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Mississippi should change its flag.

For more than a decade now our state has been the only former member of the Confederate States of America to incorporate that short-lived nation’s battle flag into its state flag. Everywhere our flag flies, there in its upper left hand por-tion, is a reminder of a culture of inequality. We should be ashamed.

Its supporters maintain it pays homage to the history, tradition and courage of those

who fought for the Southern cause. To remove it, they say, is to “deny our history and heritage.”

That “Southern cause” was to hold blacks in slavery. We said as much when we seceded from the United States: “Our position is thoroughly iden-tified with the institution of slavery.”

For many black Mississip-pians the Confederate flag is a reminder of the dehumanizing reality of slavery, the terror of radical white supremacy that

followed and the long, bitter Jim Crow oppression that endured into the 1960s.

For many white Mississippi-ans, it is an embarrassment.

The symbol of the Confed-erate flag represents a dis-gusting period of our history. Agree or not, for some in our state it is a symbol of hate, a reference to a time when Mississippians felt so strongly in their state’s right to own blacks that they took up arms to defend that right.

History, heritage and pride

of place are important. The symbol of the Confederate flag should not be banned. It is not exclusively a symbol of racism. Individuals should be able to display that symbol any way they want.

But our state must stop using it in every form.

It is not a matter of political correctness, nor is it a knee-jerk reaction to the horrific recent events in Charleston. It is a matter of our state no lon-ger honoring a tattered image that represents a history of

oppression and terror against a segment of our fellow citizens.

Until the emblem is re-moved from our state flag, Mississippi has given official sanction to one group over an-other and has legitimized one narrative of the flag’s symbol-ism at the expense of the other.

When it convenes in Jan-uary, the Mississippi legis-lature should do what it has lacked the moral strength and wisdom to have done before: Remove the Confederate battle flag from our state’s flag.

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BY GINGER HERVEYghervey@cdispatch.com

There is new controver-sy over Mississippi’s state flag.

It began Monday after South Carolina’s gover-nor called for the removal of the Confederate flag from that state’s Capitol grounds in the wake of a shooting that killed nine inside a historic black church in Charleston. Dylann Roof, the man accused in the shooting, is shown holding the Confederate flag in pho-tographs on a widely cir-culated website that also contains a 2,500-word rac-ist manifesto.

Now, Mississippi’s flag, which is the only state flag in the U.S. containing the Confederate symbol, is being questioned by not only citizens but by state Legislators.

“We must always re-member our past, but that does not mean we must let it define us,” Mississip-pi House Speaker Philip Gunn, a Republican, said in a statement Monday af-

ternoon. “As a Christian, I believe our state’s flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed. We need to begin hav-ing conversations about changing Mississippi’s flag.”

Legislative Black Cau-cus Chairman Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones, D-Canton, told The Clarion Ledger on Monday that he and other lawmakers are look-ing into changing the flag for the next legislative session, which starts in January.

On Saturday, Jennifer Gunter, a Jackson native pursuing a doctorate at the University of South

State flag debate rekindled

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BY CARL SMITHcsmith@cdispatch.com

The Starkville Police Department opened its doors and filing cabinets to Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) assessors this week as the law en-forcement agency seeks a three-year reaccreditation designation from the organization.

The reaccreditation process began in May, and on-site events — in-house

reviews, public listen-ing sessions and phone polls — were held Sun-day and Monday.

Officials said they will remain in Starkville at least through Tuesday.

CALEA accredita-tion measures police departments with almost 200 stan-dards that touch upon all facets of administering and managing law en-forcement. The standards help agen-cies develop operational directives, strengthen accountability and im-prove community relations, accord-ing to the CALEA website.

SPD undergoing on-site study for CALEA reaccreditationAssessor identifies public outreach, training as department’s strengths

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TuesdaySAY WHAT?“It’s such a great memory for him to pitch his final game.”

Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin, talking about starting pitcher Carson Fulmer, who allowed two hits and struck out eight in 7 2/3 innings Monday in a 5-1 win against Virginia in Game

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Capitol Hill Buzz: Meryl Streep asks Congress to revive ERA

BY CHARLES BABINGTONThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — No actor or actress can match Meryl Streep’s 19 Academy Award nomina-tions, and only Katharine Hepburn has bested her three Oscars for acting. So maybe it’s conceivable that Streep’s letter Tuesday to each member of Congress can somehow revive the Equal Rights Amendment, politically dormant since its high-water mark four decades ago.

“I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality — for your mother, your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself — by ac-tively supporting the Equal Rights Amendment,” Streep writes. Each packet includes a copy of “Equal Means Equal,” a book by Jessica Neuwirth, presi-dent of the ERA Coalition.

Congress p a s s e d the Equal R i g h t s Amendment in 1972. Over the next decade, 35 states rat-ified it, three short of the 38 needed to add it to the Constitution.

Conservative opposi-tion and other factors halt-ed its momentum. They have helped relegate the ERA to America’s political backburners ever since. Still, lawmakers from both parties regularly try to re-start the process.

The proposed amend-ment states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Streep, who turned 66 Monday, is among numer-ous celebrities who say dis-parities between men’s and women’s average salaries are one reason the amend-ment remains relevant and needed.

“A whole new gener-ation of women and girls are talking about equality — equal pay, equal protec-tion from sexual assault, equal rights,” Streep’s let-ter says.

‘I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality — for your mother, your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself’

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BELLMONT, N.Y. — Items recovered from a remote hunting cabin have been sent to labs for DNA testing to determine if they are linked to a pair of con-victed killers who escaped from a nearby prison more than two weeks ago, au-thorities said as searchers converged on a wooded area in the hamlet in far northern New York.

State Police Maj. Charles Guess on Monday characterized the latest search effort — one of many over the past 17 days — as a confirmed lead. He said at a news confer-ence that authorities had “specific items” from the Adirondack cabin about 20 miles west of the pris-on where inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped on June 6.

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BY ISABELLE ALTMANialtman@cdispatch.com

“Kids these days.” It’s a familiar refrain from adults

that children today spend too much time playing video games or con-nected to tablets and iPhones and not enough time reading, playing board games or exercising. But when Mother Goose arrived at the Sim Scott Community Park Center Monday afternoon with her trade-mark goose puppet and a book to read to a group of more than 20 young children, there was not an iPhone in sight.

Mother Goose came to read as a guest speaker during the com-munity center’s summer program, according to program supervisor Rena Hill. Parents sign their chil-dren up to be part of the program. Every day, the children get break-fast and then spend some time out-side before doing activities. They have some play time before eating lunch and then they go to the gym. Around 2:30, they get a snack, and the rest of the day is devoted to play — or occasionally to a guest speak-er like on Monday.

“I’ve loved it,” said Hill, who has worked at the Community Center since January. “I already love being around kids. If I could, I’d run my

own day care out of my house.”Hill and the other staff who look

after the kids provide the children with the games they request. Hill said they all want to play board games and card games — Uno, Candyland, Marbles and Monopoly to name a few.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the children go over academics, reviewing subjects like math and English in workbooks. Even sto-ry time wasn’t all fun and games. Mother Goose made sure to go over the definitions of title, author and illustration, and reminded the kids of the correct way to treat books.

Cameron Coleman, 8, is attend-ing the program for the first time this year. He is learning the alpha-bet in Spanish. He said he thought he may be able to get up to the letter I now, but his favorite thing to do at the program is play basket-ball.

It was Cameron who played the Old Man during Mother’s Goose’s reading of “It’s Too Noisy” at the community center Monday. As the children listened to the story about an old man complaining about the noise around his house, Cameron stood beside Mother Goose bent over with one hand on his back and occasionally growling in his best

old-man voice: “It’s too noisy!”Cameron’s Old Man was the fa-

vorite part of the story for some of the kids who listened.

“When Cameron was the old man, he kept saying old stuff,” said Makenzie Cunningham, 9.

Makenzie and her sisters, Mari-ah and Makayla, are triplets from Caledonia who attend the program almost every day. Like Cameron, they prefer active play to board games and story time — specifical-ly dance. They, along with three of their friends, put on an impromptu dance after the story for a Dispatch reporter during which they all sank into splits in unison.

Sha-meriah Roberts-Fields, 9, was one of the dancers, but she danced even before Mother Goose arrived. While the other children waited on the story by playing board games or Uno, Sha-meriah practiced her dance routine in a clear spot on the floor, much to the amazement of the children watch-ing her.

After Mother Goose left and as parents began arriving to pick their children up, the kids all went back to playing board games, talking about Cameron’s performance in the story and excitedly discussing their trip for the next day — the bowling alley.

Kids spend summer playing outside, reading at Sim Scott Park Community Center

Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffTanjia Palmer, 7, left, Mason Ali, 5, and Eryianna McPherson, 4, participate in Mother Goose’s story hour and singing at the Sim Scott Community Center during camp Monday. Tanjia is the daughter of Rockell Palmer and Lanado Hicks, of Columbus, Mason is the son of Maya Coleman, and Eryianna is the daughter of Tameka and Erik McPherson, of Columbus.

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BY JEFF AMYThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Missis-sippi’s attorney general says the nation’s largest tobacco company will pay the state $15 million to settle claims that it was underreporting the num-ber of cigarettes it was shipping to the state.

On Monday, Attorney General Jim Hood an-nounced the settlement with Reynolds American of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Reynolds Amer-ican succeeded two com-panies that Mississippi raised claims against — R.J. Reynolds and Brown & Williamson.

In doing so, Hood agreed to take less mon-ey than a Jackson County chancery judge had ruled was due to Mississippi. Reynolds American had acknowledged in stock

filings that it could owe at least $18.8 million.

In 2005, Mississippi claimed Brown & Wil-liamson was cheating un-der the 1997 settlement between the state and major tobacco companies by making cigarettes for Star Tobacco, a unit of Star Scientific, and not reporting profits or ship-ments.

In 2011, a Mississip-pi chancery judge ruled that Brown & William-son owed $8.1 million for underpayments and ac-cumulated interest. The court also named a spe-cial master to account for the benefit Brown & Wil-liamson received. After that report was compiled, the court ordered Brown & Williamson to pay $10.8 million to Mississippi.

Separately, in 2010, Hood claimed R.J. Reyn-

olds wasn’t reporting some shipments and hadn’t properly reported profit. Reynolds won part of that case but it was found in 2014 that Reyn-olds should pay $8 million on other issues.

Star Scientific later abandoned selling ciga-rettes. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted in Sep-tember on charges of do-ing favors for Star Scien-tific CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans. According to testimony at the McDon-nells’ six-week trial, the governor arranged meet-ings with administration officials for Williams, who was seeking state-fi-nanced research on his company’s signature product, the tobacco-de-rived anti-inflammatory

Anatabloc. The first cou-ple also attended events promoting Anatabloc and hosted a product launch event.

Mississippi typically deposits tobacco money in its health care trust fund. That money was supposed to be a savings account that would be used long term to supple-ment public health care costs in Mississippi, but in 2005 lawmakers began using it to cover deficits in the state-federal Med-icaid program. Today, all the tobacco money is used to supplement annu-

al budgets.The case was handled

for Mississippi by pri-vate lawyers, including Lee Young and Matthew Mestayer, under an agree-ment Hood signed with them in 2009. In typical fee agreements that Hood signs with private lawyers today, they would be due $3.5 million. However, their agreement makes reference to two separate fee schedules, neither of which is posted with the agreement on the attor-ney general’s website.

“The lawsuit was brought at no cost to

the state, as the tobac-co companies agreed in 1997 to the pay the state attorneys’ fees anytime it becomes necessary to go to court to enforce the settlement,” Hood said in a statement.

Hood’s selection of private lawyers to handle state business has been an irritant for critics of the Democrat, who claims his favored lawyers provide political support.

The attorney general’s office did not immediate-ly respond to questions about the settlement Monday.

Hood says Mississippi settles some tobacco claims for $15M

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“It’s a top-down look. We focus on issues with safety, administration and things that can cause lia-bility for both the depart-ment and the city. Three years ago, it was about reaching accreditation. Today, we’re asking, ‘Are you still (following the standards)? Can you show us in a way where we can appreciate that you’re (reaching the standards) every day and every time?’ It’s about complying and not just reading from a directive,” said R. Steven Bailey, a CALEA assess-ment team leader.

Bailey is a retired Mi-ami, Ohio police chief who teaches at Miami Univer-sity.

“Our work right now in-volves things like reading incident reports, arrest re-ports, letters and memos — statistical collections of data. It’s a gigantic mountain,” he said. “Of the thousands of law en-forcement agencies in the country, only 4-5 percent of them are participating in (national CALEA ac-creditation efforts). Ku-dos to Starkville.

“Communities some-times ask, ‘What’s the value to us?’ (Accredi-tation) shows you have an agency doing its best to meet a national set of guidelines and best prac-

tices, and that they want to hold themselves above that other 95 percent that doesn’t bother to partici-pate,” Bailey added.

Without divulging CALEA assessments be-fore the reaccreditation process ended, Bailey identified numerous SPD strengths, including its of-ficer training and commu-nity outreach programs.

“Weaknesses? I see the same kinds here as many others, like with paper trails,” he said. “These things are correctable, and what they require can be as simple as another set of eyes.”

