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Olympic Preview: Men's and Women's 200 Backstroke
April 23, 2012
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GILLETTE, New Jersey, April 23. AS we creep closer to the Olympic Games in London this summer, Swimming World will produce event-by-event previews of the action set to unfold. As part of this series, we'll not only look at the leading contenders in each event, we'll also provide a historical perspective on each discipline. This approach was successful in the leadup to the Beijing Games and we hope our readership enjoys the coverage for this Olympiad.
Women's 200 Backstroke
Reigning Champion:
Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe).
Past Champions:
Lillian Watson (1968); Melissa Belote (1972); Ulrike Richter (1976); Rica Reinisch (1980); Jolanda de Rover (1984); Krisztina Egerszegi (1988); Krisztina Egerszegi (1992); Krisztina Egerszegi (1996); Diana Mocanu (2000); Kirsty Coventry (2004); Kirsty Coventry (2008).
World Record:
Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe) 2:04.81.
If Kirsty Coventry can win a third consecutive victory in the 200 backstroke, she would become just the third woman to three-peat in any event, but the second in this discipline. Hungarian Krisztina Egerszegi was the dominant performer in the late 1980s and first half of the 1990s.
The Headliners:
One of several individuals in pursuit of an Olympic triple in a specific event, Kirsty Coventry won't have an easy time defending her Olympic crown. Not only is Coventry rebounding from injury, she'll be dealing with a tough field, one which is highlighted by Missy Franklin, the American teenage phenom.
The reigning world champion in the 200 back, Franklin nearly broke the world record in Shanghai last summer and should be the favorite entering London. However, she will have some work to do at the United States Trials, where Elizabeth Beisel and Elizabeth Pelton will be vying for Olympic berths. Both would be medal contenders if they earn a trip to London.
During the early stages of Olympic qualification, Russia's Anastasia Zueva and Australian Belinda Hocking have been the only women to break the 2:07 barrier. Hocking will be joined by her countrywoman Meagen Nay. For the home crowd, it will have its support behind Elizabeth Simmonds, who was seventh at the last World Championships. For the Dutch, it will bank on Sharon van Rouwendaal, who was the bronze medalist at the World Champs.
What Else?:
It will be intriguing to see what Frenchwoman Laure Manaudou is capable of doing in this event. We all know about Manaudou's past exploits in the middle-distance freestyles and, given her prowess as a backstroker, she should be able to impress in this event, too. Manaudou is a past Olympic medalist in the 100 back.
Men's 200 Backstroke
Reigning Champion:
Ryan Lochte (United States).
Past Champions:
Ernst Hoppenberg (1900); Jed Graef (1964); Roland Matthes (1968); Roland Matthes (1972); John Naber (1976); Sandor Wladar (Hungary); Rick Carey (1984); Igor Polyansky (1988); Martin Zubero (1992); Brad Bridgewater (1996); Lenny Krayzelburg (2000); Aaron Peirsol (2004); Ryan Lochte (2008).
World Record:
Aaron Peirsol (United States) 1:51.92.
An American victory in this event would make it five straight Olympiads in which the United States has prevailed in the men's 200 back. Conversely, the United States women have not had a 200 backstroke champion since 1972.
The Headliners:
Four years ago in Beijing, there was considerable hype over this event because of the impending duel between Ryan Lochte and Aaron Peirsol. This time around, there isn't as much luster because Peirsol, perhaps the greatest backstroker in history, has retired and Lochte is considered a heavy favorite.
Of any of the events in the Lochte arsenal, this one might be the one in which he has the biggest cushion over the rest of the world, though a few might argue that fact in light of a certain Japanese standout. Lochte's best time of 1:52.96, posted en route to gold at the 2011 World Championships, is the fastest textile time ever recorded. No one has showed the ability to get anywhere near that mark.
Thanks to his flawless form, Japan's Ryosuke Irie is touted as the biggest challenger to Lochte. Irie captured the silver medal at the World Champs last summer, clocking in at 1:54.11. Irie nearly cracked 1:54 at the Japanese Trials and figures to be in a battle with the United States' Tyler Clary for the silver medal. Clary was the bronze medalist at the World Champs and gives the U.S. a potent one-two combination.
Several other athletes will be battling to be in the medal picture, but will find the going extremely difficult. Nonetheless, it's worth keeping an eye on China's Zhang Fenglin, Russian Arkady Vyatchanin, Japan's Kazuki Watanabe and France's Ben Stasiulis.
What Else?:
There are certain world records from the tech-suit era which will likely stand longer than others. One of those marks is the global standard in the 200 back, which stands to Aaron Peirsol at 1:51.92. That performance is sensational and could be on the books for many years ahead.
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"The troubles at MPS date back to when Mr Visco's predecessor, Mario Draghi, now the president of the European Central Bank, was governor of the Bank of Italy. [...] Politics, poor management and lax supervision already make for a distasteful banking cocktail."
Distasteful indeed.
Within just six weeks' time, between October and November 2007, Banca Antonveneta passed hands from Dutch ABN AMRO to Spanish Santander to, finally, Italian Monte dei Paschi. Between the 1st transaction and the 2nd, the price jumped up from 6.4 to 9 billion euro.
Banca d'Italia's then-governor, Mario Draghi signed the deal off nevertheless. Now it is rumored that there were 1-2 billion euro (!) in bribes being handed out to various officials at the involved banks and beyond.
Either Draghi was involved in this - and that should be the end of his career. Or he was not, then that proves that his oversight was non-existant - which would disqualify him at the ECB's helm at a time when the bank is trying to establish pan-European oversight under its auspices.
Banca d'Italia always had a less-than-stellar reputation because it was too close to comfort to the Italian government for investors (which is why the Italian Lira had no relevance whatsoever for foreign investment and effectively was a solely locally used currency - unlike, in Europe, the Deutschmark, the Swiss Franc and the British Pound); but at least its reputation for exercising proper oversight was not called into question - until now.
CONFUSED, shocked and furious. These three words pretty much sum up how shareholders of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), Italy's third largest bank and the world's oldest, felt when they gathered on January 25th. The meeting had been called to ask them to put their bank in hock to the state through a convertible bond subscribed by the government of up to €4.5 billion ($6 billion). (When the stock market closed on the day of the meeting, MPS was worth just under €3 billion.) Aimed at bringing the bank's capital ratios up to scratch, the state aid, which was approved by the shareholders, comes at an eye-watering price: MPS will pay 9% interest, and the rate will increase starting next year.
