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Dan Camp, ‘Mayor of the Cotton District,’ passes at age 79

Camp served as Starkville mayor from 2005-2009 Dan Camp, known
as the Mayor of
the Cotton District,
BY SLIM SMITH a true visionary,” said Roy Ruby, the died Sunday at the
ssmith@cdispatch.com longtime Mississippi State adminis- age of 79 after a
trator who first met Camp more than month-long battle
Dan Camp was a one-term mayor 50 years ago when both worked at the with COVID-19. In
in the city of Starkville, but he will for- university. “His genius as a developer addition to trans-
ever be remembered as “Mayor of the and his artistic approach in terms of forming the area
Cotton District.” designing an area that has notoriety from a blighted part
Camp, 79, died early Sunday of has been a significant contribution, of Starkville into a
COVID-19 after a month-long strug- both to Starkville and the university.” mecca for Missis-
gle with the virus. He was immediate- sippi State stu-
Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill
ly hailed as a visionary for his role in dents and nightlife/
hailed Camp as a family friend, col- entertainment, the
developing a blighted area of the city
league and mentor. Her connection to former one-term
once occupied by an old cotton mill
Camp goes back to her youth, when Starkville mayor
into what is known now as the Cotton
her father, the late L.E. Spruill, and was an advocate
District, a bustling bohemia of apart-
Camp fashioned a friendship over for the arts, includ-
ments, nightspots and restaurants ing the mural move-
their mutual real estate professions.
that united the city and the universi- ment that adorned
“Dan was loud, messy, one of those
ty’s student population like nothing many of his Cotton
people with a big personality,” said
before or since. District properties.
“You’ll hear this a lot, but Dan was See CAMP, 6A Dispatch file photo

UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

Analysis: MONDAY PROFILE

Mississippi One piece of art

Senate race After world record, West Point tattoo artist focuses on making clients happy

draws outside
attention
FEC: From July through
September, Espy raised
$4 million and Hyde-
Smith raised $814,704
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press

JACKSON —
Democratic chal-
lenger Mike Espy
and Republican
incumbent Cindy
Hyde-Smith are both
receiving help from
out-of-state politi-
Espy
cians as they com-
pete for a U.S. Senate
seat in Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith de-
feated Espy in a Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
2018 special election Robbie Koch, owner of Coon Tattoo & Body Piercing in West Point, poses for a portrait at his shop on Oct. 14.
runoff, and now he’s Koch set a world record in 2008 for the most tattoos in 24 hours with 577.
trying to reverse that
outcome. The previ- Hyde-Smith
BY THEO DEROSA small Main Street shop. at age 28 to be near his family. In
tderosa@cdispatch.com But Koch is done with that life, 1998, he began to enter competi-
ous election was to

fill the final two years of a six-year
term started by longtime Repub-
lican Sen. Thad Cochran. Hyde-
Smith was the state agriculture
commissioner when she was ap-
pointed to serve temporarily when
Cochran retired because of health
problems in the spring of 2018.
This year’s election is for a full
six-year term, and Republicans are
trying to maintain their Senate ma-
jority.
“Cindy Hyde-Smith is one of
President Trump’s most ardent
supporters in the U.S. Senate. And
right now, she is under attack,” Re-
publican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of
Tennessee says in a short video on
Hyde-Smith’s campaign website.
Blackburn — who grew up in
Laurel, Mississippi — says that
two prominent Democratic wom-
en, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Mas-
See ANALYSIS, 3A
R
obbie Koch likes to say he has
one big tattoo.
Koch, the owner of Rob-
bie’s Coon Tattoo & Body Piercing
in West Point, counted once: He’s
been tattooed by 63 different art-
ists as well as himself. But that’s no
longer the number he focuses on.
“The individual count is for
people who do it for the wrong
purpose, in my eyes,” Koch said.
“For them, it’s only a number to
compete or something. For me, it’s
my art. It’s one piece.”
Koch, who moved to the U.S.
from Nuremberg, Germany, and
has owned Coon Tattoo since 2001,
used to subscribe to a different phi-
losophy. For years, he sought fame,
praise and accolades. In 2008, he
even broke a world record from his
he says. Though he’s got the talent
to be a household name in the
world of tattooing, his purpose has
changed — for the better, he says.
“I don’t want to put myself first
anymore,” he said. “I’m just happy
sitting in my little corner and doing
what people want me to do: make
them happy.”
‘Good trapped’
Koch, who got his first tattoo at
age 16, said initially, being tattooed
was a way to rebel against his
parents’ divorce and get attention
by “looking hideous.” But all of a
sudden, the art began to pique his
interest.
“I got trapped — a good
trapped,” Koch said.
In 1995, he moved to the U.S.
tions sponsored by tattoo promot-
ers and suppliers. The contests
offered prizes for size and theme
categories — people, animals, land-
scapes. Koch was best at realism,
including American classics from
the 1920s and ’30s. The awards
started to pile up.
Somewhere along the way, he
came into possession of a pet rac-
coon. Koch had “Lucky” all of three
weeks before the animal reached
maturity and Koch realized, well,
he had a raccoon as a pet.
When he opened his store in
2001, he wanted to call it “Lucky
Tattoo” or “Lucky 13 Tattoo,” but
he was advised it was bad form to
choose a moniker that matched an
existing parlor’s name.
See KOCH, 6A

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From left, Clay Spaulding watches as Madison Grant, Landon Casey and Ethan Welford (the Pumpkin Pit Crew) send
decorated pumpkins rolling down the starting ramp at the Talladegourd 500 on Lafayette Street in Starkville on
Thursday. The event is usually part of Pumpkinpalooza, which was canceled due to COVID-19 this year. Families and
businesses in Starkville participated in the pumpkin race, with a portion of the entry fees contributing to a special
fund to offset project expenses for at-risk kids at the Idea Shop, part of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Out-
reach at Mississippi State University. Some of the entry fees also went to the Oktibbeha County Humane Society.

Trump to escalate campaigning

as Biden steps up own travel
Pence to continue campaigning after
several aides test positive for virus
BY ZEKE MILLER
AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Trump
President Donald Trump
plans to intensify an al-
ready breakneck travel
schedule in the final full
week of the presidential
campaign, overlooking a
surge of coronavirus cas-
es in the U.S. and a fresh
outbreak in his own White
House.
Trump is expected to
hit nearly a dozen states
in his last-ditch effort to
recover ground from Dem-
ocrat Joe Biden, including
Sunday’s trip to Maine and
Tuesday’s to Nebraska.
Both states award elector-
al votes by congressional
district and could be cru-
cial in a tight election. He
will hold 11 rallies in the
final 48 hours alone.
Biden, too, plans to
pick up his travel sched-
ule, aiming to hit the six
battleground states the
campaign sees as key to
his chances, some with
socially distanced in-per-
son events and others with
virtual events. On Tuesday
the former vice president
is traveling to Georgia, a
state that hasn’t voted for
a Democratic presidential
candidate in more than a
quarter-century but where
polls show a tight race.
The final week of the
campaign is colliding with
deepening concerns about
a public health crisis in the
U.S. Trump is eager for vot-
ers to focus on almost any-
thing else, worried that he
will lose if the election be-
comes a referendum on his
handling of the pandemic.
Biden is working to ensure
the race is just that, hitting
Trump on the virus and
presenting himself as a saf-
er, more stable alternative.
The stakes were clear
this weekend as the White
House became the locus
for a second outbreak of
ment. Trump aims to pack
thousands of people, most
without face coverings,
across some of the upper
Midwestern states bearing
the brunt of the surge.
“We want normal life to
resume,” Trump said Sun-
Biden
day. “We just want normal
the virus in a month. Sev- life.”
eral close aides to Vice Meadows, pressed to
President Mike Pence explain why the pandemic
tested positive for the vi- cannot be reined in, said,
rus, including his chief of “Because it is a contagious
virus just like the flu.” He
staff, Marc Short. Pence,
told CNN’s “State of the
though, was insistent on
Union” that the govern-
maintaining his aggres-
ment was focused on get-
sive political calendar, even
ting effective therapeutics
though he was deemed a
“close contact” of his advis- and vaccines to market.
er, claiming the privileges
of being an “essential em-
ployee.”
The latest outbreak has
served as a potent meta-
phor for the divergent ap-
proaches the Trump and
Biden campaigns have
taken to the virus. On Sun-
day, White House chief
of staff Mark Meadows
said that “we’re not going
to control the pandemic”
and the focus should be
on containment and treat-

Early vote total exceeds 2016; GOP

chips at Democrats’ advantage
More than 58 million ballots cast so far
BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI
AND ANGELIKI K ASTANIS
The Associated Press
With eight days before
Election Day, more people
already have cast ballots
in this year’s presiden-
tial election than voted
early or absentee in the
2016 race as the start of
in-person early voting in
big states led to a surge in
turnout in recent days.
The opening of early
voting locations in Flori-
da, Texas and elsewhere
has piled millions of new
votes on top of the mail
ballots arriving at elec-
tion offices as voters try
to avoid crowded places
on Nov. 3 during the coro-
navirus pandemic.
The result is a total of
58.6 million ballots cast
so far, more than the 58
million that The Associat-
ed Press logged as being
cast through the mail or
at in-person early voting
sites in 2016.
Democrats have con-
tinued to dominate the
initial balloting, but Re-
publicans are narrowing
the gap. GOP voters have
begun to show up at early
in-person voting, a sign
that many heeded Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s un-
founded warnings about
mail-voting fraud.
On Oct. 15, Democrats
registrants cast 51 per-
cent of all ballots report-
ed, compared with 25 per-
cent from Republicans.
On Sunday, Democrats
had a slightly smaller
lead, 51 percent to 31 per-
cent.
The early vote totals,
reported by state and lo-
cal election officials and
tracked by the AP, are
an imperfect indicator of
which party may be lead-
ing. The data only shows
party registration, not
which candidate voters
support. Most GOP voters
are expected to vote on
Election Day.