SPD previously earned the national CALEA ac-creditation in 2012 after receiving recognitions in 2008 and 2010. The na-tional designation stands for three years before re-accreditation processes

begin.“We were the first Mis-

sissippi municipality to try the tiered program, and hopefully we can car-ry on the tradition,” said SPD Chief Frank Nichols.

Nichols oversaw ac-creditation efforts in 2012 under then-Chief David Lindley.

“Accreditation doesn’t just fall on the shoulders of our accreditation offi-cer; it’s the responsibility of everyone in this depart-ment. We have to demon-strate that we’re meeting these high standards,” Nichols said. “My main goal when I took office was to try and touch the public in all aspects in re-gard to policing. With all of these things — from satellite stations to the Citizens Police Academy — I don’t want people to say we’ve left them out.”

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LOCAL VOICES

Starkville’s Citizens Police Academy

To Chief Nich-ols credit, he has recently begun several community outreach efforts. One of them is the Citizens Police Academy. That pro-gram is intended to serve as an import-ant opportunity to educate the citizens of Starkville about our police personnel and their role in our community.

With any luck, it will also result in more of us understanding and taking responsibility for the role we play in being pro-active, posi-tive members of our city.

I am excited to be included in that first class. It is a 10 week program with a curric-ulum that seems to be thorough in its repre-sentation of the duties, daily activities and general environment of the police force.

There are numerous large cities such as Austin, New York and Boston and multiple smaller towns across America with estab-lished citizen academies. In Mississippi we have several of our larger communities, Jackson, Gulfport and Southaven that have regular academy classes as well.

The origin of the local citizens’ police acad-emy is traced back to the United Kingdom in 1977. It was so popular that the constabulary in Cornwall had a waiting list for participa-tion. The idea spread to the United States in 1985 with the first citizens’ police academy established in Orlando, Florida. Missouri City, Texas, was next and the concept began picking up steam around the country.

The stated goal is to educate the local residents about what the police do thereby furthering understanding. Given the national exposure to adversarial occurrences lately between the police and the people they serve, it appears to be a program that could benefit from further expansion.

It is obviously not a panacea for problems between the police and the citizenry. Balti-more and Cleveland both have an academy but we all know the headline grabbing prob-lems they have encountered despite these outreach efforts.

Some of the negative national media coverage about police departments across the country stems from on-the-scene amateur camera-phone recordings that have exposed at best questionable and at worst criminal po-lice behavior. Some of it seems to stem from the federal government providing retired military equipment to the local police depart-ments fostering an atmosphere of occupation rather than protection.

The trust that used to be assumed for a police officer has been battered by the expo-sure that some situations and officers have received. Justifiably or not, it is a condition that has to be dealt with by all police depart-ments. Even if the news stories are coming from big cities, the pervasive sense of distrust slops over to every police department. Again, we can hope this is a part of that solution.

As former military and at one time married to a Chief of Police, I am predisposed to give police the benefit of the doubt. I am, however, keenly aware that others have entirely differ-ent experiences with military and paramili-tary organizations.

When Chief Nichols mentioned the program to me I was eager to be a part of it. I found out later that they advertised the program and sought applications, but the re-sponse was low. One of the things those of us in attendance should do is to spread the word about the value of this experience so it will become a fixture for the department.

I think one of the problems manifested by the low interest is that there is a $50 charge for the experience. Perhaps there is an oppor-tunity for some businesses to sponsor class members or local citizens might be willing to provide scholarships for those interested. It is conceivable that those who might be most in need of establishing a rapport with the police won’t be able to comfortably afford the tuition.

Right now the requirement is to be at least 21 years of age, but there could be some real benefit from a similar program for the local teenagers. The earlier they get to know the police the better the future relationship can be. It might also serve as inspiration to our youth for a career in law enforcement.

It is not a stretch to understand that when the police find themselves in contact with nothing but the worst elements of the popula-tion they begin to believe the worst about all of us. The academy is an opportunity to meet each other in a non-adversarial role. Maybe the next time I get hit with a speeding ticket which is one of my inevitabilities of life, I will have a much better attitude about it. Maybe.

Lynn Spruill, a former commercial airline pilot, elected official and city administrator owns and manages Spruill Property Man-agement in Starkville. Her email address is dlspruill@bellsouth.net.

LOCAL VOICES

Bearing arms: Militias and individualsThe gun control

debate hit a fever pitch after the tragedy of Newtown and now, once again this country finds itself with another trag-edy involving guns in Charleston, S.C. Noth-ing has changed. In fact, some jurisdictions have loosened laws regarding gun control. You prob-ably know the points made by each side and most discussions end in gridlock with the only consensus being that something needs to be done in this country. To understand the issue and resolve the prob-lem, open mindedness rather than strict dogma might help. The fact is that other industrialized democracies don’t have anywhere near the gun deaths that the U.S. experiences. Those countries have minori-ties; they have violent video games, movies and TV programs showing violence. They have equal numbers of mentally ill per capita and people in poverty. What they don’t have is a Second Amendment, interpreted in recent times to allow almost any-one easy access to firearms which encourages the proliferation of weapons and exacerbates the prob-lem. All other things being equal, this country is awash with guns.

One of the strongest arguments against gun control is the Second Amendment to the Constitution, where the last clause of the amend-ment reads, “… the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Many proponents use this clause to prove their “right” to bear arms of any type legally available without provision. Of course this position ignores the leading clause which states, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state…” Even though the language is tortured by today’s standards, the second part would logically be dependent on the first part, even in colonial times. In a thesis about that era, Carl Bogus, law professor for Roger Williams University School of Law, explains that James Madison wrote the Second Amendment to assure the southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by disarming the militia, then the principal instrument of slave control throughout the South. This idea of the primacy of mili-

tias in the amendment was bolstered by John Adams, our first Vice President and second President who stated that, “To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in pri-vate self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government….”

For well over one hundred years, courts concurred with our founders’ thinking and although the issue was raised apolitically from time to time, the “militia” clause trumped the “individual” clause. In other words, up until the 20th century, the

amendment conferred on state militias a right to bear arms—but did not give individuals an actual ”right” to own or carry a weapon.

The modern interpretation is a 20th century development and to blindly accept that there has always been an individual right to bear arms ignores history. Rather, like anything else in the Constitution, rulings are periodically made in-volving the document and interpre-tations follow the changing mood of the people and the balance of the court, however political.

The interpretation of the second amendment changed as a result Su-preme Court decisions and recently of pressure brought about by the NRA. Before 1977, the NRA was an organization devoted to gun safety and training. But during the NRA’s annual convention in 1977, a group of committed political conserva-tives ascended. The new group pushed for a unique interpretation of the Second Amendment, one that gave individuals, not just mili-tias, the right to bear arms. It was an uphill struggle. At first, their views were widely scorned. Even Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a conservative leaning jurist, ridi-culed the individual-rights theory of the amendment, calling it “a fraud.” In fact he stated that it “was the greatest fraud ever inflicted on the American public.”

In response, using power and money, the NRA began commis-sioning outside academic studies aimed at proving that “the right of

the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” and reject-ing the provision that it was depen-dent on a “well regulated militia.” They had some help inside gov-ernment too. The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, a gun rights advo-cate, helped their cause immensely. Additionally, Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, chairman of an import-ant subcommittee of the Senate Ju-diciary Committee, commissioned a report that supposedly discovered “clear and long lost—proof that the second amendment to our Constitu-tion was intended as an individual right of the American citizen…” Once, a rejected notion by con-servatives on the court, as well as the Republican Party, this new interpretation evolved into conven-tional wisdom. Finally, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, the Supreme Court embraced the individual rights view of the Second Amendment, but not with-out restrictions. Although currently the law of the land, it can hardly be relied upon as sacrosanct and unchangeable.

While the Supreme Court ruled for the individual rights view of the amendment, they stopped short of an individual right to have con-temporary military weapons like drones, land mines, hand grenades, or missiles. Apparently the Gov-ernment can interpret the Heller decision to ban military style assault weapons if it so chooses. The full meaning of the court’s Heller opinion is still open to com-promise, which is what the author of the opinion, Justice Scalia, did in removing the ban on handguns in Washington D.C. Nevertheless, Scalia wrote that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and is subject to reasonable prohibitions and regulations. Subsequently federal court rulings have upheld existing gun prohibitions and regulation.

The individual right to bear arms is, like much in our Consti-tution, changeable as history has shown. Change can come about as a result of law, politics or legis-lators driven by interest groups or responding to the demands of the governed. The beauty of our Constitution is that it is malleable to reflect changes in society. A clash of ideas is important not only for discussion, but to find ways to cope with new societal problems. Be that as it may, the “right of the people” under the Constitution is not inviolate. Advocates stridently argue that it is, but history rebukes them. If people demand change, it will happen.

Laird Bagnall lives in Columbus.

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Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Aber-deen Church of Christ with Charles Tharp of-ficiating. Burial will fol-low at Oddfellows Rest Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. at Tisdale-Lann Memo-rial Funeral Home.

Mr. Bourland was born April 30, 1926, in Vernon, Alabama, to the late Richard Henry Edgeworth and Hattie Jane Rector Edgeworth. She was a member of Aberdeen Church of Christ and formerly employed as veterinary assistant.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Hal Bourland Sr.; four brothers; three sisters; and one grand-child.

She is survived by sons, Hal Bourland Jr. of Aberdeen, Ricky Bourland of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Kenny Bourland of Louisville; daughter, Tina Turnage of Tupelo; eight grandchildren; and six great grandchil-dren.

Pallbearers are Brent Bourland, Shea Bour-land, Ben Bourland, Chad Bourland, John Neil Turnage III and Justin Turnage.

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Katie LathamMACON — Katie R.

Latham, 83, died June 22, 2015, at her resi-dence.

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Robert BabcockPHEBA — Robert

“Bobby” Babcock, 62, died June 21, 2015, at his residence.

Services are 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home in Arkansas City. Burial will follow at Springside Cemetery. Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. at Calvert Funeral Home and Friday from 6-8 p.m. at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home.

Mr. Babcock was born Aug. 21, 1952, in Arkansas City, Kansas, to the late Robert and Nina Jane Borror Bab-cock. He was a member of Montpelier Baptist Church, Pheba Masonic Lodge #565 F.&A.M., and the Crescent Lodge #133 F.&A.M. He was a U.S. Air Force and Army veteran. He was formerly employed with the U.S. Postal Service, and owned and operat-ed Babcock Construc-tion Company.

He is survived by his wife, Linda Babcock of Pheba; step-daughters, Christy Eaton of Cedar Bluff, Donna Shelton of Cullman, Alabama, and Jessica Urell of Beth-page, Tennessee; sons, Bobby Gene Babcock of Arkansas City and Joshua Dewey Babcock of Omaha, Nebraska; step-sons, John Monts of Springfield, Ten-nessee, and Samuel Bigham of Starkville; 11 grandchildren; and one great grandchild; and

sister, Debbie Bartee of Petal.

Pallbearers are Rob-ert E. Babcock, Robert J. Babcock, Jacob E. Babcock, Joshua D. Babcock, Joshua J. Lay-ton and Cole Layton.

Memorials may be made to Oklahoma University, ATTN: Cancer Research, 800 Northeast 10th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104.

Nan ToddNorma ‘Nan’ Todd,

75, died June 21, 2015, at her residence.

Services are 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Siloam Baptist Church with the Rev. R. C. Bryan offici-ating. Burial will follow at Palo Alto Cemetery. Visitation is one hour prior to service time Tuesday at the church. Arrangements are entrusted to Robinson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Todd was born Sept. 24, 1939, in West Point to the late Mae-belle Bentley and Wil-liam Wooten. She was formerly employed with the North MS Industri-al Development Associ-ation and a member of Siloam Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by four brothers, Luke Woo-ten, Bill Wooten, Jim Wooten and Norman Wooten; and one sister, Virginia Smith.

She is survived by her husband, Edward F. Todd Jr. of West Point; son, Frank Todd of Cedar Bluff; daugh-ters, Laura Todd of Maben, Gaye Buntin of Starkville; brothers, Bobby Wooten and John Burt Wooten, both of West Point; sisters, Laney Wooten of West Point and Exir Brennan of New Market, Ala-bama; 6 grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchil-dren.

Pallbearers are Nate Prather, Will Wooten, Adam Todd, Mac Smith, Trent Todd, Beau Bun-tin, Shannon Wooten and Clay Moore.

Memorials may be made to Palmer Home for Children, PO Box 746, Columbus, MS 39701.

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Lance Allen Cocker-ham, 43, died June 21, 2015, at his residence.

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The Lowndes County School District Board of Trustees host-ed a public hearing Monday to review the district budget for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July 1.

LCSD business manager Lotis Johnson, who is leaving the district and will be replaced by former Columbus Municipal School District business manag-er Kenneth Hughes, addressed the board and public about the state of finances.

Johnson said the district is projecting $53,930,068 in reve-nues and $121,138,679 in expen-ditures. The discrepancy comes from $62 million in construction costs budgeted for FY2016, in-cluding the $44 million in the bond issue passed by voters May 12. Johnson said she had to account for that money some-where in the report and listed it as an expense under construc-tion. The district has yet to issue the bonds, but issuing all $44 million at once is unlikely. The majority of the money will be needed for the projects in 2017, according to architect Joey Hen-derson.

Expenditures outside con-struction include a projected $28.7 million in instructional services; $24.4 million in sup-

port services; $2.1 million in non-instructional services; $3.2 million in debt service; and $129,754 in 16th Section land.

