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The University recently established yet another col-laboration with Carle Foun-dation Hospital. Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research, or C*STAR, is a new graduate fellowship program within the Cancer Community at Illinois, which comes just weeks after the announce-ment of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine.
According to the pro-gram’s website, the Can-cer Community “provides resources to access cancer-related activities across campus and nucleate new programs and activities to advance cancer research progress.”
Graduate students inter-ested in cancer research will be able to collaborate with physicians at Carle to improve and further their research.
Rohit Bhargava, bioengi-neering professor, spear-headed the establishment of the graduate program.
When he began working at the University almost 10 years ago, barriers between the University and local hospitals made it extreme-ly difficult for students to fully satisfy their research goals, Bhargava said.
While he and other pro-fessors have been discuss-ing a graduate program in the cancer community for the past few years, he said it did not come together until recently.
“Over the last six months or so we’ve managed to iron out all the details,” Bhar-gava said.
He said the student pro-gram needed to be devel-oped first.
“Carle and UIUC are pro-viding matching funds for graduate fellowships for work in cancer research,” said Rashid Bashir, head of the bioengineering department.
The Cancer Communi-ty arranged the matching program with Carle so half of the costs are paid by the hospital and the other half are paid with University funds.
Physician release times were also arranged with the hospital, Bhargava said, so physicians will be available every few weeks to work with students during an afternoon and devote time to the students’ research. The Cancer Community has arranged for five years of collaboration but hopes the program continues afterward.
“It isn’t just a student program,” he said. “Oth-erwise the student would run into the same problem as they had previously: that the student is available and ready, but then there’s nobody to talk to.”
According to C*STAR’s website, long-term goals of the program include build-ing connections between University students and
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UI, Carle stay to establish cancer research program
STEM program combats African- American underrepresentation
FARAZ MIRZA THE DAILY ILLINILeft: Kevin Love panhandling on Green Street on Friday, April 24. Right: Panhandler “Ghost” holding a sign in Downtown Champaign on Wednesday, April 29.
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Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on panhandling within Campustown.
BY ANDREW NOWAKSTAFF WRITER
Kevin Love stares straight ahead as he sits hunched over outside HomeTown Pantry on Green Street, ask-ing for change.
Love said he is current-ly homeless and not able to afford rent because he lost his job with Bankier Apart-ments in Champaign in 2012. He had been living in one of the company’s apart-ment buildings until Decem-ber 2014. Due to how Love lost his job, he was not able to receive unemployment payments.
Love has been panhan-dling on Green Street for the past four and a half months, asking for money to rent a hotel room and buy food.
“You got to have a roof over your head,” Love said. “Sleeping in under-
ground parkings and find-ing here and there little holes to duck in, that ain’t too cool, because you have to find cardboard, blankets, stuff like that to stay warm because I still want to live.”
L o v e said he c a n n o t u t i l i z e local shel-ters, such as the T I M E S C e n t e r and Step-ping Stone S h e l t e r, due to its back-g r o u n d c h e c k require -m e n t s . Love said he has two orders of protection from when he lived in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1987 and was in prison from 1989 to 2003 for selling crack cocaine and involve-ment in human trafficking.
He said he makes $60 on a good day, and on his worst day he made $21 after pan-handling from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. On a normal day, Love goes to the Champaign Pub-lic Library in the morning
to fill out job appli-cat ions , and then s t a r t s panhan-d l i n g a r o u n d 3:30 or 4 p.m., s t a y i n g until 2 a.m.
T o n y Comtois, m e n t o r at C-U at H o m e ,
said there is a reason why the same people are con-stantly seen on Green Street. He said the panhan-dlers are very territorial and panhandle in the area they sleep in. The panhan-
dlers also cooperate with each other in order to max-imize how much money they could make.
“(They think) don’t crowd up on me because then nei-ther one of us are going to get any money,” Comtois said. “But if you stand four blocks down, they might give me some change here and then they might give you some change down there.”
Comtois said, Green Street, downtown Cham-paign and Prospect Avenue are the main areas panhan-dling occurs.
On Jan. 28, 2014, the Champaign County Continu-um of Care conducted a sur-vey of the county’s homeless population, both sheltered and unsheltered. The sur-vey found 222 people in 176 households were homeless and 47 were children.
Compared to the 2013 sur-vey, which found 214 home-less in the county, the num-
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Underrepresented is not often the word that comes to mind when discussing males in science, technolo-gy, engineering and mathe-matics, or STEM; however, the mission of the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy is to eliminate the under-representation of African American boys in STEM subjects.
The academy hosted its second annual science fair Saturday to exhibit what students have learned through their participa-tion in the program.
Nearly 30 students took part in the program and science fair this year, said Jerrod Henderson, lecturer in chemical and biomolecu-lar engineering.
The program not only focuses on educating young African-American boys but their fathers as well.
Henderson and Ricky Greer, an academic hour-ly in chemical and biomo-lecular engineering, devel-oped the program as a way to increase representation of African American men in STEM.
“My favorite part (of the program) is probably the science fair,” Greer said. “Seeing the kids explain their understanding of these sometimes high-end or really interesting sci-ence content.”
Henderson said the pro-gram specifically targets 4th and 5th grade students to combat the growing dis-interest in STEM fields that traditionally occurs at that age.
The St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy is an eight-week program host-ed at Booker T. Washington and Garden Hills elemen-tary schools on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
On Tuesday and Thurs-day, Henderson said, typ-ically, a student from a University registered stu-dent organization leads an experiment.
On Saturday, fathers and male role models are invit-ed to help students com-plete the experiments.
Henderson said his favor-ite part of the program is watching fathers engage with their children and see-ing the children learn from their own father or others
in attendance.Although the program’s
typical seed money came from the University’s Office of Public Engage-
ment, Greer said they do not currently receive fund-ing from the University.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JERROD A. HENDERSONStudents enrolled in the STEM Academy work on a chemistry experiment after their regular elementary school classes.
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“What we try to do is educate both
the public and panhandlers on what’s
appropriate and not appropriate...”
KERRI SPEARNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAMS MANAGER
Panhandlers asking for money are met with student, cop skepticism
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GORNJA MAOCA, Bosnia-Herze-govina — One day in early February, the black fl ag of the Islamic State appeared on the roof of a dilapidated home in Gornja Maoca, an isolated hamlet in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The fl ag was gone when the police arrived, and whoever hoisted it was never found. But the episode reaffi rmed to Bosnian offi cials and Western intel-ligence agencies that the settlement, peopled by followers of Saudi Arabia’s puritanical brand of Islam, known as Wahhabism, has ties to the networks that have recruited hundreds of Mus-lim men from across the Balkans to fi ght in Syria and Iraq.
“It is fair to say that it (Gorjna Mao-ca) is perhaps the biggest center of extremism in Bosnia,” said a Western intelligence offi cial. While the region hasn’t seen the kinds of mass terrorist attacks that have shocked France, they wouldn’t be a surprise, the offi cial said: “We’ve seen aspirational plotting.”
Most of the men who’ve left the Bal-kans to fi ght in the Middle East come from Bosnia and Kosovo, parts of for-mer Yugoslavia whose independence was secured by U.S.-led military inter-ventions in the 1990s. Nearly half of Bosnia’s 3.8 million people are Mus-lim. Kosovo, whose 1.8 million popula-tion is 95 percent Muslim, arguably is Europe’s most pro-American country. A statue and massive portrait of for-mer President Bill Clinton overlook a thoroughfare named after him in the capital, Pristina, where there’s also a street named for George W. Bush and a boutique named for Hillary Clinton.
Since the wars, the United States and its European partners have spent bil-lions of dollars and years of diploma-
cy trying to help build the two nations into stable democracies. Yet both coun-tries are mired in dysfunctional gov-ernance, pervasive corruption, ethnic divisions and poverty-fueled despair, conditions that have boosted the appeal of hard-line Islam, the seeds of which were planted, ironically, with the help of some of America’s closest Arab allies.
And even as Balkan men fi ght in Syria and Iraq, mostly with the Islamic State, fundamentalists at home are intensifying attacks on the legitimacy of the liberal ver-sion of Islam that’s evolved in the Balkans over centuries. The result is mounting fears that the assault on traditional Islam will intensify, fueling insecurity, and that Bosnia and Kosovo could become pathways to the West for deeply radicalized jihadis.
“For these conservative radical groups, their fi rst purpose is to take over the Muslim community of Koso-vo,” said Ramadan Ilazi, the coun-try’s deputy minister for European integration and an expert on political Islam. “It’s a real challenge.”
Even if they don’t indulge them-selves, most Balkan Muslims tol-erate drinking and smoking. They eschew Islamic-style beards and veils and rarely — if ever — attend mosque. They freely mix with the opposite sex and members of other faiths, and marry non-Muslims.
Some traditional clerics who’ve spo-ken out against extremism have been harassed, assaulted and forced out of their mosques. They’ve had their sermons disrupted and have been denounced as infi dels on videos and radical websites that condemn tradi-tional Islam as apostasy.
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Champaign Criminal damage to
property was reported at Circle K, 1713 W. John St., around 12:30 a.m. Friday.
According to the report, the offender damaged a window but was not lo-cated.
Criminal damage to property was reported in the 100 block of East Dan-iel Street around 7:30 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, the offender damaged the parked vehicles of two
victims. Disorderly conduct
was reported on the inter-section of State and Eu-reka Streets around 12:30 a.m. on Friday.
According to the report, the offender attempted to enter the victim’s vehicle.
University A University stu-
dent was arrested for possession of canna-bis with intent to deliv-er at his apartment in the 1000 block of South Third
Street around 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
According to the re-port, police seized $545 and cannabis during a search of the suspect’s room.