Senate to confirm Barrett

for court in highly partisan vote
BY LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON — A
deeply torn Senate is set
to confirm Amy Coney
Barrett to the Supreme
Court, Republicans over-
powering Democratic op-
position and institutional
norms to secure Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s
nominee the week before
Election Day.
Barrett’s confirmation
Monday was hardly in
doubt as Senate Repub-
licans seized the oppor-
tunity to install a third
Trump justice, securing
a conservative court ma-
jority for the foreseeable
future. With no real pow-
er to stop the vote, Demo-
crats argued into the night
Sunday that the winner of
the Nov. 3 election should
be the one to choose the
nominee to fill the vacan-
cy left by the late Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Black contractor braves threats in removing Richmond statues

Richmond mayor: Devon Henry ‘put his life
on the line, put his family’s lives on the
line, he put his business on the line. And we
removed those monuments’
BY SAR AH R ANKIN
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Devon
Henry paced in nervous antici-
pation, because this was a proj-
ect like nothing he’d ever done.
He wore the usual hard hat —
and a bulletproof vest.
An accomplished Black
businessman, Henry took on
a job the city says others were
unwilling to do: lead contractor
for the now-completed remov-
al of 14 pieces of Confederate
statuary that dotted Virginia’s
capital city. There was angry
opposition, and fear for the
safety of all involved.
But when a crane finally
plucked the equestrian statue
of Gen. Stonewall Jackson off
the enormous pedestal where
it had towered over this former
capital of the Confederacy for
more than a century, church
bells chimed, thunder clapped
and the crowd erupted in
cheers.
Henry’s brother grabbed
him, and they jumped up and
down. He saw others crying in
the pouring rain.
“You did it, man,” said Rod-
ney Henry.
Success came at some cost.
Devon Henry faced death
threats, questions about the
prices he charged, allegations
of cronyism over past political
donations to the city’s may-
or and an inquiry by a special
prosecutor. But he has no re-
grets.
“I feel a great deal of convic-
tion in what we did and how it
was done,” Henry, 43, told The
Associated Press in the only in-
terview he has given.
As recently as a few years
ago, the removal of Richmond’s
collection of Confederate mon-
uments seemed nearly impos-
sible, even as other tributes to
rebel leaders around the U.S.
started falling.
It was a particularly charged
issue in a historic city with a
central role in the Civil War.
And the statues, especially
along historic Monument Ave-
nue, were breathtaking in size
and valued for their artistic
quality, drawing visitors like
Winston Churchill and Dwight
Eisenhower.
The tide turned after the
death of George Floyd in police
custody, which ignited a wave
of Confederate monument re-
movals. Richmond Mayor Le-
var Stoney and the city council
committed to removing the
statues, something the Demo-
crat-led General Assembly had
authorized earlier in the year.
Stoney, who is Black and has
also faced backlash to his role
in the monument removals, in-
cluding racist and threatening
voicemails, said in a debate in
early October that “what we
did was legal, it was appropri-
ate, and it was right.”
Henry “put his life on the
line, put his family’s lives on
the line, he put his business on
the line. And we removed those
monuments,” the mayor said.
The man who oversaw the
statue removals is a Virginia
native with an easy laugh and
warm smile, the son of a single
mother who had him at 16 and
worked her way up from a crew
member at McDonald’s to the
operator of five stores. He, his
college sweetheart and their
two kids live in suburban Rich-
mond.
Records show his Newport
News-based Team Henry En-
terprises has won more than
$100 million in federal con-
tracts in the past decade. The
company has handled projects
ranging from invasive species
removal to crane services for
the U.S. Army to general con-
struction. Team Henry was the
general contractor on the re-
cently completed Memorial to
Enslaved Laborers at the Uni-
versity of Virginia.

Billboards brag that husband Zeta likely hurricane

has repaid stolen public money
‘You’ll never read this in any
newspaper article so I felt this was an
effective way to have the truth told’
Trinity Walker, wife of Scott Walker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OCEAN SPRINGS —
A Mississippi woman has
rented billboards to brag
that her husband has re-
paid money he was con-
victed of stealing in public
corruption cases.
Trinity Walker paid
for the message on three
billboards along a busy
stretch of U.S. Highway
90 in Ocean Springs, the
Sun Herald reported.
Each billboard shows
a large photo of her smil-
ing husband, Scott Walk-
er, next to the message:
“Over $325,000 in restitu-
tion paid in FULL in only
3 years!”
Scott Walker and his
father, Bill Walker, served
prison time after they
were convicted of stealing
federal money that Bill
Walker controlled while
he was executive director
of the Mississippi Depart-
ment of Marine Resourc-
es. A nonprofit organiza-
tion received the money
from the state agency to
buy some land that Scott
Walker owned.
Scott Walker — who
previously ran for mayor
of Ocean Springs — was
convicted in a separate
case of defrauding the
city of D’Iberville.
He owed $390,000 in
restitution.
Trinity Walker told
WLOX-TV that she and
her husband sold three
homes and paid his res-
titution “in an extremely
quick timeframe.”
“You’ll never read this
in any newspaper article
so I felt this was an effec-
before hitting Yucatan,
tive way to have the truth
told,” she said. “We are so
heading for US
happy this chapter in our Zeta on Sunday became the
life is behind us.”
The billboards ap- earliest ever 27th named storm
peared in Ocean Springs
days after U.S. District of the Atlantic season
Judge Keith Starrett
chastised Scott Walker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
for spending his parents’
MIAMI — A strengthening Tropical Storm
money on “extravagant”
Zeta is expected to become a hurricane Monday
expenses even as Bill as it heads toward the eastern end of Mexico’s
Walker has fallen behind resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and then likely
on restitution payments.
move on for a possible landfall on the central U.S.
Bill Walker’s attorney Gulf Coast at midweek.
said his client, now 75, Zeta on Sunday became the earliest ever 27th
has memory problems. named storm of the Atlantic season. The system
Starrett ruled that was centered about 175 miles southeast of Cozu-
Bill Walker will spend 30 mel island Monday morning, the U.S. National
days in jail unless he pays Hurricane Center said. It had maximum sustained
$16,500 in restitution by winds of 70 mph.
Jan. 1. The storm was moving northwest at around
9 mph after being nearly stationary over the
weekend. Forecasters said Zeta was expected to
move over the Yucatan Peninsula later Monday
before heading into the Gulf of Mexico and then

Analysis
Continued from Page 1A
sachusetts and House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of
California, are support-
ing Espy.
“Now, we need your
help for Cindy to send
her back to the U.S. Sen-
ate so that she can be
there to defend your free-
doms, your liberties and
to stand with President
Trump,” Blackburn says.
Espy, who is a former
congressman and former
U.S. agriculture secre-
tary, received campaign
help last week from a
Democratic former gov-
ernor of Massachusetts,
Deval Patrick, who trav-
eled to Jackson to speak
at a luncheon for union
members, civil rights
activists and others who
could be important to
turning out the vote for
Democrats.
“There’s an unusually
clear choice here in Mis-
sissippi and across the
country, frankly, about
whether we’re going to
be about yesterday or be
about tomorrow,” Pat-
rick told The Associated
Press in an interview af-
ter the event.
Patrick said the coro-
navirus pandemic has
exposed economic fragil-
ity and “measures of de-
spair” in the U.S.
“These are things that
Black and brown com-
munities have known for
a long time, poor people
have known for a long
time,” Patrick said. “So,
now everybody’s feeling it
in one form or another. ...
And, frankly, Mike Espy
is the only one talking
about solutions.”
That evening, Demo-
cratic Sen. Edward Mar-
key of Massachusetts
held an online event to
promote Espy, with Espy
and Patrick appearing
together from the cam-
paign office in Mississip-
pi.
Patrick also cam-
paigned for Espy in Mis-
sissippi in 2018, as did
New Jersey Sen. Cory
Booker and California
Sen. Kamala Harris,
who’s now the Democrat-
ic nominee for vice pres-
ident.
If elected, Espy would
become Mississippi’s
first Black U.S. senator
since Reconstruction.
Hyde-Smith is the only
woman to have represent-
ed Mississippi in either
chamber of Congress.
Espy picked up an en-
dorsement last week from
former President Barack
Obama, who cut a radio
ad. The Democratic pres-
idential nominee, former
Vice President Joe Biden,
had endorsed Espy weeks
earlier.
The same day the Espy
campaign announced his
Obama endorsement,
Hyde-Smith received a
tweet of support from
Trump, who campaigned
for her in Mississippi
during the 2018 race.
Republicans hold all
statewide offices in Mis-
sissippi, and voters in the
state last elected a Dem-
ocrat to the U.S. Senate
in 1982, when they sent
longtime incumbent John
C. Stennis back to Wash-
ington for his final term.
From July through
September, the Espy cam-
paign raised $4 million
and the Hyde-Smith cam-
paign raised $814,704,
according to records filed
approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast by Wednesday,
though it could weaken by then.
Officials in Quintana Roo state, the location
of Cancun and other resorts, said they were
with the Federal Election watching the storm. They reported nearly 60,000
Commission. tourists in the state as of midweek. The state gov-
Donations flowed to ernment said 71 shelters were being readied for
Espy and many other tourists or residents who might need them.
Democratic candidates The government is still handing out aid, includ-
after the Sept. 18 death ing sheet roofing, to Yucatan residents hit by Hur-
of Supreme Court Justice ricane Delta and Tropical Storm Gamma earlier
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. this month.
Like many in his party, A hurricane warning was expanded for the Yu-
Espy criticized Republi- catan Peninsula from Tulum to Dzilam, including
cans for moving quickly Cancun and Cozumel.
to fill the Supreme Court Zeta had been dawdling Sunday because it was
vacancy. trapped between two strong high pressure sys-
Hyde-Smith praised tems to the east and west, and it could not move
Trump for nominating a north or south because nothing was moving there
conservative appellate either, said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane research-
court judge, Amy Coney er at the University of Miami.
Barrett, to the nation’s Colorado State University hurricane research-
top court, and she sup- er Phil Klotzbach said that when a storm gets
ports Barrett’s confirma- stuck, it can unload dangerous downpours over
tion. one place, causing flooding.

