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SportS SportS 1B | Sunday, July 16, 2017 daIly JOuRnal John Pitts | sports editor | 678-1522 | Call In RESulTS 678-1601 | THE BUZZ | Logano seeking victory on ‘home’ track today LOUDON, N.H. – Joey Logano can always count on a big following when he races at what counts as his hometown track. A native of Con- necticut, Loudon is the site of his frst career Cup victory in 2009. Logano, who starts 13th in today’s Overton’s 301, could use a break today. The 27-year-old is seven points outside the 16-driv- er feld to secure a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs. The points for his April victory at Richmond were taken off the books because of a rear suspension violation. Since then, he has just two top-10 fnishes in the last nine races and four times he’s fnished 25th or worse. “You go out there expecting to reach the playoffs,” Logano said. “I still assume we are going to be there.” Today’s lineup, 2B Babe Parilli, former Patriots QB dies at 87 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Babe Parilli, the former Patriots quarter- back who starred in the team’s American Football League days, died Satur- day. He was 87. Parilli played for the then-Boston Patriots from 1961 to 1967. He played under coach Bear Bryant at Kentucky, leading the Wildcats to Sugar Bowl and Cot- ton Bowl wins. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982. AP MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Bellinger sets rookie record. 3B BUZZMAKER Garbine Muguruza put herself in the history books as the frst player to beat both Williams sisters in a Grand Slam fnal. Muguruza powered her way to her frst title at Wimbledon, stopping Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 on Saturday. Williams, 37, held two set points at 5-4 in the opener. But Muguruza fought those off and then won nine straight games. Muguruza, 23, beat Wil- liams’ younger sister, Serena, in three sets last season for the French Open championship. The men’s fnal between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic is today at 8 a.m. Read more, 3B BY PARRISH ALFORD daIly JOuRnal Mississippi State football players Leo Lewis and Kobe Jones would like to defend themselves closer to campus. The two, along with Lindsey Miller, the ex-stepfather of for- mer Ole Miss player Laremy Tunsil, are the subject of a def- amation suit fled by Clarksdale attorney Charles Merkel in June on behalf of Rebel Rags. Rebel Rags, an Oxford retailer specializing in Ole Miss athletic apparel, is the focus of Allega- tion No. 9 which was made pub- lic in the Ole Miss response to the NCAA in June. The NCAA accuses former Ole Miss assistant coach Chris Kiffn and former staff member Barney Farrar of arranging for $2,800 of merchandise to be presented as recruiting inducements, a viola- tion of NCAA rules. Documents fled this week in Lafayette County Civil Court show that Lewis and Jones are trying to separate their cases from Miller. If granted the move would allow their cases to be heard in Oktibbeha County. State law says in cases with multiple parties a venue that is proper for one is proper for all. Rebel Rags is located in Lafay- ette County. Miller is a former resident of Lafayette County. Lewis, Jones and Miller have fled motions to dismiss the suit for lack of cause. ‘NO LEGAL BASIS’ “There’s no legal basis for the case to proceed in Lafayette County,” said Tupelo attorney John Wheeler, who represents Lewis. Merkel calls the claims “non- sense,” and says that untruthful testimony by all three parties in the course of NCAA interviews have damaged his client. Merkel is preparing a re- sponse to the motions fled. “There’s no question the ven- ue is proper to Miller,” he said. “The other two told their stories in Starkville. They’re claiming they can sever from Miller and MSU players seek home site for lawsuit defense HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL BY DALTON MIDDLETON daIly JOuRnal Tupelo Christian Prep’s Easton Hood is making a name for himself, even before his freshman year begins in the fall. Hood hit .351 with 32 RBIs for the Eagles this past season, as they reached the Class 1A semi- fnals before losing to Smithville. In 2016, he made a diving catch in the infeld that started a dou- ble play to help TCPS to its frst state baseball title. The spotlight on Hood got larger when he was recently named to the 2017 14U National Team Developmental Program (NTDP) roster – one of 40 play- ers from across the country se- lected. He will travel to the USA Base- ball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina, on July 24-29. Hood said he’s had a dream of playing for a national team for a few years now, and one of the reasons why is because not only can he get his name out for peo- ple to see him, but being among other elite players can teach