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Holloway

By JAMES [email protected]

Superintendent Lewis holloway will continue to lead the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District after the board of Trustees voted 3-1 to reinstate him Mon-day night.

holloway, who was arrested on Aug. 10 on two charges of simple assault by threats, will return to his post following a two-week suspension without pay “for good cause.” board member Lee brand cast the lone vote against the motion to reinstate holloway.

“The investigation into the allega-tions against Dr. holloway uncovered a conflict between neighbors that has esca-lated beyond a dispute,” reads a prepared statement from the board on its deci-

sion. “While we regret that Dr. holloway didn’t immediately seek help from law enforcement in this instance as he did in previous incidents which are documented by officers who responded, our investiga-tion did not conclude there was intent to harm anyone. The allegations do not in-volve school personnel or school related issues, and the alleged incident occurred away from district property.”

holloway’s arrest stemmed from an Aug. 9 incident, during which he alleg-edly threatened an adult and a minor with a firearm and discharged the firearm into the air during a dispute near holloway’s home on Mt. Olive Rd., according to af-fidavits filed by the accuser in Oktibbeha County Justice Court. The minor involved in the incident is a student in the consoli-dated school district. The school board placed holloway on paid administrative leave following his arrest.

The school board’s decision to reinstate

Art in public places to present plein-air paintings

By ALEX [email protected]

Arts in public places will be having a recep-tion for a selection of works created during their plein-air painting sessions. The event will be held on Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at great-er Starkville Development partnership building at 200 Main St.

“When we say plein-air, it means that we do these painting sessions outside, and we do them quickly,” said Joe Macgown, co-chairperson for Aipp. “We do it whenever we have light, before the sun goes down. They have to be really fresh and quickly done, using traditional mediums. It’s all reminiscent of Impressionist style works.”

Refreshments will be served during the event.The plein-air painting sessions were held in

different locations, allowing artists to create art on the spot. Areas have included such locations such as back yards and gardens as well as the

second story balcony of Mugshots bar and grill and hotel Chester’s The beer garden Restau-rant.

Artists were encouraged to bring any medium to create art ranging from watercolors, oils or photography to create their art. Although pho-tography isn’t typically associated with plein-air works, all artists were welcome.

“The photographs are really interesting,” Macgown said. “The majority are paintings. Walter Diehl was the photographer. They’re of reflections from windows in the Cotton Dis-trict.”

Local artists including Diehl, briar Jones, Kathryn Ramsey, Joe Macgown betty Jane Chatham, Fay h. Fisher, Jim Turner and Laurie burton are exhibited in this show.

“We’ve already sold quite a few already before the show,” Macgown said. “That’s really unusu-

“The Purple Building’ watercolors, by Briar Jones (Submitted photo)

Celebrity waiters coming to Sweet pepper’s Deli

West Point nets $3.46 million grant for CCS program

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Diners can support Volunteer Starkville on Thursday while being served by some well-known Starkville figures.

Sweet pepper’s Deli, 904 highway 12 West, will host Celebrity Waiter Night from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to a news re-lease from Jamey bachman, executive director of Volunteer Starkville.

“Celebrity waiters include Starkville Acad-emy Athletic Director glenn Schmidt, ShS Athletic Director Milton Smith, County pros-ecutor haley brown, Rev. Larnzy Carpenter, Sheriff Steve gladney, bart gregory, Michele

Tehan (The biscuit Lady), Supervisor Or-lando Trainer, and Mayor parker Wiseman,” bachman’s news release said.

All tips and donations will go to Volun-teer Starkville’s First Responders Apprecia-tion Day, which will be held in September to thank the first responders of Starkville and Oktibbeha County.

“We are so honored to have the support of all of our celebrity waiters and Sweet peppers Deli,” bachman said. “We’re looking forward to the event and hope to see a large turnout.”

For more information go to www.volun-teerstarkville.org/celebrity-waiter-night or call Volunteer Starkville at 662-268-2865.

By JOSH [email protected]

The city of West point, along with Com-munity Counseling Services, received a $3.46 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration to set up the golden Triangle System of Care.

The program will be based out of West

point and serve Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee counties. Community Counsel-ing Services has several offices in Starkville, including a main counseling office at 302 N. Jackson St.

CCS Chief Financial Officer Richard Duggin said the System of Care would be a

polls open for Democratic Justice Court judge runoffsSDN Staff Report

polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for the Districts 2 and 3 Justice Court judge Democratic primary run-off elections.

The two races were the only ones close enough to warrant a runoff after the Aug. 4 prima-ries.

The winner of the District 2 judge Democratic primary will win the seat as no Republicans or independents are running. Incumbent Judge bernard Crump is seeking to hold off a challenge from Larnzy Carpen-ter, a local pastor.

Carpenter received 747 votes in the Aug. 4 primary, compared to 595 for Crump. Neither candidate secured enough votes to win the pri-mary outright as Kennedy Neal received 423 votes.

In District 3, incumbent Jim Mills was defeated in the four-candidate primary on Aug. 4. Cheikh Taylor, executive of the non-profit brickfire proj-ect, received the most votes on Aug. 4 with 246. Marty haug, a Starkville attorney, received 200 votes, which allowed him to advance to the runoff.

The winner of Tuesday’s District 3 runoff will face Re-

publican buddy Johnston and independent candidate hardy Mitchell in November’s general election.

Election officials are expect-ing a light turnout for Tuesday’s runoff elections. Any registered voter in Justice Court Districts 2 and 3 who did not vote in the Republican primary on Aug. 4 is eligible to vote.

Voters will need to bring a valid photo ID with them to the polls on Tuesday. Residents can check what Justice Court district they are in by looking at their voter registration cards or by calling the circuit clerk’s office at 662-323-1356.

Holloway

Superintendent suspended for two weeks, but will keep job

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The calendars runs daily as space allows. Announcements should be submitted via e-mail to [email protected] by 2 p.m. the day prior to publication and be no more than 50 words in length. Religious events will be listed Saturdays on the Faith page. Recurring events will run on Sundays

only. One-time events will run Monday through Friday.

Today

u Kiwanis—Kiwanis will not meet.

u Active Parenting—Emer-son Family Resource Center will have an active parenting class fo-cused on building courage and self-esteem from 11 a.m.-noon.

u Parent Cafe—Emerson Family Resource Center will have its parent support group, parent Cafe, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

u Care for Their Air—Em-erson Family Resource Center will have a session for parents and teachers from 5:30-6:30 p.m. re-garding keeping children away from tobacco.

u VFW Meeting—Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. with business meeting to follow at 6:45 pm. For more information call 312-1930

Wednesday

u Parent Cafe—Emerson Family Resource Center will have its parent support group, parent Cafe, from noon-1 p.m on August 26 at Overstreet FCp.

Thursday

u Computer Class—Emerson Family Resource Center will have a computer class focused on Mi-crosoft Excel from 10 a.m.-noon.

u Celebrity Wait Night—Sweet pepper’s Deli West will have a Celebrity Wait Night with tips and donations going to ben-efit Volunteer Starkville’s First Re-sponder’s Appreciation Day.

u Sessums Community Cem-etery Meeting—The quarterly meeting of the Sessums Commu-nity Cemetery will be at 7 p.m. at Austin Church of Christ holiness uSA.

Friday

u Le Leche League—Starkville La Leche League will have a pro-gram on full-term breastfeeding at 11 a.m.

Monday

u Rotary—Rotary will meet at 11:45 a.m. at Starkville Country Club. The program will be Roger King, director for the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at MSu.

u Mayor’s Youth Council—The deadline to submit applica-tions for the Mayor’s Youth Coun-cil is 5 p.m. Applications can be returned to school counselors or City hall. For more information, contact Markeeta Outlaw at 312-1931.

A local family hosted a “Night of Hope Balloon Release “ in remembrance of Terrance and Tyler Tubbs who passed away from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, the No. 1 genetic killer for children under the age of 2, on August 21.. For more information on SMA visit curesma.org or contact Tammie Tubbs www.tammiettubbs.com. (Submitted photo)

Around Townpage 2 I S T A R K V I L L E D A I L Y N E W S . C O M I Tuesday, August 25, 2015

PUBLIC NOTICETHE CITY OF STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI SEEKING POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR APPOINTMENT TO

THE VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSION

The City of Starkville, Mississippi is encouraging civic minded individuals to express their interest in being considered for appointment to:

School BoardVacancy to expire March 3, 2019

Letters of interest will be accepted until 12:00 noon, September 4, 2015. Send all submissions to:

City of StarkvilleAttn: Lesa Hardin

101 Lampkin StreetStarkville, Mississippi 39759 [email protected]

In the event no submissions are received by the deadline date, the City will continue to seek potential candidates until all vacancies are filled.

al to sell as many as we have. I think it’s partly because they’re so traditional in style. They’re something that you could put in any home, and they’re also from this community. The works are strong, and it’s be-cause we have great artists in this community.”

Aipp is a part of the Starkville Area Arts Council. Twenty percent of all sales will go to the SAAC. Items range

from $90 to $300, according to Macgown.

Macgown said that there are plans to continue the plein-air sessions. No dates have been set.

The show will continue until Sept. 14. The show re-ceived support from the Mis-sissippi Arts Commission, The National Endowment of the Arts, the greater Starkville Development partnership, and Chalet Arts.

For more information, visit www.starkvillearts.net.

four-year program that would provide community-based ser-vices and support for children and youth up to age 21 who have or are at risk of having mental health needs or other challenges with their families.

“It’s really going to be based on family,” Duggin said. “We’re looking to teach these kids to be productive and ac-tive members of the commu-nity.”

Duggin said CCS has pro-vided System of Care services through a grant from the Mis-sissippi Department of Men-tal health for the last several years.

“The department of health didn’t renew the grant and we knew the program would go away,” he said. “When we saw that it needed to be a munici-pality or other entity to apply

for the grant, we asked the city to apply on our behalf.”

