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Under the Capitol dome

Monday profile Analysis:
A newspaper career Hosemann
with the wax burns to prove it dives into role
as lieutenant
governor
Hosemann will preside
over the 52-member
Mississippi Senate
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press

Stephanie Minor looks through copies of the latest edition of the weekly Lamar Leader in Sulligent, Alabama on
Friday. Minor, who started working there in 1998 as a typesetter, became the newspaper’s owner on Dec. 20.
Minor buys Sulligent newspaper where
she’s worked for more than 20 years
By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com
JACKSON — Mis-
sissippi’s new Re-
publican lieutenant
governor, Delbert
Hosemann, has a rep-
utation for working
hard and expecting
others around him to
do the same. Hosemann
Hosemann was an attorney in
private practice before he served
three terms as secretary of state.
He moved from that job to lieu-
tenant governor on Thursday when
he was inaugurated to succeed Re-
publican Tate Reeves, the man who
is becoming governor on Tuesday.
The lieutenant governor pre-
sides over the 52-member Missis-
sippi Senate, appoints senators to
serve on committees and names
the committee leaders. He — and in
the case of two previous lieutenant
governors, she — also assigns bills
to committees, exerts influence
over the state budget-writing pro-
Zack Plair/Dispatch Staff
cess and nominates people to serve
on some state boards and commis-
sions.
Legislators have the responsibil-
ity to oversee the condition of state-
But in December, Minor moved
to the big office of the Leader’s owned buildings and to decide
how much money to spend money
building on Highway 17, officially
becoming the owner of the small
weekly newspaper in the town
on maintenance and repairs. The
Sunday before he sworn in as lieu-
Sulligent, a town of about 1,800 tenant governor, Hosemann drove
where she grew up.
residents in West Alabama. She himself, unannounced, to the Mis-
“You know ‘here’ when it’s sissippi State Penitentiary at Parch-

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urns from a wax machine.
Tiny nicks on her hands from
an exacto knife.
Stephanie Minor remembers
firmly, even somewhat fondly,
these markers of her early years
working in the small-town newspa-
per business.
Over more than 20 years Minor,
49, has held just about every
position at the Lamar Leader in
designed pages the “old school”
way — typing copy that had to be
cut out, run through a machine
of hot wax that was then adhered
to a paste-up sheet that would be
shot into a negative and burned to
a metal plate — before the paper
transitioned to digital design in the
early 2000s. She’s served as office
manager and advertising represen-
tative, as well.
right,” Minor said, putting a closed
fist against her chest over her
heart. “You know what you’re good
at, and you know what you enjoy.
Lord knows I’ve worked jobs I’ve
hated, and it makes it hard to get
up and go. … I felt called to do this
and I was able to do it, so I thought,
‘Why not?’ After 20 years, I know
the business.”
See Minor, 6A
man to see firsthand the damage
caused by an outburst of violence
days earlier.
Five inmates were killed and an
undisclosed number were injured
in less than a week in Mississippi
prisons, and three of those deaths
were in Parchman. Hosemann said
that when he arrived at Parchman
on Jan. 5, blood remained on some
walls outside a block of cells in Unit
29, where the fighting occurred.
“I wanted to see the destruc-
See Hosemann, 6A

Bully’s Closet and Pantry aims to meet several needs at MSU

Harmony Clarke, a
graduate assistant
staff member at
Bully’s Closet and
Pantry, organizes
One-stop shop for food, professional clothing, such as razors and deodorant
and much more. Frozen meals
supplies at Missis-
sippi State Univer-
school supplies and more opens Friday and perishables such as milk
and eggs were kept in the freez-
sity’s new resource By Tess Vrbin et and Pantry, a one-stop shop er and fridge, with a list on a
for food, profession- tvrbin@cdispatch.com for food, professional clothing, white board keeping track of
al clothing, school them.
school supplies and hygiene
supplies and per- Deshaun Hackett didn’t products for Mississippi State School supplies such as pens
sonal hygiene items want to take the last carton of
Friday morning. The University students. It opened and notebooks fill another set
milk from the refrigerator, but with a ribbon-cutting Friday of shelves, and the next room in
creation of BCP was
a group effort by Harmony Clarke insisted. morning and started distribut- the small Morgan Avenue build-
students, adminis- “We’re going to get more on ing supplies that afternoon. ing contains racks lined with
tration and outside Monday,” Clarke said. “You’re The shelves were lined with professional clothing, including
organizations for fine.” canned fruits and vegetables, blazers, for students to use as
about 18 months. All the milk was gone by beans and soup, boxes of ce- needed for job interviews. The
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff Friday evening at Bully’s Clos- real, Kleenex, personal items See PANTRY, 3A

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Ahead of impeachment trial,

Trump suggests not having it
Pelosi: Senators will ‘pay a price’ if they block
new witness testimony with a trial that Americans
perceive as a ‘cover-up’ for Trump’s actions
By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WA S H I N G T O N
— President Don-
ald Trump says the
Senate should simply
dismiss the impeach-
ment case against
him, an extraordinary
suggestion as the
Trump
House prepares to
transmit the charges to the chamber
for the historic trial.
The Republican president is giv-
ing mixed messages ahead of the
House’s landmark vote that will
launch the Senate proceedings in a
matter of days, only the third pres-
idential impeachment trial in Amer-
ican history. Trump faces charges
that he abused power by pushing
Ukraine to investigate Democratic
rival Joe Biden and then obstructed
Congress.
First Trump was suggesting his
own ideas for trial witnesses, then
he said almost the opposite Sunday
by tweeting that the trial shouldn’t
happen at all.
“Many believe that by the Sen-
ate giving credence to a trial” over
charges he calls a hoax, Trump
tweeted, “rather than an outright
dismissal, it gives the partisan Dem-
ocrat Witch Hunt credibility that it
otherwise does not have. I agree!”
The idea of dismissing the
charges against Trump is as unusu-
al as it is unlikely. Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell signed on
to an outlier proposal circulating last
week among conservative senators,
but he does not have enough sup-
port in the Republican-held cham-
ber to actually do it. It would require
a rare rules change similar to the
approach McConnell used for Su-
preme Court confirmations.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned
Sunday that senators will “pay a
price” if they block new witness tes-
timony with a trial that Americans
perceive as a “cover-up” for Trump’s
actions.
“It’s about a fair trial,” Pelosi told
ABC’s “This Week.” “The senators
who are thinking now about voting
for witnesses or not, they will have
to be accountable.”
She said, “Now the ball is in their
court to either do that or pay a price.”
Voters are divided over impeach-
ment largely along the nation’s deep-
ly partisan lines and the trial is be-
coming a high-stakes undertaking
at the start of a presidential election
year.
A House vote to transmit the ar-
ticles to the Senate will bring to a
close a standoff between Pelosi and
McConnell over the rules for the
trial. The House voted to impeach
Trump last month.
Yet ending one showdown mere-
ly starts another across the Capitol
as the parties try to set the terms of
debate over high crimes and misde-
meanors.
Democrats want new testimo-
ny, particularly from former White
House national security adviser
John Bolton, who has indicated he
will defy Trump’s orders and appear
if subpoenaed.
Trump doesn’t want his brash
former aide to testify. Republican
allies led by McConnell, R-Ky., are
ready to deliver swift acquittal with-
out new testimony.
Trump first said Sunday it’s Pe-
losi and House Intelligence Com-
mittee Chairman Adam Schiff who
should both testify, which would be
unlikely.
The president said he shouldn’t
have to carry the “stigma” of im-
peachment because he’s done noth-
ing wrong. Pelosi said the House
vote last month means Trump will
be “impeached forever” and “for
life.”

2020 Democratic race is wide open in Iowa as caucuses near

Poll: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth It’s against that back-
drop that candidates must
don’t think Biden can beat
Trump.”
Warren, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg win over people like Barb
Cameron, a 76-year-old
If other voters agree,
Biden’s candidacy could
all showing similar levels of support who attended a recent face steep headwinds in
Warren event in the river Iowa. The former vice pres-
By THOMAS BEAUMONT would require senators town of Burlington. ident began as the early fa-
and ALEXANDRA JAFFE in the race to return to “I’m undecided,” she
The Associated Press vorite, in large part because
Washington. And the said. “I want to vote for a of a sense that he is best po-
fallout from Trump’s sur- woman. But, more than sitioned to defeat Trump.
DES MOINES, Iowa
prise decision to launch that, I want to vote for
— Presidential candidates If that falters, the central
a strike last week to kill a someone with real leader-
have swarmed Iowa’s roll- rationale for his campaign
top Iranian general could ship capability.”
ing landscape for more risks being undermined.
steal attention that would “I like Pete, though
than a year, making their
otherwise center on the I don’t know enough,”
pitch to potential support-
presidential race. Cameron added. “And I
ers on campuses, county
fairgrounds and in high
school gymnasiums. But
three weeks before the
caucuses usher in the
Democratic contest, the
battle for the state is wide
open.
A cluster of candidates,
including Sens. Bernie
Sanders of Vermont and
Elizabeth Warren of Mas-
sachusetts, along with
former Vice President
Joe Biden and Pete Butt-
igieg, the former mayor
of South Bend, Indiana,
enter the final stretch
with a plausible chance of
winning Iowa’s caucuses.
A poll released Friday by
The Des Moines Register
and CNN found them all
with similar levels of sup-
port.
For two decades, Iowa
has had a solid record
of backing the ultimate
Democratic nominee. A
clear victory in its caucus-
es next month could set
the tone for the races that
follow in New Hampshire,
Nevada and South Caroli-
na.
But an inconclusive re-
sult or one in which sever-
al candidates are bunched
together near the top
could preview a long,
brutal fight ahead. Some
Democrats fear the ques-
tion of a nominee might
not be resolved until the
party convenes in Mil-
waukee this summer to
formally declare its candi-
date to take on President
Donald Trump.
The unusually fluid dy-
namic raises the stakes
for the leading candidates
heading into Tuesday’s
debate, which will be the
final televised gather-
ing for the White House
hopefuls before the cau-
cuses. Their closing ar-
guments in Iowa could be
complicated by Trump’s
impeachment trial, which

Cheap thrills.
Go for a walk.
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Recovery begins after storms kill 11 in Midwest, South

‘I could hear everything just coming apart’
Pickens County, Alabama, resident Larry Jones
The Associated Press
Icy roads, deadly tornadoes,
punishing waves — severe
weekend weather has been
blamed for 11 deaths and ma-
jor damage in parts of the Mid-
west, South and Northeast.
Tens of thousands remained
without electrical power Sun-
day as a result of the storms
a day earlier. Officials in far-
flung locations were assessing
the damages while utility crews
worked to restore power.
The storms toppled trees,
ripped off roofs and, in some
areas, reduced buildings to rub-
ble. The National Weather Ser-
vice confirmed a tornado with
winds of around 130 mph hit a
high school in Kershaw Coun-
ty, South Carolina on Saturday,
causing extensive damage.
The National Weather Ser-
vice said it was a tornado pack-
ing winds of at least 134 mph
that hit Alabama’s Pickens
County on Saturday, killing
three people.
“I could hear everything just
coming apart,” Larry Jones,
standing amid the rubble in
Pickens County, said in a vid-
eo posted by The Tuscaloosa
News.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey
praised the state’s first respond-
ers in a statement Sunday ex-
pressing grief over the deaths.
“This morning, I have
reached out to both the county
leadership as well as the legisla-
tive delegation to offer my deep-
est condolences in this terrible
loss of life,” Ivey’s statement
said.
In northwestern Louisiana,
three fatalities were blamed
on high winds. A man in his
bed in Oil City, Louisiana, was
crushed to death by a tree that
fell on his home early Saturday.
A couple in nearby Bossier Par-
ish were killed when the storms
demolished their mobile home.
The National Weather Service
said a tornado with 135 mph
winds hit the area.
In Lubbock, Texas, two first
responders were killed when
they were hit by a vehicle at the
scene of a traffic accident on icy
roads; in Iowa, where a semi-
trailer on Interstate 80 over-
turned, a passenger was killed
in similar road conditions.

