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The life and times of DeLois Price

Alabama advertiser, Tennessee actress bring car-selling character to life over 20 years
By Slim Smith Advertising Inc. in Hoover, Ala-
ssmith@cdispatch.com bama.

S
he stands there in a little black
dress against the background
of a darkened car lot, stares at
the camera and seductively promis-
es:
“DeLois Price is twice as nice on
a weekend night.”
For 20 years now, one 30-second
spot at a time, DeLois Price has
been a staple of Carl Hogan Automo-
tive television advertising, becoming
one of the most recognizable names
and faces in northeast Mississippi.
“I have quite a few customers who
come in wanting to meet DeLois,”
said the dealership’s sales manager,
Jim Stafford. “People have definitely
made the connection. I think there
are people around who really believe
she’s a real person, that’s she’s
somewhere on the lot.”
DeLois has become something
of an icon through an advertising
campaign created in the mind of Jim
Whisenhunt, owner of Whisenhunt
“I had no idea she would be this
popular,” Whisenhunt said. “For an
ad campaign to last
this long, it’s almost
unheard of. I think
DeLois has had a lot
to do with that. There
were other characters
people liked that came
before her, but once
DeLois showed up, it Whisenhunt
went to the next level.
The spots get thousands of views
on social media, some more than
10,000.”
That makes Amy Neely Adkins,
the part-time actor who has por-
trayed DeLois since the start, laugh
from her home outside Nashville.
“Do people ever dress up like
DeLois Price for Halloween?”
she asked. “Sometimes when I’m
out somewhere shopping, I’ll see
something and say, ‘DeLois would
definitely wear that!’”

Courtesy photo/Whisenhunt Advertising Co.

DeLois Price, played by Amy Neely Adkins, in a publicity shot from 2019.

So who is DeLois Price, this En- a young ad man with a whimsical

chantress of the Escalade? From
whence came this Seductress of
the Silverado? And how did this
Temptress of the Tahoe set up
Courtesy photo/Amy Neely Adkins permanent residency in television
Amy Neely Adkins with her husband and three children during a vacation to the sets across North Mississippi?
Grand Canyon last year. Adkins is a far cry from DeLois Price, the character she The answers begin in two
has played on TV commercials for Carl Hogan Automotive for the past 20 years. places: First, in Alabama, where
nature decided to strike it out on
his own 26 years ago and, second,
in a small town on the Tennes-
see-Kentucky border where a little
girl first began to dream of acting
in the early 1980s.
See DeLois Price, 6A

‘The guys that made me excited to be a coach’

Leach starts Mississippi State University
tenure by crediting coaches before him
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Seated to the
right of the stage at the Leo Seal Jr.
Football Complex Friday, the base
of Mike Leach’s maroon tie poked
through the fastened button in the
middle of his chest.
Emblazoned on the freshly fit-
ted tie, a stitched look-alike of Mis-
sissippi State’s famed bulldog mas-
cot Jak — the real version of whom
looked on just a few feet away,
yanking at his leash — peered out
toward the roughly 500 gathered
fans in a space that normally serves
as the football team cafeteria.
Following a few words from
MSU Athletic Director John Cohen
and President Mark Keenum, the
coach known as “The Pirate” — a
moniker earned due to his intrigue
with 18th-century swashbucklers
— avoided the usual parables new
coaches offer on future successes
and impending culture changes in Sherill Polk
his first official remarks as MSU’s
“Coach Sherrill was a guy that,
latest football coach. Rather, Leach
when I was a young coach, kind of
referenced two former MSU coach-
took me under his wing and told
ing legends — football coach Jack-
ie Sherrill and longtime baseball me about this great place, and of
course, I was jealous,” Leach said.
coach Ron Polk — as he continued
his ever-growing indoctrination As for Polk, Leach — a former
high school baseball coach him-
into Bulldog lore.
In Sherrill’s case, the pair’s self — has twice read his baseball
friendship dates back to Leach’s bible “The Baseball Playbook” and
days as the offensive coordinator at has applied the intricate coaching
Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch
Kentucky, when Sherrill was in the techniques to his own work on the
Mike Leach rings a cowbell at the end of the press
midst of winning MSU’s lone SEC gridiron. conference introducing him as the 34th head football
West Division title in 1998. See Leach, 8A coach at Mississippi State on Friday in Starkville.

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Ask Rufus

The Land Pirates

T
he headline in Friday’s
Dispatch read “A Pirate
Comes Ashore,” refer-
ring to Mike Leach’s arrival in
Starkville on Jan. 9 to become
Mississippi State’s new football
coach.
Also,
on Jan.
9—
but in
1836
— The
Nat-
chez
Daily
Courier
ran a
notice
that
Rufus Ward
“The
West-
ern Land Pirates” had arrived at
the Natchez steamboat Landing.
The “Western Land Pirates”
was not a football coach but a
bestselling book about thieves,
robbers and slave traders,
known as land pirates, who oper-
ated along the Mississippi River
and roads such as the Natchez
Trace.
In Mississippi these land
pirates terrorized travelers along
both the Natchez Trace and the
Robinson Road. The Robinson
Road had been constructed
in the early 1820s to connect
Columbus and Jackson and it
crossed southeastern Oktibbeha
County. With the Natchez Trace
west of Starkville and the Robin-
son Road to the east, Starkville
at its founding was between two
popular hunting grounds for the
western land pirates of the 1820s
and 30s.
It was along the early roads of
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama
and Mississippi that the most
famous of these robbers spread
their terror. An 1841 Yazoo City
newspaper tells of an individual
traveling from the Jackson area
to Tennessee who traveled north
through Holmes County rather
than up the more direct routes
of the Natchez Trace or Robin-
son Road. He had been warned
of land pirates on those roads
and told not to travel alone.
The more famous of those
outlaws of the 1790s through
the 1830s included the Harpes,
Mason, Murrel and Copeland. In
the 1790s, Big Harpe and Little
Harpe terrorized the backwoods
of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Silas McBee, who moved to
the future site of Columbus in
1817 and suggested the name
From the 1790s into the mid 1830s, robbers referred to as land pirates terrorized the roads and rivers
of the Old Southwest, which then included Mississippi. Travelers on both the Natchez Trace and the ear-
ly 1820s Robinson Road from Columbus to Jackson were warned to never travel alone or with strangers.
of Columbus for the town, was a
member of the Kentucky posse
that captured and killed Big
Harpe in July 1799 after he had
murdered a mother and child.
Harpe was wounded during
the chase, and a member of the
posse then killed him by cutting
off his head using Harpe’s own
butcher knife. The head was
stuck in the fork of a tree, as a
warning to others on the road
crossing at Robertson’s Lick,
Kentucky.
Rather than exploring
stories of these famous land
pirates, there are several
little known stories I will tell.
As to those famous outlaws,
“The Western Land Pirates”
published in 1836 has been
reprinted and is also available
online. My favorite is Robert
Coates’ “The Outlaw Years”
published in 1930. But these
untold stories are found in old
Mississippi newspapers from
the early 1800s.
Courtesy image
In 1826, Hugh Marshall
of “Cahawba, Alabama,” was
robbed near Hamilton, Mis-
sissippi, and posted the notice
of a $500 reward in Natchez
newspapers. Marshall stat-
ed the reward was: “For the
apprehension of a man who
called himself Williams, who
did, between the 20th and 25th
of February last, in Monroe
County, (Mis.) near the town
of Hamilton, commit a robbery
upon the undersigned; and
further, attempt, in the most
cruel manner, to take my life,
by shooting a ball from a pistol,
which lodged in my breast, and
fracturing my skull so that he
left me for dead… I will give
the above reward to any person
who will apprehend the said
villain who committed the said
crime, and secure him in the
nearest safe jail to the county of
Monroe, Mis where the offence
was committed, so that he
may be punished for the said
crime.”
Of all the crimes that I came
across in my reading old news-
papers, the most interesting
and unusual was the robbery
of a branch of the Bank of Mis-
sissippi in 1824 in Port Gibson.
It was a crime worthy of a
Sherlock Holmes story.
The account in the May
27, 1824, Port Gibson Corre-
spondent began: “Sometime
between the night of Saturday
the 22nd, and Monday morning
the 24th inst. The vault of the
Branch bank, of the state of
Mississippi at this place, was
mysteriously entered, and 16
bank notes taken therefrom,
amounting to 695 dollars. All
the fastenings both of the vault
and the banking room seemed
to have remained untouched,
and but for a small paper of
value having been misplaced by
the perpetrators of this villainy,
perhaps no clue would ever
have been obtained...”
The small paper note that
was recovered had been taken
from the money drawer in the
vault. Apparently dropped by
the robber, the paper was torn
as though it had been bitten.
No other evidence could be
found that anyone had entered
the vault. The perplexed inves-
tigators examined every inch
of the vault finding only a small
hole where the baseboard and
floor met. Wondering if access
might have been somehow
gained through the small hole
the floorboards were ripped
up. The account concluded that
after following a trail under the
floor for 18 feet “the money
was found (to no small satis-
faction of the officers of the
bank) underneath the hearth
and about six inches below the
surface of the ground, formed
into a mouse nest.” It was then
reported that: “The four footed
felons escaped.”
Rufus Ward is a local histo-
rian.

Storms sweep southern U.S, Midwest as death toll rises to 11

High winds, tornadoes and rain
battered large swaths of the country
By JUAN A. LOZANO
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Severe
storms sweeping across
southern portions of the
U.S. and up into the Mid-
west were blamed Satur-
day in the deaths of at least
11 people, including two
first responders, as high
winds, tornadoes and unre-
lenting rain battered large
swaths of the country.
Storm-related fatalities
were reported in Texas
due to icy weather, in Ala-
bama from a deadly torna-
do and in Louisiana, where
winds were so strong that
a trailer home was lifted off
its foundation and carried
several hundred feet. A
man drowned in Oklaho-
ma and the storms even
touched the Midwest with
at least one death on an
icy highway in Iowa. Hun-
dreds of thousands of peo-
ple were left without power
from Texas to Ohio, parts
of highways were closed
in Oklahoma and Arkansas
due to flooding and hun-
dreds of flights were can-
celed at Chicago’s interna-
tional airports.
Arkansas Gov. Asa
Hutchinson declared a
state of emergency to assist
crews working to restore
power around the state.
Two first responders
were killed and another
was critically injured in
Lubbock, Texas, Saturday
morning after they were
hit by a vehicle while work-
ing the scene of a traffic
accident in icy conditions,
officials said.
In Alabama, three peo-
ple were confirmed killed
near Carrollton in Pick-
ens County, the National
Weather Service in Bir-
mingham said on Twitter.
The Alabama Emergency
Management Agency said
the deaths were caused
by an “embedded tornado
within a long line of intense
thunderstorms.”
Earlier Saturday, in
northwestern Louisiana,
firefighters found the bod-
ies of an elderly couple
near their demolished trail-
er in Benton, the Bossier
Parish Sheriff’s Office said
via Facebook. The winds
were so strong the home of
the couple, who were the
in-laws of a parish deputy,
was moved 200 feet from
its foundation.
The National Weath-
er Service in Shreveport
said a tornado with winds
of around 135 mph had
touched down in Bossier
Parish.
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Bryant: Mississippi improved in 8 years of governorship

‘We still have a lot of problems, but the indicators of how the
economy of jobs and education and what we’re doing with foster
children — they’re better than they were eight years ago’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON
— Mississippi
Gov. Phil Bryant
is leaving office
Tuesday after
serving his limit
of two terms. The
Republican said
he believes the Bryant
state’s economy is stronger, vul-
nerable children are better pro-
tected and students are showing
stronger academic performance.
“We still have a lot of prob-
lems, but the indicators of how
the economy of jobs and educa-
tion and what we’re doing with
foster children — they’re better
than they were eight years ago,”
Bryant said. “And that’s all any
governor can truly hope for, is to
is to be able to say, ‘Are we leav-
ing Mississippi better off than it
was eight years ago?’”
In a wide-ranging interview
with The Associated Press on
Wednesday, Bryant also said a
recent outburst of violence in
Mississippi prisons is not some-
thing he would have wanted as
part of his legacy. Five inmates
were killed, an undisclosed num-
ber were injured and facilities at
the State Penitentiary at Parch-
man were so damaged that the
state set an emergency contract
to move 375 inmates to a private
prison nearby.
“This is one of the last prob-
lems that I will deal with. and we
will fix it,” Bryant, 65, said in his
Capitol office.
Bryant’s predecessor as gov-
ernor, Republican Haley Barbo-
ur, pardoned nearly 200 people
as he finished his second term
in 2012. People protesting pris-
on conditions last week called
on Bryant to release some non-
violent inmates to ease prison
crowding.
Bryant said he will not issue
Gov. Phil Bryant
any pardons or commute any
sentences.
Bryant started his career as
a deputy sheriff in the 1970s. He
said he does not think of inmates
as victims, even amid the recent
prison violence.
“I don’t associate victimhood
with them,” Bryant said. “The
victims are the people that they
perpetrated the crime upon —
the poor men and women that
are out in society, whose homes
were broken into, who were
robbed, who were raped, who
were beaten.”
Bryant had served in the
state House, as state auditor and
as lieutenant governor before
winning the governor’s race in
2011. His successor as governor
is Republican Tate Reeves, who
served the past two terms as
lieutenant governor.
Critics point out that Missis-
sippi has lost population while
Bryant has been in office and
that a federal judge will inter-
vene because the state is doing
too little to help people outside
the confinement of mental hos-
pitals.
The state’s foster care sys-
tem remains enmeshed in a
long-running lawsuit over the
quality of services, but the state
has increased adoptions and de-
creased the number of children
in foster care.
Mississippi remains among
the poorest states in the U.S.
Bryant said he’s proud that em-
ployment is up, state tax collec-
tions are stronger and the state’s
rainy day fund has more than
$550 million.
Bryant said that when he be-
came governor in 2012, he saw
challenges in trying to improve
the schools.
“It seemed that it was just in
this malaise, that public educa-
tion was just stumbling,” Bryant
said.
Bryant signed a law in 2013
that led to the state hiring more
people to help children learn to
read. The goal was to ensure
students can read on the proper
level before moving from third
grade to fourth. He said about
52 percent of third graders were
reading at the proper grade level
when he became governor, and
that’s up to about 85 percent
now.
Mississippi’s high school
graduation rate was 74.5 percent
for the 2012-13 year, below the
national average. By 2017-18,
Mississippi reached its high-
est-ever graduation rate of 84
percent, which matched the na-
tional rate.
Bryant drew harsh criticism
in 2016 when he signed a law that
said merchants and government
officials could cite their own re-
ligious beliefs to deny services
to same-sex couples. The law
protects three beliefs: that mar-
riage is only between a man and
a woman, sex should only take
place in such a marriage, and a
person’s gender is determined at
birth and cannot be altered.
Bryant said he’s proud of the
law and believes it was “so mis-
understood.”
“I don’t think any form of gov-
ernment ought to have a power
to order a citizen to do some-
thing that is against their reli-
gious freedoms and rights,” he
said Wednesday.

2020 Catch the Vision

SPD hires first assistant chief
Stewart has been with
department 25 years
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Henry Stewart
was sworn in as the Starkville Police
Department’s new assistant chief
— the first in the position — Friday
morning at City Hall.
Most recently operations cap-
tain, Stewart has been with SPD for
25 years and previously served as a
sergeant in the U.S. Army and the
Army National Guard, according to
his resume. He is a deacon at First
Baptist Church of Longview and
vice president of the Northeast Mis-
sissippi State Baptist Laymen Asso-
ciation.
He received an associate’s degree
in criminal justice from the Mayhew
campus of East Mississippi Commu-
nity College in 2008 and a bachelor’s
degree in criminal justice from Troy
University in 2010.
Ballard and Stewart were part-
ners many years ago as detectives,
and Ballard told The Dispatch that
Stewart’s strengths include atten-
tion to detail and quality control.
“He’ll catch the things that you
need to catch when you’re apprais-
ing the quality of the department,”
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Mayor Lynn Spruill, right, swears in Henry Stewart as the Starkville Police
Department’s new assistant chief Friday at City Hall. Stewart has been
with SPD for 25 years and is the first to hold the recently created assistant
chief position.
Ballard said. absence and helping to develop and
SPD created the assistant chief implement departmental policies.
position in the departmental re- The position was necessary to
structure that the board of aldermen help manage the change in struc-
approved in December. Stewart’s ture and establish a clearer chain of
responsibilities include directing all command within SPD, Chief Mark
other supervisors in the department, Ballard told the board of aldermen
serving as acting chief in the chief’s in December.

Around the state

Chief: No charges
expected for shooter in
fatal home robbery
PASCAGOULA — A
Mississippi homeowner
who fatally shot an armed
man during a home inva-
sion isn’t expected to face
criminal charges, authori-
ties said.
Walter Williams, 31,
was identified as the sus-
pect fatally shot on Tues-
day, Harrison County
Coroner Brian Switzer
confirmed.
Pascagoula Police
Chief Matt Chapman
said the homeowner
found Williams, who was
armed, burglarizing the
house. The homeowner
pulled out his weapon and
fatally shot Williams in a
bedroom of the home, au-
thorities said.
“This gentleman came
home and caught a bur-
glar in his house,” Chap-
man said Wednesday.
“The burglar produced a
gun and shots were fired.”
The homeowner is
an employee of Jackson
County coroner’s office,
news outlets reported.
several burglaries in the
city. An autopsy on Wil-
liams is pending.
Chapman said evi-
dence will be handed to
a grand jury so they can
determine if any criminal
wrongdoing occurred.
Man convicted in crash
that killed firefighters
SUMRALL — A Mis-
sissippi man has pleaded
guilty to three counts of
felony DUI after initially
being indicted on charges
he left the scene of a crash
that killed two volunteer
firefighters.
The 15th Circuit Court cology reports and Lamar
District Attorney’s office County Sheriff Danny Ri-
recommended Brandon gel.
Chance Eaton, 34, be sen-
tenced to 60 years with 30
to serve, including credit
for time served, news out-
lets reported on Tuesday.
He hasn’t been formally
sentenced yet.
Sumrall volunteer fire-
fighters Clinton Alvin
Beasley, 80, Loretta Ann
Sykes, 53, and Shawn
Huhn were directing traf-
fic at the scene of a truck
crash in March 2017 when
Eaton hit them while driv-
ing impaired, then drove
away, according to toxi-
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His name wasn’t released

of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

as he hasn’t been charged

with a crime. Jackson
County Coroner Bruce
Lynd said Switzer was
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Our View

Roses and thorns

A rose of
welcome to Mike
Leach, who was
hired as the 34th
football coach
in Mississippi
State history. Leach comes to
Starkville from long coaching
stints at Texas Tech and, most
recently, Washington State.
He has built a reputation as
one of most innovative offen-
sive minds in college football.
Leach’s “Air Raid” offenses, a
pass-happy attack he helped
create more than two decades
ago, has produced stagger-
ing numbers over the years.
Leach’s always-entertaining
and often enigmatic person-
ality has captured the fancy
of fans across the nation. By
both approach and personal-
ity, Leach brings something
far different than the MSU
program has ever seen. We
predict Leach will raise the
profile of Bulldog football like
nothing seen here before. It
should be tons of fun. Wel-
come, coach!
A rose to
the Oktibbeha
County Hu-
mane Society
and Starkville
Police Depart-
ment, which has teamed up
to make a great use of the
shelter’s “Dog’s Day Out”
program. The program allows
volunteers to take a dog from
the shelter for a walk around
town. It’s great for the dogs,
but also great for the SPD,
who use the dogs to make con-
nections with citizens as they
make their doggie rounds.
Too often, some residents find
police to be intimidating and
unapproachable. But when an
officer is accompanied by a
dog, somehow that dynamic
changes. It’s proven to be
a great ice-breaker and, of
course, a wonderful treat for
the dogs, whose exposure to
the community may help find
them a permanent home. We
applaud OCHS and all those
who are taking part in this
program.
A rose to Ed-
die Hawkins, as
he begins his du-
ties as Lowndes
County Sheriff.
In his first week of office, Haw-
kins, who replaced two-term
sheriff Mike Arledge, devoted
much of his time and energy
into setting his staff, which
has included moving a handful
of veterans into new roles. In
any organization, the arrival of
new leadership brings with it a
fresh look at the organization
and often results in changing
roles. We are hopeful that
these new assignments will
serve to further strengthen
the sheriff’s department in the
important role it plays in our
community.
A rose to the
city of Columbus
for its efforts in
preparing the
Terry Brown
Amphitheater for public use.
Councilmen approved two
bids for the construction of
perimeter fencing along the
Tombigbee River side of the
venue and front wall/entry
area. Expected to be complet-
ed in four to six months, the
additions will allow for free
public events to be held at the
facility. Until funding is made
available to finish the proj-
ect, which includes securing
the western perimeter and
restrooms, the amphitheater
won’t be ready for paid events,
which is the ultimate goal.
But until then, pursuing a
plan that will enable some use
of the venue is a step in the
right direction for a project
now five years in the making.

Partial to home
Mission Mississippi
It is not every day you drive down
Seventh Avenue North in Columbus
— a timeworn neighborhood made
more so by a tornado 10 months
ago — and see young Amish women
in calico skirts toting power tools
through red clay mud.
Had you been en route to Ronnie
Clayton’s Brother’s Keeper Barbecue
on the Friday after Christmas you
might have seen just that.
The following day, thanks in part
to the largesse of Clayton, whose Birney Imes
business is about two blocks from
where the young men and women were rebuilding a house
destroyed by the tornado and re-roofing another across the
street, Beth and I had the pleasure of lunching with about a
dozen of these young Samaritans.
They were part of a contingent of 54 volunteers from
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Michigan here to work
on a dozen disaster-relief projects in Lowndes and Noxubee
counties.
As they got ready to return to the job site, a couple of the
leaders huddled, then one of them named Tippy asked if we
would like to join them for supper at their place.
“Their place” was the Mashulaville Dormitory, a rambling
two-story brick structure at the western edge of Noxubee
County. Generations ago the building housed the county’s
agricultural high school.
The facility serves as a staging ground for relief efforts
by the Mennonite Disaster Service and other disaster relief
organizations, as well as a hostel for back-roads travelers.
Larry and Maxine Miller, both retired Noxubee County
school teachers, are owners, guiding spirits and facilitators
for the good work emanating from this place. Throughout
the year they deliver meals on Fridays to shut-ins in the
Mashulaville community.
Larry Miller, 74, a robust, cheerful man with a booming
voice, is of Amish descent. His parents purchased the build-
ing in 1970 and operated a foster home for Native American
and African American children there.
“This place has been an icon on the Mennonite horizon
for 50 years,” Miller said. “The Mennonites and Amish are
spiritual cousins.”
And so it was on the Monday before New Year’s Eve, we
arrived in Mashulaville after driving west from Macon on a
dark, empty road. By contrast, the warmth and animation
awaiting us inside the old schoolhouse was startling. The
crowded dining room seemed to pulsate with energy and
good cheer.
Had we walked through a wrinkle in time? Amish young
adults sat at tables talking while house parents ferried
platters of food to a long serving table. A wood stove in the
center of the dining area added to the coziness of the space.
As they do each evening after the meal, a spokesperson
from each of the 12 work groups stood up and gave a review
of the day’s activity. The reports, some offered by males,
others by females, were sobering and occasionally laugh-out-
loud funny. Some work crews told of lunches provided by ap-
preciative homeowners of the property they were repairing.
One volunteer told of reconnecting a non-working hot wa-
ter heater and crawling under a trailer through raw sewage.
A female representative of the housekeeping team told of
the number of loads of laundry she ran — the volunteers had
played mud volleyball after church the day before.
These young people displayed a refreshing innocence, a
calm demeanor uncluttered by a perplexing news cycle or a
junk-food diet of pop culture.
“These kids are amazing,” said Larry Miller in an inter-
view later. “Those guys blessed us; they cut wood, cleaned
the house.
“They can do it all. With eighth-grade educations of pho-
nics, reading and no TV at home, they can take the manuals
and do internet connections I can’t touch.
“I’m a GED teacher,” he continued. “I’ve taught GED
here in Noxubee. I occasionally get an Amish kid. They get
perfect scores.”
After the reports, the group sang hymns a cappella in
four-part harmony, while some joined the elders cleaning up
the kitchen.
This group was one of three Amish disaster relief teams
— comprised of more than 100 volunteers — working in Mis-
sissippi over the holidays. Groups from these congregations
come to Mashulaville three times a year.
“It was raining the last two days they were here,” Miller
said. “They wanted to work, so we got them raincoats at
Dollar General. Some went the trash-bag route. They were
exhilarated.”
Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.com) is the former publisher
of The Dispatch.
Letters to the editor
Thoughts in the new year
I attended my first council meeting this year on
Tuesday. After giving a lot of thought to the city
council in 2019, I would like to congratulate and
thank Charlie Box as my hero for the year. I don’t
agree with Mr. Box on everything he votes for, but
I think he is one of the only voices of reason we
have. He made a stand last fall against the Mayor
to give raises to our heroic firemen that were not
getting promoted but doing work above their pay
grade.
The losers of 2019 are the voters of Ward 4
who voted for Pierre Beard. After some obvious
coaching by the Mayor, Mr. Beard made a motion
to table these long-overdue raises by saying he
was new to the council and needed to look into the
matter. Keep in mind he has not had any issues
with voting on any other matters, only denying the
firemen their proper pay. Anyone who wants to run
for this or any other office should at least attend
the meetings and have some understanding of the
office. I attend all the council meetings unless I
am out of town, and I do not recall ever seeing Mr.
Beard at any of them prior to him taking office.
On the other side of that equation we have Mr.
Mickens who does own property but does not see
the need to pay his property taxes on time. Every
time Mr. Mickens speaks you can always count on
a nugget coming out of his mouth and it is not gold.
At this Tuesday’s meeting we were finally promot-
ing the firemen. His question was were we creating
new positions in the department. If a councilman
that has been there as long as he has doesn’t under-
stand how the fire department is structured, then
I would count him as unqualified to be a council-
man. This is also a man that received over 40% of
the votes for chancery clerk after he admitted in
a speech that he really did not understand the job
or what it entails. Why would you vote for a person
that does not know how to do a job? Vote for people
that are capable of doing the job.
Our city is in horrible shape. We are getting
potholes in our potholes, the roads are the worst I
have ever seen.
On a brighter note there are people like Joe Max
Higgins who has spent 17 years doing a brilliant
job of promoting our community and creating jobs.
We should all buy him a bottle of scotch and thank
him.
Kerry “The Concerned and
Angry Citizen” Blalock
Columbus
Doesn’t like direction of Democratic party
What should be a very sad realization to
everyone in our country is the fact that liberals
will bravely and proudly stand for the killing of
helpless innocent baby humans anywhere in the
world but think it’s very horrible and disgusting to
kill a dangerous terrorist who is guilty of multiple
murders and numerous other types of crime. This
same man was caught in the act of leading others
in an attack on our people in one of our embassy
houses. Yes, and they even show deep sorrow and
regret over his death while at the same time trying
to destroy innocent ones in our country. Even
though they haven’t actually been out to shoot and
kill folks, like was done to our first Republican
President, they are definitely trying lots of other
ways to destroy the man we elected as President of
the United States and his family. Plus, all his sup-
porters are called all sorts of names. The hunger
for power has gotten such a tight grip on the liberal
Democrat leaders in D.C. it’s looking like they will
probably set their party back to cave man times.
I’m sure it’s very sad to see and say for most folks.
One thing’s for sure: The day of accountability
is drawing nigh. Earthquakes in diverse places,
pestilence, nations rising up against nations, wars
and rumors of wars, accepting liars as truth-tellers,
hating good people and loving evil people, biting
the hand that feeds you and disrespect for parents
and the church are all big signs that we need to get
our houses in order ASAP.
Raymond Gross
Columbus
Comments on recent letters
Raymond Gross: In recent letter, Gross states
that the Democrat Party has been transformed
in many parts of our country into something so
bad and un-American, it’s making their KKK days
look like mere child’s play.
Rick Perry says Trump is like a cancer on the
conservative party, and now it’s America.
Ted Cruz would not endorse Trump after he was
the Republican’s nominee for president.
Lindsey Graham says to MAGA: Tell Trump to
go to h--l.
Mitt Romney says Trump’s promises are as
worthless as a diploma from Trump University. All
16 Republican candidates’ feelings toward Trump
were similar.
After Trump was elected president, almost all
have integrated with Trump.
Before Trump, you would have shouted to high
Heaven that Mark Galli’s ravings about Trump’s
blackened moral were correct.
After Trump, Trump and some Republicans said
Galli is a far-left writer.
Trump says he tries to tell the truth, or I tell the
truth when I can.
Trump has transformed the Republican party
into the Trump Party, and even some people are
calling it a “cult.”
If the Trump party does away with Roe v Wade,
which has been the law of the land for almost a half
a century, it will be years before we have a Republi-
can president, since that is the biggest part of their
platform.
Bonnie Oppenheimer: When we lock ourselves
in a box that allows only our view point, we don’t
learn and grow.
I know this for a fact to be true. You are dumb as
to what is really happening.
Bill Gilmore: Trump’s bullying behavior toward
women has caused him no harm.
The 2016 campaign had the largest gender gap
in the 36-year exit polling of the issue with men vot-
ing 11 percent more for Trump.
In comparison to the 2016 election, Trump is
expected to lose female voters by a bigger margin
in 2020, according to a Fox poll.
James Hodges
Steens

