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consider Davenport brings passion for unity, spiritual
allowing food- growth to church leadership, community activism
less brewpubs
citywide
New draft of ordinance
change expands
beyond Leisure and
Entertainment District
BY ZACK PLAIR
zplair@cdispatch.com

Starkville alder-
men have reset the
public hearing pro-
cess on whether to
exempt brewpubs
that make and sell
craft beer and wine
on-site from food sale
Spruill
requirements.
If passed, the new change would
apply citywide, not just in the Lei-
sure and Entertainment District
that includes downtown and the Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Cotton District. Le’Roy Davenport plays piano at Sixteenth Section Missionary Baptist Church, where he is the pastor, on Satur-
Aldermen held an initial hearing day. His grandmother taught him piano while he was growing up in the Delta. In addition to music, Davenport is
Jan. 19 on whether to exempt brew- passionate about bringing people together and fostering spiritual development, as shown not only in his church
pubs in the city’s Leisure and Enter- leadership but also in his work at Mississippi State University’s Holmes Cultural Diversity Center and with a group
tainment District from a city ordi- of local pastors seeking to establish mentorship programs for at-risk youth in Starkville.
nance requiring any establishment
serving alcoholic beverages to have
food account for at least 25 percent
‘I believe that it’s OK to be different as long Missionary Baptist Church north
of Starkville while working on his
of its gross sales. The board was set
for a second hearing on that change as we know how to come together to do bachelor’s degree at Mississippi
State University.
Tuesday, followed by a vote. But in a “I didn’t have my driver’s license
work session Friday, aldermen de- meaningful work in the community’ yet, so my mom and grandma fer-
cided to deem Tuesday’s hearing a ried me everywhere I needed to go
BY TESS VRBIN piano, starting at the age of 6, while
“first hearing” on a new draft, since (before college),” Davenport said.
tvrbin@cdispatch.com he was growing up in Greenwood.
the amendment had “substantially After completing a business

changed” from its first version.
That pushes the second hearing
to Feb. 16, the earliest the board
will consider a vote on the change.
As a custom, aldermen hold two
hearings for any proposed ordi-
nance change.
The crux of the change would
simply apply state law to what con-
stitutes a brewpub and what those
businesses can do. Starkville’s cur-
rent ordinance mandates that any
establishment selling alcohol also
See ALDERMEN, 6A
B
arbara Williams put all 10 of
her children and several of
her grandchildren through
music school. They all learned to
play piano, but none of them were
truly passionate about it.
But one grandson, Le’Roy
Davenport, turned out to be “the
one” with both the talent and the
passion for music, he said. So his
grandmother taught him to play
“Her father was a pastor, and I
never met him, but I think she saw
a lot of him in me,” said Davenport,
now 31 and the pastor of Six-
teenth Section Missionary Baptist
Church, which has four choirs.
He was a full-time musician for
a local church in Greenwood from
the age of 12 until high school
graduation, and he was minister
of music at Sand Creek Chapel
degree at MSU in 2013, Davenport
went to seminary school and then
returned to Starkville in 2016. He
spent about two years working on
grant-funded racial equity initia-
tives at MSU, and in the process,
he launched MSU Thrive, which
helps students that grew up in the
foster care system adjust to college
and get the resources they need.
See DAVENPORT, 3A

Soil and Water Conservation District to Third candidate

distribute trees, encourage planting running for West
Community members can pick up Point mayor
saplings this week; area third graders Former Ward 1
to receive saplings later this month selectwoman seeks to
BY SLIM SMITH ers throughout the county.
ssmith@cdispatch.com On Thursday, beginning regain her former seat
at 8:30 a.m., the LCSWCD BY TESS VRBIN
Joyce Kilmer’s most fa-
will distribute 60 bundles tvrbin@cdispatch.com
mous poem, “Trees” ends
of pine and hardwood
with couplet:
seedlings free of charge A third candidate
“Poems are made by
fools like me, on a first-come, first-serve has entered the race
But only God can make basis before distributing to succeed outgoing
a tree.” 500 pine seedlings during West Point Mayor
The Lowndes County the week of Feb. 15-19 to Robbie Robinson,
Soil and Water Conser- schools across the county. Courtesy photo/LCSWCD who announced in
“This is something Members of the Lowndes Master Gardeners help sort, color January that he will
vation District won’t be code and bundle seedlings as part of the Lowndes County Soil
making any trees, but are we’ve been doing for years and Water Conservation District’s annual tree giveaway program.
retire instead of run Harper
making them available this and years,” said Lori Chi- The bundles include five pine and hardwood seedlings and are for a third term.
week to the public at large asson, LCSWCD’s district available Thursday at 8:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served Jennifer Renee Harper qualified
and Feb. 15 to third-grad- See TREE GIVEAWAY, 3A basis at the district office at 2282 MLK Jr. Drive in Columbus. See WEST POINT, 6A

INSIDE FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC

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Thursday MEETINGS
Comics 4B by what famous artist sold at Feb. 2: Starkville
Crossword 6B auction for $54 million? ■ Tree giveaway: The Lown-
Dear Abby 4B 2 Which of these saltwater des County Soil and Water Board of Alder-
Obituaries 5A species is not endangering the Conservation District hosts a men, 5:30 p.m.,
Opinions 4A ecosystems of U.S. waters — free tree giveaway from 8:30 municipal court-
lionfish, tiger shrimp or barra- a.m.-4 p.m. while supplies room
cuda? last at 2282 MLK Jr. Dr. One Feb. 9:
3 2012 and 2014 Masters
bundle per person. 662-328- Starkville-Oktibbe-
Tournament winner Gerry Lester
WEATHER Watson Jr. is better known by 5921 (ext. 3). ha Consolidated
what nickname? ■ Lecture series: Missis- School District

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not use the Euro as currency —
Denmark, France, Lithuania or
sippi State’s Institute for
the Humanities opens its
spring lecture series with a
Board of Trustees,
6 p.m., 401
Full forecast on Portugal? Greensboro St.
virtual event, “What are the
page 3A. 5 What reality competition TV March 9:
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show used teams of dating Featuring MSU’s Greggory Starkville-Oktibbe-
couples, including five on “blind ha Consolidated
Twietmeyer and Scott Kretch-
dates,” as contestants in 2014? School District
mar at Pennsylvania State Carrie White, of West Point, is
Answers, 6B University, the talk is 3:30 a holistic counselor at Healthy Board of Trustees,
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Birdie, Caleb Aldridge and Randi Robison stroll down Park Circle in Columbus Tuesday afternoon. “We usually do
a little loop for our lunch break,” Robison said.
Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
Former president has struggled to hire and retain attorneys
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — a sex crimes case.
Former President Donald
Trump announced a new
impeachment legal de-
fense team just one day
after it was revealed that
he had parted ways with
an earlier set of attorneys
with just over a week to go
before his Senate trial.
The two representing
Trump will be defense
lawyer David Schoen, a
frequent television legal
commentator, and Bruce
Castor, a former district
attorney in Pennsylvania
who has faced criticism
LUNCHTIME STROLL
for his decision to not
charge actor Bill Cosby in
Both attorneys is-
sued statements through
Trump’s office on Sunday
saying that they were hon-
ored to take the job.
“The strength of our
Constitution is about to
be tested like never before
in our history. It is strong
and resilient. A document
written for the ages, and
it will triumph over par-
tisanship yet again, and
always,” said Castor, who
served as district attorney
for Montgomery County,
outside of Philadelphia,
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from 2000 to 2008.
The announcement
was intended to promote
a sense of stability sur-
rounding the Trump
defense team as his im-
peachment trial nears.
The former president has
struggled to hire and re-
tain attorneys willing to
represent him against
charges that he incited the
deadly riot at the U.S. Cap-
itol, which happened when
a mob of loyalists stormed
Congress as lawmakers
met Jan. 6 to certify Joe
Biden’s electoral victory.
That’s a contrast from
his first impeachment
Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff
trial, when Trump’s
high-profile team of attor-
neys included Alan Der-
showitz, one of the best-
known criminal defense
lawyers in the country, as
well as White House coun-
sel Pat Cipollone, and Jay
Sekulow, who has argued
cases before the Supreme
Court.
Trump’s team had
initially announced that
Butch Bowers, a South
Carolina lawyer, would
lead his legal team after
an introduction from Re-
publican Sen. Lindsey
Graham. But that team un-
raveled over the weekend
due to differences over le-
gal strategy.
Biden to meet with
GOP lawmakers to
discuss virus relief
10 Republican senators sent
president a letter Sunday urging
him to negotiate rather than try
to ram through his relief package
solely on Democratic votes
BY A AMER MADHANI
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set
to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican
senators who have proposed spending about one-
third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in corona-
virus aid, though congressional Democrats are
poised to move ahead without Republican sup-
port.
An invitation to the White House came hours
after the lawmakers sent Biden a letter Sunday
urging him to negotiate rather than try to ram
through his relief package solely on Democrat-
ic votes. The House and Senate are on track to
vote as soon as this week on a budget resolution,
which would lay the groundwork for passing an
aid package under rules requiring only a simple
majority vote in the closely divided Senate.
The goal is for passage by March, when extra
unemployment assistance and other pandemic
aid expires. The meeting to be hosted by Biden
would amount to the most public involvement
for the president in the negotiations for the next
round of virus relief. Democratic and Republican
lawmakers are far apart in their proposals for as-
sistance.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said
Sunday that Biden had spoken with the leader of
the group, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Though
Biden wants “a full exchange of views,” Psaki reit-
erated that the president remains in favor of mov-
ing forward with a far-reaching relief package.
“With the virus posing a grave threat to the
country, and economic conditions grim for so
many, the need for action is urgent, and the scale
of what must be done is large,” Psaki said.
In challenging Biden to fulfill his pledge of
unity, the group said in its letter that its coun-
terproposal will include $160 billion for vac-
cines, testing, treatment and personal protective
equipment and call for more targeted relief than
Biden’s plan to issue $1,400 stimulus checks for
most Americans.
Winning the support of 10 Republicans would
be significant for Biden in the 50-50 Senate where
Vice President Kamala Harris is the tie-breaker.
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UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