Urbana Stalking was report-
ed at Flying Machine Cof-fee Shop, 208 W. Main St., around 3:30 p.m. on Fri-day.
According to the re-port, the victim previous-ly had a relationship with
the offender, and the vic-tim believed the offender was stalking her.
Trespassing and pos-session of drug equip-ment were reported in the 2300 block of East Main Street around 11:30 p.m. on Friday.
According to the re-port, the offender entered an unoccupied residence previously condemned by the city with contraband in his possession.
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JONATHAN LANDAY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEMannequins dressed in Western women’s clothing on a sidewalk in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
However, the program has received funds from Chev-ron Phillips Chemical and the PASS Program.
St. Elmo Brady was a University alumnus and
the first African-American man to earn a Ph.D. in the United States, according to the chemistry depart-ment’s website.
Henderson said a photo of Brady in the Noyes Labo-ratory inspired him during his time at the University.
Additionally, Brady
taught at Greer’s alma mater, Tuskegee Univer-sity, and was mentored by Booker T. Washington.
The program began at Booker T. Washington Ele-mentary. Greer and Hen-derson said their goal is to continue the program’s growth.
“We would love to expand to a couple other cities in the state of Illinois and maybe eventually a couple other states,” Henderson said. “So we’re just con-tinuing to think big and move forward.”
Carle physicians, develop-ing a foundation for tangi-ble outcomes and attracting more high-quality clini-cian-scientists to Carle and
translation-focused faculty to the University.
Although incoming stu-dents can apply to the pro-gram, Bhargava said he believes students who are already enrolled and doing research at the University will be at an advantage.
The Cancer Community is accepting applications for the graduate program until June 1. Up to six stu-dents will be accepted and notified by July 1; funding is provided to each student for up to three years.
Bhargava said the appli-
cation can be found on the program’s website and requires a one page description of the student’s research plans and who they will collaborate with at Carle.
ber of chronic substance abusers dropped from 56 to 26, and the number of unsheltered dropped from 26 to 12.
However, Skip Frost, Dep-uty Chief of Police for the University, said not all pan-handlers are homeless.
Frost said he has seen a man who stands on the median outside the Savoy Walmart panhandle for money and then drive away in his car at the end of the day.
Love said a lot of panhan-dlers use their earnings to “drink and drug,” which can affect the donations panhan-dlers receive due to skepti-cism of the public.
Achal Varma, junior in Engineering, is among the population of skeptical stu-dents. He said he doesn’t give money because he ends up seeing them in the same place every day.
“You can’t hold them accountable for what they do with it, even though I feel sorry,” Varma said.
Frost said while panhan-dling is not illegal, aggres-sive panhandling is ille-gal under Champaign City ordinance.
The department receives complaints about aggres-sive panhandling weekly from the general public, even people just driving through town or parents reading crime alert emails, Frost said.
Kerri Spear, Neighbor-hood Programs Manager for Champaign, said the city has worked with business owners in the campus area before to educate them on panhandling.
“What we try to do is edu-cate both the public and pan-handlers on what’s appro-priate and not appropriate, and then how to respond to those situations,” Spears said.
Frost said the police need community assistance. He urges people to contact the police if they want to address the issue because aggressive panhandlers won’t do so in front of the police.
“The problem is when the people who do panhan-
dle on campus, when they get aggressive, we’re not having people call us at the time,” Frost said. “They’ll wait a day, or five, or ten or they’ll just drive through campus and see the folks out there panhandling and then complain about it.”
Frost said when the police are called about some-one being victimized by aggressive panhandling, police interview the victim and the suspect in order to determine if they will issue a citation. A citation for aggressive panhandling is $185, according to the city’s ordinance violation.
When the police respond to calls regarding aggres-sive panhandling, this can lead to catching bigger issues because Frost esti-mates a quarter of the time the panhandlers are wanted on a city, civil or criminal warrant. Panhandlers may also be carrying drugs or alcohol in public, Frost said.
Green Street has the highest concentration of panhandlers, Frost said. He said it used to be worse when the men’s shelter was at the McKinley Center at Fifth and John streets.
Robert Swinford, Direc-tor of the Salvation Army’s Stepping Stone Shelter, said the main reason panhan-dlers go to Prospect Avenue and Green Street is because of the high volume of traffic. Panhandlers are in down-town Champaign because it
is centrally located to where all of their resources are, such as the homeless shel-ters and soup kitchen, Swin-ford said.
Frost said students on campus are generous when it comes to panhandlers and assume panhandlers will use the money given to improve their lives. But Frost said that is usually not the case.
“What we know is that for the most part, that’s not what that money goes for,” Frost said. “That mon-ey goes for alcohol, it goes
for drugs, it may go for any other vices that they have.”
Comtois said the panhan-dlers all have some sort of addiction, but what it is,is hard to say.
“I know for a fact one of the guys spends a lot of mon-ey on video games,” Com-tois said. “If you call that an addiction, you call that an addiction. But he’s out there panhandling, and he’s got a better video game system in his hotel than I do.”
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Bernie Sanders calls for “political revolution” against billionaires
Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley defends record
Saudi Arabia searches for next step in Yemen campaign
Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard to !y Solar Impulse 2
Shortage of mental health professionals reaches crisis levels
Hillary Clinton returning to site of ugly 2008 primary battle
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders called Sun-day for a “political revolu-tion” that would take on the “billionaire class” and ush-er in a European-style sys-tem that would be fairer to working Americans.
“We need a political revo-
lution in this country involv-ing millions of people who are prepared to stand up and say, enough is enough, and I want to help lead that ef-fort,” Sanders, I-Vt., said on ABC’s “This Week” when asked why he was running for president.
No Democrat is having a harder time moving away from the tough-on-crime ‘90s than former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a possible Democratic presidential can-didate who was plagued in the past week by questions over his policing policies when he was mayor of Bal-timore.
On Sunday, O’Malley con-
tinued to defend his record and said Baltimore would be the setting of his presidential campaign announcement if he decides to run.
“I wouldn’t think of an-nouncing anyplace else,” O’Malley said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We are not defeated as a city, and we are not about to throw in the towel on our country.”
ISLAMABAD — Reports over the weekend that Houthi rebels had crossed into Saudi Arabia from Ye-men and killed three Sau-di border guards have re-newed discussion about whether the Saudi-led co-alition is looking for ways to launch a ground invasion to thwart the rebels’ advance.
The refusal so far by Egypt and Pakistan, which field the Muslim world’s largest militaries, to con-tribute land forces to the Saudi-led military coalition has forced the kingdom to conduct the war primarily
from the air.But the aerial campaign
has done little to roll back the Houthi forces, who still control the capital, Sanaa, and much of Yemen. The next step, say analysts who specialize in Middle East security, is for Saudi Ara-bia and its anti-Houthi al-lies to find a way to conduct a ground campaign.
To that end, Saudi Arabia has again asked Egypt and Pakistan to contribute spe-cial forces to the next phase of the anti-Houthi operation in Yemen, which is called “Operation Restore Hope.”
NANJING, China — It takes a Boeing 747 about 10 hours and 36,000 gallons of fuel to fly from eastern China to Hawaii. As soon as Tuesday, Andre Borschberg will attempt the same flight in a high-tech, sun-powered aircraft that resembles a dragonfly. He’ll do it over five days, without a drop of fuel.
No one before has at-tempted a solar-powered flight over such a large ex-panse of ocean — 5,070 miles. If bad weather or oth-er problems force him to ditch his Solar Impulse 2 plane, Borschberg will have
only his wits and a life raft to save him.
Borschberg acknowledg-es the dangers. So does his fellow Swiss adventurer, Bertrand Piccard, who flew the single-seat plane to Chi-na in April and is slated to fly it from Hawaii to Phoe-nix later this month.
“Yes, we are nervous. I am nervous also,” Piccard said in an interview in Nan-jing. “But more than any-thing, we are impressed. We’re in awe of the enor-mous distance over water that we have to do: Andre for the first part, and me for the second part.”
WASHINGTON — Chang-es to health care law in the past year gave millions of Americans access to mental health and substance abuse treatment, but did nothing to address a shortage of pro-fessionals who can provide that care.
Experts say the shortage of providers has reached “cri-
sis” levels, and there is little indication that their numbers will increase to keep pace with the demand.
“We have a shortage all across the country. I can’t point to a state where it’s not a problem,” said Becky Vaughn, vice president of ad-dictions at the National Coun-cil for Behavioral Health.
LAS VEGAS — In the long, bitter campaign fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the rancor in Nevada matched only a few other states.
The state’s 2008 Democrat-ic caucus, scheduled early in the race to boost its influence, yielded a federal lawsuit, a fight between labor unions, charges of voter intimidation and accusations of prejudice, among other bricks that were heaved between the battling candidates and their backers — including a livid President Bill Clinton.
Fittingly, the contest ended in a split decision, with Hill-ary Clinton winning the popu-lar vote and Obama claiming the most nominating dele-gates to the Democratic Na-tional Convention.
Against that contentious backdrop, Clinton will return to Nevada on Tuesday to host the latest in a series of small-scale appearances undertak-en since she announced her second presidential candida-cy this month.
She will also test the rela-tions frayed by that fratricid-al 2008 contest.
Cannibuster in the works
BY RICK ARMONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
AKRON, Ohio — Two University of Akron stu-dents are developing a mobile device similar to a Breathalyzer that will test the level of marijuana in one’s system.
Called the Cannibus-ter, it could be a signifi-cant roadside tool for law enforcement as more states allow the medical and rec-reational use of the drug.