District revenue stems from four sources: $24.8 million, or 46 percent, from local taxes; $23.9 million, 44 percent, from state funding; $4.9 million, 9 percent, from the federal gov-ernment; and $211,685, 1 per-cent, from 16th Section land. Johnson and federal programs coordinator assistant superin-tendent Dr. Peggy Rodgers said money from the feds has been decreasing regularly in recent years.

“This is the first year I’ve seen where our local percent-age is higher than the state per-centage,” Johnson said.

Locally, ad valorem tax-es will contribute a projected $15,787,975 in FY2016, an in-crease of about $325,000 from last year. Johnson said her pro-jection was “very conservative” and there could be more in ad valorem for next year, but she has to wait for Lowndes County Tax Assessor Greg Andrews to complete his valuation. Johnson said she used $338,000 per mill with 46.71 mills to calculate her projections. Andrews has told her that number will be higher. In-lieu tax revenues continue to increase in FY2016; Johnson

is projecting $7,050,000 from in-lieu taxes as more compa-nies roll off their tax breaks, up $200,000 from last year. She de-scribed her in-lieu projection as “very modest” and said the real number could be higher.

The district is seeing an increase in state funds from the Mississippi Adequate Ed-ucation Program. FY2016 will bring $22,266,890 from MAEP, an up-tick of more than $2 mil-lion from FY2015. Johnson said the district would receive $24,246,000 if the state legisla-ture fully funded MAEP. LCSD attorney Jeff Smith, a Republi-can in the state house of repre-sentatives, said MAEP is now 94 percent funded by the state.

Johnson said the Mississippi Department of Education bases MAEP money allocation based on average daily attendance during the months of October and November. LCSD has a membership of 5,143 students and was administered MAEP funds based on ADA of 4,759 from last fall, an increase of 58 from FY2015.

Johnson projects LCSD will finish FY2015 with a general fund balance of $10 million. She projects there will be $10.5 mil-lion in the district general fund balance at the close of FY2016.

Board members will meet to

officially pass the budget at 5:30 p.m. June 30 in the central dis-trict office.

Cost per pupilThe district projects spend-

ing $23,601 per pupil in FY2016; $10,278 excluding construction, which Johnson said is the more accurate figure. Cost per pupil varies throughout the district depending on school size. From state and local funding, Cale-donia Elementary will spend around $6,100 per student; Cale-donia Middle School projects ex-actly $6,000 per pupil; and Cale-donia High School will spend $7,600. New Hope Elementary projects $6,000 per pupil; New Hope Middle School will spend $6,400; and New Hope High School projects $7,095. West Lowndes Elementary will spend $8,561; West Lowndes High School projects $13,395.

Smith told the board at the preliminary budget meeting last Wednesday that statewide dis-tricts average around $14,000 per pupil.

“We’re spending a good bit less than other districts in the state,” Johnson agreed.

West Lowndes to change free and reduced lunch policy, get additional nurse

At last Wednesday’s budget review meeting the board voted to add the salary for an addition-al nurse at the West Lowndes

campus. Superintendent Lynn Wright said the position was needed to supervise the condi-tions of two students who can become non-responsive within 10 minutes.

“We have some people with some critical needs over there,” Wright said.

The board voted unanimous-ly to include the position in the budget.

Rodgers also informed the board last Wednesday that the West Lowndes Campus would no longer universally qualify for free and reduced lunch via a federal program as it did last school year. She said federal law says only a district as a whole can benefit from the program, not individual schools.

“You either do it for the whole district or for none of it,” she said.

Rodgers recommended the district have all families apply for reduced meal costs individ-ually. She said someone at the Office of Child Nutrition told West Lowndes the entire cam-pus qualified last year, but that had been an error. Board mem-bers were shocked to find the program wouldn’t last.

“I remember when it was presented it was like a gift from heaven,” said board member Wesley Barrett. “Boom. Every-one at West Lowndes gets a free meal.”

No action was taken, but the board will likely take up the is-sue at the July board meeting.

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Carolina, started an on-line petition aimed at changing Mississippi’s state flag. She told The Dispatch she started the petition to honor the mem-ory of the nine people killed in South Carolina.

She hopes the tragedy in Charleston will make people realize the symbol has been co-opted by hate groups.

“The time to change is now,” she said. “Let’s all join in and bring the South forward together.”

Gunter’s petition had 8,300-plus signatures as of 9 a.m. today.

Opposition to changeIn 2001, Mississippi

lawmakers put the matter of changing the state flag to a public vote. Roughly 64 percent of voters opted to keep the flag.

The Dispatch contact-ed Gov. Phil Bryant’s of-fice Monday in response to the new controversy. His spokesperson volun-teered that the governor e was among the Mississip-pians who voted to keep the flag in that referen-dum.

“A vast majority of Mis-sissippians voted to keep the state’s flag, and I don’t believe the Mississippi Legislature will act to supersede the will of the people on this issue,” Bry-ant said in a statement.

Gary Chism, a state Representative from Co-lumbus, agreed.

“A new state flag is not going to be a part of any-body’s agenda,” he told The Dispatch on Monday morning.

Chism also cited the 2001 referendum and said

the people of Mississip-pi did not want the flag changed. He stated two reasons.

“One is that the flag that incorporates the Southern cross is part of Mississippi’s history,” he said. “And two, I think people are just tired of other people trying to tell us in Mississippi what we should be doing.”

Chism said the em-blem on Mississippi state flag was “apples and or-anges” compared to South Carolina flying the full battle flag. He acknowl-edged that South Carolina should take down their flag but said any push to change Mississippi’s flag was part of a larger issue — the push to be ultra-po-litically correct.

“Look, part of Missis-sippi’s past is that we did secede. And that battle is over, that war is over,” he said. “Leave us alone.”

The public’s viewPrior to the 2001 refer-

endum, the Clarion Led-ger newspaper conducted a statewide poll about the flag and found that while 76 percent of whites in-dicated the symbol was “part of the state’s proud history” and should re-main, 69 percent of Afri-can Americans said the symbol was “offensive and divisive” and should be re-moved.

The state’s population is approximately two-thirds white and one-third black. The vote was split nearly exactly by those numbers.

The Dispatch on Mon-day asked approximately 20 random people their

views on the flag.Most responses from

whites expressed indif-ference or support of the flag. Nearly every black respondent agreed the flag should be changed.

Some were not aware the state flag contained the Confederate symbol. Some saw it as another attempt by politicians to “make everything about race.” Some even viewed the issue as an opportuni-ty to be tolerant and opti-mistic.

“It’s up for interpreta-tion,” Christina Martinez, a Macon resident, said. “You just have to give people a chance. I can see where some people find it racist, but I can see where some people don’t see it that way.”

Most respondents were not overtly enthusiastic one way or another.

Gunter has seen a simi-lar reaction to the petition.

As the petition’s cre-ator, she can see how many people have viewed the page. When she checked Monday morn-ing, she said about 10,000 people have viewed the petition while only 1,800 had signed it. She com-pared this to the 550,000 signatures supporting South Carolina’s removal of the Confederate flag.

She has sent the peti-tion to legislators, but so far has only heard back from one lawmaker, who was already in support of changing the flag.

“They are seeing this,” she said.

Changing sidesHunter Corhern grew

up in Starkville and now

lives in Decatur. He said that in 2001, he supported keeping the flag. His view has since changed.

“I didn’t focus on the sins of the past then,” Corhern told The Dis-patch on Monday. “Since then I’ve realized that I was very much out of tune with others.”

Corhern signed Gunt-er’s petition Monday.

“If someone from Germany wanted to cele-brate their grandfather’s service in World War II, are they going to fly the Nazi flag?” Corhern said. “Honestly and truly, that’s what we’re doing, and people just don’t want to admit it.”

Jake McGraw is the editor of Rethink Mis-sissippi, an organization that seeks to end discrim-ination and poverty in Mississippi. McGraw has long been an advocate of changing the state flag.

“The whole purpose of a symbol is something that can unify everyone under it,” he said. “This is such a divisive symbol that it’s failing its most basic job.”

McGraw and Corhern both said they believe many attitudes have changed since 2001. Mc-Graw responded to one of the most common re-sponses from Mississip-pians — that “it’s just a flag” and not worth the controversy.

“Removing an emblem alone won’t dismantle rac-ism or white supremacy,” McGraw said. “But keep-ing it says that we won’t even try.”

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STARKVILLE —Three months after being named Mississippi State’s men’s basketball coach, Ben Howland made his first appearance before the Starkville Rotary Club at its regular meeting Monday at Starkville Country Club.

Howland expects to see much of the group, beginning this fall when his first Bulldog team takes the court for the 2015-16 season.

“I think it should be a require-ment that if you live in Starkville, you come to every game,” Howland quipped. “If you live in Jackson and it’s a Wednesday night game and you don’t want to make that two-hour drive, I can understand that, I guess. But if you live here in Starkville, we expect to see you. When the Hump (MSU’s Hum-phrey Coliseum) is packed its one of the most intimidating places in the country.”

Howland also plans to spend plenty of time near Starkville Coun-try Club.

“It’s beautiful out here,” said Howland, who grew up in Oregon before moving to Southern Califor-nia as a youth. “In fact, we’re plan-ning to build a home here at Coun-

try Club Estates. We just love the area.”

Howland spent about 20 minutes speaking to the group and touched on a vari-ety of topics. He was effusive in his praise of the MSU adminis-tration, his coaching peers in the Bulldogs’ other sports and the rich legacy of Bulldog bas-ketball under previous coaches Richard Williams and Rick Stans-bury.

“When you think of the outstand-ing job Richard Williams did, with a Final Four appearance and a Sweet 16, that’s impressive. Then what Rick Stansbury did in his 14 years at Mississippi State was phenomenal — six NCAA (tournaments) and a couple of SEC titles. That’s a quar-ter-century of success right there.”

He also turned his attention to the more recent seasons.

“It’s been a tough time, the last three years, with three losing sea-sons,” he said. “That’s why I’m so excited about the opportunity we have this year. We have five seniors, and I want them to go out feeling they have achieved something.”

Howland said the seniors will be the core of the team, along with the

much-anticipated arrival of five-star guard Malik Newman, who will be-come the highest rated freshman to ever put on a Bulldog uniform. The 6-foot-4 guard from Jackson was rated as the No. 1 guard prospect in the nation and the 10th overall pros-pect, and Howland was not reluctant to say that Newman’s time at MSU will be brief.

“He’ll have a chance to move on to the NBA after a year here,” How-land said.

In that respect, Howland said the rebuilding job he faces will really come in 2016-17.

“We will lose those five seniors and Malik, so recruiting will be critical,” he said. “Success always comes down to your ability to re-cruit. We’re going to put our noses to the grindstone and recruit, re-cruit, recruit.”

The Bulldogs have two other highly-regarded freshman coming into the program this fall — 6-10 forward Aric Holman of Kentucky and 6-5 shooting guard Quinndary Weatherspoon of Velma Jackson High School. MSU also picked up its first commitment in the 2016 recruiting class in four-star point guard Lamar Peters of New Orle-ans.

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BY ERIC OLSONThe Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Carson Fulmer knew his career at Vanderbilt was over as coach Tim Corbin walked from the third-base dugout to the mound in the eighth inning.

What a career it’s been, and what a way to finish.

Fulmer held Virginia to two hits and struck out eight in 7 2/3 shutout innings Monday night, just the kind of outing the Commodores need-ed in a 5-1 victory in the opener of the College World Series finals.

“It’s such a great memory for him to pitch his final game,” Corbin said. “That eighth inning

was the right time to get him. Personally, I was glad to be able to do that so he would be able to address the crowd and the crowd could address him.”

The Vanderbilt section gave him a standing ovation as he descended the dugout steps. His virtuoso performance left the defending nation-al champion Commodores (51-19) needing one win, today or Wednesday, to become the seventh team to win back-to-back national titles, and the third to do it in the last 10 years.

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BY ERIC OLSONThe Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — No one is happier than coach Tim Corbin that three first-round draft picks are on Vanderbilt’s ros-ter. Corbin is not happy, how-ever, about when those picks were made.

This year’s Major League Baseball draft started June 8, the same day the C o m m o d o r e s were playing Il-linois in a super regional. Vandy shortstop Dans-by Swanson was announced as

the No. 1 overall pick just min-utes after the Commodores beat the Illini to clinch a trip to the College World Series.

Vanderbilt’s Carson Fulmer and Walker Buehler were draft-ed soon after.

“Nowhere have I seen a dynamic that occurred with Dansby and Carson and Walk-er like the one we were ex-posed to against Illinois when, last pitch, celebrate, we’re on the middle of the field looking into a damn camera to see if Dansby is going to get drafted first,” Corbin said. “Can you imagine Nick Saban doing that in a college playoff game? It just doesn’t happen.”

Corbin and Virginia coach Brian O’Connor are members of a committee formed by USA Baseball to seek a compro-mise. There has been talk of holding the draft between su-per regionals and the start of the College World Series.

Corbin said having the draft on days NCAA tournament games are played is a distrac-tion for players projected to be picked.

“Dansby had a heck of a game (against Illinois),” Corbin said, “but I dare say that most people would not be squared away enough to contain them-selves in order to play at the level that he played at in that game, knowing the circum-stances that were about to hap-pen. I would say that’s very dif-ficult for any human. That part needs to be alleviated.”

