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New West Point Police Department Chief Avery Cook took the reins Friday, hoping to emphasize community service and improved officer-citizen relations.

BY ALEX HOLLOWAYaholloway@cdispatch.com

To Avery Cook, teach-ing kids karate at the CK&A Karate School downtown has some paral-lels to policing.

Cook, who started as West Point’s police chief on Friday, has taught ka-rate for 24 years. He’s a

third-degree black belt, and looks at his expe-rience as something to share with the communi-ty.

“Coming up through the ranks, you strive to get that black belt,” Cook said. “You work hard to get that black belt. And like being a police officer, you give

back. It’s giving back to the kids, giving some-thing to the youth.”

Cook, 54, is also a big Mississippi State Univer-sity athletics fan, as is evi-denced by the posters and magazines he keeps in his office. He said he’s also a huge fan of the West Point

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Judd Williams has been all over eastern Mississippi talking to high school seniors at college fairs about ad-mission at Mississippi State University.

But he said Monday’s event at the Trotter Convention Center — where 1,200 students had access to informa-tion and representatives from more than 50 universities — was one of the largest and best fairs he’s seen.

“This is an incredible step in the right direction for college fairs in Mis-sissippi,” he said. “… I definitely think this fair could serve as an example to the state.”

Administrators from the Mississip-pi School for Mathematics and Science organized the fair to give Lowndes County students the chance to talk to university admissions counselors about everything from majors and scholarships to how to schedule guid-ed campus tours.

It’s something MSMS provides for its own students every year, school executive director Germaine McCon-nell said. But this is the first year the school has opened the fair to students

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch StaffNew Hope High School seniors Nathan Nabors, 17, Connor Rose, 17, Kelsi Speed, 17, and Austin Robinson, 18, study pamphlets at a college fair hosted by Mis-sissippi School for Mathematics and Science at the Trotter Convention Center Monday. Nabors is the son of Jackie and David Nabors of New Hope; Rose is the son of Lynn and Stan Rose of New Hope; Speed is the daughter of Donald Speed of New Hope; Robinson is the son of Lynn Robinson of New Hope.

Columbus man dies in head-on crashTeen driver injuredDISPATCH STAFF REPORT

A Columbus man is dead follow-ing a head-on collision near New Hope Monday.

Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant identified the victim as Corey Michael Thompson, 29.

Deputies with Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office are still investigat-ing the accident which occurred about noon on Yorkville Road, LCSO Chief Deputy Marc Miley said. Thompson was driving a blue Toyota Camry east toward New Hope when his vehicle struck a sil-

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Deanna Robinson/Dispatch StaffMolly Munson, 5, and her mom, Katherine Munson, put the finishing touches on the new mural in downtown Columbus Monday morning. The dedication ceremony for the mural will be Wednesday at 4 p.m.

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Republican governors get into the ‘news’ business

BY BILL BARROWThe Associated Press

ATLANTA — Republi-can governors are getting into the “news” business.

The Republican Gov-ernors Association has quietly launched an on-line publication that looks like a media outlet and is branded as such on social media. The Free Telegraph blares headlines about the virtues of GOP governors, while framing Democrats negatively. It asks readers to sign up for breaking news alerts. It launched in the summer bearing no acknowledgement that it was a product of an official party committee whose sole purpose is to get more Republicans elected.

Only after The Associ-ated Press inquired about the site last week was a dis-closure added to The Free Telegraph’s pages identify-ing the publication’s parti-san source.

The governors associa-tion describes the website as routine political commu-nication. Critics, including some Republicans, say it pushes the limits of honest campaign tactics in an era of increasingly partisan

media and a proliferation of “fake news” sites, includ-ing those whose material became part of an apparent Russian propaganda effort during the 2016 presiden-tial campaign.

“It’s propaganda for sure, even if they have ob-jective standards and all the reporting is 100 percent accurate,” said Republican communications veteran Rick Tyler, whose resume includes Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The website was reg-istered July 7 through Domains By Proxy, a company that allows the originators of a website to shield their identities. An AP search did not find any corporate, Federal Election Commission or IRS filings establishing The Free Tele-graph as an independent entity.

As of early Monday afternoon, The Free Tele-graph’s Twitter account and Facebook page still had no obvious identifi-ers tying the site to RGA. The site described itself on Twitter as “bringing you the political news that matters outside of Wash-ington.”

Critics: Online publication pushes the limits of honest campaign tactics

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AND BILL CORMIERThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Toys ‘R’ Us, the big box toy retailer struggling with $5 billion in debt and intense online competition, has filed for bankruptcy protection ahead of the key holiday shopping season — and says its stores will remain open for business as usual.

The company based in Wayne, New Jersey, said late Monday that it was voluntarily seeking relief through the U.S. Bank-ruptcy Court for the East-

ern District of Virginia in Richmond — and that its Canadian subsidiary would be seeking similar protection through a Ca-nadian court in Ontario as it seeks to reorganize.

Toys ‘R’ Us said court-supervised proceed-ings will help restructure its debts and set the stage for long-term growth. Its announcement said sepa-rate operations outside the U.S. and Canada are not part of the filings. And it emphasized that its stores worldwide will remain open and that it will contin-ue to work with suppliers

and sell merchandise.“The company’s ap-

proximately 1,600 Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us stores around the world — the vast majority of which are profitable — are continuing to operate as usual,” the company state-ment said. “Customers can also continue to shop for the toy and baby prod-ucts they are looking for online.”

Dave Brandon, com-pany chairman and CEO, said that the court filing provides a path for the company and its investors to work with its debthold-ers and other creditors to work on restructuring the debt beleaguering the pio-neering toy retailer.

Toys ‘R’ Us files for bankruptcy but keeps stores open

BY CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY AND BOB SALSBERGThe Associated Press

ATLANTA — A summer of natural catastrophes, from epic hurricanes to scorching wildfires, has exposed another peril in disas-ter-prone states: How to pay for the rescues, repairs and rebuilding.

The combined tab from Hurri-canes Harvey and Irma is expected to hit $200 billion or more. While the federal government is expect-ed to pay most of that, the affected state and local governments have to start paying for recovery now and eventually could be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars or more.

States vary on how prepared they are to weather such costs. Florida and South Carolina, both hit by Hurricane Irma, are among the dozen or so states that do not have dedicated disaster funds and opt to cover the expenses after the fact, potentially by dipping into re-serves or shifting money from oth-er state agencies.

Experts say such pay-as-you-go disaster funding can be risky. Add an economic downturn when

reserves are low and budgets are tight, and state and local officials could easily find themselves strug-gling to pay for recovery and re-building.

Even putting money into a ded-icated disaster fund may not be enough.

In Montana, where wildfires raged across the state this summer, threatening hundreds of homes and destroying a historic lodge in Glacier National Park, the firefight-ing costs so far have exceeded the amount set aside in a special disas-

ter fund by $20 million.“It took us all by surprise,” state

Rep. Nancy Ballance said.All but a handful of states main-

tain so-called rainy day accounts, but in most cases “rainy day” is a misnomer: The money is typical-ly used to get through economic downturns rather than responding to natural disasters. States tapped, and in many cases depleted, their rainy day funds to avoid massive cuts and maintain critical ser-vices after tax revenue plummeted during the recession.

Floods, fires, other disasters add stress to state budgets

Hurricane Maria lashes Dominica, now menaces other islandsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROSEAU, Dominica — Hurricane Maria smashed into Dominica with catastrophic winds, leaving what one official described Tuesday as “widespread devastation” from the monster storm now threatening Caribbean islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma.

Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skeritt said on his Facebook page while the Category 5 storm was raging over his island nation that he would venture out to see the damage and secure needed help once the all-clear was given. He said his “greatest fear” was that island res-idents would awake to word of “serious physical injury and possible deaths.”

At one point, he lost the roof to his own official residence as fierce winds also swept away the roofs of many others. He said his initial focus would be on rescuing trapped people and securing medical aid for the injured.

Combined tab from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is expected to hit $200 billion or more

Toy retailer struggling with $5B in debt and intense online competition

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BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSThe Associated Press

JACKSON — A civil rights activist who wrote about challenging segre-gation in the South was honored in her hometown, two years after her death.

About 70 people gath-ered Friday in the south-western Mississippi town of Centreville — popula-tion 1,680 — to unveil a sign for the newly renamed Anne Moody Street. Moody was born in Centre-ville on Sept. 15, 1940.

Her memoir, “Coming

of Age in Mississippi,” was published in 1968 and is required reading in some schools. It recounts her early life in a poor family and her participation in civil rights activities that put her in danger, includ-ing efforts to register black voters.

Roscoe Barnes III, who is chaplain at a prison near Centreville, helped orga-nize the Anne Moody Day commemoration, held on what would have been her 77th birthday. He said her son, Sasha Straus, attend-ed, as did some of her sib-

lings and cousins.“Here’s a woman who

literally put her life on the line in the fight for free-dom and justice,” Barnes told The Associated Press. “We’re here because she was there. She survived threats, beatings, incarcer-ations.”

On May 28, 1963, Moody was part of an in-tegrated group of students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. They had worked with Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers to prepare for the protest.

White high school stu-dents, egged on by some

adults, dumped ketchup and mustard on the heads of Moody and the other protesters. She wrote that after she and two other black students started praying at the counter, one white man slapped her and another threw her against an adjoining counter. One of the praying students was pulled violently from his seat.

Evers was assassinated outside his Jackson home two weeks after the sit-in.

After Moody graduated from college in 1964, she moved to New York, where she wrote her book. She returned to Mississippi in the mid-1990s but never felt at ease in the state, said one of her sisters, Adline Moody.

Miss. hometown honors author of civil rights memoir‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ was published in 1968 and is required reading in some schools

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON — Police say a man wearing a Jason Voorhees mask from the horror movie “Friday the 13th” shot three people in Mississippi, killing one and injuring two.

The Clarion-Ledger reports that 30-year-old Kendrick Hughes was shot dead at the Pine Ridge Apartments in Jackson on Sunday afternoon. Two others were injured. Their conditions were not known Monday.

Sgt. Derrick Jordan says the suspect came from behind one of the apartment buildings with a hand-gun and shot the three victims, who were standing together. The suspect fled the scene on foot.

Jordan said a motive is unknown.

Man in horror-film mask shoots 3 in Miss.; 1 killed

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OXFORD — Years af-ter it traded Colonel Reb for a bear, the Universi-ty of Mississippi could again change its sidelines sports mascot.

Student government President Dion Kevin III announced Monday that students will vote next week on changing from a black bear to a “land-shark” in a campus-wide election.

University spokesman Ryan Whittington said the vote would be advi-sory and would not bind Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter. Whittington didn’t an-swer whether the univer-sity administration has a

preferred outcome.“This referendum is a

student-led initiative be-ing conducted through an Associated Student Body process,” Whittington wrote in an email. “While we will not speculate on the outcome of their pro-cess, we value the import-ant role that students play as an active voice in the life of our campus com-munity. We are always in-terested in the viewpoints of our students.”

The nickname for the school’s athletic teams re-mains the Rebels, but Ole Miss retired Colonel Reb from the sidelines in 2003 and has ditched other Old South symbols, including

Confederate battle flags and the anthem “Dixie.”

The bear was chosen from three options in a 2010 student vote, with landshark the runner-up and Hoddy Toddy third. Hoddy Toddy is a mythi-cal creature drawn up to represent Ole Miss’ signa-ture cheer. The landshark is based on a “fins up” hand motion started by then-linebacker Tony Fein in an upset of the Florida football team in 2008.

“The landshark as we know it today has its ori-gins in football, but has since expanded to sym-bolize Ole Miss’s fight spirit and athletic prow-ess,” Kevin said in a state-ment, saying students could “leave a legacy of unity and excitement” by supporting the change.

Fein, a Washington state native and U.S.

Army veteran, died after an accidental drug over-dose in 2009.

Though Colonel Reb lost his official sanction more than a decade ago, his visage is not hard to find in Oxford, and some supporters still want him back.

“We agree that the black bear is an embar-rassment and a failure,” Colonel Reb Foundation Student Chairman Wess Helton said in a state-ment. “But using another closed process and a fake election to force their pre-viously failed choice on students won’t solve any-thing. The Colonel Reb Foundation calls for the ASB Senate to give us our true mascot choice in this election — Colonel Reb — or add ‘none of the above’ as an option for Ole Miss students.”

Ole Miss could swap black bear mascotUniversity spokesman: Vote would be advisory and would not bind Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter

AROUND THE STATE

Searching for cow, farmer finds SUV holding human remains

TUPELO — A Missis-sippi farmer was out look-ing for a lost cow when he found a burned vehicle holding human remains.

Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the sport utility vehicle was “way off the road” on some farmland last week.

The identification number showed the SUV belonged to a man who

was out on federal pro-bation when he was re-ported missing in August from north Mississippi’s DeSoto County, which is about 95 miles from Lee County.

It was not immediate-ly clear whether the re-mains were those of the SUV owner.

The remains were sent to the state Crime Lab to confirm the person’s identity, and the Missis-sippi Bureau of Investi-gation is looking into the death.

Grand jury decides against indictment in death of student

PONTOTOC — A Pontotoc County grand jury has decided there should be no charges filed against a driver whose sport utility vehicle ran over an elementary stu-dent after she got off a school bus last year.

WTVA-TV reports Sheriff Leo Mask says the decision not to indict the driver for 7-year-old A’mi-ya Braxton’s death was revealed Wednesday.

Mask says it happened in October 2016 when Braxton stepped off the bus and an SUV driven by 39-year-old Karen Mi-chelle Carpenter of Saltil-lo hit her.

The sheriff says the SUV was northbound and approached the stopped school bus from the rear. He said for some rea-son, Carpenter’s vehicle swerved and passed the bus on the right side, where the little girl was struck as she stepped off the bus.

BY ALEX HOLLOWAYaholloway@cdispatch.com

O k t i b b e h a County super-visors will meet next week to review bids the county received for OCH Regional Medical Center.

The dead-line was Friday to submit bids to purchase or lease the 96-bed, county-owned hospital. Supervisors will meet at 3 p.m. on Sept. 26 to review the bids. Board President Or-lando Trainer said that pro-cess will likely happen behind closed doors.

“There’s some highly sensi-tive information those propos-als, on both sides,” Trainer said.

“There’s some confidentiality agreements we entered into with individuals who submitted those proposals. We need to be very careful in how we proceed going forward.”

Trainer said supervisors could decide to publicly present the proposals’ information after reviewing them at next week’s meeting.

For now, he said he’s not aware how many proposals the county received. Bids were sub-mitted to County Administrator Emily Garrard, who declined to say how many the county re-ceived, when asked.

Supervisors began seeking bids for the hospital in May. Bids were originally supposed to be in by July 7. However, the hospital did not meet a June deadline for most of the infor-mation supervisors request-ed for the bids, and the board pushed the proposal deadline.

While next week’s meet-ing will happen in executive session, District 3 Supervisor

Marvell Howard said he wants the board to be transparent as it continues through the process of potentially selling the hospi-tal. He said that includes set-ting meeting times in the eve-ning, when people can attend.

“From the beginning of this process, we all said that we want to make sure this process is as transparent as possible,” Howard said. “... That has been my stance and that’s still my stance.”

Industrial park contractsIn other business, super-

visors unanimously approved contracts to move ahead with a nearly 400-acre industrial park near the intersection of High-ways 82 and 389.

Golden Triangle LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins and attorney Christ Pace presented the con-tracts to supervisors.

Supervisors approved four matters: a memorandum of understanding with Atmos En-

ergy to build a new natural gas line to the site; a memorandum of u nder s t a nd i ng with 4-County for a new substation adjacent to the industrial site; an env i ron ment a l service agreement with Head-waters, Inc. for environmental work, including cultural arti-facts mitigation; and an engi-neering services agreement with Neel-Schaffer.

District 1 Supervisor John Montgomery asked how long the cultural mitigation process would take, and Higgins said he expects that process to last up to a year.

Higgins said the LINK will soon provide updated informa-tion with timetables and costs for the project to Starkville and county leaders as soon as Octo-ber.

The industrial park’s devel-opment slowed after property

owners near the planned chal-lenged a rezoning decision by the Starkville Board of Alder-men. The Oktibbeha County Circuit Court affirmed the city’s rezoning order, and the property owners have since ap-pealed the decision to the state Supreme Court. That legal bat-tle could drag out, but city and county leaders moved ahead at a joint city-county meeting in July to approve a combined $14 million bond issuance for the project.

Higgins said the city and county leaders decided to “damn the torpedoes” and move ahead at the joint meet-ing, and the project continues to progress, even while the le-gal challenge lingers in the Su-preme Court.

“Whenever the city council meeting is over, assuming they approve it, we can say we’ve left the preliminary phase and are now in the implementation phase,” he said.

Okt. supes to review hospital bids next weekUnanimously approve contracts for industrial park

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FatalityContinued from Page 1A

ver Honda Accord headed west toward Columbus.Merchant pronounced Thompson dead at the

scene at about 12:40 p.m.Miley said the Honda’s driver, a juvenile whose

identity authorities have not released, was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle with what appeared to be non life-threatening in-juries.

Miley said there is no evidence to suggest ei-ther driver was intoxicated.

RemainsContinued from Page 1A

see-Tombigbee Waterway.Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant said

he could not give many details yet but confirmed the remains were found near Plymouth Road. Au-thorities do not suspect foul play, he confirmed. Rather, Merchant said they appear to have come from an old gravesite.

“(These remains have) been buried and they were exposed through erosion from the bank of the river,” Merchant said. “These are very very very old.” Merchant plans to coordinate with an archaeological team from Mississippi State Uni-versity later this week to examine the remains.

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Shopping for a collegeHigh-achieving students

may be different in myriad ways, but one thing they have in common is keen sense of curiosity.

It is that drive to know more, to understand better, to challenge orthodoxy that drives that student to go be-yond what is expected.

Monday, the Mississippi School for Math & Sciences held a college fair at the Trot-ter Center.

MSMS has held the sort of event, which exposes its students to a wide range of colleges, for its students. This year, MSMS opened up that opportunity to all schools in Lowndes County, both public

and private,.Fifty-seven institutions of

higher education accepted the invitation to make their cases to the county’s high school juniors and seniors.

Obviously, there were some very familiar schools on hand — Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi State University and East Mississip-pi Community College, along with other universities and col-leges in the state and region.

Bu there were also some schools you might not expect to see in this area. Carleton College sent a recruiter from Northfield, Minnesota, for example. Students also had an opportunity to learn a little

about other schools that aren’t familiar to them — Dart-mouth, an Ivy League school located in Hanover, New Hampshire, sent a rep, as did Lehigh (Bethlehem, Pennsyl-vania), Vassar (Poughkeepsie, New York), Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Cal-Berkeley.

There was also a table for Harvey Mudd University, a school only science nerds are likely to have ever heard of. It’s a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering and mathematics, located in Claremont, Califor-nia, and fights it out with MIT and CalTech for academic superiority in the sciences.

Only 13 percent of applicants are accepted each year and the average range of ACT scores is 32-35 for those who become students there. Since its founding in 1955, only seven students have ever managed a 4.0 grade-point average. Oh, and, annual tuition is about $54,000.

Clearly, Harvey Mudd Uni-versity was not for everyone who attended Monday college fair. In fact, it may turn out to be not for anyone who attend-ed.