What in the world just happened here?
So what in the
world just happened
here?
That’s the
question of the
moment as we
struggle to get our
heads around the
latest head-snap-
ping episode in the
bizarre presidency
of Donald Trump.
In the last few days, Leonard Pitts
we’ve seen: 1) a U.S.
drone strike in Iraq, killing
Qassem Soleimani, command-
er of Iran’s elite Quds Force;
2) Trump’s justification of the
killing on grounds that Solei-
mani, architect of hundreds of
American military casualties,
was planning imminent vio-
lence; 3) bellicose threats from ida senator and Trump sock
Trump to bomb Iranian cul-
tural sites (which would be a
war crime); 4) vows of revenge
from Tehran, and, 5) Iranian
missile attacks upon the Iraqi
Green Zone, where the Amer-
Cartoonist view
Was the Soleimani killing a policy success?
There’s an old story
— apocryphal, as the
best stories always
seem to be — that
Richard Nixon asked
Chinese premier Zhou
Enlai what he thought
about the French Revo-
lution, and Zhou said,
“It’s too soon to tell.”
At first blush, the mini-
crisis between Iran
and the United States Mona Charen
appears to have ended
well for the U.S., but it may be too more than 500,000 Syrians and
soon to tell.
On the positive side of the led- more (6 million internally and 5.6
ger, Trump’s action rid the world
of an effective terror master.
Qassem Soleimani, head of the
Quds (“Jerusalem”) force, was
instrumental in creating Hezbol-
lah, which has been responsible
for attacks around the globe and
has specifically targeted the Unit-
ed States and Israel. Hezbollah
was behind the 1983 bombings
of the U.S. embassy and Marine
barracks in Beirut, as well as the
embassy annex the following year. state media that 80 Americans
They kidnapped CIA station chief
William Buckley and tortured
him to death. In 1985, Hezbollah
hijacked a TWA airliner and killed
a U.S. Navy diver, dropping his
body onto the airport tarmac.
The Quds force also supports
Sunni terrorists like Hamas and
al-Qaida (though it fought ISIS)
and has carried out multiple
terror attacks against Israel.
During the Iraq War, Soleimani
was “credited” with developing
the IEDs that took the lives of at
least 600 Americans. U.S. Gen-
eral David Petraeus recounted
a message he once received
from the terror leader: “Gen.
Petraeus, you should know that
I, Qassem Soleimani, control the
policy for Iran with respect to
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ican embassy is
located and upon
Iraqi bases that
house U.S. troops.
The attacks caused
no casualties and
thus may — may —
have allowed Iran
a face-saving way
to avoid escalating
hostilities.
And there is also
word — breaking
as this is written —
that U.S. officials now believe a
Ukrainian passenger plane that
crashed near Tehran killing
176 people after the retaliatory
attack was shot down acciden-
tally by Iran.
Somewhere in the midst of
that chaos, Marco Rubio, Flor-
puppet, tweeted a call for unity.
“#Iran is now openly calling
for American’s (sic) to turn on
each other. The time will come
to debate U.S. policy. Tonight
American & allied troops have
Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza
and Afghanistan.” He
didn’t mention Yemen,
as that war came a
bit later, but Iran was
behind the Houthis as
well. Most devastating,
in terms of body count,
has been Soleimani’s
participation in the
Syrian civil war on
behalf of Bashar al-As-
sad. That bloodbath
has taken the lives of
displaced more than 11 million
million external refugees).
Soleimani’s death is likely to
be a short-term setback for Iran’s
imperial ambitions. Also on the
positive side of the ledger is the
fact that Iran was reduced to lying
to the Iranian people about its re-
taliation. Rather than risk killing
Americans and thereby inviting
further conflict, Iran chose to fire
(misfire?) missiles at a couple
of Iraqi bases while claiming on
had died. That was about as clear
a climbdown as you get in an
international crisis.
On the negative side of the led-
ger, Iran has now withdrawn from
abiding by the limitations of the
nuclear agreement, and whatever
the flaws of that pact (I strenuous-
ly opposed it), it was still better to
have Iran in compliance than not.
Nor would it be crazy for Iran to
conclude, after this humiliation
at America’s hands, that nuclear
weapons are more desirable than
ever.
Further, if our goal was to
weaken internal support for
the Iranian regime, we may not
have succeeded. A month ago,
Iran’s cities were rocked by mass
protests over the government’s
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come under direct attack by a from one moment to the next. So you’d like to believe there
nation-state & Americans must They blithely parrot lies as if was good reason for what we
come together to support & they were truths and it’s hard just did. And that an attack
protect them & respond appro- to decide if they don’t know the was, indeed, imminent. And
priately.” difference or just don’t care. that killing Soleimani was the
In other words, support But here’s the thing: a pres- best option — not just a diver-
the troops and don’t ask any ident can make no more con- sion from Trump’s impeach-
questions. sequential a decision than to ment. And that we have a plan
It’s an appeal to the same use military force. When that for the aftermath.
sense of patriotic duty that happens we need and should You’d like to, but you can’t.
welded Americans together demand a full understanding That’s the sad state of our
after Sept. 11 and December of what makes it necessary. If Union. That’s the graveyard we
7. And you might even allow we are to risk the blood, flesh whistle past.
yourself to be persuaded, if and treasure of our people, we And Rubio says we must
this president were not such an should at least know why. support the troops and ask no
infernal liar. And we don’t. Oh, we know questions? No. Let us support
Yes, presidential lying is what Trump has said. Unfor- them by asking questions,
hardly unique to Trump. But tunately, 15,000 lies later, no questions as bold and shame-
no president has ever lied as president has ever had less less as the lies we are told.
profusely, prolifically or pro- credibility as he deployed U.S. Begin with these:
digiously as this guy -- 15,413 military assets. That includes What in the world just hap-
falsehoods since Inauguration Bill Clinton who, in the midst pened here?
Day, according to a December of a scandal over his relation- And what in the world will
tally in The Washington Post. ship with a White House in- happen next?
Truth finds itself not simply tern, authorized strikes against Leonard Pitts Jr., winner
assaulted, but also deposed terrorist targets. of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
by Trump followers convinced No one comes close to commentary, is a columnist for
that reality is whatever their Trump. This lying liar lyingly the Miami Herald. Email him
great and powerful Oz says it is lies — nonstop. at lpitts@miamiherald.com.
Energizer
Bunny Biden
spooks the left
Throughout this
unsettling conflict with
Iran, Joe Biden has stood
out as a calming Demo-
cratic voice, speaking of
the stakes and challenges
with deep knowledge of
foreign policy. Just anoth-
er reason for activists on
the left backing Bernie
Sanders or Elizabeth
Warren to lose their
minds. Froma Harrop
The news for them
hasn’t been great of late.
Biden is now tied with or close to Sanders for first
place in Iowa and New Hampshire, according
to the most recent reputable poll. Warren polls
behind Pete Buttigieg in both places. Sanders
and Warren were supposed to triumph in these
states, where the Democratic electorate tends to-
ward very liberal white people. Biden also raised
nearly $23 million in the fourth quarter, the best
haul since he entered the campaign.
Sanders or Warren may still win, but with
just over four weeks before the Iowa caucuses, it
doesn’t look like these contests will be any kind
of romp for either of them. Then comes South
Carolina, where a heavily African American
electorate still seems to favor Biden by a large
margin.
Thus, the attacks from the left flank. A group
called Indivisible is now going after Biden’s immi-
gration plan for holding that a pathway to citizen-
ship would include an ability to speak English.
That doesn’t sound wholly unreasonable. Such
decision to raise gasoline prices
a requirement was included in the 2013 compre-
by 300%. Up to 600 protesters
hensive immigration reform bill, which Sanders
were killed and as many as 7,000
and Warren both voted for.
arrested. Now, we have triggered
The Progressive Change Campaign Commit-
a nationalistic reflex, and the
streets are thronged by mourners tee is slamming Biden’s electability argument.
for the “martyr” Soleimani. Co-founder Adam Green said that many Demo-
It was not necessarily in our crats “are under the mistaken impression that
interest to have alienated Iraqis to Biden is safe or electable when he’s the least
the point where a resolution was electable option we have.” Almost every poll con-
passed in parliament demanding tradicts that statement, but if Green says so ...
the withdrawal of all U.S. forces. PCCC has also accused Biden of giving the
While it’s true that the Kurds and impression that “electability means old, white,
Sunnis did not participate in that male, and conservative,” according to Politico.
nonbinding vote, it is nevertheless Going after white males is sure going to wow the
some measure of the animosity voters in Wisconsin.
we’ve engendered. Nor was the In his long career, Biden has cast votes that
situation improved by presidential I, too, wish he hadn’t. I especially disliked his
tweets threatening severe sanc- stance on bankruptcy reform. But then both
tions on Iraq. It would be Iran’s Sanders and Warren have taken regrettable votes
fondest wish for America to leave benefitting economic interests at home. Sanders
— or even better — to be chased voted to fund the F-35 fighter jet boondoggle, and
out of Iraq. Warren led the fight to remove a tax on medical
If we know anything about the devices — money that helped support the Afford-
clerics in Tehran, it’s that they able Care Act.
nurse long grudges, and they are Attaching the label “progressive” tends to be
happy to take revenge on innocent in the eyes of the attacher. I base such judgments
civilians as well as military tar- on the issue involved.
gets. In 1988, the U.S. destroyed Biden has been very progressive on the fight
half of the Iranian navy in Opera- against global warming. In 1986, when almost
tion Praying Mantis. Eight years no one was talking about this, he introduced a
later, Hezbollah detonated a bomb bill ordering the president to set up a task force
at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, on climate change. It was eventually passed and
which housed American Marines. funded.
Twenty were killed and nearly 500 As vice president, Biden was Barack Obama’s
wounded. point man on setting limits on coal plant and tail-
After Israel assassinated an pipe emissions. He also led the charge in bring-
Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran’s ing the United States into the 2015 Paris climate
retaliation took the form of tar- agreement.
geting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, Biden’s current proposal is to spend $1.7 tril-
and Israeli diplomats in Georgia, lion over a decade and slap a tax on greenhouse
India and Thailand. Frequently, gases. His goal to bring carbon emissions to net
Iran disclaims responsibility, as it zero by 2050 matches the European Union’s.
did regarding the 1994 bombing And so it’s not totally clear why progressive
of a Jewish community center in environmentalists in the Sunrise Movement
Buenos Aires. would hassle Biden at campaign events. Are they
For good or ill, it is unlikely ignorant of his record? They’re obviously working
that this chapter is closed. for his political opponents. The group is attached
Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green
at the Ethics and Public Policy New Deal, and AOC is attached to Sanders.
Center. Former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson hit the nail in
explaining the latest anti-Biden fusillade from the
left. “This is their last attempt to try to derail the
Energizer Bunny ... and they can’t figure out why
they can’t stop him,” Nelson told Politico. “So
they’re throwing the kitchen sink at him.”
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes
for the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her
e-mail address is fharrop@gmail.com.
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DeLois Price
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What’s in a name? me to school, gave me a Growing apart one DeLois Price.

For the past 26 years,
Whisenhunt has owned
his own advertising agen-
cy — a small, two-person
operation with anywhere
from 10 to 12 clients at
any given time. He has
a secretary to run the
office. Whisenhunt does
the rest, everything from
sales and marketing to
production of TV and ra-
dio ads, which he writes,
directs and produces.
In 1998, Jim Cannon,
who owned a Chevrolet
dealership in Jasper,
Alabama, approached
Whisenhunt to develop
an advertising campaign
for is dealership. At the
time, Carl Hogan was
one of Cannon’s business
partners.
“Mr. Cannon told me
there were two things he
wanted to make sure peo-
ple got from the commer-
cials,” Whisenhunt said.
“First, they had a big
inventory of trucks. That
needed to be in there. He
also wanted to talk about
having lower prices.”
As Whisenhunt was
thinking about what he
would do with the cam-
paign, he remembered
something from his
childhood.
“Back then, kids
would come up with
funny names,” he said. “I
remembered one of them
— Seymour Hiney. When
you’re a 10-year old kid,
that’s hilarious.”
A light bulb went off
in Whisenhunt’s head:
What if he created char-
acters to drive home the
major advertising points?
Seymour, as in “see
more.”
Whisenhunt had his
first character: Seymour
Trucks.
But what of Cannon’s
second request, the one
about low prices?
The character seemed
to come to Whisenhunt
out of the ether: Peso
(pay so) Little, a truly
wince-worthy Mexican
caricature, complete with
sombrero and poncho, a
character that has disap-
peared form the lineup in
recent years, for obvious
reasons.
“That’s not really
acceptable these days,”
Whisenhunt acknowl-
edged.
But in 1998, when
Whisenhunt wrote, di-
rected and produced his
first TV spot for Cannon,
it was off and running.
Before long, Whisen-
hunt found himself carry-
ing around a legal pad to
jot down character names
that would work in other
campaigns.
His friends loved
making suggestions for
characters’ names. None
of them worked.
“It’s not as easy as you
think,” he said. “They
have to be real names.”
One afternoon he had
a few friends over for a
barbecue. One suggested
the name of “Lois” for
“lowest.”
“I thought, ‘hey, that
might work,’” Whisen-
hunt said. “I thought,
‘Lois. Lois.’ It was close,
but not quite right. Then
it hit me. DeLois, DeLois
Price. That’s it.”
Finding DeLois
Once he had a name,
Whisenhunt began
thinking about the char-
Courtesy photo/Whisenhunt Advertising Co.
DeLois Price, played by Amy Neely Adkins, in a publicity
shot from 2001.
acter. What emerged was
an attractive, slightly
scandalous character
that would play off the
non-seductive characters
already assembled.
He then started look-
ing for DeLois.
“Even though Bir-
mingham is a pretty big
town, it only had one
real modeling agency,”
Whisenhunt said. “They
sent four of five women
who were pretty and
read the lines well, but
somehow they just didn’t
fit with what was in my
mind, who DeLois should
be.”
The agency had con-
tacts with another talent
agency in Nashville. One
of its clients was Amy
Neely, who had just been
crowned Miss Tennessee
USA the year before and
was hoping to get her act-
ing career off the ground.
“She got hold of the
script, read the lines
and sent me the video,”
Whisenhunt said. “I knew
in about 15 seconds, she
was DeLois.”
Whisenhunt hired
Neely — Adkins since
her marriage in 2002
— who made her first
appearance in a 1999 ad
for Cannon’s Alabama
dealership.
A year later, when Carl
Hogan bought the Chevy
dealership in Columbus,
Hogan hired Whisen-
hunt.
DeLois Price arrived
in Columbus in 2000.
She’s been attracting car
shoppers here ever since.
Becoming DeLois Price
Adkins grew up in La-
fayette, Tennessee (pop.
3,500), about an hour’s
drive from Nashville.
“I wanted to be an
actress from the first day
I can remember,” she
said. “... That’s why I did
pageants. I was a small-
town girl trying to figure
it out.”
Success came quickly
in her pageant efforts,
culminating in 1998 when
she was crowned Miss
Tennessee USA. The act-
ing career did not develop
as quickly. She confesses
she could have probably
worked a little harder in
pursuing that goal.
“When I booked the
DeLois Price job, I was at
my peak, as sad as that
may sound,” she said. “By
then, I didn’t have to au-
dition for parts anymore.
Of course, there was only
so much work you could
find in Nashville 20 years
ago.”
In retrospect, the tim-
ing could not have been
much better.
By 2000, she had
found a new career.
“As an actress, you’re
looking for any work you
can find,” she said. “One
of the things I did was
trade shows. I started
doing some trade shows
for IBM. They liked what
I was doing. They said
I was doing a great job
working with customers
and wanted to really
teach me everything. So
they invested in me, sent
sweet salary, benefits,
a Mercedes, just every-
thing.
“I thought I’d save up
enough money to move
to Los Angeles and really
get my acting career go-
ing,” she continued. “But
I loved the work. I haven’t
left. I’m working for IBM
selling tech services to
extremely large organiza-
tions.”
Given her career com-
mitments, the DeLois
Price gig was a perfect
arrangement. At first, all
of the commercials for a
year — six total — were
shot on a single day in
January. For the past 10
years, two year’s worth
of commercials are shot
over two days, again in
January.
“It’s fun to do and
there’s not a lot of time
commitment involved,”
she said.
Although she’s had
other acting credits —
two feature film roles and
two TV programs (she
played the role of a killer
in the true crime series,
“Snapped,” in 2016) —
Adkins is comfortable
playing DeLois Price.
“When I started doing
DeLois, I was much
younger, obviously,”
she said. “Honestly, she
wasn’t so far-fetched from
who I was as a person
before I got married.
Being from the pageant
world, I was used to
glamming it up and being
really friendly. That was
my personality. I didn’t
have the sexual under-
tones DeLois had, but
apart from that, we were
similar.”
But for better or worse, At some point, he
knows, he’ll either have
DeLois hasn’t changed
to replace Adkins or send
too much over the
DeLois into her retire-
years — and Adkins has
ment.
changed an awful lot.
“DeLois is DeLois.
“I won’t tell you my
She can’t really change,”
age, but you can probably
Whisenhunt said. “(Amy)
figure it out,” she said.
still looks way younger
“I’m a married woman
than she is. She can still
with a 16-year old son,
do the role, but the last
a 9-year-old daughter
couple of times we’ve
and a 6-year old son. I do
shot, she’s talked about
know that people have
giving it up.”
complained about DeLois
That time appeared to
sometimes. ... (But) I’m
have arrived last year.
really strong in my faith.
“I called him and said,
We’re not that much
‘Jim I don’t feel like I can
alike.”
do this anymore,’” she
As the years have
said, “I said, ‘I’m embar-
passed, the TV spots
rassing my kids. My son
have evolved. The clothes
is a teenager. Somehow
DeLois wears aren’t quite
he and his friends find
so tight. Her skirts are
the commercials and they
longer, her necklines
talk about it.’”
higher and the content
When she hung up the
is a bit less suggestive,
phone, she told her son.
a concession to both
“He said, ‘Mom, you
Adkins’ age and Whisen-
quit? I can’t believe you
hunt’s understanding of
quit! We love this stuff!’”
the sensibilities of the she said.
day and how women are
Adkins called Whisen-
portrayed in media. hunt back to let him know
“You can’t do what you
she would do another
did before or do it in the two-year series.
same way,” Whisenhunt
Next January, when
said. “We’ve toned in the campaign will shoot
down some.”
new ads, it’s still up in
That’s fine with Ad- the air if Adkins will be
kins.
reprising her DeLois
“I look back and Price role.
think, ‘Oh my gosh, what
“Look, it can’t go on
were we thinking?’” she forever,” she said. “Who
said. “I’ve never vetoed
wants to see a 60-year-old
a script, but there were DeLois Price?”
plenty of times I worked
DeLois Price is standing
on Jim to get him to take in a car lot again, this time
it down a notch or two.
wearing a tight sleeveless
Some of that stuff, I just
red dress, as she plunges
can’t believe it.”
chips into a bowl of salsa.
“DeLois Price is extra
Goodbye to DeLois hot!”
Whisenhunt has had “If you look closely,
two Seymour Trucks and you’ll notice I laugh at the
two Peso Littles, but only end,” Adkins said.

Mississippi House passes bill

to cover gap in teacher raise
The Associated Press
JACKSON — The
Mississippi House voted
Thursday to pay the full
cost for this year’s teacher
pay raise.
The $1,500-per-person
raise was approved during
the 2019 session. But, of-
ficials later discovered a
bureaucratic error that re-
sulted in too few teachers
being counted as the state
budget was written. The
error meant that too little
money was initially set
aside for the budget year
that started July 1.
House Bill 1 will cover
the shortfall of more than
$18 million. It moves to the
Senate and is expected to
pass there, too. It would
then go to the governor.
House leaders say
teachers have not missed
any pay.
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Under pressure, Iran admits Trump ups Iran

it shot down jetliner by mistake accusations, says 4 US
Plane was shot down
early Wednesday, killing
all 176 people aboard
By NASSER K ARIMI
and JOSEPH KRAUSS
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolu-
tionary Guard on Saturday acknowl-
edged that it accidentally shot down
the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed
earlier this week, killing all 176 peo-
ple aboard, after the government
had repeatedly denied Western ac-
cusations and mounting evidence
that it was responsible.
The plane was shot down ear-
ly Wednesday, hours after Iran
launched a ballistic missile attack
on two military bases housing U.S.
troops in Iraq in retaliation for the
killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem
Soleimani in an American airstrike
in Baghdad. No one was hurt in the
attack on the U.S. bases.
The admission raised a host of
new questions, such as why Iran
did not shut down its internation-
al airport or airspace when it was
bracing for a U.S. reprisal. It also
undermined the credibility of infor-
mation provided by senior officials,
who for three days had adamantly
dismissed allegations of a missile
strike as Western propaganda.
Iran’s acknowledgment also al-
ters the narrative around its con-
frontation with the U.S. in a way that
could anger the Iranian public. Iran
had promised harsh revenge after
Soleimani’s death, but instead of
killing American soldiers, its forc-
es downed a civilian plane in which
most passengers were Iranian and
none survived.
embassies targeted
US experts concerned about Iran’s ‘The United States will continue
handling of crash probe to counter the Iranian regime’s
destructive and destabilizing
By DAVID KOENIG
AP Airlines Writer
behavior’
U.S. and Canadian accident investigators are uncertain how much ac- President Donald Trump
cess they will get to the site of a Ukrainian passenger jet crash in Iran, By BEN FOX
and there were fears Friday that the probe might already be compro- The Associated Press
mised by the removal of wreckage.
The U.S. and its allies alleged earlier this week that the American-built WASHINGTON — Confronted
Boeing 737 was brought down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile. Iran by persistent questions about his
announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the jet- military action in the Middle East,
liner, blaming “human error.” President Donald Trump and his top
All 176 people aboard were killed when the plane went down in flames officials offered a string of fresh ex-
on the outskirts of Tehran during takeoff early Wednesday, hours after planations Friday, with Trump now
Iran launched a barrage of missiles against U.S. forces. The dead includ- contending Iranian militants had
ed 57 Canadians.
planned major attacks on four U.S. Trump
Television reports Friday indicated that debris had been cleared from embassies.
the crash site, leaving the area to scavengers to pick over. If the wreck-
Just hours earlier, Secretary of State Mike
age was indeed moved, some clues might have been lost unless the Irani- Pompeo had said the U.S. didn’t know when or
ans took careful steps to preserve evidence.
where attacks might occur. Trump and other offi-
“Normally you would very carefully map out a debris field. If a mis-
cials insisted anew that Iranian Gen. Qassem Solei-
sile struck the airplane, you would expect to find some pieces of it and
mani had posed an imminent threat to the U.S., but
residue of the explosive,” said Steven Wallace, former head of the acci-
they rebuffed repeated attempts to explain what
dent-investigations office of the Federal Aviation Administration.
they meant by “imminent.”
Trump, meanwhile, announced additional sanc-
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the est level of readiness,” fearing that tions against Iran, which he had promised after a
head of the Guard’s aerospace di- the U.S. would retaliate. He said he barrage of missiles fired by the Islamic Republic
vision, said his unit accepts full re- suggested Tehran should close its against American bases in Iraq earlier this week.
sponsibility for the shootdown. In airspace but no action was taken. Those Iranian missiles, which caused no casu-
an address broadcast by state TV, He said the airline’s pilot and alties, were prompted by the U.S. drone strike that
he said that when he learned about crew had done nothing wrong, but killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week in Bagh-
the downing of the plane, “I wished an officer made the “bad decision” dad. That U.S. assault set off a chain of events that
I was dead.” to open fire on the plane after mis- included the unintentional downing of a Ukrainian
He said he raised the possibility taking it for a cruise missile. jetliner by the Iran military, and calls by the Iraqi
to his superiors that his forces shot “We were prepared for an all-out government to expel U.S. troops from their country.
down the plane as early as Wednes- conflict,” he said. At the White House, Trump issued an executive
day morning because “the simulta- Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah order adding additional U.S. sanctions to the al-
neous occurrence of the launch and Ali Khamenei, expressed his “deep ready long list his administration had imposed in an
crash was suspicious.” sympathy” to the families of the vic- effort to force Iran to accept a new agreement that
Hajizadeh said Guard forces ring- tims and called on the armed forces would curb its nuclear program and to halt support
ing the capital had beefed up their to “pursue probable shortcomings for militant groups throughout the Middle East.
air defenses and were at the “high- and guilt in the painful incident.” Trump declared the U.S. was holding Iran re-
sponsible for attacks against the United States as
well as a threat to U.S. service members, diplomats
and civilians — an apparent reference to the justifi-
cation for killing Soleimani.