Mississippi: Up to 40 deer tested had deadly brain disease

The Associated Press
JACKSON — A deadly
brain disease has been
found in or is suspected
in 40 Mississippi deer,
and the state is asking
hunters to continue pro-
viding samples through
the deer season.
“Deer harvest begins
to tail off this time of
the season. I hope we
will get several hundred
more before the season
is over, if not a thousand
or so,” Russ Walsh, wild-
life chief of staff for the
Department of Wildlife,
Fisheries and Parks, said
Thursday.
Chronic wasting dis-
ease, or CWD, is a highly
infectious disease spread
by malformed proteins
called prions, like those
that cause mad cow dis- in a news release. Both sissippi’s first and third, closer to Benton and Mar-
ease and the related counties border south- were about 160 miles shall counties, have had
human infection called west Tennessee, where away in west-central Is- one each, according to a
Creutzfelt-Jacob disease. the disease has also been saquena County, along department news release.
Nearly all the infected found. the Mississippi River. The department has
and suspected deer were “It’s likely tied in with “As we collect more
collected nearly 4,700
in north Mississippi, in- the cases they have,” samples and more data,
heads from hunters, road-
cluding 25 killed or found Walsh said. hopefully we’ll be able to
in Benton County and Three of those in Mar- connect the dots. It’s still killed deer and white-tails
10 in adjacent Marshall shall County and 18 in a mystery why those two reported as diseased.
County, the Mississippi Benton County have been were there,” Walsh said. “We still have several
Department of Wildlife, detected since Oct. 1. Panola, Pontotoc and hundred of those pending
Fisheries and Parks said But two, including Mis- Tallahatchie counties, all lab testing,” Walsh said.

Pantry
Continued from Page 1A
building was formerly
used for faculty housing,
and BCP acquired the
space in September 2018.
About 30 percent of col-
lege students nationwide
struggle with food inse-
curity, so BCP will serve
as “one more layer of sup-
port” for those students,
MSU Vice President of
Student Affairs Regina
Hyatt told The Dispatch.
“We hope (the pan-
try) can
alleviate,
for the stu-
dents that
are most in
need, some
of the stress
that they ex-
perience in Hyatt
not knowing
where their next meal is
coming from,” she said.
The pantry will be
open from 1 to 6 p.m. on
Mondays, Thursdays and
Fridays. Students can
come in once a week, and
BCP provides a makeshift
grocery list so they can
feel like they are actually
shopping, said Clarke, one
of BCP’s three graduate
assistant staff members.
There was “a good
rush” of students when
the doors first opened,
Clarke said, but by 3 p.m.
the shop was empty, most
likely due to the stormy
weather.
Hackett and Domi-
nique Williams, both ju-
niors, came in around 4:30
despite the downpour and
filled a bag with canned
soup, beans, apple juice
and paper towels, among
other things. When Hack-
ett picked up bread and
peanut butter and asked
for jelly, Clarke made sure
he and Williams were OK
with the only available fla-
vor, grape, before handing
them a jar.
A group effort
Mayah Emerson knew
that other Southeastern
Conference universities
had professional clothes
closets, she said, so she in-
cluded the idea in her plat-
form when she successful-
ly ran for president of the
Mississippi State Univer-
sity Student Association
in the spring semester of
2018.
“Students were asking
about places to access pro-
fessional clothing, so we
really just saw it as meet-
ing a need,” Emerson said.
The idea expanded
to include a food pantry
when the Office of Stu-
dent Affairs got involved,
she said, and her succes-
sor, current SA president
Jake Manning, continued
her work with the univer-
sity to bring BCP to life.
Over about 18 months,
BCP amassed 900 cans
of vegetables, 400 cans of
fruit and more than 1,000
toothbrushes and tubes of
toothpaste, to name a few,
said Montelleo Hobley, BCP is the newest ad- light on how prevalent baby supplies. Hackett
behavioral intervention dition to MSU’s Food Se- food insecurity is on the asked the staff for salt and
team coordinator in the curity Network, which in- MSU campus, she said. pepper, and Clarke put it
MSU Dean of Students’ cludes the Block by Block BCP will remain on the list of items to add.
Office. program for students to stocked with food items After filling their bag,
A wide variety of stu- donate part of their meal thanks to partnerships Hackett and Williams
dent organizations and plan to other students and with the United Way of hoped to catch a bus in
campus departments the Maroon Meals alert Central Mississippi and order to stay out of the
worked to stock the pan- system for the location the Hattiesburg-based rain on their way out of
try, including MSU Ath- and availability of food on nonprofit Extra Table, as BCP Friday afternoon.
letics, which held drives campus. well as student and facul- Hackett, a first-semes-
at several football games
Block by Block cur- ty donations, Hyatt said. ter transfer student from
and offered free tickets to
rently serves between 200 The donation boxes in the Hinds Community Col-
two basketball games in
exchange for donations,
and 300 students, with back of the building saw lege in Raymond, said he
participation increasing several contributions Fri- is grateful for the pantry’s
Hyatt said. MSU Police
in recent years, Hyatt day, Clarke said. help but hopes he does
Chief Vance Rice asked
said. Faculty in the De- The staff is open to not find himself using it
every officer in the depart-
partment of Food Science feedback on what stu- often.
ment to fill a box with sup-
plies, and they did, Hyatt and Human Nutrition are dents need that BCP “I know there are more
said. conducting research that does not yet have, such disadvantaged people
BCP collected tax-de- will hopefully shed more as shoes and a section for than I am,” he said.
ductible monetary dona-
tions through the MSU
Foundation, which will
continue to identify and
pursue donors, and stu-
dent organizations will
help by holding food and
supply drives, Hyatt said.
MSU President Mark
Keenum had three words
for Hyatt when she ap-
proached him with the
idea for BCP: “Make it
happen.”
“When we think about
people who are in need
of food, we tend to think
about people in far-off,
distant lands, but we have
people in need right here
in our own community,
right here on our campus,”
Keenum told a crowd of
about 50 at Friday’s press
conference.

SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates
peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Mon. Tue.
Major 3:28a 4:23a
Minor 8:52p 10:01p
Major 3:55p 4:49p
Minor 10:54a 11:35a
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of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

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Opinion
4A Monday, JANUARY 13, 2020
Possumhaw
A good day
for somebody
“Duck hunters and an-
glers joke that bluebird days
are good to sit on the porch
and talk about hunting and
fishing. At least the weather
is nice.”
Mike Doyle, liveabout.
com
Once I lived where
there were four distinct
seasons all within their
proper boundaries. It was
Shannon Bardwell
quite predictable, though
the winter seemed long and ice and snow turned
to brown slush lasting well into spring. There’s a
certain advantage to growing up and living in the
South. Very often all four seasons come within
the same week. It would be hard to get bored with
the weather as none of it lasts very long. Even if
the rains go on for three or four days, it’s really
only our impatience with the inconvenience. Then
cold blowing winds with temperatures dropping
into the 30s will suddenly vanish into a sunny day
tiptoeing toward 70 degrees.
I’m always amazed on warm winter days to see
college students donning shorts and sandals. Do
they keep them handy for such days so as to take
book in hand and study while reclining on the
campus lawn? There are more walkers on the Riv-
erwalk on such days. Coats, hats, gloves and boots
are shed. Spirits seem lifted all over. How blessed
we are to live where we do.
Outside my window I caught a glimpse of the
quince blooming with its pink blossoms. The lorop-
etalum shows her fuchsia blooms and the forsythia
her yellow. It remains to be seen how this early
blooming will affect our spring flowers, but for now
it lovely.
Bluebirds still spar for the bluebird box. Multi-
tudes of chickadees and sparrows raid the bird-
feeders. The large birdfeeder accommodating
cardinals was demolished by squirrels last year. I
delayed purchasing another so we’ve seen very few
cardinals this year.
Last week Sam heard a familiar thud on the
window. A cardinal collided with the glass and lay
stunned on the ground beneath. Sam carefully lift-
ed the bird in his hand. First, he tried setting the
cardinal on the shepherd’s hook beside the feed-
ers. The bird gripped slightly then fell. Sam caught
the bird mid-air. Next, he took the cardinal to the
birdfeeder with squirrel cage protector fitting over
the birdfeeder feeder. The cardinal gripped the
cage but didn’t move.
Sam’s next thought was to retrieve a birdcage
from the garage for the bird’s protection. On his re-
turn he found the cardinal still clinging. He looked
down at the cage and then up, and the cardinal had
vanished into thin air.
The next day I purchased a new birdfeeder for
cardinals in hopes he would come back and bring
more with him. No matter how often you see a
male cardinal they are always stunning, especially
on a beautiful sunshiny day.
Not everyone enjoys a warm sunny day in win-
ter. A “bluebird day” is not good for duck hunters.
Ducks don’t fly as much on bluebird days. Fisher-
men want windless days but not clear and sunny.
Fish don’t bite well on clear days. Deer hunters
need clear, cold and high wind velocity for optimal
hunting. Looks like on any given day it’s a good
day for somebody.
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus at
msdeltachild@msn.com.
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Mississippi Voices
Open primary initiative underway
Back in the ‘80s, the
Mississippi legislature
passed an open pri-
mary law just like the
one in Louisiana. For
reasons no one under-
stood, the U.S. Justice
Department would not
approve Mississippi’s
law but did approve
Louisiana’s.
What is an open
primary? That’s when Wyatt Emmerich
all candidates from
both parties run in the same pri-
mary. If one candidate you like is
a Democrat and another you like
is a Republican, you can vote for
both of them.
That’s how it now works in Lou- Robertson told me. “People don’t
isiana, but not so in Mississippi.
You have to pick one primary or
the other, Republican or Demo-
crat, so you can only vote for half
the candidates.
This could be one reason Mis-
sissippi tends to end up a one-par-
ty state. That’s too bad. It’s always putting the local people in a ter-
better to have healthy competi-
tion, especially in something as
important as government.
At the moment two initiatives,
Initiative 69 and 70, have been
filed with the Secretary of State’s
office. Initiative 69, sponsored
by Doll Swindle of Waynesboro,
provides for open primaries for all primary so as a couple they could
elections. Initiative 70, sponsored
by long-time state representa-
tive Joe Warren, is a hybrid plan
calling for party primaries for
statewide elections and then open the country would not become
primaries for local elections.
The local candidates won’t run
until the general election, and if
no one gets a majority there will
be a local election runoff three
weeks after the general election.
Warren and his ally representa- leadership of the Democratic
tive Tommy Reynolds of Charles-
ton believe there is tremendous
popular support for open prima-
ries.
“Covington County is about
half Republican and half Demo-
crat. Somebody’s cousin may be
running as a Republican but they
still want to vote for Billy Bob for
sheriff in the Democratic prima-
ry. They don’t understand why
they can’t vote for both,” Warren
told me over the phone. “I’m sick
of it, and I know a lot of other
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legislature has made tions, some open, some closed
it difficult to pass an and some in between.
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That’s for sure. It ries where you have to be a regis-
takes 86,183 signatures tered Republican or Democrat to
to get an initiative on even vote in them.
the ballot with at least Six states have partially closed
17,237 of the signa- primaries where unaffiliated
tures from each of the voters can vote in either primary,
five old 2000 Congres- but a registered Democrat cannot
sional districts. That’s vote in the Republican primary
a huge hill to climb by and vice versa.
the October deadline. Another six states allow you to
Robertson is hoping that vote for either party but consider
people will become aware of the your vote a form of registration
initiatives and get on board. “Why after which you can only vote in
should a constable need to have that party.
an opinion on the national debt?” Mississippi joins 11 states
where voting in a primary does
feel like they have a chance to not cause you to be registered
participate if they don’t vote in with a party, but all candidates are
the right party. All voters should not in the same primary.
participate in who is sheriff or California, Washington and
supervisor because they can have Louisiana have a primary with all
a big effect on your life. candidates from all primaries on
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ters then go to the general elec-
rible position right now. If people tions. In Louisiana, all candidates
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they aren’t going to pay attention ballot and the top two vote getters
to government.” then go to a runoff. In Nebraska,
Warren told me how one couple state legislative races are non par-
decided that one of them would tisan, meaning they run without a
vote in the Republican primary party designation.
and the other in the Democratic Opponents of the open primary
argue that the open primary is un-
vote for both the candidates they constitutional. These opponents
supported. believe that the open primary law
“George Washington, in his violates their freedom of associ-
farewell address, said he hoped ation, because it forces them to
allow outsiders to select their can-
dominated by two warring didates. An opposing view is that
political parties. He had a lot of political parties are not mentioned
foresight,” Warren said. “There in the U.S. Constitution in any
are two important groups against language, but voting rights of the
open primaries – the leadership individual are clearly defined.
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non-profit dedicated to eliminat-
party. They like party primaries ing close primaries. They claim
because it gives them control.” 70 percent of Americans oppose
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Not on census form, but brawl over Extensive collection