US Navy: 2 killed in Alabama training crash

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FOLEY, Ala. — A U.S.
Navy training plane that
took off from Florida
crashed Friday in an Al-
abama residential neigh-
mediately releasing their
names. No injuries were
reported on the ground.
Foley Fire Chief Joey
Darby said responders en-
countered a “large volume
of fire” with a home and
borhood a “heavily popu-
lated” residential area. No
firefighters were injured,
he added.
The plane had flown out
SOLUNAR TABLE
of Naval Air Station Whit-
The solunar period indicates

ing Field, about 30 miles peak-feeding times for fish and game.

borhood near the Gulf several cars engulfed in Major

Mon.
9:05p
Tues.
9:50p
Coast, killing both people northeast of Pensacola,
flames. Firefighters were Minor 4:38p 5:09p

in the plane, authorities Florida, Navy spokeswom- Major 9:28a 10:12a

able to make “a quick stop Minor 3:09a 4:05a
said. on the fire,” the chief told an Julie Ziegenhorn said. Courtesy of Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

Zach Harrell, a spokes- local news outlets. The U.S. Department

person for Commander,
Naval Air Forces, said
both people in the T-6B
Texan II training plane
died, but they weren’t im-
The crash occurred
southeast of Mobile, near
the city of Foley and the
town of Magnolia Springs.
Darby called the neigh-
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POSSUMHAW
Parent of plants
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my
soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my
patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly
for the joy in seeing them grow.”
— David Hobson,
Southern Living

L
ast week for
three days I took
on the task of
sweeping leaves off
the porches, the deck
leading to the lake,
and the bridge over the
spillway. Piles of leaves
fell in batches every
night. Sam suggested
the leaf blower, but I
enjoy sweeping leaves Shannon Bardwell
the old-fashioned way.
It’s such an autumn
thing to do. There’s no right or wrong way to do
it. It’s a quiet activity. Only the sounds of leaves
crackling beneath one’s feet and the swishing of
the broom.
Under different circumstances, having leaves
daily covering porches, deck and bridge might
be frustrating, but during this season of home
confinement it’s become a pleasure. Many
things are more pleasurable now. Of course,
some things are not. I won’t list the “not pleasur-
able” activities or lack of fun activities. We all
know what those are. For some people more so
than others.
When I must go to town, I quickly become
anxious to return home again. Nowadays my
motto is, “Never do today what you can put
off ’til tomorrow.” It’s a pleasure to have time
to plant fall mums, pansies,and dianthus. The
spring and summer plants have gone into the
greenhouse where I examine them, fertilize and
water, prune and repot as needed. The other day
I saw a T-shirt. Heidi was wearing a shirt with
“Parent of plants” on the front. Perfect! When
you care for plants it does seem like you parent
them as you would a puppy, a kitten, a bunny or
a goldfish.
Don’t let me deceive you. I’m not a good gar-
dener. There’s a beautiful purple clematis vine
growing over an arbor in the perennial garden.
Every spring I enjoy the wonder of its purple
beauties. Then as weather gets searing hot, the
clematis dies back. This has happened every
year for a decade.
This stay-at-home year I joined Instagram. A
friend posted a picture of her blooming purple THE NATION
clematis. Immediately I inquired as to how
hers continued blooming and mine did not.
She asked, “Do you water it? If you water it the
blooms will continue ’til frost.” Immediately I
Don’t let Trump discredit patriotism
D
began to water the vine, and the flowers are still onald Trump this year, the president postmodernism, postcolonialism,
blooming. has a docu- once again promised identity politics, neo-Marxism,
In downtown Columbus the gingko trees are mented history his own health care critical race theory, intersectional-
heavy with bright yellow leaves. A sure sign of of driving Americans proposal “hopefully, ity, and the therapeutic mentality.”
fall. I will never see a gingko without thinking away from the policies prior to the end of the Some of this predated Trump, of
of Alan Smith. Years ago, after seeing the trees, he favors. This is both month.” course, but he has turbo-charged
I drove to Smith’s Landscaping and inquired of good and bad. Amazingly, the pub- it.
Alan about buying a few small trees. He asked As Catherine lic’s response to this The left-wing challenge to
where I lived. I answered, “I live here.” Rampell noted, the clown show was to ex- American legitimacy has always
“Where exactly,” he pressed. I knitted my president has moved press increasing sup- stressed racism, colonialism, sex-
brows and answered. American public port for the ACA, with ism and unconstrained capitalism.
opinion toward greater a solid 55% expressing Trump has lived down to each and
He said, “You can’t grow a gingko in the Mona Charen
approval of immigra- approval of the law this every one of those stereotypes.
Prairie.”
tion. The percentage month, up from about (You may object that he wasn’t a
My lip quivered, “What can I grow?”
of Americans who said 40% in 2016. colonialist, but don’t forget, “Take
“Possumhaw is native to the Prairie. It can that immigration is good for the Trump’s fulminations against the oil!”)
grow 20 feet or more. The dark green foliage country bounced around in the trade have convinced some — Re- As we look to rebuild in a
will turn brownish-yellow in fall; there will be 50s and 60s in the first decade publicans are now far more nega- post-Trump world, we non-leftists
white flowers in spring and red berries through- and a half of this century. But tive about NAFTA than in the pre- must be able to make the case for
out winter.” since 2016, the trend has been up Trump era — but most Americans American patriotism. We cannot
And so, it did. And so, it did. sharply. In 2020, 77% of Americans have moved in the other direction, respond to the 1619 Project with
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus told Gallup that they think immi- with 74% agreeing that trade is an heavy-handed attempts to limit
at msdeltachild@msn.com. gration is good for the country. opportunity for economic growth its reach, but with arguments and
Similarly, the percentage who versus 21% who view it as a threat context. No, this country would
believe that accepting refugees to the economy. not be lovable if its history were
fleeing war or persecution should As a pro-immigrant free-trad- one long chronicle of racism and
be a priority has increased from er, I’m not sorry that Trump has oppression. It isn’t. We have much
62% in 2016 to 73% in 2019. driven people away from his views, to be ashamed of in our history
Trump has also increased though I do lament the loss of but much more to celebrate and
the appetite for government a chance for free market health be grateful for. We have been
involvement in health care. Since reform. free and a beacon of freedom
embarking on his quest for the Trump has driven people away for more than two centuries. We
presidency, Trump has denounced from the Republican Party, and have welcomed people from all
the Affordable Care Act, but only caused them to reject the label over the globe and insisted that
because he promised something “conservative.” And while it’s no when they become citizens, they
superior. His specific policy loss for the nation if protection- are the full equals of those born
proposal for replacing the law was ism and nativism are discredit- here. We have confronted our past
something “terrific,” “phenome- ed, there are other things that sins, imperfectly, but diligently,
nal” and “fantastic.” In February Trumpism endangers that would nevertheless. We’ve given the
2017, having been in office a few be serious losses. world fantastic inventions like the
weeks, Trump tweeted “repeal I worry that Trump is con- airplane and the Salk vaccine, but
and replacement of ObamaCare is taminating patriotism itself. His nothing more important than the
coming fast!” At the end of March, blatantly racist appeals combined Declaration of Independence with
with negotiations bogging down, with his crude and offensive invo- its ringing invocation of natural
Voice of the People he pleaded for more time. “I want cations of “America First” run the
to have a great health care bill and risk of associating patriotism with
rights.
Trump is a shriveled soul and
We encourage you to share your opinion with readers of
The Dispatch. plan, and we will.” whiteness. His fondness for the tends to diminish everything and
Submit your letter to The Dispatch by: It didn’t happen. Health care Confederacy stains his embrace of everyone he touches. As we move
E-mail: voice@cdispatch.com reform was a dead letter, except the American flag. out of his orbit, we can begin to
Mail: P.O. Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703 that having failed to repeal or What Trump’s fans on the right recapture some of the grandeur of
In person: 516 Main St., Columbus, or 101 S. Lafayette replace the ACA through legisla- never seem to grapple with as they the nation he has led so miserably.
St., No. 16, Starkville. tion, the administration joined in ceaselessly invoke the specter of We cannot permit American pa-
All letters must be signed by the author and must a legal assault on the law, chal- socialism, riots and gun confisca- triotism to be hijacked by yahoos
include town of residence and a telephone number
for verification purposes. We request the tone of your
lenging its constitutionality. If the tion, is how much Trump drives and bigots. As we start to heal
letters be constructive and respectful and the length be Trump administration were to the left toward extremism. From from the past four years, we must
limited to 450 words. We reserve the right to edit letters get its way at the Supreme Court, the 1619 Project to the toppling rescue patriotism from Trumpism.
for clarity, grammar and length. While commentary on millions of Americans would lose of statues of anti-slavery heroes, Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow
national issues is always welcome, we limit candidate health insurance in the midst of there is a movement afoot that at the Ethics and Public Policy
endorsements to one per letter-writer. a pandemic. Oh, and on Aug. 3 of Bari Weiss calls a “mixture of Center.
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Minority communities question election-year push by EPA

‘These grants are a pitiful attempt to
distract from the sky high, mounting costs
of the Trump EPA’s prioritizing corporate
polluters over Black and brown communities’
BY JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.
— Theresa Landrum lives in
southwest Detroit, where res-
idents complain frequently
about dirty air. Tree-shaded
neighborhoods with schools,
churches and parks lie on either
side of an interstate highway
and in the shadow of a sprawl-
ing oil refinery that belches
soot and fumes.
Landrum, a Black retiree
from General Motors and a
longtime anti-pollution activist,
wasn’t impressed when Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency
chief Andrew Wheeler recently
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib
pledged $200,000 to promote
“community health initiatives”
in her section of the city during
his blitz of visits to battleground
states in the presidential elec-
tion campaign.
“Is this a joke?” she said. “It
would take billions of dollars to
fix what is wrong with our en-
vironment here. All of a sudden
he’s going to throw somebody
a grain of sand in a community
where people have been poi-
soned for decades?”
Under President Donald
Trump, the EPA has slashed
support for some programs and
regulatory protections benefit-
ing disadvantaged communi-
ties. His budgets have proposed
killing or cutting funds to en-
force regulations promoting en-
vironmental justice — fair treat-
ment of racial minorities and
low-income residents who live
near polluting industries and
are disproportionately exposed
to contamination — although
Congress has continued most
of the spending.
Now, the agency is portray-
ing itself as a champion of such
communities — an initiative
skeptics contend is more about
wooing Black and Latino sup-
port as Trump seeks re-election
than protecting their air and
water.
Wheeler’s approach amounts
to “window dressing” intended
to divert the attention of mi-
nority voters from the Trump
administration’s weak environ-
mental protection record, said
Mustafa Santiago Ali, vice pres-
ident of environmental justice,
climate, and community revital-
ization for the National Wildlife
Federation.
Wheeler and other top EPA
officials have fanned out nation-
ally in recent months, partic-
ularly in swing states such as
Michigan, holding news confer-
ences to distribute grants and
tout the Trump administration’s
record. During his latest Mich-
igan visit Friday, he announced
$10.7 million to replace lead
service lines in disadvantaged
communities in Grand Rapids
and Benton Harbor, and edu-
cate the public about dangers of
lead-tainted drinking water.
Trump’s EPA “has taken
meaningful steps to improve
the health and environmental
conditions for Americans ev-
erywhere, especially those in
low-income and under-served
communities,” Wheeler said
Sept. 30 in Traverse City, Mich-
igan, where he announced the
$200,000 for Detroit.
The funds will help develop
strategies for notifying vulner-
able residents more quickly
about public health risks, in-
cluding the coronavirus, EPA
said.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a
Democrat whose district in-
cludes the section of Detroit
targeted for the spending, de-
scribed it as “an insulting drop
in the bucket.”
“These grants are a pitiful
attempt to distract from the
sky high, mounting costs of
the Trump EPA’s prioritizing
corporate polluters over Black
and brown communities,” Tlaib
said.
Nine other grants of the
same amount were awarded this
year for neighborhood and trib-
al projects. One in Minneapolis
will provide education on lead
paint dangers, asthma hazards
and use of disinfectants to pre-
vent coronavirus. Another will
focus on minimizing air and wa-
ter pollution during wildfires,
floods and other disasters at the
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo In-
dians Reservation in California.

