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Newspaper Page Text2B Tuesday, December 4, 2018 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com SPORTS COLLEGE BASKETBALL Crump scores career high in Georgia win Tyree Crump scored a career-high 25 points, Nico las Claxton added 15 points and nine rebounds, and Georgia had little trouble beating Texas Southern 92-75 on Monday night. Derek Ogbeide added 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Rayshaun Hammonds fin ished with 14 points to help the Bulldogs (5-3) win their second straight. Derrick Bruce scored 17 points, and Jeremy Combs added 15 or Texas South ern (3-6). The Tigers have dropped two in a row against Power 5 conference oppo nents since upsetting then- No. 18 Oregon last week. Crump’s straightaway 3-pointer gave the Bulldogs their first 20-point lead mid way through the second half and he added his career-best fifth trey to make it 81-66 at the 4:56 mark. Georgia looked sharp throughout as first-year coach Tom Crean tries to move his team past disap pointing performances last month in losing consecutive games to Clemson and Geor gia State. Claxton and Jordan Harris each hit two of the Bulldogs’ 113-pointers, but it was Geor gia’s front line that made the biggest difference. With 6-foot-ll Claxton, 6-9 Ogbeide and 6-8 Hammonds collaps ing on Trayvon Reed, Texas Southern’s 7-2 center wasn’t the same force that scored 23 points and had nine dunks in the Oregon win. Reed finished with 14 points and seven rebounds, but he was outmatched midway through the sec ond. Claxton was defending Reed tightly enough that he couldn’t pivot and decided to feed Devocio Butler for a layup. Claxton turned toward the basket to swat Butler’s shot away and begin Ham monds’ drive down the floor for a quick 3 that made it 59-42. NBA Hawks fall victim to Golden State’s Big Three in loss Stephen Curry scored 30 points, Kevin Durant had 28 and Klay Thompson chipped in with 27 as the Golden State Warriors cruised past the Atlanta Hawks 128-111 Monday night, snapping a six-game losing streak on the road. With Curry scoring 18 points in the opening quarter, this one was never in doubt. Golden State raced to a 34-17 lead in the first 12 min utes — Curry outscored the Hawks by himself — and the defending NBA champions won for only the fourth time in 10 games. Playing for the second time since missing 11 games with a groin injury, Curry hit his first six shots, four of them beyond the arc . He finished 6 of 10 from 3-point range The Warriors led 61-47 at halftime and stretched the margin as high as 24 points, sending the rebuilding Hawks to their third straight loss. John Collins led Atlanta with 24 points, and Trae Young added 20. But it was a tough night for Young, the rookie guard who the Hawks are hoping to turn into their Curry-like centerpiece. He had seven turnovers and missed all five of his 3-point attempts. NFL RB Kareem Hunt unclaimed on waivers on Monday Kareem Hunt went unclaimed on NFL waivers Monday, three days after a video was released that showed the star running back shoving and kicking a woman in an incident that ultimately led to his release by the Kansas City Chiefs. Police did not charge Hunt with a crime, but the Chiefs released him for being untruthful with them about what happened during the February incident. Hunt currently is on the commissioner’s exempt list and cannot play even if another team signs him. The NFL says it is continuing its investigation. Also on Monday, a police report surfaced in which a suburban Kansas City man told police that Hunt was among a group of men that assaulted him during a night club altercation in January. The incident happened Jan. 11 at Mosaic, a club in downtown Kansas City. The 38-year-old victim was treated at a hospital for a broken rib, broken nose and other injuries. But as was the case in the assault captured on a Cleveland hotel security camera, no criminal charges were filed in the case. The Chiefs declined to comment on the January incident. Associated Press SCOREBOARD Football/college 2018-19 Bowl Glance Saturday, Dec. 15 Celebration Bowl At Atlanta NC A&T (9-2) vs. Alcorn State (9-3), Noon (ABC) Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla. Tulane (6-6) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (7-6), 1:30 p.m. (CBSSN) New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque North Texas (9-3) vs. Utah State (10-2), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Fresno State (11-2) vs. Arizona State (7-5), 3:30 p.m. (ABC) Camellia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. Georgia Southern (9-3) vs. Eastern Michigan (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) New Orleans Bowl Middle Tennessee (8-5) vs. Appalachian State (10-2), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 18 Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl UAB (10-3) vs. North Illinois (8-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 19 Frisco (Texas) Bowl San Diego State (7-5) vs. Ohio (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 20 Gasparilla Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (8-4) vs. South Florida (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 21 Bahamas Bowl Nassau Toledo (7-5) vs. FIU (8-4), 12:30 p.m (ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Western Michigan (7-5) vs. BYU (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 22 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Memphis (8-5) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), Noon (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Houston (8-4) vs. Army (9-2), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Buffalo (10-3) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Louisiana Tech (7-5) vs. Hawaii (8-5), 10:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 26 SERVPRO First Responder Bowl Dallas Boston College (7-5) vs. Boise State (10-3), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Minnesota (6-6) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Cheez-lt Bowl Phoenix California (7-5) vs. TCU (6-6), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Temple (8-4) vs. Duke (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. Miami (7-5) vs. Wisconsin (7-5), 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl Houston Baylor (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 28 Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn. Purdue (6-6) vs. Auburn (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Camping World Bowl Orlando, Fla. West Virginia (8-3) vs. Syracuse (9-3), 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Iowa State (8-4) vs. Washington State (10-2), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 29 Peach Bowl Atlanta Florida (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2), Noon (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. South Carolina (7-5) vs. Virginia (7-5), Noon (ABC) Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz. Arkansas State (8-4) vs. Nevada (7-5), 1:15 p.m. (CBSSN) Cotton Bowl Classic Arlington, Texas CFP Semifinal, Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Clemson (13-0), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl Miami Gardens, Fla. CFP Semifinal, Oklahoma (12-1) vs. Alabama (13-0), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 31 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Cincinnati (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (6-6), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso,Texas Stanford (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), 2 p.m. (CBS) Redbox Bowl Santa Clara, Calif. Michigan State (7-5) vs. Oregon (8-4), 3 p.m. (FOX) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn. Missouri (8-4) vs. Oklahoma State (6-6), 3:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Northwestern (8-5) vs. Utah (9-4), 7 p.m. (FS1) Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. NC State (9-3) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), Noon (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Kentucky (9-3) vs. Penn State (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz. LSU (9-3) vs. UCF (12-0), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif. Washington (10-3) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl New Orleans Texas (9-4) vs. Georgia (11-2), 8:45 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 College Football Championship Santa Clara, Calif. Cotton Bowl winner vs. Orange Bowl winner, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Pasadena, Calif. American vs. National, TBA (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 2:30 p.m. (NFLN) Basketball/college The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 2, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Gonzaga(43) 8-0 1578 1 2. Kansas (19) 6-0 1539 2 3. Duke (1) 7-1 1463 3 4. Virginia (1) 7-0 1367 4 5. Michigan 8-0 1339 7 6. Nevada 8-0 1300 5 7. Tennessee 6-1 1238 6 8. Auburn 6-1 1154 8 9. Kentucky 7-1 1070 10 10. Michigan St. 6-2 915 9 11. Florida St. 6-1 871 15 12. Wisconsin 7-1 809 22 13. Texas Tech 7-0 783 20 14. North Carolina 6-2 782 11 15. Virginia Tech 6-1 675 13 16. Kansas St 6-1 629 12 17. Buffalo 7-0 515 21 18. Iowa 6-1 417 14 19. Ohio St. 7-1 385 16 20. Arizona St 7-0 384 - 21. Villanova 6-2 356 23 22. Mississippi St. 6-1 243 25 23. Maryland 7-1 204 24 24. Nebraska 7-1 176 - 25. Furman 8-0 101 - Others receiving votes: Purdue 100, Syracuse 62, Marquette 47, Iowa St. 46, Texas 44, Creighton 42, St. John’s 39, Houston 30, NC State 14, Indiana 13, Arizona 12, Louisville 11, Clemson 11, Radford 9, TCU 9, Notre Dame 3, Arkansas 3, Oregon 3, UCLA 3, Florida 2, Boston College 2, Davidson 1, Oklahoma 1. The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first- place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 2, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th- place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (31) 7-0 775 2 2. Notre Dame 7-1 719 1 3. Oregon 7-0 707 3 4. Baylor 7-0 689 4 5. Louisville 8-0 661 5 6. Mississippi St. 8-0 622 6 7. Maryland 8-0 587 7 8. Oregon St. 6-1 549 9 9.Tennessee 6-0 524 11 10. NC State 8-0 473 13 11. Stanford 6-1 446 8 12. Texas 7-1 438 10 13. California 7-0 362 15 14. Minnesota 7-0 357 20 15. Syracuse 7-2 330 12 16. Iowa 6-2 303 14 17. Arizona St. 5-2 222 19 18. Marquette 6-1 195 22 19. Kentucky 8-0 194 25 20. DePaul 4-3 177 16 21. Drake 7-1 157 24 22. South Carolina 4-4 113 18 