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By Jordan SpenceStaff Reporter
Local prosecutors are receiving support from the state level in their de-sire to clarify the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act.
In the Isabella County case, Prosecutor Larry Bur-dick filed an appeal against Compassionate Apothe-cary challenging the legal-ity of caregiver and patient transfers. Schuette filed papers supporting that case last week.
“We welcome the attor-ney general’s input into the case,” Burdick said. “I think he’s taking the cor-rect position on this is-sue.”
Burdick’s appeal stems from the case State of Michigan v. McQueen, in which Isabella County Judge Paul Chamberlain ruled in favor of Brandon McQueen, owner of the dispensary that now op-erates as C.A. of Mount Pleasant, 311 W. Michigan St.
Chamberlain stated the profits of the owners are legal because they fall un-der their role as caregivers. However, Schuette is sup-porting Burdick and ar-gues dispensaries cannot
operate as a for-profit o r g a n i z a -tion under the medical m a r i j u a n a law, which was ap-proved by M i c h i g a n voters in the November 2008 election.
Burdick said Schuette’s assistance is just another voice in the issue and he does not expect it to delay the case.
“I’m not too worried about the change in the appeal,” McQueen said. “I don’t think it will end up hurting our business or pa-tients either.”
Schuette spokeswoman Joy Yearout said the attor-ney general chose to sup-port the appeals because he wants to do all he can for those trying to protect public safety.
She said because the laws are vague, they tie the hands of prosecutors.
“The attorney general can offer a broader perspective on the cases,” Yearout said. “There are certain com-mon sense public safety laws that are in effect that
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Sean Proctor/staff photographerA tree fell on an Audi A4 owned by Rockford sophomore Kalyn Langfeldt and a PT Cruiser owned by Tecumseh junior Ann Travis around 3 p.m. on Sunday at 1025 Washington St. Travis, who was outside cleaning off another car nearby, said it was like “War of the Worlds.” “You never know how close to death you can be until a tree falls on your car,” she said. “It was so surreal.”
jake may/photo editorIsabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski, left, walks past police tape to joins members of the sheriff’s department at the scene of a homicide at 7120 E. River Road. Gary John Reen, 56, has been charged by prosecutors with open murder. “Homicides in Isabella County are very rare,” Mioduszewski said.
Husband charged with murdering wife
Paige calamari/staff photographerHarrison senior Nathan Heath participates in a limbo contest during Relay For Life Saturday night at the Indoor Athletic Complex. The event marked Heath’s fifth consecutive year attending Relay For Life. The event, which is the largest fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, attracted numerous students and community members to remember loved ones, support those in the fight, honor survivors and stand up against cancer.
Run for their lives
By Jake BolithoMetro Editor
A former CMU employee was found dead Friday and her husband is charged with open murder.
Gary John Reen, 56, of Chip-pewa Township, was arraigned Saturday after turning himself over to police and telling them he shot his wife, Cheryl Kristine Reen. He remains jailed on $2 million bond.
Deputies found the body of the 51-year-old woman in a pole
barn at a residence located at 7120 E. River Road, where Gary Reen told deputies he had shot her, said Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski.
Investigators determined Cheryl Reen was shot at least two times with a handgun.
Cheryl Reen, whose name is listed in a past CMU directory, worked as an administrative sec-retary for the School of Health Sciences as recently as 2005.
It was not clear whether she was working for the university at the time of her death. CMU Hu-man resources officials did not provide any information regard-ing her current employment status as of Sunday evening.
Reen is also charged with felony firearm possession. He
has asked for a court-appoint-ed attorney to represent him.
A date for Reen’s next court appear-ance will likely be set some-time this week, Mioduszewski said.
The alleged homicide stemmed from a domestic dis-pute at the home, about a mile and a half north of the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, 6800 Soaring Eagle Blvd.
“They were having marital problems at the time,” Mio-duszewski said.
Sheriff’s deputies and Sag-inaw Chippewa Tribal Police
arrived at the scene 6:57 p.m Friday after Reen turned himself in. Investigators from the Michi-gan State Police Crime Lab ar-rived later from Bridgeport to process the scene and collect any evidence.
Their 15-year-old son was also staying at the residence pri-or to the incident. The teenager, who was inside the home at the time of the alleged shooting, has since been turned over to other family members.
“He didn’t know what was go-ing on,” Mioduszewski said. “
Beyond marital problems, a clearer motive behind the alleged homicide has not yet been determined. Reen is say-
Cheryl K. Reenworked as formerCMU secretary
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By Mike NicholsSenior Reporter
Relay For Life participants came together over the weekend to show people living with cancer they are not alone in the battle.
Registered student organiza-tion Colleges Against Cancer hosted its seventh annual Re-lay For Life event, a fundraiser bringing volunteers to walk in
support of the American Cancer Society, from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 10 a.m. on Sunday. Hundreds walked laps inside the Indoor Athletic Center’s Jack Skoog In-door Track.
“It’s supposed to symbolize that cancer never sleeps, so nei-ther shall we,” said Newport se-nior Andrea Wight, who served as the team development co-chairwoman.
Fifty-nine groups of RSOs, families and others raised just less than $10,000, bringing the total amount raised for the cause since September at CMU to $43,727.99.
Katie Bosscher, associate director of the mid-Michigan
ACS office, said she was very proud of the job CMU has done with Relay For Life. She said the money raised has funded cancer research from 44 Nobel Laure-ates and has made an important impact in the lives of cancer pa-tients.
“We’ve upped our number of survivors to 360 a year and our goal is to reach 1000 over the next 20 years,” Bosscher said. “Events like (Relay For Life) will help us get to that goal.”
Lapeer junior Billy Sanders
and Bronson junior Jonathan Milliman wore the medals of cancer survivors. Both developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 4 and were pronounced can-cer-free three years later. When they became roommates their freshman year, they were each shocked to learn the other had survived the same cancer.
Milliman said he was thankful to see so many people donating to help fund the research that had saved their lives.
“It’s sweet that so many stu-dents came out here for such a good cause,” he said. “Kids have
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By Orrin ShawlStaff Reporter
Unexpected winter weath-er caused a spike in acci-dents throughout the Mount Pleasant Area Sunday.
A fallen tree totaled two cars and tore an electrical wire from a house at about 3 p.m. at 1025 Washington St. There were no injuries re-ported from the incident.
Tecumseh junior Ann Tra-vis, who lives at the home,
compared the experience to watching the film “War of the Worlds.”
“We thought the world was ending,” Travis said. “Sirens were going off and I was about ready to see Tom Cruise and (Dakota Fanning). You never know how close to death you can be until a tree falls on your car.”
Travis owned a Black PT Cruiser that was wrecked by the tree. An Audi A4 belong-ing to Rockford sophomore Kalyn Langfeldt was also damaged.
Troy senior Lew Price said he and his roommates were not around when it happened.
“We pulled in five min-utes after it happened,” Price said. “We saw all of (the emergency person-nel) in the backyard and we were wondering, ‘What the hell are they doing?’ As soon as we drove up and saw, we were like, ‘Oh my God.’”
One accident during the day occurred on Bluegrass Road about 1 p.m, where a vehicle rolled over and at least one injury was report-ed. The vehicles involved in the accident were pulled out by Ace Towing, 1504 N. Fancher Ave.