citizenship question continues
‘The country is changing demographically, and
people in power believe that the only way to stay in
power is to disadvantage minority voters’
Andrea Senteno, an attorney for the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Education Fund
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court decid-
ed a citizenship question won’t be
on this spring’s census form, but
that doesn’t mean the fight over it
has ended in courtrooms across the
country.
In Maryland, civil rights groups
are trying to block an order from
President Donald Trump to gather
citizenship data through adminis-
trative records. In New York, other
civil rights groups are seeking sanc-
tions against Trump administration
attorneys for not turning over doc-
uments related to the citizenship
question’s origins. Democratic law-
makers in the District of Columbia
are fighting for similar documents,
and Alabama officials are suing the
Census Bureau to keep immigrants
living in the country illegally from
being counted during the process
that determines the number of con-
gressional seats each state gets.
All of the lawsuits touch on
whether the number of citizens,
instead of the total population, will
be used for redistricting or appor-
tionment — the process of divvying
up congressional seats among the
states after the 2020 census. Oppo-
nents say doing so would dilute the
influence of minorities and Dem-
ocrats, which they argue was the
true intent of the Trump adminis-
tration’s desire to add a citizenship
question in the first place.
The U.S. Constitution specifies
that congressional districts should
be based on how many people —
not citizens — live there. But the
legal requirements are murkier for
state legislative districts.
“The country is changing demo-
graphically, and people in power
believe that the only way to stay in
power is to disadvantage minority
voters,” said Andrea Senteno, an
attorney for the Mexican Ameri-
can Legal Defense and Education
Fund, one of the civil rights groups
that sued Trump in the Maryland
case. “What we’re seeing now is a
reflection of that. It’s really about
political power in the long term.”
Supporters of the question say
the U.S. should know how many cit-
izens there are.
of JFK memorabilia
hits auction block
Hundreds of items associated
with the former president are
being offered as a single lot for a
minimum bid of $1.5 million
The Associated Press
BOSTON — One of the most comprehensive
private collections of John F. Kennedy memorabil-
ia, one that chronicles his life from childhood to
the White House, is for sale.
Hundreds of items associated with the former
Democratic president are being offered as a single
lot by Boston’s RR Auction for a minimum of $1.5
million, although RR Executive Vice President
Robert Livingston said it could get much more.
“This collection as a whole tells his life story,”
Livingston said, pointing out that Kennedy’s dia-
ry from the summer of 1945 alone sold at auction
for nearly $719,000 in 2017. “It’s like a curated mu-
seum exhibit in one auction. The whole is greater
than the sum of the parts.”
The collection includes a handwritten draft of
Kennedy’s 1960 speech announcing his intention
to run for president; hundreds of unpublished

US troops clear rubble from Iraq base days after Iran strike
The Associated Press
AIN AL-ASAD BASE,
Iraq — U.S. troops were
clearing rubble and debris
on Monday from a military
base housing American
soldiers in western Iraq,
days after it was struck by
Iranian ballistic missiles.
The Ain al-Asad air
base in Iraq’s western An-
bar province is a sprawl-
ing complex about 110
miles west of Baghdad
and houses about 1,500
members of the U.S. mili-
tary and the U.S.-led coa-
lition fighting the Islamic
State militant group.
It was struck by a bar-
rage of Iranian missiles on
Wednesday, in retaliation
for the U.S. drone strike
that killed a top Iranian
commander, Gen. Qassem
Soleimani, whose killing
raised fears of a wider war
in the Middle East.
photos and negatives of Kennedy and his family;
watercolors he painted; personal items including
a necktie, back brace and golf balls; and even JFK
and Jackie Kennedy Halloween masks.
The collection shows Kennedy’s intelligence,
compassion and sense of humor, said Ronnie
Paloger, a retired garment industry sales rep who
spent years accumulating the collection.
Paloger was 13 when Kennedy was assassinat-
ed, and he said the president’s death resonated
profoundly in his life.

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College St. Location
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Neil Peart, drummer for influential rockers Rush, dead at 67 2nd Ave. North Location

Peart placed fourth on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA,
Calif. — Neil Peart, the
renowned drummer and
lyricist from the influen-
tial Canadian band Rush,
has died. He was 67.
His representative, El-
liot Mintz, said in a state-
ment Friday that Peart
died at his home Tuesday
in Santa Monica, Califor-
nia. The band posted a
message on Twitter also
confirming the news.
“It is with broken
hearts and the deepest
sadness that we must
share the terrible news
that on Tuesday our
friend, soul brother and
band mate over 45 years,
Neil, has lost his incredi-
bly brave three and a half
year battle with brain
cancer,” the band wrote.
“Rest in peace brother.”
Peart placed fourth
on Rolling Stone’s list of
100 Greatest Drummers
of All Time, just behind
Ginger Baker, Keith
Moon and John Bonham.
Peart’s jaw-dropping per-
cussion skills, though,
were matched by his won-
drous skill with lyrics
as Rush composed song
after thought-provoking
song that deftly explored
the human condition or
conjured up mysterious
realms beyond the hum-
drum life of the band’s
heyday in the 1970s,
‘80s and ‘90s. Peart was
precise, deliberate and
skilled behind his sprawl-
ing drum kit, but his in-
novative lyrics helped set
Rush apart from other
prog rock bands.
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trio that rock had never
quite seen before, with
the searing guitar work
of Alex Lifeson, the bass,
keyboards and vocals of
Geddy Lee and the fan-
Jimmy Wood
tastical drumming of
Peart, who was no mere
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of early ‘80s life in cook-
ie-cutter housing tracts:
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Stephanie Minor stands outside the Lamar Leader office on Highway 17 in Sulligent Friday. As the newspaper’s
new owner, she hopes to increase its online presence and add human interest stories that will help keep the
small weekly viable in the town of 1,800 residents.

Minor
Continued from Page 1A
Minor said she has
wanted to own a business
since she was a child,
drawing the dream from
her father who was the
longtime proprietor for
a gentlemen’s clothing
store in Sulligent. Her
career in newspapers,
though, started straight
out of high school at the
entry level as a type-
setter, paste-up page
designer and copy editor
for the Lamar Democrat
in nearby Vernon. After
two years there, she did
various other jobs in
the area for most of the
1990s before newspapers
called her back.
The Lamar Leader
needed a typesetter in
1998, and Minor, then a
single mother, couldn’t
resist an opportunity to
work right across the
street from her daugh-
ter’s school. As small
newspapers typically
have small staffs, Minor
soon found herself laying
out pages again, building
ads, then later also man-
aging the Leader office.
Along the way, she saw
landmarks at the news-
paper that seem like
small potatoes now but
at the time were a pretty
big deal.
“I remember the first
issue with a full-color
front that we printed,”
Minor said. “That was
amazing to me.”
By 2013, Keith Bryson
— who sold the paper to
Minor last month — had
purchased the Leader
from Jarrod Wadsworth.
At that time, Minor had
started to get restless
with the pent-up nature
of her duties, and she
asked the new owner for
an opportunity to sell
ads. She did that well for
five years, left for a brief
six-month stint as a sales
representative for an
area car dealership, then
returned to her former
position at the Leader.
Before long, she was
selling ads for the paper
and two West Alabama
radio stations — WJEC
in Vernon and WLDX in
Fayette.
“I don’t like to sit
behind a desk,” she said.
“I like being out meeting
with the public. … I’ve
established great friend-
ships through that and I
love it.”
As owner, Minor has
become something of
a “one-woman show” at
the Leader, selling ads,
reporting news stories
and looking for ways to
grow her business in an
age of fast-moving tech-
nology that isn’t always
kind to print news. Social
media takes away from
circulation, she admits,
and the Leader will need
a website and stronger
social media presence to
keep itself established
as the primary voice for
Sulligent local news.
More immediately,
though, Minor has tapped
into the same resources
that made her a success-
ful ad sales representa-
tive to bring the people a
whole newspaper they are
willing to buy.
“I’ve gone to the peo-
ple and asked them what
kinds of things they want
to see in the paper,” Mi-
nor said. “For one, we’re
trying to get in more
human interest stories.
“People still want to
see their kids’ and grand-
kids’ names and pictures
in the paper,” she added.
“There are still things
people want to see in
black and white.”
So far, Minor said,
people seem to be excited
about the changes she’s
already making and the
potential it has to remain
a fixture of life in tiny
Sulligent.
“The people have
been great,” Minor said.
“They’ve been so encour-
aging and very helpful. I
know it will be long hours
and more responsibility,
but I will give it my best
shot.
“Sulligent is my
hometown, and I love this
place,” she added. “I want
this town to have its own
newspaper with its own
news. … All I can do is
take it one day at a time,
an whatever the future
holds, just roll with it.”
Disclosure: The Dis-
patch prints The Lamar
Leader.

Hosemann
Continued from Page 1A
tion,” Hosemann said.
“I wanted to talk to the
corrections officers and I
wanted to talk to the Mis-
sissippi Highway Patrol.
And I did all of those.”
Department of Correc-
tions leaders have told
legislators for years that
the prison system needs
more money to increase
the pay for guards be-
cause the jobs are hard to
fill and many are vacant.
They have also told legis-
lators about the need for
repairs, including in Unit
29. Legislators have not
granted the requests and
have recommended cuts
in spending.
Hosemann was not yet
a part of the budget-writ-
ing process when legis-
lative leaders made the
most recent set of recom-
mendations in December,
for the fiscal year that be-
gins July 1. The prison vi-
olence also occurred after
those recommendations
were made.
Hosemann said he and
other leaders will evaluate
the long-term direction
the state should take with
Parchman. He said they
have many questions to
consider.
“Do you repair Unit
29?” he said. “Do you
keep Unit 29?”
In remarks to the
House and Senate imme-
diately after his inaugura-
tion Thursday, Hosemann
received some applause
when he said mentioned
that he had gone to see
the situation at Parchman.
Hosemann also said
he wants the Legislature
to consider pay raises for
teachers and state em-
ployees and to consider
ways to help private busi-
nesses thrive and to make
health care more accessi-
ble and affordable.
One of his first acts as
lieutenant governor was
naming members and
leaders of Mississippi
Senate committees. Re-
publicans this term main-
tained their control of
both the state House and
Senate. While Hosemann
appointed Republicans to
most of the top-tier com-
mittee chairmanships,
he also gave Democrats
some high-profile roles.
Democratic Sen. Hob
Bryan of Amory was first
elected in 1983 and is lon-
gest-serving current sen-
ator. He is the new chair-
man of the Public Health
Committee.
Democratic Sen. Juan
Barnett of Heidelberg,
who’s starting his second
term, will take on sub-
stantial responsibility as
the new chairman of the
Corrections Committee.