The meeting capped a bad week for Siena, the bank and its shareholders. Two days before they met, the Bank of Italy, the central bank and banking regulator, said that the true nature of some of MPS's transactions emerged only recently, following the discovery of documents kept hidden from the supervisory authority and brought to light by the bank's new management. The latter had begun investigating suspect operations in October. (Digging is nearly finished: within two weeks the board, chaired since April by Alessandro Profumo, UniCredit's chief executive between 1997 and 2010, should know the effect of the dodgy operations.)
MPS had always been considered a conservative institution—solid, prudent, unadventurous and tightly linked to the city where it was founded in 1472 and still has its head offices. Hence shareholders' dismay to learn that the previous management, pushed aside a year ago at the behest of the Bank of Italy, had apparently been indulging in finance of the more risky sort—and that its bets had not panned out. At the end of September net losses for the MPS Group amounted to almost €1.7 billion. Shareholders are now wondering whether results for the full year will be worse than those of 2011 when the net loss reached almost €4.7 billion.
Shareholders are also asking why things did go so wrong. At the root of MPS's troubles are politics, poor management and inadequate supervision. Twenty years ago, when Italy's public-sector banks were transformed into joint stock corporations, politicians in Siena were unwilling to let go. They wanted to maintain the bank's local character and keep its jobs in and around the city. Even today, the 16-member board of the Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which owns a stake of almost 35% in the bank, is dominated by political appointees: eight are chosen by the city authorities and five by provincial authorities.
A lawyer by profession and linked to the left, which has long run the city, Giuseppe Mussari was appointed chairman of the foundation in 2001. He became the bank's chairman in 2006 and held that post until last year. In 2007 MPS's board decided to buy Banca Antonveneta from Santander for a whopping €10 billion—a move that has since bled MPS and crippled the foundation.
Attention now focuses on what the regulator has done or not done over the past five years. Ignazio Visco, the Bank of Italy's governor, has said—rather disingenuously—that the central bank does not police banks or fight crime but is concerned with prudential supervision. He has also said that the regulator steps in when bank management seems imprudent.
The troubles at MPS date back to when Mr Visco's predecessor, Mario Draghi, now the president of the European Central Bank, was governor of the Bank of Italy. Mr Draghi got that job in December 2005 in the wake of a scandal that also involved Banca Antonveneta. Perhaps Mr Draghi should have instructed his colleagues to dig more deeply into MPS and look more closely at the takeover of Banca Antonveneta.
Politics, poor management and lax supervision already make for a distasteful banking cocktail. Yet another ingredient may make it more unpalatable still. Magistrates and Italy's financial police are investigating the possibility of corruption in connection with the takeover of Banca Antonveneta. Hopefully, all this won't spell the end of the independence of world's oldest bank.
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A tax is a tax is a tax. Call it a proposition, call it a trash fee, call it an override. It is still a tax. Take the trash fee (please) as an example. It is to be used for trash collection only, but King William proposed an increase to "improve roads." I was under the impression that we were paying for this with our current taxes. He either knew that this was not legal or he was trying to slip one past us. Maybe he should have spent that $1.3 million on the roads instead of on parking lots that fewer and fewer people use.
Now we have Question 4, save the endangered land. Another nebulous tax proposal. How about saving the endangered taxpayer?
I have a proposition. Let me pay for only those services that I use. I do not use the schools, the ball fields, the parks. There are, I am sure, many others, but I think you get my point. They want us to pay indirectly for new development on Rantoul Street. When you give a developer a tax break, the money has to come from somewhere. I am tired of it coming from me.
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St. Catherine Hospital, the Western Kansas American Red Cross and Finney County Community Health Coalition are sponsoring a free-will donation community hot dog feed and bake sale designed to help victims of last week's Moore, Okla., tornado.
The event is scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the south entrance of St. Catherine Hospital, 401 E. Spruce St. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held inside the cafeteria.¬
All proceeds will go directly to the Red Cross's assistance in supporting the residents of Moore.
The Red Cross is asking for cash donations only as disaster area officials have stated they are overwhelmed with clothing at this time. Cash donations will go directly toward the purchase of much-needed supplies for those in need.
The public is encouraged to attend the community wide event and share in the mission of helping those in need.
"It was an idea brought up to our Mission in Action Committee, a committee based here in the hospital," Shawna Deal, St. Catherine's community relations coordinator, said. "We really want to do something. This is a way that we as associates, and we as a community can help."
No specific fundraising goal has been set.
"We'll raise what we can raise. We're getting some of the chili donated and we hope to get some of the hot dogs donated so that everything can go to the tornado victims," Deal said.
If people want to make donations before the event, they can drop off a check at St. Catherine made out to the Red Cross. Deal said people may also drop a check off that same night, or contact her to make arrangements at 272-2529.
Those who wish may also donate to tornado relief directly through the Red Cross by texting REDCROSS to 90999; visiting www.redcross.org and clicking on the donate funds link; or by contacting the local chapter at 210 Fulton Terrace, or by calling 276-2762 or (800) RED-CROSS.
According to information on the Red Cross website, more than 600 people in Oklahoma spent Thursday night in Red Cross and community shelters. More than 350 Red Cross workers and thousands of volunteers are in the state. So far, in partnership with the Southern Baptist Convention, more than 24,000 meals and snacks have been distributed.


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2012 Minnesota Twins Organization Day-by-Day - April 8
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I had mentioned in the forums a "feature" I wanted to start - the Day-by-Day for all levels in the organization. This would be a nice snapshot on one sheet of how each team is doing on a day-by-day basis. I have a link below, but would almost prefer to have this embedded into the post. If someone out there has more knowledge about this then I do, doesn't take much, please speak up and let me know how to help.
Without further adieu, let me present to you the first (of hopefully many)2012 Minnesota Twins Organization Day-by-Day - April 8.
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, a New York-based manufacturer of aviation products, is moving its Northwest operations and some 300 jobs from Redmond to a large property in Kirkland once owned by a fugitive real estate mogul.
Astronics is currently located at 9845 Willows Road NE, but will soon break ground on a 97,700-square foot building just more than a mile to the north, at 12950 141st Avenue NE, in an area that became part of Kirkland with annexation last June.
The "Sammamish Ridge" property is on six-plus acres and consists of two never-used building shells that were lost to foreclosure by Seattle-area real estate magnate Michael R. Mastro, now a bankrupt federal fugitive.
Tom Jensen, plan review supervisor for the City of Kirkland, said a permit is pending by Astronics to join the two buildings.
"It's a very good-sized build-out," he said. "There are two existing buildings about 30 feet apart, and they're building in between to join them into one building. It's a really, clean, beautiful building."
The Seattle Times reported in a story Monday that Astronics would break ground on the project Wednesday. But Jensen said the city had asked for changes in the company's plans that would likely put approval of its permit out about two weeks.
