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What is your favorite Holiday tradition?

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Cynthia Williams (holding her Edna Cole De’Vagus Jenkins Rachel Derise
1-year-old niece, Justice Williams) “I love opening stockings on “On Christmas Eve, my mom “Watching ‘A Christmas Story.’”
“I just love to feed people, have Christmas morning.” likes to make hot chocolate and we
people over and fellowship.” just like to sit around, tell stories and
remember old times.”

Hal Sullivan
“We tend to watch (National
Lampoon’s) Christmas Vacation
on Christmas Eve. That’s quickly
become a favorite of mine and my
dad’s. My mom, not so much.”
Patsy and Greg Sykes
“On Christmas Eve, we have a
white elephant gift exchange, read
the Christmas story from the Bible
and finish off with ‘The Night Before
Christmas.’”
Marie Portera
“We have turkey and dressing
with all the trimmings, and we open
presents and play games and spend
quality time together.”
Calla Kingery
“My favorite holiday tradition is
just coming back to Starkville. It’s
the only time of year I get to make it
home.”

Last-minute shoppers hustle, Summer

Franks of
Vernon,

bustle to beat holiday buzzer

Alabama,
carries a bag
from Bath and
Body Works
in Leigh Mall
filled with
Golden Triangle stores see swell of customers Christmas
gifts for
putting finishing touches on this year’s gift-giving her mother,
step-mother
By Slim Smith and Tess Vrbin who drove over from her home in and sister on
ssmith@cdispatch.com; tvrbin@cdispatch.com Vernon, Alabama, to finish off her Monday. She

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Christmas shopping with a visit to joined a swell
hat do you call it when you Bath and Body Works in Leigh Mall. of last-minute
walk out of the store with With a single visit, she crossed her shoppers to
your last Christmas gift pur- visit retailers
mom, stepmom and sister off her list.
chase two days before Christmas? in the Golden
“I’m pretty proud of myself, “ she Triangle
Summer Franks calls it a personal said, laughing.
record. and finish
Stores across the Golden Trian- their holiday
“I’m definitely one of those gle continued to see a steady, if not shopping.
last-minute shoppers,” said Franks, See Shoppers, 7A Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff

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IN TECHNOLOGY

It takes a tech village to track

Santa on Christmas Eve
The Associated Press
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE,
Colo. — Depending on which
country they’re from, the kids may
ask about Father Christmas, Papa
Noel, Saint Nick or Santa Claus.
But they all want to know one
thing: where in the world the jolly
old man and his sleigh full of gifts
are on Christmas Eve.
For the 64th time, a wildly pop-
ular program run by the U.S. and
Canadian militaries is providing re-
al-time updates on Santa’s progress
to millions around the globe.
And this year, the North Ameri-
can Aerospace Defense Command
is offering even more high-tech
ways for children and parents to
follow along.
Operation NORAD Tracks San-
ta has evolved from a misdirected
telephone call in 1955, to a trailer
parked outside the command’s
former lair deep inside Cheyenne
Mountain, to NORAD ‘s mod-
ern-day headquarters at Colora-
do’s Peterson Air Force Base.
Along the way, the tens of thou-
sands of telephone calls fielded by
NORAD volunteers each year have
been augmented by an explosion of
technology that lets millions track
St. Nick’s journey from the North
Pole to the Pacific and Asia, from
Europe to the Americas.
This year’s portals include Al-
exa, OnStar, Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and 3-D apps developed
for mobile devices by Cesium, a
Philadelphia-based IT and defense
contractor. The apps integrate
geospatial and satellite-positioning
technology with high-resolution
graphics that display the actual po-
sitions of the stars, sun and moon
and the shadows they cast at any
point in Santa’s journey.
It takes a village of dozens of
tech firms — including Google, Mi-
crosoft, Hewlett Packard and Bing
Maps — to deliver the immersive
effect for global Santa trackers,
with some 15 million visits to the
website alone last year.
And it takes a village of 1,500
volunteers to field emails and the
140,000 or so telephone calls to
1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723).
They staff phone banks equipped
with monitors inside a building
at Peterson, which offers a view
of snow-capped Pikes Peak to the
west.
More volunteers and firms do-
nate food, water and coffee to those
on Santa Watch.
“Hi Santa Trackers! Lots of kids
are waiting to ask you about San-
ta,” a sign reads.
Volunteers are equipped with an
Operations Center Playbook that
helps ensure each and every caller
can go to sleep happy and satisfied
on Christmas Eve.
Longtime Santa trackers are fa-
miliar with the NORAD-Santa sto-
ry.
In 1955, Air Force Col. Harry
Shoup — the commander on duty
one night at NORAD’s predeces-
sor, the Continental Air Defense
Command — fielded a call from
a child who dialed a misprinted
telephone number in a newspaper
department store ad, thinking she
was calling Santa.
A fast-thinking Shoup quickly
assured his caller that he was. And
a tradition was born.
Today, most early calls come
from Japan and Europe. The vol-
ume soars in the U.S. and Canada,
said program manager Preston
Schlachter. United Kingdom call-
ers ask about Father Christmas.
Those in France generally seek
Papa Noel’s whereabouts.
For team members, once “Big
Red” — Santa’s code name — is
airborne, Schlachter said, “it’s off
to the races.”
“I’ve never had a block of time
move so quickly,” he said.

IN THE NATION
San Francisco cafes are banishing disposable coffee cups
Cups are being replaced with everything from
glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A new cafe
culture is brewing in the San Fran-
cisco area, where a growing num-
ber of coffee houses are banishing
paper to-go cups and replacing them
with everything from glass jars to
rental mugs and BYO cup policies.
What started as a small trend
among neighborhood cafes to re-
duce waste is gaining support from
some big names in the city’s food
and coffee world.
Celebrated chef Dominique
Crenn, owner of the three-star Mi-
chelin restaurant Atelier Crenn, is
opening a San Francisco cafe next
year that will have no to-go bags or
disposable coffee cups and will use
no plastic. Customers who plan to
sip and go at Boutique Crenn will be
encouraged to bring their own cof-
fee cups, says spokeswoman Kate
Bittman.
On a bigger scale, the Blue Bot-
tle coffeehouse chain, which goes
through about 15,000 to-go cups a
month at its 70 U.S. locations, says
it wants to “show our guests and the
world that we can eliminate dispos-
able cups.”
Blue Bottle is starting small with
plans to stop using paper cups at two
of its San Francisco area branches
in 2020, as part of a pledge to go
“zero waste” by the end of next year.
Coffee to-go customers will have to
bring their own mug or pay a de-
posit for a reusable cup, which they
can keep or return for a refund. The
deposit fee will likely be between $3
and $5, the company said.
Blue Bottle’s pilot program will
help guide the company on how to
expand the idea nationwide, CEO
Bryan Meehan said in a statement.
“We expect to lose some busi-
ness,” he said. “We know some of
our guests won’t like it — and we’re
prepared for that.”
Larger coffee and fast-food chains
around the U.S. are feeling a sense of
urgency to be more environmentally
friendly, and will no doubt be watch-
ing, said Bridget Croke, of New
York-based recycling investment
firm Closed Loop Partners, which
is working with Starbucks and Mc-
Donald’s to develop an eco-friendly
alternative to the disposable coffee
cup.
Despite the name, today’s con-
ventional paper cups for hot drinks
aren’t made solely from paper. They
also have plastic linings that prevent
leakage but make them hard to recy-
cle, Croke said. She says it’s unlike-
ly large national chains will banish
disposable cups, in the immediate
term, or persuade all customers to
bring mugs, so they’re looking for
other solutions.
Starbucks and McDonald’s
chipped in $10 million to a partner-
ship with Closed Loop to develop
the “single-use cup of the future”
that is recyclable and compostable.
“They know there are business
risks to not solving these problems.
And the cup is the tip of the spear for
them,” said Croke, adding that Blue
Bottle’s choice of San Francisco for
its test run is clearly the right mar-
ket.
Starbucks, which has more than
15,000 U.S. cafes and about 16,000
internationally, plans to test newly
designed recyclable cups in five cit-
ies next year: San Francisco, Seattle,
New York, Vancouver and London,
spokeswoman Noelle Novoa said.

Woman accused in mitted intentionally run- customers. Moines branch, echoed

ning over the teenager. Franklin’s attorney Garcia’s call and told The
racist attack is charged Separately, Franklin didn’t return a call Mon- Des Moines Register that
in 2nd hit-and-run was charged Sunday with day from The Associated it would be wrong if pros-
CLIVE, Iowa — An assault in violation of in- Press. ecutors did not charge
Iowa woman who told po- dividual rights and with On Sunday, Domingo her with a hate crime.
lice she intentionally ran operating under the in- Garcia, national president “It would give the
over a teenager because fluence, second offense. of the League of United green light to anybody
she believed the girl Those charges came after Latin American Citizens, to do this type of terrible
was Mexican has been Franklin allegedly went called for a hate crime thing,” Henry said.
charged with another hit- to a convenience store charge against Franklin
and-run crash that hurt a where she threw items in the attack on Miranda. SOURCE: AP
12-year-old boy. at a clerk and directed Joe Henry, who is pres-
Nicole Franklin, who racial epithets at him and ident of the group’s Des
also goes by the name Ni-
cole Poole, was charged
Monday by Des Moines
police with attempted
murder in connection
with a Dec. 9 crash that
occurred less than an
hour before another
crash in suburban Clive.
In the latest charge,
Franklin was accused of
leaving a roadway, travel-
ling onto a sidewalk and
hitting a 12-year-old boy
in an apartment complex
in Des Moines. The boy
suffered minor injuries.
In the other incident,
Franklin was charged
with attempted murder
after a sport utility vehi-
cle hit Natalia Miranda as
the 14-year-old was walk-
ing to school to watch a
basketball game. Miran-
da suffered a concussion
and severe bruising and
was hospitalized for two
days.
Franklin made deroga-
tory statements about
Latinos during a police in-
terview in which she ad-
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IN WASHINGTON

Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — America’s last
prolonged look at Chief Justice John
Roberts came 14 years ago, when he
told senators during his Supreme
Court confirmation hearing that judges
should be like baseball umpires, impar-
tially calling balls and strikes.
“Nobody ever went to a ballgame to
see the umpire,” Roberts said.
His hair grayer, the 64-year-old Rob-
erts will return to the public eye as he
makes the short trip from the Supreme
Court to the Senate to preside over
President Donald Trump’s impeach-
ment trial. He will be in the national
spotlight, but will strive to be like that
umpire — doing his best to avoid the
partisan mire.
“He’s going to look the part, he’s
going to play the part and he’s the last
person who wants the part,” said Carter
Phillips, who has argued 88 Supreme
Court cases, 43 of them in front of Rob-
erts.
He has a ready model he can follow:
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who
never became the center of attention
when he presided over President Bill
Clinton’s Senate trial.
As Roberts moves from the cam-
era-free, relative anonymity of the Su-
preme Court to the glare of television
lights in the Senate, he will have the
chance to demonstrate by example
what he has preached relentlessly in
recent years: Judges are not politicians.
He has stuck to his mantra even as
he and his fellow, Republican appoin-
tees hold a firm 5-4 conservative major-
ity on the Supreme Court. Roberts has
a solidly conservative voting record on
the court, with a couple of notable ex-
ceptions that include sustaining Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s health care law.
Trump has been among Roberts’
critics, blasting the chief justice for his
health care votes. While Roberts ig-
nored those remarks, at least publicly,
he clashed with the president last year
when Trump lashed out at an “Obama
judge” who ruled against the presi-
dent’s migrant asylum policy.
It’s not as though there isn’t plenty
of controversy brewing in his regular
place of work. Before the end of June,
the justices are expected to decide cas-
es involving guns, abortion, subpoenas
for Trump financial records, workplace
protections for LGBT people and the
fate of an Obama-era program that
shields young immigrants from depor-
tation. It’s possible the court will be
asked to hear yet another case on the
health care law before the term ends.
The high court has moved to the
right with the addition of two Trump
appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and
Brett Kavanaugh, a development that
has made Roberts the justice closest to
its ideological center and most able to
decide how far the court will move to
the right, or left, in any case that other-
wise divides liberals and conservatives.
In the Senate, though, the chief jus-
tice’s powers are limited because any
‘Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.’
ruling he makes can be overridden by
a majority vote.
He is not likely to put himself in the
position of inviting reversal, said Paul
M.Collins Jr., a political scientist and di-
rector of legal studies at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
“Any controversial rulings in support
of either party will threaten the view-
point that the court should be above
politics. Democrats would perceive any
ruling for Republicans as partisan and
if he ruled against the president, Re-
publicans would allege he is holding a
grudge,” Collins said. The Senate’s im-
peachment rules allow Roberts to put
questions to a Senate vote, without first
ruling himself.
Rehnquist looked back on his role
in the Clinton trial with a smile. “I did
nothing in particular and I did it very
well,” Rehnquist recalled two years af-
ter the trial, borrowing a line from a
Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Like Rehnquist, Roberts has virtu-
ally no experience running a trial, as
opposed to the appellate proceedings
at the Supreme Court. “I would be
shocked if he suddenly becomes a very
rigid jurist with respect to technical ev-
identiary rules,” Phillips said.
The mechanics of the trial are not
yet clear. Rehnquist had his top aide at
the court, James Duff, and at least one
law clerk on hand. He regularly consult-
Chief Justice John Roberts
ed with the Senate parliamentarian be-
fore announcing rulings.
Roberts runs a more flexible Su-
preme Court than Rehnquist, who
would cut off lawyers mid-sentence
when the red light came on to show
their time was up.
Whenever Roberts appears in pub-
lic, inside the courtroom or elsewhere,
he exudes a calm confidence that
comes at least in part from preparation.
As a leading Supreme Court advocate
earlier in his career, Roberts would
practice for high court arguments with
his main points on five index cards. He
rehearsed so that he could make those
points in any order and be ready to an-
swer 1,000 questions, even if he might
only face 80 to 100 queries during a typ-
ical 30-minute argument, he told author
Bryan Garner in an interview early in
his tenure as chief justice.
He also has a quick wit that he has
used to settle confusing situations.
When the lights dimmed and then went
out during arguments in 2016, Roberts
quipped, “Ï knew we should have paid
that bill.”
Soon after he became chief justice,
a light bulb exploded in the courtroom,
startling the crowd, justices and court
police included. Roberts helped restore
calm by calling the incident “a trick
they play on new chief justices all the
time.”

