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• Kevin Huerter, Maryland, 6-7 G/F, sophomore: Accomplished shooter helped himself in workouts by displaying other skills, but underwent hand surgery last week. |
• Dzanan Musa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 6-9 F: A gifted scorer and shooter in some of Europe’s better leagues. |
• Gary Trent Jr., Duke, 6-5 G: Apple Valley’s own promises he can do more than he showed at Duke, but did there what the Wolves need: shoot. |
Prospects who not only play in 3-D, but just might be the kind of “3-and-D” player — a defender who can also shoot threes — the Wolves desperately need. |
Khyri Thomas, Creighton, 6-3 G, junior: One year after the Wolves drafted big man Justin Patton, Thomas could be the second consecutive Creighton player they obtain. |
They chose Patton in 2017 because of his size, mobility and upside. |
If they go for a Bluejay again, it will be because of Thomas’ defense, three-point shooting stroke and those long arms. He stands 6-3, but his wingspan is nearly 6-11, freakish for a player his size. |
“Eat your vegetables, man,” he said. |
A two-time Big East Defensive Player of the Year sometimes compared to Denver’s Gary Harris or the L.A. Clippers’ Avery Bradley, Thomas’ wingspan makes him unique for his position. |
He’ll be the third Creighton player drafted by an NBA team in the past five years: Patton went 16th overall last year. Forward Doug McDermott — son of Creighton coach Greg — went 11th in 2014. |
Jacob Evans, Cincinnati, 6-6 F/G, junior: He’s the kind of versatile defender and three-point threat the Wolves need — and he admires Wolves All-Star Jimmy Butler, too. |
Butler is the former 30th overall pick who made himself a four-time All-Star, and Evans is projected as a late first-round pick who envisions himself capable of the same. |
• Keita Bates-Diop, Ohio State, 6-8 SF/PF, junior: Big Ten Player of the Year is a versatile forward maybe best suited as a small-ball power forward. |
• Aaron Holiday, UCLA, 6-1 PG, junior: Younger brother of NBA players Jrue and Justin is strong and an improved shooter. |
• Troy Brown Jr., Oregon, 6-7 SG, freshman: Not yet the shooter the Wolves need, but can defend multiple positions and won’t turn 18 until late July. |
• Chandler Hutchison, Boise State, 6-7 SF/SG, senior: Four-year collegian has an NBA body and has improved his shooting and ballhandling. |
Mostly unseen and unknown last season, these are the draft’s mystery men who someday might look like a steal if chosen 20th overall. |
De'Anthony Melton, USC, 6-4 G, sophomore: Ineligible his sophomore season at USC, Melton hopes he delivered a message at the combine and all of his pre-draft workouts. He’s back. |
That situation was an FBI investigation into bribery and corruption that rocked college basketball and impacted Melton and USC. Federal prosecutors alleged a Melton family friend received $5,000 to direct Melton to an agent and financial adviser when he turned pro. |
Melton left to prepare for the NBA draft. He says he never received any money nor did anything wrong in many interviews with NBA teams and reporters. |
An attacking combo guard and disruptive defender with great reach, Melton impressed his freshman season and now wants all who ask — a long list that includes hometown Lakers boss Magic Johnson and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer — to know he’s the same intelligent and instinctive player he was a year ago, only better. |
Anfernee Simons, IMG Academy, 6-4 G: He’s a long-range project who doesn’t fit the Wolves’ win-now mandate. But Thibodeau and his staff interviewed the gifted guard who is headed directly to the NBA after he played a fifth high-school season at Florida’s IMG Academy. |
A national top-10 prep recruit who committed to and then de-committed from Louisville, Simons had some questions of his own, too. He’s draft-eligible because he graduated high school a year ago and turned 19 this month. |
• Elie Okobo, France, 6-3 PG: Strong and long, he’s moving up draft boards after he played well for his French team in the playoffs. |
• Jerome Robinson, Boston College, 6-5 SG/PG, junior: Combo guard has quickly ascended draft boards, so he might not be there at No. 20. |
NEW DELHI: Geeta Saxena often boasted about her wealth, leaving her neighbours in northwest Delhi’s Rohini Sector 16 green with envy. Among those who knew the 59-year-old well was Richa, an assistant at an Aadhaar centre in Ashok Vihar. So when Richa dropped in to see her on Monday, Saxena did not suspect there was mur... |
Richa, 25, had quit studies after Class XI and was dating 22-year-old Sumit, a toy shop employee in Rohini Sector 7. With their limited income, the duo could not live the life they desired and decided their only recourse was to rob someone. |
“Saxena had a lot of money by her own admission, and the pair thought she was an easy target because her husband was out on work most of the day,” said Joy Tirkey, DCP (Crime Branch). |
Richa and Sumit roped in friends Vikas and Ashu, promising them a share of the booty. On Monday, April 8, Richa arrived at Saxena’s house around noon and told her that she was in the neighbourhood and had dropped in. The unsuspecting woman told Richa to watch TV till she was done with her household work. |