Patch is attempting to contact Astronics officials. But the Times story said the company employs about 300 workers in Redmond who make electronic power supply units for airliner seats, and could add 45 more jobs as it expands. The new location will house Astronics' Advanced Electronic Division engineering and manufacturing operations.
The Astronics website says its EMPOWER Fusion in-seat power supply is the only FAA approved system with 150 watts of 110V AC power. It powers portable electronic devices such as lap-top computers, DVD players and hand-held devices.
King County records indicate Astronics bought the Kirkland property for $5.2 million last May from Union Bank. Mastro had paid $5.6 million in 2008. The county's assessed value of the property is $13.06 million.
As for Mastro, he apparently once had plans to develop a shopping area in Kirkland, but lost his extensive real estate empire and much of his wealth to bankruptcy in 2009, according to the Times. He is now a federal fugitive wanted by the FBI for failing to fulfill court-ordered requirements to turn over diamond rings worth $1.4 million.


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Father Antony Asir has been appointed as the new pastor to St. Thomas More, following the death of the beloved Rev. Monsignor Francis Midura in July, according to the church's website.
"We are grateful to have such a wonderful shepherd to lead our community! Our prayers and support are with you," reads a statement from the church.
Asit will be the fifth pastor in the history of the Hauppauge congregation, following a more than four-month search.
He will take over leadership from Midura, who died suddenly in July after leading St. Thomas More's faithful for more than nine years. In addition to leading St. Thomas More, Midura served as the chaplain of Hauppauge Fire Department.


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SHAWNEE – Again, and unbenownst to her, Destiny Riddle took a no-hitter into the seventh and final inning.
For the second straight day, she lost it.
Who cares.
The Hilldale junior got Bethel's Kim Herron to ground to Casady Mills at short. Her throw to Tori McMillan at first did all Riddle cared about – getting her hands on the Class 4A state championship trophy Saturday afternoon.
The one-hitter did just that – a 7-0 win for the top-ranked Lady Hornets over the No. 6 Bethel Wildcats at the Ball Fields at Firelake.
Riddle, who walked eight in a two-hit semifinal win against Blanchard on Friday, made this one look easy after an early adjustment.
After Kelsey Eropkin reached on a mishandled shot at a drawn-in McKensie Plant at third, Riddle walked Shelby Miller. Bry Flanagan's fly ball to center sacrificed Eropkin to third but on the throw there, Plant fired to Sarah Hughey at second to get Miller attempting to move up.
From that point, Riddle struck out clean-up hitter Mikayla Whitten and retired 19 in a row until, with two outs in the seventh, Whitten doubled to left.
No no-hitter, but a championship and 10 strikeouts to cap a 35-5 season.
"Early I wasn't finishing my pitches, but after that I settled in," Riddle said, who a time or two in the first inning tended to a soft spot in front of the rubber that in the top of the inning required 10 minutes of sand work by the grounds crew.
And she insisted – just as she did amid eight walks on Friday – she knew nothing about the no-hitter. This time, she had only the first-inning walk to get in the way of her thinking.
But still...
"I really don't think about that," she said.
Even her head coach and father wasn't sure.
"I thought so but I wasn't sure about the error in the first," he said. "Really I was so darned nervous. And she's telling you the truth. Doesn't care about no-hitters, doesn't care about strikeouts. She's all about team. She just smiled after that double and it was like 'let's get this championship."
The coach, who won a state baseball title at the school in 2012, gave his daughter a little bit of help in the first when he challenged a call on a diving catch by Miller, the Bethel second baseman, on a hit off the bat of Plant with runners at first and second. Miller came up with the ball and doubled Casady Mills off second for what appeared to be the final out of the first inning.
The umpires then met and changed the call, ruling Miller had trapped the ball. They also ruled a force out on Riddle coming from first base and motioned Bethel's players back to the field to meet Sarah Hughey, who tripled off the wall in left to score Mills and Plant for a 2-0 cushion before Riddle the pitcher went to the circle.
After Mills doubled home Hillary Calvert to make it 3-0 in the third, Hughey in her second at bat parked a solo home run, not too far from the portion of the wall she dinged in the first.
"I was feeling it and she threw one down the middle both times," Hughey said. "I got on both the same way."
Hilldale put three more on the board in the seventh off three hits – a double by Jessie Casey, a single by Mills and a double by Plant – and misplayed fly off the bat of Hillary Calvert.
It was never in doubt, not like the baseball title the coach won in this same town just a few miles to the east in a 2-1 win against Berryhill.
"I'm not going to say this is more meaningful. Because what is awesome is I've got a bunch of my baseball guys over there cheering us on too," said Darren Riddle. "But with Destiny in the circle it does make it a little different."
Nervous coach became nervous dad.
"I was almost nauseated out there," he said.
Hughey finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs, Mills was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs driven in and Casey was 2-for-3. McMillan, Plant and Kyla Ibarra each had one hit as Hilldale finished with nine.
Bethel finished at 27-12.
Every Lady Hornet will be back for another year. Most of them were around when they got here a year ago and lost 11-10 in the quarterfinals to Cache after leading 8-0.
"We'll be back," Hughey said.
It's Hilldale's first fastpitch title. It's also the area's first state title since Oktaha won in 2006 and the first in 4A since Fort Gibson in 1998.


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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (left) and his wife, Janet (in green), stopped at SMU's Hughes-Trigg Student Center on Monday in his quest for the Republican Party nomination for President. He was joined on stage by television action hero Chuck Norris. Meanwhile, later that same day, actor, director and producer Rob Reiner (right) was in SMU's Owen Arts Center, stumping for Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Last week, actress Sophia Bush and actor Adam Rodriguez were on campus raising support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Also see today's Daily Campus editorial and SMU's 2008 elections experts site.
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Farrah Fawcett had about four hours of headlines to herself on Thursday before Michael Jackson kicked her off the metaphorical front page. And both overshadowed Ed McMahon, who died on Tuesday.
They say celebrity deaths come in threes, but rarely do they come in such close proximity. The cancer-related deaths of former "Tonight Show" sidekick McMahon and former "Charlie's Angel" Fawcett came as little shock, but Jackson's was perhaps the most stunning celebrity exit since his friend Princess Diana died in a car crash in 1997.
Speaking of the so-called "People's princess," whose death basically paralyzed Britain and large parts of the world for weeks, she stole some of the thunder of Mother Teresa, who died five days later. And forget about conductor Georg Solti, who had the misfortune to die on the same day as the saint-in-waiting.