Ideally, Corbin said, college baseball coaches would like the draft to be held after the CWS.

“But that doesn’t benefit professional baseball,” Corbin said, “so there has to be some-thing in between.”

BY ANNE M. PETERSONThe Associated Press

EDMONTON, Alberta — Now that Alex Morgan has a goal, she doesn’t want to look back on the opportu-nities she’s missed.

She wants to look for-ward to the goals to come.

“I don’t remember the last goal I’ve had with this team,” said M o r g a n , who had been ham-pered by a bone bruise in her left knee go-ing into the tourna-ment. “And that’s not a good sign. I don’t want to look back and see when the last one was b e c a u s e now I’ve scored, and it’s a fresh start moving for-ward.”

Morgan scored her first goal of the Women’s World Cup and the United States advanced to the quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory against Colombia on Mon-day night. Her previous U.S. goal came March 6 in the Algarve Cup.

Abby Wambach’s penal-ty kick early in the second half went wide after Co-lombia goalkeeper Cata-lina Perez — a backup herself — was ejected for a foul on Morgan. Stefany Castano, who replaced Perez in goal, got a hand on Morgan’s shot five min-utes later, but couldn’t stop the goal to put the United States up 1-0.

“It didn’t have much power on it as I wanted, but it went in and that’s all that matters,” she said about her right-footed goal.

Usually she’s lefty: “It comes in handy when it needs to,” she smiled.

Carli Lloyd also scored for the second-ranked

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Zion Campbell usually is one of the tallest players on the basketball court.

At 6-foot-3, Campbell has grown accustomed to having her way in the post, whether it has been at Riverdale Baptist School (Md.), St. John’s College (Washington, D.C.) High School, or Hilton Head (S.C.) High.

Part of “owning” the paint i n v o l v e s k n o w i n g how to throw your weight around and to bang bod-ies with op-ponents to get position for rebounds

or to set yourself up close to the basket for an easy shot.

It has taken only a few weeks for Campbell to re-alize she likely will have to try to new way to utilize her size to help her make an impact on the Missis-sippi State women’s bas-ketball team.

That’s because Camp-bell, a freshman center, has joined a program that includes 6-5 junior center Chinwe Okorie and 6-7 freshman center Teaira McCowan, as well as 6-1 senior forward Sherise Williams on a front line that is getting bigger each day.

“I think I have a lot of potential as a post player and a lot of development to go over the summer,”

BY ROB MAADDIThe Associated Press

When Tom Brady’s appeal hearing kicks off today, key arguments will be about who ordered his four-game suspension and whether science supports the league’s findings about deflated footballs.

The NFL said Commission-er Roger Goodell authorized the discipline that was imposed by league executive Troy Vincent, who signed the letters sent to Brady and the New En-gland Patriots informing them of the penalties. The NFL Players Association challenged Vin-cent’s power to issue punishment, citing Article 46 of the league’s collective bargaining agreement.

BY MICHAEL MAROTThe Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — When Pacers forward Damjan Rudez returned to the Basketball With-out Borders camp earlier this month, there were some noticeable changes.

The long, gangly European kids he competed with and against in 2003 had been replaced by bigger, stronger, more polished teenagers.

Perhaps it’s just a natural progression for the program designed to turn international prospects such as Rudez into NBA contributors and then bring back those gradu-ates as teachers to work with the next generation of international stars. Or perhaps, the players are maturing much quicker — much like Ameri-can players seem to be.

Either way, one thing is clear: BWB is helping to turn Europe into a fertile training ground for

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Soccer camps, tryout next month

ContributedColumbus United Soccer Club and the Columbus- Lowndes Recreation Authority will play host to the Mississippi Soccer Association Camp next month. Columbus United also will have a tryout for its Under-15 boys team. For more information, Briefly, 3B.

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Campbell focusing on getting strongerMSU freshman joins imposing front court

MEET THE NEWCOMERSn Mississippi State women’s basketball newcomers Roshunda Johnson, Zion Campbell, Jazz Holmes, Teaira McCowan, and Jazmine Spears met with the media last week for the first time as a group with the Bulldogs. The Dispatch will introduce you to the newcomers in the coming weeks.

Bruce Thorson/USA TODAY SportsVanderbilt Commodores pitcher Carson Fulmer (15) throws during the first inning against the Virginia Cavaliers on Monday in Game 1 of the College World Series Finals at TD Ameritrade Park.

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COMMODORES HALFWAY TO REPEATFulmer dominates to help reigning champions defeat Cavaliers in opening game

Vanderbilt 5, Virginia 1

BY DOUG FERGUSONThe Associated Press

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Jordan Spieth loves golf history, which is appropriate for someone quickly becoming part of it.

S p i e t h was a fresh-man at Tex-as when he first went to St. An-drews with the rest of the Walker Cup team.

They played the Old Course, soaked up the vibe at the home of golf and then headed north for their matches at Royal Ab-erdeen.

“It’s one of my favor-ite places in the world,” Spieth said Sunday eve-ning. “I remember walk-ing around the R&A clubhouse and seeing paintings of royalty play-ing golf, and it was dated 14-whatever. I’m think-ing, our country was dis-covered in 1492 and they were playing golf here before anyone even knew the Americas existed.”

That was only four years ago, when not many outside golf circles knew Spieth. He’ll get more attention next time he ar-rives at St. Andrews.

The 21-year-old Texan, who slipped into a green jacket in April, hoisted the silver U.S. Open trophy Sunday at Chambers Bay.

Not since Tiger Woods in 2002 has anyone won the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year, and it gets even more impressive to hear the short list of players who have: Jack Nicklaus. Arnold Palmer. Ben Hogan twice. Craig Wood.

Elite company? Sure, and there’s more.

The last guy to win the U.S. Open by one shot with a birdie on the final hole? That would be Bobby Jones in 1926. The only other player to win different ma-jor championships before turning 22? A guy named Gene Sarazen in 1922.

The names kept right on coming, and Spieth listened to them with a gleam in his blue eyes and the gold medal draped around his neck.

“I didn’t think that those names would be mentioned like that,” he said after his one-shot victory over hard-luck

Dustin Johnson and hard-charging Louis Oosthui-zen. “That’s a piece of golf history, and as a golf historian, that’s very spe-cial and it gives me goose bumps. It’s amazing. And it gets better every week with our team. Those names are the greatest that have ever played the game, and I don’t consider myself there.

“But I’m certainly off to the right start in order to make an impact on the history of this game.”

When Spieth gets to Scotland this time, he’ll face massive pressure as he pursues something none of those histor-ic names ever won: the Grand Slam.

“I’m just focused on the claret jug now,” he said. “The Grand Slam is something that I never could really fathom some-body doing, considering I watched Tiger win when he was winning whatever percentage of the majors he played in. And he won the Tiger Slam, but he never won the four in one year. And I figured if any-body was going to do it, it would be him, which he still can.”

For all major champi-ons, it takes time for the magnitude to sink in. This might take even longer considering how it ended.

The winning moment should have been that 25-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole that, coupled with Branden Grace hitting his tee shot onto the railroad tracks for double bogey, gave Spieth a three-shot lead with three holes to play.

But Spieth made dou-ble bogey on the 17th. Oosthuizen finished with six birdies in his last sev-en holes. Johnson, who had missed five putts in-side 10 feet on the back nine, finally got a short one to fall on No. 17 to join them in the lead.

At the final hole, John-son had a 12-foot eagle putt for the win. Even if he missed, it would be an 18-hole playoff Monday.

He three-putted for par and lost.

As thrilled as he was for his shiny trophy, Spi-eth was gutted for John-son. Nobody wants to win that way, especially after a week in which players grumbled about greens so choppy that it felt like put-ting on broccoli.

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Americans, who will face No. 16 China on Friday in Ottawa. The United States is seeking its third World Cup title, but first since 1999.

The Americans have not allowed a goal in 333 minutes.

Colombia has never won soccer’s premier tournament, but the No. 28 Las Cafeteras pulled off one of the biggest up-sets in any World Cup in the group stage when they defeated third-ranked France 2-0.

Morgan and Wambach started up top for the Unit-ed States, which used the same starting lineup as it did in the group-stage finale against Nigeria — a first since Jill Ellis be-came coach.

It was Morgan’s second straight start after working her way back from a bone bruise in her left knee. Morgan came in as a sub in the first two matches of the tournament.

Morgan missed all three send-off matches because of the injury. Her last match with the U.S. team was on April 4, a 4-0 exhibition win over New Zealand in St. Louis.

Perez, a 20-year-old junior at Miami, started because regular goal-keeper Sandra Sepulveda was suspended for yel-

low-card accumulation. Sepulveda had six saves in Colombia’s win over France. Castano had started in Colombia’s World Cup opener, a 1-1 draw with Mexico.

The teams played to a goalless first half, with the United States unable to finish several good chances.

Wambach was offside on her rebound goal in the fourth minute. Morgan later had a chance, but

her shot bounced in front of Perez, who tipped it up and over the crossbar, one of her three saves in the first half.

Lauren Holiday got a yellow card in the 17th minute, her second of the World Cup. She’ll have to sit out the quarterfinal, as will Megan Rapinoe, who got her second yellow in the 41st.

“I feel confident in the players we have to come in and contribute,” U.S.

coach Jill Ellis said about facing China without the pair.

Perez was sent off at the start of the second half after sliding into Morgan, who was charging toward goal. Wambach fooled Castano on the right side, but the penalty kick sailed well left of the post.

Wambach took full re-sponsibility for the miss, which she took with her left foot — not her usual right.

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Curve win title

ContributedOn Sunday, the Columbus Curve won the United States Sports Specialty Association 14-and-under AA State tournament in Pearl. The team is ranked No. 1 in the state and No. 6 in the nation out of 1,685 teams with a power rating of 1,353 points. The team featured players from different teams that came together to win the title. Front row, from left: Ethan Bryan, Dalton Moody, Cole Ruffin, and Jonathan Whittington. Back row, from left: Cameron Bartley, Rye McGlothin, Chaz Farrar, Davis Fitch, Max Gee, Luke Barrett, and Tyler Murphy.

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the Chicago White Sox, completed his finest sea-son. He was Southeastern Conference pitcher of the year after leading the SEC in wins, strikeouts and ERA.

“What made it big for me was not only did I have coach there but the whole infield around me,” Fulmer said of his last moments on the mound as a collegian. “To spend that moment with them and to look back at the brotherhood we cre-ated, and to win the game, it’s a moment I’ll remem-ber for the rest of my life. I couldn’t have asked for it to happen any better.”

Fulmer outdueled Vir-ginia starter Connor Jones (7-3), who allowed three hits over five shutout in-nings before the Commo-dores got to him for two runs in the sixth. Will Tof-fey’s two-run double broke a scoreless tie, and Van-derbilt added three more runs in the seventh.

Virginia (42-24), the Commodores’ finals op-ponent for the second straight year, scored in the ninth to end the Vandy bullpen’s streak of 22 shut-out innings.

“We’ve been in this sit-uation before this year,” Cavaliers coach Brian O’Connor said. “We were in this situation going into Saturday, that if you win you get to continue your season and if you don’t, it’s over. This team has han-dled that kind of adversity all year long and I would imagine tomorrow night will be no different.”

Fulmer retired nine in a row from the fifth to eighth inning before Adam Hase-ley bounced a ball over the left-center fence for a ground-rule double. Ben Bowden came on for Ful-mer with two outs and two runners on in the eighth and got Matt Thaiss to fly out.

“It was just special to see (Fulmer) acknowl-edged by the crowd and the guys on the team,” Dansby Swanson said. “He’ s meant not so much just to the team but the university as a whole.”

Fulmer attacked Vir-ginia with his fastball all night, and four of his eight strikeouts ended innings.

“I saw Carson pitch in high school, and he’s con-tinued to develop,” O’Con-nor said. “I like his com-petitive spirit. He’s going to come at you and give you his best. You can see why he’s won 13 or 14 ballgames and you can see why he’s had success in Omaha last year and this year. He’s go-ing to be pitching for a long, long time.”

Virginia’s run came against Kyle Wright. Ken-ny Towns singled leading off the ninth, took second on a wild pitch and came home on pinch hitter Jack Gerstenmaier’s base hit.

This is the first finals rematch since Oregon State and North Carolina met in 2006-07.

The most recent back-to-back champions were South Carolina in 2010-11 and Oregon State in 2006-07.

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TodayCOLLEGE BASEBALL

7 p.m. — World Series, finals, game 2, Vanderbilt vs. Virginia, at Omaha, Nebraska, ESPN

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m. — St. Louis at Miami, FS16 p.m. — Atlanta at Washington, SportSouth9 p.m. — Regional coverage, Houston at L.A. Angels or Kansas City at Seattle, MLB

SOCCER9 p.m. — FIFA, Women’s World Cup, round of 16, Japan vs. Netherlands, at Vancouver, British Columbia, FS1

WNBA7 p.m. — Los Angeles at Washington, ESPN2

WednesdayCOLLEGE BASEBALL

7 p.m. — World Series, finals, game 3, Vanderbilt vs. Virginia, at Omaha, Nebraska (if necessary), ESPN

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon — Regional coverage, Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees or Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, MLB6 p.m. — Atlanta at Washington, SportSouth7 p.m. — L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, ESPN2

NHL6 p.m. — Awards Show, at Las Vegas, NBC Spirts Network

SOCCER10 p.m. — MLS, Portland at Los Angeles, ESPN2

ON THE AIRBRIEFLYLocalMississippi Soccer Association Academy Camp coming to Columbus

Columbus United and the Columbus-Lowndes Recreation Author-ity will play host again to the Mississippi Soccer Association Academy Camp in Columbus.