McConnell not ruling
out witnesses in
impeachment trial
PALM BEACH, Fla.
— Senate Majority Lead-
er Mitch McConnell said
Monday that he was not
ruling out calling witness-
es in President Donald
Trump’s impeachment tri-
al — but indicated he was
in no hurry to seek new
testimony either — as
lawmakers remain at an
impasse over the form of
the trial by the GOP-con-
trolled Senate.
The House voted
Wednesday to impeach
Trump, who became
only the third president
in U.S. history to be for-
mally charged with “high
crimes and misdemean-
ors.” But the Senate tri-
al may be held up until
lawmakers can agree on
how to proceed. Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer
is demanding witnesses
who refused to appear
during House committee
hearings, including act-
ing White House chief of
staff Mick Mulvaney, and
former national security
adviser John Bolton.
McConnell, who has
all-but-promised a swift
acquittal of the president,
has resisted making any
guarantees, and has cau-
tioned Trump against
seeking the testimony
of witnesses he desires
for fear of elongating the
trial. Instead, he appears
to have secured Republi-
can support for his plans
to impose a framework
drawn from the 1999 im-
peachment trial of Presi-
dent Bill Clinton.
“We haven’t ruled out
witnesses,” McConnell
said Monday in an in-
terview with “Fox and
Friends.” “We’ve said let’s
handle this case just like
we did with President
Clinton. Fair is fair.”
That trial featured a
100-0 vote on arrange-
ments that established
two weeks of presenta-
tions and argument be-
fore a partisan tally in
which Republicans, who
held the majority, called
a limited number of wit-
nesses. But Democrats
now would need Repub-
lican votes to secure wit-
ness testimony — and
Republicans believe they
have the votes to eventu- timony, also compel the that he stands ready to ne-
ally block those requests. Trump administration gotiate with McConnell,
In a letter Monday to to turn over documents and that he hopes ques-
all Senators, Schumer and emails relevant to tions about witnesses can
argued that the circum- the case, including on be settled “right at the
stances in the Trump tri- the decision to withhold beginning.” Without wit-
al are different from that
military assistance from nesses, he said, any trial
of Clinton, who was im- Ukraine. would be “Kafkaesque.”
peached after a lengthy
Schumer told The As-
independent counsel
sociated Press on Monday SOURCE: AP
investigation in which
witnesses had already
testified numerous times
under oath. Schumer re-
jected the Clinton model,
saying waiting until after
the presentations to de-
cide on witnesses would
“foreclose the possibility
of obtaining such evi-
dence because it will be
too late.”
Schumer also demand-
ed that the Senate, in
addition to receiving tes-

AROUND THE STATE

Reeves says Mississippi
emergency director is
keeping job
Mississippi’s incoming
governor is keeping the
state emergency director.
Greg Michel was
appointed head of the
Mississippi Emergency
Management Agency by
current Gov. Phil Bryant
in June 2018.
The Republican gov-
ernor-elect, Tate Reeves,
takes office Jan. 14 and is
in the process of choos-
ing leaders for some state
agencies.
Reeves said on Twitter
that Michel is “the man
for the job,” and he’s hon-
ored that Michel is stay-
ing.
Michel spent 30 years
in the National Guard
before joining MEMA.
His assignments includ-
ed serving as installation
commander for the Camp
Shelby Joint Forces Train-
ing Center near Hatties-
burg.
Lamar County Coroner
Cody Creel said the man’s
body was sent to the state
Crime Lab near Jackson
for autopsy.
The Mississippi Bureau
of Investigation is examin-
ing the shooting, as is the
usual case with shootings
that involve law enforce-
ment offices in the state.
The name of the Hatties-
burg officer was not imme-
diately released.
13-year-old killed by
stray bullet while playing
video game
WAYNESBORO — A
13-year-old boy died after
being hit by a stray bullet
while playing video games
at a southeast Mississippi
apartment complex, police neighborhoods? Y’all ar-
said. en’t trying to control this.
Waynesboro police said Now my momma has got
the Friday night shooting to bury her baby.”
that killed Zachary Bernard Chief Investigator Lt.
Bishop left at least two oth- Don Hopkins said the in-
er people injured, WDAM-
vestigation is ongoing. Po-
TV reported. lice are urging people with
Bishop was inside an
information to contact
apartment when he was hit.
them.
Others who were injured
were outside.
SOURCE: AP
Daphne Woulard,
Bishop’s sister, said po-
lice aren’t doing enough
to control violence at the
apartment complex.
“Every weekend some-
body’s shooting somebody.
I’m calling the police every
weekend,” Woulard said.
“Why aren’t y’all patrolling
like y’all do in these other

Man dies after being

shot by police officer
in Mississippi
A man has died after he
was shot by a police officer
in south Mississippi, a Hat-
tiesburg police spokesman
said.
The spokesman, Ryan
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IN BUSINESS

Boeing ousts its CEO after two deadly 737 Max crashes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Boe-
ing ousted CEO Dennis
Muilenburg on Monday
with no end in sight to the
crisis that has engulfed
the vaunted American
aircraft manufacturer
since the crash of two of
its 737 Max airliners.
The Boeing board had
supported Muilenburg
for months despite calls
for his resignation from
lawmakers and relatives
of the passengers killed.
When it became clear in
recent days that federal
regulators would not cer-
tify the grounded Max to
fly again by year’s end as
Muilenburg had hoped,
the board finally aban-
doned him.
Board members de-
cided to remove him on
a conference call Sunday,
according to a person
familiar with the events
who discussed the pri-
vate deliberations on con-
dition of anonymity.
The move came after
another bad week for
Boeing. The aerospace
giant had announced it
would temporarily halt
production of the Max
because it wasn’t clear
when it could deliver the
planes. And Boeing’s new
Starliner space capsule
went off course during a
bungled, unmanned test
flight to the International
Space Station.
The company said
Muilenburg departed
immediately and its cur-
rent chairman, David
Calhoun, will take over as
CEO on Jan. 13.
Boeing said it decided
it needed new leadership
to regain the confidence
of regulators. The com-
pany — which has been
criticized over the design
of the Max, Boeing’s fail-
ure to tell pilots about a
new flight-control system
on the plane, and its han-
dling of the crisis after the
first crash — promised a
“renewed commitment to
full transparency.”
Boeing declined to
make Calhoun or other
executives available for
comment.
Muilenburg had been
CEO since mid-2015. The
company’s stock soared
during most of his ten-
ure, as Boeing benefit-
ed from strong demand
for new planes to meet
the growing demand for
travel around the world,
although the shares have
fallen 24% since peaking
just before the second
crash.
Boeing began design-
ing the Max in 2011 to
compete with a new plane
from Airbus that was cut-
ting into sales of Boeing’s
venerable 737. Critics, in-
cluding members of Con-
gress, say that Boeing,
with the Federal Aviation
Administration’s help,
rushed the plane into pro-
duction and minimized
safety risks.
In October 2018, a
brand-new Max operated
by Indonesia’s Lion Air
crashed into the sea near
Jakarta. Five months lat-
er, in March, an Ethiopian
Airlines Max went down
shortly after takeoff from
Addis Ababa. All 346 peo-
ple aboard the two planes
were killed.
Muilenburg was fault-
ed for Boeing’s initial re-
sponse to the accidents,
when he and the compa- did not ground the plane astating decisions that
ny seemed to blame the until the second crash. suggest profit took prior-
foreign pilots. Criticism Ababu Amha, who ity over safety,” DeFazio
of Muilenburg grew in lost his wife, a flight at- said. “Furthermore, re-
recent months as news tendant, in the Ethiopian ports that Muilenburg
reports and congressio- Airlines crash, welcomed attempted to pressure
nal investigations dis- Muilenburg’s departure. FA A into rushing the
closed internal Boeing “This is something Max back into service are
documents that revealed that we have been asking highly troubling.”
concern within the com- and struggling for quite FA A Administrator
pany about key design some time,” he said. “The Stephen Dickson ex-
features on the Max, es- CEO reluctantly and de- pressed concern this
pecially the new automat- liberately kept the air- month that Boeing was
ed MCAS flight-control craft in service after the pushing for an unrealis-
system that investigators Lion Air crash. The Ethi- tically quick return of the
say played a role in the opian Airlines crash was Max.
two crashes. a preventable accident.” The worldwide
A faulty sensor caused He added: “What they did grounding of the Max
the system to activate was a crime.” in the wake of the two
before the two disasters, Democratic Rep. Pe- crashes has undercut or-
pushing down the nose ter DeFazio of Oregon, ders and deliveries of new
of both planes. Boeing chairman of the House planes and caused Boe-
had not told pilots about Transportation Commit- ing to burn cash. With
MCAS until after the Lion tee, said the CEO’s ouster Boeing in turmoil, Eu-
Air crash, and regulators was long overdue. ropean rival Airbus has
at the FA A didn’t know “Under his watch, a surged far ahead of the
much about it either. long-admired company Chicago-based company
Earlier this month, made a number of dev- this year.
the House Transporta-
tion Committee disclosed
an internal FA A analy-
sis made after the first
crash, which estimated
that there would be 15
more fatal crashes over
45 years until Boeing
fixed MCAS. Yet the FA A

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Home for the holidays: Prince Philip leaves hospital

The Associated Press
LONDON — Prince Philip was
discharged from a London hos-
pital Tuesday and immediately
taken by helicopter to join other
senior royals at Queen Elizabeth
II’s rural retreat in time for a tradi-
tional family Christmas.
His arrival is a bit of welcome
good news for the queen at the
end of a year that she admits has
been “bumpy.” Her comments are
thought to relate not just to Brit-
ain’s difficult path toward Brexit
but also setbacks experienced by
the royal family in 2019.
Buckingham Palace did not re-
veal details about Philips medical
treatment and said that he wished
to thank everyone who had sent
good wishes during his four-night
stay at the private King Edward
VII hospital in London.
The palace had previously said
that the 98-year-old prince was
being hospitalized for planned
treatment of a pre-existing condi-
tion. The fact that he did not go
to the hospital by ambulance and
that the queen did not change her
plans to be by his side suggested
it was not an emergency situation.
Philip, a man of great pride,
walked out of the hospital on
his own Tuesday morning even
though many patients of that age
use wheelchairs when they are
discharged. The prince left the
hospital on foot and entered a ve-
hicle unaided. He was dressed el-
egantly with his tie in a Windsor
knot and waved to a nurse as he
departed the hospital.
The palace said he had been
hospitalized as a “precautionary
measure.” Officials did not explain
the nature of his treatment, which
appeared to have been timed to
allow him to receive the care he
needed and return to the family in
time for Christmas.
He has suffered from heart dis-
ease and other ailments including
a bladder infection in recent years
and has largely stepped out of the
public eye since he announced his
retirement from royal duties in
2017.
The Palace said at the time
the decision was not health-relat-
ed and was simply a reflection of
his advanced years. “I’ve done my
bit,” Philip told friends when he
stepped down after decades of
royal events, often carried out si-
lently one step behind the queen.
On Monday, Prince Charles
said his father was faring well but
was suffering from age-related
problems.
“When you get to that age,
things don’t work so well,” he said.
Philip arrived at Sandringham
in time for Christmas Eve, when
the royals usually exchange small
gifts.
It is not known if Philip will be
strong enough to attend a Christ-
mas morning church service tra-
ditionally attended by the queen
and other senior royals. He did not
attend last year.
The small church service near
the queen’s palatial home usually
draws well-wishers hoping to get
a glimpse of Elizabeth and her
family and perhaps to exchange
Christmas wishes with the royals.
Church is usually followed by a
family lunch at Sandringham and
then the broadcast of the queen’s
message to Britain and the Com-
monwealth countries. Excerpts
released ahead of time reveal the
queen plans to admit it has been a
challenging year. It was recorded
before Philip was hospitalized.
Talking about the need for rec-
onciliation and forgiveness, Eliz-
abeth says: “The path, of course,
is not always smooth, and may
at times this year have felt quite
bumpy, but small steps can make
a world of difference.”
She is thought to be referring
both to Britain’s laborious exit
from the European Union, which
is now almost certainly going to
happen on Jan. 31 after voters
gave the pro-Brexit Conservative
Party a comfortable majority in
Parliament, and to the royal fam-
ily’s difficulties.
The problems facing the
queen’s family this year included
Prince Andrew’s retreat from pub-
lic duties following a disastrous
TV interview in which he defend-
ed his friendship with convicted
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and
failed to show empathy for Ep-
stein’s young female victims.
The family has also endured
what many close observers think
is a rift between Prince William
and Prince Harry, who has trav-
eled with his wife Meghan and
young son Archie to Canada rath-
er than spend the Christmas holi-
days at Sandringham, as has long
been customary for senior royals.
Both Harry and Meghan have
complained about constant scru-
tiny by the media as they settle
into family life with 7-month-old
Archie.

