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Paris, Tenn., angler Curt Mc-Guire wins the FLW EverStart Se-ries Central Division stop at Ken-tucky and Barkley lakes at the final weigh-in held at WalMart in Benton.
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ARDMORE, Pa. — Phil Mickel-son began his week with a fl ight back-and-forth across the coun-try. Even longer might be the 18 holes that now stand between him and that U.S. Open title he has been chasing his entire career.
And he’s never had a better op-portunity than this one.
Despite a bogey on the fi nal hole of a taxing Saturday afternoon, Mickelson was the sole survivor to par at Merion with an even-par 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over Hunter Mahan, Charl Schwartzel and Steve Stricker going into the last round.
It’s the fi rst time Mickelson has held the outright lead through 54 holes in the U.S. Open, and the timing could be right.
Mickelson celebrates his 43rd birthday today — on Father’s Day, no less. He left Merion on Monday and didn’t return until three hours before his tee time on Thursday so he could attend the eighth-grade graduation of his oldest daughter.
“It’s got the makings to be something special,” Mickelson said. “But I still have to go out and perform, and play some of my best golf.”
Mickelson, who already has a record fi ve silver medals for being runner-up at this demanding ma-
jor, was at 1-under 209.And the fun is just getting start-
ed.“It’s a hard challenge, but it’s a
lot of fun,” Mickelson said. “Every shot requires such great focus be-cause a penalty can bite you quick-ly. I can’t wait to get back and playing. I feel good ball-striking, I feel good on the greens. I think it’s going to take an under-par round tomorrow.”
Saturday was more about weed-ing out the pretenders for this U.S. Open — and one of them turned out to be Tiger Woods. He started out just four shots out of the lead,
Mickelson aims for special finish at OpenBY DOUG FERGUSON
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Phil Mickelson (left) and Luke Donald walk down from the 17th tee box during the third round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Mer-ion Golf Club on Saturday in Ardmore, Pa. Mickelson holds the lead entering today’s final round, with Donald two shots back.
Mike Thomas packed a bus full of kids Saturday morning and left Fulton headed for Paducah.
Thomas, the middle school football coach at Fulton City, wanted his young athletes to rub shoulders with some of the coun-try’s elite football players, as well as create dreams. So 25 kids, including several cheerleaders, arrived at Paducah Tilghman’s McRight Field early Saturday for the sixth annual George Wilson SAFETY Foundation Sports Fest and cheerleading clinic.
“It gives us a break and just to see the fun part of it again,” said Thomas, who was already feeling inspired to continue the clinic’s highlights back home, “and have them learn the fundamental stuff and they’re excited about it. It keeps the kids off the streets, gives them something to do and teach them football.”
It wasn’t just Thomas’ bunch — about 300 kids participated in the free sports clinic sponsored by Tennessee Titans safety George
Wilson, a Tilghman alum. And bigger is better, according to Wil-son, who has seen an increase not only in participants, but in volun-teers and local business sponsors.
“I can’t do this all on my own,” Wilson said. “I know I’m the one right here in front of the cameras, doing the all the interviews, but my volunteers are the ones who make this thing go.”
Wilson’s volunteers Saturday included several with NFL ties. Former Tilghman star Bryan Hall, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens last year, was on hand, as well as Ter-rence Cody, a nose tackle for the Ravens, among others.
“It’s an opportunity to give back to the kids around here,” Hall said. “Show them that me and George can come back and give back and show them that there’s way out of this, just to have fun through football and athletics.”
J.D. Harmon is one of those kids who hopes to follow in Hall and Wilson’s footsteps. Harmon
Wilson, Hall ‘give back’ to local kids
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SAN ANTONIO — Tony Park-er’s hamstring, not Dwyane Wade’s knee, is the current chief injury concern.
Manu Ginobili, not Chris Bosh, is mired in the slump of the moment.
Things change quickly at the NBA Finals, and with everything suddenly seeming right with the Miami Heat, it’s up to the San Antonio Spurs to change them back tonight in Game 5.
“It is a must-win. We don’t want to go back down there down a game with two games remaining at their house,” Spurs star Tim Duncan said Saturday.
“Obviously, we lose this game, we’re not giving up or anything, but we want to go back up with a chance to fi nish there. Huge pressure if we have to go back there and try to win two.”
The Heat evened the series with a 109-93 victory Thursday night, setting up what’s often the pivotal moment of the fi nals. Of the 27 times the series was tied at 2-2, the Game 5 winner went on to win 20 of them.
“I think that’s what everyone would like, 2-2 in the fi nals for Game 5,” LeBron James said. “We are excited about the op-portunity. We have another op-portunity to win on someone else’s fl oor.”
It’s the same situation Miami was in two years ago, losing Game 5 in Dallas. But the Heat also had dropped the previous game, and James was struggling through a poor series by his standards.
Everything looks good for the Heat as they arrive at this stage now. James was dominant in Game 4 with 33 points and 11 rebounds, and Wade scored 32 points, not appearing to be both-ered at all by a painful right knee that had limited his effective-ness in the postseason.
With Bosh breaking out with 20 points and 13 rebounds, ev-erything that was a problem for
Finalistsfeeling5th gamepressure
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MIAMI — Carlos Beltran homering from each side of the plate Saturday was hardly a shocker, since he had done it 10 times before.
But Lance Lynn’s two-run single? That was unprecedent-ed.
