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THEY DON’T JUST TEACH

BOUNCE BACK AFFAIR

Arrests from July 21 to Aug. 17.

Women’s soccer looks to rebound against Marist.

Students can go to browse the hundreds of organizations, but don’t need to commit to any.

INSIDE NEWS: SUMMER POLICE BLOTTER CONTINUED

Out to Lunch LectureNoon to 1:30 p.m.Student Union 403

The Rainbow Center’s Out to Lunch series will begin this semester with a lecture from Suzanne Seymour called, “Showing Our PRIDE: The Passion and Struggle for LGBT Rights.”

Study Abroad 1011 to 2:15 p.m.

CUE, 321

This information session will address study abroad basics, including aca-demic requirements, financial aid, deadlines and more.

Metanoia Panel3 to 4:30 p.m.Dodd Center

President Susan Herbst will be joined by fellow experts Dr. Roderick Hart and Mr. Bradley Honan for a dis-cussion on civility.

Women’s Soccer7 to 9 p.m.

Joseph J. Morrone Stadium

The Huskies will take on Marist tonight.

– VICTORIA SMEY

46th annual Art Dept. Faculty Exhibit opens.

With new bus routes this semester comes an updated Husky Bus app.

The popular app among stu-dents, available in Apple’s app store, was created by Evan Kimia a year ago. His goal was to help students figure out which bus route to take and which bus is coming the soonest by using a bus map designed by Kimia based off of the UConn Campus Map.

Kimia, a Computer Science major in the last semester of his senior year, said the recent update contains a number of improvements.

“The new version was updated to provide a real-time mini map of your bus so you can actually see where it is, said Kimia. Instead of see-ing every bus moving it will only show you the one clos-est to you, making the screen less cluttered. It also shows if the bus is currently stopped and what direction it’s going in, along with your current position if it’s getting close to you.”

The update also gives Kimia the power to modify a stop instantly. If transportation informs him of any changes, it would take five minutes to alter instead of waiting one

week, since Apple manually approves each update.

Kimia, a native of Manhattan, said that he set out to do two things when developing the app.

“Help me figure out what route to take because trans-portation only provided indi-

vidual maps for each route and not one universal bus map like they have in the New York City subway system and to tell me when the bus is coming,” Kimia.

The Husky Bus app, origi-nally designed for Android devices, had to be discon-

tinued in order for it to be compatible with Apple’s iOS format for the iPhone.

Kimia programmed and designed all versions of the Husky Bus app himself and as a result, Apple awarded him a scholarship to attend their annual Worldwide Developer

Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco this past summer. WWDC is a weeklong Apple School where Apple engi-neers teach new technologies, and introduce new Apple products.

By Ben WilsonCampus Correspondent

A UConn bus drives down North Hillside Road by the Lodewick Visitors Center. The recently updated Husky Bus app shows students the closest place and time to catch a bus to their destinations.

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A UConn professor and the director of UConn’s economic analysis center spoke out regard-ing a U.S. Senate candidate’s jobs plan in an interview Friday.

Professor Fred Carstensen criti-cized Linda McMahon’s plan, which calls for a balanced bud-get amendment, tax cuts for the middle class and a decrease in government spending.

“People like tax cuts. People like also to be told that you’re going to improve the training pro-grams that are available to people so that they’re more competitive in the workplace,” Carstensen said.

He approved of the proposal to improve training programs, but called the idea of a balanced budget amendment “totally irre-sponsible” because no household balances its budget. Rather, most households borrow money in order to pay for a house or for a higher education, Carstensen said.

“A balanced budget amendment is idiotic, it is irresponsible. No household, no business balances their budget in the way in which she’s talking about,” he said.

Carstensen also questioned McMahon’s proposal to cut taxes. Her proposal to cut government revenue “very dramatically” but only cut government expenditures slightly, at one percent per year, will ultimately run a huge deficit, Carstensen explained.

Regarding McMahon’s pro-posal to cut government waste, Carstensen said, “Waste is still somebody’s income. In mak-ing those cuts you’re still taking money away from somebody.”

If McMahon could find dupli-cative government programs and eliminate some in an attempt to reduce government spending

then “at the end of the day you’re able to save, what, three, four percent of the federal budget?” Carstensen said.

The professor went on to explain that McMahon’s proposed tax cuts may not be a good idea.

He noted that the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 were fol-lowed by the lowest level of business investments in America since WWII. In fact, those tax cuts benefitted other countries but not the United States, he said, causing the United States to become increasingly dependent on imports for consumer goods.

“Massive cuts to household income might be beneficial to the world economy. It’s not clear that it’s beneficial for the American economy,” he said.

Carstensen said he would like to see a narrative from McMahon explaining how her proposals would translate into American jobs.

“Her items look like they simply were picked off of a menu of polit-ically attractive items. She offers no systematic economic analysis of how the proposals will actually work out,” he said.

By Elizabeth BowlingCampus Correspondent

At the start of the school year most students are focused on catching up with friends, figur-ing out if they like their classes and getting involved with activ-ities around campus. However, students should also make a point of visiting Career Services once their semester is underway.

Since its relocation this sum-mer, Career Services has been divided. The Department of Career Services: Center for Career Planning and Development can be found in the Wilbur Cross Building in Room 201. This office is the starting point for anything one might do with Career Services. In the Student Union Room 203 there is the Department of Career Services: Center for Internship and Employer Relations.

Michael Petro, Assistant Director for Employer Relations, explained that, “The spirit of Career Services hasn’t changed.”

Petro anticipates that there will be an adjustment period. He encourages students to call if they have questions.

The Wilbur Cross office is the first point of contact for any-one coming to Career Services. All walk in services, such as résumé critique and career counseling can be found there. Résumé critiques are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All other walk-in services are avail-able Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. In Room 203 at the Student Union students can find information concerning intern-ships and employer relations. Most of what happens at this

location is appointment based, such as practice interviews and On-Campus Interviewing for jobs. Both offices have four professional full time staff.

Career Services has a large website with many opportuni-ties that can be taken advan-tage of. New to the website this semester are the Optimal Résumé and Optimal Interview programs. Optimal Résumé helps students create their first résumé. Optimal Interview allows students to remain in their room and have a mock interview. A coach is available to help with answers, and stu-dents can use their computer cameras to record the interview so they can look back at it later. Although these programs do not

replace meeting one on one with Career Services staff, they are an excellent place to get started.

Stephanie Shaw, a ninth-semester theatre studies major had the following to say about Career Services. “I’m not plan-ning to visit them this semes-ter, but I have visited them in the past. They were super help-ful when I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do after discovering I didn’t want to teach.”

Both Petro and Nancy Bilmes, Career Service’s Associate Director, had advice for UConn students.

Freshmen shouldn’t wait to connect with Career Services. They should allow themselves

Career Services relocates, offers many new services

In this April 10 file photo, Wendy Kopp, Director of Marketing at Panera Bread, shows off a sample resume during a Career Services lecture about internships.

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Professor criticizes McMahon’s jobs plan

“Her items look like they simply were picked off of a menu of politically attractive items.”

– Fred CarstensenDirector of

Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis

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Comptroller says deficit was $144 million

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s comptroller says the state closed the 2012 fiscal year with a $143.6 million budget deficit.

Kevin Lembo says state spending was up almost $937 million from 2011, or about 5.2 percent, while revenues increased 4.8 percent, falling $227 million short of the original budget’s target.

He says the deficit has been wiped out using reserve funds, but warns the state will have to monitor things closely in 2013 to pre-vent more red ink.

The state has budgeted a 2.6 percent increase in spending, and is predicting a 3.1 percent increase in revenues in the current fis-cal year. Lembo says those spending numbers are historically low and noted the state will need to take quick remedial action if actual outlays are above those numbers.

New Haven man sentenced for role in drug ring

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A New Haven man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for distributing heroin as part of a group that obtained drugs in the New York City area for sale in Connecticut.

Jerome Harper was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven.

The 54-year-old Harper, also known as “Hop,” plead guilty in June to conspiracy to distribute heroin.

He is among 11 people who have plead guilty to charges stem-ming from a Drug Enforcement Administration task force inves-tigation called “Operation Brick House.” Federal authorities say the investigation targeted a heroin distribution ring based in New Haven and led to the seizure of heroin, cocaine and four firearms.

Greenwich man winslottery twice this summerGREENWICH (AP) — A Greenwich resident has won the state

lottery for the second time this summer.Good thing his wife needed milk at the store.Joe Lanoce won $25,000 playing the “$200,000 High Stakes

Casino” game. Earlier in the summer he won $10,000 playing the “$1,000,000 Jackpot” game.

Lanoce bought both tickets at Courtesy Mobil Greenwich.“I’ve been very lucky; I bought both winning tickets at the

same place,” Lanoce said in a news release issued Friday by Connecticut Lottery. “This time, if it wasn’t for my wife I wouldn’t have been shopping there at all last night – she told me we needed to get milk.”

Lanoce arrived at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill last week where he accepted a check for $17,081, his latest winning after taxes. Like the last lottery prize he won, he says the money will go toward his daughter’s college education.

Troopers respond to 281 accidents on long weekendHARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut state police say they

responded to 281 accidents on the state’s roadways over the holiday weekend.

Troopers increased manpower for patrols in an operation that ran from Friday until Labor Day.

Authorities say police made 59 arrests for driving under the influence and issued citations for 2,151 speeding violations.

Of the 281 accidents police say 59 involved injuries and one crash in Vernon was fatal.

Rising number of kids exempted from vaccines

BRIDGEPORT (AP) — An increasing number of Connecticut students are being exempted from vaccinations as parents cite aller-gic reactions or religious prohibitions.

The Connecticut Post reports that according to the state Department of Public Health, 1,056 children entering kindergarten and seventh grade last year received exemptions. That’s up by 127 percent from 2003, when the state recorded 465 such exemptions.

Vaccination coverage in Connecticut remains high, with more than 97 percent receiving various vaccinations.

A medical exemption excuses a child due to an allergic reaction, pediatric cancer or HIV or other immune disorders.

Several possible reasons are cited to explain why exemptions are on the rise, said Dr. Thomas Murray, assistant professor of medical science at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter School of Medicine.

Some parents worry that vaccines could be linked to autism and other health problems in children, but experts have repeatedly said no evidence supports such a link. Another theory, he said, is that vaccines have become so successful that most parents have no experience with measles, polio and other illnesses.

July 21

Michael W. Sutcliffe, 26, of Willington, was arrested at 11:57 p.m. on Middle Turnpike and charged with possession of narcotics. Sutcliffe was the pas-senger in a vehicle stopped on Middle Turnpike. Sutcliffe was arrested on an active arrest war-rant stemming from an incident on July 13, 2012, where he was found to be in possession of 2 grams of Heroin. His bond was posted at $7,000.

July 22

Leon Brown, 53, of Willimantic, was arrested at 2:30 p.m. on Tower Road and charged with burglary in the third degree, credit card theft, illegal use of a credit card and larceny in the fifth degree. Brown was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant stem-ming from an incident on May 9, 2012, where it was determined that Brown was responsible for unlawfully being in a residence, stealing $900 and possessing and using a credit card that did not belong to him. His bond was posted at $4,000 and his court date was on July 31.

July 25

Robert T. Cardin, 19, of Glastonbury, was arrested at 6:00 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with criminal mischief in the third degree. Cardin was arrested at

the UConn Police Department for a warrant stemming from an incident on April 18, 2012 where he vandalized three UConn box trucks. His bond was posted at $250 and his court date was on August 7.

July 26

Mate Magyar, 23, of Mansfield, was arrested at 11:40 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with criminal mischief in the sec-ond degree. Magyar turned himself in to UConn Police Headquarters after learning of an outstanding warrant issued for his arrest. The warrant stemmed from an incident on May 9. His bond was posted at $300 and his court date was on August 7.