New construction seen Lewis said, as far as claims is under develop- missile engine testing site
he knows, North Korea ment.” in the country’s north-
at missile-related site only imported six of the Nuclear talks between west. Experts believe it
in North Korea vehicles that were used the U.S. and North Korea tested a new engine for
SEOUL, South Korea during the 2017 ICBM have been stalled since either an ICBM or a satel-
— A new satellite image tests. a February summit be- lite launch vehicle.
of a factory where North “I would think North tween leaders Donald The other images re-
Korea makes military leased by Planet Labs
Korea would want 50-100 Trump and Kim Jong Un
equipment used to launch show that site before and
such systems,” he said. fell apart.
long-range missiles
“This would probably be Earlier this month, after the Dec. 7 test.
shows the construction of
a new structure. some mix of ICBMs we North Korea carried out
have seen and the new two major tests at its long- SOURCE: AP
The release of several
images from Planet Labs system that North Korea range rocket launch and
comes amid concern
that North Korea could
launch a rocket or missile
as it seeks concessions
in stalled nuclear nego-
tiations with the United
States.
North Korea has
warned that what “Christ-
mas gift” it gives the U.S.
depends on what action
Washington takes.
One of the satellite
images taken on Dec. 19
shows the completion
of a new structure at the
March 16 Factory near
Pyongyang, where North
Korea is believed to be
developing and manufac-
turing vehicles used as
mobile launchers for long-
range ballistic missiles.
Jeffrey Lewis, director
of the East Asia nonpro-
liferation program at the
Middlebury Institute,
said in an email that the
construction seemed to
be an expansion of the
factory, which would be
“big news.”
North Korea used
what appeared to be ve-
hicles imported from Chi-
na during its three flight
tests of the Hwasong-14
and -15 intercontinental
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Our View
Ready or not, Christmas is here
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol-
lowing editorial appeared on
Dec. 24, 2013. We offer it again
to readers on the theory that the
sentiments expressed in it have a
timeless quality and, therefore,
remain relevant in wishing you
all a Merry Christmas.
Christmas is near at hand. We
know this not by a simple glance
at the calendar, of course.
We know it is Christmas from
the faint aroma of burned cred-
it-card plastic, thinned wallets,
frazzled nerves, small children
whose behavior is suspiciously
good, a lack of attention to de-
tail to every-day duties and the
inability to understand “why ev-
erybody just won’t get out of our
way, for crying out loud.”
Of course, we recognize that
there are a few among us for
whom this season is all comfort
and joy. And we are close to the
point where we loathe those
people.
For the rest of us, we find our-
selves teetering on the precipice
of Grinch-dom. It’s been too
much work, too much bother,
too much everything.
And it is at that point that,
generally speaking, the glorious
day arrives and we are pulled
back from the brink of Christ-
mas-preparation overload and
find the joy of the season and we
become sane, pleasant people
once more.
Like Scrooge, Christmas Day
dawns and we find that our good
humor has returned. All those
preparations--the shopping, the
decorating, the cooking -- cul-
minate in a frenzy of activity.
The gifts are opened, the feast
is enjoyed and we slip comfort-
ably into the peace of the holi-
day, surrounded by as many or
as few family and friends can be
assembled.
In those homes inhabited by
little ones, there is the joy of San-
ta’s visit. Invariably, there will
be things to assemble, games
to play. Someone will have to go
in search of batteries, of course,
because we forget about batter-
ies in much the same way we
forget about the cranberries un-
til all the other foods have been
placed on the table and we are
all three bites into the meal.
Someone says, “Oh, we for-
got the cranberries!” and we all
laugh. Every year.
Then, all the activity ends.
The house will be a mess,
with remnants of gift wrap dot-
ting the landscape around a
decorated Christmas tree that
somehow seems oddly naked.
The dishes are piled in the sink.
And it won’t matter.
At least not for a while.
Then, in the quiet of the sea-
son, we will reflect on things
that our minds always turn to on
Christmas and each of us will be
alone with our thoughts.
Another Christmas has come
and gone. Maybe we will reflect
on Christmases past, those
shared with loved ones no lon-
ger with us. Perhaps we will
recall our favorite Christmas
moments and we will assess
how this most recent Christmas
turned out.
For some people, this may go
down as their “best Christmas
ever.”
For others, that most special
Christmas, perhaps enjoyed
long, long ago, resonates warm-
ly even as we celebrate this
Christmas.
We certainly hope this
Christmas is all that you imag-
ined it would be. We would also
like to think your “best Christ-
mas ever” is this one, but if not,
one soon to come. Christmas
will again be here before you
know it.
So Merry Christmas to all!
Oh, and don’t forget the bat-
teries and the cranberries.

Musings

Warmed by the
breath of fools
Although the crucifix-
ion and resurrection are
central to Christianity, I
am most moved by The
Babe in the manger, by
his dimpled arms and
helpless, weakly grasp-
ing hands, by Joseph’s
worried face, by Mary’s
tired, half-closed eyes, by
the scratchy straw on his
tender skin and the close
dung smell of the animals. Marc Dion
So helpless and so
small, the way we all are
in the beginning when there is no hint of what will
happen to us in our bleeding, painful deaths.
And as I toddle through the years between
my birth and my death, I hold The Babe’s hand
because it is cold at night and the path forward is
not easy to see.
This is my baby, a long-held image from the
little Catechism books they gave us in a red brick
Catholic grade school on a side street in a work-
ing-class neighborhood.
There were no politics then, or I was too young
Mississippi voices
to know. My father was the tallest man in the
world. And he smelled of smoke, not because he
smoked but because he tended bar and worked in
tumbling clouds exhaled by the workingmen on
Nothing material can compare to God’s gifts
the stools. In chapter Five of God will achieve his it for someone to gain the whole
“Ah, Christ, Gene,” the men would say to him the book of Acts in purposes, but on God’s world, yet forfeit their soul.” Who
when they began the story of a layoff or a bad boss. the Bible, there is a schedule, not our own. knows, I might have been a failure
As a curse and a babe, Christ was much with my story that all Chris- Recent polls are as a tech entrepreneur, but even
father and me, me at my wooden desk, learning the tians should hold dear showing a significant worse, I might have succeed-
Catechism, and him behind the bar, a cup of coffee to their hearts and decline in Americans ed and become rich, arrogant,
in his hand, hearing another story of trouble from non-believers should who call themselves unsaved and mired in human sin
a bent-necked man with stubble on his chin and a ponder carefully. Christians, from 77 with no hope for salvation. The
beer bottle in his hand. The disciples were to 65 percent in just a thought makes me shudder.
Hank. Chick. French. Whitey. Chip. I knew the out and about in the decade. Polls can be My young children are at an
names of my father’s regulars from the stories he land, telling the good manipulated, but any age when many of their contempo-
told about work. I knew the names of the three news about the savior news such as this is raries challenge their faith. Praise
wise men, too: Sparkle. Melchior. Balthazar. Jesus Christ and his Wyatt Emmerich disturbing, especially the Lord, so far, they have stood
Pop’s been dead for 32 years. His earthly busi- rise from the dead. in the light of increas- firm. My prayer for my children
ness with The Babe has been concluded. I remem- The Jewish religious leadership, ing suicides, drug use, depression has remained consistent: That the
ber them both, though, and I can tell the stories of called the Sanhedrin, were very and mental illness. Holy Spirit dwell in their hearts so
wise men and half-drunk factory workers. upset by what they considered to When a person fails to under- they can serve the Lord and live
So, as the birth of The Babe comes closer, I be heresy. stand how the world works and happy and fulfilling lives.
bristle for myself and for Pop when fools equate the The Sanhedrin convened a trial their place in the world, it creates I tell them: If you see a turtle
“suffering” of Pres. Donald Trump with the bloody, and dragged the disciples before a disconnect that can lead to all on a fencepost, would you believe
pierced, sweat and dirt-caked death of The Babe them. The disciples refused to re- types of misery. Every human be- the turtle got there by itself? You
who walks with me. nounce Jesus and tried to convert ing is a precious creation of God. are the turtle. Or more simply, if
Do they not remember the man on the cross as the Sanhedrin. They were furious Failing to understand this basic there is no God, how in the world
a baby? Didn’t they have those same Catechism and wanted the disciples put to fact sets the stage for an impossi- did you get here?
books I had as a boy? Perhaps they can equate death. ble life. There is a God. There is a
the death of a man nailed to a cross with the fat, A wise Pharisee name Gama- Decades ago I was a social magnificent plan, a huge drama,
blustering criminal in the White House, but how liel, who was honored by all the Christian and a secular humanist. that is playing out over thousands
can they see a line from him to the child American people, intervened. “Men of Israel Even so, I intellectually realized of years. Every step along the
author Jack Kerouac called “little lamb Jesus”? consider carefully what you intend that man, society and culture way has been documented with
Those men and women all believe in the death to do to these men,” Gamaliel said, desperately needed religion to breathtaking clarity. And it has all
of Christ, who died on no special day, just the day recounting the two prior false function properly. That – and the transpired just as the prophets so
when criminals were executed, the way Georgia messiahs who came before Jesus. insistence of my new wife Ginny – accurately predicted hundreds of
might choose Tuesday as the day to execute a Their movements did not last. got me going to church regularly. years before it happened. All you
murderer. There is a piece of paper somewhere, Gamaliel said: “Therefore, in Sermon by sermon, Bible les- have to do is go to church, listen
stamped and signed, and it says this man will die the present case I advise you: son by Bible lesson, the amazing and learn, read the Bible, pray for
on this day, and so it must be done because once Leave these men alone! Let them power and truth of God and his revelation and you will have it.
something is on a piece of paper, the government go! For if their purpose or activi- word was revealed to me. The Only then will you find what you
is shamed if it does not happen. The death order is ty is of human origin, it will fail. more I learned, the more my are looking for.
no different than the signed and stamped piece of But if it is from God, you will not secular mind was blown, until I In the first quarter of my life, I
paper saying that new desk chairs will be bought be able to stop these men; you reached the moment of truth: If remember that shiny red Honda
for the Bureau of Weights and Measures in your will only find yourselves fighting something in the Bible didn’t fit 100 motorcycle under the Christ-
city hall. against God.” my world view, it was not because mas tree when I was 13. The joy I
These men and women who talk of Trump The disciples were set free. the Bible was wrong, but because felt seemed like heaven on earth
crucified kneel before the cross and forget The Two thousand years later, there my world view was wrong. I be- at the time.
Babe, my babe. They salute the flag and forget the are 2.2 billion Christians in the came a true believer. Now in the final quarter of my
homeless drug-addicted veteran who once held out world, a number that is growing I cringe to think what a dif- life, I think back on all my expe-
a chubby hand to his father. They cannot see the more rapidly than ever. ferent course my life could have riences, all the wonderful people
line between manger and housing project. Most Jews wanted a military taken. Fresh out of UCLA busi- in my life and the beautiful gift of
Damn them all. savior who would defeat the ness school with a degree in life God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
I will not be lost. I will not worship death. I will Romans and free the land. Jesus information systems, I was headed have given me, along with even
not be incinerated by the breath of fools. I hold didn’t fit their bill, so they refused to the Silicon Valley to invent the greater joy yet to come. The mo-
tight to the hand of The Babe. him. internet. Instead, I eventually torcycle now pales in comparison.
Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist, Jesus did defeat the Romans ended back in the family news- Wyatt Emmerich is the editor
is a reporter and columnist for The Herald News, and free the land and become paper business in God’s country and publisher of The Northside
the daily newspaper of his hometown, Fall River, King, just not in the manner and (struggling against the internet, Sun, a weekly newspaper in Jack-
Massachusetts. For more on Dion, go to go to www. time frame the Jews living at that how ironic!) son. He can be reached by e-mail at
creators.com. time desired. So it will always be. As Jesus said, “What good is wyatt@northsidesun.com.

