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BY KLAUDIA DUKALASTAFF WRITER

The source of a fi re that started in a trash bin outside the apartment building at 306 E. Green St. early Sat-urday morning is still being investi-gated, Champaign Fire Department offi cials said.

Lt. John Hocking said investiga-tors have determined that the fi re was human-caused but not whether there was malicious intent.

“There is a lot of debris on campus right now from all the people moving in,” Hocking said. “It’s important to

keep all that debris away from ... any igni tion sources.”

The emergency, which lasted about an hour and a half, was reported to the Champaign Fire Department around midnight. The fi re was found soaring out of the trash bin, which spread toward overhead balconies.

Firefi ghters then evacuated Green Street between Third and Fourth streets nearest to the Roland Real-ty apartment complex.

Resident Dan Berger , sophomore in DGS, was getting ready to head out for the night when he noticed

the fl ames leaping out of the trash bin right beneath his apartment’s balcony.

“My initial reaction was to try and grab as much as I could,” he said. “It was very surreal seeing our balcony engulfed in fl ames.”

Berger said the emergency responders quickly evacuate the building and estimated that every-one was cleared out in under fi ve minutes.

Customers of IHOP, the building adjacent to the apartment, were also evacuated as a precaution immedi-

ately after the fi re was spotted.Manager Jenny Kroncke said cus-

tomers and staff tried to remain calm as they exited.

“After we were out, people were still trying to pay their bills,” Kro-ncke said. “We didn’t accept their money, though; that wouldn’t be fair in this situation.”

She said everyone was evacuat-ed in time and nobody suffered any injuries.

Bystander Kendall Rodheim , sophomore in LAS, was walking down Green Street when emergen-cy responders began blocking off the road.

“People were being evacuated everywhere,” she said. “The apart-

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Matt Soltys, senior in AHS, husks an ear of corn, along with 3,462 other people, directly following New Student Convocation on Friday. Members of the Class of 2016 and new transfer students broke the world record for the greatest number of people simultaneously husking corn. A representative from Guinness World Records was on hand to certify the results, and Guinness presented a certifi cate to the University on the spot. The corn was washed, cooked and served for dinner Friday night in University dining halls.

Thousands of students attend 41st Quad Day

BY MADDIE REHAYEMSTAFF WRITER

Despite some early rain, the 41st annual Quad Day gave hundreds of student organizations a chance to promote themselves to students at the University.

Scott Ca rrico, event coordinator and Student Organization Resource Fee program adviser, said he estimated 10,000 to 12,000 students attended Quad Day.

“It’s the most important recruiting day of the year,” he said.

About 650 organizations set up tables across the entire Quad, each doing what it could to get the attention of students passing by.

“We have our horns set out to attract people,” said Sar a Timberlake, sophomore in FAA, who was on the Quad representing the Illini Cont raband, a campus cover band.

Other groups handed out candy, pens or key chains as students signed up to receive information by email.

New to Quad Day this year was the demonstration area, between Noyes and Davenport halls, where groups with more hands-on presentations set up. Pride had a meet-and-greet event, while others had demonstrations ranging from science to dance.

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Sweetcorn Festival brings local community together BY CORINNE RUFFCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite the hit that crops took this summer during the drought, there were still 30,000 ears of sweet corn to go around at the 37th annual Urbana Sweetcorn Festival this weekend.

For the past several years, the Urbana Business Associa-tion has sponsored and coordi-nated the free two-day event, which is held between Cedar and Vine streets in downtown Urbana.

“Corn is something that iden-tifi es the area,” said Cynthia Johnson , executive director of the association. “(Because of) a demand from the community, we have recently switched over to buying locally grown corn.”

For the second year in a row, a local, family-owned company from Warrensburg, Ill., Mad-dox Sweet Corn Farm, supplied all corn at the festival . Own-er Ted Maddox said to ensure the corn was just perfect, he and his family had to plan two months in advance, down to the day of crop planting.

“This corn was planted on June 12 for this festival spe-cifi cally,” Maddox said.

In addition to food and mer-chandise vendors, information-al booths for groups such as U-Cycle, an Urbana recycling organization, were also set up.

“We have six locations where people can throw their recycla-bles, and we also have bins, so corncobs will be composted,” volunteer Tina McCombs said.

In addition to sweet corn, there were many activities for kids.

A parking lot on the north side of Main Street hosted an array of bouncy-house fun, as well as rock climbing, sumo wrestling, minigolf, bull rid-ing and balloon animals.

While many students attend-ed the festival, Johnson said people come from all over.

“Our average attendance in the past has been somewhere around 50,000 people,” she said. “It’s really big for stu-dents and people to be able to come to a big festival like this for free.”

James Hascall, Urbana res-ident, said his family puts the

Fire still under investigation


Spokeswoman Dominique Johnson, sophomore in LAS, speaks to students, trying to convince them to join Partnerships in Action at Quad Day 2012 on Sunday.


Two Champaign fi refi ghters watch as other fi refi ghters put out remaining embers in a trash bin in front of 306 E. Green St. in Champaign on Saturday.

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Champaign Fire Department evacuates everyone out of IHOP, Roland Reality apartments in less than 5 minutes

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festival on their calendar every year.

“It’s such a blast to get to hang out with the family and enjoy Urbana. We love it. Every year everyone gets a new piece of jewelry,” said Hascall, as he showed off his and his daugh-

ter’s new treasures from a mer-chandise stand.

The festival also featured a petting zoo, new this year.

“We’ve got around 30 animals altogether,” said Kevin Ritch-harts of Ritchharts Mobile pet-ting zoo. These animals includ-ed a kangaroo, cow, camel, sheep, alpaca, baby rabbits and fi ve different types of goats.

Nine-year-old Abby Hascall

pet a camel named Shana and fed her grain.

“The camel was my favorite because it spit on my shirt,” she said.

This year’s headliners includ-ed two popular ’80s and ’90s bands, Warrant and FireHouse.

“For each night, we tried to go with a theme and target an audience with a certain genre,” Johnson said. “Friday night, we

went with a blues-rock theme, and for Saturday, we leaned towards ’80s hair band music.”

Johnson said she saw people setting up chairs in front of the stage as early as 1:30 p.m., though the concert didn’t begin until 6 p.m.

“(The festival is) a farewell to summer and welcome back to school for college students,” she said.

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QUAD DAY

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Stephanie Maddox, of Warrensburg, Ill., talks to Taylor Maddox as they sell ears of corn during the 37th Annual Urbana Sweetcorn Festival on Saturday in Urbana. Maddox Sweetcorn Farm supplied the corn for the festival.

Organ & Tissue Donor Network also had tents set up on the Quad as they attempted to break the Gu inness World Record for the most people to sign up to be an organ donor in one day. According to the afternoon tally around 3 p.m., the record, 765 donors, had already been broken, spokesman Tony Sulli van said.

Phil ip Robertson, adjudicator for the Guinness Book of World Records, said he anticipated that the record would be made offi cial by Sunday evening.

