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WEATHER COMING SUNDAYCALENDAR

134RD YEAR , NO. 75

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Second grade, New Hope

High83 Low 62Chance of storms

Full forecast on

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FIVE QUESTIONS

1 What two teams faced off in the firstNFL game between two brothers asstarting quarterbacks?2 Enterprise, Ala., erected a statue towhat beetle, for helping spur it on toplant more diversified crops?

3 What was unusual about the decapi-tations of Oliver Cromwell and Goliath?4 Who lives next to George and Mar-tha Wilson?5 What’s the first fruit to appear in the

Pac-Man maze?

Answers, 8B

INSIDEClassifieds 7BComics 5BObituaries 4A

Opinions 6AReligion 6B

Saturday, June 8■ Great Tombigbee Duck

Race: Columbus-LowndesHabitat for Humanity hosts thisducky fundraiser at the Colum-bus Riverwalk. Family fun eventsbegin at 10 a.m. with inflat-ables, games and food vendors(sorry, no coolers allowed). At2 p.m., thousands of rubber

ducks will be dropped into theriver to “race” for $5,000 andother prizes. Adopt your ducks attombigbeeduckrace.com or call662-386-DUCK (3825).

Wednesday, June 12■ Table Talk: The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes PublicLibrary and the Hitching Lot

Farmers’ Market present veter-

an food journalist and Jackson

native Susan Puckett talking

about her latest cookbook,

“Eat Drink Delta” at Table Talk:

A Casual Visit with Books.

Bring lunch at 11:30 a.m. to

socialize; iced tea will be pro-

vided. The free program begins

promptly at noon at the library

at 314 Seventh St. N. For more

information, contact the library,662-329-5300.

■ Bryan Library Noon Tunes: Bring lunch and spend mid-day listening to live music atthe Bryan Public Library, 338Commerce St., West Point,from noon to 1 p.m. For moreinformation, contact the library,662-494-4872.

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MSU football faces NCAA penalties toda

Eurocopter lands dealto build six helicopters

BY MATTHEW STEVENS

[email protected]

STARKVILLE — MississippiState University will learn today what penalties the NCAA Com-mittee o Inractions will imposeon the school’s ootball programor recruiting violations commit-

ted in 2012. The NCAA was scheduled

to hold a teleconerence at 10a.m. to discuss the DivisionI Committee on Inractions’decision regarding MSU. Brit-ton Banowsky, the chair o theNCAA committee and current commissioner o Conerence

USA, is conducting the telecon-erence.

MSU ocials declined com-

ment on the matter Thursday except to conrm initial ESPN.com reports that the school isprepared to receive the NCAA’sruling.

ESPN.com’s Brett McMur-phy reported Thursday ater-noon, based on inormation roman unnamed source, that the in-ractions “are considered major in nature and are likely to includesome elements o sel-imposedpenalties related to recruiting.”

Another unnamed source alsoconrmed to ESPN that ormer wide receivers coach AngeloMirando “is a key element to theinractions and that head coachDan Mullen is not expected to bedirectly implicated.”

On Aug. 23, The Dispatch re-ported the NCAA was conduct-ing an investigation into a “po-tential recruiting irregularity”involving the MSU ootball pro-

BY NATHAN GREGORY

[email protected]

American Eurocopter o-cials announced earlier thisweek that Arizona-based avi-

ation company Pylon Aviationhas placed an order or six new

AS350 helicopters.

Employees o the compa-

ny’s Columbus plant will be

tasked with assembling two

AS350B3e aircra t and our

Teaching teachers tech

Micah Green/Dispatch Staff

Janet Lewis, center, director of Heritage Academy’s instructional technology and marketing, works with Brenda Polk and TerriHawkins on their new Apple MacBook Pro laptops during the school’s Technology Boot Camp on Thursday.

Robberysuspectchanges mind,will go to trialOglen one of sixColumbus teens charged

in armed robbery of

Columbus woman

BY SARAH FOWLER

sfowler@cdispatch .com

The saga o six Co-lumbus teens charged with robbing a womanat gunpoint will contin-ue to the next Circuit Court term in August.

Tevin Oglen, 18, who was expected toplead guilty last Fri-day in Lowndes Coun-ty Circuit Court, has decided to go totrial . His trial date was set or August7.

Oglen is one o six Columbusteens accused o robbing Karen Winter at gunpoint in 2011. Accord-ing to authorities, Oglen along withDemonta Gardner, 18, Bobby Bluitt,18, Jeremy Billups, 17, Corey Lathan,17, and Michael Sattereld, 17, orcedtheir way into Winter’s apartment at

the Sandpiper Apartment Complexon the night o Sept. 29, 2011 andheld a gun to her head as they bur-glarized her home.

The teens were arrested shortly ater leaving the scene. Each teen was charged as a adult with onecount o armed robbery and onecount burglary o a dwelling.

Gardner was the rst o the six tobe tried in May 2012. He was ound

MUW honored to host Arts & Letters event

BY SARAH FOWLER

[email protected]

Art ists rom around the state wil l de-scend on the Mississippi University or Women campus Saturday to attend theMississippi Institute o Arts and LettersAwards. The prestigious awards will bepresented to eight artists rom through-out the state at the Hogarth Center onthe MUW campus. The ceremony will

be an all-day event with writ ing award

recipients reading their work Saturday

aternoon at Poindexter Hall. There will

also be a book signing.

MUW president Dr. Jim Borsig said it

is an honor to host the event.

“We are delighted to host this dis-

tinguished group on our campus,” he

said. “The accomplishments o those

being recognized are known not just

in Mississippi but across

the country and it is goingto be a great event or

MUW.”

This year’s award

recipients are: Richard

Ford, Joseph Crespino,

Catherine Pierce, David

Wharton, Lee Renninger,

Dr. Steve Rouse and Caroline Herring.

Ford, a Jackson native, is the winner

Oglen

Mirando


ICY TREAT: Kayla Shelby hands over asnow cone toLisa Hankes,of Memphis,on a hot andhumid Tues-day afternoonin Starkville.Hankes, anincoming col-lege freshman,was in townfor orientationat MississippiState Univer-

sity.

ESPN reports NCAA will enforce sanctions

related to 2012 recruiting violations

See MSU , 8A

See BURGLARY , 8A

Facility will build

for Pylon Aviation

INSIDE■ OUR VIEW: Eurocopter’s successin commercial aircraft field is encour-aging. Page 6A

See EUROCOPTER, 8A

Pierce

Honorees include Starkville poet Catherine Pierce

See MUW , 8A

Don’t miss The Dispatch’s special

Health & Wellness Guide in this

Sunday’s paper, which will includesummer health tips for kids, seniorcare advice and other useful healthinformation.

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Five-Day forecast for the Golden Triangle

Almanac Data National Weather

Lake Levels

River Stages

Sun and MoonSolunar table

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the da

City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W

Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, i-ice, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,r-rain, sf -snow flurries, sn-snow

Yesterday 7 a.m. 24-hr.Lake Capacity yest. change

The solunar

period scheduleallows planning days

so you will be fshing in good territory or hunting in good cover

during those times.

Temperature

Precipitation

Tombigbee

Yesterday Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr.River stage yest. change

Columbus Thursday

High/low ................................... .. 87°/65°

Normal high/low ................ ......... 88°/65°

Record high .... ........................ 97° (1977)

Record low .............................. 50° (1954)

Thursday.......................................... 0.09"

Month to date ........................... ...... 2.65"

Normal month to date ...................... 0.92"

Year to date .................................. 30.71"

Normal year to date ....................... 25.67"

Saturday Sunday

Atlanta 83 68 pc 84 69 pc

Boston 72 59 r 80 59 pcChicago 74 57 pc 74 61 t

Dallas 93 71 pc 93 75 pc

Honolulu 87 73 pc 87 74 pc

Jacksonville 88 70 t 87 70 t

Memphis 85 66 pc 90 71 pc

86°

65°

Saturday

Partly sunny

89°

69°

Sunday

Humid with clouds

and sun

89°

70°

Monday

Some sun, a t-storm

possible

92°

68°

Tuesday

Partly sunny and

warm

Aberdeen Dam 188' 163.40' +0.20'

Stennis Dam 166' 136.63' +0.20'

Bevill Dam 136' 136.34' -0.04'

Amory 20' 11.87' +0.26'

Bigbee 14' 4.35' +0.08'

Columbus 15' 5.74' +0.18'

Fulton 20' 7.82' -0.08'

Tupelo 21' 1.80' +1.20'

Last

June 29

Full

June 23

First

June 16

New

June 8

Sunrise ..... 5:43 a.m.

Sunset . ..... 8:02 p.m.

Moonrise ... 5:02 a.m.

Moonset .... 7:19 p.m.

F

Major ... 12:04 a.m.

Minor ..... 6:15 a.m.

Major ... 12:27 p.m.

Minor ..... 6:39 p.m.

Major ... 12:51 a.m.

Minor ... .. 7:04 a.m.

Major ... 12:52 a.m.

Minor ... .. 7:28 p.m.

SaturdayFriday

Saturday Sunday

Nashville 83 61 pc 86 68 pc

Orlando 87 72 t 90 74 tPhiladelphia 80 65 pc 86 65 pc

Phoenix 108 82 s 107 80 s

Raleigh 86 70 t 89 71 pc

Salt Lake City 86 64 s 93 69 s

Seattle 72 51 pc 71 48 s

Tonight

Mainly clear

61°

A THOUSAND WORDS

AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File

Amanullah, 20, a drug addict, is chained to a wall during his 40-day incarceration at the Mia Ali Baba shrine inJalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 1. It is believed locally that 40 days chained to a wall and with a restrict-ed diet of only water, black pepper and bread at the 300-year old shrine can cure the mentally ill, drug addictsand those possessed by spirits. If a shrine keeper decides their situation is improving, they may be unchainedfor a few minutes so they can pray, walk outside or visit a proper bathroom.

Friday SAY WHAT?

“I guess in 2013 at Mississippi State we’re not interested in doing it theeasily explainable way. We’re interested in winning baseball games withthe best talent we have.”MSU pitching coach Butch Thompson, talking about the pitching approach

the coaching staff has used this season. Story, 1B.

Scorsese, De Niro honorMel Brooks at AFI tributeBY SANDY COHEN

P Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Rob-ert De Niro and MorganFreeman never workedwith Mel Brooks, and theOscar winners came to a ceremony in his honor tolet him know they resent it.

Brooks received theAmerican Film Institute’s41st Life Achievement Award Thursday, andFreeman and De Nirowere among a galaxy of stars who paid tribute tothe man behind “BlazingSaddles,” ‘’Young Fran-kenstein” and “The Pro-ducers.”

Martin Short openedthe program with a song-and-dance routine set to a medley of melodies fromBrooks’ films.

“The word genius isused a lot in Hollywood,so I might as well call Melone,” Short said.

Billy Crystal, Amy Poe-hler, Sarah Silverman,Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Cloris Leachman,David Lynch, Larry Da-vid and Carl Reiner alsohonored the 86-year-old

filmmaker at a private din-ner at the Dolby Theatrethat had the energy of a good-natured roast.

“We are going to missyou so much, Mel,” Kim-

mel said. “You were one of

the greats. Rest in peace,my friend.”

David blamed Brooksfor his idle years as an as-piring comedian.

“Mel Brooks didn’t get me into comedy, he kept me away from it,” Davidsaid, recalling how he wasintimidated by Brooks’ tal-ent. “I spent years doingnothing because of him.”

Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas,Steven Spielberg, WhoopiGoldberg and Gene Wild-

er were among those laud-ing Brooks via video.

“I don’t think there’sany man anywhere who’slike you,” Wilder said. “Ilove you, Mel.”

Chris Pizello/Invision/AP

Honoree Mel Brookswaves to the audienceafter receiving his awardat the American FilmInstitute’s 41st LifetimeAchievement Award Galaat the Dolby Theatre onThursday in Los Angeles.

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Tropical Storm Andrea moving up coast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — After bringing rains,heavy winds and even tornadoesto parts of Florida, Tropical Storm Andrea was moving quickly towardthe coast of Georgia and the Caro-linas early today, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vaca-tion getaways through the begin-

ning of the weekend. The first named storm of the

Atlantic season was losing someintensity late Thursday and by ear-ly today, its winds were down to 45mph.

Ben Nelson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Servicein Jacksonville, said Andrea was“moving at a pretty brisk pace” andcould lose its tropical characteris-tics as early as this morning.

However, forecasters warned it could cause isolated flooding andstorm surge over the next two days.

Heavy rains were continuing

well away from the storm’s center. The weather service in Charles-ton, S.C., advised of “an enhancedcoastal flooding threat near thehigh tide this morning,” as well asof possible tornadoes. Rain bandscould bring wind gusts in excessof 40 mph or 50 mph, the weather

service said.Early today, tropical storm

warnings remained in ef fect for theEast Coast from Altamaha Soundin Georgia to Cape Charles Light in Virginia, the Pamlico and Albe-marle sounds and the lower Ches-apeake Bay south of New Point Comfort. A tropical storm warningmeans tropical storm conditions

are expected somewhere insidethe warning area within a day and

a half. As of 5 a.m. EDT Friday, the U.S.

National Hurricane Center in Mi-ami said Andrea was about 30 milesnortheast of Savannah, Ga., havingmade landfall a day earlier in Flor-ida’s Big Bend area. Andrea wasmoving northeast near 28 mph.

AP photo/Weather Underground

This NOAA satellite image taken today at 12:45 a.m. shows expansivecloudiness across much of the eastern seaboard of the United Statesassociated with Tropical Storm Andrea.

Made-up names appear in NY high school’s yearbook THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

S C HA G HT I C OK E ,N.Y. — Officials at a small

school district in upstate

New York say an “hon-

est mistake” led to stu-

dents being identified in

the yearbook as “Creepy smile kid” and “Some tall

guy.” The labels appear in

photo captions of thehigh school yearbook at Hoosic Valley, a rural dis-trict 20 miles northeast of Albany.

Acting Superintendent

Amy Goodell tells the Troy Record a “non-inten-

tional, honest mistake”resulted in some mem-bers of the track and fieldteam being labeled withmade-up names such as“Isolation kid.” Severalstudents were identifiedsimply as “Someone.”

Goodell says correc-tions are being made and

the parents of students whose names weren’t published correctly havebeen contacted.

The high school hasabout 380 students, with a graduating class of fewer than 100.



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Miss. economy grew 2.4 percent in 2012

BY JEFF AMY

The Associated Press

JACKSON — With manufactur-ing on the rebound, Mississippi’seconomy grew by 2.4 percent in2012, new figures show.

Gross domestic product numbersreleased Thursday by the federalBureau of Economic Analysis try tomeasure all of the economic output of each state. They look at all themoney that businesses, private indi-

viduals and governments spend ongoods and services. Investment andforeign trade are also included in thetotals.

Mississippi’s 2012 growth rate was close to the national average of 2.5 percent, and ranked 17th amongthe 50 states. That was a markedimprovement from 2011, when Mis-sissippi’s economy shrank by 1.1percent, one of only five states tocontract.

“2012 was a better year than

2011,” said state economist Darrin Webb. “We began to see some pret-ty significant growth in 2012 for thefirst time since the recession.”

The BEA revised the 2011 data downward from the original readingof a 0.8 percent contraction, indicat-ing that the economy was in worseshape that it appeared at first. Webbemphasized that the 2012 numbersare preliminary and could alsochange.

Mississippi’s economy totaledmore than $100 billion for the first time. It remained 0.7 percent of thetotal U.S. economy of $15.6 trillion.

Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff

ESPRESSO YOURSELF: From left, Jeanette Basson, Mark Huerkamp, and Dorris Brown have a run-through for“Espresso Yourself” which begins tonight at 7 p.m. in the Rosenzweig Arts Center’s Omnova Theater, 501 MainSt. The coffee-house evening features members of the Columbus-based Writers’ and Storytellers’ Guild sharingreadings from original works, as well as works by some of Mississippi’s legendary authors. Homemade conces-sions and coffees by Coffee House on 5th will be available. Admission is $5 at the door.

2012 growth was ranked 17th out of the 50 states

Republicans: Give governors more school say

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT


WASHINGTON — Ed-ucation Secretary ArneDuncan and his succes-sors would be relegated

to cheerleaders for thenation’s schools, and gov-ernors would be put incharge of classrooms un-der companion bills Sen-ate and House Republi-cans introduced Thursday.

The top Republicans onCongress’ education com-mittees unveiled rewritesto the nation’s sweepinglaw known as No ChildLeft Behind, which gov-erns elementary andsecondary schools that

receive tax dollars. Whilethere were differencesin the details, the Repub-licans’ overall approach would give governors finalresponsibility for holdingschools accountable and

largely limit the EducationDepartment to promotingthe importance of learn-ing.

“We would stop Wash-ington, D.C., from decid-ing whether schools andteachers are failing andrestore those decisionsback to state and localgovernments,” the top Re-publican on the Senate Ed-ucation Committee, Sen.Lamar Alexander of Ten-nessee, told The Associat-

ed Press in an interview. The chairman of the

House Education Commit-tee said Washington was a poor arbiter of what works— and what does not — inschools.

“We’re not leaving thesecretary in the position of judging that system,” saidRep. John Kline, R-Minn.

The state-by-state ap-proach to education stan-dards is already largely in place in the 37 statesthat received permissionfrom Duncan to ignorethe No Child Left Behindrequirements in exchangefor customized school im-provement plans. The oth-er states face the threat of being deemed failingschools if they cannot demonstrate their stu-dents perform at grade

level in reading and math— a designation that couldcost them federal educa-tion dollars.

Under Republicans’plans, states would de-termine if their schoolsare succeeding, and they could ignore previous fed-eral requirements to show they are getting better ev-

ery year.

No Child Left Behind rewrites would

give governors final responsibility

Deborah Bryant joins Community Bank boardBY EMILY

WAGSTER PETTUS


JACKSON — DeborahBryant, the wife of Missis-sippi Gov. Phil Bryant, isnow serving on the boardof directors for privately held Community Bank of Mississippi.

The bank announced

Thursday that she was

elected tothe boardMarch 21.

T h eboard had15 mem-bers, andD e b o r a hBryant be-came the16th, said Tony Sims, mar-keting director for Commu-

nity Bancshares, Inc., the

parent company of Com-munity Bank. He said she isone of three women on theboard. He said no electedofficials serve on the board.

All of the board mem-bers, including DeborahBryant, are compensatedfor their work, Sims said,but information about theamount of compensation was not immediately avail-

able.

Bryant



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Mr. Rogers was born September 15, 1927,in Couch, MO to the late George Edward and

Stella Mae Johnson Rogers. He was a veterano the U.S. Air Force and worked or TennesseeGas Company or over 35 years. Mr. Rogers was a member o Fairview Baptist Church or 53 years, where he was a member o the Choir,Sunday School Secretary and worked in thechurch library. He was a member o the Joseph Warren Masonic Lodge #71 F & AM, New Al-bany, MS, Grand York Rite Bodies o Missis-sippi and Shrine o Hamasa Temple, Meridian,MS. Mr. Rogers was a member o the Toast-masters, retired Men’s Coee Club (Hwy. 82McDonald’s), Columbus and New Hope YMCA and Caveman Breakast Club. He was a LimoDriver or the GTR Airport, an avid woodwork-

er, gardener, writer o short stories and ama-teur musician. Mr. Rogers also made walkingcanes, enjoyed fshing and was a riend to many people.

