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Easter storms sweep South, killing at least 6

Noxubee Co. sheriff: Tornado damages businesses, Sunday’s tornado in
Noxubee County up-
some homes in Macon area; no injuries reported in GT rooted and snapped
multiple trees at
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS County and three were killed in Jeffer- Macon Septic on
Highway 45 South,
son Davis County. All three counties
JACKSON — Strong storms pound- just north of the city
are more than an hour’s drive south of of Macon. Plastic
ed the Deep South on Sunday, killing Jackson, near the Louisiana state line. culvert piping was
at least six people in south Mississip- The two people killed in Lawrence strewn nearly half a
pi and damaging up to 300 homes and County were a married couple — Law- mile north of the busi-
other buildings in northern Louisiana. rence County sheriff’s deputy, Robert ness along the high-
Storms continued to batter the South Ainsworth, and a Walthall County way. Noxubee County
overnight, with much of the region un- Justice Court deputy clerk, Paula We, Sheriff Tommy Roby
der flash flood, tornado and thunder- a Facebook post from the county sher- said multiple busi-
storm warnings and watches. iff’s office said. nesses and homes
Mississippi Emergency Manage- The National Weather Service said were damaged as a
strong winds were sweeping through result of the storm,
ment Agency director Greg Michel
but no injuries were
said one person killed was in Walthall other parts of Mississippi, and a tor-
reported.
County, two were killed in Lawrence See STORMS, 6A Birney Imes/Dispatch Staff

UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

MONDAY PROFILE More jail
‘Filling a niche’ review
sought over
coronavirus
concerns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON — The coronavirus pandemic

is prompting the Mississippi attorney gen-
eral and the state public defender to seek a
temporary change in rules governing the
criminal justice system.
The goal is to require more frequent ju-
dicial review of conditions for pretrial de-
tainees — people being held in county jails
as they wait to go before a grand jury or
to trial. Many are held for months because
they cannot afford to post bail.
The state’s top prosecutor and the pub-
lic defender are adversaries, by design of
the justice system. Their current alliance is
prompted by concern that the highly conta-
gious virus could spread swiftly inside de-
tention centers, harming those who might
be medically vulnerable and rapidly over-
whelming jails’ health care capabilities.
For most people, the coronavirus causes
Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
Kevin Yang, 22, helps run the family-owned Asian Foods Market and Restaurant on Highway 12 in Starkville. Among mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever
his many duties is the role of interpreter, since little of the packaging on the items sold in the market are written in and cough. But for others, especially old-
English. er adults and people with existing health
problems, it can cause severe symptoms

Starkville native provides ingredients, Asian and be fatal.

Coronavirus cases were reported last
week at a federal prison in Yazoo City, Mis-
recipes at family-owned market and restaurant sissippi.
In some jails, inmates sleep in “open
bay” settings, with multiple beds in a sin-
BY SLIM SMITH same time.” said. “That’s 60 50-pound bags gle large room.
ssmith@cdispatch.com The variety of rice, often called of rice. People would come in, “Stated simply, it is extremely difficult

W
hen the first wave of
COVID-19 panic buying
swept through Starkville
about a month ago, there was no
run on toilet paper at Asian Foods
Market on Highway 12.
Asian Foods Market sells a little
of most everything and a lot of
some things, but no toilet paper.
That doesn’t mean the fami-
ly-owned business was immune to
panic buying.
“For us, it was rice,” said Kevin
Yang, whose parents opened the
store in 2011 and added a restau-
rant next door two years ago.
“Lots of rice. About two weeks
after spring break, everybody
started hoarding rice all at the
“sticky rice,” is sweeter and sticki-
er than the conventional white rice
typically consumed by non-Asians
in the U.S. While that “American”
rice is usually sold in one or two-
pound packages, the rice Asian
Market sells comes in a single size
— 50-pound bags.
“In most Asian cultures, rice is
the basis of just about every meal,”
Yang said. “I don’t even know what
you would compare it to in Ameri-
can food, maybe milk? All I know
is that rice is something every
Asian household has stocked.”
You might think a 50-pound bag
of rice would go a long way. Not so,
Yang said.
“At the start of all this, we sold
a pallet of rice in one day,” Yang
buy two bags and then come the
next day and buy two more. It was
crazy.”
Yang, 22, is the first native-born
American in his family. His par-
ents immigrated to the U.S. from
China in the mid-1980s, settling in
Brooklyn, New York.
The family moved to Starkville
when Yang was 2, buying the old
Taste of China Restaurant before
later shifting the focus to a mar-
ket, something the family felt filled
a void in the market where Missis-
sippi State’s large Asian student
population has started to grow.
“A lot of our business comes
from Mississippi State,” Yang said.
“Our store is about the only place
See YANG, 6A
for Mississippi sheriffs to comply with the
CDC guidelines in jails where close physi-
cal proximity is a reality, access to protec-
tive equipment is limited, effective quaran-
tine space is scarce or entirely unavailable,
and exposure to those moving in and out
from the ‘free world’ is unavoidable,” the
attorney general’s office and the public de-
fender’s office wrote in papers filed Thurs-
day with the Mississippi Supreme Court.
They are seeking temporary revision of
a rule that requires sheriffs to produce jail
census information seven days before the
beginning of a circuit court term for hear-
ing criminal cases. Senior circuit judges,
or people they designate, must review “con-
ditions of release for each bailable defen-
dant who has been detained for more than
90 days,” their filing said.
“Because the next criminal term of
court in many jurisdictions could be
See CAPITOL DOME, 3A

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1 What kind of animals use a bottle of ON NEWS MEETINGS
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2 Who got as much attention for her COVID-19 corona- Starkville-
hat as her version of “My Country, ‘Tis virus related sto- Oktibbeha
of Thee” at Barack Obama’s 2009 ries are changing Consolidated
inauguration? extremely quick- School District
3 What British comic actor, and Katy
Perry ex, released a memoir called “My ly, sometimes Board of Trustees
Karson Hughes as soon as we meeting, 6 p.m.,
Booky Wook” in 2007?
Fifth grade, Annunciation publish a print 401 Greensboro
4 Which actor doted on his beloved

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High until Max went to hog heaven in 2006? paper. We want April 17:
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playing for when he was unanimously readers that we of Aldermen work
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Workers in some nonessential in-
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Monday in Spain, one of the hardest
hit countries in the coronavirus pan-
demic, while in South Korea, officials
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro
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lice as he walked to work at a moving
company that was re-starting opera-
tions after a three-week halt.
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nervous about contracting the virus
because my family can’t afford more
time without an income,” Pardinas
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plea to the world’s richer countries
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economy amid a sharp increase in
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MOSCOW — In the
coronavirus lockdown,
Russians can’t go to their
beloved and renowned
museums. So they’re fill-
ing the holes in their souls
by recreating artworks
while stuck at home and
posting them on social
media.
The Facebook group
where the works are post-
ed has become a huge hit.
The art recreations range
from studious and rever-
ent to flippant and goofy.
They’re done both by Rus-
sians and Russian-speak-
ers abroad.
Some 350,000 people
are following the group,
where thousands of pho-
tos are posted, each show-
ing the original work
and the mockup made
at home. The rules say it
must only use items on
hand and can’t be digitally
manipulated.
There are some im-
pressive surprises in the
collection. Vitaly Fonarev
carefully recreated the
clothes and headdress of
Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl
With a Pearl Earring”
and captured the Dutch
artist’s famous glowing
light. The work is so con-
vincing that it takes a few
moments to notice that
the “girl” actually is a man
with a few days’ worth of
beard stubble.
Irina Kazatsker found
the project perfect for her
skills. The Canadian pho-
tographer had the lights
and the backdrops to do a
loving recreation of Picas-
so’s “The Frugal Meal”—
with the sly twist of put-
ting a roll of toilet paper
on the table.
“I decided to add a
provocative detail that
corresponds to the spirit
of the time,” she said.