Pelosi to send impeachment to Senate for historic trial

The trial could
begin next week
By LISA MASCARO and
MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
WA S H -
INGTON
— Speaker
Nancy Pe-
losi said the
House will
take steps
next week to
transmit the Pelosi
articles of impeachment
against President Donald
Trump, ending a three-
week standoff but con-
fronting the Senate with
only the third trial in U.S.
history to remove a chief
executive.
In a letter to her Dem-
ocratic colleagues, Pelosi
said Friday she was proud
of their “courage and
patriotism” and warned
that senators now have a
choice as they consider
the charges of abuse and
obstruction against the
president.
“In an impeachment
trial, every Senator takes
an oath to do ‘impartial jus-
tice according to the Con-
stitution and laws,’’’ Pelosi
wrote. “Every Senator now
faces a choice: to be loy-
al to the President or the
Constitution.”
The trial could begin
next week. The Constitu-
tion gives the House the
sole power to impeach a
president, but the Senate
the ability to render a ver-
dict when it convenes as
the Court of Impeachment.
Pelosi was particular-
ly upbeat Friday as she
strode through the Capitol,
“The United States will continue to counter the
Iranian regime’s destructive and destabilizing be-
havior,” he said.
despite the mounting pres-
sure on her to quit delay-
day she was in discussions
with other Republicans on
But Trump and others faced continuing ques-
tions over their claims of an “imminent” threat.
ing the trial. Her decision
to end the showdown with
a strategy that would allow
the Senate to hear new tes-
Members of Congress said Pompeo and other offi-
cials did not provide sufficient detail or justification
Senate Majority Leader timony. in briefings this week.
Mitch McConnell does not
fully bring closure to the
question of whether the
Senate will consider new
witnesses, as some want,
shifting pressure on sena-
tors to decide.
Trump swiftly signaled
his intention of blocking
any testimony from John
Bolton, the brash former
national security adviser
who could be a wildcard
witness in the trial. Bolton
has said he would appear
before the Senate if he re-
ceived a subpoena.
At the same time, a key
centrist GOP Sen. Susan
Collins of Maine, whose
vote is among those most
watched, announced Fri-
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Cleanup crews work to remove a tree that fell on Old Yorkville Road Saturday morning when storms blew through
Lowndes and surrounding counties. Lowndes County Emergency Management Agency Director Cindy Lawrence
said while there wasn’t severe flooding, there was flash flooding and trees down in the New Hope area. Oktibbe-
ha County saw flooding in South Starkville and the Cotton District, as well as North County Line Road in Maben
and West Poor House Road near Hollis Creek. There were no injuries or evacuations in either county.
Leach
Continued from Page 1A
“I first started coach-
ing baseball at age 15
— so, when I got to col-
lege my first year, the
textbook was ‘Baseball
Playbook’ by Ron Polk,”
he said. “It looked like a
great big term paper with
the brass things through
the deal. I still have that
book.”
And while Leach’s re-
lationships with Sherrill
and Polk vary, the lat-
est addition to the MSU
coaching fraternity is
wholly cognizant of the
men who laid the foun-
dation for what he hopes
will be future success in
Starkville.
“I’ve always really
valued that relationship
because I have a lot of
admiration for the older
coaches and what they’ve
brought to the game and
what I’ve had the opportu-
nity to learn from them,”
Leach said in reference
to Sherrill. “They’re the
guys that, one day, made
me excited to be a coach.”
The hospitality suite
Though they never
served on the same staff,
Leach and Sherrill have
long been connected.
Fresh off guiding MSU
to its first and only Cotton
Bowl appearance in 1998,
Sherrill met Leach at a
conference and invited
him up to his hospitality
suite.
“I was flattered,” Leach
said.
Sherrill was imme-
diately impressed with
Leach’s intelligence as
the pair discussed offen-
sive philosophies.
“It’s one of those
things when you meet
young coaches: You ei-
ther have a connection
or you don’t — and there
was a connection,” Sher-
rill told The Dispatch.
“There’s no question he
was one of the brightest
young coaches coming
up. If I’d been smart, I’d
have hired him.”
Following the conven-
tion, the pair stayed in
touch.
During Leach’s 10-
year run as the head
coach at Texas Tech —
where he compiled an 84-
43 record at a school that
boasts an overall winning
percentage of just .553 —
Sherrill visited the school
to put on a kicking semi-
nar toward the end of his
tenure.
Leading up to the
event, Sherrill received
a call from Leach’s assis-
tant. Asked what the rate
would be to host the for-
mer MSU coach, Sherrill
offered three options —
one for coaches he didn’t
SATURDAY STORM
Mike Leach shows his wife Sharon their new cowbell af-
ter the press conference introducing him as Mississippi
State’s 34th head football coach on Friday.
know, one for coaches he
knew and one for coaches
he considered friends.
“I said ‘You go ask
Mike which one he is,’”
Sherrill recounted. “... I’m
sure he laughed at her.
He knew what I was say-
ing — ‘Why in the hell are
you calling me? You know
I’m doing it for free.’”
Sherrill is also keenly
aware of the challenges
college football outposts
like Pullman, Washing-
ton, and Starkville pose.
He’s a former head coach
at Washington State,
guiding the Cougars to a
3-8 record in 1976 before
landing the head coach-
ing job at Pittsburgh.
“I’m going to send him
a note — ‘Damn, Mike,
are you going to follow
me to my grave?’” Sherrill
joked.
A bond based in books
While Polk has nev-
er met Leach, he’s well
aware of The Pirate’s ex-
ploits.
The 54-year coach-
ing veteran read Leach’s
book, “Swing Your Sword:
Leading the Charge in
Football and Life” a few
years back.
Intrigued with his
weaving of pirate philos-
ophies and their appli-
cations to football, Polk
came away impressed
with Leach’s work.
“I read his book after
he left Texas Tech and
went to Washington State
and enjoyed it,” Polk told
The Dispatch.
Though Leach and
Polk’s relationship to this
point is one purely based
on admiration for one an-
other’s writing, the latter
has been close with MSU
football coaches through
the years.
Before the construc-
tion of the Bryan Building
and, ultimately, the Seal
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Mississippi will have
Democratic primary
for US Senate
By EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Former Agriculture Secre-
tary Mike Espy is aiming for a rematch of a
U.S. Senate race that he lost to Republican
Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi in 2018, in
hopes of reversing the outcome.
To compete with her in November, he will
first have to push past two candidates in the
Democratic primary.
Friday was the deadline for candidates to
qualify for Mississippi’s March 10 primaries
for U.S. House and Senate.
Nobody filed to challenge Hyde-Smith
in the Republican primary, so she moves
straight to the Nov. 3 general election bal-
lot. She’s running as a steadfast supporter of
President Donald Trump, who came to Mis-
sissippi to campaign for her last time.
“We cannot let the liberals win,” Hyde-
Smith said when she filed her qualifying
papers Jan. 3.
Espy announced his candidacy nearly two
months ago, and he has been raising money.
He filed qualifying papers Thursday.
“I want to be a partner in building the ‘New
Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff
Mississippi,’ devoid of all the old stereotypes
and symbols that have divided us for so long
and have driven people to look away from
Mississippi,” Espy said in a statement after
he filed.
at Washington State to Everyone is not running lationships with the leg-
MSU, Leach closed his around in their linen suits ends of MSU’s past ath-
speech in the same man- even when it’s their casu- letic successes continue
ner he began it — with an al time. There’s a gritty to flourish, it’s the former
ode to the past culture in toughness here too that Washington State and
Starkville. I think exists and allows Texas Tech coach who is
“I’ve always admired achievement and people now garnering the prais-
Mississippi State and to get things done.” es of his predecessors.
their traditions,” he said. It’s been roughly 20
“I think it’s great that
“I don’t know how to de- years since Sherrill and
Mike Leach has tried to
scribe it. There’s a unique Leach’s ever-growing
independence that exists bond began in a hospi- identify with people that
with Mississippi State tality suite at a conven- have been at Mississippi
that doesn’t exist other tion. Polk’s connection State for a long time and
places. They are very di- to the new coach remains had some success,” Polk
rect, very down to earth founded in literature, but said. “And I think that’s a
and independent in the stands to grow. good thing on his part to
way they do their stuff. And while Leach’s re- say that.”
Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch
Complex, much of the
MSU athletic department
was housed in Humphrey
Coliseum. Situated in an
office amongst the foot-
ball staff, Polk quickly en-
deared himself to Sherrill
and to other former MSU
coaches Bob Tyler, Emo-
ry Bullard, Rockey Felker
and Sylvester Croom.
“I’ve been through a
lot of coaches there, my
gosh,” Polk quipped.
Speaking with Polk in
the wake of Leach’s sign-
ing, Cohen made note
that his latest hire wanted
to meet the College Base-
ball Hall of Famer.
“The new football
coach?” Polk respond-
ed puzzled. “I don’t even
know him.”
“Yeah, he asked for
you,” Cohen responded.
“He liked your book.”
Preparing to leave his
current home in Birming-
ham, Alabama — where
he serves as an assistant
coach at the University of
Alabama-Birmingham —
to Atlanta for a speaking
engagement at the time,
Polk was unable to fulfill
the request — though he
hopes to in the coming
days. Leach does, too.
“I can tell you right
now that Polk wrote a
great book,” Leach said
Friday. “There are some
minds, in whatever inter-
ests they’re in, that are
just outstanding. Any-
time people are pursuing
knowledge and thought,
a lot of good things come
out of it generally.”
A nod to the past
Nearing the end of
an over-35-minute de-
but in which he fielded
questions ranging from
recruiting philosophies
to whether he would
bring his class on insur-
gent warfare and football
that he previously taught
Sports
Mike Leach gestures while answering a question during Friday’s press conference at the Leo Seal Jr. Football Complex in Starkville.
LEACH MAKES GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION
STARKVILLE — Ev-
ery newly hired football
coach “wins” their first
press conference.
There’s always a few
prepared one-liners. Cli-
ches are typically spout-
ed about how tough the
team is going to be or re-
garding the coach’s plan
to return/sustain the
school’s glory.
Most fans eat it all up,
and coaches have the
bene-
fit of
t hrow-
ing said
r e d
m e a t
to their
f a n
bases
before
Garrick Hodge
they’ve
yet to make a baffling
clock management gaffe,
go for it on fourth-and-
what-are-you-doing, or
say something that inev-
itably irks a portion of the
school’s supporters.
But new Mississippi
State football coach Mike
Leach added some wrin-
kles to the standard first
press conference play-
book during his intro-
MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN’s BASKETBALL
Last-second shot sinks MSU’s upset hopes
By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Reggie Perry thought
he just converted the
game-winning basket to
seal an upset road victory
Saturday.
LSU’s Skylar Mays
had different plans.
After Perry’s go-ahead
layup with 4 seconds re-
maining to give Missis-
sippi State a one-point
lead, Mays sprinted down
the court and drilled a
long two-pointer with
Nick Weatherspoon’s
hand in his face as time
expired. The clutch shot
sunk the Bulldogs’ up-
set hopes and gave them
their third straight loss,
falling 60-59 in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
For the first time since
the 2015-2016 season, the
Mississippi State men’s
basketball team has start-
ed 0-3 in Southeastern
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
duction to the Starkville MSU having the worst
community Friday. In visitor’s locker room in all
honor of the seminar he of college football. There
once taught on war and was no harm in having a
football at Washington little fun, especially since
State, even Leach’s big- apparently anything goes
gest MSU detractors had with Leach in press con-
to give his performance ferences.
an A. “Last night, I wanted
Leach was as quirky as to go down memory lane
his national persona ad- to the old visitors’ lock-
vertised, calling MSU’s er room, the artistry of
live mascot Jak “the dog which I truly admire ...
version of a leather jack- The old visitors’ locker
et” and “the Fonzie of room at Mississippi State
Bulldogs.” He showcased was literally a work of
his new George Sherman art,” Leach said. “Now
suit, but promised he it’s an office. ... Just the
wouldn’t be in it much. thought that went into
Leach was asked about it, the malicious intent.
competing against nota- I counted them, and if I
ble Southeastern Confer- recall right, 37 nails in a
ence coaches, and wasn’t concrete block, two toi-
shy about retorting he lets with no seats and no
liked playing “crummy lids, and in the middle,
coaches” better. one roll of toilet paper.
After giving a few The thing with football,
standard answers of there’s always memo-
why he made the move ries. There’s stuff you
to Starkville, he also ac- remember all your life,
knowledged “you’re gon- and that’s one of them. I
na be dead in 100 years was slightly disappointed
anyway ... You want to try that the greatest visitors’
to have as many experi- locker room of all time is
ences as you can.” no more.”
And of course, I had to The charisma was evi-
ask about his comments dent and made for a very
he made last year about entertaining afternoon.
Mississippi State guard Tyson Carter fouls LSU forward Trendon Watford in the
first half Saturday at Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Conference play. dogs were competitive
After dropping dou- throughout most of the
ble-digit contests to Au- night against the Tigers
burn and Alabama to but ultimately fell in a
start SEC play, the Bull- heartbreaker despite
After he was hired,
I put a few feelers out to
peers in the media about
what it’s like to cover
Leach on a day-to-day
basis. The general con-
sensus was “he’s a quote
machine, but it can be
frustrating when you
need him to talk about
actual football-related is-
sues.”
It was only one day,
but Leach mixed a little
bit of that in, too.
After he fired former
MSU coach Joe Moor-
head, Athletic Director
John Cohen said he want-
ed his next coach to be a
disciplinarian. Apparent-
ly, that won’t be a prob-
lem for Leach.
“If you want guys to
go to class, you’ve got to
make sure that not going
to class becomes real-
ly inconvenient,” Leach
said.
Leach also said he
plans to talk with star
running back Kylin Hill,
who’s currently deciding
between declaring for
the NFL Draft or return-
ing for his senior sea-
son. Once he was hired,
it was fair to wonder
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holding LSU to 2-of-21
shooting from 3-point
range.
Nevertheless, the
Bulldogs committed 18
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where Hill would fit in
Leach’s famous Air Raid
offense. The new MSU
coach responded by hop-
ing Hill leads the SEC in
all-purpose yards should
he come back to the Bull-
dogs.
“In the Air Raid, one
thing everyone forgets
is the running back gets
most of the yards and
most of the touches,”
Leach said. “They’re the
closest to the quarter-
back, it’s easier to get
them the ball than any-
body. You can hand it to
him, throw it to him or
shuffle pass it to him. I
feel like Forest Gump
when he describes all the
different kinds of shrimp.
But you can do it more
than one way with a run-
ning back.”
Kind words were
shared about quarter-
back Garrett Shrader as
well, and he admitted
his shock over the size
of most of his players’
hands.
It was only one after-
noon, but Leach made
quite the impression in
Starkville.
turnovers and went cold
offensively down the
stretch.
In a losing effort, Per-
ry picked up his eighth
double-double of the sea-
son with 13 points and 15
rebounds. Weatherspoon
chipped in 14 points and
five assists in the loss.
Meanwhile, despite
only scoring four points,
MSU senior Tyson Carter
tied his father, Greg Car-
ter, on the MSU all-time
scoring list with 1,123
career points. The elder
Carter, who now coaches
the Starkville High boys
basketball team, played
for MSU from 1987 to
1991.
At halftime, LSU led
MSU 30-22 despite mak-
ing 1 of 13 shots from be-
yond the arc. The Tigers
scored 11 points off 11
Bulldog turnovers in the
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Leach’s best
lines from
Friday’s press
conference
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE —
Many important topics
arise when a team hires a
new coach.
What factors went into
the decision? How will
the coach adjust to the
new program? What are
the coach’s goals with the
team?
This is not a story
about those things.
Mississippi State of-
ficially introduced Mike
Leach as its new football
coach Friday at the Leo
Seal Jr. Football Complex
in Starkville, and as it is
wont to do when Leach is
involved, hilarity ensued.
While Mississippi
State Athletic Director
John Cohen made it clear
that Leach wasn’t hired
as a result of his charis-
ma and sense of humor,
Leach showed them off
in spades Friday when
he gave a brief opening
statement and fielded
questions from reporters.
Here are some of the
most memorable Leach-
isms from his first ap-
pearance as the Bulldogs’
new coach.
On his opening state-
ment
I’m not a big opening
statement guy. This is
maybe the longest one of
the year.
On what his Air Raid
offense will look like at
Mississippi State
I’ll be able to give you
a better answer after
about a week of spring.
On the makeup of his
coaching staff
I don’t have a perfect
answer for that. I’ve been
here maybe 24 hours.
On team film meetings
Although necessary, I
myself was trying to sort
out a way to make it go as
fast as I could.
On MSU’s old visitors’
locker room
Last night, I wanted
to go down memory lane
to the old visitors’ lock-
er room, the artistry of
which I truly admire …
The old visitors’ locker
room at Mississippi State
was literally a work of art.
Now it’s an office. … Just
the thought that went
into it, the malicious in-
tent. I counted them, and
if I recall right, 37 nails
in a concrete block, two
toilets with no seats and
no lids, and in the middle,
one roll of toilet paper.
The thing with football,
there’s always memo-
ries. There’s stuff you
remember all your life,
and that’s one of them. I
was slightly disappointed
that the greatest visitors’
locker room of all time is
no more.
On new Ole Miss coach
Lane Kiffin
I’ve always liked Lane,
and I know that you’re
not supposed to like any-
thing from Ole Miss.
On the strength of the
head coaches in the
SEC West
I like playing against
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briefly COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Men’s College Basketball
Southern Miss falls at UTSA
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jhivvan Jackson finished
LSU, Clemson put Golden Age of wide receivers on display
with 23 points, six rebounds and four assists, and
Texas-San Antonio topped Southern Miss 80-70 on
The Associated Press Ross, who is also 6-4 — Last year’s champi- Higgins and Chase obvious.
Saturday. give the Atlantic Coast onship team featured both said they had hoop “Your tall corners
Jackson sank 7 of 18 shots for the Roadrunners NEW ORLEANS Conference champions Higgins and Ross, who dreams before realizing are 6-1, 6-2 at max and
(8-9, 2-2 Conference USA), including three 3-pointers. — Texas A&M coach their own twin towers. was Clemson’s other football was where they your receivers now are
Keaton Wallace had 16 points and four assists for Jimbo Fisher calls them
UTSA, which earned its sixth straight victory at home. The increased em- breakout freshman could dominate. They 6-4, 6-5,” Brown said.
Artur Konontsuk had 14 points to lead the Golden erasers. phasis on the passing CFP star, teaming up say some of the skills It also seems like
Eagles (4-13, 0-4), who dropped their fourth straight After the missed game has given rise to with quarterback Trev- are transferable. stud receivers are ev-
game. Gabe Watson and Boban Jacdonmi both totaled assignment that sets a Golden Age of wide or Lawrence for 301 Chase said the quick erywhere and lock-
13 points, while New Hope product Tyler Stevenson up third-and-long, the
pitched in with 11 points and nine rebounds.
receivers. Good teams yards and three touch- feet it takes to break down corners are hard
UTSA shot 48 percent from the floor, including offense to break out its have at least one. And downs on 12 connec- down a defender off to find.
a blistering 15-of-27 effort from 3-point range (56 eraser: That athletic the very best teams tions in two postseason the dribble is similar to One reason is the
percent). The Roadrunners made 13 of 15 free throws. receiver with dunk-con- usually have multiple games. what receivers need to rules favor offense. It
Southern Miss shot 47 percent overall but just 21 test like hops and the pass-catchers who are Behind Higgins and get away from defensive is difficult for defensive
percent from distance (3 of 14). The Golden Eagles
sank 17 of 20 foul shots.
ability to seemingly go some combination of Ross on the depth chart backs in press coverage backs to get physical
from zero-to-60 in three too big, too strong or are freshmen Frank at the line of scrim- with receivers without
steps. The player who too fast to be contained Ladson Jr. (6-3, 195) mage. drawing a flag. The best
MUW takes down Pensacola Christian is open even when he is
The Mississippi University for Women men’s bas- by one defender. and Joseph Ngata (6-3, “You get open with receivers seem to draw
ketball team beat Pensacola Christian 64-54 on Friday covered. “The game has be- 215). your route running,” at least one 5-yard hold-
in Pohl Gymnasium for its fourth straight win. “They erase your come run the ball, bring “You go back and LSU receivers coach
Tre Pinkston scored 18 points for MUW (6-10), ing foul or 15-yard pass
mistakes,” Fisher said. the safeties down, and look at our big wins this Mickey Joseph said.
Keith Harris scored 13, and Carlos Wilkerson scored 12. interference per game.
There will be several then you’ve got to win time of year, they’ve “Get to the top of your
Tavonta Jones led the Owls with eight rebounds, Another reason is
and Milos Zeradjanin led the team with seven assists. on the field during the the one-on-ones out- come because our quar- route, speeding up your
scoring touchdowns
MUW will travel to face Campbellsville University– College Football Playoff side,” North Carolina terback and receivers feet, coming out of your
can be more fun than
Somerset at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, in Somerset, championship game be- coach Mack Brown have played extremely break.”
Kentucky. tween No. 1 LSU (14-0) trying to prevent them.
said. well, and winning a lot Higgins said he has
and No. 3 Clemson (14- “As any little kid, you
The game-changing of those one-on-one a sweet jump shot and
Women’s College Basketball 0) on Monday night. receiver has been an matchups,” said Clem- can also finish at the
want to be the guy with
Southern Miss beats UTSA in home contest LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase essential part of Clem- son co-offensive coor- rim. Those jump balls the ball in your hands,”
HATTIESBURG — All five Southern Miss starters won the Bilentikoff son’s rise to a college dinator and receivers and fades that have Reed said.
scored in double figures Saturday as the Golden Eagles Award as the nation’s football superpower un- coach Jeff Scott, who become so common in Higgins, if he en-
beat Texas-San Antonio 82-65 at Reed Green Coliseum ters the NFL draft, is
in Hattiesburg. best receiver. At 6-foot- der Dabo Swinney, the has already been hired football are not much
Respect Leaphart led the way for Southern Miss 1, he is the shortest of former wide receivers as South Florida’s next different than going up likely to be one of the
(10-4, 2-1 Conference USA) with 19 points. Kelsey the Tigers’ top three coach who has led the head coach. for rebound. first receivers taken
Jones and Shonte Hailes each scored 13. Daishai pass catchers alongside Tigers to two national To find the next “Just me being able from a loaded class
Almond scored 12, and Alarie Mayze scored 11. that includes Jefferson,
The Golden Eagles will face North Texas at 7 6-3 Justin Jefferson and titles in the last three great receiver, recruit- to box out a DB and
p.m. Thursday in Denton before facing Rice at 2 p.m. 6-4 Terrace Marshall Jr. years. ers might want to check go up there for a 50-50 Oklahoma’s CeeDee
Saturday in Houston. Heisman Trophy The first wave of basketball courts. ball and coming down Lamb, Colorado’s Lavis-
winner Joe Burrow has stars included DeAn- “Basketball has with the catch is like ka Shenault Jr., Penn
Prep Sports thrown 55 touchdown dre Hopkins, Sammy trickled over into foot- rebounding the basket- State’s K.J. Hamler and
passes this season, 48 Watkins and Martavis ball and you know those ball,” Higgins said. Alabama teammates
Starkville High’s Lucious commits to EMCC Jerry Jeudy and Henry
Tae Lucious of Starkville High School announced to those three players. Bryant. Clemson’s first guys that maybe not be Brown said at Clem-
his commitment to East Mississippi Community College Clemson’s top re- national championship great basketball play- son 50-50 balls are re- Ruggs III.
on Friday. The senior will play both baseball and football ceiver is Tee Higgins, a team in 2016 featured ers, now become ex- ally 80-20 in the Tigers’ And with players
in Scooba. such as Chase, Ross
“First off I just want to thank God for all the
6-4 junior who averag- the 6-4, 220-pound cellent football players favor.
talent that He has blessed me with to be able to be es 19.9 yards per catch Mike Williams, select- because of their height Maybe the biggest and Marshall returning
a two-sport athlete,” Lucious said in his tweet Friday with 13 touchdowns. He ed seventh overall in and their length,” Clem- advantage offenses for next season there
announcing his decision. “With a lot of thinking and a lot and his running mate the NFL draft by the son defensive backs have with these gifted are plenty more ready
of talking with my parents and coaches I am excited to — sophomore Justyn Chargers. coach Mike Reed said. receivers is the most to fill any void.
say that for the next two years I will be taking my talents
in both sports, baseball and football, to East Mississippi
Community College!”
Lucious, one of quarterback Luke Altmyer’s array of PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
talented wide receivers, caught 42 passes for 471 yards

Heritage Academy boys double up Lamar

and six touchdowns, finishing as the Yellow Jackets’
No. 2 target. He plays center field for the Starkville
baseball team

SOURCE: From Special Reports rebounds. triots and grabbed sev- Oak Hill Academy scored 14, and McKen-
Heritage Aca. Heritage Academy en rebounds. Freshman will face Starkville
CALENDAR zie Middleton scored
64, Lamar 32 will travel to face Win-
ston Academy on Tues-
Lucy Sharp hauled in
16 rebounds and scored
Academy on Monday in
Starkville.
10.
Today
Women’s College Basketball By Theo DeRosa day. eight points.
Ole Miss at LSU, 2 p.m. tderosa@cdispatch.com Oak Hill Academy Other scores
Lamar School girls Oak Hill Academy girls 54, Winona Starkville Academy
Monday MERIDIAN — The 46, Heritage Academy boys 49, Winona boys 49, East Rankin
Heritage Academy Christian 51, Friday
Prep Girls Soccer
Grenada at West Point, 5 p.m. boys team beat Lamar
45, Friday Christian 33, Friday WEST POINT — Academy 42, Friday
MERIDIAN — The WEST POINT — The Oak Hill Academy Starkville Academy
Mississippi School for Math and Sci- School 64-32 in Friday’s
Heritage Academy girls The Oak Hill Academy girls held off Winona girls 40, East Rankin
ence at Louisville, 5:30 p.m. road game. team came up one point boys team beat Winona Christian 54-51 on Fri-
South Panola at Starkville, 5:30 p.m. Steele Altmyer led Academy 22, Friday
short Friday against La- Christian 49-33 in Fri- day in West Point.
Prep Boys Soccer the Patriots in points Houston boys def.
mar School in Meridi- day’s home game. Rachel McLain
Mississippi School for Math and Sci- with 11, and Eli Acker an, falling 46-45. Daniel Harrington scored 21 points for the Caledonia, Friday
ence at Louisville, 7 p.m. had a double-double Sydney Adair scored led the Raiders (15-2) Raiders (8-8, 3-1 dis- Houston girls def.
South Panola at Starkville, 7 p.m. with 10 points and 13 13 points to lead the Pa- with 15 points. trict). Carley Wooten Caledonia, Friday
Prep Girls Basketball
Oak Hill Academy at Starkville Acade-
my, 6:30 p.m.
Pro Football Music City Bowl W L Pct GB Cincinnati 68, UCF 54 13, Weatherspoon 4-13 6-9 14, Stewart 4-8 0-0 9,
Nashville, Tenn. Houston 26 12 .684 — Clemson 79, North Carolina 76 Carter 1-6 2-2 4, Feazell 0-1 0-0 0, Molinar 1-1 0-0
Kemper Academy at Starkville Chris- Louisville 38, Mississippi State 28 Dallas 24 15 .615 2½ Davidson 89, Saint Joseph’s 83 3. Totals 19-56 18-21 59.