July 30

Kevin J. Ziegler, 22, of Willimantic, was arrested at 9:40 a.m. and charged with fail-ing to appear in the first degree. Ziegler was arrested for fail-ing to appear in court, having missed his scheduled court date on July 24, 2012. The original charges were burglary in the third degree and larceny in the sixth degree from an incident reported to police on March 5, 2012. His bond was posted at $10,000 and his court date was on July 30.

August 1

Sahrish Makhdoom, 21, of Southington, was arrested at 1:37 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with failure to appear in the second degree. Makhdoom turned her-self in to UConn Police after learning of an active warrant for her arrest. The warrant stemmed from an incident that occurred on May 5, 2012, where Makhdoom was stopped for a

motor vehicle violation and it was learned that she was driving with a suspended license. She then failed to appear for her July 23 court date. Her bond was posted at $100 and her court date was on August 14.

Jaymine A. Patel, 20, of Branford, was arrested at 12:53 p.m. at the UConn Co-Op and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. Patel was observed by Co-Op loss prevention staff tak-ing several jewelry type items worth $82.92 and then attempt-ing to leave without paying for them. Her bond was posted at $500 and her court date was on August 14.

Eriene M. Teneglia, 23, of East Lyme, was arrested at 3:45 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with failure to appear in the second degree. Tenaglia turned her-self in to the UConn Police Department for an active war-rant for her arrest. The arrest stemmed from an incident where Tenaglia failed to appear in court on July 17 for charges of possessing less than four ounces of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia. Her bond was posted at $1,000 and her court date was on August 14.

August 2

Brian W. Novack, 20, of Trumbull, was arrested at 9:55 a.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with breach of peace in the second degree and criminal mischief in the first degree. Novack turned himself in after learning of an active warrant for his arrest. The warrant stemmed from an incident on May 28, 2012 where police concluded that Novack caused damage to a car by kicking, punching and jumping on it. His bond was posted at $400 and his court

date was on August 14.

August 13

Edwin Gonzalez, 18, of Willimantic, was arrested at 4:46 a.m. at Hillside Road and charged with interfering with an officer and larceny in the fourth degree. Gonzalez was seen by police, within a group of peo-ple, pushing a moped on the roadway. Upon seeing police, Gonzalez dropped the moped and fled the scene. Police locat-ed Gonzalez and it was deter-mined that Gonzalez was steal-ing the moped. His bond was posted at $5,000.

Joshua Serrano, 19, of Stratford, was arrested at 4:46 a.m. at Y Lot and charged with interfering with an offi-cer and larceny in the fourth degree. Serrano was seen by police, within a group of peo-ple, pushing a moped on the roadway. Upon seeing police, Serrano dropped the moped and fled the scene. Police located Serrano and it was determined that Serrano was stealing the moped. His bond was posted at $5,000 and his court date was on August 13.

August 17

Matthew B. Eastman, 23, of East Hartford, was arrested at 12:59 a.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with failure to obey a control signal and driving under the influence. Police stopped Eastman’s car for a motor vehicle violation. Police suspected Eastman of being under the influence and Eastman was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on August 27.

Henry O. Melifonwu, 18, of South Grafton, MA, was arrest-ed at 5:02 p.m. at the UConn Co-Op and charged with lar-ceny in the sixth degree. Police responded to a complaint from the UConn Co-Op that the loss prevention staff was detaining a subject for stealing some items. Melifonwu was identified as responsible for taking the items, which consisted of earphones and an iPhone cover worth a total of $154.90. His bond was posted at $1,000 and his court date was on August 28.

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time to settle in, but by the end of their first semester or the beginning of their second semester they should start build-ing their résumés so that they will have a foundation to work with over the next four years. They should also get involved with activities around campus.

Sophomores and juniors should start thinking about the internship process. They should continue to be involved in activ-ities, move into more authorita-tive positions within their activi-ties if they can and maybe find something new to try.

Seniors should start forming their post-graduation plan now. If they are planning on attending graduate school, now is the time to start looking. If they are look-ing for jobs now is also the time to start looking. Employers are hiring now for the summer, so it’s important that seniors have a strong résumé and take advantage of all the services Career Services

has to offer.Career Services also has a

number of events coming up.Sept. 14 is GE Day. General

Electric will be at the Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are looking in particular for busi-ness, math, statistics and engi-neering majors.

Sept. 15 is UConn’s first annu-al Professional Development Conference for seniors. Many seniors have signed up to attend workshops, make connections and meet potential employers.

Sept. 18 Altria will have tables in Fairfield Way. They will be looking for students who are interested in both internships and full time jobs.

Sept. 25 Traveler’s Insurance will have tables in Fairfield Way. They are looking for stu-dents of all majors.

Oct. 2 and 3 there will be a career fair in the Student Union Ballroom.

Upcoming events will help students get jump start on jobs, internships

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — With slogans like “Don’t let your vote go up in smoke!”, owners of the free-wheeling café where bags of hashish are sold alongside cups of coffee are mounting a get-out-the-stoner-vote cam-paign ahead of next week’s Dutch election.

The campaigners are calling on their sometimes apathetic dope smoking clientele to get out and support political par-ties that oppose the recently introduced “weed pass” that is intended to rein in the cafés known as coffee shops and close them altogether to for-eign tourists.

At a coffee shop in The Hague, a member of staff sell-ing weed wears a T-shirt embla-zoned with a modified Uncle Sam style poster calling on smokers to “Vote against the weed pass on Sept. 12.” Under the new system, coffee shops become member-only clubs and only Dutch residents can apply for a pass to get in. The cafés are limited to a maximum of 2,000 members.

The online vote2smoke.nl campaign offers cannabis and marijuana users voting advice by showing which political par-ties support dumping the “weed pass,” which came into force in

the southern Netherlands ear-lier this year and is intended to roll out over the whole country in coming years.

Joep Oomen of the legalize cannabis movement says it is hard to know exactly how big the pot-smoking constituency is, but he estimates it at around half a million people in this nation of 16 million.

Basically the advice to them boils down to this: Voting for any political party on the left is good, and any party on the

right is bad.One champion of the smok-

ers’ lobby is Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer, a jovial 50-year-old former teacher whose party is expected to make significant gains at the Sept. 12 election.

Speaking at a campaign event this weekend, Roemer called the weed pass “incred-ibly stupid” and vowed to scrap it if he wins power.

He said the pass system simply pushes drug dealers

onto the streets and out of the controlled environment of the coffee shops – “so stop the wietpas,” he said, using its Dutch name.

Jerome Croonenberg, enjoy-ing a joint at The Hut coffee shop in a side street close to the Dutch parliament building, said he would be voting for Roemer because of his coffee shop policy.

“I will vote to keep coffee shops open so I can keep smok-ing,” he said Tuesday.

Stoner voters targeted inDutch election campaign

In this Oct. 31 file photo customers are seen outside the coffee shop The Green House in Amsterdam, Netherlands.AP

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy whose throat was slashed by an intruder high on PCP-laced marijuana was killed trying to save his sister, com-ing to her aid as she was being assaulted on the floor, prosecu-tors said Tuesday.

Osvaldo Rivera, who is charged in Sunday’s middle-of-the-night attack, sobbed during an appearance Tuesday in court in which bail was set at $5 million.

During an interrogation, Rivera had asked: “How bad did I hurt them?” assistant prosecu-tor Christine Shah said during the hearing.

The attack early Sunday was the second time in less than two weeks that prosecutors say a Camden resident apparently high on PCP had killed a child. On Aug. 22, a Camden woman decapitated her 2-year-old son, called 911 to admit stabbing the child, then killed herself.

Authorities said they are going to test PCP on the street to see what might be behind the out-bursts of violence. The drug can make users hallucinatory and incoherent, police said.

The 31-year-old Rivera admit-ted he smoked “wet,” a combi-nation of marijuana and PCP, before the killing, police said. In the decapitation case, authori-ties said that preliminary tests showed the woman had PCP in her system and that they believed she had also smoked wet.

New details in the more recent attack were revealed after authorities interviewed the girl, 12, whose windpipe had

been slashed but whose condi-tion was upgraded from critical to stable. She ran out of the house and sought help after her brother intervened.

Both children had been sleep-ing downstairs when the assault began, police said.

The girl also said she had been raped by the attacker, Shah said at the court hearing.

Rivera, who did not enter a plea, is charged with murder and attempted murder, but prosecu-tors said more charges will be filed. Authorities said he had a drug arrest in 2009 but no other convictions. He did not yet have an attorney Tuesday.

The Associated Press is not naming the slain 6-year-old to avoid identifying his sister, who says she is a victim of sexual assault.

The 12-year-old was able to help police track down the attacker by identifying him as what sounded like “Poppy.” Investigators learned Rivera was known by the nickname “Popeye” and had spent nights at an apartment in the area of the city.

Police found him hiding between a mattress and bedroom wall in the apartment. They said they also found blood-stained sneakers that matched bloody footprints in the home where the children were assaulted.

The children were being watched by a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. The teen, who was unharmed, was caring for them because their mother recently underwent surgery and was still in the hospital.

A makeshift memorial for the slain Dominick Andujar sits on his front porch, Tuesday.AP

LAPLACE, La. (AP) — At the urging of residents who have long felt forgotten in the shad-ow of more densely populated New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers says it will look into whether the city’s fortified defenses pushed floodwaters provoked by Hurricane Isaac into outlying areas.

However, the Corps has said it is unlikely scientific analysis will confirm that theory, sug-gested not only by locals, but by some of the state’s most powerful politicians. Instead, weather experts say a unique set of circumstances about the storm – not the floodwalls surrounding the New Orleans metro area – had more to do with flooding neighborhoods that in recent years have never been under water because of storm surge.

Isaac was a large, slow-moving storm that wobbled across the state’s coast for about two and a half days, pumping water into back bays and lakes and leaving thousands of residents under water outside the massive levee sys-tem protecting metropolitan New Orleans. It was blamed for seven deaths and damaged thousands of

homes on the Gulf Coast.The Corps’ study was

prompted by the suggestion that Isaac’s surge bounced off the levees and floodgates built since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and walloped communi-ties outside the city’s ramparts.

Blaming the Army Corps of Engineers is nothing new in southern Louisiana, a region that is both dependent on the Corps and by instinct distrust-ful of an agency that wields immense power in this world of harbors, wetlands, rivers and lakes, all of which fall under the agency’s jurisdiction.

The Corps was roundly criti-cized after Hurricane Katrina, which pushed in enough water to break through the levees that had surrounded New Orleans. Much of the city was left under water, and since then the gov-ernment has spent millions rebuilding the system of flood-walls protecting the metro area.

Before that, the Corps was blamed for the unraveling of coastal marshes by erecting levees on the Mississippi River.

In towns including the bedroom community of LaPlace, people want answers. There, communi-

ties were under water even though they had never before flooded because of storm surge.

“It has a lot of us question-ing,” said Ed Powell, a 47-year-old airport emergency worker who’s lived in LaPlace for 15 years and had never seen flood-ing on his street until Isaac hit.

On Friday, U.S. Sen. David Vitter asked the Corps to com-mission an independent study to determine if the new floodwalls, gates and higher levees around greater New Orleans caused water to stack up elsewhere.

The Corps is expected to com-plete its study within two months, said U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who joined Vitter in call-ing for the study. The Corps said it was too early to say how much the study would cost. The agency said Corps researchers would conduct the study and that it will be peer-reviewed.

In a statement, the corps said it expects the study will find “minimal” changes in surge elevation because of its works around New Orleans. It based that assessment on previous modeling. The agency said it would not comment further until the scientific work is done.