Within the 3-to-4-hour period beginning at around
1 p.m., the company pulled out about 40 vehicles, said Tiffany Gepford, office man-ager at Ace Towing. The company dealt with at least three rollovers, including a few vehicles that hit guard rails on the expressway.
“At one point, we had about 17 calls. We were very busy today,” Gepford said. “People were surprisingly patient and willing to wait.”
A shift supervisor at the Mount Pleasant Police De-partment did not have in-formation on the number of reported accidents and de-clined comment.
Snow, slush cause sharp increase in car accidentsSmashed vehicles, downed electrical lines among effects
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ing little to investigators, the sheriff said.
The incident is the third re-ported murder in the Mount Pleasant area in the past year.
On July 10, 25-year-old Iva Joy Fuller’s body was found in a field off of Remus Road near Nottawa Road on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation. Her brother, Daniel Lawrence Fuller, has been indicted on federal mur-der charges.
Three days later, Kim “Kemp” Luchie, 25, was shot to death by Shepherd resident Justin Joel Luckhardt at The Cabin, 930 W. Broomfield St. Luckhardt later shot and killed himself after a high-speed police chase.
“Homicides in Isabella Coun-ty are very rare,” Mioduszewski said.
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better medical research and a better chance of surviving now.”
For Wight, the most emotion-al part of the event was when the crowd gathered for the Lu-minaria ceremony at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. Decorated bags filled with glow sticks lined the course, each with the name of a cancer victim written on it. Wight said each bag repre-sented the light of a person no longer with us.
CMU alumna and cancer survivor Angela Emond shared her story and thanked the crowd for its commitment to cancer victims.
“Darkness has a weakness: even a single candle is enough to hold it back,” Emond said.
“You should know that your love is a candle held bright against the night in their life.”
Lynn Simons, mother of re-cently-deceased CMU student Hannah Simons-Scalise, also spoke, reminding the crowd to remember the joy in the life of each cancer patient.
Wight was in tears as she asked the crowd to stand up in memory of the relationships lost to cancer. Most of the crowd, many of whom were also crying, stood when Wight mentioned losing grandpar-ents.
They then walked three laps in silence around the bags.
“It was so powerful for every-one to see that they’re not alone in this,” she said. “When you see everyone stand like that, you re-ally know why you’re here.”
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should be followed.”In the separate Oakland
County case — State of Mich-igan v. Redden — Schuette filed a brief with the Michigan Supreme Court arguing un-registered users of marijuana
should not be able to use a defense under the Medical Marihuana Act against drug possession charges.
The brief states unregistered users take advantage of such a defense if they are found in possession of marijuana.
Burdick said there has to be a clear direction by the Michigan court system.
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Residents of Fabiano, Emmons and Woldt halls got the chance to experience or relive a classic high school Friday night at “Prom 2011: ‘90s Flashback.”
Bay City senior Brad Bender, a resident as-sistant in Emmons Hall, said he organized the event as a hall program.
“My goal was to make it even more fun than high school prom,” Bender said.
Between 125 and 150 CMU students attend-ed “Prom 2011,” which exceeded Bender’s goal of 100.
Bender was pleased with the turnout.“I didn’t actually think people were going
to show up on time, and I had people show up exactly at 8:30,” he said. “I’ve never had a program where some people have shown up at the exact time we started. That blew
me away.”Bender said he realized many staff mem-
bers and residents in the FEW area never went to their high school prom, and several did not even have the opportunity to go.
After four months of planning and five hours of setup, a team of residents and staff members pulled the event together into a three-and-a-half-hour formal gala.
Prom me baby, one more timeTOP: St. Clair Shores sophomore Laura Trombley, 20, dances with attitude among her friends in the middle of a dance circle to Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle” at Prom 2011: ‘90s Flashback on Friday night in Woldt Hall. “You just can’t be afraid to make a fool of yourself and get into it,” she said. ABOVE: New Baltimore sophomore Katie Webb, 19, kisses her boyfriend Nick Fedore, a 21-year-old Niles junior, as he dips her on the dance floor during the prom. Webb and Fedore have been dating for three months, and met when he stumbled into her room looking for a dance partner. “I didn’t get to go to prom in high school,” Webb said. “This is a second chance, and it’s just fantastic.”
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Manistee sophomore Kaylyn Lavender, left, reaches for the hand of boyfriend Zachery Drake, a Petoskey senior, while the two dance silhouetted against the lights lining the wall at Prom 2011: ‘90s Flashback, Friday night, in Woldt Hall.
Commerce Township freshman Madison Bartelt whips her hair around in circles in an open space by herself to Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” at the Prom 2011: ’90s Flashback Friday in Woldt Hall.
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The Cavataio/English ticket has what it takes to help make the SGA relevant to the student body again.
Like the opposing candi-dates, Grand Blanc junior Robert Brooks and Brighton sophomore Colleen Mc-Neely, who are running for president and vice presi-dent respectively, Cavataio and English want to create a unicameral legislature for the SGA that would be comprised of students who actually want to be involved.
The change would mean a representative from every registered student organi-zation on campus would not be required to attend the SGA meetings to receive funding from the Student Budget Allocation Com-mittee. But unlike Brooks and McNeely, the Cavataio ticket wants to make the change from a bicameral legislature gradually in-stead of enacting immedi-ate change.
Cavataio told members of the Editorial Board he would wait until the fall semester to tackle the is-sue of the legislature by forming a committee that would find the best way to implement the change for spring in 2012. This would ensure that not only the transition is as seamless as possible, but also that the most dedicated students are involved.
Cavataio and English seem to be more concerned with understanding what the student body wants as a whole.
Two of the primary legs of the Brooks/McNeely cam-paign are a bicycle-sharing program and increasing the amount of work-study jobs. While both of those are solid ideas, the bike-share con-cept has been shelved for more than a year because of the difficulty of implement-ing such a program.
As for increasing work-
study programs at CMU, few would argue that it is a bad idea, but it is not an issue SGA has any control over. McNeely herself pointed out that the final decision rests with university administra-tors during the March 31 Live Chat streamed on www.cm-life.com.
Cavataio and English also said they would like to in-crease academic input from students regarding courses offered in certain programs and increase diversity awareness on campus by
adding employee training for gender identity.
SGA has had several large accomplishments over the past year, primarily the formation of a pro bono legal clinic and the passing of legislation in support of gender-neutral housing, which Cavataio co-authored with McNeely.
It is clear if any candidate has the experience to lead the SGA the way it needs to be led and do what it takes to make it a stronger force for change, it is him.
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Because students are particularly apathetic to changes on campus, it is impor-tant to elect leaders who will bring the Student Government Association to the forefront, and those leaders are Shelby Township senior Vincent Cavataio and
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They are all over campus, on doors, bulletin boards, and vending machines, I’m talk-ing about those Take Back the Tap stickers.
The principles behind Take Back the Tap are simple: the organization claims bottled water is not safer than tap wa-ter, it is more expensive and it hurts the environment, so we should remove the option to purchase bottled water from CMU’s campus.
In an interview with CM Life last semester, Sam Schle-ich, the TBTT president at CMU, said, “There is no good reason to have bottled water on campus.”
But is this really true? To determine the validity of this statement, the question needs to be asked, “Why do CMU students buy bottled water on campus?”
The answer is not that they prefer buying vending machine water bottles. From a financial standpoint, this does not make sense. Vending machine water costs more than buying a case of bottled water at the grocery store and bringing that to campus.