SOURCE: AP
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Backup coronavirus hospital in Memphis worries residents leaders have been sounding the alarm hundreds of potential patients is not one
‘The task of finding space to shelter hundreds of over what they see as a disturbing trend of choice but necessity,” the officials
potential patients is not one of choice but necessity’ of the virus killing African Americans at
a higher rate. They also have cited a lack
said in a statement.
For the vast majority of people who
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Expo Center — all sites away from resi- of overall information about the race of have the coronavirus, symptoms clear
dential neighborhoods. victims as the nation’s death toll mounts. up in several weeks without requiring
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced with the
The Gateway Shopping Center in the Nutbush resident Patricia Harris won- hospitalization, but the consequences
threat of overburdened hospitals, states
Nutbush neighborhood of Memphis is dered aloud if city officials were “trying can be life-threatening for older people
across the country are converting con-
different. The center features a Save A to contaminate” the neighborhood. and those with existing health problems.
vention centers, sports facilities and per-
Lot grocery store, a Rent-A-Center, a Activist Earle Fisher, an African For Nutbush residents, their fear of
formance spaces into backup treatment
Family Dollar, beauty supply shop, Chi- American Memphis pastor, understands contracting the virus is matched with
sites for coronavirus patients. Tennes-
nese restaurant and other businesses. the anxiety. Residents in Memphis’ the worry that they could lose stores
see is no exception.
Locating a treatment center for coro- predominantly black neighborhoods that are vital to the neighborhood. Offi-
What some Memphis residents don’t
navirus patients there poses two prob- are already suffering from insufficient cials haven’t said if stores would close if
get is why in their city, a shopping center
lems, residents say: It could potentially COVID-19 testing, a dearth of reliable the Gateway facility was opened. If they
in the middle of a predominantly black,
expose them to the virus amid concerns information about the virus, and inade- did, shopping would become more dif-
low-income residential neighborhood
that blacks are contracting COVID-19 at quate access to masks and other person- ficult for residents, especially for those
has been targeted.
higher rates; and it could force some of al protection supplies, he said.
City and state officials are concerned who are old or have no means of trans-
the stores they rely on to close. “This is an honest and reasonable
that an influx of patients from Mem- portation to stores located farther away.
Nutbush resident and community concern and skepticism,” Fisher said.
phis, as well as nearby Mississippi, Ar- “For people who don’t have a car, what
volunteer Homer Osborne said he un- “I think it’s par for the course for black
kansas and rural West Tennessee, will do they do?” asked Harris, who spoke to
derstands the need to help coronavirus people to be righteously skeptical of
strain hospitals. Their fears are echoed The Associated Press while lugging a
patients, but he questions why officials governmental intervention that did not
across the country: Governors, mayors bottle of detergent, a package of bottled
chose Gateway. consult with people on the ground first.”
and health experts in numerous states water and other items from the Save A
“There are a lot of poor people in this Doug McGowen, the city’s chief op-
are also researching and constructing Lot to her car. She noted that a grocery
neighborhood that come here and shop,” erating officer, said the Gateway site
makeshift medical facilities. store recently closed near her house and
said Osborne, who was buying food at was being considered because it could
In New York City, they’re turning to she already has to travel farther to get
the center for a home delivery service potentially accommodate hundreds of
the Javits Center convention site; in Chi- to Gateway.
he’s providing during the virus out- beds. He said if it were converted to a
cago, the McCormick Place Convention “When we do things, we’ve got to con-
break. “People won’t want to come over treatment site, it would hold only mild-
Center, and in Sandy, Utah, the Moun- sider the people in the neighborhood,”
here. It’s just going to kill this area.” ly ill coronavirus patients who could be
tain America Expo Center. she said. “We don’t need to make the
He also cited a widespread fear of be- quickly transported to a hospital should
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers neighborhood worse than it already is.”
ing unnecessarily exposed to the virus. their conditions worsen.
has been scouting locations in Tennes- U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Memphis
“All around, people are scared,” he Memphis officials said the Gateway
see, and officials here have compiled Democrat, said the decision doesn’t
said. site was put on the list in response to
a list of 35 possible backup sites. They make sense.
Their fears are not unfounded. In this a request from the state’s coronavirus
haven’t released the whole list, but Gov. “I’m sure there are other places that
majority-black city along the Mississippi team to identify large, available build-
Bill Lee has disclosed a few: the Music would work, and they should have used
River and other cities across the nation ings where an alternate treatment facili-
City Center in Nashville, the Chattanoo- those rather than go into a residential
that have been hard hit by COVID-19, ty could be located.
ga Convention Center, the Knoxville
Democratic lawmakers and community “The task of finding space to shelter neighborhood,” Cohen said.

Capitol dome
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months away ... no such conditions in jails. Fitch coronavirus pandemic, been there. Justices did ber 2018. Because of the pan-
reviews will take place and de Gruy also want judges should consider so at the urging of the Mississippi Supreme demic, the state Su-
under this rule for weeks judges to review all pre- releasing people who MacArthur Center. In Court Chief Justice Mi- preme Court has already
or months,” they wrote. trial detainees, not just are jailed awaiting tri- mid-March, the center chael K. Randolph is tak- encouraged trial courts
Public defender An- those who’ve been held al on nonviolent crimes released figures show- ing comments about the to use teleconferencing
dre de Gruy is seeking at least 90 days — the but cannot afford to post ing that in December, requested rule change or videoconferencing for
weekly reviews. At- current mandate. bail. about 2,500 people had for more frequent judi- initial appearances and
torney General Lynn Cliff Johnson, direc- In 2017, the state Su- been jailed longer than cial review of county bail hearings. It has also
Fitch is seeking them tor of the MacArthur preme Court ordered 90 days, and more than jails. He’s asking that at- said that people quali-
biweekly. Either way, Justice Center at the sheriffs to start provid- 575 had been jailed more torneys, judges and oth- fied to administer oaths
the stepped-up review University of Mississip- ing information about than a year awaiting tri- ers with an interest in may do so remotely by
schedule could provide pi law school, said last people in county jails al. Those are similar to the court system submit using audio or video
greater oversight about month that during the and how long they have the figures from Novem- those by Tuesday. technology.

Police make one arrest, issue three

warrants for Saturday shootings
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT with a Saturday afternoon Police say the shooting
shooting near the 1900 happened following an ar-
Colum- block of Eighth Avenue gument.
bus police North. Wallace was ar- In what police believe
have made rested later Saturday to be an unrelated shoot-
an arrest in evening and is being held ing, CPD has issued an
one Saturday without bond at the Lown- aggravated assault war-
shooting and
des County Adult Deten- rant for Corey T’Bren
have issued
tion Center. Rice, 32, of Columbus af-
warrants in
Columbus Police De- ter a shooting in the vicin-
c on ne c t ion Wallace
to that and partment has issued war- ity of 22nd Street South
another, unrelated, shoot- rants for two other men and Bell Avenue early Sat-
ing. in the incident – Tommy urday evening.
According to Colum- Lee Flowers III, 25, of Investigators ask that
bus Police Chief Fred Crawford; and Kenny Ri- anyone knowing the loca-
Shelton, Roy Erby Wal- heam Armistead, 24, of tion of the three wanted
lace Jr., was arrested and Columbus – for aggravat- persons to call Golden
charged with aggravat- ed assault and shooting Triangle Crimestoppers
ed assault in connection into a occupied dwelling. at 800-530-7151.

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a more quiet weather pattern heading
into the new week. Mostly sunny skies
for your Monday. Breezy and cool at
times with highs In the 60s.

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of time and no excuses for not cleaning and alertness. Most common injuries blogger, Jennifer L. Scott, always water. The cats, Wilhelmina and Harry,
our spaces. Spring cleaning usually from a fall include head injuries, hip recommends dressing “presentable” no observed from the porch rail.
entails not only regular daily or weekly fractures, back and spinal cord injuries, matter the day’s activities. Jennifer also The cleaning was work but at the
cleaning, but deep-down scrubbing. It shoulder injuries, sprains and fractures. wears an apron while cleaning. And same time satisfying. The finished
includes areas you may only do after Age more than height was a factor. come to think of it, so did Aunt Bea. My product was a joy. Finding our quiet
winter has come to a close. That’s the Sam finished his job, was back on apron said, “He didn’t marry me for my shelter in the midst of a storm.
kind of cleaning the Bardwells have terra firma. The roofs were freed from cooking.” I tied it on. I played “Relaxing Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of
attempted whiling away these extra dust, dirt, pollen and oak worms. Sam Pachelbel,” noticing one of the titles Columbus at msdeltachild@msn.com.