But that’s really not the point.

What is relevant is that students are exposed to a wide ranges of options and the more

choices available, the more likely it is that the curious stu-dent will find that perfect fit. For some, Monday’s fair may turn out to be a play a huge role in their academic and professional careers. That’s exciting.

We are certainly fortunate to have quality schools right here at “home,” but we also realize that it’ s a big world out there with many, many oppor-tunities. Even for those who choose to stay closer to home, being exposed to so many different types of possibilities affirms their choice.

We applaud MSMS for mak-ing this available to all of our county schools.

Look to the many, not the few

CAMBRIDGE, Mass — A lone protester paced in front of Harvard University’s admis-sions office on a foggy Monday morning. He was peaceful and respectful of people’s space and ability to navigate the side-walks, yet he made his point with a variety of signs he had with him that he interchanged during the day.

The rights we have in this county to either join in with other citizens or march solely to protest is crucial to a healthy de-mocracy — and it is the very essence of the rights allowed us by the First Amendment.

It is what we do. It is what we have always done. Throughout our history, it has drawn attention to grievanc-es. Some were right; some were wrong. But all of them have forced us to discuss the virtue of each individual issue.

Peaceful protests have defined us. When they turn vio-lent, they demoralize us.

Last weekend, protests in St Louis, Missouri, erupted following the Friday acquittal of a white former police officer of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of a 24-year-old black man.

At first, the protests that began early evening were peaceful and orderly. The protesters vented their concerns and hurt, and the police gave them a wide berth to do so. Then came nightfall.

By midnight, the St. Louis Police chief, Lawrence O’Toole, said 33 people had been arrested and 10 police officers had suffered injuries.

In a joint video statement with Mayor Lyda Krewson, he said: “Many of the demonstrators were peaceful. However, after dark, many agitators began to destroy property and assault police officers.”

On Saturday, bat- and hammer-carrying protesters shattered windows and played a cat-and-mouse game with police that resulted in nine arrests.

By Sunday night, the number of protesters had swelled to over 1,000; again the protesters began peacefully and then went dark and violent. Over 80 people were arrested as demonstrators smashed businesses windows and repeat-edly tried to block an interstate ramp.

All of this takes away the very essence of what the peaceful protests were trying to project: Many mothers and sisters and wives worry that their sons and brothers and husbands will be the target of profiling.

There is nothing wrong with having that conversation. I’ve seen an abundance of efforts across the country of law enforcement and minority communities to “know” one another outside of the biases through which each side sees the other. Most of them have been successful.

All police officers should not be judged by the actions of the few. All young black males should not be judged by the actions of the few either. None of this is easy. Yes, it is an uncomfortable conversation, but anything with great virtue begins with awkward and uncomfortable conversations.

The deeper problem is that the agitators who destroy businesses have no regard for authority, private property or the community in which they live. They are looking for attention, and they are getting it in spades; their antics own social media, newscasts and print articles everyone and make everyone wonder whether the country is falling apart.

I would argue that the country is not falling apart and that the actions of the few should not be heightened in profile over the actions of the many.

In the 49 states and hundreds of thousands of miles I have traveled in this country, the values and virtues of the people are much more reflected in the compassion and sacrifice we saw in the aftermath of Harvey and Irma than in the protests in Charlottesville and St. Louis, or the antics of the far-left-leaning Antifa movement in Berkeley, California.

Salena Zito is a CNN political analyst, and a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights lead-er, recipient of Noble Peace Prize, 1929–1968

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

The ESPN double standardLet’s get crazy and

play pretend. Let’s imag-ine that a white ESPN male anchor, during the presidency of Barack Obama, put out a series of tweets calling Obama a racist, and said he was ignorant and offensive.

What do we suppose would happen to him? What do we think ESPN would say and do? Well, we don’t really have to wonder because we all know what ESPN would say and do. Management would fire the doofus in the blink of an eye and would put out a noble statement declaring that ESPN doesn’t tolerate that kind of hatred from its employees.

And in that make-be-lieve scenario ESPN would be right.

But this isn’t pretend or make-believe: Jemele Hill, who is an ESPN anchor, still has her job even after tweeting that President Trump is a racist who is ignorant and offensive. Here is Hill, in her own words:

“Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white suprem-acists.”

“Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.”

“He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected.”

And if Jemele Hill were not black (and liberal), she never would have kept her job after going bal-listic the way she did. I know we’re not supposed to say things like that in polite company. But we also know it’s true.

Curt Schilling, the former major league baseball pitcher who is white and conservative was fired by ESPN last year for putting out a controversial (and dopey) message on Facebook about transgender bathrooms.

If he was fired, why wasn’t Jemele Hill, a lot of conservatives are asking.

Rush Limbaugh quit his analyst job at ESPN back in 2003 after he caused a furor saying that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated and that the media didn’t point that out because journalists wanted to see a black quar-

terback succeed.Before he quit, then Democratic presidential can-

didates Wesley Clark and Howard Dean said ESPN should fire Limbaugh. Clark called the remarks “hateful and ignorant.” Dean said they were “absurd and offensive.”

For argument’s sake, let’s say they were. But then what should we make of Jemele Hill’s remarks? Aren’t they hateful and ignorant and offensive?

Well, that depends on how you feel about this president. It’s no secret that in the world of what we call mainstream journalism — one of the reliably liberal institutions in America — Hill’s contempt for President Trump is not out of line. In many journal-istic circles, it’s taken for granted that he’s a racist.

And let’s be clear: This is America. Hill is entitled to her opinions. No one is arguing that she shouldn’t be allowed to think whatever she wants to think about Trump or anyone else. But what should ESPN do when an anchor goes public with her thinking and goes on a rant that has nothing to do with sports?

Well, ESPN has provided us with an answer. They didn’t censure Hill. Nor did they suspend her. And they certainly didn’t fire her. What they did was pretty much ... nothing! Oh, yeah, the head of ESPN said what Hill did was “inappropriate.”

Take that, Jemele!Last year, Hill defended ESPN’s decision to fire

Schilling saying, “The values Curt Schilling was trying to promote didn’t line up with what ESPN wants to be as a company.”

That raises a question: Do Jemele Hill’s com-ments about President Trump line up with what ESPN wants to be as a company?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President’s Trump’s press secretary, said Hill’s comments amounted to a “fireable offense” — a statement that enraged sev-eral liberal journalists who thought she overstepped her bounds by commenting on the case from the podium in the press room. Liberal outrage amuses me.

But whether or not you think Hill should get canned, let’s at least agree on this much: ESPN, like most news organizations, is a liberal outfit. And as such, the people who run the place will tolerate a lot more from a liberal than they would from a conser-vative.

For the record, Jemele Hill has now issued a non-apology/apology. “My regret is that my com-ments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light,” she said in a statement.

In other words, she still thinks Donald Trump is a white supremacist hateful bigoted idiot, but, hey, she’s sorry she made her bosses at ESPN look like the sniveling, pathetic hypocrites that they are by letting her off as easy as they did.

Bernard Goldberg, a nationally syndicated colum-nist, is a commentator for Fox News and a correspon-dent for HBO.

Salena Zito

Bernard Goldberg

And if Jemele Hill were not black (and liberal), she never would have kept her job after going ballistic the way she did.

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William VailWilliam Stennis Vail, age 78,

of Columbus, MS, passed away Septemer 17, 2017, at his resi-dence. Funeral services will be Tuesday, September 17, 2017, at 1:00 PM at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. David Westmoreland officiating. The interment will immediately fol-low at Mt. Pleasant Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery in Lamar County, AL. Visitation will be from 11:00 AM until the time of the service.

Mr. Vail was born and raised in Caledonia, MS, to the late Jesse Michael and Minnie Bell Partain Vail. He was a 1957 graduate from Caledonia High School and attended Draughon’s Business College in Jackson, MS, where he earned a de-gree in accounting. William was a member of Freewill BaptistmChurch in Vernon, AL. He will be laid to rest at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery where both of his parents and his two sons Michael Vail and Clayton Vail lay to rest.

William Stennis and his wife, Charlene Vail, moved their family from Dyer, TN, back to Cale-donia, MS, with his job at Ceco Buildings in Co-lumbus where he retired years later. He had a huge passion and love for all children and pets. He gave numerous donations to the Palmer Home of Columbus, Columbus Lowndes Humane So-ciety, and Wildlife Conservation. He has left behind lots of friends, family, class mates, and coworkers that cared for him deeply and he will never be forgotten. The family wishes to thank all friends, neighbors, and the staff of Camellia Hospice of Columbus.

Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Char-lene Matlock Vail, children, Crystal Pyle, Char-lotte Russell, Wendy Blankenship, Randy Autry, and Mike Autry, brother, Bobby Vail, grand-children, Austin Middlebrooks, Carlee Middle-brooks, Christopher Vail, Jacob Vail, Lorie Rus-sell, Megan Blankenship, Brian Russell, Ashley Vail, Kristen Laster, and Keith Vail, and 8 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Austin Middlebrooks, Bri-an Russell, Christopher Vail, Jacob Vail, Steve Pyle, Wayne Russell, Brent Pyle, and Harold Wayne Partain.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Harvey Par-tain, Ray Dyer, Jason Dyer, Larry Vail, Joe Vail, Sonnie Corbett, Lanetta Avery, Mary Partain, Leslie Perkins, Susie Perkins, Billy Goodman, Willie Quin Vail, and Andrew Kilburn.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to The Palmer Home for Children, P.O. Box 746, Columbus, MS, 39703.

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Marilyn PritchardMarilyn Lummus Pritchard, age 87, of Artesia,

MS, passed away September 17, 2017, at her res-idence. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Sep-tember 19, 2017, at 11:00 AM at Artesia United Methodist Church with Rev. Gene Merkl officiat-ing. The interment will immediately follow at Ar-tesia Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9:30 AM until the time of the service at the church. Me-morial Funeral Home & Crematory is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Pritchard was born April 25, 1930, in the Self Creek Community of Oktibbeha County to the late Y. C. Lummus and Bessie Critz Lummus Josey. She moved with her family at the age of eight to Artesia where she lived until her death. Mrs. Pritchard graduated from Artesia/Mayhew High School and began work on the Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Artesia as a telegrapher at the age of sixteen, later becoming freight agent. She retired after fourty four years of service from the Kansas City Southern Railroad. Mrs. Pritchard was a member of the Artesia United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lyle Pritchard, and brother, Charles Lummus.

Mrs. Pritchard leaves behind to mourn her passing, children, Robert Pritchard, Jr., Caryl Pritchard, and Daryl Pritchard, daughter-in-law, Susie Bradshaw Pritchard, grandsons, Austin Barrett, Brad Cook, and Justin Pritchard, great granddaughter, Payslie Barrett, sisters, Ada Pierce and Eva Vondran, and step sister, Sybil Jo-sey Lummus. Sharing her loss are special niec-es Bitty Foster Lindsey and Claudia Bannister, as well as dear friend and neighbor, Jewell Gentry.

Pallbearers will be family and friends.The family requests that memorials be made

to the Artesia Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 82, Arte-sia, MS, 39756.

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Johnny HillJohnny Eugene Hill, 80, of Ethelsville, AL

passed away Monday, September 18, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, Co-lumbus, MS.

Visitation will be held Wednesday, September 20, 2017, from 9:00- 10:00 AM at Lowndes Funer-al Home, Columbus, MS. A funeral service will follow Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at 10:00 AM in the Lowndes Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Melvin Mordecai officiating. Interment will be at Forest Cemetery, Ethelsville, AL with Lowndes Funeral Home directing.

Mr. Hill was born October 23, 1936, in Hous-ton, MS to the late L.Z. Hill and Elva Lavender Hill. He was the owner of Discount Tools for 16 years. Mr. Hill was a member of Union Chapel Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife- Virginia Thornbrough Hill and his brother- Robert Hill.

Mr. Hill is survived by wife- Dorothy Eldridge Hill of Ethelsville, AL; son- Gary (Anita) Hill of Ethelsville, AL; daughter- Beverly (Joe) Barnes of Ethelsville, AL; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; step-children- Sharon (Lar-ry) Hamlin, Patricia (Willie) Wilson, Jimmy (Te-resa) Dunlap, and Craig (Joyce) Dunlap.

Pallbearers will be Joey Barnes, Cecil Lind-say, Henry Glover, Garry Thomas, Andy Hamlin, Will Hamlin, and Christopher Wilson. Honorary pallbearer will be Bobby Ward.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

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celebration of life service will be held for James W. Callahan on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home at 10 a.m. The family will receive guests from 9 a.m. until service time.

James was born to C.C. and Frances Callahan on September 15, 1937 in Columbus, MS. He passed from this life on September 16, 2017. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Noel Lee Callahan; and his nephew, James Callahan. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Brigitte Callahan; his son, Norman Callahan; his daughter, Nathalie Callahan and her fiancée Todd Egan; his grandchildren, Robert Lee Callahan and Summer Lynn Callahan; his brother, Larry Callahan and his wife Mary Carol; his nephews Edward and Sam; his niece, Maggie; and four legged family member, Titus, a Bengal cat.

James served his country for 20 years in the U.S. Army that included service overseas in Vietnam. Following his time in the Army, he spent 20 years as a civil servant for Barksdale Air Force Base. James was a loving husband, father, and a dear friend to those who knew him. He was also a devoted animal lover and a 32nd degree Mason. He enjoyed watching sports and was an avid fan of the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Dallas Cowboys. In his spare time he loved reading and researching family genealogy. James will be greatly missed.

“Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:15, KJV

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to the Arthritis Foundation or to Nina’s Road to Rescue.

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Floy Reynolds LochridgeMrs. Floy Smith Reynolds

Lochridge, age 95, died Sep-tember 17, 2017 at Windsor Place. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memo-rial Funeral Home & Cremato-ry. Services, with her grand-sons Kenny Reynolds, Jr. and Colin Reynolds officiating, will be Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 2:00 PM at the Hwy. 69 Church of Christ, 2407 Hwy. 69 South, Colum-bus, MS 39702. Visitation will be from 1:00 PM until the time of the service. Burial will immedi-ately follow at Rowan Cemetery.

The only daughter of the late Olen M. and Su-sie Adair Smith, Mrs. Lochridge was born De-cember 10, 1921 in Lamar County, Al. She grad-uated from Vernon High School in 194 1and soon went to work for Seminole Manufacturing in Columbus as an Inspector. She retired after thir-ty-six years of continuous employment. She was a longtime member of the Hwy. 69 South Church of Christ. She loved sewing, cooking, gardening and visiting the nursing homes. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her step-daughter Reba McWilliams, her three brothers Richard “ Dick ‘ Smith, Edward “ Ed” Smith and Robert “ Rob” Smith, her first husband Cleovis “Sam “ Reynolds and her second husband A.J. Lochridge.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Kenneth and Gail Reynolds of Columbus, stepson and stepdaughter-n-law John and Nawa-na Lochridge of Lubbock TX, , stepdaughters and stepsons-in-law Gail and Ed Cope of VA and Becky and Bob Altman of Columbus and stepson-in-law Hugh McWilliams of Byram, MS. She is also survived by her grandsons Kenny Reynolds, Jr. (Andrea) and Colin Reynolds (Heather) and great grandsons Corban and Everett Reynolds.

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Willis BonnerCOLUMBUS — Wil-

lis Rayborn Bonner, 73, died Sept. 17, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hos-pital-Golden Triangle.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Lowndes Funeral Home Chapel with Douglas Tilley officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Ver-non Cemetery. Visita-tion will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.

Mr. Bonner was born June 6, 1944, to the late Thames Crayton Bonner and Mamie Lou Holliman Daniels. He was a graduate of New Hope High School and East Mississippi Com-munity College-Scooba. He was previously em-ployed as a supervisor with Baldor Electric.

In addition to his parents, he was preced-ed in death by his sister, Evelyn Tilley of Ethels-ville, Alabama; and two grandsons.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia McKellar Bonner of Columbus; son, Richard Bonner of Tupelo; daughters, Patricia Baldridge of Columbus, Doris Jefferson of Columbus and Michelle Bonner of Spruice Pine, North Carolina; brother, Wayne Bonner of Arlington, Tennessee; sister, Alethea Williams of Columbus; 11 grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Bruce Stokes, Larry Johnson, Jimmy John-son, Arnold Tilley, Don-ald Tilley and Adam Hickman.

Memorials may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 815 Market Street, Gal-veston, Texas 77550.

Eliza LewisCOLUMBUS — Eli-

za Lewis, 72, died Sept. 18, 2017, at her resi-dence.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services.

James LloydCOLUMBUS —

James Oliver Lloyd, 76, died Sept. 18, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hos-pital-Golden Triangle.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services.

Corey ThompsonCOLUMBUS — Co-

rey Thompson, 29, died Sept. 18, 2017.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes Funeral Home.

Lillian TriplettCOLUMBUS — Lil-

lian Triplett, 92, died Sept. 15, 2017.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

Lizzie StowersCOLUMBUS — Liz-

zie Stowers, 90, died Sept. 18, 2017.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

Polly HerringtonSTARKVILLE —

Polly Herrington died Sept. 19, 2017, at Clai-borne at Adelaide.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes Funeral Home.

Christopher VanHaaftenCOLUMBUS — Ar-

rangements for Christo-pher John VanHaaften are incomplete and will be announced by Lown-des Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Lowndes Fu-neral Home, c/o Chris-topher VanHaaften, 1131 N. Lehmberg Rd., Columbus, MS 39702.

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JACKSON — The Mis-sissippi State Department of Health is confirming four new cases of West Nile virus.

That brings the total so far this year to 51 cases of the mosquito-borne ill-ness, including two people who died weeks ago. Three new cases are in Hinds County and one is in Lown-des County.

In 2016, the state had 43 cases with two deaths.

So far this year, there have been 11 cases in Hinds County; six in Rankin County; four each in For-rest and Madison counties; three in Lee County; and two each in Calhoun, Hum-phreys, Lincoln and Lown-des counties.

Miss. hits 51 West Nile virus cases so far for 2017

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BY RICHARD LARDNERThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate has overwhelming-ly approved a sweeping de-fense policy bill that would pump $700 billion into the military, putting the U.S. armed forces on track for a budget greater than at any time during the de-cade-plus wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Senators passed the legislation by an 89-8 vote Monday. The measure authorizes $700 billion in military spending for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, expands U.S. mis-sile defenses in response to North Korea’s growing hostility and refuses to al-low excess military bases to be closed.

The 1,215-page mea-sure defies a number of

White House objections, but President Donald Trump hasn’t threatened to veto the measure. The bill helps him honor a pledge to rebuild an Amer-ican military that he said had become depleted on former President Barack Obama’s watch.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and other national security hawks have in-sisted the military branch-

es are at risk of losing their edge in combat with-out a dramatic influx of money to repair shortfalls in training and equipment.

An animated McCain, the Armed Services Committee chairman, bemoaned the limits im-posed on military spend-ing by both Democrats and Republicans. He said the rash of training acci-dents and crashes — since mid-July, nearly 100 ser-vice members have been

killed or injured in close to a dozen mishaps — can be linked to the budget cuts.

“My friends, more of our men and women in uniform are now being killed in totally avoidable training accidents and routine operations than by our enemies in combat,” McCain said. “Where is the outrage about this? Where is our sense of ur-gency to deal with this problem?”

