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NOVEMBER 16-22 | 2011

: JERUSALEM CAFE UPDATE 5

LIVING WITHOUTTECHNOLOGY 6

FROM CLASS TO“CAT-OURE” 8

5 ON 5: WILL THE ’CATS WIN THE BIG EAST? 10

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Unplugged.Jerusalem Cafe update

Researcher fi nds new immune response

From Class to ’Cat’toure

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Nation & WorldSyrian President Bashar Assad faced heightened economic and political pressures Monday as Europe imposed a new round of financial sanctions and King Abdullah of Jordan called on the embattled autocrat to step down.

Attempting to embarrass the Afghan government ahead of a major national assembly, the Taliban on Sunday published what it called the government’s secret security plan for the event, including details of troop deployments and cellphone numbers of security officials.

A group of men in Toccoa, Ga., have been charged with plotting to commit terrorist attacks in large cities across the country with the toxic agent ricin. The men are accused of planning attacks on private citizens and the government during meetings at a Waffle House, according to warrants served on them by special agents.

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Iran refuses to discuss its alleged military-related research or provide data on new uranium enrichment plants it plans to build- preventing the U.N. nuclear watchdog from verifying that Iran isn’t seeking nuclear weapons — IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said May 5, 2010.

Iran test fires missiles capable of carrying nuclear payloads during a 10-day long military exercise in June — the latest test to date. Missile test fires began in 2006, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched three Shabab-3 missiles — Iran’s medium-range ballistic missile. In September 2009, Iran also conducted tests of two other long-range missiles. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell labeled the test launches as “provocative actions”.

Throughout the last month, Iran and Israel have engaged in a back-and-forth battle played out through various media outlets across the globe. Israel test fired missiles Nov. 2 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran posed a “direct and heavy threat” to his nation. In response, Iranian President Ahmadinejad said he will not retreat “one iota” despite an IAEA report released Friday claiming Iran is in violation of its Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol signed in 1973.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects allegations that he is seeking a nuclear weapon after former IAEA Chief Mohamed Elbaradei says Iran is “three to seven years from creating a nuclear weapon”. Following a string of sanctions and censures from the IAEA, several multi-lateral talks end without resolution.

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Researcher discovers new immune response

Gas not cause of eatery explosion

bethany cianciolo | staff reporter

A University of Cincinati professor is leading the fight against pediatric liver disease.

A new type of immune response has been discovered in infants in their bodies’ fight against pediatric liver disease.

Biliary Atresia — a congenital disease that occurs from improper bile duct development — is the most common cause of pediatric liver disease, but its exact cause remains unclear, according to research conducted by Dr. Jorge Bezerra, a researcher and physician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at UC.

“Bile needs to be excreted into the intestines for proper digestion to occur,” Bezerra said.

The bile ducts help remove waste from the liver, but in Biliary Atresia, the ducts become blocked and infants develop jaundice, a yellowing color of the skin and eyes, Bezerra said.

Each pediatric treatment may require surgery or even liver transplants, Bezerra said.

T-helper cells, or TH cytokines, are types of white blood cells that secrete cytokine — a protein involved in the interaction between cells and their behavior. The TH cells send signals within the body to trigger immune system responses, Bezerra said.

In recent studies, only TH1 cells, a specific type of TH cell, were linked with causing Biliary Atresia. Most children with the disease have a dominant amount of TH1 cells, but physicians found

that not all c h i l d r e n respond to the same t r e a t m e n t s for the liver d i s e a s e , Bezerra said.

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which molecule was responsible for this TH1 independent process,” he said.

Researchers found Interleukin 13, a molecule commonly present in the TH2 response, Bezerra said.

“Indeed we found that almost 15 to 20 percent of the babies also have the TH2 response,” he said. “We actually have different types of immune responses.”

Going forward, Dr. Bezzera said he and other researchers are beginning pre-clinical trials, but must first test the experiment in mice to see if they can actually target a TH1 or TH2 response.

“Our findings add a new dimension to the understanding of Biliary Atresia,” he said. “They provide a potential target for new therapies and have implications for clinical trials.”