West point grant Writer Melanie busby said the grant would help establish the pro-gram and create 12 new jobs, and would also pay those sala-ries.

“We’re hoping that when the four-year grant period ends, there will be a plan in place to continue to sustain the program,” busby said.

The city received a $300,000 implementation grant in Octo-ber, which it used to set up the logistics of the program. CCS Clay County Administrator Stephanie Taylor said in a pre-vious interview that CCS used the planning grant to conduct data gathering, focus groups and look at the necessities of each county.

“The SOC will be differ-ent for each community, most likely,” Taylor said. “Different communities need different

things, so we’re going to get out into those communities and talk to the kids and par-ents. We’ll also be talking to schools and youth courts, but the parents and kids are where we look to garner the most in-formation.”

System of Care program Coordinator John Jefferson said in a previous interview that the program is based around the needs and resourc-es of different communities.

“It’s not just the traditional one-on-one counseling,” Jef-ferson said. “It’s trying to set all your resources up so the youth will have a full support system.”

Winston County has had an SOC program for more than five years, Jefferson said, and the initiative has seen suc-cess.

“The program has im-proved graduation rates and lessened dropout rates among

those who go through it,” Jef-ferson said. “This program helps with gEDs and prepar-ing for college, and the age group we’re targeting is really at that point where they’re trying to find themselves.”

Taylor said the program would target current CCS clients who haven’t respond-ed to traditional counseling methods.

“For some people regular counseling services can feel too institutional or clinical, and they don’t like or don’t respond to that,” she said. “This program is geared to be youth oriented. It’s not con-ducted in our normal offices and the kids get to name the program - the one in Winston County is called Infusion, for instance.”

busby said the program would begin in October, and that there was no local match required as part of the grant.

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HOLLOWAYFrom page 1holloway came after hearing evidence gathered during an investigation by board at-torney John hill. The school board’s statement said nine individuals were interviewed as part of the investigation.

Monday’s meeting was attended by the parents of the minor that was involved in the incident, as well as other residents concerned by the situation involving holloway. Donna Couvion, the mother of the minor involved, told board presi-dent Eddie Myles afterward, “If that was your child, you would have felt differently.” Myles, Keith Coble and Jenny Turner were the three board members that voted to reinstate holloway.

“I’m very disappointed in the decision that they made,” Couvion said. “There’s a code of ethics they should have to follow regardless of whether it was on school grounds. I

feel he violated that and I’m very disappointed in the de-cision they made.“

Oktibbeha County NAACp president Chris Taylor also criticized the board’s decision. Taylor said holloway has fired person-nel for less and said he be-lieves the superintendent’s conduct violates professional codes of conduct.

“unethical conduct in-cludes child endangerment,” Taylor said. “With him fir-ing a weapon around a child that goes to Starkville high School, he has endangered a child. he has lost credibil-ity with most of the county. The NAACp thinks three of the four board mem-bers that voted to keep him need to be replaced. They don’t need to be there be-cause they’re scared. They’re afraid to make tough deci-sions. They’re getting paid a stipend to make tough deci-sions and tonight they did not make it. One person on that board did.”

The board’s statement said holloway is prepared to respond to the charges against him in court. The board also cited holloway’s work leading the consolida-tion process and his work expanding community part-nerships. Although the statement does not admon-ish holloway’s behavior, Myles said after the meeting he “couldn’t echo enough” that poor judgment was dis-played near a minor.

holloway’s home is sur-rounded by land owned by Donna Couvion’s parents. Deputies were called to the scene in May for another in-cident involving holloway. The superintendent filed an affidavit on Aug. 12 al-leging Couvion’s husband, Roy, punched him on May 3. Roy Couvion was arrested and charged with one count of simple assault following holloway’s affidavit. both Couvion and holloway are scheduled to appear in Jus-tice Court on Sept. 15.

Roy Couvion was not at Monday’s meeting. hollo-way entered the board’s ex-ecutive session briefly and declined to comment when leaving the meeting.

Donna Couvion described holloway as “combustible” and said she found it ironic that holloway waited until three months after the May 3 incident to file charges.

“We still have to be out on our property every day,” Couvion said. “We will use extreme caution with him because he is a dangerous man.”

When reached by tele-phone after Monday’s meet-ing, brand said he was not in favor of the action proposed by the board regarding hol-loway, but he declined to comment further because it is a personnel matter.

The school board will meet again on Thursday dis-cuss the district’s federal de-segregation order, according to an agenda posted on the district website.

“The South Farm” watercolors, by Briar Jones (Submitted photo)

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 • Starkville Daily News •

Mississippi holds Democratic and GOP primary runoffs todayBY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSAssociated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi voters face runoff elections Tuesday to choose party nomi-nees for two regional commis-sions and 12 legislative seats.

polls will be open 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

people must show a driver’s license or other government-issued photo identification to vote.

And, there is a restriction on who can cast a ballot: Those who voted in one party’s pri-mary on Aug. 4 may not vote in the other party’s runoff Tuesday.

DEMOCRATIC RuNOFFS:

— Transportation Commis-sion, Central District: business-man Robert Amos and long-time state Rep. Mary Coleman, both of Jackson, are competing for the Democratic nomination for one of three seats on the state commission. The winner will face Republican incumbent Dick hall of brandon in the Nov. 3 general election.

The 22 counties in the

Central District are: bolivar, Claiborne, Copiah, hinds, holmes, humphreys, Is-saquena, Jefferson, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Sun-flower, Warren, Washington and Yazoo.

— Senate District 34: Juan barnett and Trey Chinn com-pete in parts of Forrest, Jasper and Jones counties. The winner will be unopposed in Novem-ber and will begin a four-year term in January. The current District 34 senator, Democrat haskins Montgomery of bay Springs, did not seek re-elec-tion.

— Senate District 38: An-gela brooks and Tammy With-erspoon compete in parts of Adams, Amite, pike, Walthall and Wilkinson counties. The winner will face Republican Dennis C. Quinn in the general election. The current District 38 senator, Democrat Kelvin butler of McComb, did not seek re-election.

— house District 27: Le-roy Lacy and Kenneth Walker compete in parts of Attala, Leake, Madison and Yazoo counties. The winner will face Republican Ricky Dewayne

gill in November. The cur-rent District 27 representative, Democrat Ferr Smith of Car-thage, did not seek re-election.

— house District 30: In-cumbent Robert huddleston and Lester Williams compete in parts of bolivar, Quitman, Sunflower and Tallahatchie counties. The winner will be unopposed in November and will begin a four-year term in January.

— house District 36: In-cumbent Karl gibbs and Jim-my Davidson compete in parts of Clay and Monroe counties. The winner will be unopposed in November and will begin a four-year term in January.

— house District 42: Carl Mickens and Eugene Crosby compete in parts of Lowndes, Noxubee and Winston coun-ties. The winner will face inde-pendent Dorothy baker hines in the general election. The current District 42 representa-tive, Democrat Reecy Dickson of Macon, was defeated in the Aug. 4 primary.

— house District 70: Kathy Sykes and Samuel begley com-pete in part of hinds County. The winner will face Republi-can James “pete” perry in the general election. The current

District 70 representative, Democrat Jim Evans of Jack-son, did not seek re-election.

REpubLICAN RuNOFFS:

— public Service Commis-sion, Southern District: busi-ness investment adviser Sam britton of Laurel and first-term state Sen. Tony Smith of pica-yune are competing for the Re-publican nomination for one of three seats on the commission. The winner will face Demo-crat Tom blanton and Reform party candidate Lonny Keith Spence, both of hattiesburg, in the general election.

The 27 counties in the Southern District are: Adams, Amite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, george, greene, hancock, harrison, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson Da-vis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion, pearl River, perry, pike, Simpson, Smith, Stone, Walthall, Wayne and Wilkinson.

— Senate District 18: Mark Forsman and Jenifer branning compete in parts of Leake, Ne-shoba and Winston counties. The winner will be unopposed in November and will begin a

four-year term in January. The current District 18 senator, Re-publican giles Ward of Louis-ville, did not seek re-election.

— Senate District 47: Mike Tyson and Joseph Seymour compete in parts of Jackson, pearl River and Stone counties. The winner will face Democrat Jimmy “bo” Alawine in the general election. The current District 27 senator, Republi-can Tony Smith of picayune, is running for a seat on the public Service Commission.

— house District 24: Jeff hale and Rob goudy com-pete in part of DeSoto County. The winner will be unopposed in November and will begin a four-year term in January. This is a new district created because

of growth in DeSoto County; the previous District 24 is in a different part of the state and has been renumbered.

— house District 46: Karl Oliver and Shed hunger com-pete in parts of Carroll, grena-da, Leflore, Montgomery and Webster counties. The winner will face Democrat Ken Stra-chan in the general election.

— house District 87: Chris Johnson and Michael Davis compete in parts of Forrest and Lamar counties. The win-ner will face independent paul b. Johnson IV in the general election. This is a new district created because of growth; the previous District 87 included different counties and it was re-configured during redistricting.

Alabama seafood town reboundsBY JAY REEVESAssociated Press

bAYOu LA bATRE, Ala. — hur-ricane Katrina only sideswiped Alabama as it devastated coastal Mississippi and New Orleans a decade ago, but belinda Clark’s family is still recovering in the town that calls itself the state’s seafood capital.

The storm left 11 feet of water in her family’s bay Shirt Co. store, smack in the middle of downtown, and damaged their other shop on Dauphin Island. Once the storm passed, dozens of shrimp boats rested atop docks and marshes, seafood processers were wiped out and about 75 percent of its homes were damaged or destroyed.

The Clarks’ two stores recovered with the help of federal loans, she said, and the family actually added a bait shop and restaurant after Katrina. but then the gulf oil spill whacked all the businesses again in 2010, forcing the family to close their post-Katrina ventures.

So Clark now works in the family’s latest business, bayou produce and Sea-food Market, selling tasty, fresh-off-the boat shrimp to visitors and locals and hoping for better times.

