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SECTION B, Tuesday, August 26, 2014
INSIDE TODAY:
FOOTBALL
The St. Louis
Rams’ quarterback
replacement is ready for
his new role. Page 3B
By RACHEL COHEN
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Spinning in 70
mph second serves, grabbing at
his hamstring during points, Andy
Murray gritted his way through
head-to-toe cramps to win at the
U.S. Open.
Murray outlasted Robin Haase
6-3, 7-6 (6), 1-6, 7-5 in the first
round Monday during an after-
noon that was hot but not par-
ticularly humid. He was mystified
that the cramps came on so early
— at the start of the third set after
only about an hour and a half on
court.
“When it starts to kind of go
everywhere, you don’t know exact-
ly where it’s going to creep up
next,” he said. “When you stretch
one muscle, something else then
cramps, too.”
It started in the back of his left
shoulder and then quickly spread
to his forearm. The right-handed
Murray couldn’t toss the ball high
enough to get any pace on his
serves.
Between points, he’d twist his
body to awkwardly stretch his left
side. After hitting a winner, he’d
reach for his quad.
Murray was twice down a break
in the fourth set, but the 70th-
ranked Haase unraveled with a
string of unforced errors. He wast-
ed three break points in the final
game, when a missed call also cost
him.
The eighth-seeded Murray had
felt confident in his conditioning
after productive training sessions
in Miami, where he weathered far
more heat and humidity than this.
He wondered if something was
amiss in his nutrition.
“Cramping in my left forearm?” a
bewildered Murray said. “I mean, I
didn’t use my left forearm a whole
lot today.”
Haase, also bothered by some
cramping, said he didn’t eat and
drink enough beforehand because
of an earlier-than-expected start
— the first match on Louis Arm-
strong Stadium lasted just 47 min-
utes. But Murray said dehydration
didn’t seem to be his problem.
Serving for the fourth set at 5-3,
Haase double-faulted on break
point to allow Murray to get back
on serve. Murray then went up 6-5
when he took Haase’s second serve
high and whacked a forehand win-
ner.
With Murray trying to serve out
the match, Haase smacked a deep
return on his second break point
that might have set him up to win
the game. But the ball was called
out, and after it was overturned
on review, they had to replay the
point. This time, Haase hit a volley
The Tigers receive
life advice after
practice from DB
coach Cornell Ford
By KEVIN MODELSKI and
WADE LIVINGSTON
sports@ColumbiaMissourian.com
Missouri’s Mitch Morse only knew
Derrick Washington a couple of
months before Washington was dis-
missed from the team — but Morse
will tell you that Washington’s pres-
ence lingers.
“They don’t want you to say it,”
Morse said, “but ... there’s a special
emphasis brought upon that subject
(sexual assault
and rape) that’s
kind of correlat-
ed to what hap-
pened prior to
Derrick Wash-
ington leaving.”
On Friday,
when head
coach Gary
Pinkel and Mis-
souri athletics
director Mike
Alden respond-
ed to an ESPN
report released
Thursday, Pin-
kel said defen-
sive backs
coach Cornell
Ford “handles”
sexual assault
e d u c a t i o n
“every year in
August” with
the team.
Today, in the
wake of Sun-
day’s “Outside
The Lines” seg-
ment titled “Vic-
tims of Inac-
tion,” players
such as Morse
commented on
Ford’s training
and the foot-
ball program’s
emphasis on
sexual violence
prevention. Missouri’s inclusion of
education in fall camp illustrates
Title IX’s impact on college cam-
puses.
Morse, a team captain and senior
offensive tackle, said that “treating
women with respect” is one of the
football team’s “core values.”
“They’re constantly harping on
it,” Morse said. “And after every
two-a-day practice in the morning,
they have a coach come and give
a certain specific life lesson. So
that’s coach Ford’s life lesson.”