Health
Health tips from Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen
Taking out the trash
In the 2006 movie “Peaceful
Warrior,” Nick Nolte is a mysteri-
ous stranger who coaches an aspir-
ing Olympic athlete on how to excel
in sport -- and in life: “Take out the
trash,” he tells him. “’The trash’ is
anything that’s keeping you from
the only thing that matters -- the
here and now. And when you truly
are in the here and now, you’ll be
amazed at what you can do and how
well you can do it.”
Sleep researchers from Boston
University would agree. They sug-
gest that in order to preserve your
ability to know what’s going on in
the here and now, you want to take
out your brain’s trash every night!
In a study published in Science,
Shoppers
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frenzied, stream of shoppers on
Monday. Things promise to be the
same for stores open today.
Historically, the Saturday before
Christmas is the last “big day” for
holiday shopping, rivaling even
Black Friday. On Monday, Tami
McBryde, co-owner of Mira Mira,
an apparel, accessory and gift
shop on Main Street in Columbus,
noticed a subtle difference in the
shoppers she saw.
“They’re looking for those
last-minute things,” McBryde said.
“It may be picking up a gift for
someone who’s coming for Christ-
mas they didn’t know about and
they want to have a little some-
thing for them, or stocking-stuffers
or maybe just a little something
extra.”
Betsy Gee and Amy Clark,
among the shoppers at Mira Mira
on Monday afternoon, fit into that
category.
Gee picked up a gift for her
sister, complete with gift bag.
“Now all I have left is some
stock stuffers and I’ll be done,
except for groceries,” she said.
Like Franks, Gee is a bit of a
Christmas-shopping procrastina-
tor.
“I’m almost always last-minute,”
she said. “I enjoy it, but I over-
think it and make it harder on
myself.”
Clark was looking through the
racks for “just one more” present
for her 19-year-old daughter.
“I’m almost always done with
my shopping early,” Clark said.
“Really, I just have a couple of little
things I want to get for my two
kids. Then, I’ll be finished.”
Christmas shopping, Clark said,
has changed for her.
“I used to really love it, but now
I do most of my shopping online,”
she said.
Shopping local
Strategy often goes out the win-
dow the closer it gets to Christmas
Day, but that wasn’t the case for
17-year-old Lindy Monts, who was
shopping with her grandmother,
Carolyn Bennett, at R Tabb & Com-
pany in Starkville.
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
Health tip
n Track your food intake every now and
then. The only way to know exactly how many
calories you eat is to weigh your food and use
a nutrition tracker. It’s also essential to make
sure that you’re getting enough protein, fiber, and
micronutrients.
Drs. Oz and Roizen
they show that during non-REM
sleep, neurons temporarily stop fir-
ing, blood flow to the brain decreas-
es and the brain becomes bathed
with cerebrospinal fluid. Sleep sci-
entists think this helps flush meta-
bolic byproducts such as beta amy-
Monts was helping her grand-
mother shop for her and Monts’
mom, using a mobile app to find
coupons for the selections.
“You take Grandma shopping,
you get what you want,” Monts
wryly noted.
For Jim Genesse, Christmas
shopping is pretty much a one-stop
shop, which is why he visited The
Downtown Book Mart in Starkville
on Monday.
“I have a lot of family members
who like to read, so books were on
the agenda and I like to shop local,”
Genesse said.
Shane Meredith had two stops
to complete his shopping, first to
The Book Mart to pick up a gift for
his daughter, then to Occasions to
find a last gift for his wife.
“My wife usually picks out what
she wants beforehand, so I try to
get her at least one thing that she
doesn’t know what it is,” Meredith
said.
Occasions owner Mandee Lewis
said her store was “super busy”
Monday. Most shoppers prefer not
to have to wrap purchases made
this close to Christmas, she said.
By mid-afternoon Monday, the
store had exhausted its supply of
gift bags.
“We’ve got a ton of boxes and
bows ready to go because most of
our customers want things that are
gift-wrapped,” she said.
McBryde said she couldn’t
be more pleased with this year’s
Christmas shopping season.
She and her business partner,
Margaret Ann Borland, relocated
their store from one end of Main
Street to another, opening on Nov.
3, which was also the day of the
Downtown Christmas Open House.
“I really thought Nov. 3 was too
early to have the Open House,” she
said. “People just weren’t ready
to shop that early. But the whole
month of December has been
phenomenal. What’s helped us is
that we moved to larger place, from
1,300 square feet to here, which is
3,500 square feet. That allowed us
to add gifts. That’s big for peo-
ple who are looking for stocking
stuffers or those little something
extras. That’s turned out to be
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 7A
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loid from the brain, protecting your
memory abilities and reducing the
risk of Alzheimer’s.
Another new study in the Jour-
nal of Experimental Psychology:
General confirms how essential
high-quality sleep is. The research-
ers discovered that sleep-deprived
people double their risk for prob-
lems with placekeeping (the ability
to complete a series of steps, de-
spite interruptions) and triple their
risk of spacing out.
So for optimal functioning to-
morrow and in future decades make
sure you get seven to eight hours of
good sleep nightly. How? Meditate
before bedtime. Make your bed-
room cool, dark (red wavelength
light only), quiet and digital-de-
vice-free. Then take out the trash.
great for us, especially after mov-
ing to a new location.”
A new perspective
Fernanda Grigsby strolled
through Leigh Mall clutching a
large shopping bag Monday, but
she’s no last-minute shopper, she
insisted.
“I’m done. I’ve been done,” said
Grigsby, who lives in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and is visiting her daugh-
ter in Columbus for the holiday.
“This is mine. I bought myself
some toys.”
It’s been a stress-free shopping
season for Grigsby and not just
because she finished her shopping
well before the holiday.
“I always found myself really
stressing during Christmas time,”
she said. “I’d felt that way for some
time, but I didn’t know how to pull
myself out of that.”
The epiphany, she said, came
while she was riding in her car
with a couple and their daughter.
“The little girl was in the back
seat,” Grigsby said. “She didn’t
have a lot. I understood that. But
she told her parents that if she
couldn’t get what she wanted for
Christmas, she didn’t want any-
thing.
“I looked at her and said,
‘Whose birthday is it? Is it your
birthday?’” Grigsby continued.
“She said, ‘It’s Jesus’ birthday.’ I
said, ‘OK, then. How would Jesus
want you to act on his birthday?
You need to transform your little
heart and think about that.’”
That exchange, Grigsby said,
led her to follow her own advice.
“If I don’t have a lot of money,
what I do is think about the people
I want to buy for and think about
their personality and give them
something that reflects their per-
sonality,” she said. “It doesn’t have
to be some big thing. It’s about
changing the culture of Christmas,
giving it its meaning back and
making it stress-free.
“This is a party, a birthday
party, and you can’t have a party if
you’re stressed,” she added.
8A Tuesday, December 24, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
Sports
Pulphus’ first season at Columbus offers
promise, but Falcons have a ways to go
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
J
oshua Pulphus saw some-
thing when he accepted the
position of head football
coach at Columbus High School
in March.
Pulphus, who spent 2018 as
the tight ends coach at West
Point, didn’t see a struggling
football program. He didn’t see
a team whose first-year head
coach, Eric Rice, wasn’t on the
sidelines for the final game of
the Falcons’ winless season
and was fired a few months
later. He didn’t see a team that
hadn’t made the playoffs in three
straight seasons or a school that
had dropped a MHSAA classi-
fication, going from Class 6A to
Class 5A.
No, Pulphus saw a challenge.
“He’s accepted that challenge,
and he’s working hard,” West
Point head coach Chris Chamb-
less said.
Under Pulphus’ leadership,
Columbus broke a 20-game
losing streak dating back almost
two years. The Falcons won four
games in 2019, staying alive in
the playoff hunt until the second-
to-last week of the season.
Pulphus knows his program
still has a long way to go, but
he can’t help but feel excited
about his first year at the helm in
Columbus.
“I think we’ve got it going in
the right direction,” he said.
Getting the gig
Pulphus owes a debt to his
wife, ShaRonda, for pushing him
toward taking the job at Colum-
bus.
The two talked about the
opening when it became avail-
able, but initially Pulphus didn’t
plan to apply.
“But she kind of pushed me,
encouraged me to go ahead and
do it, and I did,” Pulphus said.
The third of 10 participants
in the Columbus search com-
NFL
Packers clinch NFC North with 23-10 win over Vikings
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Sport-
ing fresh division title shirts
that few expected them to wear
this year, the Green Bay Pack-
ers had the message printed
across their chests in the jubi-
lant visitors’ locker room: “The
North is not enough.”
With Aaron Rodgers taking
a back seat while the ground
game and the pass rush led the
way, the Packers became NFC
North champions for the first
time in three years and deliv-
ered Minnesota’s first defeat at
home this season.
Aaron Jones rushed for 154
yards and two second-half
touchdowns, Za’Darius Smith
had five tackles for loss to lead
a stifling performance by the
defense, and the Packers beat
the Vikings 23-10 on Monday
night.
“There’s really nothing like
checking that first box on the
goal list,” said Rodgers, who
was picked off without throw-
ing a touchdown pass for the
first time in 18 games.
The Packers (12-3) made
Matt LaFleur the 10th rookie
coach in NFL history to reach
12 victories, winning for the
Building a foundation
Columbus High School head football coach Joshua Pulphus led his
team to four wins in his first season at the helm.
mittee’s first and only round of
interviews in February, Pulphus
showed off his considerable foot-
ball knowledge, athletic director
Joe Garrett said.
But what separated Pulphus
from the pack, according to
Garrett, was the emphasis on
academics he espoused.
In the interview, Pulphus laid
out his plan: He wanted every
player on his team to attend col-
lege, regardless of whether they
first time in four tries at U.S.
Bank Stadium with a domi-
nant finish after trailing 10-9 at
halftime. Green Bay stayed in
position for a first-round bye in
the playoffs, and the top seed
— with home-field advantage
until the Super Bowl — is still
in sight.
“Like I’ve been telling the
guys the last few weeks, the
only thing I want for Christmas
is a hat and a T-shirt, and they
came through with it, man,”
said Smith, the team’s top free
agent signing. “My Christmas
gift is here already. I’m happy.”
The Packers stormed back
from three first-half turnovers,
including the rare intercep-
tion by Rodgers, to silence the
deafening crowd and seal the
Vikings (10-5) into the sixth
playoff seed. The green-and-
gold-clad fans in attendance
squeezed some “Go, Pack,
Go!” chants in during the am-
ple down time as the Packers
took control in the second half.
Kirk Cousins was sacked
five times, with a whopping 3
1/2 by Smith, and he threw an
interception in the third quar-
ter that set up the first score
by Jones, who leads the league
with 16 rushing touchdowns.
Ledrico Isaac/Dispatch file photo
planned on playing sports at the
next level.
Garrett and the committee
were impressed.
The phone call came in when
Pulphus was at the state Capitol
in Jackson with the Green Wave,
with state legislators commem-
orating the team’s third straight
state championship.
Officially offered the Colum-
See Pulphus, 4B
Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones (33) carries the ball Monday night for a touchdown
during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium.
The Vikings had 132 total
yards, as Cousins fell to 0-9
in his career in Monday night
games.
“When you don’t convert
third downs, go three-and-out,
you just don’t have that many
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College football
UCF gets 10th win,
beating Marshall
in Gasparilla Bowl
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Central Florida is best known for a
high-powered offense, but the Knights are capable of
big plays on defense, too.
Richie Grant and Tre’mon Morris-Brash had
first-quarter defensive touchdowns, Dillon Gabriel led
three third-quarter scoring drives and UCF beat Mar-
shall 48-25 in the Gasparilla Bowl on Monday.
“We finished the season the right way,” UCF coach
Josh Heupel said. “The turnovers were critical. I
thought defensively we started about as fast as you
can.”
Grant had a 39-yard interception return on Mar-
shall’s third play from scrimmage 56 seconds into the
game, and Morris-Brash recovered a fumble and ran
it 55 yards for a score that helped UCF go up 21-0 with
7 minutes left in the first quarter.
Gabriel threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Otis
Anderson, connected on a 75-yard score with Marlon
Williams, and added a 3-yard TD run as UCF went
ahead 45-22 with 6:39 remaining in the third.
Gabriel completed 14 of 24 passes for 260 yards
as the Knights (10-3) reached 10 or more wins in a
school-record third consecutive season. Williams
caught seven passes for 132 yards and Greg McCrae
had 80 rushing yards on 14 carries.
“We’re happy with the 10-3, but at the same time we
know what we could have done,” Gabriel said.
Isaiah Green went 9 of 23 for 173 yards with a TD
and had a rushing touchdown for Marshall (8-5).
Brenden Knox, the Conference USA MVP, had 103
yards on 26 carries.
“I thought our kids fought their tail off,” Marshall
coach Doc Holliday said. “They fought the entire
game.”
Green had a 3-yard rushing touchdown and hit Wil-
lie Johnson on a 70-yard TD pass, and Justin Rohrwas-
ser made a 50-yard field goal during the third quarter.
Marshall got within 21-7 with 12:28 to go in the sec-
ond when Micah Abraham picked off backup quarter-
back Darriel Mack Jr.’s pass and returned it 75 yards
for a touchdown.
Abraham’s father, Donnie, played his home games
with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1996-01) at Ray-
mond James Stadium, the site of the Gasparilla Bowl.
McCrae had a 26-yard TD run early in the first and
Dylan Barnas made a 36-yard field goal as time ex-
pired as UCF took a 24-7 halftime advantage.
The takeaway
UCF: The Knights had no letdown after playing in
New Year’s Day bowl games the previous two seasons,
beating Auburn two years ago in the Peach Bowl and
See Bowl, 5B
Brace Hemmelgarn/USA TODAY
plays. You don’t have many drive longer than 31 yards in
bites at the apple to get going,” this concerning regression.
Cousins said. “We certainly They wasted a fine perfor-
did not play well enough from mance by their defense, which
start to finish.” has produced 10 turnovers in
The Vikings had only seven
first downs and never netted a See Packers, 5B
2B Tuesday, December 24, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Two Houston teenagers get Hopkins/Stills shopping spree