Defense Secretary Jim

Mattis said senior military leaders are taking a close look at whether strict budget constraints are to blame.

Approved by the Armed Services Committee by a 27-0 vote in late June, the overall Senate bill pro-vides $640 billion for core Pentagon operations, such as buying weapons and paying troops, and anoth-er $60 billion for wartime missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

Senate backs bill to pump $700 billion into militarySenators passed the legislation by an 89-8 vote Monday

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High School Green Wave, and has escorted the foot-ball team for the past four years.

He’s especially confi-dent in the Class 5A de-fending champion Green Wave this season, as the team sports a flawless 4-0 record.

“I think we’re going to go to state again this year and win it all,” he said.

Cook’s hire as West Point’s police chief is a re-turn to where his law en-forcement career began 17 years ago. It’s anoth-er step on a career path he hadn’t envisioned for himself when he wrapped up 21 years of military service.

At the time, he said, then WPPD assistant chief Gary Turner and pa-

trol captain Eddie John-son convinced him to give it a try.

“They were the de-termining factors in me deciding to make this a career,” Johnson said. “Once I got into it, I saw that I really liked it and this is what I wanted to do. I’ve been doing it ever since.”

During Cook’s first stint with WPPD, he served as a shift super-visor and as assistant chief under former chiefs Tim Brinkley and Bobby Lane. In 2013, he went to work with the Clay Coun-ty Sheriff’s Office, where he served as an investiga-tor and commander of the patrol division.

Cook is a West Point native, and he said that’s

drawn him to continue his law enforcement ca-reer in the community.

“I was born and raised here,” he said. “I gradu-ated high school here. I have three kids, and two of them live in this com-munity. My grandkids are here. I care about this community, I work in this community and I think it’s a great community.”

Mayor Robbie Robin-son said Cook’s familiari-ty with West Point should be an advantage for the department.

“I think it’s good to have someone locally who knows the commu-nity and the people,” Rob-inson said. “He’s coming in and doesn’t have to learn everybody’s name. He doesn’t have to try to

become familiar with dif-ferent sections and parts of town.”

Goals for the department

Cook now takes com-mand of a department with about 25 officers. He said WPPD is structured for up to 32 officers, and one of his early goals will be adding manpower as the holiday season ap-proaches.

“In my experience over at the police department, this time of year, crime rates increase with bur-glaries and robberies and stuff like that,” he said. “I think behind building a relationship with the community, at the same time, (we need to) get a

hiring process started to hire more officers and be more vigilant.”

Another goal, Cook said, is to focus on re-lationship-building be-tween the police depart-ment and the community. He said he understands that police today see more scrutiny than in the past.

Cook also said he feels WPPD’s relationship with the public has degraded over time and must be improved. He declined to speak to the specific is-sues that have contribut-ed to a breakdown in trust between the community and department, but he said it will be essential to make sure officers know how to properly interact with the public.

“You can get some of that at the academy, but a lot of it is on-the-job training,” he said. “… I want to improve that. That will go a long way in improve the relationship with the community. We want them to de-escalate situations and not be-come a part of the situa-tion.”

Robinson said he thinks Cook’s plan to focus on community re-lationship improvement will be essential for the department. He said it’s important both for the community to trust the police, and for the police department to know it can trust the community.

“It’s a mutual, two-way street,” he said. “I think it’s a very good thing.”

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from all over the county. “One of the things that

we hope to do at MSMS is provide service to the local community,” McCo-nnell said. “… This is one more way of doing that.”

The size of the fair and number of students in one place makes it easier both on admissions counselors at universities and guid-ance counselors at high schools, Williams said. There’s one fair for every-one instead of eight differ-ent fairs at eight different schools. And Lowndes County, with two public school districts and sev-eral private schools, has hundreds of high school seniors who need college information.

More than 50 universi-ties sent representatives to chat with those stu-dents and answer their questions. East Missis-sippi Community College had a booth, and both University of Mississippi and MSU had multiple ta-bles set up, some just ded-icated to one department or program.

But students could also talk to representatives from as far away as Uni-versity of California-Berk-ley and the University of Rochester in New York.

Benjamin Toll, a rep-resentative from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., spoke with about 15 students Monday morning. Stu-dents particularly were interested in the universi-

ty’s majors, especially the engineering and journal-ism programs.

Toll knows most Mis-sissippi students don’t plan to go to school as far away as Washington, D.C. George Washing-ton could probably fill its classes with students from Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Califor-nia alone, he said.

“But that’s not the class we’re trying to build,” he said. “… We’re really stra-tegic about hitting all the regions in the country.”

Representatives from the Army, Air Force and Marines were on-hand, as well.

Student responseColumbus High School

senior Diamond Rogers plans to study psychology, and she and her friends flocked to the MSU table when they arrived about 8:30 a.m. But when they left a couple of hours later, she was clutching pamphlets from Jackson State University and Vas-

sar College in New York.“(At Vassar), they let

you do only your major,” she said.

Her friend and fellow senior Amaya Gaines is surer than Rogers that she wants to go to MSU, where she plans to study veterinary medicine. At the college fair, though, she talked to university representatives about school’s admissions pro-cess and Honors College.

“They told me about (campus) tours, the programs, the require-

ments,” she said.New Hope High School

senior Kelsi Speed has always wanted to attend Mississippi University for Women’s nursing pro-gram. But at the fair, she realized she could keep dancing if she attended MSU, which Williams said has a partnership with MUW that allows potential nursing stu-dents to get their under-graduate prerequisites in Starkville and then go to MUW’s nursing program as graduates. Now Speed

thinks she might apply to MSU instead — depend-ing on whether she makes the dance team.

“I think this was an amazing opportunity,” she said.

Her fellow New Hope senior Nathan Nabors, who plans to study engi-neering at MSU, agreed.

“We have a plan,” he said. “But there’s a bunch of people who don’t know what they’re going to do and this kind of gives them a chance to know their options.”

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch StaffColumbus High School seniors TaMaryann Hemphill, 17, Lydia Dent, 18, Tanyla Thomas, 17, Amaya Gaines, 17, and Diamond Rogers, 17, all look at college pam-phlets at a college fair for area high school students at the Trotter Convention Center Monday. Hemphill is the daughter of Gregory Hemphill of Gulfport and Dorsey Williams of Jackson; Dent is the daughter of Cassandra Dent of Columbus and Jes-sie Warren of Starkville; Thomas is the daughter of Keisha Thomas and Derek Porter of Columbus; Gaines is the daughter of Sameca and Lovrent Gaines of Columbus; Rogers is the daughter of Tyshon Rogers and Tiquellia Ledbetter of Columbus.

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch StaffMississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior Gary Nguyen, 17, talks with Judd Williams from Mississippi State during the job fair at Trotter Conven-tion Center in Columbus Monday. Nguyen has been accepted into the Honors College at MSU. He has also been accepted to Ole Miss. “I’m just waiting to hear on scholarships,” Nguyen said. He is the son of David Bennett and Dianne Nguyen.

BY JESSE J. HOLLANDThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Donald Trump on Monday named a lawyer and former NFL player as executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as the administra-tion faces criticism from those institutions of promises unkept.

Jonathan Holifield, who also writes and consults on the top-ics of innovation and inclusive-ness, told leaders and students

that HBCUs must contribute more to the American economy.

“There is no path to sustain new job creation, shared pros-perity and enduring national competition without the current and increased contributions of historical black colleges and universities,” Holifield told stu-dents at the Old Executive Of-fice Building next to the White House.

His appointment answers one complaint from the lead-ers HBCUs, who are making

their second visit to the White House this year amid strains with the Trump administra-tion over unfulfilled promises. Trump has said he would move the office of historically black colleges and universities from the Education Department to the White House. He promised support for the schools during his presidential campaign and Black History Month meetings, when college presidents posed for pictures with Trump in the White House.

But the annual gathering in the nation’s capital for those schools has been reduced to a two-day summit, further ag-gravating college officials. And Trump was not in Washington to receive the visitors Monday. Instead, he was in New York for the U.N. General Assembly.

“Everyone’s uptight in this day and age with our current president and with what’s going on,” said Ty Couey, president of the National HBCU Alumni Associations. “Things are out of control.”

Advocates for the schools say there has been little to no action from the Trump admin-istration. The institutions have

not seen increases in their fund-ing in Trump’s proposed bud-get, and they had to beat back a White House push to call con-struction money for historically black colleges and universities unconstitutional. All that fol-lowed the backlash after school presidents posed with Trump for a photo in the Oval Office.

That led to calls from the colleges’ major advocates to postpone the annual National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference.

“It has become painstaking-ly clear that these promises are not being kept,” said Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., who leads the Congressional HBCU Caucus.

White House, black college heads to meet amid strained tiesLawyer and former NFL player named executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

Carter Putt doesn’t need ice when his arm is feeling good.

As a pitcher with the Heritage Academy baseball team, Putt said he didn’t use ice for his shoulder or his elbow following his outings.

Putt followed a similar approach Friday after a career night in his fifth start as the varsity quarter-back of the school’s football team.

Putt was 23-for-33 for 386 yards and six touchdowns to help Heri-

tage Academy rally from a 17-point, fourth-quarter deficit and earn a 42-38 victory against Pillow Academy in Greenwood.

For his efforts, Putt is The Dis-patch’s Prep Player of the Week.

“My arm was feeling pretty good,” Putt said. “That is what I live for, throwing it.”

Putt credited his team’s defense

for raising its level late in the game to give the ball back to the offense multiple times so it could finish the comeback. He said he felt comfort-able early in the game and was able to stay consistent on a night when the Patriots weren’t able to get a running game going.

“I saw we were going to have to get air it out a little more and get it out to our playmakers in space and let them make moves,” Putt said. “I knew it was going to be coming, and I enjoyed throwing it around.

BY BRETT HUDSONbhudson@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State football team’s pipeline to Georgia is strong.

MSU (3-0, 1-0 South-eastern Conference) has two assistant coaches — defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and tight ends coach D.J. Looney — and eight players with connections to Geor-gia. Those coaches and players will get a chance to renew those ties at 6 p.m. Saturday when No. 17 MSU takes on No. 11 Georgia (3-0, 1-0) at San-ford Stadium. ESPN will broadcast the game live.

MSU defensive end Montez Sweat and corner-back Tolando Cleveland should see significant

snaps, but none of the players will garner more attention than quarter-back Nick Fitzgerald, who is from Richmond Hill.

“It’s just another game. It’s just an opponent we’ll have to beat,” Fitzger-ald said. “I’ll have more friends and family there, haven’t played in front of some of those people since high school, but it’s another opponent we have to beat.”

MSU coach Dan Mul-len added, “Hopefully he’s OK to handle it. I’ll see

BY BRETT HUDSONbhudson@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — The Tucker Day hype was more than just a creation of recruiting rankings and the musings of Mississippi State fans.

K i c k e r Jace Christ-mann saw Day, a fresh-man from Brentwood, Tennessee, impress in his first col-legiate prac-

tices. Day’s performance left the rest of MSU’s kick-ers with one choice.

“He’s a heck of a kick-er. I knew he was going to be the guy going into the season,” Christmann said. “I just prayed and prayed and prayed that one day I would get my opportunity,

BY PAUL NEWBERRYThe Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. — They share a nickname and a league.

The Mississippi State and the Georgia football teams share little else.

There’s just not a whole lot of his-tory between MSU and Georgia.

“We don’t play Georgia very often,” MSU coach Dan Mullen said Monday. “I think it’s only the third time since I’ve been the head coach here” — he’s now in his ninth season — “that we’re going to be playing Georgia. And we don’t play them again, I guess, because of the way the schedule works, for anoth-er seven years. So there’s some uniqueness to it.”

Unique, indeed.For the first time in what bare-

ly qualifies as a rivalry, the No. 11 Bulldogs (the Georgia version) and the No. 17 Bulldogs (that would be Mississippi State) are set to play a Southeastern Conference game that could have huge ramifications in the national race.

Never before have the schools squared off with both ranked in the Top 25.

In fact, they haven’t faced each

other much at all over the years.Just 23 times — a rather perplex-

ing lack of familiarity, given both were charter members when the SEC was founded in 1932.

They met for the first time in 1914 — MSU won 9-0 in Athens, nearly two decades before the founding of the SEC — and didn’t play again until 1950. Since then, there have been infrequent games, usually in back-to-back years sepa-rated by long layoffs, with Georgia holding a 17-6 edge.

Georgia safety J.R. Reed was a high school sophomore the last time these teams met in 2011 .

Even so, he won’t have any trou-ble getting up for the game, given what’s on the line.

BY TOM CANAVANThe Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — So far, so good for Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions. Eli Manning and the New York Giants are heading in the oppo-site direction.

Stafford threw for two touch-downs, rookie Jamal Agnew broke the game open with an 88-yard punt return and the Lions beat the Giants 24-10 on

Monday night.The Lions (2-0) sacked Eli

Manning five times and Stafford put together another big game while sending the Giants (0-2) to a second-straight disappoint-ing performance. Receiver Odell Beckham Jr. returned from a sprained left ankle, but New York still struggled offensively.

“We did a nice job of getting in the end zone early and our de-fense did what they do,” Stafford said.

Stafford found Marvin Jones for a 27-yard touchdown in the first quarter and passed to Eric Ebron for a go-ahead 7-yarder in the second. Matt Prater added a 56-yard field goal just before halftime that bounced off the upright, helping the Lions to a 17-7 lead at the break.

Ezekiel Ansah had three sacks as Detroit joined Atlanta and Carolina as the only unbeat-

en teams in the NFC through Week 2. The Lions made the playoffs last season, but finished the year with four straight loss-es.

Beckham, a three-time Pro Bowler who missed the season opener, had four catches for 36 yards in limited action.

Manning threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Evan En-gram on the first play of the sec-ond quarter, but the rookie tight end was called for unsportsman-

like conduct for a seemingly obscene gesture. It allowed the Lions to get the ball at the Giants 45 after the kickoff went out of bounds and Stafford drove them for a second score.

New York closed to 17-10 on Aldrick Rosas’ 25-yard field goal early in the second half, but it wasted a chance for a touch-down. The Giants had first-and-goal at the 1 and then got pushed back to the 11 on a holding pen-alty on a first-down run.

Detroit 24, New York 10

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Chris McDill/Special to The DispatchMississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald celebrates following a touchdown run Saturday night against then-No. 12 LSU at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville.

Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch Heritage Academy sophomore quarterback Carter Putt threw for 386 yards and six touchdowns Friday night to help the Patriots rally to beat Pillow Academy.

Putt helps engineer comeback victoryHeritage Academy sophomore rallies team from 17-point hole

Ole Miss WR Brown out with sprained knee

By The Associated Press

OXFORD — Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee, but he could be ready for the team’s game against No. 1 Alabama on Sept. 30.

Ole Miss football coach Matt Luke said Monday that Brown likely will be sidelined one to two weeks. The Rebels are off this week-end.

The 6-foot-1, 225-pound sophomore, who is a former standout at Starkville High School, was injured early in a 27-16 loss to California and didn’t record a catch. In his first

two games, Brown caught 16 passes for 389 yards and four touchdowns. He leads the Southeastern Conference in yards receiving.

Luke also said starting center Sean Rawlings will have surgery on his sprained ankle he injured in the game against California.

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Beckham returns, but Stafford throws two TDs to lead Lions past struggling Giants

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GAME 4n No. 17 Mississippi State at No. 11 Georgia, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN; WKBB-FM 100.9, WFCA-FM 107.9)

FITZGERALD LEADS MSU BACK TO UGAJunior quarterback one of eight players on team with connections to state of Georgia

BY SCHUYLER DIXONThe Associated Press

FRISCO, Texas — Ezekiel Elliott was accused of quitting by Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson in the Dallas Cowboy’ 42-17 loss to the Denver Broncos.

Dallas coach Jason Garrett never directly dis-agreed Monday.

While heaping praise on quarterback Dak Prescott for continuing to show fight in his first blowout loss as a pro, Garrett said he eventually would talk to Elliott about the second-year running back twice failing to pursue a defensive back after an interception.

Garrett’s comments to reporters came a few hours after his radio show, when he similarly passed on a chance to dismiss Tomlinson’s criticism .

“Zeke is one of the most natural competitors I’ve ever been around,” Garrett said. “He loves to play. He loves to practice. I think we’ve seen that through

BY BRETT MARTELThe Associated Press

METAIRIE, La. — It’s one thing to be 0-2 for a fourth-straight season.

It’s another not to look competitive in a pair of double-digit losses, which is what the Saints have done heading into their first NFC South game at Carolina.

Lopsided losses to Minnesota and New England have the Saints at a tipping point. If they rally, they could become one of the NFL’s better comeback sto-ries — particularly on the heels of three-year play-off drought. If they continue to stumble, however, it could signify the crumbling of Sean Payton’s nearly 12-year coaching regime.

This is hardly the scenario linebacker A.J. Klein envisioned when he left the Panthers for the Saints as a free agent this offseason.

“Am I surprised? Yes, I’m a little surprised. But at the same time, it’s self-inflicted wounds and we have to be able to respond,” Klein said. “These are very critical

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BY KURT VOIGTThe Associated Press

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Bret Bielema has never failed in his 12-year career as a head coach.

Sure, the former Wisconsin foot-ball coach — now in his fifth season at Arkansas — has had his mo-ments of defeat. He went 0-8 in the Southeastern Conference in 2013 soon after he arrived.

Through any disappointment with either the Badgers or at Arkan-sas, there’s always been the sense that Bielema would find a way to turn any momentary frustration into satisfaction. That things would get turned around.

But Bielema’s success has been put to the test like at no other time during his career since the end of last season. After a 28-7 loss to No. 20 TCU last week, the Razorbacks have lost three of their last four games. They have failed to score in the sec-ond half of each of those losses.

The losses have thrown a sudden halt to what had been a steady build for Bielema at Arkansas, a school that appeared on the verge of chal-lenging for a SEC championship be-

fore former coach Bobby Petrino’s affair and disastrous end to his ca-reer with the school.

It’s a state still smarting from the pain of its former coach’s misdeeds, one that is on its sixth season of re-building.

Fans are wondering if Bielema is the one to lead the Razorbacks back to their role as a SEC contend-er, when they posted a 21-5 record in the 2010-11 seasons and made a Sugar Bowl appearance against Ohio State.

Arkansas is 26-27 under Biele-ma, leading to a week of frustration from fans on both talk radio and message boards. One of those fans, Johnny Mullens, questioned Ar-kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long about how coaches are evaluated and the state of the program during a Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting earlier this week.

Bielema left the field in Razor-back Stadium last week to a steady chorus of boos, and he appeared to react to the growing pressure in the post-game news conference and his weekly television recap — which was filmed moments afterward. Razorbacks kicker Cole Hedlund

missed 23- and 20-yard field goals in the loss. The misses were critical in a game that saw Arkansas trail 14-7 in the fourth quarter before two late TCU touchdowns. Avisibly upset Bielema didn’t shy away from criticizing the junior afterward.

“The two missed field goals were just embarrassing,” Bielema said. “We’ll go for it every time, or we have to find a new kicker. I’m done with this.”

He also went on to words such as “inexcusable,” “juvenile,” and “ludi-crous” to describe the missed kicks and addressed the fans’ growing negativity later in the week.