6 arrested in Mississippi
inmate’s escape from hospital
The Associated Press
OCEAN SPRINGS — Police in Mis-
sissippi have arrested six people, includ-
ing the father, mother and aunt of an
inmate accused of escaping from a hos-
pital this week, authorities confirmed to
news outlets.
The six suspects were charged with
accessory after the fact in connection
with 29-year-old Marshall Ray Williams’
escape. He’s accused of pushing down a
guard and running away from the Ocean
Springs Hospital on Wednesday morn-
ing, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell
said in a news release.
Williams had been in custody on four
felony warrants, Ezell said. He was re-
ceiving treatment at the hospital for an
unknown condition when a deputy re-
moved his leg shackles so he could go
to the bathroom, news outlets reported.
His father, Gerald Powell, 54, and
Tammy Roberts, 53, were arrested when
Williams was located at Powell’s camper
that night, Ezell said.
Investigators later arrested Williams’
aunt, Theresa Hickman, 45, and Harry
Kostmayer Jr., 44.
Ginger Dowler, 34, and Williams’
mother, Tracey Sonnier, 50, had also
been arrested by Thursday, news outlets
reported.
Williams and the six other people
charged in the escape are being held at
the Jackson County jail.
Sports
NEW HOPE ON A ROLL AS PLAYOFFS NEAR
New Hope senior Ben Bradley (right), defending Caledonia’s Garrett Bergstrom on Jan. 15, is one of the Trojans’ key players.
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
NEW HOPE — The
New Hope soccer team
still remembers its first-
round playoff loss at Pon-
totoc last season. How
could the Trojans forget?
New Hope held a 2-1
lead with 10 minutes to
go, but Pontotoc equal-
ized, sending the match
into overtime. The War-
riors scored a goal in each
overtime period, winning
4-2 and sending the Tro-
jans home wondering
what could have been.
“We knew that we had
that game, and we just
gave it away at the end,”
New Hope coach Andrew
Olsen said. “It kind of
motivated everybody. We
had a point to prove.”
The Trojans still have
two weeks until their reg-
ular season ends, but so
far, consider that point
proven. New Hope is 10-
1-1 and can win a district
championship for the first
time in Olsen’s four-year
tenure if it beats Colum-
bus and Grenada this
Chiefs rally from 24-0 hole to beat Texans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
— Patrick Mahomes
stalked up and down the
sideline like a field mar-
shal rallying his troops,
the brilliant young quar-
terback imploring the
Kansas City Chiefs to
stay together even as the
Houston Texans were on
the verge of taking them
apart.
The Chiefs already
faced a 24-0 hole, bigger
than any deficit they had
overcome in franchise
history.
“The biggest thing
I was preaching,” Ma-
homes said later, “was,
‘Let’s go do something
special. Everybody is
counting us out. Let’s go
week.
Senior Hays Lums-
den credited New Hope’s
strenuous summer work-
outs for increasing the
Trojans’ efforts this sea-
son. Trying to motivate
and prepare the Trojans,
Olsen pushed his team
further than ever in the
summer, running his
players around town and
having them run bleacher
drills.
“We were complaining,
but he didn’t really care,”
senior Hays Lumsden
said. “Thankfully he did
that, because we’re way
better now.”
The Trojans’ offensive
attack, led by strikers
Trey Parnell and Jacob
Wilson, has come togeth-
er nicely. New Hope has
scored a whopping 32
goals in its past three
matches — blowout wins
over West Point (twice)
and Columbus.
“With them, they spent
a lot of time over the sum-
mer just working, getting
comfortable with each
other,” Olsen said of his
duo of dynamic scorers.
KANSAS CITY 51, HOUSTON 31
out there and play by play
put it out there.’ And play
by play, we did what we
were supposed to do.”
Beginning with the
first of his five touchdown
passes, Mahomes and
the Chiefs slowly chipped
away at Houston’s seem-
ingly insurmountable
lead. They continued to
pick up momentum, out-
scoring the Texans 28-0
during the second quar-
ter alone, and eventually
reeled off 41 consecutive
points before cruising the
rest of the way to a 51-31
victory Sunday that pro-
pelled Kansas City back
to the AFC championship
game for the second con-
secutive season.
In doing so, the Chiefs
(13-4) became the first
PREP BOYS SOCCER
“They build each other
up. Of course, they want
the goals, but they also
want to help the other one
out. I think that’s when
they’re successful is when
they’re not them just try-
ing to score by themself,
they’re trying to help the
other guy out, and they
both want to be up there
together.”
Parnell and Wilson
spent plenty of time this
summer improving their
chemistry, and it has paid
off: The two lead the state
in scoring, Parnell said.
“We feel like we’re the
Fourth-year coach Andrew Olsen ramped up the offsea-
son workouts, and his players are thankful for it.
team in NFL history to
win a playoff game by at
least 20 points after trail-
ing by at least 20. They
matched the fourth-big-
gest comeback in playoff
history while winning a
postseason game in back-
to-back seasons for the
first time. Travis Kelce
and Damien Williams
scored three touchdowns
apiece, joining the 49ers’
Jerry Rice and Ricky Wa-
ters in Super Bowl 29 as
the only teammates to
score that many times in
a postseason game.
Meanwhile, Mahomes
led by example as much
as by voice. He finished
with 321 yards passing,
becoming the first play-
er in postseason history
with at least 300 yards
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two best strikers in the
state right now, and that’s
the mindset you’re sup-
posed to have,” Parnell
said. “Last year, we didn’t
click like we should have,
and I feel like this year we
worked harder to click
and get where we are.”
It’s not just on offense
where New Hope has ex-
celled en route to a 4-0
district record. Junior
goalkeeper Vicente Lugo,
in his second year with
the Trojans after transfer-
ring from Columbus, has
given a solid performance
all season. Thanks to
Chris McDill/Dispatch file photo
passing and five touch-
downs while running for
at least 50 more yards.
“You saw him going up
and down the bench, he
was talking to everybody,
— ‘Just settle down,’”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid
said. “As a head coach,
you can’t ask for more
than that. When he’s the
leader of your team and
he’s going, ‘Hey, we’re
going to be fine. Let’s not
wait for the fourth quar-
ter. Let’s go!’ And he did
that.”
Now, after losing to
the Patriots in overtime
in last year’s conference
title game, the Chiefs are
back on the brink of their
first Super Bowl appear-
ance in 50 years. They
See AFC, 4B
Lugo and stellar defense,
New Hope has allowed
just one goal in its past
five matches, all victories.
“You know when he’s
in the goal you’re com-
fortable with him back
there and that a lot of
times he’s gonna make
the right decision,” Olsen
said. “They’re gonna have
to get a good opportunity
on him to slip it past him.
… Some of the saves he
makes, even the guys on
the team, they do a double
take. You don’t know how
he just saved that one, but
somehow he gets there.”
Riding that five-game
win streak, the Trojans
will have their final two
district matches this
week, playing at Colum-
bus on Tuesday and at
Grenada on Friday. Win
both, and New Hope will
be guaranteed a district
championship.
“We’ve always won
games, but we’ve always
slipped up the first dis-
trict game of the year,”
Olsen said. “This year,
we have that experience,
and it’s more along the
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Seahawks to reach
NFC title game
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GREEN BAY, Wis. —
Aaron Rodgers connect-
ed with Davante Adams
eight times for 160 yards
and two touchdowns,
Green Bay’s spruced-up
defense fended off a spir-
ited Seattle rally, and the
Packers held on for a 28-
23 victory Sunday night
to reach the NFC champi-
onship game for the third
time in six years.
Aaron Jones rushed
for 62 yards and two first-
half scores for the Pack-
ers (14-3), who will travel
next weekend to take on
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lines of we’ve been kind
of in control. We control
our own destiny going in.
… Hopefully we can keep
it rolling and go in next
week and get two wins
that we need.”
If the Trojans can do
that, they’ll once again
enter the playoffs with
high hopes. But that was
true last season, Lums-
den said, when the “heart-
breaking” loss at Ponto-
toc left the team stunned
— and motivated.
“(It) just gives us more
drive,” Lumsden said. “It
just gives us more effort
to know that we can go
farther in the playoffs. It
just pushes us harder.”
This year, he thinks
New Hope has the drive
and experience it needs
to jump that hurdle.
“Obviously we’re gon-
na play some tough com-
petition, and we’re gonna
have to play really hard,
but I think if we can play
as a unit like we’ve been
doing, we’ve got a pretty
good shot at it,” Lumsden
said.
top-seeded San Francis-
co.
“This is where it real-
ly gets fun. There’s only
four teams left, and we’re
one of them, and we’ve
got a legitimate chance,”
said Rodgers, who went
16 for 27 for 243 yards
in his 17th career post-
season start. He has 38
touchdown passes in the
playoffs, good for fifth in
league history.
Russell Wilson car-
ried the Seahawks (12-6)
on yet another comeback,
this time from a 21-3 half-
time deficit, but the Pack-
See NFC, 4B
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Women’s College Basketball
Ole Miss falls to 0-4 in SEC with loss at LSU
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team continues
Purdue smothers No. 8 Michigan State
to struggle in Southeastern Conference play. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS really close. sota the lead for good olation. Sidney Wilson’s
The Rebels lost 52-44 at LSU on Sunday in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, falling to 7-10 on the season and 0-4
WEST LAFAY-
The Boilermakers with 3 minutes left. No. 23 Wichita State 3-pointer from the left
scored the first five baseline tied the game
in the SEC.
ET TE, Ind. — Trev- 89, UConn 86, 2OT
Ole Miss outscored LSU 23-20 in the second half,
but a 19-point first half doomed the Rebels. ion Williams scored
points then seized con- No. 21 Memphis 68, HARTFORD, Conn.
at 69, and he blocked
trol with a 12-0 run that Dennis’ shot to force
“I thought that we played with a lot of grit,” Ole Miss 16 points and Purdue gave them a 19-4 lead.
South Florida 64 — Wichita State blew a
overtime.
head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a news
relied on a staunch de- TAMPA, Fla. — nine-point lead in the fi-
release from the school. “I thought that we competed. I Precious Achiuwa had nal minute of regulation
fense Sunday to upset
think people forget how young my team is. I thought we
had opportunities to win like Georgia. If we can keep No. 8 Michigan State
Minnesota 75, 22 points and 11 re- but outlasted UConn in No. 25 Colorado 91,
learning from these, we’re going to get in the win column 71-42. No. 19 Michigan 67 bounds and Memphis double overtime. Utah 52
at some point.” The Boilermakers MINNE A POL IS rallied from a 14-point Jaime Echenique BOULDER, Colo.
Deja Cage scored 16 of her 20 points in the second (AP) — Daniel Oturu second-half deficit to led four Wichita State — Tyler Bey and Evan
half for Ole Miss. Dominique Banks scored 10 points, (10-7, 4-3 Big Ten)
and Jayla Alexander scored nine. snapped a two-game scored a career-high 30 beat South Florida and players in double fig- Battey recorded dou-
Ole Miss will host Missouri at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. skid by picking up their points and Minnesota stop a two-game losing ures with 19 points be- ble-doubles and McKin-
19, at the Pavilion in Oxford. second win this season went on a late 11-0 run streak. fore fouling out. Dexter ley Wright IV had 16
over a Top 10 foe. They to beat Michigan. Tyler Harris finished Dennis and Erik Ste- points, eight assists and
Prep Basketball also beat defending na- Marcus Carr had 21 with 17 points for the venson each scored 16 seven rebounds as Colo-
Columbus, Starkville name three to MAC tional champion Virgin- points and 12 assists Tigers (13-3, 2-1 Amer- for the Shockers (15-1, rado routed Utah.
North/South All-Star Game roster ia on Dec. 4. for Minnesota (9-7, 3-3 ican Athletic Confer- 3-0 American Athlet- Wearing 1960s
Three local players were named to the roster for Cassius Winston fin- Big Ten), while Alihan ence), who held USF (8- ic Conference), who throwback uniforms,
the 2020 Mississippi Association of Coaches North/ ished with 10 points to Demir scored 13 points. 9, 1-3) scoreless from have won nine straight the Buffaloes (13-3,
South All-Star Game. lead the Spartans (13-4, Zavier Simpson had the field over the final games. 12-1 Pac-12) put an
Columbus junior Blake Burnett will play on the
boys’ Class 4A/5A/6A roster, and Columbus junior DJ 5-1) but also had nine 19 points and nine as- 6:37. Lester Quinones Christian Vital old-fashioned whooping
Jackson will team up with Starkville junior Amaya Ford turnovers as Michigan sists for Michigan (11- scored 13 for Memphis, scored 25 points for on their rivals, racing
on the girls’ 4A/5A/6A roster. State’s eight-game win- 5, 2-3). Franz Wagner which trailed 51-37 with UConn (10-6, 1-3). out to a 44-22 halftime
The girls game will be played at 6 p.m. March 21 ning streak ended. The scored 17 points. 13 minutes left. Wichita State lead and never letting
at A.E. Wood Coliseum on the campus of Mississippi The Gophers pulled Achiuwa’s three- seemed to have the up in the second half.
College in Clinton, and the boys game will be played at
Spartans, who were 4
7:30 p.m. 1/2-point road favor- away late after a back- point play gave Mem- game in hand, leading Sophomore forward
ites, hadn’t lost since and-forth second half. phis its first lead since 69-60 with just over a Timmy Allen, who leads
Prep Football Dec. 3. They produced
their lowest point total
Eli Brooks hit a
3-pointer with 3:20 to
midway through the
first half, and the
minute left after a pair
of free throws from Ste-
the Pac-12 in scoring at
21.1 points per game,
West Point LB Orr commits to Holmes CC of the season and were play to put Michigan 6-foot-9 freshman from venson. had seven of Utah’s first
West Point senior linebacker Tyron Orr announced
his commitment to Holmes Community College on held almost 40 points ahead 65-64. But Oturu Queens, New York, put But the Huskies’ nine points but didn’t
Saturday evening. below their season answered on the other the Tigers ahead for pressing defense forced score again. Riley Bat-
“I want to give glory to God for allowing me to scoring average of 81.3. end with a basket in the good, 63-61, with 1:40 several turnovers in- tin led the Utes (10-5,
play this game,” Orr said in his tweet announcing the The game was never low post to give Minne- remaining. cluding a shot-clock vi- 1-2) with eight points.
decision. “Also, I want to thank my coaches for seeing
hard work, potential and determination in me throughout
my high school career. To my family, friends and the
community of West Point, thank you for your continuous NFL
support.”