Most students will only buy bottled water on campus for one of three reasons: they suddenly got thirsty and want water for class, they usually bring bottled water to class but forgot it or they usually bring a reusable bottle of water and forgot that.
So what will happen if CMU eliminates bottled water from its vending machines, and students still get thirsty on campus? On paper, the proposal seems like a good idea; in today’s era of wanting to “go green,” a large portion of students would probably say they would use drinking foun-tains instead.
But this raises another question: why are you buying a bottle of water now when you can get water for free?
The reason is because stu-dents want to be able to drink in class.
Sure, some students will just go to the drinking foun-tain and get a quick drink. But the majority of the students buying water bottles do not want a “quick drink,” oth-erwise they would have just gone to the drinking fountain in the first place.
Instead, most students will go to the vending machine and buy a bottled soft drink. This not only leads to plastic bottles still being used, but it leads to students choosing a less healthy beverage option.
During a recent discussion on the elimination of bottled water, a friend of mine put it well: “You still use the damn plastic!”
Instead of eliminating bottled water, which will do little to help the environ-ment, TBTT should advocate for more recycling and help educate students on why recycling is important. This allows for students to decide for themselves whether or not they will purchase bottled water, while still helping the environment.
If bottled water sales are eliminated, would CMU see a reduction in plastic bottles being used? Yes, but for the most part, the drop would not be significant.
It is not the university’s place to restrict what kind of otherwise-legal beverages are offered on campus, and if there is a demand for water, water should be sold.
I have ADHD but have performed strongly in col-lege.
So a few weeks ago I wrote a column on dealing with ADHD and college life. Now a new study, which has been widely reported, has brought an important new component of life with ADHD to my attention: food.
Norwegian research-ers found as many as 60 percent of children diag-nosed with ADHD could be suffering from an acute hypersensitivity to certain foods.
Among the food cited by the Norwegian study and others are: food dyes (red 40, yellow 5, etc.), caffeine and other heavily pro-cessed foods — especially sugars.
When I read the reports it dawned on me that me that I take in very little of these types of foods and that could have played a major role in my success. In fact, aside from my morning coffee, I take in almost none of those types of foods.
So, as much as I’d like to say my methods for coping were the key factor in over-coming some of my chal-lenges, it would be wrong for me not to point out dietary considerations.
But just like taking notes, studying in a quiet place or unplugging your computer to avoid its distraction, this method for coping with ADHD comes with great side effects.
Eating less processed foods has been linked to a number of health benefits including reduced risk of diabetes, heart attack, weight loss, looking young-er longer and increased energy.
Furthermore, in the Norwegian study, subjects who changed their diets saw dramatic improvement in just five weeks. Many even reported a complete alleviation of all ADHD symptoms.
The FDA has yet to con-firm the research done in the Norwegian study and cautions against an overre-action to its findings.
However, for someone struggling with ADHD, there is no good reason not to take to it seriously.
Make the change for two months and see how your life improves. All you have to lose is a few pounds of fat and a few percentage points from your risk of serious health issues. Comments in response to
“Central Michigan University needs to capitalize on its op-portunity for a creative writing master of fine arts program”
Michmediaperson - March 31z
While I’m against the Medical School, this creative writing idea isn’t going to create jobs and get people ready for job openings in Michigan. With the limited amount of tax dollars avail-able, we should be offering more programs in high tech, IT, health-related (not medical school), business, etc. So, we don’t have to bring in foreign-ers from India, the Phillipines and Parts Unknown to fill job vacancies throughout the state!
Creative writing isn’t going to create jobs! Or, get students ready for tomorrow’s jobs!
By the way, if the professors want it bad enough, why do
they need any money? They teach what 2 courses a week and a couple hours in the of-fice. Why don’t they volunteer their time to have a Master’s course in Creative Writing? Teach an extra course or two for free. Another 10 hours a week for class and office time still will be within the 40-hour work week. Without sounding like Nike, Just Do It!
Andrew D Devenne, in reply to Michmediaperson - March 31
“They teach what 2 courses a week and a couple hours in the office. Why don’t they volunteer their time to have a Master’s course in Creative Writing? Teach an extra course or two for free. Another 10 hours a week for class and of-fice time still will be within the 40-hour work week. Without sounding like Nike, Just Do It! “
You don’t have any idea
what you are talking about, so maybe when you figure out how much work a professor actually puts in to a given week of the semester, you can come back and lecture people on gratis labor.
Michmediaperson, in reply to Andrew D Devenney - April 1
Andrew, once a professor puts his or her power point presentation or lecture notes together, that’s good for the next 20 years. Find them in the file at 9:45 a.m. and off to class at 10 a.m.
Let’s look at the history professor. Has World War II history changed in the last 20 years? Did Pearl Harbor not get attacked on 12-7-41? For the accounting profes-sor, have debits and credits changed? Of course, not.
I don’t see how any profes-sor could possibly spend 40 hours focusing only on their actual two classes a week. If
they are, they’re slow learners.I’d love to come to CMU
and teach the professors on time management. Of course, I’ll bill my time to typical pro-fessor consulting fees.
Anytime, Andrew. Anytime.
happyfamily, in reply to Michmediaperson - April 1
You may be correct in saying that there aren’t a lot of creative writing jobs, but you’re also being too narrow-minded about other ways a person could benefit from such a degree. Creative writers tend to be competent com-municators and deep think-ers, who are very capable of identifying problems and de-veloping useful ways to solve them. That said, these skills are appreciated in MANY jobs, not just creative writing jobs. Maybe we need more creative writing majors to rescue the world from the pit of despair it’s currently falling into.
perry fish/staff photographerStudent Government Association presidential candidate and Shelby Township senior Vincent Cavataio, left, and vice presidential candidate and Jackson junior Bryant English after announcing their bids for the positions on March 24.
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Pamela Gates has carried several titles since coming to CMU as a graduate student in 1989.
Now, she can add “Woman of the Year” to the list.
Gates, dean of the Col-lege of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sci-ences, was presented with the Woman of the Year award by the CMU branch of the Michigan American Council on Education Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education.
“It’s amazing,” Gates said. “You don’t do things because you expect to receive an hon-or, you do things because you love your work and be-lieve in what you do.”
Though Gates has been involved with CMU for 20 years, it was not always her plan to root her life in the education system. She did not initially intend to go to college at all, she said, but a fateful family move to Arizona altered her per-spective.
“I never even planned on going to college,” she said.
“I moved to a place where they expected all of their stu-dents to go to college.”
Gates said she has seen a great deal of positive change in how women are treated since entering the higher-education workforce, though some work remains for wom-en to get equal footing with men.
“I came through a period of time where there were few women in terms of professors and administrators,” she said. “We’ve always had the education, credentials and fortitude for the work (but) we weren’t always given the opportunities.”
Gates is known for her role in helping out CMU faculty.
“Her track record of men-toring and teaching others definitely stands out,” said Amy McGinnis, co-chair-woman of the committee that chose Gates for the
award.Beyond her work as a dean,
Gates mentors women in the Mount Pleasant community fighting breast cancer.
She is a survivor of the disease and her history with it reaches back to her child-hood.
“My own mother died of breast cancer at 41,” she said. “This has been a part of my life since I was about 12 years
old.”Monica Holmes, profes-
sor of business information systems, has known Gates for years. She said Gates has always been a strong propo-nent of women.
“She has always supported our initiatives,” Holmes said. “I think she does her job very well.”