him the mentality and the grit it takes to play at that level of baseball. “This took a lot of hard work,” Hood said. “I started USA Base- ball two years ago when I was 12 years old and I made the USA national team trials when I was 12. Ever since then, I wanted to make a national team and this year, it fnally came true for me.” After losing seven seniors from its 2017 team, TCPS is go- ing to need someone to step up and take on the leadership role. Hood said intends to become the leader for the next four years and get this team another state O.J. SIMPSON: LIKELY TO GET PAROLE AFTER NINE YEARS IN PRISON 5B Logano AP THOMAS WELLS | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM Easton Hood, an incoming freshman at TCPS, is part of the 14U National Team Developmental Program. Hood selected to elite national roster Called Eagle W rapping up the Ole Miss visit to SEC Media Days ... Twitter’s running com- mentary during Hugh Freeze’s time in the big room seemed offended that Hugh Freeze would extend his opening remarks with a flibuster. This is not a new strategy and is some- times employed even by coaches who have no contentious off-feld topics in tow. In Freeze’s case it was predictable, and by including a statement saying he would not an- swer NCAA questions he limited those. The flibuster lasted 16-plus minutes, limited total questions to nine and served its purpose. To Freeze’s credit he didn’t mention the long-snappers until after the 16-minute mark. Shout out to Chadwick Lamar and Jack Propst. I bet they never thought they’d be discussed at SEC Media Days. RECAPTURING CONFIDENCE A year ago much was made of the Rebels’ early schedule which included Florida State and Ala- bama among the frst three games. Losing those two certainly put Ole Miss be- hind the 8-ball, but there was a good chance it was going to happen. Ole Miss hammered Georgia and Memphis. The game that really could have changed the direction of the season – and came with two weeks to prepare – was Arkan- sas. The Rebels lost 34-30 in Fayetteville. Perhaps that’s another Filibuster, replacing Engram and more PARRISH ALFORD TuRn TO FILIBUSTER, 4B TuRn TO LAWSUIT, 4B CHRIS TODD TCPS coach Will Lowrey wants young Easton Hood to continue improving while still having fun. TuRn TO EAGLE, 3B
Transcript of Called Eagle · 2017. 7. 16. · NASCAR’s playoffs. The points for his April victory at Richmond...
SportSSportS1B | Sunday, July 16, 2017 daIly JOuRnal
John Pitts | sports editor | 678-1522 | Call In RESulTS 678-1601
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THE BUZZ |
Logano seeking victory on ‘home’ track today
LOUDON, N.H. – Joey Logano can always count on a big following when he races at what counts as his hometown track.
A native of Con-necticut, Loudon is the site of his first career Cup victory in 2009.
Logano, who starts 13th in today’s Overton’s 301, could use a break today.
The 27-year-old is seven points outside the 16-driv-er field to secure a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs. The points for his April victory at Richmond were taken off the books because of a rear suspension violation.
Since then, he has just two top-10 finishes in the last nine races and four times he’s finished 25th or worse.
“You go out there expecting to reach the playoffs,” Logano said. “I still assume we are going to be there.”
Today’s lineup, 2B
Babe Parilli, former Patriots QB dies at 87
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Babe Parilli, the former Patriots quarter-back who starred in the team’s American Football League days, died Satur-day. He was 87.
Parilli played for the then-Boston Patriots from 1961 to 1967.
He played under coach Bear Bryant at Kentucky, leading the Wildcats to Sugar Bowl and Cot-ton Bowl wins. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
AP
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Bellinger sets rookie record. 3B
BUZZMAKER
Garbine Muguruza put herself in the history books as the first player to beat both Williams sisters in a Grand Slam final.
Muguruza powered her way to her first title at Wimbledon, stopping Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 on Saturday.
Williams, 37, held two set points at 5-4 in the opener. But Muguruza fought those off and then won nine straight games.
Muguruza, 23, beat Wil-liams’ younger sister, Serena, in three sets last season for the French Open championship.
The men’s final between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic is today at 8 a.m.
Read more, 3B
BY PARRISH ALFORDdaIly JOuRnal
Mississippi State football players Leo Lewis and Kobe Jones would like to defend themselves closer to campus.
The two, along with Lindsey Miller, the ex-stepfather of for-mer Ole Miss player Laremy Tunsil, are the subject of a def-amation suit filed by Clarksdale attorney Charles Merkel in June on behalf of Rebel Rags.