Morse remembered Ford talk-
ing with the team about respecting
women and sexual assault for five
minutes at one point during two-
a-day practices. Darius White, a
senior wide receiver, remembered
a 10- to 12-minute conversation
after practice.
Lessons to
be learned
from Title
IX cases
U.S. OPEN BEGINS
U.S. Open gets underway
Please see OPEN, page 2B
Elise Amendola/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Venus Williams, of the United States, returns a shot against Kimiko Date-
Krumm, of Japan, on Monday during the opening round of the U.S. Open tennis
tournament in New York.
Andy Murray grits through head-to-toe cramps to win at the U.S. Open
Aspiring coach, football grad assistant reflects on mentor’s advice
Missouri’s Austyn
Carta-Samuels hopes to
live like his grandfather
By SETH BOSTER
sports@ColumbiaMissourian.com
The California sky was an uninter-
rupted stretch of blue, and Austyn
Carta-Samuels sat at peace for a cou-
ple of hours on the graveyard hill.
In the days after this July after-
noon, he would be boarding a flight
across the country to his new home
in Columbia, where his hopeful
coaching career would start as a
graduate assistant for the Missouri
football team.
It would be yet another new begin-
ning. Carta-Samuels, 23, has lived a
life of those.
But before this one, he wanted
to visit the man who served as his
guide, his bridge, through all the
others. He wanted to sit awhile with
the man he wants to be. He wanted
to leave a few mementos. They were
from his past senior season as quar-
terback at Vanderbilt University, and
he placed them where his grandfa-
ther, Tom Samuels, rested.
“He was just there at every step
of the way, to mentor me, to push
me through adversity, to push me
through success,” Carta-Samuels
says. “I aspire to hopefully live the
life he had and affect as many people
as he has.”
Circuitous would be one word
to describe Carta-Samuels’ path.
“Miraculous” is the word he uses.
In telling his story, he mentions the
grace of God often. That, along with
his grandfather.
Sports came naturally to Carta-
Samuels, the son of a mother who
was an all-world swimmer and a
father who was an all-conference
tight end at Utah. As a high school
freshman in 2005, he learned the
ways of quarterbacking from Tom
Martinez, who had retired that year
from his coaching post at the Col-
lege of San Mateo. At the time of
Martinez’s death in 2012, the New
England Patriots’ Tom Brady called
him his mentor. Tom Samuels, a
well-regarded psychologist in north-
ern California, had introduced his
grandson to the coach.
“The only reason he trained me,”
Carta-Samuels says, “is because
of the relationship he had with my
grandfather.”
In his junior and senior seasons,
Carta-Samuels and his hard-throw-
ing right arm led Bellarmine College
Prep to a combined 22-3 record. He
looked to continue his career close
to home at San Jose State. Carta-
Samuels had built a strong relation-
ship with quarterbacks coach Mar-
cus Arroyo.
Ten days before Carta-Samuels
signed, SJSU head coach Dick
Tomey came to visit him at his
house.
“And Marcus wasn’t with him,”
Please see SAMUELS, page 2B
‘My grandfather always told
me something: If you’re
not giving, what are you
getting?’
AUSTYN CARTA-SAMUELS
Graduate assistant for the Missouri football team
Courtesy of Austyn Carta-Samuels
Austyn Carta-Samuels hugs his
grandfather, Tom Samuels, who mentored
him and pushed him through hard
times before his death. Carta-Samuels
hopes to impact lives the same way his
grandfather did.
Please see TITLE IX, page 2B
‘They don’t
want you to
say it, but
... there’s
a special
emphasis
brought upon
that subject
(sexual
assault and
rape) that’s
kind of
correlated
to what
happened
prior to
Derrick
Washington
leaving.’
MITCH MORSE
Player on the Missouri
football team
DARRON CUMMINGS/The Associated Press
Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns a shot to Diego Schwartzman, of Argentina, during the opening round of the U.S. Open tournament Monday in New York.