Pamela Gates named to honor at CMUDean keeps active in mentoring administration
“It’s a lot of fun, everyone there is just having a good time,” Emmons RA Grace Knoche said. “It’s already go-ing wonderfully.”
The New Baltimore senior helped Bender plan “Prom 2011” by advertising, decid-ing how to spend the $1,990 allocated by Residence Hall Assembly and setting up the event.
“It’s just a great way for residents as well as the staff to have a good time togeth-er,” Knoche said. “Also, be-cause people didn’t get to go to prom, or they didn’t have a good time at prom, so this gives them a second chance.”
“Prom 2011” featured a photo station with custom-
ized frames, a disk jockey playing `90s music, punch and thematic decorations.
The free dance was open to all CMU students and de-signed to be as inclusive as possible. Plastic tiaras and paper crowns were available underneath a sign saying, “Everybody is prom king and queen.”
Roommates Anna Mamas-sian, a Troy sophomore, and Negaunee junior Helen Col-lins came to “Prom 2011” to check out the festivities.
“It was just something that we saw in the poster in the lobby and thought would be fun,” Collins said. “It’s an ex-cuse to dress up.”
The pair of friends went together wearing formal dresses and matching ori-gami corsages and bouton-nieres.
jake May/photo editorDetroit senior Ashley Watters laughs as she dances with Steve Wincent, a Brooklyn se-nior, Friday night in Woldt Hall during Prom 2011: ’90s Flashback.
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viCtoria zegLer/staff photographerSutton Bay resident James “Bud” Day, 30, performs the men’s Grass Dance with mem-bers of his group on Saturday night at the 22nd annual CMU Pow wow in the CMU Events Center. “It’s not everyday you get to sing and dance,” he said.
By Kurt NaglStaff Reporter
Drumbeats and singing sounded through the Events Center on Saturday as hun-dreds gathered to celebrate American Indian culture.
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and several others participated in danc-es and drummed all Satur-day and Sunday at the 22nd annual CMU Pow wow. The event gave American Indi-ans the opportunity to cel-ebrate tradition, visit with family and friends, make
new acquaintances, and trade arts and crafts. It also offered visitors a chance to learn and participate in the traditions.
Dressed in cultural rega-lia, some in beads, feath-ers and headdresses, tribe members stepped and swayed to the spiritual mu-sic during the Grand Entry of the tribes.
More than just dancing took place on the stage. For people like Rob Wanage-shik, powwows are a way to show respect for elders and pave the way for youth.
“I dance for the people who have went before me, the ones who can’t dance and the ones who will come forward still,” said the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Oda-wa tribe member. “I also want others to learn about
this tradition instead of having stereotypes.”
Wayland resident Cathy Moore, a member of the Gun Lake Tribe, has at-tended powwows across the U.S. and Canada for several years. This was her fifth year coming to CMU.
“I enjoy not only the dancing, but the tradition and companionship,” she said. “I follow the drum. The drum is the heartbeat.”
Head Veteran George Martin led the tribes hold-ing the Eagle Staff, which represents American Indian nations in contemporary times, during the reverent flag song.
Stands selling American Indian arts, crafts and ac-cessories lined the walls outside of the stadium. In-cense, jewelry, moccasins
and paintings were among the most popular items sold.
Planning committee member Sara Shawano said the CMU Pow wow has al-ways seen a good turnout, but this year might have been the largest yet.
“There seem to be more visitors and dancers this year,” the Petoskey junior said. “I think it’s because there’s been more advertis-ing for it.”
She said the Pow wow has been a tradition for years, bringing together the entire Central Michigan area.
“It gives people a chance to socialize in a different way,” Shawano said. “It’s a way to keep in contact with the culture.”
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By Anthony FenechSenior Reporter
In the week’s time since Central Michi-gan starting pitcher Jake Sabol was chased in the third inning of last Sat-urday’s start against Miami, the senior right-hander decided to go back to the drawing board.
“I watched a lot of film trying to re-bound from my last outing,” he said. “I wasn’t really getting on top of the ball
or throwing a good two-seam fastball and I was trying to blow people away.”
And the tale of the tape
was evident on Sunday, in the rubber game of a weekend series against Ohio, as Sabol pitched the Chippewas to a series victory in a 9-0 blanking of the Bobcats at Bob Wren Stadium in Athens, Ohio.
CMU jumped on top of Ohio early, scoring runs in each of its first six innings, while Sabol threw an effective two-seam fastball — limiting the Bobcats to only six hits — and didn’t try to overpower
the Ohio lineup, striking out four with a walk.
“I thought the work really paid off,” he said. “I stayed focus, threw a lot of two-seam fastballs and made them put the ball in play a lot.”
The complete game shutout was the first of his collegiate career.
“I’m proud of him,” said Chippewas head coach Steve Jaksa. “He executed the game plan we set up for him and did a great job.”
Offensively, CMU (12-17, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) scored in every
andrEw kuhn/staff photographerFreshman quarterback Alex Niznak throws practice prior to the CMU football team’s first spring scrimmage on Saturday at the Indoor Athletic Complex. Niznak, who graduated early from Ithaca High School, is fighting for a spot on the team’s quarterback depth chart.
Learning the ropes
file photo by paigE calamariBrittany Petzold performs on the vault during the MAC Championships.
Mistakes doom Chippewas at Ala. regional
s p r I n g p r a C t I C eZeigler: Winning season goal for ‘11-’12
Freshman QB Alex Niznak makes transition from high school to DI football
Sports Editor Aaron McMann and Senior Reporter Andrew Stover sat down with Central Michigan men’s basketball head coach Ernie Zeigler last week to talk about last season, the status of the program, what needs to be happen next season and much more. Here is Part 2 of the interview:
Andrew Stover: Dave Heeke obvi-ously has confidence in you. He gave you a big extension last year. How has your conversation with them been proactive toward righting the ship and continuing strong recruiting classes in the future?
EZ: We speak weekly, we’re neigh-bors. I’m very fortunate I have the rela-tionship I have, with him being my boss first and foremost and us being friends as well. He has expectations that I have to get this done. That’s the top and bottom line. I don’t run from that. He
understands, at the same time, what we had in the challenges ahead.
It’s been a process. We’re quickly ap-proaching the point now where it’s time to have some suc-cess. We started five years ago with prob-ably one of the worst
facilities in our conference. We opened year five and now we’re in the top tier in terms of basketball facilities. That’s no longer a crutch or excuse.
With us being able to have the abil-ity to go out and do some things from a recruiting standpoint for our assistants and student-athletes, the expectation now is to win.
I love the fact that we have people that are passionate about men’s bas-ketball that are upset we lost 21 games this year. Trust me, there’s no one more upset than I. I live it and breathe it every day in every one of those 21 losses and, more importantly, every one of the 90 losses that I have accumulated here as the head coach over the last five years.
I think it would be worse if no one cared. That’s what fuels me, in terms of what Dave Heeke and Dr. Ross expect of me. We’re looking forward to getting this thing going in the right direction. We have the foundation set.
Niznak graduated in December — a full six months before the rest of his class — from Ithaca High School to have an opportunity to enroll at CMU for the spring semester and join the foot-ball team for spring practice.
In his attempt to adapt to the college level, he realizes that this isn’t Ithaca and that he’s en-rolled at a Division 1 university.
“It’s been interesting,” Niznak said about the transition. “It’s definitely different coming from Division 6 high school football to Division 1 col-lege football. There’s definitely going to be some wrinkles in the learning curve and it’ll take time just getting used to everybody.”