Both contributed offensively as the St. Louis Cardinals sur-vived a slugfest against the lowest-scoring team in the ma-jor leagues and beat the Miami Marlins 13-7. Beltran homered twice and tripled, while Lynn (9-1) notched the victory de-spite allowing a career-high
seven runs in fi ve innings.The Cardinals scored fi ve
runs in the fi rst, then found themselves at 6-all in the sec-ond before pulling away. Even for the hitters, the game was no fun, Beltran said.
“I felt like I was out there playing defense for four hours,” he said. “It’s one of those days where you have to grind and try to fi nd a way to stay in the game.”
Manager Mike Matheny agreed.
“It felt like a doubleheader,” he said.
Swinging left-handed, Bel-tran hit his 15th home run in
the second inning and tripled for the fi rst time since May 2012 in the eighth. He hit an-other home run from the right side in the ninth.
Beltran extended the longest active hitting streak in the NL to 14 games and raised his av-erage to .311.
“I feel great,” he said. “I’ve been healthy, and good things are happening for me and the team.”
The Cardinals tied a season high with 17 hits. Yadier Mo-lina singled home two runs in their big fi rst inning, and Da-
Beltran homers lefty, rightyas Cards outscore Marlins
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Allen Craig of the St. Louis Cardinals ab-sorbs a pitch against the Miami Marlins on Saturday in Miami. The Cardinals won 13-7. Please see FINALS | 3C
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Bryan Hall, a defense tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, plays keep-away from several young athletes Saturday at Paducah Tilghman’s McRight Field. Hall, a Tilghman graduate and defending Super Bowl champion, was assisting at the sixth annual George Wilson SAFETY Foundation Sports Fest. Wilson, a safety for the Tennessee Titans and former Tornado athlete, hosted about 300 elementary and middle school campers to instruct them on football fundamentals alongside several NFL players.Please see CAMP | 2C
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and made a bending, 12-foot birdie putt on the open-ing hole. It never got any better for the world’s No. 1 player. He made seven bo-geys the rest of the way and didn’t add another birdie, matching his worst U.S. Open score as a pro with a 6-over 76.
Woods was 10 shots be-
hind.“It certainly is frustrat-
ing,” said Woods, who has been stuck on 14 majors since winning the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. “I’m playing well enough to do it, and unfortunately just haven’t gotten it done.”
The fi nal hour might have been a sneak preview for Sunday. At one point, there were fi ve players under par,
and suddenly there was only Mickelson.
Luke Donald had the outright lead until two bad swings on the last two holes — a 2-iron into the bunker on the 17th that led to bo-gey, and another 2-iron into ankle-deep rough well right of the 18th green that led to a double bogey. Just like that, one of the best rounds of the day turned into a 71,
and he was two shots be-hind.
“I should have done bet-ter,” Donald said. “It was disappointing, but I’ll take the positives out of today — a really solid 16 holes of golf, and I’m only two back.”
Hunter Mahan let his spectacular back nine fi lled with four birdies go to waste with a bogey-bogey fi nish for a 69. He will be in the
fi nal group for the fi rst time in a major with Mickelson, whom he considers a close friend.
Former Masters cham-pion Schwartzel also went bogey-bogey at the end of his round for a 69. Stricker made a 10-foot par putt on the 18th hole to complete a 70 and perhaps the steadi-est round of the day. His only mistake in a round that
lasted 5½ hours under sun-shine was a tee shot into the water on the par-3 ninth for a double bogey.
At 46, Stricker can be-come the oldest U.S. Open champion.
“I’ve got to play smart golf ... not make any mistakes,” he said. “I think that’s the biggest thing. And it’s a course where it’s tough to come back.” — AP
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BENTON — Western Kentucky’s big lakes have been good for Curt Mc-Guire, now giving him both of his tournament wins on the FLW EverStart Series tour.
And nothing compares to reaching into his bag of fi sh and pulling out two whop-pers to show the crowd like the Paris, Tenn., angler did Saturday to win the series’ Central Division stop at Kentucky and Barkley lakes this weekend at the fi nal weigh-in held at WalMart in Benton.
“Coming in, I fi gured I had around 22 pounds and Gnewikow needed 25 or 26, which he’s been known to do, and I’m still beat,” said McGuire, who won the same event, his fi rst, in 2010. “Really until the end, I didn’t know what I had. There’s not a better feeling than that. All the hard work all the hours in the water, 12 hours a day, that’s what it’s about.”
After watching David Gnewikow bring in a fi ve-fi sh bag of 18 pounds, 10 ounces, McGuire needed 15 pounds, 5 ounces for the win. His fi ve-fi sh bag weighed 22 pounds, 11 ounces, with several fi sh in the 5-pound range giving McGuire the $40,000 top prize, in addition to win-ning a Ranger Z518 fi shing boat as a part of the Ranger Cup contingent prize if the champion were a part of the Ranger team.
In the Co-Angler class, Steve Ralls, of Bun-combe, Ill, had his sec-ond 20-pound day, bring-
ing in a winning bag of 20 pounds, 4 ounces for a three-day total of 54 pounds, 10 ounces to win over Mayfi eld co-angler Michael Brown, who fi n-ished with 46 pounds, 13 ounces.
McGuire, whose home lake is Pickwick Lake near Lawrenceburg, Tenn., said he worked to fi sh the deep ledges of the lake be-tween the mouth of Blood River and New Johnson-ville, Tenn, and reaching the fi ve-fi sh limit certainly wasn’t an issue this week. He fi nished with a three-day total of 70 pounds, 3 ounces.
All the top-10 anglers at the weigh-in said the schools of fi sh in the lakes were plentiful, with many
anglers easily catching 100 fi sh a day in the tourna-ment.