“The economy here in the bayou is really bad, but we’re still holding on,”

she said in a recent interview.Katrina came ashore along the Missis-

sippi-Louisiana line on Aug. 29, 2005, sparing Alabama the worst of its destruc-tion because the powerful center of the storm was 90 miles away. More than 25,000 evacuees from Louisiana, Missis-sippi and Texas came to the state seeking shelter, and some remain 10 years later.

While much of west Alabama re-ceived hurricane-force wind gusts up to 80 mph, causing damage across a wide area, the destruction didn’t approach the devastation that occurred in Mississippi and Louisiana. Downtown Mobile and much of the Alabama coast flooded, but the waters receded. The storm opened a hole in Dauphin Island that remained for years, but no structures were damaged.

bayou La batre, with about 2,500 residents, was another story.

The city dock was wiped out along with much of the town’s seafood indus-try along Shell belt Road, the city’s in-dustrial hub, and water nearly covered pumper trucks parked at the bayou La batre Fire Department. Volunteers flooded the town with donations and free labor.

“It took lots of people months to get back home, and some people couldn’t get back to their homes ever,” said life-long resident Marcia barnes, 47.

Longtime oysterman, crabber and shrimper Avery bates said millions in federal disaster assistance was required to remove dozens of shrimp boats tossed inland by the storm surge, waves and wind, and a few small boats still remain in marshes. In all, about 113,000 Ala-bamians sought federal or state aid after Katrina.

Many seafood workers left the busi-ness, he said, but others were too stub-born to give up.

“Some of them say, ‘I’ve got too much mud between my toes and I’m go-ing to hang in there,’ but it is tough,” said bates, vice president of the Orga-nized Seafood Association of Alabama.

Katrina was the last major storm to hit the northern gulf Coast, and that worries residents who fear the region is overdue for a blast of tropical weather.

“Ten years gets you kind of anxious when you think of what Katrina did here and to the rest of the gulf Coast,” said bates.

Clark’s family businesses can’t take much more from the weather. The old shirt company that was flooded by Ka-trina is now struggling in a new, smaller location even when skies are sunny, she said.

“It’s on one of its last legs,” said Clark.

hometown, church mobilize to support plains’ Jimmy Carter

BY KATHLEEN FOODYAssociated Press

pLAINS, ga. — plains, georgia, plans on giving back to its resident globe-trotting former president by keeping him upbeat and entertained.

Jimmy Carter and his hometown have always been intertwined, from the day he announced he would run for president and an old train de-pot downtown became a local campaign office. he and his wife, Rosalynn, have always kept a home there, but the 90-year-old Carter intends to spend a lot more time in the tiny town as he’s treated for cancer that has spread to his brain.

The one-block business district specializes in Carter political memorabilia and peanut souvenirs. Visitors stop by after touring dozens of properties associated with the Nobel peace prize win-ner and his extended family, including Carter’s boyhood farm and a gas station once run by his brother, billy.

The Carters live just down the street, in a 1961 home they built before he entered politics. It’s now encircled by an iron fence with a guard checkpoint, and locals know Secret Service agents by name, along with their snack preferences.

For Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, plains is a “haven” from their work

in Atlanta and around the globe, he has said. They both were born and grew up in the area. They return here follow-ing each challenge, including his 1980 loss to Ronald Rea-gan and his first radiation treatment last Thursday.

Residents determined to put a familiar grin on the 90-year-old Carter’s face or-dered 500 green and blue yard signs and fanned out to plant them in yards and along every route into plains. Signs declaring “Jimmy Carter For Cancer Survivor,” a slogan first shown in an editorial car-toon in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, are in demand elsewhere now.

It was a small gesture for the person who put plains on the map and has continued to think about the town’s best interests, said Jill Stuckey, a friend who hosts the Carters for dinner regularly.

“They have always sup-ported plains, even down to (choosing) their burial place here in plains,” Stuckey, 54, said. “If in the future, you know, 20 years from now when president and Mrs. Carter have passed — or 30 years — they know that will be a draw for plains.”

plains residents, especially members of the church where Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school this weekend, are as protective of “Mr. Jimmy” and “Miss Rosalynn” as they are proud of their town’s rep-resentatives.

Jan Williams, a friend of the Carters, manages the crowds eager to see Carter teach at Maranatha baptist Church. On Sunday, she warned hundreds seated on benches inside the church that they were not to offer a handshake when Carter sat for photos following the ser-vice.

her pre-lesson rules also had a new suggestion: posi-tive reinforcement.

“please don’t say ‘I’m so sorry you have cancer,’” she said. “he already knows he has it. Let’s be positive.”

More than 700 people heard Carter deliver a familiar message this weekend: When your burden grows heavy, ask god for strength. The demand prompted a hastily organized second class at a nearby high school.

Carter himself remains the biggest draw for plains visitors. he plans to continue teaching Sunday school at the small baptist church he and Rosalynn attend but church members say they aren’t cer-tain whether Carter can con-tinue doing back-to-back classes.

A.W. and Judy hargett recently retired and decided to drive to plains from their home in Florence, Alabama, on a hot and buggy Saturday. The couple joined a steady stream of visitors touring the family farm, where Carter helped in the family store and fields.

Judy hargett said she’s wanted to attend one of Cart-er’s Sunday School classes for years and didn’t want to miss an opportunity.

“I didn’t know if the treat-ments would make him sick later and he wouldn’t be able to teach,” she said. “I have so much respect for president Carter. I still call him presi-dent.”

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panic breeds panic, calm begets calmDoom! Doom is upon us!This time for sure, right?That’s financial doom, stem-

ming from Monday’s downhill slide for the Chinese stock mar-ket. I know it’s hard to keep the various impending dooms straight sometimes, thick and fast as they come.

In fact, the only thing that happens as frequently as pre-dictions of doom is their fail-ure.

Chinese stockbrokers did have the worst (so far) of several bad days on Monday, watching their index lose 8.5 percent of its total value. That is a serious problem, and yes, what happens on the trading floors in Shanghai and Shenzen can affect the economy in gulf-port, Jackson and Starkville. China bought $644 million in Mississippi merchandise in 2014, according to the u.S. Department of Commerce.

China’s financial indiges-tion set off rumbles worldwide, hitting markets in Europe and contributing heavily to the Dow Jones average’s 588-point loss Monday. Early on the Dow dropped more than 1,000

points, but made much of that back before the closing bell.

Soon afterward a chorus of financial analysts began chant-ing that we shouldn’t panic. They urged investors not to join the short-term selloff or lock themselves into guaran-teed but low-yield strategies.

And that is good advice, even if the market continues to decline. It’s important to put the current slide in perspective.

Only a year ago the dooms-day panic was that China was growing so fast it would over-whelm us. Now the concern is that a Chinese market collapse could drag us down with it.

Despite unchanged rhetoric, China is no longer an economi-cally Communist country. but

much of its financial and indus-trial sectors are still run from top-down controls; indeed, the people’s Liberation Army owns a huge variety of busi-nesses that have nothing to do with the military.

China also faces a demo-graphic cliff, as decades of one-child policies mean not enough new workers are entering the job market to support a bal-looning number of retirees.

What really worries some analysts is that the Chinese government is now propping up its stock market by investing public pension funds. Not only is that a near-last-ditch mea-sure, but a further fall would wipe out pensions too.

On the American front things aren’t so dire. The Dow average still closed at 15,871. The market dipped to a simi-lar level in October 2014, and before that it had only consis-tently traded higher since May 2014.

Though Monday’s loss was bad, as a percentage of the total value it wasn’t nearly as bad as some previous one-day losses. Monday saw about 3.6 percent

of the market value go away. The “black Monday” crash in 1987 saw 22.6 percent of the Dow’s value vanish in the same amount of time.

but the real issue isn’t whether this loss was worse than previous ones, or even whether the slide is likely to continue. It’s how we should react.

Stock markets worldwide, like national economies in general, are now deeply inter-connected. The days are gone when upheaval in Asia passed unnoticed in North America. And, despite the risk, we’re all better for it.

Though a big enough col-lapse can drag others down, global integration means econ-omies support one another too. Anyone is less likely to sink un-der a weight if dozens or hun-dreds of others are lending a hand.

but there are some people who seem almost eager for an economic collapse, a political revolution, a disease pandemic or other disaster. Indeed, a large industry has grown up to exploit and stoke that fear.

So-called “doomsday prep-pers” even have their own re-ality – I use the term loosely – TV show. The idea is that when disaster strikes, a few who have prepared bunkers or fortified camps will survive, along with their first-aid kids, canned food, array of weapons (to fight off the less resource-ful) and pockets full of value-retaining gold.

One disaster after another, from the Rapture to a govern-ment gun grab, has failed to materialize. but they keep hop-ing. I guess that’s what you’d call it.

And there are plenty willing to stoke and exploit such belief. On commercial breaks from his talk show, glenn beck spent years shilling for overpriced scrap gold, touting it as the only safe investment after “the crash” (though how you were supposed to eat gold when hun-gry was never explained).

For a while that almost seemed like good advice. The value of gold did rise swiftly for several years, though how much of that was due to the drumbeat of panic buying it’s hard to tell.

but prices dropped sharply in late 2011, and are now back where they were five years ago, according to NASDAQ.

Those unlucky enough to have bought in at the top of the market have seen their holdings diminish by a third.

but even if gold were to double in value, I’m not sure clutching a pocketful would be much comfort as the world burned around me. Efforts to secure the future for oneself and any loved ones are laudable; but I’d rather devote my energy to helping ensure the world doesn’t come to such a pass in the first place. What joy would remain in a world that suddenly regressed a thousand years?

That’s where individual self-interest and global economics converge. While the every-man-for-himself impulse may be strong, consider what we’d lose if everyone really thought like that. A complex and pros-perous society requires buy-in from everyone who reaps its benefits. Whether or not you like your neighbor, or China, ultimately we will all stand or fall together.

