
records check, which ultimately found that Rigsby’s license had been suspended, the
man drove away.
“The subject fled in the Pontiac on South Highway 111 at
speeds up to 125 mph,” Officer
Cyrus reports.
During the pursuit, the officer
said he saw “the subject swerve
onto the shoulder around vehicles and almost colliding with
one.”
The pursuit ended when the
suspect vehicle crashed in
White County.
Reportedly, none of the occupants of the vehicle sustained
serious injuries.
Rigsby was charged with
driving on a suspended license,
evading arrest and reckless endangerment in the incident.
He was transported to the Putnam County Jail, where he was
booked on a total bond of
$15,000.
According to information on
his arrest warrants, Rigsby’s
initial appearance in Putnam
County General Sessions Court
is set for Feb. 8.
10 mph.
Tuesday
A 20% chance of
snow. Gradually becoming mostly
sunny. High near
36. Gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear. Low
around 15. NW
wind 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny. High near
35. WNW wind
around 5 mph.
Wednesday Night
Thursday Night
Mostly clear. Low
around 24. SSW
wind around 5
mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, High
near 49. SSW wind
5 to 10 mph.
Partly cloudy. Low
around 34. South
wind around 5 mph.
Friday
A 40% chance of
rain. Mostly cloudy.
High near 53. South
wind 5 to 10 mph.
Readings:
Sunday’s high in Cookeville
was 30, low 11. Sunday’s high
in Monterey was 26, low 2,
with a trace of snow.
Almanac:
Monday is the 11th day of the
year with 355 remaining. The
sun sets at 4:47 p.m. and will
rise at 6:53 a.m. on Tuesday.
The moon is a waxing crescent with 4% of the visible
disc illuminated.
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STATE
Knoxville group works to provide bicycles to everyone
KNOXVILLE (AP) — Learning to ride a bike is
a typical milestone for a child, but not every family
is able to provide a bicycle for their children.
KickStand, an all-volunteer collective, wants to
make sure that every person who wants a bike has
one to use.
The volunteers at KickStand repair bikes that are
donated to their nonprofit organization and distribute them to the community at no cost. Although
they work on all sizes of bicycles, they most commonly restore children’s bikes.
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organizer Paul Laudeman. “It is easily in the hundreds just over the last year.”
Located at 1323 N. Broadway behind the Fourth
United Presbyterian Church at Glenwood, KickStand is at the heart of their community. Group
members are closely involved with neighborhood
events, like the recent Tour de Lights, and cooperate with churches and missions in the area. Working with local organizations like the Boys & Girls
Clubs, Hope House, Bridge Refugee Services, Big
Brothers Big Sisters and YWCA, they are able to
ensure that the bikes and helmets end up in the
hands of deserving children throughout Knoxville.
“The Epilepsy Foundation is a great partner, because they donate bike helmets to us so we can give
one to every child who gets a bike,” says Laudeman.
The bikes that KickStand restores come from donations given by individuals, businesses and
groups. Local bike shops, including the Fountain
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“The great thing about Knoxville is how generous
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“These bikes, most of which would have ended
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LOCAL/NATION
Nation
in Brief
Call for supplies as standoff enters second week
By RICK BOWMER
Associated Press
Playboy Mansion for
sale but Hugh Hefner
wants to stay put
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
Playboy Mansion is up for sale
but longtime resident Hugh
Hefner wants to stay put.
The West Los Angeles estate,
the backdrop of many film
shoots and wild parties, was
listed on Monday for $200 million. Playboy Enterprises says
the 5-acre property features 29
rooms, a home theater, wine
cellar and a swimming pool
with a cave-like grotto where
Playboy bunnies partied with
celebrities. The mansion also
comes with a rare zoo license.
As a condition of the sale,
Playboy founder Hefner would
get to continue living there as
he has since the company
bought the mansion 45 years
ago for just over $1 million.
Playboy CEO Scott Flanders
says the sale would help the
company “reinvest in the transformation of our business.”
Teams to take bottled
water to Flint homes
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police and other state
employees will go door-to-door
in Flint handing out bottled
water, water testing kits and
other resources to families affected by the city’s water crisis.
The state said Sunday that the
water resource teams will go
into Flint neighborhoods beginning Tuesday.
They also will distribute water
filters and replacement cartridges. Officials announced
Saturday that five city fire stations will serve as water resource sites for residents.
Water drawn from the Flint
River leached lead from old
plumbing for months. Testing
in October detected increased
lead levels in residential water
supplies and in children’s
blood. Gov. Rick Snyder last
week declared an emergency in
Flint. Three liaison officers
from the Federal Emergency
Management Administration
also are in Michigan to provide
technical assistance to the state.
Elusive dog finally
captured after 559day team effort
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — A
Vermont dog who was the subject of a 559-day search after
being spooked by a car accident is finally back home with
his owners.
Murphy the golden retriever
had resisted the efforts of
dozens of volunteers to find
him. But he finally walked into
a backyard trap in Waterbury
set for the very purpose of capturing the cagey canine.
Murphy had been missing
since his owner — 25-year-old
Kirstin Campbell of Morrisville — went off the road
and struck a tree in Stowe June
29, 2014. The stunned dog ran
off when he got out of the car.
There have been sightings of
Murphy in Waterbury Center
and game cameras captured his
image, but it wasn’t until Saturday night that the pooch was
caught and reunited with
Campbell.
Federal judge
dismisses naked
violinist's claims
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A
federal judge has dismissed a
nude protester’s claim that police violated his rights by arresting him while he played
violin stark-naked outside the
federal courthouse in Portland.
Matthew T. Mglej of Hillsboro, Oregon, sued the Portland police and the county last
January, seeking $1.1 million
in damages. The 26-year-old
was arrested for indecent exposure in May 2014.
According to The Oregonian,
the judge said Mglej’s nudity
didn’t advance a specific message, so it wasn’t protected by
either the First Amendment or
the state constitution.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The occupation of national wildlife area
by a small, armed group upset
over federal land policies
stretched into its second week as
the mother of the group’s leader
asked supporters to send supplies
- everything from warm blankets
to coffee creamer.
The group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in
Oregon’s high desert country on
Jan. 2 planned no media briefings. It was quiet at the entrance
to the refuge Sunday.
The leader of the occupation,
Ammon Bundy, has repeatedly
rejected calls to leave buildings
at the refuge despite pleas from
the county sheriff, from many
local residents and from Oregon’s governor, among others.
He has said the group will leave
when there is a plan to transfer
control of federal land to locals.
So far, the authorities have not
moved in to remove Bundy’s
group. Ammon Bundy is the son
of rancher Cliven Bundy, who
was involved in a 2014 Nevada
standoff with the government
over grazing rights.
On Saturday, Ammon Bundy’s
mother, Carol Bundy, sent an
email to supporters asking them
to send her son’s group supplies
from a list of more than 80 items,
including sleeping bags, wool
socks, cigarettes, toiletries, food,
coffee and “French Vanilla
Creamer.”
An Oregon state legislator met
Rick Bowmer | AP
Members of the FBI stand guard at the Burns Municipal Airport, Sunday. A small, armed group has been occupying a
remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon since a week earlier to protest federal land use policies.
with the group on Saturday, despite requests from local officials
that he not do so.
Rep. Dallas Heard, a Republican from Roseburg, talked with
the group, The Oregonian re-
ported. Heard’s legislative district is in western Oregon, outside the area where the standoff
is occurring. Rep. Cliff Bentz, the
Republican state representative
whose district includes the
wildlife refuge, told Heard not to
come because it would be “inappropriate.”
Harney County Judge Steven
Grasty, another local official,
says he too advised Bentz against
the visit. Grasty said Bentz and
five other out-of-state elected officials from Washington, Idaho
and Nevada accompanied Heard.
It wasn’t clear who the other
elected officials were.
UCHRA audit reflects improvements, but issues still exist
By LAURA MILITANA
COOKEVILLE — Since 2012, a number of improvements have been reported with the finances at the Upper
Cumberland Human Resource Agency,
according to the agency’s recent audit
performed by Jobe, Hastings and Associates.
It was noted by the auditors that in
2012, there were 15 findings. In 2015,
that number has been reduced to two.
One finding was partially corrected
while the other was a repeated finding.
“Improvements have been made to the
reconciliation controls of the agency,
and it appears that reconciliations are
being performed for all cash accounts,”
the audit, completed in late December
2015, said. “However, cash reconciliations do not appear to have been performed in a timely manner for one of
the agency’s cash accounts, which led
to difficulty reconciling accounts.”
It is recommended that controls should
be in place over cash to prevent the misstatement or misappropriation of cash.
Cash could be misappropriated without
it being discovered by management in a
timely manner, auditors said.
However, improvements should be
made to timeliness and frequency of the
reconciliation process. The bank reconciliations should be reviewed for accuracy and completeness on a timely basis
and should include tests of mechanical
accuracy and tracing items on the reconcilations to the relevant source documents. The composition of reconciling
items should be determined and appropriate follow-up should occur.
Agency officials said that for that one
account, all efforts would be made to
ensure this reconciliation is completed
accurately and timely. All reconciliations are currently being completed accurately and timely.
Another finding is related to payroll
records.
According to the audit, some of the
agency employees’ salaries and wages
that had been charged to more than one
federal award, a federal award and a
non-federal award or an indirect cost
activity and a direct cost activity were
not always properly supported by accurate personnel activity reports or equivalent documentation. Some employees
are paid in advance of time worked and
timesheets are completed in advance of
time worked instead of an after the fact
reflection of time worked. No internal
controls have been designed by
UCRHA to ensure that employees’ time
charged to an activity is only for documented actual time worked.
Controls should be designed to provide reasonable assurance that services
charged to federal awards are in accordance with the applicable cost principles. Failure to adequately follow cost
principles established in OMB Circular
A-87 could result in forfeiture or reduction of federal funds awarded.
Auditors recommend that the agency
should design internal controls to ensure that costs charged to federal programs only include charges for an
employee’s time actually worked on a
particular activity.
In addition, the agency should require
employees whose time is charged to
more than one federal award, a federal
award and a non-federal award or an indirect cost activity and a direct cost activity to keep accurate records of their
actual time worked on each program or
activity in order to charge each grant
the correct amount of costs.
The agency responded by saying that
all employees were paid in arrears by
May 15, 2015.
With all employees being paid behind,
this will enable employees to record
time worked accurately.
Putnam Fire responds to two fires, one under investigation
By TRACEY HACKETT
PUTNAM COUNTY — The
Putnam County Fire Department
responded to fires at two different houses on Saturday.
One of those fires resulted in a
total loss, and the other was a
kitchen fire with minimal damage.
The first happened around 2:30
a.m. on Clemons Ridge Road.
“When we arrived on the
scene, the structure was already
fully involved,” Chief Daryl
Blair told the Herald-Citizen.
In fact, much of the structure
had already collapsed into the
basement when firefighters arrived on the scene, he said.
“We did what we could to try to
get the flames put out and get it
cooled down, but it was a total
loss,” Chief Blair said.
A total of seven firefighters re-
sponded to that call.
“They did a great job, working
under the conditions they encountered,” he said.
No one was at home when the
call of the fire came in, and none
of the responding firefighters
were injured as they responded
to the blaze.
The possible cause of the fire is
still under investigation today.
According to property information, the house was an older
structure that had been built
more than 30 years ago.
The other incident to which the
fire department responded on
Saturday was a kitchen fire.
That call came in around 5:45
p.m. from a home on Edgewood
Drive.
“In that incident, a pot on the
stove had caught fire. They were
able to get in there quickly, remove the pot and get the flames
put out,” Chief Blair said.
The residents there had a
smoke detector that alerted them
to the blaze, he said.
“Smoke detectors work,” the
chief said.
A total of 10 firefighters responded to that incident.
“They did an outstanding job,
and that residence sustained
minimal damage,” Chief Blair
said.
No one was injured in that
blaze either.
ASSAULT: Sisters charged with striking woman with a car
From Page 1
The officer reports that the woman had
followed the two sisters out of the
house, trying to get her keys back.
“When the car started to move, she got
onto the sidewalk, and the car being
driven by Ruth [Melendez] came up on
the sidewalk,” Officer Ramsey reports.
That car struck the victim and knocked
her to the ground.
Although the victim was reportedly not
seriously injured by that incident, the
officer reports that she did sustain some
scrapes and bruises.
A witness told police that it appeared
that the driver of the car had intentionally directed the vehicle toward the vic-
tim before driving away.
That vehicle was later stopped by Officer Dustin Hensley on Breeding Avenue.
“The key fob with the car key and
house key, which was taken from [the]
residence was found in Ruth’s car,” Officer Ramsey reports.
The two sisters were arrested.
Each was charged with one count of
aggravated assault and aggravated burglary.
They were transported to the Putnam
County Jail, where they were each
booked on a total bond of $5,000.
Their initial appearance in Putnam
County General Sessions Court has been
scheduled for Feb. 8.
Community Calendar
The Community Calendar
is a daily list of announcements of one-time events
hosted by nonprofit groups.
To include your information,
call 526-9715 and ask for the
newsroom secretary, fax 5261209 or email [email protected]. Be sure to
include your name and number as well as a time, date
and location of the event.
Jan. 12
CAREGIVER:
The
UCDD/Area Agency on Aging
and Disability (AAAD) will
hold its caregiver support
group meeting on Tuesday
from 10-11 a.m., at 1225 S.
Willow Ave., Cookeville. The
meeting is for anyone caring
for another individual. There
will be professional counseling
available. For more info., call
(931) 432-4111.
Jan. 13
PRIMARY CARE: The
Upper Cumberland Primary
Care Project Board will meet
on Wednesday at noon, at the
U.C. Regional Health Center
in Cookeville.
BUFFALO VALLEY: The
January birthday party at Buffalo Valley Community Center
will be held on Wednesday.
Soup and sandwich lunch will
be provided by the library staff
at noon. This is a potluck, so
bring a dish and join us. For
info., call 858-1403.
JOB FAIR: United Way of
Wilson County and the Upper
Cumberland hosts White
County job fair on Wednesday
from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Sparta
Civic Center, 514 Bockman
Way, Sparta. Free for employers as well as the community.
No registration necessary to attend. To reserve a table, contact Mistie Ragland at (931)
409-0386
or
email
at
[email protected].
Jan. 14
PEO: P.E.O. Chapter L will
meet on Thursday at 10 a.m., at
First Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
Jan. 16
BOOK SIGNING: A book
signing for Lisa D. Wheeler’s
Christian children’s book,
“The Angel Baby,” will be held
from 1-3 p.m. at Poet’s Coffee
at 230 E Broad St. in
Cookeville.
Jan. 18
HEAD
START:
The
L.B.J.&C. Development Corporation Head Start Centers
and the Central Office will be
closed Monday in observance
of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Jan. 20
PEO: P.E.O. Chapter AO
meets on Wednesday at 9:30
a.m., at First Tennessee Bank,
345 S. Jefferson, 4th floor.
Jan. 21
TTU INTERNATIONAL:
TTU’s International Friends is
hosting its annual Hot Cider
Social on Thursday, Jan. 21,
from 5-7 p.m. in room 145 of
Southwest Hall (200 West 10th
Street, Cookeville). This event
allows students from TTU’s international community to meet
families and individuals from
the local community. For more
info.,contact Debbie Barnard
at
931-349-0165
or
[email protected].
LOCAL/NATION
Nation
in Brief
Ringling circus elephants to retire in May
By TAMARA LUSH
Dozens of Detroit
schools close due
to teacher protest
DETROIT (AP) — A wave
of teacher absences described by an activist as
“rolling strikes” shut down
more than half of Detroit’s
100 public schools Monday,
keeping thousands of students at home as a so-called
sick-out entered a second
week.
A handful of high schools
were forced to close last
week due to teachers calling
in sick.
But the action Monday was
more dramatic as more
teachers stayed home.
The Detroit district with
46,000 students has been in
turmoil, struggling with millions of dollars in debt, poor
morale among staff and families that have other school
choices for their kids.
Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, wants to pay off
the debt and spin off a new
district, but he lacks support
so far in the Legislature.
There are no ongoing negotiations between teachers
and schools, which are run
by a Snyder-appointee,
emergency manager Darnell
Earley.
“We understand and share
their frustration,” Earley
said in a statement, referring
to teachers.
But the absences make it
“more challenging” to reach
a political solution with
state lawmakers in the Capitol, he said.
A teacher and former union
president, Steve Conn, said
the shutdowns were “great.”
He warned the district Sunday that parents needed to
be notified about the
“rolling strikes.”
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)
— The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending
its elephant acts a year and a half
early, and will retire all of its
touring elephants in May.