tian, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Playoff Glance Redbox Bowl Memphis 17 22 .436 9½ Drexel 78, James Madison 71
Duke 90, Wake Forest 59
LSU (11-4)
Mays 4-11 3-4 11, Smart 4-11 0-0 8, Days 0-6 3-6
Saturday, Jan. 4 Santa Clara, Calif. San Antonio 16 21 .432 9½
Houston 22, Buffalo 19, OT California 35, Illinois 20 New Orleans 14 26 .350 13 E. Kentucky 78, SIU-Edwardsville 72 3, Williams 5-9 7-11 17, Manning 7-9 0-0 15, Wat-
Columbus Christian Academy at Pick- Tennessee 20, New England 13 Orange Bowl Northwest Division ETSU 61, VMI 55 ford 1-10 1-2 3, Taylor 1-2 0-0 3, Hyatt 0-1 0-0 0.
East Carolina 71, SMU 68 Totals 22-59 14-23 60.
ens Academy (Ala.), 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 Miami Gardens, Fla.
Florida 36, Virginia 28

Denver
W L Pct GB
26 12 .684 — Elon 80, UNC-Wilmington 63 Halftime_LSU 30-22. 3-Point Goals_Mississippi
Minnesota 26, New Orleans 20, OT St. 3-17 (Molinar 1-1, Perry 1-3, Stewart 1-4, Fea-
Prep Boys Basketball Seattle 17, Philadelphia 9 Tuesday, Dec. 31 Utah 26 12 .684 — Florida A&M 77, Morgan St. 68
Florida Gulf Coast 66, Stetson 62 zell 0-1, Carter 0-2, Weatherspoon 0-3, Woodard
Belk Bowl Oklahoma City 22 17 .564 4½
Divisional Playoffs
Oak Hill Academy at Starkville Acade- Saturday, Jan. 11
Charlotte, N.C. Portland 16 23 .410 10½ Georgia Southern 71, Louisiana-Lafayette 51 0-3), LSU 2-21 (Taylor 1-1, Manning 1-2, Hyatt
0-1, Watford 0-2, Mays 0-4, Smart 0-5, Days 0-6).
Kentucky 37, Virginia Tech 30 Minnesota 15 23 .395 11 Georgia St. 84, Louisiana-Monroe 62
my, 8 p.m. San Francisco 27, Minnesota 10 Sun Bowl Pacific Division Grambling St. 61, Southern U. 56 Rebounds_Mississippi St. 44 (Perry 15), LSU 27
Tennessee 28, Baltimore 12 El Paso, Texas W L Pct GB Hampton 83, Longwood 80 (Days 8). Assists_Mississippi St. 9 (Weather-
Kemper Academy at Starkville Chris- Today Arizona State 20, Florida State 14 L.A. Lakers 32 7 .821 — Jackson St. 76, Alcorn St. 65 spoon 5), LSU 11 (Smart 6). Total Fouls_Missis-
Houston at Kansas City, 2:05 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl L.A. Clippers 27 12 .692 5 Kentucky 76, Alabama 67 sippi St. 16, LSU 12. A_10,364 (13,215).
tian, 8 p.m. Seattle at Green Bay, 5:40 p.m. (FOX) Memphis, Tenn. Phoenix 15 23 .395 16½ LSU 60, Mississippi St. 59
Columbus Christian Academy at Pick- Liberty 54, Jacksonville 37
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 19
Navy 20, Kansas State 17
Alamo Bowl
Sacramento 15 24 .385 17
Golden State 9 31 .225 23½ McNeese St. 85, Northwestern St. 76 Arkansas 76, Ole Miss 72
ARKANSAS (13-2)
ens Academy (Ala.), 8 p.m. Tennessee at Houston-Kansas City winner, 2:05 San Antonio Friday’s Games Morehead St. 69, E. Illinois 66
Murray St. 81, Tennessee Tech 69 Joe 11-18 5-5 34, Whitt 2-9 7-8 11, Jones 3-12 6-6
p.m. (CBS) Texas 38, Utah 10 Washington 111, Atlanta 101
Women’s College Basketball Seattle-Green Bay winner at San Francisco, 5:40 Arizona Bowl New Orleans 123, New York 111 NJIT 78, North Florida 66 13, Sills 4-8 1-2 9, Bailey 3-6 2-2 8, Cylla 0-2 1-4
1, Harris 0-1 0-0 0, Chaney 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-
Tucson, Ariz. Brooklyn 117, Miami 113 Nicholls 69, SE Louisiana 58
Coahoma Community College at East p.m. (FOX)
Wyoming 38, Georgia State 17 Indiana 116, Chicago 105 Norfolk St. 71, Howard 63 56 22-27 76.
Pro Bowl North Alabama 82, Lipscomb 69 OLE MISS (9-6)
Mississippi Community College, 5:30 Wednesday, Jan. 1 Memphis 134, San Antonio 121 Tyree 8-20 9-10 27, Shuler 4-11 2-2 10, Hinson
Sunday, Jan. 26 Citrus Bowl Utah 109, Charlotte 92 Presbyterian 77, High Point 62
At Orlando, Fla. Radford 68, Campbell 63 4-10 4-4 13, Buffen 4-6 4-4 12, Miller 0-1 0-0 0,
p.m. AFC vs. NFC, 2 p.m. (ESPN)
Orlando, Fla.
Alabama 35, Michigan 16
Phoenix 98, Orlando 94
L.A. Lakers 129, Dallas 114 Rhode Island 65, VCU 56 Sy 1-2 6-6 8, Crowley 0-1 0-0 0, Hunter 1-3 0-0 2.
Totals 22-54 25-26 72.
Men’s College Basketball Super Bowl Outback Bowl Milwaukee 127, Sacramento 106 Saint Louis 74, Richmond 58
Syracuse 63, Virginia 55 Halftime_Mississippi 33-27. 3-Point Goals_Ar-
Sunday, Feb. 2 Tampa, Fla. L.A. Clippers 109, Golden State 100
Coahoma Community College at East Tennessee 56, South Carolina 55 kansas 8-20 (Joe 7-13, Jones 1-4, Bailey 0-1,
At Miami Gardens, Fla. Minnesota 31, Auburn 24 Saturday’s Games Harris 0-1, Sills 0-1), Mississippi 3-13 (Tyree
NFC champion vs. AFC champion, 5:30 p.m. Rose Bowl Houston 139, Minnesota 109 Texas A&M 69, Vanderbilt 50
Mississippi Community College, 7:30 (FOX) Pasadena, Calif. Chicago 108, Detroit 99 UAB 61, Marshall 50 2-3, Hinson 1-5, Miller 0-1, Shuler 0-4). Fouled
Out_Buffen. Rebounds_Arkansas 28 (Jones 6),
Oregon 28, Wisconsin 27 Boston 140, New Orleans 105 UNC-Asheville 71, Charleston Southern 69
p.m. Sugar Bowl L.A. Lakers 125, Oklahoma City 110 UNC-Greensboro 86, Furman 73 Mississippi 38 (Shuler 11). Assists_Arkansas 13
49ers 27, Vikings 10 New Orleans Dallas 109, Philadelphia 91 Virginia Tech 72, NC State 58 (Jones 9), Mississippi 6 (Shuler, Crowley 2). To-

on the air W. Carolina 79, Mercer 71 tal Fouls_Arkansas 18, Mississippi 24. A_8,233
Minnesota 7 3 0 0—10 Georgia 26, Baylor 14 Cleveland 111, Denver 103 (9,500).
San Francisco 7 7 10 3—27 Thursday, Jan. 2 Milwaukee at Portland, late W. Kentucky 69, Middle Tennessee 53
First quarter Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Today’s Games William & Mary 67, Coll. of Charleston 56

Today SF_Bourne 3 pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick),
9:30.
Min_Diggs 41 pass from Cousins (Bailey kick),
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5:23.
11 a.m. — Michigan State at Purdue, Second quarter
SF_Coleman 1 run (Gould kick), 7:10.
CBS Min_FG Bailey 39, :31.
Third quarter
11 a.m. — Wichita State at Connecti- SF_FG Gould 35, 10:42.
cut, CBSSN SF_Coleman 2 run (Gould kick), 4:54.
Fourth quarter
Noon — Michigan at Minnesota, BTN SF_FG Gould 21, 14:13.
A_71,649.
3 p.m. — Memphis at South Florida, Min SF
ESPN2 First downs 7 21
Total Net Yards 147 308
5 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Miami, ACCN Rushes-yards 10-21 47-186
Passing 126 122
5 p.m. — Utah at Colorado, ESPNU Punt Returns 2-0 3-23
9 p.m. — Arizona at Oregon State, FS1 Kickoff Returns 5-148 1-22
Ints. Ret. 1-4 1-13
GOLF Comp-Att-Int 21-29-1 11-19-1
5 p.m. — PGA Tour: The Sony Open, Sacked-Yds Lost 6-46
Punts 6-48.3 4-46.5
2-9
Final Round, Honolulu, GOLF Fumbles-Lost 3-1
Penalties-Yards 1-15
1-1
5-38
NFL FOOTBALL Time of Poss. 21:33 38:27
Individual statistics
2:05 p.m. — AFC Divisional Playoff: RUSHING_Minnesota, Cook 9-18, Mattison 1-3.
Houston at Kansas City, CBS San Francisco, Coleman 22-105, Mostert 12-58,
Breida 8-17, Samuel 1-6, Garoppolo 4-0.
5:40 p.m. — NFC Divisional Round: PASSING_Minnesota, Cousins 21-29-1-172. San
Francisco, Garoppolo 11-19-1-131.
Seattle at Green Bay, FOX RECEIVING_Minnesota, Cook 6-8, Thielen 5-50,
NHL HOCKEY
6 p.m. — Toronto at Florida, NHLN
I.Smith 3-39, Diggs 2-57, Rudolph 2-4, Abdullah
1-7, Conklin 1-5, Bradbury 1-2. San Francisco,
Samuel 3-42, Bourne 3-40, Kittle 3-16, Sanders
2-33.
SOCCER (MEN’S) MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
7:55 a.m. — Serie A: SPAL at Fiorenti-
na, ESPN2 College Football
7:55 a.m. — Premier League: Watford Bowl Glance
at Bournemouth, NBCSN Saturday, Dec. 28
Camping World Bowl
10:25 a.m. — Premier League: Man- Orlando, Fla.
Notre Dame 33, Iowa State 9
chester City at Aston Villa, NBCSN Cotton Bowl Classic
Arlington, Texas
TENNIS Penn State 53, Memphis 39
Peach Bowl
7 a.m. — WTA: The Auckland Open, Atlanta
Final, Auckland, New Zealand, TENNIS CFP Semifinal: LSU 63, Oklahoma 28
Fiesta Bowl
8:30 a.m. — WTA: The Brisbane Glendale, Ariz.
CFP Semifinal: Clemson 29, Ohio State 23
International, Final, Brisbane, Australia, Monday, Dec. 30
TENNIS
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
Dallas
Western Kentucky 23, Western Michigan 20
Cincinnati 38, Boston College 6
Gator Bowl
Miami at New York, 2:30 p.m.
Utah at Washington, 2:30 p.m.
Winthrop 99, Gardner-Webb 95
Wofford 73, The Citadel 71
UTSA 80, Southern Miss 70
SOUTHERN MISS (4-13)
Jacksonville, Fla. Atlanta at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. MIDWEST Watson 5-15 2-2 13, Stevenson 3-5 5-6 11, Malone
Tennessee 23, Indiana 22 Golden State at Memphis, 5 p.m. Baylor 67, Kansas 55 2-3 0-0 5, Harper-Baker 2-5 1-2 5, Draine 2-6 0-0
Friday, Jan. 3 San Antonio at Toronto, 5 p.m. Bowling Green 83, Ohio 74
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Charlotte at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Bradley 67, S. Illinois 48
5, Jacdonmi 4-7 5-5 13, Konontsuk 5-9 4-5 14,
McCoy 1-2 0-0 2, Leslie 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 25-53
Creighton 77, Xavier 65
Boise
Ohio 30, Nevada 21
L.A. Clippers at Denver, 7 p.m.
Monday’s Games Dayton 88, UMass 60
17-20 70.
UTSA (8-9)
Saturday, Jan. 4 New Orleans at Detroit, 6 p.m. Illinois 54, Rutgers 51
Indiana 66, Ohio St. 54
Jackson 7-18 6-6 23, Wallace 5-11 2-2 16, Frohnen
Armed Forces Bowl Philadelphia at Indiana, 6 p.m. 3-5 3-4 9, Czumbel 3-7 0-0 9, Barisic 2-2 2-2 8,
Fort Worth, Texas Chicago at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Indiana St. 65, Illinois St. 52 Bior 2-4 0-1 4, Hellums 1-4 0-0 3, Germany 1-1
Tulane 30, Southern Miss 13 Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Iowa St. 81, Oklahoma 68 0-0 2, Whiteside 2-2 0-0 6, Rodriguez 0-0 0-0 0.
Monday, Jan. 6 Charlotte at Portland, 9 p.m. Kent St. 79, Cent. Michigan 73 Totals 26-54 13-15 80.
Lendingtree Bowl Orlando at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Louisville 67, Notre Dame 64 Halftime_UTSA 35-31. 3-Point Goals_Southern
Mobile, Ala. Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Loyola of Chicago 78, Evansville 44 Miss. 3-14 (Malone 1-1, Draine 1-3, Watson 1-5,
Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee 87, Green Bay 80
Louisiana-Lafayette 27, Miami (Ohio) 17
Monday Phoenix at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Missouri 91, Florida 75
McCoy 0-1, Harper-Baker 0-2, Konontsuk 0-2),
UTSA 15-27 (Wallace 4-8, Czumbel 3-5, Jack-
College Football Championship Utah at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. N. Illinois 71, E. Michigan 68
N. Iowa 80, Missouri St. 57
son 3-7, Barisic 2-2, Whiteside 2-2, Hellums 1-3).
New Orleans Houston at Memphis, 7 p.m. Fouled Out_Harper-Baker. Rebounds_Southern
Clemson (14-0) vs. LSU (14-0), 7 p.m. (ESPN) New York at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Northwestern 62, Nebraska 57
Oakland 68, Cleveland St. 55
Miss. 31 (Stevenson 9), UTSA 25 (Frohnen 8).
Saturday, Jan. 18 Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Assists_Southern Miss. 14 (Malone 5), UTSA
East-West Shrine Classic Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Rio Grande 87, Chicago St. 63 17 (Jackson, Wallace, Czumbel 4). Total Fouls_
At St. Petersburg, Fla. S. Dakota St. 70, Fort Wayne 61 Southern Miss. 18, UTSA 21. A_1,095 (4,080).
East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFL) South Dakota 91, Nebraska-Omaha 81
NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
At Pasadena, Calif. College Basketball Tennessee St. 75, SE Missouri 73
Toledo 67, W. Michigan 59
Valparaiso 66, Drake 61 Transactions
American vs. National, 4 p.m. (FS1)
Saturday, Jan. 25 Saturday’s Scores W. Illinois 86, Denver 80 Saturday’s moves
Senior Bowl EAST Youngstown St. 69, Detroit 67 BASEBALL
At Mobile, Ala. Albany (NY) 76, Maine 70 SOUTHWEST American League
North vs. South, 1:30 p.m. Boston U. 81, Army 59
Bucknell 75, Holy Cross 60
Abilene Christian 68, Texas A&M-CC 56 NEW YORK YANKEES — Re-signed OF Brett
Sunday, Jan. 26 Arkansas St. 76, Troy 68 Gardner to a one-year contract.
Hula Bowl Colgate 70, Navy 63 Cent. Arkansas 89, Sam Houston St. 82 National League
At Honolulu Delaware St. 68, NC Central 66 Coastal Carolina 82, Texas-Arlington 77 MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with INF/OF
East vs. West, 9:30 p.m. Duquesne 66, George Washington 61 Incarnate Word 73, New Orleans 70 Jonathan Villar, RHP Jose Ureña and LHP Adam
George Mason 76, La Salle 63 Lamar 102, Houston Baptist 92 Conley on one-year contracts.
Georgia Tech 71, Boston College 52 North Texas 81, FAU 58 MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with
Pro Basketball LIU 84, Fairleigh Dickinson 70
Lafayette 65, Loyola (Md.) 62
Lehigh 82, American U. 73
Oral Roberts 88, North Dakota 73
Rice 92, FIU 78
South Alabama 52, UALR 43
INF Jedd Gyorko on a one-year contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
NBA Glance Mass.-Lowell 85, Binghamton 66 TCU 52, Oklahoma St. 40 SACRAMENTO KINGS — Assigned Fs Wenyen
EASTERN CONFERENCE Merrimack 58, CCSU 46 Texas 64, Kansas St. 50 Gabriel and Caleb Swanigan and G Justin James
Atlantic Division Mount St. Mary’s 67, Bryant 65 Texas State 82, Appalachian St. 57 to Stockton (NBAGL).
W L Pct GB NC A&T 91, Md.-Eastern Shore 53 Tulsa 63, Houston 61 FOOTBALL
Boston
Toronto
26 11 .703 —
25 13 .658 1½
Philadelphia 25 15 .625 2½
Robert Morris 94, Wagner 62
Seton Hall 69, Marquette 55
St. Bonaventure 64, Fordham 44
UTSA 80, Southern Miss 70
FAR WEST
National Football League
ATLANTA FALCONS — Named Tosh Lupoi defen-
sive line and run game coordinator.
Brooklyn 17 20 .459 9 St. Francis (Pa.) 81, St. Francis Brooklyn 80
California 61, Washington 58
California Baptist 61, Grand Canyon 57 DETROIT LIONS — Named Brayden Coombs
New York 10 29 .256 17
Southeast Division
St. John’s 74, DePaul 67
Stony Brook 73, New Hampshire 48
Colorado St. 81, San Jose St. 70 special teams coordinator.
HOCKEY
Gonzaga 87, Loyola Marymount 62
W L Pct GB Towson 84, Delaware 68 Idaho St. 71, N. Arizona 67 National Hockey League
Miami 27 11 .711 — Tulane 65, Temple 51 New Mexico 84, Air Force 78 NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Ben Street
Orlando 18 21 .462 9½ Vermont 74, UMBC 50 New Mexico St. 74, UMKC 71 on IR, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled G Evan
Charlotte 15 26 .366 13½ Villanova 80, Georgetown 66 Portland St. 77, Montana St. 76 Cormier from Binghamton (AHL).
Washington 13 25 .342 14 West Virginia 66, Texas Tech 54 San Francisco 79, Pacific 75 WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D
Atlanta 8 31 .205 19½ Wisconsin 58, Penn St. 49 Christian Djoos to Hershey (AHL).
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Santa Clara 67, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 66
Stanford 88, Washington St. 62 American Hockey League
Milwaukee
W L Pct GB
34 6 .850 —
Alabama A&M 59, Ark.-Pine Bluff 49
Arkansas 76, Ole Miss 72
UC Riverside 65, Cal St.-Fullerton 59 LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS —Recalled D Eric
Knodel from Reading (ECHL).
UNLV 78, Wyoming 69
Indiana 24 15 .615 9½ Auburn 82, Georgia 60 Utah St. 80, Nevada 70 SOCCER
Chicago 14 26 .350 20 Austin Peay 71, Jacksonville St. 67 Major League Soccer
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Cleveland 12 27 .308 21½ Bethune-Cookman 85, Coppin St. 80 LSU 60, Mississippi St. 59 COLLEGE
WESTERN CONFERENCE Charlotte 53, Old Dominion 47 MISSISSIPPI ST. (9-6) BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Wiscon-
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‘We can do this’: Redoubled efforts have New Hope in the hunt for district title
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — Bree
Younger had seen it be-
fore.
The junior had
watched the New Hope
girls soccer team lose
heart quickly in past sea-
sons when the likelihood
of a victory grew slim.
“They scored a goal,
and we were like, ‘Alright,
it’s done,’” Younger said.
“It ended up being 6-0 by
the end of the game just
because nobody cared.”
On Dec. 3, New Hope
conceded the tying goal
in the second half of a
road match against New
Albany, looking poised to
repeat history.
“A lot of people could
have just laid down, and
we could have given an-
other goal up and just
quit,” coach Andrew Ol-
sen said.
But Younger and the
Trojans helped flip the
script.
New Hope kept push-
ing for scoring opportu-
nities in regulation but
couldn’t convert, and the
same held true in over-
time. The match went
to penalty kicks, giving
Younger and her team-
mates an apprehensive
feeling.
“It’s kind of
nerve-wracking for every-
body,” Younger said. “It’s
like 50/50.”
In the penalty
shootout, though, New
Hope proved this season
wasn’t going to be like
the past few. She, Reagan
Greenhaw and Nicole Pa-
dron buried the Trojans’
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New Hope boys use 20-0 run to beat West Point in district opener
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
WEST POINT —
Drew McBrayer knew
something had to change.
When the New Hope
boys basketball coach
took stock of his roster
in the offseason, he saw
plenty of shooting ability
and plenty of speed — but
not much size.
That led to a funda-
mental change in the Tro-
jans’ style of play, as Mc-
Brayer upped the tempo
and installed a run-and-
gun type of offense.
“It’s a different style
than we’ve run a lot in the
past, but it’s a lot of fun to
watch them play with the
effort that they do and the
skill set they have on the
floor,” McBrayer said.
The new system is
paying dividends for
high-flying, high-scoring
New Hope, and Friday’s
district opener at West
Point was just the latest
example.
The Trojans held a
10-point lead at the half
and pulled away from the
Green Wave by scoring
20 unanswered points in
4 minutes, 37 seconds to
start the third quarter.
The fast and furious run
was all New Hope (15-1)
needed and more, and the
Trojans rode it to a 73-45
win over the Green Wave
(2-12) on Friday.
“They have the abil-
ity to get on a run pretty
quick,” McBrayer said.
“It seems like as soon as
they see one or two of
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Junior Bree Younger (15) has been one of New Hope’s key players this season. The Trojans (9-4) have a good
shot at winning the district championship but must beat Columbus and Grenada this coming week.
first three penalties, and
New Albany missed its
first three, giving New
Hope a win that has stuck
with the Trojans all sea-
son.
“After that, I think they
kind of felt like ‘we can do
this’ and got a little con-
fidence from that game,”
Olsen said.
Under the leadership
of Olsen, in his first sea-
son as the head coach of
the girls team, New Hope
has ridden that confi-
dence to a 9-4 start and a
chance at a district cham-
pionship. The Trojans are
in the midst of a season
that Younger called “a lot
better than it has been” at
New Hope.
“I think we’re altogeth-
them shots go down, ev-
erybody’s itching to get
in, let one fly and knock
one down.”
The Trojans’ 20-0
burst was classic New
Hope — this season, any-
way. Steals, 3-pointers ga-
lore and a frenzied pace
stretched a 36-26 halftime
score to 56-26 before the
Green Wave knew what
had happened.
“It was really nice just
knowing that we can just
throw it up and down the
court and just shoot 3s
and know we can make
it,” New Hope senior Tay-
lon Stevenson said.
As the Trojans’ bench
cheered on New Hope,
West Point was deflat-
ed. The momentum the
Green Wave had built by
cutting a lead of nearly 20
points down to 10 at the
half had quickly evaporat-
ed.
“We played good in
the first half, but com-
ing into that second half,
we started overplaying
on defense,” said West
Point guard Dishoune
Cooperwood, who led the
team with 17 points. “We
started messing up a lot.
They got on a run against
us, and we didn’t stop it.
We’ve gotta get to the free
throw line, get some fouls
or something.”
The Trojans turned
to the full-court press to
slow down Cooperwood
in the second half, but
West Point coach Gary
Dixon was still proud of
the performance by his
senior, whom Dixon said
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er more dedicated this
year,” Younger said. “In
past years we would go
into a game not really car-
ing if we won or lost, but
now we’re fighting all 80
minutes.”
That’s thanks to Olsen,
who has worked the girls
team more than the Tro-
jans were used to, senior
left back Allie Corbett
said. To her, that was a
good thing.
“I feel like he pushed
us harder,” Corbett said.
“He didn’t care that we
were girls. You feel like
some people take it easy
on us, but he just kept us
pushing harder.”
Olsen, who took over
the girls team from long-
time coach Mary Nagy,
he relies on to run the
team on offense and de-
fense.
“He has a good head
on his shoulders,” Dixon
said. “He’s slowly becom-
ing the leader that we ex-
pected him to be.”
But Cooperwood was
no match for a multifac-
eted New Hope attack led
Friday by senior Jaylen
Smith. Smith made six
3-pointers in the West
Point gym for the second
straight time, including
four in the third quarter
Friday. He finished with
26 points.
“He had a really good
game,” Stevenson said of
Smith. “Knocking down
his shots and playing de-
fense and taking the ball
down the court.”
McBrayer also credit-
ed senior AJ Brownlee,
who hit three 3s and fin-
ished with 11 points. RL
Mattix added nine for the
Trojans. New Hope lost
senior Jason Peden to an
ankle injury — McBray-
er said it was believed to
be a high ankle sprain
— late Friday and played
without sophomore Caleb
Parr, who was out with a
bruised hip, but the Tro-
jans received contribu-
tions from pretty much
everyone. Nine players
scored at least one point
for New Hope on Friday
as the Trojans delivered
a total team effort in their
first district game.
“This group is so much
fun to coach,” McBrayer
said.
West Point, mean-
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implemented the same
drills he used to coach the
boys team. He’s now in his
fourth season as the boys’
head coach, and this year,
he used competition be-
tween the two programs
to drive the girls.
“They saw how hard
each other were working,”
Olsen said. “‘I see how
hard they’re working, so
I’m gonna push myself a
little bit more.’ Credit to
them: They showed up ev-
ery day and put the work
in.”
If New Hope can beat
Columbus on Tuesday
night, the Trojans’ match
at Grenada on Friday will
be played for the district
title, which New Hope
would have to win by two
while, has seen some
improvement since the
beginning of the season,
Dixon said, though it has
yet to translate to wins
like the Green Wave want.
But Dixon expressed
confidence that West
Point can compete with
any team should it play
well for all 32 minutes —
not the case Friday.
“We need to put a full
four quarters together,”
he said. “We haven’t done
it all season due to inju-
ries and sickness. We get
everybody healthy and
put a full four quarters to-
gether, I like our chances
against anybody. They’re
just resilient. They’re a
resilient bunch.”
New Hope girls 47, West
Point 43
WEST POINT — The
New Hope girls almost
learned a valuable lesson
the hard way in Friday’s
district opener at West
Point.
The Trojans jumped
out to a 26-12 halftime
lead over the Green Wave
then tried to coast from
there.
“We came out and
played really well, and
then after halftime, we
got very lax and went,
‘Hey, this game’s over
with,’” New Hope coach
Nick Christy said.
The Trojans let West
Point off the hook, Christy
said, and the Green Wave
closed the gap. West Point
tied the game and had
several attempts at taking
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or more goals to secure.
“Their main goal is
to win a district champi-
onship, and they’ve put
themselves in a place to
win it next Friday,” Olsen
said.
The changes he made
to the team in the offsea-
son have put New Hope in
this position, his players
said. Olsen implemented
a 4-4-2 formation — the
Trojans ran a 4-3-3 before
his arrival. He talked with
his players early in the
year about changing po-
sitions, then did so — Ol-
sen moved Younger from
center back to defensive
midfielder and moved
Corbett from an offensive
position to defense.
The changes took
the lead but could never
pull ahead. New Hope (9-
6) did what it needed to
do, sinking some key free
throws in the closing min-
utes to pull off a narrow
47-43 win and avoiding a
rude welcome to district
play.
“Hopefully that taught
them the other team’s not
gonna lay down,” Chris-
ty said. “This is district.
They’re not gonna quit
playing until the last buzz-
er. We got out of this game
with a win, and we’ll hope-
fully take that lesson and
move forward and realize
no matter how many you
get up or down, they’re
not gonna quit. These
games mean more. These
are district games.”
West Point took advan-
tage of sloppy play, lax
rebounding and plenty of
turnovers by the Trojans
and erased New Hope’s
double-digit lead, tying
the game 31-31 with 2
minutes, 26 seconds to go
in the third quarter. Most
of the Trojans’ errors were
unforced, Christy said.
“They’re pressing, but
it wasn’t anything great,”
he said of the Green
Wave. “They hustled
hard, and I’ll give them
that, but we’re just throw-
ing it right to them. We’re
just making bad decisions
and bad plays because
we thought the game was
over.”
But given chance after
chance to take the lead
or make a big run, West
Point couldn’t connect
on anything. The Green
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some time to get used to,
as New Hope lost its first
match 2-1 to Pontotoc on
Nov. 2.
“In the beginning of
the year, you could see in
the games we were still
getting used to our posi-
tions and where we want-
ed to get the ball and who
we wanted to work it to,”
Olsen said.
New Hope won its next
four matches and took a
6-2 record into a home
game with Grenada on
Dec. 13. That night, a
tough sudden-death loss
dealt the Trojans a set-
back that still weighs on
their minds.
“I think we should have
beaten Grenada, person-
ally,” Younger said.
Despite the loss, the
Trojans still sit in a solid
position. They’re close to
guaranteed a playoff spot
and still maintain hope
they can win the district
crown. That’s already an
improvement over last
season, which ended in
the first round of the play-
offs in a 3-0 loss to Amory,
and Olsen is happy to see
it.
“Every game we’ve
played, even though
we’ve lost four, every
game they’ve played the
whole entire 80 min-
utes,” he said. “That’s
something to be proud
of. Even though some of
the matches didn’t go our
way, you can see they’re
getting better and they’re
starting to think a little
bit more. Overall, I’m
proud of them.”
Wave misfired on deep
jumpers and 3-pointers
in the fourth quarter,
and New Hope converted
when it sorely needed to.
Reed McGlothin
drained a key 3-ball from
the right corner to stretch
a two-point Trojan lead to
five with 3:10 to go and hit
two clinching free throws
with 13.8 seconds to go to
give New Hope a two-pos-
session lead. The junior
had missed four consec-
utive free throws before
coming up big when New
Hope needed her.
“It was good to make
the plays at the right
times,” Christy said. “We
had people missing free
throws earlier that made
them at the end of the
game, people missing
shots that made them
whenever it counts. That’s
how winning is done.”
Following a 53-49 win
at Houston on Tuesday,
New Hope has started
to turn its luck around
in close games, Christy
said. It’s a trend he hopes
to see prolonged as the
Trojans progress through
their district schedule.
“I feel like we’re pro-
gressing and moving as
we get into district and
hopefully get into post-
season play,” he said.
“You want to be playing
your best basketball. I feel
like we’re getting better.
We’re not where we need
to be, but we’re definitely
going in the right direc-
tion on that.”
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Football