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Praise for museum supportersThank you to all the citizens who

supported the fourth annual Denim & Diamonds, a benefit for the Oktib-beha County heritage Museum, on Aug. 22. The event organized by the Friends of the Museum raised nearly

$4,000 for our local history museum. A special thank you goes to patsy Stu-art who spearheaded the planning for Denim & Diamonds.

Congratulations to Wanda Thorne, founder and first president of the

Friends of the Museum, who won the inaugural Ava Moore Award, which recognizes an individual who has dem-onstrated outstanding leadership in preserving and promoting local history in Starkville and Oktibbeha County.

The museum, located on the corner of Fellowship and Russell streets, is a former Mobile & Ohio railroad depot from 1874. The depot was relocated and the museum founded in 1976 as part of America’s bicentennial. The

museum is open on Tuesdays, Wednes-days, and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come see our local heritage!

Brother RogersFriends of the Museum president

Jim GainessDn eDitor


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Local BriefStarkville man

arrested on sex charge

SDN staff report

Starkville police arrested Christopher Dejuan hunter, 23, Sunday on a charge of sexual battery. hunter turned himself in to police, according to a news release from Ca-ryl pritchard of the Starkville police Depart-ment’s investigations division.

his arrest stemmed from a Sunday morn-ing incident on Louisville Street, pritchard said. Hunter

Dimmer outlook for uS economy, wages and hiringBY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERAssociated Press

WAShINgTON — For much of the economy’s fitful and sluggish six-year recovery from the great Recession, analysts have foreseen a sunnier future: growth would pick up in six months, or in a year.

That was then.The latest Associated press survey of leading economists

shows that most now foresee a weaker expansion than they had earlier. A majority of the nearly three dozen who respond-ed to the survey predict tepid economic growth, weak pay gains and modest hiring for the next two years at least.

Nearly 70 percent said they thought the economy’s growth would remain below its long-run average of 3 percent an-nually through 2017. The economy hasn’t attained that pace since 2005.

And if they’re right, don’t expect much of a pay raise: Fifty-eight percent of the economists think wage increases for the next two years will remain stuck below a long-term annual average of 3.5 percent.

What’s more, if growth doesn’t pick up from its modest post-recession pace of 2.2 percent a year, nearly six in 10 ex-pect hiring to fall to an average of 175,000 jobs a month or below, down from its pace of 243,000 jobs a month for the past year.

At the start of the year, many economists thought falling gas prices and strong hiring would finally produce 3 percent economic growth for 2015 as a whole.

“We no longer have reason for optimism that the economy is going to accelerate,” said Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics. “The real question is, when is the next downturn coming?”

Other findings from the survey, conducted Aug. 13-20, include:

— home sales will improve further despite a still-tepid economy. More than 80 percent of economists say recent job gains, which have put about 2.9 million Americans to work in the past year, will lead more Americans to buy homes. Sales

reached an annual rate of 5.6 million in July, the best in eight years. And nine in 10 of the economists expect millennials — people between 18 and 34 years old — to step up their home buying and boost growth in coming years.

— All but two of the economists think the Federal Reserve will raise the short-term rate it controls by year’s end, with 80 percent pegging the Fed’s mid-September meeting as the mostly likely time.

— Assuming the Fed raises rates this year, economists fore-cast that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate will rise from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent by mid-2016 and 4.8 percent by the end of 2016. Those levels are still low by historical standards.

— China’s economic troubles will worsen, in turn slowing the global economy. In just the past month, China’s exports have plummeted along with factory output, and its stock mar-ket has sunk. The country has devalued its currency in part to try to boost exports, but growth is expected to slip to 7 percent this year, the slowest pace since 1990. half the econo-mists said they think China’s growth will weaken further in the next year to below a 6 percent annual pace and slow the global economy.

China’s woes have triggered sharp selloffs in global finan-cial markets.

The economists cited several reasons for their dimmer out-look for the united States. Many pointed to a slowdown in the proportion of Americans with jobs. baby boomers are re-tiring, young people are staying in school longer and some of the unemployed have given up on their job hunts.

Increases in worker efficiency have also faltered since the recession, further limiting the economy’s output.

“The slowdown in labor force growth is the main reason (economic) growth in the u.S. will be slower than it was in the second half of the previous century,” said Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust.

Outside of population growth and productivity, “a huge surge in exports” could spur a faster expansion, said Robert Johnson, an economist at Morningstar. Yet economists noted that the dollar has surged about 20 percent in value in the past year compared with a basket of other currencies. That’s made u.S. exports more expensive overseas.

Suspect in trooper death also suspected in roomate slaying

BY JANET MCCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press

NEW ORLEANS — The roommate of a man arrested in a Louisiana state trooper’s death was found dead Monday, and the suspect in the trooper’s slaying is also suspected in this case, a sheriff said.

The man was found dead Monday in a home he shared with Kevin Daigle, 54, in Moss bluff, Calcasieu parish Tony Mancuso said Monday at a news conference.

he said a deputy went by the home Monday morning after authorities were notified that the roommate had not arrived at work. The deputy found the roommate dead amid signs of a struggle. The roommate’s name was not immediately released.

“We are just now processing the scene,” he said. “We really don’t have a lot of answers.”

Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, died Monday, a day after an apparently stranded motorist shot him in the head and then stood over him to tell him he was going to die soon, state police said.

Authorities plan to charge Daigle with first-degree murder in the trooper’s slaying. Vincent had been trying to help a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Mike Edmonson said.

“Tragically these things happen far too often around the coun-try. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Steven and his family,” said Edmonson during a news conference Monday.

“I watched the tape yesterday. It was frightening to watch,” Edmonson said, referring to the dashboard video. Officials have not released the video, but Edmonson said it showed that Vin-cent did everything right.

Edmonson also introduced the good Samaritan who he said wrestled the sawed-off shotgun away from the man accused of shooting the trooper.

“This is a hero,” Edmonson said of Robert LeDoux of Iowa, Louisiana, a town of about 3,100 where one of Vincent’s broth-ers is police chief. LeDoux was the first of four people who stopped to help.

Another driver who’d passed the shooting scene told LeDoux that a trooper had been shot, so LeDoux sped there, jumped out, and grabbed Kevin Daigle and “moved him off our trooper,” Edmonson said.

LeDoux then used Vincent’s radio to let police know an of-ficer was down and ask for help.

LeDoux did not speak at the news conference. Edmonson shook hands with him and then hugged him.

Edmonson said Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, was under arrest at a hospital.

police video showed Vincent, a 13-year state police veteran in southwest Louisiana and member of a law enforcement family, very professionally trying to talk a man out of the vehicle stuck sideways in a ditch, Edmonson said Sunday.

he said the truck door opened and Daigle came out with the shotgun.

“That’s not meant to scare people or warn people. That’s meant to harm people, to kill someone,” Edmonson said.

This photo released by the Louisiana State Police shows Kevin Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, La. A Louisiana state trooper was shot in the head and critically injured Sunday, during a struggle with a man whose pickup truck had run into a ditch after being reported as driving erratically, Louisiana State Police said. Col. Michael Edmonson, head of state police, said the arrested man. (AP photo)

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College Football

Mississippi State linebacker Richie Brown, right, returns an interception against Texas A&M as coach Dan Mullen watches from the sideline. (Photo by Mary Liz Herrington)

Richie Brown (39) makes a tackle for the Bulldogs during his freshman season. (Photo by Danny Johnston, AP)

MSu’s brown seeks to improveBy DANNY P. [email protected]

Mississippi State junior linebacker Richie brown doesn’t hold much stock in preseason honors.

Even though they make for a nice conversa-tional piece, brown knows the more important recognition comes after the season.

brown made the national watchlist for the butkus Award, which goes to college football’s best linebacker, but his only focus is getting bet-ter.

“It’s definitely an honor, but my favorite ones

are the postseason,” brown said. “Now is time to get all of the nitty gritty details down and some specific things I had to work on ... some small points. It’s really like refining something and little issues here and there and making sure I’m taking a leadership role, helping the young guys and getting them ready.”

brown was a young bulldog too once.he is now a part of a veteran linebacker duo

that includes beniquez brown.“We got a lot of reps last year and now we’re

coming back with plenty of reps,” brown said. “With special teams, we probably have more reps if you count those in. We’ve had a lot of

playing time and we’ve all played, so we’re con-fident out there and it’s no new jitters or any-thing like that.”

Richie brown has gotten an opportunity to contribute in two years at MSu.

In 2013, he made 38 total tackles with two sack and had an interception.

brown had 50 total tackles as a sophomore with the bulldogs, including a 10-tackle effort against Vanderbilt. he had three interceptions, three pass break ups and a fumble recovery.

MSu head coach Dan Mullen said brown is having “a pretty good training camp” and is improving.

Mullen will be looking for more contribu-tions out of brown going into the season.

“he’s a guy who is going to be much more in a starting role,” Mullen said. “he’s got to make a lot more calls, get us in the right defenses and get us lined up the right way.

“he’s the guy that’s got to be ‘the one’ now. Last year, he got to come in as the relief guy, and now he is the guy that people are going to look to. So, it goes beyond just your scheme and playing football. It goes into leadership, which will be important for him this year.”

gray adjusting to life as a bulldogBy JOEL [email protected]

Oh, what Donald gray would give for the chance to sleep in.

Mississippi State’s sopho-more wide re-ceiver, entering his first season with the bull-dogs after a standout 2014 campaign at Copiah-Lincoln Community Col-lege, is fighting through his first fall

camp at MSu.There’s an offense to learn, coach-

es and teammates to impress, and a whole new routine that gray says has left him drained.