The move comes amid increasing scrutiny on circus elephant
acts with local governments
passing “anti-circus” and “antielephant” ordinances in response
to concerns over animal cruelty.
The circus’s parent company,
Feld Entertainment, told The Associated Press exclusively that all
of the iconic elephants will be
permanently retired to the company’s 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central
Florida.
The company announced in
March that it would retire the full
herd to the center by 2018. But
once officials began planning details, they realized “we could actually do this a lot sooner”
because building the needed enclosures and spaces didn’t take as
long as they originally thought,
said Alana Feld, Ringling’s executive vice president and show
producer.
Eleven elephants currently tour
with the circus.
“They’ll be joining the rest of
the herd,” Feld said. She’s part of
the family that owns Feld Entertainment, which owns the largest
herd of Asian elephants in North
America. In addition to the elephants still touring, 29 of the animals are on the property now,
and two are on breeding loans to
zoos, Feld said.
It costs about $65,000 yearly to
care for each elephant, Feld said,
and the company had to build
new structures to house the retir-
Wilfredo Lee | AP
Asian elephants named April, left, and Luna, belonging to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, interact in their
enclosure outside the American Airlines Arena in Miami.
ing elephants at the center, located between Orlando and
Tampa.
Elephant acts have been showcased by Ringling for more than
a century and have often been
featured on its posters.
But because so many cities and
counties have passed “anti-circus” and “anti-elephant” ordinances, it became difficult to
By SHAWN MARSH
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A powder horn
that some experts believe was used by
Alexander Hamilton goes up for auction
Monday on would have been his birthday.
Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury sec-
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Los Angeles Police Chief
Charlie Beck has recommended criminal charges
against an officer who killed
an unarmed homeless man
in Venice.
Beck tells the Los Angeles
Times investigators concluded that Brendon Glenn
was on his stomach, attempting to push himself off
the ground, when Officer
Clifford Proctor fired twice,
hitting the 29-year-old in the
back last May.
Beck says he made his recommendation last month to
Los Angeles County District
Attorney Jackie Lacey, who
will
ultimately
decide
whether to file charges.
Proctor’s attorney says the
officer saw Glenn reaching
for his partner’s gun.
Beck says after reviewing
video, witness accounts and
other evidence, investigators
determined Glenn was not
trying to take either Proctor’s gun or his partner’s
weapon at the time of the
shooting.
Proctor’s partner told investigators he did not know
why the officer opened fire.
Buddy Chaffin
MIAMI (AP) — A Saudi
prisoner at the U.S. base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
who authorities said was a
recruiter and fighter for alQaida has been sent back to
his homeland, the Pentagon
said Monday amid a wave of
releases from the detention
center.
Muhammed Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shamrani
was
among the first prisoners
taken to the U.S. base in
Cuba when it opened in January 2002 to hold suspected
enemy combatants.
Carolina, also nixed wild or exotic animals from performing in
the municipally owned, 7,600seat U.S. Cellular Center.
Ringling’s new show will begin
in July without the giant pachyderms.
“We’re looking at a lot of new
ways of doing things,” Feld said.
She said the retired elephants at
the CEC will also be part of can-
cer research.
Cancer is much less common in
elephants than in humans, even
though the big animals’ bodies
have many more cells.
That’s a paradox known among
scientists, and now researchers
think they may have an explanation — one they say might someday lead to new ways to protect
people from cancer.
Powder horn believed owned by Alexander Hamilton up for bid
LAPD chief
recommends
charges for officer
in Venice shooting
Saudi prisoner at
Guantanamo
released after
14 years
organize tours of three traveling
circuses to 115 cities each year,
Feld Entertainment CEO Kenneth Feld said last year. Fighting
legislation in each jurisdiction is
expensive, he said.
Los Angeles and Oakland prohibited the use of bull-hooks by
elephant trainers and handlers
last April.
The city of Asheville, North
retary and one of the country’s Founding
Fathers, is now the focus of a blockbuster
hip-hop Broadway musical called “Hamilton.” The owner of the powder horn, a
New Jersey dentist, hopes buzz from the
show will help boost bids, which start at
$10,000 at Sterling Associates in Closter,
New Jersey.
“It’s a symbol of hopes and aspirations,
and it’s such a positive symbol of his future,” said Dr. Warren Richman, who
hopes the winning bidder donates it to a
museum.
Richman acquired the horn from a patient in 1990 and spent years trying to document its authenticity and studying its
etchings, which include a unicorn. A descendant, an arms appraiser and a forensic
documents expert said they believe
Hamilton used the engraved piece of cow
horn to carry gunpowder.
It is inscribed with his name and 1773,
the year he entered what today is Columbia University.
Obituaries
COOKEVILLE — Funeral
services for Buddy Chaffin, 79,
of Cookeville, will be held at 11
a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at
Jefferson Avenue
Church of Christ.
Interment will be
in
Cookeville
City Cemetery.
The family will
receive friends
Mr. Chaffin from 5-8 p.m. on
Tuesday, Jan. 12,
and from 9 a.m. until time of
services on Wednesday at the
church, both days.
Mr. Chaffin passed away on
Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at his residence in Cookeville.
Hooper-Huddleston & Horner
Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements, (931) 526-6111.
Smith of Baxter; two brothers,
Roy Wayne (Louise) Cannon of
Sparta and George Calvin
(Treva) Cannon of Baxter; and a
host of nieces and nephews.
In addition to her father, she
was preceded in death by her
husband, Clifford Deweese; and
two brothers, Houston Ray Cannon and Roger Lane Cannon.
Pallbearers were Roy Cannon,
Jr., George David Cannon,
Joseph Ray Cannon, Danny
Manus, Dillon Cannon and LC
Manus.
The family request donations to
Presley Funeral Home to pay for
funeral expenses in lieu of flowers.
You may share your thoughts or
send condolences to the family
by visiting www.presleyfuneralhome.com.
Pastors Fabron Nicholson and
Ron Phillips officiated at the
services.
Professional services provided
by Presley Funeral Home in
Cookeville, (931) 528-1044.
Glenda Irene Deweese
services for Glenda Irene Deweese, 56, of Baxter, were held
at 11 a.m. today, Monday, Jan.
11, from the chapel of Presley
Funeral Home in
Cookeville. Interment followed
in Pleasant View
Cemetery.
Glenda Irene
Deweese passed
away early on
Mrs.
Deweese Friday morning,
Jan. 8, 2016, at
her home following a brief illness.
She was born on Tuesday, Sept.
29, 1959, in Cookeville to Jewell
Marin Dunn Cannon and the late
George Ray Cannon.
Glenda will always be remembered as the family clown and
would make everyone laugh.
She is survived by her mother,
Jewell Marin Dunn Cannon of
Baxter; a sister, Betty Sue (Troy)
Linda Fox
COOKEVILLE — Graveside
services for Linda Fox, 75, of
Baxter, will be held at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, at Shipley
Cemetery in Cookeville.
The family will receive friends
from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan.
12, at Presley Funeral Home in
Cookeville.
Ms. Fox passed away on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at her home in
Baxter.
Presley Funeral Home in
Cookeville is in charge of
Richard “Rick” C. Lee
COOKEVILLE — A memorial service for Richard “Rick” C.
Lee, 68, of Cookeville, will be
held at 4 p.m.
today, Monday,
Jan. 11, at Heavenly
Host
Lutheran Church
of Cookeville.
Pastor Andrew
Mr. Lee
Smith will officiate.
Visitation will follow the service.
A second memorial service will
be held at a later date in Oklahoma with Pastor Alan Fox officiating.
Richard “Rick” C. Lee passed
away peacefully in his sleep on
Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, after
enduring numerous health problems.
He was born March 23, 1947, at
the Navajo Ordnance Depot in
Flagstaff, Ariz., to the late Avery
W. and E. Marie (Woodworth)
Cabbiness.
His family soon moved to Oklahoma. As a child, he was adopted
by Roy Stewart, and a few years
later by John R. Lee, when his
mother remarried. Rick attended
Putnam City High School in
Oklahoma City. He married
Pamela Streck in 1964 and had
three sons. Rick enlisted in the
Marine Corps and served 3 ½
tours in Vietnam as an officer.
Rick enjoyed his work as a firefighter for Warr Acres, Okla., for
several years, and also owned
and operated Richard’s Gun
Shop in Oklahoma. He was later
employed by American Impacts,
and then by BAF Industries, setting up programs for polishing
and restoring vehicle exteriors.
Later, he worked a short time for
Safety-Kleen in Oklahoma City.
Rick married Regina Anne
(Swingen) Lee on his birthday in
1984. He followed Regina to
Tennessee in 1993, when she accepted a job as faculty librarian
at Tennessee Technological University. He was a member of
Heavenly Host Lutheran Church
in Cookeville, Tenn.
Rick continued to do leatherwork for many years at home.
Enjoying the outdoors with
camping, hunting, canoeing, fishing and hiking were some of his
passions. After experiencing
many health issues and mobility
difficulties, he enjoyed traveling,
and watching wildlife, especially
the birds in his backyard. He was
comforted and loved by his
Husky dog for the past 12 years.
Survivors include his wife of
the home; three sons and their
families, Michael Brandon
(Shannon) Lee, Andrew John
Lee I, and Richard Martin (Elke)
Lee, all of Oklahoma; four
grandchildren of Oklahoma,
Tyler Jacob (Amanda) Lee, Andrew John “AJ” Lee, Chandler
Louis Lee and Rebecca Elaine
Lee; one great-grandson, Kayden
Michael Lee; a sister, Sherry
Raina Park; a nephew, Michael
Allen Park of Oklahoma; an aunt,
Wanda Ann “Jenna” Brajdic of
Miami; and two stepnieces,
Christina Townsend and Alesha
Powers.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by two infant grandchildren, Bradley Martin Lee and Victoria Lee; his
uncles, Allen Woodworth,
Clarence Woodworth and Wilbur
Orville (Delores) Woodworth;
and an aunt, Edith (Billy) Woods.
A special thank you to Home
Instead Senior Care, especially
Kelly Lachenmeyer for her outstanding care.
In lieu of flowers, please consider one of the following memorials: Cookeville-Putnam County
Animal Shelter; Heavenly Host
Lutheran Church; or Home Instead Senior Care Foundation.
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Winnell Guinn
services for Winnell Guinn, 86,
of Bloomington Springs, will be
held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday,
Jan. 13, at Presley Funeral Home
in Cookeville.
Burial will be in Michigan at a
later date.
Mr. Guinn passed away on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Cookeville.
Presley Funeral Home in
Cookeville is in charge of
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LIVING
Monday, January 11, 2016
Husband
who
uncovers
wife’s affair
is unsure
how to cope
D
EAR ABBY: Thirty
years ago when I was an
Army officer, my wife
“went crazy.” She had an affair
and wound up getting pregnant.
When I got out of the Army, she
saw the man one time more before we moved and got pregnant
again! We had a child together
later.
When I found out my eldest
son didn’t have the correct
blood type, I confronted her and
she admitted it. I then had all
my children tested and realized
only the last one is mine. I love
the other
two as well
Dear
as my son,
Abby
and I would
not destroy
his or the
other boys’
lives.
My wife
and I had
counseling
and it
helped
some. The
problem is,
Abigail
I feel like
Van Buren
my life has
been destroyed and I don’t know what
to do. — COUNSELING
HELPED ... BUT
DEAR C.H.B.: I assume you
and your wife had joint counseling after you learned about her
repeated infidelities. While your
faith in women may have been
shaken, your life has not been
“destroyed.” Feeling as you do,
it’s time for you to PRIVATELY
discuss your feelings with another licensed mental health
professional. After that, you will
be better equipped to rationally
decide how to move forward.
DEAR ABBY: My sister-inlaw is getting married soon.
Originally, she asked my 4-yearold daughter, “Emma,” to be her
flower girl. Emma was very excited.
A few weeks ago, I asked
when my daughter needed to be
fitted for her dress. My sister-inlaw then informed me they had
chosen my niece to be the
flower girl the day after she
asked Emma. No one ever mentioned it to us.
It was left to me to tell my
daughter, and she was devastated. She still cries about it. I
am holding in so much anger
and hurt that I have been avoiding the family so there won’t be
any fighting close to the “big
day.” Am I wrong to be upset
with my sister-in-law and
mother-in-law for excluding my
little girl and not telling her
themselves? — MIFFED IN
ALABAMA
DEAR MIFFED: No, you’re
not. The way it was handled was
extremely insensitive. Your sister-in-law owes you an explanation for what happened and your
daughter an apology.
DEAR ABBY: I will be receiving some money from a
court settlement soon. Only five
friends were true friends and
stood by me. They assisted me
during the two years I was totally destitute. They all know
I’m involved in a lawsuit and
that I will receive compensation.
My question is, should I tell
them how much I’m getting? I
don’t like to lie, but the idea of
revealing my monetary status
makes me uncomfortable. I
never promised any of them
money, so that’s not an issue. I
will cheerfully compensate
them all for their loyalty in ongoing daily ways.
What should I do or say when
they ask how much I received? I
don’t want to be perceived as
rude. — UNCERTAIN IN THE
SOUTH
DEAR UNCERTAIN: The
amount you will be receiving is
really nobody’s business. It
would not be rude to say that
you’d prefer not to discuss it because it makes you uncomfortable, and change the subject.
6
Iconic singer David Bowie dies at 69
By MESFIN FEKADU
AP Music Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — David Bowie,
the other-worldly musician who broke
pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity,
striking visuals and a genre-spanning
persona he christened Ziggy Stardust,
died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and
had just released a new album.
Bowie, whose hits included “Fame,”
“Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died
“peacefully” and was surrounded by
family, representative Steve Martin said
early Monday. The singer had fought
cancer for 18 months.
Long before alter egos and wild outfits
became commonplace in pop, Bowie set
the music world on its ear with the release of the 1972 album, “The Rise of
Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars,”
which introduced
one of music’s
most famous personas. Ziggy Stardust was a concept
album that imagined a genre-bending rock star from
outer space trying
to make his way in
the music world.
Bowie
The persona — the
red-headed, eyeliner wearing Stardust
— would become an enduring part of his
legacy, and a touchstone for the way entertainers packaged themselves for years
to come.
Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same
day as he released a new album called
“Blackstar.”
“While many of you will share in this
loss, we ask that you respect the family’s
privacy during their time of grief,” said
a statement issued via his social media
accounts. No more details were provided.
The singer, who was born David Jones
in London, came of age in the glam rock
era of the early 1970s. He had a striking
androgynous look in his early days and
was known for changing his appearance
and sounds. After Ziggy Stardust, the
stuttering rock sound of “Changes” gave
way to the disco soul of “Young Americans,” co-written with John Lennon, to
a droning collaboration with Brian Eno
in Berlin that produced “Heroes.”
He had some of his biggest successes
in the early 1980s with the bombastic
“Let’s Dance,” and a massive American
tour. Another one of his definitive songs
was “Under Pressure,” which he
recorded with Queen; Vanilla Ice would
years later infamously use the song’s
hook for his much maligned smash “Ice
Ice Baby.”
“My entire career, I’ve only really
worked with the same subject matter,”
Bowie told The Associated Press in a
2002 interview. “The trousers may
change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with
are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high
points of one’s life.”
At a concert for rescue workers after
the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, his
performance of “Heroes” was a highlight.
“What I’m most proud of is that I can’t
help but notice that I’ve affected the vocabulary of pop music. For me, frankly,
as an artist, that’s the most satisfying
thing for the ego.”
Bowie was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
‘Martian,’ ‘Revenant’ get awards boost
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writers
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The
73rd annual Golden Globes had a few
curveballs up its sleeves, and the biggest
ones weren’t even from acerbic host
Ricky Gervais, who kept the show alive
with his biting quips and takedowns of
the business that the awards were celebrating.
But, instead of just being another
booze-soaked, starry year at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel, Sunday’s bleep-filled ceremony also gave a boost to two films
that have been lingering on the edges of
an undefined award season — the
crowd-pleasing space romp “The Martian” and the brutal frontier epic “The
Revenant,” mere days before the Academy Award nominees are revealed.
Alejandro Inarritu’s “The Revenant”
won awards in the drama category for
best picture and best actor for star
Leonardo DiCaprio, who seems to be on
a path to an Oscar for his portrayal of the
1820s fur trapper Hugh Glass.
Inarritu, whose “Birdman” swept the
Oscars last year, also beat out “The
Martian’s” Ridley Scott for the best director award. “The Martian” did win
best comedy film and best actor in a
comedy for star Matt Damon. The dubious placement of “The Martian” in the
comedy category was a running joke
throughout the evening — even Scott
questioned it as he walked on stage to
accept the best picture award.
But a win is a win, and although this
awards season is far from predetermined, neither “The Martian” nor “The
Revenant” were considered real frontrunners, especially against nominees
like “Spotlight,” “Carol,” “Mad Max:
Fury Road,” and “The Big Short.”