“Marijuana is consid-ered to be the fastest-grow-ing industry in the United States today,” said UA bio-medical engineering stu-dent Kathy Stitzlein, who came up with the idea. “We want to be on the cutting edge.”
If authorities now sus-pect marijuana impairment in motorists, they have to rely on blood or urine tests that can take weeks for confirmation. But the Cannibuster, using sali-va, will provide a reading for the level of tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC) in a few minutes on a device that’s about the size of a smartphone.
The potential mar-ket for the technology is huge. Twenty-three states, including California, Colo-rado and Washington, per-mit medical or recreational marijuana use. Proponents also have been trying to get an issue on the ballot in Ohio to legalize the drug.
States have allowed mar-ijuana use and then have
no way of knowing — other than using drug recogni-tion techniques or picking up an odor — whether some-one is actually impaired at the scene, Stitzlein said.
“That’s a little disturbing when you think about safe-ty on the roads,” she said.
The effort, led by Stit-zlein, 54, of Millersburg, and Mariam Crow, 23, of Akron, already is attract-ing plenty of attention — both comical and finan-cial. The invention was mentioned on the “Conan” show last week, with TV host Conan O’Brien goof-ing on the possibility of a device detecting marijua-na use.
The Ohio Third Frontier has provided $50,000 in funding, with UA match-ing that amount. Stitzlein and Crow also won the LaunchTown Entrepre-neurship competition last month, earning $10,000 from the Burton D. Mor-gan Foundation.
“A lot of big inventions were actually invented by students who are young-er than us,” Crow said. “The point of our team is to encourage students to create medical devices that can possibly make the market.”
They hooked up through UA’s Biomedical Engineer-ing Design Team. Stitzlein is focusing on the technol-ogy, while Crow is working on the marketing side and developing relationships with law enforcement.
They still have plenty of work to do before the Can-nibuster hits the road for field testing. They are con-ducting lab tests involving blood, urine and saliva to ensure reliable readings and will even do a con-trolled study with people
in the future.They hope to have a pro-
totype device developed by December and then have law enforcement test it in the field.
“Initially, we plan on this being a screening device to help them decide if they are going to do further test-ing,” said Stitzlein, who had returned to school after working as a mechanical engineer. “But the ultimate goal would be that we vali-date oral fluid as a method of testing.”
Although the product is designed for law enforce-ment, it also could be use-ful for marijuana users who want to check on their con-dition — or even schools, hospitals and employers.
Stitzlein anticipated the Cannibuster costing about $300, with a $15 microchip needed for each test.
The product idea came to Stitzlein, a mother of four who worked for the family business, as she was trying to figure out a project for extra credit. It puzzled her that Colorado and Washing-
ton approved marijuana possession but there was no testing device in place for law enforcement.
They hope the Cannibus-ter is available if or when marijuana becomes legal in Ohio.
Denver police spokes-man Sonny Jackson said a device that detects mar-ijuana levels could be useful.
“Over the years, technol-ogy has helped in the field with drinking and driving,” he said. “Technology may prove beneficial with drug recognition as well.”
Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Craig Cvetan was more skeptical, saying he would expect the device to be challenged and inadmis-sible as evidence in court.
“People are going to chal-lenge the science, whether it’s breath testing or blood or radar,” he said.
He added that marijuana — at least when it is smoked — has a distinct odor dur-ing traffic stops and is one of the easiest drugs for authorities to detect.
A look at what panhandlers can and can’t doPanhandling is when a person asks for an immediate donation from another person, regardless if the request is written, spoken or printed.
Panhandling is illegal when someone is asking: within a 10-foot radius of
an ATMon public transportation
or at a bus stop or train station
within 10 feet of a bus stop sign
on private or residential property when permission
has not been given or a sign prohibits the action
someone in a motor vehicle traveling on public property
Aggressive panhandling is illegal and de!ned as:
interacting with someone in a way that makes them fearful of bodily harm or that a crime may occur to their person or property
touching someone without permission
continuing to panhandle after someone declines
blocking the way of someone or their vehicle
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTDavon Isiah Hart, 20, and
Philip Eugene Knee, 28, both of Champaign, were arrested on the charge of armed rob-bery Friday.
According to a report from the University of Illinois Police Department, a male student was approached by three men while walking near Lincoln Avenue Resi-dence Hall, 1005 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana, around 9:30 p.m.
One of the men displayed a handgun before demand-ing the student’s belongings.
The report stated two men were arrested in con-
nection to Friday’s robbery, but police are still search-ing for the third offender. He is described as an 18- to 22-year-old black male, standing at approximately 5’06” with shoulder-length black, braided hair.
Hart and Knee are cur-rently being held in the Champaign County Jail, said Patrick Wade, spokesman for the University police depart-ment. Wade said Hart was arrested at 11:08 p.m. and Knee at 11:38 p.m. Friday.
Wade said neither Hart nor Knee had criminal history in Champaign County, prior to their arrests.
FARAZ MIRZA THE DAILY ILLINIKevin Love receives a meal from sophomore Connor Rechsteiner on Green Street on Friday.
Student duo developing device to test for marijuana
PHIL MASTURZO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEUniversity of Akron researchers Kathy Stitzlein and Mariam Crow talk about being awarded a $100,000 grant to develop a cannibuster, a device used to detect the level of marijuana in your system, on April 20 in Akron, Ohio.
Two Champaign men arrested for LAR robbery
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A plague is spreading across the nation — young Americans born
between 1980 and 2004, known colloquially as millen-nials, are coming of age and beginning to infect the world as we know it.
Perhaps we should have seen this coming. Millennials have been spoiled since they were born; new technologies like the Internet and smart-phones have put all the infor-mation in the world at their fingertips.
Sure, the Internet has gift-ed the new ruling genera-tion with the ability to con-nect and share ideas with the entire world in a split-second, but at what cost? Millennials may be using this wealth of newly available information to make the most educated decision possible, but think about the lessons taught by instant gratification.
In the golden years of the ‘80s and ‘90s, one had to spend hours sifting through libraries and online databas-es to find answers to simple factual questions. Nowadays, students wondering if they can get away with microwav-ing aluminum foil can just run a quick Google search to avoid burning their apart-ment complex down. How will
our leaders of tomorrow ever learn crucial lessons about recovering from failure and pushing through adversity if they’re always making quick, informed decisions through the use of the Internet?
But it’s not just in daily living that millennials have proven themselves to be far too sensible, resourceful and pragmatic for the tastes of older generations. More than anything else, mil-lennials are threatening the business world by revolutioniz-ing the way things have been done for decades, if not centuries.
In an economy that experi-enced a mas-sive collapse in 2008 largely because of ill-advised sub-prime mortgage dealings and financial malpractice by Wall Street banking and insurance corporations run by baby boomers, it’s clear the biggest threats to the future of the global economy are these pes-ky millennials.
According to a census-informed report from the White House, millennials are prioritizing creative outlets and making positive contri-butions to society in their careers significantly more than the two generations before them.
This new generation of workers is soft and squishy — they have no idea what it takes to run the global econ-omy. Instead of focusing on innovation and improving the future for their children, these millennials should be more focused on making a quick buck and manipulating the economic system to work for them.
Worse still, the social move-ments made by these whip-persnappers are tearing at the very fabric that binds our society.
As long as our great country has existed, wom-en have been marginalized in the work force and dis-missively pushed out of
the rat race. Everything was going just fine with this prec-edent intact, but the millen-nials are getting increasingly close to ruining the precious gender balance of the busi-ness world.
The same millennial report by the White House shows that women have been gradu-ally catching up to men in average earnings and percent-age of the workforce since the early ‘80s.This new genera-tion of female millennials is the most successful and edu-cated on record, and it threat-ens everything for which dis-criminating employers have
worked so hard.It’s not just women who
are making advances in this new age of ever-increasing social acceptance. Control is even being taken away from the wiser, older generations on hot-button issues like gay marriage.
The Pew Research Cen-ter’s 2010 report on the ideo-logical differences between recent generations found that 50 percent of millenni-als are in favor of legalizing gay marriage, while just 36 percent disapprove of such legislature.
And support for gay mar-riage among millennials is increasing every year — in 2013, the Washington Post and ABC News found that 81 per-cent of 18- to 29-year olds sup-ported the legalization of gay marriage. At this rate, people are going to be marrying fire hydrants by 2030!
We can’t possibly allow people who love each other to be married, and it’s clear that millennials’ judgement is suspect if they find this acceptable.
Slowly but surely, this new, sorry generation of Ameri-cans is taking over. Some might say there’s still time for these kids to change, that only time will tell if these millennials are the cream of the crop. But if you ask me, I’d say pucker up, because this cream is sour.
Matt is a sophomore in Media. [email protected]
If my newsfeed is any indi-cation, the students at the University of Illi-
nois have been closely follow-ing the events transpiring in Baltimore, which have been referred to as the Baltimore Riots. Six police officers have been accused of placing Fred-die Gray face-first on the floor of a police wagon without a seat belt, while handcuffed and shackled and ignoring his cries for medical aid.
The Maryland State Medi-cal Examiner attributed his death to the officers, who failed to restrain him in an appropriate manner. The growing controversy swirl-ing around Freddie Gray’s untimely death has sparked violent protests as well as pas-sionate debate about police conduct. Gray’s death has only exacerbated the tensions that emerged after Ferguson.
Michael Chew, freshman in LAS, sums up what seems to be student sentiment very well. He believes the Balti-more Police Department is at fault and, “the police officers deserve to be convicted for the murder.”
But he continued by saying, “I do believe the protesters
are going about it the wrong way. Resorting to violence just perpetuates the gap of understanding between the police and the African-Ameri-can community.”
