https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/fd199f057a29b03351e385a1fc8fc24e.pdf ff37f8714ed25ab1e5ffc9fc8e9fbc56 PDF Text Text On this day in history Sunny, cold, 21/3 Wahama fends off Hannan EDITORIAL s 4 WEATHER s 5 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehjšFec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 1, Volume 72 Tuesday, January 2, 2018 s 50¢ Honoring ‘the survivors’ Annual cancer survivor dinner offers support By Erin Perkins eperkins@aimmediamidwest.com Roger and Mary Gimore | Courtesy Dr. Vincent Daniel, MD of Ohio Health Heart, Lung, and Vascular Surgeons speaking to the guests at the dinner. POMEROY — An annual dinner was recently held in honor of cancer survivors. The Meigs County Cancer Survivor dinner was recently held at Meigs High School. Courtney Midkiff, a member of the Meigs County Cancer Initiative, INC., shared this dinner has been coordinated by the organization for over 10 years. Midkiff shared the dinner is typically held in the spring, but this year it was delayed until November. She said over 70 people were in attendance and 44 of those guests were cancer survivors. Midkiff explained the dinner is open to the public, but the MCCI will send out invitations to known cancer survivors. The keynote speaker of the night was Vincent Daniel, MD of Ohio Health Heart, Lung, and Vascular Surgeons said Midkiff. She shared that the Meigs County Health Department personnel were in attendance to offer information to guests on how to stop using tobacco. Midkiff shared the dinner was supported by several local businesses within the county and guests were offered the opportunity sign up for door prizes which were given throughout the evening. She added Barbara Arnold catered the event and Kim Argabright made decorative cakes for the event. The entertainment and the photographs See SURVIVORS | 5 Meigs second, Gallia 15th in jobless numbers By Beth Sergent bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com OHIO VALLEY — For the second month in a row, Meigs County has maintained its second place finish in the Ohio unemployment rankings released last week, while Gallia inched up to No. 15 out of 88 counties. Despite its second place finish, Meigs had an unemployment rate of 6.8 in November, which is actually down from its 6.9 percent unemployment rate in October. Gallia County’s unemployment rate was 5.5 percent in November, slightly up from 5.4 percent in October. Across the river, unemployment is on the rise, going up nearly two percent in Mason County, W.Va., according to the latest statistics released last week. Those statistics are also for November which saw Mason County’s unemployment rate at 7.1 percent, up from October’s 5.3 percent. Mason County was not alone with its increase in jobless numbers, with all 55 counties seeing an increase in their unemployment rates in West Virginia. In Ohio, Mercer County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 2.7 percent while Monroe County had the highest unemployment rate at 7.2 percent. From October, unemployment rates decreased in 65 counties, increased in 15 counties, and remained the same in 8 counties. Ohio’s unemployment rate was 4.8 percent in November 2017, down from 5.1 percent in October 2017. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment decreased 5,600 over the month, from a revised 5,545,400 in October to 5,539,800 in November 2017. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in November was 279,000, down 17,000 from 296,000 in October. The number of unemployed has decreased by 6,000 in the past 12 months from 285,000. The November unemployment rate for Ohio decreased from 5.0 percent in November 2016. A celebration was held for the retirement of Paul Gerard and Donna Boyd, long-time county employees. Courtesy photo Familiar faces look to retirement By Erin Perkins eperkins@aimmediamidwest.com POMEROY — Familiar faces with the Meigs County Court system retired at the end of the year. Last month, fellow county employees celebrated with Paul Gerard and Donna Boyd who are retired from the court. Boyd began working in the county court system in August of 1979 under Judge Charles H. Knight and Judge Patrick H. O’Brien. Boyd shared that after leaving Meigs County for a stint, she returned to the court house to work in the Bureau of Support Office under Knight. She added she later left the position to work under Prosecuting Attorney Pat Story and Prosecuting Attorney Colleen Williams. Boyd retired on Oct. 31, 2011 after working for 32 years. However, Boyd said she returned to work part-time as a clerk in the Meigs County Court under Judge Steve Story since working in the county court was her favorite job. Boyd worked her last day in the county court on Dec. 22, 2017. She expressed that the overall experience of her career path had high and low points, but she made friendships to stand through the ages. See FACES | 5 See NUMBERS | 3 Humane society providing straw during winter INDEX Obituary: 2 News: 3 Opinion: 4 Weather: 5 Sports: 6 Classifieds: 8 Comics: 9 By Erin Perkins eperkins@aimmediamidwest.com JOIN THE CONVERSATION What’s your take on today’s news? Go to mydailysentinel. com and visit us on facebook to share your thoughts. MIDDLEPORT — A local organization is providing low cost animal bedding for people in need around the county. The manager of the Humane Society Thrift Shop, Dee Hysell, shared the Meigs County Humane Society is providing a bale of straw to individuals who need assistance in providing their animals with warm bedding for the winter months. Hysell said straw will be available from now until Feb. 28. “We are here to take of animals,” said Hysell. Hysell explained that if an individual is wanting to receive straw from the humane society, they must visit the Humane Society Thrift Shop in Middleport with a government standard proof of income. Once a thrift shop volunteer validates the individual’s proof of income, the individual will pay two dollars and receive a voucher for one bale of straw that can be picked up at Dettwiller True Value Lumber in Pomeroy. Hysell shared that if the individual has six or more animals, they will be given an extra bale of hay. Hysell shared that the humane society has been providing straw bedding for animals for several years. She said before they began handing out vouchers in the thrift shop, they would set up their bales of straw in the streets and individuals could come by and pick up the straw. “If you love animals, you want to take care of them,” said Hysell. Hysell expressed that she and fellow volunteers at the humane society appreciate the support the community gives them. She shared that all of the donations made at the thrift shop go towards animals whether it is to provide them bedding during the winter months or various veterinarian services. Hysell said that without the donations from the community, the humane society would not be able to do anything for community. The Humane Society Thrift Shop is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and located at 253 N Second Street, Middleport. For any questions call (740) 992-6064. Erin Perkins is a staff writer for Ohio Valley Publishing. �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Tuesday, January 2, 2018 OBITUARIES Daily Sentinel MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS SHERMAN E. ROSS, SR. SARAH CALDWELL COOLVILLE — Sarah Caldwell, 96, of Coolville, passed away Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 at Arcadia Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 3, 1921 in Huntington, West Virginia, daughter of the late Charles and Emeline Person Findling. Sarah was a member of the Alfred United Methodist Church, the Hemlock Grove Grange #2049, the Tuppers Plains VFW Ladies Auxiliary #9053 and a past member of the Farm Bureau. She was also a homemaker and retired from Ohio University. Sarah is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Janice R. (Steve) Weber of Racine; a son and daughter-in-law, Charles C. (Peggy) Caldwell of Lewis Center; a sonin-law, Ben Ewing of Racine; grandchildren, Charles (Sherry) Ritchie, Elizabeth (David) Acree, Kimberly (Charles) Hardy, Ben H. II (Sue) Ewing, Carrie (Marty) Vamos and Crissy (Matt) Streng; 11 greatgrandchildren and 2 great-greatgrandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Garland Caldwell; a daughter, Doris Ewing and an infant brother, Eddie J. Findling. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday. Jan. 4, 2018 at White-Schwarzel Funeral Home in Coolville, with Elder Bill Amberger officiating. Burial will be in the Tuppers Plains Christian Cemetery. Due to the weather, there will be no graveside service. Visitation will be held at the funeral home Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the service on Thursday. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alfred United Methodist Church, c/o Marilyn Robinson, 46343 St. Rt. 681, Coolville, OH 45723. You are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.whiteschwarzelfh. com ASHVILLE — Sherman E. Ross, Sr., age 85, passed away Monday, December 26, 2017 at home in Ashville, Ohio. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he retired from Federal Glass and spent many years as an independent auctioneer. He was a member of Benfield Christian Church. He was preceded in death one week earlier by his wife Gloria. He is also preceded by son Sherman II, daughter Darlene Harper, grandson Sherman III, sister Helen Bennett and two son; sisters-in-law, Kathryn Merideth, Darlene (Gary) Long and Audelle McCain and many nieces and nephews. Zetah was preceded in death by her two husbands, Gale Lee McCain and Robert Chapman as well as her parents; three brothers and four sisters. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018 at White-Schwarzel Funeral Home in Coolville, with Pastor Jay Hubbard officiating. Burial will be in the Sandhill Cemetery. Due to the weather, there will be no graveside service. Visitation will be held at the funeral home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until time of service. You are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.whiteschwarzelfh. com Immunization Clinic Developer buys basket NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A developer with a specialty renovating historic structures has bought the basket-shaped Ohio building formerly used 4 6 7 8 10 11 (USPS 436-840) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Prices are subject to change at any time. CONTACT US CABLE 6 PM 6:30 Thursday, Jan. 4 CHESTER — CSHA monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m., Chester Academy. Snow will cancel the meeting. Tuesday, Jan. 9 POMEROY — The Meigs County Tea Party meeting will feature State Representative Andy Thompson, Marietta, attending for Mary Taylor, Lt. Governor of Ohio and candidate for governor, 7:30 p.m., Senior Citizens Center. SYRACUSE — Syracuse Community Center Board of Directors meeting, 7 p.m., community center. HEMLOCK GROVE — Hemlock Grange members met recently at the Grange Hall for their December meeting. The meeting opened with a salute to the flag and a prayer. Janice Weber, Deaf Chairman, received third place in state on her report. Donations were taken up for the Christmas project,”The Kitchen at the Community Center.” Kim Romine and Barbara Fry attended the officers conference held at Racine Grange. Several items were discussed and some changes were made such as there will be no more inspections at the Granges. Each Grange will be given a season to base their fair exhibit. Summer will be Hemlock’s season on which they base their booth. The yearly due will be due starting in January. Patty Cook ,Lee Turner’s substitute, handed out miniature stockings with candy in them to end the meeting. January’s meeting will be proceeded by a soup and sandwich meal. by employees of The Longaberger Co. Canton-based developer Steve Coon and his partner, Bobby George, of Cleveland, closed on the building in central Ohio Friday. The iconic basket structure had stood empty for more than a year. Submitted by Barbara Fry. 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POMEROY – The Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will hold its annual reorganizational meeting at 11:30 a.m. at the district office at 113 E. Memorial Drive, Suite D, immediately followed by the regular January meeting. HEMLOCK GRANGE NEWS TUESDAY EVENING 30 (SPIKE) AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC HARRISONVILLE — Scipio Township IN BRIEF 13 GALLIPOLIS — Carl M. Simpkins, 80 of Gallipolis, died December 31, 2017 at Holzer Senior Care, Bidwell. In accordance with his wishes, there will be no services. Cremation services are under the direction of the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Wetherholt Chapel, Gallipolis. Wednesday, Jan. 3 POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct an Immunization Clinic on Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring child(ren)’s shot records. Children must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian. A $15 donation is appreciated for immunization administration; however, no one will be denied services because of an inability to pay an administration fee for statefunded childhood vaccines. Please bring medical cards and/or commercial insurance cards, if applicable. Zostavax (shingles); pneumonia and influenza vaccines are also available. Call for eligibility determination and availability or visit our website at www.meigs-health.com to see a list of accepted commercial insurances and Medicaid for adults. 12 SIMPKINS MIDDLEPORT — Veterans Service Commission meeting, 9 a.m., 97 North Second Ave., Home National Bank Building, side office, special meeting to discuss and finish remaining end of year business. BEDFORD TWP. — Bedford Township Trustees, 2018 reorganization meeting, 8 a.m., held at the Bedford Townhall. MEIGS BRIEFS 3 RIPLEY, W.Va. — Mary Ann (Hardman) Smith, 66, of Ripley, W.Va., died December 30, 2017, at her home following an extended illness. Service will be Wednesday, January 3, 2018. Visitation will be from noon until 1 p.m., Wednesday at Casto Funeral Home, Evans, W.Va. A funeral procession will depart the funeral home at 1 p.m. for a graveside service in the Kiser Cemetery, Kentuck, W.Va. Arrangements provided by Casto Funeral Home, Evans. Tuesday, Jan. 2 NEW HAVEN, W.Va. — Benny Lawrence Stafford, 81, of New Haven, W.Va., died December 29, 2017, at his home following an extended illness. Service will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, at the Foglesong Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va., with Pastor John Bumgarner officiating. Burial will follow in Graham Cemetery, New Haven. Visitation will be from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at the funeral home. Arrangements provided by Foglesong Funeral Home, Mason. BROADCAST SMITH Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least five business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a spaceavailable basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@aimmediamidwest.com. STAFFORD ZETAH MCCAIN-CHAPMAN COOLVILLE — Zetah McCain-Chapman, 82, of Coolville, passed away on December 31st, early Sunday morning with her son Dale and grandson Donnie at her side. Zetah was born on Oct. 5, 1935 in Reedsville, to the late Benjamin and Hazel Martin Buckley. She is a graduate of Chester High School, Chester. She was a member of Gospel Baptist Church, Torch. Zetah is survived by her son, Dale (Amy) McCain; grandsons, Jason McCain and Donnie McCain; stepchildren, Robert (Diane) Chapman, Jr., Larry (Janice) Chapman and Kay (Tony) Sampson and several step-grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings, Chet (Dottie) Buckley, Martha Reiser and Marilyn Coul- brothers. He is survived by granddaughter, Geneva (Geoffrey) Davis; caregiver, Maudie Christopher; great-grandchildren, Gary Jr., Dystinie, Ezabelle, Giovanni, Summer, William, and Amilliana; and many nieces and nephews. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, January 4 2018 at Cook & SonPallay Funeral Home, 1631 Parsons Ave., where service will follow at 7 p.m. Online guestbook at www.cookandsonpallay.com. 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 In a Valley of Violence After being left for (:45) The (:10) I Love You, Beth dead, a mysterious stranger drags a town Fight Game Cooper ('09, Com) Hayden into violence for revenge. TVMA Panettiere. TV14 The Ref Denis Leary. A burglar (:40) The Wedding Singer After takes a bickering couple hostage and ends being stood up at the altar, a wedding up providing counseling for them. TVMA singer falls for an engaged waitress. TV14 Shameless "Frank's Inside the NFL "2017 Week Shameless "Frank's Northern Southern Express" 17" Northern Southern Express" �NEWS Daily Sentinel Tuesday, January 2, 2018 3 Families from Florida, NY die in Costa Rica plane crash By Javier Cordoba five of the dead were relatives on vacation. They identified them as Bruce SAN JOSE, Costa Rica and Irene Steinberg and their sons Matthew, Wil— Costa Rican investiliam and Zachary, all of gators are looking into what caused a charter air- Scarsdale. “We are in utter shock craft to crash in woods in and disbelief right now,” the country’s northwest soon after takeoff, killing Bruce Steinberg’s sister, two crewmembers and 10 Tamara Steinberg Jacobson, wrote on Facebook. U.S. citizens, including Rabbi Jonathan Blake families from New York of the Westchester and Florida. Reform Temple in ScarsThe families from dale said in a statement Scarsdale, N.Y., and Belleair, Florida, accounted posted on the temple’s Facebook page and for nine of the dead. It emailed to The Associremained unclear who ated Press that the Steinthe 10th victim was. bergs were involved in Costa Rican officials philanthropy and local had said they were still Jewish groups. “This seeking to establish the tragedy hits our comnames of the Americans munity very hard,” Blake who died when the wrote. Nature Air plane went In St. Petersburg, down at midday Sunday Florida, Rabbi Jacob in Guanacaste. Luski of Congregation But back at home, B’nai Israel said Monday stunned family and friends began to confirm that victims’ relatives had informed him that four the victims’ identities. A family in the suburbs members of his congregation were also on the of New York City said Associated Press looking into possible causes. Cubillo identified the pilot as Juan Manuel Retana and described him as very experienced. Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said via Twitter that Retana was her cousin. The same plane had arrived in Punta Islita on Sunday morning from San Jose and was delayed in landing by strong winds, Cubillo said. Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera offered his condolences to the families of the victims via Twitter and said the cause of the crash would be investiCosta Rica’s Public Safety Ministry via AP gated. Smoke rises from the site of a plane crash Sunday in Punta Islita, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. A Forensic workers government statement says there were 10 foreigners and two Costa Rican crew members aboard the recovered the bodies plane belonging to Nature Air, which had taken off nearby. from the wooded site Sunday night. Local fire the Nature Air charter “They were a wonderplane. crashed shortly after tak- chief Jhony Garcia said ful family who will be “It is a tragedy that the plane’s wreckage was ing off just after noon missed.” the Drs. Mitchell Weiss Sunday from Punta Islita completely burned up. At a news conference and Leslie Weiss and Nature Air did not on a planned flight to the Sunday, Enio Cubillo, their two children, Hanrespond to phone and capital of San Jose. He nah and Ari, died in that director of Costa Rica email messages. said investigators were Civil Aviation, said terrible crash,” he said. Iran protests have violent night; at least 12 dead overall By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — Nationwide protests in Iran saw their most violent night as “armed protesters” tried to overrun military bases and police stations before security forces repelled them, bringing the death toll in the unrest to at least 12, state television reported Monday. The demonstrations, the largest to strike Iran since its disputed 2009 presidential election, began Thursday in Mashhad over economic issues and have since expanded to several cities, with some protesters chanting against the government and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hundreds of people have been arrested. Iranian state television aired footage of a ransacked private bank, broken windows, overturned cars and a firetruck that appeared to have been set ablaze. It reported that clashes Sunday night killed 10 people. “Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced serious resistance from security forces,” state TV reported. It did not say where those attacks AP Photo In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranian anti-riot police prevent university students from joining other protesters over Iran’s weak economy on Saturday in Tehran, Iran. occurred. Later Monday, state TV said clashes killed six people in the western town of Tuyserkan, 295 kilometers (185 miles) southwest of Tehran. It said clashes in the town of Shahinshahr, 315 kilometers (195 miles) south of Tehran, killed three more. It did not say where the 10th person was killed. Earlier on Monday, the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Hedayatollah Khademi, a representative for the town of Izeh, as saying two people died there Sunday night. He said the cause of death wasn’t immediately known, though authorities later described one of the deaths as the result of a personal dis- pute. Many in Izeh, some 455 kilometers (280 miles) southwest of Tehran, have hunting rifles in their homes. Two protesters also were killed during clashes late Saturday in Doroud, some 325 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Tehran in Lorestan province, authorities earlier said. On Sunday, Iran blocked access to Instagram and the popular messaging app Telegram used by activists to organize. President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the public’s anger over the Islamic Republic’s flagging economy, though he and others warned that the government wouldn’t hesitate to crack down on those it considers lawbreakers. private service-providing sector, at 3,855,900, lost 5,600 jobs. Employment losses in trade, transFrom page 1 portation, and utilities (-5,200), professional The U.S. unemployand business services ment rate for Novem(-2,700), educational and ber was 4.1 percent, unchanged from October, health services (-1,900), and information (-100) and down from 4.6 percent in November 2016. surpassed gains in finanOhio’s nonagricultural cial activities (+3,500) wage and salary employ- and other services (+800). Leisure and hosment decreased 5,600 pitality had no change over the month, from over the month. Gova revised 5,545,400 in ernment employment, October to 5,539,800 in November 2017, accord- at 765,400, decreased ing to the latest business 2,300 with losses in local (-1,400), state (-600), establishment survey and federal (-300) govconducted by the U.S. ernment. Department of Labor From November 2016 (Bureau of Labor Statistics) in cooperation with to November 2017, nonagricultural wage ODJFS. Employment in goods- and salary employment grew 38,600. Employproducing industries, ment in goods-producing at 918,500, increased industries increased 2,300 over the month 13,600. Manufacturing as gains in manufacturemployment increased ing (+2,700) and min7,800 in nondurable ing and logging (+100) goods (+4,700) and outweighed losses in construction (-500). The durable goods (+3,100). Construction added 5,700 jobs and mining and logging gained 100 jobs. The private serviceproviding sector added 34,700 jobs. Employment gains in educational and health services (+14,500), leisure and hospitality (+12,300), financial activities (+9,500), other services (+4,000), and professional and business services (+2,900) exceeded losses in trade, transportation, and utilities (-6,300) and information (-2,200). Government employment decreased 9,700 with losses in state (-7,700), local (-1,900), and federal (-100) government. Numbers All data cited are produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Data sources include Current Population Survey (U.S. data); Current Employment Statistics Program (nonagricultural wage and salary employment data); and Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program (Ohio unemployment rates). Information provided by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. IN BRIEF 4 injured in shooting to a hospital, while the fourth arrived at a hospital in a personal vehicle. Authorities said two of the victims HUNTSVILLE, suffered life-threatenAla. (AP) — Police in north Alabama say four ing injuries, while the people suffered gunshot injuries suffered by the wounds in a New Year’s other two weren’t considered life-threatening. Day shooting. Police did not immeLocal news outlets diately announce any report that multiple shooters were involved arrests in the shooting in the shooting outside and asked anyone with information to call the Palladium Event investigators. Center in Huntsville shortly after midnight. Police say one victim is 18 and the others are in their early 20s. Paramedics took three of the victims ROSSVILLE, Ga. Deputy shoots man (AP) — Authorities in northwest Georgia are investigating after they say a sheriff’s deputy responding to a 911 call shot and killed a man. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles said in an email that Walker County sheriff’s deputies responded to the home in Rossville, near the border with Tennessee, around 3:15 a.m. Monday. A person who called 911 had said a woman at the home was threatening to kill herself and her children. 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Think again The following editorial recently appeared in The Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, Calif: California is far from ready, but the green rush is nonetheless upon us. On New Year’s Day, commercial sales of recreational cannabis will become legal for adults. No one knows exactly what will happen. There could be a mad dash to pot stores, not unlike the one to Walmart every Black Friday. Or, because medical marijuana has been legal in California for decades, people might take legalization in stride. Or 1/1 could become the new 4/20. But here’s what everyone should know: The rollout is going to be an absolute mess — a mess that will last longer than a day. For months now, ever since voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016, regulators have been doing the equivalent of building a plane while flying it, slapping together policies in hopes of crafting a viable, multibillion-dollar industry that doesn’t crash and burn on takeoff. They’ve worked hard, but hints of the coming chaos are everywhere. On Wednesday, a mere five days before adults will be able to walk into a store and buy a drug that is still banned by the federal government, Sacramento’s pot czar Joe Devlin spent hours trying to understand the finer points of Proposition 64. He wondered aloud, for example, how to enforce a new limit on how much pot a person can buy per day: “Does the dispensary have to create a customer account or do you just check ID? I don’t know how you prove you’re not exceeding the daily limit without creating a customer account.” He also had unanswered questions about the newly required state permits for medical dispensaries. None had arrived yet. “If we don’t get an answer from the state, what does that mean? Shut them down?” he asked. Most dispensaries also had yet to meet the new labeling requirements for edibles already on their shelves. There were no stickers. “What I hoped to see today were a bunch of people who are ready,” Devlin told a Bee editorial board member. “What I see is a bunch of people who are getting ready.” The same thing is happening all over California. Take the pace of commercial licensing. Under Proposition 64, local governments were given power to decide how — and even if — cannabis should be sold or grown within their jurisdictions. Oakland and San Diego took advantage of that early. But not everyone has been eager to be a guinea pig. Many city councils and boards of supervisors have refused to even discuss cannabis, and those that have often have been slow to enact regulations for it, complicating matters for the state Bureau of Cannabis Control, which is now dealing with a slew of last-minute applications for licenses. Modesto, for example, waited until the week before Christmas to decide to start accepting applications for retail sales and should begin issuing licenses by February. Stores in Los Angeles won’t open for weeks, as the city won’t start taking applications until Jan. 3, and San Francisco is running behind, too. Even in Sacramento, where the City Council has been proactive, it’s likely only a few of the city’s 30 medical dispensaries will be able to start selling recreational pot by early January. They are waiting on the state. There also has been uncertainty over cultivation in Calaveras and Yolo counties. And Sacramento and Kern counties banned commercial pot altogether. It’s enough to worry Lori Ajax, California’s top pot regulator. She told the Los Angeles Times she fears the state hasn’t “licensed enough people throughout the supply chain, and geographically across the state, so people can continue to do business.” She knows that shortages and bottlenecks will only fuel the black market. That, in turn, will undermine the viability of the fledgling legal market. It also doesn’t help that California has yet to find a way to get banks involved so the industry can stop dealing in wads of cash, instead of credit cards and checking accounts like other businesses. Efforts by the Brown administration to do so have been unsuccessful, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scaring