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Although the renovations will be an inconvenience for a while, Park Superintendent Talmadge Butler says the end result will be worth the wait. "We are looking forward to being able to provide our future guests with the best lodging and meeting facility in the area," he said.
Still available for guests are 16 lake view cottages with capacities of one to eight people and 18 chalets for one to six people. All are set up for light housekeeping. The chalets are equipped with fireplaces, televisions and telephones.
The campground includes 364 improved sites, and primitive camping is also available. A camp store, boat dock, tennis courts, and laundry are nearby.
Other state parks in northeast
For more information and reservations call toll free 1-800-ALA-PARK.


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Clara Eva Starkey, of Stoneybrook Drive, Lexington, departed this life on Feb. 6, 2013, at the Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation Center in Williamsburg. She was 103 years, 5 months, and 23 days of age. She was born on Aug. 14, 1909, in Whitley County, to the late Lee Broyles and Angeline Harp Broyles. She is also preceded in death by her husband, Gary Starkey.
She is survived by two nephews, Loel Broyles (Betty), of Lexington, and Jim Broyles (Lou), of Pendleton, S.C.; niece Betty Banks (Bill), of Louisville; several great-nieces and nephews, and a host of other family and friends to mourn her passing.
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at the Broyles Cemetery with Jim Broyles officiating where she will be laid to rest.
Condolences may be made to the family at www.croleyfuneralhome.com
Croley Funeral Home of Williamsburg is in charge of all arrangements, Jerry W. Croley and J. Andrew Croley, directors.


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RALEIGH — Many high school football coaches didnt think using electronic devices on the sideline during games was a very good idea, but Cardinal Gibbons Steven Wright has incorporated cell phones and iPads in the Crusaders coaching tool kit.
High school coaches can use sideline electronic devices for the first time this year, and Gibbons used them during its 14-12 win against Green Hope.
Pictures of alignments were taken in the press box and sent to Wright and defensive coordinator Okesa Smith on the sidelines. They used the pictures to show players how Green Hope was lining up.
Coaches cant see from the sidelines what is happening in the interior of the line, Wright said. We use the phones and iPad like the black and white pictures you see the quarterbacks in the NFL looking through. We can go over pre-snap reads. Whether a defensive player is lined up on the outside shoulder or head up can make a big difference in the blocking assignments.
We used the pictures in the preseason and think they help us coach the players during the game.
Pinkowskis night: Claytons 53-29 win against rival Cleveland was the culmination of an unforgettable week for new Clayton football coach Randy Pinkowski. The game was his first in the program in more than two decades.
Clayton's 53 points was only the third time in its past 176 games that the team topped the 50-point mark.
Pinkowski told the team the results were going to change the perception of Clayton's prospects. He told the team there was something new on the jerseys now: a target.
After his address, assistant coach and offensive coordinator Anthony Barbour called the team back together and presented Pinkowski with the game ball.
To have Anthony Barbour, a man I've grown to respect and rely on so much over the past six months, present me with a game ball was incredibly humbling, Pinkowski said. It was something that caught me completely off guard.
The sense of joy and purpose Pinkowski felt during the week and after the win was something he had trouble describing.
The bond that has been built in this community with this football program from Coach (Glenn) Nixon to Coach (Gary) Fowler with this football team is something you can't describe, Pinkowski said. I've never felt anything like it. And I really didn't remember how great it was until I got back here. People in Clayton don't realize how special this place is.
The Comets will begin a string of four rivalry games Friday with their visit to Corinth Holders, which beat Northern Nash in overtime Friday night. Games against South Johnston, Smithfield-Selma and Fuquay-Varina will follow before Greater Neuse River 4A play begins Sept. 27.
Mistakes: Cleveland and Middle Creek, both in The News & Observer rankings, were hindered in season-opening losses by mistakes.
Middle Creek had three fumbles inside the Garner 20 in a 21-16 loss, and Cleveland had 22 penalized infractions.
Middle Creek had a 368-241 advantage in total yards despite losing starting quarterback Brant Grisel in the second quarter and playing without East Carolina wide receiver recruit Curtis Burston.
I was pleased with the effort for the most part, said Middle Creek coach Mike Castellano. Yes we faced adversity, but that is not an excuse. Our backup quarterback, running back, left tackle, left guard, two wide receivers and free safety had to play, but they go through practice as well.
Tom Hartshorn, Jacob Pearl, and Terry Patterson all played well on defense.
Cleveland had a 422-311 edge in total offense despite the penalties. Rams quarterback Aaron Farmer passed for 193 yards.
Helmet rule: Cardinal Gibbons quarterback Shawn Stankavage lost his helmet during the 14-12 win against Green Hope. Wide receiver Dante DiMaggio, the backup quarterback, moved to quarterback for one play and threw a 41-yard touchdown pass.
Southeast falls: Fayetteville Britt, which played for the state 4AA title in 2012, got three touchdown passes from Harrison Strother and six turnovers from its defense in Saturdays 34-9 win against Southeast Raleigh. Southeast Raleigh managed only 16 yards rushing and 128 passing.
Corinth Holders comeback: A 10-yard quarterback draw by Cole Sakowski gave Corinth Holders a 32-26 overtime win against Northern Nash and completed a comebck from a 26-13 third-quarter deficit.
I never would have thought that it would have been a quarterback draw that would have scored for us, said Corinth Holders coach Barry Honeycutt. Particularly against a team that plays the Power-I offense and sees that play a lot.
Running game: Wake Christian Academy rushed 33 times for 366 yards in its 34-12 win against Chatham Central. Quarterback Beau Barger led the way with 148 yards on the ground.
D. Clay Best contributed to this story.
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BETHEL — Frankston sophomore quarterback Ozzie Buckner has been named the 'Built Ford Tough' Player of the Week for Class 2A by the Ford Motor Company for his play against Union Grove.
Buckner accounted for more than 370 yards of total offense for the Indians in the district-opening win, with four touchdowns.
Below is the full release from Ford about Buckner:
Frankston opened its season with a big, experienced quarterback—who promptly went down with a shoulder injury three possessions into the opener. Enter inexperienced sophomore Ozzie Buckner, who has taken the reins and run with them. In last week's 48-8 win over Union Grove, the 5-10, 160-pounder did it all, completing 8 of 12 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns and rushing nine times for 167 yards and two more scores (92 and 42 yards). Blessed with a great backfield partner in running back Caleb Williams, Buckner is making Frankston's spread offense his own. "He's getting better and better every week," says Coach Matt Nally who, like his QB, is in his first season. Ozzie's timing couldn't be better; the win over Union Grove came in the Indians' District 10-2A Division II opener.