This sort of criticism seems to be popularly accepted.
However, some national pundits have gone further, dismissing the rioters griev-ances as destructive entitle-ment. For example, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News host, said, “The riot-ers are angry because America is a country of mass incar-ceration. People who burn down buildings and loot are just misdirected folks who feel hopeless.”
It is easy to dismiss the actions of the Baltimore riot-ers as random hooliganism. But when the riots are placed in context, their motivations are not only understandable, but rational.
Let’s start by taking a look at the numbers.
Since 2011, the city of Bal-timore has paid over $5.7 mil-lion in police brutality settle-ments, and 317 Baltimoreans
have brought civil cases against the Baltimore Police Department — over 100 have won.
Many of these apprehen-sions lacked probable cause that would warrant police intervention, which Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby made clear.
In her recent press con-ference, she declared that
the police had, “failed to estab-lish proba-ble cause for Mr. Gray’s arrest, as no crime had been commit-ted by Mr. Gray. Accord-ingly, Lieu-tenant Rice, Officer Miller and Officer Nero illegally arrested Mr. Gray.”
Gray’s case is not unique. The Balti-more Sun recently launched an investigation of Baltimore Police Department miscon-duct and some of their find-ings are horrifying.
Take the case of Venus Green, an 87-year-old grand-mother. After her grandson was shot in the leg, Green called 911 for assistance. When the police arrived, she was interrogated, blamed
for the shooting, and then slammed against her own dining room table. Her shoul-der was broken.
Starr Brown, a 26-year-old pregnant woman, had a strikingly similar experi-ence. After asking a police officer to chase after a group of 20 girls who had attacked two pedestrians, an argu-ment broke out between the responding officers and Brown. The disagreement culminated with the offi-cers throwing Brown to the ground and putting her into a chokehold.
What is even more con-cerning is how the Balti-more Police Department deals with adjudicated cases. After settlements are paid out, recipients are prohibit-ed from talking about their case on the record. You can-not expect a police force to be monitored effectively if the victims are not allowed to speak out.
These cases are why Balti-moreans are fighting. Police violence begets civilian violence.
As noted by civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, the smashed windows can be replaced; the smashed spine of Freddie Gray cannot.
Thomas is a freshman in LAS. [email protected]
Rioters within reason to protest
Lazy millenials set to ruin worldMATT
SILICH
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EDITORIALImprovements still needed on smoking ban
THOMAS DOWLING
Opinions columnist
T he secondhand smok-ing haze continues to dissipate over the state of Illinois.
Last Thursday, in a mass email, Chancellor Phyl-lis Wise announced upcoming changes to the current cam-pus smoking ban in line with the passage of the Smoke-Free Campus Act. Under that Act, all state public institutions of higher education will go smoke-free by July 1. And while Wise did not go into depth as to how the policy on this campus will change, the health of individ-uals both here and around the state stand to benefit.
With all state institutions soon to be on even footing, it will be much easier for Illinois stu-dents, staff and faculty to avoid the harms of secondhand smoke while carrying out their daily activities.
This campus, smoke-free since the start of 2014, has had a head start on mitigating the ill effects of environmental to-bacco smoke, but there is still much that can — and hopefully will — be done as the Universi-ty revises its policy.
Areas such as enforcement, penalties and providing infor-mation could all be improved.
Under the current policy, the University has no obligation to account for the efficacy or en-forcement of the ban. Regu-lar monitoring could ensure the smoking ban is having its in-tended effect, and if not, could provide the University with the information necessary to ad-dress problems to make the ban more successful. It could also keep the public aware about the successes of the ban.
Creating more substantial penalty mechanisms could fur-ther deter potential violators. Presently, violators are re-ferred to the appropriate disci-plinary body, or, in the case of guests, can be asked to leave University property. Under the Smoke-Free Campus Act, Uni-versities are given the discre-tion to impose, among other regulations, “disciplinary ac-tion” and “fines.” The looming threat of something along the lines of a smoking ticket could be used to make people think twice about lighting up on cam-pus.
Making information about the ban more accessible to individ-uals of all backgrounds will also help. For example, consider persons with non-English back-grounds; the University wel-comes visitors from all over the world every single day, keeping all guests informed of the pur-pose and logic behind the smok-ing ban could prevent violations of the policy due to problems related to language barriers and create greater compliance.
Continuing to provide re-sources for individuals interest-ed in quitting smoking is also of vital importance. The cost of providing such resources, es-pecially when done at no cost, may be somewhat of a burden, but in the long term, such offer-ings can go a long way to ensur-ing a healthier community.
The soon-to-be statewide cam-pus smoking ban is an effec-tive way of ensuring people who want to smoke cigarettes can do so on off-campus areas, safeguarding people on-cam-pus from harmful second-hand smoke. Being a campus that has had experience with these rules for more than a year, we know the changes that are necessary to ensure complete success of an on-campus smoking ban, and hopefully these are changes that the new rules will usher in.
EDITORIAL CARTOON JOHN COLE CAGLE CARTOONS
When the riots are placed in context, their motivations are not only
understandable, but rational.
Worse still, the social movements
made by (millenials) are tearing at the very fabric that
binds our society.
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informally 6 Work by Gray or
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BY ALEXIA ELEJALDE-RUIZTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
From the hidden whiskey cabinet that reveals itself with the push of a button, to the secret doors disguised to look like bookcases, cus-tom men’s clothier Oliver & Rowan Bespoke aspires to a debonair ambience.
There is, by design, little to suggest that the unmarked loft, above a hair salon in the West Loop, in Chicago, deals in clothing. Most of the apparel is tucked away in an armoire beside the pool table and telescope, in a corner where owner Joseph Mapes plans to install a 250-cigar humidor.
But Oliver & Rowan, which opened in October, has clothing top of mind. Mapes, a third-generation tailor, launched the business to celebrate a dwindling art in the increasingly crowded field of custom suiting.
“I wanted to get back to American-made and I wanted to get back to fully bespoke,” Mapes said.
Bespoke traditionally means that a tailor has con-sulted with and measured a client then creates a unique pattern based on his mea-surements and hand-cuts and hand-sews the suit to the customer’s specifica-tions, with multiple fittings and many hours put in to ensure it lays perfectly. The paper pattern is then stored under the customer’s name like a fingerprint for creat-ing future suits.
A bespoke suit jacket has a canvas shell hand-basted in between the outer fabric and the lining, as opposed
to being fused with an adhe-sive. Some purists say the whole process should be exe-cuted by the same tailor or at the same shop to be truly bespoke.
Mapes wants Oliver & Rowan Bespoke to help restore the term to its right-ful supremacy — though some purists might quibble with his interpretation, too.
Mapes, whose family’s tailoring history dates to his great-grandfather in Wales, said he takes as many as 50 measurements from his cli-ents and hand-drafts their pattern with a master cutter. He then works closely with a small family-run tailor shop in the U.S. that cuts the pat-tern and makes the suits by hand. He and the two tailors he employs at his Chicago showroom conduct the final fittings and alterations.
It takes four or five visits with a client and seven to eight weeks to turn around a garment, Mapes said. His suits start at $1,895, but most cost about $3,000, based on fabric.
Bryan Gage bought three suits and three dress shirts from Oliver & Row-an in October, having been referred by a colleague. Gage, an information tech-nology recruiter who has to wear a suit for work every day, said his athletic build, with a 30-inch waist and broad shoulders, makes it hard to fit into off-the-rack suits, which bunch up and don’t drape on him properly.
Gage said he paid about $4,500 for the custom pack-age, slightly more than he would pay for off-the-rack
suits at Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue or Trunk Club. But they fit better than any-thing he has owned before, he said.
Like at Trunk Club, which selects clothes for custom-ers that they can keep or reject, Gage enjoyed hav-ing Mapes guide him.
“Honestly, I hate shop-ping,” he said. “I like to do a one-stop shop.”
To keep a high level of personalized service, Mapes said he is keeping his client base exclusive, and adds people only on referral. His website does not list a phone number or email address, and to send a message through the con-tact form you have to enter the name of an existing cli-ent. He has 200 clients, who buy from him an average of three times a year, and he plans to cap it at 300.
Clients who spend at least $15,000 annually with Mapes become mem-bers of the Bespoke Club, which offers a number of perks, including the option to reserve the Oliver & Row-an space for parties.
Through the secret book-case-doors, lined with bour-bons and old books bought at thrift stores, is a kitch-en that offers local beer on tap and a living room with a big-screen TV and deck. Upstairs, where Mapes has his office loft and another large deck with a fire pit, Mapes plans to install a Murphy-type bed for clients who need to spend the night.
“I want this place to be almost like a second home,” Mapes said.
Unique Chicago shop preserves art of tailoring
cally, you’ll pay attention to it more,” said Arms. “This recording to me is a tool for you to get somewhere, between you and music, between you and yourself. It won’t just be another piece of a pile of data on your device, you can actually experience it.”
But why Kickstarter? Luke Bergkoetter, one of the two drummers of Marathon, said it is the modern way of funding a record, where the music industry today has made it impossible for bands to produce an album without the help of crowdfunding.
“If we had written and recorded this exact same record in 1996, we wouldn’t have had a single prob-lem getting it pressed with-
out crowd sourcing it, and that’s because people bought records,” said Bergkoetter. “Because of the fidelity of vinyl, the cost of releasing (an album on vinyl) is really expensive. On our Kickstart-er, we break down where the money is going and the bulk of it is pressing vinyl, and that’s the best way to listen to music.”
ing how advanced the can-cer was. She said she later learned it was Clark’s Stage 3, meaning the melanoma reached the inner layer of her skin.