Isaac came ashore as a Category 1 storm, but that classification is based on wind speed, not surge predictions. In the past, much stronger storms have produced much smaller surge levels. Isaac had a broad wind field – at times, more than 200 miles from its center – that made it capable of scooping up a lot of water, said James Franklin, the chief of hurri-cane operations at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Really strong hurricanes can sometimes produce small surge levels while weaker hurricanes – ones like Isaac – can kick up mas-sive surge. For example, in 2004, Hurricane Charley hit Florida as a compact Category 4 storm and produced a surge of only about 7 feet. By comparison, Isaac cre-ated storm surge of more than 6 feet at Lake Pontchartrain, according to U.S. Geological Survey sensors. It reached about 12 feet near Braithwaite, a com-munity flooded to its rooftops in Plaquemines Parish.

“It was like scooping up water with a broad shovel rather than a pencil point,” he said, com-paring Isaac to a more compact storm like Charley.

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Hopefully most of you are still feeling pretty sunny about school at this point.

Classes retain the sheen of novelty. Professors have not yet morphed into terrifying taskmasters. The first major deadline is a distant blip on the horizon. Student and school coexist in blissful harmony.

The honeymoon will not last. After three years at UConn, I

can assure you of this fact. Life will soon devolve into a deranged, sleep-deprived

existence based on basic mar-ket principles of supply and demand. Professor and bosses demand, and you attempt to supply said demands to the best of your abilities. But two months from now, when you are contemplating a) mass murder or b) hibernation as an honorable career option, remember the following.

Each time we set foot on the UConn Storrs campus, we are benefiting from one of the greatest education systems in the world. A system that instills not only knowledge, but creativity, that encourages not merely (or even primarily) excellence, but individuality, that promotes the dreamer even as it challenges the dream. We depart, diplomas in hand, hav-

ing learned not how to act, but rather whom we can and want to be. This is the beauty of the American system, which tells every child from kindergarten on that he or she can be whatever – and whoever – he or she is capable of dreaming up.

T h e A m e r i c a n s y s t e m , d e s p i t e the lofty l a n g u a g e thrown about at national conventions c o n c e r n i n g A m e r i c a n e x c e p t i o n -alism, does not keep this promise to all American schoolchildren. Particularly in grammar schools, during the most crucial formative years, students often do not receive the support they need and deserve. The excellent 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman provides a grip-ping depiction of the chal-lenges facing American public schools.

But all those political dema-gogues reaching into their rhe-torical arsenals these past few weeks have a point when they

speak of America as the coun-try where anything is pos-sible. I would clarify this idea. America is not great because anything is possible here; it

is great because we say anything is possible here.

We encour-age the dream, the vision and the individu-al. We praise (some might say over-praise) the schoolchild every step of the way, and public figures and the media eventually take over as parents and teachers. America is not a country that encourages or

accepts mediocrity, and to its credit it permits the individual to define success in any way he or she sees fit.

I spent the past year of my life in Paris, France; relishing the greater and lesser plea-sures of life in the land of croissants, bafflingly frequent transportation strikes and “equality.” Equality, in the context of the French school system, has another meaning. It means uniformity. It means, for many students, medioc-rity.

French students are graded on a scale of 20, in which a 10 is passing. Failing (albeit with ample opportunity for a make-up) is standard. In fact, a per-centage of any given class automatically fails, and such failure is announced publical-ly. Why strive for something more than average when the system discourages you from doing so?

I would not trade my Paris experience for anything, and I will defend my Froggie friends to the last of my Francophile days, but I believe their system ultimately discourages creative self-expression. It implies that seeking the extraordinary is a desire somehow at odds with universal equality. This is an idea that I can never accept.

So, when midterms roll around, and term papers and finals and existential crises follow (not always in that order), remember why you are lucky to go to school in the United States of America. You can’t necessarily be whoever you want to be, or do whatever you want to do, but you sure can try, and we will support you in that every painstaking step of the way.

Editorial Board Elizabeth Crowley, Editor-in-ChiefTyler McCarthy, Commentary Editor

Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary EditorChris Kempf, Weekly Columnist

John Nitowski, Weekly ColumnistSam Tracy, Weekly Columnist

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There’s this new saying out there: YOLO. It stands for “You Only Live Once,” but I highly dis-agree. We all live multiple lives

whether we intend to or not. Your life as a son or daughter is much different from your life as a student. That’s why we hate when they intersect: it means something is changing. Aside from being

a son, student, friend, boyfriend, gardener, and bartender (among others), I have two other iden-tities: Redditor and Eagle Scout. These are two lives I never expected to meet, but meet they have.

One day, browsing Reddit,

I decided to search “Eagle Scout” on a whim. What I found was post after post of Eagle Scouts sending back their badges with an open letter to the BSA in Irving, Texas saying something along the lines of, “I cannot be an Eagle Scout and wear the badge with honor while representing an organization dedicated to the prejudice and discrimination of the LGBT community.”

If you don’t know, in order to be in the Boy Scouts of America, you have to believe in God and be straight. (Ironically, there’s an easy loophole to joining if you’re a woman: just join the Venture

Scouts). While there’s still a lot of debate about the definition of “reverent” in the Scout Law, the Scouting policy toward the LGBT community is clear: no admit-tance or immediate expulsion.

So as an Eagle Scout, I’m presented with two options: keep my Eagle badge and represent an organization that spon-sors discrimination and prejudice, or give up the badge and stop calling myself an Eagle Scout until the BSA changes their policy on gay scouts.

It’s an incredibly rough choice. I made Eagle with three of my best friends. We still get together two or three times a year to drink, reminisce, and in the process reaffirm that we’re not simply friends, but brothers. Once, after we all made Eagle, we spent five days hiking the Connecticut portion of the Appalachian Trail. I spent seven summers at Camp Mattatuck hik-ing, swimming, teaching, working, and learning how wide and wondrous the world truly is. Camp Mattatuck (and I imagine most Scout camps are like this) still holds a special magic for me when I help my younger brother move in and out every summer.

You can stop becoming a Boy Scout, but once you have the badge, it’s yours. No one can ever stop you from being an Eagle Scout. My Dad got his badge in the ‘70s and corrected me the first time I asked, “You were an Eagle Scout?”

“Still am,” he replied. So when I think about this whole

“giving back my badge” ordeal, another Redditor reminded me: they didn’t give me my badge, I earned it. The appropri-

ately titled, “I’m an Eagle Scout and an atheist. I’m keeping my badges ‘cause **** them. They didn’t give them to me; I earned them.” is right. I didn’t wait until my 18th birthday and get handed a badge, I worked my ass off for it. I was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, cour-teous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and even reverent, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s all it takes to be an Eagle Scout. Should gays and atheists have the right to reach that status as well? I certainly believe so. I hope one day to be in a position to help them.

But handing back a badge to a council in Texas that won’t care is a drop in the bucket. If we Eagle Scout LGBT Allies are going to help, we’re going to have to do it from the inside. Remember, the BSA is a private organization with the right to discriminate. They aren’t a pub-lic institution that’s forced to let every-one be a part of it.

Why am I keeping my badge? Because the bad doesn’t wash out the good. Sure the BSA may be a discriminatory organization under a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, but there are still plenty of straight Scouts (as well as closeted gay, bi, or questioning Scouts) who can help foster the twelve qualities above, and that part of the Scouts is definitely worth supporting.

What keeping my eagle scout badge means

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Involvement Fair is the perfect opportunity for students old and new

» EDITORIAL

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Staff Columnist Grace Vasington is a 7th-semester english and french double major. She can be reached at Grace.Vasington@UConn.edu.

Weekly columnist John Nitowski is a 7th -semester english major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.

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My professor’s idea for a future presidential Twitter State of the Union address: “U.S. O.K. “

The Mirror Lake fountains in the pouring rain look like an awesome water park. I’m going swimming.

Didn’t we just have a political convention?

Football coming back tomorrow means any shot at decent grades this semester just went down the tubes.

I really wish it was more acceptable for guys to take zumba classes. I would kill it in there.

I was having a bad day, and then I remembered 7/11 was coming to Storrs Center and it became a good day.

When did raising your hand in a big lecture hall become a crime?

If this kid in my philosophy lecture raises his hand one more time...

What’s on my iPod right now: Taylor Swift, Notorious B.I.G., Lil Brit. #SoundtrackForAGoodDay

Why yes, I did celebrate the birthday of my one true love (Beyonce) by blasting “Single Ladies” all morning. Want to fight about it neighbors?

Last minute fantasy draft? WHY NOT???

Wednesday – today – is the date of the annual Fall Involvement Fair. Between 2 and 7 p.m. in the Field House (across from the Student Union). 350 student organizations have been

given permission to set up a display to attract incoming students to their organizations. Students who come looking and eager to join organizations will be given a map so they can locate what type of organization they are looking for.

Types of organizations you’ll find at the Involvement Fair include cultural organizations, Greek Life, non-profit organizations, academic clubs, athletic clubs, and art clubs, among others.

The Involvement Fair is really an incredible event where students get to sign anywhere from zero to a dozen, to 350 e-mail lists and only respond to two. Either way, the Involvement Fair is where many relationships between students and campus life begins. Last year, roughly 5,000 students attended the Fall Involvement Fair to begin build-ing their résumé and help change the world with organiza-tions like Love146 and Invisible Children. Others joined to make new friends with the American English Language Institute, University of Connecticut (UCAELI). Still, oth-ers hope to learn something new and taste the delicious cuisine of the Arab Cultural Association or hang out with the Taiwanese Student Association. Capoeira and Bringing Awareness Into Latino Ethnicities (B.A.I.L.E.) helps stu-dents not only learn, but get in shape.

There are so many things to see and do at the Fall Involvement Fair that it’d be foolish not to go. New orga-nizations join UConn’s extracurricular team every year and even if you don’t attend every meeting or respond to every e-mail that piles into your UConn Account, it’s ok! You’ll be sure to find at least one organization there that speaks to you so clearly and intentionally that you’ll be inspired to go to every meeting, partake in every discussion, and help plan events all year.

Try to find just a little bit of time between classes and meal times to head over to the Field House and check out the nearly 400 tables of student organizations. You’ll be handed incredible opportunities to make friends, build skills you never knew you had, and travel the world with-out leaving Storrs. For example, the Daily Campus will have a table at the Involvement Fair, and we always need more commentary writers.

So do you have an opinion? Do you want to tell other people what to think? Join the Daily Campus! If you have an opinion, but don’t want to write about it, try Freethinkers! There’s something for everyone.

By Grace VasingtonStaff Columnist

By John D. NitowskiWeekly Columnist

Why our education system keeps opportunity alive in America

Do you have opinions? Want to get paid for writing them? Come to a Commentary section meeting! The Daily Campus building at 8 p.m. on Mondays. All students are welcome. Also see the Daily Campus stand at the Involvement Fair today from 2-7!

“America is not great because anything is possible here; it is great because we say anything is possible here.”

Grace Vasington,Staff Columnist

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

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We are never, ever getting

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They don’t just teach

By Holly BattagliaCampus Correspondent

By Priya RanadeCampus Correspondent

46th Annual Art Dept.

Faculty Exhibit opens

Thirteen faculty members from the Storrs and Torrington campuses provided pieces to showcase in the 46th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition in the Benton Art Museum, which opened Tuesday. The display features an array of artwork including paintings, sculptures, illustra-tions, graphic designs, prints, photographs and installation art. The event features Monica Bock, Pamela Bramble and Cora Lynn Deibler – UConn professors who have recently returned to the university from sabbatical.

Professor Monica Bock has showcased work in many different galleries includ-ing Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory, Mobius in Boston and Art in General in New York City. She has received many awards including the Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship. Professor Bock presented an untitled piece made of unglazed porce-lain. Her work consists of mul-tiple human figures made of porcelain attached to a wall in unique poses. The poses of her figures represent a variety of actions and emotions ranging from someone deep in thought to another leaping for joy.

Professor Pamela Bramble, from the Torrington branch campus also has many pieces on display. Ariel Sohn Brand,

a 7th-semester English major and campus correspondent for The Daily Campus commented on the pieces by saying, “I am really attracted to the differ-ent shades in her work…they remind me of Arizona – they are warm colors that I associate with the South.”