Saturday, nov. 12When: 10 p.m.Where: 45 West Daniels St.What: Criminal damagingSuspect: No Arrest

When: 12:30 p.m.Where: 45 West Daniels St. What: Theft of bicyclesSuspect: No Arrest

Friday, nov. 11When: NoonWhere: 2935 Campus Green DriveWhat: VandalismSuspect: No Arrest

thursday. nov. 10When: 7 p.m.Where: 240 Calhoun St.What: Abuse of MarijuanaSuspect: Arrested When: 3:22 a.m. Where: 60 West Charlton St.What: TrespassingSuspect: Arrested

tuesday, nov. 8When: 8:55 p.m.Where: 2535 Clifton Ave.What: Criminal damagingSuspect: Arrested

When: 12:20 p.m.Where: 321 Clifton CourtWhat: Theft from a motor vehicleSuspect: No Arrest When: 12:01 a.m.Where: 240 Calhoun St.What: MenacingSuspect: No Arrest

When: MidnightWhere: 222 Piedmont Ave.What: Theft from buildingsSuspect: No Arrest

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• Gas was not the cause of the ex plosion, according to Duke Energy.

• The Internal Gas Department vis ited the site Monday and determined none of the underground equipment was significantly impacted.

• Aiman Arabeiat, proprieter of Jerusalem Restaurant, was the man injured during the explosion, and was spotted leaving the scene via a black pickup truck.

• Arabeiat was taken to Christ Hospital and transfered to University Hospital.

• The building incurred $60,000 in damages.

• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives is help ing the Cincinnati Fire Department in its investigation.

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once on Scene Cincinnati police and fire departments responded to an explosion at Jerusalem Restaurant Sunday night.

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UNPLUGGED Can one college student survive in a world of 1995 technology?

JON MECHLEY | FOR VERGE MAGAZINE

One day last spring, I unplugged from the modern world.

I don’t consider myself a technology junkie. I certainly wouldn’t make the cut for Best Buy’s Geek Squad; I don’t regard Kindles as “books,” and — call me old-fashioned — I still print out directions on MapQuest rather than using a GPS. I am, however, 24 years old, born right in the thick of a generation of people who use the Internet to do their Tweeting, score checking and banking

from their cellular “phones,” yet don’t consider t h e m s e l v e s technology junkies.

Living without technology wouldn’t

have even crossed my mind, had Time Warner not

accidentally shut the Internet off at my apartment the week before that cold shower. It would have been just another day of mindless browsing.

But Time Warner did screw up, and it took them four days to correct it. Although my personal laptop isn’t my only source to the Internet, it was still a relatively unplugged, thought-provoking four days.

Four days later, upon the Internet’s triumphant return to my apartment, I

wasted no haste, greedily checking my Facebook, Twitter, blog, email,

fantasy baseball team (The Electric Sliders) and sports

scores — all while playing dozens of games of

Yahoo! Euchre. When nature inevitably

called, I glanced at the time in the upper-right-

hand corner of my cell phone.

Six hours had gone by, disappeared into

unproductive nothingness. Is that what life really meant

to me anymore? I pried myself away from my laptop and sent a text to my

roommate. “Internet’s up and running, you can move back in again.” Now what did I have recorded on DVR?

Halfway into a recorded episode of “House,” it occurred to me that I was hooked — utterly dependent — on modern technology. I have a diverse set of interests, sure, but they’re almost all unifi ed by a common portal: technology that’s only been available to the public within the last 15 years.

I play video games live on Xbox 360. I watch a variety of shows — “House,”

“Jeopardy,” “Breaking Bad,” etc. — and I record all of them on DVR so I never miss an episode.

I keep up with sports through a scores application on my Blackberry. I’ve always loved music, but now it’s streamed onto an iPod that holds thousands of songs, fi ts in my hand and can go anywhere. I stay in touch with friends mostly through texting, Facebook and Twitter. And I’m not a technology junkie?