Second shot: Browns hiring Stefanski as next coach

Orr finished his senior season with 103 tackles and
two interceptions, including a pick-six against Grenada.
He captained the West Point defense as the Green
Wave won their fourth straight state title and a state
record-tying 11th.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ki was a little known familiar with the deci- ing with 26 touchdown vivor in Minnesota. He
SOURCE: From Special Reports assistant when he so sion to hire Stefanski. passes and only six in- held onto his job after
CL EV EL A ND impressed the Browns A member of Minne- terceptions.
CALENDAR — Kevin Stefanski during his interview sota’s staff since 2006, The Browns hope
coach Brad Childress
was fired in 2006, and
coached running backs, that chief strategy offi- Stefanski is Cleveland’s he has a similar effect
Today tight ends and quarter- cer Paul DePodesta rec- 10th full-time coach with Baker Mayfield,
when Leslie Frazier lost
Prep Girls Soccer his job after the 2013
backs in Minnesota. ommended to owners since the franchise’s ex- who struggled with ac-
Grenada at West Point, 5 p.m. He’s about to take on his season.
Dee and Jimmy Haslam pansion rebirth in 1999 curacy and consistency In six years on Mike
Mississippi School for Math and Sci- most challenging group that they should hire and the sixth hired by in his second season af-
ence at Louisville, 5:30 p.m. yet — the Browns. Zimmer’s staff, Ste-
him. However, the the Haslams since they ter breaking the league
South Panola at Starkville, 5:30 p.m. The Vikings offen- fanski proved valuable
Prep Boys Soccer
Haslams were swayed bought the team in 2012 rookie record for TD
sive coordinator, who by then-general manag- from Randy Lerner, passes in 2018. enough that the team
Mississippi School for Math and Sci- came close to getting blocked him in 2018
ence at Louisville, 7 p.m.
er to hire Kitchens, and who was widely criti- Stefanski hasn’t even
Cleveland’s job last year the results were atro- cized by Browns fans signed his contract in from becoming Pat
South Panola at Starkville, 7 p.m. but finished second to Shurmur’s offensive co-
Prep Girls Basketball
cious. during his tenure but is Cleveland, but the Vi-
Freddie Kitchens, was The Browns went now viewed as more sta- kings already miss him. ordinator with the New
Oak Hill Aca. at Starkville Aca., 6 p.m. hired as the Browns 6-10. Kitchens was ble than the Haslams. “He’s a great leader,” York Giants.
Kemper Aca. at Starkville Christian, 6 new coach — their 10th fired. The team wasn’t Cleveland’s search wide receiver Adam Stefanski was pro-
p.m.
since 1999 — on Sun- going to pass on Ste- committee selected Thielen said. ”I have moted to offensive co-
Columbus Christian Aca. at Pickens
day, a person familiar fanski again. Stefanski over 49ers so much respect for ordinator for the final
Aca. (Ala.), 6 p.m.
with the team’s deci- He has gone from be- defensive coordinator him and the way he three games of 2018
Prep Boys Basketball
sion and plans told The ing a long shot to a big Robert Saleh and Pa- carries out his life, his after Zimmer fired John
Oak Hill Aca. at Starkville Aca., 7:30
Associated Press. shot. triots offensive coordi- business. I’m obviously DeFilippo. He had the
p.m.
Stefanski agreed to And now that they’ve nator Josh McDaniels, thankful for his support
Kemper Aca. at Starkville Christian, interim title shed in
accept the position a got their coach, the two of eight candidates and everything he’s
7:30 p.m. 2019, helping the Vi-
day after Minnesota’s Browns can focus on re- the Browns met with done for me over the
Columbus Christian Aca. at Pickens
season ended with a 27- kings jump from 19th
structuring their front the past two weeks. years since he’s been
Aca. (Ala.), 8 p.m.
10 loss to the San Fran- to eighth in points and
Women’s College Basketball
office around a new GM And while Stefans- here — since I’ve been
cisco 49ers in the NFC to replace Dorsey, who ki’s hiring was a posi- here. Happy for him.” from 20th to 16th in
Coahoma Community College at East yards in league rank-
playoffs, according to parted ways with Cleve- tive for the Browns, it Stefanski will in-
Mississippi Community College, 5:30 ings.
the person who spoke land on Dec. 31 after af- also underscores the herit a Browns roster
p.m. Stefanski drew
to the AP on condition ter refusing to accept a NFL’s continued strug- that includes plenty of
Men’s College Basketball
of anonymity because reduced role. gles in hiring minority offensive talent with praise throughout the
Coahoma Community College at East
the sides have yet to On Saturday, the head coaches. Dallas, Mayfield, wide receiv- organization for his ea-
Mississippi Community College, 7:30
finalize a contract. An Browns requested per- Carolina, Washington ers Odell Beckham gerness to adjust and
p.m.
official announcement mission to interview and the New York Gi- Jr. and Jarvis Landry, work with and integrate
is expected Monday,
on the air and Stefanski will be
Eagles vice president of
football operations An-
ants also filled vacan-
cies. Of those hires,
and running back Nick
Chubb. The group nev-
new offensive adviser
Gary Kubiak’s scheme,
introduced early in the drew Berry, who spent only the Redskins’ Ron er meshed under Kitch-
Today week. three years in Cleve- Rivera, who previously ens, who struggled as
while calling plays on
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The hiring of the land as vice president of coached Carolina, is a a play caller while jug- first time.
6 p.m. — Boston at Loyola Maryland,
37-year-old Stefanski, player personnel. Berry minority. gling other duties. “Through the good
CBSSN
considered one of pro reportedly favored Ste- Stefanski appealed Stefanski will have to
COLLEGE FOOTBALL times and the bad
football’s rising young fanski during last year’s to the Browns for nu- hire a coordinator and
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na- times, he’s the same
coaching stars, ends a search and may now merous reasons with staff. It’s possible he
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson,
deliberate, two-week have a chance to work his work to improve Vi- could bring QBs coach guy,” Thielen said.
New Orleans (Clemson Radio), ACCN “He’s not going to throw
search by the Browns, alongside him. kings quarterback Kirk Klint Kubiak with him.
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na- anybody under the bus.
who cycle through Berry has not yet Cousins at the top of his The son of former NFL
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson, He’s going to take own-
coaches like no other met with Haslam and pluses. Under Stefans- coach Gary Kubiak
New Orleans, ESPN ership and do whatever
NFL team and were the there have been no in- ki’s watch this season, worked with Mayfield
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na- it takes to put you in the
only ones without one terviews for the GM Cousins went 10-6 as at the Senior Bowl two
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson,
until this weekend. opening to this point, a starter and posted a years ago. best position as an of-
New Orleans (Field Pass), ESPN2
A year ago, Stefans- according to the person career-best 107.4 rat- Stefanski was a sur- fense.”
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na-
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson,
New Orleans (Sounds of the Game),
Pro Football
KC_Bell 8 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), Sacked-Yds Lost 5-12 2-8 L.A. Lakers 32 7 .821 — Miami 66, Pittsburgh 58
13:52. Punts 3-53.7 4-43.3 L.A. Clippers 27 13 .675 5½ MIDWEST
ESPNCLS KC_FG Butker 24, 8:06. Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Phoenix 16 23 .410 16 Ill.-Chicago 76, Wright St. 72
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff NFL Playoff Glance A_73,503. Penalties-Yards 6-47
Time of Poss. 30:31
4-30
29:29
Sacramento 15 24 .385 17
Golden State 9 32 .220 24
Minnesota 75, Michigan 67
Wild-card Playoffs Hou KC N. Kentucky 96, IUPUI 71
National Championship: LSU vs. Clem- Saturday, Jan. 4 First downs 23 29 Individual statistics
RUSHING_Seattle, Wilson 7-64, Lynch 12-26,
Saturday’s Games
Houston 139, Minnesota 109
Purdue 71, Michigan St. 42
FAR WEST
Houston 22, Buffalo 19, OT Total Net Yards 442 434
son, New Orleans (Command Center), Tennessee 20, New England 13 Rushes-yards 21-94 21-118
Homer 3-13, Moore 1-6, Willson 1-1. Green Bay, Chicago 108, Detroit 99 Colorado 91, Utah 52
Jones 21-62, Ervin 2-25, Rodgers 5-14, Lazard Boston 140, New Orleans 105
ESPNEWS Sunday, Jan. 5 Passing 348 316 1-5, J.Williams 1-3. L.A. Lakers 125, Oklahoma City 110
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na-
Minnesota 26, New Orleans 20, OT
Seattle 17, Philadelphia 9
Divisional Playoffs
Punt Returns 1-11
Kickoff Returns 3-51
Ints. Ret. 0-0
2-1
6-142
0-0
PASSING_Seattle, Wilson 21-31-0-277. Green
Bay, Rodgers 16-27-0-243.
RECEIVING_Seattle, Lockett 9-136, Hollister
Dallas 109, Philadelphia 91
Cleveland 111, Denver 103
Milwaukee 122, Portland 101
Transactions Sunday’s moves
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson, Saturday, Jan. 11 Comp-Att-Int 31-52-0 23-35-0 5-47, Metcalf 4-59, Homer 2-27, Willson 1-8. Sunday’s Games BASEBALL
Green Bay, D.Adams 8-160, Graham 3-49, Allison New York 124, Miami 121 American League
New Orleans (Coaches Film Room), San Francisco 27, Minnesota 10
Tennessee 28, Baltimore 12
Sacked-Yds Lost 5-40
Punts 3-45.7 4-30.8
1-5
1-11, J.Williams 1-9, Valdes-Scantling 1-8, Jones Utah 127, Washington 116 NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated LHP Ste-
ESPNU Sunday, Jan. 12 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-1 1-4, Sternberger 1-2.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Seattle, Myers 50.
Brooklyn 108, Atlanta 86
Memphis 122, Golden State 102
phen Tarpley for assignment.
BASKETBALL
Kansas City 51, Houston 31 Penalties-Yards 7-87 4-37
7 p.m. — College Football Playoff Na- Green Bay 28, Seattle 23 Time of Poss. 34:35 25:25 San Antonio 105, Toronto 104 National Basketball Association
Phoenix 100, Charlotte 92 WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived F CJ Miles.
tional Championship: LSU vs. Clemson,
New Orleans (LSU Radio), SECN
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 19
Tennessee at Kansas City, 2:05 p.m. (CBS)
Individual statistics
RUSHING_Houston, Hyde 13-44, Watson 6-37,
D.Johnson 1-11, Reid 1-2. Kansas City, Mahomes
Pro Basketball Denver 114, L.A. Clippers 104
Today’s Games
Signed C Anzejs Pasecniks to a multi-year con-
tract and F Johnathan Williams to a two-way
Green Bay at San Francisco, 5:40 p.m. (FOX) 7-53, D.Williams 12-47, Watkins 1-14, Hill 1-4. NBA Glance New Orleans at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Philadelphia at Indiana, 6 p.m.
contract.
FOOTBALL
NHL HOCKEY Pro Bowl PASSING_Houston, Watson 31-52-0-388. Kan- EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago at Boston, 6:30 p.m. National Football League
sas City, Mahomes 23-35-0-321. Atlantic Division
6 p.m. — Boston at Philadelphia, NHLN Sunday, Jan. 26
At Orlando, Fla. RECEIVING_Houston, Hopkins 9-118, Fuller W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Portland, 9 p.m.
DENVER BRONCOS — Fired offensive coordina-
tor Rich Scangarello.
Boston 26 11 .703 —
TENNIS AFC vs. NFC, 2 p.m. (ESPN) 5-89, D.Johnson 5-23, Stills 3-80, Fells 3-22,
Toronto 25 14 .641 2
Orlando at Sacramento, 9 p.m. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed RB Tony
Super Bowl Hyde 3-18, Carter 1-17, Jones 1-14, Thomas 1-7. Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Brooks-James, QB Jake Browning, WR Davion
2 a.m. — ATP/WTA: Auckland-ATP, Sunday, Feb. 2 Kansas City, Kelce 10-134, Hill 3-41, Watkins 2-76,
Philadelphia 25 15 .625 2½
Brooklyn 18 20 .474 8½
Tuesday’s Games Davis, TE Brandon Dillon and CBs Mark Fields,
D.Williams 2-21, Hardman 2-19, Bell 2-15, Yelder Phoenix at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Kemon Hall and Marcus Sayles to reserve/future
Adelaide-ATP/WTA & Hobart-WTA Early At Miami Gardens, Fla.
NFC champion vs. AFC champion, 5:30 p.m. 1-11, Robinson 1-4.
New York 11 29 .275 16½
Southeast Division
Utah at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. contracts.
Houston at Memphis, 7 p.m. HOCKEY
Rounds, TENNIS (FOX) MISSED FIELD GOALS_Houston, Fairbairn 51. W L Pct GB New York at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. National Hockey League
Miami 27 12 .692 — Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
5 a.m. — ATP/WTA: Auckland-ATP, Orlando 18 21 .462 9 NHL — Fined N.Y. Rangers D Jacob Trouba
Chiefs 51, Texans 31 Packers 28, Seahawks 23 Charlotte 15 27 .357 13½
Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. $5,000 for slashing.
Adelaide-ATP/WTA & Hobart-WTA Early Houston 21 3 7 0—31 Seattle 3 0 14 6—23 Washington 13 26 .333 14
Wednesday’s Games
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled D Alexander Ye-
Kansas City 0 28 13 10—51 Green Bay 7 14 7 0—28 Atlanta 8 32 .200 19½ lesin from Stockton (AHL).
Rounds, TENNIS First quarter First quarter Central Division
Detroit at Boston, 6 p.m. DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Calvin Pick-
GB_D.Adams 20 pass from Rodgers (Crosby San Antonio at Miami, 6:30 p.m. ard from Grand Rapids (AHL) under emergency
5 p.m. — ATP/WTA: Auckland-ATP, Hou_Stills 54 pass from Watson (Fairbairn kick),
kick), 10:37.