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Jerry Nance
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Jerry “50 Cent” Lee
Nance, 41,
died Oct.
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In addition to his
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siblings, Debra Thomp-
son, Jerrica Ferguson,
MacArthur Evans,
Jimmie Nance Jr. all of
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Oct. 25, 2020, at Bap-
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Columbus.
Charles Guyton
PONTOTOC — Wil-
liam Charles Guyton,
74, died Oct. 23, 2020,
at North Mississippi
Medical Center of
Tupelo.
Funeral services
are at 1 p.m. today,
at Cooke Memorial
Baptist Church, with
Wayne Cobb officiat-
ing. A military grave-
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and Dollie Guyton. He
was a veteran of the
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was a member of Shi- ceded in death by her
loh Methodist Church. siblings, James Edward
He is survived by his Nelson, Jack Nelson,
wife, Nedra Guyton; Connie Duckworth,
daughter, Emilie Guy- Vaudine Phillips and
ton of Sacramento, Cal- Lorene Terry; and one
ifornia; step-children, grandchild.
Hank Harmon and She is survived by
Melissa Hester both of
her daughter, Tina
Pontotoc; siblings, Da- Barns of Vernon; broth-
vid Guyton and Linda
er, Grady Nelson of
Gordon both of Vernon;
Hammond, Louisiana;
and two step-children.
Pallbearers will be and one grandchild.
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‘Brian’s Song,’ ‘Roots,’ ‘Purple

Rain’ writer dies at age 83
BY LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES — Wil-
liam Blinn, a screenwriter
for the landmark TV proj-
ects “Brian’s Song” and
“Roots” and the Prince
film “Purple Rain,” has
died. He was 83.
Blinn died Thursday
of natural causes at an as-
sisted living community in
Burbank, California, his
daughter, Anneliese John-
son, said Saturday.
He won Emmy and
Peabody honors for the
1971 TV movie “Brian’s
Song,” which dramatized
the friendship of Chicago
Bears players Brian Picco-
lo and Gale Sayers. It was
a hit when it aired and is
a enduring favorite with
sports fans and critics.
Last month, Hall of
Fame running back Say-
ers died at age 77.
Blinn’s work on “Roots,”
the blockbuster 1977 mini-
series adapted from Alex Lisa Heath
Haley’s book about his Af- Memorial Services:
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rican American ancestors Calvary Baptist Church
in slavery and freedom, Burial
Houston City Cemetery
won an Emmy and a Hu-
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Camp
Continued from Page 1A
Spruill, who moved back
to Starkville just in time
to help with Camp’s may-
oral campaign in 2005
and became his chief ad-
ministrative officer after
Camp won the election.
Mayor of Starkville
Camp served just one
term, losing to Parker
Wiseman in 2009.
Although his prowess
for building the city was
never questioned, Camp
was not well-suited to pol-
itics, which both Spruill
and Ruby said was the pri-
mary reason for serving
only one term as mayor.
“Dan was hard-head-
ed, no question about
it,” Ruby said. “Nobody
would call him a great ne-
gotiator, but he was very
talented and a great lead-
er.”
Spruill said there was a
simple secret required to
working with Camp.
“You have to make
sure your volume was
equal to his,” Spruill said.
“He was loud and force-
ful, but if you could raise
your voice high enough,
he would listen. I think a
lot of people never under-
stood that about Dan.
Koch
Continued from Page 1A
Hence, in Lucky’s
honor, Coon Tattoo was
born.
Twenty-four hours
of hell
In 2008, clients from
across the South con-
verged on West Point
with a singular purpose:
to be part of a new world
record.
At that time, Kat Von
D, a Los Angeles-based
artist and the subject of
the TLC reality show LA
Ink, held the honor for
the most tattoos in 24
hours on Dec. 14, 2007:
an even 400.
Koch wanted more. He
set a goal of 600 tattoos
in 24 hours.
He made sure the
event wasn’t just a pub-
licity stunt, devoting all
proceeds from the $20
AROUND THE STATE
$10.6 million contract
for garment maker
GOLDEN — A Mis-
sissippi apparel manufac-
turer has been awarded a
$10.6 million contract for
military clothing.
The Northeast Mis-
sissippi Daily Journal
reports that the award
means Golden Manufac-
turing Co. in the Tishom-
ingo County town of Gold-
en will continue to make
garments for the military.
The newspaper report-
ed Friday that the con-
tract is the first of three
one-year options issued
“He and I would yell
at one another at city hall
or on the phone, but the
thing about Dan is that
if you put forward your
ideas, if you could do it
over the shouting, he was
willing to listen,” she add-
ed. “He’d come back and
say, ‘I’ve thought about
this. You have a point.’ It
was one of those wonder-
ful relationships you grow
from and learn to appreci-
ate.”
During his term as
mayor, Camp’s focus was
on doing for the city what
he was already doing in
the Cotton District. He
called for the city to in-
vest in a $12-million bond
program to improve infra-
structure after years of
what Camp referred to as
“do more with less” phi-
losophy he believed sold
short the city’s future.
That effort, along with
his vision to create a new
municipal complex down-
town, fell short. The city
approved just $3 million
for infrastructure and his
municipal complex never
materialized, at least not
in the way he imagined.
The city later refur-
bished the old city hall,
transforming it into the
tattoos to the Make-A-
Wish Foundation. Mike
Sullivan of Starkville,
who helped coordinate
the event, said its charita-
ble nature helped combat
the stereotypes of people
with tattoos.
“Don’t judge a book by
its cover,” Sullivan said.
“People have got good
hearts regardless of how
they look.”
At noon March 28,
it was time. Customers
filed into Koch’s shop in
rapid succession. The
tattoo artist had assis-
tants helping people in
and out of his chair, and
others handed Koch ster-
ilizer and other supplies.
Koch’s wife Lynda hand-
ed him food and drink
when needed, but still,
his mouth and kidneys
ached from dehydration.
by the U.S. Defense Lo-
gistics Agency associated
with a contract awarded
in May 2019. The compa-
ny produce garments for
the Navy and the Army.
Boy, 13, is 2nd to
die after shooting in
Mississippi town
CANTON — A 13-year-
old boy is the second per-
son to die as a result of
gunfire that broke out two
days earlier at a Mississip-
pi fast food restaurant.
The second victim,
Robert Luckett, died at
the University of Missis-
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city’s police station,
while converting the old
Starkville Electric Power
building on the west end
of Main Street into a city
hall complex that opened
in 2017.
“His plan wasn’t suc-
cessful at the time,”
Spruill said. “It’s like that
a lot of times with people
who have a vision. People
may not see it at first, but
the message was received
and eventually it did hap-
pen.”
Inventing the
Cotton District
While his term as
mayor may have received
mixed reviews, his prow-
ess in inventing the con-
cept of the Cotton District
and his success in imple-
menting it are beyond
question.
“Dan and I were both
at the university back in
the 1970s,” Ruby said. “I
was the program director
at the new student union
and Dan was teaching
vocational students. We
were just young men,
working at the univer-
sity. Our wives were
friends and we did a lot
of things, went a lot of
The repetitive motion of
the needle took a toll on
his hands, too.
“It was hell,” Koch
said. “You wear yourself
out badly.”
The only thing that
kept him moving, he said,
was knowing where the
money was going. With
already around $3,000
in donations before any
tattoos even took place,
Koch was ultimately able
to hand Make-A-Wish a
check for $15,602.
With 577 tattoos, Koch
hadn’t quite met his goal
of 600. Still, he’d shat-
tered Kat Von D’s record.
“It was a tremendous
undertaking,” Koch said.
‘The only one I trust’
Koch knows no day in
the tattoo chair will ever
be as hectic as that one.
sippi Medical Center ear-
ly Friday, Madison Coun-
ty coroner Alex Breeland
told The Clarion-Ledger.
Two other victims were
in critical condition.
The shooting hap-
pened about 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday at a McDon-
ald’s in Canton, where
the victims were in the
drive-thru line, Canton
Police Department Assis-
tant Chief Terence Ware
said.
Twent y-four-year- old
Dakarrie Johnson died in
the shooting. A suspect
was arrested Wednesday
night.
places together. Then, he
got the idea that he want-
ed to be an entrepreneur.
That’s when the whole
idea about Cotton District
started.”
In the early 1980s,
Camp began his career
as a developer, focusing
on land just west of the
university near what was
once a cotton mill.
“It seemed kind of
crazy at the time,” Ruby
confessed, “What we
know now as the Cotton
District was a poor part of
town, the way it usually is
anytime you have a cotton
mill. But he took it and
made it into his famous
Cotton District. Nobody
else could see the poten-
tial. It was an undesirable
area. But Dan could see
what it could be.”
Spruill said the Cot-
ton District became
something that reflected
Camp’s personality.
“He took old property
and made it new again,”
she said. “In some cases,
it was restructuring old
homes. In others, it was
building something new.
He could take a closet
and make it into an apart-
ment.”
In re-imaging the Cot-
He’s glad for it.
He’s turned his atten-
tion away from seeking
renown and competition
to simply making his
subjects happy, which
has allowed him to create
more lasting memories of
those who sit in his chair.
Take the 87-year-old
woman from Aberdeen
who’d been told by her
doctor she didn’t have
long to live. A member of
the high society who felt
like she’d done every-
thing right, she told Koch
what she could no longer
wait to have: a small lady-
bug on her shoulder.
ton District, Camp cre-
ated an area in town that
soon exerted an almost
magnetic appeal to MSU
students, drawn to his
more than 300 residential
properties and the night-
life and entertainment it
spawned.
At the time, Spruill
said, the saying around
town was, “We would love
the university even more
if it wasn’t for the stu-
dents.”
The Cotton District
changed that, she and
Ruby said.
“There’s always some
natural tension in these
town and gown relation-
ships,” Ruby said. “What
Dan did in the Cotton Dis-
trict really brought the
two together like nothing
before.”
Mississippi State
spokesman Sid Salter ac-
knowledged Camp’s im-
portant role in building
that relationship.
“As an innovative de-
veloper and as mayor,
Dan Camp was a transfor-
mative figure in the town-
and-gown relationship be-
tween Mississippi State
and Starkville,” Salter
said in a statement. “The
university community is
She died three weeks
after the tattoo, and when
she was displayed in her
casket at her memorial
service, the ladybug was
showing — to make a
statement, Koch said.
And though not every
tattoo he’s ever made
is perfect — “I’m not a
machine; I’m a human
being,” Koch said — he’s
developed a great reputa-
tion among clients in the
Golden Triangle.
“Literally, he’s like
the only dude who I’ve
ever met who you can
bring the best work of
art ever to, and he makes
saddened to learn of Mr.
Camp’s passing.”
Education and the arts
Camp’s commitment
to the city went beyond
his business enterprises.
He served on the city’s
school board and was also
a patron of the arts.
The city’s “arts in
public places” effort was
birthed in the Cotton
District where murals
began to pop up featur-
ing the work of talented
artists, many of them on
Camp-owned properties.
The artwork added to the
quirky charm of the area.
“Our city would be a
lot more boring without
Dan,” Spruill said. “The
Cotton District became a
special place in the com-
munity. Love it or hate
it, it’s a unique area. Dan
brought it to the table in
his own creative way.”
Camp’s sons, Robert
and Bonn, will take over
their father’s business,
but it is doubtful either
will ever be so bold as to
assume the title of “May-
or of the Cotton District.”
That honor will forever
remain Dan Camp’s alone
to claim.
it better,” said Sullivan,
who had several previous
tattoos improved by Koch
and got new ones, too.
That’s why, after more
than 10 years since his
last tattoo from Koch,
Sullivan is going back
with his daughter, who
wants her first tattoo
for her 18th birthday in
November.
“He’s literally the only
one I trust to put my
daughter’s first tattoo on
her,” Sullivan said.
“Nowadays, there’s tat-
too shops everywhere,”
he added, “but I still want
to go to him.”
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Kershaw stops steal of home, hands Dodgers 3-2 Series lead