49ers beat Vikings for 1st playoff win in 6 years

The Associated Press the playoffs.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —

Jimmy Garoppolo threw a TD
pass on his opening drive as a
playoff starter and then watched
San Francisco’s defense and
running game take over from
there in the 49ers’ 27-10 victory
over the Minnesota Vikings in
the divisional round Saturday.
The Niners (14-3) first play-
off game in six seasons and first
ever at Levi’s Stadium turned
into a lopsided one as top-seed-
ed San Francisco turned a pair
of second-half turnovers by
Minnesota (11-7) into 10 points.
Richard Sherman set up
Tevin Coleman’s second short
touchdown run of the game
with an interception against
Kirk Cousins and Marcus Sher-
els’ fumbled punt led to a field
goal that made it 27-10 early in
the fourth quarter.
San Francisco didn’t allow
Minnesota to gain a first down
for more than 27 minutes of
game action starting late in the
second quarter.
The Niners will host the
NFC championship game next
week against the winner of Sun-
day’s game between Seattle and
Green Bay.
Garoppolo threw an inter-
ception deep in his own territo-
ry late in the first half and then
spent most of the second half
handing the ball off to Coleman
and Raheem Mostert.
There was little reason for
coach Kyle Shanahan to take
San Francisco 49ers running back Tevin Coleman (26) runs the ball against the Minnesota Vikings
during the second half of Saturday’s NFC Divisional Round playoff football game at Levi’s Stadium.
chances the way his defense
completely bottled up talented
runner Dalvin Cook. That took
away Minnesota’s play-action
game and forced Cousins into
becoming a drop-back passer.
Cousins finished 21 for 29
for 172 yards with his only big
play coming on a 41-yard TD
pass to Stefon Diggs in the first
quarter.
Cook was held to 18 yards on
nine carries as the Niners de-
fense was back to its dominant
early season form thanks in
part to the return from injuries
of defensive end Dee Ford, line-
backer Kwon Alexander and
safety Jaquiski Tartt.
San Francisco had six sacks
and held Minnesota to 147
yards for the game with a large
chunk coming on two late gar-
bage-time drives.
Take it away
Eric Kendricks intercepted
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a pass from Garoppolo late in
the first half to give the Vikings
the ball at the San Francisco 29.
Minnesota couldn’t capitalize
with Dee Ford getting a third-
down sack in his return to the
lineup from a hamstring injury.
Dan Bailey’s 39-yard field goal
cut the Niners lead to 14-10 at
the half. The interception was
the 19th turnover this season
by Garoppolo, who had the
most giveaways in the regular
season of any player who made
Blocking back
Garoppolo showed he has
skills beyond his throwing.
He threw a lead block on
255-pound linebacker Antho-
ny Barr on a reverse by Deebo
Samuel in the second quarter.
Samuel fumbled the ball on the
play but replay ruled his knee
was down, negating the turn-
over. That proved especially im-
portant when Coleman capped
the drive with a 1-yard TD run.
Burned again
The Vikings scored on their
second drive of the game when
Diggs outmaneuvered Ahkello
Witherspoon for a 41-yard TD
catch. It was the fifth TD pass
allowed by Witherspoon in the
past three games and he was
replaced at cornerback the fol-
lowing drive by Emmanuel Mo-
seley.
Injuries
Vikings: RT Brian O’Neill
left with a head injury after a
blindside block from Nick Bosa
in the third quarter following
Cousins’ interception.
49ers: Mostert (calf) and
LB Mark Nzeocha (stinger) left
the game in the second half.
Up next
Vikings: The offseason.
49ers: NFC championship
game next Sunday against ei-
ther Seattle or Green Bay.

North Dakota St. wins 8th FCS title over James Madison
The Associated Press
FRISCO, Texas — Now
this was a perfect ending
for North Dakota State,
with its redshirt fresh-
man quarterback and the
senior safety in his final
game after first wanting to
be a Bison quarterback.
Trey Lance ran for
166 yards, with a clutch
44-yard touchdown in
the fourth quarter, and
James Hendricks had a
game-clinching intercep-
tion after an earlier TD
run on a fake field goal as
the Bison beat James Mad-
ison 28-20 on Saturday for
their eighth FCS national
championship, and the
first 16-win season in any
division since Yale in 1894.
“To go out on top as a
senior is an incredible feel-
ing,” said Hendricks, who
was a third-string quar-
terback before moving to
defense a sophomore in
2017. “That’s what I’ll re-
member. ... I just feel so
fortunate.
The Bison (16-0)
stretched their FCS-re-
cord winning streak to
37 in a row while winning
their record eighth cham-
pionship in the division
— all in the past nine sea-
sons. They also won five
NCAA Division II titles
from 1983-90.
After stopping Lance
short on a fourth-and-2 at
its 36 with 2:51 left, James
Madison (14-2) drove to
the 3 before Hendricks
picked off the pass by Ben
DiNucci at the goal line.
Hendricks said it was
a play the Bison expected
so, “I just left my guy and
knew that they were going
to throw it, and trusted
that he was going to throw
to the flat, and not the guy
that I’m supposed to cov-
er.”
When asked how com-
mon that was, Matt Entz,
the first-year Bison head
coach who was their defen-
sive coordinator the previ-
ous five seasons, smiled
and said, “I’m glad he did
in that situation.”
Lance’s 44-yard scram-
ble TD came on a third-
and-23 play to open the
fourth quarter and put
the Bison up 28-13. He
dropped back to pass,
found no one open and
when “the Red Sea just
kind of parted” took off
running to the end zone.
“He’s very dynamic.
For him to be that young,
that calm in the pocket is
pretty crazy,” All-Ameri-
ca defensive end Ron’Dell
Carter said.
And that really wasn’t
even Lance’s highlight
run.
On the final play of the
first quarter, Hall scram-
bled and ran right into
middle linebacker Landan
Word, who tried to yank
him down before Lance
suddenly popped up and
lunged forward several
more yards with the help
of his lineman in what
looked more like a rugby
scrum.
Riley Stapleton’s 5-yard
TD catch with 7 minutes
left was his second of the
game. He also had two TD
catches in the national title
game two years ago for the
Dukes in another loss to
North Dakota State. That
was a season after they
won a semifinal game at
the Fargodome and then
beat Youngstown State for
the title.
While Lance was only 6
of 10 passing for 72 yards,
he has now attempted
289 passes for the Bison
without ever throwing an
interception. He ran a sea-
son-high 30 times in the
finale.
Lance succeeded
Easton Stick, whose 49
wins at NDSU made him
the winningest FCS quar-
terback, while also set-
ting school records for
total yards, passing yards
and total touchdowns.
Stick had followed Carson
Wentz.
Before Hendricks’ 20-
yard TD run after lining
up as the holder for a field
goal gave NDSU a 21-10
halftime lead, North Da-
kota State also scored in
the second quarter when
receiver Phoenix Sproles
swept around and faked a
reverse handoff on way to
a 38-yard touchdown run.
“Honestly, I don’t really
think they won that game.
Honestly, I think we lost
it,” said DiNucci, who fin-
ished 22-of-33 passing for
204 yards. “Trick plays,
they’ll probably tell you we
out-physicaled them.”
Big picture
James Madison: The
Dukes, with first-year
coach Curt Cignetti, got
off to an impressive start,
going 86 yards on 17 plays
and taking half of the first
quarter for their opening
drive. Stapleton’s 5-yard
TD catch gave them their
only lead before NDSU
also scored on its first pos-
session.
North Dakota St.:
Make it 8-for-8 for the Bi-
son for championships
won when making it from
Fargo to Frisco. Their
eighth appearance in
the FCS championship
matched the most with
Georgia Southern, which
won six of their title games.
... The only two Division
I winning streaks longer
than NDSU are Washing-
ton (40, from 1908-14) and
Oklahoma’s record 48 in a
row was 1953-57.
Up next
James Madison opens
the 2020 season at home
Sept. 5 in a CAA game
against Delaware with
holes to fill. The Dukes
will have a new quarter-
back, and the Stapleton
brothers — receiver Riley
and tight end Dylan —
played their last game, as
did Carter.
North Dakota State will
go for another win over
a Power Five team in its
Sept. 5 season opener at
Oregon. The Bison have
wins over Kansas State,
Iowa State and No. 13 Iowa
since 2013.

Chip off old block: Nolan Turner follows in dad’s footsteps

The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
The resemblance is re-
markable, even for father
and son.
The thick, wavy hair.
That firm jawline. The
chiseled chin. Those dark,
piercing eyes.
Sitting among his Clem-
son teammates during
media day for the nation-
al championship game,
Nolan Turner appears to
have been lifted straight
from the pages of a nearly
three-decade-old Alabama
football media guide, the
one that featured a snap-
shot of his dad Kevin.
With one big differ-
ence.
“He put on a lot of
weight in college,” No-
lan Turner said Saturday,
chuckling a bit. “He was
like 250 pounds.”
Nolan is generously
listed at 195, so it would’ve
been a huge mismatch to
go against his father.
“I’m glad I’m not play-
ing against him,” Nolan
said, the pride oozing from
his voice. “He used to kill
people back there.”
It’s an interesting
choice of words, since foot-
ball is the game that essen-
tially killed Kevin Turner.
Yet, it’s also the game
that provided him with so
much joy.
Ditto for his son.
It’s part of their DNA. A
big part.
“Football is just a spe-
cial game,” Nolan Turner
said. “It takes everybody
on the team doing their job
and that type of cohesion
to make everything work.
It teaches you a lot about
life off the field, which you
wouldn’t even know. Just
the discipline, and the ca-
maraderie, I love all of it.”
Kevin Turner was a
tough, bruising fullback
who played for Alabama
in the late 1980s and early
‘90s. He went on to a long
career in the NFL, where
a battering-ram style left
him with numerous con-
cussions and would ulti-
mately cost him his life.
Before he died in 2016
from ALS, Turner’s old
college teammate, Clem-
son coach Dabo Swinney,
gave Nolan a scholarship.
It was the only offer he
got from a big-time school.
To most, it seemed
nothing more than a
heartfelt gesture between
friends, Swinney’s way of
vowing to watch over No-
lan after Kevin was gone.
Swinney never saw it
that way.
“It wasn’t some chari-
ty thing,” the coach said.
“If I didn’t have a spot,
he wouldn’t have gotten a
scholarship.”
Swinney’s confidence
in the player no one else
wanted proved prophetic.
In the Fiesta Bowl semifi-
nal game, with Clemson’s
two-year-long winning
streak in peril, it was Turn-
er who swallowed up an
interception in the closing
seconds to seal a 29-23 vic-
tory over Ohio State.
“The right place at the
right time,” Turner said.
“A really cool moment.”
Through all the tears,
all the helplessness, all the
grief, Nolan has carved
out quite a name for him-
self while following in his
father’s footsteps.
He has already been
part of two national cham-
pionship teams (thought
he didn’t play during the
2016 season, sitting out
as a redshirt). He’ll get
a chance for a third ti-
tle Monday night, when
Clemson faces top-ranked
LSU and Heisman Tro-
phy-winning quarterback
Joe Burrow.
Like his father, Nolan
is a stellar athlete. He
played receiver and defen-
sive back at Vestavia Hills
High School, where long-
time coach Buddy Ander-
son described him as one
of the best players ever to
come through the storied
program.
Asked what traits he
shares with his father,
Nolan points to their good
hands.
Oh, and one other
thing.
“I definitely got some
of his toughness as well,”
Nolan said.
But Nolan was under-
sized and not quite as fast
as other top prospects.
He grew up cheering for
Alabama, of course, but
walking on was the only
conduit to playing for the
Crimson Tide. Every oth-
er big-time school took the
same view.
Except Clemson, that
is.
Hours after the Tigers
lost to Alabama in the 2016
national championship
game, Swinney learned
that four of his top defen-
sive backs were leaving
school early to enter the
NFL draft. With signing
day fast approaching, he
had to scramble to restock
his secondary.
Swinney took another
look at Kevin’s son.
“I’m trying not to be bi-
ased,” the coach said. “I’m
watching this kid and he’s
dominating.”
He showed the tape to
Brent Venables, his defen-
sive coordinator.
“What you think of this
kid?” Swinney asked.
“I love this guy,” Ven-
ables replied. “Where is
he?”
Swinney quickly ar-
ranged a visit to Vestavia
Hills. No one was more
surprised than Nolan
when the coach offered
him a full ride to play for
the Tigers.
“I didn’t see that com-
ing,” Turner said, break-
ing into a big smile. “I
didn’t really have a whole
lot of options.”
Kevin Turner lived long
enough to see his son sign
with the Tigers before
succumbing to the dis-
ease. Testing on his brain
confirmed what was long
suspected: he was suffer-
ing from a severe case of
chronic traumatic enceph-
alopathy, the dreaded con-
dition known as CTE. It is
caused by repeated blows
to the head and likely trig-
gered his ALS.
For Nolan, it was heart-
breaking to watch his fa-
ther wither away.
“From a big, strong
dude to watching this dis-
ease just kind of tear him
apart,” he said, his voice
trailing off.
But it also a teachable
moment.
“To see his outlook on
life through it all was spe-
cial,” Nolan said. “That’s
something I’ll take with
me: being grateful for
what he did have and not
what he didn’t have any-
more.”
Before he died, Kevin
Turner fretted about his
son playing football, but
he never tried to steer him
away. It probably would
have been futile to even
try. Nolan had no inten-
tion of quitting, even as he
watched the toll that foot-
ball took on his dad.
“We had that conversa-
tion,” Nolan said. “He was
going to support me in
whatever I decided to do.
I told him I was going to
keep playing football and
he was cool with that.”
Turner is set to grad-
uate in August with a fi-
nance degree, but he’ll
return for his final year
of eligibility with the Ti-
gers. He talks hopefully
of continuing his career
in the NFL, of beating the
odds one more time. If that
doesn’t work out, he’s not
really sure what he’ll do.
For now, it’s hard to see
a life without the gridiron.
Like father, like son.