An outstanding student with a 3.07 GPA in a schedule packed with honors courses, Ozzie is Frankston's starting varsity point guard and he also plays baseball. He finds time to be an active member of both the FCA and his church youth group.
"Ozzie is just a super kid," raves Coach Nally. "Although he has survived numerous challenges in his young life, he's a phenomenal leader for a 15-year-old. He has really helped build school spirit here and finds time to assist others, including coaching and encouraging our junior high school quarterbacks."
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Photos: The SB Image
I should have known when the Ohlins tech couldn't stop laughing while he
was setting up the suspension. "You're not going to like this around
here," he said, bouncing the rear end up and down to demonstrate the
utter lack of rebound damping despite cranking that adjuster to max.
He's right, I didn't. The 2010 Honda VFR1200F is terrifying on a race
track. >
Not terrifying in the anything-but-an-R6-doesn't-belong-on-track kind of way. I've done trackdays on big, heavy bikes before, including a BMW R1200GS and a first-gen Ducati Multistrada. Heck, I've even been out on a BMW R1200RT. All the above were perfectly safe and pretty fun, if not exactly fast. Even the R1200GS with its tall suspension was perfectly stable cranked all the way over with a knee on the ground and capable of some surprisingly impressive lean angles and corner speeds. The VFR wasn't.
Honda describes the VFR as a "Road Sports" motorcycle, which to me sounds like a sportsbike that's been made a little bigger, a little softer and a little friendlier in the name of comfort and practicality. To me, it should still be capable of fast riding, it should still be a sportsbike, just a comfortable one. One you could ride 500 miles on just to get to a good mountain road, then really enjoy riding that mountain road.
With that in mind, we threw Shamu in a trailer and drove out to Beaverun, in western Pennsylvania. Any bike with vaguely sporting intentions should be track-capable, right?
Not this one.
First session of the day, second lap out and the pegs go down hard as I turn into the uphill right hander that's turn 10 on Beaverun's North Track. I thought I was still warming the tires before trying to ride it quickly. Recover, point the bike back uphill and wind on full throttle. Rather than rocket down the short straight, Shamu just sort of thrums along, sportsbikes flying past left and right. 172bhp and 95lb/ft of torque aren't enough to coax much get up and go out of the 591lbs (wet) Honda.
Brake early for turn 1, the brakes are snatchy so you can't trail them into the corner. Get off the side, push the inside bar deliberately and it turns in, but getting the bike back up, then over to the right has the bike and me wobbling into the wrong line.
Turn 4 is the kind of flat, 90-ish degree corner where you can really play with some serious lean on most bikes. Not on the VFR. Again, I brake early because the snatchy brakes are scaring me, made worse by the too-soft forks that dive at the merest whiff of right lever. I've got to limit my apex speed too to keep the peg off the ground. All that and I still have to wait until the bike's virtually upright before really getting on the throttle, it's snatchy too, and the too-soft rear end plummets when you're on the throttle.
Then into the uphill right, over-the-crest left and downhill right that are turns 5,6 and 7. Shamu goes into a serious wobble as the elevation catches it on the entry, it's reluctant to get back over the left over the crest and the downhill right, where these photos were taken early on in the session, is just completely frightening, with the bike bobbing and weaving imprecisely instead of tracking along a predictable line. Remember, this is with suspension set up for this track by a professional.
Five laps in, I called it quits, too terrified to continue.
Specifically, the VFR has four big problems that prevent it from working in this environment:
1. The suspension is too soft. Sure, with a 591lbs curb weight it's extraordinarily heavy, but stiffer suspension or at least a larger capacity for adjustment could make it corner. Instead, it dives, sinks and wobbles around all over the place.
2. It's got zero ground clearance. Even after decking out the pegs hard and repeatedly, there was at least 1cm of unused rubber on each side of the rear tire. If I'd been brave enough to do more than one session I'd have started to hang off the side like a monkey to take as much lean as possible out of it, but even that wouldn't have helped much.
3. The controls are unpredictable. The fueling is seriously bad, like early Honda fuel-injection bad. It surges when you don't expect it to and the twist grip just doesn't have a linear relationship to engine power. The brakes, too, are snatchy, something that's not helped by the linked arrangement. They're plenty powerful and didn't fade at all, but combined with the soft suspension and abrupt application, the front end goes diving for the ground with a finger brush.
4. The ergonomics are poor. The wide seat, low pegs and huge tank make it hard to hang off in a conventional manner and, once you are off the side, the slippery seat makes it hard to stay in one spot. The tank is so tall that your outside arm is fully extended over it before your torso gets anywhere near parallel to the ground.
All of this leaves us without an understanding of what the VFR1200 actually is. It's nowhere near fast enough to be a Hayabusa or ZX-14 rival and doesn't handle nearly as well as either of those bikes either. The riding position is more forward-leaning and uncomfortable than a Kawasaki Concours 14 and the Honda doesn't come with luggage as standard. It kind of looks like a rival for the BMW K1300S, but that bike would run circles around Shamu in a corner and feels notably quicker.
What we're left with is a bike that's got a sporty riding position, but corners like it's made out of jelly. A bike that's got a big engine, but isn't terribly fast. A bike that's as heavy as a tourer, but looks like a sportsbike. A bike that's supposed to be friendly, but is difficult to ride.
Having said all that, while we were out enjoying more appropriate bikes, grey hairs were drawn to the VFR like geriatrics to bingo. Explaining that it wasn't ours was like explaining that Grant and I weren't their grandchildren. Our new friend Phil, an experienced 52-year old Enduro racer ranted and raved about how much he loved it.
Maybe track-riding whippersnappers like us are the wrong audience for the VFR. Maybe it's really for old guys that want to look like they're going fast, when really they're just cruising around on a Lay-Z-Boy; who want to feel fast when really they're five under. They can keep it.
Why do we call the VFR1200 Shamu? Believe it or not, the nickname's not supposed to be negative. Last summer, when black and white photos of the bike leaked, before we ever knew it weighed what it does, commenters and forum fan boys started calling the bike "Shamu." Look at this black and white photo and tell us it doesn't look like an Orca whale with all those organic curves, smooth bulges and contrasting colors. We like nicknames, so it stuck. No harm meant.


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Haverhill — Barbara A. (Sylvia) Steele, 87, of Haverhill, passed away Saturday, August 24, at her home at Haverhill Crossings.