Forget denying it, this whole generation is hooked on the techno juice. In 2011, one in 13 people on earth had a Facebook account, and 48 percent of people aged 18-34 years old were checking theirs the minute they wake up. Another 28 percent can’t even wait until they get out of bed. Welcome to the new social norm.

It all made me wonder: Could I do without? Not just the Internet via my personal laptop, but the Internet altogether.

And the cell phone. And cable television with its luxury of recording, rewinding and fast-forwarding. Could I possibly live without the whole high-tech kit-n-caboodle? At 24, I belong to a bridged generation who spent most of their childhood doing without any of the technology listed above, but were introduced to it in their mid-teens. I grew up playing Wiffl e-ball in a Cincinnati cul-de-sac. I romped through the woods in our backyard and hunted for turtles. I watched ABC’s Friday-night lineup, but it was during Friday night, no exceptions. You missed “Boy Meets

World?” Then you missed “Boy Meets World.”I could do it again, right? I could prove my

identity wasn’t connected to a computer, a television and a cell phone; the charger cord wasn’t my lifeline, right? Forget four days, I thought: It was just past noon on a Sunday, and starting at midnight, I was going a full week without the aid of any technology unavailable in 1995.

And I meant it.

The rules were theoretically simple: If I didn’t have it when I was 8, then I wouldn’t use it now. Fair enough. I could still watch TV, but only after axing it down to the local channels, with nothing recorded and no guide button. To unplug from the Internet, I banished my laptop to the top shelf of my closet. As for the telephone, I no longer had a landline, or even access to one, so I improvised. I plugged my cell phone into the charger, and there it would rest the entire week—mobile no more. If I missed a call, I would check voicemail. No “contacts” icon was helping me in 1995, so any number I wanted, I wrote down on a piece of loose-leaf paper and left by the phone. No iPod, no Xbox, none of it.

At 8 a.m. the next day, my alarm went off. A nagging, repetitive beeping blasted monotone, forcing me out of bed. I lumbered across the room and pushed the snooze button. I had dug the antiquated contraption out of the same

closet where I was storing my laptop, and my touch on the snooze button left a fi ngerprint in the dust. I already missed the upbeat jingle from my cell phone’s alarm function.

Per routine, I went to my desk to update my fantasy baseball roster, just as I did every morning. I panicked when I got there — someone had stolen my laptop! Oh, right. The closet. I remembered that Toronto had optioned Travis Snider back to the minors last night, and I had fallen asleep before swapping him out of my roster. I had erred myself into a whole week of

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a worthless roster spot. Luckily, the Electric Sliders were already in last place.

I had four hours to kill before work. I had slept to my maximum potential, and a hybrid of cabin fever and an itch to be productive was bubbling up inside me. What am I supposed to be centered on now?

I went for a jog. The sky was painted with thunderclouds and it was lightly drizzling, but I had to get out of the apartment. Its unplugged silence was staring me down. I was a new man, I told myself — a time traveler. From now on, I was a guy who went for jogs. Motivated by this thought, I decided to run to my full potential.

Upon showering, I still had nearly three hours left. I had used up just 1/24 of 1/7 of one week. I looked over to my bookshelf, and pulled down “Lolita,” my all-time favorite, from somewhere in the middle of a dusty row. There was a bookmark stuck about a fourth of the way through. I discarded it, and started rereading from the beginning.

Six pages in, my cell phone vibrated: a text message. I was curious how many would pile up, left ignored, by the week’s end. There are 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers — or roughly 77 percent of the world population — and this particular cell phone wanted attention. The phone vibrated again (message No. 2) and went silent for the next few hours. At 4:30, I pulled away from Humbert Humbert’s narration and plodded off to work, the cell phone still plugged in and at rest on my nightstand.

Here’s food for thought that I hadn’t even considered: driving home from work, in the dark and the rain, with no cell phone. If I were T-boned by an SUV going 50 mph, it was just me there. No paramedics at the quick tap of 9-1-1. No fi nal call to my parents if things went south. Just myself and the wreckage. What did people do when they got T-boned by SUVs going 50 mph in the early ‘90s? Crawl to a payphone? Wait until someone else drove by, noticed, drove to the nearest payphone, then called 9-1-1?

