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William ‘Jack’ Smith celebrates 103rd birthday
amid second major pandemic of his lifetime
Brooksville native
is a veteran,
retired machinist,
lifelong MSU fan
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
W
ayne Smith isn’t sure how
aware his dad is aware of
COVID-19.
It wouldn’t be the first time
William “Jack” Smith was unaware
of a global pandemic.
Born in 1917, Jack Smith was
a year old when the Spanish Flu
devastated the United States and
Europe, claiming an estimated 50
million lives.
On Friday, Smith turned 103,
which means he’s seen two of the
greatest pandemics in history.
Staff at Windsor Place in Colum-
bus, where Smith has resided
since 2014, marked the occasion
with a party including a birthday
cake in Mississippi State colors,
whose sports teams Smith has
followed with enthusiasm for
decades.
Smith wasn’t quite up to an
interview, but his son said he has
a pretty good idea of how his dad
would respond to questions about
the pandemic.
“I don’t think he would be wor-
ried about it,” said Wayne Smith,
78. “I never remember him ever
being worried about anything.
He is a Christian man. He had his
trials and tribulations like every-
body else. But he would just turn it
over the Lord and not worry about.
I think that’s part of why he’s lived
so long.”
Jack Smith grew up near
Brooksville and lived there all his
life except for his years in the mili-
tary during World War II.
“He was a welder and machin-
ist,” Wayne said. “He helped build
the Babcock & Wilcox building
in West Point. They finished the
job at noon, and after lunch they
offered him a job.”
Jack worked at the plant, which
made industrial boilers until its
closure in 2016, for 40 years, retir-
ing at age 63.
“He carpooled from Noxubee
County to West Point for 40 years,”
Wayne said. “Then, he and my
mother started some greenhous-
MONDAY PROFILE
William “Jack” Smith, a resident at Windsor Place in Columbus, celebrat-
ed his 103rd birthday Friday. He was 1-year-old when the Spanish Flu
pandemic swept through the United States and Europe, which makes him
one of the few people to live through the two of the greatest pandemics in
modern history.
es in Brooksville and had a very
successful business.”
Jack and his wife, Lottie, were
married for 81 years until she
passed away in November 2018.
She moved into Windsor Place in
2013. Jack followed a year later.
“They would eventually end up
in the same room together where
he would lovingly dote on his
precious Lottie until her passing,”
said Misty Holder, the admission
coordinator at Windsor Place.”
Wayne, and his older sister,
Faye Morgan, 81, both live in New
Hope and visit their dad regularly.
Analysis: Same
names, some
new dynamics
in Senate
contest
Two items on ballot could
increase voter turnout —
the presidential race and
a decision about a new
Mississippi flag
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mis-
sissippi’s 2020 U.S.
Senate race has the
same top candidates
as in 2018 — Re-
publican incumbent
Cindy Hyde-Smith
and challenger Mike
Hyde-Smith
Espy.
The world is dif-
ferent because of
the coronavirus pan-
demic, which puts
new emphasis on
the candidates’ dif-
ferences over health
care policies.
Espy
The election dy-
namics are also different because
this year’s ballot has two items
that could increase voter turnout
— a presidential race and a yes-
or-no decision about a new Missis-
sippi flag.
Hyde-Smith defeated Espy in
a November 2018 special election
Courtesy photo runoff to fill the final two years of
a term started by longtime Repub-
lican Sen. Thad Cochran. She re-
ceived about 54 percent to Espy’s
46 percent.
At the time, Hyde-Smith had
been in the Senate a few months.
He’s still the same happy, gentle
She is a former state lawmaker
person they have known since
and was in her second term as
childhood. Mississippi agriculture commis-
“He’s always been a happy, jolly sioner when then-Gov. Phil Bry-
man,” Wayne said. “He never was ant appointed her to temporarily
one to let things get him down. He serve when Cochran retired in
persevered.” early 2018 because of poor health.
Today, Jack enjoys watching TV Espy assembled a 2018 cam-
in his room, most notably MSU paign on short notice, but he was
football games. already well known in Mississippi
“He’s been a State fan forever,” politics. He had been elected to
Wayne said. “As a matter of fact, I the U.S. House in a Delta district
think he got one of the first cow- in 1986, becoming the state’s first
bells that ever came along.” Black congressman since Recon-
struction. In 1993, then-President
See SMITH, 6A
Bill Clinton chose Espy as U.S.
secretary of agriculture. After
See ANALYSIS, 3A

Possible Starkville-MSU recycling partnership starting to take shape

Discussions include monitored drop-
off site; curbside pickup not an option
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Starkville is consid-
ering a partnership with
Mississippi State Univer-
sity’s recycling program
after the city halted its
own program, which op-
erated at a financial loss.
City and MSU officials
have come up with an idea
of what that partnership
would look like, but much
Sistrunk
is still to be decided, and it
has to be both structured
and financially feasible for
the city, Ward 2 Alderman
Sandra Sistrunk said.
“We don’t know yet
Spruill
what the hauling fees
would be, but we’ve got
more meetings (with
MSU) next week,” she
said Friday.
Aldermen voted to in-
definitely suspend the
city’s recycling program
as of this month and did
not include it in the Fiscal
Year 2021 budget. The
city had a contract with
Waste Management to
haul the collected recy-
clables to Tupelo, and the
cost went up from about
$40,000 to about $60,000
this year while reve-
nues totaled only about
$24,000, Sistrunk said.
Sistrunk chairs an
ad hoc committee that
formed last year with
the goal of improving
the recycling program,
and she first mentioned
the potential partnership
with MSU at the Sept. 15
board of aldermen meet-
ing. MSU acknowledged
the discussions in a press
release Thursday.
“The university has a
long history of effective
collaboration with the
city, but a recycling part-
nership would require
some structure to make
the proposal financial-
ly feasible,” the release
states.
Saunders Ramsey,
MSU’s executive director
of Campus Services, did
not respond to a request
for comment.
See RECYCLING, 6A

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COVID delay: New coronavirus

relief slipping past election
Confirming Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court the vote will advance the ball. Once
the measure fails, he plans to turn
likely to be Senate’s final action before Election Day the chamber’s full attention to ce-
menting a 6-3 conservative major-
BY ANDREW TAYLOR Trump’s GOP allies are recon- ity on the Supreme Court by con-
The Associated Press vening the Senate this week to vote firming Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
It is likely to be the Senate’s final
on a virus proposal, but it’s a bill
WASHINGTON — Congress is act before Election Day.
past the point at which it can deliver that failed once before, and that
In that context, this week’s vote
more coronavirus relief before the Trump himself now derides as too has the chief benefit of giving Re-
election, with differences between puny. The debate promises to bring publicans in tough reelection races
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her a hefty dose of posturing and polit- one last opportunity to try to show
Senate Republican rivals and Pres- ical gamesmanship, but little more. voters they are prioritizing COVID
ident Donald Trump proving in- Even the architect of the Senate relief — and to make the case to
surmountable despite the glaring measure, Majority Leader Mitch voters that Democrats are the ones
needs of the country. McConnell, R-Ky., isn’t claiming standing in the way.

Policy vs. personality: Undecideds torn as election nears

‘They’re judging on two completely different attributes
and they can’t decide which is more important to them’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — lying by those who cannot
Amanda Jaronowski is
torn. The lifelong Republi-
can from suburban Cleve-
land supports President
Donald Trump’s policies
and fears her business
could be gutted if Demo-
crat Joe Biden is elected.
But she abhors Trump
personally, leaving her on
the fence about who will
get her vote.
It’s a “moral dilemma,”
Jaronowski said as she
paced her home one re-
cent evening after pour-
ing a glass of sauvignon
blanc. “It would be so easy
for him to win my vote if
he could just be a decent
human being,” she had
said earlier during a focus
group session.
Jaronowski is part of a
small but potentially sig-
nificant group of voters
who say they remain truly
undecided less than three
weeks before the Nov. 3
Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz
election. They have been
derided as uninformed or
fathom still being undecid-
ed, but conversations with
a sampling of these voters
reveal a complicated tug of
war.
Many, like Jaronowski,
are longtime Republicans
wrestling with what they
see as a choice between
two lousy candidates: a
Democrat whose policies
they cannot stomach and
a Republican incumbent
whose personality revolts
them. Some voted for
third-party candidates in
2016 because they were so
repelled by their choices
— Trump and Democrat
Hillary Clinton — and may
do so again.
While polls show there
are far fewer on-the-fence
voters this year than the
unusually high number in
2016, the Trump and Biden
campaigns each believes it
still can win over numbers
that matter.
Among those people is
John Welton, 40, a Pres-
byterian minister from
Winfield, Kansas, who
has spent much of his ca-
reer moving from parish
to parish. His political
views, he said, have been
shaped in part by watching
how trade deals have hurt
once-vibrant manufactur-
ing communities and his
congregants’ livelihoods,
as well as by his own
“pro-Second Amendment”
views.
Welton said he is turned
off by Biden’s support for
tighter gun restrictions.
But he is also put off by
Trump’s bullying and de-
meaning of opponents on
Twitter and his divisive
rhetoric.
On the other hand,
Welton has been pleasant-
ly surprised that Trump
has made good on his cam-
paign pledge to bring U.S.
troops home from Iraq and
Afghanistan, though thou-
sands still remain.
In 2016, Welton end-
ed up voting for Clinton,
but barely. He circled the
block at his polling place
before making a decision.
This year, he’s hoping a
second debate will offer
him some clarity.
“I remain pretty sway-
able,” he said.
Longtime Republican
pollster Frank Luntz, who
has been running focus
groups with undecided
voters throughout the elec-
tion, including one Thurs-
day night that included Ja-
ronowski, sees a common
refrain among many of the
undecideds.
“They’re judging on two
completely different attri-
butes and they can’t decide
which is more important to
them,” he said. “They don’t
like Trump as a person, but
they don’t feel badly about
his administration or his
policies. They really like
Joe Biden as a person, but
they are so nervous about
what he’s going to do if he
were elected. And so they
can’t figure out which is
more important to them.”
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Aldermen debate several potential project requests for the state