And getting used to everybody is eventually going to come along. In fact, junior quarterback Ryan Radcliff, sophomore quarterback A.J. Wes-tendorp and Watts have already made a huge impact in the development of the young quar-terback.
The three of them have taught Niznak that the mistakes will come, a natural process for any true freshman.
“Once we got out here and began practicing it’s been a flow, because it’s easier to be taught, look at it in your room and then come out and actu-ally practice it,” Niznak said.
They also taught him to be patient. He’s realiz-ing that the speed of the game is quite the change
CM Life Staff Reports
Small mistakes cost the No. 25 ranked Central Michigan gym-nastics team on Saturday as it fin-ished sixth in the Tuscaloosa, Ala., region, failing to qualify for the NCAA nationals.
Ending the meet with a 195.075, the Chippewas, the fifth seed in the meet, finished in last behind No. 1 Alabama (197.275), No. 14 Il-linois (195.925), No. 11 Penn State (195.850), No. 22 Auburn(195.600) and unranked Kentucky (195.600).
Needing to finish in the top two spots in order to qualify for the
next round, CMU missed the No. 2 spot by .850 points.
The Chippewas began the meet with a bye, but competed in the bars in the first rotation and scored a 48.575. Senior Andrea de La Gar-za led the team with a 9.800, fin-ishing 10th in the event. Freshman Alyssa Wilson also posted a 9.725 in the event.
The balance beam was the sec-ond rotation for CMU, where ju-nior Kristin Teubner (9.800), de La Garza (9.775) and freshman Emily Heinz (9.775) led the squad to a to-tal of 48.825 points.
The third rotation pitted the
Chippewas on the floor exercise. A strong event for the team as of late, averaging scores of 48.800 this sea-son, the team finished below aver-age Saturday with a 48.775. De La Garza again led the squad with a 9.800, which was good enough again for the No. 10 spot.
The final rotation saw CMU finish on the vault, where sopho-more Brittney Taylor claimed the No. 7 spot with her team-leading 9.825. Three Chippewas (Meaghan McWhorter, Teubner and de La Garza) posted matching 9.775 scores.
De La Garza and Taylor were the
top finishers in the all-around cat-egory for CMU, with de la Garza leading the team with a 39.150, good enough for No. 8 overall. Tay-lor posted a season-high 39.025 which placed her at No. 12 overall.
The Chippewas ended their 2011 campaign with a 23-6 overall re-cord and perfect 12-0 mark in the Mid-American Conference.
Winning the regular season title and conference tournament, the team also qualified for their third consecutive NCAA regional tour-nament.
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JOEl hawkSlEY/ohio athleticsTyler Hall celebrates following CMU’s win against Ohio Sunday. The Chippewas won two of three games against the Bobcats over the weekend to win their first conference series.
Jake Sabol pitches shutout Sunday
Game 1: W, 9-3 Game 2: L, 6-5Game 3: W, 9-0
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Freshman quarterback Alex Niznak didn’t head to the locker room with the majority of his teammates fol-lowing Saturday’s spring practice.
Instead, the 6-foot, 220-pound freshman stretched, talked with for-mer Central Michigan quarterback Brian Brunner and then grabbed a football and continued to throw.
He was one of the last Chippewas to vacate the Indoor Athletic Com-plex’s TurfBay.
“I like the type of worker he is — he pays attention to deal,” said first-year quarterbacks coach and pass-ing game coordinator Morris Watts. “He’s always trying to learn, and things will happen for guys that are hard workers and trying to learn the right way. It’s just a matter of when he gets his chance.”
inning except the seventh, re-corded 16 hits and hit two solo home runs.
After the Chippewas scored a run each in the first two innings, senior outfielder Matt Faiman homered to right field in the fourth, his second of the season, and junior outfielder Scott Phil-lion homered to left field in the fifth.
The five-run cushion halfway home was more than enough for Sabol, who needed 104 pitches to complete his first game since Feb. 28 of last year.
“It was just a real good baseball game for us today,” Jaksa said.
Sophomore second baseman Jordan Dean had four hits and two stolen bases, and junior out-fielder Sam Russell continued his hot hitting, smacking two doubles.
In the series, Russell hit .500 (6-for-12) with five doubles.
“We’re pretty happy with where he’s at,” Jaksa said of Russell, who has emerged as the Chippewas utmost power threat, leading the team in home runs (3), RBI (21) and slugging percentage (.483).
Rest of the seRiesCMU dropped Saturday’s
sandwich game, 6-5, commit-ting four errors behind starting pitcher Zach Cooper.
“The guys didn’t play great defensively,” Jaksa said. “And they’ll tell you as much.”
Cooper struck out six in five-plus innings and Faiman had two hits.
In Friday’s opener, Tom How-ard broke an eighth-inning tie with a three-run, pinch-hit home run, propelling the Chippewas to
a 9-3 victory.The senior infielder laid off a
first-pitch breaking ball in the dirt before lacing a letter-high fastball over the center field fence for his second home run of the year.
“It was a huge at-bat in a big situation,” Jaksa said. “He was looking for one pitch, got it and kept it going with a big hit.”
Junior left-hander Trent How-ard pitched seven innings for the win.
Faiman recorded a pair of hits in each game of the series victo-ry, going 6-for-15 with four runs scored and five driven in.
The Chippewas have won three out of four game and host Michigan on Wednesday at The-unissen Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 3:05 p.m.
“Everybody’s getting in a good place,” Sabol said. “We’re play-ing well and have to continue to play well so we get back in the hunt.”
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Injuries can hinder any ath-letic program in the country, but more times than not there is a silver lining that comes out of it.
For the Central Michigan foot-ball team, injuries have plagued the offensive line. Junior Jake Olson and sophomore Aaron McCord are coming back from surgery, while junior center Dar-ren Keyton just had surgery and Mike Repovz is coming off an in-jury that occurred during winter conditioning. Senior offensive linemen Rocky Weaver is also coming off surgery.
These linemen are injured and still need reps to continue their improvement, but they’ve had time to establish them-selves.
These recent injuries shouldn’t totally affect CMU in the fall. Most of the players in-jured now should be fully recov-ered come August, but the op-portunity for others gives CMU its own opportunity: a chance to add much-needed depth to its
roster.Guys like redshirt freshman
Kevin Henry and junior Eric Fisher continue to get better.
Sophomore Jeff Fantuzzi has been getting a lot of reps and is adapting to different positions along the line.
Injuries sustained by Keyton, the projected starting center and junior Nick Reynolds have given Fantuzzi the opportunity to step up and receive reps at center.
“He’s a unique player,” said CMU head coach Dan Enos. “I have so much respect for him because of his toughness and the way he comes to work every-day, and he’s getting better.”
A shortage of offensive line-men due to injuries has allowed sophomore Cody Pettit to make the switch from defensive line to offensive. Ironically enough, he got injured Thursday, but Enos said that he’d been having a great spring up to that point.
Enos also said there can be a bit of a silver lining with these injuries because others are get-ting their opportunity.
“These reps are very valuable,”
he said. “We know what Weaver, Olson and Keyton are going to do, but they also need reps to get better. But these other guys have been forced into action and are getting more work against our first defense.”
Fantuzzi is one of those guys who has had the opportunity and he plans to make the most out of it.