Of particular note was a char-coal drawing created by Ralph DiCapua, an associate profes-sor of art and art history. The piece attracted a number of curious students and members of the community. This piece consisted of two parts: the first included a close-up drawing of the face of a man who looked to

be somewhere around middle age. Adjacent was a picture of the same man but this time much older. The two drawings work to contrast the two pic-tures of the same man. Greg Harris, a 3rd-semester envi-ronmental science major who works at the Benton as a gallery attendant remarked, “The detail is incredible. In the eyes alone, you can see that each mark of charcoal is deliberate.”

In addition to the displays presented by the wide array of artists was a series of video-taped interviews conducted and compiled by Professor Kathryn Myers. This video exhibition

included over 60 interviews made in a six-month period of promising artists in India. One of the featured artists included Ravi Agarwal, an environmen-tal activist who also started a non-profit company named Toxic Links. Toxic Links serves to make information about toxic substances more readily available to the public. Ravi Agarwal has had his pieces featured in many exhibits from London to Beijing. Myers’ own work was made of gouache on paper. One of her pieces named Kalimpong showcases an alley-way that is a blend of many different dark blues, greens

and purples. Another piece Shahpurjat, the name of a town in Western India, consisted of a building replete with dark hues of blue, green and purple.

The 46th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition is a great opportunity for stu-dents to experience the art of our own University of Connecticut professors. Many of these pro-fessors have received very illustrious awards, and the abil-ity to see their art at no admis-sion fee is a steal.

In this Daily Campus file photo, students look at an exhibit from the Benton Art Museum. The Benton recently opened the 46th annual art department faculty exhibition, which features works from many UConn professors.

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I always imagined that get-ting dumped would be like the time my favorite hamster, Butterscotch died of a heart attack circa 2001. I won’t reveal the details of her death, because it gets pretty macabre.

The important part of the story is when my mom took me to the hamster store to replace ‘Scotchy. She thought that if I got a new hamster, I would forget about the one that died. I began looking at the rodent section, and I hated all the hamsters at first sight. The lady at the hamster store told me to hold one of the stupid little hamsters. That is when I started to make an all-out scene, yelling between sobs, “She’s not the same as Butterscotch!” I threw the hamster across the room for emphasis. Actually, I didn’t because that would be unkind. Anyway, then, the hamster-selling woman said something profound like, “No two ham-sters are the same, so you can’t compare them. You just need to find another hamster.” I cried even more because this was one of the most impor-tant things anyone has ever said. After that, I picked out a spunky, dwarf hamster and named her Blackberry. That hamster ended up biting me all the time when I tried to play with her, and, objectively, she was inferior to the late, great Butterscotch. However, what else are you going to do when your hamster dies? Also, more importantly, what does this have to do with sex? Let me explain. Over the summer, I got dumped by a guy who, come to think of it, was the Butterscotch of all men. I flipped out just like I did at the hamster store. In fact, I flipped out every day for the next month, alternat-ing between sleeping, drink-ing Burnett’s responsibly, and texting psychotic things to the bloke in question. I knew that the relationship was over, just like Butterscotch’s life. I began to accept the reality of the breakup recently, and now I am here to tell you how you can survive any breakup. Here are my tips:

1) Don’t contact the person at all. And, definitely don’t

ask to see them. Pretend the breakup is like

an open wound. You have to let it scab over, heal, and then become a cool scar. Until you are healed, you can’t go rip-ping off the scab and infecting the wound. Soon there will be maggots in the wound and no one wants that. The goal is to recover your broken heart. If you are anything like I was two months ago, you would say to this, “What if I never want to get over the person because we’re meant to be?” My advice is that you do want to get over your ex, and you are probably not meant to be. If you really feel like tex-ting them, don’t do it! Instead, write what you would have sent on a piece of paper. Then wait until later, and look at what you wrote. How did you sound? Desperate? Lame? Yes, indeed. Aren’t you glad you didn’t send that text?

2) Re-connect with all the friends you got out of touch with while in a relationship. Your friends are probably

glad that you got dumped, because this means that a) you will be a lot more fun at parties and bars, and b) they can finally hit on you. There’s nothing more exciting

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Get up and dance with Husky Bhangra

Each fall brings a new semester for colleges, the start of sports seasons and a variety of student run activities at the University of Connecticut. These organizations and groups bring together hundreds of students and they offer a great way to both develop talents and meet new people. There are a plethora of options to chose from and the Involvement Fair on campus will expose students to pretty much all of them. However, amid all the group tables, it is easy to miss some of the organizations.

Music and dance play a large part in the life of an average college student, and the university does its best to give students the best resources to make use of their interests. Here at Storrs there is an Indian dance group that has been entertaining audiences for several years. Husky Bhangra is an organization focused on Bhangra, a folk dance that originated in Punjab (located in Northern India and Northeast Pakistan). The dance integrates vigorous moves and a myriad of instruments to indulge viewers to an exciting performance.

Over the years the dance has spread all over the world and the high-paced, high-energy envi-ronment has grabbed the attention of people in all cultures. UConn has a large number of Asian Americans on campus and the students have been more than willing to show their heritage through Husky Bhangra.

The dance group here at UConn is highly com-petitive and those on the team take their positions very seriously. In recent years, Husky Bhangra has traveled to Seattle, New York City and California to compete with other Bhangra groups around the nation. This upcoming season, the dancers plan on traveling to more competitions in North America and establish a reputation as an elite Bhangra group.

“As a member of Husky Bhangra, not only will you be exposed to different elements of Punjabi cultural dance, but you will have fun doing it,” said Rachneet Singh, a 5th-semester, allied health major and co-captain of Husky Bhangra. “Going to competitions is definitely the best part of being on Husky Bhangra since you get to meet other dancers from all over the nation while showcas-ing your hard work and dedication through your performance.”

Tryouts for the team begin on Sept. 16 and the final cuts for the roster will be made on Sept. 18. For more information about the dance group and how to register for tryouts, visit the Husky Bhangra officers during UConn’s Involvement Fair or contact them through e-mail at HuskyBhangra@gmail.com.

The Daily Campus will periodically check in on Husky Bhangra throughout the school year as the dancers prepare for various events on campus and around the nation.

By Ramneet SinghCampus Correspondent

Ramneet.Singh@UConn.edu

Members of UConn’s Husky Bhangra organization dance at an event. Tryouts for the Husky Bhangra team begin on September 16, and students can meet with group leaders at today’s Involvement Fair.

Photo courtesy of uconntact.uconn.edu/organization/huskybhangra

MTV moves up awards show to avoid Obama

speech conflict

NEW YORK (AP) — MTV has moved up the start of its annual Video Music Awards so its fans won’t have to choose between pop stars and President Barack Obama.

The show is airing Thursday, the night Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for another term as president. But MTV said Tuesday it will run the show an hour earlier than it usually does to not conflict with Obama’s speech.

The show will run from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time. The president is scheduled to speak from the Democratic National

Convention in Charlotte, N.C., after 10 p.m.

The video awards are a con-siderable draw for young view-ers and usually run around Labor Day. MTV often uses the awards show to introduce new programming in the hour after-ward but will not do so this year.

Last year’s show was seen by 12.4 million people, more than anything on the broadcast networks that week and likely MTV’s largest audience ever. The highlight of last year’s show was Beyonce’s announce-ment that she was pregnant.

In this Aug. 28, 2008, file photo Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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I know, what a shocker, right? But I recently got

my hands on an N64 and this game, the only perfect one that I think has ever existed. The controls are flawless, even on an N64 with a busted stick. The

gameplay is always great, giving you the basics and

letting you discover the rest of the secrets yourself. The graphics... well, they’re fan-tastic for 1996, and they’re still not all that bad sixteen

years later. I don’t think anyone could ever have a problem with ‘Mario 64,”

that is unless they suck too much to get all 120 stars

and see Yoshi.

-Joe O’Leary

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC, Mac, 360, PS3) - 8.5/10Mass Effect 3: Leviathan (360) - 6/10Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online (PC) 7.5/10Walking Dead Episode 3 (360, PS3, PC) - 8.5/10Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure HD (360, PS3) - 7.0Score data from Gamespot.com

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‘Super Mario 64’

For more than a decade, Nintendo has owned gamers’ hearts and screens with its super-successful “Super Smash Bros.” series. Its madcap action, simple but addicting fighting mechanics and one dozen complimentary, competitive characters ended up becoming the gaming chocolate to a four-player gaming session’s peanut butter.

As storied and famous as the franchise is, there have only been three games, essentially one per Nintendo console life-cycle. This means we’re closing in on five years since the last one. A competi-tor could fill that gap pretty well.

Sony means to do just that this fall with “Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale,” a fighting game on the PS3 that should be a direct competitor to “Smash Bros.” While fanboys on the Internet have been crying foul over Sony’s alleged aping of the classic fran-chise, “Battle Royale” should be looked at as its own entity. At the moment, it has at least some of the pedigree it needs to improve on Nintendo’s flagship fighter, or at least stand out on its own.

First of all, “Battle Royale” will have a fully-fledged online mode. Between mediocre speed and Nintendo’s hands-off “friend code” experiment, it wasn’t really easy or fun to play “Brawl” online. With Playstation Network’s high-quality service, it’s not hard to figure Sony’s going to have an advantage there.

The gameplay of each seems similar, but “Battle Royale” has enough twists to become some-what unique. “Smash” succeeds largely because players are in a 24/7 fight to the death; any pause means something could knock you off the stage to kingdom come. “Battle Royale” changes this up by removing level hazards; now, you can only die at a foe’s hand.

This isn’t great because it removes spontaneity from the game. With no Bob-ombs ran-domly dropping onto the map, a sense of urgency will be removed, though this means more emphasis may be put on player skill.

Smash Balls have also been chopped and screwed by “Battle Royale,” which turns them into power levels – each one is more powerful, and Level 3 attacks are the equivalent to a Smash attack. This power-up mode is better than Smash Balls, though, as it empha-sizes player skill. It’s not like “Brawl,” where one Landmaster can be the difference between fourth and first place.

Finally, the cast lists of each game differ, though that’s large-ly based on personal preference. “Smash” has Nintendo’s 35+ character cast; “Battle Royale” has famous Playstation characters from their past. Some are kinda lame, like Fat Princess or Sony’s Japanese mascot Toro. However, it’ll soon be possible to make Parappa the Rapper, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper and Kratos fight to the death. While that’s not Link vs. Samus, it sounds pretty appealing to me.Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

By Joe O’LearyFocus Editor

Nintendo and Sony’s ‘Battle

Royale’

A killer ‘Strike’ from Valve

‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ is the newest game in the more-than-decade old ‘Counter-Strike’ series released by Valve Software. Newbies won’t enjoy much about the difficulty curve, but series veterans will have a ball with it.

Photo courtesy of gamespot.com

Let me start by saying that the Counter-Strike series holds a special spot in my heart. It was the first game I ever played online, ever since the early 2000s in a local New Jersey Internet café, and it has been one of my favorites ever since.

Hopefully this fact will dis-suade the angry hordes when I state the negatives. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a tactical first-person shooter released last month by Valve Corporation for the PC, Mac, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I personally used a Mac, upon which the game ran like a charm, and recommend that everyone use a mouse and key-board combination for a game like this.

Let’s get the nastiness out of the way and start with the

negatives. This game suffers from what I like to refer to as the “Mario Curse”; other than graphical improvements and some new models, it’s basi-cally the same game as it was before. Everything from the spawn locations to the usual hiding spots is a prettier ver-sion of what it was before. Hell, even most of the sound clips have been taken straight from the prequels.

Now, some of you might be decrying me already, saying that a lack of major change is a positive thing, and for the record, I don’t disagree. It’s nice to see that a series can preserve the integrity that made it amazing in the first place, unlike some more recent series that have started to ruin themselves with poorly made, rushed sequels. And it really

is nice to be able to play on the same maps (cs_italy, anyone?) that I used to play on as a kid.