“This is the time of year where they bite,” McGuire said. “It’s the best time of the year for us, and it’s a lot of fun.”
Gnewikow, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., fi nished second and said he was more selective of the wa-ters and the fi sh, catching only about 40 a day. His morning started off quite tragically, with his boat motor blowing up about 50 miles down the lake. Two friends, Kevin Woodside and Matt Nix, of Waverly, Tenn., generously traveled to give him their boat to fi nish out the tournament.
“In a normal tourna-ment, when something happens like that, you just say, ‘Oh well, it’s a bad day,’” said Gnewikow, who works as an audiolo-gist. “But today the differ-ence between second place and 10th place is $12,000, and I held it together. I got to thank God, he gave me some peace, and I held it together. If you told me I was going to run 200 miles before I made my fi rst cast, I would have thought you were crazy.”
After the fi rst day, Gnewikow trailed McGuire by just one ounce, with both bringing in 25 pounds of fi sh.
The Central Division has one more event this year, a trip to Detroit River on July 25.
Call Dusty Luthy Shull, a Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8662 or follow @Du-styLuthyShull on Twitter.
McGuire leads all 3 days for EverStart series winBY DUSTY LUTHY SHULL
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Curt McGuire holds up his two biggest two fish at final weigh-in Saturday at the Ben-ton WalMart for the EverStart Series central division event on Kentucky and Barkley lakes this weekend. McGuire, of Paris, Tenn., had a three-day total of 70 pounds, 3 ounces to help give him the win in the professional division.
ResultsProfessional Division: 1. Curt
McGuire, Paris, Tenn., 70 pounds, 3 ounces; 2. David Gnewikow, Mount Juliet, Tenn., 62 pounds, 13 ounces; 3. Mark Rose, West Memphis, Ark., 62 pounds, 7 ounces; 4. Kevin Snider, Eliza-bethtown, Ky., 60 pounds, 1 ounce; 5. Sam Morrow, Smyrna, Tenn., 59 pounds, 13 ounces; 6. Clent Davis, Montevallo, Ala., 59 pounds, 3 ounces; 7. Ran-dy Haynes, Counce, Tenn., 58 pounds, 1 ounce; 8. Jason Lam-bert, Pickwick Dam, Tenn., 56 pounds, 6 ounces; 9. Ray Barga, Benton, Ky., 47 pounds, 8 ounc-es; 10. Mickey Beck, Lebanon, Tenn., 43 pounds, 10 ounces.
Co-Angler Division: 1. Steve Ralls, Buncombe, Ill., 54 pounds, 10 ounces; 2. Michael Brown, Mayfi eld, Ky., 46 pounds, 13 ounces; 3. Donald Sibley, Stras-burg, Ohio, 46 pounds, 10 ounces; 4. Jeff Tennell, Franklin, Ind., 46 pounds, 10 ounces; 5. Ben Jackson, Paducah, Ky., 45 pounds, 2 ounces.
graduated from Tilghman in 2012 as a multi sport athlete and worked his way up from a walk-on to a starter at Kentucky this past season as a fresh-man cornerback. Although Wilson and Hall were still mostly just local legends when Harmon was grow-ing up, their infl uence clearly still matters.
Harmon was on the fi eld helping lead drills Satur-day, even hoisting one cry-ing young boy to the fi rst-aid tent.
“These kids are really energetic and everything’s going really good and they’re really enjoying it, I can tell,” Harmon said. “They’re really participat-ing and competing and it brings joy; it’s putting a smile on my face being out here.”
The clinic was also tied
to the NFL’s Fuel Up to Play 60 initiative, which was backed by Paducah Public Schools and Baptist Health, in order to bring awareness to childhood obesity.
“We’re just trying to en-courage kids to be physi-cally active at least 60 minutes every day,” Wil-son said. “To fi nd some-thing to do. It may not al-ways be football or sports oriented, but you can go out and jump rope and you can go dance. You can go swimming in the sum-mertime.”
Wilson, who played last season with the Buf-falo Bills, said the camp’s activities were based on drills and workouts he has had to do in preseason workouts for the Titans and Bills, as well as when he went through the draft combine. It helped, too, he said, for the younger
athletes to have reinforce-ment in the form of en-couraging words about the results of character and hard work come from outside a home or school setting.
“We’re here to let them know we’re no different than they are,” Wilson said. “We come from the same walks that they’ve come through. A lot of us attended the same schools, myself and Bryan included. And for us to be able to go from Paducah Tilghman High School to playing in college to play-ing in the NFL, and Bryan, winning a Super Bowl championship with the Baltimore Ravens, that in itself is a testament to what hard work can do.”
Call Dusty Luthy Shull, a Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8662 or follow @Du-styLuthyShull on Twitter.
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SHELBYVILLE — Clay Chandler drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning and picked up the win with a scoreless inning of relief as Paducah Post 31 beat defending state American Legion baseball cham-pion Shelbyville on Friday night.
Paducah went 3-0 in Shelbyville’s tournament before Saturday’s game against a team from Lou-isville.
Chandler was also 3-for-3 with fi ve RBI, including a bases-loaded double in the fi fth. Nick Shumaker was 3-for-4 in the leadoff spot.
John Higgins worked the fi rst seven innings for Paducah. Chandler had pitched three innings in Paducah’s fi rst game of the day, a win over Bard-
stown.–––
Shelbyville 010 202 00 5 8 2Paducah 100 031 01 6 8 2
Sanders, Johnson (5) and Wiley; Hig-gins, Chandler (8) and Darnell.
