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Sports Morning Headlines - Monday, 4/16/12
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- Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 01:59
- Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 07:51
- Written by MVPTexas Morning Sports Report
Project Spurs: Former Spur Dwayne Schintzius passes away at 43 - Former San Antonio Spurs center Dwayne Schintzius has passed away at 43 after a long battle with Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), an uncommon blood cancer. He passed away Sunday afternoon from respiratory failure. Schintzius had endured months of complications after receiving a second bone-marrow transplant, his younger brother Travis said. "He's at peace now,'' Schintzius' brother said. "He's not suffering any more. Now he's probably cracking jokes and making people laugh in heaven.'' Dwayne was drafted by the Spurs in the first round of the 1990 NBA Draft. He played one season with San Antonio before being traded to the Kings. Though his time with the Spurs was short-lived, he was known for his mullet and his much maligned pro basketball career. It is said that former Spurs GM Bob Bass had asked him to cut his mullet and when he did, he sent the clipping to Bass. That is what apparently got him traded to the Kings. Dwayne would play with several teams in the NBA such as the Celtics, Clippers, Nets and Pacers before playing in the D-League and the USBL. READ MORE
Mavericks fall to Lakers in OT, 112-108 - Nobody likes a complainer. Least of all me. But it's hard not to be just a tad bit upset over two huge blown calls in overtime. And yes, I am aware that blaming refs for a loss is a cop-out, because really if it comes down to their calls, you clearly didn't do a good enough job to win anyway. Usually. But totally missing basket interference on a three and then totally missing a player stepping out of bounds before a shot is damn near unforgivable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Matt Barnes was involved in both of those plays. READ MORE
Rockets believe adversity brings out their best effort - This is not the way the Rockets wanted to go into the regular season's final two weeks — clinging to playoff position, after consecutive disconcerting home losses — but it sort of fits. It is familiar. The Rockets moved from comfortable to desperate, then declared they are better that way. Even in the losses to the Jazz and Suns, they were better when they were in trouble — cutting an 18-point lead to four and a 16-point lead to five before coming up short — than when they led. Big-picture adversity suits them, or at least they might as well say it does because they have no choice but to face it. READ MORE
Thoughts on a 4-3 Texas victory - Hey, it was a sweep! On the road, even! Granted, Minnesota doesn't look like a very good team, but regardless, it isn't easy to win on the road. Neftali Feliz today looked a lot more like the Neftali Feliz I think we were all expecting to see this year than the Neftali Feliz from Feliz's last start. It isn't that Feliz was bad -- he pitched well, overall. But Feliz didn't have his changeup working, relied heavily on his fastball, and ran out of gas in the sixth inning, ultimately getting pulled after allowing three baserunners and recording no outs in the sixth. READ MORE
Astros had chances, lose to Marlins in 11 - The Houston Astros had the bases loaded in the 11th inning and failed to score. Then the Miami Marlins loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning and took advantage. Missed opportunities on Sunday doomed the Astros, who went 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position and lost 5-4. Omar Infante and Hanley Ramirez hit the Marlins' first homers in their new ballpark, activating the much-discussed home-run sculpture. Ramirez tied the game in the eighth against Wilton Lopez with a two-run homer that cleared the 418-foot sign in center field, then singled home the winning run with one out in the 11th. Meanwhile, the Astros squandered chance after chance. They left the bases loaded three times in the final six innings and stranded 13. "We're struggling," right fielder Brian Bogusevic said. "We aren't coming up with the hits we need. We've been one or two at-bats from pulling ahead or busting it open." READ MORE
Latest generation of WRs could leave position in capable hands - When the 2012 season begins, the players who have served as the Texans' starting receivers in recent years — Andre Johnson and Kevin Walter — will both be 31. Johnson is coming off a season in which he played just seven of 16 regular-season games because of injuries, and he hasn't played a full season since 2009. So if the Texans decide to choose a receiver in the first round of the NFL draft on April 26, it will be a logical selection with several appealing options when their turn comes at No. 26. The consensus best — Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon — likely will be long gone by the time the Texans choose. Blackmon, 6-1, 207, was a two-time winner of the Biletnikoff Award (given to college football's top receiver) and is projected to be chosen in the top six picks. The next highest rated is Notre Dame product Michael Floyd. At 6-6, 220 with a 4.43 40-yard dash, Floyd is projected to go in the top 20. Guys who could be around when the Texans pick include Baylor's Kendall Wright, Georgia Tech's Stephen Hill and LSU's Reuben Randle. READ MORE