The Illini Union hosts the event every year, and Li ezl Bowman, marketing director at the Illini Union, said Quad Day offers students the opportunity to meet new people and reconnect with old friends.

“Imagine how big the Quad is, and you still fi nd each other somehow,” Bowman said.

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ment was being evacuated, the IHOP next to it was being evac-uated — I didn’t realize the fi re was that bad.”

Hocking said evacuating the location is the most important safety precaution during a fi re. Hocking said after extinguish-

ing the fl ames, fi refi ghters dis-covered there was irreversible smoke and water damage to the interior and exterior of the building.

“The smoke damages were the result of the rising fl ames,” he said. “The water damages, however, were caused by the building’s sprinkler system, which was activated when the fi re spread.”

Hocking was not certain about how much the building’s damag-es would cost Roland Realty but estimated that most of the dam-ages will total over $10,000.

“It all depends on how they choose to deal with the repairs,” he said.

Roland Realty was not avail-able at press time.

Berger said that after evac-uating, residents of the apart-

ment complex were moved to the Hawthorn Suites, 101 Trade Cen-ter Drive . As their apartments are being repaired, Roland Real-ty is relocating them to anoth-er apartment complex on Third and Chalmers streets. Berger said the repairs are expected to be fi nished by the end of the week.


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Epilep[c], aka Carlos Hernandez, senior in media, DJs Sunday at the UC Hip Hop Congress booth at Quad Day 2012.

BY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER

Wake-Up Call, a 7th annual wel-come-back event hosted by the Bruce D. Nesbitt African Amer-ican Cultural Center, brought about 200 African-American stu-dents together Saturday night.The event was intended to guide students on surviving college life, encouraged academic excel-lence, community-building and provided students with resourc-es for the rest of their college careers and beyond.

Kelis King, co-chair of the event and junior in Business, said the event was a success.

“I feel like the freshmen were able to take a lot of good informa-tion out of it,” King said.

King said that the need to give students the right information is increasing as the number of Afri-can American students attending the University increases.

“I am really excited that each year the number of African American students is increas-ing, and we (the Bruce D. Nes-bitt African American Cultur-al Center) are able to make the difference,” he said. “With that increase of numbers, I feel that the Wake-Up Call helps to retain them, which is our whole purpose of the show.”

The event began with raffl e prizes for freshmen students, a fl ash mob and presentation from

guest speaker Sherrika Ellison, who spoke about what to expect from college.

Students also fi lmed a video called “Freshmen Me” to give a one-sentence piece of advice to freshmen who attended the event.

Denise Akuamoah, senior in LAS, said she wished she had someone to give her advice her freshman year.

“I am actually really sad that I didn’t come my freshman year,” Akuamoah said. “I think it was a big eye-opener, and I think they now understand that everyone is there to help them; they have all the resources that are necessary, and it is up to them to use those resources.”

Quintis Perry, senior in ACES, has been a volunteer for the event since sophomore year. He said the event turnout was unexpected.

“The outcome this year ver-sus last year was very differ-ent,” Perry said. “Last year, we barely fi lled the auditorium of Foellinger, and this year, the fi rst fl oor was all packed. It has not been that way before.”

He said that coming to the Wake-Up Call as a freshman really helps students meet oth-er students.

“Coming to the U of I as a freshman was really over-whelming... you feel alone, but you will soon fi nd out that every-one started in your position,” he said. “Coming to the Wake-Up Call, you establish that family already.”


Wake-Up Call helps 200 black students survive college lifeAfrican American Cultural Center hosts welcome-back event

Ariz. border-security committee pushes for Mexican border fence

PHOENIX (AP) — Members of the Arizona Legislature’s bor-der security advisory committee want the state to begin building a mile of fencing along the bor-der with Mexico even though it has raised only a fraction of the needed money.

The committee has raised just 10 percent of the $2.8 mil-lion needed to complete a mile of fencing. The ultimate goal is to build 200 miles of border fencing.

State Sen. Steve Smith, R-Mar-icopa , tells the Arizona Republic he believes more private dona-tions will come in once construc-tion begins.

Construction could begin by the end of the year using private fencing companies, some donat-ed supplies and prison inmate labor, Smith said. The project is meant to complement the fed-eral government’s border fenc-ing program.

The Legislature created the committee in 2010 and tasked it with making recommendations to the governor about how to handle the border, and the fence project is one of its key goals.

Members include Republican state lawmakers, county sher-iffs and state department heads.

Despite the committee being charged with making security recommendations, none have been made since it began meet-ing in March 2011.

“I don’t think we have enough info to make a recommendation,” said co-chairman Rep. Russ Jones , R-Yuma. “There’s so much technology that’s important giv-en the challenging terrain.”

The committee also has failed to meet state law require-ments that it fi le monthly status reports, and it hasn’t met since April.

In November 2011 the commit-tee submitted its fi rst and only report to the governor, speaker of the House and Senate pres-ident, detailing the prior nine months of meetings.

Jones said they are looking into revising the law requiring monthly reports.

“Reporting once a month becomes cumbersome,” he said. “We don’t have enough new information to go through the bureaucracy.”

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The top editors at The Red and Black indepen-dent student newspaper

at the University of Georgia resigned after they felt their editorial decisions were being compromised.

The culmination of tension that began in April and contin-ued through the summer burst when a member of the board of directors wrote a draft memo regarding the news the paper should cover. Poli-na Marinova , editor-in-chief, wrote in a statement, explain-ing that she resigned because she “took great offense” to the content of the memo regarding good and bad news.

The memo described bad content as “content that catch-es people or organizations doing bad things. I guess this is ‘journalism.’ If in question, have more GOOD than BAD.”

This memo, in addition to the board adding 10 non-stu-dents with veto power over content and promoting the edi-torial adviser to the position of editorial director, the staff had enough.

We commend the editors of The Red and Black for stand-ing up for what all student media should strive for: deliv-ering readers with content and learning along the way.

We speak for the entire The Daily Illini staff when we say that we take great pride in creating, editing and approv-ing all of our content, design and photos before providing it to our readers. We certainly could not do what we do if we didn’t have our professional staff’s full trust in our ability to produce the news. Without that control, collegiate news-papers fail in their purpose.

It’s no secret that newspa-pers are struggling, whether they be professionally or stu-dent-run. However, no matter the financial situation, content should never be compromised.

Every newspaper and media outlet is meant to serve their specific community. Money aside, that is our job and mis-sion as journalists — students or professionals. And if the students are being instructed to do things a certain way, the newspaper will never be what is right for its audience. As students serving students, our news judgement — as well as our development of that judge-ment — is more valuable than what a professional staff could provide the University.

Sure, we make mistakes. But that is one of the great forms of learning. Our mistakes are corrected, and it’s better to have a small factual error than to hide some of the “bad” news, which doesn’t provide the transparency our readers deserve.

The editorial staff of The Red and Black proved that stu-dents always have a voice.