Roberson suggests asking the Legislature
every year to fund a project for Starkville
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Starkville Mayor Lynn
Spruill had been hoping she and
the board of aldermen could
come to an agreement Friday
on what kind of project to re-
quest the state Legislature fund
during its next session.
Instead, the board and state
legislators will meet again in the
next couple weeks, since they
discussed several possible proj-
ects — from roads and drainage
to a library and a parking ga-
rage — at Friday’s regular work
session but did not agree on a
particular one.
State Rep. Rob Roberson
(R-Starkville) said the city
needs to have a general idea of
how much the proposed project
will cost and how much the city
is willing to match the state’s
contribution. He suggested
asking for $50 million to $60
million, even though the Legis-
lature might not agree to that,
because a large request gives
the city the ability to negotiate.
“I feel like Starkville and
Oktibbeha County have been
ignored, as far as projects are
concerned, for years,” Rober-
son said. “It feels like we’ve be-
come the redheaded stepchild
at times because we don’t ask.”
He said the city should make
a request every year, which larg-
er communities in Mississippi
such as the Gulf Coast cities do,
and while projects are not guar-
anteed, at least they will be con-
sidered.
“I’m a firm believer in shoot-
ing for the stars and if we hit the
moon, we’re doing better than
we’ve been doing,” Roberson
said.
Spruill’s preferred project
would be to extend Hospital
Road west and connect it to
Highway 25, but the aldermen
presented several ideas that she
said are also viable options.
Ward 2 Alderman Sandra
Sistrunk said the city should
build a new library, since the
current one is about 60 years
old. She suggested locating it
on Highway 182 as an “anchor
building” to “jumpstart devel-
opment” upon completion of the
planned revamp of a mile of the
state highway with a $12.66 mil-
lion grant from the U.S. Depart-
ment of Transportation.
Roberson said a project that
helps low-income communities
might be well-received at the
state level, and Sistrunk said a
new library fits the bill.
“For everything that we
know and love about our com-
munity, in a lot of ways we are
a high-poverty area, and the li-
brary is that resource for a lot of
people who need access to com-
puters, access to books, a place
to get to the internet because
they don’t have it out in their
garage behind Starkville Cafe
downtown.
Multiple aldermen men-
tioned the possibility of turn-
ing the railroad that bisects
Starkville from southwest to
northeast into a biking and walk-
ing trail, an idea that arose about
a year ago but has not developed
beyond that. The railroad runs
from Ackerman to West Point
and has not been used in sev-
eral years, and the trail would
be part of the national network
created by the nonprofit Rails-
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Ward 3 Alderman David Little, right, listens to State Rep. Rob to-Trails Conservancy.
Roberson (R-Starkville), second from left, explain at Friday’s work Kansas City Southern, the
session that the city would benefit from asking the state Legisla- company that owns the railroad,
ture to fund a multimillion-dollar project. The aldermen discussed has not responded to the city’s
a variety of options, including building a new library or relocating requests to discuss the idea,
the county jail, but did not come to a unanimous agreement, so and the transportation compa-
Mayor Lynn Spruill said the board will meet again within the next ny Watco currently has a 15-
few weeks.
year lease on the rail line that
“doesn’t afford them an oppor-
community, out in the county,” to MSU anyway, and if we’re
tunity to do much of anything,”
Sistrunk said. successful, we’re
Spruill said.
Roberson said he is not op- going to have
The aldermen will meet
posed to the idea but believes several hundred
again in the near future in order
libraries are not as attractive as homes and busi-
to come to a consensus on a po-
they used to be, and Sistrunk nesses out there
tential project, since they need
countered that this is “because that we’ll be cov-
to be unanimous in order for
we haven’t seen one done well.” ering,” Beatty the request to the Legislature to
She also said Ward 5 Alder- said. succeed, Spruill said. The next
man Hamp Beatty’s suggestion He also said Beatty meeting might involve repre-
of relocating one of the city’s both northern and southern sentatives from the county and
fire stations was a good idea. Starkville could use new and more state legislators, including
Beatty said this could be useful improved drainage systems in state senator-elect Bart Wil-
in light of the city’s move to an- light of the historic amounts of liams (R-Starkville).
nex land to the east, along the rain the area has received in the Spruill said she thought Fri-
Highway 82 and Highway 182 past year. day’s meeting was productive.
corridors out to Clayton Village Other possible projects in- “We’ll see if we can come up
and in the University Hills area cluded relocating the county with a project we can put for-
on the east side of Mississippi jail, which would be a collab- ward with Rep. Roberson … and
State University. orative effort with Oktibbeha we’ll have the opportunity to de-
“A lot of our calls now go out County, and building a parking velop it together,” she said.

AREA ARRESTS
The following arrests
were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
n Larry Armstrong, 41,
was charged with posses-
sion of a weapon by a felon.
n Larry Billups, 44,
was charged with pos-
session of a controlled Armstrong Billups Bush Clopton Dinsmore Hayden J. Johnson Kerlee Mays Moore
substance, littering, pos-
session of marijuana in
a vehicle, failure to yield
to blue light, no drivers
license and disobeying a
traffic control device.
n Jamareo Bush, 33,
was charged with posses-
sion of methamphetamine, Short Thomas Turner Womack Varner Hudson Cunningham Colter Bell Gage
possession of marijuana n Jordan Johnson, 27, n Ray Short, 42, was amine, no insurance, care- court order.
and indecent exposure. was charged with posses- charged with possession less driving and speeding n Derek Cunningham,
n Demon Clopton, 18, sion of methamphetamine of a weapon by a felon, 10-20 MPH over limit. 30, was charged with a cir-
was charged with sale, and failure to appear. possession with intent to cuit court order.
possession or use of con- n Sara Kerlee, 33, was distribute, possession of The following arrests n Zamillionan Colter,
trolled substance and pos-
charged with felony credit marijuana in a vehicle, were made by the Oktibbe- 19, was charged with two
session of marijuana.
card-intend to defraud and suspended drivers license, ha County Sheriff’s Office: counts shooting into auto-
n Joseph Dinsmore,
46, was charged with pos- shoplifting less that $250. no insurance and expired n Faith Womack, 23, mobile. Frazier A. Johnson
session of methamphet- n Henry Mays, 47, was license tag. was charged with bur- n Kelvin Bell, 31, was
amine. charged with aggravated n Tamarcus Thomas, glary of a residence. charged with a bench war- was charged with a child
n Pamela Hayden, 51, trafficking and contempt 40, was charged with ar- n RB Varner, 30, was rant. support order.
was charged with aggra- of court. son. charged with malicious n Cameron Gage, 21, n Antione Johnson, 21,
vated assault to manifest n Laforest Moore, 57, n Andre Turner, 33, mischief. was charged with cyber- was charged with posses-
extreme indifference to was charged with sex of- was charged with pos- n Patrick Hudson, 30, stalking. sion of marijuana-more
life. fender registration failure. session of methamphet- was charged with a circuit n Toriano Frazier, 40, than 30 grams.

Analysis
Continued from Page 1A
leaving the Cabinet post
in 1994, Espy went back
to working as an attor-
ney in private practice.
Hyde-Smith is the
first woman to represent
Mississippi on Capitol
Hill. Espy is trying to be-
come Mississippi’s first
Black U.S. senator since
Reconstruction.
A Libertarian candi-
date, Jimmy L. Edwards,
is running a low-budget
campaign for Senate this
year.
Hyde-Smith presents
herself as an unshakable
supporter of President
Donald Trump, and he
campaigned for her in
Mississippi in 2018.
Espy supports the
Democratic presidential
nominee, former Vice
President Joe Biden, and
Biden has endorsed Espy
in the Senate race.
er working people who
cannot afford private
health insurance. Expan-
sion is an option under
the Affordable Care Act,
but Republican leaders
in Mississippi, including
Gov. Tate Reeves, have
said they don’t want to
put more people on a gov-
ernment program.
Hyde-Smith has said
she wants Congress to
repeal the Affordable
Care Act, although she
and other Republicans
recently voted for a bill
that would protect part
of the law — the require-
ment for insurers to cov-
er people with pre-exist-
ing health conditions. An
Oct. 1 news release from
Hyde-Smith said the bill
was “stalled on party
lines,” Republicans vot-
ing yes and Democrats
voting no.
is divisive. That flag is
anachronistic. And it
hearkens back to an ugly
time that I don’t want my
children and grandchil-
dren to grow up under.”
Hyde-Smith did not
take a stance on wheth-
er legislators should
surrender the Confeder-
ate-themed flag. On June
30, the governor signed
a law that retired the old
flag and required that a
commission design new
flag that declares, “In
God We Trust.” Hyde-
Smith issued a statement
that day praising the
mandate for the religious
phrase.
“By boldly and pub-
licly acknowledging our
faith in God, we will con- SOLUNAR TABLE
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hardworking, loving, Courtesy of Mississippi Department
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The Senate candi- Espy and Hyde-Smith innovative, and God-fear-