Milwaukee
W L Pct GB
35 6 .854 —
Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m. conditions.
11:59. Toronto at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
Adelaide-ATP/WTA & Hobart-WTA Early Hou_L.Johnson 10 blocked punt return (Fairbairn
Sea_FG Myers 45, :28.
Second quarter
Indiana 24 15 .615 10 Washington at Chicago, 7 p.m.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Mutually agreed to part
ways with general manager Ray Shero. Assigned
kick), 10:06. Chicago 14 26 .350 20½ Charlotte at Denver, 8 p.m.
Rounds; Australian Open Qualifying, Hou_Fells 4 pass from Watson (Fairbairn kick),
GB_A.Jones 1 run (Crosby kick), 9:49. Detroit 14 26 .350 20½ Portland at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
G Evan Cormier to Binghamton (AHL). Recalled
GB_A.Jones 1 run (Crosby kick), 1:30. Cleveland 12 27 .308 22 G Cory Schneider to Binghamton. “NEW YORK
TENNIS 1:21. Third quarter WESTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas at Sacramento, 9 p.m.
Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
RANGERS — Assigned F Steven Fogarty to
Second quarter Sea_Lynch 1 run (Myers kick), 9:44. Southwest Division Hartford (AHL). Recalled F Phillip Di Giuseppe
2 a.m. (Tuesday) — ATP/WTA: Auck- Hou_FG Fairbairn 31, 10:54. GB_D.Adams 40 pass from Rodgers (Crosby W L Pct GB from Hartford.

KC_D.Williams 17 pass from Mahomes (Butker
land-ATP, Adelaide-ATP/WTA, Ho- kick), 9:55.
bart-WTA, Australian Open Qualifying, KC_Kelce 5 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick),
8:05.
TENNIS KC_Kelce 6 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick),
6:31.
5 a.m. (Tuesday) — ATP/WTA: Auck- KC_Kelce 5 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick),
land-ATP, Adelaide-ATP/WTA, Ho- :44.
Third quarter
bart-WTA, Australian Open Qualifying, KC_D.Williams 1 run (kick failed), 11:24.
TENNIS KC_D.Williams 5 run (Butker kick), 4:39.
Hou_Watson 5 run (Fairbairn kick), :24.
Fourth quarter
College Basketball
kick), 7:09. American Hockey League
Sea_Lockett 7 pass from Wilson (Myers kick), :39.
Houston
Dallas
26 12 .684 —
24 15 .615 2½ LAVAL ROCKET — Released F Garrett Mitchell
Fourth quarter
Sea_Lynch 1 run (pass failed), 9:33.
Memphis 18 22 .450 9
Sunday’s Scores
from a professional tryout and sent him to Reading
(ECHL).
San Antonio 17 21 .447 9
A_78,998. New Orleans 14 26 .350 13 EAST LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled D Da-
Sea GB Northwest Division Canisius 72, St. Peter’s 68 vid Drake from Reading (ECHL).
First downs 23 22 W L Pct GB Manhattan 81, Siena 69 ECHL
Total Net Yards 375 344 Denver 27 12 .692 — Niagara 70, Iona 69 ECHL — Suspended Toledo D Michael Moffat
Rushes-yards 24-110 30-109 Utah 27 12 .692 — Quinnipiac 84, Monmouth (NJ) 70 pending further review.
Passing 265 235 Oklahoma City 22 17 .564 5 Rider 69, Marist 52 COLLEGE
Punt Returns 1-10 1-6 Portland 16 24 .400 11½ Wichita St. 89, UConn 86 ILLINOIS — DE Oluwole Betikuu Jr. declared for
Kickoff Returns 5-97 2-22 Minnesota 15 23 .395 11½ Yale 108, Johnson & Wales (RI) 58 the NFL draft.
Ints. Ret. 0-0 0-0 Pacific Division SOUTH MIAMI — Graduate PK Jose Borregales is trans-
Comp-Att-Int 21-31-0 16-27-0 W L Pct GB Memphis 68, South Florida 64 ferring from FIU.
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Dabo Dynasty: Clemson can join elite company with win against LSU
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS —
Clemson coach Dabo
Swinney has this drill
down.
The Sunday before the
College Football Playoff
championship game a
news conference is held
with the head coaches.
They compliment each
other’s team and talk
about focus and prepa-
ration. After, they shake
hands and pose for pho-
tographs with the trophy
that goes to the winner.
This was Swinney’s
third time doing the
dance, always as the
team trying to derail a
dynasty. Now his Tigers
are on the cusp of joining
exclusive in college foot-
ball history.
No. 3 Clemson (14-0)
will try to become the
fourth team since The
Associated Press began
crowning college football
national champions in
1936 to win three titles
in four seasons when it
faces No. 1 LSU (14-0) on
Monday night at the Su-
perdome.
“They know,” Swin-
ney said of his players.
“They’re very well aware
of what they’ve been able
to achieve. And listen, re-
gardless of what happens
in the game tomorrow
night, it’s really been a
historic run. To win two
out of the last three na-
tional championships is
amazing.”
To win the first two,
Clemson upset Alabama
twice in the champion-
ship game. The Tigers
also lost twice to Nick
Saban’s Crimson Tide in
the playoff, including in
the 2015 final.
In those previous Sun-
day-before-the-final news
conferences, it was often
Swinney — who grew up
in Alabama and played on
the Tide’s 1992 title team
— being asked to put
Saban’s unprecedented
tenure in Tuscaloosa into
perspective.
Fast forward to Sun-
day and it’s Clemson that
has put itself in position
to match one of Ala-
bama’s greatest accom-
plishments. The Crimson
Tide was the last team to
win three championships
in four seasons, winning
BCS titles in 2009, ‘11 and
‘12. The Tide has won five
championships in 13 sea-
sons under Saban.
Nebraska, under
coach Tom Osborne, won
national titles in 1994-
95 and then shared the
championship in 1997
with Michigan after be-
ing voted No. 1 in the fi-
nal coaches poll.
Notre Dame won three
in four seasons in 1946-
47 and ‘49, being crowned
the champs by the AP
each time.
A case can be made
that what Clemson is try-
ing to do would top them
all.
The playoff makes
teams go through two
quality opponents to earn
a championship. The Ti-
gers were the first major
college football team in
the modern era to go 15-0
last year and will have
to do it again to repeat,
beating two undefeated
opponents in Ohio State
and LSU along the way.
A victory Monday
night in front of what will
unquestionably be a parti-
san crowd in LSU’s back-
yard will make Clemson
the seventh major college
program since 1950 to
win at least 30 straight
games.
The last team to win
back-to-back national ti-
tles with a perfect record
was Nebraska in the mid-
90s. Those Cornhusk-
ers played a total of 25
games.
Swinney has often
complained this season
that his team hasn’t re-
ceived the respect it de-
served while running
roughshod through the
Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence. Clemson was the
first AP preseason No. 1
to end the season No. 3
despite not losing a game
since it happened to Ala-
bama in 1966.
Swinney turned per-
ceived slights into fuel
for his team. Clemson is
a verified college foot-
ball superpower, but the
Tigers remain upstarts,
still with something to
prove in their minds.
“Ever since I’ve been
at Clemson that’s how it’s
been,” All-America line-
backer Isaiah Simmons
said. “We always get the,
‘We don’t play anybody,’
this and that.
“We’re like the
red-headed stepchild in
other groups.”
So Clemson is em-
bracing that narrative
entering this champion-
ship game as underdogs
again. LSU is about a
six-point favorite behind
Heisman Trophy winner
Joe Burrow and a re-
cord-breaking offense.
The senior who trans-
ferred from Ohio State in
2018 is on pace to break
the FBS record for com-
pletion percentage at
77.6. He has thrown for
5,208 yards and 55 touch-
downs. Burrow can be-
come the first Heisman
winner to win the nation-
al title since Alabama’s
Derrick Henry helped
the Tide beat Clemson in
the 2015 title game, and
the first Heisman win-
ning quarterback to win
it all since Florida State’s
Jameis Winstion in 2013.
Burrow is the odds-
on favorite to be the
first player selected in
the next NFL draft. The
quarterback on the other
side, Trevor Lawrence,
is already the front-run-
ner to be No. 1 overall in
2021.
The sophomore has
yet to play in a losing
game in college and
Clemson is 25-0 when he
starts.
“A winner, very quick
release, very well-
coached, outstanding
feet, knows where to go
with the ball, can run,”
Orgeron said, rattling off
what makes Lawrence so
good.
No matter what hap-
pens Monday night,
Clemson will begin next
season as one of the fa-
vorites to win the nation-
al title. The 50-year-old
Swinney also just signed
the highest-rated recruit-
ing class he has ever had
in 10 seasons at Clemson.
This impressive run
is far from over. But first
things first.
“I think when you fo-
cus on that, you’re focus-
ing on the magnitude of
the moment and you lose
the joy of the moment,”
Swinney said. “That’s all
we try to focus on is just
being great where our
feet are and just have
some fun doing what we
do to get ready.”

