12B FRIDAY, JUNE 8,2012


 Malone
 From Page lb
 Altha fought back with five
 straight points to get back to
 within seven, but a basket by
 Royster, another by Chai Baker,
 and then a tough driving finish
 by Ty Baker made'it 40-26 Malo-
 ne with 7:20 to play.
 The Wildcats answered with-
 another quick 5-0 spurt, but
 Royster answered with a basket
 and a 3-pointer to make it 45-31
 with 4:32 to play.
 Altha got it back to single dig-
 its with 1:35 remaining, but the


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Tigers put the game away with a where they had to battle to win
put-back by Johnson, who add- that one in overtime, so, we
ed a 3-point play on a dunk and probably caught them at a good
foul after an Altha turnover with time. We were rested up and we
28 seconds left. played well on top of that."
 The second game was far more The Tigers come into the sum-
lopsided, as the Tigers jumped mer as possibly the most high
out to a 30-15 advantage, took a profile local team, coming off
20-point lead into the halftime of a dominant regular season
break, and were never threat- in 2011-2012 and a run to the
ened in the second half. 1A Regional Finals before los-
 Welch said that he was much ing to eventual state champion
happier with the way his team Chipley.
played in its second game than Malone returns the majority
its first, of its core group of players from
 "Played a lot better," he said. last year's team, including lead-
"(Mosley) had just come off of :ing scorers and rebounders Chai
.that close game with Marianna and Ty Baker, and has added


the 6-foot-3 Marianna transfer
Royster, who led the Bulldogs in
scoring last year as a junior.
 Welch said that it's important
for his team, even in the sum-
mer, to stay focused from within
as opposed.to being distracted
by all the attention.
 "Obviously, we had high expec-
tations anyway, but with Quay
transferring in, expectations are
now through the roof," the coach
said. "What these guys have got
to remember is to just play hard
and compete every day and let
that other stuff take care of itself.
It's hard not to get caught up in
trying to please everybody.


 "We have to just do the best we
can, work hard, and remember
to have fun because it is just a
game."
 Despite some sloppy stretches
in the Altha game, Welch said
.he's pretty satisfied with what
he saw on the group's first day
together.
 "I see a lot of potential," he
said. "Obviously, with me being
as defensive-minded as I am, I'm
trying to focus on defense and I
see a lot of work to do there. Of-
fensively, we're trying to play a
little bit different style, too. I see
a lot of areas for improvement,
and that's a good thing."


Lawsuit
From Page1B
regulations governing this
well-recognized health
and safety problem."


Ifeel like theNFL has over thepast decades... kind ofturned a blind.eye to the seriousness ofnot only
ncussions... but the cumulative effect of(hits) and how these retired players are having so much
fficulty in getting along in their daily lives."