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ARLINGTON, Texas —
Clayton Kershaw’s glittering
career lacked two of the most
satisfying accomplishments: a
win deep in the World Series
and a championship ring.
He took the mound Sunday
night with the Los Angeles
Dodgers shaken, and Kershaw
steadied his team with a gritty
performance, plus one particu-
lar delivery home that will long
be remembered.
Now with one more victory,
the Dodgers would claim their
first title since 1988.
Kershaw beat the Tampa Bay
Rays for the second time in six
days, escaping
a fourth-inning
jam with a quick
reaction throw
to cut down a
runner trying
for a rare steal
of home, and the Kershaw
Dodgers held on
for a 4-2 win and a 3-2 Series
lead.
Mookie Betts and Corey
Seager sparked a two-run first
inning, and Joc Pederson and
Max Muncy homered off long-
ball prone Tyler Glasnow, whose
100 mph heat got burned.
His scraggly dark brown
hair dangling with sweat, Ker-
shaw was cruising when Dodg-
ers manager Dave Roberts
removed the 32-year-old left-
hander in favor of Dustin May
after getting two outs on two
pitches in the sixth inning.
The mostly pro-Dodgers
fans in the pandemic-reduced
crowd of 11,437 booed when
Roberts walked to the mound,
well aware of what happened
with the bullpen the previous
night, when closer Kenley Jan-
sen wasted a ninth-inning lead
in a stunning 8-7 loss.
Those boos quickly turned
to cheers as the LA rooters sa-
luted Kershaw, a three-time NL
Cy Young Award winner, as he
walked to the dugout. Kershaw
improved to 13-12 in postseason
play, including 4-1 this year.
May, Victor Gonzalez and
Blake Treinen combined for
two-hit scoreless relief. May got
five outs, Gonzlaez stranded a
pair of runners in the eighth by
retiring Randy Arozarena and
Brandon Lowe on flyouts, and
Treinen got three outs to be-
come the fourth Dodgers pitch-
er with a postseason save.
Manuel Margot singled lead-
ing off the ninth, but Austin
Meadows struck out, Joey Wen-
dle flied out and Willy Adames
struck out.
Thirty of the previous 46
teams to win Game 5 for a 3-2
lead have won the title, but just
six of the last 14. Teams that
wasted 3-2 leads include last
year’s Houston Astros.
Los Angeles did not have
an obvious candidate to start
Game 6 on Tuesday, when
Game 2 winner Blake Snell
starts for Tampa Bay,
Walker Buehler, the
26 -year-old right-hander who
has supplanted Kershaw at
the Dodgers’ ace, is waiting
in the wings for a a Game 7
like a Hollywood understudy
ready for a leading role.
With a 175-76 regu-
See DODGERS, 3B

MSU MISSISSIPPI STATE SOCCER

alumna
McDonald ECHEGINI NETS EQUALIZER AS MSU
celebrates
birthday FIGHTS MISSOURI TO A DRAW
with first
LPGA
Tour win
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GREENSBORO, Ga.
— Ally McDonald cele-
brated her birthday with
her first LPGA Tour vic-
tory.
“It’s the best birthday
present ever,” McDonald.
The 28-year-old
from Mississippi held
off Danielle Kang by
a stroke Sunday in the
LPGA Drive On Cham-
pionship-Lake Reyn-
olds Oconee. McDonald
closed with a 3-under 69
for a 16-under 272 total
on the Great Waters
Course. Kang birdied
the par-5 18th for a 68.
“I’ve never doubt-
See LPGA, 3B

No. 2 ‘Bama
loses Jaylen
Waddle,
takes down
Tennessee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
— Losing their most
dynamic player left Ala-
bama in no mood to cel-
ebrate — not even a big
win over a longtime rival.
Wide receiver Jaylen
Waddle broke his right
ankle on the opening
kickoff Saturday, about
the only thing that didn’t
go the Crimson Tide’s
way in a 48-17 victory
over Tennessee.
Mac Jones threw for
387 yards and ran for a
touchdown, and Najee
Harris ran for three more
TDs as No. 2 Alabama
added the 14th straight
win in this rivalry.
The Crimson Tide (5-
0) outgained Tennessee
587-302. But playing the
Vols proved costly for Al-
abama a second straight
season. A year ago, Tua
Tagovailoa hurt an ankle
in the second quarter and
missed the next game
against Arkansas.
On Saturday, Waddle
rolled his right ankle as
he was tackled on the
opening kickoff and was
taken by cart to the lock-
er room. Waddle came
See ALABAMA, 3B
Mississippi State sophomore forward Onyi Echegini dribbles the ball through two LSU defenders Oct. 11 in Starkville. Echegini scored the tying
goal in Saturday’s match against Missouri as the Bulldogs and Tigers played to a 1-1 draw.
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Onyi
Echegini didn’t even have
to move.
As the Mississippi
State sophomore forward
raced into the penalty box,
the cross from freshman
KK Pavatt bent expertly
toward Echegini. Perfect-
ly placed, it bounced off
Echegini’s head and into
the goal.
The beautifully execut-
ed play, just over 12 min-
utes into the second half of
Saturday’s match against
Missouri in Starkville, tied
things at 1-1 and energized
the Bulldogs after they let
up a goal in the final eight
minutes of the first period.
“From that moment
onwards, we kept going,”
Echegini said.
Mississippi State used
its newfound momentum
to hold off the Tigers (1-
2-2) through the final 33
minutes of regulation and
20 minutes of overtime,
securing a 1-1 draw that
sent the Bulldogs to 2-1-3
on the season.
“I think either team
could have won the game,”
Mississippi State head
coach James Armstrong
said. “Both teams had
chances.
While neither did,
Armstrong said he was
happy with his team’s
performance, especially
in the two 10-minute sud-
den-death overtime peri-
ods. Though ultimately
they couldn’t get clear for
a goal, the Bulldogs had
more chances than the
Tigers did in extra time,
Armstrong said.
“While we’re disap-
pointed not to get the
result, I thought we had
the big advantage in over-
time,” he said. “We didn’t
just quite get the final shot
off — the final bit of qual-
ity.”
Still, Mississippi State
rebounded from a 1-0
deficit and an injury to
standout goalkeeper Mad-
dy Anderson. In the 67th
minute, Missouri’s Julissa
Cisneros slid into Ander-
son on a shot attempt, hit-
ting the freshman keeper
in the leg. Anderson was
down for several minutes
before being helped slow-
ly off the field, and soph-
omore Hannah Pimentel
replaced her.
Pimentel, making her
debut, didn’t record a save
in the 21 minutes, 47 sec-
onds she played before
Anderson returned in
the 78th minute, but the
sophomore manned the
goal well and turned away
the Tigers when they got
close.
“I think she did really
well,” Anderson said of
Pimentel. “She definitely
stepped up. As a group, we
always talk about the ‘next
player up’ and stepping up
into that role, and she defi-
nitely did that tonight.”
Armstrong credited
his defense’s performance
in keeping the Tigers out
of the net after Anderson
returned and the match
headed to overtime knot-
ted at 1-1. Missouri got
numbers forward several
times but couldn’t seem to
manage a clean look.
It was a step up from
the Bulldogs’ performance
in the first half, where Mis-
souri’s Macy Trujillo head-
ed home a pass from Bly-
the Beckner in the 38th
minute to take a 1-0 lead at
the break.
“We probably didn’t ex-
ecute as well as we would
like in the first half in
Mississippi State Athletics
terms of possession, but
I felt we did better as the
game went along,” Arm-
strong said. “Our back line
had to do a good job, just
like their back line did.”
Echegini’s picture-per-
fect goal provided a spark
less than 15 minutes into
the second half, and the
Bulldogs had answered.
For the rest of the match,
both teams sought the go-
ahead goal, but neither
could follow through.
Mississippi State will
head into next Friday’s
match at SEC East lead-
er South Carolina (4-1-0)
with another point in the
standings, but the Bull-
dogs know they had their
chances for a better out-
come
“Trying to get a tie
was never in our minds
throughout the whole
entire game,” Armstrong
said.
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Bridgewater nearly sinks Saints in return to Superdome