Mr. Rogers is survived by his daughter, Jea-nette (Clyde Edward) Lee, Columbus, MS;sister, Mary Francis (Leo) Hall, Thayer, MO:grandson, Michael Dale (Jenny) Lee, Grena-da, MS: great-grandchildren, Elizabeth, Ianand Rebecca Lee; 9 cousins and 17 nieces andnephews.

Pallbearers will be Mark Vickers, MikeReeves, Brooks Pope, Jimmy Parker, Bill Delk, Joe Atkins, Ken Aldridge and Lee Roy Lollar.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Retired

Men’s Coee Club, Former and Current Em-ployees o Tennaco Gas and the CavemanBreakast Club.

Memorials may be made to Fairview Baptist Church Music Ministry, Building Fund or Chil-dren’s Ministry, 127 Airline Rd., Columbus, MS39702 or Donor’s Favorite Charity.

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Lula YorkCOLUMBUS — Lula

Mae York, 79, diedMay 31, 2013, at NorthMississippi MedicalCenter.

Services are Satur-

day at 11a.m. at Mt. Ary MBChurch with theRev. Ther-man Cun-ninghamofficiating.Burial will follow in

the church cemetery. Visitation is today f rom3-8 p.m. at Carter’s of Columbus.

Ms. York was born June 7, 1933, to the late Joe Nathan Gordon andSarah Foote. She was a member of Mt. Ary MBChurch.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her siblings, Lewis Postonand Freddie Coleman.

Survivors include

her siblings, Robert Sykes of Levelland, Texas, Lucy Wil liams,Edna Newman andMartha Wilson, all of Columbus.

Elijah Short Jr.BROOKSVILL E —

Elijah Short Jr., 70, diedMay 30, 2013, at Emory

Adventist Hospital inSmyrna,Ga.

Ser- vices areSaturday at 10:30a.m. at Mt. Ary MB Church with

John Bal l officiat ing.Burial will follow inOakland MB Churchcemetery. Visitation istoday from 3-8 p.m. at Carter ’s of Columbus.

Mr. Short was bornMarch 17, 1943, to thelate Elijah Short Sr.,and Mary Edwards. He was formerly employedas a crane operator with Interlake Steel . He was a member of Mt. Ary MB Church.

In addition to hisparents, he was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Mattie Short; andsiblings, William Short,Sam Short and JohnHenry Short.

Survivors include hischildren, Eric Short of Mableton, Ga., LetonShort, Janice Deanand Delwin Short, allof Chicago, and ElijahShort III of Starkville;siblings, L.C. Short,Samuel Short, James

Short, Willie Short andHattie Stephens, all of Chicago, Emma Hullof Brooksville, Pearl-ie Powell and LouiseShort, both of Jackson;and 17 grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Joe Mosley Jr., Casey Hairston, Carl Brown,

Maurice James, Tom-my Eckles, DelwinShort Jr., and MauriceRumph.

Reginald RobinsonMACON — Reginald

Gerome Robinson, 45,died June4, 2013,

at Baptist MemorialHospital–Golden Triangle.

Ser- vices areSaturday at 1 p.m. at TabernacleMB Church with theRev. Billy Goodmanofficiating. Visitationis today from noon to5 p.m. at Carter ’s of Macon.

Mr. Robinson wasborn Nov. 27, 1967, Thomas Payton andNorris G. Howlett. He was a member of Harri-son Grove MB Church.

In addition to hisparents, survivors in-clude his son, Jaquavi-ous Robinson of Colum-bus; brother, TerrancePayton of St. Louis;and sisters, Tisha and Tif fany Brown, both of St. Louis.

Joe Jordan Jr.CRAWFORD — JoeLewis “Soul” Jordan Jr.,66, died June 3, 2013,at Baptist MemorialHospital–Golden Triangle.

Ser- vices areSaturday at 2 p.m.at Charity Mission Full GospelBaptist Church with

the Rev. Sammie Whiteofficiating. Burial wil l follow in OaklandCemetery. Visitation istoday from 3-8 p.m. at Carter ’s of Columbus.

Mr. Jordan was born Jan. 3, 1947, to the late Joe Jordan Sr., andLucinda Burrell Jordan.He was a member of Oakland MB Church.

Survivors include his wife, Bernice L owery Jordan of Crawford;

children, Trini Pryor of Nashville, Tenn.,Cynthia Jordan, Shanda Jefferson, Joe JordanIII and Tamarah Jor-dan, all of Crawford; 10grandchildren and onegreat-grandchild.

J.C. HarrisCRAWFORD —J.C.

Harris, 80, died June 6,

2013, at OCH RegionalMedical Center.

Arrangement areincomplete and will beannounced by Carter’sFuneral Services.

Irene McCaugheyCOLUMBUS —

Irene Beatrice Mc-

Caughey, 93, died June 6, 2013, at Trinity Healthcare.

Services are Sat-urday at 2 p.m. at Lowndes Funeral homeChapel with the Rev. Tony Proctor officiat-ing.

Ms. McCaughey wasborn Nov. 2, 1919, tothe late Alfred J. andSarah McLoughlinBurns. She attendedFirst United Methodist Church.

Survivors includeher son, Walt Lock- wood of Columbus;three grandchildrenand two great-grand-children.

Memorials may bemade to the Colum-bus-Lowndes HumaneSociety, P.O. Box 85,Columbus, MS 39703.

Donna Henry TUPELO — Don-

na Jo Henry, 55, died

June 6, 2013, at NorthMississippi MedicalCenter.

Services are Sun-day at 2 p.m. at Mt.Zion Baptist Church.Burial will follow inthe church cemetery. Visitation is Saturday 6-9 p.m. at LowndesFuneral Home.

Eddie SmithCOLUMBUS — Ed-

die B. Smith, 81, died

May 31, 2013.Services are Satur-day at 11 a.m. at New Prairie Grove MBChurch with the Rev.Sam Bonner officiat-ing. Burial will follow in New Prair ie GroveCemetery. West Me-morial Funeral homeis in charge of arrange-ments.

Survivors includehis wife, Peach Smithof Columbus; childrenand stepchildren,

Eddie B. Smith Jr. of Louisville, Larry Smithand Judy K. Smith,both of Starkville,Mykle K. Smith of Hat-tiesburg, Daisy FlowersHawkins and SarahFlowers Sykes, both of Columbus and TommieFlowers of Redlands,Calif.; sisters, Lena M. Johnson of Starkvilleand Mandy Sharpof Maywood, Ill.; 19grandchildren and 26great-grandchildren.

Mell LowerySTARKVILLE —

Mell Rose Lowery, 94,died June 3, 2013.

Services are Satur-day at 11 a.m. at Chap-el Hill MB Church withthe Rev. Earl Willisofficiating. Burial willfollow in Chapel HillCemetery. Visitation istoday from 1-6 p.m. at West Memorial Funer-al Home.

Survivors includeher daughters, Min-erva Stevenson of East St. Louis, Mo.,and Sara Lowery of Starkville; sons, Wil lie James Lowery and Elex Lowery,both of Starkville;32 grandchildren;

75 great-grand-children and 28great-great-grandchil-dren.

Sylvia MilesSTARKVILLE —

Sylvia Mae Watt Miles,83, died June 4, 2013.

Services are Sunday at 2 p.m. at New PrairieGrove MB Church withthe Rev. Sam Bonner officiating. Burial willfollow in New PrairieGrove Cemetery. Vis-itation is Saturday 2-6p.m. at West MemorialFuneral Home.

Survivors includeher daughters, Kath-leen Jones, Vanessa Miles Bush and Wanda Parks; sons, GeorgeLee Miles, RandolphMiles, Mencil BellMiles Jr., and JamesMiles, all of Starkville;sister, Annie Miles of Muskegon, Mich.; 16grandchildren and 11

great-grandchildren.

Jasper BeamonMACON — Jas-

per Ivy Beamon, 55,died May 30, 2013, at Baptist MemorialHospital–Golden Triangle.

Ser- vices areSaturday at 2 p.m.

at PrairiePoint Baptist Church with the Rev. Lar-ry Clay officiating.Burial will follow inthe church cemetery. Visitat ion is today f rom1-5 p.m. at Lee-SykesFuneral Chapel inMacon.

Mr. Beamon wasborn March 24, 1958,to the late Wallace andLurene Brewer Bea-mon Jr. He was a mem-ber of Prairie Point MB

Church and Barn PrideLodge #932. He was a graduate of NoxubeeCounty High Schooland was employed withNoxubee Solid Waste.

In addition to hisparents, he was pre-ceded in death by his brother, WallaceBeamon Jr.

Survivors includehis wife, Bertha Stevenson Beamon of Macon; sons, Damas-cus Stevenson andEric Beamon, both of Macon; brother, John-ny Beamon; sisters,Dorothy Jackson andFannie Tate, both of Columbus; and sixgrandchildren.

Pallbearers are Jermaine Washing-ton, Quinton Beamon, Timothy Tate, JohnnieB. Beamon, DedrickStevenson and Robert Stevenson.See OBITUARIES, 5A

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Beatrice Nelson ABERDEEN —

Alma Beatrice Smith-erman Nelson, 75, diedune 5, 2013, at North

Mississippi MedicalCenter.

Services are Sat-urday at 11 a.m. at

isdale-Lann MemorialChapel. Burial willfollow in New HopeCemetery. Visitation istoday from 3-6 p.m. at the funeral home.

Ms. Nelson wasborn Nov. 18, 1937, tothe late Prentis Grady Smitherman and BirtieMae Barnes Smither-man. She was a mem-ber of Grady ChapelMethodist Church andwas employed as a

caregiver.In addition to her

parents, she waspreceded in death by her daughter, Tammy Holloway Pannell;seven brothers and sixsisters.

Survivors includeher daughters, Janet Lee Howell of Mor-gan Hill, Calif., Diana Lynne Houk of Gil-roy, Cal if., and Tonya Downey of Wren; sister,Mary Smith of Una; 10

grandchildren and sixgreat-grandchildren.

Marlinda PhillipsSTARKVILLE —

Marlinda Martin Phil-lips, 55, died June 5,2013, at her residence.

Services are Satur-day at 2 p.m. at AdatonBaptist Church withthe Rev. Hal Selby andDanny Cheatham offici-ating. Burial will follow in the church ceme-

tery. Visitation is today from 5-7 p.m. at WelchFuneral Home.

Mrs. Phillips was a member of Adaton Bap-tist Church and wasemployed at Mississip-pi State University.

She was precededin death by her father,Charles Martin.

Survivors includeher husband, Porter Phillips of Starkville;daughter, Chelsea

Phillips of Starkville;son, Brett Phillips of Hattiesburg; mother,Marilyn Martin of Starkville; brothers,Keith Martin of Mad-ison, Barry Mart in of Hartselle, Ala., andAndy Martin of New Hope.

Memorials may bemade to UAB Town-house, 2008 University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35233.

Mary SpearingBROOKSVILLE —

Mary E. Spearing, 87,died June 4, 2013, at Noxubee County Nurs-ing Home.

Memorial servicesare Saturday at 2 p.m.at X-Prairie Methodist

Church.Mrs. Spearing was

born Feb. 6, 1926, tothe late Fred R. andIsabelle Brown Long.She was a graduate of Belvedere High Schooland she attended col-lege in Bloomington,

Ill. She was formerly employed with Noxu-bee County ExtensionService. She attended X-Pra irie Methodist Church.

Survivors includeher son, Dean Spear-ing of Macon; onegrandchild and twogreat-grandchildren;and daughters, Linda Spearing of Columbus,Marcia Weber of Atlan-ta and Pamela Lawler of Charlotte, N.C.

Eunice BrooksMACON — Eunice

Brooks, 80, died June4, 2013, at her resi-dence.

Ser- vices areSaturday at noon at Mt. OliveBaptist Church withthe Rev.

WilliamDavidson officiating.Burial will follow inthe church cemetery. Visitation is today from1-5 p.m. at Lee-SykesFuneral Home Chapel.

Mrs. Brooks wasborn March 29, 1933,to the late John Henry and Hettie Florence Jones. She was for-merly employed withMashulaville DaycareCenter and was a mem-ber of Mt. Olive MBChurch.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her son, Lawrence Brooks Jones; brothers, JohnM., Walter, Roy andRaymond; and sister,Ruby.

Survivors includeher husband, LeonBrooks Sr., of Macon;children, Leon Jr., Thelma Brooks Geeteand Brenda Brooks

Smith, all of Maconand Jeffery Brooks of Alliance, Ohio; ninegrandchildren andeight great-grandchil-dren.

Mary LangCOLUMBUS —

Mary Lizzie Lang, 78,died June 3, 2013, at OCH Regional MedicalCenter.

Services are Satur-day at 1 p.m. at Piney Grove MB Church withthe Rev. Michael Reedofficiating. Burial willfollow in the churchcemetery. Visitation istoday from noon to 5:30p.m. at Century Hair-ston Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lang wasborn May 7, 1935, to

the late Lewis Langand Loudetia SandersLang. She was formerly employed with Colum-bus Packing and was a member of Piney groveMB Church.

Survivors includeher sons, Johnny Lang,

Troy Lang, Kenny Langand Leroy Lang, all of Columbus; daughter,Lizzie Ann Lang of Co-lumbus; sisters, Emma Lang, Ada Conner andHattie Dismuke, all of Columbus, Dorothy Robertson and Leolia Ellis, both of Chicago;brother, Ellis B. Langof Columbus; and many grandchildren andgreat-grandchildren.

Robert Rupert TUPELO — Robert Lee Rupert, 74, died June 3, 2013, at hisresidence.

Services are Satur-day at 11 a.m. at NorthGreen Street Churchof Christ with DanielMcCollum officiating.Burial will follow inPorter’s MemorialPark. Visitation istoday from 3-6 p.m.at Carter’s Mortuary Services Chapel.

Mr. Rupert was bornMarch 14, 1939, to thelate Lemon Rupert and Alberta Ruper t.

In addition to hisparents, he was pre-ceded in death by hisdaughter, Shirley F. Ru-pert; brothers, LemonRupert Jr., Collin Ru-pert, Clarence Rupert,Emmitt Rupert, OllieRupert and homer Ru-pert; and sisters, Mary Owens, Minnie Harrisand Christana Rupert.

Survivors include his wife, Jett ie Ruper t of Tupelo; sons, Roger Ru-pert, Charles Rupert,George Rupert, Antho-ny Rupert and DonaldRupert; daughters, Bar-bara Rupert and VickieShumpert; brothers, Willie L . Ruper t andHenry W. Rupert;sister, Clara Staples; 27grandchildren and 13great-grandchildren.

Tommie HannahKENNEDY, Ala. — Tommie L. Hannah,81, died June 5, 2013,at Hospice of West Alabama.

Services are Satur-day at noon at St. Paul’sCME. Burial will follow in Kennedy Communi-ty Cemetery. Visitationis one hour prior to services. Dowdle FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Hannah waspreceded in death by

her parents, ClifftonDelouch and MinnieLou Dixon; husband, Joe Ed Hannah; daugh-ter, Minnie L. Robin-son; son, Dennis Han-nah; sister, Mary LouNoland; and brothers,Cleveland Dixon, Joe

Guin and Paul Guin.Survivors include

her daughters, Jewe-lene Hannah and Ge-neva Dove; and sons, Andy Joe Hannah andRodney Lewis Hannah;sister, Maggie Thomp-son; brothers, O.D.Dixon and Luther Guin Jr.; 16 grandchildren

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More plowshares, fewer swords When the increasingly

inamous sequester ocially began in March, the sky didnot all. Well, it didn’t all right away.

The sequester cuts — a dealagreed on by both the Demo-cratic Administration and theRepublicans — were to be split evenly between the deenseand non-deense categories,

with each department giventhe duty o deciding which cutsto make. Some major programslike Social Security, Medicaid,ederal pay (including military pay and pensions) and veter -ans’ benets are exempt.

In the rst weeks o thesequester, many small-govern-ment Republicans, includingthose in Mississippi, suggest-ed that the warning o direconsequences resulting romthe sequester were merely scare talk rom the Obama

Administrat ion. The GOP lineat the time was: “See? These 10percent across-the-board cutsdon’t hurt.”

And then... The TS A began to reduce

the number o air tra ccontrollers, leading the longdelays at airports, includingthose used by Congress. Ascould be predicted, the howl-

ing commenced in earnest. The discontent has only increased since then. In recent weeks, the Pentagon star tedmaking its cuts. Thousands o National Guardsmen were put on urlough. Closer to home,the cuts threatened to reducean order with American Euro-copter or Lakota helicoptersrom 41 to 10. It was very mucha local matter then because thecompany’s Lakotas are assem-bled at the company’s Colum-bus acility. The reduction in

the military order could meanlayos.

Predictably, the same GOPstate leaders who had dis-missed the sequester as harm-less, were lining up to say what a terrible thing the sequester had become. Mississippi Gov.Phil Bryant and U.S. con-gressmen Roger Wicker, AlanNunnelee and Gregg Harper

all turned out or a rally in Co-lumbus to protest the cuts. T heir actions arm a

well-established t ruth: Peopledon’t mind i an ox gets goredevery now and then: As long asits not THEIR ox.

Sequester or no sequester,it is neither a sign o disrespect to Eurocopter or unpatriotic to wish that military orders willbegin to decline.

In our war-weary country,the sentiment expressed inIsaiah — “They shall beat

their swords into plowshares,and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not li t upsword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”— is something to be earnestly hoped or by all Americans.

While there will always be a need or military production —and we certainly hope Euro-copter is prominent in meeting

those needs —the ideal scenar-io would be a Eurocopter that spends most o its energiesmaking non-military products.

That is why we are greatly encouraged by Thursday’sannouncement that Eurocopter has won a contract to build sixhelicopters or Pylon Aviation, which specializes in the com-mercial sale o aircrat.

In truth, the alarming newsthat Eurocopter’s contract withthe Pentagon might be jeop-ardized may have created a

distorted image o the compa-ny. Eurocopter has long beenan active and successul entity in the commercial aviation in-dustry. We hope Eurocopter’suture is heavily dominated by commercial production, mainlybecause we hope the need or military aircrat will diminishin a long absence o war.

Aurora Flight Services and

Stark Aerospace, both withacilities in Columbus, areactively pursuing commercialapplications or their droneaircrat, too.

That ’ s a good thing. Welook orward to the day whenour need or plowshares isgreater than our need or swords.

And we very much preer to have those metaphoricalplowshares made right here inColumbus.

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Board holds heated closed-door meeting onLiddell

ETG11: A BIG thank you to Sarah Fowler or continuing to stay on top o this story. I have beenwaiting a long time or some good investigative jour-nalism to come to Columbus!

Vicki: I have ollowed the unbelievable story o the CMSD superintendent or quite some time. Likemany, I assumed this “problem” was a done deal ol-lowing the release o evidence that she used district money or a personal Christmas party.

Like many, I am astonished by the blindness o a school board that continues to keep her in thisposition.

Thank you Dispatch or providing a copy o her contract, because the school board obviously needsone. Particularly the part that so clearly states “It isexpressly acknowledged that the board’s removalo the superintendent rom oce shall not relieve it o the obligations to the superintendent hereunder unless such removal is based upon a nding o grossnegligence, maleasance in oce, commission o

a crime involving moral turpitude or other goodcause....”