“Every rep I get, I have to take advantage of,” Fantuzzi said. “Every rep I learn something new, especially since I’ve moved so many positions and I’m now playing center. I just have to get every rep in that I can because with these reps I’m getting the experience that I need.”
The junior offensive lineman from Macomb Dakota High School has been a part of win-ning tradition. During his time at Dakota, Fantuzzi won back-to-back Division 1 state cham-pionships.
However, winning in high school is different. He thought he knew it all coming into his first spring in 2009, but quickly realized that there’s a major dif-
ference from high school to col-lege.
“When I came here in my first spring, I didn’t know anything,” he said. “I thought I knew every-thing, coming from Dakota, but I didn’t know anything. I found out how fast the game is and
how rough and tough it is.”He’s now in the midst of his
third spring, and said that he’s getting used to it, especially now that he’s had a full year under Enos and his staff.
“Every practice they were put-ting in a different play,” Fantuzzi
said about last year’s spring practices. “This spring we know them and just have to go out and run them. We tweak them all, but we still know them all now.”
Andrew Kuhn/StAff photogrApherRedshirt freshman offensive lineman Andrew Nowak practices with the team during spring practice Saturday at the Indoor Athletic Complex.
Injuries on the offensive line allow Fantuzzi, others to step up
file photo by Joe TobiAnsKiFreshman Alex Niznak rushes past Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central senior defensive back Edmond Shinevarre in during the MSHAA Division 6 State Championship game on Nov. 26 at Ford Field. Niznak led Ithaca to a 45-35 win, during which he set a MHSAA state record with five rushing touchdowns.
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from high school to a Division 1 university.
“In high school I was a huge competitor and I could do all these things, but at CMU I may be going a million miles an hour, but that just might not be fast enough.”
Niznak has been a part of a lot of success in his football career. He helped lead the Yellowjack-ets to a perfect 14-0 season and Division 6 state championship season at Ford Field in Detroit, in which he set a state champi-onship record with five rushing touchdowns.
We know this much — he knows what it’s like to be a win-ner. Coming out of high school, he is arguably CMU’s most high-ly-regarded newcomer.
“You never know how far a guy is going to go based on po-tential, until they’re put in that spot,” Watts said. “I see a lot of potential in him, but potential is one thing. Taking that potential and running with it is another. I think he has the attitude to do that.”
Niznak is in the beginning process of what could be a very
productive career at CMU. For now, he’s going to continue to learn from the other quarter-backs and the staff. He wants to execute his fundamentals and focus on the simple things. Eventually, he hopes, he’ll be the one teaching.
The 2011 season may or may not be his opportunity to see a large amount of playing time — head coach Dan Enos said it is still up in the air whether he will
be redshirted this season — but one year it could be his team. And when it’s that time, expect Niznak to take what he’s learned, but ultimately still be himself.
“One day, eventually when I get a chance, it’s going to be about Alex Niznak,” he said. “I’m not trying to be like Ryan or Dan LeFevour or anything. I just have to go out and do what I do.”
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By Brandon Champion Staff Reporter
The Central Michigan men’s track and field team continues to roll.
After posting 17 Top-5 fin-ishes and winning four events last weekend, the Chippewas put together one of their best meets of the year, finishing first out of nine teams over the weekend at the Toledo Col-legiate Challenge in Toledo, Ohio. CMU won the meet with 250 points, 85 points more than second-place Buffalo.
The men had posted a dom-inant performance, securing 23 Top-3 finishers.
“This weekend gave us a lot of confidence moving forward — we had a lot of solid marks," said director of track and field Willie Randolph. “At the same
time, we know we have big-ger challenges ahead."
J u n i o r jumper Kevin Bacon led the way with two f i r s t - p l a c e finishes in the long jump and the triple jump.
CMU went one and two in both the Javelin throw and the 100 meter dash. Nick Rainy and Tim Reynolds were the Chippewa winners in the jav-elin, while Ross Parsons and Greg Knaus continued their outdoor season success in the 100-meter.
Other first place finishes for the Chippewas included ju-nior Ryan McCullough in the hammer throw, sophomore Alex Rose in the discus and freshman Keith Zech in the 800-meter run.
The 4x400m relay team of David Ashcraft, Clay Norman, Christopher Thomas and Par-
sons also finished first.The Chippewas finished two
through five in the shot put, led by senior George Flanner, and finished second and third in the pole vault with Adam Lohner taking second and Jo-seph Jankowski taking third.
Other runner up finishes for the Chippewas included Jacob McDonald in the high jump, Ashcraft in the 400m, Clay Noeker in the 110 meter hurdles and Parker Scott in the 400 meter hurdles.
“I think doing well against some of our conference rivals will give us a mental edge,” Randolph said “It’s not just about placing, it’s about get-ting some personal bests, which we had a lot of this weekend.”
The majority of the team will have next weekend off while a select group of Chippewas will travel to Sacramento, Calif., for the Mid-Major Challenge beginning Thursday.
Men place first in Toledo
By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan track and field teams had to deal with every kind of weather imaginable at the Toledo Col-legiate Challenge.
From sun to snow, the wom-en's team finished in a close fourth behind fellow Mid-American Conference teams Eastern Michigan, Buffalo and Bowling Green.
“We did fairly well con-sidering we didn’t have any distance runners at all,” said track and field director Willie Randolph. “We were pretty pleased with how the meet turned out. We accomplished what we wanted to do, and that was to focus on taking care of business, so we were very productive.”
The women had 28 Top-10 finishes at the meet, 17 top-five finishes and two winners.
Senior Mykal Imbrock was one of those 17 with a second place finish in the hammer throw, tossing 55.12 meters.
Fellow senior Katie Chris-tensen came in 10th with a toss of 44.44 meters. Chris-tensen finished fifth in the discus with a throw of 41.76 meters, while Imbrock came in seventh in the shot put with a throw of 12.56 meters.
The team of freshmen Sa-mantha Stein and Megan Hef-fner both placed second in the high jump with leaps of 1.60 meters.
Heffner also had success in the 400-meter hurdle, com-ing in second with a time of 1:03.96. Senior Allie Sissions finished right behind her with a time of 1:04.15. Sissions was also a part of the 4x400-meter relay that finished second with juniors Christina Farrow, Stephanie Hurley and fresh-men Shawntoreah Turk.
“Right before the 400-me-ter hurdles it started raining," Heffner said. "The hardest part was running and try-ing to keep your eyes open with the raining hitting your eyes."
Turk also finished fifth in the 400-meter run two plac-es behind fellow freshmen Kelsey Ritter who came in third at 57.94 seconds.
The women dominated the 100-meter hurdles event hav-ing four ladies finishing in the top eight. Senior Jordan Dunn placed second while junior Dierra Riley finished third, senior Brittnee Shreve came in fifth and freshmen Kirlene Roberts finished seventh.
Shreve, Roberts, Dunn and
Riley teamed up to take first place in the 4x100-meter re-lay with a time of 46.09.
Sophomore Tamica Har-bour was the other athlete to finish first, recording a time of 15.34 and edging out team-mate Emily Deinhart, who finished second with 15.36.
In the 800-meter, junior Charnele Lyons finished fifth with a time of 2:17.16, and se-nior Kylee Kubacki ran for the first time since cross-country season and finished third in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:37.87.
There were a lot of athletes who stood out this weekend and a couple that came to mind for Randolph.