“Every fan, or anybody that’s getting on our players or anybody that says anything about me, un-derstand we came here with all the same ideas,” Bielema said. “We want to be successful. We want to give success on Saturdays just as much as anybody — even tenfold.

“But today’s world is mean and it’s just what it is.”

Arkansas’ sub-.500 record under Bielema is hardly what the school had hoped for from a coach being paid $4.25 million annually through the 2020 season.

BY TERESA M. WALKERThe Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Derek Mason and his Vanderbilt football team are showing that experi-ence matters.

Yes, even in the mighty Southeastern Conference where so many five-star recruits make an instant impact.

A year ago, Mason’s job security was shaky after a 2-4 start to his third season. Since then, the Commodores have gone 7-3, Mason picked up a contract extension and Vanderbilt is off to its best start at 3-0 since 2011 with the latest win a 14-7 upset of then-No. 18 Kansas State.

Mason thinks the turnaround is simple to explain: experience mat-ters. Now he has 27 ju-niors and seniors on the Commodores’ two-deep depth chart.

“You just have to grow guys up in your culture, in your program and what you try to do is hold them responsible for playing good football, and I think man these guys have done just that,” Mason said. “It’s not me holding them responsible. It’s those guys holding each other responsible. They’re loyal to one another, and that loyalty runs deep.”

James Franklin proved Vanderbilt could win, posting back-to-back 9-4 records in 2012 and 2013 with bowl victories that put the Commodores in The Associated Press’ fi-nal Top 25 rankings. But Franklin bolted for Penn State after three seasons, and Vanderbilt hasn’t been ranked since the final poll after the 2013 season.

Mason now is in his fourth season, and he has a lot to work with thanks to 18 returning starters

— trailing only Georgia and Kentucky in the SEC with 19 apiece. That’s one more than Florida, the two-time SEC East Divi-sion champions.

Of that group, seven have started 10 or more games consecutively, and Vanderbilt’s all-time lead-ing rusher Ralph Webb has 40 consecutive starts. Six other Commodores started multiple games last season: wide receiv-ers C.J Duncan and Ca-leb Scott, tight end Jared Pinkney, defensive end Dare Odeyingbo, safety Arnold Tarpley III, and cornerback Bryce Lewis.

That’s why Mason keeps talking about hav-ing a veteran team.

“When you start to get an older football team in this conference, you can play only 11 guys on the field , you can play any-body,” Mason said. “You just got to make sure those guys believe it.”

Beating Georgia, Ole Miss, and Tennessee last season sure helped. The Commodores lost to Flor-ida,Auburn and South Carolina in 2016 by a com-bined 17 points.

Senior safety Ryan White made it clear the Commodores trust Ma-son.

“We know that coach has been through a lot,” White said. “He always says trust the process, and we’re trusting that process and we’ve got each other’s backs.”

Vanderbilt will face its biggest test Saturday when No. 1 Alabama (3-0) visits for the SEC opener for both teams. Franklin only had to face Alabama once, and Vanderbilt lost 34-0 in Tuscaloosa, Ala-bama, in his first season in 2011. This will be the first No. 1 team Vanderbilt has hosted since Tennes-see in 1998 on the Vols’ way to a national title.

BY BRYAN LAZAREThe Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Ed Orgeron finds him-self having to explain a historically lopsided loss to his fellow Louisiana natives three games into his first full season in his “dream job” as LSU foot-ball coach.

Orgeron also is trying to maintain the belief in the future of his regime, having been in the coach-ing business long enough to know how things can spin out of control when players’ confidence wanes.

Mississippi State “played as good as they can play and we played as bad as we can play,” Org-eron said on what he likes to call, “Tell-the-truth Monday.” It’s a day in

which coaches and play-ers are expected to speak candidly about what went right and wrong in the previous game.

“I learned a lesson. We didn’t prepare the play-ers as well as we should,” Orgeron said. “This is go-ing to be a turning point for us. It better be.”

For only the fifth time since the start of the 2000 season the Tigers lost by 30 or more In 2009, Nick Saban began to rebuild the program from the wreckage of a 3-8 1999 campaign.

The 37-7 beat-down by Mississippi State, which rose to No. 17, was LSU’s most lopsided defeat in a series that began in 1896.

With a couple days to digest video of the defeat, Orgeron discussed a lita-ny of mistakes including

penalties, dropped pass-es, missed assignments on both offense and de-fense and poor tackling.

Having dropped from No. 12 to No. 25 in the rankings, LSU (2-1) will have two home non-con-ference games to get things turned around be-fore it faces Florida in its next SEC game Oct. 7 in Gainesville, Florida. Next up is Syracuse (2-1) on Saturday night, followed by Troy.

“You hope you hurt after losing more than you like winning,” said LSU quarterback Danny Etling, who was 13-for-29 for 137 yards. “I don’t like losing. You chew on the loss, don’t make the same mistakes and spit it out.”

Penalties seem to have become an epidemic for LSU, which has had 30

assessed in the first three games. Two touchdowns were called back due to penalties at MSU, and a frustrated Oregon took little solace in the fact that one of those drives end-ed with the Tigers’ lone touchdown anyway.

LSU’s first targeting penalty not only got line-backer Donnie Alexander ejected, but extended a scoring drive on what would have otherwise been a third-down incom-pletion when the game was still within reach.

“We’ve had referees come to our practice,” Orgeron said. “We have run the guys who com-mit the penalties. Four penalties on defense, two targeting, really had an impact. Those penalties changed the game and kept the drive alive.”

LSU’s Orgeron looks to restore confidence

Bielema at key point in fifth year at Arkansas

Vanderbilt starting to reap benefits of experience

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Lopsided losses have Saints at tipping point

Cowboys’ Elliott accused of quitting in blowout loss

Prep FootballFriday’s Games

DeSoto Central at Columbus, 7 p.m.New Hope at Caledonia, 7 p.m.Vardaman at West Lowndes, 7 p.m.Starkville High at Provine, 7 p.m.West Point at Lafayette, 7 p.m.Noxubee County at West Monroe (Louisiana), 7 p.m.Aberdeen at Itawamba AHS, 7 p.m.Hamilton at Noxapater, 7 p.m.Amory at Houston, 7 p.m.Louisville at Greenwood, 7 p.m.East Webster at J.Z. George, 7 p.m.Heritage Academy at Magnolia Heights, 7 p.m.Winston Academy at Starkville Academy, 7 p.m.Oak Hill Academy at Wayne Academy, 7 p.m.Tunica Academy at Columbus Christian, 7 p.m.New Life at Victory Christian, 7 p.m.Verbena at Aliceville, 7 p.m.Lamar County at Hatton, 7 p.m.Oakman at Pickens County, 7 p.m.South Lamar at Holy Spirit, 7 p.m.Sulligent at Phil Campbell, 7 p.m.Coosa Valley at Pickens Academy, 7 p.m.

Prep SoftballToday’s Games

Starkville Academy at Leake Academy, 4:30 p.m.Heritage Academy at Oak Hill Academy, 6 p.m.

Prep SoccerTuesday’s Matches

Starkville Home School at Columbus Christian, 5 p.m.Heritage Academy at Kirk Academy, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s MatchHeritage Academy at Starkville Academy, 5 p.m.

Prep VolleyballToday’s Match

Heritage Academy at Caledonia, 6:30 p.m.Thursday’s Matches

Starkville at Heritage Academy, 6:30 p.m.Caledonia at Pontotoc, 6:30 p.m.

College FootballSaturday’s Games

Alabama at Vanderbilt, 2:30 p.m.Mississippi State at Georgia, 6 p.m.

Women’s College GolfFriday’s Match

Ole Miss at Lady Paladin Invitational (Greenville, South Carolina)

Saturday’s MatchesAlabama at Schooner Fall Classic (Norman, Oklahoma)Ole Miss at Lady Paladin Invitational (Greenville, South Carolina)

Men’s College SoccerWednesday’s Match

MUW at Point University, 4 p.m.

Women’s College SoccerThursday’s Matches

Western Kentucky at Southern Mississippi, 4 p.m.Missouri at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.Georgia at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.LSU at Alabama, 7 p.m.

College VolleyballToday’s Match

MUW at Martin Methodist, 6:30 p.m.Fridays Matches

Alabama at Georgia, 6 p.m.North Texas at Southern Mississippi, 6 p.m.Bevill State at MUW, 7 p.m.South Carolina at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.Auburn at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s MatchesSouthern Union at MUW, 11 a.m.Lawson State at MUW, 3 p.m.Southwestern Advantist at MUW, 7 p.m.

Junior College FootballThursday’s Game

Itawamba at EMCC, 7 p.m.

Junior College SoccerWednesday’s Matches

Women: Itawamba at Jones, 5 p.m.Men: Itawamba at Jones, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s MatchWomen: Itawamba at Southwest Tennessee State, 6 p.m.

TodayBASEBALL

6 p.m. — Triple-A Championship game, International League champion vs. Pacific Coast League champion, at Moosic, Pennsylvania, NBC Sports Network

BOXING9 p.m. — Premier Champions, Mario Barrios vs. Naim Nelson, junior welterweights, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, FS1

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m. — Teams TBA, ESPN6:30 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta, Fox Sports Southeast9 p.m. — Cleveland at L.A. Angels, ESPN

SOCCER11:20 a.m. — Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach vs. VfB Stuttgart, FS21:30 p.m. — Bundesliga, Schalke 04 vs. Bayern Munich, FS11:30 p.m. — Bundesliga, Augsburg vs. RB Leipzig, FS27 p.m. — Women, International friendly, United States vs. New Zealand, at Cincinnati, FS1

WednesdayCOLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

7 p.m. — Kentucky at Missouri, SEC Network8 p.m. — Tennessee at Arkansas, ESPNU

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon — Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, ESPN2:30 p.m. — Regional coverage, Colorado at San Francisco OR Oakland at Detroit (Noon), MLB Network6:30 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta, Fox Sports Southeast9 p.m. — Cleveland at L.A. Angels, ESPN

SOCCER11:20 a.m. — Bundesliga, Koln vs. Eintracht Frankfurt, FS21:30 p.m. — Bundesliga, Hamburg vs. Borussia Dortmund, FS11:30 p.m. — Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin vs. Bayer Leverkusen, FS26 p.m. — MLS, Los Angeles at Atlanta United, ESPN28 p.m. — U.S. Open Cup, Final, N.Y. Red Bulls at Sporting Kansas City, ESPN2

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BRIEFLYLocalOak Hill Academy softball team splits two games

The Oak Hill Academy fast-pitch softball team beat Carroll Acade-my 11-5 and lost to Central Holmes 14-2 on Monday.

Against Carroll Academy, Annabelle Miller had three hits and four RBIs, while Sunni Milican had three hits. Amberly Harden added two RBIs. Anna Grace Reed pitched a complete game. She struck out two.

Major League BaseballHome run record on track to fall today

NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton’s smacks, Aaron Judge’s jolts and all those dizzying long balls helped Major League Baseball move another poke closer to the inevitable.

Nearly two decades after the height of the Steroids Era, the sport is on track to break its season record for home runs today — and not just top the old mark, but smash it like one of those upper-deck shots that have become commonplace in the Summer of the Slugger.

There were 5,677 home runs hit through Monday, 16 shy of the record set in 2000.

Juiced balls? Watered-down pitching? Stanton’s renaissance? Sensational starts by Judge and Cody Bellinger?

“I don’t think that we are ever going to have a single explanation for exactly why we’ve see so many,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “But players are bigger and stronger. They’re playing a little dif-ferently, in terms of the way they swing. Pitchers throw harder. The one thing I remain comfortable with: Nothing about the baseball, according to our testing, is materially different.”

There were 5,610 homers last year, an average of 2.31 per game, and this year’s average of 2.53 projects to 6,139. That would be up 47 percent from 4,186 in 2014.

In just three years, home runs will have increased by 1,953 — an extra 149 miles of long balls at this year’s average home run length of 400 feet, or 15 miles more than the driving distance between Philadel-phia’s Citizen’s Bank Park and Washington’s Nationals Park.

“The game has changed,” New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “From when I started, there’s a lot less stolen bases, there’s a lot less bunting, there’s a lot less hitting-and-running. You don’t give outs away, and you let guys swing the bat.”

Already 108 players have hit 20 homers this year, just two shy of the record set last season — and up from 64 in 2015, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Benintendi’s single in 11th sends Red Sox past OriolesBALTIMORE — Roaring from behind and then finally winning in

extra innings, the Boston Red Sox did more than merely maintain their lead in the AL East.

They showed their mettle, a characteristic that should come in handy during the postseason.

Andrew Benintendi hit a two-run single in the 11th inning, Mookie Betts had four RBIs and Boston beat the Baltimore Orioles 10-8 Monday night for their ninth win in 12 games.

Xander Bogaerts homered and scored three runs for the Red Sox, who remained three games ahead of the second-place Yankees in the AL East and reduced to four their magic number for clinching a playoff berth.

Boston erased a five-run deficit with a six-run fifth inning and needed 10 pitchers to beat a skidding Orioles team that has now lost 10 of 12.

After three walks — one intentional — off Miguel Castro (3-2) load-ed the bases in the 11th, Benintendi hit a grounder past diving second baseman Jonathan Schoop to give Boston its major-league leading 14th extra-inning win against three defeats.

Matt Barnes (7-3) pitched the 10th and Carson Smith got three outs for his first save.

Judge hits No. 44, Chapman saves Yankees’ victory against Twins

NEW YORK — With the Yankees barely clinging to a late lead in a game with October implications, Aroldis Chapman made fast work of Joe Mauer and the Minnesota Twins.

Really fast.Throwing all four pitches at least 100 mph, Chapman worked out of

big trouble in the eighth inning and New York edged Minnesota 2-1 on Monday night to increase its AL wild-card cushion.

Aaron Judge hit his 44th home run , Todd Frazier’s sacrifice fly snapped a sixth-inning tie and Jaime Garcia gave the Yankees a splendid outing against the team that traded him this year after only one start. New York, still three games behind first-place Boston in the AL East, won the opener of a three-game series that could serve as a potential playoff preview.

Despite going 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position, the Yankees won for the eighth time in 10 games. They have a five-game advantage for the league’s top wild card with 12 to play.

Minnesota is in the second spot, 1 1/2 games ahead of the idle Los Angeles Angels for the final postseason berth. So if the standings hold, New York will host the Twins in the one-game playoff on Oct. 3.

Minnesota has been eliminated by the Yankees in each of their four postseason matchups, all from 2003-10.

Chapman replaced a wild Dellin Betances with the bases loaded and one out. The left-hander struck out Mauer, who hit a grand slam Sunday, and retired No. 3 hitter Byron Buxton on an easy fly .

CollegesAuburn’s Malzahn dismisses backup quarterback White from team

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn football coach Gus Malzahn has dis-missed former starting quarterback Sean White following a suspension and a subsequent arrest.

The No. 15 Tigers’ backup quarterback was arrested early Sunday morning on a charge of public intoxication. White had been suspended for the first two games for undisclosed reasons.

Malzahn says White “has made poor decisions that are not in the best interest of our program, and more importantly, himself.”

Auburn police records show White was arrested at 2:45 Sunday morning.

He started 16 games the past two seasons but lost the preseason competition for the job to transfer Jarrett Stidham.

White was limited in the spring while recovering from a broken right forearm suffered in the Sugar Bowl. That leaves freshman Malik Willis as Auburn’s only other scholarship quarterback.

TennisFrance choose Lille hard court for Davis Cup final vs. Belgium

PARIS — France is going back to Lille for the Davis Cup final against Belgium in November and bumped out rugby.

The northern city on the Belgian border was picked over the brand new U Arena in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris, the French Tennis Federation said on Tuesday.

France played in Lille at Stade Pierre Mauroy at the weekend, beating Serbia 3-1 to reach the final. That semifinal was on clay; the French will lay a hard court for the final from Nov. 24-26.

The France rugby team was set to face Japan at Stade Pierre Mauroy on Nov. 25 but the French Rugby Federation said it agreed to move the test to another city yet to be picked.

BoxingGolovkin and Alvarez fight to a brutal draw; rematch to come

LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin argued afterward about who won their middleweight showdown.

No one could argue it wasn’t a great fight.Golovkin retained his middleweight titles Saturday night, fighting

to a 12-round draw with Alvarez in a brutal battle that ended with both fighters holding their hands aloft in victory. It was a fight neither deserved to lose and, when the scores were tallied, neither did.

The middleweight bout years in the making lived up to its hype as the two fighters traded huge punches and went after each other for 12 rounds. Neither was down or seriously hurt, but both landed big punch-es to the head that had the crowd screaming in excitement.

Alvarez rallied late to win the last three rounds on each scorecard and pull out the draw, though both fighters claimed victory.

“I won 7-8 rounds easily,” Alvarez said. “I was superior inside the ring.”

“Today people give me draw. I focus on boxing,” Golovkin said. “Look my belts, I’m still champion. I’ve not lost.”

Golovkin was the aggressor and landed punches that had put other fighters to the canvas. But he couldn’t knock Alvarez down, and the Mexican boxer more than stood his own in exchanges with Triple G. The two were still brawling as the final seconds ticked down.

Alvarez was leading after the first three rounds, then Golovkin dominated the middle rounds. After a pep talk from his corner, Alvarez came out more aggressive in the 10th round to pull out the draw.

Two scorecards were close, with Golovkin ahead 115-113 on one and a 114-114 draw on the other. But veteran judge Adalaide Byrd inexplicably had Alvarez winning 118-110, giving him all but two rounds. The Associated Press scored it 114-114.