In addition, Columbus United Soccer Club and MSA will hold a team camp this summer. The dates for all camps are July 20-24 and will be at the Columbus Soccer Complex.

The Academy Camp focuses on individual skills of players. A youth camp will be held from 4-5 p.m. each day for players 4-8 years of age. An Advanced Skills Camp will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. for players 9-14 years of age.

“By offering two camp sessions we are able to more closely focus on the player and the appropriate skills,” said Dr. Terry Eguaoje, the MSA state technical director of coaching and player development and director of the camps.

Team Camp will be from 7-8:30 p.m. each day. This camp focuses on the strategy and interaction among players on the soccer field. Play-ers are grouped by age with the youngest group being Under-10 (ages 8 and 9 years) players and the oldest group being U-16.

“Soccer is the ultimate team sport,” said Dr. Thomas Velek, director of coaching for Columbus United Soccer Club. “It is critical that players and coaches work the tactics of team play and not only the technique of being a skilled player.”

Players can register for both the Academy Camp and the Team Camp. Early registration deadline is July 6 (registration is $5 more after that date). Registration may be done in person at CLRA’s office at Propst Park. Forms can be downloaded from CLRA.net. For additional information contact Tom Velek at tvelek@yahoo.com.

Tryouts for Columbus United U-15 teamColumbus United Soccer Club will hold tryouts for its Under-15

boys team at 3 p.m. July 12 at 3 pm at the Columbus Soccer Complex Sprint Field.

For players who are unable to make that date, there will be a make-up date at 7 p.m. July 20 on Sprint Field.

Tryouts are free and open to all players in the area who are no old-er than 14 years of age on July 31, 2015. Registration begins 20 minutes prior to the start of each session. Players should bring a ball, water, and wear appropriate attire and equipment for competition.

The Columbus United U15 boys is built on a tradition of excellence, which includes qualifying for the Southeastern Regional Championship, a state championship, and a state finalist finish in 2015. The team is coached by Dr. Thomas G. Velek, 2012 U.S. Soccer National Coach of the Year. The team will focus on a competitive schedule of tournaments and match play. Tournaments include major college showcase tournaments such as the Wolf River Classic, Blues City Blowout, and Crossroads of the South, as well as state level competition including the JFC Premier Cup and the Presidents Cup State Championship.

For more information search Facebook for Columbus United U15 boys, go to the team webpage http://tvelek.wix.com/tgvsoccer, or e-mail tvelek@yahoo.com

Starkville High’s Garner will coach State Games baseball team

Starkville High School baseball coach Travis Garner will coach the District 4 baseball team later this week at the annual State Games in Meridian. Eighteen players will represent District 4 in All-Star competi-tion against the teams from the state’s other seven districts. Games will begin Wednesday and run through the weekend.

Ben Burrell, Justin Conner, Milton Smith, Rashon Tate, and JD Taylor (Starkville High), Colt Chrestman and Luke Templeton (Starkville Academy), Channing Tapley (Hebron Christian), and Tyler Jones, TJ Stephens, and Thomas Stevens (New Hope) will represent local schools.

MSUMullen, Prescott to serve as MSU SEC Network “takeover” representatives

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen and senior quarterback Dak Prescott will represent the Bulldogs as part of the SEC Network’s 24 hours of programming devoted entirely to MSU Athletics on Monday, July 6.

SEC Network is turning its television schedule over to each of the 14 institutions in the Southeastern Conference for two weeks in its first “SEC Network Takeover” initiative. Programming will include classic games, films, ESPN original content and some school-produced content. The re-airing of NCAA postseason games is not permitted by the NCAA and won’t be shown during the takeover.

The schedule of MSU’s July 6 SEC Network “Takeover” will be announced Thursday, July 2. Mullen and Prescott filmed commercials for the event and recapped the 2014 season that saw the Bulldogs claim 10 regular-season wins and reach No. 1 for the first time in program history. Mullen was named 2014 National Coach of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club and Prescott was a finalist for the Maxwell Award, presented to college football’s most outstanding player.

Ole MissO’Neal resigns as track and field coach

OXFORD — After three seasons at the helm, Brian O’Neal re-signed Monday as Ole Miss track and field head coach to pursue other professional opportunities.

A Pontotoc native and 1993 Ole Miss graduate, O’Neal was in his second stint on the Rebel staff, having served as an assistant coach from 1995-2005 following a year as a graduate assistant. He was also an assistant coach at Florida from 2009-12.

n Henkes named women’s golf coach: At Oxford, Kory Henkes has been chosen to the lead the women’s golf program, it was an-nounced by Ole Miss Athletics Director Ross Bjork on Monday. Henkes brings six years of head coaching experience to Oxford including the last four as the coach at GRU Augusta.

Henkes built GRU Augusta into a perennial top-25 program in her four years. The Jaguars advanced to the NCAA Regionals in three of Henkes’ four years and played at the Raleigh Regional this past season. Henkes also guided Casey Kennedy and Natalie Wille to the NCAA Regional in 2013. Under Henkes’ watch, the Jaguars achieved their highest ranking in program history, checking in at No. 21 in 2014.

AlabamaMen’s basketball team signs Eubanks

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kobie Eubanks, a 6-foot-5, 215-pound shooting guard, has signed to continue his playing career at Alabama, men’s basketball coach Avery Johnson announced Monday evening.

A four-star recruit according to Rivals.com, 247Sports and ESPN.com, Eubanks signed with Baylor in the spring of 2014 but ultimately decided to go to prep school and spent the 2014-15 season at Elev8 Sports Institute in Delray Beach, Fla., where he played for coach Chad Myers. He signed with the Tide after receiving interest from Kansas, Oregon, Texas, and West Virginia, among other schools.

Junior CollegesMACJC approves statewide conference for softball

The Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) announced scheduling and playoff changes for the upcoming softball season.

Starting in 2016, each team in the state will play each other once in the regular season and play a 28-game league schedule in 14 double-headers scheduled to be played Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. There will be one Sunday date.

Itawamba Community College will travel to defending MACJC and NJCAA Region 23 champion Mississippi Gulf Coast C.C. to open conference play on Friday, March 4, and will play host Hinds C.C. on Sunday, March 13, for its conference home opener. ICC also will travel to Coahoma C.C., national runner-up East Central C.C., Jones County Junior College, Meridian C.C., Northeast C.C., and Southwest C.C.

The top eight teams will advance to the postseason. The top four teams will play host to the opening round best-of-three series. The win-ners advance to a four-team tournament to determine the conference champion.

EMCCCheek paces EMCC to 25th-place team finish at College National Finals Rodeo

CASPER, Wyo. — Highlighted by Winston Cheek’s finals appear-ance in the bull riding competition, East Mississippi Community College achieved a school-best national team finish for the second consecutive year at the College National Finals Rodeo last week at the Casper Events Center.

By virtue of his second-go victory earlier in the week with an aver-age score of 76.5, Cheek was one of a dozen bull riders to advance to Saturday’s championship round. The Kosciusko native finished in sixth place nationally after none of the 12 finalists were able to cover their respective bulls for the required eight seconds during Saturday’s finals. Cheek’s bull riding efforts earned 125 points to give the EMCC men’s team a program-best, 25th-place national finish.

— From Special Reports

Auto RacingSprint Cup Leaders

Through June 14Points

1, Kevin Harvick, 576. 2, Martin Truex Jr., 561. 3, Joey Logano, 520. 4, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 508. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 506. 6, Brad Ke-selowski, 480. 7, Jamie McMurray, 464. 8, Matt Kenseth, 456. 9, Kasey Kahne, 447. 10, Jeff Gordon, 434.

11, Kurt Busch, 426. 12, Paul Menard, 421. 13, Denny Hamlin, 412. 14, Carl Edwards, 401. 15, Aric Almirola, 401. 16, Ryan Newman, 400. 17, Clint Bowyer, 388. 18, Kyle Larson, 361. 19, Danica Patrick, 357. 20, Greg Biffle, 351.

Money1, Kevin Harvick, $4,840,151. 2, Joey

Logano, $4,015,820. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $3,718,871. 4, Denny Hamlin, $3,429,537. 5, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,171,955. 6, Matt Kenseth, $2,835,930. 7, Jeff Gordon, $2,835,180. 8, Brad Keselowski, $2,790,295. 9, Martin Truex Jr., $2,668,758. 10, Greg Biffle, $2,497,249.

11, Ryan Newman, $2,480,173. 12, Clint Bowyer, $2,461,750. 13, Jamie McMurray, $2,426,215. 14, Aric Almirola, $2,350,110. 15, Austin Dillon, $2,209,228. 16, Trevor Bayne, $2,202,665. 17, Kasey Kahne, $2,175,249. 18, David Ragan, $2,137,061. 19, AJ Allmendinger, $2,131,990. 20, Casey Mears, $2,123,433.

BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct. GBTampa Bay 40 32 .556 —New York 38 32 .543 1Toronto 38 34 .528 2Baltimore 36 33 .522 2½Boston 31 40 .437 8½

Central Division W L Pct. GBKansas City 40 27 .597 —Minnesota 38 32 .543 3½Detroit 36 34 .514 5½Cleveland 32 37 .464 9Chicago 30 39 .435 11

West Division W L Pct. GBHouston 41 31 .569 —Texas 37 33 .529 3Los Angeles 36 35 .507 4½Seattle 32 39 .451 8½Oakland 31 41 .431 10

Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia 11, N.Y. Yankees 8Detroit 8, Cleveland 5Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 5Minnesota 13, Chicago White Sox 2L.A. Angels 4, Houston 3Kansas City 4, Seattle 1

Today’s GamesPhiladelphia (O’Sullivan 1-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-7), 6:05 p.m.Baltimore (U.Jimenez 5-3) at Boston (J.Kelly 2-4), 6:10 p.m.Detroit (Price 6-2) at Cleveland (Salazar 6-2), 6:10 p.m.Toronto (Dickey 3-6) at Tampa Bay (Archer 8-4), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Chavez 3-6) at Texas (Ch.Gonzalez 2-1), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 4-4) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-3), 7:10 p.m.Houston (McHugh 7-3) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 5-5), 9:05 p.m.Kansas City (Guthrie 5-4) at Seattle (Montgomery 1-2), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesDetroit (Verlander 0-1) at Cleveland (Carrasco 8-6), 11:10 a.m.Toronto (Estrada 5-3) at Tampa Bay (Karns 4-3), 11:10 a.m.Philadelphia (Hamels 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 5-4), 12:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Sale 6-3) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 5-6), 12:10 p.m.Houston (McCullers 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-5), 2:35 p.m.Baltimore (B.Norris 2-5) at Boston (Buchholz 4-6), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Graveman 3-4) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 4-2), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (D.Duffy 2-3) at Seattle (Elias 4-4), 9:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct. GBWashington 37 33 .529 —New York 36 35 .507 1½Atlanta 35 35 .500 2Miami 30 41 .423 7½Philadelphia 25 47 .347 13

Central Division W L Pct. GBSt. Louis 45 24 .652 —Pittsburgh 39 30 .565 6Chicago 38 30 .559 6½Cincinnati 32 36 .471 12½Milwaukee 25 46 .352 21

West Division W L Pct. GBLos Angeles 39 32 .549 —San Francisco 38 33 .535 1Arizona 34 35 .493 4San Diego 34 38 .472 5½Colorado 30 39 .435 8

Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia 11, N.Y. Yankees 8Chicago Cubs 4, L.A. Dodgers 2

Today’s GamesAtlanta (A.Wood 4-4) at Washington (Zimmermann 5-5), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Cueto 4-4) at Pittsburgh (Locke 4-3), 6:05 p.m.Philadelphia (O’Sullivan 1-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-7), 6:05 p.m.St. Louis (C.Martinez 7-3) at Miami (Urena 1-3), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 5-2), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-7) at Milwaukee (Fiers 3-7), 7:10 p.m.Arizona (Ch.Anderson 3-1) at Colorado (K.Kendrick 2-9), 7:40 p.m.San Diego (Despaigne 3-5) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 7-4), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia (Hamels 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 5-4), 12:05 p.m.Atlanta (S.Miller 5-3) at Washington (Fister 2-3), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Leake 4-4) at Pittsburgh (G.Cole 11-2), 6:05 p.m.St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 2-3) at Miami (Latos 2-4), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-3), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 9-5) at Milwaukee (Nelson 3-8), 7:10 p.m.Arizona (Webster 1-1) at Colorado (Hale 2-2), 7:40 p.m.San Diego (Kennedy 4-5) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 5-5), 9:15 p.m.

Division I College World Series

At TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, NebraskaChampionship Series

(Best-of-three)Monday’s Game

Vanderbilt 5, Virginia 1, Vanderbilt leads series 1-0

Today’s GameVanderbilt (51-19) vs. Virginia (42-24), 7 p.m.

x-Wednesday’s GameVanderbilt vs. Virginia, 7 p.m.