But come on; let’s not ignore one of the biggest problems with this. The fact that the game is so similar to its pre-quels means that the game is extremely inaccessible to

new players. Veterans have had years and years to per-fect the way they play, all of which can be instantly and

completely applied to this new game. They start at the very top of the learning curve! Even I was having a hell of a hard time trying to get kills while not dying within the first minute of the match. I can’t imagine what it would be like for someone completely new to the game.

But hey, it’s not all bad.

Valve provides us some new game modes in the form of making old user-generated con-tent into official game modes. Instead of only the classic Bomb Defusing, Deathmatch, and Hostage retrieval modes, we have Arms Race and Demolition. Plus the load times of each game have been improved tremendously, some-thing that has always been an issue with Valve games.

At the end of the day, this is an amazing game that hasn’t let me down, and that fact should NOT be understated. The gameplay is the same solid craftsmanship we’ve all come to expect from Valve, and the vast amount of user-created content will ensure that you’ll never run out of new maps or game modes. Plus, at only $15 it’s a steal.

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‘Rock Band’ goes single-player

In the year 2012, the “Rock Band” franchise is all but over. Although the first two games were hits, overexposure, too many games and too expensive peripherals made sure that after “The Beatles Rock Band,” the game’s sales plummeted. The gaming market simply moved on. Harmonix, the game’s developer who recently bought the “Rock Band” name back, has been releas-ing downloadable content for five years now, but it seemed like the franchise simply couldn’t continue without a publisher.

Enter “Rock Band Blitz.” When someone without too much “Rock Band” experience buys the $15 game off PSN or Xbox Live Arcade, they get a completely dif-ferent experience than the original game’s instrument lines. In each “Rock Band” song, the data allows for five instrument lines, includ-ing guitar, bass, drums, vocals and keyboards, and they’re each played on corresponding fake plas-

tic instruments. “Rock Band Blitz” takes these five individual tracks and places them right next to each other. They have also changed the tracks into simple two-button combos on a regular controller. Players must tap the stick and A (or shoulder buttons in “Freakish” mode) in time with these tracks.

Without downloadable content, “Blitz” is only worth about $15. There are 25 songs included with the game, with some newer pop songs’ debuts includ-ing “We Are Young,” “Pumped Up Kicks” and “Moves Like Jagger” plus older songs that some consider classics and oth-ers love to hate, like Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week” and Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.” These songs can be played in “Rock Band 3,” and almost all previ-ous “Rock Band” songs can be imported into “Blitz” in turn.

The 25 songs aren’t too amaz-ing, but they work well with “Blitz.” The two-button, preci-

sion-timing rhythm game is based around chasing high scores, and it generally works. The point of the game is to rack up high scores (on a 5-star “Rock Band” scale) by hitting notes, jumping from track to track and raising multipliers on each one.

It’s a simple premise that gets better with the addition of pow-

er-ups. These are purely meant to improve your score over any-thing else, which means unlocking and experiment-

ing with them usually leads to a lot of confusion that gives way to fun. They’re enjoyable to use, espe-cially when you get good enough to spam them and get high scores.

The game improves vastly when its music library is expanded with tracks from other “Rock Band” games imported into it. With so many song options, it’s a lot harder to get sick of the game, and if you really enjoy the music, digging through hundreds of songs can be

really fun. It’s hard to pull yourself away when you add a lot more content.

It’s a shame the market for the full experience is so limited as the game comes complete with some of the more interactive online ele-ments I’ve seen, actively prompt-ing challenges and high-score contests from the main menu. It’s also one of the first games I’ve seen with Facebook integration that works, which is a nice perk.

In short, “Rock Band Blitz” is a great game. For me, it’s a 9/10. But it only makes sense for music lovers and “Rock Band” fans to pick it up, as downloadable con-tent is necessary for the game to be truly fun. Its $15 price tag needs to be compounded by extra money spent to truly make the game worth it. While the fully unlocked product is excellent, I simply cannot recommend “Rock Band Blitz” to less casual fans because the best experience is so freaking expensive.

A screenshot from ‘Rock Band Blitz,’ the new rhythm game from developer Harmonix. While ‘Blitz’ is a great game, it’s only worth a buy for ‘Rock Band’ series fans or people willing to pay a lot more than its $15 asking price for new music.

Photo courtesy of gamespot.com

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than realizing the potential of courting a hot friend you have known for years. On a separate note, your friends are there to listen to and understand your sad breakup story. At first, it is embar-rassing to admit you got dumped. Think of it this way: at least it will let everyone know that you are a real human being. Once you get over all this, then you can begin listening to your friends’ advice and getting over your ex.

3) Use this time as an opportu-nity to do things you like to do.Sometimes, being in a relation-

ship causes people to stop pursu-ing goals, forget about favorite hobbies, and even stop going to the gym. Now that you’re single, make yourself marketable by get-ting back into habits like brushing your teeth, and taking out your contact lenses at night. Create a chart on graph paper, defining your personal goals, and the steps you need to get to these goals. Rip up the piece of paper if one of your goals is “get (insert name of ex) to love me,” or anything similar to that. This is the time for you to focus on making yourself happy. When in doubt, remember these three sentiments: look good, get it in, and don’t give a damn.

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NBC’s ‘Biggest Loser’ adds first teenagers;Jill Michaels returns

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Biggest Loser” will return in January with the weight-loss show’s first young teen par-ticipants and trainer Jillian Michaels back on duty.

The show’s 14th season will take on a new “mission” against the national increase in childhood obesity, NBC said Tuesday. Youths between the ages of 13 and 17 will join teams trying to shed pounds and get fit.

Unlike adults competing for a $250,000 prize, the teenagers won’t be subject to elimination from the show and will not be weighed for the broadcast, NBC said.

The show’s producers dis-cussed adding teens at length and are “incredibly sensitive” to safe-guarding them, Michaels said.

“It’s brave, it’s bold and I’m sure it’s going to be controver-sial, and we’ll do the best we can to handle it in the most posi-tive and effective way possible,” the usually tough-talking fitness expert said.

The goal is to focus on the kids’ health rather than their weight, Michaels said, adding, “It’s about getting them on the softball team, not into a size four.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control, childhood obe-sity has more than tripled in the past three decades, with about 17 percent of children and ado-lescents ages 2 to 19 consid-ered obese based on height and weight measurements.

The season’s 18 contestants will be divided into six-member teams, each including at least one youngster.

Michaels, who took a break from “Biggest Loser” to pursue adoption of a daughter, will join trainers Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince in working with the young contestants, with medi-cal staff and childhood obesity experts also involved.

The hard-driving trainer, who also has an infant son with her partner, says it remains to

be seen whether motherhood will alter her overall approach toward adults who are “kill-ing themselves” with bad health habits.

“I am a different person, motherhood changes your DNA. However, being a mom

and doing this job are very dif-ferent aspects of my life and personality,” she said, adding, “I’m not going to make any promises.”

“Biggest Loser” will return in early January, NBC said, but a debut date was not announced.

This Jan. 6, 2012 file photo shows fitness guru Jillian Michaels in New York. “The Biggest Loser” will return in January with the weight-loss show’s first young teen participants.

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Jackson estate, businessman settle copyright lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s estate and a businessman working with the singer’s mother settled a copyright infringement lawsuit for $2.5 million on Tuesday, shortly before a trial in the case was scheduled to begin.

The settlement also restricts Howard Mann and his com-panies from using Jackson’s likeness without permission in the future. It ends a year and a half of legal fighting over Mann’s use of Jackson’s name and likeness on a website used to promote unreleased songs, photographs and a book written by Katherine Jackson filled with recollections of her superstar son.

Mann is the CEO of Vintage Pop Media, which operated the website www.michaeljack-sonsecretvault.com until it was ordered shut down last month by a federal judge who ruled the site violated copyrights

controlled by the singer’s estate.

Under the terms of the set-tlement, announced in court by estate attorney Zia Modabber, Vintage Pop Media Group is responsible for $2 million of the judgment, while the enti-ty Vintage Associates LLC is responsible for the remainder. Vintage Associates is the cus-todian of the items that were at issue in the case.

Mann’s attorney, Lee Durst, declined comment after the hearing. “The estate is delighted this matter is behind us,” estate attorney Howard Weitzman said.

Among the items that had been improperly used were images from Jackson’s post-humous film “This Is It” and a silhouette of the singer danc-ing in “Smooth Criminal.” The settlement also blocks the usage of materials from “Thriller” that had appeared

on Mann’s website.A jury trial on how much

Mann owes the estate had been scheduled to begin Tuesday, with an expert estimating a license for the works is worth between $5 million and $12 million.

Mann’s attorneys rejected a settlement offer last week of $2 million. They sought to introduce evidence that they were given bad legal advice about having to license the works and have considered calling Katherine Jackson as a witness. The Jackson family matriarch is one of the benefi-ciaries of the singer’s estate, along with his three children.

U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson has noted that Mann doesn’t appear to have the resources to pay a large judg-ment. The defendants’ ability to pay was not discussed in court on Tuesday.

In a March 5, 2009 file photo US singer Michael Jackson announces that he is set to play ten live concerts at the London O2 Arena in July 2009.

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Barker ‘fine’ with exclusion from ‘Price is Right’ special

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Barker hosted “The Price Is Right” for 35 years, but he wasn’t invited to participate in the game show’s 40th anniver-sary special.

The 88-year-old TV personal-ity says the show’s producers “chose to ignore me, which is fine.”

The 40th anniversary special episode of TV’s longest-run-ning game show aired Tuesday morning and featured returning contestants from the past four decades. Barker is shown in sev-eral clips but was not invited to appear on the program or attend the taping.

“They haven’t even offered me a DVD,” Barker said in an interview Tuesday. Show pro-ducers had no comment.

Barker, a longtime animal activist who advised his view-ers each day to “Help control the pet population: Have your pets spayed or neutered,” thinks he was omitted from the anni-versary show “because I have been critical of them for giving away prizes that I consider inap-propriate.”

He complained to produc-ers for awarding tickets to Sea World and the Calgary Stampede as prizes. Both orga-nizations “are notorious for ani-mal abuse,” Barker said.

(Sea World says on its web-site that “the animals in our

care are content and healthy.” The Calgary Stampede says it works with the Calgary Humane Society and the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to ensure its animals receive proper care.)

During his reign as host, Barker asked the show to stop giving away fur coats and leath-er jackets and they obliged.

“We really became very care-ful about what we put on the show,” he said. “Had I been the executive producer, they would not have even considered bring-ing me tickets to the Calgary Stampede of all things.”

Barker has donated millions of dollars to animal-rights causes since retiring from “The Price Is Right” in 2007. He was replaced by Drew Carey, who hosted Tuesday’s anniversary episode.

Barker’s last appearance on the show — which is taped at CBS’ Bob Barker studio — was in 2009.

He insists he’s fine with not being included in the anniver-sary episode, but said, “When you celebrate a 40th anniversa-ry, you would think you’d have the fellow who did the show for 35 years there.”

Barker’s first appearance on “Price” in 1972 was among the clips included in the anniversary special..