“Spotlight,” the fact-based drama
about The Boston Globe’s investigation
into sex abuses in the Catholic Church
has been the one favorite throughout the
season in both critics and guild awards.
While it is considered a lock for a Best
Picture nomination on Thursday, the
film apparently did not win the favor of
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and received no awards on Sunday.
Adam McKay’s star-studded financial
collapse comedy “The Big Short” also
walked away empty handed, despite
some rising awards momentum lately
with recent Producers Guild and Writers
Guild nominations. Critics darlings
“Carol” and “Mad Max: Fury Road”
were surprisingly shut out as well.
But all will come into focus on Thurs-
AP
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio pose in the press room with the award for best
motion picture - drama for “The Revenant” at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday.
day when Oscar nominees are announced. Voting for Oscar nominations
closed on Friday, but the campaigning
won’t end until the actual ceremony on
Feb. 28. Any added momentum helps,
even if Gervais joked at the start of the
show that the award is “a bit of metal
that some confused old journalist
wanted to give you to meet you in person and take a selfie.”
Gervais’ snark aside, the Golden
Globes have worked for years to shed
an image of eccentric selections made
by a group of little-known international
journalists.
The Globes have instead grown into
one of the most popular award show
broadcasts of the year, thanks to increasingly credible nominees, its trademark relaxed atmosphere and its unique
position as a major awards show that
honors both film and television.
Despite some outliers in the nominee
ranks, the film acting awards went to a
more expected lot. Jennifer Lawrence
won best actress in a comedy for “Joy,”
her third Golden Globe win for a David
O. Russell film, who she thanked effusively in her speech. She also beat out
her friend Amy Schumer in the category.
“She’s gonna be fine,” Lawrence said
backstage. “She’s funny and hilarious
and will win many things.”
In what is probably the year’s most
competitive category, best actress in a
drama, Brie Larson won out over Cate
Blanchett (“Carol”) and Saoirse Ronan
(“Brooklyn”) for her affecting performance as a woman in captivity in
“Room.” Last year’s winner Julianne
Moore (“Still Alice”) went on to win the
Oscar as well.
Awards race dark horse “Steve Jobs”
also got some love on Sunday with wins
for Kate Winslet, for best supporting actress, and Aaron Sorkin, for the screenplay.
Sylvester Stallone knocked out some
heavyweight competition, too, in the
supporting actor category with a win for
“Creed,” beating out Idris Elba (“Beasts
of No Nation”), Michael Shannon (“99
Homes”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of
Spies”), and Paul Dano (“Love &
Mercy”). The crowd greeted his win
with a standing ovation.
“I want to thank my imaginary friend
Rocky Balboa for being the best friend
I ever had,” said Stallone, whose only
other Golden Globes nod was also for
portraying the Italian Stallion in
“Rocky.”
Despite some diversity in the nominee
ranks, the film acting awards were still
won exclusively by Caucasians, rousing
some worry that the Oscars may follow
suit despite increased scrutiny after last
year’s #OscarsSoWhite criticisms.
Best foreign language film went to
Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of
Saul,” a harrowing view of life inside
Auschwitz, and best animated film went
to Pixar’s acclaimed “Inside Out.”
The big television winners included
USA’s “Mr. Robot,” Taraji P. Henson
for “Empire” and Jon Hamm for “Mad
Men.”
‘Star Wars’ tops DiCaprio in ‘Revenant’ to stay No. 1
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Star Wars:
The Force Awakens” stayed on top of
the North American box office for the
fourth straight weekend, beating out
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant,”
and becoming the third-largest grossing movie in the world ever.
According to studio estimates Sunday, the adventures of Rey, Finn and
stalwarts from the previous “Star
Wars” films raked in $41.6 million in
the U.S. and Canada and $104.3 million overseas, led by a record-breaking
opening in China.
Disney distribution Executive Vice
President Dave Hollis said the expected $53 million debut weekend in
China was “spectacular” given the film
is the first “Star Wars” episode many
Chinese people have ever seen. “We’re
very encouraged,” he said.
In the U.S. and Canada, it is the
biggest movie ever and the first to pass
$800 million with $812 million so far.
Its global total now stands at $1.73
billion, according to The Walt Disney
Co., passing “Jurassic World,” with
$1.67 billion.
The film now has in its sights No. 2
“Titanic,” with its $2.2 billion box office haul in 1997-98, and No. 1
“Avatar,” from 2009-2010 at $2.8 billion.
Its place as the all-time biggest movie
is by no means assured, according to
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with Rentrak. “Avatar” had a
smaller opening but kept ringing cash
registers through awards season, something that won’t be clear for “Star
Wars” until the Golden Globes on Sunday night and Oscar nominations on
Thursday.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily predestined,” Dergarabedian said. “That’s a
big number. It’s a tough number to get
to. I think $2 billion is in the cards but
if any movie has that potential (to be
No. 1), it would certainly be ‘The
Force Awakens.’”
“The Revenant,” a gritty R-rated
movie directed by Alejandro Inarritu
about an 1820s frontiersman who gets
mauled by a bear, blasted through expectations of about $25 million in its
first weekend of wide release with a
$38 million haul, following limited
showings in New York and Los Angeles in December.
Already buzzing for Oscars in categories like best director and best actor,
20th Century Fox’s domestic distribution chief Chris Aronson said “The
Revenant” surprisingly brought in
mainstream audiences despite its attimes graphic material.
“It’s very graphic, it’s very real,”
Aronson said. “You watch this and
you’re going to feel cold.”
Having the film open wide well after
“Star Wars” was released gave it room
to breathe, he said. “Now I think
there’s a specialness to this film that
might have been lost earlier.”
Of the Top 10 films this weekend,
only Focus Features’ “The Forest” was
in theaters for the first time over the
weekend, coming in fourth at $13.1
million.
Focus president of distribution Jim
Orr said the horror film topped expec-
tations.
It put “Game of Thrones” star Natalie
Dormer in a forest at the base of Mount
Fuji renowned for suicides.
The film found a younger audience
skewing female that is typical of most
horror films, but saw a bump Saturday
from Friday, which is unusual and
which Orr credited to good word of
mouth.
“Hopefully that will help it leg out
better than the genre normally does,”
he said.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday
through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian
theaters, according to Rentrak.
1. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,”
$41.6 million.
2. “The Revenant,” $38 million.
3. “Daddy’s Home,” $15 million.
4. “The Forest,” $13.1 million.
5. “Sisters,” $7.2 million.
6. “The Hateful Eight,” $6.4 million.
7. “The Big Short,” $6.3 million.
8. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The
Road Chip,” $5.5 million.
9. “Joy,” $4.5 million.
10. “Concussion,” $3.1 million.
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in Brief
EU foreign policy
chief says Iran
sanctions
to end soon
PRAGUE (AP) — The European Union foreign policy
chief says she expects the economic sanctions against Iran to
be lifted soon.
Iran and world powers led by
the U.S. agreed to a landmark
nuclear deal to limit Tehran’s
enrichment of uranium in exchange for lifting economic
sanctions. Iran has always denied seeking nuclear arms.
Speaking to reporters in
Prague Monday, Federica
Mogherini says there was no
date set yet but that “the implementation of the agreement is
proceeding well.”
Mogherini says it is necessary
that all steps agreed have to be
“properly done,” including the
work of the International
Atomic Energy Agency. But
after consulting recently the
foreign ministers of Iran and
the United States she believes
“things are going well” and the
sanctions might be lifted
“rather soon.”
Russia's ruble
slumps on first day of
trading after holiday
MOSCOW (AP) — The
Russian ruble fell sharply on
its first day of trading after a
ten-day holiday period, as a
drop in the price of oil cast a
shadow across the energy-exporting economy.
The
national
currency
dropped by nearly 2 percent
half an hour into trading, to
76.1 rubles, as the Moscow exchange resumed trading in foreign exchange for the first time
since Dec. 31.
The price of oil, the backbone
of the Russian economy, has
declined over the past week
amid fears about a slowdown
in China’s growth. Russia has
also been hit by economic
sanctions that Western nations
imposed following the 2014
annexation of Ukraine’s
Crimea.
The sharp decline in the price
of oil, now trading at 12-year
lows at $34 per barrel for Brent
crude, will likely cause a drain
on Russia’s reserves and push
the government to cut down on
expenses.
Russia has based its budget
this year on an average oil
price of $50 per barrel and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov
indicated last month that the
government is prepared for
cuts if crude were to fall to
$30.
Hunter in Zimbabwe
cancels lion hunt
raffle after protests
JOHANNESBURG (AP) —
A professional hunter in Zimbabwe has canceled a plan to
raffle a lion hunt at a hunters’
convention in the United
States, following protests from
activists.
Martin Nel said he is scrapping the raffle in which he
hoped to sell 100 raffle tickets
for $1,500 each in Las Vegas
next month. LionAid, a group
based in Britain, had expressed
shock at the proposal, which
focused attention on the heated
debate about whether hunting
hurts already vulnerable
species, or can help them by
raising funds for conservation.
In a statement this month, Nel
said the raffle winner could
also have chosen to have a lion
collared for research, and that
the project was designed to
raise funds for conservation
studies at Zimbabwe’s Bubye
Valley Conservancy.
The conservancy defended its
record, saying cattle ranchers
had wiped out lions, rhinos,
elephants and other wildlife in
the area decades ago. Established in 1994, the conservancy reintroduced lions in
1999 and today has a population of nearly 500 as well as a
significant number of endangered black rhinos, it said.
Court to hear public sector union fees case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
Supreme Court dispute over public-sector union fees could sap
the finances of organized labor
and further erode the power of
the nation’s labor movement.
The justices hear arguments
Monday in a case that challenges
the right of public-employee
unions to collect fees from teachers, firefighters and other state
and local government workers
who choose not to become members.
A group of California public
school teachers claims that such
mandatory fees violate the First
Amendment rights of workers
who disagree with the union’s
positions. Their lawsuit against
the California Teachers Association seeks to overturn a nearly
four-decade-old Supreme Court
precedent that allows public
unions to collect “fair share” fees
from non-members to help cover
the costs of collective bargaining.
The Supreme Court ruled in the
1977 case, Abood v. Detroit
Board of Education, that states
can require non-members to pay
the fees as long as the money
doesn’t go to political causes.
The court said the arrangement
prevents non-members from becoming “free riders” who get all
the benefits of union bargaining
and grievance procedures without paying for it.
But the high court has raised serious doubts about the rationale
of Abood in two recent cases. It
has stopped short of overturning
it both times, but four justices
joined a 2014 opinion by Justice
Samuel Alito that called Abood
“questionable.” Alito said it is
now harder to draw the line between collective bargaining and
political ends.
AP
Rebecca Friedrichs, a veteran Orange County, Calif., public school teacher, poses for a portrait. The Supreme Curt will
hear arguments in a California case brought by a group of public school teachers who claim such mandatory fees violate the First Amendment rights of workers who disagree with the union’s positions.
The California teachers argue
that unions have become more
political over time. They say
even a push for higher salaries
and pension benefits raises political questions about the best use
of tax dollars for cash-strapped
localities.
The unions argue that the First
Amendment applies differently
to public employees performing
their jobs.
They assert that the state has a
strong interest in promoting efficiency and avoiding costly workplace disruptions by designating
the union as the exclusive bargaining representative for work-
ers.
The case also threatens to unravel thousands of contracts
around the country that were negotiated relying on the fourdecade-old system.
A federal district court ruled
against the teachers, saying the
outcome was clear under Abood.
China, U.S. seek roadmap to peace
ISLAMABAD (AP) — As the
battlefield losses in Afghanistan
mount and entire swaths of the
country that cost hundreds of
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan
military lives to secure slip back
into Taliban hands, four counties
— Pakistan, Afghanistan, China
and the United States — are
meeting Monday in the Pakistani
capital of Islamabad to try to
craft a plan for peace in the warshattered country.
But analysts and participants
alike say that while there are
four countries talking, much of
the hope for progress toward
peace rests with Pakistan —
which is accused of harboring
some of the fiercest factions of
the Taliban, including the
Haqqani group, a U.S.-declared
terrorist organization. Pakistan
says its influence over the Taliban is overrated.
“Even at the best of times they
(Taliban) didn’t listen to us,” the
Pakistani prime minister’s special adviser on foreign affairs
Sartaj Aziz told The Associated
Press. “Look at Bamiyan,” he
said, referring to the Taliban’s
destruction in the summer of
2001 of some of the world’s
most precious statues of Buddha.
The Taliban blew up the statues,
ignoring the roars of dissent, including from Pakistan.
Aziz was to address the open-
Press Information Department via AP, File
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Raheel
Sharif, at Nur Khan airbase in Islamabad, Pakistan.
ing of the summit in remarks
that were to be carried live on
the government-owned Pakistan
Television.
He refused to say whether Pakistan was in possession of a list
of Taliban representatives who
are prepared to enter into peace
negotiations. The presence of
such a list was announced Sunday by Javid Faisal, deputy
spokesman for Afghanistan’s
Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
Imtiaz Gul, whose Center for
Research and Security Studies
has delved deeply into the
Afghan conflict and Pakistan’s
decades-old involvement, says
Pakistan does have significant
leverage with the Taliban.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.
Half the states already have
right-to-work laws banning
mandatory fees, but most members of public-employee unions
are concentrated in states that
don’t, including California, New
York and Illinois.
Mao
statue
removed
BEIJING (AP) — A village
in central China has demolished a statue of the country’s founder, Mao Zedong,
after images of the structure
covered in gold paint and
looming 37 meters (120 feet)
high over farmland attracted
heated social media discussion.
The project, reportedly financed by entrepreneurs,
cost $460,000 and was near
completion last week when it
was nixed by local officials
who apparently were embarrassed by the public scrutiny.
The People’s Daily, the official Communist Party
newspaper, said the statue
may have lacked approval
from cultural management
authorities, though it also
cited an official as saying
that did not appear to be the
reason. Since his death in
1976, Mao has been revered
as a founding father.
But he has also and blamed
for political turmoil and disastrous economic policies
that claimed millions of
lives.
Mexico begins extradition proceedings against drug lord
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico began the process of extraditing drug lord Joaquin “El
Chapo” Guzman to the United
States, two days after the famed
fugitive was recaptured following a dramatic, months-long hunt
featuring movies stars, sewer escapes and bloody shootouts.
Officials warned that the
process could take a long time as
Guzman’s lawyers file legal appeals and maneuver to keep their
client in Mexico, where he has
already escaped from maximum
security prisons twice.
On Sunday, agents formally notified Guzman that he was
wanted in the United States. In a
statement, the Attorney General’s
Office said Mexican agents assigned to the international police
agency Interpol served two arrest
warrants to the drug lord, who is
being held at the Altiplano prison
following his capture by Mexican marines on Friday.
Guzman’s defense now has
three days to present arguments
against extradition and 20 days
to present supporting evidence,
beyond the plethora of other appeals they have already started
filing. Guzman’s powerful
Sinaloa cartel smuggles multiton shipments of cocaine and
marijuana as well as manufacturing and transporting methamphetamines and heroin, mostly to
the U.S. He is wanted in various
U.S. states and his July escape
deeply embarrassed the government of President Enrique Pena
Nieto and strained ties between
the countries.
Guzman’s attorney Juan Pablo
Badillo has said the defense has
already filed six motions to challenge extradition requests.
Badillo said that his client
shouldn’t be extradited to the
U.S. because “our country must
respect national sovereignty, the
sovereignty of its institutions to
impart justice.”
Rolling Stone faces criticism over ‘El Chapo’ interview
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a big scoop,
and one Rolling Stone may well regret.
The magazine made stunning news over
the weekend by revealing that actor Sean
Penn landed a rare interview last fall with
the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El
Chapo” Guzman while Guzman was on
the run after escaping through a tunnel
from a maximum-security Mexican
prison. Guzman was recaptured Friday in Mexico after a shootout that
killed five of his associates and wounded one
marine.
Penn’s long and often
rambling essay, widely
Penn
mocked on social media,
included comments from Guzman on
everything from his childhood to his
thoughts on the drug trade.
It also raised questions of ethics and
judgment, namely whether Penn should
have met secretly with one of the world’s
most-wanted fugitives, whether the actor
crossed the line by giving Guzman approval over the article before it was published, and whether Penn trivialized El
Chapo’s murderous past by asking him
such questions as “Do you have any
dreams?” and “If you could change the
world, would you?”
A Rolling Stone spokeswoman did not
immediately return requests for comment.