Richa gave a missed call to the trio as planned, who entered the flat and threatened to kill Saxena if she raised an alarm. But when they could not prevent her from screaming out, the panicked group strangled her with a chunni. The four then took the gold rings, bangles and necklace that the woman was wearing, ransacke... |
Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Richa confided in a friend on Tuesday, who shared the details of the crime with another. The story reached a police informer, who alerted the Crime Branch, a source said. |
“A team led by ACP Anil Dureja and inspector Shyam Sundar conducted raids and on Tuesday evening, we took in Sumit and Vikas,” said DCP Tirkey. “The female accomplice was arrested on Wednesday morning.” The cops recovered a part of the loot and are pursuing Ashu. |
Abedin pushed Clinton to use State e-mail after a missed call with foreign secretary. |
Huma Abedin with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in 2008. Abedin was grilled about Clinton's e-mail proclivities by a Judicial Watch attorney this week. |
We already knew that Hillary Clinton's e-mail and mobile device issues were likely a pain for State Department employees—and even some foreign governments. But new testimony recorded on Tuesday by one of Clinton's top aides illuminates the extent of those headaches. |
Huma Abedin is the vice-chair of Clinton's presidential campaign and the former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to Clinton during her stint as secretary of state. She was deposed on June 28 by an attorney representing the conservative action group Judicial Watch as part of discovery for a lawsuit being brought... |
Both Clinton and Abedin had accounts on the clintonemail.com server, which was originally set up at the Clinton residence by staffers of former President Bill Clinton prior to the family's arrival at the State Department. (The server would later be managed by Platte River Networks, a managed IT services firm, with secu... |
But Abedin said that once she arrived at the State Department, she primarily used a State.gov e-mail account for business while Clinton continued to use her clintonemail.com account. On occasion when traveling, Abedin would use her clintonemail.com account. Abedin testified that she also used that account when State's ... |
This situation created some issues while Clinton was traveling. Since she was never issued a device for secure e-mail, Clinton used her personal BlackBerry for communications. And as Ars previously reported, mail filtering problems often prevented her e-mails from getting through. |
During the deposition, Abedin discussed an e-mail exchange with Clinton in which Abedin encouraged the secretary to either get and use a State.gov e-mail address or to have her clintonemail.com address added to the State Department's e-mail directory. The thread began with Clinton reacting to missing a phone call with ... |
"She missed the call because… I never got her e-mail giving us the sign-off to do it," Abedin recounted. "So she wasn't able to do her job, do what she needed to do. My response would have been, 'Here are some suggestions.' I cannot tell you if I called somebody else. I don't remember calling anybody else, or if I on m... |
Judicial Watch asked what Abedin meant in her message to Clinton about "releasing your e-mail address to the department." The aide responded with uncertainty, saying, "I'm not sure I would know how to define that then or define that now. It might have also just been my… being frustrated back at the fact that I wasn't g... |
In the same e-mail thread, Clinton agreed to getting a State Department account or mobile device, "but I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible." Abedin told Judicial Watch that she understood that as a reference to Clinton's personal e-mails, not her address. Clinton didn't want her personal e-mails bein... |
When questioned about how things were resolved, Abedin again responded with uncertainty. "I couldn't define to you exactly what [happened]—I don't recall any response other than once the system was back up and running, that it was... we just proceeded with business the way it was before." |
DENVER – Hurricane-force winds swept across Colorado on Monday, tipping over tractor-trailers, blowing off shingles, and knocking out power ahead of a cold front expected to bring bone-chilling temperatures to much of the state. |
A wind gust in Golden, just west of Denver reached 98 mph, a speed found in Category 2 hurricanes. The National Weather Service also said a 95-mph gust hit 10,000-foot Kenosha Pass in the mountains about 50 miles southwest of Denver and an 88-mph gust was reported outside Boulder. |
"The snow was swirling all over the place," said Penelope Walker, an assistant manager at the Pikes Peak Cog Railway, which shortened its runs Monday. Walker said wind gusts reached an estimated 60 mph to 70 mph along the track that rises from 6,500 feet in Manitou Springs to the 14,110-foot summit of Pikes Peak west o... |
"It can make it dangerous to take the train. That's why we won't run very far," she said. |
The blustery conditions came ahead a cold front that sent temperatures plummeting across the northern Rockies. It was 1 degree in Havre, Mont., on Monday afternoon but it felt like minus-5. The forecast high in West Yellowstone, Mont., was just 4 degrees on Wednesday and only 12 degrees in Denver. |