dates have strong dif-
ferences on health care
policy.
Espy says he supports
the Affordable Care
Act that then-President
Barack Obama signed
into law in 2010. Espy
has also said Mississip-
pi’s rural hospitals are
hurting because the Re-
publican-controlled state
Legislature has not ex-
panded Medicaid to cov-
have taken different
paths on the state flag.
Amid the national reck-
oning over racial injus-
tice, Mississippi legisla-
tors voted in late June to
retire the last state flag
that included the Confed-
erate battle emblem.
Espy called on legisla-
tors to make the change,
telling The Associated
Press on June 25: “That
flag is ugly. That flag
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news conference last
week and said he will
vote for it because “we
have to close a chapter
Cheap thrills. Go for a walk.
on the old Mississippi.”
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4A MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020
POSSUMHAW
Goldenrod gets
a bad rap
“The goldenrod is
yellow. The corn is turn-
ing brown. The trees in
apple orchards with fruit
are bending down.”
Helen Hunt Jackson,
American poet and
novelist (1830-1885)
I was pleased to
see three tall stems of
goldenrod full of their
golden flowers swaying Shannon Bardwell
in the wind behind the
fence of the perennial garden. Prairie fields
that remain wild are full of wildflowers — blue,
white and gold. Our fields are bushhogged until
the end of the season where sedge stands for
the winter. While down the gravel road, there
are uncut fields all summer long. From these
friendly fields I gleaned some wildflowers and
harvested their seed.
Goldenrod is a hardy plant. It is drought-re-
sistant and requires no fertilizer. Seeds can be
bought off the internet if need be. They grow
naturally in the Prairie and are hardy to zone 3.
We are in zone 7 where goldenrods get plenty
of heat and sun and don’t care how dry it may
get. They often grow on roadsides and along
railroads. They have a very deep root system,
sprouting from a 2-5-inch rhizome. Goldenrod
is a perennial wildflower listed sometimes as an
herb. Goldenrod is often thought of as an aller-
gen, but it is not. It is very rare for anyone to be
allergic to goldenrod. In fact, goldenrod has its
own medicinal value in numerous situations.
Made into a tincture, a mixture of goldenrod
extract and alcohol, goldenrod may actually
reduce the effects of sinus allergies. It’s known
to be a diuretic, aid kidney function, reduce
pain and swelling when made into a salve, stop
muscle spasms, provide relief for arthritis,
eczema and other skin rashes. Goldenrod has
even been used as a mouthwash.
Several states have selected the golden-
rod as their state flower including Nebraska,
Kentucky, South Carolina and even Alabama
— until they changed the state flower to the
camellia, a product of Japan, and then again in
1999 to the oak leaf hydrangea.
Goldenrod typically blooms from August to
October in a glorious fall display, which unfor-
tunately coincides with the blooming of rag-
weed, which is in fact an annual weed. Statistics
show about 23 million Americans are allergic to
ragweed.
Ragweed is in the genus Ambrosia, which
sounds lovely but is not. While the goldenrod
produces nectar and heavy pollen which is
beneficial to bees and butterflies, the ragweed
does not. The pollen of the ragweed is very
small and light and able to be carried by wind
up to 100 miles away. One plant can release a
billion small grains into the air. Symptoms of a
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sneezing, itchy eyes and asthma flare-ups.
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columns sprouting from a single stem, looking
somewhat like a five-branch candlestick.
So, if interested in purchasing or collecting
goldenrod to enjoy planting or arranging, go
ahead. If ragweed, don’t.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Believes Hairston missed first
opportunity to lead
On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at
the Lowndes County Board of Super-
visors meeting, Trip Hairston missed
an opportunity to demonstrate his
desire to heal the divisions and re-
store some semblance of attempting
to work together with all supervisors
in orderly and properly conducting
the county’s business. When he was
nominated to become board presi-
dent, he should have declined and
nominated a more experienced su-
pervisor. If he was not pleased with
the one that had been nominated at
the last meeting and tabled, he could
have nominated Mr. Leroy Brooks.
Mr. Brooks not only matches but
surpasses Hairston in professional
experience and education.
Mr. Brooks was on the mark when
he stated in a Oct. 16, 2020 Dispatch
article the following: “Seemingly,
you have no understanding of what’s
going on with America, that you
are all hell bent on perpetuating
institutional racism.” Mr. Sanders
is remaining on the board to ensure
racism remains. We clearly see that
the deck is not stacked in Blacks’
favor based on Sanders’ statement
relative to Blacks having not assim-
ilated as well as some others. The
main objective of Mr. Sanders and
others with his mindset is to keep
their knee on the neck of Blacks, just
as it was with George Floyd. Al-
though Mr. Sanders is not president
of the board, his influence and power
is still there. This was evident with
the nomination of Hairston for board
president. As long as Harry Sanders
sits on the board of supervisors, he
will continue to sow seeds of discord.
Listed as one of the six things the
Lord hates. Proverbs 6:19 - A false
witness that speaketh lies, and he
that soweth discord among brethren.
Trip Hairston says he will try to
be more inclusive and hear ideas
from both sides. Don’t just try, do it,
because you have already missed the
first opportunity. Therefore, do the
right thing as a human being -- just
as you would want it done to you. As
supervisor of my district, please do
not be influenced by Harry Sanders
or a carbon copy. This brings me
again to the teachings of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. He said it best, “We
are caught in an inescapable network
of mutuality, tied in a single garment
of destiny. What affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.”
John Henry Smith
Columbus
Believes city’s priorities shouldn’t
be on mandate enforcement
A local business in downtown
Columbus is being harassed by the
Columbus Police Department, or-
dered by the mayor I would deduce.
This business found a loophole in
the state mandate and posted a
sign that mask were not required in
the business. They were visited by
Chief Shelton one day and by three
officers another day. The sign was
removed, and then the business
owner was issued a citation this
week for not wearing a mask. This
business has been the only one I’m
aware of harassed by CPD checking
the city mask enforcement. The
only thing is, the owner has been
outspoken about the mask mandate
and would like to see a change in city
government. I have experienced the
Dispatch
The
repercussions of criticizing the local
government. I have been labeled a
“racist.” Our brave police in Colum-
bus are over-worked and under-paid
already. They have crimes to solve,
citizens to protect and a lot more
important things to do than harass a
tax-paying business about the mask
mandate. But, then this is Colum-
bus, the ”Friendly City.” We have
countless problems, and the Mayor
is worried about his mask mandate.
Misplaced priorities? I dare say this
businessman is going to stand his
ground, and I will continue to speak
out. Will anyone join us?
God bless America!
Lee Roy Lollar
Columbus
Concerned over Barrett
on Supreme Court
Watching the speeches that
passed for judicial inquisition, a
pattern emerged that felled me. Roe
v. Wade was the tip of the iceberg.
From the mouth of Mitch McCo-
nnell came the future once Judge
Barrett is confirmed. Everything
will be revisited. All it will take, in
each state, is for the legislature to
enact a bill that prompts someone
to sue, causing the case to go to the
Supreme Court.
No one was able to get Judge
Barrett (three years out of law
school, two years on the bench) to
say how she would rule on anything,
but she did say that this tactic would
work. She also dodged the question
of the issue of a lawsuit designed to
throw the election into the House
of Representatives. Joe Biden could
sweep the electoral vote by a wide
margin, and the popular vote as
well, and such a lawsuit could still be
filed, claiming voter fraud, without
any evidence. The suit would be
appealed to the Supreme Court,
which could sit on it until after the
deadline for certifying electors,
throwing the decision into the House
of Representatives. The Republicans
have more State majorities in the
House than the Democrats, and they
could declare Donald J. Trump the
winner. President Trump would not
need to win the election, just delay.
The Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore
would pale.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
Announcement of virtual
Day of Prayer event
A praise and worship prayer event
will be presented on Columbus Na-
tional Day of Prayer Facebook page
on Thursday, October 29, at 6:00 pm.
This annual Fall program, sponsored
by the Christian Community in
Prayer Committee, a group of local
citizens interested in bringing about
times of community-wide prayer, is
usually held in the YMCA gymna-
sium, but due to COVID guidelines
will be a virtual event this year. We
are thankful for today’s technolo-
gy not only for enabling us to go
forward with this event, but also
that it will be available for replay on
our Facebook page after the initial
October 29, evening time slot.
This is the ninth year the Chris-
tian Community in Prayer Commit-
tee has sponsored a fall prayer event
as well as the local observance of
the National Day of Prayer. The Fall
event usually focuses on Thanksgiv-
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in this program, the main subject for
the 30 minute presentation will be a
reminder that almighty God is our
creator and sustainer and worthy
of our praise and worship. Even as
the world seems upside down, He is
still in charge! Our community and
nation are blessed in many ways;
let us honor Him and give thanks!
Hearts will be lifted, and He will be
magnified.
Nell Bateman
Christian Community in
Prayer Committee, Columbus
Response to Hyde-Smith’s
comments at a local luncheon
I can’t think of anything at this
writing that Trump has changed for
the better since being elected. Some
could say the judges he appointed,
but they could turn out to be like his
cabinet appointees.
America, under Trump, is becom-
ing like our state. First in everything
that’s bad, and both are being run by
Republicans.
Now, America is first in the num-
ber of COVID-19 cases, because of
poor planning.
America is first in my lifetime to
have a pathological liar for president.
America is first for some coun-
tries to close their borders to keep
Americans from entering because
of COVID-19, again because of poor
planning.
America is first to have a presi-
dent who ran six different business-
es that declared bankruptcy because
they couldn’t pay their bills, and he
could be, if re-elected, be staring at
number seven, the biggest one of all.
America is first to have a presi-
dent whose dishonesty is pathetic.
America is first, according to
some people, to have a president
that poses the greatest threat to our
democracy. He has that fuzzy warm
feeling toward dictators.
America is first in my lifetime, to
place Americans against Americans,
instead of uniting us.
I don’t think Hyde-Smith men-
tioned the abortion deal, but a month
or so ago, a flier came in the mail
that did.
When Judge Barrett gets ap-
proved, maybe Roe v Wade can be
overturned, but I doubt it, because
the Republicans won’t have anything
left on their platform that will get
them elected.
It’s hard to believe, after 47 years,
they have not presented a petition
to the Supreme Court to have it
overturned.
We’ve had five judges appointed
by Republicans, and four by Demo-
crats just recently, and there should
be no reason if a petition was pre-
sented to overturn Roe v Wade, they
would have done it.
For this reason, I personally
blame the Republicans more than
Democrats for abortions, because it
helps them win elections.
Sen. Hyde-Smith refuses to
debate Espy, does not have town
hall meetings with her constituents,
left the luncheon before it was over
without taking any questions.
More than likely, it’s because she
knew if she had to defend a patholog-
ical liar like Trump, she would have
to tell one herself.
She probably said to herself, you
“ain’t” going to start me to lying. I’m
“outta here.”
James Hodges
Steens
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Most US clergy avoid hellfire threats over abortion politics