Penn’s story ran nine months after
Rolling Stone retracted its discredited
story about a gang rape at a fraternity
party at the University of Virginia. The
magazine was strongly criticized for relying too strongly on the account of the alleged victim and failing to carry out basic
fact-checking. It is being sued for tens of
millions of dollars by the fraternity, former frat members and a university administrator.
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No. 12 Lady Vols breeze past Auburn
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
KNOXVILLE (AP) — Tennessee bounced back from adversity by delivering one of its
best performances of the season
to cap an emotional week that
had its coach
fighting back
tears
D i a m o n d
DeShields had
25 points, seven
assists and six rebounds Sunday
as No. 12 Tennessee regained its
shooting touch in a 79-52
blowout of Auburn. The victory
came three days after the Lady
Volunteers had lost at home to
Florida.
They did it on a reunion weekend that brought about 50 former
Lady Vols and former coach Pat
Summitt to Thompson-Boling
Arena. Former Lady Vols Candace
Parker,
Michelle
Marciniak, Glory Johnson and
Isabelle Harrison attended prac-
tice Saturday and offered the
current team words of encouragement.
“It was special, I’ll be honest
with you,” Tennessee coach
Holly Warlick said as her eyes
got watery. “It was special.
When you struggle and you’re
around people who are positive,
they’re incredible. They’re why
we do what we do. They’re why
I’m here. They’re why I have
this opportunity. Coach Summitt
was there. I’m sorry I’m emotional.
“I understand it’s a privilege
and an honor for me to coach
this team. And I think our kids
understand it’s a privilege to
wear that uniform.”
Tennessee (11-4, 2-1 SEC) followed up its worst shooting performance of the season with its
best.
After shooting 29.3 percent (24
of 82) Thursday against Florida,
the Lady Volunteers shot 59.6
percent (34 of 57) on Sunday.
Tennessee’s players watched
film of the Florida game and
provided their own scouting reports of what they’d done
wrong.
They corrected their mistakes
Sunday by working the ball inside instead of firing away from
3-point range, where they’ve
struggled all season. Tennessee
has made just 23.3 percent of its
3-point attempts and entered
Sunday ranked 334th out of 344
Division I teams in that category.
“We’ve kind of just accepted
that that’s not what we’re great
at,” DeShields said. “We’ve got
capable shooters indeed, but we
really were just pounding the
ball inside and just pushing
tempo and trying to get good
paint points, paint shots.”
Bashaara Graves, who shot 2 of
13 against Florida, was 8 of 9
against Auburn and scored 18
points. Mercedes Russell had 10
points and 13 rebounds.
Tra’Cee Tanner had 12 points
Saul Young, Knoxville News Sentinel | AP
and 10 rebounds for Auburn (115, 1-2).The Lady Vols outscored Tennessee’s Bashaara Graves is defended by Auburn players, from left, Brandy Montgomery, Jessica Jones, and Jazmine Jones during a game in Knoxville on Sunday.
See LADY VOLS, Page B2 Tennessee defeated Auburn 79-52.
TENNESSEE TECH
Robinson
adds two
school records
at Temple
Invitational
On a roll
TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE — With her name already
listed on two school marks in the Tennessee
Tech women’s track & field record book,
freshman Na’Asha Robinson added two
more Sunday at the Ed Temple Invitational
at Tennessee State University.
Tech finished the day with three school
records and three first place
finishers. In addition to the
records, Tech student-athletes broke three personal
best marks and established a
handful of PR numbers in
their first competition in
several events.
Track and
“We had a great meet with
Field
some stellar performances,”
said second-year coach
Wayne Angel. “I was very pleased with the
ladies today. They were very competitive.
We came back from the holidays in good
shape.
Robinson broke school records in the 55m
and 200m events.
“Na’Asha Robinson was the star today,”
Angel said. “She was truly on a mission.”
The rookie from Huntsville, Ala., obliterated the previous, 12-year-old record of 7.28
seconds in the 55-meter dash, recording a
time of 7.06 seconds in her qualifying heat.
In the finals, she ran another time that beat
the previous mark but was a fraction slower
than her new record as she placed second
overall with a time of 7.22 seconds.
The previous 55m record of 7.28 seconds
was set in 2004 by Bethany Burney at the Sewanee Invitational.
In the 200m dash, Robinson roared around
the track in 24.95 seconds to claim first
place. It broke a month-old record of 25.51
set by teammate Jaydean Joseph at Vanderbilt.
A month ago at Vanderbilt, Robinson set the
school record at 400m and was part of Tech’s
record-breaking effort in the 4x400 relay.
The third school record to be rewritten
came in the triple jump as Raven Smith
soared 38 feet, 10.75 inches. That eclipsed
the school standard of 38 feet, 1.5 inches set
last year by Chelsea Mills at East Tennessee.
Two other Golden Eagles earned first place
finishes Sunday.
Junior Sarah Brandt won the mile run, putting up a time of 5:10.18 in her first competition at that distance.
The other individual win came at 400m
when D’Airrien Jackson won the race with a
time of 56.49 seconds in her first try at that
distance.
Tech had three PR efforts on the track and
one in field events.
Senior Brittany McGee ran her fastest time
ever at 55m, posting a time of 7.69 seconds
in her qualifying heat. Sophomore Madison
Stremler also posted a personal best mark,
recording a time of 2:19.42 while placing
second in the meet in the 800m race. A third
PR time came in the 5,000m run, as Lera
McNamara finished third on the team in
19:56.48.
The other broken PR came in the weight
throw, when Makayla Kington got off a toss
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Tennessee Tech’s Ryan Martin goes up for a layup during last week’s win at Murray State. The Golden Eagles enter this week in the
top spot in the Ohio Valley Conference standings with a 4-0 record.
Golden Eagles holding on to first in OVC
By THOMAS CORHERN
HERALD-CITIZEN Assistant Sports Editor
COOKEVILLE — 4-0. After last
season’s effort, to believe that the
Tennessee Tech men’s basketball
team could open up the 2015-16
campaign like this might have
seemed a little unbelievable.
But the Golden Eagles this season
just seem to keep finding ways to
make the unbelievable reality.
After back-to-back wins at Murray
State and Austin Peay — both places
that the Tech men haven’t had much
luck at in past seasons, the Golden
Eagles are riding
pretty high.
With four wins
and no losses, the
Men’s
Golden
Eagles
Basketball technically stand in
first in the Ohio
Valley Conference,
a half-game over Tennessee State and
Belmont, who are both 3-0.
The downside — the Tigers and the
Bruins are both in the OVC East Division with the Golden Eagles.
Tech gets back in action this week
as the Golden Eagles travel to UT
Martin (9-8, 1-1 OVC) on Wednesday, then return to the Hooper Eblen
Center on Saturday as Tech hosts
Southeast Missouri (2-14, 0-4 OVC).
Torrance Rowe enters the week averaging 17.8 points a game, while
Ryan Martin stands at 14.1 points a
game and Aleksa Jugovic averages
10.4 points.
Martin is averaging 7.6 rebounds a
game, while Anthony Morse is bringing down 6.7 rebounds per contest.
The Skyhawks certainly aren’t a
slouch opponent.
UT Martin opened up OVC play
with a good 78-70 win over Eastern
Kentucky in Richmond, then fell on
Saturday with a 64-58 loss in Morehead State to wrap up the Death Valley trip.
The loss to the Eagles broke a
seven-game winning streak for the
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SPORTS
LADY VOLS: Travels to Arkansas on Thursday
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Auburn 48-26 in the paint and 22-0 in
fast-break points.
“We weren’t defending,” Auburn coach
Terri Williams-Flournoy said.
TIP-INS
Auburn: Brandy Montgomery scored
nine points in the first quarter but had
just two points the rest of the way. She
shot 3 of 7 in the first quarter and 1 of 6
afterward.
Tennessee: Senior Nia Moore entered
the game with 4:22 left for her first appearance since Nov. 23. The reserve center had missed Tennessee’s last 10
games with a rib injury.
QUOTABLE
“There was a (large) amount of love
and positiveness with them,” Warlick
said on the support from former Lady
Vols. “There wasn’t, ‘What are y’all
doing? What aren’t you doing? Why
aren’t you doing this?’ They were like,
‘Just keep plugging along and plowing
away.’ For them to do that and give us
the energy and strength we need as a
staff, me personally (and) as a team, you
can’t put a price on it.”
KEY STATS
Tennessee improved its home record to
8-3. The Lady Vols haven’t lost more than
three home games in a season since 198283. ... Tennessee’s .596 field-goal percentage was its best since a .622 performance
against Arkansas on Jan. 30, 2014.
UP NEXT
Auburn: Hosts Alabama on Thursday.
Tennessee: At Arkansas on Thursday.
’Bama on verge of unprecedented
run, with Clemson in the way
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)
— Regardless of the outcome
of Monday night’s College
Football Playoff championship
game between No. 1 Clemson
and No. 2 Alabama, a case can
be made that no team in the history of the sport has had a better
run than the Crimson Tide
under coach Nick Saban.
If Alabama beats the Tigers to
win a fourth national title in
seven seasons, the argument
may be settled.
There was talk early in the
season after Alabama lost to
Mississippi that the Tide dynasty was in decline. Now Alabama (13-1) is one victory
away from an unprecedented
achievement.
The Tide can become just the
third school in college football’s poll era, dating back to
the creation of The Associated
Press media poll in 1936, to
win four championships in a
10-year span.
Notre Dame won four in
seven seasons from 1943-49,
but big-time college football is
hardly comparable now to then.
Those Fighting Irish didn’t play
in bowl games and never
needed more than nine victories
to be the best in the country.
Miami won four championships in nine seasons (198391), but none of those teams
had to play more than 12
games.
Alabama’s four championships under Saban, who took
over in 2007, have all come in
at least 13-game seasons.
“I mean, it’s incredible,”
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney
said Sunday during a news conference with Saban. Swinney
heaped so much praise on his
counterpart during the halfhour session with reporters that
Saban looked a little uncomfortable.
“Coach Saban, what he’s
done, I mean, he’s one of the
greatest coaches that ever
coached the game,” Swinney
said.
Saban also has a BCS title
from his time at LSU, giving
him four overall. Only former
Alabama coach Bear Bryant
with six has more.
“This is the first one I’ve
sniffed as a coach, and he’s
going for his fifth,” said Swinney, who is in his eighth season
at Clemson. “It’s incredible.”
Clemson has one national
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Tennessee Tech’s Torrance Rowe leads the Golden Eagles
in scoring as Tech holds on to first place in the Ohio Valley
Conference.
MEN: Southeast
Missouri comes to
Cookeville on Saturday
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Alabama head coach Nick Saban speaks during a news conference for the NCAA college football playoff championship game on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.
championship to its credit. Behind Danny Ford, an Alabama
native and former Tide player
for Bryant, the Tigers won the
title in 1981 by beating favored
Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
The Tigers are back on the
biggest stage and again being
led by an Alabaman and former
Tide player. Swinney grew up
near Birmingham and played
for Alabama when Gene
Stallings was the coach in the
early 1990s. He was on the Tide
team that won a national championship in 1992, upsetting
Miami in the Sugar Bowl. Alabama then went through a long
dry spell until Saban arrived.
“People will say, well, anybody can go win at Alabama,”
Swinney said. “Not everybody
can coach a great team. Not
everybody can coach a great
player, and I think he has a gift
to be able to do that.”
Under Swinney, the Tigers
have won at least 10 games each
of the last five seasons, just like
Alabama. And Clemson has its
own shot at history: If the Tigers
win the national title, they
would become the first team to
achieve a 15-0 season.
“We want to be a program that
is competing at this level on a
consistent basis and I think to
do that, you’ve got to be a top10, top-15 type program year in
and year out,” Swinney said.
Alabama has been even better
than that. Since going 7-6 in
Saban’s first season, the Tide is
97-12 and has never finished
out of the final AP top 10.
No surprise: Saban has not
been part of the legacy talk this
week. Pondering his place in
history won’t help his players
Monday night at University of
Phoenix Stadium.
“I owe them as the leader of
the organization,” Saban said.
“I owe them our best as coaches
and people who can support
them to give them the best opportunity to be successful in the
next challenge that they have.
“So I’ve got no time to think
about that stuff.”
Some other things to know
about the second College Football Playoff national championship game.
DESHAUN FOOTBALL
If Clemson is going to beat
Alabama and break down a ferocious Alabama defense, Heisman Trophy finalist Deshaun
Watson will lead the way. The
sophomore is the most talented
quarterback Alabama has faced
and he poses a threat running
and passing.
Watson set the Atlantic Coast
Conference mark for total offense with 4,731 yards, 1,032
of those coming on the ground.
Dual-threat quarterbacks give
most defenses trouble and Alabama is no exception. Watson
said in preparation for the Tide,
he watched Alabama’s loss to
Johnny Manziel and Texas
A&M in 2012.
Watson ran for a career-best
145 yards in Clemson’s 37-17
Orange Bowl semifinal victory
against Oklahoma.
HEISMAN HENRY
The Crimson Tide used Heisman Trophy winner Derrick
Henry, who has set Southeastern Conference records for
rushing yards (2,061) and
touchdowns (25), as a complimentary part of its offense in
beating Michigan State 38-0 in
the Cotton Bowl.
Henry had 20 carries for 75
yards. Don’t be surprised if the
Tide goes back to a heavy dose
of Henry, who carried 90 times
combined in the final two regular season games, to help control the clock and keep the ball
away from Watson and Clemson’s up-tempo spread offense.
HOLD THE LINE
Alabama’s defensive line is
the best and deepest in college
football, led by All-American
A’Shawn Robinson. The line
has helped the Tide lead the nation with 50 sacks.
Clemson has some talented
defensive linemen, too, though
not quite as many as Alabama.
That depth could be tested because All-America defensive
end Shaq Lawson sprained his
knee against Oklahoma and
missed most of the Orange
Bowl. He is expected to play,
but how much? And how effective will he be?
Jeff Davis has been there,
done that for Clemson
By RICHARD ROSENBLATT
AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX (AP) — Back then, it was Tom
Osborne’s mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers.
On Monday night, it’s Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide.
Once again, here comes Clemson looking
for a national championship. And once
again, the Tigers have to knock off one of
college football’s most storied programs.
And once again, they are unbeaten but still
underdogs.
Jeff Davis remembers the feeling. A Clemson linebacker who spearheaded the Tigers’
22-15 win over the Huskers in the 1982 Orange Bowl, Davis is still around. He’s a
player adviser for coach Dabo Swinney, and
his sons, J.D. and Judah, are on the team.
“We knew we were getting ready to shock
the world,” Davis said this week in happily
recalling the ‘82 Orange Bowl. “We came
in with a chip on our shoulder. The market
out there didn’t give us much of a chance
against Nebraska, and 34 years later we’re
still in a similar situation.”
Davis is fine with the perception that
Clemson remains the “little engine who
could.” Probably because it’s true. Nebraska
went on to win four AP national titles and
remained a powerhouse for years after. Alabama is looking for its 10th AP national
title, and is in the midst of a dynasty under
coach Nick Saban.
Davis gets it. At Clemson, the players embrace the underdog role. In fact, they thrive
on it.
“We did not fear Nebraska,” Davis said.
“But people thought for some reason we
couldn’t tackle like they could and we
couldn’t run like they could. I think we’re
looking at some of the same things right
now.”
It wasn’t long before the Huskers realized
they weren’t playing pushovers. First offensive series for Nebraska, said Davis.
“I’ll never forget the look of shock on their
faces on the first series,” Davis said. “Wow!
These boys can play! It’s something you can
sense from the beginning. I won’t ever forget it.”
After falling behind 7-3, Clemson scored
19 straight points and then held off Nebraska over the final nine minutes.
For Tim Bourret, finishing his 38th year in
Clemson’s sports information department, it
was a nail-biter until the very end.
“Not until the last play, when a long pass
was batted down at the 10-yard line,” Bourret said. “After we knocked it away, I said,
‘Holy cow! Is this really happening?’”
This time around, Bourret says the Tigers
are getting the attention they deserve, albeit
not as much as Alabama.
“This team has gotten a lot more respect
than the ‘81 team,” he said. “That team was
four years removed from 18 years of not
going to a bowl.”
Davis believes Clemson is ready to step up
and win title No. 2.
“We shocked the world before,” he said,
“and we’re ready to do it again.”
Skyhawks, who have also taken
losses to Texas Tech (68-49),
Mississippi State (76-51),
Florida International (69-62) and
Oklahoma State (91-57).
Twymond Howard leads the
Skyhawks with 13.4 points and
7.3 rebounds per game, while
Myles Taylor (10.8 ppg), Alex
Anderson (10.7 ppg) and Jacolby
Mobley (10.3 ppg) are all averaging double-figure scoring.
The Redhawks, however, have
had a tough go so far.