The Associated Press important to you,” Cof- Hopkins, who has been present yourself definite-
ield said. “Like me with featured in GQ magazine ly helps your morale.”
HOUSTON — Mira- my music, they’ve been as one of the league’s After the teenagers
cle Washington-Tribble helping me with putting most fashionable stars, loaded up on clothes, the
didn’t see much hope for effort toward music and would grab a dress or group walked across the
her future. gave me an opportunity to shirt, only to have Wash- mall to a shoe store where
At 16 and already a make a song for DeAndre ington-Tribble shake her they could complete their
single mother to a baby Hopkins ... and when I did head and explain why looks. During the walk
boy, she wasn’t going to it for him it just felt amaz- that look wouldn’t work. the players chatted with
school, had been in nu- ing.” But other times he’d sug- the students about every-
merous fights and lacked Eight Million Stories, gest something a bit more thing from school and
ambition to turn her life a local organization that edgy than her selections parenthood to football
around. opened in 2017, is work- and she’d grab the outfit and fashion.
Then in August she ing to grow and help more and agree to give it a try. “It was great just to
was introduced to Eight students, one of the rea- After filling two racks have that experience,”
Million Stories, a Hous- sons Stills wants to help. with clothing ranging Cofield said. “Just chilling
ton program which helps “It’s really important to from casual to dressy, the with a big-time NFL star
14 to 18-year-olds who me to work with organiza- group took over an entire and knowing it came from
have either quit or been tions that are grassroots, dressing room at H&M. him. The love was real,
kicked out of school con- that are not really getting Hopkins then cranked the atmosphere was cool.
tinue their education, find much funding, that aren’t up some rap music on his Everything was great all
employment and receive really getting much atten- phone to give their time around.”
emotional support. tion, and trying to use the trying on clothes the fes- As the group, now load-
“At first I never saw platform that we have to tive feel of a fashion show. ed with bags and bags
myself getting a job or really uplift the work that Cofield pulled back overflowing with goodies,
even finishing school,” they’re doing and work the green curtain and approached the exit to
Washington-Tribble said. together,” he said. “Some- sheepishly emerged from the mall and the students
“I never went to school times, especially orga- a dressing room wear- thanked the players for
and I was doing bad stuff. nizations like this when ing slim black pants and the day, it wasn’t goodbye
But when I got here they they’re just starting out, a grey plaid jacket — to but rather see you later.
motivated me to keep it’s like you could possibly cheers of approval from One more exciting treat
coming to school. I didn’t feel like no one notices Hopkins and Stills. Hop- awaited.
see me having a future. the work that you’re doing kins then approached Cof- While the students got
But they help you with or you feel like you’re not ield and told him he need- practical things such as
your dreams and goals. It really making an impact, ed to button each button nonslip shoes for work
motivated me and I see a and they are.” of the jacket he wore to and jeans for everyday
future now.” Stills knows how vital get the proper silhouette. wear, the players made
In four short months, it is for teenagers to see It was then that Wash- sure they both came away
Washington-Tribble bare- strong role models and is ington-Tribble came out with one special outfit.
ly resembles that person. invested in helping young of her stall wearing a And on Sunday af-
She has a job and is on people avoid pitfalls that black overall dress with ternoon the group will
track to receive her GED could derail their success. a cropped pink top un- meet again. The students
at the end of January. But “I was running around, derneath. She walked out will wear those expertly
most importantly, the pe- I was a teenager causing of the room and strutted picked ensembles and the
tite teenager with the ra- trouble like everyone else, through the hall before players will be in what
diant smile now has hope and there could have been stopping to strike a pose they promised to be: co-
for a better life. plenty of times where I as everyone raved about ordinating gear. Then
“Miracle has turned could have found myself her look. the students will enter
her entire life around in jail for things that I was Hopkins loved see- NRG Stadium with Hop-
just being involved in doing,” he said. “So I was ing the happiness on the kins and Stills, walking
this program,” said Mar- lucky enough to make it faces of the teenagers as through the tunnel and
vin Pierre, the program’s by, and it’s important for they modeled their new being photographed to
co-founder and executive me to come back and talk threads, and said there show off the clothes they
director. “Eight Million to young people and try was nothing he’d rather worked so hard to earn.
Stories filled a big gap in and mentor being that I be doing on his day off. “It’s just going to be
her life, which was love come from a similar back- “Your clothes make so amazing,” Washing-
and finding a support ground and I could have you feel good,” he said. ton-Tribble said. “I never
system that she could tap been in the same position “There’s something about thought that I would be
into. And to see where she as them.” putting on a new pair with an NFL player walk-
was in August and to see On the day of the shop- of shoes or a new shirt ing through the tunnel.”
where she is now in terms ping trip, Hopkins and that gives you a new joy. Added Cofield: “I can’t
of what she believes is Stills spent almost two It’s like on the first day wait for the opportunity.
possible for her future is hours with the students, of school that’s the hap- I need Sunday to come
just really a testament to putting together outfits piest you’re going to be now.”
the amazing staff that we and collaborating to see because you’re wearing a
have.” what looked best. new outfit. So I think your
And last week Wash- There were times when clothes and the way you
ington-Tribble and fel-
low Eight Million Stories
participant Jadon Cofield
received a Christmas sur-
prise for their newfound
success: The two went
on a shopping spree with
Houston Texans receivers
DeAndre Hopkins and
Kenny Stills.
The students knew
about the shopping spree
when they arrived at the
Houston Galleria last
week, but the teenagers
had no idea that Hopkins
and Stills would be join-
ing them for a day of fun.
When the two walked in,
the teenagers beamed
and gasped with excite-
ment before sharing
handshakes and hugs
with the players.
Both Hopkins and
Stills have been working
with Eight Million Stories
and raved about the im-
portance of the program.
“You can actually see
the difference that they’re
making in kids,” Hopkins
said. “It gives kids a sec-
ond chance. A lot of times
when kids get in trouble
they might get labeled or
judged for mistakes that
they made at a young age.
This program right here
gives kids an opportuni-
ty to better themselves
after messing up or do-
ing something that kids
might do.”
Cofield has been in-
volved with the program
since May and has gotten
back on track after strug-
gling with negative influ-
ences and not succeeding
in traditional schools.
He is also scheduled to
receive his GED at the
end of January, and his
involvement in the pro-
gram has helped nurture
his love of music. Cofield
recently penned a song
about Hopkins and was
thrilled when Hopkins
FaceTimed him at Eight
Million Stories so he
could perform the song
for his favorite receiver.
“Whatever you want
to push forward they help
you build that and do that
because they know that’s