Cowboys 2012 Draft Prospects: Oklahoma WR Ryan Broyles - Having dispensed with the array of offensive line candidates in whom the Cowboys have expresses interest, we'll now turn our attention to the skill position guys that were invited to the Ranch earlier this month. There weren't a lot of them. In fact, the only wide receiver at whom we'll take a closer look is Oklahoma standout Ryan Broyles. The story on Broyles is dominated by a singular event: his torn left ACL, suffered in a November contest against Texas A&M. Before the injury, Broyles had become the NCAA career receptions leader, with 349 grabs. After the injury, he was a guy with a big question mark where his number used to be. He was unable to participate in any of the draft's lead-up events: no All-Star Bowls or Combines for Mr. Broyles, no siree. Instead, he focused on his rehab, hoping to be able to show enough recovery of his skills to remind scouts of what they liked about him pre-injury. READ MORE
Video: James Neal Hits Sean Couturier And Claude Giroux - How Many Games? - Former Dallas Stars winger James Neal wasn't the only member of the Pittsburgh Penguins to cross that line from physical play to extreme idiocy during Sunday's first-round game against the Philadelphia Flyers, but he, along with Arron Asham, probably took the biggest flying leaps over that line. Late in the third period and with his team getting thoroughly outplayed, Neal took a pair of runs that violated several key tenets of the rulebook. The first of these was the hit on Sean Couturier. WATCH VIDEO
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The cash-strapped municipalities fear they will have to pay to enforce the new law.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Sheriffs and county clerks in New York say they have been inundated with calls and visits from residents with questions about the state's new gun-control law.
They can't provide many answers.
As state officials continue an education campaign about the stringent and controversial gun law, local leaders said they have many concerns about the measure. They are also worried about having to pick up additional costs to enforce the law at a time when local budgets are already strapped.
"I think it's going to take a little time to figure out how much of this does trickle down to the local municipality," Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss said.
State officials insist State Police will oversee the enforcement of the new law, which includes a statewide database of gun owners and requires re-registration every five years.
WEBSITE: Information on New York's new gun-control law
State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico testified at a legislative hearing Wednesday that local police and municipalities won't have to pick up the tab for the law's expenses. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget includes $32.7 million to pay for the database and another $3.2 million for staffing needs.
"We don't expect any counties to incur costs here," D'Amico said. "That, I think, was an intention of the governor when the bill was passed. We'll be doing, as the State Police, the background checks for that five-year recertification on the pistol permits. So it will not be weighed on the counties."
D'Amico said the database, which will be set up over the next year, will benefit local police and county governments. It is aimed at being a clearinghouse of information about gun owners and to revoke licenses of those who are deemed mentally ill.
"It will allow us to not only build it with no costs to the counties, but be able to push that information back to the counties," he said. "It's much more accurate than they have now in many places."
Local officials are skeptical. About 18 counties handle gun permitting through their sheriff's offices, while the others do it through the clerk's offices or State Police.
Some county officials said they are uncertain how State Police will be able to do the background checks on permit applicants, follow up every five years when a permit is set to expire and address the myriad issues that can complicate licensing procedures.
Another part of the law requires State Police to create an opt-out form for gun owners who do not want their information made public. The form has yet to be created, but the information is being kept private for at least 120 days until it is available.
"Questions still do remain as how this is going to be handled," said Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni. "The law says that the State Police will create the opt-out form. The question is who is going to distribute it? Obviously it's going to wind up in the clerk's office because it has to be given to the licensing officer, which in Westchester is a county judge."
State lawmakers are expected to make some minor tweaks to the law, but no major changes. State officials have been touring the state to answer questions from the public and local leaders about the law. The state also has a website to explain the law.
Republican state Sen. Greg Ball of Patterson said the law should be changed so all pistol-permit information is required to be kept private, rather than the opt-out measure. It would lessen the record-keeping work for law enforcement and local workers, he said.
"For that reason, in my opinion, it would make sense to have an absolute right for privacy and not have the need to opt out," Ball said.