Fortunately, seven days ago, the board and former editors came to a resolution, agree-ing that student journalism is training for the real world and The Red and Black board lost sight of that.

Every editor has been rein-stated to their old positions and now can get back to what they always should be doing: making their own decisions and serving their campus and the Athens, Ga., community.

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Politics. It does bad things to people.

As this is an election year, it will be impossible, try howev-er hard you may, to avoid every encounter with questions of gov-ernance. Unless your views on American politics fall between apathetic and bemused, there will be at least one issue (or per-son or event) that you feel quite strongly about. Mix such a chance encounter with the issue in ques-tion and disaster may be waiting; the instinct to jump in and say your piece could be irresistible.

For the sake of your sanity and your friendships, please, be very careful with how you give in to that instinct.

As an example of how not to discuss politics, just look at any large-enough cross-section of the punditry; inevitably, once the sample becomes large enough, some will fall off the cliff of thoughtful discussion and into the bowels of mockery. Most, at least, have the decency to rise above the name-calling of “Look out! Lib-tard alert!” or “Nazi rac-ist trash!” that fi ll up comment thread after comment thread. But even when they avoid saying such things directly, the implication can still be there, loud and clear.

It is part of human nature to like being right. We want very much to be right, and often that requires us to denigrate any other belief. Clearly what we think is right. Clearly everyone else must be a fool for thinking different-ly. Clearly if people were on our level of sophistication, they would agree with us.

However, no good argument exists in a vacuum.

Writers, such as myself, do not just write to fi ll the void with words; we have readers and want to be read. A good argument, likewise, wants to do something for those who hear it. Maybe the argument wants to convince, or maybe the argument wants to show a new perspective. If all an argument does is pat its speaker on the back and tell them — and anyone who already agrees with them — how awesome and clever they are, then that does a listener who disagrees no good at all.

The delivery of an argument, just as much as the content, is crucial.

If the delivery is particular-ly bad, it can repulse the listen-er and make them less likely to agree with the points made, even when those points are great. Jumping into a debate with the full intent of changing someone else’s mind requires a bit of ego, after all, not to mention a feel-ing that your fellow debater is somehow defi cient. Without care, the resulting air of superiority will turn away even the closest of friends.

This is part of the reason why I rarely let myself call anyone a bigot, even though there are plenty of people I think are well-deserving of the title. The only exception I might make is if it is universally agreed said per-son is a bigot. Otherwise it does no good. If I start calling people names and either they or some-one who thinks well of them hears this, they immediately go on the defensive. Instead of listening to my arguments and impassioned pleas, they are thinking what an idiot I am (and probably thinking I am the bigot myself). Whatev-er hope I had of making a point is long gone.

When we feel as though the fervently-believed truths of our world — actual truthfulness not-withstanding — are under attack, we can cling to those beliefs all the tighter. So if you feel that you really, really must convince someone else that your beliefs are better and, at the same time, you sense that they are getting defen-sive, then stop. Just stop. Come back to the issue some other time; no further progress can be made.

You will both be glad to be spared the headache.

Joseph is a graduate student in Mathe-matics. He can be reached at [email protected].

There is something timeless about the fi rst day of school — the energy in the air is unlike

any other. It may be your fi rst day as a student on campus or your fourth and fi nal time starting class-es in the fall. We are all the same in that we are starting the fi rst day of the rest of the year. Regardless of your age, something is still exciting about the fi rst day.

Each year of college is great. But I think there is some truth to the statement that “your fi rst and your last years of school will be your best.” Allow me to explain.

Freshman year and senior year may seem like night and day. Because they are. I can speak for most of my friends when I say that a freshman in college is in a com-pletely different place in their life than a senior in college.

I may be only a week into my

year as a senior on this campus, but I can already tell that the excite-ment of this year will mirror that of freshman year. Both have this sense of urgency. As a freshman, it is the urgency to become a part of this campus. As a senior, it is the urgency to do everything you want before you are no longer a part of this campus.

Both years in school refl ect a sort of unity within your graduating class. As freshmen, we were all in this together. Everything was new and exciting, and there was a sense of camaraderie between the newbies on campus. We lived together in our dorms, ate together in the cafete-rias and went to every home football game.

Things switch as the years prog-ress. As sophomores and juniors, you begin to fi nd your niche of friends, you decide on a major, and you become a part of something. You learn about yourself, and you learn where you fi t on this campus.

When you become a senior, there is a return to that sense of cama-raderie that you felt as a fresh-man. The drive to have fun and get the most out of each experience

becomes heightened as you realize that this is the last time you will start class in the fall. This is your last wel-come week, your last Quad Day and your last set of home football games.

The more the merrier is the theme I see being played out this year. Everyone wants to spend time with each other in big groups. We know that the year will fl y by, so we decide early on that this year will be dif-ferent. We will stay up later, make fewer excuses and appreciate every-thing that goes hand in hand with being college students for the last time.

As seniors, we may feel miles away from our freshman selves, but if we look hard enough, we will see that they are still in there some-where. You may not wear your lan-yard around your neck anymore and you may live in an apartment, but chances are, you are still excited for what this year has in store. Per-haps even more so than when you fi rst stepped on to campus wonder-ing what to expect from your college years.

Jordan is a senior in AHS. She can be reached at [email protected].

We live in a fi ght-fi re-with-fi re world, and I have to admit: Sometimes, I’m an eye-for-

an-eye kind of girl.Yes, some may call me passive. But

I’m not about to let you tease me with-out teasing back. A push — metaphori-cally or psychically — will get you a push back. And if you hack my Face-book profi le page, I swear, I will get back at you so fast, it’ll make Mark Zuckerberg’s head spin.

But sometimes we burn our fi res a little too brightly and gouge out eyes too deep. Sometimes, we need to ask ourselves where we should draw the line.

And I’m pretty sure doling out rape threats to a representative’s workforce and family is defi nitely where the line comes down — hard.

Todd Akin, R-Mo., the representative who spoke out very controversially on rape and abortion a couple of weeks ago, has seen threats toward female members of his family and staff, according to the Washington Post. Spe-cifi cally, rape threats. Yes, you heard correctly — the same issue that Akin

has been criticized for is coming back to haunt him.

That’s not OK. That is not OK. A few more things are absolutely worse than that, but I am 110 percent sure that this is right up there.

I’m not condoning the remarks Akin made at all. Don’t forget, he is the man that claimed that women who are “legitimately raped” don’t get preg-nant because their body apparently has a super-human way to shut down the awful.

I don’t really know what science Akin and his team of doctors have been working with, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how pregnancy works. And when I heard what he said, I was appalled. It doesn’t take two cents to realize how offensive this is to rape victims everywhere.

However. There is no excuse for sending the man’s family and his staff these threats. There’s something so convoluted about this, and the worst part is that some of these people who sent these could be activists for wom-en’s rights or pro-abortionists. Guys, we should know better. We should rise above it.

