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Student receives $2,000 scholarship
TUSKEGEE -- Tuskegee University student Bernard Height, 20, a junior sales and marketing major from Redlands, Calif., will be presented with the first $2,000 Turkey Day Classic Scholarship during the 83rd annual Turkey Day Classic football game Thursday. The scholarship is sponsored by the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Minority Business Development in partnership with Victoryland Greyhound Park and Advanced Computer Technologies. It recognizes a business student from Tuskegee University and Alabama State University. Height started Advantage Plus, a mobile laundry and dry-cleaning business that began with three clients and now services about 350 clients a week in Tuskegee and Auburn. .
ISU's McKenzie released from scholarship
One of Iowa State's top defensive football players has been granted a release from his scholarship, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's transferring.
Tyrone McKenzie, a second-team all-Big 12 Conference selection last season, asked for his release shortly after coach Dan McCarney stepped down on Nov. 8. New coach Gene Chizik told McKenzie in a meeting Tuesday that he can continue as a member of his team if he decides against leaving.
"I met with Tyrone and we had a great discussion," Chizik said in a statement. "Tyrone had requested and received his release to contact other schools after Dan McCarney's resignation. After talking with him, I feel confident that he will be with us next season."
The St. Petersburg Times reported that the University of South Florida is among the schools recruiting McKenzie, a sophomore who began his college career at Michigan State.
Scholarship winner credits motivators
The week before Sarah Gonzalez graduated from high school in 2005, she had not received any of the scholarships she had applied for, and she couldn't see a way to support herself while going to college. "I decided not to go to college for a year," Gonzalez, now 19, said. But within the next two weeks, she got word that she had received five scholarships. One of them was from the Portland-based Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, which offered her four years of money for college -- $2,400 for the first two and $5,000 for the second two. Her sponsor, Legacy Health System, would give her summer internships while she was in school. She went to Portland Community College. This year, she became the first in her family to receive a higher education degree when she got her associate's, and she will transfer to Portland State University in January.
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- Daily News staff report
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NBA age rule gives colleges big men
The Next Big Thing started his second game for nationally ranked Ohio State on Saturday, hitting hook shots, threatening rims with his dunks, grabbing 11 boards and scoring 14 points in the Buckeyes' 72-50 rout of Cincinnati. Greg Oden played with a cast plastered around his right hand. The 7-foot, 280-pound center said he didn't feel limited, though one limit has affected him most. The NBA age limit, which took effect this past offseason and requires players to be at least 19 and one year out of high school before joining the league, keeps Oden in school. It keeps Oden, the best U.S.-born big man of his generation and the player Arizona coach Lute Olson said has "a chance to be the next Walton or Jabbar," on a college campus, earning his scholarship among other 18-, 19-, 20- and 21-year-olds.
Grant
Several e-mails and phone calls over the past month have been made to Larry Grant about the subject of his college choice, and he expected them.
Thats what happens when the school you play football for, Ohio State, meets Florida, the school you made a previous commitment to, for the BCS national title. So as it turns out, either college choice the Norcross grad made, he was going to be playing for a national championship on Jan. 8.
Its exciting; its where everybody would like to be, said Grant, a junior linebacker for the Buckeyes. Im real excited and its a little surprising because I never thought Id be in this situation, playing for a national title in football. Im blessed to live this dream.
Grant plans to enjoy the grand stage, and he enters with a little more motivation than some of his teammates.
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