College Basketball
Joe sparks late Arkansas rally to beat Ole Miss
The Associated Press
OXFORD — Isaiah
Joe put on a clinic about
finishing strong and Ar-
kansas coach Eric Mus-
selman loved the results
Saturday as the Razor-
backs rallied late to defeat
Ole Miss 76-72.
“Isaiah put on a show
shooting-wise,” Mussel-
man said. “But around
the eight-minute mark we
changed up the defense,
and it really made a dif-
ference on four of their
possessions. We also got
some shots with a player
we wanted.”
Joe was that player,
finishing with 34 points,
26 in the second half,
including 14 in the final
No. 4 Baylor tops No. 3 KU for first win in the Phog
The Associated Press
LAWRENCE, Kan. —
Baylor had spent more
than five decades trying
to win at Allen Fieldhouse.
The Bears had blown
big leads and been blown
out. They took in champi-
onship teams riding high
and limped away feeling
low. Their sense of con-
fidence and optimism
always was replaced by
more disappointment and
heartache.
All those years of angst
made Saturday feel so
much sweeter.
With dominant guard
play from Jared Butler
and MaCio Teague, a suf-
focating performance by
the Big 12’s best defense
and plenty of answers
whenever Kansas tried
to make a second-half
run, the fourth-ranked
Bears thumped the No. 3
Jayhawks 67-55 for their
first win in 18 tries on the
hallowed hardwood of the
Phog.
“This year, you know,
we came in with the ex-
pectation to win, the
expectation to do great
things,” said Butler, who
finished with 22 points.
“And it shows when you
expect to win versus just
trying to survive.”
Teague added 16 points
College basketball roundup
No. 1 Gonzaga rolls past Loyola Marymount
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
Filip Petrusev scored 16
points, Corey Kispert had
15 and No. 1 Gonzaga beat
Loyola Marymount 87-62
on Saturday.
It was the Bulldogs’
31st straight regular-sea-
son win in West Coast
Conference play, tying
them with the San Fran-
cisco squads led by Bill
Russell and K.C. Jones for
the second-longest streak
in conference history. Pep-
perdine has the record at
32.
Gonzaga (18-1, 4-0)
put five players in double
figures. Ryan Woolridge
scored 13, and Admon
Gilder added 12.
Eli Scott paced Loyola
Marymount (7-10, 1-2)
with 20 points.
No. 2 Duke 90,
Wake Forest 59
DURHAM, N.C. — Tre
Jones scored 23 points to
lead Duke to the runaway
victory.
Cassius Stanley add-
ed 16 points for the Blue
Devils (15-1, 5-0 Atlantic
Coast Conference), who
shot 53 percent from the
field.
Duke scored on eight
of its first nine posses-
sions to take control early.
The Blue Devils led 49-23
at halftime.
Torry Johnson and Ol-
ivier Sarr each scored 13
points for Wake Forest
seven minutes as the Ra-
zorbacks (13-2, 2-1 South-
eastern) wiped out a 60-51
deficit.
Joe’s most important
play came on the defen-
sive end with a steal to
preserve a 72-70 lead with
17 seconds remaining. Ole
Miss was forced to foul
Joe and the sophomore
guard converted both free
throws for an insurmount-
able four-point advantage.
“We had to finish out
at the end and that’s what
we did,” Joe said. “Once
you get in a rhythm, you
sort of find yourself. My
teammates were able to
find me.”
Mason Jones scored
13 points and added nine
and Freddie Gillespie had
13 points for the Bears
(13-1, 3-0 Big 12), who
snapped a whole slew of
ignominious streaks with
their victory in Lawrence.
They beat a top-five team
on the road for the first
time in 22 attempts, won
their fifth straight against
a ranked team for the first
time in school history and,
perhaps most importantly,
they beat Kansas (12-
3, 2-1) in their personal
house of horrors for the
first time after playing
their first game in the
building in 1966.
The loss also ended
the Jayhawks’ 28-game
home winning streak, the
third-longest in the nation.
“I knew at some point
Baylor was going to win
up here and I was just hop-
ing I would be a part of it,”
Bears coach Scott Drew
said. “Really pleased it
was with this group be-
cause they’ve worked ex-
tremely hard.”
Isaiah Moss scored 15
points and Marcus Gar-
rett had 11 for the Jay-
hawks, who lost leading
scorer Devon Dotson to
a hip pointer for a long
stretch midway through
the game, preventing
them from finding any of-
fensive rhythm.
Kansas was 4 of 15 be-
(8-7, 1-4). Sharone Wright
Jr. added a season-high 11
points.
No. 5 Auburn 82,
Georgia 60
AUBURN, Ala. —
Samir Doughty had 17
points, and Auburn shot
53 percent from the field
in the win.
The Tigers (15-0, 3-0
Southeastern Conference)
surged with a 40-13 run af-
ter falling behind early to
the Bulldogs (10-5, 0-2), a
stretch that extended into
the second half.
Anfernee McLemore
and freshman Allen Flan-
igan each scored 12 points
for the Tigers.
Georgia star Antho-
ny Edwards struggled
much of the game but still
finished with 18 points,
nearly his season average.
The freshman was 6-of-15
shooting.
Indiana 66,
No. 11 Ohio State 54
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
— Devonte Green scored
19 points, Rob Phinisee
had 13 in his first start of
the season, and Indiana
handed Ohio State its
fourth straight loss.
The Hoosiers (13-3, 3-2
Big Ten) earned their sec-
ond straight win despite
going 20 for 36 at the line.
Phinisee had four of the
team’s 11 steals.
Andre Wesson scored
15 points for Ohio State
(11-5, 1-4), and Kaleb
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assists with six rebounds
while Jimmy Whitt Jr.
added 11 points while the
Razorbacks converted 14
of 14 from the free throw
line in the second half.
The Razorbacks were 23
of 56 (41 percent) from
the field and 22 of 27 (82
percent) from the free
throw line.
Breein Tyree scored
27 points for Ole Miss
(9-6, 0-2), but the Rebels
went 2 of 8 from the field
with two turnovers in the
final four minutes. Blake
Hinson scored 13 points,
KJ Buffen had 12 points
and 10 rebounds while
Devontae Shuler had 10
points and a game-high 11
rebounds.
yond the arc and commit-
ted 14 turnovers that Bay-
lor turned into 21 points.
When asked whether
he thought his team knew
of all the history wrapped
up in a single loss, Kansas
coach Bill Self replied:
“I’m not going to make a
big deal out of it like that.”
“I think when you say it
like that — I may be wrong
— it’s almost like saying
the players here don’t care
as much as the players in
the past because we got
our (butts) handed to us
today,” Self continued.
“This is sports. If they’re
on and you’re not, they’re
going to beat you.”
The two Big 12 heavy-
weights spent the first
10 minutes of the game
sizing each other up, and
the Jayhawks opened a
brief 20-15 lead before the
Bears — and Butler and
Teague in particular — fi-
nally asserted control.
Teague began a 22-4
run to close the first
half by beating the shot
clock with a 3-pointer. He
turned the same trick a
few minutes later, right af-
ter Butler knocked down
a 3 and added a jumper of
his own. The quick flurry
forced Self to call the first
of two fruitless timeouts
in the closing minutes of
the first half.
Wesson finished with 11
points and 10 rebounds.
The Buckeyes shot just
32.7 percent (17 for 52)
from the field.
No. 13 Louisville 67,
Notre Dame 64
SOUTH BEND, Ind.
— Jordan Nwora scored
20 points, and Louisville
edged Notre Dame.
Reserve guard Ryan
McMahon scored 17
points for the Cardinals
(13-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast
Conference), who won
their second straight.
Dwayne Sutton had 10
points and 14 rebounds.
Sutton hit a pair of key
3-pointers as Louisville
rallied in the final 4:05.
John Mooney had 15
points and 19 rebounds for
the Fighting Irish (10-6,
1-4), who lost their second
straight. T.J. Gibbs also
had 15 points, and reserve
Dane Goodwin added 14.
No. 14 Kentucky 76,
Alabama 67
LEXINGTON, Ky.
— Immanuel Quickley
scored the game’s final
five points and finished
with 19, and Kentucky
topped Alabama for its
1,000th Southeastern
Conference victory.
The Wildcats (12-3,
3-0) led by 15 early in the
second half before a cold
stretch allowed the Crim-
son Tide to climb within
63-60 with just over five
minutes remaining. But
“I thought we played
well for about 35 minutes,”
Mississippi coach Kermit
Davis said. “We just did a
poor job of getting to Joe
late. He’s a good player
and made a big steal at
the end.”
The Rebels finished 22
of 54 (41 percent) from
the field, but struggled at
3-point range, managing
only 3 of 13 (2 percent).
Ole Miss was 25 of 26 (96
percent) from the free
throw line and out re-
bounded Arkansas 40-28.
Big picture
Arkansas: NCAA
Tournament resumes are
built by road wins, and
the Razorbacks added
The second timeout
came as the Bears were
hitting seven straight field
goals to take a 37-24 lead
into the break.
“That,” Self acknowl-
edged, “made the climb a
lot harder.”
Making matters worse
for Kansas? Dotson hurt
his hip with about 50
seconds left in the half.
He played on and began
the second half, but he
grabbed his side again 30
seconds in and immedi-
ately returned to the lock-
er room.
The Jayhawks still
made a run without the
Big 12’s top scorer.
Holding the Bears to
a pair of field goals over
the first 10 minutes of
the second half, Kansas
slowly managed to trim its
deficit. Udoka Azubuike’s
alley-oop dunk got the Jay-
hawks within 41-36, and
Ochai Agbaji’s acrobatic
layup a few minutes later
provided an answer to yet
another 3-pointer from
Teague.
But the Jayhawks
also misfired on plenty
of opportunities to get
closer. Garrett commit-
ted his fourth turnover
with a chance to make it
a one-possession game,
Moss air-balled a 3-point-
er and the Bears collapsed
Quickley stepped up down
the stretch.
Kentucky beat Ala-
bama for the 12th time
in 13 meetings despite
shooting just 32 percent
after intermission. The
Wildcats are 1,000-281
overall in SEC play.
Herbert Jones had 18
points for the Crimson
Tide (8-7, 1-2), and John
Petty Jr. finished with 16.
No. 15 Dayton 88,
Massachusetts 60
DAYTON, Ohio — Obi
Toppin scored 16 points
before leaving with an an-
kle injury early in the sec-
ond half, and the Flyers
pulled away for the win.
Dayton (14-2, 3-0 Atlan-
tic 10) took control right
away, building a 20-point
lead, and remained un-
beaten at home.
Toppin got tangled with
Samba Diallo at midcourt
and went down hard at
15:13 of the second half.
Coach Anthony Grant
said it looks as if Toppin
sprained his left ankle,
and “the next 24 hours
will tell us more in terms
of how it reacts.”
UMass (7-9, 1-2) never
recovered from the Flyers’
opening surge. Tre Mitch-
ell led the Minutemen
with 16 points.
No. 16 Villanova 80,
Georgetown 66
PHILADELPHIA —
Villanova’s Saddiq Bey
hit eight 3-pointers and
Ole Miss to an impres-
sive list that includes
Georgia Tech and Indi-
ana. Joe drilled consec-
utive 3-point shots in a
30-second span to ignite
the comeback in the final
seven minutes. Arkansas
scored 21 points off 16 Ole
Miss turnovers.
“We had Whitt and Joe
make free throws under
pressure at the end and
we got 21 points off turn-
overs. I thought that was
the turning point of the
game,” Musselman said.
Ole Miss: The Rebels
have struggled to score
and it was apparent in the
final seven minutes, man-
aging only two baskets.
The Rebels have shot less
on easy looks in the paint.
That’s when Butler
and Teague refused to let
another Baylor lead dissi-
pate in the Phog.
The sophomore guard
and his junior running
mate, who together had
carried the Bears to 11
straight wins, began to
score at will on the offen-
sive end. They attacked
the basket against the Jay-
hawks’ vaunted big men,
dropped a series of open
3s to silence another sell-
out crowd, and seemingly
willed the rest of Drew’s
team to the finish line.
Even when Dotson re-
turned to the game, the
Jayhawks never hit their
stride. The Bears an-
swered every bucket by
Azubuike with one of their
own, and they kept harass-
ing Garrett into mistakes
on offense and silly fouls
on defense.
The Bears’ lead even-
tually swelled to 60-44,
and all they had to do was
nurse it to a monumental
win.
“When you’ve been in
the Big 12 long enough,
every game, you can’t get
too high or to low. They’re
all worth the same,” Drew
said. “At the same time I
know to our fans, it means
a great deal. Any time
you beat a top team in the
scored a career-high 33
points.
Bey, a 6-foot-8 sopho-
more forward, was 10 for
15 from the floor, includ-
ing 8 of 10 on 3s. Jeremiah
Robinson-Earl scored 14
points, and Collin Gilles-
pie had 11 for the Wildcats
(12-3, 3-1 Big East).
Qudus Wahab led
Georgetown with 13
points. The Hoyas (11-6,
1-3) missed 11 of 16 3s.
No. 17 West Virginia 66,
No. 22 Texas Tech 54
MORGA N T OW N,
W.Va. — Miles McBride
scored a season-high 22
points and Oscar Tshieb-
we grabbed 17 rebounds,
leading West Virginia to
the win.
The Mountaineers (13-
2, 2-1 Big 12) continued a
remarkable turnaround
by surpassing their total
of 12 wins from last sea-
son, when they finished
last in the league.
Davide Moretti led Tex-
as Tech (10-5, 1-2) with 16
points. The Red Raiders
have lost two straight, in-
cluding a home loss to No.
4 Baylor on Tuesday night.
Syracuse 63,
No. 18 Virginia 55, OT
CHARLOT TES-
VILLE, Va. — Buddy Boe-
heim scored nine of his
14 points in overtime and
Syracuse got the win on
the road.
The Orange scored 20
points in the extra period
SUNDAY, January 12, 2020 5B
than 41 percent in three
consecutive games and
answers must be found
immediately since three
of the next four games are
on the road before closing
January at home with No.
5 Auburn.
Up next
Arkansas: Hosts Van-
derbilt on Wednesday.
The Razorbacks host
four of the remaining five
games in January.
Ole Miss: Visits Flor-
ida on Tuesday. Florida
is coached by Michael
White, a four-year starter
at point guard on three
NCAA tournament teams
for the Rebels in the
1990s.
country it’s a great win, let
alone a conference team.
Being able to do some-
thing we haven’t done up
here, I’m happy it’s this
group.”
Big picture
Baylor had been 0-3 in
matchups in which both
teams were ranked in the
top five, with two of those
losses coming to the Jay-
hawks — add that to the
streaks that were broken
Saturday. The Bears were
efficient on offense, going
8 of 19 from beyond the
arc, and they committed
just five turnovers in a
peerless offensive perfor-
mance.
Kansas failed to get
Azubuike and fellow big
men David McCormack
and Silvio de Sousa in-
volved in the game, often
throwing the ball away
while trying to dump it
down low. The result was
a stunning 28-26 deficit on
points in the paint, some-
thing few teams will be
able to accomplish against
the Jayhawks this season.
Up next
Baylor returns home
to face Iowa State on
Wednesday night.
Kansas begins a two-
game road swing Tuesday
night at Oklahoma.
after netting just 19 in the
second half.
Freshman Joe Girard
had 19 points for Syracuse
(9-7, 2-3 Atlantic Coast
Conference), and Elijah
Hughes had 18.
Jay Huff had 16 points
and 10 rebounds for Vir-
ginia (11-4, 3-2), which
lost back-to-back games
for the first time since the
2016-17 season. Mamadi
Diakita and Kihei Clark
each added 13 points.
Wisconsin 58,
No. 20 Penn State 49
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.
— Micah Potter scored
18 of his career-high 24
points in the first half and
grabbed 13 rebounds,
leading Wisconsin to the
victory.
Brad Davison had 11
points and 13 rebounds for
the Badgers (10-6, 3-2 Big
Ten), who bounced back
nicely after losing 71-70
to Illinois on Wednesday
night.
It was a successful
start to a key stretch for
Wisconsin, which hosts
No. 12 Maryland on Tues-
day night and visits No. 8
Michigan State on Friday.
Lamar Stevens had 19
points and 13 rebounds
for the Nittany Lions (12-
4, 2-3), who had won 13
in a row at home. Izaiah
Brockington scored 15
points.
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crummy coaches better.
On Mississippi State’s
live mascot, Jak, and
his bulldog kind
You don’t want to get
bit by him, I’ll tell you
that. That’s the dog ver-
sion of a leather jacket.
He’d be like the Fonzie
Hoops
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period.
Out of the break, MSU
came roaring back with a
10-0 run finished off with
a thunderous dunk from
Weatherspoon that gave
his team a 36-35 lead.
After a back-and-forth
affair, the Bulldogs went
on another big run (12-0)
to put themselves ahead
NFL
Watson vs. Mahomes headlines Texans-Chiefs playoff tilt
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
The Kansas City Chiefs
knew they were in the
market for a quarterback
a couple of years ago and,
with several first-round
talents available, they in-
vited Clemson’s Deshaun
Watson and Texas Tech’s
Patrick Mahomes for vis-
its.
Both were put through
their paces.
They scribbled plays
on white boards to test
their recall and dissect-
ed game film to test their
mental aptitude and situ-
ational awareness. They
went onto the practice
field and ran a series of
drills to test their athleti-
cism, then were asked to
throw every pass in the
book, from deft screen
passes to intricate timing
routes to deep, downfield
heaves.
The Chiefs liked ev-
erything Watson did over
those couple of days.
They loved what Ma-
homes did.
So the Chiefs traded up
to select Mahomes with
the 10th overall pick. The
Houston Texans jumped
on Watson two picks lat-
er. And the start of their
professional careers have
continued to run side by
side, with Mahomes lead-
ing the Chiefs to back-to-
back AFC West titles and
Rodgers knows time to win second Super Bowl is running out
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
Aaron Rodgers won his
first Super Bowl nearly a
decade ago. The time to
capture a second is run-
ning out.
“It’s on my mind ev-
ery day,” Rodgers said.
“That’s why we play the
game. That’s why you put
in the time in the offsea-
son. That’s why you do
the little things. It’s to put
yourself in this position
where we’re two games
away from being able to
compete for that.
“I’m 36, I know what
this is all about. This is
an important opportunity
for us. I feel like I got a lot
of really good years left,
but you never know. A
lot of things happen year
to year. We’ve had some
great teams that have
been an injury away or a
play away from being spe-
cial, so I want to make the
most of this opportunity.”
Rodgers and the Green
Bay Packers will host the
Seattle Seahawks in Sun-
day’s NFC divisional play-
off game. It will be the
first postseason appear-
ance for Rodgers in three
years.
“I’m at the age now, I
believe, that Brett (Favre)
of bulldogs. … They call
them bulldogs for a rea-
son. They’re built for com-
bat. ... Young kids a lot of
the time start out afraid of
them, maybe for good rea-
son. I know I’m scared of
this one.
On the size of MSU’s
53-44 with 5:09 remain-
ing. Unfortunately for
the Bulldogs, they only
converted one field goal
for the remainder of the
contest.
The Tigers put togeth-
er a 7-0 run to reduce the
MSU lead to 53-51 with
3:09 left then eventually
took the lead with 58 sec-
the brink of a Super Bowl
appearance last season,
and Watson guiding the
Texans to consecutive
playoff appearances for
the third time in fran-
chise history.
Now, their parallel
paths will intersect when
the Texans visit the Chiefs
in the divisional round of
the playoffs on Sunday.
“How great is that
for the National Foot-
ball League, first of all,
these good young quar-
terbacks?” Chiefs coach
Andy Reid said. “We ac-
tually brought Deshaun
up here, too, before the
draft and had a nice visit
with him. We have a ton
of respect for him. He’s a
great player, he was great
in college, he is great now.
He’s going to do nothing
but get better as time
goes on.”
Watson was especial-
ly impressive last week,
leading the Texans (11-
6) back from a 16-0 sec-
ond-half deficit to beat the
Bills 22-19 in overtime.
He threw for a touchdown
and ran for another in
a performance reminis-
cent of his Week 6 game
against the Chiefs, when
Watson threw for a score
and ran for two more in
a 31-24 victory at Arrow-
head Stadium.
“When you have guys
like Deshaun and Patrick,
you don’t want to over-
was when I was drafted,
and obviously closer to
the finish than the be-
ginning,” he said. “The
most important thing
is winning, and I know
how difficult a couple of
those years were when we
weren’t winning.”
Rodgers led an inju-
ry-laden Packers team to
the NFC championship
game in Green Bay’s pre-
vious postseason appear-
ance following the 2016
season before getting
blown out 44-21 by the
Falcons. But this Pack-
ers squad — including
Rodgers — is as healthy
as Green Bay has been in
recent years.
“I feel great,” Rodg-
ers said. “I started all 16
(games) and wasn’t in the
training room a whole lot.
I had some issues early in
the season with my knee.
But, man, I felt great from
about Week 8 on. ... It
feels good to be where I’m
at right now.”
Lack of experience
The biggest issue for
the Packers is playoff ex-
perience, or a lack there-
of. There are only four
players left from the 2010
Super Bowl team and sev-
en from the 2014 team
that lost to the Seahawks
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football players
I’ve always been told
I have reasonably big
hands. When I shake
hands with some of these
guys, I feel like I’m 10.
We’ve got some big hands
and long levers — which
is arms; that’s football for
arms.
onds left after converting
just their second 3-point-
er of the night.
On the next MSU
possession, Weather-
spoon converted two free
throws to tie the game at
57 points apiece.
LSU’s Javonte Smart
went 1 of 2 from the free
throw line to put the
coach them,” said Texans
coach Bill O’Brien, who
also had both quarter-
backs in Houston for pre-
draft visits in 2017. “They
have such great instincts.
They see the field very
well. With Deshaun, you
might be able to point out
a few things, but his guy
has a huge heart and he’s
doing what is best for the
team and trying to win
games, and you don’t
want to over-coach that.”
That win was especial-
ly sweet for Watson, who
has a bit of a chip on his
shoulder about Kansas
City choosing Mahomes
over him. And the win
should give the underdog
Texans a boost of confi-
dence knowing they have
beaten the Chiefs (11-5)
and their star QB once
this season.
“It’s cool to see a fellow
friend of mine and a guy
that’s playing the same
position as me have so
much success and see it
in live action. So it’s defi-
nitely dope,” Watson said.
“It’s going to be a good
experience. Like you said,
we played earlier this
year. It was a good game,
went back and forth. But
yeah, it’s just two good
teams going head to head
and we’re just trying to be
the best we can for our
team and help our team
win.”
Trying to figure out
in the NFC championship
game in Seattle. Matt La-
Fleur is also preparing for
his first playoff test as a
head coach.
“I think it just goes
back to doing what you
always do,” the 40-year-
old LaFleur said. “It’s just
like every other week. I
think for guys that maybe
haven’t experienced the
playoffs, there’s definite-
ly a heightened intensity
around it. But as far as
your process, as far as
how you go about your
daily business, I think it’s
got to be the same as it is
any other week.”
Can you Diggs it?
No one has more expe-
rience on Seattle’s roster
playing against Rodg-
ers than safety Quandre
Diggs. Until the middle of
this season, Diggs faced
Rodgers twice a year as
part of the Detroit sec-
ondary. Even though it’s
a changed offense from
what he played against
in the past, Diggs is still
being leaned on by team-
mates for little tips on
how to try and slow down
Rodgers.
“He is a really smart
guy, and any knowledge
that he has is always good
to gain,” Seahawks line-
On keeping his team
disciplined
If you want guys to
go to class, you’ve got to
make sure that not going
to class becomes really
inconvenient.
On his black George
home team ahead with
43 seconds left. A missed
jumper, an offensive re-
bound and an LSU foul
put Weatherspoon at the
charity stripe with eight
seconds left down one,
but the junior point guard
missed both free throws.
On the second miss, the
ball bounced off an LSU
what has changed since
that October matchup
— and how to counter it
— could be one of the big-
gest story lines Sunday.
Here are a few more to
watch as the Texans and
Chiefs play for a spot in
the AFC championship.
Watt’s up
The Texans’ J.J. Watt
was in for about 50 plays
and had a sack against
the Bills in his first game
since missing eight with
a torn pectoral muscle
that required surgery.
The three-time NFL De-
fensive Player of the Year
wouldn’t say whether he
expected to play more
Sunday.
“Just because I played
one game doesn’t mean
my pec magically healed.
It’s still in basically the
same situation it was in
before this game,” he said.
“After not playing football
for two months, then play-
ing 50-plus plays, you’re
going to be sore, you’re
going to be a little beat up.
It was a quick reminder of
how difficult the game of
football is when I woke up
on Sunday morning. That
extra day was nice to be
able to rest and recover
and get back to work now
with the guys.”
Watts up, part 2
On the opposite side-
backer Bobby Wagner
said.
The addition of Diggs
has been a huge boost for
Seattle’s defense. The Se-
ahawks are 5-1 in the six
games Diggs has played
since coming over in a
midseason trade from the
Lions. While the defen-
sive numbers aren’t mark-
edly different, Seattle has
played better with Diggs
on the field.
Keep it clean
LaFleur said Monday
that a “little bit of a sick-
ness” had crept into the
building. But he said on
Wednesday that “most
of the guys are pretty
healthy right now.”
Packers wide receiv-
er Davante Adams had a
simple prescription for
the problem.
“Wash your hands,
wash your butt, man.
That’s it,” said the two-
time Pro Bowler.
The encore
DK Metcalf had quite
the debut to the NFL
playoffs. Metcalf set an
NFL rookie playoff record
with 160 yards receiving
last week against the Ea-
gles. Metcalf had a sea-
son-high seven catches
Sherman suit
What do you think of
my suit? Don’t get used to
that part of it.
On his own mortality
But the other side of it
is, you’re gonna be dead
in 100 years anyway …
You want to try to have
player, giving the Bull-
dogs a final offensive
chance. That set the stage
for Perry, who caught the
inbounds pass and drove
to the rim for the go-
ahead basket. It would
have been the game-win-
ner if not for Mays’ hero-
ics.
Mays finished with 11
line, the Chiefs will be
turning to backup safety
Armani Watts to help fill
the void created by the
loss of standout rookie
Juan Thornhill to a torn
ACL in Week 17. Watts
has primarily played on
special teams this sea-
son, but he showed plen-
ty of promise as a rookie
last season before a sea-
son-ending groin injury
in October.
Fuller (to the) house
The Texans’ offense
could be buoyed by the
return of Will Fuller V,
who has been out with
a groin injury. The wide
receiver was close to play-
ing against Buffalo, and
O’Brien said he’s been
“trending in the right di-
rection” but was noncom-
mittal about whether Full-
er would play against the
Chiefs.
Fuller gives the Tex-
ans a big downfield threat
and the opportunity to
score regardless of down
and distance.
Grounded in reality
A big reason why
Houston beat the Chiefs
in Week 6 was Carlos
Hyde, who rumbled for
116 yards and scored two
touchdowns against his
former team. The Tex-
ans also ran the ball well
last week against Buffalo,
and pulled in a 53-yard
touchdown in the second
half that gave Seattle an
11-point lead. He also had
a 36-yard catch on Seat-
tle’s final possession to
seal the victory.
“(Metcalf is) just a big,
physical, fast, young re-
ceiver who I think is go-
ing to be a really, really
good one,” LaFleur said
of the 6-foot-4, 229-pound
second-round pick from
Ole Miss.
Metcalf had a strong
second half of his rookie
season, but the stage of
the postseason put him
in the spotlight after his
performance against the
Eagles. He’s caught at
least six passes in six of
the past nine games. He’s
received praise all season
from coach Pete Carroll
and quarterback Russell
Wilson for his progres-
sion.
“Just seeing that they
trust in me, two of the
highest people on the
team trust in me to get
things done,” Metcalf
said. “I just got to take
that and continue work-
ing and show them why
they trust me so much.”
Trouble at Lambeau
The Seahawks are 8-1
on the road this season,
as many experiences as
you can. Everybody’s got
goals and things that they
want to accomplish.
On Starkville fashion
Everybody’s not run-
ning around in linen suits
even when it’s their casu-
al time.
points, while Emmitt Wil-
liams had a game-high
17 points. LSU (11-4, 3-0
SEC) shot 37.3 percent
from the floor and held
MSU to 33 percent.
MSU (9-6, 0-3) is back
in action at 8 p.m. Tues-
day against Missouri at
Humphrey Coliseum.
while Kansas City’s own
offense has struggled to
find balance behind run-
ning backs Damien Wil-
liams, Darwin Thompson
and LeSean McCoy.
The Chiefs have tried
to keep McCoy’s work-
load in check, even mak-
ing him a healthy scratch
late in the year, and now
it’s time to see whether
the veteran running back
still has a couple of big
games in him.
Unlikely hero
Houston’s third-string
running back, Taiwan
Jones, appeared in 11
games during the regu-
lar season but was used
almost exclusively on
special teams before the
regular-season finale,
when many players rest-
ed with the team’s playoff
spot secured. But against
the Bills, when Watson
escaped two sacks and
rolled out to make a play
in overtime, it was Jones
who he found for a 34-
yard reception to set up
the winning field goal.
“I’ve been patient
and I’ve been working
all off-season, all season
and it means a lot for the
coaches to call my num-
ber in a crucial moment
like that,” Jones said. “It
reminds me that they do
believe in me like I be-
lieve in myself.”
including a 17-9 win in
Philadelphia in the wild-
card round, but have lost
eight straight at Lambeau
Field and are 1-9 all time
in the Packers’ stadium.
Wilson is 0-3 as a starter
at Lambeau with a passer
rating of 60.42. Wilson
has completed just 55 of
96 his passes (57.3%) for
604 yards with six inter-
ceptions and just three
touchdowns.
“I hope there’s some
carryover,” Packers out-
side linebacker Kyler
Fackrell said of Wilson.
“We’ve had a lot of suc-
cess against him here
and hopefully we can do
it again. Hopefully the
weather will be to our
advantage and I think we
have a good game plan for
him.”
The forecast calls for a
kickoff temperature in the
low 20s, but a potential
winter storm is shaping
up to arrive in the region
Saturday night, bringing
gusty winds and up to 10
inches of snow. Packers
officials released a notice
on Thursday seeking as
many as 700 people to
help shovel to clear out
the expected snowfall at
Lambeau.

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Sarah Otts
WARRIOR, Ala. —
Sarah Faye Davis Otts,
78, died Jan. 8, 2020, at
UAB in Gardendale.
Services are at 2
p.m. today at New Hori-
zon Memorial Funeral
Home in Sumiton, with
Wayne Ferguson offici-
ating. Burial will follow
at Bethel Cemetery
in Warrior. Visitation
is two hours prior to
services at the funeral
home. Otts Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Otts was born
Aug. 19, 1941, in Brad-
ford, to the late Lester
Lloyd Davis and Ethel
Marie Ferguson. She
was a 1959 graduate
of Corner High School
and a graduate of
Wallace State College
in Hanceville. She was
formerly employed with
the Jefferson County
Board of Education.
She is survived by
her husband, Larry
Otts of Warrior; son,
Brian Otts of Warrior;
daughter, Vicki Chap-
pell of Hayden; brother,
Bobby Ray Davis of
Morris; four grand-
children; and three
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be
Jared Chappell, Nate
Otts, Mark Waddell,
Ethan Waddell, Barry
Davis, Parker Davis
and Mayer Waddell.
Billy Harrington
STARKVILLE —
William “Billy” Har-
rington, 77, died Jan.
8, 2020, at Sanctuary
Hospice in Tupelo.
Services are at 2
p.m. today at First Pres-
byterian Church, with
the Rev. Martin Lifer
officiating. A private
graveside service will
be at Oddfellows Rest
Cemetery in Aberdeen.
Todd Waldrop
Visitation:
Sunday, Jan. 12 • 4-6 PM
2nd Ave. North Location
Services:
Monday, Jan. 13 • 2 PM
2nd Ave. North Chapel
Burial
Forest United Methodist
Church Cemetery
Ethelsville, AL
Theo Burns
Graveside Services:
Friday, Jan. 17 • 2 PM
Friendship Cemetery
2nd Ave. North Location
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Visitation was from 5-7
p.m. Saturday at the
church. Tisdale-Lann
Memorial Funeral
Home of Aberdeen is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Harrington was
born March 30, 1942,
in Hattiesburg, to the
late Henry Clayton
Theo Burns
Harrington and Madge
Todd Waldrop
Brannan Harrington.
He was a graduate
of Aberdeen High Mary Theo Wright Burns, age
Robert Todd Waldrop passed away on Jan 8,
School and LSU School 91, died Saturday, January 04,
2020, at the age of 42, in Lowndes County, MS.
of Banking. He was 2020, at her home in Columbus,
Services will be held Monday, January 13, 2020,
formerly employed as Mississippi.
at 2:00 PM at the 716 2nd Ave. North Chapel of
a banker with Bancorp Arrangements have been
Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home, with Rev.
South. He was a mem- entrusted to Memorial Gunter
Redus Hall and Rev. Steve Brown officiating. Buri-
ber of First Presbyteri- Peel Funeral Home, 2nd Avenue
al will follow at Forest United Methodist Church
an Church of Starkville. North. Graveside services will
Cemetery in Ethelsville, AL. Visitation will be held
In addition to his par- be held on Friday, January 17, at
Sunday, January 12, 2020, from 4:00 until 6:00 at
ents, he was preceded 2:00 PM at Friendship Cemetery.
the 2nd Ave. North location. Memorial Gunter
in death by son, infant As per her requests, the Reverend Gene Bramlett of
Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, 2nd Ave. North
daughter and brother. Covenant United Methodist Church, her minister,
location, has been entrusted with the arrange-
He is survived by his will be officiating. Giving the eulogy will be a close
ments.
wife, Brenda Kirk- family friend, the Reverend Dr. James Shull, of First
Todd was born August 14, 1977, in Columbus, to
patrick Harrington of Presbyterian Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
Robert William and Mary Elizabeth McCrary Wal-
Starkville; sons, Hays And all hearts will be lifted by songs from Tina Mor-
drop. He attended Caldwell High and graduated
Brannan Harrington of gan, music and singer selected by Mrs. Burns.
from Columbus High School in 1996, after con-
Phoenix, Arizona, and Theo, as she preferred to be called, was born in
solidation. During high school, he was chosen for
Reed Halbert Harr- her parents’ home on June 05, 1928, in Columbus,
American Legion Boys State. He attended M.U.W.
rington of Brandon; Lowndes County, Mississippi. She was the one and
until he found his interest in taxidermy and began
and eight grandchil- only child of Lewis Belton Wright and Mary Pauline
an apprenticeship in fur tanning and taxidermy.
dren. Robertson Wright. Nevertheless, she once estimat-
Todd had a love for sports and athletic com-
Pallbearers will be ed that she had more than six dozen first cousins,
petition. He began playing soccer at an early age
David Cheatham, Britt mostly in Lowndes County and neighboring Ala-
and played high school soccer from the seventh
Goodin, Jeremy Tabor, bama counties.
grade until graduation, and recreationally into
Austin Hipps, Roger Theo loved Columbus and never wanted to live
his adult years. He participated in the Columbus
Caperton and William Adult Soccer League. He was looking forward in any other place. She attended several public el-
Harrington. playing again this year. He coached in the youth ementary schools, but her sixth-grade teacher,
league for several years and was affectionately Miss Virginia Mae Ferrill, at Demonstration School,
Leon Ellis III called “Coach Todd” by many area children. He remained vivid in her memory her entire life. Theo
COLUMBUS — participated in BMX racing on the local, state and was only a small child when her grandmother first
Leon C. Ellis III,51 died internal level. He was a Mississippi State Cham- instilled in her a love of going to the picture show.
Jan. 10, 2020, at Bap- pion and finished in the National Bicycle League As a teenager, during World War II, she worked at
tist Memorial Hospi- top 10 nationally for 7 years. He competed in the the local movie theatres. The war years were a stir-
tal-Golden Triangle. World Championship in Orlando, FL. In football, ringly patriotic time for young Theo, and she never
Graveside services he was a two-year letterman for the Columbus lost her love of country.
are 11:30 a.m. Monday High Falcons. Todd was an avid Auburn fan, and Mary Theo Wright was a graduate of the S.D. Lee
at Beersheba Cum- an avid outdoorsman and hunter. He loved an- High School, Class of 1946, in Columbus. It was also,
berland Presbyterian imals and was frequently accompanied by one fortuitously, the class in which her future husband,
Church Cemetery. of canine companions, especially “Bud Bud”. He Fayette Charles Burns Jr., graduated after returning
Visitation is from 10-11 raised beagles and loved to rabbit hunt. Through from WWII.
a.m. Monday at Memo- the years, he introduced numerous people to the Theo and Fayette married on August 20, 1949.
rial Gunter Peel Funer- sounds of beagles on the chase of a rabbit. He According to a contemporaneous wedding an-
al Home, College Street was a member of The Big Bud Hunting Club for all nouncement article in The Commercial Dispatch,
location. of his adult life ,and it was his favorite place. He “Mrs. Burns is one of the young business women
Mr. Ellis was pre- was a volunteer at Camp Rising Sun. of Columbus, a secretary at Universal C.I.T. She at-
ceded in death by his Todd was the owner of Trophy Room Taxider- tended M.S.C.W. for two years before entering the
paternal grandparents, my. He was an award-winning taxidermist at the business world.”
Leon Lytle Ellis and state and regional level. He conducted seminars Shortly after their marriage, Fayette Charles and
Murrine Weathers and taught other taxidermist at conventions and Mary Theo Burns were baptized into the Methodist
Ellis; maternal grand- in his shop. Church. They were loyal, involved members of Cen-
parents, Charles Curtis Todd accepted Christ as his Savior and joined tral United Methodist Church on College Street in
Honeycutt and Dixie the Methodist in his teens. Later, he visited vari- Columbus. Theo taught Sunday School for decades
Fancher. ous denominations. and Fayette enjoyed being on the Board of Trustees.
He is survived by his Todd is survived by his wife, Brandy Moore By 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Burns had been blessed
son, Leon C. Ellis IV; Waldrop; his sons, Ty Durant and Jax William; his with their two exceptionally brilliant children: a girl,
daughter, Haley Ellis father, Robert “Bob” Waldrop; and his mother, Leslie, and a boy, named for his father, but called
Lee; father, Leon C. Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Waldrop; his sister, Robyn Rocky. Once her babies were born, Theo became a
Ellis Jr.; mother, Jac- Michelle Peterson and her husband, James “Jim”, dedicated, stay-at-home mom, but she also spent
queline Perkins; sister, and their sons, Brett and Zach; his mother and her children’s elementary school years helping as
Kimberly Ellis Darnell; father-in-law, Steve and Martha Moore; sister a homeroom mother and Brownie Troop Leader.
brother, Nichols Ellis; and brother-in-law, Jessica and Jake Weseli, and Theo realized her love of teaching, and when her
and one grandson. their children, Hayden and Henry; extended fam- children entered junior high, she went back to work
Serving as pallbear- ily members, Bubba and Brenda Comer, Vee and as a teacher’s assistant for reading, which was the
ers will be Marty Wal- Beth Ferguson; and members of the Laws family. perfect job for a voracious reader like she was. Theo
lace, Todd Gale, Greg Serving as pallbearers will be Jeremy Broome, was employed by the Columbus Public School Sys-
Vick, Jeff Vick, Brad Daniel Carter, Jericho Bates, Daniel Watson, tem, at Mitchell Elementary, and later, Union Acad-
Bradford and Matt Adam Dodd, Larry Swearingen, Jeff Bond, Levaris emy, until she retired. Theo adored her young stu-
Perkins. “Punchy” Williams and Loyd Christmas dents and her fellow teachers.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Alex Fayette and Theo were always each other’s best
Diana Weeks Bartley, Shane Floyd, John Laws Ferguson Jr., the friend. If they ever disagreed, they did so in private.
COLUMBUS — Di- Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department, Greg Mer- Their love for each other was obvious for all to see,
ana Gail Weeks, 68, chant and the Lowndes County Coroner’s office, and that devotion to each other created a home full
died Jan. 10, 2020, at Big Bud Hunting Club Members, friends of the of love for their children, of whom they were fiercely
Noland Hospital-DCH Outcast Beagle Association, and Tim Brooks. proud. The love that Theo and Fayette gave them
in Tuscaloosa, Ala- Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice. unfailingly grew into a strong foundation to which
bama. those children became willingly tethered, through-
Arrangements are out their lives, despite miles of geographical sep-
incomplete and will be aration. And it continues to be felt even now that
announced by Carter’s their daughter and son are in their sixties. Theo and
Funeral Services of Fayette were married for more than 68 years until
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Mary Theo Wright Burns, though she never con-
See Obituaries, 8B 716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS sidered herself to be particularly social, has left be-
hind more friends and extended family than can
be listed here. She loved them all—and still does,
but no one will miss her more than her daughter,
Leslie, who lives in Columbus; her son, Rocky, and
her daughter-in-law, Donna, who live in Florida; her
granddaughter, Audrey, a U.S. Air Force Tech Ser-
geant; and her great-grandson, Landon. Because
Theo was an only child, she was delighted to be
able to share her husband’s immediate family: his
niece, Delilah Williams and her husband, Jim; his
grand-nephew, Brooks Pack III; and his first cousin,
William L. Caldwell.
In lieu of flowers, the Burns Family requests that
memorials be sent to St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105
or Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary, a local charity, 144
Sanctuary Loop, Caledonia, MS 39740. However,
the Burns Family realizes that local florists need to
be patronized, especially in the interest of having a
thriving economy in Columbus. If anyone prefers to
honor Theo with flowers, please send them to beau-
tify her cemetery plot. She would love that, too.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
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White House considering Video in apparent