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Your actions speak louder than words, especially now. It may require more concen-tration and effort, but it’s worth it. You’ll get more for your money. Stash away savings.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Patience helps getting things done. It’s eas-ier to motivate and inspire. Love finds a way. Failures can accelerate growth faster than successes; they illustrate the road to avoid.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Knowing what you want and expressing it clearly is a plus. If at first you don’t succeed, try again later. Apply what you have learned. It will be easier the second time.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- When in trouble, use the pen, not the sword, to be mightier. Calculate risks. You have more abundance than you realize. Put your subconscious to work on it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Get into the competition to win, but don’t be attached to results. In the end you’ll have a great story and hopefully have a blast. Write it down.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Find the perfect thing in your own closets or by networking. Then step out of your comfort zone and go for it. Show others what you’re capable of.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Other people may melt down emotion-ally. Don’t put up a fight. Listening is most important now. Take it easy and don’t touch your savings. You see the light.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Quick thinking solves a household problem. Friends make the connection. Your holdings are gaining value. Revise plans, and get your finances in line. Gather info to reap rewards.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Solve a puzzle at home. Improve house-hold communications with a new tool to get the word out. Think fast, and work faster. Postpone a decision to savor a moment.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Everything seems possible. Talk it over. Some things may have to be left behind. Success is your reward. Increase your fam-ily’s comfort. Discuss; don’t argue. You’re gaining wisdom.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- More work is required. Learn from your competition and a trusted partner. Decide what to spend and what to save. Give your word and follow through.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Discuss a work project with an expert for a solution to an annoying problem. Invest in educational material you’ll use at home. Expand your influence. You are triumphant.

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Huskies we can all enjoy this Northwestern victory.

Alabama/Michigan This game was probably the

best game going into this first weekend of college football. The No. 8 and No. 2 teams in the country faced off at Cowboys Stadium in what felt like a bowl game atmosphere. The Alabama Crimson Tide picked right up where they left off at the end of last season. Alabama’s dominant offence led them to a 41-14 vic-tory over the Wolverines. For the Crimson Tide, they passed their first test of the season with fly-ing colors. As for Michigan, they will face some Air Force next weekend, followed by UMass and will not face a Top 25 team until Oct. 20. If the Wolverines are going to make any splash this year, they will most certainly have to put up some quality wins against ranked opponents late in the season.

One last thought; any week-end that Boston College and Syracuse lose is a good week-end of college football in my book.

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Azarenka knocks off reigning U.S. Open Champion StosurNEW YORK (AP) -- So,

Victoria Azarenka, what went through your mind as your high-tension, high-quality U.S. Open quarterfinal victory over defending champion Sam Stosur stretched into a third-set tiebreaker?

''You don't want to know what I kept telling myself,'' Azarenka deadpanned Tuesday. ''I would have to beep that, I think.''

She went on to offer a cleaned-up version of what her thoughts had been - ''Don't be a chicken'' - while cobbling together a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) rain-interrupted win that eliminated Stosur, put the top-seeded Azarenka in her first semifinal at Flushing Meadows and assured her of retaining the No. 1 ranking no matter what happens the rest of this week.

''Definitely, I don't want to stop. I really want it bad,'' Azarenka said about the prospect of adding a second Grand Slam trophy to the one she earned in January at the Australian Open. ''I'm going to do absolutely everything I have, you know, to give it all here.''

Because of rain that halted play on and off through the day,

Azarenka was the only woman who got to enjoy a singles victo-ry at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. The other women's quarterfinal on the schedule was suspended in progress because of rain, and four-time major champion Maria Sharapova will be trail-ing 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli 4-0 when they resume Wednesday.

Sharapova got a bit of a reprieve from the weather dur-ing her previous match: She was down 2-0 in the third set against Nadia Petrova when a rain delay of 75 minutes came: After the break, Sharapova took five of the next six games. She'll get at least 15 hours to contem-plate her deficit against Bartoli, who lost all eight sets they had played before Tuesday.

They were allowed to head to their hotels before 6 p.m., because the tournament wanted to free up Arthur Ashe Stadium for the night session and the main event: 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick's bid to postpone retirement yet again by beating 2009 champ Juan Martin del Potro in the fourth round. The rain stopped around

7:30 p.m. and the Roddick-del Potro match began about an hour later than scheduled.

Also starting late was defending champion Novak Djokovic, in his fourth-round match against No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, and the match between No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia and No. 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany.

No. 4 David Ferrer was up two sets and 4-3 in the third over No. 13 Richard Gasquet when play was halted. After the delay, they traded games, then Ferrer broke Gasquet, closing it out on his fifth match point for a 7-5, 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory.

That match, like all oth-ers this week at Flushing Meadows, took second billing to the one involving Roddick, who surprisingly announced last week that this tournament would be the last of his career. Since then, he picked up victo-ries over players ranked 43rd and 59th, but the No. 7-seeded del Potro figured to provide more of a challenge. Del Potro is the only man other than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Djokovic to win any of the

last 30 Grand Slam titles.The women's match pitted

Stosur, the champion here last year, against Azarenka, who won the Australian Open to start the 2012 Grand Slam sea-son.

Amazingly, as accomplished as Stosur is, she never had taken so much as a set off Azarenka in six previous tour meetings, including one match in qualifying.

That changed in Tuesday's

second set, although forcing a third might not have given Stosur all that much self-belief. And in the end, Azarenka improved to 11-0 in three-set-ters this season, while Stosur fell to 9-7.

Victoria Azarenka defeated 2011 U.S. Open Champion Sam Stosur in three sets Tuesday. She advanced to the semifinals with the win.AP

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Following the Marist game, the Huskies will have only one non-conference game remain-ing on their schedule, a contest with Central Connecticut next Saturday. After that, they will embark on a crucial stretch of conference games, starting with a match at Syracuse on the 13th. In a Big East preseason coaches poll, UConn was predicted to finish sixth in the conference.

With just over a week before the start of conference games,

the Huskies are hoping to con-tinue to improve and to avoid the mid-season slump that plagues many teams.

“As a captain, Gurnon and I want to maintain a positive and competitive environment,” said Dakin. “The season flies by and there is no time for a slump, so maintaining the right attitude and having the entire team on the same page is important.”

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Evan Longoria hit a go-ahead homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat New York 5-2 on Tuesday night to drop the strug-gling Yankees into a tie for first place in the AL East.

Coupled with Baltimore's 12-0 win at Toronto, the Yankees fell into a tie for the division lead with the surging Orioles after sitting atop the standings by themselves for 84 consecutive days - New York's longest streak since 2004.

Desmond Jennings and B.J. Upton also homered for the third-place Rays, who pulled within 1 1/2 games of the Orioles and Yankees. Tampa Bay trailed by 10 1/2 games at the end of play on July 18.

New York opened its larg-est lead of the year that day (10 games) but is 19-26 since. The Yankees' biggest cushion in a season in which they failed to finish first was six games in 1933, according to STATS LLC.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi wasn't around to see the end

of this one. He was ejected by plate umpire Tony Randazzo in the fourth inning for argu-ing after Chris Dickerson was called out on strikes.

Longoria hit a two-run shot off Freddy Garcia (7-6), wip-ing out a 2-1 deficit in the third inning. Jennings and Upton delivered back-to-back solo shots in the fifth, giving Alex Cobb (9-8) and Tampa Bay's bullpen all the offensive sup-port they'd need against the Yankees' sputtering lineup.

Robinson Cano matched a career high for New York with his 29th homer, a two-run shot off Cobb, who allowed four hits over seven innings. Fernando Rodney earned his major league-best 42nd save in 44 opportunities.

The Yankees, who have lost five of six, finished with six hits. It was the fifth consecu-tive games they've been held to six or fewer - their longest such stretch since going six straight from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, 1990.

It appeared Dickerson want-ed timeout in the fourth, but

Randazzo did not grant it and Dickerson went down looking to end the inning. Dickerson didn't seem to like the call and moments later Girardi came storming out of the dugout, yanked his cap off his head and argued face-to-face with Randazzo.

Before heading back to the dugout, Girardi kicked dirt in the batter's box.

Alex Rodriguez went 1 for 4 with a ninth-inning infield hit in his second game since spend-ing six weeks on the disabled list with a broken left hand. Curtis Granderson returned to the starting lineup after sitting out most of two games with a sore right hamstring and went 0 for 3.

Cano played despite experi-encing tightness in his left hip reaching for a grounder that got past him for the game-deciding hit during the eighth inning of Monday's 4-3 loss to the Rays. He got treatment following the game and again early Tuesday before Girardi penciled him into the lineup.

The slugger has at least one hit in 13 of 14 games against Tampa Bay this season, includ-ing the past 11 - a stretch in which he's batted .438 (18 for 42) against a pitching staff that currently leads the major leagues in ERA, opponents' batting average and the AL in strikeouts.

Longoria homered for the sixth time in 26 games since being activated following a three-month stint on the dis-abled list with a partially torn left hamstring. It was his 10th of the season, coming on a 2-2 pitch after Garcia prolonged the inning with a two-out walk to Ben Zobrist.

Jennings and Upton homered five pitches apart to begin the fifth. Upton, who hit a solo shot off CC Sabathia in Monday's series opener, also doubled on a 3-0 pitch to drive in Tampa Bay's first run of the night.

Yanks lose; Tied with Orioles

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Roddick-del Potro match suspended by rainNEW YORK (AP) -- His

match, and his retirement, put off for at least another day, Andy Roddick stepped out of Arthur Ashe Stadium and into the drizzly night, a black jacket's hood pulled overhead, a bag of ice soothing his right shoulder.

He'll try to prolong his U.S. Open - and his professional tennis career - on Wednesday.

Roddick's fourth-round showdown against another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, was suspended because of rain

Tuesday night, with the American leading 1-0 in a first-set tiebreaker.

A little more than a half-hour later, the players were told they could head to their hotels.

They were scheduled to resume Wednesday as the second match in Ashe, after four-time major champion Maria Sharapova's quarterfi-nal against 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli. That was halted Tuesday with Bartoli ahead 4-0.

Other matches stopped in progress, also in the first set,

included defending champion Novak Djokovic against No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, and No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic against No. 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber.

On a day of off-and-on action because of intermittent show-ers, only two singles matches were completed: Top-seeded Victoria Azarenka reached her first U.S. Open semifinal by cobbling together a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) victory over defend-ing champion Sam Stosur, and No. 4 David Ferrer reached the quarterfinals by beating No. 13 Richard Gasquet 7-5, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

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CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Reds activated first baseman Joey Votto off the disabled list on Tuesday, but will go easy with the first baseman until his left knee is back to normal.

Votto hadn't played since July 15 because of dam-aged cartilage in the knee that required two opera-tions. He had a rehab stint in Class A Dayton and Triple-A Louisville last week.

Votto wasn't in the line-up for a game against the

Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday. The 2010 NL MVP said the knee is getting bet-ter, but he's not ready to play every day.

''I think working me in slowly is the wise move,'' Votto said. ''It's not 100 per-cent yet, but that will come in time.''

Manager Dusty Baker said Votto could start a day game Wednesday that con-cludes the series against Philadelphia. There was no hurry to get Votto back in the

lineup - the Reds led the NL Central by 8 1/2 games on Tuesday, the biggest lead in the majors.

Cincinnati went 32-16 after Votto went on the dis-abled list.

''The plan's going to change every day, depending on how he feels,'' manager Dusty Baker said. ''As of right now, he'll probably start tomor-row. Then we've got to watch him if there's a long inning or whatever, if he gets sore or makes a wrong move. We're

going to try to preserve him and work him back in there.''

Votto went 2 for 11 dur-ing his rehab stint last week. He'd hoped to get on base more so he could see how the knee held up when he ran the bases.

Votto was batting .342 with 14 homers and 49 RBIs when he went on the disabled list. The idea is to get him as close to 100 percent as he can be heading into October.

''I don't think I'll see 100 percent until sometime in the offseason,'' Votto said. ''I'm talking about being able to play baseball, putting myself in uncomfortable positions. I would like to think I'll be able to get through all the games and recover as we move through September and all the way to the end of October.''

Votto was looking forward to seeing how fans reacted the first time he came to bat at Great American Ball Park.

''I'm really excited to see the fans reaction,'' Votto said. ''That's what I'm most curious about. I miss them. I love the support. I love play-ing in front of the fans in this ballpark.''

In other moves, the Reds recalled right-handers Todd Redmond and Pedro Villarreal from Triple-A Louisville, called up left-hander Tony Cingrani from Double-A Pensacola, and outrighted infielder Chris Valaika and right-hander Jordan Smith to Louisville.