My question is, what other good cause could youpossibly be waiting or? An email that accuses a decent man o being a “bigoted racist”? (CHECK);unheard o travel expenses and time out o the oce?(CHECK, CHECK); the ring o an 16-year employ-ee because he reported something she didn’t like?(CHECK); the lowest moral the district has seen inyears? (CHECK). People, school board, please......

slack water: I Liddell had any decency about her,she would resign and quietly go away. Unless TheDispatch has incorrectly reported something, Liddellhas been caught stealing - dress up with nicer wordsi you like, but it’s still stealing. “It’s all about the

kids.” Yeah right.

It’s Smith in a landslide: Incumbent mayor,Mickens easily outdistance election challengers

KJ705: The t rouble with accusations o “illegalvoting” is that none is actually ever demonstrated. It would be nice i voter ID was a panacea, but when it comes to preventing election raud it’s a placebo. Thereal “problem” voter ID is intended to solve in Missis-sippi is suppressing minority turnout. I eventually accepted by the Justice Department, it may be eec-tive in achieving that goal. I we really cared about election raud and protecting people’s ranchise, wewould extend elections by providing a mechanismor early voting in conjunction with a voter ID pro-gram that was phased in to identiy at-risk voters and

provide them with active assistance in obtaining thenecessary ID.

Matt2021: Get out the vote and helping disabledpeople is illegal? Only 30% o Columbus voted. I theother candidates wanted to win they should havebeen out there trying to get every vote possibleincluding disabled people that are unable to get to thepolls. It looks like to me that the mayor and Mickenshad a much better ground game.

Will : Kudos to Ms. Mackay on a well -ought race.It’s hard to believe that o the 206 absentee ballots,186 were in avor o Mr. Mickens considering Ms.Mackay’s lead rom general voting. I that doesn’t send up some sort o “red fag,” then I don’t know

what will.

international

Message from the ruins of Qusair WASHINGTON —On Wednesday, Qusair ell to the Bashar al-As-sad regime in Syria.Qusair is a strategictown that connects Da-mascus with Assad’s Alawite heartland onthe Mediterranean, with its ports andRussian naval base. It’sa major strategic shit. Assad’s orces can now advance on rebel-dom-inated areas in central

and northern Syria,including Aleppo.For the rebels, it’s

a devastating loss o territory, morale andtheir supply corridor to Lebanon. No oneknows i this reversalo ortune will be thelast, but everyone knows that Assad now has the upper hand.

What altered the t ide o batt le was brazen outside inter vention. A hardened, well -tra ined, well -armed Hezbollah orce — romthe terrorist Shiite group that dominates Lebanon and answersto Iran — crossed into Syria anddrove the rebels out o Qusair, which Syr ian ar til lery has le t a smoking ruin.

This is a huge victory not just or Tehran but also or Moscow, which susta ins Assad in power and prizes its warm-water port at Tartus, Russia’s only mili-tary base outside o the ormer Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin hasstationed a dozen or more Rus-sian warships oshore, urther protecting his strategic outpost and his Syrian client.

The losers? NATO-member

Turkey, the major supporter o therebels; Jordan, America’s closest Arab a lly, now drowning in hal a million Syrian reugees; and America’s Gul allies , principal weapons suppliers to the rebels .

And the U.S ., whose bystander president, having declared that Assad must go, that he has lost al llegitimacy and that his al l is just a matter o time, is looking not just eckless but clueless.

President Obama doesn’t want U.S.boots on the ground.Fine. No one does.But between noth-ing and invasion liemany intermediatemeasures: arming therebels, helping Turkey maintain a sae zonein northern Syria,grounding Assad’smurderous air orceby attacking airelds— all the way up to

enorcing a no-fy zoneby destroying theregime’s air-deensesystem.

Obama could havechosen any rung onthe ladder. He chosenone. Weeks ago, asbattle ortunes began

changing, the administrationleaked that it was contemplatingpossibly, well maybe, arming therebels. Then nothing. Obama simply does not understand that i America is completely hands- o,it invites hostile outside inter - vention. A superpower’s role in a regional confict is deterrence.

In 1958, President Eisenhower — venerated by today’s ashion-able “realists” or his strategicrestraint — landed Marines inLebanon to protect the pro-Amer-ican government rom threatsrom Syria and Egypt.

In the 1973 Yom Kippur War,Russia threatened to send troopson behal o the Egyptian army.President Nixon threatened a U.S. counteraction, reinorced theSixth Fleet and raised the U.S. worldwide military alert level toDEFCON 3. Russia stood down.

That ’s how the region works.Power deterring power. Obama deals instead in empty abstrac-tions — such as “internationallegitimacy” — and useless con-claves, such as “Friends o Syria”conerences.

Assad, in contrast, has a rea lriend. Putin knows Obama.Having watched Obama’s retreat in Eastern Europe, his passivity at Russian obstructionism on Iran,

his abject bended-knee “reset”policy, Putin knows he has noth-ing to ear rom the Americanpresident.

Result? The contemptuousPutin foods Syria with weapons.Iran, equally disdainul, sendsRevolutionary Guards to adviseand shore up Assad’s orces. Hez-bollah invades Syria and seizesQusair.

Obama’s response? No warn-ing that such balance-alteringprovocations would trigger eventhe most minimal American

response.Even Obama’s chemical

weapons red line is a arce. Its very pronouncement advert isedpassivity, signaling that anythingshort o WMD — say, massacring80,000 innocents using conven-tional weapons — would draw noU.S. response.

And when that WMD red line was nally crossed, Obama went into lawyerly overdrive to erase it.Is it any wonder that Assad’s alliesare on ull oensive — Hezbollahbrazenly joining the ground war,Russia sending a small armada

and mountains o military materi-al, Iran warning everyone to stay out.

Obama’s response is to sendthe secretary o state, hat inhand, to Moscow. And John Kerry returns actually thinking he’sachieved some great diplomaticbreakthrough — a “peace” con-erence that Russia will dominateand use to re-legitimize Assadand marginalize the rebels.

Just to make sure Kerry under-stood his place, Putin kept him waiting outside his o ce or threehours. The Russians know how to

send messages. And the one romQusair is this: I you’re ghtingor your lie and have your choiceo allies — Obama bearing “in-ternational legitimacy” or Putinbearing Russian naval protection,Iranian arms shipments andthousands o Hezbollah ghters— which would you choose?

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrau- thammer.com.

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WASHINGTON —Companies that drill for oil and natural gas — andtheir critics — will have60 more days to comment on a new rule regulatinghydraulic fracturing op-erations on public lands.

Interior Secretary Sal-ly Jewell announced theextension Thursday af-ter industry groups andenvironmentalists saidthey needed more time todigest a 171-page “frack-ing” rule issued last month.

The rule requires com-panies for the first timeto disclose publicly thechemicals used in frack-ing operations. It alsosets standards for proper construction of wells anddisposal of wastewater.

Jewell cal led the rulea “common-sense up-

date” that increases safe-ty while also providingflexibility and improvingcoordination with statesand Indian tribes. Drill-ing regulations were last changed in 1982.

Comments on thedrilling proposal will beaccepted through late Au-gust.

Companies and

critics will have

60 days to speak

about operations

on public lands

Man tries to slit his wrists outside ‘Today’

IRS official apologizes for $4M conference

BY ALAN FRAM

AND STEPHEN OHLEMACHER


WASHINGTON — An InternalRevenue Service official whose di-vision staged a lavish $4.1 milliontraining conference and who starredas Mr. Spock in a “Star Trek” paro-dy shown at the 2010 gathering con-ceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars were wasted in theepisode.

“We’re now in a very different en-vironment” with new IRS spendingcurbs, Faris Fink, a top deputy in theagency’s small business division at the time, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Fink, who now heads that 24,000-em-ployee division, said he believes many of the expenditures “should havebeen more closely scrutinized or not incurred at all and were not the best use of taxpayer dollars.”

The mea culpa was echoed by new acting IRS chief Danny Werfelas the embattled agency struggledto contain public and congressionalire over its targeting of conservativegroups seeking tax-exempt statusand its spending of $49 million on 225employee conferences over the past

three years. Werfel called the 2010 gathering

in Anaheim, Calif., “an unfortunate vestige from a prior era” and said IRS

spending on travel and training hasfallen 80 percent since then.“Our work in this area is one part

of a much larger effort to chart a pathforward in the IRS. This is obviously a very challenging time for the agency,” Werfel said.

Werfel, who testified after Finkhad left the committee room, becameacting commissioner last month af-ter President Barack Obama forcedSteven Miller out of the job. Werfelappeared a day after putting two IRSofficials on administrative leave for ac-cepting free food at a party in a private

suite at the Anaheim conference.Behind the scenes, committee in-

vestigators have interviewed at least four IRS employees about the target-

ing of conservative groups for addi-tional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and2012 elections. The Associated Press viewed transcripts of interviews withtwo employees who work in the Cin-cinnati office where agents screenedthe applications.

The transcripts show that the em-ployees believed that officials in Wash-ington were directing their work. But they don’t show any direct evidencethat officials in Washington orderedthe agents to target tea party groups,or why they may have done so.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A 76-year-old man yellingthat the government wasgoing to take his houseslit his wrists outsideNBC’s “Today” show

Thursday morning beforehe was taken into policecustody, police said.

The man, Pak Chong-Mar, was in the crowd onRockefeller Plaza outsidethe “Today” studio andalso was yelling about how the Internal Revenue

Service was corrupt andruined his life, authoritiessaid. He took out a knifeand sliced at his wrists,police said.

“I need people to helpme fight for justice,” Paktold the Daily News of

New York from his hos-pital bed afterward. “If Idon’t do something dras-tic, sooner or later theseguys are going to kill meanyway. I couldn’t evenpay rent this month.”

His daughter sat near-by and told the newspaper

what had happened was“sad.”

Authorit ies and wit-nesses said police andplaza security guardsquickly subdued the man.Some bystanders in thecrowd were treated for exposure to blood. Policetook the man to a hospital where his mental health was being evaluated.His injuries were not lifethreatening.

“I saw him take sliceafter slice. I saw the bloodgushing,” witness KellieOstransky told The New York Post. Ostransky, who lives near Phoenix, was in town to celebrate

her birthday with her twin sister, the newspaper reported.

Authorities said theman’s behavior was not believed to have beencaught on television. Theshow moves inside andoutside the studio to theplaza.

“Today” show host Matt Lauer explained to viewers at one point that the show was brought in-side the studio becauseof “an incident” on theplaza. He said a man triedto harm himself with a knife but was taken intocustody and the plaza wassecure.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel is sworn in on Capitol Hill inWashington, Thursday, prior to testifying before the House Oversight andGovernment Reform Committee regarding IRS conference spending.

Man said government was going to

take his house and the IRS ruined him

Deputy says spending

was not the best use of

taxpayer money



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guilty o theb u r g l a r y charge and

not guilty o the armedr o b b e r y charge. He was sen-tenced to 20 years withthe Mississippi Depart-ment o Corrections.

Lathan went to trial inSeptember 2012. He wasound guilty or burglary o a dwelling. He was sen-tenced to serve 15 years, with ve suspended.

Billups pleaded guilty

to one count burglary o a dwelling in May. He wassentenced to 25 years withMDOC.

During Gardner andLathan’s trials, Winter spoke with hesitation andrarely looked at the menaccused o robbing her.

With Oglen’s trialscheduled or next term,

Winter said she is appre-hensive about testiyingor the third time.

“I’m anxious,” she said.“It’s always apprehensive.”

Winter said it has takenher some time to put theordeal behind her.

“I have pretty muchmoved on,” she said. “Just

within the last ew monthsI’ve gotten to where I willgo out ater dark. I didn’t even open my curtains or a year-and-a -hal.”

While Winter saidshe elt like justice wasserved with Gardner’s andLathan’s conviction, sheis still anxious about theoutcome o the other three

trials.“It’s not necessarily

peace, just kind o be-tween relie and peace,”she said. “I don’t think it will ever be peaceul. Onthe rst three, justice wasserved on them. We justhave to wait and see what happens with the others.”

Gardner, Lathan,Oglen and Billups are cur-rently in the custody o theLowndes County AdultDetention Center.

Bluitt and Sattereldare out on bond and await-ing trial. Bluitt’s courtdate is set or Aug. 21.Sattereld’s trial is set or Aug. 19.

MSUContinued from Page 1A

gram. Sources close to thesituation conrmed to TheDispatch the investigation,at least in part, involvedan automobile purchased

or MSU reshman deen-sive back Will Redmond,a highly-coveted recruit rom Memphis. The FordMustang was purchasedrom a used car dealershipin Memphis beore Red-mond signed with MSU inFebruary 2012.

On that same day in August, MSU ocialsreleased a two-sentencestatement saying theschool “over the last sev-eral months has workedin cooperation with the

NCAA to examine a po-tential recruiting irregu-larity.” The statement alsosaid the investigation is“nearing the end.”

Less than a month lat-er, Byron De’Vinner o Memphis, who coachedRedmond in a summer

program, went into detailabout the improper bene-ts he encountered duringRedmond’s recruitment in a interview with Yahoo!

Sports. De’Vinner went into details about arrange-ments or lodging andcomplementary meals in a Yahoo! Sports report.

The NCAA also interviewed De’Vinner becauseo his ties to multiple play-ers in Memphis who are onhis summer 7-on-7 team.

De’Vinner also namedthe booster, whose name was redacted rom the doc-uments obtained by TheDispatch, as Robert Den-ton Herring o Roswell,

Ga. Herring is a ormer MSU ootball season-ticket holder. MSU has disasso-ciated itsel with Herringdue to what its legal coun-sel described in letters toHerring as “impermissiblecontact with the prospec-tive student-athlete.”

On a state-wide radioshow in August, De’Vin-ner said Mirando “wasaware” o the improper benets. De’Vinner said he

was introduced to Mirandoin June 2011 and Mirandolater “sent him a messageon Facebook, gave me hisnumber to call him.”

Mirando resigned romhis position at MSU laterin August, citing only “per-sonal reasons.” His res-ignation came less thantwo weeks beore the Bull-dogs’ 2012 season-open-ing game against JacksonState University. Former University o Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster

replaced Mirando. Brew-ster let MSU this past oseason or Florida StateUniversity.

Redmond didn’t play in 2012 and is status as a member o the team may be in question in light o the NCAA’s investigation.

EurocopterContinued from Page 1A

AS350B2s. The AS-350B3e is Eurocopter’stop-selling single engine

aircrat, according tocompany spokesman BobCox.

Each order o the ASE350 is built in Colum-bus along with the UH-72Lakota, which the com-pany produces or UnitedStates Army and NationalGuard feets.

According to a pressrelease, Pylon Aviation“specializes in all aspectso operating aircrat, es-pecially Eurocopter he-licopters.” The company helps operators navigatefight instruction and hire

pilots and equips heli-copters with customizedequipment.

While it’s typical or Eurocopter to receivean order to build one or two AS350s, an order toproduce six is rare, Coxsaid. This is the secondsuch order in six months,a positive sign or work-ers at the plant even asthey wait or a decisionon possible cuts to theLakota program due tosequestration. Proposed

cuts to the Pentagon bud-get include a reduction o unding rom 41 helicop-ters to 10 over in 2014-15. The company held a ral -ly or state ocials and

employees last week tocall or Congress to re-consider any cuts to theprogram.

Cox said the AS350 isa popular non-military helicopter.

“It’s very popular withlaw enorcement, emer-gency medical servicescompanies and others who want to buy a he-licopter but don’t needa big one. It’s our most popular model and hasbeen or quite a number o years now,” Cox said.“Production o the AS350and the Lakota helps that

plant going orward. Weexpect to keep sellingthese aircrat or yearsto come. It’s always goodnews anytime you get more orders. Increasingthe backlog helps in-crease job securit y.”

Cox said over the last decade Eurocopter hasdelivered an average o 45 models o the AS350per year, including 42 last year. He said he hopes tosee that number go up inthe near uture.

“This is a big piece o what is done (in Colum-bus). We put the plant

there to start this produc-tion beore we got the La-kota contract,” Cox said.“(The AS350) has beenproduced every yearsince the plant opened in2004.”

Shortly ater announc-ing the contract, Euro-copter ocials also saidthey had named heli-copter industry veteranSteven D. Webster vicepresident o engineeringand fight operations. O-cials stated in a releasethat he will be responsi-ble or engineering, cer-tications and fight op-erations at the company’soperations in Columbusand Texas. Webster was

ormerly a technologydirector or AVX Aircrat Co., in Fort Worth, Texas,and has previous experi-ence in leadership rolesat Bell Helicopter.

GardnerLathan BluittBillups

Courtesy photo/Aviationnews.eu

An American Eurocopter AS350 B2 the company builtfor the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is pictured.

Cox Webster

Satterfeld

MUWContinued from Page 1A

o the Fiction Award or his novel, “Canada.” He isa previous winner o theMIAL Fiction Award andalso won a Pulitzer Prizeor his novel “Indepen-dence Day.”

Prior winner Crespi-no won the 2012 MIAL

Nonction Award or hisbook, “Strom Thurman’sAmerica.” Originally rom Macon, Crespinocurrently teaches at Emo-ry University.

Pierce, o Starkville,won the Poetry Award or “The Girls o Peculiar.”She currently teaches andco-directs the creativewriting program at Mis-sissippi State University.

Wharton won thePhotography Award or his book, “Small TownSouth.” Wharton is theDirector o Documentary Studies and Assistant Proessor o SouthernStudies at the Center or the Study o Southern

Culture at the University o Mississippi.Renninger won the

Visual Arts Award or her work, “Botanica.” A Gul-port native, Renninger isa sel-described ceram-ic-based installation artist

Rouse, a musician andcomposer, won the MusicComposition-Classical Award or his composi-tion, “Sonata or Violin

a nd Piano.” Rouse is a native o Moss Point.

Herring, a prior winner and a Cantonnative, wins the MusicComposition-Contempo-rary Award or her album,“Camilla.”

Dr. Bridget Smith

Pieschel, an MUW pro-essor who serves on theboard o governors or theorganization said it wasan honor or the school toserve as host.

“This is wonderul tohave the banquet in thispart o the state even, but to have it on the MUW (campus) is really anhonor or us,” she said.“We’re thrilled”

Pieschel said that inthe 34 years o the cere-mony, this year is the rst time it has been hosted inColumbus.

“Having all o thesepeople come here romother parts o Mississippito our campus is exciting

to me because I’m proudo our campus and I’mproud o the place where we’re having the readingand perormances,” shesaid.

The event typical ly takes palce in larger,more metropolitanareas but Pieschel saidby having the event inColumbus, the institute isrecognizing artists who

may come rom morerural parts o the state.

“Mississippi artistsand writers and mu-sicians come rom allcounties in the state. We wanted to bring recogni-tion to those who weren’t necessarily rom the Jack-

son area,” she said.In order to be consid-ered or the eight awards,artists have to either beMississippi natives or have “signicant ties” tothe area, Pieschel said. The art ist also must havehad their work published,displayed or perormed inthe previous year.

MUW alum PattiCarr Black will receive

the Noel Polk Lietime Achievement Award, a act that Pieschel is espe-cially thrilled about.

“We are so excitedthe lietime achievement award is going to some-one who is a MUW alum. That ’s really exciting or

us.”Pieschel said MUW students and staers willhandle the entire week-end event rom cateringto decorations.

Saturday aternoon’spoetry reading andmusical perormancesare oered at no cost tothe public. They beginat 1 p.m. at Poindexter Auditorium.