away banks by hinting at a pointless federal crackdown on pot. Ideas continue to surface about how to get smaller, regional banks to open accounts for statelicensed marijuana businesses, and then get those banks to work with larger, so-called “correspondent banks,” where accounts would be monitored by state inspectors. State Treasurer John Chiang, meanwhile, wants to create a government-owned bank that would serve cannabis businesses. Both are good ideas, but this should have been worked out months ago. State policymakers must make this a top priority. With revenue projections of $7 billion, that’s a lot of opportunity for crime and missing tax revenue. See MARIJUANA | 5 THEIR VIEW ‘Star Wars’ meet culture wars TreatHas “Star Wars” Clarence Disney’s ment of Franchises become too politiPage and Fanboys” in cally correct? Contributing a Facebook page The question columnist claimed responsihas been raised bility for flooding before, as George Rotten Tomatoes with Lucas’ 40-year-old frannegative reviews. chise has become more Huffington Post racially and gender quoted a “moderator” for diverse in its casting. the alt-right group who The web is abuzz with, did not want his name among others, thinrevealed as saying the skinned conservative group has been using critics who detect what bots to bring down the they see as increasingly film’s Rotten Tomatoes unsubtle liberal political user score. Rotten Tomamessages. toes denies that, but Of course, as a longwhat I find more unsettime fan, I know that tling is the group’s procriticizing “Star Wars” motion of what looks to movies is part of the fun me like their own version of watching them. We of political correctness, are like boxing fans who even as they criticize the shout our advice at the “PC” of those who disfighters in the ring, only agree with them. to feel frustrated when According to HuffPo, they don’t take it. Criticisms surrounding the group is upset with “Star Wars” for “introthe latest offering, “Star ducing more female charWars: The Last Jedi,” acters into the franchise’s have raised alarms, as universe” and putting they appear to oppose what I think is one of the such manly heroes as franchise’s strengths: the Poe Dameron (the star fighter corps pilot played racial and gender diverby Oscar Isaac) and sity of the cast. Luke Skywalker (Mark Early signs of unrest Hamill) in danger of appeared on the Rotbeing “turned gay.” ten Tomatoes movie Men should be “reinreview website in the stated as rulers of sociwide divide between the ety,” the “moderator” approval of professional critics (91 percent as the reportedly said, adding that’s why he voted for New Year’s Day holiday President Donald Trump. weekend began) and the Although the “moderaaudience score (only 51 tor” would not give Huffpercent). Po his name, the website A shadowy selfdescribed alt-right group said, his sentiments calling itself “Down With closely resemble those of alt-right leader Richard Spencer. He infamously organized the notorious Tiki torchlight march in Charlottesville, Va., last August that began a weekend of racially charged clashes and one woman’s death. In a video chat that went viral on YouTube, Spencer mocks the megahit movie as the latest product of liberal “SJWs” — social justice warriors — and the entire “Star Wars” series as “racialized as it never was before.” Among other gripes, he knocks the movie for featuring a “girl … who acts like a man” in its lead (Daisy Ridley as Rey), a “black guy with a heart of gold” (John Boyega as Finn) and villains who are all “men, mostly white and ancillary.” Message? “Wise SJWs,” says Spencer, “can’t trust these high testosterone flyboys.” Everyone has his or her own opinion, but hearing Spencer’s opposition to “The Last Jedi” only made me enjoy the movie even more. I’m old enough to remember when the only people of color in major science fiction movies were green or purple and came from other planets. I was excited when the “Star Trek” television series broke the medium’s color line in the 1960s with a racially diverse crew on the Starship Enterprise. I was also relieved. Hollywood was recognizing that, yes, earthlings of color have a future, too. Nor was this a trivial matter among true social justice warriors. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a fan, as multitudes of us were, of Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Nyota Uhura in what was the first space-oriented series to integrate its cast. She almost left the show after its first season to pursue other offers when King, calling himself “your greatest fan,” talked her out of it, as she told NPR in 2011. Thanks to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s decision to integrate the cast, she recalled King’s telling her, “For the first time we are being seen the world over as we should be seen.” Positive images matter. TV often is the only opportunity many of us have to be exposed to people who come from races and backgrounds unlike our own. The biggest value to science fiction, in my view, is its ability to free our minds from present day realities to experience a taste of how much better things could be. Clarence Page is a member of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. Readers may send him email at cpage@chicagotribune.com. TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2018. There are 363 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Jan. 2, 1893, the U.S. Postal Service issued its first-ever set of commemorative stamps to honor the upcoming World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago as well as the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus’ voyage. On this date In 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1792, the first classes began at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 1900, U.S. Secre- tary of State John Hay announced the “Open Door Policy” to facilitate trade with China. In 1921, religious services were broadcast on radio for the first time as KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the regular Sunday service of the city’s Calvary Episcopal Church. In 1935, Bruno Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, New Jersey, on charges of kidnapping and murdering the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was found guilty, and executed.) In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II. THOUGHT FOR TODAY “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, American author In 1955, the president of Panama, Jose Antonio Remon Cantera, was assassinated at a racetrack. In 1967, Republican Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as the new governor of California in a ceremony that took place in Sacramento shortly just after midnight. In 1974, President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour as a way of conserving gasoline in the face of an OPEC oil embargo. (The 55 mph limit was effectively phased out in 1987; federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.) “Singing cowboy” star Tex Ritter died in Nashville at age 68. In 1983, the original Broadway production of the musical “Annie” closed after a run of 2,377 performances. �NEWS/WEATHER Daily Sentinel Faces Survivors that on his first day of the job he told a coworker that this new job of his From page 1 was only temporary and 38 years later he was retiring from that same Boyd shared her family job. Gerard expressed and friends are importhat he has had the pleatant to her life and now sure of working with fine she will have more time people. to focus on people and Gerard said that for this activities outside of the new chapter of his life, he work place. “I would love to travel,” will be focusing on what said Boyd, “but I will just is important in his life be waiting to see what life such as his family and his church. He shared that has to offer.” once he inquired from a Gerard has worked for retiree what it was like to the Meigs County Court no longer have a full-time for 38 years. He shared day to day job and the that he began his time with the court on Oct. 1, gentlemen told him that 1979 and ended his time you never have any days off. Gerard said that senon Dec. 29, 2017. timent struck him and he “I could have went saw that gentleman keep somewhere else and I busy and stay happy until never did,” said Gerard. Gerard shared that the the end of his life. court provided him with a good career and he has no Sarah Hawley contributed to this article. Erin Perkins is a staff writer complaints from his years for Ohio Valley Publishing. with the court. He said From page 1 for the evening were provided by Roger and Mary Gilmore, said Midkiff. She expressed that during the dinner cancer survivors were welcome to share their survival story with the fellow guests. “I interact with cancer survivors daily,” said Midkiff. “I’m very blessed to help the survivors.” Midkiff said the theme of the dinner this year was lung cancer awareness. Midkiff expressed that the MCCI chooses the themes based off which cancers several people of the state have battled and survived. She shared that past dinners have been breast cancer and colon cancer themed. Midkiff expressed that the dinner originally stemmed from the relay for life that is held yearly and began as a way to show appreciation for cancer survivors. She said that her experience being in the MCCI is rewarding and she gains personal relationships with those she helps. Midkiff expressed that the MCCI is always searching and in need of new volunteers. She said their next meeting will be on Feb. 5 at 12 p.m. in the Meigs County Health Department’s conference room. So, on Monday, expect people to show up at stores unable to buy cannabis. And once they can From page 4 buy it, expect some to drive while high. Expect There are also lingercar crashes, some fatal. ing public health quesIn the months to come, tions, a big reason we don’t be surprised if didn’t endorse Proposisome pot delivery drivtion 64. For the past few weeks, ers and stores, with their wads of cash from local and state officials customers, get robbed. have been rushing to Expect children to overrelease information to dose on edibles left out educate Californians by careless adults, and about the risks of using expect adults to overestipot. How much is too mate their tolerance and much? What should get so high that they’ll first-timers take? What end up having a panic happens if kids use it? attack or worse, scromitBut there isn’t enough ing, a syndrome in which research to effectively regular weed users vomit answer those questions, uncontrollably. another consequence of In short, expect a mess. rushing to legalize weed. 