I usually try and turn in before 1 a.m., but that fi rst night was an exception. Wiped from the morning run and trying to ignore the thoughts of my ailing fantasy team and my ghost town of a Facebook profi le, I never saw a minute past 10. I zonked out, still in my work

clothes, eyes following in sync with the gentle lopping of the ceiling fan. One day down.

It took a few days, but I fi nally got into the rhythm of 1995. Time passed considerably slowly, but by Wednesday, things seemed settled. At fi rst all I wanted to do was update my Facebook status about how miserable I was without it, but soon enough, I stopped thinking about it. Without the new episode of “Pawn Stars” being thrust in my face by the DVR menu, I didn’t miss it. I forgot about Travis Snider’s .173 batting average giving him a swift boot to the minors, and the vibrations of neglected text messages became white noise.

I fi nished “Lolita,” and began reading “The World According to Garp,” a book I had owned since forever but had never opened. Every morning, I bought a newspaper — you remember those, right? — and checked the baseball scores and NHL playoff race. I kept running. I took my friend mountain biking in Kentucky, on the sheer guise that it seemed appropriate for someone in my situation to do. I pulled out my Sega Genesis, and after half an hour of blowing into the machine, played “Sonic 2” and gave Dr. Robotnik the business. For kicks, I mailed my parents a letter. In an envelope.

One night, I went fi shing, drank a sweaty beer, and listened to the Reds game on a battery-powered radio. Another day, I actually went to a physical bank — bricks, building and all. Smiling tellers still exist, in case you were wondering. I fi red up my old desktop computer that still ran on Windows 95, and played a few rounds of “Oregon Trail II.” It was a self-induced culture shock, and life passed like a snail scaling Everest, but I hadn’t felt as relaxed and centered since … well, 1995. I’d lasted fi ve days, and they weren’t as bad as I’d thought they’d be.

Then I cracked. The exact time was 7:38 p.m. on Friday. My roommate, who was juggling playing online poker, listening to his iTunes, and updating his fantasy baseball team roster, boorishly jeered into the hallway that he was bidding on the Chicago Cubs’ second basemen Darwin Barney and there was nothing I could do about it. We’re talking a .330 batting average, 18 runs already that season, and a free agent. T r a v i s S n i d e r w a s

unleashed back into my mind like an exploded dam, burning a hole in my roster spot; he was hogging prime fantasy-points real estate like my roommate often hogged all the hot water. Batting .173 and in the minors. The minors!

I sprang to my closet, slung out my laptop and thanked God it was faster than my roommate’s dinosaur desktop. In a matter of two minutes, I had kicked Travis Snider to the curb, and Darwin Barney was wedged comfortably in his place, producing fantasy points like it was his job. In my absence, The Electric Sliders had fi rmly held their ground in last place.

My pride defl ated, I slunk over to my phone, and gave the 37 unread text messages the attention they had been vibrating for over the past fi ve days. For nearly a week, I wasn’t a technology junkie, and now I was back in the statistical technology pile — just another schmuck among 5.3 billion on cell phones. Had I been someplace else when my roommate began doing what roommates do, I might have lasted longer. There was something strangely real about those fi ve days, although if you ask me about it, I’d be hard-pressed to explain it. Will I ever attempt it again? Probably not. In the end, we’re all technology junkies,

and it will only be getting worse. Twitter lets users have 140 characters to speak their minds.

I only needed enough for two words: @Jmechley: Just

failed.Welcome

to the new social norm.

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EAMON QUEENEY | PHOTO EDITOR

DOT-COM DEPRIVED University of Cincinnati student Jon Mechley decided to unplug from modern-day technology and experience life like it was back in 1995.

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Bryndan Kinard | staff reporter

The women at UC aren’t the only Bearcats to exude their own distinct fashion. The men have been stepping out in style, making statements ranging from eclectic and thrifty to clean cut. TNR took a couple of good men aside to discuss their “guy style.”