MUSINGS CARTOONIST VIEW

Bipartisan groceries
I
t’s been a little hard
to get groceries
lately, what with the
coronavirus hoax still
abroad in the land of
the free. Still, no matter
how many the hoax
kills, I have to go to
work, and I have to go to
the grocery store.
After retiring from
the newspaper busi-
ness, I took a job doing Marc Dion
talk radio. Imagine my
surprise when I was
declared an “essential employee.”
So, after leaving work one afternoon, I pulled
into the parking lot of a local grocery store,
slipped my mask over my snout and headed in to
buy a couple of things.
In the cat food aisle, I stepped aside for an old
Republican woman, letting her get at the kitty
litter. In the frozen food aisle, I stood patiently
six feet behind an old Democratic voter who
was buying five servings of frozen macaroni and
cheese.
The store was out of democratic toilet paper,
but they had socialist paper towels. And the meat
counter offered plenty of communist hot dogs.
I was rolling, moving fast past the progressive
cans of chicken soup, dodging a feminist who was
restocking the shelf of canned chili.
I got to the cash register panting, having bare-
ly survived so many encounters with so much
politics.
From behind the plexiglass screen, the Repub-
lican checkout guy rang up my purchases, and
my items were bagged by a pro-life bag person
who was just beginning to question her gender.
The right-wing automatic door slid sound-
lessly open, and I walked out into the pro-gun
parking lot and headed for my car.
“How is it in there?” an evangelical Christian
said to me as she approached the door.
“Not bad,” I said. “They’re out of bipartisan
legislation, though. And toilet paper.”
She made a left-wing face of disappointment
and picked up her pace.
Back in my truck, the radio relayed the
thoughtful words of punchline Pres. Donald
Trump, who said “tremendous” and “terrible,”
many times, and very fast for a man his age.
Almost everything above is not true. The
Trump part is true, and the mask part is true, and
the grocery store part is true.
But during my 25 minute trip to the grocery
store, I didn’t learn the political, gender or reli-
gious identity of anyone who shopped with me.
We were just people, people shopping on a day
slightly more annoying than other days, masked
and stepping out of each others’ way, anxious to
find the only kind of cat food our cats will eat,
hoping sweetly for toilet paper, saying, “The hell
with that diet,” to ourselves and buying a gallon
of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Just people in the market, and though we all
had our dearly held beliefs and hates and loves,
we shut up about them, and maybe didn’t even
think about them, because the cat will only eat
the tuna and cheese canned food, and definitely
not the turkey and cheese canned food.
In the open mouth of the pandemic, right
in there between the sharp teeth, we were just
little, scurrying people with tiny little needs, and
desires for home comfort and Cheerios, and tuna
and cheese cat food, and, oh, the humanity, toilet
paper.
Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist,
is a reporter and columnist for The Herald News,
the daily newspaper of his hometown, Fall River,
Massachusetts. For more on Dion, go to go to www.
creators.com.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Voice of the people
Supports signing CMSD/
GTECHS petition
This is Joshua Helton, one of
the students at Golden Triangle
Early College High School, and
it has come to my attention that
the Columbus school district is
wanting to pull the Columbus kids
out of this program which is very
wrong and very awful. Columbus
was hands-on for this thing ever
since it all started and now that
“money is a problem”, they want
to take the Columbus kids out and
in my opinion it shouldn’t be like
that. Superintendent Dr. Labat
should rethink her decision about
letting the Columbus kids stay. I
have started a petition on www.
change.org and we have more than
600 signatures right now to let the
Columbus kids stay and I need to
know what I should do to make it
where we can have an actual vote
for whether or not the Columbus
kids can stay.
Joshua Helton
Columbus
Believes coach’s apology is
enough
This is in response to Sue Crad-
dieth’s letter about a tweet from
Mississippi State football coach
Mike Leach. As a MSU alumni
as well, I believe you are making
a mound out of a molehill. I will
always stand against mistreatment
of others, I believe you are going
to the extremes. Have you ever
done or said something — wheth- comes to dealing with this pan-
er intentional or not — that you demic, we are feeling like we’re
regretted? I believe most humans back in the stone age.
have. He apologized for it and we The most surprising thing, how-
should accept his apology as we ever, is that United States being
would want others to accept ours. the most wealthy, powerful, and
I’m sure he wasn’t thinking any- innovative nation on the Earth has
thing racial about it. also succumbed to this invisible
Ken Daniels organism. A nation that produces
Starkville the most Noble prizes, and where
almost all discoveries are made,
Optimistic about our ability to from software to hardware and
from pin to airplanes, also seems
defeat virus
to be helpless. A nation who is a
We humans are exposed to
guide to the world in almost all
multiple different type of diseas-
walks of life, today is leading the
es and sicknesses, but corona
world in number of deaths due to
virus disease turns out to be the
corona virus. It is puzzling that
queen of all diseases. This virus
our health care workers are losing
has imprisoned the entire world,
their lives simply because they
a situation that was never expe-
don’t have adequate supply of
rienced by anyone who is living
masks and other personal protec-
today. It has halted the world’s
tive equipment. If our nation didn’t
economy, businesses, transporta-
depend too much on other coun-
tion, sporting events, and overall
tries especially China for supply
social interactions. Only thing that
of our basic needs, and had local
this virus couldn’t do is to stop our
industries making them, and our
communication ability. Halting
leaders took the right decisions,
communication is the job of a
probably we wouldn’t be losing
different type of virus, that is com-
this many precious lives. I am fully
puter virus. Just like our computer
engineers protect our communi-
optimistic that soon we will defeat
cation by tackling computer virus,
this virus by social distancing and
eliminate it with our scientific
soon we biologists will find a cure
innovations. Once we win this
to destroy this biological virus.
battle, I sincerely hope that our
This virus has firmly proven that
leaders will realize the value of
it is one of the most powerful and
timely decisions and home-grown
dangerous enemies of mankind.
products in dealing with the future
We can take pride in reaching the
catastrophes.
Moon and Mars and mapping the
Ghanshyam D. Heda
entire human genome, but when it
Columbus
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Fauci comments on US virus response seem to draw Trump’s ire

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON —
Social restrictions aimed
at stopping the spread
of the coronavirus could
have saved lives if they’d
been started earlier,
and when they’re eased
new cases are certain to
arise, said the nation’s Fauci
top infectious disease
expert, Dr. Anthony Fau-
ci, seeming to draw the
ire of President Donald
Trump.
Trump, who has been
chafing at criticism that
he didn’t do enough
early on to fight the Trump
virus, reposted a tweet
that referenced Fauci’s comments and
that said “Time to #FireFauci.” Trump
again pointed to his decision in late
January to restrict travel from China,
writing, “Sorry Fake News, it’s all
on tape. I banned China long before
people spoke up.”
Fauci said Sunday that the econo-
my in parts of the country could have
a “rolling reentry” as early as next
month, provided health authorities can
quickly identify and isolate people who
will inevitably be infected. Fauci also
said he “can’t guarantee” that it will be
safe for Americans to vote in person
on Election Day, Nov. 3.
When asked on CNN if earlier
action on social distancing and “stay at
home” policies could have saved lives,
Fauci responded in part: “It’s very dif-
ficult to go back and say that. I mean,
obviously, you could logically say that
if you had a process that was ongoing
and you started mitigation earlier, you
could have saved lives. Obviously, no
one is going to deny that. But what
goes into those kinds of decisions is
complicated.”
Trump’s tweet referencing Fauci
was one of several that Trump posted
on Sunday that defended his handling
of the virus outbreak and blamed oth-
ers for missteps.
Rather than flipping a switch to
reopen the entire country, Fauci said
a gradual process will be required
based on the status of the pandemic in
various parts of the U.S. and the avail-
ability of rapid, widespread testing.
Once the number of people who are
seriously ill sharply declines, officials
can begin to “think about a gradual re-
entry of some sort of normality, some
rolling reentry,” Fauci said.
In some places, he said, that might
occur as soon as May. “We are hoping
that, at the end of the month, we could
look around and say, OK, is there any
element here that we can safely and
cautiously start pulling back on? If
so, do it. If not, then just continue to
hunker down,” Fauci said.
Whenever restrictions ease, Fauci
said, “we know that there will be
people who will be getting infected. I
mean, that is just reality. “
Social distancing guidelines from
Trump are set to expire April 30.
Trump is eager to restart the econ-
omy, which has stalled because most
Americans are under orders to “stay at
home” to help slow the virus’ spread.
But governors will have a lot to
say about when to ease restrictions in
their states, and the leaders of Mary-
land and New Jersey indicated Sunday
that they are not likely to do so until
widespread testing is available.
“The question is how fast we can
get enough tests up to speed in order
to help us get to the point where we
are able to do all of those things,”
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said. He
said he has set no “artificial deadline.”
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said
the risks of reopening too soon are
dangerously high. “And I fear, if we
open up too early, and we have not
sufficiently made that health recovery
and cracked the back of this virus, that
we could be pouring gasoline on the
fire, even inadvertently,” Murphy said.
Increased testing would allow au-
thorities to identify, isolate and trace
the contacts of people who are newly
infected, Fauci said.
Trump continues to deny ongoing
problems with the coronavirus testing
that’s available, including shortages
and long wait times for people to learn
results.