— From Staff and Wire Reports

BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBBoston 86 64 .573 —New York 83 67 .553 3Tampa Bay 73 77 .487 13Baltimore 73 78 .483 13½Toronto 70 80 .467 16

Central Division W L Pct GBx-Cleveland 93 57 .620 —Minnesota 78 72 .520 15Kansas City 73 76 .490 19½Detroit 62 88 .413 31Chicago 60 89 .403 32½

West Division W L Pct GBx-Houston 91 58 .611 —Los Angeles 76 73 .510 15Seattle 74 76 .493 17½Texas 73 76 .490 18Oakland 67 83 .447 24½

x-clinched division

Monday’s GamesBoston 10, Baltimore 8, 11 inningsN.Y. Yankees 2, Minnesota 1Oakland 8, Detroit 3

Today’s GamesBoston (Pomeranz 16-5) at Baltimore (Gausman 11-10), 6:05 p.m.Minnesota (Berrios 12-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 11-5), 6:05 p.m.Kansas City (Kennedy 4-11) at Toronto (Stroman 11-8), 6:07 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-7) at Tampa Bay (Snell 3-6), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Gossett 4-9) at Detroit (Bell 0-3), 6:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Giolito 2-2) at Houston (McCullers 7-3), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Clevinger 10-5) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 2-5), 9:07 p.m.Texas (Perez 12-11) at Seattle (Leake 10-12), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesMinnesota (Colon 6-13) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 12-11), 12:05 p.m.Oakland (Mengden 1-1) at Detroit (Sanchez 3-4), 12:10 p.m.Boston (Sale 16-7) at Baltimore (Miley 8-13), 6:05 p.m.Kansas City (Junis 7-2) at Toronto (Anderson 3-3), 6:07 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-7) at Tampa Bay (Archer 9-10), 6:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Shields 4-6) at Houston (Peacock 11-2), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Tomlin 9-9) at L.A. Angels (Nolasco 6-14), 9:07 p.m.Texas (Cashner 9-10) at Seattle (Hernandez 5-4), 9:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBx-Washington 90 59 .604 —Miami 70 80 .467 20½Atlanta 67 81 .453 22½New York 65 85 .433 25½Philadelphia 59 91 .393 31½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 83 66 .557 —Milwaukee 80 70 .533 3½St. Louis 77 72 .517 6Pittsburgh 68 83 .450 16Cincinnati 66 84 .440 17½

West Division W L Pct GBz-Los Angeles 96 54 .640 —Arizona 87 64 .576 9½Colorado 82 68 .547 14San Diego 67 83 .447 29San Francisco 58 93 .384 38½

z-clinched playoff berthx-clinched division

Monday’s GamesMilwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 0Philadelphia 4, L.A. Dodgers 3Miami 13, N.Y. Mets 1San Diego 4, Arizona 2

Today’s GamesL.A. Dodgers (Darvish 9-12) at Philadelphia (Nola 11-10), 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Anderson 10-3) at Pittsburgh (Williams 6-8), 6:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-7) at Tampa Bay (Snell 3-6), 6:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Lugo 6-5) at Miami (Despaigne 0-3), 6:10 p.m.St. Louis (Wainwright 12-5) at Cincinnati (Stephens 2-0), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Gonzalez 14-7) at Atlanta (Gohara 1-1), 6:35 p.m.Arizona (Godley 8-7) at San Diego (Lamet 7-7), 9:10 p.m.Colorado (Marquez 10-7) at San Francisco (Cueto 7-8), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Mets (Montero 5-10) at Miami (Urena 13-6), 12:10 p.m.Colorado (Bettis 1-3) at San Francisco (Moore 5-14), 2:45 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 12-6) at Philadelphia (Thompson 2-2), 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Garza 6-9) at Pittsburgh (Brault 1-0), 6:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-7) at Tampa Bay (Archer 9-10), 6:10 p.m.St. Louis (Weaver 6-1) at Cincinnati (Davis 1-2), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Scherzer 14-6) at Atlanta (Fried 1-0), 6:35 p.m.Arizona (Ray 14-5) at San Diego (Richard 7-14), 8:10 p.m.

BasketballWNBA Playoffs

Finals(Best-of-five)

(x-if necessary)Minnesota vs. Los Angeles

Sunday’s GameLos Angeles at Minnesota, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 26Los Angeles at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 29Minnesota at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

x-Sunday, Oct. 1Minnesota at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

x-Wednesday, Oct. 4Los Angeles at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

FootballNFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAMiami 1 0 0 1.000 19 17Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 24 21New England 1 1 0 .500 63 62N.Y. Jets 0 2 0 .000 32 66

South W L T Pct PF PATennessee 1 1 0 .500 53 42Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 45 44Houston 1 1 0 .500 20 38Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 22 62

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 2 0 0 1.000 44 10Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 47 27Cincinnati 0 2 0 .000 9 33Cleveland 0 2 0 .000 28 45

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 2 0 0 1.000 66 38Oakland 2 0 0 1.000 71 36Kansas City 2 0 0 1.000 69 47L.A. Chargers 0 2 0 .000 38 43

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 1 1 0 .500 50 44Dallas 1 1 0 .500 36 45Washington 1 1 0 .500 44 50N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 13 43

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 2 0 0 1.000 57 40Carolina 2 0 0 1.000 32 6Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 29 7New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 39 65

North W L T Pct PF PADetroit 2 0 0 1.000 59 33Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 38 45Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 40 43Chicago 0 2 0 .000 24 52

West W L T Pct PF PASeattle 1 1 0 .500 21 26L.A. Rams 1 1 0 .500 66 36Arizona 1 1 0 .500 39 48San Francisco 0 2 0 .000 12 35

Thursday, Sept. 14Houston 13, Cincinnati 9

Sunday, Sept. 17Carolina 9, Buffalo 3Tampa Bay 29, Chicago 7Tennessee 37, Jacksonville 16New England 36, New Orleans 20Kansas City 27, Philadelphia 20Pittsburgh 26, Minnesota 9Arizona 16, Indianapolis 13, OTBaltimore 24, Cleveland 10Miami 19, L.A. Chargers 17Oakland 45, N.Y. Jets 20Seattle 12, San Francisco 9Washington 27, L.A. Rams 20Denver 42, Dallas 17Atlanta 34, Green Bay 23

Monday’s GameDetroit 24, N.Y. Giants 10

Thursday’s GameL.A. Rams at San Francisco, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesBaltimore vs Jacksonville at London, UK, 8:30 a.m.New Orleans at Carolina, NoonTampa Bay at Minnesota, NoonDenver at Buffalo, NoonPittsburgh at Chicago, NoonMiami at N.Y. Jets, NoonN.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, NoonAtlanta at Detroit, NoonHouston at New England, NoonCleveland at Indianapolis, NoonSeattle at Tennessee, 3:05 p.m.Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 3:25 p.m.Cincinnati at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.Oakland at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 25Dallas at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

Canadian Football LeagueEAST DIVISION

W L T Pts PF PAOttawa 5 7 1 11 365 312Toronto 5 7 0 10 286 304Montreal 3 9 0 6 232 333Hamilton 2 9 0 4 217 381

WEST DIVISION W L T Pts PF PACalgary 10 1 1 21 389 222Winnipeg 8 3 0 16 380 344Edmonton 7 5 0 14 319 354Saskatchewan 6 5 0 12 344 286B.C. 6 6 0 12 323 319

Friday’s GamesOttawa at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.Hamilton at BC, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s GameMontreal at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Southeastern ConferenceWest Division

Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PAMiss. St. 1 0 37 7 3 0 143 28Alabama 0 0 0 0 3 0 106 40Ole Miss 0 0 0 0 2 1 108 77Auburn 0 0 0 0 2 1 71 31Texas A&M 0 0 0 0 2 1 113 80LSU 0 1 7 37 2 1 79 47Arkansas 0 0 0 0 1 1 56 35

East Division Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PAFlorida 1 0 26 20 1 1 43 53Kentucky 1 0 23 13 3 0 74 46S. Carolina 1 1 44 36 2 1 79 64Georgia 0 0 0 0 3 0 93 43Vanderbilt 0 0 0 0 3 0 84 13Tennessee 0 1 20 26 2 1 104 74Missouri 0 1 13 31 1 2 88 109

Saturday’s GamesArkansas vs. Texas A&M (At Arlington), 11 a.m. (ESPN)Massachusetts at Tennessee, 11 a.m. (SEC Network)Alabama at Vanderbilt, 2:30 p.m. (WCBI)Louisiana Tech at South Carolina, 2:30 p.m. (SEC Network)Mississippi State at Georgia, 6 p.m. (ESPN)Syracuse at LSU, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)Florida at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network)Auburn at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU)

Saturday, Sept. 30Georgia at Tennessee, TBD (WCBI)Vanderbilt at Florida, 11 a.m. (ESPN)New Mexico State at Arkansas, 11 a.m. (SEC Network)Eastern Michigan at Kentucky, 3 p.m. (SEC Network)Mississippi State at Auburn, 5 p.m. (ESPN)Troy at LSU, 6 p.m. (ESPNU)South Carolina at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network)Ole Miss at Alabama, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Football Championship Subdivision Coaches Poll

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The weekly poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 17, points and previous ranking: Rec. Pts Pvs1. James Madison (25) 3-0 649 12. North Dakota State (1) 2-0 625 23. Sam Houston State 2-0 591 34. South Dakota State 3-0 575 45. Youngstown State 2-1 530 56. Richmond 2-1 506 67. Jacksonville State 1-1 497 68. Villanova 2-1 476 89. Wofford 2-0 432 910. The Citadel 3-0 372 1311. Eastern Washington 1-2 369 1212. Illinois State 2-0 334 1413. Central Arkansas 2-1 309 1614. South Dakota 3-0 288 2315. North Carolina A&T 3-0 256 2016. New Hampshire 2-1 213 1117. Samford 2-1 211 1718. Weber State 2-1 196 2119. North Dakota 1-2 168 1020. Tennessee State 3-0 166 2421. Western Illinois 2-0 162 2222. Grambling State 2-1 104 2523. Nicholls State 2-1 76 —24. Northern Iowa 1-2 56 1825. Holy Cross 2-1 49 —Also Receiving Votes: Southern Utah 44, Chattanooga 35, Charleston Southern 35, Tennessee-Martin 20, William & Mary 20, Montana 20, Towson 13, Kennesaw State 11, McNeese State 10, Mercer 9, Idaho State 6, Yale 4, Stony Brook 3, Saint Francis 3, Albany 2, Howard 2, Montana State 2, Princeton 1.

STATS Football Championship

Subdivision PollThe weekly poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 17, points and previous rank: Rec. Pts Pvs1. James Madison (156) 3-0 4067 12. North Dakota State (5) 2-0 3898 23. Sam Houston State (1) 2-0 3680 34. South Dakota State (1) 3-0 3607 45. Jacksonville State 1-1 3309 56. Youngstown State 2-1 3198 67. Villanova 2-1 3088 78. Richmond 2-1 2930 89. Wofford 2-0 2660 1110. Citadel 3-0 2264 1311. Eastern Washington 1-2 2227 1212. Central Arkansas 2-1 2094 1413. South Dakota 3-0 1980 2314. Illinois State 2-0 1691 1815. New Hampshire 2-1 1448 916. Liberty 3-0 1353 1917. North Dakota 1-2 1325 1018. Samford 2-1 1234 1719. Western Illinois 2-0 1222 2020. Tennessee State 3-0 1026 2221. North Carolina A&T 3-0 897 2522. Grambling State 2-1 644 2423. Weber State 2-1 460 —24. Tennessee-Martin 2-1 385 —25. Holy Cross 2-1 310 —Also Receiving Votes: Charleston Southern 305, Chattanooga 252, Nicholls 251, Albany 250, Southern Utah 156, Northern Iowa 152, Montana 124, Stony Brook 90, Elon 66, N.C. Central 57, Princeton 37, Colgate 35, Howard 33, Fordham 26, Maine 20, Western Carolina 18, McNeese 18, Kennesaw State 17, Idaho State 15, UC Davis 12, Saint Francis U. 8, Eastern Kentucky 7, Delaware 7, Southern Illinois 6, Cal Poly 4, Yale 4, Towson 4, Duquesne 3, Mercer 3, Penn 2, Monmouth 2, Harvard 1, San Diego 1, Alcorn State 1, William & Mary 1.

AFCA Division II Coaches Poll

Through Sept. 17 Rec. Pts Pvs1. NW Missouri State (34) 3-0 850 12. Ferris State (Mich.) 2-0 811 23. Texas A&M-Commerce 3-0 779 34. Shepherd (W.Va.) 2-0 737 45. California (Pa.) 3-0 693 56. Indiana (Pa.) 3-0 673 67. Sioux Falls (N.D.) 3-0 619 78. Minnesota State 3-0 607 89. LIU-Post (N.Y.) 3-0 572 910. North Alabama 1-1 547 1011. Colorado Mesa 3-0 501 1112. Grand Valley St. (Mich.) 2-1 456 1213. Midwestern St. (Texas) 2-0 443 1314. Indianapolis (Ind.) 3-0 402 1515. Emporia St. (Kan.) 2-1 367 1416. Arkansas Tech 3-0 300 1917. Delta State 3-0 268 2418. Fort Hays State (Kan.) 3-0 259 2119. Colorado St.-Pueblo 2-1 257 1820. Cent. Washington 3-0 247 2321. Slippery Rock (Pa.) 3-0 166 2522. Humboldt St. (Calif.) 2-0 77 —23. Bowie St. (Md.) 3-0 72 —24. Assumption (Mass.) 3-0 60 —25. Catawba (N.C.) 3-0 54 —Also Receiving Votes: Ashland (Ohio) 47, Albany State (Ga.) 41, West Georgia 35, Winona State (Minn.) 24, Central Missouri 18, Azusa Pacific (Calif.) 10, Minnesota-Duluth 10, Southeastern Oklahoma State 8, Washburn (Kan.) 8, Wingate (N.C.) 8, Carson-Newman (Tenn.) 7, Florida Tech 6, North Greenville (S.C.) 3, Tuskegee (Ala.) 3, West Texas A&M 3, Bloomsburg (Pa.) 1, Eastern New Mexico 1.

AFCA Division III Coaches Poll

Through Sept. 17 Rec. Pts1. M. Hardin-Baylor (Texas) (45) 2-0 12872. Mount Union (Ohio) (7) 2-0 12493. Wisconsin-Oshkosh 2-0 11584. Wheaton (Ill.) 3-0 11325. North Central (Ill.) 2-0 10036. St. John’s (Minn.) 3-0 9927. Hardin-Simmons (Texas) 2-0 9138. Johns-Hopkins (Md.) 3-0 7799. Delaware Valley (Pa.) 3-0 74810. Wisconsin-Platteville 2-0 63511. St. Thomas (Minn.) 2-1 63312. Frostburg State (Md.) 3-0 58013. John Carroll (Ohio) 1-1 57114. Wittenberg (Ohio) 2-0 56615. Linfield (Ore.) 1-1 54316. Wash. & Jefferson (Pa.) 3-0 52217. Alfred (N.Y.) 2-0 39818. Con.-Moorhead (Minn.) 3-0 34419. Brockport (N.Y.) 2-1 32320. Whitworth (Wash.) 3-0 31321. Case Western (Ohio) 2-0 26622. Wabash (Ind.) 2-0 23923. Illinois Wesleyan 2-1 20623. Wesley (Del.) 1-1 20625. Dubuque (Iowa) 3-0 186

NAIA PollThrough Sept. 17

Rec. Pts Pv1. Saint Francis (Ind.) (16) 3-0 366 12. Baker (Kan.) 4-0 352 23. Reinhardt (Ga.) 2-0 335 34. Morningside (Iowa) 4-0 327 45. Montana Tech 3-0 310 56. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 3-0 295 67. Doane (Neb.) 3-0 278 78. Grand View (Iowa) 3-1 251 99. Marian (Ind.) 1-1 248 810. Southeastern (Fla.) 3-0 237 1011. Saint Xavier (Ill.) 3-0 223 1312. Arizona Christian 3-0 216 1213. Southern Oregon 3-0 210 1414. Benedictine (Kan.) 4-0 183 1615. Langston (Okla.) 2-0 176 1516. Georgetown (Ky.) 2-0 165 1617. Tabor (Kan.) 1-1 123 1818. Sterling (Kan.) 2-1 103 2019. Northwestern (Iowa) 3-0 101 2420. Dickinson State (N.D.) 2-1 88 2121. Cumberland (Tenn.) 4-0 81 NR22. MidAmerica Naz. (Kan.) 3-1 48 1923. Eastern Oregon 1-2 47 1124. Kansas Wesleyan 2-1 37 2525. Concordia (Mich.) 3-0 35 NR25. Hastings (Neb.) 3-0 35 NR

Schedule

Thursday’s GamesSOUTH

Temple at South Florida, 6:30 p.m.South Carolina State at North Carolina Central, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesFAR WEST

Virginia at Boise State, 7 p.m.Utah at Arizona, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesEAST

Walsh at CCSU, 11 a.m.Brown at Harvard, 11 a.m.Penn at Lehigh, 11:30 a.m.Fordham at Bryant, NoonFurman at Colgate, NoonGeorgetown at Columbia, NoonCornell at Yale, NoonCincinnati at Navy, 2:30 p.m.Rhode Island at New Hampshire, 2:30 p.m.Sacred Heart at Bucknell, 5 p.m.Princeton at Lafayette, 5 p.m.Jacksonville at Marist, 5 p.m.Towson at Stony Brook, 5 p.m.Villanova at Albany (NY), 6 p.m.FAU at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Holy Cross at Dartmouth, 6 p.m.

SOUTHNorth Carolina State at Florida State, 11 a.m.Kent State at Louisville, 11 a.m.Massachusetts at Tennessee, 11 a.m.Army at Tulane, 11 a.m.Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech, 11:30 a.m.Bethune-Cookman at Howard, NoonDayton at Morehead State, NoonIdaho at South Alabama, NoonMaine at James Madison, 12:30 p.m.Chattanooga at VMI, 1:30 p.m.Gardner-Webb at Wofford, 12:30 p.m.Norfolk State at Delaware State, 1 p.m.Monmouth (NJ) at Hampton, 1 p.m.Old Dominion at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.UCF at Maryland, 2 p.m.Wake Forest at Appalachian State, 2:30 p.m.Boston College at Clemson, 2:30 p.m.Mercer at ETSU, 2:30 p.m.Toledo at Miami, 2:30 p.m.Duke at North Carolina, 2:30 p.m.Louisiana Tech at South Carolina, 2:30 p.m.Alabama at Vanderbilt, 2:30 p.m.Samford at Western Carolina, 2:30 p.m.Campbell at Stetson, 3 p.m.Louisiana-Monroe at Louisiana-Lafayette, 4 p.m.Tennessee State at Tennessee-Martin, 4 p.m.Point (Ga.) at Charleston Southern, 5 p.m.Georgia State at Charlotte, 5 p.m.Tennessee Tech at Eastern Kentucky, 5 p.m.Elon at Richmond, 5 p.m.Florida A&M at Savannah State, 5 p.m.Akron at Troy, 5 p.m.Western Illinois at Coastal Carolina, 5:30 p.m.Texas Southern at Alabama A&M, 6 p.m.Southern U. at Alcorn State, 6 p.m.Mississippi State at Georgia, 6 p.m.Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Jackson State, 6 p.m.Liberty at Jacksonville State, 6 p.m.Grambling State at Mississippi Valley State, 6 p.m.Houston Baptist at McNeese State, 6 p.m.Bowling Green at Middle Tennessee, 6 p.m.North Carolina A&T at Morgan State, 6 p.m.Austin Peay at Murray State, 6 p.m.Cumberland (Tenn.) at Presbyterian, 6 p.m.Ball State at Western Kentucky, 6 p.m.Florida at Kentucky, 6 or 6:30 p.m.Syracuse at LSU, 6 or 6:30 p.m.Prairie View at Alabama State, 7 p.m.Southern Illinois at Memphis, 7 p.m.

MIDWESTWest Virginia at Kansas, 11 a.m.UNLV at Ohio State, 11 a.m.Valparaiso at Drake, 1 p.m.Ohio at Eastern Michigan, 1 p.m.Illinois State at Missouri State, 2 p.m.Miami Univ. at Central Michigan, 2:30 p.m.Georgia Southern at Indiana, 2:30 p.m.Robert Morris at North Dakota State, 2:30 p.m.Rutgers at Nebraska, 2:30 p.m.Montana State at North Dakota, 2:30 p.m.Michigan at Purdue, 2:30 p.m.Southeast Missouri at Eastern Illinois, 6 p.m.Wagner at Western Michigan, 6 p.m.Auburn at Missouri, 6 or 6:30 p.m.Penn State at Iowa, 6:30 p.m.Notre Dame at Michigan State, 7 p.m.