From class to ‘Cat’toure

Third-year photojournalism student

Style: “Getting dressed in the dark/not really caring. My style is really personal.”

influences: “Prices of clothing, definitely. I don’t feel like you need to go to Macy’s to get your clothes. You can literally find the exact stuff at Gabriel Brothers you find at

department stores for less.”

Favorite designer: “None really. But I really like Levi’s.”

Spots to shop: “St. Vincent de Paul, Valley Thrift, Salvation Army, Sears and other thrift stores. I’m a big fan of trading and hand-me-downs.”

Third-year product development student

Style: “Complicated, crazy and chaotic; but it has a great outcome.”

influences: “People, places, things and my mood all influence my style. I really dress each day depending on how I feel and who I’m going to be around.”

Favorite designer: “Ralph Lauren, Diane von Furstenberg, Oscar de la Renta and Tory Burch.”

Spots to shop: “Anywhere and everywhere they sell things. I find the most random things at the most random places and wear them. All clearance racks, especially Urban Outfitters and The Gap because of the convenience of location to me. ”

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‘Saints and Sinners’ alike enjoy BTBAMBlaKe hammond | staff reporter

In the 22 years I’ve been alive, I’ve witnessed a lot of metal shows: I’ve seen bands like Kiss, Megadeth, Metallica, Skid Row and Avenged Sevenfold, but none of these artists provided an atmosphere quite like the bands of the Saints and Sinners Tour.

The show at Bogart’s Saturday created one of the most relaxing atmospheres I’ve ever been in, even though the acts were heavy on the metal.

Opening band Tesseract, hailing from the U.K., was a mediocre start to a show that would end up being phenomenal. They presented a style of metalcore that incorporated simple hardcore riffs underneath a vocalist who would throw in death metal growls in between his second-rate Matthew Bellamy impersonations.

Their set didn’t seem that terrible at first, but the repetitive mundane riffs underneath the whiny lead singer’s voice got older than Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Or as my father, Jeff Hammond, eloquently put it, Tesseract was “sucktacular.”

Next on the bill was the act Animals as Leaders. The instrumental three-piece band could easily be described as the metal-infused lovechild of Frank Zappa and Rush. Animals as Leaders offered up a technically sound but complicated set that was exemplified by Tosin Abasi’s masterful guitar playing. Nonetheless, their stage presence was ultimately lost in all the musically challenging riffs and solos they were executing.

This brings us to the headliner, Between the Buried and Me. BTBAM not only personified pure musicianship with their precise instrumentation, but they also carried a showmanship on stage that kept the audience enticed and enthused during their entire performance.

Tommy Rogers, lead singer and keyboardist of the North Carolina outfit, ran around the stage while going from a deep death metal howl to a magnificently beautiful falsetto without missing a beat. Meanwhile, guitarists Paul Waggoner and Dustie Waring were laying down riffs and twin guitar solos that would make any genuine metal fan’s face melt.

The highlight of the show was when BTBAM played a medley of songs off their early records “The Silent Circus” and “Alaska.” This six-minute time warp included snippets from throwback tracks like “Alaska” and “All Bodies” which excited the crowd and sent the mosh pit into the height of its intensity.

Though this was the most memorable part of the concert, BTBAM provided an atmosphere the whole night that cannot be mimicked or impersonated by any other artist. With their own brand of experimental, progressive death metal, BTBAM put the crowd in a soothing trance with their epically long songs and beautiful breakdowns that were comparable to the likes of a death metal version of Pink Floyd.

For a majority of the show, there wasn’t even a mosh pit, which gave the concert a more calming

atmosphere. Although this is somewhat unheard of in the death metal genre, it is mainly because the crowd was in shock and awe over the transcendent and sometimes schizophrenic styles BTBAM was producing on stage.

Overall, this was a fantastic show. “The Saints and Sinners Tour” provided a night filled with outstanding talent, which was finally capped off by BTBAM proving that it is possible to play technically challenging music live without losing the showmanship and stage presence that the fans paid to see.

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What do you think about Mayweather-Pacquiao now?

