Fearless Felix Puts Feet Back on Earth
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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTUESDAY | OCTOBER 16, 2012Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com Frank Eltman and Tom Hays SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Associated Press Swag in center court Four Gods bless America Rock out at the coffee shop CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Mark Fans get a glimpse of basketball Baylor sociologists trace cultural Don’t miss up-and-coming band Hotton appeared on the high- stakes Broadway theater scene players’ funny sides Friday at the diversity to its differing beliefs in Mutemath rock Common Grounds out of nowhere this year, offering Ferrell Center four main images of God with their “eccentric Christian” music to come to the financial rescue of a fledgling Broadway adaptation Vol. 113 No. 28 © 2012, Baylor University of the psychological thriller “Re- becca.” In Print Although the musical’s pro- ducers had never heard of Hotton, he successfully sold himself as a >> JAZZ UP LIFE Fearless Felix puts feet back on earth globe-trotting moneyman with The Baylor jazz ensemble connections to a wealthy Austra- will perform an eclectic lian named Paul Abrams. That was mix of music in tonight’s Man breaks sound barrier with 24-mile jump, sets new world records before Hotton raised suspicions by concert claiming that Abrams had sudden- live stream at About half of Baumgartner’s seven years of my life into this,” ly dropped dead. its peak, You- nine-minute descent was a free he said. Page 4 Federal prosecutors charged Tube offi- fall of 119,846 feet, according He added: “In that situation, Hotton on Monday with concoct- cials said. to Brian Utley, a jump observer when you spin around, it’s like ing a tale of phantom investors and M o r e from the FAI, an international hell and you don’t know if you >> VICTORY AGAIN an untimely death as imaginative than 130 group that works to determine can get out of that spin or not. as the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Women’s soccer fights digital out- and maintain the integrity of avi- Of course, it was terrifying. I was hard to maintain its win about a man haunted by the mem- lets carried the ation records. fighting all the way down because ory of his dead first wife. streak over the weekend feed, organizers During the first part of I knew that there must be a mo- Hotton, 46, also was charged in said. Baumgartner’s free fall, anxious ment where I can handle it.” two other swindles — one target- Page 5 The privately funded feat came onlookers at the command center Baumgartner said traveling ing a Connecticut-based real estate By Juan Carlos Llorca thing during a lull in human space ex- held their breath as he faster than sound is “hard to de- company and another that inves- ploration. As the jump unfolded, spun uncon- scribe because you don’t feel it.” >> DEEP POCKETS and Oskar Garcia you want is to come back alive.” tigators say involved his wife and Associated Press The tightly-orchestrated jump the space shuttle Endeavour crept trolla- The pressurized suit pre- sister on Long Island. Japanese company helps meant to break records became toward a Los Angeles museum, bly. vented him from feeling Sprint stand up against ROSWELL, N.M. — Felix much more in the dizzying, where it will spend its retirement H e the rushing air or even Verizon and AT&T with a Baumgartner stood poised in the breathtaking moment — a collec- on display. the loud noise he made $20.1 billion stake open hatch of a capsule suspend- tively shared cross between Neil Baumgartner, a 43-year-old said when breaking the Page 3 ed above Earth, wondering if he Armstrong’s moon landing and Austrian, hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 h e sound barrier. would make it back alive. Twen- Evel Knievel’s famed motorcycle mph, according to preliminary f e l t With no refer- ty-four miles below him, millions jumps on ABC’s “Wide World of data, and became the first per- pressure ence points, “you On the Web of people were right there with Sports.” son to go faster than the speed building don’t know how him, watching on the Internet It was part scientific wonder, of sound without traveling in a in his head, but fast you travel,” jet or a spacecraft. The capsule he did not feel as he said. and marveling at the wonder of part daredevil reality show, with By Stephen Hawkins the moment. the live-streamed event instantly jumped from had reached an alti- though he was