Analysis: Mississippi debates quicker purge of voter rolls

Bill supporters say keeping voter rolls up to
date can be difficult, and poorly kept rolls
can make it challenging for courts to find
enough people for jury duty
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi
residents who skip some elec-
tions would risk being purged
from voter rolls, under bills
being considered at the state
Capitol.
Critics say the proposals
would endanger constitutional
rights in a state where some
older Black residents still re-
member facing violence or eco-
nomic repercussions for regis-
tering to vote.
Supporters of House Bill 4
and Senate Bill 2588 say keep-
ing voter rolls up to date can be
difficult, and poorly kept rolls
can make it challenging for
courts to find enough people
for jury duty.
Under current Mississippi
law, county election commis-
sioners may remove a person’s
name from a voter roll if that
person has died, moved away,
been judged mentally incompe-
tent or been convicted of a dis-
enfranchising crime.
The bills say commissioners
also would be required to re-
move the name of a person who
fails to vote at least once during
a four-year period and fails to
respond to certified mail from
the election commission that
seeks to confirm the person
still lives at the address where
he or she is registered.
Voters’ names could not be
purged from the rolls within
90 days of an election, and the
county would have to maintain
records for at least four years
showing a purged name and the
reason the name was removed
from the rolls.
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert
Hosemann said he supports
the bills, which are based on an
Ohio law that was upheld by the
U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 rul-
ing in 2018.
Hosemann served 12 years
as secretary of state, Mississip-
pi’s top election official. He told
reporters Thursday that having
a system to keep accurate voter
rolls is important.
“I don’t think you need to go
further than the last election
to see people have questions
about that,” Hosemann said.
Democratic Rep. Zakiya
Summers of Jackson is a former
Hinds County election commis-
sioner. She said during a House
Apportionment and Elections
Committee meeting Thursday
that Mississippi needs to make
voting easier, not more difficult.
“We need to be very careful
before we put something like
this in statute that is actually
going to disenfranchise voters
in the state of Mississippi, with
the history that Mississippi has
when it comes to voting rights
and enfranchisement,” Sum-
mers said.
Rep. Jansen Owen of Poplar-
ville is one of the few Republi-
cans expressing concerns about
the bills so far. During the com-
mittee meeting, Owen asked:
“If something happens and I am
unable to respond to a notice or
I don’t receive it or, you know,
my wife throws it into the trash
just like she always does, then
I’m going to be purged from the
voter rolls, even though I’m a
consistent voter?”
A staff attorney for the Ap-
portionment and Elections
Committee told Owen that a
person could not be purged
from the voter rolls just because
of failure to respond to certified
mail; the person would also
have to not vote for four years
— a period that includes a pres-
idential election, a federal mid-
term for congressional seats
and a statewide election for gov-
ernor and other officials.
Each bill advanced through
a committee last week, with op-
position that mostly came from
Democrats. The House bill
awaits consideration in the next
few weeks in the House, and the
Senate bill awaits consideration
in the Senate. Both of the Re-
publican-controlled chambers
would have to agree on a single
bill before it could go to Repub-
lican Gov. Tate Reeves.
Caren Short, senior staff at-
torney for the Southern Poverty
Law Center Action Fund, said
in a news release that the bills
are “extreme” and would have
“a disproportionately harmful
effect on Black voters, young
voters and lower-income vot-
ers.” She also said that if either
bill becomes law, the center
“will consider all its options to
ensure that Mississippi voters
are not punished for failing to
vote.”

Tree giveaway
Continued from Page 1A
technician. “It’s a state-
wide program that each
district participates in,
which means we will be
giving aways thousands of
trees all over the state.”
The bundles available
for pick-up Thursday at
the LCSWCD’s office at
2282 MLK Jr. Drive, will
include a loblolly pine, a
redbed, a pignut hickory,
a laurel oak and a cher-
ry-bark oak. The seed-
lings are about a foot tall.
“These are all trees
that grow well in our
area,” Chiasson said. “Ev-
ery year, we try to offer a
variety of different trees
from the nursery we used
in Florida.”
Each year, Lowndes
County Master Gardeners
volunteer to help separate,
color-code and bundle the
trees.
“We have an informa-
tion pamphlet to identify
each seedling by color
code,” Chiasson said. “It
gives a little information
about the tree.”
Julie Holman,
vice-president of the
Lowndes Master Gar-
deners, said assisting the
LCSWCD with the project
serves two purposes.
“First, we want to
do anything we can to
encourage people to
plant trees, flowers and
shrubs,” Holman said.
“But for us, we use this as
part of the service hours
we need. We have to have
12 service hours a year to
keep our national master
gardener status.”
During the week of
Feb. 15, which follows
Arbor Day (Feb. 12), the
LCSWCD and the Missis-
sippi State Extension Ser-
vice, will visit schools to
educate third-graders on
the important roles trees
play in the ecosystem.
“We go around to all
the schools, talk to them
about trees and give them
a pine seedling to take
home with them, which
they love,” said Lowndes
County Extension Service
agent Reid Nevins. “We
won’t be able to do the
talks at a lot of the schools
because of COVID this
year, but we’ll still be drop-
ping off the seedlings for
the kids at their schools.”
Chiasson said the kids
like the idea of planting
something that will en-
dure throughout their life-
time.
“Some of these trees
we are giving out will
grow really fast and the
laurel oak can grow as
high as 100 feet,” Chias-
son said.

Davenport
Continued from Page 1A
“Most students have a
parent they can lean on
in college, but these stu-
dents are coming right
from foster care or a
group home, so we make
sure they still have a way
to navigate resources,”
Davenport said.
At the same time, he
became interim pastor at
Sixteenth Section, north-
east of Starkville, in 2017
and was senior pastor a
year later.
He now works in
MSU’s Holmes Cultur-
al Diversity Center as
the student resource
coordinator, making
sure students are aware
of what the university
has available for their
academic, emotional and
spiritual wellbeing. He
described it as “a holistic
approach” to students’
growth and develop-
ment.
“We realize spiritual
development is also im-
portant, so we’re leading
interfaith initiatives
where we are creating
spaces that are safe for
students to express their
worldview,” Davenport
said.
His advocacy efforts
go beyond just MSU
and Sixteenth Section.
In June 2020, he orga-
nized a prayer rally at
J.L. King Park the day
before local activists
held a march and rally
for racial justice, the
local response to the
nationwide outcry after a
white Minneapolis police
officer killed George
Floyd, a Black man.
Davenport said he
appreciated the wide
variety of denominations
that were involved in the
prayer rally.
“It showed that we
can all be different and
still come together for
a common purpose,
and that’s rooted in our
Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ,” he said. “I be-
lieve we have to take the
next step to be unified
outside the church. I
believe that it’s OK to be
different as long as we
know how to come to-
gether to do meaningful
work in the community.”
His passion for
understanding what
contributes to people’s
wellbeing, especially
that of Black Americans
in rural areas, led him to
pursue a master’s degree
in human development
and family sciences at
MSU, with an emphasis
in how attitudes and
social structures affect
the wellbeing of Afri-
can-American commu-
nities.
He plans to finish his
master’s this August.
He is also studying for
a doctorate of ministry pandemic has helped us That’s what Christ did,
with the United Theolog- become free to advance he went outside the walls
ical Seminary and will freedom, because we and met the needs of the
complete it in December leave the four walls of people. … We’re helping
2022. the church and we go each other grow into the
Additionally, Daven- out into the community citizens we know we can
port is working with a for the common good. be.”
group of local pastors
and the J.L. King Center
on establishing a pres-
ence in schools to create
preventative programs
for youth who are consid-
ered at-risk.
He also wants to coor-
dinate an outdoor Good
Friday service with
several local churches.
Plans are “not set in
stone” because of the
ongoing COVID-19 pan-
demic, since he wants
everyone to be safe, he
said.
“One thing the
pandemic has helped
us to do is really come
together to do ministry
outside the four walls,”
Davenport said. “The cdispatch.com

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has traditionally been on
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typically has a 10-week
break during the summer,
but is currently consider-
ing a modified calendar for
the 2021-2022 school year.
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POSSUMHAW
The power of plants
“Flowers always make to the goldfish pond is the white blooms. Interestingly, the plant is as easy as pineapples. Only one of many
people better, happier, and greenhouse. When tempera- neither Swedish nor an ivy. It sits by a pits has been successful.
more helpful: they are sun- tures fall below 40 degrees, window on a plant stand and cascades to Airplane plants are another gift from
shine, food, and medicine for all the potted plants and the floor. A nick- a neighbor; one
the soul.” any others needing pro- name for Swedish that keeps on giv-
— Luther Burbank, tection are hurried to the ivy is “Creeping ing. The “mother”
American pioneer greenhouse. Not only does Charlie.” plant sends out
in agricultural science the greenhouse protect the From the long stems carry-
(1849-1926) plants for the next year, it grocery store, I ing baby plantlets
also becomes a haven for planted the tops of that can be planted,

B
undled up and facing winter gardening, feeding, pineapples. They thus starting the
a gusty wind while watering, pruning, nurturing. are easy to grow process all over
taking a slow walk Shannon Bardwell As the plants are nurtured, and require little again. The angel
down the gravel road to the they nurture the nurturer. care. Research wing begonia is
newspaper box and back, I Most, not all, of the plants shows it is unlikely a beauty and also
climbed through the fence railing and are pass-a-long plants and have multi- a grocery store easily propagated.
walked up the lake’s dam. There in front plied prolifically. A friend contributed pineapple plant The leaves are
of me was a single stem with four or five two wandering jew plants. Now there will produce any shaped like angel
paperwhite narcissus blooms. A flower are somewhere between eight and ten. fruit. However, wings and under-
like that can make your day. Just a little They trail themselves along from pot to I have one pine- neath the wing the
reminder that one day, maybe not far pot, or I snip them and place them in soil apple plant that pink flowers fall
away, spring will come, then summer, where they start trailing again. The sun has grown quite like a cluster of
and maybe all the sickness will be gone. touches the pink and purple of the leaves large and twice grapes.
I plucked the stem and relished in its and the plants glow. produced a pineapple. The second one There’s nothing fancy or special
strong fragrance. Just a small thing, of There are two bougainvillea plants is still growing and is currently about about these plants except they require
little consequence, and no cost at all, in full bloom. They bloom more happi- six inches. I’ve been reluctant to harvest some attention and, in exchange, lift the
had made my day and lifted my spirit. ly in the greenhouse than they did in it but rather see how large it will grow. human spirit.
Growing things will do that. the summer heat. A Swedish ivy plant Also from the grocery is an avocado tree Email reaches Shannon Bardwell at
Beside the perennial garden next thrives and has recently put out its small from an avocado pit. Avocado pits are not msdeltachild@msn.com.