 The league has denied never earned more than
 similar accusations in the $75,000 from the sport,
 past. his widow said. After his
 "Our legal team will re- football career, he started
 view today's filing that .is a financial services com-
 intended to consolidate pany, but had to abandon
 plaintiffs' existing claims the career; in about 1990,
 into one 'master' com- plagued by insomnia and
 plaini" the NFL. said in a depression, she said.
 statement. "The NFL has '"I think the thing that
 long made player safety a was so discouraging was
 priority and, continues to just the denial by the NFL,"
 do so. Any allegation that Mary Ann Easterling said.
 the NFL sought to mis- '"His sentiment toward
 lead players has no merit. the end was that if he had
 It stands in contrast to the a choice to do.it all over
 league's many actions to again, he wouldn't (play).
 better protect players and ... He'was realizing howfast
 advance the science and he was going downhill."
 medical understanding. The list of notable for-
 of the management and mer players connected to
 treatment of concussions." concussion lawsuits is ex-
 'The NFLprovides a se- tensive and includes the
Sres of medical benefits to family of Dave Duerson.
Former NFL players to help who shot himself last year.
them after football, in- Ex-quarterback Jim Mc-
cluding joint replacement. Mahon, Duerson's team-
neurological evaluations mate on Super Bowl-win-
and spine treatment pro- ning 1985 Chicago Bears,
grams, assisted living part- also has been among the
nerships, long-term care plaintiffs. The cases are be-
insurance, prescription ing consolidated for pre-
benefits, life insurance trial issues and discovery
programs, and a Medicare before Senior U.S. District
supplement program. Judge Anita B. Brody in
 One of the programs, Philadelphia.
 the 88 Plan, named af- The players accuse the
.ter Hall ofFame tight end NFL of negligence and in-
John Mackey, providesJi
funding to treat dementia,
Alzheimer's disease, and
ALS. Players do not need to
demonstrate that the con-
dition was caused by their
participation in the NFL.
 The league says that 9
 in partnership -with, the
 NFLPA it has spent more
 than a billion dollars' on
 pensions,medical and dis-, All
 ability benefits for retired
 players. m aI -
 'Mary Ann Easterling
 will remain a plaintiff de- K I
 spite the April suicide of "Your Family
 her husband, former At-
 lanta Falcons safety Ray 2821 R
 Easterling, who' had- been
 a named plaintiff in a suit
 filedlastyear. RECLII
 SEasterling, .62, suffered
 from undiagnosed demen- ALL S
 tiafor many years that lt Ieft
 him angry and. volatile, '
 his widow said. He. acted TO MC
 out of character, behaving
 oddly at family parties and,
 making risky business de-
 cisions that eventually cost
 them their home. They
 were-married 36 years and
 -had one-daughter. She be-
 lieves the NFL-has no idea
 what families go through. WOOD
 "'I wish I could sit down
 with (NFL Commissioner DINETTE TABLE
 SRoger Goodell) arid share New In Carton With Four Chai
 with him the pain. It's not Compare $248
 .just 'the spouses, it's the 48
 kids, too," Easterling, 59, SALE 1
 told The Associated Press
 from her home in Rich-
 mond, Va. "Kids don't un-
 derstand why Dad is angry FRIGIDI
 all the time."
 Ray Easterling played for ELECTR
 the Falcons from 1972 to RANG
 1979, helping to lead the R--
 team's "Gritz Blitz" defense
 in 1977 that set the NFL Self-Cleaning OvI
 record for fewest points plug in, plug ou
 allowed in a season. He C nmnar$4


tentional misconduct in its
response to the headaches,
dizziness and -dementia
that former players have
reported, even after form-.
ing the Mild Traumatic
Brain Injury Committee to
study the issue in 1994.
"After voluntarily,
assuming a duty to
investigate, study, and


truthfully report to the
public and NFL players,
including the Plaintiffs, the
medical risks associated
with.MTBI in football, the
NFL instead produced.
industry-funded, biased,
and falsified research
that falsely claimed that
concussive and sub-
concussive head impacts
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 Kevin Turner,
mer Eagles and Patriots running back.
in football do not present
serious, life-altering risks,"
the complaint says.
 The problem of concus-
 sions in the NFL has moved
 steadily into the litigation
 phase for about a year.
 AccordingtoanAP review
 of81 lawsuits filed through
 May 25,; the plaintiffs in-
 clude 2,138 former players.


The total number of plain-
tiffs in those cases is 3,356,
which includes players,
spouses and other relatives
or representatives.
 Some of the plaintiffs
are named in more than
one complaint, but the,AP
count did not include du-
plicated names in its total.
The master suit contains
a provision to allow other
players to join it as plain-
tiffs and attorneys expect .
that to happen.
 "We want to see them
take care of the players,"
Mary Ann Easterling said.


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 I thought we showed a
 lot of grit and toughness.
 We got down early and
 could've folded up the
 tent, but we kept grinding
 and battling.'
 "We just missed some
 lay-ups and free throws
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