BasketballNBA draft

ThursdayAt Brooklyn, New York

First Round1. Minnesota2. L.A. Lakers3. Philadelphia4. New York5. Orlando6. Sacramento7. Denver8. Detroit9. Charlotte10. Miami11. Indiana12. Utah13. Phoenix14. Oklahoma City15. Atlanta (from Brooklyn)16. Boston17. Milwaukee18. Houston (from New Orleans)19. Washington20. Toronto21. Dallas22. Chicago23. Portland24. Cleveland25. Memphis26. San Antonio27. L.A. Lakers (from Houston)28. Boston (from L.A. Clippers)29. Brooklyn (from Atlanta)30. Golden State

Second Round31. Minnesota32. Houston (from New York)33. Boston (from Philadelphia through Miami)34. L.A. Lakers35. Philadelphia (from Orlando)36. Minnesota (from Sacramento through Houston)37. Philadelphia (from Denver through Houston, Portland and Minnesota)38. Detroit39. Charlotte40. Miami41. Brooklyn42. Utah43. Indiana44. Phoenix45. Boston46. Milwaukee47. Philadelphia (from New Orleans through Washington and L.A. Clippers)48. Oklahoma City49. Washington50. Atlanta (from Toronto)51. Orlando (from Chicago)52. Dallas53. Cleveland (from Portland through Chicago and Denver)54. Utah (from Cleveland)55. San Antonio56. New Orleans (from Memphis)57. Denver (from L.A. Clippers)58. Philadelphia (from Houston)59. Atlanta60. Philadelphia (from Golden State through Indiana)

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct. GBConnecticut 6 1 .857 —Washington 4 2 .667 1½New York 4 3 .571 2Chicago 3 3 .500 2½Atlanta 3 5 .375 3½Indiana 3 5 .375 3½

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBTulsa 6 1 .857 —Minnesota 5 2 .714 1Phoenix 3 3 .500 2½Seattle 2 4 .333 3½Los Angeles 0 4 .000 4½San Antonio 0 6 .000 5½

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GameLos Angeles at Washington, 7 p.m.

FootballArena League

NATIONAL CONFERENCEWest Division

W L T Pct PF PAArizona 10 2 0 .833 688 538Las Vegas 4 8 0 .333 555 653Los Angeles 2 10 0 .167 483 645

Pacific Division W L T Pct PF PAy-San Jose 12 1 0 .923 772 484Spokane 4 8 0 .333 605 697Portland 3 9 0 .250 548 682

AMERICAN CONFERENCESouth Division

W L T Pct PF PAOrlando 7 6 0 .538 710 698Tampa Bay 6 6 0 .500 569 588Jacksonville 6 6 0 .500 626 608

East Division W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 11 2 0 .846 748 590Cleveland 7 6 0 .538 706 658New Orleans 2 10 0 .167 487 656

y-clinched division

Friday’s GamesTampa Bay at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.San Jose at Spokane, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesCleveland at Jacksonville, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Orlando, 6 p.m.Arizona at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s GamePortland at Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

SoccerMLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAD.C. United 9 5 4 31 22 17New England 6 5 6 24 23 22Orlando City 5 6 5 20 20 21Toronto FC 6 6 1 19 19 18Montreal 5 5 2 17 16 18Columbus 4 6 5 17 21 22New York 4 5 5 17 18 19New York City FC 4 7 5 17 17 19Philadelphia 4 10 3 15 19 30Chicago 4 8 2 14 17 22

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GASeattle 9 5 2 29 23 13Vancouver 9 6 2 29 20 16Portland 7 5 4 25 17 14Los Angeles 6 5 7 25 21 20Sporting Kansas City 6 3 6 24 23 17FC Dallas 6 5 5 23 19 23San Jose 6 5 4 22 16 15Real Salt Lake 5 5 6 21 15 19Houston 5 6 5 20 21 21Colorado 2 4 9 15 12 13

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s GamesSeattle at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Real Salt Lake at New York, 6:30 p.m.Colorado at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m.New England at Columbus, 6:30 p.m.Montreal at Toronto FC, 7 p.m.D.C. United at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.Portland at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

National Women’s Soccer League

W L T Pts GF GAChicago 4 1 3 15 14 10Seattle 4 2 2 14 17 9Washington 4 3 2 14 15 14Houston 3 2 4 13 11 9Boston 3 4 2 11 11 17FC Kansas City 3 4 2 11 7 8Portland 2 3 4 10 11 10Western New York 3 4 1 10 10 13Sky Blue FC 1 4 4 7 6 12

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s GamesHouston at Washington, 6 p.m.FC Kansas City at Seattle, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesWestern New York at Boston, 4 p.m.Chicago at Sky Blue FC, 5 p.m.

Women’s World CupSECOND ROUNDSaturday, June 20At Ottawa, Ontario

Germany 4, Sweden 1At Edmonton, Alberta

China 1, Cameroon 0Sunday’s Games

At Moncton, New BrunswickBrazil 0, Australia 1

At MontrealFrance 3, South Korea 0

At Vancouver, British ColumbiaCanada 1, Switzerland 0

Monday’s GamesAt Ottawa, Ontario

England 2, Norway 1At Edmonton, Alberta

United States 2, Colombia 0Today’s Game

At Vancouver, British ColumbiaJapan vs. Netherlands, 9 p.m.

QUARTERFINALSFriday’s Game

At MontrealGermany vs. France, 3 p.m.

At Ottawa, OntarioChina vs. United States, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesAt Edmonton, Alberta

Australia vs. Japan-Netherlands winner, 3 p.m.At Vancouver, British Columbia

England vs. Canada, 6:30 p.m.

SEMIFINALSTuesday, June 30

At MontrealOttawa winner vs. Montreal winner, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1At Edmonton, Alberta

Edmonton winner vs. Vancouver winner, 6 p.m.

THIRD PLACESaturday, July 4

At Edmonton, AlbertaSemifinal losers, 3 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIPSunday, July 5

At Vancouver, British ColumbiaSemifinal winners, 6 p.m.

U.S. Open CupFIFTH ROUND

Tuesday, June 30Columbus Crew (MLS) at Orlando City (MLS), 6:30 p.m.D.C. United (MLS) at Philadelphia Union (MLS), 6:30 p.m.Charlotte Independence (USL) at Chicago Fire (MLS), 7:30 p.m.Colorado Rapids (MLS) at Houston Dynamo (MLS), 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1New York Cosmos (NASL) at New York Red Bulls (MLS), 6:30 p.m.Dallas (MLS) at Sporting Kansas City (MLS), 7:30 p.m.Portland Timbers (MLS) at Real Salt Lake (MLS), 9 p.m.Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS) at San Jose Earthquakes (MLS), 9:30 p.m.

TennisATP World Tour Aegon

InternationalMonday

At Nottingham Tennis CenterNottingham, England

Purse: $670,000 (WT250)Surface: Grass-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Aljaz Bedene, Britain, def. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2.Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1.Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, def. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Go Soeda, Japan, 6-3, 6-2.Dudi Sela, Israel, def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, 7-5, 6-4.Sam Groth, Australia, leads Mischa Zverez, Germany, 7-6 (1), 5-6, susp., rain.James Ward, Britain, leads Tim Smyczek, United States, 6-1, 4-5, susp., rain.Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, leads Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-4, 4-2, susp., rain.

Second RoundFlorian Mayer (4), Germany, vs. Chung Hyeon, South Korea, 1-1, susp., rain.

WTA AEGON International Eastbourne

MondayAt Devonshire Park

Eastbourne, EnglandPurse: $731,000 (Premier)Surface: Grass-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def. Harriet Dart, Britain, 6-1, 6-3.Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 7-6 (5), 6-4.Heather Watson, Britain, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-2.Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-4, 6-2.Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 6-2, 6-2.Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 7-5, 6-4.Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Irina Falconi, United States, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 6-1, 6-1.Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Christina McHale, United States, 6-2, 6-3.

Wimbledon QualifyingMonday

At Bank of England Sports GroundsRoehampton, England

Surface: Grass-OutdoorSingles

MenFirst Round

Marius Copil, Romania, def. Jason Jung, Taiwan, 6-3, 7-6 (4).Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, def. Jarmere Jenkins, United States, 7-6 (2), 6-2.Alejandro Falla, Colombia, def. Taro Daniel (19), Japan, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.Andrey Kuznetsov (2), Russia, def. Richard Gabb, Britain, 6-2, 3-0, retired.Andreas Beck, Germany, def. Adam Pavlasek, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3.Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (11), Spain, def. Tim Puetz, Germany, 6-3, 6-2.Jimmy Wang, Taiwan, def. Pedro Cachin, Argentina, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.Tatsuma Ito (4), Japan, def. Giovanni Lapentti, Ecuador, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.Hiroki Moriya, Japan, def. Jesse Huta Galung, Netherlands, 6-2, 7-6 (8).Tobias Kamke, Germany, def. James McGee, Ireland, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3.Matteo Donati, Italy, def. Yuki Bhambri, India, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-2.Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, def. Andre Ghem (30), Brazil, 6-3, 6-0.Vincent Millot, France, def. Kimmer Coppejans (1), Belgium, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.Julian Reister, Germany, def. Nicolas Kicker, Argentina, 6-3, 6-1.Edouard Roger-Vasselin (28), France, def. Andrej Martin, Slovakia, 6-3, 5-7, 9-7.Joshua Milton, Britain, def. Jan Hernych, Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.Michael Berrer (31), Germany, def. Frank Dancevic, Canada, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3.Jurgen Zopp, Estonia, def. Chen Ti, Taiwan, 6-2, 6-3.Facundo Arguello (29), Argentina, def. Gianni Mina, France, 6-3, 5-7, 8-6.Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, def. Hans Podlipnik-Castillo, Chile, 6-3, 6-2.Paul-Henri Mathieu (23), France, def. Dennis Novikov, United States, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, def. Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.Jurgen Melzer (6), Austria, def. Gerald Melzer, Austria, 6-1, 6-4.Thiemo de Bakker (20), Netherlands, def. Ante Pavic, Croatia, 6-4, 7-6 (3).Luke Saville, Australia, def. Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 6-2, 6-4.Stephane Robert, France, def. Norbert Gombos (22), Slovakia, 6-3, 7-5.Luca Vanni (5), Italy, def. Maxime Hamou, France, 6-4, 6-2.Konstantin Kravchuk, Russia, def. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 7-6 (8), 6-3.Matthias Bachinger (8), Germany, def. Daniel Cox, Britain, 6-3, 6-3.Daniel Evans, Britain, def. Jaroslav Pospisil, Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2).Yuichi Sugita, Japan, def. Alexander Ward, Britain, 6-3, 6-2.Michal Przysiezny (32), Poland, def. Germain Gigounon, Belgium, 6-3, 3-6, 9-7.Saketh Myneni, India, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 7-6 (6), 6-4.Kenny de Schepper, France, def. Radu Albot (16), Moldova, 7-6 (4), 6-4.Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, def. Albert Montanes (21), Spain, 6-3, 4-6, 10-8.Enzo Couacaud, France, def. Niels Desein, Belgium, 6-4, 6-4.Tristan Lamasine, France, def. Chase Buchanan, United States, 1-6, 1-2, retired.Horacio Zeballos, Argentina (27), def. Pere Riba, Spain, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4.Gastao Elias, Portugal, def. Pedro Sousa, Portugal, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.Zhang Ze, China, def. Yang Tsung-hua, Taiwan, 6-1, 7-5.Guido Pella (3), Argentina, def. Roberto Marcora, Italy, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.Aslan Karatsev, Russia, def. Aldin Setkic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 9-7.Boy Westerhof, Netherlands, def. Guilherme Clezar, Brazil, 7-5, 6-4.Elias Ymer (25), Sweden, def. Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.Dustin Brown (12), Germany, def. Adrian Ungur, Romania, 6-1, 6-2.John Millman (15), Australia, def. Christian Lindell, Sweden, 6-3, 6-2.Andrea Arnaboldi, Italy, def. Renzo Olivo, Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (4).Ivan Dodig (14), Croatia, def. Jared Donaldson, United States, 6-3, 6-2.Edward Corrie, Britain, def. Daniel Munoz-de la Nava (7), Spain, 6-3, 6-1.Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, def. Ryan Harrison (24), United States, 7-6 (4), 4-6, susp., darkness.Inigo Cervantes, Spain, vs. Somdev Devvarman, India, 5-7, 6-4, susp., darkness.

TransactionsMonday’s Moves

BASEBALLAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with 2B Jack Graham and Frank Crinella, SS Branden Becker and OF Jaylen Ferguson on minor league contracts.BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with OFs Chris Madera, Jerry Downs and Nicholos Hamilton on minor league contracts.KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned RHP Aaron Brooks to Omaha (PCL). Recalled RHP Michael Mariot from Omaha.NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Danny Burawa and LHP Jose DePaula to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Signed RHP Diego Moreno and RHP Nick Rumbelow and selected their contracts from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Agreed to terms with RHP Cody Hamlin on a minor league contract. Transferred RHP Sergio Santos to the 60-day DL.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Assigned INF Andy Parrino outright to Nashville (PCL).SEATTLE MARINERS — Released OF Rickie Weeks.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent LHP Matt Moore to Durham (IL) for a rehab assignment.TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with 1B Chad Smith, OF London Lindley and 3B Curtis Terry on minor league contracts.TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned LHP Phil Coke and RHP Ryan Tepera and Scott Copeland to Buffalo (IL).