MUSINGS
A note from out
W
e’ve been out, my
wife, Deborah,
and I, in the car.
Election. Deflection.
Insurrection. Misdirection.
Vaccination.
The words come at us
like a hot wind that withers
everything growing.
I’m retired, but I still
work a little. She still works
full time, and we go about
our business covered Marc Dion
in masks and sanitizer,
wounds scraped in our skin
from sand blown by that wind that won’t stop blowing.
America is a Dust Bowl of the soul right now, every-
thing blowing away.
But we’ve been out, in the car, in the dark, togeth-
er.
My parents used to go out. Not to parties, seldom
to dinner, but to the grocery store, to the mall to look
at furniture places and to other nonevents.
Deborah is a Realtor, and I went along with her to
an open house, “for company,” she said.
And it was dark out, and I was cold because this
is New England, and there was snow on the ground
because this is New England.
“Do you want to come with?” she said to me the
night before. “I’ll buy you a burger on the way back so
you can start writing your column as soon as we get
home.”
I waited for her in the car while she did her Realtor
business.
“I’m so glad I got into real estate,” I said when she
got back in the car, and she laughed.
And we drove home, some eight or 10 miles,
our car a dim bubble of light on a secondary road
lined with places to get coffee, places to get your oil
changed, places to buy beer, big-box stores and the
brave little hair salons of one-woman capitalism.
You can believe it driving down a four-lane second-
ary road in the dark on a Wednesday. You can believe
nothing’s changed, that people don’t hate each other
over lies, that the generally quiet America of my youth
is still watching television and looking forward to go-
ing out and looking at furniture sometime next week.
The burgers were eaten in the parking lot of a
McDonald’s not too far from our house, a parking
lot we’ve eaten in far too many times in the last year
when we wanted to go “out” but didn’t want to get
sick.
When we’d eaten, we walked across the parking
lot to a liquor store so she could browse the wine, and
she bought a bottle, and I bought a little bottle of Irish
whiskey, the size they give you on an airplane. It’s
a modest amount of whiskey, good in modest times
when you’re going to write when you get home, and
you’ll want a warm treat when you get done. I’ll take
the whiskey with hot water, a way of drinking whiskey
that died sometime in the early 20th century.
Two people walk into a liquor store, a blonde and a
man wearing plaid, the joke begins.
There is no such joke. The experience is more like
a song, the waltz of “out” on a cold night when there
won’t be oysters on the half shell at a restaurant that
calls itself a “dining hall,” and there won’t be drinks
at a bar that calls itself a “taproom.” It’s a windblown,
sand-scraped year.
My parents would come home from “out” with
the cold smell in their coats, and love in their jokes,
dancing that waltz.
We danced it too tonight.
I often say that isolation and boredom during the
pandemic won’t show if your wife loves you, but it will
damn sure show you if she likes you, which may be
more important, or at least more important day to day.
We went out, and we came home with the cold
smell in our coats, and a little heartburn from burgers
eaten too fast, and it was wonderful. If we don’t die,
we’re going to be all right.
Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a
reporter and columnist for The Herald News, the daily
newspaper of his hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts.
For more on Dion, go to go to www.creators.com.
Is the establishment still terrified of Trump?
A
s soon as the of his political enemy? They want Trump convicted so
Senate received Welcome to Zimba- that he will be prohibited from ever
the lone article bwe. again holding public office. The es-
of impeachment accus- Does the liberal es- tablishment fears that Trump could
ing President Donald tablishment, now back make a comeback, win the Republi-
Trump of “incitement of in power and controlling can primaries in 2024, become the
insurrection” in the Jan. the House, Senate and nominee, and return in triumph as
6 mob assault on the presidency, not see how president.
Capitol, Rand Paul rose this is all going to look They are determined to abort
to object. in the history books, that possibility. Many openly admit
The Senate, he said, generations hence? it.
has no right to try a Blinded by hatred of What does that say about the lib-
private citizen, which Patrick Buchanan Trump, enraged by the eral establishment’s love of democ-
Trump now is. Thus, mob that stormed the racy when they would disqualify,
what we are about to do is flatly Capitol, Nancy Pelosi’s House, in a in advance, the largest vote-getter
unconstitutional. rush to judgment, without hearing their opposition party ever had, out
Forty-five of 50 Republican mem- a single Trump witness and without of fear he might come back to win
bers agreed with Paul’s motion. letting his lawyer offer a defense, the presidency as he did in 2016?
“This vote indicates it’s over. impeached, i.e., indicted, Donald “Trust the people!” was a
The trial is all over,” said Paul. “If Trump for “incitement of insurrec- campaign slogan made famous
you voted that (the Senate trial tion.” by George Wallace. Our national
is) ... unconstitutional, how in the But how could Trump have in- establishment prattles endlessly
world would you ever vote to con- cited the riot and the attack on the on about its devotion to democracy,
vict somebody for this?” Capitol when the mob swept up the but it does not trust the people.
Consistency says you would not. stairs before Trump finished speak- But the establishment is going
Susan Collins of Maine, one of ing a mile away? And he would end to pay a price for trying to squeeze
five Republicans who voted against his rally remarks by urging the the last ounces of juice out of this
Paul’s motion, agreed that the vote crowd to march to the Hill “peace- rotting fruit. President Joe Biden’s
portends the final vote on convic- fully and patriotically.” call to unity are being drowned out
tion. We have subsequently learned by Democratic howls for a trial,
“Do the math,” Collins said. “It’s that plans and plots were being conviction and banishment.
extraordinarily unlikely the presi- hatched days before the assault on This effort to convict and dis-
dent will be convicted.” the Capitol began. qualify Trump from running again
Rand Paul may have just de- Was the Trump White House, or tells us more about the people
railed the second impeachment of Trump, privy to those plots? behind it than it does about Trump.
Donald Trump. In August 1974, it was a near For the odds are slim at best that
Chief Justice John Roberts, the certainty that the House would vote Trump would or could, at 78, win
constitutional officer designated to to impeach Richard Nixon. But the nomination and the presidency
preside over Senate impeachment after the president resigned, the a second time, as Grover Cleveland
trials, has said he will not preside House did not impeach, and Ford did in 1892.
over this latest trial of the ex-pres- pardoned Nixon so the country Yet, a fearful establishment does
ident. With Roberts seeing no could move on. not want to take the chance.
constitutional duty, and declining The rage of the establishment For all the babbling about “de-
the honor, his replacement as the at being deprived of its revenge mocracy” we have heard in recent
presiding officer will be Patrick against Nixon who had turned days, the establishment wants to
Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serv- the Silent Majority against it, not eliminate the possibility that the
ing Democrat and the president pro unlike today, knew no bounds. And, people could rise up, and, horror of
tempore of the Senate. though history has vindicated Ford, horrors, elect Trump once more.
But Leahy is viscerally hostile his pardon of Nixon precipitated a You can smell the fear.
to Trump and one of a Democratic plunge in his poll numbers. Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally
bloc that voted twice last January to Half a century on, however, his- syndicated columnist, was a senior
convict Trump of high crimes and tory says Ford did the right thing. advisor to presidents Richard Nixon,
misdemeanors. How will it look to Why then are the Democrats Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
the world if this partisan is installed continuing with this exercise in His website is http://buchanan.org/
as both judge and juror at the trial vengeance? blog.
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Biden opens ‘Obamacare’ window for uninsured as COVID rages

New ‘special enrollment period’ to begin Feb. 15, run through May 15
BY RICARDO
ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Joe Biden on Thursday
ordered government health
insurance markets to reopen
for a special sign-up window,
offering uninsured Ameri-
cans a haven as the spread of
COVID-19 remains dangerous-
ly high and vaccines aren’t yet
widely available.
Biden signed an executive
order directing the Health-
Care.gov insurance markets to
take new applications for sub-
sidized benefits, something
Donald Trump’s administra-
tion had refused to do. He also
instructed his administration
to consider reversing other
Trump health care policies,
including curbs on abortion
counseling and the imposi-
tion of work requirements for
low-income people getting
Medicaid.
“There’s nothing new that
we’re doing here other than
restoring the Affordable Care
Act and restoring Medicaid to
the way it was before Trump
became president,” Biden said
as he signed the directives in
the Oval Office. He declared
he was reversing “my prede-
cessor’s attack on women’s
health.”
The actions were only the
first steps by Biden, who has
promised to build out former
President Barack Obama’s
health care law to achieve a
goal of coverage for all. While
Biden rejects the idea of a gov-
ernment-run system that Sen.
Bernie Sanders has pushed
for in his “Medicare for All”
proposal, his more centrist
approach will require congres-
sional buy-in. But opposition
to “Obamacare” runs deep
among Republicans.
The most concrete short-
term impact of Biden’s orders
will come from reopening
HealthCare.gov insurance mar-
kets as coverage has shrunk in
the economic turmoil of the
coronavirus pandemic. That’s
an executive action and no leg-
islation is required.
The new “special enroll-
ment period” will begin Feb.
15 and run through May 15,
the White House said. It will
be coupled with a promotional
campaign and a call for states
that run their own insurance
markets to match the federal
sign-up opportunity.
The Biden administration
has ample resources for mar-
keting, said Karen Pollitz, a
health insurance expert with
the nonpartisan Kaiser Fami-
ly Foundation. The foundation
estimates that the Trump ad-
ministration left unspent about
$1.2 billion in user fees collect-
ed from insurers to help pay for
running the marketplaces.
“The reason it wasn’t spent
is the Trump administration
spent its time in office cutting
services that support consumer
enrollment,” Pollitz said. “All
the while the user fee revenue
was coming in, (but) they were
not allowed to spend it on any-
thing other than marketplace
operations.”