‘We do not dismiss those who advocate for legal access to abortion as
unconcerned for human life or unworthy of our respect and attention’
BY DAVID CR ARY
AP National Writer
James Altman is a Roman
Catholic priest in Wisconsin,
little known outside his parish
until a few weeks ago. Robert
Jeffress is the high-profile pas-
tor of a Baptist megachurch in
Dallas. They have a message in
common for members of their
faiths: Voting for Democrats
who support abortion rights is
an evil potentially deserving of
eternal damnation.
Their fierce, openly partisan
rhetoric is attention-grabbing,
but it remains the exception
in America’s diverse religious
landscape, even in this divisive
election year. Most members
of the clergy, including foes of
abortion, steer clear of overt
endorsements or denunciations
Policy statement from the National Association of Evangelicals
of political candidates. Nu-
merous denominations try to
frame their stance on abortion
in ways that respect multiple
viewpoints.
The Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, for ex-
ample, has adhered for three
decades to a nuanced policy
aimed at respecting churchgo-
ers on all sides of the debate.
“We say that abortion should
be seen as a path of last resort,
but we defend a woman’s right
to make decisions over her own
body,” said Bishop Paul Egen-
steiner, who heads the ELCA’s
Metropolitan New York Synod.
The National Association of
Evangelicals, which represents
about 45,000 churches, de-
clares in a policy statement that
it “actively, ardently and unwav-
eringly opposes abortion on
demand,” but simultaneously
appeals for civility.
“We do not dismiss those
who advocate for legal access
to abortion as unconcerned for
human life or unworthy of our
respect and attention,” it says.
Such stances and tones dif-
fer sharply from those offered
recently by Altman and Jef-
fress.
“You cannot be Catholic and
be a Democrat,” Altman said in
a YouTube video, admonishing
people to “repent of your sup-
port of that party and its plat-
form or face the fires of hell.”
His comments were criticized
by many Catholics, while en-
dorsed by some others, such as
Bishop Joseph Strickland of the
Tyler, Texas, diocese.
Jeffress, the pastor of First
Baptist Church of Dallas and a
close ally of Donald Trump, em-
ploys similarly strong language
in denouncing the president’s
opponent.
“As long as Joe Biden and
the Democratic Party continue
to support unrestricted abor-
tion for any reason and at any
stage in a pregnancy, priests
and pastors like myself will
have no problem saying, ‘Only
Christians who have sold their
soul to the devil would vote for
Joe Biden,’” Jeffress said via
email.
Jeffress’ church is affiliat-
ed with the Southern Baptist
Convention, the nation’s largest
Protestant denomination. Its
leadership adopted a stringent
anti-abortion stance nearly 40
years ago that remains in place.
Daniel Patterson, a vice pres-
ident of the Southern Baptists’
public policy arm, said most
of the denomination’s pastors
don’t engage in partisan poli-
tics from the pulpit, although
they’re free to address abortion
and other issues as they see fit.
The Rev. Kevin Smith, ex-
ecutive director of the Baptist
Convention of Maryland/Dela-
ware and one of the SBC’s high-
est-ranking Black leaders, crit-
icized Christians who stress
their opposition to abortion
while minimizing the problem
of racism, and objected to the
partisanship making inroads in
some churches.
“While too many so-called
pastors wait for the morning
talking points from their cho-
sen political party, too many are
failing at an essential pastoral
task,” he tweeted last month.
Earlier this month, the Na-
tional Association of Evan-
gelicals issued a statement
repenting for shortcomings in
combating poverty and racial
inequality. It pledged to “re-
sist being co-opted by political
agendas” and to uphold a “com-
prehensive pro-life ethic that
protects both the unborn and
the vulnerable of all ages.”

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ETHELSVILLE —
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Lawrence; and siblings,
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her children, Timothy dren, Danny Carruth the United States Air
Lawrence of Butler, and Amanda Whaley; Force. He was formerly
Titus Lawrence of Pine, and siblings, Mike employed with First
Louisiana, Samuel Carruth and Bobbie State Bank.
Lawrence, Sharon Rose Gardner. He is survived by his
Owen both of Caledonia He is survived by his daughter, Sara Ragsdell
and Rebekah Barham wife, Tressa Carruth; of Beaverton, Alabama;
of Ethelsville; siblings, children, Tim Carruth,
siblings, Marilyn
James Dotson of Dallas, Harleight Carruth both
Texas and Joe Dotson of Sulligent, Rod Wha- Mixon and Suzanne
of Branson, Missouri; ley of Vacaville, Califor- Sorrells both of Tus-
caloosa, Alabama; and
40 grandchildren; and nia and Bryan Whaley
seven great-grandchil- of Huntsville, Alabama; four grandchildren.
dren. siblings, Wynell Noe,
Pallbearers will be Roger Carruth both of Lisa Heath
Jonathon Lawrence, Sulligent and Tamie COLUMBUS — Lisa
Virgil Lawrence, Tyler Barnard of Des Moines, Heath, 60, died Oct. 18,
Maness, Rodney Law- Iowa; and eight grand- 2020, at North Missis-
rence, Ivan Owen and children. sippi Medical Center of
Andrew Burns. Pallbearers will be Tupelo.
Memorials may be Terry Perkins, Anthony
made to Longville Pen- Arrangements are
Reeves, Wesley Sud-
tecostal Church, 151 dith, Randall Dillard, incomplete and will be
Herbert Cooley Road, Adam Dove, Joel Col- announced by Memori-
Longville, LA 70652 of lier, Jason Young and al Gunter Peel Funeral
Pinedale United Pente- Jon Lepicier. Home of Crematory,
costal Church, 20235 Memorials may College Street location.
Hwy 22E, Ponchatoula, be made to Trinity
LA 70454. Freewill Baptist Youth
Camp, 1835 Co. Hwy 3,
Anthony Brown Jr. Guin, AL 35563.
COLUMBUS — An-
thony Brown Jr., 39, Mike Mixon
died Oct. 18, 2020. SULLIGENT, Ala.
Arrangements are — Senior Master Sgt.
incomplete and will be Mike Mixon, 67, died
announced by Lee- Oct. 16, 2020, at his
Sykes Funeral Home of residence.
Columbus. Funeral services will
be at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
Wayne Carruth at Otts Funeral Home
SULLIGENT, Ala. Chapel, with Scott
— Wayne Carruth, 61, Stokes and Steve Wolfe
died Oct. 17, 2020, at officiating. Masonic
his residence. Funeral Rites will follow in
services are at 3 p.m. the chapel. Burial will
today, at Otts Funeral follow in Mt. Hebron
Home Chapel, with Cemetery. Visitation
Danny Thompson, is from 6-8 p.m. today,
Jason Clifton and B.J. at the funeral home.
Mills officiating. Burial Otts Funeral Home of
will follow in Pleas- Sulligent is in charge of
ant Ridge Cemetery. arrangements.
Visitation will be two Senior Master Sgt.
hours prior to services. Mixon was born April
Otts Funeral Home of 8, 1953, in Sulligent, to
Sulligent is in charge of the late Jerry Thomas
arrangements. Mixon and Julia Dean
Mr. Carruth was Roden. He was a grad-
born Jan. 1, 1959, in uate of Sulligent High
Rock Island, Illinois, School and a veteran of
to the late William
“Bill” Carruth and Effie
Taylor. He was a grad-
uate of Sulligent High
School and The Uni-
versity of Alabama. He
was formerly employed
as a bail bondsman,
operator of a timber
business, with United
Gas, coroner and as an
auxiliary deputy and
firefighter with Mon-
roe County. He was a
member of Sulligent
First Freewill Baptist Raymond Barker, Sr.
Church. Graveside Services:
Tuesday, Oct. 20 • 2 PM
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in death by his chil-
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DRIVE-IN DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff

India Smith, left, and Avona Randolph watch the documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble” in the Sanderson Cen-
ter parking lot on the Mississippi State University campus Sunday night. The source of the documentary’s title
is a 2018 quote from Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon: “Never, ever be afraid to make some
noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” Lewis was a hero of the Civil Rights Movement and a Georgia
congressman who died in July at the age of 80.

Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff

LEFT: Devin Ammons, left, Shivangi Nakoom and Martha Anne Dyer watch the documentary from the trunk of a car
on Sunday in the Sanderson Center parking lot. MSU showed the documentary as a drive-in screening in partner-
ship with the Starkville Oktibbeha Unity League (SOUL), a group that promotes diversity and racial justice. RIGHT:
The Swanson family, from left, DJ, Henry, (top), Meredith, Nate and Bob watch the documentary Sunday night.

Tell your child a

Recycling
Continued from Page 1A
Starkville suspended
curbside recycling pick-
up in March as a cost-sav-
ing measure due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and
gave participants the op-
tion of dropping off their
recyclable materials at
the sanitation building
on North Washington
Street. Only about 10
percent of city residents
were signed up for the
recycling program, and
there was no way to
ensure that everyone
who dropped off bags
was a paying customer,
Sistrunk said. Additional-
ly, the amount of contam-
inated or non-recyclable
materials increased when
the city switched to drop-
off only, she said.
MSU collects paper,
plastic, cardboard and
metals in several recy-
cling bins throughout
campus, according to the
Office of Sustainability
website. The Waste Pro
USA office in Columbus
picks up the materials
from the MSU bins three
times a week, and adding
one location in Starkville
to Waste Pro’s route
would not put a financial
burden on the city or the
customers, Mayor Lynn
Spruill said.
Starkville citizens
had to pay only $2 per
month to participate in
the recycling program,
and Sistrunk said the city
ideally will not have to
charge more than that if
it joins MSU’s program.
The proposed partner-
ship included set hours
for citizens to drop off
recyclable materials, and
employees of the city’s
Sanitation and Environ-
mental Services depart-
ment would be stationed
at the drop-off site to
check each bag for con-
tamination or food waste,
Sistrunk said. People
would receive an “addi-
tional and significant” fee
for non-recyclables, she
said.
Spruill said a fine
would be a good way to
avoid the issue of contam-
ination that arose when
the city suspended curb-
side pickup earlier this
year.
“The devil would be
in the details in how we
would work that out, but I
think that would be an ap-
bedtime story.
propriate way to disincen-
tivize those who would
include contaminants,”
she said.
Customers would drop
off their recyclables in
specific bags that would
identify them as paying
customers, Sistrunk said.
The city has not yet de-
termined a cost for those
bags, since it would de-
pend on several factors,
including the cost of hav-
ing city employees moni-
tor the drop-off site.
Spruill and Sistrunk
agreed that curbside
pickup is not an option
at the moment, which
MSU’s recycling pro-
gram does not include.
Spruill said the poten-
tial partnership might in-
clude an interlocal agree-
ment between the city
and either MSU or Waste
Pro USA, more likely the
latter. She also said she
believes they can come to
an agreement that finan-
cially benefits or at least
does not place a burden
on the city.
“I’m hopeful until
there’s no hope (for it),”
Spruill said.

Smith
Continued from Page 1A
Holder said “Mr. Jack” has become a
favorite of the Windsor staff.
“He likes to do things his way and
has a bit of a quirky sense of humor,”
she said. “Up until the pandemic his
son would visit almost daily, and other
family members would come by at
times too. The staff enjoy taking care
of him and consider it an honor to do
so.”
Aside from the typical frailties asso-
ciated with being more than 100 years
old, Jack remains remarkably healthy.
“Who knows?”” Wayne said. “I’m 78.
I might wind up being his roommate
the way it’s going.”