“Mykal Imbrock had a re-ally good throw, Jordan Dunn ran a good lap in the 4x100-meter relay (and) Tamica Har-bour running into hard winds and winning,” Randolph said. “Another good point was Kylee Kubacki, who hasn’t run in four months and ran a per-sonal best in the 1500-meter relay.”
“The team did pretty good and a lot people had really good performances,” Heffner added.
Imbrock, Heffner lead women
CMU softball went 1-3 in its opening weekend
against Western Michigan and Northern Illinois, much to do with not capi-talizing on opportunities to score.
The Chippewas’ lone win came Friday against Northern Illinois behind sophomore Kara Dornbos’ complete game, one-run outing to win 5-1. In that game, CMU head coach Margo Jonker talked about how “key hits” helped the offense.
That was the only game where the Chippewas took advantage of their opportu-nities. Hits all weekend put runners on base, but the timely hitting wasn’t there.
“We had a rough day (Sat-urday) — left a lot of runners on base and didn’t get the key hit,” Jonker said. “Their hitters really hit our pitch-ers. We played good defense but didn’t have pitching or hitting.”
The first game was a 8-7 loss because of two WMU swings bringing in six runs. The two-run shot and grand slam hurt CMU’s opportu-nities. The Chippewas left eight runners on that game, including leaving the bases loaded to end the game.
As good as this pitching staff is, there are going to be games when umpires shrink the strike zone or a pitcher has an off-day and the of-fense will need to win. The offense almost did that in the 8-7 loss, but was still one hit short of pulling it off.
Junior leftfielder Ashley Gilson struck out swinging to end the game. Gilson, who had recorded a double, left six runners on base during the WMU doubleheader.
Last year, Gilson led the team with a .326 average, but this year she has started 0 for her first 18 at bats until she hit the double.
“She’s been struggling on offense so it was key for her
to get a hit and make a great de-fensive play,” Jonker said of her play. “She went over the fence and made a catch.”
The Chippewas need another player to step up, and if she can get back to her play from last year that featured five homers and 30 hits with 19 runs batted in, it will go a long way for CMU.
CMU didn’t get a key hit at all Saturday in the 2-1 and 8-0 losses.
In the first game against NIU, the Chippewas left nine runners on base in the one-run loss. That included leaving the bases loaded twice and another time stranding a runner on third with one out.
We out-hit them but didn’t get the key hit,” Jonker said. “Their
slugging percentage was really good.”
In the non-conference slate, the Chippewas proved their pitching staff can be dominate, but to contend for the MAC they’re going to have to bring along the offense.
Getting hits wasn’t a problem this weekend, but the offense scoring and getting clutch hits was. In all four games, CMU got at least seven hits in three games and five in the other.
“We need the clutch hitting we had earlier in the season,” Jonker said.
The offense is making im-provements, though. They just need to make the next step and drive in runners when they get those bases load two out at bats.
CMU (14-12, 1-3) will play its first home game at 2 p.m. Wednesday against Detroit. We’ll be able to see firsthand if the Chippewas will be able to put together all three facets of the game to live up to the high potential for a MAC run.
Matt ThompsonStaff Reporter
Clutch hitting non-existent for CMU in weekend games
s o f t b a l lt r a c k & f i e l d
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Willie Randolph
CMU places fourth behind EMU, UB, BGSU
“We accomplished what we wanted to do, and that was to focus on
taking care of business.”Willie Randolph, CMU track and field director
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file photo by SEan prOctOrJunior forward Andre Coimbra will be one of three seniors on the roster next season. In his first year at CMU, Coimbra averaged five points and 4.5 rebounds per game.
My name is Andrew, and I am an addict.
Nothing gets in the way of addiction.
The majority seems to downplay its hold on you. “You can quit if you really put your heart in to it,” they say.
“If you get your priori-ties straight, you’d be off the stuff,” they cry.
But no rehab can correct this chemical imbalance. No religion can steer you clear.
Cocaine is a very pow-erful drug.
But I’m not talking about cocaine — or heroin, meth or anything else.
Rather, this drug is more powerful, more addicting. It takes over lives.
It’s true — fantasy baseball is my drug.
An addict never choos-es his drug of choice.
I didn’t plan to watch 10 hours of baseball on Saturday. And thanks to Comcast’s free week of MLB Extra Innings, I watched parts of every single game.
I’d wait for my players to step up to the plate or get on the mound, and I’d tune in.
Hour after hour. Beer after beer. No showers necessary. No, there’s no time.
Just one weekend into the baseball season, and my addiction has altered my behavior.
I’ve developed pet names for my players — my soldiers.
Outfielder Nelson Cruz has become “Cruz Control.”
Pitcher David Price: “The Price is Right.”
Soon-to-be third base-man Kevin Youkilis: “God of Walks.”
Shortstop Jimmy Rol-lins: “J-Roll.”
And any time catcher Carlos Santana comes to the plate, I cue “Maria, Maria” by Carlos San-tana.
“The sounds of the guitar, played by Carlos Santana.”
I’ve upped the ante this year, and joined a high-stakes keeper-con-tracts league. But with higher stakes, comes a greater addiction.
When “Cruz Control” hits his third home run in as many days, it is the perfect high.
But when close Carlos Marmol blows a save against the Pirates, my high turns on me.
I mutter profanity for hours — some in Eng-lish, some Spanish.
“Why are you messing with me, Carlos?!” “Who
the hell do you think you are, Carlos?!”
“Screw you, Carlos!”What a trip. What a bad,
bad trip. That’s what hap-pens when the drug turns on you.
Hot sweats. Cold sweats. Hallucinations. Mutter-ing incoherent sentence fragments. Outbursts. The shakes.
Do you know what it’s
like? Have you felt its wrath? Have you seen its beauty?
It’s a lose-lose situation. Lose, and I’m miserable. Win, and I feed my addic-tion.
Maybe disappointment turns to rage, and some-body gets hurt. Maybe I’ll never get married. Maybe I’ll push everyone away who is close to me.
Maybe I won’t be able to get enough. And maybe nobody understands.
Ah, the life of an addict. It’s what I am. More im-portantly, it’s who I am.
My name is Andrew, and I am an addict.
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The dangers of addictionFa n ta s y b a s e b a L L
Andrew StoverSenior Reporter
With baseball season underway,
nothing else matters
I look at the whole thing – five years ago it was like a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that was all over the place. Two years later, you’ll see the foundation, but there are still pieces missing. That’s where we are, but I do feel good about the fact that we’re not the laughing stock of our conference.
When I took this job five years ago, there were two or three coaches in the conference that specifically told my boss that it was the worst job in the confer-ence, “why would he want to go there? There’s only one or two Division 1 guys on that roster.” We have gained the respect of having a level of competive-ness, which definitely was part of winning those back-to-back division titles.
Are we where we need to be? No, without question. But I think we’ve put ourselves in the middle of the pack, and now it’s time to compete at the top. Is that going to mean winning a championship (necessary)? I don’t think that’s the case, but I think that’s what we’re compet-ing for. We all know how hard it is to do that. We got to win, and no one understands that better than I.
Aaron McMann: You played seven of your first eight games away from Mount Pleasant, in main part due to the new are-na. At one point you were 2-9. Do you feel like it took a toll on your team?
EZ: It definitely took a toll. We were so fragile emotionally from the standpoint that guys were trying to buy in, but we just couldn’t make that play. The Montana State started it off for us, and that game started to show the Achilles heel we had in being able to guard point guards. The kid that played the point for them was a non-scor-er and he had a career game. He was the first of numerous guards all year long that had career highs on us. We just couldn’t rebound from it.