23. Missouri 6-2 95 — 24. Gonzaga 8-1 93 — 25. Miami 7-2 68 21 Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 57, Iowa St. 37, South Florida 24, Florida St. 20, Virginia Tech 20, West Virginia 16, Georgia 14, South Dakota 7, Indiana 5, Southern Cal 5, Cent Michigan 3, Michigan St. 3, Northwestern 2, Purdue 2, Utah 2, Kansas 1, North Carolina 1 .Transactions Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Named Jeremy Reed hitting coach, Doug White pitching coach, Jesus Feliciano outfield/first base coach, Mike Gallego infield/third base coach, Shawn Wooten assistant hitting coach, Paul Sorrento hitting instructor, Jose Molikna catching coach and Andrew Bailey bullpen coach. SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded 2B Robinson Cano, RHP Edwin Diaz and cash to the N.Y. Mets for OF Jay Bruce, OF Jarred Kelenic and RHPs Anthony Swarzak, Gerson Bautista and Justin Dunn. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with manager Dave Roberts on a four-year contract. MIAMI MARLINS — Signed 1B Pedro Alvarez, SS Dixon Machado, RHP R.J. Alvarez, 3B Jon Berti and Deven Marrero, Cs Bryan Holaday and Rodrigo Vigil, OFs Gabriel Guerrero and Harold Ramiez and LHPs Mike Kickham and Brian Moran to minor league contracts. TODAY ON TV COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Heisman Trophy Heisman 3: Tagovailoa, Murray, Haskins the finalists BUTCH DILL I Associated Press Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (13) scrambles for a first down against Texas A&M during the first half of a game on Sept. 22 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. BY RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press NEW YORK - Ala bama’s Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray and Ohio State’s Dwayne Haskins are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy, ensur ing a quarterback will win the award for the 16th time in the last 19 years. The finalists were announced Monday, hours after the deadline for 928 voters, including former winners, to submit their ballots. Tagovailoa has been the favorite for most of the sea son, but Murray and Haskins finished strong. Unlike most seasons, there should be some real drama Saturday night when the Heisman is awarded in New York City. Tagovailoa and Murray will also face off in the Col lege Football Playoff, when No. 1 Alabama faces No. 4 Oklahoma at the Orange Bowl semifinal on Dec. 29. The finalists are deter mined by the margin of votes received, starting with the third- and fourth-place finishers. At least three and as many as five finalists are invited to presentation ceremony. The last time three quar terbacks were the only final ists was 2008, when Sam Bradford of Oklahoma won over Colt McCoy of Texas and Tim Tebow of Florida. Tagovailoa’s Heisman campaign started the final game of last season, when he came off the bench as a freshman to lead Alabama to a comeback victory in the national championship game against Georgia. His first season as a starter has been as good as advertised, with 3,353 yards passing, 37 touchdown passes and just four interceptions. Tago vailoa would be the third Alabama player to win the Heisman since 2009, but the first quarterback, joining tailbacks Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry. Murray replaced last year’s Heisman winner, Baker Mayfield, for the Sooners and has been just as good. The junior, who has already signed a $4.7 million deal to play baseball with the Oakland Athletics next year, has passed for 4,053 yards and 40 touchdowns with seven interceptions. Oklahoma would become the fourth school, joining Yale, Army and Southern California, to have Heis man winners in consecutive seasons, but the first to have quarterbacks win it in back- to-back years. Haskins, a third-year soph omore, shattered numerous Big Ten passing records this season, throwing for 4,580 yards and 47 touchdowns to lead the country in both cat egories. Haskins is the first Buckeyes’ finalists since Troy Smith won the Heis man in 2006. Ohio State, Southern Cali fornia and Notre Dame have won the most Heisman’s with seven. Oklahoma has six. The Heisman has been dominated by quarterbacks over the last two decades. The last two winners have been QBs, and since USC’s Reggie Bush won the Heis man in 2005, 10 quarter backs have won it. Tagovailoa seemed like he would be a runaway Heis man winner heading into the final month of the season, but Murray closed the gap by continually bailing out Oklahoma’s faulty defense. Tagovailoa still seemed poised to head to New York as the favorite until last Sat urday when he threw two interceptions and didn’t fin ish the Southeastern Confer ence championship game against Georgia because of a sprained ankle. Murray and Haskins, meanwhile, both had huge games on championship Saturday, adding some sus pense to the race, but also separating themselves from the rest of the contenders. TIFO ■ Continued from 1B Resurgence, cost almost $40,000 to produce and required 130 volunteers from all of the supporters groups spending six hours in Mercedes-Benz placing indi vidual pieces of colored foil on every seat. It took weeks of planning. A sponsorship helped offset the cost. The foil was ordered from Ger many. The