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Teddy
Bridgewater took a sack when
he could least afford to late in
the fourth quarter against the
Saints.
It was about the only mis-
take he made in his return to
New Orleans a year after go-
ing 5-0 as the Saints’ starter
in place of then-injured Drew
Brees. It also was the moment
he and coach Matt Rhule
dwelled on after the Panthers’
27-24 loss on Sunday.
Bridgewater completed
23 of 28 passes for 254 yards
and two touchdowns, but his
8-yard loss on the Panthers’
final offensive play forced
Joey Slye to attempt a 65-
yard field goal right after the
2-minute warning.
The kick was down the
middle but about a foot short.
“We had a perfect play call
(before the sack) and prob-
ably would have scored a
touchdown if we had gotten it
off,” Bridgewater said.
But the Saints “schemed
up that protection we had
called well,” Bridgewater
added. “I really had nowhere
to throw the ball. So, I tried
to step up and was going to
throw it away.”
He did not get the oppor-
tunity. Defensive end Marcus
Davenport wrapped him up to
force a fourth-and-19 from the
Saints 47.
Coach Matt Rhule said he
decided a long field goal was
the better of two bad options,
rather than leaving his of-
fense on the field.
Other than that, Bridgewa-
ter nearly matched Brees play
for play.
New Orleans did not punt
and Carolina punted only
once.
Bridgewater connected
with a wide-open D.J. Moore
for a 74-yard touchdown to cut
Carolina’s deficit to 14-10 in
the second quarter. He went 7
for 7 on the next drive, giving
the Panthers their only lead
on a shovel pass that Moore
converted into a 7-yard score.
Bridgewater hit all four of
his passes as the Panthers
drove for a tying touchdown
with 8 seconds left in the
third quarter.
That was only Carolina’s
fifth series. Its next was its
last as Brees and the Saints
kept sustaining long drives,
running 67 plays to the Pan-
thers’ 43.
“We didn’t have many pos-
sessions, so we just tried to
maximize every drive that
we had,” Bridgewater said.
“We left a couple of plays out
there today, and if you do that
against a team like that, you
get beat.”
Bridgewater earned his
chance with the Panthers
because of his performance
with the Saints. He was cool-
ly efficient after Brees went
down with a thumb injury
in the second week of 2019,
completing 67.9% of his pass-
es with nine touchdowns and
two interceptions.
Those were the first mean-
ingful games Brees missed in
14 years with New Orleans,
and the first significant ac-
tion for Bridgewater since he
tore his ACL and dislocated
his kneecap during training
camp with Minnesota in 2016.
Instead of collapsing,
the Saints kept winning un-
til Brees returned, making
Bridgewater a fan favorite
in New Orleans. He signed a
three-year contract with Car-
olina in March, and is on pace
for career highs in comple-
tion percentage and quarter-
back rating.
On one play in the second
half, Bridgewater scrambled
out of bounds on the Saints
sideline and sat down next
to Brees and Saints reserve
QB Taysom Hill for a second,
also exchanging seemingly
friendly words with coach
Sean Payton.
“That was just so fitting of
Teddy’s personality,” Brees
said. “He had to run a long
way to take that seat and he
knew exactly where we were
sitting, right?
“Nothing but love for
Teddy. He’s a great quarter-
back. He’s an efficient quar-
terback,” Brees continued.
“Can’t say enough about him.”
Bridgewater played down
any emotional or sentimental
component to his return to
the Superdome, putting his
immediate focus on getting
the Panthers (3-4) ready for a
quick turnaround for Thurs-
day’s home game against At-
lanta.
“To me, this was another
game on our schedule,” he
said. “Of course those guys
hold a special place in my life
and heart, but when I’m going
against them, it’s a different
approach. I just wanted to go
out there and get our team in
the end zone as many times
as I could.”

Cowboys lose Dalton in rout at DC

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANDOVER, Md.
— When a sliding Andy
Dalton got a concussion
from a shoulder-to-head
blow that sent the quarter-
back’s helmet flying, Dal-
las coach Mike McCarthy
noticed that none of the
other Cowboys got in the
face of Washington line-
backer Jon Bostic, who
was ejected for the hit.
“We speak all the time
about playing for one an-
other, protecting one an-
other,” McCarthy said. “It
definitely was not the re-
sponse you would expect.”
The Cowboys didn’t do
much of what their coach
might have expected —
or hoped for, really — in
a disastrous 25-3 loss at
Washington on a rainy,
dreary Sunday in a near-
ly stadium, save for some
friends and family invited
by the home club.
Running back Ezekiel
Elliott, for one, said he’s
never been this frustrated.
“We’ve got to be better
than we were today,” he
said after gaining just 45
yards on 12 carries. “We
weren’t good at all.”
McCarthy, now 2-5 in
his first year in Dallas,
called his team’s display
“disappointing” and “not a
very good day.”
Well, there’s an under-
statement. The Cowboys
were outgained 397-142,
allowed Washington to
convert six of its initial
eight third-down conver-
sions and allowed 208
yards on the ground.
“I talked to them at
halftime about the ‘Here
we go again’ mode on the
sideline,” McCarthy said,
“and we’ve got to move
past that.”
What he did rule out
were any personnel chang-
es, insisting that “it hasn’t
crossed my mind” when
asked specifically about a
switch to defensive coordi-
nator Mike Nolan’s status.
Dallas trailed 22-3 in
the third quarter when
Dalton left after Bostic
drove into him at the end
of a third-down scramble.
Ben DiNucci, a rookie
from James Madison, re-
placed Dalton, who took
over as the Cowboys’
starter after Dak Prescott
broke his ankle this
month. Dalton was 9 for
19 for 75 yards with an in-
terception Sunday before
exiting.
DiNucci said he spoke
to Dalton in the locker
room after the game.
“He doesn’t really re-
member what happened,”
DiNucci said.
The Cowboys have giv-
en up at least 20 points in
the first half of six consec-
utive games — something
no NFL team has done
since at least 2000. The
only time Nolan’s group
was stingier than that
through two quarters was
in a 20-17 loss to the Los
Angeles Rams in Week 1,
when LA only scored 13
by halftime.
Since then, though, the
first-half point totals for
Dallas opponents: 29, 23,
31, 20, 21, 22.
Keep in mind, it’s not
as if Washington is some
sort of offensive jugger-
naut. This is a club that
benched its starting QB,
2019 first-round pick
Dwayne Haskins, to go
with offseason free-agent
pickup Kyle Allen. A club
that came in with the
league’s 31st-ranked of-
fense and 32nd-ranked
rushing game. A club that
keeps picking up wide-
outs off the street to plug
in with its one legitimate
playmaker, second-year
receiver Terry McLaurin.
Indeed, Washington
(2-5) not only had lost five
games in a row entering
Sunday, it hadn’t managed
to score more than 20
points in any of them —
not just failing to get to 20
in a half, but in an entire
game since a 27-17 Week 1
win over Philadelphia.
By halftime, Washing-
ton already had accumu-
lated 125 yards rushing
and Allen had thrown
for two TDs, including a
52-yarder to McLaurin,
who got way behind cor-
nerback Trevon Diggs.
There’s plenty of blame
to go around, though. Of-
fensive coordinator Kellen
Moore’s bunch wasn’t any
better than the Cowboys’
defense in Sunday’s first
half. Again, it’s not as
though the Cowboys were
going up against the Steel
Curtain or the Purple
People Eaters or current
Washington coach Ron
Rivera’s 1985 Chicago
Bears.
There was a strip-sack
of Dalton for a safety the
first time Dallas had the
ball. There was a thrown-
away ball on a fourth-
and-1. There was a pass
to Elliott that turned into
an interception when the
running back bobbled the
ball.
And there was the
scene of Dalton yelling
and gesticulating on the
sideline after a sack end-
ed a drive in the second
quarter.
To be fair, this is an in-
jury-depleted unit — miss-
ing, above all, Prescott,
but also key starters along
the offensive line. Still,
stars such as Elliott, Am-
ari Cooper and CeeDee
Lamb are available.
“We’re not doing the
basics,” McCarthy said.
“Let’s quit candy-coating
it.”
Chiefs force 4
turnovers, beat Broncos
43-16
DENVER — Now this
was a cool celebration:
Tyrann Mathieu slid into
a patch of snow after his
fumble recovery and per-
formed a perfectly execut-
ed snow angel.
The Kansas City safe- early in the fourth quar-
ty’s play in the first quar- ter. “We’re still working
ter had a snowball effect toward that. We’re still
for a Chiefs defense that building toward that. Any-
forced four turnovers in a time you have a perfor-
43-16 win over the Denver mance like this where you
Broncos on a frigid Sun- can step up as a defense, it
day afternoon. sends confidence through
It was all fun and games the whole locker room,
in the wintry-like condi- that each unit can trust
tions for Mathieu and the each other, each unit can
Chiefs (6-1). feed off each other and
For Drew Lock and the grow off each other.”
Broncos (2-4), it was time The Chiefs’ defense
to take a cold, hard look at is starting to get back on
just what went wrong as track after a 40-32 home
they dropped their 10th loss to the Las Vegas Raid-
straight game to their ers on Oct. 11. Last week,
AFC West rival. they bottled up Josh Allen
“This week wasn’t the and Buffalo in a 26-17 win.
best for me,” said Lock, Then, on a freezing day —
who finished 24 of 40 for
game-time temperature
254 yards and a QB rat-
was 14 degrees — they
ing of 57.7. “There’s a fine
made things miserable
line between taking what
for Lock and the Broncos
the defense gives you and
offense.
then when they don’t give
you what you want, going
and trying to make a play.”
Melvin Gordon had two
fumbles and Lock two in-
terceptions, including one
that Chiefs safety Daniel
Sorensen returned for a
50-yard score. This was
almost like a turnover as
well — a 102-yard kickoff
return by Byron Pringle
on a special teams break-
down.
Anything that could go
wrong for Denver, pretty
much did. Even when the
Broncos tried some raz-
zle-dazzle, it went horribly
awry. Like when Gordon
took a handoff from Lock,
and tried to lateral it back
as part of a flea-flicker. But
the pitch was off the mark
and the fumble was recov-
ered by Frank Clark.
In all, the Chiefs scored
17 points off turnovers.
“We just didn’t play
well as a team to obvious-
ly give us a chance to win
the game there,” Broncos
coach Vic Fangio said.
“The four turnovers, the
kickoff return for a touch-
down, you’re not going to
beat a team like Kansas
City doing that. A cou-
ple of the turnovers gave
them good field position
but our whole team just
got beat today by them.
They’re really good and
we weren’t up to the chal-
lenge today.”
All this on a day when
Patrick Mahomes wasn’t
at his most crisp. He was
15 of 23 for just 200 yards.
It took him until the
fourth quarter to throw a
TD pass in a 17th straight
game, which is the lon-
gest streak in Chiefs his-
tory and longest the active
streak in the NFL.
On this wintry-like
day, the other two phases
helped out the Kansas
City offense.
“Us (the defense) ob-
viously having a chip on
our shoulder, not neces-
sarily wanting to be the
little brother, but wanting
to be the reason or part of
the reason why the Kan-
sas City Chiefs are a great
team,” said Mathieu, who
also had an interception
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LPGA
Continued from Page 1B
ed my ability, but I’ve definitely
questioned whether I would be
able to win out here,” McDonald
said. “It’s really hard to win out
here. So, I’ve just really hung in
there and tried to stick to my pro-
cess since Day 1. That was able
to get me in the winner’s circle
today. I’m really thankful.”
McDonald birdied the first
three holes on the back nine,
dropped a stroke on 14, birdied
16, bogeyed 17 and parred the
par-5 18th. Kang birdied Nos. 12,
13 and 14 to pull within a stroke,
but bogeyed the 15th.
“I’m not going to lie, it shook
in Ohio in the summer, leads the
Race to CME Globe and, at No. 5
in the world, was the top-ranked
player in the field.
“I knew from the start that
Danielle was going to hang in
there,” McDonald said. “You
kind of go to match play mode
and you think absolutely she’s
going to put the pedal down. So
I was just happy to hang in there
and pull it out.”
McDonald’s parents watched
her play during the weekend.
“It means the world to me, ob-
viously, that they’re here,” Mc-
Donald said. “This is the closest
to play with it. I think I’m very
proud of how I played despite not
having my full game, but Ally
played wonderfully and it’s been
a really great week.”
Bianca Pagdanganan of the
Philippines was two strokes back
after a 70. Making her sixth
LPGA Tour start of the year and
seventh overall. she birdied the
last two holes after opening with
16 pars.
“Being at this level and just
being able to compete with the
greatest players, it’s so much
fun,” Pagdanganan said. “I say
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increases from Monday to Sunday.