In the weeks leading up to her surgery, Johnson said there were a lot of sleep-less nights. But after the surgery was a success, she said she had the best sleep of her entire life.
The surgery lasted three hours, and the surgeon cut out layers of skin down to her muscle. When she woke up, she had over 35 stitch-es. She also had a sentinel lymph node biopsy, where they removed two lymph nodes from her groin area.
It took Johnson about a month to walk on her leg again. While she recovered, she passed the time by cre-ating her family tree, which she traced back to 1790s Scotland on her mother’s side. As a history major, she said she hopes to work in genealogy, in a museum or historical society.
Alvarez said it was impor-tant for him to keep John-son positive. He would tell her, “You’re going to beat the odds anyway.”
Johnson is now in remis-sion with her melanoma at stage zero.
“That basically means I’m cancer free but my chances of getting it again are really high,” she explained.
Johnson sees the derma-tologist every three months, who requires her to wear a sunscreen with a minimum of SPF 30, and visits the oncologist every six months. She said the experience has changed her lifestyle.
“My dermatologist said if you’re going to be out directly in sunlight, it’s not a good idea,” she said. “I love being outside.”
Johnson said it also has been difficult coming to terms with the scar on her leg.
“When I was younger I was always tall and had long legs, so the hardest thing for me was seeing this giant scar on my leg and realiz-ing I was going to have to stare at this for the rest of my life,” she said.
Johnson said she was shocked when she learned she had skin cancer because there was no genetic link in her family. However, she said she often tanned out-side without sunscreen and beginning at 16, she used tanning beds occasionally before high school dances. She stopped using tanning beds when she was 20.
“I don’t want to be that harsh and say, ‘No, you shouldn’t tan because I had skin cancer,’” she said, “But I do want people to know how common it is.”
***According to the Skin
Cancer Foundation, more people have had skin cancer than any cancers combined over the past three decades.
In addition, when examining cases of skin cancer in peo-ple ages 18 to 29, 76 percent of the cases were attributed to using tanning beds.
“Just go see the dermatol-ogist once a year; have them check your body,” she said. “If anything changes, get it checked out, get it removed, get a biopsy done on it. Just for your own peace of mind,” Moving forward, John-son said she hopes to raise skin cancer awareness. She recently contacted the Mela-noma Research Foundation, which holds “Miles for Mel-anoma” 5K runs and walks to raise money for research. She said she would either run in one this summer in Chicago or try to organize her own in Champaign.
In addition, Johnson said she wants to bring positivity to others with skin cancer.
“I just try to give words of encouragement if I see it anywhere because I know how that feels,” she said. “It’s the worst feeling in the whole world to not know what stage it’s in and know if it’s curable.”
After she graduates in the fall, Johnson plans to move down to Florida, which she said is weird because of her experience with skin can-cer. But she loves the beach and has to keep living her life, just with a few extra precautions.
“SPF 100 — I actually found a bottle! I’ll do that, and wear hats.”
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW CROOKBrandon Beachum, bass player of Marathon, signaling the band where to come in.
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BY FRANCES WELCHSTAFF WRITER
At 13, Brandon Beachum discovered the realms of punk rock, a genre that would later mold his musical palette into writing a unique composition: a 35-minute-long piece consisting of six guitar players, one bassist and two drummers.
Growing up in Herrin, Illinois, Beachum said he wanted to be “anti-every-thing,” riding BMX and skateboarding, exploring new bands that were fulfi ll-ing teenage angst, the likes of the Misfi ts and NOFX.
The speed and aggression of punk music appealed to Beachum, immersing him-self within the ethic behind punk music, a DIY commu-nity, one that followed their
own rules outside of an insti-tutionalized lifestyle.
Beachum was involved in several bands that would come and go, gathering a collection of sounds and ideas from each band he was a part of. He began to play with distortion and oth-er sounds that could be cre-ated with special equipment, tweaking his style of bass playing along the way.
While living in southern Illinois, Beachum created Marathon, a solo project that started out complete-ly improvised with a heavy emphasis on effects. Bea-chum, however, said he spent more time on knobs and guitar pedals than he did actually playing guitar.
In 2010, he moved to Champaign-Urbana, a time
when Marathon was put on the back burner until he was getting ready to leave about two years ago. He knew he wanted to reinvent his proj-ect and turn it into some-thing more structured, less improvised.
Now, Marathon is a 9-piece “guitarkestra,” as Beachum calls it, an ensem-ble that will be putting out their fi rst record later this year.
The record will consist of a 35-minute track, an experience that the band hopes will take the listener through the ebb and fl ow of Marathon’s musical journey.
The band will be press-ing this record to vinyl, an expensive manufacturing process that heightens the listening experience but
impossible without the sup-port of funding. To do so, the band and local label, Heir-ship Records, have started a Kickstarter; a funding pro-cess that has 48 hours left and is about $2,000 away from their goal.
“I’m terribly anxious to get this record out, but more than that, I’ve seen it. It’s a performance; there’s a cer-tain amount of improvisa-tion involved, every time I’ve seen it, it’s been slightly different and has been pret-ty mind blowing,” said Isaac Arms, label head of Heir-ship Records. “It’s a unique charge to capture lightning in a bottle like that. It’s exciting to listen to, and what I have heard is really amazing. “
Arms felt that it was a necessity to have this record
pressed to vinyl because the 35-minute track requires attention that is completely focused and tangled within the listening experience.
“More care would be put into putting a record on your turntable, and theoreti-
BY ANNABETH CARLSONASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
InOctober, Kaitlin Johnson got a tattoo.
She stood patient-ly as the tattoo art-
ist inked delicate orange and blue fl owers connected by a green vine around her leg. The nee-dle hurt, of course, but she was tough. After all, it wasn’t the fi rst time she had felt pain. Two hours later, the artist added the fi nish-ing touch: a cancer ribbon.
Johnson’s tattoo sits between two scars on her leg, the fi rst where she got lymph nodes removed from her groin and the second a U-shaped scar where she had skin cancer.
Looking down at her leg, the ink signifi ed the end of her pain. She fi nally had a scar that was on her own terms.
***In honor of Melanoma Monday,
a national commemorative day for skin cancer, Johnson shared her story in hopes of raising awareness.
Until last summer, the only mark on her leg was a small mole, not even the size of a pencil eras-er. When Johnson’s mother fi rst noticed it, she asked if there was a bug on her leg.
Johnson, a senior in LAS, said she noticed the mole 10 months prior but thought nothing of it. However, when her mother expressed concern, she made an appointment at Carle Foundation Hospital right away.
The mole was removed July 11. Johnson had two stitches, and the doctors told her to come back in a week to remove the stitches and get the biopsy results. But when she returned to Carle, they informed her they sent her biop-sy to the Mayo Clinic in Minne-sota to rule out melanoma.
Johnson said the doctors ensured her it was probably noth-ing to worry about, but she had a bad feeling.
“I felt like if they sent it to another lab, then maybe some-thing is wrong,” she said.
It was July 30 when Johnson received a call from Carle while working at the Prairie Center in Urbana.
“I don’t get off work until 8, and I knew if they were calling me that late, something had to be wrong,” Johnson said. “It was confi rmed melanoma, and I just kind of blanked out. I couldn’t stop crying. I don’t know how I drove home.”
Johnson found out she had skin cancer the night before she was supposed to move out of her apartment on campus. She lives with her boyfriend Chris Alva-rez, Class of 2013 University alumnus, and when she walked in, he was packing up their stuff.
After she told him, she had Alvarez call her parents to share the news.
“There can be few moments in your life that can be more devas-tating than when you are told that your child’s biopsy came back malignant,” said Ronnie Johnson, Johnson’s father. “It was shock.”
Johnson went to her fi rst skin cancer consultation August 4. She met with a dermatologist and an oncologist and learned that her surgery to remove the melanoma would be in only two weeks, on August 14. It would be her fi rst surgery.
“I was glad it was so soon because it didn’t give me enough time to process what was going on,” she said.
Johnson explained that the scariest part was not know-
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BY ZOE KALERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s track and field team wrapped up its regular season Saturday in West Lafayette, Indiana, at the Rankin/Poehlein Invita-tional, hosted by Purdue.
The Illini picked up sev-en event titles and 23 top-10 finishes.
Last week, distance coach Scott Jones predicted that the team would see a lot of per-sonal-bests in West Lafayette.
“I think we saw this week-end what happens when peo-ple have worked consistently well, and we get good weather and good competition,” Jones said, “Those things all came into play so that made that predictability of good per-formance a pretty safe one for me.”
Jones said he thought Kan-die Bloch-Jones and Alyssa Schneider’s performances were “pretty significant.”
Bloch-Jones won the high jump, clearing a personal best of 1.84 meters. She is now tied for second on Illi-nois’ top-10 list.
The sophomore attribut-ed her success to her calm demeanor going into the meet. She said since it was
a smaller meet, she expect-ed to do well, but she did not expect to win or leave with a new personal-best.
Schneider also placed first and set a personal record, running the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes 20 seconds.
The senior, a 5K and 10K runner, said the 1,500 is what she usually focuses on.
In preparation for the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, coming up on May 15-17, Sch-neider said the team will con-tinue to train the same way it has in the last few weeks, while also focusing on indi-vidual recovery.
“It’s not really about try-ing to get in shape as it is try-ing to run fast in two weeks,” Schneider said.
Other top finishes for the Illini included four top-10 fin-ishes in the 800 meters.