WP: Chandler. LP: Johnson.2B: S-Wiley, Hatcher, Sanders, Laugh-
lin; P-Chandler. 3B: none. HR: none. Top hitters: Sanders 2-2 (2 RBI), Wiley 2-4 (2 RBI), Hatcher 2-4; P-Chandler 3-3 (5 RBI), Shumaker 3-4. Records: Paducah 5-0, Shelbyville 0-2.
Paducah 17, Bard-stown 0 — Colby Griggs had a triple and a home run and drove in six runs as Paducah blew out Bard-stown’s fi rst-year team with a 12-run uprising in the third inning.
Drew Schmitt had a double and triple and drove in four runs for Paducah, and Clay Chan-dler was 4-for-4 with two RBI.
Chandler and Brett Quigley combined on a fi ve-hitter.
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Paducah 10(12) 4x 17 15 1O’Daniel, Osborne (3), Mattingly (4)
and Billings; Chandler, Quigley (4) and Darnell.
WP: Chandler. LP: O’Daniel.2B: P-Schmitt. 3B: P-Griggs, Schmitt.
HR: P-Griggs. Top hitters: P-Chandler 4-4 (2 RBI), Darnell 3-4, Griggs 2-3 (6 RBI), Sims 2-3 (2 RBI), Schmitt 2-4 (4 RBI). Re-cords: Paducah 4-0.
Paducah 6, Ashland 3 — Jeremiah White went the distance as Paducah beat Ashland 6-3 in its fi rst game of the tourna-ment on Thursday night. White allowed eight hits with one walk and four strikeouts.
Colby Griggs was 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles for Post 31, while Brett Quig-ley had two hits and a pair of RBI.
–––Paducah 122 100 0 6 10 2Ashland 100 100 1 3 8 1
White and Wright; Holder and Fritz.WP: White. LP: Holder.2B: P-Griggs 2, Schmitt, Quigley; A-Rob-
inson. 3B: none. HR: none. Top hitters: P-Griggs 3-3 (1 RBI), Quigley 2-3 (2 RBI), Whittaker 1-3 (2 RBI); A-Robinson 3-4, Thompson 2-4. Records: Paducah 3-0.
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INDIANAPOLIS — This wasn’t at all how Indiana Miss. Basketball Stepha-nie Mavunga expected the All-Star experience to be. It certainly not what she wanted.
Mavunga sprained her left knee within the fi rst three minutes in the fi rst game of the Indiana-Ken-tucky All-Star girls bas-ketball game on Friday and was unable to play in Saturday’s game, ending a dream she’s had for years.
“It’s really frustrating,” she said before Saturday’s game. “You dream about this as a kid. But I know my teammates are going
to get out here and exe-cute and God willing, we’ll get the win.”
That’s exactly what hap-pened.
Indiana’s Bridget Perry had 23 points and seven rebounds to lead Indiana to a 100-86 victory over Kentucky to wrap up the two-game series.
Taya Reimer had 19 points and 10 rebounds and Ariana Simmons add-ed 14 points for Indiana, which split the All-Star series with Kentucky for the second time in three years.
Indiana bounced back after losing 84-78 on Fri-day. Last year, Kentucky
swept Indiana.“We had a new focus to-
day, we talked about it this morning,” Reimer said. “We were really motivated and focused tonight. Last night, they were on it, they hit a bunch of shots. They punched us in the mouth last night and we had to come back at them to-night.”
Mavunga, who will play for North Carolina this fall, sat on the bench in street clothes with a large brace that took up the most of her leg.
Kentucky Miss. Basket-ball Makayla Epps had 23 points and Larryn Brooks added 19. —AP
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vid Freese’s fourth homer in the third inning put them ahead to stay.
It’s the fi fth time this season the Cardinals have scored at least nine runs when Lynn has started, and this time he contributed himself, delivering a two-out single off Ryan Webb to make the score 9-6.
Lynn glanced over his shoulder as he stepped to the plate, unsure whether Ma-theny might call on a pinch-hitter.
“He looked right at me,” Matheny said. “He wanted to know what the game plan was. I told him to get a hit. Brilliant coaching, huh?”
The single raised Lynn’s
lifetime average to .077. He came into the game with fi ve hits and one RBI in 76 career at-bats.
But the right-hander’s pitching performance left him in no mood to smile about his hitting.
“It was a bad day,” he said. “I was fi ghting it the whole time. I only had one pitch, the fastball. When I threw it they got hits, and I wasn’t able to get other pitches over for strikes.”
Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run homer for Miami, his fi fth, while Rob Brantly had two hits and three RBIs. But the Marlins never took the lead.
Tom Koehler (0-5) al-lowed a career-high nine runs in 4 2⁄3 innings. — AP
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the Heat a few days ago no longer looks to be the case. Instead, the obstacles look to be piling up for the Spurs.
“It’s a part of the playoffs,” Wade said. “There’s always high moments. There’s always low mo-ments. There’s moments when you have guys who are in a slump, et cetera. Guys who come out of it. Great story lines. It’s all of it.”
The teams returned to prac-tice Saturday after taking a day off, and though Parker said his strained right hamstring was feeling better and he hoped to be close to 100 percent by the game, he later made that sound impos-sible.
“My hamstring can tear any time now,” he said. “So if it was the regular season, I would be resting
like 10 days. But now it’s the NBA Finals. If it gets a tear, it’s life.”
Ginobili is averaging 7.5 points on 34.5 percent shooting in the series, making only three of his 16 3-point attempts. Parker said he’s still confi dent in his long-time teammate, and coach Gregg Popovich said he wasn’t worried about either player — about all he did say on a day when he was a man of even fewer words than usual.