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM -2° 13° Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. Snowfall (in inches) The AccuWeather.com Cold Index combines the effects of local weather with a number of demographic factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of transmission and symptom severity of the common cold. 2 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date/normal Trace/0.2 Season to date/normal 0.6/4.8 WEATHER TRIVIA™ SUN & MOON Q: How fast does a large snowflake fall? 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Willow Island 37 12.20 -0.29 Marietta 34 16.07 -0.63 Parkersburg 36 22.20 +0.98 Belleville 35 13.43 +0.97 Racine 41 12.86 +0.20 Point Pleasant 40 25.34 +0.47 Gallipolis 50 13.03 +0.10 Huntington 50 25.62 -0.75 Ashland 52 34.24 -0.33 Lloyd Greenup 54 12.61 -0.21 Portsmouth 50 16.60 -0.70 Maysville 50 33.80 -0.50 Meldahl Dam 51 15.80 -1.40 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 39° 24° Snow or flurries possible in the a.m. Today St. Marys 18/3 Parkersburg 19/4 Coolville 18/0 Elizabeth 19/2 Spencer 20/3 Buffalo 21/4 Milton 21/4 St. Albans 22/3 Huntington 22/7 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 90s 46/35 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s San Francisco 10s 62/49 0s -0s -10s T-storms Los Angeles Rain 76/55 Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Not as cold with clouds and sun Marietta 18/2 Murray City 16/-2 Ironton 21/5 Ashland 21/5 Grayson 21/5 MONDAY 37° 28° Mostly sunny and very cold Wilkesville 18/-1 POMEROY Jackson 20/1 18/0 Ravenswood Rio Grande 20/2 20/2 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 12/2 GALLIPOLIS 21/3 20/2 20/3 South Shore Greenup 21/4 18/2 SUNDAY NATIONAL CITIES McArthur 17/-1 Waverly 17/-1 SATURDAY 20° 6° Shown is today’s weather. 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Erin Perkins is a staff writer for Ohio Valley Publishing. 8 PM ALMANAC High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low Photos courtesy of Roger and Mary Gimore Guests of the dinner talking among themselves at their dinner tables. This was the 10th year for the annual cancer survivor dinner. Clendenin 21/2 Charleston 22/5 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg 8/-16 Billings 26/13 Minneapolis 13/0 Toronto 18/2 Detroit Chicago 15/3 10/4 Denver 40/19 Kansas City 20/10 New York 25/16 Washington 28/15 Wed. 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The Red and White, howcent from the field while claimever, countered by forcing 11 ing its first winning streak turnovers en route to a 17-1 since the 2011-12 campaign on Friday night during a 67-27 charge over the final 6:12 of the opening canto … and decision in a non-conference Wahama ultimately never matchup between Mason looked back from there. County programs at Gary The Lady Falcons shot 57 Clark Court. percent from the floor the rest The Lady Falcons (3-5) of the way, and Rose scored 16 eclipsed last year’s win total points during a 22-12 second and shot 48 percent from the field in the process, as the one- quarter surge that allowed the two punch of Hannah Rose and hosts to secure a commanding 39-15 cushion at the break. Emma Gibbs — a sophomore bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com Bryan Walters | OVP Sports Wahama freshman Victoria VanMatre (23) defends Hannan’s Pammie Ochs on the interior during the second half of Friday night’s girls basketball contest in Mason, W.Va. The Blue and White committed 17 turnovers and attempted 15 shots in the opening half, though things did improve slightly over the final 16 minutes of play as the guests had only 10 miscues to go along with 37 floor attempts. Hannan, however, was never closer than 22 points down the stretch and reeled by as many as 43 points (67-24) with 2:03 left in regulation. Gibbs scored seven points as part of a 17-7 third quarter run that gave the hosts a 56-22 edge headed into the finale, then Wahama closed regulation on an 11-5 run to wrap up the 40-point outcome. See HANNAN | 7 Meigs tames Lady Tigers before new year By Alex Hawley ahawley@aimmediamidwest.com MARIETTA, Ohio — Back-to-back wins before the new year. The Meigs girls basketball team picked up its second in as many days on Saturday in non-conference action at the Ohio River Classic at Marietta College’s Ban Johnson Arena, as the Lady Marauders claimed a 65-52 victory over Marietta High School. On the strength of eight field goals, half of which were three-pointers, Meigs (6-5) charged out to a 20-11 lead after one quarter of play. The Maroon and Gold added two more to their lead in the second quarter, outscoring Marietta by a 13-11 clip in the stanza to make the margin 33-22 at halftime. The Lady Marauders drained a trio of threepointers in the third quarter, pushing the their lead to 17 points, at 49-32, with a 16-to-10 run. The Lady Tigers surged for 20 points in the fourth quarter, but Meigs capped off the 65-52 victory with 16 points, a dozen of which came from the free throw line. For the game, Meigs was 17-of-23 (73.9 percent) from the free throw line, where Marietta was 12-of-18 (66.7 percent). MHS junior Kassidy Betzing led the Maroon and Gold with 34 points, coming on seven twopointers, a quartet of trifectas and an 8-of-9 performance from the foul line. Madison Fields made one three-pointer and finished with 12 points for the victors, while Marissa Noble had nine points on a trio of triples. Madison Hendricks contributed five points to the MHS cause, Becca Pullins added three, while Devin Humphreys chipped in with two. Hannah Kroft led the Lady Tigers with 27 points, followed by Tia Jarvis with seven. Jessica Smith and Caleigh Doan had five points apiece in the setback, while Adi Hill, Natalie Brooks, Jennifer Smith and Morgan Altenburger each scored two points. The Lady Marauders return to the court on Thursday at Jackson, for the middle game of their seven straight away from Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium. Alex Hawley can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2100. OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Tuesday, Jan. 2 Boys Basketball Wayne at Ohio Valley Christian, 7 p.m. Point Pleasant at Calvary Baptist, 7:30 Girls Basketball Gallia Academy at Point Pleasant, 7:30 Wednesday, Jan. 3 Boys Basketball Nelsonville-York at Eastern, 7:30 Hannan at Buffalo, 7:30 Girls Basketball Point Pleasant at Sissonville, 7 p.m. Hannan at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4 Girls Basketball Southern at Eastern, 7:30 Trimble at South Gallia, 7:30 Gallia Academy at Fairland, 7:30 River Valley at Vinton County, 7:30 Wahama at Belpre, 7:30 Meigs at Jackson, 7:30 Photos by Bryan Walters | OVP Sports Wahama senior Abram Pauley (12) releases a shot attempt over Hannan defender Dalton Coleman during the second half of Friday night’s boys basketball contest in Mason, W.Va. White Falcons fend off Hannan, 66-58 By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com MASON, W.Va. — The White Falcons tried to give it away, then changed their minds down the stretch. The Wahama boys basketball team held a pair of 16-point leads in the first half, but the hosts ultimately trailed in the third quarter and had to make a 27-17 surge over the final 10:23 of regulation to secure a hard-fought 66-58 victory over Hannan in a non-conference battle of Mason County programs at Gary Clark Court. The Wildcats (1-4) struggled out of the gates as the guests went 1-of-15 from the field in the opening nine-plus minutes, and the White Falcons (2-6) made the most of that opportunity while establishing a 14-5 cushion through one quarter of play. The Red and White followed with an 18-11 run that led to a 32-16 edge at the 1:09 mark, then both teams traded points for a 34-18 contest with 35 seconds left in the first half. The Blue and White, however, scored the final four points and entered halftime facing a 34-22 deficit. The Wildcats — who shot just 24 percent in the first half — came out of the locker room on fire as the guests went 7-of-15 from the field and hit four three-pointers, which led to a 19-2 surge that gave Hannan a brief 41-39 lead with 2:50 remaining in the quarter. Wahama, however, answered with eight straight points as part of a 10-2 charge over the final 2:23 that allowed the hosts to take a 49-43 cushion into the finale. Hannan twice pulled back to within a possession in the opening 90 seconds of the fourth, but the White Falcons made an 11-2 surge that provided some breathing room with a 62-50 lead with 3:28 left to go. The Wildcats responded with five straight points to close back to within seven with 2:42 remaining, but the guests were ultimately never closer the rest of the way. The Red and White ended regulation with a small 4-3 spurt to wrap up the eight-point triumph. Wahama committed four of the five turnovers in the third quarter and had twice as many miscues (6-3) than Hannan in the second half. The hosts — despite owning a 12-point lead at halftime — also went 0-for-4 from behind the arc in the third period and 1-of7 from three after the break. However, when the White Falcons needed to find some offense late in Hannan junior Andrew Gillispie (2) drives to the basket while being defended by Wahama’s Skyler Estep (10) during the second half of Friday night’s boys basketball contest in Mason, W.Va. the third quarter — the Red and White found a way to get it done. As WHS coach Ron Bradley noted afterwards, it was a frustrating victory — but there were some real positives despite the fact that his troops could have let this one slip away. And, at the end of the night, you don’t have to apologize for wins — especially when playing your third game in as many days. “The biggest positive tonight was after Hannan made that big run to get back in it, we stepped it up and extended the lead again. That was huge for us because we’ve struggled with that this season, so it was definitely a sign of growth and a step in the right direction,” Bradley said. “You know, we didn’t manage the lead well and we had too many turnovers and took some poor shots with a lead. Hannan has a dangerous team and they got hot in the second half … and it almost came back to bite us. “It might have taken a little more effort on our part than it should have, but I am tickled for to get out of here tonight with this win. It’s been a long See FALCONS | 7 �SPORTS Daily Sentinel NFL y-New England x-Buffalo Miami N.Y. 