Sophomore Nicole Cho-quette finished first and set a personal best of 2:06, plac-ing her seventh on Illinois’ all-time list. Senior Amanda Duvendack finished second at 2:07. Senior Chloe Schmidt ran a 2:12.28, placing her fifth and sophomore Lindsey Rakosnik finished just after
BY PETER ROMANCHUKSTAFF WRITER
With the Big Ten Out-door Championships less than two weeks away, little time remains for the Illinois men’s track and field team to sharpen its skills.
Despite the fact that there was no team competition or silverware on the line, the Illini had yet another solid showing Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa, at the Musco Twilight.
“We had really well-round-ed performances from every-one across the board,” said head coach Mike Turk. “We weren’t really looking for a huge team performance, because this (meet) is more about cleaning some things up to get ready for (Big Ten Outdoor Championships).”
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebras-ka, Wisconsin, Iowa State and Northern Iowa rounded out the field.
The Illini competed in 13 of 19 events. Two mem-bers of the team had their names etched in the Illinois record book Saturday. Senior DJ Zahn won the 200 meter with a time of 20.53 seconds, replacing the time set by Anthony Jones in 1994.
Senior Davis Fraker’s 68.41-meter toss in the ham-mer throw demolished his previous Illinois record of
65.36.Fraker was satisfied with
his mark despite the early
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The Ohio State baseball team presented Illinois with its toughest competition yet during its winning streak.
But the Illini battled through the obstacles the Buckeyes presented to sweep their conference foe in Columbus, Ohio, and extend-ed their nation-leading win streak to 21 games.
“We’re winning in dif-ferent phases of the game. Everything’s clicking,” out-fielder Casey Fletcher said. “It seems like every game someone is just stepping up and helping us to keep up the winning.”
Illinois was forced to rally from a two-run deficit ear-ly in Sunday’s game. First baseman David Kerian led the comeback with a leadoff home run in the third. The team took the lead in the top of the fourth when Kerian drove a single up the middle to score Fletcher and Jason Goldstein, giving the Illini a 3-2 lead. They added three
more runs in the sixth to put the game away for good.
Starting pitcher John Kravetz got into some trou-ble early in the game. He allowed two runs in the first two innings but managed to escape the third and fourth without allowing a run. The senior was struggling, and with no midweek game left on the schedule this sea-son, head coach Dan Hart-leb elected to go with regu-lar midweek starting pitcher Rob McDonnell at the start of the fifth.
The left-hander held the Buckeyes scoreless for four innings and closer Tyler Jay came in the ninth to secure the win and the streak.
“Everyone knew what we had to do,” Kerian said. “I just got out there and made sure to get the key at-bats.”
The Illini were led Fri-day by starting pitcher Kev-in Duchene’s strong perfor-mance. The Illini ace threw eight innings and only gave up one run on three hits. Ohio State’s first hit was a single
in the fourth and the Buck-eyes tacked on two more in the fifth, but the junior shut the side down in order in six of his eight innings. With Fri-day’s win, Duchene improved to 8-1 on the season and 21-3 in his career.
Everyone in the Illinois’ starting lineup had a hit. Illinois scored four runs in the first two innings and plat-ed an additional four in the sixth. The eight runs allowed was a career-high for Ohio State’s Tanner Tully. Left fielder Ryan Nagle led the way hitting 2-for-5 with three RBIs.
Saturday’s tilt was much closer, and the Illini barely escaped with their streak intact. The team overcame two deficits and scored all of its runs in two innings to bring its streak to the 20-win mark.
Illinois pitcher Drasen Johnson fell behind early and gave up two runs in the first two innings Saturday. The Illini grabbed a 3-2 lead in the fifth on an Adam Wal-
ton two-run single, but the Buckeyes retook the lead with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
Their lead was short-lived — center fielder Will Krug
BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team wrapped up its regular sea-son in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a loss to the Cornhusk-ers in a game that ended after five innings.
After losing its first series since March 22, Illinois (26-26, 14-9 Big Ten) finished in fifth place in the Big Ten. The team was in fourth behind Nebraska (32-20, 17-6 Big Ten) entering the weekend.
After splitting the first two games of the series, head coach Terri Sullivan’s team dug itself too deep in a hole early in Sunday’s rub-ber match.
Illinois’ offense struggled, scoring only one run on three hits. It was the first time that the team only scored one run since an 11-1 loss to Minneso-ta on March 21.
A 30-minute weather delay was issued in the third inning due to lighting. Sullivan said the halt seemed like it could of been a potential reset but-ton for her struggling team.
“We were in a position to make a run after the rain delay,” Sullivan said. “But didn’t push a few more runs across soon enough.”
A potential two-out rally for Illinois was cut off in the third inning when freshman Carly Thomas flew out to left field with runners on second and third. The Cornhuskers were up 8-1 by the end of the inning.
Starting pitcher Shelese Arnold had a rough start to the game. The senior only pitched 1 1/3 inning and gave up seven runs on three hits and six walks. Walking too many batsmen allowed Nebraska to build on its big lead.
Sullivan said the team was solid defensively and credit-ed sophomore Breanna Won-derly for pitching well when she came in to relieve Arnold. Wonderly gave up one run in 3 1/3 innings. It was her sec-ond effective relief appear-ance in a row, giving the Illi-ni a strong option out off the bullpen.
The Illini will head into the Big Ten tournament as the
fifth seed. The team would have received a first-round bye with a victory in the rub-ber match. Instead Illinois will face No. 12 seed Purdue on Thursday in the tourna-ment’s opening game.
If the Illini beat the Boiler-makers, they would face No. 4 seed Northwestern on Fri-day and if they knock off the Wildcats, a semifinal match-up with No. 1 seed Michigan would loom Saturday. Ohio State is hosting the Big Ten Tournament.
Finishing the season at .500 did not look likely for the Illini after an 8-16 start. One of the team’s new goals is to reach the NCAA Tournament.
“Getting back to .500 is a huge accomplishment for this team,” said junior Allie Bauch. “We said we wanted to turn our season around, and we definitely did.”
Their fifth-place finish in the Big Ten is the best finish
for the Illini since 2011, and their .500 winning percent-age is the best highest since 2010.
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Win streak increases to 21
Illinois ends season with 5th place Big Ten finish
Men’s track shatters records
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Casey Fletcher slides into second base against Indiana at Illinois Field on Apr. 17. Illinois’ swept Ohio State in three
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Davis Fraker winds up during the hammer throw event at the Illinois Twilight meet on April 18.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Kandie Bloch-Jones leaps over the bar during the high jump event at the Illinois Twilight meet on April 18.
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Breanna Wonderly pitches the ball during the softball game vs. Purdue at Eichelberger Field on April 26.
Illinois at Ohio StateFri: Illinois 8, OSU 1Sat: Illinois 6, OSU 5Sun: Illinois 6, OSU 2Summary: Illinois won its 19th, 20th and 21st games in a row to sweep Ohio State.Key performer: First baseman David Kerian went 7-for-11 with three RBIs.Quote of the weekend: Outfielder Casey Fletcher — “We’re not a team that’s going to lay back, and we’re here to make a statement to the rest of the NCAA.”
Musco Twilight MeetSummary: A pair of school records were shattered, and Illinois had a crisp performance in the final tune-up before the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.Key performer: DJ Zahn’s performance in the 200 meter broke an Illinois record that had remained intact for over two decades.Quote of the meet: “DJ (Zahn) made the 200 meter look easy today – that was a heck of a run.” — Head coach Mike Turk.Hidden stat: Davis Fraker’s 68.41-meter toss in the hammer throw beat the school recordhe previously held by more than three meters.Up next: The Big Ten Outdoor Championships on May 15 in East Lansing, Michigan.
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Women’s track wins seven titles in Indiana
Rankin/Poehlein InvitationalSummary: The Illinois women’s track and field team wrapped up its regular season Saturday with seven event titlesKey performer: Kandie Bloch-Jones won the high jump, clearing a personal best of 1.84 meters and tying for second on Illinois’ top-10 list.Quote of the meet: Kandie Bloch-Jones: “We all performed pretty well and it was a good meet for the Illini and it was a great meet before Big Tens.”Hidden stat: Audrey Blazek ran a 17:47 in the 5,000 meters. She placed first and achieved her first college victory.Up next: Big Ten Outdoor Championships on May 15-17 in East Lansing, Michigan
Illinois softball weekend Fri: Nebraska 8, Illinois 0 Sat: Illinois 12, Nebraska 10 Sun: Nebraska 9, Illinois 1 Summary: The softball team wrapped up its regular season at Nebraska with its first series loss since March 21.Hidden stat: Senior Shelese Arnold only pitched 1 1/3 inning and gave up seven runs on three hits and six walks.
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SOFTBALLILL VS. NEB FRI: NEB 8 ILL 0 SAT: ILL 12 NEB 10SUN: NEB 9 ILL 1 LINCOLN, NEB
BASEBALLILL VS. OSU FRI: ILL 8 OSU 1SAT: ILL 6 OSU 5 SUN: ILL 6 OSU 2COLUMBUS, OHIO
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They had originally hoped to get the phone call a day earlier than this. But both Adrian Amos and Jesse James were happy enough how things worked out.
The two Penn State standouts were ultimately selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft on Satur-day, with Amos going to the Chicago Bears and James to his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers.
Amos, a safety, was draft-ed with the sixth pick of the round (142nd overall) with James, a tight end, follow-ing him with the 24th pick (160th overall).
For James, if he had to be selected on the final day, things couldn’t have worked out much better.
The Western Pennsylva-nia native grew up a Steelers fan and excitedly took the phone call from Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin.
“I couldn’t be happier,” James said on a conference call. “I think it’s a great fit. Being from Pittsburgh, I’m happy to go there. I couldn’t be more excited to get there and get to work.”