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Aldermen
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meet the 25-percent food
sale requirement, and
that includes those selling
beer, light wine and light
spirits.
State law, however, gov-
erns beer (up to 8 percent
alcohol by weight), light
wine (5 percent alcohol by
weight) and light spirits
(up to 4 percent alcohol by
weight) separately from
“alcoholic beverages” and
doesn’t require food sales
for serving those at brew-
pubs. Further, it defines
“brewpubs” as an estab-
lishment that makes and
sells those items on-site
but that cannot manufac-
ture more than 75,000
gallons per year.
Mayor Lynn Spruill
said aligning city ordi-
nance with state law,
rather than making ex-
ceptions just for the En-
tertainment and Leisure
District, is a better deal
for the city.
“That way it doesn’t
look like we’re being arbi-
trary and capricious,” she
told The Dispatch.
Spring Street Cigars
The most immediate
beneficiary for the rule
change would be John
Higgins, owner of Tupe-
lo-based Spring Street Ci-
gars, who wants to bring
a cigar lounge and brew-
pub to the old Mugshots
restaurant building on
Main Street, which sits
in the Leisure and Enter-
tainment District.
Aldermen have al-
ready granted Higgins
an exception to the city’s
anti-smoking ordinance,
which generally disallows
smoking in public spaces
in the city limits, and Hig-
gins told The Dispatch
he needs the brewpub
exception to fully engage
the two-story facility. He
plans to house the cigar
lounge upstairs and the
brewpub on the ground
floor.
None of Higgins’ other
four locations in Missis-
West Point
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last week to run as a Con-
stitution Party candidate.
She is a Greenwood na-
tive and has lived in West
Point for about 13 years.
“I’ve seen the commu-
nity come together and
work together, and I’d like
to be a part of that and
watch West Point grow,”
she said.
The Constitution Par-
ty believes in “small gov-
ernment” and focusing
on solutions to problems
like hunger and homeless-
ness, Harper said.
“We want to return the
federal government, and
all government, back to
the way it was designed
and not be so big,” she
said. “Big government just
wants to control too many
things and throw money
(at problems).”
Harper’s professional
sippi include brewpubs,
but he said he would need
one at the former Mug-
shots. If aldermen shoot
down his proposed brew-
pub, he said he would
have to look elsewhere in
the city to put his cigar
lounge.
“The viability isn’t
there for just a cigar store
and lounge,” Higgins said.
“The space is too big.
“Starkville is definite-
ly on our list for a cigar
store and lounge,” he add-
ed. “So if we can’t have a
brewpub, we would defi-
nitely look for an alterna-
tive location in Starkville.
… The city has been tre-
mendously supportive
through this process so
far.”
The anti-smoking ordi-
nance exception only ap-
plies to the Leisure and
Entertainment District,
though, meaning a cigar
lounge cannot locate out-
side those boundaries —
a restriction Spruill and
the aldermen all said is
meant to keep smoking
from creeping back into
the city’s public spaces.
Further, Spruill ad-
dressed concerns that the
brewpub change, as it is
written, or anti-smoking
change, as it was passed,
would create a slippery
slope where bars could
operate without selling
food or restaurants could
start allowing smoking.
Even with both chang-
es, an establishment that
allows smoking could not
sell food, she said, mean-
ing a cigar lounge could
have a brewpub and a
brewpub could sell food,
but no business could do
all three.
The other concern,
which came up briefly at
Friday’s work session,
is potentially creating
“honky-tonks” — smoke-
filled bars with no food
for sale.
Ward 5 Alderman
Hamp Beatty, who told
The Dispatch he sup-
ports allowing brewpubs,
background is in small
business management,
and she currently works
in the human resources
department at Golden Tri-
angle Meal Service in Co-
lumbus.
She said West Point
has a lot of “untapped po-
tential,” but she wants to
focus on getting through
the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic for the next sev-
eral months.
“I think everybody
wants to put 2020 behind
them,” she said. “It was
great to see everyone
come together to make
decisions to get through
2020, but I have no idea
what anything will look
like come July because of
COVID.”
The other two mayoral
candidates, former select-
man Rod Bobo and first-
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under the state defini-
tion, to operate through-
out the city, said he’s not
worried about those es-
tablishments becoming
something the ordinance
change does not intend.
“I think it’s a good
fit,” Beatty
said. “Peo-
ple don’t go
to places
like (brew-
pubs) to
get plowed.
T h e s e
are craft Beatty
beers we’re
talking about. People go
there because they enjoy
the taste of it.”
Aldermen support
the change
Beatty is not alone in
supporting the change.
Four other aldermen
The Dispatch spoke with
over the weekend — Ben
Carver of Ward 1, Sandra
Sistrunk of Ward 2, David
Little of Ward 3 and Jason
Walker of Ward 4 — all
signaled they would like-
ly vote for the new version
of the brewpub ordinance
in two weeks.
Neither Ward 6 Alder-
man Roy A. Perkins nor
Ward 7 Alderman Henry
Vaughn, whose ward in-
cludes part of downtown,
responded to The Dis-
patch’s requests for com-
ment.
For Carver and Little,
the focus
is on revi-
talizing a
p r o m i n e nt
dow ntow n
building
that has
been vacant
for a couple Carver
of years.
“This may be our only
shot to get somebody
in there for a few more
years,” Carver said.
“I think this will be
developed in a nice man-
ner,” said Little, refer-
ring to Spring Street
Cigars’ plans for the old
time politician Cole Bry-
an, will face each other
in the April 6 Democratic
primary.
Ward 1 race
Meanwhile, Ward 1
S ele c t m a n
Leta Turner
will receive
a primary
challenge
from Linda
Hannah, the
fellow Dem-
ocrat she Hannah
unseated in
a runoff election in 2017.
Hannah spent more
than 20 years on the board
and said this experience
qualifies her to hold the
position again. She hopes
the city continues to sup-
port economic develop-
ment, having watched in-
dustries such as NaviStar
Mugshots.
“I don’t
have a lot
of hangups
about it. …
If we don’t
get that de-
velop me nt
Little
there, the
alternative is probably
some type of office space,
which doesn’t generate
as much sales tax reve-
nue or evening traffic.”
Still, Sistrunk is con-
cerned about ordinance
changes setting the city
up for future unintended
consequences — or the
board one day consent-
ing to more exceptions
than it is now.
She said she has al-
ready fielded a request
from a hookah lounge to
locate outside the Lei-
sure and Entertainment
District, which is not cur-
rently allowed. So what-
ever action the board
takes, she said, needs to
be crystal clear.
“Do we want to ex-
pand the
a nt i - smok-
ing ordi-
nance and
really open
up a can of
worms?”
Sistrunk
said. “As we Sistrunk
do this, we
really, as a board, need to
take a good look at what
exactly we want and don’t
want.”
Likewise, Walker said
he is ada-
mant that
businesses
selling al-
cohol can’t
find a way
to use the
brewpub
rule to skirt Walker
s el l i n g
food.
“I think we need to be
very clear on maintaining
the 25-percent food sale
rule (for restaurants and
bars, etc.) and not turn a
blind eye,” he said.
and Yokohama Tire Cor-
poration establish them-
selves in West Point over
the past several years.
She also wants to fos-
ter local schools and pro-
grams, such as the Boys
and Girls Club, in order to
adequately prepare young
people for the workforce.
Hannah worked in
the banking industry for
more than 40 years and
now works for her family’s
business, the bus charter
service Hannah Tours.
She has also served on
several boards in West
Point, including at North
Mississippi Medical Cen-
ter.
“I plan to make myself
available to people, and I
want to continue to build
strong relationships with
the citizens of this com-
munity,” Hannah said.
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Bruce Arians is more
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turns a news conference as Tom Brady experi-
over to reporters with enced this season, but
his signature “time’s players like his tough-
yours” phrase, Andy love style.
Reid always sticks by “He’s going to coach
his players. you hard, but he’s also
The man affection- going to love you hard,”
ately known as Big Red Buccaneers center Ryan
has never been a coach Jensen said.
who criticizes his guys Both Reid and Arians
publicly, even when they are considered players’
play poorly. That hasn’t coaches, though they do
happened often in Kan- it in different ways. It’s
sas City. The Chiefs a quality that’s helped
(16 -2) are aiming for them reach the big
their second straight game.
Super Bowl title when “He’s got almost like a
they face the Tampa Bay father figure kind of role
Buccaneers (14-5) next in the building and it’s
Sunday. because everyone loves
him so much,” Chiefs of everybody. And he’s Whenever his team Throughout his
All-Pro tight end Tra- the ultimate leader.” lost, Reid would say: “I coaching career, Reid
vis Kelce said of Reid. Reid had more wins have to do a better job. has given players oppor-
“He’s got an unbeliev- than any coach in NFL I need to put them in a tunities for redemption,
able way of history without a cham- better position to suc- from Michael Vick to
getting the pionship until the Chiefs ceed.” Tyreek Hill. Reid under-
best out of beat the San Francisco Fans and media were stands the importance
ever ybody 49ers last year. Before critical but players ap- of second chances. His
that is re- arriving in Kansas City preciated it. two oldest sons were
lating to in 2013, Reid won more “We loved it,” Doug- arrested in 2007. Britt
all differ- games than any head las said. “I know y’all Reid is Kansas City’s
ent aspects coach in the history of hated that. He didn’t say linebackers coach. Gar-
and all Reid the Philadelphia Eagles. much in press confer- rett Reid, the oldest son,
dif ferent “He knows how to get ences.” died of an accidental
forms of the best out of individu- The 62-year-old Reid heroin overdose in 2012
life. ... This game is als and make them come has a self-deprecating at age 29.
not won with one guy. together for one com- sense of humor. He’s This time last year,
That’s the beauty about mon cause,” said former known as much for Chiefs players talked
the game is that it takes three-time Pro Bowl wearing floral shirts as about how much they
everyone. Coach Reid defensive end Hugh he is for poking fun at wanted to win to give
does an unbelievable job Douglas, who played his weight and proclaim- Reid his first ring as
of relating to everybody five seasons for Reid in ing his love for cheese- head coach. The Buc-
and getting the best out Philadelphia. burgers. See COACHES, 3B

MLB proposes MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ANALYSIS

delaying start
to April 28, cut
to 154 games Mississippi State women have dropped three
straight, but it’s not quite time to panic
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NEW YORK — Ma-

jor League Baseball has
proposed a one-month
delay in starting spring
training due to the
coronavirus pandemic
and pushing back open-
ing day to April 28, two
people familiar with the
plan told The Associat-
ed Press.
Under the plan pre-
sented to the players’
union on Friday, the
regular season would
be cut from 162 games
to 154.
Also, the playoffs
would be expanded
from 10 teams to 14, the
designated hitter would
extend to the National
League for the second
straight season and
MLB would keep the
experimental rules for
seven-inning double-
headers and beginning
extra innings with a
runner on second base.
All players would re-
port for spring training
on March 22, back from

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Super
rematch: Mississippi State athletics