AROUND THE STATE

Meridian to replace
deteriorating bridge
MERIDIAN — A dete-
riorating bridge in south
Mississippi will soon be
replaced.
The Mississippi De-
partment of Transporta-
tion is providing the City
of Meridian with $3.5
million to replace the Old
Highway 80 bridge, The
Meridian Star reported.
Hugh Smith, director
of the city’s public works
department, said MDOT
has approved plans for the
project that he hopes will
be completed as quickly
as possible.
The existing bridge has
several points of deterio-
ration and does not meet
safety guidelines, Smith
told officials in February.
Smith said the city is in
the process of acquiring
additional property, as the
new bridge has a different
footprint than the existing
one and will be a little bit
longer than the original
one.
Sports
Dodgers take down Braves, advance to World Series
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas
— The Los Angeles Dodg-
ers celebrated as Cody
Bellinger’s drive soared
deep into the Texas night.
Bellinger flung his bat off
to the side and strutted up
the first-base line.
All the way to the World
Series.
Bellinger hit a tiebreak-
ing solo homer in the
seventh inning, and the
Dodgers advanced to the
Fall Classic for the third
time in four years by top-
ping the Atlanta Braves
4-3 in Game 7 of the NL
Championship Series on
Sunday night.
Bellinger connected an
inning after Kiké Hernán-
dez became the first pinch
hitter with a game-tying
Logano wins
at Kansas to
clinch spot
in Cup Series
finale
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Kan.
— Joey Logano spent the
final 40-plus laps at Kan-
sas Speedway keeping an
eye on Kevin Harvick in
his rear-view mirror.
Now, he can look
ahead to the NASCAR
Cup Series finale at Phoe-
nix.
Using every bit of the
track Sunday to hold off
the winningest driver
this season, Logano took
the checkered flag on a
cold, blustery Sunday
to secure a spot in the
championship round of
the playoffs. Harvick was
followed across by Alex
Bowman and Brad Ke-
selowski as postseason
contenders swept the top
four spots in the opener
of the round of eight.
“It’s on your mind ev-
ery lap. You come into
this race knowing if you
win this thing you have
an amazing advantage,”
said Logano, who experi-
See NASCAR, 3B
Alabama
roars back
for 41-24
win over No.
3 Georgia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.
— A positive COVID-19
test couldn’t keep Nick
Saban from the sideline,
and Georgia’s heralded
defense had scant hope
of keeping Alabama’s
playmakers out of the
end zone.
Mac Jones passed
for 417 yards and four
touchdowns and the No.
2 Crimson Tide picked
apart No. 3 Georgia in
the second half of a 41-24
victory Saturday night. It
ended up being a decisive
‘Bama victory in a colli-
sion of the Southeastern
Conference’s last remain-
ing unbeaten teams.
The Crimson Tide (4-
0), with Saban stalking
the sideline after all,
rallied with three touch-
downs in a 10-minute
span starting late in the
third quarter.
See ALABAMA, 3B
or go-ahead homer in a
winner-take-all-game. His
homer tied it at 3 and, like
Bellinger’s, came on the
eighth pitch
of the at-bat.
T h e
D o d g -
ers, who
matched
an LCS re-
cord with
16 homers, Bellinger
overcame a
3-1 series deficit by win-
ning three consecutive
games when facing elimi-
nation for only the second
time in their storied histo-
ry.
After winning both
their NL Division Series
and the NLCS in the new
$1.2 billion Globe Life
Field, the Dodgers get to
stay in place for the World
3 PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS-BASED REASONS FOR MSU’S OFFENSIVE SPIRAL
Following Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M, the Bulldogs currently rank as the second-worst-graded receiving team in the Southeastern Confer-
ence, ahead of only Auburn, and sit 34th out of the 38 Power Five conference teams that have played this fall.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Mis-
sissippi State is spiraling
at an alarming rate.
After torching de-
fending national champi-
on LSU for 623 passing
yards and 44 points in the
season opener in Baton
Rouge, the MSU offense
has mustered just 21
points in losses to Arkan-
sas, Kentucky and No. 11
Texas A&M.
Following Saturday’s
loss to the Aggies, head
coach Mike Leach said
this is the most his team
has ever struggled in
picking up his offense. So
what is it about Leach’s
unit that has seen it fall
off a 100,000-foot cliff in
less than a month? I dug
into Pro Football Focus
statistics to find out.
Note: All PFF grades
are calculated on a 0-100
scale on the game and
season level
Series. Game 1 against the
American League cham-
pion Tampa Bay Rays is
Tuesday night.
The Dodgers again will
try to win their first World
Series title since 1998.
They lost Game 7 at home
three years ago to to the
Houston Astros, and then
lost in five games to the
Boston Red Sox in 2018
when Mookie Betts was
the AL MVP and playing
against Los Angeles.
Tampa Bay’s win in
Game 7 of the ALCS late
Saturday night wiped out
the chance for an October
rematch with the Astros,
whose 2017 World Series
victory over the Dodg-
ers has been heavily tar-
nished by the revelations
of Houston’s sign-stealing
tactics that season.
Mississippi State’s
offensive line is among
the nation’s worst
Through four weeks of
play, MSU boasts one of
the worst offensive lines
in America.
According to PFF, the
Bulldogs sit 71st of 77 eli-
gible teams in pass block-
ing this season. Those be-
hind them? Kansas State,
East Carolina, North Car-
olina State, Army, South
Alabama and Kansas.
That’s it.
While the interior has
had its issues, the biggest
problems have arisen on
the outside.
Former five-star re-
cruit Charles Cross is
the highest ranked of
MSU’s tackles at No. 171
nationally with a PFF
pass blocking grade of
62.1. Opposite Cross,
Kwatrivous Johnson sits
as the third-worst rated
tackle in the entire coun-
try (No. 321 of 323) with
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Betts, the first-year
Dodger signed for 12
more years, made another
incredible defensive play,
robbing NL MVP candi-
date Freddie Freeman of
a solo homer in the fifth.
Corey Seager was named
NLCS MVP after bashing
five homers against the
Braves.
Julio Urias, the fifth
Dodgers pitcher, retired
the last nine batters for his
fourth win in four appear-
ances this postseason.
The 24-year-old right-
hander, already in his
fourth postseason, has a
0.57 ERA in these playoffs.
The massive shot to
right by reigning NL MVP
and 2018 NLCS MVP
Bellinger came on a 94-
mph sinker after fouling
off three pitches in a row
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL ANALYSIS
an overall offensive grade
of 33.5 and an even more
egregious pass blocking
mark of 23.5.
Saturday, the Bulldogs
allowed six sacks and
five quarterback hurries,
while finishing with an
average blocking grade of
47.25, their second worst
mark of the season.
In all, MSU now sits
with an average pass
blocking grade of 40.4
through four games. By
contrast, Leach’s Wash-
ington State squads be-
tween 2013 and 2019
never finished with a PFF
team pass blocking grade
below 81.9 and graded
out at 88.3 or better in five
of those seven seasons.
“We were literally
missing guys stand-
ing right in front of us,”
Leach said Saturday.
“’Well, I thought he had
him?’ Well, he wouldn’t
be standing right in front
of you if the other guy had
him. We’re battling some
by Chris Martin, the fifth
Braves pitcher who start-
ed the seventh with strike-
outs of Max Muncy and
Will Smith.
Hernández led off the
sixth with a 424-foot drive
to left-center off A.J. Mint-
er.
Dansby Swanson hom-
ered for Atlanta, which
hasn’t been to the World
Series since 1999.
Before the late drama,
it was the first winner-
take-all game in post-
season history matching
rookie starters.
The Dodgers scored
twice in the third to tie it at
2, the first runs allowed by
Ian Anderson in his four
postseason starts — the
22-year-old right-hander
started only six games for
Atlanta in the regular sea-
definite growing pains,
and we definitely expe-
rienced a bunch of them
there.”
K.J. Costello has been
historically bad com-
pared to air raid quar-
terbacks of season’s
past
Over Leach’s final sev-
en seasons at Washing-
ton State, the Cougars
concluded the year with
a PFF passing grade be-
low 68 just once. Through
four weeks of the 2020
season, MSU’s quarter-
backs currently boast
a 54.1 passing grade
from PFF, 0.3 points be-
low Washington State’s
low-water mark over that
span.
As noted, a major
piece to MSU’s passing
struggles arise from the
offensive line’s inability
to block, leaving Costello
and Rogers with an aver-
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
B
SECTION
son. His scoreless streak
of 17 2/3 innings was the
third-longest to start a
postseason career.
Justin Turner drew
a two-out walk, Muncy
doubled and Will Smith
bounced a two-run single
through the open gap near
second created by the de-
fensive shift.
The Dodgers’ Dustin
May became the first
pitcher to walk the first
two batters in a winner-
take-all-game — and the
23-year-old from nearby
Justin, Texas, did so with-
out throwing a strike to
Acuna or Freeman. The
Braves didn’t even swing
at a pitch until Marcell
Ozuna’s sharp single
through the left side of
the infield on an 0-1 cur-
veball for a 1-0 lead.
Mississippi State Athletics
age of 2.59 and 2.64 sec-
onds in the pocket, which
ranks No. 112 and 118 in
the country, respectively.
That said, Costello’s
struggles are among the
most prominent in the na-
tion and manifest them-
selves even further in an
offense that passes the
ball more than any other.
Despite having com-
pleted 130 of 199 pass
attempts this fall, the
former Stanford signal
caller boasts a passer
grade of just 55.7 accord-
ing to PFF, the fifth-worst
mark of quarterbacks
with a minimum of 100
dropbacks this season.
Costello’s total offensive
grade of 53.6 also sits as
the fourth-lowest of any
passer under that same
criterion.
Kicking off the cam-
paign with a passing
grade of 76.6, Costello
has progressively de-
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Astros overcome adversity to come 1 win shy of World Series
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — The
Houston Astros over-
came injuries to several
top stars and dealt with
the fallout from their
sign-stealing scandal to
come a win shy of reach-
ing the World Series for
the third time in four
seasons.
Now they’ll deal with
an uncertain future, with
Justin Verlander out all
next season and George
Springer and other key
starters set to become
free agents.
The Astros fell into an
0-3 hole in the AL Cham-
pionship Series before
beating the Tampa Bay
Rays in three straight
games to force a Game
7. But their powerful
offense was stifled by
former Astros pitcher
Charlie Morton in a 4-2
loss, and the Astros are
heading home instead of
to their second straight
World Series.
“It’s frustrating, but
these guys fought,”
manager Dusty Baker
said. “They fought to the
Brady outplays Rodgers, Buccaneers rout Packers 38-10
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — So
much for Tom Brady vs.
Aaron Rodgers.
A stingy Tampa Bay
Buccaneers defense
turned a rare meet-
ing between the Super
Bowl-winning quarter-
backs into a mismatch on
Sunday.
Brady outplayed Rod-
gers, however a young
Bucs secondary was
equally impressive in set-
ting the tone for a 38-10
rout of the previously un-
beaten Packers, who un-
raveled after taking a 10-0
lead and limiting Tampa
Bay to just five offensive
plays in the first quarter.
Rodgers threw two
interceptions — Green
Bay’s first turnovers of
the season — within a
three-pass span of the
second quarter to turn
the 10-point lead into a 14-
10 deficit.
Cornerback Jamel
Dean returned the first
pick 32 yards for a touch-
down. Safety Mike Ed-
wards ran the other back
38 yards to the Packers 2
to set up another TD.
“Jamel made a hell of a
play. It was a huge play. It
sparked us,” Brady said.
“That pick-6 changed
the entire ballgame,”
coach Bruce Arians said.
It was the 43-year-old
Brady’s first signature
victory since signing with
the Bucs (4-2) after a his-
toric 20-year run with the
New England Patriots,
which included nine NFL
title game appearances
and six championships.
He got his favorite
target from his days
very end ... this team is
a bunch of fighters with
a tremendous amount of
perseverance and for-