Even if he wasn’t courteous enough to apologize to women directly after-ward, which he did eventually, I would still feel the same way. Not because I sympathize with the man and support him, because that’s obviously not the

case, but because he is a human being, just like us, and doesn’t deserve to be berated in this way.

Let’s also not forget that the peo-ple who are directly threatened aren’t Akin; they are his staffers and family — and they didn’t make the statement.

They may be anti-abortion , and they may believe this science thing that Akin is pushing, but they are not Akin. We have beef with Akin, not his wife.

Maybe we’re looking at the issue all wrong. What do we gain by send-ing threats — rape or otherwise — to Akin, his family, his staff, his pas-tor, his mailperson, or anyone else? Wouldn’t it feel better to get our anger out in healthier ways?

The bigger problem here, honest-ly, doesn’t have to be Akin or even an abortion debate. We can ignore Akin’s wrongness altogether and focus on rape, and we can work to stop it wherever we are. Whether it’s the art of writing letters to senators about enforcing more protection against rape, participating in a “Take Back the Night” walk, or just simply walk-ing home with friends, there are a thousand more things we — Repub-licans, Democrats or whoever — can do that don’t include threatening to rape someone.

Tolu is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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CINCINNATI — Neil Arm-strong made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step onto the moon.

He commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 space-craft on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expedi-tions and becoming the first man to walk on the moon.

His first words after the feat are etched in history books and

the memories of the spellbound millions who heard them in a live broadcast.

Armstrong, who had bypass surgery earlier this month, died Saturday at age 82 from what his family said were complications of heart procedures.

His family didn’t say where he died; he had lived in subur-ban Cincinnati.

He was “a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job,” his family said in a statement.

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KEY WEST, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaac barely stirred Flor-ida Keys residents from their fabled nonchalance Sunday, while the Gulf Coast braced for the possibility that the sprawl-ing storm will strengthen into a dangerous hurricane by the time it makes landfall there.

It was on course to strike land on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a power-ful storm that crippled New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and became a symbol of government ineptitude. Forecasters expect-ed Isaac to pass the Keys late Sunday before turning north-west and striking as a Category 2 hurricane somewhere between New Orleans and the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday.

The National Hurricane Cen-ter issued a hurricane warning for a large swath of the northern Gulf Coast from east of Morgan City, La. — which includes the New Orleans area — to Destin, Fla. A Category 2 hurricane has sustained winds of between 96 and 110 mph (154 to 177 kph).

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called a state of emergency and suggested that people begin leaving low-lying parts of the state. He also said he may skip a speaking engagement later this week at the Republican National

Convention in Tampa unless the threat to his state subsides. Ala-bama Gov. Robert Bentley has also canceled his trip to the con-vention because of Isaac.

Elected leaders’ vigilance toward tropical storms has heightened in the seven years since Katrina struck. Criticism was leveled at officials reaching all the way to the White House over what was seen as the fed-eral government’s slow and bun-gled response to the storm that killed 1,800.

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was also issued in Mississippi by Gov. Phil Bryant amid con-cerns of storm surge threaten-ing low-lying areas. Oil compa-nies began evacuating workers from offshore oil rigs and cut-ting production in advance of Isaac.

The storm was on a course to pass west of Tampa, but it had already disrupted the Republi-cans’ schedule there because of the likelihood of heavy rain and strong winds that extend-ed more than 200 miles from its center.

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CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a bill Sunday that would have required plastic bag man-ufacturers to set up collection and recycling programs, call-ing it a “roadblock” for local communities to make their own choices.

The proposed law says man-ufacturers must set up recy-cling programs with the goal of increasing the recycling rate by 12 percent by 2015 and to eventu-ally make bags from at least 30 percent recycled content. It also would have required manufactur-ers to register with Illinois offi-cials, as retail stores would have been able to use bags only from registered manufacturers. And local municipalities would have been prohibited from enacting their own plastic bag laws, includ-

ing bans.Environmentalists, including

a young teenager who led a peti-tion drive against it, did not sup-port the bill. They claimed that the goals set by the law were min-imal and that local communities could do more by passing their own laws. Plastic bag manufac-turers and the Illinois Retail Mer-chants Association supported the bill.

Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, said he wanted to work on a better plan to increase recycling efforts.

“Let’s not tie the hands of inno-vative Illinois municipalities that are laboratories of reform for Illi-nois,” Quinn said in a statement. “While well-intentioned, this leg-islation is a roadblock to innova-tion that would do little to boost recycling in Illinois. We can do better.”

Dozens of cities nationwide have banned plastic bags, includ-ing Los Angeles and Seattle. Some municipalities fine customers who use them because of concerns over petroleum products, littering and animals becoming tangled in or swallowing them. In Illinois, Champaign had been consider-

ing a fee or ban on plastic bags.Manufacturers said they were

disappointed in Quinn’s deci-sion. Lawmakers could still vote to override Quinn’s veto.

Mark Denzler, vice president of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Asso-ciation, said in a statement that the law “represented an opportu-nity for Illinois to lead the nation in recycling plastic bags and plas-tic film that account for a major part of the waste stream.”

He said that without a state-wide regulation manufacturers and retailers would face a “con-fusing and costly patchwork of regulations across the state.”

Meanwhile, 13-year-old Abby Goldberg of suburban Chicago celebrated the decision. She led a petition drive against the bill with some 170,000 signatures and has pushed for her hometown of Grayslake to ban them.

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BY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER

Well, it’s definitely a new season.There will be no 20-0 start for Illinois volleyball

this year, and a rise to the top of the rankings can be removed from the to-do list, at least for now.

The Illini dropped their first six sets of the 2012 season, good for two losses, courtesy of Dayton on Friday and No. 11 Pepperdine in their first Satur-day contest. Illinois bounced back in the second game Saturday to top Ohio 3-1, but after a 1-2 week-end to start its season, the national championship Illinois was two sets from winning couldn’t seem further away.

Heading into the tournament, the team knew it was facing a feeling-out process, with a roster featuring several key players whose weekend in Dayton served as their first collegiate volleyball experience. Despite the lack of experience, its No. 7 ranking was good to make Illinois the tournament favorite. But very few things went in Illinois’ favor once the games began.

“There was nothing that we executed the way we want to,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “I thought we at least should have something that we execute well on, but we really struggled in every phase. Mostly because I think we were nervous and we played really tight.”

Dayton was able to avenge a five-set Illini victory from 2011 in which the Flyers held a 2-0 set advan-tage before the Illini came back to win a thriller at Huff Hall. The Illini struggled on the attack in Fri-day’s match, committing 14 attack errors to Dayton’s seven and being outblocked 9-2.

“This is a buzz saw we came into tonight,” Ham-bly said in a postgame press release. “They were ready for us.”

Former Illini Jazmine Orozco and No. 11 Pepper-dine also shut out Illinois, despite having fewer team blocks and more attack errors. Pepperdine had 48 kills to Illinois’ 33. Orozco hit .450, had 11 kills and tied for the team lead with 10 digs.

Redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks was a bright spot for Illinois. She led the team with 44 kills on the weekend, including a debut in which she had 16 kills on .452 hitting. Despite losing her first two college matches, Birks was just happy to get the chance to play.

“It didn’t really turn out as we would have wanted, but it was still really fun and I’m glad I got to expe-rience playing and actually putting the jersey on,” Birks said. “I was nervous, of course. I had a lot of emotion, but in the end, I’m really excited still, even after we’re done playing.”

Despite Hambly’s high expectations, the team was not discouraged after the disappointing weekend.

“Yeah, we lost, but we’re gonna take as much posi-tive from it as we can, though, as far as learning what it takes, what we did wrong — so we can start focus-ing on those things,” sophomore Liz McMahon said.

McMahon had 14 kills in Saturday’s finale to help push Illinois over the top and into the wins column.

McMahon said the team was able to identify its weaknesses — taking plays off and toughness — to work on in practice. Although both of those are like-ly a product of a more organic flaw: inexperience.

“Every year, it takes time to get the team going the direction you want it to,” Hambly said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us, as we do every year. And this year we just don’t have quite as much experi-ence, so it’s gonna take a little bit longer to figure some things out.”

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This isn’t going to be your typical sports column.

We need to get that out of the way immediately. I hope it doesn’t make things awkward, just give me a minute to explain.

I just don’t care about the pro-fessional sports, statistics and fan-tasy leagues. To me, sports are life. Sports are unavoidable. Trust me, I’ve tried to avoid them.

Sports are everywhere, in prin-ciple and in theory. There are over 70 listed athletic and recreation organizations on campus in addi-tion to the 21 Division-I sports and, of course, there’s the over-whelming presence of profession-al sports worldwide. Then there’s intramural activities, workout facilities and the fact that every-where you look someone is play-ing something.

You might consider yourself not a sports person or a sports fan, or think you have absolutely no inter-est in sports, but really, sports are a gateway between the principles of play and reality.

I look at the athletes’ backsto-ries: How behind the fame and the money and the phenomenally unrealistic athletic capabilities, they are just like us.

One of my good friends con-stantly tells me that every touch-ing sports story is the same: Suc-cessful athletes find out they

a terminal illness, then they attempt to fight said illness while continuing to compete. Then the athletes either overcome the ill-ness or pass away, thus conclud-ing a heartbreaking tragedy or a heroic tale. There’s so many dif-ferent story lines that these ath-letes go through, so many differ-

ent paths they take in their quest for personal fulfillment, just like any human.

This is untrue.That’s what everyone is search-

ing for, right? Happiness, success and greatness — or simply the

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LIFE THROUGH YOUR SPORTS

BY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER

Facing some of the tough-est competition the team has seen this season, the No. 22 Illinois soccer team dropped Sunday’s match against No. 5 UCLA 2-0 for its first loss of the season — two days after the Illini defeated UC Santa Barbara 1-0.

Junior Vanessa DiBernar-do, who was the leading scor-er last year, has been play-ing for the U.S. under-20 women’s national team, but her absence has given oth-er players a chance to show what assets they can bring to the offense.

“We have a lot of versatile players,” senior Shayla Mutz said. “Vanessa is obviously a huge component and a great player, but I think everyone has been doing a good job of playing to their strengths in order to fill the gaps that Vanessa is leaving.”

In DiBernardo’s absence, the Illini have still managed to have a strong attacking line. It allowed Mutz, who was moved to the back line this year, to score the win-ning goal against UC Santa Barbara. During the early minutes, she put one in the back of the net with a head-er from the box.

“The fact that we are cre-ating chances is the good part because finishing them is something we know we can do,” Mutz said. “We’re confident about scoring goals in the future.”

During the second half, both teams were able to create chances, but none were put away. Goalkeep-er Steph Pannozo was able to earn her second shutout of the season, well ahead of her eight-game shutout pace from last season.

The defense also under-went some changes after graduating Jenna Carosio last season. She played a huge role on the defensive line and quickly adapted to the formation adjustment of having only three women in the back.

This year, the Illini

Illini continue to build chemistry despite roster, scheme changes

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Illinois’ Jonathan Brown tackles Ohio State’s Braxton Miller during the game against Ohio State on Oct. 15. Brown says a successful season is winning the Big Ten championship, something coach Beckman reminds the players every day.

BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER

Illinois football head coach Tim Beckman wanted to take advantage of his first Quad Day at Illinois. He, alongside new men’s basketball head coach John Groce, took to a table to autograph posters for students before inviting them to Memorial Stadium to watch the Illini practice Sunday night.

Beckman even planned on having the fans storm the field and take a pho-to to try and set a world record, but that was derailed by a thunderstorm.

As the players moved their prac-tice from Memorial Stadium to the Illini’s indoor facility and Beckman ran through the rain to avoid getting soaked, he was waving fans to come join and watch the rest of the prac-tice inside Irwin Indoor Facility. The idea comes from his days at Toledo, where Beckman would schedule an open practice and give fans a chance

to interact with the team around the beginning of the fall semester.

Freshmen players on Friday put on skits for the entire team and had their chance at imi-tating coaches, including Beck-man, another tra-dition he started at Toledo.

“It’s fun, a lot of fun,” Beckman said. “Sometimes the kids, I think, get scared of imi-tating me as opposed to imi-tating the posi-tion coaches and coordinators.”

The skit he was most looking for-ward to was of offensive line coach Luke Butkus.

Ever since Beckman took the Illi-

nois job, he has talked of a new era and the different way the Illini will go about their business this sea-son. Every coach brings new things to a team, but Beckman has creat-ed excitement around the program, which is coming off consecutive bowl victories. He really wants students involved and tries to make practic-es fun for the team by adding more competition.

Every chance he gets, he makes the players com-pete, starting with the spring game, when the winning team got to eat steak while the los-ers were left with “beans and weenies.” Also, first-year play-ers have to earn a stripe off their helmet to keep them competing.

Some changes are small and may not be as evident, such as reminding the team every day about the goal to win the Big Ten Championship.

“A successful season is winning a Big Ten championship,” linebacker Jonathan Brown said. “That’s what we’ve been working on ever since Coach Beckman got here. We talk about it every day, and we just want to go out there, and we want to do it every day in practice and every game.”

Now when the players walk around in the football facilities, they don’t wear shoes because Beckman wants them to treat it like their home.

During the team’s media day ear-lier this month, Beckman even hinted that the Illini may not return to Ran-toul. He shortened the normally two-week camp into a week this season and said he wasn’t sure about return-ing next season.

If Illinois can buy into these chang-es, Brown thinks that his team could be better than last year.

“It’s a new opportunity and we rec-ognize that, so we’re ready to go out there and prove ourselves,” Brown said. “I think we have a lot of talent on this team and a close group of guys. I don’t think there will be any drop in play. If anything, I think we’ll play a

New coach works to build excitement, competition

“A successful season is winning a Big Ten

championship. That’s what we’ve been working

on ever since Coach Beckman got here.”