“The hardest thing is meetings,” gray said. “We had meetings at junior college, but there’s so many things now with meetings in the morning, then right after practice, we’ve got meetings again. Not being able to take naps in between … you try to scrape up any type of nap you can. You might get a 2-minute break, so you go to sleep for those 2 minutes and wake back up. It’s just exhaust-ing more than anything. The mind is

tired, and the body is talking to the mind and the mind is talking to the body. You just have to figure it out.”

gray is beginning to adapt to his new normal in Starkville. There are good days and bad he says. One day he might be on top of the world. The next, a dropped pass in practice might tempt him to get a little too down on himself. With all that’s going on, gray said one of the biggest things he’s try-ing to learn right now is how to sim-ply let blunders go as he battles for a spot on MSu’s depth chart.

“Every morning, it’s just part of the game, but you’ve got to wake up with a fresh start,” gray said. “If

you don’t have your mind right, your mind can be a terrible thing that can overpower your body, so you have to wake up and get it going. You can’t let one mistake ruin your whole day.”

In between the low times, gray has already started to show flashes of the player he was at Co-Lin last year when he was selected a National Junior Col-lege Athletic Association All-Ameri-can. The 5-10, 193-pound Memphis, Tennessee, native reeled in 55 catches for 989 yards and 10 touchdowns a season ago while also returning three punts for scores.

Mississippi State wide receivers coach billy gonzales says gray is an

unfinished product, but it’s obvious he has the tools to be playmaker in the Southeastern Conference.

“he’s got all the intangibles and he’s extremely talented,” gonzales said. “he can jump. he can run. he’s got quick-twitch. he’s just got to con-tinue to focus. he’s been very quick at picking up the offense, (but) he’s just got to be consistent. he’ll make a big play, then he’ll drop an easy ball.”

gray noted that he dropped a pair of passes in Mississippi State’s first scrimmage of the fall. he was tempt-ed to slip into another mental slump

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Women’s College basketball

Mississippi State’s harris fillsRotarians in on the programBy ROBBIE [email protected]

Starkville’s Rotary Club was anxiously awaiting Mon-day afternoon’s speaker at its weekly meeting and it wasn’t because football season was just two weeks away.

There’s a new team that grabbing attention among Mississippi State fans and that’s the MSu women’s bas-ketball team.

Fresh off a trip to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in head coach Vic Schaefer’s third year, the bulldogs are coming into 2015-16 with the highest ex-pectations that the team has had in some time.

On Monday, Schaefer was scheduled to talk to the Ro-tarians about the upcoming season but due to a meeting in Indianapolis was unable to attend. In his place, how-ever, top assistant Johnnie harris did just fine updating the packed crowd on the upcoming season.

before harris broke down the MSu roster for 2015, she thanked the fans in attendance for their support last

season. harris mentioned that from the first year to now, support has skyrocketed and been a huge reason for the team’s fast rise to becoming a top 25 team.

“We started out here three years ago and (at) a lot of our games, we have 300-500 people there,” harris said. “We ended up last year with record crowds. A lot of that has to do with our style of play, but a lot of that has to do with you guys.

“We had 7,400 (fans) for our game against Ole Miss to end the season. We want to start out with over 10,000 at our first game in a doubleheader with the men’s team. Coach Schaefer thinks that you guys can help us get that done.”

harris was backed by fellow assistants Elena Lovato and new assistant Dionnah Jackson at Rotary and the three have been working with the squad this summer. The main topic of conversation was the improvement that players made over the summer including one of Mississippi State assistant women’s basketball coach Johnnie Harris

speaks at the Starkville Rotary Club meeting on Monday. (Photo by Robbie Faulk, SDN)

See BROWN | Page 8

See GRAY | Page 8

See HARRIS | Page 7

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5The winning streak for the Chicago Cubs,

who have also won 21 of the last 26 games.

Quoteworthy“We ended up last year with record

crowds. A lot of that has to do with our style of play, but a lot of that has to do

with you guys.”

Mississippi State assistant women’s bas-ketball coach Johnnie harris told the Starkville Rotary Club on Monday.

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

All Times EDT

National League East Division

W L Pct GBNew York 68 56 .548 —Washington 62 61 .504 5½Atlanta 54 71 .432 14½Miami 50 75 .400 18½Philadelphia 50 75 .400 18½

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 78 45 .634 —Pittsburgh 75 48 .610 3Chicago 72 51 .585 6Milwaukee 53 72 .424 26Cincinnati 52 71 .423 26

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 67 56 .545 —San Francisco 66 58 .532 1½Arizona 62 61 .504 5San Diego 61 63 .492 6½Colorado 49 74 .398 18

Sunday’s GamesArizona 4, Cincinnati 0Philadelphia 2, Miami 0Washington 9, Milwaukee 5Houston 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 inningsChicago Cubs 9, Atlanta 3N.Y. Mets 5, Colorado 1St. Louis 10, San Diego 3Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 2

Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1N.Y. Mets 16, Philadelphia 7Atlanta 5, Colorado 3Cincinnati 12, Detroit 5Pittsburgh 5, Miami 2St. Louis at Arizona, late

Today’s GamesN.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 7-6) at Philadel-phia (J.Williams 4-9), 7:05 p.m.San Diego (Shields 9-5) at Washington (Strasburg 7-6), 7:05 p.m.Colorado (Bettis 5-4) at Atlanta (Foltyne-wicz 4-5), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 8-8) at Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 0-1), 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-1), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Morton 8-4) at Miami (B.Hand 3-3), 7:10 p.m.St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 5-4) at Arizona (Ray 3-9), 9:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 15-6) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-3), 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.San Diego at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Colorado at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Miami, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 69 55 .556 —Toronto 69 55 .556 —Baltimore 62 62 .500 7Tampa Bay 62 62 .500 7Boston 56 68 .452 13

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 76 48 .613 —Minnesota 63 61 .508 13Detroit 59 65 .476 17Chicago 58 64 .475 17Cleveland 58 66 .468 18

West Division W L Pct GBHouston 69 57 .548 —Texas 64 59 .520 3½Los Angeles 63 61 .508 5Seattle 57 67 .460 11Oakland 54 71 .432 14½

Sunday’s GamesCleveland 4, N.Y. Yankees 3Texas 4, Detroit 2Kansas City 8, Boston 6Minnesota 4, Baltimore 3, 12 inningsHouston 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 inningsToronto 12, L.A. Angels 5Oakland 8, Tampa Bay 2Seattle 8, Chicago White Sox 6

Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1N.Y. Yankees 1, Houston 0Cincinnati 12, Detroit 5Kansas City 8, Baltimore 3Boston at Chicago White Sox, lateOakland at Seattle, late

Today’s GamesHouston (Keuchel 14-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-5), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Weaver 5-9) at Detroit (Simon 11-7), 7:08 p.m.Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-1), 7:10 p.m.Minnesota (E.Santana 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Karns 7-5), 7:10 p.m.Toronto (Buehrle 13-6) at Texas (D.Holland 1-1), 8:05 p.m.Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-9) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 6-6), 8:10 p.m.Boston (Miley 10-9) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 7-10), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Chavez 7-12) at Seattle (Mont-gomery 4-6), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesHouston at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 3:40 p.m.L.A. Angels at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Toronto at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Baltimore at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.Boston at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

College Football

The Associated Press Top 25

The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press preseason college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2014 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and 2014 fi-nal ranking:

Recor Pts Pv1. Ohio St. (61) 14-1 1,525 12. TCU 12-1 1,428 33. Alabama 12-2 1,322 44. Baylor 11-2 1,263 75. Michigan St. 11-2 1,256 t56. Auburn 8-5 1,192 227. Oregon 13-2 1,156 28. Southern Cal 9-4 1,085 209. Georgia 10-3 991 910. Florida St. 13-1 959 t511. Notre Dame 8-5 873 NR12. Clemson 10-3 862 1513. UCLA 10-3 698 1014. LSU 8-5 675 NR15. Arizona St. 10-3 605 1216. Georgia Tech 11-3 588 817. Mississippi 9-4 563 1718. Arkansas 7-6 410 NR19. Oklahoma 8-5 394 NR20. Wisconsin 11-3 393 1321. Stanford 8-5 347 NR22. Arizona 10-4 311 1923. Boise St. 12-2 240 1624. Missouri 11-3 219 1425. Tennessee 7-6 114 NR

Others receiving votes: Mississippi St. 100, Texas A&M 61, Oklahoma St. 46, Virginia Tech 42, Utah 36, Penn St. 20, Louisville 12, Cincinnati 8, Nebraska 6, Kansas St. 5, Florida 4, NC State 4, Texas 3, BYU 2, Michigan 2, N. Illinois 2, Cali-fornia 1, W. Kentucky 1, West Virginia 1.

Amway Top 25 Poll

The Amway Top 25 football coaches preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2014 records, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and 2014 final ranking:

Record Pts Pvs1. Ohio State (62) 14-1 1598 12. TCU (1) 12-1 1487 33. Alabama (1) 12-2 1452 44. Baylor 11-2 1365 85. Oregon 13-2 1260 26. Michigan State 11-2 1230 57. Auburn 8-5 1103 238. Florida State 13-1 1057 69. Georgia 10-3 1026 910. Southern California 9-4 1014 2111. Notre Dame 8-5 883 NR12. Clemson 10-3 838 1513. LSU 8-5 727 NR14. UCLA 10-3 697 1015. Mississippi 9-4 668 1916. Arizona State 10-3 577 1417. Georgia Tech 11-3 573 718. Wisconsin 11-3 470 1319. Oklahoma 8-5 407 NR20. Arkansas 7-6 377 NR21. Stanford 8-5 365 NR22. Arizona 10-4 299 1723. Missouri 11-3 229 1124. Boise State 12-2 190 1625. Tennessee 7-6 166 NR

Others receiving votes: Mississippi State 164; Texas A&M 149; Oklahoma State 89; Virginia Tech 70; Utah 40; Kansas State 37; Louisville 27; Nebraska 27; Minnesota 25; Penn State 20; South Carolina 18; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas 8; Illinois 7; Duke

6; Air Force 5; Louisiana Tech 5; Marshall 4; Utah State 4; Brigham Young 3; North Carolina State 3; West Virginia 3; Florida 2; Georgia Southern 2; North Carolina 2; Central Florida 1; Cincinnati 1; Kentucky 1; Maryland 1; Michigan 1; Washington 1.