Coinci- Associated Press A second later, he stepped off capturing the world’s attention on tude of 128,100 feet above Earth, close to passing dentally, the capsule and barreled toward a sleepy Sunday at the same time carried by a 55-story ultra-thin out. Baumgart- WACO — Brittney Griner the New Mexico desert as a tiny seven NFL football games were helium balloon. “When I ner’s ac- watched the Olympics and wished white speck against a darkly- being played in the U.S. It proved, Landing on his feet in the des- was spin- complish- she was there. Thanks to the tinted sky. Millions watched him once again, the power of the In- ert, the man known as “Fearless ning first ment came WNBA draft lottery, she might breathlessly as he shattered the ternet in a world where news Felix” lifted his arms in victory to 10, 20 on the 65th know where she’s going. sound barrier and then landed travels as fast as Twitter. the cheers of jubilant friends and seconds, an- niversary of the Before Rio in 2016, or even safely about nine minutes later, The event happened with- spectators who closely followed at I never day that U.S. test pilot getting started in the pros next becoming the world’s first super- out a network broadcast in the a command center. Among them thought I Chuck Yeager became summer, there is still the senior sonic skydiver. United States, though organizers was his mother, Eva Baumgart- was going the first man to officially season with the Lady Bears for the Relive the madness “When I was standing there said more than 40 television sta- ner, who was overcome with to lose my break the sound barrier in fun-loving All-American who can emotion, crying. life but a jet. Yeager, in fact, com- Couldn’t make it to on top of the world, you become tions in 50 countries — includ- dunk and broke her right wrist so humble, you do not think ing cable’s Discovery Channel in “Sometimes we have to get re- I was memorated that feat on Moonlight Madness? in a longboarding accident this about breaking records anymore, the U.S. — carried the live feed. ally high to see how small we are,” disap- ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS Sunday, flying in the back summer. Baylor is coming off the Check out all the action you do not think about gaining Instead, millions flocked online, an exuberant Baumgartner told point- seat of an F-15 Eagle as it NCAA’s first 40-win season and from Friday’s kick-off to scientific data,” Baumgartner said drawing more than 8 million si- reporters outside mission control ed be- caus e SEE FEARLESS, page 6 returns every starter from its un- basketball season after Sunday’s jump. “The only multaneous views to a YouTube after the jump. I’m going to lose my record. I put defeated national championship only on team. baylorlariat.com The accident on the elongated skateboard came after Griner had already removed herself from Viewpoints 100 dogs to go Local consideration for the 12th and fi- nal spot on the U.S. women’s bas- ketball team that won gold at the “I will confess London Olympics. She almost home for free slain in certainly would have been part of to wearing Nike the team, but didn’t participate be- shorts while cause of summer school classes she swimming in an had to take and the ill health of her thanks to donor Waco mother. oversized T-shirt. “She’s OK. Ups and downs, but By Maegan Rocio The contract between the city she’s all right,” Griner said, but not However, I draw Staff Writer of Waco and the Humane Soci- wanting to elaborate on her moth- the line at wearing ety of Central Texas ended when club lot er’s health during an interview Help can come along when it’s the shelter asked the city for an with The Associated Press. running shoes least expected. increase in funds to run its op- By Linda Nguyen Griner said she made the right with old man, Because of a $5,000 donation erations and the two parties could Staff Writer choice to bypass the Olympics, by an anonymous donor, the Hu- not reach an agreement on the even though she wished while above-the-ankle mane Society of Central Texas amount. No arrests have been made yet watching the games that she was socks.” can provide cost-free adoptions Bland said the donor came in the stabbing death of 24-year- playing. The 6-foot-8 Griner was for 100 dogs at their upcoming forward during the Wine & Food old Waco resident Anthony Levell Page 2 with USA Basketball in Europe last Howl-A-Ween event. Festival and wanted to pay for 100 Degrate, although a suspect has fall, when she averaged 12.8 points The event will take place from dog adoptions.