dramatic expansion of travel ban Epstein suicide
Most recent iteration of ban includes restrictions on ela and North Korea.
A different person said the ex-
attempt is lost, US says
five majority-Muslim nations: Iran, Libya, Somalia, pansion could include several coun-
tries that were covered in the first
‘The various and inconsistent
Syria and Yemen, as well as Venezuela, North Korea iteration of Trump’s ban, but later accounts of what happened to
removed amid rounds of conten-
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MASCARO and JILL COLVIN
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if it moves forward are blacked out, Chad, for instance, had originally Attorney Bruce Barket
The Associated Press
according to two of the people, who been affected by the order, which
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WASHINGTON — The White
House is considering dramatically condition of anonymity because the vote after the administration re-
expanding its much-litigated trav- measure has yet to be finalized. leased a watered-down version in- NEW YORK — Video footage of the area around
el ban to additional countries amid It’s unclear exactly how many tended to withstand legal scrutiny. Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an
a renewed election-year focus on countries would be included in the Trump, who had floated a ban- apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” feder-
immigration by President Donald expansion if it proceeds, but two of ning all Muslims from entering the al prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
Trump, according to six people fa- the people said that seven countries country during his 2016 campaign, Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Cen-
miliar with the deliberations. — a majority of them Muslim — criticized his Justice Department ter in New York believed they had preserved foot-
A document outlining the plans would be added to the list. The most for the changes, tweeting that DOJ age of guards finding Epstein after he appeared to
— timed to coincide with the third recent iteration of the ban includes “should have stayed with the orig- have attempted suicide, but actually saved a video
anniversary of Trump’s January restrictions on five majority-Mus- inal Travel Ban, not the watered from a different part of the jail, prosecutors said.
2017 executive order — has been lim nations: Iran, Libya, Somalia, down, politically correct version The FBI also has determined that the footage
circulating the White House. But Syria and Yemen, as well as Venezu- they submitted to S.C.” does not exist on the jail’s backup video system “as
a result of technical errors,” Assistant U.S. Attor-
neys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold wrote
in a court filing.
The revelation came despite assurances pros-
ecutors made that jail officials were preserving
the footage at the request of a defense attorney for

Stocks pull back from records following jobs report
Employers added 145K jobs across
the country in December, short of the
160K that economists forecast
By STAN CHOE
and DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writers
NEW YORK — U.S.
stocks fell from their re-
cord heights on Friday af-
ter a report showed hiring
was a touch weaker than
expected last month.
Employers added
145,000 jobs across the
country in December,
short of the 160,000 that
economists forecast. But
the growth was solid
enough to bolster Wall
Street’s view that the job
market is holding up and
households can continue
to spend, preserving the
largest part of the econo-
my. The bond market also
rallied after the report
showed workers’ wages
aren’t rising much, which
lessens the threat of infla-
tion.
The S&P 500 fell 9.35
points, or 0.3 percent, to
3,265.35 from its record
set Thursday. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average
briefly topped the 29,000
level for the first time, but
it ended at 28,823.77, down
133.13, or 0.5 percent.
The Nasdaq composite
dropped 24.57, or 0.3 per-
cent, to 9,178.86.
“I don’t think today’s
report was a big needle
mover for the market or
for Fed policy,” said Liz
Ann Sonders, chief invest-
ment strategist at Charles
Schwab. “The economic
environment looks fine in
2020, but the risk is that
sentiment may have gotten
overly complacent, and we
need earnings to step up.”
Even with Friday’s loss,
the S&P 500 closed out
a 0.9 percent gain for the
week. It’s a sharp turn-
around from earlier, when
the S&P 500 seemed to be
heading for just its third
weekly loss in the last 14
as worries rose about a
possible U.S.-Iran war.
But stocks rallied after
comments from President
Donald Trump and Iran
made markets believe a
military escalation isn’t
imminent.
That put the focus
Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who
shared a cell with Epstein in July when the wealthy
financier was discovered with bruises on his neck
back on the economy and
corporate earnings. The
threat of higher inflation
that could erode corpo-
and then placed on suicide watch.
Epstein later hanged himself in jail Aug. 10
S&P 500 returned a stellar
31.5 percent last year even
rate profits and push the while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, of-
Federal Reserve to raise ficials said.
though earnings likely fell interest rates. Markets see Tartaglione’s defense attorney, Bruce Barket,
for big companies, and low rates as fuel for mar- told The Associated Press he intends to ask U.S.
Sonders said investors will kets, and the Fed’s three
District Judge Kenneth Karas to hold a hearing
need to see profit growth rate cuts last year were a
with “live testimony” to determine what happened
in 2020 to help justify the big reason for the surge in to the missing video.
records that stock prices
stocks. “The various and inconsistent accounts of what
are setting.
After the jobs report, happened to that video are deeply troubling,” Bar-
Earnings reports will
the yield on the 10-year ket said in an email.
begin in earnest next
Treasury fell to 1.82 per- Tartaglione is charged in what prosecutors
week, with JPMorgan
cent from 1.85 percent late have described as the “gangland-style” killings of
Chase, Bank of America
Thursday. Treasury yields four men who disappeared during a cocaine-relat-
and other big banks on the
fall when their prices rise. ed dispute.
schedule to tell investors
how much profit they made
in the last three months of
2019. Many will also give
forecasts for 2020.
Companies across the
S&P 500 have been able
to squeeze plenty of profit
from each $1 in revenue
because wages for their
workers aren’t rising very
quickly, even when the
unemployment rate is at a
half-century low.
Average hourly earn-
ings for workers were 2.9
percent higher in Decem-
ber than a year earlier, Fri-
day’s jobs report showed.
That’s the weakest growth
since July 2018.
Stubbornly low wage
growth isn’t good for
workers, but it removes a

Obituaries
Continued from Page 7B

Joe Boykin Hines, 586 Hines Rd., Humble, Eddy Pen-

TUPELO — Joe
“J.B.” Boykin, 78, died
Jan. 10, 2020, at North
Mississippi Medical
Center-Tupelo.
Visitation is from
9-11 a.m. Tuesday at
Cockrell Funeral Home
in Macon with Bill Ross
officiating. Funeral ser-
vices will immediately
follow the visitation at
11 a.m.
Mr. Boykin was
born Aug. 15, 1941, in
Macon. He attended
school in Macon and
IBM school in Mem-
phis, Tennessee. He
was formerly employed
at Taylor Machine
Works in Louisville as a
financial data process-
ing director. Joe was
a veteran of the U.S.
Navy
He was preceded in
death by his parents,
Joe Baker Boykin and
Bertha Harrell Boykin;
brothers, David Boykin
and Wayne Boykin.
He is survived by his
children, Kathy Boykin
Wright, Joe Bert Boy-
kin Jr. and Kim Boykin
Whitten; brother, Bob
Boykin; special friend,
Beth Kinard Clark; and
nine grandchildren.
Memorials may be
made to LeBonheur
Children’s Hospital,
848 Adams Ave.,
Memphis, TN 38103;
or Brooksville Ceme-
tery Fund, c/o Melanie
Brooksville, MS 39739.
Florence Belk
WREN — Florence
Kathleen Whitaker
Belk, 79, died Jan. 8,
2020, at North Missis-
sippi Medical Cen-
ter-Amory.
Services are 2 p.m.
today at Cleveland-Mof-
fett Funeral Home in
Amory with Matt Hill
and James Perkins
officiating. Burial will
follow at the Amory
Masonic Cemetery.
Visitation is today from
noon-1:45 p.m. at the
funeral home.
Mrs. Belk was born
July 19, 1940, in Mon-
roe County to the late
Florence Whitaker and
Elvien Whitaker.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
brothers, J.T Whitaker,
O’Neal Whitaker and
Author Whitaker; sis-
ters, Manarie Williams,
Joyce White and Sally
Holcomb.
She is survived by
her husband, Gayron
Belk of Wren; daughter,
Donna Harlow of Amo-
ry; stepson, Todd Belk
of Belmont; sisters,
Ruth Perkins of Phil-
adelphia and Patricia
Brooks of Meridian;
two grandchildren and
two great-grandchil-
dren.
Pallbearers will be
Jon Donovan, Henry
nington, Larry Col-
burn, Mike Perkins and
Kenny Flippo.
Gina Cadden
TUPELO — Gina
Aclan Cadden, 52, died
Jan. 9, 2020, at North
Mississippi Medical
Center-Tupelo.
Services are 11
a.m. Monday at Cleve-
land-Moffett Funeral
Home in Amory. Visi-
tation was Saturday at
the funeral home.
Mrs. Cadden was
born June 7, 1967, in
Manila, Philippines,
to Pio Aclan and the
late Teresita Delumen
Aclan.
In addition to her
father, she is survived
by her husband, Tom-
my Cadden of Amory;
son, Bryan Smith of
Ft. Walton, Florida;
daughters, Janet Cad-
den and Kathie Ochoa,
both of Gainesville,
Florida, and Jessica
Bowling of Fulton;
brother, Jon Jon Aclan
of the Philippines;
sisters, Gilda Aclan of
the Philippines, Grace
Obensa of Salt Lake
City and Glenda Bows-
er of Canada; and four
grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be
Raymond Bowling, Bry-
an Smith, Chase Tubbs,
Zac Hawkins, Luke
Renfro and Hunter
Ashcraft.
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Use it or lose it

Jan Swoope/Dispatch Staff

Joy Garrison, in red T-shirt, keeps participants in the Move and Groove class in constant motion to music at the Frank P. Phillips Y in downtown Colum-
bus Wednesday morning. It’s one of several options in the Golden Triangle for adults to help maintain, or regain, mobility, flexibility, balance and more.

Resolutions to ‘get fit’ mean more as we mature —

longer life, less disability can be the pay-off
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

D
riving music could be heard long before this visitor
opened a door near the gym at the downtown
Columbus Y. Inside the room, volume intensified as
a circle of more than 20 women surrounded the dynamo
at its center. Participants danced and clapped, making
the most of this regular Wednesday morning romp called
Move and Groove.
“It’s just a little party for 45 minutes,” said Joy Garrison
— the dynamo — later.
At the start of a new year, “get fit” resolutions abound.
Nowhere does that goal resonate more than with the
segment of population Garrison spends much of her time
working with. Exactly who qualifies as a “senior” may be
open to interpretation, but the fact is, as we navigate our
50s, 60s and 70s, our bodies change. Assets like range of
motion, muscle strength, flexibility, balance and cognitive
quickness tend to lessen. And the fact is, abilities lost at
a later age are usually harder to reclaim if neglected for
long.
According to an article by Dr. Howard LeWine at
health.harvard.edu, the life span of an average child born
in 1914 in the United States was about 55 years. Someone
born today can expect to live closer to 80. LeWine poses:
Will those “extra years” be active and independent? Or
marred by frailty and dependency on others?

Take charge
Staying on the move, or getting on the move, can bene-
fit anyone, but especially seniors.
“As we age, we take smaller steps, our voice gets weak-
er, our reach gets smaller, our movements decrease,” said
Garrison. She’s an International Sports and Science Asso-
ciation-certified personal trainer. The Y fitness instructor
holds certifications in senior fitness, youth fitness, sports
and conditioning, sports nutrition, fitness therapy and
personal fitness training. Garrison is also a certified in-
structor of several programs including Silver Sneakers, Tai
Chi for Health and PWR!Moves, a Parkinson’s Wellness
Recovery program, among others.
“With age, our muscles start to deteriorate,” she contin-
ued. “As soon as someone starts to hurt, they want to back
off from movement, but it sets them up for a lesser quality
Photo by Jennifer Mosbrucker
of life. You need to take charge: The only way to combat
Peggy Cantelou spends time on the Quadriciser at The Arrington at Plantation
it is to start moving. You have to build your muscles up Pointe in Columbus this past June. Director of Rehabilitation Will Davis, left,
around your joints and bones and ligaments to protect and physical therapy tech Keisha Hill look on. Plantation Pointe has three of
them so you can keep moving.” the robotic rehabilitation therapy systems on its campus, for use by residents
See Keep moving, 5C and others referred by physicians.
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Athlete-turned-mom shares story of life after injury

BY JAN SWOOPE “I don’t think I’d be me with-
jswoope@cdispatch.com out softball,” Shelton said.

L
eAnn Sanders Shelton lost
her left arm in a traumat-
ic lawn mower accident
when she was only 4 years
old. The McShan, Alabama,
resident, now 37, has never let
it define who she is. To a list of
accomplishments that includes
being a standout player in
Dixie League Softball, Pickens
County High School and adult
teams including Columbus
Christian Center, Shelton
added teaching herself to shoot
a rifle, run a weedeater and
play trumpet in the band. She
graduated from Shelton State
with a 4.0 GPA, was inducted
into the Class of 2012 Dixie
Softball Hall of Fame, had an
award named after her and
played ball until she was 29. In
2018, she was featured in Tus-
caloosa Magazine as one of six
Intriguing People in Alabama.
Most importantly to her, she
is a wife and mother. And now,
Shelton has completed some-
thing she’s thought of doing for
years: She’s put it all down in a
book. Her self-published story,
“Red Stitches,” was released in
December.
“I named it ‘Red Stitches’
because it was the red stitches
on a softball that held my life
together after the accident,”
Shelton explained.
LeAnn Sanders Shelton of Pickens County, Alabama, lost an arm
at age 4 and went on to become a standout ball player, wife and
mother. She has shared her story in the book “Red Stitches.”
For the past 10 months, the
Pickens County resident has
worked with collaborator Mi-
chelle Hill to record details of
not only the June 1986 accident
that changed her life, but the
determined paths she followed
afterward.
Shelton was 5 years old
when she announced to her
mother that she wanted to play
Courtesy photo
softball. With too few girls for a
team, Shelton first had to play
with boys. She taught herself
to maneuver her glove to catch
and throw balls. Her brother,
Bobby, practiced with her for
hours in the backyard while
she developed a method of
transferring the ball from her
glove to her bare hand until she
was as quick or quicker than a
Courtesy image
two-handed player. She would
go on to be starting pitcher and
leading hitter on the Pickens
County High team in her teens.
“As a player I never saw
myself as being disabled in the
least,” she told The Dispatch
for a feature story in 2010.
“Whatever my teammates did,
I could do. It may have been
a little different, but I got it
done.”
Shelton was then, and still
is, a walking, running, inspir-
ing testimony to the power of
the human spirit. In 2015, the
Dixie Softball National Board
of Directors created the LeAnn
Sanders Shelton Dixie Softball
Inc. Courage Award in her
honor.
As important a role as
the sport played in her life,
Shelton’s marriage to Jeremy
Shelton in August 2006 and the
birth of their son, Gunner Lake
Shelton, in August 2012, have
also been transformative.
Being able to serve as friend
and support to others who have
lost a limb has also given Shel-
ton renewed sense of purpose.
Putting it in an autobiogra-
phy for the public to read was
not a simple task emotionally.
Shelton shed many cathartic
tears in the process.
“The very act of overcoming
requires faith — and faith is
powerful,” she writes in the
book. “To me, faith is like
softball. Your faith in God must
be real and you should be able
to throw it and most of all catch
it. ... Somewhere along the path
of life, each of us will face mo-
ments of pain and loss in some
shape or form. I simply never
chose to allow loss to hinder
me from all God had for my life
and continues to reveal on a
daily basis.”
Her hope is that anyone
reading the book will find hope
for their own circumstances.
“Red Stitches” may be
ordered online at Amazon,
Barnes and Noble or Books A
Million. Or email Shelton at
redstitches88@gmail.com

MSU Vet Camp applications available starting Jan. 28

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS erinary medicine under the guidance of Applications for
faculty and current Doctor of Veterinary Mississippi State’s

M
ississippi State’s College of Medicine students. 10th annual Veter-
Veterinary Medicine will accept inary Camp will be
Through interactive labs and other available starting
applications beginning Jan. 28 hands-on activities, campers gain insight
for its 10th annual Veterinary Camp. Jan. 28. The hands-
into a variety of career options, from on experience is de-
Applications will be available via the
small to large animal, public health to signed for students
“Application” tab at cvm.msstate.edu/
pathology, and research to pet health. ages 10-17 who
outreach/veterinary-camp. have aspirations of
The submission deadline is noon on For more information, contact Karrie
Files at 662-325-4401 or khd20@msstate. working as a veteri-
Feb. 28. narian, becoming a
Modeled after the first- and sec- edu, or follow on Facebook and Insta- scientist or working
ond-year MSU CVM student experience, gram. in an animal-fo-
the camp gives students ages 10-17 an Learn more about MSU’s College of cused career.
opportunity to explore the world of vet- Veterinary Medicine at cvm.msstate.edu. Beth Wynn/Courtesy photo

Gathings joins EMCC Golden Triangle

campus as associate dean
EMCC MARKETING
AND COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT

E
ast Mississippi
Community College
has announced
that Cedric Gathings
has joined the college
as an associate dean of
instruction for the Golden
Triangle campus. Gath-
ings, whose first day
was Jan. 6, replaces Gina
Thompson, who retired
at the end of the fall term
after 23 years of service
to EMCC.
Gathings’ primary
responsibilities will be
providing leadership and
administrative oversight
for faculty in academ-
ic instruction on the Courtesy photo

Golden Triangle campus,
maintaining a culture
of academic excellence,
utilizing data and assess-
ments to make informed
decisions about curricu-
lum and instruction, over-
seeing professional devel-
opment opportunities for
faculty and collaborating
with campus administra-
tion to maximize student
success.
“Mr. Gathings’ enthu-
siasm for student success
and his whole student
philosophy of education
will be tremendous assets
to EMCC. We are thrilled
to welcome him to the
instructional team on the
Golden Triangle cam-
pus,” EMCC Interim Vice
President of Instruction
James Rush said.
Gathings brings a
wealth of higher educa-
tion experience to the
position, most recently
serving at Marshall
University in Huntington,
West Virginia, as vice
president for student
affairs. In addition to
Cedric Gathings is the new associate dean of instruc-
tion for the East Mississippi Community College Golden
Triangle campus.
in-depth experience in
student affairs, Gath-
ings brings expertise in
enrollment management,
multicultural affairs, di-
versity initiatives, career
services and first-year ex-
perience. He has served
as an adjunct instructor
in social sciences since
2004, has taught online
courses for EMCC since
January 2007 and is well
versed in the unique chal-
lenges today’s instructors
face.
“I believe that the
quality of instruction
our students receive in
the classroom is only
one element of the total
student experience,”
Gathings said. “When
we combine rigorous ac-
ademic instruction with
an emphasis on physical
and emotional wellness
with opportunities for
character growth, we are
able to transform student
engagement and assist
students in realizing their
own potential for success.
I am excited to work with
the talented faculty at
EMCC to support the
college’s commitment to
student success, access
and inclusion and aca-
demic excellence.”
Gathings holds a Bach-
elor of Science degree
in social science and a
masters of education,
both from Delta State
University. He is pursu-
ing his doctoral degree
in higher education from
Concordia University.
Gathings resides in
Columbus with his wife,
Kimberly Taylor-Gath-
ings, and their three
children: CJ (13), Chase
(11) and Cayleigh (3).
He is an active member
of the Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity Inc. and is a
travel enthusiast. He and
his family are avid sports
enthusiasts.
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calendar
Today
Exhibit reception — A free
West Point/Clay County Arts Council
reception from 2-3:30 p.m. at the
Louise Campbell Center for the Arts
in downtown West Point opens an
exhibit of artwork by musician and
artist Joe Shelton of Columbus.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
SCT preview show —
Starkville Community Theatre pres-
ents an MTA Festival Show Preview,
a dark comedy/drama titled “A Public
Reading of an Unproduced Screen-
play About the Death of Walt Disney,”
at 7:30 p.m. at Playhouse on Main,
108 E. Main St., Starkville. $10; $8
Area Arts Council hosts a free Art
in Public Places exhibit reception
for work by Gerard Woods at The
Partnership lobby, 200 E. Main St.,
Starkville.
Friday, Jan 17
UNCF Banquet — The Golden
Triangle UNCF (United Negro College
Fund) Banquet begins at 6:30 p.m.
in the Hogarth Dining Center on The
W campus. Speaker is Judge Con-
stance Slaughter-Harvey. Donation is
$30. For more information, contact
Tavetia Hughes, 662-327-4538, or
email tavnote@yahoo.com.
Saturday, Jan. 18
Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium
on campus. Tickets are $30 ($25
faculty/staff), at msstate.universityt-
ickets.com, or call 662-325-2930.
Friday, Jan. 24
Adam Hood in concert — The
Columbus Arts Council presents
Adam Hood in concert at 7 p.m. at
the Rosenzweig Arts Center Omnova
Theater, 501 Main St. Advance tick-
ets are $15 for CAC members/$17
non-members. Tickets are $17 day
of show, if available. Go to colum-
bus-arts.org or call 662-328-2787.
Thursday, Jan. 30 Courtesy photo

students. Limited seating; general
admission sales open Tuesday, box
office open noon-1 p.m. For informa-
tion, call 662-323-6855.
Thursday, Jan. 16
Exhibit reception — Starkville
Winds of Time — See details at
top of calendar.
Thursday, Jan. 23
Voctave — The Mississippi
State Lyceum Series presents the a
capella group Voctave at 7 p.m. in
“Invisible Vegan” — Heal-
ing Springs Farmacy Mississippi
presents the film “Invisible Vegan” at
4:30 p.m. at the Columbus-Lowndes
Public Library, 314 Seventh St. N.,
followed by a plant-based dinner at
5:30 p.m. RSVP by email to healing-
springsfarmacyms@gmail.com.
Saturday, Jan. 18
Winds of Time — This Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra
concert at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium at
Mississippi State features 19th- and 20th-century wind music.
Free to the public.