SOUTHWESTTexas Tech at Houston, 11 a.m.Arkansas at Texas A&M at Arlington, Texas, 11 a.m.New Mexico at Tulsa, 12:30 p.m.TCU at Oklahoma State, 2:30 p.m.Oklahoma at Baylor, 5:30 p.m.Alabama-Birmingham at North Texas, 5:30 p.m.Stephen F. Austin at Abilene Christian, 6 p.m.Arkansas State at SMU, 6 p.m.FIU at Rice, 6:30 p.m.UTSA at Texas State, 6:30 p.m.Southeastern Louisiana at Lamar, 7 p.m.Nicholls at Sam Houston State, 7 p.m.

FAR WESTIdaho State at Northern Colorado, 2 p.m.Southern California at California, 2:30 p.m.Butler at San Diego, 4 p.m.Nevada at Washington State, 5 p.m.San Diego State at Air Force, 6 p.m.UC Davis at Weber State, 6 p.m.Utah State at San Jose State, 6:30 p.m.UTEP at New Mexico State, 7 p.m.Eastern Washington at Montana, 7:05 p.m.Southern Utah at Sacramento State, 8 p.m.Northern Arizona at Cal Poly, 8:05 p.m.Oregon at Arizona State, 9 p.m.Washington at Colorado, 9 p.m.Hawaii at Wyoming, 9:15 p.m.UCLA at Stanford, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GameEAST

East Carolina at Connecticut, 11 a.m.

TennisATP World Tour Moselle Open

MondayAt Les Arenes de Metz, Metz, France

Purse: $575,800 (WT250)Surface: Hard-IndoorSingles — First Round

Marius Copil, Romania, def. Alessandro Giannessi, Italy, 6-3, 6-2.Gilles Simon (8), France, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-3, 6-0.

Doubles —First RoundPaul-Henri Mathieu and Benoit Paire, France, def. Romain Arneodo, Monaco, and Hugo Nys, France, 5-7, 7-6 (10), 10-7.

ATP World Tour St. Petersburg Open

MondayAt Sibur Arena, St. Petersburg, Russia

Purse: $1 million (WT250)Surface: Hard-IndoorSingles —First Round

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 7-5, 6-4.Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Paolo Lorenzi (6), Italy, 7-5, 7-5.Philipp Kohlschreiber (5), Germany, def. Evgeny Tyurnev, Russia, 6-1, 6-3.

WTA Korea OpenMonday

At Olympic Park Tennis StadiumSeoul, South Korea

Purse: $226,750 (Intl.)Surface: Hard-OutdoorSingles — First Round

Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-3, 0-6, 6-1.Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, def. Lara Arruabarrena (7), Spain, 6-3, 7-5.Luksika Khumkum, Thailand, def. Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.Sorana Cirstea (4), Romania, def. Misa Eguchi, Japan, 6-1, 6-3.Priscilla Hon, Australia, def. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.Irina-Camelia Begu (5), Romania, def. Varatchaya Wongteanchai, Thailand, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, def. Katarina Zavatska, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles — First RoundNao Hibino, Japan, and Oksana Kalashnikova (3), Georgia, def. Anna Morgina, Russia, and Kotomi Takahata, Japan, 6-3, 7-5.Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, and Johanna Larsson (1), Sweden, def. Nicola Geuer, Germany, and Eva Wacanno, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-1.

WTA Toray Pan Pacific OpenMonday

At Ariake Colosseum, TokyoPurse: $890,100 (Premier)

Surface: Hard-OutdoorSingles — First Round

Kurumi Nara, Japan, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.Angelique Kerber (7), Germany, def. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 6-3, 6-4.Wang Qiang, China, def. Kristina Mladenovic (8), France, 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles — First RoundAlicja Rosolska, Poland, and Abigail Spears (3), United States, def. Raquel Atawo, United States, and Darija Jurak, Croatia, 6-4, 6-4.Daria Gavrilova, Australia, and Daria Kasatki-na, Russia, def. Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia, 1-6, 7-5, 10-7.

WTA Guangzhou International Open

MondayAt Tianhe Sports Centre, Guangzhou,

ChinaPurse: $226,750 (Intl.)

Surface: Hard-OutdoorSingles — First Round

Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, def. Liu Fangzhou, China, 7-5, 6-0.Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, 6-2, 4-2 retired.Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Lesley Kerk-hove, Netherlands, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4).Anett Kontaveit (3), Estonia, def. Jasmine Paoli-ni, Italy, 6-0, 6-2.Ipek Soylu, Turkey, def. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 6-0, 6-3.Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, def. Alison Riske (8), United States, 6-3, 6-2.Mona Barthel, Germany, def. Lu Jing-Jing, Chi-na, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Lesia Tsurenko (4), Ukraine, 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles — First RoundLizette Cabrera, Australia, and Jana Fett, Croatia, def. Kyoka Okamura, Japan, and You Xiaodi, China, 6-3, 7-6 (5).Jiang Xinyu and Tang Qianhui, China, def. Jac-queline Cako, United States, and Aleksandrina Naydenova (4), Bulgaria, 6-2, 6-1.

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“In the back of your mind, you know, ‘Hey, this is the SEC,’” Reed said. “We’ve got to win if we want to go anywhere bowl game-wise and play-off-wise.”

Mississippi State (3-0) surged into the rankings with a 37-7 blowout of then-No. 12 LSU last Sat-urday night in Starkville, a game that suddenly stamped Mullen’s team as a potential champion-ship contender. Quarter-back Nick Fitzgerald had a breakout performance, throwing for two touch-downs and running for two more.

Now he’s going against the home-state school

that passed on him after high school. Fitzgerald played at Richmond Hill, just outside of Savannah, but Georgia didn’t think he had much of a future as a college quarterback.

Under Mullen’s tute-lage, he has become one of the most talked-about players in the country.

“It’s the new-age quar-terbacks,” said Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith. “You’ve got to be able to use your feet and pass the ball. It’s a different thing. It puts a lot of stress on the defense. The defense has to adapt to that. But I think we’ll be able to do it.”

Georgia (3-0) is off to

a strong start in Kirby Smart’s second season as coach. Its most impres-sive performance was a 20-19 victory at Notre Dame, the sort of state-ment game that Georgia lacked while stumbling to an 8-5 mark in Smart’s debut year.

A victory this week would be even bigger.

“Playing a team like this will tell us a lot,” Smart said. “I’m not going to sit here and say we’ve arrived, because I don’t think that’s the case. I think we’ve improved. I think we have to contin-ue to improve to beat the teams we have on our schedule.”

Georgia has faced Mis-sissippi State fewer than any of the other original members still in the SEC. For State, Vanderbilt (22 meetings) is the lone school with that distinc-tion.

Georgia has played five other schools more often than the other Bulldogs, including Georgia Tech, former SEC member Tu-lane and current confer-ence foe South Carolina, though most of those 64 meetings against the Gamecocks came be-fore they even joined the league in 1992. Clemson and North Carolina also have been more frequent opponents.

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and (Saturday) I did. I took advan-tage of it.”

Christmann kicked three field goals and four extra points in MSU’s 37-7 victory against then-No. 12 LSU on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium. The effort earned Christ-mann a spot as MSU’s starting kick-er when it takes on No. 11 Georgia (3-0) at 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) at Sanford Stadium.

Christmann’s success in his first start was met with rousing applause from the crowd of 60,596 that grew louder with each successful at-tempt.

“It was pretty awesome,” Christ-mann said. “Mississippi State last season kind of struggled on that part of the game, so hearing the crowd erupt like that was a dream come true. It was a blessing.”

Christmann said he was told Fri-day he would start. The ensuing reac-tion was obvious — “a lot of nerves, a lot of excitement” — but Christmann said he went about Saturday morning

“like any normal day.”“You just have to zone it all out,

block it all out, and trust your team-mates,” he said.

Christmann, a 6-foot, 195-pound freshman from Houston, Texas, was voted the top punter in Class 6A, District 18 in his senior year at Memorial High School in 2015. The walk-on kicker/punter joined the MSU program during August 2016 camp. His prowess as a kick-er and punter drew the attention of kicking expert Gary Zauner, but he admits the game experience before his starting debut helped. His first game action, after redshirting in 2016, was a late extra point against Charleston Southern. MSU coach Dan Mullen made the switch to Christmann for extra points in the second half of the game against Louisiana Tech, citing inconsisten-cy from Day in transition from the practice field to games.

Christmann said the experience prepared him for the full-time job,

even stretching out the extra points to field goals, such as the 45-yarder he made against LSU.

“It’s a little bit different, but it’s the same thing: have to keep the same swing and trust it,” Christ-mann said.

Trusting his approach was Christmann’s was his biggest em-phasis before this season.

“I think my biggest issue all of last year and spring was I think I was going to the ball way too fast,” he said. “I tried to slow down and figured out that trusting my leg was the best thing for me.”

That trust has helped Christ-mann win the starting job.

“He did well in the game and in practice. All I can do is go off prac-tice,” Mullen said. “He had a great week of practice this week, so we went with him and he took advan-tage of the opportunity.”

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if he’s weird or has some strange looks. He better get his emotions in check because we’re playing a very athletic, very talented defense. Watching the film will straighten out those emotions pretty quickly.”

Grantham worked at Georgia as defensive coordinator from 2010-2013. MSU hired Looney last winter after he served as offensive gradu-ate assistant at Georgia.

Safety Johnathan Abram started his college career at Georgia before transferring to Jones County Junior College.

Mullen downplayed the advan-tage of having Looney and Abram in the program for extra informa-tion on Georgia, saying the only significant benefit might be know-ing personnel “better than normal weeks.”

The only thing the local ties guarantee is a contingent of MSU fans in the stadium. Fitzgerald will have a special fan: his uncle, Charles Pledger, who played cor-nerback for Georgia from 1990-93.

“He’s going to be wearing ma-

roon,” Fitzgerald said. “He told me plenty of times, ‘I’ll be there. It’ll be the first time I’ve been in Athens not wearing black and red.’ If you can find him, you’ll see him in a Missis-sippi State T-shirt somewhere.”Numbers don’t interest Mullen yet

MSU leads the SEC in scoring offense (47.7 points per game) and rushing offense (297.67 yards per game), is second in scoring defense (9.3 ppg.), and is third in offensive plays of 10 yards or more (50).

Mullen needs to see more of the same to be pleased.

“I’ll feel great about if we had played 12 games. Af-ter three, we’ll see,” Mullen said. “Statistics are hard to measure after three games because there’s a whole lot of variables of who plays who early in the season. Once we play 12 that will balance out.”

Injury updateMullen expects defensive lineman Cory Thomas to

be out for the next two weeks with a foot injury.Wide receiver Gabe Myles’ foot injury is less se-

vere, as Mullen labeled him questionable for this week.Wide receiver Malik Dear is more likely to play.

Mullen said the training staff cleared Dear to play last week, meaning the only thing for the coaching staff is, “a question of at what percentage he is.”

Trio earn conference honorsThree Bulldogs were honored as SEC Players of

the Week after the 37-7 victory against LSU. Fitzgerald was the Offensive Player of the Week, left guard Daryl

Williams was the Offensive Lineman of the Week, and defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons was the Defensive Lineman of the Week.

Fitzgerald had 260 yards of offense and four touch-downs. He is third in the nation in touchdowns behind UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen and Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph. Williams was a pivotal part of an offensive line that paved the way for MSU to run for 285 yards, while Simmons stuffed the LSU running game with seven tackles and one-and-a-half sacks.

MSU slated for another night gameFor the third-consecutive week, MSU will play at

night on ESPN.After 6 p.m. kickoffs against LSU and Georgia,

the SEC announced Monday that MSU’s trip to Auburn next week will be on ESPN at 5 p.m. It will be MSU’s final game before the bye week and consecutive home games against BYU and Kentucky.

Starkville Quarterback Club meetingOn Thursday, MSU baseball coach Andy Cannizaro

will be the featured speaker at the Starkville Quarter-back Club at the Starkville Country Club.

MSU safeties coach Ron English will provide the preview of Georgia.

The menu will include pork tenderloin, macaroni and cheese, cabbage, salad, rolls and cornbread, and red velvet cake.

The social hour will begin at 6 p.m. Dinner will be at 6:30. The program will be at 7 p.m.

Guests of members are welcome to attend for $25, which includes dinner and a ticket for the drawing for door prizes.

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“Everybody knew we were throwing it, and some of them were com-ing up to me and saying, ‘Look at this. Whenever I am running the backside route I am getting open,’ so I was looking for my open receivers and trying to get them the ball so they could make plays.”

Heritage Academy coach Sean Harrison has praised the maturi-ty and decision-making of Putt through the first two months of the sea-son. Putt’s total passing yards Friday night was more than his last three games combined. It came after Pillow Academy sty-mied Heritage Academy’s running attack and built a 17-point lead with less than eight minutes re-maining.

Putt knew the Patriots didn’t have time to run the ball if they wanted to rally, so he knew the team was going to need him to lead the charge. Heritage Academy moved senior tailback Dontae Gray to an outside receiver and inserted sophomore Rocky Wright into the game at tailback. With Gray, Moak Griffin, Jar-ed Long, Lex Rogers, and Dalton Alexander,

the Patriots had plenty of options to occupy the defense’s attention. Still, the question remained if Putt would be able to lead the charge back. Griffin, Long, and Gray had two touchdowns, while Rog-ers piled up the receiving yards on screen plays.

“He did a good job of throwing balls that his guy was going to catch or nobody was going to catch, and his receivers went and executed for him,” Harrison said.

On Long’s second touchdown, Putt had just the right amount of touch to drop the ball in over two defenders in the left corner of the end zone. Long went up high to snare the pass and then tumbled over.

On the clinching score, Putt’s pass to the front right corner of the end zone ap-peared to be a little short as the routes of Gray and Alexander converged. But the pass had a little more air on it than the defend-er thought as it went right over his fingertips and into the arms of Gray.

“I was proud of him be-cause he took some shots (prior to the final three scoring drives),” Harri-son said. “They didn’t

quit. Our offensive line was as close to perfect as we have been on those last three drives.”

Putt said it was “crazy” how the final scoring se-quence played out. He said he saw Gray get behind the cornerback and thought he might have underthrown the ball 2 or 3 yards. Fortu-nately, the throw was better than he thought.

Harrison attributed Putt’s ability to stay fo-cused to his knack for not getting too high or too low. He said he saw that tendency last season when Putt quarterbacked the junior high team. Harrison also didn’t have to tell Putt the Patriots couldn’t dial up a 17-point play to dig themselves out of their hole with a snap of a finger.

“He does a good job of taking what they give to him,” Harrison said. “He did a good job of hitting checkdowns. He threw it up when it needed to be thrown up and he checked it down. He knows what we want and we trust in him that he knows it.”

Putt also knows that as much as he would love to throw the ball 33 times every game that Gray’s ability to run the football

is a key component of the offense. He smiled when he was asked if he has petitioned Harrison for more chances to throw the football. Putt said he hasn’t done that, but he acknowledged his effort against Pillow Academy will give him confidence to know he can make plays when called on.

Harrison said Putt’s performance shows the Patriots can have success if they opt to throw the ball more. With plenty of weapons on the outside, the run-pass dilemma could prove to be a night-mare scenario for oppo-nents. That’s a thought that pleases Harrison because it is another in-dication Putt continues to emerge as a quarterback and as a leader.

“I was hoping I could avoid those situations where it all got put on him, but I am glad it came in a non-district game early,” Harrison said. “We didn’t do anything we haven’t done before. We just did a whole lot more of it. I am probably going to let him throw it a little more now. He has just been doing little things better and better.”

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Comics & PuzzlesDear Abby

Daily Bridge Club

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

This week I’m treating declarer’scounting and drawing inferences.Today’s North balanced with adouble after East-West came to restat two spades. If South had knownthat East-West had only seventrumps, he might have passed forpenalty, but South took out to threeclubs.

West led the king and jack ofdiamonds, and East took dummy’squeen and led a diamond for West toruff. West then led a spade: four,king, ace. South had a heart to loseand had to pick up the trumps tomake the contract.

FOUR HEARTS

The techniques of counting andinference can be combined, andSouth had an inferential count of thedistribution. West had two diamonds,and he had only four spades sinceEast needed three-card support toraise. But if West had held fourhearts, he would have responded oneheart, showing his four-card suits “upthe line.”

So South knew West’s pattern was4-3-2-4. South cashed his king oftrumps and led to the jack. He tookthe ace, forced out the ace of heartsand claimed.

DAILY QUESTION

You hold: ♠ K J 9 ♥♥ A 7 4 2 ♦♦ A 9 8 4 2 ♣ 5. Your partner opensone diamond, you respond one heart

and he bids two clubs. What do yousay?

ANSWER: Since as little as A 4 3, 3, K J 6 5 3, A J 4 2 for partnerwill offer a play for seven diamonds,you must try to reach slam. If a jump-preference to three diamonds isforcing in your style, that call isreasonable. An option is to bid twospades, then support the diamonds toshow a strong hand with clubshortness.

East dealerNeither side vulnerable

NORTH♠ 6 4♥♥ K J 10 3♦♦ Q 10 5♣ A J 9 4

WEST EAST♠ 10 8 5 3 ♠ K J 9♥♥ 9 8 6 ♥♥ A 7 4 2♦♦ K J ♦♦ A 9 8 4 2♣ Q 8 7 2 ♣ 5

SOUTH♠ A Q 7 2♥♥ Q 5♦♦ 7 6 3♣ K 10 6 3

East South West North1 ♦♦ Pass 1 ♠ Pass2 ♠ Pass Pass DblPass 3 ♣ All Pass

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I’m 25. I just want to have a regular conversation with my mom without her somehow bringing the mood down by saying she has demons to deal with on her own and she can’t be positive or happy for others.

Abby, there’s nothing wrong with her! She’s healthy, fit, has a wonderful job she claims to love, and friends she goes out with often and seems to have fun with. She’s out literally every weekend. I just don’t get why she never makes time for me or any of my siblings.

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When I told my sister, she became furious! I apologized for letting her down, but I don’t want to spend hundreds of dol-lars to attend a conference I’m not that jazzed about. She’s still mad at me, and I don’t want to dismiss her feelings, but I feel that canceling eight months in advance is OK. We hadn’t purchased tickets or made hotel reservations yet. Can you give me some advice? — DON’T WANT TO GO

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weeks for us. We’re ready to just get to work.”

The Saints have strug-gled most on defense, ex-tending a trend that has dogged New Orleans the previous three seasons, when it has ranked 27th or worse in yards allowed. New Orleans has allowed Minnesota quarterback Sam Bradford and New England QB Tom Brady to complete 80.3 percent of their passes for 793 yards and six touchdowns combined.

“It’s embarrassing, es-pecially when you put in all this hard work,” safety Ken-ny Vaccaro said. “We’ve got to get it fixed. We’re al-ready 0-2. It’s just going to be hard to come out of that hole. Everybody knows in this league, once you get

yourself in a hole, it’s really, really hard to climb out.”

Despite scoring late, inconsequential touch-downs, New Orleans lost by 10 at Minnesota and by 16 at home to the defending champion Patriots.

Saints players insisted Monday they’re not obsess-ing over the scores, which they say can be misleading. A few pivotal plays can turn an otherwise competitive affair into a blowout, they said.

Using New England’s first two possessions Sun-day as examples, Klein said New Orleans’ defense forced third-and-6 or longer on each drive, only to have execution failures on pass-es to Gronkowski — one of which went 12 yards to ex-tend a touchdown drive and

one of which resulted in a 53-yard touchdown.