BY MATTHEW STEVENS

[email protected]

STARKVILLE — MississippiState University junior outfielder Hunter Renfroe has experienced what he calls the “surrea l mo-ment” of being a first-round pickin the Major League BaseballFirst-Year Player draft.

On Thursday, Renfroe was se-lected 13th by the San Diego Pa-dres, becoming the 12th player

in MSU history to be taken in thefirst round.

“It’s pure elation for me andmy family,” Renfroe said. “It’s just such a surreal feeling to hear your name called and realize you’re afirst-round draft pick in profes-sional baseball.”

Last year, the San FranciscoGiants used the 20th pick to select 2012 Southeastern ConferencePitcher of the Year Chris Stratton.

“I had my girlfriend, my par-ents, my grandparents, and a lot of friends around me when I wasdrafted,” Renfroe said. “I was so

happy to be able to share this ex-perience with so many different people I care deeply about. It wasa wonderful thing to have themaround.”

After struggl ing in his first two seasons at MSU, Renfroe fin-ished the 2013 regular season asthe SEC’s leader with 15 homeruns. He also has the league’ssecond-best slugging percentage(.634) and is among the leagueleaders in batting average (.352),on-base percentage (.440), RBIs

can do, what they can’t doand how to develop plans for young arms.”

Cohen and Thompson will

put that knowledge to the test this weekend against No. 6national seed University of Virginia in the NCAA Char-lottesville Super Regional at Davenport Field. Game oneof the best-of-three series willbe at noon Saturday (ESPN2). The winner will advance tothe College World Series inOmaha, Neb.

For MSU to take the next step, its bullpen likely willhave to play a key role. MSUaverages using three pitch-ers per game, and its starting

pitchers averaged only 5.59innings per start in the South-eastern Conference, whichincludes three-straight com-plete games by senior right-hander Kendall Graveman.

“I’m human just like any-body else, and I wish peopleunderstood I agonize over these decisions,” Thompsonsaid. “Do I even think we

BY BRIAN MAHONEY


MIAMI — Tim Duncan’s

NBA Finals game looks as good

now as it did last decade.

And last century.

Duncan overcame a slow start

to finish with 20 points and 14 re-

bounds, Tony Parker banked in a

desperation jumper on a broken

play with 5.2 seconds left andthe San Antonio Spurs withstoodLeBron James’ triple-double tobeat the Miami Heat 92-88 on Thursday night in a thri llinggame one.

Six years after the Spurs werelast here and 14 years after the37-year-old Duncan made his fi-nals debut in 1999, he, Parker andManu Ginobili earned their 99th

postseason victory together, sec-ond-most in league history.

They don’t care if they’recalled old. Three more victories,they’ll also be called championsagain.

“We’re here to win. It doesn’t matter how we’re categorized.It’s been a lot of years since we’vebeen here. We’re just happy to beback here,” said Duncan, who is

trying to join John Salley as theonly NBA players to win titles inthree decades.

“Old, veterans, whatever you want to call us, we’re in the mixright now.”

Parker ended up with 21points after referees reviewed hisshot to make sure it just beat theshot clock, giving San Antonio a

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BULLPEN DOMINANCE■ From left, clockwise, Will Cox,

Myles Gentry, Chad Girodo, andcloser Jonathan Holder have beenfour integral components of theMississippi State University’sbullpen this season. As a whole,

MSU’s staff has an earned runaverage of 2.73. Opponents arehitting only .222. No. 6 nationalseed University Virginia has an ERAof 3.05. Opponents are hitting .246against the Cavaliers, who have zerocomplete games. Virginia pitchershave combined for nine shutouts.

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The San Diego Padres used theNo. 13 pick to select MississippiState University junior outfielderHunter Renfroe in the first roundof the Major League BaseballFirst-Year Player draft.

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Mississippi State University senior Kendall Graveman has been the team’s most reliable starting pitcher this season. The right-hander leads the staff in innings (98), starts (16), and complete games (three).

PITCHING IN TO MAKE IT WORKAbility of Cohen, Thompson to use bullpen pieces in right situations pushes MSU into Super Regionals


While starting pitcher Kendall Graveman leads the MississippiState University pitching staff in innings, sophomore left-hander Ross Mitchell leads the team in victories (12-0, 1.41ERA) and is second in innings (83).

CHARLOTTESVILLESUPER REGIONAL

(Best-of-three)

Saturday’s Game

■Mississippi State at Virginia,

Noon (ESPN2)

Sunday’s Game

■ Mississippi State at Virginia,

6 p.m. (ESPNU)

SCHEDULEThursday’s Game

■San Antonio 99, Miami 88,

San Antonio leads series 1-0

Sunday’s Game

■San Antonio at Miami, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s Game

■Miami at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 13

■Miami at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

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Basketball: NBA Finals

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STARKVILLE — Unlike

ohn Cohen, who keeps hiscell phone in the back pocket of his uniform pants, Missis-sippi State University pitch-ing coach Butch Thompsondoesn’t need to hear or want to listen to the instant reac-tion to his moves.

“I can feel it in my gut,”Thompson said.

While every major deci-sion runs through Cohen,Thompson is responsiblefor developing pitchers andfinding the right roles for them on the Bulldogs’ staff.

Considered one of the best pitching coaches and recruit-ers in Division I college base-ball, Thompson understandsthe scrutiny he faces whenhe makes multiple pitchingmoves in a game — or in aninning. He knows piecing to-gether a game “backwardsfrom how its traditionally done” can be looked uponwith skepticism. After 20years as a coach, he admits

some of what he has frustrat-ed him.

But it’s hard to argue withMSU’s recipe for success.

Even though MSU (46-18) has the most bullpen ap-pearances (194) of any of the16 teams that are still alive,Cohen and Thompson havefound ways to cobble togeth-er the pieces of their pitching

staff to find the best match-ups for the right situationsto keep the Bulldogs’ seasonalive.

“We don’t honestly get a lot of questions about how and why we use the pitchersthe way we do,” Cohen said.“I believe our fans believeButch Thompson knowsthese young men, what they

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Renfroe in

first roundJunior outfielder becomes

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LocalBusy slate of racing features event Saturday at

Magnolia Motor SpeedwayCARTERSVILLE, Ga. — Twelve races in eight states, including an

event Saturday night at the Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus,highlight the Week 11 schedule for the NeSmith Chevrolet Old Man’sGarage Weekly Racing Series.

After taking a week of competition off, teammates Michael Arnold,of Hattiesburg, and Noah Daspit, of Kiln, will resume their battle for thepoint lead.

Competition begins tonight with races at Batesville Motor Speedway in Batesville, Ark., and at Hatt iesburg Motorsports Park inHattiesburg.

On Saturday night, races will be at Battleground Speedway inHighlands, Texas; at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tenn.; at East Ala-bama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Ala.; at Greenville Speedway inGreenville; at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus; at St. TammanyRaceway in Lacombe, La.; at Southern Raceway in Milton, Fla; atalladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala.; at West Plains Motor Speed-

way in West Plains, Mo.; and at Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian.Arnold leads the NeSmith Chevrolet Old Man’s Garage Weekly

Racing Series standings with 435 points, and has an eight-point leadagainst his Daspit, his Billy Riels Racing teammate. Derrick Mackmer,of Purvis, is third with 398 points.

There will be five races on the NeSmith Performance Parts StreetStock Division Week 11 schedule, including a race at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus.

Kevin Spears, of Fayette, Ala., and Trey Bright, of Coker, Ala.,have traded the points lead three times in as many weeks. Spears hasa one-point lead on Bright.

Magnolia Motor Speedway will be feature events in the WeeklyRacing Series RockAuto.Com Super Late Models, NeSmith Late Mod-els, NeSmith Street Stock, and Mini Stocks in action. Next weekend,racers will compete in the Clash at The MAG.

On Saturday, pit gates will open at 3 p.m. The grandstand gateswill open at 5 p.m. The driver’s meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Racing willstart at 7 p.m.

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Free trackside parking is available in any unreserved spot.For more information, call Johnny Stokes at 662-574-2572, the

rack at 662-240-3478, or visit www.MagnoliaDirt.com.Next weekend, Magnolia Motor Speedway is looking forward to

he Columbus Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Clash at the MAG onhursday through Saturday.

Racing in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dir t Series will compete for a $20,000-to-win top prize and a total purse of more than $85,000.SPEED TV cameras will tape all of the action for a future airing.

This will be the only time the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series willappear in the state of Mississippi this year.

The action begins with an open practice session for all divisions

rom 7-10 p.m. Thursday. Grandstand admission is free. Pit admissionis $20.

MSUThirteen football players begin academic careers

STARKVILLE — As the f irst term of summer classes beganhursday at Mississippi State University, 13 football student-athletes

begin their academic careers.Enrolled in first term summer school are Shelby Christy, Jamaal

Clayborn, Tolando Cleveland, Kent Flowers, Dezmond Harris,Jahmere Irvin-Sills, Gabe Myles, Fred Ross, Ashton Shumpert, Jake

homas, Brandon Wells, Damian Williams, and De’Runnya Wilson.Most of the veteran Bulldogs are enrolled in summer classes

and have begun preparations for the fall.MSU will open fall camp Thursday, Aug. 1. It kicks off the season

against Oklahoma State University in the Texas Kickoff Classic onAug. 31 at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

nBougard second after three events in heptathlon: AtEugene, Ore., If there’s one thing Erica Bougard understands as well

as anyone, it’s putting herself in position to win titles.Thursday at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships

at Hayward Field, the sophomore from Byhalia, Miss., totaled 3,581points in four of the seven heptathlon events to put herself secondoverall behind Southeastern Conference champion Makeba Alcide,of the University of Arkansas (3,685).

Bougard, who won the NCAA indoor pentathlon title back inMarch, was fifth entering the 200-meter dash. She ran a person-al-best time of 23.84 seconds to climb to second.

In the other three events, she ran 13.37 in the 100 hurdles,leaped 5 feet, 8 3/4 inches in the high jump, and threw 36-4 in theshot put. Today, the heptathlon concludes with the long jump, tripleump, and 800.

“She’s put herself in great position,” MSU coach Steve Dudleysaid. “To do what she did in the 200 is what a champion is all about.”

The only other events MSU competed in Thursday were thesemifinals of the men’s and women’s 4x400. However, neither teamqualified for Saturday’s finals.

The women’s foursome of Brittany Covington, Jody-Ann Muir,Ste’yce McNeil, and Ocian Archer ran a time of 3 minutes, 52.77

seconds, while the men’s team of Tavaris Tate, Randy Patterson,Daundre Barnaby, and Brandon McBride just missed on making theinal eight as i t posted a t ime of 3:06.17.

Also today, Muir will compete in the finals of the 400, whileMarcus Jackson will compete in the finals of the high jump. ESPNUwill begin coverage of the championships starting at 6:30 p.m.

n Men’s tennis team caps successful year in classroom :At Starkville, the men’s tennis team finished the spring with a teamgrade-point average of 3.76, which is the highest amongst all malesports at MSU, and the second-highest GPA in the team’s history.

All eight members of the team earned Dean’s or President’sscholar honors. Senior James Chaudry and junior Malte Stroppearned 4.0 GPAs. Freshmen Romain Bogaerts and Stefan Vinti joinChaudry and Stropp as President’s Scholar honorees.

Freshmen Jordan Angus and Pedro Dumont, senior EthanWilkinson, and junior Zach White earned Dean’s Scholar honors, asall four achieved higher than a 3.50 GPA for the spring.

“Very proud of the guys for their accompli shments in theclassroom,” MSU coach Per Nilsson said. “To be part of this team,it is important to put the work in both on and off the court and they

have done just that.”The Bulldogs reached the NCAA Round of 16 for the first time

since 2001. Nilsson was voted ITA Southern Region Coach of theYear, while Bogaerts was named ITA National Rookie of the Year and Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year. He also earnedirst-team All-SEC honors. Stropp earned second-team All-SEC

honors.MSU finished the season ranked 11th nationally. It was ranked

as high as No. 9. Bogaerts finished No. 11 in the nation, while Stroppwas 63rd. Angus and Stropp ended the season ranked 14th indoubles.

— From Special Reports

MSU baseballContinued from Page 1B

overdo it sometimes and weovercoach with our bullpen. Yes.”

Thompson’s philosophy on how to handle the pitch-ers, especially his start-ing pitchers this season, isbased on three things that have helped the Bulldogsproduce the most active and,possibly, the nation’s deep-est bullpen.

“The rst key is youhave to ask, ‘Does this giveus the best chance to win? Will our kids buy into it?’Finally, (you ask), ‘Can it be revised based on match-ups throughout a game or

season?’ ” Thompson said.“When you have 15-16 guysthat can throw it 90 mph,have talent, and can executemultiple pitches to letiesand righties, I guess thequestion is why wouldn’t youutilize that as a weapon in a game. I know people in thestands see me come out andreplace a guy in a 1-2 count and go, ‘Oh boy, here we goagain with the overcoach-ing,’ but we’ve allowed under our runs in over 50 gamesthis season. Something is working here at Mississippi

State.”Graveman can attest to

that. The 6-oot-1, 197-poundright-hander rom Alexan-der City, Ala., entered thisseason as the team’s most experienced pitcher (29starts in 196 1/3 innings).He has matured rom a pitcher who served primari-

ly as a reliever as a reshmanbut also started our gamesen route to a 2-4 record with

a 7.02 ERA. Graveman im-proved as a sophomore and went 5- 0 with a 3.65 ERA in 14 games (nine starts).Last season, he establishedhimsel as a mainstay on thesta with a team-leading 16starts and 89 2/3 innings, which was the second-high-est total on the team.

This season, Graveman(6-5, 2.94), who is expectedto start game one Saturday,has more than double thenumber o innings pitchedthan all but three other

pitchers — Ross Mitchell(83), Luis Pollorena (77),and Jacob Lindgren (56) —on sta. His 98 innings and16 starts lead the team. Hehas the squad’s only threecomplete games.

“Coach Thompson is likea ather to me, and I know a lot o the other pitches eelthe same way, too,” Grave-man said. “We don’t eel like we’re on a short leash when we’re out there, I promise you. Are we mad at the time when we’re taken out? Sure.But we also believe our next

best pitcher is just as goodand going to get it done.”

In the 2013 NCAA Starkville Regional cham-pionship game, Thompson went to the bullpen ater 21/3 innings and summonedsenior let-hander Chad Gi-rodo to replace junior right-hander Ben Bracewell.

“I’m sure ans thinkthere’s no rhyme or reasonto what coach Thompson

and coach Cohen are doing with the matchups and thebullpen roles,” MSU sopho-more closer Jonathan Hold-er said. “It does take a whileto get used to as a player, but eventually you realize it’sabout trust. It’s about hav-ing aith in them and know-ing they have aith in us aspitchers.”

Bracewell had only al-lowed one hit beore he gave way to Girodo, who wasabout to ace o against theUniversity o Central Arkan-

sas’ right-handed dominant lineup. In ront o 8,662 ansat Dudy Noble Field, Thomp-son knew he was working ona tightrope with the ans,but it was one he elt com-ortable with because o thedepth on this season’s sta.

“It’s such a ne line be-tween being the goat andthe hero anymore that may-be I’m defecting the blameo the kids onto me,” Thomp-son said. “Even at this level where the kids should eelresponsible or the results, Iprobably preer it that way.”

In the 6-1 victory against UCA that secured MSU’strip to Virginia, Bracewelland Girodo combined or 17strikeouts. Still, Thompsonunderstands the questionsater Girodo struck out 12 inthe nal 6 1/3 innings in what looked like an fipped pitchingorder in the box score.

“I that box score isfipped and Benny nishedthe nal 2 1/3 innings then

we’re not here discussingthis and that’s just becauseans aren’t used to and don’tget used to something that isn’t conventional,” Thomp-son said. “Catering to howthe casual or normal base-ball an is used to seeingthe game played isn’t what I’m worried. Coach Cohenpromotes having a creativeapproach to the game, and with the new bats we’re winning with pitching anddeense in 2013. We’re win-ning by putting our kids in

the best chance to succeed. We’re not just sitting backand hoping or somethinggood to happen.”

Thompson said the key ismixing highly competitivestarting pitchers who areunselsh and not driven by individual accolades.

“Do I worry about pro-moting the idea o not teach-ing our starters how to pitchout o trouble? Yes. Every day I worry about that,” Thompson said. “Peopledon’t believe me when I say I’d rather throw a starter

and then a closer or nineinnings and call it a day. That ’d be the easy thing oreverybody. I guess in 2013at Mississippi State we’renot interested in doing it the easily explainable way. We’re interested in winningbaseball games with thebest talent we have.”

RenfroeContinued from Page 1B

(58), hits (80), runs scored (51),and total bases (144). Renroe was a rst-team All-America selection by Louisville Slugger and a rst-team All-SEC pickby the coaches this season.

“I had a eeling it would beSan Diego, and the more andmore I started thinking about it,

the more and more I got excitedabout playing in their organiza-tion and being a Padre one day,”Renroe said in a phone interview Thursday night.

Renroe was a seminalist or the USA Baseball’s GoldenSpikes Award and the NCBWA’sDick Howser Trophy, which aregiven to the nation’s top colle-giate player. He also was the rst SEC player to be taken in thedrat, which was broadcast liveon MLB Network.

“The entire Bulldog amily isso proud o Hunter,” MSU coach John Cohen said. “He’s been oneo our hardest workers and hascome a long way in a short periodo time. Hunter is very deservingo the distinction o being a rst-round drat pick.”

Renroe gained condencein his power the past two sea-sons playing in the Cal RipkenLeague, a wood-bat summer league, where he hit a league-re-cord 19 home runs last summer, which prompted the Bethesda (Md.) Big Train to retire his jer-sey. Perect Game USA, a nation-al scouting service, named Ren-roe the league’s top prospect

last summer ater he hit .364 with 57 RBIs.

“That ’s the thing I really thinkI’m going to enjoy the most about proessional baseball,” Renroesaid. “The bats we use right now are junk. They just are. The balldoesn’t carry o o them and theballs are as t ightly wound as they

are in summer ball and in minor leagues. I’ll be able to translatethe power immediately i not better with the wood at the next level.”

Scouts consider Renroe a ve-tool player who can run, hit,hit or power, deend his position,and throw with power rom the

outeld. Renroe, who will berepresented in contract negotia-tions by Bo McKinnis, is project-ed as a player who could movequickly through a organization’sminor league system.

The rst two rounds o thedrat were Thursday. Rounds 3-10 will be today, while rounds 11-40 will be Saturday. Renroe andthe MSU coaches believe beingpicked beore the team’s NCAA Charlottesville Super Region-al series against No. 6 nationalseed University o Virginia couldbe the best thing or the squad.MSU and Virginia will play gameone o the best-o-three series at 12:05 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2) inCharlottesville, Va.

“It eels better to get the drat out o the way,” Renroe said. “Ican now ocus on Virginia andthe goal o getting to Omaha. There’s no worrying about thePadres, and I can just relax now that this is all over.”

Renroe, who is rom CrystalSprings and was an All-Stateplayer at Copiah Academy, is theourth-highest Bulldog selectionin the drat. Will Clark was tak-en second in 1985, B.J. Wallace

w as the third pick in 1992, andcurrent Atlanta Braves pitcher Paul Maholm was the eighth se-lection o the 2003 drat. He is a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection, and last month hereceived the C Spire Ferriss Tro-phy as the Mississippi collegiateplayer o the year.

College Baseball

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.


SECAUCUS, N.J. —Mark Appel was passedover by the Houston Astrosa year ago.