logistics and purchases were handled by Allison Noffsinger and her husband Ben Reed, who are members of Resurgence. There was also the hom age to Atlanta United man ager Gerardo Martino before the semifinal against NYCFC. The statue of Martino was designed by Chi Sato of Footie Mob and the full look done by Vera Zeigler of Resurgence, which also designed the banners to the side and the ribbons, as well as the logistics. Christian Rincon of Terminus Legion helped to brainstorm the idea. A framed photo of the tifo was later presented to Martino as a birthday gift. Donaldson said it was one of the best examples of what happens when the groups can get past egos and collaborate. The groups decided in January to do a fantasy draft to split up the design of the tifos that would be done for 11 of the 17 home games during the regular season. Terminus Legion, Resurgence and Footie Mob would take the lead for the design for the games they received. Members of Fac tion, the fourth group, would help each group produce each tifo. They reduced the number of tifos in order to increase the budget per tifo. Resurgence coordinated at least six of the tifos, as well as leading the final tifo. The tifos typically repre sented each group’s culture and identity: ■ Celebrate the Troops was designed by Terminus Legion before the Red Bulls game near Memorial Day. ■ The Danger Zone, fea turing likenesses of Atlanta United players Michael Parkhurst, Leandro Gonalez Pirez and Franco Escobar as an homage to the movie Top Gun with influences from the cartoon Archer, was done by Footie Mob. ■ Martino as the Grim Reaper was done by Resur gence for the home-opener against D.C. United. “It makes it fun being able to see the different ideas that come from the different groups,” Donaldson said. Donaldson esti mates the groups have spent hun dreds to thousands of hours in the design and production of the 13 tifos (11 in the regular season and two in the playoffs) done this season. “We want to celebrate this team as hardcore as we can,” he said. The look on the Atlanta United player’s faces as they spun slowly in circles taking in the disco ball was exactly the effect that the groups, collectively known as the Hype Depot, which is an homage to team owner’s Arthur Blank’s co-founding of Home Depot, hoped to see. “We want our players to look at it and be mes merized,” Donaldson said. “Everybody likes to talk trash. Are we going to strike fear in the opponents? No. But there are only a couple of supporter groups that compare to what we do on a weekly basis at Mercedes-Benz. “We took pride in those Red Bulls players and fans looking around going, ‘We can’t do this.’” One of the team’s whose supporters can rival the work done by Hype Depot is Portland. Donaldson expects the Timbers sup porters to bring their own banner to unveil before the championship game. But for this game because of the site and logistics what Portland’s supporters can produce likely won’t rival whatever it is being done by the Hype Depot. Donaldson, who said he actually comes from a fam ily of attorneys, would give these details: Zeigler, nicknamed Tifo Queen, Tsao and other art ists from Resurgence came up with parts of the design in October. Zeigler, Tsao and Sato hammered out the design of the main display on Saturday. Zeigler also wouldn’t share any details other than, “the tifo will match the moment.” Members of the groups will start sewing and paint ing on Monday. It will take the members at least five hours of work a day over the next four days. The tifo will be taken into Mercedes- Benz Stadium on Friday. Donaldson has no idea how much the production will cost because all of the supplies haven’t been pur chased. But he said the money doesn’t matter. “Like the players at the last match, just slowly looking around and going ‘Wow,’” he said. “That’s what we do it for, those guys.” Martino Basketball ■ New Hampshire at Seton Hall, 6:30 p.m., FS1 ■ Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame, 7 p.m., ESPN ■ Providence at Boston College, 7 p.m., ESPN2 ■ UTEP at Marquette, 8:30 p.m., FS1 ■ West Virginia vs. Florida, 9 p.m., ESPN Soccer ■ Premier League: Watford vs. Manchester City, 2:55 p.m., NBCSN Hockey ■ Maple Leafs at Sabres, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN QUINN ■ Continued from 1B Linebacker Deion Jones returned Sunday and led the team with 15 tackles and a sack after missing 10 games with a foot injury. Quinn has not used inju ries as an excuse for the los ing streak. The four straight losses, and especially the sudden decline in scoring, are signs the drain on the team’s talent pool finally is too much to overcome. Matt Ryan’s 131 yards passing on Sunday set a career low for a full game. Ryan said the team’s effort was good but lack of execution was the problem. “We need to play well,” Ryan said. “At the end of the day, I think that’s the most important thing is to play well, and we haven’t done that.” Quinn said the missing players “have had a signifi cant impact” in the Falcons’ “style and attitude.” “We’re always bummed when we don’t have those players here,” he said. “That is part of it, we recognize, in the game. Some years you have more than others. This happens to be one of the years we have more.”