Rebel Rags, an Oxford retailer specializing in Ole Miss athletic
apparel, is the focus of Allega-tion No. 9 which was made pub-lic in the Ole Miss response to the NCAA in June.
The NCAA accuses former Ole Miss assistant coach Chris Kiffin and former staff member Barney Farrar of arranging for $2,800 of merchandise to be presented as recruiting inducements, a viola-tion of NCAA rules.
Documents filed this week in Lafayette County Civil Court show that Lewis and Jones are trying to separate their cases from Miller. If granted the move
would allow their cases to be heard in Oktibbeha County.
State law says in cases with multiple parties a venue that is proper for one is proper for all.
Rebel Rags is located in Lafay-ette County. Miller is a former resident of Lafayette County. Lewis, Jones and Miller have filed motions to dismiss the suit for lack of cause.
‘NO LEGAL BASIS’“There’s no legal basis for the
case to proceed in Lafayette County,” said Tupelo attorney
John Wheeler, who represents Lewis.
Merkel calls the claims “non-sense,” and says that untruthful testimony by all three parties in the course of NCAA interviews have damaged his client.
Merkel is preparing a re-sponse to the motions filed.
“There’s no question the ven-ue is proper to Miller,” he said. “The other two told their stories in Starkville. They’re claiming they can sever from Miller and
MSU players seek home site for lawsuit defense
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
BY DALTON MIDDLETONdaIly JOuRnal
Tupelo Christian Prep’s Easton Hood is making a name for himself, even before his freshman year begins in the fall.
Hood hit .351 with 32 RBIs for the Eagles this past season, as they reached the Class 1A semi-finals before losing to Smithville. In 2016, he made a diving catch in the infield that started a dou-ble play to help TCPS to its first state baseball title.
The spotlight on Hood got larger when he was recently named to the 2017 14U National Team Developmental Program (NTDP) roster – one of 40 play-ers from across the country se-lected.
He will travel to the USA Base-ball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina, on July 24-29.
Hood said he’s had a dream of playing for a national team for a few years now, and one of the reasons why is because not only can he get his name out for peo-ple to see him, but being among other elite players can teach him the mentality and the grit it takes to play at that level of baseball.
“This took a lot of hard work,” Hood said. “I started USA Base-ball two years ago when I was 12 years old and I made the USA national team trials when I was 12. Ever since then, I wanted to make a national team and this year, it finally came true for me.”
After losing seven seniors from its 2017 team, TCPS is go-ing to need someone to step up and take on the leadership role. Hood said intends to become the leader for the next four years and get this team another state
O.J. SIMPSON: LIKELY TO GET PAROLE AFTER NINE YEARS IN PRISON 5B
Logano
AP
THOMAS WELLS | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM
Easton Hood, an incoming freshman at TCPS, is part of the 14U National Team Developmental Program.
Hood selected to elite national roster
Called Eagle
Wrapping up the Ole Miss visit to SEC Media Days ...
Twitter’s running com-mentary during Hugh Freeze’s time in the big room seemed offended that Hugh Freeze would
extend his opening remarks with a filibuster.
This is not a new strategy and is some-times employed even by coaches
who have no contentious off-field topics in tow.
In Freeze’s case it was predictable, and by including a statement saying he would not an-swer NCAA questions he limited those.
The filibuster lasted 16-plus minutes, limited total questions to nine and served its purpose.
To Freeze’s credit he didn’t mention the long-snappers until after the 16-minute mark. Shout out to Chadwick Lamar and Jack Propst. I bet they never thought they’d be discussed at SEC Media Days.
RECAPTURING CONFIDENCE
A year ago much was made of the Rebels’ early schedule which included Florida State and Ala-bama among the first three games.
Losing those two certainly put Ole Miss be-hind the 8-ball, but there was a good chance it was going to happen.
Ole Miss hammered Georgia and Memphis. The game that really could have changed the direction of the season – and came with two weeks to prepare – was Arkan-sas. The Rebels lost 34-30 in Fayetteville.
Perhaps that’s another
Filibuster, replacing Engram
and more
PARRISH
ALFORD
TuRn TO FILIBUSTER, 4B
TuRn TO LAWSUIT, 4B
CHRIS TODD
TCPS coach Will Lowrey wants young Easton Hood to continue improving while still having fun. TuRn TO EAGLE, 3B