Not this time. The hard-throwing

pitcher rom Stanord wastaken by the Astros withthe No. 1 pick in the Ma- jor League Baseball drat Thursday night, exactly where many expected himto end up a year ago.

“No matter what hap-pened in the drat,” Appelsaid, “I knew I had doneeverything that was in my

control to put mysel in thebest situation possible.”

Appel was considered a possible rst selection last year by the Astros, but they instead chose 17-year-oldshortstop Carlos Correa rom Puerto Rico. Appel, who grew up in Houstonbeore moving to Calior-nia when he was 12, slidto Pittsburgh at No. 8 last year but turned down a $3.8million oer and returnedto Stanord or his senior season.

The move paid o. Ater going 10-4 with a 2.12 ERA and 130 strike-outs in 106 1/3 innings thisseason or the Cardinal, the6-oot-4 right-hander is ex-pected to etch about dou-ble the amount he passedup rom the Pirates.

“I don’t think I necessar -ily had an end goal in mind when I turned down the

Pirates’ oer,” said Appel, who complements his mid-90s (mph) astball with a nasty slider and improvingchangeup. “My goals wereto nish my degree and be-come a better baseball play-er and better person andbetter teammate. As ar asthat goes, I think I accom-plished those things.

And, a year later, the As-tros have a potential utureace.

“I talked to him and toldhim: ‘Welcome home,’” As-

tros general manager Je Luhnow said. “It’s a kid’sdream to go rst in thecountry, rst in the drat and to be taken by your hometown team. It just doesn’t get any better thanthat. It’s also really a great opportunity or us.”

The deadline or teamsto sign drat picks is July 12,but that doesn’t apply to Ap-pel because he is a collegesenior.

“I’m very condent that Mark Appel is going to put on an Astros uniorm,” Luh-

now said. “He’s rom here.He wants to play here. He’sbeen selected rst in thedrat. All the indicators arepointing in the same direc-tion, so I assume it will bea airly straightorward dis-cussion and that he’ll signsometime this summer.”

Astros select Appel

with No. 1 overall pick



THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013 3B

TodayAUTO RACING

12:30 p.m. — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practicefor Party in the Poconos 400, at Long Pond, Pa.(same-day tape), SPEED1 p.m. — Formula One, practice for CanadianGrand Prix, at Montreal, NBC Sports Network2:30 p.m. — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, polequalifying for Party in the Poconos 400, at LongPond, Pa., SPEED8 p.m. — NASCAR, Truck Series, WinStar World

Casino 400, at Fort Worth, Texas, SPEEDBOXING

9 p.m. — Lightweights, John Molina Jr. (25-2-0)vs. Andrey Klimov (15-0-0 ), at Shelton, Wash.,ESPN210 p.m. — Bantamweights, Jonathan Vidal(17-0-0) vs. Mario Munoz (13-0-1); juniormiddleweights, Jorge Melendez (26-2-1) vs. LuisGrajeda (14-1-1), at Verona, N.Y., Showtime

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Noon — NCAA Division I, playoffs, superregionals, game 1, South Carolina at NorthCarolina, ESPN23 p.m. — NCAA Division I, playoffs, superregionals, game 1, Rice at North Carolina State,ESPN26 p.m. — NCAA Division I, playoffs, superregionals, game 1, Oklahoma at LSU, ESPN

6 p.m. — NCAA Division I, playoffs, superregionals, game 1, UCLA at Cal State-Fullerton,ESPN2

CYCLING11 p.m. — Criterium du Dauphine, stage 6, LaLechere to Grenoble, France (same-day tape),NBC Sports Network

GOLF

11:30 a.m. — LPGA, Wegman’s Championship,second round, at Pittsford, N.Y., TGC2 p.m. — PGA Tour, St. Jude Classic, secondround, at Memphis, Tenn., TGC5:30 p.m. — Champions Tour, The Tradition,second round, at Birmingham, Ala. (same-day tape), TGC

HORSE RACING

4 p.m. — NTRA, Brooklyn Handicap and JaipurStakes, at Elmont, N.Y., NBC Sports Network

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL1:10 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, WGN6 p.m. — Regional coverage, St. Louis atCincinnati or Cleveland at Detroit, MLB9 p.m. — Atlanta at Los Angeles, Fox SportsSouth

NHL

7 p.m. — Playoffs, conference finals, game 4,

Pittsburgh at Boston, NBC Sports Network

SaturdayAUTO RACING

9 a.m. — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Party

in the Poconos 400, at Long Pond, Pa., SPEED

10:30 a.m. — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, “Happy Hour

Series,” final practice for Party in the Poconos

400, at Long Pond, Pa., SPEED

Noon — Formula One, qualifying for Canadian

Grand Prix, at Montreal, NBC Sports NetworkNoon — ARCA, at Long Pond, Pa., SPEED

7 p.m. — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, DuPont

Pioneer 250, at Newton, Iowa, ESPN

7:30 p.m. — IRL, IndyCar, Firestone 550, at Fort

Worth, Texas, WKDH-WTVA

BOXING

9 p.m. — Lightweights, Yuriorkis Gamboa

(22-0-0) vs. Darley Perez (28-0-0); champion

Chad Dawson (31-2-0) vs. Adonis Stevenson

(20-1-0), for WBC light heavyweight title, at

Montreal, HBO

9 p.m. — Junior middleweights, Demetrius

Hopkins (33-2-1) vs. Jermell Charlo (20-0 -0);

super welterweights, Alfredo Angulo (22-2-0)

vs. Erislandy Lara (17-1-2); champion Marcos

Maidana (33-3-0) vs. Josesito Lopez (30-5-0),

for WBA Inter-Continental welterweight title, at

Carson, Calif., Showtime

COLLEGE BASEBALL

11 a.m. — NCAA Division I, playoffs, super

regionals, game 2, South Carolina at North

Carolina, ESPN

Noon — NCAA Division I, playoffs, super

regionals, game 1, Mississippi State at Virginia,

ESPN2

2 p.m. — NCAA Division I, playoffs, super

regionals, game 1, Louisville at Vanderbilt, ESPN


regionals, game 2, Rice at North Carolina State,

ESPN2


regionals, game 2, Oklahoma at LSU, ESPN2


regionals, game 2, UCLA at Cal State-Fullerton,

ESPN2CYCLING

Midnight — Criterium du Dauphine, stage 7, Le

Pont-de-Claix to Superdevoluy, France (delayed

tape), NBC Sports Network

GOLF

8 a.m. — European PGA Tour, Lyoness Open,

third round, at Atzenbrugg, Austria (same-day

tape), TGC

Noon — PGA Tour, St. Jude Classic, third round,

at Memphis, Tenn., TGC

2 p.m. — PGA Tour, St. Jude Classic, third round,

at Memphis, Tenn., WCBI

2 p.m. — LPGA, Wegman’s Championship, third

round, at Pittsford, N.Y., TGC

6:30 p.m. — Champions Tour, The Tradition,

third round, at Birmingham, Ala. (same-day tape),

TGC

HORSE RACING

2 p.m. — NTRA, Belmont Stakes undercard, at

Elmont, N.Y., NBC Sports Network

4 p.m. — NTRA, Manhattan Handicap and

Belmont Stakes, at Elmont, N.Y., WTVA

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

3 p.m. — Regional coverage, Minnesota at

Washington or Cleveland at Detroit, MLB

3 p.m. — Oakland at Chicago White Sox, WGN

6 p.m. — Regional coverage, L.A. Angels at

Boston, St. Louis at Cincinnati, San Diego at

Colorado, Houston at Kansas City, or

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, WLOV

9 p.m. — Atlanta at Los Angeles, Fox Sports

South

MOTORSPORTS

4 p.m. — AMA Motocross, High Point National, at

Mount Morris, Pa., NBC Sports NetworkNHL

7 p.m. — Playoffs, conference finals, game 5,

Los Angeles vs. Chicago, WTVA

SOCCER

9:30 p.m. — MLS, Vancouver at Seattle, NBC

Sports Network

TENNIS

8 a.m. — French Open, women’s championship

match, at Paris, WTVA

WNBA

2:30 p.m. — Phoenix at Indiana, WKDH-WTVA

ON THE AIRBRIEFLY

Ole MissYoung makes history for track and field program

EUGENE, Ore. — University of Mississippi senior sprinter IsiahYoung made history Thursday as he advanced to the finals of the 200meters at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships at the Universityof Oregon.

Young advanced to the final of the 200 one day after he qualifiedor the finals in the 100. In the process, he became the first athletein program history to make the NCAA finals in both sprints. Youngcruised to second place in his heat with a time of 20.12 seconds, whichis four-hundredths of a second faster than the school record he setlast year at the U.S. Olympic Trials when he qualified for the London

Olympics. His 20.12 was the fourth-fastest time out of t he eight menhat qualified for the final at 4:50 p.m. Saturday (ESPNU).

Young finished fourth in the 200 at last year’s outdoor champi-onships.

Junior Mary Ashton Nall started competition Thursday at thewo-day women’s heptathlon competition. She finished the day in 21st

place with 3,201 points through four events. She had a personal-bestof 13.77 in the 100 hurdles that moved her up to sixth place in theRebel record books. She capped the day with another personal best,clocking a 24.90 in the 200.

Today, Nall will compete in the final three events of the heptathlon,beginning at 2:30 p.m., while Young will go for a national title in the 100at 7:10 p.m. (ESPNU).

■ Men’s tennis team will play host to ITA Kick-Off in 2014 :At Oxford, the men’s tennis team was selected Thursday to be oneof 15 sites to play host to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA)Kick-Off Weekend.

Ole Miss, which ended the 2013 season ranked No. 10 in thenation, will welcome Clemson University, the University of I llinois, andhe University of Michigan to Oxford on Jan. 25-26, 2014. Mat ches will

ake place at the Gillom Sports Center.This marks the fourth time for the Rebels to host this event, which

began in 2009 as a prelude to the ITA National Team Indoor. Teamsare competing for one of 15 spots in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship on Feb. 14-17 in Houston, Texas.

As the No. 1 seed in the four-team regional, Ole Miss will face theNo. 4 seed Michigan in the first round. No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Illinoiswill meet in the other match. All three visiting teams finished the 2013season ranked among the top 30.

The other 14 host sites are: the University of Virginia, UCLA, theUniversity of Georgia, Ohio State University, USC, the University of ennessee, Duke University, Pepperdine University, the University of

Kentucky, Baylor University, Mississippi State University, the Universityof Oklahoma, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Florida.

■ In related news, senior Jonas Lutjen and sophomore NikScholtz earned top rankings in singles and doubles. The duo cappedan outstanding two-year run as a doubles duo with a f inal nationalranking of No. 4. Lutjen and Scholtz ended the year ranked No.15 and17 in the nation in singles, respectively. They are two of only six playerso finish the year ranked top 20 in singles and top 10 in doubles.

■ Volleyball team’s recruiting class receives highesthonorable mention: At Oxford, Bringing in one of its largest andmost talented classes in the Joe Getzin era, the volleyball has beenrecognized for its hard work on the recruiting trail by being rankedHighest Honorable Mention by PrepVolleyball.com.

The Rebels will be bringing in seven newcomers for the 2013 cam-paign, including Marie-Pierre Bakima, Laura Beaty, Kristen Brashear,Melanie Crow, Aubrey Edie, Margaret Eggert, and Cara Fisher.

Bakima and Fisher will come to Ole Miss as juniors, and willhave two years of eligibility remaining. PrepVolleyball.com’s recruitingclass rankings consist only of players making their initial appearancein a four-year program. The class rankings do not take into accountransfers, including those from junior colleges, or foreign players.

Bakima, who will play outside for the Rebels, played at San Jacin-o College for each of the last two years, and was named the NJCAAPlayer of the Year last season for region XIV.

■ Women’s soccer team announces schedule: At Oxford,Fresh off one of the program’s best season’s that saw the Rebels finishwo games shy of the best record in school history, the Ole Miss wom-

en’s soccer team has stepped up to the plate again with a challenging

schedule for the 2013 season, head coach Matt Mott announced onWednesday.

The 2013 campaign will feature five teams who advanced toNCAA Tournament play a year ago, including games against four eams who advanced past the first round and a pair of Sweet 16 teamsin Florida and Texas A&M.

“We’re really excited about this schedule,” said Ole Miss headcoach Matt Mott. “It’s a challenging schedule, but one we’re thrilledo get a chance to play. We look forward to testing ourselves with achallenging non-conference schedule that features a pair of perennialpowers in Minnesota and Southern California, as well as hostingMemphis in a regional rivalry game. We then jump into our conferenceschedule and play a tough slate of league games.”

The Rebels will play host to 10 matches this season, including four non-conference contests against Louisiana-Lafayette (8/23), North-western State (8/30), Memphis (9/15) and Arkansas-Little Rock (9/22).

In addition to the four non-conference matches, the Rebels willhost seven Southeastern Conference foes, including Florida (9/27),Auburn (9/29), Vanderbilt (10/11), South Carolina (10/20), Alabama(10/27) and in-state rival Mississippi State (11/1).

Ole Miss will play a challenging road schedule this season,including five non-conference matches and five SEC contests. Whileplaying on the road at UAB (8/25), Saint Louis (9/1) and KennesawState (9/13), the Rebels will also head north to play in the MinnesotaGold Classic, hosted by the University of Minnesota. There, OleMiss will play a neutral site match against the Women of Troy fromhe University of Southern California (9/6) and face the host GoldenGophers (9/8).

The Rebels are coming off a 13-9 season a year ago and postedhe best start in school history with a perfect 8-0 mark to open the year.Ole Miss earned a berth in the Southeastern Conference Tournamentor the 14th time in school history and advanced past the first roundour only the fourth time in school history – eliminating LSU in theopening round before falling to eventual SEC Tournament ChampionFlorida 2-1 in the quarterfinals on a late goal.

Returning to lead Ole Miss in the 2013 campaign is a solid nucleusof players that include a pair of All-Star honor recipients in seniorsMandy McCalla and Rafaelle Souza. McCalla was named the SECOffensive Player of the Year and a third team All-America selection byCollegeSportsMadness.com last season, while Souza was named an

All-SEC selection and NSCAA All- Region selection.McCalla and Souza combined to form the most prolific offensive

andem in the SEC last year, leading the conference with 13 goalseach and seven assists.

Returning to help anchor the Rebel defense is junior goalkeeper Kelly McCormick, who posted eight shutout victories in 2013 andhelped direct a back line that featured three freshmen and helped theOle Miss hold opponents to one goal or less in 14 outings.

Ole Miss will open the season at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, when itplays host to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Junior CollegesLimited spots remain for ICC Golf Classic

FULTON — Itawamba Community College football coach JonWilliams said there is a limited number of spots remaining for theifth annual ICC Golf Classic.

The four-person scramble will be held Thursday, June 27 atBig Oaks Golf Club. Registration will start at 10 a.m. before a 12:35shotgun start. Dinner and a silent auction will follow the golf. The

deadline is Saturday, June 15, or until the 20-team field is filled.Registrations includes: 18 holes of golf with cart, range balls

prior to the tournament, one mulligan, closest to the hole andlongest drive contest, team photos, and a gift for each golfer.

Extra benefits will be available for purchase at the tournament.All donations are tax deductible. Proceeds from the tournament goo the ICC Athletic Department.

For more information, call Carrie Ball-Williamson at 662-862-8123, Will Kollmeyer at 662-862-8274, or Williams at 662-862-8115.

CollegesJudge tosses lawsuit by Pa. governor against NCAA

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge on Thursday threw outhe governor’s lawsuit against the NCAA over sanctions against

Penn State related to Jerry Sandusky, calling his argument “a HailMary pass” that easily warranted dismissal.

U.S. Middle District Judge Yvette Kane’s decision put an earlyend to the antitrust lawsuit Gov. Tom Corbett filed in January in

which he sought to overturn a $60 million fine, a four-year bowlban, scholarship limits and other penalties.

She said she could not “find any factual allegations supporting(Corbett’s) allegation of ‘concerted action’ that might nudge itsconspiracy claim into ‘plausible’ territory.”

The NCAA said it was “exceedingly pleased” and hoped theruling would help heal divisions caused by the Sandusky scandal.

Corbett expressed disappointment and said he feels stronglyhe claims he raised were compelling and deserved a thorough

review by the courts.“Countless individuals and small businesses throughout

he state will continue to suffer because of the NCAA’s actions,”Corbett said.


BaseballMajor League BaseballFirst-Year Player draft

ThursdayRound 1

1. Houston, Mark Appel, RHP, Stanford.2. Chicago Cubs, Kris Bryant, 3B, San Diego.3. Colorado, Jonathan Gray, RHP, Oklahoma.4. Minnesota, Kohl Stewart, RHP, St. Pius XHS, Houston.5. Cleveland, Clint Frazier, OF, Loganville(Ga.) HS.6. Miami, Colin Moran, 3B, North Carolina.7. Boston, Trey Ball, LHP, New Castl e (Ind.) HS.8. Kansas City, Hunter Dozier, SS, StephenF. Austin.9. Pittsburgh, Austin Meadows, OF, GraysonHS, Loganville, Ga.10. Toronto, Phillip Bickford, RHP, OaksChrisian HS, Westlake Village, Calif.

11. N.Y. Mets, Dominic Smith, 1B, JuniperroSerra HS, Los Angeles.12. Seattle, D.J. Peterson, 3B, New Mexico.13. San Diego, Hunter Renfroe, OF, MississippiSt.14. Pittsburgh, Reese McGuire, C, KentwoodHS, Covington, Wash.15. Arizona, Braden Shipley, RHP, Nevada.16. Philadelphia, J.P. Crawford, SS, Lakewood(Calif.) HS.17. Chicago White Sox, Tim Anderson, SS,East Central CC.18. L.A. Dodgers, Chris Anderson, RHP,Jacksonville U.19. St. Louis, Marco Gonzales, LHP, Gonzaga.20. Detroit, Jonathon Crawford, RHP, Florida.21. Tampa Bay, Nick Ciuffo, C, Lexington(S.C.) HS.22. Baltimore, Hunter Harvey, RHP, BandysHS, Catawba, N.C.23. Texas, Alex Gonzalez, RHP, Oral Roberts.24. Oakland, Billy McKinney, OF, Plano (Texas)West HS.25. San Francisco, Christian Arroyo, SS,Hernando HS, Spring Hill, Fla.26. N.Y. Yankees, Eric Jagielo, 3B, NotreDame.27. Cincinnati, Phillip Ervin, OF, Samford.28. St. Louis (Lohse-Milwaukee), RobKaminsky, LHP, St. Joseph Regional HS,Englewood Cliffs, N.J.29. Tampa Bay (Upton-Atlanta), Ryne Stanek,RHP, Arkansas.30. Texas (Hamilton-LA Angels), TravisDemeritte, SS, Winder-Barrow HS, Statham,Ga.31. Atlanta (Bourn-Cleveland), Jason Hursh,RHP, Oklahoma St.32. N.Y. Yankees (Swisher-Cleveland), AaronJudge, OF, Fresno St.33. N.Y. Yankees (Soriano-Washington), IanClarkin, LHP, James Madison HS, San Diego.

COMPETITIVE BALANCE ROUND A34. Kansas City, Sean Manaea, LHP, IndianaSt.35. Miami (from Pittsburgh), Matt Krook, LHP,St. Ignatius College Prep, Hillsborough, Calif.36. Arizona, Aaron Blair, RHP, Marshall.37. Baltimore, Josh Hart, OF, Parkview HS,Lilburn, Ga.38. Cincinnati, Michael Lorenzen, RHP, CalSt.-Fullerton.39. Detroit (from Miami), Corey Knebel, RHP,Texas.