National Football League

Preseason Schedule

Saturday’s GamesPhiladelphia 40, Baltimore 17Carolina 31, Miami 30New England 26, New Orleans 24Chicago 23, Indianapolis 11N.Y. Giants 22, Jacksonville 12Minnesota 20, Oakland 12Denver 14, Houston 10San Diego 22, Arizona 19

Sunday’s GamesPittsburgh 24, Green Bay 19San Francisco 23, Dallas 6Tennessee 27, St. Louis 14

Monday’s GameCincinnati at Tampa Bay, late

Friday, Aug. 28New England at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.Tennessee at Kansas City, 8 p.m.Detroit at Jacksonville, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 4 p.m.Minnesota at Dallas, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.Chicago at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.Seattle at San Diego, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Green Bay, 8 p.m.Indianapolis at St. Louis, 8 p.m.San Francisco at Denver, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 30Houston at New Orleans, 4 p.m.Arizona at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Golf

PGA Tour Schedule

Oct. 9-12 — Frys.com Open (Bae Sang-moon)Oct. 16-19 — Shriners Hospitals for Chil-dren Open (Ben Martin)Oct. 23-26 — The McGladrey Classic (Robert Streb)Oct. 30-Nov. 2 — CIMB Classic (Ryan Moore)Nov. 6-9 — Sanderson Farms Champion-ship (Nick Taylor)Nov. 6-9 — WGC-HSBC Champions (Bubba Watson)Nov. 13-16 — OHL Classic at Mayakoba (Charley Hoffman)Jan. 9-12 — Hyundai Tournament of Champions (Patrick Reed)Jan. 15-18 — Sony Open in Hawaii (Jim-my Walker)Jan. 22-25 — Humana Challenge (Bill Haas)Jan. 29-Feb. 1 — Waste Management Phoenix Open (Brooks Koepka)Feb. 5-8 — Farmers Insurance Open (Ja-son Day)Feb. 12-15 — AT&T Pebble Beach Na-tional Pro-Am (Brandt Snedeker)Feb. 19-22 — Northern Trust Open (James Hahn)Feb. 26-March 1 — The Honda Classic (Padraig Harrington)March 5-8 — Puerto Rico Open (Alex Cejka)March 5-8 — WGC-Cadillac Champion-ship (Dustin Johnson)March 12-15 — Valspar Championship (Jordan Spieth)March 19-22 — Arnold Palmer Invita-tional (Matt Every)March 26-29 — Valero Texas Open (Jim-my Walker)April 2-5 — Shell Houston Open (J.B. Holmes)April 9-12 — The Masters (Jordan Spi-eth)April 16-19 — RBC Heritage (Jim Furyk)April 23-26 — Zurich Classic of New Or-leans (Justin Rose)

April 29-May 3 — WGC-Cadillac Match Play (Rory McIlroy)May 7-10 — THE PLAYERS Champion-ship (Rickie Fowler)May 14-17 — Wells Fargo Champion-ship (Rory McIlroy)May 21-24 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial (Chris Kirk)May 28-31 — AT&T Byron Nelson Cham-pionship (Steven Bowditch)June 4-7 — Memorial Tournament (Da-vid Lingmerth)June 11-14 — FedEx St. Jude Classic (Fabian Gomez)June 18-21 — U.S. Open Championship (Jordan Spieth)June 25-28 — Travelers Championship (Bubba Watson)July 2-5 — The Greenbrier Classic (Dan-ny Lee)July 9-12 — John Deere Classic (Jordan Spieth)July 16-19 — The Open Championship (Zach Johnson)July 16-19 — Barbasol Championship (Scott Piercy)July 23-26 — RBC Canadian Open (Ja-son Day)July 30-Aug. 2 — Quicken Loans Nation-al (Troy Merritt)Aug. 6-9 — Barracuda Championship (J.J. Henry)Aug. 6-9 — WGC-Bridgestone Invita-tional (Shane Lowry)Aug. 13-16 — PGA Championship, Whistling Straits-Straits Course, Sheboy-gan, Wis.Aug. 20-23 — Wyndham Championship (Davis Love III)Aug. 27-30 — The Barclays, Plainfield Country Club, Edison, N.J.Sept. 4-7 — Deutsche Bank Champion-ship, TPC Boston, Norton, Mass.Sept. 17-20 — BMW Championship, Conway Farms Golf Club, Lake Forest, Ill.Sept. 24-27 — TOUR Championship, East Lake Golf Course, AtlantaOct. 9-11 — The Presidents Cup, Jack Nicklaus GC Korea, Incheon City, South Korea.

PGA Tour Leaders

Through Aug. 23

FedExCup Season Points1, Jordan Spieth, 4,168.809. 2, Ja-son Day, 2,458.666. 3, Bubba Watson, 2,406.614. 4, Jimmy Walker, 2,014.333. 5, Justin Rose, 1,741.559. 6, Robert Streb, 1,720.066. 7, Dustin Johnson, 1,718.219. 8, Patrick Reed, 1,592.809. 9, Rory McIlroy, 1,567.433. 10, Danny Lee, 1,561.327.

Scoring Average1, Jordan Spieth, 68.721. 2, Bubba Wat-son, 69.437. 3, Brooks Koepka, 69.463. 4, Jason Day, 69.592. 5, Dustin Johnson, 69.667. 6, Will Wilcox, 69.730. 7, Justin Rose, 69.830. 8, Paul Casey, 69.840. 9, Henrik Stenson, 69.860. 10, Brandt Sne-deker, 69.861.

Driving Distance1, Dustin Johnson, 318.5. 2, Bubba Wat-son, 315.3. 3, Jason Day, 313.5. 4, Adam Scott, 312.0. 5, J.B. Holmes, 310.5. 6, Charlie Beljan, 309.8. 7, Brooks Koepka, 309.5. 8, Tony Finau, 308.9. 9, Patrick Rodgers, 307.7. 10, Gary Woodland, 306.8.

Driving Accuracy Percentage1, Francesco Molinari, 76.88%. 2, David Toms, 74.50%. 3, Jason Bohn, 72.19%. 4, Chez Reavie, 71.89%. 5, Colt Knost, 71.76%. 6, Justin Leonard, 71.70%. 7, Steven Alker, 71.41%. 8, Zach Johnson, 71.36%. 9, Brendon Todd, 70.94%. 10, Henrik Stenson, 70.32%.

Greens in Regulation Percentage1, Henrik Stenson, 73.48%. 2, Jim Her-man, 73.44%. 3, Stewart Cink, 73.14%. 4, Will Wilcox, 72.86%. 5, Paul Casey, 72.06%. 6, Francesco Molinari, 71.07%. 7, Russell Knox, 70.77%. 8, Justin Rose, 70.62%. 9, Brooks Koepka, 70.53%. 10, Lucas Glover, 70.46%.

Total Driving1, Henrik Stenson, 48. 2, Will Wilcox, 60. 3, Keegan Bradley, 68. 4, Justin Rose, 71. 5, Graham DeLaet, 85. 6, Charlie Bel-jan, 92. 7, Russell Henley, 95. 8, Hideki Matsuyama, 101. 9 (tie), Lucas Glover and Jim Herman, 108.

Strokes Gained-Putting1, Cameron Smith, .962. 2, Jimmy Walk-er, .891. 3, Aaron Baddeley, .717. 4, Freddie Jacobson, .665. 5, Brandt Sne-deker, .626. 6, Jordan Spieth, .622. 7, Russell Henley, .621. 8, Brooks Koepka, .620. 9, Jason Day, .599. 10, Lee West-wood, .582.

Birdie Average1, Jason Day, 4.68. 2, Jordan Spieth, 4.62. 3, Justin Rose, 4.52. 4, Vaughn Taylor, 4.43. 5, Bubba Watson, 4.27. 6, Dustin Johnson, 4.25. 7, Cameron Smith, 4.23. 8, Jimmy Walker, 4.19. 9, Justin Thomas, 4.18. 10, Tony Finau, 4.14.

Eagles (Holes per)1, Brooks Koepka, 65.4. 2, Bubba Wat-son, 66.9. 3, Dustin Johnson, 84.0. 4, J.B. Holmes, 95.5. 5, Matt Kuchar, 100.3. 6, Hideki Matsuyama, 103.8. 7, Justin Thomas, 105.8. 8, Jason Day, 112.0. 9, Rickie Fowler, 116.0. 10, Will Wilcox, 117.0.

Sand Save Percentage1, Chris Kirk, 65.22%. 2, Kevin Na, 64.29%. 3, Chad Collins, 63.87%. 4, Matt Kuchar, 63.41%. 5, Justin Rose, 63.10%. 6 (tie), S.J. Park and Will Wilcox, 63.08%. 8, David Toms, 63.04%. 9, Luke Donald, 62.50%. 10, Brendon Todd, 62.31%.

All-Around Ranking1, Will Wilcox, 218. 2, Jason Day, 228. 3, Jordan Spieth, 268. 4, Brooks Koepka, 283. 5, Justin Rose, 297. 6, Hideki Mat-suyama, 316. 7, Justin Thomas, 326. 8 (tie), Matt Kuchar and Bubba Watson, 365. 10, Rickie Fowler, 416.

ThE arEa sLaTEToday

High School Soccer

Heritage Academy at Starkville Academy, 4 p.m. (no JV)

High School Volleyball

Aberdeen at Starkville, 5 p.m. (JV first)

WhaT’s ON TVToday

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon

ESPN — World Series, U.S. vs Interna-tional, consolation, Williamsport, Pa.

3 p.m.ESPN — World Series, International, elimination, Williamsport, Pa.

7 p.m.

ESPN — World Series, U.S., elimina-tion, Williamsport, Pa.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m.