At least 10 semi trailers were blown over between Fort Collins and Cheyenne, Wyo., said Stacey Stegman, spokeswoman for Colorado Department of Transportation. |
One rig was knocked over on Interstate 25 in Pueblo and another one at a busy highway interchange in suburban Denver. No injuries were immediately reported. |
The state highway department warned high-profile and lightweight vehicles not to use I-25 or U.S. 287 in northern Colorado, where winds of 65 mph were reported. |
The wind picked up before dawn and by the morning rush hour was blowing garbage cans down the streets of central Denver. Snow that fell several days ago was blown into ever-shifting trails that stung the face of commuters hurrying to get to their cars or waiting for the bus. The high winds were expected to die down aft... |
A roofer working in Broomfield, south of Boulder, said he received several phone calls from homeowners returning home from work and discovering minor roof damage. |
"I went into this one cul-de-sac and there were shingles blown all over the place, all over the street," said Matt McKinley of A All Phase Roofing. |
Scattered power outages hit the Denver area, closing at least four schools in the northern suburbs, said Janelle Albertson, spokeswoman for Adams 12 Five-Star Schools. |
Accidents were reported across the state and "most of them are probably related to the weather," state Patrol Trooper Eric Wynn said. An empty single-engine plane at the Jefferson County airport was flipped over on its top. |
The 98 mph-gust at Golden fell far short of the 147 mph record in the area set in January 1971 in Boulder, said Carl Burroughs of the weather service office in Boulder. He said the region was stuck in between high and low pressure areas. |
"It's like funneling -- when the river gets real narrow, the water runs faster until it widens out," he said. "It makes the wind blow stronger when you get that tighter pressure gradient." |
NASA says the best time to view the supermoon is 5:22 a.m. Monday. But if you’re not into early mornings, catching a glimpse the evening before or after works, too. The difference is basically negligible. |
Monday’s supermoon is the second of three supermoons in a row this year: There was a supermoon on the last full moon on Oct. 16 and the full moon Dec. 14 also will be a supermoon. |
The phenomenon is alternatively known as the Beaver Moon. Native tribes and colonists used the increased light from these full moons to set traps before swamps froze over. |
If you don’t want to go outside at all, the internet has you covered: Slooh.com is having a live stream starting at 7 p.m. Sunday for those who want to view the supermoon from the comfort of anywhere that’s not outside. |
SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio police have arrested a Converse man in connection with an ambush-style murder on the East side back in March. |
However, the suspect, Kevin Luster, 19, says his only involvement was to use a cell phone, not a gun. |
Still, he was arrested Monday on a charge of murder. |
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Luster is accused of setting up a meeting March 13 with the victim, Tamaris Taylor, 19, who he knew from high school. |
Police at the time, said that Taylor was ambushed soon after arriving for that meeting, as he sat in his car at an apartment complex in the 1500 block of Upland Road. |
The affidavit said surveillance video shows a man sneaking out of another car, going around to Taylor’s passenger side window and firing a gun at him. |
It says the video also shows a second person driving the suspect’s car. |
The affidavit said police used phone records to tie Luster to the case. |
He told investigators that while he did arrange the meeting with Taylor, he did not know murder was part of the plan, the affidavit says. |
Luster said he thought the man who had threatened him was planning to rob Taylor at gunpoint, with help from his friends. |
He said that same man called him after the murder and warned him not to say anything. |
The affidavit does name a second suspect in the murder case, but it does not appear that person has been arrested yet. |
A new academic year is about to start. At this time every year I find myself asking these questions: What ought universities to be doing? And are they doing it? After all, to take four years out of a young adult's life is a major investment, and we ought to be clear whether or not it's bringing in a worthwhile return. ... |
Plato founded the first center of higher studies in a suburb of Athens in the early 4th century B.C. He called it the Academy, and its object was the pursuit of wisdom, to which he had been introduced by his mentor, Socrates. But remember that Socrates was sentenced to death by a jury of 501 Athenian citizens because h... |
Aristotle, Plato's pupil, founded a second college in Athens, called the Lyceum, and taught there for 12 years. But he left it to go into voluntary exile, lest, as he put it, the Athenians should "sin twice against philosophy"--that is, order his execution. |
These facts are worth recalling, as they show that the most civilized city of the ancient world was also confused about what higher education was supposed to achieve. |