Community invited to MLK day of service and breakfast

MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS and the United Way of Lown- American district attorney rican American prosecutor for supplies to teachers in Colum-
des and Noxubee counties to represent a majority white the city of Columbus. In 2015, bus, Lowndes and Noxubee

A
community collaboration
will bring an official
commemoration of the
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
to the Trotter Convention Cen-
ter Monday, Jan. 20.
The partnership involves
the City of Columbus, Colum-
bus Air Force Base, Colum-
bus-Lowndes Convention and
Visitors Bureau, Lowndes
County Board of Supervisors,
Mississippi University for
Women, Sodexo Food Services
working together to create a
meaningful day of service that
honors the legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr.
Events will begin with an 8
a.m. breakfast that is free and
open to the public as long as
space allows.
Program highlights include
a keynote address by Scott Co-
lom, district attorney for Mis-
sissippi’s 16th Circuit Court.
Colom is the first African
district in Mississippi history.
A native of Columbus, Colom
is a graduate of Columbus
High School, Millsaps College
and University of Wisconsin
Law School. In 2011, Colom
was appointed the youngest
and first African American
justice court judge in Lowndes
County history. In 2012, he
was appointed municipal court
judge in Aberdeen and in 2013
he was appointed the first Af-
Colom was elected district
attorney for Circuit Court Dis-
trict Sixteen, which includes
Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay and
Noxubee counties.
Following the breakfast,
participants are encouraged
to participate in a community
service project at the Trotter
Convention Center where
United Way of Lowndes and
Noxubee will sort and dis-
tribute much-needed school
counties.
The United Way needs
volunteers to help sort and
distribute supplies. To volun-
teer for this community service
project, email volunteer@uwlc-
ms.org or call Golden Triangle
Regional Hub for Volunteers
and Nonprofits at 662-370-1922.
To register for the free
breakfast or make a monetary
donation to the service project,
visit muw.edu/mlk.

Lyceum Series brings Disney magic, Broadway dazzle to MSU with Voctave
Jan. 23 program 24 on Billboard’s “Heat-
seekers Albums” chart.
begins at 7 p.m. The group’s current tour
continues until Feb. 2 and
at Lee Hall includes stops in Nash-
ville and Houston. For
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS more, visit www.voctave.
com.

A
n a cappella ensem-
ble known for its
harmonious covers
of Disney, Broadway and
holiday hits will take the
stage Jan. 23 to continue
Mississippi State’s Lyce-
um Series.
Voctave will perform
selections from its 2017
album “The Corner of
Broadway and Main
Street” at 7 p.m. in Lee
Hall’s Bettersworth
Auditorium. The work
features medleys of
Disney classics such as
“Beauty and the Beast”
and adaptations of Broad-
way tunes such as “Bring
Him Home” from “Les
Misérables.”
Formed in Central
Voctave, an a cappella ensemble known for its harmonious covers of Disney, Broadway and holiday hits, will take
the stage Jan. 23 to continue Mississippi State’s Lyceum Series.
Florida in 2015, the
11-member group has
common roots with Walt
Disney Entertainment’s
Voices of Liberty, an a
cappella ensemble at Walt
Disney World’s Epcot
attraction. Members’
individual repertoires
include a variety of
musical genres, such
as pop, contemporary
Christian, musical
theater and gospel. The
group has collaborated
with Grammy, Dove and
American Music Award
winners such as Sandi
Patty, Kristin Maldonado
and Mark Lowry.
Voctave has recorded
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five studio albums and its
latest EP, “Voctave Sym-
phony Series: Christmas
Edition,” includes covers
of classic holiday songs.
The 2017 holiday album,
“Snow,” peaked at No.
Individual tickets are
available to the general
public at $30 for adults,
$10 for children 12 and
under, and free for MSU
students with a valid
MSU ID. Purchases can
be made at lyceum.ms-
state.edu and at the door,
if available.
For more information
about MSU’s Lyceum Se-
ries, contact the Center
for Student Activities at
662-325-2930, visit lyce-
um.msstate.edu or email
lyceum@msstate.edu.
Contributions to the Ly-
ceum Series can be made
via the MSU Foundation
by contacting Lynn Durr
at 662-325-8918.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: Parents frequent-
ly write to you asking for
advice about their children,
seemingly asking permission to
butt in where they should not.
When I was in my 20s, I dated
a guy who had just returned from
the Navy. I saw him — and others
— while working and going to
college. Sometimes I’d drive 40
miles to visit him and stay with my
mother. At some point, he told me
we wouldn’t be seeing each other
anymore. He doesn’t remember
the details of the conversation,
and neither do I. I liked him very
much and may have been in love.
I found out years later that my
mother had called him to her house and told
him to marry me or let me go. We were both
young and not ready for marriage. I have no idea and successful marriages.
what possessed her to do that.
Sometimes I wish I had talked with
her about it, but it wouldn’t have
changed anything.
He and I have visited a few
times during the past few years.
We both married wonderful people,
had kids, and have had good lives.
Yet there has always been the
question: What if Mom had not
interfered?
Abby, please advise parents to
mind their own business, especially
where adult children are involved.
— FIFTY YEARS WONDERING
Dear Abby DEAR F.Y.W.: Whether that ro-
mance would have led to marriage
had your mother stayed out of it, I
can’t guess and neither can you. Fortunately, you
and the young man went on to have happy lives
Some mothers can’t resist the temptation
to interfere in their adult children’s lives. Today,
when it is constant, it’s called “helicopter
parenting,” and the unfortunate result can be
disabling rather than helping because it prevents
children from resolving their own issues.
DEAR ABBY: My 30-plus-year-old brother
struggles with substance abuse. It has been
going on for years. After countless trips to rehab,
inpatient, outpatient and all the step programs,
he still uses. Periodically he’ll be sober for a
short time, but it never lasts. For a long time, I
have been torn between total disassociation or
the sporadic run-in at family events.
Seven months ago, his baby boy was born
with narcotics in his system. Birds of a feather
flock together, I guess. Since then he hasn’t
been invited to my home or any event I have
hosted. My mother and the rest of my siblings
still invite him into their homes and act as if his
lifestyle choices are OK.
Am I supposed to boycott family functions
(holiday gatherings, summer BBQs, birthday
parties for my kids, nieces and nephews) be-
cause they all continue allowing him to attend?
I honestly don’t know what is right here. Please
help. — HAD ENOUGH IN NEW YORK
DEAR HAD ENOUGH: Your brother has an ad-
diction he cannot seem to shake. It is a disease
that, in spite of treatment, persists. If you prefer
not to include him at events you host or invite
him into your home, that is your right. But for you
to forgo family events in an attempt to punish
him is isolating only yourself, and I see nothing
positive to be gained by it. Because your feelings
about this situation are so strong, the ultimate
decision is yours.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 12).
Your successes are not accidental,
although a sudden win this year will
feel like kismet. You’ll do impres-
sive things because you believe you
can, or because you don’t let any
thoughts get in the way of the ac-
tions you take. You’ll learn a complex
system and eventually be well paid
for your knowledge. Libra and Aquar-
ius adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 6, 30, 2, 22 and 48.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You’ve encountered enough mystery
in your lifetime to give you a sizable
appetite for the thrill of discovery.
Today’s adventure into the unknown
requires work and will satisfy you in
measure.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). What
will be your anchor when the waves
kick up? Likely, it’s a go-to thought,
a sustaining habit or a solid person.
Add to your arsenal. You’ll feel con-
fident and take risks when you have
many stabilizers at your disposal.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Don’t
count on willpower as fuel to do what
you want to do. Willpower runs out
and then you are miserable or just
give up. But with stronger and better
motivators behind your actions, you
don’t need willpower.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). What
feels good is often not the same as
what is good. That’s why, when those
two categories do happen to align
(as they will today), it’s an event to
celebrate, no matter how tiny it may
be.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Find a
way to love the hard things. People
who do difficult things are heroes
and champions. Instead of fearing
difficulty, welcome the challenge of
becoming heroic.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll
be wise to give serious attention to
the efficiency aspect of what you do
today. Cut out the superfluous and
add everything to what’s sure to pay
you back. Get lean and mean.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You
don’t have to struggle and stress
over wanting things. Even if you want
them way too much, it’s OK. You can
embrace desire and include it as part
of what you’re aware of in the situa-
tion without letting it rule you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
You’ll find yourself at a loss as
to how to solve the problem. Ask
“why?” five times deep. (i.e.: “Why
am I on edge?” Because I didn’t
get enough sleep. “Why didn’t I get
enough sleep?” Go three more in,
and you’ll be at the root.)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
Every experience is potentially useful,
though that’s not always the point.
“Use” implies action, and a lot of the
best things will come to you through
inaction — radical acceptance of
your being and of the moment.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Nothing is a waste of time when
you’re willing to either take the
lesson or take the win. Mistakes
make you smarter. They also make
you more compassionate and able
to connect, empathize with and lead
others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
You are so used to your own gifts
that you may see them as unremark-
able. Not so. Just as you are in awe
of people who have a talent that you
do not possess, others are awed by
you for the same reason.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Oppose your insecurity. If you feel
small, sing out loud. If you lose hope,
double down on devotion. If you get
tired, do twice as much. Go through
the motions. It will soon be real.
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Speech and Hearing Center gives hope to local family

MUW University Relations session. As she has learned

S
ix months ago 5-year-old
Lily Hood only used a few
words to communicate.
Now, her words bring tears of
joy.
Since June 2017, Lily and
her mother, Shan Hood,
have visited The Speech and
Hearing Center on the campus
of Mississippi University for
Women twice a week. Each
visit, Lily spends time with
a team of speech language
pathologists who work to build
Lily’s language and communi-
cation skills.
At a young age, Lily was
diagnosed with autism. Unable
to communicate with words,
Lily would become frustrated,
cover her face and sometimes
just lie on the floor. The task
of choosing foods, discovering
pain and potty training were
difficult for Lily’s parents who
often relied upon sounds or
tugs on the hand.
While visiting the Speech
and Hearing Center, Lily par-
ticipates in play-based therapy.
Books, bubbles and balloons
are some of the motivating
activities used in each session.
Through these activities, the
speech language pathologists
provide communication oppor-
tunities for Lily.
In the fall of 2019, during a
visit to The Speech and Hear-
ing Center, Lily was introduced
to a communication device,
augmentative and alternative
Janette Hreish, Lily Hood and Ashley Alexander use an AAC device during Hood’s play-based therapy
at The Speech and Hearing Center at The W.
communication (AAC), that
would completely change
her life. An evaluation for the
device was first recommended
by Dr. Kathy Shapley, chair of
the Department of Speech-Lan-
guage Pathology, and per-
formed by Janette Hreish,
instructor of speech-language
pathology.
“Whatever it is, let’s do it,”
was Shan’s reply to the idea.
The results have been amazing
to Lily’s family.
Similar to a tablet, the de-
vice displays colorful pictures
and word icons. Words like
stop, more and go were among
the first six words on Lily’s
AAC device.
Shan said, “And so far I’ve
been completely amazed. I’ve
always said that she’s very
smart. She’s very bright. She
may not say a lot but she’s
constantly watching and then
she lets you know that she’s
watching.”
Photo by Chris Jenkins/ University Relations
“Her progression has really
allowed us to see more of who
she is as a person. She is funny,
loving and determined. As she
has learned to use more words,
Lily’s world has opened,” said
Ashley Alexander, speech-lan-
guage pathologist at The
Speech and Hearing Center.
Since introducing the com-
munication device in speech
therapy, Lily uses approximate-
ly 40 different words on the
device with more learned each
how to use the words on the
device, Lily has begun to use
those same words verbally at
home and in therapy. Her com-
munication improvements have
brought joy to her family.
“At one point, if she was
hurting, I’d have to guess. I
would have to watch for the
visual cues. Then one day she
made me cry from joy. We were
literally turning into the drive
for Walmart and Lily said,
‘There’s Walmart.’”
Her mom said it’s the mun-
dane and simple things in life
that have been missed. The
progression from Lily stating
“cookie” to “cookie please”
brings hope to the Hood fam-
ily. “You don’t realize what it
means until you don’t have it,”
said Shan.
“The AAC device has given
us as parents, and hopefully is
translating for Lily, that hope
of progression. We went from
having a handful of words to
expanding,” said Shan.
Lily will continue receiving
speech therapy at The Speech
and Hearing Center at The W
for the near future.
Shan and her husband,
Brian Hood, are residents of
Columbus and both graduated
from The W. Lily and her fami-
ly were referred to The Speech
and Hearing Center at The W
by Baptist Memorial Health
Services.

Club notes School news

Hinds graduates
Hinds Communi-
ty College awarded a
total of 1,316 creden-
tials to 958 grad-
uates, with some
graduates receiving
more than one cre-
dential, at its Dec.
18 commencement
ceremonies. Area
residents included:
Columbus:
Moeshia Clemons
and Kyree Fields;
Macon: Antais
Degraffenreid and
Raheem Gillespie;
Courtesy photo Starkville:
WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE: Dr. Emily Landrum, left, speaks with Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha Courtesy photo
Shaterria Nurse and
DAR Chapter member Becky Thomasson at the chapter’s December meeting at NEWCOMERS & FRIENDS: Lori Smith, director of
Cadence Bank in Starkville. Landrum presented a women’s health program to the Christian World Missions in Starkville, spoke to the Nehemiah Turnip-
group with advice that included getting 30 minutes of exercise five days each week Starkville Newcomers & Friends group Dec. 17 at seed;
and practicing self care. Landrum is the third generation of family physicians at The Cadence Bank. Instead of a gift exchange, the group Steens: Kacie
Family Clinic in Starkville since her grandfather founded the practice in 1954. collected funds to donate to Christian World Missions. Bullock

Symphony presents
‘Winds of Time’ Saturday
MSU OFFICE
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Jacob’s “Old Wine in New
Bottles.”
The Starkville/MSU

T
he Starkville/MSU
Symphony’s 51st
season continues
with the “Winds of Time”
concert on Saturday, Jan.
18 at 7:30 p.m. in Lee
Hall’s Bettersworth Audi-
torium on the Starkville
campus.
Free and open to the
public, the concert will
feature wind music from
the 19th and 20th cen-
turies. Performers will
showcase their skills on
two substantial composi-
tions — Emil Bernard’s
“Divertissement for Wind
Instruments, Op. 36” and
Arthur Bird’s “Serenade
for Wind Instruments,
Op. 40.”
Other song selec-
tions include Gaetano
Donizetti’s “Sinfonia
for Winds” and Gordon
Symphony Association
was established on March
2, 1969. Under its leader-
ship, the Symphony’s pro-
gram of work has grown
to support the commu-
nity orchestra, chorus
and its yearly education
initiative, Programs for
Children. With the goal
of introducing the vibrant
classical music genre to
an audience reflecting
the entire Starkville and
surrounding community,
every concert has re-
mained free and open to
the public throughout the
Symphony’s 50-plus years
in existence.
For more information
about the Starkville/MSU
Symphony Association,
visit starkvillesymphony.
org or connect on Face-
book or Twitter.

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In the garden with Felder

Checking out those ‘somethings of the year’

J
ust got
another
email
alert about a
plant being
promoted al-
luringly as the
2020 Some-
thing of the
Year. There’s
always some-
thing.
Felder Rushing
I don’t gen-
erally fall for
hype or jump
on costly bandwagons
that often fizzle. One I do
follow is that of the Pan-
tone Color of the Year.
Not trying to be fashion-
able; I humor myself with honor meets multiple
it to keep my creativity
on its toes by painting
something in my garden
with it and finding plants, insect and disease resis-
pots and accessories that
coordinate with it. This
year it’s Classic Blue.
Ought to be fun.
My recent Plant of the
Year email was from the
Herb Society of America,
feting “brambles” as this
year’s highlight. Not just
black, dew or raspber-
ries, but all of them. And
to think of all
the wild ones
I pull every
year by the
Sisyphean
gloveful from
my garden!
Not trying
to be testy. I
appreciate the
sincerity and
dedication of
people who
carefully win-
now down the
field, carefully examine
the best contenders and
adopt a singular frontrun-
ner to cheerily champion.
Usually the plant of
criteria such as proven
survivability in a wide
range of conditions with
tance, exceptional beauty
or extra good or long
production and unique
growth habit; “pollinator
friendly” is a current
buzz phrase.
And, cynicism aside, it
isn’t always just a coor-
dinated marketing ploy
to push sales of a pricey
new cultivar. Sometimes
Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo
Felder Rushing some-
times passes on plants to
guerrilla gardener Jesse
Yancy, left, who shares
proven hardy plants with
neighbors.
it’s a genuine effort to re-
ignite a flame of popular
interest under a precious
heirloom or native plant
worth being reintroduced
into gardens.
The Mississippi Me-
dallion program brings
such plants to our atten-
tion but, unlike national
promotions, promotes
only those that are adapt-
ed to our state’s climate
and soils and which could
be produced and sold by
Mississippi growers and
retailers. For the most
part they are all keepers,
though a few are a bit
tricky for newbie garden-
ers or are no longer being
widely produced. You can
find these outstanding
shrubs, flowers, veggies
and others listed, with
photos and descriptions,
on the website of the
Mississippi Nursery and
Landscape Association
(MSNLA.org; click on
“programs” then Medal-
lion Plants).
Over the years my
garden has become
overstuffed with plants
brought to my attention
through these kinds of
promotions, so I farm
new ones out.
My neighbor Jesse
Yancy is a “guerilla
gardener” who has
transformed a neglected
slice of dirt across from
his urban apartment into
a nearly overwhelming
gallimaufry of vegeta-
bles, herbs, flowers,
vines, bulbs and anything
else he can glean cheaply amongst neighbors — a
or free. They’re obliged true indicator of long-
to be robust because, haul success.
though he’s a nurturing As for the herb
gardener, he doesn’t have society’s latest plant
the resources or time to celebrity, I’m gonna pass.
coddle. I usually wait for my wild
So I often hand over dewberries to flower be-
to him any newly-her- fore I pull them, partly for
alded plants that have the pretty and partly for
been sent or given to me pollinators, but leave just
by promoters, and then
enough come back every
watch from his curb. If
year to keep this season-
they thrive in Jesse Lee’s
al dance going without
conditions, and wow him
becoming too onerous.
with their performance,
Not being un-
then I’ll give ’em a go in
my own garden the next trendy-grouchy, I just
don’t want 2020 to be-
year.
Some favorites, such come the Year A Trendy
as African Blue basil, Plant Ate My Garden.
Tuscan kale, orange Pro- Felder Rushing is
fusion zinnias, Burgundy a Mississippi author,
okra, blackeyed Susan columnist, and host of the
vine, and the antique “Gestalt Gardener” on
Mutablis rose, have MPB Think Radio. Email
become mainstays for us gardening questions to
both, and are spreading rushingfelder@yahoo.com.

Keep moving
Continued from Page 1C

Avoid that fall
One severe fall can
alter life permanently. Y
staff and professionals in
the physical therapy field
stress the role staying ac-
tive can play in avoiding
them. Striving to improve
balance is key.
“As we age, we can
have a
tendency to
fall,” noted
Cynthia
Mutch of
the YMCA.
“If a person
has been
exercising, Mutch
working on
their balance, working on
their flexibility, they’re
less likely to fall. And
if they do fall, they may
be more able to catch
themselves before it’s a
bad fall.”
Jacalyn DeSoto at
Plantation
Pointe
Retirement
Community
in Colum-
bus holds a
Doctorate
of Physical
Therapy. DeSoto
Fall preven-
tion is one of her focuses
in working with residents
and others on an outpa-
tient basis.
“Physical therapy has
a huge potential helping
people, especially seniors
in fall prevention. In so
many older adults, falls
are a leading cause of hip
fracture, and if they have
hip fracture over the age
of 65, they are at a chance
of shortening their life
span,” she said.
Bone density is anoth-
er factor, and moving —
even if it’s simply walk-
ing, or even standing,
rather than staying in a
recliner — can help boost
bone health, DeSoto
added.
“Staying active has
a huge, huge role in
reducing fall risk and
really trying to extend
life span,” she said.
Jeanie Miller is a
certified
occupation-
al therapy
assistant
at Trinity
Retirement
Community
in Colum-
bus. In a Miller
recently-in-
troduced Living Lively
class at Trinity indepen-
dent living apartments,
Miller and colleagues
work on leg strength and
balance, as well as reach,
grip strength and other
functions.
“I have gone to a
course (that taught) that
the main thing that keeps
someone elderly out of
the nursing home is leg
strength; if they have leg
strength, they usually
don’t fall. Or, if they fall,
they usually recover
quicker. ... I am trying to
teach them how to pre-
vent a fall, to keep them
as strong in their legs as
they can be.”
In the case of a fall
resulting in hip fracture,
seniors with good mus-
culature tend to bounce
back quicker and start
walking again sooner,
she added.
Get up
The dawn of a new
year means there is no
better time to go after
the benefits a more active
lifestyle can bring. If just
starting from home, Gar- want to be
rison suggested, “One of able to do
the best things you can things. I’ve
do is to get up and out of got two
your chair, several times grandsons
a day. Just stand up and who are
sit down, walk out to that active in
mailbox and back. Try to sports, and
Chandler
find somebody you can Grand-
go for a walk with.” mother has
to be there,” she laughed.
Walking tops Miller’s
“I’ve gotta try to keep up
list of starting points.
with them.”
“If you can, walk. And
Garrison summed it
if you’re at a point where
you can’t stand very long, all up: “The old saying, ‘If
march (in place) while you don’t use it, you’re go-
sitting. Even toe taps are ing to lose it,’ is so true.”
a start.”
DeSoto stressed a re-
minder about hydration:
“Drink water. As people
get older, their sense of
thirst gets inhibited. So
many people get dehy-
drated; they become
more dizzy, their blood
pressure can drop, and
that can lead to a lot (of
problems),” she said.
“That is one thing that’s
very simple to do. Even
if it’s small amounts of
water throughout the day,
it can really make a big
difference.”
As Wednesday’s Move
and Groove class came to
an end, smiling partici-
pants reached for their
water bottles and took
a satisfied deep breath.
Some had already been in
Garrison’s boxing class
earlier that morning;
some stayed for the next
workout, pedaling. All
seemed to feel a boost
from the class they’d just
finished.
“I’ve been doing this
for three years, and I
love it!” said participant
Christine Chandler. She
also takes water aerobics
classes, PWR!Moves
sessions and works out
on the Y machines. ”I

OUT THERE
Now through Jan. 20 – Ice skating
(designated dates), BancorpSouth
Arena, Tupelo. $12/skater (includes
skate rental); season pass $100.
662-841-6573, bcsarena.com.
Feb. 6 – Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic
Group, Riley Center, Meridian. 601-
696-2200, msurileycenter.org.
Feb. 8 – The Righteous Brothers (Bill
Medley/Bucky Heard), Ford Center,
Oxford. 662-915-1217, fordcenter.
org.
– Aquila Theatre presents
George Orwell’s “1984,” Riley
Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200,
msurileycenter.org.
Feb. 18 – The Chieftains, The
Irish Goodbye Tour, Alys Stephens
Center, Birmingham. 205-975-2787,
alysstephens.org.

Visit 662tix.com to purchase advance tickets to the

events below:

Jan. 25
The SOUPer Bowl from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at 200 E. Main St.,
Starkville, features delicious soups from various restaurants. Ticket-holders vote for their
favorite and judges award Best Soup honors. Tickets are $15 now, $20 on day of the event.
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WORLDS
COLLIDE
The exhibit “Worlds
Collide: Clay to
Play,” featuring ce-
ramic work by Ste-
phen Phillips and
photography by
Erik Studdard, and
artwork by CAFB
youth, opened with
a reception at the
Columbus Arts
Council’s Rosenz-
weig Arts Center
Thursday. —
Deanna Robinson/
Dispatch Staff

Billy Phillips, Stephen Phillips Morgan Logan, Lindsay Wilson, Carissa Jenkins, Guiliana Christian

Nathan and Rhyn Wilson Ellie, Melissa and Levi Mowrey

Vaughan Brenner, Garrett Caver, Ronnie Bullock, Wes Toner Dylan Carrol, Kelly Roberson, David Moore

OUT FOR
SOME
MUSIC
Hood Baby and
the Barnacles
entertained at
Moe’s Original
BBQ in downtown
Starkville Thursday
night. — Austin
Frayser/Special to
The Dispatch

Thomas La Foe, Gabe Smith, Sean Dyess Asa Barnes, Murry Falkner

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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., 662-
664-0852
THE ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
6:30 p.m. (something for all ages). Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff
Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children, and Youth
classes 6:30 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-0541.
www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
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CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir
rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon,
Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
(6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil
Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School
8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
Pastor. 662-328-5915
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EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave.
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.;
Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd.,
Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave.
S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-
328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278
East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev.
John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA
4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m.,
Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s
Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street,
Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Interim Pastor Ron
Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy
Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.,
Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark,
Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee
Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st,
3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-
2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday
Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for
all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday
Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge,
Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and
Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High
Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy
Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy.
12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin
Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible
Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east
of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship
10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop
off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth
Minister.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118
7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel
Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson
Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O.
Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny
Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons
Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church
Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr.,
Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.
every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells,
Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m.
Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937
Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week
except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except
5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship.
Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope
Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
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Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before
1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed.
before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed.
before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203
Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7
p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A.
Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin
Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st &
3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor.
662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
St. James MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
St. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie
Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple
Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev.
John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH —
325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy.
12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford,
Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower
Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road,
Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School
9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6
p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday
10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph
Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College
St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30
p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic
School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey Waldrep,
Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Larry
Ferguson, Interim Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah
Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.
com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday
Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-
328- 4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S.
Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m.,
(3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060
Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul
Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister
of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson, Youth Minister.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway
182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible
Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
http://eastcolumbuschurch.com
HWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay Street.
www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak
Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons
Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor.
662-769-5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900
North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday
Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00
p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098.
Email: nhill crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd.
9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Willie McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn
Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan,
Minister.
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CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday
10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess
Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship
9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy Williams,
Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917 15th
St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m.,
Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 5429
Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 8:30
a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship Lunch,
Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221. Email:
mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12
p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest Father
Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven
Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Rev.
Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524
6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-
Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30
p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Fairview Full Gospel BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446
Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-
328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7
p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL
FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor.
662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426
Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 6:30
p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120 19th St.
S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev.
Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m.,
2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
John Longmire, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd.
E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.,
Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev.
Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m.
Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m. Rev. Jimmy
Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate
Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
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FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael Terry,
Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens.
Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m.. Meet
on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East,
Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service
first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor,
Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor.
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102
Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday
School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579 Sun Creek
Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45 a.m., Worship 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev. Sylvester Miller III,
Pastor. 662-324-0036
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service 9
a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722 Military
Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/Children
Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible Study
Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11
a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800
Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, INC.
— 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45 p.m.,
Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr.
crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288
Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and
5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-855-
5006
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor. 662-
327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr. Sunday
Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer
Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III. 601-
345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren
Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West
Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School,
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School 10:30
a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30
p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more information
call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118, Patricia Young
662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette Williams 662-
327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193
Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-1960
LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson. Worship
Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S.
Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 2nd
716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS
CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-
6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-
630-5216
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m.
Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119 7th.
Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Tuesday
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards, Pastors. Since 1960
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of 24 Hour Towing
Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 7:30 p.m.
1024 Gardner Blvd.
662-798-0259 328-8277
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES —
5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Francisco
Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 8
a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m.,
First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade,
Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado,
Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-3182
or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th Ave.
N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday
Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE — 1210
17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources. Sunday
School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones, Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes
Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504
19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and
7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy
Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m.
Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES —
118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday
7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St.
N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.
Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
1721 Hwy 45 N
Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m., ® Columbus, MS
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor. 662.848.0919
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
TRINITY PLACE
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750 Offering independent living apartments, personal
PRESBYTERIAN
care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
— 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Rev. Tim
300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church School 11:15 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615
Hunting • Fishing
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. John
Richards, Pastor.
Oktibbeha County Co-Op
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 662-323-1742
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.),
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays 6
p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m., Bible
Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray The McBryde Family
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N.
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-327-
9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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