MLB — Houston at N.Y. YankeesSOCCER1:30 p.m.

FS1 — UEFA, Champions League, Va-lencia at Monaco

Road closed at ShS stadiumDue to the construction with the bridge, the access road

off Yellow Jacket Drive will be closed for Friday nigh’s “Little Egg bowl” game between Starkville and Oxford.

Fans need to approach Yellowjacket Stadium from Lynn Lane or Old highway 25.

Also, the kick off time of the game is 8 p.m. due to ESpNu television.

EWhS hosts punt, pass, KickThe annual punt, pass and Kick Contest will be held

this year on Saturday, September 12 at the East Webster high School football field in Cumberland.

The event is for boys and girls ages 8 through 15. A parent or guardian must sign your application and a birth certificate is required. Youngsters must compete in sneak-ers, not cleats or bare feet.

Registration begins at 10 a.m. on contest day and the competition begins promptly at 11 a.m. The event is spon-sored by the Maben Lions Club.

For more information contact Rob Collins at 662-263-4722 or 662-263-8458.

Still time to join Qb ClubThere is still time to join the Starkville Quarterback

Club prior to the first meeting on September 3.Sign-up forms can be printed from the Qb Club web

site at www.starkvillequarterbackclub.com. Forms and checks for dues of $185 can be mailed to Starkville Qb Club, p.O. box 1937, Starkville, MS 39760.

If the club receives the sign-up form and check by Aug. 27, your name will be entered into a raffle for a MSu foot-ball helmet. The helmet will be presented to the winner at the first meeting. paying early will also allow you a quick entry to the club on the first night and avoid congestion at the sign-up table.

There will be 13 meetings this fall with good food, so-cials, door prizes, pickem contest, scouting reports, and speakers. Starkville Quarterback Club president Joe baker encourages the public to join.

SEC to help prostate cancer awarenessThe Southeastern Conference will help raise aware-

ness of prostate cancer prevention and honor former commissioner Mike Slive, who battled the disease during his athletics administration career, with prostate Cancer Awareness games on each of the 14 league campuses during the month of September.

Mississippi State will honor Slive for its home opener against LSu on Sept. 12, which kicks off at 8:15 p.m. on ESpN.

The 14 Athletics Directors of the SEC voted unani-mously in May at the SEC Spring Meetings to recognize Slive by dedicating a game on each campus to prostate cancer awareness during which the home team will wear a commemorative helmet sticker.

“The Athletics Directors saw this as an opportunity to recognize Mike Slive in a meaningful way while also bringing attention to an important topic that affects one in seven men in America during a lifetime,” said SEC Commissioner greg Sankey. “While honoring our for-mer commissioner for his great service to the SEC, we can also raise awareness and influence prevention of this disease.”

prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Although the disease is serious, most men diagnosed with prostate cancer can success-fully fight the disease with early detection. Men over the age of 50 are highly encouraged to get regular prostate cancer screenings.

Slive was originally diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s. he served as commissioner of the SEC from 2002 until his retirement in 2015. During that time, he oversaw one of the greatest eras of success in league history while helping shape the landscape of col-lege sports as a national leader in intercollegiate athletics.

In October 2014, Slive announced he was stepping down after 13 years and was dealing with a recurrence of his prostate cancer. After surgery, radiation and che-motherapy, Slive is enjoying a summer respite free from cancer treatment. he remains under the watchful eyes of his doctor.

In addition to wearing helmet stickers, some schools will conduct various other activities around their desig-nated prostate Cancer Awareness games, some of which will include video board announcements, prostate can-cer screenings, recognition of prostate cancer survivors, game program ads and stories, production of public ser-vice announcements and social media outreach.

Slive will attend several of the prostate Cancer Aware-ness games during the month of September.

graveman placed on DL by A’s(Ap) – The Oakland Athletics placed right-hander

and former Mississippi State pitcher Kendall graveman on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a strained left oblique muscle.

To fill graveman’s roster spot, the A’s recalled infield-er Max Muncy from Triple-A Nashville.

brIEFLy

MSu’s most important players, Dominique Dillingham.

“Dominique worked a lot this summer on her ball han-dling and her shooting,” harris said of the rising junior. “The thing about Dom is she’s great on the defensive end but on the offensive end, people didn’t guard her. hopefully that will pay off for her.”

From last year’s signing class came some of the most produc-tive freshmen in school history in Victoria Vivians and Mor-

gan William. between those two and the rest of the class, big things are expected and even with their giant freshmen years, they needed improve-ment as well.

“We’ve been working with Morgan on leadership,” har-ris said. “Now Morgan is go-ing to have to step up and be that leader and she worked on that. She also worked on her speed and how to use that as an advantage. Victoria changed her body and looks great right now. hopefully she’ll come back ready to play.”

In the position that those

sophomores were in a year ago is the incoming freshman class. It was another big-time group brought in by Schaefer includ-ing one of the nation’s top players in 6-7, five-star center Teaira McCowan. With the ad-dition of a couple of Mississippi girls as well, there’s a chance several of these could make an impact right away.

Forward Jazmine Spears signed with the bulldogs for the second time this year after initially expected to join the team two years ago. After leav-ing New Albany for two years to play ball at Trinity Valley CC

in Texas, Spears became an All-American and a national cham-pion.

“She’s a power forward and a kid that’s very crafty around the basket,” harris said. “She has a lot of fans from that New Albany area and a lot of people ask about her all the time.”

MSu legacy Jazzmus holmes, whose mother played soccer for the bulldogs and step-father is former bulldog football player Tim Nelson, comes in as a combo guard ex-pected to amp up competition between MSu’s talented group. Also expected to compete after

sitting out a year is Oklahoma State transfer Roshunda John-son, who is already competing.

“She is a strong, physical guard and I think she’s going to be really good in our system,” harris said of Johnson. “Our first practice she was out there pressing and you would have thought she was a returner. As quick as Morgan is, she asked coach Schaefer if she could back off Ro because she was too quick.”

With the addition of the freshman class, the talented sophomore class being a year older and the support of the

bulldog fans at an all-time high, harris and the coaches are ex-cited about the fourth year on campus.

“We’re ranked preseason No. 11 in one poll and our girls are fired up for the season,” harris said. “We’re going to put a good product out on the floor.”

There are 11 games this season that will be nationally televised for the bulldogs. They open up the season with game one of a doubleheader with the men’s team as they play host to Samford Friday, November 13 at humphrey Coliseum.

HARRISFrom page 6

• Starkville Daily News • Tuesday, August 25, 2015

brown said the bulldogs seem to have made the tran-

sition well from coordinator geoff Collins to Manny Diaz.

When it comes to styles, there’s not much difference between Collins and Diaz in

brown’s mind.“Coach Diaz loves to be ag-

gressive and loves to blitz,” brown said. “It’s not that coach (geoff) Collins doesn’t

blitz, but the favorite thing for coach Diaz is be aggres-sive. That’s the main differ-ence. There are a lot of simi-larities, but the schemes are

a little bit different here and there.

“It’s all defense and they both understand that it’s up to us to be a good defense and

not just them. They can pre-pare us and get us right men-tally, but ultimately they both understand that it’s up to the players to make it happen.”

because of his mistakes. gray credited his teammates for not letting that happen.

“(Justin Malone) immedi-ately came over there,” gray said. ”Dak (prescott) said a couple things and (Dontavian

Lee) did. Malone kind of just said ‘Let it go. You’re going to have another chance to do what you’ve got to do’ and I did.”

gray went on to add a long touchdown reception that night as he showed again why he could be a big part of MSu’s wide receiver mix.

As of now, gray says he,

along with senior Joe Morrow and junior Fred brown, con-tinue to work for the Z receiver position. While many might look at the situation as a battle for a spot, gray says that’s not the case.

“I don’t really see it as competition,” gray said. “I see it as that’s my big broth-

ers. If my big brother falls off, hopefully, I can help him and he can help me. I enjoy it and I’m just still learning from them.”

As gray soaks in all the knowledge he can from Mor-row and brown, he might just be inching his way closer to overcoming his culture shock

and becoming the dynamic player the bulldogs feel he can be.

“he’s got to continue to work, got to continue to get better, and make improve-ments, and if he can do that then hopefully, he will have an opportunity to help us,” gonzales said. “he does show

those signs that he can be a difference maker.”

until then, gray is fully aware there is plenty to do. There’s still a few more meet-ings too, so gray would be wise to make sure his alarm re-mains set.

“I’ll sleep after the season,” gray said.

BROWNFrom page 6

GRAYFrom page 6

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL

Arkansas offensive coordinator Dan Enos speaks to members of the media during an NCAA college football media day event in Fayetteville, Ark. Enos left his job as head coach at Central Michigan after last season to take over as the offensive coordinator for the No. 18 Razorbacks, who open their season against Texas-El Paso on Sept. 5. (Photo by Samantha Baker, AP)

Florida coachfrustrated dueto yellow flags

Enos making a smooth transitionas Arkansas offensive coordinator

By MARK LONGAssociated Press

gAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Jim McElwain has no patience for pointless penalties.

McElwain threw a defensive lineman out of practice last week after he drew an unsportsmanlike conduct flag during a scrimmage. McEl-wain declined to identify the offender, but he made it clear he plans to provide similar quick hooks for anyone com-mitting “selfish acts” during games this season.

It’s one of many changes McElwain has made in his first year at Florida. This one might yield immediate returns.

After all, the gators were the most penalized team in the Southeastern Conference over the last five years.

“Those are the unforced errors that have been the Achil-les’ heel for a long time around here,” McElwain said. “I’m tired of it.”

Florida was flagged 475 times for 3,834 yards between 2010 and 2014, ranking fifth nationally in penalties and 15th in yards. McElwain wasn’t around for those years, but he has watched enough video to know the gators have a penchant for self-inflicted punishment.

