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Lunch with a basketball great
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Former KU basketball player Wayne Simien talks with radio host Soren Petro of WHB 810 Sports Radio at Mr. Goodcents, 2233 Louisiana St., Wednesday afternoon. Simien made an appearance and signed autographs at the store's grand opening and donated 10 percent of the proceeds to his ministry organization Called To Greatness.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Va. Tech builds huge lead in victory
Hokies put game against Hurricanes away in first half
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BLACKSBURG, Va. — Malcolm Delaney had 28 points and a career-high nine assists, and Virginia Tech raced out to a 35-point lead in the first half on the way to
an 81-66 victory against No. 23
Miami on Wednesday night.
Terrell Bell scored all of his career-best 13 points in the first half for the Hokies (13-2, 1-1 ACC), who snapped a five-game losing streak to ranked teams that dated to last season. Virginia Tech went up 11-2 and then put the game away with a 35-8 run that spanned nearly 13 minutes of the first half.
Bell hit a 3-pointer with 2:43 to go and added a basket with 2:16
remaining to give the Hokies their biggest lead, 48-13. The Hokies shot 62 percent (18 of 29) in the first half and led 50-23 at the break.
Miami (15-2, 1-2) shot just 27 percent in the first half (7 of 26) and had its seven-game winning streak snapped. The ACC's leader in 3-point ers made coming into the game (140) missed its first eight attempts beyond the arc. The Hurricanes were 6 of 27 on 3s for the game.
Bell, who had scored in double figures only once this season, went 5 of 6 from the floor. He had never hit more than one 3-pointer in a game in his career, but connected on all three of his attempts — all in the first half.
Jeff Allen added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Hokies, while Dorenzo Hudson had 11 points.
The Hurricanes had only one player in double figures. James Dews led Miami with 11 points.
DOG RACING
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In this Friday, Dec. 11, 2009 file photo greyhounds race around the first turn at the Raynham Park dog track, in Raynham, Mass. A track in Wisconsin, one in Phoenix and Raynham Park ended dog racing at the end of 2009, bringing the total to seven tracks to pull the mechanical rabbit in 2009.
Track closures threaten hounds
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KENOSHA, Wis. — Seven dog tracks halted racing across the country last year, forcing hundreds of greyhounds into an uncertain future. With fewer tracks available for them to race, the sleek long-limbed dogs are now flooding the adoption market at a difficult time.
Economic hardships are preventing many dog lovers from adopting, or worse, forcing them to give back animals they can no longer afford to keep. Misconceptions about the breed — that greyhounds are hyperactive and crave constant stimulation and exercise — also scare away some potential owners, advocates say.
And most have spent their lives inside racetracks and kennels with little exposure to families, kids or even the most basic household activities, say greyhound lovers like Rhonda Mack, who took in two dogs from the Dairyland Greyhound Park in southern Wisconsin, which closed last week.
The track in Wisconsin ran its last dog race on New Year's
Eve; another in Phoenix and one in Massachusetts also ended dog racing last month, bringing the total to seven tracks that pulled the mechanical rabbit in 2009.
There are no precise figures, however greyhound advocates estimate more than 1,000 greyhounds now need new homes. That's in addition to the best racers, who will be sent to tracks that remain open elsewhere or to breeders.
With so many dogs needing homes, Kevin Neuman of Overland Park, started the nonprofit greyhoundcentral.org, which he hopes will serve as a clearinghouse for greyhound adoption.
The aim is to connect available dogs to owners, as well as people willing to transport animals from kennels in one state to new homes in another, said Neuman, who has adopted 11 greyhounds over the past 16 years.
When Woodlands Greyhound Park in Kansas City closed in 2008, Neuman said his group found homes for some 500 dogs, including about 200 placed in adoptive homes in the area.
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