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Rams 11 5 Seattle 9 7 Arizona 8 8 San Francisco 6 10 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division T 0 0 0 0 All Times EST AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Pct PF PA Home Away .813 458 296 6-2-0 7-1-0 .563 302 359 6-2-0 3-5-0 .375 281 393 4-4-0 2-6-0 .313 298 382 4-4-0 1-7-0 South Pct PF PA Home Away .625 417 268 6-2-0 4-4-0 .563 334 356 6-2-0 3-5-0 .250 263 404 3-5-0 1-7-0 .250 338 436 3-5-0 1-7-0 North Pct PF PA Home Away .813 406 308 6-2-0 7-1-0 .563 395 303 5-3-0 4-4-0 .438 290 349 4-4-0 3-5-0 .000 234 410 0-8-0 0-8-0 West Pct PF PA Home Away .625 415 339 6-2-0 4-4-0 .563 355 272 5-3-0 4-4-0 .375 301 373 4-4-0 2-6-0 .313 289 382 4-4-0 1-7-0 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Pct PF PA Home Away .813 457 295 7-1-0 6-2-0 .563 354 332 3-5-0 6-2-0 .438 342 388 5-3-0 2-6-0 .188 246 388 2-6-0 1-7-0 South Pct PF PA Home Away .688 448 326 7-1-0 4-4-0 .688 363 327 6-2-0 5-3-0 .625 353 315 5-3-0 5-3-0 .313 335 382 4-4-0 1-7-0 North Pct PF PA Home Away .813 382 252 7-1-0 6-2-0 .563 410 376 4-4-0 5-3-0 .438 320 384 4-4-0 3-5-0 .313 264 320 3-5-0 2-6-0 West Pct PF PA Home Away .688 478 329 4-4-0 7-1-0 .563 366 332 4-4-0 5-3-0 .500 295 361 5-3-0 3-5-0 .375 331 383 3-5-0 3-5-0 AFC 10-2-0 7-5-0 5-7-0 5-7-0 NFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 0-4-0 Div 5-1-0 3-3-0 2-4-0 2-4-0 AFC 9-3-0 8-4-0 3-9-0 3-9-0 NFC 1-3-0 1-3-0 1-3-0 1-3-0 Div 4-2-0 5-1-0 2-4-0 1-5-0 AFC 10-2-0 7-5-0 6-6-0 0-12-0 NFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 0-4-0 Div 6-0-0 3-3-0 3-3-0 0-6-0 AFC 8-4-0 6-6-0 5-7-0 4-8-0 NFC 2-2-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 1-3-0 Div 5-1-0 3-3-0 2-4-0 2-4-0 NFC 10-2-0 7-5-0 5-7-0 1-11-0 AFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 Div 5-1-0 5-1-0 1-5-0 1-5-0 NFC 8-4-0 7-5-0 9-3-0 3-9-0 AFC 3-1-0 4-0-0 1-3-0 2-2-0 Div 4-2-0 3-3-0 4-2-0 1-5-0 NFC 10-2-0 8-4-0 5-7-0 1-11-0 AFC 3-1-0 1-3-0 2-2-0 4-0-0 Div 5-1-0 5-1-0 2-4-0 0-6-0 NFC 7-5-0 7-5-0 5-7-0 3-9-0 AFC 4-0-0 2-2-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 Div 4-2-0 4-2-0 3-3-0 1-5-0 NBA Boston Toronto New York Philadelphia Brooklyn W 30 24 18 17 13 L 10 10 18 19 23 Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando Atlanta W 21 19 13 12 10 L 16 17 23 25 26 Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee Indiana Chicago W 24 20 19 19 13 L 12 15 15 18 23 Houston San Antonio New Orleans Dallas Memphis W 26 25 18 13 12 L 9 12 18 25 25 Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Portland Utah W 23 20 19 18 16 L 14 17 17 17 21 Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers W 29 16 14 12 11 L 8 19 24 24 24 All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB L10 Str .750 — 6-4 W-3 .706 3 7-3 W-1 .500 10 5-5 W-1 .472 11 4-6 W-2 .361 15 2-8 L-1 Southeast Division Pct GB L10 Str .568 — 7-3 W-2 .528 1½ 6-4 W-1 .361 7½ 3-7 L-1 .324 9 1-9 L-1 .278 10½ 4-6 W-1 Central Division Pct GB L10 Str .667 — 6-4 L-3 .571 3½ 6-4 W-1 .559 4 5-5 W-2 .514 5½ 3-7 L-4 .361 11 7-3 L-1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB L10 Str .743 — 5-5 W-1 .676 2 6-4 L-1 .500 8½ 5-5 L-2 .342 14½ 5-5 W-4 .324 15 4-6 W-1 Northwest Division Pct GB L10 Str .622 — 7-3 W-1 .541 3 7-3 L-2 .528 3½ 5-5 L-2 .514 4 5-5 L-1 .432 7 3-7 W-1 Pacific Division Pct GB L10 Str .784 — 8-2 W-1 .457 12 6-4 W-3 .368 15½ 5-5 L-1 .333 16½ 4-6 L-2 .314 17 1-9 L-6 Hannan From page 6 The Lady Falcons outrebounded the guests by a 43-24 overall margin, which included a 14-8 edge on the offensive boards. Hannan also committed 27 of the 47 turnovers in the contest. Wahama has now won two straight decisions over Hannan — both at home — after dropping the previous seven outcomes. Afterward, WHS coach John Arnott was pleased with the overall effort from his troops as they prepare to head into the stretch run after the new year. “The girls were ready to play from the start and it showed,” Arnott said. “Hannah (Rose) had a super game and Emma (Gibbs) gave us another double-double performance, plus we had some other kids really pick it up and contribute tonight. It was a collective effort and that’s what I’m most pleased with. Tonight we showed some real signs of growth.” In dropping its fourth straight overall decision, including a loss to Green just 24 hours earlier, HHS coach Kellie Thomas really couldn’t find many positives in the Lady Cats’ performance. “We just didn’t play well at all and I’m not happy with the way we played,” Thomas said. “We were tired after playing the night before and we had some kids getting sick during the game, but those aren’t excuses. We had too many turnovers, we couldn’t get shots to Home 16-5 13-1 15-6 7-9 7-10 Away 14-5 11-9 3-12 10-10 6-13 Conf 19-8 13-4 9-13 7-9 7-12 Home 12-6 8-9 10-10 7-10 7-11 Away 9-10 11-8 3-13 5-15 3-15 Conf 10-9 12-9 7-14 7-15 6-19 Home 14-4 12-5 12-6 11-9 9-8 Away 10-8 8-10 7-9 8-9 4-15 Conf 18-7 12-10 7-10 14-10 12-11 Home 14-5 17-2 9-9 8-11 7-12 Away 12-4 8-10 9-9 5-14 5-13 Conf 15-5 13-7 9-13 8-16 11-14 Home 12-6 14-6 12-4 8-10 13-6 Away 11-8 6-11 7-13 10-7 3-15 Conf 19-6 11-10 10-11 9-10 9-12 Home 15-5 9-7 6-14 6-10 6-12 Away 14-3 7-12 8-10 6-14 5-12 Conf 16-5 11-11 9-13 7-12 5-17 fall and we didn’t do a good job on the boards. We still have a lot of work to do to get better as a team.” The Lady Falcons made 28-of-58 field goal attempts, including a 1-of-4 effort from behind the arc for 25 percent. The hosts were also 10-of-17 at the free throw line for 59 percent. Rose poured in a gamehigh 30 points in just three quarters of play, while Gibbs chipped in 15 points and a gamehigh 16 rebounds. Harley Roush and Natalie Rickard also had seven markers apiece for the victors. Victoria VanMatre was next with four points and eight caroms, while Elizabeth Mullins and Gracie VanMeter rounded things out with two points each. Hannan connected on 10-of-52 shot attempts and went just 1-of-17 from three-point range for six percent. The guests were also 6-of-13 at the charity stripe for 46 percent. Bailey Tolliver paced the guests with nine points and Bailey Coleman contributed six markers. McCoy, Lindsey Holley and Julie Frazier completed the Blue and White tally with four points apiece. Frazier hauled in a team-high eight rebounds and Halie Johnson also grabbed five caroms. Wahama returns to TVC Hocking action on Thursday when it travels to Belpre for a matchup at 7:30 p.m. Hannan returns to action Wednesday when it travels to Buffalo for a 6 p.m. contest. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. Tuesday, January 2, 2018 7 RedStorm rallies past Truett McConnell By Randy Payton deficit to four late in the period. The RedStorm kept coming in the second RIO GRANDE, Ohio half, forging a 49-all tie — We’ve all heard the on a jumper by senior phrase “where there’s a Devon Price (Pickerwill, there’s a way.” tington, OH) with 11:12 In its final game of remaining and taking its he 2017 calendar year, first lead of the contest the University of Rio Grande men’s basketball on a pair of free throws by sophomore Greg team proved that there Wallace (Montego Bay, was a way without a Jamaica) just 44 seconds Will. later. With senior point It was Truett McConguard Will Hill - and his nell, though, who found team-best 22-point per game average - sidelined itself enjoying a fiveby an undisclosed medi- point advantage, 77-72, cal issue, the RedStorm after a conventional three-point play by Calrallied from a 14-point vin White with just 1:26 first half deficit to outleft in the game. last Truett McConnell Rio responded once University, 81-78, Friday more, however, by reelevening, in non-conference action at the Newt ing off seven straight points and taking the Oliver Arena. Rio Grande improved lead for good on a threepointer by freshman to 7-9 with the win, its Jaxon Burgess (Louisthird straight triumph ville, KY) with 11.8 secand fifth victory in its onds remaining. last six outings. The Bears made Truett McConnell, it 79-78 after Mario which was among the teams receiving votes in Westbrooks hit one of two free throws with the most recent NAIA Division II coaches poll, 3.9 seconds remaining, but Rio junior Abe Eze slipped to 12-4 with a (Lagos, Nigeria) hit one second straight loss. of two attempts from the The back-and-forth charity stripe with 3.3 affair featured 11 ties seconds left and - after and 13 lead changes, a turnover by TMU on although nine of the the subsequent inbounds ties and all but one of play - freshman Trey Kelthe lead changes didn’t happen until the game’s ley (Minford, OH) hit one of two free throw final 11 minutes. The Bears used a 10-0 tries with 2.3 seconds scoring spurt to open up remaining to set the final score. a 14-point lead, 24-10, The Bears’ last-gasp following a bucket by hope for a game-tying Filipe Goncalves with 9:12 left in the first half, trifecta to force overtime ended with a turnover but Rio slowly chipped on the game’s last play. away and sliced the For Ohio Valley Publishing Courtesy photo Rio Grande’s Jaxon Burgess nailed a three-pointer