“Does that change the momentum of the game if they don’t score those first two series? Yes, it does,” Klein said. “The score is the score. It just shows that we didn’t play well enough. It doesn’t matter if you lose 10-9. A loss is a loss.”

Vaccaro agreed, to some extent.

“How fast you can improve is probably the biggest factor on turning around this season,” Vac-caro said. “There’s certain facets of winning and los-ing that you analyze, and when you do some of the things — giving up explo-sive plays — yeah, it’s a little worrisome. But at the same time, you’ve got to move on.”

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his first year playing. Those two plays were not indica-tive of the kind of competi-tor that he was and we have to get that addressed.”

Prescott won NFL Of-fensive Rookie of the Year honors and Elliott was the league’s leading rusher as the dynamic pair debuted with the best record in the NFC at 13-3 before a divi-sional playoff loss to Green Bay.

Elliott had 15 straight games of at least 80 yards rushing and had never had fewer than 51 before he was held to 8 yards on nine car-ries against the ball-hawk-ing Broncos, who made it their priority to stop Elliott and force the Cowboys to beat them with the passing of Prescott.

After getting dropped

for a 5-yard loss on his first carry of the second half, Elliott had five carries for 0 yards.

“He certainly could have been frustrated,” Garrett said. “Obviously he had been very produc-tive as a running back over the course of his career and certainly in the NFL up to this point. There’s no question frustration could have set in, but I have not had a conversation with him yet.”

After the game, Elliott flatly rejected the notion that his mind is elsewhere with all the legal drama surrounding his six-game suspension over a domes-tic case in Ohio. The NFL wants a federal appeals court to overrule an in-junction that blocked the

suspension while the case plays out.

Elliott had nowhere to run, and didn’t fare much better when the Cowboys tried to throw to him on the outside. He had four catch-es for 14 yards.

“I feel like if he would have made some of those plays on the outside, it would have probably forced them to get in the zone more than their man cover-age that they were in a ma-jority of the night,” Prescott said. “That’s when our run game hits.”

Tomlinson’s comments didn’t surface until after Elliott had appeared in the visiting locker room, where the former Ohio State star acknowledged being frus-trated but said he wouldn’t be discouraged.

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF LOWNDESCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THEESTATEOF MYRA WALKER, DE-CEASED

NO. 2017-0183-C

LADEAN SUBER, EX-ECUTOR

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Letters Testamentaryhave been granted andissued to LaDeanSuber, Executor of theEstate of Myra Walker,deceased, by the Chan-cery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, onthe 15 day of Septem-ber, 2017. This is togive notice to all per-sons having claimsagainst said estate toProbate and Registersame with the Chan-cery Clerk of LowndesCounty, Mississippi,within ninety (90) daysfrom the date of firstpublication of this No-tice. A failure to so Pro-bate and Register saidclaim will forever bar thesame.

THIS the 15 day ofSeptember, 2017.

/s/ LaDean SuberLaDean Suber

OF COUNSEL:

William F. Gillis (MSB4854)Crowell Gillis & Cooper,PLLCPost Office Box 1827Columbus, MS 39703PHONE: (662) 243-7329FAX: (662) 328-6890wgillis@cgclawpllc.com

PUBLISH: 9/19, 9/26,& 10/3/2017

NOTICE OF RESOLU-TION OF INTENT

The members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority"),took up for considera-tion the matter of thesale and issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authorityand, after a discussionof the subject matter,the following resolutionwas presented for con-sideration:

RESOLUTION DECLAR-ING THE INTENTION OFTHE LOWNDES COUNTYINDUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY TO IS-SUE TAXABLE NEGOTI-ABLE REVENUE NOTESAND/OR REVENUEBONDS IN A TOTALPRINCIPAL AMOUNT OFNOT TO EXCEED TENMILLION SIX HUNDREDSEVENTY-THREE THOU-SAND DOLLARS($10,673,000) FOR THEPURPOSE OF PROVID-ING FUNDS FOR THECONSTRUCTION ANDEXPANSION OF THE EX-ISTING WASTEWATERTREATMENT FACILITYWHICH IS OWNED ANDOPERATED BY THE AU-THORITY; DIRECTINGTHE PUBLICATION OF ANOTICE OF SUCH INTEN-TION AND FOR RE-LATED PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe provisions of Sec-tions 57-31-1 et seq.,Mississippi Code of1972, as amended andsupplemented fromtime to time (the "Act"),the Board of Super-visors of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"Board"), acting for andon behalf of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"County"), heretoforeestablished theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority")for the purpose of pro-moting industrial andeconomic developmentin the County; and

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe Act, the Authority,acting by and throughits members (the "Gov-erning Body"), is author-ized to issue negotiablerevenue notes and/orbonds of the Authorityfor the purposes setforth in the Act, includ-ing the acquisition andconstruction or contract-ing for the constructionof water, sewerage andother related facilitiesnecessary or requiredfor industrial use anddevelopment within theCounty and to acquire,purchase, install, con-struct, own, hold, equip,control, maintain, use,operate, and repair oth-er structures and facilit-ies necessary and con-venient for the planning,development, use, oper-ation and maintenancewithin the County for in-dustrial or commercialpurposes, including, butnot limited to, utility in-stallations; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity owns and operates acombined water andsewer system (the "Sys-tem"); and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body does herebyfind and determine thatit is necessary andproper to upgrade andexpand the Authority'sexisting wastewatertreatment facility whichis a part of the System,including, but not lim-ited to, site improve-ments, access and con-trol improvements, theconstruction and im-provement of facilitiesand the installation andupgrade of equipmentfor industrial use anddevelopment, all to pro-mote economic develop-ment in the County asauthorized by the Act(the "Project"); and

WHEREAS, the Projectis to be constructedsubstantially in accord-ance with plans andspecifications preparedby engineers employedby the Authority and ap-proved by the Govern-ing Body; and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body has caused anestimate to be made ofthe cost of the Projectby such engineers andfrom those estimatesthe Governing Bodyfinds that the contem-plated costs of theProject to be financedwith revenue notesand/or revenue bondsof the Authority will notexceed Ten Million SixHundred Seventy-ThreeThousand Dollars($10,673,000); and

WHERAS, additionalcosts of the Project willbe paid with a grantfrom the United StatesDepartment of Agricul-ture, Rural Develop-ment (the "Grant"); andWHEREAS, the Projectis in accordance withthe provisions of theAct; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized pursu-ant to the Act to providefunding for the Projectthrough the issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authoritywhich obligations will besecured by a pledge ofthe revenues of the Sys-tem, subject to the pri-or payment of the reas-onable and necessaryexpenses of operatingand maintaining theSystem; and

WHEREAS, said reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds shall be is-sued on a parity withbonds previously is-sued by the Authority inconnection with the fin-ancing of the System;and

WHEREAS, the amountof the such negotiablerevenue notes and/orrevenue bonds, togeth-er with the Grant, willnot exceed the estim-ated cost of the Projectto be financed with suchnotes or bonds of theAuthority; and

WHEREAS, it is neces-sary for the health andwell-being of the cit-izens of the County andwould be in the best in-terest of the County forthe Authority to issuenegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds pursuant to theAct to provide fundingfor the Project; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized and em-powered by the Act toissue negotiable reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds for the pur-poses as hereinafterset forth and there areno other available fundson hand or availablefrom regular sources ofincome for such pur-poses.

NOW, THEREFORE, BEIT RESOLVED BY THELOWNDES COUNTY IN-DUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY, ACT-ING BY AND THROUGHITS MEMBERS, AS FOL-LOWS:

SECTION 1. Pursuant tothe Act, the GoverningBody, acting for and onbehalf of the Authority,hereby declares its in-tention to issue and sellnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authority inthe principal amount ofnot to exceed Ten Mil-lion Six Hundred Sev-enty-Three ThousandDollars ($10,673,000)(the "Obligations").

SECTION 2. The Obliga-tions are to be issued inone or more series forthe purpose of provid-ing financing for theProject as authorized bythe Act, and the pay-ment of certain costs in-cident to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions.

SECTION 3. The Obliga-tions are to be issuedpursuant to the Act andthis and subsequentresolutions of the Gov-erning Body and will belimited obligations ofthe Authority payable asto principal and interestout of and secured by apledge of the revenuesof the System, subjectto the prior payment ofthe reasonable and ne-cessary expenses of op-erating and maintainingthe System. The Obliga-tions will not constitutegeneral obligations ofthe County and neitherthe full faith and creditof the County nor thefull faith or credit of theState of Mississippi orany political subdivisionthereof will be pledgedto the payment of theObligations.

SECTION 4. The Govern-ing Body proposes todirect the issuance ofthe Obligations in theamount and for the pur-poses and secured asaforesaid at a meetingof the Governing Bodyto be held at its usualmeeting place locatedat 1102 Main Street inthe City of Columbus,Mississippi, at the hourof 7:30 o'clock a.m. onSeptember 27, 2017,or at some meeting ormeetings subsequentthereto; provided,however, that if twentyper cent (20%), or fif-teen hundred (1500),whichever is less, of thequalified electors of theCounty shall file a writ-ten protest with theSecretary of the Govern-ing Body (the "Secret-ary") against the issu-ance of the Obligationson or before the afore-said date and hour,then the Obligationsshall not be issued un-less approved at anelection on the ques-tion thereof called andheld as is provided bylaw; provided, furtherthat if no protest isfiled, then the Obliga-tions may be issuedand sold, from time totime, without an elec-tion on the question ofthe issuance thereof atany time within a peri-od of two (2) years afterSeptember 27, 2017.

SECTION 5. This resolu-tion shall be publishedonce a week for at leastthree (3) consecutiveweeks in the Commer-cial Dispatch, a newspa-per published in andhaving a general circula-tion in the County andqualified under the pro-visions of the laws ofthe State of Missis-sippi, the first publica-tion of this resolutionshall be made not lessthan twenty-one (21)days prior to the dateset forth in Section 4above and the last pub-lication of this resolu-tion shall be within sev-en (7) days of suchdate.

SECTION 6. The Secret-ary is hereby directed toprocure from the pub-lisher of the aforesaidnewspaper the custom-ary proof of publicationof this resolution andhave the same beforethe Governing Body onthe day and hour herein-above specified.

SECTION 7. Pursuant tothe Act, the Board ishereby requested toconsent to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions and, to that end,the Secretary of the Au-thority is hereby author-ized and directed to for-ward a certified copy ofthis resolution to theBoard for its considera-tion.

SECTION 8. If any oneor more of the provi-sions of this resolutionshall for any reason beheld to be illegal or in-valid, such illegality orinvalidity shall not af-fect any of the otherprovisions of this resol-ution, but this resolu-tion shall be construedand enforced as if suchillegal or invalid provi-sion or provisions hadnot been containedherein.

Upon motion duly madeand seconded, the fore-going resolution was ad-opted by a majority ofthe members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority present, being aquorum thereof, and thePresident declared themotion carried and theresolution adopted the31st day of August,2017.

PUBLISH: 9/5, 9/12,9/19/ & 9/26/17

Legal Notices 0010

NOTICE OF RESOLU-TION OF INTENT

The members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority"),took up for considera-tion the matter of thesale and issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authorityand, after a discussionof the subject matter,the following resolutionwas presented for con-sideration:

RESOLUTION DECLAR-ING THE INTENTION OFTHE LOWNDES COUNTYINDUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY TO IS-SUE TAXABLE NEGOTI-ABLE REVENUE NOTESAND/OR REVENUEBONDS IN A TOTALPRINCIPAL AMOUNT OFNOT TO EXCEED TENMILLION SIX HUNDREDSEVENTY-THREE THOU-SAND DOLLARS($10,673,000) FOR THEPURPOSE OF PROVID-ING FUNDS FOR THECONSTRUCTION ANDEXPANSION OF THE EX-ISTING WASTEWATERTREATMENT FACILITYWHICH IS OWNED ANDOPERATED BY THE AU-THORITY; DIRECTINGTHE PUBLICATION OF ANOTICE OF SUCH INTEN-TION AND FOR RE-LATED PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe provisions of Sec-tions 57-31-1 et seq.,Mississippi Code of1972, as amended andsupplemented fromtime to time (the "Act"),the Board of Super-visors of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"Board"), acting for andon behalf of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"County"), heretoforeestablished theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority")for the purpose of pro-moting industrial andeconomic developmentin the County; and

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe Act, the Authority,acting by and throughits members (the "Gov-erning Body"), is author-ized to issue negotiablerevenue notes and/orbonds of the Authorityfor the purposes setforth in the Act, includ-ing the acquisition andconstruction or contract-ing for the constructionof water, sewerage andother related facilitiesnecessary or requiredfor industrial use anddevelopment within theCounty and to acquire,purchase, install, con-struct, own, hold, equip,control, maintain, use,operate, and repair oth-er structures and facilit-ies necessary and con-venient for the planning,development, use, oper-ation and maintenancewithin the County for in-dustrial or commercialpurposes, including, butnot limited to, utility in-stallations; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity owns and operates acombined water andsewer system (the "Sys-tem"); and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body does herebyfind and determine thatit is necessary andproper to upgrade andexpand the Authority'sexisting wastewatertreatment facility whichis a part of the System,including, but not lim-ited to, site improve-ments, access and con-trol improvements, theconstruction and im-provement of facilitiesand the installation andupgrade of equipmentfor industrial use anddevelopment, all to pro-mote economic develop-ment in the County asauthorized by the Act(the "Project"); and

WHEREAS, the Projectis to be constructedsubstantially in accord-ance with plans andspecifications preparedby engineers employedby the Authority and ap-proved by the Govern-ing Body; and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body has caused anestimate to be made ofthe cost of the Projectby such engineers andfrom those estimatesthe Governing Bodyfinds that the contem-plated costs of theProject to be financedwith revenue notesand/or revenue bondsof the Authority will notexceed Ten Million SixHundred Seventy-ThreeThousand Dollars($10,673,000); and

WHERAS, additionalcosts of the Project willbe paid with a grantfrom the United StatesDepartment of Agricul-ture, Rural Develop-ment (the "Grant"); andWHEREAS, the Projectis in accordance withthe provisions of theAct; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized pursu-ant to the Act to providefunding for the Projectthrough the issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authoritywhich obligations will besecured by a pledge ofthe revenues of the Sys-tem, subject to the pri-or payment of the reas-onable and necessaryexpenses of operatingand maintaining theSystem; and

WHEREAS, said reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds shall be is-sued on a parity withbonds previously is-sued by the Authority inconnection with the fin-ancing of the System;and

WHEREAS, the amountof the such negotiablerevenue notes and/orrevenue bonds, togeth-er with the Grant, willnot exceed the estim-ated cost of the Projectto be financed with suchnotes or bonds of theAuthority; and

WHEREAS, it is neces-sary for the health andwell-being of the cit-izens of the County andwould be in the best in-terest of the County forthe Authority to issuenegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds pursuant to theAct to provide fundingfor the Project; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized and em-powered by the Act toissue negotiable reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds for the pur-poses as hereinafterset forth and there areno other available fundson hand or availablefrom regular sources ofincome for such pur-poses.

NOW, THEREFORE, BEIT RESOLVED BY THELOWNDES COUNTY IN-DUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY, ACT-ING BY AND THROUGHITS MEMBERS, AS FOL-LOWS:

SECTION 1. Pursuant tothe Act, the GoverningBody, acting for and onbehalf of the Authority,hereby declares its in-tention to issue and sellnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authority inthe principal amount ofnot to exceed Ten Mil-lion Six Hundred Sev-enty-Three ThousandDollars ($10,673,000)(the "Obligations").

SECTION 2. The Obliga-tions are to be issued inone or more series forthe purpose of provid-ing financing for theProject as authorized bythe Act, and the pay-ment of certain costs in-cident to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions.

SECTION 3. The Obliga-tions are to be issuedpursuant to the Act andthis and subsequentresolutions of the Gov-erning Body and will belimited obligations ofthe Authority payable asto principal and interestout of and secured by apledge of the revenuesof the System, subjectto the prior payment ofthe reasonable and ne-cessary expenses of op-erating and maintainingthe System. The Obliga-tions will not constitutegeneral obligations ofthe County and neitherthe full faith and creditof the County nor thefull faith or credit of theState of Mississippi orany political subdivisionthereof will be pledgedto the payment of theObligations.

SECTION 4. The Govern-ing Body proposes todirect the issuance ofthe Obligations in theamount and for the pur-poses and secured asaforesaid at a meetingof the Governing Bodyto be held at its usualmeeting place locatedat 1102 Main Street inthe City of Columbus,Mississippi, at the hourof 7:30 o'clock a.m. onSeptember 27, 2017,or at some meeting ormeetings subsequentthereto; provided,however, that if twentyper cent (20%), or fif-teen hundred (1500),whichever is less, of thequalified electors of theCounty shall file a writ-ten protest with theSecretary of the Govern-ing Body (the "Secret-ary") against the issu-ance of the Obligationson or before the afore-said date and hour,then the Obligationsshall not be issued un-less approved at anelection on the ques-tion thereof called andheld as is provided bylaw; provided, furtherthat if no protest isfiled, then the Obliga-tions may be issuedand sold, from time totime, without an elec-tion on the question ofthe issuance thereof atany time within a peri-od of two (2) years afterSeptember 27, 2017.

SECTION 5. This resolu-tion shall be publishedonce a week for at leastthree (3) consecutiveweeks in the Commer-cial Dispatch, a newspa-per published in andhaving a general circula-tion in the County andqualified under the pro-visions of the laws ofthe State of Missis-sippi, the first publica-tion of this resolutionshall be made not lessthan twenty-one (21)days prior to the dateset forth in Section 4above and the last pub-lication of this resolu-tion shall be within sev-en (7) days of suchdate.

SECTION 6. The Secret-ary is hereby directed toprocure from the pub-lisher of the aforesaidnewspaper the custom-ary proof of publicationof this resolution andhave the same beforethe Governing Body onthe day and hour herein-above specified.

SECTION 7. Pursuant tothe Act, the Board ishereby requested toconsent to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions and, to that end,the Secretary of the Au-thority is hereby author-ized and directed to for-ward a certified copy ofthis resolution to theBoard for its considera-tion.

SECTION 8. If any oneor more of the provi-sions of this resolutionshall for any reason beheld to be illegal or in-valid, such illegality orinvalidity shall not af-fect any of the otherprovisions of this resol-ution, but this resolu-tion shall be construedand enforced as if suchillegal or invalid provi-sion or provisions hadnot been containedherein.

Upon motion duly madeand seconded, the fore-going resolution was ad-opted by a majority ofthe members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority present, being aquorum thereof, and thePresident declared themotion carried and theresolution adopted the31st day of August,2017.