JONATHAN BROWN,linebacker

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DENVER — Peyton Manning was magnifi cent in his fi nal regu-lar-season tuneup Sunday, throw-ing his fi rst two touchdown pass-es for the Denver Broncos in a 29-24 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

Manning completed 10 of 12 passes for 122 yards, includ-ing TD tosses of 10 and 5 yards to Eric Decker, and was nearly perfect.

After managing one TD to go with four turnovers in his fi rst seven possessions this preseason, Manning drove the Broncos (1-2) to scores on all three of his pos-sessions, then put on his visor with 46 seconds left in the fi rst quarter after staking Denver to a 17-0 lead.

Alex Smith threw a 49-yard TD pass and David Akers kicked fi ve fi eld goals for the Niners (2-1), who outscored the Broncos’ back-ups 19-0 in the second half.

For the second straight week, the Broncos’ backups were awful. In blowing a 24-10 halftime lead, they’ve been outscored 40-0 after halftime in the last two games.

Manning was money after that.He completed all six of his

passes for 83 yards on a long drive that ended with his fi rst touchdown throw in orange and blue, a 10-yard strike to Decker, who beat Rogers over the middle.

The highlight of drive was a 38-yard pass to running back Lance Ball, who left the game with a rib injury. Manning was blasted by linebacker Parys Haralson in the chest right as he released his longest pass of the preseason. Manning bounced right up, raced downfi eld, lined up in the no-huddle and hit run-ning back Willis McGahee for 14 yards to the San Francisco 12.

It was the second time Man-ning, who missed all of last season with a neck injury that required four operations, had been hit hard in the preseason, and both times he responded with a big pass for the fi rst down.

Four plays later, Manning found Decker wide open by the back left pylon for his second touchdown and a 17-0 lead over the 49ers (No. 4).

The Broncos’ onside kick backfi red when Matthew Wil-

lis touched the ball about a yard early, and Smith found tight end Vernon Davis all alone along the left sideline for a 49-yard score. Then, Hanie underthrew Decker and former Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox intercepted at mid-fi eld. That led to Akers’ fi rst fi eld goal, from 33 yards out.

Hanie threw a 5-yard touch-down pass to Dreessen that made it 24-10 at halftime.

San Francisco’s ground game, which had gained an NFL-best 378 yards through the fi rst two weeks of the preseason, was sty-mied by the Broncos, who had allowed the Seattle Seahawks to rush for 228 yards a week earlier.

Anthony Dixon had a 26-yard TD run and Akers kicked fi eld goals of 45, 21, 32 and 44 yards. The 32-yarder came after a near-ly 5-minute delay while offi cials tried to fi gure out the line of scrimmage following a confus-ing sequence that included a challenge that wasn’t allowable and a 15-yard penalty fl ag that was picked up. During that time, the offi ciating crew huddled with an NFL representative on the sideline.

Despite strong 1st half, Broncos falter against 49ers

JACK DEMPSEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) passes against the San Francisco 49ers during the fi rst quarter of an NFL preseason football game in Denver, Sunday .

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ability to go to bed with a feeling of contentment.

The fact that everyone, every-where, has some connection with sports makes athletes the perfect humans to relate to. The pure essence of the game, world-wide popularity, accessibility and ability to relate to athletes is something nonexistent in any other area of life.

Take the London Olympics, for example: With 36 sports offered, there was something that most everyone could fi nd an interest in. And with 204 countries repre-sented, most everyone could fi nd someone to cheer for, with every athlete came a different story of hard work, success and failure.

I wrote a 10-part series about an Olympic hopeful from Illinois, male gymnast Paul Ruggeri.

I was able to relate every stage of his journey to my per-sonal life: the excitement and passion of pursuing a dream and the frustration when facing roadblocks. Then came the anxi-ety and restlessness of waiting for results, the satisfaction after minor successes and the inde-scribable feeling of doing every-thing you possibly could and fall-ing short.

Ruggeri ultimately didn’t make the U.S. Olympic team. He’s a human like everybody else, even though he could prob-ably scale a building and then do multiple back fl ips on top of it.

His journey of ups and downs, differing emotions and a pro-gression through stages of life are applicable to your work life, personal relationships and edu-cation. Through sports, you can emphasize with these feelings on a large platform.

When Gabby Douglas became the fi rst American gymnast to win the individual and team all-around gold medals, she inspired not only young gym-nasts and African-Americans across the nation, but any young person with dreams about any form of success.

Look at cyclist Lance Arm-strong, whose fall from grace was displayed to the entire world. Every part of his story is inspirational and relatable, even now. Life is continuing for him, despite everything that’s hap-pened. Armstrong is the perfect example of real life, where peo-ple face remarkable successes and heartbreaking failures and even the intuition to walk away from it all.

Every athlete has a story and the story never stops, even after the pinnacle of success is reached — just like with all of our lives.

There’s a little bit of an ath-lete or sports fan in everyone, even if you’ve never realized it before.

This year, we’re going to explore everybody’s inner ath-letic persona. We’re going to fi nd the less common themes and angles and the less talked about activities. We’re going to travel the bridge between life and sports and everything in between.

We can look at athletes and learn from them, even if we never pick up a ball.

Emily is a graduate student. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyBayci.

Reds lose 8-2 to Cardinals, announce Votto’s returnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds are hoping for a strong fi nish to August after a diffi cult weekend series against the St. Louis Cardinals, and help is on the way for the NL Central leaders.

The Reds announced Sunday that All-Star fi rst baseman Joey Votto will begin a rehab assignment Tuesday at Single-A Dayton, a bright silver lining on the same day they lost 8-2 to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Matt Holliday had four hits and four RBIs as St. Louis handed the Reds their second series loss in 13 sets since the All-Star break. The Cardinals have won fi ve of six to move within six games of the fi rst-place Reds, who are 8-6 in a gru-eling stretch of 17 games in 16 days that manager Dusty Baker called the tough-est of the season.

“This was a tough series,” Baker said. “This is a tough stretch for us. We knew it’d be tough.”

Votto hasn’t played since July 15 after injuring his left knee sliding into third base on June 28 in San Francisco. The 2010 NL MVP started the All-Star game and is hitting .342 with 14 home runs and 49 RBIs.

“I’m a little apprehensive because I haven’t played in a long time,” Votto said before Sunday’s loss. “The work on the fi eld has been good. I have a long way to go on my swing. The things that I’m uncomfortable about will come out when I play in Dayton.”

The Reds could have used Votto on Sunday against Adam Wainwright, who won his fi fth consecutive start.

Wainwright (13-10) allowed two runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings while improving to 6-0 with a 1.80 ERA in his last seven starts overall. The 6-foot-7 right-hander, who missed all of last sea-son because of elbow surgery, hasn’t lost since July 18 at Milwaukee.