with 11.8 seconds remaining to lift the RedStorm past Truett McConnell, 81-78, in non-conference men’s basketball action at the Newt Oliver Arena. Rio Grande totaled a quartet of double-digit scorers and was led by sophomore Stanley Christian (Norfolk, VA), who finished with a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds. Burgess netted 17 points in the victory, while Wallace had 12 points and a career-high 10 rebounds and Eze finished with 11 points all of which came in the second half comeback. Westbrooks had 22 points to lead four double-figure scorers for Truett McConnell. David Campbell added 20 points in a losing cause, while Christian Davis and Myles Monroe finished with 13 and 10 points, respectively. Monroe also had a team-high seven rebounds and three steals, while White also tallied seven rebounds of his own. Rio Grande returns to action next Thursday when it opens a twogame River States Conference road swing at Brescia University. Randy Payton is the Sports Information Director at the University of Rio Grande. Bengals oust Ravens from playoff hunt BALTIMORE (AP) — The crowd was yelling as the clock was winding down. The Baltimore Ravens and their fans were poised for a New Year’s Eve celebration, long before the clock struck midnight. And then, an instant later, silence. There would be no football in January for the Ravens, who were ousted from the playoff hunt in stunning fashion Sunday when Andy Dalton threw a 49-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd with 44 seconds left to give the Cincinnati Bengals a 31-27 victory. Needing a win to advance to the postseason, Baltimore (9-7) rallied from a 14-point deficit to take its first lead with 8:48 left. But Dalton put together a magnificent 90-yard drive in the closing minutes before hitting Boyd over the middle on a fourth-and-12 play. “To battle our way back the way we did, and then not to be able to finish and win the game is about as tough as it can be,” coach John Harbaugh said. Boyd avoided a tackle by Maurice Canady and raced to the end zone to give Cincinnati (7-9) the victory in what might have been its final game under coach Mar- Falcons From page 6 three days for us, but at least we can take some momentum into the new year.” With the exception of the slow start, HHS coach Becky Ferrell was pleased with her squad’s overall effort — particularly after the break. Most importantly, the Wildcats continued to work through adversity — a sign of real growth. “Our boys played very, very well and they played hard, and that’s all I can ask of them every night out,” Ferrell said. “We’ll just have to get them the next time.” vin Lewis. Baltimore entered knowing it could have also gotten into the postseason if either Tennessee or Buffalo tied or lost. Both those teams won, leaving the Ravens with no margin for error on a frigid and windy day. “Nobody’s happy,” safety Eric Weddle said. “We didn’t make the plays. We weren’t good enough.” After getting off to a horrid start, the Ravens appeared in position to end their two-year hiatus from the postseason. Plenty of players stepped up in their time of need: Chris Moore had a pivotal kickoff return, Alex Collins delivered a huge fourth-down touchdown run and quarterback Joe Flacco bounced back from a horrible 4-for-18 start. Flacco’s 6-yard touchdown pass to Mike Wallace made it 27-24, but all of that was rendered meaningless after Dalton put an appropriate finish on a game filled with huge plays. Dalton also threw a pair of touchdown passes to Tyler Kroft. Whether it was Lewis’ last game on the sideline after a 15-year run with the Bengals will likely be determined on Monday. If it was the finale, it was a heck of a finish to a tenure in which Lewis went 125-112-3 in the Wahama outrebounded the guests by a 50-30 overall margin, including an 18-9 edge on the offensive glass. The hosts also committed 11 of the 19 turnovers in the contest. The White Falcons made 26-of-62 field goal attempts for 42 percent, including a 3-of-17 effort from three-point range for 18 percent. The hosts were also 11-of-17 at the free throw line for 65 percent. Noah Litchfield led WHS with a double-double effort of 34 points and 12 rebounds, both of which were game-highs. Abram Pauley was next with a dozen points and Tyler Bumgarner added seven markers. regular season and 0-7 in the playoffs. Asked if he would like a shot at Year 16, Lewis replied, “Yes, I want to coach this team.” But he added: “It’s more complicated than that.” He is expected to meet with owner Mike Brown on Monday. The Ravens were down 17-3 late in the first half when Moore rambled 87 yards with a kickoff before being stopped near the left sideline with 8 seconds left. He finished what he started on the next play, catching a 6-yard touchdown pass. Thus, Baltimore trailed by only 17-10 at the break despite a 26861 deficit in yardage and 16-2 disparity in first downs. The Ravens took that momentum into the third quarter, moving deftly downfield before Moore juggled a pass that ended up in the hands of Cincinnati’s Darqueze Dennard, who sprinted down the left sideline 89 yards for a touchdown . Trailing again by two TDs, Baltimore faced a fourth-and-3 from the Cincinnati 17. Collins took a pitchout designed to go around left end, reversed his field and ran around a block by Flacco to get into the right corner of the end zone. Brady Bumgarner and Jacob Warth each contributed six points, while Dakota Belcher and Isaiah Pauley completed the winning tally with respective efforts of two points and one point. Belcher and Abram Pauley also hauled in nine and eight rebounds, respectively. The Wildcats netted 19-of-55 shot attempts for 35 percent, including a 9-of-24 effort from behind the arc for 38 percent. The guests were also 11-of-23 at the charity stripe for 48 percent. Malachi Cade paced HHS with 18 points and Dalton Coleman added 17 points, while Logan Nibert chipped in 10 markers. Matthew Qualls was next with eight points, while Andrew Gillispie and Devrick Burris completed the scoring with four points and one point. Burris, Cade and Justis Powers-Cupp all grabbed six rebounds apiece for the guests. Wahama returns to action on Friday when it travels to Stewart for a TVC Hocking contest against Federal Hocking at 7:30 p.m. Hannan travels to Buffalo on Wednesday as part of a boys-girls doubleheader, with the Wildcats slated to play at 7:30 p.m. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. �SPORTS/CLASSIFIEDS 8 Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Daily Sentinel Sports quirks: Basepath chaos, donkey gift, sunken earring By Fred Lief Associated Press It was less like baseball and more like archery practice. And wherever Stephen Piscotty went he had a bull’s-eye on him. In a bruising, battering tour around the bases , the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder could not stay out of harm’s way. He was hit three times in one inning, as if being tracked by a GPS. The pounding sequence began in the fifth when he was struck on the right arm by Chicago Cubs ace Jake Arietta. Piscotty shook it off and headed to first. It was only beginning. The ball soon got away from the catcher and Piscotty bolted for second, hit on his left arm by Wilson Contreras’ throw. Then came a slow roller to second base that Kolten Wong overran. Piscotty rounded third and broke for home. Wong’s throw to the plate nailed him on the helmet. A shaken Piscotty walked to the dugout. He would later pass all concussion tests. Piscotty, since traded to Oakland in the offseason, majored in atmospheric and energy engineering at Stanford. 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The Honors class Theo Epstein , the mas- New England Patriots coach, never one to chat, ter builder who helped On the grid was asked his reaction. end title droughts for Olympic champion “I don’t know,” he said. the Boston Red Sox and gymnast Simone Biles “We’ve got a big game.” Chicago Cubs, was No. posted a 14-minute 1 on Fortune magazine’s video on Twitter of her list of World’s Greatest gauze-filled mouth after Chef’s special Leaders. He was followed her wisdom teeth were Fish was strictly off by Alibaba founder Jack removed. . An Indiana the menu for a Pittshigh school student won Ma and Pope Francis. burgh restaurant chain a bet with his teacher to Epstein didn’t get carlast season leading to ried away, telling ESPN: call off a final exam by the Steelers’ playoff “Um, I can’t even get my game with the Dolphins. getting Kobe Bryant to dog to stop peeing in give him a retweet. The Longtime cook Toni the house.” . 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OSU pulls away to beat Miami COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Miami kept fighting back against Ohio State and stayed in the game on Saturday, but the Buckeyes pulled away late to cap a 72-59 victory over an in-state rival. The scrappy Redhawks pulled within three points with 6:03 left in the game, but the Buckeyes ripped off a 15-2 run on the way to the win at Value City Arena. Ohio State (11-4, 2-0 Big Ten) led by as many as 17 in the half, but couldn’t put Miami away for good until the final minutes. “We just needed to get consistent stops,” Ohio State guard Kam Williams said. “We can’t trade baskets with anybody, especially going into the Big Ten play. You trade baskets, and the next thing you know you’re down 20. So we needed to nip that in the bud as soon as possible, and we did.” Keita Bates-Diop scored 19 points to lead Ohio State, despite going zero for 6 from beyond the 3-point line. C.J. Jackson added 16 points and Williams had 15 for the Buckeyes, who wrapped up their nonconference schedule with an uneven effort against a young MidAmerican Conference team. 