Restaurants turn to grocery

sales to help offset losses
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
O’FALLON, Mo. —
Charlene Gulliford at the
Gandy Dancer never fig-
ured there would come a
day when the Michigan
restaurant known for its
steaks and seafood would
sell toilet paper and car-
tons of eggs, but the coro-
navirus has restaurants in
survival mode.
The popular restaurant
in Ann Arbor now doubles
as a grocery store, offer-
ing staples such milk and
bread in addition to meats
and fish from its own pan-
try — and yes, even paper
towels and the ever-elu-
sive toilet paper. Sales
began two weeks ago and
the Gandy Dancer has
found an income source
to make up for some of
its lost dine-in business,
while also filling a need
since traditional grocers
are struggling to keep up
with demand.
“A lot of people are
saying they’re happy to
support us, but a lot of
people are saying, ‘Thank
you for helping us,’” said
Gulliford, the restaurant’s
general manager.
The idea is catching on
nationwide. Stay-at-home
and social distancing or-
ders meant to slow the
spread of COVID-19 have
put restaurant dining on
hold, forcing many to
close and leaving others
barely surviving. From
large chains to mom-and-
pop eateries, restaurants
are increasingly turning
to grocery sales.
Panera this week
launched Panera Grocery,
offering not only the St.
Louis-based chain’s pop-
ular breads, bagels and
sweets but items such
as milk, eggs and fresh
produce that its 2,100
U.S. stores normally use
to make meals. Grocery
items can be delivered or
picked up.
Subway is selling gro-
ceries at 250 of its stores
in five states -- California,
Connecticut, Oregon,
Tennessee and Wash-
ington. Potbelly Sand-
wich Shop franchises
launched Potbelly Pantry,
offering mostly foods that
the chain uses to make
its sandwiches, such
as meats, cheeses and
breads.
Panera’s vice president
of wellness and food poli-
cy, Sara Burnett, said the
decision to sell groceries
is a reaction to “the un-
precedented crisis our
country’s going through
right now.” She wouldn’t
disclose how much the
pandemic has cost Pane-
ra, but she said 30 percent
of its business typically
comes from in-restaurant
dining, “and that obvious-
ly is completely gone.”
The National Restau-
rant Association says the
industry has lost 3 mil-
lion jobs and $25 billion
in sales since March 1.
Spokeswoman Vanessa
Sink said 3% of restau-
rants have closed perma-
nently and another 11%
expect to do so by the end
of the month.
The move to grocery
sales has been swift.
Panera would typically
spend months on a new
business proposal, do-
ing research, conducting
surveys and opening test
markets. Not this time.
Panera Grocery went
from an idea to launch in
two weeks, Burnett said.
Grocery items sold by
restaurants vary great-
ly. Some offer mostly the
types of things already
in their pantries, such as
meats, vegetables, fruit,
cheese, milk and eggs.
Others, like the Gandy
Dancer, offer a much
broader selection.
Union Loafers in St.
Louis is opting for quality,
even if it means a higher
price. The restaurant be-
gan selling locally pro-
duced goods such as eggs,
milk, jams and meats on
March 31. Co-owner Sean
Netzer said patrons don’t
mind the higher price —
most items are selling out
daily.
The chain restaurants,
which buy in extraordi-
nary bulk, can afford to
sell at a lower cost. Sub-
way and Panera Grocery
prices are comparable to
grocery store prices, the
companies said.
Gulliford said the Gan-
dy Dancer’s prices are
more than competitive
and can even be cheaper
than the grocery store’s.
For example, six lemons
sell for $1 and potatoes
are $1 per pound, she
said.
Many of the restau-
ra nts - t ur ned - g rocer y
stores are offering “con-
tact-free” service in which
the customer place orders
by phone or online and
the goods are delivered
straight to the trunk or
backseat of the car. Gul-
liford said the elderly,
who are at a higher risk
of serious illness or death
from the coronavirus, are
especially appreciative of
being able to avoid going
into stores.
Restaurant operators
aren’t sure if grocery sales
will continue once the
pandemic passes. Panera
sees this as “kind of a tip-
ping point to see what our
customers need,” Burnett
said.
Gulliford said the fu-
ture is especially difficult
to predict during this un-
precedented time.
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Yang
Continued from Page 1A
they can find many of
the things you need in
Asian cooking. We filled
a niche and we’ve grown
our business pretty
steadily over the years.”
As it is with most
family-owned business-
es, Yang grew up in the
market, performing just
about every job there.
“When I was in
seventh grade, I was
checking out custom-
ers,” he said. “I’ve done
everything, but now
mainly I work in the
kitchen cooking with my
father.”
Yang said business
is “doing OK,” during
the COVID-19 crisis, so
far. The exception is the
restaurant which, like
all restaurants, relies
exclusively on take-out
orders. Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
“We’re not really Asian Foods Market and Restaurant on Highway 12 in Starkville provides ingredients for
doing much business Asian recipes, catering particularly to Mississippi State University’s large Asian stu-
on the restaurant side,” dent population. Kevin Yang, whose family operates the market, added some others in
Yang said. “We still keep Starkville eat at the restaurant, decide to try to make the food at home themselves and
it going, though.” so shop at the market for ingredients.
Yang said the restau- over and shop.” “Do they have pork? I’ll “A lot depends on
rant has already prov- For Yang and the make some suggestions what happens in the
en its strategic value, other workers, there is about some pork dishes. fall when classes at
though. also another task they I think it’s fun for a lot Mississippi State begin
“What we’ve seen happily perform. of customers to sort of again,” he said. “We’ll
since we opened the “Almost none of the discover a new style of be watching to see if the
restaurant is that it’s writing on the packages cooking. That’s good international students
brought in a lot more is in English,” he said. for us, so we’re happy to come back. If they don’t,
(non-Asian) customers,” “So we’ll read the pack- help.” that’s going to affect us.
Yang said. “They come ing and tell them about Yang said that while We’ve built our business
in, taste the food and de- the product.” the market has held its on them and while we
cide they want to make He also provides own during the crisis, are getting more (non-
it at home. Since the cooking tips. there’s a chance busi- Asians) customers, the
market is in the same “I always ask them ness will eventually Asians students are who
building, they’ll come what they have,” he said. decline. we rely on the most.”

Storms
Continued from Page 1A
nado was spotted north
of Meridian near the Al-
abama state line.
The most severe hit of
the counties in the Gold-
en Triangle area was Nox-
ubee County, which the
NWS in Jackson report-
ed was hit by a tornado
at about 3:40 p.m. Barge
Forest Products Compa-
ny on Buggs Ferry Road
“took a direct hit” from
a tornado and will be
closed for the time being,
said County Sheriff Tom-
my Roby. The winds blew
off the roof and damaged
the car shack, he said.
A mobile home on
Highway 45 was over-
turned by the strong
winds, he said. Macon
Septic Systems Inc., a
company that sells storm
shelters and septic tanks,
also suffered damage as
winds blew away some
materials from the site,
he said.
No injuries occurred
during the storms, Roby
said. A MEMA press re-
lease reported a total of
five homes damaged, and
10 roads closed due to
damage or debris.
In Lowndes County,
the storm swept down
roughly 25 trees, particu-
larly in the southern and
eastern parts of the coun-
ty, said Lowndes Coun-
ty EMA Director Cindy
Lawrence. A tree fell on
top of a house on Sev-
enth Street
North in
C olu mbus ,
she said,
but caused
no injuries.
The storm
also caused
s c a t t e r e d Lawrence
power out-
ages in the
county, she
said.
In Ok-
tibbeha
Count y,
EMA direc-
tor Kristen Campanella
Campan-
ella reported minimal
damage and no injuries.
County supervisors said
there was some minor
flooding and tree damage
in parts of the county.
There were several pow-
er outages throughout
Starkville, at least one
of which was caused by
a tree falling on Herbert
Street, said Mayor Lynn
Spruill.
Mississippi Gov. Tate
Reeves declared a state
of emergency Sunday
night after he said sever-
al tornadoes had struck
the state.
“This is not how any-
one wants to celebrate
Easter,” Reeves said on
Twitter. “As we reflect on
the death and resurrec-
tion on this Easter Sun-
day, we have faith that we
will all rise together.”
The National Weather
Service advised thun-
derstorms would shift
across the southeast and
mid-Atlantic states Mon-
day, bringing potential
tornadoes, wind and hail.
Around 750,000 people
were without power ear-
ly Monday in a 10-state
swath ranging from Tex-
as to Georgia up to West
Virginia, according to
poweroutages.us. News
outlets reported downed
trees, flooded streets
and other damage in Al-
abama, Tennessee and
Georgia, but the National
Weather Service hadn’t
immediately confirmed
additional tornado touch-
downs.
Strong winds late Sun-
day toppled power lines
and blew trees onto sev-
eral houses in Clarks-
dale, Mississippi, trap-
ping some people inside,
Mayor Chuck Espy said.
“I know these are
some tough times and
I’m just asking everyone
to stay prayed up,” Espy
said.
Before the storms
moved into Mississip-
pi, the weather service
reported multiple torna-
does and damaging winds
over much of northern
Louisiana. There were no
immediate reports of se-
rious injuries.
The mayor of Monroe,
Louisiana, Jamie Mayo,
told KNOE-TV that the
storm damaged 200-300
homes in and around the
city. Flights were can-
celed at Monroe Region-
al Airport, where siding
was ripped off buildings
and debris was scattered
on runways. Airport di-
rector Ron Phillips told
the News-Star the storm
caused up to $30 million
in damage to planes in-
side a hangar.
In northwest Louisi-
ana, officials reported
damage to dozens of
homes in DeSoto and
Webster parishes, ac-
cording to news outlets.
In Morgan County, Al-
abama, a church roof and
steeple were damaged
by lightning Sunday af-
ternoon, Morgan County
Emergency Management
Agency Eddie Hicks told
AL.com. Shoals Creek
Baptist Church in Pricev-
ille was struck by light-
ning Sunday afternoon.
No injuries were report-
ed.
WBMA-TV report-
ed that strong winds
damaged buildings and
snapped trees in Walker
County, Alabama, north
of Birmingham.
Dispatch reporters Yue
Stella Yu and Tess Vrbin
contributed to this report.