titude. One thing is for
sure. We’ll be back in
this position next year.”
That’s a nice senti-
ment from the 71-year-
old Baker, who was
hired to help this team
regain credibility after
its sign-stealing scam
cost manger A J Hinch
and general manager
Jeff Luhnow their jobs
and made the Astros
the most reviled team in
baseball. But it will be a
tall task for the Astros,
who lost the 2019 World
Series to Washington in
seven games, to remain
among the league’s elite
with all the upheaval
they’re facing this off-
season.
Verlander, who
pitched just one game
this season, won’t play
in 2020 while recover-
ing from Tommy John
surgery and Houston’s
entire starting outfield
could be gone with Mi-
chael Brantley and Josh
Reddick joining Spring-
with the Patriots into the
mix, throwing a 12-yard
touchdown pass to Rob
Gronkowski for a 28-
10 halftime lead. It was
Gronkowski’s first TD
since December 2018 and
the 79th for the quarter-
back/tight end tandem
— tied for fourth on the
all-time list with Miami’s
Dan Marino and Mark
Clayton.
“I thought everybody
stepped up and stepped
in,” Arians said.
Brady also threw a
7-yard TD pass to rookie
Tyler Johnson and Ron-
ald Jones rushed for 113
yards and a pair of TDs
for Tampa Bay, which
didn’t turn the ball over,
allow a sack or commit a
single penalty after being
flagged 11 times in a one-
point loss to Chicago in its
previous game.
“We took care of what
beat us last week,” line-
backer Devin White said.
Both of Rodgers’ in-
terceptions — his first
with multiple picks since
throwing three in a loss to
Carolina on Dec. 17, 2017
— came on throws intend-
ed for Davante Adams,
who had a team-leading
six catches for 61 yards
in his return from a ham-
string injury that side-
lined him two games.
“I don’t feel like we
ever got into a rhythm.
Even with 10 points to
start the game, we had
off-schedule plays to kind
of keep drives alive,” Rod-
gers said.
“I felt good about both
throws. Missed the one
slightly inside today, the
other just looked like
it was tight coverage,”
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er as free agents.
“Some guys that we
love really much, and
we’ve been playing with
forever hopefully they
come back, but if they
don’t, we’re going to miss
them forever,” shortstop
Carlos Correa said.
For Springer, it was
too early to ponder his
future just after the loss.
“I haven’t really
thought about that yet,”
the 2017 World Series
MVP said. “Our season
just ended. I’m more fo-
cused on kind of what’s
happening now, what
happened here (Satur-
day), and I’ll cross that
bridge when I get to it.”
Despite the questions
about what’s next for the
Astros, they take pride in
their accomplishments
this season and coming
so close to reaching the
World Series again amid
all the adversity. Hous-
ton lost ace Gerrit Cole
in free agency before los-
ing Verlander, last year’s
AL Cy Young winner, af-
ter his opening day start.
The Astros soon put
reigning AL Rookie of
Rodgers added. “Those
were frustrating plays,
especially up 10-0 there,
giving them basically 14
points, obviously changed
the momentum of the
game. I don’t feel like we
were very efficient before
that. We obviously weren’t
very efficient after that.”
Rodgers finished 16 of
35 for 160 yards and no
touchdowns after com-
pleting 70.5 percent of his
passes and throwing for
13 TDs and no intercep-
tions in Green Bay’s first
four games.
Brady, meanwhile, was
17 of 27 for 166 yards and
two TDs without an inter-
ception. Gronkowski led
the Bucs with five recep-
tions for 78 yards — his
best game since ending
a one-year retirement to
join Brady in Tampa Bay.
“I thought Tom and
Rob had great connec-
tions. We got the matchup
we were looking for on
the fade ball,” Arians said.
“Gronk did a heck of a job
adjusting on that ball and
getting the touchdown.
I just wish he could have
spiked it with his right
shoulder, but his right
shoulder’s hurt.”
It was just the third
time Brady and Rodgers
have faced each other in
their long successful ca-
reers.
And although both in-
sisted during the week
that it wasn’t Brady vs.
Rodgers, the friends ex-
pressed mutual admi-
ration for one another’s
accomplishments while
acknowledging it would
be fun sharing the field
with the Packers trying
to remain unbeaten and
the Year Yordan Alvarez
on the injured list with a
season-ending knee in-
jury and closer Roberto
Osuna pitched just four
games because of an el-
bow injury as one of sev-
eral relievers who were
shelved with injuries.
Those factors con-
tributed to the Astros
finishing with a 29-31
record in the pandem-
ic-shortened season. Af-
ter reaching the postsea-
son with a losing record,
many counted them out
as a serious contender
this year.
But instead of wilt-
ing under the playoff
pressure, Houston’s
core of Correa, Jose Al-
tuve, Alex Bregman and
Brantley rediscovered
its power to stabilize a
young pitching staff and
the Astros got on a roll.
First, they swept the
Minnesota Twins in the
wild-card round before
moving past the AL West
champion Oakland A’s in
four games in the divi-
sion series to advance to
the ALCS for the fourth
straight year.
the Bucs looking to gauge
their progress against one
of the NFL’s top teams.
Brady noted how im-
portant it would be to min-
imize mistakes, some-
thing no quarterback had
done better through the
first five weeks of the sea-
son.
In addition to becom-
ing the first team in NFL
history to score at least
150 points and commit
no turnovers through the
first four games of a sea-
son, the Packers had only
allowed three sacks be-
fore Sunday.
The Bucs had two of
their four sacks by half-
time.
“It was a pretty frus-
trating day. We got out-
coached, got outplayed.
You’ve got to give the
Bucs all the credit in the
world. They had a good
game plan and they re-
ally took it to us in really
all three phases,” Packers
coach Matt LaFleur said.
“We’ve just got to make
sure we stick togeth-
er. We’ve got to bounce
back. ... If you really look
critically throughout the
course of our week, it
wasn’t our best (week of
practice) and it showed to-
day. That’s what happens,”
LaFleur added. “We’ll find
out what we’re all about.
We’ve got to hit that reset
button and bounce back.’’
BRADY VS. RODGERS
Brady and Rodgers
split their two previous
head-to-head meetings,
with the Packers winning
26-21 in 2014 at Green Bay
and New England winning
31-17 at home in 2018,
while Brady was playing
“We did a good job of
just focusing on what we
could control, and that
was showing, playing
hard and fighting until
the end,” Bregman said.
The Astros were un-
doubtedly helped by
playing in empty stadi-
ums. After being heck-
led and mocked by fans
mercilessly in the first
spring training, the team
was certain to get an ear-
ful everywhere it went
this year.
Even though they
couldn’t enter the ball-
parks, some fans still
managed to show their
disdain for these play-
ers, who weren’t sus-
pended for their roles in
illegally stealing signals
during their run to the
2017 World Series title
and again in the 2018
season. A group of fans
taunted them with signs
and boos outside of
Dodger Stadium on their
visit there this summer,
and a man on a balcony
that had a view into Pet-
co Park during the ALCS
had a megaphone and
called them out for being
for the Patriots.
INJURIES
Packers: LT David
Bakhtiari left in the third
quarter with a chest injury,
leaving Green Bay to play
the remainder of the game
without its best offensive
lineman. S Darnell Savage
(quad) missed a portion of
the second half... CB Kev-
in King (quadriceps) and
RB Tyler Ervin (wrist)
were inactive.
Buccaneers: RB Leon-
ard Fournette (ankle) sat
out for the second time in
three games. DL Khalil
Davis (ankle) also was in-
active because of injury.
UP NEXT
Packers: at Houston
next Sunday
Buccaneers: at Las Ve-
gas next Sunday night.
Henry, Titans rally past
Texans 42-36 in OT,
remain unbeaten
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
Expectations for Derrick
Henry already are pretty
high, with his history of
mighty stiff arms and long
touchdown runs.
Last season’s rushing
leader keeps finding new
ways to top himself, tak-
ing the Tennessee Titans
along with him yet again.
Henry took a direct
snap and ran 5 yards for
a touchdown 3:30 into
overtime and the Titans
remained undefeated, ral-
lying to beat the Houston
Texans 42-36 on Sunday.
“Obviously, we all wit-
nessed somebody tak-
ing a game over,” Titans
coach Mike Vrabel said
of Henry.
cheaters one by one.
But those incidents
were rather tame com-
pared to what they would
have faced in packed
stadiums around the
country. While Correa
outwardly dealt with the
venom directed at the
Astros, most of the team
kept quiet about being
thought of as baseball’s
villains. And it was up
to the respected veteran
Baker to keep the team
from letting outside
perceptions shape what
went on in his clubhouse.
“They’ve been
through a whole bunch
other than on the ball-
field, and these guys can
forget whatever prob-
lems that they’ve had
that’s out there and come
together as a group, and
these guys will be forev-
er friends,” Baker said.
“When they have the
2017 team back, these
guys will cherish these
moments and have these
moments for the rest of
their lives.”
The Titans (5-0) fin-
ished with a franchise-re-
cord 601 yards of total of-
fense. They also became
the first team in NFL
history to have a passer
throw for more than 350
yards with Ryan Tanne-
hill finishing with 364
yards passing and some-
one rush for at least 200
yards in the same game,
according to the NFL.
That helped them
overcome two turnovers,
Stephen Gostkowski hav-
ing a field goal blocked
and missing another and
the defense giving up
335 yards passing and
four touchdown passes
to Deshaun Watson.
Watson’s final TD
pass put Houston (1-5)
up 36-29 with 1:50 left,
but his pass to Randall
Cobb on the 2-point con-
version attempt failed.
Coach Romeo Crennel,
in his second game since
replacing the fired Bill
O’Brien, said he went
for the conversion in a
bid to put the game out
of reach. Crennel also
didn’t take a timeout be-
fore the game-winning
TD.
“That play was run in
practice, and we should
have been prepared,”
Crennel said of the wild-
cat play.
Tannehill, who had
three of his 19 career
game-winning drives to
start this season, drove
the Titans 76 yards be-
fore finding A.J. Brown
on a 7-yard TD pass with
4 seconds left. Gostkows-
ki made the extra point,
and the Texans fielded a
squib kick to send it into
overtime.
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enced the same perk on his
way to the 2018 title. “I can’t
believe it, especially the
way the beginning of the
race was going, running
back there around 10th
and not scoring any stage
points.”
Harvick, who already
has won nine times this
season, kept pulling up to
Logano’s bumper after the
final restart for a caution
brought out by Tyler Red-
dick. But he simply couldn’t
make a pass stick as Loga-
“I spent more time look-
ing in the mirror than I did
looking in the windshield
there,” Logano said of his
late-race duel with Harvick.
“I thought if I could hold
him off the first 15 laps, I
would have a chance.”
Kyle Busch was fifth
and Chase Elliott, who won
the opening stage, wound
up sixth after dealing with
radio problems that at one
point caused him to mistak-
enly pit. Elliott tried using
a backup radio and even
wound up 15th. Keselowski
is eight points above Elliott,
the first driver below the
cut line.
Bowman is 27 points be-
low, Truex is 31 points be-
hind and Kurt Busch is 73
points back after blowing
his engine Sunday.
Elliott may have had the
most eventful afternoon un-
til the final green-flag run
simply because of his radio
issue, which really bit him
in the second stage. He had
pit with most of the leaders
that sent his No. 19 Toyo-
ta to the back of the field
for the start. He quickly
worked his way into the top
10, where he spent much of
the rest of the afternoon.
Kurt Busch had to serve
a penalty for speeding on
pit road that hurt him in
the opening stage. Then,
midway through the final
stage, he began to notice a
problem in his car. His en-
gine finally gave out with
a belch of smoke heading
into Turn 1 with 68 laps left,
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3x3 boxtocontains
Sunday.
the best behind somebody mentary booth, was com- spots and that left Hamlin Difficulty Level 10/17