CALENDAR
Thursday
Prep Girls Basketball
Starkville at Slam Dunk at the Hump,
TBA
Prep Boys Basketball
West Lowndes at Jackson Public
Schools Holiday Tournament
Starkville at Slam Dunk at the Hump,
TBA
Friday
Prep Girls Basketball
Columbus at Peggy Blain Holiday Hoop
Columbus Christian Academy, Oak Hill
Academy, Heritage Academy at Impact
Sports Holiday Classic, MUW
Starkville at Slam Dunk at the Hump,
TBA
Starkville Academy at East Webster
Christmas Tournament
West Lowndes at Columbus Christian
Shootout, TBA
Prep Boys Basketball
Columbus at New Hope Holiday Classic
Heritage Academy at St. Andrews Clas-
sic, Madison
Columbus Christian Academy, Oak Hill
Academy at Impact Sports Holiday
Classic, MUW
Starkville Academy, Noxubee County at
East Webster Christmas Tournament
Starkville at Slam Dunk at the Hump,
TBA
West Lowndes at Jackson Public
Schools Holiday Tournament, TBA
on the air
Today
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
7 p.m. — The Hawaii Bowl: Brigham
Young at Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii,
ESPN
Wednesday
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
12:30 p.m. — TBA, ESPNU
2:30 p.m. — TBA, ESPNU
5:30 p.m. — The Diamond Head
Classic: Teams TBD, Third Place Game,
Honolulu, ESPN2
8 p.m. — The Diamond Head Classic:
Teams TBD, Championship, Honolulu,
ESPN2
NBA BASKETBALL
11 a.m. — Boston at Toronto, ESPN
1:30 p.m. — Milwaukee at Philadel-
phia, ABC
4 p.m. — Houston at Golden State,
ABC
7 p.m. — LA Clippers at LA Lakers,
ABC
7 p.m. — LA Clippers at LA Lakers,
ESPN
9:30 p.m. — New Orleans at Denver,
ESPN
Thursday
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
3 p.m. — The Independence Bowl:
Louisiana Tech vs. Miami, Shreveport,
La., ESPN
7 p.m. — The Quick Lane Bowl: Pitts-
burgh vs. Eastern Michigan, Detroit,
ESPN
NBA BASKETBALL
7 p.m. — NY Knicks at Brooklyn, TNT
9:30 p.m. — Portland at Utah, TNT
SOCCER (MEN’S)
6:25 a.m. — Premier League: Brighton
at Tottenham, NBCSN
8:55 a.m. — Premier League: South-
ampton at Chelsea, NBCSN
11:25 a.m. — Premier League: New-
castle United at Manchester United,
NBCSN
1:55 p.m. — Premier League: Liverpool
at Leicester City, NBCSN
8:30 p.m. — Liga MX: Club América at
Monterrey, FS1
TENNIS
TENNIS — ATP/WTA: The Hawaii Open,
Quarterfinals, Honolulu, Hawaii, TENNIS
Friday
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
11 a.m. — The Military Bowl: North
Carolina vs. Temple, Annapolis, Md.,
ESPN
2:20 p.m. — The Pinstripe Bowl:
Michigan State vs. Wake Forest, New
York, ESPN
5:45 p.m. — The Texas Bowl: Okla-
homa State vs. Texas A&M, Houston,
ESPN
7 p.m. — The Holiday Bowl: Southern
California vs. Iowa, San Diego, FS1
9:15 p.m. — The Cheez-It Bowl: Air
Force vs. Washington State, Phoenix,
ESPN
NBA BASKETBALL
6 p.m. — Philadelphia at Orlando,
NBATV
9:30 p.m. — Phoenix at Golden State,
NBATV
NHL HOCKEY
7 p.m. — Minnesota at Colorado,
NBCSN
SOCCER (MEN’S)
1:55 p.m. — Premier League: Man-
chester City at Wolves, NBCSN
TENNIS
2 p.m. — ATP/WTA: The Hawaii Open,
Semifinals, Honolulu, Hawaii, TENNIS
Saturday
BOXING
8 p.m. — Showtime Championship:
Gervonta Davis vs. Yuriorkis Gamboa
(lightweight), Atlanta, SHO
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
10:30 a.m. — Brown at Duke, ESPN2
11 a.m. — Central Michigan at Purdue,
BTN
11 a.m. — American at Georgetown,
FS1
11 a.m. — Long Beach State at Florida,
SECN
12:30 p.m. — Wisconsin at Tennes-
see, CBS
NBA
Bucks back on Christmas, led by
more complete Antetokounmpo
The Associated Press
Giannis Antetokounmpo
had become such an attraction
after just a few seasons in the
league that ABC analyst Jeff
Van Gundy said a couple years
ago he wanted to see the Mil-
waukee Bucks on Christmas,
even if it was just a practice.
The jump out of the gym
explosiveness, the ability to
go end to end — or until wher-
ever he decides to leap for a
dunk — in just a few strides
made Antetokounmpo a high-
light waiting to happen. The
league took notice and put the
Bucks on the Dec. 25 schedule
last year, their first appear-
ance since 1977.
The Bucks are back this
year, bringing the NBA’s best
record to Philadelphia pow-
ered by a much more complete
MVP.
The athleticism that helped
the Greek Freak score a ca-
reer-best 52 points against the
76ers last March is still there,
now bolstered by emerging
leadership and outside shoot-
ing skills that might just make
Milwaukee (27-4) the team to
beat this season.
Things like sugar and soda
are absent from his diet, with
Antetokounmpo, who turned
25 this month, having learned
what it takes to keep him avail-
able to play as often as he pos-
sible.
“Because when you’re a
rookie, you eat a burger be-
fore the game, you drink a
Coke and you just go out there
and play,” he said. “But as you
grow older you can’t be doing
that. You know that that’s not
Women’s Basketball
UConn moves to No. 1 in AP Women’s basketball poll
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — UConn is
back in a familiar spot — No. 1
in The Associated Press wom-
en’s basketball poll.
The Huskies moved up
to the top position in the poll
Monday after previous No. 1
Stanford lost at Texas on Sun-
day. UConn has spent more
time at No. 1 than any oth-
er team in the history of the
sport. This is the 243rd week
has held the top ranking.
UConn received 19 first-
place votes from the national
media panel. Oregon was sec-
ond with Oregon State, South
Carolina and Stanford round-
Pro football
NFL Glance
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
y-New England 12 3 0 .800 396 198
x-Buffalo 10 5 0 .667 308 246
N.Y. Jets 6 9 0 .400 263 353
Miami 4 11 0 .267 279 470
South
W L T Pct PF PA
y-Houston 10 5 0 .667 364 350
Tennessee 8 7 0 .533 367 317
Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 341 335
Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 262 377
North
W L T Pct PF PA
y-Baltimore 13 2 0 .867 503 272
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
8 7 0 .533 279 275
6 9 0 .400 312 360
Cincinnati 1 14 0 .067 246 397
West
W L T Pct PF PA
y-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733 420 287
Oakland 7 8 0 .467 298 403
Denver 6 9 0 .400 266 301
L.A. Chargers 5 10 0 .333 316 314
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Philadelphia 8 7 0 .533 351 337
Dallas 7 8 0 .467 387 305
N.Y. Giants 4 11 0 .267 324 417
Washington 3 12 0 .200 250 388
South
W L T Pct PF PA
y-New Orleans 12 3 0 .800 416 331
Tampa Bay 7 8 0 .467 436 421
Atlanta
Carolina
6 9 0 .400 353 377
5 10 0 .333 330 428
North
W L T Pct PF PA
y-Green Bay 12 3 0 .800 353 293
x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 388 282
Chicago 7 8 0 .467 259 279
Detroit 3 11 1 .233 321 400
West
W L T Pct PF PA
x-San Francisco 12 3 0 .800 453 289
x-Seattle
L.A. Rams
11 4 0 .733 384 372
8 7 0 .533 363 340
Arizona 5 9 1 .367 337 411
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Saturday’s Games
Houston 23, Tampa Bay 20
New England 24, Buffalo 17
San Francisco 34, L.A. Rams 31
Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Giants 41, Washington 35, OT
Miami 38, Cincinnati 35, OT
New Orleans 38, Tennessee 28
N.Y. Jets 16, Pittsburgh 10
Baltimore 31, Cleveland 15
Indianapolis 38, Carolina 6
Atlanta 24, Jacksonville 12
Oakland 24, L.A. Chargers 17
Denver 27, Detroit 17
Arizona 27, Seattle 13
Philadelphia 17, Dallas 9
Kansas City 26, Chicago 3
Monday’s Games
Green Bay 23, Minnesota 10
Sunday, Dec. 29
Chicago at Minnesota, 12 p.m.
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 12 p.m.
Miami at New England, 12 p.m.
Green Bay at Detroit, 12 p.m.
Cleveland at Cincinnati, 12 p.m.
L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 12 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 12 p.m.
New Orleans at Carolina, 12 p.m.
Oakland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.
Tennessee at Houston, 3:25 p.m.
Washington at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 3:25 p.m.
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.
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going to last and once you re-
alize that as fast as possible,
that’s going to help you take
care of your body.”
A reliable perimeter shot
has taken longer but Ante-
tokounmpo could be getting
there. He made five 3-pointers
last week when the Bucks beat
the Lakers in a showdown for
the NBA’s best record and
is hitting 34.2% while taking
more than five per game, by
far the most in his career. Like
Michael Jordan and LeBron
James before him, he was al-
ready good enough to be one
of the best even before he de-
veloped a good jumper. Once
they did, they became champi-
ons and Antetokounmpo, aver-
aging 31 points, 12.9 rebounds
and 5.6 assists, could be on a
similar path.
“We’re certainly excited
about what he’s doing and how
he’s improving as a shooter
just in general, including the
3,” Bucks coach Mike Buden-
holzer said, “and we know that
if he’s making those and the
way he can attack and get to
the basket and get to the rim,
it’s just going to make things
really, really difficult on the
defense. So he’s just got a lot
of work to keep doing and he
will do it.”
Budenholzer also raves
about Antetokounmpo’s im-
proved communication with
his teammates. Antetokoun-
mpo said he had been more
comfortable leading by ex-
ample, but understood that
his voice needed to be heard
more.
“I think going to the offsea-
son, obviously you’re growing
ing out the first five teams.
The Ducks drew five first-
place votes, Oregon State four
and South Carolina one.
The Huskies (10-0) are
coming off a rout of Oklahoma
and don’t play again until Jan.
2. Even with the huge win,
UConn associate head coach
Chris Dailey, filling in while
Hall of Famer Geno Auriem-
ma recuperates from surgery
last week to relieve symp-
toms of diverticulitis, said she
wasn’t sure the Huskies were
the best team in the nation..
“I don’t know that we’re the
No. 1 team in the country,”
Dailey said. “I haven’t seen
enough of a lot of people. But
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Rams, 3:25 p.m.
San Francisco at Seattle, 7:20 p.m.
Green Bay 23, Minnesota 10
Green Bay 3 6 8 6—23
Minnesota 3 7 0 0—10
First Quarter
Min_FG Bailey 23, 13:11.
GB_FG Crosby 42, 2:00.
Second Quarter
Min_Diggs 21 pass from Cousins (Bailey kick),
13:33.
GB_FG Crosby 33, 7:00.
GB_FG Crosby 19, :00.
Third Quarter
GB_Jones 12 run (Allison pass from Rodgers),
2:03.
Fourth Quarter
GB_Jones 56 run (kick failed), 5:51.
A_67,157.
GB Min
First downs 22 7
Total Net Yards 383 139
Rushes-yards 32-184 16-57
Passing
Punt Returns
199 82
4-26 1-23
Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0
Interceptions Ret. 1-39 1-10
Comp-Att-Int 26-40-1 16-32-1
Sacked-Yards Lost 3-17 5-40
Punts 5-46.8 8-47.1
Fumbles-Lost 4-2 0-0
Penalties-Yards 2-20 3-30
Time of Possession 37:32 22:28
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING_Green Bay, Jones 23-154, J.Williams
6-33, Rodgers 3-(minus 3). Minnesota, Boone 11-
28, Abdullah 4-27, Thielen 1-2.
PASSING_Green Bay, Rodgers 26-40-1-216.
Minnesota, Cousins 16-31-1-122, Diggs 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING_Green Bay, D.Adams 13-116, Lazard
5-45, J.Williams 2-19, Jones 2-6, Graham 1-16,
Ervin 1-6, Valdes-Scantling 1-6, Lewis 1-2. Minne-
sota, Abdullah 6-31, Diggs 3-57, Ham 2-12, I.Smith
2-4, Rudolph 1-7, O.Johnson 1-6, Boone 1-5.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
Basketball
NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Boston 20 7 .741 —
Philadelphia 22 10 .688 ½
Toronto 21 9 .700 ½
Brooklyn 16 13 .552 5
New York 7 24 .226 15
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami
Orlando
22 8 .733 —
13 17 .433 9
Charlotte 13 20 .394 10½
Washington 9 20 .310 12½
Atlanta 6 25 .194 16½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 27 4 .871 —
Indiana 21 10 .677 6
Chicago
Detroit
12 20 .375 15½
11 20 .355 16
Cleveland 9 21 .300 17½
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Houston 21 9 .700 —
Dallas 19 10 .655 1½
San Antonio 12 17 .414 8½
Memphis 11 20 .355 10½
New Orleans 8 23 .258 13½
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Denver
Utah
21 8 .724 —
18 12 .600 3½
Oklahoma City 15 14 .517 6
Portland 14 17 .452 8
Minnesota 10 19 .345 11
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 3B
up and you come back, you see bragging rights in New York
the team and you realize this — which they realistically
is your team and guys want to clinched in July when they
hear your voice and you do not signed Kevin Durant and Ky-
just have to lead on the court, rie Irving.
you’ve got to lead off the court San Antonio at Dallas,
also,” he said. “So I just had to Thursday. The Spurs will try
be more vocal and Coach Bud not to cool off too much during
wants me to be more vocal and their holiday break after ring-
that’s what I’ve been doing.” ing up 145 points and 67.4%
shooting on Monday at Mem-
Unhealthy holiday phis.
The Lakers are hoping Milwaukee at Atlanta, Fri-
day. The NBA scoring lead-
LeBron James and Anthony
ers, averaging better than 120
Davis are healthy enough to
points, against a dismal Hawks
play in their Christmas night
defense that ranks near the
matchup with the Clippers.
bottom, allowing more than
Plenty of other players
118 per game.
won’t be able to go.
Philadelphia at Miami,
The five-game schedule is
Saturday. Jimmy Butler and
a little lacking thanks to inju-
the Heat handed his old team
ries. Toronto, hosting Boston
its first home loss earlier this
in its first Christmas home
game, is playing without Pas- month. Now the 76ers visit a
cal Siakam, Marc Gasol and Heat team that is an NBA-best
Norman Powell. Golden State, 13-1 in their building.
the team the Raptors beat for Dallas at the Lakers, Sun-
the NBA title, has been going
without Stephen Curry and
day. The Mavs return to Sta-
ples Center after opening the
Klay Thompson, leaving the month with a 114-100 victory
Warriors without much of their there.
firepower — which they will
likely need to beat high-scor-
ing Houston at home.
The polls will be open
Voting for the NBA All-Star
And of course, New Orleans
Game opens Christmas morn-
has played all season without ing before the games begin.
No. 1 pick Zion Williamson, Fans can vote at NBA.com or
the chief reason the Pelicans the NBA app, as well as Goo-
got on the Christmas schedule
gle.com, the Google app or the
in the first place. They visit
Google assistant.
Denver in the nightcap.
Fans will account for 50 per-
cent of the vote, while a media
Other games to watch this panel and the vote of all cur-
week rent players will account for 25
New York at Brooklyn, percent apiece.
Thursday. The Nets are 2-0 Voting concludes on Jan.
against the Knicks this sea- 20. The All-Star Game is Feb.
son and can wrap up season 16 in Chicago.
I’ve known our team when we big step for this team.”
have been No. 1. This team While UConn hasn’t played
isn’t there yet. We’re not really many ranked teams yet, the
worried about No. 1 now. What Huskies have a challenging
we want to do is give ourselves month after the New Year.
the best chance to be in posi- They will face No. 6 Baylor,
tion in March.”
No. 2 Oregon, No. 22 Tennes-
This might be the most un-
see and South Carolina.
likely of UConn teams to reach
Miami and Texas re-en-
No. 1 this soon. The Huskies
tered the Top 25 at 24 and 25
graduated stars Napheesa
Collier and Katie Lou Samuel- as South Dakota and Michi-
gan State fell out. The Long-
son. The team isn’t very deep,
playing six or seven players horns became just the seventh
every game. Yet it seems they unranked team to knock off
keep getting better. the No. 1 team in the country.
“I think we played as close Oregon State has its high-
to a good 40 minutes as we had est ranking ever at No. 3, and
all year,” Dailey said. “Today at 11-0 is off to the best start in
there was no lull, that was a school history.
Pacific Division Sunday. Next: vs. Indiana, Saturday. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Signed RHP Julio
W L Pct GB 14. Michigan State (9-3) did not play. Next: vs. Teheran to a one-year contract.
L.A. Lakers 24 6 .800 — Western Michigan, Sunday. Next: vs. Illinois, National League
L.A. Clippers 22 10 .688 3 Thursday. MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with C Fran-
15. San Diego State (12-0) did not play. Next: cisco Cervelli on a one-year contract.
Sacramento 12 18 .400 12
Phoenix 11 19 .367 13 vs. Cal Poly, Saturday. Next: vs. Fresno State, PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Named Glenn Sher-
Golden State 7 24 .226 17½ Wednesday. lock assistant coach.
Sunday’s Games 16. Virginia (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Navy, Sun- SAN DIEGO PADRES — Signed RHP Pierce
Toronto 110, Dallas 107 day. Next: vs. Virginia Tech, Saturday. Johnson to a two-year contract.
Boston 119, Charlotte 93 17. Florida State (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Can-Am League
Milwaukee 117, Indiana 89 North Alabama, Saturday. Next: vs. Georgia Tech, SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Acquired RHPs
Oklahoma City 118, L.A. Clippers 112 Tuesday. Tyler Fallwell and Juan Aguilera and INF Adam
Denver 128, L.A. Lakers 104 18. Dayton (10-2) beat Grambling State 81-53. Sasser from Sioux City (AA) for RHP Ryan Newell
Next: vs. North Florida, Monday. and INF John Brontsema.
Monday’s Games
Cleveland 121, Atlanta 118 19. Kentucky (8-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 3 Frontier League
Orlando 103, Chicago 95 Louisville, Saturday. Next: vs. Missouri, Saturday.
20. Penn State (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Cor-
SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed LHP Aaron
Rozek to a contract extension.
Philadelphia 125, Detroit 109
Indiana 120, Toronto 115, OT nell, Sunday. Next: vs. No. 25 Iowa, Saturday. WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed LHP
Washington 121, New York 115 21. Washington (10-2) beat Hawaii 72-61. Next: vs. Kenny Matthews.
Miami 107, Utah 104 Houston or Georgia Tech, Wednesday. Next: vs. BASKETBALL
San Antonio 145, Memphis 115 UCLA, Thursday, Jan. 2. National Basketball Association
Denver 113, Phoenix 111 22. West Virginia (10-1) did not play. Next: at No. WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed G Gary
Houston 113, Sacramento 104 2 Ohio State, Sunday. Next: at No. 5 Kansas, Payton II.
New Orleans 102, Portland 94 Saturday. FOOTBALL
National Football League
Golden State 113, Minnesota 104
Wednesday’s Games
23. Texas Tech (8-3) did not play. Next: vs. Cal
State Bakersfield, Sunday. Next: vs. Oklahoma CINCINNATI BENGALS — Claimed LB Sharif
Boston at Toronto, 11 a.m. State, Saturday. Finch off waivers from Tennessee. Placed WR
A.J. Green on the IR.
Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 1:30 p.m. 24. Arizona (10-3) did not play. Next: vs. Arizona
Houston at Golden State, 4 p.m. State, Saturday, Jan. 4. DETROIT LIONS — Placed LB Jahlani Tavai on
L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. 25. Iowa (9-3) did not play. Next: vs. Kennesaw IR.
New Orleans at Denver, 9:30 p.m. State, Sunday. Next: at No. 20 Penn State, Sat- SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DL Anthony
Thursday’s Games urday. Zettel to a one-year contract. Waived DL Jeremiah
Washington at Detroit, 6 p.m. Valoaga.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed WR Darius
New York at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.
Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Women’s AP Top 25 Jennings. Signed WR Rashard Davis from the
practice squad. Waived LB Nigel Harris and RB
San Antonio at Dallas, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Sacramento, 9 p.m.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ wom-
en’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes Dalyn Dawkins.
Portland at Utah, 9:30 p.m. in parentheses, records through Dec. 22, total
points based on 25 points for a first-place vote
Canadian Football League
HAMILTON TIGER-CATS — Signed offensive
through one point for a 25th-place vote and last coordinator Tommy Condell and defensive coordi-
College Basketball Scores week’s ranking: nator/defensive backs coach Mark Washington to
Monday, Dec. 23 Record Pts Prv contract extensions.
EAST 1. UConn (19) 10-0 698 2 HOCKEY
Siena 73, Canisius 72 2. Oregon (5) 10-1 680 3 National Hockey League
DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned RW Filip
SOUTH 3. Oregon St. (4) 11-0 654 4
Georgia 73, Georgia Southern 64 4. South Carolina (1) 12-1 638 5 Zadina, D Brian Lashoff and G Calvin Pickard to
Grand Rapids (AHL).
MIDWEST
Dayton 81, Grambling St. 53
5. Stanford
6. Baylor
10-1 602 1
9-1 592 7 LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled F Martin Frk
SOUTHWEST 7. Louisville 11-1 562 6 from Ontario (AHL).
SMU 85, Georgia St. 76
FAR WEST
Boise St. 85, Portland 69
8. Florida St.
9. N.C. State
10. UCLA
12-0 543 8
11-0 484 9
11-0 479 10
American Hockey League
AHL — Suspended Grand Rapids F Jarid Lukos-
evicius, Providence D Steve Kampfer and Spring-
Hawaii 67, UTEP 63 11. Texas A&M 11-1 433 11 field F Jayce Hawryluk two games.
Houston 70, Georgia Tech 59 12. Maryland 9-2 385 13 ECHL
San Francisco 71, Fresno St. 69 13. Kentucky 11-1 361 14 ECHL — Suspended Greenville’s Chad Duchesne
Seattle 79, Long Beach St. 57 five games and fined him an undisclosed amount
Washington 72, Hawaii 61
14. Indiana
15. Mississippi St.
10-2 331 12
11-2 329 15 for his actions in a Dec. 21 game at Florida. Sus-
16. DePaul
17. Gonzaga
10-2 279 16
11-1 277 17
pended Worcester’s Yannick Turcotte three games
and Brampton’s Lindsay Sparks one game and
Top 25 Fared 18. Arizona 11-0 248 18 fined both undisclosed amounts for their actions
Monday 19. West Virginia 9-1 195 22 in a Dec. 21 game. Suspended Toledo’s Steve
1. Gonzaga (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. Detroit,
Monday.
20. Arkansas
21. Missouri St.
11-1 148 21
9-2 108 20
Oleksy one game and fined him an undisclosed
amount for his actions in Dec. 14 game at Cincin-
2. Ohio State (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. No.
22 West Virginia, Sunday. Next: vs. Wisconsin,
22. Tennessee 9-2 80 23 nati. Fined Florida’s Arvin Atwal an undisclosed
amount for his actions in a Dec.21 game against
23. Michigan 9-2 59 24
Friday. 24. Miami 8-3 55 — Greenville.
3. Louisville (11-1) did not play. Next: at No. 19 25. Texas 7-4 40 — SOCCER
Kentucky, Saturday. Next: vs. No. 17 Florida State, Others receiving votes: Minnesota 39, South Da- Major League Soccer
Saturday. kota 38, Michigan St. 28, Rutgers 16, Colorado 8, NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Acquired D
4. Duke (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Brown, Satur- Northwestern 7, Princeton 7, LSU 5, Arizona St. Samba Camara via transfer from Le Havre (Ligue
day. Next: vs. Boston College, Tuesday. 2-France).
5. Kansas (9-2) did not play. Next: at Stanford,
4, Kansas 4, TCU 4, Iowa 3, Nebraska 1, Texas
Tech 1. ORLANDO CITY — Signed D Rodrigo Schlegel
Sunday. Next: vs. No. 22 West Virginia, Saturday.
6. Oregon (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Alabama
from Racing Club (Primera División-Argentina) via
one-year free loan.
State, Sunday. Next: at Colorado, Thursday.
7. Baylor (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. Jackson
State, Monday.
Transactions PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed M José Andrés
Martínez.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Announced the re-
8. Auburn (11-0) did not play. Next: vs. Lipscomb, Monday’s Moves tirement of executive chair John Furlong, effective
Sunday. Next: at Mississippi State, Saturday. BASEBALL Dec. 31. Named co-owner Jeff Mallett executive
9. Memphis (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. New Orle- American League chair.
ans, Saturday. Next: vs. Tulane, Monday. BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Announced major USL Championship
10. Villanova (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Xavier, league coach José Hernández moves to assis- SAN DIEGO LOYAL — Signed D Joe Greenspan.
Monday. tant hitting coach. Named Fredi González major COLLEGE
11. Michigan (9-3) did not play. Next: vs. UMass league coach; Darren Holmes as bullpen coach, AUTIN PEAY — Signed football coach Mark Huds-
Lowell, Sunday. Next: at No. 14 Michigan State, and Anthony Sanders first base coach. peth to a contract extension through 2024.
Sunday.
12. Butler (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. Louisi-
HOUSTON ASTROS — Signed C Martín Maldo-
nado to a two-year contract.
BRANDEIS — Announced the resignation of
softball coach Danielle DelPonte. Named Emily
ana-Monroe, Saturday. Next: at St. John’s, Tues- KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Traded INF Cristian Kraytenberg interim softball coach.
day. Perez to the N.Y. Yankees for RHP Chance Ad- BUCKNELL — Named Jackie Dando women’s
13. Maryland (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Bryant, ams. lacrosse coach.
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NFL