Hill burned
Bucs
repeatedly
in last
meeting
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Tyreek Hill sprinted
past cornerback Carl-
ton Davis again, caught
the ball in stride and
then cut so sharply that
safety Mike Edwards
ended up flailing at
him with one arm near
the sideline. Hill casu-
ally jogged a few more
yards before pausing at
the goal line and doing
a backflip into the end
zone.
Showtime!
It was the second
and most impressive of
three scores for Hill,
who was the star of Kan-
sas City’s 27-24 victory
at Tampa Bay in Week
12. Hill finished with 13
receptions for 269 yards
— both career highs —
and proved to be a mis-
match for Davis and the
Buccaneers.
Tampa Bay gets an-
other shot at Hill and
See NFL, 3B
Despite Mississippi State dropping three-straight, it’s not quite time to panic. The Bulldogs will have a chance to bolster their NCAA
tournament resume against the Vols and Razorbacks in their next two games.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARK VILLE — Missis-
sippi State isn’t quite in panic
mode, but it’s getting close.
After being run off the
floor by No. 4 South Carolina
Thursday, the MSU women’s
basketball team has dropped
three consecutive games and
sit below .500 in Southeastern
Conference play for the first
time since the 2013-14 season.
Let’s call Sunday what it
was: downright ugly. The
Bulldogs were bullied on
their home floor after an in-
spired first quarter. MSU
shot a combined 5 of 15 from
the floor over Thursday’s sec-
ond frame as South Carolina
sprinted out to a 12-0 run
that broke the game open. As
pressing, the Bulldogs were
out-rebounded 51-38, mark-
ing the sixth time in seven
SEC games they’ve been beat-
en on the boards.
“They’re going to do what
they do,” head coach Nik-
ki McCray-Penson said of
South Carolina following the
loss. “And they did that to-
night. They rebounded. They
pushed tempo and that’s what
they did.”
But as disastrous as Thurs-
day’s throttling in Starkville
was, there is some reason
for optimism. Over the next
week-and-a-half, MSU meets
No. 20 Tennessee and No. 19
Arkansas — fresh off an up-
set of No. 3 UConn — with a
chance to charge back toward
the top of the conference and
all-but secure a bid to the
NCA A tournament assum-
ing the Bulldogs take care of
business down the stretch.
After games against the
Volunteers and Razorbacks,
the Bulldogs’ schedule be-
comes more manageable. Of
MSU’s final five opponents,
only Alabama and LSU have
a record above .500, though
the Tigers have been beat-
able. Matchups with SEC cel-
lar-dwellers Auburn, Missou-
ri and — rivalry game aside
— Ole Miss, should give MSU
a chance to string together
some victories heading into
the SEC tournament.
But for a Bulldog squad
that is reeling after back-to-
back 20 -plus point losses,
something has to change.
For one, sophomore forward
Rickea Jackson has to find
her footing earlier in games.
Having been relegated to the
bench to start two of the past
three games, Jackson has
been slow in early periods of
late. She finished Thursday’s
loss to South Carolina with 15
points, but started the contest
1 of 7 from the floor. Jackson
also hasn’t eclipsed 16 points
in a game — a smidge above
her 15.8 points per game aver-
age — since a Jan. 3 meeting
with Kentucky.
“I feel like we executed
our plays,” she said after the
Kentucky loss of how she was
able to get clicking offensive-
ly. “We were just playing hard
and we just had that mentali-
ty that we need to do what we
have to do to win this game.
I feel like my teammates are
just trusting me by getting me
the ball and I’m trusting them
and looking for them open.”
Jackson and junior forward
Jessika Carter, who’s had her
own set of issues against com-
petent competition in recent
weeks, could also stand to
find some help on the offen-
sive end. Sophomore JaMya
Mingo-Young has been a
sparkplug in spurts during
her year-plus in the program,
but played one of the worst
games of her career against
the Gamecocks — finishing
with five points, two rebounds
and three turnovers in 25 min-
utes played.
Junior forward/center
Sidney Cooks has been sim-
ilarly unreliable outside of
a 26 -point outburst against
Troy. In 13 games played
this year, Cooks has hit dou-
ble-digits just once, while her
38.4 percent shooting per-
centage is the lowest of any
player on the roster who’s
appeared in six or more con-
tests.
There have, of course, been
some bright spots. Junior
point guard Myah Taylor con-
tinues to show a renewed of-
fensive ability as she’s turned
in four-straight double-digit
scoring performances for the
first time in her career. Five-
star freshman Madison Hayes
also has been an energetic
bright spot after being insert-
ed into the starting lineup in
MSU’s past three games.
Sitting at 8-5 and 3-4 in
SEC play, it’s expected MSU
will drop out of the Associat-
ed Press Top 25 for the first
time in 124 weeks when the
poll is released Monday after-
noon. But for a team that after
Thursday’s loss to South Car-
olina felt like it might be in a
free fall, there are opportuni-
ties ahead to right the ship in
McCray-Penson’s first year.
“It doesn’t feel good to
be on a three-game losing
streak,” McCray-Penson said.
“But these are all things that
we can correct.”
2B MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
After shaky start, Chiefs’ Hill matures into All-Pro star
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K ANSAS CITY, Mo.
— Kansas City Chiefs
wide receiver Tyreek Hill
will be the first to tell
you that he almost threw
away his football career.
Twice, as a matter of
fact.
The first time came
during college, when he
was making a name for
himself as a standout at
Oklahoma State, and a
domestic dispute got him
kicked off the team. He
rehabilitated his image
at tiny West Alabama,
joined the Chiefs as a
fifth-round draft pick,
and was beginning to
touch stardom when an-
other off-the-field issue
led to a long offseason
suspension.
That issue was re-
solved without any legal
consequences, though,
and Hill returned to sign
a contract extension with
the Chiefs prior to last
season. Then he proceed-
Brady, Mahomes prepare for 5th matchup after splitting 1st 4
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There was a regu-
lar-season shootout and
a playoff masterpiece the
first season that Patrick
Mahomes and Tom Brady
met on a football field.
Brady came out ahead
in those two meetings,
but Mahomes has gotten
the edge the past two
times they met.
Now as they are set to
meet on football’s biggest
stage of the Super Bowl,
it’s time to look back at
those first four games
when they shared a field.
While their teams split
those contests, Mahomes
has put up the better num-
bers with his 109.2 passer
rating and 11-3 touch-
down to interception ratio
outpacing Brady’s 86 rat-
ing with six TDs and five
interceptions.
But the matchup fea-
tures the most accom-
plished quarterback ever
to play the game who is
still thriving at age 43 in
Brady against the young
gun who is rewriting re-
cord books at age 25.
Brady Bunch: QB has taken over 200 teammates to Super Bowl
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Some are Hall of Fam-
ers who are among the
biggest names in the
sport. Others are anony-
mous role players whose
contributions went mostly
unnoticed by outsiders.
There are veterans
who joined up for one fi-
nal run at the title, and
wide-eyed rookies who
were thrust into the Super
Bowl spotlight.
Their first names
range from A to Z with
eight guys named Bran-
don — a ninth named
Brandin — and five guys
named Kyle.
They all are part of
the Brady Bunch, the
218 players who have ap-
peared in a Super Bowl as
Tom Brady’s teammate
in his record nine previ-
ous trips to the title game
with New England. That
list will grow by more
than 40 names next Sun-
day when Brady plays in
his 10th Super Bowl and
first with his new team in
Tampa.
Of those players who
have been part of Brady’s
supporting cast, 164 got a
Super Bowl ring out of the
trip, accounting for nearly
one-quarter of the players
who were on a winning
team in the Super Bowl
since Brady became a
starter in 2001.
Some went along for
the ride and barely made
an impact on those six
titles Brady won. Others
delivered the key plays
that decided those games,
whether it was Malcolm
Butler’s game-sealing in-
terception at the goal line
against Seattle, or Adam
ed to help them to their
first Super Bowl champi-
onship in five decades.
One of the most dy-
namic players in the NFL
has continued his upward
trajectory this season.
Hill caught 87 passes for
1,276 yards in the regu-
lar season, the third time
in four years he’s topped
1,000. He also had a ca-
reer-high 15 TD catch-
es, two more scores on
the ground, and led the
league with 14 yards per
touch from scrimmage.
Now, after two big per-
formances in the postsea-
son, Hill has a chance to
help the Chiefs defend
their title.
“When it comes down
to football, I just love
competing,” said Hill,
whose big year resulted
in his third All-Pro se-
lection in his first five
seasons. “It’s you against
your man, man on man,
and playing the wideout
position — he beats you
one play or you beat him.
“Could you imagine if
Michael Jordan had got-
ten his team to the (NBA)
Finals when he was older
against a young LeBron
James?” CBS game an-
alyst Tony Romo said.
“It would be the great-
est thing in the history
of sports. ... I think we
actually might have that
game.”
Here’s a look at the
past meetings between
Brady and Mahomes:
Chiefs 27, Bucs 24 at
Tampa, Nov. 29, 2020:
Mahomes and Tyreek Hill
jumped all over Tampa
Bay early with TD passes
of 75 and 44 yards in the
first quarter. Hill had sev-
en catches for 203 yards
in the first period, the
third-most yards in any
quarter for a player in the
past 40 years. Mahomes
added a 20-yard TD pass
to Hill in the third quar-
ter to make it a 17-point
game. Mahomes threw
for 462 yards and three
TDs, with Hill leading the
way with 13 catches for
269 yards.
Brady threw two TD
Vinatieri’s inning kicks
against St. Louis and Car-
olina.
Here’s a look at some
of them:
Most appearances
No one has played in
more Super Bowls with
Brady than Stephen Gost-
kowski, who went with
him six times during
their tenures in New En-
gland. Rob Gronkowski
can join a group right
behind Gostkowski this
year with his fifth appear-
ance, matching the num-
ber for Matt Light, Devin
McCourty, Patrick Chung
and Matthew Slater.
There are 26 play-
ers who have played in
three Super Bowl wins as
Brady’s teammates, with
Gronkowski hoping to
join that group this year.
Gronkowski played in
Super Bowl wins follow-
ing the 2014 and ’18 sea-
sons but missed the epic
comeback against Atlanta
following the 2016 season
with an injury.
Hall of famers
Three of Brady’s Su-
per Bowl teammates have
already been inducted
into the Hall of Fame
with more likely to come
down the road. Ty Law,
who played on the first
three title teams in New
England, was inducted to
the Canton, Ohio shrine
in 2019 and is the only one
of the three to get there
based mostly on their ca-
reers with Brady.
Randy Moss and Ju-
nior Seau joined up with