During his brief responses to eight questions, he added that he wasn’t surprised by the Heat’s lineup change in Game 4, but wouldn’t say whether the Spurs would do anything different to-day.
“I’d hate to be trite and say any-thing is possible. Your question demands my triteness,” he an-swered. — AP
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Miami Heat forward LeBron James shoots during practice Saturday in San Antonio. The Heat take on the San Anto-nio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals tonight.
There are literally dozens, if not hundreds of coolers on the market today that range in price between a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. All are designed to keep items cold when you add ice, but is the price you pay rela-tive to ice keeping ability? That was the question that I hoped to answer by conducting my own “cooler research project.”
Let me fi rst lay the groundwork for my re-search. Get a couple of the everyday bargain basement coolers and compare them to a couple of the premium coolers that are on the market today. I had a cou-ple of the cheapo coolers but had to borrow a couple of the premium coolers from friends or businesses to conduct my test.
My thought was this: fi ll each cooler to capacity with ice and weigh it before and after fi lling, note the weight of each, and weigh it every 24 hours or so after draining the melted ice. My theory was that this would give me an ice loss percent-age, and it should be rel-evant for comparison’s sake when trying to see which one performed the best, or worst. The percentage of ice loss would be relevant no matter what size the cooler was because it would be based upon a percentage and not total pounds.
My laboratory was my garage and the two tests that I conducted would take a little more than two weeks. Test one would test the ice retention of a Yeti 45, a Pelican 35, a Griz-zly 16, an Igloo Max Cold, and a small Styrofoam cooler. Interestingly, the Yeti 45 was a 37.6 quart cooler, the Pelican 35 was a 40.7 quart cooler and the Grizzly 16 came in at about 18 quarts. So, fi rst and fore-most, just because a cooler has a number on it doesn’t mean that’s its capacity. Temperatures during my fi rst test were in the 70s and 80s outdoors. I fi gure my garage was a bit cooler, and the coolers were sitting on concrete in the shade.
I’m sure there’s a scien-tist out there that’s already saying that my test is fl awed for one reason or another, but this is what I did and it made sense to
me. After all, with cool-ers touting to keep ice for seven to nine days, I had to test that theory. They may be wildly stronger, but do they keep ice longer? The results were about to tell me if spending $329 on a premium cooler is a good investment vs. spend-ing $50 on an “everyday” cooler brand.
Test No. 1 was conducted over six days and the overall winner in ice reten-tion was the Pelican 35. It retained 84 percent of the original ice, while the loser was the Styrofoam cooler, which didn’t keep ice longer than three days. The Pelican was a sturdy, well built, thick-walled cooler that has a lid that creates a great seal, which gives it great ice keeping abil-ity. In a close second place was the Yeti 45, with only 6 percent difference in the two. The Pelican held about 3 quarts more ice, so they were both similar in capac-ity. The Igloo was third and
lost 96 percent of its ice in six days, which was about 12 percent worse than the fi rst place Pelican.
The biggest surprise to me was the Grizzly 16, which only lasted about three days perform-ing slightly better than the Styrofoam. This had me scratching my head because this quality cooler was built well, much like the Yeti and the Pelican but it failed to retain ice over an extended period. The cooler was much smaller, less than half the size of the others so that led me to conduct another test with a comparable-sized Grizzly.
Test No. 2 was over a seven day period, and I tested the same Pelican 35 ($227), a larger Yeti 65 ($389), a much large Grizzly 60 ($369), the same Igloo Max Cold ($50), and a 52 quart Coleman Ex-treme ($32). For this test, the Pelican would be the smallest cooler while the Grizzly would be the largest at almost 63 quarts. The Yeti 65 is 57.2 quarts and the Igloo is just under 45 quarts.
I conducted the second test in a similar way but purchased my ice from a local ice plant. The results were similar, but different. The Grizzly and Yeti fi n-ished in a virtual tie for fi rst
place, retaining about 22 percent of its ice over seven days. The Igloo retained 6 percent while the Pelican retained only 2.5 pounds of its original ice, but it still had ice. The Grizzly and Yeti both retained 13 pounds of ice and the Igloo retained about 3 pounds. The Coleman Extreme crashed and burned and didn’t make it the seven days.
How could the Pelican 35 be No. 1 in my fi rst test and have a lackluster perfor-mance in my second test? That’s a great question, and I think that my original premise of percentage of ice loss being relative was somewhat fl awed when comparing larger coolers to smaller coolers. Note: The Grizzly went from virtual
last place with the smaller cooler to fi rst place with the larger cooler. The opposite was true for the Pelican, which proves that size does matter, despite what you’ve been told.
Cooler manufacturers ad-vise you to keep the water in your cooler; the less air you have inside, the better
the ice retention. That is good advice. But my test didn’t allow for that, so you could expect even better results by not draining the water.
The Igloo Max Cold cooler performed well, especially considering the price point. It was only 12 percent and 16 percent off the fi rst place fi nisher in each test, which wasn’t bad in my opinion.
There’s no doubt that the quality of the premium coolers are far superior than the discount store coolers. The molding pro-cess used to construct these coolers creates a cooler that will last a lifetime and appear to keep ice longer. Most users don’t really care about keeping ice for six to seven days, but everyone’s needs are different.
In summary, premium coolers do perform bet-ter and size does matter so get the largest cooler you can handle if you want extended ice keeping capability. The Grizzly, Yeti and Pelican are well made, well-engineered coolers that will last a lifetime but you’ll pay for it during the initial purchase.
David Mosesso is pub-lisher of the Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun.