Brady, Brees, Rodgers in 22

QB finalists for All-Time Team
The Associated Press All-Time Team in celebra- downs. Dan Fouts
tion of the NFL’s 100th They include such con- Otto Graham
Three active quar- season, the quarterbacks sistent pre-Super Bowl Bobby Layne
terbacks — Tom Brady, were revealed Monday championship quarter- Sid Luckman
Drew Brees and Aaron night. The 10 who will be backs as Otto Graham, Peyton Manning
Rodgers — and 18 Pro chosen to the team by a Sammy Baugh and Sid Dan Marino
Football Hall of Famers 26-member blue-ribbon Luckman: Joe Montana
are among 22 finalists at panel will be revealed Fri- The finalists, in alpha-
Joe Namath
quarterback for the NFL’s day night. betical order:
All-Time Team. In all, these 22 finalists Troy Aikman Aaron Rodgers
The one QB not fitting account for 33 Super Bowl Sammy Baugh Bart Starr
those categories is Peyton championships, plus 19 Terry Bradshaw Roger Staubach
Manning, who is not yet Super Bowl MVP honors. Tom Brady Fran Tarkenton
eligible for the hall. Collectively, this group Drew Brees John Unitas
In the conclusion of the has thrown for 904,181 John Elway Norm Van Brocklin
league’s compilation of its yards and 6,317 touch- Brett Favre Steve Young

Pulphus
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bus job, Pulphus didn’t hesitate to
say yes. Garrett liked that.
“He knows it might be a strug-
gle, so that means he’s really ready
for this, and he’s gonna do the best
he can to help our student-ath-
letes,” Garrett said.
The next day, an excited Pul-
phus met with Garrett, already full
of ideas to improve the program.
Getting started
Pulphus’ path toward a return to
relevance for the Falcons involved
a lot of time in the car.
He still lives in West Point with
his wife and his three daughters,
and ShaRonda is pregnant with a
boy, who’s due in January. The fam-
ily will try to move to Columbus
after the baby is born, but for now,
Pulphus faces a half-hour commute
each direction.
“It gives me time to clear my
head and think and meditate and
reflect,” he said of the drive. “It
gives me a chance to have my own
personal time.”
Pulphus needed that, espe-
cially when his eldest daughter,
12-year-old Tyleria, had a heart
blockage causing a slow heart rate,
and doctors couldn’t diagnose the
exact issue. Tyleria is healthy now,
Pulphus said, but it was tough for
him not to be there.
“I hated to be away from her,”
he said. “But all in all, everything
happens for a reason, so just give
glory to God allowing this opportu-
nity to come up, and I pray I can do
my best with the situation.”’
While Pulphus, who served as
co-defensive coordinator at Co-
lumbus in 2013, had to reacquaint
himself with his old program, his
players had to prepare for their
third head coach in three seasons.
That wasn’t easy, junior quarter-
back Ethan Conner said, but the
Falcons were almost used to that.
The players weren’t nervous,
just “ready to get back out here
and start up again,” Conner said.
“Figure out what his scheme is,
figure out where we can get better
as a team.”
Conner didn’t know anything
about Pulphus when he was hired,
but the quarterback soon discov-
ered what his new coach expected:
“to focus on football when we come
to the field house; to be locked in
when we do anything,” Conner
said.
Pulphus’ emphasis on academ-
ics stood out, too.
He teaches an ACT prep class,
and he has help in place for players
struggling in the classroom: If
anyone has a C or below, they’ll
receive tutoring, either in the field
house or working directly with a
teacher, and a plan of improvement
will be drawn up.
“I personally think I would
be shortchanging the kids and
not giving my best as a coach if I
wasn’t concerned about their edu-
cation,” Pulphus said. “Education
is a priority.”
Getting better
Chambless is still in touch with
former West Point assistants who
moved on to head coaching jobs
elsewhere, including former Green
Wave running backs coach Alex
Williams at Aberdeen and Pulphus.
“When I call to check on them, I
get the feeling that we’re checking
on each other,” Chambless said.
“It’s fun to see them out there.”
When Pulphus drops by for a
visit or the two coaches talk by
phone, their conversations range
from field maintenance to pregame
meals and everything in between.
Chambless can tell his former
tight ends coach has carried the
work ethic West Point emphasizes
into his new position, helping to
keep the Falcons accountable.
“Culture can beat strategy any
day of the week, and I think he’s
working on that and creating a
good culture for his team, a posi-
tive culture,” Chambless said.
However, as can be the case
with a new program, that culture
didn’t pay off right away. The
Falcons lost three straight games
to start the season. They managed
12 points combined in those three
contests, and their first offensive
touchdown didn’t come until the
third game of the season.
But the Columbus community
didn’t turn its back on its home-
town team, which Pulphus was
grateful for — defeat is inevitable
in the midst of a serious rebuild,
Chambless noted.
“When you start off, you don’t
look at wins and losses,” Cham-
bless said. “You look at how you
want to run things, what you’re
doing to try to create your future.”
The fans who stuck around
caught a glimpse of that future two
weeks later, when the Falcons beat
Lanier 13-12 — breaking a losing
streak dating back to September
2017 — and carried Pulphus on
their shoulders.
Columbus beat rival New Hope
on the road the following week and
picked up two more wins, includ-
ing an overtime road victory over
playoff-bound division foe Lake
Cormorant, in a 4-7 season. It’s not
where Pulphus wants the program,
but he knows it’s the start of some-
thing and is thankful for local fan
support.
“That’s one thing I respect
about the community: They know
it takes time,” Pulphus said.
“They’ve been proud of the way
we’ve transitioned. They see how
we perform in games and how we
perform in practice and how the
kids carry themselves. At the end
of the day, it takes time. Rome
wasn’t built in a year. They see the
progress, and they see how much
better we’re getting.”
Getting ahead
If Pulphus was a student,
Garrett said, his first year as head
coach would get a B grade — “real
close to an A.”
“He’s doing a lot,” Garrett said.
“I think that he’s got it. I know it’s
a process, and he has standards.
... He has goals, and he’s working
toward that.”
Garrett took into account the
benefits of Columbus’ move down
to Class 5A, though he said the
Falcons’ tough schedule this year
somewhat balanced out the effect
of the transition.
“It’s still challenging,” Garrett
said. “I think it would have been
the same (improvement) if we
would have stayed in 6A.”
The Falcons have shown
improvement in the classroom as
well as on the field: Pulphus said
his players had been getting good
grades during the fall semester, an
encouraging sign.
“He’s come in and changed a
lot of things around,” Conner said.
“Trying to change the culture
one day at a time. Trying to make
things better as a Columbus team.”
Garrett certainly has higher
expectations for Pulphus’ second
year as head coach. The Falcons
will be “five times better,” Garrett
said, and he expects the team to
return to the playoffs for the first
time since 2016.
“We’re moving forward,” he
said. “We’re definitely moving
forward.”
With Pulphus at the helm, Gar-
rett and the Falcons are encour-
aged about where they can go.
“I feel like he’s doing a great
job,” Garrett said. “My goal was to
have somebody come in to build a
foundation, and that’s really what
he’s doing. I’m very proud of him.”
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Packers
Continued from Page 1B
the last two games.
“Give Green Bay some
credit. They did some
good things, and that’s
what happens when you
don’t play as good as you
can,” Vikings coach Mike
Zimmer said.
Minnesota’s frustra-
tion over a stalled offense
that averaged nearly 30
points over the previous
10 games only increased
in the second half. Stefon
Diggs caught a 28-yard
pass on third-and-18 in
the third quarter, but
Cousins was intercepted
later on the drive when
Diggs was tangled up
with Jaire Alexander and
Kevin King made a leap-
ing grab before a 39-yard
return.
The Vikings punted on
fourth-and-1 from their
45 to white-flag their en-
suing possession.
Cousins cost Min-
nesota the completion
“It’s pretty frustrating
that we lost, regardless
if we’re in the playoffs
or not. You want to win
games convincingly,”
said Diggs, who caught
a second-quarter touch-
down pass from Cousins
three plays after Anthony
Harris picked off Rodg-
ers by darting in front of
Davante Adams.
Packers defensive co-
ordinator Mike Pettine
again schemed awfully
well against Cousins and
the Vikings, keeping his
outside linebackers ex-
tra wide to prevent the
rollouts and screens that
Cousins excels with.
Third-string running
back Mike Boone, in his
first NFL start with Dal-
vin Cook and Alexander
Mattison both out with
injuries, was mostly bot-
tled up. Cousins was just
4 for 12 for 39 yards in the
first half.
turned it to the Green
Bay 10-yard line. Adams
lost a fumble and later
dropped a pass in the end
zone right before half-
time, forcing the Packers
to settle for Mason Cros-
by’s third field goal.
Rodgers threw 30
passes in the first half
and gained just 158 yards
off them. His streak of
277 consecutive attempts
without an interception
was the longest in the
league this season, dat-
ing to the Oct. 14 game
against Detroit.
Injury report
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fourth quarter of a 21-
16 defeat. Since that iffy
first month of the season,
Cousins had played as
well as nearly any quar-
terback in the league to
help the Vikings clinch a
spot in the playoffs when
the Los Angeles Rams
lost on Saturday. That
was by far the best thing
to happen to them this
weekend.
margin in the first quar-
ter entering this game,
Rodgers and the Pack-
ers have often raced out
of the gates this season,
hitting their snags later
in games. This start was
bumpy, though.
Jones fumbled when
Anthony Barr wrangled
him down on a short
catch at on the first drive,
and Eric Kendricks re-
Jones. increases from Monday to Sunday.
Up next
Packers: Visit Detroit
on Sunday. They’ve lost
their last two road games
against the Lions.
Vikings: Host Chi-
cago on Sunday, their
fourth consecutive regu-
lar-season finale at home
against the Bears.