Mississippi nearing 100 virus

deaths, more cases confirmed
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON — Many
Mississippi churches held
online services Sunday to
celebrate Easter and to help
people maintain distance
from one another to try to
slow the spread of the new
coronavirus as the state’s
Reeves
death toll from COVID-19
approaches 100.
The Rev. S.V. Adolph Jr., pastor of First
Missionary Baptist Church Handsboro
said on Facebook live that he misses
greeting and embracing congregants at
the Gulfport sanctuary, but he is grateful
about “leaving the walls of the church”
and worshiping online. He also prayed for
health care providers, law enforcement
officers and others working during the
pandemic.
“We are really grateful for these he-
roes, these people who are at risk for our
sake,” Adolph said.
Figures released by the state Health
Department on Sunday showed Mississip-
pi had at least 2,781 confirmed cases and
96 deaths from the virus as of Saturday
evening. That was an increase of 139 cas-
es and three deaths from the previous day.
For most people, the coronavirus caus-
es mild or moderate symptoms, such as
fever and cough. But for others, especial-
ly older adults and people with existing
health problems, the highly contagious
virus can cause severe symptoms and be
fatal.
Gov. Tate Reeves held a Facebook live
session from the Governor’s Mansion to
pray and read Bible verses, as he has done
the past three Sundays.
Mississippi remains under the gover-
nor’s statewide stay-at-home order until
April 20, and it tells people not to gather in
groups of 10 or more.
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FROM THE AMERICAN GLADIATORS ARENA TO THE GRIDIRON

THIRTY YEARS AGO, MSU FOOTBALL ALUM WON REALITY SHOW’S FIRST GRAND
CHAMPIONSHIP TO KEEP FUNDING DREAM OF PLAYING IN THE NFL
BY ZACK PLAIR you,” Hutson said. “You
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B
rian Hutson had
been here before.
Four times to be
exact.
Leading his opponent,
Lucian Anderson, by only
two points, Hutson need-
ed to win the obstacle
course, dubbed The Elim-
inator, by one second. Just
one more time.
The Brandon native
built his narrow lead
with a perfect 3-for-3
performance in human
cannonball, earning 10
points in the wall climb
and five in Power Ball.
But he faltered in three
other events — the Joust,
Breakthrough and Con-
quer, and Assault. Histor-
ically, Hutson’s Elimina-
tor times had been much
faster than other compet-
itors, but it had been six
months since he had done
it. In the interim, Ander-
son had proven every bit
his equal.
The whistle blew to
start the race.
Staying neck-and-
neck, the competitors
pushed oversized rubber
balls up a ramp and rolled
them into holders placed
at the top. They moved to
the balance beam, where
they both scampered
across while trying to
dodge medicine balls be-
ing swung in their path.
“My strategy was al-
ways to run across that
thing as fast as I could
and jump at the end to the
mat (on the other side),”
Hutson said. “I knew if
I could get over that, I’d
win. … The medicine
balls were bad enough to
knock you off, but some-
times the ropes (attached
to the balls) would wrap
around your arm and pull
you off.”
At the end of the beam,
a ball harmlessly glanced
off Hutson as he dove
safely to the mat. Ander-
son was hit hard, though,
and fell into the pit, cost-
ing him a five-second pen-
alty and taking his heart
out of the race.
Hutson, meanwhile,
swung on a rope over the
short wall leading to the
home stretch, navigated
a few cones and prepared
to run through the last
obstacle guarding the fin-
ish line — four paper-cov-
ered doors, behind three
of which stood hulking
bodybuilders prepared
to impede a contestant’s
progress.
“If he hits you, he’s
probably going to stop
was going to be there, get
low and bust through.”
Following that plan,
Hutson (at 6-foot-1, 190
pounds) dove through
the paper and under the
arms the waiting 6-foot-5,
250-pound Gemini, then
crawled across the finish
line to become the first
male Grand Champion
of the “American Gladia-
tors” television show.
That moment also
made him $35,000 rich-
er, helping him pursue
another, much grander
dream of playing in the
National Football League.
Add that to the $10,000
he had already won on the
show and it “wasn’t bad
for four weeks of work,”
he said.
‘Well-built’ at
Mississippi State
Among the photos dis-
played in the Addison,
Texas headquarters of
Courtesy photo
Hutson’s office furniture
“American Gladiators” contestants (from left) Terry Moore, Aimee Ross and Brian Hutson pose together in 1989 amid
company, none commem- two weeks of filming for the syndicated television competition in Hollywood, California. Hutson, a Brandon native and
orate his spandex-clad former Mississippi State University strong safety, won the male division of the 1989 season as well as the show’s first
American Gladiator tri- Grand Championship a year later. He used the $45,000 in total prize money to continue working out so he could chase
umphs from three de- his dream to become an NFL player.
cades ago.
Athletically, he said,
he’d rather be remem-
‘I quickly figured out those guys were
bered as a football player.
Beyond that, the photos
real baseball players, and
show his family and his I was a football player pretending
ties to Mississippi State
University. to be a baseball player.’
Redshirting his fresh- Former MSU football player Brian Hutson on
man year of 1983, Hutson
trying out for the 1985 MSU baseball team
played 10 games as the
Bulldogs’ punter in 1984
before establishing him- some games in Hawaii, he brought him into the
self as the starting strong returned to spring foot- nation’s living rooms as
safety during his sopho- ball. a contestant on the pi-
more and junior years. He The hit gives Hutson lot season of “American
earned his bachelor’s de- a distinction no Bull- Gladiators,” a show that
gree in business adminis- dog — not even Clark or ultimately ran for sev-
tration in 1986. Palmeiro — could ever en seasons into the mid
As a three-sport all top: a 1.000 career batting 1990s.
star coming out of Bran- average. Polk and Hutson To this day, Polk said,
don High School — foot- still keep in touch, and he hasn’t seen any of
ball, baseball and soccer both regularly mention those episodes. The re-
— Hutson even tried his the feat. sults, though, speak for
hand at playing for Ron “Any time he writes themselves.
Polk’s baseball squad. me, he signs it, ‘Brian “He looked the part …
The only problem was he Hutson, your only 1.000 just a well-built kid,” he
tried out in 1985, the year hitter,’” Polk said. “That’s said. “I’m not surprised at
MSU finished a game a record that can never be all that he won.”
short of a national cham- broken.”
pionship appearance with Though Hutson was A $10,000 opportunity
a team that boasted future best-known for his foot- By 1989, Hutson had a Courtesy photo
Major Leaguers like Will ball prowess, the legend- problem. Hutson is pictured with his wife, Angie, and son, Race,
Clark, Rafael Palmeiro, ary baseball coach re- After college, he had at Walt Disney World earlier this year. After retiring from
Bobby Thigpen and Jeff garded him as “one of my signed as an undrafted football due to an ankle injury, Hutson started an office
Brantley. favorite kids.” free agent with the Los furniture store in Arkansas. He later moved to the Dallas
“I quickly figured out “He was good-natured Angeles Raiders. area, where BHC Office Solutions is headquartered.
those guys were real kid with a great, big But he played only a and “get a real job.” He worked for MGM (Stu-
baseball players, and I smile,” Polk said. “He year on the practice squad
needed funds to stay in dios) who told me about
was a football player pre- could run. He was athletic before getting cut.
shape, but those were an open tryout in Houston
tending to be a baseball and you could tell he had From there, he played
skills. If he had played a short stint in the Cana- running low and time was for a new (competitive)
player,” he said.
Hutson got in one only baseball, I think I dian Football League that running out. show,” Hutson said. “I
game and had one career could’ve made him into a yielded no better pros- At the perfect moment, thought I’d give it a shot.”
at-bat, hitting a bloop sin- prospect.” pects. a $10,000 opportunity Hutson was one of 12
gle to right field. When Polk had no idea Hut- He wasn’t quite ready came knocking. men and 12 women se-
the team traveled to play son’s versatility had ever to give up his NFL dream “I knew a girl who See HUTSON, 2B

