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Most 12-year-old girls would rather hang out with their friends, go shopping for new clothes or talk about boys.

Don’t let the shy smile with braces and her love of instant messaging fool you: Rose Weston is not like most 12-year-old girls.

After a quick start by Missouri’s offense, it was the Tiger’s defense that dominated Colorado.

Missouri scored on its first possession and the Buffaloes got two scores in the first half, before a stingy Tiger defense shut out Colorado in the second half of Missouri’s 17-9 win Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

Football can be reduced to simple statements: To win, a defense must make stops on third down to get off the field.

The obvious nature of this statement doesn’t diminish its importance. Missouri’s ability to stop Colorado on third down in the second half keyed the Tigers 17-9 victory Saturday.

Saturday’s win brought redemption for Missouri.

Last season, questionable calls by the officials and critical mistakes, particularly involving quarterback Brad Smith, hurt the Tigers in their loss at Colorado.

WEBB CITY – Fatigue from more than four hours on the road couldn’t stop the Rock Bridge Bruins from coming out strong Friday against the Webb City Cardinals.

But a second quarter fumble did.

Rock Bridge tennis players shed layers of blankets and sweats to take the court on a cold but sunny afternoon Saturday. By the time the sun set, the Bruins had three more wins and were North Central Missouri Invitational champions.

They beat Lafayette 11-0, Kirkwood 11-0, and Shawnee Mission East (Kan.) 9-2 in picking up the inaugural event’s title.

The Hickman and Rock Bridge volleyball teams were not in physics class Saturday, but both received a lesson in momentum.

The Kewpies defeated the Bruins 25-16, 25-16 at Hickman. The Kewpies improved to 12-7-1 while the Bruins fell to 5-9.

Coaching relationships are similar to married ones. There are bound to be disagreements when two people spend so much time together.

But coaches can usually get away from each other when they head home.

Brady Deaton loves his kitchen table. He loves it so much he made sure it followed the family for more than 30 years, from Knoxville, Tenn., to Blacksburg, Va., to Columbia. Deaton’s mentor, the late agricultural economist Paxton Marshall, called it “the roundtable of truth.”

“We are a very vocal family,” Deaton acknowledges with a smile.

At the 45th Annual Boone County Art Show on Sept. 25-26, Terry Oldham, director of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, judged 262 entries from 165 artists in 10 mediums — all in four hours.

The phone call you hoped would never come just did. Someone you love needs continuous long-term care. Now what?

“If you don’t care for yourself, you can’t care for your loved one,” said Dorreen Rardin, the coordinator of Boone Hospital Center’s palliative-care program. The program prepares patients and their families to deal with terminal illness.

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That afternoon, after arriving from Columbia, B.C. visited his son at L.A. County Hospital. Rob, who had full-blown, untreated AIDS, was tethered to IVs and breathing only with the help of an oxygen mask. Thick stubble peppered his chin and his hair was matted and greasy.

But they had an enjoyable afternoon catching up on B.C.’s work as a business writer for the Columbia Daily Tribune and chatting about the new teaching job Rob’s friend had taken. When B.C. left Rob’s bedside that evening, he promised to come back in the morning to read poetry to his son.

I started grieving when Rob went to intensive care. Back home, I painted the exterior of our home and did yard work after taking Carol to work — taking breaks to walk around the block with tears dripping down my face. Soon guilt kicked in.

Why hadn’t I left immediately for L.A. when I learned that he was sick? Should I have taken Carol to L.A. to await the end? During many replays of Rob’s early phone calls about his illness, I recalled that he had said that he was having trouble breathing. Shouldn’t that have been enough to jump-start me to L.A.? Father’s Day had been horrible because I kept reminding myself that I wasn’t in L.A. for him. I reviewed his entire life trying to pinpoint where I had gone wrong.

The artist:

Roby Hopkins plays bass in the Columbia band Mile 48, which also features guitarist and singer Scott White and drummer Josh Jaynes. Hopkins, a member of the Missouri National Guard, is stationed in Dugway, Utah, on a security mission.

Title: America Loves Its Dogs

Artist: Eric LaPointe

It started out innocently enough. On a walk one morning, my friend told me she was trying to get up the nerve to throw out some of her worn out clothing she had been keeping in closets all around her house.

“I’ve tried before,” she said, in a confessional tone. “But I end up keeping most of it, thinking I’ll give it one more season.”

Religion has always been a controversial subject; now there is a new forum in which this controversy can be debated. “Faith Under Fire,” Pax TV’s new hour-long debate/talk show series, hosted by atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, examines not only what religious beliefs people have, but why they have them.

The hour-long series, which began Saturday, features high-profile guests who debate today’s hottest topics in the realm of faith. Guests such as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, musician Moby and Yehuda Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, discuss their personal beliefs and the impact religion has in the world today.