Like his good friend and former teammate Donovan Smith, Amos ended a draft drought at his position for Penn State.
Amos became the first
Nittany Lions defensive back to be selected in sev-en years, following Justin King, who went in the fourth round in 2008.
“After graduating with his degree and now hear-ing his name called in the NFL Draft, I could not be happier for Adrian,” Penn State coach James Franklin said in a statement. “Adrian is a versatile defensive back that has worked really hard and will be a great addition to the Bears secondary.”
That versatility was on display right away at Penn State, where he saw signif-icant snaps at cornerback as a true freshman for Joe Paterno.
His next coach, Bill O’Brien, played him at cor-ner in all of 2012. O’Brien and his successor, Franklin, both preferred Amos at safe-ty, believing that’s where his pro future lied.
Defensive coordina-tor Bob Shoop, who works directly with the safeties, credited Amos’ ability to play anywhere in the sec-ondary as being a huge boost to his scheme in 2014. “Chi-cago is getting someone who is going to work hard and be a special player for years to come. As good of a player as Adrian is, he is an even better person. He will rep-resent the Penn State com-munity very well.”
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BY CHILDS WALKERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Baltimore could be set to host a blockbuster sequel with Kentucky Derby champion American Pharoah and top rivals Firing Line and Dortmund all pointed toward the May 16 Preakness.
In recent years, the Preakness has become the neglected middle child of the Triple Crown slate, with many trainers of top contenders opting not to take their horses to Pim-lico Race Course to chal-lenge the Derby champion. Instead, they’ve waited and brought fresh horses to the Belmont Stakes.
But that dynamic could change in 2015 with the bur-geoning rivalry between a trio of California horses that dominated Saturday’s 141st running of the Derby. It’s a story full of rich plots, from the intra-barn competition between American Pharo-ah and Dortmund — both trained by Bob Baffert — to
Firing Line’s ongoing quest to finish first against Baf-fert’s stars.
“I think it’s what the game’s all about, really,” said Firing Line’s trainer, Simon Callaghan. “This is what people love to see in the sport, and us, as rac-ing fans, we love to see it, as well. So, I think it’ll be a great thing.”
The last time the top three Derby finishers ran in the Preakness was 2009.
Baffert was pleased with the way American Pharo-ah and Dortmund bounced back the morning after the Derby. Callaghan seemed equally confident in his horse’s resilience.
“You better get used to this,” Baffert said to Amer-ican Pharoah as he led the champion to pose for a clus-ter of photographers and to accept pats on the head from early-rising fans.
Baffert said American Pharoah struggled initially with the crush of admirers as he walked from his barn to the paddock before the
Derby. His horse was rattled enough that the experience might have sapped some of his energy for the race.
“He lost it a little bit,” Baffert said. “Something set him off, and he drug the groom right from the moment they started walk-ing. ... I think it took a little out of him, the walk up there yesterday.”
As well as American Pharoah ran against the best competition he’d faced, he also had to grind in a way he never had, with jockey Victor Espinoza hitting him repeatedly down the stretch. The bay colt displayed his toughness as much as the brilliant speed that had onlookers raving in the weeks before the Derby.
Baffert celebrated the victory with dinner at Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse, his son, Bode’s, favorite, and then watched the Manny Pac-quiao-Floyd Mayweath-er fight with the family of American Pharoah’s owner, Ahmed Zayat.
The Hall of Fame train-
er thought his other horse might win as he watched Dortmund hold a lead down the backstretch before fad-ing slightly. He’ll discuss the towering chestnut’s future with owner Kaleem Shah. “I’m sure he’s going to want a little revenge,” Baf-fert said. “His horse ran a really good race.”
Another factor looming for Preakness is the recent civil unrest in Baltimore, but the connections of the top three Derby finishers expressed no reservations about making the trip.
“People settle down, and things get worked out,” said Baffert, who lived and trained through the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. “Life still goes on.”
Maryland Jockey Club general manager Sal Sina-tra said he doesn’t expect changes to be made to the Preakness schedule because of the protests.
“We’re going to go there and try to win,” said Firing Line’s owner, Arnold Zetch-er, former CEO of the wom-en’s clothing brand Talbots. “It’s the Triple Crown, and
it’s exciting.”Though Firing Line twice
finished behind Dortmund in prep races, Callaghan believes his horse and American Pharoah are the two best 3-year-olds. With Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens aboard, Firing Line pushed the prerace favor-ite all the way to the wire, losing by less than a length.
“He definitely showed us it’s going to be really close,” Callaghan said of his colt. “I don’t think anyone can con-fidently say they’re by far the best.”
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Penn State’s Amos, James drafted in NFL’s 5th round
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINITop: Illinois’ Jon Davis celebrates a touchdown during the homecoming game against Minnesota at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 25. Davis signed with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent Sunday.
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIBottom: Illinois’ Matt LaCosse celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the game against Penn State at Memorial Stadium on Nov. 22. LaCosse signed with the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent Sunday.
MARK CORNELISON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAmerican Pharoah, with Victor Espinoza up, wins the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday.
ABBY DREY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Penn State’s Adrian Amos runs down the field after he makes an interception against Temple on Nov. 15 at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania.
tied the game in the sixth when he singled home a run and third baseman Ryne Rop-er and Walton each drove in a run to give Illinois a 6-4 lead. Ohio State tacked on a run in the seventh off of reliever J.D. Nielsen, and Jay came in and held Ohio State score-less in 2 1/3 innings and only allowed one hit.
With Sunday’s win, Illinois secured a program-record 15th-straight Big Ten victo-ry and stands alone atop the Big Ten standings. The team
is three wins shy of tying the season-leading winning streak that Texas set earlier this season. With no midweek game, the team will need to keep up the intensity dur-ing practice this week as it prepares for Rutgers next weekend.
“We need to keep playing the way we’re playing. We can’t take anything for grant-ed,” Fletcher said. “We’re not a team that’s going to lay back, and we’re here to make a statement to the rest of the NCAA.”
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problems he experienced leading up to the throw.
“I struggled all day with the technical things,” Frak-er said. “I got so frustrated right before my last throw I just decided that I was going to throw far, and if I fouled, so be it. It turned out to be a pretty good throw.”
Turk was more than pleased with both of his seniors, and marveled at the separate journeys each had to take to become leaders on the team.
“For DJ, it’s been a slow and steady progress over a long time, whereas Davis started out as a freshman on a high level and is now on this meteoric rise,” Turk said. “It’s been a very differ-ent situation for both of those guys, but it’s been really fun to watch and experience.”
Junior Cam Viney and sophomore David Kendziera competed in the 100-meter hurdles and finished second and third, respectively.
Junior Paul Zeman, freshman Jonathan Wells and senior Branden Tan-
thavong came in third in their respective events.
Zeman competed in the 1,500 meter, Wells the high jump and Tanthavong the triple jump. Junior Mitch Mammoser clinched fourth place in the pole vault, and senior Brandon Noe cap-tured fifth place in the discus.
There were four Illini reg-ulars absent from the Mus-co Twilight. Juniors Joe McAsey and Dylan Lafond, freshman Garrett Lee and senior Jannis Toepfer spent their weekends on the West Coast, competing in the Pay-ton Jordan Invitational in Stanford, California.
Illinois has no meet sched-uled for the upcoming week-end. The team will travel to East Lansing, Michigan, for the Big Ten Outdoor Cham-pionships from May 15 to 17.
Both coaches and athletes are looking forward to the brief hiatus before postsea-son meets start.
“I typically have my best meets after an off-weekend,” Fraker said. “I expect that it will do nothing but help myself and the team.”
her at 2:12.52. The Illini were also suc-
cessful in the pole vault, recorded three top-10 finish-es. Senior Stephanie Rich-artz finished first for the third consecutive week clear-ing 4.21 meters. Junior Jen-nifer DeBellis finished sec-ond and set a personal best for the third week in a row at 4.06 meters. Freshman Sara McKeeman came in fourth and had a personal-best fin-ish of 3.96 meters.
Freshman Audrey Blazek finished the 5,000 meters in 17:47, good enough for a first-place finish and her first col-legiate victory.
Junior Britten Petrey and senior Mariah Smith also
finished first in their events, Petrey in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Smith in the discus.
Petrey ran a 10:35 in the steeplechase, and Smith had a season-best toss of 50.40 meters in the discus.
Illinois continued its string of top-10 placements in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 meter relay.
Bloch-Jones said that her team’s encouraging perfor-mance is especially impor-tant given its timing.
“We all performed pretty well, and it was a good meet for the Illini and it was a great meet before Big Tens,” Bloch-Jones said.
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Former Illini Davis, LaCosse sign NFL free agent contracts
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Dolphins’ draft causes stir amongst fansBY HAL HABIBTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
If the fi rst day of the NFL draft has pitfalls, the second day is even more risky and the third can be a crapshoot.
Saturday, the Dolphins fi red shots in every direc-tion, completing a seven-man 2015 draft class that offers promise (an opti-mist’s view) or problems (a pessimist’s view), revolving around questions about the health of some and choices made by others.
The sexiest of Saturday’s fi ve selections is Jay Ajayi, a running back from Boise State taken with the second of four picks in Round 5. The Dolphins were lured by his 3,796 rushing yards, 55 touchdowns and 5.6 average.
Why was he available at Pick No. 149? A torn ACL in 2011, which, accord-ing to ESPN, caused him to fl unk some NFL physi-cals because he runs with bone-on-bone. He was also arrested in 2011 for steal-ing sweatpants at a Wal-Mart — a poor off-fi eld decision that is not unique among this draft class.