The great cooler research project of 2013Cooler Test #1- 6 DaysCooler Volume Dry Weight With Ice
7:30 pm Tues
Pelican 35 40.7 qt. 32 66.5 -6.5 -19% -12 -35% -19.5 -57% -21 -61% -25 -72% -29 -84%
YETI 45 37.6 qt. 23 59.5 -7 -19% -12.5 -34% -21.5 -59% -23.5 -64% -28 -77% -33 -90%
Igloo Max Cold 44.93 qt. 10.5 52 -8.5 -20% -15 -36% -26 -63% -29 -70% -34 -82% -40 -96%
Styrofoam 15.43 qt. 1 14.5 -5 -37% -8.5 -63% -13.5 -100% -13.5 -100% -13.5 -100% -13.5 -100%
Griozzly 16 17.95 qt. 12 28 -6 -38% -10 -63% -16 -100% -16 -100% -16 -100% -16 -100%
Notes: All coolers filled with ice donated from Pizza Inn in Jonesboro. Coolers filled to capacity then weighed on digital scales.*Daily readings were taken as noted with day 3 reading more than one day and day 4 less than one day.All reading as full or half pounds.All water was drained from each cooler prior to reading and lid was opened to view ice only.All coolers were stored in home garage, in shade.Temperature range outside of garage during week ranged between 70 and 98 degrees as high temperature.
8:30 pm Wed 5:30 pm Thursday 7:00 P.M Sat 5:00 P.M Sun 6:00 p.m. Mon10:00a.m SatDay 6 Ice LossDay 1 Ice Loss Day 2 Ice Loss Day 3 Ice Loss* Day 4 Ice Loss Day 5 ice loss
COOLER TEST #2 JUNE, 2013
Cooler Volume Dry Weight With IceTues 6:00 p.m.
YETI 65 57.2 qt 29 88 -8 -14% -14.5 -25% -22.5 -38% -28 -47% -35 -59% -40.5 -69% -46 -78%
Grizzly 60 62.72 qt 25.75 86.5 -7 -12% -13.5 -22% -21.5 -35% -21.5 -35% -28.5 -47% -41.5 -68% -47.5 -78%
Igloo Max Cold 44.93 qt. 10.5 59.5 -7.5 -15% -14.5 -30% -21 -43% -26.5 -54% -33.5 -68% -40 -82% -46 -94%
Pelican 35 40.7 qt. 32 65.5 -6 -18% -10.5 -31% -15.5 -46% -20 -60% -25 -75% -28.5 -85% -33 -99%
Coleman Extreme 52 qt. 13.5 67 -11 -21% -20 -37% -28 -52% -36.5 -68% -45.5 -85% -51.5 -96% -53.5 -100%
Notes: All coolers filled with ice purchased from Home Ice in Jonesboro, AR. Coolers filled to capacity then weighed on digital scales.Daily readings were as noted above and are listed as poundsAll water was drained from each cooler prior to reading and lid was opened to view ice only.All coolers were stored in home garage, in shade.Temperature range outside of garage during week ranged between 70 and 98 degrees as high temperature.
Day 7 Ice lossTuesday 5:30 p.m.
Day 4 Ice LossSaturday 6:00 p.m.
Day 5 ice lossSunday 6:30 p.m. Monday 6:30 p.m.
Day 6 Ice lossDay 1 Ice lossWed. 6:00 p.m.
Day 2 Ice LossThurs. 5:30 p.m.
Day 3 Ice LossFriday 5:00 p.m.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. —Ryan Hunter-Reay contin-ued Andretti Autosport’s domination at the Milwau-kee Mile, winning the Indy-Car event Saturday for the second year in a row.
Hunter-Reay became the
fi rst driver to win back-to-back races at the Mile since Tony Kanaan in 2006 and 2007 when he was driving for — you guessed it, An-dretti.
Andretti drivers have won fi ve of the last nine races at the mile oval and nearly had
a perfect day Saturday in a race that is promoted by Mi-chael Andretti’s marketing company. Hunter-Reay got the win, E.J. Viso fi nished fourth and James Hinch-cliffe was fi fth.
Points leader Helio Cas-troneves was second.
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BROOKLYN, Mich. — Points leader Regan Smith won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday, holding off Kyle Larson in the final 10 laps.
It was Smith’s second win of the year and 11th top-10 finish in 13 starts. He took the lead with 13 laps remaining when Parker Kligerman had to pit, and al-though Larson closed the gap a bit toward the end, he wasn’t able to overtake Smith’s No. 7 Chevrolet.
The 125-lap, 250-mile race was run under threaten-ing weather conditions, but drivers were able to finish with no delays. Paul Menard was third, followed by Kyle Busch and Trevor Bayne.
Smith’s final margin of victory was 0.331 seconds.
— Associated Press
Fort Larned wins Stephen Foster Handicap
LOUISVILLE — Fort Larned won the $536,300 Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap by 6¼ lengths Sat-urday night at Churchill Downs, giving him a chance to defend his Breeders’ Cup Classic title.
The 5-year-old owned by Janis Whitham and trained by Ian Wilkes broke first from the rail and never trailed under jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. Fort Larned ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:47.45, the second-fastest Foster be-hind Victory Gallop’s track-record 1:47.28 in 1999.
The winner paid $8.60, $5.20 and $3.60 and earned $329,181 to pushed his career total to $4,031,417. Golden Ticket was second and returned $7.20 and $3.40. Ron the Greek, the 2012 Foster winner, paid $3.20 to show
The Stephen Foster was the first “Win and You’re In” race for the year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, earning Fort Larned an automatic spot in the Nov. 2 event at Santa Anita and $10,000 toward travel costs.
