Saturday, February 6,2010 -Thomasville Times - B3
SPORTS
Times staff makes Super
Bowl XLIV predictions
Eliot Duke
Prediction: Saints 38, Colts 31
Comment: This has to be one of the hardest
Super Bowls to pick ever. Neither defense
IMPRESSES ME, BUT I THINK THE SaINTS WILL MAKE ENOUGH
PLAYS TO WIN. Bourbon Street will be ROCKING!
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Kepley
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Wiitgen
Zach Kepley
Prediction: Colts 31, Saints 24
Comment: Not much defense in this one with
Peyton Manning getting the better of Drew Brees.
There will be no party on Bourbon Street BABY!
Lisa Wall
Prediction: Colts 35, Saints 27
Comment: I expect it to be a high-scoring game, with aerial
assaults from both teams. In the end, the experience of Peyton
Manning and the Colts will leave the Saints'
DREAMS OF WINNING THE SuPER BoWL IN THE BrEES.
Erin Wiltgen
Prediction: Colts 38, Saints 27
Comment: While both had good seasons, the
Saints rode on luck as much as skill. Peyton
Manning and his offense will pull ahead in the end.
WOES
From page B1
11 seconds later, Delaney
picked up his fourth foul
and went to the bench.
He returned with 7:01
remaining after a media
timeout.
“Malcolm was a load
in the second half,” Wil
liams said. “He hit big 3s
with ease that hurt us.”
After that, UNC made
seven consecutive free
throws — two by Will
Graves, four straight
by Ed Davis and one by
Deon Thompson — after
shooting 52.9 percent in
the first half (9-of-17) to
cut the margin to 66-64
with 3:38 remaining.
Trailing by three with
2:12 left, UNC turned
the ball over when the
ball went out of bounds
off Davis. John Henson,
who had a career-high
14 points, was called for
goaltending on the other
end as the Hokies spread
the lead to 69-64 with 1:50
left.
Davis hit 1 of 2 from
the line, then Larry Drew
II stole the hall and drove
in for a layup to cut the
margin to two with 1:09.
But that would be the
Tar Heels’ only field goal
during the drought until
Drew’s long 3-pointer at
the buzzer.
That’s not to say they
didn’t have opportuni
ties. Marcus Ginyard had
a 3-point attempt blocked
with 31.1 seconds left, and
Will Graves had another
attempt from behind the
arc that rattled in and
out of the basket with
18.8 seconds remaining
and the Tar Heels (13-9,
2-5) trailing 71-67.
“It would have been fun
with Will’s 3-point shot
had stayed in,” Williams
said. “When things are
going tough, they usu
ally spin out like that.”
Graves, who left the
game with an ankle inju
ry before returning, for
his late 3-point attempt,
agreed that the Tar Heels
showed improvement af
ter a sluggish start.
“[We’re] tired of los
ing,” Graves said as his
ankle was wrapped in ice
after the game. “We’ve
got one step [toward im
provement], competitive
ness — next step will be
winning.”
UNC struggled out of
the gate, leaving Doren-
zo Hudson free for a 3-
pointer just 10 seconds
into the game. Hudson
finished with 17 points,
12 in the first half.
After a pair of turn
overs by the Tar Heels,
Jeff Allen muscled his
way inside to foUow his
own miss for a 5-0 lead
by the Hokies’.
Davis made 1 of 2 free
throws—setting the tone
for the Tar Heels in the
first half — to pt UNC
on the board with 18:10
remaining, but Hudson
responded with another
3-pointer for an 8-1 Vir
ginia Tech lead.
The Tar Heels’ first
field goal came on an
emphatic dunk by Davis
at the 17:13 mark, the
Hokies continued to pull
away.
Ginyard, who came off
the bench, left the game
with 14:17 left in the first
half after stepping on a
Virginia Tech player and
injuring his right ankle.
He was examined on the
bench, then returned to
the game with 13:39 left.
Ginyard’s made 1 of 2
from the free-throw line
to stem a run that had
the Hokies leading 18-6.
A 15-footer by Allen
gave Virginia Tech a 22-
10 lead, but that’s when
the tide shifted.
David Wear, who also
had a career high with 12
points, hit a jumper from
just inside the arc, then
added a 3-pointer with
10:03 left to pull UNC to
within 22-15.
From there, the Tar
Heels went on a 14-2 run
capped by a pair of free
throws by Henson to tie
the score at 24-24 with
7:20 left in the half.
Davis made 1 of 2 free
throws at the 5:32 mark
to give UNC its first lead
at 27-26.
With Virginia Tech
leading 33-31, David Wear
put in a follow shot to tie
the score for the fourth
time in the half.
UNC got the ball back
on a turnover with 6.9
seconds left, and Larry
Drew II drove the length
of the floor and lofted in
a floater for a 35-31 lead
for the Tar Heels.
Newsday Crossword
SATURDAY STUMPER by Anna Stiga
Edited by Stanley Newman
www.stanxwords.com
ACROSS
1 JFK or Nixon
8 Apprehensions
15 Smuggler-hero
of sci-fi filmdom
16 Feed
17 “Shoot!”
18 Investigate
19 Club where
Martin and
Lewis debuted
20 Anatomical
extension
22 Man from
Toledo
23 Facility
25 Road
(Binchy novel)
27 Gone from one’s
35 Across
28 Itinerary abbr.
29 Behavior
32 Cause trouble to
33 Parts of some
reels
35 Deskfop item
37 Un gentilhomme
38 Google event
of’04
39 Painting
mishap
43 Figurines, often
47 Eastern ideal
48 Defiant retort
50 Break
51 Furnace,
essentially
53 Total
54 Mixing less
56 Sunset
Boulevard
actress
58 Earharfs hubby
in a 2009 film
60 Modest
comment
61 Take a turn for
the worse
63 Drapery material
65 Not-unlikely
happening
66 Adds extra
info to
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68 Police
procedure
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2 Had figured out
3 Stamps’
destinations
4 Prophet of Islam
5 Resolve
6 Literally,
“to the skies”
7 Recalls of
September'09
8 Fall short with
9 “Three-finger”
food
10 They’re
diesel-powered
11 Triangulum
neighbor
12 As Good as
It Gets Oscar
nominee
13 NATO joiner
of’04
14 Before you
know it
21 Outlaw
24 GI job
26 T/'me’s Woman
of the Year for
1986
30 Ball game
31 One of three
popes
34 Rite answer
36 Certain roaster
39 Played it
straight
40 She founded her
own company
circa 1905
41 Guys and Dolls
guy
42 Supercilious
43 Her first book
was about
Pola Negri
44 Disturb
45 Hamlet’s fencing
opponent
46 Energetic to
the max
49 Speed
52 “Trust
55 Strike out
against
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59 Coll, major
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