National media members sound off on Nikki McCray-Penson’s hiring

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Mis-
sissippi State has found
its next women’s basket-
ball coach.
Following the depar-
ture of Vic Schaefer to
Texas, Athletic Director
John Cohen officially
announced the hiring of
Old Dominion’s Nikki
McCray-Penson Saturday
morning.
And while Mc-
Cray-Penson has only
been a Division I head
coach since 2017, her
three years guiding the
Monarchs and her nine-
year tenure as an assistant
to Dawn Staley at South
Carolina have seemingly
set up the former two-
time Southeastern Con-
ference player of the Year
at Tennes-
see for suc-
cess in her
first major
head coach-
ing job.
A f t e r
gauging na-
McCray-Penson
tional media
members
on the larger scope of
MSU’s vacancy last week,
The Dispatch again spoke
with a number of those re-
porters to judge Cohen’s
hiring of McCray-Penson
to replace the program’s
all-time winning percent-
age leader.
“She knows expecta-
tions because she’s lived
them as a player, she’s
lived them coaching at
South Carolina, where
the demands from that
fan base are significant
as well,” Howard Megdal,
Editor-in-Chief of Fansid-
ed’s High Post Hoops, told
The Dispatch. “But let’s
also not underestimate
that Old Dominion team
— They are tremendous
and they were especially
effective on the defensive
end of the floor. That’s
going translate with the
kind of players that are al-
ready at Mississippi State
before you even take into
account what Nikki is go-
ing to be able to bring in
herself.”
Beyond her past stops
at SEC schools, Mc-
Cray-Penson provides
a blueprint for the play-
ers she’ll welcome to
Starkville to reach the
next level. Following her
standout career under Pat
Summitt, the former Vol-
unteer spent 11 seasons
playing professionally
— thrice earning WNBA
All-Star honors and twice
winning medals with the
United States olympic
team.
“If somebody says
‘Gosh, I want to be SEC
Player of the Year and I
want to be drafted and I
want to a shot at the Olym-
pic team and I want to
play professionally,’ Nikki
(McCray-Penson), did all
of those things,” ESPN
women’s college basket-
ball writer Mechelle Voe-
pel told The Dispatch.
“She can tell you what
it’s like and how she did
it. And I just think that’s
that that’s something you
can’t you can’t replicate in
some ways.”
McCray-Penson also
walks into a situation that
boasts a comparable rabid
fanbase to her previous
stops but isn’t the same
rebuilding project those
past jobs necessitated.
At South Carolina, the
program had reached the
Sweet 16 just twice since
1990 when she and Staley
took over. Further, at Old
Dominion, the Monarchs
enjoyed a long string of
success under Wendy
Larry — reaching 21
NCAA tournaments, sev-
en Sweet 16s and the 1997
national title game during
her 24-year tenure — but
hadn’t reached March
Madness since 2008 when
McCray-Penson earned
the job in 2017.
In both instances,
McCray-Penson helped
guide Old Dominion
and South Carolina to
sustained success both
schools lacked in recent
years.
“It’s hard to lose some-
body that you’ve gotten
attached to,” Voepel said
in reference to the MSU
fanbase and Schaefer.
“But he left the program
in really good shape. And
so it’s a new coach coming
See MSU, 2B
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Cowboys hanging on until rodeos start again

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On the back of a bucking bronco,
bareback rider Jamie Howlett tries
his best to hang on for eight fierce
seconds.
That’s how the cowboy from
Australia feels at the moment. Only
in this case, there’s no horn to sig-
nal an end.
Howlett and the rest of the rodeo
riders remain in a holding pattern
with events from Florida to Canada
to Texas to California on pause due
to the coronavirus pandemic.
Constantly on the road, Howlett
doesn’t have a home. So he’s bunk-
ing at his buddy’s ranch in Rapid
dle. Here’s a look at how different
riders are dealing with the down-
time: From a star (reigning six-time
bull-riding world champion Sage
Kimzey) to the grinder (Howlett) to
the weekend wrangler (gym teach-
er/track coach Eric Fabian ).
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On his 1 0-acre property in Sal-
ado, Texas, the 25-year-old Kimzey
stays plenty busy by clearing trees
and building a garden for his fian-
cee.
This is strange territory. He’s
rarely home this long.
Kimzey is a household name on
the circuit — the headliner who ev-
who’s struggling right now,” said
Kimzey, who has deep rodeo roots,
with his dad a longtime barrelman/
clown and his mother, sister and
brother professional trick riders. “It’s
definitely hard times.”
Kimzey has got lucrative spon-
sors (Wrangler, Polaris) and a nest
egg (his career earnings are more
than $2 million). He knows he’s for-
tunate with more and more events
being postponed, rescheduled or
in some cases canceled. Several
rodeo events in May are listed as
“planned” — for now, anyway.
“I tell everybody right now in
these uncertain times: Just keep
the faith and remain hopeful,” said
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MSU
Continued from Page 1B
in, but a coach who knows
the conference backward
and forward and has a lot
to work with and knows
what to do with it.”
“I think it’s a some-
what similar situation in
the sense that fans are
passionate fans and know
the sport,” Associated
Press national women’s
basketball writer Doug
Feinberg added. “And I
think that will help her
right away that she’s
aware of that. And ob-
viously when she was at
South Carolina, same sort
of thing and at Tennessee
— so she’s been around
passionate fanbases her
whole career as a player
and a coach.”
Finally, in addition
to her wildly successful
resume, McCray-Pen-
son’s hiring offers an-
other glimmer of hope
in the fight for diversity
in collegiate coaching.
At present, nine of the
SEC’s women’s basketball
coaches are women —
nine of whom are women
of color with the addition
of McCray-Penson to
their ranks.
“The fact remains that
getting more diversity at
the head coaching level
will only be better for the
game of women’s basket-
ball as well,” Megdal said.
“The larger the talent pool
that we have to choose
from in the game of wom-
en’s basketball, the better
it’s going to be because
Sunday’s Cryptoquote:
it’s casting a wider net.
This matters beyond Mis-
sissippi State and this just
matters more generally
for women’s basketball
that an elite prospect got
this coaching job.”