SECOND ROUND40. Houston, Andrew Thurman, RHP, UCIrvine.

41. Chicago Cubs, Rob Zastryzny, LHP,Missouri.42. Colorado, Ryan McMahon, 3B, Mater DeiHS, Yorba Linda, Calif.43. Minnesota, Ryan Eades, RHP, LSU.44. Miami, Trevor Williams, RHP, Arizona St.45. Boston, Teddy Stankiewicz, RHP, SeminoleSt. JC.46. Kansas City, Cody Reed, LHP, NorthwestMississippi CC.47. Toronto, Clinton Hollon, RHP, WoodfordCounty HS, Versailles, Ky.48. N.Y. Mets, Andrew Church, RHP, Basic HS,Henderson Nev.49. Seattle, Austin Wilson, OF, Stranford.50. San Diego, Dustin Peterson, 3B, Gilbert(Ariz.) HS.51. Pittsburgh, Blake Taylor, LHP, Dana HillsHS, Dana Point, Calif.52. Arizona, Justin Williams, SS, TerrebonneHS, Houma, La.53. Philadelphia, Andrew Knapp C, California.54. Milwaukee, Devin Williams, RHP,Hazelwood (Mo.) West HS.55. Chicago White Sox, Tyler Danish, RHP,Durant HS, Valrico, Fla.56. L.A. Dodgers, Tom Windle, LHP,Minnesota.57. St. Louis, Oscar Mercado, SS, Gaither HS,Tampa, Fla.58. Detroit, Kevin Zomek, LHP, Vanderbilt.59. L.A. Angels, Hunter Green, LHP, WarrenEast HS, Bowling Green, Ky.60. Tampa Bay, Riley Unroe, SS, Desert RidgeHS, Mesa, Ariz.61. Baltimore, Chance Sisco, C, Santiago HS,Corona, Calif.62. Texas, Akeem Bostick, RHP, West FlorenceHS, Florence, S.C.63. Oakland, Dillon Overton, LHP, Oklahoma.64. San Francisco, Ryder Jones, 3B, WataugaHS, Boone, N.C.65. Atlanta, Victor Caratini, C, Miami Dade CC.66. N.Y. Yankees, Gosuke Katoh, 2B, RanchoBernardo HS, Poway, Calif.67. Cincinnati, Kevin Franklin, 3B, Gahr HS,Cerritos Calif.68. Washington, Jacob Johansen, RHP, DallasBaptist.

COMPETITIVE BALANCE ROUND B69. San Diego, Jordan Paroubeck, OF, SerraHS, Redwood City, Calif.70. Colorado, Alex Balog, RHP, San Francisco.71. Oakland, Chad Pinder, SS, Virginia Tech.72. Milwaukee, Tucker Neuhaus, SS, WhartonHS, Tampa, Fla.73. Miami (from Detroit), Colby Suggs, RHP,

Arkansas.NCAA Division I Super

RegionalsDouble Elimination

(x-if necessary)(Best-of-three; x-if necessary)

Today’s GamesSouth Carolina (42-18) at North Carolina(55-9), NoonRice (44-18) at North Carolina State (47-14),3 p.m.Oklahoma (43-19) at LSU (55-9), 6 p.m.UCLA (42-17) at Cal St.-Fullerton (51-8), 6 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesSouth Carolina at North Carolina, 11 a.m.Indiana (46-14) at Florida State (47-15), 11 a.m.Mississippi State (46-18) at Virginia (47-10),NoonLouisville (49-12) at Vanderbilt (54-10), 2 p.m.Rice at North Carolina State, 3 p.m.Oklahoma at LSU, 6 p.m.Kansas State (44-17) at Oregon State (48-10),6 p.m.UCLA at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesIndiana at Florida State, Noonx-South Carolina at North Carolina, Noon

x-Rice at North Carolina State, 3 p.m.Louisville at Vanderbilt, 3 p.m.Mississippi State at Virginia, 6 p.m.x-Oklahoma at LSU, 6 p.m.Kansas State at Oregon State, 9 p.m.x-UCLA at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9 p.m.

Monday’s Gamesx-Indiana at Florida State, Noonx-Mississippi State at Virginia, 3 p.m.x-Louisville at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.x-Kansas State at Oregon State, 6 p.m.

BasketballNBA Playoffs

FINALSMiami vs. San Antonio

(Best-of-seven)Thursday’s Game

San Antonio 92, Miami 88, San Antonio leadsseries 1-09

Sunday’s GameSan Antonio at Miami, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s GameMiami at San Antonio 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 13Miami at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 16x-Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 18x-San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.Thursday, June 20

x-San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

Spurs 92, Heat 88SAN ANTONIO (92): Leonard 3-9 4-4 10,

Duncan 8-19 4-4 20, Splitter 3-6 1-2 7, Parker 9-18 3-4 21, Green 4-9 0-0 12, Ginobili 4-11 3-413, Diaw 1-1 0-0 2, Joseph 0-1 0-0 0, Neal 3-90-0 7, Bonner 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-84 15-18 92.

MIAMI (88): James 7-16 3-4 18, Haslem1-1 0-0 2, Bosh 6-16 1-2 13, Chalmers 3-10 0-08, Wade 7-15 3-4 17, Allen 3-4 4-5 13, Miller 2-3 0-0 5, Andersen 3-5 1-2 7, Cole 2-4 0-0 5,Battier 0-3 0-0 0, Anthony 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-78 12-17 88.San Antonio 23 26 20 23—92Miami 24 28 20 16—88

3-Point Goals—San Antonio 7-23 (Green4-9, Ginobili 2-5, Neal 1-5, Leonard 0-4),Miami 8-25 (Allen 3-4, Chalmers 2-6, Cole 1-1,Miller 1-2, James 1-5, Battier 0-3, Bosh 0-4).Rebounds—San Antonio 47 (Duncan 14),Miami 54 (James 18). Assists—San Antonio 16(Parker 6), Miami 20 (James 10). Total Fouls—San Antonio 12, Miami 12. A—19,775 (19,600).

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCEW L Pct GB

Atlanta 3 0 1.000 —Chicago 3 0 1.000 —New York 2 1 .667 1Washington 1 1 .500 1½Connectic ut 1 2 .333 2Indiana 1 2 .333 2

WESTERN CONFERENCEW L Pct GB

Minnesota 2 0 1.000 —Los Angeles 1 1 .50 0 1San Antonio 1 1 .50 0 1Seattle 1 1 .500 1Phoenix 0 3 .000 2½Tulsa 0 4 .000 3

Wednesday’s GameNew York 75, Indiana 68, OT

Thursday’s GameMinnesota 99, Phoenix 79

Today’s GamesWashington at Connecticut, 6 p.m.New York at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Chicago at San Antonio, 7 p.m.Tulsa at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesPhoenix at Indiana, 2:30 p.m.Minnesota at Washington, 6 p.m.Tulsa at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

FootballArena League

NATIONAL CONFERENCECentral Division

W L T Pct PF PAChicago 6 5 0 .545 605 597San Antonio 5 5 0 .500 434 464Iowa 4 7 0 .364 526 529

West DivisionW L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 10 1 0 .909 743 525Spokane 8 3 0 .727 737 593San Jose 7 3 0 .700 520 499Utah 4 6 0 .400 510 510

AMERICAN CONFERENCESouth Division

W L T Pct PF PAJacksonvi lle 8 3 0 .727 590 494Tampa Bay 7 4 0 .636 638 590New Orleans 2 8 0 .200 415 586Orlando 2 8 0 .200 499 600

Eastern DivisionW L T Pct PF PA

Philadelphi a 5 5 0 .500 588 525Pittsburgh 3 7 0 .300 393 531Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 447 603

Today’s GameIowa at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesNew Orleans at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.Orlando at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Utah at Chicago, 7 p.m.Arizona at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Jacksonville at Spokane, 9 p.m.Pittsburgh at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

GolfPGA St Jude Classic

ThursdayAt TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn.

Purse: $5.7 millionYardage: 7,239; Par: 70 (35-35)

First Rounda-denotes amateur

Nathan Green 34-32—66Martin Flores 32-34—66Davis Love III 33-33—66Stuart Appleby 33-33—66Glen Day 33-33—66Harris English 34-32—66Nicholas Thompson 33-34—67Scott Stallings 34-33—67David Toms 32-35—6 7Jason Bohn 34-33—67Dustin Johnson 31-36—67Peter Hanson 33-34—67Tim Petrovic 35-32—67John Rollins 34-33—67Justin Hicks 35-32—67Paul Haley II 33-34—67Shawn Stefani 33-34—67Bob Estes 34-34—68Roberto Castro 34-34—68

Boo Weekley 34-34—68Russell Henley 33-35—68Billy Mayfair 33-35—68Nick O’Hern 32-36—68Eric Meierdierks 34-34—68Brad Fritsch 36-32—68Joe Affrunti 34-34—68Matt Jones 36-33—69D.J. Trahan 31-38—69Kevin Stadler 33-36—69Chez Reavie 36-33—69Jerry Kelly 36-33—69Padraig Harrington 35-34—69Aaron Baddeley 34-35—69Ian Poulter 33-36—69J.J. Henry 35-34—69Gary Woodland 34-35—69Robert Karlsson 35-34—69Brian Davis 34-35—69Brandt Jobe 34-35—69Tim Herron 34-35—69Camilo Villegas 35-34—69Brendon Todd 36-33 —69Jim Herman 33-36—69Steve Flesch 36-33—69Woody Austin 34-35—69Ben Crane 34-35—69Justin Leonard 33-36—69John Merrick 33-36—69Scott Brown 31-38—69Tim Clark 34-35—69Rory Sabbatini 33-36—69Greg Owen 35-34—69Patrick Reed 35-34—69Jeff Maggert 36-33—69Jeff Overton 34-35—69David Hearn 34-35—69William McGirt 38-32—70Tag Ridings 36-34 —70Brian Gay 34-36—70Freddie Jacobson 35-35 —70Stephen Ames 35-35—70Trevor Immelman 35-35 —70Brendan Steele 34-36 —70Lee Janzen 35-35 —70Chad Campbell 34-36 —70Alistair Presnell 37-33—70Kevin Sutherland 35-35 —70Bill Lunde 36-34—70Brendon de Jonge 35-35 —70Ken Duke 35-35 —70Brandt Snedeker 34-36 —70Jonathan Byrd 37-33—70Mark Wilson 36-34—70Luke Guthrie 36-34—70Ross Fisher 33-37—70Doug LaBelle II 36-34—70Russell Knox 36-34—70Charles Howell III 34-37—71

Ben Kohles 37-34—71Phil Mickelson 33-38—71Robert Allenby 34-37—71Shaun Micheel 33-38 —71Jeff Gove 35-36—71Cameron Tringale 37-34—71Casey Wittenberg 35-36 —71Justin Bolli 35-36—71George Coetzee 35-36—71Steve LeBrun 36-35 —71Aaron Watkins 34-37—71Scott Gardiner 33-38 —71John Daly 36-35—71James Hahn 32-39—71Joe Ogilvie 35-36—71Billy Horschel 37-34—71Arjun Atwal 36-35—71Jason Kokrak 37-34—71Seung-Yul Noh 36-35 —71Andres Gonzales 34-37—71Chase Seiffert 38-33—71Cody Gribble 34-37—71Jin Park 36-35—71Jimmy Walker 35-37—72Tom Gillis 36-36—72Bud Cauley 36-36—72Fabian Gomez 34-38 —72Vaughn Taylor 34-38 —72Will Claxton 36-36—72

Cameron Beckman 34-38 —72Lee Williams 35-37—72Robert Streb 37-35—72Ryuji Imada 38-34 —72Ryan Palmer 35-37—72Joe Durant 33-39 —72Scott Langley 36-36—72Henrik Norlander 38-34—72Chris DiMarco 37-36—73Bryce Molder 36-37—73Tommy Gainey 34-39 —73Donald Constable 37-36—73Chip Deason 35-38—73Cameron Percy 36-37—73Steven Bowditch 38-35—73a-Guan Tianlang 37-36—73a-Matthew NeSmith 36-37—73Paul Goydos 36-37—73Troy Matteson 35-38 —73Derek Ernst 35-38 —73Brian Harman 36-37—73Dicky Pride 35-38—73Morgan Hoffmann 37-36—73Gary Christian 35-38—73Charlie Holland 38-35—73Steve Marino 38-36 —74D.A. Points 35-39 —74Sean O’Hair 38-36 —74Heath Slocum 37-37—74

Trent Whitekill er 38-36 —74Scott McCarron 37-37—74George McNeill 35-39—74Scott Verplank 37-37—74Bobby Gates 35-39 —74a-Steven Fox 38-36 —74Andrew Svoboda 36-38—74Ricky Barnes 37-38—75David Duval 38-37—75David Mathis 38-37—75Rod Pampling 38-37—75D.H. Lee 40-35 —75Colt Knost 37-38—75Scott Moran 40-35—75Michael Letzig 40-36—76Darron Stiles 38-39—77Vince Covello 36-41—77Michael Bradley 38-40—78Luke List 37-42—79Matt Bettencour t WD

Champions RegionsTradition

ThursdayAt Shoal Creek, Birmingham, Ala.

Purse: $2.2 millionYardage: 7,231; Par: 72 (36-36)

First Round

Jeff Sluman 32-33—65Fred Couples 32-34—66Duffy Waldorf 36-31—67Peter Senior 34-33—67Michael Allen 35-33—68Mark Calcavecchia 35-33—68David Frost 33-35—68Corey Pavin 33-35—68Dick Mast 36-33—69Bob Gilder 34-35—69Bart Bryant 33-36—69Tom Lehman 35-34— 69Tom Jenkins 35-34—69David Eger 32-37—69Mark Wiebe 36-33—69Bob Tway 36-33— 69Mark McNulty 33-36—69Loren Roberts 33-36—69Kenny Perry 35-34—69Mark Mouland 38-32—70Chien Soon Lu 35-35—70

Mark Brooks 34-36—70Barry Lane 37-33—70Esteban Toledo 35-35 —70John Cook 35-35—70Roger Chapman 38-32—70Jim Gallagher, Jr. 34-36 —70Tom Pernice Jr. 35-35 —70Mike Goodes 36-34—70Scott Simpson 36-35—71Bruce Vaughan 36-35 —71Gene Jones 36-35—71Tommy Armour III 33-38 —71Rod Spittle 36-35—71Craig Stadler 37-34—71Kirk Triplett 35-36 —71Steve Elkington 37-34—71Jay Don Blake 35-36 —71Bernhard Langer 36-35 —71Jay Haas 35-36 —71Morris Hatalsky 35-36—71Bobby Wadkins 38-33—71Joe Daley 38-33—71Dan Forsman 38-33—71

Willie Wood 35-36 —71Russ Cochran 36-35 —71Hale Irwin 36-35—71Steve Pate 36-36 —72Blaine McCallister 36-36—72Larry Mize 37-35—72Fred Funk 34-38 —72Gene Sauers 37-35—72Mike Reid 36-36—72Chip Beck 35-37—72Scott Hoch 37-35—72Jim Thorpe 38-34—72Bill Glasson 35-37—72Rocco Mediate 35-37—72Andrew Magee 36-37—73Wayne Levi 37-36—73Hal Sutton 35-38—73Don Pooley 36-37—73Jeff Hart 37-36—73Bruce Fleisher 38-35—73Mark O’Meara 36-37—73Peter Jacobsen 39-34 —73Joel Edwards 39-35 —74Bobby Clampett 37-37—74Jerry Pate 37-37—74Gil Morgan 36-38 —74Brad Bryant 37-37—74Tom Purtzer 38-36 —74Dana Quigley 35-39 —74Tom Kite 37-37—74Neal Lancaster 37-38—75Jim Rutledge 35-40—75Brad Faxon 41-36—77Sandy Lyle 42-36—78Larry Nelson 40-38—78Jeff Freeman 40-39 —79Gary Hallberg 40-40—80

HockeyNHL Playoffs

CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-seven)

Wednesday, June 5Boston 2, Pittsburgh 1, 2OT, Boston leadsseries 3-0

Thursday’s GameChicago 3, Los Angeles 2, Chicago leadsseries 3-1

Today’s GamePittsburgh at Boston, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GameLos Angeles at Chicago, 7 p.m.

SoccerMLS

EASTERN CONFERENCEW L T Pts GF GA

Montreal 8 2 2 26 22 15New York 7 5 4 25 2 3 19Philadelphi a 6 5 4 22 22 24Houston 6 4 4 22 19 14Sporting K.C. 6 5 4 22 18 13New England 5 4 4 19 15 9Columbus 4 5 5 17 16 16Chicago 3 7 2 11 9 17Toronto FC 1 7 5 8 12 19D.C. 1 10 2 5 6 24

WESTERN CONFERENCEW L T Pts GF GA

FC Dallas 8 2 4 28 2 3 17Real Salt Lake 7 5 3 24 21 15Portland 5 1 7 22 22 14Los Angeles 6 5 2 20 21 15Colorado 5 4 5 20 15 12Seattle 5 4 3 18 16 13Vancouver 4 4 4 16 16 17San Jose 3 6 6 15 13 23Chivas USA 3 8 2 11 13 26

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s GamePhiladelphia 3, Columbus 0

Saturday’s GamesD.C. United at New England, 6:30 p.m.Portland at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake, 8:30 p.m.Vancouver at Seattle FC, 9:30 p.m.

TennisFrench Open

ThursdayAt Stade Roland Garros, Paris

Purse: $28.4 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Clay-Outdoor

SinglesWomen

SemifinalsMaria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. VictoriaAzarenka (3), Belarus, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.Serena Williams (1), United States, def. SaraErrani (5), Italy, 6-0, 6-1.

DoublesMen

SemifinalsMichael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut, France, def.Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Horacio Zeballos,Argentina, 7-6 (4), 6-2.Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def.Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (7),Brazil, 6-1, 6-4.

MixedChampionship

Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak, Czech

Republic, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, andDaniel Nestor (5), Canada, 1-6, 6-4, 10-6.

Legends DoublesRound RobinMen Under 45

Albert Costa and Carlos Moya, Spain, def.Gaston Gaudio, Argentina, and GoranIvanisevic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-2, 10-7.

Men Over 45Guy Forget and Henri Leconte, France, def.Mikael Pernfors and Mats Wilander, Sweden,1-6, 6-4, 10-7.John McEnroe, United States, and AdrianoPanatta, Italy, def. Peter McNamara, Australia,and Michael Stich, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 10-2.

WomenElena Dementieva, Russia, and MartinaNavratilova, United States, def. Iva Majoli,Croatia, and Conchita Martinez, Spain, 6-2,6-4.Nathalie Tauziat and Sandrine Testud, France,def. Jana Novotna, Czech Republic, andBarbara Schett, Austria, 6-3, 1-6, 10-7.