SEMO picked up victories over
Missouri State and Harris-Stowe
to get into the win columns, but
the Redhawks have since lost
four straight in OVC play with a
92-82 loss to Belmont, a 72-66
defeat by Tennessee State, a 9669 loss at Morehead State and an
88-69 loss at Eastern Kentucky.
Southeast Missouri hosts Jacksonville State on Wednesday before coming to the Eblen Center
on Saturday.
Antonious Cleveland is leading
the Redhawks with 13.9 points
and 6.7 rebounds per game, followed by Isiah Jones (11.0 ppg)
and Joel Angus III (10.2 ppg).
TRACK: Will compete at
Vanderbilt this weekend
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of 27 feet, 3.75 inches in placing fifth.
The Golden Eagles return to
the Vanderbilt indoor facility
next Saturday for their next action, competing in the Vanderbilt Invitational.
“We will continue to build on
the momentum from this meet
and get ready for Vanderbilt
this coming week,” Angel said.
Tech results
Event (school record before Sunday)
Mile Run (5:06.53)
Brandt, Sarah, 5:10.18 Storms, Jenna,
5:25.87 Griffin, Molly, 6:12.01
55 Meter Dash (:07.28)
Robinson, NaAsha, 7.06q
O’Neal, Morgan, 7.57 McGee, Brittany, 7.69
55 Meter Dash Finals
Robinson, NaAsha, 7.22
400 Meter Dash (:55.08)
Jackson, D’Airien, 56.49 Joseph, Jaydean,
58.96
800 Meter Run (2:15.28)
Stremler, Madison, 2:19.42
Brandt, Sarah, 2:22.01 Retano, Andrea,
2:32.72
200 Meter Dash (:25.21)
Robinson, NaAsha, 24.95
Jackson, D’Airien, 25.79
Hymon, Tiara, 26.46
5000 Meter Run (17:36.63)
Murray, Purity, 17:46.19
Bezuidenhout, Sonel, 19:18.31
McNamara, Lera, 19:56.48
4x400 Meter Relay
Tennessee Tech ‘A’, 3:51.39
1) Robinson, NaAsha 2) Jackson, D’Airien
3) Joseph, Jaydean 4) Hymon, Tiara 3
Tennessee Tech ‘B’, 4:12.49 1) Stremler,
Madison 2) Retano, Andrea 3) Brandt,
Sarah 4) Griffin, Molly 3 Tennessee Tech
‘C’, 4:26.76 1) McGee, Brittany 2) O’Neal,
Morgan 3) Hymon, Tiara 4) Griffin, Molly
High Jump (5’7”)
Drummond, NaScottisha, 4-10
Driscoll, Christina,NH
Long Jump (17’5.5”)
Smith, Raven, 17-01.25 Robinson, Eshe
,FOUL
Shot Put (43’1”)
Kington, Makayla, 33-04.50 Robinson,
Eshe, 31-02.00 Driscoll, Christina, 2706.75
Weight Throw (54’ 11.25”)
Kington, Makayla, 37-03.75
Triple Jump
Smith, Raven, 38-10.25
Drummond, NaScottisha, 35-03.75
Reggie Ragland is
the (smiling) face of
Alabama’s defense
By JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) —
Reggie Ragland stands out on Alabama’s defense when the spotlight’s on.
He’s usually the one smiling.
The All-America linebacker is
the guy cracking jokes and reciting lines from his favorite movies
at practice, the happy-go-lucky
star on a team that often seems to
mirror coach Nick Saban’s
sternly stoic, all-business demeanor.
Ragland is the (smiling) face of
the Crimson Tide’s defense going
into Monday night’s national
championship game against
Clemson.
“I’m enjoying this moment and
opportunity that I get,” he said.
“Not a lot of people get this experience. So why not have fun
with it?”
Most teammates and coaches
looked all business when they
stepped into a packed room for
campus media day last week. Not
Ragland, who burst through the
door with a wide grin and a
“How y’all doing?”
He’s not just the class cutup
who can get away with calling
coach Nick Saban “Nicholas,”
but also one of the best players
on the nation’s top-rated defense.
Ragland returned for his senior
season instead of turning pro for
the chance to graduate, fulfilling
a promise to his mother when he
got his consumer affairs degree
in December. He moved into the
play calling role for Alabama’s
defense and became a unanimous
All-American.
Ragland’s 97 tackles are 33
more than the Tide’s No. 2 tackler, fellow linebacker Reuben
Foster. He was a Butkus Award
finalist.
No wonder Ragland is smiling.
“It’s been great,” he said. “I’ve
got something I can fall back on
in my future, and hopefully I
helped my stock. I really came
back to get my degree and play
with these guys. You don’t get
too many moments like this.”
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SPORTS
The intricacies of what goes
into a college football play
By JOHN MARSHALL
AP College Football Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Rich Rodriguez hears it all the time. He could be
at the grocery store, gas station, a restaurant and inevitably someone will come up
to him with a suggestion for a play or a
new scheme.
The Arizona coach always listens graciously, tells them he’ll take it under consideration, goes on his way.
“It’s nice that they’re interested, but I
ain’t going to listen to it,” he said.
Perhaps more than any other sport, football is the one fans seem to think they
could coach if given the chance. There’s
even a name for it: Monday Morning
Quarterback.
In reality, it may be the most difficult,
filled with so many variables it would
make fans’ heads spin if they saw everything that really goes into it.
And the more pressure-packed the game,
like Monday night’s national championship between Alabama and Clemson,
the harder it gets.
“The game is far more intricate than
most fans realize,” Rodriguez said.
“When you have 22 people on the field
and all have a particular assignment and
to run a scheme, unless you’re in the dayto-day operations of it, you really have no
idea what goes into every particular play.”
To demonstrate the difficulty of coaching football, Rodriguez agreed to break
down a single play from the 2014 season:
Austin Hill’s 92-yard touchdown catch on
the first play of the second half in Arizona’s season-opening 58-13 win over
UNLV.
—Quarterback Anu Solomon calls out the
formation in the huddle and tags the play
as one of Arizona’s various run/pass options so the linemen don’t run too far
down the field in case it’s a pass. The
Wildcats line up two receivers to each side
and running back Nick Wilson to the right
of Solomon.
UNLV sets up with four down linemen,
a linebacker in the middle and another
player on the right just outside the box, the
Andres Leighton, File | AP
In this Dec. 19, 2015, file photo, Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez encourages his players during a timeout in the second half of the New Mexico Bowl against New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M. Rodriguez hears
it all the time. He could be at the grocery store, gas station, a restaurant and inevitably someone will come
up to him with a suggestion for a play or a new scheme.
area between the offensive tackles that
runs about seven yards deep. Two defensive backs are close to the line of scrimmage on each side and three players are
about eight yards deep.
On the snap, Arizona’s five linemen
zone block to the left, as if it were a running play. Each picks up a player to block,
but they leave the left defensive end to
roam free.
This is by design. The defensive end is
the first read for the quarterback in the
zone read offense Rodriguez created 20
years ago at Glenville State and still uses
today.
“In the typical zone, the guy who will
be unblocked is the defensive end, so
in a sense you gain a guy,” Rodriguez
said “By having the quarterback read
him, he in a sense blocks him. Instead
of playing 11 on 10, you’re playing 11
on 11. They’ve got to defend everybody.”
Solomon has to make a split-second decision after the snap on the defensive end.
If he charges up the field like a pass
rusher, Solomon will hand off to Wilson.
If the end squeezes in, as the UNLV
player did on this particular play,
Solomon will fake the handoff and take
off to the right.
Solomon’s next read also comes immediately. After getting past the defensive
end, he has to determine if the interior defensive back is coming up to stop the run
or will defend the pass.
The defensive back charges, so Solomon
knows his best option is to throw.
“He could gain three yards there, but I’d
rather score a touchdown,” Rodriguez
said.
In the early days of Rodriguez’s zone
read offense, he would send the slot receiver flared out to the right on a bubble
screen whenever the inside defensive
back charged in to stop the run. The slot
receiver would catch the ball while running parallel to the line of scrimmage as
the outside receiver blocks the other defensive back.
Over the years, defenses started sending
a safety charging up the field to blow up
the bubble screen, so Rodriguez and other
zone-read coaches had to adapt.
One adjustment was to not throw the ball
to the inside receiver and have him run
around the outside receiver and up the rail
(sideline).
In this case, Arizona had a play call for
the inside receiver to flare out in a bubble
screen, but instead of blocking for
DaVonte Neal, Hill faked the block and
ran a slant. Throwing off-balance —
something Arizona’s quarterbacks practice repeatedly — Solomon hits Hill in
stride, just in front of the safety. Hill
breaks a tackle and takes off, winning a
foot race with the rest of UNLV’s defense
for the long touchdown.
The play ran to perfection but it’s not always that easy.
Maybe next time the defense changes
formation, breaks its tendencies, comes
up with a new wrinkle, like running stunts
so new players fill the various gaps.
To combat this, Rodriguez and his
coaches have a variety of play combinations and are constantly adapting.
Using the same formation, Arizona
could have the outside receiver run a curl
or a stop-and-go instead of a slant. Maybe
the Wildcats flip the play, have the receivers on the left run a bubble screen, up
the rail or a slant.
Arizona also could run the same exact
play to the right, but throw back to the left
to receivers who are running any number
of route combinations instead of serving
as decoys.
Sometimes the read for the quarterback
isn’t the defensive end, but a linebacker
or defensive back.
“That’s what the chess match is,” Rodriguez said.
Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s
Dabo Swinney will take their turn on the
board (field) Monday night, a national
championship on the line.
Spieth opens the new year in style with win at Kapalua
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The view from the
top looks as spectacular as ever for Jordan Spieth.
He was standing in the 18th fairway Sunday at
Kapalua, his victory in the Hyundai Tournament
of Champions easily secured, when his thoughts
were interrupted by a comment from caddie
Michael Greller: “Way to make a statement.”
The statement was nearly as big as his eightshot victory.
Coming off a year that Spieth knows will be
tough to match — the Masters, U.S. Open, five
wins, the FedEx Cup — the 22-year-old Texan
backed up his sage comment at the start of the
week that 2016 wasn’t about an encore because
that would mean the show was over.
It’s not.
Spieth crushed the winners-only field by closing
with a 6-under 67 to become only the second
player in PGA Tour history to finish a 72-hole
tournament at 30-under par or lower. An 8-foot
birdie on the final hole put him at 30-under 262,
one short of the record Ernie Els set at Kapalua
in 2003.
SCOREBOARD
■ On Television
Monday, Jan. 11
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
6:30 p.m.
CBSSN — Bucknell at Lehigh
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
7:30 p.m.
ESPN — College Football Playoff, championship, Alabama vs. Clemson, at Glendale,
Ariz. (also on ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS,
ESPN Classic and SEC Network)
■ College Football
Championship Winners
College Football Championship
Jan. 12, 2015 — Ohio St. 42, Oregon 20
BCS National Championship
Jan. 6, 2014 — Florida St. 34, Auburn 31
Jan. 7, 2013 — Alabama 42, Notre Dame 14
Jan. 9, 2012 — Alabama 21, LSU 0
Jan. 10, 2011 — Auburn 22, Oregon 19
Jan. 7, 2010 — Alabama 37, Texas 21
Jan. 8, 2009 — Florida 24, Oklahoma 14
Jan. 7, 2008 — LSU 38, Ohio State 24
Jan. 8, 2007 — Florida 41, Ohio State 14
BCS Championship
Jan. 4, 2006 Rose Bowl — Texas 41, Southern
Cal-x 38
Jan. 1, 2005 Orange Bowl — Southern Cal-x
55, Oklahoma 19
Jan. 4, 2004 Sugar Bowl — LSU 21, Oklahoma
14
Jan. 3, 2003 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 31, Miami
24, 2OT
Jan. 3, 2002 Rose Bowl — Miami 37, Nebraska 14
Jan. 3, 2001 Orange Bowl — Oklahoma 13,
Florida St. 2
Jan. 4, 2000 Sugar Bowl — Florida St. 46, Virginia Tech 29
Jan. 4, 1999 Fiesta Bowl — Tennessee 23,
Florida St. 16
x-participation vacated
■ College Basketball
Men’s scores
EAST
Michigan St. 92, Penn St. 65
Richmond 93, Fordham 82
Saint Joseph’s 72, Rhode Island 67
SOUTH
Cincinnati 54, South Florida 51
Clemson 66, Louisville 62
Tulsa 81, Tulane 67
Wake Forest 77, NC State 74
MIDWEST
Illinois 84, Purdue 70
Indiana 85, Ohio St. 60
Oakland 86, Ill.-Chicago 61
VCU 72, Saint Louis 56
Valparaiso 92, Detroit 74
Villanova 60, Butler 55
SOUTHWEST
SMU 88, UCF 73
FAR WEST
Oregon 71, Stanford 58
Women’s scores
EAST
Boston College 73, Yale 60
Delaware 59, Northeastern 52
Duquesne 55, Fordham 40
Iona 79, Canisius 56
Monmouth (NJ) 60, Marist 52
NC State 78, Pittsburgh 76, 3OT
Niagara 67, Rider 57
Siena 60, Manhattan 59
St. Bonaventure 66, UMass 41
St. Peter’s 56, Fairfield 46
Syracuse 60, Virginia Tech 39
Temple 74, Cincinnati 51
UNC Wilmington 52, Towson 49
Xavier 62, Providence 54
SOUTH
Abilene Christian 71, Nicholls St. 68
Drexel 67, William & Mary 50
Florida 85, Mississippi 65
Florida St. 75, Georgia Tech 69
George Mason 79, La Salle 70
Hofstra 62, Coll. of Charleston 58
James Madison 81, Elon 76, OT
Kentucky 64, Georgia 53
Louisville 65, Duke 48
Miami 83, Clemson 49
Mississippi St. 80, Arkansas 55
Saint Joseph’s 66, VCU 63
Saint Louis 79, Davidson 50
South Carolina 83, Missouri 58
Tennessee 79, Auburn 52
Texas A&M 53, LSU 35
Tulane 75, UCF 54
Tulsa 65, Memphis 59
UConn 75, South Florida 59
Vanderbilt 54, Alabama 48
Virginia 52, Wake Forest 50
MIDWEST
Creighton 77, Butler 49
Drake 87, Wichita St. 56
Evansville 62, Bradley 46
George Washington 62, Dayton 61
Indiana St. 63, Illinois St. 56
Loyola of Chicago 69, S. Illinois 68, OT
Marquette 87, Georgetown 72
Maryland 76, Iowa 56
Michigan 93, Minnesota 86
Michigan St. 74, Northwestern 51
N. Iowa 65, Missouri St. 60
Nebraska 73, Illinois 57
Notre Dame 88, North Carolina 54
Ohio St. 90, Rutgers 78
Purdue 63, Indiana 53
Villanova 64, DePaul 60
Wisconsin 82, Penn St. 62
SOUTHWEST
Oklahoma 68, Kansas St. 58
Rice 100, North Texas 97, 3OT
SMU 50, Houston 48
UTEP 62, UAB 54
FAR WEST
Arizona St. 63, Washington St. 45
Oregon St. 59, Oregon 45
Southern Cal 71, UCLA 68
Stanford 71, Colorado 56
Utah 84, California 79
Washington 63, Arizona 47
■ National Football League
NFL Playoffs
Wild-card Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 9
Kansas City 30, Houston 0
Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16
Sunday, Jan. 10
Seattle 10, Minnesota 9
Green Bay 35, Washington 18
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 16
Kansas City at New England, 4:35 (CBS)
Green Bay at Arizona, 8:15 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Jan. 17
Seattle at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at Denver, 4:30 p.m. (CBS)
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 24
AFC, 3:05 p.m. (CBS)
NFC, 6:40 p.m. (FOX)
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Jan. 31
At Honolulu
Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 7
At Santa Clara, Calif.
TBD, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)
■ National Basketball Association
Standings and schedule
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Toronto
24
15 .615
—
Boston
19
18 .514
4
New York
19
20 .487
5
Brooklyn
10
27 .270
13
Philadelphia
4
36 .100 20½
Southeast Division
Atlanta
23
15 .605
—
Miami
22
15 .595
½
Orlando
20
18 .526
3
Charlotte
17
20 .459 5½
Washington
16
19 .457 5½
Central Division
Cleveland
26
9
.743
—
Chicago
22
13 .629
4
Detroit
21
16 .568
6
Indiana
21
16 .568
6
Milwaukee
15
24 .385
13
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
San Antonio
32
6
.842
—
Dallas
22
16 .579
10
Memphis
21
18 .538 11½
Houston
19
19 .500
13
New Orleans
11
25 .306
20
Northwest Division
Oklahoma City
26
12 .684
—
Utah
17
20 .459 8½
Portland
16
24 .400
11
Denver
14
24 .368
12
Minnesota
12
26 .316
14
Pacific Division
Golden State
35
2
.946
—
L.A. Clippers
25
13 .658 10½
Sacramento
15
22 .405
20
Phoenix
13
26 .333
23
L.A. Lakers
8
31 .205
28
Sunday’s Games
L.A. Clippers 114, New Orleans 111, OT
Dallas 93, Minnesota 87
Memphis 101, Boston 98
Cleveland 95, Philadelphia 85
Houston 107, Indiana 103, OT
New York 100, Milwaukee 88
Denver 95, Charlotte 92
Portland 115, Oklahoma City 110
Utah 86, L.A. Lakers 74
Monday’s Games
San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Miami at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Phoenix at Indiana, 7 p.m.