Brady late in their careers
and both made big im-
pacts during the perfect
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It’s just competing for the
ball, being that dog.”
Ahh-rooo!
It’s heady stuff for
a guy who entered the
league as an undersized
gadget player destined
for a career return-
ing kickoffs and punts.
Even in college, nobody
seemed to know whether
Hill was a pass catcher or
running back, and that
continued in his first sea-
son with the Chiefs, when
coach Andy Reid was try-
ing to figure out how to
use him.
When it became clear
his future was on the
outside, Hill dedicated
himself to being the best
wide receiver he could
be.
He’s spent countless
hours with personal
trainer Luther Glover at
his sports performance
facility in suburban Kan-
sas City. He’s logged hun-
dreds of extra workouts
with quarterback Pat-
rick Mahomes, fine-tun-
passes in the fourth quar-
ter to cut the deficit to
three points with 4:10 to
play, but Mahomes then
ran for two first downs
and converted another on
a third-down pass to Hill
that iced the game.
“I learned a long time
ago, you don’t give Tom
Brady another shot,”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid
said. “That’s why he’s the
G.O.A.T. So, don’t give
them the ball back. That
was the mindset there.”
Chiefs 23, Patriots
16 at New England,
Dec. 8, 2019: Mahomes
and the Chiefs clinched
the AFC West and
snapped New England’s
21-game home winning
streak. Mahomes injured
his hand on the second
drive of the game yet fin-
ished with 283 yards pass-
ing and a TD.
Brady struggled, going
19 of 36 for 169 yards, a
touchdown and intercep-
tion. Bashaud Breeland
sealed the win when he
knocked away Brady’s
fourth-down pass attempt
to Julian Edelman in the
16-0 regular season in
2007, but came up short
in their only trip to the Su-
per Bowl.
Richard Seymour is a
Hall of Fame finalist this
year and others such as
Gronkowski, Vinatieri
and Darrelle Revis could
follow in upcoming years.
Leading men
Brady has completed
passes to 37 players in his
nine previous Super Bowl
trips, with a few standing
out as his favorite tar-
gets. Julian Edelman and
Deion Branch, who both
won Super Bowl MVPs
with Brady, are tied for
the most catches with 24
apiece. Edelman’s 337
yards are 16 more than
Branch for the most of
any of Brady’s targets.
Gronkowski could
pass them this year as he
comes into the game with
23 catches for 297 yards.
He already has the most
TD catches from Brady
with three, one ahead
of David Givens, Danny
Amendola and linebacker
Mike Vrabel.
Gostkowski has the
most points scored along-
side Brady with 33, but
two other players have
more significant scores.
James White scored 20 of
his 26 career Super Bowl
points in the comeback
win over Atlanta four
years ago, including the
TD that helped force over-
time and the OT winner.
Vinatieri is next with
20, including the field
goals that won the title in
Brady’s first two trips.
Playing both sides
Tampa Bay edge rush-
ing their timing and his
route-running ability.
He’s pored over film of
himself, his opponents,
and the best ever to play
his position.
“When I do some-
thing,” Hill said, “I
want to be the best at it.
That’s something that
my grandparents taught
me throughout my whole
life. Don’t be average at
things. Just the fire in me,
just competing — that’s
all it is. I love to compete.”
That competitive
streak might be why Hill
shines when the lights
are brightest.
He had nine catches
for 105 yards in helping
the Chiefs rally past the
49ers in the Super Bowl
last season. And after a
first-round bye this sea-
son, Hill followed with
eight catches for 110
yards in the divisional
round against Cleveland,
then nine for a fran-
chise-record 172 yards in
the AFC championship
end zone with just over a
minute to play.
“You want to beat the
best,” Mahomes said.
“You want to go out and
play against the best and
give your best effort. It
wasn’t pretty the whole
time. It was just a tough,
hard-fought win.”
Patriots 37, Chiefs
31, OT, at Kansas City,
Jan. 20, 2019: The
only previous postseason
meeting between the star
QBs was a classic, with
Brady and the Patriots
coming out victorious in
overtime in the AFC title
game to set up his sixth
championship.
The Patriots took a
14-0 halftime lead when
Brady connected on a 29-
yard strike to Phillip Dor-
sett in the final minute of
the second quarter. New
England was up 17-7 after
three, setting the stage
for a dramatic fourth
quarter that featured five
TDs and one field goal.
Mahomes threw two
touchdowns to Damien
Williams to give Kansas
City the lead before the
er Jason Pierre-Paul can
join a much more ex-
clusive list as one of the
players to beat Brady in a
Super Bowl and win a ti-
tle with him, having been
part of the Giants that
beat New England after
the 2011 season. Pierre-
Paul had two passes de-
fensed and a quarterback
hit in the 21-17 victory
that season.
The only others to do
that are Chris Long and
LeGarrette Blount. Both
were part of the 2016
champions with the Pa-
triots and then were with
Philadelphia the next
season when the Eagles
spoiled a repeat attempt.
Blount also won a title
with Brady in the 2014
season.
Missing rings
Only two players went
to the Super Bowl with
Brady more than once
and never got a ring out of
it. Guard Logan Mankins
and receiver Wes Welk-
er were both part of the
New England teams that
lost to the Giants follow-
ing the 2007 and ’11 sea-
sons. Welker then went
to the title game one
more time with Denver
in the 2013 season —
and lost for a third time
against Seattle.
Common names
A few first names have
stood out more than
others when it comes
to Brady’s Super Bowl
teammates, led by the
nine Brandons: Bold-
en, Browner, Deadrick,
Gorin, King, LaFell,
Meriweather, Mitchell
and Spikes. That doesn’t
victory over Buffalo.
“The biggest thing,”
Mahomes said, “is just
taking what’s there, get-
ting the ball to him in
space.”
Because Hill, with his
otherworldly speed and
elusiveness, can turn the
most unremarkable play
into something special.
The best example of
that came against the
Bills. Hill caught a slant
over the middle and an-
gled toward the Chiefs
sideline, where three
defensive players boxed
him in. He stuck a foot
in the ground, cut back
to his left and turned on
the jets, streaking in an
angle all the way across
the field. By the time Hill
was finally tackled inside
the 5-yard line, he had
gone 71 yards — as the
crow flies — for the sec-
ond-longest catch in KC
postseason history.
“He took a different
direction. He went side-
ways,” Reid said with a
Patriots responded with
a 75-yard TD drive to go
back ahead 24-21 with
3:32 to go.
Mahomes put the
Chiefs back ahead with
a quick TD drive and the
Chiefs appeared headed
to the Super Bowl when
Charvarius Ward inter-
cepted Brady with just
over a minute to play. But
Dee Ford had lined up
offside and Brady cap-
italized with a 25-yard
pass to Rob Gronkowski
on the next play to set up
Rex Burkhead’s go-ahead
4-yard TD with 39 sec-
onds left.
Mahomes responded
with two deep passes to
set up a tying field goal,
but the Chiefs lost the
coin toss and Brady led
New England 75 yards
against an exhausted
defense for the winning
score.
“Overtime, on the road
against a great team,”
Brady said. “They had no
quit. Neither did we. We
played our best football
at the end. I don’t know,
man, I’m tired. That was a
even count Brandin
Cooks, who played with
Brady following the 2017
season
Next on the list is
Chris with six: Akins,
Hanson, Hogan, Jones,
Long and White. There
are also five players
named James (Develin,
Harrison, Ihedigbo,
Sanders and White) and
five more named Kyle
(Arrington, Brady, Eck-
el, Love and Van Noy).
Super matchup
between QBs
Mahomes, Brady for
NFL title
There has never been
a Super Bowl matchup of
accomplished quarter-
backs quite like the one
coming up next week be-
tween Tampa Bay’s Tom
Brady and Kansas City’s
Patrick Mahomes.
This will be the sixth
Super Bowl matchup
between former AP
NFL MVPs, the second
between former Super
Bowl MVP winning
quarterbacks and the
first between players
who had previously won
both awards.
Brady has won a re-
cord six Super Bowl ti-
tles, four Super MVPs
and three league MVP
awards since becoming
starter in New England
in 2001.
Mahomes is just get-
ting started in his ca-
reer and already has one
league MVP and one
Super Bowl MVP to his
credit and is back in the
title game for the second
time.
The first Super Bowl
shake of his head. “It was
probably double what the
crow would fly, but he
did what needed to do.
The best part of it was
that early part where he
split those two defenders
or three defenders and
headed to the left side.
There’s not a lot of guys
that can do that.”
That’s the kind of
eye-opening play Hill has
been making since he en-
tered the league, the ones
that cause defensive coor-
dinators nightmares and
leave opposing players —
and fans — out of breath.
It was after the play,
though, that his growth
and maturity the past five
years was on display.
“He he came over and
apologized for not scor-
ing. He said he’s getting
slower in his old age,”
Reid said with a good-na-
tured laugh. “I said,
‘Yeah, OK.’
“But he just loves the
game. That’s what I love
about him.”
hell of a game.”
Patriots 43, Chiefs
40, at New England,
Oct. 14, 2019: The
first meeting between
Brady and Mahomes was
a shootout, with Brady
staking the Patriots to a
24-9 halftime lead.
Mahomes responded
with four TD passes in
the second half and gave
the Chiefs the lead with a
75-yarder to Tyreek Hill
with 3:03 to play.
Brady responded with
a 65-yard drive including
a 16-yard pass to James
White and 39-yarder to
Gronkowski. That set up
Stephen Gostkowski’s
winning field goal on the
final play that gave Brady
his record 200th victory
as a starting QB.
“It’s tough to slow
those guys down, they’ve
been scoring a lot of
points all year,” Brady
said. “They’re gonna be
pretty tough to stop. Glad
we had our last shot and
glad we took advantage of
it.”
matchup of former
league MVPs came in
the 1976 season when
Oakland’s Ken Stabler
(1974 winner) beat Min-
nesota’s Fran Tarkenton
(1975 winner).
Denver’s John Elway
was part of the next two
MVP matchups, losing
to San Francisco’s Joe
Montana after the 1989
season and beating
Green Bay’s Brett Favre
eight years later.
Then it happened
again in back-to-back
seasons in 2015-16 with
Denver’s Peyton Man-
ning besting Carolina’s
Cam Newton and Brady
beating Atlanta’s Matt
Ryan.
Brady was also part of
the only previous match-
up of Super Bowl MVPs
losing a rematch to Eli
Manning and the New
York Giants following
the 2011 season.
This will also be the
second time in NFL his-
tory that the past two
championship quarter-
backs are facing off in
the title game. The only
other time it happened
came in 1943 when
Washington’s Sammy
Baugh faced Chicago’s
Sid Luckman. Baugh
had won the title with
Washington in 1942 and
Luckman with the Bears
in 1941.
Brady is also the
fourth quarterback to
start Super Bowls for
two franchises, joining
Peyton Manning (Indi-
anapolis and Denver),
Kurt Warner (Rams and
Arizona) and Craig Mor-
ton (Dallas and Denver).