TransactionsThursday’s Moves

BASEBALLAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Recalled OF XavierAvery from Norfolk (IL). Placed RHP SteveJohnson on the 15-day DL.CHICAGO WHITE SOX_Assigned SS Tyler Greene outright to Charlotte (IL). Placed RHPJake Peavy on the 15-day DL, retroactive toJune 5. Optioned RHP Brian Omogrosso toCharlotte. Recalled RHP Deunte Heath fromCharlotte. Purchased the contract of RHPRamon Troncoso from Charlotte.LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Optioned RHPDane De La Rosa to Salt Lake (PCL).SEATTLE MARINERS_Recalled RHP BlakeBeavan from Tacoma (PCL). Optioned RHPHector Noesi to Tacoma.TEXAS RANGERS—Placed 1B MitchMoreland on the 15-day DL. Purchased thecontract of 1B Chris McGuiness from RoundRock (PCL).TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Optioned OFAnthony Gose to Buffalo (IL).

National LeaguePITTSBURGH PIRATES_Sent RHP JamesMcDonald to Indianapolis (IL) for a rehabassignment.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Optioned RHPMaikel Cleto to Memphis (PCL). Recalled LHPKevin Siegrist from Memphis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Optioned INF/OFKyle Blanks to Tucson (PCL). Reinstated OFCameron Maybin from the 15-day DL.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Sent LHPEric Surkamp to San Jose (Cal) for a rehabassignment.WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Recalled LHPXavier Cedeno from Syracuse (IL).BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationDENVER NUGGETS—Fired coach GeorgeKarl.Women’s National Basketball Association

INDIANA FEVER—Signed G Erin Thorn.TULSA SHOCK—Re-signed C Courtney Paris.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed DB VernonKearney. Waived DB Prince Miller.HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed TE AdamSchiltz.KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed TE TravisKelce, CB Vince Agnew and LB Nico Johnson.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed LB A.J.Edds.OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed TE Nick Kasa,RB Latavius Murray, TE Mychal Rivera, DLStacy McGee, WR Brice Butler and DE DavidBass.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed GJeremy Lewis. Waived G Desmond Wynn.TENNESSEE TITANS—Waived C EugeneAmano.

MOTORSPORTSINDYCAR—Fined Sebastian Saavedra$30,000 for making an obscene gesture aMarco Andretti on June 2. Placed Will Power onprobation for the rest of the year for throwing hisgloves at Sebastien Bourdais and placed Bour-dais on probation for comments made towardofficials on pit road after an accident. FinedRahal Letterman Lanigan Racing $10,000for a pair of technical violations on the car oJames Jakes.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS—Traded D AlainRochat to D.C. United for a 2015 second-roundSuperDraft pick and a conditional 2016 pick.



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AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayBoston 37 24 .607 — — 6-4 W-1 19-13 18-11New York 35 25 .583 1½ — 5-5 W-4 19-13 16-12Baltimore 34 26 .567 2½ 1 7-3 W-1 15-13 19-13Tampa Bay 32 27 .542 4 2½ 7-3 L-1 17-10 15-17Toronto 25 34 .424 11 9½ 5-5 W-1 14-16 11-18

Central Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

Detroit 32 26 .552 — — 4-6 W-1 19-10 13-16Cleveland 30 29 .508 2½ 4½ 3-7 L-4 18-12 12-17Minnesota 26 31 .456 5½ 7½ 7-3 L-2 13-14 13-17Kansas City 25 32 .439 6½ 8½ 4-6 W-2 12-15 13-17Chicago 25 33 .431 7 9 1-9 L-1 13-12 12-21

West Division


Texas 36 23 .610 — — 4-6 L-1 18-8 18-15Oakland 37 25 .597 ½ — 8-2 W-2 18-10 19-15Los Angeles 26 34 .433 10½ 9 3-7 L-1 15-18 11-16Seattle 26 35 .426 11 9½ 4-6 L-2 15-14 11-21Houston 22 39 .361 15 13½ 7-3 L-1 10-23 12-16

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Division


Atlanta 37 23 .617 — — 7-3 L-1 21-7 16-16Philadelphi a 31 30 .508 6½ 4½ 7-3 W-5 16-15 15-15Washington 29 30 .492 7½ 5½ 4-6 L-1 16-12 13-18New York 23 33 .411 12 10 6-4 W-1 12-17 11-16Miami 16 44 .267 21 19 3-7 L-3 10-20 6-24

Central DivisionW L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

St. Louis 39 21 .650 — — 6-4 W-1 19-12 20-9Cincinnati 36 24 .600 3 — 5-5 L-2 21-9 15-15Pittsburg h 35 25 .583 4 — 4-6 L-3 21-11 14-14Chicago 24 33 .421 13½ 9½ 6-4 W-1 13-16 11-17Milwaukee 22 37 .373 16½ 12½ 3 -7 L-2 13-20 9-17

West Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayArizona 34 26 .567 — — 6-4 L-1 16-12 18-14San Francisco 31 28 .525 2½ 3½ 4-6 L-1 21-11 10-17Colorado 32 29 .525 2½ 3½ 5-5 L-1 18-13 14-16San Diego 28 32 .467 6 7 6-4 W-2 16-14 12-18Los Angeles 26 33 .441 7½ 8½ 5-5 W-1 17-16 9-17

Major League Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Thursday’s GamesDetroit 5, Tampa Bay 2Baltimore 3, Houston 1

Boston 6, Texas 3Kansas City 7, Minnesota 3Oakland 5, Chicago White Sox 4,10 inningsN.Y. Yankees 6, Seattle 1

Today’s GamesMinnesota (Correia 5-4) at Washington(G.Gonzalez 3-3), 6:05 p.m.Texas (Tepesch 3-4) at Toronto (Rogers1-2), 6:07 p.m.Cleveland (U.Jimenez 4-3) at Detroit(Verlander 7-4), 6:08 p.m.Baltimore (Hammel 7-3) at Tampa Bay(Archer 0-1), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Hanson 2-2) at Boston(Doubront 4-2), 6:10 p.m.Houston (Lyles 3-1) at Kansas City(Shields 2-6), 7:10 p.m.Oakland (J.Parker 4-6) at Chicago White

Sox (Sale 5-3), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 6-4) at Seattle(Bonderman 0-1), 9:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesTexas (Darvish 7-2) at Toronto (Buehrle2-4), 12:07 p.m.Minnesota (Diamond 4-4) at Washington(Karns 0-1), 3:05 p.m.Cleveland (Masterson 8-4) at Detroit(Porcello 2-3), 3:08 p.m.Baltimore (Gausman 0-2) at Tampa Bay(Hellickson 3-2), 3:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 4-3) at Seattle(J.Saunders 4-5), 3:10 p.m.Oakland (Milone 6-5) at Chicago WhiteSox (Joh.Danks 0-2), 3:10 p.m.Houston (Bedard 1-2) at Kansas City(E.Santana 3-5), 6:15 p.m.L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 4-4) at Boston

(Buchholz 8-0), 6:15 p.m.Sunday’s Games

Texas (Grimm 5-4) at Toronto(Jo.Johnson 0-2), 12:07 p.m.Cleveland (Kazmir 3-3) at Detroit (Ani.Sanchez 6-5), 12:08 p.m.L.A. Angels (Blanton 1-9) at Boston(Dempster 3-6), 12:35 p.m.Minnesota (Deduno 2-1) at Washington(Zimmermann 8-3), 12:35 p.m.Baltimore (Tillman 5-2) at Tampa Bay(M.Moore 8-1), 12:40 p.m.Houston (Harrell 4-7) at Kansas City(Mendoza 1-3), 1:10 p.m.Oakland (Griffin 5-4) at Chicago WhiteSox (H.Santiago 1-4), 1:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (D.Phelps 4-3) at Seattle(F.Hernandez 7-4), 3:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEThursday’s Games

N.Y. Mets at Washington, ppd., rainSt. Louis 12, Arizona 8

Philadelphia 5, Milwaukee 1San Diego 6, Colorado 5, 12 inningsL.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 0

Today’s GamesPittsburgh (Liriano 3-2) at Chicago Cubs(T.Wood 5-3), 1:20 p.m.Minnesota (Correia 5-4) at Washington(G.Gonzalez 3-3), 6:05 p.m.Miami (Fernandez 3-3) at N.Y. Mets(Harvey 5-0), 6:10 p.m.St. Louis (Wainwright 8-3) at Cincinnati(Leake 5-2), 6:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Lee 7-2) at Milwaukee(Figaro 0-0), 7:10 p.m.San Diego (Volquez 4-5) at Colorado(J.De La Rosa 7-3), 7:40 p.m.San Francisco (M.Cain 4-3) at Arizona(Corbin 9-0), 8:40 p.m.Atlanta (Maholm 7-4) at L.A. Dodgers

(Ryu 6-2), 9:10 p.m.Saturday’s Games

Miami (Slowey 1-5) at N.Y. Mets (Mar-cum 0-6), 12:10 p.m.Minnesota (Diamond 4-4) at Washington(Karns 0-1), 3:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 3-6) at ChicagoCubs (Samardzija 3-6), 3:05 p.m.Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 6-3) atMilwaukee (Gorzelanny 1-0), 6:15 p.m.San Diego (Stults 4-5) at Colorado(Chatwood 3-1), 6:15 p.m.St. Louis (Lyons 2-1) at Cincinnati (Latos5-0), 6:15 p.m.Atlanta (Medlen 2-6) at L.A. Dodgers(Fife 1-0), 9:10 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-4) atArizona (Cahill 3-6), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Miami (Koehler 0-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese3-5), 12:10 p.m.Minnesota (Deduno 2-1) at Washington(Zimmermann 8-3), 12:35 p.m.Philadelphia (Pettibone 3-1) atMilwaukee (Lohse 1-6), 1:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Locke 5-1) at Chicago Cubs(E.Jackson 1-8), 1:20 p.m.Atlanta (Minor 7-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly0-2), 3:10 p.m.San Diego (Richard 1-5) at Colorado(Nicasio 4-2), 3:10 p.m.San Francisco (Gaudin 1-1) at Arizona(Skaggs 1-0), 3:10 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 8-1) at Cincinnati (Arroyo6-5), 7:10 p.m.

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Yasi-el Puig topped himself yet again, electrifying theDodger Stadium crowd with another big moment ina week already full of themfor the rookie newly arrivedto the major leagues.

Puig hit his first career grand slam, Zack Greinkescattered four hits in seveninnings, and Los Angelesdefeated Atlanta 5-0 on

Thursday night, snappingthe Braves’ five-game win-ning streak.

“He’s really going out there and playing like hebelongs up here,” veteranBraves pitcher Tim Hudsonsaid of Puig, who made hisdebut on Monday.

Clinging to a 1-0 lead,the Dodgers loaded the bas-es in the eighth after Cory Gearrin gave up one-out singles to Skip Schumaker and Luis Cruz, and then walked pinch-hitter Hanley Ramirez.

That set the stage for Puig, who had fans on their feet and clapping in expec-tation of more exploits fromthe 22-year-old Cuban de-fector. He was 5-for-8 withtwo homers and five RBIsin his first two games this week before going 0-for-4 Wednesday.

Greinke (3-1) put his re-cent struggles behind him,striking out a season-highseven and walking three toearn his first victory sinceMay 15 against Washing-

ton.Hudson (4-5) dueled

Greinke through seven in-nings, allowing one run andfour hits. He struck out fiveand walked none in his first start against the Dodgerssince 2011.

■ Phillies 5, Brewers1: At Milwaukee, Delmon Young homered and Tyler Cloyd allowed four hits in6 2/3 scoreless innings tohelp Philadelphia beat Mil- waukee and move above.500 for the first time this

season.Coming off a three-game

sweep of Miami that pulledthe Phillies even for the first time since they were 6-6 on April 14, the season-highfifth consecutive win im-proved their record to 31-30.

Cloyd (2-2) limited Mil- waukee to singles by JeanSegura, Ryan Braun and Aramis Ramirez through 62/3 innings. When Norichi-ka Aoki singled with twoout in the seventh, Philliesmanager Charlie Manuel

brought in Justin De Fratus who retired Segura on a grounder to second.

Philadelphia scored infour of five innings against Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta (4-7).

■ Cardinals 12, Dia-mondbacks 8: At St. Lou-is, Shelby Miller hit his first career home run and alsopitched six sharp innings tolead St. Louis past Arizona.

Matt Adams and DanielDescalso homered in aneight-run fourth inning off Ian Kennedy. Matt Holliday and Matt Carpenter alsoconnected for the Cardi-nals.

Miller (7-3) allowed tworuns and six hits. He struckout nine and walked none.

Kennedy (3-4) wastagged for 10 runs and 13hits in four innings.

■ Padres 6, Rockies5, 12 innings: At Denver,Pinch-hitter Yasmani Gran-dal drove in the go-aheadrun with a fielder’s choice inthe 12th inning to help SanDiego snap a six-game los-

ing streak to Colorado. With the bases loaded

and one out, Grandal sent a chopper to third that No-lan Arenado fielded, quick-ly stepping on the bag andthrowing low to first. Gran-dal was ruled safe, thoughreplays appeared to show he may have been out by a step. Rockies manager Walt Weiss ran out to argue

Dodgers

shut out

Braves

with first base umpire EdHickox before returning tothe dugout.

Luke Gregerson (4-2)pitched two shutout in-nings and Brad Boxberger worked the 12th for his first save of the season.

American League■ Red Sox 6, Rangers

3: At Boston, David Ortizhit a game-ending three-run homer to help Bostonrally from, a three-run defi-cit to beat Texas.

Jacoby Ellsbury scored

the tying run on a fielder’schoice in the seventh in-ning of his first game after sitting out five straight be-cause of a groin injury.

■ Tigers 5, Rays 2: At Detroit, Max Scherzer struck out nine in seven in-nings to remain unbeatenand Victor Martinez hom-ered and drove in threeruns to lift Detroit past Tampa Bay.

Scherzer (8-0) allowed a run and four hits, walkingtwo. He is the first Detroit

pitcher to start the season8-0 since Jeremy Bonder-man in 2007.

■ Royals 7, Twins 3: At Kansas City, Mo., Lo-renzo Cain hit a two-runhomer during a four-runeighth inning and KansasCity rallied to win back-to-back games for the first time since May 4-5 thanksto an offense that produced

as many runs in the eighthas it had in any of its last 14games.

The Royals’ seven runs were their most since beat-ing the Astros by the samescore on May 21.

■ Yankees 6,Mariners 1: At Seattle,Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and Mark Teix-eira followed with a soloshot in a six-run third, andPhil Hughes took a shutout into the eighth to lead New York past Seattle.

Cano and Teixeira werethe catalysts for New York’sbig third inning that provedto be the Yankees’ only of-fense as they started a 10-game West Coast trip witha win. New York matchedits season high for runsscored in an inning, tag-ging Seattle starter AaronHarang (2-6) for eight hitsin the third before beingshut down the rest of thenight.

■ A’s 5, White Sox 4,10 innings: At Chicago,

Adam Rosales hit a two-out homer in the 10th inning,one of a season-high four home runs Oakland hit tobeat Chicago.

■ Orioles 3, Astros1: At Houston, J.J. Hardy got a season-high four hitsand Adam Jones added anRBI double, leading MiguelGonzalez and Baltimorepast Houston.

BRIEFLY

AlabamaTrack and field team scores at NCAA Championships

Track and field team scores on day two of NCAA ChampionshipsEUGENE, Ore. — The University of Alabama outdoor track and

ield team got on the scoreboard Thursday on the second day of theNCAA Championships and is 21st on the men’s side after earning top-eight finishes in the hammer throw and the long jump.

Kamal Fuller added three inches to his career-best outdoor markin the long jump to snag sixth place after soaring to 25 inches, 8 ¼inches with his third jump. Fuller’s previous best outdoor mark of 25-5¼ came earlier this season.

Freshman Elias Hakansson finished eighth in the hammer throw

with a throw of 213-10. It was Hakansson’s third best throw of hiscareer, inches off his personal best.

Diondre Batson posted a career-best time of 20.35 seconds inhe 200 meters, shaving nearly two-tenths of a second off his previousbest. The sophomore passed Olympian Kirani James and LatonelWilliams on the Tide’s all-time 200 list, moving into the third placebehind James Mallard (20.07) and Calvin Smith (19.99). He will returno action today in the finals of the 100, where he was fifth after thesemifinals.

The Tide’s 4x400m relay, which included freshmen Dwight Davisand Quincy Smith and juniors Joel Lynch and Ken Taylor, turned ina time of 3 minutes, 6.69 seconds to t ake 12th. The quartet came inseeded 18th and shaved more than three-tenths of a second off itsseed time.

■ Three athletes earn Academic All-American honors:At Tuscaloosa, Ala., Junior gymnast Kim Jacob and junior golfer Stephanie Meadow were named to the first team of the Capital OneAcademic All-America Women’s At-Large Team, while senior tennisplayer Antonia Foehse was named to the second team.

Alabama is the only school in the nation to have two student-ath-

letes on the 15-member first team, and one of just two schools to haveall three nominees earn a place on the overall list.

■ Men’s golf team has four Golfweek All-Americans; threeon first team: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., Juniors Cory Whisett and BobbyWyatt and sophomore Justin Thomas were selected first-teamAll-Americans by Golfweek Magazine, while junior Trey Mullinax wasan honorable mention choice.

It marks the first time Alabama has produced more than threeAll-Americans in one season and the first time it has had multipleirst-team All-Americans in the same season. The Crimson Tide has

now had at least one first-team All-American in six straight seasons(Michael Thompson, 2008; Bud Cauley, 2009-11; Thomas, 2012).

■ In related news, Alabama’s Jay Seawell will direct the USAsquad at the Palmer Cup, a Ryder Cup-style competition, between theworld’s best collegiate golfers from the United States and Europe thatbegins today in Wilmington, Del., at Wilmington Country Club’s SouthCourse. Whitsett, Wyatt, and Thomas will represent the U.S.

■ White, Castillo Named Louisville Slugger FreshmenAll-Americans: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., University of Alabama shortstopMikey White and relief pitcher Ray Castillo were named Wednesday

o Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-Americans, as announced byCollegiate Baseball News.

White started all 63 games at shortstop and hit . 287 batting aver-age, with 34 runs, 11 doubles, a triple, two home runs, and 30 RBIs.

Castillo, who was a SEC All-Freshman Team selection, finished2-3 with a 3.38 ERA and 12 saves to set a single-season record. The12 saves tied for the third most in a single season at Alabama and rankninth in the career record books.

■ Five programs earn NCAA APR award: At I ndianapolis, Ind.,Five Alabama athletics teams were honored with the NCA A Division IPublic Recognition Award, the NCAA announced Wednesday, led byhe national champion football and men’s golf teams.

Alabama had the only football squad in the Southeastern Confer-ence to earn the award and was second only to Vanderbilt University inhe total number of teams honored.

In addition to football and men’s golf, the NCAA champion wom-en’s golf team was honored for the third year in a row, the women’sennis team was recognized for the second year in a row, and themen’s basketball team earned the accolade for the first time.

■ Meadow named First-Team All-American by Golfweek: At

uscaloosa, Ala., the Alabama women’s golf team had three playersselected to the 2012-13 Golfweek All-Americans team Wednesday.

Junior Stephanie Meadow received first-team honors for the thirdime in her career, while freshman Emma Talley was named to the thirdeam and senior Jennifer Kirby earned honorable mention accolades.Kirby, from Paris, Ontario, is also a three-time honoree, earningirst-team mention in 2012. Meadow is the first Alabama player to be

selected as a three-time f irst-team All-American.■ Women’s tennis team will play host to ITA Kick-Off

Weekend: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., the women’s tennis team, due to itsinal ranking this season, will serve as one of the 15 hosts for the 2014

Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kick-Off Weekend, beginning Jan.25. The Crimson Tide finished the season at No. 11 in the ITA DivisionI Women’s Poll, which ties for the highest final ranking in programhistory.