It was the first win this year for Fort Larned. He stumbled out of the gate and unseated Hernandez in the Gulfstream Handicap in his season debut and fin-ished fifth in the Oaklawn Handicap on April 13.
— Associated Press
Team source: Kings hire D’Alessandro as GM
The Sacramento Kings hired Denver executive Pete D’Alessandro as their new general manager on Saturday. D’Alessandro will replace the departing Geoff Petrie, a team official confirmed on condition of anonymity because there has not been a formal announcement yet. The move was first reported by Yahoo! Sports.
New owner Vivek Ranadive has already hired Mike Malone as the team’s new coach.
— Associated Press
BROOKLYN, Mich. — A year ago, Dale Earnhardt Jr. fi nally snapped his long losing streak. He left Mich-igan International Speed-way with hopes of more victories to come — maybe even a Sprint Cup champi-onship.
He hasn’t won since.“We want to win more
races. We want to win nu-merous races and multiple races in a season,” Earn-hardt said. “We want that to be the norm. We want that to be what is expected. When we fi rst started work-ing together we were try-ing to fi gure out how to get a 15th-place combination into the top 10 and we were happy when we did.
“Now when we run in the top 10 it’s just another weekend — and what do we have to do to win?”
Whenever NASCAR’s top series comes to Michigan, Earnhardt is at the center of attention. He won at MIS last June after 143 races without a victory. His most recent win before that was also at Michigan in 2008, so the Sprint Cup’s twice-year-ly visits to the Irish Hills al-ways seem to present an op-portunity for Earnhardt and his No. 88 Chevrolet.
Earnhardt’s victory last year wasn’t a shock. He’d been running well for a while, working his way back among NASCAR’s elite driv-ers, so after a convincing performance at MIS, stock-car racing’s most popular driver could credibly eye a
run at a series champion-ship.
But concussion problems derailed his chances in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and although he began 2013 with fi ve straight top-10 fi nishes and briefl y led the points standings, he’s slipped to fourth since then.
Earnhardt took a step in the right direction with a third-place showing at Po-cono last weekend, but the pressure is mounting for him to take advantage of a return to Michigan.
“It’s just a simple race track that has not got a lot of challenges. It’s very easily laid out and understandable for a driver. It really comes
down to just getting your car to work,” Earnhardt said. “There are no bumps or bad transitions, there is nothing really that you are out there fi ghting or wor-ried about or dreading. It’s just a simple race track and very wide.”
Jimmie Johnson has never won a Cup race at MIS, but he enters today’s 400-mile race leading the standings by 51 points over Carl Edwards. Johnson has three victories already this year, and another spot in the Chase looks like a for-mality.
Edwards won the pole for today’s race. Earnhardt qualifi ed 12th, and defend-
ing Cup champion Brad Ke-selowski was 16th, one spot ahead of Johnson.
The 38-year-old Earn-hardt says he doesn’t feel any urgency to break through soon.
“I feel pretty young still. I feel like I’m in good shape. I feel young in my mind. I feel like I have good ener-gy,” he said. “I feel like I’m in the best opportunity of my career. There is a ‘seize the moment’ kind of feeling because I’m in such good equipment around such good people. I don’t feel like there is a clock in the back-ground ticking away that is annoying me or anything like that.” — AP
Earnhardt seeks Michigan repeatBY NOAH TRISTER
Associated Press
Associated Press
Driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. prepares for a practice session for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway on Friday in Brooklyn, Mich. Earnhardt, who won last year at Michigan, qualified 12th for today’s race.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak up, share your thoughts and most of all take control and fol-low through with your plans. Good ideas coupled with hard work and patience will ensure that you excel in your plans. Love is in the stars.
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Giving back to an organization or cause you feel akin to will help you get a clearer vision regarding what you should do personally or profes-sionally.
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NEW YORK — There was plenty of applause heard during the Tony Awards — and perhaps no place loud-er than from as far away as Pittsburgh.
Seven alumni from Carn-egie Mellon University took home Tonys, a glittery haul that was both a school record and a huge source of pride for a theater department that turns 100 next year.
Billy Porter, Patina Mill-er and Judith Light each took home acting Tonys, while Ann Roth got one for best costume design, and partners Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer won for best lighting design of a play. Martin Platt also won as producer of the best play
winner, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”
“We’ve had a bumper crop,” said Peter Cooke, head of the university’s school of drama. “I’m just delighted that they received rewards from their peers. It was just a terrifi c night.”
The seven wins means Carnegie Mellon took brag-ging rights from the bet-ter-known Yale University School of Drama, which had four Tony winners Sunday: costume designer William Ivey Long, actor Courtney B. Vance, set designer John Lee Beatty and playwright Christopher Durang.
In addition to Carnegie Mellon winners, there were plenty of alumni serving as presenters and performers: “Newsies” lead Corey Cott
graduated last year, “Star Trek” reboot star Zachary Quinto is from the class of 1999, and Megan Hilty, who recently starred on NBC’s “Smash,” is a 2004 graduate.
“You’re looking at a broad continuum of tal-ent that’s come out of this school,” said Cooke, who has hosted representatives from theater schools as far away as Estonia and Brazil.
Founded in 1914, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama is the old-est conservatory training in America and the country’s fi rst degree-granting dra-ma institution.
The school is known for its interdisciplinary work, embrace of technology and stress on learning-by-doing, meaning acting students
help make the sets and back-stage designers get a chance to shine onstage. Alumni come back not just to make speeches but to teach.