Barbara is survived by her sons, William and his wife, Karen, of Atkinson, N.H., Thomas and his wife, Theresa, of Byram, N.J., and Jonathan and his wife, Colleen, of Framingham, Mass.; her daughters, Kim Steele and her husband, Rob Bate, of Hudson, N.H., and Patricia of Dunedin, Fla.; grandchildren, Jason Baldwin, Jeremy Steele, Tyler Steele, Kellie McMahon, Sean Steele, Alyssa Steele, Aisling Steele, Ben Bate, Cailyn Steele, Hanna Bate, Allison Steele, Mark Steele, Amelia Steele and Jacob Steele; great-grandsons, Chase Baldwin and Aiden Steele. She was the widow of Billy Steele, with whom she spent 44 years of marriage.
ARRANGEMENTS: Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 10 a.m. from the H.L. Farmer and Sons Funeral Home, 106 Summer St., Haverhill, followed by a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. in Sacred Hearts Church, Bradford. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. She will be buried next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., at a later date. To view her complete obituary or to send a condolence to her family, please visit www.farmerfuneralhomes.com.


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The weekend at the college didn't turn out as you'd planned...
Back in the 2000 presidential election, I remember my mom, a staunch Democrat, getting mad at me because I voted for Ralph Nader, candidate for the Green Party.
"You're just throwing away your vote," she said.
That's not the way I look at it – it's my vote, and I can vote for whomever I like.
A similar thing happened in this most recent election. I was cautioned by my wife that if I voted Libertarian that it'd be a vote gone to waste.
Well, again, you could say that. But you could also say that any vote for a non-Republican in South Carolina is a lost cause.
It's just the way it works when it comes to selecting our commander-in-chief – but the process has seemed to befuddle many folks who don't know much about the Electoral College and the way our system works, despite the fact that we're taught this in Social Studies, Civics, History and whatever they call it now in school.
I saw lots of chatter on social media in the days leading up to the Nov. 6 election with people wondering openly about the Electoral College and expressing feelings that their vote wouldn't really count.
And after the dust settled and President Obama was re-elected by gaining the most electoral college votes, I began to think about the process – is this the best way to elect our leader, who the heck are these official electors, and for that matter are any of them from the Myrtle Beach area?
Prior to the election, I'd begun a perfunctory search for South Carolina's members of the Electoral College, and had come up empty, and a media friend pointed me to the Secretary of State's office.
So I searched the Secretary of State's Web site and still couldn't find a list of electors.
On Nov. 15, I sent an e-mail to Reneé S. Daggerhart, Media Relations Director/Executive Assistant of the South Carolina Secretary of State's Office requesting a list of the Palmetto State's Electoral College, and she replied with a spreadsheet of Electors for 2012, representing five political parties - Republican, Democrat, Constitution, Green and Libertarian. I scanned the list and recognized two names – Dick Harpootlian, the state Democratic party chairman, and for The Constitution Party, a one Tony Romo. I was pretty sure it wasn't the much-maligned Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
Still, I wanted to know who these people are that are entrusted with officially electing our president.
So, I took the list provided by the Secretary of State and asked the state Democratic and Republican parties if they had contact information for each elector and the Republicans responded immediately providing me the info I requested. I'm still waiting on the Democratic party.
Frustrated, I returned to Daggerhart asking her via e-mail, "is there any other information about them - where they're from, e-mail addresses?
Harpootlian's the only name I recognize - outside of Tony Romo."
Several days later, she said she could provide me with copies of elector forms each elector had to fill out and certify, which would provide their addresses, so I could at least figure out where in the Palmetto State these folks are from – at a cost of 90 cents per party – for a grand total of $4.50 for the PDFs. So I agreed to pay, got my hands on the info, and in the meantime dispatched our intrepid correspondent Christina Knauss to try and track down some of these electors in advance of the Dec. 17 - that's Monday - scheduled convening of the 2012 Electoral College with SOS Hammond to officially cast their votes.
Knauss had varying degrees of success reaching these mystery men and women, and you can read the fruits of her labor in this week's cover story, which also takes a closer look at the Electoral College process and the people officially entrusted with the duty to cast votes in the presidential election – even if it's a losing cause this time as South Carolina backed GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
Also in the days following the election, I listened to quite a bit of talk radio, and a few times on WRNN-FM's "Hot Talk Morning Show" I heard the debate over the Electoral College brought up - and it sounded like co-host Dave Priest, an acquaintance (didn't you know everybody in the local, liberal media hangs out together?) of mine and "Friend" on Facebook, had made it clear he was not a fan of the Electoral College. So I reached out to him and asked him if he'd like to pen an opinion piece on obliterating the Electoral College, and you can read his screed, which is part of this week's cover story package, too, featured on our homepage.
Kent Kimes, Editor


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Rene's most-used iPhone and iPad apps of 2011
My most-used apps of 2011 are probably the built in iPhone and iPad Safari browser, Mail client, and anything and everything Siri can now easily and instantly manage for me like Reminders, Calendars, Alarms, etc. But that's mundane, boring, and way too Spock for a list like this. So if I take the defaults off the table and focus only on the App Store fare, here's what I spent most of my time with this year.
I use Twitter a lot. I try every new client that comes out and I use several at a time for different things. I read a lot in Twitterriffic due to the unified timeline. I still occasionally compose in Birdhouse for things I'm mulling but haven't completed yet. I love just scrolling through Twittelator Neue for the sheer eye candy of it. Instagram is also good for sharing pics to Twitter. But for most of the year I stuck with Twitter for iPhone for my heavy lifting -- checking @mentions and quickly firing off replies. Recently, when Twitter remodeled for what I can only imagine is the new, Britney Spears-following user, I remodeled as well -- to Tweetbot. While it looks significantly different from Loren Brichter's Tweetie, the original basis for Twitter for iPhone, Tweetbot works in a similar enough way that's it become my go-to Twitter app.
I've always watched a ton of TV. I leave it on while I work as background noise, and if there's anything that competes with gadgets for my geek love, it's story -- characters through conflict coming to conclusion. Like many others, I cut my cable TV off this year and went all in on apps. I use Air Video to watch almost everything I already have on my hard-drive, automagically transcoding it on the fly and beaming it over AirPlay to my Apple TV. I use a bunch of Canadian TV network apps for watching new shows, namely Global, CTV, and Citytv. Despite their inexplicable spiral into business insanity this year, however, I've been watching more and more Netflix. It's older stuff, but it's a lot of stuff, with no annoying ads, and a lot of complete seasons of shows. In addition to re-watching the best of Buffy and Angel, I've plowed through Mad Men, The Unit, and a bunch of other great shows.