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The Browns joined the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only teams to go winless during a 16-game season when they couldn’t overcome Pittsburgh’s backups or the kind of mistakes that have become their trademark during a turnaround that’s been stuck in neutral for 10 years, yet one owner Jimmy Haslam remains positive will come if his organization just keeps at it. “I’m not going to say this is going to be easy but I am confident we’ll do this,” Haslam said. “Some of you don’t know us that well. We don’t give up easily. We’re not going to give up. Is it disappointing? Hell yeah it’s disappointing. end of that road. I think our players know it. I think the organization knows it. I know our fans don’t.” There were signs of progress, as there has been all season. Just not enough to produce something resembling consistently competent football. Kizer finished with 314 yards passing and two touchdowns to Rashard Higgins but also threw a fourth-quarter pick, his NFL-leading 22nd of the season. While there were bouts of competency, including a pair of takeaways by the defense and long Kizer hookups to Higgins and Josh Gordon, the Browns simply could not get out of their own way. Twice in the first half they drew thirddown defensive penalties that extended Pittsburgh drives. Three times in the fourth quarter they had the ball and a chance to go ahead. The first two ended with turnovers, giving Cleveland an NFL-high 41 on the season. The third ended with Kizer somehow escaping pressure on fourth down at the Pittsburgh 27 only to have his pass clank off Coleman’s hands and fall to the frozen turf, one last missed opportunity in a year filled with far too many. “This is a tough scenario, a historic scenario but it will never be like this ever again,” Gordon said. “What it’s really going to take go through Is it discouraging? To a certain point but we’re going to get this done.” And Haslam remains intent on doing it with head coach Hue Jackson. Haslam reiterated Jackson will return in 2018 despite a 1-31 record through two seasons. Cleveland is 4-48 since Week 12 of the 2014 season, has dropped 21 straight road games and 17 straight games to AFC North opponents. “You can say a lot of things about us this year, but down to the last minute or two minutes, our guys played hard,” Haslam said. “I think the primary job an NFL job has to do is provide leadership. I think Hue’s provided great leadership.” What Haslam knows new general manager John Dorsey needs to get Jackson over the next eight months are NFL-caliber players. The Browns have some, but not enough to compete with the likes of the AFC North champion Steelers, who improved to 13-3 despite sitting healthy stars Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell and others to rest them for the playoffs. 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OH-80002411 Pleasant Valley Hospital Laboratory Services �����9DOOH\�'ULYH�‡�3RLQW�3OHDVDQW��:9������ a full offseason and make sure it never happens again starts today.” While Jackson, who will jump in Lake Erie at some point in the near future to fulfill his vow the Browns wouldn’t go 1-15 as they did in 2016, is expected back in 2018, another offseason filled with searching awaits. Jackson plans to be along for the ride. “I don’t think we’re way, way off as many people think we are,” Jackson said. “I think it’s making right decisions, doing the right things, having trust in what we’re doing, having people to do it day in and day out, and this thing will get turned. I truly believe that.” Backups shine The Steelers never trailed while beating their closest rivals for a seventh straight time. Landry Jones completed 23 of 27 passes for 239 yards with a touchdown and an interception, and rookie wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster caught nine passes for 143 yards and a score. He also returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown . Pittsburgh sacked Kizer six times, boosting its season total to 56, a franchise record. Despite the victory, the Steelers will be the second seed in the AFC playoffs. New England clinched homefield advantage with a victory over the New York Jets. Daily Sentinel Bengals coach Lewis: ‘I want to coach this team’ BALTIMORE (AP) — Marvin Lewis had just snagged a victory well worth celebrating, yet the focus of his postgame session had very little to do with X’s and O’s. What everyone really wanted to know after Cincinnati’s 31-27 win over Baltimore on Sunday was: Would this be the last game for Lewis as coach of the Bengals? “I don’t know that,” Lewis said. “We’ll see. There are decisions to be made. First, it would be ownership.” Though it has been rumored that Lewis is ready to walk away from the job after 15 seasons and 125 wins, he insisted that’s not necessarily the case. Lewis is scheduled to meet with owner Mike Brown, perhaps as soon as Monday, to discuss his future in Cincinnati. “Yes, I want to coach this team,” Lewis said. Asked if he would return if Brown asks him back, Lewis replied, “It’s more complicated than that.” Though Sunday’s victory knocked the Ravens out of playoff contention, the Bengals (7-9) stumbled to their second straight losing season. And, while Lewis is the winningest coach in Bengals history (125-112-3), he is 0-7 in the postseason. His players say they’d love to have Lewis back in 2018. “I think he’s a heck of a coach,” said tight end Tyler Kroft, who scored two touchdowns Sunday. “I love playing for coach Lewis. But that (decision) is above my pay grade.” Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton has gone through plenty of good times, and perhaps far more bad times, under Lewis. Sunday’s game, in which Dalton threw three touchdown passes, definitely belonged in the former category. “I have no idea if he’s coming back or not,” Dalton said. “But if this is his final game, I couldn’t think of a better way to send him out — with a dramatic win like that.” Lewis, not surprisingly, maintained a low-key stature in the locker room amid the celebration, even though he was defensive coordinator of the Ravens from 1996-2001. “He wasn’t overly emotional after the game,” Dalton said. The players sure were, though. Even though the Bengals realized weeks ago that this season wouldn’t end in a playoff run, they pulled together to beat Detroit last week before stunning the Ravens — and in the process, getting Buffalo into the postseason. Bills, Titans, Falcons make way into playoffs with wins By Barry Wilner Associated Press The Buffalo Bills are in the NFL playoffs. No, we’re not kidding. They needed some lastminute help from Cincinnati, which stunned Baltimore 31-27 after Buffalo had won at Miami 22-16 Sunday. Those results lifted the Bills into the final AFC wild-card spot and a visit to Jacksonville next Sunday. The last time they reached the postseason, the Bills lost in the Music City Miracle game in Nashville in January 2000. Their playoff drought was the longest current string in North American professional sports. But the happiness comes with a caveat: star running back LeSean McCoy was injured and carted off in the second half. He was seen in a walking boot after the game. “The locker room is electric man. We have been working so hard for this,” Bills guard Richie Incognito said. “So much has been said about it. And now the monkey is off our back. We’re in the postseason and we’ve got new life.” The Jaguars are coached by Doug Marrone, who resigned as Bills coach exactly three years ago. Baltimore’s late meltdown was stunning. The Ravens needed to stop a fourth-and-12 from their 49, and Andy Dalton found Tyler Boyd with 44 seconds left to pull out the win — and send the Ravens home. Balti- more had trailed most of the game before taking a 27-24 lead with 8:48 remaining. “Even the game, I think, epitomizes a little bit the way the season went,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “We had to battle our way back the way we did, and then not to be able to finish and win the game is about as tough as it can be.” Tennessee had a win-and-get-in scenario and took advantage by beating the AFC South champion Jags 15-10. That gave the Titans their first playoff berth since 2008. They head to AFC West winner Kansas City on Saturday to open the wild-card round. “We refused to go home,” Brian Orakpo said. “I didn’t want to be on a Southwest flight back to Texas tomorrow wondering, ‘what if.’ “It’s an unbelievable feeling.” The Falcons will get another chance to reach the Super Bowl, though this time as a wild card. The team that blew a 28-3 lead in the second half of the big game in February defeated Carolina 22-10 to earn a trip to the NFC West champ Rams. Los Angeles sat most of its regulars in losing to San Francisco 34-13. FalconsRams is Saturday night. Seattle fell short of reaching the postseason with Atlanta’s win, but lost anyway to Arizona 26-24. “All you want is an opportunity,” said Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett, who had a sack and three tackles for losses. “We have one. Now it’s up to us to take advantage of it.” The Panthers already were in, and they will meet NFC South foe and division winner New Orleans on Sunday to finish off the opening round. The Saints swept their two meetings with Carolina this season. New England (13-3), as it almost always seems to do, secured home-field advantage for the AFC playoffs by beating the Jets 26-6. Pittsburgh (13-3) got the No. 2 seed — its controversial loss to the Patriots in Week 15 was the tiebreaker — with its 28-24 victory over Cleveland. They both are off next week. Minnesota (13-3) already had qualified for the postseason, and it grabbed a wild-card round bye with a 23-10 win over Chicago. The other bye in the NFC went to Philadelphia (13-3) last week as the top seed, and the Eagles played plenty of backups in a 6-0 defeat against Dallas. Eight of the 12 playoff teams are newcomers from last year: Buffalo, Tennessee, Jacksonville, the Rams, Philadelphia, Carolina, New Orleans and Minnesota. That includes two teams that finished last in their division in 2016 and won it this season: the Eagles and Jags. The divisional round will open in Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 13. New England will host a game that night. 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