Universities, as such, were first created in the Middle Ages to train the clergy, and they began assuming their modern form in 18th-century Germany. For two centuries Germany was home to the best universities in the world, leading the field in philosophy, theology, philology and most of the sciences. But this was the s... |
So universities, and the education they provide, do not necessarily impart wisdom. What they do convey, in general terms, is not so easily defined. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia received a routine dose of higher education in the twilight of the Soviet Union as a prelude to entering the U.S.S.R.'s secret polic... |
President Barack Obama found Harvard Law School to be invaluable in providing patrons and a fast-track entry into politics. There he absorbed the left-liberal culture that is Harvard's hallmark, which he is now applying to governing the U.S. and leading the Western World. |
Prime Minister David Cameron had three years at England's oldest and most prestigious university, Oxford. Cameron's sojourn there was notable for his belonging (along with other members of his cabinet) to the Bullingdon, a club with a vague connection to horses and a more specific activity of consuming large quantities... |
Such frivolities are not unknown in the U.S. The greatest disappointment in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his failure to get elected to the Porcellian, the club occupying the same position at Harvard as the Bullingdon at Oxford. FDR went on to win four terms in the White House to general but by no means uni... |
The quality of higher education received seems to bear no relation to the success or failure of most Presidents. The two greatest, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, had to learn the hard way. On the other hand, another distinguished President, Woodrow Wilson, first attracted notice as president of Princeton. |
It is striking how much or how little great inventors and scientists learned at university. Thomas Edison never attended one, discovering his genius instead while working as a teenage telegraph operator. Charles Darwin went to Cambridge to study for the church but derived the greatest benefit to his career during long ... |
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves. The best also help... |
These are essentially moral qualities, which must form the basis of any university education. College presidents and trustees must satisfy themselves that this is precisely what their institutions are providing, as must corporate and individual benefactors. In the long run this is the only way we can ensure that univer... |
Paul Johnson, eminent British historian and author; Lee Kuan Yew, minister mentor of Singapore; Amity Shlaes, senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations; and David Malpass, global economist, president of Encima Global LLC, rotate in writing this column. To see past Current Events columns, vis... |
Bagle.J, which NAI rated as medium risk, was the second variant of the worm to surface Tuesday. |
Another day, another variant—or two—of Bagle. |
Late Tuesday evening, anti-virus researchers discovered the existence of Bagle.J, the tenth variant of the worm to hit the Internet. Officials at Network Associates Inc. have rated the worm as a medium risk and said they saw 50 unique samples of Bagle.J in a 90-minute period last night. Bagle.I also surfaced Tuesday, w... |
Recent speculation among anti-virus researchers that the creators of the NetSky and Bagle viruses may be engaged in some kind of competition or war has now apparently been proven true. The virus writers have been leaving profane, derogatory messages for one another in the new variants of their respective viruses during... |
/zimages/1/28571.gifFor more on the competition, read "Virus Writers Start Dissing Match with New Worms." |
The sending address is spoofed to make it appear as if the message is from someone in the recipients domain. Some of the sending addresses include staff@domain.com, administration@domain.com and systemadministrator@domain.com, where "domain.com" is the recipients own domain. |
The name of the attachment carrying Bagle.J also varies, and the file itself can be an executable, a .PIF or a ZIP archive, according to NAI, based in Santa Clara, Calif. |
The appearance of Bagle.J follows closely the release of both Bagle.H and Bagle.I. Bagle.H arrives in a password-protected ZIP archive and, once executed, copies itself to folders for several popular peer-to-peer applications in an attempt to spread via shared files. Bagle.H also listens on TCP port 2745 for instructio... |
Bagle.I is quite similar to Bagle.H, carrying a nonsensical subject line and listening on port 2745 as well. |
/zimages/1/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms Security Center at http://security.eweek.com for security news, views and analysis. |
[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have traveled out to Ft. Bliss to participate in a media event intended to outline the Army's modernization effort for its brigade combat teams. I'll be out in the field tomorrow shooting video taking some stills and doing interviews (and generally getting smart on the program) and will provide data d... |
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