“Wainwright threw the ball well,” Bak-er said. “There’s not much else to say,

except they beat us.”Reds right-hander Homer Bailey (10-

9) gave up fi ve runs in six innings while falling to 1-3 with a 6.04 ERA in fi ve August starts. He also allowed a season-high nine hits for the sixth time.

The Cardinals strung together four consecutive ground-ball singles dur-ing a fi ve-hit third inning that plated three runs. Skip Schumaker led off with a double to right-center, and Wainwright chipped in with a one-out single into left fi eld.

Schumaker scored on Jon Jay’s base hit up the middle and Matt Carpenter singled to load the bases for Matt Hol-

liday’s two-run single to left.“That’s the way it goes,” Bailey said.

“I can hold my head up high. I was try-ing to get them to hit ground balls and get some double plays and keep the ball in the yard. It wasn’t like I was all over the place. I didn’t have any walks. You’ve just got to tip your cap to them.”

St. Louis added two more runs in the sixth to make it 5-0. Holliday hit a lead-off triple before Craig drove a 1-2 pitch over the wall in left for his 20th homer.

Chris Heisey and Ryan Ludwick had RBI singles in the sixth for Cincin-nati, which beat the Cardinals 8-2 on Saturday.

Holliday doubled in a run in the sev-enth and singled in Carpenter in the ninth.

“It’s a situation where they came in swinging the bats,” Baker said of St. Louis, which fi nished with 42 hits in the series. “We couldn’t put them away.”

The Reds open a three-game series at Arizona on Monday night.

They are off Thursday before clos-ing out the trip with three at last-place Houston.

“We’ve got to push and push the next three days,” Baker said. “These are the dog days. We’ve got to fi nish strong in August.”

Tigers take advantage of Pujols absence in lineup, defeat Angels 5-2BY LARRY LAGETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — The Los Ange-les Angels had a shot to win two straight series for the fi rst time in a month.

Without Albert Pujols, it just didn’t work out.

Ervin Santana yielded con-secutive homers by Prince Fielder and Delmon Young in the sixth inning, and the Angels went on to a 5-2 loss to Max Scherzer and Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

Los Angeles swept Boston before arriving in Detroit and closed a 4-2 road trip after starting the month 5-12.

“We created a lot of momen-tum with the start of this trip, but we have to keep that going forward,” manager Mike Sci-oscia said. “There’s a big hole in our lineup without Albert, and the Tigers did a great job of keeping Mike (Trout) and Mark (Trumbo) in check. Well, they did a pretty good job of keeping everyone in check.”

Pujols missed his fourth straight game with an injured right calf and the Angels are targeting Tuesday for his return at home against Boston.

“I’m feeling better,” he said. “But they want to give me another day off — what-ever they want to do.”

Scherzer (14-6) gave up one run and struck out nine over seven innings. Joaquin Ben-oit struck out two more in a perfect eighth, and Jose Val-verde struck out another bat-ter while closing it out.

Santana (7-11) allowed four runs and fi ve hits over seven innings.

“I have to keep pitching like this,” he said. “My con-fi dence is up, and I’m keep-ing my team in games. That’s the job.”

Santana, who lost for the fi rst time since July 21, struck out fi ve and walked three.

The free passes hurt him more than the hits that went over the fence, according to

Scioscia“He challenges guys with

every pitch, and there are going to be times he gives up homers,” Scioscia said. “That’s how he’s pitched his whole career, and he’s shown that he’s better when he oper-ates that way. I thought the walks were what hurt him. (Omar) Infante and (Andy) Dirks both walked, and they both scored.”

The Tigers and Angels may be vying for an AL wild card with 30-plus games left in the regular season, and Detroit also rested one of its stars heading into an off day on Monday.

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was out of the line-up for the fi rst time this year, nursing his sore right ankle with the expectation he will be able to play third base Tues-day at Kansas City.

Trout snapped an 0-for-9 skid with a leadoff single in the fi rst inning and scored his 100th run of the year.

AL BEHRMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

St. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Holliday hits a double to drive in a run in the seventh inning against the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday in Cincinnati. Holliday had four hits and four RBIs in the 8-2 St. Louis win.

DUANE BURLESON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer delivers a pitch against the Los Angeles Angels in the second inning Sunday in Detroit. The Tigers won 5-2.

changed from a three-back to a four-back formation, provid-ing the opportunity for players to step up in a leadership role that Carosio left.

“Christina Farrell has done a really good job in the back line of organizing and talk-ing,” senior Kristen Gierman said of the junior defender. “I think they’ve done a real-ly good job holding us down back there.”

Sunday, the Illini fell to the Bruins 2-0. They held tough in the beginning, keeping the score 0-0 at the half, but then allowed UCLA to score two goals in the second half. The fi rst goal was in the 48th min-ute on a breakaway from Zaki-

ya Bywaters . The Bruins added an insurance goal on a coun-ter attack from Ally Court-nall with 30 minutes remaining.

I l l i -nois cre-ated many o p p o r t u -nities but w e r e n ’ t able to put any away.

“I think that there a re so many new faces. We are con-tinuing to d e v e l o p some chemistry on the attack-ing side of the ball,” Illinois interim head coach Jeff Free-

man said. “Also, making better decisions in terms of when we need to slow the game down

and possess ver-sus when we need to go at teams, and that is some-thing that we are going to have to keep in mind.”

This weekend, the Illini totaled 11 shots against UC Santa Barba-ra and only eight in their loss to UCLA.

There have been many new changes this sea-son, including a temporary new

head coach in Jeff Freeman. Last year was his fi rst season at Illinois, serving as one of

the assistant coaches but was transitioned to interim head coach for the 2012 season in head coach Janet Rayfi eld’s absence because of her role as the assistant coach for the same U.S. under-20 national team with DiBernardo on its roster.

With preparation far in advance, Freeman has quick-ly adjusted to his new position for the Illini.

“We’ve really been plan-ning for sixth months for this,” Freeman said. “It’s been a pretty smooth transi-tion. I think the players have responded pretty well, but at the same time we are still looking forward to having them back.”

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“I think that there are so many new faces we are continuing to develop some chemistry on the

attacking side of the ball.”

JEFF FREEMAN,interim head coach

little harder this year.”The holdovers, including play-

ers and coaches from when Ron Zook was coaching the Illini, have said they don’t want to talk about things from last year, even if they are positive, like the top-ranked defense.

Wide receiver Darius Millines said the team is buying into Beck-man’s system, expressing excite-ment over having the chance to use the whole fi eld with the spread offense.

Millines said of the 0-6 record to fi nish the year, “We’re starting to believe even more than we did ... those last six games.”

Email: [email protected]: @JamalCollier

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Volstad ends losing streak against Rockies

Despite rain, Sox complete series sweep

BY GENARO ARMASTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Arms outstretched in the air with a smile from ear to ear, Noriatsu Osaka couldn’t contain his glee.

Neither could his teammates from Tokyo after Osaka’s third home run of the game put an exclamation point on Japan’s 12-2 victory over Tennessee in fi ve innings in the Little League World Series title game Sunday.