Super Bowl week helps ‘shine a light’ on human trafficking
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One night when Kirk
Cousins was 16, as he lis-
tened to a presentation
at his family’s church
in Michigan, he learned
for the first time about
the worldwide atrocity
of human trafficking.
Millions of those vic-
tims are younger than
Cousins was then.
“I just remember be-
ing kind of struck to the
core and being convict-
ed and thinking, ‘What
can I do?’” the Minneso-
ta Vikings quarterback
said this week.
Eight years later,
Cousins found an an-
swer to his prayer for
opportunity to help: a
career in the NFL. As a
rookie with Washington
in 2012, he was invited
by a teammate to attend
a benefit for the Interna-
tional Justice Mission.
The dots quickly con-
nected in his mind.
That speaker Cousins
remembered hearing in
high school? His name
was Gary Haugen, the
founder of IJM, a Chris-
tian organization that
works to stop trafficking
and abuse of the poor
around the world by
rescuing and restoring
victims, holding perpe-
trators accountable, and
strengthening justice
systems. That event fur-
ther stoked the passion
NFL
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the Chiefs in the Super
Bowl next Sunday, the
first rematch in the NFL
finale in nearly a decade.
Same teams, same
venue, much higher
stakes.
The Chiefs are count-
ing on the same outcome.
The Bucs, who have won
seven straight since that
late November loss, are
looking to become the
eighth team in 14 tries to
beat an opponent in the
Super Bowl that it lost to
in the regular season.
Both sides expect to
lean on — and learn from
— that previous meeting.
“We’ll help a little bit
more than we did in that
ballgame,” Bucs coach
Bruce Arians said.
Tampa’s biggest and
most obvious mistake
was trying to single-cov-
er Hill, one of the fastest
players in the league.
Davis was burned repeat-
edly, including on con-
secutive TD passes from
Patrick Mahomes to Hill
(75 and 44 yards) in the
first quarter. Davis gave
up their third scoring
MLB
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the current calendar
that calls a voluntary
reporting date of Feb.
17 for pitchers, catchers
and injured players, and
Feb. 22 for others.
Opening day would
be pushed back 27 days
from its currently sched-
uled April 1 and the reg-
ular season would end
Oct. 10 instead of Oct. 3.
The postseason would
extend into November.
The people familiar
with the plan spoke on
condition of anonymi-
ty Sunday because no
announcements were
made. The sides have
not discussed the pro-
posal with each other
since MLB made it.
A day before the plan
was presented, Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred said
Coaches
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caneers feel the same
about Arians, the
68-year-old coach who
was part of two champi-
onship teams as an as-
sistant in Pittsburgh.
“He’s a great man.
He’s a great leader. He’s
in Cousins to join the
cause.
This year, IJM was
picked by the Tampa
Bay area host commit-
tee for Super Bowl 55
to support anti-traffick-
ing efforts. Cousins, as
part of IJM’s pro athlete
group Team Freedom,
has taken a lead role
in helping raise aware-
ness. Other NFL players
involved include Zach
Ertz, Trey Burton, Jason
McCourty and Devin
McCourty.
IJM is based in Wash-
ington, with 21 field
offices in 13 countries
dedicated to the work.
The Australia-based
Walk Free Foundation
has estimated that 40
million people are vic-
tims of modern slavery
worldwide. According
to the U.S. State Depart-
ment, there are about 25
million humans being
trafficked around the
globe. That means peo-
ple forced to perform
work for an exploiter’s
benefit. Many of those
victims are being traf-
ficked specifically for
sex, often sold up to 20
times per day. One in
four is a child.
“What we need to do
is wake people up and
bring light to it to real-
ize it’s taking place,”
Cousins said. I find
when you shine a light
on darkness, the dark-
connection, too, but had
much tighter coverage
on what was a perfect
throw and catch.
Hill had seven recep-
tions for 203 yards and
two TDs in the first quar-
ter alone, but just six
catches for 66 yards and
a score the rest of the
way. The difference?
“I just got tired. I got
tired of running,” Hill
joked this week.
“No, let me stop,” he
continued. “Todd Bowles
is a great defensive coor-
dinator. He’s been doing
it for a long time. I’m
sure he’s seen guys like
me throughout his ca-
reer. Just being able to
dial up (coverages) and
things like that to slow
me down.
“Also … bringing the
safety over the top a bit
to double me and (Tra-
vis) Kelce. That kind of
slowed us down a lot,
plus their front seven is
tremendous. Once they
get clicking on defense,
they’re a great defense.
They fly around the field;
they’re great. I feel like
he would like to know by
his regular Monday call
with owners if the union
had interest in delaying
the start of spring train-
ing.
The reasoning be-
hind the delay would be
to gain time for more
vaccinations and better
assess the health situa-
tion.
Seven teams in each
league would make the
playoffs, and only the
division winner with the
best record would re-
ceive a bye in the best-of-
three first round. There
would be a selection
show in which the seed-
ed teams would be able
to, in order of percent-
age, select their first-
round opponent. The
three advancing teams
a great person. He’s a
great friend,” Brady
said. “He’s very loyal.
He’s just got a great way
of communicating effec-
tively with everybody
around here. Everybody
has a great affection for
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ness has to back off.” have been included in the Team Freedom, inspired who’ve attended every in-
The bright light is on process to enhance vic- to join after learning stallment of the big game.
this week with the stag- tim support, said Kevin about child sex traffick- But Don Crisman,
ing of Super Bowl 55. Sibley, the acting special ing at a conference for Tom Henschel and Greg-
High-profile events agent in charge for the pro athletes while he was ory Eaton have tickets in
that draw big-spending, Tampa branch of Home- still playing. hand and say they will be
out-of-town visitors, land Security Investiga- “At the time, I was there, as they have every
even during a pandem- tions. living in a complete year since the first AFL-
ic that has curtailed the “I think that we have a bubble,” Brown said. “It NFL World Champion-
crowd sizes and party very good, robust plan to- just pulled on my heart- ship Game in 1967. The
scene, are natural tar- day,” Sibley said. “When I strings.” trio, who range in age
gets for traffickers. In first got into this 25 years Raising children, from 79 to 84, are among
Atlanta t wo years ago, ago, we literally had no naturally, has made the an ever-shrinking group
the FBI reported that an idea what we were doing.” cause feel even more of fans who have wit-
11-day pre-Super Bowl Much of HSI’s work pressing, as Cousins re- nessed every Super Bowl
operation yielded the involves faceless victims, cently reflected in a con- in person.
arrests of 169 people, in- but human trafficking versation with his wife They normally use
cluding 26 alleged traf- cases can be emotionally about their 3-year-old the event as a chance to
fickers, and the rescues draining for even those son. catch up with each oth-
of nine juvenile victims. with the most steely “I know someday er, but this time they’re
The NFL highlights of demeanors. Victims Cooper’s going to go to working coronavirus-era
several local organiza- rarely realize they are school and someone’s precautions into the trip.
tions at the Super Bowl victims, said Sibley, as going to make fun of They’ll settle for an out-
site each year as part he cited a prior case as a him. Someone’s going door lunch while seated
of community-building sobering example. to criticize him. Some- several feet apart to meet
efforts, and one grant “Despite the fact that one’s going to bully him. up this year.
went to the Hillsborough the trafficker and his That’s part of life, but In the stands, they’ll
County Commission friends had raped the vic- that would just infuriate be seated several rows
on Human Trafficking. tim numerous times, de- me,” Cousins said. “So apart.
With Florida ranking spite the fact that he had you can imagine all the “Of course I’m con-
third among U.S. states beaten her, despite the more someone actually cerned. Who wouldn’t be?
in volume of human traf- fact that he had shoved a trafficking him. It’s hard My doctor’s concerned. He
ficking victims, this is a gun in her face and other to even go there, but it said don’t go,” said Cris-
high-priority issue. places, during sentenc- just explains the level of man, 84, of Kennebunk,
Over the last two de- ing she actually testified darkness, the fact that Maine.
cades, Congress has on his behalf and told this is happening in the Crisman, who is flying
provided law enforce- him she loved him,” Sib- millions, and the fact from Boston to the game
ment agencies more ley said. “So traffickers that something must be site of Tampa, Florida,
tools for specifically have a very, very power- done.” hasn’t been on a plane
charging human traf- ful hold over their vic- since his return trip from
ficking crimes. Collab- tims.” last year’s Super Bowl.
oration between munic- Those powerful feel- Fans who’ve been to He’s bringing his daugh-
ipal, county, state and ings can also be used for every Super Bowl book in ter, a medical technician
federal authorities has good. Former NFL run- PORTLAND, Maine who has been working
increased, and non-gov- ning back Donald Brown — The Super Bowl is go- COVID-19 vaccination
ernmental organizations is now the director of ing to look different this clinics, to the game this
such as IJM and its peers partnerships for IJM’s year for three friends year.
I just got lucky and was til the fourth to make its we’ve got a lot of stuff to the season because of a
able to get open.” comeback. Tom Brady build on.” broken right ankle. Vea
The Chiefs scored on threw two interceptions Mahomes completed returned last week and
three of their first four in the third quarter and 37 of 49 passes for 462 was the catalyst in Tam-
possessions and led 17-0 the Bucs trailed 27-10 be- yards and three TDs. Hill pa’s five-sack day against
before the Bucs crossed fore a furious rally. finished with the 14th- Green Bay.
midfield. The margin Brady found Mike Ev- most receiving yards in “They kind of read-
could have been even ans for scores of 31 and any game in NFL histo- justed some things and
greater had Tampa’s de- 7 yards, the first one ry and the most since then they had a week off,
fense not forced a field coming on a fourth-and-3 Julio Jones notched 300 had a lot of guys get ac-
goal after Kansas City play early in the quarter against Carolina in 2016. climated to the system
ran two plays from the and the second one com- Brady completed 27 of that Tom Brady likes,
1-yard line. ing after a pair of rough- 41 passes for 345 yards, their coach likes,” Chiefs
Davis knocked down ing-the-passer penalties with three scores and defensive lineman Chris
Kelce’s pass to Ma- on Frank Clark. two picks. Jones said. “They’ve
homes, a nifty trick play Down three with 4:10 Neither team will be
been playing well, es-
that started when Ma- to play, Tampa turned completely the same in
pecially later in the sea-
homes flipped to Hill, to its defense to get a the rematch.
son. ... They’re definitely
who pitched to Kelce, stop and get Brady the The Chiefs had to
a different team from
who expected to find Ma- ball back. But Mahomes shuffle their offensive
homes open in the end didn’t let it happen, line again this week af- when we played them a
zone. It was Davis’ best scrambling for one first ter losing left tackle Eric couple of weeks ago.”
play of the afternoon. down and then rolling Fisher to a torn Achil- Hill and Davis,
Kansas City settled left on third-and-7 and les tendon in the AFC though, are sure to be
for the chip-shot field finding — who else? — championship game. lined up across from
goal on the opening pos- Hill for a first down in Two more starters — each other at some point.
session. Mahomes and front of — who else? — right tackle Mitchell “You go back and look
Co. had a chance to ex- Davis. Mahomes then Schwartz (back) and at the game and what
tend their 17-0 lead early took a knee to end the left guard Kelechi Ose- matchups you had,” Ar-
in the second, but Shaq game. mele (knees) — haven’t ians said. “Familiarity
Barrett stripped the “You learn from mis- played since October. helps. I’m not really ex-
quarterback on a first- takes and you learn from The Bucs will have cited playing Tyreek Hill
and-goal play from the really good things, and 350-pound defensive and Kelce and Mahomes
8 and forced the Chiefs’ there were some real- tackle Vita Vea back for (again). That’s a formi-
lone turnover. ly good things in that the second straight game dable challenge, but our
Tampa Bay waited un- game,” Arians said. “So after he missed most of guys will be up for it.”
in each league and the medical experts and the The World Series son was expanded to 16
one with a bye would ad- union there is an unrea- would be scheduled teams and ended Oct. 27