San Antonio at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m.
Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
New York at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Indiana at Boston, 8 p.m.
Golden State at Denver, 9 p.m.
New Orleans at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.
Miami at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
■ National Hockey League
Standings and schedule
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
42 26 12 4 56 116 89
42 22 13 7 51 105 108
43 23 17 3 49 122 107
40 21 14 5 47 123 108
42 21 17 4 46 107 102
43 20 17 6 46 119 131
40 16 17 7 39 104 112
42 16 22 4 36 97 115
Metropolitan Division
Washington 42 32 7
3 67 139 90
N.Y. Rangers 41 22 14 5 49 121 109
N.Y. Islanders42 22 15 5 49 114 107
New Jersey 43 21 17 5 47 97 102
Pittsburgh
41 20 16 5 45 97 100
Philadelphia 40 18 15 7 43 91 108
Carolina
43 18 18 7 43 102 118
Columbus
43 15 24 4 34 109 139
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Dallas
44 29 11 4 62 149 116
Chicago
44 27 13 4 58 126 104
St. Louis
45 24 14 7 55 111 112
Minnesota 42 22 12 8 52 111 99
Nashville
42 19 16 7 45 107 115
Colorado
43 21 19 3 45 125 123
Winnipeg
42 19 20 3 41 111 121
Pacific Division
Los Angeles 41 26 12 3 55 108 90
Arizona
41 21 16 4 46 116 125
Vancouver 42 16 16 10 42 102 118
Anaheim
41 17 17 7 41 78 99
San Jose
39 19 18 2 40 109 108
Calgary
40 19 19 2 40 105 124
Edmonton 43 17 23 3 37 105 127
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Sunday’s Games
Buffalo 4, Winnipeg 2
Washington 7, Ottawa 1
Chicago 6, Colorado 3
New Jersey 2, Minnesota 1
Detroit 2, Anaheim 1
Florida 2, Edmonton 1
Monday’s Games
Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Florida at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Detroit at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Columbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Edmonton at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Columbus at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Boston at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
Florida at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Florida
Detroit
Montreal
Boston
Tampa Bay
Ottawa
Toronto
Buffalo
■ Golf
Tournament of Champions
Sunday
At Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course
Kapalua, Hawaii
Purse: $5.9 million
Yardage: 7,452; Par 73
Final
Jordan Spieth
66-64-65-67—262 -30
Patrick Reed
65-69-67-69—270 -22
Brandt Snedeker
67-72-65-67—271 -21
Brooks Koepka
69-68-63-71—271 -21
Rickie Fowler
69-67-69-67—272 -20
Padraig Harrington 70-68-70-67—275 -17
Peter Malnati
71-66-69-69—275 -17
Fabian Gomez
68-66-70-71—275 -17
Kevin Kisner
69-65-71-71—276 -16
Jason Day
70-73-69-65—277 -15
Bubba Watson
69-68-73-67—277 -15
Dustin Johnson
73-67-68-69—277 -15
Steven Bowditch
Jimmy Walker
Smylie Kaufman
Danny Lee
David Lingmerth
Troy Merritt
Emiliano Grillo
Bill Haas
Zach Johnson
Alex Cejka
Justin Thomas
Scott Piercy
Chris Kirk
J.B. Holmes
Russell Knox
Matt Every
Graeme McDowell
Davis Love III
J.J. Henry
James Hahn
69-67-69-72—277
70-71-64-72—277
70-69-71-68—278
67-68-71-72—278
71-71-66-70—278
75-68-70-67—280
71-73-70-66—280
71-69-70-70—280
75-69-70-67—281
72-72-69-68—281
70-73-69-69—281
71-69-72-71—283
70-71-70-72—283
67-76-68-72—283
71-72-69-72—284
70-68-78-71—287
75-70-72-71—288
75-72-71-70—288
77-74-73-71—295
76-76-74-69—295
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-9
-8
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+3
+3
■ Transactions
Sunday
BASEBALL
National League
CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with
RHPs Pedro Villarreal and Ryan Mattheus
on minor league contracts.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
BROOKLYN NETS — Fired coach Lionel
Hollins. Reassigned general manager Billy
King. Named assistant coach Tony Brown interim head coach.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BUFFALO BILLS — Signed general manager
Doug Whaley to a three-year contract extension. Named Rob Ryan assistant head
coach/defense.
DETROIT LIONS — Named Ernie Accorsi special adviser to the team president.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Justin Kea
from Elmira (ECHL) to Rochester (AHL).
DALLAS STARS — Reassigned C Radek
Faksa to Texas (AHL).
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Recalled F
Matia Marcantuoni and D Harrison Ruopp
from Wheeling (ECHL) to WilkesBarre/Scranton (AHL).
American Hockey League
GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed F A.J.
Jenks to a professional tryout agreement.
HERSHEY BEARS — Returned F Cam Reid
to Reading (ECHL).
PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Assigned F Eric
Neiley to Atlanta (ECHL).
ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Recalled F
Matt Garbowsky from Elmira (ECHL).
WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS —
Assigned Fs John McCarron and Patrick McGrath to Wheeling (ECHL).
ECHL
BRAMPTON BEAST — Released G McIntyre
Reamey. Signed G Cody Rosen.
CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released F Connor Toomey.
IDAHO STEELHEADS — Released G Doug
Melvin as emergency backup.
RAPID CITY RUSH — Signed F Tyler Scofield.
COLLEGE
PENN STATE — Promoted assistant head
coach, co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Brent Pry to associate head football
coach and defensive coordinator. Added assistant head coach to defensive recruiting coordinator and cornerbacks coach Terry Smith’s
title. Added run game coordinator to defensive
line coach Sean Spencer’s duties.
UNLV — Announced the resignation of men’s
basketball coach Dave Rice. Named men’s
associate head basketball coach Todd
Simon interim coach.
■ Today in Sports
Jan. 11
1970 — The AFL wins its second straight
Super Bowl as the Kansas City Chiefs beat
the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 behind Len Dawson’s superb quarterbacking and Jan
Stenerud’s three field goals.
1973 — The American League adopts the designated hitter rule.
1981 — Jim Plunkett completes 14 of 18
passes for 261 yards and two touchdowns to
lead the Oakland Raiders to 34-27 victory
over the San Diego Chargers for the AFC
title. The Raiders are the first AFC wild-card
team to advance to the Super Bowl.
1984 — The Denver Nuggets beats the San
Antonio Spurs 163-155 in the highest scoring
regulation-length NBA game.
1987 — Denver’s John Elway leads the Broncos to a 23-20 overtime victory over the
Cleveland Browns to win the AFC Championship. Elway caps a 15-play, 98-yard march
with a 5-yard TD pass to Mark Jackson to tie
the game with 37 seconds remaining. Rich
Karlis kicks a 33-yard field goal in overtime
to give Denver the win.
1992 — Kristi Yamaguchi, runner-up the previous
three years, wins her first title in the U.S. Figure
Skating Championships. Christopher Bowman,
the 1989 U.S. champion, wins the men’s title.
1998 — Lleyton Hewitt, an Australian high school
student ranked 550th, wins the Australian
Men’s Hardcourt Championship to become the
lowest-ranked player to win an ATP Tour event.
2004 — Detroit allows 100 points for the first time
this season, but the Pistons were still able to
outlast Dallas 115-102. Detroit has its NBArecord streak of not allowing 100 points
snapped at 38 games, including 36 this season.
2009 — Philadelphia, led by Donovan McNabb, eliminates the New York Giants 23-11
to reach the NFC title game for the fifth time
in eight seasons. This is the first game in
NFL history to finish 23-11.
2014 — LeGarrette Blount rushes for 166
yards and four touchdown as the New England beats Indianapolis 43-22 to advance to
their third consecutive AFC championship
game. Blount joins Ricky Watters, who had
five touchdowns for San Francisco on Jan.
15, 1994, as the only players with four or
more in a playoff game.
2014 — Gracie Gold wins her first U.S. figure
skating title and 15-year-old Polina Edmunds
finishes second. Charlie White and Meryl
Davis win a record sixth straight U.S. ice
dance title — one more than American ice
dance pioneers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
2014 — Alex Rodriguez is dealt the most severe
punishment in the history of baseball’s drug
agreement when arbitrator Fredric Horowitz
rules the New York Yankees third baseman is
suspended for the entire 2014 season as a result of a drug investigation by Major League
Baseball. The decision cuts the suspension
issued Aug. 5, 2013 by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig from 211 games.
2015 — Roger Federer beats the up-and-coming Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4 to register
his 1,000th career match and win the Brisbane International. Federer is the third player
to win 1,000 times on the men’s professional
tour’ joining Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan
Lendl (1,071).
2015 — Green Bay rallies from an 8-point
deficit as Aaron Rodgers throws two secondhalf touchdowns to beat Dallas 26-21 in an
NFC divisional-round playoff. The Packers,
helped immensely by a video reversal with
4:06 remaining, go undefeated at Lambeau
Field this season. Dez Bryant’s leaping catch
at the Packers 1 on fourth-and-2 is reversed
by referee Gene Steratore after Green Bay
challenges. Instead of first-and-goal for Dallas, the ball goes to the Packers.
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NOTICE TO CONSULTANT
ENGINEERS REGARDING A
REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS
January 8, 2016
The City of Cookeville Tennessee, an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer, seeks to
retain the services of a professional consultant engineering
firm to provide services related
to the design of approximately
7,605 feet of 5’ sidewalks along
the north side of State Route
24/US 70/East Spring Street,
from East Broad Street to Old
Kentucky Road/Neal Street; Carlen Drive, from SR 24 to Avery
Trace Middle School; and Raider Drive, from SR 24 to the
Avery Trace Middle School parking lot. This project is funded in
part by a Multi Modal Access
Grant through the Tennessee
Department of Transportation.
The project shall be accomplished in accordance with the
requirements of the Local Government Guidelines of the TDOT
Local Program Development Office, and all federal and state
laws, rules and policies appertaining to the project and its
funding source. The professional consultant engineering consulting firm and all sub-consultants must be on TDOT’s pre-approved list. The primary consultant and any sub-consultants expected to do work exceeding an
estimated One Hundred Thousand Dollars in fee must have
unlimited status. Responsibilities of the professional consultant engineering firm include, but
are not limited to:
• Complete project management
in accordance with the Local
Government Guidelines of
TDOT’s Local Program Development Office (Project time frame
is from beginning of design until
TDOT concurrence in intent to
award is received. CEI services
are not included)
• Provide field survey services of
the project area
• Provide engineering design
services to prepare bid/construction documents for the construction of the project
• Prepare itemized estimate of
probable cost using TDOT item
numbers
• Prepare project specifications
and bid documents
• Prepare bid notice
• Prepare bid advertisement
• Permit submittal for review and
approval to TDOT
• Utility submittal for review and
approval to TDOT
• Hold Prebid Conference
• Assist City in evaluation of bids
and recommendation for contract award
• Secure TDOT concurrence in
intent to award
• Any other services needed to
complete the design, right-ofway, and bidding for construction of the project.
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2. Capacity of the firm to perform the work, including any
specialized services.
3. Description of how the firm
would execute the project.
4. Past record or performance
on contracts with the City of
Cookeville or other governmental agencies and private industry
with respect to such factors as
control of cost, quality of work,
and the ability to meet schedules.
5. Familiarity with details of the
project.
6. Qualifications of the firm to
subcontract any portion of work
and the percentage of total
project subcontractor shall perform.
7. Location of firm’s office that
will administer project.
8. Experience with grant funded
projects.
9. Qualification and availability of
staff.
10. Evaluations on prior projects
with TDOT and other clients, if
available.
11. Size of project.
12. Amount of work under contract with TDOT and other clients.
13. Knowledge of TDOT requirements
Evaluation proceedings will be
conducted within the established guidelines regarding equal
employment opportunity and
nondiscriminatory action based
upon the grounds of race, color,
sex, creed or national origin. Interested certified Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise (DBE) firms
as well as other minority-owned
and women-owned firms are encouraged to respond to all advertisements by the City of
Cookeville. For information on
DBE certification, please contact Mr. Ross Webb at (615)2531067 or
[email protected]
Details and instructions for DBE
certification can be found at the
following website:
http://www.tn.gov/tdot/topic/smallbusiness
Questions and requests for additional information should be directed Greg Brown, Public Works
Director-City of Cookeville, (931)
520-5247 or
[email protected]
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Staining, Power Wash Vinyl, 140
Other
Driveways. FREE EST. Lic./Ins.
Call 931-525-6482
"JACKSON'S MOVING SERVICE"
KERBY PAINTING
CHECK OUT MY WORK
Go to www.kerbypainting.com
Ask for Mike (931) 979-3122
121
Pest Control
Full-Time Benefits Specialist
The successful candidate will assist with monthly benefit meetings, reconcile audits, process
Need to move? We have the 20' benefits as well as serve as liaisbox truck & men to do the job. No on between medical center, bestress for you & your furniture. Ref's nefit carriers, and employees.
Avail. Call for free Est. 931-268-9102 High school diploma or equivalent required; Degree in business or related field preferred.
Two to three years’ experience
in Human Resources or related
field required with experience in
benefits preferred.
Apply online at:
www.crmchealth.org
E.O.E.
(931)526-5197 • 1-800-707-5197
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Route 24/US 70/East Spring 025
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050
Lost and Found
FOUND DOG. Plunk Whitson /
Pippin Rd area. Dark brown
young male (not fixed) possibly a
flat- coated retriever. Friendly
energetic looks well taken care
of. Please call 526-9988
ALL STAR PEST CONTROL
OF TENNESSEE
Complete Termite Service
Lic'd/Ins‚'d. Bonded.
All work guaranteed
Free Estimates.
MARTY KELLY
931-526-8550
Charter # 4252
125
Home Renovation
BOULDIN HOME REPAIR &
REMODELING. Plumbing, electrical, painting, dry wall, bathroom &
kitchen remodels. Carpentry work.
30 yrs exp. Free Est. 239-6061
REPLACEMENT WINDOWS &
DOORS. Call today for free inhome Est. Serving Mid. TN for
12 years. 931-Windows
ROOFING SALE: Intsalled as
low as $1.80 SF. Owens Corning Lifetime Warranty. Offered
for a limited time. Gentry Construction, Lic/Ins 931-261-4911
127
Sheetrock,Drywall
LOST: NECKLACES w/ Heart
LUNA'S DRYWALL
Shaped Diamond, Cross W/Dia- Sheetrock Work: Hang, finish,
monds. Probably lost on East touch up. No job too big/small.
side of town. Please call 931- Insured. 931-212-6899
267-7659
053
Auctions
BAILLIE LIQUIDATORS
Online Auctions Mon-Fri
We carry a wide variety of supplies from craftsman tools to kitchen supplies & more!
931-858-7225
www.blauctionz.com
1. Specialized experience and 103
Auto Svc. & Repair
technical competence of the firm
(including a joint venture or asJ &A AUTO SERVICE
sociation) with the type work requested. Firm should have de- Great service at discount prices!
TOWING AVAILABLE
signed at least two similar
931-260-6459
projects in the past 6 years.
130 Tree Service/Related
OLD TIMERS TREE SERVICE
4 generations of tree care.
Specialize in dangerous tree
removal. Grind stumps. Lic/Ins.
T. Bowman 537-2466;260-5655
M & M TREE SERVICE
We trim, top & remove trees.
Also stump removal.
Free Est. Lic/Ins
Call 432-4382 or 260-6304
EVERGREEN TREE service We
top, trim, prune & remove trees.
Jeff Burchett & Shawn Roberson. Satisfaction guaranteed
Fully Ins'd (931)319-1199, 261-8870
GANTT'S AUTO TRIM
& UPHOLSTERY
Complete Auto and Boat Interiors.
Owner Wayne Gantt
931-372-7606
DISABLED? Having trouble
getting your social security or
VA disability?
We can help! Call Disability
Consulting @ 877-453-9151
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Child/Elder Care
DIRECT SUPPORT STAFF
needed for residential home.