I don't listen to as many podcasts as I used to. The more time I spend writing the less time I have to read, and now the more time I spend producing and hosting podcasts means the less time I have to listen and watch them. That's not entirely a bad thing; several of the shows I used to listen have grown to the point where they now seem a tad out of touch with the subjects I enjoyed, or the personalities have somehow decided that interrupting with lame jokes is more important than letting the interesting, informed guest actually finish a sentence. (And yeah, I'm as guilty of all that as the next podcaster -- we often find most annoying in others the traits that we find most annoying in ourselves). But I do have to keep track of all the Mobile Nations shows and make sure all the feeds have the right episodes, all the downloads are working, all the art is showing up, etc. etc. and when I do have time to listen to something like Hypercritical or The Sci-Fi Cast, I use Instacast and now Instacast HD
Twitter has replaced a lot of what I used to use RSS for -- finding interesting stuff to read and post about -- but it hasn't replaced everything. I still check RSS daily. I'll use The Early Edition when I want to sip latte and skim the news, or Flipboard when I want to check out a social stream of news. For churning through a ton of feeds, however, Reeder for iPhone and Reeder for iPad are still my workhorses. They sync with Google Reader quickly and the interfaces are nearly frictionless. Anything that's super-interesting gets mailed off or saved to [Instapaper], and I get back to work.
Whether it's on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Windows, whenever I'm setting up new a device or computer -- which I do often -- the first thing I do is log into iCloud, then install Dropbox, then install 1Password, and then I'm pretty much done. 1Password hooks into Dropbox to keep all my logins, credit cards, accounts, and other information secure yet easily accessible. It also generates super-strong passwords when I need them. I have to keep track of so many accounts that there's just no way I'd be able to do it without 1Password. Once that's done, I'll get Screens, Skype, and my other go-to utilities up and running.
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what about the app MSecure?
I love that one as a replacement for Password Keeper that I had on Blackberry
I'm going to have to go with Rene on this. Having come to iOS by way of BlackBerry and Windows Mobile before that, I was afraid I'd never find the right sort of password manager again.
1Password had already been a mainstay on my MacBook and the instant integration made it a no-brainer for the way I work.
oh alright. You guys sound like you have prior experience working with that app. I'm sure if I used it I may like it but since I have Msecure already and its not broke I won't fix it. Also re-reading this post by Rene (slow day at work) I like feedly as an RSS reader.
I'm wondering if plyaing games uses MB because I have a 200 MB limit and I like to play iphone game apps. I don't want to go over the limit just because I am plyaing games that I downloaded. Does MB only go up when I'm actually on the internet?
Rene, as a fellow Canafian, I'd be interested to know what kind of wireless/Internet plan you have that allows you to meet your TV addiction via the web.... I've been thinking of cutting my cable as well, but not sure if I'd have to up the ante on home Internet (currently capped at 60GB).
Thanks Rene. That 300GB blows my 60GB out of the water. Will have to compare the cost of upgrading my home broadband vs the cost of ditching cable...
Rene, nice list. What do you use for blogging on your iPad?
Roboform works well across platforms too
Rene, if I buy 1Password for my iPad, will I have to pay for my iPhone and Mac? Been looking for a great password keeper since moving from blackberry in February. Thanks for the great list.
How would you compare Lastpass to 1Password?
Hi i have a doubt in tweetbot app there's an option that says "text upload" how you use it for example I wrote a tweet with more than 140 characters and I can't make it function that setting sorry for my bad English
Can you post prices please, like your co-workers. : ]
Oh my --- I'm going to need a map to keep up with you (haha). Good thing you included links. I've enejyod all your posts. I always receive such inspiration from you. Now if only you could tell me how to LOOK LIKE YOU!!!!
Very Good Rene, very good.


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Three people associated with agents or financial advisers provided benefits, including hotel rooms, meals and access to a pool party, to UNC football players who broke NCAA rules, new records show.
The documents, released Friday afternoon after weeks of requests from The News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer, were heavily redacted by UNC lawyers who cited a federal privacy law that keeps student educational records private. As a result, the 19 pages do not specifically detail which players received which benefits.
Still, the records and interviews shed more light on the crisis that has surrounded UNC's football program since the summer, when concerns about agents providing benefits to players - which is forbidden - brought NCAA investigators to Chapel Hill.
Since then, the university has acknowledged academic misconduct violations as well. In all, 14 players have missed some or all of the season. The program's second-in-command, top recruiter and associate head coach John Blake, resigned amid questions about receiving money from an agent. Head coach Butch Davis has said he won't resign.
And three players are no longer eligible to play in college: Marvin Austin, Greg Little and Robert Quinn, all projected to be selected in next spring's NFL draft. Last week, the NCAA said that Little and Quinn had lied to its investigators and that the players took trips, jewelry and more worth a combined $10,000. The NCAA banned them from college play after receiving reports from UNC.
UNC said Austin accepted more than $10,000 in benefits and kicked him out of the program without submitting information about him to the NCAA.
But until Friday, the NCAA and UNC had declined to say who provided the benefits. UNC switched course after continued efforts by The N&O and the Observer to force their release.
The NCAA still refuses to release records on the agents, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction over them. The N.C. Secretary of State's office enforces a state agent-registration law, and the state agency has acknowledged opening a criminal probe that could lead to felony charges.
3 agents named
The new documents appear to include five letters to the NCAA that report violations of NCAA rules.
In addition to naming three people who provided benefits, the documents also mention four meetings at local restaurants in which dinners were paid for by financial advisers. But it does not name the advisers.
A UNC spokeswoman said she could not clarify that.
"We have not submitted any documents to the NCAA that reference agents or prospective agents other than those named in the attached letters," vice chancellor Nancy Davis said.
The documents say that agent-related benefits were provided by:
Chris Hawkins, a former UNC football player who the documents say is considered a "runner" for agents or advisers. A runner is someone who befriends players and helps recruit them for others.
Hawkins is mentioned in three of the violation letters to the NCAA as providing "minimal" benefits, though a separate letter describes more extensive involvement.
The additional document is a letter to Hawkins from UNC athletic director Dick Baddour that says UNC is "taking formal action to disassociate" Hawkins from the program, banning him from contact with any athletes for five years.
Hawkins said in an interview that he was only trying to help friends and players who were being bombarded by agents and others, and that he was not paid by anyone to secure players.
Todd Stewart, who is believed to be from Washington, D.C.
Stewart is described in one of the NCAA violation letters as a prospective agent because of "self-identified ties with a financial advising firm."
The documents say that Stewart booked and paid for hotel rooms. After a lengthy section that is blanked out, the documents say "it has been determined that these costs" were paid by Stewart.
Stewart could not be reached on Friday. Stewart has told ESPN that he was contacted by the NCAA, and he acknowledged that he was at a party with players in South Florida this year.
"There were parties and they were popular," Stewart told ESPN. "But it wasn't some conspiracy to get players for sports agents."