PUBLISH: 9/5, 9/12,9/19/ & 9/26/17

Legal Notices 0010

NOTICE OF RESOLU-TION OF INTENT

The members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority"),took up for considera-tion the matter of thesale and issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authorityand, after a discussionof the subject matter,the following resolutionwas presented for con-sideration:

RESOLUTION DECLAR-ING THE INTENTION OFTHE LOWNDES COUNTYINDUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY TO IS-SUE TAXABLE NEGOTI-ABLE REVENUE NOTESAND/OR REVENUEBONDS IN A TOTALPRINCIPAL AMOUNT OFNOT TO EXCEED TENMILLION SIX HUNDREDSEVENTY-THREE THOU-SAND DOLLARS($10,673,000) FOR THEPURPOSE OF PROVID-ING FUNDS FOR THECONSTRUCTION ANDEXPANSION OF THE EX-ISTING WASTEWATERTREATMENT FACILITYWHICH IS OWNED ANDOPERATED BY THE AU-THORITY; DIRECTINGTHE PUBLICATION OF ANOTICE OF SUCH INTEN-TION AND FOR RE-LATED PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe provisions of Sec-tions 57-31-1 et seq.,Mississippi Code of1972, as amended andsupplemented fromtime to time (the "Act"),the Board of Super-visors of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"Board"), acting for andon behalf of LowndesCounty, Mississippi (the"County"), heretoforeestablished theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority (the "Authority")for the purpose of pro-moting industrial andeconomic developmentin the County; and

WHEREAS, pursuant tothe Act, the Authority,acting by and throughits members (the "Gov-erning Body"), is author-ized to issue negotiablerevenue notes and/orbonds of the Authorityfor the purposes setforth in the Act, includ-ing the acquisition andconstruction or contract-ing for the constructionof water, sewerage andother related facilitiesnecessary or requiredfor industrial use anddevelopment within theCounty and to acquire,purchase, install, con-struct, own, hold, equip,control, maintain, use,operate, and repair oth-er structures and facilit-ies necessary and con-venient for the planning,development, use, oper-ation and maintenancewithin the County for in-dustrial or commercialpurposes, including, butnot limited to, utility in-stallations; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity owns and operates acombined water andsewer system (the "Sys-tem"); and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body does herebyfind and determine thatit is necessary andproper to upgrade andexpand the Authority'sexisting wastewatertreatment facility whichis a part of the System,including, but not lim-ited to, site improve-ments, access and con-trol improvements, theconstruction and im-provement of facilitiesand the installation andupgrade of equipmentfor industrial use anddevelopment, all to pro-mote economic develop-ment in the County asauthorized by the Act(the "Project"); and

WHEREAS, the Projectis to be constructedsubstantially in accord-ance with plans andspecifications preparedby engineers employedby the Authority and ap-proved by the Govern-ing Body; and

WHEREAS, the Govern-ing Body has caused anestimate to be made ofthe cost of the Projectby such engineers andfrom those estimatesthe Governing Bodyfinds that the contem-plated costs of theProject to be financedwith revenue notesand/or revenue bondsof the Authority will notexceed Ten Million SixHundred Seventy-ThreeThousand Dollars($10,673,000); and

WHERAS, additionalcosts of the Project willbe paid with a grantfrom the United StatesDepartment of Agricul-ture, Rural Develop-ment (the "Grant"); andWHEREAS, the Projectis in accordance withthe provisions of theAct; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized pursu-ant to the Act to providefunding for the Projectthrough the issuance ofnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authoritywhich obligations will besecured by a pledge ofthe revenues of the Sys-tem, subject to the pri-or payment of the reas-onable and necessaryexpenses of operatingand maintaining theSystem; and

WHEREAS, said reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds shall be is-sued on a parity withbonds previously is-sued by the Authority inconnection with the fin-ancing of the System;and

WHEREAS, the amountof the such negotiablerevenue notes and/orrevenue bonds, togeth-er with the Grant, willnot exceed the estim-ated cost of the Projectto be financed with suchnotes or bonds of theAuthority; and

WHEREAS, it is neces-sary for the health andwell-being of the cit-izens of the County andwould be in the best in-terest of the County forthe Authority to issuenegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds pursuant to theAct to provide fundingfor the Project; and

WHEREAS, the Author-ity is authorized and em-powered by the Act toissue negotiable reven-ue notes and/or reven-ue bonds for the pur-poses as hereinafterset forth and there areno other available fundson hand or availablefrom regular sources ofincome for such pur-poses.

NOW, THEREFORE, BEIT RESOLVED BY THELOWNDES COUNTY IN-DUSTRIAL DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITY, ACT-ING BY AND THROUGHITS MEMBERS, AS FOL-LOWS:

SECTION 1. Pursuant tothe Act, the GoverningBody, acting for and onbehalf of the Authority,hereby declares its in-tention to issue and sellnegotiable revenuenotes and/or revenuebonds of the Authority inthe principal amount ofnot to exceed Ten Mil-lion Six Hundred Sev-enty-Three ThousandDollars ($10,673,000)(the "Obligations").

SECTION 2. The Obliga-tions are to be issued inone or more series forthe purpose of provid-ing financing for theProject as authorized bythe Act, and the pay-ment of certain costs in-cident to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions.

SECTION 3. The Obliga-tions are to be issuedpursuant to the Act andthis and subsequentresolutions of the Gov-erning Body and will belimited obligations ofthe Authority payable asto principal and interestout of and secured by apledge of the revenuesof the System, subjectto the prior payment ofthe reasonable and ne-cessary expenses of op-erating and maintainingthe System. The Obliga-tions will not constitutegeneral obligations ofthe County and neitherthe full faith and creditof the County nor thefull faith or credit of theState of Mississippi orany political subdivisionthereof will be pledgedto the payment of theObligations.

SECTION 4. The Govern-ing Body proposes todirect the issuance ofthe Obligations in theamount and for the pur-poses and secured asaforesaid at a meetingof the Governing Bodyto be held at its usualmeeting place locatedat 1102 Main Street inthe City of Columbus,Mississippi, at the hourof 7:30 o'clock a.m. onSeptember 27, 2017,or at some meeting ormeetings subsequentthereto; provided,however, that if twentyper cent (20%), or fif-teen hundred (1500),whichever is less, of thequalified electors of theCounty shall file a writ-ten protest with theSecretary of the Govern-ing Body (the "Secret-ary") against the issu-ance of the Obligationson or before the afore-said date and hour,then the Obligationsshall not be issued un-less approved at anelection on the ques-tion thereof called andheld as is provided bylaw; provided, furtherthat if no protest isfiled, then the Obliga-tions may be issuedand sold, from time totime, without an elec-tion on the question ofthe issuance thereof atany time within a peri-od of two (2) years afterSeptember 27, 2017.

SECTION 5. This resolu-tion shall be publishedonce a week for at leastthree (3) consecutiveweeks in the Commer-cial Dispatch, a newspa-per published in andhaving a general circula-tion in the County andqualified under the pro-visions of the laws ofthe State of Missis-sippi, the first publica-tion of this resolutionshall be made not lessthan twenty-one (21)days prior to the dateset forth in Section 4above and the last pub-lication of this resolu-tion shall be within sev-en (7) days of suchdate.

SECTION 6. The Secret-ary is hereby directed toprocure from the pub-lisher of the aforesaidnewspaper the custom-ary proof of publicationof this resolution andhave the same beforethe Governing Body onthe day and hour herein-above specified.

SECTION 7. Pursuant tothe Act, the Board ishereby requested toconsent to the sale andissuance of the Obliga-tions and, to that end,the Secretary of the Au-thority is hereby author-ized and directed to for-ward a certified copy ofthis resolution to theBoard for its considera-tion.

SECTION 8. If any oneor more of the provi-sions of this resolutionshall for any reason beheld to be illegal or in-valid, such illegality orinvalidity shall not af-fect any of the otherprovisions of this resol-ution, but this resolu-tion shall be construedand enforced as if suchillegal or invalid provi-sion or provisions hadnot been containedherein.

Upon motion duly madeand seconded, the fore-going resolution was ad-opted by a majority ofthe members of theLowndes County Indus-trial Development Au-thority present, being aquorum thereof, and thePresident declared themotion carried and theresolution adopted the31st day of August,2017.

PUBLISH: 9/5, 9/12,9/19/ & 9/26/17

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PROFESSIONAL FIRMseeks FT candidate w/bookkeeping, payroll ex-perience. Accounting de-gree preferred, Quick-Books & payroll expert-ise & ability to work wellw/ a variety of people.Send resume to:Blind Box 642, c/o TheCommercial Dispatch,PO Box 511, Columbus,MS 39705.

NEED ROUNDED PER-SON who will have vari-ous duties, including:maintenance, cleaning& sales. Candidateshould have good mech-anical skills as well asgeneral knowledge ofelectronics. Send re-sume to Blind Box 641,c/o The CommercialDispatch, PO Box 516,Columbus, MS 39703.

The Columbus ArtsCouncil is looking for apart-time Office Man-ager. To apply, pleaseemail a Cover Letter,Resume, & Referencesto lynn.columbusarts@gmail.com.columbus-arts.org/jobs.

The Commercial Dis-patch is seeking a fulltime sales rep for an es-tablished territory inColumbus. Our salesreps spend most oftheir time calling onarea businesses andworking with those busi-nesses to develop ef-fective marketing cam-paigns. We sell newspa-per print, magazine printand online advertising.

The ideal candidate iscompetitive, self-motiv-ated and likes to have agood laugh.

Compensation includesa base wage plus com-mission. Bonus com-missions are awardedmonthly when goals areexceeded. Health insur-ance and other bene-fits are available.

Sales experience is pre-ferred but not required.A drive to be success-ful is required though.Email cover letters andresumes tobproffitt@cdispatch.com

Medical / Dental 3300

OUR CARINGSTAFF MAKES

THE DIFFERENCE.Carrington NursingCenter is seeking

a fabulousRN Supervisor

for our second shift.This is a FT position

with competitivecompensation and

benefits.We are also

seeking prn RNs forweekends.

662-323-2202Call and discover your

next great career move!FULL TIME RN neededfor busy medical office.Applicant must have ex-cellent computer skills.Must be able to work ina fast paced environ-ment. Serious inquiriesplease send resume to:Blind Box 640 c/oCommercial DispatchPO Box 511Columbus, MS 39703

Sales / Marketing 3600

THE COMMERCIALDISPATCH is in searchof an excellent newspa-per subscription sales-person to work the Mon-roe County area. Mustbe able to sell door-to-door, KIOSK & work in-dependently. Must beable to pass drugscreen if hired. Formore information applyto The Commercial Dis-patch at 516 MainStreet in Columbus,MS. No phone calls ac-cepted.

Trades 3650

HVAC TECHNICIANSwanted. STAR SERVICE,INC. of JACKSON is tak-ing applications for em-ployment in the COLUM-BUS/STARKVILLE area.Exc. bnfts/income. Forconfidential considera-tion, call or forward re-sume to: Stan Rasberry,STAR SERVICE, INC.P.O. Box 720339,Byram, MS 39272.Phone: 1-800-478-0486; Fax: 601-373-0459. Email: stanrasberry@starservicems.comwww.star-service.com

Truck Driving 3700

OTR DRIVERSAMORY, MS

Hub Miles Pay. HomeDuring the Week &

Every Weekend. Class ALicense. Three YearsVerifiable Experience

Required.662-257-0605

General Merchandise 4600

OFFICE CHAIRS (exccondition), large officedesk, entertainmentcenter and MEDICALEQUIPMENT for sale.662-889-5053

PRONTO M41 PowerWheel Chair w/ brandnew batteries, extra set& charger. Less than 3yrs. old & less than 5hrs. run time for $1200obo. 662-574-2025.

Sporting Goods 4720

GUN SMITH. Over 50yrs. exp. (As good asthe best, better thanmost). New & usedguns, new scopes, re-pairs, rebuilding, clean-ing & scopes, mounted& zeroed on range, an-tique guns restored, &wood refinished. EdSanders, West Point.Take 45 Alt. Turn righton Yokohoma Blvd. Go8 mi. east & turn left onDarracott Rd & go 2 mi.Open Tue-Fri. 9a-5p &Sat. 9a-12p. Call forappt. 662-494-6218.

Apts For Rent: Northside 7010

2BR, FULLY furnishedapt. W&D, lights & wa-ter incl. No pets or chil-dren, two people max.$200/wk. Minimumlease, 2 mos or more.Weathers Rentals, Open8-4, M-F. 662-327-5133

1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-ments & townhouses.Call for more info. 662-549-1953.

Apts For Rent: South 7040

1BR/1BA & an Effi-ciency Apt availablenow. Pet friendly, W&Din each unit. 6 blocksfrom MUW. $600/$550per mo respectively.662-574-8010.

Apts For Rent: West 7050

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

1BR/1BA Historic Down-town Columbus.$650/mo.662-328-8655

Studio1 & 2 Bedroom

Apartments

2 Bedroom Townhousesand Furnished Units

Available

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2BR/3BA Apt. in Histor-ic Downtown.$1,200/mo.662-328-8655

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

4BR/1.5BA Apts.$425/mo. Oak Manor901 11th St. S.662-630-5097.

LOFT APARTMENT inHistoric DowntownColumbus on 5th St.$1200/mo + $1000dep. Refs req'd. 1,309sqft. Hard wood floors,brick walls, walk incloset, all appl & wash-er/dryer incl. All utilit-ies incl, except cable.Semi furnished. NoPets. No Smoking.Serious inquires only.Contact 205-712-6034.

NEWLY RENOVATED 3-4BR/2BA. Larg back-yard, HUD accepted du-plex apartment at 1008& 1010 6th Ave. N.662-425-0332.

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apart-ments & Townhouses.1BR/1BA Apt. $3352BR/1BA Apt. $410-$460. 2BR/2BA 3BR/2BA Townhouses$550-$800. No HUD al-lowed. Lease, deposit,credit check required.Coleman Realty. 329-2323

Commercial Property For Rent 7100

GREAT BLUECUTT Roadlocation - office building:front reception area, 4offices, and a confer-ence room. Reasonablerent!Call 662-328-1976,leave message.

RESTAURANT SPACEavailable in historicdowntown. 3000 SQ FTin front, 1800 SQ FT inrear. 574-7879 or 328-8655

Houses For Rent: Northside 7110

$475/MO + $475 dep.2BR/1BA. Carport,stove, fridge, w/d hook-up. Lease & creditcheck. HUD approved.Coleman Realty 662-329-2323.

2BR/1.5BA Townhouse,2 story, brick. 3102 Si-erra Ct. All appliancesincluded. Very nice.$675/mo + dep. 662-315-1930

3BR/1BA, 1424 School-house Ave. $550/mo +$300 deposit.662-889-1122

508 19TH Street North-Brick, 4 bed, 2 baths,Central H&A, appli-ances, carpet/tile.$800/mo. Excellent ref-erences only. No pets.Call Long & Long,662-328-0770.

COLONIAL TOWN-HOUSES. 2 & 3 bed-room w/ 2-3 bath town-houses. $600/$750.662-549-9555. Ask forGlenn or lv. message.

JESS LYONS Road, 4BRhouse for $1200/mo.Newly renovated, sur-rounded by 15 acres,next to newly stockedfishing ponds. Caledo-nia schools. Call 662-327-0903, ext 35 toschedule appointment.

605 PLAIN St. One per-son house. $600/mo.All appl. furnished. Niceneighborhood. No pets.No HUD. No smoking.662-328-4719.

Houses For Rent: East 7120

4BR/2.5BA 8037 Hwy12 E. in Steens. Caledo-nia School District.$900/mo. plus $900dep. Avail. 10/1. Call662-549-9025 or 662-549-9024.

Houses For Rent: East 7120

4BR/2BA. $850/mo +$850 dep. No pets. NoHUD. 662-386-7090 or662-242-0780.

Houses For Rent: New Hope 7130

3BR/1BA Doyle Estate.41 Ronnie Cove. Ceram-ic tile throughout house& a large fenced in yard.No pets. $775/$775first & last month is re-quired plus $500 de-posit. 662-245-1191 or662-549-9298.

Houses For Rent: Caledonia 7160

3BR/2BA. Newly re-modeled. CaledoniaSchools. $900/mo. +$900/deposit. NOPETS. Avail. Sept. 15.622-251-1458

Houses For Rent: Starkville 7170

111 NATHAN Hale Dr.Starkville, MS 39759.Green Oaks area.3BR/2BA. AvailableSept. 1. $925 per mo.770-714-5957.

Houses For Rent: Other 7180

3BR/1.5BA, nice, coun-try home available inBrooksville $575/mo.Great for starting a fam-ily or settling into retire-ment. View by appoint-ment only.Call 303.549.8359.

Land For Rent / Lease 7190

QUIET, SAFE mobilehome park in great NewHope location. Lots onlyavailable for lease:$160 SW and $180DBLW. Convenient tostore, pharm., churchesand YMCA. Lease, dep.and excellent ref. req.601-310-3528 Pam.

Mobile Homes for Rent 7250

2BR/1BA on West JessLyons Rd. $500/mth &$500 dep. Call 662-295-3262.

RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities &cable from $140/wk -$520/month. 3 Colum-bus locations. 662-242-7653 or 601-940-1397.

Office Spaces For Rent 7300

OFFICE SPACE Avail-able in Historic Down-town Columbus. 420Sq. Ft. 328-8655.

Houses For Sale: Northside 8150

221 4TH St. N. 2400sq. ft. older remodeledhome 4BR/2BA.$85,000. Phil 954-675-9509.

Houses For Sale: East 8200

2BR/1BA house. Elecwall heat. Window AC.Remodeled. Fencedyard. Owner fin. avail.w/Cash down. 1016Shady St. 352-4776

COUNTRY LIVING insidethe city limits! 3 acres,fencing, fruit trees,hardwoods, plus a3BR/2BA updatedhome with many amenit-ies. A must see at a un-believable price. CallBarbara at SFA Realty,662-574-1821.

Houses For Sale: Caledonia 8450

3BR/1BA: For Sale orRent! $725/mo. CH&A,shed, stove, fridge, mi-crowave. Dep & ref req.No HUD. No smoking.662-574-9749.

3BR/2BA in CaledoniaSchool Dist. 56 SheltonDr., Ridgeland Estates.New carpet, newlypainted, appliances,counter tops, 2 car gar-age with new door. Niceneighborhood. Asking$148,900.662-245-1191 or662-549-9298.

Houses For Sale: Other 8500

VERY NICE house forsale. 4BR/2BA, all elec.CH/A. Hardwood floorson 1 acre. $119,900.662-361-7711

Investment Property 8550

3 INVESTMENTopportunities:

Northside 10 unitapt complex: $185k

Eastside 8 unit aptcomplex: $185k

Call 352-4776.

Lots & Acreage 8600

33 ACRES, Lamar Co,AL. Good hunting, tim-ber, nice house spot,road frontage, 6mi fromVernon. $1200/ac. Call205-609-0264.

SUMMER SPECIAL.1.95 acre lots.Good/bad credit. 10%down, as low as$199/mo. Eaton Land.662-361-7711

Auto Access Parts 9050

NEEDED: 06' to 08'Dodge Charger body.Call 662-435-5002.

Autos For Sale 9150

2007 CHEVROLET Trail-blazer LT. 6-cyl. White.68,400 mi. Inside kept,like new. NADA Value:$9,150-will take$6,990. 251-9708 or329-2917

2008 BMW X3. White,low mileage, very nice.Call JP: 205-399-0182

2008 CHEVROLET Ava-lanche LTZ. Silver, blackinterior. Dealer-driven.Call JP: 205-399-0182

P&R SCRAPnow sells used

auto parts! Call 662-435-1000 or come by11174 Highway 45North for more info!

Campers & RVs 9300

TOMBIGBEE RV Park,located on Wilkins WiseRd & Waverly Rd. FullHookups avail.$300/mo. 662-328-8655 or 662-574-7879.

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