but I had a lot of options.”
Just none of them
worked to get around Loga-
no, who picked up his third
win of the season and first
since the COVID-19 pan-
demic, which reduced the
capacity to about 10,000
fans for Sunday’s race at
Kansas Speedway.
Oh, and one of his other
wins this season? Phoenix,
where Logano will now
race for a title.
petitive early but wound
up finishing 26th in what
could be his final race at his
home track.
Harvick’s second-place
run was good for his own
championship hopes. He
now has a 41-point cushion
over the cut line with two
races left before the cham-
pionship, while Denny
Hamlin is 20 points above it
after a mistake caused him
to brush the wall and he
and Harvick, who have
combined for 16 wins this
season, to race for the
stage win. Hamlin man-
aged to hold off the 2014
series champion to win his
10th stage of the season.
Meanwhile, Truex and
Kurt Busch spent the day
trying to overcome mis-
takes.
Truex’s team failed in-
spection twice before final-
ly making it through, but
Motorsports. the same number only once. The difficulty level
“No fault of anyone at increases from Monday to Sunday.
Hendrick. We were just
running hard,” Busch
added. “We were right in
the mix. We were doing
the deal. It’s a shame for
everyone at Chip Ganassi
Racing. Having an engine
failure in the playoffs, it’s
like a huge parachute that
slows you up. We’ll pack
that parachute up and go
tot Texas.” Sunday’s Cryptoquote:

Alabama
Continued from Page 1B

The nation’s top scor-
ing offense ultimately got
the emphatic upper hand
in a battle with the Bull-
dogs (3-1) and one of the
nation’s best defenses.
“This was an obvious
great win against a very,
very good football team,”
said Saban, who was
cleared early in the day
after a false COVID posi-
tive. “I was very proud of
the way our guys fought
in the game.
“I sort of knew it was
going to be a 15-round
fight and we wouldn’t be
winning until the late
rounds.”
Georgia had no an-
swer for Jones and star
receivers Jaylen Waddle
and DeVonta Smith, es-
pecially with Alabama’s
own beleaguered defense
grabbing two second-half
interceptions and three
overall. Freshman Mala-
chi Moore had one at the
goal line and returned it
42 yards.
Smith caught 11 pass-
es for 167 yards and two
touchdowns, including
one in the fourth quarter
that effectively put it out
of reach.
Waddle caught a 90-
yard touchdown pass and
gained 161 yards on six
catches. Jones completed
24 of 32 passes and was
strong after an intercep-
tion on the opening play.
“The goal was just
to win the game,” Jones
said. “You can look at
their defense. They have
good players in the sec-
ondary, they have good
linebackers, they have
good defensive linemen
but so do we.”
Then there was some
old-school ground and
pound, too. Najee Harris
gained 152 yards on 31
carries with a touchdown
during that game-clinch-
ing span. He did it against
the nation’s top run de-
fense, which came in al-
lowing 38 rushing yards
and 12.3 points per game.
Stetson Bennett com-
pleted 18 of 40 passes
for 269 yards and two
touchdowns, including an
82-yarder to James Cook.
But he threw three inter-
ceptions.
Bennett was angry
with himself over his mis-
takes, especially that fi-
nal interception throwing
across his body, calling it
“just stupid.”
“I was frustrated with
myself,” the former walk-
on said.
Alabama got a boost
about seven hours before
the game when the SEC
cleared coach Saban to re-
turn to business of usual,
determining a Wednes-
day COVID test was a
false positive. He tested
negative Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday.
“That was very emo-
tional,” he said.
“It was very crazy,”
Jones said. “We were in
our little quarterback
meeting and he just
showed up.”
A maskless Saban was
yelling at a referee after
an intentional grounding
call in the second quarter.
The Tide has won the
last six meetings with
Georgia, including a 3-0
record against Saban’s
former defensive coordi-
nator, Kirby Smart. The
first two came in the Janu-
ary 2018 national champi-
onship game and the SEC
championship game the
following season.
This was the first one
that didn’t go down to the
wire. Georgia’s defense
allowed 564 yards.
“Just frustrated we
couldn’t get anything go-
ing in the second half,
especially that opening
drive,” Smart said. “I
thought we were going to
be able to run the ball and
we stalled out and lost mo-
mentum after that point,
especially after they hit
the big long bomb to Wad-
dle.”
REMATCH, PLEASE?
The Bulldogs left hop-
ing for a rematch in the
SEC championship game,
certainly a strong possi-
bility.
“That’s what every-
body was saying in the
locker room,” Bennett
said. “Our destiny is still
controlled by us. We win
out, we’ll be in the SEC
championship. Every-
thing is still ahead of us.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Alabama: The defense
remains more generous
than is standard in Tus-
caloosa, but it did deliver
some big plays. The of-
fense just continues to roll
along, and those receivers
just appear unstoppable.
Saban is now 22-0 against
his former assistants.
Georgia: Led 24-20
deep into the third quar-
ter and gained a solid 410
yards. But the defense
ACROSS
that had been so suffo-
1 Stood up
cating more than met its
6 Swiss watch
match.
parts
11 Christmas
POLL IMPLICATION song
Clemson hasn’t done 12 Dark
anything to weaken its 13 Burglar’s
claim to the top spot, but crime
perhaps Alabama’s deci- 14 Draw out
sive win will close the gap 15 Fling
some. Georgia probably 17 Kitten cry
won’t fall much past the 18 Ridiculously
Top 10. exaggerated
22 Moon god-
dess
UP NEXT 23 Logic
Georgia visits Ken- 27 Touches on Sunday’s answer
tucky, which is fresh from 29 O’Neill forte 2 Fan’s cry 21 Applejack kin
a big win over Tennessee. 30 Former Span- 3 Lode material 24 Mystery writer
Alabama visits tradi- ish coin 4 It contains min- Woods
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MSU
Continued from Page 1B
volved with each coming
week. Those numbers
bottomed out against
the Aggies, when he fin-
ished with a total offen-
sive grade of 34.3 and a
passer grade of just 36.6
while completing 15 of
22 passes for 99 yards
before he was replaced.
“At the end of the day,
we’ve got to execute
in crucial situations,”
Costello said after a
Week 2 loss to Arkan-
sas. “When it’s third and
short, fourth and three
(or) when it’s fourth and
one, I have to take care
of the football, bottom
line. It’s that simple. I
got to take care of the
football, take what the
defense gives me and
move the ball one play at
a time.”
It should also be not-
ed that Rogers’ numbers
haven’t been better,
though he’s been limited
to a small sample size.
On 37 snaps this sea-
son, the Brandon High
School product has av-
eraged an overall offen-
sive grade of 50.7 and a
passing grade of 50.4,
though those numbers
jumped 30.9 and 30.2
against Kentucky to 72
and 71.5 against Texas
A&M on Saturday.
“I have had player
after player come in as
a true freshman, and
they can’t even get a play
off,” Leach said. “They
fumble the snap and ev-
erything else. They are
usually a nervous wreck.
Will has come out and
been productive both
times.”
Costello and the of-
fensive line have been
bad, but the wide
receiving corps hasn’t
been much better
Let’s be real, anyone
who’s watched MSU
over the past three
weeks knows the offense
has been a disaster. And
while that stems prom-
inently from Costello
and the offensive line’s
33 Move minerals 26 Neck part
35 Horse healer 5 Pop star John 28 Cruise worker
38 Hotspot 6 Took a stab 31 Boxer Laila
offering 7 Finish 34 No longer a
39 Bakery come- 8 Homecoming minor
ineptitude, the receiving have at least one drop on attendee 35 Moving trucks
corps hasn’t offered a this season.
41 Sun-dried 9 Paella base 36 Bana of “Troy”
ton of help.
brick 10 Hearty dish 37 Fast food
Following Satur-
45 Chad neigh- 16 Knight’s request
Not a lot was ex- day’s loss to Texas
bor address 40 Brooks of film
pected from this year’s A&M, the Bulldogs
46 Wish granter 18 Thunder 42 Music’s Yoko
group as it lost four of currently rank as the 47 Berate sound 43 Auction action
its top five pass-catch- second -worst- g raded 48 Wear away 19 Garage job, 44 Wide shoe
ers from a season ago. receiving team in the DOWN for short letters
But with imports like Southeastern Confer- 1 Play a part 20 Burden
Alabama transfer Tyrell ence, ahead of only Au-
Shavers, former Under burn, and sit 34th out of
Armour All-American the 38 Power Five con-
Malik Heath and fresh- ference teams that have
man Jaden Walley cou- played this fall. If MSU
pled with the expected
hopes to dig itself out of
improvement of Osirus
its current Grand Can-
Mitchell and JaVonta
yon-sized offensive rut,
Payton, among others,
the receivers must move
MSU anticipated at least
up those charts.
a relatively dangerous
“Everyone has to look
room.
at themselves in the mir-
However, through
four games, the Bull- ror to see what they can
dog receiving corps has do better,” junior receiv-
been mediocre at best. er Austin Williams said
Following a season-high after the Texas A&M
loss. “You can’t dissolve
receiving grade of
71.3 in the Week 1 win to finger pointing. You
over LSU, MSU hasn’t have to come together as
eclipsed 57.6 in any of a team and stay true to
its next three contests. what you are. Day by day,
Further troubling, five of just try to win each day
MSU’s seven receivers the best we can. We just
with 16 or more targets have to stay together.”
4B MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020
McDermott credits Reid’s influence as Bills host Chiefs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORCHARD PARK,
N.Y. — Sean McDermott’s
professional coaching
world came crashing
down around him upon
being fired by Andy Reid
in Philadelphia following
the 2010 season.
Already having diffi-
culty coming to grips with
being dismissed from his
hometown dream job, and
by his mentor, no less, Mc-
Dermott couldn’t believe
his ears when Reid sug-
gested the setback would
be beneficial in the long
run for the then-36-year-
old Eagles defensive coor-
dinator.
“Oh, it crushed me ear-
ly on,” McDermott would
say in 2017, after landing
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
his first head coaching
job with the Buffalo Bills.
“It crushed me from the
standpoint of, I looked in-
trospectively, just looked
at myself and said, ‘What
did I do wrong?’”
A decade later, the
benefit of perspective has
allowed McDermott to re-
alize the wisdom behind
Reid’s advice.
“Those are moments
that you go through in life
that you say, `You know
what? I came out better
because of it.’ And Andy
knew that,” McDermott
said this week in prepar-
ing the Bills (4-1) to host
the Reid-coached Kansas
City Chiefs (4-1) on Mon-
day.
The two even joke
about it now.
FAMILY CIRCUS
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“Yeah, we kind of jab
about it here and there,”
McDermott said with a
laugh. “But we can do that
because he knew. He told
me then, ‘This is the best
thing for you. And he was
right.”
At 46, McDermott has
overseen a renaissance in
Buffalo.
The Bills have made
the playoffs in two of
McDermott’s first three
years, including 2017,
when they snapped a 17-
year postseason drought
which had been the lon-
gest active streak in North
America’s four major pro-
fessional sports.
This year, despite a
42-16 loss at Tennessee
on Tuesday, Buffalo is 4-1
or better in consecutive
seasons for the first time
since Hall of Fame quar-
terback Jim Kelly’s final
two years in 1995 and ’96.
McDermott is getting
much-deserved credit for
instilling a professional,
team-first culture on a
franchise that lacked dis-
cipline and accountability,
especially under his pre-
decessor Rex Ryan, whose
brash talk fell far short of
performance during his
two-year stint.
And McDermott, along
with general manager
Brandon Beane, have es-
tablished a firewall around
the team in protecting it
from internal roster med-
dling. That wasn’t the case
under former president
Russ Brandon, whose
background was in mar-
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I’m 35 and
have been
a widower for
almost five years.
I began dating
about two years
ago.
In my adven-
tures of dating
I have encoun-
tered a lot of
divorced moms.
I met someone
very special (I’ll
call her Rose) a
year and a half
ago. She’s great.
Dear Abby
We share lots
of laughs and goals, but she
does something that drives me
crazy. She’s constantly show-
ing me Facebook memories/
photos of her daughter when
she was young.
I never got the chance to
have children and rarely bring
up my past because I feel
that’s behind me. Rose’s ex is
“toxic,” according to her, and
from what I’ve witnessed, he’s
pretty bad.
I see her daughter two
weeks out of the month. The
girl is very spoiled and entitled,
and when she’s not around,
Rose keeps shoving old photos
of her in my face and asking,
“Isn’t she so cute?”
I can’t relate, and I don’t
care for her daughter. Does
that make me a jerk? I feel
those old photos of her daugh-
ter are really her memories
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
19). Staying in the bubble is
too safe for the likes of you this
year. You’ll pop it and venture
out. Because you dare to meet
different people and try new ap-
proaches and be the foreigner
in unknown environments, you’ll
grow to trust yourself. You’re
admired and seen for your
enormous capabilities. Libra
and Sagittarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 6, 30, 14,
38 and 49.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Nothing brings out your best
like a situation that demands
it. This is why you don’t mind
problems. They are a chance to
show up and work out parts of
you that wouldn’t otherwise be
keting and not football,
and led to the small-mar-
ket team making decisions
based as much on ticket
sales as on-field results.
What’s also evident is
how much McDermott’s
stay-the-course approach
after a win or loss echoes
that of Reid, which was
clearly the case this week
with both teams coming
off losses.
Said McDermott a day
after losing to Tennessee:
“(The Titans) were ready
and like I said, I didn’t
have my team ready. That
chapter’s closed. We’ve
got to learn from it and
move on and continue to
grow as a football team.”
Said Reid a day after a
40-32 loss to Las Vegas,
which snapped the defend-
with her ex,
and it would be
just as bad if I
showed photos
of my late wife
and asked, “Isn’t
she beautiful?”
Am I wrong? —
UNPARENT OUT
WEST
DEAR UN-
PARENT: If you
plan to continue
a relationship
with Rose, you
are going to have
to deal with your
feelings about
her daughter,
some of which may be off
base. It is important that
you communicate to her the
connection you make when you
see those photos. The quick-
est way to work this through
would be couples counseling.
If your description of the
girl is accurate, then realize
that as long as she’s a minor,
she will be a presence in
your household. If you and
her mother can’t figure out a
workable arrangement, you
shouldn’t waste any more of
Rose’s time or yours.
DEAR ABBY: “Ron,” the
guy my best friend, “Stella,” is
seeing, is a manipulator. My
mother was a pro at manipulat-
ing and gaslighting, something
I recognized after going to
therapy as an adult. I know it
when I see it.
A month ago, I told Stella
known.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Resist the hurry to the
end. As soon as you cross the
finish line, you’ll be back at the
beginning of uncharted territory.
Savor these moments in this
part of the cycle. You’ll look
back on them fondly.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You’ll see the challenge and it
won’t look fun, but fun is not the
point. This is your chance to be
better. It’s not about what you
have to do; it’s about what you
get to do.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
When you can help someone
get past a hurdle, make an
improvement, or think of a prob-
lem differently, this is no small
ing champions Chiefs’
franchise-best 13-game
winning streak: “We all
could’ve done a better job
starting with me, and I
take full responsibility for
it being the head football
coach. There are things
we can learn from this.”
Bills associate head
coach and defensive co-
ordinator Leslie Frazier,
who also worked under
Reid, sees the similarities.
“Andy was good at han-
dling situations and pre-
senting those situations to
the players where they re-
ally understood with great
clarity the direction we
wanted to go as a team,”
Frazier said. “Sean does
the same job of painting
that picture.”
what I have observed, and it
has escalated to the point that
I told her I no longer want to be
around him. Ron, who is 40,
throws tantrums and threatens
to leave when he doesn’t get
what he wants.
The last time I saw him was
at a dinner Stella hosted. I left
early after he threw another
tantrum. Ron texted me an
“apology” that did not address
his behavior that night, but
something else that happened
a week ago. He then tried to
guilt-trip me by saying my walk-
ing out hurt our friends and
that he would stop hanging
around because he didn’t want
them to be hurt like that.
I haven’t responded to
Ron’s “apology” and haven’t
seen him since. I have seen
Stella for lunch once since
the incident. Must I accept his
apology so everything goes
back to how it was, or not see
my friend until he is out of her
life? — NOT A FAN OF HIM
DEAR NOT A FAN: You don’t
“have” to accept Ron’s apology
any more than you have to
accept any other unappetizing
“gift” that is offered. But don’t
stop seeing Stella. From what
you have written, she needs a
levelheaded friend right now.
If Ron acts up again in your
presence, leave if he makes
you uncomfortable. And while
you’re at it, tell Stella the
reason and ask — ­ woman to
woman — why she tolerates
his childish threats.
win. Some people go to school
for years to learn how to do this
and still come up short. Take
the victory.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
are too far inside of the problem
to see it from a useful perspec-
tive. You might even too far
inside to see it as a problem.
This is why intelligent friends
with insight are an invaluable
source. Tap it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You’ve been known to handle
yourself very well in a crisis. It’s
because of this that you are not
thrown by the small stuff that
the people around you are grip-
ing about. You’ll float on over it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
It’s as though your words are
magic. Something you say will
come true. Something you write
will materialize. If you really
want to get powerfully intention-
al, write it and then say it often.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). There’s something you
wanted to do. Now you’re not
entirely sure you can handle
the logistics. Get it all down on
paper. If the puzzle still isn’t
coming together, enlist the help
of an earth sign.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). You respond to the
moment in a way that others
would not. Of course! You’re an
original! If it doesn’t work out,
they’ll call you impulsive. And if
it does, they’ll call you sponta-
neous, or maybe even genius.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It’s important to keep the
momentum and so you march
on, whether or not there’s any-
thing to march toward. The point
is the movement — one foot in
front of the other.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). You like to play out a game
until the conclusion. Hopefully,
it’s your victory, but if it’s not
headed that way, then you’ll
still abide by the rules of good
sportsmanship and stay in it
until the very last play.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). It’s not like you to do an
about-face in the middle of a
journey. Nonetheless, when you
know you’re going the wrong
way, sometimes the only turn to
make is a U-turn.
Old hat
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