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L A K E - S U M T E R C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E W E L C O M E S B A C K F O R M E R S TA N D O U T S
PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ALDRICH / DAILY COMMERCIAL
Austin Flowers (top, left), who played baseball at Lake-Sumter Community College from 2006-07, pitches to current LSCC players during Saturday’s annual Alumni Day baseball game at the LSCC baseball and
softball complex. (Above, right) Nikki (Pontius) Franklin, who played softball for Lake-Sumter Community College from 2005-07, pitches in the first inning of the softball game. Alumni Day brings former LSCC
standouts back to the Leesburg campus for a full day of activities, including games and a bar-b-que.
To the winners — the Super Bowl
Colts vs. Jets: New York Vikings, Saints provide a
aiming to prove tasty dish in New Orleans
December win not a fluke BARRY WILNER
Associated Press
MICHAEL MAROT
Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — What a spicy Cajun mix
for the NFC championship game.
INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Caldwell traded the Brett Favre, headed for the Hall of Fame
perfect season for what he hoped would be someday, highlights yet another comeback
the perfect ending. by facing the team he rooted for while grow-
Today, Caldwell and Indianapolis will ing up in Mississippi.
play it by the book. His Minnesota Vikings — ouch, say
Nearly a month after the Colts coach Packers fans — are on the doorstep of their
pulled his starters against the New York Jets, first Super Bowl trip in 33 years, with the 40-
granting Rex Ryan’s Christmas wish, the year-old quarterback resembling the wide-
Colts can show everyone they made the eyed youngster who took Green Bay to the
right move by redeeming themselves in the title in the very same Superdome in 1997.
AFC Championship game. And those Superdome tenants, the New
“We’re very eager to get out there,” Colts Orleans Saints, are hosting a conference
defensive lineman Raheem Brock said. championship for the first time. A Super
“We’ve got something to prove. They’ve got Bowl would provide a massive lift for a city
a good running game, a good offensive line, still recovering from Hurricane Katrina’s
but now we’ve got to go out and prove our- devastation and torment more than four
selves again.” years ago.
In December, the Colts didn’t have to A Saints victory today could set off Mardi
prove anything. Gras a few weeks early, with the celebration
They were rolling along on an NFL record carrying on right up until the Feb. 7 big
23-game regular-season winning streak and game in Miami.
had just set a franchise record with their Along with those tasty story lines, remem-
13th consecutive home victory. They had ber that these are the NFL’s two highest-
swept the AFC South, beaten seven straight scoring teams, with offensive playmakers
See AFC, AA7 See NFC, AA7
DARRON CUMMINGS / AP
In this Dec. 27 photo, Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne (87) is tackled by New York Jets
New York Indianapolis cornerback Darrelle Revis (24) in Indianapolis. Revis has earned his reputation as the league's best Minnesota New Orleans
at at
Jets Colts shutdown corner. He’s negated everybody from Terrell Owens to Chad Ochocinco. But what makes life so Vikings Saints
3 p.m., Today, CBS tough on Revis Island? Just ask Reggie Wayne, who will face the Jets for the second time in a month today 6:30 p.m., Today, FOX
in the AFC Championship game.
Davydenko coming into his own
Russian on track to face winner of Federer-Hewitt in Aussie Open quarterfinals
JOHN PYE although he wouldn’t mind London and the season-
Associated Press one day being a “papa.” opening tournament in
MELBOURNE, Australia — He knows that if Federer or Doha. Nor did his pro-
It’s not difficult to pick the Hewitt walked through nouncement that the top 10
odd one out in this group of downtown Melbourne they’d players were “scared” of him
28-year-old players: Roger be mobbed for autographs. go unnoticed.
Federer, Lleyton Hewitt, Davydenko has finished in “Scared? No,” Federer said
Nikolay Davydenko. the top six for the last five this week. “Respect him ...
Federer has won a record years but concedes he’d bare- Yes.”
15 Grand Slam titles and is ly be noticed in Melbourne, Davydenko, seed sixth,
ranked No. 1. Hewitt was No. or Moscow for that matter. beat Argentina’s Juan
1 before Federer hit the scene “Nobody recognize me and Monaco 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 on
and has won the U.S. Open it’s good feeling really,” he Saturday and next faces 2009
and Wimbledon. Russian has never won a said. semifinalist Fernando
They’ll meet in the fourth major or played in the final He certainly hasn’t been Verdasco. Verdasco advanced
round of the Australian Open of one. He has never been sneaking up on players. He is when Stefan Koubek retired
after comfortable wins ranked No. 1, reaching a on a 12-match winning because of a virus after losing
Saturday. Davydenko is on career high No. 3 in 2006. He streak that includes wins the opening set 6-1. ANDREW BROWNBILL / AP
track to play the winner of travels with his wife but over Federer and Rafael Hewitt had to play only 12 Nikolay Davydenko returns to Juan Monaco on his way to winning
that match in a quarterfinal. doesn’t have kids — Federer Nadal at last year’s season- their Men's singles third round match at the Australian Open
The balding, 5-foot-10 and Hewitt have two each — ending championships in See TENNIS, AA7 Saturday in Melbourne, Australia.