Toronto Blue Jays catcher Jeff Mathis congratulates closer Casey Janssen after defeating the New York Yankees 8-5, Wednesday.AP

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and public relations firms hired to help deal with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have reached nearly $17 million, the university said in an online report that it updates regularly.

The university said it has spent almost $16.8 million through June 30. Nearly $10 million of that went to seven firms for what Penn State calls internal investigation and crisis communications, including a report by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who led the school's internal investigation in the scandal and said that former coach Joe Paterno and three for-mer school officials concealed allegations against Sandusky. Those conclusions are firmly denied by the Paterno family and the officials.

Nearly $4 million went for university legal services and defense, plus $1.6 million for the legal defense of the three former officials, former university Athletic Director Timothy Curley, former uni-

versity vice president Gary Schultz and former president Graham Spanier.

The university is fac-ing mounting lawsuits from Sandusky's accusers, and the NCAA leveled a $60 million fine against the school in July. Penn State has signaled its interest in settling claims with Sandusky's victims.

Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 criminal counts and is in prison awaiting sen-tencing. Jury selection for the criminal case against Curley and Schultz was set for Jan. 7 inside a county courtroom in Harrisburg. Spanier has not been charged, and state pros-ecutors have said their inves-tigation is continuing.

The school said the costs for the legal defense and public relations are not paid by student tuition, taxpayer funds or donations. It said it maintains insurance policies that are expected to cover the defense of claims while other expenses not covered by policies are expected to be covered by interest payments on loans it makes to self-supporting units.

PSU spends nearly $17 million

WHAT I MISSED MOST:

FANTASY FOOTBALL

Widely regarded as the great-est fantasy football general man-ager to ever sign into a Yahoo! draft, the emails and texts are still pouring in congratulating me on taking flyers on Calvin Johnson, Eli Manning, and Marshawn Lynch last year en route to a league championship. There is no better feeling than when CBS or Fox cuts to a “game break” on Sundays and shows your seventh round sleep-er high-stepping it into the end zone. Actually, maybe there is a better feeling: being able to talk smack to all your boys because Adrian Peterson is on your bench right now.

THE NEW YORK JETS

I already professed my love for the Giants above, so why do I list the Jets as something I missed most about the NFL? It’s because they make the New York Knicks look like the 1992 Dream Team. I could probably crack their quarterback depth chart and their No. 2 wide receiver caught just 28 balls last year in college. The Jets should strongly consider getting out of their big brother’s shadow and build a stadium on Broadway. After all, these guys represent both a tragedy and a comedy. And I love it.

T O U C H D O W N CELEBRATIONS

With the offseason depriving me of seeing Victor Cruz dance in the end zone, I often found myself doing the salsa this sum-mer whenever I was home alone. In my opinion, however, the best celebration in the NFL is that of Jimmy Graham, who takes the rock and dunks it over the goalpost whenever he finds pay dirt. The former Miami Hurricanes forward has promised a through-the-legs slam in the coming weeks.

WHAT I MAY STILL BE MISSING IN A FEW

WEEKS:

LEGITIMATE REFEREES

It was all fun and games in the preseason, and it was actually quite humorous to see the replacement officials calling penalties on guys sitting on the sidelines or, in the case of some, not even being able to turn the right way to speak into the camera. Then, kind of like Matt Leinart, the refs kept getting worse and worse. Now, here we are a few hours before kickoff, and we must deal with the reality that the NFL season is about to start with B-team zebras. We need to get the good old flag-throwers back, and fast.

NFL NETWORK

I adore my two dogs, Mom’s homemade cooking, and real pizza. That being said, the main thing I miss while being away at college may be NFL Network. Stuck with glorious “Huskyvision” instead of Verizon Fios, I have no other choice but to tune into the Yankees, golf or even the Speed Network on Thursday nights this year. Unless I can somehow con-vince UConn that the NFL is more important than a daily dose of Nick Swisher or the Daytona 500, I will be missing primetime match-ups like Bears-Packers (week 2), Giants-Panthers (week 3) and Bengals-Eagles (week 15).

CHAD JOHNSON/CHAD OCHOCINCO/ZINEDINE

ZIDANE

Whatever his name is these days, this guy is one of my favorite personalities in all of sports. Chad may run his mouth as much as he tweets, and I lost a lot of respect for him for what he did to his beautiful wife, but knowing he will prob-ably be sitting on the couch this fall alone almost brings a tear to my eye. Plus, he’s right up there with Tony Soprano and Turtle in the HBO Hall of Fame for stealing the show on not one, but two Hard Knocks seasons.

McCurry: The best parts of NFL

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- After perhaps the most impressive offensive perfor-mance in the country during college football's opening week, Le'Veon Bell needed about a day to recover.

''I was sore, just like any other game I would be sore,'' Bell said Tuesday. ''My legs were a little tired but once I got that run in the next day my legs loosened

up and I really got my body back. I felt great in practice today.''

Bell was a part-time running back his first two seasons at Michigan State, but he looks ready for a much bigger role in 2012. With the Spartans strug-gling through a 17-13 win over Boise State on Friday night, Bell ran for 210 yards on 44 carries and also added six receptions.

At times, he seemed like Michigan State's entire offense.

''I think he's the same player he's been. He worked hard,'' coach Mark Dantonio said. ''He's always prepared well and played hard, going back to his freshman year. He's done this for a couple of years, and he's going into his third year. The opportunity presented itself more maybe Friday night and

he took advantage of it.''Bell was competing with

Edwin Baker the last two sea-sons. As a freshman, he rushed for 605 yards. Last season, it was 948 yards and 13 touch-downs.

When Baker decided to leave and pursue the NFL, Bell sud-denly figured to become the focal point of the running game.

Before Friday, his career high was 20 carries. Offensive coor-dinator Dan Roushar told him to be ready, and Bell was expect-ing about 20 to 25 touches. He ended up more than doubling that and scoring both Michigan State touchdowns.

There was even a big block he threw in pass protection on Michigan State's winning drive.

Now there's even some - very early - talk of him being a Heisman Trophy candidate.

''When I was younger you see the Heisman guys on TV and you're like, 'Man, I want to win that trophy,''' he said. ''Now you get the hype and everything about it, you've really just got to put all that aside and really do what you've got to do for the team to win. At the end of the day, if you're not winning you're not going to get the trophy any-ways.''

The 11th-ranked Spartans play at Central Michigan this weekend, and Dantonio sounds determined to keep Bell focused on what's important.

Senior kick returner and wide receiver Nick Williams awaits a kick against Rutgers in the Huskies' final home game last season.FILE PHOTO/The Daily Campus

Michigan State RB Bell making mark as starter

The Dodgers exploded for ten runs in Colorado, spurred on by a grand slam from A.J. Ellis.AP

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Davis Love III announces American Ryder Cup teamNEW YORK (AP) -- Ryder

Cup captain Davis Love III caused a few murmurs at the Nasdaq Market Site on Tuesday when making his picks.

He announced Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk and Brandt Snedeker before getting to the fourth and final pick.

''And then last but not least - and if you read between the lines, not in any particular order except that we are doing it by height,'' he said.

Rickie Fowler?No, it was Steve Stricker,

who is listed at an even 6 feet in the PGA Tour media guide, which made him the shortest of the picks. Stricker has never been considered short, except when compared with a Ryder Cup team that is getting taller all the time.

Talk about growing the game.

''We're getting bigger and bigger athletes,'' Love said.

Love, who is 6-foot-3, was the tallest player when he made his first Ryder Cup team in 1993. There are five play-ers who are at least 6-foot-3 on this team - Johnson, Matt Kuchar, Keegan Bradley, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson.

The only players on the U.S. team listed under 6 feet are Zach Johnson (a very generous 5-foot-11) and Jason Dufner (5-foot-10).

''I wasn't a good athlete, I was just tall,'' Love said. ''Now we're getting good athletes. Dustin Johnson, you put him in a (New York) Giants uniform, he'd fit right in. You're getting them from other sports, guys

that could have played another sport. Lucas Glover could have played baseball if he wanted to. Nicolas Colsaerts is a big strong guy. There's obviously going to be great chippers and putters - short guys - but we're trending toward bigger, more powerful athletes.''

Consider one of the ways he described why he took Johnson as a captain's pick.

''You just want the best ath-letes available in the draft,'' Love said with a grin.

---BUSY STRETCH: Graeme

McDowell started the FedEx Cup at No. 27 and now goes to Crooked Stick needing a strong tournament to reach the Tour Championship. This is only his second year as a PGA Tour member during the FedEx Cup

era, and he still hasn't quite figured it out.

Not the points - the emotion.McDowell hasn't won this

year, but he was in the final group at the U.S. Open and had a chance on the back nine of the British Open.

''I've just been fatigued the last few weeks,'' McDowell said. ''I haven't switched on since the PGA Championship. It's my second shot at the PGA playoffs, and I probably haven't mentally gotten my head around it. It's a busy few months. I shot a shot at the U.S. Open, I had a hot at the Open, did all right at the PGA. I think I'm tired. The big prior-ity the next few weeks before the Ryder Cup is a lot of rest, making sure I'm fired up come Medinah.''

Michael.McCurry@UConn.edu

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TWOPAGE 2 Q :A :

“What will be the final score of the NFL season opener between the Giants and Cowboys?”

“24 - 21 in favor of the New York Football Giants.”

–Kenny Dutton, 5th semester prekinesiology major

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“Who will win the AFC East this season?”

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– LSU safety Eric Reid on the possibility of former star Tyrann Mathieu returning ot the team.

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Men’s Cross CountrySept. 15UMassInviteTBA

Sept. 22CCSU Invite

11 a.m.

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BucknellTBA

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Sept. 18Boston College7 p.m.

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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Jay Bruce homered for the third straight game on Tuesday night, hitting a two-run shot that sent the Cincinnati Reds to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies with first baseman Joey Votto watch-ing from the bench.

Votto was activated off the disabled list before the game, but didn’t play. Cincinnati went 32-16 without him, taking control of the NL Central.

Bruce’s 31st homer in the sixth inning ended a four-game winning streak by Kyle Kendrick (8-10). Bruce has homered in four of his last five games.

Mat Latos (12-4) gave up one run - on a bases-loaded walk - and four hits in seven innings.

Jimmy Rollins doubled off Latos in the fifth inning, making him the fourth Phillies player to reach 2,000 career hits. He joined Mike Schmidt (2,234), Richie Ashburn (2,217) and Ed Delahanty (2,207).

Left-hander Aroldis Chapman gave up a walk and fanned two while getting his 35th save in 39 chances. Chapman has converted 27 straight save opportunities since June 24, a franchise record.

The win evened the season series at three games apiece. Philadelphia has been one of Cincinnati’s toughest opponents, winning nine of their last 12 games. The Phillies have won their season series each of the past seven years.

Cincinnati’s surge into playoff position has attracted bigger crowds to Great American Ball Park. The Reds topped 2 million in sea-son attendance on Tuesday night, the fastest they’ve reached the mark since the ballpark opened in 2003.

Latos, the Reds’ biggest offseason acquisi-tion, was in the middle of all the early action. He got picked off third base by catcher Erik Kratz in the third inning, ending a rally. He then helped the Phillies pull ahead 1-0 in the fourth because of his control problems.

Philadelphia loaded the bases when Chase Utley doubled, Latos hit Ryan Howard on the arm, and John Mayberry Jr. walked with one out. Latos then walked Domonic Brown - in an 0-for-18 slump - on four pitches to force in a run.

Nate Schierholtz followed with a sink-ing liner that center fielder Drew Stubbs appeared to catch on the short hop. Second base umpire D.J. Reyburn ruled it a catch, then called a forceout at second when Stubbs threw to the infield with confused Phillies trying to figure out what to do.

Pro SideTHE Storrs SideTHE Men’s soccer faces off against

Washington on national television

The UConn campus is buzzing with excitement as the men’s soc-cer team prepares to hit the national stage when they play Washington on Friday night. The game will be covered by Fox Soccer Channel.