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lar-season record, five
ER A titles and an MVP,
Kershaw ranks along-
side Dodgers greats
Sandy Koufax, Fer-
nando Valenzuela and
Orel Hershiser. He won
World Series openers in
2017 and again this year,
but he faltered in Game
5 in both 2017 and 2018
and has never won a ti-
tle.
He shut down the
Rays on two runs and
five hits with six strike-
outs and two walks. He’s
2-0 with a 2.31 ER A in
15 2/3 innings over two
starts in this Series with
14 strikeouts and three
walks. Kershaw also
set a career postseason
record with 207 strike-
outs, two more than Jus-
tin Verlander’s previous
mark.
Provided a 3-0 lead,
Kershaw allowed Tampa
Bay to pull within a run
in the third when Kev-
in Kiermaier singled,
Yandy Díaz tripled on a
ball down the right-field
line that skipped past
Betts and Arozarena’s
single. The 25-year-old
Cuban rookie asked for
the ball after his record
27th postseason hit, one
more than San Francis-
co’s Pablo Sandoval in
2014.
Kershaw escaped a
first-and-third, no-outs
jam in the fourth after
Margot walked leading
off, stole second and
continued to third when
the ball got away from
second baseman Chris
Taylor for his second
big error in two games.
Hunter Renfroe also
walked, but Wendle
popped out and Adames
struck out.
With Kiermaier at
the plate, Margot bolt-
ed for home as Kershaw
raised both hands over
his head in his instant-
ly recognizable stretch
position. While many
pitchers might have
panicked and perhaps
balked, Kershaw coolly
and quickly stepped off
the rubber and calmly
threw to catcher Austin
Barnes.
Barnes grabbed the
ball and got his mitt
down on the Margot’s
outstretched hand while
the runner’s helmet
tumbled off and cut his
own lip.
Margot went on his
own, manager Kevin
Cash said, and became
the first runner caught
stealing home in the Se-
ries since Minnesota’s
Shane Mack in Game 4
in 2001.
Globe Life Field’s
roof was closed on the
cool, rainy night, as it
was for Game 3, and the
visiting Dodgers broke
on top within 10 pitches
against Glasnow, a lanky
6 -foot-8 right-hander
who appeared to be
overthrowing.
Glasnow allowed four
runs and six hits in five
innings, leaving him 0 -2
with a 9.64 ER A in the
Series. The two home
runs raised his total to
a record nine in a single
postseason.
Betts doubled on a 99
mph fastball leading off
and scored two pitches
later when Seager pulled
a curveball into right
field for a single and his
19th postseason RBI.
This Series joined 1932
as the only years with
runs in four straight top
of the first innings.
Seager advanced on a
wild pitch, Muncy drew
his 20th walk of the
postseason and after a
two-out wild pitch, Cody
Bellinger hit a grounder
that was stopped with no
play by Lowe, the sec-
ond baseman positioned
on the right field grass.
Seager scored the Dodg-
ers’ 58th run with two
outs this postseason
and became the first
player to cross the plate
in each of the first five
Series games since the
Yankees’ Derek Jeter in
2000.
Glasnow needed 34
pitches to get three outs,
his most in the first in-
ning since Sept. 5, 2018.
He tied a Series record
with two wild pitches in
the inning and set the Sunday’s Cryptoquote:
mark with three in the
game.
Pederson hit a 428-
foot opposite-field drive
to left on a fastball at the
letters for a 3-0 lead in
the second.
Glasnow retired eight
straight before Muncy
homered in the fifth to
make it 4-2. He became
the record ninth Dodg-
ers player to homer in
the postseason, one
more than the 1989 Oak-
land Athletics of Bash
Brothers fame.
Trainer’s room
Dodgers: Bellinger
was back in center field,
a day after switching to
designated hitter be-
cause of lower back stiff-
ness.
Up next
Snell, the 2018 AL Cy
Young Award winner, al-
lowing two runs and two ACROSS
hits in 4 2/3 innings in 1 Speech
Game 2 with nine strike- problem
outs and four walks. 5 Musical work
9 Javelin’s kin
10 Singer

Alabama Summer
12 Fancy neck-
wear
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13 Hold up
out after catching the ball deep in Harris added TD runs of 2 and 1 be said of the Vols is that they didn’t 14 Long looks
the end zone, something coaches yards, and the senior running back turn the ball over through the first 16 Angry state
usually don’t want. But Alabama finished with 96 yards on 20 car- half after having seven turnovers in 17 Different
coach Nick Saban said he trusts the ries. He also caught six passes for the past two games. That ended on 18 Tremors
judgment of the talented player. 61 more yards. Brian Robinson Jr. the opening drive of the third quar- 21 Bread choice
Saban said Waddle has a simi- also had a 7-yard TD run. ter on Eric Gray’s fumble, which 22 Taps instru-
lar injury to what Kenyan Drake Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt went Malachi Moore returned 28 yards ments Sunday’s answer
had with a high ankle sprain with for the 33-yard field goal by Brent for a 35-10 Alabama lead. 23 Aussie mar- 41 Poker pay- components
a fracture that probably will need Cimaglia on fourth-and-2 early in supial ment 19 Hideous
surgery. Waddle will be flown back the second. Tennessee managed
one TD drive in the first half with
Poll implications 24 After-dinner DOWN 20 In the style of
privately with doctors and taken Even with Ohio State finally wine 1 In conclusion 22 Tennis legend
to Birmingham to see if surgery is Jarrett Guarantano hitting fresh- starting its season, Alabama should
man Jalin Hyatt on a 38-yard TD. 26 Parrot or 2 As a precau- Bjorn
needed right away. easily hold onto its spot at No. 2
“If that’s the case, and we’re pret- Guarantano added a 27-yard TD puppy tion 23 Boxer Norton
with this perfunctory win. 29 Car-washing
ty certain that it is, he would proba- pass to Josh Palmer to make it 42-17 3 Get a goal 24 Some tires
bly be out for the year,” Saban said. late in the third. aid 4 Tennis star 25 Tribute
Tennessee (2-3) forced Alabama Saban liked how his defense Harris’ day 30 Not wild Sampras 26 Mom or dad
played. Harris now has 2,972 yards rush- 31 Sandwich 5 Unmatched 27 Come into
to punt on its opening drive. That
“This is probably the best we’ve ing and 34 career TDs. He’s closing meat 6 “The Raven” view
was as close as the Vols would get in
played, even though there’s some in on Alabama’s all-time leader for 32 Frightens writer 28 Exams
losing their seventh straight in this
plays in there that you could be crit- career rushing yards Derrick Hen- 34 Make blank
series in Neyland Stadium. Coach 7 Different 29 Storage spot
ical of,” Saban said. “But I was kind ry who had 3,591 between 2013 and 37 Like good
Jeremy Pruitt, now 0-3 against his 8 Traps 30 Hawk’s
of proud of the way the guys played. 2015. Henry shares the career rush- sentries
old boss, said he’s obviously disap- 9 Intense beam grasper
They played with a little more con- ing TDs mark with Mark Ingram
pointed. Saban improved to 23-0 38 Painter Edgar 11 Ensign’s 33 José’s house
fidence, and we were pretty aggres- (2008-10) at 42 apiece.
against his former assistants. 39 Ditties answers 35 Used a chair
“I’m not used to this for sure, sive.” 40 Hardens 15 Crossword 36 Snaky shape
and I know the players in our locker Quotable
room this isn’t what they came here The takeaways “When I took the job, I knew ex-
actly where it was at. Exactly, OK?
for either,” Pruitt said. “These guys Alabama: Losing Waddle means
are hungry, they want to improve the loss of a talented punt and kick Which is why I wanted the job, OK?
and they will because of that.” returner and the player who had I wanted this job because I want-
Jones got the Tide moving on been leading the Tide with 557 ed to get it to where it’s supposed
the second drive, distributing the yards receiving coming into this to be. It’s a hell of a challenge all
ball to different receivers on the game. Alabama still has plenty of right? And I’m glad I took the job.
first four plays. Harris appeared options as Jones completed pass- I’m excited about being here. All
to fumble on his first carry on the es to six different receivers. John right. I’m not discouraged,” said
drive but was ruled down before the Metchie III finished with seven Pruitt, now 15-15.
ball came out, which was upheld on catches for 151 yards.
review. Harris scored on the next Five-star freshman Bryce Young Up next
play. replaced Jones for the fourth quar- Alabama hosts Mississippi State
Jones capped the next drive with ter and drove the Tide to a field on Saturday.
a 1-yard plunge and a 14-0 lead. Ala- goal. Tennessee has an open date be-
bama led 28-10 at halftime. Tennessee: The best that could fore visiting Arkansas on Nov. 7.