But this time of year is about nothing if not opti-mism. When it was over, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross was smiling as he walked out of the complex and into the afternoon sunshine.
“I feel good,” Ross said. “We fi lled a lot of needs today. I think we did all right, overall.”
Last year’s draft class — the fi rst under general manager Dennis Hickey — featured fi ve players from small colleges. Mike Tan-nenbaum, in his fi rst draft as the Executive Vice Presi-
dent of Football Operations, prefers talent from large schools. Coincidentally or otherwise, none of Miami’s 2015 picks came from the Marists of the world.
But many arrive with asterisks that explain why the Dolphins were able to obtain potential bargains.
There are legal blem-ishes in the distant past of Ajayi and guard Jamil Douglas, a fourth-rounder from Arizona State.
There are injuries on the resumes of not just Ajayi, but second-rounder Jordan Phillips and fi fth-rounder Bobby McCain, a corner-back from Memphis.
There are questions about the best position on the pro level for Douglas and fi fth-rounder Tony Lip-pett of Michigan State.
Just as Hickey said the small-school trend hap-pened last year by happen-stance, he said there was no concerted effort this year to take fl iers on prospects.
“We judge each player on an individual basis,” Hick-ey said. “With extensive research.”
Hickey said the Dolphins’ medical team gave the OK on Ajayi, Phillips (back sur-gery) and McCain (knee). And Hickey and his evalua-tion team praised the draft class as being a “high-char-acter” group that loves the game.
After spending their fi rst-round pick on Lou-isville receiver DeVante Parker, the Dolphins sought more pizzazz with Ajayi.
“One thing the Miami Dolphins needed more than anything in the run game is somebody who would stick it up in there,” ESPN ana-lyst Bill Polian said. “He will do that.”
Perhaps. Fellow analyst Adam Schefter then report-ed, “He fl unked some physi-cals. There’s bone on bone, according to some of the doctors. There are ques-tions about how long he will last in this league.”
Not in Ajayi’s mind. “I know at this moment I am extremely healthy,” he said, adding that he intends to carry not just a football, but a chip on his shoulder.
Douglas was caught help-ing a teammate steal an Xbox and other electron-ics from a teammate’s room
at Arizona State.“I was 17-18 years
old, so it was defi nitely a learning lesson then in my life,” Douglas said. “It was something that helped change my career around because after that I was able to come back and put things into perspective for myself and have the right priorities.”
Douglas’s draft bio on NFL.com lists him as a “left guard-only prospect.” That’s where the Dolphins see him, although Hickey called him “versatile.”
No one exemplifi ed ver-satility better than Lip-pett. The league lists him as a receiver. That’s where he saw himself entering the draft, even though he started at cornerback and receiver for the Spartans. Lippett led the Big Ten in receiving with 92.2 yards per game and 1,198 total.
Illustration of his versa-tility came during his con-ference call with the South Florida media, when he was asked who would win if he had to cover himself. Not wanting to insult him-
self, he said it would be a toss-up.
Hickey settled mat-ters by saying the Dol-phins envision Lippett in the secondary, meaning Miami added three play-ers on offense and four on defense, although none at linebacker.
“We do like our lineback-ers,” Hickey said.
And not just the linebackers.
“We feel like it’s a tal-ented roster,” Hickey said. “We really feel like we’re building a quality team.”
There were only a few hours to exhale, even after the end of a breathless fi rst-round playoff series.
The Clippers boarded their charter fl ight Sunday not knowing whether the point guard who had carried them past the San Antonio Spurs would be available in the opener of their Western Conference semifi nal series against the Houston Rockets.
Chris Paul was offi cial-ly listed as questionable for Game 1 on Monday night at
the Toyota Center with the strained left hamstring that left him hobbled for the fi nal 2{ quarters of the Clippers’ 111-109 victory over the Spurs in Game 7.
The uncertainty placed an unusually large onus on a training staff that Paul has routinely described as the best in the NBA.
“I said it before, our train-ing staff is amazing, the amount of people that we have day in and day out try-ing to make sure that we’re ready to play,” Paul said Sat-urday night after banking in an improbable running jump-er over the Spurs’ Tim Dun-can with one second left for the fi nal points in a game that featured 31 lead changes and 16 ties.
Landon Feichter will get his NFL chance, and if the odds aren’t in his favor, well, what’s new?
Feichter was a hard-hit-ting walk-on long-shot at Purdue and he turned it into a very productive college career as a safety, twice leading the Boilermakers in tackles and interceptions.
Now, he’s invited to a try-out at the Cleveland Browns’ upcoming mini-camp. Noth-ing is guaranteed, but the former Bishop Dwenger standout will have a chance
to make a big enough impres-sion to get a crack at July’s preseason camp, where he would get a chance to make a big enough impression to make the team.
How good are his chances?The 6-foot, 191-pound
Feichter led Purdue in tack-les last season, with 105, and in interceptions, with fi ve. He defended eight pass-es, broke up three, forced one fumble and recovered another. And he made a good impression with NFL scouts at the Boilers’ Pro Day by running a 4.44-sec-ond 40-yard dash.
He plays hard, fearless and smart. He’s passionate about the game.
Cleveland drafted 12 play-ers overall, the most of any NFL team.
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GINA FERAZZI TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul is tended to after hurting his hamstring in the fi rst half against the San Antonio Spurs during Game 7 in the Western Conference quarterfi nals at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday . Boilermakers’
safety Feichter nabs spot in Browns’ camp
Stephen Curry to be named NBA’s Most Valuable Player
Paul’s injury raises concerns in light of Monday opener
ADAM CAIRNS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEOhio State Buckeyes running back Carlos Hyde rumbles into the end zone through Purdue Boilermakers safety Landon Feichter during a game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 20, 2012. Feichter signed with the Cleveland Browns Sunday.
NHAT V. MEYER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEGolden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry looks to take a shot against Memphis Grizzlies’ Nick Calathes during the second quarter of Game 1 of the Western Conference semifi nals on Sunday at Oracle Arena.
KYLE GREEN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEBoise State running back Jay Ajayi breaks loose for a 56-yard touchdown run during the fi rst quarter against Arizona in the Vizio Fiesta Bowl at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Dec. 31. Boise State won, 38-30.
McIlroy lands 17th professional title with California winBY CARL STEWARDTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO — Already fi rmly established as the world’s best golfer, Rory McIlroy achieved a rare feat in winning his 17th professional title Sun-day, a day before his 26th birthday.
McIlroy captured the WGC-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park, his fi rst victory in California, by winning three matches in one day to pocket the $1.57 million winner’s check.
He earned it. McIlroy had to tee off at 6:45 a.m. to com-plete his suspended quar-terfi nal match against Eng-land’s Paul Casey, which he won with a birdie at the fi rst hole (and 22nd of the match).
He followed that with a late rally to nip the world’s fi fth-ranked player, Ameri-can Jim Furyk, one up with an electric fi nal two holes — a birdie on the long par-3 17th and a clinching 44-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th.
Finally, in the champi-onship match, McIlroy dis-
patched another American, 52nd-ranked Gary Wood-land, by rolling out to a four-hole lead on the front nine and cruising to a 4-and-2 victory.
Yes, no doubt, Rory’s No. 1. About the only shame is that so few people made it to Harding Park this week for McIlroy to show them why. He has offered few bet-ter examples of why he has held the top spot for the past 39 weeks (78 overall), and could continue as the best on the planet for a good while longer, considering his age.
He’s a fi nisher. He ral-lied to beat Billy Horschel on the 20th hole to get into the round of 16 on Friday. After overwhelming Hide-ki Matsuyama in his fi rst elimination match, he then went toe-to-toe with Casey late Saturday, and when the match was called due to darkness, fi nished the job Sunday morning by reach-ing the green in two shots, making a beautiful lag putt close to the hole and then rolling it in for the one-up
victory.Furyk looked like he had
McIlroy on the ropes on the back nine of the semis but made costly errors that pre-vented him from taking a two-up lead, and McIlroy made him pay with his mag-nifi cent close on 17 and 18.
In the fi nal against Wood-land, McIlroy went one up on the fourth hole when his opponent, who couldn’t stay out of the trees early, bogeyed. He then reeled off three straight birdies to take control of the match, and although Woodland ral-lied to win two holes and blew a chance to get back within one, McIlroy essen-tially went wire-to-wire to close it out.
It wasn’t a bad consola-tion prize for Woodland, who beat England’s Danny Willett 3 and 2 in the other Sunday semifi nal and col-lected a career-best check of $930,000 for fi nishing second. Willett won the third-place match against Furyk, 3 and 2, and earned $646,000.
KARL MONDON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERory McIlroy’s attempt to get back on the green at the 13th hole falls short, but he still went on to win the WGC-Cadillac Match Play golf tournament on Sunday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Adding one more piece to a dream season for the fran-chise, Warriors guard Ste-phen Curry will be named NBA Most Valuable Play-er this week, according to CSN Bay Area and multiple reports.
Curry could be given the award as soon as Monday — an off-day for the Warriors during their second-round series against Memphis — and then there would be a
pre-game ceremony before Game 2 on Tuesday.
Curry will be the War-riors’ fi rst MVP since the team moved from Phila-delphia more than a half-century ago and the fi rst in the history of the fran-chise since Wilt Chamber-lain in 1960.
Asked Sunday about the possibility of winning the award, Curry said he was mostly focused on the War-riors’ playoff run — the team won Game 1 against Memphis on Sunday.
“Obviously I know what the situation is, and just trying to focus on the game, and if I get a call tomorrow, I’ll defi nitely be happy,” Curry said.
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