“If they continue to do it, they can continue to do it somewhere else,” McElwain said. “I’ve been around some re-ally good coaches, obviously, and that’s something you don’t see by great football teams. That’s not how they act. They play hard between the whistles the way the game’s supposed to be played and they don’t bring attention to themselves. That’s just what we believe in and how we’re going to run the program.

“We’ve got some behavior that we’ve got to keep working on. What are we? The most penalized team in the last five years, six years, whatever it is? I don’t know where we sit. It’s ridiculous.”

Former gators coach Will Muschamp seemed to be fed up with his team’s on-field behavior, too. Muschamp kicked defensive lineman gerald Willis off the sideline in his final game, a loss at Florida State in November, after Willis drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for forearming Jameis Winston out of bounds.

“If I was still head coach, he’d be kicked off the team,” Muschamp said after the game. “Ridiculous.”

McElwain took a similar approach from Day 1, telling players to clean up their act.

“In the first team meeting, he said we need to clean up penalties,” cornerback Jalen Tabor said. “We’ve been last in the conference, at the bottom of the nation in penalties. With all the penalties we had, we’re giving teams the game.”

penalties were a huge factor in three losses last season, including two that essentially cost Muschamp his job.

Defensive back brian poole was flagged for holding on a 3rd-and-17 play against LSu in October, keeping alive a drive that eventually resulted in a touchdown that put the Tigers ahead 20-17. LSu ended up winning 30-27.

Receiver Quinton Dunbar was penalized for holding in the fourth quarter against South Carolina, wiping out quar-terback Treon harris’ long run that put the gators at the 6-yard line. Instead of possibly scoring a touchdown and go-ing up 24-10, Florida had to settle for a field-goal attempt, which was blocked, and the gamecocks won 23-20 in over-time.

By KURT VOIGTAssociated Press

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Just be-cause Dan Enos isn’t a head coach any-more doesn’t mean has hasn’t brought big-picture thinking to his new job as Ar-kansas’ offensive coordinator.

It’s an approach, one focused on atten-tion to detail, that Razorbacks coach bret bielema has appreciated during Enos’ ear-ly tenure in Fayetteville.

Enos was hired at Arkansas in Janu-ary, leaving behind his job as head coach at Central Michigan after five seasons. The move was a curious one, given the per-ceived step down, but the high-profile na-ture of the Southeastern Conference made it one Enos couldn’t resist.

Since his arrival, Enos — who called the plays while head coach at Central Michigan — has appeared in his element while focused solely on the offensive side of the ball. The former Michigan State quarterback has also earned the praise of the No. 18 Razorbacks and the respect of

bielema, who played and coached against Enos during his career.

bielema said Enos’ head-coaching roots have been best displayed with his “te-dious” approach on the practice field, as well as during meetings when asked to ad-dress the entire team.

“Dan’s been through the fire,” bielema said. “he’s made some very valid points, and I know only a head coach thinks that way.”

bielema hired Enos to replace Jim Chaney, who left for the same job at pittsburgh, because of his commitment to a balanced, pro-style offense. he took over an Arkansas offense loaded with tal-ent and experience, particularly with fifth-year quarterback brandon Allen entering his third season at the starter.

Allen is on his fourth offensive coor-dinator with the Razorbacks, and he said while there some been some “tweaks” in the offense, Enos’ ability to make the playbook “look complex while remaining simple” has been the transition a smooth one.

“I’ve been through a lot of differ-ent people,” Allen said. “As soon as we started going through the offense, and he started explain it and the concepts to us, I was excited for it and ready to practice it.”

While Enos’ impact on the offense won’t be clear until the season starts, Al-len said he’s already won over the players by balancing a “player’s coach” approach with the fairness of holding the Razor-backs accountable on the practice field.

For his part, Enos said the experience of being a head coach has helped him un-derstand where bielema is coming from when he addresses certain issues with the players and coaches.

he also said bielema has trusted him to run the offense without micro-manag-ing, another benefit of their similar belief in offensive philosophy.

“I just try to handle our offense simi-larly to how I handled our team (at Cen-tral Michigan),” Enos said. “(bielema) told me when he hired me, ‘You’re the head coach of the offense,’ so it’s been a very smooth transition that way.”

McElwain

Texas A&M picks Allen to start at quarterback From Wire Reports

COLLEgE STATION, Texas — Kyle Allen has been picked to start at quarterback for Texas A&M in its opening game against No. 15 Ari-zona State.

The sophomore Allen was competing against heralded freshman Kyler Murray for the start-ing job.

Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin announced Allen would get the nod when A&M opens the season Sept. 5 against the Sun Devils in houston.

Allen played in nine games last season for Texas A&M as a freshman and started the fi-nal five. he passed for 1,322 yards and 16 touchdowns with seven interceptions. In Texas A&M’s Liberty bowl victory against West Vir-ginia, Allen passed for a season-best 294 yards and four touchdowns.

NCAA rules Love, hartineligible at Kentucky

LEXINgTON, Ky. — Kentucky coach Mark

Stoops says the NCAA has denied hardship

waiver requests by linebacker Courtney Love and tight end greg hart to play this season for the Wildcats after transferring from Nebraska.

Stoops said after Monday’s practice that the

school is appealing the NCAA’s decision on Love, who arrived in Lexington in January. Love and hart had hoped to become eligible this fall, but appear likely to sit out per transfer

rules unless the ruling is reversed.Love, a 6-foot-2, 245-pound Youngstown,

Ohio, native, was expected to help a Wildcats defense that lacks depth at outside linebacker. he made six tackles in 12 games last season as a redshirt freshman with the Cornhuskers

Ex-Tennessee player’s rapetrial delayed until next month

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former Tennessee cornerback Michael Williams’ rape trial has been delayed until next month.

Williams was scheduled go on trial Monday after being indicted along with former Tennes-see linebacker A.J. Johnson in February. Knox County Criminal Court Judge bob Mcgee post-poned the trial until Sept. 29, which had been Johnson’s scheduled trial date.

Johnson’s trial was tentatively rescheduled for June 27.

Williams and Johnson each face two counts of aggravated rape. Knoxville police say the in-cident occurred during a party at an apartment in the early morning of Nov. 16.

Texas A&M quarterback Kyle Allen will start the first game of the season against Arizona State. (Photo by Brynn Anderson, AP file)


Dennis The Menace

ARIES (March 21-April 19)You might have enjoyed the excitement surrounding recent events, but the time has come to buckle down and play catch up. You have a lot to do, and it needs to be done ASAP. The sooner you dive in, the happier you will be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)You have an endless imagination when you decide to use it. Dive into your work and tap into your ingenuity in order to clear out what you can. Allow time for networking and socializing, as they will be stimulated by your creative abilities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)Someone will be knocking on your door, leaving you very little choice but to have a long-overdue conversation. Even if this person does not make the first move, know that the two of you will need to clear this matter up soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)You will need to defer to someone else, even if you think you have a better idea. Understand that this person needs to see what happens and realize how successful his or her own ideas are. Give him or her the space to do just that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)Your efficiency is being tested far more than ever before. You could be full of en-ergy and playfulness, yet you will need to muster as much self-discipline as possible. Lightness and productivity will be a win-ning combination for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Tap into your ability to get what you want. If you could wish upon a star, what would you wish for? Try to manifest a realistic goal by deciding to make it so. You will begin to see much more of what you can accomplish in the long run as a result.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You have many demands on you that you haven’t let others know about. When you are unavailable emotionally, it is often be-cause of concerns involving this area of your life. You might be inspired to revital-ize a diet or exercise habit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Reach out to others instead of waiting for them to reach out to you. You can play the waiting game like no other sign, but the real question is: Does this behavior really serve you? Listen to news openly, and be willing to make the first move.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)You might be thinking about a financial de-cision and feel out of sorts. You like taking risks, but not to the point of setting your-self back. If you try to be conservative, you probably will like the outcome. Your intui-tive side comes forward.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Take a deep breath. You might feel as if you are on top of the world right now. What you hope to accomplish is not far from real-ity. You can do no wrong! The planets are rooting you on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You have pushed yourself as hard as you can. Investigate what is happening with a loved one with care. Avoid making judg-ments at the moment. All of the facts you are hearing need validation. More is hap-pening than you originally thought.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)Focus on what you want, and don’t settle for anything less. Honor fast changes. You might not want the same things you once did. Listen to your gut. Nearly anything is possible, as long as you push toward that goal.

Horoscopeby Jacqueline Bigar

Rules:1. Each row and column must contain the numbers 1 through 5 without re-peating.2. The numbers within the heavily out-lined set of squares, called cages, must combine (in any order) to produce the target number in the top corner of the cage using the mathematical opera-tion indicated.3. Cages with just one box should be filled in with the target number in the top cor-ner. A number can be repeat-ed within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.

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The Starkville Mariners 8-year-old coach pitch baseball team played in Columbus’ Grand Slam Tournament August 22 and captured first place trophies. The Mariners went 4-0 while outscoring their opponents 70-9. (Submitted photo)

Major League baseball

braves get winbehind gomesFrom Wire Reports

ATLANTA — Jonny gomes drove in three runs with two hits, including a two-run homer in the first, and the Atlanta braves beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Monday night to end their seven-game losing streak.

Adonis garcia snapped a 2-2 tie with a homer off Jorge De La Rosa (7-6) in the fourth. gomes’ fifth-inning single drove in Cameron Maybin, who doubled.

The losing streak was Atlanta’s longest of the season. The Rockies have lost four straight.

Cubs 2, Indians 1

ChICAgO — Chicago’s Jon Lester and Cleveland’s Corey Kluber locked up in a terrific pitchers’ duel.

but after the marquee starters left the game, Kris bryant walked off with the key hit.

Yankees 1, Astros 0

NEW YORK — Carlos beltran hit a game-ending sac-rifice fly after Oliver perez walked the bases loaded, and the New York Yankees beat the houston Astros in a game highlighted by a tense duel between Nathan Eovaldi and Scott Feldman.

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