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4B MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020
Newgarden wins IndyCar finale but can’t deny Dixon 6th title
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
— Scott Dixon controlled
his own fate and simply
needed a smooth Sunday
drive to win a sixth IndyCar
championship.
He was a tactician as he
followed Josef Newgarden
around the streets of down-
town St. Petersburg. So
long as he kept Newgarden
in his sight, Dixon would
yank the crown away from
the American and add an-
other milestone to his illus-
trious career.
Newgarden won the
season finale, using a spec-
tacular two-car pass for the
lead in a valiant effort to win
a second consecutive title.
Winning was not enough,
though, to deny Dixon his
coronation.
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
Dixon stealthily finished
third in an easy drive to an-
other title.
“They just shadowed
us all day, it was the smart
play,” said Newgarden, who
admitted his shot at the ti-
tle was so slim it spoiled his
mood the entire weekend.
Dixon was already look-
ing forward to the next
goal: A.J. Foyt’s record sev-
en titles.
“Six is good. Seven
sounds better,” Dixon said.
“That’s obviously going to
be the goal. But it’s tough,
as you can see from the
competition, even if you
mess up just a little bit.
“Just have a smooth
race, and that’s what we did.
Credit to Josef, he drove a
hell of a race there and put
us under a lot of pressure.”
The 40-year-old New
FAMILY CIRCUS
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Zelander has won all six
titles with Chip Ganassi
Racing. Dixon has won two
of the last three champion-
ships, a run interrupted last
year when Newgarden won
his second title.
Newgarden tied Dixon
with his series-best fourth
win of the season but New-
garden was in too large
of a hole to catch his rival.
Although Dixon at one time
led the standings by 117
points, the final margin was
a mere 16 points over New-
garden.
Dixon built his lead with
three consecutive races to
open the abbreviated and
pandemic disrupted sched-
ule.
Newgarden, winner of
two straight at St. Pete,
went to victory lane to con-
gratulate his rival.
“I really don’t know what
I’d do different this year
and I don’t know what I’d
ask my guys to do differ-
ent. They were flawless,”
Newgarden said. “We just
weren’t able to get it done
but we’ll reset and we’ll
hit ’em harder next year. I
promise you we’ll be in the
fight.”
The season was sup-
posed to begin seven
months ago on these same
streets before it was abrupt-
ly canceled 48 hours before
the green flag. It came to a
close in front of a sold-out
20,000 spectators, the larg-
est crowd of the season for
IndyCar.
Although IndyCar lost
races in seven cities and
had just one street course,
Sunday’s finale, still man-
aged to complete a 14-race
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: I
am unsure
how to han-
dle a co-worker
who is constantly
on their cellphone
(hidden between
their legs) during
their four-hour
work shift. I have
reminded them to
leave their phone
in their car since
they have a hard
time not checking
it or texting during
work hours. We
have spoken sev- Dear Abby
eral times about
this unacceptable behavior,
which improves for two days
and then reverts back to using
their cellphone as usual.
Is this generational accept-
able behavior that I am miss-
ing? I’m in my mid-50s, and I
can live without texting friends
and family while I’m supposed
to be working, but they seem
to need to have their phone in
their hands all the time. The
manager ignores this behavior,
so that’s not an avenue I can
pursue. Please help. — PEEVED
IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR PEEVED: Is there a
policy in your employee hand-
book that forbids the use of cell-
phones during business hours?
If there isn’t, this may be the
reason your manager is ignoring
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
26). Like a ship making its
way out of the fog, you are con-
stantly moving toward greater
clarity. Throughout this solar
orbit, you will see those bright
horizons and have success on
distant shores. A financial boon
provides the seed money for a
daring venture. Networking and
new relationships flourish in
2021. Aries and Taurus adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 8,
40, 44, 1 and 16.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Your work will be elevated not
by doing more of it, nor by doing
it better, but by giving it better
packaging and positioning it in
the world so as to help people
understand why what you do is
season. IndyCar became
the first major motorsports
series to make it to the
checkered flag, relatively
unscathed, and as stable as
possible during a pandem-
ic.
Stewardship from first-
year series owner Roger
Penske got IndyCar to the
finish and Penske brought
his awful inaugural season
full circle with Sunday’s fi-
nale. The last hurrah of a de-
cent season was a dramatic
error-prone ender in which
three Andretti Autosport
drivers ruined race-win-
ning runs and Newgarden
went down swinging.
The race was an Alex-
ander Rossi runaway for
the first 37 laps and then
pole-sitter Will Power
crashed for the first cau-
tion. Power, who was in a
your co-work-
er’s behavior.
Because your
manager refuses
to discourage
what the person
is doing, you have
no choice but
to ignore it and
concentrate on
your own tasks at
hand. I only hope
that your jobs
aren’t collabora-
tive, which would
impede your
productivity.
DEAR ABBY:
I need your help.
I’ve been dating a guy for a
while now, and our relationship
is good EXCEPT for his extreme
jealousy. I told him at the be-
ginning of our relationship that
I have guy friends, and he was
OK with that. Well, I thought he
was. It feels like he’s trying to
control me. I have let friends go
because he would assume the
worst.
He doesn’t want me to have
any male friends, but I don’t
think I should have to give up
people I care about to make him
happy. He always suspects that
I’m cheating. He looks through
my phone. He doesn’t want me
to delete any of my messages.
It’s like he wants to find some-
thing to prove himself right. —
LOST GIRL IN THE SOUTH
important.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You have that mysterious quality
that is difficult to describe, but
people know it when they see
it. They are attracted. It’s about
confidence but also vulnerabili-
ty. It takes a lot of confidence to
be vulnerable.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You’re in a position to state
the facts. That’s what’s being
asked of you. Some facts are
more comfortable to state than
others, but don’t let that get in
the way of saying the truth.
CANCER (June 22-July
22). You’re never completely in
charge of who’s in your world or
what they do there. You’ll give
of yourself and the gift gets
tight race for third in the
final standings, threw his
gloves in anger and admit-
ted to driver error.
“I just lost it. Had a
moment,” he said. “I was
definitely frustrated there,
making a mistake and hit-
ting the wall. It’s my bad.
It put us out of the race and
that’s a bad situation.
The Power crash trig-
gered a span of three cau-
tions over the next 10 laps,
the third on a restart on lap
47 when brand new team-
mate Scott McLaughlin
spun in his IndyCar de-
but. The New Zealander
won his third consecu-
tive Australian Supercars
championship one week
ago then journeyed to the
United States to launch a
new career at Team Pen-
ske.
DEAR LOST GIRL: This
“guy’s” jealousy is not rooted
in love for you. It is a symptom
of his own insecurity and not
something you can fix for him.
You could delete every single
male friend from your life, and
he would still look for signs that
you are cheating.
Your relationship is very
unhealthy, both for him and for
you. Men like this become in-
creasingly controlling and then
move on to become abusers.
Please end the relationship
before he harms you emotional-
ly or physically.
DEAR ABBY: I live in a
triplex. I’m on the second
floor, and my son and his wife
and three children live on the
ground floor. Every Sunday, I
have a family dinner with my
sons, their children, etc. My
daughter-in-law does not come
unless her best friend, who
is my other daughter-in-law,
comes. So three times out of
four, her children come with her
husband for dinner but not her.
I think it sends a bad message
to the kids. What do I do? —
INCOMPLETE IN CANADA
DEAR INCOMPLETE: First
you ask this daughter-in-law
why she does this. Does she
feel she needs a buffer? Then
tell her — and your son — what
you wrote to me. After that,
if nothing changes, drop the
subject.
redistributed to the ones who
need you most.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your
intuition will come in the form of
a wish. There’s something that
seems just right for you, and as
you send your wish out to the
universe you are also attract-
ing it with your powerful heart
magnet.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You process and appreciate life
with the heart of an artist, and
you’ll turn your experiences into
something tangible so that oth-
ers can be delighted as well.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
A distraction-free block of time
seems like a real luxury these
days, though it’s a luxury that
you could, with a little planning,
have more often. This is the
first in a string of ultra-produc-
tive days.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Instead of judging things
as wrong or right, try thinking
more in terms of “for me” and
“not for me.” This frees up
energy, as it requires much less
thought, as you sense imme-
diately which category things
fall into.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You will not be dealing with
psychics today, and this may
explain why people won’t know
what you want or how to treat
you until you tell them. Your
clear, verbal communication will
open doors.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). You decide what counts
as an accomplishment. It’s not
for other people to tell you. If
you did something small and
strange that you’re none-the-
less proud of, that counts.
Scale doesn’t always match
significance.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Institutions that support
collectivist values survive on
the sacrifice of individuality for
the good of the group. Individual
deviance from the group-focus
will be suppressed. It’s nothing
personal; it’s just how these
things work.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You are connected to oth-
ers in ways beyond comprehen-
sion. You don’t mean for people
to be overly influenced by your
actions but, nonetheless, what
you do today will cause a chain
reaction.
Suspender belt
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Now for sale: Metal Ammo
cans 30&50 cal, $10;
.155mm Howitzer treated
wood ammo boxes,
$5&10; Army steel
bunkbeds, $125; Field
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Unissued camo (BDU/
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65 field coats & fire−
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polypro col weather under
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OCP T−shirts, $5.
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