Hutson
Continued from Page 1B
lected to compete in the
show’s inaugural season
filmed in Hollywood, Cal-
ifornia, starting with pre-
liminary rounds and mov-
ing to a single elimination
bracket.
Both the male and fe-
male winner earned the
$10,000 grand prize, with
the runners-up receiving
$5,000 each.
The “everyman” con-
tenders were no slouch-
es. A few, like Hutson,
had played college or
professional football. The
events, which the sea-
son’s opening montage
describe as “action-ori-
ented” and “visually inter-
esting,” were physically
exhausting and often in-
volved hard contact.
En route to winning
the male division, Hut-
son won all four rounds,
besting “Lost Boys” actor
Billy Wirth in the semifi-
nals and former football
player Craig Williams in
the final.
Arguably most daunt-
ing, though, were the
Gladiators — in the men’s
division, mammoths with
names like Nitro, Gemi-
ni, Titan and Malibu that
would play foils for con-
tenders’ efforts to score
points in every event.
“There were a lot of
good people there from
different backgrounds,”
Hutson said. “The gladi-
ators were all good guys.
A lot of them were Hol-
lywood actors, but they
were also athletes. They
were all real nice, but
when they went on the
air, they would act mad
or whatever. … If you
showed them up or made
them look bad, they’d
gang up on you in the
competition, though.”
The entire season
filmed in 12 days, on what
Hutson called “turf rolled
out on a sound stage,”
which made being tackled
onto barely covered con-
crete particularly painful.
Contenders practiced
on all the events for two
days then began com-
peting, spending most of
their time watching their
fellow contenders and
learning from their mis-
takes. Meanwhile, show
producers were adjusting
their own miscalcula-
tions.
“They were literal-
ly making it up as they
went,” Hutson said. “They
changed a bunch of rules
if it gave the contenders
too much of an advantage.
But I get it. They wanted
it to be more competitive.”
One such rule change
came courtesy of Hutson,
who in human cannon-
ball — where contenders
swung from a rope at sta-
tionary gladiators braced
on platforms — extended
his feet to knock off long-
haired surfer dude Mal-
ibu, who then had to get
stitches above his left eye.
After that, contenders
had to keep their legs
tucked in the event.
“Malibu (played by
Deron McBee) was Tar-
zan at Universal Studios,”
Hutson said. “He consid-
ered himself an actor. He
didn’t want to tear his face
up or break a bone.”
In the early rounds of
the competition, the Glad-
iators palled around with
the contenders off cam-
era. As the rounds went
on, that began to change.
Some, though, were al-
ways in character.
“Mike (Horton), who
played Gemini, was prob-
ably the nicest guy off
set,” Hutson said. “Dan
(Clark), who played Ni-
tro, was a nice guy but he
took it seriously. He was
in form all the time, and
he was one of the better
athletes.”
Returning to the arena
When the show start-
ed, the idea was the win-
ners would join the Glad-
iator team.
Hutson said neither
he nor the female win-
ner were physically big
enough to pull that off so
the plan changed.
Plus, the show’s pop-
ularity soared, renewing
for a second half-season
in 1990 with 12 new com-
petitors of each gender.
They asked Hutson to re-
turn and compete against
the second-half winner,
who turned out to be ac-
tor/dancer Anderson, for
a grand championship —
a tradition that continued
throughout the show’s
tenure.
“They told me I’d
come and stay for the two
weeks, and I’d only have
to do one show,” Hutson
said.
But in the six months
since he had first compet-
ed, there were changes.
Specifically, a wall-climb-
ing event had been added.
In Hutson’s one chance to
practice, he fell.
Anderson, on the other
hand, had performed well
on the wall and had com-
peted on it four times in
winning his title. So, when
the two squared off on the
wall in the Grand Champi-
onship, show cohost and
renowned sportscaster
Mike Adamle went to the
side Anderson was climb-
ing to prepare for a post-
event interview.
But Hutson, surpris-
ingly, won the event easi-
ly, forcing the crew to stop
filming so Adamle could
move to the other side.
“I remember thinking,
‘I’m getting up this wall,’”
Hutson said. “I looked
over at Mike (after I did
it), and he just had this
huge grin on his face.”
The Grand Champion-
ship winnings technically
included a Chevrolet ve-
hicle worth up to $30,000
and $5,000 in cash. Hut-
son already had a vehicle.
“I went to a Chevy deal-
ership, took the car, then
turned around and sold it
right back to them,” Hut-
son said. “I needed the
money.”
Producers floated the
idea of bringing Hutson
back as a referee, instead
of a Gladiator, after the
Grand Championship. At
first, both sides seemed
willing, but a deal never
came together.
“I ended up making the
Patriots, so I wasn’t avail-
able anyway,” he said.
Realizing the dream
When Hutson signed
a free agent contract with
the New England Patriots
in 1990, the sports section
of the Boston Globe pub-
lished a story and a photo
making light of the defen-
sive back’s reality show
past.
“There I am in the pa-
per swinging on a rope,”
Hutson said, recalling
when he saw the photo.
“The story was some-
thing like, ‘the Patriots
are dipping into the bot-
tom of the barrel.’”
But as the NFL season
went on, Hutson’s stock
went up and he eventually
made it on the field in two
games. He was playing
very well in the second
half on the road against
the Miami Dolphins,
when a Miami player
rolled over on his leg after
a tackle and tore up Hut-
son’s ankle.
Hutson was cut by
year’s end and signed an-
other free agent contract
with the Green Bay Pack-
ers for the 1991 season.
His ankle never fully re-
covered, however, and he
retired from football be-
fore he ever saw the field
again.
“Nobody can tell me I
didn’t make it,” he said.
Getting ‘a real job’
Hutson left Green Bay
intent on finding the “real
job” he had long evaded
having to get.
He and a business
ACROSS
partner started an office
1 Periodicals, for
furniture store in Searcy,
short
Arkansas, where Hut-
5 Judge
son met his wife, Angie,
9 Painter
whom he married in 1998.
Picasso
Terry Moore, a former
UCLA linebacker who 10 Winfrey of TV
12 French
competed with Hutson
on the “American Gladia-
farewell
13 Florida city
tors” pilot season, was in
14 Lebanon trees
the wedding party.
16 Sick
Now Hutson lives in 17 Genesis
the Dallas area and his garden
business, BHC Office 18 Mars, for one
Solutions, has locations 21 Scepter
in Addison and Searcy, as 22 Comes up
well as Rogers and Con- 23 Fruit trees Sunday’s answer
way, Arkansas. 24 For each DOWN 23 Peach center
The Hutsons’ son, 26 Mountain 1 Coped 24 Quaking trees
Race, 17, eschewed athlet- pass 2 Tolerated 25 Digestion-re-
ic pursuits in favor of more 29 Disease-bear- 3 Do some field lated
“creative” ventures, Brian ing fly work 26 Incite to
said. The younger Hutson 30 Mediocre 4 Tart action
builds video games as a 31 Phone down- 5 Period 27 Climb
hobby and wants to attend load
the University of Chicago 32 Cashew
6 Clean Water
Act org.
28 Sheriff’s
group
to major in paleontology. family trees 7 Royal fur 29 Lights-out
None of the Hutsons 34 Small, to 8 Sugar trees tune
seek out the old episodes Simone 9 Track horse 30 Mona Lisa
of “American Gladiators,” 37 Carnival 11 Sentry’s feature
but when they come attractions command 33 River of
across the syndicated re- 38 Slyly sarcastic 15 Evergreen Russia
39 Without
runs, they’ll stop to relive trees 35 Writer Tarbell
Brian’s 15 minutes of tele- others 19 Citrus fruit 36 Toe count
40 Look over
vision stardom. 20 Braying beast
41 Easter lead-in 22 Pub brews
“Race saw an episode
once, took one look at me
and said, ‘That’s not my
dad,’” Brian, now in his
50s, recalled. “Of course,
I was younger and buffed
up then.”
“People ask me occa-
sionally where my mus-
cles went,” he added. “I
tell them, ‘Nobody pays
me to work out anymore.’”
Brian isn’t big on ad-
vertising his time on
the show, but he doesn’t
mind when people bring
it up. In fact, he’s grate-
ful he did it.
“It was fun. I en-
joyed it,” Brian said. “If
I hadn’t done the Glad-
iators, I wouldn’t have
been able to chase my
dream. I couldn’t have
afforded it.”