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Addison Reed to Reno (PCL). Reinstated RHP Enrique Burgos from the 15-day DL.CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned C/OF Kyle Schwarber to Iowa (PCL). Recalled OF Matt Szczur from Iowa. Optioned C Kyle Schwarber to Iowa.COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP Rafael Betancourt to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment.LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Brandon Beachy to Oklahoma City (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Activated RHP Joel Peralta from the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Ian Thomas from Oklahoma City. Optioned LHP Daniel Coulombe and RHP Matt West to Oklahoma City.MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with C Justin Cohen, OFs Isaiah White and Tony Bennett and RHPs Kelvin Rivas, R.J. Peace, Chris Paddack and Ryan McKay on minor league contracts.NEW YORK METS — Signed INF David Thompson, OF Kevin Kaczmarski, LHP Jake Simon, RHP Joe Shaw, LHP P.J. Conlon, 2B Vincent Siena, RHP Dillon Becker, RHP Jordan Humphreys, RHP Thomas McIlraith, OF Kenneth Bautista and C Anthony Dimino to minor league contracts.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Seth Rosin to Lehigh Valley (IL).PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with C Garrett Russini, LHP Austin Sodders and RHP Shane Kemp on minor league contracts.SAN DIEGO PADRES — Assigned LHP Eury De La Rosa outright to El Paso (PCL).WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with OFs Angelo La Bruna and Blake Perkins, SS Clayton Brandt, LHP Grant Borne and RHPs Mariano Rivera, Matthew Crownover, Mick Van Vossen, Tommy Peterson, Jorge Pantoja, Ryan Brinley and Adam Boghosian on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

ATLANTA HAWKS — Announced the resignation of general manager Danny Ferry.BROOKLYN NETS — Announced F Thaddeus Young has opted out of his contract for next season and will become a free agent.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Claimed WR-QB Terrelle Pryor off waivers from Cincinnati. Waived DB Landon Feichter.DETROIT LIONS — Signed S Taylor Mays.

Canadian Football LeagueWINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Added DB Lin-J Shell to the practice roster.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

EDMONTON OILERS — Fired head amateur scout Stu MacGregor, head pro scout Morey Gare, amateur scouts Brad Davis and Kent Hawley, pro scout Dave Semenko and director of coaching and special projects Billy Moores.NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Re-signed G Scott Wedgewood to a two-year contract.TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Announced assistant coach George Gwozdecky is leaving the team to pursue other opportunities.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Named Adin Brown goalkeeper coach.

COLLEGEDAYTON — Named Jeff House women’s assistant basketball coach.FELICIAN — Named Rob DeCarlo men’s and women’s cross country and women’s track and field coach.FLORIDA A&M — Named Milton Overton director of intercollegiate athletics.IOWA STATE — Named William Small, Daniyal Robinson and Neal Berry men’s assistant basketball coaches. Retained men’s assistant basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger and director of men’s basketball operations Micah Byers.RADFORD — Named Ron Jirsa men’s assistant basketball coach.SYRACUSE — Named Mark Coyle athletic director.WASHINGTON — Announced QB Cyler Miles has decided to quit the football team due to injury.WISCONSIN — Named Danny Westerman men’s tennis coach.

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Campbell said. “I think I have grown a lot in the past couple of weeks since I have been here. I think there is a lot more to see.”

Campbell made her comments last week during a media session with the other new-comers to the MSU women’s basketball team. The addition of point guard Roshunda Johnson, a transfer from Oklahoma State, point guard Jazz Holmes, McCowan, forward Jazmine Spears, and Campbell is part of an-other top-40 recruiting class that gives the Bulldogs depth at every position.

At center, Campbell gives the Bulldogs a long, athletic post player with a similar frame to former MSU standout Martha Alwal. Two years ago, Alwal had the pleasure of meet-ing Okorie on the court. In one of the team’s first practices of the 2013-14 season, Alwal careened down the floor and tried to dislodge Okorie from the paint by running into her. Okorie didn’t budge.

Early in her first summer at MSU, Campbell already has seen and felt Okorie’s strength in the post. Without going up against McCow-an, a Parade High School All-American from Brenham, Texas, Campbell knows she has plenty of work to do.

“It is a lot because we do weight room stuff, but you just have to do extra stuff and put in more work so I can be stronger because I am not very big,” Campbell said. “(Chinwe)could probably break me in half if she tried her hardest. I just have to keep working to get stronger and put in the extra hours.”

Dan Olson, director of Dan Olson’s Colle-giate Girls Report and espnW’s HoopGurlz, rated Campbell as the No. 299 player (No. 49 center) in the Class of 2015 after she an-nounced her commitment last year. Olson, a former college coach and longtime women’s basketball recruiting analyst, said of Camp-bell, “She is a long, athletic low-post insider who rebounds and scores on putbacks. She is mobile in uptempo and can catch in traffic. Her finesse game is developing with her of-fensive game.”

MSU coach Vic Schaefer isn’t sure how Campbell will fit into the rotation for the 2015-16 season, but he likes the options he has at every position.

“We have a long way before we play a game, and lots of improvement and lots of workouts, so I don’t think anybody is slotting themselves,” Schaefer said. “I am certainly not doing that. We’re just trying to get better as a team right now. We’re just trying to get better as individuals, and I think that is what this time of the year is all about.”

Even though it is summer, Schaefer said the players are staying busy. He said he is only able to spend two hours a week with the players in the gym with a basketball, so every-one is left to find time to work on their games.

For Campbell, that means trying to squeeze extra individual work in, either in the weight room or on the court. Campbell said she will take advantage of every minute to help her ad-just to the speed of the game. Not only is the college game quicker than the high school game, but Campbell also said she realizes she faces bigger expectations as a member of a pro-gram that won a school-record 27 games and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament last season.

Last season, newcomers like Victoria Vivi-ans and Morgan William played integral roles in helping MSU return to the NCAA tourna-ment for the first time since 2010. Schaefer said last week he will follow the same plan and play the players who deserve to be on the court, regardless of their class. That is a good sign for Campbell, who recognizes her opportunity to make the most of her situation to watch and learn from the biggest players in the program. She said she will do everything she can to improve her mental and physical strength and to maximize her best qualities on the court: rebounding, boxing out, tough-ness, defense, and scoring.

“I have a lot to go strength wise,” Campbell said. “It is a good learning experience to see what I will have to deal with when I get into the SEC.

“I think it is going to be a challenge. We do have school right now, so I have school and practice, so I am going to have to put in an ex-tra hour. It is going to be a challenge, pushing myself to do that every day.”

Follow Dispatch sports editor Adam Minichino on Twitter @ctsportseditor

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Comics & PuzzlesDear Abby

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FAMILY CIRCUS

DEAR ABBY: My mom turned 60

last month, and I hosted a party at her house for friends and family. As things were winding down, I took a break from cleaning up to look over the birthday cards from well-wish-ers that were displayed on a living room table. Among them was a big, gorgeous card from “Cassie,” a woman around my mother’s age, who I always thought was nothing more than an acquaintance.

As I read the message she had written inside, my jaw dropped. While not pornograph-ic, her message made clear that she and Mom have an inti-mate physical relationship that has been going on for a while.

I have not discussed the card with Mom, but I suspect she knows I saw it. Lately, I have canceled our weekly lunches together. I don’t have anything against gays; I believe they are entitled to a love life just like the rest of us. But in this case, I can’t help but feel betrayed. Mom was married to

Dad for 32 years, bore him three children and seemed happy. Was this all a lie?

My biggest concern is, if this relation-ship becomes permanent, how do I explain it to my children — or worse, my broth-ers, whose views are conservative and some might say bigoted. I can’t help but

wonder if Mom left the card out so she could open a can of worms in my lap. How should I approach this? Please help! — DUMBFOUNDED DAUGHTER

DEAR DAUGHTER: Some people are bisexual, which means they can be attracted to people of both genders. Your mother may have had a very happy marriage, and then she met Cassie. If she is no longer with your father, it is not a “betrayal” of anyone.

Call your mother and arrange to get together. Tell her you saw the card. She may not have told you about her rela-tionship with Cassie because she was afraid you would react as you have. IF they become a couple and your children

ask questions (keep in mind, they may not ask), tell them the truth. As to making any announcements to your bigoted brothers, leave that up to your mother and resist the urge to be the town crier.

DEAR ABBY: I’m only 18. I know I have a lot to learn in life, but I need help. I’m madly in love with a guy who is “bipolar” about our relationship. One day he loves me and the next he doesn’t.

Today he said he needed some time alone because we’ve been together 24/7. I got all mad and started to go crazy. He’s not breaking up with me. I know he needs space, but I can’t bring myself to let him have it. I don’t want to lose him. Please help me figure out a way to stay with him. — GOT A GOOD ONE IN MISSOURI

DEAR GOT A GOOD ONE: If you want to keep your boyfriend, let him have his freedom. I know it sounds con-tradictory, but the harder you try to hang onto him, the more he will want to get away.

And by the way, while he’s enjoying his “space,” you should do exactly the same thing he is doing. If you isolate yourself, you will only become depressed, insecure and clingy, none of which are attractive traits.

Dear Abby

HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June

23). Because of your confi-dence and position, people will expect you to know what you’re doing. Whether or not you do, your talent for diving in, learning on the fly and pulling off great feats will make this an exciting year. Your influence will grow as your skills do. July features a journey. September heals a relationship. Virgo and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 30, 36, 28 and 49.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). There is a shared space between you and the people in your life. What is it filled with? You’ll feel more inclined to tune in and understand where you overlap and why. It’s the

first step to resolving an issue.TAURUS (April 20-May

20). You don’t have the support for your endeavor that other people around you have. Instead of resenting this, accept it and know that you’re stronger and completely capable, or you wouldn’t have taken on the challenge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Some people are too embar-rassed about their mistakes to really examine them. You real-ize the value in reflection and evaluation. You’re determined not to make the same mistake twice.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Absorb your social media with a grain of salt. Everyone is putting forward an image they

want the world to see. Trying to keep up with others robs you of the peace that might come with being satisfied with what you have.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It takes maturity to keep your long-term picture in mind. The action that gets immediate results often robs you of the bigger result you could have down the line.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll get that scenery change you probably didn’t even know you needed. This new scene will be invigorating, if not for its beauty, then for its capacity to keep you alert and reactive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The thing you want will require upkeep, time and energy. The big question is: Is it worth it? Remind yourself that happi-ness does not depend on what you have, especially when what you have actually has you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Tell the people on your team how they can best help you. Some don’t know the dif-ference between pressure and support. You have a talent for tenderly teaching others how to treat you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Not all negative self-judgments are bad. When you’re pretty certain you could do better, you’ll mentally prod yourself to the level you know you can achieve.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Relationships have seasons. When the emotional weather starts to change, don’t panic -- this is part of the natural process. Adjust instead. How can you outfit yourself to accommodate the change?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Seek a friend who is like a business manager, or a busi-ness manager who is like a friend -- someone who can give you a better idea of what you need to do to move to the next level and still have a little fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t have to make people happy today. Make yourself happy. Also, you’ll get the kind of invitation you would usually accept automatically. Think it over first.

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NBA hopefuls.An indication of the program’s

success could come Thursday night. A record 101 foreign-born players be-gan this season on NBA rosters, and three more — Emmanuel Mudiay of China, Kristaps Porzingis of Latvia and Mario Hezonja of Croatia — are potential top-10 picks.

“The camp hasn’t changed a lot. The principles are the same,” said Ru-dez, who just completed his first NBA season with the Pacers. “The NBA has done a terrific job of organizing the whole thing — great gear, great conditions for working. But it seems like these days, the kids are growing like crazy. They’re huge.”

The initial goals of BWB were simple — find the best players in the world, teach them skills that would make them productive pro players and continue to expand the talent pool. Since the inaugural 2001 camp in Treviso, Italy, more than 2,300

players from more than 120 countries have participated and the success sto-ries have steadily increased.

Thirty-three grads have been drafted including Andrea Bargnani, the No. 1 overall pick in 2006, and Joel Embiid, the No. 3 overall pick last year. Two more players, Rudez and Boston’s Luigi Datome, have made rosters as undrafted free agents.

The Europeans “are pretty good,” Charlotte center and former Indiana University standout Cody Zeller said after working his second internation-al camp in two years. “I can see where there’s a couple that have that (NBA) potential, and even the ones that don’t make the NBA, I think, will have pro-ductive careers overseas.”

This global trend isn’t subsiding.The last two No. 1 draft picks, An-

drew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, grew up in Canada. The NBA’s Euro-pean contingent includes Luol Deng, Marc and Pau Gasol, Dirk Nowitzki,

Tony Parker and Ricky Rubio. Manu Ginobili, Nene and Anderson Varejao honed their skills in South America, while Andrew Bogut and Kyrie Irving were born in Australia. Their once-sub-tle impact on the NBA is also growing.

“There’s a lot of pride in Europe in teaching the fundamentals,” Pacers assistant coach Dan Burke said after working the camp. “From what I’ve seen, we don’t get as much opportuni-ty to see the 17-year-olds (in the U.S.), but what we see coming in is a lack of fundamentals. There are a lot of dif-ferent reasons for it. Some people say AAU just rolls the ball out and they play. They get by on athleticism and God-given talent. But the ones who really work, you do notice that, and the NBA game is getting to a point where you can’t just run over guys.