Brittany YorkSports editor@britt_yorkTalk back on Twitter: @riverfrontkid @Spragoo1977 @samberg89 @SGdoesit

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James SpragueChief reporter

Sam WeinbergSports editor Managing editor

Sam Greene

I don’t think about Floyd or Manny.

The Bearcats are solid, and they seem to have confi dence in one another; so, yes I do.

As always, Mayweather will destroy him — if it ever happens.

Yes — only because there are two cupcakes left and Louisville lost last week.

I’m thinking that Pacquiao, sadly, is starting to slow down a bit.

Yep, because the cliche “next man in” of Butch Jones is actually going to work.

I hope it happens, but I don’t think it will. Maybe.

Yes, but it will be because of their easy remaining schedule.

I don’t think that’ll ever happen unless one of them gets desperate for money.

For the fourth or fi fth time now, yes.

Did the Bengals prove their mettle against Pittsburgh?

The Bengals did just fi ne; they obviously didn’t win, but they hung in there even without key players.

They can fi ght it out for that least-popular-of-the-popular-spot.

If it doesn’t I will lose faith in sports fans across the nation.

Crown them —they are who I thought they were and the Steelers didn’t let them off the hook.

No. More people in this country play hoops than hockey, thus making the NBA more popular.

They proved that they could hang with the big teams, which was not even the best case scenario at the start of the year.

I hope so. Besides football, hockey is the best sport played on American soil.

No. The Houston Texans are in dire times. The NFL season is dead to me, just like Matt Schaub’s foot.

One can only hope that this will be the case.

The Bearcats almost beat Oklahoma last year. What did that prove?

Do you think the Bearcats will win the Big East following the loss to WVU?

Do you think the NHL will overtake the NBA in popularity?

I was pretty nervous at fi rst, and I’m sure he was, too. He can defi nitely run, but I’m not confi dent in the passing game right now

He runs well but passes like David Klingler.

He is good enough to lead them to victory in the fi nal three games, and that’s all we need.

Not too shabby — I wish him the best.

Not too bad — he showed a sneak peek at a very diff erent 2012 Bearcats’ off ense.

How do you think Munchie did in the WVU game?

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Last week’s power rankings are in brackets, and records are in parenthesis.

1. West Virginia [3] (7-3, 3-2 Big East) — With a win against Cincinnati last Saturday, the Mountaineers essentially saved their season and their Bowl Conference Series dreams. West Virginia is sitting pretty for the rest of the season, with only Pittsburgh and the University of South Florida on the schedule after the bye week. If Cincinnati falters, the Mountaineers will be primed to steal the Big East’s BCS bowl bid.

2. Cincinnati [1] (7-2, 3-1 Big East) — Things aren’t looking great right now in Bearcat land. With Zach Collaros out for the rest of the season, Munchie Legaux and the Bearcats’ offense will need to get in sync before Saturday’s game against Rutgers, who commands the Big East’s stingiest defense.

3. Rutgers [4] (7-3, 3-2 Big East) — While they might not have been pretty, the Scarlet Knights have put together two straight wins and will be looking to play spoiler against Cincinnati this weekend at home.

4. Louisville [2] (5-5, 3-2 Big East) — After winning three straight games

in the Big East, the Cardinals dropped the ball against Pittsburgh. Head coach Charlie Strong blamed the loss on the new video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” which he said distracted his team. Luckily for the Cardinals, they face the University of Connecticut this weekend — a team who shouldn’t require too much focus to beat.

5. Pittsburgh [5] (5-5, 3-2 Big East) — The Panthers posted a key win against Louisville last Saturday and now have a week to rest before meeting West Virginia in a primetime ESPN game.

6. Connecticut [7] (4-5, 2-2 Big East) — We’ll see if the bye week did anything for the Huskies, who have a tough game against Louisville this weekend. If head coach Paul Pasqualoni was smart, he would send the Cardinals free copies of the new Assassins Creed and Skyrim games.

7. South Florida [8] (5,4, 1-4 Big East) — Bust out the bubbly. The Bulls got their fi rst Big East win of the season, but does it really even matter anymore?