With a sellout crowd expected as usual, Friday night is expected to be an incredible show. Two of the nation’s top teams will battle in one of the most hostile environments in college soccer.

As always, the Goal Patrol will be a main feature at the game, but when they depart from Gampel Pavilion at 6:30 that evening, they will be joined by other proud members of the UConn community, including Jonathan, the famed UConn mascot, who will be leading the proces-sion, followed closely by the UConn Drum Line.

Friday is expected to be a memo-rable night and students are excited for it.

“Televised games are always awe-some,” said Matt Stypulkoski, a 5th-semester journalism and political science major and a leading member of the Goal Patrol, “I remember when we played USF; the crowd

was electric. People know it’s on TV so they want to be crazy and let the country know what we’re all about. It’s always a great time and a great opportunity to support our boys.”

The Huskies, coming off a 1-0 victory at Michigan State, know that they will be on TV, but that there is still a big game to be won.

“It’s a pleasure to play on national television knowing that you will be seen by the world,” said sophomore Jamaican goalkeeper Andre Blake. “It’s great for me because my family who are back home and can’t come and watch me play will be able to at least watch me on national television this time around. Other than that it’s nothing that I haven’t done before and for me it’s just like another game with one difference; and that is it being televised live.”

For UConn, who are ranked No. 1 by Soccer America and No. 4 by the coaches’ poll, this will be the first televised regular season game since 2010. That season, the Huskies played three televised games. They defeated South Florida on ESPNU and West Virginia on SNY, but they drew against Notre Dame on Fox Soccer.

By Tim FontenaultCampus Correspondent

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

Giants, Cowboys renew rivaly to begin 2012 NFL campaign

The Giants and Cowboys kick off 2012 NFL season tonight on NBC.

Two old rivals will begin a new season for the National Football League tonight, the 93rd for the country’s most popular sport. The reigning Super Bowl cham-pion New York Giants welcome the Dallas Cowboys to MetLife Stadium beginning at 8:30 p.m. on NBC.

Last year the Giants finished the regular season 9-7 before playing their best football and reeling in four consecutive post-season wins to a title. The Cowboys registered an 8-8 mark, including two late season losses to New York after they had led the NFC East with a 7-4 record. In week 13, Dallas coughed up a 12-point lead at home over the final 3:14 of the game to Eli Manning and Co. Then, in their 2011 finale, the ‘Boys were trounced 31-14 at the hands of the eventual champs.

The Giants are using the slo-gan “build the bridge” to carry momentum from their Super fin-

ish last February. The team is also hoping to build upon a run-ning game that ranked dead last of all 32 teams, averaging fewer than 90 yards per game. 2011 starter Ahmad Bradshaw returns to the New York backfield, accompanied by first round pick David Wilson, who enjoyed a solid pre-season.

Dallas also welcomes a flashy rookie to their team in the form of cornerback Morris Claiborne out of LSU. Owner/general manager Jerry Jones moved up several selections in the draft to pick Claiborne who ought to bolster what was a porous pass defense for “America’s Team” a year ago. The ‘Boys also signed first-rate corner Brandon Carr away from Kansas City this off-season. The veteran is consid-ered a top 10 talent at his posi-tion.

Normally scheduled for the first Thursday of the regular sea-son, tonight’s opener has been moved due to President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention tomorrow.

By Andrew CallahanSenior Staff Writer

Andrew.Callahan@UConn.edu

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.11: Men’s soccer to appear on national TV / P.10: Reds’ Votto returns from DL / P.9: Defending U.S. Open Champion falls

BOUNCE BACK AFFAIR

Freshman forward Samantha McGuire plays the ball against Maine on August 26. The Huskies return home from a roadtrip to face Marist on Wednesday.

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Women’s soccer looks to rebound against Marist

By Peter LogueStaff Writer

This past weekend I did some-thing that not many college stu-dents do on a Saturday morning; I woke up at 9 a.m. to watch ESPN College Gameday. It’s been a Saturday morning tradi-tion for as long as I have been a sports fan. From Big and Rich’s opening song “Coming To Your City” to Lee Corso’s headgear pick, I don’t move from my tele-vision set until the show is over.

Then of course, you have the Saturday slate of games. Since this is the first weekend of col-lege football one might argue these games don’t matter or they’re unimportant. Wrong. College football is one of the few sports where every week matters and every game is important. So here are my thoughts on a hand-ful of games from the first week of college football.

Boise State/Michigan State

In one of the only games where both teams were ranked in AP Top 25, we saw Michigan State come out on top 17-13. For Boise State this may pose problems as their strength of schedule may keep them out of the BCS with the one loss. The victory by the Spartans was one of the only bright spots for the Big 10 this weekend with losses by Penn State and Michigan.

Notre Dame/Navy

I’m sure I am not the only one that feels Notre Dame Football should be taken off the pedes-tal they have been put on. The 1940s are long gone, Rudy is an old man and Knute Rockne is not roaming the sidelines. Nevertheless I checked in with Notre Dame and Navy during commercial breaks on ESPN, mostly because of the fact that the game was being played in Dublin, Ireland. Notre Dame won big 50-10, I’m sure Lou Holz immediately predicted Notre Dame to go 12-0.

Penn State/Ohio University

Personally, I feel this game should not have even been played. After everything that happened with the Paterno/Sandusky scandal, the program should have been suspended. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the current Penn State players should be punished, but they did have the opportunity to play somewhere else without penalty. But I’m not in charge of the NCAA and they felt that it was OK for Penn State to take the field. Ohio University earned a 24-14 victory after scoring 21 unanswered points. This is perhaps the biggest win in school history for the Bobcats; however this victory would take on much more meaning if Penn State were playing under normal conditions.

Northwestern/Syracuse

What a barn burner we had this weekend in the Carrier Dome. At one point Northwestern held a 35-13 lead over Syracuse, but the Orange came storming back to take a 41-35 lead with 2:40 left in game. The Wildcats were not finished with Syracuse though, as Northwestern engineered a 10-play, 75-yard touchdown drive to win the game with only 44 seconds left. If Syracuse was to win this game, it would be good for the Big East to knock off a Big Ten team. However Syracuse is taking their talents elsewhere next season so as

The UConn women’s soccer team will take on Marist College at Joseph Morrone Stadium on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. after a promising weekend in Indiana against two of the nation’s elite programs.

At the Notre Dame Adidas Invitational in South Bend on Friday, the Huskies fell 2-0 to the No. 19 team in the country, North Carolina, despite out-shooting the Tar Heels 10-8. They faced another Top 25 team on Sunday in No.24 Santa Clara and battled to a 1-1 stalemate.

The Huskies will have an opportunity to get back in the win column on Wednesday night. Marist is off to a 3-1 start out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and are fresh off the heels of a 1-0 victory over Fordham last Sunday.

For UConn, a critical factor to their 2-2-1 start against a very competitive schedule has been the successful integration of their 12 freshmen into the rotation. Samantha McGuire (three goals, one assist) and Stephanie Ribeiro (one goal, two assists) have provided a spark offensively while fellow classmate Allison Saucier has posted an impressive 1.85 goals per game average as the goaltender.

“The strong play of the freshmen has shown for sure,” said senior captain Danielle Dakin. “They have displayed their intensity and confidence on the field, which has resulted in some great goals. There are a lot of freshmen this year so it has been great that the whole team has been able to mesh so well this early in the season.”

In addition to the infusion of talented freshmen, the Huskies will also look to continue to draw on the strong play and leadership of their veterans. Senior forward Danielle Schuman led the team in points (15) and goals (7) in 2011, and is off to another impressive start. She is tied with McGuire for the team lead with three goals and is setting the pace with 9 points.

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LB named Big East Defensive Player of the WeekRedshirt sophomore lineback-

er Yawin Smallwood was named Big East defensive player of the week this past Monday after playing a key role in UConn’s dominating 37-0 victory against UMass on Aug. 30.

Smallwood made seven tack-les, including one sack in the Huskies’ home opener against the Minutemen. His efforts, along with those of the rest of the UConn defense limited UMass to just 59 yards for the entire game. Also, the Minutemen could only manage three first downs against a Husky defensive front that returned nine starters from last season.

Head coach Paul Pasqualoni was happy with Smallwood’s performance in the UMass game and will expect more big things

as the season progresses. “This is Yawin’s second year in the posi-tion and he’s really starting to get a feel for it,” said Pasqualoni, “He has a much better sense of what the role and the job descrip-tion is, and he played with confi-dence and played pretty aggres-sively.”

Smallwood is coming off a successful 2011 season, which saw him start all 12 games at middle linebacker. Smallwood made 94 tackles, which made him the second leading tackler on the team. In a game against Syracuse last season, Smallwood recorded a career high of 12 tackles to compliment his per-formance against Western Michigan, where he recorded 10 stops.

This week the Huskies will take on North Carolina State, which is UConn’s first of two games against an ACC opponent. Last weekend the Wolfpack fell

to the University of Tennessee 35-21, however N.C. State still boosts a defense that lead the NCAA in interceptions just a year ago.

UConn’s quarterback, Chandler Whitmer, will have to be very careful as to where he throws the ball, i.e. whether it be a long or short pass, against

such an aggressive defense. “It’s hard, I don’t know if there’s an exact answer,” said Pasqualoni, “I think that their corners antici-pate very well and you have to be very careful.”

During his weekly press con-ference, Pasqualoni informed us that junior kicker Chad Christen’s range is 47 yards during normal conditions. Christen made three field goals in the game against UMass from 36, 47 and 19 yards respectively.

The Quotable Paul Pasqualoni

“The N.C. State offensive line has four seniors out of five and they have about 100 starts between them; this will be by far our biggest challenge, up front,” said Pasqualoni. “This is a very good offensive line, with very good players…we’ll find out a little bit about ourselves

Kicker Chad Christen boots it away during the Huskies last game against UMass.KEVIN SCHELLER/The Daily Campus

» FOOTBALL

» NFL COLUMN

It is highly likely that Brett Favre will never take a snap in a meaningful game again. It is also probable that rapper Lil Wayne, fresh off a mix-tape that I could have dropped better lines on, may in fact be done for good as well.

Time and time again, we fans must sadly come to the realiza-tion that some comebacks sim-ply do not work out. There are exceptions, of course. After shift-ing his focus from the hardwood to the baseball diamond, Michael Jordan went back to the game he owned and still put up gaudy numbers for the Washington Wizards. And what if Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton, an avid drug addict who was a

couple hits or snorts away from death, decided to just fold his hand and hang up the cleats?

While the majority of attempts to make comebacks and return to prominence fail miserably, there is one annual return that is met with as much anticipation as anything else in sports: the return of the NFL season.

Quite frankly, I am tired of hearing about Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg and whether or not he will be allowed to pitch in the playoffs. I am sick of having to check out a NASCAR race or a high school football game when-ever I turn on the television. And, for the love of Timothy Tebow, I cannot live in a world in which the hottest sports news of the day involves who Kelly Ripa’s new co-host is (You know I love you though, Strahan).

The Dallas Cowboys take on the Super Bowl champion New York Giants tonight to get the NFL season started with a bang. If there is anything I love in this world more than Kim Kardashian and Philly cheese steaks, it’s the rivalry between my beloved Giants and those sorry dudes from Texas.

In honor of the opener, I found it necessary to preview the return of professional foot-ball by recalling what I missed most about the league during the long offseason, as well as what I still might be yearning for in a couple of weeks. Before Rex Ryan makes any more far-fetched promises about the Jets that are sure to be unfulfilled, let’s get started. People, the NFL is back!

It’s finally back: NFL season begins

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo looks for a receiver during the first quarter of a NFL preseason football game against the San Diego Chargers.

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Tyler Morrissey

» MORRISSEY, page 9

It’s the most wonderful time

of the year

By Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

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