“It’s a very rigorous pro-gram but I have to say it’s one of the best in the coun-try because they really just prepare you in all avenues of this business,” says Mill-er, who graduated in 2006. “You do everything. The ac-tors sing. The musical the-ater students do as much acting as the actors. We were all very well rounded in all aspects of theater.”
Graduates include Cher-ry Jones, Rob Marshall, Ted Danson, Christian
Borle, James Cromwell, Blair Underwood, John Wells and “The Book of Mormon” stars Josh Gad and Rory O’Malley, who roomed together as fresh-men. Stephen Schwartz wrote “Godspell” and part of “Pippin,” which won the best musical revival Tony on Sunday, while on cam-pus as an undergraduate.
The university’s gradu-ates have won some 30 Tonys to date, which is im-pressive, but easily dwarfed by Yale, which has had at least 97 Tonys, according to a spokesman, starting at the fi rst awards in 1947 when Elia Kazan was crowned
best director for Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”
The alumni network is very tight and Miller said her teachers are still in con-tact with her seven years after she graduated. She herself is advising a new crop of soon-to-be gradu-ates, some very likely to grace Broadway.
“I put everything down to the faculty. The faculty is everything in a theater school,” said Cooke. “You can have great buildings or lousy buildings. But the person at the front of the class needs to know more than person sitting in the chair. That’s how it works.”
Carnegie Mellon cheers ‘bumper crop’ of TonysBY MARK KENNEDY
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Harry Connick Jr. writes song for Newtown shooting victim
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Harry Connick Jr. has written a song in honor of a 6-year-old girl killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
Connick this week released the song “Love Wins,” dedicated to Ana Grace Marquez-Greene. He says pro-ceeds will go to the Ana Grace Fund set up to help the girl’s family.
Connick played with the girl’s jazz saxo-phonist father, Jimmy Greene, and sang at the funeral for Ana, one of 20 first-graders
and six adults killed in December at San-dy Hook Elementary School.
Greene is scheduled to receive the Governor’s Arts Award at a ceremony Sat-urday at the International Festival for Arts and Ideas in New Haven.
Greene, an assistant professor at West-ern Connecticut State University, has released a series of critically acclaimed albums and received numerous honors.
— Associated Press
Robert Downey Jr. calms boy upset at not seeing Iron Man
SUNDERLAND, Mass. — Robert Downey Jr. may not be a real superhero, but he sure acted like one for a little Massachusetts boy.
Heather Denno took her 1½-year-old son Jaxson to watch filming for the movie “The Judge,” starring Downey, in her hometown of Sunderland last week.
Downey, star of the “Iron Man” movies, spotted the little boy and went over to say hi.
Heather Denno told Jaxson that Downey was “Iron Man.”
Confused because of the lack of the trademark metallic red-and-gold suit, Jax-son burst into tears.
Downey put a com-forting hand on the boy and calmed him.
Heather Denno said Downey was “sweet and
nurturing,” and she could tell he’s a dad.— Associated Press
Bassist Kim Deal leaves the Pixies
NEW YORK — Kim Deal is no longer part of the Pixies.
The band announced Friday on its Face-book page that the 52-year-old bassist has decided to leave the Boston-based group.
The remaining members said in a statement they are “very proud” to have worked with Deal. Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering also said they will always consider her a member of the group.
The Pixies released their debut in 1988. Their rock hits include “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” ‘‘Here Comes
Your Man” and “Letter to Memphis.” They disbanded in the early 1990s and reunit-ed in 2004. Deal was also a part of the band The Breeders, which she formed and worked as lead singer and guitarist.
The Pixies’ last tour was in 2011. Their last single was 2004’s “Bam Thwok.”
— Associated Press
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Paducah, Ky
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449 South 16th Street
SUPERCENTER 3801 Hinkleville RoadHighway 60 • A Half Mile East of 1-24
Paducah, KY 442-4455 • 1-800-788-6224Open Daily 9-7 • Saturday 10-7• Sunday 1-5 • Friday 10-8
451 South 16th Street, Paducah KY442-4465 • 1-800-450-6224
Daily 9 to 5, Fri. 9 to 6
3060 Hwy 641 North, Murray, KY753-6309 • 1-866-753-6309
Open Mon.-Sat. 9-6, Sun. 1-5
* With Approved Credit. No Interest if paid in full by 6/1/2017. $1,999 minimum purchase for 4 years, one time minimum processing fee $169. $1,499 minimum purchase for 3 years, one time minimum processing fee $129. $999 minimum purchase for 2 years, $0 processing fee. Minimum Payment Required. Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the balance [including premiums for optional credit insurance] is not paid in full by 6/1/2017 or if you make a late payment. If the purchase amount, plus any applicable fees or charges is not paid in full by the end of the promotional period,interest will be charged at the APR for purchases on any remaining balances until paid in full. The current APR for
purchases is variable 28.99%. APR for purchase on existing accounts may vary between 26.99-29.99%. If any required minimum payment is 60 days past due, the Penalty APR, currently variable 29.99% will apply to remaining balance.
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* Policies set by local retailer. See store for details. Excludes delivery and set up fees. Other charges may apply. Offer does not apply to Serta® Adjustable Foundations, iComfort Pillows and other iComfort accessories.
The BEST BUY SEAL is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications, LLC, used under license.
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The BEST BUY SEAL is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications, LLC, used under license.
† Policies set by local retailer. See store for details. Excludes delivery and set up fees. Other charges may apply. Offer does not apply to Serta® Adjustable Foundations, iComfort Pillows and other iComfort accessories.
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