Ball pushed for the records to be made private after The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News, a Gannett Co. Inc. publication, published an interactive map of all pistol-permit licensees in Westchester and Rockland counties. The newspaper took down the controversial map after the law took effect.
The questions surrounding the law may be more pronounced because of the rush of applications for pistol permits after the gun law was signed Jan. 15, local officials said.
Gannett's Albany Bureau reported last Thursday that pistol permits soared 14 percent in 2012, and local officials said they are seeing even greater demand after New York's law and proposed laws on the federal level.
Moss said Chemung County has 700 applications on hold and a typical processing time of three to four months will likely take twice as long now. The county added a check-off box to its applications for the opt-out provision and will include it when the state form is made available in a few months.
Some counties said permits will take more than a year to process.
Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo has been collecting emails from residents who want information about the opt-out clause. She said she will respond to them with more information when the form is available.
In a statement last month, the state Association of County Clerks warned the state about trying to shift costs to local governments for the enforcement of the law. Even before the law, local governments and the state were battling over the expenses of unfunded state-mandated programs.
"This is just not the time to be looking at counties for paying for more programs and laws," Dinolfo said. "I'm very concerned as the county clerk in Monroe County that as this law is implemented, that the county gets presented with another unfunded mandate."
Joseph Spector is chief of the Gannett Albany (N.Y.) Bureau

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- Artists Zaa, Molly Bancroft, Audien
- Release Date 2013-02-18
- Labels Pilot 6 (Armada)
- Catalog PILOT084
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In a school district with some barriers to student success, a place where transiency is close to 30 percent and 31 percent of the 335 students are considered homeless, there is an uplifting feeling in the air, something intangible.
The cultural evolution in the RE-1 School District is the result of collaboration of people determined to enhance the lives of the students, starting with programs such as Rachel's Challenge.
"Absolutely, this is something we needed to bring in because my first year here it was pretty clear that culturally there was a lot of aggression in the building," said Trudy Vader, principal of the Cripple Creek/Victor High School.
Since that first observation in 2005, Vader has initiated changes that tap into cultural, social, emotional and academic veins.
With Rachel's Challenge, named in honor of Rachel Scott, a victim of the shootings at Columbine High School, Vader helped the students develop a sense of community. "Rachel believed in creating positive relationships and impacting people's lives in a positive way. She also believed in dreaming big," Vader said.
Following the challenge, the district implemented the Dream Big program for high-school students, funded by a five-year $660,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Education.
The program's goals promote the STEM curriculum, science, technology, engineering and math through activities such as robotics, rockets and rock climbing. "Anything that engages these kids; the vision is that all students find out who they are, what they're passionate about and that all their dreams are possible," said Debbie Morrill, who was hired to blend the programs within the 21st Century Community Learning Center.
This year, the learning center was the source of a $600,000 five-year grant from the CDE for an after-school program for middle-school students.
"There are 10 goals, eight of which are around math, reading, parent engagement and self-esteem," Morrill said. "We've been building them up, because if their self-esteem is in the toilet they're not going to care about math or reading."
Buoyed by the reduction in negative behaviors, Vader and Morrill moved on to initiate Chain Reaction as a counterpoint to bullying issues. "After the training session, 11 new students said it was the first time they'd ever felt welcomed in school, that it felt like family," Vader said. "The sessions get pretty emotional."
In what's often a turbulent time for adolescents and teenagers, the center is designed to offer alternatives to success, despite setbacks that involve economic factors.
A chat with a few seniors is reflective of the vigor associated with the schools, Cresson Elementary and the high school.
- Marissa Sober: "Rachel's Challenge means to me that we tolerate our differences."
- Katie Tapia: "The challenge helps us get along and know each other better."
- Sarah Wywias: "Awesome! We're such a small school and it's great for us to know about each other. We're a close community."
- Taylor Peterson: "The challenge brings our school closer and makes you realize you are not alone."
- Stephens Cano: "A lot of people understand how others feel. We become stronger together, we talk our problems together."
- Sarah Elizaldi: "I'm in the Destination Imagination (within the learning center) program. In the core classes we integrate science, math and English, look at a problem and all the things you need to learn. It's the coolest program I've ever been in."
- Patrick Evans: I really like Dream Big because we get to do fun and adventurous things. Many kids don't have the money or the opportunities to experience things like this. We meet cool people and do projects together."