vance to the best-of-five sonable safety risk to to end in the Nov. 10 when the Los Angeles
Division Series, starting players or staff or if the range, with the exact Dodges beat the Tam-
the traditional rounds of number of regular ma- time depending on dis- pa Bay Rays in World
the postseason. jor leaguers unavailable cussions with broadcast Series Game 6. Players
While the plan says because of COVID-19 partners. received 60/162nds of
players would receive undermines completive As part of the plan, their salaries.
100% of pay if all 154 integrity. owners would guaran- No fans were allowed
scheduled games are Each team would tee a postseason play- during the regular sea-
played, Manfred would start with 18 scheduled ers’ pool of 60% of the son last year, which be-
have an expanded right days off, and each team gate of the first two
cause of the pandemic
to stop spring train- would be allowed to be first-round games plus
started July 23 rather
ing, the regular season scheduled up to 12 split $80 million for the re-
than March 26. About
or the postseason un- doubleheaders. mainder of the postsea-
der certain conditions. Players usually are son, matching the 2019 11,000 fans per game at-
Those would be if gov- reluctant to agree to pool. tended the NL Champi-
ernment restrictions split doubleheaders be- Players previously re- onship Series and World
prevent five or more cause of the lengthy day jected a proposal teams Series, both played at
teams from playing at the ballpark each en- made Jan. 5 for expand- the neutral site in Ar-
home games even with- tails ed playoffs in exchange lington, Texas. In a deal
out fans, if government The regular season for extending the DH to for expanded 16 -team
rules restrict travel in would be compressed to the National League. playoffs in 2020, MLB
the United States, if 154 games in 166 days Last season was cut guaranteed a postsea-
Manfred determines from 162 games in 186 rom 162 games per team son players’ pool of $50
after consultation with days. to 60, and the postsea- million.
him for the person that “I think that is what ery day of practice. as an interim coach while
he is. There’s nobody you want to do for a “Just really excited Chuck Pagano was ill,
that would ever say a coach — you want to get for him to be recognized and in 2014 for Arizona.
bad thing about B.A., out there and you want the way that he is. I know “But just done an amaz-
he’s just so endearing to to win for him. He puts he’s a two-time Coach of ing job this year with the
everybody and I think a lot into it, expects a lot the Year,” Brady adds of team and really adverse
everyone wants to win out of it. (He has) high the awards Arians took situations and just love
for him. expectations for us ev- in 2012 with Indianapolis playing for him.”
4B MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Day after rules controversy, Reed wins at Torrey Pines
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO — Patrick
Reed was so unaffected
by a rules controversy a
day earlier that he won the
Farmers Insurance Open
by five shots, the biggest
margin in his nine career
PGA Tour victories.
Reed closed with a 4-un-
der 68 at Torrey Pines,
making an eagle on the
par-5 sixth and finishing
off his dominating Sunday
with a birdie on the 18th.
The former Masters
champions finished at 14
under after a consistent
four days at the blufftop
municipal courses over-
looking the Pacific Ocean.
He shared the first-round
lead with Alex Noren, was
in a group one shot off the
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
lead in the second round
and then shared the third-
round lead with Carlos Or-
tiz.
Reed said staying men-
tally strong, as well as good
play with his wedge and
putter, were able to “keep
me in the golf tournament
and really allowed me to
have a fun stroll up 18.”
The controversy arose
Saturday on the par-4 10th
when Reed hit a 190-yard
shot out of a bunker with a
TV replay showing the ball
bounced once before set-
tling into the rough. With-
out waiting for an official,
Reed picked up the ball
to see if it was embedded.
Reed told the official that
no one in his group, as well
as a nearby volunteer, saw
it bounce. He was awarded
FAMILY CIRCUS
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a free drop and saved par in
a round of 70.
On Sunday, Reed
jump-started his round
with a 45-foot eagle putt
on the No. 6 to get to 12
under and followed with
a birdie on the par-4 sev-
enth. His only bogey was
on the par-3 eighth, and he
rebounded with a birdie on
the par-5 ninth. He played
par the rest of the way un-
til sinking an 8-foot birdie
putt on No. 18.
“I was allowed to kind
of put it behind me when
the head rules official
comes up and says you
did everything you were
supposed to do,” Reed
said. “When you do ev-
erything you’re supposed
to do, at the end of the day
that’s all you can control.
Going into today, I felt
good, I felt confident and
really went to the golf
course, plugged in my
headphones and just kind
of got in my world with
my coach and got to that
first tee.”
Tony Finau, Xander
Schauffele, Ryan Palmer,
Henrik Norlander and
Viktor Hovland tied for
second.
Reed said he was resil-
iant.
“I knew today was go-
ing to be a grind, especial-
ly with that leaderboard
and seeing how many big
names were right around
there at the top. I knew
you were going to have to
go out and play on offense.
You couldn’t play defense.
You had to go out there
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My wife and
I have dear
friends, one of
whom has been
diagnosed with
untreatable can-
cer. The doctors
told him to go
home and maxi-
mize his quality
of life. The first
step he took was
to completely cut
us out.
We had been
friends for years. Dear Abby
They watched
the big football
games with us at our house.
When he was diagnosed, I was
the first person outside of his
family he called. They stood
up with us when we renewed
our vows. I have cut cords of
firewood for them. We traveled
together.
Recently, the wife posted
on Facebook that when under-
going trials you find out who
your friends really are. We have
been tossed aside like worn-
out shoes.
My question is, when he
passes, if we learn about it,
would it be appropriate to at-
tend the funeral to say goodbye
to this man we dearly love and
offer our condolences to the
widow? — ALREADY BEREAVED
IN KANSAS
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb.
1). Complications dissolve. Sim-
plicity sets you free. Be decisive
and you’ll create astounding
success as you frame problems
in practical terms, find solutions
and repeat them hundreds of
times. The answers that work
best will be very specific and
unique to you. Work what works,
and if it’s not working, try some-
thing else. Libra and Scorpio
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 3, 33, 8, 20 and 12.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Everyone has their faults,
though none more annoying
than those possessed by your
nearest and dearest. You’ll be
wise to accept an unpleasant
aspect of a loved one, as it’s
and shoot a number.
“It was kind of shaky
there early on in the be-
ginning, kind of a cou-
ple shots that seemed to
kind of get a little bit away
from me. But I was able
to rely on the short game
early and get in a groove
there in the middle of the
round.”
Hovland had been the
closest in pursuit with four
birdies on the front nine,
including on the ninth to
get to 12 under. But the
birdies dried up and he bo-
geyed Nos. 14, 15 and 17
— missing a 2-footer on 17
— in a round of 1-under 71.
“The front nine was
awesome, made four bird-
ies and was just really
solid tee to green; made
some putts there as well,”
DEAR
ALREADY
BEREAVED:
Everyone reacts
differently after
receiving a di-
agnosis like the
one your friend
received. Some
people reach out
for support, but
a sizable number
do the opposite.
They “circle the
wagons,” which
may be what this
man has done.
It would be
interesting to
know if his wife was aware of
the message you were given,
because from what she post-
ed, she may not have been. I
think it is time to reach out to
her privately and ask her how
you can be supportive — if
only to her. And yes, when he
passes you should pay your re-
spects and offer condolences.
Funerals are for the living.
DEAR ABBY: For the past
few months I’ve been seeing a
gentleman in his late 50s who
lost his last girlfriend, “Vera,”
in a tragic accident. Her death
was less than a year ago and
he is still grieving, which I
respect and am not uncom-
fortable with. My beau has low
self-esteem. He thinks the rela-
tionship he had with Vera made
going nowhere.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
People need. They think that
fulfilling the need will bring hap-
piness. Whether it is really so
is beside the point. The point is
asking yourself if you know the
need. Can you address it?
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
The root of all feelings is within.
When we are upset, we tend
to blame others. At least this
makes it easier to articulate the
problem. Once articulated, bring
it back to yourself for solutions.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Those who’ve had adventures
and can regale you with tales of
survival are sources of inspira-
tion. In-person contact makes
the strongest impression, but
Hovland said. “On the
back I didn’t really feel
like I played bad at all, you
know, it was just a couple
of mistakes and it’s so
easy to just let things kind
of slip away.
“But it’s cool to kind
of be up there having a
chance to win. Didn’t work
out this time, but I feel like
I learned a lot.”
Ortiz stumbled badly
with a round of 6-over 78.
He hurt himself with three
bogeys on the front nine
that left him even at the
turn. He had even more
trouble on the back nine,
when he bogeyed No. 11
and then had trouble get-
ting out of a greenside
bunker on No. 12, taking
a double-bogey 6. He bo-
geyed 15, 16 and 18.
him a better person, and that
without her he will be less so.
I understand his sorrow and
that he needs more time to
sort through his feelings but,
if things work out with us, and
we continue to see each other,
I want to know how I can also
make him feel like I’m helping
him be a better person. He
says it was “just the relation-
ship they had” and that he
doesn’t know how to put it into
words.
I don’t want to replace
Vera or copy her, but I do wish
I could understand what she
did to help him believe positive
things about himself. — NEW
GIRLFRIEND IN NEW HAMP-
SHIRE
DEAR GIRLFRIEND: In order
to understand that, it would
be helpful to see if he can
explain the reason for his low
self-esteem. Was it hypercriti-
cal parents? Difficulty fitting in
with peers that started when
he was in school? Not receiv-
ing enough positive feedback
in his youth?
Once you gain more insight,
you may be able to find the
answers you are looking for.
Both partners in a relationship
should use whatever attri-
butes they have to make EACH
OTHER feel positive. However,
please recognize it should not
be your responsibility to prop
him up on a continuing basis.
the example of media role mod-
els can be surprisingly affecting.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
ego is a necessary and useful
contributor to your survival, and
yet it often contributes to a lot
of unnecessary and useless
noise. Keeping it in check is the
name of the game today.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Friction polishes the jewel. Noth-
ing shines without it. So don’t
be afraid to clash with others.
If done well, it will make both
of you better. If done badly, the
outcome will be the same, only
more painfully accomplished.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Of all your choices, none is so
clear an indicator of how you
think about yourself than your
choice of company. Self-love is
surrounding yourself with sup-
portive, encouraging, inspiring
people who get you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You don’t like wasting time.
Once you’re at that irritated
feeling that your time is being
wasted, it’s already too late.
Disinterest and boredom were
a few miles back. Get off at the
next exit.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Just as a movie director
becomes known for turning out
a particular kind of film, your
audience has come to expect
a certain emotional tone from
you. Today, you’ll enact a genre-
cross.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). Want a shortcut to
creating meaning in your life?
Help someone else do what’s
meaningful to them. You get the
residual impact of joy as well as
a dose of inspiration to apply to
your next venture.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). You’ve stopped many
conflicts before they began
by simply making a prediction
about what would happen next
if you said X, Y or Z. You’ve
frequently been rewarded by
your forethought, and now you’ll
be commended for it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You could be the best in
the world at something but if
that thing is not popular, few will
notice. If such a fact doesn’t di-
minish your passion to practice,
then it means you’ve definitely
chosen the right endeavor.
Social distancing
SOLUTION:
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