The 12-year-old Osaka added a tri-ple for good measure, too, to top off his 4-for-4 afternoon. In a symbolic ges-ture, Japan’s players jogged the tradi-tional postgame victory lap carrying the fl ags for both their home country and the United States.

“We had such a great time in Pennsyl-vania and we really played a good game today. It was kind of a, ‘Thanks,’” Osaka said through an interpreter.

Starter Kotaro Kiyomiya struck out eight in four innings and added an RBI single for Japan. The game ended in the fi fth after Osaka’s third homer made it a 10-run game.

“We thought we played the best in the tournament so far, especially to win by the 10-run rule in the fi nals,” said 12-year-old Rintaro Hirano, who hom-ered in the fourth to make it 10-1.

A day after pounding out a 24-16 win over California in the U.S. title game, the Goodlettsville, Tenn., sluggers could only muster two hits — solo shots by Brock Myers and Lorenzo Butler.

It was a bittersweet fi nal game for two teams that grew close during their two weeks in South Williamsport.

They exchanged customary postgame handshakes at the plate before Japan received the World Series champion-ship banner and took their warning-track run.

“Tennessee was our best friends in the U.S. division,” Kiyomiya said.

Japan’s jog fi nally stopped in front of the team’s giddy cheering section as proud family members and friends stood shoulder-to-shoulder to take pictures through the infi eld fence.

There were so many highlights, includ-ing fi ve home runs off Tennessee pitching.

That was more than enough offense for 13-year-old ace Kiyomiya, who had a fastball clocked in the high-70s.

The right-hander with the hitch in mid-delivery pitched like a big-league ace in allowing just one hit.

Regardless, this is still a banner year for Goodlettsville after its exhausting victory Saturday over Petaluma, Calif., for the U.S. championship. That game set a record for most combined runs in the World Series.

The thrilling victory kept the Tennes-see players and their families up late into the night.

“(The parents) must have partied

harder than the kids did,” manager Joey Hale said. “I knew we’d be fl at today.”

Tennessee lost a 10-run lead in the bottom of the sixth of that game before scoring nine times the next inning to fi nally put away Petaluma in a Little League classic.

Even more impressively, Butler had three homers and a record nine RBIs —

a feat so unique the 12-year-old’s name became a trending topic on Twitter.

Butler went deep again off reliever Osaka in the fi fth — Butler’s fourth hom-er in two days — to cut the lead to 10-2 and give Goodlettsvile some home hope.

Tennessee’s mini-mashers have proved they can break out any time at the plate.

“It feels really good, and it was really

great,” Butler said simply about his hit-ting exploits.

He said his three homers Saturday were the longest he had hit all season.

Its pitching depth sapped, Ten-nessee turned to right-hander Justin Smith to start against Japan — the fi rst time the 12-year-old had pitched in the World Series or in Southeast regional tournament.

BY RICK GANOTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Chris Volstad ended a 24-start winless streak Sunday, allowing three hits in 6 2-3 strong innings for his fi rst victory in 13 months as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 5-0 in a game shortened to eight innings by rain.

Volstad (1-9), acquired from Miami for Carlos Zambrano, earned his fi rst win since he beat Houston while pitching for the Marlins on July 10, 2011.

The major league record for consecu-tive winless starts is 28, shared by Jo-Jo Reyes, Matt Keough and Cliff Curtis.

Volstad was taken out to an ovation in the seventh after former Cub Tyler Col-vin doubled with two outs and Chris Nel-son walked.

Manny Corpas then retired Jonathan Herrera on a fi elder’s choice grounder to end the threat.

Volstad struck out three and walked three in a 101-pitch effort.

Shawn Camp pitched the eighth for his second save in fi ve chances, completing a four-hitter.

The start of the game was delayed 2 hours, 23 minutes by rain.

With Chicago leading 5-0, there was another delay after the eighth inning and the game was called 30 minutes later.

Starlin Castro scored three times and Darwin Barney had two RBIs as the Cubs took two of three from the Rockies.

Colorado right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (1-4), making just his second start since returning from the disabled list, gave up a run and fi ve hits in fi ve innings.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Tyler Flowers hit a go-ahead hom-er just before the fi nal downpour and the Chicago White Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in a rain-shortened game Sunday for their sixth straight victory.

Immediately following a 6-minute rain delay in the seventh inning, Flowers launched a two-run shot off Kevin Millwood to lead fi rst-place Chicago to its second consecutive series sweep.

Rain continued to pour until the tarp was put on to stay two batters later, and the game was called after a wait of nearly 2 hours.

The start was delayed for 1 hour, 51 minutes due to showers that persisted throughout the game before it was fi nally stopped.

The White Sox retained their 2!-game lead in the AL Central over the Tigers, who beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-2.

Chicago starter Gavin Floyd, however, left after two innings with right elbow discomfort.

Capser Wells hit a two-run homer for Seattle.Nate Jones (7-0) escaped a seventh-inning jam

after inheriting runners on fi rst and third with nobody out.

He earned his second win in two days.The young fl amethrower struck out Trayvon Rob-

inson looking after inducing a pair of soft popups. The Mariners had won 10 of 11 before being swept by Chicago.

All three games were decided by one run.Floyd allowed a pair of singles to start the game,

and Dustin Ackley scored on Jesus Montero’s infi eld

single. Floyd limited the fi rst-inning damage to one run despite giving up three hits and a walk.

He pitched a 1-2-3 second, but did not return for the third. The team announced right elbow dis-comfort for the 29-year-old, who was relieved by Hector Santiago.

Santiago was fl awless through his fi rst two innings, but ran into trouble in the fi fth. Wells sent a 3-2 pitch into the left-center seats follow-ing Justin Smoak’s leadoff single. It was his eighth home run of the year.

Alex Rios reached 20 homers and 20 steals in the

second inning when he stole second base. He later scored on Jordan Danks’ sacrifi ce fl y.

Rios joined Ray Durham and Magglio Ordonez, who both accomplished the feat in 2001, as the only White Sox players to have at least 30 doubles, 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in a season.

Rios also went 20-20 in 2010 with Chicago, fi n-ishing with 29 doubles.

Kevin Youkilis tripled home a run in the third inning. Seattle right fi elder Eric Thames misplayed the shallow liner that bounced all the way to the wall as Ray Olmedo scored from fi rst.

GENE J. PUSKAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tokyo, Japan’s Noriatsu Osaka rounds the bases past Goodlettsville, Tenn., second baseman Lorenzo Butler after hitting a walk-off, two-run home run in the fi fth inning of the Little League World Series championship baseball game in South Williamsport, Pa., on Sunday . Tokyo won 12-2 in fi ve innings.

JOHN SMIERCIAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Chicago White Sox’s Tyler Flowers connects for a two-run home run against the Seattle Mariners during the seventh inning of a baseball game Sunday in Chicago. Rain threatened to end the game, but skies cleared, allowing the Sox to win.

Chicago maintains 2.5-game lead in AL Central

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