8. Syracuse [6] (5-5, 1-4 Big East) — The Orange’s Big East season game plan: Beat West Virginia, profi t, then disappoint for the rest of the year.

BIG EAST POWER RANKINGS• His full name is Benton Shannon Legaux,

and he hails from New Orleans, La.• Legaux graduated from Edna Karr High

School with 5,250 throwing yards and 65 passing touchdowns, while also running for more than 2,000 yards and 20 rushing touchdowns.

• In his senior season, Legaux completed 93-of-166 passes for 1,248 yards and 20 touchdowns. He also rushed 92 times for 611 yards and nine touchdowns.

• In addition to football, Legaux played basketball and ran track in high school while also serving as his graduating class’s vice president.

• The 6-foot-4-inch, 185-pound sophomore runs a 4.6-second 40-yard dash.

• He was recruited by 15 other schools, including West Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, Utah and Oregon.

• While he was recruited as a quarterback, Legaux saw time at the wide receiver position during his freshman year at UC, where he caught one pass for 18 yards.

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SAM WEINBERG | SPORTS EDITOR

The Cincinnati Reds announced Tuesday morning they will play their 2012 Opening Day game a day earlier than expected.

Instead of opening against the Florida Marlins Friday, April 6 as expected, the team will instead play Thursday, April 5 because the original date fell on Good Friday.

The original Friday date also confi cled with Findlay Market, who puts on the Findlay Market Opening Day Parade.

“We want to thank Major League Baseball, the MLB Players’ Association and the Reds and Marlins players for agreeing to move Opening Day to Thursday, April 5,” said Reds’ CEO Bob Castellini in a statement. “Opening Day is a long-standing tradition for this team, our fans and the city of Cincinnati, and we are pleased that the parade and game will now be on Thursday.”

This season’s Opening Day will mark the fi rst year in which the day will be recognized as a ceremonial city holiday.

PAT STRANG | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

1869: The year the Reds became the fi rst all-professional baseball team. They were founded as an amateur team in 1866.1952: Since this year, the Reds have played every Opening Day game at home, except in 1966 against Philadelphia and in 1990 against Houston.31-28-1: The Reds’ current record on Opening Day. The tie came against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2000.29: The number of games the Reds have played against the Chicago Cubs on Opening Day (the most times against one team)13: The most wins against a single team on Opening Day (the Cubs)19: The most defeats against a single team on Opening Day (the Pittsburgh Pirates)

Pacquiao defeats MarquezFilipino professional boxer Manny Pacquiao defeated Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez Saturday in a mixed decision to retain the World Boxing Organization welterweight title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Penn State lost without PaternoThe Penn State Nittany Lions football team lost 17-14 Saturday against No. 19 Nebraska. The game marked the fi rst time since 1949 that Joe Paterno was not a part of the coaching staff .

Bearcats defeatedWest Virginia University defeated the University of Cincinnati football team 24-21 Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium. The Bearcats now have just a one-game lead in the Big East standings.

6 million tune in for UFCIn its network television debut on Fox Saturday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title fi ght between Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez drew the same Nielsen ratings as this year’s American League Championship Series, drawing an audience of nearly 6 million viewers.

Tebow bombs in Kansas CityTim Tebow completed just 2-of-8 passes Sunday in Denver’s 17-10 win against Kansas City, making the Broncos the fi rst team in modern football history to win a game with just two completions.

Saturday, 4:30 p.m. The UC basketball team hosts the Presbyterian Blue Hose Saturday at Fifth Third Arena.

Friday, 7 p.m.The University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team will play against Evansville in Fifth Third Arena.

Friday, 4:30 UC’s volleyball team will travel to Milwaukee to play in the fi rst round of the Big East Tournament against Villanova.

Saturday, noonThe Bearcats’ football team plays Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

Sunday, 1 p.m.The Cincinnati Bengals will continue their AFC North slate this weekend, traveling to Baltimore to play the Ravens.

Monday, all dayBearcats’ senior runner Eric Finan will race in the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.

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BY THE NUMBERSBATTER UP!Cincinnati Reds’ 2012

Opening Day moved