It's not clear if he was asked by ESPN whether he provided benefits to players.
Michael Katz, director of marketing and client services for Rosenhaus Sports, which has the largest number of NFL clients.
Two of the NCAA violation letters say Katz provided wristbands that granted access to a pool party. The documents do not say more about that, including specifically whether that action triggers a violation. Previous reports have shown Austin and Little at a South Florida pool party.
Katz could not immediately be reached. The agency where he works is owned by brothers Drew and Jason Rosenhaus. Jason Rosenhaus, the vice chairman of the agency, took information from a reporter on the situation Friday but declined to comment.
Agency chairman Drew Rosenhaus told the Sports Business Journal that his employee assured him the allegations were false.
"At no time did my employee provide any benefits to any college player," Rosenhaus said in a quote posted on a Sports Business Journal reporter's Twitter account.
Katz's involvement marks at least the second time the agency had contact with a North Carolina player during the offseason.
Davis, in his fourth year as head coach, recently confirmed in an interview for The N&O and Observer that he became aware while on vacation that Drew Rosenhaus was at Kenan Stadium meeting with a player and the meeting was broken up.
"The individual that told me that said that he asked the player to go ahead and leave, and that he asked Drew Rosenhaus to leave," Davis said.
Davis declined to identify the player or who intervened in the contact, which occurred in June.
It would not have been against NCAA rules for Rosenhaus to meet with the player because UNC says the player was a rising senior. That means it wouldn't have violated NFL Players Association rules, either.
Rosenhaus is registered with the N.C. Secretary of State as an athlete agent.
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Besides the troubles surrounding Austin, Little and Quinn, two other players - Kendric Burney and Deunta Williams - have been suspended for accepting trips.
Burney took trips to Atlanta, Las Vegas and California, and Williams made two trips to California. Although both players paid for part of their travel expenses, the NCAA ruled that there were other benefits, and they had to make donations to charity.
Williams has said former UNC defensive back Omar Brown - who's not known to be associated with a sports agent - provided the impermissible benefits that led to his four-game suspension.
Burney's father, Tyrone Burney, has said Kendric's association with Hawkins led to his suspension. Burney initially was suspended for six games but remains withheld from a seventh game, to be played today at Miami.
Burney's Twitter page identified current defensive back Charles Brown as traveling to Atlanta with Burney and Hawkins, and that running back Shaun Draughn met them when they arrived.
Brown is out for the season.
Draughn was withheld from one game.
Two other players - Jonathan Smith and Brian Gupton - are out for the season, but it's unclear whether their violations were related to academics or agents.
The other players who have missed games are: Michael McAdoo, who has yet to play; Ryan Houston, who has been cleared after missing five games and might sit out the rest of the season without losing a year of eligibility, commonly known as redshirting; Linwan Euwell, who was held out of five games; Da'Norris Searcy, who missed three games; and Devon Ramsay, who played in the first four games but has been withheld since.
The documents include the letter from Baddour to Hawkins, dated the week before the NCAA banned Little and Quinn.
Hawkins played defensive back for the Tar Heels from 2001 to 2003 and was dismissed from the program in April 2004 for a team rule violation. Hawkins has said he became friendly with Tar Heels players while visiting the team's weight room with Willie Parker, who was a teammate of Hawkins' at UNC and went on to win two Super Bowls as a Pittsburgh Steelers running back.
The documents outline four ways that Baddour says Hawkins' "recent involvement with our student-athletes has led to the suspension of some ... and placed them at risk of losing their NCAA eligibility."
Baddour wrote that UNC developed information indicating Hawkins "may have" provided impermissible benefits; arranged for meetings with agents; offered to purchase gear and memorabilia from players; and stated to agents and financial advisers that he represented players.
Hawkins is also connected to Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green, who was suspended for four games for selling a bowl game jersey to Hawkins for $1,000.
For at least five years, UNC will not allow him to have any athletic benefit or privilege that is not available to the general public.
The school has prohibited Hawkins from communicating with current or prospective athletes, and from accessing the Kenan Football Center or other athletic facilities at any time.
Staff researcher Brooke Cain contributed to this report.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers search cars for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner as visitors enter Mexico from the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, Calif.
Christopher Dorner, the fugitive ex-cop suspected of shooting five people, is still on the lam and may have fled to Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.
Details emerged Tuesday regarding the criminal complaint filed in federal court Feb. 7 that indicate U.S. Marshals have "probable cause" to believe Dorner has "moved and traveled in interstate and foreign commerce from California to Mexico with the intent to avoid prosecution," USA Today reports.
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Daniel Harmon is probably better equipped than most to deal with a minor car crash.
After all, Harmon, 31, is an insurance agent.
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Nicholson was carrying metal prison lockers to a shop at 7405 Louisburg Road to be sandblasted so they could be refurbished.
Harmon headed straight.
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"The driver said he didn't see anything," Harmon said.
A police report states the truck hit Harmon's car. It shows a diagram of it doing so - and it states the truck's driver failed to yield.
The police report estimated Harmon's damage at $3,500. Harmon has filed a small claims complaint for $2,270.
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But the state's car insurance, Travelers, is refusing to pay for Harmon's car, which Travelers determined is totaled, Harmon said. Travelers declined to comment, citing privacy reasons.
Questions about a witness might explain the holdup.
According to Harmon'scopy of the police report, there are no witnesses listed. But another wreck report shows an added sentence, which says a witness said he saw the truck had its blinker on.
"But due the position of the witness vehicle, it is unclear if he actually observed the accident," the report states.
Raleigh Police Officer T.R. Jackson Jr. handled the accident but didn't cite the Department of Correction driver, despite writing in the report that the driver failed to yield and "struck" Harmon.
I called Raleigh police to ask why no one was cited.
"It is not atypical to not issue a citation in wrecks where there are no injuries," said Jim Sughrue, a police spokesman.
As for the two wreck reports, the first copy was a preliminary one, which was later amended with the witness statement.
Travelers sent a claims adjuster and determined Harmon's car was totaled, Harmon said.
Harmon says Travelers told him that it had reached out to the witness - and that the witness told the insurance company that Nicholson was straddling the lane before he turned right.
"That would mean I was a kamikaze person trying to pass him on the right," Harmon said. "Travelers denied me based on that."
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Harmon said Travelers would not give him any more information about his claim.
Harmon is insured byGeico but does not have collision coverage, he said.
Keith Acree, a Correction Department spokesman, said that since no one was cited or ticketed in this accident, "it's up to the insurance companies to settle the matter." He then suggested I call Travelers.
So I contacted Jennifer Wislocki, a spokeswoman for Travelers.
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