Swinney, Orgeron leading evolution in coaching styles

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NEW ORLEANS —
Dabo Swinney can turn
most any issue into an
extended, persuasive
sermon. If he was a sales-
man, we’d all probably be
buying time shares.
Ed Orgeron is as com-
fortable talking gumbo
and jambalaya as he is the
run-pass option, embrac-
ing his Cajun heritage and
guy-next-door demeanor.
Buttoned down, they
aren’t.
“I just try to be my-
self,” said Swinney, pos-
sessor of that amusing
nickname and architect
of the nation’s most domi-
nant program at Clemson.
“You have to play to
your strengths,” added
Orgeron, who can laugh
right along with those
who portray him as a mar-
ble-mouthed rube.
The coaching match-
up in Monday night’s
national championship
game would seem to sig-
nal a significant change in
styles, from process-ori-
ented, brand-obsessed
task masters (see: Ala-
bama’s Nick Saban and
former Ohio State and
Florida coach Urban Mey-
er) to personable, rela-
tionship-based leaders.
“Some guys are
CEOs,” Orgeron said. “It
takes all kinds. I always
felt that I was a people
person.”
That’s not to say hard-
nosed coaches such as Sa-
ban, whose team missed
the College Football Play-
off for the first time in its
six-year history, care less
about their players or en-
gender a lower degree of
loyalty in those they are
leading.
And that’s certainly
not to say that more ap-
proachable coaches such
as Swinney and Orgeron
are slacking on the details
and discipline every great
program must have, or
even to say that they can’t
get a bit snippy at times.
But these two coach-
es have clearly brought a
different feel to this year’s
title game.
When establishing
the tenor of their organi-
zations, both made sure
to put personal relation-
ships at the top of the list
— whether it’s grieving
during tragic times, or
making tough changes on
a coaching staff, or luring
a quarterback from Ohio
who would go on to win
the Heisman Trophy.
“I had one conversa-
tion with Coach O on the
phone,” said Joe Burrow,
LSU’s record-setting sig-
nal-caller. “I was sold just
about immediately.”
Terry Bowden, the for-
mer Auburn coach and
son of Florida State’s be-
loved Bobby Bowden, now
works as an unpaid ana-
lyst on Swinney’s staff.
He has certainly no-
ticed plenty of similarities
between Swinney and his
father, who might be the
most successful exam-
ple of the laissez faire,
aw-shucks approach to
college coaching. It’s a
profession that was long
ruled by domineering dic-
tators such as Bear Bry-
ant and Woody Hayes.
“I would compare Dabo
to my father ... as far as
personality and character
and the way he runs an or-
ganization,” Bowden said
in a lead-up to the title
game. “He’s much more
detailed than my father,
but he has the same de-
meanor, the same person-
ality, the same character
and beliefs. He’s got his
priorities set.”
The success of coach-
es such as Swinney —
whose team has won 29
straight games and two
of the last three nation-
al titles — and Orgeron
could be an indicator that
an evolution is already
stretching beyond the col-
lege game.
The NFL’s Jackson-
ville Jaguars recently
fired team president Tom
Coughlin, a two-time Su-
per Bowl champion who
certainly subscribed to
the General Patton school
of coaching. Even from
the front office, he im-
posed his draconian stan-
dard of discipline, which
led to an embarrassing
dressing-down from the
players’ union.
Facing the prospect of
being unable to sign top
free agents, the Jaguars
had little choice except to
dump Coughlin.
Compare that with
Swinney’s emotional
speech after winning his
first national title, or the
way Orgeron dealt with
offensive coordinator
Steve Ensminger losing
his daughter-in-law in a
plane crash mere hours
before the Peach Bowl
semifinal game. place to live. You know, any other job, though he the state have become
“I love my team,” Swin- I hope I’m a decent guy wasn’t the first (or prob- parties. He’s now one of
ney said back in 2017, to work for. It’s a family ably even the second) the most recognized fig-
choking up after Clemson atmosphere. It’s a place choice when he was hired ures on the bayou, yet
rallied for a 35-31 victo- where truly our families after the 2016 season, his has maintained a humble,
ry over Alabama in the are a part of it and wel- resume marred by a dis- we’re-all-in-this together
championship game. “I come — kids around all mal tenure at Ole Miss approach.
told ‘em tonight that the the time, wives around all and failure to land the “One team, one heart-
difference in this game the time. It’s a small town. permanent job at South- beat,” Orgeron said.
would be the love that I mean, everything is five ern Cal. “Everybody has a role.
they have for each other.”
minutes (away). I mean, He’s Louisiana born, Nobody’s role is more im-
Ensminger won’t re-
everything.” Louisiana bred, Louisiana portant than the other.
veal what Orgeron said
It’s downright impos- through and through. His “I coach from within,
to him after last month’s
sible to see Orgeron in recruiting trips around not above.”
plane crash, but the tears
that began to form in the
coordinator’s eyes during
media day were ample ev-
idence of how much those
words meant in dealing
with overwhelming grief.
“No comment,” was all
Ensminger could get out.
Both Swinney and Org-
eron revel in the role of
underdog, as well.
Swinney, after all, had
never been a head coach
until he was named the
interim boss at Clemson
about a month ahead of
his 39th birthday, coin-
cidentally after Tommy
Bowden — Terry’s older
brother and another of
Bobby’s coaching sons
— was forced out in the
midst of a disappointing
campaign.
No one at the time
could have conceived that
Swinney would get the job
permanently, much less
lead the program to un-
precedented heights and
establish himself as one
of the game’s most influ-
ential figures.
“It was kind of a step-
ping-stone job when I
came in as an assistant,”
Swinney recalled. “That
was one of the things I
wanted to change. I want-
ed to make it a destination
job, and that’s what it’s be-
come.”
Now, even though
he grew up in Alabama,
played for the Crimson
Tide and has been men-
tioned as a logical succes-
sor to Saban some day, it’s
hard to envision Swinney
coaching anywhere else.
He has built a program
totally in his image. Sure,
he’s rubbed some people
the wrong way with his
passionate Christian faith
and diatribes against pay-
ing players (while making
$9.3 million a year, more
than any other coach), but
there’s little doubt about
his sincerity.
“I think we have a great
program,” Swinney said.
“Clemson is a wonderful
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will host Tennessee next
Sunday in a rematch from
earlier this season after
the Titans upset Lamar
Jackson and the top-seed-
ed Baltimore Ravens on
Saturday night.
“We’ve already played
them and we know they’re
a tough team,” Mahomes
said. “They’re a team that
battles all the way until
the end. They’re a team
that’s really hot, playing
really good football right
now, so we know it’s go-
ing to take our best effort.
And, whatever way, we’ve
got to find a way to win.”
easy passes and managed
just 46 yards. And on spe-
cial teams, the Chiefs had
a punt blocked for a score
and fumbled a return
that set up another touch-
down.
Indeed, the Texans
kept humming right along
after finishing on a 22-3
run to beat Buffalo last
week, while the mountain
of miscues made by the
Chiefs made them only
the fourth home playoff
team to trail 21-0 after the
first quarter.
Things turned around
on a series of plays — and
their third came after
the Chiefs forced a punt
— a successful one, for a
change — and they drove
90 yards to take a stun-
ning 28-24 halftime lead.
“I mean, it was an amaz-
ing thing. Everything was
working,” Mahomes said.
“The play calls were open,
everybody was getting
open against man-cov-
erage which we’ve been
preaching all season long,
and guys were making
plays.”
The comeback became
a clobbering by the time
the third quarter ended.
ly in freezing weather and
a slight drizzle a chance
to celebrate early.
“We’ve got full con-
fidence not only in the
players but the game plan
going into it. Just got to
deal with what’s going
on in the game — what’s
real and what’s not — and
what was real was we were
hurting ourselves early,”
Kelce said. “With that,
you just rally the troops,
lean on the leaders of this
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ter and dismal third. The
result: The reborn Hous-
ton franchise is 0-4 in the
divisional round and has
never won a road playoff
game.
“I definitely thought
we were going to have
to score more than 24,”
said Texans coach Bill
O’Brien, who made a se-
ries of debatable calls
during the collapse. “I
think that they’re, obvi-
ously, a very explosive
team and it just didn’t
work out.”
The Chiefs certainly
gave Houston a chance
to end their frustrating
playoff streak in the first
quarter.
On defense, Kansas
City blew coverage on
Kenny Stills on the open-
ing possession, allowing
him to walk into the end
zone from 54 yards. On
offense, they wasted tim-
eouts, dropped a series of
a quick touchdown drive.
And the comeback really
gained momentum when
O’Brien called for a fake
punt at the Houston 31-
yard line and the Chiefs
stuffed it, giving them a
short field and setting up
another easy touchdown.
“We had that play ready
for a variety of different
teams and situations,”
said the Texans’ Justin
Reid, who took the snap
and was stopped short
of the first down. “Credit
to them, they made the
play.”
As the Chiefs contin-
ued to take off, the Texans
continued to stumble.
On the ensuing kick-
off, Houston return man
DeAndre Carter had the
ball pop loose and into the
arms of Darwin Thomp-
son, whose recovery set
up a second Mahomes-
to-Kelce touchdown in a
matter of seconds. And
fourth down to get the
ball right back, and Ma-
homes and Co. required
just six more plays to posi-
tion Williams for another
TD run and a 41-24 lead.
The 41 consecutive
points, spanning most
of the second and third
quarters, were the most
since the Jets had the
same against the Colts in
the 2002 wild-card round.
Even when the Tex-
ans finally cracked the
scoreboard, when Wat-
son scrambled to his left
and dived over the pylon,
the Chiefs rendered the
touchdown moot. In four
plays they went 72 yards
to set up the fifth TD pass
by Mahomes, the strike to
little-used tight end Blake
Bell giving coach Andy
Reid’s team a postsea-
son-record seven straight
TD drives.
It also gave a festive
crowd that turned out ear-
the same number only once. The difficulty level
Roderick Johnson strug-
increases from Monday to Sunday.
gled against the Chiefs
pass rush the rest of the
game.
Kansas City sat defen-
sive tackle Chris Jones,
who strained his calf mus-
cle late in the week and
couldn’t make it through
pregame warm-ups. WR
Tyreek Hill left briefly af-
ter a hard hit but eventu-
ally returned to the game. Sunday’s Cryptoquote:
Up next
The Texans will spend
the offseason wondering
how they let a 24-0 lead
slip away, and the Chiefs
will begin preparing for
the Titans in the AFC ti-
tle game. Kansas City lost
lost 35-32 at Tennessee in
Week 10, when Derrick
Henry ran for 188 yards
and two touchdowns
against them. It was the
Chiefs’ most recent loss.