Bowl
Continued from Page 1B
losing to LSU in the last season’s Fiesta shall, however, had three turnovers. The
Bowl. Knights had a 168-0 yardage advantage
“You look at this season, there’s goals during the second quarter and were out-
that we didn’t accomplish, right?” Heu- scored 7-3.
pel said. “But I hope we never get to the
point as a program and a fan base where
fans and outside voices aren’t really ap-
Standout ‘D’
UCF linebacker Nate Evans finished
preciative of what our kids do every sin-
gle day.” with 12 tackles and a sack. Defensive

From kids to pros we cover the field.

Marshall: It was the first bowl loss for
the Thundering Herd under Holliday,
who entered 6-0 in bowls at the school.
Knox, a sophomore, topped 100 yards
rushing for the seventh time.
Strange stats
UCF lead 21-0 after the first quarter
despite being outgained 133-86. Mar-
back Antwan Collier made six tackles,
recovered two fumbles and had an inter-
ception.
Up next Dispatch Sports
UCF: Hosts North Carolina on Sept. 3
to open the 2020 season.
Marshall: Begins the 2020 season at
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College basketball
No. 2 Ohio State gets another test with No. 22 West Virginia
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Chris
Holtmann has already seen his
Ohio State team claim three
wins against marquee noncon-
ference opponents. The sec-
ond-ranked Buckeyes have a
chance to get another before
getting into the bulk of their Big
Ten schedule.
Fresh off a victory against
Kentucky, the Buckeyes face
No. 22 West Virginia on Sunday
in Cleveland in one of two games
on this week’s AP Top 25 sched-
ule matching a pair of ranked
teams.
Ohio State (11-1) beat now-
No. 10 Villanova by 25 points
on Nov. 13, then opened the
December schedule by going
to North Carolina and winning
by the same margin to give Hall
of Fame coach Roy Williams
his most lopsided home loss in
Chapel Hill.
Then came a win against Ken-
tucky in the CBS Sports Classic
in Las Vegas over the weekend,
a game that saw the Buckeyes
shoot 50 percent while holding
the Wildcats to 34.5 percent af-
ter halftime. Ohio State led for
nearly 33 minutes of the 40-min-
ute game.
It’s the type of schedule that
Holtmann believes has chal-
lenged his players for what’s
ahead and is a selling point in
recruiting.
“We still want to have games
that are going to grab the atten-
tion of our fans and probably
more importantly are going to
engage our players and chal-
lenge them,” Holtmann said be-
fore the Kentucky win.
Ohio State entered the week
as KenPom’s top-ranked team,
ranking sixth in adjusted offen-
sive efficiency (113.9 points per
100 possessions) and fifth in ad-
justed defensive efficiency (86.2
points allowed per 100 posses-
sions).
The Buckeyes’ only loss
came Dec. 15 at Minnesota.
And their marquee wins could
help them secure a high seed
in the NCAA Tournament come
Selection Sunday, if they keep
winning.
Bluegrass State battle
Louisville and Kentucky
have both been part of the re-
volving door at No. 1 in the AP
Top 25 this season. Now they’re
preparing to meet in Saturday’s
renewal of the instate rivalry at
Rupp Arena in Lexington.
The third-ranked Cardinals
(11-1) have lost six of seven
meetings with the 19th-ranked
Wildcats (8-3), who fell 13 spots
in Monday’s poll after losing to
Utah in Las Vegas, followed by
the Ohio State loss.
Safe this week
Top-ranked teams have
quickly suffered losses after
taking over the top spot. The
good news for new No. 1 Gonza-
ga is the Zags are guaranteed to
make it through the week with-
out a stumble.
That’s because the Zags don’t
play until hosting Detroit Mercy
next Monday after another poll
has been released.
Gonzaga (13-1) became the
sixth different team to hit No. 1
this season on Monday, marking
the first time that’s happened be-
fore New Year’s Day. The record
for most teams to reach No. 1 in
a season is seven, set in 1982-83.
And so far, no team that stood at
No. 1 this season won more than
twice before stumbling.
The Zags have won five
straight since suffering their
only loss to No. 14 Michigan in
the championship game of the
Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas
on Nov. 29.
Hawaiian holiday
No. 21 Washington (10-2) is
headlining the Diamond Head
Classic field in Honolulu.
The Huskies opened the
tournament by beating Ball
State on Sunday, then beat host
Hawaii late Monday. That sent
Washington into the champi-
onship game set for Christmas
Day, where the Huskies will face
Houston.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: any advice for He had been a teacher with a
I have a me? — ANON- master’s degree in education.
4-year-old YMOUS IN THE My grown children helped
boy and a 2-year- U.S. me to take care of him. They
old girl and I’m DEAR ANON- were heartbroken. This was a
worried. My hus- YMOUS: Talk to tragedy that could have been
band bullies our your husband avoided. It happened only
son, “Jake.” We and tell him his because he didn’t take a few
often go to a park behavior is hurt- seconds to fasten his seat belt.
with swingsets ing the boy and it Please print this as a re-
near our home. must stop. Does minder to your readers, Abby. —
Jake runs to the the bullying only COMMON SENSE CALIFORNIAN
swings, gets occur in the park? DEAR CALIFORNIAN: I am
ZITS on, and then my If so, avoid going truly sorry for your family’s pain.
husband pushes to the park with Too many people, drivers and
it so hard, Jake Daddy. passengers, choose to ignore
screams in fear. I’m concerned the seat belt laws.
People sitting on Dear Abby about your As your letter illustrates,
the benches stop statement that they do so at their own peril.
talking and turn he “pushes” you Every traveler, whether in the
toward us. If I do what I can to if you try to intervene. If you front or back seat, should buck-
stop this, my husband pushes mean it literally, that is spousal le up. I’m glad you shared this
me. I see him giggling low and abuse. Deliberately frightening because so many people are on
his eyes flash with his head a child is also abuse, which the road during the holidays. I
bent slightly down. may indeed escalate as the boy hope your family’s tragic experi-
My husband is not a young grows older. Some sessions ence will give them the “nudge”
father. I’m worried he will with a licensed psychotherapist they need.
continue to bully Jake in other could be helpful for you in de- DEAR ABBY: My son recently
ways as he grows. My husband termining what your next steps married his longtime partner,
GARFIELD is a small man with feminine should be. Divorce may be the “Kurt.” They are coming to visit
features and a shy demeanor. surest way to protect both of soon. How should I introduce
He has told me how some of his your children. “Kurt” to people now? Do I use
older brothers bullied him, and DEAR ABBY: My late hus- the word “husband,” “partner”
how girls in the neighborhood band refused to wear a seat or something else? — LOST
called him derogatory names. belt. One day a truck hit him. FOR THE WORD
I suspect he bullies our son He was thrown around hard in- DEAR LOST: Many gay men
to get even with what happened side the car and spent a month use “husband” or “spouse”
to him back then. Knowing in the hospital. An X-ray showed when referring to the man to
him, I don’t think counseling the back of his brain was mush. whom they are married. But, to
will be an option. I feel I must He was mentally disabled for be sure, ASK your son and Kurt
either live with him at my son’s the rest of his life and needed which title they would prefer you
expense, or leave. Do you have care 24/7. It was such a waste. to use.

CANDORVILLE Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec.
24). You’ve been putting these
efforts into a project and not
getting the outcome you really
want. That changes this year.
It’s not that you’re doing any-
thing drastically different; it’s
just that all the work catches
up to you. You break through a
plateau and start seeing amaz-
ing results beyond your dreams.
Cancer and Leo adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 27, 20, 14,
44 and 7.
BABY BLUES ARIES (March 21-April 19).
The bottom line is that you have
to do things to remember them.
Memories are created with
action. Being told something
or experiencing it passively as
an audience member of a show
leads to forgetting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
You will find the right match for
what you’re offering, though
most likely not right away. You’ll
start with situations that work
well on some levels but not
others, and you’ll learn from this
so that later you can create an
amazing fit.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Ideas live longer than people.
Ideas can change what people
cannot, scale macro or micro,
alter landscapes, oceans, aster-
oids, atoms. Given the power of
ideas, shouldn’t you be having
more of them?
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
The options haven’t always
been conducive to living life your
way, but you didn’t let that stop
you from dreaming about better
times. Now you have choices
you didn’t have back there. Act.
Move and make new things
happen.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Tak-
ing the high road has so many
benefits beyond morality that
it could even be considered a
strategy, and certainly one you’ll
never regret, no matter how the
other person happens to play it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22). Be the chooser instead
of the chosen. You’re ready.
You know enough about who
and what is out there to make
good decisions. If you wait until
someone picks you, you won’t
get the chance to pursue your
own interests.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Yes, it’s all coming together and
in a way that will defy expecta-
tion and explanation. So have
faith, keep doing the work and
don’t worry. Worry ruins the pro-
cess, which later you’ll realize
was the best part all along.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Sure, you’re known for
being serious about your
endeavors and intense in your
affections, but you can lighten
up with the best of them. Your
current lightheartedness gives
a joyful lift to everyone around
you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Prioritizing your mental and
spiritual wellness means dif-
ferent things to you at different
times. Right now, it’s a matter
of pacing yourself and being sat-
isfied that whatever you’re doing
at any given time is enough.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It was once just a little
idea, and now it’s hogging the
dance floor of your mind. This
song needs singing. Express
it. Let it pop from your mouth
the first moment that seems
spacious enough.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Warm exchanges happen
with those you know well and
those you don’t. The former will
be sweet, the latter enchanting.
Socializing is work though. And
so it is with all work, for best
results, take breaks.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). It’s pretty simple how this
plays out. You do the happy
things, and then joy cours-
es through your being. Your
passion will inspire, and even
those who don’t share your
interests will be uplifted by your
enthusiasm.

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claim or claims, not so pro-
bated, will be forever barred.
DATED, this the 19th day of
November, 2019.
/s/ Rita Brown
RITA BROWN
EXECUTRIX
THOMAS M. MCELROY, P.A.
301 NORTH BROADWAY
P. O. BOX 1450
TUPELO, MS 38802-1450
TELEPHONE NUMBER 662-842-
3723
MSB. NO. 2543
PUBLISH: 12/10, 12/17, &
12/24/2019
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF SHIRLEY ANN BAR-
RETT, DECEASED
No. 2019-145-JNS
STANLEY BARRETT, PETITION-
ER
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters of Administration hav-
ing been granted on the 26th
day of November, 2019 by the
Chancery Court of Lowdnes
County, Mississippi to the un-
dersigned Administrator upon
the Estate of Shirley Ann Bar-
rett, Deceased, notice is
hereby given to all persons hav-
ing claims against the said es-
tate to present the same to the
Clerk of this Court for probate
and registration according to
law, within ninety (90) day from
this first publication of this no-
tice, or they will be forever
barred.
This the 2nd Day of December,
2019.
Stanely Barrett, Administrator
Roger K. Doolittle
460 Briarwood Dr., Suite 500
Jackson, MS 39206
601.957.9777
601.957.9779-Facsimile
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