I do think in light of our new conference mandate that every team has to play a minimum of six non-conference games at home. What we’re trying to do as a conference is put ourselves in a position where hopefully everyone has a .500 or better non-conference record going into conference play, which will raise our conference RPI and allow for good RPI wins in con-ference. They might be 200 RPI wins instead of 300.
The difficult part of it is pro-grams like ours is how you get those non-conference games, because some people in our conference have the ability to buy games. There’s teams in the upper-echelon of our confer-ence paying $80,000 for a team to come. Or paying $150,000 or $200,000 to host an exempt tournament and have three games at home to start the sea-son.
When you look at Kent, Ak-ron and Ohio, that’s something that they’ve done, and each of those teams have gone into conference play with 10 or more wins every year since I’ve been here. All of a sudden you’re in a much better place.It’s common knowledge that most team win a majority of their home games, so that’s going to be a challenge for us.
We can’t buy $75,000 or $80,000, so we’re going to do some things. We’re coming up with ideas now. We’re going to have to play a Texas or Kansas and get $100,000, and use some
of that — $15,000-$20,000 — to start a home and home.
We’re going to have to be strategic that way to put our-selves in a position, because the league is mandating it. If you don’t do it then there’s go-ing to be a fine, which hasn’t been determined yet. It’s going to make you find resources. In our state, as budget strapped as we are, there isn’t a lot of money coming in to men’s basketball from a university standpoint, and rightfully so.
AM: With Marko Spica decid-ing to leave his final year of eli-gibility on the table, the team really struggled to develop a post-presence this year. Going forward, with Andre having one year left and Colin only having one year of experience and Nate sitting out the year, is there any concern in the front-court?
EZ: It’s a concern, but I’m excited and very hopeful that someone’s going to emerge. I think Nate VanArendonk – he’s 6-foot-10 now and has grown during his redshirt year – can evolve into that post-presence that we’re looking for. Andre can evolve into being more of a threat to get a paint catch. He’s probably the most talented of our returning frontcourt play-ers.
A guy who has totally for-gotten is Zach Saylor. He’s go-ing to have an opportunity to be a fourth-year player with sophomore eligibility, who’s been around in the program. And you’ve got Colin and Javon. Javon is a kid, who at the end of the day, is going to have an opportunity to emerge and be better than any of them.
Someone’s got to emerge in that group, and we’ll probably add a guy or two that has some versatility to play at the 3 and 4. Going into Year 6, you got to develop some guys. When you look at that young group of guys, somebody’s got to emerge. We look at it from a recruiting standpoint and we don’t want to bring in somebody just to bring in a body. We don’t want to bring in somebody that’s not better than what we already have.
AM: After a few years of sus-tained growth and a pair of MAC West titles, is there any pressure to achieve a certain threshold next season?
EZ: The pressure is to win. Year 1, we went 13-18 and in my mind we should have went 18-13. In Year 2, we went 14-17
and we should have won 20 games. The pressure is to win is the pressure to win. I’m going to continue to put that pressure on myself, continue to push our guys and the guys we bring in here, and our goal is to have a winning season next season. If we don’t, then I’m going to have to be able to deal with what comes with that. It’s the nature of this business.
I do feel good about the fact that the support that I have from our AD and our administration in understand, and I think this is the hard part for people to re-alize. While football is winning, wrestling is winning … our men’s basketball program has zero level of sustained success other than the Dick Parfitt era, who was the best coach to ever coach here.
We have a championship culture, I am very much aware of that, and the expectations for men’s basketball is to add to that culture. That’s what my re-sponsibility is and we’re going to continue to do it, but under-standing what we’re up against and trying to make steps for-ward.
I do know for a fact that the people I have to answer to un-derstand that. Now it’s my job to keep pushing the torch for-ward and putting us in a posi-tion to rise above and do some-thing that was started by Dick Parfitt and have that same type of sustainability.”
AM: Going into next season, what are the keys to having a winning season?
EZ: We have to improve of-fensively, and we have to im-prove defensively. I’m a defen-sive coach, but were anemic offensively this year — to the point that it put so much pres-sure on our defensive schemes and how we prepare defensive-ly — that the margin of error for us was slim and none. We have to put ourselves in a position where we have more of a bal-ance and more guys capable of knocking down open shots.
When you shoot 38 percent from the field as a team and 32 percent from 3 and 62 percent from the foul line and average 59 points per game … we got to get more guys that can score at their position that are playing major minutes for us.
That’s what we’re on the re-cruiting trail trying to do now, and at the same time working and developing some of the guys returning.
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HOUSTON — Matt Howard didn’t see the ball leave Gordon Hayward’s hand from just inside the midcourt line on the right side of the floor last April 5 at Lu-cas Oil Stadium.
He knew Butler was desper-ate, trailing Duke by two points as the final seconds of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the NCAA championship ticked away.
But hope keeps us all going, and when Howard turned and caught sight of the ball in mid-flight, it looked surprisingly good, as if it had a chance.
“Maybe that’s what made it a little more hard to deal with is that it was so close,” Howard said Sunday. “I just remember that difference of high and low right there where you think it’s going in and then it doesn’t.”
The red light around the back-
board blinked, but the score-board didn’t. Duke 61, Butler 59. Hope was crushed.
“I didn’t watch ESPN for a month after that,” Butler center Andrew Smith said, “because I couldn’t take seeing Duke there with the trophy at center court. I don’t think the pain will ever subside completely because we were so close.”
But 364 days later, it turns out that wasn’t Butler’s last shot at all. It was Hayward’s final shot before going to the NBA, but somewhere deep in the well of disappointment, his Bulldogs teammates decided they weren’t done with history, hadn’t run out of belief.
They’ve lived with that un-happy ending for the past year. As Shelvin Mack said: “I’ve seen the shot on almost every March Madness commercial now. So it’s kind of disappointing, but it’s over with. We have a different chance (Monday night) to write
our own story.”The Bulldogs returned to
practice in October aiming for a twice-in-a-lifetime op-portunity. Their prospects looked bleak at midseason, but they remained commit-ted, their resolve growing with each last-second win in the NCAA Tournament until they reached their second straight title game against Connecti-cut on Monday night at Reli-ant Stadium.
“We’ve been fortunate to squeak by and be here,” said Brad Stevens. “Certainly, there are a lot of reasons to say you can’t, but it’s a lot more fun to say you can. And it’s a lot more fun to believe.”
Rationally, the notion of little Butler returning to the NCAA final is preposter-ous. The Bulldogs pulled out miracle wins in their first two tournament games against Old Dominion and Pitt. But
they’re here.“When I’m thinking of this
happening again,” guard Chase Stigall said, “I’m shocked. I’m speechless.”
Freshman forward Khyle Marshall, who had committed to Butler last year, was upset as he watched the Bulldogs’ run to the Final Four a year ago. “It just made me want to be born a year earlier,” he said.
Now Marshall has that chance and has made his share of big plays. “We’ve got 10 guys who have been through this before, and they’ve set a great example,” Marshall said. “Their attitude and their poise have made it easy to mimic.”
Connecticut is every bit as formidable an opponent as Duke, but it’s as though Butler got the offensive rebound on Hayward’s shot with time still on the clock. If it comes down to another desperation shot, the Bulldogs are prepared.
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