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ers forced a punt shortly
before the two-minute
warning on the second
sack of the game by
Preston Smith. That was
Green Bay’s fifth of the
game. Za’Darius Smith,
the other big-money free
agent added to the de-
fense last spring, had two
sacks too.
The Seahawks never
got the ball again.
“I couldn’t be happi-
er for our guys. They’ve
put in a lot of hard work,”
coach Matt LaFleur said.
“They’re a group that
sticks together, and they
don’t blink.”
Rodgers sealed the
win with two third-down
throws: a 32-yard strike
to Adams on third-and-8
with 2:19 left and then for
9 yards to Jimmy Graham
on third-and-9 right after
the two-minute warning
to take down a Seahawks
team that was 8-1 on the
road this season entering
the game.
“I’m just going to enjoy
a nice glass of scotch to-
night,” Rodgers said, “and
get on to the film of San
Fran and get ready for a
tough opponent.”
Rodgers exacted some
payback for five years
ago, when the Packers
blew a 16-0 halftime lead
in the NFC championship
game at Seattle and lost
28-22 in overtime. The Se-
ahawks haven’t been back
to the conference title
game since, let alone the
Super Bowl. Rodgers is
running out of time fast-
er than Wilson, though,
nine years after his only
championship. Though
many of Green Bay’s per-
formances haven’t been
pretty, with so many hold-
on-at-the-end wins, Rod-
gers and LaFleur have
sure meshed well in the
coach’s rookie season.
“Let’s be honest. I
don’t know that even our
fans felt supremely confi-
dent in us,” Rodgers said.
The Seahawks had
just a plus-seven scoring
margin during the regu-
lar season, making quite
the habit of second-half
rallies. Wilson did some
of the finest work of his
eight-year career in 2019,
helping the Seahawks
stay on track despite a
steady stream of inju-
ries, including the late
setbacks in the backfield
that prompted the emer-
gency call for Marshawn
Lynch.
Racking up 64 yards
rushing on seven scram-
bles and completing 21 of
31 passes for 277 yards,
Wilson directed touch-
down drives of 69, 84, 79
right out of the gate after
halftime. Lynch finished
two of them with scores,
and Wilson threw to Tyler
Lockett for the other one.
“Every time I looked
up, he was making some-
body miss in the pocket,
creating and extending
plays,” LaFleur said.
“That’s what he’s done his
whole career.”
Lynch’s second touch-
down with 9:33 left cut
the lead to 28-23, but
Jaire Alexander blew up
the 2-point conversion
attempt with a sack on
an unblocked blitz. The
Packers gave the ball
back to the Seahawks
with a second consecutive
punts, this time with 4:54
left at the Seattle 22, but
Wilson ran out of tricks in
his seemingly bottomless
bag of them.
Lynch, who has 12
rushing touchdowns in 13
career postseason games
to tie for fourth in NFL
history, had only 26 yards
on 12 carries.
Strong start
The Seahawks brought
their pass rush to life
with seven sacks while
grinding out a 17-9 win at
Philadelphia last week in Favre’s final win for the
the wild card round, with Packers. There were also
Jadeveon Clowney mak- the regular season losses
ing his presence felt in- with Wilson in 2015, 2016
cluding a hit that knocked and 2017.
Eagles quarterback
Carson Wentz out of the Injury report ACROSS
game with a concussion. Seahawks: LG Mike 1 Wrong
The Packers mostly kept Iupati was out with a neck 6 Captain’s
Rodgers much better pro- injury, and Jamarco Jones superior
tected, though, and a Sea- left in the second quarter
11 Florida city
hawks defense that forced 12 Rust, for one
with a concussion. That 13 Characteristic
32 turnovers in the first forced rookie Phil Haynes
14 Convoy trucks
14 games played a fourth into action. ... Clowney, 15 Maggie and
straight time without a who has fought through Bart’s sister
takeaway. a core muscle injury this 17 Termite’s
The Packers had three season, was holding his cousin
touchdown drives of 75 midsection in the second 18 Good at
yards apiece over the first sports
quarter and briefly absent
three quarters, plus a 60- 22 Derisive calls
for the first TD run by
yard march preceded by a 23 Plot
Jones. ... Backup DEs Zig-
27 Company
missed 50-yard field goal gy Ansah (neck) and L.J. symbols Sunday’s answer
try from Jason Myers. Collier were inactive, and 29 Ambulance 20 Swine
Rodgers hasn’t had DE Quinton Jefferson left sound DOWN 21 Relaxes
much help beyond Adams with a foot injury in the 30 Follows as a 1 Lawyer: Abbr. 24 Lake near
and Jones this season, result
third quarter. 2 Spoil Buffalo
but he and LaFleur did a 32 Told whop-
Packers: RT Bryan 3 “— Yankee 25 Come
masterful job of getting pers Doodle Dandy” together
Bulaga, one of six players
them the ball with some 33 Nursery 4 Flows from a 26 Finishes
the team reported this
Graham mixed in. On threesome container 28 Eden tempter
week as being limited by
the opening possession,
35 Naughty 5 Composer Erik 31 Knight’s title
illness, was active for but 38 NFL players
Adams and Geronimo 6 Inlaid artworks 34 Homes for koi
did not play. Jared Veld- 39 Wonderland
7 Chopping tool 35 Mexican
Allison ran angled routes heer replaced him. ... FB visitor
8 Iwo — peninsula
toward each other before Danny Vitale (ankle/ill- 41 Jack Sprat’s 9 Norse god 36 Weary word
faking the pick and zag- ness) was inactive. ... WR restriction 10 Take a 37 Brake type
ging away. Seahawks cor- Allen Lazard hurt his an- 45 Argo captain breather 40 Dove sound
46 Because of
nerback Tre Flowers was kle in the second quarter 16 Ave. crossers 42 Doctor’s
47 Fancy neck- 18 Skilled
caught in the confusion, after Jones collided with charge
wear 19 Animated 43 Had a snack
allowing Adams to break the back of his right leg.
48 Pricey character 44 Spinning toy
free for the 20-yard score.
Up next
Oh, no, Lambeau Seahawks: head into
Seahawks fans have the offseason, needing
plenty of bad memories of replenish their depth on
their favorite team’s per- the offensive line and on
formances in Green Bay, defense while Wilson re-
with the losing streak at mains in his prime.
Lambeau Field now at Packers: advance to
nine straight games. The their third NFC champi-
last such win for Seattle onship game in six years.
was on Nov. 1, 1999. They lost 37-8 on Nov. 24
There was the hot to the 49ers, who beat
mike that picked up Matt Minnesota 27-10 on Sat-
Hasselbeck’s ill-fated urday in their divisional
boast during the over- round game. All four of
time coin toss that the Green Bay’s appearances
Seahawks would win, pre- in the NFC title game with
ceding his pick-six in the Rodgers at the helm have
2003 playoffs. There was been on the road. They
the blowout in the snow in won at Chicago after the
the 2007 playoffs, which 2010 season to reach his
turned out to be Brett only Super Bowl.
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DENVER — Nikola and San Antonio over-
return from a two-month 20 points for the Hawks.
Jokic had 20 points and came an 18-point deficit
absence with an injured
right shoulder, leading Jazz 127, Wizards 116
15 rebounds and Denver to beat Toronto.
withstood a big rally to San Antonio used a
the Brooklyn Nets to a WASHINGTON — Bo-
beat Los Angeles. big fourth quarter to win
108-86 victory over the jan Bogdonovic scored
Trailing by as many 20 for the third time in four
Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. 31 points, Rudy Gobert
points in the second half, games. Derrick White
Irving shot 10 for 11 added 21 points and 14 Los Angeles had pulled
from the field after miss- scored 13 points for the
rebounds and Utah beat within six with 1:11 re- Spurs, and LaMarcus Al-
ing 26 games with an im- Washington for its ninth maining when Patrick dridge had 11. DeRozan
pingement. The shoulder straight victory. Beverley was called for
looked fine and his han- also had eight rebounds
Utah overcame a a foul on Jokic. Clippers
dle looked as good as ever 15-point deficit in the and four assists against
coach Doc Rivers was in-
while he dribbled his way third quarter to win for his former team.
censed over the call and
around a hopeless Atlanta the 14th time in 15 games. was given two technical
defense. Jordan Clarkson had 17 of fouls and ejected from the Suns 100, Hornets 92
Energized by his re- his 23 points in the second game. PHOENIX — Kelly Ou-
turn that still seemed a half. Utah scoring leader Kawhi Leonard scored bre Jr had 25 points and
ways away just a week Donovan Mitchell sat out 30 points for Los Angeles. 15 rebounds in Phoenix’s
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My boy-
friend of
two years and I
recently moved in
together. When
we first met,
he let me know
he had lost his
father to cancer
a few years prior.
While I know a
ZITS little about his
father, it is mostly
superficial.
As our
relationship
has progressed
Dear Abby
— moving in,
talking about our future — I
long to know more about his
dad. What kind of a father
and husband was he? What
special memories does my
boyfriend have of spending
time with him? However, when
I ask questions, I get succinct
GARFIELD answers with no elaboration. If
I ask more than one question
at a time, I feel like I’m pulling
teeth, so I just drop it. When
I asked if he’s uncomfortable
talking about it, he says it’s
fine, but I still know next to
nothing.
The only time he brings up
his dad is around the time of
his dad’s birthday, the anniver-
sary of his death or the time
when they found out about
his prognosis. At those times
CANDORVILLE Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan.
13). Just as the zest of a lemon
is in the peel, you’ll wear your
zest for life on the surface,
though your vivacity is a product
of a much deeper spiritual
fullness. There’s a quickness
to your solar year. You’re
experimental but decisive. You
waste no time hopping off what
appears to be the wrong track
to get on the right one. Aries
and Cancer adore you. Your
BABY BLUES lucky numbers are: 8, 39, 32,
18 and 45.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You’ll do what others would
consider risky, scary or difficult.
You’re not trying to prove
anything. This is either where
life has led you or where your
interests have culminated. This
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
victory over Charlotte.
Oubre scored 15 points
in the second half on a
night when Suns star
guard Devin Booker
struggled from the floor,
shooting 3 of 12. He had
12 points and nine assists.
Deandre Ayton add-
ed 18 points and nine re-
bounds for Phoenix.
Grizzlies 122,
Warriors 102
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —
Jonas Valanciunas had 31
points and a season-high
19 rebounds and Mem-
phis handed Golden State
its eighth straight loss.
Valanciunas was 13 of
17 from the field, includ-
ing a 3-pointer to help the
he is clearly
grieving. I don’t
want to cause
my boyfriend
more pain, and
I worry that I’m
being insensitive
by asking him to
talk about it. Yet,
if we are going
to start a life
together and be
a family one day,
I want to know
about his father.
— CURIOUS IN
NEW YORK
DEAR CURI-
OUS: Your boy-
friend may not want to discuss
his relationship with his father
because the subject is painful,
either because of his death or
because they were not close.
If you want more details, you
might have better luck asking
your boyfriend’s mother or
his siblings, if he has any.
Because the subject clearly
makes him uncomfortable,
back off.
DEAR ABBY: I don’t smoke,
but my mother and fiancee are
chain smokers. This is partic-
ularly annoying when the three
of us eat together because
they always light up during
the meal. For example, they’ll
almost always have a cigarette
after the salad, another before
the dessert and then two or
is just who you are.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). You’ve amassed a number
of tricks and methods in your
toolbox, and now is the time to
stay in touch with your resourc-
es. Think about what your best
moves are so that when the
time comes you’ll remember to
use them.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Tensions will rise, though you’ll
rise higher if you interrupt the
escalation by excusing yourself
for 15 minutes. Get away. Get
calm and comfortable. Once
you’re out of the fray, you’ll see
the situation in a new light.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
It is the aim of your side to
suppress evil and uphold the
virtuous. The aim of the other
Monday, January 13, 2020 5B
Grizzlies win their fifth
straight. Jaren Jackson Jr.
finished with 21 points,
and Ja Morant had 11
points and 10 assists.
Knicks 124, Heat 121
NEW YORK — Julius
Randle scored 26 points,
RJ Barrett chipped in 23
and New York rallied to
beat Miami.
Kevin Knox had 17
points off the bench and
Reggie Bullock added 16
to help the Knicks snap a
five-game losing streak.
Jimmy Butler had 25
points and 10 rebounds
for the Heat. They blew a
lead down the stretch for
the second time.
three cigarettes afterward. It
ruins the meal for me.
I’m really disappointed in
my fiancee, who seems to
have forgotten her promise to
quit smoking before our wed-
ding day. Is there anything I
can do about their smoking at
the dinner table? And should
I remind my fiancee about her
promise to give up cigarettes
and be a smoke-free bride? —
ANNOYED IN ALABAMA
DEAR ANNOYED: Your
mother and your fiancee are
nicotine addicts. That they
cannot get through a meal
without lighting at least three
cigarettes is alarming. No rule
of etiquette dictates that you
must tolerate secondhand
smoke while you are trying
to enjoy your dinner. If they
need a fix, they should be
considerate enough to excuse
themselves from the table to
indulge.
On a slightly different, but
equally important, subject,
your fiancee has not “forgot-
ten” her promise to give up
cigarettes before your wed-
ding. She’s ignoring it, and you
haven’t called her on it. Please
do. If you marry her, you will
be living in a tobacco haze for
the rest of her life, which could
have a negative effect on
your — and your children’s —
health in the future. Don’t say
you weren’t warned.
side is exactly the same. The
only differences are differences
of definition. Of course, that is
everything.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Your mind is quick to assign
a meaning and a reason to
every feeling that comes up.
This unnecessarily complicates
matters. When you let feelings
surface and fade without at-
taching a story, you move lighter
through life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Now that you are starting to see
some progress in this journey,
the most important thing is to
stay on the same path. Do not
seek a new destination. Consoli-
date and stick to the mission.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You’re not going to stop any-
thing by fighting it head-on to-
day. Accept and redirect. Make
contact with the thing you want
to eliminate from your life, but
only enough contact to nudge it
in a direction away from you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You’ll experience sensa-
tions that keep you on your
toes. Tiny distractions, a buzzy
feeling, nervousness, they’re
all indications of heightened
awareness. They will pass. Find
the gift in them before they do.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Better to take action out
of a fiery desire for the result,
or because you’re in love with
the promise of the task, than to
take action out of a sense of ob-
ligation. When love is involved,
hard things become easy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It seems like not that long
ago you simplified your life, and
now it’s gotten a little too full
and cluttered again. The secret
to staying evergreen is to regu-
larly organize, tidy and purge.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). You have something that
works for you. Now make it work
even better through consecra-
tion. Make it sacred. Through
your intention and blessing,
what’s yours will become more
powerful, protected and sealed
to you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). When you see what you
want, you like to get it imme-
diately. Try not to be impatient
though. In today’s case, waiting
can prevent a much bigger
frustration later. Give it at least
48 hours.
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until 10:00 A.M., Local Time,
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or
Golden Triangle Regional Air-
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Advertisement Dates:
January 13, 2020
January 20, 2020
BEFORE THE STATE OIL AND
GAS BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI
RE: PETITION OF DALLAS PRO-
DUCTION INC. FOR AN EXTEN-
SION OF INACTIVE WELL
STATUS UNDER STATEWIDE
RULE 28 FOR WELLS LOCATED
IN THE CORINNE FIELD IN
CLAY, MONROE, AND
LOWNDES COUNTIES, MISSIS-
SIPPI
DOCKET NO. 24-2020-D
PUBLIC NOTICE
TAKE NOTICE that Dallas Pro-
duction Inc. ("Petitioner") has
filed a Petition with the Missis-
sippi State Oil and Gas Board
under the above docket re-
questing an extension of the in-
active well classification under
Statewide Rule 28 for the fol-
lowing wells (“the Wells”) in
the Corinne Field, Clay, Mon-
roe and Lowndes Counties,
Mississippi:
WELL NAME
API NO.
T. A. Richardson 6LT 7 6 UT
LOWNDES COUNTIES, MISSIS-
SIPPI
DOCKET NO. 24-2020-D
PUBLIC NOTICE
TAKE NOTICE that Dallas Pro-
duction Inc. ("Petitioner") has
filed a Petition with the Missis-
sippi State Oil and Gas Board
under the above docket re-
questing an extension of the in-
active well classification under
Statewide Rule 28 for the fol-
lowing wells (“the Wells”) in
the Corinne Field, Clay, Mon-
roe and Lowndes Counties,
Mississippi:
WELL NAME
LegalNO.
API Notices
T. A. Richardson 6LT 7 6 UT
2309520154
Dabbs 4-2
2309520508
Martin 19 No. 2T
2302520007
Martin 19 No. 2C
2302520007
TA Richardson No. 4
2309520137
Law 23 No. 1
2308720012
R. T. Dabbs No. 2LT
2309520151
R. T. Dabbs No. 2C
2309520151
Self-Day 13 No. 2
2309520217
Wilson 24 No. 2
302520044
Self No. 12-2 Well
2309520329
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DATED this the 7th day of Janu-
ary, 2020.
MISSISSIPPI STATE OIL & GAS
BOARD
By: /s/ Jesse S. New
Jesse S. New
Executive Director
PETITIONER'S COUNSEL:
William F. Blair
BLAIR & BONDURANT, P.A.
Post Office Box 321423
Jackson, MS 39232
(601) 992-4477 - Telephone
(601) 992-9189 - Telecopier
bill@bbfirm.com
PUBLISH: 1/13/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF EDNA B. BOONE, DE-
CEASED
CAUSE NO. 2019-0250
CECELIA A. JONES PATE AND
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
CO-EXECUTORS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to CE-
CELIA A. JONES PATE and
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
Co-Executors of the Estate of
EDNA B. BOONE, deceased, by
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
County, Mississippi, on the
23rd day of December, 2019.
This is to give notice to all per-
sons having claims against
said estate to Probate and Re-
gister same with the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, within ninety (90) days
from this date. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
THIS the 2nd day of January,
2020.
/s/ Cecelia A. Jones Pate
CECELIA A. JONES PATE, Ex-
ecutor
/s/ Perry Donald Jones, Jr.
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
Executor
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