Apply in person at 723 W. Jackson St. Must have experience,
references and pass drug test.
F/T Veterinary Asst to handle
animals, do janitoral work, assist vet w/examinations, perform
other tasks as needed. Must be
polite, work well w/people & animals. Hrs: Saturdays. Send re-
sume PO Box 3084, Ckvl, TN 38502
I WOULD like to house clean FULL TIME front desk/receptionor sit with elderly people part- ist needed for busy real estate
time. 931-252-3893, 372-2540. office. Responsibilities include:
answering phones, greeting cliWOULD LIKE TO SIT
ents, scheduling appointments
with the elderly
and general office duties. Hours
Call Mary @ (931)319-3538
are 8am - 5pm Monday through
Friday. Send resume to:BOX
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Employment Opp. 1141, H-C P.O. Box 2729,
Cookeville, TN 38502-2729
AG. MECHANIC & SERVICE
FULL TIME Janitorial Worker
WRITER NEEDED
in Ckvl area needed, 2nd shift,
Must have own tools, exp. ne$9 hr .starting wage. Holiday, vacessary. Apply in person at
cation pay, and retirement plan.
Hix Brothers Tractor
Pre-employment drug screen
1801 S Jefferson, Cookeville
and back ground check
AUTO TECHNICIAN
required.apply in person at 110
Locally owned business looking W. Main St. Algood, Tn. or onfor Exp'd Tire Tech & Oil Change line at advancedcleaning.com
Tech. MUST BE honest, dependable, have positive attitude FULL TIME Receptionist needed
& have own tools. Uniforms for busy dental office please
provided & Benefits. Open Mon send resume to Hintz & Oakley
thru Fri - NO Weekends. Inform- Family Dentistry 120 W Jackson
ation received will be kept con- St or fax to 526-5459
fidential. Apply in person or send
resume to: Doc's Auto & Tire, 233 KID KUNTRY is seeking an energetic flexible child care
W. Broad St, Ckvl,TN 38501.
teacher. Must be willing to work
SUBCONTRACTOR: Above in the kitchen. HS Diploma Req.
Ground Pool Installer
CDA training pref. Email resume
to [email protected]
Pool & Spa Depot of Ckvl, TN is
looking for Exp'd subcontractors LOOKING FOR a PT cashier.
for above ground pool installa- 24.5 hours a week & work every
tions for the 2015 season. Sub- Sunday. Self Motivated. Must
contractor must provide their have reliable transportation, &
own worker's compensation, li- working knowledge of comability insurance, & equipment. puters. Apply at 452 W. Broad.
Position is FT & weekends are
req'd. Excellent pay & career op- LOVING FAMILY needing careportunity. Please apply in per- g i v e r f o r s w e e t l a d y w i t h
son at 1470 Interstate Dr, Ckvl, Alzheimers. $11 - $13 per hr. no
TN 38501 or send resume to exp. required please email:
[email protected]
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Employment Opp.
MAMMA ROSA's accepting applications for cooks & dishwasher/prep persons. P/T afternoon & evening hours. Also
for Servers, some P/T day &
evening. Apply in person.
Manager/Personal Asst
needed for gowing residential
home. Experience & references
req'd. Must have valid TN drivers
license & pass drug test. Email
resume to
[email protected]
ONE HOUR MARTINIZING/
CITY BOY TUXEDOS is looking
for a part time CSR to join our
winning team. The ideal candidate has experience working with
customers in a retail environment, knowledge of computers,
and the ability to learn new processes and procedures. Flexible
hours, high school diploma /GED
is required. Interested parties
should send their resume to:
[email protected]
or stop 55 North Walnut Ave,
Ckvl to fill out an application.
P/T Night Auditor/Guest Representative needed, Saturday &
Sunday 7PM-7AM, flexible
hours. Computer exp. req'd. Apply in person Red Roof Inn, Ckvl. No ph. calls pls
QUALITY TECHNICIANS-CMM
Programmer/Second Shift
Flexial is THE growth company
in bellows related products, displacing the largest and most entrenched bellows companies on
the world's most significant programs.
We have an immediate need for
experienced QA TechniciansCMM Programmer on second
shift. These team members support manufacturing through dimensional, visual, metallurgical,
and receiving inspections. They
have advanced quality skills and
experience with most gages and
metrology tools. These are fulltime positions with benefits.
Hourly rates $17.00 - $25.00 depending on experience and skill
set
We are excited about our growth
and are in need of self-starters
and big thinkers. Visit us at
www.flexial.com. If you think you
have what it takes to be a contributing player in our fast paced
productive environment we’d
love to hear from you! Email
your resume to [email protected]
or in person at 1483 Gould
Drive, Cookeville – No Phone
Calls Please.
7 TEMPORARY Farm Workers
Needed. Rodney Malchow Cookeville, TN. Perform all duties of Straw/Hay & Fruit/Vegetable Production; including seeding, planting, spraying, irrigating,
harvesting, storing, & packaging;
and other alternative work. Employment Dates: 03/11/2016 –
10/21/2016. $10.85/hr. Piece
rates may be offered. Worker
guaranteed 3/4 of contract
hours. Tools provided at no cost.
Free housing provided to noncommuting workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed
when 50% of contract is met.
Random drug testing may be
done after hire at employer’s expense. Apply for this job at the
nearest Tennessee Career Center or call 615-253-6706 and reference job order TN417933.
SAFE HARBOR Marinas has
an opeing for a Marina Manager
at our Eagle Cove location on
Dale Hollow Lake. 2 yrs of marina management preferred.
Competitive compensation pkg
incl Health Ins & 401k. Send resume to Layne Wilson at
[email protected]
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NEEDED!
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Local CDL Training!
Training Grant Available!
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avoiding employment service
scams, write to the Federal
Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20580, or you
can go online to
http://www.fraud.org/.
This message is a public service of
the Herald-Citizen &
Regional Buyers Guide.
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Health Care Emp.
Busy Family Practice is looking for a motivated leader to be
our Practice Manager. The successful candidate will work directly with three physicians to
manage all clinical and clerical
staff at our practice. This is a
full-time, salaried position with
benefits including paid time off,
holiday pay, health insurance
and 401(k) with employer match.
Previous medical office or hospital and management experience required. Previous clinical
experience is preferred. Send
resume to BOX 1145, H-C P.O.
Box 2729, Ckvl, TN 38502-2729
COOK-PART TIME: Morningside Assisted Living is accepting
applications for a PT cook, 2
days/week, Noon-8 p.m. Must
have previous exp. preferably in
the healthcare setting & be able
to work some weekends & holidays. Apply in person at 1010
East Spring Street, Cookeville
283
Trucking Emp.
CDL DRIVER: Class A OTR
w/good record needed. Flexible
time out & routes. For more info,
call business hrs: 615-390-2787
290
Schools/Instruction
NO HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA NEEDED. How often
do you see that? Putnam
County Adult High School can
show you a way to complete
the credits you missed when
you were in school before.
Flexible schedule -- days or
evenings. Individualized
study. Possible credit for work
or armed services training.
Relaxed atmosphere. Free.
If you are between 18 and
118 and want information
about registering, call
528-8685. This could be your
year to graduate. If you can
dream it, you can do it.
315
Financial Services
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doing business by phone to
promise you a loan and ask you
to pay for it before they deliver.
For free information about avoiding advance fee loan scams,
write to the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.,
20580 or call the National Fraud
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Center,
1-800-876-7060. This message
is a public service of the
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free. For more information about
credit repair scams, write to the
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Cycles & ATVs
2007 HARLEY DAVIDSON
DYNA Super Glide,
garage kept, alarm system,
lots of chrome. $9,500.
(931)528-0348 / 260-0405
425
Autos for Sale
1994 LEXUS ES 300: Pearl
White/tan leather, heated seats,
157,000 mi. Needs a few minor
repairs I have reduced price for
that $2,700. Call (931)544-0909
430
Trucks For Sale
1995 CHEVY Silverado Extended Cab. New transmission,
truck needs minor work. $1,500
obo. Call (931)303-2011
505
Misc. Wanted
WANTED OLD APPLIANCES &
JUNK - WILL PICK UP
CALL 931-510-4138
510
Misc. For Sale
100 GAL Aluminum Transfer
Tank. Diamond plate L-shaped
tank accommodates tool box.
Filler caps on both sides. Outlet
on bottom allows direct plumbing into fuel system. Heavy duty
brackets added for stability.
$400. Call (931)260-9155
2pc brown sectional sofa microfiber $400 obo; Kenmore Almond frig side-by-side w/icemaker $200 obo. (931)854-9063
FREE
WOOD SKIDS
Available at the rear of the
Herald-Citizen
1300 Neal Street,
Cookeville, TN. 38501
HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING the print in your favorite
Newspaper, Magazine or Bible
or ever had trouble reading the
telephone directory or a map?
510
Misc. For Sale
SINGLE BED for sale $150.
Serta Perfect Sleeper, mattress,
foundation and frame. Like new.
1 1/2 years old. 931-268-4577
515
You MUST go to your
city’s business office to
obtain a permit.
City of Algood
215 W Main St.
Algood, TN
or
City of Cookeville
45 E. Broad Street
Cookeville, TN
LARGE BUILDING full of
antique glassware & dishes.
Call Janice in Jamestown at
931-879-9139.
540
Firewood/Stoves
705
Wanted To Rent
Equal Housing Opportunity
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the Federal
Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status
or national origin, handicap/disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or
discrimination." This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which
is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal Housing Opportunity, M/F.
Herald-Citizen &
Regional Buyers
Guide
1300 Neal St., Cookeville, TN
931-526-9715 (FAX) 526-1209
715
Rooms for Rent
STAR MOTOR INN
Weekly, starting at $180
free internet, frig, guest laundry,
movie rentals. Pet Friendly Construction Crews welcome.
526-9511
720 Apts/Duplex For Rent
ONLY $3.25 EA. PLUS TAX
1, 2, 3 & 4 BR APTS /
HOUSES NEW $280 - $800
GET ONE TODAY!!
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1300 Neal Street
Cookeville, TN. 38501
931-526-9715
WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE
TODAY?
NEW SAFE Step Walk in Tub.
Does not fit my physical needs.
28 x 51. It is installed will need to
be removed. Bought 12-12-15. Is
fully loaded, jets back & frontChromotherapy-Heated etc.
Works fine but will not transfer
warranty to new owner. $6,000
plus you have to remove from
home. Call Donna 931-260-1167
NORDIC TRACK Elliptical,
slightly used, loaded, bluetooth,
tv, the works. $700 OBO. 5265103
Cable, Water/Appl's Furnished
OVER 100 LOCATIONS
Kids Welcome; Some Pets in
Designated Apts.
Open Mon - Fri
SOARD PROPERTIES
526-1988
Storage units available
1BR APT in Monterey. No pets.
Stove, frig, W/D HU, plus deposit. Call 839-3406.
2BR, 1BA. Stove, refrig, DW,
CH/A, cable pd. $360/mo. Small
pets OK!! Call 526-1988.
267 E. 13th St: 3BR, 2BA Townhouse. $725/mo. 528-7468, 2614080, 260-6868
www.crownrentalproperties.com
2BR 1.5BA TH: S. Jefferson &
111. No pets. Appl‚s. $475/mo +
dep. (931) 261-4832
2BR 1BA Duplex Sparta @
O'Connor Rd. W/D HU. CHA
Small pets ok. $445/mo
$425/dep. (931)265-7507
2BR Townhouse W/D HU,
CHA, appls, water furn'd. $480
w/ref (931)520-2600.
APTS for RENT in Rickman
Call Randall
(931)261-7184
Capshaw Area. Upscale condo
in residential neighborhood.
3BR, 2BA, walk-in closets, fireQUEEN SZ sleigh bed/BR set place, hdwd & tile flrs, W/D HU,
$325; Twin BR set $300; Nice 2c gar, great storage. No pets.
& chair $125. Lots more! $1250/mo. 528-2356, 239-6937
283
Trucking Emp. couch
(931)854-0645, 644-5937
Gray Hunter Arms: 2BR, 1BA.
DRIVERS WANTED. 18 mos WHRILPOOL WASHER & DRY- P e a c e f u l , c a b l e / w a t e r p d .
flatbed experience. CDL license. ER - in good running condition. $ 5 9 5 / m o . 5 2 8 - 1 4 4 1 .
www.grayhunterarmsapartments.com
Home weekends. 931-686-2977 $100. Call 423-356-1251
730
Mobile Homes/Rent
FOR RENT
1 , 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts, Houses.
Many locations
FALCON REALTY,
528-2158
falconrealtycookeville.com
CYPRESS CREEK APTS
Leasing 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom Apts
Security Deposit only $250!
600 W. 8th Street • Cookeville
931-372-1605 - EHO*
FURN'D 2BR, 1.5BA Condo.
Located close to TTU/Hosp. H20
incl'd. $850/mo. (931)267-4607
In town country setting. Secluded 2BR, 1BA 1200 SF Apt.
All appls, W/D HU, No
SMK/pets.Utilities incl'd.
Ref/Cr.Ck. req. $825/mo. Eve:
931-858-1080 lve msg. 126 3rd
Ave N., Baxter, TN
TOTALLY FURNISHED 2BR,
1.5BA Condo. Located close
to TTU/Hosp. $850/mo.includes maintenance fee and
water bill for more info. please
call (931)267-4607
Comm & Indus/Rent
1BR HOUSE, Monterey. AC, 10TH ST: Medical Office/Retail.
stove, frig, DW. 450/mo + dep. Park Village Shopping Ctr. 1600
(931)265-2397
SF. $1200/mo. (931)265-3545
5000 SF Restaurant for lease in
2.5BR, 2BA - 217 Sewell St, Livingston.
Call 931-256-5635.
Baxter. $600 first & last, will
neg. dep. Call (931)284-8663
3BR 2 full baths across the
street from TTU campus!W/D
& yard maintenance furnished.
Total renovation, nice!! $900
Month + dep. NO PETS NO
SMOKING, (931)265 -0083
Northgate Business Park:
4800 SF Ground level &
3000 SF Suite avail. 261-7903
3BR 2BA, full bsmnt, in Colonial
E s t b e h i n d t h e m a n s i o n . COMMERCIAL / OFFICE / Re$950/mo.Lease req‚d. leave tail / Storage. 10,000 SF avail.
in Livingston. Plenty of parking,
msg. 644-3582
loading dock, etc. 931-256-5635
3BR 2BA like new. Lrg yard,
desirable location, no pets.
$875/mo, $875/dep 615-566-6497
3BR, 1BA: CHA, stove, frig,
DW, micro, new cabinets, laundry rm, carport. Near Prescott
School. No pets $750, $500/dep.
528-8816.
4BR, 2.5BA. Frig, stove top,
MIXED FIREWOOD $30/rick
W/D HU. $825/mo + dep. No
U pick up
pets. Call 372-2059.
Walk to TTU. 2BR, 1.5BA $500
Call (931)854-0645, 644-5937
+ dep, no pets. Lrg 4BR, 2.5BA 4BR/2BA, Monterey, Arts &
OAK FIREWOOD
$1000 + dep W/D HU on both Craft home, wood floors, FP,
$65/rick delivered
screened porch, great yard.
(931)261-1711
Call 931-808-5347
$750+dep. Rent or Buy. 931725
SEASONED FIREWOOD - Oak,
Houses For Rent 265-2397
Maple, Locust. $50/Rick, In
BRICK RANCH 3/1.5. No
Town PU, You Haul 931-267-6024 1, 2, 3, & 4 BR Houses & Apts smoking/pets. Dep, ref's req'd.
$800/mo. Call (931)260-3800.
Starting at $325/mo or
545
Pets & Supplies
$81.25/wk . Pets OK.
NOTTINGHAM DR: 3BR, 2 Bth,
Stevens Realty LLC
garage, $850/mo, $800 dep., 1
866-806-3815 O/A
LOOKING FOR A PET? Adopt
yr lease. Call Claudia, Asset
www.stevensrentals.com
your new best friend!
Prop. Svcs. o/a 520-4724
Visit us online at www.aarf- "We Now Offer Weekly Rentals"
facebook.com/ASSET.properites
tn.com to see all of our rescued
dogs, cats, puppies and kittens!
Meet the dogs and cats for adoption at our adoption events call, email or visit our website for
our event schedule. All pets are
fully vetted and already fixed.
A.A.R.F. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, no-kill animal
rescue/foster organization run by
volunteers. Please be part of the
solution to end animal overpopulation - spay or neuter your pets.
A.A.R.F. (All About Rescue and
Fixin' Inc.)