Tiger’s last Masters as much about family as a green jacket
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tiger Woods walked off
the 18th green as a Mas-
ters champion for the fifth
time, a major champion
for the 15th time, and the
sensation was unlike any-
thing he had ever felt.
More memorable than
any shot — the 8-iron that
trickled by the hole at
the 16th was the decisive
blow — was the purpose-
ful stride toward his son,
grabbing Charlie with
both arms, lifting the boy
and turning from side to
side.
His mother was next.
His daughter. His loyal
support staff. And then a
lineup of players outside
the clubhouse, some of
them in green jackets.
They had been upstairs in
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the locker room reserved
for champions, yet they
shared a feeling with the
entire golf world.
Memories gave way to
reality.
“That’s going to be
in people’s minds forev-
er,” Rickie Fowler said
last month, just two days
before the Masters was
postponed because of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Was it his biggest win?
It would be hard to rate
that over his first Mas-
ters title in 1997, a “hello,
world” moment not tied to
advertising. Woods set 20
records that signaled the
arrival of a brand of dom-
inance never seen in golf.
The most historical?
His 2001 victory at Au-
gusta gave him a sweep of
the four majors in a span of
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294 days. He stands alone
there.
This was no less sig-
nificant because of what it
meant — to Woods, to his
sport, to peers who grew
up idolizing him and to a
worldwide audience that
had reason to believe it
might never happen again.
“I had just an amaz-
ing amount of emails and
texts that were flowing
in,” Woods said in a con-
ference call leading up to
the Masters. “But I was
more surprised by the
amount of videos of people
watching the Masters and
seeing their reaction when
I hit the shot on 16 or when
I made the putt, whether it
was on airplanes or in air-
ports or restaurants.
“The amount of emo-
tion that people were
showing, that’s what blew
my mind.”
That’s what made this
Masters different from his
other four, this major dif-
ferent from the other 14.
Adam Scott doesn’t
usually stick around when
he’s finished with a ma-
jor. One exception was in
2006 after the U.S. Open
at Winged Foot when he
was headed for the airport
and turned around when
close friend Geoff Ogilvy
emerged the winner.
He finished Sunday at
Augusta National about
the time all hell broke
loose at Amen Corner.
“You got a sense, as
he was kind of taking the
lead on the back nine, that
something special could
be happening,” Scott said.
“There was a lot of guys
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19). Your soul’s intelligence
will speak to you in the form of
curiosity. People who love you
will support your investigation
watching in the cham-
pion’s locker room and I
stayed and watched. You
don’t often get that group
of people together very
often. You just had that
sense it’s a significant mo-
ment in the sport again.”
Gary Woodland wasn’t
about to miss it.
“I don’t usually watch
much golf,” he said. “I
had my family there. I
was flying out Sunday
afternoon. I played early
that day, and we pushed
the flight back. I wanted
to watch that.”
The only mystery is
where it leads.
Woods was never the
same the rest of the major
season. He played nine
holes of practice at Beth-
page Black and missed
the cut in the PGA Cham-
all. — CARMELLA
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could not agree
more. Read-
ers have been
asking me how
to cope with the
changed reality of
everyday life since
the COVID-19
virus struck this
country. Reaching
out to help
someone else is
a potent remedy
for anyone who is experiencing
the blues and cabin fever. Even
if you can’t be supportive in
person, a phone call, a text, a
post with an uplifting message
or a joke can lighten the mood
of someone who is feeling
isolated. I am glad you wrote,
Carmella, and I hope your mes-
sage will resonate.
DEAR ABBY: I have encoun-
tered an “over-hugger.” I have
to respect how others feel about
it. This person does not extend
involves picking the recipient up
off the ground. It’s invasive, in
my opinion. The last time I saw
him, I offered my hand. Instead
of taking it, he yanked me in
and said, “We give hugs here!”
I know he wants to show affec-
tion, but he puts his own needs
of what you are intuitively drawn
toward.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
When you want people to know
what you’re thinking, you’ll tell
them with words, actions and
other unmistakable signals.
When you don’t want people
to know what you’re thinking,
they absolutely won’t be able to
read you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
As much as you’d like every-
thing you own to be useful,
beautiful or both, the truth is
that your relationship to your
material possessions goes far
beyond these criteria. You’ll
pare down today.
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020 3B
pionship. He was never a
factor at the U.S. Open
at Pebble Beach, site of
his 15-shot victory, as
untouchable as any of his
records. He missed the
cut at the British Open.
Woods had another
knee surgery to repair
minor cartilage damage.
And then he won again,
this time in Japan, to tie
the PGA Tour’s victory
record with No. 82.
In only two starts this
year, in chilly California
weather, he didn’t look
like the Masters cham-
pion. His back felt stiff
and he skipped three
tournaments he ordinari-
ly plays. And now golf is
shut down, which Woods
said has given him time
for his 44-year-old body
to feel stronger.
before the needs of others.
I want to tell him not to hug
me anymore. However, it’s com-
plicated because we are part of
a loose-knit athletic community.
First, is it odd of me not to
want his hugs? Second, how do
you recommend I send the mes-
sage that a handshake is the
most I want? — NO BEAR HUGS
DEAR NO BEAR HUGS:
Pandemic notwithstanding, in
general terms, I agree that what
this person is doing is over the
top. If he were to yank and lift
someone who has back issues,
he could harm the person.
My first thought would be
to tell this man privately that
you don’t want him lifting you. If
you can’t take him aside and do
that, then call him or write him
a letter.
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CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Most scientists agree we don’t
perceive all of reality. Some
say we don’t perceive any of
it, if there even is an objective
reality. Regardless, you’re find-
ing points of agreement in your
group that matter quite a lot.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You’ve an unparalleled instinct
for what’s important. You’ll
focus on the heart of what’s
happening and find that many
time-consuming details can be
skipped or delegated.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Would you rather be like Batman
with an everloyal Robin or be
an Avenger with an entire team
around to support you? You’ll
get the luxury of such a choice
today.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The old “sticks and stones” say-
ing is both commonplace and
erroneous, as words do have
the power to harm and deeply
wound. You’ll be so careful
about how you wield them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). When you think about it,
one of your dreams has come
true, and you’re living it, like it
or not. The realization may have
you carefully considering what
to dream next.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). The obstacles are tied to
your talents. You cannot have
an artistic block if you’re not
artistic, a writer’s block if you’re
not a writer, a creative block if
you’re not creative. The break-
through is imminent.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It’s the little flubs that
make the process or project
relatable. Consider leaving them
in. They’ll give you an opportuni-
ty to connect and share stories.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Tonight brings an impulsive
mood, which can lead you to
boldness or folly. Take pause,
and think about reactions and
fallout, especially in regard to
the written word and email!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Maybe you are denying
another person the full story of
who you are, and it’s your right
to do so. It’s not their story. You
own your journey and have the
right to preserve or present it as
you see fit.
High stakes
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Fears of ‘Wild West’ as COVID-19

blood tests hit the market
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Blood tests for
the coronavirus could play a key role in
deciding whether millions of Americans
can safely return to work and school. But
public health officials warn that the cur-
rent “Wild West” of unregulated tests is
creating confusion that could ultimately
slow the path to recovery.
More than 70 companies have signed
up to sell so-called antibody tests in re-
cent weeks, according to U.S. regulators.
Governments around the world hope that
the rapid tests, which typically use a fin-
ger-prick of blood on a test strip, could
soon ease public restrictions by identify-
ing people who have previously had the
virus and have developed some immuni-
ty to it.
But key questions remain: How accu-
rate are the tests, how much protection is
needed and how long will that protection
last.
The blood tests are different from the
nasal swab-based tests currently used
to diagnose active COVID-19 infections.
Instead, the tests look for blood proteins
called antibodies, which the body pro-
duces days or weeks after fighting an
infection. The same approach is used for
HIV, hepatitis, Lyme disease, lupus and
many other diseases.
Because of the relative simplicity of
the technology, the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration decided to waive initial re-
view of the tests as part of its emergency
response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Right now, the tests are most useful
for researchers studying how the virus
has spread through the U.S. population.
The government said Friday it has start-
ed testing 10,000 volunteers. The White
House has not outlined a broader plan
for testing and how the results might be
used.
With almost no FDA oversight of the
tests, “Right now it’s a wild west show out
there,” said Eric Blank of the Association
for Public Health Laboratories. “It really
has created a mess that’s going to take a
while to clean up.”
“In the meantime, you’ve got a lot of
companies marketing a lot of stuff and
nobody has any idea of how good it is,”
he said.
Members of Blank’s group, which
represents state and local lab officials,
have urged the FDA to revisit its lax ap-
proach toward the tests. That approach
essentially allows companies to launch
as long as they notify the agency and
include disclaimers. Companies are sup-
posed to state that their tests have not
been FDA-approved and cannot rule out
whether someone is currently infected.
Last week, FDA Commissioner Ste-
phen Hahn said in a statement that the
agency will “take appropriate action”
against companies making false claims
or selling inaccurate tests.
During an interview Sunday on NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” Hahn expressed “con-
cern” that tests being sold “may not be as
accurate as we’d like them to be.”
“What we don’t want are wildly inac-
curate tests,” he said. “That’s going to
be much worse, having wildly inaccurate
tests than having no test.”
Dr. Allison Rakeman of New York
City’s Public Health Laboratory says
some local hospitals are assuming the
tests, which are listed on FDA’s website,
“have been vetted, when they have not.”
The danger of faulty testing, Rake-
man says, is that people will mistakenly
conclude that they are immune or are no
longer spreading the virus.
“Then somebody goes home and kiss-
es their 90-year-old grandmother,” said
Rakeman. “You don’t want to give some-
one a false sense of security.”
For most people, the new coronavirus
causes mild or moderate symptoms, such
as fever and cough that clear up in two to
three weeks. For some, especially older
adults and people with existing health
problems, it can cause more severe ill-
ness, including pneumonia, and death.
For many infections, antibody lev-
els above a certain threshold indicate
that the person’s immune system has
successfully fought off the virus and is
likely protected from reinfection. For
COVID-19, it’s not yet clear what level
of antibodies render patients immune or
how long immunity might last.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that
both legitimate companies and fraudu-
lent operators appear to be selling the
kits. Distinguishing between the two can
be a challenge.
Officials in Laredo, Texas, reported
this month that some 2,500 antibody
tests set for use at a local drive-thru
testing site were likely frauds. City of-
ficials had ordered what they were told
were “FDA-approved COVID-19 rapid
tests,” from a local clinic. But when they
checked the test’s accuracy, it fell well be-
low the range promised, the city said in a
statement.

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Social distancing is the most effective tool we
have for slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
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If you must go out, keep your social distance—
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