“I think the states are getting back to teaching fundamentals, but I don’t see those building blocks like you do here.”

BradyContinued from Page 1B

“You have no author-ity to impose discipline on Mr. Brady under the CBA, and such discipline must therefore be set aside,” union attorney Tom DePaso wrote to Vincent on May 14. “The CBA grants the Commis-sioner — and only the Commissioner — the au-thority to impose conduct detrimental discipline on players.”

Goodell dismissed the union’s claim when he de-clined to recuse himself from hearing the appeal on June 23.

“I did not delegate my disciplinary authority to Mr. Vincent; I concurred in his recommendation and authorized him to communicate to Mr.

Brady the discipline im-posed under my authority as Commissioner,” Good-ell said in his letter to the union on June 2. “The identity of the person who signed the disciplinary letter is irrelevant.”

Brady was suspended four games and the Patri-ots were fined $1 million and docked a pair of draft picks after investigator Ted Wells found that the Super Bowl champions illegally used under-in-flated footballs in the AFC title game.

Vincent has issued sev-eral fines and penalties for various infractions since replacing Ray Anderson as the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations in March 2014.

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The Columbus Municip-al School District will beaccepting sealed bidsuntil 9:00 a.m.,Friday,June 26, 2015, at theMaintenance Ware-house Building locatedat 2210 6th StreetNorth, Columbus, Mis-sissippi 39701, for theitems listed below. Allbids will be publiclyopened, and read aloudand taken under advise-ment on Wednesday, Ju-ly 1, 2015 at 10:00a.m. at the Central Of-fice Building located at2630 McArthur Drive,Columbus, Mississippi39705.

Bid # 634 Surplus Trail-ers (2)

The Columbus Municip-al School District boardof Trustees has de-clared the trailers sur-plus property and bidswill be accepted forthese items. They willbe sold separately tothe highest bidder.These items will be soldas is with no warrantyobligations. The trailersmust be removed by thehighest bidder at thebidders’ expense by Ju-ly 20, 2015.

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IN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OFTHOMAS T. ROBERTS,DECEASED

CAUSE NO.:2015-0102

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

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Antiques 4060

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General Merchandise 4600

GENERAC GENERATOR5500 watt $350. Troy-Bilt pressure washerBriggs-Stratton Engine$150. All cash. Call Roy329-1981.

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Northwood Town-houses 2BR, 1.5BA,CH/A, stove, fridge,DW, WD hookups, &private patios. Call

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Apts For Rent: East 7020

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Terrace Apartments2BR/1BA. Washer/dryer hookup & DirectTV included.(662) 327-5000.

TRINITY PLACE Retire-ment Community, inColumbus, now has stu-dio, 1 bedroom, & 2bedroom apartmentsavailable. We offer noonmeal 6 days each week,scheduled transporta-tion, variety of activities,optional housekeeping,& many other amenit-ies. Rent assistance tothose that qualify. CallMichelle for a tourtoday, 327-6716 & youcan enjoy the Trinity wayof life. EHO.

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Apts For Rent: South 7040

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Apts For Rent: West 7050

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

2BR & 3BR APART-MENTS $250-$550. As-sociated Realty 327-8557.

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Commercial Property For Rent 7100

BUSINESS SPACE avail-able. 114 Alabama St.Suite B. Move in readywith ample parking.662-352-9903.

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Houses For Rent: Northside 7110

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COLONIAL TOWN-HOUSES. 2 & 3 bed-room w/ 2-3 bath town-houses. $575/$700.662-549-9555. Ask forGlenn or lv. message.

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Houses For Rent: New Hope 7130

4BR/2BA at 40Woodridge Pl. 2900 sq.ft. Nice home for a nicefamily. $1500/mo.w/$1000 security de-posit. 662-574-1214.

Houses For Rent: West 7150

DUPLEX FOR rent:3BR/2BA, all utilities in-cluded. $780/mo. 662-574-0495.

Houses For Rent: Other 7180

1022 SHADY St.3BR/2BA. $525/mo.662-329-1778.

2BR/1BA in West Point,W/D, corner lot.$650/mo. + $650 dep.Call 662-251-2434

STEENS: 3BR/1BA.Kitchen, dining, den. Nopets. No HUD. $550plus deposit. 662-744-2223.

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Mobile Homes 7250

1996 Southridge doublewide mobile home forsale, washer, dryer,side by side fridge, dish-washer, stove, mi-crowave included, excel-lent condition, must bemoved, roof 5yr old, out-side AC 2 yr old, $20k,662-574-4783

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CLOSE TO MSU! 3 bdrmmobile homes for rentstarting at $560/mo.$15 app fee. Housingnot accepted. Call 662-268-2107.www.universityhillsmhp.com.

MOVE IN today! 1BR/1BA mobile home forrent. $410/mo. Closeto MSU. $15 app fee.Housing not accepted.Call 662-268-2107.www.universityhillsmhp.com.

Office Spaces For Rent 7300

OFFICE SPACE for rentat 300 Chubby Dr. Con-tact 662-549-1953 formore information.

Roommates 7440

ROOMMATE NEEDED fora house within walkingdistance of MUW. Yourown private room for$325/mo. (includesrent & utilities). Pleasecall 662-425-2568.

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Autos For Sale 9150

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Storage & Garages 7500

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5'x10' to 20'x20'. Twowell-lit locations in

Columbus: Near Wal-mart on Hwy 45 & nearTaco Bell on Hwy 182.Call 662-327-4236 for

more information.

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Commercial Property 8050

205 Tuscaloosa Rd.high traffic intersectionwith Gardner Blvd. 450-3650 sq.ft. restaurant,office space, and retail(662) 327-5000.

3,000 sq ft office or re-tail space. Great rateand location! Call 662-574-0147. Storageunits also available.

Houses For Sale: Northside 8150

FOR SALE: 1021 PrinceGeorge Street– FamilyHome on Quiet Cul deSac- 4BR/2.5BA,Fenced Yard, Granite,Stainless Steel Appli-ances, Custom ShowerSurrounds, Wood, Tile& New Carpet.$229,900 ContactOwner/Agent: KayRegimbal at REMAXPartners662.816.0094 or662.327.7705.

DESIGNER HOME:3BR/3.5BA. Kitchen

has Viking & Sub-Zero &separate ice maker.Rinnai water system.

Specialty bathrooms, airtub. All 8 ft. interiordoors. Brick homew/deck plus patio.

662-574-0026.

Houses For Sale: East 8200

FSBO: 2BR/1BA OffHwy. 50 E, close to by-pass. 1 acre lot withfenced backyard &covered patio. Asking$65K obo. 662-574-1078.

Houses For Sale: New Hope 8250

FSBO-Lakeover Sub.1756 sf, 3BR/2BA, din-ing room, large livingroom, vaulted ceilings,laundry room, all stain-less steel appliances,fire place with gas logs,new gas hot water heat-er, double carport, largebackyard, pergolacovered brick patio.662-425-2218.

FSBO: 3BR/2BA. LARGECORNER LOT. Vaultedceilings, spacious kit,large master bath, walk-in closets. New roof.Freshly painted exterior.1459 sq ft. MOVE INREADY $130,000 Justminutes from theAlabama/State line &bypass. 662-574-9690.

Houses For Sale: Caledonia 8450

3BR/2BA on 11.9 acresin Caledonia School Dis-trict. $145K. For appt.to view call 662-328-2749 or 662-699-0113.

4BR/2.5BA: 3,600 sq.ft at 3893 Hwy. 12 E.Formal dining, lg. kit-chen, den/sunroom, lg.dbl. garage, outside of-fice & shop building on4.78 acres. CaledoniaSchool District. 662-574-9415.CALEDONIA HOME forsale. Recently re-modeled. 3BR/2BA,LR, CH&A, lg. fencedin backyard, mother inlaw apt. for rental in-come. Priced to sell byowner. Call 662-574-0082 or 574-2591.

Houses For Sale: Other 8500

BUILDING WITH greatrental potential that canbe used for office orstudio apart. Fenced inback yard. $39,000. OnJess Lyons Rd. acrossfrom golf course. Somefinancing available. 662-242-0105.

WATERFRONT PROP-ERTY. Hamilton. Tenn-Tom access. 2BR/1BA.Fully updated. For moreinfo call 662-425-0250.

Investment Property 8550

NEED TO SELL!3,000 sq. ft. building &4.5 acres of land, willsubdivide. 1078 OldYorkville Rd. S.ALSO:Shop Building: 3,000sq. ft. building at 56Harrison Rd. 662-386-5938 or 329-9939.

Lots & Acreage 8600

Are You Ready to Sell?Pioneer Auction

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Lots & Acreage 8600

28.5 ACRES in N.H.w/25 yr. old pines.$3500/ac. Will divideinto 10 ac. plots. 2 acrelot, Chism Dr. $10,000.Owner financing avail.386-6619.

Fayette County, AL +/-87 acres off Hwy 18; 9year old pine plantation.Great hunting and es-tablishedgreenfields.

Fayette County, AL +/-594 acres on CR #116;pine plantations, excel-lent interior roads; greathunting; owner finan-cing.

Pickens County, AL +/-79 acres off WilsonRoad, Aliceville, mixedhardwood/pine regener-ation; goodhunting tract.

Pickens County, AL +/-15 acres, Kirk Com-munity in Gordo.Timbered. $20,000.00

Lowndes Co., MS +/-38.6 acres timberlandon Nashville Ferry Road,Columbus. Greathunting/timber invest-ment tract.

For info, call MidsouthForestry Services, Inc.205-364-7145

INDUSTRIAL SITE forsale. 229 acres + at theSouthwest corner ofArtesia Rd. & Manufac-turer's Dr. Immediatelysouth of Severstal.Please call 327-3154

LOWNDES COUNTY:160 acres. Mixed wood-land & pasture, 15 acrelake, excellent huntingtract. $1475/acre.205-799-9846.

READY TO GO: 100acres w/green fields &shooting houses. 1.5mi. SW of Crawford, MSon Fairport Rd.$2500/acre. Serious in-quiries only. ContactRandy Luker at 386-8470.

RIVERFRONTPROPERTYCamp Pratt

Call 574-3056Ray McIntyre

Blythewood Realty

SUMMER SPECIAL. 2½acre lots. Good/badcredit. $995 down.$197/mo. Eaton Land.662-726-9648

WANTED: Looking forcheap land to use ascampsite / weekend re-treat. Must be se-cluded, electricity andwater availability desir-able but not required.Two / Five acres – nomore than $1,000 peracre. 724-413-4129.

Mobile Homes 8650

16X80 3BR/2BA South-ern for sale, Metal sid-ing/metal roof, solidhouse, needs little cos-metic work $13,900 de-livered CASH ONLY. Call662-760-2120.

DOUBLE WIDE &SINGLE WIDE HOMESFOR SALE, CONVENI-ENT FINANCING AVAIL-ABLE. See our homesthat are move in readyat The Grove MobileHome Community. Call662-329-9110 today formore info.

ENJOY HOME Owner-ship Today! Own yourown new 2014 3 bed-room/2bath 16X80Clayton Energy Effi-cient Mobile Home inonly 10 years!! Homesare set up on residen-tial lot, 2 decks/under-pinning included. Con-venient financing, Call662.329.9110 or comeby The Grove MobileHome Community of-fice located at 510Lehmberg Rd., Colum-bus, MS for more info.

USED SINGLE & doublewides, Large selectionto choose from. ALLMUST GO!! Will not beatthese deals CALL 662-401-1093 For moreinfo.

WON'T last long!Vinyl/shingle doublewide for sale 28x523BR/2BA, solid house,needs little cosmeticwork, perfect for a rent-al. $23,900 incl. deliv-ery & set up CASHONLY Call 662-760-2120.

Waterfront Property 8900

1.6 acre lot at AugustLanding w/river view.Great deal at $15,000.662-549-0531.

2BR CABIN onButtahatchie River on 2lots for sale. Call 662-549-9550.

RIVER LOT & house-boat for sale. Claycounty, call for details.662-574-0093.

Waterfront Property 8900

RIVERFRONT LOT onTENN TOM WATERWAY-Approx 1.25 Acres- SELowndes County,Ms-Good Access- No Re-strictions- $30,000. Call662-769-1800.

Autos For Sale 9150

2001 ACURA TL 4 door.Hunter green with camelleather interior. Sunroof,fully loaded. Needs afew mechanical repairs.$2250 obo.JUST REDUCED! Call205-799-3333.

2008 BLUE HondaCivic. New engine, newtires. Smoke free &Great Condition!$7,500. 662-574-0259.662-386-2320.

2009 TOYOTA CamryXLE. Excellent condition.Non-smoking owners.Contact Tom: 662-425-8179. $9,000.

Campers & RVs 9300

RV CAMPER & mobilehome lots. Full hookupw/sewer. 2 locationsW&N from $80/wk -$265/mo. 662-251-1149 or 601-940-1397

PLENTYof pre-owned trade insavailable, more comingin daily. Great prices,financing, & servicesavailable. We appreci-

ate your business.Johnny Bishop RV,8971 Hwy 45 N,

Columbus.662-434-6501 or1-800-569-9847

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Motorcycles & ATVs 9400

1984 HONDA Aspen-cade motorcycle.$2250. Side car avail.Garaged. 662-328-7150.

2005 POLARIS AWD,camouflage, w/winch,$3500. 662-574-2467or 662-328-1474.