931-260-8018 (voicemail only) •
www.aarf-tn.com
BLUE PITS 5wks, check photos
on FB under Tamra Chavis Animated Profile. If interested call
931-349-0185. Not Registered
Deluxe Framed
MAGNIFYING SHEET
Houses For Rent
740
PLANNING A
YARD SALE???
Live within the city limits
of Algood or Cookeville?
725
1396 GIBBONS Rd: 3BR, 2BA, 2BR 1BA in town, water/appls
2000 SF, 2c garage. $1075/mo. furn'd. NO PETS. $300/mo +
dep. Ref's req'd. (931)260-2032
(931)528-7468, 260-6868
Garage/Yard Sales
1009 BROWN AVE. 2BR 1.5BA
$525/mth Appls furn'd, WD/HU.
No pets. (931)239-6937
133A EASTGATE Dr: 3BR,
2.5BA townhouse in Ridgecrest,
1400 SF, garage. $850/mo.
(931) 528-7468, 260-6868.
Now Available
720 Apts/Duplex For Rent
OFFICE / RETAIL SPACES
Locations on S. Jefferson
$395-$850. 979-5550
825
Homes For Sale
3914 Hilltop Dr 3/2 brick nice
neighborhood excellent location
2c gar 1766 SF upstairs & 1300
basement $209,000. 319-6381
3BR, 2BA, 139 Anderson St,
Sparta. $89,500. $500 finders
fee if sold. See zillow website for
photos. 931-808-7452
840
Lots & Acreage
LOT 4 SALE: Hawkins Hill S/D,
.48 acres $16,000. Buffalo Valley Rd just off Hawkins Crawford. Call (931)432-1092.
SPORTS
Steelers pull out dramatic win over Bengals
By WILL GRAVES
AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t throw. Antonio Brown couldn’t stand without
help.
And in the end, it didn’t matter. The Pittsburgh
Steelers are heading to Denver after the Cincinnati
Bengals did what they always seem to do this time
of year: they imploded.
Spectacularly.
Chris Boswell kicked a 35-yard field goal with 14
seconds remaining as Pittsburgh somehow pulled
out an 18-16 victory in an — really, just pick whatever synonym for “ugly” that works — AFC wildcard game Saturday night.
Pittsburgh (11-6) moved into field goal position
thanks to consecutive 15-yard penalties on the Bengals, one on linebacker Vontaze Burfict and another
on cornerback Adam Jones. Burfict dropped his
shoulder and hit a defenseless Brown in the helmet
as the All-Pro receiver came across the middle, and
Jones lost his cool after getting into with Steelers
assistant coach Joey Porter when Porter came onto
the field as Brown was being tended to by trainers.
Boswell drilled his fourth field goal of the game
on the next snap to give the Steelers their first playoff victory since the 2010 AFC championship.
“We won the game, that’s all that matters,” Roethlisberger said.
Pittsburgh bolted off the field without so much as
shaking hands while the Bengals vented their frustration after easily the most painful of their eighth
straight postseason losses. Jones took to Instagram
calling out Porter, a post Jones later deleted.
Cincinnati might want to do the same after somehow losing despite rallying from a 15-point deficit
to have the lead and the in Pittsburgh territory and
the lead with 1:30 to go.
Then the Bengals turned into ... the Bengals.
Hill was stripped of the ball by Ryan Shazier
while trying to run out the clock. The Steelers recovered at the Pittsburgh 9 and Roethlisberger and
his aching right shoulder returned for a last-gasp
drive. Unable to pass with any real authority, he
still managed to get the Steelers near midfield with
22 seconds to go when he threw high to Brown in
Cincinnati territory.
“It’s hard to put into words,” said Hill. “Words
don’t do anything at this point. It’s on me. I take
full blame for it.”
He had plenty of help from two of his volatile
John Minchillo | AP
Cincinnati Bengals’ Vontaze Burfict (55) runs into Pittsburgh Steelers’ Antonio Brown
(84) during the second half Saturday in Cincinnati. Pittsburgh won 18-16. Burfict was
called for a penalty on the play.
teammates, both with a history of questionable decision-making.
Burfict, whose sack of Roethlisberger sent the
quarterback to the locker room, lowered his shoulder as Brown landed. The volatile linebacker
earned a personal foul. Jones compounded the
problem when he lost his cool while jawing with
Porter, easily putting Boswell within field goal
range after Cincinnati’s eighth — and final — flag
of a ghastly night that ended with an unthinkable
collapse.
“We destructed on ourselves,” Bengals coach
Marvin Lewis said.
Pretty much.
Roethlisberger finished 18 of 31 for 229 yards and
a touchdown in rainy conditions. Jordan Todman
and Fitzgerald Toussaint combined for 123 yards
rushing filling in for injured DeAngelo Williams.
Brown caught seven passes for 119 yards but was
also diagnosed with a concussion.
Still, that production didn’t look like it would be
enough. AJ McCarron put together an improbable
Seahawks survive Vikings
By DAVE CAMPBELL
AP Pro Football Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks needed more than three
quarters to warm up at Minnesota, their quest to avenge last
year’s Super Bowl loss nearly
frozen before it began.
The Vikings, after gritting
through this grind-it-out wildcard round playoff game,
booted their chance to beat the
two-time defending NFC champions. Blair Walsh’s 27-yard
field goal try into the frigid
wind hooked left with 22 seconds remaining, handing the
Seahawks a 10-9 victory over
the stunned Vikings on a Sunday in below-zero weather that
tied for the third-coldest NFL
game on record.
“A lot of people would’ve
folded up and said, ‘That’s it,’
but we’ve got a team full of
fighters,” Seahawks cornerback
Richard Sherman said.
The Seahawks (11-6) didn’t
score until Russell Wilson’s
short touchdown pass to Doug
Baldwin early in the fourth
quarter. Then, a fumble by
Adrian Peterson for the Vikings
on the next possession set up a
field goal by Steven Hauschka.
The Vikings (11-6) took the
ball for the deciding drive with
1:42 left at their 39 and, aided
by a pass interference penalty
on Kam Chancellor, drove deep
into Seattle’s territory. After
draining the clock for the seemingly inevitable win, Walsh simply missed the winner after
making all three of his earlier
attempts.
“That’s called grace,” Chancellor said. “That’s all it is.”
Seattle will play next weekend
at Carolina, where the Panthers
had a first-round bye in balmy
mid-50s weather.
“I think we were fortunate that
we got the win,” Seahawks
coach Pete Carroll said. “A lot
of those times, guys make those
kicks. There’s a high percentage
that they make them, but you’ve
still got to do it.”
Walsh didn’t hide. Holder Jeff
Locke had the laces turned in,
not out, but there were no excuses to be made.
“You’re confident, but you
never think that you have it or
take it for granted,” Walsh said,
subdued with glassy eyes in the
locker room afterward. “I just
didn’t put a swing on it that
comeback after Martavis Bryant’s somersaulting
touchdown grab gave the Steelers a 15-0 lead heading into the final quarter.
Cincinnati (12-5) ripped off 16 straight points, the
last six on a 25-yard strike from McCarron to A.J.
Green that put the Bengals in front. They missed
the 2-point conversion but had seized momentum
completely, something that seemed near impossible
after running back Gio Bernard was knocked unconscious by Shazier and fumbled late in the third
quarter, a hit that seemed to ratchet up a game that
was already contentious all the way to the edge ...
and maybe beyond.
When Burfict intercepted Landry Jones on Pittsburgh’s possession after Green’s score, Cincinnati
and Lewis appeared ready to end the sixth-longest
postseason drought in NFL history.
And just as suddenly as it appeared, the Bengals’
resolve vanished.
Hill had the ball tucked in his left arm when
Shazier somehow clawed it out as Cincinnati tried
to bleed the clock and the Steelers recovered at the
Pittsburgh 9 with 1:23 left.
Just enough time for Roethlisberger — with a
hefty assist from the Bengals — to send the Steelers
to Denver and a rematch with the Broncos, whom
Pittsburgh beat 34-27 on Dec. 20 with Brock Osweiler at quarterback instead of Peyton Manning.
“There’s no quit in this team,” Roethlisberger
said.
Another long winter looms in Cincinnati.
The Bengals controlled the AFC North, easily
winning their fourth division title under Lewis even
with QB Andy Dalton breaking his right thumb
during a loss to Pittsburgh on Dec. 13. Yet all a
dozen wins did was set them up for a third showdown with their longtime tormentor in an increasingly acidic rivalry.
Pittsburgh survived a bumpy four months that included significant injuries to Roethlisberger, running back Le’Veon Bell, center Maurkice Pouncey
and left tackle Kelvin Beachum. The Steelers
needed a win in Cleveland and a Buffalo upset of
the Jets on the final Sunday to make the playoffs
for a second straight year.
A trip to Cincinnati hardly seemed a problem: The
Steelers have lost in Paul Brown Stadium only
three times since it opened in 2000, a sea of Terrible Towels turning the Bengals’ home into Heinz
Field West. It served as the launching point of a
Super Bowl run in 2005.
Both teams pledged to be on their best behavior
with so much at stake, and for a while tempers were
kept largely in check. There were no pregame
fisticuffs this time — unlike Pittsburgh’s previous
visit — thanks in part to assistant coaches on both
sides creating a black-clad DMZ at midfield.
The first personal foul penalty came from an unlikely source, Pittsburgh Hall of Fame offensive
line coach Mike Munchak, flagged for grabbing
Reggie Nelson’s hair after the safety found himself
mixing it up with a couple of Steelers after pushing
Todman out of bounds.
McCarron, so effective while replacing Dalton,
could do little. The Bengals managed just 56 yards
of total offense yet trailed just 6-0 as the Steelers
and the league’s third-ranked offense could muster
only a pair of Boswell field goals.
As the game proceeded, it got more testy, nearly
out of control in the fourth quarter. And it cost the
Bengals dearly.
“It was a really emotional game, I’m not surprised,” Shazier said. “They seen the dam breaking
and their emotions got to them.”
After slow start, Rodgers,
Packers overwhelm Redskins
By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Pro Football Writer
Nam Y. Huh | AP
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll celebrates with
wide receiver Doug Baldwin (89) Sunday in Minneapolis.
would be acceptable by anybody’s standards.”
Huddled around sideline
heaters and wearing huge capes
on the shaded side of the stadium, the Seahawks were subdued themselves for much of
the game. Trailing 9-0 at the 13minute mark, Wilson nearly
took a huge loss on first down
when he fumbled a shotgun
snap he wasn’t ready for. But
the guy Vikings coach Mike
Zimmer called “Houdini” during the week darted right,
dodged a sack and found Tyler
Lockett wide open for a 35-yard
completion to set up the score to
Baldwin.
“Just tried to extend the play,”
said Wilson, who went 13 for 26
for 142 yards. “Find a way.”
Chancellor, who ripped the
ball away from Peterson that
Ahtyba Rubin recovered,
missed a tackle on tight end
Kyle Rudolph’s 24-yard reception that let the Vikings advance
to the 18 with 1:26 left. But Peterson’s next three carries left
the Vikings a yard short of the
first down. Walsh, whose third
kick was nearly blocked by
Sherman, jogged out for the
defining moment. And the Seahawks were suddenly celebrating an improbable win, not
unlike their rally past Green
Bay in the NFC championship
game last year.
“It’s a chip shot,” Zimmer
said. “He’s got to make it.”
The Seahawks left their last
visit to Minnesota with a 38-7
victory, pure domination on
both sides of the ball that left no
doubt that Dec. 6 afternoon
they’d be a legitimate contender
to reach their third straight
Super Bowl even without the
ear-splitting advantage of their
home by the bay at CenturyLink
Field.
For all their skills, experience
and swagger, though, the combination of these conditions and
a well-prepared, embarrassedby-the-previous-performance
Vikings team proved to be quite
the challenge.
This was a fittingly frigid finish for Minnesota’s two-year
stint outdoors at the University
of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium during construction of the
new covered downtown stadium. For the first au naturel
postseason game here since the
NFC championship game in
1976, the grizzled coach of that
team, Bud Grant, served as an
honorary captain. He strolled
out for the coin flip in a Vikings
cap and a purple short-sleeved
polo shirt, looking ready for a
round of golf.
The 88-year-old Grant got a
roar of approval from the
crowd, most of which was
dressed in as many layers as
those purple replica jerseys
would allow. The announcement of the minus-25 degree
wind chill factor a few minutes
later drew an equally loud cheer.
Every mistake and break was
magnified in a game like this,
and the Vikings benefited for
the majority of the first three
quarters.
Punter Jon Ryan had to pick up
a low snap on Seattle’s first possession and, avoiding a potential
block, tried to run up the middle
before being upended by Jason
Trusnik well shy of the first
down. Ryan landed on his face,
breaking and bloodying his
nose, and the Vikings turned the
shortened field into their first
field goal.
Wilson, who led the NFL in
passer rating after racking up a
remarkable 24 touchdown
passes with only one interception over the last seven games,
was essentially reduced to a
scrambler in the deep freeze.
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — For
Aaron Rodgers and the rest of
the Green Bay Packers’ offense,
the first quarter of their playoff
game Sunday looked quite similar to the stagnant way their regular season wound down.
Not a lot of progress. Not a lot
of points. Not a lot of fun.
Rodgers opened the NFC wildcard game against the Washington Redskins by going 1 for 8,
and the Packers’ first four drives
went: punt, safety, punt, punt.
They gained all of 11 yards
heading into the second period,
and they trailed by double digits.
And then, spurred by using the
hurry-up approach he loves,
Rodgers played like a two-time
NFL MVP. Drawing defensive
penalties with quick snaps, making adjustments at the line of
scrimmage, and running the
show the way few QBs can,
Rodgers threw for a pair of TDs
while Eddie Lacy and James
Starks each ran for a score, and
Green Bay came back to overwhelm the NFC East champion
Redskins 35-18.
“We got the tempo up, and they
couldn’t keep up,” said Rodgers,
who finished 21 for 36 for 210
yards and no turnovers. “We became a snowball, kind of going
downhill, and it was tough for us
to stop.”
That was missing while the
Packers were losing their final
two games and six of their last
10 after a 6-0 start, letting the
NFC North title slip away. And
it was missing early Sunday,
when Washington grabbed an
11-0 lead.
“I talked a lot the last couple
weeks about being able to turn it
on, and a lot of you probably
thought that was lip service,”
Rodgers told reporters. “But we
just needed a game like this to
get our mojo back and get our
confidence going. I said this
week that it just takes one. It just
takes one performance to get us
going back in the right direction
and believing that we can make
a run.”
Green Bay (11-6) will play at
the No. 2 seed Arizona Cardinals
on Saturday night. It’s a rematch
of a Week 16 game that Arizona
dominated 38-8.
“The main thing is everybody
Mark Tenally | AP
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) celebrates after running back Eddie Lacy scored during the
second half against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Sunday
just needs to realize the taste
they had in their mouth last
time,” Packers receiver James
Jones said.
In the other NFC game next
weekend, the No. 1 seed Carolina Panthers will host the wildcard Seattle Seahawks on
Sunday.
With the Packers and Seahawks
joining the AFC’s Pittsburgh
Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs,
it’s the first time road teams went
4-0 in the wild-card round under
the current NFL playoff format,
which started in 1990.
Washington (9-8) had won four
games in a row, but its season
ends without a single victory
over a team that finished with a
winning record.
“I mean, it’s a little sick feeling
any time you lose a game at the
end of the year, not matter when
it is,” Washington’s Jay Gruden
said after his first playoff game
as an NFL head coach. “The opportunities we had out there
today — it makes you ill.”
His quarterback, Kirk Cousins,
made his first playoff start after
a breakthrough season and was
29 for 46 for 329 yards. He
threw for one touchdown, ran for
another, lost one fumble and was
sacked six times.
Rodgers smirked when asked
about chatter in the Washington
area about which QB folks would
want for the next five years.
“We don’t really care about any
of the expectations, whether talking about picking Kirk over myself or talking about how
everybody expected us to lose
this game,” Rodgers said. “We
don’t care about those opinions
out there.”
He spoke about his team staying confident despite being down
11-0. Asked where that self-belief came from, Rodgers replied:
“‘Cause we’ve been there, done
that.”
Sure have — unlike the Redskins, last-place finishers six of
the past eight seasons.
“They made adjustments and
we didn’t,” Washington nose
tackle Terrance Knighton said.
“That’s why they’ve won championships — and that’s who their
quarterback is.”
Indeed, Rodgers, the 2011
Super Bowl MVP, turned things
around in the second quarter,
twice catching Washington with
too many men on the field. He
went 5 for 6 for 68 yards on a
drive that ended with a 12-yard
TD pass to Randall Cobb. When
he hit Davante Adams for a 10yard touchdown that gave the
Packers a 17-11 halftime lead,
Rodgers danced a little jig and
threw some fist pumps.

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