Alabama will be the No. 1 seed and will be joined by the Universityof Oklahoma, the University of Mississippi, and The College of William& Mary, which are listed according to rank in the team draft.

■Registration still being accepted for baseball team’ssummer camps: At Tuscaloosa, Bama Baseball Camps, Inc. will offer

our camps this summer, and the staff is still accepting signups for thisyear. Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard and his coaching staff will offer op-notch baseball instruction and help each c amper improve their baseball skills.

Alabama will host its first camp of the summer June 20 with theSuper 60 Camp. The Super 60 Camp is a one-day pro-style show-case. There will be a morning showcase, followed by two 10-inninggames in the afternoon. Space is limited for this camp, so everyone isencouraged to sign up early. Because of the popularity of the Super 60 Camp, Alabama will close the summer with another super 60 campAug. 24.

Three camps will take place during the month of July. The secondcamp of the summer will be the Crimson Tide Experience Elite Camp,rom July 1-3, for ninth- through 12th-graders. With the Crimson TideExperience, each camper will be treated like an Alabama baseballplayer for three days. This camp is sold out. Games are played under he lights with the scoreboard and music, and there are meetings, pre-game meals and plenty of instruction. This camp filled up two monthsout last year, so register now to reserve your spot early.

On July 15-17, marks the Bama Youth Camp for kindergarten

hrough sixth-grade kids. This camp was a huge success last years, askids learn a lot about baseball, while having a great time.

The fourth camp of the summer runs from July 21-24, and is theBama Summer 2013 Overnight Camp and Showcase. The camp for seventh through 12th-graders was the most popular camp in 2012.Campers get to play games, showcase their skills and get greatinstruction.

The Bama Baseball Camp provides the best possible baseballinstruction for players of all ages and abilities in a structured,enthusiastic and fun environment. Each camper will receive instructionrom Alabama coaches and players, along with some of the top junior college and high school coaches in the area.

Each camper will receive specific, quality instruction on how toplay the game and how to improve themselves on and off the field. Skilland techniques will be improved through individual and small-groupinstruction.

RegionEx-Alabama player Pollard indicted in kidnapping

JACKSON — Seven people, including a former University of Alabama basketball player and his mother, have been charged withconspiring to kidnap a 6 -year-old girl from an east Mississippi elemen-ary school in a plot that allegedly involved a property dispute.

Among those named in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesdaywas 18-year-old Devonta Pollard, who played this past season as areshman at the University of Alabama. Prosecutors said his mother,Jessie Mae Brown Pollard, led a scheme to kidnap the girl to pressurehe child’s mother in a dispute over some land. At one point, authoritiessaid kidnappers demanded a $50,000 ransom for the girl.

The charges against Devonta Pollard’s mother could carry a lifesentence. He and the five other defendants face up to five years inprison. He was released on $10,000 bond.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Dowdy agreed to his release “withsome reservation,” saying he tested positive for marijuana.

Devonta Pollard’s lawyer, Lisa Ross, said he was seeking to enrollat East Mississippi Community College.

“We intend to defend him vigorously,” Ross said. “Of course he’sconcerned about his future, athletics aside. He’s concerned about hisliberty.”

Prosecutors said Jessie Mae Brown Pollard orchestrated a plan tokidnap the girl from East Kemper Elementary School on April 30.

After picking up the girl with another woman, they said, Pollardwent to a hotel and bought a cellphone and texted the child’s mother,stating “don’t call the police I will call you later if you call the police uwon’t see her again.”

FBI agents later found receipts for the hotel and cellphone inDevonta Pollard’s car. Police said they were notified early on about thekidnapping. The girl was eventually returned to her mother safely.

The scheme also allegedly involved a school secretary, WandaFaye Dancy as well as Shamarious Ruffin; Shaquayla Johnigan;James Johnigan; and Joyce Johnigan. The relationship between themwas not immediately clear.


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four-point edge in the game that wasclose the whole way.

“We got a little bit lucky in gameone,” Parker said. “Sometimes that’s what it takes to win games.”

Playing for the championship for the first time since sweeping James’Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007 for theirfourth title, the Spurs improvedto 5-for-5 in game ones, hangingaround for three quarters and thenblowing by the defending champi-ons midway through the fourth.

Ginobili, the third member of San Antonio’s Big Three who battledinjuries throughout the season, fin-ished with 13 points. Danny Greenhad 12.

San Antonio turned up its de-fense in the fourth quarter, limiting

Miami to seven points in the first 8½minutes in returning to the finals just the way it left — with a v ictoryover James.

James had 18 points, 18 reboundsand 10 assists in his second straight NBA Finals triple-double, but heshot only 7 of 16 against some gooddefense by Kawhi Leonard, and Mi-ami’s offense stalled in the fourthquarter.

“The Spurs are the Spurs,” Jamessaid. “They’re going to put you inpositions where you feel uncom-fortable offensively and defensively,and every time you make a mistake,

they’re going to capitalize on it.”Game two is Sunday night. James became a champion on

this floor last year in Game 5 against Oklahoma City, but he hasn’t forgot-ten his first taste of the finals.

The Spurs overwhelmed his Cav-aliers and James spoke Wednesday like someone who had payback inmind. He was 22 then, a fourth-year player headed for greatness but withholes in his game that San Antonioexploited.

Revenge won’t come easily — if it comes at all.

Dwyane Wade scored 17 points

for the Heat but was shut out in thefourth quarter. Chris Bosh had only two of his 13 in the final period.

James shot an airball on a 3-point-er on his first shot attempt, then wassoon back to the step-in-front-of-him-at-your-own-risk force that hasmade him the game’s best player.

But San Antonio handled that and everything else Miami d id, even while only shooting 42 percent fromthe field.

Basketball: NBA

BY PAT GRAHAM


DENVER — The starless Denver Nuggets just lost their biggest nameon the bench.

George Karl was ousted Thursday less than a month after winning theNBA’s Coach of the Year award. Histenure with the Nuggets is over after 8½ seasons.

The longtime coach is followinggeneral manager Masai Ujiri out thedoor in Denver after Ujiri, the league’sexecutive of the year, recently left tobecome GM of the Toronto Raptors.

“So, we lost a GM now and a coach, what’s next?” tweeted Nuggets bigman Kenneth Faried.

Karl had just a year left on his con-tract, which may have played a rolein this decision. Calls and emails toKarl’s representatives were not re-turned Thursday.

But Karl did take to Twitter, post-ing on his certified account: “I want tothank Nuggets fans for their support over the past 8 yrs. The karma on thestreet was incredible. Denver will always be home.”

The Los Angeles Clippers, Brook-lyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers alsohave head coaching vacancies and theMemphis Grizzlies have given coachLionel Hollins permission to speak

with other teams.“George has been an instrumentalpart of our success over the past de-cade, and we appreciate everything hedid to keep us among the top teams inthe Western Conference,” team Presi-dent Josh Kroenke said. “He is a Hallof Fame coach whose legacy in Den- ver will last for years to come. Georgeis a legend in the game of basketballand I could not have more respect for him as a person and coach.”

His players shared that feeling.“I had a great relationship with him

and I was honored to be coached by him,” forward Danilo Gallinari said.

“Hopefully the management now willdo smart choices.”Karl guided the third-youngest

team in the NBA to the third-best re-cord in the Western Conference witha franchise-record 57 wins, but theNuggets were bounced from the first round of the playoffs for the fourthstraight season.

Denver ousts

Karl as coach



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FAMILY CIRCUS

DEAR ABBY:

About a

year ago I

became engagedto a very special

man. We have

decided to be

married during a

weeklong cruise

we have taken

the past two

years. We knew

some family

members might

not be able to at-

tend for financial

reasons, so we

chose to invite only two close

friends as witnesses and not

have our families there.

My family is OK with our

decision, but his family isnot pleased. They have been

calling him constantly and

telling him to change our plans

and accommodate them, and

frankly, we are sick of it. We

know why they’re upset, but at

the same time this is our day

and they should respect our

decision.

How can we get them to

be more understanding and

less disrespect-

ful about how

we want our

wedding? Pleasehelp, because we

don’t know what

else to say to

them. -- SOON TO

BE NEWLYWEDS

DEAR SOON

TO BE NEWLY-

WEDS: It appears

your fiance’s

family considers

weddings to be

more about the

joining of families

and less about the wishes of

the individuals involved. They

expected to be included, and

are hurt because they weren’t.

A way to explain your deci-sion would be to make it less

about yourselves and more

about the fact that you knew

some family members could

not afford to make this trip, so

you plan to have a reception

when you return and include

everybody.

DEAR ABBY: Next month my

husband and I are leaving our

18-year-old son home alone

overnight for the first time.

We have good neighbors who

will keep an eye on things.

Although we trust our son, Ifeel we should let his 16-year-

old girlfriend’s parents know he

will have the house to himself

for the night.

I have never met them and

don’t want to alarm them by

calling out of the blue. Do you

think I should call them? --

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

DEAR WHAT: Yes. Call,

introduce yourself, and suggest

that because your teenagers

are involved that you meet in

person “sometime soon.” And

while you’re making conversa-

tion, casually mention that you

will be leaving town and your

son will be alone overnightfor the first time. If you had a

16-year-old daughter, wouldn’t

YOU want to know?

Dear Abby is written by

Abigail Van Buren, also known

as Jeanne Phillips, and was

founded by her mother, Pauline

Phillips. Write Dear Abby at

www.DearAbby.com or P.O.

Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA

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Comics & Puzzles

Dear Abby

Dear Abby

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June

7). You wish grandly as you

shoot for the stars this year.

But by next month, you’ll landon the right goal -- one that

can be accomplished by the

end of September. Throw a

party to celebrate your suc-

cess, and invite the attractive

people who come into your

life over the next 10 weeks.

November brings a solemn

exchange. Cancer and Libra

people adore you. Your lucky

numbers are: 4, 24, 39, 50

and 2.

ARIES (March 21-April

19). You’ll do your thing today

-- dance your dance, sing your

song -- and probably be met

with shrugging shoulders. It’s

them, not you. “What is thevoice of song when the world

lacks the ear of taste?” -- Na -

thaniel Hawthorne

TAURUS (April 20-May

20). What you see may disap-

point you. But fill your heart

with compassion, and your

eyes will change. Your love

is needed. You can make a

difference by approaching this

need differently.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).The tools of structure you’ve

been resisting will help you.

Timelines and measurements

are needed; otherwise, your

project will not move along in

the way you want.

CANCER (June 22-July

22). Your conversational savv y

will help you progress at work.

You know when to stay on

point and when to veer off in

order to bring a sense of fun

and surprise to the picture.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You

love it when the action comes

full circle, and you’ll experi-

ence exactly that. The person

who left to explore other offerswill be back, realizing that the

best offer around comes from

you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

In this world of diverted atten-

tion, evidence that someone

has paid attention to the little

things you say and do is a

tremendous gift. That’s why,

in relationships, specificity

trumps grand gestures.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).You sometimes get uncom-

fortable when it’s time to talk

money, but the conversation

doesn’t have to be long and

drawn out. Spell out the major

terms. Only answer what’s

being asked. Keep emotions

out of it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.

21). Concepts of good and evil

are not usually as black and

white as the fairy tales paint

them to be. And then some-

times they are. Like today -- a

day when it’s quite obvious

what to cherish and what to

ward off.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What priority have

you placed on fun? Push it up

the chart now to avoid becom-

ing embittered and burned out.

Issue a few invites, and you

will have many takers.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.

19). You’ll wonder whether

everyone is really on the same

page. Assumptions in this

regard could hurt you, so be

bold. Find out. Ask the others

involved to summarize what’s

on their “page,” and check it

against yours.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.

18). Are you trying to do too

much? This seems counter-intuitive, but if you add one

more task to your load, you’ll

find that everything crystallizes

neatly into two categories: “Do

it” and “Drop it.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March

20). Sometimes you like to en-

joy a funny person; sometimes

you like to be the funny per-

son. Your need for humor and

self-expression will converge

today to good effect.

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Slop or not, Pletcher’s five horses will be ready for Belmont StakesBY RICHARD ROSENBLATT


NEW YORK — Sloppy trackor not, here comes Todd Pletcher with another squad of 3-year-oldsfor a Triple Crown race.

The trainer is taking aim onthe Belmont Stakes this time,sending out a record five horses

for Saturday’s final leg of the Tri-ple Crown.

Pletcher saddled a re-cord-equaling five colts in the

Kentucky Derby last month, withthe best of the bunch over a wet track being third-place finisher Revolutionary.

After sitting out the Preak-ness, Pletcher is back with Rev-olutionary, two other Derby runners in Palace Malice andOveranalyze and two fresh facesin Midnight Taboo and the filly

Unlimited Budget. A sloppy track could be back

as well. The National Weather Service is calling for heavy rains

today into Saturday, with a chanceof showers after 2 p.m. Post timefor the Belmont is 6:36 p.m.

“It doesn’t really matter whether it’s sloppy or fast, you just don’t want it to be sticky or heavy,” Pletcher said, referringto the track condition. He addedthat his horses “all have enoughpedigree on wet tracks so it won’t

compromise them too much.” That includes Unlimited Bud-

get, who will try to make a littlehistory. She can become the

fourth filly to win the Belmont —Pletcher’s Rags to Riches was themost recent in 2007 — and couldmake Rosie Napravnik the sec-ond female jockey to win a TripleCrown race and first to win one with a filly.

“I think this is one year thefillies are as good as the colts,and the numbers show it,” said

Mike Repole, who owns Unlimit-ed Budget as well as Overanalyzeand Midnight Taboo. “She’s a bigfilly, and she’s bigger than half

the colts in the race.”Derby winner Orb is the 3-1

morning-line favorite, with Revo-lutionary the second choice at 9-2and Preakness winner Oxbow third at 5-1. Unlimited Budget and Freedom Child are co-fourthchoices at 8-1.

The possibility of an off-trackbodes well for Freedom Child and

a few Derby runners in the field of14 — matching the largest since1996 and one shy of the record in1983.



The DispaTch • www.cdispatch.comB Friday, June 7, 2013

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Tornado beneftOpen Door Baptist Church,

1761 McFarland Blvd. N. in

Tuscaloosa, Ala., hosts a con-

cert tonight, 7 p.m. featuring

the Kingsmen Quartet and

Heartmen Quartet. An offering

will be taken for tornado relief

to Oklahoma communities

affected by recent tornadoes.

For information, call 205-657-4051.

Rummage saleLife Church Columbus,

419 Wilkins Wise Road,

hosts a church rummage sale

Saturday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

To raise money for Life Church

Youth to go to Total Aban-

donment Youth Conference.

For information, call Debbie

Anklam 662-617-2994 or Dan-

ielle Plumier 228-623-9607.

Choir anniversarySand Creek Chapel MB

Church, 3818 Rockhill Road in

Starkville, celebrates the 14th

anniversary of the male choir

Saturday, 6 p.m. and Sunday,

3 p.m. All area groups are

invited to perform. For infor-

mation, call Orlando Trainer,

662-769-0071.

Youth dayFourth Street MB Church,

610 4th St. N., hosts a youth

day program Sunday, 3 p.m.

Guest speaker is Joseph Long

of Truevine Baptist Church.

91st anniversaryNorthside MB Church

hosts their 91st church

anniversary Sunday, 3 p.m.

The guest speaker is the Rev.

Anthony McIntosh.

Pastor appreciationThe Mt. Pleasant Church,

5110 Union Bluff Road in

Brooksville, hosts the 16th

appreciation program for Lee

Andrew Sanders Sunday, 2

p.m.

Pastor appreciationJerusalem MB Church

hosts the 20th appreciation

program for the Rev. Willie

Petty Sr., Sunday at 3 p.m.

at Lion Hills Golf Club. Guest

singers are Keith and Margie.

Anniversary programCanaan MB Church, 2425

Bell Ave., hosts a mass choir

anniversary program Sunday,

3 p.m.

Anniversary celebrationMt. Pelier MB Church,

1162 Mayhew Road, cele-

brates the second anniversary

of the Rev. Lonnie Snow Jr.,Sunday, 3 p.m. The guest

speaker is the Rev. Joe P. Orr.

Gospel concertVoices of Mobile will

perform Monday, 6 p.m. at

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.

Free admission. A love offering

will be taken.

Bible schoolMcBee Baptist Church,

2846 Highway 50 E., hosts

vacation bible school Monday-

Friday from 6-8:30 p.m. night-ly. The theme is “Colossal

Coaster World…Facing Fear,

Trusting God.” For information,

call 662-328-7177.

Bible schoolSt. Matthew MB Church,

1213 Island Road, hosts


Thursday, 6 p.m. nightly.

Spring revivalTenth Street MB Church,

1118 7th St. S., will celebrate

its Spring Revival Monday-

Wednesday, 7 p.m. nightly.The guest speaker is the Rev.

Lee Brand.

Bible schoolArmstrong MB Church on

Yorkville Road hosts vacation

bible school Monday, 6-8 p.m.

The theme is ‘Learning More

About Jesus.’

Youth conerenceSt. Matthew MB Church,

1213 Island Road, hosts a

youth conference June 15

from 9 a.m. to noon. The

guest speakers are Rochelle

Jones and Ty Harris. Outdoor

activities and food after class.

Mens programPleasant Grove FGB Church

hosts a Men of the Bible

program June 15, 6:30 p.m.

For information, call 662-245-

5723.

Women’s retreatChristian World Missions

hosts a women’s retreat June

13, 5-9 p.m. and June 14,

6-9:30 p.m. at the outreach

center. Guest speakers are

Tammie Tubbs and Lee Ann

Williamson. Registration is

$35. For information or to

register, 662-324-0390 or

christianworldmissions.org

Gospel singingThe Barnett family from

Brownville, Tenn., will sing at

McBee Baptist Church June

15, 7 p.m. For information call

662-328-7375 or 662-549 -

6254.

Pastor anniversaryFaith Harvest Church

celebrates the 13th anniver-

sary of Hugh Dent June 16,

2 p.m. The guest speaker is

the The guest speaker is John

Sanders. For information, 662-

243-7076.

Homecoming serviceFriendship Baptist Church,

between Steens and Fern-

bank, Ala., celebrates their

homecoming all day June 16.

For information call 662-328-

7375 or 662-549-6254.

100 men/womenSt. Matthew MB Church,

1213 Island Road hosts 100

men and women in white June

23, 3 p.m. The guest speaker

is L.A. Gardner.

Bible schoolBrick MB Church hosts


Friday, 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Classes offered for children,

teen and adults. For informa-

tion, call Everett Little 662-

329-3721.

Tammie Tubbs and Lee

Ann Williamson

AP survey:

Economistssee no stockmarket bubbleBy CHRISTOPHER

S. RUGABER

AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — A de-bate is raging among inves-tors and analysts: Has theFederal Reserve inateda stock market bubble by

driving interest rates to re-cord lows?

The answer, accordingto economists surveyed by The Associated Press: No.

Three-quarters o theeconomists say stocks, which are at their lowestpoint in a month but are up19 percent since November,aren’t overvalued. Many point to strong corporateprofts as justiying thesurge in stock prices, whichhave more than doubledsince bottoming in 2009.

The economists expectmany consumers to re-spond to their increasedstock wealth by spendingmore in coming months.Higher spending wouldhelp sustain and perhapsaccelerate growth.





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